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> The parallel she uses to make her case is the breakup of Microsoft, which she weirdly calls “the tech giant of its time” (Microsoft is still a tech giant), and holds as perhaps the last example when government went toe to toe with the technology industry.

> “The government’s antitrust case against Microsoft helped clear a path for Internet companies like Google and Facebook to emerge,” Warren writes.

In what way was Microsoft 'broken up'? The outcome[1] from that antitrust case seems to be that Microsoft had to publicly expose all of Windows' APIs to developers (no secret APIs).

If anything, the outcome of the Microsoft case seems to support non-intervention as AppGoogBook all flourished despite no serious breakup of Microsoft.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...
I am also a robot tech enthusiast but I haven't yet built robots. I want to. Great site
I don't think I have ever encountered an a.out binary in many years of using Linux. The default compiler output file is named a.out, but it's actually in ELF format.

I have encountered COFF executables, and been part of a COFF->ELF transition on a embedded system, but Linux never supported COFF afaik.
Japan delays decision for hosting next big particle collider
The tax calculation is impacted greatly by the income-splitting or (as in the case of the article) dependent spouse deduction regime. That can swing the full/part or full/full decision wildly in a particular direction, as appears to be the case in Japan. It's definitely tax policy as social engineering, depending on how much value a society places on children being reared primarily in the home vs. daycare. Are there any studies comparing outcomes?

The other dimension of the full/part vs full/full configuration is elasticity in case person A has a crippling injury or is otherwise unable to work full time. If your lifestyle is set up with a need for maximal income, it's very difficult to take a large hit like losing one full time income.

On the other hand, if there is the slack to allow person B to take on full-time employment and have person A do whatever (if anything) they are able on other fronts, then it may be possible to get the bills paid. It will likely be at the expense of a less ideal home life, but that beats the heck out of having mounting debt or being evicted due to financial obligations that cannot be filled.

It's much like the engineering principle of designing a 25-50% material strength buffer into infrastructure where failure would have a large negative impact.

I realize its an oversimplification in MANY ways, but this is more of an issue further down the income ladder. e.g. losing that 2nd income means that you can't pay rent or buy food, vs higher income couples where you might have to give up a vehicle or look at re-mortgaging the cottage on the lake. Those with higher aggregate incomes would also find it easier to have an emergency savings fund vs living paycheque to paycheque

(I'm ignoring the question of whether full time employment in a career is a fundamental requirement for a fulfilling adult life)
Flexport Secures $1B in Funding Led by SoftBank Vision Fund
I heard this anecdotally from a long time colleague of mine who worked there. I don't know of any more solid reference to give, sorry.
Where can I read about this fork?

Googling for "bsd parallel command" doesn't seem to show anything relevant.
sounds like the current state of online dating to me.
And if they want to do that, they can. Nobody is removing your ability to drink. You're taxing it more heavily because this specific choice results in societal problems that everyone else has to clean up. You'll notice I'm not calling for a ban on alcohol sales. You still have the right to buy it. But it's being priced in a way that reflects the extra burden you put on the rest of us with your choices. This hypothetical tax is meant to represent my desire not to have to deal with the consequences of your choices.
You input length is 101.

If you "play" for a long time, eventually, all 64 6-grams will have occurred.
The "collection objects" term from the English version just seemed a little more restrictive than the French equivalent.

Also I didn't think about the ISF deletion then.
> but the reality most of us don't store integers in a vector or tree, we store bigger things.

I work in numerical computing where storing 64/32-bit floats is by far the most common use case. In this world, storing a lot of small, immutable values is the norm and using pointer-heavy data structures would be a disaster.

That's a good trick that I'll have to think about good ways to expose safely in a higher level language.
Show HN: Base69 Binary-to-Text Encoding. Like Base64 but NOICEr
I'm not sure Apple can claim a monopoly the same way those other three can. How would you "break up" Apple when their business is largely focused to one market that has strong competition?
> This means that the US Government, which issues the currency, basically has less power than Visa and Mastercard.

How's that? Nobody is required to accept Visa or Mastercard either.
If the regulation prevents a new startup from trying to emulate Facebook's damaging business model, that's a good thing. We don't need any more surveillance/manipulation corporations, the market is already thoroughly saturated.
I appreciate what this site is trying to do. But unfortunately having clicked through a few of these, for every woman who's doing great work, achieving their goals, or just carrying on with life regardless of their sex, there seems to be another accusing men of "mansplaining" and arguing against strawmen.

I can see why a lot of women aren't being taken seriously when these are examples of the people representing them
I still dont think you can justify any of those as monopolies yet.

Snapchat, twitter, pinterest, reddit, youtube, hangouts/gmessenger, linkedin, skype/groupme, imessage, discord, kik, line, telegram, signal. Especially justifying Instagram, because facebook really made it what it is. WhatsApp MAYBE, but in reality what facebook is doing is owning both the US and INTL messengers, I dont think they overlap in a way that justifies splitting it up, because FB's US marketshare doesnt drastically increase from WA. Is it the justice departments job from to allow the most popular domestic product from merging with the most popular international product? Uber being able to swallow up or own shares in all these regional services should be questioned then. FB/WA still have viable competition from imessage, snapchat, and skype.
Do you experience symptoms of Vitamin D deficiency?
Never understood the "Bill gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Gabe Newell being a college dropout" argument. They dropped out specifically to start working. It's clearly not the same thing as dropping out because you were failing the classes.
The reason is because we don't matter and have no voice. Everything you think you have a voice about is just pretend illusion, like voting.
Of the three I would say Facebook is the most destructive. I don't see articles on Live Science or Science Daily decrying the mental health effects of Amazon or Google, just unfair monopoly implications at Bloomberg and other business sites.
Roger Ebert, the popular film critic, observed that the purpose of the best filmmaking was to generate empathy in the audience

https://www.npr.org/2014/07/03/328230231/a-machine-that-gene...
Totally agree! HN has become much more of a loose cannon recently (and rapidly) with downvotes, and you'll often see entire threads of conversation greyed out. I've recently started to just search for older threads and read through them, rather than trying to converse here. If you use that new 'past' button at the top and go back a few years... it's really disappointing to compare.

We're here to learn, not to downvote dissenting or uneducated opinions. HN should be about becoming more correct, not just promoting those who are already 'right.'

Threads on climate change are one of the best comparisons, where people could argue they didn't believe it and others would (mostly) debate rather than downvote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10691804
A data point on the luxury level of Business: I once saw the Dalai Lama while boarding a flight to India. He was seated in Business, not First.
The question is what is the problem you are trying to solve by splitting Amazon. It seems that you are assuming the Amazon retail side will be split. I think AWS vs retail separation is a much more likely scenario. Btw. if it wasn't for the IT needs of retail AWS wouldn't have been born. Many small shops would not have been creating cloud computing as we know today. I am not sure what is the goal here and I think Elizabeth Warren is quite often wrong so I am not convinced that Amazon needs to be split. Companies like Walmart can (and do) challenge Amazon in many aspects and there are other companies like Ebay that are on the market. I do not think that Amazon retail is a monopolistic stranglehold at all.
He said private. So 1-4 people at 400 gallons per hour.
Nobody sees 3 classes because the entrance to Economy (or Business) is usually aft of First class (in some airports First has a dedicated bridge - or Business has a dedicated floor like in several 380/747s).
Walmart was contained to its brick and mortar footprint (no one in NYC for instance could use it). Amazon available to the entire population.
Does that mean anyone would conclude that all fiction elicits empathy? Or that fiction never elicits empathy? Or any other similar extreme conclusion? Wouldn't we obviously say that there exist types of (fictional work, reader) pairings that yield sympathetic outcomes and other (fictional work, reader) pairings that yield sadistic / non-empathic outcomes?

In other words, from what source does there drive any kind of authoritative argument that generic reading of fiction either always or generally leads to increases in measures of empathy?

A study that measures fiction reading would surely not be adequate, unless it controlled for all possible sources of variation between dispositions of people and dispositions of fictional works, which is ludicrous in principle.
How many sheets do you rip?
There are a few services that sell empty seats on private jet flights. It can be pretty economical, sometimes even less expensive than commercial.

IMO, the main advantage of flying private is the convenience of getting to bypass the whole airport experience. At least on the small business jet flights I've been on, the actual flight is less comfortable. The interior has nicer decor, but it's also cramped and noisy. And then, yeah, you have to eat nothing but rice and lentils for the next two months to try and offset the carbon.
Per Das Wiki [1]: "The government had little choice but to return service to the commercial airlines, but did so with several new conditions. The Air Mail Act of June 12, 1934, drafted at the height of the crisis by Black (and known as the "Black-McKellar bill"), restored competitive bidding, closely regulated airmail labor operations,[n 28] dissolved the holding companies that brought together airlines and aircraft manufacturers, and prevented companies that held the old contracts from obtaining new ones."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Mail_scandal#Effects_on_th...
A monopoly means you are the exclusive provider of something. Amazon has a ton of competition. People are CHOOSING to use Amazon because they are the best at what they do, for now. It's convenient. There is NOTHING stopping you from using boutique websites, Target.com, your neighborhood supermarket, or whatever you want. You choose Amazon because they are the cheapest, fastest, and easiest to work with. That is not a monopoly.
I use https://meet.jit.si

I've never had a Skype account, since it required installing proprietary software, and then it became Microsoft which put me off it even more. I've also not used Google Hangouts, since I've heard that doing so would break the XMPP functionality of my Google Account (not sure how up-to-date this info is).

Anecdotally, I've been on Skype calls between friends (as in, connecting two rooms of people), and it seemed really laggy and low quality (this was post-Microsoft, which I hear changed the architecture from fast P2P to slow centralised, presumably for surveillance purposes).

Once it kept cutting out and I recommended trying meet.jit.si; that didn't cut out and had much better quality video. Tangentially: people were initially reluctant to try it, since they didn't want to bother signing up to a different service; implying some general assumption that all Web sites or P2P networks (a) require an "account" of some sort and (b) "accounts" must be distinct and not reusable. What a sorry state of affairs :(

That said, I've also had calls on meet.jit.si which were laggy until we turned off the video. So neither is perfect!
The original poster asked what benefit breaking them up would have, they didn't necessarily ask for a benefit that's something lots of Americans would see as positive. America and its technology companies aren't super popular in many parts of the world in recent years, and people unfond of it would welcome progress in AI technology becoming less concentrated in the US. Maybe a more left-leaning Senator like Warren might see some benefit in power being more evenly distributed globally, rather than concentrated in a few big US tech companies.
Facebook shows ads, but it’s not fair to say that it sells user information. Working in ad tech, there are tons of companies that actually sell use information — it’s a different business model.
Or, in ANSI CL terms, only one is a valid form (S-expression suitable for or subject to evaluation).
Is this related to the a.out file that gcc outputs if you don't specify a filename with -o? Also, I thought bit rot was bits in files changing over time due to the storage medium failing; is this a different use of the term?
Building Churches Out of Egg Whites Transformed Filipino Desserts
>Richard Florida is a co-founder and editor at large of CityLab and a senior editor at The Atlantic. He is a university professor in the University of Toronto’s School of Cities and Rotman School of Management, and a distinguished fellow at New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate.

The article is written from a Realtor's prospective.
Some explorations of similar ideas that I'm aware of:

- Intentional Programming: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programming

- Light Table: http://lighttable.com/ (inspired by some ideas from Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com/)

- Visual Programming (lots of examples)

- Literate Programming

You can view sophisticated IDEs and refactoring tools as an attempt to improve the interface to plain text representations of code. These have actually had quite a bit of success.

Some approaches that move away from editing code as plain text have had success in particular domains. Visual Programming has shader graphs, Houdini, Unreal Blueprints, Substance Designer and other niches where it is relatively successful. Literate Programming has Jupiter notebooks and Mathematica that are popular in certain domains. Most of the success seems to come in particular niches, it's hard to think of widely adopted examples for "general" programming.

And Excel of course is a very successful non text based programming model within many domains.
The argument that there won't be incentives for success is and has always been ludicrous. It's not based in any kind of empirical reality, just on an emotional theory that people won't work if you tax them more, and an Ayn Rand novel or two.

The reality is that people compete for status, success, money, and power, within the framework they are given.

I mean we've actually tried this. If you take a group of incredibly skilled business people and tax them heavily you don't get some dystopia, you get Switzerland.
"Across the board, suburban neighborhoods have higher incomes, higher home values, higher shares of college grads, and higher shares of professionals than urban neighborhoods. And suburbs do better than urban areas even when we compare neighborhoods in the same quartile of status."

I think though that part of the problem is that housing in the suburbs is more expensive to begin with, so only people with a lot of money can afford to live there. If you have more money you'r emore likely to be a college grad and a "professional" (whatever that means). It's not that suburbia makes you rich, it's that you have to be rich to live in surburbia. There isn't an economic advantage to living there, you just have to be richer to live there.
I'm curious to hear more from you on this, because I've always felt like Facebook-imposed censorship would be far worse than open dialogue on the site. People already wall themselves off inside of echo chambers that only reinforce already-held opinions, so is your thought that the worst of these echo chambers can be eliminated via FB filters?

Honestly, the most toxic content I've seen on FB hasn't been gore or racism or sexism or anything else distasteful, it's been blatantly false clickbait/opinion pieces that flare up existing divides.

I've always thought that the best way to make FB a decent place again would be to simply ban sharing of links, so that the feed could become what it was originally meant to be: a place where I can see what my friends are up to. But that would also mean FB would have to dial back its targeted advertisingm, which is all links (seriously, would contextual advertising really be that bad? Bad enough that we can justify the insanity that is FB data collection) and stop scooping up all the data they can get... which doesn't really seem their MO.
I found this quote the most interesting:

"Microsoft's entry into most new technologies follows this same plan, with the first effort being a preemptive strike, the second effort being market research to see what customers really want in a product, and the third try is the real product."
Robert Cringely in "Accidental Empires"
It really wouldn't. At the end of the day it's a bunch of 1 percent-ers spewing platitudes when meeting with government; they have no idea what recruiting for non-executive jobs looks like these days.

While I feel that the cost of college is totally out of line with the salaries most people make, I know that I wouldn't have been hired without a degree.

Although I'm far from a Thiel fan, he at least offered an alternative approach using his own money (not a lot, mind you, but still).
For those considering this purchase: proceed with great caution and be sure your seller has a return/refund policy!

Perhaps the new Vector 'bot (which appears to be almost identical in all aspects as Anki's first revision of this bot, Cozmo) works fine but I won't risk $250 to find out. ("fool me once...") You see, Cozmo was plagued with hardware issues ("connection lost") making it unusable. My suspicion is a battery unable to satisfy the current draw, or a voltage regulator not up to the task, causing a brownout and CPU crash. By the way, no user-servicable parts, and Anki will not sell a replacement battery.

I bought mine for me and my kids to play around with programming -- it was a total waste of money. I could never get it running for more than a few minutes at a time, and startup might require a half-hour of attempts (replace on charger, move arm to boot up, reboot, connect to cozmo network, connect app, cozmo wakes up ... and crashed after a couple seconds.) Once it does connect it may run for 20 minutes or 2 minutes before quitting suddenly. And, while running, it's great! Cute as can be. But product reviews (amazon, etc.) are full of this complaint so many others have experienced it.
I think breaking up the ISPs and media conglomerates would be much more impactful.

I can't think of a single market segment where Google and Amazon lack effective competition. Facebook is already bleeding users, and how would you break up a social media company in an impactful way anyhow? Facebook's ventures outside of social media aren't even close to being monopolies.
It's not true to say "never", at least as far as intra-Europe is concerned, due to a mixture of fifth-freedom flights and a handful of other anomalies. e.g. Emirates put a long-haul 777-300 in business class between Larnaca and Malta, LATAM fly their 787 between Madrid and Frankfurt. Furthermore, both BA and Iberia fly long-haul equipment between London and Madrid once a day (last time I checked; I've flown the A340 on this route).
Investigating the 900GB “Collection #1-5” password leaks with R
I'm pretty sure a college graduate created the touchbar.
They already have shadow profiles of users not on the platform, so I'm sure they'd still track users even if they paid. There would just be some cleverly worded language about not using the data to show you ads, but that leaves the door open for other uses of the data.
Source article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/philadelphia-is-first-u-s-city-...
Do you mind sharing what role/salary you were offered in Dublin?

I was offered 35k for a junior role, but declined it as that seemed pretty low (especially taking into account housing difficulties there).
It would save so much energy if everyone turned the air conditioning to less cold in Summer and people showed up to work in shorts and Bermuda shirts. The change between outside and inside temperatures makes you catch cold!
> Google is, well google. I don't have to use their search engine if I don't want to

I don't have a problem with the dominance of their search engine. I have problems with them using their search engine and other platforms to prompt you to use Chrome, or how they use their quasi-monopoly on Android app marketplaces to force manufacturers to preload just about every Google App in existance on Android phones. Then there's various Google services (some of them near monopolies) performing much worse on anything but Chrome.

If Google would be just search I wouldn't have anything against them, but they are notorious for using the market position of one of their products to push another.
It’s a bit crazy if you are asked to fly pretty much every month.

The least they can do is make it comfortable.
Doctor tells patient he doesn't have long to live through video screen
They also used to have first class on a daily 747 between London and Moscow, around 4 hours. (I'm not sure if they still do, but they did in 2014 and 2015 because I flew it both years!). Not to mention the cash cow East Coast USA destinations or upmarket bucket and spade Caribbean flights, none of which are 12hrs.
I also see Elizabeth Warren has created a set of powerful enemies way too early that will do much to stop her from becoming America's first woman president. If you wanna do something like this wait until you are in office. These are not issues that your average American cares about.
I'm sorry, but I'm baffled by the extended quote you pasted. It reads like a rhetoric 101 essay of a college freshman, deeply contrived and not hitting at any real point. Just meandering under the pretense that this is Serious Discourse.
Has anyone told these airlines that these new class names are confusing branding nightmares. Premium Economy? Economy Plus? Economy Comfort? Which one’s better? Who knows?

Reminds me of the ol’ USB High Speed vs. USB Full Speed. I still don’t remember which one is faster.
naysayer. What if they were boutique frozen Trader Joe's dinners? And don't say 'salt' because that's not actually a thing.