skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spanner is relatively more expensive than something like CloudSQL or BigTable, but brings added reliability, availability, and consistency. There are definitely more cost-effective solutions for Vault storage, such as the Google Cloud Storage backend, but at the time of this writing, they do not provide the same guarantees as Spanner.

Ultimately it's about your organization's risk tolerance. If a service is non-critical, non-SPOF, perhaps Spanner is overkill. On the other hand, if you have a service that requires immediate global consistency and availability, such as global secrets management, Spanner is a great choice.

To be clear, this post is not saying "use Spanner with Vault"; it's saying "Spanner is now supported as a Vault storage backend for users who need the features it provides".

FD: I work for Google Cloud
Studies show Uber, Lyft congest cities
To me, spanner’s main draw is automatic sharding and consistency across replicas. If you’re spending less than $700/mo on your database you probably don’t need those features. Why pay for automatic sharding if your workload fits on one machine? Why pay for global consistency if, again, you can fit everything on one machine (and therefore local consistency = global consistency)?
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> a no such thing as a free lunch theory, but for drugs

There's some reason to believe this is literally true - and true in the same sense as the economic rule! In this context, it's been nicknamed the Algernon argument. Gwern (of course) has the canonical writeup.[1]

The short version is: "if some chemical change could make us smarter, why wouldn't it already been in place?" Or, framed differently, "why would the brain evolve to benefit from a chemical it doesn't normally have?" This argument doesn't say cognitive performance enhancement is impossible, only that there has to be some tradeoff for it or we would have evolved it already. If we're going to get rewarding "brain boosts", we need to find tradeoffs that are more appealing than they were historically.

One simple possibility is this one: we can find chemical supplements that let us rearrange when we're performing well, without net gain. Caffeine is an obvious example: it doesn't actually diminish the value of sleep, but postpones the feeling and helps us manipulate our schedules. Amphetamines might be a more extreme case of the same, 'borrowing' energy more generally and paying for it later.

The other dodges are less relevant here, but a fascinating read if you check the article.

[2] https://www.gwern.net/Drug-heuristics
Have you thought about GDPR compliance? I don't understand GDPR very well, but it looks to me like your system would be, as it doesn't store emails sent. If so, GDPR-readiness might be a good feature to advertise on your homepage.
"This technology will never fully replace a human lawyer..."

Why not?
> the majority of the population outside of tech cannot afford to spend time at those coffee shops and restaurants?

That's probably the parent's point - your likely to see more people in your cohort in NYC that don't work in tech then those that do.

> According to San Francisco’s Controller’s Office, a little over 6% of the population work in the tech industry[1]. That is an unquestionably small minority of the overall population.

SF is just one part of the bay area. Head down to PAMPA and MV/Cupertino where the big employers are and I'd be willing to bet that % is much higher.
Paywall someone wanna translate?
Creating Reusable Transitions in Vue
Well, there is really no way to solve this other than using a language-specific font or markup to indicate the language of the text. The first solution is probably the more common one, since there are very few international fonts that actually do CJK languages well to begin with.

The number of characters you need to cover is hard enough to make it a daunting task, and if Han Unification didn't exist it could have been 3 times harder...

The TRON Multilingual System (which was championed by the Han Unification opponents in the 90s) basically does second solution. It did avoid character unification between Chinese, Japanese and Korean, but it still chose to specify the language of the text to support different overall processing based on the language (e.g. different ligatures may be activated for different European languages).

If you're talking about Japanese users being unhappy that their name characters change when its rendered _within Chinese Text_ - well, that's how it's always been in newspapers, books and official documents. Signs all over Japan (made by Japanese for Chinese tourists) show the Chinese rendition of Japanese place names such as 涩谷 (Shibuya) and nobody seems to bother. It goes the other way too, of course.
After CrashPlan closed their Home user plan this month, I have moved to using Arq Backup. I now only pay a few pennies every month and I still get to have versioned backup of my household shared network drive.
This post would still hold true if replace the phrase 'tech jobs' with just 'jobs' :) Such a wonderful article on all things wrong at the workplace these days.
Some stellar marketing. GC should be offering Vault as a service. No one should be running a critical service like this unless you have a team large enough that can support it. Frustratingly AWS KMS + Credstash is as close to a managed vault that's available right now.
Growing a Social Proof Marketing Platform to $88k/mo in Revenue
Getting to Google is more difficult than getting to Harvard. They built their process that way risking rejecting great candidates in order to minimize false positives, bad hires, according to their definition of bad hire. So the Homebrew author could have expected it, it happens all the time. I object to using the same criteria throughout the industry on most jobs these days though, instead of only on top-end ones. I have nothing against top companies having top interviews, they are usually fun if you are good.
MWC 2018: What to Expect from Samsung, Nokia, and Sony in Barcelona – The Verge
It's not outrageously expensive if you have hit the limits of of Postgres or MySQL or need multi-region replication, but yes, for small amounts of data there's too much overhead from all the redundancy.

Using it for Vault makes more sense if you are already storing other, larger amounts of data. Then the incremental cost is much smaller and more than worth it.
GigaOctet and TeraOctet. In French-speaking countries that’s a quite common nomenclature.
Apple Plans Giant High-End iPhone, Lower-Priced Model
I spent a lot of time tracking them through the forest when I was younger. If you live in the northeast, get a copy of this book[1]. The difference between a coyote's tracks and a domestic dog's tracks teaches something interesting about the difference between a non-domesticated human and a domesticated human.

[1] https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062735249/tracking-and-the...
Dilated pupils. Tense jaw. Muscles around the eyes are slightly more tense (small wrinkles temporarily disappear for example). People react faster and speak more coherently (or if they took too much, incoherently but very fast). Dry mouth (very slight lisping or tongue sticking when they talk). Straighter back, clenched fists, grasping or fidgeting hands that they don't normally have. A general appearance of alertness. Unusually impressive performance in a social situation.

Some combination of the above, but it's pretty obvious once you get used to it. At the same time, I'm pretty sure many people in my life have no idea that I take stimulants (though as I said, I don't hide it), but just see me as being at my best when I'm on them.
Uhm no. That's shill asic resistence. Plenty of asic's support DRam controllers via an FPGA.
From the same author of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16463069
Yes, heartbreaking
It was a military super-power, yes, but that was about it. With the possible exception of having some great classical-style composers, it otherwise was not an inspiring country. You sided with them to have big weapons on your side, not for any other reason.
Coinbase/GDAX has to be feeling pretty good about this. My personal experience with Poloniex was abysmal. It took months before I was verified, and the platform was constantly down and too slow to use.

Coinbase/GDAX isn't perfect by any means, but they do seem to be getting more stable, while doing 3-4x the volume of Polo.
Suddenly ceasing stimulants does not involve nearly as acute or prolonged a withdrawal as opiates. There's no risk of seizures like there is with benzos. Your dopamine receptors will reset their tolerance much quicker than the 6 months I see cited throughout this thread. I have stopped stimulants many times with no more than a 1 week (maybe 10 day max) period of physical dependence symptoms.

When people experienced prolonged withdrawal symptoms from ceasing stimulants, I think it is usually due to being forced to confront life conditions that were being avoided.
the GPS on these is insanely inaccurate on all the systems we have locally. It barely waits to get a lock to save power, and is often off by half a block or more. It's never fine grained enough to tell which area of the sidewalk it was on

(I've talked to the people who move the bikes about this as well, since they have a hell of a time finding them sometimes)
I have to. For me stimulants help me put my six hours of productivity to work. I have pretty severe ADHD.
Boston has a lot more than biotech. You have a fairly large amount of internet companies (beyond the top 4 names, you have companies like for example Akamai), and robotics is a big field. (Kiva now part of Amazon, Boston Dynamics). Other engineering fields are well represented too.
The classic on this topic is Keynes' Newton, the Man.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Extras/Keynes_New...

> Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.
I've read something that Yeltsin resigned to Putin in exchange for forgiveness, whatever that entails: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin#Resignation_2
Researchers Warn of Extraterrestrial Hacks
Is that really needed for creativity? Most of human history was ruled by monarchs and yet we had extremely creative people.

When England was a world power, they weren’t exactly known for human rights and yet they lead the Industrial Revolution.

Even in Jim Crow America, there was still a lot of creativity from those that were oppressed.
We've changed the title above to the article's HTML doc title.

Submitted title here was "With a dash of Putin and an echo of Mao, China’s Xi to rule for life".
The biggest mistake new iOS developers make when coding
Figured out how to do Multi-Frame style Anti-Aliasing for a much lower performance hit, looks nearly as good in motion:

void mainImage( out vec4 fragColor, in vec2 fragCoord ) {
float h1 = (hash(time + fragCoord.x) + hash(time + fragCoord.y)) / 4.0;
float h2 = (hash(time - fragCoord.x) + hash(time -fragCoord.y)) / 4.0;
vec3 c1 = getColor(fragCoord + vec2(h1, h2));
fragColor = vec4(c1, 1.0);
}

Or if you want it to look pretty much exactly as good as 4x MSAA (which is what you're doing) for a little more than half the cost:

void mainImage( out vec4 fragColor, in vec2 fragCoord ) {
float h1 = (hash(time + fragCoord.x) + hash(time + fragCoord.y)) / 4.0;
float h2 = (hash(time - fragCoord.x) + hash(time -fragCoord.y)) / 4.0;
vec3 c1 = getColor(fragCoord + vec2(h1, h2));
vec3 c2 = getColor(fragCoord + vec2(-h1, -h2));
fragColor = vec4((c1 + c2)/2., 1.0);
}

EDIT: Changed per suggestions from reply

Edit2:
Found another way to cut down on cost with even less sacrifice of quality (no under-water feeling while holding still), you can do a 2x version of the original 4x method, but flip-flop the x coordinates every frame, like so:

void mainImage( out vec4 fragColor, in vec2 fragCoord ) {
bool even = mod(float(iFrame), 2.) == 0.;
float x;
float y = 0.25;
if(even) {
x = -0.25;
}
else {
x = 0.25;
}
vec3 c1 = getColor(fragCoord + vec2(x, y));
vec3 c2 = getColor(fragCoord + vec2(-x, -y));
fragColor = vec4((c1 + c2)/2., 1.0);
}
Nice! I built something like this a while back, never brought it to market. Might think about processing inputs and generating CSVs, having a simple tablular view in a dashboard, etc. It's a "backend for forms."
The formal pre-publication peer-review system doesn't date back to C17: it was a response to the surge in submissions to the prestige journals in the post-war period. For example, Nature's BSD editor John Maddox first introduced it to that journal, but wasn't very fond of it. So it's another of the weird and sometimes damaging changes produced by the postwar boom in university education and science funding, for all that that boom greatly increased the quantity of scientific research and the number of people who got to participate in it.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll be sure that both our marketing team and product management team receive it :)

FD: I work for Google Cloud
Policy-Based Image Validation for Kubernetes with Anchore Engine
I had a lot of people asking me to buy my company’s software for 10% or 20% or 50% of what I was charging. I never responded to those cheapskates and rather, in limited number, looked at them as evidence that I wasn’t charging too little. I happily pay much more per GB for Dropbox than for whatever AWS charges because Dropbox has the best client apps, which is of course why they don’t charge per GB.
I'm surprised that Nasdaq, BATS, or some other conventional equities exchange operator hasn't gotten into the cryptocurrency exchange business.

A lot of the issues with current exchanges is a combination of scaling issues, scaling/trust, and regulation. I feel like conventional equities exchange would be able to deal with those issues quite easily
how's the tech scene in atl? i live a little south of the border (with fl) and i'm considering a move. i've lived in NYC and it was great so i'm inclined to move back there but atl has piqued my interest lately.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16457998
We’ve added Samsung Internet to our browser testing recommendations
Is that info up-to-date? Their new client features should have made that limit meaninglessness a year or so ago!?
Ikea is easy to make fun of, but it's really done a lot of interesting work. Tim Harford lists the Billy Bookcase as one of the 50 inventions that shape the modern economy: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38747485

I wonder if Ikea helps enable geographic mobility: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/10/does-ikea-enable-mobility
I've been doing taichi for about 5 years. In addition to changing how I bend (for the better), about a year in I was in the process of renovating my gait a second time. As a person who always gets asked to 'slow down' it was a weird experience to have to ask others to do the same. Unfortunately for them now I walk faster than ever.

I came to this from a world of leg and back pain. It hasn't fixed everything but I can do almost 5 times as much without tipping over into chronic joint pain.

The quickest things I can relate to people that I learned from this time: 1) Never lock your joints. 2) "Lift with your knees not your back" is the wrong advice. Lifting "with your knees" is loading your quads. That and joint locking put all of the stress on the parts of your knee (cartilage especially) that are already overworked in the western posture.

The correct advice is "Lift with your legs", which takes longer to explain but the Cliff's Notes version is that your legs are 3 joints and lifting with your knees is only using one set of muscles and essentially locking the rest. The right way to lift is to engage your calves, your ass, and your hams.

There's a great saying I heard somewhere about the Problem with Western Posture being that we try to use our hips as a hinge joint and our knees as a ball joint. There are a lot of tight muscles in the hips and upper thighs that have to unclench to get there, and you literally feel like you're falling over while you try to sort that out. But man if you do, I've avoided half a dozen spills that should have put me in the doctor's office and one that would have sent me to rehab for torn ankle ligaments for sure.

The downside of this experience has been that I have to fight an urge to analyze everyone else's posture. I end up staring at people if I'm not paying attention. I probably look like a creep. And some people make me feel sympathetic joint pain. The number of people with fallen arches is crazy.
Of course coaching matters! The point, I believe, is that the relationship between management and creative can be mutually beneficial, with both parties earning considerably more through a partnership than they would on their own.

The fact that developers become much more valuable with a good manager doesn't, in itself, explain why managers are paid more.

For example, let's say a manager without a good developer would be worth 100k of value a year, and a developer without a good manager would produce 100k, but working together, they produce 500k. There is now a surplus.

Now, if it's easy to be a developer and very difficult to be a manager, then it would make sense that the manager would capture most of the surplus, because he or she could always just go and find a new talented developer to work with. The Rolling Stones can find a new manager more easily than a manager can find a new Rolling Stones.

However, ahem, it seems to be the managers constantly bemoaning the difficulty of hiring good developers. Share a bit more of that surplus, and you may find those hiring woes aren't quite so woeful?
Can you provide a source for that?

Closest thing I could find was this, which simply adds an ASI hazard clause: https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/pull/1062
The Geography of Mobile Crowdsourcing Markets [pdf]
This is changing. Maybe less so in banks, but at my hedge fund, its more about individual contribution rather than how many people you manage. We are also a bit different in that we are actively modeling ourselves like a tech company.
Ooh yes, I am still in the industry. I'm currently studying for my Security+ certification (experience validation) and I'm in the interview process with a local company: Network Security Manager.
I'd suggest going through https://www.privacytools.io/#email. These providers won't give your data to NSA or third party companies(or at least this is more likely, than with another provider like google). Given you are asking for some sensitive data, I'd suggest you use one of these, at least for this specific project if you can't make the move completely.
The British Empire is not all that long lasting compared to some of the Chinese ones that has existed in the past. China as a civilization has arguably outlived everyone. (The Roman empire, if you include the Byzantine, is arguably the longest lasting empires).
Can opiate addiction be better understood by young people by comparing it to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in sports?
Crime in football players may be related to TBI. Both Alzheimer's and TBI patients share Delta FosB peptides.
https://www.statnews.com/2017/12/07/traumatic-brain-injury-c...
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Delta FosB protein is seen in epileptics, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), addicts and Alzheimer's brains. US football and NHL hockey teams too?
​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSB
​
Can NIH work with Genspace in NYC? They teach neurohacking.
https://www.genspace.org/​
Can students learn the effects of aging, trauma and addiction via computer simulations?
Can they develop a Brain for Blender TBI model?
Showing brain injury?
​See attached file brain_TBI_simulator.txt showing brain injury and cell_TBI_simulator.txt capturing TBI.
​
​New Mexico went from 100 women at Grants Correctional in 1990, today it is over 600.
Opiate and meth addiction is ripping many communities apart. Biology education in NM is basic.
https://www.amazon.com/Pastoral-Clinic-Addiction-Dispossessi...

Many families in NM are broken. When drugs remove women the society breaks down.
​My wife sees released women inmates and their children living out of cars at Santa Fe Community College.
We volunteer at the Santa Fe Interfaith Homeless Shelter with addicts to feed and house them.
I worked with AIDS patients in Jamaica, WI in US Peace Corps and alcoholic students in Gallup UNM.
AIDS patients suffer brain issues as the disease progresses.
I also work training women in IT in summer internships at the State of NM. Many work in NM.
I completed a thesis on DNA shotgun sequencing at the US Human Genome Project at Los Alamos National Lab.
I graduated with MS CS at NM Tech while at LANL.

​My son is now a senior in Chemical/Biomedical engineering at CSU, Fort Collins building Alzheimer's, TBI, and addiction models using neural nets/machine learning.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A?app...
Unfortunately there are no Chemical/Biomedical Engineering BS programs in New Mexico?
My son has studied the Chinese language. How do we stop importation of Fentanyl from China?​
https://www.statnews.com/2018/01/24/china-fentanyl-usps/​
Delta FosB protein is seen in epileptics, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), addicts and Alzheimer's brains. US football and NHL hockey teams too?
​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSB
​
Could a plastic contact lens absorb Delta FosB? Could Korean contact lens be used to monitor Delta Fosb in addicts? A lower amount could mean effective drug addiction treatment? Could you develop a contact lens sensor for Delta FosB?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/01/25/th...

Delta FosB may be detected in eyes via contact lens? Cheaper than MRI.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/article-a...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11006248
China is and will be a super power but the point is it won’t have deep roots in culture and time unless it becomes driven by a wider base.
It's pretty good, obviously not going to be as good as NYC, but there's still a tech worker shortage here like there is everywhere else.
Have you tried https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/key-vault/? I haven’t played with it much yet, but it seems to tick the boxes.
Some snark (and details) about NASA's proposed lunar space station
I previously had a vendor replace hundreds of systems due to a poor fan design where they mounted it under a spinning disk. It is very surprising how sensitive they are.
I am livid. can you imagine the fuming anger!
This is amazing and I still don't understand it. If you liked this you will very likely enjoy Hart's magnum opus, "Twelve Tones", which they worked on for a year and is the best thing I've ever seen about music theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4niz8TfY794
Labs are good at updating webpages, hah, that wasn't my experience at all and is usually a common to see exceedingly out of date webpages. Other than some high profile groups that probably have money to hire specific webpage staff everyone else has to do it themselves and they often don't keep up.
All the criteria you chose seem like bad proxies for the things that really matter. I would count the following as the fundamental metrics that really count.

- Average (high-end) programmer salary

- Amount of VC funding

- Total number of full-time tech workers

The 1st and 2nd criteria determine how attractive the city is, for employees and founders respectively.

The 3rd criteria determines how much clustering/network effects the city enjoys.

On all 3 criteria, NYC is either 1st or 2nd. NYC hedge funds have bid up programmer salaries to levels that are virtually impossible to get anywhere else besides SFBA. The data on VC-funding shows NYC as a solid #2, only behind SFBA. And the linked article shows that in terms of networking potential, NYC is #2 as well.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/10/venture-capital-concent...