skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, if this continues to be a problem, what’s the difference between using Amazon as a go-between and simply using a random web site you found? Wasn’t the whole point of using Amazon as intermediary to reduce the risk compared to ordering direct from an unknown web site?
Chinese official denied visa to attend U.S. planetary science conference
Yep, I had to RMA a P8P67Pro because of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge#Cougar_Point_chip...
Yes. I'm left-of-center (through probably right-of-HN as I perceive it) and also find Che to be an odious figure.
Even though Redshift is based on PostgreSQL 8.0, hasn't it diverged enough that it's not really PostgreSQL anymore?
That why it's the best system to support in Internet forums! You can just pick the parts from each that work for the argument you are making. Since they are polar opposites you have a lot of ground to pick ideals from. Thus winning the argument.
Hey, Can I ask - What are some of the airport/flight app you currently have on your phone ?
Update: another vulnerability found, not patched yet. https://mobile.twitter.com/taviso/status/844312124541186048
I worked out the iPad choices.

Options is a of mix connectivity & size:

iPad Pro (12.9") - 3 Colours x 5 Options (15)

iPad Pro (9.7") - 4 Colours x 6 Options (24)

iPad - 3 Colours x 4 Options (12)

iPad 4 Mini - 3 Colours x 2 Options (6)

That's 57 variants, clearly designed by a bean counter judging by the deliberate storage choices (i.e. no 64gb options across the whole line). 32GB seems totally pointless to me unless you are only using it for email & web browsing. Why is the mini 4 - a device that wouldn't appear to appeal to "power users" only available in 128gb? Why would anyone purchase a 12.9" iPad Pro with 32GB of storage?

The iPad line is all over the place - I had re-write the above as I got confused by what base options are available. What's even more baffling is that they all come with regular USB cables which means I can't plug any of them into my new Macbook Pro.
Agree mostly with the article; nitpicks:

>In the first case there is a language using words that humans use to talk to each other, while in the second one there is pure JavaScript, where you have to build your query using a JSON object and even convert the 24 hours to milliseconds on your own.

I have never personally implemented anything using either MySQL or Mongo. But even I can see that this is a bad example. In the first case, you have an SQL query raw. This obviously has to be passed to some sort of API to be used in code, so it's an incomplete example. In the second case, you're blaming what appears to be a weakness in Javascript's "Date" library on MongoDB. In Go this becomes time.Now().AddDate(0,0,1) which is relatively straightforward. nb. Go time lib becomes less pretty whenever there's an error involved and I sort of hate it honestly.

>First, scaling is not and most probably won’t be your problem. Unless you start having a few thousand of queries per second and terrabytes of data in your database, this won’t be a problem at all.

...true...

>And in case it does, you can go with a fully managed solution like AWS’ RDS.

...but the freshman delusion is "I have scaling problems", so the sophomore delusion is "I will never have scaling problems" :p

The job of a businessperson includes managing things. You can't outsource all of the management. It's how you add value after all. I've seen plenty of cases where people choose not to go with AWS because they can save money by doing more work and they made off with some dough.
An income is not a profit (capital gain). Retirees aren't profiting from their ability to convert their wealth into income, they're simply surviving.

I'm not talking about rich retirees. I'm talking about hundreds of millions of people all over the world, who've saved up something and therefore, when they come to the point where they are unable to work, they purchase an asset with a yield -- it can be anything: a bond, shares in companies that rent out apartments, stocks, land lease etc. -- in order to convert their savings into an income. The more your savings, the higher the income, but when you are no longer physically able to work, you have no choice left (unless you're lucky enough to live in a country where there's someone to help you).

Also, who do you think is the recipient of mortgage payments? People who've deposited money with the bank in question, eg. retirees. A mortgage is an exchange of wealth for income using a bank/credit union as an intermediary.
I love the vision and audacity to tackle this rent problem.

That said, help me understand who your GTM target is.

1 - Is it basically SV, young tech guys who want a cheaper and a unique place to live? This is what I'm taking away reading your post.
2 - Is it migratory/seasonal workers who work on a farms during harvest season?
3 - Is it people who want to live off-grid, and plan on buying a lot and just want to drop a house there for cheap?

Some of my initial thoughts:

A - As someone commented, the images don't really connect to any of the segments above. I can see the photographer is going for a certain magazine look. But it doesn't do a real good job of telling a story about these units and your target market.

B - Again as others have commented on regulatory issues both for fire safety and also city regulations. That last part might cause issues with your original vision of lower rent alternatives.

C - Financial model. It seems to me if you are going the rent-share service route and you'll need to put down $40-50K for each unit, you will need a lot of capital as you scale. I'm guessing it will take 3-5 years to recover the cost of each unit (rent-dependent). Which creates a lot of challenges, unless you setup some kind of a partnership scheme. Either individual partners, who will put the money down to help renters finance this as part of revenue share scheme. Or large banking institution who will help underwrite each units.

D - Pricing. As others have pointed out, the pricing once you get to $50k is close to a decent used RV house. And the interiors don't look that great. I'm curious what the cost will be once you put some type of economics of scales into this. Given all the dimensions are set. Can't you just have a shop in China produce all these parts? Is there an opportunity to partner with Lowes or some large retailer who buys in bulk?

Good luck! I'm very impressed you guys have taken it this far and hope it'll succeed.
Yeah, I'm aware that Maytag is owned by Whirlpool. For this reason I most recently purchased a Bosch.
Ok, we'll s/the world’s first/a/. That is usually a pretty good idea anyhow.
> I think the full willful infringement penalty is absolutely justified

Out of curiousity: how much is that? How much should Amazon pay? Would you support the same penalty if your local bookseller was found to have purchased a batch of counterfeits? You realize that happens all the time in retail, right? Many smaller retailers have little to no ability to control their supply chain in the way you're demanding from Amazon.

I mean... this is bad. It should stop. Vendors need to be careful. Amazon's partner programs create some bad incentives that put too much of the risk on consumers. All of that is true.

But guys... the Amazon hate in this thread is just out of control. Counterfeits happen. A lot.
Wait, Chinese Bike-Sharing Doesn’t Make Any Sense
> [...] an you get nailed by eating a bag of work-provided Cheetos while hacking on your project?

I doubt it, but it is not the important point.

> Obviously if you work on projects related to your employer's business that is a conflict [...]

It is not obvious I think. If one interprets this rigorous it would be impossible to work on any kind of low-level, tooling or infrastructure software, as it might be used indirectly by your company (or its competitors), so there is a conflict. IANAL.
Doesn't look like they commingle things with expiration dates.
WebSQL was basically SQLite accessible from JS - which also, unfortunately, was the reason for it being dropped... apparently the standards committees only want standards with multiple competing implementations.

Which is total bananas, given the fact that there's only one (free, ultra portable, tiny) embeddable SQL database - SQLite. Which every browser except IE/Edge ships, anyways, for internal data storage.
Is it really a ponzi scheme? Sounds just like any other startup mentioned here where they burn a tonne of cash while working out how to be profitable. Just because they don't make money now and there is a shortfall doesn't mean it will always be that way. Maybe they believe eventually prices will fall due to the volume, or people will continue buying membership but not use it as much etc.
Actual title: "How Aristotle Created the Computer"
SQL Server's tools are awesome! Too bad the licensing fees are not.
Sure thing, but how to know what is stupid or not?

The parents of my girlfriend live in a small flat in the center of a big city for 25 years now. Since the rent increase is capped by law, they're paying the same amount of money as their daughter for a 18m² room in a shared flat.

On the other hand, the parents of a friend built a house on a credit, but after 10 years their bank was allowed to increase the interest rate so in the end they had to sell the house, because they couldn't afford to pay off the credit anymore.
Maybe those would be considered boat tunnels, not ship tunnels?
WebSQL was a browser-embedded SQL database engine.

It was killed by the standards committee because a key part of the standard was essentially "do exactly what SQLite version x.yy does", because the only implementation was by embedding that version of SQLite in the browser and putting a thin API on top of it.
SQL databases are very powerful and capable tools, but they also hide some complexities behind a declarative language.
That makes easy to get into a bad place, performance-wise, if the DB mutates quickly. You don't need millions of accesses to the DB to have unbearable slow queries if schemas are not carefully designed, which is difficult in early stages of development.

I usually consider the "I had to migrate from DB X to DB Y" a success story. You discovered what was required and later in the process, improved your system. Painful, but probably unavoidable.

Databases are not easy to handle and operate. Is easy to underestimate them. We used to have people just devoted to them (can you remember DBAs?). It is worth to spend time learning them and knowing their goods and bads. And sometimes making mistakes in unavoidable...
Walmart e-commerce CEO Marc Lore says the company will make more acquisitions
Absolutely. In Britain the trailblazer was the 2633m Harecastle Tunnel, built by James Brindley in the 1770s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harecastle_Tunnel .

TFA describes the Norwegian tunnel as "the world's first ship tunnel of any significant size", but "significant" changes as engineering advances, and Harecastle was certainly significant at the time - contemporaries thought it an unearthly achievement. Scepticism was such that it was nicknamed an "air castle" (after "castles in the air"). It was the absolute limit of what was believed possible with tunnelling technology through such rock: the 7ft width defined the size of locks and bridges for the rest of the Grand Trunk, or Trent & Mersey, Canal. In turn, this defined the size of the English "narrowboat", the dominant inland craft for cargo carrying and, since the 1960s, pleasure boating. (In modern terms this would be called "boat" rather than "ship", but in contemporary documents it was less clear, and it seems likely that the size was chosen as a half-ship - half the width of the Mersey Flat sailing vessels, on the river with which the canal connected.)

The original Harecastle Tunnel is now closed due to subsidence, but the 1820s replacement is still operational, and the rest of the Trent & Mersey Canal is fully navigable and very enjoyable: I moored a boat on it for six years.

(For anyone interested in finding out about Britain's 2,500-mile network of historic canals, here's the charity that runs them: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/ )
As someone who works with a lot of flight data and has to buy it from third parties, its amazing how poorly this data is distributed usually.

I hope they license their data to third parties so we don't need an api call for each airport though.
I am not sure if it is true still, but I remember "regular" workers in Japan do not have to file tax. They are deducted from their pays and that's it. I think that will similarly apply to a very large number of population.

I also never liked really to use accountants, as they basically ask the same questions that I have to collect myself. Might as well use an online tool. Especially if most of the "W"s are already at IRS/FRB why do I even have to send the copies of them again. Why don't they just give me the partially filed XML/JSON to me to finish it off.
http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/tunnels.htm

There are a lot of canal tunnels in the UK.
I would partially agree with this even though Java is a great language.

I can firmly recall in my CS 101 class where they were teaching basic programming using Java, and the teacher seriously told us "just put static in all of your method declarations, don't worry about why yet otherwise you won't be able to use them in your main".

...didn't fully learn what static meant until over a year in my programming career.
US and UK ban cabin laptops on some inbound flights
Thanks for the wealth of resources. After reading through, the only big concern I have with BigQuery is pricing. I like the model of pay-per-query, but it seems like costs can get out of hand easily.

These two issues particularly worry me:

- No non-date partitioning, which means you'll often end up (in my particular use case) scanning 10-100x as much data as you actually want to.

- Pricing is based on uncompressed data size, which is at least several times more expensive than the alternative (e.g. Athena).

Any thoughts on these? We'll have several hundreds of TB of data, so cost matters.
The best part about Swagger is there's a lot of good open-source tooling for it (though this depends on the language).

One alternative I find super interesting lately is defining APIs with grpc and then exposing them with the gateway proxy: https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway

In this way, you get strongly-typed interfaces and Swagger is autogenned for you.
The death of transit and beyond [pdf]
By that logic, In-Q-Tel is a stroke of genius, because they've also built "healthy working relationships" with Network Appliance, IBM, Amazon, EMC, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, Google, and Nokia.

I think you just can't read anything into In-Q-Tel involvement with a company.
That link and Joel seem to agree. By default the contractor owns the IP, unless the contract contains the legal phrase "work made for hire." Maybe you should have kept reading?
Yes. Nit: PostgreSQL 8 doesn't really describe a particular version. 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4 are all major PostgreSQL versions. Edited to add: Redshift was based on 8.0.2.
If an employee can do nothing and remain employed, the issue is not where the employee does nothing from. It's the fact that the company doesn't expect anything from said employees. Telecommuting has nothing to do with it. Lack of a managerial layer that a.) makes sure employees have anything to do or b.) consistently accept late deadlines or a total dereliction of duty has everything to do with it. I'm not getting paid million of dollars a year like Mayer, or any c-suite executive is, but I managed to figure that out. They know it too, but again, it's easier to pick the lowest hanging fruit (the abused "privilege" of your employees) and say "look at how decisive I am making this major cultural shift."
Write swagger in yaml and it's just as pleasant.
Your model is too simplistic here. The actual cash leaving Amazon's bank account may not be due to their supplier until 30 or 60 days after delivery. If it takes Amazon 6 days to sell that $100 worth of goods, they can effectively sell $1000 worth of product before that initial cash is due to the supplier if we're talking net 60.

This is how a $100 initial cash investment in inventory can produce $17 worth of cash at the end. You use your leverage with lots of small suppliers to force them into offering generous credit.

Note: this ignores the fact that these numbers are based on net profit instead of gross profit which would be the actual relevant number here. And the gross profit in groceries is a lot higher than 1.7%.
Therein lies your main problem. The one that Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein spoke about extensively. The mindset of academia actually is corrosive to many of the world's most brilliant minds.

He inspired Tesla and Gandhi and practically established all of modern India with the power of his words. He was a scientist who renounced the world and he died in deep meditation.
Although I agree with most of the author's points I think he underestimates the value of ease of use by programmers. SQL syntax can definitely be daunting to some and difficult to understand complex queries. There is room for improvement in that regard.
Amazon Basics is amazon's line of products, you can't sell them yourself because they'd always be counterfit (or used)
Why TLS 1.0 isn't just SSL 3.1 (2014)
> Second, no; NoSQL does not scale better than SQL. At least not in the manner you think. MySQL is being used from top-traffic websites like Facebook and Twitter, to high traffic websites like GitHub and Basecamp and almost every PHP installation out there. If this is not scaling, then what is?

YouTube, mentioned in the article, also uses MySQL, but the author forgets to mention those big names don't use a plain simple Vanilla SQL. In the case of YouTube, it's Vitess [1]. It would be nice for the author to mention this.

[1] http://vitess.io/
Nothing compares to an iPad as a PDF reading device. If you work in fields like electronics engineering, which require quickly going through lots of datasheets (some hundreds of pages long), it is simply the best device for the job.

(BTW, I recommend Readdle Documents for reading PDF because of its unbelievable speed, which matters a lot when your documents are 1200 pages long)
What are your thoughts on InfluxDB or Cassandra to model and use for apps? They are two "NoSQL" solutions that seem to strike a balance of simplicity and query capability. The only NoSQL solution I'm experienced in is RIAK which is purely key/value and I find SOLR (which aggregates for RIAK) not that friendly.
Based on bureaucratic overconfidence.

The real problem with most american cities is that there isn't that much crime yet the politicians feel the need to fight non-existent unfightable crime by making our lives miserable. California could have lead the way in offering good solutions for homelessness, mental illness, drug war, school choice etc. but yet it pushes for more and more nazi styled policies.
Let's think of a system where it does not matter who prints or otherwise distributes the content and where the author (rights holder) can collect royalties on all copies.
Companies seldom care what happens after they're dead. Since we do care, we take their promises with a grain of salt.
I use Amazon for all of these things on a regular basis and have experienced zero problems, to provide a counterpoint to your anecdote.
But it's not being exempted; it's being taxed. At a higher rate!

Right?
That level of detail isn't published, but most of Guatemala's IPv6 traffic is coming from http://bgp.he.net/AS52362 and http://bgp.he.net/AS23243

Edit: APNIC has similar data published here: https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/GT
I'm finished with Airbnb as the places get shabbier with each booking. Linens are threadbare, kitchens have dirty/stained pots & utensils and suddenly 4-6 flight walk ups without a mention in the listing. Zero customer service to boot. I'll pay the few dollars extra for a hotel.
epochalypse.no is an option if you are/know a Norwegian
It's easy when you're the only user. Pretty tricky when you want to share entries among different groups of users.
I don't really consider myself part of HN. I'm an observer. Lots of interesting articles are shared with some great comments that follow.

I think though the Google and Youtube stuff is a bit different than what I would like to see with Amazon and abebooks. Youtube was known for it's commenting feeds, there was an anonymity around making comments with usernames to hide behind. Forcing you to create a single login so to connect to your profile page on Google removed that anonymity and was aimed at curtailing the atmosphere found in the comment sections. Thankfully, it has prevailed to some extent as I always enjoyed the comments on videos despite how crude they can be at times. It's cheap entertainment. For Amazon/Abebooks... I mean it's really about just ordering products. I suppose if you write reviews there is that issue sort of but not really either. I rarely see reviews on abebooks compared to amazon. The atmosphere within reviews on Amazon say pre-2009(?) was humorous as well. However it seems Amazon has long stamped out the trolling comments/reviews. The comparison I think might not work so well then in regards to single login. Especially considering that abebooks/amazon aspect is to order things and have it shipped to my house..my residents. I'm not necessarily trying to be anonymous behind various usernames. I rarely do reviews, and it's with a different account usually to counter books that only have 1 review by someone giving it 1 star because it took too long to ship..or something thus not based on the content of the book. Well I use to anyways counter that stuff but I really don't care much these days so I don't really bother. I just want to simply order books without having to log onto 7+ different sites all owned by the same corporation.

edit: more words added.
There are certain brands I cannot sell on Amazon because their manufactures will claim I am not a certified reseller and thus am committing copyright infringement (Amazon says nothing about needing to be a 'certified reseller') and they threaten to have my entire store shut down. It's how they keep the prices of some things artificially high. So it's funny that they can't get real counterfeit things off their website.
This is how it's done in Mexico, most people have no idea how to declare taxes any other way. You can still deduct some things in an itemization like manner if you want or are self employed but otherwise its automatically deducted from your payroll.
I often wonder if authors of PSD2 whitepapers ever read the text of the directive they're discussing.

PSD2 is _not_ a carte blanche for every regulated PISP/AISP to consume Bank APIs for any arbitrary user. API access will be secured by the Account servicing PSP (ASPSP) security credentials. I.e. in order to initiate a payment the PISP will have to collect the users security credentials (password, mTAN or other OTP) issued by the ASPSP.

Same goes for AISPs, where the customer must be initially authenticated with ASPSP credentials and then authenticate again after 90 days.
But they still might not like you discussing this in public. At. All.

Your profile has more than enough identifying information to find you on LinkedIn. Which means that I now can name a company that is potentially going to be bought out by someone else. My guess is that this is supposed to be a confidential deal.

This is NOT something to do while in a situation that could easily result in conflict. It is one thing to leave, another to burn bridges, and a very different third to burn bridges so completely that you wind up in the legal system. And any future potential employer who sees this will see a giant red flag.
> What is a counterfeit book?

a book "made in exact imitation of something valuable or important with the intention to deceive or defraud"

> Who stands to lose the most from a counterfeit book?

The author and/or rights holder

> Who stands to gain the most from a counterfeit book?

The counterfeiter