skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
relational model
globally distributed ACID transactions
99.999 availability

to name a few
great stuff from Microsoft this.
Now people can run Wordpress on azure withouth install mysql on a seperate instance.
Thanks! Arjun.
Yes, there has been lots of discussion, but no decision.
"Azure Database for PostgreSQL"

Postgresql database for Azure?
SourceTree Security Advisory: Command Injection
I agree with you in that I would hate a job as a supermarket cashier. However, I know people who really like it. What you and I think of as boring drudge work, they see as an opportunity to be social and chat with people all day long.

People vary.
Very disappointed with HN turning into a 4chan/reddit style trolling board about the name. Guys, we get it that you don't like the name. Can we please stop bike shedding and move on? The people at cockroachdb have obviously seen all your messages but decided it's worth keeping the name. What more is there to talk about? Why not talk about the relative technical merits of this DB?
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Exactly.

This is a common criticism lobbed at Microsoft. And it's just as true for Google as it is for Microsoft.
Designing for All Abilities
Same on Nexus 6P Android 7.1.2 Chrome
> Are people really that against interacting with someone

This is HN, what do you think the answer to that is?

That said, I hate self-checkout machines. Usually there's someone in line ahead of you with a 'problem' of some sort, and that's even assuming the machine itself is functioning properly. Our local supermarket actually removed theirs because they sucked so bad.
I have failed in my job as an unpaid volunteer maintainer. I should recruit others to be able to do this, and enable them.
Sounds like you really hate Microsoft/Windows. Maybe you're not the target market here.
>Yes, when I looked into it I found there is actually zero evidence that institutionalized peer review is helpful at all. In fact, it looked like it's primary role was to impede science by enforcing whatever prevailing bias exists at the moment.

While I've experienced what you've described, I think throwing it all out is merely going to the other extreme.

I think peer review should remain, but may need reform. The larger problem is the attitude of scientists today - some of the problems you yourself mentioned. Removing peer review will not fix those. And "fixing" peer review to handle those problems is merely treating a symptom. Ultimately, the larger problem is the mentality that has spread amongst academics - and the problems will remain no matter how you tweak peer review.

>In addition to being poor at detecting gross defects and almost useless for detecting fraud

This gets mentioned a lot, so I'll repeat what many others have said: Peer review was never meant to detect fraud, and should not be expected to.

Back during the Schon scandal, people kept asking how peer review had failed the system to let him get so far before he was caught. And the answer was always the same: Peer review is not the appropriate method to catch such people. It was never meant for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal
Natural monopoly in this context is only a falsehood if one ignores the 'bad effects' of govt losing its capability of easy universal surveillance...
Microkernel government
RDS was the main reason I stuck with AWS all this time. Happy to see MS recognizing that PostgreSQL is very much preferred these days.
Microsoft: Visual Intelligence Made Easy
Hmm forking Android and turning the ecosystem into a complete mess around stuff like security updates. To the point were a lot of people, including myself, are considering buying a Google device purely to ensure some sort of longevity.
One can say that Google's "on-prem GCP" is Kubernetes. Rolling it on top of bare metal fleet gives you a pretty sweet environment with much greater elasticity or ease of management than OpenStack-like private virtualized clouds. Everything else, like fancy management UIs or monitoring / logging front-ends and highly available databases can nicely run on top of it.

There are tools [1] that make Kubernetes clusters one-click deployable and remotely manageable behind firewalls, which makes MSPs jobs of running Kubernetes on private infra dead-easy.

[1] http://gravitational.com/telekube/

Full disclosure: I work at G and a huge believer in software delivered as a service on private infrastructure.
Better late than never - this is a welcome alternative to Amazon's RDS support for postgresql, the lack of which has been the primary reason I've kept personal workloads off of Azure. I'm excited to take this for a spin!

Azure SQL Server has been great at work; operationally, it couldn't be simpler, and the point-in-time restore feature saved our bacon at least once. The only drawback has been... SQL Server itself. It's a solid performer, but T-SQL is a bear to work with. If MSFT can apply the same operations magic to postgres, they'll have a real winner on their hands.
Disposed of properly is a big caveat though no?
While I agree with you that transparent touch screens are currently underutilized in the sex industry, this technology will enable things beyond your wildest dreams.
Hi there! Rajen Kishna, Product Manager on Visual Studio for Mac here. Visual Studio for Mac is a full-featured IDE to create apps, games, and services for mobile, web, and cloud. Creating mobile apps with Xamarin and C# is definitely one of the workloads available, but there's a lot more with .NET Core, Unity, and Azure. You can view .NET Core as the cross-platform implementation of .NET you can code against and share code across apps and web on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Hope that helps clear things up!
If API's are best represented via REST, then why aren't software API's in general RESTful (e.g. I dont POST triangles to my GPU)? The answer: SOME API's are best represented with REST, but most are not.
I wasn't suggesting to automatically copy infos from gmap to osm but to provide something like a notification that the two maps differ in a place/road.

So, i understand that i can't create an automated list that lists what are the differences between gmaps and osm.
> In Switzerland, a store can trust customers to scan everything they place in their carts.

You flatter us, but I'm not convinced the Swiss are particularly honest. And I'm not convinced that anything the US register does is particularly helpful to catch cheating.
Nvidia unveils massive AI processing chip Tesla V100
Where can I find someone with no values? To clarify: Not merely someone with values that are the opposite of yours.
HTTP != REST though, as the article notes. There are other ways to use port 80/443 that neither violate HTTP nor go full REST - websocket being an (extreme) example.

Even the HTTP monopoly is changing. There are lots of new protocols (HTTP2, QUIC, WebRTC) that work besides firewalls and things like ALPN gives a standardized way to tunnel new protocols over an encrypted connection.
Don't turn your back on it, apparently
The "applications" seem now to be closed, and the linked Facebook post from the BBC source has been removed (or, I can't see it for some other reason).

If anyone has more information as to the terms to which this offer was subject, or a link to the original Facebook posting I'd be glad to see it.
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Facebook Workplace – a scary place
Has Microsoft announced whether MonoDevelop will still be open source?
From the link:

> huge 3 GB file (3M 1K lines)

So, somewhat long lines, but not unreasonably huge.

For me, working on a nasty legacy codebase with 10-15k LOC classes - VS Code is slow enough with syntax highlighting that I pretty much need to use something else.
I almost feel like you aren't responding to my comments... The questions you're asking have been addressed, and I have even posted an extremely famous piece of literature which can explain your missteps better than I ever could. If you don't want to acknowledge my points, not sure what the point of discussion with you is...
The latter. NTP only checks and corrects clock offsets every so often. If the "hardware"[1] clock undergoes offset shifts at random times because of VM pauses this won't get fixed immediately until the next NTP sync.

This gets exacerbated in cloud settings where VMs get moved between physical machines, or racks since now it's not just the pause, its that the clock is now pointing to a new hardware time source.
[1] in quotes since it's viewed as a single piece of hardware to the software inside the VM.
Wi-Fi router used to make hologram
I used to wear a jawbone up3 for this very reason, but it seems like they are discontinued. Someone mentioned the fitbit below but it might be too much to sit next to a normal watch.
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I prefer them as well.

It feels sorta weird going thru a regular checkout now and just standing there not doing anything the whole time. It's boring.
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Hi Magsafe,
Sadly not, and we don't have a mid-term plan to do it.
From my research, the only charting library that supports React Native at the moment is Victoryjs: https://formidable.com/open-source/victory/
I picked microsoft last because my job is coding in .net. Not sure if that counts.
Hi there, Rajen Kishna here, Product Manager on Visual Studio for Mac. If you haven't tried it out yet, I would definitely say check out the released version of Visual Studio for Mac. It has support for mobile apps with Xamarin, but adds so much more to build web apps and services with .NET Core and even games with Unity. We also announced preview support coming very soon for Docker and Azure Functions and are definitely planning on adding more over time.
I'm basically here to ask a similar question, whether this is aimed as an modern alternative to Postgresql, since they don't clearly state this on the OP news announcement.
No, "waymo" is "way" ahead. I'll see myself out.
Fair enough; I've never used it locally as I always am using hosted versions. Still, lots of extra overhead to just beat up some tables in sql. If you think you would do more beyond that, however, makes sense to try a notebook...
I'm an engineer on the SQL team at CockroachDB. We're very aware of our missing support for array column types - and in fact beginning to add support for arrays is one of my team's priorities for the next release cycle.

What kind of other recent SQL features introduced in Postgres 9.4 do you use? Postgres has a ton of features, as I'm sure you're aware, and while we strive for wire compatibility with Postgres it's not a goal of ours to implement support for every Postgres feature out there.
SpaceX already testing Mars landing technology
Abusing C#
> Why should society subsidize someone using a piece of land, when another potential tenant will pay taxes on its true value?

Subsidize? I think your concept of private property rights is under developed.
>Desirable outcomes are pretty much agreed upon

I disagree.

> Keep mentally and physically healthy

Some families I know argue profit above all things, comfort above all things. Morbidly obese families, for example, do not feel that physical health is an important value.

>Get a good job

I know families that value finding welfare loopholes to facilitate a non-working lifestyle.

>Support your family

I know people that very much do not value supporting their family

>Be good to others

ISIS members do not value being good to non-Muslims. (they do not agree with your values)

>Don't be a criminal

Members of gangs generally completely disagree with this.

Somehow the person you're replying to is being downvoted for suggesting, essentially, that "people believe different things are important." Are we going to seriously argue against that?
DotNET Core May 2017 Update
From 3rd grade on till graduation of high school, I shared a class with a Josh. Of course, since I preferred to be Joshua and he preferred to be Josh, none of our classmates had any problems with keeping us apart. Teachers, on the other hand... well, it was funny when the French teacher decided to put the two of us next to each other and the substitute teacher got to us in roll call.
If you're traveling to somewhere you've never been before, and you have no internet for 100% of the time, then maybe wifi won't be useful. But if you've been there before, the device may still have info about wifi hotspots stored locally (after locationgate I'm not sure how long those are kept, and whether policies were changed again after ubiquitous FDE), which would allow it to still benefit from having wifi turned on even without internet.
If you have a moment, "tooling" is pretty vague; which kinds of tools were you worried about with Rust?

(Also, congrats on the 1.0!)
Same strategy as always. Rebrand current products and call it new. This is not Visual Studio as known from Windows but Xamarin Studio rebranded. Title should be Microsoft release Xamarin update...
GCP is such a dream. I love using it. Azure's a mess.

Here's a lovely thing that happened. I wanted to figure out how much space my containers take in Azure storage. Once a day, MS will calc the total for billing purposes, but at the storage account level. There's no documented way to do this for individual containers than to enumerate every single file and sum it up.

Well, in the Azure portal, if you hit properties on a container, hey, it shows you the count and filesize. Neato! Obviously MS is aware and slipped in this functionality into the UI at least. So I check a few containers, it works. I try it on another container and it takes a bit of time. I tab away and do some other stuff. Then I get a text about my mobile data usage limit.

Turns out the Azure client portal, when you click properties, with no indication it's doing this, will page through all your files and sum them. By making requests for 2.5MB of XML metadata at a time.

Everything is just so clunky with Azure. GCP is the opposite, and I'm no fan of Google.
A different, yet very simple additional benefit of open source software dawned on me when I tried if I could use a chromebook for development tasks:

Astoundingly few text editors run on ARM CPUs.

Open source means you can compile them yourself if necessary (if they're written in a proper platform-independent fashion). That I couldn't use it on every device I own was the reason I left Sublime for good, although I quite liked it so far.
light fields are nothing at all like the 2D image emitted by DLP projectors.

This is a printed light field - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AVAzGQMxEg

This is a light field plenoptic projector - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blb0TUBoZwA
>Bing seems pretty close in search quality, but yet few switch over.

a) Why would anyone switch if they are both equal and both free?

b) Most people use chrome. Most people don't change their default search engine.

c) As much as people pretend to hate Google, they actually hate Microsoft a lot more, and for good reason. Microsoft operates on bad faith far more frequently than Google does, most of their business decisions seem to revolve around the question "How do we leverage product A to force the user to use our product B?" whereas Google's anticompetitive behavior has always been more passive.
... also not dripping with nearly as much ironically smug techie narcissism.
Back in 2000, I used to enjoy an online streaming radio station called echo.com, and as a sort of reward for listening, you could earn Amazon gift certificates.

I tried googling for "Amazon echo gift certificates" but I couldn't quite find what I was looking for.

I miss AltaVista.
Abandoned WordPress Plugins with Vulnerabilities
What kind of things have been annoying you about T-SQL?
Part of the answer is simply to stop using non-biodegradable stuff in cosmetics.

It isn't difficult to do. All that is needed is an incentive like making inclusion of plastic micro-beads illegal. Isn't California considering doing that?
Ahh, this is lovely :)

In Upstate NY, we have some similar old forgotten roads, except with yellow bricks instead of red ones. Here was one near where I grew up: http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2009/09/01/the-yellow-brick...

From one of the comments:

> Yellow bricks were manufactured in many local places like Mechanicville and Ravena.

> The creator of the Wizard of Oz was manufactured around here, too! L. Frank Baum grew up in Chittenango NY and appeared on stage a few times in Troy during his failed career as an actor. So the Yellow Brick Road in the Wizard of Oz was more likely inspired by the yellow brick roads in the Hudson Valley...not the other way around.
Missing anti pattern: consider URLs insecure, especially if for a web browser. Don't include customer details (name, email, account number, etc) or search queries (free text) unless you have determined the security settings on your logging, audit, proxies, .., all conform to data protection requirements that suggest they should be encrypted and only visible to necessary staff. If you expect pages to be bookmarked or shared, then consider the security impact of where they are stored on local machines too, including in caches if your company is silly enough not to enforce disk encryption for all users.
How much of that cost reduction goes into building new stores? How many new stores in any case are going to food deserts rather than places more profitable for the retailer?

I would guess nowhere near enough to support the notion that this cost reduction leads to new stores, or that new stores would appear in food deserts.

I don't want self-checkouts to disappear. I just don't want to be lied to about their purpose, and in particular they ought to make it worth my while to use them by offering at least some tiny discount. The fact that they don't tells us all we need to know.
This article annoys me.

"YouTube makes $9 billion in annual revenues, but artists earn more from the sales of vinyl records than online streaming"

It's a useless comparison. Perhaps the vinyl industry is worth more than $9 billion. Not all of YouTube is music streaming. More artists are on YouTube than release vinyl. A single artist that has vinyl releases and has videos on YouTube may earn more from the vinyl, but there are many more artists on youtube who don't sell vinyl.

The article is good and has a valid points, but it's important to put comparisons you can actually compare.

Then "... Levon Helm, who was forced to put on a series of concerts at his home at the age of 70, while dying from throat cancer, in order to pay his medical bills"

Sounds like a story about medical bills / lack of insurance, not a story about digital music sales. Plenty of other people get throat cancer and aren't famous enough to put on concerts to pay the bills.
Google Cloud Platform Launches Northern Virginia Region
I started reading this on Safari Books Online (I'm bad about reading too many books at once). I got 3 chapters in before switching gears. What I read was excellent, and I recommended the book to several friends. Thanks for the book.
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To me, cockroaches are such an unbelievably negative association that I don't think I could get over the name and work with this product, because I wouldn't want to be saying cockroach all the time.

Same thing if your database was called BedBug.
Hi, This is Dharma from Azure Cosmos DB team. We are super excited to make the service available today.We published the first of the series of technical blog posts here -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/a-technical-overview-.... Would love to answer any Cosmos DB questions.
I've been using it since it was featured in HN some time back. It's a very nice improvement over the chrome extensions I had to use in the past.

One question: should I resubmit bugs previously sent to support@insomnia.rest to the github bug tracker?
Piracy is also a form of convenience. What you want, when you want it. No stupid geographic delayed releases, no stupid DRM where you have to prove you're not a thief every time you want to access the content, no internet connectivity requirements, etc.
> The answer to the theoretical first question might well be "yes, there are exceptional traders outperforming the market". The second "real-world" question is much more involved:
> * can I reliably identify them, ex ante? That's pretty hard.

The answer to question one, as you say, is yes. If it was purely coin tossing any group of performers would get halved each year (let's not mention skew). Now there are funds that fall quite hard, like Odey. But it's clear there are funds that seem to defy gravity.

Question Two. Here's how I decide if I believe in a fund.

Here's a real life example. A friend of a friend came to a meeting and explained that under certain circumstances, you can buy certain unit trusts cheaper than they're worth. You need to dig out the nitty gritty details of each fund: the holdings, the rules, the fees, trading regulations, and so on. You put all this in a computer, which tells you when there's a mispricing. You need good relations with various counterparties, or you won't get the trade. And you can only do it up to a certain scale, because there's only so much mispricing. And it's sensitive to costs, so you need his particular cost agreements.

This also explains why you'd have to invest in this particular guy. He has the infrastructure and relationships already in place, so even if you knew his method, you couldn't do it yourself.

You're right about a lot of funds being smoke and mirrors though. I used to run one, and the investors never ask the right questions. Mostly they chase returns, but they don't even know how to tell the difference between one track record and another. It makes a huge difference how they're generated, yet most questions are simply trying to put you in a category, like produce in a supermarket.
Ok, so your definition of values are

>things that produce desirable outcomes

Right, so let's look at it from the perspective of a group of ISIS members, and analyze first what a "desirable outcome" is.

According to their own magazine, the objective of ISIS is to "[make it so] the Blessed flag [of their religion]...covers all eastern and western extents of the Earth, filling the world with the truth and justice of Islam and putting an end to the falsehood and tyranny of jahiliyyah [state of ignorance], even if American and its coalition despise such. " So basically, the "desirable outcome" is a Muslim (of the Wahabi brand ISIS prefers) world.

Now we know what the "desirable outcome" of a large chunk of people is, let's take a look at what "values" can "produce" this desirable outcome.

Judging from the actions of ISIS, these include

* Public beheading

* Rape and enslaving of non-Wahabi women

* Destruction of historical monuments

* Detonating explosives among gathered civilians

So, are these the values you are arguing to teach children? Obviously not, but do you see my point?
DocumentDB looks like a JSON document store?
I spent a great deal of time pondering this very thing, and always conclude that due to my very frank nature of admitting arrests and drug use, that including it would surely do more harm then good.

[edit] Ok so I created a generic yahoo email account and added it to my profile...you were right I should at least try.

Thanks for the reminder.
It's not bikeshedding when the bikeshed's color will actually have concrete effects on adoption. Most people -- i.e. in procurement, management, finance, and others you need to appeal to -- don't want anything to do with cockroaches. The idea disgusts them at a gut level, not something you can talk away.

HN users are giving vital advice, for free. Those who ignore it will have only themselves to blame.

As I say every time this comes up, would you be so dismissive about critics of naming a product PubesDB? Or GonorrheaDB? Or [n-word]DB? Then you agree that disgust-invoking connotations of the name matter, and we're just haggling over the details.

Ubuntu, Mongo, Swagger (edit: Hadoop also) ... they're weird, sure, but they don't evoke the visceral feeling of disgust that cockroaches do.