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If you're insinuating that HN suffers from group think, I assure you if you spend some time going through the comments you'll find many healthy spirited debates. There's nothing inherently wrong with the OP, it's about how it was said, not what was said. From what I've seen, HN tries to be a friendly yet intellectually challenging place, and I personally really appreciate that spirit.
You under estimate kids. You all are under estimating them. 10 year olds figure out how to modify mods written in C++ for games they love. Given interest, they will get it. And the web is what has their interest today.
conda environments support pip and arbitrary pip commands. So if you use pip to for example install a specific version of a library directly from github that information will be stored in your conda environment and be reproduced every time you recreate your environments.
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Gentle answer:

No, because there are millions of women who have an unmet need for contraception. You are simply helping them access what they already want. Additionally, having fewer children allows more resources to be concentrated into each individual child, so that they are more likely to receive education and healthcare, and escape perpetual poverty.

Harsh answer:

Africa is simply incapable of handling 4 billion people (forecast for 2100). Already the continent is a net food importer. If they are willing to accept our aid, investment and technology, why should we not expect them to moderate their total fertility in return? By having fewer children now, starvation and destitution is being prevented into the future, particularly as climate change worsens. And what is wrong with pushing our values? As we have seen with the actions of Saudi Arabia and China recently, the West, for all its imperfections, is the best culture that Humanity has available. Generally Western societies are safe, innovative, and wealthy. Why not push the values that make those things possible onto the developing world?
You gotta be insanely good and enjoy your craft to enjoy writing low level DB code for open source lol
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I mean people used to have data centers before.. and most big players already do have their own data centers.
Maybe I misunderstood, your premise is that these were dug by humans looking for valuable materials but you are not willing to engage in the "here's evidence to support my claim" game?

That's not a good way to ever be taken seriously but I guess you can tell that already.
To be fair, the journalists put a lot of effort and money into this story. I think they should be allowed to tell the story as they see fit.

I'm sure the key points will be hashed and rehashed until many of the type of article you want are all over the internet.
People won't abandon Apple in droves unless the media start trashing them to the same degree they've been praising them. They've effectively given Apple billions in free advertising over the years, so I'd guess it would take a lot of trashing.
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Because the app you want to run does not support it.

OpenStack used to support both MySQL and Postgres, but they removed the Postgres support, which is a decision that completely baffles me.
The additional lower bass string really lends itself to sambas, IMO. Or any self-accompanied guitar work.
This. I am lost for words.
If we are approaching an era of resource constraint, then those are opposing concerns.
I mean, we all know that our Aztec oppressors had iron pickaxes in 10000BC.
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Horizontal scaling and/or alternative storage systems (I know, pg can theoretically do both, but...).

That and perhaps global consistency aka "sort of but not really defeating the CAP theorem using atomic clocks and all that" in Spanner.
The link is down but you can find the article on the webarchive: https://web.archive.org/web/20181018123152/https://venturebe...
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> "In the very first episode, Gordon takes a little girl's hand who he's just met on the street, befriends her and takes her into his home to give her ice cream"

With this kind of normalization of hanging out with strangers on TV, I am not really surprised that children were more likely to be abducted in the 70's and 80's.
Agreed.

Software doesn't run oppressive surveillance states. People run oppressive surveillance states.
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For a start, things before 1950 still happened. Even during the decades you admit happened, those areas refused to acknowledge the existence of China, making trade impossible.

Early Maoist policy hadn't helped matters, but it's pretty hard to argue American, Japanese, and European policy hadn't already left them in an incredibly shitty position.
Covariance and contravariance is often discussed in terms of subtyping, but it goes deeper than this. Generic types can be covariant or contravariant in languages without subtyping too. The List<T> type is covariant because it supports a map operation: given a function A -> B and a List<A> you can get a List<B>. That phenomenon in mathematics is where the terms covariance and contravariance came from. The covariance you see in OO languages is the special case when the function A -> B is an upcast from the subtype A to the supertype B.
I only know about this issue because of these Amazon employees.

So I'd say they were QUITE effective at educating the public by taking this stand. We spend half our waking lives at our workplace, and the places we work are often tremendously powerful. The idea that you shouldn't take action as employees seems like giving up a tremendous amount of opportunity at creating change.
I would argue that the exponential increase in population in the 20th century was a "bubble", explained by the discovery of antibiotics and other advances in medicine. People that were not expected to live past the life expectancy (which was 40 years or so) lived on, thus overlapping with the next generations.

If there won't be any other similar breakthroughs in medicine, I don't think the exponential growth can last much longer, people will be born and die in a more predictable pattern.
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I think that's actually arguable. They have all the pieces in place to make it work; they have an email service, they have calendar, contacts, they've got everything. The only thing they don't have is the custom domain names, and they could consider becoming a registrar themselves and making that process really seamless.

I'm not saying it'd be easy, but it not like they don't already offer PIM services for all their customers on iCloud, essentially for free. No one is suggesting that they should suddenly compete with G-Suite and offer business accounts.
That doesn't sound like an explanations for the marks. I even gave you a hint why.
The only thing I do want to bring up about shopping locally, for electronic components specifically, is that stores like Radioshack are essentially extinct, at least where I am in the Midwest. There are no local electronic stores of any variation except for Best Buy.
I can only think of three cases:

1) You need an embedded relational database with a small foot print. Here PostgreSQL cannot compete with SQLite.

2) You have an application which does not support PostgreSQL.

3) You have petabytes worth of data. Here you want to look into something like Greenplum, a PostgreSQL fork.
A more detailed description is included in this publication from the author credited for the first photo:

http://www.ufrgs.br/paleotocas/Frank_et_al_2012.pdf
Is that really an unreasonable conclusion? Even if we ended all private prisons, you could potentially still have unions representing prison workers who would have some of the same lobbying concerns that private prisons possess (lobbying for harsher laws for profit motive, the difference being union member's paycheck and job instead of the companies bottom line). There is also a third group, which is the for-profit companies who are providing services, for a profit, to state owned prisons. These also have the same concerns, as they make more money the more prisoners incarcerated.

Now the three groups aren't equal, but they do exist on the same scale. For profit prisons are, IMO, the worst while the other two groups are of debatable ranking depending upon the size of the relevant organizations.
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I know we got 11 just today, but I can't wait for 12 already! Rumours about alternative storage systems are extremely exciting, the idea of having a columnar materialised view (just guessing, not sure what the actual implementation will be like).

I can't wait to throw out all the columnar databases and the ETLs I have to support them, all just for a few queries.
> How many people have access to drives in us-east-2a? Do you know? Can you verify?

AWS, like every non-clownshoes provider, is transparent about the security controls on its datacenters. It has those verified by independent third parties and auditors (for relevant compliance standards). They have published whitepapers and compliance/audit reports, and continue to.

The odds that someone compromises a Helm update and the odds that someone walks out of us-east2a with a drive are not in the same ballpark.

To reiterate, because somehow I'm in the "FDE is an important threat model!" corner: it is not. Walking away with a Helm is not the easiest way to read e-mail on that thing, especially not for an organization capable of dragnet surveillance in general.
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This level of centralization is a disaster.
We should compare notes some time :) Sounds like we had to solve a lot of the same issues and the dearth of info on this topic is surprising!
Unless attackers bring a circular saw and an extension cord to cut open the cockpit door they can bring a damn bomb if they want.

No one is going to give up the plans and turn their bomb into a missile ever again.
Impressive work what the openbsd folks do. Kudos.
I've been a Linux user for about 10 years. The only hardware I've had trouble with after setting up dozens of machines for myself and friends has been Wifi devices from RTLink. They were solvable, but requires an actual recompile of drivers after kernel updates.

I've had a couple of experiences in the other direction though, including a Sony Viao laptop where neither the wired or wireless network worked after Window 7 install. With Linux (Kubuntu), everything worked flawlessly. This was not some strange one-off laptop manufacturer.

The other thing won't matter to many, but the install time for Windows was almost three hours, while Linux (and all it's accompanying office software, etc) took about 20 minutes. Updates are similar though, so there is some value there.

Just a few more data points, but I, and many others find that Linux is far easier to use than Windows these days as well.
> my advice is to not dismiss the advantages of the web just because of a few bad apples.

Except protecting against the "few bad apples" is exactly what we're supposed to be doing. Eg you made a point that your use cases are all served over HTTPS - why should we be doing this when it adds complexity, adds bandwidth and breaks many legitimate corporate management tools? The reason we bother with TLS is precisely because of "a few bad apples".

The point of security is to harden against those bad apples rather than ignore they exist just because developers want a shiny new toy to play with.
For one, as a package developer, publishing a source distribution of a package on PyPI is almost trivial. Publishing on Anaconda Cloud requires you to build the binary packages on all the OS's that you want to support (and for all Python versions you want to support) which most people delegate to some CI. So there is a whole new level of complexity involved.
You have a sever with MySQL already.

We had Rackspace servers in the place I worked a couple of years ago and they didn't offer Postgress as far as I remember. (You could install and manage it on a virtual machine but then you had to do everything yourself, while they had managed MySQL servers available).

Also setting up master / slave replication seems easier with MySQL as I understand - I never tried with Postgress but did with MySQL.
US resident but Saudi citizen...
But how it happened, in a consulate, dismembered while possibly being alive and with strong evidence and links to BdS is not easy to fix and forget. I am horrified when I think about it. I'm aware other countries do it too, it's just that this was done with so much impunity that disturbs me most.
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But you’re not describing a double sided blade (that “cuts both ways”), you’re saying that sword making is cool.
I'm really surprised pgsql procedures weren't already able to start, commit, and rollback transactions. Well done devs!
Sorry for perpetuating falsehood.

Similar issue of legal repercussions, but in the larger context of the current political environment, worlds apart.
> - "Deploying a Project", local dev or production (pipenv. Well, if it's configured with a pipfile, otherwise virtualenv, and who knows where your dependencies are, maybe requirements.txt. Pipenv does create a virtualenv anyway, so you can use that. Anyway you should be in docker, probably. Make sure you have pip installed systemwide. Yes I know it comes with python, but some distributions remove it from Python. Stop asking why, it's simple. What do you mean this uses Python 3.6 but there's only Python 3.5 available on Debian? Wait, no, don't install pyenv, that's not a good idea! COME BACK!)

This makes the situation sound a lot more complex than it actually is by conflating separate layers: the system distribution issue is exactly the same for both Python and JS (if Debian ships an old v8 you either need to install a new one, perhaps using Docker to make that easy and isolated). Similarly, the question of whether you install the app using pip or pipenv is a different layer from whether you're using Docker or not, just as Docker is unrelated to the question of whether you use npm or yarn.

For a new project in 2018, you can simply say “Use pipenv. Deploy in Docker, using pipenv.” and it works as well as the JS world. People sometimes choose to make their projects too complicated or to manage things at the wrong level but that's a social problem which is hard to solve with tooling.
How does that compare to the average income of a Chinese Communist party leader?
Are you referring to the hardware attack against SuperMicro? If so, it's a pretty big leap to make from "we know about a single attack" to "fingers in all tech companies." Not that I trust Google and friends, but... that's a pretty big claim.
What I found really interesting is the tuning of this referenced Russian 7 String guitar. By today's standards, that's nothing out the range of a regular 6-string in the common Drop-D tuning (only a whole step lower than "regular" guitar).

Now we're seeing 6-strings tuned to Drop-B (Forth lower) and Drop-A (Fifth lower) in metal genres (And I'm sure even lower).
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Never invent the wheel if you haven't done your research yet.

Colleagues of mine successfully employed CouchDB in a situation where devices were offline for an x amount of time (running on tablets in airplanes), once they had internet again they would reliably start syncing data with the main database again. This was a number of years ago though, I haven't heard anything about CouchDB since.
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i can tell you we're not self funded...thats such a ridiculous argument i hear all the time...ITS SO NOT TRUE HAHA i can do nothing but laugh when isee this crap. I've been here over 10 years lol nothing is self funded about this place
It costs over a billion dollars to build a new fab lab on the latest tech. Maybe $5 billion or more.

Fewer and fewer companies can even attempt to reach 7nm. Its the nature of the beast. The technology is approaching silicon's natural limits, and the amount of research and development needed to advance is getting more and more costly.
Interesting article, but I would have loved it if they touched upon how to effectively follow these principles in a world where there's competition. For instance, getting feedback, thoroughly vetting ideas, etc., is a good practice. But if you are competing against those who exploit the limited attention of investors/peers to quickly get ahead (in the short term), they _could_ get an enormous first-mover advantage. How does one deal with that?
This trend is troubling. Can we just publish with a note about concerns? I think research, properly done, should not ever be withheld, even if problematic. A candle can't burn in a vacuum.
characterising a debate as
having precisely two well
defined sides

I see this as a reaction to complexity: if a subject is too complicated to grasp, comprehend and communicate all relevant subtleties, a common reaction is radical simplification down to two options, with a strong preference for one side.
I encourage you to talk to service workers to see how often this happens
Among other things. Ability to "provide for children" seems highly subjective, according to our surrounding conditions.

Having 2 goats in a town with no goats = able to provide.

Having a McMansion in a town with bigger McMansions = worried about ability to provide.
That's a misleading non-argument for the actual issue.

"Your Wells Fargo bank accounts perfectly safe from bank employees because armored cars are used to transport money. They don't let normal bank employees into the back of those vehicles. Only licensed and bonded security guards are allowed."
DBs might not be glamorous but I'm sure there are many very interesting problems to solve when developing them. Of course on such a large, old project there's got to be a lot of tedious maintenance work as well, but that's true for all software in my experience.

It's often a conversation I have with people looking to get into software development. Often they'll aim for video games or something like that but I often warn them that it might not be nearly as cool as they imagine. You're more likely to end up scripting crappy menu systems than being the next Carmack.

On the other hand some of the most interesting pieces of software I've written were for very unsexy industrial applications. And I actually have good working conditions unlike people working in the videogame industry apparently.
Whenever talk in Python-world goes towards packaging, I feel like I have been transported to Javascript-world: it's never clear to me what concrete problems are being solved by the new tools/libraries.

This article seems well-written and well-intentioned. Despite reading it, I don't know why I would not have loose dependencies in setup.py and concrete, pinned dependencies in requirements.txt. It's never felt hard to manage or to sync up - the hard part is wading through all the different tools and recommendations.
No, I believe the military should exist but shouldn’t be too good at its job. If the US president knows that 3,000 American soldiers will die doing something, it will make the calculus of doing it very different than if only 3 soldiers would die. This may actually save lives overallx
I am sure the astronomy community will be thrilled... Infinite light pollution.
Looks like VentureBeat launched this before Atlassian got a chance to...link is now dead.
While I like the UX of Trello in general more, Smartsheet has a spreadsheet view and more.
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Why abolish ICE? What specifically is the issue with ICE short of news and celebrities demanding it because it’s in vogue?

They serve a legitimate law enforcement function in our country, which by last check doesn’t have open borders and prosecutes those that cross illegally?
"Look at the iMac line in 2018 and the specs, tell me if the value is there."

Every time I see one of these posts complaining about the value of Apple machines I want to scream. They are very competitively priced. (one could argue that is a matter of fact, by their success alone)

You can compare common "hard specs" about the processor, ram, video card-- and within that narrow field of vision I bet you can find yourself a "better" PC for the price. But try putting a value on these things and see where that lands you:

- (decent) Webcam
- High-End 5k display (for iMac, or comparable quality display on the laptops)
- High-end wireless keyboard/mouse or trackpad
- Decent speakers
- Metal construction in a (subjectively) attractive and minimalist package
- Well designed (e.g. folding, portable, detachable extension) power brick

These things more than seal the deal for me, and I am convinced there is no better value out there. Maybe for the photo/video editor one would need to make concessions to afford the extra CPU/GPU/Memory in lieu of some other niceties.
I think Google tries to cram all this functionality (WebUSB, now Bluetooth) into Chrome because of the limitations of ChromeOS.
Also the initial release of features is usually very minimal, almost to the point of not being usable in the real world except for a very targeted use case. Then things sloowwwwly expand to cover more and more things as people have time to test and review.

And if your patch adds a good feature but in a way that is bad architecturally then it will be rejected or fully rewritten with no care about what that means from a timing perspective.

It means that it takes awhile for things like parallel query to really become valuable but when they do you know they work and work well.
> What does that $99/year even used for that can't be run on the device itself?
For the public gateway service in case your ISP bans (mail) servers on their network.
Tesla just tweeted out photos of the drive train of the Model 3 after a million test miles.

https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/1051911793373638661?s=19
The conflation of compensation and profit is so toxic - I just don't understand this idealogy.

I mean, I prefer to envision a world in which state-sponsored armies (not necessarily navies) are deprecated entirely, or at least relegated to non-standing status (much like the US constitution originally prescribed).

But even holding this somewhat anarchist view, I can still make a distinction between the incentive stuctures of a for-profit model and mere compensation. If you're so sure-footed about view point, walk us through the deconstruction that makes these things indistinguishable in your mind.
>> I don’t want a world where the US destroy the entire postal system for the rest of us.

Just a point of order, you live in a world where the US can destroy just about anything for the rest of the world order. If the US throws a hissy fit on economics or goes to war, it tends to have global ramifications. Cost of doing business.

That said, this move seems to simply be Trump pulling a move out of "Art of the Deal" and doing some hardball negotiating. Or it could be him trying to show his isolationist base that he's still fighting Globalization. Guess we'll all find out.