skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Call me skeptical, but this guy's rants sound to me like a super demanding, high-end user. No doubt his complaints are well-reasoned for him, but I have to say that as an amateurish photographer, I disagree with a lot of what he says.

First of all, what's wrong with having a standardized mount size? I like knowing that I can fit my camera onto any standard mount I want to buy without issue. The quick-release and plastic body concerns are a non-issue for me because most tripod manufacturers have fixed this by simply putting a quick-release plate on the tripod that has a rubber surface. Voila- when I am in the mode of taking mounted photos, I screw the plate on, and just leave it. Then I can quickly mount and unmount the camera as-needed. Sure, this might not pass the "smack the lens and there shouldn't be a single iota of movement test", but that's a very narrow use-case, as opposed to not having to spend hundreds of dollars on a more expensive camera whose manufacturer invested hundreds of thousands of man-hours to develop and test.

As for the remote, that also seemed to be a pretty narrow use case. I have a standard infrared remote I use when taking mounted photos, and it works fine 99% of the time. I don't like the Bluetooth idea for a few reasons. One, you have to toggle it on and off if you want to conserve camera battery. Two, you have to have a Bluetooth enabled device capable of controlling the camera (read, smartphone) which introduces a potential failure point because now you have to make sure you have two things charged (your phone and your camera) because remote batteries can last for years. You want to take pictures with your steering wheel? Sounds cool, but is that a use-case Sony should invest heavily to satisfy?

To me, the innovation in the camera market has been phenomenal. The speed at which cameras can autofocus and burst shoot, as well as the battery life have all improved while the prices have continued to drop. The one thing I think could definitely be improved (as a Sony Alpha user) is the software interface, which took me a solid month of study to master and is still cumbersome to use on a daily basis. But, the complexity of photography and understanding all of the variables involved is one of the most appealing parts to me.
Ask HN: Command-Line CRM via Slack: CRMSLASHBOT (CRM/BOT)
Hello HN,

Are you a CRM and Slack user? Then you are our target market.

We are working on a CRM SAAS offering which could be accessed via

1. Slack slash commands.

2. A Slack bot, which updates all users for important milestones happening in CRM. (Opportunity closed & won? Let's celebrate!)

3. CRM reports: that could be displayed within Slack itself.

4. Deep Insights: Creating relationships between CRM entities and providing meaningful analysis to users via machine-learning algos.

For example, a Rep could be alerted if he hasn't been in touch with some users over 60 days.

Currently we are planning to create a CRM backend from scratch. We could pivot to Dynamics CRM/Salesforce/Zoho/Sugar as our CRM backend as we have good experience in these CRMs.

It would be great if you could spend a couple of minutes to fill out this survey.
https://goo.gl/forms/d49fTRRgYankIgtC3

Medium article at https://medium.com/crmslashbot/first-post-crm-bot-crm-slack-f9307bb21fd2

Hope to do a "Show HN" soon!

Thanks
Can you elaborate on point 3? If the argument is ideological, I get it. I'm more interested in the technical argument.
Ask HN: How do I launch a side project through my employer?
I have been working on a "startup idea" for over a year, but started in a new job only four months ago.

This product fits neatly in my employers portfolio, but I don't want to simply "donate" it given the huge personal investment. Nor can I afford to launch it on my own any time soon.

I'm sure many around here have faced similar situations. How did you resolve it?

For what its worth, this is a profitable small-time shop made of nice people, my boss is aware of the project, but we haven't really discussed any details yet. If successful, things will become very different around here.
Years to late. They could have been a real contender if they came out 3 years earlier.
You could make that argument, but I don't think it's either cohesive or convincing.
Things I have experienced when finding an SO question from Google:

* The question is closed as a duplicate, but the question it's a duplicate of is subtly different enough to be completely irrelevant to me.

* The question is closed as a dupilcate, but there's no link to what it's a duplicate of.

* The question is closed as a duplicate, but there are no good answers to the question it's a duplicate of.
> I feel stuck in terms of career progression.

Professional growth is a pain point you have complete control over. It's not your managers responsibility. That job offer is market validation, your expertise is in demand.

Suggest getting some clarity about what you want to accomplish/achieve > https://hbr.org/2016/12/think-strategically-about-your-caree...
Defining government is always a fun one. The cognitive dissonance alone makes it worth it.
I bought Steam Link. To my slight surprise the hardware worked fine and graphics were smooth (in wired LAN).

Where it fell short was the overall experience. Most games are of course not designed for this. In PC you always have the keyboard, there are things that are tweaked through Windows. Also it felt that I had to regularly run to the PC to sort out some issue.
Disclaimer: I tested just with few games and at least 6 months ago.
Cloudflare provides that already: https://blog.cloudflare.com/token-authentication-for-cached-...
Recode Daily: Twitter is experimenting with supersized tweets – Recode
I find it hard to express how bizarre I find it that for years we've used all kinds of arcane hacks (now conveniently packaged up in bootstrap) to do grid layouts for fear of mis-using the table element, and only recently we're seeing this.
Most important thing is launch THEN find out what is going on / working , converge on what's working "double down" on that. Keep at it. The fact of the matter is you can't predict the future. Luck + persistence. Be relentless.
Contributing to Bitcoin Core, a personal account
You don't leak any traffic information if you don't enable the proxy, which I don't.

I like the simple easy to use interface and the fact that all the domains that I manage are there, no need to login to multiple registrars.
I sent the author an email. It's just a plain HTML page behind the expired SSL.
EnterpriseDB is something like $1700/core/year, which targets the same market - "enterprise" shops who want a vendors neck to wring when something breaks.

Honestly, SQL Server is priced very well - even enterprise edition given the features it provides. The biggest problem I have with it is T-SQL being terrible compared to pl/pgsql and the lack of developer-centric features like arrays, composite types, and a lot of other QoL features postgres has that MSSQL doesn't.

If you're going to deploy SQL Server, being able to do it on a platform that doesn't make me as a sysadmin/DevOps Engineer want to strangle myself with cluster configuration nightmares is a welcome change.
Every 24 hours reboot. Fixes that for me. Feels like an old Windows Server.
How Secure is your SD-WAN?
Any idea when the pricing will be finalized?
A rather weak database? How do you figure?
> Where in The Free Software Definition https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html does it require the user to be able to run the modified versions on the same device?

Quoting from the above link:

Freedom 1 includes the freedom to use your changed version in place of the original. If the program is delivered in a product designed to run someone else's modified versions but refuse to run yours — a practice known as “tivoization” or “lockdown”, or (in its practitioners' perverse terminology) as “secure boot” — freedom 1 becomes an empty pretense rather than a practical reality. These binaries are not free software even if the source code they are compiled from is free.
Thats at retail though, and doing things like this at US retail prices isn't going to be economically viable. The actual BOM is going to be very low for something like this, its commodity parts all the way down. You'd come out FOB for single digit dollars if you put together an agreement with a manufacturer directly for a design they already have with likely palatable MOQ.
Iceland effectively did bail its banks out, but only bailed them out for domestic depositors and screwing foreign creditors and depositors, which had severe foreign policy effects on Iceland.
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bowie-bond.asp
Or, bail them out (emergency liquidity, QE1, etc) but also nationalize them at least on a temporary basis so that as they recover, the profits do not go to private pockets but rather are socialized.
I don't know about that. NYC has Staten Island and huge parts of Queens which are effectively a rural village, whereas Copenhagen as well as most of Europe is highly urban. If you mapped population density to bike lane coverage, NYC would come out pretty favorably.
Sure, it’s possible to run your own analytics achitecture but at a 100m visits a month is it practical? Point two of the GOV.UK design principles is to do less: https://www.gov.uk/design-principles#second . When GOV.UK first started it definitely had to hit the ground running which requires immediate evaluation of user data ASAP. Certainly at the time there wasn’t enough dev hours available given a limited number of people to evaluate, build and run an analytics framework of the scale necessary.

Having said that, then isn‘t now, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a future Government as a Platform service isn’t a cross-government analytics system hosted from the UK. I just don’t see the pressing need for it, based on the assumption that Google actually are anonymising the data. If you want to disagree with that assumption then that’s a valid viewpoint too, but I see no evidence for it.
It's insane to me that there haven't been any anti-trust lawsuits against Google for this kind of crap they pull.

More examples:

* Deceptive ads all over the web telling people to switch to Chrome

* You can't use any other search engine but Google from Chrome on Android

* The insane amount of Google integration on stock Android

Google has almost total control over a typical internet user's experience
Outside of their business line, Lenovo completely phones it in. I never recommend Lenovo for consumers. Heck, even their think-series laptops and desktops often have critical bios and driver updates shortly after release that need to be installed or the machine will bluescreen, lock up, drop wifi, etc.

At work, I only buy Thinkpads and Think-series PCs after they've aged 6+ months. I can't imagine how people get by being early adopters. We early adopted a Carbon laptop once. Borderline unusable wifi and trackpad. It took 6-12 months for Lenovo to release the updates that fixed these issues, and even then the trackpad never felt right to me (misses taps, misses drags, fails to detect two fingers, etc.)
See https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura

"Just drop in sakura.css to any webpage and go from ugly looking 1900's website to a pretty modern website in literally 0 seconds."

Bookmarklet instructions here:
https://oxal.org/projects/sakura/bookmark

Personally I've copied it to my own site and set up a bookmarklet so that I'm not introducing any resources I don't control when loading it.
It sure doesn't help that I keep getting calls from "microsoft help center" because my pc is apparently broken. It's gotten so bad that I tend to reflexively hang up if an Indian voice is on the phone, despite knowing I am being unfair.
Viking Villages and CD-ROMs
Avro?
In my experience running machines with Vespa (ended in 2011) and elastic search (which ended earlier this year), Vespa was a lot more stable, even though my elastic search had many times more hardware and fewer documents. At least once a month, elastic search would take a several minute break to do who knows what, even though there was not even any indexing or anything other than searching going on. In case it matters, I was running elastic as a single node cluster (actually several single node cluster), my production Vespa was multinode, but I think we had a single node (or fewer node anyway) cluster for dev/testing.

Anyway, I'm happy that we have more options in this space now.
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It varies depending on what I'm reading and how busy I am. I've had years where I read 50+ books, but mostly novels. This year I set a goal of 75 books, but I've been reading mostly denser, slower-going stuff, and I'm only at about 20 for the year so far.
A Literal Robot Is to Speak at a Blockchain and IoT Conference
>Every major version was a new os

I can report this is exactly what drove me from the platform. I adopted Windows Phone out the gate and received a never-ending litany of supportive emails, oneDrive bonuses, etc. There were missing features, but early adopters were promised they were coming and I think most of us thought the experience was worth compromising for early on. Then Windows Phone "7.5" released barely a year after I'd bought my phone, included most of the features early adopters had begged for, and didn't support any of the phones people had already bought. Soon some apps didn't work without 7.5 either. It felt like we all got flipped the bird for taking a risk on Microsoft's platform and I switched to Android. Every aspect of it felt dishonest and disingenuous - "7.5" implies an incremental release, and in terms of features it really should have been one. I have no idea if they just couldn't hack it on the weaker early devices or if MS honestly thought we were all going to run out and buy Nokias immediately. I mean, I nearly did a year later when they were $1...
Almost instant DNS change is something that I kinda take for granted. Surprising that's so rare...
Related question. Where can i run and host a SQL db for free? Or for cheap. It's for a hobby project.
Yes, on reflection, I agree with you about that. After all, cell phones (my main analogy from the Louis CK sketch) are still compatible with the PSTN.
How would this be meaningfully different from Java Web Start? Or Adobe AIR? Why would this succeed where those failed?

Why should we expect this platform to be better than Android?

So many choices we make when designing systems are tradeoffs "6 of one, half-dozen of the other." One side is not necessarily "better" than the other, because different tradeoffs are made. You add up thousands of these tradeoffs and now it appears that a system is full of cruft and should be thrown away.
Haha! Those were gun shots? TIL!
Sure - but it would be weird for an application to depend on SQL server and not depend on Windows, and if you're going to be running Windows for some of your servers anyway it's easier to use the same platform for all of them.
>I still want to maintain my context, at least in terms of what I've been looking at on the browser, in email, etc.

That's Apple's strategy with their continuity technology.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204681
I totally agree with this btw. The benefits / challenges that come with choosing this setup aren't really captured by the term "serverless" at all.
It sounds like a bad situation, but at the same time if someone stopped your progress it would be easy to make a claim like 90% of the code "doesn't work". I'd find it much more compelling if they said "after paying the first installment, they only delivered 10% of the scope a year late"
Interview with Mr. Money Mustache
I am super excited to see this! Glad we've already been helpful, but I'd like to reaffirm that if you need anything, we'd like to continue being helpful in the future :)
Facebook Messages Going Darker – Facebook Security Tips
The Massive Hedge Fund Betting Everying on Artificial Intelligence
I’m sorry but you are incredibly ignorant. There’s a huge focus on customer feedback and “customer obsession” in the company now. And that’s coming from Satya himself. I’m sure what are talking about was true in the past (and it seems like you experienced a lot) but things really have changed - not completely of course, Microsoft is so huge that it’ll take a while.

You should just ask some people who work there;)
Actually have a request for you, now that I think of it. Like most of the addons I've catalogued, I haven't had a chance to play with Kea myself. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on how useful it is, how it compares to using "plain" Redux, and so on. Please leave a comment here, or catch me on Reactiflux.
Yes, absolutely, because of Microsoft's licensing model for HyperV.

Windows Datacenter Edition is not cost effective for us, and that means we only run two Windows instances per host. By moving MSSQL to Linux, we can free up a Windows Server Standard license for other purposes.

You can run as many non-Windows instances on HyperV as your want, but you can only run 2 Windows instances unless you pay to license every physical core on the server a second or third time, even if you are not using them for Windows (for example, if you wanted to run a third Windows instance on a host.) This means we have additional hardware capacity that we use to run Linux instances next to the 2 allowed Windows instances.
> For additional services, but what about Part A and Part B? Seems that Advantage plans get similar pricing to traditional:

Parts A and B are Original Medicare. If you're on Medicare Advantage, it replaces Part A/B coverage.

(It's also a bit more complicated than that, because Medicare Advantage plans are provided by the same private insurers who cover non-Medicare patients, and they'll structure their agreements in such a way that the extra payments are hidden. For example, "for every Medicare Advantage patient of ours you see, we'll reimburse an additional X% for non-Medicare patient" - it's not literally like that or that explicit, but that's the shape of how it shakes out).
No no no, you aren’t understanding, let me aid you in doing so.

The people in 2008 just timed the market poorly. This time around, we’ll see all the tell-tale signs of a housing crash and get out right before it does so, all cash. Then, when all the stocks (Because, of course, banks will lose out on the highly leveraged positions of our non-fortuitous peers) have tanked, we’ll simply buy them at rock bottom prices, riding a wave of financial security into the nursing home.
> so that they can shake off their Indian stink.

> but every single time without fail, the indian person I try to work with, whether as a potential partner in a project or as an employee, would reveal their true colors of laziness and incompetency and often even dishonesty.

Woa...you can't go tarring a whole nation's professionals like this.
You realize all their customers willingly use them right? The correct answer would be to offer better competition.
Not familiar with teradata, but that looks like the equivalent of

select a, b, c from table where somedate between somebegin and someend and someotherdate = (select max(someotherdate) from table group by a, b)

which will work in all sqls. My point being, the advanced features make life nice, but are by no means necessary.

(would be more efficient as a join, but not sure if joining on subtables is always supported...)
Maybe it should be a thing for the gun range then. Require people to attach them there and require that they leave them there.

In general, if people are shooting outside in my neighborhood, I'd rather be woken up. That's not the type of thing that should go unnoticed. And I live in the middle of San Franciso where I've watched people get shot and killed.
What can we do to stop it?
If you're not willing to pay for the video hosting and serving, you're not their target audience. YouTube was made for you.
That's not the case everywhere. My sick days aren't bundled into my PTO, and it's still a problem getting people to stay home when they're sick.
Are there any studios based in your local market? It might be interesting to reach out to them directly. Good read here on this subject -

From bedroom coders to 200-strong teams with multimillion-dollar budgets there is a vast array of opportunities in the video game industry. We ask 15 insiders about the best ways in > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/20/how-to-ge...
once again, i'm speaking from extensive personal experience. take it for what you will. try working with an Indian for yourself, and then come back and tell me what you think.
Its not like he had much choice. Adopting Apple, his historic competitor, would have been too much of an ego bruising for him. Linux is more neutral to MS anyway. MS never had a lock on the server market that linux is successful in. The home computer front has always been under attack by Apple with varying results. Especially today where owning an Apple computer isn't just for 'designers.' Pretty much every college student has one.
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The point of a Show HN is for the author to get feedback on their project. It is not an opportunity to sell/recommend a competing product/tool. I am starting to see this anti-pattern a lot in Show HNs, please stop!
There are some .NET Core programs that also depend on SQL Server but not Windows necessarily. Bitwarden[1] comes to mind.

[1] https://help.bitwarden.com/article/install-on-premise/
The NSA’s 5-page entirely redacted definition of metadata
It's mostly a fairly recent trend even in the US. For most of my career, I had separate vacation and sick days (as well as, possibly, personal/floating holidays). I'm not sure when the shift occurred but apparently a combined pool is pretty much the norm these days.
that's a very cool use case. i like thinking about these cases where an app might be over-featured :)

you're welcome, I'm glad you found it useful!
Everyone is rational by their own definition, which differs from person to person. Rationality is just a function of the value an individual places on various factors affecting a decision.
>The one place I want microsoft to succeed is smartphones.

Someone tell this guy about Win10 telemetry and store app tracking.
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Pssst! Lambda, the ultimate goto.

http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html
I think the question is if you've considered that not sneezing completely may encourage a situation where you sneeze more often. If the sneezing is actually a helpful thing, it might be a problem to inhibit it.
I saw a website recently that I couldn't load. Neither multiple different exit nodes through tor browser nor clean residential IP though chrome on linux worked and cloudflare's captcha was impossibly difficult to solve, I gave up after multiple attempts. Thankfully nice people here reposted the content into a comment.

Cloudflare still has a long way to go in terms of being nice to humans.
In the past I really worried about open source networked software, because however you slice it, it is missing a huge chunk of security by obscurity, making 0days very likely. Especially for new projects. All security vulnerabilities are out in the open for all to see. Sure, honeypots can help you learn about vulnerabilities, but it will take years to patch them all. In the meantime, everyone using your software is vulnerable.

Then I discovered blockchains. Here, the software is run by the network and does nothing persistent unless a majority of the nodes agree. That makes it much harder to corrupt the persistence layer. Blockchains are NOT just for achieving global consensus about a ledger. They can be per-stream-of-data. That's the approach we take at Qbix.

There are still many other vectors of attack besides corrupting the database. However, in Web apps, the real pernicious thing is corrupting the data. Everything else has already been secured by webserver makers and language runtime designers.

PS: Finally, you can corrupt things on the client level, eg making a client sign a transaction the user didn't authorize. But at least it is localized to the corrupted clients, and not the whole network.