skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great question. They expanded it a bit on their "SUMMARY CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA AND OTHER DATA" section.

Their operating expenses are divided in 3: Research and development, Sales and marketing and General and administrative.

They also describe a bit the evolution of these under the Risk Section, beneath "We have a history of net losses, we anticipate increasing operating expenses in the future, and we may not be able to achieve and, if achieved, maintain profitability."
Why is there always someone who injects "surprise" into every controversy? Who's talking about surprise?
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In 2008 the German government guaranteed ALL bank accounts, WITHOUT a limit.

> As German leaders and bankers worked feverishly to rescue a lender considered too big to fail, the government announced Sunday that it would guarantee all private savings accounts in Germany - worth about €500 billion - in an effort to reinforce increasingly shaky confidence in the financial system.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/business/worldbusiness/05...
> Current growth centers including Azure, Surface etc were all started and championed originally by Ballmer. It was Ballmer who was willing to pour in investment like crazy in Hololens as well Bing.

Is Surface really a growth centers?

Azure is Linux. Without Linux Azure don't mean a much, and without the goodwill that is coming from Nadella, developers are not going to deploy anything on Azure.

Having said that we still don't know how much Azure is within the Cloud Business, which includes Office 365.

Microsoft, by and large is a company that does more business to developers and Enterprise than to Consumers. How many consumers have actually spent money buying or upgrading Windows?

Without the brand images changes and good faith, how many of those I.T people were willing to continue put money into their products?

>It was Ballmer who was willing to pour in investment like crazy in Hololens as well Bing.

And we know how both of those ended.

There are definitely a lot more new things Microsoft could do. But he managed to turn the 2nd most hated company in the industry, ( First will definitely be Oracle ) and now with people thinking Microsoft have redeemed themselves, all while growing its business revenue and profits.
Yep. I worked in Shanghai for four months, and I tell everyone now that it's "New New York".

I would definitely consider working there again if the opportunity came up. The density is crazy but the subway is great and it's a fantastic city.
Hey, none of that! Books are sacred! You can't desecrate a book by writing in it, and Logos forbid that you rip a page out and destroy the sanctity of the text!
Is that data worth enough to subsidize taxi rides, though?

And again, they only have that comprehensive level of data for heavy users. Lots of people only use Uber when they're going to the airport, as others said, or maybe when they plan on drinking.

I use it when I'm running late or public transit is messed up so it's very skewed data for me.

There's also a real risk that Congress or the states could ban them from selling that data.
Arduino is for quick validation and prototyping. Pick up an Arduino nano for couple of $ and try it out. The programming language is easy to pick up and will get you a quick app(though basic) app running. It has made electronics accessible to a lot of people. Raspi opens a different world as you have a bunch of other peripherals available for you already builtin, without having to get "shields". There is a large ecosystem of shields available in the arduino world that make prototyping easy. So it may eventually boil down to what you want to do and how much effort you are willing to put in for the project. In my opinion, arduino are good for initial protoyping/weekend projects, and microcontrollers/embedded linux are good for engineering projects and will set you up for a long haul in systems engineering.
NIST Publishes Specs for Completing the Online Information References Template
You know what I mean, Sheldon.
Are you personally managing 40+ people, or are you a director with a layer of managers beneath you? I can't imagine how stressful it must be personally to manage 20 people, never mind 40...
Are they seriously carrying shields and body armor?
Perhaps you can expand it so that most software developers can use it? The fact that capital gains are excluded from the e-file is really frustrating when the majority of us have RSUs/ESPPs.
Did the 2017 Tax Reform Discriminate Against Blue State Voters? [pdf]
I have never found a good reason to use a source control system on stuff that isn't source code.
Well it's A LOT of them.

Because we spoke about the Uber stuff as Jason lived it in real time ;)

A fun one was when Jason turned down the CTO position and of course we had no idea at the time what that really meant.

I guess in the latest episode 321 (Quick & Dirty) Jason does give an overview of the Uber story and how he got involved if you want a TL;DR version.
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The way to change it is affordable EV cars ===> less fuel costs
This is what I do for Vudu's Mobile Disc to Digital. Have an Android phone I only power up when I want to convert a disc.
> if you make it to the point where a judge is listening to you, he/she won't be sympathetic

Do you have any evidence for this? Courts routinely suppress evidence.

> and filmed himself placing drugs?

I saw the video; it's bad and it's an injustice. No one was convicted of a crime in this case, though I suspect others likely plead guilty in similar circumstances given their incentives in our current system.

But why does that affects your decision to lock your phone? Are you worried police are going to illegally compel a fingerprint from you and then put something on your phone?
Dutch fence off tulip fields to stop selfie-takers crushing flowers
Unfortunately it's useless to almost all software developers/engineers in the state because they don't include capital gains.
It's noteworthy that Alan Sokal was involved in debunking the paper discussed in the article.

He's the guy who caused an uproar in academic circles (in mainstream media too) with his notorious 1996 hoax in which he submitted a paper loaded with comically absurd assertions to a postmodern journal called Social Text and it got published. Google "Sokal hoax" for a good laugh.
Yeah, this isn't just a dark pattern, this is a black hole pattern, this is a scam. With a dark pattern there is a way, if you're careful, to navigate through things and get to the desired outcome. Here there was no such route, you had to have entered from the correct starting place to begin with to have a chance at all, and that entrance was hidden from the public.
> thats what the original article is running into, it doesn't matter if you've been delivering off the same IP for years if you're only sending small amounts of traffic

That suggests a simple solution to the problem that can be done on the gmail side: for any small mail server (to pull a number out of my behind, say less than <200 emails a month to any @gmail address for the last 12 months), white list them if they satisfy the rest of the usual requirements.

Even if someone attempts to game the system and creates a number of servers, for an effective spam campaign it means a large number of servers, costs go up.

It might be worth experimenting with "abusing" this behaviour to put your small server on the Gmail whitelist. Start sending a large number of generated emails to a @gmail.com mailbox, log in and ensure none of it ends up in spam (ideally automate that too :), and there we are. Anyone have any idea how many emails that is? :)
The fact that this patent isn't classified leads me to believe that the Navy doesn't think that this will go anywhere, at least not in the near term.
> But jerf, what are US dollars backed by

I agree with you almost 100%, just wanted to add that no current Government/State can back the nominal monetary mass flowing through its economy with real money, no matter the amount of taxes they're collecting. The reason being that the nominal monetary mass it's pretty big (to use an euphemism) compared to the real money flowing through the real economy.

For example in 2008 the CDS market alone was at some point "valued" at close to $36 trillion [1], while for comparison the US GDP back then I'd say was around $14-15 trillion (give or take a few trillion). Yeas, I know the CDS market back then was a financial abomination, and I do know that a lot of those $36 trillion were probably money counted twice or thrice or even more, but the idea remains. And that's just one market.

What indeed still keeps this whole house of cards still standing, what keeps any financial system standing, is trust. And, as you very well put it, once you have the power to put people in jail (or launch inter-continental ballistic missiles) you kind of have a lot of trust by default. But there are moments when no matter how powerful you are you still manage to lose that trust, see the USSR post 1989 or the Spanish Empire during and after the rule of Philip II [2], that's when things turn nasty:

> Charles V had left his son Philip with a debt of about 36 million ducats and an annual deficit of 1 million ducats. This debt caused Phillip II to default on loans in 1557, 1560, 1575, and 1596 (including debt to Poland, known as Neapolitan sums). Lenders had no power over the King and could not force him to repay his loans. These defaults were just the beginning of Spain's economic troubles as its kings would default six more times in the next 65 years.[9] Aside from reducing state revenues for overseas expeditions, the domestic policies of Philip II further burdened the Spanish kingdoms and would, in the following century, contribute to its decline, as maintained by some historians.[10]

[1] https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1806/images/graph-1.jpg

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Spain#Economy
Unfortunately disfunctioal cultures are widespread. If you can only solve the problems of Ivory Towers, you are not going to have many customers.
> There’s very little weifhtlifting [sic] does anything for your body besides getting stronger.

This is demonstrably false, and a very basic search will reveal many sources that corroborate my claim.
You realize that you can very easily be proven wrong, right?

Amazon was "losing" more money in each year leading up to their IPO. By your logic we all should have been protected from investing in this obvious scam of a company, right? If you could go back in time and dump money into Amazon stock, would you?

Of course you would, because profitability is obviously too simplistic a measure to gate companies from going public. Also, the SEC isn't my nanny and I'm capable of reading an S1 to make my own decision. You seem to have an incredibly narrow understanding of the economics behind these companies.
If the government made it easy, the default tax form would give no benefit to the taxpayer. Many uneducated people would just hand it in and not have any write offs/deductions anyway. By making it require a small amount of effort, people are forced to take a look at what they are paying.

People with money/educated about taxes would actually take the time to fill out the forms and benefit from deductions. It wouldn't really make that much of a difference.

I also am wondering what is so difficult about taxes now? Most people with 1 or 2 jobs just need to fill out a 1040 form, which takes an hour or two at most, and send it in.

I really don't think we benefit society by catering to an uneducated/indifferent populace.
Zuckerberg warns of authoritarian data localization trend
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I’m not sure how you have any kind of collective bargaining when the talent pool represents hundreds of millions of potential workers. Many of those are people who will spend 12 hours a day working and commuting to earn a few hundred dollars a month.

The legal systems of the workers range everywhere from, the United States, to countries where you can get your head chopped off if someone thinks you might be gay. How does all of that get reconciled? It could turn in to something that goes in to trade agreements. Then you potentially have a situation where work is just getting subcontracted out instead of contracted directly.
Can you just create a new slack channel for team news?
If the current stable version of Rust is 1.34, the current beta version of Rust is 1.35, and the currently nightly version of Rust (which is where major changes, including stabilization of features, are made) is 1.36.
Where are you seeing 6MB on Medium? It looks everything aside from images is <1MB compressed.

https://www.webpagetest.org/result/190426_YD_9088b86bbe21e61...
I think a distributed team,where individual members of the team are geographically distributed, is designed to fail. Sure you could accomplish some goals but the inertia is working against you. Such teams will be always outperformed by co-located teams.

A better approach would be to have distributed teams where the teams are cohesive unit with co-located members. Each team has local autonomy and a central mandate. The teams could be located anywhere but the team members would be in the same office.

Aliging distributed teams is easier as they can agree on coarse details , have few or limited dependencies and they execute on their own. Otherwise you are just shepherding cats.
There's two distinct possibilities...

1. A lot of physics is about to be rewritten. Travel to other planets and stars is within our grasp. The entire world is about to change. We'll all remember this day for the rest of our lives.

2. The Navy has been paying a very convincing snake oil salesman to make patents for impossible devices.
Says you. That sounds awesome to me!

How about we let consumers decide what the right "price" is? If you don't like it, then you should feel free to use the higher priced/quality alternatives!
> The risk of death with cosleeping is always higher than not cosleeping

Yes, that's my understanding, but I wasn't clear; I've corrected the comment to clarify.
> It's like we're heading back to the days when people didn't know the difference between AOL and "the internet."

I hate to say it, I really do, because I used to respect Google and liked their products, but if you imagine combining the perception of "AOL is the internet" with the way Microsoft acted up to the mid-2000's and I think you have Google.
Quick question, do you know the difference between paying taxes and filing taxes?

Also, do you understand how withholding works and how you pay taxes with every pay check not just every year? And that if you have too low of an annual income to actually owe any federal tax you need to file in order to get your withholding back?
You're right, it's been available for a while now. This is the first time we've made an announcement about it.
The overrides system is weird, to say the least. Any consumer can change styles and erbitrary HTML attributes deep inside a component's DOM tree

This breaks encapsulation. As an app developer how do I know my change will be future proof? As a component developer how can I refactor a component or change its behaviour without breaking my consumers?

It feels like stuffing the worst parts of jQuery and old-school CSS back into React.
Economically, it does lead to a competition equilibrium, but it does not take into account the cost of externalities such as additional traffic and pollution generated by having more drivers.
Online learning startup Coursera picks up $103M, now valued at $1B+
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The IRS already provides a free-file option, you just need to spend more time reading instructions. https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/before-starting-free-fi...

Not sure what all the hate is here. If you're not completely uneducated, you can figure this out yourself.
Your last point is the most salient. Solving autonomy is a much harder problem than making an app. Anyone who solves autonomy can easily make their own app, or can partner with any upstart in the ride-hailing world, who would be desperate to get that autonomy software. Hard to see how Uber or Lyft truly profits unless they're the ones who own the autonomy code.
> There's no real sense of justice beyond not getting shut down.

Corporations have no greater or lesser sense of justice than people, because corporations are just groups of people acting in concert. (A fact that I'm reminded of every time I see a long line of cars with a single occupant in the HOV lane.)
> I'm not interested in hearing about how that's a hackneyed worn-out cliché

Well, it's a hackneyed worn-out cliché. Without the users there's no viable product. That's what makes them the customers and that's why they need adequate customer support. The fact that you pay for the product with ad impressions rather than dollars doesn't change anything about that dynamic.
Or you can have both, if car owners send their self driving cars out to make money on your platform.
There are several fully remote companies collectively generating hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue. To require physical colocation is a failure to properly manage, as well as delegate authority and responsibility.

> Such teams will be always outperformed by co-located teams.

Could you share data to back this assertion up?
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Well... the last patent that makes driverless actually feasible in the real world will last for 20 years, and for most of that time the development will already be done.

Approval? That's another matter.
The point of the article is that we need a science to address the plain fact that the behavior of modern AI and machine learning systems, especially neural networks, is unpredictable and incomprehensible given the current state of knowledge. It is more about addressing the limitations of AI than hyping it.
That's as a sender (even that reasoning is questionable).
As a receiver, would you rather never received an important email from some org instead of finding it in your spam folder?
Even if you file as exempt and have no withholding, you may need to file because of refundable credits (mainly EITC).
All great points. I guess we'll see where the chips land.
I liked changdetection.com which they acquired(?)... it was to-the-point and possibly the fastest-loading non-trivial site I knew.
It will fuck up your health. Also it will set the precedent that you are okay with working crazy hours for months on end for no additional benefit to yourself. I did it, it took me a couple years to lose the extra weight I gained. Just don't do it, your health ain't worth it.
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The best part, IMHO, was the Republican Senator they interviewed that came out and said that they (Conservatives in Congress) wanted tax filing to be onerous.
It sounds like what you are saying is UpWork provides great value for businesses looking to hire inexpensive contractors. For US-based contractors, which I assume your parent poster might be, it doesn't sound like they provide such great value. At least, none of your reasons help the contractor any. And being in a system where they can easily be underbid by overseas labor doesn't sound so fun, either.
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I basically agree, I think that most good design work is done based on intuition, but designers should be able to justify design decisions, and criticize them, based on objective criteria, especially for aspects of a design that further some functional purpose of a product rather than being simply aesthetic or decorative in nature.
>If you're a paying customer, you definitely can get a human being to look at your problem.

Based on the number of hacker news posts from people who pay them money and are locked out of their accounts by automated systems with no recourse I'd say that's utterly false.

Maybe you meant to say "if you pay them enough money" which is true. But most people don't have that much money to pay them.
We’re on slack and looking at Discourse for that purpose. It’s really high quality software, and definitely geared in the direction of slow-thinking and keeping topic history in the same place.
Smells a lot like the EmDrive. That didn't pan out so well under increased scrutiny!

This isn't the first time a physics-violating patent has been granted - anybody else remember the Orbo?

https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2011110951A3/en?oq=WO201...
Yeah, you hate to see it. Sometimes you are so far behind in hiring that you can't even get out; there is nobody to ask about that half-Py2/half-Py3 install. It is unfortunate.
Also not mentioned: He was a gay man, which he never seemingly really came to terms with after coming out to his father at 18 and then being unwillingly outed to his mother who declared him an "abomination", and it clearly fucked him up. He remained celibate for decades and never directly addressed the issue until his memoir written/released when he had terminal cancer. It's hard not to think of his interest in weightlifting as related to his internal conflicts over gayness and masculinity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/3...

And not mentioned: He also had some serious lasting physical problems from weightlifting, as did other of his competitive weightlifting friends:

https://medium.com/the-polymath-project/oliver-sacks-on-how-...

I am an avid weightlifter, I think its really great and overall healthy, but the linked article paints a rosy picture of something more complicated for Sacks.
I read it and it appears to me you are still wrong. You are better served to explain to me explicitly why you think you are not wrong then for me to read your mind.

There are events that contain so much information that the probability of the event occurring due to entropy are basically impossible. The event fitting those 3 conditions I mentioned is one example.

Let me add one more conditional to the cancer-cluster event: Happening within the same time-frame.
One key aspect is a single source of truth. A place/tool were all processes, requirements and relevant Q&A are open for the whole team, with no gray areas. Use any kind of methodology, but try to keep your team informed about how the general rules of communication and collaboration work.

Split communication in small teams/groups and design just one person per group to deliver periodic status. Meeting with the whole team are absolutely inefficient and costly for the company.

Create a policy where any change must be documented and informed to all stakeholders.

Tools vary depending on your business, but sites like Trello can be really usefull.
Or, if you're Pepe Carvalho, rip off and toss the page you just read into the fireplace.

(Some writers know how to pull strings.)
Or, you could just use a passphrase to unlock your device instead. Problem solved.
It's more about the quality of sleep as perfect sleep seems to be able to reverse Alzheimer's in mice . Without some kind of chemical intervention there's no way a complex system like the brain will fix itself, the bad sleep further deteriorates the brain's ability to get good sleep and each day the problem gets exponentially worse. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25457559/
They should make their logo a blue and red potato.
That’s a good point about books in general—not every book is worth reading and the information inside is only as valuable as the interest it generates or problems it solves.