skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't handle merging of changes within files, however, if you take a step back, consider that you're essentially merging lists of metadata (with hashes of blobs), not just uploading these blobs; and because the systems that need to be synced are distributed, not always connected, and users want to read/write all of them you get the limitations of the classic CAP theorem.

E.g. the quite feasible scenario with two computers, both partially synced, and both getting files changed/added/removed/moved while the sync is happening. Consider applications creating temporary files while a document is being edited, and expecting to be able to create those files... and then it results in some app being unable to open the same document because it's "already open" on another machine. There are all kinds of interesting conflicts and race conditions possible, and you need to resolve them all in some way that doesn't weird out the users.
Used to use Dropbox for Business. Shared tons of files. A glitch happened on syncing and it deleted over 60,000 files. I had to restore them a folder at a time. We stopped using it the next week.
I did not read thoroughly, but isn't the equivalence between 5k/month and $1mil only in terms of the amount you can take out each point to maintain your principal? Assuming that's the case, when you die you'd still have $1Mil in the lump sum scenario, as opposed to zero in the other....
I think - somewhat controversially - that business/productivity apps will make or break AWS. Assuming Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure can reach AWS feature parity and prices, most everyone will likely move their infra to where their apps are.

Two (of many) reasons:

1) Biz/productivity apps are better when they connect directly to your infrastructure (eg query and viz features between Google Sheets + BigQuery, etc), and

2) Infrastructure is better when already integrated into your biz apps (eg Google Analytics auto push to BigQuery, etc).

More here: https://twitter.com/pavtalk/status/822539127568658436
Mentor also owned CodeSourcery. Wonder if that's getting buried even further now.
Sure, but then again so could Telegram. It's a rather fruitless discussion.
Please note: This is certainly a very helpful library, but it's made to work with some kind of server/API. The defaults assume you get a connection again within one hour. Obviously, you can tweak the defaults.

But if you want to build an app with its own real functionality that has sync added (like a TODO list that syncs with other devices) and is entirely offline-first where you can go weeks without a connection, you better keep searching. Maybe have a look at PouchDB.
1m of course... Especially in a country where healthcare can be expensive and I might need a large amount suddenly for a life-threatening health issue.
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That's the problem - they don't think they are running a restaurant. But they are - a restaurant with a ton of expensive, unnecessary overhead. That's why they will be out of business as soon as VC patience runs out. (And why Ricky's Pizza Joint, or a nearly-identical business will still be around.)

The lack of head chef isn't an upshot for their business. It's a symptom of the problem. Compared to the cost of an engineering team, it's penny-wise and pound-foolish.

If no-front-of-house-delivery-only could afford this kind of extravagance, then street food trucks would have gold-plated steering wheels.
I think at this point it's mostly of interest to security researchers and malware writers. It's not hard to imagine malware using this technique to transfer data out of an infected VM in a difficult to detect manner. If you can infect enough VMs it might be worth it. Also, this type of technique could be interesting to government employed malware writers.
Could anyone give me a quick overview of how that would work? Or what it would simplify? (Just curious!)
> "It would be interesting to see Amazon actually start producing algorithms and application software on behalf of customers, moving itself even further up the stack and deeper into IT departments."

Sounds more like consulting than Amazon's current business model. Is consulting really all that great a business, as compared to what Amazon is currently doing? Writing personalised software offers extremely low customers:engineering-effort ratios, as compared to infrastructure level services which are more one-size-fits-all. I'm sure Amazon will make AWS more and more high level, in an effort to attract customers who want high level solutions as opposed to low level solutions. But I can't imagine Amazon going full throttle into the consulting business.
You're failing to consider any number of reasons this wouldn't fix the problem:

1. Future-value discounting. Even an immortal may well value present experiences over future ones.

2. Consolidation of power. There's little evidence that any system based on perpetuities won't result in the accumulation of wealth and/or power in a limited set of hands.

3. Strategic intentional long-term power consolidation. If you live forever, you'll be concerned forever about upstarts seeking to claim / disrupt your space / power base.
Integrated digital manufacturing, product design, simulation...

This purchase completes the picture for Siemens, who will now be able to fully represent and manage a product from conception through end of life. Manufacturing, service, design, code, electronics, etc...

It's been a while coming, but this vision has been in play for a decade or few.

Integration, one single source of truth, team collaboration, global engineering all deliver very serious efficiencies when compared to discrete solutions, not unified in the way Siemens is doing.
Isn't amazon.com a real application?

It seems to be working quite well for them. I'm not sure why they want to write applications for other people.
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In England if they offer you money, and you decline it and go to court, and you win but you win less than they've offered you get stiffed for costs.
Hit F12 and throw a Math.random()*5000000 to find out if you made a mistake!
I don't really see how it's a problem that it's "leaking" a tuple API - it's not like there's private methods in Python. Everything can see everything. If anything having the state of an object available explicitly as a tuple seems like a good idea to me, as opposed to trying to figure out what's a stateful variable and what's a method etc.
The original version in Common Lisp is also available:
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mm/how-to-get-copycat.html
I've had success with a slacker version of my own creation, somewhat like the "magic dots" technique. I have a liquid toy that takes about eight minutes for the blue syrup to run from top to bottom. I start a work period by turning it over, and just work. Occasionally I look at the toy, and if it looks done more or less, I connect two of my dots (of which there are four per group, so six connections fills the group). I do this on a post-it note, and paste the note into a notebook at the end of the day.

That's basically it. I'm counting the number of reasonably solid starts into "flow" I make each day. That seems to be enough to make me a lot more productive.
Can't help but put a link to https://www.ratelim.it in here. A rock solid distributed rate-limit was something I desperately missed when moving to a smaller company.

Primarily I use this for idempotency and throttling things like usage events. But you can also use it for locking and concurrency control.
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I don't mean to offend or be crass but I couldn't help but laugh. I think you are overanalyzing documents. What you said could be word for word out of the Silicon Valley show script.
But doesn't Airbnb want you to do just that? Sublease even if it's against the law?
I did exactly this, using DO. It works beautifully, and my droplet is in a foreign country. Two things I'd recommend if you have trouble are:

a) Look up Digital Ocean's own instructions for setting up OpenVPN. Follow exactly.

or

b) look at HN threads from today, some people wrote Ansible playbooks and scripts to set it up.
Great argument, can be applied to anything.
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Reminds me a lot of this DEF CON talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X772EBdvnM

He managed to stream video across VMs by doing a similar cache timing trick, which brought a round of applause from the crowd. Very cool stuff.
On top of that, you can add significant saving on materials(maybe 30%-50%), and a lower labor cost per dish - both because of large volumes.
At least you're honest about your role in the departure of the Elves from Middle Earth.
Everybody wants what they don't have.

I was at an AWS Summit in NYC a few years ago and got the vibe that AMZN wanted to attract an executive audience but that they got more of a technical audience. I think for the kind of companies that are in NYC, technical people are the real champions of AWS and they are in a position to decide to use new AWS services.

Business-oriented talks were easy to get into, I avoided the "big data" kinds of technical talks because the line would be too long.

The audience really didn't care when they announced Zocalo; the audience was people looking for new services like the ones AWS already offers, not for new applications or new versions of old applications.

Salesforce.com really owned the CRM system (application) and then got users to write applications for their platform, then later got into IAAS. Amazon.com has tried to go the other direction, but so far they haven't offered anything all that special.
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I didn't downvote but two possible reasons would be:

- IIRC the main character of To Kill a Mockingbird was Atticus Finch, who is male.

- You make a lot of assertions ("Does [that] mean that I am biased? Of course not!") but don't actually provide any evidence of that, and in fact your post seems to contain some counter evidence.

For example, asserting that you would "not bat an eye to learn that there are female surgeons" suggests that you currently believe there are no female surgeons so hearing otherwise would be news to you, which of course would be hugely biased.
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James Comey is, of course, the director of the FBI, a Republican appointed to what is customarily (but not necessarily) a 10 year term by Barack Obama.

The fatal chink in Comey's OPSEC armor: he admitted to having an Instagram account with which he kept connected to his family. His son is somewhat high-profile at Kenyon College and his Instagram account was easy to find. If you send a friend request to an Instagram account, Instagram will algorithmically suggest related accounts; the related accounts here included an anonymous account named after Reinhold Niebuhr. From there, it wasn't hard to find a similarly named Twitter account whose metadata fit the profile.

The moral of the story here might be to avoid giving your anonymous accounts distinctive names. If he had assumed the fictitious name "Dave Smith", this article probably could not have been so easily written.

"Liking" tweets from your anonymous account is also probably a terrible idea, with no upside.
I think it is competition for "software product delivered as a service providers", such as Salesforce.com, Basecamp, etc.
I agree. I just recently signed up for the very first time, simply because news stories seem to break on twitter first. I can't see why I would bother with personal followers. Seems to work great, like you said, as a central place to receive updates for You Tube channels, journalists and industry experts.
An important concept here is to note here is where you can change the outcomes. IMHO If you are good at investing you should probably take the 1M; if you live frugally and want to really retire take the monthly pay.

Let's assume that it's all post-taxes money (both the 1M and the 5k/month) and let's calculate how good of an investor you'd have to be to take the 1M.

For this, every month you should get more money than you spend. Assuming a cost of life of $5000 this would yield:

1,000,000 * (1 + x) > 5,000 => x > 0.005 => x > 0.5%

Which in turn is ~6% anually (we can approximate it since 5000 / 1.000.000 ~ 0). So if you spend $5000/month, you'd need to get a return of investment larger than 6% annually.

Now let's say that you move to a cheap but nice country and you get expenses down to $1000/month. After 1 year you'll have saved $48.000, which in turn you can start to re-invest.

Of course this is totally theoretical, and many people would just take the 1M, overspend it and then complain. Apparently many lottery winners are dead or bankrupt: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_...
> I'm lacking motivation to start or finish something I'll stick it on and get going.

This. I find that if I am not sure where to start, or not in the mood, using the technique helps me get started and keep focused. If I know what I'm going to be working and what do next, I can just jump into it.
The reason is not artificial, though, that's the whole point.
Problem is that this alleged short term can be half of your life.
Isn't public domain similar? I've never heard anyone else take credit for Romeo and Juliet, but I have never considered if that was honor or law.
I would take $1M Monthly obviously..
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Hacker News has always been negative towards Dropbox. Dropbox was dismissed since day one around here. Still they continue to grow in leaps and bounds. At some stage, we must just admit that we don't understand Dropbox as a business. They are solving a problem that we take for granted because we are techies. I also wish they continue to succeed.
That's the WTFPL in a nutshell.
What's your "sure bet" threshold? That is to say, either X guaranteed dollars or random(0,5M)?

500K? 100K?
UKIP MEPs rather famously don't bother to vote in the EP as much as other MEPs.
Almost feel bad for this Trumpkin

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/palmer-luckey-alt...
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We sometimes proxy to another DC across the Internet and haven't vetted HAProxy's SSL support thoroughly. So we're running Nginx to terminate SSL, then to HAProxy, then to an stunnel instance per backend server. To get keepalives working and increase the throughput of the solution we've worked a bit on the Nginx config and put HAProxy into tunnel mode. We don't rewrite any headers or anything of that nature at the HAProxy link of this chain, so we don't need anything more. With proxying through all that, our page load times are basically indistinguishable from hitting a server directly unless it goes to the far data center. All the coordination is handled by a Puppet module so the complexity isn't that scary.

If Linkerd-tcp can top that or even come close with all the automation and integration in its ecosystem, though, it's a definite reason to take a hard look at it. Getting the Prometheus and Graphana output really simply is a great benefit.
Legally, that isn't even remotely a slippery slope. There is a vast difference between a decorative object located solely within one's property which has no effect on neighboring properties, and an for-profit unlicensed/illegal activity which affects the neighbor's safety and use of their abode.
Additionally whoever is paying the annuity might default. This may include countries.
With that 1M in hand you can spread that risk.
Well no. I pay for it all out of pocket. My deductible is high enough that I pay for all that medication. It's about $6000/year. My insurance premiums are $1400 per month by the way. So no, there's no magical cost saving being passed back to me.
is token bucket the best algorithm for this? why not ring buffered timestamps?

ex: https://github.com/blendlabs/go-util/blob/master/collections...
I'm kind of hoping that nesting resources becomes a non-issue in the future once HTTP/2 is widespread. Ideally you don't ever nest resources. With HTTP/2 the overhead of additional requests can be significantly lower, and you get the benefit of using client cache.

This becomes pretty powerful once cache digests land, so a HTTP/2 REST service can just proactively push only the resources to the client that it has an (up-to-date) copy of.

Nesting resources is a bit of an anti-pattern imho, and the solution looks bad because it's a poor fit in the protocol.

Of course, all of this is a bit of a moot point if you don't believe in addressable/linkable resources as a good solution. If you're not doing/believing in hypermedia in REST, you're much better off with something like GraphQL because it provides a very complete solution. You just need a ton of domain knowledge to be successful at proper REST.
I have wondered this too. Oracle sells their database, but they also sell ERP/CRM/other TLA applications built on top of it. Amazon could do the same thing. And I think every batch of new AWS announcements they creep a little further up and up. Their IoT platform seems like an almost-there example. It is targeting just one vertical (sort of---it depends on how big IoT becomes I guess), and it ties together other lower-level offerings. When I look at their IoT product I think "I can combine those services myself." But of course that is what programmers always think. :-)
Yeah, you'd have to manually put your private keys onto your computer from your phone.
Well, that gives you two solid data points...a few more and you've got a pretty reliable trend to explain that burn rate and wasted meals.
I'm trying to access the source paper for this study, and am finding that despite NBER and SSRN, both generally open-access sites, as hosts, the PDF itself is paywalled on SSRN.

The backstory here is that SSRN, a site for open dissemination of largely pre-publication papers, was bought by Elsevier in 2013, to the loud dismay of the open-access community.

It seems that the predictions of what would transpire are being fully born out.

https://svpow.com/2016/07/18/elsevier-has-started-destroying...

The Sci-Hub workaround is to chase the NBER PDF download link:

http://www.nber.org.sci-hub.cc/papers/w21788.pdf
Well, I guess it all depends on what you mean by do poorly in life.

High school valedictorians and child prodigies (especially the former) are disproportionately likely to hold positions of societal power. Just read the bio of any president of the IMF or the World Bank or the Federal Reserve. Essentially all of them graduate university summa cum laude or magna cum laude.

Innovative scientists and people who move the world forward? Perhaps less likely to come from this group, for a variety of reasons.
The economics are different - though I'd hesitate to call them very different, but that's probably splitting hairs.

I just took a look at the Munchery menu for my zip code, and honestly not sure why I'd ever use them in a market as competitive as NYC. The "aren't locked into a specific menu style" thing seems like more of a bug than a feature - lack of specialization means I drift towards more specialized restaurants that deliver.

Why go for their beef stroganoff when I can get it from the amazing Ukrainian place that delivers to me? Why get the Korean rice bowl when there are several Korean places nearby? Chicken teriyaki - no shortage of Japanese-focused places that deliver, also.

The nature of NYC's food market (and I'm sure true of other places too) is that delivery restaurants are running incredibly lean operations on razor thin margins - I think it's far from a given that a no-front-of-house-delivery-only restaurant operation can generate the kind of numbers that justify stratospheric VC-tech valuations.

I'm also skeptical that they can achieve the kind of volume/market share they'd need to make their unit economics work. There seems to be this weird idea that, by serving 10-15 dishes a day, that they can capture a significant fraction of the total delivery orders in their service areas - in every zip code they operate in NYC they are up against literally hundreds of other delivery places.

To the consumer they appear as one restaurant in a sea of many choices - I don't see how they can expect to capture and outsized portion of orders this way.
I'm just saying you can make a comparison like that. From this day eat only basic food, never restaurants, you get every nutrition neccessary cheap. No cinema, no new electronics or toys. People in West have everything they need. All the money donate directly to people in need in third world countries. You CAN save hundreds of lives living that kind of lifestyle, so my question for you is why not do it? It's theoretical but you get the point. Shows "we don't care" everyone and have hundreds of excuses for it.
A few years ago I was going to do exactly what the guy in the article did, was going to put my own place on Airbnb when I was away, never did in the end, but it was something I was always interested in doing, I remember reading AirBnb's host insurance policy and they seemed very fair if something bad had happened to my place, but if they don't payout, it's as good as useless.
So after reading this, not a chance I'll ever list. (maybe in a few years if I hear its turned around, maybe)
Canada might default too, or withdraw the protections.
How is the author being a creep? There is immense public interest in knowing that the director of the CIA is "liking" particular tweets about high-profile investigations his office is conducting.

It's not like the author catfished him.
Getting banned from London would be a bigger hit than $500k savings.
I plan to buy an annuity at 80 years old, if I make it that far.

My actuarial life at that point can't be very long, so it shouldn't be too expensive. It's a good way to manage tail risk in case I do live to 100+, and will allow me to spend the rest of my capital more freely knowing my base expenses are covered for life between the anuity and social security.
This one is organized around roles instead (and role dependencies).
Why not go out and build a better stripe with a better language and show them how it is really done? Clearly you know more about building web scale payment apis than they do.
Define success.

To have a career and your basic needs plus some met? no

To be an industry leader\ceo of wealthy company? evidence suggests it wouldn't hurt to be a bit "flexible" (http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/21/apparently-psychopaths-make-g...)
I don't think the article states that the improvement in performance isn't the same for intel CPUs.

maybe they just optimized the game.
Doesn't Amazon already "sell" DynamoDB?
This might be a new policy now that you're the head moderator, but the reason this complaint pops up every time there's a negative post about a YC company is because for several years there was a noticeable, nearly 100% correlation between "negative post about a YC company" and "gone from the front page within 3 hours despite dozens or even hundreds of upvotes."
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Silent Phone has used CBR since day 1.
Man, that is bad; totally agree with you DanBC. The third time the AirBnB rep asked for details of the blinds I was gob-smacked that I could have noticed it twice already on a brief scan and they apparently didn't see it - or perhaps it was just a delaying tactic to force the financial situation to become more grave for their client, like you say true Black Mirror stuff.

Then at the end they try to low-ball him on what realistically was probably a tenth of what he seemed to have due (by that stage), giving him a short time-limit - what was it, 24 hours? - to click a button to accept the minimal offer or to "agree" to nothing.

That sort of vile behaviour deserves a company to be sued to within a penny of it's existence IMO.