skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are too low level for most users and you'll eventually end up (poorly) re-inventing a PaaS if you need things like configuration, authorisation, scaling, routing, rollbacks, etc. I've found Deis (https://github.com/deis/deis) to hit the sweet spot between flexibility and convenience.

It is built on top of docker and Kubernetes (CoreOS/fleet in v1), and lets you deploy docker containers natively and/or automatically builds those for you using Heroku buildpacks or Dockerfiles when doing git push deployments. You can also drop down to the Kubernetes level if you need to for things that don't really fit the 12-factor app model without breaking Deis.

That being said, I'm totally biased as I wrote an Heroku-like UI for it (http://deisdash.com/about) and using it for our infrastructure at work. Other similar alternatives are http://pivotal.io/platform, https://flynn.io/, https://www.openshift.com/, https://github.com/dokku/dokku (for single server), etc.
“Do you see what I see?” ask Tor users, rejected as sites accept non-Tor users
Well I worked for a huge management company & Then did housing relocation on my own... I found that the biggest problem that hadn't been solved was ensuring good tenants for landlords. Had an idea for a YCombinator application. Well maybe I am being a bit modest. haha ;)
I don't feel that that's an unsubstantive comment. Because it seems to me that if people value karma points, and some people certainly do, then there would be a market whereby someone would pay a dollar amount to purchase a HN account of somebody with high karma.
CloudBees releases Jenkins-based platform for CDaaS
It says "Ping me on Twitter if you have any questions." Have you done that? This seems like a bug that the creator would appreciate knowing about.
I think if Spotify dressed down Google Cloud Platform competition, no matter the merit, there would be many more complaints (ex. see comments on this technical post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11029032).

Spotify did say that they really enjoy specific aspects of Google Cloud Platform, through their own engineering blog. Spotify engineers have also been independently vocal on Twitter.

Netflix has been very similarly vocal of their support of AWS.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on a better mindshare model, perhaps we can all learn to do things a bit better.
GMO Alarmist Nassim Taleb Backs Out of Debate. I Refute Him Anyway
That means that the end of Zynga is near. The price of the building at $600/sq ft is 1/3 of their market cap now.
"When there are only one thousand people, you still expect those who grew up in such an environment will still somehow manage a fertility rate of 1.0?"

OK, so you're going to declare that not only will fertility drop way lower than it is today, but that even in a hypothetical future where overpopulation is not a problem it must continue to drop.

And somehow my ideas are "miracles" but your ideas are obviously true.

I get the impression you're not actually open to ideas on this.
You really don't need a cake tin to make a cake. A sauce pan can actually be really convenient due to the handle, the release thing is generally useful, but you can also use a liner.

I have watched a professional baker make several high end cakes and she used very few specialized tools. The icing/Pastry bag was really the only non standard cooking item.

Remember, people want to sell you stuff. That does not make stuff necessary.
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One of the reasons I avoid Google is because they have taken lot of pain to make their customer care totally suck. I mean even IRS and Comcast support does better compared to Google.

I published a very critical release to my Android app few weeks back and realized that it was not getting published at all. It took me a month to get the problem resolved.

I don't want to buy a cloud service where the support might be nothing more than bunch of "Help yourself" pages.
They weren't proving that they were stoned while driving. Before, being stoned at all was illegal. Different charge, different enforcement.
The agent has an agenda, and no one is looking out for you, correct? What would you have liked instead?
WAT, there was no pi in that list
I almost feel bad for the guy. I'm sure he doesn't want my sympathy, but my darkest days were the times when everything I did was on a screen.
Interesting to know.
Seem prone to some very damaging false positives.
Epic+Formula+to+Aid+in+the+Fight+to+Overcome+Food+Allergies
It's not like someone forced you to marry and have three kids ;)
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You seem to have forgotten to plug your product.
> I think they're using the Peter Thiel version of the word, not the traditional economics version of the word.

Which is a poor way to communicate a point when the widely considered definition of one of your words doesn't match the one you're articulating. It assumes everyone has read Peter Thiel's book (ps - everyone has not).

It's the same with the word "startup". For a majority of the world a startup is business that has just started, but for YC (well, pg specifically[0]), the definition is "A startup is a company designed to grow fast" and more specifically notes "Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup". The definitions are not only considered inconsistent but they're explicitly inconsistent.

Communication is important and this is one of those instances where I think many people might scoff at the notion that YC is building monopolies and that's "bad".

[0] - http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
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I happen to know a few people who have grown up stewing in a sometimes-violent sometimes-cold conflict. They are openly and honestly essentialist racists, and if given the red genocide button would likely push it, or so they say. They are on the borderline about compatriots who question them, making dark jokes about traitors. I've never truly tried to engage with them, hampered by internal disquiet that kept me mostly quiet. I would say the value of knowing them lies in the knowledge of where complete breakdown of the peace leads. But I am disturbed by the way I see them, as lost causes and human writeoffs.
Another alternative was proposed by Hawking & Hertog (Phys Rev D, 2006, see below): walk the present values surface back to a superposition of possible universes and study the mechanisms that generate probabilities near one. That then is their way of asking about the degree of fine-tuning, with the anthropic principle being recasta as a constraint on the set of possible consistent histories.

H&H spend a lot of time comparing themselves to the approach of selecting an initial values surface in the early universe and marching it forward; they more or less do the same but flip the direction of the arrow of time and arrive at a superposed state. Re-flipping the arrow of time leads to relic fields like the CMB carrying evidence for the superposition.

Essentially this is just taking time-reversibility of local microscopic physics seriously (great), and absorbing the difference in degrees of freedom in macroscopic physics into a superposition (uh, ok). The problem of setting up a values surface remains pretty much the same. "Fine tuning" is just a way of saying that the system is sensitive to the values it evolves from (or to).

I'm not really convinced that that a present-day spacelike hypersurface is easier to write down than an early-time initial values surface.

ArXiv version: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0602091
Airplanes are not "insanely efficient" when it comes to greenhouse gasses. A plane emits roughly the same amount of greenhouse gasses per mile per person as a car. Maybe 50% if we assume an efficient plane and an inefficient car. And the number of miles travelled by plane is typically much more. Even one round trip flight from SF to europe is 10,000 miles, which is comparable to a year's worth of driving for one person.
Me too. I wish there were an "Uber for photography lenses", an "Uber for power tools", and so on which deliver these items to you on demand, pick them back up when you're done, and charge appropriately you for the rental.
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I had no clue spotify operated their own data centers.

Does anyone have a link to that compares google cloud vs aws on a per price + per service basis ?
So Peter Thiel's version of "monopoly" is "oligopoly"? Why use a term specific to economics if you're using it in a non-economic sense?
Got it, thanks! What about running a postgres container on GKE?
They have a paid support service that is actually pretty good.

It sounds like you're avoiding the generic Google in the same way you'd not buy something from Amazon vs. using AWS.
> infinitely auto-scalable platform where we don't have to do any devops or carry a pager

You never know what you don't measure and test
Stainless steel refrigerators look nice and are non-ferrous so the magnets don't work!
It's agriculture, sometimes it stinks. I'd trade a dozen cannabis farms for the plastic pipe plant in my town, or the local egg farm. Same for mushrooms, corn or other grain processing, a feedlot, good grief they all stink.
I'm sure you can figure it out. =)
This may be a totally absurd question, but is there a way to comply such that the government explicitly acknowledges that a case cannot be used as precedence?

i.e. comply with the order, but this case legally can't be referred to ever again as justification of precedence in any other case.
Great to hear you're using JIRA, Bitbucket and Confluence together. How is the integration between the tools? It's definitely a use case we're hearing more often where teams need more than just storing and working on code.
The post says he's in a furnished home with an unspecified amount of kitchenware. That's what I'm taking for granted. You can easily make a loaf of bread with exactly these items: flour, water, salt, yeast, a bowl, your hands, an oven, a sheet pan. Amounts can be eyeballed, and you knead and add flour or water as needed. Yeah, dish soap is nice to have, but who is imagining that Mr. Sivers is trying to live without dish soap?
Does he ever complain about the paper-work involved? Or the time wasted finding adequate tenants? Just wondering. :)
Whenever I see smart geeks talking about tons of CO2, I always wonder what percentage of them know whether the Arrhenius effect (temperature forcing as a function of CO2 concentration) is exponential, linear, or logarithmic.

Answer here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius#Greenhouse_ef...
You don't necessarily need C header files. Rust is able to export symbols easily with the C ABI; if your language has the ability to take a library and call such symbols (Python/Ruby do; for example), you're fine. It's only C++ where you need a header file because that's how C++ binds with any library. It's not a Rust-to-any-language issue, header files are a Rust-to-C++ issue only; really, an any-language-to-C++-or-C issue (I think such a tool exists, too).
True, while other providers focus on DevOps, Google Cloud strives for NoOps. They should do more marketing on that.
We offer paid support for Cloud (http://cloud.google.com/support) that let you trade off responsive time (e.g., 4 hours vs 1) for price.

The support personnel (and engineering!) also do best effort scanning of Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and per-product mailing lists. You can get links to those here: https://cloud.google.com/support/#community.

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine, but not in Support (though I do jump in and support customers!)
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You also forgot to include a link to your hiring page in your website, too bad you're not hiring remotely https://angel.co/gearlaunch/jobs
No.

The number is not relevant. It could be 1 or a million, as long as every one of them fear for their life or job, or something like that everybody is going to keep quiet.
Are you implying that we don't measure and test? We do and I'm very happy with the results. =) StackDriver, Google Cloud console, Intercom, Mixpanel and Pingdom are all being used as well.
As a long time Spotify user who switched to Google a few months ago: I really like the playlists and I've found a lot of new music that I like. The recommendations have worked really well. I'm not looking back.
I'm on mobile so can't directly link you but there's a support form for getting songs fixed.
And there is no something as a 'jewish race'.
When did I ever insinuate that hard work and success are a crime? Nowhere. Did you even read my comment? My beef has nothing to do with his net worth, but with his actual values, his sneering insistence that hard work alone is enough and that somehow good ol' elbow grease alone is enough to combat a systemically rigged economy.
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There are vendors running managed Postgres services on Google Cloud Platform, like ElephantSQL [1] and Aiven [2]. And you can of course run your own on GCE, even to the extent of 24/7 commercial support - you can run EnterpriseDB from Cloud Launcher [3].

And, you can also run Kubernetes on AWS - we have a group focused on making sure it's an excellent experience.

I work for Google Cloud Platform; ping me if you'd like more help with either option.

[1] https://www.elephantsql.com/blog/2014-11-17-google-compute-e...
[2] https://aiven.io/
[3] https://cloud.google.com/launcher/solution/public-edb-ppas/e...
> I wish there was a startup in this space.

Why must everything be a startup?

You can hire tools, protective clothing, etc. from many DIY/trade stores.
Definitely a good start. I'm hoping they add Answers integration to the app quickly as that is one of the more impactful Fabric uses for us.
I thought bing already showed more ads on a serp than google
Wikipedia lists 16 battles of Adrianople (Edirne, Turkey)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Adrianople_(disambig... but this map shows only three.
Personally, I had some courses on computer architectures, and those covered the theory of how CPUs are constructed, how they run programs, etc. I decided to write an NES emulator. So:
- Find Wikipedia articles, and learn that it used a variant of the MOS Technology 6502, which was used in a lot of computers in the 80s.

- Find some digitized assembly programming manuals from the time (I think the one I used was distributed with the Commodore 64, and ended up having several typos introduced by OCR).

- Write a tool to recognize, decode, and print out an operation when you feed it a little data

- You basically need to set up a loop of fetching instructions, interpreting them, then doing what they say. An actual CPU runs in a similar loop, and it generally doesn't stop until power is removed,

I think that after the classes I took, I read a lot of what other emulator writers said. This article is a basic look at the structure of an emulator, the theory behind them, and some different designs: http://fms.komkon.org/EMUL8/HOWTO.html
I'm getting at the idea of having to rearrange the code inside classes because your original assumptions have changed. Sometimes this involves moving stuff between classes. This is especially messy if the class has any member variables or relies on private functions.
Why? Twitter is a fantastic way to find leads and potential sources. You can't and shouldn't cite a tweet from a random person, but you can cite reporting done after finding a source on Twitter.
I see marriage failures or catastrophic divorce rates bandied about a lot in these types of societal decay rants, and it bothers me. The divorce rate has been dropping for decades[1]. A proposed reason for that actually has to do with more equitable opportunities in career, in that women are more free to pursue a career of their choice, and so value systems have realigned to where marriages could be based more on couples being partners, with similar interests and ambitions.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/upshot/how-we-know-the-div...
> In my book, nothing wrong with that.

Your book applies to what you do alone on your property.

When you act in a social context, other people's books also matter. That your philosophy treats other people's opinions as somehow irrelevant to your interactions with them is definitely of a piece with your "pussy whipped" framing.

Note also that you're creating a false choice between a disingenuous "apology" and speaking the truth. A fake apology isn't actually respectful of other people; it's just a way to camouflage your disrespect. The choice you're eliding is for you to actually understand why people object to that phrase and respect their views, whether or not you agree with them.

The reason you don't, of course, is because you'd sound ridiculous if you actually expanded your implicit views. E.g.: "I understand that most people today see men and women as equals, and I respect their right to believe it. But personally I disagree, and I think their mistake is not seeing that things were better back in the day when men had both legal and social dominance such that wives had neither control over family assets nor even the expectation that they might have a voice in the decision. I hope everyone comes to see the merit in my views, and that we together return to the legal and social structures that held prior to the adoption of the 19th amendment."
Well, that's part of why I'm personally not interested in making fancy cakes or running ultra marathons. My comment was a reply to someone who could not imagine a fulfilling life without a bunch of equipment, and who said "I actually like doing things", as if that necessarily means acquiring special equipment... Apparently it's controversial that many fulfilling activities can be done with very little material help?
If riding a bike in your city is dangerous, the people should work towards making it better. Collect sings, go to the council, say we want bike lanes, etc.
Related, the notion of "peak stuff:"

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/31/consume...
There's nothing stopping anybody for sure, but it's definitely not going to be as hands-off for getting to high availability, backups, scaling well, etc would be with managed SQL as a service.
What kind of support am I going to get if I'm just tinkering with the platform? Maybe I'm just used to AWS but I always found the GCE interface (at least for launching VMs) a lot more difficult to use.
I want to see your lovely face in the office every day. =)
Nice writeup on that here: https://blog.oestrich.org/2015/08/running-postgres-inside-ku...
Last time I flew, I was flying out late-ish from SF. Knowing the Amex lounge was near my gate, I was able to go surfing for a while rather than worrying about eating before my flight. I got there and was able to relax in decent chairs and tolerable wifi with some free drinks and dinner. Then on the way back, I took my 80 minute layover in Dallas as an opportunity to get a decent breakfast and have a nice place to sit, since my first flight that morning started at 5:30 AM eastern. Each time, the lounge just felt like an escape from the many filters and crowds of airports. I certainly wouldn't pay for access, but I appreciate the improvement in experience it affords me.
>but for most people in first-world countries: Running: Specialized shoes and gear (...) Penmanship: Specialized quills and ink

"Most people" in first world countries hardly ever run.

The official statistics I've seen put "joggers and runners" as 17-18% of the US population, and their definition includes all the "people who went jogging or running within the last 12 months in the United States" -- so in reality, much much less, especially after school/college age. This makes those irrelevant for the 80% and more. In most first world countries, which don't share the US obsession with jogging, that's substantially less.

As for "Penmanship, quills and ink", that's not even a thing for the overwhelming majority of the population. At least not since 1950.

And "making electronica"? I happen to do that, but I can count on one hand the number of people I know who even know what Roland or Ableton are (apart from collaborators etc).

So, I'd hardly call this list representative -- if it said "urban hipster" maybe, but the "for most people" qualifier is totally bogus.
Pi is not a fundamental physical constant and has myriad uses. α is only special when observing that it is a physical constant; you need to observe the physical universe to arrive at the conclusion that it's a meaningful number.
Maybe they are downsizing and won't be needing room for that many employees.
“New Life Candle” the candle that gives birth
"Photography, 1 decent camera is really enough."

If only. I have several lenses for a variety of situations. A lighting rig for indoor shoots which includes bounces, tripods, umbrellas, cords and rigging. Then there's the tripod, plus a back pack for the smaller stuff. Not to mention backdrop equipment.

There's a big difference between casual hobby and serious hobby.
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Sure, I'm all for a test that can determine your actual capabilities on the fly. What is that?

I agree that the "why" isn't that important (or at all), but what is the alternative?
Our company motto is that we will strive to never hire a devops role and will work to design and engineer our platform in a way that backs up that claim.
I think the key problem with "stuff" is when "stuff" starts running your life and dragging you down.

People clearly have different thresholds for too much stuff, but there is one universal indicator for when you definitely you have too much stuff: You have too much stuff if you can't "put everything away".

By "put everything away" I mean be able to put everything away and then later find it without rummaging or unpacking boxes. It means having tables with nothing but permanent fixtures on them and shelves where everything is visible at a glance. It means, often, that getting new stuff means discarding old stuff to make room.

It takes a long time to get to that point, but it looks great and inspires creativity.
Indeed. I'm guessing that minefield.com wasn't available.
ConEmu is good - Cmder makes it a lot easier to set up as it has clink already configured. Still a few inconsistencies, but I've got a nice setup with Cmder, gow, and a few other shell tweaks.
Last year, we commissioned an independent 3rd-party vendor to prepare a whitepaper comparing GCP pricing with AWS: https://cloud.google.com/files/esg-whitepaper.pdf

We also have a handy guide for AWS professionals who are looking at Google's cloud: https://cloud.google.com/docs/google-cloud-platform-for-aws-...

[Disclosure, I work for GCP, but I love all TLAs equally]
I find if you can get anyone to consider the tradeoffs of things they believe, that alone makes it possible and worthwhile to have a conversation. But those people are rare. (I think Rich Hickey noted this is even a problem in programming language flamewars...)
Really cool work. Looking forward to updates.

When I tried to run Internet Explorer and open a website, the window closed (crashed I guess).

I really want to open some common websites on Win 98 :D
They key here is that it's a shareable url.

That's much easier to send along to someone in product or a C*O who may not be comfortable with the dev tools.
Where did you get that 60% figure from? The EPA gives very different numbers.

http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.htm...

http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/ch4.htm...
Man, you should consider remote options at least for the Customer Success given how low you're paying (is $50K really livable in San Francisco?).
Maybe a clarification is in order. BUT, this is YC's attempt to make their advice available to the broader community. If you're interested in YC and listen to their advice, you will likely have heard about Peter Thiel's monopoly (see Sam Altman's "How to Start a Startup" series w/ Peter Thiel otherwise).

I'm just happy they're making this advice available.

EDIT: Here ya go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oKjLVECMKA