skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know who this guy is, but I find his claim to provide "Analysis and News About Google" highly dubious if he's just now noticing that google has pulled resources from Plus. Has there been a single significant update to this platform since it launched?
The+LG+V30+would+bet+on+a+curved+screen+similar+to+the+Galaxy+S8
You mean paid decent Polish wages, right?
Even with over 1000 friends on Facebook - the maximum engagement that my posts reach is probably in the range of 10 to 200 or at the max 300.

One thing I have noticed is that the friends with whom you engage the most - chat, like, comments - in turn get to see your posts often and engage with them.

Anyone with whom you have not interacted in a long time - more than a few months - will never see any of your posts. I don't see any point of being Facebook friends with anyone with whom I haven't interacted in a while. You aren't getting their updates and they aren't getting yours. Facebook is a social network which I mostly see as a place to broadcast life events to all my broader friend networks and acquaintances.

For close friends and family I always prefer medium of communications that are more intimate in nature - phone calls, video calls.
GP's statement would have been better written as "we need fewer people to do stuff relative to the output they produce". Our workforces, globally, are far more productive than they've ever been thanks to various force multipliers. Better fertilizers and machinery and pesticides and GMO seeds mean we need far fewer people to produce the same amount of food as before. The same is true for most industries, or we are moving towards it being true for them.

There may be 764 million jobs in China, but it's almost certain that those workers are doing more than just double the work of the 400 million people from 1000 years ago (as measured by output).
Where does the A7r II / A7S fit in with this? Are they considered a prosumer version of this camera? And if so, what makes this more professional, the FPS?
> I met a lot of incompetent US citizens claiming to be full stack devs.

Does this imply that H1B employee's are guaranteed to be more competent? I don't think it does and also extrapolating your experience to conclude on an entire population of people is hardly justified.
Wow the comment thread on the original MSFT blog post (direct link: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/...) is just painful. It's mostly a collection of people who use Windows on their phone crying out about the lack of support for Windows.

Microsoft won't support their own platform (phone) with this. If that's the case then why would any other developer write apps for Windows? Also, I thought the big push was for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that ran on mobile, desktop/tablet, and Xbox. I can understand that you may not want to write a custom app for a platform with tiny market share but "big" Windows still has a lot of share.

This is a great example of how to erode trust.
I'm surprised to see google ventures in here:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/juicero

Anyone have better knowledge of these VC firms?
Great! (Ok, some of these sounds weird to me but still I think it is great that he is now OK.)

IMO the problem is for every licensed MD that actually cares and does everything they can to fix it there seems to be ten quacks wanting to sell therapy, juice, diets, books; you name it - they sell it.

How can ordinary people know who is who?
what is the one thing you wish you knew before starting out ?

I'd like to have been exposed to Steve Blank's works, The Four Steps To The Epiphany and The Startup Owner's Manual sooner. They are BTW, both the same book and not the same book. That is, TSOM is sort of the 2nd edition of TFSTTE, so in that sense they're the same book. But while there is a lot of overlap there's also plenty of material in each book that isn't in the other. So for anybody who is interested, I'd actually encourage you to read both.

Likewise, I would have liked to have been exposed to Jeffrey Thull's selling process, "Diagnostic Business Develoopment", which is described in his book Mastering The Complex Sale, Exceptional Selling and The Prime Solution. I'm a fan of his model and while I can't claim to have empirical proof that it works yet, it feels right somehow.

I would also like to have had the chance to read How To Measure Anything by Douglas Hubbard sooner. It's not a book that's about entrepreneurship, selling, or anything of that nature, but the ideas in the book strike me as broadly applicable to many domains. To give a tl/dr; it's roughly something like "use calibrated probability assessments to generate initial estimates, build a model possibly incorporating nth order effects, and then use a monte carlo simulation to build a probability distribution using the estimates and the model". There's a little bit more to it than that, but that's the gist (as I understand it anyway).

Finally, I'd say that I'd like to have been exposed to the ideas in *The Discipline of Market Leaders" earlier. The core idea in that book is that there are different bases for competition. One (obvious) one is price, and another pretty obvious one is "technical (product) superiority". But the book makes the point that there are other, less obvious ways to compete, like "operational excellence" (basically, running leaner and managing costs/defects, etc. better than the competition) and - my favorite - "customer intimacy". The last one basically means being more knowledgeable about your customer's business, making more tailored solutions, and basically becoming more of a partner than just a vendor. That happens to align well with the whole "Diagnostic Business Development" idea that Jeff Thull pitches, so I think these ideas complement each other well.

Outside of all that, my advice, FWIW, would be to say "you can't learn and understand enough about marketing and sales". Seriously, building technology comes easily to us... doing sales and marketing does not always do so. But I firmly believe that this stuff can be learned, and I think that if you're selling something you're actually passionate about (and if it's something you built, you probably will be) then you can learn to sell it without being a "natural born salesperson". Yeah, maybe some personality types take to selling more easily than others, but I think pretty much anybody can learn to sell to some degree... and in the early days of a startup, unless you're lucky enough to partner with somebody who is a "sales guy" type already, you probably will have to do the initial selling.
I had the impression the Googlers were disproportionally active on Google+, and it seems this guy is complaining that even they are bailing.

It's hilarious that this guy seems like the last person in the world who hasn't figured out Google+ was a dud and has no future.

He's also a good illustration that technologies that were widely panned and rejected can still have users that love them.
Duh. Management decided to strip off everything of value and push it into standalone apps (see: Photos).
I have a couple of criticisms of your article. Firstly, you give a list of successful companies who made the "safe choice" you're advocating, but you fail to mention that at the time the companies adopted those projects they were actually the cool, risky new upstarts. Your first example, Twitter, started in 2006 - a mere 18 or so months after Rails 0.8. If Twitter had followed your advice of using a 13 year old web framework when they started, what would they have been using? ColdFusion? They succeeded by using the productive new technology - which at the time (absolutely not now) was Rails.

And secondly, some of the features you list the frameworks as having are questionable at best. Rails has built-in user accounts, permissions and admin interface? Since when? And action cable is a great example of everything that's wrong with Rails - kludge together a frankenstein solution to tick a feature box. I do not know a single production user.

I think you confused the two messages of "don't build your own web framework" (I heartily agree) with your assertion that a startup in 2017 would be somehow remiss to not be using frameworks developed in the time of Windows XP, with which I do not agree.

For me the current "Rails in 2006" framework is elixir/phoenix, and for the slightly less adventurous, something in nodejs - maybe meteor or plain express. Of course Rails still works, and is not an absolutely horrible choice, but it's for last decade's web, and has profound disadvantages compared to today's technology.
Tech companies should create ‘farm teams’ to close the talent deficit
I would say it's the complete opposite of lock-in. If more cloud providers follow suit, then one day you might be able to simply `git push` to a different provider, then wipe away all your old infrastructure. I'm overstating things, but 12 factor apps should be very easy to migrate, excluding things like databases, DNS records, user roles, etc.

But I think this might already be true if you're comparing Heroku with AWS.
Again, for the benefit of others, since this commenter has an agenda and won't be convinced - commenter also can't answer the question about how he can actually get money out of his own savings account. That account is empty and is quite literally only made of IOUs from the bank it is held at.

It's actually a lousy question because it proves nothing. Money is held in different accounts not because they are actually stored in physically different places, but because they are conceptually different, and because the concepts are not fungible. I do not (and in some cases cannot) transfer money between some of my different accounts at my brokerage even though all that money is ultimately in the same pool somewhere.

In the case of the general fund and the trust fund, the trust fund surplus money was not spend in the 90s or at any other time since the surplus started growing again; it remained in surplus, and - counting its interest income - it remains in growing surplus until about 2019, at which point that surplus starts being dipped into until 2034.

(Also note that historically, this has already happened. [1] There was a social security surplus, and then it got spent down partially in the late 70s, and then started growing again in the early 80s. Everyone got their checks.)

Why is this distinction necessary? Again, because the general fund has gone into deficit. People like mason240 try to pretend that it hasn't gone into deficit as much as it has, because the people that are advantaged by the general fund deficit have a higher tax base than the people that have paid into payroll tax (on average). So why do we make this distinction? To protect against the transfer of money from the poor to the rich. Why do people like mason240 insist otherwise? For not other reason than to keep that money, and to weaken social security.

[1]: https://www.ssa.gov/history/tftable.html
Leave a review, may help warn/notify some 'normal' users about this.

- https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bose-connect/id1046510029?mt...

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bose.monet...
>Would this make for a good way to get into aws/devops since it narrows the perspective of their services?

It depends what you mean by that. In a big way, this negates the need for a dedicated Ops engineer for small to medium deployments on AWS. If you're a developer looks to operate your own small application, this is a great entry point.
Good stuff - Mark Blyth's lectures are consistently excellent.
Where are your customers based? Delinquency has never been an issue for us. In some 25 years we only had one customer not paying us an invoice of USD 1,500 over accumulated revenues of US 30 million, and it was because the customer went bankrupt the month after the invoice (unlucky). However we noticed that US-based customers may delay payments sometimes for months but in Europe they tend to pay on time.
Definitely, I think its BS that there are massive pay disparities between the US & Germany, when I've had friends visit from Germany I'm impressed with their programing & english skills, and also shocked with the low pay in Germany. The English skills that my German friends have are surprisingly good, and they could easily work with Americans on the same project with similar levels of productivity.
Google+ is still around?
Amazon AWS has to have the worst UX out of all the devops UI's I've ever seen.

CPanel looks nicer than their UI.
IIRC, the difference is an additional read head. Also they removed location-based addressing for the read/write heads in favor of a combination of content-based adressing and a dynamic scheme to figure out empty locations.
AWS has a lot of resource to build something "easy to work with" like heroku, but it doesn't. Maybe CodeStar is an attempt ?

CodeStar is more like AWS Elastic Beanstalk, the one that I still don't know how to take it into my toolchain and development flow.

Now AWS CodeStar, that requires bunch of clicks, wizards, permissions configuration, choosing a template and then another changes...

To get started with they needed to show bunch of screenshots, while something like Heroku would tell how to use the whole thing in 2-3 commands in terminal. That's all.

However, I hope something like CodeStar get more polished and mature so I can move have one place to bill and one thing to worry about and not docker, kubernetes, mesos, ansible, ssh into machine, database backups, etc...

edit: Just found out for web applications they use Elastic Beanstalk as deploy step.
Yes, the A7 models seem to be more geared for prosumers or non-sports/wildlife professionals (e.g., for portraits I'd still lean towards the A7Rii).

The A9 is more "professional" because of its dual memory card slots, supposedly much better AF, FPS, battery life, and controls (joystick).
the 21 days are in reference to Peter Norvig's article: http://norvig.com/21-days.html
OP was claiming that mirrored cameras were now obsolete.
Chris Arnade has a lot of first-hand experience witnessing this modern despair. He writes, "What I saw was huge parts of US, more than reported, was filling with drugs. And where there was drug there was despair."

Source: https://medium.com/@Chris_arnade/drugs-despair-and-trump-1c6...
Orkut was a usability nightmare and dominated by Brazilians who typically don't write in English. It was hostile to US users and a bizarre acquisition all around. What was the value proposition here other than "not Facebook?" I think they realized their mistake but it was too late and had to move to something else. They couldn't make it "Googly" and no one wanted anything to do with it outside of Brazil.

I still don't understand why they didn't just add a "Gmail Social" and let you build it out with your name, info, photos, etc and have that be a sort of opt-in social network straight from gmail, a bit like how hangouts is now in gmail. Instead they created this Google+ pig that makes no sense and fits in nowhere comfortably.

Also, it was bizarrely tone deaf to somehow tie youtube in this and to get these confusing prompts about merging accounts and such only to find your youtube shitposting and viewing habits now tied to your real name for any employer to find. This is a colossal mistake that I imagine will be studied in business schools for decades to come.

I read somewhere that Jobs gave Google the idea of a centralized social area for their users and considering Jobs' success rates with iCloud and other Apple initiatives on the cloud back then, it seems like they took advice from the wrong guy. Worse, Jobs might have been able to pull off some kind of Apple social network this way, but mostly because there is so much zealous fandom with Apple. Google is just a boring, unsexy service for most. They didn't realize how little liked they are. They're the barely tolerated nerds of the industry, not the popular kids. They should have just launched something easier, simpler, and more modest. Jobsian-like antics just won't work for their brand.
Node v8.0.0 release postponed until May 30
There were news stories even back then that Google is about to kill Google+. Actually it was big news then when Google kept Google+ still around. Search for "Vic Gundotra" on Arstechnics, Techcrunch, etc.
The worst part was they removed the + operator from searches to accommodate it
My son is a lot younger than yours with a different set of struggles (currently he's just preschool age) but he also appears to be completely normal to people who haven't spent a lot of time with him. He especially struggles with sensory processing and fine motor related tasks. We haven't got a firm diagnosis yet but hope to find out more from behavioral testing (neurological testing hasn't been able to give us any good answers yet) so he'll hopefully be able to qualify for disability. I'm also worried about my son's future, especially since a lot of people he might end up working with likely won't understand that just because he might not look like he has a disability doesn't mean he doesn't have one (I see this kind of ignorance all the time). Best of luck to you and your son, I wish I knew good answers to give you about these kind of struggles but this is still fairly new to me.
>reap the consequences with fake tans and ultra clean teeth.

Fake tans are better than cancer and ultra clean teeth sounds like it would cut down on dental issues.
He posts, on Google+
Show HN: Terminal ASCII animation using python decorators
UX is more than graphics. But yes, if AWS had any kind of sense of UX, DigitalOcean wouldn't exist.
> However, there's no fundamental reason why a DSLR viewfinder couldn't show a histogram too.

You'd need to have to reduce the optical image size to make room for an LCD display, have a HUD to overlay a digital image over the OVF optical image, or have another moving mirror and toggle between EVF and OVF to do that on a DSLR.

Which is to stay that an in-viewfinder histogram is possible but not easy for a DSLR.
Hey thanks for the link- this is great.

Another arguing point for when I get into it with the "what's wrong with income inequality" folks here. :)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but all the build and deployment steps are being managed via Amazon-specific tools directly, which want you only to use Amazon-specific services, no? That sounds like lock-in to me.

It's pretty trivial to do this kind of thing with Jenkins or Gitlab CI and those don't have that issue. And then you can deploy however you want to any provider.
Redshift Spectrum – Exabyte-Scale In-Place Queries of S3 Data
And why? If your word choice means 50+% of the target population has no idea what you mean then it's a poor choice.
Whistleblower laws haven't been working well. A wrong step could get you excluded from protections, put you in a situation where you can't defend yourself, you could be in a field where other organizations can bully their way in making everything more complex, if you're lucky you could just get kicked out with black marks on your records (with any information related sealed), if you do everything right it could end up pretty much ignored (or lost in paperwork) and similar.
Psychedelic drugs induce 'heightened state of consciousness', brain scans show
Whistleblower laws haven't been working well. A wrong step could get you excluded from protections, put you in a situation where you can't defend yourself, you could be in a field where other organizations can bully their way in making everything more complex, if you're lucky you could just get kicked out with black marks on your records (with any information related sealed) and similar.
AWS Service-Linked Roles
When it first launched, it reminded me a lot of the original Facebook design. I rather enjoyed it. It had communities, which facilitated a different kind of interaction than Twitter. It was less intimidating than Facebook's UI and wasn't full of social game requests and rants from distant relatives.

But, then Google redesigned Google+ into some amalgamation of Pinterest and modern Facebook, undoing nearly all of its advantages IMHO. I stopped using it shortly thereafter. I check back in periodically, but nearly everyone I've interacted with has also moved on.

It's really quite a shame.
Not an exact parallel but I see the A7R as the MD Mark III and the a9 as the 1DX.
The Shocking Lack of Science Behind Lethal Injections
Cybersecurity Startup Tanium Exposed Hospital's Network in Demos w/o Permission
> When it wears off, ... you're going to be a lethargic and miserable wreck by 4:00 or so.

This is the case for some people, but it's not for everybody who uses these meds, not even close. A lot of people have minimal 'come-down' effects, if any at all.

As others have posted here, our brains are poorly understood, enormously complex and act and react in wildly varying ways.

Generalizations are seldom helpful.
Node JavaScript and browser JavaScript are not the same technology, they just use the same language (and even then, not really).
Honestly, I'd rather use PHP7 or Python. I'm sick and tired of seeing Javascript now.
I'm very curious to see how abstract aws is going to end up getting, would they build a browser (call an aws app directly-ish or something..?)? IMO There is a paradigm shift a-brewing and it doesn't look good for most of the clouds/vps providers.
> Stigmatizing & devaluing an honest days work is ridiculous to me, but that is what our society has done to these jobs.

I have no idea how we got to this point. It's even more absurd because you call these people because you didn't know how, didn't want to learn, or didn't want to do a job _yourself_.

It's absurd; I honestly feel guilty about being a software engineer with a cushy job making high-end of average for the area when I feel like I do nothing at all. I type some stuff, other people are happy, I get money. I get it, it took a lot of time to figure out what to type in the best way, but it took the electrician I hired to rewire my house a while to learn the regs and best practices, and after spending 5 minutes in my attic in the summer did not envy his job of running cable up to it and then out to all the rooms upstairs, whereas I just sit on a porch swing or at my desk or on my couch while I work.