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> I am surprised that reddit is on #13.

Reddit might be a #1 project out of all the startups ever funded by Y Combinator, but it's unlikely to ever become a top 10 company.

Because as an ad business it can neither match Google at targeting audience by exact user intent, nor Facebook at targeting audience by exact user profile.

In fact, I see reddit more like Couchsurfing: a project which would do much better as a foundation rather than a corporation, based on the role it plays in the society.

At its essence, it's a highly scalable CRUD application, which requires a simple user interface, respectful community moderation, and as little user tracking as possible.
Ah, yea. Could well be. Nomad Capitalist likes it:
https://nomadcapitalist.com/tag/georgia/

It has some advantages. I like Tbilisi (the capital) but in the end it is too far off the beaten track to be my base. I need an airport. A good airport!

Ukraine is an interesting place too (not for taxes).
They already said it runs on Android, whith what looks like a heavy Microsoft like skin on top.
It seems it runs on android (with a windows theme).
> Seems like unlike systemd the BSDs are fine with crediting entropy even if it has been used already in a previous boot.

FreeBSD runs a regular cron job so that there are multiple files. If /var goes R-O, you still have a bunch of files from when it wasn't and they are not the same as on initial boot (assuming that (a) /var was mounted R-W at some point, and (b) cron managed to run as well).

Also, on shutdown there is an attempt to write 4096B to both /entropy and /boot/entropy:

* https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/libexec/rc/rc.d/random?...

Further, all of these various seed files are not the only sources of entropy (timers, RDRAND, etc).
>Wait until minecraft is declared a white supremacist game

what?
The descriptions of some of these are hilariously SV.
If I recall correctly, Apple was shipping Mac Pros with 128-bit PowerPC processors around two decades ago.
False equivalency.

Demonetizing videos that make homophobic attacks on public figures (the "conservative" content in question) is not "the other side of the coin" to being positive about LGBTQ issues.
It might, but it turns out macroeconomics isn't that simple.
Earth’s Orbital Shifts May Have Triggered Ancient Global Warming
Here [1] is the original concept video for the Courier. I remember it generated a ton of hype when that video came out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmIgNfp-MdI
I once read a fictional story about a 20 year old selling his remaining lifespan except 3 months for 30 yen. Imagine how awful that life must be if it only sells for 30 yen. He didn't know it when he sold his lifespan, but his future self would have spent his remaining life in a hospital after an accident. The moral of the story is that it turned out to be a good deal.

Those flats are the same. The $15,000 is probably an absolutely fantastic deal for the seller. There is a reason why the apartment is so cheap. You get what you pay for and it's most likely crap.
It seems like the Nintendo DS worked because every single piece of software for it was written to use both screens effectively. With this, I can't imagine there will be hardly any software ever written for it specifically to use two screens, except maybe some first party stuff at launch.

I'm also worried about use on the go. When you're holding it in your hands, a folding device is a pain to use. If there was some reason you couldn't have a single large screen maybe ok, but as you say this is a solved problem.
While he may be contractually prohibited from employing you in his new role.

Typically nonsolicit agreements only prevent the CTO from reaching out and trying to hire you away. If you, the disgruntled engineer, reach out to your former CTO and ask them if there's a job at their new company, the CTO will typically not be prevented from employing you.
https://youtu.be/rqFMbXMfS9Q
Remember the Courier?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Courier
So slick!
"Stop publishing source / programmers should be paid" ... I can't disagree; but we tried that once, remember? That's what the software world was until after it became possible to build free software using free software.

The free sharing of creativity in software has advanced the world and made the life of most everybody on the planet measurably better. The several thousand burnt out, used up, F/OSS developers who didn't cash in (and I count myself among that number in my arrogance) are not too large a price to pay for having the world we have now vs the world we had then.
What would be a good use case for this?
They may find developing countries already have good alternatives. I’ve not personally used M-Pesa, for example, but that was a thing before bitcoin ever appeared.

What even is the USP of Libra?
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The worst thing Youtube ever did in this respect was to give in to the original advertisers dropping out of their platform. As far as I know, they introduced a bunch of changes that crippled the income of their creators and their speech, without any monetary return for doing so.

In turn, creators have to be careful about what they say and viewers are slightly less interested in tamed content.

With creators further restricted and not being paid as much, they reached out for third party funding sources (bypassing Yotube) and started to seriously consider other platforms as alternatives.

Worse still, once one media company had seen success at trying to "cancel" Youtube, others strive to capitalize on the same opportunity.

Now Youtube is stuck trying to implement forever more complicated filtering models, employing larger and larger numbers of humans for manual verification and are trying to find an impossible balance of responsibility.

Dealing with news media is pretty much the same as dealing with bullies - simply ignore them and they'll go away. The advertisers will eventually come back when the heat is off and they see their competitors doing really well.
If you use google servers under plain text you will be exposing all your queries to your ISP and to google, which will log and monetize them. DNS under plain text is so easily captured that all entities. ISP that spans the traffic to google, google itself, and ISP that spans from google to the resolver can capture, log and monetize the information. Monetizing can occur by logging who queried, what was queried, and in either as a combination or in isolation. A lot of companies consider the later to not be private information or covered by GDPR.

The effectiveness of DNSSEC depend on where you are. If you live in Netherlands or Sweden and visits mostly Swedish or Dutch sites then a larger portion will be signed.
Will be interesting to see Microsoft return to the smart phone market. Satya Nadella's organization is much more geared towards catering products towards their demand signal instead of repeating Ballmer's blunder of always acquiescing to the Windows fiefdom.
> I guess you don't mind the problem Nvidia has with Wayland.

From my perspective of someone who dislikes Wayland, that is a feature of Nvidia's drivers :-P.
Given how badly they flubbed their entries into smartphones, I'm kind of glad they are trying again in this new form-factor. Given that it's relying on Android, it should have more staying power than before (and an app store that isn't awful).
It looks nice in theory. I’d like to see it also support some version of win10. I might get one regardless, but if it ran win10, it’d be a slam dunk.
The difference is paid in taxes.
Ive thought this too.

Feels like innovation now is making existing products more efficient.

All of those top products do that.

Not sure if that's good or bad.
Show HN: Easy WebServer in AWS EC2
That sounds good in theory, but I'd bet a free speech alternative to YouTube would become a hotbed for hate.
False equivalency? Yours is a non-existent equivalency.
Thanks! That'll make me play this game a lot more. :)
For anyone that is looking to make a simple LAMP stack webserver for a site or multiple sites, I wrote some documentation into a guide for anyone that needs some help. It was quite confusing having to run to all the different sources trying to figure out just how to hook it up. So I put it all in one place.
> LGBTQ content censorship was celebrated by the same people now lamenting "conservative" demonetization.

The "same people?" All of them? Since when does "Conservative" equal "anti-LGBT?" You do know there exists LGBT conservatives, yes?
While I don't know about Zenefits in particular, keep in mind that YC companies can opt out of this list:

> One thing to note is that this is not an exhaustive list of the top YC companies. We allowed alumni to opt out of being listed for any reason.
I'm not sure if everyone forgot a day ago, but if Microsoft had just removed the offline account setting on Windows 10, what could be the likelihood that they could just enforce it in the Surface Line up, even including the Android products?

Nice looking Surface lineup and hardware nevertheless, but after Microsoft removing that offline setting, I think that was a big turn off and a no deal from me for now, unless they reverse that atrocious decision to using online accounts only.
Curious: did some company already create a practical 3D display by moving these strips fast enough?
Is this really that surprising?

Postgres is a RDMS, with transactional support and everything. While Redis is powerful, it is much simpler and focused, not nearly as comprehensive as Postgres.

TL;DR Postgres is doing a lot more heavy-lifting than Redis, it feels slow because that much of work is not necessary for simple kv lookup
Boris Johnson, Shady SEO Master?
> disabling SIP is a requirement to run third-party graphics cards.

While Google may have contributed to this problem, disabling SIP to use some hardware seems like the actual issue here. If users have to frequently disable a feature then that feature simply doesn't work.
I use the Windows version, I wouldn't want to use it without hotkeys
While the government policies don't always help, in my experience they are merely a hurdle and not the underlying reason it is difficult for startups to succeed in Europe. The ambient culture that defines behavior and sets expectations in the relationships between founders, investors, employees, and society at large is much more adversarial and conservative than the US.

Being an excellent engineer, the backbone of all good tech companies, is rarely recognized, poorly compensated, and engenders much less social status than if you were on the US west coast. Ironically, even though there are many highly talented engineers in Europe, European executives and investors frequently hold American engineers working in Europe in much higher regard and treat them differently than engineers from their own countries. I've seen it many times.

This is not an environment that incentivizes the world-class native engineering talent that exists in Europe to perform up to their abilities in a high-risk startup. Good engineers correctly view themselves as being undervalued, so there is no point in taking the risk. Nothing will change until Europe places more value -- economic, social, and cultural -- on being an exceptional engineer instead of treating them as a modern day factory worker subservient to the managerial class. This is not something you can easily change with government initiatives.
Minecraft is in fact extremely alt-right. Borderline Nazi/kkk imo.
We serve large websites in countries where Firefox usage is <0.5% of the total traffic. As long as the website is not utterly broken, it's hard to make a good case for fixing it.

However, we do run all our UI tests against Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Firefox just gets a little less love.
I support Youtube demonetizing whatever content they want as long as they are transparent about it

But that's because I believe in private property and freedom of association as well as personal responsibility for one's actions while it seems "conservatives" in 2019 do not from the public stances they have adopted in their political efforts.
Indeed they did, but this is a device still in development, to be released late 2020. I would not be surprised if the Windows 10 X team is working to make it at least possible to run 10 X on the smaller device. I'd much prefer 10 X with an Android subsystem. But like I said, I'll pick one up regardless.
How about not having a financial system based on debt and loans?

No more need to have a crisis
The tooling around sql is pretty awful. I was looking for a vscode plugin to get some syntax highlighting and linting for postgres yesterday, and just gave up. There are plenty of administrative tools that help with connecting to dbs and showing the results in a nice table, but nothing that really helps with writing it (or at least nothing of high quality that I could find).
Two-thirds of researchers report ‘pressure to cite’ in Nature poll
Kong acquires Insomnia to offer new API testing capabilities
It took almost 30 years since the kernel was released, but Microsoft is officially releasing something with a Linux based operating system. Pretty wild to think about.
Do people speak Russian a lot in Bulgaria in everyday lifes?
A 39-year old Bulgarian working remotely (in the capital Sofia) for a generous company rewarding talent with good atmosphere and money.

I admire the more optimistic Bulgarians here but the article and most of them in this thread fail to mention the elephant in the room:

Corruption.

My mother regularly shops fruits and vegetables from the local market. Booths and stalls get closed all the time and there are scarcely any such sellers anymore -- and that's juuuust outside the so-called "wide center" area; there's plenty of shoppers around and the demand is always extremely high.

Reason? People from all sort of municipalities come around and demand all sorts of fines for alleged violations and they never explain which exactly; if you fail to pay, cops who just happen to be friends with those people will come along and will forcefully evict you as a seller from that market. When some of these people got to the police station to complain and demand actual reasons for their eviction, they literally got laughed out of the station with the threat of physical violence if they return. When they went to a local municipality, they were made to wait several months and by that time of course the fruits/veggies season was long over and those people lost a lot of money. And most could not recover to restart their business.

TL;DR: small racketeering, multiplied by hundreds. A lot of small businesses outside of IT die from a hundred racketeer paper cuts.

Things are still very much communist/socialist reality known from the Soviet times around here. "Knowing people" is still one of the biggest assets.

As a guy living in Bulgaria since birth I can see the tides turning VERY SLOWLY, but I fear that unless some real pressure can be applied to the politicians and various other gatekeepers, then nothing will really improve like ever.

To clarify: I don't disagree with the most of the optimistic takes in this thread; things really are improving and Bulgaria is an amazing destination in many regards. But do take everything with a bag of salt; there are unseen forces lurking underneath that don't give a crap about your well-being and will actively work to ruin it if they notice you.

Hopefully this adds some nuance and balance to a lot of comments suffering from a bit too wide-eyed optimism for my taste.
> For me personally, I don't really see much use case for something this size the same way I don't see much use case for an iPad. If I have a lot to do, I'll use my laptop. If it's something quick, I'll use my phone. I don't have much need for an in between currently. I'm sure there are use cases for this that I haven't thought about, though.

As somebody who has tons of textbooks in PDF form, the ability to use something like this (or the iPad Pro, which I currently own) for reading, annotating and otherwise working with them is pretty damn useful. I'm especially excited about the Duo, since PDF's are unreadable on even my 6.5" smartphone and I don't always want to bring my iPad with me everywhere.
Not feeling at home doesn't really ever go away, you just understand the culture around you better and can fit in better.
Oh wow! Great, thanks. I wonder how I recalled that wrong.
Yup, it's a smart link that should redirect to the right platform (hopefully..)
I think it was just an example of a feature without a use case.

The home "button"(actually just part of the screen) in my Galaxy S8 is pressure-sensitive.

I have immersive mode on, so the back, home etc. buttons are normally not visible, which becomes a problem when an app hangs, because you cannot swipe to invoke them.

Enter the pressure sensitive area - one angry push and I'm back to the home screen.
Makes sense - I was in Wimberly about 4 years ago and it was so peaceful and quaint - it was a retirement town. Went over there again about 5 months ago and the downtown was bursting at the seams with cars. Same time of year - you can no longer walk across the street without looking - it's a danger zone now. Filled with hipsters and their wives and 2.2 kids.
1% of the people that want this feature are surely thrilled. It is a cool feature. The other 99% of us are looking at this like a potential land mine that will show up unsuspectingly when trying to refactor old code, or migrating from postgres.
Independent Geometrical Control of Spin&Charge Resistances in Curved Spintronics
I am completely out of the loop so might be my ignorance, but why is Brex worth so much?

The founders are super smart and accomplished, I even know some people that worked at pagar.me which was big success in Brazil and can say the guys are super hard working and smart.

But I fail to understand why Brex is such a wonderful idea, I worked for years on the payments sector and all features listed are fairly common to all major providers.
US set to impose tariffs on $7.5B of EU exports in Airbus row
I really hope that we see a single-screen Surface phone in the future.

IMO, Microsoft have done a fantastic job with the Surface Book. If they could replicate that high-end build quality while providing a solid feature set and a clean Android build, I can't see it not selling well. Throw a headphone jack in, and I'd wait in line for it!

The dual screen is interesting, but I don't see its use just yet.
This is fantastic. I've always found it cumbersome to write on onenote and have a browser / PDF reader open simultaneously. Split screen doesn't really work, especially in landscape mode.

Might finally be able to drop the paper notebook in my backpack if they can make screen larger on this one.
Totally valid reason.

In other news, I work at a place with a great culture. Drop me your resume and I'll get you in the pipeline ;- )
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"Mein Kraft" has a nice Hitlerian ring to it.

I can see the criticisms now:

"These racists are using Mein Kraft to achieve power through the joy of gaming!"
It's a bit boring, at any rate. But, seems to be a winning formula for PG. And I guess Sam Altman is going to invent the super AI invention machine that will make all human inventions obsolete.
I would rather say "screwed up" rather than "missed the boat".

Microsoft never was a hardware company but their software powered many pre-iPhone smartphones. If you are into Android hacking, you probably know about xda-developers. It got its name from the O2 XDA brand, a brand of Windows Mobile early smartphones. They were on the boat, they just couldn't keep up. When tablets became a thing, they had a second chance, they tried to take it, but failed.

Google had Orkut before Facebook even existed, and every few years, they try a new social thing, and they invariably fail.

As for Apple, they didn't really miss out on the cloud. Apple has cloud services... for Apple device users. It is an exclusive service they offer to people who buy their overpriced devices, and it seems to work well for them.

The failures, I think, are just a matter of corporate culture. What helps them one way handicaps them in another. Microsoft focus on business hinders their ability to consider consumer-focused mobile devices. Google machine-centric doesn't help with the human element of social interactions. And Apple focus on hardware limits the availability of their software.
I can confirm that Reddit has remote positions. I work remotely from Ireland, whilst most of my team is in SF.
I remember reading something like:

Exec1: does it connect to Exchange?

Exec2: no.

Exec1: nixed!

Exec2 should have said: it will in the future!
malloc() doesn't give you memory on the granularity of bytes. On x86_64 for example malloc has to assume you'll use the memory for 16-byte aligned access (say, movdqa). So your allocating an extra byte could become 16 extra bytes.
That's what things like Patreon are for. It's a third party monetization platform.
That's fantastic, I was wondering whether it was actually images or just randomly blinking LEDs that this effect read too much into until the RCMP image came up. Amazing.
The brain responds to various stimuli by changing its regulatory protein environment. There are different wave patterns during sleep, waking, focus, rest, shock, fear, etc. You may see other studies involving magnetism or light stimulation or sonic stimulation, and they work by inducing brain states, not by actively targeting proteins themselves.

Think of it: how could you get a specific magnetic effect to just those beta-amyloid or tau proteins and not the 10,000 other proteins in the brain? These magnetic devices induce changes in the brain state, not in individual protein states... they nudge the brain to employ its own cleaning apparatuses.
I never argued that it negates the concept. I argued against the parent that 3D Touch is useless when it isn’t. Lag/delay is one of the worst things in UX. This fact is probably mentioned in the very first lesson on most UI/UX courses.
Little bets on your product roadmap = long term payoffs and boost company morale
How to respond to climate change, if you are an algorithm
And one could even add more fault lines, between SO's community and mods and the rest of the sites of SE, since the rest of the sites don't have the same issues as SO, for example regarding discrimination, inclusivness, welcoming..., but rules are made and applied by the SE company on all the sites, creating even more issues.
Walmart owns ASDA, or at least they did until recently.
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First off, the headline is misleading, the experiment in question didn't look at the words "said", but rather words in the title.

Secondly, the experiment itself was contrived: They uploaded thousands of videos (with no video or audio) to a single channel, and looked at the monetization status. The issue is:

1. Youtube's system is probably not stateless. It most likely looks at the uploaders history and other channel data points.

2. An upload with no video or audio content is an abnormal data point. It's an outlier and doesn't represent real case scenario.

Therefore, you can't really extrapolate the results from this experiment and reach any sort of conclusion.
Not a single mention of Iceland, which decided not to bail out their banks (mostly because they couldn't afford it), and didn't fare so badly with it.
Is the idea with this design that it would allow for planes as fast as jet aircraft, but with turboprop efficiency? Is the implication that this might be a way to preserve air travel with a lower carbon footprint?
> I mean that's technically plausible, but why would any commercial entity do this?

To promote the ecosystem as inflation-resistant, and encourage it's use.

> Isn't it the equivalent of throwing money into a fire?

Not any more than, e.g., offering a high-interest savings account is.