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> Presumably the founder/head of the company has considered a variety of incorporation structures

One would think, but apparently neither Yahoo nor Verizon made any effort in that direction.

To the tune of putting approx $1 billion through the corporate paper shredder.

Given that track record of handling, and an ostensibly similar approach, I thought it was a valid question.
> it creates a huge number of potential issues with app stores, payment providers, trust and safety...

I completely understand that “Adult Content” can cause a ton of headaches for a business but Tumblr’s current definition of “Adult Content” is very broad and I hope when the transaction is complete you’ll at least be open to reviewing the scope of the definition. Right now it includes many things that aren’t adult at all, like “female presenting nipples” which could be seen by children on many beaches in Europe and even on the streets of Boston and New York City. It also includes illustrations of genitalia or sex acts which can be found in biology textbooks and many magazines like Cosmo. The instruction leaflet that comes in a box of tampons wouldn’t currently be permitted on Tumblr. That doesn’t seem right to me nor does it seem like that sort of content would pose any risk to Tumblr’s operations.

I understand where you’re coming from with the adult content but I do also hope you’ll consider liberating the definition a bit. I actually think Tumblr is pretty well positioned to be the “next Instagram” for many young women today who would really appreciate a major social media platform recognizing that Kama Sutra illustrations or a photo of a woman’s nipple is no big deal, it’s just natural.
Wordpress CEO and Buffer co-founder on: Staying connected in a distributed world
Jalapeño and goat cheese are a wonderful choice; I’d expect that to be quite delicious. At what stage(s) of the process were they added?

How did you cook the mushroom?
Electric rail transit is significantly more expensive than highways, and operational costs are really high if you're trying to offer frequent service on less trafficked routes.

Public transit is cost effective for urban cores and commuter rail routes to those urban cores, but everywhere else it's simply not economical.
Some are higher than 90 percent!

I sampled such filament and it is just flexible enough to be useful.

IMHO, lost PLA is more efficient and less difficult. There are other materials that can be used for casting that have very low ash and print and can be smoothed with isopropyl alcohol most baths.

These are proving robust, but the material has a narrow operating band. Printing requires high degrees of process control.

https://www.thevirtualfoundry.com/

Polymaker PolyCast 3D Printer Filament, 2.85mm

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J4WK52F/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_1....

For child comment as I hit the annoying post limit. :D
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20625817
AKA he was attempting to commit fraud or rather obstruct justice. I don't particularly feel sorry for him.
Those are the same photos.
I cycled to work for years in the Netherlands (down to -5C in winter) and Australia (frequenctly 35C+ in summer). The secret in both cases is:

(i) keep appropriate clothes at the office;

(ii) wear suitable cycling gear (as the Dutch say, there's no such thing as unsuitable weather, only unsuitable clothing);

(iii) find a way to shower at work;

(iv) be good humored when weather or other mishaps occur...
Yes. And state comms. Where that input device is matters.
Thanks for this! This is just what I was looking to know

Thanks!
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The word "type" has a specific meaning in maths/logic, which is not the same as that used by the "dynamic" languages community.

Professor Bob Harper of CMU would refer to Python as unityped, i.e. having a single type: https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/dynamic-lan...
Singular "they" has been used for hundreds of years dating back to the 14th century -- comparatively, it's a very modern trend for people to say that it should only be used in the plural. Even forms like "themself" have a pretty long historical precedent.

> what purpose would a "gender-neutral" pronoun serve?

From a technical perspective, these pronouns allow you to refer to a single person without prescribing their[0] gender. This may have the effect of making some technical writing more accessible.

From a narrative perspective, these pronouns allow you to write about a character who's gender you might not want to reveal yet[1].

And from a political perspective, these pronouns allow individual to assert that they are nonbinary. The political perspective is what gets people annoyed, but it's worth noting that both language and politics are a reflection of society. It's normal for one to influence the other. It's because of this that we consider language and grammar rules to be descriptive, not prescriptive -- they simply describe the words that people use, even if those words are being used for a political purpose.

Ignoring politics, why not use "he" as the gender neutral form and get rid of "they"? For the same reason why it can occasionally be annoying for `0` to be automatically cast to the boolean false in languages like Javascript. If I use the word "he", I don't want someone to have guess whether I'm using it in the gender neutral form or if I'm literally describing the person's gender. Singular "they" serves as a strict typecheck -- it makes "he" into a more useful word because you can use it exclusively to refer to male subjects.

[0]: Also note the usage of singular "their" here, which is almost universally accepted. I've never heard someone argue that we should get rid of singular "their" just because we already have "his" and "her".

[1]: "The cloaked thief stepped into the house. Their eyes scanned left and right, as if they couldn't decide what they wanted to take first." Is the thief a man or a woman? Only the detective will know!
Ask HN: How to manufacture a great physical award medal?
I have an employee to whom I want to give a truly epic physical award. From time to time I'll see some of the things Blizzard gives out for employee anniversaries and envy their creativity and craft. https://www.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/b20/sword-and-shield.html My question: Where might one go about having a custom award of this calibre created? There are plenty of online shops that sell somewhat customized trophies and medallions. But I'm looking for someone who can create a truly impressive piece on a one-off basis. A Google search on this topic is flooded with mediocre-looking options. What's a good option?
I think Teams is pretty good, but then again my company had been using Cisco Jabber prior to it.
OK, fair enough.

I notice that you were working for Wordpress.com in May 2018 and had a run in with John O'Nolan on HN then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17086661

Just disclosing that for you to put your comment in context.
But it does not in Europe. America pays about 2-3 times the price per mile for roads and rail than in Germany.

Australia pays even higher prices than in America.

eg Sydney purchased surplus trams from Spain. The Spanish tram system cost USD 115 million for about 40 km (25 miles) and Sydney has already spent nearly $3 billion (USD 2.1 billion) for about 40 km and it will cost another $500 million before a single tram starts. The project is already years behind schedule.
Not exactly. In America, distances are too long for bikes to effectively cover in most places that are not the east and west coasts. However, this also means that when inconsiderate bicyclists max out at 20-25mph on a 55mph road, they slow every one else down too (even those in cars). When you fail to drive the speed of traffic and slow every one else down, you have no business on the road and are a hazard. Bicyclists ought to stay off roads faster than they can ride.
>> Quick to bash out a simple site.

> This is precisely why I don't think it's the appropriate tool for any substantial, serious, or long-lived projects

This is precisely why it is an appropriate tool - those simple sites become more complicated, and eventually they're Tumblr or Etsy or Wikipedia or what-have-you.

> it feels like the language actively empowers code to be written this way.

I've felt the same thing, especially early on. I think there are two reasons:

- a lack of a compile step means you're never forced to conform to someone else's idea of how your code should work (though running a static analysis tool fixes this).

- additionally, PHP's interpreter is designed to soldier on in situations where other runtimes would exit (e.g. when it encounters an undefined variable or array offset). While I can imagine justifications for this behaviour, it allows for a lot of bad code.
Those metal bits look big enough to kill a person. I mean, anything havier than a marble falling from high enough will do a lot of damage, right?
hackernews has become more and more nytimes traffic forward website...how many nyt links gets posted here everyday
> Both of my local Tesla chargers are near grocery stores.

How close? Can you push your cart back to them?

> Electrify America is installing chargers at Wal-Mart.

How many? If we want this whole "electric car" thing to take off, you're looking at, what, 50% of the whole parking lot? Not a half dozen stalls right beside the store.
That seems unlikely considering how much engineering effort GM put into the Volt. It wasn't just a compliance car, at least not at first. If they expected it to fail they would have minimized that investment and half-assed it.

When GM started Volt development in about 2006, sedans were still popular and the Toyota Prius was selling relatively well. So I think GM just failed to anticipate the market shift.
Aren't monoclonal antibodies harder and thus more expensive to manufacturer though?
So how you go by applying this reasoning to this very website where you are commenting?

Hacker News would never be, for me personally, on the top of the list of websites that inspire confidence by its looks, it's only when you delve into it and realise the content is actually great that you can appreciate it.

Such a shallow evaluation is quite strange coming from technical people who are used to mailing lists and all sorts of badly designed (or at least aesthetically unpleasing/neutral) pages...
> a very loud, probably rather small subset of Tumblr users (or rather: former users)

Well, according to this chart (which I have only cursorily vetted), it seems there are a lot of "former users": https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/af9rwu/oc_...

It shows that as of Jan, 2019, there were about 50% as many users as when the ban was announced. That would suggest that there are as many "former users" as there are current users. And the downward trend has probably continued in the subsequent 6 months.
Yeah, Tony Heller- the guy who believes methane isn't a greenhouse gas and cherry picks for cherry picking. What a quack
Cisco Webex Gains Voice Assistant Tech Through Voicea Acquisition
You seem to like Theil... can you please take him back...?

He is not the sort we want hanging around NZ.
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Teams is horribly unintuitive to use. The UI is much worse than Slack.

Took me long to realise I was looking at the chat window and to follow along the threads..
> internet availability

Remind me again, which nation has produced companies with a realistic chance of delivering satellite internet to every one?
This sounds like 'I want money by being "not google" and thus people have to like me'.

The linked website doesn't point to anything else but that they're allegedly planting trees for (an unknown percentage of the money collected by) showing ads to users. Which is nice, but if you want that I support tree planting initiatives explicitly (which I do), why don't you just encourage someone doing just that, maybe by pointing out sites which actually encourage to do that, like https://www.plant-for-the-planet.org?
yup, exactly. Which can vary wildly. I used to eat a pizza by myself, and now I limit myself to two slices. And a guy on my team does not like pizza. I find it better to just say 5-9 members.
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Really? Did you notice the last bit? The referral fee doubled with each additional hire! It grew exponentially!
Will a better-connected, more searchable record of academic output allow talented thinkers to sidestep this historic need for academic track hoop-jumping and obtain reasonable assurance of future recognition for independent work?
You seem to be setting the bar very high just to exclude people. Anyone who takes time out of their lives to visit a new place and meet a few people and get a new perspective should be encouraged.

What you see as "superficial", I see as a starting place. Maybe you don't really get to know the locals, but maybe you do get to meet other tourists from other countries, and then maybe you feel more comfortable traveling to their countries.
> Wrongly addressed tickets are hardly even a minor inconvenience.

Now I wonder what you would consider a minor inconvenience. "Oh yeah that time they suspended my licence that was a minor inconvenience for me."

Wrongly addressed tickets are a real hassle. I'd assume that if you don't contest them in time, you have to pay them. And if you don't pay them, they will suspend your licence. (I don't really know. But I assume that's what would happen.)
A minimal electron application with flutter and dart
For shame, they've really jumped head long in to being more 'tabloid' and less of a serious news source.
Thanks Robert for the youtube videos and the blog, hopefully many more people will play with high framerate video capturing by that.

But 660fps is not the end for v1 camera, I added section "kFPS videos from kEPS multiple exposure frames" to my github "v1 camera global external shutter" repo:
https://github.com/Hermann-SW/Raspberry_v1_camera_global_ext...

In that section a 3000fps and a 9000fps animation are shown (and the tools needed to create them)!

The repo introduction now contains comparison of 20$ diy highspeed flashlight with commercially available one (and with the very costly one you cannot produce kEPS multiple exposures and kFPS framerate videos):
https://github.com/Hermann-SW/Raspberry_v1_camera_global_ext...
Where is the performance improvement coming from?
The largest performance benefits comes from a drastic reduction in the number of various objects loaded in AMP

For the millionth time, you don't need AMP to improve your website performance. The reason there is "better performance" in the AMP vs non-AMP pages according to this article, is that there are fewer assets and objects to load in the AMP pages due to some of the restrictions AMP imposes.

In other words, load fewer assets, write less code, and you'll have better performance.

AMP is still bad, and it does not itself make the web faster.
Is it really the mice? I don't use a mice, I had the impression that most of the problem was due to typing?
Yeah, do you want to get shot?
Well, one can always start by learning the language, reading books, watching movies and listening to songs of said culture, studying the history, crafts, and traditions, and going there for multiple years on their 2-week vacations, not just as an one-off of off to the next destination.

And if they're really serious, then proving it by putting skin in the game, not just a 2 week retreat: moving there, for example.

Even the latter, hardcore thing, is not some elite suggestion. Millions have done it, including richer, middle class, and poor people, that were fascinated with another country / culture / lifestyle.
From my little corner of the internet (furries), porn was often a lead generator. People came for the hot werewolf boyfriends, then stayed for all the non-porn stuff. They don't necessarily stick around if the thing that reminded them Tumblr existed goes away. They follow the draw where it goes. A lot of them moved to Reddit, Twitter, Mastodon, and Telegram chats.

It's a niche, but not a small one. Enough niches tumbled together (or out) is a lot of people.
Looks interesting! Is there an easy way to mask PII from the analytics tool?
URL <=> Brand relationships are purely human politics.

I prefer technology to deal with technical issues and present a relatively formal interface to the end user. Human politics are complex. Any interface that abstracts human politics and legal issues will have to deal with so many corner cases that its interface will either be unreliable or more complex than URLs.
I'm sure there is plenty of training data available elsewhere on the internet...
I had the fun experience recently of having to rename a bunch of files that happened to have a # in the filename, since that character is forbidden in filenames that are uploaded into teams.

Additionally, you can't seem to attach a .json file... though renaming it to .json.txt works. It's frustrating for sure.

Thankfully they finally fixed some issues recently so I can copy chats out of Teams without running into too many problems.

The most frustrating and immediate drawback is the low information density. It's gotten slightly better, but I can still see only about 20% of the information in a chat that I can with Slack.

Also the automatic conversion of things like ;) to animated emoji... please give me an option to turn this off. You have to ctrl+z afterwards to just use the text.
This was a really interesting comment:

> This creates big incentives to game trending. Either:

> 1) press will cover it & amplify

> 2) press will debunk & still amplify, while creating controversy

> 3) press will very occasionally ignore,then conspiracy press will cover to ask why

> if you make it trend, you make it true.
It's great news, but they're observing a 30% mortality rate for the "cure". Absent medical intervention there is still a nontrivial survival rate (mortality rate of 75-90%). With supporting medical treatment before this new treatment - fluid support, etc - I think it's up to 50%? It sounds like the monoclonal antibody treatment has improved odds of survival from 1:10-1:2 to 2:3.

edit: The 6% figure is population restricted to early interventions. I am uncomfortably out of my limited knowledge here, but I think that early intervention numbers are better across the board. I'd want to compare the 6% number to the control. And I don't want to see a control! It is such a good result no matter how you look at it that they wisely halted the trial.
> I seriously struggle understanding why at least tech jobs are so centered around crowded cities

Because major (FAANG et al) tech companies are cross-invested with rental/housing businesses[0]. This means that concurrent increases in rent and salary have no effect; employees make 1000$/yr more but pay 1000$/yr more in rent, company('s shareholders) makes 1M$/yr of extra rent but pays 1M$/yr more in salary. Except when the employee tries to switch jobs they're under incresed time pressure (before they run out of savings and can't afford rent), and all of the tech companies benefit from their hiring candidates having less leverage. Note that this doesn't require any communication between companies; each company can see that the situation benefits them based solely on public information, and cross-investment means each company loses nothing by hiking rent and salary simultaneously.

0: Either directly owning them or, more covertly, by most of their shareholders also owning housing stocks.
San Francisco gives Postmates permit to test sidewalk delivery robots
My point is that your marketing is misleading. Use "strong dynamic types" if you must, but for Python, it would be more accurate to say "strongly tagged".
https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...
Do they have a front yard? I'd price out the cost to trench to a NEMA 6-15 (240v/15a) socket on a pole near the curb where they park. This will get you 3.6kW using the ubiquitous gauge (read: cheap) electrical wiring, which will give a Hyundai Kona about 12 miles per hour of charging. More than adequate as a daily driver, and they can always hit a rapid charge station on the rare event that they drive more than 120 or so miles back-to-back over two consecutive days.

Amortize the cost of installation against the savings they'll have by spending 1/3 of the amount that they currently spend for gasoline.
Stripe (Financial Services) [US]

works pretty well. It's been suggested to Google by DigiCert. Google is not interested.
Has the question been answered though? Why was he allowed to die? Why wasn't he on suicide watch, or why did the suicide watch fail?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2019/08/12/norwegian...

The plane in question was a 5.5-year-old Boeing 787-8 with the registration LN-LND. The parts are believed to have come from the left engine, a Rolls-Royce Trent 1000, a model that has been plagued with problems.

Link about the problems: https://www.theengineer.co.uk/rolls-royce-problems-trent-100...

Cracking problems in the intermediate pressure (IPT) section of the turbine have plagued the engine since early 2016, five years after its launch. Unscheduled groundings of Trent 1000-powered aircraft cost Rolls-Royce some £450m last year, and Horwood said that addressing the problem was “the single most important issue” currently facing the company.

One of Rolls-Royce’s most important potential customers for Trent 1000, Air New Zealand, recently announced that it has opted for General Electric power-plants for a new batch of 787-10 airliners, although its 787-9 fleets still fly with Trent engines.

I'm reminded of all the jokes Jeremy Clarkson makes at Rolls Royce's expense...
Owls discover and get rid of a hidden camera which tracks their movements
I have no idea what the average trip is, but going to Thailand for a week is hardly uncommon.
Netflix needs to grow, but it’s sacrificing great original series to do so
> "This means that if someone does @${channel_name} you will get an alert. MS have not implemented muting as a feature. Secondly, for all those automatic/admin channels, you can’t unsubscribe yourself (or at least not with the default policies). Brilliant, isn’t it? Unavoidable alerts that any idiot on any channel can annoy people with."

At my last job we figured out the fastest way to get your company off Teams: add the CEO to a chatty channel.
Well, most of the countries impacted by ebola are quite poor, but I think even ignoring humanitarian concerns, it's probably in wealthier countries' best interests to pay for it strictly from an epidemiological perspective
Ah alright, thanks for the clarification. I also believe the term server is misleading, maybe the word group would be better suited?
> but then again my company had been using Cisco Jabber prior to it.

Relative to that experience Microsoft Teams would be a significant improvement in user experience.
In C++'s defence, the language itself doesn't mandate any protections here (the famous 'undefined behaviour'), but there's no reason your compiler can't add automatic runtime checking against illegal use of null. GCC supports it with "-fsanitize=null" [0]

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Instrumentation-Options.h...
Literally everyone on the Chrome Security UX team tweets from a verified account. Even Troy Hunt does.