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The demo is great. Thank you for putting in the effort to make that possible.
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> $100MM is 0.0759878% of AT&T's 2014 gross revenue

Which is completely irrelevant. To the extent a revenue comparison is relevant, the relevant revenue isn't AT&T's 2014 gross revenue, its the revenue over the period of the activities covered by the fine attributable either to the unlimited data plans, or to other data plans to which people switch from unlimited plans once the slowdown was in place.
Add it to the FCC's evidence pile.
The entity in question is the theme parks operator, not all IT departments across all Disney entities.

Time will tell if Six Flags, Universal or SeaWorld would lock in significant advantages by having access to higher quality IT, while Disneyland/Disneyworld ticket sales would decline due to inferior IT.
I hate AT&T as much as the next cat, but you know that isn't a fair comparison.
The problems in the developing countries are at least partially caused by things not directly related to agriculture, for example speculation with food and subsidies in developed countries making local agriculture unprofitable.
Probably more important to compare to profits over the year -- this is ~%1 of their 2014 reported profits of (again roughly) 10 billion. (Also, this is only one segment of the business, so that's a bit of a comparison issue)
The exceptional O-1 visa is a separate program. There's no annual cap for O-1.
I read through Wikipedia and I see why this is a good software with a lot of work in it. I didn't understand yet the concepts of management proposed there and probably I will need some days to play with it.
What is the innovation that you identify there?
Where is DDG located?

I can't watch the video, about which the text reads "The news anchor just can’t resist a little jab about DuckDuckGo’s location choice".
Patents won't save you. Trademarks can help you prevent imports like this, but nothing will ever stop your product from being sold in other places, especially mainland china.
Well, to use a potentially inappropriate analogy, prostitutes also operate a model that clearly works for their customers and face legal issues as well.
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I support everything said here already but also think about the asymmetry of information. Per chollida1's comment, you'r manager didn't go to bat for you....why? Your current manager obviously knows more about you than your future company so he/she is probably better at estimating your true worth than your future employer.

Also...hassle. Given your contribution vs how much work it would be to get you a 30% raise, your manager maybe decided they couldn't do it or it wasn't worth sticking out their neck for it.

However, if you want raises, it's usually always better to switch employers. It's the fastest path to more money.
That's true to an extent, but gulp/babel are something you setup once and forget. npm is a package manager, the others are libraries. It's no different than saying that someone used pip, Flask, Requests, and xlrd for a Python project. They're just libraries.
I have sometimes wondered if the people at Microsoft in charge of that move have since regretted it.

IIRC, they did it mostly, because they were under investigation for antitrust charges (and very nearly were broken up), so they could show the DOJ they had an actual competitor.
If that is true, they seem to have gotten a little more than they bargained for (the stock they bought must be worth a fortune today, though).
That's why I said "less dead" ^_^.

Buying Alcatel-Lucent suggests to me they aren't all that healthy, based in part on my working at Lucent in 2001 and paying attention to that field since then. And "amputating" what was once more than 2/3rds of the company, going back to 2002, yikes. But, still, you might be right depending on how you define this sort of business health.

Scary how their revenue peaked the year the iPhone came out....
I couldn't quite follow what the problem is.

I would define the revenue in the ROAS formula as revenue per time period, and the marketing spend also per time period

Then I would qualify the revenue, as that part of the revenue that can be tied to the marketing activity (cookies, refer URL, etc)

And then the ROAS ratio becomes an ordanary division, because both values are known; no need to infer them as in the rest of the article.
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That is to suggest that past activities have no bearing on future earnings?

If I cheat by committing a crime this year that saves me money, then continue earning more money each year from here out, all while squashing competitors, is the advantage I gained by cheating this year no longer relevant in 5 years?
until you get hurt without insurance and we end up paying for you
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Ours is a .NET shop and we don't have plans to update to VS2015 in the near future. Does this workflow suggest that, in order to take advantage of Babel, we will have to install npm on all our dev machines and servers?
How do you know that your product hasn't been cloned and sold inside China, for example?

Anyway, I am glad to hear that you're having good experiences, and I'd love to hear more about it. How can I contact you?
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Yes, operating systems were also in my mind. Great examples about Plan 9 and BSD.
I confess I didn't write any piece of code in Go, but read sometimes here a lot about it.
So I'm curious what do you think are the most innovative things Go brings to programming languages?
Actually, the dirty secret amongs development economists is that protectionism works when you're trying to establish yourself in an industry. If you look at a number of successful developing countries, they first created protectionist policies to nurture homegrown companies. Once those companies matured and acquired skills/knowledge, they slowly remove those policies to compete on a global level.

Of course, it's different for a developed country like the U.S. But I object to those who blithely proclaim that free trade is the best solution. Even when you look at the U.S., freer trade has led to clear winners and losers -- the winners being bigger profits for corporations, and the losers being those who have lost their jobs.

I'm not sure what a better solution looks like, but increasing globalization forces us to grapple with some very real issues and growing inequality.
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They have at least probably observed their parents managing money with a more long-term view.
I understand what you're saying, but I can see certain devs having a problem with introducing extra variables only to use them in a single conditional. Not that I agree with that, but that's the only reason I can come up with.
And the name of the book???
This is true for many flowers and garden crops, it is not true for corn, soybeans, & similar.

The viability of hybrid offspring depends on the closeness of the parents. Lots of flowers can be bread from very diverse stock and the offspring are sterile, cash crop hybrids are not made from such diversity and are generally re-plantable.
Magic Johnson's company is one of the few (maybe only) to own a Starbucks franchise. The idea was that Starbucks wouldn't work in urban areas with minorities. I've been to the Harlem Starbucks plenty of times while in grad school and it stayed as busy as most other Starbucks. I wonder if this is still the case.
Sort of like the straw breaking the camel's back...

I have been wondering why oil companies have not been making the smaller-quake argument -- the link between hydraulic fracturing and earthquakes has been clear for some time.

I think 1,000 4.0 earthquakes have the same energy as a single 8.0 earthquake. The thousand 4.0's would be much more survivable. Even better, ten thousand 3.0's or a hundred thousand 2.0's spread out over decades...

I am wondering if fracking in California will slow down now that a finger can be pointed at a corporation after a quake, instead of being shrugged off as an "act of god." The earthquake would occur eventually & naturally, of course, but what if oil & gas exploitation triggered it?
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Not really sure I understand the problem here? I'm willing to bet that most people ready to excoriate the developer over their lack of version control will probably never even directly use the library.

They are still offering the library as open source in an easily-downloadable form. It is a gift. You can take a gift or you can leave a gift, but you don't whine about how the gift isn't the one you wanted.
Yes, hiring a successful entrepreneur and legitimate business mogul who is also African American is just a PR stunt.
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What are you thinking of adding in the future?
I've been wanting a similar service for a long time in the UK. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9234416).

Good luck to you!
Even if you use only divs, the actual text is there in UTF-8 to parse out of the DOM, today.

If you go all-in on wasm to do "your own rendering", external software won't know where to find a "DOM" or how to understand it, unless some other kind of reinvented HTML-for-a-wasm-rendering-engine-defacto-standard is invented?

(This is more a rant against "let's reinvent html/css in canvas" rather against a VM-based javascript replacement in general. Even though the latter sounds a bit terrible as well for the open web; imagine what the web would have looked like if .js never existed, and a flash/java .swf/.jar engine was the only way to do scripting in a webpage.)
Well, you at least need something like an inline-cache instruction (like invokedynamic). You also need GC hooks so the stack layout, object layouts, and pointer liveness are known. I don't see any reason why it couldn't be done in the future.

(We may not be in disagreement here—I agree that JS can't be effectively compiled to Web Assembly as it stands.)
> The thing that perplexes me is that existing taxi companies, who are licensed and otherwise compliant with the law, don't adopt the best parts of Uber and Lyft?

If, by that, you mean the ride-hailing app -- the main part that isn't challenged as an evasion of either taxi laws or labor laws -- they are (e.g., the Flywheel app.)

Not as much visibility, because it doesn't have the dedicated capital and media attention flowing into it from being "disruptive".
.config sure, but .bak? That's what revision control software is for! :D
How about putting in perspective of cost to fix versus cost to pay fine? Say 100 mm vs 260 mm to fix it?
"Everyone" is using Babel now. A lot of ES6 features are making their way into browsers and node, but there's so much variation that a transpile step is needed. Babel is nice but currently quite slow. Babel has a REPL you can play with here: http://babeljs.io/repl/#?experimental=true&evaluate=true&loo...
It is great to live in a "real neighborhood" in a city, where our children are free to go to their friends' house (1 block away) or the local playground (2 blocks away) by themselves, at the age of 6 and 8. Next year the older one will take public transport to an after-school workshop at the local university.

In this country (Czech Republic) the less paranoid nature of people, and the lower crime, reminds me more of the 1950's and 1960's in the USA (as it has been described to me).
That changes a lot if your target market is big enterprise customers. Oh you don't support IE9? Well say goodbye to that market share.
Corn is generally carefully crossed as a last step in hybridization. The next generation will grow a plant almost completely dissimilar from the one being sold.

Its an issue trying to support farmers in developing countries. Our Romanian sister church didn't accept our corn hybrids. They had their own 'land race' seed they've been creating for generations, which works well on their difficult soil. If we sent them hybrids, they'd work for one season. And then they would be dependent on us for continuous shipments of seed each spring. We left them with their self-sufficient seed.
You could be a night's watchman at an Amazon warehouse, and write stuff for Barnes and Noble, I don't think anybody would care.
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I'm interested in why the EFF chose these companies to rate. For example, rating AT&T and Verizon but not Sprint and T-Mobile seems odd to me. Rating Snapchat but not Instagram almost makes sense becuase they're rating Facebook, but then they've rated WhatsApp separately.
Doesn't work always involve your body? Your brain is a muscle and part of your body, right? Not to mention be healthy plays a huge role in your productivity. Learning how to be discipline and focus is something all professionals of all levels work to get to and maintain. So, if they're able to transition that energy and concentration once out of the sport, it's to no surprise they'll be successful.
I never said it should be more complex. It, however, should be also structured somehow. There is a persistence layer, models, collections, services reasoning about them and pipelines aggregating and rendering things.

Well written JavaScript is reasonably fast and it now makes sense to optimize transported information size. Many calculations can be done front-end side then, which accidentally is also more cost-effective, since data center usage is paid, while user CPUs are more or less free (and not doing much while browsing anyway).
I think AT&T should be fined (or be the target of class action lawsuit) for constantly lying to customers/future customers... the most common example being lying about u-verse being fiber-optic going to their customer's homes (while it only goes to a central box in the neighborhood).
My daily driver has an unlimited top speed. Rather optimistically according to my xbox and Forza it can top our around 100-110. (Edited to add, Forza seems to imply I can get my car up to 115 or so, then stability control loses it, but theres no hard coded limit).

In the army I drove a pos HMMWV and it has a limiter topping it out at 55 mph from memory. Although if you remove the governor supposedly it rockets along at 75+. My pos would have leaked out all the oil or something before it ever got to 75, but in theory a reliable one can go that fast. The civilian model replaces the 100 HP indestructible engine with a 600 HP consumer engine so those move quite fast.
Bing has 20% market search share under its own name, plus 13% under the Yahoo brand. That's 33%.

That's hard for me to believe; where do those figures come from? No site I currently work on gets anything close to that much traffic from Bing and Yahoo compared to Google. Anecdotes vs. data and all that, but I'm talking about a few different sites on completely different subjects here. We see quite consistent traffic levels from different search engines if you compensate for active advertising campaigns and similar factors.

Google's advertising revenue is 18 times Microsoft's.

Is that specifically for adds on search engine results pages, or do the figures also take into account other advertising channels?
The issue with this kind of fine is that the profit is greater than the fine so they will continue to do shady things like this.

Also people in charge for approving this should be held accountable.
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The fundamental models of the JVM and CLR don't meet the needs of web browsers. You could probably really aggressively alter them to do so, but in the end you've still got to run in a browser and integrate with existing javascript code.
It's just an example. Of course the function has many other statements before the returning function which is not shown, otherwise it doesn't make sense of course.
I kind of read it as the assumption is, if you're wanting to be a great JS programmer, that all these recommendations come on top of programming in JS as much as possible.
Why would that matter? I would totally "fire" (i.e. terminate the contract) a contractor that didn't work when I needed him/her to (i.e. that didn't get the job done). Why would Uber need to be any different?
Sure, though for perspective you should also mention that it's 1.6% of their profit (6.244 B$ last year). If this fine had been levied last year, it would have made their wireless numbers 12% worse (5.2% decline v.s. 4.7%).

Fines are not about killing the company, they are about penalizing certain decisions made by the company to affect change in policies.
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Absolutely, I still don't like it. :)
https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#wil... makes me happy as that was the first concern I had when reading these news :)
You may want to get some clarity on this, this is not a policy Uber or Lyft have in place.
> Another example is nuclear energy. Clean, abundant, and extremely safe.

Yeah, but what do you do about the waste? The US has tons of waste sitting around. The grand plan of using Yucca Mountain to store the waste fizzled. We have just postponed the cost to a future generation who'll have to deal with the waste we're producing today.
For the love of god, man, justify that text!
At the time, I don't think normal users would have called Android better than 'sub-par'. I'll admit that with Material Design and recent OS releases, they've gotten much better, but still many of my non-geek friends tolerate their Android phone that they got for "the big screen".

Now that Apple has solved the "I want a big screen" problem, I think those people will run back to iOS.

I'm sure Elop thought MS was going to put some more effort behind WP. They got a lot of things right, but not the UI and certainly not the marketing.

For what it's worth, I've been using WP for about 3 years now. It's performance is underrated, but Metro went too far as a flat UI.
It's even better if you use `yield` or `async/await`:

activate(params) {
let fabric_response = yield this.http.get(`${ this.url_base }/fabrics`)
return fabric_response.content.map( fabric => {
let cluster_response = yield this.http.get(`${ this.url_base }/fabrics/${ fabric.name }/clusters`)
if(fabric.clusters_exist) {
this.fabrics.push({"name": fabric.name, "clusters": cluster_response.content});
}
});
}

EDIT: note that I am very sleepy and probably did a poor job of this =)
As to 1, I cannot find anything on Independent contractors moving livestock? I went to Purdue, and all truck drivers look like employees? Maybe I missed something?

http://perdue.balancetrak.com/lists/103/jobdescription.aspx?...

(Edit--I did find some vage(pretty much state regulations) at Tyson, but if anything they don't regulate their independent farmers enough?)
Can you link to where that is being discussed? I hadn't heard that int64 was being added. My google-fu has failed to turn up anything. int64 would be very useful for long types in ScalaJs. They run really slow because they have to be emulated with the whole split it into smaller parts stuff. Lots of jvm targetting code I have ported at work was written with the "just use a long, it's not much slower than an int" thought process, true on the JVM, not true in JS.
CA Labor Commission Has Just Killed Uber
I believe that's actually illegal even if common to work on a second job at your first job. Don't quote me, I'm not sure. Anyone know more?
Yes.

The "must disclose any existing inventions or ideas to the company now and that anything not enumerated belongs to them" is what does it. Almost none of my offers have ever included such a line. Any company trying to push that does not deserve a respectful response.

I can have a conversation about the contract. But when the contract includes that, it is like being given a serious minimum wage offer.
Maybe someone can answer this: the higher resolution images of asteroid surfaces are amazing, but I wonder what video would show in terms of surface dynamics. Is there likely a lot of dust and debris within proximity to the surface or are they just fairly uneventful rocks floating in space? Also, I can look up rotation and other measurements but it's difficult to piece together a whole picture including the relative size of these things.. If I were standing on an asteroid, would I visibly or physically sense rotation?
I'm excited to see this type of information from Google but this post seems more like an announcemant that they released information and less like actual information.
> Yes, and McDonalds has a business of connecting people who want hamburgers with people who are making hamburgers.

I don't know for McDonald's, but for many fast food companies that's absolutely true: the main company (the brand) only sells the franchises, and the franchisers actually own and operate the restaurants. However, the main company holds very tight control over the experience (prices, branding, inspections, menus, ...).
So, should we assume anytime a minority or women is asked to be on a board now, that it's for PR? Regardless of the success of the person? Tech is nothing new to Magic Johnson, he has been a venture capitalist in the industry for some time now. He's also part owner of the LA Dodgers.
True, why does the time frame of one year matter? How long do they have to pay the fine?
A google search turns up Paoli, Pennsylvania =)

https://duck.co/help/company/hiring
HN mods:

Techcrunch have retracted their original headline as this ruling only applied to a single driver, could we get the HN headline updated accordingly to "Uber Driver Deemed Employee By California Labor Commission"?
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It's more than just a fine -- it's a precedent that tells AT&T et al this practice will not be tolerated.

5 years from now if AT&T resorts to this practice, you can bet the FCC et al will have no problems levying a much more severe consequence.
> They'll use every slippery tactic in the book to justify it and to fight it, they'll bribe^Wlobby the appropriate parties to legally define "unlimited" as "limited"

You don't think they tried this before they were fined?
I know all that, I have extensive experience with NoSQL databases like HBase. But the thing I'm asking about how does Cassandra handle CPU hotspotting on a single row.

If you have timestamp as a column you will never be able to shard a metric across servers, so accessing that metric will be I/O bound to whatever underlying storage.

My hypothesis is that if you save data as "metric.timestamp" as row instead you will get much better scalability.
It seems, new Microsoft is sharply focused on consumer part (aimed at Apple and Google) and enterprise part(aimed at Amazon cloud and others). Article conveys the same.

I won't be surprised if bing is handed over to yahoo completely.
Wouldn't that be a neat app option - put in your destination & fare (i.e. $11) and wait for a driver to agree to it.
Making phones right now is really a game of supply chain mastery and scale. Nokia didn't have an particular advantage in either area, especially when it came to smart phones. If they started making android phones, it's more likely they'd be another HTC or LG than another Samsung or Apple.
Considering that people already are installing apps on their smartphones and nod away all the checkboxes

[x] share all my contacts
[x] rummage through my images
[x] tap into microphone and camera at any time
[x] set my house on fire

such a list of allow/deny simply needs to come to browsers too.

Ideally they should be designed in a way that those feature unlocks get delayed randomly, so that they always "break" any code relying on those APIs by default. I.e. stuff should still work if the user doesn't give you the key to the city.