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More armchair quarterbacking. You don't just pick up and move to save a buck when you have a whole company running on AWS' specialized architecture. There's a lot of process and a lot of overhead that factor into that consideration. A lifelong Mac user, for example, couldn't seamlessly jump into Windows just because "it's cheaper".

Even if you ran on bare metal on colocation, I doubt you save more than 50%. That's time wasted that could be more fruitfully spent iterating on profitable ideas. Plus that's exactly why you took investment capital in the first place, so you didn't have to do all that fiddly stuff. It's always better to maximize revenue than to minimize costs. On that note, the cost of paying all those salaries is probably 10-50x the Amazon bill, but you can't really cheap out there either.
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In some places red tape is a big issue, but I don't think it's the whole story. Starting a small business in Denmark nowadays is extremely streamlined: you can do the entire registration process for the Danish equivalent of an LLC online, and your business is registered within a day or so. It's so easy that it's become common for people to start a company even for small-scale side-business stuff. It's also fairly easy to hire and fire people (one prong of the "flexicurity" policy [1]).

I think a big problem has been the economics of scale you mention, because Europe has not really functioned as a common market. One part is language. This is changing a bit (at least here), and most Danish tech startups now make their products English-first, or even English-only, which greatly increases the odds of international adoption. Some is more cultural, though; we don't read French or Italian or German media, and nobody else reads Danish media, so things that get a "buzz" in one country travel fairly slowly cross-border, while American media spreads quickly. Probably a lot more factors of this sort.

One issue of incentives, though, is that it can still be in many cases an individually rational choice to target a more "provincial" market. If you're a Danish startup and identify a Danish-specific underserved market, you have less potential for growth, but may have higher probability of at least modest success, due to much less competition. So even if it's better for Europe as a whole for startups to target a broad, international market, it might be rational for individual startup founders to target smaller, country-specific markets. American startup founders to a large extent lack this choice, because there are not many tech market niches which are, say, Tennessee-specific.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicurity
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Do you have any evidence that he's a rapist? I know he hasn't been convicted, so I would hope you at least have something more than an unfounded accusation.
However, using an heliocentric reference to describe the movement of planets is both much more "elegant" and "right" than an earth-centric reference. It suggests me that nature is relatively "simple", and that excessively complicated models are "wrong" or at least suspicious.
That's a straw-man argument. He didn't say Android was worse than iOS. He said Google was abusing its dominant position to expand into new markets.
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Why not lift something up with a balloon? As computers get smaller you could probably pack more useful stuff into something like a CubeSat.
>An important fact about the luminiferous aether is that it was abandoned as an idea because it was inconsistent with experiments.

Is it? As I understand it the concept of an aether is not so much provably wrong as utterly meaningless; once you factor in various dilations there is no effect that would be caused by an aether. Nothing could possibly measure it, and it has no impact on predictions.
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You've taken what I wrote and pushed it much further than I did. If you re-read what I've written, I'm not nearly as extreme as you present.

Your argument hinges on me being extreme in my position, when in actuality I am not. I have not said anything nearly as absolute as you've implied. For example, I don't believe me using the words "lazy" or "wasting everyone's time" were an example of what dang refers to as "jabs" -- I was describing an activity. My words were not used as personal insults, but as descriptions of behavior. It is lazy to ask for sources on HN comments, and it is a waste of everyone's time, for the reasons I specified. These aren't insults, because they're specific, and directed at an activity, rather than a person, and I provide reasons for why those activities are as described.

I'm sure some SMEs do make the mistake of posting on HN in an elaborate and detailed fashion, as another example. I've never said it's impossible, that'd be an absurd thing to say. I just said it's not in a) their best interest, and b) many won't for the reasons I outlined.

Coming to HN for the reasons you do is an absolute and unambiguous mistake. What you get here is bad quality, for what you're looking for. You can get much better elsewhere, in the form of blog posts, articles, wiki pages, published papers, etc.

I'll repeat my thesis -- HN holds value as a "back room" where experts can speak without the same rigors with which they usually have to speak. There is value in informal discussion, and that's what happens on HN. Citing sources is a waste of time on HN, because you shouldn't take anything you read here at face value.

Besides, next time you're in a conversation, are you really going to say, "a post I read on HN said..." as a way of citing the source of your knowledge?
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I'd say most people in the west do.
There are several safe-guards, with more to come.

The biggest one that's coming is being able to unsubscribe directly from the notification pop-up itself. This will shut down abusers very quickly.

Beyond that:

-All notifications traverse GCM. Which means you've signed a ToS with Google and they can shut you down (also a little scary).

-Opt-in must happen on the main page, or have the main pages "consent". This prevents iframed ads registering people, for example.

-9/10 pushes must display a user visible element (that will have the unsub feature) which prevents people from being malicious on the background Service Worker thread.

More will come as this feature develops and it's seen how things play out in the wild.
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Well, no such thing as an internal all-hands memo. Sending something to "everyone at Google" is basically the same as sending it in public.
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Not really, because for a lot of NY tech companies the office is a significant selling point for potential employees, and they do community events there that raise the brand's clout. Nobody wants to go work in a basement in Harlem when they can do the same work for Facebook and have a skylight and yoga balls.
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> US is still being held responsible for slavery

Should an African-American individual petition the US government to be resettled to Africa and compensated for the trouble, would the US government agree to pay? I don't think so. The US government is responsible for the enduring consequences of segregation, which ended less than 50 years ago in most of the country and is a separate issue from slavery, albeit strongly related. In the same way, the current UK government is responsible for preserving the artifacts it inherited so long ago and (theoretically) work towards a world where the Greek people will never be forced to sell their belongings because of economic hardship.

> The UK government should at least attempt to return the relics

Why this obsession with the British Museum, when the Louvre and other institutions are as full of less-documented loot as the BM? Are we holding the British responsible for keeping better records than others? There are tons of US and European museums with similarly-acquired catalog that are never really criticized for it. The Nike of Samothrace is so much more beautiful and powerful than anything the BM holds, but its location has never been much criticized. Could that be because modern Greek governments have had better relationships with France than with the UK? It's all just foreign policy by other means, usually by people who won't care about these relics the minute they've had their way.

I personally think the best location for artifacts is among people who will cherish them and help the world see them and understand them. As an Italian, I think half of the relics we currently mis-preserve should probably be sold to people who would do a better job. The recently-located Imperial Port of Rome will likely never be fully excavated because we wouldn't have any money to preserve it as it would deserve, and the same happens every day for magnificent stuff all over Rome. I think that's a much more pressing issue than bickering about stuff we've already studied to death.
I really wish people would stop using int instead of size_t. Even if they used a literal long instead of a size_t that'd be a vast improvement.

Stop trying to micro-optimize your C, you can't win here anymore on 99.9% of your code.
There are rumours today about them being acquired by Yahoo: http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/15/sources-yahoo-in-talks-to-b...

Makes the timing of this post interesting.
I'm very uncomfortable with this line of argument:

> However there are urban restructuring projects every day in western countries that displace more people without proper compensation than this incident.

I suspect it's factually untrue, but I'm more concerned with the moral implication that if we can find a wrong Y that is worse than wrong X, we shouldn't care about X.

There is a legitimate version of the argument, one where we triage resource usage. But our ability to recognize and acknowledge wrongs is not a limited resource. Indeed, this style of argument expends far more energy in denying the recognition of wrongs that it would take to say, "Why yes, that is wrong."
You would get the same behavior that Postgres's would be in terms of how data is traversed and aggregated -- that is, not by building a bunch of groups and counting them after the fact. I do think RethinkDB ought to be able to apply aggregations to group queries on the fly though... I'm not really up to date on that.

Postgres will still have better numbers, I'm sure. It has a schema for starters.
Interesting you don't include company culture. Isn't that all the rage these days?
Any suggestions or pointers are welcome.
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Personally I use Foursquare most when I'm travelling or in new places. I complement it with TripAdvisor. Foursquare could do what TripAdvisor does better.
I think they did. The users of Tinder don't need Tinder to tell them the friend they already have, they need it to tell them where potential matches are. So lowering the standard of degree that Linkedin uses would (I assume Tinder would argue) lower the barrier to foster communication between potential matches.

You're not going to use Tinder to date your friend. But you would use it to date your friend's friend. Smart move by them.
I realize this isn't contributing to the conversation, but it's funny to see this directly underneath the post describing the immense dropoff in foursquare's popularity.
And is there any reason to think that the British Government would be giving these people the proceeds of the British Indian Oceans TLD?

If they had their land and own government called Chagos, it seems unlikely they'd have .io.
If people were perfectly rational, this might be the case, but I don't think receiving a statement has the same emotional impact, and is not as attention-grabbing and drawn-out, as going through the process of preparing a return - especially if, as for many people, you get a refund.

My guess is that relatively few people, of those who currently prepare their own returns, would invest as much time and effort into verifying an IRS-prepared return as they do in preparing one. I would also guess that a majority of swing voters prepare their own returns (I know, that's a fair amount of supposition on my part...)
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After reading Junk Yard Sam's post at http://www.junkyardsam.com/blog/2015/4/15/foursquare I was wondering if there should be a site dedicated to people who's actions have been disastrous to tech companies. A bit like glassdoor.co.uk but for people.

Staying away from the obvious (review verification, tit-for-tat threads and litigation), is there a need for such a site?
Haha, I knew somebody would actually look it up :)

Thank you!
It's been my understanding that a significant portion (perhaps approaching > 90%?) of the funding for federal spending during a specific year comes from those "pay as you go" sources, i.e. withholding and quarterly estimated tax payments for those not subject to withholding.

If that's the case, wouldn't the end of withholding (and presumably also quarterly estimated payments since they serve the same purpose) leave the federal government with a serious inability to "pay the bills" throughout that tax year?
An optimally optimized query by Postgres would be effectively mapping and reducing.
As long as the relationship doesn't go the other way, this doesn't upset me as an instagrammer.
"Handy" is used as slang for mobile phone in German ;)
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I only started using Foursquare this year after they split off check ins from ratings. Foursquare is a better Yelp and I use it all the time.
Thanks for the reply. Would you mind explaining why you choose Scala?
No, an independent forensic expert who received the drive found the malware.

And the malware was inside a folder that had been created on the drive called "Bates Court Order". Meaning that the drive wasn't infected already, but somehow -after- the folder copying all the documents for discovery onto there, these several different pieces of malware all decided the best place to load themselves onto this drive was in this particular folder.
For carrier networks, yes, but that changed in 2014. See this : http://www.telecomlead.com/telecom-equipment/huawei-revenue-...
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> but I'm more concerned with the moral implication that if we can find a wrong Y that is worse than wrong X, we shouldn't care about X.

Definitely not "shouldn't care". But you should ask yourself "if there's a ton of materially similar things I'm ok with, why should I feel outraged about this one in particular?"

Sometimes the answer is that you shouldn't feel outraged at all, other times the answer will be that you should be outraged at all similar things. It's only rarely that the outrage should be focused on the one particular incident.
Well, I asked

> Why is the town supposed to have this power in the first place?

not "why does the town have this power in the first place?" The scenario you describe is ludicrous; Hampton received state attention when it ticketed a representative, not because there was a grassroots movement in the other 99.99% of Florida. Some perspective:

- They annexed a 0.2 mile stretch of highway. Imagine trying to keep track of all the roads in your state in 1000-foot increments.

- Hampton appears to be, by eyeball, somewhere between 1 and 4 square miles (eyeballing this isn't totally ludicrous because, with the exception of the since-abolished freeway patch, it's a square). Call it 4 square miles. Florida is 70,000 square miles.

So the level of scrutiny required here does not and cannot exist. Why does a tiny hamlet that happens to be located near a freeway get the right to unilaterally declare that the freeway is now part of town and start hitting up everyone who passes by for cash? There's no sane reason for them to have this power.
You asked for how a diversity of thinking improves a company. A specific example of that is a more diverse workforce will be more inclusive at the funnel end of the hiring pipeline, making your applicant pool better. It doesn't matter that you provide no western perspective on Kafka. What matters is that your western perspective provides no negative impact to your ability to work on Kafka problems.

If there were a systematic bias against westerners that meant they were unlikely to apply for, get callbacks for, or be able to work in your environment with Kafka, actively removing those impediments is an opportunity. The larger the population being biased against and the more acute the need for applicants is, the larger the opportunity.

Framing this as a "hire one person over another" or as a "rights" issue is incorrect. Many of the systematic biases can be corrected for in ways that either don't cost the unbiased set anything, or provide advantages to that set as well. Further, this is an issue of courtesy and empathy, not rights. No one has the right to my courtesy or empathy, but providing it broadly is the right thing to do.
At least Foursquare is mobile-native, which is one of the primary goals of Yahoo. One of the primary things Foursquare desperately needs is scale, which is one thing Yahoo can legitimately claim to have.
For Foursquare it's a bit like admitting defeat, but being eaten by Yahoo could be a good move for users. I've been a foursquare fan since 2011 and would love if the service could regain some of its former luster and glory!
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that doesnt make sense. There is a midway between forcing google services and no google services allowed, which is optional google services. SO if samsung can become dominant vendor by creating their own services the others can still go with google. This is a win for consumers who now have no choice but to go with google services.
My conclusion is simply that the going rate (market clearing price) for TPS writers is 50 groats a year, meaning that our TPS clerk can expect 50GPY for his labor. Since the employee gets 10GPY from the state, the company now only needs to pay him 40GPY to ensure he's equally well compensated. The money for BI has to come from somewhere, so I don't think it's a plausible conclusion that salaries would stay the same while everyone gets a chunk of extra money from the state. Further support comes from the rationality of employers who would prefer to ensure employees were equally paid in total in both a no-BI and BI scenario.

I think your point is that declining marginal utility of income in a BI scenario means that companies have to pay proportionately more to make up for the decline in utility caused by everyone having more income. I don't have what I assume is your background in economics to argue that point with theory, but it fails a basic plausibility test for me: your claim is that it's more likely that employers will pay more in direct salaries to workers who are receiving money from the state than it is that they will pay less. It doesn't hold up in today's world either: compare salaries in Scandinavian countries, where the state provides huge benefits to citizens against the USA where there is essentially no support from government.
It also very common, because there is a positive correlation. Its an unfortunate fact that racial profiling is so popular, because it works. You have to address that head-on to make any progress.
Does this work well? A friend did that for his company and it was a real pain to explain that the last two letters of a full word have a dot first. Ended up getting the .com.

I've got ci.al (so.ci.al, fa.ci.al, etc), I think, but trying to tell someone that over voice seems... problematic.
The patches for the MS Server OSes are at: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3042553

It's a little unclear that this was patched as part of last night's Patch Tuesday.
What is Yahoo's acquisition strategy? Looking at the list of acquisitions since Marissa Mayer's arrival [0], the theme seems to be pageviews + content + userbase + advertising. This is the strategy of a media company. Attract as many eyeballs as possible, then monetize them.

How does Foursquare fit into this? Perhaps the plan is to turn it into an advertising platform for businesses, and differentiate from Yelp through feaures like better review transparency?

Advantages I see of Foursquare:

- Recognizable brand, offline and online, despite declining userbase.

- Lots of brick-and-mortar businesses already signed onto platform.

- Businesses pay money to advertise. Yahoo can monetize offline channel and reach customers in-store.

- Businesses frustrated with Yelp, now is opportunity to differentiate.

This acuisition could fit into the "media company" strategy because it enables monetization of businesses and opens up offline communication channels for reaching customers.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
Running cycle collection on function exit would make Rust tremendously slow. It's possible, but not a viable solution.
The part that makes this really nasty is it doesn't just impact webservers. IIS is highly leveraged by other Microsoft technologies, everything from WSUS to SMTP to Exchange to Sharepoint are affected. In my environment, I estimate that 3/4 of my servers are vulnerable.
I don't think that nix would be able to tell you which version of OpenSSL some binary linked statically, as there would no longer be a reference from that binary to /nix/store/xxx-openssl-1.0/lib/libssl.so.

Nix generally uses dynamic linking, though the links are to absolute paths to a specific library version, so upgrading OpenSSL requires a recompile much like with static linking.

With "normal" dynamic linking, upgrading OpenSSL and restarting some service means you're now running untested code, hoping that the new version of the dynamic lib really doesn't change an interface on which your code depends. But to be fair, this is usually a good assumption.
I feel like a truer estimate would be "100% chance of success unless some unknown factor causes failure." It's saying that the unknown factor subtracts 20% that makes me go hmmm.
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Windows DLL's don't have features such as the executable overriding symbols in the attached library.

In fact, if you call LoadLibrary at runtime, there is no symbol resolution; you have to look up symbols yourself using GetProcAddress.

Under dlopen, symbol resolution takes place; it can change the destinations of function calls.
My apologies; to me there is no difference between a freeway and a highway.