skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boring Company is ready to start digging 6.5 mile tunnel under Culver City
Bootstrap 4.0 Released
Lots of people making below-average incomes get healthcare through their employer. And regardless, it's certainly possible with employer-provided healthcare for everyone who has a job to get insurance through it, whether or not that's happening now. It doesn't make sense to arbitrarily decide that an idea can only be compared to one specific implementation of one specific other idea — it should be compared to the strongest competing ideas, and its drawbacks should be acknowledged on their own merits.
Good idea and execution. Hope you succeed.

I noticed one bug: If I edit and move the position inside of the "zoom-in" area, "You are here" circle position on the big map remains on its original place.
Have you tried a clean install(IE: DFU mode restore, set up as new phone)? That's resolved it on 3 devices for me. Literally zero issues now
Yes, I’d also opt for 100% and just ever so slightly too small text, over scaling.

You can always zoom text in web browsers, editors etc when so most reading is fine anyway.

If you have good vision and the screen not too far away it’s certainly doable - but 32 is a pretty big improvement.
Perhaps also needs onion routing to protect users from liabilities.
The value proposition appears to be a much better time-series solution for the PostgreSQL environment, and in that regard it looks like it is well-executed. But I don't follow the assertion that it is targeted at machine-generated sensor data per se for a couple reasons. I'm not sure it is possible to hit the operation metrics/characteristics typically required for these workloads from within the PostgreSQL ecosystem. Interesting database implementation but I am not clear on the core technical differentiation and value proposition compared to other databases. Maybe someone from TimescaleDB here can fill in?

For example, what is the online insertion rate story? As a rough rule of thumb, I expect an inexpensive Linux server to drive a million records/second through parsing, processing, indexing, and disk storage because you need that kind of throughput for efficiency when dealing with sensor data. But I would not expect that from PostgreSQL -- it is optimized for a different workload. Does this bypass the normal PostgreSQL I/O path some how?

What is the scale-out story? One of the most difficult parts of dealing with sensor data models is that you need to continuously shift data and load between machines to get consistent performance. TimescaleDB's sharding model looks like it might actually be able to support this kind of load shifting but PostgreSQL has no such architectural concept and I don't see anything written about it in a cursory read.

What is the geospatial analytics story? This is a huge part of analyzing sensor data for many applications. PostGIS uses GEOS, which is the only high-quality geospatial geometry engine in open source, but is that integrated into TimescaleDB? Is there proper support for high-performance geospatial sharding?

Looks like a solid architecture and implementation though.
Yeah you're right but this is America buddy we're not worried about what's going on in Europe
As a reminder, before the inevitable flame war starts, http://lesswrong.com/lw/gz/policy_debates_should_not_appear_...

Policies which are, on net, good can still have some bad effects. Policies which are, on net, bad can still have some good effects. Cherry picking a single microeconomic effect in isolation isn't strong evidence for or against either macroeconomic conclusion.

That said, this is good news for Starbucks's workers, and I hope this does become a trend!
Not in the real sense of 'choose'.

I use a computer. I have to use Windows to access certain common or industry standard software packages.

I have friends. I have to use Facebook or miss out on events or similar. Alternatively, I have to put more effort into bridging the gap. Facebook also build a shadow profile on me whether I use their services or not.

I search the web with a non-google search engine, I have moved my email to a non-gmail service, my browser is not google, my phone is not Android. Yet Google will still collect data about me for advertising purposes.

The fact that they have no official oversight should be terrifying.
Thinking about money
> If they're offering such wages and getting candidates to work for such wages, then that's the (local) market wage, by definition

Let me phrase it this way - it's very difficult to find software dev/eng older than 33-35 and the only career path for them is middle management (i.e. distributing tight budget over undemanding workforce). The employers notoriously complain for not being able to find "specialists".
I think there's a problem with their data or their analysis. Vim is probably very well known and held with affection for a lot of developers whereas IDEs are far more subjective and occasionally hated.

There's also a fundamental problem of expectations. Vim is miraculous as far as terminal-based text editors are concerned. You can be amazing productive without a mouse. I can do 100X more and do it all faster with IntelliJ Ultimate but since I paid a wad for it, all I can see are the flaws.
Well this thread is about the NSA.

If you go to a thread about abuses by Microgoogfacebook I'm sure you'll find lots of complaints about them and relatively few about the NSA (other than the extent to which they are harming people by co-operating with the NSA).
One of my favorite 'hidden gem' stops when showing people around Padova, where I lived, was taking them to the agricultural high school where my mother in law worked prior to retiring. Along with a working farm, they produced wine - and even grappa - there. It was actually pretty good, and if you bought it out of a tank rather than bottled it was very cheap.

Americans especially were quite amazed to see wine being produced and sold at a high school.
Did a back-of-the-envelope calculation. Assuming you responded promptly it would take around 504 years to finish the game.
They stated in the article that they stopped pointing the custom domain blog.baremetrics.com to Medium, if they didn't do that and posted this on Medium then the domain would still show as baremetrics.com on HN.
Strong business and margins in the aircraft engine market, with a good future outlook in growth of the airline industry
Our team did a pretty significant integration with Bolt last year.

Their platform is solid and was straight forward to integrate with. Their development team was also extremely helpful and helped us through the process at every step we needed them. They really did go above and beyond for us.
Is there a migration path for customers like us that currently own a CX10 vServer to, let's say, a new CX11 Cloudnode that is half the price?
One of the authors of this standard has talked about decentralized identity, potentially using a blockchain, and has also mentioned that p2p is where things are headed. I have a feeling these will be the next topics explored in the standardization effort.
[1] Here is the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ), which worked on the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers. It is based in Washington, DC and works closely with news organizations in the US and around the world.

[2] Here is a specific story that came to mind, where a Washington Post journalist would not release a scandal story because there was not enough evidence. In fact, they even investigated the source and discovered that it was sting operation trying to prove the the Post has low integrity.

[1] https://www.icij.org/

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approa...
A few minutes. I don't think the time necessary is all that important.
Some of this is good.

Governments (and their agents) should not have impunity for misbehaviour in private.

Governments should not have the level of strategic advantage over their populations that they've been used to. They should feel imperiled by popular wrath if they earn it.
> The country decides what the country's problems are and are not.

Odd, the people who are in charge of creating laws, the House and the Senate, are still in office after getting nothing done. Right now this is not the country's problem because laws on the books should be enforced, as they were passed by the legislature.

Why not vote legislators into office who can pass the laws? It would be the legislative branch's problem, most definitely not the executive branch - I applaud Trump for upholding the law as passed.

The executive branch enforces the law, the legislative branch creates laws, and the judicial branch interprets the law.

Using executive orders to selectively enforce or not enforce laws does an end run around the will of the people and laws. If enough people cared enough, vote legislators in who will change the laws to what you want. Just saying that at this current moment a majority of people want this solved but have no concrete solutions on what the exact pathway to citizenship is short-sighted, naive, and dangerous.
Interesting, was thinking the lock screen issue had to do with me not using touch id. They did fix it inadvertently on 11.2 but then broke again in 11.2.1.
Popular Franchise Uses Social Media Data to Forecast Revenue for New Sites
A moderation queue for everyone's first post is among the best solutions if you can minimize approval time. But you need some impressive manpower for that, like mods willing to get notifications for each first post.

Right now I post registrations and first-posts to a #forum-activity channel on my forum's Discord.
Web search: Don't show me anything from this domain again.

Google had this for a while. I think their customers complained.
Have you guys had any interest from the existing SCADA process historian vendors (Wonderware Historian, OSISoft PI, etc) or historian users about using Timescale?
Column store data warehouses have all those features, except indices which don’t make sense in the context of a columnar architecture. It seems to me that if you create a table in a conventional data warehouse with a partition key on a time column, you have all the advantages of TimescaleDB, plus all the advantages of an MPP columnar data warehouse. Am I missing something? Why should anyone use TimescaleDB instead of just a specific configuration of a data warehouse?
Mastodon is used by a million people across a lot of instances and supported ActivityPub before it was a W3C recommendation, so I'd say it is definitely being used.
The general term for what Baremetrics is doing is called "content syndication" which is the fancy buzzword term for putting all your content on your own blog/domain first and then copying/importing it to other sites.

What makes Google not flip out and de-rank your content for duplication is two things:

1. There is a specific rel=canonical tag that sites can add into their headers pointing at the URL of the source article.

Medium's import tool (which is hidden at https://medium.com/p/import ) will add this header to the articles you import with it, pointing them back to your blog and not hurting you and maybe helping your SEO.

2. There is a notion of timeliness - that if you post on your blog first, wait for Google to index your content there and then post to a place where there isn't a rel=canonical option (like Quora, Tumblr, etc.)

If you're trying to convince someone else that they shouldn't put all their eggs in the Medium basket, point them to this article which is the "nuke it from orbit" article on the subject:

https://sendcheckit.com/blog/why-you-should-put-your-content...
There is also a lot of Degree-ism these days compared to 1970s.

Back then anyone could give-it-a-go at any point. Many fewer people expected to go to university.

These days people anticipate the degree requirements of employers, a self fulfilling cycle
Sites like Codewars seem to me like good ideas starting out, but it doesn't take that long to turn into an arms race of complex one liners that people vote up as the coolest solution, not the best in terms of productivity for a company.
Was tired of waiting for the HomePod and purchased a Google Home Max for Christmas and love it. Apple still does not have stereo working on the HomePod or whole house audio for launch.

I swear something is broken at Apple. How after all these years Siri can still be so bad is unexecusable.
> I never did any XMPP coding but from what I belief it is more difficult to get it 'complete' then to get it 'right'.

I don't think there is a point in getting it complete. You choose the XEPs you want by looking at what your client/server goals are.
Also if you need help in choosing, there are pointer XEPs, like the Compliance Suites, or the mailing list, or the chatrooms. See https://xmpp.org/community/

> Getting it 'right' seems to be a problem when the XEP definition is open to interpretation.

When in doubt, ask the author/council.
Notably they also added this line, to join in on the 'inclusive' and 'diversity' corporatespeak trend:

> Respect for People - We are committed to ensuring that all NSA personnel are respected, included and valued for their diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills and contributions to our mission and culture.
While true at the time, Medium no longer offers custom domains at all.

https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005579728-Custo...
We call people senior after five years. Mastery can take a lot longer than that (and mastery doesn’t mean the end of learning).

Sooner or later someone will have to debug this code late at night. Don’t make it require brain cells.
Yea, I'm evaluating options to get off of medium also (I dislike the interface and I don't know how claps will make me money if at all). Right now I am evaluating https://zarf.co which allows you to put a paywall to your blog posts.
ESL Launches Exclusive Facebook Streaming Partnership but Fans Are Not Happy
Camera geeks have money - and he's a businessman first, photographer second. ;-)
I suspect it's like inoculation: some people die from inoculations, but on the whole the herd gains valuable protection.

The TLA may be terrible for particular individuals, or small groups with a shared characteristic, but politicians should nonetheless advocate for them to protect the "way of life of citizens".

It's a "do you keep a guard dog that you know might maul a child" type of question.
A simple enhancement would be to show (for instance with "...") if there are more levels, that is, if there's a n-3 or n+3, put a ... where it would be. That would make it at least a little bit easier to navigate, by making it explicit when you're seeing an incomplete view of the thread.
Also curious about this, and would add OpenTSDB to that list.
Medium seems to hate mobile users - always putting up a non-closable popup.
The Thomas fire: 40 days of devastation
Best post I've seen on HN in a month or two -- thanks for posting.
I'm currently setting up my blog and I didn't even hesitate to host it myself. Companies like Medium come and go (e.g. Geocities, Xanga, Myspace, Posterous), but your dot com is yours as long as you keep paying the domain fee. Guys like Scott Hanselman and Jeff Atwood are probably very happy they've kept their presence on their own dot coms over the last decade.
I used this phrase:

> allegedly problematic aspects which leak out

Due to the problematic aspects being judged solely by the journalists publishing the leak.

For example, the business records collection on Verizon metadata was something The Guardian saw as problematic and worth exposing, and I agree on it being problematic, so I was glad to see it fixed in 2015 (They now must ask the ISP for information in a more targeted manner instead of getting it all and self-regulating targets).

On the other hand, Spiegel alleged that TAO and CNE-related activities are problematic. I disagree with that and did not see any point in those releases.

Hopefully that makes more sense, I did not mean to imply anything with my phrasing.
Everytime there's a new "cool" blogging platform - people do this and then 2 years later, they write a blog post like the above one.

Own your own blog!
I'm reading and re-reading the first sentence with the words "has becoming". And I'm totally stumped if that is proper or not, my mind says "is becoming". Certainly a new usage to me, but I'm not convinced its actually incorrect.
Millennial male here (car insurers love taking my money), still use the same hotmail account that I made when I wanted to chat with my elementary school friends. I have two different gmail accounts, but I can't ever seem to make the switch over (I've tried multiple times). I think I'm the only person who uses gmail for spam accounts and hotmail as my real account.
I'm not sure that is generally true. The median software developer salary in the US is $102,280[1]. An income of $100,000 puts you in the top 9.15%[1]. A top 5% income writing software isn't completely unheard of, but it does not seem to be represented by any kind of majority. There are always outliers.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
It depends on how you move it over to Medium. If you just did a copy and paste, then it would obviously be marked as duplicated content. If you choose to import it from the URL of your Blog, then Medium will add a canonical link to the original article and Google will know which is the original document.
Integrity and Transparency are listed.

Non-story, move along.
Well the definition of a "virus" have expanded greatly over the years.

The original definition was a piece of code that would latch onto binaries, and be spread that way. And those had telltale signatures (a virus may have added a jump at the start of the binary to the end, where a copy of the virus code resided, and then jumping back to the beginning of the actual program code).

And i am not so sure there is much distinction between visiting a JS heavy site and running a program locally these days. After all, we are seeing the likes of Google exposing USB and Bluetooth via JS APIs now.
The Dragonlance saga was a favourite of mine when I was younger. The sheer number of books published in that universe is astounding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dragonlance_novels
Agreed - I mention that in the post as well. It can allow for any automatic software to take over. Known risk, especially for when I was setting everything up and installing 100 different things and getting the UAC full screen takeover so often.
> even put the strange sign in captchas for humans to check it

"Please select all pictures that look like a legitimate street sign. Please hurry."
I don't know if it's because it's early and my coffee isn't done yet, or that's too dense of a phrase, it's just me, or some combination thereof, but it took two reads of that phrase, a complete and thoughtful read of your comment, and then two additional reads of that phrase before I was able to unpack it enough to makes sense of it and how your comment tied into it.

I'm leaning towards the coffee explanation, but multiple negative (or negative connotating) words probably didn't help...
Scuttlebut is, so far, the most interesting decentralized social media tool I've seen. Even Mastodon and Matrix still require a server of some form, while SSB will continue to work offline and via truly local peer to peer connections.

The only issue is client support and the fact that I don't have a good sense of the state of development/stability/soundness for SSB.

If you (or anyone) has experience actually using SSB or similar true P2P platforms, I'd be very interested to hear what did or didn't work well.
I rarely click on links when I see the source as medium.com. The quality of content there feels too much like blogspot back in the day.
I don’t know how much time he spends code reviewing. But if at the end of the day he wants anybody to get the complete context of what the change entails by looking at the PR... I would think the code review process is more elaborate and time consuming than many companies can afford.
In the US for most persons paid by the public sector or by assorted non-profits, the salary is public information. That's accepted as a given. So I wouldn't be surprised to be able learn the 1st-grade teacher's salary, if she is still working. But the details of her mortgage troubles?
As a kid I typed in all 450 lines or so of a Star Trek game I found in a BASIC computer games book back in the early 80s. I remember it taking ages but that's probably just an artifact of my bad elderly memory. By the time I was done, I didn't even want to play Star Trek, I just wanted to improve the game and fix some things that didn't work just right. When I graduated over to a PC, I ended up porting it to Pascal and giving it a GUI.
If you write code that other people have to ask you about, you will reach a point where you don’t have time to write code anymore because you’re too busy answering for your own code. You may interpret this as “helping your less fortunate teammates” but the wise know they can reduce your influence on the team by sending more people to ask you questions.

Giving them more time to clean up your mess and you none to make it worse.
As mentioned below newer versions of QEMU can emulate the CPUs in newer Pis.

The main thing missing is proprietary graphics API "dispmanx".

I didn't try and emulate the GPIO, but assume that is also not possible ?
Haha, sorry, I've still got a bit of flu fog. Fixed. :P
You must have never visited a kitchen of a small restaurant if you honestly think hygiene regulations are something real and enforceable
messages are signed using http signatures (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cavage-http-signatures-09)
Perhaps then the best lesson he has to teach is that execution (with a bit of luck) is more important than the idea.
> You can't build a product company like this

Except for every company that came before the current dot-com cycle.
Not sure I follow the logic. I think most crypto "investors" already consider it an asset/a store of value that goes up over time, not a "currency". So if that is true, then I would expect Bitcoin to "remain crazy" for a long time (with the minor and major crashes in between, of course).

As for the currency aspect, there are some improvements coming to lower transaction fees and speed by orders of magnitude, but it may take a couple of years to fully realize that transition. It's still not clear if Bitcoin should be the de-facto cryptocurrency, though, even with those improvements coming. There may be better coins for that out there. It's still a wild wild west in that regards, with all sorts of new innovations appearing every year.
From the NSA, and my admittedly-limited understanding of their duties, I'd expect honesty but not full openness. I'd rather you never tell me anything than be mislead.

It's a trust thing. Lying might boost trust temporarily but when I realize it's a lie, it's gonna be lower than before.
His stats for Medium views vs own-host views are the exact opposite of my experience. Everything I've ever written on Medium has way more views than anything I've ever published elsewhere, and we find the same happening for clients who make the switch too. We tend to recommend publishing on Medium to clients these days, both for the traffic and the inbound link SEO bonus.

There's tons wrong with Medium, but it still feels like a better option than a self-hosted system that nobody ever discovers.
Can you give a specific example of the problem?
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> You choose to give your data to Microsoft/Google/Facebook

If only that were so.

Facebook gathers data on you whether you give it to them or not. See https://www.dailydot.com/news/facebook-shadow-profiles-priva... for example, but this is generally well-known.

As far as I know Google likewise gathers all sorts of information without asking for it, just from their ads and analytics running on various websites.

Microsoft is a slightly different story.