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In this context a contractor is a company, not a contract employee.

Sure that company has employees, but if they are not doing the job it is better to find a different company that will.
Or they can start off with reusing IDEA’s stuff, and building an LSP 2.0 based on it.
What do you mean? I generally made much more per hour when I was working as a contractor.
I think I've made myself misunderstood. I'm not intending to put down IT work or the people who do it. But from a career perspective, if I want job security and a higher salary, I think it'd be a mistake, in the long term, to be seen as IT. IT is seen as a cost center, which leads to corner-cutting and outsourcing--even when it ends up costing way more in the long run.[0]

0. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jwebb/2017/05/29/british-airway...
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> 2) I'm now way less aware of lots of news. Two days ago was the first time in years that I thought to myself "what ? I didn't know that" about an event. Not sure if this is bad or good, but it's an important difference.

I would suggest it's good. Most news in my view is "junknews", even from reputable outlets (including independent media). Why? Very rarely is any news actionable in any way. It's likely that very little of what you and I see each day fundamentally changes how we live our daily lives.

Most of it is entertainment and us humans just like to "know" things - there are more effective ways to be informed about the world if that is the honest objective. Spending an equivalent amount of time reading books or going outside into the streets/community is likely far more useful for nearly everyone. Outsource getting the most important updates to people you know; they'll enjoy knowing "stuff" and keeping you up-to-date.

Catching up on news can always come later anyway (e.g., if you need to cram for an "exam"; i.e., voting).
I really love the concept of this. I travel a ton and am without internet for days/ weeks at a time. Scuttlebutt allows me to keep up to date with friends and communities while offline and when I do eventually get online, just grab the newest updates and download them locally.

This is such a cool thing in my eyes for parts of the world with little / no internet access. The creator of the project (AFAIK) sails around the world and, again, has little internet access. this allows him to keep people updated when he eventually does find internet.
Unpublishing pages isn't nothing -- disabled pages can't interact with fans or be interacted with, which is the main reason why a company would want to have one. But maybe they're holding off on deleting it because they might later realize it's a useful (and cheap and efficient) channel for outreach.

edit: or maybe disabling (but not deleting) is the best way to make sure the Tesla/SpaceX pages don't get name-squatted when they are released?
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The Netflix analogy also applies if they bill $0.001 per minute - the number I chose is not indicative of reality, I was just making a point. My goal was to demonstrate the fact that it's more efficient per-resource.
One of our demo workloads deploys Kubernetes via kubeadm on bare metal nodes -- we have a video of the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMm6Oz1NF6I
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I might argue that you are in a minority there. I don't doubt that finding good content is possible on Facebook and Twitter, but to be fair it was outside those conclaves that the quality content was actually residing. Back in the day I definitely discovered new things on those platforms, but it has been some time. Most things I see there now are short attention span low quality memes and crap. Might have more to say about who I follow and friend compared to who you follow and friend than anything else. To that I say, good job, I wish I had the time and patience to curate my social graph better.
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When I send a FOIA request to [insert law enforcement agency here] and ask them to provide me with the source code and data used to classify me as a criminal so that I can determine whether the chain of reasoning holds up, and the law enforcement agency then needs to turn to Palantir to request that source code and data, what response will they get?
If I may, a decentralized alternative to facebook would be community-based, allow people to do group chats, discover and post events, see attendees, meet each other, add each other to contacts, maybe even drive each other to the events, date, book group reservations at local businesses etc.

Like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1O_gmPneI

Yes that’s my project. Would love to get feedback.

(The things I mentioned above are actually social things, the main thing that distinguishes them is that they are taking place in the future and group collaboration online is always leading to a goal. Anything that doesn’t satisfy those two criteria is more about socializing online than offline.)
I downloaded Patchwork after someone talked about Scuttlebutt on HN, but when I tried to join any pub servers on their Github repo, none of them worked/connected. 30 minutes later, I uninstalled the thing.

The idea was interesting, the UI was pleasant, and I could see this working at some tech conference where people connect with each-other and there's a common pub server so people can keep in touch afterward, but I don't see uncle Joe or grandma using this thing over FB.
As a thought experiment - would slavery in the US have ended sooner or later if we had anonymous internet from the 18th century on? I'm not implying there is any clear answer, but I think it is a simple way of immediately seeing much of the nuance of this issue that you might miss at a cursory consideration.

Self censorship due to social pressure certainly keeps some people (as has been mentioned Facebook shows clearly enough that lots of people simply don't care) from discussing things that they would not feel comfortable discussing under their real name. And those things that they might not feel comfortable discussing can be negative, but they can also be positive. In either case, I think it's probably a net positive for society when people can discuss things they actually feel instead of things that they think others think they should feel, even though those others might not even feel that way! Shouldn't society operate in a way that we think it should operate instead of the way that we collectively think everybody else thinks we think it should operate?
Then yeah, that seems pretty irresponsible to put other people's property in danger and potentially lives if they're within distance of the ISS.
Most spacecraft/satellites don't have onboard radar or other local scanning equipment, and "diverting" a spacecraft is actually a pretty complicated thing. This would involve multiple delta-v (using thrusters), both to avoid the object and then go back into their normal orbit. That could eliminate years of useful lifetime of a satellite, because those thrusters are usually used just for stationkeeping. Also, whatever orbit they are in is usually related to what the satellite is doing, so it might affect performance/reception/scanning/etc.

Just like the movie Gravity, if there was an explosion in space and you had a lot of small objects floating around in a cloud you can't detect, that could snowball into destroying more things in orbit, making the problem even worse. Right now there's no way I know of to clean up space junk in orbit other than waiting for it to burn up, which could take years or tens of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_station-keeping
Signalling SOB* instead of SOS might be risky.

* Save Our Bodies
I am eagerly awaiting the third act in this saga, where it is revealed that the whole exit scam/"PR stunt" was a misdirection and the real scam is uncovered.
By the way, here is the Lurker author's response to my changes:

https://sourceforge.net/p/lurker/mailman/message/31487163/

TL; DR: Irrationally against all HTML in mail archives, even if properly cleaned. Thanks for Lurker, though!
As an existence proof: before the acquisition we built an ANSI SQL database and a wire-compatible clone of the MongoDB API.

I see no reason you wouldn't be able to implement Datastore. In fact here's a public source claiming that Firestore (which I believe is its successor) is implemented on top of Spanner: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/04/google_backs_up_fir...
The size of the chances varies wildly.

There are times it makes sense to do the high-risk ones: devs that are unproven, without great academic and work backgrounds, looking to get a foot in the door. Companies that are not well funded looking to find diamonds in the rough, since they can't attract people who already have proven themselves. I've been that dev myself, based just on a strong sense of how the CEO and myself were on the same page based on our conversations.

But it's definitely not a risk I'd take again from where I am now. At a more established place with people I know who vouch for the folks involved, there's a much lower chance of a new FTE getting canned within a few months for anything short of egregious behavior.
How does it compare to CockroachDB or TiDB?
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yup it is stored with bcrypt hash and per-user salt.
Neutrality is impossible. Either you ban people for racism or you don't.
That's not the point of my comment. OP said all p2p sales was banned, when that's not the case. In fact I think pot sales subreddits are still there.
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>Well, sure, but we don't really know, for sure, if that code is their own or if they indeed truly wrote it, can we?

Passing off someone else's open source as yours would be a hard lie to keep under wraps, an easy lie to uncover and I've never heard of anybody doing it to score a job.

Have you ever heard of this happening? Even once?
> Not the same as a mail client, but once you opened an individual email there's threaded structure.

Yes, but it's much more cumbersome to navigate the thread compared to using an actual mail client. If web pages of mail archives could present an overview pane for navigating messages, it would go a long way to making them usable in a browser as opposed to just posting links to the immediate parent and the set of children for a given message.

Though I wish that having a NNTP gateway (or using NNTP as a primary method of communication for a project) was the standard as opposed to using a mailing list since it would make viewing past messages before subscribing to a newsgroup trivial.
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Diaspora is federated, which for non-technical users is worse than FaceBook itself. The individual nodes (to which thousands of users are connected) will have far fewer resources to secure themselves than a behemoth like FaceBook. Also, uptime, badwidth etc.

ScuttleButt is peer to peer, somewhat like torrents but for data feeds.
Reddit's hive-mind is ultra-liberal.
So it's a double play on the name now. I.e. it's in the hands of Sauron?
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Space debris is a massive problem that is only getting worse. [1]

These objects aren't just floating up there, they're travelling at tens of thousands of miles per hour. If they can't be tracked, they can't be avoided.

[1] https://youtu.be/HVov8o9x0yI
Not if you can find others who are just as good. And what's your better suggestion for filtering out people who can't code and not filtering out the good ones with anxiety?
Just clicked on https://www.remotezoo.com/ from the list and received the message (in Chrome) This server could not prove that it is www.remotezoo.com; its security certificate expired 4 days ago.
The russian mob kidnapped someone for extortion, that isn't exactly vigilante justice.
I think that's exactly why they went with unpublishing the page, rather than deleting it. They would lose all their followers and data, which is the hardest thing about leaving a platform like Facebook - the historical context you leave behind.

This also means that the data still remains available to Facebook as well, so while it isn't nothing, it's not nearly as dramatic of a statement that Elon originally made.
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>Wouldn't it be funny if the half that didn't respond were the best candidates you heard from, and you threw them away with your take home thing?

In my estimation, it's not likely that all of the ones who didn't respond were better than the ones who did, but it's likely that a sizeable portion of them were. They're not going to jump through ridiculous hoops because they don't have to.

One time an employer of mine wanted newly hired developers to sign a crazy onerous contract with unbelievably broad and vague non-compete provisions and IP provisions. I told him that the only people who would sign it were people who were desperate for employment, or people without integrity who would sign it without any intent of abiding by it. Neither of which were the types we were looking for. So he relented and we ditched it.
Ah, GNU make second expansion... glad to see someone else appreciates it ;-).
Time to circle the wagons and protect the core business. Collecting information and selling ads is their bread and butter. Giving third parties access to that data in order to build things gave them great marginal gains on their way to the top (sort of like Twitter), but in the current political climate the risks far outweigh whatever incremental gains they could realize going forward.

Don't expect the API back any time soon.
That's true: the reason I started looking into AI is to broaden my knowledge on how it can be used to solve problems in ways traditional ML/traditional modeling can't. I did have a strong statistical/data background in college beforehand which helped validate which approaches were good/bad/wrong, though.

The YouTube/Medium posts however advocate "Learn Machine Learning from scratch in 3 Months!" which is a problem.
Honest question, does MongoDB not work for this?
Reddit user for 10 years. I have never seen a random skinhead pop into the comments. And if they were to do so, they would get downvoted to oblivion...
The comments here have this mentality of "there are people with different opinions from me, why don't these websites deal with these opinions". It's dangerous thinking that can be applied to your opinions.

The internet always worked this way. There are the cesspools, maybe things you don't like, but if you don't feel like engaging with these communities you simply keep going. Problem with these social media forum sites is that as much as you don't want to engage/debate with these communities they still use the same website as you so its unavoidable.

This is why centralizing these forums onto one website was a bad idea, blame that. Because now, there's too much money involved and excluding people of certain political ideas or whatever means you lose a substantial chunk of userbase, which means users would depart to another website.
I'll use this as an opportunity to vent about agile. It promises developers a larger voice, but in my experience, it heavily favors management and product management types, since they are usually the ones in control of the ticketing/tracking systems. They aren't under the sprint deadlines that developers are, so they are able to better organize and build their cases for what gets done. Even if developers can build a case, it often gets sent to the bottom of the backlog. Developers are forced to take on technical debt due to the short-term product oriented thinking. Is this because of the design of agile, or just the misapplication? Considering it's a cargo-cult management technique, I think it is part of the design.

2 week sprint deadlines are entirely too short. say there's a larger project, it takes a lot of overhead to split everything up into neat 2-week releasable pieces. After the slicing and dicing, the big picture gets lost and garbled, adding more stress to developers.

Third, and most importantly, it offloads responsibility and ownership from management (especially upper management) onto lower level employees. Why should managers do their job if agile teams are "self organizing" and "self managing"?

On top of this, I'm not convinced product or business types are better able to design a good product than most developers are.
the overall trends we saw in the data reflected how investors really think about startups, which is based on risk. the more progress you can show with the funds you've used so far, the less risky your startup will look to investors.
You can do just about everything a native app can do with RN. If you have a very small, capable team that's all on the same page, it's a good choice. For large existing codebases in large organizations, it's a very poor choice.
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No, that's nearly every company. But if there's 10 software engineers working with 50 MBA's who drive the business, none of them can tell the difference and treat you as such, which happens more often than not outside of a tech company. They are the ones making the company money, and you are the programmer doing that "easy programming stuff for IT nerds". It's not that rare of a situation
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The cynical side of me says that Facebook realized awhile ago that the API was NOT helping them making any more money.

If anything, it was preventing advertisers from spending more money, or using their own tools like Facebook Insights.

Now that Cambridge happened, they're using this golden opportunity to shutdown the other API endpoints, so that they can keep more of the data, and advertisers will have to spend more money.

If I'm being emphathetic, I'll say I'd even do the same thing if I was in Facebook's position right now.
If a pilot lands a broken plane safely, she may just be doing her job, but to a passenger on board, they may feel she saved their life. That feeling is justifiable and should in no way be minimized by having a "well, technically" attitude.

As for the media, well, they're going to get caught up in the emotional side of it. That's just a given.
There is actually research showing that exposure to a series of fake headlines - even though you are told that they are fake - makes similar fake headlines more believable to you.
By default in HBase, each region is served by a single region server. Writes and reads always go to that regionserver, and are consistent across a single row (HBase is a CP system). In this mode, when a regionserver goes offline its regions are (eventually) reassigned to a different region server. During this process the region is unavailable, but there's no loss of consistency.

Hbase 0.98 (I think?) introduced a feature called "timeline consistency" that allows reads from replica regionservers. This has to be enabled for a table and has to be specified on the query side. If it is, you have the option of falling back to the replica if the primary doesn't respond within a deadline. This may be a good tradeoff if you value availability over consistency.
Take this as a positive criticism, I dont want to put you down, but today everyone is considering backup as problem of moving data. Which is wrong. This is far from what I would expect from backup tool. You have many targets but than this is just a data moving tool to the cloud. On the other side rarely any serious organisation moves the data to the cloud and even if they do, it is considered as second tier storage. Primary target is always to the streamer (tape), it is THE only storage that was time proven. Also, there are some concepts; incremential, differential, delta, rehydrating, archiving, lets not even go into deduplication... and there are open source solutions for that. Backup word is not a simple tag, do your homework and study the backup field, it is highly complex and far from moving the data from point A to point B, maybe just a thought to show you the importance, some organisations have separate backbone for backups and disk arrays to minimise downtime, the data are not always on disk, the minimum you need is flushing the disk cache, for the database you will hit into words like freeze, for virtual machines... well.. good luck :)

But anyway, nice to see you like it enough to write a tool, just keep on going :)

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After my initial post, I was dowvoted. To justify that: this is not a backup, it is just an alternative to rsync or cp with multiple targets and more of something I would run after a real backup has finished. If someone is looking for real backup, there are multiple open source backup products that know their domain. This one clearly does not.
What is meant by "gaming mechanics you see here"? Could you be more specific? Of course, voting does affect what gets posted, but that's the point. If your authentic voice doesn't appeal to HN voters, then develop another voice that does appeal to us!
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Yes! Very much like Goodreads for online courses. However, at the moment this is best used to keep your friends up to date with what courses you're taking rather than helping you find which courses to take. There are already a couple good resources out there for helping you find the best course to take (ex: CourseTalk (https://coursetalk.com), Class Central (https://class-central.com).
Yeah, I'd really like to know what colleges these people are coming out of - if they're real colleges and not just paper diploma mills, I'd have to question their accreditation. I didn't go to MIT - I went to a tier-3 (or 4...) school and you couldn't have graduated, with any GPA no matter how low, without having produced dozens of working programming assignments, many much more difficult than any take-home work assignment.
Check out Glenn Martin in ‘To raise heaven ans Earth’. The amount of freedom these inventors needed and took advantage of would be much harder to achieve today. That’s exactly the point - they were able to test, build, fly, improve their ‘dangerous experiments’ without local, state or Federal government stepping in.
People like to blame FB/Twitter

I am not blaming anyone. Simply stating that those places are expressly made for sharing low-quality content.

Just because there is a demand for something, doesn't mean we shouldn't fight the urge.
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cockroachdb and tidb/tikv?
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Does anyone know if the SQL layer was open sourced, or whether there are any plans to open source it?
Isn't this just about who 'other than google' can access your data? Its sort of like creating an API and allowing only one person to use that API. The API itself is the problem, not the fact that only one person can access it. But I don't get the pressure on Google here. What do people expect them to do if their entire business model is based on data harvesting. The only way to fix this would be to have a legally mandated opt-in policy on data collection. This will let Google charge money from end users, and maybe make them feel much better about it too.
Wow this is super exciting. I had a half dozen things that I though FDB would be good for and then poof! it got sucked up into the Apple spaceship. Now to have it emerge unscathed is pretty awesome.

Another step closer to a library appliance.