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Really? I'd rather read about the ridiculous ideas of a person who simultaneously runs an electric car company and a space rocket company, than about some unimaginative CRUD startup that is "Facebook for X".
> The part that bothers me is that it isn't available to poorer criminals.

Isn't that the only part that's even there?
I have an lifetime plex pass membership. I think it cost $120. I am not sure how they will be able to continue to offer me plex cloud, as servers which plex are paying for must be doing the transcoding. The bill for CPU must be fairly hefty if people really start to use this.
The one that still surprises me is Hangul (Korean script). Hangul characters are made of 24 basic characters (jamo) which represent consonant and vowel sounds, which are composed into Hangul characters representing syllables.

Unicode has a block for Hangul jamo, but they aren't used in typical text. Instead, Hangul are presented using a massive 11K-codepoint block of every possible precomposed syllable. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's fixed width with respect to code points, but not with respect to any of the other things mentioned in the linked article. For example, the black heart with emoji variation selector (which makes it render red) is two code points.
Do you have any rebuttal that isn't an obvious reduction-to-the-absurd fallacy?

Or you are you seriously making the equivalence that information on a hard drive is equivalent in danger, scope, or really anything else to a nuclear fucking bomb? Smallpox and nukes are not "inert" even when sitting unused.

At least try to continue this discussion in something resembling good faith?
They're unlikely to be secret in the information age. Not even the CIA's blacksite torture program could be hidden, thanks to casual plane-watchers noting unusual traffic around military airfields.

No, the depressing thought is that it's far more likely to be out-in-the-open labor camps. Americans already interned their Japanese-American population during World War II; we get irrational when we feel threatened.
This is not new, search /r/windows10 for "ads".

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It's a pretty different model, so not really an apples-to-apples comparison. Cloud Functions are bits of code that run in response to events, whether those are events from Google Cloud / Firebase or HTTP triggers. These functions scale up and down as the event load changes.

App Engine is a more traditional PaaS offering where you upload and entire web app, something you might otherwise run on your own server or a bare VM.
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I'm a huge Plex fan, but I'm really not comfortable using this until it supports encryption.

I would only use this for media where you have the legal rights to copy it.
I doubt that they believe it, as much as they see it as a convenient philosophy to propagate. It really is the philosophy of the exceedingly short-sighted, arrogant, or just plain uneducated. You can't have even a passing knowledge of history and think that philosophy has merit. You could very easily think it has merit as a cultural sword and shield though.

It's ironic that the people with the resources and power to rapidly alter the self-destructive course humanity is on, are the most invested in maintaining that course.
Good point.
It's not.

The point is to make OP feel better in the ensuing rants against technical interviews.

My advice to OP would be to understand that tech interviews, like all standardized testing, are something to be gamed (practice makes perfect).

You can rant all you want, but you will have little power to change it as a random applicant.

Just game it, and move on.
Not only morbid but I'd argue morally wrong as well, as this would be betting on peoples lives. It's just as awful as the coliseum just without you being exposed to the blood.
Objectively, it's not a "Global golden age", it's a "Islamic golden age". That's very different.

This guy does some heavy time travelling in order to justify his revisionism.

He moves from circa 900-1200 AD (Golden age of Islam), to 1800-2000 AD (Nobel Prize counting). After losing to the Mongols and being razed to the ground, then came the Ottomans, and then the Triple Entente backstabbed them with the Sykes-Picot agreement after World War I. They never came back from losing to the Mongols.

His point is so nonsensical, that is equivalent to saying that the Roman empire was weak because Italy did not win the World War 2, or that Ancient Greece is not worthy of recognition because modern Greece doesn't win Nobel prizes. He is comparing different millenia.

Then he changes subjects to the militaristic side of things. He mentions how they invaded Europe many times. However European nations constantly invaded each other all the time anyways. And that trend only ended in the early 20th century when Americans ended wars of aggression through NATO and the UN.

Follow better authors.
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That is a pretty strange way of defining profitable where you are losing money.
True, you lose some control, but a small board of a private company is much easier to convince and compel on long-term vision and plans than the general public.
If you can do it, surely the insurance companies can too, and adjust their premiums accordingly.
And just to clarify, Cloud Functions for Firebase is covered under the Firebase free support, who you can reach here: https://firebase.google.com/support/contact/troubleshooting/
Chief among these requirements is likely the "years of experience" line. I categorically ignore it in every job post i read. Every job post i write leaves it consciously absent.

A candidate's ability should be judged strictly on what are their abilities today and what is their perceived ceiling. While you can argue that years of experience correlates to those details, it certainly does not inform them.

Anecdotally, my most recent developer job post had an exactly 50:50 male to female applicant ratio. Without exception the women applying were juniors. If this article is to be believed, my putting even "1+ years of experience" might have arbitrarily rejected some number of otherwise qualified candidates.
And all that time to fill up when you can afford to live ten minutes from work. I don't know how people cope.
As samfisher83 pointed out, $34M was in escrow, so they were probably running on closer to $15M. When setting up a volume production line for a complicated product, it's really easy to burn through tens of millions of dollars. Kickstarter scares the crap out of me for this reason. Typically, I would recommend that a startup begin with a small domestic run of the simplest product possible, targeted at an early adopter market. There's so much a startup has to put into place for hardware: a contract manufacturer (and a sane contract, which takes time to establish), suppliers, supply chain, testing (development and production), certification, packaging, sales channels, distribution, support, reverse logistics, etc. Companies such as PCH, Dragon, etc. can help accelerate some of this, but there's still a ton of work to do. Trying to simultaneously tackle all of that and a complicated engineering design requires a ton of resources--more than a typical startup will have.

Setting up a reliable manufacturing line and test procedure typically takes about 6 months from the time your engineering team begins handoff to the contract manufacturer. Moreover, as much as we'd like it to be, manufacturing is not agile. All of that work is very change-intolerant. So, if you begin the handoff with a half-baked design (which most startups do, in my experience) that you have to change as you proceed through the setup process, you can easily blow away that nominal, 6-month timeline with tooling changes, contract renegotiation, supplier verification, etc. as your engineers scramble to work with the factory to make the design manufacturable and cost-effective.

Jumping straight into a full-blown manufacturing effort is not a cash-effective way for a startup to prove a complicated design. You can force it to work, but it's really expensive. Apple, for example, parallel-paths a lot of stuff. They can afford to discard a million-dollar tool and move on if it doesn't work out. They also send huge engineering teams to Asia for months at a time. Instead, I'd suggest that startups begin with more manual domestic builds in the low hundreds of units until the engineering team is confident in the manufacturability of the design and the manufacturing requirements are understood. These will, of course, have much higher per-unit costs, but you can iterate way, way faster because you're not constantly flying overseas to battle the inertia of a manufacturing line.

Unfortunately, Kickstarter--while still qualifying as an early adopter market--is driving first-run numbers way higher than they should be for the average startup, which is causing them to jump too quickly into scale manufacturing efforts. Because of this, I think we are seeing some spectacular failures such as Lily.

tl;dr: Manufacturing is expensive. Kickstarter is driving hardware startups into manufacturing too soon.
I'm sorry you took offense, I'm not sure what you found condescending.

If someone uses a hammer instead of a screwdriver we don't blame the hammer.

>in my experience: MANY people using bootstrap

Sure but you said "YOUr'e" sacrificing efficiency. If you want to move the goalposts to "using Bootstrap incorrectly is inefficient" it will be a different discussion.

I agree, we should use tools correctly, but the comment I responded to (and the crux of the discussion) revolves around the suggestion that removing Bootstrap "led to a better website".
App Engine is great when you want a scalable service that you use to talk directly to your backend services. Cloud Functions lets you extend an existing service with custom code. The best example is Cloud Storage and thumbnailing. If you wanted to automatically create thumbnails for images you could do that easily with an endpoint on app engine. The only problem is you'd lose out on all the other features that Cloud Storage for Firebase offers like automatic resume and 3p authorization. Instead you could write a Cloud Function that creates thumbnails as a side effect and your client app keeps talking directly to a BaaS.
Sure it is.

If you (or anybody else) wants to count casualties, approximately 8 million Chinese dies in the Chinese Civil Wars. Surely the life of a Vietnamese person is not more valuable to America than a life of a Chinese person is to China.

And we also ought to include the lives of the between 15 and 45 million who starved to death in Mao's "Great Leap Forward."

It is also worth noting that China was largest foreign backer of North Vietnam, providing "both financial aid and the deployment of hundreds of thousands of military personnel in support roles" (quote from wikipedia), so it is untrue to say that the United States in uniquely culpable for the war's casualties.
> It's like composing Mayan pictographs

Which reminds me: We need a Jaguar emoji!
iPhones are luxury smartphones.

There are other smartphones that fulfill the same purposes (that you outlined above) which are much cheaper.

If someone in poverty buys an iPhone instead of a budget alternative, it's an indicator that they lack a basic ability to evaluate a handful of economic choices and choose the most appropriate (and thrifty) one. It's the smartphone equivalent of getting chrome rims on your car wheels.

EDIT: I was disappointed but not surprised that the article didn't even acknowledge this fact, nor really make a case at all for what it was saying. I couldn't find any attempt to convince at all in what was written; it was simply a declaration of how right the author's view is and how obviously stupidly wrong the concept of someone being responsible for their own outcomes is.
I agree that the most critical weakeness of Silicon Valley is real estate costs. I find it hard to imagine Beijing as a serious competitor though. If it were going to be anywhere in China I would expect it to be Shenzhen.
Probably IP law
I'm not clear on why you would use redis to get transactions. Wouldn't sending a single message to kafka that represents the whole transaction with acks=all have the same effect? Then instead of pulling from redis like it is a queue, you can just do that from kafka.
They do have a one-year deprecation policy[1] for pretty much all of their GA offerings on GCP[2].

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/terms/

[2]: https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation
Ask HN: Newly realized “hacker”. Cry for help
I'm a software developer... or so I think... then I realized recently that in truth, I am actually a hacker who has been trying to find an outlet for creative problem solving, and not finding it in my chosen career.

Tl;dr. What do I do with this realization? I'm losing my sanity, and having aneurysms on a daily basis: over the overlording by management; over the smell of big client money controlling everyone's words and actions, instead of having the hard conversations of how to build something correctly... the first time; over the paradigm mongering; over the complexity and inefficiency from head to toe, from dev team, product lifecycle, or business...
Are there jobs that people with a hackers mentality are more well suited for? Is there some role or position I should be looking for? Or should I be looking for the right kind of company or team? Am I simply barking up the wrong industry? Where do I go, what do I do?
Help.

Please see my original post below. It didn't fit within the 2k character limit, but it gives more context to my question.
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A big point of the guide is that different people will want to choose differently between these two bad options.
Nah, that's mostly to reduce the long tail of rentals.. in some cases it takes months to turn a person into a customer and book now/instant reservation helps shorten this cycle and reduce off platform fishers/scammers.
I think this is why science education is so important, even for people not going into hard science. Really the two main takeaways should be understanding the difference between empirical evidence and scientific theory, and that theories can never be proven 'true', but they can be proven false, and until then they're really only considered 'not yet false'.

Using their critical thinking skills they can then apply this knowledge to non-scientific situations, so when a politician say something is a "fact" they can figure out if it's a "fact" like empirical evidence, or they just mean it's a theory they believe in.

Through this lens, "alternative fact" must mean either "alternative theory" -- which is fine, and can be tested against another theory by figuring out a way to prove one false -- or "alternative empirical evidence" -- which is not possible, and therefore is just a fancy way of saying 'lie'.
> So far, machines have a pretty hard time emulating these qualities: the crazy leaps of faith, arbitrary enough to not be predicted by a bot, and yet more than simple randomness. Their struggle is our opportunity.

Rationality makes us human instead of animals. Our imprevisibility (are we?) is make us different from AI (yes, yes, a long road yet).
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As mentioned in some other comments, the restriction on outbound requests without a billing account is to prevent abuse. I'm sure you could imagine some bad behavior if Cloud Functions allowed anyone to spin up a few million executions per month and hit any arbitrary web services.
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the racism that is bred from one applies to the other. See: the Garmin engineers and Sikhs that have become victims of hate crimes.
I can confirm based on my Texan friend who voted for Trump that when he sees so many foreign students, he thinks of the potential American students that were "displaced" by them. I put displaced in quotes because it's not true that they could all be backfilled by americans (there are only so many people who graduate with an undergrad degree in EE or Physics each year).
Don't travel to the US seems to be the only 3rd option.
You think the idea that people are generally responsible for their own outcomes is "exceedingly short-sighted, arrogant, or just plain uneducated"?
When they started out here in India, they had professional photos for all properties.

I think they don't have that requirement anymore because most properties I see locally have smartphone camera quality pictures with improper lighting.

I get that it's cheaper, but after a certain age, I just want to be comfortable on a vacation, not have to think "will it be terrible?"

The only exception is if the property offers something hotels don't (like a lodge in the forest or a rooftop apartment overlooking the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem)
It's not an "old saying", it's the work of philosopher Giambattista Vico, a contemporary of Enlightenment. http://www.iep.utm.edu/vico/
Hello, I'm working with Hyper. There are valid comments here about how much control you might want over your container stack. If you need total control, you should run your own k8s cluster or have someone else run it for you, like GKE.

Most of our users choose us because they don't want that level of control and maintenance.

I'm aware of Flynn but not sure how it works and I'm hearing of Nanobox for the first time.

I imagine however that they will be experiencing the same thing as us, lots of people running event driven workloads.
Does this create an opportunity?

Do investors who target women and unattractive men have less competition for the same product?

Or does the effect last through all rounds of funding, customers, going public and so on? In that case the investor would be rational to mimic the preferences of the market.

I suspect it lasts through a few rounds of funding but at the point the company is large and can afford PR, and so on, it no longer matters.

This might mean that the smart investor should target the ignored company if the investor has enough money to get them to the point that they are self-sustaining.
Agreed. Come to Canada. We have a sane immigration system and we don't have right-wing parties breathing down our necks to shut it down.
At various points of time you've been able to get a new (not used) iPhone for $99. Cut the bullshit.

You can get an Android phone for cheaper than an iPhone, but you pay for it in lost time (not to mention the low quality of budget Android phones)

iPhones are iPhones. There are luxury priced ones, of course, and they were never 'budget', but having access to the internet isn't a luxury anymore. It's a requirement.
To clear things up: You Can use the Blaze plan which is pay-as-you-go and starts at 0$ and has a large free tier. External requests are disabled on projects that do not have billing enabled but you can have billing enabled and still be within the free tier of usage. The Flame plan is the "fixed cost" plan starting at 25$ and also includes external requests.
Not just the poor, but even homeless often have phones.

I'm the author of YSN[0], which is a web and mobile app for helping homeless youth in Minnesota.

Whenever I show the app to people, the usual response is: "Wait, homeless youth have phones?"

The answer is yes, a great many do. Because, as you note, it's their only connection to the digital world, and often times, the only connection to friends or family.

[0]: https://ysnmn.org
Do you have more information on that?
I assumed the keel was for balancing the torque that the forces on the sail generate so one doesn't capsize. In land sailing or ice yachting you don't have two medium with different densities and still achieve forward movement using a sail.
So uh, how does this work? What's to stop me from sticking my data up there and sharing it with 1000 friends? Where is the trancoding done?

I was a member of a private plex group with about 8TB of media. He was constantly running into problems due to people sharing accounts, causing his server load to become unfeasible.
I'm the author. Thank you for you sharing! I will check it out shortly.
I'm not part of YC but if you are in downtown Vancouver around Robson Square, give me a shout (email is in profile) and let's get a coffee!

Welcome to Vancouver.
From the link in the article: "Code golf is a type of recreational computer programming competition in which participants strive to achieve the shortest possible source code that implements a certain algorithm."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_golf

There is an entire StackExchange site for it, which is interesting to look around in: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com
Drop me an email (see profile), I'll connect you with a Rubyist at Google who can talk all about Ruby on GCP.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13828253 (12 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13674181 (6 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13675891 (6 comments)

Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831084

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830349

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830236

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13722701

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13690226

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13636698

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13616125

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13578319

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13572097
Why. Seriously. Why. Whatever happened to domain-specific languages.
I've been looking forward to this forever
You can find our deprecation policy here:

https://cloud.google.com/terms/

Disclaimer: I work on GCP, though not on Cloud SQL.
Having seen the horrific rikers beating video. [1] I don't understand why in this day and age, prisons are NOT under 100% CCTV monitoring. Is this just out of sight, out of mind approach? As we debate body-worn cameras to prevent police brutality, ensuring prison and jails are kept under constant surveillance might help reduce recidivism.

It's also tragic that there is direct equivalence to the charter/public school debate. A lot of the arguments for/against charters schools can be simply applied by swapping school for prison. And just like test-scores/teaching-philosophy, you have a superior scandinavian approach.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000002996576/foota...
The killer for me is PITR (point in time recover). A few years ago a colleague triggered and UPDATE without WHERE and PITR saved our sorry asses (on MS SQLServer, a fair product despite my antipathy MS).

Postgres has it, but it is kind of a pain to setup correctly and I love RDS because I don't have to deal with the setup anymore.
@mar1, I've forwarded your interest in finding a job to our security recruiting lead. We don't have a relevant office in the desired location, but happy to discuss. Feel free to reach out, my email is dierks@google.com.
Yet you can pick up an iPhone 5s for less than $200 off-contract at Walmart.

So, no, your argument fails to hold water. Maybe their circle also uses iPhones. Maybe they want robust hardware and software for a device that will help determine whether they get and keep a job, and rightly or wrongly they feel an iPhone provides that robustness.
What is the incentive to go public in today's environment other than an initial fundraising, and an unpredictable monetary bonus for employees?

Edit: Appended another question.
Is there a reason Google is so slow to compete with AWS? This seems like another example of where they're playing catch-up. Meanwhile, I'm blown away that Node is still just in Beta (with no SLA / deprecation guarantees) when Heroku and AWS have supported it for years.