skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe OVH, Scaleway and Hetzner are better than DO and Linode in that regard.
Play Store is at the other end of the spectrum where you can literally upload massive amounts of malware and no one bats an eye.
Mass market is how we got here.

The phone made the flow of non tech savvy users the main source of income.

Before, you had to please geeks, and they thought about products, compared, communicated, criticized and decided where to spend their money.

Now, you have to please people that chose products based on ads, design and trends, but don't have any basic understanding of their device yet makes a lot of noise when they get them self in trouble.

That's the same story anywhere you start with a group of passionate people on something that proves successful: amateurs arrive, then money, then policy.

Any job, hobby, venue, city, sport, product, etc. is susceptible to this problem.

It's why the mt Everest is now an expensive highway full of frozen shit, why battle net turned into an insult party, why Adventure park now have those unusable security systems that take the fun out of it, why websites abuse "target=_blank", why you have weird safety messages on microwaves and why you need to provide medical certificates for so many stupid things now a day.

But.

It's also why you can have a device in your pocket that act as your camera, tv, music player, news provider, landline, game console, pager, gps, phonebook for a 10th of the price of a gigantic calculator from 40 years ago.

In the hilarious canadian comedy, "The Decline of the American Empire", the main character makes a point, stating there are 3 things that makes a winner in history: 1, number. 2, number. 3, number.
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... in your newswire database.

"GE To Declare Bankruptcy", "Lockheed Sold to Chinese", etc. Sit back and watch idiots buy fake info and lose billions.
The first section explained what kind of VPS were collected. Vultr sometimes charge estimated monthly costs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13073048 ) , so it was not listed.
Apart from population, in which factor ? India needs to reduce brain drain and population before even starting imaging compete with anyone.
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The answer lies in unequal bargaining power, public shaming/awareness is the best we can do.

There's the added irony of Mr. Bezos publicly the richest man in the world having his workers hold their pee.

Amazon will not care about its least protected workers until Amazon feels the backlash in lowered sales.

If your locality has Amazon warehouse as the largest employer your options are quite limited.

It is similar to having a coal mine in 19th century(or recycling center in 21st century China) being the largest employer. Nice to have a job at first, but black lung is not so nice after a while.

The conditions do not have to be that bad, Costco has proven that.

Other FAANGs get less flack in this regard because they outsource all the menial/routine jobs(Facebook and Google outsource a lot of horrible MTurk like jobs) and they do not need as many of them.

PS I had 2 friends who worked at the Amazon UK Warehouse a few years back. They only lasted 6 months before the repetitive injuries took their toll. And it was pretty much impossible to have a day off.
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I've written several basic IRC clients and bots over the years. Compared to XMPP, and other newer proprietary protocols it is actually quite simple.

Hardly anyone uses the DCC file transfer stuff anymore, so other than encryption, all you really need to handle is channel messages and private messages, plus the management commands (ops, voice, mute etc).
I would suggest adding Scaleway[0] to the list. I've used their server a bit and it worked well. I know them because of their parent company (Online) which I've been a custom for quite a few years now.

[0] https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/
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IRC is simple and efficient. It's a real pleasure for me to use it daily to talk to my fellow programmers. Yeah we don't have images but we have links and a pastebin (https://github.com/solusipse/fiche) to replace that.

I'm on #dailyprog at irc.rizon.net (https://dailyprog.org/). It's an irc-based programming community. We also share a server with ssh access.

We do small programming projects together. At the moment the idea is to make an exhausive list of all existing IRC servers with massscan and nmap (the output of the running massscan instance: https://dailyprog.org/~mabynogy/irc-servers.txt).
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I live in the UK too and every day I am grateful we don't have the absolutely idiotic concept of paid bail - the police can only hold you for 48 hours without charging you with a crime, and then you have to be tried within 51 days or released on unconditional bail, so idiotic situation like the one here where someone in the article was held for 3 years without a trial can't happen.

But yes, having read the article it just reinforces the impression I have of USA - that it's the "land of the free but only if you have money"
Yeah. I work with digitalization. At least they are just closing the positions instead of firing them. (Europe way)

Some would argue that it is a good thing even. But the amount of real jobs in the economy overall is just getting smaller. It isn't the company's fault though, as it has to do that in order to stay operationally viable.

I do not feel so bad, most of the people here in this thread have very terrible stories. I feel kind of blessed.
well at lease Taiwan wasn't a 'communist state'... so democracy was an option for them.

(there's no 'communist state' with 'voting freely for avg. joe')
sounds like honeypot
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From my experience Hetzner's network reliability is not even close to DO's.
+1 for Hetzner! They're great!
Indeed, we used machine learning to predict reactions. DFT and molecular dynamics are much more computationally expensive (magnitude of ~10^4s) whereas here you can predict a reaction in less than a sec.

Obviously we are not the only one working on this topic, but our approach is pretty flexible and general. Compared to other approaches, we handle stereochemistry (graph methods are struggling with that) and we don't require data with atom mapping for training.

The research behind the approach has been published in a peer reviewed journal if you want more details: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2018/SC/C8SC0...
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I think it's more appropriate to say XML is about a grammar description of some information serialization. Whereas JSON starts from concepts such as maps which are higher-level data structures. Also, SGML/XML originally isn't so much about trees as about regular tree languages - where the sequence of elements appearing below a node must satisfy a content model given by a regular expression.
Since PRISM, we know the players you really don't want to be able to track your location have a backdoor in those systems anyway, and the manufacturers are forbidden by law to talk about it.

It's annoying that candy crush get a piece of your private life.

But it's nowhere close to the problem of big entities that already have a huge control on your life to be able to know everything about you while you can't know anything about them.

The app store is just a symptom of it though, and a small one.
I have a startup which builds a web-based enterprise product. A year ago we launched a companion app that provides a fraction of the functionality of the desktop application, just enough to help our customers extract the key information they need when they're on the road.

All of a sudden a few days Apple decides we have to implement in-app payments. I explained them that this is an enterprise product for an arcane industry and that our customers require quotations/invoices raised to their procurement department and would not pay several hundred to several thousand dollars through the app. They insist we have to implement in-app payments despite not helping our customers nor our business. We don't have automated billing at all, not even on our desktop product. The requested change means months of development for no value (at this point).

No way to appeal. We can currently not update our app and if we don't implement in-app payments in an unspecified time our current version will be pulled too.

Thanks, Apple.
This doesn’t work because there is no insider trading in most cases, and even if there were, you might be fooled by mass idiots trading the opposite directon of the insider.
I'm currently using Hetzner Cloud in production. Not for user-facing services, but background data churning. Very happy with the service so far, and it has a Terraform plugin, which makes it convenient to use.

I think the feature-set and cost are in proportion, if you see what I mean. Compared to AWS EC2 its a great value proposition.

Interestingly, they recently announced a 'dedicated vCPU' option for about 10x the price. Top option is €269 vs €29, 32 GB vs 128 GB RAM. But I'v found the performance of the default product to be perfectly good for my needs.

The major shortfall with Hetnzer I have found is that the storage isn't scalable. You get what you get. You can choose SSD RAID or Ceph, but you still get the same allowance.

I'd love to hear from anyone else using it.

Edit: not Hetzner's traditional servers. I've used those too, and they're great value for money if you get them through their server bidding offering.
I'm a Hetzner customer, too, but I'm quite sad that Hetzner doesn't really allow DNS configuration via a centralized REST(-like) API. You can configure DNS via an email interface but there are no officially supported libraries available and it's very clunky [1]. You effectively have to roll your own DNS servers or chose another DNS provider if you want to manage a lot of servers dynamically.

1: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/E-Mail-Schnittstelle_Domai...
Awareness of this issue, the criminalization of poverty, is growing in America. For example, Equal Justice Under Law (https://equaljusticeunderlaw.org) is focused solely on this problem, and has won _all_ of the 18 cases it has tried so far on behalf of victims of wealth-based discrimination.
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LightSail is the only vendor in this space to offer Windows hosting.
didn't US remove most of them when it realized their immoral acts? US thought they were good guys at first, so US does make mistakes...

but China? it has its biggest mistake on its front yard--North Korea.

but I guess China can never learn...
I was working for one of the biggest community portals for the given country. After certain non trivial event, I was asked to implement shadow banning and the possibility for editors to alter the number of likes for user comments. Gave some bullshit technical reason in order to avoid doing what I felt was unethical, although I believe it ended up being implemented once I left.
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Anyone who went through the US visa process, even for the basic visitor visa B1/2, got a taste of this. One needs to set up the appointment, appointment system is handled by the subcontractor, the contractor charges you for setting up the appointment. If someone told me I have to pay for queueing in front of the embassy on the day of the appointment I wouldn't be able to say whether it's some fraudsters, or a policy of US embassy. Yeah yeah, I know - no one is entitled to visit the glorious US of A. I don't pity Americans having hardships over here in EU, because no pity is given in reciprocal situation.
> MZ is trying to do the right thing, overall.

Since when? This is at the top of my Reddit front page right now:

https://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-okay-but-youve...

The lede:

> Last week, we reported that, as a sophomore at Harvard, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg used Facebook members' login information to break into their private email accounts and read their emails.

Yes, it's an old story, but Zuck has been very plainly amoral for a long time now.
XML with schema (and namespaces, which schemata necessitate) is an immense pain to work with. XML with simple elements and no namespaces is actually fine to work with, as is something like thrift/protobuf. I don't think the problem is that XML has schema and validation, it's that it has bad schema and validation.
On the other hand, without all this working for others we wouldn't have a system which lets us spend that other half of our lives seeing the things we do get to see.

It's a net win overall.
Just to clarify that post was from quite a while ago and at that time I was living out of my car, I'm actually now sharing a room in an apartment. But I certainly agree it's not a good thing when people who are working are living out of their cars or worse.
Scaleaway is meaningless unless you're located in Europe.

If you're in the developed world, $2 vs $5 etc does not matter in most cases. The most important factor is that your host does what you need it to do, that the network is excellent and your servers are located where you need them to be.

If you're an American business you'd be foolish to host your servers in the EU. Locating your servers in the EU opens you up to their jurisdiction, which is a mistake, you'd be unnecessarily exposing yourself to multiple jurisdiction compliance. That problem is only going to get dramatically worse in the coming years. It's not worth worrying about saving a couple of dollars over.
OP: Please keep Taiwan / China relations off my comments. Thanks.
A message format that requires parser to understand both UTF8 and UTF16, cool!
> badmouth

a.k.a. truth

Linus has "badmouthed" Intel in much harsher and more explicit terms. Linux is just too big for them to get away with trying to smear and slander so they ignore him and move on.
They're flip-flops instead of sandals (so rather used for leisure instead of hard work), but I can whole-heartedly recommend Havaianas. I just recently replaced a pair that lasted from 2011 up 'till a month ago, and I put them through some pretty strenuous activity at times.
Cool, wasn't aware of that one. Reinventing the wheel once again :)

Adding custom CSS/JS to Fastmate would be pretty simple, I might just do that as well.

Is there anything that you miss in your fluidapp setup that could be added to Fastmate perhaps? Thanks!
This is actually the quasi-solution to a lot of problems. e.g.
If you've got a database full of your employee's info, populate it with made-up info for a bunch of fake employees. When you use the database, use some secret method to distinguish which employees are real (maybe the sum of their employee ID number and birthdate is divisible by 197). If you ever get hacked and the database is stolen, good luck to the hackers selling a database where 99.5% of the info is fake.
If you're a defense contractor, add a bunch of made-up project files for fake programs, complete with plans, designs, drawings, etc. If a foreign government manages to break in and steal them, they'll still have to try to figure out what's real and what's fake.
For press releases, it's a lot simpler. You compose the press release and pre-upload it for release after an embargo date. But the salient details are obfuscated. "Our net income for this quarter were [ $1 million dollars | $100,000 | a loss of $500,000 ]." "We will be [ constructing a new facility in Phoenix, AZ | purchasing and renovating a facility in Boise, ID | demolishing our warehouse in Denver, CO ]" etc. When the embargo is up, instead of just automatically releasing the pre-prepared press release, you simply edit out the fake info then give the OK to release it.
Security through obscurity isn't true protection. But it can make the thieves' jobs a lot harder.
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Are these fixes also applicable for OpenCypher engine in Dgraph ?
Hey--This is Ben--I did the research. We used a survey-based tool called Brandlift that measures post-exposure lifts in recall and favorability against control audiences using a defined competitive set. The tool automatically separates out the control audiences and the various test cells so there is no cross contamination. There's detail on the tool here: https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/products/brand-lift/ Happy to answer any other questions you have--glad you found it interesting...
Repeated metadata is just one of XML serializations, although the most common one. But there are technologies to compress XML and compression based on schema may give very compact results.
So a regular EC2 T2.medium with 4GB RAM is $39 while a LightSail 4GB is $20. Damn. Need to switch some EC2 workload to LightSail.
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I am European and it's 11 here; I'm talking to an European audience.

OVH has got a datacenter in Canada with good prices, compared to the rip-off Linode is.
I've been using Vultr for years and they've never charged me more than my monthly usage. A n=1 report from two years ago doesn't seem like a great reason to leave them out; I'm sure you can find complaints about every other provider's billing as well.
Would there be any way of securing a conviction if there was no proof of insider knowledge, other than the actual buys & sells?
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Kimsufi gets de-prioritised compared to other services on OVH’s network and there are capacity issues.

This is probably due to the fact that a lot of people use them for cheap 24x7 torrent boxes rather than the cheap personal VPS alternative they were intended as.
Haha, good answer :) It's rarely my code they're whining about though
I know they're not listed in the comparison, however Vultr has superior Windows Server hosting as compared to LightSail. Their network is a lot faster and their servers are better. I aggressively recommend Vultr over LightSail if you're using Windows for something.
I havent noticed it any. I deploy .net core application + loadbalancers and db.
What does "Consistent 100% CPU usage" means? Does it mean that if I get the instance and use CPU on 100% it will shut it down?
Wish Google Cloud could have this kind of price point. 1vCPU + 1GB RAM on GCP is $19.22
>I mean, look at Taiwan... it has nothing (no land, no diplomatic ties, etc). Yet it has a lot (decent economy for avg. joe, democracy, etc).

Whereas China is not successful? It entered the top 5 of global economies from huge poverty in the 20th century, is now #2, and is poised to become #1 in the not so distant future. And this starting from developing world conditions, and a long time of colonial abuse.

Wikipedia "Until 2015, China was the world's fastest-growing major economy, with growth rates averaging 10% over 30 years.".

And from WTO: " According to data from the World Bank the global economy will expand by $6.5 trillion between 2017 and 2019. America’s GDP is expected to account for 17.9% of this growth. China’s, however, is predicted to account for almost double this, at 35.2%."

>- centries of wrong economic policy (until pretty recent radical change)

Actually the change that propelled them to #2 (and eventually #1) is over 3 decades old.

And China doesn't have "centuries of wrong economic policy". In fact for centuries (before communism) it was a hugely advanced economy (and the world's #1 e.g. in the Ming era).

>- can't vote - if the party loves a corrupt official, then what can you do?

You get to suffer them. But isn't the case in China that they are overly harsh on corruption? (Something like executing thousands officials each year)?

Of course those really friendly with the top tier will get off free, but then again, elsewhere they get bonuses and 1 trillion government bailouts for destroying the economy, so there's that.

>- a lot of human-rights violations

Well, from the Guantanamo to invading countries at will, it doesn't look right for other major countries either, e.g.: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2018/country-chapters/unite..., https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/29/us-turning-its-back-huma... . So this is more of a case of the pot calling the kettle black than a real differentiation. At least China fucks its own citizens and/or neighbors they have beefs with, not everybody around. Besides is the case with Tibet that much different than e.g. taking by war several states from Mexico? Or getting Hawaii?

>- helping north Korea to make a nuke... right next to beijing!

So, like some countries that arm and befriend all kinds of dictators and repressive regimes, and are OK with their nuke programs but scold others for theirs?

>well have a look at Taiwan! it's smaller than China with the same ethnicity but Taiwan packs a punch without shady stuff China does (eg. stealing IPs, trafficking bodyparts, etc)

Yeah, but it was a Cold War darling, specifically pampered to act as a counter to China (e.g. getting US Aid up until the 60s), and then getting favorable business and investment. Meanwhile China had lost time in communist power struggles and civil war. Post 1980s though...

Besides, Taiwan itself was under martial law for decades, with government propaganda, restriction of print, restriction of political expression, etc:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_Taiwan

So, not exactly a paragon of democracy at the time either.
The problem is: governing an island with 20 million people is very different from governing 1.3 billion people. I mean , Beijing alone have 20 million population.
PRC did lots of bad things yes, but I believe all countries have organ-trafficking, corruption, 'wrong' economic policies.
“Help others”: this seems to be a side effect rather than a sought outcome and the first thing to be dropped as soon as the business can sacrifice it for a short term return.
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Is BTIYNH code for "conform, they're watching. We need to get out of here."
Just a note of response here: We did put our name on it--there was a landing page with details on the aims of the research, the methodology used, etc. It included contact info, and we responded personally to any and all questions.

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You only need to setup Lounge once, it supports multiple users at the same time. A non geeky person should have no trouble joining a channel.
When GCHQ hacked the Belgacom servers they had a real hard time discovering and getting rid of the backdoors.
It's on the App Store.
I had a quick Google and couldn't find any published benchmarks yet. Does anyone know of one so far?
There is absolutely nothing "cool" about what he did or how he did it.
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It's true that VCs that invest in utter nonsense will eventually be eliminated, but I think most VCs who never invest in a success invest in enough doomed models that survive until IPO, (often with built-in failures like a model of exploitation that requires obscurity.)

The highs and lows of tech average together well enough to satisfy Wall Street and then have huge profits for some that VCs that find and hold good investments, and more VCs that feed off a constant influx of sucker investors.