skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough; I think it depends where you draw the line between key/value store and database.

Both of those depend on other distributed storage systems under the hood, as far as I am aware? Or is Datastore an end to end system? I know Firebase was backed by MongoDB.
I was under the impression that it was never meant to succeed as a business, it was merely a proof of concept. That despite the lobbying and stalling tactics of national ISPs, progress could still be made to improve infrastructure despite the incessant arguments to the contrary.
I think it's really interesting that you have this impression, as an mostly outsider. If you look at real discussions between fans and gamers these days, ignoring the die-hard 'Nintendo can do no wrong' people, they're not doing so hot in the reputation department.

- Wii was more than a decade ago, and is widely considered one of last things they did right.

- Pokemon Go has nothing to do with Nintendo outside of their stake in the IP. Additionally, it's not remembered fondly by most people above the age of 13.

- Wii U was a massive failure, and has been buried by Nintendo

- The Switch was bungled pretty heavily, it's been nothing but criticized as far as I can tell. I haven't heard a single good thing about it, except that it has Zelda.

As far as innovation goes, they haven't innovated in years. They've introduced gimmicks that get ignored or ridiculed, not remembered.
> They still owe me like 15 euros of prepaid, but they're out of business by now.

Never lose hope.
I have a weekly newsletter with a couple thousand subscribers: http://www.weekinethereum.com
This was amazingly awesome because: I could teach people how to make a website, and how to have on the internet, in minutes.

Having said that, I haven't had that public folder in many many many many many years. So I'm surprised about this announce.

If anyone knows a quick way to let anyone do what I described above, please do tell.
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>And is all this fight really over being able to stream 3+ different 4k video streams?

Shit, three 4k streams should work with 110 mbit cable service that is pretty standard across the country. Gbit is more like 30.

I have 80mbit. I'd only pay maybe 10 bucks extra a month for Gbit. And I download copious amounts of video from usenet. TV shows already take under 5 minutes.
The coming tipping point in data-driven logistics
Mattermost is open core and not open source.
> Snuff films' and other intentional-for-filming recordings are usually illegal

Actually, there are no such films. I’m not saying someone could not, in theory, create one – I’m saying that, to my understanding, no such films have ever been shown to actually exist. Be careful with what you assume.
My team wants to understand this in context of other databases. Are there any architecture docs available?
Those companies are contracted and put in place by the content producers and owners to monetize their content, in exchange for giving it to you for free. Some content producers dont do this and charge you directly instead.

There will not be an internet without ads. So that is not a logical or reasonable goal.

The very vast majority are fine with advertising but the current situation is out of hand - so yes, working on standards that everyone agrees on and moves forward with will create progress.
My argument is that while you use null assignment and nullability in Kotlin, in Scala you don't work with nulls.
Some sources:
(video encoding guidelines)

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en

For pre-encoded HDR 1080p Google (youtube) recommends 15Mbps target rate for the video and 0.5Mbps for the audio (5.1). For 4K the numbers go up to as high as 85 and 0.5.

I use a rough rule of thumb that 'livestramed' things at the same quality should be double those bit-rates as a maximum.

This gives:

FHD 16Mb/s
4K 86Mb/s

I'd say it's reasonable for a 'single household' to have a number of guests over, say if they're having a party or if relatives are visiting for the holidays. Lets call the peak use 12 guests.

86 * 12 ~= 1032 Mb/s ; Thus Gigabit is NOT overkill. It is capacity and freedom for a small family and some guests to enjoy content and/or collaboration without anyone 'hogging' the connection.
surge.sh is a great solution.
I'm an old user and mine disapeared a huge amount of years ago. I'm quite surprised by this announcement.
Value of random website that I click on: $0.01

Potential losses from drive-by-download or other malicious content served by an ad-network: -$30000.00
Netflix won't enable 4K on a 15Mbit connection. Perhaps 50, definitely not 15. Remember they have to allow some headroom and for the possibility of more than one concurrent stream to the same subscriber.
Turned out they were on fire though (In a bad way).
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Zendesk API down
Reads do not require global coordination because of the way the transaction log advances within each datacenter, but I take your point.
>It's part of the reason why people get so scared of things like Sharia law and Sharia courts.

I fail to see how Islam having influence in the government and justice system is any different _at all_ from Christianity having massive influence in our government and our justice system (we put our hands on the BIBLE after all when we give testimony). Christianity permeates every aspect of our lives in the West.

Just because it's less visible to us, doesn't mean it's any less ingrained in our culture. When we look at Islamic countries, these differences (from the outgroup) seem magnified and are thus big, bad and scary.

But if anyone should be afraid of any country in the world it's the United States. Which is the largest exporter of terrorism in the world. Look at the Iraq war. 1 Million dead. But does anyone say, "Oh, dear God, Bush said Jesus told him to save Iraq; Christianity is so evil!" ? No. Nobody says that. Ever.

Instead, people make posts about how backwards Islam is because women have to wear clothing over their bodies and make it seem like the end of the world when there are millions suffering by our hands due to colonial imperialism. Since WW2, the US has run roughshod over the M.E. and South America, killing countless number of peoples and cultures in the name of colonialism and white-expansionism. But those topics curiously never come up when discussing Islamic countries. No, in fact, they never come up because it just devolves into tribalistic finger pointing. Let's forget about toppling and ruining a country like Libya, displacing millions and killing more...because hey, Isis chopped off some heads! Oh - and on top of that - let's ban them from emigrating to the countries that bombed them in the first place - genius! This is grade A psychopathy.

Hitchens is that peddling that brand of imperialist apologia that is thoroughly sickening. Hey Hitchens: answer for the crimes of the West before you start throwing stones.
Reminds me of the joke, "How do you get docker to be secure? Run it inside a (FreeBSD) jail."

Having not looked at it that's my guess what they are doing. Everything related to it is in a jail. Making it secure regardless of dockers questionable security.
You're probably right. This page has existed since at least 2009, in various forms[0]. For many years, it helpfully instructed users how to share the files in their public folder, one of their most useful features from day 1.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20091114094103/http://www.dropbox...
Do you say "in exchange for a review," or "in exchange for a positive review?" There's a reason newspapers' editorial and advertising departments are separate.
I relied on this "light" publishing for a few things and I'm quite pissed off. I did not notice any notification on this.

To me, this should be done very very visibly and with tons of warnings. I used it to communicate screenshots with details, etc. Now all links are broken and I'm SOL with no viable solution to changing those links from documents, bugs, etc., etc.

Very very very bad!
I'm not sure this really addresses the issue? Personally I actually would appreciate the upfront salary discussion as it could potentially save a lot of wasted time.

It seems to me the issue is more there was a difference in expectations between what the candidate perceived was their situation and what the recruiter believed. This is of course not uncommon, however from the sounds of it the candidate was not given an opportunity to reason their position. It could be that GitLab is simply not offering competitive renumeration based on what the candidate believed they could achieve in the same market. It could also be that GitLab undervalued the particular skill sets of the candidate. Of course the opposite may also be true.

Clearly there were differences in opinions, however by asking the candidate to sign an agreement to a specific salary based on no discussion is only going to cause issues for everyone. Either the candidate agrees, goes through the interview and decides "it's not worth it, and now there's no flexibility", they disagree and a potentially good candidate is immediately lost or they agree, take the job and feel like they are not being fairly compensated, which can have all sorts of consequences.

This is usually why the discussion happens at the end of an interview process, after the candidate has had the opportunity to demonstrate their skills and experience. Then if there is still a perception of a mismatch this can be reasoned with respect to what has previously been discussed.

> Secondly, we never would ask you to agree to something that is below the calculators suggestion, however your expectations based on Level, Experience, or Location may differ from the recruiter or hiring managers' assessments.

The candidate has clearly stated they were offered less than what the calculator suggested. It was your recruiters opinion that they did not meet the parameters entered into the calculator, however clearly the candidate believed that they did. In this case the recruiter must judge the cause of the disparity through discussion with the candidate and set expectations in terms of the results of this discussion. Again, simply telling a candidate "this is our opinion, you must agree to it" is not going to benefit anyone.
It's always been a little confusing to me how annotation could be a defensible product. A large and active user base is, of course, inherently defensible, but the user base of people who will make animated GIFs to explain Jay-Z lyrics has very little to do with the user base you want to explain the AHCA.

I like the idea of annotation and I even sort of like Genius's implementation of annotation. There's a pretty decent annotation of Gatsby on the site. Virtually every line of The Waste Land has a good annotation there too. But, not to put too fine a point on it, this stuff all seems like, from a platform perspective, something Dustin Curtis could have built solo.
One thing I have noticed is interaction during car servicing. When giving my car in for service, the person in charge at the car company usually has to call me on the phone and tell me to pick up the car. Perhaps this could be automated where the mechanic presses a button on his/her end and the car owner automatically gets a notification (via app?) to pick up the car.
It is similar to datastore, but with full-blown database features like transactions, joins, multi-region replication, temporal history, covering and compound indexes, graph queries, stored procedures, etc., and you can run it on-premises if you want (currently in beta).
Right out of the Tesla Playbook: Make an announcement ("Model Y!") then raise cash.

It's a surprisingly small amount, which makes me think they couldn't get the terms they wanted/needed/
IPython or Jupyter
How does a customer pay and use the service?
Pay the panwallah and he gives customer a code which is used to bill?
> possessing a snuff film […] is not illegal.

Please don’t be too concerned with people possessing things which do not exist. There are no snuff films.
If I remember correctly, Datastore is basically a thin layer on top of Megastore[1] (aka the precursor to Spanner).

1: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
> Any suggestions?

Seriously, SublimeText, which is $70 closed-source.

Less seriously, macOS and iLife. I'd be ok to pay €200/year/user for an OS of that quality, as long as it's open-source.
I started learning SVG going through all the jenkov examples - really great resource. The SVGs I create now are designed to be easy to understand because I wanted to pay it forward. Have a pick through my other pens and maybe my channel http://YouTube.com/+framespark
Many of the graphics here violate visual best practices, which can make them very misleading (the scatter plot in particular). The most egregious is the use of a log-scale on three of the graphics, which isn't highlighted at all. Humans don't compare and interpret log scales well (see The Elements of Graphing Data by Cleveland, etc.). I would've much rather seen percentages (say on return on investment) or break out the analysis into tiers that were more comparable.
Williams communications ran fiber inside old gas/oil pipelines. [0]

Somebody somewhere will have to touch every household for some other reason and will piggyback fiber. An excuse for the last mile won't be for the last mile but for some other reason. Probably some hardware install or new gadget.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/m.newsok.com/article/2330222/amp
Atheists at risk of dying out as religious people are having more babies
Tricky. Also a bit weird.
Well this isn't suitable for "normal" users but I use SyncThing to sync a folder on my computer to a server running Apache.
Using the 280MB Libreoffice source .deb from Ubuntu as a test, and the Ubuntu mirrors -- which are hosted on a mixture of commercial and academic networks.

From here in Denmark, I have no problem downloading at over 95MB/s from servers in the Nordic countries. 111MB/s from the Norwegian mirror!

From the rest Europe, including examples like Bosnia (60MB/s) and Russia (55MB/s), I get at least 50MB/s, 70-80 from GB, DE, NL etc.

Around 70MB/s also for Singapore, South Africa, Canada.

This isn't 1000Gb/s (125MB/s), but it's a lot faster than the 0.002Gb/s that tool predicts.
As a member of the committee, can you explain why it's only the opposing party's seats which haven't been filled, and why the committee is so heavily stacked against them (7 vs 3.5, if we assume a rando is not going to be very effective)?
I have an email notification from Dropbox in December of last year saying this will be disabled.
> it takes less than an hour to get a Delaware LLC on the Internet

Setting LLC's up is easy (even setting up a C-Corp is considerably easy) but for me the problem is always to maintain it and file taxes and other stuff on time etc. Is there any startup/service that helps me solve that problem?
I really like this. I am wondering why you chose not to target the Coffee days, Barista instead? Last I checked, none of them had wifi. At the same time, maybe it's because they are not very friendly if you sit and work there :-)
This was the main reason I unsubscribed from Dropbox this month.
Conversational user experience platform
What institution was this if you don't mind me asking? I can't say that I much enjoyed the CS courses I had to take as part of the computer engineering program myself, as it was mostly taught from power point and definitely the material in lecture was mostly useless for projects and such. MIPS architecture, though, was really fun and the instructor was great but kind of a jerk at times.
Context is the king.

Ads acceptable only when their subject matches context of browsing and the user intent. And works only when done in non-interruptible manner. If you break context and/or flow, people get uncomfortable, frustrated, angry. Angry people will install ad-blockers.

Some examples:

- if you search for a solution on how to fix a fridge, then fridge ads are acceptable. Google does exactly that in their search.

- if you're on sports stats tracking site, then athletic gear, food, etc are acceptable

- if I search stackoverflow for specific problem with my code - NO ads please, I'm not in a mood to buy something.

- in movies: John Wick is using TTI Glock 17 - having TTI ad near is perfectly fine (people will crave to know what's those cool things he's using). I.e. product placement is the way to go. What's happening on TV? You're watching Keanu shredding through the movie, then it suddenly stops and Chevy ad coming in. WTF?!111
I guess he's referring to the fact that you can run a server behind Tor at an onion address without needing to forward any ports.

But that's not really the same problem.
>"Surely you understand this?"

It's my whole point. Being a "content creator" is irrelevant, and not deserving of making money. Billions of people are creating content all day, every day. The vast majority of it is crap.

Good content creators will find a way to get paid. So, going back to the original comment:

"Do you expect content producers to get paid"

No. I don't "expect" it, and neither should they. If you can't get people to support the content generation, perhaps you overestimate its value?

>Or are you only consuming meme gifs or something?

Not sure what your point is, but it seems like you think meme creators deserve to get paid, not me. After all, they are "creating content", and I'm blocking their ads too.
religion is inherited now?

..
No, FreeNAS is ZFS only.
S3 buckets with the website feature enabled, but you have to pay for usage and I don't know of a way to emulate Dropbox's local filesystem integration with S3... at least not one that's accessible for nontechnical users.
"Getting used to it" is... maybe not a doable thing. If you think it is though, I'd be interested in how you see that rapid adaptation playing out.
Unfortunately I don't know. We didn't even know the other names of people or companies until today - and there are some there that I wish weren't.
That's already complicated + not free.
You just run a web server in a hidden service, it takes less than five minutes to set up. People without for can still see it with onion.to.
Datastore runs on top of Megastore [1]. You can find out more about our data model here [2], but it's definitely not limited to key-value data.

Our end users don't have to think much about our storage system, though, if we're doing our jobs right. :)

[1] https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/articles/balancing-s...
[2] https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/entities
What is the server running Apache? :)
Machinekit • machine control applications
In technology evolution there are technologies that enable a new ecosystem, and then there are technologies that are built natively for that ecosystem. The previous generation of datastores enabled Lambda style applications, the next generation of databases assumes they are the new normal.

The reasons FaunaDB fits serverless like a glove can be boiled down to a few points: pay-as-you-go, database security awareness and object level access control, hierarchical multi tenancy with quality of service management. Running on multiple clouds makes the Serverless model more acceptable for risk averse enterprises, and complements multi-cloud serverless FaaS execution environments nicely.

There's more to say, check out this post on the blog: https://fauna.com/blog/serverless-cloud-database and https://fauna.com/blog/escape-the-cloud-database-trap-with-s...
Oh, they definitely notified their users. There were emails and warnings in the UI, it was very visible. Really, you can't blame Dropbox there.

However, one can still blame Dropbox for the change itself. I used this on several occasions, including hosting archives for academic publications. No way in hell I can change those links. Maybe that wasn't a wise choice, but at that time it looked like a good way: The link did not give a clue about my identity, making peer review easier, and DB being a well-funded and known internet company those links were surely meant to work forever, cool URLs don't change is something they had to know. Boy was I wrong.
For real. I made http://plusaroo.com/ recently. Mine seems to use ~ 30mb.

As much as it seemed like overkill to use Electron for it, it just made the most sense for me. Hopefully those faults with electron can be addressed.
It's a Digital Ocean droplet.
I received a notification 3 to 4 months ago and then a reminder about 2 weeks ago. Maybe a spam filter ate it. :(
'tarball flinger'?
So the attacks happened in 2014. Yahoo waited 2 years to divulge that information, and now suddenly we have charges filed? Seems fishy.
This response is quite in the style of the Yelp/TripAdvisor response to a negative review. A thin veneer of consolation around an attempt to save face.
If you're raising investment and burning through money, you won't be paying taxes anyway, so it doesn't really matter.
2011 - company acquired, everyone laid off and I went to do a short term contract with one of my former company's clients

Early 2012 - contract over self explanatory

Mid 2012 - I was brought in to work on a new .Net project and to convert a PHP project to .Net. Two years later they abandoned the .Net initiative and everyone was working on PHP. That wasn't a career direction I wanted to go in.

2014 - I was brought in by a manager who wanted people who would aggressively pursue change and modern best practices, they pushed him out and all of the people who didn't want to hear about change started pushing back on his hires.

So when I was looking for a job late last year, I was very specific about the technology stack I wanted and the coding practices that were in place. Ironically, I ended up accepting an offer with a company that ranked 2 out of 14 on my modified Joel Test. But I was promised the support of the manager to come in and implement best practices.
We've chosen to go the streets because thats where most of India lives. The middle class of the country is well catered to by technology companies, the poorer among us aren't.

The average Indian doesn't have access to wifi at home or at work and data is too expensive for them. There's literally no place they can go to get cheap internet access.

We want to fill that need.
An SMS notification would do just fine, right?
Startup Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab
Would love this, or the ability to "throttle" similar to limits set on network bandwidth. So many times I come back to my server to find cpu high and it's caused by one or two web pages doing god-knows what. They don't even appear complex pages.
Wow! Can you post a link to her blog, or books?
> There will not be an internet without ads

The internet existed without ads perfectly fine. You can stop spreading this FUD bullshit.

> The very vast majority are fine with advertising

Show me the data.

> standards that everyone agrees on and moves forward with will create progress

'Standards that everyone agrees on'? Hmm, you guys forgot to mail me the survey. When do I get to veto these 'standards' if I don't agree with them?
You're right. I realised that and came to correct it. Thanks for pointing it out.
Yes, exactly. In NYC, RCN is charging around $70/mo for 330 mbs down and something like 20 or 30 mbs/sec up. IIRC cable latency is very slightly worse than fiber. Still, Verizon charges well over $100 for more than 100 or 150 mbs down, and they are very keen on two-year contracts. No thanks.
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I don't see how this would make it easier? What advantage do you have?
I still assume Signal is the most secure public messenger which has more than several thousands of users.

Still I have the feeling, Signal behaves kinda broken and immature. The phone functionality never worked properly for me. Sometimes I'm receiving message/encryption errors. Also sometimes having delay issues.
We have a white paper coming soon...if you email us at priority@fauna.com we can give you a preview.
The customer pays cash and gets a paper token with a token number on it. They connect to the wifi and enter the token number to authenticate.