skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quote is mostly tongue-in-cheek, but it does occasionally come up as a real issue. I have an anecdote on it:

A former fellow grad student was expressing their dis-belief that though there was a lot of work done in the brain with electrical signals, there is effectively no work done on measuring the magnetic properties of the brain or neurons. The much older and much more esteemed PI that was also present simply shut the student down, to the point of telling them to 'shut up'. "There are no magnetic fields in the brain", I think was the quote. The student, misunderstanding the situation, pressed onward and challenged the PI on fMRI and the like. The discussion turned into a 1-sided argument where the PI basically told the student that they were an idiot and that things like fMRI were useless (actually a debatable point at the time, re: the dead salmon experiments). I'll say I never quite trusted PIs after that dressing-down, they seem to be more concerned about their mortgages than their legacies.
Wherever you VPN to, your connection still comes out somewhere. If that happens to be in the US, datacenters still have ISPs. If you're visiting a site hosted in the US, that's on some ISP too. Basically, if Level3, CenturyLink, and Verizon decide that they want to collect and sell profiles based on browsing profiles, there's not a way around it. It'd be easier to build a profile on a direct subscriber (e.g. Comcast profile on a subscriber of theirs) but installing OpenVPN on a DO droplet won't magically save you from this if you're in the US.

Will they actually do it? Well, can they make money from it? Do you trust Comcast to be a good steward of your privacy in the absence of a legal requirement to do so? Comcast did a hard pull on my credit when switching my account to a new address because they were too incompetent to update it and ended up creating a second account as a new customer for me. Comcast is my only option of ISP, as it is for many many other apartment dwellers and many single-family homes as well.
> "Most corporate people will probably relicense"

Okay, is there evidence of this? who else has done it? is there existing legal precedence for this action? will presenting something that says "WHAT THE FUCK" in it cause me embarrassment in a corporate setting? how is our exposure for implicit vs explicit license agreements?
> Wait, so following suit would then lower prices in the US and pass on the costs to the rest of the world? ..Sold!

Yes, which is why basically any American should support drug reimporting[0]. But pharmaceutical companies lobbied heavily against it, so it was taken out of the ACA, and it's been defeated in Congress (albeit by a narrow margin) each time it's come up since then.

[0] Conversely, countries which import drugs from the US (which includes all developed nations) have a very vested interest in not letting pharmaceutical prices in the US drop.
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http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/ is a book of interviews with classic video game programmers.
At my job, we have a mix of stuff we do in house and stuff we contract out. We could have our in-house subject matter expert spend all of his time developing a component or we could hire a company that already makes the component and has a great track record. Sometimes things are cheaper to do in house, especially when a one-off just needs to get built and quality control isn't a major issue. But in my line of work, quality control can be a major thing sometimes. Sometimes it's cheaper to go with a component that's been fully tested and has the documentation to go with it. If we want to implement the component in our product line, we then develop it in-house after the first run is completed. A lot of our vendors are our competitors for certain components so there is always a discussion when we need to buy something from them.
The thing in Dropbox is the syncing. It works very well and it is very fast.

This does not matter for everybody but if you for example work on multiple computers with same files this can be quite handy.
would be awesome to see a direct response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13997215
For iCloud, you actually can use iCloud Drive via a web interface from other OSes - I think the biggest limitation is actually that you can't share arbitrary files, only certain types of files (Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Notes, Photos).

I could easily go all in on iCloud Drive if I could make arbitrary files available to other users.
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Amen! I love all the nobodies who tell me how to be successful and accomplish my goals by straight chillin. I'm always thinking: "and you are...?"

Everyone who tells me to take it easy is a nobody anonymous person who hasn't done anything and never will. And as you said, that's up to them. Everyone picks their course and I try to remember everyone is different. But I always wonder why they choose to evangelize. I don't evangelize at them. I think Dylan said it best: they just want to get you down in the hole that they're in.

Most important thing in life is to love what you're doing. Work isn't work if you love it. But nothing valuable is easy. Eventually, usually very quickly, what you want to accomplish becomes very boring to accomplish. That feeling of reward may come very infrequently. It's very difficult to do anything new or different.
They took venture capital, the investors want to see as big of a return on their investment as possible.

I think you'd have to look at self-funded companies to find one that is "ok" with stagnant growth.
So, by your logic, anything happening during a country's founding we deem today as bad means that country was founded on those bad things. Then every single country on Earth in all of human history was founded on bad things.

That's silly logic.
It's like how regular folk can't buy food or clothes at wholesale prices.
I didn't see the post, but I think you're probably looking for postgREST
Yeah. If you click the links on the left it works more intuitively, but it uses the same url routing on scroll.
One thing I really appreciated in higher education was to be graded based only on an exam where our name was unknown to the persons who graded us.

I skipped a lot of boring lessons, read the books (yes, practical and visual type) and got really good grades.
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The price was too high. There are millions of untreated HCV patients out there that can't get treated because insurance companies won't pay for the drugs.
>S3 would be an ideal backup but I'd need to code up the system to manage revision and life cycle, that becomes a job which I might as well create my own Dropbox...

Might be worth looking into Duplicati [1]. You choose the backend, and it does the other things you mention ("Backup files and folders with strong AES-256 encryption. Save space with incremental backups and data deduplication. Run backups on any machine through the web-based interface or via command line interface. Duplicati has a built-in scheduler and auto-updater.")

[1]: https://www.duplicati.com/
An FAQ isn't binding. What does their TOS say?
You are now aware we live in a world where even CPUs have microcode patches.
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I've only recently started casually using Twitter. I have no idea how anything works. Threads make no sense to me. Am I supposed to respond to myself? How do @-mentions work? There seem to be a few different rules, but I have no idea what they are or when they apply. What counts against the character limit? It seems like links don't, but I'm not sure exactly how that works, either.

As far as I can tell, Twitter is a site with nondeterministic UX where the same folks who insist on civility on HN get to call other people monsters for their politics.

I sure don't get it.
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I've done the latter and even though it's possible, it gets tedious/unproductive pretty quickly.

To elaborate: in 'response' to the webdev tendency I have to use the latest and greatest, and the HN articles about this phenomenon, I've done a few React projects with a conservative mindset.

React-router I don't miss too much for much of it. I could also do without a bunch of ES6/7 features, TypeScript, and so on. But with each of these projects I wish I'd used Redux, MobX, Baobab, and so on instead of the 'vanilla' approach of keeping state in my higher level components.

tl;dr: if you're gonna be conservative, leave state management as the last thing you 'conserve' on.
Debezium supports postgres as well, I'd recommend it. bottledwater seems like sort of an experiment that's not under active dev like debezium is.
Investing in Dropbox to me sounds like investing in some other dinosaur like Blockbuster Video or Office Max. Eventually I just don't see people needing Dropbox.
An interesting thing to talk about in an interview, for sure.
King of odd they're testing with an Nvidia GPU, instead of... I don't know, AMD? Or at least both?
I'd really like to find a position doing more Node development. It seems like every place in my area that claims to just uses npm. I've had to learn the MEAN stack on my own, and it feels like it outperforms a lot of the apps I've built in other stacks.
Nah, it's just that scrolling updates the URL the same way the sidebar links do, so it gets added to your browser history. Seems like an honest mistake.
S3's cost to the consumer scales with the amount stored. That's different from Amazon, Dropbox, or Google, who offer enterprise-facing non-developer storage options at a flat rate for "unlimited".

They can do this because these enterprise-facing products offer fewer performance guarantees relative to their developer-facing products. But, ultimately, "unlimited" doesn't mean unlimited, in literally all of these products.
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Then count all hashtags but the first.
I worked in the industry and every branded manufacturer I worked with had clear restrictions on who wholesalers can sell to.
I am always interested in reading about it because it has never made sense to me since it appears to be designed to interrupt you just when you've finally achieved 'flow'
Was just thinking someone really should do this.

Hope it works. Or at the very least makes some of those politicians squirm while they wait to find out if it works.

Think I'll at least throw a few $$ at the gofundme.
Most of those subsides are for capital investments, something that is available to all industries, including wind and solar.

You'll note that the article simply says:

>Fossil fuels are reaping $550 billion a year in subsidies and holding back investment in cleaner forms of energy, the International Energy Agency said.

and then nothing else about what those subsidies actually are.

It would make sense that sectors that generate the vast majority of energy would receive the most of those capital investment subsidies - they are actually receiving a far small amount comparatively.
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The HN audience? I'm not trying to ask the person I'm responding to.
Have you tried Amazon Chime? We are ridiculously aware of the latency issue in high quality voip. We do not at the moment support user generated keys the way Telegram does but we do use TLS/DTLS encryption end to end for our VOIP streams.
I broadly agree with you, but I think the issue is more subtle. Ambitious people will always work very hard; the danger of working hard is that it necessitates a degree of path-dependent myopia that can lead one to miss huge opportunities.

The most ambitious people are quite concerned about this, and try to use leisure as a comparative advantage. The article is pretty fair in painting this portrait: the author admits that the scientists construct their lives around their work (Darwin worried about getting married, for instance), but points out that constructing their lives around their work involves the construction of leisure.
I've had good experiences with Baobab. The main reason I lean toward Redux is that I want my clients' product to be as 'standardized' as possible. While this is difficult in the JS world, React and Redux fit the bill (or are close to it).
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I imagine once it's in kafka you could get it from a kafka pipe in whatever format you want.
Another thing, if you believe you can get paid for high performance, then money is the effect and not the cause. Work that doesn't allow you to maintain your skill level will cut off your future earnings, regardless of whether it is high or low pay in the present.
Maybe, but how many of those high-performance employees are already making buttloads of money? How many of them are just scraping by around the poverty line? It's pretty easy to say money isn't important when you already have it.
This exact strategy is what some competitive athletes apply to win: be strong enough to stay alive and converve maximal energy to live another round. Rich Froning applied this for years in Crossfit competitions, for a very non HN example.
I think also that there is something to be said for 'staying in the game'. The most important thing should be taking steps to make sure you are still around and working on the right problems in 4-5 years. Sometimes that requires taking it easy, sometimes that requires working harder.

If you are still around then there is a chance you will also be making progress.
What can I use for free photo gallery storage if I do not want google or dropbox?
Instead of using named pipes for managing the process, a Unix socket is been used, so if required this opens the possibility to manage via a web JSON API the services an example about how to use Nginx for this is here https://immortal.run/post/nginx/

The idea behind was to avoid a developer to deal with a DevOps/operator to just stop/restart services, something useful on staging environments.

For starting, stopping a process there is no need to unlink/link a file, this simplifies things a little bit, for example, https://immortal.run/post/ansible/ by only updating the file contents or "touching" the file it can be started or re-started.

When following a PID, signals can still be sent to the process, these things become handy while working with a lot of microservices.

The docs need to be improved, but any feedback, comments or even desired feature is more than welcome.
I am willing to bet that starting with a million in the bank will make you more likely to succeed that working hard. Didn't Thomas Piketty's book come to a similar conclusion?
Dropbox's CEO declared it as a fact last year and it has been widely reported:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-14/dropbox-c...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/dropbox-ceo-were-cash-flow-posi...

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/14/dropbox-says-it-is-cash-fl...

But I have not personally inspected their financial statements and conducted an audit to confirm this with my own two eyes, if that's what you're asking.
Thanks for reading! I discussed both of the lines you quoted at some length, bringing up and discussing all of your points, I think, and linking research from experts in the field.
There's countless areas where the national govt has shown no interest in for decades, which have now received development funding from the EU. If that's what it takes to help these places I frankly do not care that was allocated by someone in another country.

However don't try to make it like this is my single pro-EU issue. This is just one small example of a thing I like.
Why not link to the author's website? http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3947
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[Darwin] was passionate and driven, so much so that he was given to anxiety attacks over his ideas and their implications.

He many not have spent that many hours sitting at a desk, but he had to be directing a tremendous amount of mental effort and attention to his work to have this sort of reaction. The article describes his not-sitting-at-a-desk time as "downtime," and maybe that's half-defensible. But that "downtime" probably isn't something I'd recognize as leisure time, either.

Here's something else that many successful 19th/20th century artists, scholars, writers, and scientists turn out to have had in common, the other side of the same coin, perhaps: sufficient economic prosperity (often familial) to employ servants. They could devote great swaths of time and attention to their work, even when away from a desk, because they were not fretting about the grocery shopping, not wondering if they should be pushing the kids harder on their ABCs, etc.

The class structure and sexism that made such arrangements common also surely squandered enormous amounts of human potential.
It seems to me you're looking at this from a technically proficient developer's perspective.

It's easy (trivial) for a technically proficient person to setup any trivial cloud storage system they like on just about any provider's platform they like.

It's not so easy for anybody else (read: the vast majority of other users). Dropbox's value proposition isn't commodity storage on somebody else's servers: it's the UI/UX that backs it, and the particular implementation details.
It's just a typo https://github.com/janaipakos/ghibliapi/blob/master/data.jso...
A Roth is often the only option for high-income workers (after maxing out a 401(k)). Traditional IRAs have an income limit of $72k for individuals and $119k for families in 2017; if you make more than this, none of your contributions are deductible or in any way tax advantaged.

Roth IRAs have income limits as well for contributions, but as long as backdoor contributions are allowed, you can still manage to contribute regardless of your income. Saving some on taxes coming out is better than not saving anything on taxes whatsoever.

In this situation though, a 401(k) is almost certainly a higher priority. But once that's maxed, an HSA (as a retirement vehicle) and Roth IRA are still very good.
I agree - which is why startup employees get equity.
>Because they're foolish enough to believe that themselves in solidarity with the oligarch class, when really they're only temporarily useful to them.

Not everyone takes the Marxist view of society in which we're perpetually locked in a class struggle, with enemy classes and those with which we're "in solidarity".
Same here. I'm a paying dropbox customer, but I plan to switch in a month before my annual subscription renews. Amazon drive offers more space for only $60 USD a year.

Plus google apps offers more space than dropboxes business plan.
>The problem of "I have to get a large portion of the DB into service X" is one I've worked on, so the initial solution is more fragile. It doesn't deal with back pressure. If a service goes down, it "loses" writes and must be resynced from a good state. If for whatever reason data science sets up a HDFS cluster I need to push writes there from my app.

It's hard for me to discuss this because the terms are loosely defined, but my feeling is that you may be making implicit false assumptions around the necessary design of the architecture.

>Sure if you only need to write to one DB, the Confluence method is overkill - however if that solution works for you, I'd imagine you haven't hit the volume and the latency requirements that would require you to seek out a solution like Confluence's anyways.

This explanation is probably the reason for the explosion in overengineering. People hear "Hey, if you're not making things really hard, you're just not important enough!"

Well, everyone thinks they're important, so of course, they must make things hard! If they don't, they're not important.

I work with an organization where most people insist we are at this scale. It's totally false. Our load could easily be managed by one well-tuned database replication setup per app and probably 3-4 app servers per app. But this isn't good enough, because, you see, we are very important.

That means that we have dozens of different types of data storage solutions scattered all over the place (including Mongo, Riak, and Dynamo in addition to a variety of SQL DBs), we have dozens of "microservices", and we have hundreds of app servers, even though the technical requirements could be fulfilled with much, much less.

So why do we have all that? Well, because we're "at scale", which is to say, we want to be important. We have a bunch of people sitting around an office all day who appreciate the feeling of importance more than the feeling of a well-engineered system.

Again, I'm not saying complicated architectures are never justified, but I think that in many if not most cases, complication arises due to organizational and personal psychology much more than any technical constraint that truly mandates it.
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Well yeah that's the problem. They dont pass the discount on to me. I pay full retail price, and they keep the discount. This is why Express Scripts is a $100 BILLION company. And that's for managing Formularies you say?

Express Scripts Holding Company is the largest pharmacy benefit management (PBM) organization in the United States,[20] with 2013 revenues of $104.62 billion.[21] In 2012 Express Scripts' $29.1 billion acquisition of rival Medco Health Solutions (once the nation's largest PBM) created "a powerhouse in managing prescription drug benefits."
Quite possibly, and it's always a good exercise (and in this case justifiable) to do it the 'vanilla way'.

That said, even for relatively simple, non-input type projects I've found that Redux is worth it. I got thoroughly sick of passing props down multiple levels.

Furthermore, I found that I often ended up making mistakes where my components were too reliant on their context (even when considering variable/prop naming). Redux, I feel, extends the 'pit of success' effect that React has; when I use it I'm more likely to properly isolate components.
Agree but the danger is equating only hard work to success.

i.e. successful? => works_hard?

But works_hard? => successful? does not necessarily follow.

In the words of Bezos:

"You can work long, hard or smart, but at Amazon.com you can't choose two out of three"
Use Mobx if you're one of these people who like doing less work and writing less code to achieve the same end result as Redux.
I often remember a blog post or something that I read by a programmer--I'm sure I discovered it here.

Anyway, he said that his wife was conditioned to not interrupt him no matter what activity he was doing, because he might be 'programming' while doing something like tending his garden.

I think all of us programmers have experienced the phenomenon where we get stuck, then stand up and walk away and within 5 minutes we have 5 new possible solutions in mind.
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