skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leaving aside that these numbers seem like some April Fools' gag...

> But the shepherd must manage the sheep year round.

You're obviously just making stuff up and not familiar with how this is done in Iceland.

Sheep aren't being constantly herded around. During the winter they're inside a barn because everything is covered in snow, during the entirety of the summer they free range getting fatter, raising lambs etc. In the autumn there's a big coordinated herding event (göngur) where farmers and volunteers in an entire area coordinate to herd all the free-range sheep into pens for the winter.

So literally nobody in the country works as a full-time sheepherder. Since it's all over in a matter of days.
You can replace PIA with any other VPN provider. I'd trust a commercial VPN provider with good reviews more than I'd trust myself to get good crypto right.
There is JDBC support, so if you're willing and able to connect that way, you could hope for an easier migration. Any move from one database to another is a migration, even if only to deal with dialect-specific things.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but not Spanner).
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If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why Russian Startups Are Conquering Product Hunt
> there is no distinction between hiding a secret compartment in your luggage and a device

Is it really illegal to have a secret compartment in your luggage? I mean, I have no doubt it's highly risky and that they will make the case you've done something wrong, but have you inherently done something illegal by merely having a secret compartment? Maybe only if you've explicitly represented that there are no other compartments? Or you've got contraband in there, or something else they've explicitly inquired about that you claimed you don't have? (But that's more about lying or existing laws, than the compartment itself.)

If you turned over your phone for inspection and could see they were looking in an app you don't use, are you committing a felony to not volunteer that they should look in the other browser for your real history or whatever? If having two profiles and only providing one is illegal, what about having two phones? (like your "real" one in your luggage, turned off.) Do I have to volunteer that when they asked for "my phone" that I actually have multiple? What if I kept the "real" one at home -- do I have to tell them the one they're looking at is only a subset of my property and doesn't represent what they probably actually meant when they asked for "my phone"?

I'm not entirely sure where "the lines" are here, but perhaps the passcode is part of it. Once they require that, they've crossed from dealing with physical items physically crossing the border, passing into things that are in your mind or physically located elsewhere. If they can require a lockscreen code, there's not really any reason they can't require every other password since those are "secret compartments" accessible from your phone, and if just having an undisclosed compartment really is illegal, I guess you'd better volunteer an exhaustive list of all your accounts...
>but I believe they still use their old coldfusion applications.

For now, yeah. But the new Manager mentioned in the blog post is just a client for our new API, which is written in Python.[1]

You can even check out the new Manager now if you want: https://github.com/linode/manager

It's still in alpha (and separate from our regular service), but we're hoping to have it out in beta soon!

[1] https://engineering.linode.com/2016/04/12/Announcing-APIv4.h...
I always considered the actual template to be the presentation layer relative to the templating context. Having worked on large scale applications it has become apparent to me that performing business logic in the presentation is not the way to go. In my opinion, a templating application should be architectured in such way that your data is transformed to exactly how you want it to be presented prior to it getting to the presentation layer. Up in presentation, you should really only have to worry about checking if a condition is true or false or iterating a collection. From what I have seen of Golang, some (not all) design decisions seem to have been made to make it difficult to make such mistakes easily, so I would not be surprised if making it difficult to do logic in the template was a conscious decision.
Financial Times is good too; similar PoV as the WSJ, but 100% less Murdoch control.
>There is a huge power differential between an employee and an employer

Usually yes, but not necessarily. Some highly skilled employees are absolutely vital, to the extent that them abruptly quitting would be more catastrophic for the employer than for them. Think database admin, C-levels, etc.

>Politics don't matter if you make brake pads or run a hobby shop.

I disagree. Even in a hobby shop, someone vocally espousing views that are abhorrent to their coworkers (like death to Jews for example) is going to be a drag on morale and productivity. If I have an employee who is spewing antisemitism and I have Jewish employees who don't want to listen to that garbage at work, should I not be able to fire them? My Jewish employees should just have to deal with it or quit?
You could also pay ... $9.99 a month for ad-free youtube...
One of the things that used to separate "small business" from "big business" was reach. A small business was one that operated within the confines of a region, a town, or a city. They were characterized by being asymmetric in their execution, so they might be a shop with a great sales guy and lousy inventory control, or excellent quality and workmanship but poor management of expenses or receipts. If they were asymmetric enough, it would kill them and they would be one more business that was born, lived, and died.

Now however you can start a business in your basement that has global reach. It's still a small business, and it's still likely asymmetric in its ability to execute, but now it has high visibility. What is more it depends on network infrastructure in order to work.

Everyone wants to be the Microsoft Back Office version of "cloud". Install it, click the defaults, and it provides the infrastructure you need to run your small business.
I didn't think it was rude, it just contradicted your other comment.

I still don't see what cost you were speaking about. Mistakes with PGP are at least as likely as mistakes with the shiny easy to use GUI.
>Immigration has very broad powers, but even then this sort of case would be difficult to make IMHO.

I agree. But who has the time and money to defend themselves in court against the unlimited resources of the government?
Unfortunately this is an extremely common practice. Usually what I do to avoid such things is to immediately cancel once they give me the free one as with most services you'll get to keep your subscription to the end of the month anyways.
Mobile data is often slow or unavailable depending on what room of a building you're in etc. outside of cities.
Network effect, reliability, free, anonymous, ability to run without JavaScript.

If Craigslist decided to modernize today, they could potentially disrupt the state of things on the internet. Facebook is trying to move in on their territory for sure. Unfortunately, I don't think they will. If a new-kid-on-the-block could offer anonymity, reliability, and free regional market based transactions, with preferably integration with Monero, it would be a killer app for the crypto industry.
Knock yourself out.
Kind of - "trumpet" is "trompeta". On the other hand, "trompa" can translate to "horn", which is not quite the same thing as a trumpet.
How does Aurora know that the primary is dead? Automatic failover is problematic in a distributed system.
Thanks. Corrected URLs:

https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/3220

https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/2295
Not these days, with thousands of professionals critics and millions of amateur ones just waiting to jump in with their opinion.
I almost always fight the SV meme that largely founders focus on throwaway trivial ideas. I just think this is so stupid. Craigslist is one of the few companies that isnt greedy, is community driven, and if there are examples using there outsize market to kill competitirs or act nefarious-- I havent heard them.

I did 3 craigslist deals in the past 2 days. Got coffee with a stranger at 2am who let me flash an os to a drive he sold me for cheap..at 2am.

Craigslist is the email of startups. It works well enough, its a cockroach, and other substitute & complimentary companies fill its gaps. Ebay, etsy, amazon, tradesy, ect.

This isnt even a problem. I have done hundreds of deals and havent had a bad experience. Have others; Absolutely. Do I think its common, not in my experience. I suspect the percentage is low, but I dont have data.

Craigslist is what ai would like to see other companies model after, simplicity, community and no greed.

I may be alone, but i find this absurd and destined to fail. Is it profitable? Probably, but show me that balance sheet. Probably founders not oaying themselves, a tiny server and an apartment. I dont want to belittle the founders, they must have had a terrible experience, but this doesnt seem like a profitable or good strategy at all
Yeah, I actually would like to see a modern HN / Craigslist blend. One thing both sites do well is having a simple quick-loading site which works without JavaScript.
was it unusable during resize?
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I have used the Android development tools to make backups over USB and it is fast. You can install just the command-line tools from https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html#downloads and use:

adb backup -apk -shared -all -f backupname.ab
adb restore backupname.ab
This is of course expected, and not a knock on the achievement at all. Wind is in its early days, and growing quickly. There's only so much installed capacity, so it's going to reach it's peak percentage of the energy mix when the demand is lowest. And it will only do that if its the cheapest available energy.

Also, wind tends to be higher at night-time, which makes them a good complement to solar. Getting to >50% is something that many many many people have doubted is possible at all.
I never even mentioned record sales. I'm just saying that bands want fans who keep coming back over and over. They Might Be Giants are a good example of a band with a very 'sticky' fanbase.
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> The notion of using nested kbd tags to indicate literal keys appears to have been introduced by WHATWG when working on HTML5.

Did that follow common usage at the time?
Seems to me Apple and Google should be working on "roaming profiles." You can reset your phone to factory settings, or even get a rental phone at your destination, and then quickly restore it from your profile. After all it's the data you're interested in, not the device per se.
Keep in mind that bandwidth bottlenecks can happen on both sides - depending on the peering that is chosen between Comcast and DigitalOcean, there might be a significant oversubscription between two peering providers that's causing this.

DigitalOcean might happily be able to push 10g to their next hop, but beyond that things are significantly more outside of their control. This is mistaken as 'throttling' a lot, but is actually just ISPs not investing in peering to handle their peak demand. Similar to the Netflix and Cogent issue that happened a couple of years back.

At times, I can get better speeds by tunneling or proxying using a DigitalOcean Droplet and downloading something from overseas than I can doing it directly. The path taken from my home internet to the DO Droplet uses different peering than my path to Europe, and the speeds are faster overall even though it creates more hops.
I didn't like Wuthering Heights either, so it's refreshing to see a contemporary critique which hated it too, written without all the mental baggage of knowing that it's supposed to be a Great Work and all.
Almost all of those are lies. Lying to a federal agent is a felony.
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Sorry! Reading my comment back, it's no wonder it was tough to follow.

Instead of writing: "I couldn't resist the fun of reimplementing it over sockets."

I should have wrote: "I couldn't resist building another version of Risk with Phoenix/channels/sockets because it should be mind-meltingly easier compared to all of the previous times I'd built it on other platforms"
Disclaimer: I am a programmer, not a computer scientist.

Computer science is a misnomer because it is a field within mathematics. It's about the abstract, theory of computability rather than actually computing with programs. I think this confusion arises from school curricula blending the two together because both are about "computers". It's really orthogonal to programming and has no bearing on one's effectiveness as a programmer.
Good luck, I appreciate your archiving efforts.
Sure, step 1 relies on the existence of e^z which is not obvious. Step 2 relies on the chain rule over C, step 4 relies on having a unique solution to a differential equation, etc. My comment can be expanded to a proof, but it was more aimed to explain why Euler's identity is natural.
> By which you mean taxpayers will subsidize operating costs.

Just as we subsidize operating costs for freeways, city streets, buses, subways, and virtually all other forms of transportation infrastructure.
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We both keep saying the same thing. You're right - that's the market at work and I agree with you on that. The market is doing the only thing it can do which isn't necessarily what the artist wants. It's failing the artist.

The article talks about U2. Apparently they are so wealthy now that when they put on a show they want to maximize for something other than money. Most performers will tell you that a great show is half performer and half audience. Shouldn't they try to get tickets to their biggest fans that will help them put on the best show even if those super fans don't have the deepest pockets?

When your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. Maybe market mechanisms aren't good enough when dealing with intangible quantities.
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Amazon: Create usual services and sell them.

Google: Make unique products that push the boundaries of what was previously thought possible.

Amazon: Don't care about inefficiencies and usage. Inefficiencies can be handled by charging more to the clients, usage doesn't matter because the users are mostly the clients and they don't feel their pain.

Google: Had to make all their core technologies efficient, performant, scalable and maintainable or they couldn't sustain their business.
> Is there also a #support page for people who are in support of the current action?

No
Read the section "limitations". Only works on 10 users right now, must be trained for the pattern "per user", phone must be sitting on stable surface, gesture must be performed as close to "the same" every time. This is just clickbait and "please fund our research" IMO.
Can border agents force me to reveal my personal email address and password?
The scalper could "sell" their front-row ticket to someone else who buys a cheap nosebleed. Then they get in with the cheap seat and go sit at the better spot. Clumsy but it would work.
IwStack (by Prometeus) can be customized quite a bit storage-wise:

http://iwstack.com/price-calculator.php
10/10 post. It was interesting, short, and to the point and matched precisely to the title (i.e. no clickbait)
That's the purpose fulfilled by advocacy groups such as the ACLU.
What are your credentials? What hard-earned experience in this area do you have to offer others?

This is not intended as snark, but there's certain irony in asking others for help with a business model when that is precisely the kind of service you wish to offer.
Thanks. Reading the 'problems' section: a simple solution for "Resilience against crashing or hanging workers" would be having a TTL on the lock. If only...
Depends on what programs I have open. The ultimate combo to make my Macbook cry is running a Zoom meeting with video enabled and asana.com open.
why isn't Google Hangouts good enough?

I've done a lot of deals, real high value business, and meeting coordination in them, in a variety of situations and companies.
> I like the solution of not showing the navbar unless the user scrolls up.

Absolutely not. Bloomberg does this; it just means the "scroll up" feature is broken. You try to scroll up, and you get the navbar instead of the text you were trying to scroll to. If you're trying to add a feature that infuriates visitors several times over for every page of yours they view, then sure. If you don't want that, don't have stealth navbars.
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Disclaimer: Am Icelandic, very generally proud of how my country punches above its weight in sports.

Having said that it's unbelievable how a publication like The Guardian can write an article about UEFA 2016 with claims like "smallest nation ever to reach a major tournament", without mentioning that 2016 is the first year where 24 teams compete, instead of 16 as has been the case since 1996. Before that it was 8 for a while, and 4 when the tournament first started in the 60s.

Iceland's been getting consistently better at football for decades now, and it beat England last year in the tournament showing that it could play with the big boys. But obviously if the tournament is expanded from 16 to 24 teams, an increase of 50%, it's going to be the first year that some small team qualifies.
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Everything becomes much clearer once you realize that everyone is for themselves, and that includes mass media who report stuff in a way that increases the clicks and the views.

The majority of us have been conditioned to worry, actually worry, about stuff that we have absolutely no control nor expert knowledge. The majority of our time should be spent on worrying about ourselves, our immediate circle of people, our neighborhood, city, country, planet. In that order. Turn on the TV or open your facebook and you'll that the hierarchy is completely reversed.
Maybe that would be a better way to do it[1], but that's not actually what happens.

Buyers will still pay $500. They will just pay it to middlemen instead.

Fans will not "get to trade their time waiting in line" for tickets, so that the golden admit-one is rationed by die-hardness. Instead, such fans will be right there in line with those choking said lines for money. And which they're also better at.

Sellers could move to what you suggest. They could do a lottery, and they could lock the winners by ID to their purchase, completely non-transferrably. But none of them do it, because they aren't optimizing for what you claim they are.

If and when they start doing that way, those would be applicable points to raise in defense of that practice.

[1] i.e. if you replaced "charge $500 to the N highest bidders" with "charge $10 to N randomly-chosen chosen people".
Also, this is in the Keyboard pane of System Preferences (where you probably want to make some system-wide changes to defaults so you don’t have to fiddle with the Edit menu in every application).
Hacker: How dare you make me enable JS to view your website

Hacker: It's simple: clone the repo, install gcc, then dependencies, open command prompt, compile, now you can do the same thing as Microsoft Word, well kind of.

[This comment is 99% joke; still might be useful to look at the community aesthetic from an outside perspective]
As a hopeful note of optimism: I recently sent a large, expensive package (worth around $1500) cross-country via USPS. The package was sent out mid-December. According to the tracking it made it all the way to the destination Post Office. After that...nothing. It just never progressed. I filed both a mail search requests, and an insurance claim. I received nothing but radio silence on those as well. Fast forward to about a week ago when the package just shows up on my doorstep without notice. Hopefully byuu's package eventually does show up.
This guy's approach reminds me of why I ended up with Dish instead of DirecTV. Dish was the one that lets me DOWNGRADE my service without forcing me to pick up the phone. Cancel HBO? Just click!
Its probably a class size of 2, with Amazon. Beyond those two though, no one else is close.
Agree entirely! It isn't the simplified UI itself that I lament, it's the removal of advanced possibilities. In a lot of cases, the fix is easy- just add an "Advanced" button with options for the power users
Good move. Should help newbies and fence-sitters participate more!
> Do you have a sense of what that limit is?

Per their pricing page[1] it looks like the largest instance available is a "db.r3.8xlarge", which is a special naming of the "r3.8xlarge" instance type[2] which is 32 cpus and 244gb of memory.

That's a hell of a lot of capacity to exhaust, especially if you're using read replicas to reduce it to only/mostly write workloads. Obviously it's possible to use more than this, but the "sheer scale" argument is a bit of a flat one.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/pricing/
[2] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/#r3
ditto. I was thinking it would be along the lines of Digital Ocean's curated how-to's/guides.
Best line: "First, I’ll note that I have a pretty much unlimited media budget. If I can afford to spend a hundred dollars per month poisoning myself with tequila, I can spend that much on information."
Here's an async JDBC driver. https://impossibl.github.io/pgjdbc-ng/
Given that Spanner starts at $650/mo/node + storage costs, I think Cockroach could still see huge usage as a self-hosted alternative.
Think of how you know things, and what images you have come up with of places, creatures, people, processes, or other entities, which you didn't have direct knowledge of, though you'd heard reports from others. Possibly even seeing them on television, video, cinema, or photographs.

If you work in technology, think of the types of reports you receive from users on problems or software or systems when they're having difficulties. Terminology, descriptions, and behaviour are all over the map.

If you'd like more recent examples of imagined images, look at how atoms and molecules were popularly visualised in the 1930s - 1960s, or how remote landscapes of the Moon, or Mars, or Venus, were imagined.

Often people will fill in extensive detail rather than simply present a set of successively less-blurred images -- the somewhat-less-than-a-century history of images of Pluto present, or even the succession of images from the New Horizons spacecraft, illustrates that. But that interpolated high-resolution detail is often false.

https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/new-horizons....

It's useful to remember that we're all inhabitants of our various Plato's caves. But we don't all see the same sets of images. Instead we're trying to communicate our set of shadows to others, some of which do or don't match up.

Ideas are interfaces. They give us the general bounds, outputs, and inputs of a system. And the corrospondence of those interfaces (as well as the mutation in the retelling) has a great deal to do with what information can or cannot be effectively communicated.
Adobe just fixed thirteen code execution flaws in Flash Player
If you read, it was sent by DHL from Germany. Within Germany, DHL is the defacto choice for courier. The problem is where DHL hands it off to USPS for US delivery, since DHL has pretty much pulled back from trying to compete directly with Fedex and UPS in the US48 market.
This is really cool! We have been using react-refetch from Heroku [1] for a similar purpose and it will be nice to have all our state in Redux. Another perk is that LogRocket [2] will capture this data now :)

[1] https://github.com/heroku/react-refetch
[2] https://logrocket.com/