skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure but you're already flailing around with a vision-blocking helmet, waving your hands. Noise pollution seems like less of a hazard for a bystander than getting whacked by the player.
... AND expresses it plainly. Oops.
None of your remember whens support your thesis.

> Remember when sites didn't have to make separate AMP versions of their content?

This one contradicts your "kill competition" narrative. Any search engine can implement its own AMP cache, and all the major ones do. A slimy kill competition tactic would be to demand publishers integrate directly with Google instead, like Apple News or FB Instant Articles.

> Remember when web sites competed to produce the best content in order to attract readers, instead of gaming Google's SEO?

This also contradicts your thesis because it's actually a benefit to competitors instead of an example of Google killing competition. Competitors that use different algorithms from Google are less likely have their rankings gamed by SEO black hats, causing their results to appear comparatively better.

> Remember when you bought into an internet service and it would keep running until it went out of business, instead of just being randomly terminated for no reason?

No, I don't remember when this was ever the case.

Actual examples of killing competition are things like making it difficult to use alternate app stores, push notification services, and location services on Android. Enabling some of these would be difficult (not impossible) to do securely, and Google has no incentive to expend resources to enable them, but a working regulatory body could require it for the public good.
I think we are looking at this the wrong way. It is not about other competitors, it is how much daily users will not move away from Google search.

If the startup advice about "build a product your users will love" is true then we certainly are not seeing a compelling competitor. A few good efforts are there, including DDG, but none with mass appeal.

Just non-cooperating with Google does not solve the issue. Even Ecosia, from comments in this thread, seems to have unclear resources and mission. So why should I as a user use them? Are they also not simply using marketing tactics instead of building an awesome product? Which, BTW, is mindbogglingly difficult.
It's a figure of speech which means to argue on a point of principle without regard to the cost when you know you aren't going to affect change. It absolutely doesn't make sense in the context where there's no attack. Otherwise how does the dying come into play in the analogy?
> Most malware code I've seen is terribly written and barely works.

Yeaah cause someone is just going to be so kind enough to share their perfect example of what malware code should look like to the rest of the world.. (actually there's an F ton available on Github, quasar, pupyrat, etc) Don't be so naive man. As a hobbyist malware programmer myself, I know that you don't know what you're really talking about other than pointing out skids targeting Windows (cause most available malware/RATs are targeted for windows) and use Kali cause-so-many-yt-tutorials.

edit: fwiw, I find it much easier writing malware under *nix cause they come with python and a bunch of dev libs, where as windows I have to dynamically load libraries in sneaky ways. Also implementing rootkits & RunPEs can be pretty damn puzzling -- definitely not that easy as you say
lol never. Thiel is a bona fide fascist. He uses his vast wealth and surveillance aparatus to fight against every progressive cause except for gay marriage rights, because that's a group he's a member of. He was an early Trump supporter, longtime financier of Project Veritas, he was the secret money behind the series of spurious lawsuits that crushed Gawker because of a personal grudge he had.

Maybe if the alt-right wins and then after defeating/expelling/exterminating trans people and racial minorities they turn against gays, Thiel will have regrets, but by that point he won't care beause he got a New Zealand citizenship last year so he can bail whenever he wants.
My wife (age 37) thinks she's mildly dyslexic. What's the best and most effective way to test that? (if you happen to know)
No, even if you realized all that to it's full extent, the fact is we don't get to choose how we live if we plan to live in our current world for very long.

Imagine we lived in a violent brutal world where it was kill or be killed. Even if you realize that killing only brings you stress and unhappiness, you won't last very long if you stop doing it. As soon as you lay down your arms someone will come and bash your head in with a hammer and take what's left of your belongings and family.

You could decide money and the rat race are pointless and decide to just stop pursuing it. And you'll survive... for a time. Then you won't be able to function in society. Won't be able to eat, or have a place to live, effectively the equivalent of having your skull bashed in like in that previous world.
> person giving birth

You mean the "mother"?
Assuming this is a sincere question, there is already a great deal of reporting about the harm of (as you put it) "enforcing immigration laws effectively", and it is staggering to believe you're unaware of it.

Just within the 5 days, over 600 immigrants were taken at their workplace by ICE in Mississippi, leaving many children stranded and uncared for [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/08/mississippi-...
I don't know anyone who has been bankrupted by an emergency dental surgery. I'm sure they exist, but generally dental in Canada is something you can pay for out of pocket without costs being ridiculous.
As I get older, the blindingly obvious principle that we're all different seems to get more profound.

In this case we all have different drivers, and different definitions of "sane". Some people love being part of a bigger whole, so to suggest these conformists aren't sane is as patronising as calling the non-conformists insane because they don't get with the program.

An important corollary to this principle is that being different is healthy - diversity is strength.

So don't be too quick to judge sanity. Except for those who think everyone should be the same - just like them, of course! They really ARE insane.
>would crow endlessly

Sure, so why doesn't this happen more often? The simplest explanation is that elected politician's influence is small compared to the collective bureaucracy's power to do what it was going to do anyway.

And yes, everyone who is handed a pile of third-party cash to spend on other people does not usually have very good incentives to make the most efficient choices, and doubly so when their personal agency is further restricted by a mass of regulation.
Shame on Palantir and Thiel for being a part of this; it's still pretty disgusting to me the sheer lack of moral responsibility at play here.

1. Insinuating that the tools will ever predict crime or terrorism.

2. Allowing, fostering, and building tools of mass surveillance without oversight in secret for no reason other than to surveil.

3. Aiding in the human rights abuses through enabling ICE and other organizations which fuel America's concentration camps.

Though this is pretty unsurprising considering he literally wants to consume the blood of the young: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to... supporting ICE, and trump, is one helluva way to make sure you have a steady supply of it on your hands.
What pushed you to move to Kafka?
//The same way that fish eventually acquired the "lungs" genes.

Which took a million years. But now watch out - we can do it in 4 hours. That's the difference.
I blogged on the Wordpress site for a time. They like to lock options down tight. A -little- less tight than Stumbleupon, but not much Keeps it simple? Yes, that and nothing more. As a blogger, there's not much room for innovation.

At one time Tumbler (tried it a bit very early on) -did- have that option going for it. But Tumbler's obviously been fading. If WordPress tries WordPress-like 'reforms', I see little hope for Tumbler.
It's still very much in there.

From: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/

> And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

The problem was that it was moved from near the top to being near the bottom (though it's own paragraph). Sadly there were lots of very inaccurate headlines like this:

> Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct
I don't know, Project Fi is pretty awesome. There are so many industries they've disrupted for the better. They're certainly not as innocent as they were in the past, but they're getting a lot of disproportionate hate right now.
I am the one saying that: for any Python packages in Ubuntu main, use them.

Why worry about tracking security issues of all your dependencies, when you can have that done by distribution's security team (Ubuntu pledges to patch all security bugs).
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In my experience with Slack, vendors are always locked down. A good practice is to create a totally separate Slack instance where vendors and contractors can talk freely with employees. If non-emoloyees are on company Slack, they can pick up IP, be witnesses to harassment, be exposed to PII leaks, etc.

Locking down channels is tough. As a company grows, there can be immense confusion when channels pop up all over (especially duplicates). Having some friction to creation can be helpful, but that could be simple public “shaming” instead of getting IT / HR in the mix.

When HR thinks its job is to administrate, the company has lost its chance at having a real culture. It sounds like using MS Teams is like having HR administrate over everything you say at work.
This is not only not new, but is the standard model for how home loans work in Islamic finance.

Since Islam forbids collecting interest, Sharia-compliant banks and lending institutions instead buy the asset (in this case, a house), and lease it out to the would-be borrower on an installment basis until a predetermined sum has been paid. At that point, ownership can either remain with the bank (but with zero installments) or transition to the would-be borrower.

About the only thing Arrived seems to be doing differently is allowing homeowners to change houses without affecting how much they're paying towards any house - in other words, you're really purchasing a subscription to a collection of homes.

I find this latter concept intriguing, but hard to reason about competitively. Wouldn't the subscription price point have to be higher than interest on a single home loan to offset the average cost of all of these houses?
Great Books on Word of Mouth Marketing
I guess there is always banana nut bread !
You're clearly not familiar with the "burden of proof" principle. Go ahead, google it, especially given that you mention legal cases. The person who makes a particular assertion has the onus of proving the same. Like one of the previous posters said, we are flooded with people making bullshit claims of how something like homeopathy "works" because they know it from personal experience, and we shouldn't have to be the ones to disprove nonsense like that.

> It's like in a courtroom- both the prosecution and the defense should provide evidence.

You're mistaken. In criminal cases, the burden is on the prosecution to establish their case beyond all reasonable doubt. The defence does not have to prove innocence; it merely has to establish there is insufficient evidence for a guilty verdict.
Oy. Thanks. I'm really getting a lesson on reading these things more closely.
This is a typical neighborhood road in Berlin

https://www.google.de/maps/@52.4463121,13.309308,3a,75y,244....

This is a road in central Tokyo

https://www.google.de/maps/@35.705447,139.7784828,3a,75y,260...

This is a random road in San Mateo

https://www.google.de/maps/@37.5600243,-122.3067183,3a,75y,3...

You need roads, but you don't need roads that as wide as those in American urban sprawl
Basic economics means Uber/Lyft can’t rely on driverless cars for profitability
The Modern American Dream and Overzealous Regulators (2013)
Sounds interesting. Wish there were case studies and some way to view screenshots full screen. I never got why analytics tools make the screenshots impossible to enlarge and see details with given how important UI and such can be in some cases.
The word is harebrained unless you think hair has a brain.
That doesn't matter much. The largest difference is that the majority of people access social networks through mobile apps now, and Google Trends can't reflect that at all.

For example, Facebook shows a 71% drop worldwide in Google Trends over the last 5 years. Their Q2 2019 earnings showed a 20% worldwide growth in monthly users over the last two years alone.

Google Trends can't tell you anything useful about a site's growth or activity.
I've been meaning to suggest to the franchise owner with a bunch of Wendy's around here that putting EV charging stations in some of his excess parking. Get some folks who might consider coming for lunch to come, pay to park for half an hour, then leave without monopolizing spaces for a long time because they have to get back to work. Also become a hub for food delivery drivers.

Beyond that, there are a few charging stations at local malls, one at a Meijer (regional chain, think Target with a large grocery store), probably a bunch of others that I've just not noticed. Common element is that they're at places where people can shop.
Where do you live? Define oppression. Let's see a survey of your claims.
If we managed to get 80% of the people living in places where the weather is mild and the topography mostly flat to switch from car commutes to bike commutes we would already have changed large parts of the world.
A large chunk of the world runs on Excel. The Office desktop suite is literally what has kept Microsoft alive and thriving as a company.
We use it heavily but these aren't the features I dislike. In function Teams is a workflow browser but compared to real browsers it is very low functioning. No good bookmark system and ugh, no tabs. Even the back arrow doesn't scope properly, and anyway I find myself jumping around because I need multiple contexts.
I find the meetings and phone to be fine.
It does suck memory like a hog. Because it is a workflow browser I have to have the app open and also several browser accessed versions. That means my laptop slows down a lot.
The article is not about water scarcity, it is about ownership, infrastructure and access.
They definitely missed that boat. Zoom is way too expensive after their IPO.
Heh. I worked for Compaq in Houston when HP bought Compaq. I remember people saying that the HP way was, "Ready, Aim, Aim, Aim.... " and the Compaq way was, "Ready, Fire, Aim!"
I remember reading in 2003 that bananas could be extinct by 2013.
That’s why I said “economic anxiety” is the motivator.

I didn’t say there wasn’t a motivator. I said it isn’t money. Until about a hundred years ago, most folks were self employed and chased down whatever they needed for the day. It’s in that last few hundred it became mostly about money for the masses.

There are people that live isolated and off the grid lives, unmotivated by money & rat race. Your idea of survival & what makes a good life may not match up with others.

But in the context of daily life of the masses, you’re correct in that we all just chase the popular social meme. It HAPPENS TO BE money, but it could be bottle caps get you stuff that supply side is selling. It’s what supply side accepts or gtfo. The threat of being evicted from the only life one knows is not literal death, but it feels like it, so we chase money, not bottle caps as a pragmatic acquiescence to social forces.
Sorry you're having to defend yourself so much. I just discovered the site from this post, and it's excellent.
For "off-ear" headphones there are only 3 different ways to build them: closed, open or half-open, solely based on amount of air flow given to a driver (and the type of driver doesn't matter).
The US Army’s algorithm tells you how much caffeine will hit your body’s peak
I'm a bit curious on school bus thoughts by area. Where I'm at now, it seems like they don't want to run them at all. They put the best schools up as 'choice school' lottery, which means no bus, and if you live within two miles of a school, no bus. Even if you offer to pay. Of the 600 students in my child's school, 400 spend 45 minutes in a line twice a day, most due to the circumstances. Obviously not an effective use of time, or good for the environment, I'm a bit taken back by just how awkward bussing is in the US. In my previous city, a bus would travel 45 minutes to pick up a single kid. Neither seems practical, really.
Mini Microservices Design Guide (2018)
No one is asking ”What’s Microsoft?” though.
Reliability, scalability and tooling (in that order).

Basically Kafka provides what NSQ is lacking:
https://nsq.io/overview/features_and_guarantees.html

Messages are durable (across nodes, not just persisted to the filesystem). Messages are delivered in-order (for a partition). Consumers know all partitions of a topic from startup, it's not eventually consistent.

NSQ has been great honestly, it was just designed with different use cases in mind.
Atlas Obscura had an article in which they ordered a box of Big Mikes from the Miami Fruit Company. It's a little on the pricy side to ship boxes of boutique fruits across the country, but they have quite an interesting selection.

If I was in your shoes, I might wait for Big Mikes to be in season, then order the banana variety pack[1] (and ask that they include a Big Mike). You could pre-order a large box (10-14lbs) of Big Mikes[2], but that seems like a lot to buy at once.

I've never heard of these folks before today, but now I kind of want to throw a fruit tasting party.

[1]: https://miamifruit.org/collections/fresh-and-dried/products/...
[2]: https://miamifruit.org/collections/banana-pre-orders/product...
>lending institutions instead buy the asset (in this case, a house), and lease it out to the would-be borrower on an installment basis until a predetermined sum has been paid

If the would-be borrower misses a payment, do they get to keep a part of their total lease payments? When I take out a mortgage, the house is effectively owned by the bank and I also pay "installments until a predetermined sum has been paid". If I'm not able to pay the "installments" then I get kicked out.
I'm curious why no one's tried a modern spin on housing co-ops. The big advantage of owning comes from locking your housing costs against inflation/future price increases, as one is naturally short housing. Why can't I buy into a general fund with similar benefits?

e.g. Write a contract such that equity is accrued over time, while I pay dividends on the "financed" portion of the home. This would also provide a hedge for home owners against their home price going down as the fund's assets would be spread across multiple markets.

As an individual I'd net out to the same investment position as if I sold the equity portion of my home to a REIT, then re-invested the money into the same REIT.
I am one of those developers.

Afterwards I just try to avoid yaml if I can. While it looks cleaner than json, I don’t find it especially easy to read and there is unnecessary ambiguity due to unquoted strings. And it seems to have a thing against Norway ;)
> To be knurd is to be so completely aware of everything that one can't really function in normal society.

That sounds like the intense world theory of autism.
My biggest concern is similar, that a GMO banana is intellectual property and I detest the thought of large companies preventing people from growing their own food.
Clearly whatever people at MS made Teams do not talk to the people who made VS Code
Then don't call yourselves anti-GMO?
For anyone curious, I looked up Daniel Kohn, the founder of the company that sold the CD. Turns out now he's the president of the CNCF!
Are you not familiar with the Huffington Post?
And what is wrong with that? You think acid in your stomach performs DNA-analysis?
Google would have been better off with a decentralized solution subsidizing WISPs, than trying to build out fiber infrastructure using contractors. Google wants to be a vertical monopoly, which is a massive coordination problem.
>>I had a variety of symptoms and none of them immediately seemed to shout "anxiety" to my physicians

This is usually not true in most cases, it's actually something a good GP will explicitly consider by asking you the questions.

Maybe it was not possible due to something about your example, but it's recognized all the time in similar cases.

It's also a case for having a regular doctor in some form, because it's easier to recognize based on how well they know you.
If they know they will never win the auction then refusing to bid has better optics. They're probably making the case for another EU bailout.
I think one thing people are worried about is simply unintended consequences.

Humans have always had confidence of mastery over nature and more often than not we screw it up.
But speculators pay property taxes.
There’s so much variety - just not in US supermarkets

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20888103
After reading more closely, it looks like it's not a full-fledged subscription model. Your "subscription" is your monthly rent, which goes from 1k to 10k per month. I don't understand if these "rents" are negotiable or come pre-attached to any specific house.

Further, "home equity" is a weird term in this context. Home equity is a mark of ownership and makes clear sense in the cass of a single home - 100% home equity in a single house means you get 100% of all the profits after that house is sold. The total number of "shares" for a single house is fixed and never changes, meaning home equity never dilutes. For a collection of homes in this model, it's murkier because new renters and new houses would impact the number of "shares" available.

Does Arrived plan to distribute profits to renters after any home is sold to all of its renters? Does Arrived plan to sell houses in the first place? Does my "home equity" dilute as more people sign up to use the service?

I wish there was an FAQ page to really address these risks. As it stands, I would be interested since I like the idea of being able to move from any property to another property without negotiating a new lease or contract - it means I'm not locked to any particular economic region.