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Economies of scale alone gives them an advantage, however it's probable at minimum they know they won't need many more employees in the future - who can instead be supported by autonomous systems to manage increased throughput.
Why do you think it's Heztner's responsibility to provide good service to DTAG's customers?

If the connection between DTAG's network and Heztner's isn't good, shouldn't both networks work to improve the situation?
The card game is orders of magnitude more complicated than the video game battles - all that they are is very vanilla JRPG combat with a couple layers of rock, paper, scissors mechanics. One could probably write a finite state machine that would win 95% of the time in a couple hours.

On the grand scale, Pokemon is essentially unloseable, as you can never really paint yourself into a corner you can't get out of. I've seen stupid challenge playthroughs where more than half the game can be beaten with only a single Magikarp... There are only a handful of unique encounters. Pure bloody-minded grinding will always see you through.
> It's a must-have on Android.

So, if Brave is free & open-source, is "must-have on Android", why it still not added in F-DRoid repo?

As for me, at this moment FOSS Browser with disabled JavaScript — is better option for Android users.[1]

Fully must-have on Android should be links2[2] throw Termux[3] — this is what I claim right way for get "usable on shaky mobile data connections".

Browsers with enabled JavaScript is much less secure than those without JS enabled.[4]

> "Those browser's vulnerability to those attacks are entirely based on the fact that they execute JavaScript. Thus, if your browser doesn't execute JS, it's immune." © userbinator[5]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.baumann.browser

[2] http://links.twibright.com

[3] https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/pull/2317

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16191843

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16192006
There's no need for arbitrary "balance". Let people do what they want, and make the process as fair as possible.

Anything else is just enforcing some ideaology or another.
And yet the poster is right for the reason mentioned by the first poster.

Most people click on the option that gives quick access to the content.

If it creates more than 2 seconds of distraction, I might even close the page.

There is no reason to trust the EU legislature regarding the internet after something like this:

https://juliareda.eu/2018/08/censorship-machines-gonna-censo...
- accelerating China factory due to tariffs of about 40% into China, they don't indicate what accelerating actually means

Numbers:

- Q3 production 53,239,
- Bloomberg’s estimate: 53,457

- North American deliveries of 55,840 rank the Model 3 among the 10 best-selling sedans in the region--and the only one that's electric

- pretty good news in the face of what other car companies are doing

- GM sales are expected to fall 14%, after falling 13% in August.

- Analyst estimates for Ford (-9%), Toyota (-6.5%), Honda (-4.1%)
Win my $50 bounty: jQuery to ES6 and Customised SVG download
They have a really good and simple API for the Cloud hosting at https://docs.hetzner.cloud/ and there's also https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/hcloud/index.html
I've been using this to setup some servers with little effort.

For dedicated hosting there is https://robot.your-server.de/doc/webservice/en.html

I just wish they had NixOS images so I'd save a few minutes of initial deploy time.
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I visited the website, what a great company, congratulations.
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> Nothing sophisticated about it.

Hmm no. You wouldn't even talk about it to avoid sounding like a weirdo.
Hetzner simply wants to pay less money, which is just business. You can either sell at that price or not. DTAG decided that it's not worth it for them, the customer is the victim, because you probably are only able to download at around 5mbps in the evening from a Hetzner server. The upgrade is not possible with their internet connection, so it's a nightmare if you are a Hetzner customer.

I mean, yeah, sure, it sucks for the customer. What I don't understand is your implication that this is Hetzner's fault. Both sides could accept the other side's conditions, neither side did, all of that is "just business".

What isn't "just business" is asking much higher prices than the competition for the same kind of service and expecting customers to buy it. And if you find that there are customers who do buy anyway, that's a hint that you are dealing with a monopoly situation, which is appropriately described as "holding people hostage".
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Surely "this trillion dollar company led by the world's richest man pays its workers peanuts" is a criticism of capitalism?
Walking long distances isn't much of an issue. The human body is very well adapted to it (or built for it, depending on who you ask). Having a job that forces you to do it is good for your health.

It's forcing people who might not be in the best of shape to be bending over, reaching, lifting, etc, etc all day that results in health problems.
I acquired Pbrt in order to learn the basics of computer graphics rendering in a practical way. However, I struggle even with the most basic things (math mostly).

Do you happen to know of any resource that provides a good mathematical foundation directed at computer graphics?
> Before or after they annexed Hong Kong entirely against the will of the people of Hong Kong?

The lease ran out, this was planned all along. The people don't like the changes that's for sure but their will was never something China would be bothered with.
Does Amazon have a presence in India?
All these situation should be handled by surrounding the house with overwhelming force and then calmly assessing the situation, not just running in after a few seconds.
They haven't achieved recognition yet but they're still winning.

The Europeans (for whom there was also a pay rise) are further along and went on strike on prime day.
What's dangerous about it is massive budget shortfalls, not to mention unfairness, as taxes become optional for the very wealthy.

> The result is huge losses for the government. Business owners don’t pay $125 billion in taxes each year that they owe, according to I.R.S. estimates. That’s enough to fund the Departments of State, Energy and Homeland Security, with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration tossed in for good measure. Unlike wage earners who have their income separately reported to the I.R.S., business owners are often on the honor system.
> There's absolutely nothing wrong with either of these things

Sure. But note the OP used the word "irresponsible," so I'd say you're actually disagreeing with the OP, and not me. :-)

> I think there is a strong tendency of people programming in new languages to be overly convinced of the elegance and superiority of their new language as a result of (a) getting to rewrite software without the burden of those fussy, irritating existing users and (b) getting to 'rebuild' software without the rather exhausting process of feeling your way to an algorithm or system that never existed before.

Yes. But there must also be room for folks to seriously argue the benefits of one tool over another without simultaneously being dismissed as the zealotry of the newly converted, which is a feeling that I am all too familiar with!

Overall, I basically agree with you.
Hence the GDPR, which sort of makes this go full circle. These 'rational actors' are now trying with all their might to do an end-run around the law. It is interesting to see which companies 'get it' and which really don't get it. I suspect - and hope - that five years from now or so the ones that didn't get it will either have changed tack or will no longer be around.
That's going to change rapidly with 5G
Ask HN: Largest historical profits to SLOC ratio?
I was wondering about this the other day: in the history of software which project, product, or company has the largest profits-earned per line-of-source-code ratio? Obviously not accurately quantifiable but ball-park figures welcome. I guess whomever wrote Bitcoin would be a strong contender but maybe there are better examples?
I absolutely love Hetzner -- they're pricing is near unbeatable. To be a bit more precise, I believe that they offer cut rate pricing (which is not a bad thing if you're the consumer) but not cut-rate service -- there is just enough for a DIYer to be very productive and cost effective. This gets even easier if you use Hetzner Cloud directly, and they've got fantastic prices for beefy machines there too -- while a t2.micro on AWS is ~$10/month on hetzner cloud CX51 with 8 vcores and 32GB of RAM & and 250GB SSD with 20TB of traffic allowed is 29.90 gbp.

Discovering the robot marketplace[0] (thanks to HN) was an eye opening experience for me that showed me dedicated servers were viable and could be competitive with the VPSes I'd been purchasing/using for years (I was so excited I wrote blog posts about it). I've recently been thinking about making a subreddit for hetzner (r/hetzner), so fellow users can talk with each other but I am worried it would do more harm than good (increasing the burden on them in terms of having to do PR in yet-another part of the internet that can be pretty toxic in terms of community at times).

You can even deploy to them with terraform[1].

-- warning, rant/ramblings below --

I feel like I say the same thing all the time, but I'll repeat it again here -- if devops/infrastructure goes at all correctly in my mind, going to one vendor for both your compute/data and your value-added services (so asking AWS for EC2 machines and to run RDS on top of them for you and offer support) is going to dissipate.

Smaller companies can run sufficiently niche (many might disagree but I think running postgres is within this ) with more innovation and decent support for less cost than Amazon can. The vast majority of people who run RDS with something like Postgres as a backend are unlikely to run into crazy issues simply due to how well postgres is built, and how well known it is, outside of gross misconfiguration.

Companies are already offering on-your-cloud solutions that use EC2 machines to run their own software and offer support on top -- as container orchestration systems become even more widespread I think people will stop asking AWS or GCP for more than basic compute/data and a few tools they're really good at, and go to more specialized smaller vendors.

[0]: https://robot.your-server.de/order/market

[1]: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/hcloud/r/server.html
$80B Banco Santander Uses Ripple for Payments, Will Many Banks Follow?
Unless you are Alex Jones.
Yet I know of many people now who work hard jobs and make 15 dollars an hour or less. Why does it matter if people in SV think it's good pay?
You don’t think people have been criticizing Amazon specifically? I think they have.
$15/hour isn't much but it's fantastic for entry level pay. That's the minimum. Most people will be getting paid more.

And, yes, of course money today is better than maybe money tomorrow. For example, higher pay today could allow someone replace a car that keeps breaking down on them. That reliability and cost savings of not having to pay for repairs can be worth more than stocks in the future.

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Your point about poverty is of course correct.

You're conflating two very different situations in regards to Iraq. It's not one Iraq forever war.

There's the Iraq war (Second Persian Gulf War), and there's the Iraq civil war. The Iraq war, versus Saddam's regime, ended very quickly. That war was won trivially. The US could have optionally left at that point if it just wanted to declare an easy victory. Civil wars can go on forever (and given Iraq was a forced together nation of three major groups that dislike each other, it's likely going to).

The US achieved its primary goal in Afghanistan very quickly as well. It wiped out nearly all the organizing and attack projection capabilities that Al Qaeda had in using Afghanistan as a haven. The primary objective was not to kill all the Taliban. The Taliban was a different, optional objective. Afghanistan, like Iraq, is now a civil war between multiple factions that all want power.
The blog post says "employees". No reporter I've seen has bothered to ask if it applies to contractors.
Well known target.
Impressive, but they are going to need to dramatically increase that number to if they wish to compete when the big car companies wake up.
One possibility: the economy has a surplus of people who are looking for unskilled warehouse jobs, so even if other places had better quality, it was difficult to switch.
I mean, yeah, it's an incredibly unlikely scenario for a single photon, but on the other side of that equation is a whole heck of a lot of photons.
This is hilarious. Would've never guessed Bernie had this sense of humor.
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Can't speak for the OP but I dislike the direction they seem to be heading, incrementally (and perhaps accidentally) - yaml as a Turing complete programming language.
Branching factor alone doesn't tell you much. The important thing is how many branches are meaningful. Consider the board game Arimaa, which has an enormous branching factor[0]. It was designed to be difficult for computers, but in 2015, David Wu's "Sharp" software beat some of the best humans players[1]. This didn't need any revolutionary new AI techniques, only some clever human-written heuristics used in combination with classical computer chess techniques to prune the game tree. There are many possible moves each turn, but most can be discarded as obviously bad. The same could be true of Pokemon.

[0] http://arimaa.com/arimaa/
[1] http://icosahedral.net/downloads/djwu2015arimaa_color.pdf
Ask HN: Is the startup incentivisation valid for all national R&D strategies?
I'm a Spaniard, and startups are still in fashion. However, I still doubt if in all areas are suitable or there's any evidence of the increase in innovation, GDP, etc. Spain is characterized for familiar SMEs and there are few corporations.

Should startups just be focused in the predominant sectors in each region?
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Isn’t that the opposite of influence though?
To your point:

Entire businesses have been run on systems that have 512k of RAM.

The IBM Series 1 had up to 128k: it was designed by Don Estridge, more famously known as the father of the PC...
> they get such bad press for the way they treat their workers it only seems fair to laud them for this.

That's because they treat their workers terrible. They're a huge company with a lot of profit and how people at the bottom of the chain are treated is maddening. They're seen as an example of how not to treat workers (and for good reason).

They definitely should not be lauded for this: They did some calculations and projections which showed that raising the minimum wage brings more benefits (PR stunt, not being the target of new legislation anymore, etc) than downsides (now having to pay X more to some people).

I refuse to believe Bezos woke up this morning with a new moral sense to change the ship around.
I introduced 'B', but not as the second arm of a binary choice. Note that lots of the companies that deploy open source also contribute to that open source, in fact, if you removed such paid contributions to the open source world then you likely would not have much to run in the first place.

But that doesn't mean that there isn't a cost to fielding a new programming language due to fragmentation, which is the subject of the article.
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That may be their target, but they probably think it's unlikely and when they end up actually getting $10/hr instead, they'll still be able to call it a win.
The Z80 had bulk memory write instructions that could be used to set contiguous memory addresses with the same value. You just needed to write the 32 bytes of character attributes, so the change is doable while the TV ray is jumping to the next scan line.

The timing was solved by setting interruptions synchronized to that instant.
It is, however, expensive. Someone has to pay for all of the real estate being condemned for the new buildings (and ideally they're paying fair market value, and not rock-bottom prices). They then have to put up the buildings themselves and improve the transit to and from the new buildings.

NYC was able to do this because they did it 50, 70, 100 years ago. Today, they're just building over the same footprints as they had already carved out. Property was less expensive, and the government/companies under fewer moral constraints then.
Except that what's being talked about here is a Computer Science degree, not a Programming or even Software Engineer degree. While the former does generally involve learning some programming, its focus is more about understanding the way computers and programming languages work from the fundamental theory on up.

So if you're going to criticize it, at least get it right: it's not 4 years cobbling scripts together for <insert tired "those-who-can't-do-teach" stereotype here>, it's 4 years learning theory and fundamentals when you could be practicing the marketable skills you'll be using more directly.

Personally, though, I've found that while nearly none of the specific programming techniques I learned in my Computer Science degree have been applicable to my job since, the fundamental understandings of the underpinnings of the field have made it vastly easier for me to pick up new languages and techniques as I need to.
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> As far as US judicial system is concerned Osama and Pablo are innocent.

Osama bin Laden was tried and convicted for the first WTC bombing
The are raising 350k employees wages:

https://apnews.com/222764a6535a4ce7a17c02c7405361f2/Amazon-r...

I am sure its going to cost them some money. Suppose they are going from 10 to 15 bucks. That 350k552*40 = 3.64 billion. They might not all be working 40 hours, but it kind of shows how much of an impact it will be be.

I think its a good thing. Companies like costco have shown you can pay your employees fairly and still make money.
And who funded both the guy they were harboring and the country during the Soviet-Afghanistan war?
History provides a reasonable context to make the assumption?
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It might be more interesting to write a post about how to exit a zombie startup once you've joined one, or how to determine the zombie status from the inside.
That would be fine. But honestly I do the opposite. If I start seeing popups and prompts I just close the tab and move on. The internet is too big and your content just isn't that special.
I see. Well, I was thinking this project might evolve in a direction that React etc can offload VDOM computations to a worker thread.
The importance of luck and circumstance to success is difficult to discuss because successful people who worked hard often get offended at the idea that there might be more to it than that.

You can do things to skew the distribution, but hard work is far from a guarantee of success, and likewise laziness is no guarantee of failure.
So right. OVH is worse than Hetzner.
True, although you might have more money to donate, thanks to the tax fraud, which you can then direct towards politicians who pledge to further cut the IRS' budget.
It's usually best, when criticizing something, to come prepared with concrete examples that demonstrate the issue you're talking about.
Irrespective of if this was done out of altruism or political strategy, its a good move on their part and they deserve applause. It is a very positive step for their employees. Its also going to score points for Bezos in his ongoing face off with Trump. Nice feather in Sanders' cap as well. I see no losers in those directly involved in this situation.
Sales taxes are extremely regressive. Funding the government entirely through them would be a social disaster and they'd have to be wildly high to compensate for all the income that is being saved rather than spent.
A couple of months ago I purchased a VPS from them. They also required ID (passport) to verify identity, but what was surprising that they suggested using their gpg keys to encrypt the image before sending.
I wonder if anybody else remembers 2007 foxconn pledging to automate 90% of their factory workers out of a job when they started unionizing.
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> While this is a very welcome development it would be more impressive to see them reform their slave like fulfilment center work practises.

Oh but they are - by investing heavily in automation and research, eventually making these workers obsolete.
Yes Amazon is huge in India.
https://www.businesstoday.in/current/corporate/amazon-india-...
Amazon should be commended for making a move in the right direction.

I personally think people should be paid more. $15 * 40 * 52 comes out to $31,200. Before payroll and income taxes. That's barely enough to survive in a small city like Flint, MI (I live in a suburb of Flint), let alone somewhere like NYC, Seattle, or SF.
Because relationships matter, and that's how you build that trust in the first place.

Why not work with them, teach them, and make them better. Instead of being upset, be on their side. Almost always, they'll help you in return. Being confrontational and going around them though, will only guarantee more negative outcomes. Remember that your boss's boss and other colleagues probably don't want to deal with someone who is seemingly more interested in getting credit rather than getting things done.
"Stocks of money-losing companies listing in the U.S. soared 36% on average from their IPO price through Thursday. That is better than the 32% return for IPO stocks with earnings and the 9% gain for the S&P 500 index."
How much were amazon warehouse and Whole Foods employees making prior?
Higher density would obviously put much more pressure on local governments to build the necessary infrastructure and it’d increase their tax revenue to fund these projects.
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> Is there something that we gained to make me feel better next time I am annoyed with all the popups?

Hopefully you'll choose not to use those sites.

For the first couple of months, I clicked all the "manage my choices" buttons. I felt the pain, but decided it was worth it. Then I discovered that for many sites, I would have had to enable 3rd party cookies in order for the choices to stick. That made me realise that I simply didn't want the marketers to even know that I didn't want them to track me; that I didn't want to enable the malpractice of companies that hadn't offered me the choice to disable their options; that I wasn't prepared to rely on the devs behind those dialogs to implement the design implied.

So now, I just close the tab and read something else. My hope is that others make similar choices.
Wouldn't contractors set their own rates?
I don't know why you're down voted. People like to shame Amazon/Walmart for their wages and working conditions, but I guarantee they're doing a lot of the exact same things as other companies who are less criticized, Target, Meijer, etc..

Like he said, Amazon has it's issues but the employees were free to quit and work at other similar positions in similar companies.