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> "Scott Fitzgerald’s new novel, The Great Gatsby, is in form no more than a glorified anecdote, and not too probable at that."

That remark is from a highly favourable review, but you have to actually read it: http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-great-...
Personally, I'd be delighted if somebody could convince me the answer to my question was "yes". But I'm staying skeptical.

Specialized cofounders is a much less dangerous situation than outsourced core tasks. There are some events of companies failing or people getting really bad deals because the cofounders didn't all have the complete picture on their heads, but since they normally work in close contact and have the same interests, this is rare. Completely outsorcing those tasks completely remove both the proximity and interests alignment.

Yet, I think you are right in that some service that would watch what I'm doing and tell me "now, you need to do X", "you should have done Y", or "don't ever do Z again!" would be valuable. I'd call that "tutoring", not "outsorcing", and I have no idea if somebody does it.
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Looks like they define it as "downtime where downtime instance > 30s"?
I know of companies that do not allow employees to bring work devices into China. That's probably a somewhat different issue of industrial espionage, though.
If anyone wants to help out with these sorts of preservation projects https://www.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ are good places to start.
To wit:

In terms of CAP, Spanner claims to be both consistent and highly available despite operating over a wide area, which many find surprising or even unlikely. The claim thus merits some discussion. Does this mean that Spanner is a CA system as defined by CAP? The short answer is “no” technically, but “yes” in effect and its users can and do assume CA.
The purist answer is “no” because partitions can happen and in fact have happened at Google, and during some partitions, Spanner chooses C and forfeits A. It is technically a CP system.
However, no system provides 100% availability, so the pragmatic question is whether or not Spanner delivers availability that is so high that most users don't worry about its outages. For example, given there are many sources of outages for an application, if Spanner is an insignificant contributor to its downtime, then users are correct to not worry about it.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/inside-Cloud-Sp... (written by Eric Brewer, who proposed CAP)
Here's a very rough (and non-practical due to the large time error) implementation of TrueTime that I wrote a while back that uses the regular linux apis:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18384883/why-is-googles-...

I suppose if you spent some serious effort with ntpd (maybe hook it up to a PCI ClockCard), you could get this approach to work.
> achieve the expectations

It has for Google internally. No reason why they can't share the service externally.
And I swear CL was ugly, janky, old school and unbeatable a decade ago.
Is JSON data type support in the works? Seems to be a very commonly requested feature these days.
Also never enter a password in any location where a hidden video camera could be observing you. Or where a hidden microphone could be listening to your typing. Or where ruffians holding crowbars could be lurking in the next room.
I see that you allow the inclusion of arbitrary keys, but don't currently do anything with them.

I currently keep notes as Markdown files, with similar key/value pairs at the start of each. I then have a hacky script [1] that extracts all such data from each note with a particular tag, and prints the results as a table. So I have automatically generated tables for my notes on talks (with columns for the date, venue, speaker's name, and talk series), books (title, author, publisher), recipes (title, course, source, whether I've cooked it), etc. without needing any special configuration.

If I were to use Collate, I'd keep notes on talks/books/recipes in separate notebooks, so it would be a useful feature to display a table of all key/value pairs in a particular notebook.

[1]: https://github.com/jamesscottbrown/nvalt-scripts
You're omitting what immediately follows:

> The purist answer is “no” because partitions can happen and in fact have happened at Google, and during some partitions, Spanner chooses C and forfeits A. It is technically a CP system.

> However, no system provides 100% availability, so the pragmatic question is whether or not Spanner delivers availability that is so high that most users don't worry about its outages. For example, given there are many sources of outages for an application, if Spanner is an insignificant contributor to its downtime, then users are correct to not worry about it.
That's interesting. I'm mostly sharing either Powerpoint, IntelliJ stuff or just Chrome.

I more or less can't use IntelliJ any more productively while sharing my screen because it's starved for resources.
Yep. I get told what to do by BA's at this company (I've had more direct interaction at some previous companies). I'm not allowed to talk with the users of the apps we make. I just get told what needs to get changed here by others. Presumably they're the ones going through that process.
> ability to run without JavaScript.

Genuinely asking - is that still an important quality as of today?
No offense here. But what kind of startup consultant are you that needs to come on Hacker News to ask how to start such a relatively simple business?

If you are having trouble with this question, I can tell you startups deal with similar customer acquisition and how to launch questions, but 10x harder. So I don't follow, are you a technology consultant with experience in specific hardware or software technologies or is this general business consulting you hope to sell?
Or perhaps Craig simply understands his business better than you do.

Are the loudest users the ones providing him with the most profit? If not, then why not ignore them?

Would being involved as a true middleman leave them more open to liability when things go south? If so, why open yourself to that risk if you are already making profit?

If you really think CL is so under-utilized, why hasn't a larger company bought them out, improved the site, and raked in increased profit?
How is a VPN on mobile data safer than a VPN on public internet?

Also, what safety does a VPN add if you are already using https?
Yet, its strangely fair, in that regardless of the content of the Times, billing in that industry is so bad, and billing at the Times is so unusually awful within industry standards, that he couldn't give them money to subscribe.

By analogy I trade money for code, and I won't sell code to you (nothing personal, just can't), so you can wonder how good my code is, but it doesn't really matter because I won't sell you my code regardless of its quality level.
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> By law, all health insurance policies are required to provide this coverage. Those companies can still be vocally against abortion, but they still have to comply with the law.

Not for nothing, but as it shook out, Hobby Lobby (one of those companies that didn't want to pay for abortion through employee healthcare plans) won their suit, so while your argument may hold merit, it excludes quite a bit of the nuance tendered by reality.
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>Smalltalk is the future of software development created 45 years in the past.

So doesn't that imply that Smalltalk was wrong to think we wouldn't be using file-based tools in 50 years..?
At Blizzard, Mike Morhaime came and answered support tickets as a Game Master for a day. The next day, several terrible policies disappeared.
It isn't an error. If you click into one of the individual data sources (links available on the home page), you see messages like this:

> This page is being updated. It will post records of White House visitors on an ongoing basis, once they become available.

> This page is being updated. It will post records of White House staff salaries as the data becomes available for the Trump Administration.
I believe the cheaper ones are the even slower C2550s. Another worry is the flaw thats been affecting the whole C range:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/06/cisco_intel_decline...
OK, fair enough. Maybe just plan to not have your device like the article says.
When you are rooted you can even make an image before and put it back later I guess.
Looks cool but it's US-only, so not something I can use.
Spanner's p90s are, for at least one user, consistently lower than 50 ms. https://quizlet.com/blog/quizlet-cloud-spanner

(Disclaimer: I work on Google's cloud.)
Would have given it a spin if it was FOSS. I wish SaaS companies (not just Forestry) would learn that developers will not adopt their products if they don't have source access. This product could have easily been FOSS and had it's pricing model based exclusively on support/hosting
They are quite good but why do I get the feeling the domain name was bought before the idea was decided on.
I actually think that Craigslist will come to see tough competition from Facebook Marketplace.

Facebook has the existing user base to get a network effect, has a much better UI, notifications, and solves for the worry of meeting someone who is a complete unknown.

Will be interesting to see if Facebook chips away at the Craigslist user-base over the next few years.
That's a good summary by Aphyr he said it better than me of course.

Now I know it is Eric Brewer himself who wrote that announcement. So I make no claim disproving him or knowing better than, I am just struggling to understand the implications. That CA terms has caused a lot of confusion (at least to me) and so far from what I have read talking about CA systems doesn't make sense.

Never heard of harvest & yield that's an interesting perspective. Thanks for the link, I'll need to go and ponder that for a while. It seems to take a probabilistic approach to these constraints.

But even in that article the description of CA systems is confusing. They describe it it means system can work only in the absence of a partitions. Ok, but then what does it do in the case of partition? The system will presumably do something accept requests, refuse to reply, ... I don't see how it can be both C and A though. That is why I equate that choice with a statement of "I believe partitions will never happen", which I personally think is not realistic.
You just need a big dictionary you can encode any content in a few bits.

I'm talking about lossless compression only.
What a douche
At a federal level, they wouldn't need to provide a good reason. Political affiliation is not a protected class, and therefore has no protections against at-will termination.

This may vary state by state, depending on what their laws are.
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Have you ever had a look at htop? I prefer it to both top and the GUI alternatives.
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Is there more to this than a page of empty results? Looking at this from a troubleshooting perspective, there are a number of things that could be causing this page besides the data itself being gone.

I agree, it's something that should be looked into, but before proclaiming a purge, I'd want to know more about the situation.
There is no article trying to reduce a many to many conversation to a simpler construct in order to justify regulating it is poor analysis.

Platforms may or may not be slanted people can pick a different platform if they don't like their current ones slant or make their own. People ought to have no right to have a platform to be neutral in what communication they facilitate between their users and any attempt to enforce that is inevitably going to devolve into being slanted towards those with the juice to hire the lawyers to suppress speech.
Credit guys are helping. They are providing access to a constrained resource that people might otherwise not have access to.

Living near lucrative jobs where the employer doesn't care about your housing costs is not a right.
Tech bro citizens need to intentionally travel in order to step up and volunteer to say "No" to all entreaties for their data. They have money for lawyers, and PTO for time.
It would be really fascinating if you added GPU instances with GTX 1080 cards. These cards could allow you to make the prices much lower than those of AWS GPU instances that use K-80 and make it a perfect fit for Deep Learning applications that don't require double precision.
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Building a successful and sustainable long term open source project is hard. It's nice to see GitHub contributing some knowledge share that will hopefully be useful to those wishing to get started or validate what they've learned the hard way.
I believe that is only to account for editorial policy in a UGC context.
And I thought it was an event, and won't last long.

But now it's still there :)
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>Why do people think the iPhone was groundbreaking?

Because every phone that came after it (and currently) follows it's form factor.
1. I don't see how Ceylon can be the origin. There is no evidence to back this.

2. How can Brahmi numerals have come into India around 850 BC when Sanskrit already existed during that time period. Again, these claims make no sense. Brahmi scripture is considered older than Sanskrit. How can it be introduced after Sanskrit was already popular? The Vedic scriptures (written in Sanskrit) date back to 1500 BC. Why is it so hard to not realise that maybe it was Mesopotamians who accepted the Brahmi numerals and not the other way round?
> If it weren't for ticket-scalpers, die-hard fans who are willing to pay extra to secure a place would have no option.

This is fantasy free-market nonsense. Fan clubs routinely get a round of ticket sales before it's opened up to the general public. It's quite common for an event to have tickets sold in batches to different groups, and for there to be pre-event events as well. If you're willing to pay extra, join a fan club.

It's also faulty reasoning - if other die-hard fans have already bought the tickets from scalpers, you can't just offer more money to the scalper and get one of their tickets. You can, however, buy directly off that other fan, but you can do that already anyway.
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Sounds like the original package was sent DHL and then dumped to USPS for delivery.
I would recommend riot.js is absolutely fantastic.

Simple,clear and working.
When I read articles like this, what i don't understand is why the brilliant minds in the various different departments that are actually experts in their domains don't get together and come up with a scheme to oust the administrators. How can you educate students to go out and change the world if you can't even fix your own institution? What exactly is stopping faculty from going on strike or figuring out a way to subvert the power structures which everyone can see to be damaging tot he university's mission?
Yup, this. And given that he states twice in his spiel that he "had no reason to suspect the package would be lost" it is almost laughable. Has any single person in history sent a package and said "Well I expect this will get lost in transit!" ?
My concern was more around split brain. If you fail over while the write master is simply unreachable, pain results.
(IANAL) If you're a US citizen, indefinite detainment without cause is unconstitutional: they must release you eventually; you also (provided you have your passport/can prove citizenship) have a right to enter your country. Further, if they try to detain you indefinitely illegally, you have the right to a writ of habeas corpus — a legal challenge that your detainment or jailing is illegal (your jailor must go before the court and show cause that he/she has the right to hold you). (Though, if you are in this position, you may need someone to file it on your behalf.) Again, I'm only asserting this in the specific situation of a US citizen attempting to enter the US.

My understanding is that they are permitted to search you, for the narrow purpose of border security. (I.e., the search here is not a violation of fourth amendment rights.) But I don't see how they can force you to divulge your password. You might not get the phone back, though, and they'd likely make your life very difficult; it's probably better to not mess around with them, and plan ahead. Specifically, I don't think leaving and trying again is ever an option, and wouldn't look good to the officer.
I'm not sure I understand what you're referring to there.

Edit: I mean that being prohibited from editorial interference seems like a pretty long distance from being essentially completely protected in editorial interference.
>If Craigslist decided to modernize today

I misread this as "decided to monetize today" and interpreted an IPO.

Has Craigslist ever thought about this?

Any thoughts?
An excellent proposal, but one which should be exceedingly mindful of the failures (and successes) of public broadcasting efforts in the past.

Europe is no stranger to government broadcasting. In Italy and Germany, these spread (and at times retarded) fascism. See "Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany"" https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3D...

During and since World War II, broadcasts especially from the BBC, Voice of America, and more recently Deutsche Welle and other national broadcasters, have offered high-quality content, much in multiple languages. These have been national though not European-wide initiatives.

The United States has seen the emergence of public broadcasting, in the form of both PBS (television) and NPR (radio), as well as other public-broadcasting networks (Pacifica, PRX, and several statewide and regional powerhouses). Whilst there've been successes, there have also been failures. American public broadcasting is frequently noted for being higher in quality than most private for-profit networks (true), but also in having a distinctly closed "public broadcasting" mindset (also, in my experience, true), with certain notable voices markedly missing. Having been a viewer and listener for decades, my own satisfaction with the network's merits have fallen greatly in the past two decades.

Ralph Nader has suggested that a new, truly responsive, public media system be created within the US, though he's been rather vague on specifics, or how he'd avoid the pitfalls which have befallen the existing system. (Information via a speech made Fall of 2016, I'd have to look up specfics.) His is among the voices typically missing from public media, with Noam Chomsky among the other notable absences.

Europe also has significant challenges in terms of language and culture -- there's no one language which will be understandable across the entire union. There remains a fairly strong regionalism as well which will have to be addressed.
Interesting but is it worth living being hungry all the time? Are the extra years (you might not get anyway due to illness or accident) on average worth it to you the individual?
If you don't understand why "PayPal for Africa" makes sense, then you likely are not from Africa, you've never visited, or you know very little about the place.

Consider that Paypal is not accepted in a few countries from that continent, then you'll realize that there's a market for it.

The other side is Paypal is an American outfit. With options like Kudi that are not controlled from the USA, there's less chance of a group not popular with the US govt. being denied access to funds.

There are many angles to consider. You just have to know the landscape. And an aside: From my knowledge of that part of the world, kudi is Hausa for money.

The same argument can be made for "Alibaba for Africa".

Imagine if Alibaba was not founded, and the Chinese had to rely on Amazon. That's a lot of moving flowing from online Chinese shoppers to the confers of Amazon. At some point it becomes a national security issue.

So, yes, "Alibaba for Africa" makes a lot of sense.
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He's lucky he didn't try to subscribe to a local Hearst paper.

I subscribed because I like the paper and the newsstand in my building closed. But the process is bizarre -- They only let you subscribe in weird increments of weeks vs. months. Then you get what they call "bonus" weeks, but the outcome is that the billing system ends up double-billing you for up to one week, and you can't predict when the bills will come.
Take a look at Ebay's acquisition attempt on CL. CL wasn't interested.

Also, it's not about listening to loud users. It's about understanding whether your users (any of them) are willing to pay you to improve the site. And, the answer to that is a resounding yes.
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I did consider using "No Longer Available" rather than "Purged" in the title, but all things considered I think there's overwhelming reason to believe this was intentional. Hopefully we'll soon have more information if someone looks further into this.
Some bands still do this. For example the Dave Matthews Band Warehouse club is pretty much the modern version of this. When you join the Warehouse, you get access to a pool of tickets only made available to Warehouse members. The pool contains a wide variety of tickets, and the quality of tickets a member can get is based on how long they've been in the club. Members can only buy a small number of tickets, I believe a max of 2.
Leave Craigslist just as it is.
>Facebook is trying to move in on their territory for sure. Unfortunately, I don't think they will.

Why "unfortunately"? This is a good thing. Facebook is horrible, in many different ways, and the last thing we need is to hand even more power over the internet to them. CL is "ugly", but it's fast and works great, and isn't filled with ads and tracking, something I definitely can't say about Facebook.
That sucks. Those PlanIDs should never change.
The thing I don't like in Redux is all the boilerplate code required to make simple things. I understand that in some point you may want/need to switch over to Redux but to start some projects I'm always considering a simple Event Emitter like node-events.
You might also want to check out Kotlin. It's basically what everyone wished Java 8 had been, but wasn't because a) backwards compatibility, and b) difference of opinion (looking at you Optional). We have a set of coding conventions we use for our Java code that includes things like using Optional.empty() instead of null and declaring all method parameters (and as many locals and properties as we can get away with) as final. We've found that using Kotlin allows us to write equivalent code in a far more succinct fashion because all those conventions we follow are the default state in Kotlin, and it's deviating from those conventions that requires extra syntax in Kotlin.
I'm not implying that people should behave in any particular way when asked to provide information to LEOs, only that phones should behave in a certain way when provided with a password. This might provide a level of security to a journalist who has been abducted, for example.
Meh, doesn't sound too bad to me. Its not like your machine has failed and they are not responding. You use OVH/Hetzner with the understanding that the great prices come from minimal support and the hardware will be used or desktop class. Hetzner support is strictly standard office hours. If you want instant responses, you can pay 10x at another provider but you chose not to.
I'd take this more seriously if it was written by a company that, you know, open sourced their code.