skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once worked at a startup where we expected 'some activity' in our webshop at product launch, and didn't think about scaling for that. Well, some activity turned out to be 450mbit/s for five hours, which our unscalable application/webshop didn't handle very well. It became overloaded in the first minute, and took us more than an hour to get remote access again. It's one of those things we did better for our next big event (major sharding, basically replicated the application 32 times of the largest VM instance we could get. It was needed and it survived).
The clients on everything except Android all suck.
Things could have been handled differently you are right. But let us be clear - it is Uber that should have handled it differently.
Who want to change there IP address?
Really.

I'm Italian and I oppose the horrible, horrible taxi lobby, as well as the equally horrible, extremely expensive service taxi drivers provide.

Luckily there's car sharing were I live, but I have no sympathy for taxi drivers (and it doesn't seem like they're getting a lot of love in other comments), or anyone who's in business solely because there are laws to protect their category, rather than offering a good service than people want to pay for.

Why is it fair that taxi drivers can provide a crappy service and get protected by laws, while other categories actually have do provide good service because they have competition and they would close down? Why not protect local restaurants from McDonald's, then?
It's uncompetitive because the only purpose of doing so is to ensure other less VC-backed companies are driven out of business, creating a monopoly. Which needless to say, isn't good as in the long term for its customer base as nice VC-subsidised rides are in the short term. It's not a charitable endeavour, and they're not subsidising rides out of an intention to extract less profit from the public in the long term.

Calling the banning of a company which has pointedly ignored every law that gets in its way "fascism" is just childish, and when it's referring to a country that actually suffered the results of having a Fascist government, it's offensive childishness.
It's like... first vendor I've heard of doing this right? And it turns out to be IKEA, of all the companies.
That is a bit simplistic. The social pressures to get into a great college have increased greatly from when I went to high school (and I was in a good school district, most in America are horrible or substandard). But the fundamental purpose of American education - to socialize kids into cannon fodder for the Industrial Revolution - has always been the driving force behind educational practices in America.
Read up on the works of John Taylor Gatto [0] if you want a critical analysis of the American educational system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto
People use spotify for their library/features - they'll put up with the client because there's no alternative clients to stream their spotify.
> hell their prices are much higher than Uber as well in almost all instances

I mean, that's kind of the point. If customers want to be picked up in shiny Teslas that's ok. But it's only fair that they pay the actual cost of the ride. At present, Uber riders are being subsidised to the tune of $2bn per year [0]: that's a deeply anti-competitive business practice.

[0] https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/12/01/2180647/the-taxi-unic...
4th largest economy.

The UK (2nd largest) leaves in 2019.
The Flatpak version is not ready for that, no. That's why we link to JHBuild too, for the time being. Of course Christian is working on trying to make that work.
In any case, most probably newcomers (the target audience of the initiative for now) won't probably hack on those anyway.

In the future we would like to have a generic guide for contribution, apart of just newcomers apps, but first we had to figure out the base. Now that it's done, we can move up and up in difficulty.
I don't really care about communities around serialization formats — I use it to encode and decode things, not for entertainment. I'd probably use CBOR even if Hitler himself designed it.

Since you wrote a MessagePack library, I think you'll be surprised how regular CBOR is compared to MessagePack: Hitler found a brilliant generalization by introducing a neat [type|length] encoding instead of just [type], which applies to all types – integers, floats, strings, maps, etc.
Disagree. What about a large elastic net?
Uber is free to pick up passengers anywhere they like in Italy - as long as they do it on their own property. Public roads, public rules. It's really as simple as that.
There was a recent thread on a sub-Reddit about using the threat of the Kessler Syndrome as deterrence:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CredibleDefense/comments/62n21j/wha...
> #2 Static Type System

It's really weird to see one of the reasons for their switch to Go was because it's a statically typed language. If you want static typing, you don't choose Python in the first place. You know it beforehand and it shouldn't come as a surprise for you.

> For example it has http, json, html templating built in language natively

So does Python with urllib and json modules. I don't know if it has HTML templating in the standard library, but you can always use jinja2.

> Great IDE support and debugging

Not even a mention for the excellent PyCharm or so many of the useful Python vim plugins?
This was heavily discussed 5 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12928526
yeah, because US is so superior students have to pay student loans for years and people must have funding campaigns to have enough money for simple medical procedures covered by healthcare in Europe

hope you are enjoying that superior GDP in your wallet and daily life
That's a dumb article.
Take point 5 for instance: You can code in Go with Jetbrain's IDE. Well guess what, Python has a dedicated IDE made by JetBrain: PyCharm. How is this an advantage ?
> Do those rules make any sense?

Sometimes the law sucks but there is a democratic process in order for it to change. A US company knowingly breaking the law repeatedly cannot get a pass because the local law "doesn't make any sense to them". Uber had no problem breaking laws everywhere it operates in Europe, until the justice catches up.
From the HN guidelines:

If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys."
This is how it's done in Germany. German law has the concept of "rental car with driver". This sounds super fancy but it's essentially a light version of a taxi. You call one, it arrives 5 minutes later, you pay something like €7 for a ride, all good. Drivers need a concession, don't have to follow taxi rules, but also don't get benefits like being allowed to wait for passengers in public places.
Ask HN: Thin and well designed laptop recommendations for development purposes
I need to buy a laptop that I will also use it for Java development. At the same time, I care about design a lot! I was considering to buy a Macbook Pro, but they are too expensive. In addition, I think today there many Macbook alternatives which I can install Ubuntu there. So my question is that what laptop would you recommend me to buy?
"On Facebook, Reddit, Youtube, Tumblr... you can pay for political ads. But you can also post political posts/content without paying. If you're blocking posting of certain types of content that's a type of censorship."

But this was the past. You know, with all the bullshit about "fake news" we now have subtle censoring of facebook, google, etc... too.
Monkeys defended her, who said they abused her?
Now she's abused by humans, great.
willpower: control exerted to do something or restrain impulses
> Innovation almost always sidestep regulations, by definition

No it doesn't. And we're not talking about "Innovation" here, we're talking about a pure lucrative business.
To my knowledge both can be used for most use-cases. Do you have something specific in mind where TLS would shine but IPSec would not?
apparently you never heard of taxi apps which provide pretty much same experience as Uber while working with licensed taxi drivers

BTW not sure why should taxi driver in Spain speak English
It isn't a common law country, but there is the concept of precedent, and the majority of sentences will actually not override a previous sentence given the same kind of issue.

I was actually talking about this with a lawyer because of a problem I was having, and that's what he told me. You can pretty safely use precedents to guide you on what you want to do. The difference is that laws tend to of course carry less uncertainty than precedents, and you can't get punished if you were following a law (unless it gets changed retroactively). In case of a trial (in my case, at least), you would admit that you haven't followed the law, but cite the precedents and most likely win.

So, precedents are not binding, but in practice they're close to it.
>Don't exaggerate what I said

Alright then.

>When one does lose their job in Sweden, what happens when you break your leg next week? or get cancer?

Care for children is always for free in all clinics except private ones. Care for the rest of us cost 30 EUR, no matter if you have a job or not. There is an upper roof of how much your yearly medical bill is. This roof stays the same if you have a job or not. I have it that roof a couple of times but never for acctual medicine bills, so I don't know exactly how it works for medicine, but doctor bills, the upper roof is 10 doctor visits for 30 EUR then a year of no doctor bills.

Many have extra insurance to conver for events where you loose your ability to work.

>How much student debt to those in Sweden incur for a 4 years bachelor degree?

One part of the debt you take on you never pay back. That part is like a carte blanche check that students get to spend on whatever education they like, at University level. Second part is a loan. Some work part-time while at University and others hit the roof which would be something like 17 semesters and 17*2000=34K EUR. Then you start paying that back as soon as you take on your first job but never over ~1% of your income.

>How many weeks of leave does Sweden mandate by law from full-time work?

5 weeks. Many have 6 weeks. You can get those in money instead of as vacation. 4 weeks is around a months pay.

>How about maternity leave and sick leave?

Everyone have sickleave. First day: no money for you, poor sick fellow. Next day its around 70% of your pay. If you are chronically ill a special incurance takes care of you, puts you in early retirement.

All mothers: around 300 days of leave per child. You get goverment money during those days.
All fathers: minimum is 3 months I think? They can also use some of the mother's days.
If they jack up prices, many competitors will spring up because there will be good money to be made. How is that a problem exactly? Also, price dumping is a myth always use for protectionism ends, see https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/ecjilt/23876.html
I install Ubuntu on my mother's computer and my flatemate's. They don't know jack about computers. They start "the internet". Unity was easy to use for them. Gnome, really, really not.

I'm not trying to debate if those are a problem with you because there is not debate. I witnessed it. I know I'm right.

People loving gnome shell are all computer literate. But we are a minority.

Most people don't know how to use alt-tab. I repeat. Most people don't know how to use alt-tab. Get down from your ivory tower, computing is now main stream. And Ubuntu targets noobs. That's the whole point of it, make Linux usable for the many.
> Why not protect local restaurants from McDonald's, then?

Since when McDonalds doesn't follow the Italian laws and regulations? can you show me an example of McDonalds breaking Italian laws or food safety and regulations? Can you show me a McDonalds operating as an illegal restaurant?
Selling at a loss when you have a lot of money will give you an unfair advantage over others that can't sell at a loss.

You do that so that you can take a stranglehold on the market and then dictate prices yourselves.

It's the texbook definition of dumping:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)

and protecting against that practice is NOT the texbook definition of fascism at all, quite the opposite; also keep in mind there are no taxi corporations here, as the taxi license must be owned by the individual driving it (with some small and irrelevant exception).

That being said, I wouldn't have a problem with Uber selling its services as long as they abide by the law, they and their drivers pay the taxes and they don't engage in anti-competitive practices.
McDonald's does business in accordance with local laws,i have no problem with any foreign corporation which follow local laws same as their competitors

you don't have in Italy taxi apps with ratings, choice of cars and pretty much everything same as in Uber just legal? strange...
Step inside a Saudi rehab prison for jihadists
From many years of hosting both - MySQL seems easier at first but there are so, so many problems with its internal design that hide problems until its too late. PostgreSQL in my eyes is engineered in a much smarter way and has sensible defaults. PostgreSQL won't implement something unless it's _going to work_ and work properly. MySQL is analogous to software like Drupal and 'hobbiest' projects that have grown organically without proper engineering - and when it's too late you realise you're missing data, MySQL makes it easy to do things the wrong way, PostgreSQL enforces you do things the right way. We've also found that PostgreSQL performance far outshines MySQL as long as you've setup basic things like shared buffer sizes etc correctly.
So, wouldn't we become 2nd, rather than 4th?
If you are just looking for something to point an ORM at, you are probably fine with MySQL, you may see performance gains, and administration is probably a little more straightforward (and certainly more googlable).

If you spend actual time in the database using SQL, Postgres offers vastly more functionality, e.g. window functions, broader and more mature GIS support, more data modelling options. Postgres also certainly _can_ outperform MySQL in a variety of situations - it supports different indexing options (i.e. last I checked MySQL didn't have partial indexes), and is moving to more parallelism in its query plans. MySQL's partitioning support is a little more natural than Postgres's but that's changing in 10.0.

So, I would say, if you just want a back end for an app and have never _really_ cared about your RDMBS, use MySQL or whatever you're most familiar with. If you have complex query requirements, time series data, analytics workloads etc, try Postgres.
I think it's not a matter of knowing the acronyms but rather using them in your writing. Even though I'm aware of POTUS, I would simply write "The President" or "The US President" - it comes much more natural, from all the times its been used in local media to refer to our own/foreign presidents. Same reasoning for the US Supreme Court.
Okay, so it's basically Philips Hue, but without the API (for now), and with a lot less to offer in terms of hardware variety. In particular: color bulbs?

Prices seem to be only slightly lower than comparable Philips products.
Which is quite sad since OpenPGP keys, unlike X.509 certificates, are allowed to carry signatures from multiple private keys instead of just one.
> Postgres is much much more powerful than MySQL

I would say this used to be true in 5.5 and before but it's less and less of an argument. 5.6 and 5.7 bring a lot of features like JSON or geospatial.
Here's a list of the new feature of 5.7:

http://www.thecompletelistoffeatures.com/
Both XFCE and Gnome 2 runs perfectly fine in Virtualbox.
if you don't like the law then vote for someone who will change it, not just break it
I still think it is a pity that GHC isn't much better documented. It could be a huge education and research platform, with a much wider reach than the small group currently versed in GHC internals.
WhiteStorm TypeScript Boilerplate – A starter kit for crafting 3D applications
That's a very mechanical definition. Do you mean that if we create a robot with a decent IA enough to do that we would have created life ?
that is... misleading.

afaik openssl removed a bunch of those uninitialized uses, not sure if all of them. But openssl never exclusively relied on them. There once was a "famous" bug, but it affected only openssl in debian, not openssl itself, where such an occurrence was fixed in a wrong way.
But creating laws that favour a few corporations against the benefit of the people is textbook definition of fascism, that's literally fascism. Sorry if quoting definitions is offensive. Also I'm from France and we've suffered from both Nazism and Fascism.

About price dumping, this is a myth. When has this ever happened and tell me how could Uber remain a monopoly if its prices are too high? Competitors will show up because there will be good money to be made. The only monopolies that can last despite being overpriced are the ones protected by state violence and state laws that make competition illegal, a good example here would be, I don't know, Italian taxi companies?
To add to that, try enabling omemo across 4 different OS (Andoid, iOS, MacOS and Linux) and you'll want to burn all of your devices. Messages showing up on some devices randomly or not, etc. nice thing in general and I really like the idea of xmpp, but not exactly user-friendly for non-technical folks.
A note on logical replication. That exists in pg as an add-on right now. And will be in base/core when pg10 ships.
Taxi drivers are a lobby, like notaries.

There is nothing worth defending.

Signing a document at a notary can cost 1,000 and for no reason. In the States the same thing gets done for 50 by a notary (I can talk about that).

These are imposed monopolies. They must end. You will damage a few hundred thousand people for a few years, but 60 million (in case of Italy) would gain immensely, as well as future generations.
@christian - what do you personally think is the long term future of snap vs flatpack. Is it going to be another 30 years of 2 different packaging formats.
Not with this hype for open office space you don't! ;)
OS/2 2.0 came on 21 3.5~ floppies.

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-history/os2-2-0/

> IBM was selling OS/2 2.0 versions on 3½” and 5¼” HD floppies as well as CD-ROM versions, although CD-ROM drives were far from common in 1992 and OS/2 2.0 only supported a few SCSI CD-ROMs. The tested version was delivered on 3½” floppies, 21 disks total.
That's about the size of win3.1. Does this single disk include GUI or not?
The solution to that is to allow more licences, and maybe to use those new licences to compensate current drivers for the loss of value of the licence they bought.

Allowing a corporation to just ignore existing regulations while everyone else is respecting them is a completely different story.

Let me add: I have very little sympathy for the taxi drivers guild and their practices, but I don't think that's a good reason to allow Uber to operate outside of the law.
because it follows law? if you don't like the law then express yourself in elections
There is an asterisk in the docs behind "inspired" but no footnote for it. What does it mean?
Point 3

Goroutines are more performant than python threads if you don't understand the difference between a thread and a routine.
And how do you handle taxes? Isn't this "black" money?
Indenting to get fake-blockquote style makes your comment completely unreadable on mobile, and in this case also on desktop without a lot of annoying horizontal scrolling. Please consider not doing it. If you need to indicate a quote, you can always do paragraphs in italics, or use quotation marks, or just say you're quoting and indicate where the quote ends.
Uber did bring an innovative business model and service.
Around the time of the end of my swapping of floppies back in the day, it was getting frustrating as none of the "cool" swappers accepted anything but 0day, and most would be annoyed if you couldn't regularly supply -7 to -14 day releases so they had a week or two to spread things to their downstream contacts before it'd be too stale. In other words a lot of them depended to a large extent on internal leaks... I remember receiving the occasional C64 game that was not even finished by the time it was spread.
If McDonald's provided cheap food by ignoring the labor laws, would that be fair? Or any safety regulation on how food is preserved, etc. I could go on, but I think you get my point.

I share your sentiment towards our taxi drivers, but I'd rather ask our laws to change to be fairer than to advocate Uber's right to just break the law.
Those are not mutually exclusive options: there are plenty of Roma who have been in Scandinavia for centuries.
A demo of QNX has been circulated in tech magazines on a single floppy disk: http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html
Neither article makes any mention of Perl, which isn't terribly surprising, since BLACKER is still highly classified, with very little is publicly known about its design and operation.
You'll find some discussion of BLACKER in my recent article:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7763734/
(Open access/free pre-print version: http://iqdupont.com/assets/documents/DUPONT_FIDLER-2016-Prep...)

A few points of note: it's rather weird to call BLACKER a "VPN"; it's likely much broader than this (it's a network, crypto suite, secure kernel, system architecture, etc), and yet encompasses a very different goal. In fact, the degree to which it originates out of secure kernel research is, we argue in our paper, somewhat unclear, and perhaps this is only a small part of the equation.

If anyone has any additional information about these early architectures, I would love to speak with you, contact me at http://iqdupont.com.
we have fixed prices for taxi, so i know how much i will pay and ride cost much less than Uber with surge pricing which is reason nobody really cares about Uber, you can conveniently order taxi through the app, pay online and leave review, not sure why would i need Uber for this, they are rarely cheaper than legal taxi so no thanks i support law abiding companies
What kind of business are you in that the entire company except the CEO is programmin full time?
Why is coffee authenticity an issue?
I try to use Uber as little as possible.

Ironically, the only time I was forced to use it was in Italy, because it turned out it was a public holiday, so no public transport (including taxis) were running.
You missed the GP's point. Their question was why are taxi drivers protected from competition but restaurant owners aren't? Why is there competition in serving food (a profession that also requires adherence to regulations, in this case food safety etc) but not in driving people around?
Collecting miles is an art. (See Flyertalk).
In my experience:

- You can collect the miles but it is very difficult to use them. I think I had this problem with AA, if I remember right. They were rated last in a Frequent Flyer Miles Ranking I once saw.

- It is easy to use the miles (Lufthansa, can use for every flight, even pay taxes with miles) but they don't give you the miles. Lufthansa was #1 in the ranking. I flew something like 100k miles and they credited 10k miles based on Booking Class and cross carrier miles crediting (Star Alliance).