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Yup, but the surge of iOS and Android quickly brought that to an end, there is almost no OEM deals at mobile. (Still exists at TV/Set-top boxes, but those are not nearly as popular.)
The first selection, the short story "Kin" by Bruce McAllister, is one of my favorites of recent years. It was a Hugo finalist story, and in a different life I tried to get a film version of it off the ground. The rights have long since reverted back to Bruce, but hopefully someone someday will pick it up and get it made.
I am genuinely confused why you think a large portion -- if not a commanding majority -- of women in tech would not self-identify with "geek feminism". Naturally that website doesn't (can't) speak for all women in tech, but I never claimed that it did, and anyway that's an unreasonable standard to hold any website to.

Let me make a more general point: Every time women and minorities come up on HN, I am so sad to see discussions like this. As much as we might not want to admit it, our community is toxic.

This is why we need feminism, Black Lives Matter, and so on. This is why the Rust community needs to engage with women and other underrepresented groups. If you doubted that there is a problem, just read the comments here.

I can only hope people will either learn how to be nice people, or decide to leave tech and be mean somewhere else. Being nice to people is actually kind of fun. You should try it.
If you offer relocation I'd totally do it. Part of my family left Germany in the 1850s (ish)
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Australia's Top Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, Charged with Sexual Offences
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Anecdotally, intellectual pursuits simply aren't of interest to them. Those interested in intellectual pursuits (aka nerds/geeks) are a minority of the population.
Can't believe this wasn't leaked...years ago?
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In theory there is never an infinite supply of employees, and at a certain point you run out of people that will work for $x.

In practice that's not a question that can be answered in one comment, and right now it depends on who you ask. In my mental model of the world that's where the perfect simulation starts to break down and run into real world constraints.
Whether or not you agree with the model of token sales (most here don't) Ethereum already hit it's scaling limits after hosting several hyped ICOs. When the ICO bubble deflates or crashes, I suspect the ICO model is not going away, but will look different. I can envision a world where tons of small startups are chasing capital through small, niche-specific ICO funding rounds. For this to be possible, Ethereum in it's present state needs to handle many more transactions. For example, during the Status.im sale, the network was unusable for 2 full days.

Similarly, many app developers have noted that gas fees are too high to validate using the blockchain for their applications. Just making a profile on ethlance.com is unnecessarily expense due to the gas cost. This results in unrealized demand. When Ethereum scales to 8x transactions I have no doubt the scaling debate will continue, as demand will have increased as well.
Does this mean open access outside of google or something?
seems cool. But, in true Google style, has that whole "Let's stroke our profound selves off first" element to it.
It was a year ago. https://www.recode.net/2016/5/20/11718792/google-120-area-in...
So this gives people the opportunity to try Google products...

...that are even more likely to to be cancelled without warning than normal Google products?

I'm positively quivering with anticipation.
Before you go replying with a counter-argument I urge you to stop and think seriously.

I have thought about these things for a long time, and arrived at the exact opposite conclusion: had such levels of security been there since the beginning of computing, there would be no jailbreaks, rooting, homebrew, or any real freedom. Everything would be so locked down and unbreakable that there would be no "possibility to disobey", and that is a far more terrifying alternative.

A world in which there is no crime is one where everyone has already been strongly coerced into submission and every aspect of their lives closely monitored and controlled. Ultimately, humans are imperfect and that's where all of these exploits and vulnerabilities come from. If we attempt to eradicate them, by essentially removing imperfection, we will literally be taking the humanity out of life. Is that really the (cyber-)world you want to live in, or move towards?

Whatever the cost it is worth paying.

I see this continuing insecurity as consolation that we still have some freedom left, but positions like yours --- increasingly popular, it seems --- are strongly reminiscent of the "war on terrorism" and its associated repugnance, because it is really the "war on cyberterrorism".

As the classic saying goes, "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
I am I fact a Canadian citizen, not sure why you’d assume otherwise.

Also, I fail to see how providing a few links as context for the GPs last paragraph as the P requested should elicit such a rude and threatening response from you.
It's certainly good PR for Amazon to treat even serious competitors fair on AWS.

Amazon seems to want to be in every business sector there is, so almost any company could end up competing with them.
He's been charged under summons. The trick will be to get him out of the Vatican: Australia has no expedition treaty with the Holy See.

The police have indicated these charges are not about covering up crimes by other people, but relate to the Cardinal himself.

The Cardinal is required to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on July 18.
Take the results of that chocolate milk survey with a grain of salt
It is a more-native experience in the sense that for the open source developer, you are using the same binaries as are typically deployed in production.

Pretty much no one hosts web applications on OSX, and you still run into the odd library that you have to fiddle with to get running right on OSX. Brew always felt a little hacky to me, or at least not fully part of the OSX ecosystem.

So, in that way, WSL has a leg up.
I did not realise piece rate was outlawed in so many places. In vineyard work in Australia, workers are often paid per vine or per bucket and it is labelled piece rate so it's not like it's a sneaky work around.
Is this a parody?

("Google") which is focused on launching experimental products which are iterated quickly, and which may be discontinued at any time.

No, really?
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Yes, definitely. Is this even a discussion? Scientific journal companies extract enormous rents and add literally zero value. I'm not using 'literally' in the not-actually-literally sense that people sometimes use it. I mean literally zero value. They either don't pay, or barely pay, the peer researchers who review the material (the only valuable part). Aside from that, they do what, exactly? Publish it? The thing that costs effectively zero dollars to do on the internet now? It's disgusting that this business still exists.
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Translation: Too many Googlers leave and go on to start their own companies. We're creating a playground where they can explore their ideas and we can keep the profits, as it should be.
How about threatening violence against a member of a protected class? Is the crime worse because of that persons protected status, even if that didn’t matter to the perpetrator?
Actually I think it's a reference to one of the principles of the Toyota Production System (TPS):

A leader must understand the daily work in great detail so that he or she can be a best teacher of your company's philosophy. -- https://missiontps.blogspot.com/p/14-principles.html

That's different from the TPS reports of Office Space fame (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPS_report).
I've coded or read some Lisp every day for almost seven years. I started tracking it on a year-on-a-page calendar, but after a few years it was so ingrained that I stopped tracking at all. I am now keeping track of it on an index card that I fill out daily with weight, exercise, and meditation.

It's such a habit now that I can't imagine stopping it, even though it might not be as helpful for me now as it once was -- there are things I would like to do more of, but the creation process takes a similar type of effort -- comedy writing, blog post writing, cigar box guitar manufacture.
And extremely fit people sometimes go on diets. But generally, someone on a diet isn't likely to be extremely fit.
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There's something about this that makes me never want to work at Google. I can't quite put my finger on what it is.
I tried twice scrolling down that page and couldn't manage to read more than ten actual words. I think my eyes tried to escape my body in revolt.
for those who downvoted me, can you explain why I'm wrong,

Would you believe that Apple today would use react in their products?

What would Steve Jobs say to someone who suggests using react in apple software/saas?

downvoting on HN is being abused here, just because someone is a big fan of reactjs and disagrees with me, they automatically downvote a valid opinion based on facts.

see for yourself, from react patent clause
"The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice,"

https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS
I recently was researching bitcoin, blockchain, etc, and I found it surprisingly difficult to find good but relatively short resources! I synthesized what I found into some slides that you might find helpful[1].

Apologies if this seems like self-promoting my own slides -- and I should say I am not at all an expert here -- but I created them mainly because I had trouble finding a "primer", so maybe they can help others in a similar position.

[1] http://bowaggoner.com/talks/2017/bitcoin-etc.pdf
Google pays well. Why not take the opportunity to swing for the fences without taking personal financial risk?
An analogy is: why are you using a car which is unsafe,expensive, polluting and prone to road accidents, instead of safe, reliable, cheaper and environmentally friendly cargo tricycle?

Or a motorcycle, which is even more unsafe --- but "hella fun", in the words of a friend. I'd rather drive, being in control, and take the risk than be forced to ride in a safe, boring, highly-regulated self-driving car.
You can play on your own cool ideas while working here, but we own all the ideas and upside.
This is the most Hooli thing ever.
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> keep the profits

Yes the lucrative profits of the average startup :-D
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Nah, see Yegge's platform rant: https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX. Facebook already is a platform. They have no need to go into platform-of-a-platform territory. Their platform is what they've created already, so they've dedicated hardware/network designs strictly around that. Going "metaplatform" would just make their own platform slower.

Also to recognize: Amazon is a store, not an application. It doesn't need specialized hardware or whatever. Its customers care much more about package delivery speed / cost, etc than whatever hardware is running in the background. So it can box the same generic web servers it uses and sell them at scale. Facebook is entirely digital. It needs to specialize everything hardware-wise in order to stay ahead. The things it optimizes for, in terms of hardware, likely has no relevance to 99.9999% of basic CRUD apps out there. So they stick to what they do best. Their own platform.
I suspect you're being downvoted because your assessment of the issue to "Facebook is okay with racism, sexism, homophobia" etc. is seen as an oversimplification, no different than someone from Germany/Israel saying the U.S. (and the 1st Amendment) is OK with neo-Nazis, or China thinking America as a den of smut and anarchy.
Exactly. I created an account to say this. One of the things preventing many from donating is being sure the funds get to where they're supposed to go. And I think the urgency of this sounds important as well.
> long term harm to the value of ETH

I don't see why this is a problem. The goal of the Ethereum developers is to increase the utility of the network, not to artificially inflate the value of ETH.

In fact for one of the future Ethereum upgrades it's planned to convert ETH into a ERC20 token, so that it's at the same level as all the other tokens on the network. It wouldn't even get a special status in terms of transaction fees, as (IIRC) the plan is to allow miners to accept whatever tokens they prefer for the gas payment.

See https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/28 and https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/572v7t/eth_as_an_...
Here is the blog post from Microsoft : https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2017/06/27/new-rans...
Googlers can easily go to any tech company within weeks of their startup failure. For them there's little risk.
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So only slightly faster than GNU yes
I love that those guys working on the machine-learning haircut robot are so willing to eat their own dogfood. It's still got a ways to go before it's believable but I can see the potential.
Bob and Todd. Todd is frequently at fault. Bob just got suckered in, because he's gullible.
Wait 'till Erdogan has something to add to that list.
if you're a threat to FB, the unthinkable will happen.
But it's not, strictly speaking, about i/o contention.
What is freedom? A sales rep speaks
Traditional virtualization is "too heavy", now, for solved problems like packaging? How and why?
Because you'll forfeit your reward or upside for working hard on executing your idea, worse if it's successful where Google owns your IP and starts productizing it you've killed your opportunity to go start your own company around it.
"Reads your email" is ambiguous. All unencrypted email must be read just to transmit it over the network, or to store it on disk. Sounds silly, but the example you gave is actually even more benign: It could be done with Javascript that never sends anything across the network.
Because as your patron Google ultimately calls the shots. You are still an employee beholden to your monolith employer.
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QA hardly exists in in SaaS industry. It's been replaced with unit tests, integration tests, and deployment processes that include things like blue green tests, canaries, and all that jazz.

I say go for Software Engineering. I'm biased though, having only worked in SaaS. At the end of the day whatever your cousins interests are should guide them.
Windows is a red flag(i wont apply or join if you are using windows)... after my first job i've never seen windows again
I suppose limitations apply by Google's TLD. Why don't Google block by geo-IP? If request comes from Canada, on any Google property, apply the filter. If request comes from China, it has nothing to do with Canada, so they should have nothing to complain about. I don't like geofencing, but this court decision is absurd.
Fun fact: he didn’t make that word up. “Teledildonics” was coined by Ted Nelson, the Xanadu guy, way back in the 70s.
Wouldn't it be enough to check the source IP against the ip/mask at ISP pairing sites...

I suspect it might reduce out-of-network traffic a bit too..

Or ISPs could check source IPs at edge routers maybe?
That is still much better than a code monkey who is managed and told exactly what to do.
The intent isn't relevant to actually breaking the law in this case. At best, it might be relevant to sentencing. So no thought crime.
>I love that those guys working on the machine-learning haircut robot are so willing to eat their own dogfood.

I sure wish I hadn't been drinking water when I read this.
It's not a government doing anything. Courts are not part of 'the government'.
Building your dreams within area 120 implies that they belong to Google. Personally, I would rather own the idea I'm passionate about than get paid to work on it.

Plus, former Google employees are some of the most hireable candidates in the world. They don't lose job security when they walk away to chase their startup dreams like most of us do.
They are also gambling that they are worth it and that you can't live without them vrs the competition. Which now with DRM only option, the competition just moved into first place.
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Yes very shortly we will be adding a full range of supporting methods to add funds, including the ability to attach bank accounts and cards for automatic top-ups etc.

We are also currently building the ability for users to maintain an account balance which can be used to top up different cards and also support reloadable cards.

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2011: "more wood behind fewer arrows! Let's kill Labs"

2017: "argh! the wood is running away!! Let's resurrect Labs"
I liked Gmail labs' stuff. And some of it got incorporated into Gmail proper (and later inbox).

I for one was grateful for the "experimental" things I got the opportunity to use, e.g. cancel after send.
Volatility is a sign of a lack of liquidity in a market that is rapidly gaining (or decreasing) in accumulated capital. In bitcoin, for now, it is increasing. In bitcoin the important point isn't the volatility, but the fact that it is objectively being sought after by an increasing number of people.
Guess my perspective of scale is different.

Its just an observation of having worked on systems at scale and I dont see the microservices / containers used.

I am curious if anyone else has.

The more I am around containers and the network complexity/issues that are created the less I am convinced it is the most optimal way and I am looking for opinions that differ from mine so I can learn
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Palm - we are going to build a device that will let you build apps using web technologies. Developers rebel, Palm releases a native SDK.

Apple - you don't need native apps you can build great web apps. Developers and users rebel, a native SDK is introduced 9 months later.

Blackberry - you can build apps using Adobe based web technology. You get the picture...
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I agree. The real danger is software monoculture. We need many diverse systems with very different attack surfaces. Less standardization. That's the way nature survives. We just need to learn the lesson.
Would you rather sell hours of your life, or sell your dreams?
Most of the growth was being appropriated by "the 1%" of its time - see e.g. the Gilded Age - right until the point where the governments started forcing some redistribution through taxation and welfare programs. Until that happened, the social benefits were extremely meager.
What community would gain: competing browsers getting more traction due to larger share in the browser usage, better web standards support in the long run (remember Internet Explorer?).

What you would gain: be less dependent on Google, use open source (e.g. Firefox, Chromium, Iridium), better extensions as Chrome doesn't support third party, better performance.

Your argument about dev tools is the same as all others are saying. But everybody comfortably ignores the fact that dev tools are built into Chromium and Chrome just happens to use the same, so it is not special in that space.
Excellent resource, thank you for sharing!
> Just because you don't feel comfortable writing long scripts doesn't mean you should discourage others.

And deprive them of the hard learned lessons from decades of experience?

> There are many many justifications for sticking to shell, for example if you need to write a portable installer that works across every UNIX variation.

Do you mean every Linux variation? Because trying to write shell portable from old HP-UX to Darwin is an exercise in insanity.
wholesale vs retail costs...
Neither Troy Hill nor Duquesne Heights nor the South Side Slopes nor the entire city of Morgantown are terribly crime-ridden, by either personal experience or any statistics that I know of. Troy Hill is the 'worst' area but mostly has low-level quality of life crime. High crime neighborhoods generally have $30k houses, which are too cheap to mortgage and bought by investors that rent them out until they're falling apart, then abandon them.

Both Pittsburgh and Morgantown are pretty prosperous, yet remain affordable enough for blue-collar workers to own homes close enough to the center of the city to commute by foot, bus, streetcar, funicular, PRT pod, or bike. The neighborhoods I posted are a bit rundown, but perfectly livable— I'd live in any of them.

The schools aren't necessarily great in the Pittsburgh neighborhoods but they usually aren't in rural Appalachia either.

I don't disagree that moving is hard when one is poor and one relies on one's social connections for a lot of support. It's just not because of a lack of houses in the prosperous parts of Appalachia.

Housing shortages on the coasts are a huge issue, and a huge issue for national inequality— but overbuilding and inner-city abandonment remain a bigger issue in a lot of cities in the middle of the country.
His taste is so incredibly vulgar that all I can figure is it's actually marketing designed to appeal to proles, both in his role as an entertainer and to fleece nouveau riche proles with direct sales of products and real estate.
The thing about Gmail labs is they are (mostly) extra features that you could use or not, and which didn't leave you worse off than if you'd never used them if you started and then they were killed off

Fully fledged products have more risk. And I've felt burned by multiple Google products in the past.

Let's say the first product announced by Area 120 turns out to be a great new chat app. Would you recommend your friends all download it and start using it? :)

Edit: Confused Google Labs and Gmail labs, my bad. Removed nonsensical comment.
That's the worst thing I've read in a long time.... +1
Agree but, there is a happier place between these to points.

Like, I give my people time off for their projects, I help with mentorship, would help them go farther if needed. Let them own their ideas.

My objective as an employer isn't to extract all the value I can from an employee.
Ironic...

Andy Rubin

the definition of open: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make"

https://mobile.twitter.com/arubin/status/27808662429?lang=en
Well, if he's not making any progress career-wise it's a dead-end job. Personally, I'd love to scale back to like 20 hours a week and spend more time with family, but in those 20 hours I'm working I'd want to keep growing. Chances are that the job he has will end before retirement. I would want to be prepared for that eventuality.
He's a programmer who probably spends a lot of time looking at data. It's an understandable frame of reference for someone trying to make sense of a stressful situation (especially when the media has brought attention to it).
The Canadian courts aren't saying what should happen in the US. They are saying what Google should do if they want to operate in Canada.