skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One could also feel sad for the (possibly millions) of people in Africa who were depending on this satellite launch to give them internet service. The difference between having internet, and not having it, is huge, especially in the developing world. This has real human consequences.
Interesting. Not being a morning person I'd find the 8am start hard, I wonder if anyone has done this with a later start?
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Can't believe I'm the first person in this comment stream to say it, but: doesn't this piece feel like a real-world Dwarf Fortress?
Therefore voting for him?

Well, maybe Scott Adams can stop declaring himself a Clinton supporter for his safety ...
Good writeup about dynamic pricing.

I see analogues to some store-brand items that are in fact made by a big brand using its excess production capacity, or a family of brands that has similar-but-distinct products at different price points.
Thanks, but I prefer this https://www.windyty.com/
Well, with alcohol, we tried (and largely for the reasons you mentioned). On net, the effects caused by the abolition of alcohol (and probably other drugs) were arguably worse than the effects caused by its existence. In particular, demand for (and use of) alcohol didn't disappear, and thus black markets + organized crime thrive, which cause problems worse than the original problem.

I'm highly skeptical that if antibacterial soap were banned, demand would drive a a black market. People are far more aware of and particular about their Shiraz and Saison (and the intoxicating effects thereof) than their Softsoap's antimicrobial properties.
DNS records tend to hang around in caches, and people query the same RRs regularly. Thus, it's pretty hard to spoof a RR that you're regularly requesting. This doesn't help for those zones that are not DNSSEC enabled, but there's nothing you can really do about that.

If a zone is DNSSEC signed and I query its records regularly(i.e. they stay in the cache) it would be very hard to spoof their records. If I also use a recursive resolver that does DNSSEC validation(e.g., 8.8.8.8) it's even harder. I'm not quite willing to say it would be impossible, but AFAIK no one has shown it to be possible.
Have lets encrypt committed themselves to issuing any valid certificate for any site and never canceling it based on them not liking the content?

I don't want a future where we need companies permissions to post on the internet. Especially not political stuff.
I see similar comments on all of these articles and I am really curious which UK/USA/Canada cities that artists and musicians and the like go to.

I'm going to throw out Nashville as a thought for musicians, and maybe Pittsburgh for tinkerers.
"SAFE holders do not have any voting or information rights".

With this kind of agreement, it's basically gambling since most info on start-ups is basically PR fluff. At least public companies have to publish annual reports and real investors get information rights.
Is your argument that Bangladesh would have been safe if they were using a blockchain? Given their revealed security practices, I'd be surprised if they had the ability to secure any private keys from being revealed - and they would have had even less recourse with a blockchain based system (though admittedly, their recourse is limited even now).
There's no web surfing license or web surfing test, that's the big difference.
I feel like a lot of these systems would be very interesting to fingerprint.

Especially/only when they're all automated tech stacks, it wouldn't appear that hard to feed them with varying inputs and use feedback to establish roughly what their grading rules are.
They don't really operate with the concept of "climbing back" or "way out".
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It's not as if you would move your money out of Europe they suddenly can't hit you with taxes anymore. If you want to keep doing business in the EU, you'll need to comply with EU rules (and yes, pay taxes).
I dunno, I think it is a good bug report. Would be great to solve.
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Doesn't Ant use XML format?
When I was looking into Forward Error Correction a while back all of the impressive stuff was for downlinks from remote space probes.

I don't know any specifics around the Juno probe however most of the techniques usually sent 2-3x the amount of data actually downloaded because a missed frame was 1.5hrs(43mins @ Speed of light from Earth->Jupiter). Being able to reconstruct a frame with redundant data was critical.

Combined with a low power transmitter 6mb is pretty reasonable.
Taxes are not someone else's problem, independent from your own. It's not like someone else's rent or salary.

If someone else doesn't pay their taxes, either you make up for it by paying more or government services are cut.
Wood? have a link? I'm curious
On the other hand, 6MB is the typical file size for the jpg-compressed images taken by my 20MP smartphone camera.

It is all a matter of perspective.
People also spend millions every year on a regulatory apparatus to help identify and address tragedies of the commons and other threats that each person, individually, would be ill-equipped to address on their own.
Yeah, admittedly a bit of a tongue-in-cheek stretch.
Jamaica Street, up as far as Camp and Furnace, but I hear that the end nearer town is being gentrified. And classical musicians and fine artists are heading to Berlin where it is still possible to rent a (effing) flat.
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Cats are indigenous to every continent save Antarctica. One of the most widespread, adaptable creatures in the world. Housecats are not genetically different from wild cats - they can interbreed and often do.
Apples and oranges. "1% or less" is the effective tax rate Apple has historically paid in the EU. 35% (or 25%) is the nominal tax rate Apple is discussing paying in the US. After a bunch of tax avoidance gimmick the nominal 35% rate will be much lower.

The US tax code is an outlier in the world in having both a very high corporate tax rate and then also a huge number of ways to avoid actually paying that tax. The Economist has written extensively about this, for example http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21608751-restricting-c...
My condo is Toronto is going up in value pretty quickly. I'm still 100% opposed to the Vancouver tax, but in theory it's making my assets increase in value.
> With their limited funds, [startups are] a poor investment for the average investor

They're not great for institutional investors either: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-10/venture-ca...
Does anyone know how much money is sitting outside the country from all companies so we know the total impact of bringing money back?

Can we incentivize bringing money back so we can reinvest in infrastructure for high speed transportation, self-driving cars and insanely crazy high speed Internet?
So what does this say about Colgate Total, which uses Triclosan?
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Google play has had this for years, welcome to 2013!
It is really depressing reading the thread to see that how some members just can't let it go. I'm totally pro-diversity and support different projects and forks with different priorities but AOO's track record and sitting on top of a valuable brand has been a net loss for the open source in office area. I wouldn't mind it at all had they continue to develop their own thing named SolidOffice or whatnot, but I know companies which still use Openoffice on Windows, because that is what they have had always used, nevermind it doesn't even get prompt security updates.
Oh man LTCG on MSVC was brutal on build times. I remember we had to use it extensively in games since we'd usually be within 3-5mb of system limits on a release console.

If LTO is similar that sounds like a massive win and something to look forward to.

[edit]
Looks like LTO is more about performance than perf+binary size. Still sounds like awesome stuff.
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I think they are also buying the prestige of a cool place to loan to friends and the safety of a cool place to stay if wherever they are from has trouble
The same logic works for all Protectionist legislation. Yet free trade has lowered the costs of nearly every good in our lives.
Scientists are not my primary social group.
You can add multiple client sertificates to a single account for example in case of git hosting services. Why would it be impossible for other services?
I call for a detailed investigation over WoSign's purchase of StartCom
and the current status of StartCom. If StartCom is deemed untrusted in connection with WoSign,
it should be revoked as well.

I further call for all current users of WoSign or StartCom to switch to Let's Encrypt as soon as possible.

First off, it's impractical for all StartCom/WoSign customers to switch to LE because LE doesn't offer wildcard and EV TLS certificates, neither do they offer certificates that are valid more than 90 days.

Second of all, there are 175 root certificates[1] (close to a hundred CAs) trusted by Mozilla, why does this blogger targets the one and only CA in China; go above and beyond digging into private business deals to prove his point and trying so hard to gather up public support to revoke WoSign's root certificates?

I mean, sure WoSign was pretty bad in those incidences of certificate mis-issurances and have had some really shitty practices exposed (I suspect incompetence might also contributed), but is WoSign the ONLY one out there who does these shitty practices in the CA business? We don't know, until someone's look into it. But publicly shaming a single CA doesn't make all of us securer, rising awareness and promote security best practices do.

PS: if you read the rest of his blog posts in Chinese (resource links ), you would most certainly agree that the blogger is A) knows Chinese really well and B) is a political dissident. So is there any hidden motive of why the blogger did what s/he had done? Personal revenge? You guess is as good as mine.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:IncludedCAs
Once again realizing the folly of an integrated currency (and free movement of labor and goods) without better government integration.
Sure, the bubble bursting I have no problem with: rich people take a haircut and premises are repurposed. I walk through Digbeth in Birmingham most days: Early Victorian housing that is now car scrap yards and workshops. It all gets recycled.
As far as the Wikipedia definition of it goes, yes it is a "weak copyleft", but that basically means that the license on code and patents is liberal, while license on trademarks is not. That is to prevent bottom feeders to take for example Firefox and LibreOffice, rebuild them with adware and malware and redistribute new installers as "Super Firefox", "LibreOffice Improved" or other misleading trademarks.
Yes, Apple and other international companies have a real point. If they sell stuff in Portugal, for example, the pay taxes on the item to Portugal plus make some profit. If they then transfer the profit to the US, the US would like to tax the company a second time.

It's kind of questionable that transferring properly earned and taxed funds from another country into the US makes the US suddenly want to tax the funds.

This also has consequences. If the best place for Apple to invest some of its money is the US, but the tax makes it less profitable, Apple may choose to invest that money in a different country instead. So the tax code encourages US countries to invest overseas profits into overseas investments.
I've been using Google+ for that since the beta. If you remove all of the "hot", "recommended for you" and similar torrents of stupid from your circles, you can create a vast circle of people with whom you can discuss politics, science and other things. My "politis" circle is a few hundred people, and a few thousands follow my politics (rabid infrared leftist) collections.
Can you really invest in water?
I was speaking in general, as this problem is not just specific to London. It's a common issue in the US as well.
Lots of arbitary answers : "n hrs are about right"! Why?

I run 3 teams, I delegate obsessively (a my team leads are smarter than me and know what they are doing better than I do) however I thing people, bosses, team, politics, now and next. Every week you MUST meet with your boss, your direct reports, you must meet with your peers and you must have a meeting about the current work and a meeting about the next work. You also need a to be doing some political meeting - random folks who want to talk to you and do things with you/for you/get you to do things.

Team/peers - you will do 2hrs to share everything (min), DR's is an hour each, I have 3 (and a half but that's another story) boss will be 1/2-1hr (as he/she will be at their wits end) big boss will be 1/2 hr (so 2 hrs bosses), politics is 3 hrs. Now is 1/2 hr if all is good.. but there are a lot of nows, so put 2 1/2 hrs min against that, if all is not good budget 5 hrs. Next is 30 mins (at the beginning of a cycle) to 5 hrs (at the end of a cycle.

Tot it up... 13 -> 20 ish.

They all have a specific purpose for me; they keep me employed and they keep the pipeline alive. Being less selfish; they keep those who depend on my engagement happy and they make sure that my company gets the value center that it invests in in the shape of my team. I deliver on the investment, build capability and a work stream.

Most of all I do not piss anyone off by being unavailable or unfriendly - for a manager work is a social activity; if you don't like it you need to look for another dev gig.
Absolutely, I have been battling this lately with a 50 year old coop in Manhattan that needs renovation. The magnitude of pain involved is unbelievable. You want to strip and paint those 1872 walls? Guess what, lead-based paint, inspections, permits, abatement, management company, board approval, etc, the list goes on.

It's basically not economical to re novate anything if you value your time, so if you value living anywhere nice you have to pay the 2000/sqft give or take for something modern.
Sorry, I should have said: People who want content creators to be paid fairly, but who don't want to be tracked.
Well, if the client doesn't care about that warning, why should the provider care?

As I said, there are easy steps clients can use to make their provider care. But if the clients themselves don't care, nobody will.
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So let's consider the alternative - forcing people to comment on downvoting.

Let's say I see a post that is clearly not contributing to the discussion (on my personal opinion of course, not that I have any other one :) or is too misguided to even argue with, or lacks any redeeming merit, etc. Now, I want less of this on HN, so I am going to downvote it.

Now, let's say I'm forced to comment on it. I can't really say anything useful about it, and maybe even if I could I don't want to bother - if it was worthy discussion-wide, I wouldn't want to -1 it in the first place - so I'd say something like "this is just stupid". Or "-1 for not presenting a sane argument" or something like that.

Now, what happens when the comment author sees it? He comments "no, your face is stupid!" of course. And so we get a whole mess we wanted to avoid.

And now people see this whole mess and want to bury it so it doesn't stink up their nice discussion. But they are forced to comment too, so instead of removing the mess they are making it worse and make people hate each other for no reason but disagreeing on who started this mess.

Does not look like an improvement to me.
Your answer is very useful. Thanks Dan!

May I ask how many logical shards do you have per physical shard/machine? And what is the average size of a logical shard on disk?

You wrote "the data is sharded by customer and then sub-sharded by end user within the customer", but malisper wrote above that "clustering by time winds up being a much bigger win". Isn't it contradictory?
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There absolutely is, but no one seems to believe it's possible.

It's called SkyTran personal rapid transit. Wikipedia has a page all about it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTran
With small maglev pods traveling 100-150 mph, a 100-mile commute is actually quite doable in one of these, especially since you can sleep in it as it's automated and takes you door-to-door. If governments would actually invest in this and build it instead of wasting money on boondoggles like high-speed rail, we'd make a gigantic dent in our carbon emissions and roadway deaths, plus save ourselves a lot of time that we waste driving.
So... how long before property values collapse because it's no longer a desirable place to live, and the foreign money tries to get out as quickly as possible before values drop further?
The threat model you described did not take HPKP into account at all, and the existence of HPKP has a large effect on the question of whether DANE is worth the hassle (and the problems it comes with).
I keep watching in disbelief (from distance) how Apple more and more sucks at user experience. The next thing I know Microsoft will be releasing software that just works, lol.
> I would also be skeptical of the potential of a startup that can't convince normal VCs to fund them. If people who do this for a living don't think a startup is worth investing in, why should I?

There are plenty of SaaS companies that are naturally limited in revenue potential.

In my experience, VCs are not interested in a company with a conservative forecast of 10MM ARR in 5 years. These are still viable businesses that need capital to actualize the plan.

Alternative lending sources are crucial to these companies. While the terms of this particular idea are not ideal, I think we will see a lot of new ideas in this realm over the coming years and some will be great!
Being a landlord is a huge hassle, and it makes the property harder to sell when you need the cash back.
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> I do wish HN could distinguish between "I subjectively don't like or disagree with your point" and "Your logic is objectively flawed or rests on false data".

I would like having strong AI driving HN too. Because humans are very bad at distinguishing those two and confuse them all the time. Once we invent the AI that allows people to separate them I'd be all for using it here on HN.
I'm shocked that london, vancouver, SF and a few other cities are still functional. When working lawyers and doctors can no longer afford to live in a city, what actually happens? Are these now theme parks? Retirement villages for the uber-wealthy?

Some (SF, seattle) have developed this strange mix of the very very rich and the homeless on the street. Others (Vancouver) see inverted traffic patterns as more professionals (carps etc) drive into residential neighborhoods to work on houses than residents drive out. Suburbs are now industrial zones, places where people go to work. Anyone who can afford to live in the suburb, in a detached house, can live on investments alone.

I ran into a teacher from my old school last year. In my day, the school built doctors and lawyers. Everyone went to university. Now, the kids are so rich that they have no drive. None want to be doctors anymore. Doctors have to touch sick people. How do you motivate a kid who knows he has a guaranteed job at his parent's investment firm, that has trust portfolios that will support him forever?
I really enjoyed and got value from books about companies/people I admire; Hatching twitter, In the Plex, Elon Musk, etc.

More specific topics, however:

* "what every body is saying" - how to read/understand body language

* "an astronauts guide to life on earth" - by Chris Hadfield, lots of good general advice

* "speed reading" - for digesting information quickly (albeit, I find with less depth)

* "The 8 traits successful people have in common" - kinda painfully obvious advice, but often it's the context and stories that help you digest a message

* "the lean startup" - wasn't mindblowing but looks aligned with what you've been reading, still worth reading.
Apple is actually arguing that all of it's value is created in the United States, and so Only U.S. should collect the taxes. But it won't send them to Treasury yet as it is hoping the Govt would lower the tax rate next year.
I'm in government, and I spend 5-7hrs/week in various meetings
My alternative is to block all ads indiscriminately so that all of those malware/spyware/scamy/annoying/data draining/slow/buggy site's are wiped from existence and all that's left are site's that either:

host their own static ads,

use a pay wall,

are promotional site's,

are government run,

are government funded,

are publicly funded

or

are personally funded.
I don't know what the parent comment had in mind, but here's why I think it's a dumb move: the EU just announced to the world that they can override the decisions of the member countries retroactively and at will.

If you want to invest in something in an EU country, you might calculate the taxes due on your investment before deciding if the investment is suitably profitable. With this decision, you now have an unexpected new risk factor to take into account: the EU bureaucracy may retroactively change your tax rate. That means uncertainty of payout, therefore the investment has a lower payout, therefore you are less likely to invest in an EU country.
I was a developer at a big corp (financial services industry) until leaving earlier this year. It steadily grew over four years from around one hour a week to five hours a week (~13%) of meetings. My first few weeks had a lot more meetings (trainings), and my last couple weeks had a lot more meetings (knowledge transfer).

Because I became an expert in some areas, I was routinely invited to meetings to give my input (which further reinforced opinions). Furthermore, I realized a lot of non-technical people are not good about responding to emails. If I needed something from a product manager, chances were better that I could get it faster by setting up a 30 minute meeting for the following day. If I needed something from a senior engineer, email was best, of course.

Honestly, given the role I had and the largish size of the company, I never felt like it was too many meetings.
If only we had a secure DNS system (let's hypothetically call it "DNSSEC"), where you could put your certificate hashes into a TLS record (to make up a name for it, how about "DANE"?) ... but surely if such a thing existed, and for several years at that, browsers would support it, right?
> living there

Most of the home owners referred in the article don't live there for more than a few weeks a year - if at all - there is a material inbalance

I live in a village where people buy 2nd homes or they buy to retire - the locals slowly drift away to nearby towns to live in shared accommodation

The life gets sucked out of the village over time - house prices go up - but the problem is deeper than that - the school closes, the public transport frequency reduces (nobody commutes), the local shop closes (as pensioners/visitors buy online for delivery), the pub closes ... the only infrastructure with any growth is the doctor surgeries - more of those are planned right across the county

It's not a sustainable position - there are 2 families in a village with 80+ houses - the few businesses that are left have no pool of resource to hire from - we live next to a cow farmer with 400+ cattle - he has no help - in any normal world he wouldn't be working from 6am to nightfall like that
And I'll counter this plug with a quick reminder that Dreamiest stores your password in cleartext, as was recently confirmed to me by a support tech.

(All in all, a satisfied customer also, but I ran to the Two-Factor Authentication setup in the panel as soon as I found this out.)