skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Product has their lifecycle. Nothing lives forever even for AWS/Azure.

In GCP, if a product is GA, deprecation got announced ahead of time and customers got notified and workarounds generally there.

Enterprise products and consumer products are very different and subject to different terms. Please do not consider them as the same thing. (I really think that Google should name Google Cloud something else under Alphabet.)
Darkwinds 1.0: Fully-featured trading card game with ERC721 tokens
> to extract subsidy for what Amazon would do anyways

I don't think they would. Big infrastructure in New York is expensive, financially and politically. Without Amazon's pressure, there is no way the new campus would have been developed, hooked up and approved as quickly as it has been.
I would be hard pressed to find other Seattle businesses that use either of those products, perhaps some marketing would help with uptake.
Assuming the economy stays on a decent trajectory.

But even then, there's probably some inefficiency in that replacement.
This is not correct: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/
From where did you buy one? New or used?
The Hong Kong/Mainland milk powder controversy
Not sure if you live in the US or not, but in the US you are never required to be deposed or take the stand if you are the person being charged. A person charged with a crime can never be forced to take the stand at all. If they choose to do so, they make that choice knowing that they are waiving their fifth amendment rights and can not take the fifth as that would hinder the right of the prosecution to cross-examine them.

If a person is not the one being charged with the crime they can be required to appear in court and provide testimony but if during the course of testimony they would be giving an answer that exposes any illegal activity on their part, they can take the fifth. A good example of this is is someone witnessed a crime but they were buying drugs at the time when they happened to witness it and they were questioned about why they were at that location at that time and what they were doing there. Answering that question would force an admission of a felony on their part and would expose them to charges so they can legally refuse to answer by citing the fifth amendment. A lot of times this is rectified by being granted immunity in return for testimony since the criminal activity on the part of the person testifying is not usually of significance to the prosecution.
I trained with Encase at uni! Quite a tool.
All publicity is good publicity, I just typed in "medium.com" in my browser.
I wouldn't say that at all. NYC is definitely large for tech on the East Coast but so is Boston in tech R&D, DC for government related tech companies, and Research Triangle in NC and Austin TX (if this counts as East Coast) are both hotbeds for tech startups. There really is no Bay Area equivalent on the East Coast.
Honestly what do you expect, them to keep losing money on every ride? The pricing has been a lie to kill off the competition, but they can't keep it up forever.
Buffet’s not doing what you do. If you pay a liquidity premium, use it.
Canadian politics runs 1 politician behind:

Harper was our Bush

Trudeau is our Obama

Kevin Oleary will be our Trump :sob:
Even if the containers were running on the same physical machine as the webapp you'd have to break out of the container your code is in first... If you know of a container breakout exploit then you should definitely publish it!
Lyft is great. More expensive than Uber but none of the dark pattern bullshit. Every price I've paid had felt "fair."
You, like the other poster, seem to be assuming that nobody has tried "can we improve the existing ..." using the obvious tools. I find this attitude both puzzling and patronizing of the people involved. Without specific knowledge, is seems far more likely the obvious things have been tried by reasonably intelligent people.

As you say, it's what pragmatic people do (and it's usually still more complicated than the intro textbook versions)

Now I have no specific knowledge of this particular problem, but the article does suggest it is something that has been tried before (rescheduling) and failed for various reasons. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, why won't you?

Really I'm objecting to the idea that "if only we could have found a math undergrad, this would have been improved years ago". That's a particularly naive view.
I feel the same way. Flash got so much crap from people, and a lot of it was deserved, no question, but people go so onboard with the "KILL ALL FLASH" bandwagon that they sort of forgot to replace it completely.

Video streaming with HLS isn't horrible, but it was so much easier (in my opinion) to do Flash with RTMP.
Minor details - let’s roll
I’m wondering if you can run some of these algorithms yourself on existing live photos? They’ve already captured a bunch of frames for you.
Is there a choice given other well funded startups are doing same (Lyft, Grab etc)?
I don't know anything about the Israel-Intel deal and have not decided personally how I feel about HQ2 in NYC. But I upvoted your comment because it emphasizes looking at other historical deals, and not just the projections and analysis on the current deal, and would love to read more of that in this discussion. This is a very large project over long horizons (10yrs) and it's hard to imagine being anything but extremely uncertain about projections; you have to look at history.

I'm also a sports fan, and I've read about the dismal returns to taxpayer-subsidized new stadiums despite rosy promises of economic development, and tend to look askance at this kind of thing.
Hah, that would be fitting! Optimizing the data mines from within the same building where data was used to expedite the killing of so many.
For individual people it’s not hard at all to radically reduce palm oil consumption. I don’t think I eat any palm oil on a regular basis except maybe from occasional chocolates or restaurant meals.

Not eating Oreo filling or Nutella is just generally good health advice (if you want chocolate + hazelnut spread, you can buy ones made out of hazelnuts and chocolate instead of mostly sugar and palm oil; plenty of available packaged cookies have little or no vegetable oil). Plenty of available peanut butter has nothing but “peanuts” as an ingredient. Make your own pie crust using flour and butter (or lard). Etc.

Avoiding palm oil in soap/shampoo is harder; best first step is probably to reduce soap consumption. Most people use way more soap than necessary, way more often than necessary.
I started a software company out of college. By the time I was 25, my car had been repossesed and I'd been evicted from my condo. I had $400 to my name, that I'd intended to use for rent.

I bought a bicycle and got a day job doing credit card collections for a bank.

That was my 'big break'; I still work for a bank, but now I write the software. I worked my way up.

One afternoon I was talking to someone from human resources, and she mentioned that they didn't want to hire me for that job, back when I was 25. Why? Because I'd scored so high on the entrance exam. Basically they thought it was pointless to hire me because I was overqualified. Yet I was homeless at the time, having been evicted from my condo!
Speaking as a infrequent user (1-3 times per month) in Lisbon, Portugal, I can't choose Uber anymore. There are so many other apps providing the same service with cheaper prices (some of them such as Taxify do not have surge pricing) and better drivers. The drivers' quality declined a lot: sometimes they don't speak portuguese or english and if they notice you're drunk they try to scam you (leave you in some random spot far away from destination and gaslight you with "nah mate you put the wrong address, but try again and I'll get you hoe"). I'm not that drunk and I'm not stupid.
I would add that AWS seems to moth-ball projects, where Google would officially announce an end-of-life. For example, I strongly regretted using AWS OpsWorks after I realized the only priority for AWS seemed to be keeping it running under SLA.
Black Swam Farming, Paul Graham
only for attendees, doesn't seem to be any loopholes
Wouldn't Valgrind catch this one?
I hate to say I called it but... I called this years ago. Earlier in the decade, even on HN, people were raving about how much better Uber was than taxis because “the cars are so clean!”, and I kept saying, “You know this is temporary, right? And that Uber is only better in this regard because the drivers and cars are new?”

Ride-hailing takes an incredible toll on cars, and with Uber pushing more costs into drivers that might otherwise be borne by the taxi company, there was no way the original standards of cleanliness would last forever. It all regresses eventually to “minimum amount of maintenance that people will still accept” and so Uber and taxis will be basically indistinguishable given a few more years. Hired cars are a commodity, after all, and this is what always happens to commodities.
I'd sooner just catch a cab than have to open up multiple different apps and compare prices all the time. I always know exactly what I'm paying with a cab, and it's no hassle.
It's a strange world we live in when people speak poorly of 38% revenue growth. To me, that seems like a staggeringly huge growth rate. I looked up the numbers independently to double check, and yep.

63% revenue growth between Q2'17/Q2'18, 38% between Q3'17/Q3'18.

If my own 9 year old company was growing 38% YOY I think I'd be very very happy.
I know I'm unlikely ever to trust Google's cloud offerings simply because of their track record of support/service, or rather lack of it. Yes, even for paying customers who paid them payments by paying.

"Oops, the algorithm decided to wipe out your business. No, you can't talk to a human. No, you can't appeal it and there's no review, and we can't tell you why, because the algorithm said so" is something Google has gotten away with for years with many of their services. But it's going to wreck them as they keep moving into spaces where people expect a level of support commensurate with the amount of money they're paying. Even if there is real support available, the reputation for a horrible lack of it is so entrenched I don't see how they'll overcome it.
People said the same thing about the Foxcon deal in WI. And they have been drastically scaling back the scope of the plant, the skill and wages of workers required, and the number of them. Yet the state agreed to fund infrastructure improvements, and cash payouts to the company.. (not tax breaks). Basically, the subsidy per employee has more than doubled, and the average wage has dropped by 30%, and they barely started construction.

One of the big issues I have with these deals, is towns/cities don't have experience adding safety clauses to these, that are legally binding..
maybe intolerable is a better word.
Violence is the force behind all government regulation. If you do not choose to comply, law enforcement will make you do so at gunpoint. In every society, no matter how progressive, the specter of violence is inescapable since there is no other real way to coerce human behavior.

You can debate the pros and cons of centralization vs decentralization of violent power, but it's misleading to claim that one argument is inherently violent and the other somehow is not.

For example, you could argue that the deterrent effect of a strong police force enforcing strict laws leads to less actual physical violence and crime than the deterrent effect of every home being vigilant and armed. But regardless of what side you take, both approaches are backed by the prospect of violence.
Are New Yorkers going to see these tax revenues, or are they just going to see housing prices go up?
I work in this space. If you count VMWare on-prem deployments, Azure and GCP are 3rd and 4th, respectively.

Amazon's dominance is massive, Azure exists because Microsoft gives it away for free with big Windows and Office purchases, and GCP putters along last due to perceived bad customer service (which is kind of true)
If only there were some sort of professional, centralized entity to collect some of our money and distribute it equitably.

Here ya go: https://www.catholiccharitiessf.org

I used to make regular donations in person when I was able to. It’s eye-opening to see what they do.

One day a random woman walked in because she’d pooed herself due to a medical condition. She was immediately whisked away to be showered, given clean clothes, and fed. No questions asked.
Searching across silos, circa 2018
You've sent us hundreds of emails using many accounts. We responded to all of them until it became obvious that it was only energizing the problem, and even then never stopped responding completely. I doubt there has ever been a case of forum moderators treating a user with greater patience. It isn't infinite though.

Since you won't stop posting abusive and misleading comments to HN, we're not going to unban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18412225

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18294434

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18224895

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18061577

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18054761
> Doesn’t NYC have a housing crisis already?

New York has a problem. San Francisco has a crisis.

I just negotiated a 2% rent cut. Like four luxury buildings opened nearby and sucked out our building's highest-earning renters by offering lots of perks for marginally more rent. I asked my landlord if he wanted another vacancy or to keep a hassle-free tenant--he budged.

And my experience is not that unique. "Manhattan rents dropped 3.8 percent in March [2018] from a year earlier, the most since 2011" [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-12/pick-a-ne...
They never said they shouldn't have been able to decide to make that deal - but rather that they shouldn't have made it. Presumably who was harmed was Israelis who could have benefitted from a government with more money to spend elsewhere.
Quantum tunneling effects are generally (maybe always?) exponentially unlikely, in the sense that the probability of tunneling will decay exponentially with the discrepancy between energy-available and energy-required.
http://www.freecodecamp.com/

https://www.codecademy.com/

https://teamtreehouse.com/

https://www.pluralsight.com/

https://scrimba.com/

https://www.theodinproject.com/

https://www.bento.io/

http://exercism.io/

https://learnxinyminutes.com/

And tons of others...
There is modules TS: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/n472...
Its because its so open to abuse by the police and reminds people (sorry germany) the Gestapo - that's why post ww2 the UK rejected ID cards.
Was the information truly complete? Extortion is probably not the best label, "rip-off" might be more accurate.
Stadiums and convention centers are pretty classic examples.
We have a cluster that that is automatically transcribing newly published episodes.
> and unfollowing 45,000 on Twitter

So they what saw, maybe one tweet per-person ever? There is no point to following so many people.
"Surges" like their pricing. I like it.
i assume you left off /s accidentally
They need 1 billion per quarter in "fremium" revenue to get breakeven, though. Thats _plenty_ of in car ads.
Google also puts a lot of weight in certain nuances that get overlooked and then quickly forgotten in the Internet's memory.

Your first example: App Engine price hike happened when App Engine departed preview, not after the service had already been intended for mission-critical production use.

Your second example: what they're now calling Google Maps Platform has never been part of Google Cloud Platform, is only relatively recently in a nearby part of the org chart & branding structure (aka Google Cloud which also includes Chrome and Android and G Suite), and has never been subjected to the Google Cloud Platform Deprecation Policy.

Yes, this is a communication failure on Google's part and I'm not blaming the Internet for the common misimpression. But Google's substantive actions in these price changes can be distinguished from how they approach generally available and policy-covered services within GCP, and customers can plan on that basis. (Similarly with G Suite - one should plan differently for core G suite services covered by the G Suite terms and SLA, as compared to other additional Google services that one might use with G Suite.)
To summarize the article: The government is using taxpayer money to pay a corporation to help enslave taxpayers and that's a good thing apparently.
I have managed to open bank accounts and ISA's with no pass port or driving licence just a credit card bill and my p60 (tax documents)
Google having an edge in ML and kubernetes will help them but they really need superior documentation to counter crowd wisdom on AWS.

Solutions/answers to most basic roadblocks you might encounter when working with AWS offerings are a quick google search away but that's the case for gcp offerings. They also need to ramp up their evangelism (for the lack of better word) to get some mind share.
They also typically come with a unique URL for each person...
This implies there is zero cost to NYC from the operation and no opportunity cost from giving up $1.5 billion. It also implies that no tax revenues would have come from the people and businesses that Amazon will inevitably force out.
They kept your shadow profile and are still tracking you, I guarantee it
Same for me. A heavy user of Uber. Lyft has always been more expensive for me in the past, but I guess they categorize me as "captive user". Lyft has been cheaper for me of late, so Uber lost me as a customer. At least for now.
Google Maps Platform is a part of Google Cloud, but not a part of Google Cloud Platform, despite now integrating with Google Cloud Platform's web console for purposes of managing billing and API keys. Yes, this is a branding and communication mess, but nevertheless true.
it seems you two are agreeing.
The inability to connect with a real human when escalating Google Cloud issues seems to be recurring theme on HN.
Coordinated, inauthentic behavior?
This Year in Embedded Rust
That's exactly what q (the linked tool) and almost all other tools like it do - it loads into an sqlite database and provides some handy wrappers, that's it.
My proposal does not impact existing C code, and does not make existing C pointers into phat pointers.

It's purely additive, which means you can incrementally adopt it in places where it matters.
So long as I don't ever have to deal with a cabbie lying to me that his credit card machine doesn't work or they won't drive a short distance I will happily continue using the apps, even if the vehicles have gotten worse (most of my rides lately have been Minivans obviously bought to cab in).

That still gives me a much better experience than dealing with their bullshit.
How Agile Failed – A Retrospective
If you divide world into chunks and specify order of collapsing inside each chunk, and use deterministic random number generator seeded with the same thing for given chunk - then the result will be the same each time.
I just assume it's ultra-low priority, and I bet if they bumped it up to medium-low priority they wouldn't have this problem.
You haven't told us your level of equity/options and vesting with your current opportunity. These determine where you are on the spectrum between being owned and rented.

Most companies err substantially on the side of rent. Assuming there isn't a huge pile of money you'd be leaving behind by getting poached, and there is a huge pile of money on the other side, the decision should be pretty clear. Since you mentioned your comp is a point of frustration, well, duh, pursue it.

Corporations for some reason optimize for the employees who get zero equity, and yet never jump ship when their pay rates fail to appreciate at a commensurate rate with their experience and how essential they are to ongoing operations.

If that kind of employee is you, keep stagnating. I get a feeling it's not.
As someone who's never even been to Canada, this article makes little sense to me. Who are these Indigenous people, and why would anyone want to do this to them? Skimming some of the other comments, it seems I'm not alone in this sentiment.

That's what racism looks like from the outside. To people who've lived their entire lives unaware of the conflicts and prejudices between races, the practices employed to oppress a people seem unrealistically sinister, as if they're from some dark, dystopian novel. If this had been about US physicians coercing African American women into undergoing sterilization, I would've just shrugged it off as yet another act of racism, the sort to which I've grown accustomed to seeing everyday. The same beast is rearing its head in this case, yet only when it happens elsewhere does it look utterly foreign to me--"that would never happen in _my_ country!"

It's rare that I actually get an opportunity to observe racism from this perspective. Over the course of a lifetime, I've learned who hates whom and how they go about expressing that hatred on a regular basis. But I was entirely unaware of the conflict between these two peoples, despite living quite close to the Canadian border. It's a reminder that the racism I witness on a daily basis shouldn't be a part of my life, and it is utterly ridiculous to attempt to excuse it on the basis of ignorance. I'm the ignorant one here: I wasn't aware of this issue. The people involved in these acts of racism aren't ignorant; they're consciously choosing to engage in malicious acts against an arbitrarily defined portion of their own society. And their crimes should be treated as exactly that: pure, unprovoked malice.
I beg to differ.

New York City doesn't have a problem attracting jobs. Like not even a little bit. The idea that this is actually incremental revenue for the city is extremely debatable.

New York City is a really big place. Midtown is the largest central business district in the country, and Lower Manhattan is the third largest, after Chicago. There are 1,700,000 jobs in Manhattan alone and 3,900,000 in New York City. We're supposed to all bow down before a sixth of a percent change, spread out over 5-10 years? Really?

There are single buildings in New York City that employ as many as 25,000 people. Back when the twin towers were around they contained 55,000 employees between them.

JP Morgan Chase is putting about 15,000 employees in their new HQ building, without a breathless 13 months of coverage. This shit happens all the time. You could pick any number of random single city blocks in Manhattan with way over 25,000 jobs.

Amazon needs New York way more than New York needs Amazon. It's the global center of media, fashion, advertising, finance, and many other categories of Amazon's business.

This giveaway is a goddamm travesty. How about instead, Cuomo gives me and any other startup founder who's been in Brooklyn or Queens for decades $48,000 for every job we've created, and we tell Amazon to go fuck themselves.
Yea NY's problem isn't like SF's or Bostons. NYC knows how to build and will build, it's just they need to build even more and faster.

Nothing stays forever in NYC which is kind of why it is such a great city.
> I'd rather see criminals get away than innocent die because of swatters.

The emphasis on speed is not to arrest the criminal but to stop innocents from dying. Swatting calls always involve hostages.