skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter, or cheat. Well, I don't cheat. And although I like to think we have some pretty smart people here in this room, it sure is a hell of lot easier to just be first." -Margin Call

First and smarter are getting more and more taken.
This time last year I ordered some Rose Oil from "Essential Oil Labs" at Amazon. What I got wasn't Rose Oil, it was garbage.

Amazon issued I refund but when I looked into it further I found reviews from others who got crap from them as well, but those reviews were well buried. Because I'd requested a refund I wasn't allowed to post a review that warned others about them. That felt to me like Amazon was shielding the vendor from negative reviews.

As a result of how this was handled I've not bought anything from Amazon this year and I canceled our "Prime" membership this month when it expired.

This "crackdown" feels like too little too late, and it will be a long time before I go back there, if ever.
A lot of people were stoked for the Dreamcast upon its release.

What ultimately did it in was the PS2 -- a superior console in virtually every respect, released just two years later (in the USA).
Is application hosting (heroku, app engine, elb) on the roadmap?
Can you give some insight on whether the master nodes are tiered and if so, how they are tiered. My DO master node doesn't respond to commands as quickly as GKE's but I don't know if that's because it's dependent on the tier I chose for the nodes in the node pool.
Yeah, the doubling in price is usually when the low-cost vendor sells out, and only high-cost vendors are left, but you're totally right; I also refrain from purchasing via dash button, Echo commands, or any option where I can't evaluate how reasonable the price is.
Oh, and as someone noted below, spinning disks have also long had error correction in order to reach some target error rate.
The main page seems to be missing a good description of how the packages work. If one follows the links a bit there is one here:

https://jneem.github.io/merging/
Great job! Maybe now they'll have time to adjust their ssh-keygen documentation to fix their password cracking vulnerability. (https://latacora.micro.blog/2018/08/03/the-default-openssh.h...)
The success of the PS1 didn’t help either. Sony had already stolen Sega’s market (and some of Nintendo’s too where people were annoyed with the cartridge decision).

Ironically the N64 was a more interesting console than the PS1 and the Dreamcast was more interesting than the PS2; but most people didn’t care. Sony really understood what the lion share of gamers wanted - or perhaps it was just good fortune to step into the market when the other giants misstepped?

Ironically Sony tried to work with both Sega and Nintendo and got rejected by both after investing substantial time on a collaboration. It’s funny how quickly the market turned.
This is implying that you or others were creating managed products using Droplets? How is it DigitalOcean's fault if they want to create more vertically integrated products using their own technology?
FWIW, in the market where I drove, it was very common for taxi drivers who were so bad they lost their taxi jobs (think about that) to just turn around and drive for Uber.
Some newer candidates besides Terraform are Portable Service Definitions and Crossplane.

https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/...

https://crossplane.io
Supposedly (I can't find a reliable source), Neil Armstrong was once asked what he would have done with his final hours on the moon if the ascent engine had failed and they had been stranded. His response was that he'd have spent his final hours trying to fix the engine.

The point is that there's always something to try, even if it's improbable. Pilots are told to fly as far into the crash as possible, because it never helps to give up, and there might still be something you can do.

It's possible that they chose to say that because they thought there was no way to save the astronauts, but they definitely did not have to. And if that's really how it was, they definitely shouldn't have.
Just because the media reports it doesn't necessarily mean the court will consider it admissible evidence, but even so, looking up ways to kill people online is completely different from a tongue-in-cheek remark about how the legal system treats vehicular deaths.
Is there a reason you need one VM per customer, and can't use a single Data Gateway to manage multiple data connections?

On that note, you don't have to use the official data gateway application. It certainly has a lot of ancillary benefits, but isn't critical. You can just as effectively create a bastion linux host and use ssh to remote forward the connection to AWS database[1]. I've done that plenty of times in the past, to access databases like Redshift and Dynamo that were within non-public VPCs. Easier to manage and cheaper to run per client, if that's a hard requirement.

You could also use something like QuickSight, if you're purely AWS. But I'd only recommend that if you expect to allocate a large amount of development resources for support. PowerBI is a lot more user friendly for business users to be self-sufficient, and sometimes it's less of a hassle to deal with the up-front complexity of that than to deal with the non-stop application support needs of business users.

[1] https://www.ssh.com/ssh/tunneling/example#sec-Remote-Forward...
> A simple fact is that all 7 billion people can't live like upper middle class Americans, it's impossible. Why not have one place in the world that a huge number of people sit at the top?

Because winning the birth lottery gets you to the top, otherwise if you're from somewhere else in the world...good luck.

Of course 7 billion people can't live like upper middle class americans. Upper middle class americans are going to have to bring their lifestyle down to a sustainable level.

We have a myriad of problems at this moment in time, some of them existential. I have very little sympathy for people who think we should maintain the status quo in the face of these problems.
Yeah, same with airlines and (hand)luggage. It's all very well seeing that the bargain flight will cost you £30, but when the new cabin baggage rules mean it's going to cost you another £12 on top, it's a little frustrating.
Ask HN: How up to date is your documentation?
I'm attempting to solve the problem of stale documentation. Docs are incredibly important throughout tech but unfortunately they're commonly left outdated.

While this is probably a cultural/time management issue, I'd like to get some insight into the tools other developers use and their opinion on the matter.

I created a Google form and I'd appreciate any submissions or even discussion below.

https://goo.gl/forms/C7Z2yqe2lQ38wfkn1
I recommend anyone interested in Kubrick as a person check out the documentary Filmworker on Netflix, about his personal assistant Leon Vitali. (Warning that if you have a very black-and-white hero worship of Stanley, the film might disabuse some of your notions.)

Ian Watson, who was one of the writers who worked on AI, also wrote a bemused article about his experience working with Stanley:

https://www.ianwatson.info/plumbing-stanley-kubrick/
Google+ accidentally leaks user profile data
Diametrical Model of Autism and Schizophrenia
Functions, Kafka, redis, task queue, elasticsearch, auth, docker register, cloud build.
neither of those examples are negative externalities

the heart and core of each company is just more efficient matching with less regulation and more technology between renters and owners of capital
Oh man, can't wait to see the future graffiti all over self-driving cars. Tech dystopia, here we come!

But for real, it's for these reasons that Google et al. place such a high value on systems to identify and deanonymize people. In a world where all of your biometric data can be easily identified and linked back to you, there won't be much room for bad behavior. The real question is who gets to decide what behavior qualifies as "bad."
Thank you! OnSong looks cool - I hadn't heard of it. I'd love to make Songcraft performance-ready as well, I think it would be a very natural feature. Looking forward to your feedback!
Sounds like he's spent a lot of time living in third-world countries, so he's speaking from experience.

I've spend a good amount of time in third-world countries, and my experience aligns with his.
Many accidents have no claim filed
For those interested: In Europe, banks are forced to provide fintech companies access to customer data when the user consents to this under its "open banking" initiative

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/25/psd2-europes-banks-brace-for...

Personally speaking, i have a problem with companies like Plaid and SOFORT (EU), where they kind-of hide the fact that you provide them with your login credentials (and not the bank). From what I understand from this thread, Plaid may be selling your data and gives developers full access to the customer's transaction history. This is worrying
Why do so many new apartment buildings look the same?
Hi,

I applied to this position in Adobe careers site.
I couldn't find a way to mention that I found this opportunity details here.
Is there a way I can reach out to you?

Thanks.
The book is arguing about using a service which costs X. The business then makes the service more efficient by reducing labor costs for itself and not passing the savings back to the consumer but instead keeping the same price while making the service shittier by having the consumer do more work. So for the same price, you get less service, need to do more work while the business hoards the money.
Yes, kubernetes
That's the attitude I don't understand. Can you flush that out a little more?

It's like you only see point A and point Z. There are so many experiences to be had with a family that fills the middle.

I would argue that moving around constantly to travel keeps you from developing real, long-term relationships, and that those relationships are vital to being a successful, fully-realized human. Further, I would argue that while you may see some neat things, it is a death sentence to die alone.

See how ridiculous that sounds? Same thing with a family and house framed as a death sentence. It's not a lack of experiences to settle down, it's a different set of experiences. Why the values judgments?
You have missed the distinction between not understanding the law, and understanding it perfectly well and disagreeing with it.
That isn't what a Ponzi Scheme is at all. An investment bubble certainly in many areas but merely earlier holders benefitting from new traffic does not a Ponzi Scheme make. A Ponzi Scheme is a fraud first off. Estimates may be wrong for value but they are getting what they (over)pay for.

If tommorow the housing market had a massive collapse in value people would still get the house promised and would need to keep paying to avoid repossession - if they could pay say $2.5k to get a comparable house and move they could voluntarily default and their liability would be limited. Given such extremes and shaky risk curves many if not most banks would ageee to a middle ground if they thought the crash would endure. One can argue ethics of all parties but there is no inherent fraud here.

Continuing to sell shares beyond 100% of a gold mine and using sales proceeds to make prior customers think they are getting returns is a Ponzi Scheme. If people stop buying it collapses and when the dust settles a 20% share is only a share of 1% rationalized to true percentage. That is fraud.
https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/World-...

Seems to be working very well so far.

The record for those large societies that went for alternatives to capitalism are... not so good.
One age group _overwhelmingly_ voted for Brexit though.
Kinda odd that in their one example (https://refactoring-ui.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/landi...), the version on the left appears more interactive (since the hit-boxes are well-defined), minimal (since it avoids useless drop shadow), easier to recognize the content's organization (since the contrast between elements is higher), and functional (since it's more compact without sacrificing aesthetics). The low-contrast layout on the right with lots of mouse-dead-zones is a trend, not better design.

Would you trust anything this book has to say?
Because the regulatory environment around taxis and hotels are so onorous that doing something a reasonable person might find absurd actually improves the efficiency of car services/boarding.
But RN also compiles to native code? How’s it different?
XD is also free.
> Also interesting that the backdoor needed to make pirate copies viable was built-in and known from the beginning

On assemblerforums, I remember reading a post from someone who claimed to be from Sega about the DC. He also said they knew from the beginning, but did it anyway. He said most people knew or had an idea that this would be Sega's last console, so they didn't put as much time into DRM and such as they would have.

Could never verify that it was a Sega person, but the way they spoke about stuff led me to believe it was legit.

Back in the early 2000's once it was canned, I always liked to think that it was put there by someone intentionally who knew the system was going to fail. This way piracy would keep the system alive longer than any manufacture would. That piracy part is at least true since some company released a new DC game in the past year or two.

/I want to believe
IRS Gutted: Good news for the wealthy
This sounds exactly like what happened to me. I had a few .london domains in one of the early stages of the TLD launch. Sat there for about 60 days, and then all of a sudden - gone.

GD support were useless and I lost out on a few quality domain names. Never used them again since. In fact, I don’t even think I got my money back!
Hi! This is Lachlan from the Wasmer team.

We're a new startup working on developing universal binaries using WebAssembly.

We currently can run nginx and a couple other, unmodified, pre-existing software projects compiled to wasm. Give it a try and feel free to ask questions!
>So, maybe it's just that, the unaffordability of where a lot of us are living leading to later children and thus lack of interest in house life.

Fascinating. I actually hadn't considered that. I live in a super low COL area, for full disclosure.
What really annoys me about Peter Hyams (and this is in all his movies I saw) is the constant fog. There's always some smoke on the set. I'd be seriously rattled to wake up inside a smoke-filled spaceship around Jupiter.

But I like the touch of Curnow holding Maxim's hat. Their relationship is never mentioned in any other place in the movie. It was a nice touch (even though Max doesn't die in the book).

There is a good comparison of both Discovery's at http://2010odysseyarchive.blogspot.com/2016/03/2001-versus-2...
* prerender.io is a paid service; Rendora is FOSS and self hosted

* prerender.io needs additional code in your backend to filter requests and asks for SSR from a remote server then returns back the resulting HTML; Rendora doesn't because it does all that automatically by being a lightweight reverse HTTP proxy server in front of your backend

* with Rendora you can control caching (using an internal local store or Redis), prerender.io claims caching on their servers I guess but then you can't control it espcially if you have fast chaing pages

* Rendora provides Prometheus metrics to measure your SSR latencies, count of cached and uncached requests and an API rendering endpoint

* Rendora supports asynchronous pages where content is loaded after the initial DOM load

* you can simply choose which Chrome version you want to use with Rendora

* Rendora instructs headless Chrome to skip fetching unncessary assets (e.g. fonts, CSS, images, etc...) which makes the DOM load much faster then when loaded and rendered by default
Ask HN: Other communities like HN?
As HN is focused on tech only, do you guys know of similar communities (quality of commentary/discussion) around the web that focuses on other niches?
Actually that did happen to me early. Luckily enough no harm done. And a lesson for the rest of my life.
> Another problem is that the job while rewarding is not very lucrative. The chance of a multi million dollar payoff for an employee is low. I have a higher chance working on a web connected gadget to become a millionaire. So that means it is really hard to recruit those who are top notch programmers who known how to figure out the algorithms, write the code, debug the hardware. Most new grads these days are interested in python, javascript and machine learning.

That seems unfortunately true for most low-level infrastructure software. I am very good at those things, and have a medium amount of experience of building web software. Yet I can find a lot more jobs on the latter domain, and they probably won't pay worse (most likely even better).

Besides pay the non-rewarding things in this domain are mostly that the high complexity is often not properly understood by management, rewarded or taken into account in planning. Which then leads to suboptimal products that have been delivered under time pressure.
Did you try to launch your own cloud offering on someone else's cloud? Did you expect the other cloud would never expand their offering?

I doubt they ever tried to compete with you, and probably didn't even know you were doing something similar. You were just able to come to market before they felt they were ready with a similar product.
Does it come with Mac performance improvements?
Voter turnout by 18-21 year-olds in 2000 was the lowest in recorded history.

The presidential election was decided by less than 600 votes.
Some things I've been looking forward to:

> Easier performance management: The new Task Manager page found at about:performance lets you see how much energy each open tab consumes and provides access to close tabs to conserve power

> Improved performance for Mac and Linux users, by enabling link time optimization (Clang LTO). (Clang LTO was enabled for Windows users in Firefox 63.)

Release Notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/64.0/releasenotes/
...putting a fresh face on 3rd-world country business models...Now it's Amazon selling bootleg crap at scale.

Why does Amazon have to be limited to stores? What if they could put the right near field detection technology into a portable form factor? Like, a blanket spread on the sidewalk?
> I don't think anyone was suggesting he be thrown in jail.
Woo CSS scrollbars finally!
As someone that got the k8s invite and have been experimenting with it on DO, I just want to say that I like and this was the main reason I decided to stay instead of leaving for GCP
The claim was hundreds of picometers, which is an order of magnitude smaller than a few nanometers. Literally nothing can be perfectly flat, nor perfectly aligned.
Still made up. Broad swath generalizations remain broad swath generalizations. I can't claim to great satire in the writing above, but certainly there is an intentional frisson of irony.
Hi William,

how does your statement fit with the fact that one of your products is literally selling transactional data? https://plaid.com/products/transactions

While I'll assume this is only of the customers of a particular product, it is still worrying as many customers may not understand that fact as you are not transparent about your role and the access granted.
> The head cannot possibly float through hydrodynamic means if an air molecule can barely even fit under it.

It can. Since siblings liked airplane analogies, here is another one: Consider the head to be an airplane. It has somewhat wing-similar features which provide a lifting force, but the actual read/write head sits below those features (like, say, a landing gear is below wings).
Fast Starting Clojure AWS Lambdas Using GraalVM
https://www.newsweek.com/monopoly-man-made-appearance-equifa...
I presume you would know of factor, curious what you think of it.
I've noticed that Uber drivers tend to drive much slower and more cautiously than taxi drivers, and break traffic laws far less often. As a result when I really need to get somewhere quickly I do tend to look for a taxi first.
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Agreed, but that's not what the OP said.
Per whockey's comment here[0], it doesn't seem like Plaid is selling your data directly to 3rd parties - though it doesn't prevent the developers you're giving your data to from selling it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18655507
This is pretty awesome! Thanks for the links.
Allo?
Hi Markus,

I'd argue the opposite, actually, ownCloud is betting on providing hosting for small and medium businesses, while Nextcloud targets large businesses.

And that is what reality shows. Nextcloud has far larger customers than ownCloud, which breaks down at instances over 50K users. The only large-ish oC setup is actually a bunch of separate universities.

Nextcloud is far more scalable. Thanks to Global Scale, our largest installation has tens of millions of users on a single instance, and customers like the German government (300K users) wouldn't be able to work with oC unless they split up their users and create silos.
That's what I'm saying. The person I responded to was trying to absolve the current generation of the state of affairs which future generations will have to endure. And that's just not accurate.

Some things (like Brexit) are solidly on the backs of one generation, but others (oh Trump) aren't as easy to draw distinctions. Therefore, you can't just wave your hand and cast blame on previous or future generations.
Introducing the Helm Hub – discover apps to run in Kubernetes hosted by many
Harvard Quietly Amasses California Vineyards and the Water Underneath
You can buy rejects where 2-4 of 8 of the units are busted for $42: https://knowm.org/product/bs-af-w-memristors/
The language uses indentation levels to denote control flow, and those are very explicit - much more so than braces in fact.
Should have [1988] in title
2 identities, one man: the story of $800M hedge fund fraudster Boaz Manor
I remember I spoke with both the CEO and CTO over Skype several years ago.

They actively reached out to me because of an open source project I created and they wanted to recruit me. They made quite an impression on me but I wasn't prepared to move to the US back then. Damn. Missed opportunity. Obviously they were very proactive in reaching out to the developers that they wanted rather than just passively waiting for resumes to flow in.
Don't forget things like floods. After the recent Houston (etc) floods I won't go near any used cars unless I know their history (vinwiki, friends). Those cars wind up at dealer lots all over the country with no mention of having been in a flood.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/investigates/channel-2-in...

~1M cars was flooded by Harvey
https://weather.com/news/news/2018-02-26-hurricane-harvey-ca...
Couldn’t we reverse this on them? For example, get a list of available domains and reverse-scrape from various users to trick the algorithm into thinking the domains were valuable?
America's New Religions
It's a matter of chance that they coincide with some 3rd world country models as the latter's fuels are survival/corruption/perceived lawlessness

It's not a matter of chance. The earlier government regulation was better than no regulation, but had significant downsides. Taxi regulation got corrupt and the market didn't work very well. Uber and company came in with technology that worked better than the old government bureaucracy at cleaning up and regulating the market. I can't attest to how well Fiverr works.
you can add your user agent to whitlested user agents or (less recommended) you can even connect to the headless chrome instance (usually using http://localhost:9222 but in that case I remind you that some assets are blocked from being fetched by default such as images, fonts and CSS to speed up the DOM load. This doesn't affect the resulting HTML.)