skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$7 billion cash-out for the family that controls Qualtrics, perhaps an irresistible opportunity.

It's 30x $266m in profit. They might need to get to $3b or $4b in sales to reach that kind of annual profit generation, if they spend like most SaaS companies do to pursue growth. They might have seen blips over the next five or six years where their valuation ran higher than $8b without the fundamentals to support it (assuming everything went according to plan in the business), however, averaged over time I find it hard to believe they could support an $8b market cap without a dramatic size increase. This party market won't last forever. Excellent sale by the owners (all cash at that, avoiding the downside risk in SAP's stock at 32x earnings; in any other market SAP gets a 20 PE or lower).

I also suspect that as a public company, assuming the time it takes to scale to justify an $8b-$10b style market cap (five or six years at least, likely more), and the dilution they'd suffer as a family when it comes to employee stock compensation over time, they might need something more like a $12b+ stable future outcome to match where they're already at with SAP. Introduce business risk, economic risk, stock market risk, and a lot of years to get from here to there - the $7b would seem to make great sense for the Smith family. The best reason to not take this deal, is to keep control of the company - as it is, the Smiths get to keep running it anyway post acquisition and don't have to deal with public shareholders et al.
Apple Developer Program License Agreement:

3.3.2 An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded.

3.3.3 Without Apple’s prior written approval or as permitted under Section 3.3.23 (In-App Purchase API), an Application may not provide, unlock or enable additional features or functionality through distribution mechanisms other than the App Store or VPP/B2B Program Site.

App Store Review Guideline

2.5.2 Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps. Educational apps designed to teach, develop, or allow students to test executable code may, in limited circumstances, download code provided that such code is not used for other purposes. Such apps must make the source code provided by the Application completely viewable and editable by the user.
Yeah, in Poland, it seems all my family from my parents' generation and older believe in that too. As a kid, I had endless battles with all of them over opening a window. E.g. it would be too hot for me, but everyone would say, "close the window, there's a draft and it'll get you sick". smh.

"Stiff neck" 'teekert mentions and "ear pain" would be mentioned as dangers of draft too. It's so pervasive in the local culture that I even have to occasionally remind people from my generation that common cold is a virus, not a side effect of exposure to elements.
By "Alpine Linux", I meant "the stuff that Alpine Linux usually ships with", which I doubt is rich enough to support everything that Steam needs, plus you're not going to get a nice package to install as you might on another distribution: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux. So I'm pretty sure the answer to the original question is still "no, not yet", though I don't think it is "no, not ever".
Some homeless people get wheelchairs to circumvent "sit-lie" local ordinances.
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I wanted that so badly, but my 486dx33 with 4MB of RAM simply couldn't effectively run X. Later, with a SLIP/PP type connection I could use Windows and Trumpet Winsock to run it, but it felt like such a step backwards compared to using my own Linux box.. it felt hardly worth booting into the primitive world of Windows, even if it did get my a GUI browser. Everything else was so much worse.
Very similar thing at our office. Considering the scale of which we run things, any outage could be a potential loss of millions _every minute_.

Sure, we use support tickets with vendors for small things. Console button bugging out, etc. But for large incidents, every vendor has a representative within an hour driving distance and will be called into a room with our engineers to fix the problem. This kind of outage, with zero communication, means the dropping of a contract.

Communication is critical for trust, especially if we're running a business off it.
Sadly, we were recently blocked by the Chinese government on the DNS level. Although we do have many Chinese users on VPN. We don't have so many Chinese stations, because they mostly broadcast using the Windows Media Audio format.
I just took a screenshot of this and any time somebody asks my why AWS i will forward them. Thanks!
Inexplicably, Canadian drug law excludes possession of anabolic steroids.

I speculate it has to do with police influence on the writing of laws.
Easiest ways to trick people. Just check this link, apps there have over 10K installs: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=flash%20player&c=apps
> People who lived in areas without fish also lived in areas without algae.

The point is that EPA and DHA is not made by fish. EPA and DHA can be bought in vegan form. EPA and DHA are not even considered as essential fatty acids. Unlike ALA and LA.

I have not seen any study what shows that ALA and LA are not essential. If you have one, please link it. I would like to know.

> And linseed oil consumption is correlated with an increase in all cause mortality.

Link please.

> Or switching from perfectly safe saturated fats to "heart healthy" trans fats even though it increases mortality.

What are you talking about ? Are yout talking about margerine and butter ?

But I agree that many so called experts are not experts.

Many organizations and in particular government organizations (e.g. EPA and FDA in the USA) affected by politicians are very prone to corruption and pleasing corrupting lobby groups like the food industry and the military industry and the fossil fuel industry.

But some truth is known in 2018.

https://livinontheveg.com/omnivore-or-herbivore/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl8zNztsoGg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCMWctmCCqU&t=432

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLrSGiXTX6Im72KTZRDln...
60% of the time, it works every time...
Why would you think that?

Are you sure you're not thinking of something like the Commodore 64 that dropped you inside a BASIC interpreter after boot?
Messaging is infrastructure and nothing that any single company should "need to make money" off.

RCS can't come fast enough. https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/what-is-rcs-messaging/
This is great. What did NASA use before? I always got the impression they were still using a Unix-type OS and CDE or some other Motif based WM far into the 2000's.

This would really modernize things. And I love how the whole project is so clearly made to enable contribution from the open source community. Really aspiring to leverage open source in the best possible way.

I guess they'd have to make it as easy as possible because the project might not have many uses outside of NASA.
All the scripts, code, and interpreters are packaged in the app bundle, since it's emulating x86 binaries. The "additional functionality" guideline is a bit loose because companies download patches (for A/B testing, bug fixes) all the time, which doesn't go through App Store review.
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I have the same feeling. After spending a couple years writing Lisp code (CL and Clojure), the "normal" Algol-like syntax now feels unwieldy.
> My point is that there are some firm beliefs and some absolute truths that do not lead to atrocity.

I agree, but I have some concerns. First of all I would claim that the cruelty of your response to my wrong proof will depend on how much your life is affected by it. If your life depends on it you would pick any kind of cruelty in an act of self-defense. Then again, any such situation would be outside of the realm of mathematics, because for your life to be affected by mathematics it has to be applied to the real world. Mathematics doesn't tell you whether or not you can safely apply it to the real world. It just tells you: given a set of assumptions what you necessarily must conclude. In that sense I'm a bit hesitant to call what mathematics tells you 'absolute truths', because its statements are only true, given that the assumptions are true.
Another truth I'm convinced of for example is that Snape killed Dumbledore and I'm also sure that believing in this truth won't lead to any atrocities, because it is clear that it doesn't relate to the real world. So, maybe I only have to update my statement to: Firm beliefs in absolute truths about the real world, lead to atrocities. Or would you have another counter example? I mean the examples for absolute truths about the real world which justify atrocities are practically endless (basically all religions, science, communism, capitalism ...). Still, of course there are versions of each one of these which wouldn't allow for atrocities, but they are mostly the less dogmatic ones.
(We have no relation to OP and were also surprised to see this posted under Show HN)
Google hasn't learned this lesson.

They have though; they've just drawn the conclusion that they'd rather put massive amounts of effort in to building services that users can use without needing support. This approach works well once the problems have been ironed out, but it's horrible until that's the case. Google's mature products like Ads, Docs, GMail, etc are amazing. Their new products ... aren't.
You're not going to reach the tipping point with just that. Most users don't care one iota about why their lunch is free. They know you feel strongly about that topic, but feel that they just have nothing to hide, that targetted advertisements are really pretty convenient, that they are rather good at ignoring advertisements, that they are not the real target after all with their modest income — that you are just fighting the inevitable based on some vague principle.

The majority at this point in time does not seem to care about privacy, but they do care about the price.

Also, what's the point of moving to just another walled garden? Apple will still keep the service proprietary and closed to third party clients, so you'll also lose the vocal software freedom folk in your approach.
Ask HN: Aren't you worried about Jim Acosta incident being mass manipulation?
I saw the original and modified version of Jim Acosta incident released by the White House and ... seriously, the White House?

Even though the list of issues is long with what the presidency is doing in the US, this is - at least for me - a higher level of seriousness as it involves sharing a wrong and biased point of view from the White House.

What worries me the most is that even though it's not true, many people will believe it is. And this is the beginning of something very bad, yet currently accepted as it is just a hiccup along all the bad stuff made by the White House.

So ... am I the only one worried about it?

Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/white-house-shares-doctored-video-13560137
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Yes, this is mostly an iOS limitation rather than a hardware one. There are many ways to make something like this work if iOS allowed things like forking processes or JIT (for App Store apps)–actually if this was possible, the project at that point would probably just be "spawn a shell" instead of "emulate x86 and bootstrap a whole Alpine Linux install", since this is what most terminal emulators on Android do.
Or why chose an error prone technology?
That, as you said, of the developed nations Japan is the first (they eat fish rather than meat).

Also in Japan you can find the longest living people, Okinawa, and they barely eat meat (traditionally). A food culture is not defined by national borders: we have to look inside the countries to see what culture work for longevity. See the bluezones book.

Then I must say that I said something wrong: "longest living" alone is not enough, we want to be healthy too. Being sick for the last 30 years of my life, kept on my feet by a medical system (as what happens a lot in developed nations), it not a good prospect for me.
Corticosteroids like Prednisone aren’t anabolic steroids.
Not effecting all regions no.
I once did a science project in the school lab that dealt with sulfuric acid in an ehrlenmeyer flask. I completed the experiment, and went home. Only then I noticed that the whole front of my shirt had huge holes in it.

I was a lot more careful with acid after that.
That's fine, but what I don't like is when websites make certain features unavailable on their mobile websites and provide no way of getting around this restriction.
I'm from Flanders (Belgium)
> I remember reading in some Brian Acton interview that Facebook leadership believes that ads would bring in more money than charging businesses for access, integrations and premium features.

Verbatim: it wouldn't scale.

Acton said he tried to push Facebook towards an alternative, less privacy hostile business model for WhatsApp — suggesting a metered-user model such as by charging a tenth of a penny after a certain large number of free messages were used up.

But that “very simple business” idea was rejected outright by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who he said told him “it won’t scale”.

“I called her out one time,” Acton also told Forbes. “I was like, ‘No, you don’t mean that it won’t scale. You mean it won’t make as much money as…,’ and she kind of hemmed and hawed a little.

It looks like to me that the multi-billion dollar company that Facebook is, with all the very intelligent people working there, is a one pony trick that only knows how to make money by putting ads everywhere.
After moving to Portugal from UK, and terrible experience with local telecoms provider MEO (lies and horrific bills) I have to use VOIP.
Recently I’ve switched to using WhatsApp instead of Skype for most voice calls, curious if others are doing the same??
Audio Quality is mostly good and it’s much easier to find contacts than with Skype, because it’s based on their mobile number not a Skype ID.
On monetisation I would pay for voice calls to landlines/mobiles.
Also maybe they could do some kind of deal for international data roaming packages linked to a separate WhatsApp number. Predictable reasonable costs for voice and data - linked to a single mobile number - is still a major unsolved problem for travellers.
That it good evidence, but being the largest websites, they have thousands of subdomains on those domains, so they're kinda technically forced to use www.
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Still NX. There's some information how it has changed over the years here:

https://www.nomachine.com/AR11K00745
There's a big difference between SaaS applications and compute infrastructure for your business.

Google Ads and such also have a terrible support reputation, even with clients spending 8 figures.
Aren’t paper and cardboard biodegradable compared to styrofoam and plastic? The atmosphere and soil know how to handle it.
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Is there a private tool that only those in the know can use?
It would surprise me. The first thing Facebook did when it bought WhatsApp was to rollback the price on iOS and to halt the Android pricing rollout. They don't want you to pay for it, it singles the remaining (ad-served) population out as being less willing to spend money. Not a good message to your advertisers.
> end-to-end encryption

Well, they do collect and use metadata, e.g. chat history: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/01/22/whats...

There's better options regarding privacy, e.g. Signal, which does not collect metadata.
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Don't run this kind of stuff on somebody's website without prior consent.
> But a robot capable of recognizing all the plants could tell... and could selectively harvest just what is needed.

You don't even need a robot for this. The city of Edmonton, Alberta has deployed a fleet of small weeding machines to curb pesticide use -- to wit, specially-trained weed-eating goats.
Why is Google punished for forcing some of their tools in, and not Apple while it is literally playing a market god ?
The legislature doesn't have to come up with every minuscule detail because it is impossible to have a detailed plan which would make all sides happy. They only have to come up with a certain sane law and then let the companies figure out how to best execute to stay alive and well with the help of the free market. And that's the best thing about it - if there is a demand, the split companies will stay alive but their reduced size will also allow for the competition to come into the market. I don't worry a little bit that some destructive anti-monopoly government action would cause any high-demand market area to stay empty in the free market economy. And needless to say, it is also better for consumers.
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When I change time filter from present to 1930 it returns this: https://www.artic.edu/collection?is_public_domain=1&departme...
Sweden: my mother, my aunts, grandparents on both sides etc. This goes mostly for cars. The thing about opening windows in a house is a bit more hit and miss.
First time hearing about the product, but looking at the facts, the parent seems to be right. It's more snakeoil than product. Your argument was that FDA approved it, but here's the actual story:

"On 10/16/2013 after FDA's ADCOM panel had voted 9-2 against recommending to expand Vascepa's label for treatment of cardiovascular disease, shares dropped over 60%"

"In March 2016, after losing a court case, the FDA agreed to allow some off-label marketing"

So, it's not like FDA approved it as a drug for cardiovascular disease. They overwhelmingly rejected it as so, and then were forced to allow it to market it self off-label as such (for "free speech" purposes, as opposed for medical reality).
"All the scripts, code, and interpreters" are not, in fact, packaged with the app as you are able to download arbitrary binaries using curl/wget or apk. That clause is very clear in both wording and intention, and this application does not follow it.

As for the A/B testing that some companies do via sketchy runtime hooking, that has been a boundary case for a while that sometimes does cause you problems with Apple, but was vaguely OK if and only if the downloaded functionality was run through JavaScriptCore: the old version of this restriction essentially used to say "only if run in WebKit" (and I got manual clarification once that they were OK with JavaScriptCore, though I think they also made that explicit in the rules at some point).
Plus, 4.x and before can use markdown by simply activating it in Jetpack (a plugin you probably everyone is already using)
> I think it is healthy to hear their arguments of the people you don't agree with and come up with counter-arguments proving them wrong instead of shunning them away.

There may be a small problem with that. It is easy for people to keep making the same arguments over and over and over again. You will get tired of coming up with counter-arguments. Eventually you will quit, and they will be the only people talking.

It is especially difficult if the other person chooses their argument so that it is easy to say, but difficult to explain why it is wrong. An example might be: Eating eggs is unhealthy because there is a lot of fat. It's an easy argument to make and defend, but it is too simple to be true. Eating eggs can be very healthy in many circumstances, but to explain why requires a lot of technical explanation.

Usually people will prepare ways to defend their argument. For example, they will collect a list of papers that show that eating fat is unhealthy. It's easy to find hundreds of them. If you say, "We need to eat some fat", then they can list a hundred papers and say, "You have to argue against all of these papers". Of course it is impossible.

Because of this, it is often best to avoid discussing things with people who have no intention of listening to you.
the opposite of misogyny is misandry

http://misandry.tripod.com/id6.html

A more serious take: https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/30/the-spawn-feminisms-...

Of course, esepcially the first link is definitely biased. But you find it all over if you look for it. #killallmen, #maletears etc on Twitter. You get the point.
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That's true for pretty much any technology.
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Big and powerful dev setups are great, but that’s what my 42” 4K Dell monitor is for — and there’s no way that’s going to be portable.

So the reality is that there’s no such thing a no-compromise dev setup: Either you optimize for a desktop setup, or for portability, or somewhere in between. If you have the ability to have both a desktop and portable setup, such a pair I almost always going to be superior to just one medium sized laptop: Your desktop experience will be better with massive high resolution monitors, and your mobile experience will be better with a lighter, slimmer device and longer battery life etc.
Just don't run it against anything for which you do not have permission to run such tools.

Running a tool like this against your favorite websites, is a simple way of getting banned from your favorite websites.
How do you handle holidays?
There is also a price for knowing phone numbers and email addresses.

You can arguably do much more harm by utilizing a phone number and email address, compared to knowing which city someone lives in.
Anecdata for Sweden - yes for me. Some people even let their babies nap (well tucked in) in the stroller in the winter.
Use a turtle

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/2/16597276/google-ai-image-...
> Let's see how they deploy ads. ... If anything, I'm glad they're going this route instead of charging a fee to use the app.

I understand why you hold this view but woe I wish it to be that more people agreed with me and held the opposite. I wish we were fine with paying money instead of "being monetized" and having ads shoved in front of us.

I don't want to see how they deploy the ads; I don't want ads, period. By their very nature, ads are a guarantee that I'm going to be tracked, sliced, analyzed, deanonymized, and attention-grabbed any time I crack open that app. I guess I'm turning more and more into the Luddite but I am tired of the ads, tired of the continual chase for my ever-decreasing number of seconds on this planet.

I don't even know that letting me pay to not have ads is a) practical (because what's to say the ads aren't being shown in a "hidden" way such that I am still tracked and followed) or b) fair (because what about the other billions of people on the planet for whom money can't be traded for time as they have more of the latter than the former yet still don't deserve to be tracked). But I still don't like ads.