skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC they cost around $350 each back in the 80s. That's roughly $1000 in today's dollars.

A lot of companies wanted to use them instead of the Mickey Mouse Intel chips of the day, but the price point was too severe.
Google has great primitives. But they are very slow in releasing new features, and what they do provide is only offered in "the google way".

AWS and Azure might not have everything packaged as clean, functional, scalable components, but instead they look at what companies are using today and just offer a managed version of it as quickly as possible, with a constant stream of updates. They apply the iterative process of startups to the cloud, and this means that actual startups can get going 10x faster.

We run primarily on GCP because almost all of our needs are GKE/VMs, but 100% of our managed services come from AWS and Azure.
Fingers Crossed!
Very cool. Thanks. Yeah, in addition to the battery issue (which sounds a nonissue based on your reply) there is the simply issue of me not remembering to turn on / off.
Didn't redistribution (plus expropriation of businesses) lead to a bunch of businesses that weren't oil leaving the country, leaving them more dependent on oil? And they were fine with that, because oil was going up, so who cared that other business left?
It's still free, and you can redeem it to your Blizzard account just by opening the Blizzard app.

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/22649418/destiny-2-...
That's if they want to continue with every cost they currently incur, which includes some expensive R&D.
> Don't presume consent or support based on lack of vocal opposition.

Seems better than presuming lack of consent and lack of support based on lack of vocal opposition?
I have been using Azure and their support is top notch too.
LOL. There is so much "demand" for technically skilled people, yet try finding a job as an entry level dev in this market.. employers reject people left right and center for the tiniest of reasons. They want to take 0 risk of hiring someone who doesn't already have every skill they need, 0 risk of hiring someone who has made mistakes in their career, 5 leetcode rounds, 5 references, 3 past internships, 5 github projects and the list goes on. Anyone recently graduating from CS will tell you they apply to 100s of jobs to get 10 callbacks and a shot at landing 1.

The problem with hiring is employers, and they just don't need to change. As much as they would like more employees, they either don't really need them as urgently as they claim, or they would rather go out of business than take a risk.
Hearing that the UI in Azure is sluggish compared to GCP's craptacular UI... is disappointing.

I still don't know how Google can be so bad at creating responsive user interfaces.
Ask HN: Do UK Companies Struggle with Inbound Marketing?
Because as someone who's worked in various agencies and startups in the UK, it always felt like they kinda struggled at using Twitter/Facebook/YouTube/whatever to really market their business.

They also seemed to have issues with creating content people wanted to read/watch, and using it to draw people to their site in general.

But I'm not sure whether that's a UK thing or a small business thing. Part of me thinks Europeans are less confident with marketing than those in the US are, part of me think it's just not having the resources/expertise needed.

Anyone have any insight here?
Intel, AMD Lock Horns Over High-Performance Computing Prowess
Ask HN: How much do companies invest in swaying opinion in HN threads?
Given the influence of HN in the tech community, I have to believe that big players (e.g., Microsoft, Google, etc) spend at least some amount of money on PR to sway public opinion, or, at a minimum, control the damage of negative stories. But I’ve rarely seen obvious examples. Am I just blind to it, or do the moderators really succeed in controlling it?
Use prisjakt if you are from Sweden, but doubt it will be worthwhile to import from Sweden. Bought the 128 GB version new for about a third of launch price.

Which is quite rare, usually high-end phones don't drop much at all in price but rather get replaced with a new and likely even more expensive version.
Even for HN, I don't think that was necessary.
Why are native map and reduce up to 100x faster in Clojure?
Today we announced the size of our new game as being around 8GB. Someone responded with ‘that sounds a bit small’.
Might as well mention that it can be downloaded for free here, including a bunch of other games that run on SCUMMVM:

https://www.scummvm.org/games/
> Obviously the only winners here are corrupt politicians and greedy Amazon execs. They should all be jailed.

You can dislike tax incentives if you want to, but the hyperbole is so over the top it becomes radical, divisive, noise.

We need less of this in these discussions.
This is true, nobody in NYC pays taxes currently and nobody there has a job already.
You give way too much credit to most enterprise infrastructure guys.
> FPTP shares little meaning from voter to voter.

Perhaps, but the question was why people seeking to replace FPTP advocate IRV instead of Approval, so pointing out FPTP has the same problem being pointed to in Approval when compared to IRV is missing the point.
Ouch. Applying the Confirm label to a continue/next button is asking for trouble.
One thing that Azure has really done a good job at is compliance. According to their latest report there are 13 services that aren't HIPAA-compliant, where most of their services are. Compared to Google or AWS that's a major jump in what's usable for companies with compliance needs. That plus their aggression in converting on-prem customers to the cloud (last I heard they were buying up datacenters) has helped them become #2 in the cloud space
It also takes 10% of a normal SSD.

But only 4% of a HDD.

Your problem is what again?
Not for me! Might want to ask your ISP whats going on?
Either they can afford to be picky because there are plenty of candidates that fit the bill or they will eventually loosen their criteria.

The problem isn't with labor demand, but with a mismatch of labor supply x demand with so many people trained for "entry level [insert current year's language / framework of choice] developer" since it requires so little effort.
Model-Agnostic Process Modeling [pdf]
> You can break even on the ride if you make it up in harvesting data, showing in car advertisements, having sample products placed in cars

From what I recall, Uber is profitable in New York and San Francisco. Uber failing would probably involve them being bought by a private equity firm and cut back to servicing those cities.
Do you trust the xbox one to keep its microphone always off? I own one but do find it a little creepy. I keep the kinect turned around away from the room, and have the setting to make it turn fully off. This means annoying waits sometimes when it insists on a software update when turned on, but I think the setting is worth it.
I see the same thing, it was also IBM's cloud services pitch that they "understood the enterprise" better than Google or Amazon does.

It is a pain to try to compare stuff though because there aren't good standards for "cloud revenue." According to [1] IBM generated $18.5B over 12 months in cloud revenue. While Forbes[2] talks about $6.1B and $6.9B in quarterly cloud revenue of Amazon and Microsoft (a $24 - $28B annual run rate), and this from Forbes[3] in April of this year that has them at $44B(Amazon), $19B (Microsoft), and $17B (Google). Which would make Google #4 if IBM's numbers hold up under scrutiny.

I try to keep an eye on these numbers to maintain a sense of the shifting landscape, and it doesn't seem like Google has yet found the right combination of goods and services to really be solid in this space yet.

[1] https://www.lightreading.com/enterprise-cloud/infrastructure...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/08/03/1-microsof...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2018/04/30/cloud-r...
It’s $4800 per hire per year over ten years. Average salary will be $150k. That’s $13.8k of NY state income tax per year and $2500 (at least) of sales tax per year. Seems like a great deal for the NY welfare state.
It’s really cool how Amazon has hundreds of cities up in arms bidding just to give Long Island such a great deal. /s

I have little trust in city officials and corporations to be forthright about the deal. The bidding process is hidden and full details are slow to come out to protect the deal.

Payouts to corporations has been a pattern and it should be fixed at the federal level. Companies don’t make a bidding war to help local communities, it’s for their own bottom line.
Also can any mods tell me why all my comments are dead?

Write to 'hn@ycombinator.com' and ask --- and report back what they say. It looks like it's because of your comment linking Russia and Assange, but it's not clear if this was because it was too pro, too anti, or just because it mentioned one or the other. I'd guess it's user flagging gone awry, but maybe it's a new automated system that's broken instead.
Representing Graphs Cycles in a Tree
It’s not
The last company I worked for used Azure. I had never used Azure before and the thought of using a Microsoft product was a bit off-putting during my interview, to be honest (yeah, I admit to being one of those old-school, Microsoft-sucks dinosaurs from the 1990s). After using it for a few days, I had a change of heart. The documentation is pretty good and their tech support guys were extremely helpful. They would even call me back several days after the fact to make sure their suggestions were working and that I was having a good experience on the platform. In my experience, their UI made sense, their documentation was decent, and their tech support was great. I think Microsoft has earned their spot in the market with Azure.
Zigbee devices don't use the security of your home wifi for encryption either. There are many technical inaccuracies across the ratings.
> What about that '3 mins away'? They're always 3 mins away for 10 minutes. Unless they fly close to a black hole it's just lies and horrific UX.

This is my personal peeve with Uber that drives me nuts. When Uber first came out, the wait was typically a bit longer, but they were honest and upfront about the wait. I had no problem with that. If the wait was 15 minutes, I might order a beer and enjoy the wait at the bar. Or if I am leaving from home, enjoy my couch as opposed to standing outside my building's lobby.

I feel like they bait you now by always saying a car is 2-3 minutes away. Then that wait turns to 8, which turns into 8 minutes where the car just sits at an intersection, then it starts counting down. It infuriates me, but hearing about the rest of their business practices, I guess its not surprising. I have adjusted my behavior by not cutting whatever I was doing short until they are a block or two away, but it just makes for such a worse experience- my original pitch to my friends when Uber was new was "now you can have a beer inside the bar and let the cab come to you instead of going outside and fighting for a cab." Its definitely better, but I now feel like I am fighting with the app/algorithm...
Isn't retirement a counter-example? Yes, a lot of new retirees have trouble redefining their identity and finding purpose in life. But, on the other hand, many retirees are very happy despite not having a supervisor or any customers.

Anyway, BI directly addresses poverty. Providing job training opportunities will not completely cure poverty. So why ignore the poverty problem in your haste to advocate for more educational opportunities for everyone? Surely there is room to improve learning opportunities and also alleviate material suffering (without troublesome discontinuities/perverse incentives).
Cool site but I question any props for Twitter. Their app and site are both equally awfully designed.
Text::CSV_XS is my goto module for csv just use that and whack it into MySQL postgress would be my advice.
Per socket vs per core happened with a version bump right? If Google maps pricing changes only happened when you used a new api, and you could keep using your existing code with your existing prices, that would be a lot less grudge worthy.
Modern Production (1950-1959) [video]
Hi, don't know if you're taking unsolicited requests:

But here are some toggle options I would want a system like this to do (enabled by default):

* Do not send whispers. If I am a primary speaker, and I switch to address someone local to my side of the call via a whisper, that audio should be effectively muted to the other side.

* Focus muting. If I look away from the screen and begin addressing someone off camera, away from the mic, mute that as well.

* Bark and siren filtering. Specifically able to ID and mute barks and sirens. (Planes, motorcycles and trucks would be awesome)

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What is your imoressikn of the company and app Temi?
Not really - Boston has been far ahead in terms of tech/VC/innovation on the East Coast
I was addressing the "governments" part in

> but the GDPR effects non-EU businesses and governments

specifically.
This type of tax incentives should be illegal. A lot of people argue that NYC still benefits from this deal, but we should not be thinking at a city level. But a country level, does the country benefits from this? No.

Has these type of incentives been illegal, Amazon would have to pick a city from the US and the overall US economy would be 1.5 billion richer.

The problem with incentives is that presents a "prisoner dilemma" to cities. And overall drives taxes down.

Sorry for my English.
Jobs. Work. Church service. Community service. Or simply helping some other alcoholic out of the hole that he or she is in. All fit. Sitting at home collecting a check doesn’t.

This doesn't make sense. Church service may give someone a higher purpose, but it won't put food on their table. Guaranteed basic income would make it possible for people who want to devote their lives to community service or helping other alcoholics to do so without becoming homeless.
Why do people call it ride-sharing? It's not about sharing rides, it's just a taxi firm with an app.
Why Email Automation is a goldmine for your Marketing
If java is any guide developers would go out of their way to add interfaces everywhere anyway, often they're essentially header files for the OO gods.
>They elected the people that made that decision. If they don't like it, they can vote them out

News of this deal conveniently came out right after Cuomo was reelected
UK company puts animatronic orangutan on streets of London
We were talking about life, I didn't presume to say anything about intelligent or multi-cellular life. I agree with what you're saying though.
Is there a reason why you did that that way other than to avoid writeable function pointers?

Also, that just sounds like how switch/case is sometimes implemented. Have you considered just using a switch/case statement instead of manually managing function pointers and the like?
More productive because I don't spend time fighting all of the little silly OSX to Linux incompatibilities in a dev environment. Things like:

- sed / grep flags
- path issues compiling some C module or node module
- homebrew missing obscure package

These aren't things that kill productivity on the regular but once a month I found myself going down some rabbit hole or another fixing things like that.

I develop a range of stuff from the Kubernetes ecosystem, etcd, frontend software, and the occasional embedded side project.

Also, I rarely use any OSX native applications outside of a browser, password manager, and music app anymore. So, none of these workflows changed and some improved since now I have identical apps on my phone and laptop thanks to Android.
I'm having a hard time finding something in Google cloud that is NOT covered by their BAA: https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance/hipaa/#covered-...
The point of the election is not that you get to decide the election, it's that the nation collectively decides the election.
> The bidding process is hidden and full details are slow to come out to protect the deal.

This is a great point. Politicians obfuscate the legislative deal-making process and tech companies sneak all sorts of clauses into EULAs and employ dark patterns in their software. Why should we assume this deal, birthed from the intersection of politics and technology, be any better?
While not nearly as impressive, Chrome's WebRTC AEC stuff (also available via pulseaudio [1]) works pretty well.

[1] - pactl load-module module-echo-cancel aec_method=webrtc
As of the latest version of Java, OpenJDK is equivalent to Oracle JDK, and they'll release new versions every 6 month. However, there won't be any security updates or bug fixes to OpenJDK versions from Oracle after 6 months. There's a few groups that plan on maintaining patches beyond that period, but most options involve paying someone (including Oracle).

It's mostly just about enterprise distribution, rather than any differences in the JDK. Updating major versions every 6 months is risky, not having security updates is more risky, and no one likes paying money for something that they've been getting for free.

So far this seems like the simplest and cheapest way of getting long term security/bugfix updates for the JDK, especially if you're already running Amazon Linux. We've been evaluating the options in my team recently and hadn't come to a decision beyond "update to Java 11 and see how it goes after that". This pretty much solves our problems.

I would have preferred to see Amazon partnering with Red Hat or other open source groups on maintaining one well supported OpenJDK, but at least as it's all open source, patches should make their way to all versions.
Yeah, it’s not exactly clear. I figured it must not be the “send me a car” button since it doesn’t have all the info it needs yet, but I can totally see why you’d get stuck at that point.

Interestingly, it only uses the “Confirm” label for airports. Other destinations say “Set Destination” which is about eight thousand times more clear.
I missed Hal's rants, you can read DTACK Grounded online here: http://www.easy68k.com/paulrsm/dg/
While Microsoft has undoubtedly been catching up, and there are always some specific products where one vendor has a leg up, there is no doubt the Azure cloud has been technologically far behind AWS and significantly behind Google.

First of all, I'd want to acknowledge that Google is behind AWS as well. One big technical reason is IAM. Few realize just how important AWS IAM is as a service federation infrastructure. If you look at the details, Google's IAM product is inferior.

Now, on to Azure. Three years ago I was involved with a high stakes effort to port an AWS-grown platform service architecture onto Azure. At the time, they had massive gaps in their understanding of what IaaS meant. Here are some concrete examples:

* They did not really understand what object storage was. Blob storage was not possible to use at scale due to trivially low bandwidth, storage, and API limits

* Software-defined networking was not available between availability zones

* Software-defined networking could not be used to launch mixes of instance types

* Software-defined Internet gateways were not available except in a config that resembled "AWS Classic" networking

* On-demand instances were effectively unavailable beyond one or two instances at a time (at least for the instance types we wanted). You had to reserve instance capacity in advance, by going through a support ticket

* Creating and using custom machine images was undocumented in the API

* Instance metadata APIs were not available

* On-demand instance launches would encounter weird behaviors, where upon hitting certain limits entire groups of instances would be terminated

* Many aspects of APIs for the above were undocumented and unsupported

Combined, these problems made deployment on Azure extremely difficult. I have prefaced this with the caveat that Microsoft has improved since then. Many of the problems above are no longer issues, I'm sure. But what I found was a gaping chasm between what Microsoft claimed and what was really possible on the ground. What I found since then is that Google and Microsoft are making an earnest effort to catch up, and that's good for us consumers, but Microsoft (and to some extent Google) often don't even understand the full feature set of what they are trying to catch up with.
No argument here on that point!

I'll defend many things about the technical quality of GCP and its appropriateness as a viable choice in many cases, but not Google's branding, external PR, or external perception management.

They've always been bad in those areas and that pattern continues.

(Relevant disclosure I've said in other comments: I used to work for Google, including GCP, ending in 2015. I've never worked for Google PR/comms/marketing and I don't work or speak for Google now.)
This is really evident when a speaker hears an echo of themselves, slightly delayed, back through their speakers.

It's really hard to speak when what you say comes echoing back.
I feel Azure has the fastest console. Everything is relatively consistent and loads instantly, even over slow wifi. The actual product line is messy, but it's all very usable, and has recently gotten much nicer looking.

GCP console and products are very consistent and well planned, but the console itself is slow to load because of their heavy UI framework and dumb animations. I much prefer ugly and fast over clean and slow.

AWS is messier than Azure but faster than GCP.
JWPlayer still works for us (though not sure if it's "open source" anymore).
The player component speed always wins hands down when we re-test options.
https://github.com/jwplayer https://developer.jwplayer.com/
The problem for Facebook is the stock price has been bid up to unrealistic levels and investors have unrealistic expectations. End result...FB tries to meet those expectations by basically flooding the platform with ads.

Meanwhile the management team is basically a major flop. They view FB as having the only source of revenue being from ads. That's why they focus so much on increasing DAU. The real value in facebook is that FB has a captive audience which would most likely consume related related products created by facebook. The fact that there is no facebook e-mail service, banking services, dating service or ebay oriented marketplace (the current facebook marketplace is effectively a disaster which is loaded with scammers) basically shows that FB management has failed to utilize the platform to create value for shareholders.

Meanwhile, the over reliance and over pushing of advertising is discouraging people from using the platform.
Being More Productive According to Neuroscience
No, we can actually gain some statistical confidence here that life can't be that hard to start. That doesn't mean it's true to reality, just that with the information we have at sample size = 1, we do actually know something.

The fact that we're not on some planet around a red-dwarf a trillion years from now discussing this, but on a relatively young world does in fact tell us something.
There is a massive market for improving audio quality especially for professional gaming. This would be a huge leap forward.
Currently for NYC we have 311 issues, traffic incidents, traffic jams, air measurements, transit stations and transit vehicles.
LIC is decades past gentrification.