skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be completely unfair, but I think it's a drawback of the business model they have. When you have an "open core" that you don't charge for, you have to have something that you can charge for. If you make the "enterprise edition" performant with good UX and the "community edition" slow and clunky then you threaten to kill off your potential user base. On the other hand, if you spend all your time improving the core, then there is nothing for people to buy. The prudent thing to do is to do as little as possible on the "core" because it is essentially a marketing expense. You need to invest as much as possible in the extensions that bring in revenue.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of "open core" systems for this reason. I'd really prefer that companies like GitLab concentrated on actual services rather than trying to sell software. Having an "open core" can in some ways poison the core for outside development because you usually have to allow your code in the enterprise versions (or maintain your own forked copy). This is one of the reasons why Ghostscript never got the outside help that it really deserved (let's face it -- who uses a free software system and doesn't use Ghostscript?) The fact that nobody pays for it -- or even contributes -- was at one point a pretty sore issue for the author.

I love the fact that GitLab contributes useful free software to the world. I am disappointed that their business plan relies on selling proprietary software. I honestly believe they would be in a better place if they took a different approach, but they have always very politely disagreed with me when I've mentioned it ;-).
> Discrete math is important because the universe is discrete.

Is time discrete?
For anyone in New England - new Long Now chapter is now forming in Boston and we have an upcoming seminar on Feb 5th.
http://bit.ly/2n2Kc0R
What really bothers me with SYS is the lack of ECC ram. Very few servers have it (and sometimes without support by the CPU). Wouldn't set up anything processing data without ECC.
A Flexible Reflection System in C++: Part 1
Can you confirm that you delete the ID after verification? Your sentence seems like a lawyer's answer.
> describing with some glee the effects of using an SLR in a built up area.

And what are those effects? (besides killing people and making a noise)

I am assuming in this case an SLR is a Self-Loading Rifle.
Simply false. There are virtually no European-style cities in the US. If you think otherwise, maybe it's because you haven't actually lived in Europe? I live in Munich right now, and I've lived in several regions of the US, visited lots of places too, and can't think of any city that felt very much like Munich does, or even German cities as a whole for that matter. Perhaps you could enlighten me.
He said he didn’t believe you were arguing in bad faith.

If you want to know what _could_ be said to be arguing in bad faith was basically an assertion that was close to “we’ll never know what is truly good or evil because it’s so subjective”. It could be seen as attempting to escape hatch in to the “great unknowables” so you “win” the debate.
"nyu is real estate company that teaches classes on the side"
> 99% of that money was never spent

Then where did it go?
That’s about common for colocation in larger German datacenters, so I don’t think you’re missing anything.
I am not sure that it is complicated so much as, they gouge anyone they can in the US.

Not complicated at all, insulin keeps people alive and our shareholders need a return on their investment.
Yes. You can find Hetzner's ( ;) ) explanation here: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Microsoft_Blacklist/en.

It's the first link in the delisting section: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=614866&clcid

I also recommend signing up for SNDS.
Motorists fork out £1,000 more to insure their cars if their name is Mohammed
Makes Finland sense if you want to connect to Asian customers? Is there a good link Finland-JP/Korea/Singapore?

Otherwise I fail to see why Finland makes sense, unless you need cheaper energy for applications that don't need low latency.
Hosted: GitHub, SourceForge, BitBucket

Self-hosted: Gitea/Gogs, Phabricator, Tuleap
"they could afford to jettison those contracts"

Don't they have to have a contract with the state to have access to the cables? IE: any ISP would have a state contract. If it ceased those contracts, it wouldn't be able to function as an ISP.
Even then. I was surprised to see doing a given thing in Javascript perform better than doing it in CSS, but that seems to be the reality of browser implementations.
Lol, you can’t be serious.

There is a very large difference between investing and speculation, and blockchain currencies are a supreme example of a pump and dump speculation scam.
This isn't something that can be put into a single paragraph, the top 3 results from Google seem to provide decent sources of information

https://www.thebalance.com/dollar-to-yuan-conversion-and-his...

https://www.thebalance.com/how-does-china-influence-the-u-s-...

https://www.cluteinstitute.com/ojs/index.php/IBER/article/do...

However I haven't read them thoroughly, so I suggest you invest some time in doing some research.

P.S. I really hate this source/citation discourse that is effectively taken over every debate on the internet opinions can be constructed out of vast amounts of information and experience and even casual observations tend to be the product of much more information that can be distilled into bit size pieces.

Just do research and learn, stay away from wikipedia and go for academic and sources and don't shy from even biased opinion pieces as those tend to be some of the most valuable as they expose you to concrete positions and being wrong or right does not change their value.
What’s new in project management in Slovenia
The demographic we're talking about is the exact same one that hates transit and will refuse to fund it.

It's not unlike the rural areas in the US that are heavily dependent on government subsidies that they vote against.
I really recommend Braille, even if you are not blind. You might be underestimating the time it takes to learn though Chinese is easy.
People need to actually be able to contact you with that, by letter, fax, phone, email, etc.

All WHOIS protection services I’ve seen until now either ignore fax, phone and letter, or just respond with "this method of contact is ignored, please use the email"
Excellent!

They do not move the physical gold - they move the ownership of a digital token tied to gold, at a far lesser fee than current digital escrow. This is the same as ETF gold currently. Not many people receive actual, physical gold.

In the case that you needed to receive the physical gold, the cost of trusting a delivery person remains fairly constant (until we have autonomous delivery robots). However, the proof of ownership can no longer be tampered with, as it exists on a global ledger. This reduces the overall transaction fee.

The transaction is a transfer of value. Amazon and eBay are also facilitators of value transactions. The same economic rules apply albeit on a much smaller scale. Extrapolate this and any transaction of a digital asset can benefit from reduced mediator fees. The scale of this is quite large.

I think this is well summarised here: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/insights-on-business/retail/transa... Text between asterisks is added by me.

"Consensus: Thanks to the value that smart contracts and shared ledgers offer blockchain users, consensus can be more easily agreed upon and confidently understood. Using blockchain, users can make decisions based on factual data – helping to eliminate disputes, confusion and time (reduced mediator fees). Consensus is built at each step of the supply chain not just at the beginning, when the order is placed and the end, when the order is received. This process enables all parties to resolve issues as they occur and have visibility to take alternative actions if necessary. From a supply chain perspective, this adds tremendous value to merchants, logistic companies, vendors and all others working together to deliver timely, efficient inventory deliveries, re-orders and more. This is particularly important when you factor in that data – and data alone – is what leads supply chain leaders in their immediate and future decisions. Without concrete data to refer to and analyze, decisions cannot be as precisely made between both internal and external partners alike."

TLDR: reduced mediator fees reduce barriers to entry in any market where value transactions occur.
And without the OVH cloud interface which has horrible loading times and sometimes randomly switches to French.
Rolling back the cache changes is just asking for trouble. Consider that any cycles you spend undoing cache changes is also a side effect that can potentially be measured.

Instead, hold the newly loaded cache lines in a "cache line buffer", the same way how stores are held in a store buffer. For any reads, the CPU will check the cache load buffers before L1 cache.

Then once the instruction which triggered the cache read completes, the new cache line will finally be applied to the L1 cache and the old line evicted.

In the case of a misprediction, the cache load buffers can be discarded instantly.
I am not advocating for or against piracy, but it's not just the money. Convenience is also a major player. People want a Netflix situation where they can get most of their content and pay one bill and use one app. They don't want seven different services and bills and apps. If piracy becomes simpler than juggling all that, piracy rates will increase.

Piracy is a conscious decision to take the path of least resistance.
Also worth mentioning that SoYouStart servers have slower network speeds (250Mbps compared to OVH's 500Mbps-1Gbps)
Charitably: a possible example of a black box AI gone wrong.

From a tabloid, but this is the original source of the investigation.

Twitter user appears to confirm: https://twitter.com/annajholt/status/955470572229746688

Admiral's response: https://twitter.com/iammuhammad/status/955732231452090368

The core of Admiral's response is: You may have seen a story in the news which claims we use customers' names to
price our insurance based on race.

But this is carefully worded, to neither confirm nor deny that name itself is factored into insurance quotes. That is, they are saying that they don't use name to infer race, and then discriminate on race.

But in other words: the possibility is implicitly left open that they look only at name. Which could be be arguably discriminatory due to a correlation between name and race, even though they don't explicitly attempt to derive race.

Separately, a follow-up report also asserts price being affected by email address domain name (e.g., higher for users of Hotmail than Gmail): https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/5401901/admiral-hikes-insura...
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That assumes the customer is the one who chooses. With most Americans getting insurance through their employers, they don't have the option to choose a less crappy insurer even if they trusted the claims of better service.
Apart from checking the feasibility of the proposition I could imagine a few factors:

- For evolution to occur in this directed way there should be some natural selection mechanism present. If the pathogen is able to reproduce and spread then it is fit, even if its genetic code is in a 'corrupt' state.

- Even if there was some mechanism present, there still would be some generations apart for the fluctuation to smooth, so if the objective was a short term goal it would be successful.
> I guess this makes it unsexy

Nah, what makes it unsexy is the Perl syntax. The world has moved on. The readability of modern languages like Python is on another level.
I’ve been maintaining the price comparison at git.io/vps for a while now, and the answer is:

No, you’re missing nothing. Yes, DO and especially AWS and GCP are about an order of magnitude more expensive than Hetzner, OVH, and similar providers. Much more for traffic.

It’s always been like this, the cloud providers simply have much larger profit margins.
And it is possible to connect old hardware:

The Wonderful WiFi232: BBSing Has Never Been Easier | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14481296 (June 2017)
PowerShell is fundamentally flawed system. The object oriented language does not belong to shell. It’s simply too verbose and awkward for repeated fast interactive use. When tons of commands starts with get-*, that’s 4 extra keystrokes before even you begin to specify actual command. I know there are shortcuts but still that’s workaround this bad foundation.

A general purpose programming language where you write statement and it stays there and gets executed million times is very different model than shell language where you write statement, throw it away and move on with next. Combining both is creating Frankenstein that’s good at neither. It’s just quite funny that PowerShell syntax doesn’t allow == but does need curlies. Who in the world would have thought of that?

Also the view that everything in shell should output structured data is plain wrong. Shell should output human readable formats. always. It’s tool’s job to do proper parsing and deal with related complexity. The convenience should always be afforded to humans, not tools. Even if one changes all built-in commands to comply this, vast majority of programs won’t.

So lot of above leads to Frankenstein-ish design that looks like awkward hodge pudge of bandaids. While cross platform is good, MSFT needs to start brand new effort, leave PowerShell behind and take command line to next generation with right first principles.
Pedestrians and cyclists generally don't present a serious safety hazard to others.

This is like complaining that people treat guns and knives with different levels of seriousness. Of course they do; both are potentially deadly, but one far more so than the other.
After both Chicago '68 and the Kent State shooting, there was immediate, extensive blowback in the American press and public. Quite the opposite happened in China after Tiananmen Square.

(Of course, all of the above were decades ago, so we need to keep an open mind about the condition today in the respective countries.)
VC firms still exist. Some of them are funding my employer, for example. So what exactly did YC do to VC?
Show HN: Flat UI Colors 2 – 280 handpicked colors by 13 designers
Their docker image also goes up blazing fast compared to gitlab.

Also, they have repo mirroring which as I understand is not available on gitlabs CE edition.
I use mail-in-a-box: https://mailinabox.email/ on a small linode.

Has been serving me well for years.

For one other email I use Rackspace Email at $2/month: https://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting
The rules are that you open the file for reading until you get end-of-file. If you don’t follow the rules unexpected things go wrong. For instance it may not even be possible to get the file size.

That is not suitable for a program like grep.
We like to laugh about the Tuesday siren tests, but times like this are why we do them. If a tsunami really does hit WA and OR expect the waterfront sirens to make a pre-dawn announcement.
Tsunami watch has been cancelled for Washington, Oregon, and California.

https://twitter.com/NWSEureka/status/955777068377296896
I know that cable - it's rather famous for predicting a lot of what took place but is far from a US plot to overthrow Assad
And don't connect to the Internet
Reminds me of this pic from Terminator
https://s3.amazonaws.com/pbblogassets/uploads/2015/08/Termin...
Perl 6 was announced in the year 2000. 18 years is a long time. It should be a case study for software developers.

I don’t know if they should give up. Haven’t looked at Perl 6 in about 5 years. The best thing the community could do would be to turn the language into the solution to a particular problem:

Web development, machine learning, etc

Sure, anyone could build everything from scratch, but that’s usually not a good idea.
Even in big cities American urban design tends to strongly favor cars and ignore pedestrians. Here in Germany, any decent sized intersection will have pedestrian islands, often multiple islands just for a single side. In the states, these are relatively uncommon.

Or look at where the stoplights are. In Germany, they're set back such that it's impossible for a driver to go into the crosswalk and still see the light. This naturally encourages drivers to respect the crosswalk. Not so in the US, unfortunately.

I could go on and on, but really almost all American streets are hostile to anything that's not a car.
What’s coming and going on Netflix is now easy to find
Running Kubernetes on bare-metal with Terraform Scaleway provider and kubeadm
Considering you said you also block Amazon, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15494970, I don’t think your opinion will have much weight on this topic.
There's a difference between a watch and a warning.
See this on why they won't peer with Deutsche Telekom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10645577
China also imposes heavy capital controls on the ability to move yuan into and out of the country and exchange it for other currencies, which makes it seem like an interesting choice here.
Agreed, with one caveat: we should probably think of THIS year as 12018!

The 10,000 Year Clock extends our perception of time further into the future.

Adopting the Holocene Calendar, as proposed by the geologist Cesare Emiliani in 1993, would extend our understanding of the "long now" further into the past, which I would argue is equally as important.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar]
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Unless you think about some metric of relevant countries in the global arena, like the G8, then it makes sense.
My understanding has been that OVH offers guaranteed bandwidth of 100mbit and Hetzners has a 10 Gbit network connection, but I would guess that this connection is shared and doesn't offer any guarantees. Hetzners free traffic is also capped at 20TB. Therefore I left this details away as it is difficult to compare. If would love to see a detailed comparison.
Could you clarify what you mean by "good" here? I see a sine wave when I click now, with an amplitude of about .75 meters.
All tsunami warnings and watches were cancelled at 2:12am HST / 3:12am AKST / 4:12am PST / 12:12pm GMT.

There remains a tsunami advisory in effect for South Alaska and the Alaska Peninsula.

[1] http://tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2018/01/23/p3054t/5/WEAK51/WE...

mirror of [1] https://gist.github.com/mckaydavis/8693d4ae9bb844f8bccef90bd...
In what geography, any evidence? Those who lived through the wars and depression(s), and baby-boomers, are notorious for their frugality and reuse.
I think that as the value of bitcoin decreases, a lot of the mining will stop for want of profitability. Right now it's still Klondyke days and everybody is out there with his pickaxe. In a few months, slightly used pickaxes, or in this case GPUs, will be cheap and plentiful.

It's stupid while it lasts bit fortunately it won't. Bitcoin has no practical utility, neither as currency nor as a store of value, and you can't pick the blockchain apart to extract anything of value. Bitcoin is like my dad's books of completed sudokus: Proof of hard work but not of any value to anyone.

ATM Bitcoin is approaching the $10K mark from above. The press will soon be writing stories about people who lost this-and-this-much. The stupid money which fueled the bubble will dry up.
Can you upload ISO files?
scaleway seems even lower and is pretty popular.
I know that Telekom has a horrible attitude towards peering. But they're the only provider of high speed internet in many regions of Germany. Other cloud providers (e.g. OVH) also pay so I doubt Telekom will change soon.
I believe they cross-check between different users.
I believe it used to work something like this on the old recaptcha system (the one with the words or house numbers): They show you 2. 1 is known by recaptcha, the other one isn't. If you enter the known one correctly, you can enter. The unknown one is presented to other users and when there is enough consensus amonst users it is promoted to a known one. So it's hard to mess with the system as an individual.
I disagree. To me Perl is more readable than Python. What is so modern about Python? It was released in 1991.
Are you the author of the blog post, or the video or are you involved somehow in this event?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs.
Not a dark UX, but another move I’ve seen that is line with the stall-for-time method that the author mentions is the requirement for a prior authorization, even for very common medicines. I have seen first-hand the amount of work this tactic creates in medical offices. It definitely allows insurance companies to stall in their approval/payment for medicines and, I’m sure in a % of cases, not pay at all (ie, the paperwork doesn’t get completed, patient gives up trying to navigate the complexity of the system).
I use it at work and haven't had anything to complain about, but we are using the self-hosted version.
Data-Intensive Systems for the Next 1000x (2016)
I need HN’s help... What benefits do countries/governments/politicians get when their currency becomes internationally accepted?
Presumably in the future, with blockchain-style transactions, we'll be able to see where exactly the money went in such situations.
Please see the CI/CD box at the top right of the Cloud Native Landscape: https://github.com/cncf/landscape#current-version

(Disclosure: I'm the author.)
When my grandmother became too old to drive safely, we sold her car and had her use the proceeds for cabs to where she needed to go. When that ran out, her kids and grandkids covered the cab fare. It wasn't all that much more expensive than the car itself. I can imagine it being a hardship, though, for those with less means.
The security testing feature is definitely interesting but I wonder how it performs as that by itself is a non-trivial task. It can be done for sure but it takes a lot of resources and care to make it useful.

EDIT:

I would like to add that if this feature is in fact really useful and it works, the price for the GitLab Ultimate is justified if the license does not restrict you to the number of targets you can test. It can be used as a service and could potentially replace other infrastructure in a typical corp environment that is used mainly by the security team. But as I said earlier, this is a non-trivial task.

EDIT 2:

This is my last edit. We use GitLab CI internally and it is quite nice although it is not without issues. There are some really funky problems. But it works and I love the fact that it is integrated into the GitLab product. Except for TravisCI which makes it trivial, most other CI tools are very difficult to setup and maintain and for small teams this is yet another annoying thing to do. As a startup, I can say it is very useful.
Show HN: Why is Bitcoin down?
Sorry to say this, but that is a pretty ignorant comment.
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→ Hetzner: CX21, 2 cores, 4GB RAM - 5.83€

→ OVH VPS Cloud 2, 2 cores 4GB RAM: 23.79€

→ OVH VPS SSD 2, 1 core, 4GB RAM: 9.51€

→ OVH VPS SSD 3, 2 cores, 8GB RAM: 17.84€

For me, OVH's unlimited traffic does not explain the price difference. I will highly consider switching to Hetzner.

EDIT: correct meaning
This sine wave is expected:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide