skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I’m reading the revenue chart correctly, 12.5 percent of their revenue was approximately 11 million dollars in 2016. At Microsoft, who is even going to notice that...

There’s surely a goodwill factor and wider strategic benefits here beyond the relatively small amount of revenue - these individuals enjoying the free private repos will in many cases likely be future candidates for customers for the enterprise offerings etc, or one day find themselves involved in discussions regarding managed VCS for a larger org. Given Microsoft’s current strategy to win over developers, this seems like a pretty sensible move, and the price (for Microsoft) very low. Strategically this seems not entirely different to the free accounts AWS throw at university students. Once you have someone hooked on your free offerings, you can start locking them into the wider platform (Azure) much more easily. Again, pretty much the AWS playbook.

Also, let’s not forget the 12.5 percent figure comes from 2016, a year which saw some pretty significant changes to GitHub’s offerings, such as unlimited personal repositories for paying users among other things. Prior to this you had to pay more to get more private repos. The number today may be somewhat different - I know my github spend went down following that change.

Also, 12.5 percent of revenues - comparisons to a 12 percent pay cut are pretty misleading.
What does it mean to be a $32M company? Based on whose valuation? I don't get why this number is such a prominent feature, and then is never explained. And is $32M a big number? Compared to who? This all seems strange to me.
Hello, "DB not initialized" is not necessarily an error and may just mean you didn't set up the sync between the nodes yet. If you can create the issue on github, we can look into it in more detail.
good job! wish you to grow your business and scale your company to support more oss projects!
LinkedIn is an HR circle jerk. Low quality posts, meaningless connections, and tons of spam from LinkedIn. They will spam your friends on your behalf. And then the person to person spam.
Not agreeing or anything, but it seems a pretty standard TOS clause.
Instead of calling my argument horrendous with no justification, maybe you could try engaging with it. I, too, would like to just call you a right-wing libertarian nutjob or something like that and move on with life, but hopefully something better can happen. :)

> Either way the child is inheriting economic wealth they didn't produce

There isn't a whole lot. But you're missing the point of parenting. Hint: it's not financial support. You can't write a baby a check for $1M, plop it down in an empty house and expect it to live a good life. After you die you're not doing any of the stuff that actually makes having a parent valuable to a child relative to receiving the necessary financial support (which will not even be available to working class children under your proposed system).

Maybe if you were confident your children would be adequately taken care of if you died, you wouldn't have to work so hard saving up a nest egg and would actually have more time to be a parent.
>If Wikileaks had their way I don't think you'd like the NWO that Putin and China would build for us.

He told us factually about a progressive candidate being illegally silenced by the democratic establishment, and it has been transformed into a quasi-russo quasi-chino NWO conspiracy?
We can choose to be content, and we can choose to be open to being happy.
The article talks only about climate change, not other sorts of "science denial". The problem with this is that issue of climate change is not typical of actual science, but rather more like engineering.

Suppose that Boeing decided that test flights for new aircraft were too expensive. Instead, they propose to just simulate the performance of the aircraft on a supercomputer. If the simulation says the aircraft works well, they just build it and load paying passengers for the first flight.

Of course, everyone would see this as ridiculous. Even though the basic science underlying aerodynamics is well-established, the application of this science to a complex system like an aircraft (and the environment it flies in) is far from straightforward, involving both approximations necessitated by computational limits and uncertainty in simulation inputs. There is no reason to place any great trust in the results of the computer simulation.

There is similarly no reason to place great trust in the output of the climate models that are the basis for predictions regarding warming due to CO2. In fact, there's less reason than for aerodynamic simulations, which can be tested on existing aircraft, whereas we don't have a supply of other planets for testing climate models (not earth-like ones, at least). Furthermore, the sociology of this scientific field is unfavourable, with large potential for bias due both to ideological preferences and the huge financial impacts of policy decisions (including impacts on levels of scientific funding, as for many fields).

Of course, the basic science does tell us something. CO2 does have a warming effect. The direct effect from plausible increases in CO2 is not negligible, but not particularly alarming. The alarming predictions come from models with positive feedbacks, but the magnitude of the net feedback is highly uncertain. That's why the IPCC range for the equilibrium effect of doubling CO2 is from 1.5 to 4.5 degrees C - from not too worrying to significantly worrying (though not catastrophic - that comes from unhinged activist propaganda).

It is striking that this consensus range for the effect of doubling CO2 has stayed the same for about 30 years - that is, there has been essentially no scientific progress on the central question underlying this debate for decades. Perhaps the best scientific minds don't go into this field?
I really like their concept. I can see why people would sign up for this. I just didn't like their small selection of designs. The impression I got from their website was that they only have a handful of fabrics that they use for both male and female. I was expecting more rainbows and unicorns, but the one rainbow unicorn male boxer design didn't grab my attention like I thought it would.

Still beats paying $5 a pair for generic boxers at walmart. If I had the extra cash, I'd say why not and sign up.
Divide evenly by number of people? It's really not that difficult.
Raven Ridge APUs in particular are terrible, every other piece of AMD hardware has very dramatically better Linux support than NVIDIA's GPUs.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pajoma.v...

And the related view plugin, excellent easy to use journaling with automatic naming by day and other stuff.

It works mid because you can learn all of it in ten minutes and if you are already a vscode user you’d have it open anyway.
I've been tracking venture investment in biotech and Chinese investment was pretty steady through all of 2018, though they began leading fewer deals and doing more follow on investments

Anecdotally, there's a big healthcare conference in SF this week, and several of the Chinese investors we planned on meeting canceled their trips
It is well known that you can teach yourself C++ in 21 days: https://abstrusegoose.com/249
I totally agree, which is why I have not worked for a startup or small business for close to a decade. And I’m by nature a gambler! It’s just they in the current climate the %unicorn x %share x valuation expected value calculation is not favorable to employees. Even for employee 1-10.

All it would take i think is for companies to start offering larger stakes to employees, with the other two factors remaining the same, and the math might make it worthwhile. But they won’t do it.
That's Unfortunate, on Android you can restore your messages in Signal
The underlying dependencies (OS, libraries, runtime, compiler, etc) slowly get out of date.

Out of date dependencies can be seen as code rot, regardless of quality/state of the actual code.

(Not saying that it should be rewritten because of that, but I do consider outdated dependencies to be code rot.)
It's probably done enough damage to their reputation in your estimation to not matter, but please note these Linux problems are specific to the Raven Ridge APU [1] - not the case using a discrete AMD GPU, the open source drivers for which are by many accounts absolutely superb these days.

It's a shame, I want a 2400G to replace my ageing A10 Trinity media box, will probably give it a try fairly soon expecting latest kernels have this solved by now...

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d...
No one has argued that Wikileaks has never done anything right.

You're disingenuously oversimplifying the situation to imply that my position is ridiculous. When your ridiculous position is simply that "Wikileaks did a thing that I liked so that means they never did anything wrong and anyone that thinks its possible is just paranoid". Instead of being dismissive and condescending why not try to have a conversation?
Which bad behavior are you referring to?
You can't just "logic" away regret. We make bad choices, no matter what, and that causes regret.
Goodreads has "Popular by Date" functionality that will help a lot. Just a glance at the top of the list shows The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, Bambi by Felix Salten, some Borges, some Lovecraft, the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter, The Ego and the Id by Freud...

Overall I'd agree with you. Most of the specific titles I recognize from this list are dry, downbeat and not the strongest or most memorable work from those authors. The rest is either series material with characters or stuff that seems to have been forgotten.
After I implemented this and compared with just encoding the key with JSON, it turned out that JSON.stringify is so fast, that it's not really worth the effort.
Well I mean another consistent explanation is that Assange and/or the decision makers in Wikileaks are just reactionaries and wanted Donald Trump to win the election for that reason (as opposed to because they have been owned by the KGB).
Brexit is a poorly executed idea in my opinion. The idea to leave the EU, at its core isn't the worst. The EU is highly undemocratic, more so by the day, and takes a lot of sovereignty away from its member countries. More and more economic policy is being dictated by a non-representative body based in Brussels. There is increasingly no way to challenge the neoliberal status quo set by Brussels. This is disconcerting in the face of late capitalism and its constant boom and bust cycles. What the EU did to Greece is gross. There will be a unpredictable vaccuum to fill in the UK. That is the scary part to me. Either the far right is going to fill it, or hopefully the labour party, which just might be able to usher in a less unequal society than before Brexit. Don't be sad for banks. Banks are horrible and oppressive. There will be economic pain, but lets not hold up super problematic institutions because of it.
Care to share the results of your quick search please?
Hoping to hear a lot of others thoughts on this article. Had fun reading it last weekend. I think the standout, to me can be seen in this excerpt.

One cannot plan out a schedule that depends on
fundamental scientific breakthroughs, since those
do not occur on a fixed timescale. A project of
that kind is about spending money to mitigate risk,
by pushing existing technologies to levels of
performance, reliability, or miniaturization that
would not otherwise be economically practical.
Given a choice of two technologically workable
ways to do something, NASA would take the
better-proven and more expensive way.

That last point, in particular, is one I have trouble with time and again. Picking tried frameworks seems to be something our industry is allergic to. But I cannot seem to understand why.

I get it at the hobbyist level. Playing with new things is awesome. There is also at the "failure is an option" level. If you are just going to go swing as hard as you can, then by all means pick the latest in the hope it lets you knock it out of the park.

If you need to know that what you are going to do will work, though, pick a framework with known qualities and spend the money necessary to mitigate the known failure points.
I prefer these reviews: https://lygte-info.dk/info/indexUSB%20UK.html (warning, large number of images)
In-your-face ads does not even begin to describe how intrusive LinkedIn is and was years before being bought by Microsoft.
Not to mention, that candidate had been on every channel of TV news 24 hours a day every day for 1.5 years leading up to the election. Holy crap the guy that was on TV got elected! Wow that's a conspiracy if I ever heard of one. /s
> 7+ YEARS PERL ON RAILS EXPERIENCE

What's "Perl on Rails"? Isn't it supposed to be "Ruby on Rails"?
But there is another option, it was mentioned in the original complaint :)

> So it means for every product, have a build for every distro / version combination you want to support.

Of course it's a total pain in the ass, but it's still vastly preferable to unfixable bugs sometime in the distant future
If you measure the time impact on the trip, and you count deceleration/accelaration, parking, etc. going above 20 minutes is super easy.

That’s not useful for recharging, but a point to have in mind when discussing stop times with more people in order to avoid misunderstanding :)
> Unfortunately, it seems to have happened anyway.

If by "theft" you mean "the person who got the most votes got the nom," sure. That's not really news though. I mean, it is, but not for the reason you think it should be.
> greener

This is not a metric. It pretty much a religious word. So it depends on what you pray to.

Do you want a world where less animals die or a world where the current (realistically for a 3000+ years, man influenced anyway) environment changes least. Are mammals more important? Extinctions matter more than size of land? Deserts matter? Man made green environments count?

Are your happy to kill poor (mostly black and yellow) people for this goal? I guess yes. They are not usually in the definition green, although they are mammals and their babies are cute.

Often with the green religion comes the other religions like is it msg free? I wouldn't want to run the web site, people would be annoying. Gluten free this blah blah

Like jopsen says just use less resources by using cheap as an adequate proxy and invest $ directly in your particular religion. It will let you be specific to your brand.
It'd be a valid self-own if they were lies.

Since the truth of them is in dispute, it comes off more as a list of nerves the media has struck on a very vain man.
According to my mom, I had been mispronouncing R and L as far back as age 2, and there wasn't any period before the expander was removed when I did pronounce it correctly. So my experience exactly matches that of the above internet citation regarding pronunciation, speech therapy, and expander removal.
You are arguing that it's part of an NWO conspiracy... I provided an objective view of the action you were discussing, because it seems you're drawing form inferences and assumptions, as there is clearly not sufficient evidence to support a NWO conspiracy belief.

It was an attempt to allow you to connect the dots for me, by starting from the (in my opinion) reasonable act which is implied to be the smoking gun.
If you asked your engineer peers how they would feel if you were paid an equivalent salary, I am confident some of them would admit that they would not like it. Privately, I think most of them would definitely not like it but would probably refrain from publicly admitting as much.

Which to me is the crux of the matter. If I was your manager at Mozilla and looking to maintain team cohesion and minimize talent loss, engineers would always come first. In my experience it is very common for managers with an engineering background to think that anyone can be a technical writer. Same for evangelizers. People do it for free if they like the technology that they are using. These are not strong bargaining foundations.
"Of course you can, it's a matter of negotiations."

Since the EU is much larger and has to protect her own interest, there is not much to negotiate. In fact, the deal offered is already pretty good for the UK. The last response of "no further negotiations" from the EU made this pretty clear.
Do’s and Don'ts for Getting to Inbox Zero in 2019
Sure the current doctrine of programming says its good, but lets take a step back. First of all its counter intuitive to writing English and it damages readability so you may have naming conflicts without realizing it or the compiler being able to warn you.

Also, in addition to remembering what a function is called you have to also remember its casing which different libraries may want to be phrased differently (like C libraries versus C++ libraries).

Bypassing the very real issues it may cause in the design of your software it also may lead to silly library cruft (see Java's Color class) - how many ways can you spell blue?

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/Color.htm...
>> I just didn't like their small selection of designs.

They may only have a small-ish selection of designs at any one time, but they cycle very quickly; if you subscribe you get a new/unique design each month.
Agreed. 10bps is considered low for me to get for as an advisor (I've been told that directly). The "founding engineering team" (ie, up to 8 people) is getting more than that.
software really is eating the world. in this case, apple's profits.

also software that causes such "harm" is typically written by someone else. it is funny seeing apple themselves write and distribute the harmful piece.
Calling it now: granite piston based gravity storage is going to be the grid-scale storage solution: http://gravitypower.net
>also they frequently have good documentation and “getting started” tutorials.

I tried making a TypeScript react app around Christmas, I found a tutorial, the commands did not work, I do not remember the details but it was using some bundler and probably the tutorial was a bit old and packages updated in npm. I found a different tutorial, to use create_react_app,

I seen it uses npx(not sure when this tool appeared) it also used tons of dependencies, in the end I created my app from scratch using only the TS compiler package and the react client library, no extra tools, magic, 1 month old tutorials that are outdated already, no install latest tool of the month etc.
My previous understanding was that these kinds of web accessibility lawsuits and fines were relegated to government web services and vendors, both those for external and internal use. Seems that there is a broadening interpretation of the ADA due to the increasing ubiquity and essential utility of e-commerce.
iPhone 6 user here, can confirm. I will continue using this silly, old phone for a while longer because it still gets the job done just fine.
I don't think this surprised Apple. In their September 2018 event [0], Lisa Jackson took the stage to say that Apple sees longer-lived devices as a goal of the company, from both a consumer and environmental standpoint. She specifically called out the renewed life that iOS 12 will bring to older devices. On top of that, at WWDC 2018 [1], Federighi heralded the new life customers will find when iOS 12 would be released to 5 year old phones.

I don't think that any of this has surprised Apple. I think they have long seen that peak iPhone (and a mature market) is coming, or even already arrived.

Apple is focusing on their install base, which is enormous (over 1.5 billion devices [2]), and is figuring out ways to leverage that advantage. They know that the upgrades will come, albeit more slowly, but in the meantime, they can provide services, accessories, and eventually new products that customers will be fully willing to pay for. I think it is obvious that there is a pretty big transition that the company is in the middle of, but I think they are clearly best positioned to take advantage of that position.

It would, frankly, be baffling for Apple to suddenly change course direction over a single quarter. I think they are setting this course (ie, longevity of devices) because they think it is the right thing to do for their customers, similar to how they uniquely ran the battery replacement program. [3]

[0] - http://live.arstechnica.com/apples-september-12-2018-gather-...

[1] - http://live.arstechnica.com/wwdc-2018/#post-1319367

[2] - http://www.asymco.com/2018/02/27/the-number/

[3] - “We did not consider in any way, shape, or form, what it would do to upgrade rates. We did it because we thought it was the right thing to do for our customers. And sitting here today, I don’t know what effect it will have. And again, it’s not and was not in our thought process of deciding to do what we’ve done.” - Tim Cook
He doesn't tell everyone to study math. In his speech he mentions that you should be searching within your abilities, and that you need to find out what those are.

> So far we've cut the Standard Graduation Speech down from "don't give up on your dreams" to "what someone else can do, you can do." But it needs to be cut still further. There is some variation in natural ability. Most people overestimate its role, but it does exist. If I were talking to a guy four feet tall whose ambition was to play in the NBA, I'd feel pretty stupid saying, you can do anything if you really try. [2]

> We need to cut the Standard Graduation Speech down to, "what someone else with your abilities can do, you can do; and don't underestimate your abilities." But as so often happens, the closer you get to the truth, the messier your sentence gets. We've taken a nice, neat (but wrong) slogan, and churned it up like a mud puddle. It doesn't make a very good speech anymore. But worse still, it doesn't tell you what to do anymore. Someone with your abilities? What are your abilities?
The difficulty of such interview questions doesn't stem from the problem of ensuring memory safety, but stuff like "finding the form of the recursion you need".
Not everything he says is off base and he does present the basics of clinical psychology well. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an interesting field one can gain a lot from studying. However many things he talks or just hints at can be questional and neither his expertise nor fairly presented.

It helps his cause that many criticisms of him are terrible and involve many fabrications.

This youtube channel contra points is a much better criticism then mine:
https://youtu.be/4LqZdkkBDas
Not really. Source: iPhone 6 user. Couldn't upgrade to iOS 12 because of lack of space. Finally made room and after being told 12 would speed my device I had high hopes. Turns out, I don't notice any difference. App launch times, keyboard launch times, and overall responsiveness is just barely tolerable. 6S devices feel like light speed in comparison.
If you're employee 1, you should be getting 1% or north of that. If you're employee 13 you're probably getting 25-50 bps if you negotiate.
Hey man WL shouldn't get credit for predicting the actions of the media, just because the media happened to act exactly as they predicted! Anyone could have predicted those actions, just by assuming that MSNBCNNWaPoFox was all-in for a war in Syria. It didn't take a rocket surgeon...
I think that I would say that we can't choose to be happy, but we can choose to be content, and we can choose not to dwell in sadness. We can allow our emotions to fluctuate and not stay fixed in depression. We do this by not fixing our thoughts, and by being open to the present moment.