skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building/running your "own" cloud doesn't require owning bare metal servers. You can rent and lease for a fraction of the price of renting cloud instances. Once you start paying up front of reserved instances, the capital invested tends to start stacking against you.

You certainly can burn through ridiculous amount of money if you insist on purchasing servers outright and pick expensiv brands.

Conversely, the "private cloud" deployment I run are mostly rented servers with month-to-month contracts. No upfront infrastructure spend - we grow them a server at a time. We also run some bare metal setups and they're generally cost-competitive with rented servers, but there it certainly depends on the size of the installation.
"Too well armed to fail" is a good analog.
"...software you are already giving for free"

Free and open software has created the expectation that software has no cost. Trying to overcome that after the fact will take time and education.
The travel info airport websites now says that if you are traveling to the U.S., please make sure all your electronic devices are charged with a full battery.
Improved Retrofit Call
But like, if you don't fill your website with megabytes of useless bloat, you'll get called out, because "it's 2017".
AppCenter: Building the Future of Elementary OS
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I mean, that's a great idea, but the question is whether you can monetize what's ultimately a communal, even communistic, mode of operation.
This is a lot of hyperbole given the revelations of the last administration.
You mean CentOS and Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel ?
Scientists turn toy into a 20-cent blood centrifuge
How do you think the conditions would be without Foxconn? I don't think the West could get a better deal from China than they are already getting. If the Chinese got their act totally together, wouldn't your Iphone get a lot more expensive? I don't think the west really wants to liberalize its trading partners as much as you think they do.
What I find interesting about this case is that he was able to obtain so many documents.

It's especially interesting to me because I'm currently writing a novel that involves an NSA employee, and in my novel any bags are controlled for documents and electronic devices at the entrance to NSA Headquarters, Fort Meade, and employees have to go through airport-like scanners both when they enter and exit the building. Obviously, this is fantasy and I've never been there.

Am I being unrealistic? Should I instead assume that everybody with a green employee badge can just walk in and walk out with a trove of documents under his arm, as long as they are in a nice envelope?

Also, I should mention that I feel sorry for Harold. He just seems to be a pathological hoarder with no evil intentions.
A sales partner is different to a company that helps monetise.

And just because he is asking for donations doesn't mean he's against monetising.
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It may be possible but take far too long?
Great documentary.

One of the most interesting types of innovation which has come out of Shenzen is within production. Some of these companies literally started creating cheap knockoffs smartphone batteries and is now delivering superior batteries for ex large car manufactorers in ways European companies simply can't compete with.
Does it have to be scalable or ongoing for a situation like this one? I kicked in $100 simply to acknowledge past work. I don't care if the person involved takes the money, spends it on a nice vacation and never touches Octave again.
I could probably say similar things about Maplin Electronics in the UK, in that a large part of the store is given over to selling miscellaneous tat. Although, in fairness to them:

- Most of the cabling and audio components are out on the shopfloor, which is handy,

- They do tend to (always?) have a component counter at the back, which fronts onto their warehouse/storeroom space, where you can usually get what you need. I guess that stuff is too easily stolen to have out front.
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I think you will only need to provide additional verification for PayPal and you'll be good to go. They need to do it because of anti money laundering laws - at least here in Europe, but it's probably similar in US.
Is this going to be Cadillac's "Supercruise"?
See also: "Washington Bullets", "Charlie don't Surf" by "The Clash".
> I wonder if people would be interested in it.

Yes, please! That sounds absolutely fascinating!
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What about hiding your ACLU work? https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/flying-home-abroad-bo...
Does this use the Pi's GPU? It's not clear and I think the answer is no?
I was under the impression that "fake news" was originally referring to the phenomenon of "satire" websites that would publish click bait headlines with semi-convincing stories. "Obama signs executive order banning handguns" that sort of thing. The motivation to do so seemed to be financial but there could be social impacts to.

It seems to have been rapidly adopted as a term to also include "opinions/interpretations I disagree with" - or in some cases "accurate things I wish weren't true".

I think lies, misinformation and propaganda underplay the essentially chaotic nature of a lot of this stuff. An evil mastermind at work is seductive as an idea because the solution is just punching. I don't see any evidence that that is the truth though.
>The OpenSSL project management team consists of four people, and the entire development group consists of 11 members, out of which 10 are volunteers; there is only one full-time employee, Stephen Henson, the lead developer

I mean, it's only OpenSSL which was for a long time the foundation of much of the online economy.

Or the various BSD's.
"I hope to retire next year to do open source full time with money made from closed source."

Sounds like pulling the ladder up afterward. Perhaps the niche you plan to target with FOSS would have supported a fresh graduate's new career. But your work may condition that market to expect it for free.
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I have a few university friends that are on dial up, thanks to me.

A provider in the area supplies dial up @ $1/month.

Compared to the $45/month for ADSL.

Great for people who can't afford 'net, but need it.

It's enough for email and downloading references.
>profoundly illiberal government that has no goals other than its own survival and that's supported by a lot of human misery,

This is common misconception. China is authoritarian country but it's not a totalitarian dictatorship. Chinese government actually has problems of controlling it's population and people are not afraid to show their displeasure with protest and riots when things are wrong.

Politically modern China is very much like United Kingdom before universal suffrage. Communist party (60 million members) is very much like the noble class in UK. This upper class is full aware that they can't rule with iron fist. They have to deliver better conditions for people and manage industrialization and urbanization or their days are numbered. They have also tied their existence to Chinese (= Han) unity and nationalism (dangerously so, Taiwan is existential question for the communist party).

Economically modern China is very much like UK during industrialization. People in China are more at the mercy of crony capitalism and smog than the government.

Hopefully China will go trough similar set of gradual reforms. Maybe communists end up in the Chinese House of Lords where communist party still has little power.

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>it's hard to forget the conditions at places like Foxconn.

People in the developing world move to cities to escape malnutrition. They are not forced to work in Foxconn, they choose to work in Foxconn in exchange of enough nutrition. If you want to see bad conditions, visit rural China and India where people still suffer from malnutrition. Malnutrition in China has dropped dramatically, thanks for hose horrible factory jobs. India has it much worse.
I think part of their problem with weekend developers stems from dropping VB6. They used to be "the largest block of developers in the world" [1] and then around 2003 they made

"... Visual Basic.NET not backwards-compatible with VB 6.0. This was literally the first time in living memory that when you bought an upgrade to a Microsoft product, your old data (i.e. the code you had written in VB6) could not be imported perfectly and silently. It was the first time a Microsoft upgrade did not respect the work that users did using the previous version of a product." [2]

Personally I'd hate that stuff. Probably why most of the weekend languages are open source and can't be discontinued by some corporate overlord.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-slow-brain-death-of-vb-net...

[2] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
For every nation that desires to improve it's lot in life, there is a transition period. You must bridge the gap from the ultra suck, to more suck than normal, on to the good life. There are a very finite number of ways to bridge those gaps. Industry is one that is tried and proven.

It's easy to call a peoples way to move up in the world bad, its much harder to suggest a real world viable alternative path. I'm ok with China becoming the worlds best manufacturers of many things, and the cheapest manufacturers of other things.

I am unaware of another path that they could have taken, or could take right now, that would get them as much GDP or even better citizen outcomes, except for perhaps spreading the wealth downstream a bit more?
4th one depends on the implementation, and it isn't a disadvantage since most scripting languages have the same characteristic.
Do you think the routes are designed so that the car encounters specific obstacles the teams are working on, or do you think its more like they are doing extensive mapping of an area to make the autonomy a bit easier?
I regularly move people off cloud providers once they realise how expensive they are.

We usually cut peoples fully loaded costs in two or more by moving them to dedicated hosting. Far more if they're bandwidth intensive (Google and AWS charge in the region of 5x to 50x as much for bandwidth as most other hosting alternatives)

There is certainly segments that use a lot of disposable environments and complex services where it makes sense to go to cloud providers, but I've yet to see a client where it came out as the cheapr option.

If they're big enough to negotiate steep discounts, then that certainly changes - I know one company that has 75% discounts over the public prices from one of the major cloud providers, and they're not that large (yearly spend in the high six digits).
It sounds like you move in non-standard circles, of progressive people who've accidentally absorbed right-wing propaganda. They'll perhaps get a shock when the UK very quickly moves to rip out consumer and environmental protections that it regularly fought to prevent passing while in the EU.
Musk created a company that gives around 15,000 workers a job. The company he created is not just a capitalist endeavor, but an attempt to start an environmental movement aimed at making electric cars viable in the world market. At multiple points during the company's early days, Musk put everything he had on the line; assuming huge levels of risk.

Meanwhile, Tesla is not making a profit and one wrong move could destroy it - ending the jobs of thousands and an environmental movement in one fell swoop. Giving luxurious benefits to Tesla employees just isn't possible at this point.

Your criticism that Musk is just a capitalist who doesn't care about his workers and treat them well seems completely unfair.
Bias in the ER
How many implementations are there?
I looked into this a few years ago; if this actually runs stuff in Wine, then this is actually a first.
David Airlie (Redhat) talking about Vulkan and other bits
> This particular bank teller didn't even realise that the facts stated by the computer were contradicting what was literally standing in front their eyes.

It may be more complex though. The machine can be wrong, but so can your eyes. The previous customer coming to that teller with the same situation might have been someone who stole the identity of a deceased person. You can't just assume the machine is wrong because it disagrees with what you see.

This is also not the problem of machines per se, but of large systems - where different parts are handled by different people who don't know each other (or may not even be aware of each other's existence), and a set of fixed procedures (i.e. meatspace algorithms) are used to coordinate everything.
Because you are running out of time. Save thyself. You're surely still young enough to whoop some ass. Emotionally feeling like you have no time means that you care about too many things that don't actually matter, or you need to delegate. Being in a rush makes you less effective.

If you want to feel like there's all the time in the world, leave your cellular at home, and visit the DMV, grab a number and watch time extend into the infinite.
>I was under the impression that "fake news" was originally referring to the phenomenon of "satire" websites that would publish click bait headlines with semi-convincing stories. "Obama signs executive order banning handguns" that sort of thing. The motivation to do so seemed to be financial but there could be social impacts to.

Kind of. Before it became (for lack of a better word) a meme, it essentially meant literally what it says: news website that published fake articles. This is what the British tabloids have been doing for decades, for what it's worth.

After the US presidential election, it quickly became a buzzword referring to the sorts of websites that posted articles that aren't just misleading but are actively made up and are presented as being true. These were mostly very, very right-wing Trump-supporting websites.

>It seems to have been rapidly adopted as a term to also include "opinions/interpretations I disagree with" - or in some cases "accurate things I wish weren't true".

By the alt-right, yes. Trump and his supporters immediately co-opted the term to mean 'things I don't like', which Trump regularly applies to CNN, which is certainly not fake news by any reasonable definition.

I don't really think that fake news is particularly chaotic. It's intentionally misleading, intentionally biased, intentionally targeted towards peoples' rasher emotions.
For those who are curious: To be accurate, locate is a command provided by mlocate package (shipped by most modern distributions) which supersedes GNU slocate.

mlocate is a locate/updatedb implementation. The 'm' stands for "merging": updatedb reuses the existing database to avoid rereading most of the file system, which makes updatedb faster and does not trash the system caches as much.

The locate(1) utility is intended to be completely compatible to slocate. It also attempts to be compatible to GNU locate, when it does not conflict with slocate compatibility.

Reference: https://fedorahosted.org/mlocate/
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Ask HN: How has coding affected your everyday life?
As for me:

1. I have come to respect even the most mundane and simple-looking things

2. Deadlines first, quality later

3. Temporary files changed from 'iqu32gfnciou.txt' to 'asdf.txt' to now 'foo.txt'

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WBU?
Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Wine sometimes has additional backwards compatibility issues because they don't implement some of the bugs in previous versions of Windows that people write their application code around.

I think the most notable example of this was some time zone handling bug in The Sims 3, that made that game unplayable with Wine if you were in certain time zones. The problem was that Windows XP didn't actually report DST information correctly to the version of Mono embedded in it, and the Mono devs dealt with it by basically not validating the value returned from XP. So Mono would crash when it got correct time zone information from Wine and from later versions of Windows, thus crashing Sims 3.

Looking at their bugzilla for the issue, it seems as if someone went through and deleted old comments. There were many whiners demanding that Wine fix something that they didn't break. https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18991#c43
Electron is the short answer to that. From what I've seen pretty much all the "new wave" cross platform chat apps are based on electron and a lot of the companies are emulating slack. In combination that leads to a lot very similar looking programs.
Please forgive me if I'm misunderstanding something, but hasn't Postgres basically completely subsumed the use case for schemaless datastores? I thought that in the (IMO) few cases where you want to store schemaless/sparse data, you could just use `jsonb`.
There Are No Agile Testers – Balancing the Power
> Musks target of 500,000+ cars a year of velocity in 2018 is an insane goal!

From a computing viewpoint, scaling a car production line is not a theoretically hard problem (it's very parallellizable, but you have to take supply chains into account).
Although it sounds like the OP might have some tricky queries, just want to echo that relational databases can be (very) fast if you know how to index them: one of our RDS MySQL tables has 3+ billion rows and queries on it average ~50 milliseconds.
exactly there are something like 13000 large riots in China a year.
With full audit trail of the overrides that makes sure the human gets sacked if they fuck up, sure. I dislike limiting human agency, but unfortunately, most employees aren't True Believers of the Corporate Cause, so you can't assume they'll be loyal and diligent all the time.
The only differing aspect I see is this: the Chinese primarily mistreat their own citizens. The US primarily mistreat whoever opposes their interests.

The latter actually affects me, being a non-US citizen.
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I am not from U.S., so I can't compare. Here (Czech Republic) it's usually one of the worst types of employment, rife with abuse (there were cases where employees needed a permission to go to the toilet, had to stand all day for no reason, etc.).
> Edit: Additionally, browsers will finally consume less power, CPU time and memory, because the execution runtime process will be so streamlined.

Don't worry, the software industry (and adtech) will find new cool ways to bloat the websites so that their resource usage will be back to usual high, while offered features stay more-less the same. That's pretty much how desktop, mobile and web all have been evolving so far.
Shouldn't be a problem for smaller companies though? Or is the accountant going to withhold approval or something?
I can give you 3 already: 1- doing it with SQL, 2- Distributed way with processes, 3- Doing it with custom NIFs etc.
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Please excuse the loose relation to this specific aspect of their relationship, but there's something bothering me about Google & Evernote.

I recently set up a consumer grade LG Android smartphone. A few days later I got a push notification inviting me to install Evernote[1]. I wonder who gets paid for that: the telco, LG, or Google? How does one unsubscribe from such app adverts? By disabling Google Play Store notifications? I really didn't know push ads for apps are a thing. Besides the annoyance, it seems like an unfair advantage over all the other top apps.

[1] https://cl.ly/2U0K2H3S071E
> I'd rather be doing whatever I please instead of going to work

Not the same thing, the argument here is for more meaningful jobs, not just fewer bad jobs.

If there was less expectation of getting a bad job, there would be more support for getting good jobs.
Speaking as someone who came to Elixir from Scala/Akka on the JVM, yes it is absolutely a disadvantage, and no there is no implementation of the Erlang VM which rivals the JVM for speed. In Erlang/Elixir you get speed through horizontal scalability (which is easy) and/or writing parts of your code in another, faster language (which is harder).
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Lengthy Instapaper outage
Instapaper is down and has been so for the past 13-15 hours. The site is producing a 503 Maintenance error.

The last status update was a tweet 13 hours ago informing users that they are trying to fix the problem https://twitter.com/instapaper/status/829480689359687680

I work from Southeast Asia and basically my whole day has been disrupted by this outage.

As I work a lot with content, this makes me realize how dependent I am on this single service.

I wonder if I in the future should start mirroring everything I put into Instapaper in Pocket as well, just to not let a downtime affect me as much as this one did.
Yep. I see the commonality as being "it's so fast it's hard to tell any work was done" - whether the user is trying to gauge whether their actions had any effect or whether something is worth paying for.
Ask HN: First time considering joining startup
There are 2 cofounders.

They do not have external funding, not sure if they have clients yet.

They are paying 20% less than I make in industry, and I would get 0.1-1.0% equity - is this common for the "first employee" essentially non-founder?
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Collection of awaitful functions to manage control flow in JS
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Ack "drunk". Oh autocorrect, you scamp!
Sorry that's what I meant. Just export c ABI functions in a Rust crate.
The reality is that raw money (number?) crunching is rarely the problem for modern sites. Even when it is, the number crunching code is often easily isolated and can be modularized using another more performant language and then Elixir can call that module as needed.
Try holding your breath while you count your money, and see how long it takes you to start appreciating negative externalities.
Sorry, my bad, I meant:

"When I am renting, and I leave the appartment, I do not claim the rent back"
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Gosh you mean kids will have to be responsible for their actions? Like the adults doing criminal and embarrassing things on the police cams in the US. There is hope for society yet.
Nice try, comrade.
The article said nothing on the market provided exactly what they needed whilst being compatible with their network...

But wouldn't BLESS [0], fit the bill?

[0] https://github.com/Netflix/bless
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I feel like software engineers get access to an odd, exclusive source of humor in things like these.
But it's not a refundable credit. Which means you get whichever is the lowest of your tax liability or $7,500. Please note saying it's not refundable is term of art that does not mean what you might take it to mean. So let's walk through some examples.

Let's say your total tax liability for a year is $10,000. You paid in $11,000 via Payroll and other taxes. Without the credit you'd be due a refund of $1,000. If you are eligible for a $7,500 credit because you bought a Tesla you'd be due a $8,500 refund.

Let's say your tax liability for the year is $5,000. You've paid nothing in taxes for the year (probably because you knew you were buying the car and didn't need to). You bought a Tesla which makes you eligible for a $7,500 tax credit. You do not get anything refund from the IRS, but the $7,500 tax credit offsets your entire tax liability.

So just because it's a credit doesn't mean the credit is effective for low income people. You have to have enough income to have a high enough tax liability to even get the full $7,500.