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We get good visibility into what folks do in practice based on their use of Graphistry: we're a DB-agnostic scalable visual graph analytics environment, so we've been seeing (& assisting) what analysts do standalone / what developers build / what data scientists do from notebooks.

1. Most graphs are small (< 100M nodes & edges, probably even < 1M). So analysts just load a CSV directly into us or dump into pandas and work from there. Most Graphistry users do this. It became so common that we baked in a transform to our library that shortcuts the data wrangling problem of SQL/CSV records -> node table + edge table via our "hypergraph" transform.

2. Sometimes the data is too big or they want to use a query language they're more comfortable with vs. Pandas. We'll see a bunch of SQL (incl. Spark), Splunk, Elastic, etc. when approach #1 isn't enough. No need for Neo4j/Titan/GraphX for that problem. If they end up doing this a lot, Neo4j ends up being a sensible choice because of the ergonomics of the Cypher query language.

3. Sometimes, graph queries or analytics _are_ technically critical. We'll see mostly analytics via use of NetworkX or maybe iGraph, such as for slightly better community detection, or something smarter than degrees for node sizes. Sometimes we'll see query langs, probably Neo4j because (I'm guessing) the database is packaged accessibly. For ergonomic reasons, I've been expecting the efforts around OpenCypher for Spark will eventually supplant GraphX for the exploratory case, and we'll start seeing more Janus as it gains more steam.

4. Even more occasionally, people are building true graph algorithms that cannot be sufficiently approximated with their existing tools. E.g., we're seeing a bunch more in the knowledge graph space (ex: finance), and in security/fraud, we're seeing the bigger enterprises needing the same for correlation work. This gets into powering latency-sensitive ML / detection algorithms, fast analyst experiences, etc. However, stuff like regular SQL & Splunk & Spark still gets _most_ teams mostly there with great scaleout etc., so there's a bit of a problem/time/budget/expertise thing going on.

We've been happy to support all these kinds of projects at Graphistry -- and are often part of the entry into them -- so always happy to chat about it. Likewise, I'm not listing work by good teams like those at Datastax Graph, Blazegraph, and Amazon Neptune -- we see them, just they're used more in specific enterprise/federal scenarios.
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That's interesting, although as those sources indicate, the pay gap increases with age so that by the time women hit their mid thirties they're substantially behind men in compensation (for the same work.) It's an improvement to be sure, but I wouldn't go so far as to call the problem solved and say that women aren't still a disadvantaged class, when it comes to compensation.
Thank you for the advice - greatly appreciate it! Regarding your comment:

> if you have solid experience as a full stack web developer then I would suggest finding a way to pivot off that expertise (web application security, infrastructure, etc) rather than diving into the Shellcoders Handbook, x86, and K&R, which are going to be more tailored towards reverse engineering and vulnerability research.

I've been focusing on those areas because they are what legitimately fascinate me. I enjoy web dev, but I'm finding my passion (as indicated by what I like to research and learn about in my free time) is low-level stuff: operating systems, C programming and associated vulnerabilities, assembly language, etc.

The interaction between software and hardware has always fascinated me (1997 when we got our fist computer: How does this hunk of plastic and silicon do that??), and I feel like that's where I want to go long-term.
For those that are curious, he's going to be using Yondr pouches, which are thick cloth pouches with a lock on them that can only be removed by the venue employees.

I did a bit of Googling and apparently they cost about $10 each, so fairly cheap too.
I would imagine a company like Google would have the foresight to include clauses in their NDA that forbid former employees from including the kind of specific and substantive reasoning for their departure that the public might actually find interesting. Not to mention a severance package goes a long way as far as taming that salty post-employment flavor. Oh, and there's the small matter of fact that they tend to pay well. I can only assume these factor into a lot into the standard reason being, "it's kinda personal but I felt like I'd be happier doing something different." Wow, what a revelation...
When was the last time someone contacted you by phone or text for an actual emergency? The stuff that comes via our cell phones is mostly urgent, rather than important... a zillion versions of "Someone is wrong on the internet!" that "need" a response, texts of cat videos, etc.
You get to choose how and when to die instead of slowly becoming delerious and dying in tremendous pain from starvation/dehydration.
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It's not about leaving google. It's about algolia stupid.
Nah, you can just band together and install a leader who agrees with you, and attempt to change reality to conform to your view.
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You're trying too hard to find problems. I'm guessing White would be okay if you stayed home.
We also have no reason to believe that we'd be able to detect other civilizations, even if there were millions out there. They might well be using other means of communication. Even if they were using the very thing we were looking for, it's still likely we would miss them - even if they were right next door to us. From SETI's FAQ[1]:

> If an extraterrestrial civilization has a SETI project similar to our own, could they detect signals from Earth?

> In general, no. Most earthly transmissions are too weak to be found by equipment similar to ours at the distance of even the nearest star. But there are some important exceptions. High-powered radars and the Arecibo broadcast of 1974 (which lasted for only three minutes) could be detected at distances of tens to hundreds of light-years with a setup similar to our best SETI experiments.

It always seemed odd to me that people call this a paradox.

[1] https://www.seti.org/faq#obs1
>I'm not sure why anyone would need to feel guilty or worry about that fact though

They shouldn't feel guilty, but perhaps they should worry because of the known problems of groupthink.
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I was raised firmly Protestant. I've since decided that prayer is meditation:

- You typically enumerate ways where you've strayed from your ethical goals. "I harmed so-and-so. I regret having done that."

- You put yourself into the mindset of change. "I want to be a better person. Help me recognize when I'm about to do something I know I shouldn't so that I can steer away from it."

- You open yourself to insight. "OK, I've said what I wanted to say. Now I'm going to sit back and listen for an answer."

Although meditation is secular and prayer is explicitly religious, in my experience they seem to follow identical processes. The main difference is whether you intend to send your thoughts outward or to deal with them yourself, but either way you're introspecting your own behavior and desires to seek insights on how to deal with them.
You can't really go wrong with Python, Java (or any JVM language), R, Octave, or probably even C++. Prolog might have some appeal if you already know the language.

If you're really curious as to what languages are being used in this area - and how - one good source is here:

http://mloss.org/software/language/

Personally, I'm a fan of Java and DL4J, Jenetics, SAMOA, Mahout, COLT, OpenNLP, CoreNLP, UIMA, Jena, SparkML and the like. But I'm biased since my background in primarily Java. I've also been doing a lot of Python and R, and some Octave, lately and all of those are nice in their own ways as well.

The syntax of R is a bit, erm, "quirky" in some ways compared to a lot of other languages, but it may have the best support of any language in terms of libraries for cutting-edge statistical techniques (this is because statisticians heavily use R and the first versions of new techniques are usually written in R).
> They have probably worked those issues out by dogfooding this internally already, don't you think?

They absolutely could not work out the problem of being, e.g., abused by a driver, internally. By being employees of the company that provides the service, they have an automatic customer service hotline by way of HR.

If I catch a ride to work with my coworker Jeremy, by using a company-supplied app explicitly for us to test, and Jeremy gropes me, you bet your ass HR is going to hear about it as soon as I hang up with the police department.
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All users at each customer would go into the same bin, so inter-company collaboration would stay the same.
Why should Americans hold new immigrants to such a strict standard, when they themselves can probably trace their own lineage back to someone who stepped off a boat on Ellis Island with barely a grasp on English or a penny to their (soon to be Anglicized) name? Why are low-skilled immigrants a net drain on society, but not the low-skilled children or grandchildren of immigrants? There are many, many more of the latter than the former.

The problem of poverty is systemic - trying to link it to immigration confuses correlation with cause.
I left Twitter, too. I can be found on Mastodon now:

https://cmpwn.com/@sir

I'll update the article, thanks!
I was ROLFing reading this
FWIW, Webpack 4 will have "zero-config" defaults set up out of the box: https://github.com/webpack/webpack/releases/tag/v4.0.0-beta....
"Real computation," which allows you to solve NP and #P problems in polynomial time, require infinite precision. With just arbitrary precision it isn't any more powerful than classical computation.
> It common among men with low testosterone to have aching joints.

Great... We can have either pain or hair loss... And don't even think about the prostate...

Intelligent design... Meh...
You are pushing the argument a bit by assuming that people will treat it as something different than hitchhiking simply because it's via an app and in-city. There is no reason to asume that - but I do agree that false advertising from Google and failure to properly inform the users of the risks could expose Google to such a liability. The answer is not to add customer support, but to be honest with the users regarding the risks- and make large commissions in the process.
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>Last time I wrote about Continuous Integration: A Merge Story. The post describes how a 6 months project failed because it didn't implement the principles of Continuous Integration.

I stopped at the first paragraph. Plenty of software companies for decades wrote successful software without using continuous integration, which makes the opening statement questionable. Does CI help automate annoying and risky grunt work? Absolutely. Will your project automatically fail if you don't use it? Absolutely not.
Well definitely black mirror but you can now recreate a passed loved one virtually.
Couldn't agree more.

The challenge then becomes how do you build a prepared mind to be able to observe and think about the world in such a manner. My usual answer here is just to read widely, do deep dives into periods of history where these kinds of changes happen, and maintain a pulse on what changes
Small reminder: Both Intel and Microsoft haven't paid a single Euro of their previous record ~1B antitrust fines yet.

Not to mention Intel also hasnt yet paid AMD >$1B restitutions for directly bribing distributors and system integrators to drop its competitor from inventory.
That is definitely true, but misses my point. Most students have to deal with this "much bigger problem" but most students don't have a parent with the time, education and patience to teach their kid calculus. The GP just comes off as arrogant and out of touch when he laughs off the rigorousness of calculus while simultaneously humble bragging that his dad was his personal calculus tutor. He also didn't miss an opportunity to shit on normy parents who pollute their children's brains with such banal pastimes as sports, games and netflix. It's ridiculous.
They don't confiscate the phones. They put them in a locked bag and hand the bag back to you. There are places throughout the venue that you can get the back unlocked to use your phone.
>But globalization didn't just help Liu Chu -- it helped many people in the U.S. Maybe we should redirect some of that gain back to Bubba.

This is the key point.
> I mean who does he think he is?

A showcase user for https://www.overyondr.com , probably getting the service at a reduced rate, free or maybe even for some reverse payment in exchange for the publicly.

Cost for yondr should be pretty much proportional to audience size (physical pouches), and Jack White might offer a very good cost/visibility ratio for them. (I don't know anything about his typical audience size, but it might lean towards the smaller end of the spectrum relative to his indisputable fame)
His reasoning seems to have stood the test of time pretty well.
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Many of us old enough remember that cameras were often banned from venues, even non professional ones. It wasn't until camera enabled phones became popular that this rule was dropped.

I have no idea why someone would want to watch a performance from behind a screen.
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Well, no, clans are clans.

A clan is a group united by a real or perceived kinship. It is a form of extended family.

A tribe is a confederation of families that live closely with one another, have a common culture/dialect/ethnicity/etc, and a leader.

A state is a politically organized community that may or may not be sovereign.

A nation is an aggregate of people and/or communities united by common traits and living within a particular territory or country.
The scheduled tasks system is built on top of Cloudwatch Events, which is asynchronous system. You would need to setup a rule in Cloudwatch Events to watch for task events that indicate that a task stopped with a nonzero exit code, or that a task was unable to be placed.

It's definitely more complicated than just checking /var/mail but with the full set of features enabled you can get visibility:

- If the task fails to be placed, or stops with a non zero exit code CloudWatch event rule for the task event triggers allowing you to respond to that as you see fit: email someone? trigger a PagerDuty?
- If the task logging was enabled you can go to the CloudWatch log stream for the task and see the actual stdout from the container and see why it had crashed.
> Isn't that the entire reason people move there?

By people do you mean corporations?

Because "people" move there for the jobs. No one I know said, "Hey, I want to live in the Bay Area for homogenous techie-elitism."

I moved to the Bay Area from the midwest and was frankly shocked at the lack of Black people in the area. That said, my trips back to my roots have left me wondering where all the Asians are....

:/
> Those "some people" include IBM...

Never heard of them or used any of their software products. What other popular software have they brought to market?
Yes, collecting/aggregating for querying seems like the sticking point.
It's amazing how far reaching the effects of Apple's obsession with thin phones are.
Not using google is much simpler then it sounds.

- iPhone

- DDG

- Firefox/Safari

- Some other email then google

That's pretty much all you need.
>His modified teleprinter code turned letters and symbols on a keyboard into patterns of five hole-positions on punched paper tape that the computer could read directly.

In case anyone is confused as to what this means: I think it must have been written by someone who had no understanding of the content and as a result doesn't make sense.

Turing didn't modify the 5-channel teleprinter code at all : it had existed in some form since 1888[2] and 5-channel teleprinters were a "thing" in common usage at the time for telegraph messages, that were just re-purposed for use with computers. What he did was to define the machine's instruction set such that it could (with difficulty) be input directly on a teleprinter. It was of course _that_ encoding that he invented. The programmer would therefore type what looks like modem noise into a teleprinter, punching tape as they typed. The tape could then be loaded onto the Mk1 for execution.

Here's the manual they refer to in the article (with an amusing hand-edit by Turning removing the references to Ferranti and changing the machine's name from their MkI to his MkII):

[1] http://www.alanturing.net/programmers_handbook/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code
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The tablet to child thing is often done for benefit of those around - so that child is not noisy, does not atempt to run around etc. Of course you can also entertain the small child by playing with it and constantly telling it how to behave, but that tends to be even noisier that tablet. (Bigger child can have headphones and is able to sit calmly longer)
You may want to store them uncompressed and rely on ZFS block level deduplication. It's similar to borg but may be faster.

Also, you may want to play with borg options and use lz4
Egyptians would say Abacus is the first computer - which would be interesting because that's 2000 years old.
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Coinbase (aka GDAX) is extremely profitable, making couple million per day in fees.

Evey piece of this pie is sweet, so we will probably see more serious legit US-based players on this market of casual crypto trading for housewives.
You make a good point. However, you imply that the watchful eye of HR would prevent this happening and yet Google is not sex-crimes free. I grant that it may show up in lower numbers but these things will show up in a years-long program.
I've seen tool and apc in the past couple of years and even though it was officially no phones, there were still a lot of people with phones recording a good majority of the show. It is quite annoying standing behind someone shining a screen into your face. I can understand recording a short video, like capturing the curtain drop. I really just don't even get why you would want to pay to stand there holding your phone the entire time. The video won't be worth watching and no one wants to see your crappy video!

Maybe I'm just weird, but a lot of the time at concerts I just close my eyes because I find the visual stimulation of the entire thing to be too distracting from the music.

"Time to put the silicon obsession down"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u05S9cq2bLY
The number of private tech companies that reinvent the BUS and think they're geniuses is staggering.

But god forbid we just fund public transportation. We wouldn't want poor people using our service.
I have no idea how anyone manages to follow conversations beyond their first visit to a story on vanilla HN - I can only manage it with a Greasemonkey script [1] which shows which previously-viewed stories have new comments, highlighting new comments and collapsing trees without new comments when you revisit them.

[1] https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/18066-hn-comment-trees
Sure, but not after that. And presumably it would be non-trivial to move your data to another fork that you like better.
Yeah, when you leave Facebook, you're leaving a lot. You're not just stopping using a piece of software, it's more like you're giving up relationships, you're giving up a piece of your social life. For better or worse, you're probably going to miss something when you stop using Facebook, so there is a tradeoff that needs to be made. You're changing your social contract. It's a big deal.

Meanwhile when you stop using Google products... no one notices. No one cares. It's a completely personal decision. I stopped using Google products one by one when I found competitors I liked better and absolutely no one knows and no one asks because no one cares. I can still email Gmail users and they'll never know. I can send someone an address that I got from Apple Maps and they can open it in Google Maps just fine. If they send me a Google Maps link, I can open it in Google Maps because I don't need an account and a profile and a friends list first. I can use Bing or DDG and no one notices.

It's a really big deal to stop using Facebook. It's a really big deal to stop working at Google. In both cases you're losing some part of your social identity. Not the case when you're stopping using Google products.
Considering they don't plan to keep any human drivers past the point self driving cars come out, this feels disingenuous
I wonder what the thinking behind the name is. It seems like a bad idea to entrust your money to a startup that is named for someone who's famous for "stealing from the rich".
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This is really awesome! Even better, it introduced me to Clara.
Thank you! Subscribed. I guess my feed reader wasn't quite as good as I thought. Well, medium got me signed up in the meantime :)
No need to refuse, just keep appealing, like Intel and Microsoft, until you manage to buy the right people to cancel it altogether.
But I love Google - I trade them my privacy and they give me tools that let me be lazy.
Adding my anecdata: super smooth, perfect, fast scrolling on Edge/Win10.
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I think such situation exists in almost all high-salary sectors. Financial - why I left Golman/Merrill Lynch/Wall Street stories, etc. People will try to explain everything from moral side. It's permanent dilemma.
Android? Waymo? Tensorflow? I get what people are saying but it's not like Google's been coming out with nothing new and useful for over a decade.
I believe microwave ovens operate this way, too. 40% power means 100% power 40% of the time.
Ah yes, the chilling, cold reality of being unable to sell someone else's intellectual property for a profit. Curse you, copyright law!
Man, I can stand behind this. You have no idea how distracting it is to the musicians on stage when they look at the crowd and see a bunch of cell phones facing them.

I'd rather see everyone bored and talking. At least that's a genuine response.

I feel it's quite disrespectful to be looking at your cellphone and recording while a performer is on stage. The performer is there for you, and you presumably went there to see them. Sometimes we make eye contact, and sometimes we look out to measure how we are doing. No feedback results breaks the uh... feedback loop.

No big deal to do it for a few seconds, but a few seconds just doesn't happen. Besides, my purpose is to give you a few minutes to escape life, leave all your concerns, and be in a moment. Snap a pic, but turn off the flash and don't film. The recording quality sucks so it isn't like anyone is going to look at it understand half the experience anyways.
Only for reading (and even then, I've yet to find an RSS reader that looks as nice as medium). If you want to respond or comment then the RSS experience falls apart.
You're still exaggerating and conflating here. The majority of those deaths (168/250) came from a single incident--the OKC bombing--where neither perpetrator was a Nazi/racial extremist.

Hell, even trying to call the OKC bombing "right wing" might be a stretch. They were anti govt separatists!