skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is calling someone’s legitimacy into question for being conservative hurtful and wrong?
I also do this approach. Get a decent, from your infrastructure independent DNS provider and take care of your Ansible scripts. This way in emergency you do a one liner, have a new production server running and change DNS settings.
>locked out of a cloud provider account

I guess this is already a reason by its own. It, among other problems, is what happens when we go from small "local" providers you can actually call to automated global providers that cannot provide immediate support even if they tried.
Your posts in this thread would be more helpful with some source. Is it personal experience? Are you an European LEO?
One way Intel can compete with CUDA is to show a benchmark where they outperform NVidia in training speed. Not speed per watt, not inference, not oddly priced speed per dollar comparisons.

If the speed is there the world will write the code.
It's a difficult question because we don't know what sort of goods we can buy in thoses society.

Assuming wealth is the same, population B is better.

( If you don't like averages maybe we should also compute standard mean salaries )
In Northern Italy - where the weather can be bad, if not ugly - they developed the Portico, where the buildings overhang the sidewalks and provide protection from rain and wind (see http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00007AaJoUp4oKU/s/750...)

Sure, they don't completely isolate humans from weather conditions but these solutions significantly improve the livability and prolonged usability of an urbanization, without burning bathtubs of gasoline to keep running.

Humans are not obliged to colonize every single corner of the planet...
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Why has Twitter doubled the character limit for tweets to 280?
Twitter has finally heeded to pleas of people who have more to say.

The microblogging website is updating its 140-character limit for tweets to 280 characters globally as per a post on its official blog.
My OVH dedicated servers seem fine. Webservers, ssh, all working. All ones in Canada.
Banks, police, city administration, doctors, pharmacies, insurance - those are the reasons I've pulled out my ID card in the past 10 years, and every single time it was to read the chip, with barely a passing glance given to the card itself.
As I use it as my main Powershell IDE, this makes me happy.
Looks like they are starting to come back up. My VPS is accessible again.
A 300 watt cpu is enormously bulky and makes an enormous racket. I remember when I upgraded to a maxwell-based (then pascal) GPU, it was a revelation. It no longer sounded like a hair dryer when gaming and no longer was my PC getting annoyingly toasty.

Gamers care about noise and heat very much.
It was my experience as well, but over time things "click" and your VCs are suddenly small, there is almost nothing in AppDelegate and the app architecture becomes obvious. I can't explain how to reach that state of mind, though.

(and I'm not writing trivial apps…)
I can agree with most of the article, but for some it looks like we have not been using the same language ecosystem at all.

Go really feels opinionated around the wrong things, in order to claim "simplicity" as a feature:

- No generics just mean you're going to be handing interface{} all the way in your stack, it makes things more complex and less readable for no reason (and less safe)

- error handling which is essentially string-based, in 2017? Give me a type system, please

- gofmt is a good idea (just like clang-format or yapf), and having it is great, but the maintainers specifically refuse to add simple features, saying "running it in an automated process is not supported", despite all github projects already having it in their automated CI suite

- go test is good, but in the end it is found lacking

- dep, well, if you don't mind dumping the code for all your deps in the source tree, it's probably ok, but it solves a deficiency that the language should not even have (see next point)

- stability: the language itself is fine on that, but the ecosystem really isn't. The fact that they don't even have the package management quality of python (which I find awful already) is baffling. I don't even know how they could think "yeah, github-importing is a good idea, let's do it". Go is eight years old tomorrow and you still have to rely on third-party tooling to do proper imports that don't burn your house.
This video: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16613228/uber-flying-car-...

It was posted yesterday; noticed it in 'new' when I posted this.
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The UK has credit cards that are used by ordinary people much the same as in the US. Cards are very common there, most people have at least one.

But it has different laws so that they're not as exploitative. The card companies accepted these laws in order to get a chance at the relatively wealthy British customer base. In particular:

* Issuers have to tell you each month how much it's going to cost in total to pay off your debt gradually, which is usually a scarily enormous figure.
* Issuers own the risk of buying most things with the card. If you pay £200 for a hat from an online merchant with the card, and then the merchant goes out of business without delivering, the law says the Issuer bought that hat, you owe nothing.
* Issuers own the risk of card fraud. Unfortunately juries and judges both tend to believe the smartly dressed bank official in a trial, but in law all the responsibility for fraud lies with the Issuer unless they can prove it's your fault.

A lot of people like me have a credit card, and then have the issuing bank also automatically pay off the balance every month from their current account. So the effect is that their credit card is a rolling 30 day interest free loan.
> brute force through the SHA2 problem space for nothing

wrong, bitcoin network brute forces through sha2 to find the one that secures the distributed ledger and transaction platform on top of it. the rest is irrelevant since it's based on wrong assumption.
I suppose you'd just use a passport instead then? Or do they actually verify those too?
It got more approachable for me when I started to think about it as a specific "backend for frontend" pattern. I don't see it as a _real_ competitor to REST, even though it's trying to market itself this way.

I think recent "@rest" addition from Apollo ( https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/apollo-client-2-0-5c8d0affce... ) shows they can easily live together - backend uses REST and frontend can rely on GraphQL.
https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/928552251458818048

ETA: 15 min
Playing devil's advocate: how much different is this from adopted children to which adoptive parent's don't tell the truth? Is it mostly how likely is the truth to come out at some point?
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All great results of relatively free markets.

And we have people complaining about housing and healthcare.... I know the solution to theses issues
It doesn't ignore scarcity, scarce goods are inherently more labor intensive. And it doesn't presume intrinsic value, the labor necessary is a subjective concept so the value must be as well.

You're probably right about it's use in understanding a capitalist market, Marx spends no shortage of time on how capitalists warp that basic idea.
I agree that the pessimism is disheartening, but looking at the limited data we have, is there any evidence of an intelligent species (e.g. humans) discovering the presence of another intelligent species (e.g. humans) without conflict soon thereafter?

Not a fan of extrapolating from single data points, but it's the best we've got for now.
Hilarious: The Disasters Caused by Emergent Design in Practice
In addition I'd suggest getting a second domain in a TLD operated by another company in another country than the primary TLD is, and teaching your customers/users that both are valid. This protects you from three things:

1) your DNS provider having issues (even Route53 sometimes has them, https://mwork.io/2017/03/14/aws-route53-dns-outage-impacts-l...)

2) legal issues, when one of your domains gets seized or the provider gets pressured into cancelling, just as has happened with Pirate bay, SciHub and friends, gambling or sites with user generated content that may be illegal or frowned upon in some countries or for the latter to the Nazi site Daily Stormer (although I'm glad for it being down, it's a perfect example what can happen in a very short time frame)

3) (edit, after suggestion below) the entire TLD going down because the TLD DNS provider has issues, which also happens from time to time.
It strikes me as oddly cool for a fungus to find a cryptographic solution for their mating. And they still preserve some definition of a "collision".
Maybe not exactly on my kitchen but rather all kitchens around the world as we all use monitors, TCP etc...
The UK is exactly the same. In most towns/citys all the recreation grounds are full up with amateur league football (soccer) and rugby, plus loads of cricket matches, during the appropriate seasons. That's not to mention all the workplace-based football/netball teams that have matches in the week.
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I had a European Visa. It was very different than my US Visa.

In the US it collects points and cashback and you can magically go above the limit if you have money on your checking account. You have to do really really crazy stuff to get a transaction rejected. It gives you insurance for car rentals and concierge services for things I never considered.

In Europe I had a Visa and a MasterCard. No points, no cash back. Couldn’t go over the limit, forced to pay everything off every month. If you don’t, card is blocked.

In the US you can (often?) pay off as little as $25 on a massive CC debt and there’s a lot of interest on what you don’t pay off. I didn’t have any interest in Europe, it just stopped working if I didn’t pay it off next month.

From what I can tell, most Americans wouldn’t recognize my European Visa or MasterCard as a credit card. It behaves like a half step between debit and credit.

Are other cards in Europe closer to the American version?
A lottery ticket still has a value, so, they're not valuing them at $0. But they are planning for the case where the value goes to 0, which is a very sane thing to do.
> but we can also decide to incentivize something else.

This needs a proper source. As far as I understand currently only Proof of Work is sound enough to use in real-world scenarios. Also see: http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/#is-a-work-indep...
Wealth is produced, not distributed. You earn stuff you created, not stolen from someone else
Elixir compiles to bytecode which is not half bad
Neat! Didn't know about this concept. Any more examples of this being used somewhere?
Using WhatsApp is just an option only. We built a conversational Surveys Platform. Messaging experience is the core.

Our HQ is in US, while we have a development center in India
The Direct Debit is 100% reversible. Clarkson didn't reverse it because the people who did it chose a charity and he can afford the money. If you found the money was somehow going to an actual crook you'd reverse it.

A utility company Direct Debited money from me when they screwed up and billed me for someone else's supply. I called my bank, said I wanted the Direct Debit cancelled and the money returned, they did it and the money was back in my account the same day.

The utility company sent me all manner of outraged paperwork, including threatening to set lawyers on me, but they couldn't magically take my money, and sure enough once they understood their mistake I got an apology and they wrote off all my actual bills for the past 12 months.
> In this case, you want to talk to hackers.

No - the problem here isn’t hacking, it’s allowing a fixed, easily learned number be a sole proof of ‘identity’. SSNs were used in identity theft long before hackers.
pretty darn cool to listen to as well: http://www.lofibucket.com/download/e1m1_fast_48khz.flac
The flood
To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops. - @devopsborat
Starting from May 2018, no US-based company can possibly comply under the strict interpretation of EU data protection laws. If an US court can possibly legally compel you to hand over the data, you cannot host any private data on EU citizens on behalf of an EU company. Next year, I cannot even legally store things like names and email addresses belonging to EU citizens on a server ran by a US company, without exposing myself to major legal liability. Many companies in the EU are now scrambling to get away from us service providers.

The text is very broad, and it has been argued that it's a stealth protectionism measure. For me to be able to do business with US-based cloud providers next year, the US law needs to change so that if an account has a "this refers to an EU citizen" bit set, that completely prevents US courts and law enforcement from acquiring any information about it without proving probable cause at an EU court of a specific crime that is of sufficient severity and criminal in both EU and the US. I don't believe that will happen.
Very true - neither the person who wants BTC (but has no opinions on BCH) nor the BCH buyer wants to take the risk that the other coin will drop before he/she can sell it. In other words the risk premium isn't zero.

However a rational (impartial?) actor should be willing to take that risk if the premium is big enough. That could mean buying pre-fork or selling pre-fork if there is an obvious opportunity. Which means in an efficient market the risk premium should be zero "on average". It's hard to reason about averages with one sample but that sample was distinctly not zero!
Estonians seem to do kind-of fine. Ignoring the weak random number generation thing ofc.
The name might be a problem: https://www.linn.co.uk/
My vserver also seems fine, uptime 528 days. The control panel seems to be down however.
Certainly the latter.

I can imagine proof of space implemented by requiring nodes to store terabytes of random bytes, and compute the hash of specific subsets of this huge blob based on the last block in the ledger.
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I had never heard of this company til I saw this post. Shrugged, thought, "huh, wonder who that's affecting."

Opened up Age of Empires II....no connection. Go to website for game servers..."Our provider, OVH, is down...."

Go figure.
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> - pixels: even whitespace is important next to information

And protecting money is not important?

> - RFC: we're wasting a few bits as a tradeoff for less complicated hardware and less processing power. Not sure if applicable anymore, but reserved fields and consistent parsing saved us some power/materials historically.

Well so the RFC reserved bits are waste but also a benefit? Maybe the same is true w.r.t Bitcoin mining?

> - SSL provides security and privacy in your communication at a cost reasonable for the outcome.

The cost is reasonable in SSL case but unreasonable in Bitcoin case based on what criteria exactly? Remember that SSL relies on PKI that has a lot weaker security guarantees (see Symantec, DigiNotar and your favourite Chinese CA in your OS's trust store).
>- No generics just mean you're going to be handing interface{} all the way in your stack, it makes things more complex and less readable for no reason (and less safe)

Depends on what you do. I've written a good chunk of go code and interface{} is the rare exception rather than the rule, usually employed where a user might supply arbitrary types (ie a unmarshaljson like function)

But if you do a website or webapp, 99% of your code is not using interface{} in it's methods.

>- error handling which is essentially string-based, in 2017? Give me a type system, please

You can put anything behind an error:

type IntErr uint64
func (i IntErr) Error() string {
return strvonc.Atoi(i)
}

The string is only present when you either use the stdlib errors or you output an error.

Additionally, nothing in Go forces you to actually use the error interface (sans stdlib).

You can invent your own Error interface that uses ints. (Won't work with most external libraries but nothing is stopping you)

Panic and Recover can to my knowledge both handle things that aren't errors; recover returns a interface{} that you check for value and type. You can put anything in there.

>stability: the language itself is fine on that, but the ecosystem really isn't.

A lot of projects focus on stability. If the API is breaking a lot they usually use Gopherpit or gopkg.in
to ensure compatibility in the future.

In my experience, breaking the API is not something well used libraries do lightly (libraries with no or little use do break it sometimes since they lack the usage to refine it)

If you need more, you can use vendoring.
Oh man that sounds bad! You're right, sometimes these events do expose the inability to handle failure and you're right that that means walking away.

Thankfully many times we're reminded that there are good people out there working hard against difficult constraints and they finally get their chance to do things 'correctly' in the wake of the SHTF.
Everyone I know in Europe with a “real”credit card just has an Amex.

Lived in Sweden for the past 12 years, and never seen anybody us an Amex card (seen lots of ads for Amex though). Mastercard seems to own basically the entire credit card market here.
I have to disagree. Writing your own boilerplate can be a great way to learn a new stack, but I think seasoned developers should use (and contribute to) projects that are maintained by the community.

Whenever I come back to a boilerplate project, they're usually using the most recent versions of libraries, or they have some great new features. Examples:

* Rails Composer, for Rails apps: https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-composer

* Ignite, for React Native: https://github.com/infinitered/ignite

I do have one hand-written script that I use for all of my static sites. It copies all the static files into a build directory, gzips HTML/CSS/JS, syncs everything to an S3 bucket, then makes an API request to Cloudflare to purge the cache. But I'm planning to move all my static sites to Netlify [1], so I won't need that script for much longer.

[1] https://www.netlify.com
> It's pretty hard to just up and make friends in Japan

Certainly not unique to Japan. I see many lonely people in western big cities for instance. Surprisingly, I find it much easier to find a girlfriend than a friend. You just go to a dating website, find someone "similar" and spend time together and you can get close very quickly. It's not the way regular friendship works where it takes much longer to get intimate.
Thanks for your comment.

I have just started using Conda locally to learn before taking it to work. I'm a new sysadmin and my predecessor maintained a restricted list of python packages on all cluster systems like a dictator. I don't want to be one.

Does conda cloning the environment mean I can just copy the project directory to another server and expect my program to run without it looking for the packages on the internet?
Why do you think the power is not already being used to bring useful services for people?

It seems like people would want to bend thermodynamics and require that benefit is produced without spending energy...

By the way mining is already used to heat houses in Siberia: https://qz.com/1117836/bitcoin-mining-heats-homes-for-free-i...
It's rather more interesting than that. The amount of resources thrown at mining causes the price to be what it is in USD terms.

The electricity costs of mining are about 20% of the price of Bitcoin - now as it was in 2011. https://medium.com/modern-money-matters/the-cost-of-bitcoin-...

The value of the token is what it costs to get it. You won't let it go for any less than that.
OVH is rather popular in Europe atleast (alongside Hetzner and 1&1).
Title is misleading. Only RBX and SBG were affected.

06:15 UTC SBG serves failed.

OVH network weathermap: http://weathermap.ovh.net

Btw. First post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15660524
OVH is a giant hosting company in Europe, providing dedicated servers to quite a lot of companies. Half the internet here was borked. A translation service, a few developer tools, etc...

Sure, it's less dramatic than AWS going down, but it still hits, and hard.
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Pfft network engineers have been at it way longer :p
But it's now an open fact that kids (who, lets remind ourselves, are not mature enough[1] to make the decision themselves) who play American Football in High School are damaging their brains.

It's akin to having a high school based lesson where the teacher walks around the classroom repeatedly hitting every boy on the head with a baseball bat. If that was a thing, as a parent you would never stand for it. However you happily let your your child suffer the same cranial damage out on the football field simply because it's 'cool' to have a kid on the team.

As a parent, my mind boggles at this.

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[1] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_majority
> it's definitely a "Windows First" language

C# used to be that but I don't think that's the direction anymore.
Costco claim “free drlivery” online, but the prices are 20% higher than in my local Costco store.
Both MasterCard and Visa offer both types of cards. I've got two different Mastercards from my bank. One that is a debit card, draws money directly from my account and stops working if there is no money in the account. The other is a credit card with a line of credit, a bill at the end of each month and an option to only pay off a small part of what I owe.

That being said the debit card version is the one you get by default, and the credit card version is something you have to ask for separately.
Yep, as my accountant relates, many clients continue even after it is very clear they're on a irreversible downward spiral.

Especially cafe/restaurant owners.
The status page was down during the outage.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/25/against-rat-park/ has links, e.g.:

http://sci-hub.io/10.2466/pr0.1996.78.2.391

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2616610

But there are other studies linked that seem to confirm it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3696469

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18463628

Not sure where that leaves us.
> AFAIK nuclear so far has the smallest fatality per kWh ratio.

Does that include the uranium miners?
Good advice. We had some serious trouble when .io went down a few weeks back.
Why do you think ABI compatibility is needed for wiring drivers in Rust? ABI compatibility is only needed for binary modules. Source compatibility should be enough for source code form.
> So why the double taxing?

I don't see it as double taxing.

The money the company makes and the money the people make are two different streams of income and capital.

You are not taxing the people twice. You are taxing them once and the company once. A company is an entity in itself and it has a cash-flow, revenues, profits, expenditures and savings all of its own, separate to the people it employs.

It also uses up land in entirely separate way to the people it employs.
Do they give you the other product at the original price (which UK supermarket deliveries do), or do they bump up the price after you've placed the order?
There are flag football leagues all over the US, semi-pro leagues exist, too. There's lots of people who play on the weekend in and out of leagues.

Or you're asking why 35-year olds aren't buying helmets and pads so they can break collarbones and tear ligaments? Contact football is brutal.
Why should anyone pay any taxes whatsoever?

Why should anyone contribute to the society that allowed them to make their money the first place?