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I work at Google and was on the bigquery/dremel team.

I've written on this topic in the past at [0]. Turns out analytic SQL workloads are incredibly volatile - we know from operating these big ol Dremel/bq clusters in a multi tenant fashion. In my opinion boulos is correct to point out that the above analysis sets volatility of usage at 0, which is not representing the real world..

Think about it another way. Bigquery on demand pricing only charges you for the resources you use, rather than provision. This guarantees you don't pay for the luxury of deployed resources that sit idle.

By definition this also means your "cluster utilization" is 100% with bigquery. It's rare to see provisioned databases get above 50%, even in cloud. Periscope data specifically called out running redshift at 50% utilization as a best practice - in other words it's a best practice to double your bill just for deployment reasons.

There is, of course, bigquery flat rate pricing for larger use cases, which is incredibly cost competitive.

Folks who migrate to bigquery also specifically call out cost as a major benefit. Some sites that call this out are kabam[1], sharethis[2], Yahoo [3], ny times[3], Motorola[4].

This logic is extrapolatable to any cloud pay-per-use pricing schemas (like queuing, storage, API calls, etc). It's just that in analytics usage tends to be incredibly volatile, and thus this is extra significant. Happy to chat further.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/02/visualizing-t...

[1]https://youtu.be/6Nv18xmJirs

[2]https://cloud.google.com/customers/sharethis/

[3]https://youtu.be/TLpfGaYWshw

[4]https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/07/supersize-it-...
Sure, but there are a lot of grey areas. Would you want your loved ones removed from the gene pool because they have peanut allergies, or what about asthma from living near a coal plant? What if some governing body determined that you're unfit for reproduction because of your height or facial structure?

Moreover, genes are not binary in the sense that there are "good" or "bad" traits. It depends on the time and place like sickle cell anemia, which gives you immunity to malaria, but has the obvious downside of making you anemic.

And there are those naturally immune to diseases like smallpox or even AIDS [0], even diseases we have no knowledge of right now.

I once had a fellow coworker who hinted at the fact that he was pro-eugenics (semi-jokingly) as he was a varsity athlete from a good college in good health. I had to remind him that just a bit over 100 years ago the US signed the Chinese Exclusion Act and that Hitler would not have considered him to be anything close to a true Aryan.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_resistance_to_HIV
I'm under the hypothesis that (good) game developers know how to talk to people (or at least how to present things to people) because part of game design is thinking about how to manipulate people's emotions into wanting to (or even being eager to!) face a challenge you've set out for them.

It's similar but not identical to the reasoning for actors and directors to be good entertainers and interviewers. Those folks constantly think about manipulating people's emotions in general, but game design is completely focussed on just manipulating people into excitement or flow states — and that just so happens to be the emotion you (usually) want people to have in reaction to a presentation: the feeling of "I'm going to go out— and buy their thing —and change the world."
It is a mobile first app :) I don’t think they want anyone going to their website!
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Considering a sw product that goes around 10K-100K.
Any recommended papers, posts or books to establish a proffesional sales pipeline.
I largely agree. It's worth noting that there are lots of dialects (not sure if this is the proper term) in the U.S. besides AAVE that are perceived as uneducated, including my own native low-class rural dialect. At least in the case of my dialect, I would guess that whether or not you can speak SAE is a pretty good indicator of educational background, for better or worse. I wonder if this has been studied?
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Playstation 4 + Chromecast

The PS4 has Amazon Video, Netflix, and its own movie store.

Chromecast for everything else.

But did you notice yet that iTunes, Google Play, Amazon and the Playstation Store all stream from the exact same catalogue at the exact same prices. I mean sure, they are all attempting their exclusive content, but when you are looking for a blockbuster movie or old show its all the same selection and prices.
freeze your credit report with Equifax, and then if any company requests it, they'll be denied (because you have to request it be unfrozen for them to receive it).

If any company uses Equifax, you'll then be denied credit or they'll ask you to unfreeze it.. either way, you can complain to them, and make it clear you won't work with Equifax.

Of course, in practice, this will mean you'll get denied credit from any company that has a contract with Equifax.
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not sure that's the primary purpose. It can also be a very strong way to reinforce / test the boundaries of a group. Do you talk like us or not? Are you one of us? There are a multitude of ways to convey understanding; the how is sometimes more important than the content.
FWIW, I grew up in an Irish/Italian working-class fishing town in New England. I definitely speak differently at home vs. at work the biotech industry, and I don't mean profanity-wise, I mean accent-wise and grammatically as well. I would certainly sound "lower class" to certain people if I spoke this way at work or at a job interview. I suspect many of my colleagues who come from a similar class background would do the same.
Good point. For those that are curious:

Clone (--no-checkout):

$ git clone --no-checkout https://github.com/Katee/git-bomb.git
Cloning into 'git-bomb'...
remote: Counting objects: 18, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
remote: Total 18 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 12
Unpacking objects: 100% (18/18), done.

From there, you can do some operations like `git log` and `git cat-file -p HEAD` (I use the "dump" alias[1]; `git config --global alias.dump catfile -p`), but not others `git checkout` or `git status`.

[1] Thanks to Jim Weirich and Git-Immersion, http://gitimmersion.com/lab_23.html. I never knew the guy, but, ~~8yrs~~ (corrected below) 3.5yrs after his passing, I still go back to his presentations on Git and Ruby often.

Edit: And, to see the whole tree:

NEXT_REF=HEAD
while [ -n "$NEXT_REF" ]; do
echo "$NEXT_REF"
git dump "${NEXT_REF}"
echo
NEXT_REF=$(git dump "${NEXT_REF}"^{tree} 2>/dev/null | awk '{ if($4 == "d0" || $4 == "f0"){ print $3 } }')
done
The article isn't discussing accents, but rather differences in vocabulary and grammar between two dialects. There is a difference "He isn't going to do anything about it" with an accent and saying "He ain't gon' do nothin' bout it."
really good visualization of this from the forest service airfire tool
https://tools.airfire.org/websky/v1/run/standard/CANSAC-2km/...

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https://twitter.com/stamen/status/918210924615426049
>According to the legend, Islam was rejected first, solely on account of banning alcohol.

That may be one version. In another the people tasked with finding a new faith came back to Vladimir and talked about how boring the muslim rituals were, "they first look this way, then that way", whereas when they came to Hagia Sophia they "thought they were in heaven".

There were also geopolitical considerations, Byzantium was still very strong and Vladimir wanted to marry the emperor's sister Anna (Porphyrogenita).
Off-topic: Why is Crimea classified as being on the north-eastern coast of Black Sea? It is on the Northern coast.
--help, --version. Short options are not recognized.
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Until DNS propagates and asyncsharing.com is live.
One does wonder what Saudi Arabia would have to do before it lost the support of the US.
Overturning a silly restrictive proposition isn't anywhere close to "not gonna bother to teach people english".

I know it's fun to stand on slippery slopes, but don't.
Yes, fair enough. I guess that it's just old news to me. Being old, and having read it 18 years ago ;)
Maybe I'm communicating poorly here but the tech is not the problem. We don't need to invent anything new, we know how to do it. It does need to get cheaper but the construction and maintenance costs are gigantic and that hasn't changed for any big project over the last century.

Jetliners are complex machines but it's the entire infrastructure of airports and traffic control that actually make it possible, which is only viable because people choose to pay for it. Massive infrastructure does not build or take care of itself, and if it did, that would be a far bigger revolution than just building a train.
"her" is both the possessive and the accusative, so it's consistent with either myself or himself. Itself too, since you can consider it a contraction of either "it-self" or "its-self".
Perhaps the Kansan accent you’re referring to is exempt from this, but I can tell you from personal experience that a strong Southern accent will cause your intellect and ability to do anything quickly to be seriously doubted, regardless of your actual ability. While some people have been able to capitalize on their accent, that is not true for many people. I chose pretty early on to moderate my accent as much as possible, as have a lot of other people. Kathy Bates recently referenced this on Stephen Colbert.
I've experimented a bit with Cockroach while building a bookmarking/archiving webservice, however it's one of those projects that are atm rather inactive (read: dropped).

Cockroach was rather pleasant to work with, even in single-node setups, sans not being compatible with ORMs.
We're just getting into an era where everything is hackable. We haven't even begun to understand the ramifications...! Privacy has been dead for a long time (did it ever exist?), but we're only just now being confronted with what this means. We have a choice to make: make the world work for everyone, or perish!
Here's a page with lots of good starter issues to work on, and many other issues for more experienced community members.

https://www.rustaceans.org/findwork

Note that this page appears to be displaying open issues, but doesn't specify if someone is actively working on an issue, so it might take a few tries to find one that's up for grabs.
Doesn't this require you to trust Equifax to enforce and honor the freeze? I think the solution is "I don't want my report or any of my data in any sort of control or possession of Equifax". Where is that solution?
Data/ML people love python, they build a great ecosystem around it for 20 years. So yes, Python is pretty special.
Licensing empowers the engineer to refuse to do something that violates sound engineering practice according to the license and have legal recourse against retaliation.

It isn't perfect, and the imbalance of power will certainly still be an issue. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
All of these are weird, but could be politically motivated.
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If you found that interesting, you’d probably also like “Black Rednecks and White Liberals” by Thomas Sowell.

A major theme is how major elements of ‘ghetto’ culture actually derive from the North-Britons and Scot’s these people lived near.
Social trends in America are never framed in terms of class. Instead, we have to reach for other dimensions, in this case race.

We could say it’s plain racism that keeps AAVE down. But it’s such an easy theory to falsify: it predicts that white non-standard English would be accepted at job interviews and in press rooms.

It isn’t. So it looks like race is one explainer, but not the whole story. It could be a combination of things, except Ockham sneers at those, especially when the elephant in the room—class—gets us so much further than race.
is there that much of a difference? how much? poster used the word "accent" but to my mind that includes regional variations in the language, not just the sonics.
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Toutiao is solving the Internet's current most pressing consumer-facing problem - the discovery of relevant content.

It's a problem orthogonal to what Google solved earlier in the millenium, which is roughly "How do I find an answer on the Internet to a question I already have in mind?"

As the Internet has developed, the cost of content creation and data have decreased dramatically. And so the sheer quantity of content has exploded. Every consumer tech company has partially recognized this problem - Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Instagram, Snapchat, and Medium all want to recommend you relevant content, all have adopted feeds of articles and posts and pictures, and all desperately want your continued attention.

At this point, there's likely good content on the Internet for every single person's taste (like Anu said, there's a very long tail of content creators). The service that provides the most relevant selection of it will win consumer interest and usage at the largest scale.

And it certainly seems that Toutiao has leapfrogged everyone else in this regard. I'm very excited (but also a little wary) to see what they come up with in the future.
> however we here in Britain also have a certain reputation of shitting on people's success

That's okay, I appreciate you loaning us John Oliver. ;)
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The finance industry as a whole spends a few billion dollars on lobbying. They spend the most on lobbying compared to every other sector. imo this is one of the things the tech industry hasn't fully optimized yet
It's not at all strange, for the researchers. If there's too little data, there's nothing to be done. But maybe it's strange that there are so few profiles by non-white homosexuals. It's a cultural thing, I suspect.
Unfortunately you have no way to protect your tax returns from Equifax, which now has a contract with the IRS thanks to the infinite wisdom of our government.

http://fortune.com/2017/10/04/equifax-irs-contract-hackers/
Well they haven't been wrong yet, just doubled in the last month.

Regardless these are all small bubbles that will only have localized effects when they collapse. Much more important bubbles to worry about like the derivatives market.
The former offers far more visibility than the latter for say in the future.

So yes, IMO it is.

Otherwise private concentration of power will do as it always does: leverage it's monopoly to control the system as a whole.

The discussion & development are in the open. The large mining pools can sit at the table and discuss the changes as a part of the community. Or fork off.
I see. Thank you. Considering the Census: Voter distribution and Voter Mobility are probably socio-economically determinable factors (numerically speaking) since the state legislature or whatever body is responsible for redrawing the lines gets access to the census data [per obligation of their task] that is, "age and race" ... I'd like to point out to friends from around the world that the United States census questionnaire is rather unsightly when it comes to the section entitled "race" [0].

[0] https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/2010questionnaire.pdf Page 2 question #6.
I think it's arguable. Laser Time did a video with them playing both side by side. It's a fun watch: https://youtu.be/_GpBHA5_bd0
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Because of our corrupt banking system and the politicians in bed with them.
Basically I look at it this way: in reality, the coordination of 'correct' language is a practical consideration, and it is an error to consider it a matter of prestige, as if it's decidedly unintelligent to deviate from the established norms.
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heh.

Reminds me of when an actual AI expert pointed out that by making dire predictions about smart AI, that we are nowhere near having, keeps eyes off the autopilot system and the issues with that.
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Carmack is more of a game engine engineer than a game designer, as evidenced by the lacklustre design of id games after Romero left.
redux-sagas are awesome. If you have a complicated web app (and most apps aren't) then it's a godsend. It really simplifies a lot of the business logic. You do have to be careful about performance though.
I'm curious about how you've come to realize you've changed as profoundly as you did, was it an instantaneous observation or something that revealed itself over time?
My thoughts exactly. It's really hard to get any kind of interesting textures with vector graphics.
I probably could have put that better, so here goes: shitty code can be a challenge to refactor regardless of language
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>Unless you're proposing we build and seal the Hyperloop tubes in space before bringing them down, the analogy isn't appropriate.

I am not sure what your objection is here. Are you saying vacuum chambers can't be built on Earth? There are quite a few examples of large vacuum chambers, like the NASA Space Power Facility (23,400 m^3) or the Large Hadron Collider (9,000 m^3) https://scap.hq.nasa.gov/docs/Glenn_SpacePower.pdf https://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreac...

Both are pumped down to very high vacuum, not required for the Musk Hyperloop, (low pressure electric jet in a tube) but probably needed for the Hyperloop One. (maglev vactrain) And, obviously, both chambers were built terrestrially, and evacuated using conventional vacuum pumps.
Well, these guys are simply too big to fail. Equifax cannot go bust, otherwise loads of consumer credit (mortgages, car loans etc) would freeze up, causing huge harm to the economy.

The market likely knows this, hence the stable stock price.
Note that downthread, they've already moved the goalpost from "these pumps are technologically impossible" to "but they'll need a lot of them!"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15459820
This is thought to be because of GNU Coding Standards: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Reading-No...

They wanted GNU implementers to be careful not to copy (even through their recall) AT&T UNIX implementation, but to do compatible solutions in different way. This allowed them to keep safe footing legally through the time when the original UNIX source code's copyright status wasn't clear. The point of the GNU project is to create independent UNIX compatible operating system.

The BSD implementations are often referred in this discussion, but regarding them, you've got to keep in mind that it is continuation of the original UNIX source tree, after it's copyright status was clarified (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc....).
Gluon is an attempt by Microsoft and Amazon to regain some influence in AI tools. Keras looked like it was going to become the standard high-level API, but now Theano is dead, and CNTK and MxNet are controlled by Google's rivals, and they're ganging up against Google's tools. Francois Chollet is committed to keeping Keras neutral, but he's still a Google engineer, and that probably makes Microsoft and Amazon nervous. This is the equivalent of Microsoft creating C# in response to Java. The company that controls the API, has enormous influence on the ecosystem built atop the API, just like Google has had with Android, or MSFT with Windows. MSFT and AMZN are carving out their own user base, or trying to, at the price of fragmenting the Python community.
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> We didn't pump air into the lunar module from the Moon. We carried it from Earth pre-pressurized. Unless you're proposing we build and seal the Hyperloop tubes in space before bringing them down, the analogy isn't appropriate.

It absolutely is appropriate, since the module was emptied and filled each time the astronauts left.

> Modern nuclear attack submarines collapse around 730m. Since for "every 33 feet (10.06 meters) you go down, the pressure increases by 14.5 psi," we're talking about water pressure of about 1,000 psi or about 72 atm.

Yeah- so building a hyperloop is structurally as complicated as building a tube that sits 33 feet under water. Hardly sounds complicated when put like that.
Let's be honest. People criticize because it's easy, makes them feel good, and because they have no skin in the game.

You might like the idea that it's some sort of reasoned rejection of Elon PR, but it's not. Just make a Show HN sometime.
Someone must not be having a good day over at Equifax. Where is the breaking point for a company like this?
Sadly this in endemic to almost all large cities. If you think its bad in CO you should try CA. They take to a whole other level here...
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There's a lot of open source out there but I feel that data structures and schema's aren't being shared. At least I do not see it being shared and highlighted or collected.

I would love to see a rep of good starting point model schemas for sql and nosql.

Ie, user, auth, messages, transactions, profiles, account, access control, etc ... List can literally go on forever.
I recall that immigrant populations that don't integrate into the main population for long periods of time have a tendency to learn simplified versions of the original language. If I recall correctly, Old English lost a lot of its ornament when the Norse settled in Britain.

EDIT: I'm puzzled by the downvotes. Am I mistaken? If so, I'm happy to be corrected.
> No one criticizes him for speaking with his dialect of English. He doesn't have to code switch. He speaks the way he speaks, he's understood and respected.

This is an anecdote, not a rule. It's good that no one is judging this guy based on his accent, but that doesn't mean no one ever has or no one ever will. I guarantee some people will hear his accent and subconsciously (usually) form an opinion based on it.
Good point. I believe Toutiao tries to show different content ocassionally to solve the exact problem you are describing. There may be new areas or other hot trending topics especially locally that you may need to be aware of and they use these attributes to push content. But this is something they continue to work on as well.
I'm not sure I'm really disagreeing with the article so much as making an observation that falls in line with the conclusion.
But if you're pushing for "take shorter showers" legislation imposed on all, I expect you to take shorter showers now.
Which is, actually, far too large due to the standard library, program state initialization, and stack frame management. If there's ever a practical use for code golf, this is probably it. /bin/true should be a bare minimum ELF executable with no stack or heap that does nothing except immediately make the system call to terminate.
Quake 3 Arena is still one of the best multiplayer shooters ever, so I can't agree with your statement.
>I would have thought that with the scale of the last breach a full and thorough audit of all existing systems would have been a major priority!

Why would you think that? Equifax hasn't suffered for its poor security - you have. Indeed, Equifax was rewarded with a massive IRS contract for its malfeasance. Its very much like what we see in the banking sector, where even when the banks get caught stealing, at worse they are fined only a fraction of what they stole, leaving them with a hefty profit. That's what crony-capitalism looks like. Why would Equifax or any other corporation change their very profitable business practices if they don't suffer any downside for their wrongdoing?