skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
when ha would cost the same i.e. ~20€ than that would be amazingly cheap.
i mean on aws you would pay the same (20 €), but you need to pay 1 year upfront.. and if ha would be like 16 € you would only be a little bit more expensive than a 3 year aws rds offering (1€ per month), which is less a problem since the storage is cheaper and you are way more flexible (canceling and recreating to a bigger instance)
I had to convince female I know to apply for a position she wasn't exactly qualified for. She did and got the job. Women are socialized to not be as aggressive here in the US, which is a shame because there are lots of bad people in jobs just because a better woman never thought to apply.
'not releasing false data' doesn't make you beyond reproach. That's like saying some doxxer is beyond reproach because they never got someone's address wrong.
Public listings or lack thereof are orthogonal to corporate legitimacy. Cf. Enron and SAS.
I'm struck by the first part of the Feynman quote:

>Consider an object... What is an object? Philosophers are always saying, “Well, just take a chair for example.” The moment they say that, you know that they do not know what they are talking about. Atoms are evaporating from it from time to time...

Note how deftly Feynman takes his own objects for granted: what is an atom? But that's the basis of his own paradigm, so it goes unquestioned. This is, broadly, the problem with these sorts of exercises, that people seem to be able to notice things others take for granted, but their own sacred cows remain invisible.

You basically have to have this level of dissonance in play to be able to acknowledge the deep problems of rationalism, but stil carry on with formal methods.
Let us know what you find. Be keep an eye on your usage and quotas in the Google Cloud console if you hit any limits.
All reports indicate that GCP is run very differently from the other products.

They had a rocky start as they were apparently ramping up the support organization, but these days I'm hearing nothing but praise.

They're getting very good at transparency. They have numerous mailing lists [1] ("Google Groups", ugh) for things like product release notes and planned changes. They just opened a public issue tracker [2] that covers the entire Google Cloud Platform.

If you're into Kubernetes/GKE, the Google team is also very active and responsive.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/support/docs/groups

[2] https://issuetracker.google.com/
> People also seem to get stuck on "China" in my comment. If that makes you unhappy, replace that word with Brazil, Japan, Singapore, Estonia, whatever you want... the point is, viewed under the "startup lens", this new administration makes the dominance of the US in STEM/entrepreneurship ripe for disruption by a more nimble, flexible entity.

The problem is that for various reasons, none of those are credible alternatives. One of the things keeping US dominance of science/engineering/technology going is that there's no place quite like it.
Stuff like this is making me feel that I am never going to the US on my own dime. If I'm going to be turned away for reset devices, no devices or not giving my passwords to online accounts - then I give up.
If anything, their adaptability gives me confidence. They have little power to stop vendors from creating new emojis that are morphologically distinct from existing ones, so they might as well wrangle them into a standard.
awesome! i'm digging all the cool stuff showing up on dotnet core now.
The obvious question is will the US government allow one of its most profitable states to leave? Highly doubtful. Great way to start another civil war, though!
"10+ years of experience writing production systems in Elm" was a nice gem I saw recently.
It's interesting to me that even in this theory keel is not mentioned at all, though it is essential for sailing, together with the sails.
Few things:

- sailboat without the keel, will not sail at all. It will just move sideways and back

- sailboat driven by a motor in a lull, with sails up and perfectly trimmed, will go slower than without the sails

- plane and air gliders comparison is always wrong, because plane is driven, and both operate in the same medium - air

Sails alone cannot drive boat forward.
Only with interaction from the keel on the boundary of two medium, water and air with different density.
When I read this in Snow Crash, I thought Neal Stephenson was being deliberately absurd. But here we are. Want to go to The Hoosegow LLC and not The Clink, Incorporated? That'll be an extra $50 a night.
Everything around us seems to be optimized for efficiency, speed and profits. Nothing is optimized for happiness anymore, unless that happiness is directly tied to someone's profits. And we are all judged on weird metrics - ("40 and still writing code, not in management?" "don't want to have kids?", "don't want to own a house?" etc all followed by "what is wrong with you?"). And everything seems complicated too - I just read somewhere that credit card agreements are like dozens of pages today, vs a couple of pages before.

Like you, I also wonder the same - fancy electronics, cars, running water etc are all great, but how much of it truly contribute to one's laughter, happiness, health etc?
Vancouver has been a popular place to transfer foreign talent to the U.S. for years. It's a short drive to Seattle, a short flight to San Francisco, and in the same time zone as both cities.

Famously, Facebook had an office in Coal Harbour that was just for transferring hires to Menlo Park, they didn't hire any Canadian citizens or permanent residents.

Even more famously, Microsoft's recent expansion in Vancouver, the "Excellence Centre" (doubling its workforce from 400 in Yaletown to 800), was mostly going to be for L-1 visa transfers to Redmond HQ. 360 of those positions were planned, with MS only promising 40 positions (5%) for citizens/PRs. The former Conservative government offered winking acknowledgement. However, voters in Canada were furious when the mass abuse of the TFW program came to light, which forced the government's hand.

The vast majority of positions at the "Excellence Centre" (which was opened by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and houses ~650 engineers as of now) have gone to locals. Anecdotally, I've heard that ever since the TFW backlash, the most popular cities in which to open visa transfer offices have been London and Zurich.

If you want to see the documents proving that MS was mostly going to hire visa transfers in Vancouver, documents obtained by CBC News under the province's access to information laws show what were the draft plans: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1685182-b-c-atip-doc...
I agree, and I apologise. Wrote the post quickly, and the second part went more towards "shameless plug" than what I thought about when I typed "full disclosure". Edited now to reflect this. (And for the record, I have no involvement, just a friend of mine is doing this and I think it's cool.)
The post you link directly contradicts this:

> There's no false flags. In several places, the CIA talks about making sure that what they do isn't so unique, so it can't be attributed to them. However, Wikileaks's press release hints that the "UMBRAGE" program is deliberately stealing techniques from Russia to use as a false-flag operation. This is nonsense. For example, the DNC hack attribution was live command-and-control servers simultaneously used against different Russian targets -- not a few snippets of code.
You might want to take a step outside the academic setting every once in a while.

Chat with a cop, ambulance driver, or immigration officer from a sanctuary city if you really want to "get" it.

It's the illegal immigrants that suck the system dry, not the smart, diligent, legitimate ones working in academia and top companies.
I think the point the OP is making is that nothing last forever. Yes it is great now but the times they are a changing.
Hopefully someone good at matching doesn't need to send you to 10 on-sites to find you a good fit. That sounds exhausting and unproductive.
I don't know of any good resources off the top of my head, but IIRC from law school, one of the main objectives of Sarbanes-Oxley is to get executives on the hook for the accuracy of the financial statements they sign, and I believe it also requires that they sign the financial statements.

I don't know enough to have an opinion about whether it's affecting IPO decisions, but I think it's more than just procedural stuff.
Lily also promised enough 'coordination' to track an athlete from multiple angles over varying terrain and obstacles. That's a much taller order than "follow me", and it doesn't look like they ever managed to get something that could track a skier or kayaker the way they implied.
Isn't Rocket using Hyper, and Hyper using Tokio? It may be that Rocket is still on a non-tokio Hyper, but that'd only be temporary then.
Anyone know if Stormpath is providing professional services to help with migration to Okta?
How does this compare to App Engine? The most obvious difference I see is that App Engine lets you handle HTTP requests using a variety of languages, not just JavaScript.
My favorite historical place in Istanbul.
I'm not building anything on top of google unless they give EOL time lines and stop pulling the rug out from under services.
Somebody involved with Unicode must have had the same idea, because the ideographic description characters exist. However, I've never seen them used in practice because they don't actually render the character. You just get something like ⿰扌足, which corresponds to 捉.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideographic_Description_Charac...
Aren't radioactive wild boars (or rats) the first enemy you encounter on pretty much every post apocalyptic video game ever? Funny how things turn out...
is there IOPS info somewhere?
Like many of you, I'm incredibly happy about how this:

> This has been the most requested feature since Firebase launched

is finally in place. Firebase is a great option for quickly getting something together, and now that you can extend it with little compute, this really is a massive expansion of what you can achieve.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and sit near the Firebase folks!).
Being able to pass a job interview can require different skills than actually doing the job. So it is more accurate to say that you are a bad interviewer. The standard advice is:

- get Cracking the Code Interview

- practice it for a couple months

- practice using a whiteboard and other problematic areas
The replication and high availability related documentation is here:-

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/high-availability

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/replication/

Any timelines on high availability support? This would be pretty helpful
If you need more than 400 concurrent invocations please reach out to support (not promising whether or not we'll be able to satisfy arbitrary scale just yet). We're on day one of a Beta product and it'll keep getting better.
In some sense, yes, but check out Sarbanes-Oxley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes%E2%80%93Oxley_Act. Public companies are under much more scrutiny in terms of compliance, and they have a certain type of pressure to post good quarterly results that private companies don't.
Morbid thought: I'm surprised there isn't a cottage industry around buying life insurance policies on prison inmates. I bet you could use statistical methods and/or machine learning to profitably predict inmates most likely to die early, given the prison location, staff, the inmate's crime, and other factors.
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>There's an old saying out there that history is merely a set of cycles. I suppose we'll see if that is true in the upcoming years.

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."
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This makes me seriously consider switching from heroku for my rails postgres app. Probably could cut my costs significantly.

Anyone have any comments or experiences with the Google app engine flex environment for ruby?
Strongly agree. My perception is that they've got no grit, which stinks because Amazon has it in spades
Interesting, I interviewed with one of the cofounders and felt like it was one of the best interviews I had. Lengthy, moderately difficult, but fair. I passed, but remember feeling that way even immediately after the interview.
After the Hype Hangover: What’s Next for 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing?
I just mean that over the course of building vanilla JavaScript applications, people often add layer of functionality that are implemented worse than libraries, are harder to maintain, or are not as compatible.

Like yes, I could build my own routing library, and that is probably fine, and yes I can build my own state management library, and so on, but at a certain point you are just rebuilding a framework from scratch, and oftentimes not very well.
Has anyone ever found a good use case for a digital whiteboard? They've existed for a decade or two and I've been in several organizations where we had them -- but they were usually in the corner or behind a 'dumb' whiteboard that we used instead.
Ah, sadly no outbound networking requests on the free tier. In my opinion that is a critical use case for a tool like this.

This could be a non-starter if there's really no way try it for outbound requests without paying $25 / month. Hopefully I'm misunderstanding the pricing page.

Edit: The fine print for the custom plan:

> 3 The Spark plan only allows outbound network requests to Google owned services. On the Blaze plan, Cloud Functions provides a perpetual free tier. The first 2,000,000 invocations, 400,000 GB-sec, 200,000 CPU-sec, and 5GB of Internet egress traffic is provided for free each month. You are only charged on usage past this free allotment. Pricing is based on total number of invocations, and compute time. Compute time is variable based on the amount of memory and CPU provisioned for a function. For more information, see Cloud Functions Pricing.
I agree with you 100%, but people who complain about immigration would argue that they're taking away the opportunities for Americans for the same education / positions.

Heck, that's what they say about undocumented migrant workers in agriculture. But seeing them in positions in the "intellectual elite" is even more threatening to them because such positions are seen as a position of power.
I know there's balance to this issue - I once spent an afternoon at a shantytown located in a garbage dump in Managua. Worldview-changing, especially when the interpreter noted that some people felt fortunate to at least have work to do in the dump.

But some things certainly are a matter of perspective. My grandmother was one of 13 kids, 12 of which survived early childhood. The way she describes it, they all lived in one three-bedroom house in a steel town: one bedroom for the parents, one for the girls, and one for the boys.

So, 14 people in a house that, assuming it was an average-sized house from that era that you see in these parts, was probably about 1,200-1,500 square feet. That'd be pretty unthinkable to your average American today (outside of NYC/SF, anyways).

"Keeping up with the Joneses", coupled with a lot of land, probably our economic policies, and other factors, has certainly moved the needle on what an acceptable home looks like.
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> Supposedly 34 mil of customer money was in escrow. They were only operating of the 15 mil in investment. I don't know if that is true.

The bankrupcy filing posted above in the thread https://pdf.inforuptcy.com/pacer/debke/167122/dockets/2/1-A0... largely bears this out. On page 13, they declare that they still have $25.6M in their bank account, and a bit more than $31M of current assets in total.

By Kickstarter standards, this looks like a fairly responsibly run company.
For years, my father would say "that guy using the food bank has an iPhone! I don't have an iPhone, and I'm not poor. How can these people afford iPhones?"

It's a generational thing, especially. iPhones are seen as glamorous luxury items, not as an essential tool for living. I always remind my father that the people who have little money but also have iPhones likely don't have a home phone number, home computer, or Internet service in their house. Their iPhone is their only connection to the modern digital world: The one asset they have to get themselves a job, assistance, information. It's arguably one of the most important items for a person to own, today, right up there with a car. Without a good phone and a car, people in the US are basically beached on a shore of unemployment, or low employment, especially in rural towns.

It's incredibly hard for people to get back on the horse when they've fallen off, economically. Even harder if they never had a horse to begin with. At the local library, people are constantly coming in to ask for help with digital literacy problems that affect their lives heavily: paying bills, responding to emails, seeing pictures of their grandchildren that were sent to their email. Having a phone with Internet is literally an essential part of modern life, and the generation that thinks poor people shouldn't have iPhones are the same ones who generally view all this technology stuff as magical hoo hah. Like my dad...
Sarbanes-Oxley isn't solely responsible but it's one factor weighing on the scales. There is extra administrative overhead which costs real money, plus it exposes the company's leaders to more potential liability.

The bill was well intentioned. But it has had the unintended side effect of locking retail investors out of many of the highest returning investments. There is overall a shrinking number of companies publicly traded on US markets as more companies merge, go bankrupt, go private, or never go public in the first place. This is a growing problem for defined-contribution retirement plans.
No, but wealthy libertarians with vast amounts of political power believe it. According to adherents of this belief system, poverty is a symptom of laziness, full stop, and government can do nothing, and more importantly must not.
From the article: Perhaps the US confused a low-level al Qaeda militant who happens to have the same name: Abubakr al Baghdadi. Or perhaps they were tricked into the raid to help the competing internal factions - which happened in the past.

Yet another perfect example of what an oxymoron the term "military intelligence" really is.
I'm not sure exactly how your process works, from that description there's three ways we differ:

(1) We don't submit resumes to companies. We give them a profile of the candidate which describes their technical skills and their work history but without any mention of specific schools or companies. For a company to move forward with a Triplebyte candidate, they have to trust in our screening process more than credentials.

(2) Companies agree to not do any technical phone screens or coding challenges with our candidates. Instead they do an initial pitch call and then move to an onsite if there's candidate interest. This saves engineers a lot of time spent in repetitive phone screens.

(3) The metric we optimize for is our onsite success rate i.e. how often does a Triplebyte candidate onsite interview result in an offer. Since our candidates don't go through the regular technical phone screens, any improvement we can make on the industry standard of a 20 - 25% onsite success rate saves the company engineering time spent doing those phone screens. Currently we're averaging 2x that rate across all our companies.
Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet
We're actually in Bend, Oregon right now and pretty happy. I'm ... pretty nervous about how things might go, though.
I saw this exact ad for the first time this morning. I'm not one to be offended by ads but this one did irk me a little - I'm running 10 Pro which I paid $100 for, I shouldn't see ads in a paid product.
I believe most do though, but with a right of first refusal. In which case they will buy them of direct you to their preferred buyer. Source: I have done this and my conversation with the broker for the secondary market who handles a lot of this said it is quite common and that in fact other at the same company I was at had done so. It might be frowned upon internally but you have to look out for yourself. Staying at a startup for 8+ plus years isn't very realistic for me personally.
i'm interested too. always wanted to get into ML/self driving cars
Given that Wikileaks entire MO is releasing private information...
The issue doesn't really seem to be the emojis, but rather the variation sequences, which seem to be really awkward to work with, but I can sort of see why they're necessary. But the fact that we need special libraries to answer fairly basic queries about unicode text doesn't bode well.
I am a fan of 10 years experience required in X. When X has only been around for 4 years.
How do you suppose the customer service will be?
(Cloud Functions for Firebase PM here)

We’ve been developing this product for quite some time, and we’ve had it in private alpha testing for well over a year. We’re incredibly excited to finally take the wrappings off and let all of you try it.

Firebase has always focused on empowering you all to build extraordinary experiences for your users, without needing to worry about building common infrastructure. While we’ve made big strides towards this vision in the past, we always had one big hole: trusted code execution. Today, we’re completing the story with Cloud Functions for Firebase so that you can easily run server-side code in response to events from your Firebase app.

We think you’re going to love it, and we can’t wait to see what you build with it!

Non-Firebase related Cloud Functions discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831398
You can mislead and shape narrative with editorialized releases. It's the goal of most propaganda efforts to only use true statements.

I find it troubling that people conclude they're "beyond reproach" just because the facts are true.

That doesn't make them non-biased, mean they're not intending to distract or mislead, say anything about their framing, analysis, or editorial content, etc.

Like here: a suspiciously timed leak of sensitive US documents which largely seem to be intended to scare and distract, not show legitimate wrong-doing.
We've never had a candidate do 10 on-sites nor would we encourage someone to. That'd indeed be incredibly exhausting. We encourage them to be broad with the number of companies they do an initial pitch call with, then be selective about who they move forward with to an on-site.
Vancouver seems like the most sensible place for a satellite office, due to proximity to San Francisco.
Yep, this is a good mentality to have. I applied to a job after graduating from college that asked for 2-5+ years of experience. I was able to cite some project experience from school and from a 4 month co-op. Was enough to get an interview, and I took it from there to get a job offer.
That's one thing that keeps me away from most Kickstarter projects and very early pre-orders from new or unknown companies.

Even if the technology is feasible and there's a working prototype, there's still a lot of work to do to get it mass produced, and problems and unanticipated expenses can crop up all along the way, especially for people who've never gone through the process before.
Relaunched Hangouts Chat, Google's Slack Competitor
Mozilla Releases Firefox 52, the First Browser to Support WebAssembly
Hate to sound like a strawman, but: why should this my problem? Unfortunately that's the nature of the game. Many software roles are like that. You just have to apply anyway. Other hidden biases women face, OK, got it, but this is a problem that occurs before any dialogue takes place.

Now whether or not that advice gets properly dispensed is another issue.