skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://basedremote.com/ is an excel list of companies offering remote positions, you can filter the list, albeit not by size.
At first glance the following match your criteria (don't know exactly what your criteria are for BigCorp)
https://www.salesforce.com/
https://www.palantir.net/
http://www.oreilly.com/
https://www.digitalocean.com/
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/
silently download chrome is a good idea?

why don't you tell the user if it wants Google's browser on his computer?
And it may well be that "the tier that we were in" was the free tier.

But my question would be why did Google enter a paying field with a free option, knowing full well it would kill off all those paying players, to only then kill their free option knowing all competition is now gone?

Google should not be offering up any service, free or otherwise that has a use by date that is only known to Google.
About 620 million stolen accounts now for sale on dark web, seller boasts
I've been an avid reader since I was seven years old - I stopped in college (almost completely), but it was during my internship and job that I started reading vociferously again.

Nowadays after I finish the book, I try to review the books I've read on Instagram in the form of a post or a story - some people go to the extent of unfollowing me (seeing it as a stupid use case for the service), but some people I know IRL have also started reading the same books I finish.

Not every distraction is a force for evil.
Are you asking for examples of advanced SQL skills?

In my experience, if you can grok lateral joins (aka cross apply), recursive CTEs, window functions, and fully understand all the join types, that's a gold star for understanding SQL!
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> Serverless applications' reliance on other proprietary services like Cognito, DynamoDB etc is another thing however...

I feel like even this lock-in is overstated. Those other services are billed based on usage and are completely separate from each other. Your migration path away would be one service at a time.

That's in no way comparable to traditional lock-in, which is like a decades-old Oracle database with high licensing fees paid annually and depended upon by dozens of complex business processes interacting directly and indirectly with each other. You don't really have a migration path in that case because there's not enough time / resources to decouple everything and migrate to something else, so you're stuck.

And that doesn't touch on the reality that if you're not relying on AWS for Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, etc., then you're maintaining something yourself, which itself is not free from lock-in. Building a system that heavily utilizes Cassandra or Kafka may not have an annual licensing cost, but absolutely imposes a cost in terms of maintenance, team expertise, and (of course) makes moving away from them look not much different than moving from DynamoDB or Kinesis.
> But we know nothing comes for free, no good human deed goes unpunished.

We know nothing of the sort. Perhaps this is something you know.
> I'm looking forward to a Microsoft insider's exposé

I interviewed there, soon after the acquisition, maybe nine months. Probably one of the most shocking experiences in many aspects: they flew me from Europe, no one was ready to talk to me, or knew I was coming at all. I waited more than an hour, thought about leaving, hoping they wouldn’t mind paying for my hotel room and flight either way. Then someone who I recognised from their LinkedIn photo passed me, I said hi—they were surprised and thought the interview wasn’t happening.

I had three interviews from people at most three months out of university (nothing but the same two brain-teasers); overall, the place seemed like completely lacking self-awareness. I had lunch with the only person with any experience, the UX researcher/ethnographer (six months out of post-doc) who was… way over everything. Chosen quotes: “Children running a daycare”, “the entitlement is staggering”, she was happy because that paid way better than academia and she could learn about private research, save money, go to meet-ups and interview.

I liked the lunch because I had tried to make my joke during the interview, one about how Skype allows me to get three alerts about the birthday of a recruiter with whom I had an awkward 20-min chat six years ago (wink, wink: I care about users’ experience too). Blank stare from Chad. The UX researcher got it. It wasn’t funny, but at least I felt like I had pushed my bug report at the edge of my ability zone.

I didn’t get a call-back. I was stranded for six months on an email chain with the recruitment coordinator who was only able to reimburse me with a paper check in dollars (I had bank accounts in four different currencies at that point but not dollars). I honestly think that I got so tired of it all that I just forgot… Or maybe I ended up cashing it at pennies on the dollar because my bank had pity on me.

Anyway, a couple of years later, a new colleague at Facebook joins from there. The guy spent his first three months listing all the terrible, terrible things he saw there. Just new ways of being broken, every day over lunch, for a hundred days. I was impressed. That guy isn’t shy. Not sure he’s a great writer, but there was a lot to be learned there.
Yes, it's good in market theory. Reality is sadly different even on the open market.
I disagree.

Sadly, we need to balance features, performance and expectations with our own expectations about what kind of software we want to deliver.

I sincerely hate Electron and the whole ecosystem of bloated apps it enables BUT having matured a bit i can understand why it exists. People that hold the money want software out and want it fast and they don't care if the customer now needs almost 4 gigs of ram in their phone just to play music or browse the odd website.

A depressing state of affairs imho, specially for us "old folks" which enjoyed our software native and optimized as much as we could.
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SegWit Amounts to 90% of Total Bitcoin Trading Volume
I also made an automated build here:

$ docker run zoobab/cve-2019-5736-poc

$ strings /usr/bin/docker-runc | tail -n 2
Not a native speaker, but it seems to me that they are not saying that cloud is not a big market, but that the cloud is not THE big market, since THE big market is something else (bare metal?).
One thing Google doesn't get is how big a deal it was to reject the DoD. Vast swaths of corporate America do business with the DoD. And a lot of people in DoD took the Prohect Maven backlash a bit personally. The general tenor of the conversations I have about GCp with these folks isn't "No, just flat no". It's "NO! Oh, hellll no!" The fact that they refuse to bump their FedRamp cert to cover DoD req'ts doesn't help.

I seriously doubt a company with any significant fraction of income tied to DoD is going to ever allow it to appear that they might have ever even considered GCP.
As pointed out later in this thread you can now buy a support plan that allows you to file tickets directly from Google [1].

Unfortunately it starts at $100 per user per month and that tier won't get you a number to call, just a ticketing system, and in my experience response times are in a minimum of hours. For actual production systems you're going to want the $250 per user per month option that gives you a number to call.

> I really like the product that Google has - but they are running a cloud service like a b2c service. When it should be run like a b2b service.

I couldn't agree more with you about this. A lot of people love to knock Azure and AWS but their support, in my experience, is in a completely different league to GCP.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/support/#support-options
A few months ago (shortly before GDPR) there were reports of company accounts being locked out of Skype because of age restrictions. Some people had normal, personal accounts which they used for business purposes with the birthdate set to the company's founding date. Then GDPR came in and you had to be over 16 or 18 to use Skype or your account required parental verification. To do this, you had to link the supposed child's account with the parent's. Of course, the paren't account had to have a credit card linked or undergo some Microsoft verification by sending an ID scan. Most people decided to go with the second option, as they didn't have or want to link a credit card with Microsoft. Of course, that verification took days, especially when so many users requested it, and for all that time they didn't have access to Skype, Office 365, Mail etc. I can provide a source (in polish) if anyone is interested. Of course, those restrictions didn't really work out for most (real) children as most people are already used to automatically provide a birthdate that's over 18.
I’m all in on AWS, but $6.68 billion in revenue is not huge in the grand scheme of things and if AWS has two thirds of the market, that’s still only about $10 billion.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/25/aws-q3-results.html
Or, don't.
There are plenty of ways already to target a specific individual if you're gonna poke them with something biological.
We're back to "Twitter does not understand its own users". Partly because it's never even attempted to take money from them.

Personally I think Twitter's destruction was triggered by the event it (and many of us) thought of as a great success at the time: the "Arab Spring", Tahrir Square etc. From that point on it increasingly became a political battleground, which is increasingly bot- and sockpuppet- infested, used for targeted harassment, and even from your friends feeds you a steady stream of miserable news.

Meanwhile the people who want to "engage with brands" or just look at cute puppies have moved to Instagram, while the bleeding edge communities are slowly drifting to Mastodon.

There's probably another reckoning due now that Tumblr has banned porn and some of the affected accounts have moved to Twitter; I expect a FOSTA/SESTA-driven purge sometime in the next year or so.
Ssh you're not allowed to say that!
Yeah, sorry. It shows at least that it's possible with the current PyPy C API layer to have GUI bindings working.

Here is the only PyPy related issue I found for PySide2: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-535

PyQt doesn't have a bug tracker ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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GP said “mobile”.
You haven’t seen Netflix’s AWS ReInvent talks.....
Source? I was always under the impression that what you eat affects your dreams is an old wives tale.
+1 Most people I've talked to have zero trust in Google not changing the services without warning, killing it, or banning accounts with zero chance of getting hold of a human.

Cloud is not a core product, the chance of it being killed is higher than its market share I'm certain.
I'm not sure if you're up for not being dismissive, but I'd honestly like to be corrected if I'm wrong.

When I think of this I first think of Digital Realty Trust (DLR), Global Switch, China Telecom, AT&T, Equinix, NTT, Tata Communication, China Unicom, Telefonica, ....

True, a lot of their customers must be cloud vendors. At one point, I'm pretty sure AWS was a customer of Equinix in some parts of the world (and they might still be). But still, who's bigger? AWS or the folks who consider AWS another (although no doubt important) client?

No one is giving out detailed data, but DLR has 200+ data centers and 30+ million sqft of space. And while it is probably the biggest, they're just one of many. And I think they and their customers are mostly into more traditional hosting.

Then you have more direct to consumer companies that run their own data centers. OVH, Hetzner, Softlayer, PhoenixNap, HE, Rackspace, ... Worldwide? Hundreds of these. Maybe thousands.

Gartner once wrote that AWS was 10x larger than the next 14 cloud providers combined (2015). I don't know how true that was (or still is). But if "the cloud" is essentially "AWS", then it's probably safe to assume that most of DLR or OVH's or XYZ should be counted as "traditional" and not "cloud".

If it's mostly just AWS + 14 other _much_ smaller companies vs thousands of companies worlwide, some of which are bigger than AWS, many of which are in the same ballpark, is the cloud even 1% of hosting market?

(I worked at a large bank, we had our own datacenters (not buildings, not cages, but floors). I don't know if we actually owned everything though. If we did, this would probably add up to be quite a lot. If we didn't, then this capacity is already included in the above providers).

Now, if you're talking about where the money is at, I have no preconceptions. You might be right. There's no doubt cloud margins are higher.
Rust's solution is 'build everything', so you can't have incompatible ABIs. That might not scale, and it means initial build time is pretty appalling, but unlike Python, Rust compiles to a binary, so it's less manky.
Agreed that SQL is amazing at processing data! I would argue that a lot of people are trying to both process their data _and_ ask a question of it in the same statement. Separating those out is really important to make analytics more scalable.

We do >95% of our transformations with pure SQL and the queries are primarily in Looker.
I've seen very few countries of note (aside from the US) that use "race" as any kind of indicator. This has a very good reason: It's not a clear biological separation and it also otherwise has little bearing on reality. It's an old, obsolete carry-over that was kept from the days when racism was still an accepted practice and it needs to die the death that it deserves as soon as possible.
In a world where total insect population collapse is a very real possibility, there exist people who think calling out people who want to not exterminate a cornerstone insect species is a good idea.

Before anybody says "well actually there was a study that said nothing bad would happen", the horribly flawed studies about wiping out mosquitoes being harmless acts under the assumption that animals that feed off mosquitoes will find other insects to live off of. With insect populations dropping to tiny fractions of what they were years ago, it's incredibly short-sighted to think that's feasible. It's the same as saying "all the rice in the world could vanish and humans would just eat something else." Technically, yes, but taking away a large portion of so many people's daily calories isn't a good idea. And looking at how fish, amphibian, bat, and bird populations are lower than ever, getting rid of a readily available food source that links entire ecosystems together is pretty selfish. Work on treating the diseases instead of taking the easy way and just destroying things.
Malaria and other diseases are one of the main reasons Europeans kept their African ambitions relatively contained. What is the geopolitical implication of eliminating malaria?
Sure, you can get away with some basic SQL knowledge in simple CRUD applications, but any kind of complex reporting and analytics software with a complex data set is going to take a bit more than simple SQL. It's a career specialization, there are people getting paid astronomical amounts of money for their knowledge of SQL alone, and it's their full time job. Some queries are hundreds of lines long, conjure up entirely new databases from the query itself, and trigger complex procedures across the entire application, all within SQL. It can be as complex as any application logic. Simple SQL is pretty easy to learn, but I wouldn't say you "have a handle" on it if all you've got is the basics.
I don’t use Twitter much, but I have noticed the reverse is true on Facebook.
This is disturbing.

Satya, are you there?
A programming language called MUMPS
You've intrigued me with this comment mainly because I know SQL quite well but IP not at all. Is wikipedia[0] for IP a good reference to dive in a bit? Would you recommend something else to grok why IP is so fundamental?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol
Ask HN: What is the best online resource to learn advanced SQL? (Jan 2017: 448 points, 97 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13417326
That's exactly what I was saying. Thank you. I think I'd agree that it's the fastest growing market. And maybe the one with the highest profit margins though.
It doesn't have to be Jeff Bezos. It could be anyone--like your IT team in your own company. Kubernetes already supports multiple serverless variants.

The significance is where the line of abstraction is drawn, as has been the case every time programming moves up an abstraction layer.
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Life find a way, it doesn't really matter how isolated the area is. Once its out there, especially if its a gene that's very likely to be passed down the chances of it spreading are ridiculously high. I imagine even more as we are talking about insects which reproduce very quickly and are generally hardy.
>> What the earth needs is a better cross platform native GUI framework. NOT electron.

I always like to use VSCode as an example. It's a tool a use on a daily basis, and I like almost everything about it. It's also a poster-child for a good Electron application, maybe one of the best around. Add to that I completely understand why it was made using Electron, and why it might not have existed in this form (available, up-to-date, and feature-complete on all platforms, regularly improved, etc) at all if it wasn't because of Electron.

But it's not.snappy.enough.

Even though large performance-sensitive parts of it like the editor buffer data structures etc are (AFAIK) implemented natively, the whole user experience is actually quite bad. It's sluggish, inconsistent, it's full of random glitches, and everything feels like an insane amount of effort went into putting more and more lipstick on various parts of a pig to hide that the whole thing is like a house of cards and sluggishness and instability hides around every corner.

I feel a little sad that so many developers defend Electron so vehemently, pretending that it's 'ok', 'fine' or even 'very good' for end users, because it's not. I fully agree it's great for the people (and mostly the companies making money off the people) who develop commercial stuff with it, because it obviously saves a shit-ton of money if you want to deploy something across the 3 major platforms.

All of this is completely unrelated to the end-user experience though, who typically uses just one platform at a time and couldn't care less if the application they are using is also on some other platform. Or if they use it across multiple platforms, how many extra UI devs where needed to make native UI's for each of them.

Any developer who knows how freaking fast modern computers are and why should, when completely honest, should feel ashamed that something like Slack or VSCode is made in a way that makes it so sluggish and memory-hungry, and that we now all accept this because it's cheaper to develop that way, and the applications are (supposedly) 'snappy enough to run'
Very shaky methods. He doesn’t even tell us who is on his list of 21 unfairly banned trump supporters
Can Big Tech be fixed? Case for “longterm optimistic”
Let's just say it's been pretty reliably proved over time.
I can't remember a single job interview where I was asked SQL questions. But I can say that I conducted dozens of interviews for developers and almost always asked for some simple queries.

The first question would be for the statement retrieving an entire table without any restrictions or conditions and 50% would fail giving that query. If somebody would manage to actually build a query involving a JOIN, WHERE and a GROUP BY then that interviewee is pretty much hired ...
> 1 year notice

makes me laugh that they think 1 year notice is enough. should be at least 5 for my business to properly consider it.
Considering that you can get a Prius C for about the same price (or a regular Prius for 50% more) this product is going to stay pretty niche.
> ...and churned out the occasional semi-corn founder who advocates for a gcloud stack...

I got the impression that’s the deal with Pivotal. Some ex-Googlers recreated Borg as BOSH (Borg++). Since then they push GCP as their premier public cloud integration despite most customers being in AWS. Their docs on AWS integration blow chunks, and they took their sweet time delivering a (broken) version of PKS for AWS.
> No door, no locks, no guard dog, no "no trespassers" sign at all. Is walking into someone else's house illegal?

I believe that in the UK, trespassing isn't actually illegal[0] (but aggravated trespassing is).

0: https://greenandblackcross.org/guides/laws/5-trespass-aggrav...
Who even would use Google Cloud seriously? They have a shitty history of maintaining products after depreciation.
No, 1 year is not enough.
Once I've invested in your platform, minimum of 5-7 years guarantee is mandatory.

Too many horror stories to even think about moving there.

This is coming from an org which spends 10M/Yr on Azure/AWS.
Certain subsets of the developer community are usually excellent with SQL. It's especially evident with people who have been working with C# for > 10 years because Microsoft have always heavily pushed SQL Server with their developers.

There are plenty of use-cases for SQL with developers: especially in batch processes such as invoicing. A well crafted SQL query can execute exponentially faster than iterative code takes a lot less time to implement.
Yes please!

Last year, I discovered a severe security flaw on a couple dozen websites and the sheer communication of this was super painful. I can't just e-mail someone at hi@foobar.com, I'd usually have to send an e-mail along the lines of "Can you give me a contact for your admin/security guy? I have something here and I can't quite disclose it just now." The response rate was extremely low.

If you just give me a security.txt, at least I know I can disclose something and I have some level of certainty that the e-mail will be read.
It seems very unlikely to me that google is not aware of this
Free software deployment and distribution
Consider using Action1 to deploy software remotely if:

- You need to perform this action on multiple (hundreds or even thousands) computers simultaneously.

- Some of your endpoints are laptops not connected to corporate network at all times.

Action1 is a cloud-based platform for software deployment, software/hardware inventory, patch management, endpoint configuration and more. It is free with basic functionality.

https://www.action1.com/p/Free-Install-Software-Remotely-58.html
Interview with a white-hat hacker, part I
Amazon may be forced to give up some of New York tax concessions
It's horrible that people are dying because of malaria. I'm a bit divided on this approach though, I don't know enough about the topic at hand to suggest a different approach, but let me try.

Would it be feasible to suggest using CRISP to create another adaptation to the gene, one that preserves the mosquitoes but makes them unable to transfer the disease to humans?

Eliminating a species because we don't like it reminds me of speciesism as Peter Singer outlines in one of his books. (Animal Liberation I believe it was). Where humans assume another species to be inferior and have less of a right to live a decent life.

I do think it's a normal response to value human life more. And in fact, I also do think that in this case it makes more sense to safe the humans if no other approach is viable..
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Or perhaps they have thought and evaluated and made their judgement call.
isnt that a big part of the value added by apple. You dont have to care about cpus, motherboards, etc...

If you want to buy a decent machine and not spend time finding out what is decent right now, get apple. If you want control and a perfect tuning for your particular situation, definetly do not get apple.
Makes me wonder if instead we might see an MS branded Linux distro (think redhat) or C# native on Linux.