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engizeeron The Canadian Housing Boom Fueled by China’s Billionaires

Holy - I live 5 blocks from the C$64M home mentioned in the article and pay a rent of 1200$ every month.

engizeeron Alphabet Loses $859M on 'Moonshots' in 2Q 2016

That's pretty much Amazon's profits in 2Q 2016.

engizeeron Ask HN: I joined a big co, like the team, hate some policies, what should I do?

Could be AWS.

engizeeron Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing their luster

Any sane person that uses CircleCI thinks its good.

engizeeron Wearable keyboard that turns anything you can touch into a typing surface

Ah their waitlist is hackable(or is it crackable?). They don't distinguish between "abc@gmail.com" and "a.bc@gmail.com" - so pretty much you can game the list and move to the top(I did something very similar when OnePlus 2 came out). So tapwithus mods - if you're listening - please fix this!

engizeeron Show HN: S3io.com – using Amazon S3 for personal storage

Is this open source?

engizeeron Theranos Voids Two Years of Edison Blood-Test Results

> We're seeing the same thing happening with Zenefits

Sorry to contradict, but that's plain wrong. Both the founders of Zenefits - Parker and Laks, know more about the insurance industry than your average broker. It was Parker's frustration with the amount of insurance paper work he had to deal with at his prior company, that led him to actually start Zenefits so that the pain can be eased for others.

engizeeron Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip

All given, the fact that Google itself doesn't extensively use GC is kind of a red flag(I know quite a few Googlers from search infrastructure and none of them said their teams used GCE internally).

A solid guarantee with AWS is if AWS goes down, then a multitude of Amazon's services also will go down(ex Amazonian myself), so it gives me a belief that AWS's uptime is more important to Amazon itself that it is for external customers.

engizeeron Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip

This is true - I've heard rumors that GCE has been trying hard to poach cloud consumers from other providers, this could be another stroke in that effort.

engizeeron Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area

Would it make more sense financially, during this time to join a larger company? How long do you think before we start seeing regular IPOs of tech companies?