skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2-7 are sort of understandable for a quick, hacky startup just trying to ship something fast, with minimal experience. But 1 is the really crazy one. Load times spiking to 30 seconds once they start getting significant traffic, and instead of doing a solid investigation, including instrumenting their FE and-or server so they can see where the slowness is (maybe Firebase even includes decent observability by default?), they go all in on upgrading Angular for seemingly no reason? That’s just ... completely illogical.
The median household income in the U.S. was $57,617 in 2016. The average transaction price for a new car in the U.S. was estimated at $36,270 in January '18.

So, for new car purchases at least, American buyers spend more than half the median yearly household income.
There was an attempt to get GNUStep going again some years back:

http://etoileos.com/

The project looks pretty dead, though.
This seems a bit 100 than 101 but if anyone's looking for something more next-level, check out this ML Crash Course by Google (featuring Peter Norvig and many other Google engineers) https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/...
CPU Caches and Why You Care [pdf]
Or AOL.
This futuristic fitness tracker creates a 3D model of your naked body
For the same reason Google shutters profitable projects, or why oil drilling companies often pack up but sell the rights to someone else to pull out the dregs, or why Annhauser doesn't make high quality craft brews.

They aren't profitable enough for an organization of that size.

Markets get segmented into tiers. With banks that might create a situation where the easiest lending targets get processed by the highest volume, lowest cost institutions, and the small valuable cases become boutique.

The problem with that is, unlike other boutique areas, the wealthier person can spend a little more for a limited run high quality good. But here the boutique has to sell to the poorest groups, so it's hard to compensate the provider through pricing for the lower efficiencies of being smaller. It might shut down services that the industry would provide if less consolidated.

I'm not defending this, just presenting one possible way this could be playing out even with everyone acting more or less rationally.
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I see the problem as difficult in the same way that losing weight is difficult: we know how to do it, it's relatively straight forward, you just have to really want it and commit to it for extended periods of time.

I'm sure you can find plenty of startup materials that talk about how it's important to look for a problem and build a solution, rather than building a solution in search of a problem.
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This is exactly why I can't trust Google services though. The services are rock solid, but far far too often do I see folks who have to reach out to a dev on Twitter or their friend at Google to get a simple billing error resolved correctly.

Its a problem with most cloud providers, but Google seems to be notorious for it.
Telescript was an amazingly cool idea. I almost quit a very good job to go to work for GM and work on Telescript. In retrospect, it was indeed a language whose purpose was writing [benevolent] viruses but it had no security whatsoever (or at best very little).
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They had a business model: you provide a service to your customers and your customers pay for it. As the service is awesome, customers stay. That's why for instance in Spain, it has been the de facto messaging standard for 7-8 years. People paid for it if they had to, even for the 3-year pack. They use WhatsApp for everything, it literally has replaced calls. If there are ads now this might change, as that will alienate everybody. They might consider Telegram (that'd be my bet). WhatsApp is considered standard functionality of your phone here, you'd change your mobile provider if they start playing ads in the middle of a call.
The comment was about how WhatsApp was good with the model they had before facebook’s acquisition and how now the model to make money is because of mbas. That is what I am commenting on. It is as if MBAs are the reason Facebook is trying to monetize WhatsApp in a different way.
I certainly don't speak for him, but I think it's a combination of things. First, Fusion is a group project and not his personal project. Second, React has a virtuous cycle where because there are so many jobs calling for React, more people learn it. People also seek out jobs that involve React because it will help their resumes. Demand keeps feeding supply and vice versa.
in what country it's groupme popular?
I honestly don't understand why censorship is relevant. It's not like Google is going to change how China works, nor should it be in charge of that. Google being there or not has zero impact on how China treats its people, but at least some users may get access to services they find useful. Limited is better than nothing for many, especially Android users.

What DOES matter is Chinese government accessing data Google collects on users. If China takes over the data like with iCloud [0], then that actually puts user's life in danger. My understanding is that they left back then because they couldn't protect users, but they are back because they believe their security is better now.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/17/apples-icloud-user-data-in...
Killing Processes That Don’t Want to Be Killed
I find it unlikely that the average HN member does not understand that earning money is a better financial decision than spending it on highly-depreciable luxury items (because such insights are entirely obvious), which is why comments like "compound growth is your friend" rub me especially the wrong way.

If one can reasonably afford a luxury item, it is perfectly fine to spend that money on that luxury item.
It does not have insight into her SpaceX endeavors but gives a sneak peek into her thoughts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THQPNDNulVc
> When I’m building for Windows, I usually use Visual C++ 2017 community edition, the compiler I got for free.

Is it an obstacle to get one more free compiler?

> When building 64 bit binaries, my compiler doesn’t understand any syntax.

Is it really? I'm surprised.

> The portable way to produce that instruction is __rdtsc() intrinsic, it’s supported in all major compilers just in different headers, x86intrin.h for gcc/clang, intrin.h for msvc.

I like to learn it. Thank you.

> Right, but I’m not sure assembly, inline or not, has good compatibility with advanced optimization techniques implemented by all modern compilers. It’s just too low level: harder to inline, impossible to move stuff across registers…

Its not relevant: this code do not rely on compiler optimizations.
> An empty string is "no user supplied data" and a null is "no value has been given at all"

I assume you meant "an empty string is user supplied an empty string as data".

That aside, you wouldn't normally switch that option on for a field (notice the default is false).

However, Oracle DB stores empty strings as indistinguishable from NULLs[0], so an ORM supporting Oracle DB may want to have some support for converting "empty or null" to an empty string at read time (notice the Oracle specific caveat in the docs in your link).

Once you have that, I'd guess the thinking is that you may as well let devs opt into that behavior (bear in mind that sometimes you're in the position of developing a new app against an existing db, that may or may not have another legacy app reading/writing from it at the same time).

0: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/203493/why-does-oracle-9...
Understanding Hidden Memories of Recurrent Neural Networks
Older Entrepreneurs Over 50 Years Are Killing It in Business, for Good Reasons
There are plenty, but there are also definitely a lot more on the Republican side. A majority of self-identified Democrats favor legalization, while a majority of self-identified Republicans are against: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
can it send more than one picture at once? that's pretty basic feature for many if not majority of users
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slap_shot, I agree and as I disclaimer I also work at GitLab. There is no shortage of data tools in the space today. A majority of my career has been spent in the data & analytics space and I've talked / worked with at least 60% of the companies you mentioned. At the end of the day, these are the questions I've asked over and over again.

1. Do we have enough money / budget for a tool like this?
2. Can we derive enough insights from this product fast enough to make a good ROI?
3. Does this tool use a proprietary language that no one wants to learn or can I code in a language that is relevant?
4. In all honesty, can I get insights faster in a spreadsheet than these tools?
5. What is the learning curve?
6. Can I answer the business question that was originally asked?

Open to more discussions around the topic as it is a lot harder to answer than a few philosophical questions, but it certainly resonates with many data & analytics professionals. A nice goal would be to have project where you can stand up a business, turn your data pipelines on, ingest the data, and view the insights needed to make a business decision all within a short timeframe of when a business goes live.
No explicit reason, they just generally don't. When you're beholden to voters or a city council, your job is least threatened when you don't rock the boat. If you do rock it, you better make sure you're right or it's not likely to end well for you. Meanwhile, your 'subjects' are unwitting participants who thought they'd be getting a normal education, not early adopters explicitly willing to try something new. All of these factors discourage experimentation.
Any censorship is almost be definition self-reinforcing. If you censor something, there's less of it and the ideas that aren't censored proliferate more, getting stronger.
For services that are pay per request, this is effectively a hard cap.

For more capacity based services, sure, but it's more likely to be down than just slow. When systems are run at their limit they rarely operate the way they did with a little less traffic.
Yup. There are two types of things in the world; things people complain about, and things people don't use. If you've gotten a complaint, that's already miles ahead of the vast majority of stuff that is never even seen!

(nb- I am not being sarcastic. I genuinely do think this.)
Walmart Labs (https://www.walmartlabs.com) | Carlsbad, CA | FrontEnd Tools Engineer | Full Time | Onsite

I've been a developer for quite some time, and professionally for over 12 years. Like many of you, I've been frustrated with the software development process and the manual toil we have around that process - we want to solve problems in software, not in the way we write, test and deploy it!

That's why I'm excited by what my team at Walmart Labs does - the Developer Experience Tools team exists to create an amazing experience for the developer both within the Walmart Organization and outside with our Open Source contributions (see: http://testarmada.io/).

I'm hiring right now, for a Staff level engineer to work on an exciting, full-featured set of UIs (portals, dashboards, configuration wizards) and associated tools and services.

We use javascript , nodejs, reactjs, redux and graphql heavily, but we're very much of the opinion that you should use the right tool for the job so there are no unnecessary limitations.

Our Carlsbad office is AWESOME, and the location - reasonably close to San Diego, right next to the ocean - is pretty fantastic.

If you’d like to find out more or just chat about the role, message me here - or you can apply here: https://careers.walmart.com/us/jobs/1016758BR-staff-software...

Would be amazing to speak to folks who want to find cool ways to take all the hassle out of developing software. I don't care if you have a degree or not.

You'd be joining a great team with some excellent fellow engineers. No recruiters please, No agencies. Please reach out if you are interested in the role for yourself!

dstevens@walmartlabs.com if email is how you prefer to ask questions.
The base model iPad costs $329, comes with free email and and an OS with free updates. And it doesn't data-mine you.
If you are in a big city then I recommend going to social events on Saturdays and not on Friday evenings (people haven't recovered yet from work-week stress.)

Also keep in mind that most people are mentally preoccupied with themselves so aren't thinking about you. Despite appearances, social anxiety is normal which is why alcohol is usually served. Most people at a social event will be there because they want to talk to people such as you, so if you can appear calm and are interested in what they have to say then you will seem like a natural. If after twenty minutes you aren't having fun then just leave early.
Can you give any recommendations for a little bit of differential geometry?
Orbit (stealth) | San Francisco, CA | Frontend Engineer | Full-Time | Onsite preferred

Orbit is a Founders Fund backed early startup. We're building a smarter OS that lives on top of your current one (Mac to start).

It combines incredible UX and some extremely deeply invested in new technology to unify your cloud services starting as a smart Spotlight 2.0 for the modern team.

We have state of the art NLP and a unique way to sync down from your cloud that keeps your data completely private to you.

From there we've already built the first version of an augmented OS brain that privately and instantly scans everything you do as your work and builds a knowledgebase of your everyday activity on-device. It just needs the last mile of work.

Finally, we'll build a decentralized team-level sync layer to sync knowledge and apps for the modern workforce.

The user and user experience comes first.

If you are an incredibly talented React engineer with an eye for design and want to build something novel and difficult get in touch with me. I need one great person.

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Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but not Firestore or Firebase).

For those that didn't read the article, it had a happy ending:

> GOOGLE UNDERSTOOD AND POWER US UP!

> After we fixed this code mistake, and stopped the billing, we reached out to Google to let them know the case and to see if we could apply for the next grant they have for startups. We told them that we spent the full 25k grant we had just a few days ago and see the chance to apply for the 100k grant on Google Cloud Services. We contacted the team of Google Developers Latam, to tell them what had just happened. They allowed us to apply for the next grant, which google approved, and after some meetings with them, they let us pay our bill with the grant.

> Now we could not be more grateful to Google, not only for having an awesome “Backend As A Service” like Firebase, but also for letting us have 2 million sessions, 60 supports per minute and billions of requests without letting our site go down. Besides they understood errors like ours can happen when a startup is growing and some expensive mistakes can jeopardize the future great companies.
Following local laws does not imply you approve of it. That's like saying, if your company has business in a country that doesn't allow same-sex marriage, you as a company are against same-sex marriage too.

They don't make the law, neither should they. It's not Google's job to decide how China runs its country. And offering legitimate users legitimate service is neither immoral nor greedy.

The majority of Chinese people would much rather have a limited set of services than no services at all. They already do live with dozens of censored search engines, so one more makes no difference to them. Google isn't making their life any worse, but rather providing them services they didn't have before. How is that "evil"?
I liked topre for a while but switched to cherry mx red (leopold 660) because the keys spring up faster and have the same 45g actuation force. I can easily type 100+ wpm on the cherry but would easily get out of rhythm on my realforce. You might like the reds.
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Okay, so you're actually doubling down on "robbery is awesome as long as it entertains me, like the movies."

Sounds like we understand each other, then!
This makes sense for things like x86, but what about ARM stuff? It tends to be low power in both wattage and speed, perfect for Lubuntu. I'd love to see even more effort on things like the Pinebook.
There is also a ~33% decrease in power usage. So a i7-8700 which also has a similar score now has 65W TDP vs a 95W TDP.

Since moores law is leveling off, programming skill & quality will become more important to extract more performance out of computers. I forsee less javascript and python and more golang, java & rust and other %100 statically typed languages in the future.
I know a retired Microsoft employee that literally quit on day one after being assigned to the Bob project because it was so incredibly stupid. He was reassigned after that.
Did you miss that Dokem's comment started "I hope they get away with it", or are you endorsing that part too?
They calculated a number the wrong way. That's not a hard mistake to make. And changing frameworks is silly but not really part of the problem.
And people in this thread make it sound that without Google, China would be this free and uncensored country. The reality is that all search engines are already censored, so one more has little impact. Google's job isn't to decide how China works, it's to provide value to users, and by almost all definitions, this move will provide a non-negative impact.
Printed Guns for Warfare?
Don't forget Apple, and they do far worse:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/17/apples-icloud-user-data-in...
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Then rewrite it in Elixir.
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This.

There's always more you might want to learn, but when people talk about these basics, it's really just being super focused in 4 or so classes, not a whole ivy league undergrad curriculum in math.

probability & stats, multivariable calculus, and linear algebra will take you a long way.
Eh, PCI-E 2.0 16x is more than enough to keep even modern graphics cards fed. Not sure what else about a 10 year old motherboard would bottleneck you?
That seems fine for a 101 course. If students are compelled to continue, they will find all sorts of breadcrumbs from 102 onwards. Or do I just have low standards?
Good luck with that. A single Redis would not be able to serve that workload. Maybe a single machine but you're really pushing the limits there just with concurrent TCP connections.

At that qps Redis has 2 microseconds per request.

I agree it caches well but your proposed architecture is definitely not production quality.
I'm guessing they got into using linux later in life. Not all of us messed with linux when we were 12 ;)
I'm really hoping that WhatsApp would open their (chatbot) API to devs soon, following Facebook Messenger, Telegram, LINE, Kik, etc.

This Twilio API for WhatsApp is more suitable for s/spammers/marketers, because it will be prohibitively expensive for casual chat.
Go serverless boys :)
Why USA & Canada only? You're missing on great candidates (e.g. me :P) that are only slightly to the south.
What kinds of activities do you need to do video transcoding for?
Are the caps on by default? If not, they should be.
The problem is that the user gets those alerts, tries to change the limit they set, and it doesn't work. That is definitely not as good as can be done.
How does Hammacher Schlemmer survive in the age of Amazon?
Europe Has Criminalized Humanitarianism
Hi.
Any chance for freshers?
New car purchases are likely made disproportionately by people who earn more than the median income, so we can't probably can't say much from those 2 numbers alone.
>I don't understand why this hasn't been all over the front-page of HN.

I fear the hacker ethos of the tech world, the mindset that cared about the right to tinker and to not have the government tell you what you can and cannot know, has recently become smothered under a mountain of VC cash and a stew of Bay-Area politics that is all too willing to look the other way if the outgroup is the one looking to assert their rights.

Thankfully, it seems like the EFF is making good arguments: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjkzz4/the-self-d...

> “The design files at issue here, for example, are not ‘functional’ software that can be ‘run,’ ‘launched,’ or ‘executed,’” the EFF wrote. “They are storage files for text, images, and three-dimensional shapes, having “functional” consequences only after a third party interprets and implements them with software, hardware (such as a 3D printer), and raw materials. Even under the government’s flawed view that ‘functionality’ diminishes First Amendment protection, files here are, if anything, less ‘functional,’ and at least as protected, as the computer instructions for encrypting data.”

I'm reminded of a fictional quote from a video game (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri), but it seems relevant:

>Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. --Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"
The difference is that providing a censored service is better than no service. Android for example is a much more limited experience in China. Do you honestly not think a Chinese citizen would prefer having a limited Play Store than none at all? Chinese people don't go around searching about Tiananmen Square every day, and they would much rather have access to all the cat videos on Youtube than none at all.

Whereas the Maven project, there wasn't really a user benefiting.
This was also my first thought when reading this. It almost makes me wonder if it was really a SMS exploit at all — when someone has the user, pass, and 2FA code, that sounds to me like the target clicked on a convincing URL and readily supplied all the things their attacker would need.
> our main focus is shifting from (providing a distribution for old hardware) to a (functional yet modular distribution focused on getting out of the way and letting users use their computer.)

I like Lubuntu and often use it for low powered devices and sometimes devices that aren't so low powered. This phrasing is a PR blunder in my opinion because the old focus is a lot clearer than the new focus. Here's how you should have said it:

We are focusing our resources on developing a fast, clean, functional distribution for devices manufactured in the last ten years.

Then you can go on to explain the rationale (which is all quite sensible, if you don't want to support hardware that's 15-20 years old, you don't have to, it's a pretty niche market anyway).
That sounds extremely similar to wechat appart from the opt-in being managed in wechat itself. A lot of other limitations exist on wechat to limit brand creeps, limit number of push messages a day, pack brand accounts under a dedicated simili user fold and more.

If you guys are curious about a platform with good private / branding integration as to brands creeping in your private circles .
Hi charles,
Any chance for freshers?
Plex and other home media servers for example.