skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was still naive then. Students should have seen the huge numbers pouring in. They should have done the soul-searching then. You have to keep your head up and nose to the wind if you want any success at all in this world. It's always been that way, you're naive if you believe an institution can engineer success for you. No matter how many of your peers believe the same way you do.
Not getting paid sucks. Sorry to hear you're dealing with it.

My advice, for what it's worth, is if you have more productive things to do with your time than pursuing a lawsuit, then do those things instead of pursuing a lawsuit. And on future contracts:

:require a retainer to be applied against *final* invoice.
:require payment to be due on receipt of invoice.
:have the right to stop work immediately on nonpayment.
:follow through on all those terms.

My heuristic is that complaints about fees before and during a project are a tell that people who dont intend to pay provide as a way of rationalizing nonpayment. Context of course matters, e.g. a person whose role is just negotiating and not paying is just doing their job and some people just like to wheel and deal. But generally, anyone who expresses a problem with writing me a check never owes me money...instead, I owe them work.

The tl;dr is manage the issue of payments during the honeymoon don't wait for the divorce.

Good luck.
For some reason, the story reminded me of that "twins" story arc in the old Hellblazer comic series.
Yahoo! releases new SQLite database layer for Android:SquiDB
>Several times I've refrained from participating in threads that I thought were going to be controversial.

I kind of suspect that's the intended effect.
Openstack + spare capacity in a colo facility + a bunch of few years old servers offloaded in a facilities auction and you can build one pretty quickly.

Tech isn't the hard part - barriers to get a service up and running are dropping drastically.

Hard part is marketing & scaling, and as AWS expands services there are risks from pure-play vendors that do just one slice of the stack 2-3x better than Amazon does.
And Rust is still going through its shakedown cruise. I wouldn't yet be comfortable taking it in the deep waters where C++ currently roams.

There's still a lot of need for tooling, testing, and letting people with smaller projects (and/or non-Mozilla use cases) shake out the bugs.

Give it a few successful years post 1.0, and Rust will be in a better place to truly take the mantle from C++.
I'm sure Amazon knows and, since this is the first aggregate disclosure, that there's no way they're going to state publicly.
If they think aws growth will slow they can get a big pile of cash to put into their retail or another business.
Reminds me of my dial-up days- go to /., click every link and open all the comments, then go take a shower, make dinner, and by the time I sat down to eat all the links had loaded!
That's the government definition, but are better plans available for reasonable cost?

A countryman of mine posted in reply to your comment that Canada defines broadband as fairly slow, by modern standards, but I get 28Mbps/1Mbps right now (over cable) and my daughter just ordered a 25/10 DSL package (from the same service provider; two different physical plant owners, same ISP over top). Both plans are reasonably priced, I think (at least compared to the big incumbents and to what we are used to :->).
Published information I have dug up shows Google's cloud is larger, but only by 50% and the dates were in the 2012-2013 range. Regardless of whether the channel lead's motivations are to say one thing or another, he did say something that struck me with conviction: "We're not going anywhere. We're NOT relinquishing this market."

My experience with Kubernetes and Managed VMs and as an App Engine dev since 2009 compared to Amazon's latest offerings such as Glacier and RedShift shows Amazon is distinctly targeting the present with these legacy plays. Google is targeting the future.

Not much talked about: Google's profitability gives it a distinct advantage in its ability to wage a price war compared to Amazon should have anyone on Amazon's platform concerned.
Everything can be done in Go, sure, but at least the current direction of Go is to provide small reusable libraries, not frameworks. And there's a huge difference between the two.

I don't like frameworks like RoR or ASP.NET MVC. Too much magic. Things break in weird places. They're slow. But they give programmers some kind of safe, happy sandbox that hides the "scary" web.

It's a whole different philosophy I think. Almost every week I see a new rubyists on golang-nuts looking for the "RoR equivalent" in Go-land.
I live in Portland, OR. My city has great walk-ability, and I walk here.. a lot.

Last week, I made my first trip to NYC and, wow, did I walk. In fact, I broke a personal record by walking 14 miles within a 5 hr period around Manhattan.

When I got back to PDX, I gave my shoes a couple days of rest.
As Seen On Disasterly
You do that when the value inside the company is being perpetually vastly under-represented (combined with shareholders applying a lot of pressure to unlock, say, a stagnant stock price).

For example, if AWS is worth $100 billion in ten years, and Amazon as a whole is only being valued at $150 billion in the public market at the time. Separate the two might be worth $100 billion each at that point.

The argument for eBay spinning off PayPal is this same premise - that PayPal is being undervalued by a lot hiding inside eBay.
There is no reason that HTTP and HTTPS ports have to serve the same website. In this case, the HTTPS port is serving pebble.vanillaforums.com (or whatever) while the HTTP port is serving forums.getpebble.com.

The HTTPS port could just as easily be serving up an admin page for the forums, rather than the forums themselves.
Deutsche Bank Was Emphatic About Manipulating Libor
Looks right. There isn't much of a trail here (the wiki page is relatively new and mostly created by one individual), but I'd buy the general story. They do sound partisan, if not for their history and conflict with the Kremlin. I don't know that this is the case, but given the prevalence of Civil Society Organizations and NGOs in the form of news media fronts created inside Russia and the Baltics by the allies and the recent cleanup of these installations by the Kremlin - properly or no the Meduza team was likely seen as proxy political voices.

Thank you for the research.
I don't really know how to compare these things since I don't think Haskell was really very useful at it's 1.0 release, but Haskell 1.0 came out in 1990, 4 years after Erlang, they're both pretty old.
I would hope that adults entrusted with the care of our children and betraying that trust would be punished much more severely than wall streeters engaged in some sort of shenanigans.
Could be worse- what horrors would a "MEAT WIFE" start-up entail?
Charles Partain from your team looks like he's seen some shit.
Show HN: Continous Heart Rate for Android Wear and Apple Watch
Note that these decisions might still be "intelligent" (to a certain degree, i.e. not actually random but based on reasoning) without that hack.

But there might be a small chance involved where the entity would do another thing than the algorithmically determined action, and depending on how the values are interpreted this then triggers, the overriding of the game AI now just happens every time.
Your Password Is Too Damn Short
Well, yes, sure I guess there's room for both but they're also similar enough to where maybe a focused effort on one of them for quality libs/middle-ware would have produced better overall results. But maybe not.

But yeah, both are kind of boring, haha. I'm in the process of transitioning to more startup-friendly technologies and languages as it's more fun for me to work on those kinds of projects.

And awesome work you have there - $100/hr? Lucky!!! Consulting work?
Pretty interesting stuff. I do wonder how much internal collaboration there is on topics like HTML5 video & WebM. The benefits of owning end-to-end both browser and server for driving media codec development seem enormous.

It makes Google's decision to launch Chrome in 2008 much more of an obvious call.
The best programmers I know all find an excuse to write some assembly every so often, even if just as an exercise.
How is there not a free service that does this? Or were free services just not reviewed in this article.
I understand and appreciate your enthusiasm and excitement over the Erlang vm, but you really shouldn't misrepresent what's possible with the JVM, the Go VM, or even with Node.js.

All support parallelism as well as concurrency, and all can do so with an actor paradigm (and predictably, Node's support is the weakest).

Erlang's solution is more exciting because it offers a transparent mapping between local and remote code, so long as "transparent mapping" ignores the performance overhead.
There's no fundamental reason they couldn't spin off and then IPO, right?

I agree, it seems unlikely in the near future given Amazon's history, but it could happen. Maybe 10-20 years from now when Bezos has retired, a new CEO or three has been in place and the public markets aren't as forgiving of Amazon as they are now.
This is a stunning book. 15 years ago, when I first came to this country from India, a classmate gave me a copy of this book. I guess he wanted me to understand America or Americans or whatever. It definitely affected me at some deep level. I still have my copy, and I read it everytime something upsets me about my job & I get those "maybe I should just switch to something else..." feeling.

Its not "by Study Terkel" because he didn't really write this book....I mean, its his book, but he basically ran into all these chaps, and let them do all the talking. And they talk and talk and talk. He prompts them from time to time, but mostly, its a book by these people. And their stories and lives are super compelling. I often used to wonder why people do dead-end jobs like parking cars in a building, or store clerk etc. Here, those people tell you why. There is this hooker who tells you how she got into the business, how she turns tricks, dealing with cops, offering freebies to pimps,the whole thing is simultaneously amazing and sordid and just puts everything into perspective. It taught me that America is a hard country. Its not some first world paradise. America is like, seriously fucked up. I mean, all these people, they were here long before I got here, and they have friends & families & homes & connections, and yet their lives are so hard and messed up and its not all whining & complaining, but I did get the impression things are very hard out here for the blue collar guy. Ofcourse had Turkel gone to Sand Hill road & bumped into a hundred VCs, that would be a very different book. It a definite must-read, especially if you are an immigrant.
Where is the other 84% going?
Dropbox Deprecating the Sync and Datastore APIs
>I find much of the writing to be obscurantism around simple ideas, or just generally incomprehensible.

bingo. That pretty much describes Kant for me (or may be only Russian translation of him? Will let you know when/if i learn German). Just compare him with simple and practical Hegel or Nietzsche for example! :)
If they IPO'd, Bezos would be under humungous pressure to give it all out as dividends. Given his business beliefs, it'll never happen. It's not like they have cashflow problems anyway.
WhatsApp is not worth $19 billion. That was a defense acquisition, not an RoI based acquisition. Facebook was protecting themselves from losing $19 billion or more of business to WhatsApp or WhatsApp in the hands of a competitor (like google).
Japan is naturally doing this through their low birthrates.
Hey! I'm the OP. Let me know if you have any questions.

Just for fun, this was my heart rate while launching this:
https://twitter.com/AppCardiogram/status/591377862441046016
My impression is there's a lot more moderation going on.
Rackspace?

And what ever happened to Eucalyptus? https://www.eucalyptus.com/
I already do the other! ;) Those hills are rough.

But drivers in both cities still suck. The image of a cyclist being thrown into the air 10 feet on Folsom and 15th still sticks in my memory. I later learned he died. Never ever take the road for granted, even wearing Kevlar gear and a full-faced helmet; still no match for any steel framed vehicle. I'm always dumbstruck every time I peer into someone's window and I see the driver's head down, looking at a phone...
"I also think that there is a direct connection between events like the Flash Crash and things like Nasdaq's mishandling of the Facebook IPO, which, again, had real costs in terms of time and money. Both emerge, I would argue, from a similar flavor of complexity."

I think this was the point I was missing. So the goal of corrective regulation shouldn't be just to damp wild "flash crash" style transients per se, but to deal with unique anomalous events that commonly arise from the tightly coupled complexity of the market but have individually unpredictable causes and consequences?
A (very) simple obfuscator
I find Mark Cuban's take back then — and now, he still believes YouTube is a loser as recently as 2015 — particularly funny because selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion is how he made his billions. YouTube is soaring whereas Yahoo's music and video offerings are almost non-existent. Maybe he was biased by how bad his own acquisition went for Yahoo.
Just making it clear, we would not see a black circle in your opinion?
What does HP think it’s doing?
I did Waterloo engineering co-op as well and yes, it is a bit hectic, but at that age you can handle it. I wouldn't have traded it for anything. I had interesting jobs in a number of different countries. I invested my interest-free student loan in energy mutual funds which turned into a goldmine at that time and combined with my salary I finished university with lots of experience, no debt and a ton of money in my bank account. If that is a "curse" then please curse me some more.
You're absolutely right, about everyone in the industry. How did you become so astute with your observations?
You've provided no context, so I couldn't provide you with a meaningful answer. On the face of it, they are both stable at high loads.
Is there any direct, actionable evidence that individual CEO's willingly were involved with illegal activity related to the 2008 finance crisis? Most of what happened at the time was not technically illegal thus a large complex system with many participants makes prosecuting people very hard.
Ah, great. Apparently I didn't know they do. But again, being first doesn't automatically mean it's better. For instance, Sun's grid computing concept was earlier.

> To me, this is an isolated incident.

http://www.davidmturner.com/2013/07/26/gce-io-performance-su...
I am currently in the bay area wrapping up a co-op term (4 month intervals very similar to the waterloo experience). I disagree that it isn't worth it regardless of what your skill and desire are. You learn so much from just working that school does not give you, and that itself is worth it. But also while I agree that bay area companies will test and hire you for your skill, you have no foot in the door. You could be brilliant but have a lacking resume/application and they could just pass over your application. The point is that I agree that it may not help in the actual hiring process, but it gives you a better chance to get your foot in the door.
I wouldn't so much phrase it as "Amazon is targeting the present"; they're executing a hybrid strategy of making future-stuff to entice you (Lambda, or DynamoDB way back when) and then also cutting away all the objections you (some enterprise CTO) could have to moving 100% to their cloud stack, by making it also capable of doing everything your current private LAN/VPS/colo stack already does—even if everything your current stack already does is brain-damaged legacy stuff.

In other words, Google is building a cloud that you can only really pick up for blue-ocean ventures. AWS gives you a bunch of the same tech, but also a clear transition path: you can first duplicate all your present-day infrastructure in their cloud with little-to-no service interruption, and then start replacing it, component-wise, with the future-tech.
Invent new enemies every few years and new wars to send all our excess manpower off to?
Probably floating-point oddities. The bane of deterministic programming everywhere.
I also have a Waterloo Co-Op degree (biochemistry & math), and can say without a doubt that doing co-op was one of the best decisions of my early professional life.

Many, many years later... through academia and industry jobs, and as someone who hires now, a good co-op program is a phenomenal plus to helping you figure out who you are, professionally speaking.

And it lets you see where the blend between application and theory really lies, with respect to your own personal values.
I think you're forgetting that a 4 month cycle allows you to do more internships than a 6 month cycle.
For an exceptionally limited definition of "crash". Not locking the wheels in emergency maneuvers is a big issue for new riders, don't get me wrong, but I wouldn't call it the biggest cause of crashes for motorcycles.

Most single participant motorcycle crashes come from taking turns too quickly - either the tires run out of traction (low side), or the tires get too much perpendicular traction for the rider's position (high side). You can't fix that with any form of braking at that point in time.
It's interesting how Comcast's track record in complying with regulatory requirements from past deals may be a major factor here. I wonder if they would have been able to muscle this through had they been just a little bit less awful in the past.
>If correct, Intel could gain a capability as early as 2016 to produce 10nm transistors as much as 200 millivolts lower in power consumption than the rest of the industry.

Poor writing for a site called EEtimes...
Amazon is losing money as a whole, but AWS Is profitable. Isn't that the same concept as PayPal hiding in ebay?
Apple Photos would be great if they had more powerful family sharing. My dream is to have the family photo collection on all devices (iPhone, iPad, MacBook) that we can both curate.

Adobe Creative Cloud seems to support 1 collection with 2 people accessing it. Apple Photos is less expensive though, comes out to $5 a month for both of us (20GB + 200GB) vs the 10$ a month for the Lightroom.
White people get shot by police. You have to look to find the cases, though, because they don't generally make the national news.

Here are a few.

http://wreg.com/2014/11/25/salt-lake-cop-cleared-in-shooting...

http://wreg.com/2015/04/22/family-of-unarmed-white-man-kille...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/27/white-teen-g...

In fact, more white people than black people are shot by police in the US. The rate for blacks getting shot is higher, but not the number.
Yep. I down vote instead of "wrestling a pig in a mudpit." This thread is a perfect example. I'm not going to convince anyone who is complaining about downvoting in disagreement that downvoting for disagreement is good because they are complaining about rather than enquiring into the use of downvotes.

Stick around long enough and you realize it all evens out over time, wrong upvotes balance wrong downvotes...or in some sorts of threads overwhelm them...and the way to avoid diwnvotes is to write better comments. Accusing 'other people' of bad behavior is a lazy injustice.
Loss of community with the rest of your class? At Waterloo co-op in engineering is not optional. Your entire class is on the same 4-month school-workterm-school schedule.
My case specific advice can differ. My general advice without knowing the context is to apply. I didn't mean it is for everyone.

Some of those reasons to not raise after YC would exclude taking money from YC at all. They are still investors that expect a return.

Let me give an example that sounds crazy to normal people. If you're only going to make $1M a year and won't ever sell your company, you shouldn't bother taking external funding from investors that expect a strong return.
> For the longest time, it was only supporting Java and Python SDKs.

You are describing Google App Engine circa 2010. I recommend taking another critical look at what Google has available because it's quite competitive these days :)
> What philosophy offers to science, then, is not mystical ideas but meticulous method.

Given the utter bilge that philosophers have seriously propounded, and the endless arguments with no resolution between different schools of philosophy, I'm not sold on their "meticulous method" having much to offer to physics. I mean, yes, at it's best, philosophy has something to teach physics about meticulous though. But at it's best, physics already knows it.
"These have since become common building blocks of Internet-based computing systems, supporting companies ranging from large enterprises like Infor US Inc. and Netflix Inc. to startups such as Instacart Inc."

When I see a brand name mentioned randomly in an arricle, I wonder who paid for it. Why would Bloomberg mention instacart specifically? Is it common practice for companies to pay for these subtle pseudo-mentions in articles?
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Does Chicago Boss have a lot of momentum? I thought it was idle now that the founder had moved on. It's certainly a fairly complete and mature framework.

I'm thinking the hot new kids are:

Phoenix: http://www.phoenixframework.org
and
N2O: https://synrc.com/apps/n2o/

Of course, this is just my opinion, not a comprehensive list. But these two are most interesting to me and seem to have momentum.
>Electron is the cross-platform application shell we originally built for the Atom editor to handle the Chromium/Node.js event loop integration and native APIs.

Sounds pretty straightforward to me. They created APIs for Node.js to allow people to make cross-platform applications, such as Atom (a text editor).
I did the same at UBC and nobody should go in expecting it will be valuable no matter what just by signing up (depends so much on what you end up doing and what you personally enjoy and are good at), but I think there is a lot of value in doing internships before graduating for the experience and knowledge of what is out there. Helps bring more relevance to school work and you get to test out what you may or may not like in a 3-4 month period before having to commit full time.
That's a 2 year old blog post from the time when GCE was still in beta.

Apart from that, noisy neighbors happen on any cloud platform, and as the author of the article said, those test were far from scientific.
I seem to remember that the complaints have been around as long as I can remember. What's new is how popular they are.
JS;DR.
> but the Paul Krugmans and David Brooks of the world will be engineered out in the next decade or so by bots that troll the web for stories and generate canned ideologically-loaded commentary based on a smattering of data sources

Characterising a Nobel-winning economist as a content troll says more about you than him.