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To be clear, many of the comments are from Bob Muglia, CEO of Snowflake Computing which is a cloud based columnar data warehouse solution. Presumably, much easier to implement than Hadoop, so you have to take those comments with a grain of salt.

Also, those entities who the article claims have a grasp on Hadoop are some of the main people who helped develop it - lest we forget that the early work on Hadoop came out of Yahoo. "Web-scale" companies by their very nature have to own this technology, because almost nobody else on earth did what they have done on that scale (except maybe governments and scientists).

However, I agree the article is right on. As someone who has done a lot of work with different Hadoop distributions (Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR to name a few), I can say that compared to the performance and ease of use of more traditional data platforms, Hadoop is a different and more complex creature. It has evolved quickly in some regards and slowly in others. It's way easier to get a Cloudera system up and running today (for example) than it was in the past.

"Hadoop" by itself is a misnomer, it's not like it's one technology. HDFS, MapReduce (and MR2), Hive, HBase, Spark, Pig, Flume, etc. etc. - it's an ecosystem. It's also a mashup of many things depending on what distro you're talking about - too many things - a "data hub", an "operational data store", a "pre-data warehouse staging", an ETL platform, a "search" platform, a data governance platform, a data archiving solution, a real-time data query / streaming data processing etc. etc. etc.

I think Hadoop did one important thing to our overall awareness, and that was to think of a "data platform", "data processing", "data architecture" and "data infrastructure" as a major, and "big" strategic part of an organization. I think the rise of "big data" thinking along with the rise of the "chief data officer", "data scientists" and "data engineers" and the like all goes together - a shift in thinking we made where we realized we could do more with more data (for better or worse).

There are many new and old technologies that help people implement the data infrastructure in their organizations - not just Hadoop. Hadoop just happened to be a major player at the epicenter at this (and open source as well), and if anything, has spurred technological advancement in databases, NoSQL and NewSQL and OldSQL alike, ETL, data mining, AI/machine learning, etc. So it has played its role, whether it specifically stays relevant or not as we perceive it.
I have three kids. When one kid gets sick, the others get sick too, but not at the same time. It's usually a week later for one, and a week after that for the other. Now we're talking about sick time spread across three weeks.

It's really frustrating that parents bring their sick kids to school, and even sick teachers show up to teach because they can't afford to take the time off (apparently). This winter was brutal, I've pretty much spent all of my vacation time just taking care of my family.

Obviously this is just an anecdote but I suspect that many parents are either taking a lot of time off, or just dropping their sick kids off at school.
Worth noting that TFA does not actually say what the headline says. Rather it talks about teaching less _Arithmetic_. This is something I've thought would be a good plan throughout my kids progress through the elementary and middle school phases. I'd try teaching algebra much earlier, in place of all the Arithmetic that can be done with a computer, and needs some knowledge of algebra to understand anyway.
Zendesk is great for managing customer support.
One star reviews damning our book should stay, lowering the overall book review? How is that not blaming the victim? We're not the counterfeiters.
My mother taught 1st grade for 30 years. I had a late birthday, and she made sure I waited a year. Her anecdotal experience from teaching was that the late-birthday kids who came in early weren't ready for school and often did worse / behaved worse.
Did you just say we need a $1.5 trillion dollar fighter to fight goat herders? ISIS doesn't have an air force.

We literally have zero need to protect power across the globe. Our presence in the middle east is extremely costly and counterproductive to our security. And without the F-35 we project power great with a navy bigger than the entire rest of world combined. We have 12 carriers, mostly 100k tons, and Russia/China combined have two 50,000 ton carriers.

And the F-35 is guaranteed to be terrible at close air support. No F-35 pilot is going to slowly loiter their supersonic within visual range of their targets and without doing that they can't see exactly what they are shooting. Their gun only has 4 seconds of ammunition, the A-10 can fire much more powerful rounds for nearly 30 seconds. The F-35s gun won't even be operational for another 2-3 years.

If we need to fire miesiles from stand off distances drones already do it much cheaper. The F-35 is like the he german navy trying to load up on battleships instead of carriers before WW2, an expensive and easily avoided mistake.
This is really cool:

> Securely erasing saved keys is just as important as generating them. It’s especially challenging to do so on flash storage, where wear-leveling might mean multiple copies of data need to be erased. To address this issue, iOS devices include a feature dedicated to secure data erasure called Effaceable Storage. This feature accesses the underlying storage technology (for example, NAND) to directly address and erase a small number of blocks at a very low level.

I guess that means separate storage, as the main storage in recent iPhones is an NVMe SSD and not raw NAND attached to the processor.

BTW, is there a good / easy way to connect raw NAND to a normal desktop PC?
You are mistaken. The pixel has the same 2 year support length of the Nexus series.

iPhones are typically supported for 4 years.
Does buying a subscription remove all these ads?
It's impressive work certainly, the graphics clearly need work though. Add a skybox and some lighting effects and it'll already look a ton better. Trees and buildings are the next offender.

Good luck.
"Propaganda" LOL.
> Even applications like OpenOffice that were specifically designed to be clones have struggled with compatibility for decades. By embracing that complexity, and the costs, we would deliver something that we knew was fundamentally hard to match

> Google Apps have been announcing some variant of offline editing for almost 8 years now and it is still semi-functional. The other “real soon now” promise is “better compatibility with Office”. This has the flavor of the laundry detergent claims of “now with blue crystals”! The claim of “better” is hard to argue with but history would seem to indicate they are not getting any closer to actually being compatible, especially as Office continues to evolve

It's a bit difficult when they're on purpose embracing complexity and cost of the current format, and keeping it closed source. The fact that Google is able to achieve its own network effects with a different format should actually encourage Google to not support Office, ever.

For us, users, we should ensure Google docs stays compatible with open format like ".odt"
I wish I could​ frame this comment in gold.
Rule of thumb do not put anything in the client that you do not want a user to see, any "protection" can and will be broken.

Obfuscation doesn't stop attacker nor does it even really slow them down it can hinder client side debugging and cause it's own set of issues (anti viruses for example tend to dislike obfuscated binaries even if they are signed).

Same thing with protecting the DB, what for? I'll assume you want to hide some business logic well either move it server side or have it exposed a password won't stop anyone, even if you super obfuscate it an attacker can just steal the connection string from memory ;)

Same goes for licensing, any scheme will be broken and unlike a game your software isn't time sensitive a copy protection mechanism that delays a crack even by a few days did its work as it's designed to give a window for the impulse buyers/easily frustrated that will buy the game if it's not cracked on release.

For commercial software a week or month won't matter so if it will be popular it will be craked.
"They are also the most aggressive ad shoveling website I have ever seen. Their ad blocker blocker and paywall works, preventing me from reading articles."

So their ad blocker blocker and their paywall kept you from reading the articles for free? Why don't you just pay them?

It's just a shitty thing to do at this point. If they have high quality articles then what would require you to pay them? Do they need to be on Patreon or Kickstarter or something?
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"An attentive eyeball! Fire at will to trigger consumption!"
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I feel the same about my 15 inch 2016 MBP. I also had the same issue with the Touch bar. I've since removed it, and changed it to the mute button, and haven't had any issue.

When I first purchased it, (when it was released in store), I had problems with graphical artifacts, but than a new update was released for MacOSX and it's been fine since.
> as an American, i don't always know what to make of this. free speech means different things in different democracies. the US definition of free speech rights is not the only game in town, or even the best game in town (?).

There isn't anything to think of it in that sense. Other nations / cultures are free to establish whatever they decide are their rules around speech and so to is the US. There isn't more to it than that: the US is one of the strongest defenders when it comes to speech and has been for centuries.

I can say things about Trump any time I please (the Internet is of course overflowing with the nastiest possible things directed at Trump, every insult possible), that would get people arrested in the majority of nations on the planet if directed at their leader/s. That principle has made the US stronger rather than weaker. If your 'democracy' is so fragile that it can't allow for an insult toward its leadership, well, good luck, you're not going to last long.

In the US you can create rap videos, pretend-murdering the President. You can create fantasy documentaries simulating murdering the President. I find those things obnoxious and I'm glad they're protected speech, they're of no threat to me or the President. I'll take that over prison for insulting the king every day of the week.
How much of this is explained by increasing health insurance rates if your company has an older age pool?
It's an apples-to-oranges comparison at the outset. Autonomous cars are overseen by humans, drive only in good weather, and do almost all their driving at low speed. At the very least, you should be comparing human data at low speed and in good weather.
The issue is that reviews affect ranking. And ranking can have a huge impact on sales. Attackers only have to get through a few times to create enough damage to require hundreds or thousands of 5 star reviews to fix. It's a matter of very simple math.

The only reviews that should be permitted should be from actual Amazon customers. They should also be weighted based on what I am going to call "karma". By this I mean that it should not be possible for someone to setup an account, buy a product and then leave a 1 star negative review within a few days.

We have seen reviews posted before the product was delivered to the buyer! In addition to this, the buyer's "karma" needs to have an element of seniority validation. Someone who has been on Amazon for ten years and regularly buys products is not likely to post face reviews. Someone who just joined Amazon 30 days ago and only bought a handful of products should not be trusted.

Non verified reviews should not be allowed at all. The key word here is "review", which should mean "I bought one, I used it for a reasonable period of time and this is what I think of the product.".

Reviews also need to have a certain amount of minimum time from purchase built in. Say, 30 days. And, within this time, sellers ought to have access to buyers in order to try and make it right. In other words, just like a Walmart customer would when buying something from the store and don't like it. There's an opportunity for excellent customer service here and Amazon is not allowing it to happen.

That's a review. An unverified review is a fairy tale. It's fake. And it can be fake both in a positive or negative direction.

Amazon needs to put in basic provisions in order to ensure that reviews are from actual buyers with enough "karma" to be trusted.
It likely just removes the pay wall. Even subscribers would likely benefit from using an ad blocker.
Why would you reward a website for using dark patterns like autoplaying video ads, popups, 14 bloody GiB of data pushing ads and tracking and bullshit into your browser?
> That’s a timeline of 30 seconds of page activity about 5 minutes after the article was opened. To be clear, this timeline should be empty. Nothing should be loading. Maybe one short ping, maybe loading one extra ad. Instead the page requested 2000 resources totalling 5 megabytes in 30 seconds. It will keep making those requests as long as I leave the page open. 14 gigabytes a day.

It's not quite clear if 14GB/day is an extrapolation based off the author's sample of 5 MB/30 seconds or if the author actually left the page open for all 24 hours. Regardless, that's quite a bit of data.
One of the problems with the meta-argument is you never expose your views to critical scrutiny by people with other views, and so never find out if they are mistaken.

>I'd gamble at 3:1 odds that I'd be downvoted and called racist.

Yeah, you would, so you would need to argue back. Is that so painful? And note there might be others who are not certain which side is correct, and might be persuaded by your arguments. Or they might be persuaded they are wrong. That is what open discussion is about, and it is the best system we have.

I do think you have one good point. That is that calling someone "racist" because they disagree with you on something is usually not helpful. It is better to just state points of disagreement.
This is why data caps are bad. Left open all month that could be 400+ GB of data used on your plan.

Ad networks are being subsidized by data caps and personal/business broadband costs. Maybe if ad serving went through the main host and their own bandwidth then maybe ad networks would have a reason to control this abuse of transfer.
> These were actual guidelines that tobacco company R.J. Reynolds gave to job recruiters.

Right, but it also told its marketers to get children hooked on cigarettes. Who gives a rat's about hiring at tobacco companies? Way to scrape the bottom of the barrel for examples.
Isn't the purpose of anonymity in this situation to ensure that the best candidates get hired? Wouldn't diversity be the natural result, assuming that diverse types of candidates are qualified? I'm not advocating for this as law but I feel like this would encourage rather than discourage diversity.
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Another factor is that memory density has increased a lot since 2008; you can easily get 1TB of ram in a dual socket system, so for memory space limited jobs, you can run on fewer machines, and maybe just one, if your needs haven't grown as fast as technology has.
Should be easy enough to confirm. I'll test it out tomorrow and see if they've changed something.
Pushing to heroku or something like it will get you pretty far.

With immutable infrastructure all defined in config file (cloudformation, terraform, etc), you don't have any pet servers sitting around.
i've watched his videos, his criticism of Lee Kuan Yew very much seemed to miss the point. However, I'm glad we gave him asylum, he may be an ass, but being an ass by voicing your opinions alone should not be criminalized.
Abusing legal gray areas is a fundamental part of their business model. They were able to position this in a positive 'move fast and break things' light. Now people are noticing things are broken and are fixing them.

For example, they were abusing an exception for businesses grossing <30K a year to not pay taxes in Canada. That law is now being reviewed.

As far as I can tell Uber's corporate culture is both self-interested, self-righteous, and entirely inconsiderate of the people and markets they affect. You can only piss in the pool so long before it catches up with you, and they don't have any other runway left.

We have some of the greatest minds in the world collaborating, and this is one of their primary ambassadors.
This along with privacy, backroom fixed market pricing, making it harder to change jobs and making it harder to start a business, is a big reason to remove healthcare from employment.

Employment should provide salary only. People need to get their own insurance for health, home, fire, life etc. Keep your employers out of your personal dealings.
Thats actually a really smart idea. You get the benefit of ads but also pay for the bandwidth they consume the ad delivery network
My thinking exactly, and you can easily make that entire line of thinking moot by contracting.
Ask HN: Do other fields of engineering have an equivalent to whiteboarding?
My phone plan is 6GB/month. After that, I PAY.
And they wonder why we use adblockers.
I totally agree with the point you're making but I do want to make it clear this is also (mostly) the case all over the "western world", for instance. (it varies slightly country-by-country.)
Probably referring to the key distribution process, where to enable iCloud Keychain you have to approve from another device. It's a sound design in theory - the keys are only stored locally, so even Apple can't access them - but I've personally experienced issues several times where the approval notification wouldn't show up on my other devices, or the UI was in an inconsistent state, etc.
Just curious, what did you migrate to?

I think the comment "first wave of Big Data technologies" is interesting. I agree with it, but also, the term "big data" is relevant to a point in time, I think. I mean, VLDB was the term before "big data" - I think when the term "big data" became popular was when technology such as Hadoop became more mainstream and available instead of just being used in special cases.

I was working with terabytes of data in SQL Server prior to 2008 (around 2004/2005 - which was doable but pushing some limits) and then got into Hadoop etc. afterwards. It was interesting to reach the limits of a tech we were using and be there for the transition to Hadoop etc.

There were expensive commercial alternatives - MPP databases like Teradata, Netezza or Vertica - or things like scientific computing platforms (which were very limited to scientific computing scenarios). But nothing was as.. mainstream and available as Hadoop became. And yet, Hadoop never really completely beat the traditional MPP vendors until you started getting engines like Impala, Presto, Spark etc. that made SQL on top of Hadoop easier. And that took quite a while.. in fact I'd say making SQL on top of Hadoop work well (among many other things) is probably still on-going in a way. We are much, much further along with that now than we were.

On the other hand, it was interesting to see the new opportunities develop for working with data other than just SQL - straight MapReduce, machine learning, graph processing, DAG, etc.

Will be interesting to see where we go from here. I still think there is a lot going on.
I similarly have mentioned having a family in the past during interviews. If interviewers dislike the work/life balance considerations that come with kids, I'd much rather find out about it in that interview than on the job.
Browse with w3m or elinks, problem solved.
100,000 years - for Anthropocene CO2 reversal by natural processes.

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum took 100,000 years to remove the CO2 from the atmosphere naturally.[1]

The current situation is directly comparable.
Humans have input 1000 Gigatons of CO2 to date and ~1000 Gigaton more by centuries end. Roughly PETM CO2 estimates [1].

The big PETM change came when the Methane Clathydrates at the bottom of the sea started melting.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hpmmf : 35:42
In our time: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Melvyn Bragg & Guests.
Minus the dog learning to type at the end, sounds like my experience applying for jobs: submit application online to several places, get a "resume received" email, some automated email a few days later to get one's hopes up, and then get that denial email.

I don't want to hear some euphemistic email detailing how I was a very strong candidate but among a large qualified pool of applicants or how the team was impressed with my resume but unable to move forward at this time... just tell me I didn't get the job already and cut out all the flowery soup.
Towns like to attract military bases because they bring in a large population that is employed requires no loca services (since it's handled by the armed forces), usually well behaved which spends its income locally.
Bases also bring 100s of civilian jobs and support local businesses.
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The charging light was a good innovation back when Apple introduced it. The rationale for having it there hasn't changed. Removing it was a clear regression.
In my job search, I've been surprised by how often you submit a resume online, and then you don't even get a rejection email. It's a true "black hole" in that you never hear back, not even with a "no thanks". I think it's disrespectful of candidates to ask them to spend time filling out an application, and then leave them hanging because you're (presumably) too lazy to read it.
Elinks for the win
For those providing the excuse of culture - culture is something strongly valued in the Bay Area, and it's one of the biggest weaknesses.

Diversity brings so much more to the table than people who can drink a beer together. Diversity in age and experience brings different problem solving techniques and instincts to the table.

Put together a group of young single males of the same ethnic background and you will probably get a group of people who don't mind working all night long together six nights a week. Put together a group of people in different age brackets, different educational backgrounds, and different cultural backgrounds and you have a group of people who won't have to work all night long together in order to solve problems and get things done.

Don't stagnate. Evolve.

We can all do a better job of opening up.
Just listing it wouldn't have been enough. The counterfeiter would have had to ship product to amazon through FBA.
This.

Let's put ourselves in the shoes of someone who reads this headline and gets a quick summary. This headline makes it sound like Uber isn't confident of its technology and they think their technology might be the cause and hence they are suspending it. In this case, it seems pretty clear, as confirmed by the police officer, that Uber's car wasn't at fault.
The last time I put my resume out ( about 3 months ago), my big problem was who to interview with, since I was flooded with requests.

It seems that there might be plenty of churn overall.
Now that you mention elinks, do you know if development continues? I had a question the other day that I couldn't find answered anywhere, but it looks like the main mailing list is entirely lost (I tried to follow these links: http://elinks.or.cz/community.html).
Then US hospitals should provide free healthcare for all and not insist on getting insurance details before providing actual health care. Glad you see the whole picture and embrace SOCIAList ideals like the rest of the planet.
Let's put ourselves in the shoes of someone who reads this headline and gets a quick summary. This headline makes it sound like Uber isn't confident of its technology and they think their technology might be the cause and hence they are suspending it. In this case, it seems pretty clear, as confirmed by the police officer, that Uber's car wasn't at fault.