skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Joking aside I enjoyed that video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb-m2fasdDY - for those who didn't see it), the presenter was pretty honest and way more open than I expected. I'm just so curious how those services break down - if it's genuinely on the "lstrip as a service" level or whatever, whether that's "1,000 services" figure was actually a relatively simple API with 10 versions at various levels of deprecation, whether he meant it was 1,000 different service endpoints (250 services each with POST, GET, PUT, DELETE) or what. I want to know more basically :)
It's a rectangle with a screen in the middle. Like an iPhone without the button. I didn't need to see a leak to know that, and don't see why this is news. The smartphone market has become really boring in the last few years. Does anyone care anymore?
Switzerland is in the Schengen Area so the border guards won't usually check your passport.

There are sometimes customs checks though, you are only allowed to bring really small amounts of meat into the country for example.
At a previous company, we had an office where they built little rooms for phone calls. Some had desks with chairs, and there was one with beanbags. I ended up spending some time in those, unless someone needed to make a call (not too often). I did get tired of the open plan office after a while, but mostly it was just nice to have some variety and move around.
The sad truth is that in the majority of cases the quality or time taken over the implementation isn't particularly important other factors matter much more:

* building something people actually want.
* advertising
* engaging with users
* aggressively promoting your product.
* customer service

It doesn't matter if what you did was hard or not. It matters that you can acquire and retain customers.
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>"math that enables you to hold your thumb at arm’s length"

This person seems to be using a non-standard definition of "math".
> The original argument, and your reply, is also based on ignoring stuff - namely that people are using and liking these apps & services. The network effect that WeChat has is because it is popular.

And those who don't like it or discover the downsides later (let alone that some downsides may are added later) have to bite the dust because they are locked in.
The larger consumer demand was largely due to higher levels of disposable income which was in turn largely due to higher levels of income equality.

By most measures we are much richer in aggregate these days but since the wealth trickled up and the working/middle classes struggle to fund the basics (housing, education, food, etc.), discretionary spending is much lower.

Yet still the neoclassical myth that there's a trade off between inequality and wealth creation persists.
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Client is building a single-page web application using some framework, and normal browser conveniences (like back/forward navigation, direct links to content, etc.) are not supported. Users complain about not being able to navigate back and forth through screens easily, or go directly to a certain screen they need to go to. Developers go about recreating these lost features using copious amounts of client-side code.

How would you describe, politely, what is going on here? Is there an industry standard terminology that is understandable by all?
Can you please give an example where you can see those cost savings because I will migrate to those services tomorrow.
I like their monitoring tools.
How is it going "full Apple" when there are still going to be millions of Android phones manufactured by other companies? Did Microsoft go full Apple when they released the Surface tablets?
Among the other reasons listed in the thread, we can take lots and lots and lots of photographs of it from our southern hemisphere, and stitch the photos together into a composite, and compare such composites with the many many many distant galaxies we can see in the sky, many of which are disk like and presented at various degrees of edge-on-ness versus face-on-ness. Although we cannot be totally certain, the Milky Way is consistent with being a barred spiral galaxy, as it looks very much like what you get when you tilt a not-quite-edge-on view of a distant barred spiral galaxy into a completely edge-on view.

Here's one of my favourite composites. Check out the 4000 x 1212 pixel version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Milky_Way_Arch.jpg

And here's one of my favourite non-composites:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150730.html

Finally, here's a small patch of sky with a lot of various disk-like galaxies at random face-on-vs-edge-on tilts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_ultra_deep_field_h...

Long exposure times, carefully stabilized equipment, and even moving the equipment outside the atmosphere have been a boon in producing these types of images.
The basic privatization question is this:

Service was not producing a profit, it will be. Where exactly is that money coming from?
You mean like how easy it was for Firefox?
It seems a cross between Samsung and iPhone.
Got called into SVP' office. "Oh Crap," I thought. Marched into secure Exec area.

SVP:Is Joe Blow good?

Me: yes. Critical

SVP: why?

Me: runs acqusition system. Only one that knows it. Smart too

SVP: thanks.

--
I left with my escort and called my boss. "What was that about?" said Joe quit and his salary request to stay needed Executive approval. So SVP asked to talk to someone who directs his work (me).
Monopoly is granted by governments creating laws that prohibit smaller companies from competing on the free market.

Quality of goods and services suffer when there’s government protection placed on companies.

These are problems the government creates, not private enterprise.
* Aliyun
* Lucera
* Oracle
The GPS and mobile data are overthinking it. The routes are known so simply trigger on door open/close (with some logic for denounce/etc) and cycle through.

For maximal accuracy simply have an electronic beacon of any sort broadcasting an ID that corresponds to the stop and you've got it solved.

And the entire data set for the route should be able to live offline onboard the bus. Changing bus/numbers routes should include the step for updating route data.
Whatsapp is a good example too.
On the other hand, the overthinking in question (which is probably true for bare-bones next stop indication) provides the base for my personal bus bug: know if/when a bus is reaching a stop from outside the bus in question, especially with geofencing, in order to know whether the bus I want to take is running early/late/not.
Ok, this tweaks my curiosity. Why would one put SSL on a static personal/blog type website (assuming one doesn't care about the google penalty)?
> Cal State LA joins UConn, UC Davis and Berkeley in offering segregated housing dedicated to black

> Black Student Union issued a set of demands in response to what its members contend are frequent “racist attacks” on campus, such as “racially insensitive remarks” and “microaggressions”

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/28906/
Funny, then, how economists at the end of World War II thought they were headed for a very deep recession as the war machine spun down and rebuilding began.
v1: waste of client money.
v2: government funded project
This seems to be a good task for the EFF, https://www.eff.org/
Sure but if I add all the above complications then I get automated bus tracking system where everyone on their phone can see where the bus is and when it's arriving, I can track and automatically detect issues with traffic, with the bus, with the driver.

Sure you can do the simple announce but the even easier one is to just have the driver talk over a mic, he needs one anyway. There I one upp'd you on KISS. But there is a reason not to KISS.
> smartphone market has become really boring

The time when even Android fans wish Steve Jobs was still around.

Innovation has faltered and we are now just focusing on incremental improvements in current techs. No new trends.
That $12M/yr figure for indexing 1B documents seems way off to me.
> And now this weekend project takes a team of 10 engineers working for a year.

More like 2 guys working for a month.
>Ultimately when it comes to harnessing intuition, there can be no substitute for experience.

One type of unfair advantage which there is no substitute for.

So much so for ths particular field of natural science.
I evaluated gcj to use in a shareware desktop application in the 2000's. The goal was to compile java + SWT into native binaries for distribution. The goal was a slim installer that didn't require the user to futz with installing java, or bunding a jre. Ended up going with Excelsior JET which is a fantastic project.

In the end, the full java spec doesn't lend itself to aot, because if you claim to be "real" java you have to include support for runtime classloading, which means there has to be a bytecode interpreter embedded in there somewhere. My thoughts are now, if you really want a java/c# style aot language, vala is the way forward.
Certainly not if you are VC driven.
I think you missed the implied /s
Most of the engineers where I work are between 40-60.
We called the two recent grads "the kids"
It's not to placate big media, but to increase security, as others have pointed out.

But the bigger point is that I don't think it's just the USB port that limited Android's flexibility. Android was supposed to be a more flexible, more powerful iOS. That didn't play out in ways the average end user cares about.
Yes, when you ask people "and how are things apart from the eye watering, wallet haemorrhaging, income annihilating cost?" they're mildly positive about the railways.

Mildly.
> Or... microphone and speakers for the driver to announce the stop.

Breaks down quickly if you need bi- or tri-lingual announcements, which is the norm in many popular tourist destinations.
I think the GP was being sarcastic ;)
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Go to Facebook New York Branch, and tell the door guard I sent you, I already hooked you up with the human resource guy.... good luck my friend!
German bus drivers have it as well. The routes are lists of stop names and their change is triggered by opening the doors. Can be adjusted by the driver if stops are passed, etc.
Article discusses inequality, not quality and prices.

In a free market, quality and prices will (eventually) optimize for what the market can sustain. What the market can sustain may be _very_ unequal for the rich and poor in the market.
You've just described a cellphone running apps that already exist.
Mentor Graphics has private offices. When our company was acquired by them, I thought I would really love them. But to my surprise I didn't like how it changed the culture at all.

Private offices really do make developers more insular. It discourages communication to a degree I wouldn't have thought it would.

Another aspect which might not be obvious at first is that offices come in difference sizes, so when somebody comes to your office--or you go to theirs--you both immediately know your relative positions on the pecking order.

This induces an unwelcome power dynamic. Good ideas come from everywhere, but its human nature to buy into these symbols of status. "You know how I know I'm right and you are wrong? My office (and salary) is bigger than yours." Not necessarily said in as explicit terms as those, but the effect is real and pervasive.
The logic behind it, I think game theory, is simple and does not just apply to democracy but any system of corporate or state government.

It goes like this:

Suppose there exist 2 parties to a conflict of interest. I want Z, but you also want Z, and this is a rival good, only one of us can have it at one time.

Then it is possible for 1 party to play ball with the other party, but IFF there is a different, separate conflict of interest where the trade can be reversed.

So I win A, but only if I allow you to win B. 'the next time'

This logic only can work if we allow each other to be winners.

Suppose our economic incentive was to 'defect' in game theory parlance, and defect always. Why would this be so?

Perhaps because we're in a zero sum game instead of a positive sum game. Perhaps I must win or I will die, in which case my non-cooperation with you is non-negotiable.

"I want Z, but you also want Z, and this is a rival good, only one of us can have it at one time."

sama, and Thiel, believe technology solves this by turning a potential rival good into non-rival goods. Or put more simply; if everybody can have stuff they are happy.

There can be exceptions to this logic, like a mother choosing her child's survival over her own in a pregnancy gone wrong. But in a world without growth, without those potential negotiations 'violence' becomes selected for.

The important realization is not the trivial 'more stuff makes people happy'. It does, but the real reason why growth is a big deal is that in the long run it selects for outcomes which don't lead to deadlock leading to violence.

Where I part company with Sam, is the belief that democracy is worth saving. It is worth saving representation, each entity's self interest in a system must be recognized yes, but not democracy. Ironically equal voting must lead to unequal outcomes. Right from the initial premise it does not hold up against physical reality. Like genetics, circumstance, and all of history. There are other systems in G-space that have the potential to be much better at governing. That includes systems in which people would feel much more represented than they do in our current system. Equality of votes is like a sledgehammer instead of a scalpel. I mean even the NSDAP had policies on the environment and health most people agree with in the present. What does that say about our ability to select?

tldr; The relationship is close to axiomatic in game theory and democracy when looked at in the cold light of day is a pretty dim worldview to start with.
Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft so I won't get into comparisons with AWS. I wanted to point out a couple of facts that might be interesting to Hacker News readers:

* 35% of virtual machines in Azure run Linux
* Microsoft announced that PowerShell, Service Fabric and SQL Server will be available for Linux
* Redis Cache, Hadoop and other open source packages are available as Platform as a Service offerings in addition to you installing and managing on your own machines.
>What happens in the real world is that people blame their browser for breaking things that previously worked.

There are 3 browser vendors of any note right now. It wouldn't be that hard for them to collaborate to push this change at the same time.
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Agreed. The government using private contractors to maintain the infrastructure is fine. In that instance, the government can still account the resource in a holistic fashion. Where it makes sense for end-user-fees to completely pay for the infrastructure, then fine (sometimes it will). But where it makes sense to minimise end-user-fees so as to maximise the positive externalities (and recoup the costs out of taxes), then they can still do that. Whether the workers on the infrastructure are managed by a public or private manager, in this case, doesn't make a lot of difference.

The problem occurs when a private entity must make a self-contained business case off the back of the infrastructure. Since they'll never be able to capture any of the positive externalities, they have to take everything out of end-user-fees, externalities be damned. This can be very, very bad for the city as a whole.

And yes, agreed about cable internet being in this category too!
Exactly. I would be surprised if Uber hired more than 20 developers (which I consider a lot already).
So how is this project even surviving at all considering FFmpeg's FFV1 beats it completely in terms of performance, format support and efficiency?
I am not sure how is it compared to WeChat. I have no friends from mainland China :/

Compared to LINE - originally Japanes app, popular in these regions - it's a godsend. LINE is terrible.
Well VCs want to know what their money does. So expect a large part of controlling.
Google and Facebook, what are you waiting for? Go vie for the app.
I can stuff a few papers in an envelope, scribble something resembling an address on the outside along with a few coins worth of stamps and leave it to be picked up without prior notification to be delivered anywhere in the country only a few days later. Maybe longer if I was particularly bad at writing the address.

This is practically a super power.
This is not convincing.

1) As to user fees. Most public infrastructure in the US is dramatically underfunded. Public transport, road, and water systems are a major cause of the multi-trillion infrastructure spending backlog we have (according to the American Society of Civil Engineers). We pay far too little for services like water, which precludes municipal water utilities from upgrading infrastructure. Governments often privatize when that situation becomes untenable, because they don't want to be the one that raised water rates on grandma.

2) As to wages, I'm supportive of income equality. But unionized public sector jobs are a misallocation of resources. If we want to subsidize a particular kind of job at the public expense, why not start with the lowest income folks first, instead of relatively well off public sector workers?

Public services in the US are a disaster, and most of it is not privatized. It's not privatization that drove Chicago to the brink of bankruptcy. It's not privatization that left the DC Metro in shambles. It's not privatization that left Atlanta with ancient sewers that dump raw sewage into the Chattahoochee river. And ironically, it's the poor that suffer. Rich people can send their kids to private school - bypassing the failing inner city systems that often spend far more money than neighboring suburban ones. Rich people can take Ubers everyday and avoid subways that are delayed and shut down due to years of diverting money from maintenance to pensions and benefits.
The z5 compact is a very good phone for your size needs.
> The smartphone market has become really boring in the last few years. Does anyone care anymore?

I'd say tech-focused blogs which earn advertisement dollars on hypes and clickbait-titles are interested. They'll try to push it as something must see interesting to drive their own traffic. As an annual event for several vendors it's probably a source of regular, primary income.

But this is The Guardian. I'd expect better from them.
what about the bus stop broadcasting a signal with the id, name etc? the system is activated by the proximity..so you can have smthing like approaching station A, leaving station A.

it is scalable because the bus-stop transmitters are added , moved, removed as needed.

updating the data can also be done remotely
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I work at Rackspace, and our Public Cloud is run on Openstack, so it's hardly 'woefully behind the times when it comes to functionality'. We have one of the old, and largest deployments of OS there is, so there are some technical challenges and loads of new features coming.
Probably something to do with the weekend? I bet it lights up today once California wakes up.
The only downside to prototypes is that then the managers don't understand why the actual project takes so much longer and end up asking to just go with the prototype for production.
I always wanted to know why you chose that name for your company. I'm sure you know about it's origins :) is there somewhere where you wrote about it?
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Except that quickly becomes inaccurate if the bus driver decides to re-open the doors for an incoming passenger, or due to traffic conditions, opens the bus doors further from the stop than the beacon reaches. Or skips a stop due to road conditions.
There will always be people who are poorer than others, but there’s nothing prohibiting poor people from working their way up the ladder beside government regulations.

Poor people are hurt most by government programs like welfare, and laws like minimum wage. Private enterprise allows people to make a living for themselves by providing services to people who need them. By working harder than others they can break out of poverty, instead of relying on the government to keep everybody down for the sake of "equality”. This used to be a norm.

"When governments directly provide a service, they often provide living wages and decent benefits to workers. When private companies take control, they often slash wages and benefits in an attempt to cut labor costs, replacing stable, middle class jobs with poverty-level jobs.”

This is so incredibly disingenuous. All this is saying is that it’s beneficial to the society that the government creates artificial jobs that can’t sustain themselves and gives immunity from market fluctuation to people who perform these jobs at the cost of regular taxpayers who aren’t immune, and have to train themselves in new fields, and change jobs. The government can’t just provide these benefits without negatively affecting the rest of the society.
Note that the housing is open to everyone. Here's a more charitable explanation:

That’s one reason another institution, the University of Connecticut, earlier this year announced a living community specifically for black men. Erik Hines, an assistant professor who was set to serve as a faculty advisor to residents, told The Atlantic at the time that the space was in part an attempt to address the fact that black men graduate from college at a lower rate than many of their peers. While graduation rates for white, Latino, and Asian students, as well as black women, are in the 70s and 80s at the school, graduation rates for black men are in the 50s. The school pointed out that young men of all backgrounds will be permitted to apply to the living community, and that the housing isn’t meant to exclude anyone, but to provide a safe space for students who may feel detached from the university community more broadly. The community is an attempt, Hines said, to give black students who may be in majors with just one or two other black students a chance to connect with other people who may feel isolated and may also feel burdened with representing the black community as a whole.

from http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/08/finding...
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If you think scaling a service like Uber is not challenging, you're vastly underestimating how large they are.

Uber especially has requirements that make it tough to scale correctly. You need to track each Uber session in near real-time, right? That means you simply cannot afford to drop or interrupt those sessions. It's a completely different problem than scaling Instagram or WhatsApp.
wealth creation at the expense of lower prices isn't a better outcome.
> following this logic, the most popular religion or dominant culture is not necessarily the most useful to the host genome, but the best viral "meme" that can replicate itself while balancing its own replication vs. the viability of the host

doesn't sound obviously wrong
"NIH" Not Invented Here syndrome. If it was not invented here it is not used. Not paid to invent everything from scratch. Paid to implement features. Success is achieved by applying not best practices but proven practices. If it works use it regardless of the source as long as it was not stolen.
It's not simpler. MySQL has much worse autocompletion and bizzare default behaviors. In comparision \dt is not that bad.
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I did a cost analysis of Amazon GPUs vs. Softlayer GPUs and the latter gave me a better price/performance ratio.