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Sure it makes business sense for Google to do this, but you've gotta admit to having that same reservation for every new Google service.

Would you build a business model that relies on a brand new Google service?

Hell no - give it a few years, and wait to see if the "customer support" consists of hundreds of other suckers who've gone all-in complaining to each other on the public forums, with not even the original 20% time Gooogler bothering to read or respond to anything...

It's just happened too often. (And I know Nest and Revolv aren't "Google" as such, but they're definitely run by "Googlers" and are under the same adult supervision, so it's not even like you can say "sure, they _used_ to be like that...")
This is another reason the court's decision to fine Apple over the iBookstore and its publisher agreements was such a shame.

Amazon still has a stranglehold on the market and authors suffer for it.
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"For the folks that I know, they don't consider it pay so if the options which they haven't exercised are underwater they don't consider them a "pay cut.""

Umm, if I had options that were in the money, that suddenly ceased to be, I absolutely would consider that a pay cut.
OP Here> yes, omission on our part. CloudFlare is very popular and even more so on HackerNews. We should have added it. There are simply too many CDNs to put into one post/chart and still make the article interesting. You can sign up to our blog to get more information which does not necessarily becomes trending on HN or elsewhere.
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drawed only seems to appear in the type of dictionaries they let just anybody edit.

The article mostly seemed to be trying to surprise us with the obvious.
Sometimes it feels like the opposite. Any day that has the slightest hint of holiday to it is "markets closed! remember no work tomorrow! hooray for national silly lala day!"
Amazing readme. This project is so well documented.
He's not at the airport. This is a PRIVATE communication between two individuals. It's absurd that this power is available to a government.
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This is why I mentioned a spoofer, not jammer :)
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Redundant, you say? Tear it up!

Amazing how that word is contronymic, yet not.
"We deeply understand" - the worst thing I want to hear from a CDN. I want full control like Fastly allows me to use my own VCLs. "Deep understanding" is not something that I find as a plus as I read it as "we assume a lot of things (wrongly)". "Full control", "cache tags", "wildcard/tag purging", "sub-minute purges", etc. - these are the things I want from a CDN. I don't want another CloudFront!
What can a biology major get into?
For someone with a bachelors in general bio, what are all the possible options of job titles to get into (entry level)?
> Then I read complaints about how the owners (shareholders) of the company are making pots of money and the employees aren't, and how brutally unfair that is.

The employees should be receiving dividend-like cash bonuses and should be receiving salaries that actually afford the cost of living in their geographic location (in addition to legitimate retirement contributions, 40-hour work weeks, generous vacation, and legitimate insurance benefits, which all should simply be regarded as the absolute bare minimum conditions of employment period).

Saying it's either stock or no stock is a false dilemma. The same amount of compensation should be shared with the employees, just not necessarily in stock format.

I'm also not opposed to someone who chooses to take company stock instead of an equivalent cash bonus. If you weigh up those risks, you're a grown up and can choose for yourself.

But for most people, taking a cash bonus and putting it into a simple low-fee index fund or ETF is going to be worth a ton more than their company stock, while also lowering their overall risk, since a market downturn won't affect their regular paycheck and since their regular employer won't affect their return to their outside investments.

The point is they should have the choice.

> BTW, 20 years ago I read a statistic that Microsoft had made 10,000 millionaires just in the Seattle area alone.

BTW I read that someone somewhere won the lottery ... better go buy a ticket.
The key to making this work is the quality of the listings. It has to significantly better than a Google search of what is on locally. Unless you have some serious AI this will need to be done manually by a highly skilled team. Do the economics work when you need lots of expensive labour?

Do you know how homogeneous the interests hotel guests are by location? If they aren't homogeneous then it will be very hard to create a list of interest to more than a minority of guests.
An interesting defense of LambdaConf's decision: https://status451.com/2016/04/17/a-tale-of-two-tyrannies/
Where private is defined as "financial transaction through an intermediary who is bound by several laws regarding the laundering or potential illegal use of money".
What a wonderful, touching obituary. Thank you, Ben.

When you've finished with your life and you can look back and see all the lives you've touched this way, you've done it right.
I got burned by App Engine so I get the vibe but frankly a bot could post this same argument on every Google thread and it wouldn't move the needle one way or the other.

Would I put containers on Google Cloud in return for free upload bandwidth to YouTube and use their CDN because it was easy? You bet your ass I would. If you can't tell the difference between a novelty thermostat and a major, long-term, strategic corporate investment then you've got bigger problems than switching DNS entries for a CDN.
Where does the 40km/h speed come from? As far as I'm aware, much of the system allows 70 km/h operation.
Or people names Isis?
Goldren Rice has made no significant progress even though we have extensive use of Glyphosate-resistant GMOs.

From what I've read the people behind golden rice have yet to release their product for 20 years now, while at the same time in the US we've switched the majority of our largest crop yields to GMO products with wheat being the major holdout.

GMO corn, soybeans and sugar beets aren't being produced for health, they are being pushed to keep the American diet of highly processed sweets and oil cheap.
> I'd be shocked if they had the basic "fossil fuel to CO2" relationship wrong.

I would too, and I wasn't claiming that they did. The CO2 rise prediction in the Robinson 1968 paper was actually reasonable; but the fact remains that to compare their temperature prediction with what actually happened, we have to first adjust it based on what actually happened with CO2 compared to what they predicted.

> They gave a range from about 1 F to 7 F. The actual rise is about 1 F. I'd call that a success!

They gave a range based on different assumptions about how humidity would change. Their prediction of 1 F was based on no change in absolute humidity--i.e., the same absolute water vapor content in the air despite a rise in temperature. That corresponds to a significant reduction in relative humidity, which clearly did not occur. In fact, the actual data on relative humidity change suggests, if anything, a slight increase in RH from 1968 to 2000. The Robinson 1968 paper prediction corresponding to that assumption is 7 F, as I said. So their prediction was not a success.

> why did you switch between F and C?

Current temperature projections, such as the IPCC reports, routinely use C, so that's what most recent figures are quoted in, including the data on temperature rise over the late 20th century. Feel free to convert back to F if you're more comfortable with that.

> the top end of the projection (which the GP thinks it the right model)

I didn't say I personally thought it was the "right" model; I said it's the model that appears to be most consistent with the position taken by the Robinson 1968 paper. Remember that the topic of discussion here is not how the climate actually changed from 1968 to 2000; the topic is whether the oil companies, in 1968, were remiss in not accepting the predictions made in the Robinson 1968 paper and acting accordingly--since that's the argument the article is making.

> From whence did the GP draw the incorrect claim that humidity has remained the same?

I said the usual assumption in making climate predictions is that relative humidity remains constant. (The data seems to bear out this assumption, as I noted above; but I don't see any data on RH in the excerpts of the Robinson 1968 paper.) Relative humidity is not the same as "cloudiness", so I don't see how your findings say anything about how, if at all, RH actually changed from 1968 to 2000.

Also, the Robinson 1968 paper, as far as I can tell from the excerpts, does not mention "cloudiness". This might simply be because that paper misunderstood Moller's model. But in any case, that would mean the Robinson 1968 paper did not take into account an additional factor that would clearly reduce the predicted temperature rise based on a given CO2 rise. So if you are correct that the actual increase in cloudiness was significant in reducing the temperature rise over the last half century, you are agreeing with me that the Robinson 1968 paper was overpredicting temperature rise, and therefore the oil companies, in 1968, were not remiss in treating that paper as they did.
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At the end of the day its up to the employees to realize what they are getting into.

Typically for a tech employee when it comes to compensation the equation is salary + bonus + RSU/options. Its important when considering a position to think through each piece.

In regards to the bonus how does it get determined what the amount is, is it known upfront, does it typically get paid out at 100%, over 100%? What is the percentage amount for the last x years?

For the RSUs/Options if its an established company how stable is it, if its a startup then how likely is the success of the company (in my case if its a startup then I personally don't depend on this part of compensation).
What's great about this analogy is that Unicorns are officially Bad News for dwarfs, and will frequently gore and trample everyone in your fortress to death.
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How much of that valuation is due to his efforts, and how much is due to the decades of labour by over a hundred thousand talented engineers?
There's an interesting portrayal of Bill and his actions in Biz Stone's "Things a Little Bird Told Me", his memoir about Twitter and other things.
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Also, "Since they are asking for such a low price, they probably aren't looking for quality"
It can mean I had, I would, or I should, depending on context:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/i'd
Is it at all possible to make Python really fast given that it depends on GIL, that to my understanding makes Python performance memory bound?
The work that matters is not busywork, but putting into motion ideas that really change things. That can take some hard work, but it is critical to avoid confounding relevance with busyness. What we need is less bullshit work and that means not valuing people only by their labor. The real solution is building an equitable society. As long as people are what they can work for they will work as much as they possibly can.
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Not quite clear whether (and when, if at all) it will be released to the general public.
Yeah, it's Gladwell's conflation, I think. (And the writer's conflation of Gladwell's assertions with Ericsson's.)

If you're interested in this type of thing, I'd recommend ":59 Seconds" for a somewhat more down-to-earth and research-based approach. Amongst many of the more interesting findings is that just having actual physical plants around[1] helps improve creativity and that brainstorming in groups (as opposed to separately and then comparing results later) is counterproductive.

(Of course that's also provisional, so some of the research referenced therein may have been refuted, so... Such is that Way of Science.)

[1] Interestingly, pictures of plants/nature don't work.
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Maybe it's not, but maybe it is. It's not a foregone conclusion. We've had the subscription model (albeit with many middlemen) in television for a while. It allows for more niche content to survive, which is a benefit, but it can mean that people end up paying for things they don't like.

There are lots of incentives and motives at play in a system like this. For just about every downside there's probably an upside, the question is which outweighs the other (and that may be relative to the person). For example, the person who reads a lot isn't just extracting content for a reduced cost, they are also (possibly) rating a lot of books providing more accurate market info. Their reading, if more eclectic due to volume, may provide more support for more independent authors, allowing for more variety to exist (and be rated). Now, that is a lot of maybes, but marketplaces live off information, so increasing market information is an important task, and this structure may be one way to help with that.
I must have heard their story from the full hotels, to the cereal boxes, to the cockroach analogy 10 times now, and it never ceases to impress.

Especially where Brian tells his mom he's a cockroach. Love it.

Many entrepreneurial successes seem to come from people who have their backs against the wall and nowhere to run, or ones that simply refuse to take no as an answer. The small successes that I've been most proud of were also under similar circumstances. Also: Brian's a great story teller.
Why is the SEC involved in a failure-to-quality-control issue? Were investors materially misled?
Well...it clearly has several meanings.

If you ever were apart of a sports team, you know that hustle has nothing to do with ripping anyone off.
... as in, "this is actually a quite nice and readable old-style ANSI C codebase". Seriously, the downvotes...
thanks for the feedback. totally understand your point. i think the biggest problem is that the commenters here have a different understanding of the ambiguous term chatbot. the expectation is that AI or intelligent chatbot means it would pass the turing test and you would not notice if you are talking to a bot or human. but this is not the point.
everyone who has experience in natural language processing or computer vision could tell you about various sub-problems of AI which are all about equally hard. imagine you would have tried to build a similar program with the same outcome 10 years ago. you would probably be still working on it. today, you can build such a thing in one hour because multiple thousand hours of work went into the API and you can focus on the glue code. this makes it "easy" or "not too hard". AI becomes more and more available as a service and everyone can make use of it that's the whole idea
Isn't using hustle as a term for hard work pretty common in sports teams? Like, a coach might tell his team "Good hustle" for working hard. I think you're kind of right though in that in the tech industry it feels like it means a little of both aspects depending on context.
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How do you solve the problem of who is the boss? What happens when two or more startups want the assistant to do something at the same time? Who is supervising the assistant you or the startups? How do you ensure that the assistant is a good match to the need of the startups?
Pushing a mouse is not a hardship. But doing it more than 40 hours a week is.
I'm familiar with brutalism. I think the ideology of the exposed structural materials is to show infrastructure without artifice. By "infrastructure" I don't just mean the electrical/plumbing or whatever as maybe hilighted in bowelism. The first definition of infrastructure in the random dictionary I looked up online is "the underlying foundation or basic framework."

As wikipedia says of brutalism, "There is often an emphasis on graphically expressing in the external elevations and in the whole-site architectural plan the main functions and people-flows of the buildings." Some have called brutalism the "truthful expression" of materials, structure, function.

I think it is interesting to think about how that might apply to web sites, it's not entirely clear to me.

Brutalist buildings don't need to be brutal, here's one of my favorites: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Geisel-L...

Many of the brutalist 70s tower blocks are wretched, but here's one I always liked:
http://wibiti.com/images/hpmain/029/273029.jpg
Interesting analogy.

I'd guess that the average Dwarf Fortress erm, Fortress, and the average startup fail at about the same rate. For, basically, the same reasons: too many unknowns, random events and morale.
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Problem:

1. The traditional resume is out of date. Digitizing it and overlaying a social network on top helps, but underneath it's still an old resume. So what's the problem with the traditional resume? The traditional resumes focus too much on job titles and the companies that gave you those job titles. It just doesn't convey what you actually did well enough.

2. People don't get credit for their work. What do we mean by that? Is everyone still willing to believe that only Steve Jobs and Jony Ive developed the iPhone? What about the hundreds of other engineers, designers, and executives behind it?

Enter TheyMadeThat:

We solve both problems by:

a. Focusing on your work instead of your tenure - even your kids (HR & recruiters) can more easily understand what you do:

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b. By giving your work their own profiles, with important details such as history and evolution:

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To reduce the noise and spam; unlike LinkedIn, your social network on TheyMadeThat is simply the people that you have directly worked with on a project. It doesn't matter if they worked at the same company as you, if you didn't work with them on something then they're not part of your network. Most importantly we are not going to spam you about whether or not you know 'yet another random person'.

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Olia Lialina wrote a nice article about her idea of a vernacular web. I'm not sure how compatible this is with your idea, but one thing that seems to distinguish these sites from her vernacular web is that they seem very thoughtfully and deliberately designed the way they are -- there is intent and purpose where in the vernacular web she sees happenstance and barely directed expression.
I think my favorite games are when I don't have a wand of wishing, but I still end up obtaining most of a decent ascension kit, anyway. It's very satisfying in a way that few "grinding" games are. Especially that moment of getting dragon armor "the hard way".

I think knowing what the ascension kit contains doesn't necessarily break the fun or the challenge of the game. It just makes it possible to win (whereas, while flying blind, you probably won't win the game given a normal human life span and a normal working adult's amount of available free time and willingness to keep playing and experiencing YASD after YASD).

I've seen folks suggesting NetHack is not a good game, because it requires so much spoiling in order to be winnable. But, I kinda enjoy reading the lore. It's part of the game for me; just because it happens on the internet rather than in the game terminal doesn't make it less fun.
For me it was a similar no-solder-required project book called "Dick Smith's Fun Way Intro Electronics" (the cover project being a "beer powered radio"!), I think at about age 6.

There was a volume 2 which introduced more advanced projects and soldering, and a volume 3 which introduced integrated circuits.
scp and "dpkg -i" are readily available, but it's really not that much work to setup a repository (aptly, reprepro, apt-ftparchive etc.)

I know I'd personally chose maintaining the system packages and where possible put extraneous language dependencies in packages too (fpm comes in handy as it can deal with a variety of packages, gem, npm etc). It makes life a lot simpler when it comes to administering a bunch of systems and trying to keep things consistent.
Well, the manual said the kit included a light-emitting diode. Problem?
The "deep understanding" is from a networking POV...

They're not trying to do those niche features (yet?). They're just trying to improve site perf for anyone using HTTP LB's on GCP already. You check a single box and your content is magically served from (or terminated on) a crazy number of POPs with zero configuration.
Interesting. I don't think it's quite the same thing.

The first three statements all roughly take the form "if only you would stop regarding X as Y, then you would stop observing Y when X happens".

"Just stop regarding the content of D&D as morally corrupting, and then you will not need to panic when you find your children playing it."

"Just stop considering robbery to be illegal, and then crime rates will plummet."

"Just stop wanting to be healthy and then you won't mind the ebola outbreaks when they occur."

By contrast, "Stop dressing so sexy and then noone will rape you anymore" is not a suggestion that you can make a problem go away simply by ceasing to regard it as a problem. It may be an absurd attempt to transfer blame by stripping the rapists of their moral agency, but it proposes to solve a problem in the world by taking a physical action in the world.
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I felt like this about Google services for a long time now. However, we decided to go with GCE for some of our recent / less critical work and to be honest, I've been really happy.

We had decent support and even our requests through non official channels like slack communities or direct emails got responded / followed up. Services seem as stable as AWS. And most of the tooling is better.

I think they are doing a great work recently on Google Cloud. Granted, we built everything with "moving to AWS should be easy / possible in case Google fucks something up really bad" in mind, which proves your point. But locking in does not scare me more than it does about locking in to AWS at this stage.
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I second this. I spent a month in a loft in Dorobanti and it was fantastic.
Hmm.. not sure if anything can get me to switch from i3, but this looks neat, as being created solely on lisp.