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> I do hate that I can't just pay for gmail and avoid the crappy ads

You can. It's $5/month and it's called GSuite. It's their enteprise offering, but don't let that turn you off, it's exactly like Google but with your own domain -- no user minimums.

https://gsuite.google.com/

If you want to transition you can redirect one email to the other (@gmail to @yourdomain, or @yourdomain to @gmail).

GSuite mail doesn't get ads and you get some extra goodies and a ton of control over your data, just as any enterprise would.

Gandi (https://gandi.net/) is an excellent registrar if you need to purchase a domain, but Google will probably also mention you can use Google Domains to purchase one when you buy GSuite. Let me know if you have any questions, I'm always happy to help people move to their own email domain; I think it's a necessity everyone should have.
I assume that most people here are trying to make a point with the suggestion, not actually to trying to suggest an action that normal people should take. The fact that it's ridiculous to imagine tying a TOS to an HTTP request is illustrative of the fact that it's ridiculous to tie a TOS to the response.

> It's very easy to say such things. How exactly were you going to keep the river toward your ultimate goal, again?

Again, I get that you're probably just trying to talk about how broken our current legal system is and how difficult it is to change that. I agree, and I'm probably preaching to the choir when I say this.

But if you mean it meant literally, I would say that a good starting point is trying not to one-up the factories with our own pollution. It is very hard to stop factories from dumping toxic waste into the river. It is harder to stop both factories and every one of my neighbors from dumping toxic waste into the river.

That's all that I'm getting at. TOS reform is already a very hard problem, and we should avoid making it harder than it already is.

I can imagine that it might feel good for someone to say, "if corporations don't want to play fair, then we'll make it so literally every action on the web will require a lawyer," in the same way that it might feel good to say, "if corporations don't care about the environment, we'll see how they feel once we've just burned all the trees."

But that would really be cutting off our own noses to spite our collective face.
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I'm arguing against making drugs illegal to "protect" people.

I use kratom both for pain management and at times to take the edge off. That would be "recreational" at that point. I don't want you to be my nanny.

> Are you arguing that opioids should be served recreationally in bars

Maybe, actually. When my brother died of a heroin overdose it was ultimately his mistake but the "market" failed him because there were no standards for purity or strength.

Bear this in mind: heroin is illegal. My brother is dead. What protection was offered there? The cops laughed at another dead junkie.

Do you drink alcohol? Are you fat? Do you ride a bike without a helmet? Smoke cigars? Do rock climbing? Ride motorcycles? Skydive? etc. etc. etc. If so, you must now stop. I'll let you know what you can there going forward, thank you very much.

Are you aware of the history of drug prohibition in the fact that it had absolutely nothing to do with preventing self harm but was an excuse for using the laws for oppressing the underclass.

I know you are arguing in good faith with good intentions but you are horribly, dangerously wrong.
Every msft employee I know weeps over it.
> I am aware of one part that fails more. EV tires need more frequent replacement because EVs generate more torque, particularly at low speeds. While drivers love the fast pickup, your tires don't

That's an interesting point. I've not driven an EV yet. Is the difference that marked?

Also, I wonder what effect this would have on driving on snow? Presumably there is the ability to do the equivalent of 'put it in second gear to pull away' you often do in an ICE?
In our town at least, all of the pediatrician practices that I know about, will not accept a child either did not start with them as newborn, or who moved to the town. This is handled by the front desk, before any discussion of care or vaccinations.

At least one pediatrician in our area will also dismiss your child as a patient if you do not schedule something approximating their recommended appointments schedule with them.

I agree 100% with you that refusing to care because of vaccination choices should not be done, and that it does harm the cause of vaccinations. (That's the point I was trying to get across in my original post.)
Exactly this. As becoming older you also get experience, experience very few have.
I was at one meeting with several people from a company that hired me as external contractor and several people from their client company. And an issue arrived at the table, a technical issue none of their staffers or client's staffer could explain/solve (both technical and non-technical people were at that meeting). So they asked me to weight in my input. After a round of questions from my side I told the most technical people there I thought he could understand, to do XYZ. He did it and just like that the problem went away. XYZ was a very weird combination that none fully understood how that could be the solution. When they asked me how did I know that I said only one word "experience". That's what you pick up over the years, the truest form of knowledge, the one that makes you to be more expensive. Because just like that particular problem where they wasted at least 100 hours of different people trying to solve it and in itself the problem also made their process more expensive, having a person that can solve this type of problems is the make or break of a company.
It oughtn't be. You might not like their opinion pages -- yes, they're typically left-wing -- but The Guardian's reporting is absolutely top notch; amongst the best in the world.
Ok. I'm over 21, not pregnant and not operating a vehicle under the influence.

What's your point?
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For as long as that plugin is supported..
Just when you thought bay area housing pries couldn't get any crazier, Uber files for IPO same week as Lyft.
> However without being able to control people's diet, we don't know which way causation goes. Do low calorie sweeteners cause people to gain weight faster? Or does having a tendency towards gaining weight cause people to use low calorie sweeteners? And if it is a cause, why that would be.

It seems overwhelmingly likely that the causality goes the other way, though.
Are they profitable? Last I heard they were losing quite a bit of money. [1] And even if they manage to squeak out a GAAP profit, I'm not sure if the business is sustainable. Given that a lot of the capital and operations costs end up on the books of drivers, it's harder to do the math for an end-to-end costs-vs-benefits comparison.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/uber-results/uber-narrows-lo...
Not even close to the core of Flickr users, especially when they were new and growing.
Immediately kick off the industrial revolution, with an accelerated path to large-scale power-generation, electrical devices, and information technology.
If sweet-tasting things stimulated a significant insulin response without providing the actual sugar to justify it, we'd die from insulin shock. Not hyperbole. This is the mechanism behind Xylitol toxicity in dogs, for example.

https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/xylitol-toxicity-in-d...
Worked in finance (prop trading) and we used slack. There was some collaboration with Slack to get the compliance requirements right (eg. storing all message histories including edits for 7 years in sufficiently backed-up storage as is legally required).
Yay for MS and boo Amazon. I agree.

But the root cause of the problem is legal. No matter how you try to analyse this,it's a social problem and society is governed by laws through government not by corporate policies through megacorps.

America's democracy is not agile. It cannot adopt to rapid changes in society and advancements in technology. America desperately needs legal reform starting from the constitution.

For this issue in particular,why aren't lawmakers passing laws in favor of the public? I don't want this to be up to Microsoft feeling like a good "corporate citizen" today,the government is supposed to be for the people,by the people and of the people.

You what concerns me and should scare every american? What if everyone is running around trying to fix the symptoms while ignoring the elephant in the room,a disease at the heart of american democracy. What if by the time people get around to try and fix the disease(root cause) it's too late?
Amazon's Rekognition is a joke: it is weak FR, does not have basic features, and is overly expensive. The only thing they have going for them is Amazon's PR. They fooled you into thinking their Yugo of a product is anything at all. Disclaimer: I work at a real FR company, and Rekognition is no where, a non-contender in quality, features and price. A joke.
So are these companies rushing to IPO before a 'potential' recession occurs? Does anyone else not feel confident about this? It seems fear driven and not very calculated. Maybe I'm missing the bigger picture..
Ev battery, even partially filled, is pretty good source of energy in case of natural disaster.
Shout out to danluu.com — literally the top average score for the last year and in the top few for last three years (per https://hnleaderboard.com/ ). Probably my favorite blogger and it seems popular with HN as well.
Google is an advertising company so it's in their money making interests to spy on you and follow you everywhere. Isn't that what a stalker does?
Decades ago companies competed in being the first to bring the product to the market, so enough prospects would try theirs first and become loyal users. These days the competition is about being the first to sell your story to the retail investor before the hype cools down and people get disillusioned about the entire business model (see GRPN, SNAP, etc).

I'm truly wondering how sustainable is this and how hard the market correction will be...
The US highway system was sold at a cost of $27B [1] but cost over $100B and has cost nearly $500B today [2]

This is disingenuous.

First of all, the original bill estimate was just for the first 41,000 miles.

Secondly, the $27B is in 1956 dollars, while the "$500B" is in 2006 dollars. BIG difference. $27B in 1956 dollars is roughly $248 billion now, and, again, the scope of the interstate system expanded broadly.

(I'd bet that the modern figure includes both the Interstate system and the U.S. highway system, which lacks meaningful usage distinction now from the designated "Interstate" routes.)
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Launching before a recession is more ideal than before as funding would be easier to secure from the public vs private institutions especially if they continue losing money at this rate.
I’m far less worried that these companies reject a lot of people than I am worried that so many engineers are willing to accept idiotic open-plan offices, horribly dysfunctional management, pay that (while high) doesn’t fairly reflect a realistic fraction of the monetary value you actually contribute to the business.

Jobs at most well-known tech companies are really dumpster fire terrible things, bad for basic psychological health.

It’s sad that we consider getting these jobs a serious measure of any kind of success.
I'd confidently state that I love capitalism, but I'm not very happy with the idea that Uber could turn 17 billion dollars into 7 billion dollars and then hand the bag to retail investors.

The thing I tell myself is that the money is all going to the same place anyway. Yeah, Uber is going to cash out and bomb from their IPO price, and everyone who buys will lose. But anyone who would buy Uber is going to do any number of equally irrational things with their money, not to mention the fact that no matter who "owns" the money it will either be sitting in a bank or another asset, so it doesn't really matter.

http://fortune.com/2018/03/06/how-much-money-uber-spent/
give me the man and i will find the crime
Teams is super slow. Searching for past messages takes forever. Keyboard shortcuts are awkward... the list could go on. I cant say it compares well to Slack.
It's been used to mean this, it's been used to mean that -- now it means we always have to ask what someone actually means.
Who would you trust to run a report like this? The EFF? They have a dog in the hunt too. Congress? Since they believe the internet is made of tubes, I don't trust them either. I can't think of anyone with the skillz to do this type of report will not have a bias one way or the other.
It's true, artificial sweeteners have been shown to trick the brain and make people more hungry just like sugar does:
https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2016/07/13/why-artif...

But artificial sweeteners do not increase blood glucose levels, which are also linked to increased appetite. For me personally, avoiding sugar is a surefire way to decrease my appetite overall. It's so effective it almost seems like magic.
Ugggh, yes, no matter how much I read about this stuff I will always get that backwards. I think I always mix it up because I think of the price tolerance being elastic instead of the demand being elastic.
Prices have actually been dropping recently
that, in fact, was dismissive?
"Walk without rhythm, and it won't attract the worm" -- possibly the only Dune reference in a Top 40 hit (Fatboy Slim)
My team at my job is pushing Teams over Slack (which the rest of my dept uses). As someone who has to use both, I find Slack to be wayyyy more useful.

Teams treats each message as if it is a “post” that is meant to be “commented” on and is extremely oriented around thread-based communication. Each “top-level” message gets borders and huge margins and padding in the UI. As a result, you can see fewer messages on the screen at a time. By contrast, Slack has the feature of threads, but defaults to being focused on the general flow of conversation, with more messages on the screen at a time.

Some people probably like the thread-based communication model Teams uses. I do not count myself among them.
Israel is a bunch of middle European people clinging to a mythology of an omnipotent real estate agent granting them land amongst a bunch of eternally warring tribes. It's not gonna end well. I just wish the U.S. would stay out of that bs.
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Not entirely related but IRC spec 3 is in the works. it seems to be taking a long time.
(worked at Goldman)

Despite having this, all the traders just end up using Bloomberg chat. GS tooling often gets in your way more than it helps.
Many Fidelity mutual funds managing assets of retail investors hold (private) Uber stock.
Its a race against the market slowdown. The 6 months cooling (waiting time) is going to be the most nerve racking for employees wanting to sell.
I’m assuming the second “before” should be an “after”?
Flutter is already a big part of the vision for Fuchsia.

I am worried about its dependence on Dart, though ...
It's Open Source, but we're not going to tell you how to build it
Definitely fear driven. Recently we've seen the biggest sustained downward drops in five years for tech stocks, I think beginning the process now is just too late.
> No foreigner can just come to the US to work or try to make a fortune from scratch.

plenty of politicians love to tell everyone ad nauseam about someone who came to the US and "found the American Dream". America is the freest, most open society in the world. it's what makes us different from other countries. blah blah blah. you hear this kind of idealism all the time. some people would say it's a foundational, fundamental feature of America. (Others would not.)

does anyone say that in China?
gets people from SF to LA in a couple hours or so

Only if it had zero stops, which would defeat the purpose in the first place. Every stop means deceleration, stop to offload people and freight, then onload people and freight, then reacceleration to speed.
That's not what this study is about. There are already plenty of studies showing weight loss or reduced weight gain when consuming low calorie sweeteners vs sugar. And there are no ill health effects such as causing cancer, which a lot of people still believe.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-drinks/...
> Anyone know ...

Chinese companies are controlled by the Chinese government.

Any partnership in China with a Chinese company is controlled by the Chinese government.

Got it?
I am calling a market top here with the recent flurry of plans to IPO. Market has been shaky recently and I wonder if investors/founders are trying to get out ahead of a complete meltdown.
Non APM version submitted half an hour ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18633211
Surprised arxix is only 22.
>> when we connect that AI to the rest of the computer capabilities out there it quickly becomes something a human couldn't do.

Connecting the AI face recognizer to the cloud or any other system is exactly where the line needs to be.
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Heavily disagree. The web version on mobile (android; both firefox and chrome) feels slow and works badly on low bandwidth connections and touch support feels badly designed (e.g. selecting multiple messages, working with attachments). On desktops/laptops the imap support is also subpar with problems with showing multiple drafts for one email in the web version.

This would maybe be excusable for a small startup, but for a company the size of Microsoft that is an embarrassing showing.
Honestly "diversify" is not something I had ever considered before the last recession, and it runs contrary to most popular advice in consulting around finding a niche, but it becomes very apparent after you've weathered the ups and downs of the consulting business over a long time period.

If you look at any of the major consulting firms (ex: Accenture) that have lasted decades, you'll see that they have their fingers in many different unrelated areas and industries. "Niche" in the short term is a great way to build up clients, but stick narrowly to a niche over too long a time scale, and it becomes an anchor.
Hm, would those be interested in keeping it private so Uber doesn't lose so much value or getting it public so they can quickly cash out?
interesting table. Japan and Korea appear on it. but i don't see China.
I'm mobile, but has this been updated? I used this in college back in 08 and it was much better than iptables but I don't know if it's kept up with the times.
It’s all way easier than this. Eating vegan prevents all of this as it’s basic food-web biology that as you go up the food chain you lose energy by a factor of 10. Yeah an artificial leaf is technically more efficient than a plant at making energy from sunlight but plants already operate at 1-2% so unless you plan on making a synthetic system better than 10-20% at making biomass (hint: you don’t) then just cutting meat farm subsidies and introducing a meat tax alone already puts you way ahead of decades of scientific funding at perfecting multilayer amorphous silicon to where it’s less than $1000/cm^2.

Edit: It’s also not clear that the synthetic foods considered in your post are those which are less energy intensive to produce, I should note.
Setting up an airline is easier. You can lease a plane or two and fly one cherry-picked route. There’s no chicken/egg hurdle.
> your second job is working on OSS on github to make yourself look good

Sounds good on paper. In practice, what people do on Github is worthless.

I've only one company ever actually looked at what I made on GitHub. Otherwise, they'll never check out what I've done even if a project is listed on a resume. Nobody has the time or amount of shits to give to actually review your own code. Very few people I know who are working as software engineers even have any serious projects or contributions on GitHub.

As much as I love doing side projects, the idea that companies care what I do on GitHub is some of the worst advice I've encountered. Now my profile is full of trash I've forked along the way and it hasn't made a lick of difference as to how many interviews I've gotten.
2022 at the earliest.
The downsides of avoiding the algorithmic interview process is that you will end up hiring people who talk a very good game, but cannot write code to get out of a paper bag.

One of the most painful interviews I have ever seen was a guy who had a resume listing a number of interesting projects. He could talk energetically and in detail about them. Then we asked him to write some code to solve a simple problem. He said he didn't know our primary language, but was very familiar with Python. I know Python, I was good with that.

He didn't know Python. I tried to help him, but he didn't get much farther. I eventually called the interview, with a complete 180 of my hiring opinion. Nice guy, but he couldn't be what we needed.
Telemetry should never be enabled by default without consent. Its a dark pattern.
>> Except with a warrant, it's entirely legal

I don't think Microsoft and their partners are interested in building a warrants-only surveillance system. Businesses already have camera systems and one could run face recognition on stored video after something has happened. Nobody is talking about that. This is all about real-time cloud connected face recognition.
I have no lost sleep for retail investors who confuse speculation with investment. That’s their money and they do can as they wish.

It’s the forced buy in by funds and pensions that I don’t like. Many are dictated by objective formulas like top N by market cap which may lead either Uber or Lyft to be included quite quickly. Biggest preventer for either may be the “four recent quarters of profitability” requirement. Depending on the IPO and crash timing, this could be a bad one.
Its only because they pay researchers so damn much. Like more than you would believe... Other tech vendors cannot compete, and the best follows the money. Of course, some of us have ethics.
Fat people should probably try lactulose - a zero-calory (indigestible) sweet syrup (somewhat similar to maple syrup) with prebiotic and laxative properties. Besides being tasty it can actually make their guts healthier so their ghrelin (hunger hormone) secretion can decrease and their leptin (fullness hormone) secretion can increase.
So you’ve witnessed zero new successful entrants in 7 years despite a huge market.