skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A VPC with a public subnet that's locked down largely via security groups is probably fine for a project that can't justify a $35/month spend.

edit: Apparently not. See below, my mistake.
just throwing in one more +1 to how absolutely terrible their customer service was to deal with. We had an AirBnb scheduled for 2 weeks once, and I emailed the host saying we didn't need the first week and we'd be there starting the 2nd week and go ahead and keep our money for the first week.

Well the day we were getting ready to go check-in, he cancels saying we were a "no show" with no refund despite multiple written records of his confirmation that we'd be there the second week.

I asked AirBnb to refund us for half, and over and over they'd transfer between agents who had no f*cking clue about the case and just kept regurgitating some cancellation policy and ignoring my obvious evidence.

Finally I took to the social airwaves and kept calling over the course of a week and they eventually relented and refunded something.. and the best part, they never apologized once, in fact they made some absurd 6-year old passive aggressive comment about still being right but they'd refund me anyways -- and the refund was less than half.

I get that two-sided markets are tough, but even having the slightest decency and empathy during the matter would have made a world of difference to me.
A lot of those “logo explorations for the octothorpe” look like swastikas to me, including the final shape. Basic shape I suppose, easy to find in most any circular-comprised-of-geometric-shapes kind of design, but still imagery you’d probably like to avoid associating with your brand.

Still, I love these kinds of process breakdowns. Having been involved in writing a few of my own, I know there’s probably a lot of pretentious nonsense to fill in the blanks (i.e. designers mess around a lot when working) but still it’s a nice read, short as it is.
Nope, that one is all you
ASK:Enterprise Security Solution
How Enterprises track/run security testing before releasing the application in production? Do they use any standard portal or use Jira or something?
What you are describing sounds a whole lot like the Prisoner's Dilemma. For the highest personal success we need to think about maximizing group benefit, rather than being completely self-interested. However, this is rarely the case when competition is involved.
Nothing came of it? The whole Virtual Office Website (VOW) thing got created.. before meetings NAR and RESO intone legalese about encouraging competition. There's a lot of fear that the FTC will step back in and do something. With the level of MLS balkanization, innovation has a bunch of high hurdles.
What you said reminds me of what the piano guy told us when we asked him to bid out my wife's childhood piano for a full restoration. "If Pianos weren't sentimental, I'd be out of business." We could buy a decent babygrand or a really nice upright for the same price. But there's just something about having a home with furniture from your past in it.

When I sell my house, it'll be 100% with a realtor. Is it expensive? Yes. But my home is quite sentimental to me. I don't know enough to break down that barrier. I'd rather pay someone else to do it for me. I look at comparable homes in my area and I think, "my house is $50k better than that." But I honestly don't know. :)
The key factor is that you don't have to sell houses where you yourself live.
And it's not just about selling BMWs. Maybe Mercedes would like to place an ad in front of Steve? Or Rolex?

Maybe a payday loans company finds that people like Steve are less likely to be interested short term loans - so they avoid advertising to him.
You seem to think the solution is to make things worse:

> Yes and the best way to do that is to make poor nations richer which requires growth which will require more energy and thus more emission of CO2 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18926331)

That's even worse than ignoring it.
Have you tried cloudflare workers? The networking gets taken care of for you, plus they are obscenely fast as they run on the edge closest to the client and use v8 isolates to drop 95th percentile latency from cold starts from ~1.5 seconds to about 300ms.
Maybe, depending on the definition of better. The single VTSAX fund has substantially outperformed the three-fund mix.

In my case, I believe we're in a rising rate environment, therefore I'd rather not hold bonds; I'm realistically investing for my kids' consumption rather than our own (we have the basics well-covered already); VTSAX holds companies that have substantial outside the US exposure and most of my future expenses are tightly tied to the fortunes of the US economy.

If your timeline is > 35 years, you're in the US, and intending to stay in the US, I could argue that pure VTSAX is better. Any of them are better than a "professional" financial advisor, IMO.
They're going to make all-electric (and hybrid) options. What the headline first made me think was that the whole lineup would be all (=only) electric.
If Amazon of all companies, who regularly ship things to my home, can't figure out that I only have one home then maybe all this targeting stuff is hopeless after all.
As the author points out, song structure biases the results, so that artists with structured and repeated lyrics end up with a lower "vocabulary". Wouldn't it make sense to simply combine repeated lines before counting? So you'd be measuring vocabulary in first 35,000 non-structurally-repeating lyrics.
Interesting paper. I once had a very brief (an hour or two) episode of mania, and it was quite pleasant, at least for me. Clearly it qualifies as a disease, though, if present in severe enough form for any real length of time.

This 'happiness' being discussed is apparently meant to be a distinct condition, though, and it doesn't seem like any real downsides are mentioned.
> a shorthand way to indicate a topic

And I imagine it was also inspired by IRC channels.
Again how are those things different than what we are already dealing with? Less people die from extreme weather today, how does that square with your claim if the trend has in fact been increasing(hint not actually proven)
I really can't relate to that :)

The only hotel I've actually enjoyed staying at was the Marina Bay in Singapore. Other than that hotel rooms always feel meh. Very generic experience.

If you're comparing cost, you probably go for expensive airbnb experiences. I have never encountered a place where airbnbs were not cheaper than hotels (and I've airbnb'ed everywhere in the world).
The main thing to compete on is distributed scale-out and high-availability which PostgreSQL does not have a good answer for.
- Founded Vanguard and came up with the first index fund

- Became wealthy without exploiting his clients, foregoing millions, possibly billions

- Got a heart transplant at 65 and lived to 89

- Even in his recent interviews his voice always struck me as the voice of someone much younger, and he sounded very sharp mentally despite his age

RIP
Having just gone through a grueling year long search for a home, I absolutely see the value in having a realtor as a buyer, and I have to say I’d be happy to pay for one if I were on the sellers side.

Yes, some of a realtors transactions are probably cookie cutter, simple, and mundane work that a buyer or seller could have carried out themselves. The challenge is you don’t know when that isn’t going to be the case. We ended up in more than a few situations where having someone in our corner who had “seen some s#+?” was hugely valuable.

The argument that “hey, we live in this society where people like to do stuff online and therefore real estate agents are on the chopping block!” just doesn’t hold true. In some cases a human being is the most effective way to deliver the kind of tailored, personal, convenient service that people seem to also want more of.
Because Basho, the company that developed it, is dead?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/31/end_of_the_road_for...
It's a fair point to make: mandatory copyright transfer in combination with copyleft means the copyright holder can at any moment decide to change the license. Not retroactively of course, but you'd be left with the choice to fork, to buy a license, or abandon the product. None of those are great options for anyone serious about making a contribution.

Copyleft can work great but it works better if the copyright stays with the original authors. This makes it impractical to re-license because you need all copyright holders to agree to that, which in the case of most OSS projects is virtually impossible. Imagine tracking down everyone who ever contributed to Linux. Not going to happen. And as Oracle has learned the hard way, forking is what happens if you mess up. Copyleft serves users of the software.

IMHO the long term success of OSS projects requires a diverse community of contributors. If a project has value, people and companies will step up to keep it going. Companies don't last forever and their fortunes or priorities might change. Having copyright transfers basically means one company calls all the shots and if it suffers, their software and its wider community suffers. This dis-incentivizes externals to contribute; weakens the community; and can become a problem for projects being long term sustainable or indeed profitable as most of the burden of maintenance is for the sole copyright holder.

Of course it's not too late for MongoDB to swallow their pride and fix this PR disaster. Lets be frank, all this negative news around their product has got to be unpleasant for them and their shareholders. At least, I doubt that they expected or wanted this to happen and I think they should be bracing for more bad news when e.g. some of their big accounts start eyeing competing products because of this mess. The fix is obvious: move the other way and go with a business and customer friendly license (Apache 2.0 seems to be popular for this) combined with closed source components/add ons for commercial customers.
My colleague’s first comment: they should have invested that into developing a dark mode.

A pity that Slack’s still lacking such a seemingly easy to implement feature.

However, I like the new logo!
Can't you simply decouple your lambda project into two different parts where you have public lambda(s) calling your private/VPC lambda function(s) when required?

Public Lambdas can invoke VPC Lambdas (AFAIK, the reverse is not possible without a VPC endpoint).
This sentence gave me a miniature zen moment. It's gone now, though.
That's just fast-food. How about stocker, register operator, shoe store salespeople etc.
The mobile carrier PIN is the big downfall here, most ISP's don't have this type of option. Some might claim they do but don't have a formalised process to maintain it. Whereby a comment is simply placed on your account on the Goodwill the next consultant will enforce it.

*Having worked for a large telecommunications provider
Depending how much of a budget you're on. I used them a lot when I was a student, much less so now.
They recently announced that table support is coming: https://mailchi.mp/shinyfrog/bear-sneak-peek-2019?e=61b84ce0...
I'd love to see them try. The difficulty of making a pickup truck aerodynamically efficient are substantial.
More appropriate for what? Stop and go city driving while hauling a load?
Right from the article:

"We’re going to be electrifying the F-Series — battery electric and hybrid,"
I liked the old logo since it represented one of the most iconic features of the Slack, that is channels. This new one seems really generic and I can't associate it with any of the killer features in Slack.

Nonetheless, least props to Slack team to putting reasons on why the logo needed to change, instead of a generic "we wanted to go to new horizons with our product" or "the old logo was getting behind the new design trends" or something else.
Hotels can't operate at the slim margin that would allow them to compete with airbnn, otherwise, they would already have.

Vast majority of customers choose on price, and hotels offering privacy just doesn't seem like it'd be a selling point, esp. if the feature is assumed default already.
It was nice homage to what they were ripping off, I mean modernizing.
Every property we have ever purchased, except the first one, was not on the open market and the result of an agent/broker "knowing someone" that had what we wanted and managing to work out a deal for us.
As a shameless plug, we are hiring right now (we’re a small remote team) working on this exact problem - neliti.com/careers
Ah, I wasn't thinking about their commercial business. I can imagine how that would be more price sensitive.
Not my point. How could anyone possibly spend 40 hours a week for 3 months to sell a single home at that price in that market? It's not a realistic characterization of the job.
People who didn't like being poor.

I find it weird that on HN of all places, so many posters think that all other people would enjoy being poor.
On the other hand:

https://www.quora.com/Are-there-more-trees-now-than-there-we...

"There is just no accurate estimate of the number of trees 100 years ago, relative to now." --Jeanne Paquette, Mineralogist who also teaches some paleontology at McGill University (1991-present)

Maybe you should pick a topic with more hard data to argue about. Or is that too complicated for you? Nah, you just have an agenda: we're all gonna die unless we do what you say! Who cares about the truth! Truth must serve, not be served!
> signed a corporate integrity agreement with the federal government promising that the company would not violate the law in the future

I don't understand how someone proposed this with a straight face. Signing something agreeing to not break the law more is a confession that you've already done so.
Look, I get that the four outer dots are probably supposed to look like speech bubbles.

But they look like squirts. Emoji squirts. Which are associated with sexting. And squirting is kind of associated with sex in a lot of people's minds...

I'm trying to keep an open mind. But the logo is four squirts around four lines of roughly phallic proportions and rounded ends.

Seriously. This was literally the first thing I saw when I saw the logo. And judging from some of the other comments here, I'm clearly not the only one.

Really suprised this got approved.
No, they are just mostly finished and aren't seeing a lot of new feature work being done ,if any. Qml is a way better way so that's what they are working on. It gets better every release, and that guy doesn't have a clue. Sorry. Just for the record, QML is awesome.
Worth mentioning that given the current cheap money, a lot of the investment is leveraged, on credit or timed. So you don't have to have 2m sitting idle in a bank to lead a round.
Personally what I've come to realize over the years is that 'Use a startup while its young, get rid of it and get on the next startup once it grows beyond just being a simple pre-seed, 1st round startup'.

My reasoning comes from the amount of cash investors pour money into startups, and startups having insane amount of deals at the very start in order to attract costumers like uber had and airbnb to an extend. After the 1st or 2nd round is where a strong cfo either joins or the VC's involved want to capitalize on what they got so they are trying to squeeze things in and butcher the level of service something provided so they can either IPO or sell for big $.

What am saying is not always the rule but it does apply to a lot of things.

- New currency exchange card coming out amazing rates etc, 3 years down drops down to whatever your bank was going to give you
- uber is a cheap taxi alternative you can use by abusing its own staff and investor money, cool 5 years down the line it becomes the same as any other taxi out there and still manages to abuse their staff
- airbnb has some nice quality for money accomodation cause they are taking care of the product? fine again few years down the line when it gets streamlined and is getting squeezed for its maximum value they drop their customer support standards etc.

So yes thats it for me, am not going to remain a loyal customer anymore, am going to use your startup and its initial investing deal you are giving me, and am going to jump ship to the 1st startup that is coming out to beat you. Sounds very egoistic, its not though, am just tired of getting treated like a sheep.

P.S not a startup but a company that I very much liked Blizzard is changing face and its getting squeezed out for money from Activision, I feel betrayed so am a bit biased on my views but as my father once said: 'I bought a miele washing machine 25 years ago and it still works like a charm. I bought a brand new Samsung washing machine as a 2nd and broke within 3 years and good luck with warranty, if companies are going to treat me like this from now on, then am going to treat them like that'.
I honestly can't tell from your comment if that really exists or is satire.
> I believe this exact issue was just voted on in the British parliament. I fear they disagree with you pretty damn conclusively:

As they are entitled to...Doesn't change anything really. Nobody wins with a hard Brexit but there's only so far the EU can go with concessions before it no longer makes sense. That point has been (roughly) hit.

Secondly, that deal being voted down doesn't mean everybody who voted it down thought there was a better deal out there. Labour and friends want to stay in the EU.
They wouldn't attend May's planning unless a hard brexit was taken off the table(British version of saying/not US version).

It's quite telling that both Remainers & Leavers viewed the vote failing as a success.
"But it is only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve."

Quote from the movie/film "The day the earth stood still". (don't know if it's copied from the older film or some book etc...)

I did quite like that film (it was "ok", kind of advanced-mediocre) - at a certain point I was reaaaally hoping that somebody would state something like that, and a few minutes/seconds later they did => it made me incredibly happy :)
Off topic, but as a network guy by heart I've always been fairly happy with how AWS implements the network side of things, especially in comparison to something like Azure.

AWS you have the same basic concepts of a network, and the terminology aligns enough that you can make sense of it fairly quick if you're in the network realm. Azure however takes all of that 'network' stuff and turns it into this abstraction where you have to carefully follow one of their guides to realize it's out of date, or the UI doesn't show the appropriate information etc. Also you have Azure network portions that block ICMP because of 'security'.

This is all anecdotal from my experience of course, but it's why I keep referring to Azure as the "Excel spreadsheet of the cloud" because the entire design of it is in your face and non intuitive.

For instance if I wanted to make a direct connection like DirectConnect to multiple VPC's in AWS, I'd use the Transit Gateway, connect to it from on-prem, add the VPC and the route, and be done.

In Azure, I'd use expressroute, add the Expressroute circuit to a Subscription, add a gateway for that, and then an additional gateway for each VPC equivalent, create an authorization key for each 'VPC' equivalent and sync them, and then define routing per gateway. Then when you go in to trace the network path ICMP is blocked.

I know AWS is more mature than Azure, so it's not entirely fair to criticize them, but every time I touch Azure I miss AWS, or even GCP. Perhaps it's just me not being familiar enough with Azure. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You are mixing your political opinion into this which makes it impossible to debate this rationally.
There's lots of things like this spoken about real estate agents that kinda make sense if you view humans as 100% money driven logic machines, but these are not the way humans necessarily behave.

Our real estate agent certainly told us if she thought a house was overpriced. And she told us when she thought we should avoid a house and why - e.g. one was a questionable "flip", another had a huge tree a bit close to the house that we didn't notice (think of the foundation).

We ultimately went for the cheapest house we saw. We had 20% more in our budget but the real estate agent was fine showing us houses that fit our parameters but were less expensive than what we could afford. I did some looking for houses to see too, and when I asked her about those she would say why she didn't show them to us.
1980 and 1990 were both more than 25 years ago. Wikipedia puts the 2017 estimate at 2,716,450, which is roughly the same as the 1990 numbers.
Love it. We paint red swastikas all over for Diwali.
Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rZMVkY...
if you keep banning IPs then you eventually get to a point where its more efficient, and cost effective to just yank the cable and, ignore the internet.
Gmail is the exception, as google can harvest all the data from other Google services.

Virtually all google products are governed by a shared google privacy policy, which allows Google to combine data across products and services. This change was made years ago, despite some end user protest.

Most apps and products are also optimized to maximize data harvesting - ex. Android OS and Maps will nag if users don't give up data. So I don't really believe what you're saying.
> This will make the page load faster, especially on mobile. Which is known to help increase revenue.

Most ad loaders actually run async these days, cutting out middlemen/trackers doesn't help you for time-to-first-readable-content. Biggest culprit there are expensive assets like dozens of different fonts/variation combos, pre-roll video ads and uncompressed images.
Thank you Jack. Signed, Vanguard investor.
Use a language that doesn’t allow incorrect code and you get 100% code coverage without writing tests.

Smart compilers and precise language (ala Haskell) obviate the need for writing unit tests.
Video gambling has been around a long time. Greasy spoon/truck stop diner my family frequented as a kid some 30 years ago had video poker & keno. And they weren't hidden away in a corner - they were right there in the dining area.
CitusDB for sharding & replication. Patroni & Stolon for automated replication. Not native solutions, but are an answer.
I don't think "cyberharassment" sounds like being mean online at all, I think it's what most would consider harassment but conducted through the Internet to the extent that it is possible to do so, and it may even be more pernicious, since it is very easy to stalk people and submit anonymous comments via the Internet. In the same way, I'd also assume you personally more likely to be falsely accused of rape than you are to be victimized by it - simply because you're probably not a rapist. It does not have much to do with the fact that most rape allegations are true, at least to the extent we determine in legal courts.

Maybe we should think about how we act online if we feel that there is a significant risk of being accused of cyberharassment, even if such conduct should not be illegal (and I suspect we also disagree on where the line ought to be drawn here).
I honestly think that this will help make electric vehicles more mainstream. People here in the US love their F-150's, and if Ford could make die hard truck fans switch from a V8 to a TTV6, then they're the ones that can convince the same fans consider buying a hybrid or electric F-150.
This is dead on. The HN crowd that prefers to buy on their own based on objective measures and data they can find on a property is a tiny minority. Most people want and need human guidance in a complicated situation like buying a house.