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The fact that Chrome is monetized by plugging into Google's ad network instead of charging users per copy isn't a difference in how Chrome is developed. For the most prominent open source projects, the basic development model is still throwing corporate money at very expensive engineers. That's true for Linux itself--for a long time, the vast majority of contributions have been from corporate sponsors.
You can do this with a pdf with annotations and a touch screen with a pen
what does this do exactly?
Chick-fil-A, Wendy's turns to 'ghost kitchens' for growth
This ignores the Bill Clinton impeachment, it ignores the Behghazi investigation (intended to damage Hillary Clinton, just as the Ukraine calls were intended to damage Biden). It ignores the actual substance of the Trump administrations wrongdoings. It ignores the profound difference in respect for the process in the former cases and in this administration. It is a crappy meta-analysis and is extremely disappointing from someone of Taibbi's caliber.
Building a skyscraper? Aren’t their timelines a little short to be doing something like that rather than renting existing space?
GNOME Browser offers an extraordinary browsing experience, and most people seem to ignore it — probably because it lacks extension support, which I don't really care about.

Being part of the GNOME project is also follows the GNOME design and maintain consistency with the rest of the desktop environment — a must for me.

Aside from that, I mostly like applications that follow the GNOME HIG, like GNOME Terminal, Geary, Polari, and Fractal.

My favorite text editor after vim is still Gedit, and it is a shame I can't use it on macOS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Procreate is really nice, I have moved on from Wacom Tablet/Krita to iPad Pro/Procreate. I suggest any artist give it a try.
I think they recently cleared this. I tried 10+ area code variants just this weekend and none worked.
350 people across a 25,000 person company sounds more like performance management than layoffs, especially since they are still hiring.

I think Uber has way overhired but this doesn't seem to be the signal a lot of you all are making it to be.
I would really like to see them emphasize sportsmanship and in a small way help try to make the gaming related community on the internet a bit nicer.
I've come to expect nothing less than grifters like Taibbi. He thinks he ate the red pill.
> This advice is pretty stale: 3G is rather old by now – 4G came out in 2009

When traveling to places with 4G or LTE coverage I'm often downgraded to 3G or edge. My parents' home has mostly 2G/edge connectivity, with some spotty 3G coverage on the second floor. They're "only" on the outskirts of a greater metropolitan area.

Just because some tech is old doesn't mean it's not very much still relevant.
An inspiring example of someone who went on to write an award winning compiler after failing the Stanford CS Compiler comprehensive exam. Bravo!
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> Across three rounds, Uber has let go ~1000 people. I have no idea how many are in the Bay Area, but to pick a random number and say "half," that's ~500 new people in the labor market who are probably well qualified for the rest of the open jobs.

It doesn't affect the point you are making, but I believe the first big round of layoffs they did (about 400 I think?) were mainly marketing folks. I could be wrong, but I feel like those positions are not quite as in demand as tech workers in the bay area.
Not according to their quarterly earnings its not. They're going to have to keep slicing until they start generating profits
Journalist Marcy Wheeler already did a nice takedown of everything wrong with this piece from Taibbi.

One example:
"Those abuses, the ones he's outraged about? With very few exceptions, they all happened in 2017, under Trump. There's good reason to suspect one of them came bc Trump demanded FBI crack down on leaks (a crackdown Taibbi pretends to be ignorant about)."

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1182792966416621568
Honestly, Windows 7 is superior in use vs MacOS.
Square to begin payment processing program for CBD sellers
It takes work to lose hundreds of millions of dollars per quarter. You would think it would only take a modest number of admins and developers to run a website that does the fairly simple task of finding the closest available driver when a rider hits a button, but apparently not.
> Blaming the user is a pernicious problem in UX engineering

I've been around computers since well before it was called UX, and since UX? trust me, I never blame users, I definitely blame UX.

we need to bring back UI.
Getting hired as a 1099 contractor at a big tech company in California has become impossible if you work on-site at said company. LLC or not, doesn't matter. You won't pass procurement.

You will most certainly be a W2 contractor through some middleman who takes a nice cut. Even for higher-end consulting talent. No big company is willing to risk contractor misclassification lawsuits anymore.
For a utility, "keep being a utility" needs to be above "larger profits" on the list of core objectives, and shareholders need to accept that before buying in.

Whether that's just by writing it down, or having 30 billion in penalties if they stop delivering power, or by making dividends vest over 20 years...
They nominated Obama simply because he won over Bush and before he was even in office. I have lost faith in the Noble prize system as a whole.
If you want a more hilarious take on explaining Dunbar's number, I present to you this old article from cracked on "The Monkeysphere": https://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
People revealing constant incompetence and criminality at the highest levels of government are not as bad as the people committing constant incompetence and criminality at the highest levels of government, no matter how eloquent the presentation of the claim of "bothsides".
That is a completely fair ask. Here https://www.diaridetarragona.com/catalunya/Casi-la-mitad-de-... you can read that (little) less than half of the 1500 people sampled in March 2019 by Generalitat’s Opinion Studies Centre are in favor of independence. Admittedly even less want no independence in this study, and most are in favor of a referendum.
well, it would have had to work pretty hard to become worse :)
Still sad that the teased sequel(s) to Loom never made it past the pitch stage. Also, if you love Loom, Brian Moriarty's three Infocom (text) adventures are worth playing.
He obviously doesn't like Israel, and expresses negative sentiments about Israel. But there's a range of free translations from "Palestinians should have sovereignty over Jerusalem" to "All Jews should be exterminated". Reporting Ahmedinejad's words as being closer to the latter is a way to paint him as a monster, stoke anti-Iran sentiment in the West, and soften up Western populations so that they will favour an eventual USA-Iran war.
Fuel subsidies are not a freedom or liberty. It's getting something for free that someone else is paying for.
I don't consider fascim vs democracy average 'politics' like whom a president has sexual relations with.

The logic of there being rules so it justifies the rules is also a fallacy. If the rule is reasonable then it has to be reasonable on its own legs.
Yeah, looks like it is now 3:1.
Nope. WeWork is clearly the "go to" brand in the flexible office leasing category. Regus' brand is "has been".
In the book's Twitter account @atopbook you can find a good number of comments about the book: https://twitter.com/atopbook
Is a "cost cutting measure" really a bad thing? Most employers, consumers and the aviation industry would regard saving money as a good thing.

The way Boeing went about it is foolish, short-sighted, exceptionally dangerous, and very poor engineering.
Makes sense. Fits with adding similar support in Visual Studio at some point. Kind of like Word suggestions, but for code.
Yes, and in the second arm of the scam, the drug companies will send out their army of salespeople to convince doctors and hospitals to prescribe the more expensive version. Because of small differences between the drugs (maybe the liquid version is easier on the stomach) they will decide that the solid generic is not equivalent to the liquid.

Then the patients will all buy the expensive version, as ordered by their doctors, and charge it to their insurers. The insurers will look at the cost going up and will raise insurance rates.

If you have been paying attention to what has been happening to insurance rates for the past several years you can easily see the result.
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It's a self-sustaining reaction in any organisation left unchecked: Manager has an incentive to hire below him, create projects to justify jobs, hire more, create more projects, etc.
Uber EATS was the worst eating experience I’ve ever had in my life. It was super bowl a couple years back and After 2 hours this guy in a black Honda Accord rolls up and hands me a sack of wings that were disgusting and smelled like pine air freshener.

Glad that one is getting axed.
The claim that requiring pronouns be based on assigned sex not being transphobic is akin to claiming Prop 8 wasn't homophobic. Judging that a e.g. a trans man cannot possibly be a man and use he/him pronouns is transphobic by definition. It sucks because the day of a trans person can be ruined by someone being an asshole and then feeling justified that they weren't "because biology".

Because the reality is, I'm trans and I don't feel safe participating on Hacker News anymore. If I try to ask someone to be respectful towards me, I know I'll be attacked because this is the top comment. And that sucks.
Strange that they are also ramping up hiring in other cities at the same time. Could this be because they just want to clean house and lay off high paying employees and replace them with newly hired low paying ones. Also they can force to sell the stocks and they dont have to give it to new employees.
> This is not "ironic" (what is that supposed to mean?)

I thought you were being ironic, in the sense of "if you only use git locally you don't mess stuff up". You definitely pull the shared branches; you just don't force-push to them, and that makes it ok.

> Seriously, don't! When you publish things, publish them.

By "publish" I suppose you mean "push, when there is no upstream branch"? Well, yes, but I also force-push a lot and it's quite ok to do so when you work alone on a branch (e.g. to keep it constantly rebased on top of master). I wouldn't say "don't push, ever" - that's an overkill. I'd just say "protect you master branch so that people can't force-push on it".
A friend of mine works as a lawyer dealing with PUC's. Trope of faceless bureaucrats pisses him off because he see it from the other side. Because they'll actually listen to some 80 year old lady's complaint at a meeting[1] and then maybe try to figure out what they can do to not piss her off.

[1] The meetings that people who rant about faceless bureaucrats never show up at.
A “coup” that requires a majority of 1 publicly elected House, and a 2/3rds majority of the other publicly elected House to work.

Ok.
A doubling over the course of a decade is not really concerning. That is the expected doubling time if prices increase 7% yoy, which is slightly under (some would argue a lot under, maybe almost half) the return on stocks. In so far as housing is a form of investment for those willing to buy and rent, then one would expect that the return is around the rate of (basically) risk free return on the stock market.
are you sure that the fonts aren't blurry ?

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-218458

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/72759
Regus has taken 30 years to become much smaller than WeWork.
Everyone wanted to crucify Shkreli for the toxo drug price hike. Where is the outrage for the mentioned 667% hike on generic Prozac? Or did people just target Shkreli because they didn't like his views on other things?
Uses javascript to find all the page elements with the coupon add button styling attributes and then uses javascript to click each add button.
Maybe in NYC and somewhat in SF, but Chicago is too cold and snowy for at least half the year for bikes to be a big factor, and LA is way too big
How does this not copy snyk.io?
When wholesale prices go up, retail prices almost always follow.
> To fight back, he says he hopes to grab a few hours of sleep on the plane to Houston. He hopes the hotel bed there is OK, though that's never a guarantee.

From what I have seen, most pro teams stay at some of the nicest hotels in said visiting city. With that said, I'm surprised to see the "He hopes the hotel bed there is OK, though that's never a guarantee." But maybe that's also just coming from my own experience of sleeping extra well in higher end hotel beds than my own bed at home.
Nov 4th: Q3 Earnings[1]
Nov 6th: Blackout ends 2 days after earnings
Nov 6th: Lockup expires

...not that I'm counting or anything

[1] - https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
100% agree. Facebook's restricted access was a huge driver of their early success.

> People wanted to join before they were able to join.

I'd argue the more important factor was that because the early audience was so limited people felt comfortable sharing a lot more personal content than they would on the open internet - even just simple things like their real name and photo. That created much more interesting content for other people to look at, driving engagement. In the early days, when there were maybe two or three dozen schools on FB, it felt like a like a pretty small high-trust community. All of your friends from high school were on it, and their college friends, who maybe you met once or twice, but that was it - no parents, no employers, no randos. It was a very different vibe than most other social networks. I also don't think anyone thought it would be around very long. It felt like a new social network popped up as the cool new thing every few months.

I'm sure there was some aspect of pent up demand due to exclusivity, but I think the community and openness created by that exclusivity was a much bigger drover of its success.
That's like telling a poor person that they just have to try to win the lottery. Everyone on both sides knows there's no chance in hell the rest of Spain will ever accept secession. Telling them to accept that is honest, pretending there is another path with any real chance of succeeding isn't.
the definition for "wrong" in this case is "what would be the social impact if everyone acted like me". In this case, I think the answer is "nothing", and that it passes the moral test (for me personally, at least).
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HN is so damn disappointing these days. What is this garbage doing on the front page?
Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says
Obama never ran against Bush. 2008 was Obama and McCain and 2012 was Obama and Romney
Sent you an email (had to make it very simple, as you have your spam filter set to "11"), and a LinkedIn connection req.
Sure, but what is the reason a lot of the bigger players are putting less into R&D and more into aquisitions buying up smaller micro-cap companies after they've managed to get to approval and then wear down shareprice before enevitably being bought out or sold off? What is the expense for the average drug to get from p1 through p3 and then through pdufa approval assuming it will only take a single submission for approval (Hi $HRTX and $OCUL, you fucking bastards)? What percent even make it all the way through p3?

What sort of financing are we talking about? An offering to dilute sharholders? Saddle the company with so much debt it is coming out of their eyes?

Has this sector done very well compared to the broad market during the last 5 +/- years? Odd, if they're just jacking up prices sky high, hey?
why is that their responsibility at all? Women are electing not to enter that “track;” it’s companies’ jobs to convince them to?
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I'd have to call my ISP to get it.
> Linux, to me, is still very much a tinkerer's OS. If you don't have the time to tinker and get things working and just want to get things done, Linux is not the way to go.

Completely disagree with you. There are many fully featured desktop environments that are as feature rich as Windows or OSX. Cinnamon, elementary OS, Pop_OS are just three off the top of my head. And hardware support has gotten amazing since 2012 and onwards.

I use a flavor of linux on a few chromebooks and have used it on several laptops from brands like Apple, Dell, Acer, Lenovo, MSI as my primary OS since 2012 and haven't had any notable hardware issues. Things simply work out of the box.

Can you be more specific about what issues you experienced? When was it that you had these issues? I am having a hard time believing you, because my personal experience has been so positive.
Wow. Is there a page with more information?

I found this picture where they'd just bought a few hundred brand new 4 TB drives:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Incoming_additiona...
The whole point here is that you do not know that it is inexistent and that you cannot prove it, either.

You only need to find a single instance of aliens to prove that aliens exist.

You need to carefully analyse the whole universe and not find anything to prove that they do not. Proving a negative is hard.
Is it hard to find React developers? No. Is it hard to find good developers? Yes.
They don't do the same thing. All the flaws in passwords can be avoided, the semi-public state of biometrics cannot.

Authenticating access, if you follow standard security practice, should be at least two of, and preferably all three of: something you know, something you have, something you are. Not one or more.
Tribe was great. Everything was ironic and fun and weird. There was a tribe for enthusiasts of "brown foods", for "paranoia" (in which we would post the truly most paranoid thoughts we could muster), for "evil geniuses" (tips on lairs, knowlege sharing on death rays), a tribe called "silence" wherein people would just post "ssssh". Another where we planned a dadaist amusement park. Another called "things on top of things" which were entirely photos of things that were on top of other things. Another for enthusiasts of Abercrombie & Fitch. Another called Extreme Honesty for people who wanted honest advice. Another called Bad Advice where people would out-compete each other for giving the worst possible advice on any topic. On and on.

There were definitely tribes where people would try to out do each other with warped and disturbing posts. Digging through tribe.net archives will find posts bragging about murder, pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, what-have-you. In that context they were intended as entertainment, rather like horror fiction, but in today's social media climate such a free wheeling context is incomprehensible.
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There needs to be a way to reward managers for running teams/organizations that have a big impact with low headcount. After a certain point, in most organizations, the management promotion game becomes almost entirely about headcount underneath you. If you're a middle manager, this is not just true for you, but also for your boss, who is then aligned to help you get more people under you, since those people are also under them indirectly.
Nobody is required to give out rebates to pharmacy benefit managers and the like. That is a problem the pharma companies created by themselves. The pharmas can drop their list prices and stop rebates tomorrow if they really wanted.
This is exactly what I meant, thank you.

But there is a bit more to it. The A or B side-by-side is the most simple comparison to make the point.

Some of the same dangers that are in play now might still be risks as AI cars become more common. For instance, minority neighborhoods tend to not have as many street lights at night. The cars might be smart enough to compensate. But if they aren't, AI has the potential of falling victim to statistical correlation.

Headline by click bait reporter: "Studies show self-driving cars kill minorities at higher than average rates"

It doesn't matter if the real cause was street lights.
Probably some reordering? Would be interesting to compare generated assembly.
No need to confirm its real, just want to be the first ones with a BREAKING STORY! I wish MSM would be held more accountable.
I'm not Catalan, so even if I wanted to vote, I can't.
The companies that tend to have a harder time hiring and may benefit from these layoffs I think are more traditional companies that have SV outposts.

Comcast, Samsung, Microsoft, Clorox, Walmart, Bank of America heck Honda and other Auto manufacturers have large presences in this area and traditionally are not as attractive to a lot of talented engineers as startups or the FANG companies. I'd think that you'd see these guys start picking up a lot of the excess talent if the market started getting flooded.

There's a ton of slack here that would gobble up talent outside of the traditional VC funded group. They're good jobs too if you're looking for stability.
This is a great analogy. I was a little worried in writing this that it might be "ruining" a good thing, and that publishing it would kill it, but I figured enough people over time have tried to take advantage of coupon-ing (and the fact that it's inherently people trying to get deals) that it was ok.

Interesting way to compare this auto script to adblocking.
Yeah, but it can't usefully convert PDFs. To make a PDF usable on an e-reader you've got to trim the margins, and chop it into pages that exactly fit the e-reader screen (in landscape, due to line length issues)--and even then some just can't be converted. And in doing this you need software that knows where to cut pages and whether to insert padding so that lines don't get cut off. And you never want to use OCR or text extraction, which suck. It's an extremely difficult process, but since panning and zooming on ereaders is unusable it's the only way I've found that works (I use the k2pdfopt software)--the alternative is just using a tablet for PDFs which is what I increasingly do.