skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are interpreting "monopoly" literally. In the context of antitrust law, you only need to have a big enough market share to appear on regulators' radars. The actual market share threshold varies from country to country, but typically it's around 60%. Google certainly meets that criteria in many countries, not only for search but for online video as well.

As for "excluding competitors", Google is having a tough time with antitrust regulators in the EU for exactly that. For a more obvious example, see their shenanigans with YouTube and Windows Phone.
Original statement:

I learned that you should go straight to the person you're upset with rather than go to authorities.

Your response:

This is bullshit and dumb advice. If someone steals my bike and I find out who it is, I'm not going to go to his apartment and beat him to death in the middle of the day (smart money on confronting a scumbag not leading to a productive conversation).

So it appears you are interpreting "go straight to" as "confront with violence"?

There are any number of circumstances where going to the person you believe responsible may be beneficial over including the authorities. For example:

1) You are wrong in who you think perpetrated the crime. Involving the authorities may cause great harm to that individual, event if they are found innocent. Talking to them first may clear up misunderstandings.

2) It was a misunderstanding. Maybe there wasn't even a crime, what you thought you saw/experienced wasn't the case. Getting a fuller picture may result in your reassessment of the situation.

3) You don't think the punishment meted out will fit the crime committed, and you want to give them a chance to make amends. Maybe they are young, and you can speak to a parental figure to try to resolve the issue.

4) You have some relation to them or people close to them that you would rather not sour.

That isn't to say don't go to the authorities. Of course there are cases where you go directly to the authorities. I doubt the author would dispute that.

The real world is a place of nuance. I feel confident asserting that you know this to some degree. Acting like it isn't doesn't do anything useful, least of all lead to a conversation that has much benefit.
Actually Palo Alto is an exceptionally bike-friendly place. I wouldn't live in a town that wasn't. I've never seen a town in the US where a higher percentage of students bicycled to school, or serious cycling was a hobby of more adults. (Bicycling has for years been the cool sport among VCs, for example.)

And as for YC, it's less than a mile from the Caltrain, in weather that is almost always dry and warm, mostly along roads that are pretty empty of cars. A lot of the founders we fund never get cars during the 3 month cycle, because they can get everywhere by bike and Caltrain.
Ask HN: How to fire your co-founder?
So I just read this HN posted article (The 7 Habits of Highly Overrated People - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6965295) and thought a lot about my co-founder who is doing jack shit in the company. I already talked to him about lowering his share options (which he currently holds about 40%, (same as me, after seed round dilution)), but with no avail. He actually threatens the company's success if I ever try to "sneak a move" on him when in reality his contributions are near 0 for product development as well as S&M.

If I talk with my boards on his misbehaviour it will get them stressed and stop believing on the company. Is there really no way to fire him and the only way is to actually quit ?
Controlling a computer game with chocolate pudding
Am I the only one who would prefer "cursor: pointer" on these buttons?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part-of-speech_tagging
So the "new" "invention" they want to patent is "we can display the result" which basically is nothing more than syntax highlighting? Or did I get something wrong?
It is when your development process involves rapidly iterating the code by running the process many times (i.e. TDD). Anecdotally, when the feedback loop is tighter, I'm much happier. Developing (especially refactoring) in Rails feels like watching paint dry, since it's soooooo slooooow. Every time the process needs to restart, I'm left hanging........waiting......for..............the..............
..........process.......................to....................
...................................................s..........
................t.............................a...............
..............r...............................................
..tttt...........

Also the benchmark is the best case. In real world projects, I've seen Rails take over 60 seconds to start (it took a few days of development effort to bring it down to ~20 seconds). Every time you rerun tests, run a rake task, start or restart your server, etc. It's like the heartbeat of the development process grinds to a halt when you add more features to your Rails server.

And no, tools like Spork are not the answer, since you still have to balance the amount that is resident in memory to fork with coverage of what you can change. It also opens up a fractal of complexity.
Is sealing your juvenile record not an option where you live?
isn't the whole point of this though that Oracle has superior enterprise software, its just not cloud-enabled? (hardware is debatable... oracle has stuff going on there but yes so does amazon too now)

Amazon gives you access essentially to mostly open source tools or licensing fees for closed source stuff. it seems almost a different market to me.

Iduno, the hosting aspect of the Java world is so weird. My Python/RoR friends try to tell me there is no good Java hosting & then I point out the fact that its right there on the Heroku they love so much. I think cloud-enabling Oracle will just make the massive power of the JVM more apparent with better tools (yes they may cost some money but so do Heroku add-ons)
Time to stop using GitHub.
I've tried it and it was wrtong too often.
I dont have any specific plugins. But the initial thought was that instead of coding up integrations with rails for various 3rd party marketing stuff, lets just use wordpress and save ourselves time.
You get access to Corrlinks email you pay a lot for if in fed prison, and since min security is where most criminals end up so they can perform nearly free labour there is barely any violence. If you follow the simple rules of prison nothing is likely to happen to you. Rules are never talk to guards you will look like a snitch, accept nothing from other inmates, don't talk about any other inmate if they arent in front of you and do your own time. A good example is somebody tells you hey that guy over there called you a goof. This person is trying to get you to beat somebody up for them but since you do your own time you laugh it off and reply he can say it to your face, then the weasel guy slinks away to find another sucker to fight for him.

Prison is just being really bored all the time for the most part and working menial labor for pennies a day. Hopefully people you know send you books. If you maintain a prison blog BOP will read it and punish you severely for any criticisms. Like months in solitary. Don't ever release pictures either and put them on social media or online even if you get permission. Solitary again.

The most interesting prison is where foreigners are housed in the US @ D Ray. There is no racism because no Americans so none of that don't eat with people outside yout race crap and hardly any other silly rules American inmates make up. The spanish inmates have a union everybody joins to coordinate disobedience against the guards whenever they crackdown on the library or other rights you're supposed to get from BOP. Other fed prisons it's mainly run by illiterate racists and gangs who for the most part leave you alone unless you break a rule or have money to extort.
African american invented the word 100 years ago. It's what we chose to be called. The other -American are disrespectful. It shows a lack of awareness of what the original term stood for.
> The problem for companies who want to recruit great people is that most of them aren't looking for new a job

Right, then they're not looking for a new job. What part of that do you not understand?
The problem is when people use it as a synonym for black. For example, a Jamaican immigrant would not be African-American, and a white South African would be.

No one considers black an offensive term, and in many cases "African-American" is clunky and imprecise, for example this thread. OP is really asking about black founders.
Ruby 2.1.0-preview1 is released
My monitor was supposed to be delivered on the 24th. It will not arrive until the 27th. Huge let down by UPS, because I had to spend the holidays with my family instead of staring at 144hz of beauty! </sarcasm>

I would imagine a spike in the amount of Amazon Prime memberships increased this week due to console purchases. My first experience with Amazon Prime's Instant Video automatically got me to shell out my credit card information for movies on my child's Wii U. I have now completely cut the cord on my cable broadcasting. $40/yr Amazon, $95.88/yr Netflix, $95.88/yr Hulu Plus, totaling $231.76 vs my yearly cable television bill of $900/yr (with an extra unmentioned $120 in random fees/taxes).
interesting! this link should be at the top of the thread since at least half of the people in this discussion seem to be talking about the electronic version(s).
The marketing tools you gain in WP are not worth building your product-core in WP. Anything that you get as a WP plugin is something you could build really easily as your own component in Rails.

1. built-in blogging ... everyone and their brother has built a blogging platform for Rails. WP's blogging platform is a one-size-fits-all approach which usually means you only use about 10% of what it's capable of, so having all the extra cruft is just unnecessary. You want a simple blog in Rails?

rails g model Post author_id:integer title:string body:text

2. integration with email marketing – the plugin is only going to get you half-way there. On either platform, rails or wordpress or anything else, you still need to build the component that will take your specific business data and turn that into actionable emails. Example, email users who joined in the last 30 days who have not used our service. That is something you need to build yourself for your specific product no matter what back-end you are using.

3. Sales-funnel and AB testing – Mixpanel or Google Analytics will give you the funneling. AB testing can be done with your own solution to solve your exact problems, or check out the variety of gems that help make it easy: https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/A_B_Testing

4. Social media marketing ... again throwing the idea around that you can click "install plugin" and have all your bases covered here is not very realistic. What do you mean by this? Automatically tweet or post to fb based on certain events on the app? Auto tweet/post your blog posts?

Either way, I'd argue against doing anything with Wordpress other than a static blog.yourdomain.com. You can rebuild ANY feature or plugin in the WP domain very easily in Rails.
No one has ever gone to prison for BS reasons, or been falsely accused.
How can you ever trust anyone who ever did anything wrong in their life? If you've done something wrong you're obviously a bad person forever.
<sarcasm>

Edit: As an aside, it is very likely you have committed a crime punishable by jail time and not been caught/prosecuted, at least once in your life (with or without you knowing it).
Absolutely needs to be rated higher. I've done this for a few sites and it works wonderfully, not to mention having an API exposed like this gives you opportunities for integration with other people's services, if you choose to go that way.
So the answer is /yes/. Everyone you index has to know about you, and go to your website in order to opt them out of receiving emails they never asked to receive in the first place? That means it's spam.
Why Entrepreneurs Are Bad At Finding Their Competition
Excuse me. Of course. I was using line and line segment interchangeably there. Which I should have not been doing if I am aiming for clarity but I think my point (ahem) applies to line segments and lines that extend indefinitely in one or two directions. Presumably people will contend that even a line segment "contains" an infinite number of points. But if points have zero extension then even an infinity of them cannot sum to anything greater than zero. So I ask you again, does it make sense to think of lines (or line segments) as composed of points, I reckon it does not.
Apple OSX timezone bug
Fair enough -- I saw one of your other posts and I definitely didn't get the same feeling. Being overly critical seems to be the favorite past-time around here, and I seem to have fallen into that as well.
HN has no PM system. You'll have to give him an email.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=It%20is%20on

"This phrase is used after a bet has been made."
It'll be exceptionally tough for Oracle. Who said otherwise?

And Oracle does dwarf Amazon, significantly, in terms of financial resources. That's not a subjective opinion, it's an easy direct comparison.

Amazon has $7.6 billion in cash, a pile that is contracting rather than expanding, and they have to fund the continued expansion of their retail business, investing billions into new fulfillment and automation. Meanwhile it's highly unlikely Amazon is earning much profit out of AWS itself. Amazon produces some cash flow, but they do not produce net income, and do not compile much cash to their balance sheet from operations.

Oracle has $39 billion in cash, net income of $11 billion, and even more cash flow. Out of $37 billion in revenue, Oracle generates $14.6b in operating income; Amazon generates approximately zero operating income.

To put it all in perspective, Oracle generates more net income per quarter than Amazon has in its entire history. Oracle generates more cash per year to its balance sheet than Amazon has in the last ten years.
> To insist on a "color blind" view of society, our industry, etc. is to deny the real experience of people of color within it, who have found discrimination and prejudice.

I inisit on color blindness in all kinds of social, business, and political relationships, but I do not deny that blacks have a much tougher time, other things being equal.

Race-based discrimination, whether supposedly for or against blacks, does not actually provide value for blacks in general in the long run, and neither does it provide value for non-blacks.

As a side note, other things are not equal. For instance, coming from an abusive family in America is probably much more of a disadvantage than being black. We need to stop fetishizing race in particular.
> Hmm. He makes no mention of what crime he was convicted of, and expresses no remorse, either.

Which doesn't give you enough information to judge his character either way. Maybe he went to jail for something trivial, like drugs. Maybe he just feels ashamed enough not to talk about it. Maybe he just considers it off topic.

There are a great many potential explanations for the observation that he doesn't talk about his crime and his feelings about the crime - other than his just being a horrible guy.
My point was that it is perfectly possible to be familiar with Haskell and find Clojure (and Lisps in general) puzzling.

On the other hand, I would be genuinely surprised if someone familiar with Haskell were unable to pick up ML, or vice versa.
My understanding was SocialCam and Twitch.TV were both built under Justin.TV. Only later was Twitch.TV spun out. Not sure SocialCam was ever a separate company. Anyone with better knowledge can chime in
Reminds me of that one Family Guy episode...

Brian: Stewie, you're judgmentally quoting bible verses and you don't even know how to read!
Stewie: Welcome to America, Brian.
I think they are incredibly far apart.

"Right wing anarchists" seem to want to take the trappings of capitalism, from which they have benefited immensely, and keep as much as they can to themselves. For the good of themselves.

True anarchists reject capital and properly rights, and want precisely the opposite. For the good of everyone.

The anarchy subreddit is actually pretty good and not filled with as much junk as a lot of the subreddits are.
Indeed. In our tests, the plain Rack implementation is extremely impressive, but that is probably because there is so little Ruby code being run [1]. By contrast, the Rails implementation on JRuby is just a bit better than plain Ruby, but that is an improvement versus our previous rounds that were not using TorqBox. Previously, we had been using JRuby deployed on Resin, and the results put that JRuby+Rails combination slightly slower than plain Ruby+Rails. For what it's worth, Resin is fast as far as Java Servlet containers go.

Since TorqBox/TorqueBox 3 is very new, I don't suspect it's being used much yet.

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
A Second Christmas Morning: The Console Living Room
Oracle has its tentacles deeply embedded in the enterprise space, especially in certain very niche and demanding markets (e.g. healthchare). They're "disliked" in the same way Microsoft is in these spaces, and "dying" in much the same way (i.e. not any time soon).
>Qt has its own problems

Could you elaborate on that?

I was excited a few days back that iOS/Android is now supported by Qt/C++. I found that it still doesn't support the QtQuick Controls on mobiles. That dampened my enthusiasm a bit.
I think the quote means: "I learned that you should go straight to the person you're upset with rather than go to authorities [in prision]." Are you saying this quote is bullshit when it applies to the world outside prison, or inside prison?
"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself." - Kierkgaard

Sorry, had to chime in with that
> So we've got this decent platform, we build up HTML apps that end up kludgy compared to IOS or Android native

People say this all the time, and it makes me wonder if I'm living on a different planet than them. I can see some places where native is better:

* A camera app, or a guitar tuner... something that requires access to special APIs. Making that in HTML would be a kludge.

* An app that's targeted at tech people, who want to feel like they're living in the future, and who need to have have fancy transitions and animations and subtle 3d effects.

But in my experience, the vast majority of apps do NOT require those things. Most apps are just buttons and pages and pictures and videos, and for that kind of stuff, I honestly don't see what the advantage of native is over HTML.

Maybe it's because I am an interaction designer. In my experience, the interaction design in most apps, native or HTML, is seriously lacking. It seems like almost no one actually tests their product with actual people. And it seems like very few developers are actually willing to build the dozens of prototypes that are required to iterate through a design in order to get something that actually works well.

And so we end up with all of these native apps that are supposedly "not kludgy" because they have native widgets and 3d animations, but actually are extremely kludgy in that everything you do in them is a pain in the ass.

But again, I hear people ring the native app bell over and over again like it's some major design issue. So maybe I'm just living in a different world.
But going from a *ly grep to a syntactic unit is merely a matter of using a context-free grammar instead of regular expressions. The latter extension is obvious.
It's funny because I saw a queue of people outside the AT&T this morning waiting to bring back iPhones they'd gotten for christmas.
We're migrating away from Solaris here, and more to their grid stuff. My point is more the cost is insane. That and the level and response I get from "support" personnel can vary from decent to "what do we pay you people for".

I've had better support experiences when I can dig into the source, say linux or a kernel module, or a driver and figure things out on my own while I wait to get punched through various level 1/2/3/etc.. support people. I vastly prefer open source for this reason alone, with oracle stuff, its basically a black box that barely works if you look at it wrong. This is with everything fully automated mind you, I still see jenkins test failures where installs will not work seemingly at random. I can debug or retry the job and it'll work. Its my most hated piece of software right now.
That's what a facebook like is, isn't it? A way to get the user to indirectly opt in to future marketing materials. When it started, nobody realized that's what would happen.
Comparable in size? You're obviously including Amazon's retail side, since AWS is only $3B of amazon's revenue [0] (vs 37B in revenue for Oracle).

Saying they are comparable is saying that when Oracle sells a DB license and Amazon sells a toaster, these are only different in the amount of money the generate. They both have equal experience with software, even though Amazon's experience involves putting an item in a box and putting a label on it.

0. http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-ser...?
Why does an African-American kid need to a successful African-American man as his role model??

Why can't he simply look up to a successful man?

Racial segmentation is so stupid
Articles linked to by this one are more informative regarding legal clout behind Reichenstein's claims:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/21/5234580/patent-pending-ia...

It does seem a bit much to be making so much out of a feature that's 90% Apple framework.
It had me the first time I noticed support for porn.
Expert Sex Change - there, fixed that for you.
That doesn't make you a caveman, it just means that we have a very different perspective on what winning and losing is. People who resort to petty theft have their own set of problems. They are rarely winners in any way that I would envy them. There is a point to be made in the fact that letting someone get away with theft sets a precedent that it is tolerated. That is certainly wrong and a clear hole in my outlook which I have yet to resolve.
That's just a mistake. I'm pretty sure that there aren't many black non-Americans asking to be called African-American.

>white South African would be.

The "African" in "African-American" has nothing to do with where you were born or where your parents were born, just like the "Free" in "Free Software" has nothing to do with beer. It has to do with the origin of the features that make you distinct (in a historically particular way) from white Americans.

Of course, if white Africans who move to America identify as African-Americans, it's certainly their right, and I'd gladly refer to them as that.
1. Watch Startup.com.

2. Talk to him. Offer him something in return for his shares (such as a large amount of debt which is only triggered if/when the company sees a liquidation event of suitable magnitude).

There hopefully will not be a step 3.
Would it make a difference if you substituted "infinitesimal extension" for "zero extension"?
I work at a company using something to this effect--when engineers get assigned projects they "own" them completely--from design and implementation to testing, deployment, verification, and bugs. We have a semi-formal tracking app with names attached to projects. There is never more than one person working on something. I think this instills a great culture of responsibility and accountability. It makes it very hard for someone to ride on others' coattails or not pull their weight, as you might get in a forced pair programming team, or a larger group.