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Disclaimer - I am the author of this article. While Hacker News and W10M aren't necessarily regularly associated, I thought it'd to be interesting to put together some thoughts on how the third mobile platform is faring in 2017. I'm not trying to blatantly self-promote; if you are also still on the W10M bandwagon, why are you still using it? And if you're not - which is probably more likely - what's your perception of W10M today?
Toshiba has been having a lot of trouble lately thanks to Westinghouse, so the Abe's government might consider foreign control to be a lesser evil than massive layoffs or a bailout.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-11/toshiba-r...
In Austria, we only have to file (online) every 5 years, and even that is somewhat optional. If you don't do your taxes, the only loser will be you, since you might lose out on getting some cash back.
Bit quiet here. I wonder how many are following the startup videos.
If you only take erosion into account, they are likely to last millions of years. If someone takes them apart piece by piece...that's a different story.
Is there tectonics on that moon ? Isn't it too small for that ? The same goes for Europa... Is there real tectonics there ?

If there is no tectonics in place and you have a "closed" big bucket of water constantly filled up with chemicals from hydrothermal vents during billions of years, wouldn't the water become completely soaked and kind of slimy ? Not the best place for life, even for extremophiles...

I also found an interesting article on the probable high acidity of Europa ocean, that would make it not suitable for harboring life : http://www.space.com/14757-europa-moon-ocean-acidic.html

I guess it could also apply to Enceladus ocean. Can someone elaborate on that ?

P.S.: English is not my native language, sorry for any grammatical incoherence :)
BTW, the refund is a super-cool thing about the Australian system that may not be super-widespread. The Icelandic system is a very similar pay-as-you-go tax system, so tax is predicted and withheld from your wages over the course of the year.

But Iceland errs on the side of under-withholding, if they don't know what your income is going to be. As a result, come tax time, most people get a letter saying "you owe us 60,000isk"[1], and they pay it back as extra money garnished from their wages over the next year.

The Australian government errs on the side of over-withholding, which sounds bad, but it's more like a mandatory saving scheme. Most people discover the tax office has over-charged them by at least $800 over the course of the year, and you get it paid to you in a lump sum after they process your tax return. After deductions are filed, it's not unheard of for people to get 4-6k back.

As a result, for most people in Australia, tax season has a bit of a party atmosphere to it. You'll find people talking about what they're going to buy with their return, and there are sometimes tax season sales on things like TV's etc.

It's a really great example of a small and seemingly unrelated implementation detail making or breaking the whole experience.

[1] about $600, figure example only :P
I don't know about business taxes, but at least for a "simple" application like mine (fulltime employee, homeowner with mortgage) all the relevant information about income and wealth taxes was prefilled and correct. The only thing I had to enter were my "burgerservicenummer" and one deductible post (a university course).

The whole thing took about 15 minutes, including digitally signing and submitting it.
Same for music. There are a handful of famous composers who get paid to just do their thing, but for everyone else the gigs are "give me a 70 second song that sounds like X and has a big dramatic peak at the 55 second mark, due Friday".
It also helps to pre-empt it a little. The last few times I've flown long-distance, I've tried to adjust my sleeping a day or two in advance of flying and had very little problems.
Oh, and if you filed your tax forms before April 1st, you get the DTA's reply before July 1st, with the indication whether you need to pay additional taxes, or get some of it paid back. Their final decision on the yearly income taxes, so when they 'close' the case, can happen between months or years later.
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Yes, the primary concern with optical wrist sensors is "cadence lock", which is when they start measuring the wiggle of the arm rather than the beating of the heart.
Ask HN: What would happen if Twitter banned Potus to avoid a War?
Absurd question that popped into my head this morning. Could Twitter actually ban @Potus? How could the White House impose a private service to operate the account against their will? What would happen if Twitter decided to ban the President because that could avoid a war?
I know it's a bit of a political question, but I'd love to hear some thoughts about that from this community.
How much of those time savings and costs are beeing moved from the employee to the employer? How much simpler is it for the companies?
That's very true, if earths Gravity was just a bit stronger chemical rockets couldn't even make it to orbit. Like right now we can only get 5 to 10 percent of vehicle mass to orbit, imagine if that where 1 or .001 percent. That would make space exploration incredibly expensive. It's already prohibitive at our level of gravity.
> Stolon is quite comparable to Patroni and has more features than Patron.

Let me as a question, what feature Stolon has and Patroni doesn't? Can you give an example?

From my side I can provide list of features available in Patroni, but not in Stolon.
For example:

* there is no way to do a controlled failover (switchover) in Stolon.

* in Patroni it's possible to exclude some nodes from a leader race.

* Patroni supports cascading replication

* Patroni can take basebackup from replicas if they are marked with a special tag

* it's even possible to configure Patroni to use a custom backup/recovery solution instead of pg_basebackup

* Patroni can give you a hint that postgres must be restarted to apply some configuration changes

* with Patroni it's even possible to schedule switchover or restart restart of postges on some specific time (for example 04:00 am, when traffic is minimal)

* with Patroni you can control High-Availability / Durability ratio. I.e.: what to do if master postgres has crashed? Either you will try to start it back or failover to a replica. But start of a crashed postgres may take a long time. With Patroni you can configure that if postgres didn't started in some amount of seconds - please do failover.

Stolon provides cloud-native deployment and Patroni doesn't?
This is not really true. The main idea of Patroni is to be not dependent on some specific technologies. It can work as on bare-metal with the same success as on Kubernetes.
It's very easy to build a custom solution with Patroni for your use-case.
For example there is a Spilo project: https://github.com/zalando/spilo, a docker image build with Patroni and wal-e for a cloud deployments.
Intel, AMD, ARM, etc could learn from supercomputers from 1970s/1980s era. They had to deal with heat problems and found solutions, look at e.g. Cray 2

Some applications would benefit a lot from higher single core performance, some applications would benefit from many cores on the same mainboard. For well know reasons (little competition) we are stuck with desktop 4 cores (and 2 on notebook even the i7) with little increased single core performance for years. Now that AMD comes with more competitive CPUs with a good price, Intel finally dusts of some years old designs from their basement and finally releases their first i7 notebook CPUs with more than 2 cores. So AMD and ARM CPU competition to Intel almost-monopoly is very good to bring fresh air to the stagnated desktop/notebook/server market.
Actual link to the article: http://www.dozzyblog.com/2017/04/13/10-harmless-habits-drop-...
You're not taking into account the illusory nature of thought and you're being dogmatic about reality and evidence. You can follow an infinite chain of proof of proof of the proof until you realize that you can't even truely trust that what any of your senses tell you is even real. This is what is meant by dogmatically placing your faith in science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FtVLnmuJzg
The number of funerals you have attended could be a poor proxy for the number of lives lost. Drug junkies tend to have fewer friends and be less vocal about their addictions because society, culture and laws.
Worse than that: if you buy hydrogen today (e.g. for some fuel cell car prototype), it is almost certainly created from fossil hydrocarbons. So hydrogen is not even a battery now but just a very elaborate way to burn fossils. "Equivalent to batteries" is the best case future scenario (e.g. in presence of abundant electricity from controlled fusion power plants).
Why should the captain have every right to remove a passenger? Should that include the right to remove a passenger because the passenger is Jewish? How about because the captain wants that seat for a set of golf clubs? That's what you said, and I disagree. The captain isn't God and aircrew are constrained by laws just like everyone else, no matter what the airlines would like us to think.
It would make sense to get Intel since lot of development tools and businesses relied on Intel technology. We won't know until LLVM, Clang, Rust and Swift could replace C/C++ in the future.
What looks more feasible than buying a second NES classic controller is to instead buy a Wii Classic Pro controller. No need to spend $40.
My experience with business taxes is very limited (just simple revenue taxes), so that could be a lot more complicated in many cases indeed. There are still sufficient numbers of accountancy and tax firms in NL, so it can't be simple in all cases. I was referring to personal income and property taxes.
You can always spot someone who has near zero comprehension of the mechanics of belief when they don't think it applies to science:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FtVLnmuJzg
Nothing like a large carrot and the feeling that something should be possible to bring out the hounds. if it can be done with present day tech it will be done, if it can't be done with present day tech then we will have a pretty good idea of what the stumbling blocks are and what kind of tech will be required in order to solve them. That's the minimum that will come out of this, possibly a lot of spin-off tech as well for more limited situations.
Shy men can be quite attractive for women who want to take initiative in dating. Or for the ones who want to test short relationships.

I used to believe only men could do that kind of stuff, felt surprised, also felt some decent amount of hypocrisy and rejection from her part.

In my view, women still have a lot to learn when it comes to taking initiative in dating. I've managed several times to be outgoing enough, to fake a sufficient amount of extroversion, but still be authentic.

I don't know what I wanted to write next, but I just finish posting this comment.
I completely disagree

Placing TODO and ASAPs in code helps ensure you don't leave any loose ends, and if you call another developer onto your feature branch allows them to get a feel for how you're getting on and how complete the code is.

Using a physical notebook distances the workload from the code and hides the fact something is incomplete from others.

A TODO graveyard can be prevented when you review the code - a developer who thinks a feature branch littered with TODO annotations is complete code is either dreaming up future use cases or failing to complete the work assigned.
I hear what you're saying, although I think I do make this effort. But after the 5th of 6th time I'm interrupted halfway through a sentence, usually by the same person who's been essentially thinking out loud for 80% of the meeting, I run out of steam and just give up.

This is what I mean by 'making room'. I'm not expecting people to ask me what I think, or for everyone to take turns or something silly like that. But I do think that if other participants are incapable of 'playing nice' then the senior person in the room, who's essentially 'chairing' the meeting, should jump in at some point. Or maybe my contributions aren't as valuable as I think. Who knows.

I really don't know how to deal with this kind of situation on my own. I've tried everything. The only thing that has ever really worked is the hyper-aggressive "excuse me, I wasn't finished", spoken at a volume slightly louder than the person interrupting (so basically shouting).

I don't want to do that sort of thing. Sure, it works, but it also makes the rest of the meeting very uncomfortable and unpleasant for all involved. And I suspect if done more than a few times I'll end up with a pretty bad reputation (not to mention an enemy or two, for little gain). Believe me, I'm not a timid person and I'm not afraid to speak my mind. If I have to make an enemy to get something important done, I will. But, if given the choice, I'd strongly prefer that adults speak to one another in a civilised manner.

I pretty much just avoid meetings now, if I can.
UK equivalent: "Tax doesn't have to be taxing". The UK web filing system is also pretty good (part of the GOV.UK project), although if you're in a nice straightforward salaried job you won't have to use it at all.
Could any contributers to Patroni opine on what impact Postgresql 10's logical replication will have? Are you excited about it?
Most probably a political question not suitable for HN. As a question it is also very hypothetical, as if Twitter banning would have an impact on a war.
I second this, if any youngsters out there want to learn some computer history. This is a great place to start.
That makes sense...It was the tie to "tech debt" that made it sound long lived.
Thanks I appreciate your concern, been dealing with it for a long time and have explored various treatment options. I would say yes it's nearly constant suffering. Just an exhaustion with life, 30 more years of this doesn't appeal to me. It's mostly around not having the level of dating/sexual privilege that most women experience in the dating market and just being out of energy to keep searching for a mate every year.
> monopolies, which are by definition not legal

By exactly what definition?

Monopolies are not illegal. Abusing a monopoly is illegal in some cases.
Inefficiency and powerlessness are not at all the same thing, as the US's various police services demonstrate on an ongoing basis.

The inefficiency of the court system also makes it more, not less, of an imposition.
There are many solutions for network block device style persistent storage in K8S now. In the cloud, you have solutions like Amazon's EBS and GCE's persistent disks. On VMware you have local VMDKs. On your own equipment, there's support for iSCSI, Ceph RBD, OpenStack Cinder, Portworx, ScaleIO, Quobyte, and just about anything else if you write a few scripts to format and mount volumes on the host (FlexVolume). Except for FlexVolume, K8S is able to dynamically provision volumes of a requested size for you.

If you're feeling adventurous there's support for network filesystems like NFS, GlusterFS, CephFS, but I wouldn't recommend those for Postgres.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volum...

In one of his demos, Josh Berkus recommends just using the K8S ephemeral "emptyDir" storage type on each node, and counting on Patroni to maintain data persistence through replication. e.g. any one Postgres node may die and lose its local data, but when its replacement is created, it will be populated with a fresh copy of the database wherever it is scheduled on the K8S cluster. That sounds workable for smaller databases, though it gives every single person I've suggested it to nightmares.
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The problem with the extroverts is that they don't produce much useful work, unless their work is really tied to extroversion, such as in sales. Otherwise they mostly just run around being extroverted in my experience.

The problem for the introverts is that their contributions may go unrecognized because they don't "sell" themselves. This is of course is a problem for the company as well since incentives are skewed -- from actually doing real work that benefits the company to selling your own person inside the organization (which provides zero value to customers).
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In a globalised economy, breaking up your own multinationals because they have an effective monopoly in you own country is to concede the global market to foreign competitors. Capitalism and global markets are now more powerful than any individual nation.
It's about using only 4 of the 5 vocals (of Latin script). But “five” contains an “e”.
You may be surprised. I'm not the median age for HN.

I do, however, like tailored clothes, because they look good. To the best of my knowledge, that's not a generation-specific thing.
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Are... are you alright, sir?
Hehe, I love that they shown those stacked - my biggest issue with X1 devkits is that they have the vents on top, so I have two on my desk but can't put anything on top of them because the console will overheat.
Point 1 may be a goal of the dutch Tax Administration but all those exceptions and subsidies (toeslagen) are mandated by politics so there is only so much they can do about it. In fact the dutch tax system is actually hugely complicated by the sheer amount of interdependent exceptions and subsidies. So I'm really surprised they use the Netherlands as example.
Belgium is interesting. The forms are really complicated, but luckily largely prefilled forms for most (salary and pension income, mortgage related deductions, ...).

Apart from the complexity, the problem here is the extremely slow return of what the government owes you.

For 2016 income:
* filing between 20170426 - 20170630
* final calculation by post ~20171101 - ~20180401
* return of overpaid amount ~20180101 - ~20180601

The Belgian revenue service almost always overcharges on obligatory prepayments. Refunds happen only at the end of the process. That means an ordinary Belgian citizen gives a free loan to Belgian government for ~12-18 months.
“We can’t make paying taxes pleasant, but at least we can make it simple.”

I actually don't mind paying taxes, because I can see around me every day that the money is mostly put to good use. I can imagine if I lived in a place where there were little or no public services, bad public schools, bad infrastructure, five digit annual college fees, polluted tap water, power with frequent blackouts or brownouts etc, I'd be pissed off with my tax bill too.
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One thing the author didn't mention is, in this case, whatever the intentions behind Munoz's dismal bit of bureaucratese, it most certainly did not deflect blame or attention. In fact, the response was so ham-fistedly out of touch with the response that was needed it made the PR situation way worse.

What's the point of PR-speak if it inflames a situation it's meant to cool?
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Typing is faster and more accurate than voice recognition. The advantage of voice is hands-free operation.

The laptop has been somewhat eroded by tablets and hybrids like the Microsoft Surface, but until we get rollup screens the form factor of 10"-17" portable screen with keyboard will continue to exist.
"Well, LA is a county, as well as a city."

I'm not convinced this is the reason. Indianapolis is a city confined by the county borders (Indianapolis consumes the whole of marion county in Indiana). Places such as Speedway have been included: Carmel and Fishers to the north are not, because they are in different counties - yet they are definitely part of the greater Indianapolis area. Indianapolis definitely feels different from LA or London - but it feels closer to LA than it would London.

I think some of the other replies hit the correct answer: London has history that LA, Indianapolis, New York, and many other American cities do not. Many sections of American cities remind me of the areas here in Trondheim that were built back up after WWII. It makes for little architectural variation, and there isn't even a history of war and strife behind them in the US.
That it has improved I will wholeheartedly agree. Much more is needed. I think one of the biggest contributions of EV has been to bring the costs of an election down (modulo normalization for inflation, population etc.).

I dont have as much a respect for the EC as you seem to have. My disdain is targeted less towards "EC the institution", more towards the lack of a functional vertebra of the chief ECs that we have had (barring exceptions of course)

However, we are still far far away from the ideal that every election in the country are free and fair.

...and finally thanks all for the discussion we had here.
I wonder how much things like this are needed going forward. From my (rudimentary) knowledge about Kubernetes and stateful sets, I think that Kubernetes is able to solve a lot of the issues surrounding failover, recovery of the old master, and partitioning; providing that we use Kubernetes in combination with networked storage that guarantees reliability.

It appears that the way to setup PostgreSQL (or any replicated database) with Kubernetes is to treat index 0 in the stateful set as the master, and everything else as slaves. Each pod is to be connected to some networked storage. If the master goes down, then Kubernetes detects that through the health check, and simply reschedules the master on another node. The storage volume that the old master was using, is simply reattached to this other node. The master going down does not imply storage failure. Storage reliability then becomes a separate problem which is solved in another system (e.g. the RAID system or whatever).

In this kind of setup, there is no failover support in the database itself. From the point of view of the database itself, it looks as if the underlying hardware/OS "automatically" recovered from failure. This way we don't have to mess with promoting slaves and stuff.

Kubernetes already assigns static IPs to services, so pgpool and similar tools -- in so far they are only used to provide a stable network address for PostgreSQL -- become redundant. Network partitioning is "solved" by treating the Kubernetes state as the single authoritative description of the network state.

What do people think about this? Obviously this setup won't work if you don't have networked storage that can be reattached to another node, but I'm thinking that maybe reattachable networked storage should be the future.
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Was this hacked together at breakneck speed since the HN discussion made the other day about mailing lists [1] or just happy coincidence? :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14086259
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People haven't yet realised that it's not EU versus US versus China but rather corporations versus the people. If they did, states would cooperate more so as not to let corps play one against the other and thus screw everyone.

Anyway, the solution to the particular problem of the rich owning Congress isn't breaking multinationals but rather limits on campaign donations - this whole "money is speech" argument is just bullshit.
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Last company I left I did working till the last minute, on my own unpaid time. I've been treated so well and we shared such a strong spirit of unity in the good and bad times that I can't regret it. No body was ever bullied. Main difference with other tech companies I worked for before:

CEO is a woman.