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Read the article because I thought google came out with a "light" version of the pixel.

Given how fast phones become outdated, and battery life deteriorate, 200$ is what I want to pay for a phone if I have to replace it every other year...

I lose and break headsets all the time. For me they are consumable. That's way too expensive for consumable.
1. My statement applies to any computational approach to AI. If AI is possible it needs a halting oracle.

2. Learning is being able to recognize ever increasing levels of complexity. All axiomatic systems have a complexity recognition limit.
Eh, it really is how http is intended to work:

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html

It's no different (arguably a lot better) than cookies.
No. We're full. Stay in SV please /s

There's good companies and bad companies, just like everywhere else.
UWP's XAML stack is alive and growing. The cool "Fluent" stuff like acrylic brushes and active focus highlights want you to use UWP XAML, and while shiny things aren't necessarily a reason to pick a dev stack, they do seem signs of health in that dev stack.
> Nuts. People don't even use apps [i]. They may have facebook or netflix installed - but then it gets real thin.

Anecdote from a lot of my friends, a lot of use use flashcard type apps to help learn languages and things like memrise etc... Dictionary apps to get word translations and so on.

So I'm going to place that article under: perhaps true in general, but not overly constructive to my group of people.
Glib and uninformed? FFS, he or she was merely sharing their personal experience and asking a question based on it. It was a perfectly reasonable and constructive comment and doesn't deserve down votes and smug responses.
Modern L2 TLBs have something like 1024 entries.
Apache2 has an explicit patent license.
I can see this. I deal with chronic pain daily and I smoke often. After I light up, I am still aware of the pain if I think about it, but as you mention, my mind wanders and I forget about the pain for moments at a time.
> The oddest turn is that of blaming the global rise in income inequality on SV, and then to lambaste SV for trying to come up with solutions to ameliorate that problem as it proceeds to its logical extreme.

People don't like new people getting money. A story as old as time.
Only problem is, 1G acceleration for 5 days straight is pure fiction at this point.
It sounds like nonsense
> Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile

Who didn't?

Seriously, nobody actually expected it to win over either iOS or Android.
Does it happen that Microsoft breaks two things when they fix one thing?
The irony of the Microsoft side of the story is that they tried many times to get into mobile. They had a full-powered smartphone, including apps and a web browser, for many years before the iPhone.

I remember going to a store around 2005 or 2006 and deciding, "if I can get slashdot to load, I'm going to buy this phone." I couldn't figure it out! I don't know if I just couldn't figure it out, or the phone was misconfigured, but either way, I just didn't want something so difficult to use in my pocket. From what I remember, the browser was buried under a tree of menus.

When I first tried the iPhone in 2007, it was very easy to figure out how to load slashdot!

Later, when someone showed me all the "cool" things about the Windows phone, they were just a snazzy UI that had totally unintuitive features that I would never use. I just couldn't see the point of the phone; except as a toy for people who like to tinker.
Even better when we all recognize that it doesn't take a conscious racist or sexist decision. There are all kinds of ways to rationalize "better culture fit".
The author danced around but missed the detached, holier-than-thou elitism that radiates from the entire Bay Area.
> It's not a hidden config setting either.

Yes it is now

> they'll just get overriden when I login to my Sync account

They explicitly won’t, the new feature overrides all your synced settings and explicitly defaults to sending all your URLs to the ad and tracking company Burda Media Group.
> A man that (if you bother to read up on what he is up to now) doesn't even believe any of the shit he said back then and actually apologised for it.

Can you provide a pointer to that? I haven't found anything in that regard, either at Wikipedia nor searching at news sites.
People generally do love Silicon Valley and what it creates. It’s the media that doesn’t.

Ask the average person what brands and products they like and use the most (or just look at the data on where and how they spend their time and money) and you’ll see that Silicon Valley is doing just fine in the eyes of the populace. In fact, Silicon Valley has never been more influential.

Ask people to go to a world without iPhones, Facebook, Google, Uber/Lyft and they’ll call you crazy. But the media knows that, so it goes after the losers: It’s easy to point and laugh at the 100 things that look stupid, without realizing that “lol this social network for college kids thinks it’s worth $150m” seems just as crazy. Silicon Valley is the place that will be wrong funding Juicero in order to be right funding Facebook. You can’t have one without the other. (As an aside, I’ll never understand why people get so upset for rich people making bad bets and losing a bunch of money.)

But the media that sees itself losing its power, losing influence, and losing money. Of course they hate tech.
Hi! I use FineScanner a lot and it literally saves me during my study period. I scan all abstracts and textbooks to not carry them with me all the time (that's about OCR). It also works pretty well with multi-page docs :) Good luck!
The fact that Uber hasn't suffered any noticeable loss of business suggests that this is false. Or at least that it doesn't matter if people love you or not.
> What I'm most surprised by in this thread is the toxicness. As of right now there are only two threads that I can see, one that is slamming Gitlab's salaries and one that is slamming their reliability.

After many year on the internet, it's not that surprising. It's best summed up as, "Haters gonna hate.".

The jabs at the cloud offerring's reliability are valid. That includes both uptime and the horrendous data loss event they had earlier this year. I don't recall anything major after though not knowing about internals, can't tell if they learned from it or have just gotten lucky.

As a CE user I love GitLab. It does what it says on the tin and for the most part I don't have to think about it. The UI changes every other release are bit haphazard but not enough for me to truly care.

I've always thought that slamming their open comp policy is hilarious. They're one of the most open companies about how they handle comp and the result is they get insulted for it. I'm not saying I agree with the formulas (in particular the non-NYC COLA adjustments are out of whack) or the general approach, but to say they're worse than the voodoo guesswork that goes into figuring out how much a company is going to pay you is disingenuous. Especially if it's after a number of interviews only to find out they're going to low ball you.

At least in GitLab's case I know, at the current comp levels, I'd never work there or even interview there. And that's beyond fair for the worker. Plus it seems to be working fine because they've got a bunch of people that are happy to work there.
Technically that would not be an a priori reason.

IMHO you are right though about discrimination existing.
There is no a priori reason that society feels comfortable acknowledging, but for anybody without those hangups, the reasons are actually quite obvious.
What about plumbers and garbage collectors gender diversity? Is it "evil patriarchy" or "ugh it's icky"?
I wanted to develop for Windows Phone, I really did. I even bought two phones, hoping that my experience with the first one would be fixed with the second.

But I just couldn't: getting the environment to work required me to upgrade my version of Visual Studio, upgrade my version of the OS, pay a developer fee (or send an e-mail with a scan of my ID and grade transcript to get it waived as a student). And even after sorting all those obstacles, the IDE was so buggy that I couldn't even place a date picker object.

The impression I got was: you can develop for WP, as long as you do it the way we like it (OS version, Visual Studio version) and invest about a hundred dollars getting up to spec.

Compared to Android's "here's the free IDE for your OS of choice", I'm not surprised developers weren't thrilled.
This disgusts me.
I have a right to know what is in the food I (might) eat. If indeed there is no risk from GMO products (plant or animals), or animals given antibiotics, or cows given hormones to increase milk production, etc. then it falls upon those industries to educate and convince me of this point-of-view, not to hide the information or (in some cases) make it illegal to report the GMO/non-GMO status.
I'm pretty sure that's what the OP was getting at?
I see, thanks for the response. I guess I just dislike the example because it fails to untangle these two effects :)
Yes, what I mean is that there is no internal feature of the marginalized groups that would predict this, just external forces pushing them out.
Signed up to see what it's like, but can't find any content. Maybe it needs some explore-feature or links to example content or featured content until there is more to be found through search.
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>We still can't get the basics like sound, wifi, etc out of the box.

Complete and total fabrication. Video for gaming is still trouble, but I have no more issue with Linux wifi or sound output than I do with Windows. In fact, Linux networking to me is better than Windows.
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To point out the obvious, that’s definitely not a priori. What do you mean by it?
Performance at a low price point. I mentioned this elsewhere but when I was using a Windows phone, I'd buy $30-$50 windows phones and love them. When I eventually made the switch to a $40 Android phone is was borderline unusable so I had to pay for $300 Nexus.
Hypnotizing... :> Missing some algorithms tho
I saw one episode and had the same reaction. I thought Rick was going to be like the professor from back to the future. Instead he's the bright but shallow kid making all the annoying smart alec comments, with a facile outlook on life he gets away with due to not having to live in the real world.
> For example, if you have 2 instances of Caddy in production and 3 web developers using Caddy locally to build your website, that's 5 instances. (A single developer who starts multiple instances of Caddy temporarily in local dev can still just count as 1.) If you also spin up a maximum of 3 containers at a time with Caddy binaries inside it, that's a total of 8 instances.

This reminds me of Microsoft’s CAL licensing scheme(s). Those were ALWAYS confusing, and [in my experience] rarely followed correctly.

I'd wager this won't generate any meaningful revenue, but may open doors for legal action of people in violation. Hopefully that's not the goal.
'Western society is chronically sleep deprived'
> The criticism of Juicero and Theranos being emblematic of focusing on the wrong problems is not sensible. Companies fail, sometimes spectacularly, sometimes due to dishonest behavior, etc. If Theranos had the tech they claimed to have, it would have been richly rewarded (outshined only by the consumer surplus it would have created).

The problem with Juciero and Theranos isn't that they failed. The problem with them is that Juciero was an immensely dumb idea that was never checked or questioned and thereby wasted tons of money, and Theranos was so unabashedly, obviously mustache-twirlingly evil that if it were used to script an evil corporation for TV, I'd have called it unrealistic (and thereby, it wasted tons of money). They're the worst parts of SV (dumb companies offering things nobody wants at outrageous prices, and obvious evil pretending things are OK because they're 'changing the world' or some other nonsense) exaggerated to near-comical extremes.

Silicon Valley's problem is deeper than failing businesses or not enough diversity. It's that the entire enterprise is a bold-faced moneygrab for VCs; ethics, diversity, etc. were never really part of the point, and it's only now that the rest of the world is starting to figure that out. SV's problems are at the core of the reasons for its current existence.
It's not the problem of Silicon Valley it's the problem of investors throwing money at anything that is located in SV. You can still make some good money in SV you just have to invest in a startup with real future not just a good pitch. I don't think there will be big D-day when all unicorns will fail. We will see more and more stupid startups to fail (Juicero, Soccer Genomics etc.) and lower willingnes to invest into dumb startups but those that have the future like Dropbox, Github, WeWork etc.
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Sorry but I think its wrong to compare Gitlab to Google, even Etsy tbh.

Its obvious that Google can offer high salaries. Same with Etsy, while its nowhere near Googles level, I feel like Gitlab's cashflow is nowhere near Etsy's cashflow either.

I checked for London and I can say that Gitlab seems to be giving out a low to average salary at best. Which is not bad considering that you can be working remotely from your home etc etc, and get maybe more shares in a startup like Gitlab.

But ye all and all I feel the OP is a bit right that since they got a better funding they should be looking at accumulating their salaries to go up for their devs that have been getting bellow market rates.
Anecdotes:

Claiming racism and sexism will put off anyone in the center who may be convinced that there is a diversity problem. I would prefer the term "subconsciously biased against". It's not so much a concentrated group effort by everyone who hires to keep minorities down, but a subconscious effect caused by the media and constant anti-minority propaganda (only a few decades ago). Even minorities themselves are influenced by this (see: confidence issues).

It's not conducive to growth as a society or as individuals when you attack people who may otherwise be convinced to help you. The ones that are just blatantly racist are fair game (imo), though.
To you, in the words of one Silicon Valley investor, this seems like “the only logical conclusion.”
To the average person, this seems like the height of arrogance. People are uncomfortable with
universal basic income because you’re essentially saying their labor isn’t worth anything — but you don’t see it!

I think this point is really missing from most UBI conversations that happen on HN. UBI is the answer when you believe that all economic productivity must come from the US coasts.

I think a lot of start ups have thrived trying to solve the problem of high density cities. Airbnb and Uber are start ups that get created when your biggest problems are high rent and poor public transit. I would be interested in seeing startups trying to solve suburban problems and producing suburban jobs. I think the fact that are very few companies like this is indicative of our increasing cultural divide.
We become desensitized to certain forms of stimuli over time. Someone with horrendous body odor may not even notice it at first, but once he can actually smell it the stench is making his neighbors gag.

In other words, it's bad enough that TechCrunch has noticed.
You’re agreeing with the OP while acting angry and using a critical tone. This detracts from discussion.

Please interpret remarks charitably.
In your first argument, you argued that we could not colonize Mars. Now you concede that we can colonize Mars, while arguing humans have a fundamental flaw. What is your point, and why do you hold it?
With the difference in salary between 'rest of England' and 'London' you could probably afford to rent a very modest one bedroom flat in London while living elsewhere and still earn more.
Oooh, that is a nice one.
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I agree,

I didn't notice how much I care until I recently went on vacation and there was no declaration on the restaurant menu on where the meet comes from and what it may contain.

Edit: For clarification, I live in Switzerland
OP used Latin to signal their intelligence, the assumption being they've already considered and ruled out sexism and racism, therefore there must be some other under-developed theory to explain the gap.
I bought someone a Windows phone and they had the same feedback - big name apps not available (whatsapp, instagram, etc.)

I wanted to buy a Windows phone since I use none of these apps, but there was no hardware refresh or major announcements around Windows phones and that deterred me. I don't understand how MS went on to a successful Surface and failed phones, I would think they're similar markets - hype-driven, takes a few iterations to get right, etc. I bought the Google G2 and it was far from what an Android phone is today, but Windows phones seem to run on a no-upgrade strategy which is strange
You don't have to be loved to be profitable. That said Uber is currently neither, nor is it likely to be any time soon.

But my point is that Uber's reputation plumbing the abyssal depths, and to a lesser extent AirBnB's, is dragging down the reputation of the rest of the valley.
yeah. one of my favorite things is the collection of FLAG_* constants on Intent: FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP, FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK, FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_WHEN_TASK_RESET, FLAG_ACTIVITY_FORWARD_RESULT ...

the android SDK appears to lack a coherent, overarching concept or set of guiding principles which the client programmer can internalize and rely upon. there are many special cases and inscrutable behaviors.

like, sometimes you ask for a piece of work to be done by the SDK and it calls you back on your implementation of a Listener class. but, other times, you have to register a BroadcastReceiver. still other times, you have to override OnActivityResult. but, then, there are these other times when you have to create and provide a PendingIntent.

you go through enough of this stuff and you start to wonder: "Did there really need to be soooo much variety in the way these SDK methods hand info back to the client? Couldn't they have standardized this?"

it's almost like Google turns their (very smart) programmers loose on the SDK and never looks back. google seems to just defer entirely to their opinions and judgments. smart as these programmers are, they seem to have different tastes, different approaches to API design.

and it all goes into the SDK.
Programmers tend to look at shitty programs and imagine better ways that it could have been done... In practice the competitor to a shitty program is not a better program, but no program at all. Even shitty software can still make the world a better place, and the preponderance of half-assed bug-ridden brain-dead garbage software should be seen as a good thing.
The data you posted do not support the claim “People don't even use apps”, but instead only “most individual users do not regularly use a large number of apps”. But that doesn't mean that either the small number they use frequently or the larger number that they use infrequently are unimportant to the overall utility they derive from their phone, or that there aren't a large number of apps used regularly across any given platform.
Thank you. Would you know where I can look for more derailed info?
Sure, but it's not like they have to choose one or another. And 100% of 1000 downloads is better than 70% of 1000 downloads.
Tell me about it. I'm currently working in a javascript shop where we recently finished a 4 month react project with 5-6 full time developers. The website had about 10 pages, with about half a dozen forms, all but one of which were very straightforward, and not a ton of fancy UI.

As an experienced Rails developer, I could have built the whole thing myself in about a month and a half. Less if the html was provided. There was absolutely no reason to build this thing in React. But, the architect and lead dev have decided we're a javascript shop, damn the torpedoes. For certain things we do it makes some sense, but mostly it just slows things down and makes development unpleasant.
I see a lot of people going on about incentives. Actually the simple problem is that MSFT know how to effectively fuck up a product:

1. Schizophrenic product direction.

2. Entire platform change half way through.

3. Quality control issues galore.

4. Regional issues galore.

5. Reinventing wheels, badly.

It's just crap. That's happening to windows 10 too. It's just not quite as far down the toilet.
> The jabs at the cloud offerring's reliability are valid. That includes both uptime and the horrendous data loss event they had earlier this year. I don't recall anything major after though not knowing about internals, can't tell if they learned from it or have just gotten lucky.

We have a very detailed post-mortem of the database incident we had in January, along with a list of precautions (every one with an issue) we took to make sure it doesn't happen again in https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-database-o...

We're also actively working on improving our reliability; you can check up on all ongoing efforts in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues?scope=al...
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The article is shallow and it would be easy to rip apart most of its arguments (eg. [1][2]). But the worrying trend is that such articles are now appearing very regularly, and at some point perception becomes reality. At this pace, SV will be the Wall Street in no time, if it is not already.

[1] > You’re churning out companies that are raising hundreds of millions of dollars, and going bankrupt in literal satires of themselves

Yes, and that is an aspect of capitalism. You take risk on crazy ideas. Some of them will be a fancy juicer, but some of them will also be an electric car.

[2] > Your companies are now solving “my-world problems” (food delivery, cold-pressed, on-demand juice) versus the “real-world problems” you used to solve

Google wants to deploy Loon in Puerto Rico to offer connectivity. Tesla offered to rebuild Puerto Rico electrical grid based on Solar energy. If these are not real world problems affecting everything, I don't know what the author has in mind.
I see Google's recent hardware plays as Google trying to get into the high margin fashion industry, which is currently Apple's exclusive domain. Sony used to be the other tech fashion company. Google will have a hard time dragging along its existing customers, who are not primarily interested in fashion.
What kind of label would you like to see in this case, where an 'ingredient' has been removed? In this case a particular gene is being repressed, so that protein will be in less abundance than usual - nothing has been added, but one particular gene has been removed.

I would doubt anyone would disagree with you in wanting to provide accurate information about what you are consuming. The question is, does a generic "GMO" label tell you anything useful when applied as a label, and conversely, does it tell you anything useful when not applied as a label? I'm not sure that label provides any meaningful information.
>developing a workplace culture that prevents them from attaining those positions

Some who make this argument (and I'm not necessarily saying you're in this camp) are essentially saying that "nerd culture" is some oppressive sexist force. That's sort of ironic given that it's basically a subculture formed by social rejects. There are of course aspects of workplace culture which do this, but an appreciation of science fiction and dungeons and dragons really shouldn't be on that list.