skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I could point out several use cases but my specific one is:
A time x space graph for tracking movement of vehicles where sometimes the user has to change the positioning of a GPS point that is not to his liking in a planning perspective.
Same here, though it depends on the Radio Shack.

There are a few of them near me and one is still a pretty decent "need it right now" electronic components place (with very limited selection) but the other two just sell cellphones and HDMI cables and basically nothing else.
You mean the extra M3 core I guess? I wondered too, but I suspect it was just part of the vendor's chip design and went unused - if they could have saved some money by not including it, they probably would.
We're not in London, and we pay more than that. We keep costs down by dint of the fact that our costs are, in descending order:

- People
- Hardware
- Offices

We even manage to have fun, too.

I just can't wrap my head around where this "other" expense that folks are supposed to have goes.

Sure, you can throw more fuel on and grow faster, maybe, but to burn for the sake of burning, because you have to hit a number... I just do not understand. Bullshit metrics destroy so much. You just have to look at where the NHS has ended up, to understand how this rot pervades (GPs must see N patients per day. Surgeons must "solve" N cases per month. Death rates must be below X.).
EU bureaucracy logic at its best - go after google and microsoft, but we let apple do whatever they want. For me they with their closed ecosystem are both bigger danger and more anti competitive than both Google and Microsoft combined. Or at least force them to accept other web browsers in their store.
Startups are a business, and part of business is understanding what every cost is. Part of that is understanding what a "fully burdened" employee costs, it's well over what their salary is.

Understanding what's "normal" is tougher. TBH, "normal" is whatever you're burning if you aren't wasting money.

A decent WAG at how much money you need to keep a mid-level employee employed for a year is about $250k, it doesn't matter much where, but you might inflate that a bit for SF or NYC, and drop it a bit for Nowhere'sville, Nebraska. That's salary ($100k plus or minus), benefits, office space, administrative overhead, vacation, etc.

You'll want to earn more than that, on average, per employee per year, to be profitable.

It's useful in other algebraic ways to get a gauge on other company's burn rates, size, or needed revenue.

For example, your competitor might advertise that they have 200 employees. That means they operating a $50m/year business to break even. A reasonable target for basic sustainment and growth is $300k/employee/year so they'd need to be a $60m/year business to be growing.

Here's some real world examples:

Company - Revenue - Employees - Average/employee/year
Oracle Corp - $38.27b (2014) - 122,458 - $312,515
Microsoft - $86.83b (2014) - 128,076 - $677,956
Facebook - $7.87b (2013) - 8,348 - $942,740
Sony - $66.12b (2014) - 140,900 - $469,268
Google - $59.83b (2013) - 55,030 - $1.09m
Apple - $182.8b (2014) - 98,000 - $1.87m
Radio Shack - $4.473b (2010) - 36,400 - $122,884
Amazon - $74.45b (2013) - 132,600 - $561,463
Lockheed - $45.358 (2013) - 116,000 - $391,017
Boeing - $86.623 (2013) - 168,421 - $514,324
Leidos - $7b (prj 2014) - 22,000 - $318,181
SAIC - $3.8b - 13,000 - $292,307
Tesla - $2b (2013) - 10,000 - $200,000
Ford - $147b (2013) - 181,000 - $812,154
Nokia - $15,85b (2013) - 55,025 - $288,050

Now look down this list and think about who's considered wildly successful and hot and who's considered on the way out, in the doldrums or has had recent sell-offs or splits in the company. This isn't perfectly scientific, just a guideline.

Startups have a slight advantage in that you can sometimes hire employees at a lower salary in exchange for options. This can temporarily deflate the costs and let you beat these guidelines for a while. But ultimately you'll run out of paper to give out and you'll have to start paying people what they're worth.

However, Startup founders, especially first timers, are often at a disadvantage because they've never had to handle so much money before. One startup I was at had a changeover in CEOs and an analysis of non-employee expenses under the previous CEO showed a $30k/mo travel expense for him and the CTO.

Turns out the previous CEO and CTO were doing all their business traveling for sales in business class. We had been chronically understaffed. The new CEO cut the travel and hired an outside and inside sales-person for about the same and revenue started increasing shortly thereafter. Interoffice communications was turned into weekly phone conferences and communication even improved.

Don't spend your money in stupid ways and you'll have more to put behind the business.
I believe the parent comment is talking about website owners.
A quick check of a website I run says 96% of hits come from Google. If Google decide to block that site or put it on page 10, the site is dead.
General BS refers to a bachelor of science. I don't really care what the degree is in at this point. I'd like to transfer my current credits to another institution and finish up.
Europe is mainly about regulating a common market, that's what it does, what it was design to do since day 1. Not taking seriously would cause Google infinite problem if they don't pull from Europe entirely.

It is all the other things that Europe is not taken seriously for. Before the crisis citizen living in Europe had some feeling of being European (see the talk about a social Europe, European constitution, ...). The crisis had made clear that countries in Europe are business partners rather than a "union of countries", hence the recent push of euro-sceptic parties all over Europe and the call for "preserving country X sovereignty" by traditional parties.

The failures of/problem of the EURO currency recently and the weirdo relationship it caused between EURO-zone countries is a confusing point, but in general, from an economic point of view, Europe is quite active and well respected between all the members. ( and do not get confused by the "Brussels made us do it" card politician play in order to apply unpopular decision they nevertheless supported )
I'm in minority, but with all VCs funding available today I just don't get any anti-monopoly laws.

Adsense didn't work for you and you are unhappy with the experience. Does some other company solution works better for you? Then switch. If it doesn't then adsense is giving you the best value for your money and I see no reason for inefficient governments to interfere with how efficient companies function.

edit: I don't mind downvotes but I would appreciate some arguments, especially if you don't agree but you are in favor of free market as opposed to heavily regulated one.
Thanks!

Also you are Sri Lankan right? My mom is Sri Lankan and grew up there, so I am always happy to see another Sri Lankan thriving!
Wouldn't be better to compile the Markdown files before?
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> The IE solution was to offer an explicit browser choice in EU versions of windows.

And what did that solve, really?

> to disallow Google from making an exclusivity agreement with FF

They do not have an exclusive agreement with Firefox and in Firefox Google's Search is only the default, not the only one. Mozilla is also switching to Yahoo as the default in the US, Yandex in Russia and other local search engines where it applies. That doesn't sound exclusive to me.
Apple don't have anything even vaguely approaching a monopoly in any area. Their market share in everything from phones to computers is < 30%; Google's is > 90% for search. You can't have a "Monopoly on the contents of the iPhone app store" any more than Coke has a "Monopoly on the contents of Coke cans", and thus should be forced to fill some with Pepsi.
That seems a trifle petty: Just skimming through the list of updates and I'm already impressed by the content, and I've not even gotten to the fixes yet.

There is no "one-liner" that will capture this, save perhaps something near-linkbaity like "git 2.2.0 - almost a hundred contributors, 20 brand new, with dozens of updates and dozes of fixes! Whew!"

Having said that, the announcement of a point release like this isn't the place to appeal to those who are not git users: This notice is aimed squarely at those who are git users and need to know whether or not they should upgrade.

Marketing communication is all about understanding your market, its segments, and the messaging each segment needs. This announcement isn't for newbies or notbies.

If there is a grain of truth in your comment, then it is that a separate announcement is needed, a more general press release, aimed perhaps at the wider community, to whit:

Team responsible for world's most popular distributed revisioning system announces update

Git, the world's most popular distributed revisioning system, has been updated, according to announcements released this morning to the development community.

The new release features contributions from over 70 contributors, 20 of whom mark their git release debut. This version, dubbed 2.2.0, contains approximately two dozen fixes to the 2.1 release as well as several dozen backwards-compatible new features.

The development team is thrilled and proud of their work and eagerly awaits community feedback.

<Insert standard description of git here>

<Insert list of major git projects here>

<Insert upgrade roadmaps for GitHub and other git-as-a-service providers>

<Insert standard description of revision control here>

<Insert standard "considering switching to git? look here"?>

<Insert standard "new to git? look here">

(All of the above CC-BY-SA, feel free to use as desired.)
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"That's an abuse of monopoly, and that's what the target is. "

Actually, the situation you describe is not abuse of a monopoly unless you were the one who made the roads everywhere only work with your tyres.

"Look at that fact that Google products are starting to demand Chrome, or to push their other services through their monopoly search engine."

Assume for a second this was true. This is not monopoly abuse because it's not related to the area in which they have significant market share (unless you plan on trying to argue that in mail, maps, or whatever you also believe they have high market share).

You can't say "well, they have a popular search engine, so if they do unrelated thing x, it's abuse".
Monopolies and their abuse are related to specific markets. The abuses take very specific forms, with very specific requirements. The law is generally very careful, because often things like "tying" is actually pro-competitive to a market (or so economists think :P).

" or to push their other services through their monopoly search engine."

Also not a recognized form of antitrust harm :)
There is no ban on "pushing", only "tying" (IE actually requiring, and requiring in a way that competitively harms the market).

Even then, the tying generally has to be between products not naturally related. So your example above fails anyway.

(The things you are thinking about, that MS did, was bundling and tying. Google is doing neither in a market which they may be considered to have monopoly market share)
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Not sure, but I am personally rooting for Lawrenceville Plasma Physics because if it works, it is the best one in terms of economics, has no radioactive by-products, and is small enough to fit into ships, trains, large planes, and spacecraft. Also they have overcome 2 out of 3 major challenges with little funding. They are working on the last one, plasma density, now.

Regardless, I would be excited no matter who did it first and I want it yesterday.
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What about them? Have you ever peeked into how much market share do they have? Let me guess, no. And Chromecast? Nobody knows what that is aside from geeks obsessed with Google.
I think people are just confused by your use of the word "burn". What is your fully loaded average cost per employee (total spend divided by headcount of 30 people)?
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I don't it was tone-deaf at all. There were many action shots that I got while playing sports that I wouldn't have gotten otherwise.

The main problem was people thinking that the presence of a camera meant that you were using it all the time. Worry less about Glass and more about the guys doing upskirt videos with their shoes or specially rigged duffle bags.
Can you fork Wikipedia? I remember back in the day it was all open licensed and downloadable, but it's grown quite a bit since then.
I think the fundamental issue with Glass was putting a camera on it. Imagine if it didn't have a camera but was otherwise unaltered. It would have been a forcing function to actually find out more things to do with it than be a head mounted camera. Most of the social stigma would have been gone and it might be a thriving device now.

Get it going, add the "obvious" camera functionality on some models and off it goes.

Instead the camera was fundamental to the design, and to my knowledge represented about 90% of the use-cases demonstrated for the device...without even offering AR.
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There are a few initiatives going on, however they are not very productive. I live in a third world country, so let me provide some context. I am assuming here that you wish to help children who are severely disadvantaged, i.e. street children and orphans.

- The programming world requires you to read, and most children cannot. Solving this problem is of a higher priority.

- Children suffer from malnourishment. Sure, you can give them a computer, but that isn't going to keep them fed.

- Begging is better. Most poor parents have their children begging, since it does offer a good income, so you must provide funds for attending your classes. Free is not good enough. In fact, the government pays families to send their kids to school, and people still do not.

- Programming requires a proper environment. Making an application from start to finish, and then making it a successful commercial application is not easy. Training a software engineer, takes a long time, and has quite a few prerequisites, in the end, one might be lucky to have 1% of the original number remaining.

Hence, if you can solve the literacy problem, compounded with the financial and societal problems then sure, why not? But otherwise, one is merely coming here to make oneself feel good, not to do real good.

Changing the lives of the poor is a very long term process, and I for one can tell you that it might seem impossible but it isn't. It just requires a crazy amount of work.
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Apple is completely opt-in unlike Microsoft and Google.
I know this won't happen, but it's a ridiculous idea. Google's search revenue is what helps fund many of its other projects; they couldn't be separated.
You are completely wrong. Apple has a small market share, so it doesn't matter that they abuse it by disallowing e.g rival browsers and certain apps. It sucks, but one can use Android without too many headaches.

But Google search is more like a public utility than a service. It has extreme market penetration which they abuse for various reasons like prime placing for their own products. And that not only hurts competitors but in the end also consumers which will end up with only one option for maps, video sharing, etc. And hypothetically speaking, at this point Google could just shove whatever they want down their throats and tell them to deal with it.

Oh wait they already did that with Google+
Sigh, the number of people here who think they understand antitrust law because they followed the news of the Microsoft case is sad.
It kind of makes having a serious discussion about it really hard, because people don't understand the legal requirements for being a monopoly, various forms of antitrust harms, etc, and so end up simply disagreeing because they have a "wrong" view of what the law says.

I'd put together an "engineer's guide to not sound silly when arguing about antitrust law on the internet", but i'd get raked over the coals for my affiliation.
Are there any official sales/revenue/margin/profit numbers for the Nexus devices or Chromecast announced by Google?
According to your reasoning, WW2 should not have existed at all, since it came on the heels of another devastating conflict.

If anything, it's the post WW1 that was taken as a lesson: instead of further afflicting the defeated, fomenting nationalism and isolationism, a more conciliatory path was taken.

The union has its warts and boils, but the fact that the member nations have been at peace between themselves for the longest time span ever is hard to attribute to other factors.
Mental arithmetic is to number theory as being able to type is to programming.

In other words, it's something basic that you have to be able to do efficiently in order to achieve higher goals.
Google teaches a course on Udacity on how to build Android Applications. I learnt from there.

https://www.udacity.com/course/ud853
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Yes we have. Xerox PARC systems were mainly developed in Mesa after some bootstrap work in BCPL.

ETHZ OS were done in Modula-2, Oberon, Active Oberon.

Olivetti and DEC were using Modula-3.

Several OS were being done in Algol and PL/I dialects back when UNIX was being born.

C's ubiquity is a consequence of UNIX adoption by some successful startups in the workstation market.

If one of the other systems had enjoyed a similar adoption another safer systems programming language would have taken C's adoption.
Yup; but it may be impacted by some privacy regulations in the future.
> Turns out the previous CEO and CTO were doing all their business traveling for sales in business class

This simply can't be attributed to "it's their first time". This is selfish, reckless, and inexcusable. How did this even fly with their investors?
This is nothing to do with the users. The entire reason this has come up is because Google is allegedly using their monopoly to place their products above the products of other companies. Users aren't locked in but website-owners/advertisers are. This is a problem they can't get away from, switching provider just isn't an option.

Your NBA example doesn't really work because it's missing the abuse of power (not really sure how you could alter the analogy to fit). Talking of the App Store, if Apple had 90% of the marketshare and then started altering search results so that when you search for, say, "Microsoft Word" the first result is "Pages" instead, I'm sure the EU would have something to say about that, too. (I actually think that Apple is probably overall quite pleased that it doesn't have majority marketshare as it gives it a lot more flexibility.)

By the way, I'm not saying I necessarily agree with breaking up Google but I can understand why the EU is considering this.
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This tool saves developers from doing monkey jobs. It tries to write a passing RSpec spec off the bat. It does fancy analysis to predict the values it could feed to the API of a class.

It all started with a belief that writing unit tests is a much more deterministic process than writing app code. And it still holds true.

Running it would LOCK the class API in tests as it is. So all we would have to do is writing code, locking it, writing more code, locking it too and so on.

I am very thankful that it got featured in the Ruby Weekly today and would bake a cake for the anyone who made it happen. Thanks
I'm very aware of what you mentioned but...all I "wanted" in this case is a visual separator in my terminal when I'm working with lots of output. I don't care whether each "* " refers to the same object, I just want a line :)

With that being said, if I want to merge two lists and apply an operation on each, I don't see what's the issue with:

In [1]: a = [1,2,3]
In [2]: b = [5,6,7]
In [3]: c = a+b
In [4]: c
Out[4]: [1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7]
In [5]: d = [x*4 for x in c]
Out[6]: [4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 28]
Google is the glue that holds the modern internet together through it's universal indexing, but it's based in the US, thus weakening the power of foreign governments.

A fractured google is easier to control. Right now, the French government could pass certain laws and Google could simply say no with few detrimental effects (French users would simply use a proxy). With a fractured Google, Google would need to hold all infrastructure servicing French search in France, or at least significant infrastructure, allowing the French government more leverage in law making, and rent seeking.
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Or people being locked out of their GMail account

This is the problem, and customer service in Google barely solves anything.
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If by "consulted", you mean that Ben has been paid to come up with papers exactly like this for various anti-google lobbies, many many times over the past 10 years, then yes, he has "consulted".

Ben has literally no legal training in antitrust law that i'm aware of, so his opining on it is somewhat interesting.

(I edited this comment because Ben does have a JD from Harvard law that I forgot about, so he does have legal training, just not anything related to antitrust law)

When he's not writing antitrust papers, he's busy writing scare papers about click fraud, or online ad deals.

There are plenty of people who have views i disagree with, and respect. But folks like Ben, whose views seem to change entirely with who is paying him (i've watched him argue the same thing both ways depending on whether MS was doing it or Google was doing it), are not even worth arguing with.

You only have to look at his testimony list to see where his views lie, and have since 2006.
HackerNews, TechCrunch, Nautilus, Armin Ronacher's blog (although this is not a publication, its pretty regular, and his posts are good).
I feel one must question why people are upset about glass-cameras but are perfectly fine with omnipresent CCTV or NSA data collection. The Surveillance Camera Man video series highlights the same issue.

Do people genuinely care about privacy, but only think about it when the breach is obvious and in their face?
Ada is used in environments were human lifes are at risk life like life support systems, traffic control and so on.

From FOSDEM talks its use has been increasing thanks to C lack of safety, even with MISRA C.
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> ... with all VCs funding available today I just don't get any anti-monopoly laws.

Are you implying that there is a sum of money that could dislodge Googles stranglehold on the search (and therefore search advertising) market? Look at Microsofts efforts with showering Bing with money. If VCs could back a potential Google-killer, what is the chance that it could resist becoming swallowed by Google once the threat was apparent?

> Does some other company solution works better for you? Then switch. If it doesn't then AdSense is giving you the best value for your money

If you are reliant on AdSense and are locked out by a mistake, you're screwed. Google has total dominance, no other platform comes close.