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Fun fact, Apple also uses(d) Azure Microsoft services as well.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/02/icloud_runs_on_micro...

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/0051209/apples-icl...
> My money is just waiting to be taken and has been for years

Donate it to the FSF, or EFF or Wikipedia or something. Otherwise this sounds like “I’m cheap; give me a discount”.
Curious, how much of these scaling issues are due to limitations of blockchain tech rather than conventional exchange architecture. I feel like that would be a different area of expertise.
Ryzen 3 2200G / Ryzen 5 2400G review: triple-A gaming without a graphics card?
EU Plans Tax-Hikes on Tech Firms
I'm sorry if this is off topic, but I'm just looking for some advice I guess. I'm currently an electronics engineer in NY and I've been trying to switch to something in software for about a year now because there are essentially no electronics jobs here in my field. I've had a hard time convincing employers how my electronics experience is relevant or how well it would translate to a software role, because, basically, no one knows what electrical engineers actually do, much less how similar it is to software engineering. How do I convince people that I'd be a good hire, despite not having "production" software experience apart from a few embedded projects? I know for certain I can do the work, I just don't know how to prove that to someone doing the hiring.
I felt that sense while I was down in the dumps after going cold turkey ... but now that I have more of a grasp on my life (married, dog, money in savings, living a healthy lifestyle, etc...) I no longer feel that way.

I don't live in Silicon Valley any longer though... so that might be part of the reason I don't feel the pressure.

Right now I might call myself a big fish in a little pond (not really, I am more humble than that) but compared to SF where you are a small fish in a big pond ... there is a lot more pressure to stand-out and be excellent.
Thought that was an unfortunate typo - I wear the 541 Athletic Fit Stretch jeans, and remember the 514 as the old, constricting straight fit. But apparently they're making 514s on stretch now, too.
One of the things I noticed when I was living outside of the US is that you can tell who grew up with furniture and who didn't; those who didn't can sit on their heels with their knees on their chest in perfect comfort for hours. I can barely get into that position even while hanging onto something for support.
Ask HN: Republishing news and magazine content?
There are a few all-you-can-read digital-news services that offer a newsstand-esque experience for a single price, texture.com (previously Next Issue) for example.

I'm curious what the logistics are of providing multi-service access through one subscription and the copyright associated with reproducing content. The Terms of most news services explicitly outline you may not otherwise reproduce or use their content.
Minor correction: It's the default on openSUSE. On SUSE (the commercial version of openSUSE), GNOME is the default.
Thanks for the quote. That said, please don't use indentation to set off block quotes, as it makes it very difficult to read, especially on mobile devices.

Common methods of block quoting on HN is prefixing with ">" and possibly using asterisks to italicize the text, and possibly wrapping it in quotation marks.
> doing what is ultimately, for every animal and man since the dawn of time, their own job and no one else's.

I think that's a bit harsh. Civilization gives us infrastructure to live safely in very densely populated areas. When that infrastructure fails it doesn't seem fair to just say: "Now it's up to you like it was up to your ancestors. It doesn't matter that they didn't live in a spot where they had 100k other homo sapience specimens within half an hour walk, now competing for resources that stopped flowing in."

It's so insanely densely populated that even leaving this place in a car could take you days.
Wow, a great view into how two people can live probably yards from each other and live in what are functionally two distinct planets.
I think with Paper, Dropbox is going more for a collaboration tool than a full suite replacement. When they were trying to do more with Carousel & Mailbox is when things began to feel like they were losing site.

I haven't used Paper, but based on the video it appears to be much more straight forward in team approach than Quip or GDocs. To me Gdocs feels like it's a more full featured replacement to Office and Quip is too simplistic of an approach. Paper seems to perfectly hit the middle ground.
I found [this pull request] that adds language recommending the use of semicolons, but no proposals to require semicolons or to remove Automatic Semicolon Insertion.

Removing ASI from ECMAScript would break backwards compatibility - modern JS engines couldn't run scripts that use ASI which would break a lot of websites that are alread deployed. ECMA will add features that won't run in old engines (older V8 can't parse arrow functions) but they won't add/remove/change features that break existing behavior.

Today there are code patterns where ASI is ambiguous, or at-least hard for a developer to grok. TC39 is warning developers that new language features will not be designed for ASI and might have confusing behavior if those new features are used without semicolons.

[this pull request]: https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/pull/1062/files
I use Formspree [0] for GitHub Pages hosted stuff, and it is dead simple. I've never been spammed, as it requires a human click ("I'm not a robot") for the email to send.

[0] https://formspree.io
Excellent work. I have been using the Arduino for some projects. Other than a horrible development environment it is very fun to play with. Been trying to get it to work with CLion, but after a good twenty hours of work there are still uglinesses.
Great analogy! Kudos.
The emotional blocks to productivity are a very real phenomenon. I've only ever done this once, but I pushed through a really annoying emberjs refactor through Ballmer Peaking overnight.
Now what % of people between the ages of, say 22-30 in SF work in tech? A bit more than 6%. You aren't "creating a bubble" simply by hanging out with people your own age or liking certain foods or cafes. The fact is that in NYC there are plenty of young working professionals who are not in tech, who you will meet without having to go out of your way to alter you own interests.
As a Midwesterner, I can echo the sentiment that those who use illegal drugs are generally considered to be lowlifes or otherwise looked down upon by older folks, and some younger ones. Cannabis use is something of an exception - it's seen as acceptable by most of the younger crowd and more of the older folks are being convinced it's not dangerous as well. Legal drugs are a-ok.

For tech specifically, in my experience there seems to be a higher-than-average number of smokers. Coffee and soda are drank as if they were water. That's about it.
https://medium.com/@anthonypjshaw/multi-cloud-what-are-the-o...
Do any FPGA work? There's demand for that.
I'm not sorry to say that Candy Japan will never see any of my money for the simple fact that there's no way that I'll sign up for anything that expects a recurring charge. The whole "service" attitude is flawed in that this is not a service, software as a whole is not a "service" it's an end product. Good for everyone whose pulling money out of these schemes but not a single cent of it will come from me. And $29/mo * 12 = $348 per year. (forming assumptions about the contract i.e. predatory "cancel early" clause and similar) On candy? give me a break, I don't spend that on candy over 5 years even if you include other needless crap like soda and sports drinks I doubt I'd hit that number over 5 years.

I should also add that I'm the epitome of anti-advertisement. The more that I am forced to see (thinking of YT style of ads here) an ad, the more likely I am to NOT* use that product or service. In fact, the more likely I am to purposely avoid that product out of spite.
Well, the argument is the same with respect to most consumer goods. The new XPS 13 is the same price in Wyoming and San Fransisco. Adjusting the electronics budget of a household for cost of living generally doesn't make sense, which was my actual point.
Good point. We've added "some of" above.
best client apps

Seriously. I am still surprised that to this day none of the big players can compete at Dropbox’s level. Not even Apple can make iCloud “Just Work™” the way Dropbox’s client apps and service work.

As a customer I use Dropbox because of how well it works, not because of its $/GB.
Yes, that's what I generally tend to do. I present them with a scenario or a problem and have them walk me through how they'd solve it and what their tradeoffs would be.
A lot of cloud providers offer S3-esque services. Even DO and Azure are getting into that game.
You might find useful a self-hosted headless cms

https://github.com/daptin/daptin
The best client app is rsync.
VCG has acquired 500px
Drug abuse is not a big issue in SV in general. There are a few general themes:

1) Some startups have a heavy-drinking bro-y environment.

2) Weed is common outside of work (in all of SF)

3) As part of the burning man culture a lot of people will occasionally let loose all weekend with molly, LSD, shrooms, and anything else you’d expect at BM

4) Some people will use adderall/modanfil to stay productive during work.

5) People in SV are willing to try new, untested drugs more than in any other culture I’ve seen, besides MIT.

In summary, I never expect to see someone jonesing in SV. It’s overall a responsible drug culture, not like what I’ve seen with my medical/finance friends. In NY it’s not uncommon to hear ‘I need some coke’ but I never got that sense in SV.
That's dishonest arguing. I said no such thing, and I don't want to. By and large parents seem to be pretty happy with their kids, and I say more power to 'em.

Quite the opposite. I'm interested in people changing their decisions in such ways that children have better lives. Simultaneously, I'm am very much against my tax bill and my city's crime rate being higher because of completely avoidable problems.
Does this remove the limitation that vault reads may only go through the master on the non-enterprise vault version? The global replication is much less useful if reads must go through a single server in a single region.
Seems like it's time to stop calling companies tech companies just because they hire software engineers and leverage some degree of modern technology to provide their product or service. Warby Parker sells glasses and Buzzfeed is a media company - I have a hard time seeing how either of these qualify as tech startups.
The OP implies that they've stopped.
One of the obvious ones is consuming excessive amounts of nutrients scarce in the ancestral environment. Like, you evolved in a place where you can't just buy Choline supplements, so "you're smarter but run out of Choline" isn't a thing that comes about.
I'll add a data point, though it's almost entirely negative. I've been at Google over 10 years and have yet to come across a person using illegal hard drugs. I can think of three people with serious drinking problems. There's been a drinking culture (many offices have beer on tap), but I see that changing, as people are more conscious of the negative effects. A bunch of people use marijuana, but off-hours.

I haven't seen people seriously discussing stimulants (such as Adderall and modafinil) as performance enhancers; I've come across a number of people using these, but all in the context of diagnosed ADHD. I've also not seen anyone experimenting with microdosing LSD.

There's a surprising amount of openness and support for talking about mental health issues in general. I think this is a really good thing. The stigmatization we see in broader society is not actually helpful.

Obviously this is all my personal observation, but I think I would know; I definitely saw some serious drug use when I was in grad school at Berkeley.
Your reasoning is akin to a logical fallacy, capitalism being what contributes the most to climate change does not mean that anything that is not capitalism is carbon neutral.

Then there are other option than capitalism/communism to consider. Look at the only carbon neutral (actually carbon positive) country on the planet: Bhutan. Neither communism nor capitalism are at play in this incredible achievement, but IINM it's Driglam namzha[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driglam_namzha
If you read the article you will see that the mention of Microsoft Azure has disappeared from Apple's security documentation.
I tend to agree, but I am afraid we're just going to end up with another Wall Street here once major financial institutions put their hands on it.
Yes, but you and I would not be having this discussion were it not obviously an undesirable state of affairs, regardless of its legality.
From a PT my instructor uses: your arches are impacted by weak gluteus minimus muscles. Try to keep your heels under your hip bone. Imagine your feet are straddling a board if that image helps.

Concentrate on carrying your weight on the knife edge and the ball of your foot. Feels like a paradox but do the knife edge exercise for a while and you’ll figure it out. Good exercise to do while waiting in line or shopping with someone who is slow.
What value does the blockchain add that a 'social network' for academics wouldn't? For work that is largely taking place in universities it doesn't seem like there would be much trouble establishing trust.
Stretch would help, but unfortunately I don't like how stretch fabrics feel at all.
You could use this docker image instead as well https://github.com/encryption/contact
I think $10 a month is a good price for what they offer. Google Drive is strictly worse in my experience. I suspect it might not be worth it for Dropbox to offer plans for $2-3. As soon as you made a single support request they'd probably be losing money on you.
Digital fighters on the blockchain
"Apple has tried selling cheaper phones in the past with poor results." I love the iPhone SE. They can keep gradually improving that model and I'm good.
Find it as hard to believe as you would like but I have no incentive to lie. The most profitable campaigns tend to be high end consumer goods with a monthly recurring element built into it. The worst performers tend to be anything targeting small business.
"Is" gentrifying? How many decades ago was the last time you went to Brooklyn? And where exactly did you go?
We added "some of" to the title above.
The problem there being that small companies get fooled into thinking they need it and spend a bunch of time abstracting away (and complicating!) a service layer they'll likely never change.
This is a fallacy. There are many things we can accomplish through medicine, or technology more generally, that evolution never could. There are reasons other than it being a net disadvantage that evolution may not have produced something; for example, a particular chemical may not have an easy and cost-effective way to be created in the body (particularly when food was much harder to come by), but be easy enough for us now to synthesise.
Why do these apps keep getting upvoted and created? Formspree has been around a long time, I don't understand it :P
Some people love it. My dad is obsessed with it despite being from Texas. It's unfortunate that the responses and strong opinions took away from the points I was trying to make.

I will also say I've worked with mostly young people. IE an old guy was a manager in his mid 30s.

I will also note, as someone who has worked at dino companies. That is not a reflection of the engineers. It's how the day to day works. How painfully slow work is because 3 departments need to get their act together. I'm sorry you took that as me saying your friends are bad.
True, good point, it's always easier to criticize then it is to put yourself out there and create something. I should have been a bit more reserved in my judgement.
SmartAsset (YC S12) is looking for front/back end engineers in NYC
> 1 hour of pairing/programming during an arranged face to face interview. If the test is well designed, touches on a number of areas and self contained, I think this was sufficient for me to assess their skills.

Sounds great. I've done this too, but I've never done it before screening candidates. I don't have enough time to screen candidates by programming with them.

> "Mimic real life" means no puzzles (unless I've literally experienced them in real life), no binary tree reversals and no big O notation questions.

Understood. My goal with my coding quizzes and knowledge questions is not to mimic real life. It's to asses the boundaries of the candidate's education and experience, without regard to skill.

> I think that type of thinking leads to embarrassments like this

There always have been and always will be false negatives, even with lengthy face-to-face interviews, even with pair programming, and even with paid internships.

One high profile false negative anecdote, while unfortunate, doesn't imply there's a widespread or unexpected problem. Applying for jobs always comes with a risk of not getting the job for a wide variety of factors that are outside the candidate's control. If it's a job you really want, all you can do is try hard.

I love homebrew, and I'm sure @mxcl is a fabulous coder, but the tweet you shared does make it sound like he expected to get the job without an interview, and might have come across that way, or might have not prepared at all.
I left another comment up-thread, but yes, definitely. Watch someone in SE Asia or parts of Africa where people commonly work without chairs or tables; their knees are insanely flexible.
Parent is suggesting that a better exchange is more likely to get bought, and at a better price.
I didn't realize that was a requirement for something being standard...
As one of those people, I completely agree. My entire social circle uses drugs in some way. But that means I don't see outside it. And I very often connect with people, adding them to my circle, because we subtly realise we both share that experience. So definitely don't assume my experiences are a random sample of the population :)
Build a website and an iOS (and/or Android) app and get them up and running and give them away for free. It may be a lot harder and take a lot longer than you think to convert hardware -> software skills. If you do it in your spare time as a hobby you will ramp up at your own pace and have something to show future employers.
You might think that if you had enough strength of mind to do great things, you'd be able to transcend your environment. Where you live should make at most a couple percent difference.

This is exactly what I thought out of college. "I'm a product engineer! I can work from anywhere. I'm going to move back to my hometown and turn the rust belt economy around with a billion dollar startup!"

As it turns out, I didn't have the talent to start such a business by myself (and based on my knowledge of startup history, no one does).

And that's why this essay nails it.

In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should try harder.

YOU may be a self motivated person, regardless of environment. But your founder may not be. Your first ten employees may not be. Your investors and vendors and strategic partners may not be.

When any of these stakeholders hang out with their friends in the rust belt, they hear depressing stories. They start to look at success like it's impossible, and they come back to work the next day less energized and less motivated.

Or maybe they've got a good circle of friends, but not an ambitious circle of friends. They love their friends, so they stay out with them a little later, sleep a little less, end up a little less productive the next day and leave work earlier to go meet them. Same thing goes for a family, but with the added responsibility.

This isn't to say that friends are bad or families will hold you back. In my experience, good friendships and a loving, functional family are better than any business success.

The point is that your environment will affect your ambitions - even if you never needed help feeling ambitious. At some point or another you'll need help for something, and if your city doesn't drive ambition in that direction, you'll have to work that much harder to motivate the help you need.
I can totally see where you are coming from, but I hope you aren't directing your comments towards what I said above.

I actually felt pretty vulnerable submitting my comment (as opposed to being someone who loves to talk about myself) It seems to be resonating with others now, so that feeling has warn off, but initially I was a little concerned to open up and be so candid in a public forum.

Also, I did not intend to downplay those who are incredibly successful without drugs. I've just witnessed time and time again the scenario where person A is completely awe-struck by person B and their accomplishments and doesn't realize it 's because they have a literal advantage due to performance enhancing drugs.

Then someone says, "oh yeah, so and so takes a ton of adderall, didn't you know?" and everything begins to make more sense.
When I saw "original" I was expecting to see the 1980s version.
You're somewhat right. I can see how my comment can be construed as dismissive of workers' struggles.
Didn’t he left the nodejs ecosystem because he said vocally that Go is so much better? Just curious what changed his mind...
Yes. Also the assessment of parts of his non-scientific work as being 'almost entirely fruitless' might be mistaken. We don't and can't understand how his great mind worked. Could it be that an apparently strange obsession was vital to its functioning?
Why goats have rectangular pupils
It's true. The comment to which I responded is a choice piece of whataboutism, "a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy."
As of Vault 0.9.4, this is still the case. The leader services all read and write responses. The Spanner backend does enable Vault to run in HA mode, but only a single server will respond to requests.

If, in the future, Vault allows for multi-leader or at least read-only followers to respond, the Spanner backend would support that. Unfortunately this is a limitation in Vault's current architecture, and not something a new storage backend can fix.
Literally, not literarily, anachronistic, to be precise. ;)

You’re entirely right.

I think that Borges and Hofstadter are writers whose work uniquely appeals to computer scientists.
Why can't scientific people be spiritual? If anything, science claims only the realm of that which can be externally observed and verified, and falsified. Spirituality is similar, only that it is the exploration of that which can only be seen an experienced for oneself, internally. And any good spirituality, like any good science, doesn't try to make absolute claims.
After all that.. "not big issue in SV"
> It takes about 3 years to build a DataCenter.

That definitely depends on where and which kind of data center. If you're willing to take a derelict warehouse and put in containers like Google did, all you need to do is providing power and fiber (which should be plenty in any industrial settings) and you're set in a matter of weeks to months.

If you're aiming higher, as in design a DC, buy the ground, build the building itself and then installing all the stuff needed, you're in for much more money and time. Depending on the local politics and laws as well as power/fiber infrastructure, you can cut some corners but the worst-case (uncooperating politicians that need to be brought in line by the courts, the next 110kV transformer being at capacity, no fiber and no empty tubes in the ground which means digging yourself) is the benchmark there.
Disappointed the Marker Felt font didn't make a cameo.