skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's possible, verticalization can give a cost advantage, but it also opens you up to extra customer service expenses, so i'm not sure that that's enough to overcome the expense (haven't tried to do the math though). as k-mcgrady notes in a nearby comment, groceries do home delivery in other countries like the UK, but the cost of delivery is probably now well baked into the cost of groceries. i haven't looked into how that developed - maybe delivery was successfully positioned as a premium offering with a larger surcharge and they moved down market over time and moved to a nominal surcharge (£1-5 most likely doesn't cover the cost). here in the US, there's a bit of a first mover problem since no one wants to unilaterally raise grocery prices and a delivery surcharge limits growth of the service.

the other disadvantage of verticalization is that it limits access to consumer data. an aggregator like instacart will have access to comparative consumer data across stores and i think that should be far more valuable given how competitive the consumer products space is.
That's just the SMS app.
That's a great point that I forgot to mention! I will only book a place with sparce reviews (under 5 or so) if the host is very new (listing is less than a month or two old).
It's an Electron app, so it's basically running an entire second copy of Chrom{e|ium}.

UPDATE: Err, or first copy, if you don't use Chrome as your primary browser.
I've been through this myself, being told "You're not a real developer" earlier in my career. At that time I was very junior and doing essentially maintenance (bug fixes and adding new features) to a C++ cross-platform client/server application.

But for myself it boils down to this standard: Can I write programs to accomplish my own goals? And the answer to that is yes. I might use an older technology or an older stack but I can certainly get done what I need to get done.

Labels aside, when I need a program to accomplish a goal, in any programming language, I can do it.
I'm not saying the difference is explained by difference in hours worked. I'm saying it's a possible explanation.

You on the other hand are trying to draw conclusions that aren't backed by the data.
Foundation's Measurements aren't bad and it's easy to extend them to do arithmetic.
(Ozgun from Citus)

As someone who interacts with PostgreSQL on-prem and cloud deployments frequently, I'm curious on the Hacker News community's thoughts on one question.

AWS has a fairly mature RDS Postgres offering. What would motivate you to use Google Cloud Postgres instead?

I've heard of four reasons from users: not on AWS, don't want to be locked into one vendor, cost, and better support. Do any of these reasons resonate with you or are there others?
The key difference is that feature simply places your best performing photo first. The relevance of it leaking an actual number which represents the ratio of right to left swipes is the critical part.

It offers a comparison with other users and the average across all of a users photos probably correlates strongly with the mysterious 'Tinder rating ™'
Scientists Closer to Creating a Fully Synthetic Yeast Genome
OP may want to try "INFO commandstats" to get the same metrics in a much cheaper way. Example output:

# Commandstats
cmdstat_info:calls=1,usec=57,usec_per_call=57.00
cmdstat_cluster:calls=8,usec=211,usec_per_call=26.38
cmdstat_zrange:calls=4,usec=1990,usec_per_call=497.50
1. You haven't negotiated a custom rate with Google (e.g. Snapchat wouldn't be eligible for the free tier).

2. According to the FAQ, this is basically a paid account (as opposed to a free trial) with automatic billing for charges above what the free tier offers.

3. This means you have to pay your bills. E.g. if you have overdue bills, your account isn't in good standing.
Even EPA has come up in the world dramatically in the last few years. As of 2014, its violent crime rate was half that of SF, only 25% more than San Jose, and roughly double that of Mountain View. I'd consider Mountain View a very safe place; EPA is basically turning into just another Silicon Valley suburb.
For the record, you can also write Lambda programs in C, Haskell, Rust, Ocaml, Go, or basically whatever compiled language you want, as long as you can manage to produce a binary whose dynamically linked library paths are compatible with Amazon Linux, which is quite easily done either by building on EC2 or using a Docker image with the Amazon Linux file system --- or building static binaries.
Nope, but you could always pay Google for GMail and go without ads.
That was a really good read, thank you.
Haven't pretty much all of the largest tech companies been started with VC funding?
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands want to create ‘artificial power island’
Have you been in Quebec? Montreal is more like a central European city than anything in the US. I haven't been to Quebec City but I gather it's not much different.

It's also starkly different if you look at share of wealth. Class divisions are smaller in Canada, noticeably so.
Absolutely. The web platform and web development tools have gotten incredibly good but can require a herculean effort to understand what's possible, how to use the tools, and get good performance. As the post points out , even instagram is missing out on a lot of performance optimizations.

Gatsby aims to be a compiler of sorts to simplify making really high performance websites so even low-budget websites and webapps can join in the fun.
Great, the only account type available in Finland is "Business" so that's a no-go for me.

Is there a reason why? Pretty much every other provider out there (amazon, azure, ovh to name a few) have no problem giving out accounts to individual users.
The common phrase is "If you don't like it, don't get locked up."

Most people don't get to pick and choose when they wind up in the wrong situation. It isn't just criminals that get locked up.
Oh that's a good point I didn't even think of! I have to pay all those social things and will likely never see them again. Like throwing money in the furnace.

And unlike an H1B, my O-1 visa is not dual intent. That means I get to stay in constant purgatory. Haven't really looked into it, but I probably should.

Either way, legal immigrants contribute just as much, if not more, as citizens do.

Edit: Looks like they support sending social security payments to foreign countries, if you meet requirements. That's neat. https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10137.pdf
I think it boils down to:

- she was seen leaving the scene strapped to a gurney en route to jail

- the taser marks were visible for weeks in 3 separate areas of her body

- she was psychologically damaged. Literally broken for weeks emotionally. It still manifests in strange ways over a year later.

- we ran into another girl she was in jail with at court during pre trial. She was really concerned for my friends emotional well being after "what happened in there".
Finally! I've been making the point for years now that the reason new developers start with AWS is because of their much more useful 12 month free tier. People from GCP would come to our university every couple of years and ask us "Why don't you use GCP?" and be told by countless computer science undergraduates that they didn't NEED $300 for a couple of months, they needed at least a year of time with a cheap instance or two. It seems they finally listened.
Other than servicing Toronto, that yourmechanic doesn't seem to be available in, not much. Looks like these guys are pretty established with a much better quoting interface. fiix requires me to input my name/number, and other details that piss me off. Just for the price to show up.
If you are still looking at this, we use the following solutions at work:

- https://meet.jit.si as a hangout replacement (seems like a polished hangout alternative)

- https://about.mattermost.com/ as a on-premise slack / hipchat / irc alternative

(not affiliated with any of those products)
Booking.com does it, btw. And I strongly prefer it.
Exact same until you need to easily deal with code formatting. Slack uses Markdown Hipchat uses nonsense. Also Hipchat's reliability is garbage: getting @mentions hours later or not at all. Hipchat is horrible. You also have audio and video calling in Slack.
I have a Bluetooth hardware keyboard with esc, alt, control, and shift keys. No meta.

There are programming-oriented software keyboards.
You are also out of luck if you ever used a trail with your account before.

Got this message: "Sorry, you aren't eligible for a free trial at this time. The free trial is for new customers only."

The specs:

Always Free Usage Limits

As part of ... Free Tier, Compute Engine offers an amount of usage that is free to use, up to a specific limit. If you go over these usage limits and are no longer in the free trial period, you will be charged according to the price sheet.

1 f1-micro VM instance per month (US regions only).

- f1-micro: 600MB memory, 0.2vCPU that can burst up to a full core.

30 GB of HDD persistent disk storage per month.
5 GB of snapshot storage per month.

1 GB egress from North America to other destinations per month (excluding Australia and China).

- not sure what that means, you have to pay for traffic from Australia/China? 1TB is 119€ through.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#internet_egress

For f1-micro instances, you receive free usage equivalent to the number of total hours within the current month, enough to run one instance without interruption for the entire month.
Yup, given their tendency to drop products and the lackluster support on the consumer offerings it's hard to not take a wait and see approach.

(And before anyone jumps on me that consumer != enterprise, the culture of support your company sets at your flagship products will trickle down across orgs and cross-pollinate with public perception at the same time).
Am I some kind of idiot, or does neither the blog post or G Suite product page for Meet give any indication of how I could launch Meet? The green CTA "Get started" on the product page takes me to G Suite signup... when I'm already using G suite and signed in. The Log In button takes me to the G Suite Admin console. What.
That's definitely coming. Before the 1st beta for sure. Still ironing out a handful of core features...
There's also the issue of there being no option for non-cellular devices to participate in Allo/Duo which limits their utility compared to traditional Hangouts; they're promising a web client but it's all TBD.

I'm aggravated about it.
Think of it this way. Imagine if airbnb took its 1 billion dollars and bought bars of gold, and put those bars of gold in a vault.

Is airbnb losing money, because it now has 1 billion dollars less in cash, and 1 billion dollars more in gold bars?

No, it is not.
This will be my first time with slide film, actually. I'm really looking forward to it because I love the high contrast and saturation that those films in particular produce. Of course Portra and Ektar are great color films that I love as well, but I want that extra punch.
Sanctuary: The face of mass deportation
Thermal images reveal what parts of a screen were tapped
Here are the new Always Free usage limits:

https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/always-free-usage-limits

They are (IMO) quite generous. Definitely sufficient to get a good feel for the platform and run some personal workloads.

Disclaimer: Nothing to do with this launch, but I do work on GCP.
Target market: enterprise

* Video-conferencing & meeting: Hangouts Meet

* Direct messaging & team communication: Hangouts Chat

Target market: consumer

* Video & audio calling: Duo

* Text messaging: Allo

You could even put it in a 2x2, doesn't get any more clear than this.
I'm a software engineer at Opendoor- happy to answer any questions!
Evidence shows that it does affect one gender more than the other. There is no "thinking" involved with this. Raw data showing that we pay women less than men is plentiful and fairly conclusive.

So, my logic here is your debate is to simply get people arguing that are on the front lines. You are the one that "thinks" you are just as affected as women in this. If you truly feel that you want to help, drop your self persecution and help.

Again, do I think you are purposely sidelining actual progress? No. I doubt that. However, I do think discussing what are feminine and masculine traits is a distraction. And the most likely outcome from the position you are advertising.
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Friend of a friend launched kitchit that did almost this. You should check them out and figure out why they shut down.
The thing to note here is that this response from YC is not a political one,

Indeed. It wasn't formulated as political -- but the intrinsically the move does have significant political import (as a form of "voting with one's feet", as it were). Which has the potential to send signals that signs, slogans and marches (alone) cannot.
Barring an Ecotopia-MAD-civil-war, the federal government will never give up the naval bases in California.
> I've been writing software professionally

Yes, you are a developer. Are you a good developer or bad?

If your users are pretty happy with your results, maybe you are good.

> various online developer tests where you have to write or debug code. I was bad at all of them.

This can be learned. Are you willing learn? This is the crux. If you want to progress, you have to study at what you got wrong. You have to take your feedback (e.g. the developer tests you took) and find out what it would take to pass them with flying colors.

If, instead, you expect to pass them without putting extra effort, or correcting yourself, then I'm afraid you are a bad developer.

I've worked with developers who, when faced with criticism (guidance, really) just get red in the face and double down on whatever ineffective strategy they were using to begin with. And later they get even more red in the face because they spent so much effort doing the wrong thing instead of what they were advised to do.
Have you ever noticed how nothing written using a non-ironic "You, sir" device is productive to engage with?
Data protection. HDFS replicates chunks of files across 3 different drives by default. This is configurable, but it's one of the most simple ways to protect your data from drive failures, without the performance penalty of RAID.
But if you're going to review, a few extra seconds shouldn't matter

It's how the "official" reviews from Marriott/Hilton/etc all work
In that case please stop driving (go fix public transit), eating at restaurants (go fix soup kitchens), using Lyft (go fix cabs), etc...

(The point is: the people providing alternatives are under no obligation to fix anything. Isn't HN all about disrupting bad models?)
Oh this page mentions the Australian location, guess we're getting closer to the region finally launching :).
So much for being 'effortless' to start a connection... It's also not clear to me if this is only for people already using the G-suite or not, as the previous Google Hangouts was open to everyone.
My current employer uses hipchat, and I've used Slack at previous jobs, social/professional groups, and with some of our contractors now.

Features:
Slack wins. Slack is usually a little ahead. Hipchat was catching up and then I just popped back with threaded convos.

Uptime:
Slack wins I think. Hipchat goes down/slow kind of often. Approximately github often. I don't use Slack as intensely, but can't think of many times that slack was down aside from major internet outages.

Rooms/Channels:
Hipchat has rooms, slack has channels. Basically parity in terms of group/private/team channels.

Pricing:
Hipchat wins. Both have free tiers, but those are for toy groups. Hipchat is about $2/user vs $10/user for slack. Slack doesn't charge you for inactive users though (2 weeks dormant), so it can be competitive if you have a small team of actually active users.

Mobile:
I find hipchat to be slower and a little worse in tiny annoying ways. For instance on my phone/watch, I get notifications for 1:1 messages and @mentions. But in hipchat, if i'm not already in the room where someone mentioned me, it doesn't show up when I open the app, even if I get there by swiping the notification. Come on hipchat!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830361
For what it's worth, I am analyzing it again after making a small prototype of the application I needed it for but using Vue + Vuex. It's helped me put in perspective the amount of boilerplate needed by Elm, and now I'm not so sure that particular downside is as big compared to the alternatives as to disqualify it...

I'm going to give it another full week before going one way or the other.
Great initiative. If it goes well we hopefully will have an integrated dependency management solution with go command by next year this time.
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I was being facetious, and yes, we do absolutely have racists, and yes, most of the people in our prisons are not white (they're First Nations, in our case).

Even so, we don't quite have the same legal system that seems to systematically lock up non-white people in bulk. A lower percentage of our population is in jail, they stay in for less time, and we have less violent crime overall. If you aren't white, I feel confident in saying you'll feel welcome here and won't get arrested for walking down the wrong street along at night.
Published: 2015

(For clarity)
Yes, it's hilarious because - and this isn't going to be a popular (and certainly not a trendy) point of view - you could almost literally take the phrase "distributed objects" from the original article and substitute it with the word "microservices" and otherwise republish it substantially unaltered to make the same points.

</snark>

I am currently working on one of these much vaunted microservices based systems and, let me tell you, there is not one aspect of it - not a single one - that does not suck a perpetually replenished conveyor belt of balls. Not one.

And, yes, performance is straight up dreadful. Sadly I cannot say more in order to protect the guilty.
Location: SF
Remote: why not
Willing to relocate: perhaps
Technologies: aws, node, react, java, c, r, sql, linux
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Excellent remark. Note that antirez is Salvatore Sanfilippo, the author of redis. Kudos
This is a major coup against AWS. I might actually use Firebase now. If they keep this up, they can put pressure on AWS.
I think your statistics would show that certain classes of Americans are comparatively very criminally oriented, and certain classes of Americans are not.

I didn't say anything about certain classes of Americans. I said that if you sampled the back of a squad car, you'd conclude that Americans are a bunch of criminals in general. That is the point. Asking a police officer about their experiences with immigrants is extremely biased. Just as asking a surgeon about athletes is biased (hint: surgeons have a lot more contact with injured athletes than the average person).
One thing to bear in mind is how different Village Capital is than YC. I think it makes a ton of sense for them to do it this way, I think Techstars (alum!) should consider it, but it does seem like it works for YC.
The disturbance you feel is likely at least partly cognitive dissonance at the idea of open borders amounting to labor colonialism.

It's an interesting idea, wouldn't you say? What are the effects of ensuring Sudan or wherever is unable to maintain a functional local elite? Are they good or bad, on balance? If we strip-mine all of their potentially capable administrators, do we have an obligation to administer their state for them, or just airdrop rice every couple years, or what?

The idea that states and people have reciprocal obligations beyond Maximum GDP isn't exactly novel.
Beijing? Right with the Great Firewall, it's a ridiculous place to run a tech company. With the air pollution it's a ridiculous place to live. I lived for many years in Shanghai but ultimately moved because it was nearly impossible to do anything tech related that relied on standard tools such as Github or marketing venues such as Facebook, etc.
Can you ELI5 exactly how any employee "takes money off the table" --- I have always been farked in my dealings... so how do I profit? What is the best strategy?
It's much easier to make a study comparing women to men than one comparing "low self-confidence people" to "highly-confident people".

Helping in the form of advice to the job seekers: as Mike said, the advice applies equally to the men in the same situation.

Helping in the form of making employers aware, so they can optimize their job descriptions: It incidentally helps men of low self-confidence too. Notice, tough, that being socialized into assuming a requirement is hard instead of "not really" isn't the same as not being confident. And that some commenters here are defending that a candidate that lacks the confidence to even apply for a job isn't worth their time considering.
Mattermost Team here, thanks for the mention!

One reason for propreitary SaaS over open source used to be setup--but now that Mattermost is on Bitnami it's easier than ever to deploy Mattermost to AWS, Azure, GCP and OCP: https://bitnami.com/stack/mattermost
So, where did you steal that computer that you're composing your messages on? Where did you steal your phone? Your car?

You sound like you want a world where cars and computers are free. In practice, that would be a world without cars and computers.

Or are you only talking about "property" in the sense of real estate? But if the land doesn't (enforceably) belong to me, I'm not going to build anything substantial on it - not a skyscraper, not even a decent suburban home. I'm not going to build anything but what I absolutely need, because I can lose it.

And I can't get a loan on it, either. This matters. In parts of the world without secure property rights, a family can't take a loan on their property so that the wife can buy a sewing machine and develop an income. It makes it harder for people to climb out of subsistence.

So your position makes a nice soundbite, but it doesn't actually work very well in the real world.

(Your post parallel to this one is correct - property rights can exist only if the state enforces them. The thing is, it is good that the state does so.)
throw in some colors, some icons, etc. Something to make it different to the millions cvs going around
The whole ban is a hysterical overreaction, not the reporting on it.

Look, I'm all for better vetting of travelers to the US. But first, tell me what problems there are in the first place, and then tell me how you plan on fixing them. What's wrong with our current vetting process?

Banning travelers from countries carte-blanche "until we figure things out", with no identification of the original problem and no proposal for a fix, how is that something anyone can support? It is xenophobic, unreasonable, rooted in fiction, and in this case, it is a ban on muslims.
I'll admit, I'm pretty amazed that AirBnB has succeeded.

I never thought that injecting even more uncertainty into travel was a winning proposition, but they've clearly found a willing market.

Perhaps a better way to look at it is "There was an underserved market that had a higher tolerance for uncertainty, and AirBnB seized the opportunity."
That Encrypted Chat App the White House Liked? Full of Holes
well, you could create 5 accounts under the single master and have 5 tb online.. for 90 bucks a year.. just use an account for each service.. movies / tv / whatever :)
I've started using Discord[0] with a team, we are pretty happy with it. It's great how you can easily see who's in a call and can join and leave without any cost (you don't have to invite someone to the call, or ask to be invited, etc)

[0] https://discordapp.com/