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If he had not given it away for free, today, nobody would even know what Linux is. It's all about network effects. He was severely disadvantaged because of a late start and no industry connections. There were plenty of competing commercial operating systems at that time. In fact, there were plenty of competing free operating systems too (e.g. MINIX).

Gaining user attention at a global scale is always extremely competitive, even if you give it all away for free.

Some people like Bill Gates got extremely lucky thanks to excellent social connections but others like Linus who were not so lucky had to go to extreme lengths to break through all the social and economic obstacles imposed on them by the incumbents.
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I'm already signed up with Stripe. If I sign up with you, can I use my existing Stripe account?

I have 2 SaaS products that need a simple payment flow like this.
A couple generations ago people didn't have the luxury of feeling burnt out. They just had to get to work if they wanted to eat; asking about burn out wasn't even a relevant question. That situation still obtains for most people in poor countries today.
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That's true of malware too. Consent is different from actions.
Interesting. Tracking during sprint or generally speaking?
Probably a solid investment that will recoup more than the increase in funding!
“Argument by analogy is very powerful and utterly fallacious” — my high-school Theory Of Knowledge teacher (Mr Dawson you’re the best)

That said, I’m really not enthused by this under either the business (relevant case history: Nest) or privacy perspective.
Sparse decision trees and regression models are easily explainable.

In some domains, with sufficient feature engineering you can get reasonable results with these approaches.
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>It was peak America mostly for straight, white, Protestant men.

>It was not peak America for gay people. Or for blacks. Or for women.

It makes me sad how often discussion of any particular social question on this site gets derailed into a discussion of identity politics.

In 1950, Americans owned 75% of all the cars in the world. Surely, black Americans owned cars at a lower rate than white Americans did, but they probably owned cars at a higher rate than whites in Sweden, France or the UK did. The point is that there are major influences on prosperity that cannot be reduced to the same old identity-politics tropes.
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Even when writing C or C++ for an MCU, you're going to avoid heap allocation as much as possible, so the same design is going to lead to a .NET app that has no GC collections as well.

I write VR apps in C# for a living. Avoiding the GC is not that hard.
So now the malware edits the firefox shortcut to start it with that argument and then installs its malicious addons. That doesn't help at all.
It’s fairly common. I sell a lot on eBay and get maybe an order a week with a message of “do not include invoice, item is a gift” which is dumb since we all know they’r drop shipping. I love it, never have a problem with those buyers. But I do include thank you cards in them with my eBay stores.
Speaking of "long analyze" have a look at my script - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21420140
Try to make the correspondences in your supposed analogy explicit. I'll wait.

My parent comment is not complaining about excessive labor time. He's complaining about being on call. Is it strange that people expect compensation for being on call? That depends on what you're willing to consider "compensation". No one is clocked in at an hourly rate while on call because the labor laws prohibit that, but that's an artifact. On-call positions are viewed as more undesirable than otherwise and pay compensation accordingly.
I purchased a first generation Nest, and I remember getting emails about leafs for as long as I've had it. I don't think that one is on Google
You mean emergencies such as your hot shot boss calling you 2am because he wants to discuss some bullshit idea he just had?

I’ve worked in a couple of places where this kept happening. First time I was junior enough to care and put up with it. Everyone understand: this is not normal. Unless you specifically signed up for pager duty sort of job, no one should put up with this.
Amazon needs to do this for everything. The quality control problem with Amazon is out of control.
FYI, the link to start the survey was in the center of the page. A bit hard to see on my mobile.
I don't think there is any way to enable unsigned extensions on vanilla Firefox, and I don't think they will ever allow it.

Their justification is that if there were some command line option to allow it, then users could be tricked into doing that.

But, couldn't the user not also be tricked into simply downloading the developer edition? Couldn't the user be tricked into deleting their home directory?

Personally, I find these justifications dubious. There is a kernel of truth that in some edge cases it can offer some protection. But it feels far more like something Google or Apple would do, and Mozilla is either cargo culting them, or has been pressured into doing this.
In many uses, inscrutability is the main feature sought. Accuracy is secondary, where it counts at all.

This probably needs legislative correction, because scrupulous data scientists are not in the driver seat.
What are you referencing?
Interesting. Would they be behaving differently if they were just racing to be first to general AI rather than already being "extremely close"? Seems like they're making great strides with specific applications but given the reported limitations even in that class of AI (see Duplex) I'd be surprised if they were on the brink of general intelligence. Of course, you might consider close to be in the next decade or two, in which case [shrugs].
Uber has never made a profit. If I had a business that everyone used selling dollar bills for 95 cents would you consider it successful? That’s basically what Uber is doing.
A year ago I had a 6-week paternity leave at 33 years old. It was the first time since I started my career that I was able to unplug for a significant amount of time.

This time off was truly a magical time for me, and even though I had to do a ton of work around the house and with the baby, I felt a sense of purpose. I started to feel like a real person again.

I came back to work and I made some huge gains for the company for a short period of time... my creativity was back, my motivation was back. The things I did after paternity leave paid off a huge amount and had ripple effects of increased productivity for the entire company.

Then, I burned out again. Now I'm just a zombie who occasionally writes code and counts down the hours until I can go home. It's obvious to me that I just need some extended time to myself, but that doesn't fly in America. I think my employer would rather me be a zombie than to just have some time off to recharge.
There is no alternative, because facebook isn't just "a protocol and some clients/servers". As long as it's -the- social network to be on, then it will always be just that. You can't compete with social culture just with mere programming.
My Garmin 935 is waterproof, has an always on display, shows smartphone notifications, charges once a week, and has worked for over a year. If apple or Fitbit had this, I’d go back. Had multiple fit bits and they all broke in 6 months. Had an Apple Watch, but it needed to be charged every day, wasn’t waterproof, and display turned off. Apple has improved on 2 of those but it still needs every day charging.

I would put garmin last software, but the other hardware features more than make up for it.
How IoT Is Impacting the Financial Services Industry
Yeah, I don't see why she stuck to her guns here. A buy-in makes considerably more sense and is actually very popular.

All successful countries with single-payer like plans are considerably less generous than this one and most countries don't even have single payer!
Retirement for me would mean working on what I love and only that. Presuming that my creativity and contribution are dependent on having an employer is shortsighted.

And I can’t imagine being an exception.
Don't price comparison sites already do this, while pulling in prices from all available shops? How is this better?
As this has been rumored for a little while now and I've been a fitbit user since day 1 it got me to think a lot about what goolge might be able to do with the data and machine learning and it got me to think of two things that I don't think I heard anyone reference yet.

1) Presence. Right now Google often doesn't know WHO is watching YouTube, whether it be the logged in user or someone else in the house. If they know you're watching on a desktop or TV but your activity shows you're walking around its likely you're not actively watching or someone else is. They could hold off on showing an ad or not target it directly to you until they think you're there to watch it.

2) Involvement. Wasn't exactly sure what to call this but what I mean by this is they can measure your heart rate to see how you react to various things you're looking at now. There might already be studies on how best to control peoples heart rates when buying something or keep them watching longer but if not they'll be able to do a ton of machine learning to test this out. This can help determine when to run ads on YouTube videos to keep you from clicking off or when the optimal time would be to show you an ad to cause you to buy something.
Cost of ubiquitous surveillance is going down, and at the end of the day, that's the dominant effect. Given the intersection of low cost and demonstrated utility, we're seeing a sea-change in society of significant scale, such that "opting out of surveillance" really does being to equate to "opting out of society." Imagine if you had a moral objection to, say, walking on roads. What percentage of society would you have to avoid to maintain your personal constraint?

Rather than asking how we opt out, it's probably best to ask how we live in. How do we all get along and feel safe and secure given the new existence of multiple cheap-to-maintain panopticons? David Brin's "The Transparent Society" is a bit dated, but I think it provides a decent starting framework to consider the question. Because the genie's out of the bottle, and "being in the community" is going to be synonymous by "being seen by the community." We have some liberty to determine as societies what that means.

(Consider, as a bad example but perhaps a useful framing of thought: nobody in Star Trek worries about the fact that the computer on a ship knows what they're doing, continuously, at all times, and can report that to anyone who asks. Why? And how does that fictional reality differ from what people actually want?)
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Hmm I'm thinking something more like the "Streisand Effect" or "getting Rickrolled".
With sufficient data you could find out much more than that. Your heart rate dropped around 8:20 and spiked shortly after at 8:25? The same happened to 3 million other customers, looks like you are also enjoying the Game of Thrones premiere on HBO.

Located in Hong Kong, elevated heart rate in the evening, spikes match tweets about police activity against protesters? Be prepared to be visited by the authorities.
I would say "fanned out model spitting out millions of ngrams per second" is much more unusual exercise comparing to using PG for ETL workload.
There are alternatives. For example: https://basecamp.com/books/calm
Airbus is openly working on it. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/28/airbus-pushing-ahead-in-tech...

If you go back to the 1940s, some big aircraft had five flight crew for long-range flights. They progressively dropped the navigator, then the flight engineer in the 80s, because computers could do their jobs. Many small business jets already can fly legally with a single pilot.

When automation reaches the point that the computer can fly the entire flight, and the pilot merely needs to monitor, as we are close to with this new Garmin autoland system, the pilot incapacitation argument for having two crew members goes away. It's inevitable and just a matter of time.
"Automotive insurers, for example, have historically relied on indirect indicators, such as age, address, and creditworthiness of a driver when setting premiums. Now, data on driver behaviour and the use of a vehicle, such as how fast the vehicle is driven and how often it is driven at night, are available."
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If you are so price sensitive that you have to look for someone in a low cost of living country, don't be surprised that your risk of being scammed is higher. There is basically no legal remedy if someone from a country with no functioning rule of law and limited access to the courts for foreigners scams you. And the people you are hiring are aware that there is no real consequence to scamming you.

In a perfect world no one would scam you, but then again in a perfect world you wouldn't be looking for people who live in developing countries to do cheap work for you.
And out of region stuff. I ordered a 3ds game brand new, I wanted to try to get a club code so I ordered one that looked like it would be new old stock, ended up getting a 3ds game intended for sale in Saudi Arabia.

Returned it and just bought it locally instead. Amazon is pretty much a wasteland for collectors. Ebay is far better and more reliable overall.
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Linux isn't his hit by that logic either, it's partially Slackware's and RedHat's.

Almost nothing substantial was ever one person's doing.
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Hey HN!

Looking for analytics tools/scripts for Google Spreadsheets. I want to know how many people view the table and retention of ppl who has access to the private table.

Any suggestions?
What do you mean by "platform", in this context? Google's wearOS hasn't proved popular with users.
But what about the relief of getting a release out to production? Immediately followed by the crushing stress of getting started on the next impossible sprint.

yeah, agile is not fun.
I work in BI building data marts and reports. First we used to have what I would term technical user stories. Build this report, change that cube, build that mart... Then we added analysis stories and off late we now have design user stories. Our sprints are two weeks. One sprint ended up being the developer checking a tick box. But it took a whole month to complete because we had a two week analysis sprint and another two week "implementation" sprint. But guess what we successfully completed all our user stores.
> "Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects"

I'm looking at you, Kubernetes.
Checkmate, Linux! Now .NET is an operating system.