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I signed up for Bluemix a while back, when the Watson beta was first announced. IBM have been very nice, they keep in touch over email and phone to see what I'm working on (and I don't even have a paid plan). I'd really like to use the platform, but I just can't. For exactly the reasons you specified.

In my last conversation over the phone, trying to set up the tools to work with Bluemix, several "Getting Started" pages for important steps lead to 404 errors.
Wow amazing, I am not the biggest Microsoft fan & I would never have what it takes to be part of a YC startup, yet just reading this got me all excited. This is truly great for those startups that qualify!
Actually, the speed of sound through a gas only depends on temperature, not pressure. (But the Moon's "atmosphere" can hardly be described as a gas anyway...)
This is awesome! It worked perfectly for the song I tested it with.
Makes the 1-year $100K credit by Google look not so good now.

https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/
Swift borrowed "if let" from Rust, not the other way around.
I don't think it's the same.

SPDY initially began inside Google. But rather quickly it got enthusiastic interest from multiple outside parties, and a standardization process began. We can see the (successful) end of that process now. Yes, it's true that many standards begin that way.

PNaCl also began inside Google. Discussions regarding it, and the PPAPI on which it depends, were a combination of opposition (e.g. because PPAPI duplicates existing web APIs, and because it's a plugin API, which browsers are trying to move away from) to ignoring. Google continued to work on it, enabled it on the Chrome Web Store, and despite any change in the response of the community over a period of years, enabled it for web content. Over a year has passed since then, and it seems clear that (1) no browser outside Google thinks PNaCl is a good idea, and (2) no significant interest has been shown from non-browser vendors either (Google itself is the main user of PNaCl).

Also, to make things even worse, during all that time, PNaCl has not been brought to any standards body.

Another large difference is that, in practice, SPDY didn't pose a compatibility threat to the web. It has clear fallbacks so that content still works without browser support for it. And while it is possible bugs could still cause breakage, it didn't happen in practice. So moving forward somewhat quickly with SPDY was still arguably a responsible thing to do.

Whereas, PNaCl is already showing fragmentation problems, with several Google properties using PNaCl and consequently only working in Chrome.

There is therefore every reason for Google to disable PNaCl, because it is nonstandard and bad for the web to keep it on. Unless Google simply does not care about standardization here.
You might want to try again. I have been using Azure for about 6 months with no problems at all.
Coke's #makeithappy campaign ended up being pulled thanks to an effort by Gawker, that's gotta have some marketing folks upset.

Here's wondering if the gossip mongers like Nick Denton might have to pay the price for their tomfoolery.

http://www.jta.org/2015/02/07/news-opinion/the-telegraph/whe...
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Not exactly. ObjC code cannot usefully benefit from those annotations (yet? more likely ever). At most, it's good for documenting your ObjC code for fellow readers. The actual use appears in the Swiftland where instead of implicitly unwrapped optionals you get proper explicit optionals or explicit non-optionals.
Altruism - to give a lessor value priority over a greater value. Example, giving a homeless man $500 for rent as you watch your mother get evicted.
The most important thing you can learn about working in a big company is that HR exists to work for management, not you.

So take the exit interview (and all other HR interactions) with that in mind.
"ITS A TRAP!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA
Gotta wonder what that won them in new business (you gonna invest with a group that had an add people were talking about more than a decade later?).
Go on LinkedIn and browse through your old bosses' networks. Everyone knows everyone.

Another point: Companies are most willing to listen to feedback from the people they like. If you are a superstar and leave because the work is not challenging then management will take notice. If you whine about the job being boring everyday then management will write you off as a chronic complainer.
It's not a different visa, but according to this (http://chiangmaicitynews.com/news.php?id=4366) you are allowed to do remote work on a tourist visa.
Is this an example of "professional trolling" ? Gawker trolled coke into cancelling their campaign, and the whole fiasco became a story in and of itself.
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You can actually get $600/month in Azure credit. Your BizSpark account allows up to 4 users, and each gets $150/month.

EDIT: correction, it looks like it's actually 5 users: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/niallsblog/archive/2014/08/22/activa...
Yea, that surprised us that Clash of Clans was #1, but figured it was something to do with it being a mobile product. #2 is Budweiser though.
Setting October 2005. Krugman writes

"I used to live next door to a Russian émigré. One day he asked me to explain something that puzzled him about his new country. "This place seems very rich," he said, "but I never see anyone making anything. How does the country earn its money? The answer, these days, is that we make a living by selling each other houses. Since December 2000 employment in U.S. manufacturing has fallen 17 percent, but membership in the National Association of Realtors has risen 58 percent."

This services-dedicated-to-startup industry is smelling very much like a bubble.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/12/opinion/12krugman.html
"WhatsSpy Public is an web-oriented application that tracks every move of whoever you like to follow" is a stretch. When I read this clickbait headline I thought it could track GPS location, but the actual privacy leak is much less scary:

- Online/Offline status (even with privacy options set to "nobody")

- Profile pictures

- Privacy settings

- Status messages
Yes. That incurs many of the consequences of doing them all in one query (particularly lock contention and dead tuple bloat), and takes longer — making those consequences worse than doing it in a single query.
Is there any point in doing an exit interview? It feels a lot like Miranda rights - "anything you say can and will be used against you". Note: not for you.

If you work somewhere good, then you will presumably have tried to change things before leaving. If you work somewhere with issues, then the exit interview won't change anything.
I have made this comment before but I think that it bears repeating: Azure has good Linux support. I find little difference running Ubuntu VPS's on Azure that on other good platforms like AWS, Google, BlueMix, etc.
Reminds me of l'UX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_UX
Wireshark dev is now a native app on OS X
I'm not so sure. Chris Lattner was giving some hints around Twitter on how big deal they want to make out of Swift (that is, a ubiquitous systems program). This gives me hope that it'll become open as Clang and ported to other platforms.
Nice idea! But it didn't work for me when I tried to login to my site. It opens a Facebook auth popup for the login.
Azure has been doing better. I've been using them for about 15 months now and the quality, uptime, speed, etc have all steadily improved. I haven't had an issue that was Azure's fault in quite some time now.
Does anyone know why a high end shredder would shred the paper in such regular pieces, and of such size that there are still letters visible on each piece?
Same here, Self-Taught before the internet. Started with Basic, Flirted with C and Pascal but the lack of resources led to frustration and frequent giving up.

Managed to stick it out long enough to turn it into a career though.
Sure, but in practice if you have any complexity in your stack then it's going to be a PITA to from Azure to AWS (or vice-versa).

If you're just running instances then maybe it's not too much work - though you're still going to have to think about backup / restore, access control, autoscaling (maybe), cost tracking / allocation, etc...

I'm sure Microsoft are banking on a profitable percentage of YC companies becoming so wedded to that Azure systems that the opportunity cost of switching to AWS is too high.

Edit: Typo
> Debt is part of capitalism, just like steel is used as building material. Talking about debt in moral terms as good, bad or whether there is a right amount (for whom?) isn't productive.

Of course. If I spoke of debt in absolute terms, I didn't mean to.

> Speaking about government debt, right now Eurozone countries have to pay very low interest rates; once they rise too much or full employment is reached, Krugman has said many times that he will advocate restraint.

The problem is Krugman tries to have it both ways. Back in 2012 when borrowing rates were MUCH higher, he STILL criticized austerity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/opinion/krugman-europes-au...

When economies are good, governments should spend more, because, why not? And when economies are bad, governments should spend more, because, it's the only way out. I've never seen him advocate restraint on government spending.

If you can recall evidence to prove that wrong, I'd genuinely love to see it.

> There is still huge demand for US government bonds (mostly in the USA, thats why "money we owe ourselves".

Agreed. But this won't last forever. Let's take China for example, one of the largest foreign buyers of our debt. They have to buy large quantities of it because they're pegged to the USD. What happens when they decide to remove that peg? I doubt they'll warn us.

Remember what happened with the Swiss Franc?
It's much better now. Check out the new Ivy Bridge/Haswell, SSD backed D and G series VMs. They are a vast improvement over the old AMD/magnetic backed A series.
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HTTP/2 may actually help PHK get what he wants sooner. Proposing to make major syntax and semantic changes would have turned HTTP/2 into an extremely contentious 10-year project. Splitting that into more manageable chunks (syntax in HTTP/2, semantics in HTTP/3), combined with the iterative process that was used to evolve SPDY into HTTP/2, may be more tractable.

Of course, no process will will help you if everyone disagrees with your proposals.
How is this any different than their previous "free" access to server products for a few years? The idea being build it at low cost, then flip the company?
A huge issue I've had trying to find music/noise that I can use to drown out background noise is the human voice. I can't find a playlist that has sounds/music without human voice! I found a couple great trance songs that just let me put my head down and really tune everything out... and then there is either a sample of a lyric or even a "hey!" added in for no reason and it pulls me out. And if they don't have a human voice, often it will have some other repeating noise that pulls my brain away from the task. I put on headphones to keep my mind from procrastinating at a time when it really, really wants to. The hardest thing is finding music/noise that doesn't give it any excuse to wander.
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Is it just me or is the author using the term "Uncanny Valley" completely wrong? Ignoring the silly Pixar story, I still don't understand how voice recognition (or more accurately, speech recognition) is currently in the uncanny valley.

You know when your GPS says "recalculating" in a condescending voice? That's the uncanny valley of text-to-speech.
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Google Chrome to Ditch SPDY – Implementing HTTP/2
Is forwarding ports required to get syncthing working?
You should give them another try. Azure has become much more stable. There was a major global outage a month or so ago, but then again that's something that had happened with other cloud providers. Overall, I find them easier to use than AWS, for example.
I know how you feel, I've been there :-) Annoyingly, I enjoy reading laws and laundry lists of arcane rules, so have a "reasonable" understanding of VAT law now and, yes, it's HORRIBLE and frequently contradicts itself (as does HMRC generally).

The other annoying thing is many accountants are not familiar with the nuances of Internet based or digital businesses, particularly those that deal with overseas customers, so knowing the basics yourself is essential unless you get lucky (I've realized it's sorta like asking a back-end C developer a front-end JavaScript question - they have the skills to try and look it up, but it's not necessarily going to be the best advice).
With respect to Program Transformation, I'd point out Stratego/Spoofax [1] and Kiama [2]

[1] http://strategoxt.org/Spoofax
[2] https://code.google.com/p/kiama/
The benefit to working with the Cocoa APIs will be immense, though.

I assume that, now that this feature exists, Apple will begin annotating their Obj-C APIs.
This logic should also be applied to when past employees call for references. Never give a statement, refer the person calling to your corporate HR department. Your company most likely has a policy for this, in addition if you say something you are not supposed to legally you could open yourself up to a heap of trouble. INAL but I've sat through enough corporate HR presentations to have this hammered home and hopefully can share this with startups who haven't had the benefit of an experienced HR team.
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This has to be a symbolic gesture, and hopefully one that rewards Cuban Internet interests. Currently, this isn't a viable offering for the average resident. I've travelled around plenty of Cuba, and Internet there will not support streaming media. Think poor dialup speeds from the early 1990s, flakey timeouts, dropped connections constantly, and you're imagining Cuban net access.

I've not sampled the connections available to government officials, but until Cuba gets a huge overhaul (read, installation) of a proper internet infrastructure, and peering to multiple countries, they won't be able to make use of this.
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Sleeping capital just got a new meaning...
How can the exit interview be anonymous? It's not like whoever's reading it doesn't know it's you leaving.
Sorry, should have clarified. Most early stage startups don't do DevOps or sysadmin well. Imagine the typical YC startup where its just 2-3 developers who are comfortable with the command line, but not comfortable with Chef, Puppet, etc. Having to plan a migration is not fun or productive for a set of developers because it means (1) less time for them to focus on mobile/web development (2) learning to do sysadmin when it's out of their comfort zone.

AWS and Azure are great, but when things get complicated, it means having good resources to help is critical.

note - from what I know, most early stage YC companies just use Heroku to solve many of these problems anyway.
I think it's an opportunity to cast your employment in a good light, leave on a positive note (maybe that's even true in a lot of cases), and maintain your relationships.

I certainly don't see any value in venting or burning bridges - you've already quit, now let it go; ranting doesn't do you any favours, even if it feels great.
That doesn't seem to be the case. I just made a free account quick to test this, and it won't let me access the betas without being a member of the paid iOS developer program.
I'd love to see the inverse too -- Cuba coming to Netflix. Would be fascinating.
One important point about voice recognition is in the short term its OK if its slower and harder to use than superior technologies, as long as everyone knows it costs a lot of money.

Once that fad aspect blows over, then usage plummets and its forgotten. See Kinect, or the nintendo power glove, or qr-codes, or google glass, or the cue cat, or a zillion other examples that are in, or now entering, 8-track-hood.
> Natural immunity is also much better than vaccination

I genuinely don't know what you're trying to say here.

Someone develops immunity by being exposed to the virus. They can either take the dead virus in the form of a vaccine or they can take the love virus in the form of disease.

There are risks with the vaccination. A tiny number of people suffer ill effects.

There are significantly more risks from the disease. People routinely die or are disabled by the virus.

The immunity that people get is the same.

You, by repeating your myths, are being dishonest.

Perhaps you mean something different by "natural immunity"? Perhaps you mean people are somehow born with an immunity?
> Did it really? Perhaps you should refer to the original definition of "debasement".

You're right of course. I was speaking in broad generalities rather than specifics. Yes the money was debased. But there was some kind of anchor on value because the dilutions had to be small.

From what I remember in history the government didn't go from 99% silver to 1% silver in a single re-issuance of money, it took many reissues over many generations to go from 99% to 50% (or something like that) which actually shows an incredible amount of restraint. I'd be rather pleased if that was the kind of debasement we were seeing in recent history but sadly it isn't.

The fact that you had to put SOME metal in the coins was what kept debasing "reasonable" but there are no such restrictions on money creation today. Even if you had to literally PRINT the money the Fed can make $100 bills for a few cents. With computers the marginal cost of creation falls further. There is no restraint save but what those in charge put on themselves.

> Hah, I wouldn't define it as such, but I do question: why? We live in a capitalist society that benefits from capital being put to work. There are many places you can put your money that will benefit you and others financially.

I agree and I do make efforts to put my money to work for exactly the reasons you've mentioned. I guess it boils down to my idealistic nature; I don't think there should be a "stupidity" tax whereby if you're not savvy enough to understand how finance and compound interest works, your life savings can slowly evaporate.

The reason for this in my mind is that everyone has expertise and it's a huge drain on the workings of the world that everyone has to spend who knows how much time every year trying to make sure that their savings don't slowly vanish. I think we would all be better off if people could focus on their field fully rather than having to try and be an expert in both their field and finance.
Have you considered jumping into QA and becoming a leading professional in that space?
Would it really have been a mistake? Someone who'd lie to you in that way doesn't seem like someone you gain a lot from being on good terms with.
One place I left I "named names" during an exit interview. I know it didn't help right then, but I also know I wasn't the first, and I told colleagues that I named names. After a couple more people left, they also named the same names. Many months later, there was a bit of a cleanup, and the named names were dealt with. I almost wanted to go back because by all accounts it was a much healthier environment after the named were let go.
Great idea, hope that you are successful with this! If you're able to get good, verified reviews, the site will be tremendously valuable.

The other area I'd personally like, which might be hard to get reliable information for, is mentor accessibility and expertise. Both during and after the program.
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"The if let construct is based on the precedent set by Swift,"

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0160-if-l...
Isn't the political implications here on Earth the more relevant (though less fun)?

Novel large weapons (I'm thinking lasers, hyper velocity cruise missiles and this and it's ilk) all seem set to unbalance military strategy on a scale we have not seen since the USNavy told a couple of pilots "I bet you can't sink those spare dreadnoughts"

A naval vessel parked thirty miles of the coast of most countries that is able to destroy incoming targets and fire large lumps of metal at seven times the speed of sound at major cities seems like the return of gunboat diplomacy.

Add to which now that lasers seem to be at the 25KW range from a truck, I do wonder what 25 KW will do to a human head. Especially one tracked by facial recognition.

Oh by the way, Washington DC apparently has big zeppelin based radar arrays hanging above it these days - hoping to spot things travelling at Mach 7 before it's too late. So these thoughts have been occurring to folks for quite a while
It was a multi-region, multi-hour outage on Nov 18. To my knowledge AWS has not experienced a multi-region outage. That said, they are learning from these events and improving stability.
Who exactly was it that voted for HTTP2? Is the debate leading up to the vote public?
Just a white page in Opera 12.
Sounds like a modified hyperloop
This defense of P-values is akin to how a certain type of computer programmer tends to defend bad design decisions, like "if you accidentally typed `rm -rf /` and it wiped out your entire system, then you're an idiot, learn to use your tools".

Thing is: even statistics professors often don't manage to interpret P-values and confidence intervals the way they should. (See e.g. "Students’ misconceptions of statistical inference: A review of the empirical evidence from research on statistics education") You're almost automatically forced into a sort of double talk where you write about P(D|H0) but deep down you'd really like your readers to think it's about 1-P(HA|D).

When a tool can be used correctly (if handled very delicately and by a true expert) but practically encourages you to abuse it, at a certain point "it's not the tool, it's you" stops being a convincing excuse, and you've just got to say: fuck it, we need better tools.
Well, you're not alone, I dream about this all the time. I want to be surrounded by forest but not a total hermit.
Figures that the HN server would die at the same time of an Azure announcement. Azure isn't exactly best known for its uptime.
>"My ability to perform such transactions shouldn't be constrained because we haven't "cut down enough trees make paper", or "dug enough metal out of the ground" or "solved enough mathematical puzzles"."

Why would it? You simple sub-divide each unit until you have the necessary precision (this works for physical currency, too). I'm really curious why you think a lack of growth in the money supply would hinder you from making a transaction?

Really, government-mandated inflation is nothing more than obfuscated stealing (or wealth transfer). Think about it: If it were simply a matter of "we need more physical(or virtual) money in circulation so that the transactions will flow" then the logical (and fair) solution to that would be to simply apportion some sort of "income" to each individual based on their current capital. But that's not how they designed it, and based on that, it shouldn't surprise anyone that there are many out there who feel that inflation is unfair to a large majority of people.
Kinda amazing they still are producing Super bowl ads. I'm guessing they're not spending too much on production with babys and cats.
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This is a really well written and interesting perspective. I really enjoy hearing contrarian opinions to commonly held beliefs. Well done!