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Making WebVan style bad investments because you can resell it is only part of the problem. The other part of the problem is systemic: it only takes a few dumb actors to make everyone act poorly. When AIG underwrote credit default insurance priced premiums too cheaply for the eventual outcome, a lot of people had no idea how widely distributed their mistake was -- because contracts weren't tradable, and a number of firms were engaged in contract type arbitrage, nobody had any clue what percentage of their liability traced back to AIG. But it wasn't zero just because they never bought from them -- you needed to know your transitive exposure to counterparties to properly offset risk.

Obviously AIG got to where it did because of a flawed system that allowed AAA rated companies to issue insurance with no capital, but the analogy of a system of largely rational actors making collective mistakes still holds. One collective bubble argument in tech is ad driven. Every ad driven app & game I've tried has been largely advertised other ad driven games. This represents and form of investment -- spend ad money now and get back more ad money over time. If a few actors are overly optimistic, they'll be outbidding other advertisers and raising the return on ads.

Which can produce a couple of adverse feedback loops. Firstly, other companies look at the going rate, and have no way of predicting a crash in ad rates. But if the rate is high now, they will probably choose to produce more ad driven apps. Second incumbent advertising networks (Google, Facebook) will derive immediate benefit, and have extra cash to invest to support more opportunities further out on the risk-reward spectrum. Thirdly, the optimistic actors themselves have a sort of feedback loop -- if rates rise based on their entrance, then their models may well predict rates continuing to rise. Emboldening to buy more, and higher.

The trouble is, we don't know if this is the case or not. It seems possible, but there's also a number of micropayment based games that might explain an increasing ad rate. And we can tell ourselves that ad blockers are way less common and less effective on mobile, so maybe we shouldn't expect desktop and mobile markets to converge to the same place.
Part of an answer might be that blogs don't need centralized infrastructure in the way wikipedia does. There are web hosters of all kinds (free, commercial, non-profit, community-run, ...), all of which can host independent blogs, running different (often open-source) software.
"Small" is an understatement. The Ubuntu Touch device list [1] lists a total of eight officially supported devices. The Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 are both out of production, and none of the BQ or Meizu phones are listed on their web sites anymore. The BQ Aquarius M10 tablet still shows up on their web site, but it's a tablet, not a phone.

So the short and the long of it is: Ubuntu Touch, as a phone operating system, is dead. It's probably not long for this world on tablets either, considering that the only supported device is a single product from an obscure Spanish manufacturer.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices
I have yet to hear a substantial, quantitative argument that there is a tech bubble looming on the horizon. I have read a lot of anecdotal slop about VC capital drying up or a few big companies going sideways, but as the number of tech startups grows, the long tail of "shocking, improbable" failures from big-valuation companies that make the news will grow with it.

I do think the "shiny tech-hub" ecosystem is a little unsustainable, but it's not without historical precedent in finance and banking, and has little to do with the health of the tech economy.

No one's gut has magical predictive powers about the market, but humans are almost universally prone to the mistake of thinking theirs does, especially if they can find other people who share that impression. The illusion of understanding is made much stronger by proximity.
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Correct, this is different from the OP, which keeps the radius constant.
I agree. The age of hardware performance gains papering over software optimizations is definitely over. The developer world has to get used to it.

People also run a lot of code that "compiles" (not strictly converting to binary). Transpiling js, packaging assets, or just running spec suite. Any small performance we can get is much appreciated and over 2-3years will add up to something significant (justifying a large cost, which I never had a problem paying the Apple premium price).
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Or it could be because they weren't very good points. At best, I read it as indulging in not-very-good word games, which is a distraction from a serious topic. Or if you're making a serious point, it doesn't seem like you understand either the practicalities of union negotiating or the economic theory that justifies them. If you're going to jump into a discussion that you know is emotional for people, then you should write with that in mind, rather than stirring people up and then blaming them for the response.
3 hours by car is likely minimum 60 miles which is 4 hours by bike every single day minimum. If they're getting to highway speeds at all then it's even worse. It'd be like black mirror episode 2 every day
I tried your search. I did not find anything that relates to my comment.
Fake news is a big problem.

If your media outlets were caught colluding with certain corporate favored candidates or told you that it was illegal to read Wikileaks, you might be watching fake news.

Mainstream media's credibility and ability to impact large groups of people is at an all time low. So rather than re-examine their coverage to see how they can better serve people and earn trust...the establishment is doubling down on the propaganda and trying to label the non-corporate controlled news as fake.

It's so transparent and it's such a joke that I can't believe how anybody is fooled by this.
If you're that worried about it send an email to the union and claim an hour of pro-bono consultancy on your tax return. I don't know your motivations but this looks awfully like concern trolling.

Incidentally I'm not a union member, nor have I ever been. I just find it really odd to see a firm like Walmart being so 'concerned' about the security of their employees while at the same time shoving all sorts of electronic gadgets at their customers without the slightest murmur about the security issues. Does Walmart give the same kind of security advice to customers or employees who purchase smartphones? If not, then why would I take their sudden concern at face value here?
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Hubble provided the evidence, proving that philosopher Immanuel Kant's hypothesis, that some nebula were other galaxies, was correct.

But see also:
http://oneminuteastronomer.com/1562/mule-driver-measure-univ...
There seems to be some interesting sourcing in OPs post. The 15bn felled trees per year actually comes from the 3tn paper (it's in the abstract). So does the 46% decline since the start of civilisation:

> Based on our projected tree densities, we estimate that over 15 billion trees are cut down each year, and the global number of trees has fallen by approximately 46% since the start of human civilization.

So I'm not sure why the figure of 400bn was used! The paper points out that a recent Amazon study estimated the number of trees in the rainforest to be ~390bn alone. From the paper, the number of trees in the US is probably in the low hundreds of billions.

The scientists that wrote the paper specifically said (in an interview I think) that you shouldn't interpret this as that we've magically discovered 2.6tn more trees. It's not like this changes our view on carbon sinks.

The difference is that instead of taking satellite images and approximating how many trees are in a particular area, they went out and measured typical numbers of stems within an area and (I would guess) correlated that to satellite data. Some trees are more densely packed than others and the distribution of numbers of stems varies wildly with biome. There's so much variation in what constitutes a "tree" that it makes little sense to use the numbers of trees cut down for anything climate related except snappy headlines. Clearly more trees cut down = bad, but you shouldn't relate an abstract, ideal, "tree" to e.g. one ton of carbon dioxide.

A better metric might be area of forest or the amount of biomass. That smooths out variations in species and gives a nice number.
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Sometimes I'm so absorbed by a novel, I seriously consider to arrive 'late' at work :D.
Wait, isn't it the other way around? I.e. if you want to keep a volume of the ball constant as dimensions rise, don't you have to reduce the radius?

(I'm a noob at this whole dimensions thing.)
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As a US driver living in France, I can share just the anecdote that French driving far less pleasant, more stressful, and feels more dangerous due to its narrow traffic lanes. I can also report seeing high numbers of highway accidents in Paris, and I would be surprised if per capita traffic fatalities were lower in France. I dream of driving in the luxurious, relaxing wide lanes of the US.
> Do you think off-shore developers are going to have the same moral stances of a first world developer? I don't think so.

It's not as if first world developers (or employers) are on average more ethical than off-shore ones. You could have made the same point without being derisive of off-shore developers.
To borrow a line: Software Engineering would be a very good idea.

Every time I talk to "real" engineers about what goes on in computing, they're completely dumbfounded. Nobody has ultimate responsibility for signing off on a design? Changes get made without any independent analysis, or without any analysis at all beyond "well it seems to work"? When something fails, people routinely shrug their shoulders and move on without performing any post-mortem?
What's the benefit of winds over other projects? Let me know, i'm looking for a native RSS experience to be honest. Although I love feedly, I'm tired of the fact that it doesn't have a mute feature.
I wonder how many HN posts have been made about replacing twitter?

Twitter was designed to replace blogs and rss because they were so geeky and hard to use for normal people.
VCs would knowingly fund a bubble if they thought they would still make money after it burst.

Similarly, before 2008, mortgage lenders knowingly lent to borrowers who were very likely to default, because the lenders knew they would be able to bundle and sell off the mortgages before they went bad.

Investors who know there is a bubble will not always sell right away -- they will wait until their investments grow even more, and then sell before the crash. Some will pull this off, and some won't.

So, knowledge that we are in a bubble won't always remove the incentives that created the bubble. That's why bubbles keep happening.
> it doesn't seem like you understand either the practicalities of union negotiating or the economic theory that justifies them.

My comment emphasized the need for unions, so if you disagree with my points, are you saying that unions aren't necessary?
Storage is indeed cheap. I've just had a hard time figuring out how to set everything up and validate it. Thank you for the detailed explanation.
> "I assume FB has good data practices based on nothing, and I assume this app has bad data practices based on nothing, thus this app is probably bad".

That is a strawman. FB probably has decent (at least industry standard) data practices because they're a public company, spend a lot of money on hiring engineers, and have been under investigation for keeping data secure. I think that if they're doing something wrong, they're probably not doing something obviously stupid.

Now, you have another app which was written by "Now, Marler has a second job: She’s one of about two dozen current and former employees who helped construct an app called WorkIt that answers questions about Walmart’s policies and workplace rights using Watson, IBM’s artificial intelligence bot."

I'm not saying that this app is bad, I'm saying that they have a huge probability of overlooking data security vulnerabilities. Of their two dozen employees, how many of them are really well versed in inf sec or IT?

The belief that FB has good data practices and there are no assurances that another random app has unknown data practices is rooted in reality.

The fact that the random act is asking for so much possible PII is not a good sign.
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What this guy is wanting for Twitter is basically what Disapora tried to do for Facebook. I even backed that Kickstarter[1] back in the day (2010!).

But like you say, the fact is not enough people cared.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mbs348/diaspora-the-per...
Unfortunately Ras Bodik is no longer at Berkeley, so it's unlikely it'll be offered again.
You evidently think your livelihood should in principle be contingent on the desires of whomever controls the governing apparatus. If tomorrow you need a certification of racial purity, or a Temple recommend, in order to practice your profession, that's just how it shakes out. If everyone agreed on ethical codes, after all, we wouldn't need them.

Why are people like you so desperate to hand someone else the whip hand? Do you actually think Your Kind Of Guy is going to be in power in perpetuity? Does it actually seem to you like these guys are reasoning from some set of elucidated & unchanging moral principles?

Ironically the nightmarish story of how ineffective the APA's "ethics code" was should permanently disabuse you of the notion that they're useful for anything other than economic protectionism and occasionally crushing the outgroup du jour.
Well, that's the topic at hand. If the premise needs discussion, we can discuss it.
More or less agreed so far. Even worse, its also missing the "natural" component.

You can judge on consistency by using some empathy and substituting in Jews, progressives, and Muslims to select some arbitrary left wing groups as opposed to the right wing groups initially named. For people with empathy (and a bit of wisdom) regardless of which side they're on, they can see that its a fundamentally immoral method of argument, regardless of who is picked as today's trendy victim of the sophistry. How can something moral and worthy rely specifically on not using empathy? The response to civilization getting punched in the face by a right fist a century ago should be something like "turn the other cheek" not having bad guys propose "punch back left handed, maybe harder and using computers this time". You're not going to win with a strategy that boils down to being nazis, but more specifically left wing nazis so that means we're not only OK but we're great because I'm sure the other side shares our views that they're deplorable and if we just call them racists or bigots one more time then they'll finally start voting for us. That was quite an empathy fail in the recent election strategy. We tried left wing authoritarianism last century a couple times and it failed every time. Oddly enough it turns out people hate being genocided regardless of being told its to help the left or the right. Theoretically and pragmatically WRT empathy, mislabeling "natural" is just a bad strategy, gonna fail.

Another way its not "natural" is confusing groupthink with observing actual nature or wisdom. For example, today left wing progressive views are extremely popular, near universal in some subgroups echo chambers, in the 30s in Germany somewhat further right views were more popular. Popularity contest results are very interesting but has nothing to do with morality and ethics and right and wrong and the correct way to live a good life. Is the truth of the world that the Earth is flat or round? Did the earth change shape before and after Columbus or just the groupthink? Is the logically efficient and dependable way to determine the result of 2 + 2, to vote on it? In summary don't confuse merely measuring groupthink vs observations and analysis of actual "nature".

So not bad, given a two word phrase "natural selection" its gotten at least three gaping philosophical holes shot thru it.
Does Twitter have no right to freedom of speech, when there are alternatives to it? If they don't want to be associated with white nationalists, then why should they allow themselves to be?
That's fine. My position isn't based on making sure my party wins. It obviously has a liberal slant just due to old people being more conservative for obvious reasons, but the real goal is fairness in "your vote is proportional to how long you have to suffer the consequences of it."

I didn't vote for Clinton either, because she's not a liberal. She's a center-right candidate who is further to the right than Obama was (also a center-right candidate.) She was also far worse at giving motivational speeches, and after she and the DNC threw Bernie under the bus, it's not at all surprising she did poorly with younger voters.
Which is fine... but personally, I don't see that much difference between charging a tax that makes my imported goods more expensive (in an effort to subsidize American workers) and, say, just setting up some sort of reverse income tax, or strengthening the Earned Income Credit or what have you so that you directly tax me and directly give those dollars to people who don't have competitive job skills. If anything, I bet the latter would be more 'efficient' in that I'd have to pay fewer dollars to keep those folks fed and housed, just 'cause if you make imports more expensive, sure, more stuff will be manufactured here, but most of that manufacturing is going to be done by robots, so it seems to me you'd mostly be making me pay more for stuff I buy, then turning around and increasing the demand for labor from people with my sorts of skills.
The oil industry uses quite a bit of computing power, mostly to process seismic data. Here's some "sponsored content" (found via a quick Google search) about BP's computing center in Houston: [1]

Some statistics extracted from the article (written by a non-technical journalist, I suspect, so treat them accordingly): 5,200 servers, 115,000 CPUs, 3.8 petaflops, 27 petabytes.

Bear in mind that BP is only one oil company, and by no means the largest (you probably think Exxon is the largest, but Saudi Aramco is much bigger [2]).

[1] http://www.politico.com/sponsor-content/2015/12/journey-to-t...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-07/too-big-t...
So now we need 2 computers, a high-speed network which won't work when on the go, and a complex remote configuration to do what another brand's pro laptop could on one machine.

Really, what Apple is saying with this is that the MBP is much more a Dell Latitude or XPS15 and not a Precision or a Lenovo P50/70.

On the Dell Precision, you can get a few different quad-core xeons, Thunderbolt 3, 64GB ECC DDR4, ISV certified Quadro M5000 GPU w/8GB VRAM, 3x drives (can do 3X 1TB PCIE SSDs), 4K IGZO screen, choice of batteries including 91wh LiPo, smart card reader, and up to 5 years on-site + accidental damage support for what ends up being about 10% more. Base price on the 17" is $1599.

The Lenovo P70 is available in similar configurations. HP has the ZBook series which is also "designed to pass 14 MIL-STD 810G tests" and comes with up to 4TB of storage, and starts at $1429: http://store.hp.com/us/en/mdp/business-solutions/zbook-17-mo...

That's what a pro laptop looks like, and Apple no longer sells anything close. Lots of professional software is moving away from macOS because of this. Video production / editing is moving away from Mac due to this. It's sad because Apple used to make real tools for professionals, and now tries to sell them thin-and-lights targeted to rich consumers.

Lastly, the keyboard on the newest gen is awful to type on due to having almost zero key travel. It feels like drumming your fingers on a desk. The old 17" had a great keyboard IMO and I'd gladly give up a few more MM of thickness for a better battery and a fantastic keyboard.
Great comments!

Another way to look at Dataflow pricing as it related to this type of technology. Let's just assume for a second Dataflow and other similar technologies execute your pipeline on your data within the same resource-time amount.

Dataflow lets you set an upper bound on these resources, and lets you auto-scale, with essentially per-minute granularity. Alternatively, you can create a cluster of fixed resource amount. Cost of Dataflow is $0.01 per hour per CPU, in addition to those resources.

Dataflow's model hence either guarantees 100% resource efficiency, or you specifically opt into the upper bound of spend. A deployment model that lets you "spin up a cluster and pay for it" is intrinsically less efficient.

I wrote a blog on this WRT BigQuery, but Dataflow is right there [0].

[0] https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/02/understanding...

(Work on Google Cloud)
What you're saying is even more FUD though.

Using AWS EC2 or GCE's compute doesn't mean you aren't responsible for sysadmining. You still have to patch your boxes, you still have not do incredibly stupid things.

The actual security difference between servers on a rack and virtual machines in a cloud is roughly a dozen ip-tables rules (security groups).
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Amstrad and Spectrum personal computers also had Z80 inside.

I remember struggling with LDIR/LDDR instructions with Amsost devpac assembler...

Btw. We called that machine code programming back in the 80s.
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I used to see this back when I had a catchall email address on a .com domain which was the same as a domain for a school in .uk. Every September, I'd get misaddressed student emails. I'd send them back a note, and they'd stop. By October the new students had figured out their domain name and the problem stopped.

Once, though, I got a message "I am going to kill you tonight", addressed from one student to another. Ignore, reply, report to UK law enforcement? I got the headmistress of the school on the phone, in the middle of the night in the UK. After about a minute of confusion, she told me that the sender was 12 years old and the problem would be dealt with.

If that had had happened in the US, it probably would have involved a SWAT team.
This is precisely the sort of thing presidential pardons are for.
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well yes, I would be excited to see everyone simultaneously realize they won't get an ROI on their adspend.

But that isn't the sentiment right now. Discoverability is really bad and one of the only solutions people can come up with are creepy targeted advertisements