skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happily runs off a view that's got an aggregated subset of your data - so instead of sending customer IDs, consider sending a count of customer IDs against each metric instead.
I think the decision has 3 main factors:

1. Total operational cost,

2. Customer satisfaction,

3. Risk related to change.

You make a good point though -- perhaps it's not primarily driven by the combo of current and projected minimum wage hikes.

Can anyone quantify?
100 is average, and the average person is pretty dumb.

Why does there have to be a line drawn anywhere? We don't do this for other disabilities. We don't blame someone with a mild limp but sympathize with someone missing a leg. Why do we blame dumb people for their dumbness, but only if they're not too dumb?

Again, I'm not trying to set myself apart here. I do it too. I just don't really get why.
You can't beat Tableau for this sort of task if you're not technically inclined and if you are then you can't beat Shiny. Both offer better and more customizable results. I wonder what the added value of this software is.
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There are dozens of things like this now, so Google is pretty late to the game. I suspect that the play here is to keep people in the Google ecosystem by competing with Amazon on product offerings.

Having looked at a lot of these things, here's the criteria I use to evaluate these kinds of services -

1/ How easy is it to get data in?

2/ Is my data safe?

3/ How easy is authoring?

4/ Does it support pivots?

5/ Can I model joins?

6/ Does it support dashboard-wide filters?

7/ Does it support complex time comparisons?

If a service checks those boxes, it's actually ready to get deployed. In the case of Google Data Studio:

1 - Seems standard. 2 - Doesn't use SSL, major red flag. 3 - [EDIT] seems decent, see demo in reply. 4 - Can't tell from the website or examples, red flag. 5 - [EDIT] it cant, see reply 6 - Many examples of this in the gallery. 7 - No examples, red flag.

I'd rate this as pretty mediocre. The people building these products tend to overrate flashiness of dashboards and lose focus on the actual workflow of analysts and those they are helping support. Most of the things I see in the gallery examples are great eye candy but mostly worthless for actually managing a business week-to-week.

Maybe it's different in other companies but I feel that an effective dashboard tells me:

- How I did (last week, trailing 30 days, QTD, YTD)

- ... relative to how I did before (vs comp time period)

- ... relative to my goals

- And a breakout of the drivers of that performance.

Pie charts of demographic breakdowns or measures from some arbitrary date range just aren't useful tools. They're something you look at once and then never revisit.
IPv6 Multi WAN madness
IPv6 is seemingly predicated on a single link - your prefix is delivered from a single ISP which is not generally under your control, unless you buy Provider Independent addresses and use BGP peering with multiple providers.

How do you deal with bootstrapping and effectively running a IPV6 network under these conditions without resorting to PI? How do you migrate from one ISP to another?
Take photos/videos of your entire home interior. For insurance.
http://www.afr.com/business/mining/iron-ore/rio-tinto-makes-...
My problem here isn't that I think the concerns aren't valid, but that whenever the topic comes up, multiple people start to push the agenda of "we must all take action now", as if they're trying to drum up an army of supporters, which they probably are. It gets embedded in just about any climate change related discussion, news article and even science paper.

You can't even disagree with anything related to the topic without people jumping to the conclusion that you're a climate change denier and insisting on educating you. It shuts down genuine discussion. Even evolutionist arguing creationists have managed to admit that it's just a theory, but then go on to show how strong theories can be which is perfectly righ. Climate change hasn't got to that level of honesty - people are afraid to say it's just a theory because of their agenda.
That is impressive! More incentive to become a Dreamhost customer.
Hmm I'm willing to give him a go-through on switching chef's - I have seen some pretty bad head chef's haha.

$29 chicken is a . ... Difficult sell though.

Yeah I agree with the what-if's, i think everyone has them about their history though, try not to let it get you down. (especially about hospitality!).

Any recommendations for an ex-chef by :-p. (and re:burnout, yeah I have my collection of stomach ulcers :-p)
So in the case of this .NET issue isn't the fault on you since you didn't configure your PC to block this request?
Too much effort for so little added value. Plus you'll have to change things back when Google kills this project.
I hear this attitude a lot and it always rubs me the wrong way.

It's a corporation... Why should he care about it's feelings? What does he owe CircleCI? Are they paying him? What claim do they have to his time to jump through their hoops / process?

I'm positive in this case that they weren't intentionally messing with people's security, but shouldn't we and their customers be able to judge that ourselves instead of getting it swept under the carpet via private channels?

I do believe it's good practice to "not be a douche", especially at a personal level, but I wouldn't even come close to categorizing this as douche behaviour.

* Note: this comment is not actually directed at CircleCI, just the attitude that we all somehow owe it to companies to tell them about their goofs privately.
Metabase is great - and another open source dashboard solution I'm a big fan of: https://redash.io/

Data Studio has a different set of strengths: It's the quickest way I can get an interactive viz published with 0 infrastructure needed. Just build your dashboard, add some controls, and publish it to your closest connections privately, or publicly to the whole world. It will scale without any resource allocation on your side.

(disclosure: I'm Felipe Hoffa and I work for Google Cloud https://twitter.com/felipehoffa)

(in a parallel thread, someone else mentions how they use re:dash and Data Studio https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15446296)
Did that, but it was yesterday morning when it was a bit more hectic. Planning to go through again more thoroughly soon.
Integrity....how weird.
How? Even with the password for this user, you could still only gain access to the read-only schema.

Something I should have spelled out - the read-only schema has only the data that the charts need (heavily aggregated views). We basically build with the assumption that the schema will be compromised, but only that one schema.
If that's really the full list then I'm not sure what the problem is. Google Reader was a good service and universally mourned but many of the others have evolved into newer products or have much better non-Google alternatives (it even says that in the descriptions). What in that list are you missing today?
Very much agreed. I'm iffy from 5-7 (some days great, some days too tired), fairly productive 7-1230, nearly worthless 1230-2, then pretty effective until 4 or 5.
The hazards of China research in the Xi era
Hundreds of thousands of books can now be liberated. Let’s bring the 20th century to 21st-century citizens. Everyone, rev your cameras!

If this was 10 years ago, they would be talking about scanners --- this brings me back to the days when P2P filesharing was absolutely blooming, and people would freely scan and share in various forums ("bookz scene") the books they had either bought or borrowed.

The average camera of the time was far less capable than ones today, so digitisations made with one were of lower quality than scans, and in the jargon they were known as "cams" - borrowing the term from the film piracy scene. Nonetheless, everyone mostly appreciated someone "camming" a book, especially if it was particularly rare or difficult to scan.

But over time, cameras improved significantly in quality and their speed was unrivaled, so they gradually replaced scanning --- especially with the friendly competition that tended to happen:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14830212

Seeing that we can now again be doing this completely legally and openly to older books, makes me tremendously happy. Nonetheless, I don't think it can completely replace that sense of adventure and thrill of risk involved in participating in a scanparty a decade ago.
Yeah, I'm not even a Dreamhost customer (I was for a few years a long time ago), and I instantly had a sinking feeling in my stomach when I read the headline.
The moment you finally meet someone interested in discussing one of these things, its going to be immediately apparent the basis of your knowledge is a brief article/book or a weekend watching videos on youtube. Furthermore, these are all going to be little self-contained treatises without any prerequisites -- they are written for a general audience, so you are completely limited to, as the article describe it, the appearance of mastery to people who don't know better.

That's only if you insist on explaining things to everyone you meet. If you're smart about it, you can quickly recognize an expert and take the opportunity to ask them questions. I have had many discussions with experts in fields for which I knew only the scantest of concepts and terminology. I begin by asking questions and proceed to go deeper and deeper into the subject. It's amazing how happy people can get when you show a genuine interest in something they care about.

By arming yourself with a "Wikipedia summary" of each topic, you have the starting point for very interesting conversations. Don't let the article's title get to you. It's far better to be someone who is interested in everything than it is to just "know everything".
"If it really For My Own Safety, as they advertise it to us, then let me control it!"

I do not believe the argument that these changes are undertaken out of concern to protect users, whether it is made with respect to "features" of Intel chips (including Intel SGX), corporate-controlled OS, advertising-supported browsers, etc.

It is difficult to prove such organizations are deliberately trying to make things more difficult for users to control, unless of course employees inside these organizations speak out. The organizations can always provide alternate reasons for doing what they are doing.

However I recall reading of a comment made by Gates in the 1990's, at a time when he wanted Windows installed on every PC sold, that he did not like the idea of users potentially changing BIOS settings. I can only guess as to why, but it is curious to me that we are left with certain strange historical artifacts such as Windows always needing to be installed in the first partition. Other OS do not have this requirement.

While that sort of deliberate subterfuge may be difficult to prove, I think it would be easier to argue these organizations believe (or pretend to believe) that users are "incapable" in ways that have no basis in fact.

You, dear user, are incapable of controlling your computer.
We, benevolent organization, can help. Just sit back and we will take care of everything.
AWS SimpleDB. DynamoDB replaced it years ago but AWS keeps it running just for past customers
Ah, I was reading quickly and didn't realize that "while giving the US government the ability to disable ME" was a given, not one of the things that had to be shown.

I did some quick searching (I mostly skipped the coreboot mailing list which is probably the most interesting place to look but I didn't want to spend too much time) and every reference I've found alludes to someone from Google or Coreboot _asking_ for Intel's assistance in the form of documentation or source code, which Intel has plenty of non-NSA-related reasons to refuse to provide for free (licensed code, preserving competitive advantage, DRM shit, etc.). I couldn't find any references to anyone offering to _pay_ Intel for ME firmware source code or similar but then again such an offer would hardly be public. So this is weak circumstantial evidence at best.

I find AMD's refusal to cooperate with the FOSS community on the matter of its management coprocessor to be slightly suspicious as well as it's an area where it could possibly gain a significant competitive advantage vs Intel but a lot of Intel's reasons for keeping the IME locked down apply to AMD's insistence on black boxing its PSP as well.
Could you elaborate the edge cases which fall beyond "almost anything WR will throw at it" ie what are the use cases where you would end up waking the discrete GPU?
Turn on the lawn sprinklers and faucets to flood the house.
Cut down any close trees. If you can, hose the roof. Keep windows closed and put flammables in the basement

From Reddit: omeowner turned his sprinklers on before leaving to escape a Kansas wildfire. He came home to the only house saved.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5ymk35/homeowner_turn...
Google maps snapshot to get the scope of the lot for location and "foot print"
"An employee from an insurance company describes in detail how to get the most out of your claim."
https://np.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/43iyip/our_...

Basically take photos of everything, if just to remember what will be lost so you can list it for the insurance later.
A brief dive into 2 times I clearly had no clue what I was doing as a developer
This makes me proud to have worked for Dreamhost. Great job friends!
Would you take one false equivalency over another if it lessens the chance of an "ironic reply"?
HandUp, the startup that helps homeless people, has been acquired
I'm certainly no fan of the CIA and the fucked up shit it's done (and still doing), especially to your country.
But isn't there a difference between a somewhat targeted assassination and an attack which's only target is maximum civillian damage (aka the typical terror bomb plot)? I don't want to justify these actions, I just think there is a qualitative difference.
Does this really help? Is coming back to a half-burned-down house better than coming back to a house that's completely burned down?
An authoring demo I wrote the day Data Studio went public:

- https://medium.com/google-cloud/showing-off-the-new-free-goo...

Feature wise Data Studio has improved a lot since that day, and will continue to do so.

(but just try it out, it's free https://datastudio.google.com/)
Box up mementos, backup data, pull drives, receipts & model info of large purchases... travel supplies
hmm, I'm not sure but I think there are many people with hidden synaesthesia like you, especially other forms that we don't know yet. Or there are different types of synaesthesia-like neurological phenomenons. Unsure if the government/doctors or schools should help you use/detect these or not.

I didn't think about this, but does feeling a smell or scent in different emotional strengths also count to synaesthesia?
Would something like this work? http://www.geltechsolutions.com/fireice/product.aspx?Product...
If I was buying MBP tomorrow, I'd get 16GB RAM minimum, 512GB SSD minimum and integrated GPU. I would use eGPU with MBP for intense tasks.
It might let you recover things you couldn't take, like family photos or computers, etc.
Somewhat, there are a lot of BI SQL/visualizations/charting/dashboard services today and this is just another alternative, but with the advantage of being well-integrated into Google's Cloud and GSuite products if you're already using them.
I'd argue their actions speak volumes. They open-sourced nearly all of their platform and made it component-based so you don't need bloat for all solutions. They've made .NET core completely cross-platform, even on MacOS. There are community versions of their development tools and even a completely free text editor that many non-MS developers love.

These actions are a direct admission that their previous monopolistic practices were bad for business and that the blue ocean philosophy is beneficial to everyone.
(2011)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2298471

Nice explanation even for people who have a good grasp of the basics. The visualization, seeing the flows is particularly interesting.
We think so (and in fact wrote this https://blog.bubble.is/improving-computer-education-less-cod...). We’ve seen a few high schools use Bubble already, but haven’t had time to push for a more systematic approach (providing content, etc.)
I imagine you've seen it already,but ready.gov has a checklist: https://www.ready.gov/evacuating-yourself-and-your-family
Now if only Cloudflare could follow suit.
We use it constantly in bars in Berkeley. Example:
"The pronouncements of [insert least favorite politician here] do not exhibit the faintest degree of verisimilitude." You can add rhetorical flourish by taking a thoughtful sip of beer immediately thereafter.
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Not to belittle the efforts of DH (who are great!). However, I would imagine that DigitalOcean fights just as hard to protect it's users.
It's GSM (AT&T). I'm willing to trade. Got anything interesting?
Should we hold it against google when they acquire a startup and shut it down? Or is it preferable for them to wait for the startup to wind down the service first and then swoop in?
Roast HN: Frndme – Anonymous Chat
Hey guys its my first react native the app does not have anything fancy or extra-ordinary need inputs and suggestion on how to improve this as product. Also curious to know about experiences of seeding a chat app from ground up.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1276043642
There are several news stories that show similar benefits.
Open-Sourcing Beeline, Singapore’s first crowd-sourced transportation platform
I mean that I am a real developer still (and have been one of the world's relatively best paid), and 13" works fine for me to get stuff done. Here I am 200 miles from home in a hotel right now with all my tools. No monitor lugging required.

Yes, laptop ergonomics aren't ideal, but neither is life. There are always trade-offs. And I have some colourful language memories from earlier sysadmin jobs getting horrific shocks while lugging other users' colour CTRs around for them...

I'd suggest that anyone who thinks that they "need" a huge monitor as opposed to "prefers" should considers needs vs wants.

If I was living in a van, and I'm a tiny house fan BTW, a large monitor would NOT be on MY 'needs' list.

Another commenter made a good point about more screen space being more distraction, and debuggers being a big part of that as an example of not solving the real problem. Given that you only have a few cm^2 of full-definition vision anyway, you have to manage that one way or another. More pixels is not necessary that way.
I'm not sure that's a negotiation point for Intel, as they own 15 percent of ASML. Might be a rough ride for everybody if the EU had any intention of playing that card.
City mandated drought resistant front yard with mulch and drip system. :/

Two story house, so hosing the roof is hard, but it's tile at least.

Northern California, so basements are pretty much non-existant.

Faucets left on is an interesting idea, but given the fire is leaving flat slabs in its wake, not sure how much it will help. Probably can't hurt though.

Thanks!
Can you still ignore encapsulation and call methods across pages (classes)?
Not really, as long as it’s a data driven app (and not a platform game...). About half of our paying users build startup-type, customer-facing products, while the other half is small businesses building internal management tools (like invoicing, custom CRM, etc).
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Food/water, clothing(warm weather and cold), phone chargers!!! if you have time (never ever risk for this), mementos (not photos, they are a waste - I lost all mine to a fire previously),now only if you have a lot of time (do not even think about it it you don't ). Hard drives -pca/laptops are a waste of time.

The most important rule. IF YOU CAN SEE THE FIRE AT ALL, GO.

I'm an Aussie, from the country, we saw a lot of fires when I was growing up. It moves soich faster than you can imagine. In good condition ditiona it can go faster than you can drive.

Be careful, gods speed buddy.

Edit, as mentioned : if safe turn off gas.

2nd edit as techjuice said: legal documents and video, but this is the last thing. Documents won't help your family if you don't get out.

Look I'm not kidding about how fast fire can move, if you can see it, it's panic time.

Also, I emailed you, if you need to ask a question, drop me a email with your skype, I'll call and answer anything I can.

Edit: email I sent to op, for anyone else's info:

Okay, now I'm sorry if some things sound like I'm talking down to you. I'm just going to explain as I know it (also forgive typos I'm on a phone).

Driving through a fire- even on a road is not a plan. Ever. It starves the engine of oxygen and the vehicle will stall. Bad place for it. Only ever do it if it's an emergency.

Fire will move faster than you. Yes it takes days sometimes to move a few hundred feet, but Murphy is an arsehole and fire can move faster than you can drive, if the conditions are right.

Clothing; hot and cold, you don't know where you will be, pure cotton is better than synthetic, synth melt if your in fire, melting is worse than burn.(you have to take it out of the skin if it melts).

Water, lots.

First aid kits: if you have it bring it, alovera plants are an amazing treatment for burns, snap a small part off and run the juice over the burn. If there is a burn with a melt(eg clothing, plastic etc), and if it's safe, do not pour cold water on, it will set the melt, try and remove as much as possible (without touching the burn), before applying water.

I'll write more after this email.
If you are forced to drive through fire, a)very. Fucking. Dangerous.
B) all windows up, clothing(cotton) around mouth and nose. Be. Careful.(gods I hope you don't get into this)

Again. If you can see the fire, get. Out.

I don't have much more for during the fire, some people recommend sprinklers, watering roof etc, I believe that's an edge case. Yes if you have time, it may help, but there is no reason to risk your family for it.

Lives can be rebuilt, life cannot.
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The original QuickBasic/QBasic could definitely generate standalone compiled EXEs using the Basic Compiler (BC.EXE). IIRC it wasn't included until QBasic 4.5 and was expanded further in QB7 (aka Basic Professional Development System).
You're right that smart people can sometimes act stupid, but there are so many situation where we blame people for their inherent intellectual failings.

For example, smart people frequently describe the lottery as "a tax on stupid people" in a sneering way. When people get taken by an obvious scam, we often place as much if not more blame on the victim as we do on the scammer. Or look at the Darwin Awards for numerous examples of people basically saying that others deserve death for being dumb.

Sure, there are examples where a smart person is negligent, we describe that as "stupid," and we rightfully blame them for the consequences. But there are many more examples where a dumb person doesn't understand that what they're doing won't work, it fails predictably, and we say they deserve it. Lotteries, scams (but I repeat myself), avoiding insurance or banks, and much more tend to fall into this category.

If someone got robbed because they had a bad leg and couldn't run away, we'd sympathize. If they got robbed because they had a bad brain and couldn't detect that this smooth-talking stranger was scamming them, we'd tell them they should stop being so stupid.
> Would you also take one news source over many if it lessens the chance of seeing "fake news"?

Yes. This is why, every morning, I first get my news from trusted sources.
Turn off your natural gas line at the meter.
Not gonna lie, this headline scared me ;)

Good work Dreamhost, proud to be a customer!