skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
do you mean dbaas?

https://www.compose.com/pricing

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing/

http://app42storage.shephertz.com/#pricing

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/sql-databa...

https://cloudboost.io/pricing

there is one or two of them offer a free tier.

anyone knows what is the most cheap dbaas for mysql?

anyone knows what is the most cheap dbaas for mongodb?

I'm a student. pls do check. My parents enslave me

Pls help me. I wanna make apps so I can escape from this house
My android experience has been tarnished more by Google bugs than Samsung ones. Android 5 was a very buggy release, so much infrastructural change with little user benefit. IMHO Samsung should have skipped it entirely. I guess they bowed down to user and media pressure to always ship the latest android (although the media criticised them anyway for poor battery life, caused by Android 5).
I wanna develop Android with Android Studio on Pixel Book, Any Suggestions?
I really liked many of the Google services and lived comfortably and happy with them, Android as well. I think I went all in on Google. And it was fine until now.

But now I am pretty fed up with Android and Google. The increased invasiveness and how I can't disable features that I don't want anymore or the incredible persistence of asking to activate something I declined multiple times until they make it required, really put me off.

Another thing is that many of the shiny features don't benefit me at all. Previously Google offered services anyone could use. Search, GMail, Android. But now more and more services are locked to countries, languages and devices which only a subset of Google users can benefit from but everyone is expected to deal with these features.

Some features simply don't work reliably at all (e.g. Google Trips and most of Google Now related to GMail, Hangouts before it got killed) and some features are pretty much useless to me as they are bound to either the USA or a language I don't casually speak (e.g. as a Swiss-German speaker the whole Google Assistant stuff is just not fun at all as I have to either speak High-German or English. Both of which is not as natural as my native language. Many Google Now cards seem to show way less info compared to the USA or show way worse data.)

One benefit might be the "ecosystem" of everything working together perfectly but to me they still have a long way to go to achieve this. I think I see a direction in their messy portfolio of services, apps and devices but currently it's a terrible mess. Devices being abandoned as soon as they launch. Services migration to way less capable ones. That's not a seamless ecosystem, that's just a burden to me.

So to me it feels like Google expects me to let them invade my private space more and more, give them more and more of my life even though they offer very little actually intuitively useful things. For me it has long been that what they offer is worth it but now that balance has tipped towards offering very little for a lot of me.
Edging off topic, but... thx for the link to lobste.rs. That's new to me and I really like the look of it, but it's too tech for my daily consumption. Can anyone suggest other similar sites with more in the non-tech topics direction? A list of them somewhere? I feel like I've gotten in a bit of a rut, plus lethargic since Imzy went down (/k).

Edit: Answered my own question - https://www.quora.com/Are-there-news-aggregators-like-YC-Hac...

Edit2: Answered it again, even better - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14020313
Agreed. And in particular I'm curious as to "what truly differentiates Colony from what Assembly did"? ie. what is Colony doing to address the fate of Assembly?

I'd love to see something like this take off. I also remain unconvinced that the problem with something like Assembly was simply that it wasn't on the blockchain.

It's also a big ask to bet the cumulative and growing value of your collective efforts on your contract code not ever having any kind of edge case that could leak value contrary to the _spirit_ of your endeavour. Or deferring the (still as yet untested) legal issues of DAOs.
Well you have the history in version control anyway so delete away and it's never really gone anyway
I hope this actually works, but I'm very skeptical.

Very recently I went to a resort in the Dominican Republic, where the main language is Spanish. Most waiting staff spoke good English, so everything was fine, until one of the people refilling the mini bar came in with a present and started ranting in Spanish. My first instinct was to grab google translate, do speech to text and then translate. Together, speech to text and translate were quite useless, probably because of the speed at which he spoke and possibly the accent.

I completely agree that this is a nice step. I doubt, however, that it will be anything more than a cool gimmick (in most cases), because of my recent experience.
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The emojis are cute in this description of language changes, but I’m worried some programming newbies will look at this as an example of “pros” / Apple endorsing it and will start using them in real programs.
Dex Engine is an AWS on the Blockchain allowing anyone to rent computing power
This is a cognitive bias known as the "IKEA effect" [1]
First time I read it applied to coding, the author is completely right. You are much faster the second time you write the piece of program, and it will be probably more effective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect
Yeah, that’s what I meant. Will be more conscious when writing next time
It's super annoying when you're at a friends place and want to play some music through their speaker system, in a hotel room traveling, or just when i'm using both my laptop and iphone with the same pair of headphones having to swap adapters. Bluetooth speakers NEVER pair reliably. It's utterly horrible and I will never forgive Apple for it.
Querying a list property with SQL
+1. Would love to hear your insights on this.
No.. I meant how quickly this can become available on Apple..
Google cut support relatively early for plenty of phones, including my Nexus 5. There were endless stupid excuses about chipsets, but the fact remains: nothing past 6.0.1. They barely supported it for two years.
Derek Lowe, "Sand Won’t Save You This Time". My favorite entry from a drug discovery chemist's Things I Won't Work With stories.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/san...
Why Do Smart People Do Foolish Things?
The shorthand version doesn‘t let you specify argumen types (only works when they can be inferred)
Oh, that's informative to know--verifies my own perception--and makes me happy!

I appreciate your support. Thank you.
Apple Secure Coding Guide
I think there needs to be a discussion about their WTO "market economy" status (for different reasons though)
I had this idea a while back but it’s difficult to get the incentives right. In the real world how does the work get checked it’s been done?

I think about replacing local government with this for example. I can easily see my local bins not being collected and even more worryingly a list of outstanding issues (like an overwhelmed github project) that never seems to go down. I’m glad they are doing this though and I intend to help I think.
I didn't downvote you, but IME Perl is a poor language for embedding. Perl XS is itself pretty bad, whether embedding a C application with Perl, extending a Perl application with C, and especially if you're doing C->Perl->C->Perl mixes--the Perl XS interfaces quickly become leaky abstractions. And don't even get me started on the build process....

I've written far more than my fair share of Perl XS code over the past nearly 15 years. I still use Perl and the last time I wrote Perl XS module was just last month. I could go on for pages about the negative aspects, without having much to say about the positive aspects.

But here's a very concrete reason why nobody should contemplate embedding Perl: I filed this bug report (Thread race in dist/IO/IO.xs) over two years ago:

https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=125685

It's still not fixed. The fix isn't easy, either. It was introduced in an attempt to fix some other stuff. But maybe the biggest reason it hasn't yet been fixed is because the bug is only likely to be encountered when creating multiple Perl interpreter instances in separate threads--a very uncommon usage for Perl.[1] Uncommon usages will not be (and are not) well supported.

Non-threaded Perl embedding may be more common, but ultimately you don't want to be embedding any interpreter that has shared state, especially if the fact of this shared state leaks into interfaces or breaks the interface contracts. Python is also still problematic in terms of not being able to completely erase vestigial assumptions of one interpreter per process. Neither Perl nor Python were originally designed for embedding, and even their extension APIs were bolted on. While they've both been improved over the years and work well for straight-forward C bindings, the fact that neither the languages nor implementations were originally designed for embedding eventually comes through and cause headaches when you want to do anything sophisticated--sometimes even when you're not doing anything sophisticated.

[1] The only significant use of Perl in the open source world that I'm familiar with that embeds Perl this way (multiple instances, multiple threads) is Apache mod_perl. But for other reasons mod_perl creates and initializes all Perl instances from a single thread. This is why the bug went undiscovered for so long after it was introduced, and why there's little impetus to fix it.
Meta-question: how do you keep track of these? Every now and then I come upon something and I think "Oh, I should definitely re-read this!". But then, eventually, I end up forgetting about it. Are these just things that often come up and re-read them because you know they're worth it, or do you actively keep track of them somehow?
I did consider the fact that it could be a current Uber driver leveraging their referral code, however, the way the post is written makes it seem as though it came from Uber or an agency which Uber hired.
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My Nexus 5, purchased directly from google, stopped charging; I think something wore on the connector. I went through 7 or 8 cables and, if you held them just right, the phone would charge. Briefly. Support was a nightmare to deal with, including them insisting that I install the latest point update of the OS which would somehow magically cure hardware damage. On a phone that I couldn't charge. And that they wouldn't help with at all until I installed the stupid OS update.

Apple just doesn't treat customers like that. IME obviously.
I think Arch Linux will do the job.
What makes you think those senators on the banking committee are awarding IRS contracts?
Obligatory “plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.”
It would help them exactly as much as it helped the Republic of China. The UN gains far more from having China than China gains from the U.N.
Pew Forum estimates 67 million in 2011. http://www.pewforum.org/files/2011/12/ChristianityAppendixC....
I hated Mircosoft BASIC in the 80s. Platforms like the C64 had widespread appeal but the BASIC it shipped always felt backwards compared to other micro computers I used in that era. But then we were spoilt in the UK with the likes of BBC BASIC (Acorn - the same company that gave us the ARM CPU) and Locomotive BASIC (Amstrad).
I hope this will efficiently solve the problem the same way problem of hard drugs has been solved for decades!
Meanwhile we are lobbying for net neutrality legislation which gives out own government (famous for freedoms like the patriot act) additional power over ISPs by reclassifying them as common carriers.

Do you really want your government deciding what is and is not neutral content delivery? No one sees any way in which it can go wrong?
Call me old-fashioned, but I just use chrome bookmarks
For anything that's not mathematically provable on-chain, the contract will need input.

The way you'll prove something that needs social validation is by getting approval. So Colony is all about reputation, propositions, dispute resolution, etc.

Check out their tl;dr:

https://colony.readme.io/docs/off-whitepaper
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Can we not just make a worm that does this thereby rendering everyone guilty?
Better: target devices in Westminster exclusively so their own names turn up on the list.

I personally like how they've attempted to distinguish downloading and reading as if when you browse to a website it doesn't download the HTML and store it in a temp cache on your local disk.
This suggests that today the difference between innocent and guilty is the directory path of an illicit file. :D
My understanding is that a blockchain is a distributed, immutable database. There must be some serious dollaroos floating around in consultancy fees for such a simple idea to be cropping up constantly and as a solution to almost every problem.
and so many more datapoints such as screen & window resolution/size, installed plugins…

even if you're splitting your browsing between sessions manually, they still only need to match them once.
If the data would be considered the customer's, it would have made sense to use application-level encryption [1]. Each user has a unique key which should be their property. If you need to give access to that data without the user's consent, you'll need to store their unique key for them. You'll better do that in a very secure manner.

If now somehow the database gets exposed, good luck! You'll also need to get the individual keys to decipher everything.

Then, although still you can be blamed for not using a vulnerability scanner, there is much less at stake.

[1] https://www.compose.com/articles/encrypting-sensitive-data-i...
The better analogy is: "When I pick up some blueprint for the building from 80s I don't want to have to fight with changed sensibilities of the foreman. Just build the thing dammit."
Downloading is saving something that's online for later offline use. I think that's pretty easy to tell apart from reading something online?
Yeah, unless your management has other priorities and their management has other priorities. The buck actually stops at the CEO.
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Can't wait to buy my kids trendy IARE shirts! Propaganda for the whole family!
Stop expecting algorithmic search result order to be "true". It would be far more worrying if Google were that good and filtered the news in such a fine grain.

You would need millions of people to filter all of the video that Google uploads per day. Even then, it would be hard to "make sure it's not a false flag video". That itself is pretty subjective even if it is obvious to you and everyone you know.

Also, trying to update videos with factual information vs false information is also hard.

The answer is for individuals to learn to be critical of the things that they watch. Period. There is no other way. Putting it in the hands of someone else is paving the road to tyranny.
There were 75K albums (not just songs) released in 2010 alone. The total number of songs is in hundreds of millions.

No way you can fit their fingerprints and the metadata into 64GB, compressed or not.

Shazam has 40M fingerprints in their DB, and they definitely don't have everything. Their software runs on beefy servers.
Eh? Australian beef is decent to excellent from my experiences there. Norwegian beef, on the other hand, tends to range from garbage to edible, unless you want to pay >$30 for enough meat for one person to cook at home. And that's if you're lucky and they have anything that has been properly aged.
I just sent you an email!
They cannot block a specific repo (although GitHub could make it inaccessible to Chinese users, but I don't think they'd want to censor their platform), which is why China resorted to DDOS. I think it really speaks volumes as to how important GitHub currently is to them.
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The comments are repetitive and are basically complaining. If there was something to be learned that would make it useful and interesting.
the temp cache still exists offline.
This means that if I wanted to store "illicit" files I'd just store them in my temp cache under a plausibly temp-cachy sounding file name.
Effectively the crime is distinguished by the directory path. In both cases the effect on your machine is identical. It loads the content to disk, then into memory and then displays it in your viewer/browser.
Facebook using different globes depending where you are
Consumption taxes. Let’s end income taxes completely and identity doesn’t matter for taxes.
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Indeed - there’s no anonymity in BitCoin itself as all transactions are trackable. What anonymity there is exist because of external services like mixers/tumblers and the difficulty level of directly tying a given wallet to an individual.

Monero goes further and anonymises transactions between wallets.
I was thinking, would it be a viable solution for the government to employ pen testers to test companies like banks/ISPs etc? It would more than pay for itself from the fines they would impose to those that hold sensitive citizen data and fail to hold high standards of security.
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What I was trying to say was that the intention and the reason for the action that make a difference.
> The system, known as Knowledge-Based Authentication, or KBA, asks questions based on a person’s credit history, such as “On which of the following streets have you lived?” or “What is your total scheduled monthly mortgage payment?”

So it authenticates you based on facts that can’t be changed, and are either publicly-available knowledge or easily discoverable with some lite social engineering?
> A lot of the blockchain enthusiasts are anarchists or libertarians. They assume society is already failing or on the verge of collapse.

You don't need to assume that to see obvious benefits of a blockchain. As long as there're stupid or evil people in society central authority systems like banks can fail, rob you or be hacked. Blockchain on the other hand is more reliable.
far-right but not far-left, and the left will decide how far right you are.

also will certain passages or holy books be deemed extremists or not.

what of movies that they don't like, will those be banned?
the dockerfile could use some work, no CMD, calling apt-get update multiple times (slow), wget'ing a non-https url leaves you exposed to MIMs and finally: why are you downloading aptitude when (from what i can see) apt-get would work just fine?
In the World’s Most Livable Cities, Hardly Anyone Can Afford a Home
How many billionaires are there? Should we design a tax system around them? Seems foolish considering how little their overall impact would be.
Bad Excuses for Not Writing Unit Tests
Unfortunately quite a bit more complicated on the back end of things when you need to report on it. Both loading a webpage and downloading it have a similar request pattern. Take, for example, a PDF file which loads seamlessly in Chrome.

If this is something you can currently distinguish, I’d be very interested in hearing more!
There's a wwdc presentation on this where they show the tools in action. The first part is Core ML and the Tools part starts at 21 minutes in (it is about 40 minutes in total so definitely worth watching I found).
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/710/
and what I was trying to say is that the intention and reason are derived from merely the directory path of a file.
As a heavy vim user for 15~ years I don't find h,j,k,l useful and for new users that may be one of the most confusing / alien changes.
I'm a big fan of GPL but I don't think it's appropriate for libraries. In that page they give the example of readline, which is GPL because there are no alternatives and it is supposed to boost the GNU community. What happened is that there is at least an alternative now, the BSD-licensed libedit/editline http://thrysoee.dk/editline/

My argument about licensing with GPL is that I want all the modifications back and not blackboxed in some software a company is making money from. They can make money out of my work (anyway it's more about marketing than sw development) but at least they have contribute back the improvements. Libraries are usually a small brick in the building. If they patch a LGPL library they must contribute back the patches and I think it should end there. The author shouldn't have any claim about all the other software they're linking it to. So LGPL, not GPL.
Welcome to 1984. Really ironic that is happening in Britain (not that its not happening elsewhere).
That’s a lot of taxes. Perhaps we should get rid of all of those and go to a flat tax.
Your comment is very valid, but in Europe, we can have some data free while travelling in another country. if we had data plan in our home (European) country. E.g. I recently went from Latvia to Finland, and received text from my operator, that my allowance was 3 or 4 gigabytes (vs. unlimited data at home in Latvia). It was plenty for my 4 days stay, for everything - maps, mail, IMs, browsing, and I did all my "voice" calls over Whatsapp. Spent less than 1GB. Translation would fit that package nicely.
this article is wrong. reading extremist material is already illegal in the UK.

the changes are to increase the sentence for repeated visits to 15 years.

since reading extremist material is already illegal the article could point to all the miscarriages of justice caused by people convicted for mere possession of a chemistry textbook or for journalistic research into terrorist organisations.
The cookies. If I understand correctly the discussion, people here observe that e.g. Facebook cookies from your example are saved also outside of "No tracking" "container."
It's a checkings account for cryptocurrency with spending conditions of the type "4 out of 6 members agree and the weekly spending limit is not exceeded."

Since blockchains are open source and programmable, that also means it's a checkings account that you can script in any way you want.

It's superior in that it doesn't require a bank. It's also an extremely transparent system, since blockchain transactions are visible to and auditable by everyone, and it has some strong security properties because of decentralization.
Economics and statistics understand perfectly well the distinction between gambling returns that happen in parallel versus gambling returns that happen in series.

For example, in financial economics, suppose you're investing and the returns of each stock during each year is an iid random variable R.

If you split your money over 10 stocks and 1 year, you take the arithmetic expectancy of R to calculated your expected returns. If you're investing in 1 stock over 10 years, you should take the geometric average of R to get your average yearly return.

In other words, if each stock returns 50% chance 3x and 50% chance 0x, you should definitely invest if you can split your money over a pool of 100 independent stocks over the one time period (you'll have > 99% chance of >100% gross returns!), but definitely not if you were forced to invest in one single stock for 100 time periods (you have a >99.999% of 0% gross returns).

I'm not sure why NNT feels it necessary to say the smartest Nobel Prize winning physicists are needed to under this. I'm pretty sure anyone with a rigorous high school math education can understand this. As a matter of point, the above distinction was belabored to me in undergraduate statistics class and a first year graduate economics class, both many many years ago.
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