skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't accurate at all.

The Virginia side of DC was held back by stupid laws preventing any kind of development while it was part of DC; this led to it being ceded back to VA.

The main problem with DC is that it is not a city-state at all; it's a federal district that isn't part of any state, and is administered by Congress (that branch of government that can't seem to get anything done). The people there have no representation in Congress, an inherently undemocratic situation, and are only allowed to elect their Mayor, which still has very limited power due to Congressional administration.

The answer here is simple: it needs to be turned into a city-state. And not just the puny amount of land that is present-day DC; the entire northern Virginia area, Baltimore, and the area between DC and Baltimore needs to be part of the same state. Metro areas should not cross state borders; it's an administrative nightmare. This whole metro area should just be made into a single state. Maryland therefore should be eliminated: the eastern shore part should be given to Delaware, and the westernmost part should be given to WV. The eastern part up to the Chesapeake Bay (including Annapolis) is probably better off staying part of the new DC-state for simplicity, even though it's pretty rural in places, as there's no easy access from the Eastern Shore side, and there's a lot of military stuff in that area too which fits with the capital district. Finally, the whole thing needs a new name: "District of Columbia" doesn't fit a whole state, and "Columbia" is a horrible name anyway since it comes from Christopher Columbus, a brutal murderer who never even set foot on North America. I propose "Chesapeake" or "Potomac".
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Japanese romanization is fairly standardized. Even if it weren't, creating in your mind a new alphabet for a new language using characters you already know isn't that much work compared to learning a new alphabet, and it's a good place to start learning a new language. Just don't use the crutch for too long and you'll be fine.
The same thing happened to me when I first sign up for AWS. I contacted support and they just credited my account then gave me a promo on top of it.
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> But alcohol is ok because...

It's not okay. It's an evil drug that kills tens of thousands of people in the USA annually, both innocents and users. If we were honest with ourselves we would take a good look at alcohol and its role in our culture/society, but we won't and will look for scapegoats to alcohol-rooted problems in other things.
AWS Aurora now PostgreSQL-compatible as well
Not OP, but I've heard of people getting hijacked and finding a bunch of VPSs spun up sending out spam and other malware related stuff. Maybe that's what they mean.
Yeah, Android's not fine. The business model, the weak full disk encryption, inability to set strong FDE password separate from your pin, centralization around Google Play Services, moving AOSP into GAPPS iteratively, forced obsolecense via carriers/hardware producers

Long way to go.
If Quality of Life for Indians is a concern they should stop burning coal, because they a currently slowly killing their citizens with air pollution. Also US and Europe used coal because they didn't knew better but gave the world nuclear energy, just use it already.
Goal-setting can be fun How?
This is incredibly naive. You are much better off testing any substance you put into your body. Whether you test it yourself, or can confirm that a trusted party has tested it.

What if your reliable supplier was sold cyanide from an unreliable supplier? Better one of you is wise enough to test it.
The very fact that this reached the front page of HN indicates that it has a PR value - that a value in itself. Or maybe they trully want to help out projects that they most likely depend on daily.

In any case, this is a positive thing so why repeat the propaganda that if it's coming from China/Russia == bad?

Evaluating individual cases is much more productive and in this case, I don't really see an ulterior motive here.
Better sorry than safe?
You must've replied to the wrong article, this one is not the one about the California court's new computer system.
A minor difference in an anglicisation of Russian which can vary anyway.
Why would you want to move data between AWS and GCP using a hard drive? The networks between the two cloud providers are immense.
So that's what I was, indeed, missing.

Good stuff, and good luck.
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When I started out webdev, I was told that I should use AWS. But not having known how private/pubkeys work, or how ssh workds, how servers worked, it felt a lot like being thrown in the deep end of the pool.

Then I used digitalocean because of the free 1 year server time github gave me and everything was a breeze. They had tutorials for a lot of stuff, like how pubkeys and privatekeys worked, how to use ssh, how a server works, how to use nginx/apache, and even node.js stuff. I got up and running quickly even though it was my first time using a VPS. It was super easy, and the best part was with my knowledge gained from DigitalOcean, I was able to start using AWS with relative ease.

I think Lightsail is a good competitor to DigitalOcean, good for newbies who can't exactly figure out how much their server will use and charge them. But imo, with the same stats and stuff as DigitalOcean as a newbie I'd stick with DigitalOcean just because of how helpful their tutorials are in general and how helpful their interface is.
Just one night at the bakery from 6am to 6pm. There were a couple of shots they needed to get later, but it wasn't much at all. I think the intro and final scenes in the office were shot a couple of days later.
As I said, it's kind of cute how you go on about things you've just heard about.

> was there another populist leader the Germans should have rejected in the 1930s?

Pray tell, which politician do you think I'm comparing to Hitler?

I'm certainly referring to Hitler. I am German. He's the last one of those in my country? Are you appropriating my culture?

But I'm not saying either of the US presidential candidates are Hitler, literally or otherwise, or even very much like him.

Pay attention here... I'm only saying that "legally elected" is almost the least important thing about them. What's important is how they'll govern, not if they managed to win a badly run popularity contest.

I do agree with the OP that his friend was hoping for something silly - violence in the street to stop Trump. But, unless the OP had a line where he'd wish for such a thing, he's actually the naive one. There certainly are some examples, like the one I shared from my homeland, where it's worth almost any internal pain (even civil war) to stop the legally elected candidate from assuming power.
Search for the paragraph that mentions "Bahamian police". Sounds like someone got bribed.
I wasn't aware of it before your comment, and now I'm confused, just sounds like buying 'Pro' would damage workflow.

Say I have a project on Github, and I want to add some of the new icons I buy - I have to leave the icons out of the repo, and deal with whatever that means for deployment?
Any examples of queries and what this can do? S3 was file storage as far as i thought?
That seccomp patch reduces rather than increases security. None of the others, other than back ports, are security features.
Bitcoin mining. WPA2 brute forcing.

Maybe someone will finally find the triple-des password used at adobe for password hashing.

The possibilities are endless :)
And DO has a nice established UI too, plus the plethora of tutorials for newbies on how to setup postgresql, nginx, node, etc.
So x86 has no non trivial components?

It would probably force the hw manufacturer to think through its design a little bit more, which would be a good thing. I've seen enough of these SoCs with "complex system of interacting components" to feel that a well thought out design that needs less static description of SoC/board/cpu level details would be beneficial.
They return to it later:

> That was when — and why — Fisher dispatched Pursglove to the Bahamas: to gather clues about where the money went. When Pursglove returned to the house to confront the caretaker that day, she told me, the caretaker admitted removing the papers from her suitcase. Bahamian police took custody of the papers, but later, and for reasons they never explained, handed them over to Oesterlund. When Fisher tried to subpoena the papers back, Oesterlund’s lawyers said he could not find any such documents; in any case, they wrote, Pursglove had no right to “stolen” materials.
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This is a non-starter without IPv6. I know some of you will be tempted to jump ship from DO and Vultr, but please remember that by doing so you will continue enabling Amazon to hold back progress. While ignoring AWS is not really an option, as it offers some very unique features that are quite useful, this thing does not.

DO is not great in this regard as their butcher their allocations, but Vultr gives each VPS a proper /64. Scaleway has partial IPv6 support (not for their bare metal could, but their VPS's do support it).

I urge you to vote with your wallets, unless you really like paying $1/month or more per IP for the foreseeable future.
You're capped at 20 instances as well by the looks.
Plus you'll get AWS 'dog shit' support included which is hopeless.

Will stick with Linode.
I can't speak for the mods, but I for one am in favour of highlighting the revenue numbers, provided they're accurate.

And on a meta-point, I appreciate the effort, honesty and transparency you put into IndieHackers, it's a great resource for me.
Email me at bookman@google.com and I'll be sure to start internal conversations around what we can do to help you out.
TFA states: "Amazon Athena uses Presto with ANSI SQL support and works with a variety of standard data formats, including CSV, JSON, ORC, and Parquet."
Keep in mind if you are a current EC2 customer and are excited about a cheaper VPS in your region, the VPSs are only available in Virginia. I was pretty excited about a cheaper VPS I could provision in the Sydney area, but these are restricted to a single datacenter.
What's not often mentioned when discussing the revolution was that western powers, including the USA immediately invaded the Soviet Union to attempt to overthrow the government. This explains a lot in the ensuing history, including the paranoid militancy of the Soviet Union.
Dirt cheap computing is like the life line of Google. W/o that, nothing Google did can sustain at all.
DNS, IP Address Reservation, Plan Upgrades, Bandwidth, and so on.

We've seen AWS accounts get broken into with stolen tokens, additional VPS's started, VPS upgraded, bandwidth consumed, etc. And while Amazon has been good with refunding the FIRST time, nobody wants to wake up to a 10K bill because your gitignore had a typo.

A ceiling or cap may even stop plan upgrades without an email confirmation. That would be hugely welcome, particularly in a world where bad guys are actively seeking out VPS to break into.
Yeah, but max 20 Lightsail servers per month. No big clients will be able to use this to export/leave.
That full paragraph:

"According to Polybius, who has the most fully developed version of the cycle, it rotates through the three basic forms of government, democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy and the three degenerate forms of each of these governments ochlocracy, oligarchy, and tyranny. Originally society is in anarchy but the strongest figure emerges and sets up a monarchy. The monarch's descendants, who because of their family's power lack virtue, become despots and the monarchy degenerates into a tyranny. Because of the excesses of the ruler the tyranny is overthrown by the leading citizens of the state who set up an aristocracy. They too quickly forget about virtue and the state becomes an oligarchy. These oligarchs are overthrown by the people who set up a democracy. Democracy soon becomes corrupt and degenerates into mob rule, beginning the cycle anew."
It'd avoid expensive egress costs.
Some information you should probably be aware of when it comes to Iris: http://www.florinpatan.ro/2016/10/why-you-should-not-use-iri...
Don't use Iris:

http://www.florinpatan.ro/2016/10/why-you-should-not-use-iri...
HDD light on a run of the mill tower PC case. The random blinking makes it particularly bad in a dark room. I could see the whole room light up with HDD activity through one layer of e. tape.
There were lots of stories of hackers spinning up the largest ec2 instances available to mine bitcoins on anyone's account they could get access to
I don't know about the others, but on AWS with the T2.* instances it always seems like I've got the server to myself. They are either well provisioned, or well managed. The burstable CPUs are great.
The left-wing critique of capitalism has its roots in the dated, 19th century mindset of an Engineer. It has never really moved on from the "era of the telegraph and the steam engine", as the author puts it. The core of it is the belief that social world has to be set up like a precise mechanism.

The direct outcome of that was the idea of central planning, of course, but in principle this school of thought values categorizing, configuring and arranging everything, even humans. Case in point - Fourier's phalanstères (influential early socialist who "believed that there were twelve common passions which resulted in 810 types of character, so the ideal phalanx would have exactly 1620 people", and so forth).

Today's musings are less naive, but the common utopian theme is still that once we arrive at the ideal order of things, we're "liberated" and all that's left is maintenance work, winding the great clock up so it never stops ticking.

They conceal this sentiment better these days, but it still comes out in perceiving every system that's everchanging and highly adaptive as "corroding", "collapsing" etc. If there's no Big Project behind it, it's flawed in their eyes.

Is capitalism as we know it living its days out? Of course - always.
Trivia fact:

Nichia is not only a Japanese company, but they are the inventors of the now ubiquitous GaN blue-LEDs; or at least Shuji Nakamura was working there when he invented them.
No, she goes for Spain Spanish. I'm a native Mexican and I had trouble understanding what she said.

Funny thing: at the end she said "a huevo cabron" which is a Mexican expression but she was using a different accent.
Fair point. Far too few developers understand the value of an engaged, active community extending their game.
Why can't they just use Nuclear? Surely, there are inhabited places that can be used for it. Correct me if I'm wrong - nuclear power should produce more reliable power at a fraction of the cost of solar.
It's disingenuous to say they didn't have a choice
or they did it against their will

If a school bully someone tells me "give me your lunch money or I'll give you a black eye" and I give them my lunch money, would you say I've done so against my will?

I would say I had done so against my will - because although I had a choice between two bad options, I was forced to submit to a choice that was structured to deny me the option to do neither.
Which SaaS earn the most revenue per employee?
It says it in the article:
So we did some research into how much a great Kickstarter video should cost (i.e. Googled “how much does a kickstarter video cost”). To work with a fantastic production company and get the quality we wanted was going to run somewhere around $15k. This sounded like a lot to spend on a video, but we were pretty sure we’d be able to make back our investment.

It also talks about the company that produced it.
So first, we got an absolute steal for what we paid for Knox Avenue (http://www.knox-avenue.com). For something similar from Sandwich Video, prices _start_ at $250k. We paid 1/10 that. But again, we got an absolute steal. Knox isn't as famous as they deserve yet. They're ridiculously talented.

Edit: fixed URL
Can't you achieve the same by embedding, say, rust?
The duct tape is made to look decorative, but it's standard practice in Film / TV / Advertising to obscure brand names.
> Q: What data formats does Amazon Athena support?

> Amazon Athena supports a wide variety of data formats like CSV, TSV, JSON, or Textfiles and also supports open source columnar formats such as Apache ORC and Apache Parquet. Athena also supports compressed data in Snappy, Zlib, and GZIP formats. By compressing, partitioning, and using columnar formats you can improve performance and reduce your costs.

https://aws.amazon.com/athena/faqs/
Not saying I disagree that the comparison is a bit odd, I just want to add that I did find OP's information / the discussion around the costs of infrastructure projects in the US [1] interesting to say the least.
Looking at those sources in does indeed sound plausible that the US has some issues with costs of infrastructure projects compared to other (even first world) countries.

I didn't find a good explanation why OP thinks this is because of the lack of Social Technology though.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13070867
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> The fact that most consumers aren't aware they most Android devices are susceptible

Are they really? I've assumed that I'm taking the same risks installing an app on Android as running a .exe on Windows.
Thanks, this is a great blog post about the matter.
Exciting. Hopefully, the GPUs are made by Nvidia and support CUDA.

I'm curious what the pricing will be.
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Thanks. That was all Matt Barry. I just prettied it up. He literally did that in his spare time and one day showed up at work and after some smalltalk he was like "Oh, yeah by the way..." and my jaw hit the floor.

That was a few months ago. We had to go through the disclosure process via HackerOne etc.

I'm really lucky to be working with people like Matt and others on the team.
Is this Amazon's dress-code? I bet black cape + helmet means you're at the top.
Agreed on Zebralight. Rock-solid construction, very compact and very powerful.
Amazon launches Amazon AI to bring its machine learning smarts to developers
There is a JIT for python: http://pypy.org/
No. Since WW2 was the most deadly conflict in human history.

https://vimeo.com/128373915
BitTorrent solved the limited upload speed problem. Split the data into chunks and download from multiple users at once. Even that is only necessary if a user doesn't have enough upload bandwidth for a stream, which for 1080p is ~5Mbps.

And the second problem has a simple solution. Give the customer a tiny discount for uploading. Anyone with an unmetered connection sees it as free money even if it's only pennies/month, and it works fine even if some customers turn it off because the discount-accepting customers can upload more than they download.
The criterion is not about assessing a particular individual's contributions, it's about choosing what and whom to investigate in the first place. Of course this is subjective, and rightly so.
It hurts the field as a whole - when impossible-to-build CG renders and endless piles of pie-in-the-sky Post-Its becomes synonymous with 'design' it makes it that much harder to convince organizations to put resources behind including design in their planning and production.
On the flip side, when there is a kernel vulnerability, there's only 1 kernel to update! If you're running the Canonical Livepatch Service, for instance, critical security vulnerabilities are patch in real time, without reboot, and all containers running immediately benefit from the patch. Conversely, if you're running 50 Linux Xen or KVM machines, you have 51 kernels to update. So yeah, do think about what "attack surface" actually means, when comparing LXD and Full Virtualization.
If you're talking a private repo, that's no problem at all.

As for a public repo, the same applies as to commercial typography. Don't make it available for download.

This is part of why we're doing Font Awesome Pro CDN. Choose your options and icon packs and we'll serve them up for you. And we're making this free for open source projects. It also means you can upgrade to a new version without pushing code if you like.
Playon doesn't rehost the content. It runs on your computer and automates the process of capturing the video stream from a website. So, you have to _actually wait for the entire video to play_ to have it fully downloaded because its nothing more than a screencapture in essence.

The whole thing is a little flaky, but I'm really pleased with what it cost me ($60 if I remember).
Left needed a new boogyman because the old ones were getting stale. "alt right" is a perfect candidate.

If you believe people who agree with some of the alt-rightist views must be held accountable for the standard racists who use that worldview as cover, then logically you must also make it incumbent upon people of muslim faith to tug a forelock to "us enlightened folk" in shared outrage and be accountable for the extremists who act in their name, and for random jewish people to be accountable for settlements, for catholics to feel they owe you something for their Irish "freedom fighters," etc.
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> I'd argue that Amazon isn't a successful company, they are a popular company with a few large successes surrounded by decaying and decrepit failures that won't die. But then again I'm biased.

Couldn't you say the same thing about Google, or Microsoft? I think the point of 'success' is that your big wins outweigh your failures as determined by your revenue. Is it not?

Creating the largest retailer in the world and the largest cloud services platform in the world seem like two pretty big wins. Either one on its own would be an extremely successful company IMO.
I didn't think about that, thanks!

I didn't mention it, but for one of the apps, I also needed ~/.gitconfig, which I don't think has an agent. :(
Newer jobs have always replaced older jobs, and the shift in job titles disguises this.

When we say "farmer" now, we mean someone who uses electronics-enhanced tractors to plant and harvest at high yields on 1000 acres. But it used to mean someone who produced food from 5 acres with only human-operated tools. Later, it was someone who used ox-powered tools to produce on 20 acres. As the tech advanced, the job responsibilities changed.

Accountants are no longer responsible for adding the numbers correctly in handwritten ledgers. They use computer spreadsheets. But they are still accountants. The market can either use less of them for the same work, or require that they do more work for the same number of laborers.

The problem that is arising now, which did not arise in the industrial revolution, is that more employers are choosing the former option, simply because they cannot imagine more work for the same number of people to do that could not also be automated away.

If the only way for cab drivers to compete with self-driving hire-on-demand cars is to become tour guides as well, it only takes a few more years to add a synthesized voice recanting trivia to passengers about nearby points of interest to the cab-driver-replacing software. As long as anyone has the intent to replace expensive human labor with cheap machine labor, no offer of additional added value is sufficient to save everyone's jobs.

If no job is safe, how do you know which field to move into when your old one goes obsolete?
I think it comes down to them seeing themselves as a utility. You wouldn't want to be prompted for payment confirmation every time you plug something into an outlet, but this does mean that you'll have a huge unexpected charge if you accidentally leave on the air conditioner when you go on vacation.