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Having used C#, C/C++, Ruby, Perl, PHP, and Javascript, I find golang to be one of the most refreshing approaches to programming among them all. I think many people are finding themselves feeling upset because they are convinced that the simplicity of golang implies only idiots use it which then must mean that the language will be a failure (almost at an a priori level).
They optimized for the thing which is currently important: Convince decision-makers that your product is the way to go - by any means necessary. This is as much a reflection on the tech peoples inability to actually influence companies buying decisions as it is on IBM. If companies started to value sound technology IBM (and Oracle and SAP ..) would shift its priorities.
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Or 2017. Things may change, but not as fast as some people hope.
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Right, and look I completely get that line of thinking; but pretending that it's solely down to not "saving" enough when the price-to-income ratio is so skewed in this country, with basically zero wage growth for most industries especially those that young people go into seems a little disingenuous.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-03/house-price-to-income-...

Look, I'm a senior software engineer earning an excellent salary, and at the end of the day I can afford property if I wanted to, but the sheer amount of debt required for it in 2017, coupled with the ratio above, and the honest-to-god feeling that the young are being plundered in service of the older (I'm not saying that's actually the case, but that is certain how it can feel. See the last two budgets for why), and then being told to "buck up and save more"... you can understand why it feels kind of bullshit, right?
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You need to work in crusty old companies that only recently got into doing software. Anything that produces hardware would be a good start.
> They had no response to the fact that this state isn't ideal for large scale use of any of the green alternatives or that much more deaths directly result from solar panel installation accidents alone than nuclear as a whole.

Given an uninformed student and a misinformed didact, I admit to having a strong bias toward criticizing the latter.

From the Wikipedia page on the human toll of the Chernobyl disaster[1]:

> The [2005 Chernobyl Forum report] says it is impossible to reliably predict the number of fatal cancers arising from the incident as small differences in assumptions can result in large differences in the estimated health costs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Human_impac...
Pretty sad they're calling this an "app". If it's dated to 1996, clearly it's a "program"!
> "magic beans" is harsh

IBM sells an image, not a working product, and they deserve some ridicule for it.

I have worked with Watson and a decently large IBM consulting team, and 'magic beans' is a diplomatic way of putting it. 'Obfuscatory horse shit' is more accurate.
> But I have read a ton of conflicting studies about this, and there are definitely some meta-studies which indicate it's rather difficult to drink enough to make your mortality worse than a non-drinker.

I'm extremely skeptical of this as it seems to obvious to me that drinking to excess is bad for the body. But I haven't done the research.

Do you have some links for evidence? I'm honestly curious.
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In Moscow none of Yandex.Taxi drivers drive their own car. They drive a yellow Yandex.Taxi car with standartized livery. A lot of them have zero knowledge of the streets. I took a ride to the airport once and the driver didn't know how to use the toll road. I (who never owned a car in my life) had to explain how to use the damn thing. This is the quality of drivers we're dealing with here.
Bitcoin isn't intended to be an egalitarian redistribution of wealth; it's supposed to be a way for digital cash to exist that doesn't involve depending on trusted authorities like banks, and proof-of-work mining happens to be the only solid solution to that that anyone has come up with so far.
There's no AWS service that does this, but you can set something up using Lambda, API Gateway, and S3. There's an example repo at https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-image-resizing
It's a prevailing attitude in buying non-cheap ("enterprise") systems. If you buy one of the big names and it fails you can always say "they are a market leader, it was the best decision with the information we had available" - if you take a leap of faith for a not so well known name and the project fails it will probably cost you your job. People behave accordingly.
How can you be sure of any of this?
> The majority of their offerings are overengineered and prone to failure in a production setting.

What do you mean by 'over engineered' in this context? The usual way I've seen that term used would imply 'reliable but more expensive than necessary' rather than 'unreliable'.
Thanks for the comment. I'm not very familiar with the Power team, but I'll find the right folks and forward your note.
Mostly good advice, except "Change needs feedback." No human talks like that. Change, as the subject of the sentence, "needs feedback?" What will happen when we take the feedback and give it to the change? What will the change do with the feedback? And what does the change need the feedback for?

Not all brevity is the soul of wit.
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Well I'll admit, you and tptacek have given me something to think about. As I said though, I find it confusing that my University had a rash of random muggings over cell phones, almost a victim of one such (or similar) attack myself, and yet in a place with nearly twice the average crime rate and certainly more shootings/robberies/thefts per capita I'd apparently be relatively safe. And you guys are actually defending it, so... I don't know. Maybe crime is different in Chicago. Or maybe Englewood is fine and I'm just naming the wrong street over, that heyjackass map isn't exactly precise. Regardless, thanks for your perspective, it's something I didn't have before.

For the record I'm also not blind to some cops being murderous dicks. I just think disarming cops would ignore the root of the problem and cause at least as many issues as it solves. But that's another issue.
The Chinese gov’t is a mafia. Let’s not pretend otherwise. It’s citizens are kick ass and intelligent, under the grip of the FBI or Chinese govt? The two evils are incomparable
Because IBM markets to CEOs, not IT staff. They want their customers excitedly talking about Jeopardy-winning, superhuman AI at the dinner table. Technical people won't do that.
That is also a JIT, dynamic compilation doesn't require recompiling the code all the time.

The AS/400 uses a kernel level JIT, binaries are only JITted at installation time or explicitly via the command line.

The Lisp environments also only used JIT once.

Some implementations of Oberon would use bytecode instead of native code and JIT on module load.

There are many other examples.
I find articles like "how we built our startup" on HN to be hugely valuable. The fact that the founders of said startup participate in the discussion makes it doubly so. But every such post is marred by variants of "your website sucks" trolls. Eventually that kind of thing will make HN poorer by driving away the creators. It's fun to be a critic, but I also know what it's like to have a job and a family to feed.
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yup snowplow's devops requirements and lack of evangelism are hurting them IMO but these are probably the challenges every open source product has.
Chinese citizens shouldn’t trust American products too much and vice versa. At least your homeland will protect you and you know your people.
Prologue: Yes, this is basically copy-paste. It's 2 AM and I'd be saying roughly the same stuff anyway. :)

Well I'll admit, you and kasey_junk have given me something to think about. As I said though, I find it confusing that my University had a rash of random muggings over cell phones, almost a victim of one such (or similar) attack myself, and yet in a place with nearly twice the average crime rate and certainly more shootings/robberies/thefts per capita I'd apparently be relatively safe. And you guys are actually defending it, so... I don't know. Maybe crime is different in Chicago. Or maybe Englewood is fine and I'm just naming the wrong street over, that heyjackass map isn't exactly precise. Regardless, thanks for your perspective, it's something I didn't have before.

For the record I'm also not blind to some cops being murderous dicks. I just think disarming cops would ignore the root of the problem and cause at least as many issues as it solves. But that's another issue.
Filling cheap/temp jobs doesn't mean demand isn't weak.

If companies were truly desperate for people they would offer higher prices or even pay to train people to their standards.

I remember in the 90s, someone telling me that tech companies (even established ones like IBM) saying they were hiring anyone with a pulse, and that they were trained on the job instead of being asked for 20 years of experience with X, Y, and Z.

If you can afford to be so picky to only hire people that can answer absurd questions like why are manhole covers round or coding a minimum spanning tree operation on a whiteboard with 0 screwups, you do not have a very large demand for people.
Wrote code in all but Piet, so knew it was not glsl. I must spend way too much time behind a computer as i also knew all besides Piet even if it was not multiple choice :)

I do think it should be harder; like when you get a lesser known language, also add the choice for others; APL + K + J for instance, or worse (for many) K or J showing either.

C vs C++ vs D.

Prolog vs Haskell vs Ocaml. Curveball there could be something like Mercury.

Haskell vs Purescript.
Everything is an "app" now. For me it sounds cheaper, somehow trivializing the work of many.
My girlfriend say she loves your thinking, and she thinks feta is the best choice! I might have to have a go at this again, but I've always found the texture just so... odd!
Founder here. Great thought. We had toyed with the idea of a comparison chart/table aired on the side of simplicity. Based on your feedback it might make sense. We'll see how we can incorporate something like this on a future website update.
> Where are the massive capital expenditures we saw in the 19th and 20th centuries?

Those expenditures are still around: they built the roads, runways and skyscrapers that we all use today.

Why do developing countries spend a lot more on development than developed countries do? That's almost a tautology.
Clickbait headline says “without proof”, but a more accurate summary of the article (and, more to the point, the actual ruling [0], which the article neither cites nor properly describes) would be “with only the same kind of indirect and circumstantial evidence that is routinely presented in lawsuits on every kind of matter in most jurisdictions, including those in the US.”

[0] http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessioni...
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I thought Tony Abbott was in a league of his own but clearly Turnbull is holding his own.
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False. Young Americans not only acknowledge different cultures, they even do things like use them in debates about ways to improve our healthcare, for example. Our education system even discusses Native Americans as pertaining to US history, which includes differing customs...

Saying that [a group of] people think all people, globally, are the same is really ridiculous. Maybe online it might seem that way but people in real life don’t.
WA State has the Growth Management Act. Like everything else smelling of civility or the public good, it's vehemently opposed by the local "libertarians".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_State_Growth_Manage...
After how much supervised learning driven by highly paid experts? Watson would be more credible if papers/people citing it's efficacy would start showing the actual queries and answers of the system without being constantly mediated by IBM oracles sitting between renaponses and their interpretations
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I remember hearing a lot of great things about Cloudant, which happens to be from IBM, on HN and elsewhere.

Is that just a notable exception or are there better alternatives out there these days for hosted CouchDB?
As I understand it IBM now pulls in a team of domain experts to help tune their algs and even markets this as an advantage over their competitors.

That makes the MD Anderson case more interesting as it mostly means that MD Anderson spent $60 million to help IBM figure out the importance of that.

It begins to seem obvious how IBM stays so impervious despite being so sluggish. If your marketing and sales teams can subsidize the engineering and design side so heavily by wooing the executives that actually sign the contracts, you can spin it as just "where the technology was at that time".

Selling on hype gets you in the door and establishes you as player, and eventually the tech will catch up. Being 1-2 years behind blurs when you're signing 5 year enterprise-scale deals that took a year to organize and negotiate.

And if your products really are a dead end, you've got enough of a war chest to just aquihire an entire branch of your company, like IBM did buying Softlayer to just become IBM Cloud Services.
This is not meant as a smart-ass comment but I think that you should go to an AA meeting and tell them your story.
If I was to guess I'd say it would resonate with at least someone there. You need to talk to people who've been there, done that.
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Literally how HN operates, it's part of the culture.

Here's the famous Drew Houston post about Dropbox:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
> I think literally everyone in my class cried at some point.

I'm still crying tony.
Yes I implied just that.

The others already replied why.

Why on earth would one need to use gdb, given the nice graphical debugger of EiffelStudio?

Also it was way faster than code produced by Java, which I remind only got a JIT with version 1.3 and to this day only third party commercial JDKs do offer support for AOT to native code.

Java is also quite verbose. Verbose languages are quite good for large scale development.

On real life the majority of code is read not written, so I rather have it verbose and comprehensible than trying to make sense of a line full of hieroglyphs.
My comment wasn't a question, but rather highlighting that a major part of their stack wasn't so much as mentioned in an article about their stack.
Isn't this how vaccines work?
> At least your homeland will protect you and you know your people.

This holds neither for the USA nor china.
As a kid an episode of Ripley's Believe It Or Not left me convinced I was going to die in a nuclear war before reaching adulthood.

I should see if that episode is on youtube and show it to my kids...
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It's obviously a product, but it has to be modified and updated all the time because:

a) the industry on the whole doesn't care about quality, so we ship crap that needs to be fixed later.

b) selling a subscription seems to be more profitable than getting paid once, so companies tend to force customers into subscriptions.
Isn't this called un-obfuscating rather than reverse engineering?
I think they changed the landing page. Now if you click on that "Hello!", or go to hello.p5js.org it comes up.
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Hmmm. Sounds good!

My go to snack is avocado, sea salt, and curry powder. Another good one is with cilantro, maybe some chopped onions
A vegetable is anything edible that doesn't respond to stimulus while it's alive. Like a coma patient, or tomatoes.
If a business was structured to deal with wages elastically, that's great for business, but can you imagine working for such a corporation? In theory, the reason we allow business to profit is because we all share in the benefits, but if a significant chunk of the market were structured like this, a large benefit to ordinary people (i.e. the ability to stabilly eat and shelter themselves) would be removed, removing a large chunk of legitimacy from the economic system.
You're giving your intuition too much credit, by judging someone's writing based on one single post when the rest of his blog is just one click away :-p
Note there speech wasn't criminalizes in itself. No press got prosecuted for relaying their speech. Let's not pretend restrictions on free speech are anywhere near equivalent in scale between the two countries.
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Indeed. I have them tagged as 'shitposter' (with the HN Enhancement Suite Chrome extension), but I just had a look and I'm not even sure why I felt that tag was justified.

At worst there's a lot of 'low-quality' rambling, but usually I then tag the user as 'shitty poster' (my approach to categorization can be a bit odd) and I'll downvote the worst of the comments when I see them.

Could it be that after a certain number of heavily downvoted comments it causes an automatic shadowban? Or maybe some deleted or edited comments that were reason to do so?
For others wondering, ROV stands for Remotely Operated underwater Vehicle.
> The point is that millennials spend money on frivolous luxuries and then complain that they can't afford anything.

This may be true, but it is not why they can't afford housing. It is a red herring, that you seem to have fallen for. It ignores the fact of how expensive housing in some areas has become.
well, given the number of thermonuclear warheads that have been misplaced, it does seem reasonable that we should at least try to prevent those kind of missions.
Thanks, that's a nice and long list. I still wish I could get a more technical view of what you're doing in medicine, are there conferences or symposium ?
Part of the problem is that people are much more reluctant to move for a new job, because job security is now so low. Also, moving to a town with one major non-union employer is like signing up for indentured servitude.
Ask HN: What do you use to back up mobile photos and videos straight to the cloud?
I take a lot of photos and videos with my phone that I want to save for years to come. And of course as a result I run out of space on my phone. I'm looking for a solution that backs these up straight to the cloud, without having to copy them on my laptop.

So far i have used Dropbox's automatic camera upload & paying $80/year for 1TB of storage that should last me a good while. However, this product has been discontinued.

What service do you use or recommend to backup your camera in a convenient and reliable way?
> In other words for all cause mortality, moderate drinkers > heavy drinkers > teetotalers

I remember reading that a few of the more publicized studies with this conclusion failed to control for the fact that many (if not most) people with chronic and fatal illnesses had to quit drinking, and so pumped up the mortality rate for 'teetotalers'.
Building a product from scratch is very different from maintaining a product.

It stands to reason that those that make the product don't need to be the same guys who maintain and extend it.

Do you really need a software architect after the major architecture has been built? Do you need a senior automation engineer when everything has been automated?
Its really a waste of the company's money and the workers' time to have highly experienced and perhaps specialized doing maintenance work - it also leads to unnecessary projects in order to keep those people interested and engaged.
The techcrunch article says that but the Jefferies analyis mentions them in the notes for those charts saying they're compareable to Amazon.
Interesting. That means your data gets extra Great Firewall protection :)
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What are you talking about? Spending $8 on a beer is a luxury. If you spend an extra $6 on a drink to have a man pour it for you, you can't complain about being poor. I'm sorry.

https://www.thecut.com/2014/06/biggest-food-clich-on-instagr...

One of the tweets linked here is this https://twitter.com/nickconfessore/status/864192842817839104

He's making it seem like saving $50 a week to end up with $33K is some kind of impractical absurdity. $33K is a long way towards a down payment on a house in most of the country. AND THAT'S JUST HIS AVOCADO TOAST BUDGET! Cut out the $8 beers and $4 lattes from Starbucks, get married and combine your wealth with your new wife and guess what, you can afford a house. In the SF Bay Area? No, probably not. But believe it or not, there is a world outside the 64 square miles of SF.
I like the principle of Stoicism. But I don't see how can that help with the suffering of the people I care about. I am fine with losing my job, my home or my social position (or at least so I think), but what about my spouse? my children? How can I still feel calm when I fail to support them?
This is just plain wrong. CCP only cares about steal wealth from ppl and shut everyone that tell the truth. This: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO3pO3ykAUybrjv3RBbXEHw , and this: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/world/asia/liu-xiaobo-dea... , etc, etc. The truth and the political dissidents voices is what they really afraid of.
Not sure what you're asking. The hospitals usually need to provided a lot of doctor-annotated data for training. But the custom solution is whatever the clients want it to be, not necessarily a question-answering system like Jeopardy that you seem to be asking about.
are those concepts really that different?
> I'm not saying otherwise. My point is that there's no objective way to proclaim one better than the other.

Very true. But any analysis that emphasizes writing code over maintaining it will systematically bias itself in favor of dynamic typing.

Interestingly I have had the converse debate with some of my colleagues, who have learned to hate Python because they keep having to debug existing systems. I try to tell them that it is an excellent language for the kind of one-off data-analysis that I did when I was a scientist.

They don't believe me, because here among software engineers, seemingly innocent 400 line scripts keep growing into giant, decade old, 100kloc typeless monstrosities.
'The original "search engine"'.

What you're missing is what "search engine" means to the general English-speaking population. Google is a search engine. There's nothing about a digital library catalogue anywhere in that sentence.

The comparison being made is between looking up information in a card catalog in an institution created to serve the public interest, or asking your query of the world's largest advertising company.
This is wrong in every possible important way. Not least is the idea of confusing the Gold Window it’s the Gold Standard (gold backing currency in any way).

The worldwide gold standards (in any form, or even silver backed) were dead by WW1.

There’s no implicit backing of the dollar since then, at all, and convertibility was a (really terrible) relic of that period.
That's great. Ill check it out. Thanks!