skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe if peering in Africa didn't suck big time and bandwidth wasn't prohibitively expensive, the situation would be different.

Anyway, AWS in South Africa isn't worth it if routes to nearby countries go through London anyway (like it's currently the case).
I'd never sign up for $25 a month. That's ridiculous. The value isn't there.

Where his pricing is now is good, and I'm seriously considering getting on board.
Ok, so you are making an assumption there. I don't think your assumption holds, it is very well possible to be a privacy advocate and to at the same time not have any crucial secrets worth keeping.

Privacy is a good thing, whether you have secrets worth keeping or not is immaterial, privacy doesn't have anything to do with secrecy. The two are often mixed but if you look a bit longer you'll see that they are in fact orthogonal concepts only very loosely related.

Taking your bathroom example: there is obviously nothing secret about what is going on in that bathroom, you can infer most of it from your own experience. And yet, we do seem to feel the need for privacy.

Another example would be a diary. Diaries are intensely personal and our etiquette around them is that if you happen to come across someone's diary that you do not open it to read it. It is considered a private document, even if it will not contain any secrets it may contain thoughts that the writer does not want to divulge to the world at large.

So privacy does not require any secrets at all to be a very important thing to many people, including privacy advocates.
Hi, could you please add a websocket endpoint, so other apps will be able to subscribe to the "source of randomness"?
Ha! That is not how legislation in the US works.

I expect upping the sentence for accessing an "unauthorized system" to a top-level 40-year felony and everyone congratulating each other with a "well that should take care of it!" job well done.

Probably in the same bill, I would expect amnesty for management in exchange for whistleblowing on software engineers that did not follow "best practices".

And finally, perhaps some pamphlets with "tips" to "teach the public" what they can do to better protect their privacy ... none of which will involve not giving your information to large corporations.
If you count edge locations (where stuff like anycasted nameservers, cloudfront and network PoPs are hosted) as well then the DC count is significantly higher than that
To further add to your point..

XBox (when PS existed), Azure, CRM, SQL, and many others which little bit of research would show up.
North Korea and South Korea are obviously different countries but they are both called the "Republic of Korea" (one with various adjectives tacked on).

I don't think you should read too much into names. Taiwan is neither internationally recognized as part of China nor does it function as part of China in any way.
Slight clarification, this isn't new in Docker, you're describing "Immutable Systems". It's also not mutually exclusive with configuration management tools.

The systems management tools have been doing this a long time with baked cloud images, most prominently Packer invoking configuration-tools-of-choice for baking cloud images straight (which I'd say STILL has a wider adoption than Docker) and this can also be done inside Docker files, just like it can be done for AWS image baking.

You're still going to have some things that need to be done in runtime, especially in managing your stateful servers.
Arguably, people today have more sophisticated politics. Resorting to fallacious tactics isn't a failing if it works. Maybe the problem is a moral one?
How many people will report to you ?
Although I touch the point of a linux "known to work" machine below, what are the odds that is not linux but a problem with hardware? memory would be my first guess.
Also, may you want to share more information about your set up? machine, specs? UEFI can play a big role on your problems.
My guess is that it saves the trouble of making a wheel that can rotate along the vertical axis (to turn left and right).

That greatly simplifies the design and make the whole thing more robust.
I can understand the confusion. There is a lot of capability here and being used as a blogging platform is one of the things it can used for. The intention here is to provide for a way to show collections or groups of small units of conten. Blogging is an activity that has categories and hierarchies so it can be done using this platform. The value proposition is that its a better way to showcase collections of content. With many micro blogging platforms and the like it's quite difficult to find older posts or particular information sometimes, there's also some platforms where the focus is on what is currently the latest and everything else is old and more cumbersome to locate. Cards as the smallest unit of data are great for being a container for a mixture of imagery and text and something everyone is familiar with.

There is a need to add more polish, are you looking at the web site or app?
The Chinese "Communist" party is not in fact communist in the classical sense. They are mostly technocratic and pragmatic, and modern China has a market economy. Don't read too much into names.
summary of things that I would change: change the price to 6.99$, add a blog about tips and tricks on how to learn a new language in general not about the product directly. have the review of the splash reduced. Put twitter and facebook buttons visible above the fold.
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The smart person goes for the scooter. From an individual standpoint you stand to gain the most from the scooter since your vote is just a drop in a bucket. This is the most rational choice.

Collectively, everyone acting rationally produces unintended results. It's a weird phenomenon logically described here as the tragedy of the commons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons. Even if you try to do something counter-intuitive, whatever choice you make as an individual is still inconsequential in terms of voting.

For example let's say it's time to vote. I live in california and I'm a democrat, the voting is probably gonna go blue anyway regardless of whether or not I vote. So why not choose the scooter?

Let's say I end up choosing the scooter. Then, when the results come out, I realize not enough democrats voted because they all went for the scooter. Thus the state actually ended up being red.

So I decide to take a hypothetical time machine back into time to change my decision. Now I choose to vote Blue instead of get a free scooter. Well guess what? the outcome is still the same; the rest of california still makes the same decision regardless of whether or not I vote. The difference is, in one scenario I have a scooter, in the other scenario I don't have a scooter... every other factor in both outcomes remains the same. Whatever choice I make from an individual standpoint the Logical choice is ALWAYS the free scooter.

In the end to make a better world there needs to be a sort of collective idiocracy, which is kind of what's going on in this thread right now: (You all think you guys are so smart because you didn't go for the scooter).

How about this: free scooter for anyone who votes democrat! That makes more sense (if you're democrat).
Let's hope these fare better than hitchbot:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/08/03/hit...
1. True. Being passionate about your startup is super-important, so if targeting business would kill it for you, then forget it.

2. I'm not so sure, because your churn is 50% annually. This is going to severely limit your growth. I guess it depends how far you want to take the business. And I'm not sure you can fix the stickiness of your product, as you've said that people leave because they stop studying.

3. True. I guess you could always hire someone with the money from b2b income, so they focused on the business users and you just had fun working with personal users.

4. Sure.

Good luck, and please make sure you post again so we can see how you progress!

[edit: removed the numbers re: churn, as it was too difficult to give an accurate example!]
Naming it DEath-STAR is probably not the best way to build public support.
Note that I didn't even attempt anything. They're the ones who started it.
Ok, then I suppose that you can't simply walk into russia... ok sorry for the bad joke
I hope not either. But this is a popular model in videogames, and it somehow both pissess off players and earns the studios tons of money.

You obviously can't apply it to every movie, but you could appply it to quite a few. For instance, there's little point in extra content for Inception, because the movie world is defined by the start and the end of that very movie, and as you said, it has to make sense in its basic version. But consider things with already established franchises. I Disney would start publishing DLC sub-stories to the Force Awakens, I'm betting that every hardcore Star Wars fan would feel obliged to see them. The world portrayed in the movie is much bigger than the movie itself, and is has communities formed around it. To participate in the fandom, you need to be up to date with the canon. I'm pretty sure it could work with Marvel Cinematic Universe as well.

Then there are movies for which such a move would be a gamble. LotR and Hunger Games are franchises too, but I don't think they're strong enough to support DLC money-grab.

Anyway, enough suggesting ideas to them :). I absolutely hate DLCs. I just couldn't resist discussing the concept in the abstract.
Well if it is so, it shows that in the U.S. the bankers have the power to fuck things up and the government has the money, while in China it is the opposite. I wonder if Chinese way could actually be closer to what should be expected from banks and governments.
> calling it the burst of a speculative bubble is the simplest explanation.

I do agree with that, but many people insist that it is not the truth. All kinds of theories have been invented since the collapse in July, all kinds of people have been jailed for "manipulating the market", and they still refuse the believe that the market is, just the market.
I agree on the branding. The landing page looks like a side project, the message is neither strong or clear. You might want to look at this https://www.goodui.org/
Ridley Scott's alien is inevitable. Human history and scientific progress has been driven by conflict. Whenever a better weapon is within reach, we reach out for it. Modern genetics is advancing very fast. We'll definitely have Ridley Scott's alien in our lifetime. It's very likely to kill us all.
Then why did you bring up the "moral ground" in the first place? That's confusing.
Excellent point, in many ways the series and subseries in CardPi does resemble a wiki structure. Whereas wikis are designed for collaboration however the focus here is still on personal content and engagement with update posts and discussions.
It is effective. I know of people that have changed their travel plans to avoid France, and apparently they weren't alone:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3338173/Terror-attac...

Terror attacks in Paris means visitor numbers across Europe tumble and France has already lost £1.4bn in tourism revenue
How many meaningful competing products does Xbox have? You can count with one hand. Same goes for Azure. Now think about how much competition Evernote has. There are tons in each category. Heck I can even build my own note app in an hour using Dropbox, iCloud or any other cloud storage providers (which by the way are much more stable than Evernote) Lastly I don't know what you mean by CRM and SQL (since they're a category and not exactly a product) but basically all these enterprise products from MOS were successful because they already owned a successful platform--Windows. Evernote doesn't have any successful platform and its product had too much competition with little competitive advantage.
I do it sometimes, just wondering if there was any particular reason that people do it.
There are too many free apps that are easier to use than Evernote. Google Keep comes to mind as they have made a bunch of improvements over the last year, the big one being sharing.
This is really cool. The free demo and the $5 price was just enough to convert me to a paid user for at least for a month. Seriously, this is exactly what I was trying to get to work in a desktop ebook reader or on my Kindle, but unsuccessfully.

Any chance for integrating the Yandex Translate API? (I am learning Russian. The MT quality between Google and Yandex for Russian is sort of a toss; I would say 70% of the time Google is better, but 30% of the time Yandex is.)
2, maybe 3. At least for the first months.
Very true. And for some skills, like juggling specifically, even the very top might not be good enough:

"Why did Anthony Gatto, the greatest juggler alive — and perhaps of all time — back away from his art to open a construction business?"

http://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque-...
You can use the "dockerception" method: build in a container with devtools, then import the resulting binaries into a container with no devtools.
https://github.com/jamiemccrindle/dockerception

The resulting images can be very small:
https://hub.docker.com/r/jjclark/nethack/tags/

It's currently a little difficult because of a bug with building from a tarball:
https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/15785
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/going-once-going-twice-airlines-...

"Passengers who bid see where they stand on a leaderboard, and just before boarding begins, the airline awards one upgrade to Main Cabin Select and one to first. The auction, with people bidding against each other in the gate area, can add some excitement—and some potential added frustration—to the boredom of waiting for a flight."
I'm always a little sceptical of these arguments too, because I wonder if the difference is this:

Now, when people are bored with what you're saying, instead, of their eyes glazing over, they might start to become increasingly attentive to their phones; In other words, they now have a physical bore-shield.

I think people meet and talk as much as they did - They just don't necessarily prioritise the pleb in front of them - and for some people, who like to monopolise their audiences, this is a problem.
It's not a zero sum game.

Good companies use information they collect to provide better services. Bad companies use it to rip people off. The problem of bad companies doing bad things is independent of companies having information about people.
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Link to blog post https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/01/04/windo...
I would argue that banning firearms is a highly inefficient way to deal with firearms accidents. Accidents are a direct result of ignorance. You tell newly-licemsed firearms owners that 3 times as many kids die in firearms accidents as thdy do in shootings, and they will (hopefully) keep an eye on their kids.

As for how far a city is from a state with lax laws: Wouldn't the laws in the city itself have an effect as well? Some citizens follow the law, after all. One of the major arguments for free access to weaponry in general is that those who rob and kill and rape are usually willing to risk extended jail time in exchange for being able to use a gun to keep others from fighting back. The thing about threatening someone with a weapon is this: if they have a weapon, or a random bystander has a weapon and decides to interfere, then instead of forcing someone to cooperate, you've made the situation more dangerous for yourself (and everyone else).
Home Depot has decent swivel wheels for maybe eight bucks retail. The wheel that rotates doesn't have to be active.
But Google has absolutely the best peering available, which is a great advantage for many regions.
Governments are exceptionally powerful. In theory they have control of 50% of my income, as well as the police, legal system, and military. Genuinely corrupt government is one of the scariest things I can imagine.

If the government is not corrupt, I have optimism in being able to get through a personal attack.
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> sufficient warning

Well, yes, quite. Wouldn't we be better off making sure we can reliably find them first?
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I think if google would respond to all applications it would crack down the whole Email/network in seconds... They receive hundreds of thousands applications each day...
Lotus 1-2-3 had the same issue back in the day, although they framed it as everybody only liked 3 of the top 15 features, and it was a different 3. They did fine; they only lost to Excel, which was a better version of the same thing.

A few years later there was a new management team, and Lotus was even more confused about Notes. That did fine too.

The key, I think, is to already have a decent business model around the core of your product-use. Then if the sizzle is 97 additional features -- well, that can be OK.
>The DOS-style CLI arguments used by Microsoft's other command line tools seem like such a stubborn throwback to a long-lost war. "/" ... "-" ...

The reasons were technical[1] instead of a stubborn resistance.

The hyphen "-" was allowed in DOS/Windows filenames. The "/" was not. Therefore, if you programmed your command utility to use "-" as command line switches to match UNIX convention, your app would be "broken" because it couldn't accept filenames that began with hyphens such as "-verify.txt"

If you then try to mitigate that with an "escape" switch such as double-hyphen "--" to turn off the hyphen processing, that means you can't operate on files that are named as "--". (Viruses and malware love creating files with legal filenames that utilities can't open.)

So then you layer another hack on top of that and create the mother of all escape sequences with something like "--switch_character=-" (and then cross your fingers that nobody has a file that's actually named "--switch_character=-".

(Arguably, you could make "myapp -- --" be unambiguous by imposing a rule that position is significant (the 1st "--" is parsed as a semantics switch, and the 2nd "--" is parsed as the oddly named file) but now you've given up the flexibility of specifying parameters in any order which many UNIX utilities do allow.)

Instead of all that complication, you just let "/" be the switch character and it's easier because "/" is already an illegal character for filenames. (When in Rome...[2])

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename#Directory_table

[2]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/when_in_Rome,_do_as_the_Roman...
Not really. That's how much China's stock market would fall if China's nominal GDP dropped by that much. In the worst of the 2009 crisis, the US GDP only dropped by about 1% if I remember right.
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The search engine gives an error page and clicking on World never load the page. Maybe the site is overloaded. However an example would help: I expected to see something in those cards and because they are empty I'm left wondering what this service is about.
Will be awesome OVH in Ashburn. Perhaps only 1-3 ms away from AWS us-east.
Wait, Scott Adams is part of a organosulfur compound?
Trying to force asteroids away are we?
But the library isn't as big in India as it is in the US so you might want to keep your VPN subscription after all.
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> The poor often vote against their own interests

>> agreed.

>> but surely the natural solution is to increase the number of informed people (education, PSAs, 'nudging' people towards being more informed) not to disenfranchise the poor.

The conversation could enter a loop at this point.

Also, since the same groups that spread the ignorance in the article, are often very active in trying to disenfranchise the poor, either they are incompetent or they know quite well that there's things they want to push through that widespread democractic representation would prevent, even in it's current dysfunctional state.

And they could save all the money they spend convincing poor people to vote against their own interests, and use it to convince lower middle class people to vote against their own interests (at least until they can disenfranchise them too).
It's an interesting idea, but needs better explanation.

I don't have an iOS device to test the app, but it took me a while to work out what it is and does from the website.

The site should explain clearly what the benefits of using it are and why I should use it over another service. It's not easy to get right, but makes a huge difference.

I would also spend a bit of time working on the design – you have a good start but it needs polishing. You may not want to go full Google, especially if you're focusing on iOS, but the Material design spec has some really good principles for creating card-based components [0].

I think part of my confusion came from the name. At first I thought it was to do with a Raspberry Pi as [something]Pi seems to be the standard for RPi related projects.

[0]https://www.google.com/design/spec/components/cards.html
Don't forget that they'll bundle it with a law that prohibits kicking puppies... so that if you point out the flaws or say it won't work, they can shoot you down as a naysaying puppy kicking sicko.
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R is the only real game in town for free software for scientific computing these days.

From a political perspective R was in the right place at the right time. It was a decent high level language that could handle matrix processing gracefully. Scipy/Numpy weren't ready for production yet. The others were Matlab, SAS, and Stata, all of which R makes look like APL.

I'm glad the field has a more healthy open source landscape with worthy competitors in the form of Julia and Numpy/Scipy.

R's biggest sin is failure to force people to use functional paradigms by providing juuuust enough imperative sugar to make average Joe programmer feel at home. R is a functional language, and that's the principle under which is should be taught.

That said, R also has a large number of main technical strengths:

1. Fast basic statistics within the REPL so you can test hunches quickly.

2. Cutting edge algorithms that often aren't implemented anywhere else.

3. Hugely strong engineering packages for civil, environmental, defense, aerospace and basically any IRL engineering field you can think of.

R comes free, with these advantages and many more for the average lab tech.
This is a good tutorial for web development with Yesod:

https://pbrisbin.com/posts/developing_web_applications_with_...

You might want to try using stack instead of cabal though to ensure you avoid any dependency issues. I think cabal will work fine these days, but I have been using stack/stackage for some time so can't guarantee it.
Its also starting to irritate me.

I just need a structured way to store simple text & search. Yet it feels cumbersome even for that.
Google added their 4th region - US East - in October last year[1] but it's true that this is poor effort compared to Azure and AWS.

I wrote an article for InfoWorld about this at the end of last year: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3008617/cloud-computing/glo... and have a map of locations at https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zV7qz2PQ6Sz4.kJHcuw...

[1] http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/Bringing-G...
But when I do that suddenly I don't get rides....
To be more pedantic, if you're talking about gross profit, it can be counted before wages, depending on the attributes of the wage.
Why would someone use this rather than OTR? (http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/OTR)
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