skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had to move one end-user facing service from a proprietary (distributed) on-premise data centers solution running rented/hosted.
We set up a number of criteria for evaluating cloud vendors as well as on-premise and semi-hybrid solutions. We had been following Kubernetes since some time back, and the platform had matured considerably, so we decided to continue our further cloud vendor evaluations by using Kubernetes.

At the end, the Kubernetes solution neutralized the choice of cloud vendor, at least from a software release and management point of view. From a security, availability, latency and a few other aspects the choice of cloud provider became less of an issue/equal challenge.

We have faced a few minor challenges when using Kubernetes. The knowledge barrier; The problem, as well as the beauty of Kubernetes, is that it takes on quite a comprehensive view of network management, service discovery, DNS management, deployments, container orchestrations, secrets management, system administration and much more. We use this as an opportunity for learning more than we see problems. But several roles (in the enterprise) need to come together on a pull request for a change, rather than having tickets and side projects.
Switching to new features, like RBAC, TLS policy for AWS ELBs and generally keeping up with new features is another. The mostly excellent documentation has helped a lot.

Using Kubernetes, we noticed that latency of using the service was slashed to 50-80%, depending on the location of the end-user. This, however, we attributed more to the ability to roll out in more regions and auto-scaling. Of course k8s is not alone in supporting this, but it really comes out of the box.

A second effect we noticed was that by integrating the releases via Kubernetes, we reduced the time from the point of being ready in system test, to be passing our Release Readiness Check (yes we are an enterprise), and have user acceptance test environments and production environments being provisioned using about 15% of the manpower of our previous processes, and having releases being available in minutes and not in days (weeks), with enhanced visibility and maintainability. As an example, having the possibility to easy tear down or upgrade projects, with the right security and scale at all times (and no lingering volumes, load balancer pools or firewall rules)

For us, Kubernetes has brought a higher predictability of releases, and monitorability of the total solution. We did also switch a solution from one cloud provider to another, and might switch back. For the move we needed some labeling of services and management (referencing) of certificates.
This app in Google Play wants to use phone mics to enforce copyrights
Being more strict about having really thoughtful, relevant and clear purposes - and trying to really focus on only doing activities that really matters to achieving those purposes and goals. I feel this applies to everything, really pays off, and in my experience surprisingly few people question what and why they are doing something. They have shallow explanations that often break down when go a little bit deeper.

When developing an organization, why does this organization exist? What is the true purpose of doing your own startup? What is the true vision and purpose of the startup? Why do you live? How do you want your life to look like in 10 years? What are important things to achieve the best life you can in 10 years, and so forth.

From what I understand this is most often the most overlooked issue in success in more or less all types of activities. From developing software, achieving a happy life, succeed at work, succeed as an entrepreneur, and so on.
Interesting that this was tested at Framestore (the visual effects company), they used to be a Lustre shop years ago then moved to commercial NFS servers and must be back onto commodity hardware now.
Northern Europe wasn’t the impoverished, uninteresting backwater though. It had a rich culture that interacted with the Orient through Russian rivers. Central Africa did as well, and is another forgotten story, but at the time the Greeks invented democracy, the largest city of the time was thriving in central Africa, a city that wouldn’t be out done population until after Augustus was long dead.

History is full of stuff like that. The key difference is that these regions didn’t keep written track and have left only archeology, but in Europe most of that didn’t keep because other people lived on it after wards.

The earliest written accounts about Northern Europe are Christian accounts that were written almost 400 years after the Vikings discovered America. While it’s not incorrect to theorize that there is nothing because there was nothing, it’s important to keep in mind that we still don’t know how Stonehenge was build.
"The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."

Google is headed for a total crash on its current trajectory. Almost the entire business is built on an anti-user model. At some point there will be a reckoning. Their end will be triggered by technology trend that they will be unable to compete with.

The solution to fixing Google is funding more startups with ideas on how to take them out. Google's weapon here is keeping tens of thousands of good technology people locked up with golden hand cuffs. That and strangling startups in their cradle.

Microsoft's broken model got destroyed and so will Google's. It takes a long time for these slow motion train wrecks to play out.
Terminology is rather artificial. I.e. mathematicians just had to come up with some names for various abstractions. So real, irrational, imaginary and etc. aren't supposed to be taken literally.
I think if you dig in to many modern medical treatments, you'll find that the true reason they work is unknown (and in many cases, there is little evidence that they work at all).

Even in the hard science of physics, we we can understand the cause and effect, but the fundamentals of nuclear forces, gravity, magnetism are all a complete mystery.
I agree that Google has far too much control over the web. However, this is a silly reason to argue against HTTPS. HTTPS is an open standard. Google doesn't control it. HTTPS doesn't require anyone to use any Google product. You can use HTTPS just fine by getting your certificates from LetsEncrypt and browsing with Mozilla Firefox. Or Microsoft Edge. Or Internet Explorer. Moreover, the security guarantees that HTTPS brings to the web benefit everyone, not just Google.

More generally, Dave Winer seems to have an attitude of reflexively opposing everything that Google advocates, merely because it is Google that is advocating for it. It reminds me of the late 90's and early 2000's when open-source people talked about "M$" and reflexively opposed everything that Microsoft did merely because it was Microsoft that was doing it, leaving aside technical merits or other considerations.

Corporations are neither pure good, nor pure evil. They are collections of people with collective interests that they pursue. Sometimes, like in the case of HTTPS, or net neutrality, those interests align with our interests as developers and users. In those cases, we should ally ourselves with corporations and use their leverage to effect change more quickly. In other cases, such as with RSS, and vendor lock-in, our interests diverge and we should oppose them with all our might so that we don't lose the free and open Internet that we've become accustomed to.

In both cases, however, we should examine the issue on the merits of that issue, and neither support nor oppose merely because the "right" or "wrong" organization is pushing for it.
The future of classicism
A lot of these things are not about wealth, they are about identity. Wealth is much easier to create than identity.
> So? The goal of the law is user data privacy and control. It doesn't matter if the abuser is Google or someone operating a site from their dorm, violation and misuse of user data is still the same.

The issue is that competition is a powerful consumer protection mechanism. A regulation that prohibits 15% of current hostile practices but also impairs competition can allow the major incumbents to be 500% more hostile to customers because the customers now have no alternatives.

It allows the incumbents to do all the bad things the law doesn't prohibit but they couldn't do if their customers had a choice.
Here's a neutral article (as opposed to a press release) with some more of the history and significance: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/att/2018/06/12/att-wins-...
To reiterate, don't focus too much on Reader. It's just a convenient example. If you've never been a Google Business or Apps for Education Customer, it's very hard to explain the awkward position you're put in.

No Support

Everything is rolling update, regardless of how it affects your workflow or organization

Regardless of whether you use it or not, changes happen (addition/removal)

Google is incredibly frustrating to do business with as a paying customer, much less as a non-paying customer. However, their influence over the web at the moment is too strong. Gmail and spam filters are a perfect example; saying you can just host your own mail server is ignorant, willfully or otherwise, and your only safe bets are Google or Microsoft. There are workarounds, sure, but that assumes such workarounds will continue to work.

Google is a very capricious company to deal with as a customer, paying or otherwise. It's not about valuing apps, it's that Google has for some time maintained an attitude of "we're google, where else are you gonna go?", and the problem is that there is some truth to this. That's what the article is complaining about, that's what I'm complaining about. Market forces really don't enter into it at Google's size and scope. Others are just as guilty (Amazon, Microsoft), but right now we're talking about Google.
Flex feels like a lower level of abstraction. You provide a docker file and what you want your machines to look like (vcpu, ram, storage) and it handles everything else. Standard is much closer to Heroku with the added benefit of being able to call APIs for managed services. If you want control over your environment (including what dependencies are available), you want to use Flex. In every other case, I think Standard is the way to go.
Still waiting for my site visit for the $1000 I put down a very long time ago for my solar roof.
I live in Northern Greece/Macedonia and I can confirm that we were never taught history with this level of detail.

It seems so fascinating to me that if you focus hard enough to a simple sentence of a modern history book you can uncover battles and kings and strategies and winters and politics.
I think they gave us 2 months, which isn't really enough time to adequately look at alternatives given all the other things going on in an organization.

Had we had more time I probably would have looked at doing our own implementation using leaflet and Open Street Map. But that is a pretty big project to throw in when are in the middle of a year long roadmap. I assume this played into Googles strategy. Give them enough of a heads up, but not enough time for most to move away.
I'll agree that they're definitely not standard tools, but I grew up using Blender so they're familiar to me.
I feel like the old criticism leveled against Steve Jobs definitely applies here -- the so-called "Reality Distortion Field." It seems extremely prevalent around Tesla. Even though IMHO Steve Jobs was far more charismatic. Musk has a rabid following that is very unwelcoming towards anything perceived as slightly critical of him or his companies.
If GM disappeared tomorrow, nothing that I care about changes

I think you'd care far more than you realize. GM is huge and it failing would have massive downstream effects.
If founder has x100 the equity of employee #1, employee #1 screwed up.
> But that's more electricity than currently exists

This is not a variable that will remain constant once it starts becoming profitable to invest in power generation solely for the purpose of bitcoin mining.
Actually worked at place with professional unions in the USA?

And I suspect the vast majority of imported H1b's would love a seniority "buggins turn" system.
I am a 30-year-old male. 172 cm and around 60 kg starting weight (skinny-fat, slender build, quite high fat % and almost no muscle).

After the initial water weight loss, my weight has been fluctuating around the 55 kg mark. However, fat loss is really, really noticeable. I had a pretty huge belly, and now you can see my abs. As I haven't lost that much weight, and as it remains stable while I notice more fat loss, I am certain I am also gaining lean body mass in the process.

I try to fast 18:6, by consuming 3 shakes of my own DIY keto powdered food (i.e. DIY soylent) at 14:00, 17:00 and 20:00, for around 650 kcal each. I also drink black coffee with 25 grams of butter some mornings if I feel like it.

I don't do IF every day, especially if I travel or if I stay over at my girlfriend's. You don't have to do it every single day to reap the benefits, as long as you stay in ketosis, or at worst as long as you don't fill your liver glycogen stores completely.
I do not think that the germans are the top favorite.

First of all, not a lot of teams won the cup twice in a row

Second it's way harder if everybody is focused on you
(because you won the last time)

I'm pretty sure barley any data can reflect these two statements. (ok the first one can, but the second one is a more emotionell effect)
Letters in Sefer Yetzira.
Well hey, I have and will go on record saying that the Blockchain isn't a panacea for everything - but if you do want to claim that you did X at time Y, a big blockchain is a pretty good way to register that claim.

(Note that I didn't say prove that you ddi thing X at time Y...)
They do get raises. They just have to be persistent.
Most engineers don't speak up and are bad negotiators.
AT&T Wins Anti-Trust Battle Time Warner
Has anyone worked on Lisp-like macros in Go? Executing code at compile time to emit AST and compile it.. That is what I feel is really missing. Even with strictly a compile-time phase (no run-time macro evaluation) it could be quite useful.

Starting with generics seem to lead down the dark path of C++ template metaprogramming..

I would rather do something like

type StrBox = MakeBoxType!(string)

...and have clean hygienic macros to generate my "generic". Syntax candy can be added to that to get generics...but starting with generics and only supporting that went really really badly for the C++ ecosystem.
I'm so glad the end of Net Neutrality has ushered in an era of unprecedented competition in the broadband market.

EDIT: Yes, this acquisition is of the content division of Time Warner, not the ISP, which was previously acquired — by another broadband provider, mooting my general point how, again?
Maybe.

Right now though, my 401k has been doing 15-18% for the last couple of years. My condo has been going up in value by about 13%/year, but I put 20% down and I think I'm at 30-35% equity, and my monthlies are cheaper than an equivalent rental.

The rent + invest vs buy + bank on property value debate is age old, and I won't restart it here, but so far, I'm not doing terrible.
At some point the app needs to have some credential hardcoded, but you can make it more obscured by getting the API key from your own server with some kind of challenge/response. This makes it easier to rotate third party API keys and cut off unauthorized usage, by including information in the challenge request that could be used to correlate unauthorized requests.

Your hardcoded credential could then become a cryptographic key that you could rotate on app upfates.

I am not sure how many apps actually go through this trouble.
The course of the book is to focus on whatever team was winning at any given time, and how the actions of that winning team set up the game for the next winning team. As such, though... before the New World, northern/western Europe didn't have any winning teams, except for the Vikings (whose slave trade with Persia and the Arab world led to the formation of Russia as a nation and a power), and the brief victory of the Crusades. And China was never very ambitious beyond its own borders.

The book is also very focused on trade, not just war. And the brilliant goods of the East were the source of great trade.
In the absence of CORS header configuration on the target site, you can't use XHR or Fetch to get anything from a different domain. It doesn't matter if it's JSON, an image, or plain text.

To some extent, you're conflating some of the requirements to avoid preflighting with cross-origin requests simply being allowed, and they're not the same.
Sugru is kind of pricey, but I've yet to find any other adhesive material with the same properties. I've repaired winter shoes, cables, headphones and more with it. It's super easy to work with. I almost wish I could buy smaller quantities economically, because after I repair the one or two things I buy it for, it usually sits unused too long and expires by the time I actually need it again.

Definitely a niche product, but a niche that isn't filled by anything else.
Blender has the worlds most flexible UI system. If I could use it in personal projects, I would.

Blender also has options to set keybindings and layout to something more familiar for Maya or Max users. I'm sure it behaves like Vim bindings in most editors though, not really as useful as having full blown Vim.
Ah I figured it'd be something like that.

I'm looking forward to a future where we use web components.
Agreed. An unmanned sales booth would be totally fine, but being accosted by a sales representative when I go into Home Depot to pick up some supplies for a weekend project is extremely off-putting. To the point where I might go out of my way to avoid that company when I am in the market to buy.
Great. More and bigger monopolies forming in networks/media.
I only ran long distance for a while and currently do weightlifting.

All exercise is good for depression, but there's a definite psychological difference from lifting heavy weights. I feel more confident when I weightlift regularly. It feels good to be strong and fills something primal in me that running didn't necessarily do. Especially when you're actively resisting and pushing against something heavy. It's like battling an opponent.
That link is not available from Europe #GDPR.
Yes, Clients Expect Video in Your Website Design. Here’s How to Do It Right
Wow, I stand corrected. Question still stands, is anything safe?
I think they are metering the solar as well...

https://austinenergy.com/wcm/connect/9c2d0f25-b56e-410a-93ee...
Why does the date on the article say 2016?
> I still don’t understand why everyone uses Linux now, but BSD only stayed in very niche markets.

People don't really use Linux, they use GNU. GNU utilities tend to be much more feature rich than their Unix counterparts. GNU and Linux are so intertwined it's easy to forget.
Been working remote in Vermont for a decade now. Love it here and now that we have kids I'm not even considering moving anywhere. Nature, plenty of space, cheap (at least by major city standards), good food and beer scene, people are friendly, good schools if you pick the right town.

My only complaints would be slow Internet (though fiber is more common these days) and the ticks. And it gets cold sometimes, some people don't like that.
Which city in Central Africa?
consumer protection: what is it
Yet more media consolidation. And this one has the inherent conflicts of interest you get when a distributor buys out a producer.

And of course the idea of protecting the public interest isn't a thing anymore in DC.
>to lead the next generation in innovation.

Meanwhile I have 300k internet in Pasadena, CA. That's the fastest they offer. My roommate doesn't care and won't upgrade to Spectrum.

Why is it whenever I read the above it means the opposite?
My experience tells me that excessive MDMA use makes the drug not work, and results in severe depression. I've experienced it, I've seen others experience it. Neurotoxicity would seem to be the explanation.
Cryptocurrency Regulation Update (June 2018)
Scroll too far down that chain and porn comes up too.
Works fine in Firefox + reader mode
Wow, why did you pick the tech industry specifically? I guess Sweden has its own silicon valley with Facebook, Google, Msft, Apple etc?

Tech salaries have nothing to do with unions, infact are tech salaries in sweden also union negotiated?
> it would need to be worth at least 100x what it's worth today, that means it would need to use at least 100x as much electricity

I'm afraid I can't understand how you made such a conclusion. Why bitcoin can't be worth 100x than now using only 2x more electricity?
FYI, this isn't the internet Time Warner. This is the entertainment Time Warner. The internet Time Warner is run by Spectrum these days.
> You might have solved all of this in a way that doesn't depend on trolls being poor or getting bored easily.

I would argue that most markets in existence are fundamentally based on that holding true. And somehow the world, for some reason inexplicable to me hasn't collapsed yet.

> Wikipedia is a great example of something working really well

In the general case, yeah I agree. However, there have also been cases where authority on Wikipedia has been blatantly misused to overrepresent personal views of privileged contributors and censor contradicting contributions. I'm not saying that permissioned information/knowledge gathering platforms like Wikipedia have no right to exist - as with any centralized system they probably have efficiency gains - but I think there are some properties of it that can be improved upon.
> Only use threads where true CPU concurrency is needed.

This is the case much more often now than it was in 1995.
It wasn't at first. The change happened over a year ago.
Aristo – A system that reads, learns, and reasons about science
That would be a framework for thinking about history, which isn't what I meant. I'm not sure I was ready for that in tenth grade. (I suppose it might have opened the door to some new thoughts, but I don't think I would really have gotten it.)

By "framework" I meant just the bare outlines of history: Egypt, the Fertile Crescent, then Greece, then Rome, then the Middle Ages, then the Renaissance, then the Industrial Revolution... Having that "outline" put me in a position, later, as I learned more, of seeing how the details fit into the (very coarse) outline, and thereby learning more outline.

What you're asking for is also totally necessary if one wants to understand history as more than just a collection of facts. And I suppose that even in grade school, history would make more sense if you told them that things happened for reasons, they didn't just happen. You'd have to really simplify the reasons, though...
Yes, I experienced being 'fried' for a couple of years after excessive MDMA and LSD use. My experience mirrors yours.
Agreed, I wanted this but the utility can't even do day by day metering.
this is from 2016, when the terms of the merger were agreed upon but still required government approval.
You can put URLs in here:

https://www.textise.net/
I was judging active by their standards. It's still very short.
For some patients, the recent "Right to Try" legislation will alleviate this problem, and provide an opportunity for custom-tailored cures. It won't be instantly available to the masses, but it'll provide a path for more experimentation.
It becomes not optional and is a waste of time. People get stuck questioning everything and become useless piles of flesh. It happened to me for a couple of years after too much LSD.
>If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

And that is the goal, isn't it?

To drive out smaller competitors from online spaces so that only the big boys can play.
Thanks for the correction! I mean, "Rather program in JS than Python," but my hands typed faster than my brain was keeping up. Oopsie.