skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some fights are simply more economical to not fight. Especially when going up against city regs and such. Not to mention that any changes made on Apple's behalf could very easily have unintended consequences down the road (such as parking spilling out of an undersized lot and into surrounding neighborhoods).
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Why not just sponsor def con and the other conventions? Oh right because it will actually fix things.
Just for anyone reading this, this is not how the patent system works anywhere in the world. Patents are examined by an examiner who is an employee of the government who exactly says that the patent is novel and non-obvious, that's what they do! No countries have a simple registration system for enforceable patents, that would be insane
No, it's your fault for sweeping it under the rug. But it's also the fault of people above you for allowing a culture and an out-of-control department where stuff gets swept under the rug.
> What am I missing?

The key part; the secret key is never sent to the server. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14462218/is-the-url-fragm...

This was explained in safepaste's about page:

--
The hash section of the URL, after the #, is never sent to the server; it's used only by the browser and safepaste takes advantage of that to store the secret key.
--

Thus, the server cannot know the contents of the paste, since all encrypting/decrypting is done client-side. It's just a blob store for encrypted data.

> There is no guarantee that the code running on the server is identical to the github repo.

Agreed. That's why the whole paragraph you just quoted said you should run your own copy and verify it does what you want. That doesn't mean you should run your own for everyone else, it means you should run your own for you and those who trust you.
You can get shared notifications. I have Cortana on my Android phone pretty much exactly for this reason.
Daycare to me seems like an enormous liability, and is also widely available already.

Personally I would prefer a daycare credit each month that I can spend where I please. I think Apple made the right choice.
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NET NEUTRALITY IS IMPORTANT TO OUR COMMUNICATIONS IN A FREE SOCIETY. IT MUST BE ENFORCEABLE. TO TRUST CORPORATIONS TO IGNORE OPPORTUNITIES TO INFLUENCE THE USE OF THEIR OWN PRODUCTS OVER OTHERS IS BEYOND FOOLISH, IT SUGGESTS ULTERIOR MOTIVE. TRUMP WAS ELECTED BECAUSE PEOPLE WANTED A CHANGE, LETS SEE THAT THE CHANGE IS TOWARD THE FREEDOMS THIS COUNTRY STANDS FOR NOT AWAY FROM THEM.
I do think they have tried few times, and probably many times with this project too but it doesn't always go well.

In Bay Area any new development faces all kinds of criticism from the city & residents. Most of the world would love to have all the tech companies in the backyard but in Bay Area they are more treated with contempt.

In someways I'm even surprised they managed to build this mostly in a way they wanted.
So I did a lot of research and many pages had a similar landing page. What do you think is a good alternative? Maybe a video up top describing the site?
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What are they doing during those 20 minutes?

Define "maintenance window" - the DB becomes read-only? Or unreachable? This sounds insane to me.
Looks like "Blocks World" with learning.

Can you out stack SHRDLU?
Yes. I want to see popular shit from all all across reddit. Including subreddits I don't know about. There's no way to do that without seeing all the anger/violence/etc.
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https://quizlet.com/blog/quizlet-cloud-spanner

For lower QPS, normal RDBMS solutions (like mysql) have lower latency than Spanner by a decent amount. But Spanner scales way beyond what MySQL is capable, which is where it starts to shine.
I'm sure the kids with slingshots and BB guns are thrilled to have 4 story glass targets...
I prefer the idea of a phone that can be plugged on a better hardware (desktop) and quickly boot on it... without the need of turn of the phone and the changes on desktop appearing on phone...
This is big news for Detroit. Probably along with the train station, the Packard Plant was a symbol of the D's blighted era.

If you're wondering what this looked like before, Anthony Bourdain made a stop to this site on his show a couple years back, now getting $20M+ in development:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpF8eZ3bPqE

Lot of good things happening there right now.
You see all the developers out there complaining that Microsoft will take ancient Win32 from their cold dead hands and complaining about how hard it will be to port their darlings to UWP?

It took a decade to develop all the applets in the Control Panel in the first place. While I don't think the conversion is as hard as some developers like to complain it is, it's certainly not as easy as just clicking a few boxes in a 1998-style Wizard to convert from old dialogs to new ones.
That doesn't mean they're unavailable for 20 minutes weekly, probably because of the nature of AWS's multi-AZ RDS setup.

At our shop, we haven't had any problems with RDS maintenance at all -- and we would indeed get paged for even 1 minute of database downtime, much less 20 (!). That said, we don't have that sort of monitoring in place for any of the test/staging DBs (which are not multi-AZ).
Nothing there. The article says "maybe they will fire CTO and Graves" and then goes on to discuss how bad it would look. The initial premise however is that the firings would be done to make the company look better. Makes zero sense and contains no new information.
I'd rather not have my kids under the control of my company.
Not usually, but it sometimes will go offline for 5 or 10 minutes or more. It fails over essentially.
There are a lot of places in the valley where it is illegal to build child care facilities, due to environmental hazards. This may not necessarily be an oversight on Apple's part.
Maybe as self interested individuals they aren't being irrational, but collectively as a civilization, it's irrational. The early proponents of the mechanized garden city were naive, and we've carried on perpetuating that naivete for 80 years now, because that's just the way we do it. What a mess. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
http://mp3.isdead.fyi/
The webpage is incredibly crappy. The opener image is a whopping 7.85MB in size. Even on a 60M connection, I was reminded of the image loading of yesteryears' 56k modems. The rest of the images don't seem to want to load until I scroll past them. There's a loud autoplay video that plays as soon as you scroll to it. The slideshow is nigh unusable on mobile. The text is way too big with way too much whitespace wasted on both sides.

In summary, the webpage is depressingly badly designed, in stark contrast to the awesome impressive building it describes.
Tim Cook has explicitly called it a 100 year bet.
I am not sure if I should be impressed until they reveal more details.

160 TB over 40 nodes is 4 TB per node, which assuming 512 GB dimms requires only 8 dimms (4 per socket) or with 256 GB dimms 16 dimms (8 per socket).

How fast is the interconnect? 100Gb/s?

So far it sounds like an common high memory HPC cluster unit with really unknown technical parameters.
It's all location dependent. Plenty of suburbs are 5 minutes away from just about everything necessary. I'm referring to upper-income as areas with median incomes much higher than the median US, not necessarily rich neighborhoods: Northern NJ, Bucks County PA, Northern Virginia, etc.

NJ property taxes are 2%, so a modest 1500 sqft sub 300k house like this runs 6700/year in taxes alone: https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Cherry-Hill-NJ/3822405...

PA property taxes are cheaper, so a recently (1999) built home for 500k runs around 7.3k/yr: https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Warrington-PA/9124953_...

At these rates, a house around 800-900k runs about 10-12k/yr in prop taxes. A ~600k house in NJ runs around 12k/yr. And as you get to closer commuting distance to NY, housing prices go up.

There's a reason why MMM is big on being very choosy about location. Northern NJ is crazy due to its proximity to NY and the taxes scale with the price. A 1 BR condo in SF can be 1M, or you can get a very nice, recently built 2k sqft house for 200k in Texas.

Personally, from living in newer homes and older homes (built in the 1950-60s), I prefer newer homes. They are generally more energy efficient and have less things that are a ticking time bomb that need to be fixed or attended to. Old homes need new furnaces, roofs, water heaters, leaking pipes, new appliances, leaking windows, drafts, etc.

Of course if one's spending is less than their gains & dividends, one is set for life provided that the gains are scaling with inflation or the draw down rate of the savings based on life-expectancy can last long enough.

Personally, I'd definitely agree that ~1M is more than plenty to live very comfortably as a single individual. I would want around ~2-3M if I had to support a family though.
The problem is a "Reddit alternative" will naturally attract the groups that no longer feel at home on Reddit. It seems inevitable that any alternative will be more toxic and/or hyper-moderated.
British prison uses 'disruptor' to create drone-proof 'shield' around jail
It doesn't seem like those are supported right now.

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/data-definition-langua...

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/reference/libraries
Why is it built on Marshmallow instead of Nougat?
A well written story. I'd be interested in hearing from any Filipino commentators how common this practice still is/is perceived to be in the Philippines today. It's ranked 33/167 by Global Slavery Index[0] as compared to the US at #52.

[0]https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/country/philippines/
I'd be a lot more interested if Noah Glass came back, personally.

Either way: so what? Twitter has huge endemic problems that someone who built the trash fire that was Jelly can fix.
It is, but the details of the SLA aren't that great.

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/sla

"'Downtime' means, with respect to any Production-Grade Cloud Spanner Instance, more than a five percent Error Rate for the instance. Downtime is measured based on server side Error Rate.
'Downtime Period' means a period of five consecutive minutes of Downtime with a minimum of 60 requests per minute. Intermittent Downtime for a period of less than five minutes will not be counted towards any Downtime Periods."

For monthly downtown between 99.0% and 99.999% the customer is credited with 10% of the monthly bill. The customer is required to track the uptime and request an SLA credit.
For the posts? Yes. But for the commentary? Only a handful of subs moderate the commentary to any real level - usually ones created in reaction to the ugly nature of their minimally-moderated counterparts. /r/science and /r/canadapolitics are examples of heavily-moderated subs that specifically try to avoid the terrible level of discourse that Reddit is famous for.
What % of internet traffic travels via physical links?
Underwhelming - you could build the same exact thing with a bunch of white box servers and a pair of Infiniband switches.
There was no parking garage for the new bars and restaurants, so all visitors simply parked in the residents' neighborhoods

This is a solved problem: Charge for parking and the shortage goes away. Meter technology is decades old and well understood. https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193...
I love this, but at the risk of farting in church, when I see car and cdr (instead of the more sane first and rest), I feel as if millions of man hours suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
Nothing in Jobs' quote says "everything remain unchanged"
That's a window when they _can_ do maintenance, it's pretty rare for them to actually do it.
The whole point of granting a patent is that it's a monopoly. I think it can be argued that the amount of time the patent is valid for is not optimal for maximizing the most social gains over all possible futures, but I think it's greater then 0.

Yes, people buy apple products for lots of reasons, but would apple have made 50% of Qualcomms market cap in profits from iPhone each year if it was a gsm device? Qualcomm can argue that it's pricing is Fair and Readonable since it does not inhibit Apple from making a mountain of money. There is nothing out of the ordinary for charging people a different price (unless it's because they are a protected class, but that's a separate issue)
Thanks a lot Pier!

- File storage is not where we want to earn our money. Please get in touch if you have a use case that would be prohibitively expensive with the current pricing so we can figure something out.

- More granular permissions for machine clients is something that is high on our priority. We are currently prototyping different ways to integrate it with our Permission Query system, and want to make sure we get this right before releasing.

- I think it would be awesome if someone would create an open source content editor for GraphQL apis. It wouldn't even have to be specific to Graphcool.

- Implementing a REST API is something we are considering. We see very little demand for this feature though, so not likely to happen in the near future.
I do some small amount of woodworking on the side of my main job, and as a result I have a large envelope CNC router in my garage. I occasionally post ads for craigslist looking for odd jobs.

About a year ago, I was approached via craigslist by a contractor working on this campus to help make some plywood parts for concrete forms that they couldn't figure out how to mark and measure on site with a jigsaw. They were to be used to make the main curved staircases in the entryway to that campus. I ended up cutting about a hundred different stair forms, and a bunch of templates for the various treads.

I love that I ended up contributing in some small way to this building.
Why should the company spend millions a year on a perk you can take advantage of that I can't? And let's not assume you can take advantage of it, given there will be a waiting list.

Why do people want a return to the "company town" model just to save a few minutes?
There is indeed a picture of a "pod". It is a claustrophobic closet with glass doors. I have been in elevators I'd rather work in.
I haven't had the chance to see it on desktop yet. But on mobile it's much better than Reddit's new mobile interface. Loading time alone is much better for me.

Anyways, I was commenting on the UX on mobile was. The UI wasn't what I was particularly focused on, but on mobile I found it much better as well.
Pods, not cubes.
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> besides, if you know what an envelope is you probably know what a stamp

An envelope is an arbitrary thing that means email. Much like a floppy disk is an arbitrary thing that means save. The postal system and floppy drives are about as relevant as each other.

I prefer the taskbar icon look - ie, raw shape - than the colored background look too. But the raw shapes certainly are far more better than the distracting, detailed pictures which serve only their designers.

The Win10 design is what happens when designers consider users over themselves. I think you're favouring OS X simply because you're familiar with it. But it's clear that Android since 4, OS X since 10.10 are all following the same direction that Microsoft popularised way back in the Zune era.

If you got 1000 people who'd never used a computer before, and asked them to find 'mail' between the 'envelope' and the 'picture of the eagle with the scalloped background' were mail it's predictable what the outcome would be.
It's not an open floor plan.
Web site currently down?
Just FYI, the "big money" lobbyists in Washington are largely in favor of crippling the patent system. Large companies are generally the ones sued for infringement, usually by smaller companies.
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You made a footnote for one line?
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I'm not going to spoil the podcast I guess, but towards the end I was definitely really not enjoying how deep it was going. I think it pushed at least an episode beyond the journalistic ethics I'm comfortable with.

I don't think any of us can speak for the subject of the podcast (and I think it still matters despite how it ended up), but when I put myself in his shoes I would not feel good about how far the podcast went.
If you disagree with javascript losing dominance I guess you could say so. It's really just a way to make it easy to run whatever language you want in the browser in a cross-platform compatible way. I don't see this as a bad thing at all.
The President of the United States contradicted his own surrogates on Twitter this morning.
I kind of agree...

> including ANSI 2011 SQL support

which kind of eases this concern a bit. If Azure Cosmos' marketing emphasized this more, this wouldnt be as big of a concern for it either.
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There's a slideshow that includes pictures of the pods. They just chose to start with a nondescript picture of Tim Cook instead of pod guts.
Then don't visit /r/all?

I'm not sure what the issue is here.
This falls into a scale up type (vertical) architecture, in what scenarios would you need tin like this? Versus A more scale out/distributed (horizontal) architecture
if python is the language of ML and ML is the future, i dont think the snakes are going extinct.
Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
Is it me or is this post almost completely content free?

He's going to be working at Twitter. Ok check, that's news.

Doing... what exactly?
The SLA document [0] says 99.95% so perhaps you meant per month?

0 - https://aws.amazon.com/rds/sla/
Same reason companies shouldn't provide healthcare. Macroeconomics is complicated.

Why can't there be onsite third-party childcare?
The problem here is the concept of a surburban "company town" office, instead of having an office building integrated into the wider community.
That's cool, is there a "user story" for that?
I decided to read this article while anticipating that it was nothing but narcissistic fluff. I was not disappointed. This post's only redeeming quality is that it is short.
NET NEUTRALITY IS IMPORTANT TO THE FREE COMMUNICATION THAT UNDERPINS OUR FREE SOCIETY. IT MUST BE ENFORCEABLE. TO TRUST CORPORATIONS TO IGNORE OPPORTUNITIES TO EXERT IMPROPER INFLUENCE FOR THEIR PRODUCTS IS BEYOND FOOLISH, IT IS EITHER VERY STUPID OR DISHONEST. TRUMP WAS ELECTED BECAUSE PEOPLE WANTED A CHANGE. LETS SEE THAT THE CHANGE IS TOWARD THE FREEDOMS FOR WHICH THIS COUNTRY STANDS, NOT AWAY FROM THEM.
Since you didn't read the article and don't know what the "beehive" is really like, it's easy to be cynical.
Actions that require database downtime/restarts can happen during the maintenance window. For example, if you change a DB parameter that requires a database restart, you can tell AWS to restart the DB during the next maintenance window. Same goes for DB engine upgrades and the like.

If you're running anything production-worthy, you'll be using one of AWS's multi-AZ/failover solutions for your production RDS instances. In that case, the database will perform a failover in those instances so there isn't downtime.
It's great everything worked out in the end.
What about using wind to generate electricity? How are the winds on Enceladus?
Hey thanks for sharing! Happy to answer any questions about it.
You're being intentionally obtuse. If you are the defacto head of a business unit which has an obvious failure multiple times over, you go. You're at fault. Full stop.

If you don't understand this, you've either never worked for a functional organization if your life, or you're some sort of weird proto-autist that doesn't understand basic leadership principles.
I don't know, but I also don't know of anything that would suggest that this is a typically American bias or that archaeology as a field of study is that heavily influenced by American culture.
Some can, some can't--I know of someone who maintains a furious pace and seems to get some curious misconceptions of the matter read.

It also depends very much on what one is reading. Between commuting and evening time, I can read two or three hundred pages of literary fiction in a week--unless the author is somebody like Henry James. I cannot read two or three hundred pages of philosophy in a week, and probably not that much history. I would imagine that Russell's four hours of philosophical reading covered many fewer pages than his four hours of other reading.
They don't have cubes. They don't have an open floor plan.

Those single person pod/offices are huge productivity benefits that most tech companies simply won't invest in.
We love our iPad minis! I say this shows how out of touch Apple has become up in their ivory towers. Ultimately the market will decide their fate, but that's $499 they're not getting from us this year.
"and also allows accelerators to get direct access to a massive memory-storage footprint" -- ehh?
Thankfully Cupertino's children are only sociopathic about getting good marks to get into college.
It's amazingly forward about it though.
In that case, I might agree with you. But the parent poster was not complaining about that. You should also be aware that roads are being used for transportation (public or of goods); which practically most people use (though this might mean just direct taxation of these means).
It's not that hard, (1) as long as the company doesn't promise that all employees get access (just like parking)so demand is always greater than supply, and (2) new children are announced with 6-12 month lead time
Then don't. Corporate childcare isn't mandatory... just because you don't like it doesn't mean it isn't incredibly valuable to other working parents.

I've considered employers I wouldn't have otherwise considered because the thought of on-site child care is incredibly appealing.
I think most people from Pittsburg consider themselves part of the Northeastern states, not the Midwest.

See this article, for e.g.: https://matadornetwork.com/life/piss-someone-pittsburgh/
C[ETFOSC]O perhaps? Executive, Technology, Finance, Operating, Security, Compliance is all that I could think of.
The analogy doesn't really work -- the physical buildings still exist in nature. Many physical buildings try to incorporate natural elements.
Continuum is arguably a successful implementation of this idea, with the unfortunate handicap of being on a platform nobody wants.
In my development style every database ddl change is done with a version controlled sql file piped trough psql and/or apgdiff. So I guess these points do not apply to me since there is no difference in normal code and database code handling.
Right, companies should have no perks, because none of them are enjoyed by everyone. This includes healthcare and cafeteria.
I really hope all phone OSs go this direction. I love my laptop(s) and they're great for doing serious work, but sometime when I'm, say, composing an email on my phone and it starts getting long, I'd love to be able to plug in to a monitor and keyboard and keep going.
I'd love to use it, but I can't reasonably champion Google's services at work when I'm not allowed to use it for side projects.

When is it going to be available for non-companies in Ireland?