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alienreborn··on iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
Essentially iPhone XS with Pixel camera updates.
alienreborn··on 50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google
Sorry but some one else already did that before you (http://startpage.com).
alienreborn··on 50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google
> 3. Posting map/weather/review content straight to SERPs starving MapQuest/WU/Yelp et al from getting clicks

I get why this is included in Anti Trust but I love this feature. Recently read a report that now <50% results lead to click which means it is loved by lot of users too.

alienreborn··on How Apple's Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls
You don't see a problem with that first scenario where search results for 'podcasts' is filled with completely unrelated apps from Apple?
alienreborn··on Amazon AWS had a power failure, their backup generators failed
Some AWS services can't span across multiple availability zones like EMR.
alienreborn··on Data Engineering Cookbook
This looks like blogspam or collecting a bunch of blogspam articles and turning it into a book.
alienreborn··on Netflix launches Rs 199 ($2.80) mobile-only monthly plan in India
Hotstar movie/tv content and UI sucks ass but they have live cricket along with few other popular sports leagues which gives them a huge advantage in Indian market.
alienreborn··on Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners
Probably Informatica or Talend which are two of the most popular Enterprise ETL tools.
alienreborn··on Support for U2F security keys
1Password has Wifi Sync option too.
alienreborn··on Apple App Store Principles and Practices
In the 'Reader' Apps section, Apple says

> Apple receives no commission from supporting, hosting, and distributing these apps.

Whats the yearly fees you pay to publish to App Store for?

alienreborn··on Apple’s defense of the App Store just shows how hard it is to compete with Apple
Relevant article by former App Approval Chief at Apple: https://medium.com/@phillipshoemaker/apple-v-everybody-59030...
alienreborn··on Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service
No exclusive games but they revealed that Doom Eternal will come to the service with 4k, HDR and 60 FPS.
alienreborn··on When India Kicked Out Coca-Cola, Local Sodas Thrived
Available in most Indian groceries or restaurants in US if you wanna try.
alienreborn··on Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2019
Is there a way to create lifestyle config for Sagemaker manually instead of using fast.ai created IAM ARN and config?
alienreborn··on New research on the cost of colonization to India
> In 1750, Calcutta had a population of 120,000

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Kolkata

alienreborn··on License Changes for Confluent Platform
I kinda expected this after recently revealed AWS Managed Kafka. AWS can afford to release half baked products because platform inertia and that will easily cannibalize whatever traction SaaS offerings of Elastic, Kafka, Mongo etc has.
alienreborn··on Heading to a cardiologist
Don't know about demo at Apple Store but setup of ECG required Health app on my iPhone. So if you already have an iPhone, you can just 'buy' the watch, use it for couple of weeks and return it if it doesn't interest you using Apple 14 day return policy.
alienreborn··on Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka in Public Preview
> Broker instances start at $0.21/hr and broker storage is $0.10 per GB-month

Kafka requires Zookeeper, do you pay for zookeeper instances too? Anyway, this pricing seems prohibitively costly unless you really need hands-off approach to your infra. Kafka is pretty low-maintenance and stable in my experience.

alienreborn··on EuclidesDB: a multi-model machine learning feature database
Looks interesting. Are you the creator? If so..

Any reason why you chose LevelDB?

I was actually looking at clipper.ai for model serving at my work. I know it's not 1-to-1 comparison as clipper is much more generic where as this seem to tie in closely with PyTorch. Can it support models created using other libraries?

alienreborn··on Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more powerful
> “Competition is for losers,” writes Peter Thiel, an American venture capitalist, in his book, “Zero to One”. Monopoly is the goal, he says.

Wow!

alienreborn··on Wayne Gretzky and the Mysteries of Athletic Greatness
Similar edge case in cricket is Bradman. Most great cricket batsmen Test batting average is around 50-60 and Bradman's average is 99.94

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/wi/content/records/282910.html

alienreborn··on Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud
Google having an edge in ML and kubernetes will help them but they really need superior documentation to counter crowd wisdom on AWS.

Solutions/answers to most basic roadblocks you might encounter when working with AWS offerings are a quick google search away but that's the case for gcp offerings. They also need to ramp up their evangelism (for the lack of better word) to get some mind share.

alienreborn··on Amazon expected to announce NYC and Northern Virginia as new headquarters
> that have no real draw (in my opinion) for technical employees

3rd in tech patents after San Francisco and San Jose. 2nd or 3rd in total tech jobs after San Francisco and Seattle. This comment seems like its coming from some one who doesn't know a thing about NYC Tech scene.

> unpleasant weather,

8.6 Million people like here and lot of people prefer 4 season cycle.

alienreborn··on Ask HN: A large tablet for PDFs?
I suggest iPad 2018 (330 but you can get it for 250 this Thanksgiving from various big box retailers) or iPad Pro 11 depending on how much you wanna spend. iPad 12.9 is too big and unwieldily to hold, its great if you mostly read/draw with it laying on a desk.

I just upgraded to iPad Pro 11 and its a great PDF reading device. I use PDF Expert with synced cloud folder so that any annotations or notes I made on iPad are available everywhere on the pdfs. LiquidPDF is another costly but more powerful PDF annotation tool.

Samsung make great tablets with AMOLED screens but please be aware that android has non existent tablet app ecosystem.

alienreborn··on IBM’s Old Playbook
Wow, that revenue graph is pretty shocking and enlightening to me. I know IBM is a huge behemoth but never knew it had much higher revenue than Microsoft for most of 2000s.
alienreborn··on Rent the Runway Wants to Lend You Your Look
I rarely post and mostly ready or comment but found this as interesting start up story. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
alienreborn··on Finance makes Apple and Google forced friends
Apple says 'Privacy is a Human right' and continuously positioned/marketed itself as the champion of privacy especially over last year when FB and GOOG are in news reg. various privacy violation issues. Now, the article estimates over 10% of profits made by Apple are from Google because it sets Google as default search engine on a browser which comes default. So, Apple doesn't really believe what it says to the world based on its actions here and the way it folded in China reg. iCloud.
alienreborn··on Ask HN: YouTube down?
Yes.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/youtubeisdown

alienreborn··on Google to Charge Phone Makers for Android Apps in Europe
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/16/17984074/google-eu-andro...
alienreborn··on Google to Charge Phone Makers for Android Apps in Europe
3 Choices for OEMS:

- ASOP Vanilla or their forked version [Free]

- Include Play Store and Google Services [Pay up]

- Add-on Chrome with Google Search on top of Play Store [Free]

Prices of flagship phones are already higher than they are in US, now they will be increased again.

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