skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vertical integration is how you win the upper edges of the market, Apple’s goal was never to have 90% market share, it was simply to make the best product and have (affluent) customers buy it. They know that the bottom 50% of the market is low-profit and low-CSAT products so they don’t touch it. To go a step further, Microsoft only really found any success in Windows Phone when they vertically integrated their involvement with WP. I agree that if you are chasing market share you should be licensing software, but if you want profits you should be chasing product. When compared, the Microsoft Model ends up being exemplified by the underperforming licensees. It makes holes for companies like Apple or Palm to make their own product that owns the story of the market. We are in a little different of a world than the 90s now. Android’s on most phones out there...but those manufacturers are looking at everything Apple does and following suit.
Summary: There are 500 doors numbered 1, 2, ..., 500. All doors are closed initially. In iteration k, we toggle the states of doors k, 2k, ..., floor(500/k) * k where k runs from 1 to 500, inclusive. What doors are open in the end?

Only perfect squares have odd number of factors. All other natural numbers have even number of factors. Therefore, only the doors with perfect square numbers on them get toggled odd number of times and end up in states that are opposite of their initial states.

Python solution:

>>> [k**2 for k in range(1, int(500**0.5) + 1)]
[1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121, 144, 169, 196, 225, 256, 289, 324, 361, 400, 441, 484]
Yeah, the main accomplishment of Spotify is doubtlessly legal: to concentrate so much of the reproduction rights into a single company can't have been easy.

Actually, this convincing the big players to centralise is the real value Spotify provides, and this picture of them being a technology company could be viewed as smoke to obscure that they are basically an IP management company (though I expect the music industry is well aware of this and made contracts that reflect this).
You're an investor, it says so in your profile. Most of your comments have a fairly standard pro-markets anti-regulation view point. I was extrapolating that to be conservative but you could also be a liberal pro-markets type. So, my bad.

After doing some cursory googling, it looks like you were probably referring to the ETA. I would like to hear more about the terrorism and corruption, if you feel like going into it.

I have to admit, though, as an investor you and I see the world very very differently. If you don't mind me disagreeing with you I will try not to make any more assumptions.
But there are people on your ship who may have ncov2019 in it's incubation period. I don't see why it's necessary to risk the lives of our nation's elderly, who are very much loved, who are most at risk from these viruses. In addition while this viruses transmission to cats is unconfirmed unlike the h1n1 where it did happen, I also don't see why it's necessary to risk it. It just takes 1 person in the incubation period infecting someone else who frequents a cat cafe to devastate a community (and the cats would get a bunch of people sick as well).

The US has a travel ban for foreigners who have been in China, but they also ask people to self quarantee if they've been in contact with those from areas where the virus is more widespread, which is everyone on your ship.

It's unfortunate to be stuck on a ship and it's unfortunate that your captain didn't anticipate these measures.
Classic Tim Ferriss BS where you can't back out of the site without seeing an ad for his stuff. This guy is a con artist
> Paul Graham is writting a book

Hopefully he uses a spell-checker.
They ignored completely any message that we sent their way regarding the sale of .org. Filling out this form feels like a huge waste of time.
No one likes a price increase, but 30% increase to ~$10/year over four years is not making my blood boil.
It’s well documented that what Android “Was” was very different prior to the iPhone and that they had seen the iPhone and then threw most of Android as it was away to start over.
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Only -1? Stop slacking off shittwaddles.
ETA was a terrorist group, but they publicly announced an end to violence in 2011. They began the process of deescalation after 9/11.

It should also be mentioned that the UN had said that the Spanish occupation of the Basque region violated human rights.
>Your advice at the end is good but I would add that you shouldn't let others take advantage of you.

Everybody is being taken advantage of if you think about it, especially if you're a salaried employee.

Hell, if you ask Googlers earning $600k they'll think they're being taken advantage of. If you ask CEOs of F500 companies they'll also think they're being take advantage of. If you ask Multi-Billionaires with offshore accounts in tax havens to pay their fair share of taxes, they'll also think they're bein taken advantage of.

If you let this way of thinking drive your life, you'll end up very miserable.
LIDL does this too.
N. Taleb wrote a very good note [1] on why conventional risk-benefit considerations don't apply in the case of an unknown contagion like NCov19 - the comparison to the seasonal flu is not helpful in these cases (thin-tailed risks vs fat-tailed risks which are an existential threat on a long-enough timeline).

[1] https://www.academia.edu/41743064/Systemic_Risk_of_Pandemic_...
Remember, the board is responsible for stockholders. When Nokia's handset business was sold to MS, the value of the handset business to Nokia was close to zero. It would have been very difficult for the board not to accept a deal at the given pricepoint.
Strange. The document claims it's paraphrasing two sources, one of which is linked[0] in the document itself.

The linked source does contain the diagram your quote is associated with, but not the (agreed, questionable) commentary about probabilities.

[0] - http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/media/CLT/ResourceUploads/1...
Yeah, it's the same reasoning for these laws here in the US.
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Since the large labels are the ones representing the artists, paying the artists, and negotiating with Spotify, how could Spotify unilaterally change that? The artists need to start their own labels, form co-operatives or something, and cut the huge corporations out. Then they could funnel more of the profits to individual performers and songwriters, if they'd like. But as long as they rely on big labels, of course they're going to have their lunch money taken.
...which is about the commercial cruise speed of a Boeing 747 (570 mph), so your naive math may be pretty close ;)
I didn't say that they were left wing terrorist, but I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that you were referring to their support of left wing political parties.

Again, I assumed that you are a conservative or libertarian. I apologise. I'm sorry that I just assumed you were a right winger.
I hope not. I like telling old people that nobody has been to the moon in my lifetime. Last moon landing was December 1972, which puts bounds on my age and what I consider old people...
it's not "minions." Way way way back in the early days of the board we actually discussed what downvotes should mean. Argument 1 was that a vote should only indicate whether or not you thought a comment contributed to the discussion- and not indicate agreement or disagreement. This gave an indicator with a single purpose. Argument 2 was that a vote could also be used to indicate disagreement. This made one indicator mean more than one thing. Some suggested a second vote- in order to keep the indicators clear on what they were reporting.

pg eventually came down on the side of Argument 2, so voting can be either "I disagree" or "you comment is not useful."

I do agree that adding a comment when downvoting is useful to the downvotee, but alas sometimes these come off as mean or supercilious and leave a bad tone in general, spoiling the conversation (or igniting a flame war).
The solution is elegant and it has a much bigger impact than just GNU make. There are performance benefits across the board. Maybe the entire system runs 1% faster now. Add a few hundred patches like these and you get a very fast system.
Please try to interpret my arguments charitably

> Real wage growth (inflation adjusted) has grown about 14% over the past 30 years

> your assessment of the situation is quite unfactual

This, for example, is entirely uncalled for. Ignoring the personal slander, since you're one for citations, and don't even provide one for your own quote here, it makes me suspicious so I went and pulled a chart for you on Wikipedia [0] based on the Department of Labor (using the same CPI that you used in your original reply to me) to show that, no, I do have a factual basis. And trying to claim I am irrational or unfactual is a great way to try to make me feel like shit. But I don't (which is not an invitation to keep trying).

> Having more wealthy people doesn’t mean that everybody else has less. The growth in wealth isn’t taken away from others, it’s generated through economic growth.

This is clear you're strawmanning me. And missed my entire point. The sheer amount of wealth, I have no problem with. But the sheer amount of wealth and power to dictate entire markets and, more alarmingly, remove segments of the population from having power in the free market is problematic for me, a free-market guy. Individuals should not have the market power to dictate what the market is. A free market should not have people powerless in that market. Which is exactly what is happening when people have to work multiple shit jobs and rely on social welfare to maintain a basic standard of living.

> If you want people to “give” you money (as you put it), I don’t know... try Venezuela?

This is such an obvious troll and a clear demonstration of your misunderstanding of my point and clear lack of caring on your part to understand, that it doesn't matter how logical and fact based of an argument I make, you're here to poke fun of a caricature of myself you have concocted for yourself. I'm calling this out as an opportunity for you to reflect.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_wages#/media/File%3AUni...
>Please come back to reality. The world spends trillions of dollars on the ISS to host 6 people. Anything remotely looking like an artificial ecosystem would be prohibitively expensive, not counting our limited resources on Earth would simply make it impossible for it to sustain life for more than a few million people. You can work hard to be part of the few richest million who would make it in this artificial biosphere, or you can change your own lifestyle and footprint, try to inspire others, and then you can realise that we can still live happily with a lower footprint.

Right now a global drought for a few years can cause global food chain disruptions and starvation - focusing on stuff like algae/bacteria protein production that can be done in controlled environments, that is space scalable (ie. vertically stackable) etc. This has the potential to solve a lot of environmentally caused problems down the line. Or developing very resilient crops with GMO.

Then stuff like building protective domes around existing cities to protect from natural disasters, quarantines, etc. Maybe start as hurricane shelters for risky areas/small places and start developing the technology.

Then there are reliable decentralised energy sources like micro nuclear reactors that can power a city block - that can be scaled up and treated like nuclear batteries with localised/limited risk factors.

I'm not talking about building some random futuristic utopia - just focusing on technology that increases the robustness of society instead of focusing on economic optimisation. There is a joke that if economists designed a human 4 people would share a single kidney instead of having redundant organs on each person. The other thing is the green regressive dogma that the only way to solve the climate change issue is removing the human influence and everything is going to be fine ignoring how volatile the earth can be on its own.

These are all things that could get a lot more attention but the only solution to climate change talked by politicians is reducing CO2.
Local maxima is explicitly not the greatest good for the greatest number. In many ways, it's the greatest good for the greatest visible number, and only for a relatively short period of time. I'm not the biggest fan of raw unbridled capitalism, but there are aspects to innovation and competition that you're absolutely passing on if you default to local maxima solutions. Long term, you're going to get outcompeted/outteched if you remain in the status quo.
I think it's been the tradition for a long time in the UK for surgeons to be Mr/Miss/Ms/Mrs rather than Dr:

https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/patient-care/surgical-staff-and-reg...
I'm seeing the same thing (and have also rolled-back).
Yeah, that doesn’t scale very well...
Very funny, we received a ticket from a security audit a week ago asking us to get rid of our bastion and use SSM instead. Having never heard of SSM, being in a rush to a deadline and lacking skills with ops, we kinda panicked. 10min later, we had found the SSM interface in the AWS console, found it extremely easy to use and had deleted our bastion :)

Note: the README says "I found myself in a situation where I couldn't easily copy a file from my machine to the server". Note that you can use S3 for that (`aws s3 cp ...`), though you should be careful with permissions on your S3 bucket
Doubling system read throughput with only 26 lines of code
I tried to introduce that, but you need to change culture even more in that case.
The aim of the game is for you to be depending on even more AWS services to help you use the ones you already have
Indeed, the airspeed/groundspeed distinction continues to confuse people. The plane still moves at subsonic speed, as that's w/r/t surrounding air.
> A modern car have deformation zones and angles for you to basically slide along -

That protects the people in the car, not those outside. Being hit by those deformation zones _will_ hurt.

There is one thing that makes modern cars less dangerous to pedestrians, and it's that when someone is hit by a car they are more likely to roll over the hood than under the wheel. HOWEVER this is only the case for sedans, and definitely NOT for SUVs. Now look at the proportion of SUVs in your area.
I don't understand this. Regardless of which direction I'm writing in, my hand stays below what I'm writing, so I don't see how I can smudge it.
The truth is, and most drivers in learning would probably agree, is that we really shouldn't be driving faster than 25 MPH. Even on protected highways most people drive far faster than they should and only get by because nothing went wrong.
Because Brits can read?
The myth of top talent is overrated, especially in managerial positions for companies where the workers have more say in decisions.
Which would actually work nicely with a fibres library, so you can yield while you're waiting for the io to complete.
Reading your last paragraph made me wonder if maybe systemd is suffering from the bike-shed affect - while barrier of entry to say kernel development is so that it detracts most bystanding naysayers, as far as systemd goes, it feels like a lot of people have a lot of different opinions because what systemd is doing is much easier comprehended than the aforementioned kernel.
> Formed in 1946, it is a cooperative brand managed by a cooperative body, the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF), which today is jointly owned by 3.6 million milk producers in Gujarat.[4]

I mean, kind of? idk if India has the concept of a worker's cooperative company but this is not super far away from it
Why would you want to sort hashes? Not sure I see the application for hashes here, but that's totally my fault.
China confirms coronavirus is airborne
This is not some large corporate-driven, heavily marketed project. It is real, community FLOSS.
I'm not sure what the net tonnage of robot missions we've sent to mars to date is but that level of knowledge we've acquired is on the same order as what we'd get from a couple humans spending a week there with a bunch of tools and scientific instruments. Humans ability to improvise lets us quickly identify what is of interest and study it saving us from having to send multiple iterations of robots.

For any given fixed distance (e.g. mars) at some point there's a crossover where sending some people up there to go kick rocks is actually cheaper than sending a series of robots that kick rocks in progressively more detail. I'm not sure if we've reached that technology point yet but as space flight gets cheaper and cheaper it will eventually happen for the moon and then for mars.
This problem has a nice array solution:

q)where mod[;2] sum 0=til[500] mod/: til[500]
0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100 121 144 169 196 225 256 289 324 361 400 441 484

q){x*x} til ceiling sqrt 500
0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100 121 144 169 196 225 256 289 324 361 400 441 484

but I think it's very interesting to look at them side by side: Do you see the "triangle" in the above that suggests the sqrt-solution?

q)0=til[500] mod/: til[500]
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000..
11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111..
10101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101..
10010010010010010010010010010010010010010010010010010010010010010010010010010..
10001000100010001000100010001000100010001000100010001000100010001000100010001..
10000100001000010000100001000010000100001000010000100001000010000100001000010..
10000010000010000010000010000010000010000010000010000010000010000010000010000..
10000001000000100000010000001000000100000010000001000000100000010000001000000..
10000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000010000..
10000000010000000010000000010000000010000000010000000010000000010000000010000..
10000000001000000000100000000010000000001000000000100000000010000000001000000..
10000000000100000000001000000000010000000000100000000001000000000010000000000..
10000000000010000000000010000000000010000000000010000000000010000000000010000..
10000000000001000000000000100000000000010000000000001000000000000100000000000..
10000000000000100000000000001000000000000010000000000000100000000000001000000..
10000000000000010000000000000010000000000000010000000000000010000000000000010..
10000000000000001000000000000000100000000000000010000000000000001000000000000..
10000000000000000100000000000000001000000000000000010000000000000000100000000..
10000000000000000010000000000000000010000000000000000010000000000000000010000..
10000000000000000001000000000000000000100000000000000000010000000000000000001..
10000000000000000000100000000000000000001000000000000000000010000000000000000..
10000000000000000000010000000000000000000010000000000000000000010000000000000..
..

Isn't that beautiful? This is really illustrative of what I think is valuable in learning array programming, and whilst I've noted it previously on HN[1], this might be an even better example. Try writing the algorithm in C or Python:

void main(){
int i,j,k;
for(i=0;i<500;++i) {
for(j=k=0;j<499;++j)if(!(i%(1+j)))++k;
if(k%2)printf("%d ",i);
}
puts("");
}

Now because I can't see the shape of the data so easily anymore, I might not so quickly recognise the optimisation waiting for me in that code, especially if this spanned more than a screenful (because e.g. we were doing something else besides printing the results)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16851862
$120 canadian is about $90 US, so Vancouver is doing cheap by US standards. The tiny city I live in reports $102/hour, but I think this is both operative costs and amortized capital costs. You can see the numbers in the reports at https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd (if you can find them).

The capital costs of the bus isn't that much different over the lifespan of a bus. If you need a large bus at all, then it is cheaper to buy one large bus than both the large and small. Small buses cost less mostly because the drivers don't have to be as well trained - I'm not sure I want that difference.
A similar example from Doric Scots: "Fit fit fits fit fit"
You're really bad at understanding what the article is about. My guess is you didn't read it.
And MS, in its turn, was almost certainly not in both smartphones and consoles simply because it had too much money and was looking for something to do. MS' top management was famously familiar with The Innovator's Dilemma, and smartphones and the console were (along with the Web browser) very clearly Windows' vulnerable flanks. It was only devastating incompetence on Sony's part which prevented the PlayStation series from ever becoming a significant (non-gaming) app and Web-browser platform (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22288221 ).
There's a "sister" concept of this called steward-ownership, promoted by this German organization:

https://purpose-economy.org/en/

They have a lot of interesting materials and case studies (Bosch, Zeiss and others).

Basically you can form an LLC the majority of which will be owned by the employees and will also guarantee that the company can never be acquired. There are a few schemes that can attract investments on special fixed terms, such as redeemable shares with 3x return.

This type of companies live much longer on average, according to some studies, and are also more stable and less prone to economic crises.

Anyway, fascinating stuff. I'm seriously considering steward ownership for my next company now.
I would agree with you, except I've seen it happen so freaking often
No way. Do we know exactly when big bang was or that a second has always been a second since then?

We don't want time implementations based on some definition of big bang version 1.1.3 and all other versions as physicians change the definition of time since big bang.
I am a former coop member in the UK

The Main Uk coop is both a worker and consumer coop.

John Lewis is a bit of an edge case is sort of a worker coop its doesn't call its self a coop for branding purposes and its governance has some diferesnce form what a real worker coop does.
The ambition trilemma: freedom, stability, wealth
Similar tongue twister in Finnish:

- Kokko, kokoo kokko!
- Koko kokkoko?
- Koko kokko!

Meaning (Kokko is a male name but also means 'bonfire'):

- Kokko, gather up a bonfire!
- You mean the whole bonfire?
- The whole bonfire!
Does anyone know how you become an employee-owner (or cease to be one) at Mondragon? Is it a matter of buying in or length of service or are some roles owners and other roles just not?
because there are already Coronaviruses out in the wild. AFAIK causing quite a lot of colds every year. Then we know a lot about SARS and MERS. And the new Corona virus is having the shit anlyzed out of it. Plus We know a lot about epidemics in general.

So no, we don't have to reinvent the last couple of centuries regarding epidimiology research, everytime a new disease springs its head somewhere, and every "data scientist" on the internet tries to fit it in some kind of model without the necessary domain knowledge.
Second degree? how does that work ?