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> skunk works project with no revenue potential

You just don't know about that. Github is a code hosting and project management (somewhat) company. They're building a tool that help teams write code that is then hosted on their product and it's based on web technologies. At some point, Github could pull a very pleasing workflow integration (in-browser or otherwise) and suddenly Atom would be very valuable to the company. If they could create the same sort of adoration we see for other editors (vim, emacs, sublime) it could also become an important reputation asset for the company. There are just so many ways this makes sense for them although, I agree, in terms of short term accounting there's nothing to see.
I'm actually not really sure. I'd probably say that for app servers the HD size for laptops is greater than that for servers but that's my core problem with the comparison. Both servers and laptops vary wildly in HD sizes. Backblaze has hundreds of TB's in one box whereas my digital ocean VM is 20GB. < 100GB HD for laptops would be ludicrous but for servers you only want to allocate what you know you will use which for everything I've ever worked with can be done in under 20GB easy if not under 10GB.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Direct X 11 run on X11?
I'm confused. Why doesn't Direct X 11 run on X11?

What about OS X11 Mountain Goat?
The key take-away: keep thinking about 'borked' interview questions. This can make you a better programmer.
Couldn't you simply be "turning old"?
Not in Detroit but at another large company in Michigan with a mostly male engineering and IT staff. I witnessed* one situation where a woman was treated inappropriately (*I was told about it the day after it when she was trying to figure out if it was worth reporting to HR. Short story: it was, she did, no idea what happened to the guy because he doesn't normally work with engineers). Other than that situation, my female peers are always treated with respect, people have a high opinion of them, and they don't seem to have trouble getting promotions.
I roll around in a 15 year old Saab 93 which has a book price of around 300 quid. A Mazda 3 or a Prius would be expensive to me.
Or the flip side, taking a cab is a PITA. I'll blow into the machine and if I pass I know I'm good to drive home. The limit in many places is on the edge or below any real impairment. I'd love to know easily if the 2 beers I had were too many b/c I had an empty stomach or whatnot.

The problem with saying I should just know is that by the definition of impairment, my judgement would be impaired.
Not entirely misleading, see the "votes" stat which reflects uses.

People use what's available, having Vim preinstalled is a powerful headstart.
Also since you're flying in a regular vehicle above the weather, weather related concerns basically disappear. You can build a hanger big enough to house the vehicles so if you have a 30 minute good weather opening you can use that to get from the ground to the air above the clouds.

And since you're towing with presumably a big airplane you could probably loiter for a few hours (maybe more) which would mean that the 30 minute good weather window doesn't need to be all that precise. Even less so if you're willing to use a tanker to refuel the tow aircraft.

Further, since you're flying -- not stationary -- you have a lot of freedom to shift the launch point a bit if your weather window moves too far forwards or backwards. If it's two hours too early you can take off early and fly east. If it's too late you can take off late and fly west.

6x the payload for the same rocket is pretty darn attractive!
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Congratulations on providing exactly the derailing you were warning about?
AFAICT if you have a lot of contention in a system of this type, you'll just end up with a lot of aborted transactions instead of performance bottlenecks. Am I missing something?
This seems a bit naive. The argument is definitely more nuanced than this. For example, Tim Berners Lee has slammed zero-rating as well: http://inform.tmforum.org/news/2015/02/net-neutrality-compro...
Imagine what number would that $1.2 trillion blow up to, if they have it their way of zero-rated apps and differential rating.
The TRAI has been clearly unabashedly lobbying on television media for telcos.
Isn't the "Telecom Regulatory Authority of India" supposed to act in the benefits of consumer!?
This seems like a lot of hand wringing. Taxi drivers give rides to, and deal with, people in various stages of inebriation every night of the year. In fact, collecting drinkers at night is likely the best money making time of any every day.

The legal blood alcohol limit in basically any developed country is usually so low that people can readily hit it with a drink or two without feeling any sort of intoxication from it, let alone having their abilities grossly impaired.

I don't think this publicity stunt carries much danger for anyone involved beyond the usual dangers associated with operating a taxi at night. Drinkers will still get cabs, free or paid for, but this may cause more people "on the fence" to get a cab rather than driving their car home.

Even getting them into a line for a free cab may spur them to just take a paid one since they've made already made a moral choice to not drive after drinking by lining up for the cab in the first place.

It's a good idea overall, I think, so long as the cab drivers are properly compensated for it. I would also wonder about how it will affect the drivers in terms of lining up to collect these customers versus simply taking whatever is going through the app. There's an opportunity cost involved for them if they're sitting in a queue versus driving around waiting to be hailed with or without the app.
Instead of updating every single web.config of your website I think it is better to just update once and for all by updating machine.config. What you say ?
Agreed. The tech community is rabidly hypercritical and even those considered part of the "typical" programmer demographic are often met with biting vitriol when publishing code or projects that the community views as bad, poor form, too ambitious or reinventing the wheel. That type of hostility will really intimidate novices, especially if they already feel like an outsider. I think it's a positive step to encourage the less represented demographics because it says "we see you, and there is a place for you, even if you're just taking baby steps"
> Tinder already has a huge userbase and you have a userbase of zero, and the minute benefit provided by your app would be outweighed by having no users on it.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/tinder-may-have-...

Heh, you're free to your opinion though.
I'm not sure that(vast majority)'s accurate. I'd guess many people go to a food distribution center daily, or at least weekly, to select and transport food for their family and friends. Many work in the food and beverage service industry, either serving or preparing food for consumption. Many are employed by manufactured foods factories. Transport trucks that go from production sites to distribution and/or manufacturing centers don't drive themselves yet. There are also those who actually work on raw production.
Oh, hey. Thought I recognized the name, Ray. :)

But yes, they are. Look at the front page of the OHA site, Google is not named. Nor are they named in the OHA's Overview, like it's about page. You have to go into Members, and then Software Companies, and on that page, four pages deep, Google puts itself as the sixth name down. Bit shifty.

Furthermore, while all other Google websites link directly to Google's terms of service, the OHA site puts a stub page in between, rather than linking directly to it, as would be standard par for the course.

Google takes exceptional measures to distance themselves from control of the OHA, which they most certainly have.
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> After a law was passed requiring all search engines to pay newspapers for using "small sections of text", Google gave newspapers two alternatives: Either they gave Google perpetual, royalty-free access to all their content, or they would be removed from search results

Source for that?
Making 30k a week, is very different from saying he made 30k some weeks. 120k in Profit is hardly something I would call an 'Empire'.

I appreciate the sentiments of this community, its unquestioning reverence towards Patrick, but the article is full of misleading statements. What is factually correct, can still be grossly misleading.
The graphs were a bit disingenuous as they were comparing the traffic and popularity of the vertical specific site instead of the click share from shopping queries and how many go to organic competitor listings vs. to Google powered listings (paid inclusion, etc.)

When your search query has commercial intent, Google shows their own shopping-powered results at the top and if you click on one of those products, it goes DIRECTLY to the advertiser. Unless someone clicks on "shop for x product on Google" then it doesn't count in their traffic graph.

The "internal" nature of the memo makes this even more perplexing as the argument seems almost tailored to convince an external audience who may not understand search as well as people within Google do.

I think vidarh makes a great point about Google losing share to apps and vertical specific search engines and many people now go directly to Amazon when they start shopping or directly to Yelp when they want restaurant reviews or Tripadvisor for hotel reviews. Mobile is also changing user behavior (at least on iOS) where I rely a lot more on task-specific apps that I know and trust vs. searching for the details on Google.
> I'm surprised a company of GitHub's size can pull off what is essentially a skunk works project with no revenue potential

Since when do extensible editors around which IDEs can be built have no revenue potential?

And that's before even considering synergies that an editor integrating workflows for other GitHub services might have.
they won't be able to start it again, but once they get far away, they don't really care as the car is now gone
State too -- I remember when I did a defensive driving course in lieu of paying a ticket, you had to get a certified state copy of your driving record ... that the state already has.
> having prevented anyone from developing high quality mapping alternatives by freely (with license agreement) offering Google Maps to OEMs,

Do you have any proof of this?

> - include additional tracking information and report same to Google
> - include a facility to prevent the user from uninstalling or disabling this tracking functionality

Any source for this?
Every campus safe-ride I've heard of is free for all students no matter what. The issue here is the breathalyzer, not that they provide free rides for the drunk ones. At the college I went to, for example, you could use saferide as long as you had a campus id (now you can even use it without as long as you are with a group of <5 with an id among you, or if you pay $2). There's no incentive to get drunk there, because the ride will be there regardless. Since Uber is breathalyzing the clients, it's actually in your favor to be over the limit, hence the extra liability.
[Offtopic] The campaign provides a bcc address to keep track of the number of emails people actually send. However when I sent a response it bounced for this bcc address, although it was delivered to TRAI.

This happened on the first day of the campaign (the day the AIB video came out) and it is probably fixed now, but this count could be understating things a bit.
If you charge more, people don't bother you with nearly as much low-ROI scut work, which means you (assuming you can deliver) find yourself focusing on more interesting & more valuable work that has a stronger connection to attracting and keeping high-value clients.
You're countering that with the fact that Tinder has enough users that it can afford to introduce pricing to some of them without losing its place in the market?

Look, by all means, clone Tinder and see how it goes. I'll be interested to watch, while also not investing a second of time or effort on such a concept.
Of course that isn't true, being able to quantify people's experiences. Sociologists do this sort of thing all the time; there's a pretty well-established body of literature and practice and describes how you can go into the field, ask people questions (with interviews, focus groups, surveys, etc), and develop a general understanding of the field.

I'm not familiar with workplace/STEM literature around gendered experiences, but people may already be doing the research. (Makes note to self to look into this, to see if anyone is...)
Precisely, which is why we're opposed to telcos scamming users with free lunches.
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cant believe that Indians pushed these companies this much hard for Net neutrality..
> I don't know if google stops android phone developers from including a bing maps, or microsoft office app on their phones

No, it doesn't. At least in the case of office apps
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I really doubt it, specially since getting drunk to the level of being very harmful is way pass the drinking limit.

But I agree with your concern, I'm sure there will be one or two instances when some incredibly stupid individual will do that and ruin it for everyone.
Actually, what's funny is I've gotten almost an identical number of upvotes as downvotes on this issue. Really, you're just a fanboy, who believes everything that doesn't suit your worldview is a troll. :) It's also interesting, because it speaks to HN's karma system as less of a measure of comment quality, and more of a measure of whether or not your opinion is popular. (Or in my case, just controversial.)
>Your strawman that "wealth" cannot be eaten is completely false.

It's not a strawman, it's essentially what the person I was responding to claimed:

>Maybe you should talk to them and convince them to give some of that wealth back to the poor so they don't starve to death?

The real strawman is the specious concept of 'wealth' that is being perpetrated here.
Thanks for doing this, guys :)
Atom is now my primary text editor for miscellaneous tasks, quick fixes and languages that are not supported by Jetbrains IDE plugin ecosystem. It can't match the refactoring and autocompletion capabilities but it is a very useful addition to a toolbox.

Its strongest selling point is extensibility. I've never thought of developing text editor modules but to my surprise I've made a few Atom packages. They are strongly dependent on my personal workflow and have measurably contributed to my productivity. I've not experienced such benefits neither using sublime nor using notepad++. And it was quite enjoyable. Just opened the docs(admittedly somewhat lacking) and started hacking away.

I am well aware that it is heresy, but I like that it is built on DOM. I don't care much about startup time or editing files with thousands of lines. Atom works great for my use cases.
> The legal blood alcohol limit in basically any developed country is usually so low that people can readily hit it with a drink or two without feeling any sort of intoxication from it

a lot of places have basically zero tolerance to drinking and driving. here in brazil, anything higher than 0.05mg/l is subjected to fine and inability to drive for 12mo. [0]

so, even if you had one beer, you need to take a cab back home.

[0] http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403471...
Yes, I'd like to remove or severely limit this feature. When it's always on, and it does not properly check for proximity of the key, it's broken by design.

I'd rather have a button that allows for proximity unlock during 1-2 minutes after pressing, much like Bluetooth public visibility.

If I had an existing key with this proximity misfeature, I'd like to modify it as I described: having press a button to unlock my car is for me preferable to a risk to have it stolen.
Am I the only here thinking that it's not a big deal if some guys at a hackthon erroneously promoted a shitty application (Essentially a non-application) just because the team was composed of women?

I mean this is how life works. Women in this context are seen as newcomers and by nature, they are more fragile. It's only natural that men try to promote women in the tech industry, since they are a scarcity.

It would be the same thing if the team at the hackathon was composed by 5 13-year olds building a simple 3D-printer. They are 13-year-olds, they are out-of-context and require special attention.

That's something that is bound to change, especially given the publicity women-related posts seem to get. More and more women are going to start programming. Then, this is probably going to change.

Generally speaking, I work (and communicate) better with women than men. Women seem to be much more flexible, easier to communicate.

I understand the point the author is making, but again, I think it's not a big deal. It's not like Google hired 4 women instead of 4 men as a developers because they were females.
>"This publicity stunt by Uber actually creates a perverse incentive for drinkers to increase their blood alcohol level.

So what, as long as it keeps people who would otherwise drive drunk off the road?

>"But if your blood alcohol level is high enough to impair your ability to drive safely, who's to say what other abilities it might impair?"

Give me a break. I don't care if you are so drunk you can hardly walk, and fall and smash your face. That's your problem. Better than killing my friends and family behind the wheel. That's my problem.
The only reason why Mark Zuckerberg is bold enough to make irrational statements about the benevolence of Internet.org is the lack of such strong opposition. I hope India becomes a model for the world in this issue.
Google Wallet was intended to be installed by default on all their devices, via their MADA agreement to push Google Apps onto Android devices.
> Courts generally hear actual and not hypothetical controversies.

The relevant EU Commission is not a court, and this isn't an adversarial proceeding between Google and competitors, even for all that Google competitors lobbied the EU for action.

> If the competition can't yet show harm, there isn't a crime yet.

The issue here isn't crime, or something that competition has to show anything, and plenty of crimes do, in fact, exist when harm cannot be shown, anyway.
So instead of drinking one or two drinks someone might drink two or three? Be still my heart! /sarcasm

If you want to talk about "perverse" incentives you've no sense of the big picture. Are you really going to criticize Uber when there is a multibillion dollar alcohol and nightlife industry advertising, giving away free samples, and over serving people? Get some perspective, you're way overthinking this.

You have zero evidence that this will increase drinking and it's pretty reasonable to hypothesize that it will decrease drunk driving. Ethical responsibility for drinking falls solely on the drinker anyway.
What about the explanation I usually advance on HN (openly, this is a hypothesis, but one I haven't heard strong cogent arguments against) that this is a reflection of these facts:

1. Tech is lowest on the totem pole in middle and high school. Nerds are bullied, ostracized, and generally considered uncool.

2. Girls in school are more susceptible to social pressure than boys.

I think 1) and 2) together reliably explain why there aren't many women in the tech industry. It's not the industry's bias, it's society's bias. So the correct steps (in my opinion) would be

1. Stop glorifying sports and start glorifying tech more. The math olympiad team at high schools should be lionized more than the football team.

2. There is no step 2)
Why should Uber drivers be forced to deal with shitfaced passengers? Unless the drivers have the choice of taking this category of passengers, this seems like a real shoddy deal for drivers, and a bad incentive for alcoholics.
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I always find it interesting to see who owns what websites!

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That's part of it, sort of. I think a lot of it boils down to kids building their expectations based on the adults they know. It's certainly my own observation from childhood. Growing up poor, I rarely interacted with adults who were educated, successful, and wealthy (except the men my father worked for, whom he despised). I don't think I knew a single engineer when I was a child. This is a huge problem for the black/latino communities, who don't have adult role models in these professions.

This is a near-daily discussion topic for me. One of my best friends is a very successful doctor and financial expert who happens to be black. He has something of a personal mission to teach financial literacy to black teenagers, because they see so little of it growing up (and I grew up without it, too). He firmly believes that software and engineering are the best path to middle class success for smart kids of color, but he's always struggling on ways to encourage it.
Whenever someone says something like this, I immediately assume that they're a closed-minded individual who's ready to quibble with or dismiss anything that runs counter to their closed-off view of the world.

I've simply never seen a comment like this alongside another from the same writer that goes something like "Oh, I was wrong about that. Now I know."

So I wonder...is there anything that could be said to you that would make you say, "oh, I was wrong, now I know better"?
Used to use it, but the last redesign just made it unusable imo. I switched to Yelp when that came out after previously being a Foursquare user for 5+ years...
Before I took the plunge and became a full time employee; this was the arrangement I had my with current employer. I was technically a contractor but I had full benefits, paid like an employee, etc. I provided a timesheet before each pay period.

I must say, it was actually really nice. I would just decide to not come in here and there when I needed to. It was nice to have the freedom and feel like you could use it. It's the big thing I miss now that I'm expected to be in 9 to 5.
I wouldn't actually say that it's "a whole different league from anything else a drunkard might do." The freakonomics guys claimed that it was at least as dangerous to oneself (although not to others) to walk drunk as to drive drunk, and I also know people who have hurt themselves very badly biking drunk, but who view it much more nonchalantly than driving drunk. There are also often local stories about people hurting themselves or dying falling out of windows or off balconies or roofs while drunk.

Driving drunk is particularly bad for how it can affect other people, but there are lots of dangerous things that people do while drunk that are also very concerning.
Agreed.

It's extremely common where I live for various entities (colleges, cities, bars, etc.) to offer safe ride home programs free of charge. Some places just do it during holidays or other alcohol-related events, but some do it year-round. It seems like it's been pretty much exclusively a good thing. I think the risks associated with driving under the influence far, far outweigh the other dangers typically associated with drinking.
What? I ONLY use Uber when I'm drinking, otherwise I'd drive myself.

I would go from spending $100/mo to $0
There's a broader political context, of course, which naturally attracts interest from outsiders. It's apparent from the article that this decision is motivated, at least in part, by progressive ideology. This might sound good, especially to those who believe in "progress", but progressivism at its worst is terrifying (see, e.g., "Comrade Stalin—Leader of Progressive Mankind" [1]). As a result, a move like this, whose potential for capture and enforcement by the state is apparent, understandably gives some people pause.

[1]: https://www.marxists.org/archive/malenkov/1949/12/21.htm
I wonder if the people involved in this business cringe at having to record some of the more popular but less talented artists.