skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if they're really "shitty". I think their phones do offer up some unique features. Updates to Android are really nice and all the special sauce Google adds to the phones are pretty compelling.

I think what is shitty is their retail game. They're not even close to competing with Apple on this one. I've also heard a lot of conflicting stories about their support. That would be my biggest concern buying a phone or product from them. (I do have the nexus 6p but thankfully never had to contact support.)
So can you do any of this in a public cloud setup or is this an argument for having infrastructure that you control directly?

(I think AWS might have launched some sort of HSM service, but I haven't looked at the details and not clear if it could provide the right sort of guarantee)
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The subsidizing happens to find drivers and passengers. When Uber came to my city, it was months before I paid for a ride, and drivers told us all about how they were getting cash bonuses for working high traffic times.

No matter how optimistic you are about the product, Uber isn't worth a fraction of its valuation without the constant expansion, and the constant expansion is impossible without very inexpensive money that is VC.
Comcast is the poster child for hated but profitable.
Exactly that.

The feedback loop is shit as well. Out falls a broken pile of shit for a CTP. No one accepts any feedback. It hits RTM, no one accepts any feedback. Two years down the line, the same bugs are open.

You should hear the partner reps wanting to cry when you report a bug in something that you NEED a fix for and are paying support for. You get fuck all other than a registry fix or a hack even if the mainline product is falling to bits across a thousand or so users (which is what happened to us).

Money where the mouth is as well. Typical shit:

https://github.com/Microsoft/SCVMMLinuxGuestAgent/issues/2 -> ignored. Regularly hoses our new VMs deploying windows on SCVMM.

https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/3093 -> fuck you go away we're just going to take your data unless you set a magic variable even though no one wants to give it away as indicated by the ticket and there are bugs in the configuration and it causes people massive audit problems.
> But since MS almost has parallel offerings for all Google Services they can create an "API" compatible version of Google Play service

Here's a bit of trivia: Microsoft filed an amicus brief[1] supporting Oracle's position that API's are copyrighted in Oracle v. Google.

Not long after this, coincidentally (or not) that Microsoft canceled project Astoria[2], which implemented Android APIs on Windows 10 Mobile. If they implement Google's API, and Google were to sue, it would be trivial to prove wilful infringement by citing the amicus brief (they knew it is wrong and they did it anyway).

1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/20/oracle_and_world_vs_...

2. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-officially-cancels-...
If you're interested, this is the best paper I've found on the topic: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pp2.pdf
The startup was aiming to replace existing corner stores, which are called 'bodegas' in many parts of the US because they're typically run by Latino people.

Using a Latino name for a company of (likely middle-class, likely Asian and European rather than Latino) engineers seeking to disintermediate working class bodega owners was the problem.
Your argument is very similar to yesterday's discussions around stock buybacks as a conservative, risk-averse way for companies to control their stock prices and enrich top executives without giving more power to labor.
Middle America doesn't seem to be keen on much of anything these days, besides torches and pitchforks.

I'd rather put my money on the people trying to build solutions rather than more problems. Sure, it seems like the actual silicon valley location is mostly making solutions for problems that it created, these days. But there's plenty of tech outside of California.

And anyways, dire imprecations of fire and brimstone if we don't do things your way is so 1700s.
Why shouldn't they be? If scoped correctly to the resources of the maintainers there is no reason that open source software can't be just as good as "big-bucks closed software".

Yes, this means more focused product, that doesn't do ALL THE THINGS!!! but does a few things really well. That type of software is exactly why I use the Mac. There's a ton of indy developers out there making absolutely kick-ass focused software for it, and they do so on incredibly tight budgets. There's no reason OS software can't or shouldn't be held to high standards.

There's literally no reason the quality of the core functionality of any project can't be as good. In fact it's probably easier for an open source dev to guarantee high quality stuff if they only get off their asses and write tests. This is their passion project after all. They _should_ care about the quality of the code more because it's their baby, not just a paycheck.

Most of the open source projects out there have crap UI & UX but it's not like it's terribly hard for a geek to find a friend with decent UI skills (UX is a bit harder) and ask them to mock some stuff up for them, and then implement it. Or you know, use the $$ programmers get paid (relative to most everyone else) to hire a professional to design it.

Note: to be clear, there are many OS things out there that are just some quickie tool someone threw together and are being kind enough to share. I've got a pile of these and I have NO problem with stuff like that being somewhat rough. There's a difference between quick and dirty scripts and things that are trying come across as, and be treated as a polished product.
So they do want handouts /subsidies then
In the instance of social networks, when everybody is already using a product, that’s part of what makes it a better product. Facebook wasn’t the first mover, and no one forced you to stay there, but now that we’re all there it is much more difficult to create a product better than it.
I think we as society have lost the ability to give the kids a creative space, that used to be a mile away from homes where they can play in the sand and bushes and water, and just be kids, without adult supervision. Video games let kids experience creation. Video games are satisfying an evolutionary need.

I think nautil.us should write an article on positive effects of mobile phone connectivity. The snobs are looking down on that just like they are on video games.
At this point after the entire debacle that is the PR mess that this company has made for themselves it's obvious to me and my company that we will be going with NGINX for future projects. This whole situation has left a bad taste in my mouth about Caddy. Spending any more time on this is a waste of time.
Probably submitted because of the relationship with this recent post about the osx exposing passwords in cleartext issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15432045

The referenced story talks about the last line effect.
I haven't installed Windows on any device since 2010-2011 I think. I have been only using Mac OS and Linux since that time and never looked back.

Only reason why I miss Windows is gaming but for entertainment purposes I am considering switching to console (I used to be a PC gaming maximalist but don't feel so strongly about it anymore) - probably PS4.

I do agree with what you are saying though. Installing Windows from scratch is a pain too (at least it was last time I tried it with Windows 7). But almost nobody installs Windows ever, majority of people buy laptops with preinstalled Windows (plus ton of malware as a bonus from the manufacturer).
that's what i do. i kind of can't help it, my mind is too active to sit still.
Chicago is really low... the calculator returns ~$50k for a position that would pay 85 or 90 around here. I imagine they mostly target european employees? I know salaries tend to be much lower in the EU.
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This makes me really sad given Windows 10 Mobile had a desktop mode, Continuum, and Microsoft had x86-on-ARM emulation in development for Windows 10 laptops.

Why they never put 2 and 2 together is beyond me.
The "Breaking Bad" anti-hero protagonist is way more charming than Rick, and makes "Breaking Bad" much easier to watch. I'm definitely familiar with anti-heroes and have enjoyed a lot of them ("Death Note's" Light Yagami is one of my personal favorites).

> The only time he seems to buckle is when his family's lives are at stake.

And frankly? Words hurt. Actions hurt. Abusive words levied at naiive children can scar people for life.

Rick doesn't care about those instances and really mistreats Morty. True, he helps Morty when Morty's life is in danger, but there's a lot more to people's well being than just "alive vs dead".

I get that this is a comedy show and I'm supposed to not care about that sort of thing. But I honestly relate myself more to Morty than to Rick most of the time. So whenever Morty is being verbally abused by Rick, I just get pissed off.

I think "most" people relate themselves to Rick, and can enjoy the show from Rick's perspective. Which I can agree, it looks fun from that side. But unfortunately, my brain is hardwired for whatever reason to relate more to Morty, and Morty's placement in the world is... not very fair to him.
Ask HN: Is it safe to use Alexa Echo?
After setting up Alexa Echo, it starts to listen to what we are talking so that it can wake up and answer our question. However, this raises a concern about security. Since it's listening to us, it means it would listen to everything we talked. What if we have told some secrets such as password, bank account details etc without noticing that Alexa is listening? Will this be a huge loophole that our privacy would be collected by Alexa? How could this issue be resolved?
Bitcoin's price bubble will burst under government pressure
not in the last season, though
I disagree a little bit. We are all typing this from our comfy environments, able to pay for Internet, etc.

What about when jobs start to disappear and the economy as we know starts to change for the worse? Either by affecting us directly, or the markets which we are a part of, I don't think this will be a positive thing.
Looks good, but exaggerated infatuation. Come on..
Silicon Valley isn't a brand. People don't fall out of love with London or New York when some stupid products fail there.
Design that can't stand up to honest scrutiny isn't good design IMO. If you feel this isn't honest scrutiny, then that is a separate issue than saying one shouldn't work on established UX paradigms.
A persistent volume provider would be great: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volum...

This makes it easy to declare the volume as part of the deployment and automatically attach storage when the container is run. Mounting on the host isn't very easy (or even possible sometimes), especially with spot/preemptible instances and the increasing abstractions by managed K8S providers. The pricing model might need to be different though if billing on a container-mount level.
See this paper for more thorough coverage of my original comment: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pp2.pdf
Sorry, its not really the logo, i was kidding with the fact that the current logo looks like buzzlightyear's chin.
We just use distro provided python versions on debian and virtualenvs. Don't touch anything else!

Probably right on the basis of the above however.
I think the true selling point of R & M is that the plot defies expectations, not by simply going to the contrary but by turning left of the hero road, following a insane idea and sticking to it until the trophe falls apart and something i call messy realism appears.
What would happen if you hang around the borg? Oh, turns out the hivemind is people too.
And so on, and so forth.

Rick and Morty is "just" great Tv showing how much on rails all the other plots in all the other shows usually are. My problem is, that i think the show has no overall arc - and that they desperatly will try to glue one together.
Funny to think of Simon, who is credited with being the grandfather of cognitive science, as being known for organizational behavior.
You can definitely do this in public cloud HSMs.

Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/key-vault/
AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudhsm/

The only thing you're not able to do in a public cloud is run these in Secure Execution mode—where you get to actually execute arbitrary code inside of the enclave instead of just doing operations with keys that are protected by the HSMs.
You know what would have been an incentive for me (and I guess thousand of other game devs) to support windows phone? Support for OpenGL ES.
I went back and watched some Star Trek TNG a while back. It's shocking. There is no way anything that optimistic could be written today. People literally can't even think it.
the parent did not say anything about basic income, what exactly are you responding to?
If you try and install Windows onto a drive that Windows is already installed on and basically just click though next though the installation process then setup will tell you:

> "If the partition you've chosen contains files from a previous Windows installation, these files will be moved to a folder named Windows.old"

If you then click OK Setup will then create a Windows.old folder, move the old Windows dir, user dir to Windows.old and then install as normal.

If you delete the existing partition during the setup (or its a fresh drive), Setup needs to create a new partition(s) and will do it automatically if you wish, after which it will do a quick format.

EDIT: Reading the pdf they point too it states that the OS was reinstalled, leading to data deletion but they were able to find various artifacts in unallocated space. So they may or may not of formated the drive, but most likely at least delete the partition, but even a full format doesn't zero out the drive (unless you give format.exe the /p: argument).
It is stabilizing already, natality in developing countries dropped much faster than what was expected.
Caddy is a solid piece of software, the let's encrypt integration alone is amazing. The majority of comments here on HN seem to be negative about the pricing and commercial structure, which to me is a bit absurd. This is after all a forum for entrepreneurs right? More power to the Caddy team for trying to monetize. When you work hard, create a great product, you have every right to monetize.

Quite honestly I am growing weary of the entitled, everything should be free, universal income, frugal, mentality on HN.
Makes me wonder what research they'll be doing about us in 58,000 years.
What expectations would you consider reasonable in this instance?
Yeah it is. I noticed the same with google ads. If you have google home on your phone it can happen that they pick up keywords and then use them to serve you ads. I was talking to a friend about Thailand and we started getting ticket offers to Bangkok. I never googled this...
Oracle Emulates Google, AWS on Its Cloud
I remember Facebook home, but it was more an attempt to colonise Android (like Microsoft is trying now) than a Blackberry, Jolla, Tizen etc offering.
Nice! I've been using it and it works perfectly.
Growing wealth inequality in the United States in the last twenty years was caused mostly by globalisation, the offshoring of jobs that left huge numbers of people out of work and broke while making the owners and investors multiple times wealthier. Automation has played its role in generating inequality at times in history, but the wave we are currently experiencing is not predominantly due to automation: it is instead due to cheap and plentiful foreign labor.
You go to the trouble of getting into a different industry in order to find new customers. Your existing customers are already your customers.
Here's a link if you want to see CherryPi vs. Purplewave (two bots mentioned).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rTf_aL0hrgo
How the battlefield made way for precision drones
How is Seinfeld nihilistic?
PureVPN has a history of shilling and questionable business practices: https://badcode.pro/blog/ivacy-and-purevpn-rather-questionab...
I think you missed:

Morty: "Aw jeez..."
Author here. I build this to learn and ship something with Elixir.
I know it's not a new idea, there are plenty of alternatives to track unfollowers, but couldn't find any that works inside twitter.
I got the idea recently reading some political tweets about a situation in my region (Catalonia, Spain). I usually follow tech people and this days they're tweeting political stuff and I wondered how many people unfollow them after those tweets.

I'd appreciate any feedback :)
I don’t think anyone is making the argument that Facebook is as good as face to face interaction. They’re also not mutually exclusive. That’s part of why this is so difficult to study.
"As an aside, I’ll never understand why people get so upset for rich people making bad bets and losing a bunch of money"

These rich people are not risking their own money but they risk the money of other people's pension funds and other sources. That has a real impact in people outside of SV.
> "Good god, it's just a word"

Extremely naive to think that just because it is a word, it does not matter.

A single word in the wrong place or at the wrong time, could destroy your career, make you a social pariah or even get you killed. Words are powerful.
It's not as simple as using a bundler because the React Native runtime is unlike Node.js or common browsers regarding available APIs.
>code isn't public because I was concerned about people taking it to make a more popular version of the same thing.

Why would that be a bad thing?
I seem to remember FreeWavz & HearNotes before Apple's "AirPods"
I suspect something like:

> It is unknown what the vast majority of humans did during this period.

(because all of our facebooks, twitters, hn comments, softwares, etc are not physically tangible artifacts and will [hopefully] be lost in time)
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My grocery store has a special shelf for ugly fruits and veggies sold at a discounted rate. I buy when there's something I need.
Why do you believe that people en masse "put up" with these tech companies? In my experience you're right that they're not stupid or unreasonable, but I think you're otherwise mistaken about the opinions of the vast majority. In my experience, they don't think they're being used - it's never occurred to them, because they don't particularly worry about centralized megacorporations having their personal data. And even if they are made aware of that, I think most still don't really care, even if they agree.

I judge how much people care about their personal data being in the hands of large companies based on how much they talk about it (but begrudgingly put up with it) or how much they stop using the products. Most people don't think about, talk about or consider their data being in e.g. Facebook's hands, and most people don't delete their Facebook accounts or diminish their usage, even when something shinier comes along. A lot of people on HN do those things and it's clear they care about their personal privacy, but I see no evidence that even a large minority of people actually care.
> Because "it's complicated" isn't

> usually considered an exhaustive exploration

> of the topic?

Okay, fair point. Maybe what tweaks me is the media always reporting just what the Nobel committee says, which is just the same gloss as S&K: cognition matters. In physics they don’t keep saying the same thing about each Nobel’s contribution. Maybe it’s just that physics is easy, and cognitive science is hard.
I’ve seen plenty of people lose hundreds of millions because their ideas were garbage.
I once did some consulting for a very prominent bond fund manager. His main tool was an excel spreadsheet which was the most godawful mess you can imagine. Dozens of separate pages with tens to hundreds of thousands of cells each. I ended up writing some VB code to dump all the formulas into a text file where I could parse them and do some automated analysis (using Common Lisp). It turned out that the spreadsheet was in fact as much of a train wreck as it appeared to be. Most of it turned out to be dead code, i.e. >50% (I don't remember the exact number) of the cells did not figure into the final result.

But the worst part was that there turned out to be a single input that completely dominated the final result, and that input was a "gut feel" that the fund manager had about which way the market was going to move. So after all that calculation, the upshot was that the fund investment decisions were being made based on this individual's intuitions, and the entire spreadsheet was just window dressing. Ironically, the audience for the window dressing was the fund manager and his team because the spread sheet was considered proprietary, a closely guarded secret. That's the reason I'm not revealing the name of the manager. I'm probably still bound by the terms of the NDA.

That was the moment that I realized that much, if not most, of Wall Street is a colossal scam.
They tried by investing heavily in Cyanogen mod but that didn't go anywhere.
I hope I never receive any message from this service, but good idea anyway :)
> Those "quick surveys" that we all either skip (if possible) or just enter random bullshit into so that we can just download the damn file and get on with our work?

They've already got something built into the download page to configure plugins. All it would have taken was an additional question and a few radio options:

I plan on using Caddy for:
[ ] my personal website [ ] my startup [ ] other commercial

> Those blog posts that 95%+ of customers never read or, if they do, won't bother commenting on?

People already follow their social accounts etc. to be notified of updates. Plenty of people will read a post "We're thinking of charging for Caddy", and even a 5% response rate would be in the hundreds or thousands.

Plenty of people have done it in much more difficult markets with fewer resources. It's never easy, but Caddy had some good options they never used.

Welcome to the world of market research. It's how you avoid launching a bad product at the wrong price. The alternative is getting it very publicly wrong and having to backtrack.
Neither product translates anything. They're both heavy on marketing (Apple's proprietary bluetooth chip, Google's on-phone-but-locked-to-one-BT-headset translation capability) and both are incremental improvements on existing tech.

The tit-for-tat here is getting silly. If you have a Pixel, buy Google's if you have an iPhone buy Apple's. If you have neither buy a few pair for $3 and laugh at the fools wearing the $160 ones.

That being said, I've used the Apple ones and actually feel like they're a reasonable value at the price. The ease of pairing them (open the box with an iPhone nearby) will spoil you. They also are findable with the "Find my iPhone" app, based on their last known position which is a critical feature for such an easy to lose item.

Haven't tried the Google ones, but do think real time translation is a "magical" feature that Jobs would have loved -- assuming it's easy to use and works well. I'm the type to work my ass off learning a new language when traveling, so it does make me feel like people are cheating. But that's a feeling that we should all be getting used with tech advancements.
> Plus Windows is terrible from a security and power consumption point of view. Can Microsoft fix that without breaking everything?

Nonsense

https://np.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/74xc2z/windows_an...

https://np.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/6ifyxq/spotify_for_...
https://github.com/fivetran/benchmark Does not exist?