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Wow, great concept! Here's some feedback :)

For the landing page − I like how uncluttered the design is, and how it serves one specific purpose. I very intuitively went to the big input box and started typing things I wanted to learn about, expecting to be presented a list of resources.
On the down side, perhaps the hamburger menu is not intuitive enough, and makes some essential information from the « About » page too hard to access? More on this below...

Regarding the Presentation of results / the map − I felt a mixture of enthusiasm and overwhelm when I was presented the map. I was sure what the connections between the map items meant and similarly confused about the « + / - » next to each of the resources and some of the icons (didn't find the legend immediately).
Also, here's a bug: right after clicking one of the suggestions when typing « elm » on the landing page, the list of suggestions was still appearing over the map when it loaded. Here's a picture demonstrating it: https://i.imgur.com/KJkssYx.png

When I found my way to the well hidden « about » page, I could gradually learn more about how the map was constructed and how to interact with it. To avoid the initial confusion, it would have been helpful to be introduced to the map with a 3-4 steps tutorial made of a few sequential tooltips explaining me how it is laid out and how I can interact with it. Each tooltip could have a « Got it! » button to go to the next tip / explaination, and probably a « skip tutorial » link for the returning visitors who cleared their cookies.

Overall I think this is a very usefull website, with a user-friendly workflow to search and add resources, that could be better introduced to with the aforementioned interactive tutorial.
If you want more feedback, feel free to submit your site to Usability Testing Exchange, https://usability.testing.exchange — that's a free people-help-each-other-with-feedback place I'm helping to get started.
It's less straightforward than you're letting on.

China is slowly, slowly liberalizing. The trendline is towards more civic freedom, less inhumane practices. If they started to do something destabilizing or genocidal, that is the time to pull out.
Yes, and creating a new product with a familiar name has some benefits. To the consumer it gives them familiarity without expectation, they know from the name what it does and what to expect in limitations (e.g. Go = minimalist). On the developer it gives them the freedom to ignore or abandon unpopular, limited use, or difficult to implement features in the name of stream lining a product.
So Android GO is Android lite - a non bloat, cut down version of android that will run upon phones with specifications artificially obsoleted by previous versions of android and yet will we now see it released for these `old` phones to make them usable again? Probably not.

For me the first NExus 7 tablet was a prime example of what happens, released - ran fine, Android update and became darn near unusable, and then dropped.

Android today needs 2 gig of ram to work, less and the cracks show. Tomorrow it will be more.

This is always a repeated cycle in operating systems, they bloat up, then eventually have a cycle of removing the fat. Windows been thru this cycle many times.

But calling it Android Go Edition, may sound cool as a marketing buzz, but utterly distracts from what it is as well as confusing given GoLang. More so as todays entry level phones where only a couple of years ago, premium specifications. Things move on and progress, but the amount of artificial obsoletion of mobile phones today by Android at a consumer level is frankly scary and avoidable. Two years from new to being forgotten is a recent change in mobile phones and without custommade roms, unavoidable as you effectively get forced to buy a new phone, just to stay secure.

Why can't they have LTE editions for phones.
there is always such competition -

E5-2600v4 vs LGA3647 based processors

betting on AMD is nothing different from waiting for an open sourced version of Windows from Microsoft.
I would even include the better interface, as it had a better look than the regular SMS screen. Character limit wasn't the deal because their whatsapp message are still short. And even the cost of messages was negligible, because the main point of the cell phone plans were unlimited messages.

And photos and videos were available as email, skype, messeger...

I would bet that here (in my country), SMS wasn't sexy because of the interface, email wasn't that real-time conversation (and you needed to know the e-mail address).

Needing just the phone number (that was a common thing to share), not using e-mails (that was seen as too tech, too formal) and having a better look than the SMS interface was the point. All other features were just a bonus.
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I am a software engineer with 8+ years of experience and I was wondering what are the chances of getting a job offer with company sponsorship to apply for visa. I feel like the chances have decreased, opinions?
Edit: small typo.
I believe he was referring to the general living-in-the-present attitude rather than the supported-by-your-child part.
I love the way this guy writes!
Points systems mean there's a speed quota, an amount of speeding you can do that's monetary-penalties-only. There's a reason the vehicle you see going 95 is a Maserati and not a Golf.
My wife gave a drum to her nephew because she was angry at her brother. Petty but effective revenge :)
Studies with less than 200 participants should just be banned by default by major journals.

Or at the very least people should have to supply their predicted outcomes at the outset to stop the constant p hacking that's been going on.
I can't say about the other stuff but tez is surprisingly awesome. Tez + UPI + Adhaar just blows away everything I've seen. This has potential to cut out the cc middlemen completely.
It would be awesome if apple comes out with an AMD mac mini.
Actually having cats is about the best parenting practice you can get. They come to you when they want love, lay in the middle of your paper, harass you when they want feeding, fuck off when they've had enough of you and if you over stimulate them, they scratch and bite you... which they may also use as a form of affection.

Kids are remarkably similar. Give them the love and attention they need. But otherwise, stand back and let them get on with it. It's the time when you stand back and let them get on with it that their imagination is exercised. Showing them how to imagine things doesn't help them as much as you might think. Stop them from killing or horribly injuring themselves.
I doubt the target demographic of Android Go is going to know (or even have ever heard of) android-go or Go Mobile.
Don't worry about the insects, see the last quote: As the scent of 82 proof alcohol that preserves the bugs wafted, just a little, through the room, a reporter asked if, at this rate, all the insects were going to disappear. “Oh, don’t worry,” said Mr. Sorg, the wasp expert. “All the vertebrates will die before that.”

However, agreeing that we are indeed hastening the next mass extinction, might be a good start to avoiding/postponing it.
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You're just describing political positions you disagree with. Nothing you said is disproportionately midwestern. I'd need to see polls to believe that they hold these positions. Midwest has been pretty purple in many of the past elections.

How has the midwest show themselves to be anti net neutrality? How have they shown themselves to be anti marijuana? Illinois and Michigan are in talks of legalizing it, and already have very light penalties on having it in small amounts. Subsidizing stadiums for sport? St Louis just lost the Rams to LA for refusing to build a stadium.

I think you need to stop painting anyone that has voted Republican in the past decade as a political enemy. Most of those issues you stated don't even seem that partisan.
I really don't think that the choice of a very common two letter sequence as the name for go the language was made with even the faintest expectation of exclusivity. It would be wrong to grant the language something it never asked for.
> I have tried reading this twice but can't find how are they leveraging the internal spot markets? Are they re-selling unused capacity to a third party?

They have reserved a lot of instances in EC2.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/

You can get a steep discount for reserving instances. A reserved instance is typically reserved for a number of years.

When these aren't in use, then they can put them into their video encoding pool and they are essentially free.

I guess they reserve lots of instances to make sure they have the capacity at peak times and to access some serious discounts.
>Even so, the apparent belief in balancing hard work with il dolce far niente, the sweetness of doing nothing, always struck me. After all, doing nothing appears to be the opposite of being productive. And productivity, whether creative, intellectual or industrial, is the ultimate use of our time.

No it is not. Good use of my time is whatever I decide is good use of my time. And speaking about this in plural(our time) and absolutes(ultimate) is even worse.
The 20-30 Mbps speeds are restricted to some areas. Urban areas such as Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad enjoy great speeds in broadband as well but for the majority of indians, reasonably fast and cheap internet connectivity means Jio. Also, the 20-30 Mbps speeds are not the norm outside certain areas but they have been able to cover a reasonably large part of the entire country.
That was actually in the early aughts following renaming everything "{product} 2000" and just before the "{product} XP" craze.
The big difference may be with access: Norilsk, as the article implies, has neither road no rail connections to the rest of the world. A plane (expensive, few, affected by weather) is pretty much the only practical way in and out.

Living in Norway and being able to go for a weekend to a larger civilization a few times per winter I suspect makes a world of difference.
I heard the Search Quality Go team is ok with it.
Personally, I look forward to the stackoverflow questions tagging Android Go specific problems and being redirected to Golang issues.
>For me the first NExus 7 tablet was a prime example of what happens, released - ran fine, Android update and became darn near unusable, and then dropped.

The Nexus 7 2012 had degrading NAND performance because Asus skimped on the chip quality. No Android update could've prevented this.
More generally it's just an optimisation (the mathematical kind) where your parameters are essentially a function body. In that article the function body is a neural network, but there's no reason it has to be.
So I live in Ohio and wanted to comment on this. You're right that the population hasn't really been growing. What I'm interested in is why it's necessary? Overall unemployment is low, the state is slightly growing each year, and new businesses are continuing to spring up, although not on the scale of Facebook.

Why do we need to be California? Growth comes with it's own problems. I feel like in this country there is this need to grow grow grow at all costs, but we also mismanage that growth (look at the California housing issues). Why do we need more people? I'd say we want fewer people and those people concentrated in cities. Let the rest of the state be used for growing crops or for nature reclamation.

So what exactly is this "stagnation hell"? I live in Ohio. I mean, I miss the mountains/ocean but besides that things seem alright to me compared to everywhere else I've lived.

Anyway, just my 2c.
There are going to be small shops for which the familiarity of Xeon will be enough to keep them in the same pattern. If 10% of your costs are just a few weeks or months of engineer time, and you only have an engineer or two to spare, it's a big risk and expense to figure out the different costs and to do that evaluation run. There are a lot of shops like that.

There are not as many huge enterprises, but they are a huge amount of the market in terms of volume, and at those scales a 1% savings is worth years of engineering expenses, and you can bet that they will be doing the studies and choosing the most cost-effective option regardless of previous decisions.
As far as I've checked the main difference is in the prepackaged more lightweight apps. The only other difference is that data saver is on by default (available for awhile) and that the notification monitor service is disabled to prevent apps from starting in the background.
In your opinion, what is the biggest failing of software engineering now that you hope to correct with a "true" engineering society?
Knowledge of the law would certainly help. Maybe a Bachelor's of Criminal Justice. Perhaps we can loosen that to related fields, and also allow Social Work or Civics or Pre-law. Maybe even just a general aptitude qualification, like flight attendants, and require an Associate's degree in literally anything.

Education does make you a better person. Better people make better police officers.
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Sorry for the late reply.. Here's the link - https://soundcloud.com/elixirfountain/episode-058-actors-and...

It was actually Carl Hewitt & not Joe Armstrong. Though the Joe Armstrong episode after this one is also interesting.
I think this would go over better as a LinkedIn post.
> The rich don’t make other people’s preferred choices illegal though because they can afford to live somewhere they don’t have to deal with them.

While they can afford to do that, they can also often afford to buy the laws in the place they prefer to live for reasons other than the pre-existing laws, and they often do so instead of relocating.
Maybe you should hire some QA people, that helped us greatly :-)
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It's probably going to be a feature present on the latest low end SoCs from Qualcomm not present on SoCs prior to 2016.
Because it's valid snark and at this point an on-going joke. Fragmentation seems to be very much part of the Google culture.
The challenge for offerings like MixPanel is that the market on other scalable as-a-Service offerings (streaming data, big query, et al) has gotten to the point where it’s far more trival for companies to just roll their own. Trying to build all this 3-4 years ago would have been much much harder. MixPanel’s pricing doesn’t reflect this change in their value-add proposition for larger companies.

Just as a company gets big enough to offer a large revenue stream to Mixpanel is the same time when it probably makes sense to ditch Mixpanel and and just run all this in house for collecting, storing and processing massive data streams. I see a lot of this sort of decision making taking place now.
So,if I pay for a more expensive phone, I get bloatware?
Or their trend of naming new devices "Surface".
Hi guys, I'm a software engineer / real estate agent by trade. I'm here to answer any questions about this app.

If I take a bit to respond, I'm working, I'll check every now and then. Thanks!
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Chicago would probably be the undeniable capital I would presume. Depending on where you center the geography, it's nice being a few hours away from Toronto as well.

Agrarian economy propped up by subsidies? Meanwhile I hear a bunch of New Yorkers and Californians complaining about limits on mortgage deduction on their taxes which subsidize their housing costs.

Look let's not attack each other. It doesn't get anywhere.
Apple's tax evasion to the tune of billions has been going on for years, it's a shame that their "Double Irish" evasion scheme revealed in the Paradise Papers has flown relatively under the radar
>I've never understood required hours.

They want you there to answer questions.

Workplaces value availability because it's too difficult to design coherent systems and to document them. Instead of that boring old stuff, in the modern workplace, we go fast and break things (or never get them fully working in the first place).

Then we expect workers to be always around so they can be reached on slack when there is a problem.
Similar to https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/
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What sort of virtualization performance and features does Epyc have? I haven't seen much good information.

EDIT: Actually, yes I have. I know that Epyc allows encryption of every VM with a key the host can't access, which is wicked. But I haven't seen benchmarks or in-depth analysis.
> Excellent article from the same coastal thought-bubble that predicted Clinton's 99% chance of victory.

Not wrong though, eh?
Ask HN: My state reps already support Net Neutrality.  What else can I do?
Many sites [1] are displaying a prominent campaign to save Net Neutrality. Most of that call to action can be summarised as "contact your representatives." This is all great, but my Congressional reps are already strong supports of Net Neutrality. I don't believe I need to call them.

What else can I do?

[1] https://github.com/save-net-neutrality
That is not a 3d model, much less a pretty good one.
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> I do all in my power to be the antithesis of an angry woman just here to start fights.

Doesn't look like that at all. I weren't the one with weapons at hand in this thread.

> Since you are black, it really isn't in your best interest to suggest that people who are not white males need to pass additional tests to be here.

My only test is that someone here has to fit and add to this tech community to not feel hostilized otherwise it'd be in their best interest to find over time their position here in place of screaming out loud that they should be more accepted (of course, respecting the guidelines objectively, not subjectively). Show, don't tell. The same way you got your position in the leaderboard. I've remember reading a lot of comments from you (Mz?) that I sure upvoted because it contributed to the discussion.
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Could make more sense when connecting already public spaces. Let's say vertically built shopping malls directly connected to some big metro/train station. From there you could reach your premium office spaces farther away from the station. There must be some sort of gateway/junction point which would be public but other than that office space could remain off limits. I doubt you'd have random people walking through your cubicle.
I don't think you can make a blanket statement that people who don't live in major cities are insular and incurious. This is just plain and simple snobbery and as far as I can tell there's nothing to back it up.

Secondly, I wouldn't even say British holiday making habits are especially different to those of other major European nations. If you want to paint a picture of the UK being uniquely backwards and insular then fine, but it doesn't seem to be based on anything outside snobbery and prejudice.

It is easy to claim that people you disagree with have all kinds of moral faults, but in doing so you become what you affect to criticise.
Developers want the $$$ too... so they too follow whatever generates revenue. It's more like the psychology of incentives got screwed: we've taught people to prefer subscriptions instead of one-time-payments, and you're psychologically biased to pay a more expensive subscription for something you spend a lot of time using. You're not going to pay $50/month for a tool you use 3 times a week for 10 minutes no matter how useful it is.

Othoh, if the price was "license + 1 year free upgrades" you'd be quite likely to cough up a $600 license, because you'll think more in terms of outcome value and not time spent. But though luck, the company selling the subscription thingie would be valued more. So you're not going to do that.

Once you do this, you'll not want to waste too much of your user's time, as they'll choose a more efficient competitor... but you're not going to want to take too little of the user's time or attention either! Now he's subconsciously biased into thinking in terms of price/time-unit and you need to play this game.
I'm not sure how that worked out well for you, unless you also negotiated a 20% reduced workload.

Currently, I have way more work than I can possibly do in 40 hours, meaning I'm already dropping things on the floor if I only work 40. Working even fewer hours would exacerbate this problem.
What percentage do Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, OVH, Tencent Cloud, AliCloud combined for Intel's DC Market? My guess is that they are over 50%.

And most of these Skylake order were placed well in advance, when they / the market didnt even have time to evaluate EPYC.

I do think they will move to EPYC in some form, just to keep Intel's price in check. After all EPYC offers much more value.
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It could, but in a way it's currently acting like import tariffs but for the Internet. It's making it easier to create and run a local clone of an international company than to import the international company's services to use locally.

So if or when censorship goes down, it will be Chinese companies that will be more powerful on the Internet, not western ones.
Hahaha when I was a kid, we went a few times on holiday to Richmond in Yorkshire. We'd spend hours by the river which was my Mum's favourite place. I'd consequently spend hours trying to dam the entire river with rocks. An. Entire. River. It never occurred to me that I couldn't do this... My Mum would just let me get on with it, she thought that was the best game ever. She'd spend the entire time pointing out rocks she thought would be suitable and me carting rocks back and forth. HOURS!

It's only now that I'm a parent that I realize what a genius parenting strategy this is. I wear myself out trying to complete a fruitless labour in the hope of achieving impossible success. No 8 year old on the face of the planet is ever going to damn a river of that size with a pile of rocks. FOR HOURS I WOULD DO THIS!

What all kids need are an endless pile of rocks and a river. Best. Toy. Ever.
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For data usage, Google India announced[0] an app called Datally[1] to help users track and understand their data usage per app. It also has a datasaver mode of some kind to help keep usage under control.

[0] https://india.googleblog.com/2017/11/meet-datally-new-way-to...

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
I' have to agree. UPI (Tez/BHIM etc.) is so awesome and a pleasure to use, I don't even like credit card payments anymore. Wonder why the USA doesn't have anything like that.
> Video encoding is 70% of Netflix’s computing needs, running on 300,000 CPUs in over 1000 different autoscaling groups.

...

> But if you look, encoding has a bursty workload pattern. That means the farm would be underutilized a lot of the time.

> ...they built their own internal spot market to process the chunked encoding jobs. The Engineering Tools team built an API exposing real time unused reservations at the minute level.

They're running multiple encoding tasks at once (an understatement) and when one of these is using less CPU, they shift another encoding task to that same machine.
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