skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My understanding is that the trouble only comes if the company has actually done something illegal.

As you said earlier, "[pricing] is a constantly debated line". Suppose a search engine displays the lyrics on the results page, instead of requiring that the user click a link and go to some advertising-laden lyrics web site. Is that to improve the search user's experience, by giving them the answer right then and there? Or is it predatory move against the song lyrics web site? As you say, "it's constantly debated".

But if you have the CEO, or the product manager, saying, "I want to crush the competition; see them driven before me; and hear the lamentation of their women" (apologies to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Conan the Barbarian) you've just given a weapon to the FTC as to the intent of that "constantly debated line". And G-d help your company if that lands on the front page of the New York Times.

Also, even if you win the anti-trust lawsuit, the distraction and the legal costs are high. I'd argue that even if you ignore the toxic atmosphere argument, from a purely pragmatic and practical perspective, It's Just Not Worth It.

Want to motivate the team by asking them to build the best product ever? Sure! I'll note, by the way, that just because you have the objectively better, say, search quality score compared to all of the other search engines out there, that doesn't necessarily mean that the other search engines will go out of business. People choose which search engines to use for many reasons, and not just search quality. (Many people who use DDG admit doesn't always give the best results; but they use it because they hate Google, and it's "good enough".)

So it's actually better to come up with an objective quality metric, and constantly challenge the team to make it better, every year and every quarter, regardless of whether or not they are better than the competition. If you don't, you end up resting on your laurels, and that's no good either. So you align the whole team on making the product better, and delighting more and more users, regardless of whether or not you have the best product, and certainly not because you want to drive the competition out of business.

Take Microsoft Office, for example. For a long time it was the best, or at least most commercially successful, office suite. How do you challenge the team if your only focus is, "drive the competition out of business"? And what if your competition is the Open Source "libreoffice", which by definition can't be driven out of business, and is getting better year after year, with the end user of cost of zero dollars and zero cents staying constant?
Ah, I remembered the $8.x B last quarter, but for some reason was thinking that was annual. Thanks for actually looking. :-)
Pass a meme to the next guy or gal
One way would be to host a script engine and run the script language, e.g. JavaScript. Another would be to create your own grammar and simultaneously translate to Kotlin and Swift. You could even use a strict subset of either Kotlin or Swift then you'd only have to deal with one translator.
But does Youtube's recommendation system trap you any more than old media? I remember having much the same feeling with library books. I've read 10 pages of this author's thoughts and I really want to pick up something else - but I don't have time to go to the library this week, so I guess I'm stuck reading the other 290 pages.
Well, to be very blunt, CSP is still a better painting program than Krita is. So of course more people are using it.

That being said (and keep in mind I am only one fallible data-point) the community situation is roughly equivalent to what I remember Blender being like when I first started using it (maybe in 2007-2008).

- Very few professionals were using Blender, if any.

- Most tools were being written for Maya. Every time someone would link a cool tech product with crowd simulations or plant growth, it would always be a Maya plugin.

- Any college/high-school modeling/animation courses you took would be using Maya.

- That meant that if someone wanted to learn professional animation/modeling, they'd learn Maya's paradigms, and then Blender would seem extra weird. This was back when you just had to get used to the weird 3d cursor.

- Compatibility between the two programs was awful. I remember wrestling with the options to get 3D models to export in a format that wouldn't be completely messed up when imported in Unity. I don't remember if I ever got it working.

There were people who used Blender because it was free and swore that it was just as powerful once you got used to it, but they were largely techy people. And even if they were right, none of the digital artists or studios who's work I really respected cared at all. If you wanted to get an actual job with animation, you used Maya, period. Only hobbyists could afford to spend the time learning a separate program.

So it doesn't bother me too much to see Krita in the same position. I care more about the trajectory/velocity of development, and who I see using the software. I see a lot of programmers using software like Gimp, but I see a larger focus from Krita on actual artists, and a more pragmatic prioritization of features artists use.

If the core community stays really friendly for artists, and they keep on releasing at their current pace, then I suspect adoption will eventually come. Or at least, I think it's a decent enough bet that I'm willing to use the software in its current state and regularly throw money at its development.
There are a couple full android based e-ink tablets but apparently none of them are that great?
Some are widely regarded classics like Landau & Lifshitz’ course on physics.
Amazon even give them all a unique email address so you can just send it supported files as easy as emailing a file. PDFs can be converted to native format by putting "convert" in the subject line.
The separate grid is pretty much purely political.

It may be non-sensical to people outside of Texas, but inside Texas there are a significant number of people who believe in, let's call it, "Independent Texas".

And it would actually make a lot of sense for more states to have completely independent grids. Problem of course, is that most states are far too poor for such an extravagance.
It was sold as the Timex Sinclair in the USA.

I was planning on buying one, but ended up with a used VIC-20 instead.
Trump hates Bezos and Post. And Bezos owns Post. And he considers Post political stance against him a directive from Bezos himself.

Reinvestigate the JEDI deal is an order from him personally.
"All birds have wings. Airplanes have wings. Therefore, airplanes are birds". Does this really need its own term, or is Raymond's coinage just a sneaky way of injecting an ideological vantage point into a conversation?
Be Cautious with the Precautionary Principle: Evidence from Fukushima Accident [pdf]
I have no fear of ad-blockers. In fact what you’re doing is exactly what I’m against. Give people their privacy when they ask for it.
When I saw this article I figured it would go to MS.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sec-of-defense-to-look-into-...
why is it a good thing? driving on the left is better
In my jurisdiction there are no technical exams for applicants with a degree from an accredited program. I regard the exams as much less important than work experience under the supervision of someone who knows what they're doing.

I am a licensed professional engineer with a B.Sc. in EE, so I've gone through every part of the process for designing electrical equipment except for acquiring work experience in that subfield. The only thing preventing me from signing off on an electrical drawing is that I do not believe I am qualified.
But what the hell? I don't understand why anyone would want to do that...
It may not seem so weird when the USA as a whole is going down in flames someday.
What was Bezos motive for purchasing the Washington Post? It certainly wasn't financial.
>A private company sends excess capital to shareholders. A public utility is likely to send "excess" capital into politically driven projects.

Sending the capital to maintenance would be a politically driven project right now for public utility. For private company even right now it is still a conflict of interests between maintenance and shareholder interests.
"After the accident,
all nuclear power stations ceased operation and nuclear power was replaced by fossil
fuels, causing an exogenous increase in electricity prices. This increase led to a reduction in
energy consumption, which caused an increase in mortality during very cold temperatures.
We estimate that the increase in mortality from higher electricity prices outnumbers the
mortality from the accident itself, suggesting the decision to cease nuclear production has
contributed to more deaths than the accident itself."
Even if this worked with high accuracy, it’s pure base rate fallacy [1] to assume it would have any practical usefulness beyond security theater.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
https://bitly.com/ + https://outline.com/

Come on it's hacker news, they specifically say workarounds are ok. I figured the paywalls were just a test honestly. If you're determined you should be able to find a way to read it.
> The author says using the software is like walking through soft sand. Eh, more like mud to me.

Sorry, what distinction is being made here?
Why moralize? It may be that there's nothing intrinsically unconscionable about it; it could just be a way of expressing the market power the investor and the company had when the funding deal was struck. You could similarly say a harsh down-round is unconscionable (a low valuation can just as easily wipe out returns for employees), but we tend not to think companies taking down-rounds are "unconscionable" so much as they are "distressed".

Founders don't like liquidation preferences for the same reason employees don't --- especially if the company limps to liquidity, which is probably the common case, as opposed to blowing the doors off things, in which case the prefs probably don't matter that much. They're incentivized not to accept high preferences; if they do accept them, isn't that just a sign that the company didn't have much bargaining power? Should the company not take the money under those circumstances, and RIF its team instead?
Everyone knows MSX were the truly superior computers at the time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX
Mid 20s, but that's not a useful way to tell someone you think they're wrong.
It’s also the rape capital of the world. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2012/12/29...
An old dumb phone of mine had a mini trackball I found immensely useful. The firmware (proprietary) was total garbage, but moving between menus was a breeze. Having a trackball rather than a touch interface means that icons and text don't need to be larger to be hit by a finger; all the user does is move the trackball until the relevant object is focused or text highlighted, then use it. Voila, lots of space saved for actual information.
The tunnel can't just be cut and cover, because you can't take sharp turns of any kind and there's no straight-line gradient up a mountain. Yes, a termination at a high equatorial peak helps, but there's still a lot of air there that you're immediately buffeted by as soon as you leave the tunnel.
Some of you are just unable to wrap your head around the fact that 5 numbers or 2 business trips don't make you an expert on the "cultural problems" of a country.

Somehow the startup ecosystem is doing just fine in SF even with all the drug addicts and people shitting on the street[1] over there. But the same problem is a dealbreaker for the startup ecosystem of India? Like do you really not see the problem with your reasoning here?

[1] Human feces incidents in SF rising: https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-human-poop-pro...
It's stupid that startups don't tell people going in what the overhang is, or that you won't get called back or get weird looks. Everyone is looking out for their bottom line, wtf would a startup expect any less from an employee that's about to spend 60+ hours a week toiling on the product? In any case, this is good info and I'll pass it onto my kids if they ever decide to join or build a startup. Hopefully they decide to be their own founders. I'll supply the garage :) .
I've had kindles since version 1 (yeah, the big ones). They've all been great except the Voyage. Voyage moved the power button so that it constantly gets pressed in your pocket, unlocking and losing your place in your book. I had to put a screen lock on as a workaround.

I don't know if this is a sign that "people who care" have left the Kindle team. It's just so plainly wrong.

Other than that, if you're listening: Please give me Dvorak keyboard. My kindle is the only device I own that can't do Dvorak.
You're still not responding to what I actually said. Instead, you've extrapolated from the study your own preferred interpretation, which the authors not only didn't do, but were careful not to do, because the data doesn't exist to do it (and, indeed, the data probably points in the other direction, albeit weakly).

Here's just one example of what's flawed about your argument: average claim denials in Oregon are just 8%, a fraction of what they are in Illinois. Are health insurers in Oregon more moral than they are in Illinois? Will your rationale for that argument hold up when I note other states with low denial rates that aren't at all similar to Oregon?
Yep. I love the books and the show.
I decline any offer that puts equity instead of pay. Options, equity etc. is worthless. The only way it's statistically worth anything is if it's your business.

On a side note, I wish Pud would revive fuckedcompany.com (with the last snapshot of the db before it went down). It's still relevant.
My point is that the comparison is disingenuous, you're comparing the thoughts and feelings of people situated in one group of time to the ones today, and it doesn't address the fact that wage labour brings its own, more transparent problems - alienation, risk, and domination among them.

When you compare living conditions and material benefits, of course the world is better, but that comes at the moral cost frequently expressed as "sweatshops are necessary because the country becomes richer and you get better living conditions". I don't know how this is justified, this kind of trade-off is not justified by any major ethical system, including most serious forms of utilitarianism.

Consider the case of a Chinese peasant farmer who has has land confiscated by the regime, so now he gets to make iPhones to earn a wage so he can spend it on buying food and shelter and medical care. The conditional freedom of needing to sell one's product (whether that is a material thing the peasant makes, or the labour power the iPhone factory worker produces) hasn't been eliminated, it's just changed form.

You claim to be able to reduce these factors to a comparison in which you can say one is better than the other, and I'm not convinced the reduction is sound. Most people, even our iPhone factory worker, would think that there is (and there should be) more to life than the wage and its spending.
Anyone who would care about this should have left when Windows 10 pushed out forced spying on users.
I had never heard of this "carved-out" money. Is anyone familiar with this? It sounds a little like retention bonus based on the provided example.
Don't they test on people?

Really, this stuff should have been caught before shipping.
This contract has nothing to do with Office 365.
Given the choice between Cadillac and Pontiac, the Pentagon chose....
It used to be normal to use the n word to describe black people, why did that change? Why isn't it ok to simply keep using that word?

You're argument is flawed. Constant improvement and constant self examination and constant self improvement are required methodologies to write good code or make good projects, yet here you are arguing the opposite
It's not intrinsically better, it's just a convention, but it helps if everyone operates to the same standard for obvious reasons. Since neighbouring countries drove on the right, it was better to adopt the same standard. This was not an issue for islands such as the UK and Japan with no direct road links to neighbours, therefore they still drive on the left. Originally, before cars, the nobility rode their horses on the left to defend against oncoming traffic since they held their swords in their right hand. For that reason, peasants travelled on the right for safety. After the French Revolution it was prudent for the nobility to blend in, hence all traffic began to travel on the right which was then spread by the French empire.
3. Reverse 200.000 years of evolution. No more meat. Seriously.
Based on my XP, getting details about options is real difficult. HR and hiring managers are used to people who barely understand the vesting schedule, so when you start asking about percentage, strike price, etc etc it's kind of unusual. And yeah, companies tend to not be transparent simply because they play on people's ignorance to make attract them with options while in 99% of cases you will never see a penny from these.
How did you have an exe running on a Mac?
>It wasn't a conspiracy theory

"Trump colluding with the Russians" absolutely was a conspiracy theory, why are you trying to deflect?

>The Russians really did influence our election.

To what extent was the outcome actually influenced by their efforts, again? Has there ever been proof that the Russian government hacked the DNC server beyond the evidence Crowdstrike, a Ukraine-affiliated 3rd-party forensics outfit hired by the DNC, was paid to provide? Did anybody besides Crowdstrike, like the FBI or the Special Counsel, actually investigate the DNC server itself, or verify the information provided by Crowdstrike in any way? Hint: the answer is no.

To what extent does the entire narrative and resulting special council investigations depend upon information which was literally produced and paid for by Trump's political opponents?

>Ironically Trump is now in trouble with Ukraine for the very thing he was accused of doing with Russia

Trump's DOJ looking into the origin of the false Trump-Russia collusion narrative and finding Democrat-Ukraine collusion means its actually the Democrats who are "in trouble with Ukraine for the very thing [Trump] was accused of doing with Russia" by Democrats for the last 3 years.

Or do you mean how Democrats are accusing Trump of the very thing Biden appears to have done to Ukraine while acting as VP?

Because the appearance of actual quid pro quo, conflict of interest, and abuse of power by the former VP Biden, through his very public threats to withhold aid from Ukraine unless they fired their head prosecutor, who just so happened at that time to be leading a corruption probe into a company employing the VP's son, which was put to an immediate end by the Biden installed replacement doesn't suddenly become off-limits simply because Biden chose to run for President, just the opposite.

Somebody who appears to have abused the power of a previously-held, less-powerful, elected position should not be trusted with more power, and that is where Biden stands right now and Democrat efforts to prevent a full investigation is hypocritical and deeply suspicious, not to mention desperate.

>and he admitted it so

Please. That is a gross distortion of the truth and you know it.
Skeuomorphism and pixel perfect design where the interface was tightly tied to the screen resolution doesn’t work when you have multiple screen sizes. Back then developers only had to worry about the 320x480 iPhone screen and the 1024x768 iPad resolution.
Restricting it to 2008's web could be an interesting exercise.
Well I didn’t mean any disrespect to other nationalities but merely commenting on popularity of those two startups.
Is there anything you want to add about my query?
I'm not sure, but I don't work for free. I stop being paid, I stop working. Why should i freely give up my time to make someone else money?
Unfortunately, OVH doesn't care about spam from their networks, so people really need to move. Too bad we don't have other ways to properly punish network administrators who ignore complaints.
Our AD, private org, is made up of 1.4 million user accounts. We are locked into AD forever and ever and ever...

I imagine it is the same for the DoD.
https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/the-paradox-of-slum-t...

Read it here. It is true and real. It is a big industry.
Try out Ubuntu Livepatch. It can update the kernel without reboots, which is likely the cause of the message.
Carve-outs in general are mentioned in the article. A common type of carve-out: the employee retention pool. The article does not say that founder carve-outs are common. I'm sure they've happened, but you said they happen "often", as a way to get founders to greenlight deals. Do you know how often that happens?
Let's make things real simple:

Chinese people used to starve to death all the time because they couldn't afford to buy food. Now that happens much less often because China has gotten much richer through international trade.

That's a much better world.
Apple’s iBook software supports a larger part of the ePub standard than Kindle does, and does a better job of handling tables, math, and SVG graphics. Plus, it allows scripting, and Kindle doesn’t.
What examples are you thinking? Are you talking about Chrome and Webkit, and that these would be trivial for a Kindle to adopt? The Kindle Oasis is the highest spec Kindle, and it tops out at 512MB RAM. I see that Firefox 70.0 has 512MB for its minimum requirements, but how performant is that kind of computer on today's web?
Although $10B might not seem like much in terms of revenue for the cloud companies (that statement feels weird writing), it is potentially worth a lot more.

The DoD drives a lot of the US economy and a lot of companies have DoD contracts. This win, gives Microsoft an advantage n trying to get these companies on Azure and solidifies Windows and Office 365 positions at these companies. The follow on effects will likely be worth many multiples of this contract.
Yeah, you need a 2nd stage to make it remotely viable. A single stage mass driver would need to have escape velocity minus drag loss at the exit mouth, which is vastly faster than any real chemical rocket is going at ~10-15 km elevation, where the air is still reasonably dense. Also, 10-15 km is around the range of Max Q for real-world rockets and given the equation, q = 0.5 p v², a higher velocity is going to result in some extreme structural stress.
Maybe some of this money can go into educating men of this country not to sexually assault their fellow women and foreigners.
Utterly marginally, and 80% of the world drives on the right now. Driving on the left is going to lose eventually.
Once the subsidies are gone, the main thing is the price of the plan - compared to which a flagship is small.

In many places in Europe, you can get reasonable monthly plans for ~$10; If you only use data, about half that. If you pay $1000 for 6 years of service, it puts the phone price in a completely different perspective than if you pay that for 18 months (which, last I checked US prices, was the case).
It's nice to hear that Tesla is working on a real standard for once. I bought an EV recently, but didn't consider the Model 3 because it doesn't have a J1772 port (nor a proper dashboard, but I digress.)
Same here. I thought IOS was cool in 2007 when most people first got it, but then the constant forced-upgrades and forced-updates of the phone where it would randomly reboot the phone while sitting idle on your desk and where you would randomly lose functionality -- this was happening in 2007 -- made me really want to switch to something different. I always felt like Steve Jobs was in my pocket and I couldnt control the phone, it was controlling me.