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I really like the recent trend of dead-simple deployment tools. Now, zeroserver[0], and 1mb[1] are all awesome attempts at simplifying the confusing web world!

[0] https://zeroserver.io
[1] https://1mb.site/
a) Opportunism is good business.

b) 'Wasting time' is a part of research. If you never fail, you're missing opportunities. That said, you pick your failures with the hope of getting the right kinds of wins... which brings us to...

c) Giant centralized cloud-based businesses have giant centralized and for-the-most-part trusted datastores. There's no reason to use a blockchain if a standard distributed database suits your needs. From where I sit, blockchains are mainly a solution in search of a problem.

(and just imagine the press cycles if a FAANG company rolled out a blockchain, and thus burnt god-knows how much coal bringing it mainstream...)
There’s plenty of anecdata from the employees. When I first joined Google 9 years ago I was terrified of not being as good to google as google was to me. I bled the google colors.

The last time someone asked me what it’s like to work there, I said “it’s just a job” on instinct.
I find this paper to be so steeped in hype and dogma so as to be nearly incomprehensible.

Which is a shame, because it's a reasonable approach. I just wish they just frickin described what they did instead of spending the whole paper monologuing and showcasing unconvincing experiments. No need to justify what you're doing, just do it.
Uh... have you checked the news lately?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-growth-beats-expectations...

"China’s economic growth held to a 6.4% rate in the first three months of the year as factory production picked up significantly amid signs authorities worked forcefully to stabilize business following months of weakness."

If Apple isn't doing well in China it isn't because of the economy.
> framework is just restarting automatically very fast. That's not a hot reload, though.

If you can't tell the difference, then what's the difference?

There are plenty of ways to reload classes in the JVM as well - OSGi is the most well known and popular. If an agent is the only way you've seen reloading done, then you mustn't have much experience with the full range of libraries and frameworks available on the JVM.
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>they could reliably distinguish cancerous moles from benign ones better than individual dermatologists

Do you have anything published about this?
Tech companies didn't murder 100+ million of their own customers in the last century alone. It took governments to do that.

And as for "accountabilty," I think we've seen how far that goes over the last year or so.
I use Next by default for all React projects now. Just haven't found any reason not to, it's a joy to use. Same can be said for the Vue equivalent, Nuxt.
I greatly miss his leadership. There was a sense that he knew how to steer the ship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
I think most people would not understand the technical term “cover” while “stamp” clues them in that is is likely somehow postal related.
> I also find it very frustrating. How can I get rid of FB while important groups I'm a part of use it?

I think the only way to break the lock-in/network effect is: 1. creating a FB scraper; 2. push the scraped content to an alternative (more open) platform; 3. as more people use the scraper, more and more content from FB becomes available in the alternative platform; eventually everybody can move to the new platform.

Of course, a scraper is against FB's ToS, but this shouldn't be an impediment. For example, a scraper for YouTube has been available for years, and so far has not been successfully blocked.
Why go out of your way to confuse a low-paid worker just trying to do their job?
Is this related to the article? I don't understand this.
That is topkeks to see you advertising your HN post on FB.
I really gotta ask why though...
So I work on the opposite end to discovery, in the interpretation, and estimation of outcomes seen beyond the studies i.e. what impact will the drug have. Applied statistics essentially.

The author is completely right about the raw mechanics of investment decisions (and sometimes they are just that when a pharma company is sizing up buying an asset), but has written up a really thought provoking piece which was interesting to read. Though I deal with time preference every day, I hadn't quite internalised how much influence it had for early spending.

In terms of my experience, very similar, I worked in global HQ for a large pharma company, responsible for my small part of things for 4 products. 2 failed in Phase 2, and the other 2 failed their Phase 3s. I moved to another pharma company where I was focussing on launch products, but every now and then one would disappear off the radar. For other the trial results would come in, and it only worked on half the patients. We expected all these to work - the science was impeccable, the animal models demonstrate a good basis for belief... it just didn't happen. Every drug that works really is a needle in a haystack.

On the making development attracting, I've been forutnate enough to be able to volunteer some of my professional time to a patient group trying to attack the problem in a different way, and make it possible to get medicines commercialised in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. The approach is led by a couple of really impressive executives* and is trying to get companies to collaborate to pull together some of the materials the author mentions (rather than all do them in isolation with variable quality). They recently won an award for their work, and thoroughly deserve it. These kind of initiatives are what can really make a difference, and de-risk an area for many companies - the lay of the land is known, and there is high quality understanding of what matters to patietns, and the natural progression of disease. It also means that companies developing medicines can engage to make sure their trial program targets the right patients, and measures the right things. If anyone is interested: https://hercules.duchenneuk.org/publicity

* I say executives because that's what they are, and the role they play. They all have sons with DMD which is their motivation, but that label that doesn't do justice to the amazing work the group does - as an example where there are generic medicines that might help, they are funding trials to find out!
> Apple really needs a way to enable permanent do not disturb for just phone calls, ie your phone only rings if you are in the contacts.

That's a really great feature idea. I hope someone here who works at Apple or Google reads it.
We typically do pay severance to those employees at roughly the same duration (depending on tenure in role, could be slightly less to a fair amount more). It's an unwritten "gentleman's agreement", but I've been here 16 years and seen it pretty consistently applied in both directions and plan to hold up my end of that unwritten agreement when/if I decide to leave.

Vice Presidents don't give two weeks' notice; that's just not a thing that's done.
Do you have an explanation of why ROC is bad for unbalanced datasets? Isn't ROC unaffected by dataset imbalance?
"proof points" are usually called "drinks". 1 "drink" is 0.5oz of alcohol (1oz 100proof shot, 12oz can of American swill beer, or a half-pint of real beer, or one glass of wine).
You can’t beat an unwinnable game, but you can break it
im referring to microdosing acid
Also, fractional reserves are fully backed by outstanding loans due for repayment, which is not the same as being backed by nothing. A decade ago, we saw how bad it was for the whole ecosystem when more loans than expected turned into nothing...

That's not at all similar to Bitfinex only pretending to back Tether.
Nope! And i never share drinks either. But i think there’s a big difference between what we touch and what ends up in our mouths.
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If you can't see how something can't both be theoretically possible and impossible at the same time, we have nothing more to discuss.
Who cares about Java lmao it has no place on the web past 2010
I had no idea this even existed. That's really cool.
Yeah, what the native language considers the break is not consistent between languages.

Japanese, for example, has "desu" (a form of "to be" so it's really common) which is nominally "two" syllables, but English speakers simply hear "dess" which they perceive as one syllable.

The issue is that Japanese relies more on time length to delineate syllables while English relies on vowel presence.
You may google this:

https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22toe+shoes%22+&ie=utf-8&o...
Add-ons are the primary reason I use FF on mobile... browsing the web without an ad/tracker-blocker is pretty horrendous.
I am Québécois and am in no way hostile to other languages. What we are protective of is that the official language is French, for historical reasons yes. Meaning, if I encounter an English speaking person, there is a big probability that I'll switch to English just because I'm not an asshole and want to be nice. But, I also don't want my whole culture to disappear and be assimilated to at the same time I do care that I can be served in French when I go out to the restaurant, etc.

If people made fun of OP's accent then they were dicks and I don't think the majority of people would do that. We do however switch to English quickly when we determine the other person is anglophone just because most people in Montreal are bilingual and hey, let's make it easier for everyone. If the other person asks me to continue in French, I'll gladly do so.
now 1 was very opinionated but got out of the way quickly, with mini al changes to your code (in my case golang) you were up and running, did it with a Dockerfile using scratch as a base, integration with github, autoscaling, multiple data centers. I ran a production app used by hundreds of mobile users every day and it ran for a year practically unsupervised. you were up and running. now 2 requires rearchitecting your applications, in golang it means one file per server path and for our application it meant it was easier to migrate to GCP using nixops.
Ironically they just purchased last year a huge block of Manhattan - presumably for even more employees[1].

1 - https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/20/google-bought-manhattans-c...
But the DVDs are once a year.. I find it hard to believe that if you cared about the most up-to-date LaTeX distribution you would update once a year via DVD.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19791073, which was earlier and is by someone working on the project.
> amid signs authorities worked forcefully to stabilize business

The concern with China is that they might work so forcefully to stabilize business that people report numbers that look good even if they are not entirely true.
They distract you just long enough that the feeling subsides slightly .
Patreon launched in 2013 and estimates $1 billion in total payments to creators by the end of 2019. That averages out to $166M/year. Google reported $30 billion in ad revenue for Q1 2019, that's 6 years of Patreon transaction activity compressed into 3 days (or their entire 2019 activity of $500M in payments in less than 2 days).

Can you still extrapolate from this that the tipping model is even anywhere near a threat to Google's ad based business model that they should be incorporating it? And is it even an apples to apples comparison? Many creators don't use Patreon in spite of or to replace ads, they use it as a supplement.

Moreover, just because something is technically simple to integrate, doesn't automatically make it the correct business decision to do so.
A related blog post is https://creativecommons.org/2019/04/30/cc-search-images/.

(Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19791801, which we merged into this thread.)
Do you think Oracle encourages the sort of open internal debate culture that precipitated that well-known incident?

The responsibility for corporate culture is ultimately with the CEO and the board.
> some said astronauts should not be allowed to reap personal profits from NASA missions.

That's an interesting ethical question. At what point is it ok for someone who got paid by the government to do a job ok to make extra money because of that fact.

These days most Presidents get to write books about their time in the White House and make money. Buzz Aldrin still goes to cons and signs autographs for money.

So where does the line belong?
I hope there aren't too many people who define "doing well" that way. Seems like it would lead to a total breakdown of the social fabric.
You've forgotten the main lesson from the history of civil rights. Let me get Martin Luther King Jr. to explain it:

"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

You gave an example of how you want to oppress straight white males, and that actually happens, which is why I believe they're oppressed.

Millennia? Since nobody lives that long, it's clear that you want revenge on a whole class of people for something that different people did.
How does Next.js compare to Gatsby?
Debian was nothing but trouble for me. I found myself in opposition to too many of their design choices and some packages to be too outdated. At the end of the day it lacks the polish and moddability I've come to expect from Fedora.
>Sam Aaron (original dev behind Overtone)

Was he actually the original dev?
I get that he contributed a lot to the project, but overtone isn't dead, and I don't think he was the original dev.
Because most people have no idea what covers are, and unless you collect postage stamps the difference means nothing to you. If you'd asked me before I met a friend who collects, I would have assumed that using a stamp would render it worthless.

The article's talk page actually has a similar discussion over whether to call them stamps or covers in the title, so although they come down on your side its hardly a given.
Having done a lot of cross platform work, this is pretty neat. I'm still laughing about calling it "Volkswagen Mode" though.
This seems like a brilliant move to help manage their public image. Groups and events seem like much more purpose-driven and thus value-generating interactions with Facebook.

I absolutely see why Facebook would want to be seen as the place where one goes to grow their community rather than the current stigma of fake news and inflammatory pieces on the feed.
Just wait until they replace credit cards.
One regular drink is 100 of these proof points. A pint of strong beer is 2 drinks.

2 pints of medium beer is indeed a generally good amount to drink in one meal or before you pause for a while. Obviously how many minutes better drinks is a factor
Then they should just buy Patreon like they bought YouTube. Why risk failure if that’s actually a good hedge? A: It probably isn’t a good hedge because they know Patreon can’t even remotely scale to the size of the AdWords business. People just generally don’t want to pay much for content. Better would be leveraging subscriptions and then developing a money distribution process to support the content people will come for. I think they are trying with YouTube TV and Red.
I didn't say that high latency isn't frustrating. But you can effectively shoot the air on the route of the opponent where you'd think he would be by the time server would have your input.
The contents of a homebrew-core formula definition are an implementation detail of Homebrew. Formula definitions are code. Changing that code (or its permissions) directly is completely unsupported. Users may create their own formulas in their private taps; those will never be overwritten.

If you mess with a program’s internal bits in an unsupported way (like the author of the linked blog post purportedly did), you can be happy that your changes will only get reverted on the next update and not blow up in your face.
https://triggermesh.com/

Or

https://openwhisk.apache.org/
Its ad revenue growth rate decelerated, is what I believe you meant to say...
The role of police is to uncover the truth, leaving no stone unturned. That truth might be a false accusation. Of course the femonazis who don't care to uncover the truth about false accusations might be upset by this, but is that any surprise?

Funny the difference in headlines, huh?

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I am a French speaking Québécois and do work with many French people (downtown Montreal). You can't deny that the French French and Québécois French uses a lot of different words. They are still the same language for sure, but we often have so much fun exchanging funny expressions.

A funny anecdote was when I was working with a guy name Jean-Nicolas and all the Québécois people called him Jean-Nic. That was very funny to the French guys hehe
Google is an internet monopoly with data and information. I think the only reason they've come this far without being exposed as such was cooperating with the government (learning from Microsoft's mistakes when they were exposed)
Well, this is correct as far as it goes.

But it raises the question of what, in modern parlance, is “canon”.

As far as I can tell, mathematics becomes canonical if enough mathematicians think it’s beautiful. There is plenty of seriously presented mathematics that never achieves canon status. The practical effect of being canon is that other mathematicians care to do proofs with it, or about it.

Riemann’s hypothesis is canon even though it hasn’t been proven, because so many proofs use it as an axiom.
If you want a challenge to your English, go to Glasgow.

Holy hell do they have a thick accent. I've only encountered an accent that thick in very rural US (think deep South or Appalachia).
I think Page had the right idea, because if you look nowadays at people under 30 for them the Internet is represented by social networks, be it Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or even Snapchat, the internet/web represented by the browser and by visiting different websites via Google is no longer that important. I think Page realized that if Google doesn't hop on the social train they'll end up looking from the outside at a flowering walled garden in which they will have almost no relevance.

I think they had a similar idea after Apple's iPhone started gaining traction, it's only that in the case of Android Google's execution was an order of magnitude better compared to what they did with Google+. I wouldn't put the blame for the failure of Google+ on Page only, I'd also assign it to Gundotra, after all he was the man directly in charge of it all, Page's fault is that he chose and supported the wrong man for the job.
Stationarity isn't really the issue here, as you don't typically analyse this data as measurements from a single stochastic process.

However - you have hit on a very real problem. Imaging systems have got better over time, imaging quality even on the nominally same system can be different from different sites. Image coverage can change by both policy and system capabilities, etc.

It's worse the more sophisticated the imaging systems are. Consider MRI, which is perhaps better thought of as equipment to perform physics experiments than as an imaging device. In that case, nominally equivalent scans from different vendors (even different generation from the same vendor) can have significantly different characteristics. And there is a ton of processing going on, there is no such thing as "raw" data here - even the vendors themselves may no longer be able to really (or at least easily) characterize what is being done.

So yes, in any machine learning applied to these data sets, you have a very real risk of learning odd characteristics of the sample data and hurting your generalization.

Biology isn't as likely to be a problem I think, but biological response to changing treatment protocols, sure.
Or, perhaps in this case, longer than Tether can remain solvent.
I assume it's a question of cost. And that a wireless "add-on" will be available. Not everybody is willing to pay 300-400€ more just to lose the cable.

Hell, the Index sounds great because it's what the Vive should've been at the same price at launch. Vive build quality, optics, comfort, etc. are simply terrible for such an expensive device.
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Cryptocurrencies. For example Coinbase is doing well—raised $300M on a $8B valuation: http://fortune.com/2018/10/30/coinbase-series-e-funding/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmid...
this is cool!
> Wearables (Watch/Airpods) saw a 30% jump ($5.13B)

They generate $5 billion in revenue on their Watches and Airpods alone? What a crazy good business they have.
Software errors tend to come and go for different users, so you could try DictUnifier anyway. I've successfully used it previously, though with a different dictionary.
Why did he pulled away
Good one. A "whole number" of "turns". Exactly one of them.

"Bleen" is as good a name for it is "tau".
I agree. As an ICE holdout, even modern combustion engines are usually quieter than the tire on pavement sound. I doubt the complaint of 'silent electric killers' holds any real weight.
There is nothing stopping drinking on playdates.
That's been true since 2012 (https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-announce/2012-...)
>What does it mean to exist independent of time and space? Nothing, as far as I can see. I was once at a UVIC philosophy seminar where this came up. I asked if, in the time of the dinosaurs, bounded linear operators already existed. Yes, I was told. I have no idea what this meant.

I think a more interesting question is if an intelligent species that lived a billion light years away from us would eventually come up with bounded linear operators (or something homomorphic to it).
> Avoid spending time to earn or save money.

This could be dangerous advice. Sure, if you value your time at $20/hr, maybe saving a few bucks now doesn't make sense. But no one is paying you $20/hr for the time your spending doing that. Unless your other option is to work more at an hourly job instead of bargain hunting, that time is worth $0/hr (plus whatever you value your sanity at).

But more importantly, when you save it gives you the change to purchase greater opportunity in the future, which make have a greater than $20/hr value down the road.
The parent's point was take a "burner device", something that's better than a feature phone but that you wouldn't object to damaging or losing, don't bring any data on it, then pull the data down at your destination.

This doesn't require a cloud service.
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Ask HN: How to manage hotfix branches in a project?
My project is now going into testing and release phase. We will keep master and develop branches in parallel, where develop will have Pull Requests with new feature and fixes and master only fixes for current release.

We have 8 people working in the project and dozes of Pull Requests everyday. We are currently using git flow. But I'm worried that hotfix branches will have tons of conflicts with develop branch in the long run.

What are the best practices to manage fixes and new features?
It would, but I wouldn't want to entirely give up victim privacy for it.