skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the regulation I'm referring to. A global industry moving billions of dollars with very little oversight.

You can write some code, wrangle together some sites (or even make some fake ones) and start selling your inventory on the exchanges today. Nobody will stop you and there are so many vendors that you will undoubtedly get paid by some large brands who don't know where all their ads are running. It is a mess, to put it lightly.

So yes, privacy and data regulations are sorely needed but we need to start somewhere. GDPR is something we (as in our company) is watching to see how that plays out.
I use Gitlab and the DB issue only affected me in regards to CI, and I believe this is true to anyone that was affected at all.

They did a manual Backup before meddling with stuff so they only lost data from a really small timeframe.

CI downtime, on the other hand, is troublesome. I love using Gitlab CI and it didn't take me more than a few minutes to manually deploy what I had to, but I decided I need most of my CI to be controlled by me.

The end result is a simple refactor of my test and deploy specs to their own rake tasks (Could be Bash scriots or whatever) and I'll have Gitlab run a simple gle command, if it goes down I run the command manually...

Now some eventual downtime is not such a deal breaker anymore, and I continue having private repos and CI (Awesome CI) for even the smallest (And private) projects I work on... Not a bad deal if I do say so myself.
I guess if you are a remote friendly employer, you'd want to avoid both cutting yourself off from talent that happens to live in a high-cost area and getting completely overrun by applications from low-cost areas. And that could be reason enough even before applying the most obvious rule of acquisition, "don't pay more than you need".

But yeah, the outcome, remoters from Cheaptown effectively subsidizing their coworkers from Glitter City is incredibly ugly. One should at least hope that the decisionmaking processes at the employer do not completely isolate the one deciding on a hire from the cost difference, so that flyover guy could at least enjoy an increased chance of getting the job.
They are the best lyrics site on the net, period. The annotations are... not always that great.

The annotations that journalists do on speeches can be super useful.

But in general... I'd like to have a portable system to annotate PDFs, textfiles, etc. Local files. Take notes and cross-link against multiple files & multiple notes.

I've been making notes sporadically for a decade about such a thing, with occasional bits of code that don't really solve the problem. Currently I'm playing with a neo4j backed proto-prototype. :: shrug ::
Important context (Twitter thread) for this article, by the same author a few days before publishing it: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/841172534586429441
You'd be amazed at the amount of fibre that's already been laid. We work with 5 different ISP's to get the best connection possible.
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Unless I'm mistaken, this won't affect services such as Site44.com [0], which lets you create up to 10 Web sites by syncing with specified Dropbox folders for $4.95 per month. I use the service for a side project and to publish a site for my students with the materials for the law-school course I teach; it works quite well. (EDIT: And that's my only connection with the company.)

[0] http://www.Site44.com
Shouldn't we be encouraging few minutes of peace instead? Like, we will take away your phones for next 10 minutes for Rs. 2
I completely agree. Actually, I think Github could do a better job with discovery too. The Explore page is a decent start, but why don't I get personalized recommendations for new projects?
The customer buys a token from the store with cash. They connect to the wifi and enter the token number to authenticate.
I'm guessing they can't go that route because youtube (google), and twitch (amazon) are the only 600lbs gorillas that can do /something/ to stave off the insane 100lbs gorilla that goes for the jugular (MPAA/RIAA and the like).

Photo-gallery, as you've noted opens them to competing with other such providers... who all seem to eventually race towards throwing ads on everything to try and make some profit.

Freely accessible areas also equate to more consumers (not users), and I don't know if DB's business model charges any kind of fee for access to that data.

This mostly sounds like DB is out of areas they want to / feel they can succeed in tapping for new customers and thus they attempt to cut back on costs with the hope of inertia retaining the existing users.
You forgot the (R). ;) But so did they in at least one instance on that page.
I hope the search in gitter-chanels gets better now, cause of open-sourcing it. There are good infos and tips hidden. Maybe tags or upvotes would solve this.
-edited to remove wrong info-
OLOL LITERALLY!?!
What's your problem dude? A single XSS vulnerability can have severe impacts up to a compromise of a system when sensitive data from authorized users are stolen.
I suspect they just want to focus on their core benefit so that they don't stretch too thin.
My need for fibre diminished after I started needing some combination of a VPN and Tor whenever I browsed political, sensitive or related content on the Internet. (I don't imagine this is a common phenomenon.)
The cause is a bit cyclical though, isn't it? We don't need Gbit because most people don't use that much. But most people don't use that much because consumer apps/devices rarely need to use that much bandwidth. But consumer apps/devices are designed to not use that much bandwidth because the average consumer doesn't have Gbit internet. And the average consumer doesn't have Gbit because they don't use that much. Etc.
:) We're planning to offer charging services too. Plug in your phone and sit in peace while it charges.
That's one hell of a pessimistic view if I've ever seen one.

What I see is an brilliantly managed company despite having a globally distributed team, which has a great pace of development, which is carving a nice market share in an extremely tough market (developers) and against a fierce competitor (Github), let alone the other multibillion company backed Bitbucket.

And their radical transparency, as you put it, is a fascinating thing in and of itself. If anything it makes me feel intimate with the company. Hard to put it in words, maybe because I was a rather early adopter but if you follow them closely it's a like you're there on their board with spectator mode on. That's some invaluable experience for HN crowd.

Are we even talking about the same company?!
Most Jews and Christians don't ascribe to the 6000 year old earth view. That's a relatively modern 20th-century interpretation and mostly driven by Christian fundamentalism in the USA.
I'm not sure if you did take the point intended. You would need a datacentre in every city in the world to get that "global latency".
This is really cool. Thanks for writing it up. I have also felt for while that the tools are terribly designed/clunky.

Maybe one day, hardware manufacturers will drop the cliche 'gamer aesthetic'... maybe...
For my edification, could you point me to pertinent forensics that determined he was dead prior to the bombing? I have not located any postmortem details.
the big reason has to do with taxes. Many states have state corp taxes, delaware does not. If you only register in texas it means that you must pay corp taxes for all profits made worldwide, if you register in delaware you only pay state corp taxes for the business done in those states. If you do 100% of your business in one state there is no reason to register out of state
I should have been more specific- I meant to refer to their competitors in the analysis of lyrics, not just annotation. For this purpose, I feel that Genius is overall quite poor and that there are much better discussion boards and services.

With regards to annotation specifically, songfacts and lyricsmode are competitors in that they support the same kind of annotation Genius does. In this sense, they are certainly competitors, though Genius has far more annotations and is winning the competition.

My main point about the failure of Genius is that it's Jedi mind tricked people into thinking annotation, and not just annotation in general but Genius' specific implementation of it, is the 'best' way to discover the 'objective' meaning of individual songs. There is no objective meaning and Genius' annotation feature is hardly as powerful as people give it credit for. Genius is just a discussion board with annotations enabled- another iteration of the many discussion boards which VC's have foolishly pumped tons of money into and not received a payout from.
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Yes, I probably missed the notifications somehow.

They probably should have had some warning on the app itself when putting or sharing files from that folder.

It's a free service, so my bad for using it without a good backup, but I had used programs for a long long time that produce screenshots with one keystroke and copy the URL to the clipboard, saving time.

I figured this was relatively low overhead for them and a popular feature, so they would keep it. Lesson learned ..
What's wrong with the "shared link" functionality they are offering?
> It's interesting to me that our cities and their governance are so awful

Most people rarely, if ever, need to deal with municipal departments that regulate infrastructure, health, and safety. As soon as you do, you find out that they're pretty uniformly terrible places with terrible people dealing with terrible things.
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> This mostly sounds like DB is out of areas they want to / feel they can succeed in tapping for new customers and thus they attempt to cut back on costs with the hope of inertia retaining the existing users.

I'm okay with how Dropbox as-is as a Pro user, and have no problem giving them $100/year in perpetuity.

A product must not constantly evolve/improve for it to succeed (I'm looking at you Github with your damn dark bar at the top nav now!). "Good enough" can carry the day. Sync always works. My files are always there. That's what I'm paying for.
You are most likely correct. Middle class can probably afford 3G. This is a really good niche. If you manage to make it work, it would be awesome!
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That article appears to be misinterpreting the quote from the Goldman report. It says it would take 70B to wire up 50 million homes, which is less than half. The article then just doubles that figure and assumes that is what a nationwide deployment would cost.

That is flawed for two reasons:

1) First, 50 million homes is more like 40%. "less than half" isn't half.

2) Not all homes are equal. Presumably Goldman meant the easiest/most profitable 50 million homes. It costs much much much much more to wire up rural and exurban homes.

Verizon spent 15bn wiring 17 million houses, but it only did rich areas. And they only got 4 million of those houses to actually sign up. Nearly 4k capital outlay per subscriber is a lot for a service that only costs 75 bucks a month.

>Apple has $230 billion cash on hand. Microsoft has $100 billion. Alphabet has $73 billion. There's no shortage of capital to start with metropolitan areas.

Yea but those companies won't use that capital on a relatively low margin industry like telecom. There is a reason Verizon is selling off as much wireline as it can. It's really not a great investment.
You are very perceptive. We had a prototype of two scopes synced with a cable we called "nunchuck mode," but we shelved it because we weren't sure how useful that would be.

I think the main selling point is the portability and remote measurement aspects. It fits in your jeans so you can literally have a scope with you at all times. You can also capture waveforms from over 100 ft away.

I was worried about the one channel limitations when we first decided to go with this form factor. After thinking about my own scope usage, though, I realized that I use only one channel on my four channel scope 90% of the time. More channels is obviously better, but not always necessary in every instance.

Thanks for the feedback.
Awesome! :D
This sounds a lot like google spanner. I'm no expert though. What's the difference?
1. We are an ISP, we've applied for the license from the Department of Telecom

2. The Telecom Regulatory of Authority of India has just recommended stopping the use of OTP. We really like that.
Seriously 20 rupees for 20GB?!?

For context, that is about $0.30.

In any case, this is awesome. Any plans to expand to other cities soon?

An unrelated question (that I think you might have a good answer to): When I've been to India, I've noticed that there is a lot of free WiFi around (in Mumbai, at least), but ALL of it requires that you have an Indian phone number that you have to register in order to get access.

Why is this? The cynic in me assumes that this so that network traffic can be tied to a real human being (since your phone number is tied to your person).

I guess a followup question: were there any interesting regulatory hurdles you had to jump through for this? Also what does the backhaul look like? Are you reselling 4G data? Building your own wireless backhaul maybe?

Cool project!
And to see the depth of integration we're taking, here is a Python crud service example, and see elsewhere in this thread for a link to our production authentication service: https://serverless.com/blog/serverless-fauna-python-example/
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I do not see any emails from them. Maybe I read them over quickly and deleted them :-(
Hi @aaron-lebo,

Mattermost team here, would welcome any feedback on how we could improve.

Here's a demo of Mattermost features vs Slack as FYI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKqHWqrAgpk
once all your services are shifted to the cooperatives, the red tape of all the different cooperatives will annoy you and you will hate those =)
We also have transactions [1], compound indexes [2] and multi-region replication [3]. I'm not sure what defines a "full-blown" database, but that much is true.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/transaction...

[2] https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/indexes

[3]
https://cloud.google.com/docs/geography-and-regions#multi-re...
Why some cloud vendors are shifting to the managed cloud
Of course jails are the underlying mechanism of that Docker port on FreeBSD that someone did once… But I'm not sure they're using that. Linuxulator is not perfect, and they announced "Docker support" not "imperfect Docker support" :D I bet they're using something like boot2docker in a bhyve VM.
https://youtu.be/eXR1olg_I0w

Here's a pretty good one. It appears to be constant 3-axis compensation, although he alludes to newer helicopters that have made it much easier.
This is the reason we love you guys, clear communication and caring for what people have to say. Keep doing that and we'll keep loving you. :D
An interesting observation that I can't seem to "un-observe" is that Megastore is actually a lot more like MongoDB than one would expect.

Both ostensibly work best when the application fits a hierarchical data model (entity groups vs. documents), and provide out-of-the-box strongly-consistent transactions for a single entity group. MongoDB feels like schemaless Megastore.
Title is evidently incorrect: the link itself clearly states they just disabled this functionality for Free accounts.

I can verify it still works for Pro/Plus accounts with existing Public folders.
“Wired 120 year old house with Cat6 ethernet & network rack in basement”
Supporting every region in every public cloud infrastructure provider is absolutely the goal. But we can change the little widget to be less confusing, too.
Agreed, the underlying process is still there.
looks cool. good job.
Philosophy is the obsolete precursor to science.

I think scientists should be embarrassed to admit to any mind-body dualist belief.

But if this guy is coming from the ancient Buddhist philosopher Dharmakirti’s dualism, that may overlap a little bit with the actual scientific property of emergence. But emergence just means larger more complex systems get properties that their constituent parts don't have.

We don't need fuzzy philosophical interpretations of quantum mechanics to explain consciousness any more than we need them to explaining flocking behavior in birds.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism (see Buddhist philosophy section)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
>and attracting actual artists to write about their own lyrics didn't excite me

What?! Up until then it had been speculation. This is one of my favorite features.

>doesn't provide any more value in its annotations than does azlyrics, youtube comments

AZLyrics are almost always a direct copy of Genius, errors and all; and youtube comments?!

>A lot of the time, its annotations are just straight up wrong

so you can (eventually) edit them! What other site lets you do that?

I don't understand how they make money but their site has a lot of value for me.
Perverse incentives and lack of regulation means nobody cares.

The adtech industry isn't full of idiots, it's thousands of people like you and me. Most people know how it all works, but unfortunately these companies are currently setup to make money on data and scale by any means - not by quality. The advertisers who hold all the money could do something by only spending it on good vendors - but who's going to tell them that? The agencies who sell them the ad campaigns and have inside deals with their own vendors?

Also the most annoying ads are the ones that show the most "engagement" - precisely because they are annoying. The ad that overlays the page and gets in your face will show more impressions and more time on screen than the less intrusive versions, and so these formats continue to get more money. Same with the outstream video (the ads that open up between paragraphs). Everyone wanted video, there wasn't enough inventory to go around, so these companies just created new spots for it. Unfortunately you can't escape from watching it so their stats look great and now these companies are massive.

What about data collection? Even the FCC/FTC hasn't really done much around proper disclaimers or data rights. Europe is leading the way with GDPR but that's still waiting to play out.

This is a tough industry where doing the right thing doesnt make you much money, and so you get the results you see.
The phone number requirement is a government thing, it's not really from the provider's perspective. The good news is that the government is rethinking this and TRAI has recently recommended stopping it.

Our backhaul is 100mbps fibre lines.
Google fiber was installed in my hood in Austin. It went fine, google support was very responsive and friendly, everything worked first time, no damage, very clean install, only a tiny channel dug in the yard, it has been great. I didn't have to do anything except sign up.
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What's the best way to do hiring in your culture?

There's a lot of variation within Anglo-Saxon cultures too. In New Zealand, we're usually a bit more reserved, but I can see that we're more forward than in many Asian and Pacific cultures. Also people everywhere have variation in introversion/extraversion and in their self-confidence.

It would be great if there was a way to do hiring that could identify good candidates without bias among these different things. Probably the only good way to hire is to simulate the real work environment as closely as possible. That's difficult and expensive though.
Only until September 1, according to the page.

> Effective September 1, 2017, Dropbox Pro, Plus, and Business users will no longer be able to render HTML content, and the Public folder and its sharing functionality will be disabled.
I use GitHub. I'm a developer, so maybe this is hard... They let you use their website to create a repo, add a file, and then in the settings specify that master is the source branch for GhPages so that it's available via the browser to the world at yourname.github.io/yourproject. You can even add a custom domain if you want.
Archive.org lets you upload your own files, with metadata.

http://archive.org/

You have a bit more of a guarantee there. Bonus points if you fill in the copyright field correctly.

PDFs, audio files, video files etc will all be post-processed and rendered like you would expect them to be.
It looks like you are saying only Chrome supports this (firefox, safari and edge all currently don't). Maybe instead of blaming everyone else, it's worth looking at why no-one other than Google seems to want to implement this.
The App developers -- assuming they aren't doing anything bizarre that should be trivial for the vast majority of applications. That said i'm unsure what would happen if they're using now-deprecated API -- i /suspect/ that would not effect the majority of these Apps, but I would not be surprised if some apps required a degree of work to update/move of old APIs.
I don't know if I was lucky, or dbg was unlucky, or if Google streamlined things by the time they got to my hood, but the fiber install was great for me here in Austin.
3D modeling objects (starting with retail products) for rendering on the web and in AR/VR.

The AR/VR/WebGL world totally depends on 3D content. 99% of the companies who want to put 3D content out, don't have any in 3D or if they do it's inappropriate for the medium - for example they only have 200MB objects used for photorealistic rendering.

Having good lightweight 3D models of objects/products etc... is probably a multi-billion industry itself.
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I really have the feeling that DropBox will die. They don't do anything Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive or Apple iCloud doesn't do, and these companies all have much more money / talent / infrastructure / synergy with other products.
Ah schedules. I assume you don't use Bart regularly? ;)
Um ok. What's actually wrong with the product? Why is it not "well-engineered"? All the things you said could be true, yet their product is amazing. I haven't used it, but I like what I'm seeing.

So what if a smart experienced developer (their CTO) is able to get good prices on what he/she wants done through remote work? The point you're making is negativity for no reason without evidence on how it's not working, i.e. what's wrong with their product.
They raised $56.8 million at a valuation of close to a billion dollars for a site that at the time was basically a lyrics site with not bad UI and SEO.
I was hoping it could read them so I can migrate.
This is pretty lame, now when I share files I have to direct them to Dropbox's dumb interstitial page which pushes them to sign up.
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Of course, the problem is not that some people are junior. The problem is that most people are junior, because, ironically, unless you live in one of the most expensive cities on the planet, their compensation is not commensurate with what an experienced developer can make in any first-world market.

When you have an inexperienced crew running your tech, you get a lot of very preventable issues, which sometimes approach apocalyptic scale (like GitLab's February data loss). That's fine for some businesses, but it shouldn't be fine for something as important as GitLab.
Yes. Light travels 839 km or 521 miles in 2.8 ms. If you need a round-trip to send a query and get a response, then you would have to be within a few hundred miles of the datacenter, assuming perfect efficiency.
I bet not, assuming perfect conditions and you knew the date it was hidden he would look no different from any of the other thousands of hikers out and about.