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I worked for a porn website many moons ago.

> But the adult websites/gambling, their app and website keeps working and I've not heard of major data breaches, downtimes or payment failures compared to the startups in other industries.

That is not quite right. It's just not publicly announced. Not many people would complain on twitter that something is not working. I remember when I was monitoring our systems I saw that there were at any time 2 maybe 3 "hackers" trying to find exploits in our code from the outside.

You can also buy a lot of personal data from porn and gambling websites through certain channels.

But overall: the adult entertainment business is a tough one. It was back in the day quite interesting for me to work on a high scaled business. we delivered our own ads - who gets the opportunity to work on something that needs to deliver 1M impressions per hour at 20 yrs? Some more perks were included, that were quite nice like remote working but for full payment. I lived on a finca on Majorca, Spain. With the paycheck of a regular contractor in Germany.

I cannot say that there was a lot of talent working in the space. Our payment provider was sometimes down for several hours because unchecked/untested deployments, but we had to use them because they had old contracts with credit card companies before they made it hard for adult websites to collect payments.
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The moral failing is picking this thing that is common in business and singling one person out for doing it.

But there is no case to suggest that tax shopping is a moral failing. It is just the same as a person looking for a house or a car: you find what is in your budget and make decisions based on comfort and other non-fiscal concerns.
You could do that, and they'd quickly tell you that fraud detection requires vast datasets that your company almost certainly cannot generate or maintain in-house. Then what?
Wouldn't blender tutorial videos be a good "Google Video" type video? I recall watching lots of lectures and tutorials on GV
45% of advertising revenue.

30% of sponsorships, super chats, donations, memberships.
This kind of comment isn't allowed here, regardless of how wrong someone else is. And unfortunately you've posted many other comments that break this site's guidelines (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

HN is not a site for ideological battle, regardless of which ideology you favor. We've warned you about this repeatedly. If you can't or won't use the site as intended, we're going to have to ban you, so would you please fix this?
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Yes, because most of them still get regular cash injections from investors, or they charge for it.
This is a hard call when the system is question is your anti-abuse provider. If you "fail open" when they're down, you risk allowing a flood of bad users during outages. Depending on your business, that may be much worse than having an outage yourself.

(Disclaimer: I work for a smyte competitor).
So all the constant anti-Tesla articles blaming Musk personally on here are fine, but these guys are somehow above being named despite their names being public record? Why is this different?
The bowling equipment manufacturer AMF was here in 1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmXLqImT1wE
I think everyone is missing that this is the canary in the coalmine for how the tech giants are going to behave going forward. Hell, Twitter isn't even that big!

Every tech company big enough probably sees the same writing on the wall the rest of us do that it's time to press their advantages. That means shutting everyone else out.

We probably all have mission-critical parts of our infrastructure that aren't core competencies. We probably can't afford for them to go away tomorrow, but now it's time to expect and plan for it.

Get ready to ride the consolidation wave.
You can disable the default constructor on structs with @disable this(); Then the only proper way to initialize the struct is with its parameterized constructor.
How much longer do you believe this will be true? I too hold a RAID grid of 3.5" 4TB drives, which is stored offline, but every time I plug in, I think about how exposed I am to mechanical and electrical failure modes.

The smaller form factor USB drives I get for ongoing TM backup appear to have an effective life as a sealed unit of around 2-3 years max.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I take an interest in the latest software/tech/ideas for dealing with the hard problem of moderation, and I had never heard of Smyte, until now (which made me think TC was being literal with its "Twitter 'smytes' customers" headline).

Apparently, they were a dominant player in this space, such that its shutdown impacted such a wide array of significant-sized companies, from ZenDesk to TaskRabbit to Meetup. Even more surprising is that they were part of YC (W15), and yet from what I can tell, have only had one significant mention on HN from 3 years ago (65 upvotes, 11 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9758464

I would've guessed that Smyte would've been the kind of Silicon Valley business that was made for media hype (what with all the attention/criticism given to fake news and Google/FB/Twitter moderation). Then again, it does seem that content moderation -- important as it may be -- isn't a field as sexy as AI/deep-learning and other forms of automation.
using the 'i'm not interested' flag on recommendations works reasonably well for culling subjects from your feed. not that i'm defending the recommendations in general, it's shocking how abysmal they can be.
Reciprocation can occur via payment! That business model is called "selling exceptions" in FSF-speak and "dual licensing" by most everyone else. MySQL pioneered it, decades ago. Basically: "If you can't meet the conditions in LICENSE, buy a different license from us." That's exactly the model licensezero.com tries to make available to independent developers, as a service.

And thank you for reading the license! I've probably poured more time into that document than any other in my career. You're right: there is some inherent complexity in what it attempts to do, compared to permissive open source licenses like MIT or Apache.

Since submitting the license to OSI for approval, the discussion has repeatedly gone off the rails, consuming months of time and thousands upon thousands of words on the mailing list. The silver lining: accepting that OSI approval won't be forthcoming, soon or at all, and that it isn't worth what I thought it was, frees me up to focus even more sharply on clarity and simplicity. If you're interested, I'd love your feedback on this post-OSI "fork":

https://github.com/licensezero/parity-public-license/blob/ma...

I've already had some great feedback from others. A few let me thank them publicly in the repo.
That crosses into personal attack, which is a bannable offense on HN, so please don't do this again.

Edit: since we've warned you before and you've done it repeatedly since then, I've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
Twitter seem to have an institutional blindess towards the importance of APIs. Their execs need to be sat down and have it drummed into them that breeding this much bad “karma” (for lack of a better term) is going to come back and bite them in the ass.
"What are some (short term) solutions?"

1) Make a list of your last 5 jobs

2) For each of those 5, decide which 2 people can provide the most useful reference to a potential employer.

3) For each of those 10 people, check if you have their current email address. If you have a personal email address, then great. If a company one, then search for them on LinkedIn to check if they're still at the same company. If not, then connect with them on LinkedIn (if not already connected), so that you have a channel to message them if you need to ask for their email address to give to a potential employer.

Don't worry that it will appear rude to ask them for a reference if you haven't spoken with them in a while.

Worry if the list you prepared doesn't have anyone you worked within in the last 5 years.

Worry if you're feeling anxious about what these people will say about you and your work.
It is implemented by regular D code in std.format. Logging libraries often do the same thing.
I was naive in this regard too. I assumed the top 5 handed out H1-Bs easily.
We have experimented with both at scale and found PgBouncer to be a lot more stable and reliable. We haven't seen gotcha failures, or any failures really, in the last few years. It's also refreshingly simple to automate and scale, although there are shortcomings in the configuration design that ends up requiring some cleverness.
"Child ingested...We took a magnetic resonance image."

But i should hope that medical specialists use the abbreviated mri.
Worldwide survey engages network operators on BGP hijacking
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've done it a lot and it's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Hunger.
“The Man Who Folded Himself”

Probably the best time travel book I have read!
> Thankfully, your flavor of cynicism generally does not apply in situations like this where many tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars are at stake.

This will be how it turns out for a few big players with deep enough pockets. Surely though this is hurting somebody's business that can't afford the lawsuit -- potentially to the point of putting them out of business. That's good for Twitter (and especially Twitter, as precarious as they are).

We've all joked for years about how FAANG pay their engineers so much mostly to keep other companies from being able to hire great engineers. We've gotten the big three slapped for colluding against their employees on wages. Why do you think they would engage in some anti-competitive business practices and not others?
You think an article criticizing a company and its executives is the same thing as inciting an online rage mob (along with a posse for some unnamed Twitter evildoer) on a message board? Because they're pretty different.
It's worse for companies that have shipped mobile apps with the API embedded in the client. Web apps can at least try an alternative or disable the affected features until they work around this mess..
Interesting idea, that the mirror test for dogs is unfair because their vision sucks compared to their nose, but this reasoning seems to take quite a leap. From the article:

“This study confirmed the previous evidence proposed with the STSR by Dr. Cazzolla Gatti showing that "dogs distinguish between the olfactory 'image' of themselves when modified: investigating their own odour for longer when it had an additional odour accompanying it than when it did not. Such behaviour implies a recognition of the odour as being of or from 'themselves'."”

Maybe the dogs just recognize their own modified scent as very familliar? Not as a representation of themseles, but just a smelll they smell often. I love dogs, and don’t doubt for a moment they have some level of self-awareness similar to our own, but to me, this test stinks.
Politics is all about co-operation and collaboration.

You either work either with everybody, or everybody works together against you.
>No. If it costs less to produce,

The point is it doesn't, and not anytime soon.
I'm almost entirely sure that Google is not in the habit of turning Services down with no warning. I guess I should have been more specific: never rely on a start-up to be here tomorrow
What are they then? Seriously. What is it, if it is not a toy? Sure it’s has this patina of being for adults, but that doesn’t make it a toy. In fact, aren’t these and other little magnetic sculptures marketed as “desk toys”?
A huge spreadsheet naming ICE employees gets yanked from GitHub and Medium
I guess this would be in line with the Linus' description
of GitHub:

> I think github does a stellar job at the actual hosting part. I really do. There is no question in my mind that github is one of the absolute best places to host a project. It's fast, it's efficient, it works, and it's available to anybody.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...
Thank you for persevering! Could you elaborate a bit on what had to be done to get it upstream?
> I write "images" to it in ISO format but I keep wondering how long boot media will depend on emulating a spinning CD/DVD drive.

Could UEFI HTTP Boot [1][2] replace the need to boot from ISOs?

[1] https://firmwaresecurity.com/2015/05/09/new-uefi-http-boot-s...

[2] http://ipxe.org/appnote/uefihttp
I know who he is and he's not from India but London.
Find a way to live without it I guess. Certainly that would be better than having your entire production stop working because somebody else decided to take a multimillion-dollar check and run with no concern for you or contracts you had signed
patreon has banned plenty of people for “content”
Postgres connection pooling is pretty much necessary in almost all cases, except when doing pretty low level connection management yourself.

Besides the old stalwart pgBouncer, Yandex recently released Odessey as well https://github.com/yandex/odyssey
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Because a data center for the DOD is largely invisible.

The suggestion that facial recognition cameras are pointed in the faces of ordinary Americans, just in case they do something the cops don’t like, is a pretty extraordinary proposition for a US consumer company to make.

The Rekognition pitch is encouraging the use of a specific controversial practice, rather than abstractly aiding the general compute capabilities of a large (if controversial to some) government department.
NVMe RAID now exists: https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/raid-controllers/m... But I suspect most people are using soft RAID or no RAID.
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I've heard that disk I/O is excruciatingly slow. Has that been your experience?
YouTube's demonetization of certain videos is mostly to do with the advertisers bailing on controversial content, this seems like them giving an alternative way to keep controversial creators profitable for both the creator and the platform.

If the content is controversial, so the advertisers bail...the force to the rescue has been Patreon. But Patreon donations help the content creator, and they help Patreon, but YouTube is cut out of the profitability altogether. They are the ones hosting the content, as well as taking the opportunity cost hit of recommending you content from demonetized videos that they know you like.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm happy to see them recognize that there should be ways to monetize content that exist independently from how appetizing content is to advertisers...while still remaining financial beneficiaries in the process. They're hosting the content!
Youtube will have to gain trust first. Kids of 13 years old start their first video with "Subscribe to my Twitter in case Youtube deletes my channel". So kids of 13 years old worry about censorship and implement schemes to get around it, and use external platform to ensure business continuity, so I doubt moving from Patreon to Youtube can be wise for anyone, from a pure business standpoint that ecen kids understand...
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This is basically offloading the record keeping to the bank. However, in an environment where the cash transaction is king, using this method has little value.
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It's not so uncommon that we discuss rate limiting. We do that all the time when people email us and I've posted not infrequently about it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... People are welcome to ask questions, though as the site guidelines ask, it's better to do that by emailing us.

Being rate limited is annoying, so I appreciate the even-handedness in what you wrote.
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I have started doing something along these lines because I have the habit of dabbling around with new shiny programming languages and libraries. I also consume a lot of information online -- blogs, articles, and ebooks of things that I am interested in.

Previous to this, I had a paper based notebook to hold all my thoughts and whatever I learned. The problems that I faced with that setup were:

- For offline notes, I lose out the luxury of editing cleanly and indexing. Writing technical notes on paper go out of hand after some time. (I still have a paper based journal and personally find paper to be better in all other respects but I digress).

- Because indexing is tough, so is searching. I can make a hundred tags, but if I lose out on giving that page an entry in index then it becomes difficult to find.

I have been an Emacs user for some years now and have gradually moved my setup to org-mode[0]. I arrange my thoughts/knowledge across various files and folders, give tags to the data and searching and arranging this has been pretty solid. Searching is just a single command "Ctrl-c p s g" and it greps through all the entries, e.g: https://imgur.com/a/IY0TE3Y

Coming to the points that you mentioned, I do the following

1 & 2. Active Engagement & Summary: With a dual monitor setup, Emacs is (almost) always opened. If I come across something, then I quickly open/create the associated file and log my thoughts. This is true when I'm at a computer, both at office and at home. Otherwise, I try to make an entry in some note taking app on my phone (I've been using ColorNote for Android for last 6 years or so, it syncs and backs-up the data). This phone based approach is something I still am not 100% comfortable with, but at least I have some place to dump my ideas.

3. Linking is done by org mode tags[1], and the file/folder structure that I have on disk. For metadata (webpage, context, etc.), we can associated a property drawer with every entry.[2]

4. Contextualization: Maybe a combination of tagging and searching can do that? I'm not an expert with org, but it supports searching tags with boolean operators[3], so that might float your boat.

This setup is plain text, and supports encryption via Emacs (and auto backup if you save in Dropbox). I have a private repo at gitlab and push every couple days.

[0] https://orgmode.org/

[1] https://orgmode.org/manual/Tags.html

[2] https://orgmode.org/manual/Drawers.html

[3] https://orgmode.org/manual/Matching-tags-and-properties.html...
At 5% AUM, you might as well put it in cash, when you consider risk adjustmentd and post tax investment returns.

But skimming this article, it's not just investment returns really. I guess these people really are liable to blow all their money on stuff off left to their own devices.
I fear this is going to feed "because we can't find the mines, it must be China" crazyness.

Cool story, mind you.
This is pure evil. My 3 years old swallowed some of these magnets (there was only a choking hazard warning on the magnets which we got from Amazon and we had no idea about the danger).
The poor boy had to go through an emergency surgery, be in the hospital for a week, and be traumatized.
The over all cost was about $100k.
I don't understand how this shit is legal. It's much worse than some substances for which people spend many years in prison.
What a disgrace!
You're getting downvoted but if people look past your inflammatory tone there is a good argument to be made.

Back when it was more traditional to buy a software licences and self-host rather than pay a rolling subscription to an XaaS, a service going dark just meant that you were shut out of updates but not the software itself. Sure you'd still eventually need to migrate away but at least you could then do it on your own terms.
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A cool company doing a crowdfunding round
I think 5% of AUM would be a fee based advisor or a wrap account.

If it's 5% commission then it's 5% of each transaction.
So where are ones roots as a digital nomad? The web?
> At the moment everyone is trying to do a land grab, but once that phase is over and the market consolidates on 2 or 3 cloud providers and sysadmin skills have disappeared we'll see what a disaster it is.

And if that happens people (I'm looking at YOU, software and devops engineers, with your damned sketchy business cases, desperate to move projects onto AWS mostly so you can bolster your CVs) will only have themselves to blame.

Fortunately I suspect there are enough of us jaded and sceptical types around to avoid it.
I remember thinking this until McDonald's turned me down for a job. True story.
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I think you're right again, but only with another limitation: concerning applications, not libraries, frameworks, or development tools.

The latter function as components or unfinished goods, not independently usable software. The right to "use" such incomplete programs or software-production tools is meaningless to end-users. It becomes meaningful to them only when parts and tools are incorporated into, or used to build, other software. Software that often isn't open source, by anyone's definition.

If the finished good is proprietary software that the creator will distribute to users, GPL is a blocker. Distributing copies of the final product will trigger GPL's copyleft conditions. If the finished good is software that its creator will run for others, as software as a service, AGPL and other network-copyleft licenses are blockers. Providing the service to users over a network will trigger requirements to provide source.
Hmm, I have never seen a conflict like that with any of the Electron apps I use daily: VSCode, Cypress, Wire, and (blecch) Slack.

What app was that, and what platform did you see it on? (I use the apps mentioned above on macOS, Windows 10, Ubuttnu 18.04, but I guess 80% of the time I'm using macOS so I might not have noticed if its a Linux thing...)
Why would that be? Can you provide more details? I thought SSDs are always faster than HDD
It makes a LOT more sense on Twitch where everything is live interaction and you can reuse the 'stickers' anywhere on the site. (which is actually a good thing given that allowing ANY images from anywhere would be rampantly abused)
I use a basic LibreOffice spreadsheet. There's a fair bit of manual inputting of the data but the advantages are that it takes care of all sorts of cases, from bank to cash transactions.

Importing bank transactions is easy. Regarding cash, one needs to keep a regular track - I do this by tracking them on my phone as a note or something and about once a week I'll enter in all the data into the spreadsheet.

I've been doing it for 8 years now and it's been amazing to see where the money goes and where we can cut down :)