skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also have never seen springboard like someone else has commented however here is my two cents: Reading a bunch of articles on the topic will not teach you how to actually become an expert in the topic, it will however give you a better understanding of what people in those fields of work are doing and how they are doing it.
I don't think you can learn digital marketing in like an hour or even 10 hours... there's so much going on there're so many tools out there and you have to pick the ones that work better for you.
The reason digital marketing meeting is hard is that there are way too many resources and everybody says the same thing but in a different way which gets really confusing for new people who are reading articles on SEO SEM, branding, social media management, advertising etc.
All these articles and tutorials are trying to push their own envelope because the marketing tutorials in the marketing articles are written by marketers who ere trying to sell you something

Reading books Doesn't make you an accomplished writer or even a writer for that matter
Couldn't you give him an address by allowing him to register at yours to obtain the ID?
Medium is a step up from what he was using before, Google+
There are many great examples of Google failing to internationalise, but Google Fi requiring a US billing address is not one of them.

Fi is a domestic cell phone service, it provides international roaming as a bonus to its US customers - at much increased cost (to them) compared to domestic service. I wouldn't be surprised if roaming permanently was a violation of their terms of service (it is for Three in the UK, who provide a similar perk)

You can of course criticise Google for not launching domestic service in countries across the world, but in fairness to them, that's not a small problem.
I don't think anyone considers Somalia a successful nation. It doesn't even cohere as a nation. Two northern regions -- Puntland and Somaliland -- have declared themselves to be separate, sovereign and autonomous states. A nation state's ability to cohere is the most basic criterion by which it should be judged. Those that fall apart, fail.

Also, from the law of the Somalis:

> If no satisfactory decision comes about, the parties will most likely take matters into their own hands in terms of redressing the wrong by force.

This sounds horrifying, and it indicates that Somalia is not a country that abides by the rule of law, whatever definition you want to give to it.

The article's author strikes me as terribly naive about the nature and function of law in human societies, particularly in the developed world.
> Honestly, I have no idea why people still use it when Google Maps has an infinitely better interface and no ads.

In some areas it has much better traffic routing. All it takes is getting alerted to one big jam ahead of time and you'll use it every commute.
They have probably worked those issues out by dogfooding this internally already, don't you think?

It's not like they just thought it up and didn't test it out internally as they are wont to do. Those issues were likely discovered and have mitigation. Googliness only gets people to be nice to a point.
Rant of the year. Epic.
Yeah, no. How can you claim we started off with nothing yet say over thousands of years we built things? Clearly we started off with something. You should be more precise in your language.

If you change "nothing", with "no possessions, talents, abilities, or skills", which is the same thing, then you'll see why what you're saying is illogical.
> And it's our moral imperative to tell them why the thing they're asking for doesn't make any sense.

It is, and I do.

But if they still want it anyway, unless it poses a security problem or other ethical issue or would reflect badly on us (as doing something silly very publicly could do), then it comes down to "we get paid for it or someone else does".
> But about 35 percent of people in the study used what the authors call a “segmented linear heuristic.” That means they correctly distinguish between numbers within the millions or billions, but assume that “million,” “billion,” and “trillion” are equally spaced on a number line.

That kind of logarithmic thinking is a reason why I believe people don't react more strongly when they hear that Jeff Bezos is worth 100 billion dollars.

The wealth of the super rich is so astronomical that people can't make sense of it. It doesn't help to say he's 100,000 times a millionaire, because even if we more or less know how wealthy a millionaire is, we can't imagine what multiplied by 100,000 means.
That's comforting for them, since they have not innovated anything externally observable since GMail.
Which is why they also have ushers whose job it is to move those conversations out of the concert hall. I'm not sure why you disagree with someone talking about Led Zeppelin based on your experience with Lisa Gerrard...
Snapchat cracks open its walled garden
Actually, Europe does. America is closer to Europe as an entity than it is to Denmark or Germany.
I'm gonna give a shoutout to POSSE[0]: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. Nothing wrong using Medium's infrastructure to serve one's articles, but the canonical version should always be under one's own control.

[0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE
> when you're a tiny indie band playing for fun rather than professionally

Playing for fun is playing professionally, as long as it has passion.

> there are only 20 people there and the only reward you get is the chance to play for them.

I'm not going preachy here, but playing in front of people something you wrote is an invaluable reward.
One of the most accepted definitions of State is "the entity that has the monopoly of power in a given region"

If a clan in Somalia, an indian chief, or a drug dealer in a ghetto has the actual power to punish, he's the State - not necessarily Government.

By that logic, as people organize themselves and get larger, there will always be someone with State prerogatives.
You might want to give http://www.thetripbuddyapp.com/ a try! They are in the Boston area
A couple of points:

1. Making programming accessible probably means making software more accessible.

I remember a study of what mental capacity was most correlated with being able to learn foreign language. It was empathy. So a large part is wanting to communicate. If you want to communicate, you will find a way, and I think we see the same thing in programming. So called "non-programmers" learn the most absurd programming languages and systems if they are motivated. Also see Minecraft. And amazing/horrifying Excel spreadsheets.

One of the issues I see with "novice environments" is that they tend to be very separate from everything else on the machine. I would find that very demotivating.

What I would love to see is "open source as if we meant it", meaning programs that do something we want to do, that we would use, written in such a way (probably also: in such a language) that tinkering/adapting is a reasonable proposition. Yes, that means I don't think that currently is the case: except for the core-dev team, is it a reasonable proposition for people who want to adapt GNUmeric to download the source code and start tinkering? For novices?

2. I am not convinced by the low-end vs. high-end distinction

I think a lot of the same things that make programming awful for beginners also make it awful for advanced programmers. We have just gotten used to the pain and accept it, though I am not sure why.

3. I am not convinced by starting over from scratch

There are reasons why we have what we have, and not all of them are bad.

4. I am not convinced by not starting over from scratch

Of the reasons why we have what we have, a lot of them are bad. A lot needs to be reexamined and rethought.

Resolving that contradiction (thesis, antithesis?) is difficult, it requires looking at what we have in a lot of detail, including the history of how we got here, where we need apply tweaks and where we can interact properly with the rich computing tapestry we have.

Just extending what we have is probably not a solution, because one of the problems is too much cruft, but just starting over from scratch is likely to lead to cool but ultimately superficial projects.
This is exactly how Uber turned into a taxi service. They tried ridesharing, it turns out that people in cars do sketchy things and piss each other off, or worse.

I would rather see local grassroots organizations take on this project.
Why do you see duplicate MAC addresses on your network?
You're making my point. They made a domestic cell phone service and, despite the service working worldwide, failed to bring it to other countries.
Why I left Google (HN search results)
> To echo Steve's point, I do kinda wonder if there are too many engineers at Google now. Or, more accurately, more than is required for what they do to do. The problem with that is they'll find work for themselves to do, good idea or not, part of a coherent strategy or not.

You might be interested in Andrew Norman Wilson's take on Google's Culture: Workers Leaving the Googleplex from 2011. It's been discussed here before[0][1].

I first saw this as a live performance, which was 30 minutes with a lot more social commentary. In that performance he compared the strange cultural division within Google to the Alpha/Beta/Gamma/Delta/Epsilon division of society in Brave New World[2]. Your comment reminded me of that, but I don't know if this recording includes it.

[0] http://www.andrewnormanwilson.com/WorkersGoogleplex.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2500082

[2] https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090605154008A...
I think GP was pointing towards another known adage - "Any fool can use a computer. Many do."
I've read that again and again, but my personal experience is just the opposite. I haven't felt "positive reinforcement" or "dopamine hits" for quite some time on Facebook. Since it shifted from social network to social media, it doesn't "give" me anything anymore. It is tedious, and I don't check it because I feel compelled, or even enjoy it, but I have to make a concious effort to login and check every now and then, like you check mail or your bank website.

Back when it was more about the profile, about "stalking" friends and connecting with real-life acquaintances, it was much more addictive. Features like "you know this person via these two steps", poking, but also subtle clues like the timing of when somebody visited your page, or that they commented on an old photo (meaning they browsed your gallery)... that is all missing now. Facebook was so addictive because it enabled you to obsess about social connections. Friends, crushes, people with common hobbies, and so on.
Hey, I work for Springboard -- and you're right about the seven resources. That was a bug, thanks for catching it! We've fixed it so that all resources should link to the right resource. Please comment here if you see any more bugs :)
I used to like the saying, "If it's stupid but it works, then it's not stupid".

Having seen some of the things my co-workers have implemented, however, I now disagree completely.
It isn't limited to right libertarians, really. Technically you can probably trace this to the general idea of Westphalian sovereignty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_sovereignty In general, people today have a hard time conceiving of sovereign polities of any kind that are not also nation-states, or depending on your definition of nation, simply "states", as entities that have defined geographical boundaries within which they have a monopoly on violence and legitimacy, and outside of which they have no power of violence and no legitimacy. This is of course an approximation for all the reasons that half-a-dozen people are rushing for the reply link even now, but my point is not that this model is rigidly followed, but that it is simply the default mental model pretty much everybody approaches the world with.

It can help to see how rigidly we all tend to stick with this model to consider something radically different. Imagine a civilization consisting of 100 space stations, ranging in size from a little 20-person thing barely larger than the ISS to a massive million-person station, all in different orbits around different things. What is a "border"? What is "sovereignty" when you are not in an environment where you can (with enough effort) survive without other humans, or without very many other humans, and everyone is inextricably bound in life-or-death relationships, so there simply is no such thing as "self-sufficiency"? (Which I'd submit is a concept very important to sovereignty, even if it so basic to our Earth-thinking frame that we don't even consider it.)

I personally think almost everybody has a blind spot here, thinking a very particular part of the phase space of possible governance is the only one. Even the perennial debates on HN and such are basically between "modern capitalism" and "socialism", two systems that in the grand scheme of things are very similar to each other and only argue about how much sovereignty the state has vs. its citizens, where if you are against one then you must be in favor of the other, as if they are the only two possible methods of governance conceivable.

Even without going as crazy as hypothesizing a space-based civilization, history offers up quite a few alternatives to the modern conception. Some of them are hard to see, because we back-project our assumptions about nation-states on to history if we aren't very careful. But the early Roman empire had a much more complicated de facto structure, and Middle Ages Europe is quite difficult for a modern full of preconceived notions to properly understand, because we simply have no modern referent for the relationship that existed between the Church and the various other polities of the time.
Using a container orchestration system gives you far more resilience than just running a docker image on an EC2 instance.

When you run a docker image on an EC2 instance if that docker image crashes what will restart it? What if the EC2 instance itself fails?

With ECS you give the container orchestrator an intent:

"Run X copies of this container at all times, associated with this load balancer"

Then you give the container orchestrator a place to launch stuff: either a cluster of EC2 instances, or AWS Fargate.

Then the orchestrator continuously validates the state of your deployment and relaunches or moves containers as needed to serve your intent. You can even run spot instances to get up to 80% savings on your AWS bill, and if you get outbid on the spot market the container orchestration layer will move your containers to another machine.

That in a nutshell is the benefit: the orchestrator lives outside of your instance and prevents the instance from being a failure point in your system, by separating your intent to run an application from the underlying resources that actually run it.
Downtown to downtown, bus is pretty cheap though. They all advertise low-ball rates and I'm not sure what a more realistic price is but it seems to be in the range of $20-$40 or so.
Speaking of Ferranti and programming mothers : my mother talked about how she had been a programmer of a Ferranti Pegasus before I was born. She worked for an insurance company but talked about having to travel across town to an engineering company to use their machine because theirs hadn't been delivered yet. Based on her recollections they were coding in assembler. She moved on to pursue a career in economics and never coded again.

I found an article about the computer being delivered to the engineering company in 1960. The Pegasus was a mid-50's design (afaik unrelated to the Mk1) so I'm not sure if it was new or recycled from one of the initial customers.

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/memory-la...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti_Pegasus
How is the system that has evolved for wine consumption not an example of 'building systems that hurt you mentally'?
DCD!
Great to tell people to put away their phones and not record because that really is obnoxious, but to actually confiscate phones is fascistic and shouldn’t be tolerated IMO. I mean who does he think he is?
> I can't imagine a world that isn't connected

It was a glorious time when you couldn't get connectivity in flight or in national parks. The tether has never been tighter.
> No, they are not. Hiring someone from a disadvantaged group does not mean that you have to fire someone from a privileged group. That is what a zero-sum scenario would require.

No it requires not hiring the privileged group.

If you are hiring 1000 employees, and 10000 applied, and you've ranked them in some way, adding "diversity" to the equation means the ranking comes out different. Ranked potential employee 1307 using the pre-diversity standard, becomes employee 904 under the post-diversity standard.

But to move up that ranking, by definition, other people had to be moved out of the way. Maybe potential employee 1000, who only barely squeaked by, is now potential employee 1012, and so doesn't make the cut.

This is exactly what happens at universities.
Mobile tickets; There are a few ways that they handle this. They may have a seperate line for mobile tickets, and then hand you a printed out reciept and then they deface your phone.

When I used the mobile ticket with the The Killers at the UC, they gave me a paper copy of the ticket for the seat info.
I never understood why our isn't aerated concrete more popular in the US.its lighter and insulates heat and noise so much better.
Excellent. I’ll take a look at that, thanks for the post.
Do you also use a shitty computer just to protect yourself from addictive video games?

I honestly don't get it when people have to do all that stuff to "protect" themselves instead of just... not going on Facebook 15 times a day? I consider myself like an easy target for addictive services but, I don't know, I guess I just have better things to do.
I agree partly. Some inequality is certainly immoral, particularly when it's based on a person's race or gender. (And that definitely occurs in the US). But sometimes it comes down to other factors, like intelligence, work ethic, assertiveness, etc. if that's the cause of the inequality and I don't think it's desirable to eliminate it.
Yegge's blog post rings true.

I can't help but wonder if Google should split itself into many smaller companies -- effectively, having offspring.

And I don't mean housing different business units into different legal entities, each with its own team. Google has already done that, in the form of Alphabet. I mean splitting each business unit into multiple equal-sized competing businesses. Imagine multiple smaller companies offering Google Drive, fighting each other for customers, improving the service in different ways over time, each with a different brand.

Perhaps corporate death and giving birth is the only way to avoid this kind of stagnation.

I realize this is a possibly controversial, non-orthodox idea. I'm only wondering.
Maybe Waze does customer support as a sub-company of Google?
You can only down vote me so much Peter.
In Canada we already have https://www.poparide.com. It's more for long distance trips between 2 cities but it works very well.
Awesome presentation. Been looking for something like this for our teams.
It's hilarious that this came out the day after Steve Yegge lambasted Google for failing to innovate. This is a perfect example of Google arriving half way through the race. Everyone else is on the final lap, they're on the first, and they think they're running neck and neck.
Compression via next-symbol prediction seems to be what you'd be looking for. That's what the PAQ compression schemes focus on, although they're very slow and definitely overkill for non-archival purposes. You'd probably just want to write out that data as deltas manually and have the reader know a delta format is being used. So I guess the answer is actually delta encoding, because that's a compression algorithm too.
> Imagine multiple smaller companies offering Google Drive, fighting each other for customers

If you haven't read about Google's myriad competing voice and chat applications and services, I have bad news...
That's probably a similar, if not the same problems that AirBnB has to deal with regularly; how do they solve it? IIRC though, for that one it's more of an outlier - most people are decent people.
I'd say she would rather one not travel at all.
Google Wants to Put Touchable Models in Your Browser
It really depends. I'm an extremely active Twitter user; my account is roughly nine years old, and I have 150,000 tweets in that time, it is just over 46 tweets/day.

That's also just on my personal account, I run another account as well, though it's lower traffic, and mostly retweets.
The BIGGEST MAKEUP TRENDS in 2018 a MUIST SEE
https://medium.com/feed/@steve.yegge
They said Doing a Webinar was Easy, 27 Tech Tools later, I figured it out
That's true, but what's happening now is that startups are licensing tech from academia, making it closer to "industrial grade" in terms of scale and quality, proving the concept more definitively (usually in humans) then selling to big pharma. Big pharma does license stuff from academia all the time, but for orders of magnitude less money than what they pay for startups with good research
It kind of is. A typical software job is about doing pretty much the same thing you do in every other software job; the primary variable is the client and their idiosyncrasies.

(Lucky are those who get a job doing something more interesting than CRUD webapps or mobile apps.)
Google does decent support for their paid services. Free is different but paid tends to be decent.
Medium offers a consistent, no-nonsense design which is a nicer reading experience than most blogs, and made more so by not having irrelevant differences between different blogs.
Guessing they meant to write "... for time series aggregation"
I missed the monitors. Fair point.
Bzip2 being slower than gzip, yes, it's also considerably slower than zstd. Yet zstd -19 produced a bigger (4.3M) file in about the same amount of time.

If I can remember correctly zstd = 0.2s, gzip = 0.8s, 7zip (PPMd) = 2.1s, bzip2 = 2.7s, lzip, xz, 7zip (lzma) = 15..16s. This is CPU time from memory, might not be fully accurate.

I'd say zstd and gzip is better suited for general use, while bzip2 and 7zip (PPMd) are better suited for high compression of text files.
Holy shit. I haven't been to the movies in about 5 years. Back then we had Facebook but I don't remember ever seeing anyone on a phone during a show
I too enjoy crummy-quality bootlegs of bands occasionally, but there are already enough of those videos of Jack White. He’s at the point in his career where he can ban phones without noticeably affecting the amount of bootleg videos of his performances.
Can't you just give them money to get rid of that? I mean they have to make money somehow.
Same here. Kick people out if they're violating your event's policy. This pouch thing is just weird and big brother-ish.

Sorry people are downvoting you just because they disagree with your opinion!
Wall Street wants Ford to be more like Tesla
Here acquires Micello to add indoor mapping as part of its IoT business unit
Imagine assigning every Google Apps/Drive customer, say, to one of 10 bins, and then creating and spinning off 10 independent companies, each offering the same exact service (Gmail, calendar, contacts, docs), each one under a different brand, but powered by the same code. Over time, these 10 companies would be forced to innovate to compete with each other. In other words, take the successful business units, break them into smaller units with the same product and a similarly sized customer base, and release these offspring companies to the wild.
I spent about 3 months in Europe and I was totally amazed with the efficiency of BlaBlaCar! That actually ended up inspiring me to work on http://www.thetripbuddyapp.com/ - To be honest I wished transportation in the US was as efficient as Europe.
But have you truly internalized it?