skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it's Steve responding at all.

His PA probably co-managed his inbox and would read and respond to this type of e-mail. Perhaps they also only forward on emails to Steve's "priority" inbox if they're worthy of his time?
Currently, you need to run one node without --join for the initial bootstrapping (as soon as this bootstrapping is complete, you can and should restart it with --join to get everything into a homogenous configuration). I was hoping to make some changes here so you could start every node with --join from the beginning, but it was trickier than anticipated so it didn't make the cut for 1.0. Watch for improvements here in a future release.
JSON/JSONB will come after array support. As far as I know, we don't have any concrete plans at this time to support listen/notify or spatial datatypes.
If Not Britain, Where? The Case for a French Industrial Revolution
10 years ago I already thought that 1/3 jobs were already meaningless. So much people are in "piloting/supervising" jobs that has little added value. Jobs, themselves are more and more "activities".

In addition people are fighting back, they use low technology or pretend that something that is already automatized does not work:

Every time I rent a car on the Web, when I go picking it at the local agency, they ask me every details that they record again and again on their computer.

When I did work, every manager asked us to use both the Intranet and a spreadsheet on the local file server to record our activity.

Once the HR director who should have know how many people were on the payroll, went at every team with his computer, to record how many people there were in each team, how many time they did work per week, etc...
You don't know that they wouldn't have raised more with a better name.
Unfortunately, still not available in the India datacenter.

This is going to be huge in India. Microsoft has massive mindshare in India with the govt because of the regulatory landscape.

I have it on firsthand info that several banks in India are going to make their first ever transition to the cloud on Azure because of Microsoft's willingness to go the extra mile around whatever security dances that the banks want them to do.

Plus Azure has India datacenter which takes of the PII problem for healthcare and financial data.

It is truly unfortunate that the management console has the worst UX ever.
Ask HN: What tools are available to design web browser plugin without coding?
Hi Folks,

I am looking for a design tool that allows you to design concepts for web browser plugins without having to code.

Any help would be appreciated.
It’s not that hard. I recommend reprepro.
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Google clearly has a monopoly. Eventually they will abuse it, even if they're not doing so already (which is open to debate). The stronger their control, the more damage they will do and the harder it will be to release ourselves from it.

Monopolies are bad, although sometimes they are the least bad choice. I see plenty of good alternatives to Google's monopoly.
While I think Google is more evil than Microsoft at present, both companies fall well into the category of organizations that will sacrifice any principles necessary to profit. When companies like Google and Microsoft are on top, they become abusive to maintain control of the market.

Microsoft is down and out right now, and I'm using some of their services a bit more myself, but you need to bear in mind that if the tides change, so will Microsoft eventually.

Sidebar: For email, I recommend FastMail.
Why are you offering this service?

Why is it structured like this?

Help me wrap my mind around this.
Hackers came, but the French were prepared
You really don't have freedom if there are no legitimate competitors.
I may be wrong, but I feel that making this website https-only could only add potential customers. Making matters worse, trying https://invoicingplugin.com gives you a warning and redirects you to https://woodenracks.co.uk.
If you accept the arguments in the article, since "forever". If you don't, maybe talk about why not instead of asking rhetorical questions?
I don't see any problem with that as long as they have had the license. It's not like the bits are tainted.
Ah, how nice: a like-minded person! I'm just like you in that respect, 100%.

I think another way to save costs (if that is what the stores are after) is to make the cashiers they do employ more efficient. For instance, while living in Melbourne, Australia, I sometimes went to a local Aldi store and the cashiers there weren't exactly slow, but not the fastest either. In comparison, while living in Germany, if you go to a Aldi there, they check your items out faster than you can chuck them into your cart! (Yeah, that's right, they don't pack stuff up in bags for you over there.)

It's really amazing how fast they can be... and they have to because it's sometimes unbelievable how much stuff people in front of me can fit into a single cart. Because of that, however, you still get waiting lines -- it's the sheer mass of items people put on the conveyer belt. But the speed at which Aldi cashiers operate could certainly be a lesson to other stores as well if they want to maximize throughput per cashier.
I'm impressed, very impressed.
This is getting pretty close to FUD. What penalties are you talking about? As additional examples, I come across Vimeo and daily motion videos all the time when using video search.
Thank you for your feedback. We indeed offer a whole server (database cluster) and you can create multiple databases in it and have full control of the resources allocated to that cluster.

The admin user provisioned for the server is not a full superuser, but it is close to that. We are trying to find the right set of permissions to provide to our customers without jeopardizing our ability to manage this server for you. Please submit your feedback here: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/597976-azure-database-for-... if you see a problem with the permissions.
'No cost' is probably a better phrase here. Especially because the word 'free' can mean:

1) no immediate monetary cost ($)

2)or shorthand for freedom, as in related to liberty. However,

"Generally, liberty is distinctly differentiated from freedom in that freedom is primarily, if not exclusively, the ability to do as one wills and what one has the power to do; whereas liberty concerns the absence of arbitrary restraints and takes into account the rights of all involved. As such, the exercise of liberty is subject to capability and limited by the rights of others."
I wish I had. That was my first job out of school, and I developed the UI for commands and reports, all through the BAUDOT-code based terminal. Our field test switch sat on a corner, with some more modern electronic telex terminals (they were blue), along with EPROM burners for patching, etc. The big switch was the rest of the floor. So many things I participated in 30+ years ago and didn't have the idea of taking at least a couple of pictures. Such is life.
Please don't reply to people with their usernames; HN's threaded comments make that redundant, and it breaks the sense of normal conversation in much the way that repeating people's names out loud would.
A fresh update to Visual Studio 2017 and the next preview
I always use the self checkout at my grocery store because its just faster than waiting in line.

They recently added a way for people to just use an app to scan barcodes while shopping and then just scan your phone at the self checkout but I haven't tried it.
Would love to know as well. I'm selling a plugin from my own site and had wrote of Codecanyon once I saw their pricing structure. I'm a bit curious if a big part of the reason is that doing the payment & plugin delivery is difficult for average WP dev. Would be interested to here success stories and comparisons.
> ... and they make Microsoft look like an innocent kitten in comparison.

It sounds like you don't remember Microsoft back in the day. Google "Halloween Memos". (Edit: Note particularly the bit about "de-commodifying protocols", that is, finding ways to break standards and create lock-in.)

Microsoft literally paid web sites to put HTML in their pages so that Netscape wouldn't handle properly.

Microsoft literally generated false error messages when they detected a product from a competitor. (IIRC, that one was on a spreadsheet, and the product was maybe a DOS clone? There wasn't anything wrong with the clone, but the error message made it look like there was.)

An equivalent, today, for Google would be if, when you typed bing.com into Chrome, it took you to Google. Or if Android detected Microsoft apps and made them break in mysterious ways.

ouid's point is valid. Google is more passive in anticompetitive behavior. (That doesn't make the behavior good. It makes it less bad than Microsoft. Microsoft is hardly the "innocent kitten" here. However, I will concede that Microsoft hasn't been as bad as they were for... maybe a decade?)
Stylized as C8=>DB
Regarding change data capture, please see Arjun's answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14309173
> It's also fairly clear that at least over long enough time horizons there aren't many natural monopolies.

Would you say this is because the benefits to decentralization don't often bear themselves out as visibly as the costs over a shorter time horizon?

In other words, is a "natural monopoly" simply externalizing the costs of centralization to the future?
What do you mean when you say "MozartBot reimagines Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata 1st Mvt"? That MozartBot somehow got to something that resembles Moonlight Sonata? Or that you somehow fed Moonlight Sonata into it and asked for a variation?
Your view reflects that of most of the bitcoin community. And it's true that the promise of trustless, decentralized transactions certainly got the price of bitcoin to where it is now-- but I think there's something more for fintech in crypto than digital gold.

At least, that hope is why I myself dabble. I also think it's why there's so much enterprise investment in ethereum.
It's been on my backlog for quite a while at this time.
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Fluent in x86 and x86_64 assembly language

Nice to Have:

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Cryptographic principles
Client-server networking experience
Mac/mobile system knowledge
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Thanks! Valeri Lee
This is terrific work - like many others I found myself needing to use Chart.js or some other abstraction layer on top of D3 in order to get anywhere. Britecharts seems to have everything its competitors does, but also looks utterly fantastic from a visual point of view. Well done guys and gals.
How much does it cost to build a competitive search engine?

I'm not sure it's that cheap. Bing launched in 2006. Billions of dollars were sunk into it by a major company who used their monopoly over desktop to push the service. And it only became profitable in 2016.

The barriers to entry seem extremely high.
you're right, a little deeper digging and i learned that in 1989 http only had GET! I dont think verbs came until '96
> I just want to cross compile to target Windows.

What's the point, you can't debug or even run such an executable? What developer is just going to compile stuff without testing it? It makes no sense to want this.
Please tell me we're not having a bikeshedding discussion on the meaning of bikeshedding. :-)
I disagree on the term "natural", but I agree that Google is a monopoly. A phone company with last mile lines has a natural monopoly because competition need access to the last mile to offer their services. That is the reason that the Bell System was a natural monopoly and essentially every phone company on the planet.

Facebook has a near-natural monopoly I think, because of the network effects of its 1 billion memebers. Microsoft had one too, when everyone was developing everything for a PC running Windows, this got broken due to the web and smartphones.

Building a new search engine is not impossible, you just need a lot of breath and patience.
Ultimate Guide to Winning a Hackathon
Ok, the answer is in there: you fed in the chord progression.

Actually these were the best results, not the original compositions, but even those are great for game soundtracks.
There are manual install instructions that come with the downloader, you can download and install all the components yourself.
Our plan is to be in all the Azure regions before we GA the service. We will be gradually expanding our presence over the next months, based on available capacity. Please speak up if you have a region where we are not present yet.
I wish I was smart enough for the article. 8 years of web dev doesn't make the cut unfortunately.
Sometimes just taking a long vacation can help...

How much do you work every week? Working overly long hours is also a potential source of problems, and doing different duties won't help if you're really overworked
Seeing with Your Tongue
Not to be pedantic, but can you name any?
So you are saying it would be similarly fine to call something NiggerDB?
I'm really happy our startup didn't go all in on Tesla (Pascal architecture) yet. These look amazing.
Well know I feel like a bit like an asshole with how abrasive my response was, sorry. Kudos to you for not escalating.

I agree that it resolves to how much it matters, and I guess I disagree with you on how much it matters. How it relates to the bike shedding metaphor is starting to feel like a semantic argument, which is not something I want to continue.

In response to your escalated names like PubesDB... my opinion is that I agree I wouldn't work with them, not because of any internal disgust reaction, but because the name signals a level of maturity that I don't want in my stack. Some people might have the same reaction to Cockroaches.
I'm not sure I've ever eaten cake after mowing a lawn. That's an unusual combo; and I've mowed a lot.
It's always been 10-20% slower than CUDA and frankly NVIDIA doesn't have an incentive to make it faster than that.

On the other hand, I believe Google is working on a CUDA compiler [1] so we may actually see meaningful improvement in the sense that it may become possible to run CUDA on other GPUs. (Edit: And Google actually has an incentive to achieve performance parity, so it might really happen.)

[1]: https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45226.html
Making Your Ember Application Livable
Zillow faces lawsuit over ‘Zestimate’ tool that calculates a house’s worth
I'll try!
Thanks. Copy-pasta. Fixed.
Emacs is sexy
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https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Five%20O%27s...
Haha, I'd have my own fund if I was that good.
In addition to all the Android runtime related ways mentioned:

With the Developer Mode toggled (free), you get full access to the underlying Linux system. You can even run a completely separate Linux desktop on it.
"To read it, pick your shell, whether it's a login shell, whether it's interactive, and follow the same colour through the diagram. When the arrows split out to multiple files, it means that the shell will try to read each one in turn (working left to right), and will use the first one it can read."

Original article here: http://blog.flowblok.id.au/2013-02/shell-startup-scripts.htm...
> Unlike say, Windows, there is nothing locking you into Google you don't have to use Chrome or GMAIl, or their search.

I agree about their search, but problem with Chrome isn't just lack of alternatives. Problem is that Google have too much power over web standards and all of competitors have to follow. Even Mozilla had to implement DRM.

Gmail is similar: Google never directly used their power against competitors, but they make email a lot more centralized. Their intransparent anti-spam make it much harder to run own mail servers or send notifications / newsletters, etc.

Of course almost any company with 60-80% of market share would likely do the same and this is why it's bad.
Yeah, I totally agree with you.
RagtimeBot is probably the most consistent and produces the best results. Because its dataset is simpler?
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/10/15610744/anti-net-neutral...
There is an accompanying video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lqiZqmS-bY
I remember reading that ISP's and browsers can do interesting things to non-2xx responses. In that case applications do not even have a chance to handle the error. IIRC Facebook's API does this because they encountered problems with mobile browsers deciding to do weird things with non-2xx responses.
> I think you are taking the word "hate" out of the context intended by Mr. Berners-Lee.

Definitely not. I did say they more often than not, hatred is the driving factor for positive change. I did not say "always".

> He was talking about hateful in terms of something like Mien Kampf.

Clearly the actions of the Nazi party or by Hitler were awful. Don't forget that Hitler was only a man. He had a hatred of the status quo, just like many of us do. His hatred was misguided and his actions were immoral, but they weren't from his perspective.

> If a similar book with similar content was to be published today, I see no harm in suppressing it

That is where you and I disagree. The harm in suppressing any information is that we chill the distribution of all information.

> Would the world be a much worse place if the German authorities had censored Mien Kampf

That is very unlikely. Mien Kampf was just a book. It was not Hitler, it was not a member of the Nazi party.

I would argue that Germany would have been a worse place, sooner. Censorship chills speech, not hatred, not action. Hitler would still be free to spread his ideas, the Nazi party would still come to power, and they would still go on to burn Germany, books and people alike.

If you want to prevent action that is based on hateful ideas, do it through education. Don't stifle wonder by breaking the very way it is shared.
FYI "I could care less" is probably not what you meant.

It's "couldn't care less" [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
And when will I be able to develop Mac OS X applications on Windows? Probably never. I don't want to boot into another OS or buy a new very expensive computer...
I feel like every time I buy cards, Nividia announces the successor with absurd improvements.
Solving an even square might be inherently harder than an odd square. I haven't played the game though.
I forgot to add links

http://butterproject.org

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_Time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent
Amazon and Nvidia Announce New Volta-Based GPU
A/B Split Testing with Nginx and Craft CMS
The Android term "rooting" would be closer than the iOS term "jailbreak", precisely because of the reason you cited: Google doesn't lock down ChromeOS like a jail.
Well nothing locks you into Windows, you can always use a Linux distro.
Dexie.js (a wrapper for IndexDB) just stopped working on all browsers running on iOS 10.3.1 (apparently a webkit bug).

Lesson: always test cross-browser before commiting to a js library
> As it does, its power to make predictions of unknown objects should grow, until we've reached the limit of our current instruments' ability to observe.

Well that's kind of the problem already. For the objects that are interesting, we've either discovered them or they are hard (or impossible) to discover with current instruments. For the ones that are merely hard but not impossible, the process of finding them requires human cleverness or significant telescope resources (and human cleverness can be applied to figure out the best way to direct the limited resources). I'm not really sure that automation helps...
I think this is a really interesting point. In a capitalist/free-market situation, no one cares if you start a business and fail. Competition is seen as a good thing. But how can you blame a company for winning in its domain against its competitors?

Also, what does it mean to 'abuse' a monopoly position. I don't think its practical to argue that Google doesn't have a monopoly on internet search[1]. When your product name becomes a replacement term for what your product does/is, that just shows how widely used your product is (another example: Q-Tips vs cotton swabs). But how do you prove or argue that Google hasn't abused its position?

[1] https://www.netmarketshare.com/search-engine-market-share.as... (though I don't know how credible this source is)
Ha, yeah, but that's kind of like putting your jacket on under your clothes.
You are smart enough but you have different priorities. This isn't magic but it does require time and time is usually spent on things people like. Therefore you just don't _like it_ enough.
To me, at least for now, it seems more like a SQL enabled etcd or similar. They aren't currently claiming performance numbers that make it sound suitable for general purpose relational database scenarios. A SQL aware etcd like thing has a lot of appeal though, and I assume the performance work is coming.
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I consider that also unfair, just like I consider Microsofts participation in the browser market unfair.

That said, I know that splitting companies until they only do one thing isn’t possible.

But Google’s scale of domination is quite unique. Especially recently, as they’ve forced Android devs into using Google services more and more.
Array plus Array JavaScript Watman
I've seen plenty of this is in code written in the past 5 years, some within the last year or two.
The Liar Paradox is famous because it seems to break the foundational tenant of classical that all statements are either true or false.

Your example is also interesting, but doesn't really break things in the same way.

I don't necessarily agree with this, I think there are plenty of important things to consider with both, but that's why one became famous without the other.
> During Campbell’s last four months at Magic Leap, Abovitz—who always had been pouty and prone to temper-tantrums, began to dig his heels in even more in the face of dissenting ideas and to explode ever more frequently into child-like fits of rage, threatening retribution when he didn’t get his way, felt betrayed or was portrayed publically in an unfavorable light.

Ugh. It's just depressing how often you see people like this in positions of power.
How We’re Thinking About Diversity at Homebrew: Start by Measuring It (2014)
There are lots of competing vendors for display ads. You can also advertise on facebook and Bing. For search ads, I donno. If 1 tv channel was by far the most popular, would ads on it make them an illegal monopoly for businesses that wanted to advertise?
Credit card surcharge fees possible for payment apps?
Surcharge fees are largely prohibited by merchants but does the prohibition apply to or payment apps designed to facilitate C2C or C2B payments (sub-acquirers)?