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DISCLAIMER: I'm a contractor who works at Google. My musings are my own and in no way represent the thoughts of any other entity.

I've dwelt on this quite a bit and have come to the conclusion that while Google is amazing at a lot of things it is not necessarily great for leveraging network effects - a domain handled much better by Facebook.

Google's core product is search, an awesome web utility. The next product often named is gmail - again, a utility. Then you have their Drive-oriented applications - Docs, Sheets, etc. which are all amazing... as standalone products that don't need other people to enhance its value.

The problem with G+, Hangouts (and other chat apps), and a variety of other products they have tried to develop is that they're trying to break into the social space - but the company isn't about social at it's core. While I appreciate that the company is trying to bring competition to the social space I think it should focus harder on areas where it has traditionally excelled - utilities that are convenient for individuals and made better by collaboration. If it wants to get into the social space it should break out a new company under Alphabet that can focus on that objective - but there's no reason to tie it directly to Google.

EDIT: I think Fiber can and will still play out strong, mind you.
That's roughly the gist of it. There are exceptions but not many.
gladly should post in the monthly threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I wish. That would be the sane way to do it. The way it seems to be done around here is they don't start until 10AM because of rush hour, then they come in, uncover the trenches, work for an hour, cover the trenches back up, and kick off at 3PM because of rush hour again. There seems to be only 2 hours of real work done in the day.

If the cities were willing to just close the road these projects would be done in a day or two.
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I'm sorry, but I cannot take any of those arguments seriously. They are all coming from a point of corporate worship, to the point where one believes that a company can do absolutely no wrong.
I think that the 'Early Access' button disappears when I try to watch the promotional video, so I missed subscription
I strongly agree with your sentiment. As a Surface Book and Lumia 950 user, I have watched the Surface product line receive good attention and necessary quality improvements. Meanwhile, the phone space is all but ignored, with a curious caveat: for whatever reason, Windows 10 Mobile continues to see gradual updates and improvements. The core applications (email, music player, browser, calendar) continue to improve. So I remain a Lumia 950 user because, frankly, it does everything I need a mobile device to do.

But I am an edge case and broadly speaking, people want much more glamour from their mobile phones. At some point a few years ago, I think Windows Phone was up to about 5% share but it seemed Microsoft's work on mobile was put into slow motion. It's no wonder share has decreased since.

Continuum is a very good idea, but the progress on making it solid, reliable, and high-performance is astonishingly slow. I don't know the technical realities of the Broxton cancellation, but that really put a big kink in the notion of a real, solid Continuum experience. For the time being, it seems Microsoft is just hoping that HP can explore Continuum innovation with devices like the Elite x3. Virtually no one has even heard of an Elite x3.

Windows phone fans have been absolutely clamoring for an ultra-high spec glamorous phone. I think this is an artifact of everyone knowing one of the key drivers of phone adoption: make devices that catch other peoples' eyes and force them to ask, "What is that?" Word of mouth is a key part of adoption. I know when I purchased one of the first Lumia 920s (you might remember them as the very colorful Windows Phones from a few years back), many people would ask me about it. The 920 was hardly a success compared to iOS and Android, but it was probably the most successful Windows 8 phone, and I think that's in large part to it being something that people noticed.

Evangelists of the Windows platform have been eagerly awaiting a Surface Phone because they know it would be such a device. It would be a conversation starter. And frankly, despite it being a hard hill to climb, Microsoft hasn't been trying on mobile for years. They're not even interested in starting the conversation.

And that's a bit boggling and frustrating. I know several people bored of iOS, uninspired by the iPhone 7, and similarly disenchanted with Android devices. These people aren't vocalizing the words as such, but they are open to something new. If by some magic you could drop a Surface Phone onto the market with a rock solid Continuum experience, and put serious marketing effort into it, I think you could earn back that 5% share, and then work to grow from there.
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Your claim about 2015 murder rates seems to be fear-mongering, from where I stand. The murder rate nationally is at a 51 year low, even with the 2015 uptick[1].

What exactly is the aim here? Your question "Could we restore trust between law enforcement and community" doesn't seem to be answered in the post, and the implication that your app could do this seems dubious.

Is you aim to get people to flock to 911 calls and film them? That seems like what the post is driving at, but never directly says.

[1]https://mises.org/blog/fbi-us-homicide-rate-51-year-low
They should have known it's a long term investment and ROI happens only when certain scale is reached. Why change their mind now?
Because mobile operators in the US rule their kingdom. Unless you are willing to kowtow you get nothing. Apple lucked out that Jobs managed to get control from AT&T out of the gate, but they are the exception, not the rule.

Without the mobile operators pushing the platform in their stores, MS won't get any traction. And they aren't going to do that unless MS both fills the phone with bloatware, and makes the changes they demand.

As for their being a gaping hole in their ecosystem? How so? Their focus is on their cloud, they don't need to own the mobile device for their cloud to succeed. I would imagine 90%+ of the fortune 500 have iphones and droids happily grabbing email from office365 all day long.
Perhaps old fashioned, but I fill up a page of TWSBI [1] every evening, using a Sheaffer Prelude [2].

[1] http://www.twsbi.com/collections/notebooks/products/twsbi-no...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Sheaffer-Prelude-Black-Featuring-Foun...
iTunes has been completely awful since the last update. For a while it wasn't usable at all if my laptop woke up from Sleep mode, and a patch a couple weeks ago seemed to fix that, but it still happens. It's like the application doesn't have logic anymore to handle reconnecting to networks.

Plus most of the interface feels unnatural to use, at least for Apple Music and the Store.
> We may someday get an XNU rewrite, but probably not until software engineering produces a new approach to building complex systems reliably that works at the scale (here: number of developers and shipping schedule) Apple needs.

It's conceivable to perform a gradual transition away, though. They could demote Mach to a fast IPC system that just augments BSD, similar to the way the kdbus/bus1 proposal for Linux does. That would be difficult and a long-term project, but it would fix the underlying issue in a way that mostly retains userspace compatibility. Driver compatibility would be more difficult, of course…
Also, as someone who has written an XML parser, according to some of the comments in this threads I'm way beyond medical help, and should give up on life :).
> But I still feel Windows itself is not a productive OS. I'm big on keyboard shortcuts but MS is very much mouse based.

Maybe you should read the help file instead of going on "feelings". Every UI widget in Windows can be operated from the keyboard.

> Being required to use my pinky to try and hit CTRL instead of my thumb to hit COMMAND to do simple things like copy and paste is HUGE to me.

Oh come on. You're just making up reasons to dislike it at this point. "The shortcut key is a half-inch further away! THIS IS AMAZINGLY IMPORTANT MIND-BLOWING SUPER-FLAW!"
I wish HN would show the subdomain.
In userspace this is generally true, and it sucks because "good taste" should really be an engineering determination not compromise to human laziness and mediocre slackers.
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What is going to set Microsoft apart in mobile at this point? The fact that you probably can't answer that is why Microsoft is still at the drawing board. One day they will return to the mobile world, probably next spring; but for now launching a good smart phone, even a great smart phone, that lacks the eco-system of Apple and Google is DOA unless it has something else appealing about it.

I suspect the "Surface Phone" will be announced next spring, and I'm sure Panay and his hardware team will knock it out of the park, but without Windows 10 Mobile catching up there's no point in releasing it even if it's the greatest phone hardware ever created.

Once the proper software that can set Microsoft apart is in place, it will strike. The smartphone market is so saturated right now they could catch everyone off guard and make a dent.
I bought IO-Glasses (back in 90's) for 1600 Deutsch Marks. Early adoption is not foreign to me. However, somehow I still don't see anything compelling about current VR/AR wave that would nudge me towards buying one.

IO-Glasses were great for Dark Forces though. And a motion sickness after 20+ minutes or so.
That article is correct. Address-space randomization wasn't a fix. It was a way to avoid fixing problems, by claiming that the ability for attacks to execute hostile code in some other process's space wasn't a problem.

The problem is giant kernels that change constantly. It doesn't have to be that way. Look at L4 and QNX.

With sufficient code bloat, all bugs are deep.
tab keys is good, what I meant is if I close unsaved file in textWrangler, it shows `Do you want to save` dialog. I press tab to focus 'Don't Save' button, press enter, but instead of closing file without saving I get 'Save As' dialog since enter key ignores the current focus and always triggers the default action
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Of course it's the logical conclusion. Power abhors a vacuum. Do you honestly think that companies are going to sit back and not try to take that power for themselves?
If you are saying that there is a group of men (and some women) who argue reasonably that the family court system is biased towards mothers and deeply unfair to fathers, then, while I will disagree with those arguments or at least any extrapolation from those arguments towards broader gender inequity (you should see how unfair and, in fact, terrifying the domestic violence legal situation is for women), I do stipulate that those people are reasonable and should not be demonized.

But having concerns about family law does not make you an MRA. People with family court problems want to fix the family court system. MRAs are people who feel like women are locked in a zero-sum contest with men, and that women have obtained more than their fair share of concessions in that contest. That's a problematic view, not widely believed to be based in fact, and held only by a fringe.

It is not at all comparable to feminism, which is based on the clear historical truth that women have been disfavored both by custom and by law in truly outrageous ways: not being given the right to vote, having the state make coercive medical decisions for them, having no protection from spousal rape, being overtly and deliberately paid less for the same work, &c. We can argue about the state of play on these things today. We cannot argue about the historical context of feminism.
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Either you are a really bad developer or you are shooting for the stars. You really haven't found any work since 2004?
Heck, we didn't even invest in "shovel ready" projects. 90% of what we were told was "infrastructure" spending went to shore up state entitlement budgets.
Out of curiosity, what's the use case for cheap win10 netbooks nowadays?

When I think of something that has a web browser and a keyboard, the low end of the market seems to be the current crop of Chromebooks, and schools seem to agree - they've been phenomenally popular in education.

Typical Win10 netbooks don't have a lot of CPU+GPU grunt, so it doesn't seem to me (maybe you'll correct me) like they'd be very good for running most Windows apps.

Is this a big market?
A few years ago I was applying for a job in there. Did not get it in the end but got close enough to start discovering ins and outs of their system - UK is a heaven compared to Switzerland :-)
It's probably more than adequate for most professionals. I don't think they are pegging it as a gaming machine, or a render machine/farm. The graphics capabilities, similar to the mobile graphics chips in iMac's and MacBook Pro's will probably serve the vast majority of graphics professionals just fine.
This is why I'd love to have one. But will not have one until I work for a place that wants to get me one. I still feel guilty for buying my Pixel 2.
WSL is full of compatibility problems with lots of stuff, it cannot be compared to the underlying OSX system for ease of use.
How is Peter Thiel being silenced or banned? He's choosing to publicize his support of Trump and others are choosing to criticize it.
Thanks! We'll fix that.
Perhaps it's not quite analogous to music theory, but what you're describing in the first paragraph would be referred to as the formal elements of art or simply the elements of art.

Analysis of these elements (form, line, space, color, and texture) is usually a part of the sort of art criticism you'd find in academic studio art, art history, or even just the New York Times art section.

The visual design field has a similar, extended set of elements for describing the formal elements of a design piece.

In both art and design, works are usually considered effective if they use the formal elements of art/design to support what you refer to as the semantics of the subject. That's a broad generalization, but you see it in practice a lot, so it seems like a fair thing to say.

Academic art history is starting to feel the influence of machine learning and computer vision precisely because computers can be trained to recognize the formal elements of art and associate their use with movements and historical periods. There are way more detailed articles than this one, but this will get you started if you're interested in this sort of thing:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/537366/the-machine-vision...
"Silent compensation" definitely is compensation. To turn things around, I don't know for certain but I doubt Google puts in its software engineer contracts "we are paying you $X less in salary because of the free food". Rather, they offer a salary and list the other benefits (and negatives like noncompetes) in the contract and let the job candidate consider it.

It sounds like it would be beneficial to list out each of the non-monetary advantages and disadvantages of a job and how much money they're each worth, but in reality there's too many [1] to make that practical. Not only are there a ton of these unseen effects but their value is different for each individual.

One person may value their ability to take another job at a competitor quite highly while another may not. And that's the case for all these unseen effects.

[1] Examples of unseen effects that make the implicit wage different from the explicit one:

* having to sign a noncompete

* do you like the sorts of people you'll be working with?

* do you like the tasks you'll be working on?

* do you have flexible hours?

* do you like the place where you work?

* do you like the length of the commute to work?

* do you like the smell of the rhododendron's outside your office window?

etc.
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A buddy of mine interviewed for a fairly senior role at Google (SVP equivalent) and he had about 6 or 7 in-person interviews within a week or two before they went radio-silent. 6 months later they contacted him and asked him to come in for another round of interviews -- at which point he told them he was going to pass.

Edit: This was a half-decade or more ago.
This would be a more compelling request if the timeline of these comments didn't clearly demonstrate that other people were talking, and that your further input wasn't required. Physician, heal thyself.
This looks incredible. I'm writing this from Ubuntu 16.10 (so I'm no Microsoft fan) on a Dell laptop and I have to say that I am super envious. The hardware/software combo on offer here looks truly innovative. That Surface Dial, the possibilities are … endless, sorry to sound so clichéd.

Can we please stop with the comparisons in the other comments to Apple please? :) You'd swear they were the only other tech company in existence. Sheesh, it's like living in a bubble.

I wish Microsoft success with this, and I hope they continue to open source their software offerings and keep opening up their hardware technical specifications. We really need Microsoft to remain an innovative and cooperative part of the community.

Microsoft cannot outcompete Linux, not in the long run, it's impossible. I know it may not seem possible right now but I reckon in the future Windows will have maybe 10% of the desktop OS market, Apple will have 10%, and Linux will have 80% split between different flavours: Google, Amazon, Canonical, Samsung, HTC, Xiaomi, whoever wants in basically. When that happens Microsoft needs to have a lot of hardware/software combos on offer, phones, tablets, laptops, all-in-ones, consoles, media boxes, you name it, with tight integration. It's entirely possible given the direction Google is heading that they'll fork Android/ChromeOS. Don't think it is possible? It'll happen. Chromebooks already outsell Macs in some locales: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/23/chromeboo.... I guarantee within five years there'll be a version of Microsoft Office for some flavour of desktop Linux.

Went on a _bit_ of a sidetracked ramble there. Anywho, neato hardware offering Microsoft!
I think that enjoying working in a framework/library is very much a function of how familiar one is with the framework/library.

It might be worth giving React that 3rd try.
Agreed. I was being facetious by suggesting the engineering was complicated.

And by "entrenched players", I meant anyone that has a horse in the race, not just ISPs.
Just look at who buy's Wacom Cintiq digitizer screens or color proofing monitors anywhere above USD 2k per unit, there is a market, it's niche, but a market.
I think her two examples are supposed to be positive here-is-how-you do it cases. But then she immeditaely says they could be better, and even points out a serious problem with the second example.

I did it that way to help get people into the habit of immediately looking at their code after they write it and see if there is anything that can be improved :)
Lower resolution than a 5K iMac
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The lack of activity in the issue is sadly not rare for npm.
SPARK does that with efficient, system code. Then proves the code free of common errors in C. Then other tools can generate unit tests from the specs just in case. Frama-C does something similar for C. I'm not sure what the usability or thoroughness is like vs SPARK, though.

http://www.spark-2014.org/about
I've had the opposite experience. The recruiter proactively provided updates and kept me up-to-date in terms of expected timeline.
The "NYC" urban area encompasses NYC + Westchester + Long Island + Newark + parts of CT. Half of the population that lives/works in/around New York lives outside of the city proper.
I used to help run 3 Day Startup San Antonio. Part of the format is that the first night includes pitches by a select number of people hoping to get voted into the top X ideas that are worked on for the rest of the weekend.

We once had a guy whose first slide was just an NDA in tiny font that he actually read aloud to 50 people. I was in the back of the room with some of the other staff and I had to step out because I was laughing too much.
I'm assuming OP was exaggerating...I don't see how they couldn't be based on the market
That's true, but if you undertake a difficult and long-term project, you want the outcome to be decisive. Mach is ugly and a nest of bugs, but kernels implemented in C/C++ are bug magnets with several orders of magnitude more force.

My prediction is that we don't ever see an XNU refactor/ redesign/ rewrite so long as C/C++ is the kernel implementation language.
I've seen this said many times, but I've never understood why people think this argument makes sense. If anything it's the opposite: the larger the country the larger the economies of scale. If there are diseconomies of scale then you can organise it at the state level or municipal level. Being a larger country simply gives you the option to organise it at a larger scale.
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That's true? That doesn't mean it's not still a good screen though.
The best places for intervention: 1. banks and offshore accounts (full transparency) 2.Transportation via private planes. Make it impossible to move large amounts of money using non transparent mechanisms. Make it impossible to move drugs via private planes. (most large drug shipments are moved via private airplanes).

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Since you haven't demonstrated your premise beyond talking about what you personally prefer, that particular ball is still in your court. The world isn't obliged to accept your unsupported opinions as truth until you're convinced otherwise.
Most big companies are terrible at recruiting. Google requires massive numbers of people so they can't spend much time or concern on any one position or one recruitee. Even my employer (non SV) can't even post positions for engineers that make any sense (which is why we get so few candidates).
They're comparing to NYC, not Manhattan. NYC includes 5 boroughs (and some of them are _large_), and while Manhattan and inner parts of Brooklyn, Bronx, and Queens are dense, most of Staten Island and outer parts of Bronx and Queens are relatively sparse.

You can use the same trick to come to the surprising conclusion that LA is denser than NYC. Population-weighed density is definitely a better way to measure density if you want numbers that reflect intuition about how dense a place "feels" rather than merely reflecting what arbitrary political boundaries were chosen
The video does an amazing job, the product looks great.

I've never tried a Surface: do they have a special screen technology to avoid the fingerprints?
This. I think this is why they are pushing UWP and convincing more people to build apps for Windows 10 using it. If this strategy succeeds, they'd have everything in place for a relaunch. It would be so seamless for developers to support Windows 10 Mobile, they'd just do it.
Maybe we're reading it differently, but it seems to me that he's admitting there are practical applications, but their importance is unclear if we can't first demonstrate that the QC approach is superior.
Nope, but it looks like we could be heading in that direction if relations don't improve.
The fact you're focusing on the hardware specs while completely dismissing the form factor tells me you're not the target market.
Then sell the screen itself.

Why chain it to mediocre, non-upgradeable hardware?
AUC is robust to class imbalance. It can be understood as follows: given an instance of the positive class and an instance of the negative class, it measures the probability of your learned model being able to distinguish between the two.
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IMac does not come with a pen. This is a draughtsmans tool.