skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its one of those single percentage anecdotes don't matter things. My boring regional employee owned chain supermarket does not sell unsweetened applesauce at all, nor do any of the other nearby supermarket chains.

I've heard of Whole Foods (aka Whole Paycheck) and was motivated to pull the stats. Some google work indicates Whole Foods gross sales revenue last year was $15B vs the US supermarket chain stores gross sales of $649B. Of course this doesn't count "superstore" concepts like walmarts and targets (and probably others) selling food, nor online or delivery groceries, independents, organic stores, etc etc. So "much more" than 98% of applesauce is not sold at Whole Foods. Assuming that all applesauce sold at whole paycheck is unsweetened, etc. Assuming goods distribution is similar, from my own experience at whole paycheck most people are buying specialty goods like alcohol, meat, produce not bulk processed goods although they do stock them.
Middle-class non-ethnic-Malays?
Have you used them recently? Their support has been extremely good in my experience, and I'm far from a premium customer. Email/phone support readily available. Loads of their engineers available over slack.
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Growing up in Australia, all I ever ate were Jonathans.. couldn't stand the mushiness of "delicious" varieties.
This is only a moral/ethical evaluation done by the GNU project. It doesn't inform on the actual quality of the products. And of course Savannah would come first, since they're the one judging themselves according to ethical standards they decided themselves. Judge and jury with an after taste of self-interests.
This system applies to moving people just as much as moving cars. But for political reasons it makes sense to emphasize the extent to which this is about car owners.
Microsoft will make the most from WannaCry
I think it's rather scary how thin the mantle is in many places. The oceanic crust is just above 10km deep, I'm sitting on something like 15km. That's.. not a lot. I can cycle that in less than an hour.
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That South African hackable (in the good sense of the word) bank that's been making the rounds on HN might be able to do this. (I forget the name of the bank.)
Collection of photographs of WannaCry infections from around the world
Canada makes it illegal to remove passengers from overbooked planes
> You shouldn't care about what other people think is "too much".

Except for one situation: if the remaining partners don't believe the company is worth much, and you believe it'll be worth a lot, then that's the perfect time to buy THEM out. (Especially if you're having disagreements over strategy, and you believe you have a lot invested in the company.)
A soon-to-be-married couple of Brahmins I met few years ago in India while backpacking seemed very nice. Very modern and educated. Till the point of discussing life of small kids from lowest caste (Dalits) - it felt natural and correct to them that 5-6 years old would work in a fireworks factory. "You know, they bring a bit of money home".

I was speechless for a while, not wanting to start yelling on them. Maybe I should have had. I am pretty sure they wouldn't enjoy THEIR 5-6 year old kid working every day with possibility of losing fingers/dying. And of course forget school, and any good future whatsoever.

Damn, it still makes me angry! Bear in mind that most Indians you can meet in the west are Brahmins, common folks wouldn't be able to afford schools good enough to get out. Caste system is fading and it will die eventually, one of great evils of mankind and in fact a form of slavery for lower castes.
Yeah this 'bug' has also bit us once, when we first started using LogMeIn. At first the fees were reasonable and we decided to go with them to do customer support on their PCs running our software.

Every year since then, the cost has gone up significantly (ransomware?) and we always bit the bullet, until we finally dropped them.

Beware:
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450297646/LogMeIn-custome...
Without leases, I'm not sure that there would actually be any supply for the used car market. There are some small percentage of people that buy and sell new cars every two years, but most people I've seen buy cars and drive them into the ground until they hit a major, expensive mechanical repair or couldn't get them to pass inspection any longer.

Most used cars I've looked at in dealerships (as opposed to the Craigslist/Uncle Henry's as-is-where-is private sales) were overwhelmingly former lease vehicles.
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My personal bank sort of gives me that with their fraud protection. If a one off huge charge appears from a company that regularly bills me (but at much smaller amounts), their fraud system sends a text asking if I want to authorise or block the charge.

The second bank account is really more for protecting you against black swan events. If all your accounts are under the same bank and have the same owner, there's nothing stopping the bank taking funds from one of your accounts to make up for shortfalls in another.
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Their new cars are not that great. With the exception of pickups and mustangs, the last vestange of FR engineering, they are mostly adaquate. Even the new RS models were rushed, with cheap torque vectoring that eats your brakes and is a pain to service. Top it off with the industrys worst salespeople and this slump is no suprise.
We need government with real honest people.....
It's absolutely good manners for Firebase to tell you "If you fix this thing, your costs will go down."
They seem to have that non specific problem solving skills.
Would you say it is misandrist to harm any man, anywhere? But I agree like most people they are likely a realist not an idealist.
Blocking VPNs is a government demand? I'm highly skeptical of this.
Whenever there's a study that says X causes Y, there should be a rule that says you have to say by how much. That's a super-important piece of information. The abstract should state it!

If a study says that drinking grapefruit juice shortens your lifespan by a year, then I'll cut out grapefruit juice. If it shortens it by a few hours on average, then even if the study is 100% accurate, it's too small to care about.

Especially in news articles, we tolerate this imprecision with health-related findings but not in other areas. You don't see the news reporting that "avalanche kills some skiers". They'll at least tell you "avalanche kills 1 skier and second skier still missing" (unfortunate) or "avalanche kills as many as 350 skiers" (major tragedy).
is there a typo here? 18ms seems like soemthing that could be designed into their whole infrastructure for some reason you don't know about (such as partitioning of networks, whatever) -- after all, it's a cloud solution, right? Maybe 18 ms tacked onto every request is fine for them.

To be honest, if all of my Internet requests were 18 ms slower I wouldn't even notice.

if I read you correctly and it wasn't a typo, could you mention why you cared so much? The .1 ms you quoted on localhost is extraordinarily quick and I wouldn't expect it to translate to a cloud...
But you KNOW going in - there's no support.

You know this by

a) hundreds and thousands of horror stories from people saying "I did not get any support from google". You can counter that with "here are people who did get support", but the existence of the thousands of support nightmare stories out there gives you enough evidence to know that this isn't really "supported" in the way you might expect.

b) there are no phone numbers.
https://firebase.google.com/support/ - no phone numbers. That's, of course, not the sole criteria you should use to judge potential support, but... it's google.

It's 2017. We have multiple years of knowing what Google's track record is re: support for paying customers. Outside of large adwords advertisers (where they make a lot of money), it's non-existent from a practical standpoint.

The big problem here is that firebase was fine until google acquired them.

I'm reminded of a time when I had a bad experience at a restaurant. Local place I went to with friends from work. We went... probably 4-5 times per year, and I loved the chicken sandwich they did. Last time I went, it was ... bad. Not what I'd expected at all. It was different.

Server asks "how's everything?". I said I was disappointed that the chicken sandwich had changed - it was not as good as before. Now... I wasn't actually complaining as in "comp the meal", but I was not a satisfied diner.

"Nothing's changed sir".

"um... yeah - this is nowhere near as good as it used to be".

"You're wrong, nothing's changed".

We had a back and forth, and they went back and came out "the cooks say the recipe is exactly the same".

This was getting a bit ridiculous. Manager came over, same exchange. He leaves, the comes back and says "they're right - the recipe is 100% the same. We have changed a few ingredients last month, but it's the same".

Maybe that doesn't actually relate to the google service situation at all now, come to think of it, but I was reminded of that situation when I started typing it :)

Oh yeah - nothing changed from OP's end, except how the new owner (google) decided to start monitoring and accounting for usage. Think of a "$9.99 all you can eat buffet" getting loyal diners, then changing owners, and the new owners giving some people a $95 bill at the end of the meal because they'd decided to also charge for any visits to the salad bar over 2. Most diners would never hit that limit, but a few - loyal diners for years - would have been (rightly) upset at the after-the-fact change.
Yeah, I live in Michigan, and while I do make really good money (especially for this area - more than triple the median), my wife and I live simply in our 1100 square foot 2-bedroom house with our 10-year-old cars and no debt.

I know that I'm very privileged in that I could afford to live at a higher level than what we do, but I don't want that. I've got my American dream. I've got a wonderful wife who dotes on me (it's mutual), a small house in a quiet town, and a cat. That's all I really need in life. All the other shit (gadgets, new cars, etc.) is cool, but I realized about 5 years ago that none of it made me happy.

If we have kids, of course those expenses will go up, and we'll probably have to find a bigger house, but for now, we live cheaply not because we have to, but because expensive stuff won't make us happy.

(Just to be clear, I know what it's like to be poor, I grew up in a very poor family. I very much realize that I'm lucky and more fortunate than a lot of other people in that I have the luxury of living below my means, a luxury that not everyone has, even in the US).
I'm not implying that this was made on purpose -- vendor lock-in might happen "naturally" as well, when company becomes big enough that they can start unilaterally change prices/conditions/services knowing that costumers will accept that (even grudgingly), because they have nowhere else to go or it is too expensive/complex. Google is the perfect example of this strategy. Smaller player or startup would probably go bankrupt very fast if acted with such disregard for their costumers.
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It is not a minor nit & good to point out.
Do you have a shotgun clause in whatever legal agreements you have in place?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_clause
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Well of course they would charge that much: their customer support is stellar but it comes at a cost ... Errrrrrr ;)
I greatly enjoy canning with liquor and the classic brandied apple chunks is delicious. I also make a batch of peach rum sauce every year which tastes incredible.

I know the stuff is not good for me from a carb and alcohol standpoint but making it myself is an inherent limiter to consumption and if I'm going to eat junk food its going to be fantastic amazing junk food.

Pork chops taste good. Homemade canned brandied apples as a side dish to pork chops is delicious.
Good question, it really depends on what you want to do in your career.

If you search for "CMU CS Master's", you will end up here: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/masters-programs . We have 26 options for master's programs, ranging from machine learning, human computer interaction, language technologies, robotics, and more.

The high order bit here is that our Master's of Product Management is focused on the combination of business, tech, and UX with an eye towards jobs in managing the strategy, design, implementation, and rollout of products and services. In contrast, most other CS master's programs focus entirely on strengthening your portfolio of technical skills.
As far as the Russian Revolution was concerned, Chernyshevsky was seen as influential in terms of developing a prescriptive remedy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=What_Is_To_Be_Don...
By default it looks for the tokens: HACK, TODO, UNDONE, and NOTE.

However, you can add your own tokens and assign different priorities to them.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/using-the-...
Assange and Putin have little in common philosophically, other than a desire to challenge unchecked US power in the world. Putin challenges the unipolarity of the post Cold War world - see address to Munich Security Council 10 years go - and controls the media to bolster oligarchy. The man has a billion dollar house on his modest civil servant salary. Julian is for free markets and open information. The only places their worldviews intersect is dislike for American neocon foreign policy, and so they are both demonized in the NYT, WaPo etc. If Bernie was elected, I could easily see Julian turn on Vlad.
What is it tied to? Fun anecdote. Waiting for an x-ray, after strenuous exercise fall, having walked to the medical office, co-workers broke ice with each other by congratulating each other on having eaten large meals I long ago swore off of, or having supplemented such with 'desserts' in the olden days, now new normal, that are seemingly a perk of having gone outside from the office. Persons not unhealthy at that age, but as salaried and the more intelligent sector of American society, the grim role modelling I envisage at/in their household making ostensibly an outlier of olden day fast-til-we-can-eat-thank-god thinnesses now regaled as outliers, even chastised as unforgiving, a not easily solved, if ever, politically at least, pattern of ever-larger waistlines and expenses to be borne by the 'olden days' non-soda non-dessert daily small sector of society that comprises now a small minority more rural and unrepresented in the new normal. Hope this does not sound harsh.
I don't want to give WashPost a page view, but from the title I assume the article is at least somewhat negative about Manning?
Correlation but not causation.
Is it because so many of Google's customers would then feel obligated to also offer support or service? While it's easy to pike at Google as a huge company which should provide this level of service, where do you draw the line? As I look across the collection of services I pay for, I don't see many of them with much more than "contact us" forms on sites, and in-app, no way to contact them at all.

Is there a certain size of vendor or price point where we expect to have human support and an SLA for response?
No, you'll have at most one. The cars will be networked and by having a vertical rail will be able to brake very quickly.
we should ban any form of animal captivity
I am just trying to understand how it reached a fever pitch with media screaming for impeachment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14256300
What you said is quite untrue.

I know - because I am one of those humans in support grins. I work in the support organisation for GSuite (formerly Google Apps). And I work across the hall from the guys who support GCP (Google Cloud Platform). And there are an entire army of us, helping support many, many enterprise customers.

Even our consumer products have real people manning support phones - I know, because I've had to call them before (mostly Google Play Music issues - this was before I joined Google, so I couldn't use my internal pull...lol).

Regarding your second point - abuse is a real problem for any cloud provider. I know, because I happen to work in anti-abuse. It's a difficult problem to crack, and there's a lot of smart people (at many companies) trying to solve it. But please understand there are real humans at the other end, trying to provide a good service - and it's not very kind to take cheap shots at them.

There usually are appeal processes available for nearly any kind of action taken - if you were actually personally affected by an issue, or feel unsure about how something was handled - please feel free to reach out to me. I can't guarantee I can wave a magic wand and fix it, but I'm certainly willing to reach out to see what can be done.

Disclaimer: I work for Google, but the views expressed here are purely my own.
It is often too obvious that e.g. O((x+y)^2)-drawing will degrade quickly. There is no point in implementing it slow way, because you'll see the effect in few hours and will spend few hours to fix all the places, not mentioning re-architecture cases. 100ms vs. 500ms is non-trivial to predict. O(log(n)) vs. O(n^3) for freely growing n is trivial.

The code that iterates over items and skips on condition isn't any easier to read or detect errors than access via bsearch or similar subroutine. In fact, straightforward code tends to introduce errors. Optimizations and correct naming [and thus centralized control] of routines are pretty close to each other, and when you give a name to get_cached_col_offset(col, last_known_col, last_known_offset) or have explicit caching iterator, the code looks much readable than for(y)-for(x)-everywhere mess with different off-by-ones and overflows in each block.

Where is that line separating dumb code from clean code?

Edit: wording
Unregulated capitalism trends toward monopolistic market dominance.

The fundamental problem with the Libertarian ideology is that the emergent outcome is of a fully economically captured state.
i really really hope all you lot complaining you got burned are the same people who downvoted my previous account out of existence when i said you would get burned 12 months ago or so.

Sadly I reckon it was more likely the people who burned you who were doing the down voting.

meanwhile, the servers i bought have now more than paid for themselves many times over and our operating costs have fallen to nearly zero.

Feeling vindicated.
My advice : if you see a pile of sticks growing in the car park, make a swift exit.
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> > What solution did Marx propose?

> He didn't, really. His proposals were pretty vague. 99% of what he wrote was a (pretty spot on) critique of capitalism.

The Communist Manifesto was fairly detailed and prescriptive. It's true that Capital was mostly description and critique of capitalism, but that's not all Marx wrote.

> Needless to say most of the propaganda attacks on his ideas are based upon guilt by association.

Specifically, most are based on association with Leninist vanguardism, which is a fairly radical departure from Marxism prescriptively.
Can you link to a report or some source, stating they dropped the "don't be evil"? where do you get that, and the date, please?

Thanks.
https://root.co.za/
> There are more severe problems than just "is the server free software".

Nonsense.

They have 2 reasons for it getting an F rating.

> 1. Important site functionality does not work without running nonfree JavaScript. (C0)

Contradicts what you say.

> 2. Specific information may not be available in all countries

Both are abiding by laws restricting access to that content. If you have an issue with that perhaps talk to the relevant governments.

> see roskomnadzor[1]

This was blocked by the Russian .gov, nothing to do with GitHub

> and export controls[2] for more details.

They are a US company hosted with a US provider complying with US laws on exporting controlled data.

So to counter your point one issue is because they're using non free software, one reason is out of their control, and the other is following the law of the land they are doing business in. If this is a fail in the FSF then that's fine, claiming they have "more severe problems than not running free software" is disingenuous.

1. https://github.com/github/roskomnadzor/blob/master/2014-10-2...
2. https://help.github.com/articles/github-and-export-controls/
I was in a very similar situation 6 months ago. If you have a typical agreement in place (4 yr vesting schedule w/ an initial 1 yr cliff), about 10% is not only reasonable, it's what you're legally entitled to. If you're legally entitled to 10% and you believe the company is going to increase in value and eventually exit without you, it would be foolish to sell then your stake.
Why Serverless Architecture?
According to another poster, it's a design error on the Hyundai Theta II engine. The i30 uses a different one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Theta_engine

http://www.hyundaiproblems.com/trends/theta-ii-engine/
There isn't a tutorial on how to save data or layout, there someone mentioned REST.
It's not great, as it's often abused as a soundbite to defend any unreasonable accusation of privilege.
Or they get harassed until they quit or kill themselves. Power harassment and maternity harassment is fairly common in Japan.
What's worse, and why:

-Locking a dolphin up in "jail" or killing a cow/pig?

-Locking the few dolphins up in "jails" or the billions of cows/pigs killed each year?

I think the ethical inconsistencies with regards to animal treatment are huge, but also understandable. I don't know the answers, but the questions do bother me.
What a great title. Before clicking, I fully expected to see things like "Why should I keep working here?" and "Will anything, ever, happen here?" and other questions about working in a boring, mind numbing job... Real topic is much more important, but still, I think we also need a real "Boring Company" FAQs list.
Yes, PCI-DSS rules state one is not allowed to store the CVV, therefore for subscription services or for things like one click ordering or app stores the CVV is not used for the transaction, though they may verify it on initial card entry a lot of companies don't as it doesn't actually help. Taking the CVV gives a lower fee to mastercard/visa if that particular transaction is reversed, this is how stores are incentivised to take it but it will only apply to initial transaction where card details are saved.
I don't know why you got downvoted, I am with you on this.
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If I recall... the complexity of the program/system scaled exponentially with the complexity of the universe it had to support. something like that
If you wait a few years you'll have electric cars that are independent of cheap oil. And there will still be traffic.
Perhaps it will no longer be soul-destroying because you'll be able to watch a movie, take a nap or get work done on your PC in your self-driving car.
You're missing the fact that one political party believes that government spending is inherently wrong and that any government debt is unacceptable (until they are in power).

There were endless political debates over this after the Great Recession when money and bonds were cheap and unemployment was high. Significant investments are needed in infrastructure (I think that was even a Trump campaign promise?) across the US but the issue has become unnecessarily politicized.