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Basically, GlusterFS is trying to solve a hard problem: make distributed/remote filesystem to feel like a local filesystem for applications built on top of it. For the client, you can choose from NFS, SMB or its homemake fuse client, which makes the remote system accessible as if everything is on local file system. I used to build similar systems in house and find it extremely painful to design and maintain, we did lots of custom hacks to make our system to suit our need. GlusterFS, as a general solution, won't have that much flexibility and may or may not suit your custom needs.

Overall, I feel AWS S3 is a better (or at least simpler) approach. Just acknowledge that files are not locally stored and use them as is. AWS is experimenting EFS as well, which we found not as desirable as well.

Edit: I am not saying that you cannot make GlusterFS or EFS perform great. My appoint it that it's hard to do so, and might not worth the effort to develop such a system given that S3 can serve most needs of distributed file storage.
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To be fair, I'm not sure a new touchID sensor is expensive. I cracked the screen on my 6 the other day, and was investigating DIY screen replacements. $100 for screen+digitizer not so bad, but I hear the replacement is a bit of a bear.

Fortunately a friend overheard my conversation and recommended I just take it to Apple. Sure enough, screen replacements are something like $105 out the door. The replace the screen and digitizer.

When I went back for my phone, they told me they tried 2 new screens+digitizers and neither one worked, so they just gave me a new phone for the "screen replacement" price.

Needless to say, I was quite happy I didn't try to DIY. I had no idea the "official" Apple repairs would be so cheap. I guess things have gotten a lot more consumer friendly since the bad PR days of cracked screens.

I'm not sure if the home button is replaced in a screen replacement, but I can't imagine it's particularly expensive vs a screen+digitizer replacement.
Or Honest CEOs?
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The phone might not even have to contain anything useful for it to be said to have been helpful by the elimination of that avenue of research. "Apple helped by showing the phone had no information on the attack and we've moved on to other investigative avenues."

One could twist things all day long to fit a goal.
How do you get a common API for storage and user management between the two models? Any docs?
Co-worker of mine, actual quote: "Yeah, I know there's a pay disparity, and women are paid less than men. But really, socially, they have all the power."

THAT, my friend is a "tech bro" and he's in SF.
I made another comment, but screen+digitizer replacement for my 6 cost $105. Not bad at all IMO. The parts alone cost $100 online.
It means placing an experience in context, and being able to relate it to other contexts.

For example, if you know someone who works with PHP then contextualizing their experience could follow these steps: understand that PHP is a programming language, look at their code and see it is well architected, decide to hire them even despite inexperience in Ruby because they have the core skills.

Being unable to contextualize experience isn't the same as not having emotional empathy. It is being unable to have an actionable intellectual grasp of a topic.
I agree that a good portion of the valuation must have been largely driven by fear and their potential to destroy that much value rather than create it. The factor that both challenges and supports your argument is how small their team was at acquisition (reportedly 32 engineers, 55 total). Charging $1 a year per user after the first year was bringing in revenue, and it wouldn't take much to be a "traditional business" ie. profitable. They also had zero-rated revenue-sharing deals with Reliance Telecom in India years ago as another potential source of revenue – I suspect relationships like this played a larger role in the acquisition than as they thought they would lay the groundwork for internet.org.

Your comment made me curious about what their actual revenues and costs were leading up to the sale. Putting (massive) stock-based compensation expenses aside it looks like their revenues and operating costs were actually pretty close[1]. That's not delving into potential revenue growth connected to payments and B2C interaction following the path which was already being laid out by wechat[2]-Facebook has decided to attempt this with messenger instead of whatsapp. I'm not saying that they would have quickly found enough revenue to justify a $20B valuation, but that it resembled a traditional business a lot more than many other social startups, and they were kept lean and probably better positioned to capitalize on growth than others.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/28/whatsapp-revenue/ "For the year ending December 31, 2013, WhatsApp had $10.2 million in revenue … net cash used in operating during this period was only $9.9 million"

[2] http://dangrover.com/blog/2014/12/01/chinese-mobile-app-ui-t...
>I work with retail data on behalf of large companies, and companies like Walmart and Target don't want any of the point of sale or inventory feeds they provide to their suppliers hosted on cloud infrastructure owned by a competitor.

Target isn't a competitor to Google Express, in fact, Target is one of Google's retailer partners in Google Express.

(Walmart isn't really a competitor to Google Express, either, since they don't do an aggregate-and-deliver service like Google Express, but it isn't a partner, either, and a number of their competitors are partners, so I suppose there might be some way they see the service as making Google a competitor.)

Anyhow, to the extent that this is a problem, Google Express has been around for a few years, the only thing new is fresh grocery delivery instead of just dry goods. So, to the extent there is a problem with companies "like Walmart and Target" seeing this kind of aggregate-and-deliver service as a competitor their retail business that makes then not want their data hosted on Google's cloud, your "big project" has been "completely screwed" since Google Shopping Express (its original name) launched in 2013.
I wonder why they even did this. They already have a state of the art distributed filesystem (Colossus) which doesn't have any scalability problems at all, since they use it for everything.

http://www.highlyscalablesystems.com/3202/colossus-successor...
Scientists are floored by what’s happening in the Arctic right now
I live in the world's most polluted city
No, because this scandal is entirely the fault of Zenefits and people who worked there. No one else. Period.
I think he's arguing that government's power to destroy big companies is only as strong as the popular distaste for those companies.

A company like Apple, which is practically an icon of "everything America still gets right," would be a very politically dangerous target to go after.
I wouldn't emphasize on high output. But I'd bet 1000$ that regular physical activity will shift your diet back to healthy. After running I never crave sodas, I want raw food and water, lots of it.
Good thing that's NOT what is required.
For context, the rant is from 2011. Steve Yegge meant to publish it internally as Google was dogfeeding Google+ to their employees, but he accidentally published it publically.

I though Google's response was impressive. From Steve[1]:

> "Everyone just laughed at me a lot, all the way up to the top, for having committed what must be the great-granddaddy of all Reply-All screwups in tech history. But they also listened, which is super cool. I probably shouldn’t talk much about it, but they’re already figuring out how to deal with some of the issues I raised."

[1]https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV...
They probably would have had a more informative error message.
This feature has interesting synergy with GitHub Pages, where .md files can simply be dragged-and-dropped into a folder to get published as a blog post on the web.

It may be enough to remove the must-be-programmer-who-understands-git barrier to entry, anyways.

EDIT: GitHub Pages still requires specific file naming for posts and YAML front matter, so it's not perfectly non-programmer friendly. It might be a good idea to write a tutorial as a blog post/screencast, though.
Over the long run, this eats itself. It would result in a lot of low-quality but highly connected 'juiced' companies getting too much of a boost from brand but then flopping by failing to actually deliver on their hype. In the end this dilutes the brand, and is self-correcting. YC would end up with a reputation as an over-hyped old boy network past its prime, etc.

Sure you can ride into town on a big white horse but if you can't handle your gun... :)

It can take a while to manifest. Like a bank account, large pools of goodwill and brand equity take a long time to drain. But eventually the draining happens. The tech industry is so fast that 'a while' might be 'a few years.'
> Rice is a good source of protein and a staple food in many parts of the world, but it is not a complete protein: it does not contain all of the essential amino acids in sufficient amounts for good health, and should be combined with other sources of protein, such as nuts, seeds, beans, fish, or meat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice
That would seem to be the default outcome, based on experiences of other American companies in China. It still makes sense for Uber to fight for their place in China, though. The opportunity is too big to just concede defeat. Uber are also probably a bit more street smart than the other American internet companies that have previously failed to establish their place in China.
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Digg 2.0 was a fail from the beginning
I don't think they have gotten worse, I have always been struck by the inconsistent behavior of microwave keypads. I've used plenty, and each time I have to experiment to see if, like you say, hitting the 'add minute' or '+30 seconds' will cause it to start, or require hitting start afterwards. Changing power levels is also a guessing game, do you set time then power, or the other way around? And on and on. I doubt Linux-enabling one could make this worse...
They can be confident because they are free to assert whatever they want about the contents of the phone. Nobody will have access to information that contradicts their assertions.
"I was just stating my opinion. If somebody wants to go to an incompetent insurance broker, or do dangerous drugs, or jump off a cliff, I think that should be their right since those decisions don't significantly affect anyone else."

This has been proven false time and time again. I know libertarian types like to pretend it, but you are not an island. You do not exist in a vacuum.
I probably get 6 hours on arch Linux full back light. Battery life seems better on Windows (my friend's machine)
Actually, they got a Pepsi. Tastes the same, affects the body the same, the only thing different was the packaging. And to be honest, if they didn't hire her because of the interviewers bias then she may have dodged a bullet- that kind of thing really raises a red flag for what a companies culture really values. And now I'll be more wary if looking for a job at AirBnb
There are no plans to break backwards-compatibility in Python 4 like Python 3 did with Python 2. If there is any breaking change it will be something like the C API to remove the GIL or something (otherwise it will be standard stuff like removing deprecated modules and functions).
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Ah although it's typical for designers to do this sort of thing, marketers also do it.

She's a marketer. This is the equivalent of nice PDF, which is the output of most marketing departments to their higher ups.
Why is this a good thing? Shouldn't we be striving for a merit based system and not a system that benefits the few people that are able to get through the YC interview process?
> From the article they're simply entering the "delivery" market...

Rather, they are expanding the delivery service they launched 3 years ago to include groceries.

They aren't just entering the delivery market.
Can you mount Colossus? Does it have POSIX semantics?
Across all goods, purchasing power is still lower for the median worker in an impoverished country compared to the median western worker. Look at the price of all goods you can afford (healthcare, electronics, etc), not just a few specific items like food and rent. Many of those may not even be available in the poorer country at any realistic price.

That aside, an equivalent USD wage will still provide for more people in a poor country than in a rich one.
Nope. It's a thing, for some reason. I've got it as well. There's even an xkcd[0].

0 - https://xkcd.com/1271/
What you are describing is orthostatic hypotension and is somewhat common in otherwise healthy people. Though it can be a sign of some medical coditions so getting it checked out is advisable, perhaps get a second opinion?

(If your blood pressure is on the low side raising it will likely help, but obviously consult with a doctor)
How is that hypocrisy?

>We beat some people in some markets, but now we're being beaten in this market, I wish we weren't.
The article even acknowledges this, which makes the title essentially clickbait.
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> It's not as though the AI had a lover who left them and drew inspiration from that experience to become a more effective AI.

Well then your ex-lover clearly deserves co-songwriting credits. As well as their parents. And anybody who has influenced them personally, or even anyone who made the food that they've eaten. There's gotta be a point at which the original is just too far removed from the end result for it to be infringing, otherwise you could just keep going.

Also is a model that classifies things isn't the same as those things themselves, or images of those things, and would most I certainly hope it would be considered transformative enough to not be infringing (I am not a lawyer though). I could give it an image of a dog, and it will tell me what it thinks it is. But there doesn't seem to be any way for me to say "show me a dog" and get back any sort of image, infringing or not.

Some thought experiments: Let's say you have a copyrighted photo, and I design an API that allows anyone to upload a photo and get a true/false of whether or not it's the same file as your photo. Is this copyright infringement if I never release the original photo?
And what's the social cost of unlicensed, untrained people selling insurance? What's the societal cost of people who have not studied selling insurance that they might not understand?
If you are looking for a POSIX compatible file system for GCE or EC2, we think our ObjectiveFS[1] is the easiest way to get started and use. It is a log structured filesystem using GCS or S3 for backend storage and with a ZFS like interface to manage your filesystems.

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I don't see them calling it unfair. Obviously they don't like it, but that's not the same.
Upload from the browser? O tempora o mores!
It's not about evil vs not evil. It's about how to make profits. They've chosen different models. I tend to side with Apple's method, but that doesn't mean I don't use both companies' products, and I'll happily avoid one or the other when I feel that features are lacking.
This reminds me of John Cleese’s [wonderful lecture on creativity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qby0ed4aVpo). A rough [transcript](http://genius.com/John-cleese-lecture-on-creativity-annotate...).
And in most of the places you "can't bring your gun" the law in Missouri is such that you can only be asked to leave, and if the police have to be called, the first time it's a wrist slap (although that of course says nothing about trespassing etc.).
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I think it's amusing that your backend is still human, because really you're just shifting the task onto others, not necessarily solving it.

We've "solved it" per se on Experiment by getting good at training other scientists to get good at this. Unfortunately, that's also still pretty technically hard, but we've developed some editorial heuristics.

Like a real NLP + UpGoerFive approach would be awesome and a real value to the science community, but probably very difficult. :)
It still shows an incredible amount of unethical behavior, and more of this pattern of "I'm a startup! I'm special! The law shouldn't apply to me!" Special snowflake syndrome, just exhibited by a company.
The iPhone 5/5C does not have a secure enclave. That was a feature of the A7 chip in the 5S and newer. This is how it's possible for Apple to modify the phone's firmware without wiping the phone. I suspect that the iPhone 5/5C and older's encryption key was stored on a regular flash chip somewhere.

edit: the "firmware" update is an iOS update that removes the software limitation. SOFTWARE LIMITATION. On newer iPhones it's hardware (secure enclave).

Yes, you can do an firmware update on an encrypted iPhone. It's not full disk encryption. Only user data is encrypted.
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what about birds milk and snake oil?
Take a look at Kubernetes Volumes [1], this is what we use to abstract away storage. There's nothing special to do on your end, we'll port your application to use volumes during onboarding.

[1] http://kubernetes.io/v1.0/docs/user-guide/volumes.html
Finally you can have all kinds of creatives using github without telling them how to use the command line or even the github desktop apps. Thank you github.
It's not an hexedit away because Apple won't have to provide it to the Feds, hence they can still demand a court order each and every time. Except for the cost, it's no different than if they had to re-build it every time.
It's not jaded, it's an accurate understanding of China's historically mercantile attitude.

I cannot for the life of me think of a single foreign product or company operating in China that China hasn't copied for their own version (or ripped off, like the fake Apple stores). The only exceptions are culture companies, where the brand matters more than the product (Pizza Hut; McDonalds; Starbucks).
Even if they don't sell it, their business model requires that they have access to it. Apple's argument here is that they don't have it.
what does the Witchsmeller Pursuivant say :-D
Maybe that fixes it. Maybe you don't even have to if the copyright question only ever remains theoretical. I have a feeling it might only be a matter of time until this question arises in a case, though.
I think it was a joke that the huge successes are always referenced when this sort of critique comes up.
Does anyone know the largest net loss a company has ever had for the year prior to an IPO? Uber must be 2 years max from going public and their losses seem to be accelerating[0].

[0] https://www.theinformation.com/ubers-losses-grow-but-so-do-i...
The interest in using HTTP for microservices is because it's familiar to most developers. It's the same reason almost all public APIs are based on HTTP. There are just so many tools in the HTTP API ecosystem, from management gateways to documentation generators.

Interestingly, even public APIs with push capability are usually HTTP-based (e.g. Twitter's streaming API, GitHub webhook notifications, etc). I predict most microservices will end up working this way too.
It seems weird to me that Google isn't distributing ChromeOS as an installable OS. Isn't their goal to get everyone using Chrome, not to sell ChromeOS hardware?
The Goldilocks Principle
1 sounds like security by obscurity and it sounds like prevent information being made public knowledge that should impact customers' choices and might lead to better locking down the system. While the ideal rational consumer would be just as impacted by a standard disclosure, I've never met an ideal rational consumer. People will be much more aware if you can show them a web page that gives a step by step guide how to destroy their security system.

To give a comparison, consider all the NSA spying leaks and then consider that show host (John Oliver I believe) who went around asking people questions in a way that made them much more informed of what the implications of spying was, and in doing so changed their reaction.
By using this API, we're effectively training Google's system to be more and more accurate. Shouldn't Google pay us for using it? Just saying :-)
If there's no service specific T&Cs for this, it falls under their general cloud T&Cs: https://cloud.google.com/terms/. s.5:

> 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, this Agreement does not grant either party any rights, implied or otherwise, to the other’s content or any of the other’s intellectual property. As between the parties, Customer owns all Intellectual Property Rights in Customer Data and the Application or Project (if applicable), and Google owns all Intellectual Property Rights in the Services and Software.

> 5.2 Use of Customer Data. Google will not access or use Customer Data, except as necessary to provide the Services to Customer.
"Consider that the people & companies investing in pre-IPO U$1B companies are extreme expert investors"

And regular employees getting paid in options.

"Imposing additional regs on a 'privately held' company simply because they accepted enough money to give them a U$1B valuation punishes them for growth."

No, it doesn't. It shows an acceptance of reality.
I'm sure this could be retrofitted even if it does not.
You might be on to something here, in that the incentives are completely changed. Rather than cooperatively funding programs, adversarially fund programs - create competition for who can serve the homeless the best, elsewhere.

The "enforcement" aspect isn't even really necessary - just give out this income often enough and far enough away from the city that traveling back and forth every time is impractical.

I'm imagining SF opening a sizable homeless shelter in LA, busing people down there, and then giving them some sort of BI there. (Yes, such busing has gotten a bad wrap, but bear with the thought experiment). Meanwhile, LA can do the same thing to get rid of their homeless. Each city would be incentivized to spend more, efficiently, on maintaining shelters in each other's cities.

There's a gradient where infrastructure-poor towns in the middle of nowhere would be cheaper. And who would want to move to a majority homeless city to own/work business to serve them? But could this be softened with the return trip being guaranteed, contractually obligated with independent oversight?
No, but I generally do not love meta programming books. I have read a few like "Office not required"... but books about being more productive? Nah
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Github has needed this for awhile. I was using Cloud9 for awhile to push changes to github when all I really wanted was this feature.