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I know there's a lot being said about super bugs...but is the expectation that we just keep developing stronger antibiotics? is this something can be sustained over the next few decades/centuries?

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Peskin's NIMBY supporters are basically on the same level of denial of trump supporters...they don't care what their own party's candidates do, they just want to make sure their side wins.

Terrible comments like this make me worried about HN. Seems like the worst of the worst on Reddit are finding they're way on here.

Ah of course. Just a few few weeks of dev time to build the same thing a multi-billion dollar company sells. Then after a few weeks of dev time you find out you're missing about 80% of the features that makes tableau useful. After that few weeks your manager asks you how the project is going and you just mutter something about how you should probably just buy looker or tableau.

> that's a massive waste of your time and effort.

Yeah I work at a company in the analytics space and see that all the time. It peaks the curiosity of people who are software developers (yet their core competency at their job is something else). They think its a fun work side-project and go after it. Write some python scripts to do ETL and process the data...make a backend with pg, a web server, then do charts in d3.js.

A year later they have a bunch of nice demos to their bosses but nothing that they can actually use in production because it crashes, there's no UI for interactive queries, no reports for people in the business groups, no user management etc. Then they drop it because they're busy with their actual job. So the cost of that engineers time to do something that didn't work was about $20-30k over a year. While the product they could actually use in production was around the same price.

I only flew American once in my adult life. Just rude/grumpy people at the gate. I fly almost on a weekly basis and they made me check the carry-on that always fits fine on United/Alaska/Southwest claiming it was too big. And they were not polite about it.

Out of the Bay Area it seems like Alaska is the best domestic option, then United. AA is probably the last airline I'd fly after that experience.

Thats definitely the wrong read. This is a direct competitor to Microsoft's PowerBI. Google will need Looker to get large enterprise data management deals on Google Cloud.

It’s not abuse...it’s using the license exactly as is allowed.

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Striim was ranked as a Best Place to Work in Silicon Valley by multiple publications.

Absolutely. Surprised the music industry hasn't had its own 'Harvey Weinstein' moment because the same stuff happens there.

Getting a major record company to just follow through on the payment of a clearly contracted project is a hassle on its own. It's like they just want to weed out paying any musicians who can't afford to have a lawyer follow up.

They did the same thing with the bloated, behind schedule Central Subway in SF. Huge lavish stations deep under ground. I'd much rather they do cut and cover subways with stations that look like manholes with escalators/elevators.

Spark is NOT hadoop. You don't even need hadoop for spark anymore. Spark is more or less completely independent from the hadoop ecosystem.

Just because they're compatible doesn't mean they're synonymous. You can use spark with mesos or kubernetes instead of YARN.

> Because Hadoop has not been killed off.

> HDFS being replaced with more scalable solutions like S3/EMRFS.

Thank you for re-affirming my point.

I'm not going to go into the typical HN "I'm going to nitpick your point down to the bone and argue you over the pointless details", but 2012 Hadoop is not the same thing as the tools you're describing.

yes mostly locally hosted back then. the idea was you'd have this massive distributed file system to hold all your data, and VC backed comopanies like Cloudera, MapR, Hortonworks promised everyone that they'd build the SQL layer, the data warehousing, BI, and all the other enterprise features you'd need to basically replace your expensive Teradata, Oracle Exadata, and other data warehousing systems.

But of course it didn't play out that way.

Hadoop's whole appeal was it was cheap and scalable. Did it actually work without serious engineering teams maintaining each distribution? absolutely not. the hype was purely VC funded.

fast forward 10 years and hadoop has basically been killed off by hosted storage services that are more expensive but 10000x easier to manage.

in what world was spark killed by storm/heron? last i checked the spark conference had over 10k attendees this year. storm is barely supported and heron never picked up steam.

More importantly...users don't read walls of text. this article was just a concise list of cliches and counters.

> Driver was obviously over confident on system's ability to self-drive, probably busy looking at phone and ignored warnings to put his hands on steering.

and based on personal experience, he was probably overconfident because the person who sold him that car was overconfident.

i remember my first tesla autopilot test drive on a freeway...i was a bit nervous...constantly stepping in when i thought the car was tail-gating or not breaking fast enough and the salesman had a very nonchalant attitude as if I was being needlessly anxious about it.

> I think the best advice for me was "Add sample data to avoid an empty nest."

I respectfully disagree with that view and I say that as someone who has implemented a product with sample data during the onboarding process.

Users don't care about your data. They care about their data. The easier you make it for the user to input their own data and get some value out of it...even if its something trivial...the faster they'll be able to relate their problem to your products ability to solve it.

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There's also companies that create open source projects and go on to build highly differentiated value-add products on top of it. E.g. Databricks (owners of Apache Spark) who built a great SaaS product for managing data science pipelines. That product is so valuable it's almost as if they don't even need to monetize the spark project by itself.

What I don't like is the companies that create some open source project for the hype, then charge for a 'management console' or some marginal add-on.

Step 1: Launch company to monetize open source hoping to get rich in IPO.

Step 2: Be shocked when Amazon uses your open licenses exactly how they're allowed to

Step 3: Write angry letter about Amazon monetizing the project you were trying to monetize.

Open source isn't meant to be a get-rich quick scheme for founders to generate cheap buzz off their 'free' project. It's literally designed to be forked and used in whatever way the user/developer sees fit. You can't just unrealistically hope that a large company won't exploit it in whatever way they can.

This might be a stupid simple question, but where do you post your blogs once they're live? just share on linkedin or other social media? HN is obviously one destination but its a tough place to get large visibility.

This might be a stupid simple question, but where do you post your blogs once they're live? just share on linkedin or other social media? HN is obviously one destination but its a tough place to get large visibility.

definitely interesting that google is taking a friendly approach to partners while AWS is simply forking their code and selling it themselves. It'll be interesting to see which strategy pays off. Still a decent gap between # of AWS and GCP customers, but this could help them catch up.

also shameless plug (about as shameless as it gets), but my company is offering free 90 day database migrations to Google Cloud for customers actively looking to move their ops to GCP.

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The biggest hypocrisy is when a company that's actively and aggressively trying to monetize the open source project, with ambitions to go public, shame companies like Amazon and Microsoft for doing the exact same thing.

And they talk about how it harms the development community...exactly how does it harm the average OSS developer if Amazon or Microsoft or Google are adopting the project and making it easier to deploy in cloud scenarios?

Seems like a 'have your cake and eat it too' scenario. These companies benefitted from massive adoption thanks to open source being developer friendly and free, yet they want it to be just restrictive enough that only their company can monetize it.

This just looks like Twitter acquiring vine 2.0.

A big player acquiring an orthogonal product...most likely meaning they'll just kill it. I doubt hotels will partner with AirBnB on a booking service.