skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"as someone stated"...

Google has never released Youtube numbers, so I can't say that. I will tell you that youtube is the dominant video platform on the internet. You do realize Youtube shows ads? and those ads are part of google's ad revenue? But the numbers have been inferred "YouTube probably generates $16 billion to $25 billion in annual revenue"[1]

Waze drives all of their google maps traffic data. Again, industry's best.

Doubleclick is the basis for ALL non text advertising at google.

I'm starting to get the picture you really just want to argue your point, without any actual facts. Google has a verifiable history of successful acquisitions. Just apparently non that you "like"

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/technology/youtube-financ...
> Most of those theories have some implications about lower energy ranges. And pushing up energies is a great way to rule out a lot of them.

Yes. The problem is that ruling out is all that's happening. Not one has had an implication about lower energy ranges that has turned out to be right.
If you know nothing about your data, you shouldn’t be fitting either kind of model; you should be learning about it instead.
You could suspend the terminal with Ctrl-S and unsuspend with Ctrl-Q?
Valve shuts down money laundering via CS:GO game
For some reason some people are incredibly hostile to this suggestion, but I think the BBC has dumbed down pretty drastically over the years - and this can be pretty easily verified by comparing their output from decades past with today's. Older popular science TV programmes sometimes even had - shock horror! - in depth discussion of actual mathematical equations. By contrast, I watched a Brian Cox space series recently in which I recall a single mention of maths, and that was a few animated formulae floating around a beautifully rendered planetary scene as graphics without real explanation, whilst some dreamy ambient synth music played in the background. There's a massive difference in style, content, sophistication of ideas presented, and density of information. The new stuff poses as educational, but delivers very little proper detail.

Apart from that, I think that surely it would have served this woman's memory far better to tell us the details of what she achieved, and how her work has been built on, rather than making her victimhood the main thrust. I'll bet she'd have preferred to be remembered as a mathematician rather than a victim.
Necrosoft.
These days, it's thankfully rare that people are forced off a flight. The worst problems I've had have come from having a flight cancelled with all the next flights fully booked. As long as the airline can point to weather, they don't have to put you up in a hotel or pay your cab fare to get to a flight at another nearby airport.
It's probably overdetermined, but I suspect that peaking fossil fuels and a subsequent deceleration in energy entering the economic system play an underappreciated role.

To give context: Hubbert's peak, which is generally considered the most reliable predictor of fossil fuel extraction curves, predicted a peak for the US in 1970 and the world in 2010. Allow 2 years margin of error on either side and it lines up very closely with the advent of stagflation in both systems.
A bit off topic, but since you mention it: Apple + Next = OS X / Cocoa, which was, for a limited time, a positive development. Now, of course, it's on the decline because of iOS-ification and “Services”. They went from “Apple Computers” to “Apple”. In another 5 years it will be “Apple Services”.
Yes but those are primarily religious organizations.
I don’t think those examples were meant to be an exhaustive list of git’s UI warts. There are many that are harder to remember and creating aliases and functions for each of them require building a full alternative UI. For example, how do you see all of the changes in a branch (IIRC the equivalent of ‘hg diff -b branch-name’)? How do you see the changes for just one commit (I.e., ‘hg diff -c $commit’). These things are all feasible in git, but I can never remember the incantation, so I have to Google every time. I haven’t used hg in 5 years and I still have an easier time remembering those commands.
>Eventually, all startups will be acquired into the FAANG companies,

That fatalistic sentiment is often repeated but it's not inevitable that all startups will be acquired by bigger companies. The missing gap in that thinking is that people forget that the startup's founders have free will and must willingly agree to being acquired. I made previous comments about this with examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15732278

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18723777
Could you provide a citation for the claim that European countries have had a hard time repatriating gold held in the US?
I think the point you're missing is everyone levels up. Even amateur fitness users want a better fitness wearable. Which is why Garmin and Apple have the lion's share of the market. Fitbit is still seen as a step tracker level device, even if they do more. Garmin wearables are laser focused to the workout market and most buyers seem to lust over the idea of needing a more capable fitness device. Garmin and Apple both cover "fitness amateur" in spades but do an upsell far better.

With regard to AI, I'm not trying to be flippant but, those users don't care. No amateur fitness users would even understand how that would apply and likely be less to care than selling predictive analysis to those working out who legitimately track vitals and are trying to shave seconds.
Yes, AngularJS (1.x), not Angular (2 onwards).
We don't know why exactly these deaths of despair are increasing, and I don't think it's right to assume that it has anything to do with people not caring about "men's issues", as the problem does not seem to be unique to men, from the article:

> Young women are also experiencing a sharp uptick in drug overdoses
As a current GitHub employee, I can assure you that the value we produce is not through automation. ;)
Generational replacement is what shifts public opinion
Over a Third of Americans Battle Job Burnout Every Single Week
It actually looks very cool, I'm going to try it.

What would be the business model?
By that argument, you literally need to know a single command to work with Mercurial (hg commit) or SVN (svn commit), or hell, even CVS (cvs commit).
All the folks talking about Wear not doing well, I'm always surprised the original Huawei watch wasn't more popular. I love mine, especially because I think it is one of the only smart watches that actually looks good as a watch.
Literally a "move fast and break things" robot!
Indeed. And yet life expectancy is still lower for men, and is getting worse. Can we not talk about that for a moment?
They're converting these "sideloaded" extensions into "normally installed" ones, and then the user will gain that ability. They're not just wiping these extensions without warning.

During the release cycle for Firefox version 73, which goes into pre-release channels on December 3, 2019 and into release on February 11, 2020, Firefox will continue to read sideloaded files, but they will be copied over to the user’s individual profile and installed as regular add-ons. Sideloading will stop being supported in Firefox version 74, which will be released on March 10, 2020. The transitional stage in Firefox 73 will ensure that no installed add-ons will be lost, and end users will gain the ability to remove them if they chose to.
Yes, why?
https://www.addicted.org/medicaid-drug-rehab-centers.html
How do you know what they are going to do with Fitbit? Companies attacking others with rhetoric is no different than standard “vote for my comprehensive plan, not theirs” politics.

Truthfully, with AI chips in fitbits who knows what they’ll be able to use it for
But those lawsuits were well settled long before Linux saw a significant inflection point, mostly with the rise of cloud computing. For example, AWS launched EC2 in 2006 (and Android 2 years after that), 12 years after the BSD lawsuit was settled. Linux still doesn't have a desktop footprint outside of the workstation market. By contrast, Apple (well, NeXT) incorporated portions of FreeBSD and NetBSD into their operating system.

This might be a controversial opinion but: Linux likely "won" because it was better in the right areas.
I prefer Cold Turkey. It’s both cheaper (one-time fee to unlock all features) and doesn’t send data anywhere.
I was thinking along similar lines. A neighborhood sneaker-net backed by something like gun https://github.com/amark/gun
k9s for Kubernetes: https://github.com/derailed/k9s#screenshots
Real question- could face surveillance be one of the reasons multiple governments have banned niqabs or face veils?
2019 Python Developer Survey
Are you saying that the situation in the US is specifically muddied because politics now incorporates a fight about all aspects of ones life — the Culture Wars?

That is to say, old fashioned political messages are no longer common; not much of “vote for Joe to cut property taxes for nurses!” or “don’t vote for Tammy, she will end free downtown parking” any more.

Instead, there is more oblique messaging like some pastor saying “vaping is a sin!” as a passive aggressive attack on a candidate for office who made their fortune building a vaping business?

This sort of thing feels like a consequence of the over extension of democracy into all parts of life. When you have direct democracy to elect judges and school superintendents, politics becomes everything to the extent that anything said publicly on any topic becomes political speech. That would indeed make it difficult to regulate uncontrolled political ad spamming.

Brexit drove politics into everyday life in the UK as well, and it is all consuming. At least one thing I miss about the old days was that politics was about administration of the country.
I agree Google Maps has improved, but I’m not convinced it was directly because of acquiring Waze. Waze UX has dropped so much since acquisition that its almost to the painful point. I also find it’s “user submitted” data (cops, construction, pot holes) has dropped a lot so I feel a lot of folks who were submitting quality data have either left or just stopped submitting as the UX has gotten so bad.

Keyhole is another acquisition in the mapping space that I feel has degraded since being acquired by Google. I was a paying customer of Keyhole and loved it, since becoming free under Google, it’s basically stagnated and some of the features I used are now gone.
Tell management that your current approach isn't going to work for much longer, and say you have some ideas that might improve the situation.

Get your department to pay for you and ~2 colleagues to go on a git training course for a few days. As well as teaching you how to use git, it'll give you some time with an expert to look at your problem, and give you some relaxation time helping the burnout, and with 3 of you on the course, you'll likely get buy-in for a new setup.

Beware that git isn't a silver bullet. While it solves a bunch of issues, it causes many new ones - especially when you have lots of people who aren't knowledgeable about version control using it. I wish git had better integration with 'regular files' - ie. so that Mary in the marketing department can update a readme file without having to learn a totally new way of working. I wish you could "mount" a git repo as a drive in Windows, and all changes would be auto-committed to a branch as soon as a file is saved, and that branch were auto-merged to master as long as tests pass. Then people without git knowledge can work as before.
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"Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. criticized the initiative announced this week, called Gaia-X, saying the project will restrict data services along national borders".

Actually, MS and Amazon are merely worried about how the European cloud will actually preserve their citizens privacy - - and how our US Cloud Co's will start loosing the ability to continue to VIOLATE Europeans privacy . . .
Yes. I think you're seeing something of a survivor bias here. For every one of an example of a true and successful skunkworks project--and this one is obviously much different in scope than skunkworks aviation projects--there are tons of counterexamples.

A lot of times there's a group of engineers who don't agree with whatever decision and go off and do what they want to do instead. I'm guessing when that happens, most of the time it never amounts to anything and never sees the light of day.
Right, git sort of make the easy thing easier, and the hard things harder. I think its a large part why "stable" software branching is unpopular. The difficulty of tracking fixes against their core features over time is extremely difficult without an additional "shim" on top. Even knowing what group of commits comprise related functionality becomes difficult without layering on a commit group id (as gerrit does for example) on top. (AKA i'm looking at $file which has a set of commits for feature $Y, what are the related commits in other parts of the system required to implement this feature). Or for that matter, the ability to group a fix with its original commit (without rewritting public history) is why projects like the linux kernel implement "fixes:" tags which are then scanned by scripts/etc to detect fixes for a given commit group for back-porting functionality. Except in that case its brittle as frequently everyone involved forgets the tag.

Bottom line, git is the VSC equivalent of C, it is quite powerful, but its got a lot of foot-gun moments and requires a lot of human rigor/experience to make it work well. Rigor that even the best users frequently mess up.
This is content-addessing, or a content-addressable network. There's a lot of work being done in this space.
> But the point here is that there's data that shouldn't be collected in the first place

I just don't think that's feasible. The cat cannot be put back in the box (so to speak).

I think the solution goes more in line with open transparency. Yet individual privacy is really important.

The only way through, I think, is to guarantee individual privacy but enforce institutional transparency.
I check them daily already but thanks
Well of course the EU governments will have special rights. You'll still have to obey EU law after all. But at least there's an extra step before American law enforcement can access that data.

So consider, for most people, it's good enough protection. Because we're not worth the extra step.
Your comment only makes the GPs point stronger.
It was actually Dan Lyons, as quoted by Gruber:

https://daringfireball.net/2008/02/devils_advocate
Fitbit with Google's Soli sounds... futuristic the very least.
The irony of receiving a notification 30 seconds into reading was not lost on me.
Google ads - where they did advertising on their own site was homegrown. DoubleClick helped them expand to other sites. None of their hardware acquisitions have been successful. Android hadn’t developed a piece of hardware when it was acquired AFAIK.
The Wirecutter just published[1] a story about the best office chair. The winner: Steelcase Gesture.

[1]: https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-office-chair/
details on QSnatch:
https://www.kyberturvallisuuskeskus.fi/en/news/qsnatch-malwa...
“Always“ is a strong word.

You’re both right that it often makes sense for prediction, but logistic regression can be used for inference too, and it’s much more debatable there.
To be fair I don't think they are trying to make Pixel world-wide popular. If they did, they would sell it to more places (can't buy it here in Slovenia).
Good catch, uberswe. Was an older video and I flubbed the selection process - here it is working correctly: https://www.kapwing.com/videos/5dbc3e33ee4d0f00136d01e6
I do it already but thanks

> LInkedIn: write "designer remote"
Good luck with Linkedin and it's search :)
esr described Linus's approach as "essentially simplifying" years before git... but that's exactly what git is (apart from the UI but we don't like to talk about that). http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral...
The issues seem even deeper there.

In the US, the Nokia brand had basically disappeared outside of Symbian pre-paid feature phones which isn't a great association to have. In Europe, a lot of people seemed unhappy with the switch to Windows Phone and killing Meego/SwipeUI (the n9 sold gangbusters considering it wasn't available in any of the Nokia markets that could actually afford an expensive smartphone). Finally, lots of people were upset that Europe's flagship phonemaker was sold off to Microsoft and then gutted costing a ton of good-paying jobs.

Next, there's the general issue that the MS brand is a bit poisonous to a lot of people. Windows has (somewhat undeservedly) a pretty bad reputation with performance, bloat/slowdowns, and reliability. When Android and iOS basically "just work" and Windows not being necessary, not a lot of people want to deal with perceived potential issues (real or imaginary).

Finally, on the development side, most of the people making apps didn't seem keen on the Windows Phone platform and their passive neglect was a huge complication (supposedly, even multi-million dollar incentives couldn't get the devs on board).
I stopped reading at that point though ..
If your achievements came about by luck then how do you get off claiming credit for their success? I don’t think git was purely luck—it is a formidable tool in its own right, but there are better tools out there, and that was especially true at the time when git really took off, which is to say when GitHub began to be popular.
> If I brought my driving attitude to motorcycling, it seems reasonable to believe that I'd be at much lower risk than the typical, weaving-in-and-out-of-traffic sport-bike rider.

With motorcycling, there are a number of factors that significantly reduce the risk of a significant injury or fatality:

- overall experience as a rider
- high-visibility clothing
- professional training (ie a safety course)
- age

When I started riding someone told me that most accidents happen in the first six months of riding. I don't know if that particular number is accurate, but that idea made me hyper-vigilant those first months of riding, and I sure learned a lot in that time.

I moved to Alaska in my 30s and sold my motorcycle, but I sure do miss it at times.
> The only thing you would do is put entirely unprofessional future mobs in place of the slightly unprofessional police we use currently. I would hope people could see the very real chance that your idea would make things worse.

Worse than the status quo, yes. But you seem to be under the assumption that we will be able to maintain a police force at "slightly unprofessional" moving forward, when governments have the tools and incentive to become far more controlling.
Presumably, a company that wants your product to be shut down.

Potentially apocryphal example: I've heard of a certain FPGA company that bought a startup which produced FPGA compilation tools that could target multiple vendors' devices, in order to stop multi-vendor tools from existing because it made switching vendors too easy.
> they will now be supplied with a 24/7 live feed of your most sensitive health statistics.

In Apple land all health data stays on device, not in the cloud like Google/FitBit
At least for darcs there was a technical/theoretical reason on why it didn't succeed.
I've been getting the same impression. It's the sort of thing that can happen when a company is on hard times and cutting corners perhaps.

Glad to see them purchased by a company with deep pockets and a real interest in making Fitbit a success.
Questions, questions...

>"there is a bit about her contribution which is over inflated"

Why do you diminish this woman contributions to mathematics?

>"to make a trite statement about equality of opportunity"

Are you saying equal opportunity is trite?

Or are you saying an article that gives context why equal opportunity might be important is trite?

Your comment seems dismissive and full of bias.
> Daniel Suarez' Daemon and the sequel Freedom(TM)

I read both last year and highly recommend them!
Swearing as a Response to Pain: Comparison of British and Japanese Participants
Never Risk Your Life for Money: A Beijing Abduction Adventure
Versa also has hardware design errors, it allows water to leak in (trough HR sensor's bad adhesive seal) with regular use causing massive return rates.
I met the author of Bayard a couple of times and had beers with him. Does that count as interactions?
It's still a legal grey area with the way the analogue act is written. Technically, just about any psychedelic COULD be treated as schedule 1 if it's intended for human consumption, because they all have fairly similar chemical structures and activity profiles. Best not to give prosecutors an easy list to run down if you're interested in furthering the cause.
That would be a drop in ocean compared to the data they have on you if you are using Android and Google other products
> If somebody else had written it and he'd used it, the outcome would have been the same.

IIRC, the mercurial project had already started when Linus started working on Git. (In fact, very early versions of Xen used BitKeeper, following suit with Linux; when the license changed, Xen moved over to mercurial because git wasn't ready yet, and stuck with it for a number of years.)

The main reason Linus wasn't happy with mercurial was the performance -- Linux just has far far more commits and files to deal with than nearly any other project on the planet, and even at the time, operations in mercurial took just a bit too long for Linus.
And considering that they all meet up at conferences and the like, we might even want to toy with the term "cartel".

But yeah, calling them monopolies is altogether incorrect.
> "I dislike all the company props, the lengthy articles written by non-technical people and especially the content thats already floating around in the mainstream"

Well that's your personal opinion, and that's okay, you can upvote/downvote whatever submissions you like.

The democratic and objective perspective of Hacker News discussions is what I like... Not the content/topics specifically
It's certainly the excuse given. "You can't hide your face in public spaces with niqabs or balaclavas for security reasons". The worrying part is that people are OK with it
I wonder if he was named after Le Bon Chevalier?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Terrail,_seigneur_de_Ba...
How does it take 90 days? If that's true then Google is absolutely aware of this and will make sure to take ownership of it prior to then.
However, if the merging companies compete in the same market, it would be fairer to claim that "It's like taking the number two and number three sprinters in the world, and having them run IN SERIES against the number one sprinter." (emphasis mine).

Because number two and three companies merging to a new number one does in fact happen.

(Note that this is the case here, though. No idea where Google is going with this.)
Your link estimate “revenue” not profit. And none of those are hardware acquisitions - again look at Motorola, HTC’s partial acquisition and Nest.
I don't think Samsung, or anyone else trying to develop their own phone OS is any kind of threat to Google. If Microsoft can't make that work with their last phone OS, which was a genuinely interesting, innovative and high quality product, nobody can.
FN3A
Thanks, attribution fixed. Now that we've got that sorted, what do you think of the analogy with respect to this deal? Does it—cough—fit?
It’s possible you can’t install it in the computing environment