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Yes, some cloud providers readily suggest competing with them by making something better. In the end, the DB is still running on their infrastructure (required to keep the customer's latency low) and they are still capturing profit even if it is not as much as their DBaaS profit.

There is a problem though that a DBaaS provider is still at an inherent disadvantage. You aren't in the AWS/GCP cli tool and APIs. And the DBaaS has to setup VPC peering across accounts, which has some inherit limitations (e.g. no DNS resolution on GCP).
I agree with that. I’ve only known crèches as places where a human body is held in order to be augmented or have a mind transfer to a body in a second crèche.
It'd be interesting if there was a way to specifically require AWS, Azure, Google Cloud (or more generally any cloud hosting reseller) to pay if they use the open source software or any derivative of it (or if they create any company which then uses it) for the purposes of reselling it to others.

Basically give the open source project a 30% cut if you're going to resell it (or fork and resell it). It might be hard to do now since with AWS since with ES Amazon just forked whatever version was already permissively licensed, but it may be interesting to create a new license to protect against this for new OSS projects.
Speed - PIA has always been a fast competitor to TorGuard. However, TG is extremely fast for torrenting, like REALLY fast. Test it yourself, or watch my videos.

App - The app's design is fine, a bit old school, but easy to use and updated within the last year. It also has a ton of security features (app + network switch), streaming IP integration, and the list goes on.

Price - It's the same price as PIA now, and with my discount code "tomspark" which isn't unique really, since TG has thousands of 50% off codes floating around, its $5 a month compared to $10 a month with PIA...

Reputation - TG's reputation has been flawless. They don't make any false claims and are honest about their jurisdiction, as well as a no logs policy.This is why so many VPNs try to buy them out (as claimed in the TG lawsuit document)..The fact they are sueing another VPN for blackmailing them is a good thing IMO. They are showing some balls. The fact so many VPNs are trying to DDOS TorGuard as well, shows they are doing something right.

So yes, I am an objective party. I have been reviewing VPNs since 2015, and have re-reviewed more than 20+ VPNs this year alone.

Not to mention TorGuard only has an affiliate commission rate of 30% which makes it lower than most any other VPN in the industry (proving that I am not a sellout like other reviewers).
It's not that simple. My own personal history has shown me time and again that sloppy writing is usually unintelligent writing. The odd typo is worth overlooking, but poor grammar and spelling are reliable red flags.

In this case, it's a transcript, so the typo is a red herring. I didn't know it was a transcript when I started reading, though. Like the parent commenter, I stopped reading there.

When I've just opened a bunch of tabs off the HN front page, everything's got a paragraph to catch my interest before I move on.
A watchdog timer is typically a timer that's linked to some hard reset of the CPU/system. The system must "kick" the watchdog before it times out (every single time) in order to stay running.

This sounds similar to what was being described.
If you own facebook shares in a tracker and short Facebook, you are neutral, from a share price exposure point of view. I am still the beneficial owner of the shares within the tracker though, it is still hypothetically possible for me to go to a shareholder meeting and vote with that stock. So although I don't have any financial stake in Facebook, I do have some benefits of ownership.
Never used CRDB so this question may make no sense, but given it builds upon Postgres (AFAIU), couldn't you use any of the many backup solutions Pg offers?
Is it a monopoly if all other options are ad-infested and privacy lacking?

If Apple is considered to have a monopoly on privacy-first devices and ecosystem, then let's first judge the system that allows the other (clearly undesirable) options to even exist.

Monopoly as a definitive term has criteria, and Apple doesn't meet those. By your same argument, any luxury brand "prices like a monopolist" and should be shunned.
No reason for BAT to be a token, in fact I'm quite confident it accomplishes nothing but making the user experience worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augur_(software)

too few users to even be considered, in my opinion
It's my impression that "everybody" puts a flight controller between the servos and the receiver these days, either a sophisticated one running something like ArduPilot [1] or at least a cheap, dedicated flight stabilizer like (random pick) [2].

[1] http://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/common-choosing-a-flight-co...

[2] https://hobbyking.com/en_us/quanum-gyro.html
For employment relationships, yes. For freelance, I would say it's quite the opposite, where you have a much bigger pool of gigs you can accept as a generalist. And if you are in full-on mercenary mode, it also allows you to capitalize a lot better on hype-topics, where as a good generalist you can ramp up on the required skills pretty quickly.
>The numbers speak for themselves

Except that’s exactly my point that you can’t argue.

How about in Washington. I-594 required background checks. The NRA spent a lot of money fighting it - but was outspent by gun control groups over 14:1, 10:1 of that was Michael Bloomberg alone.

You know results when it was actually put to a vote? 60/40.

A far cry from the polling lie that 92% want mandatory background checks on all sales performed by a dealer for a fee who has no obligation to perform using a system that has no obligation to be online.
> Google was prioritizing traffic to cat videos.

It was not. Youtube was unavailable to me, but gmail worked sporadically.
> When I don't floss, after 3 or 4 months, my gums start to puff up and bleed when brushed. When I do floss at least once a week, they don't.

That's effectively the very beginning of "gum disease"; your brushing of your teeth probably keeps it in check otherwise, but if you didn't brush or floss - imagine where that could lead to.

Smoking only makes the problems worse (IIRC, it makes the gums more sensitive to abrasion and tooth decay products).

It's ultimately best to brush and floss regularly, particularly before going to bed, or directly after eating. I'd say if you had to do one or the other, before bed and in the morning regularly would be best.

Something to keep in mind also is how you floss - you want the floss to go between your teeth, but don't let it "saw" into (and injure) your gums - think of it more like a toothpick.

On top of all this, go see your dentist regularly if you can afford it. Every 6 months is fine. You can get x-rays and other diagnostics (there's one for oral cancer, among other things - talk to your dentist) that can help with your overall health. I honestly believe (anecdote) that going to your dentist regularly can be more beneficial for your overall health than going to the doctor.

Though, on that last bit, I honestly don't understand why here in America they leave it up to the patient to schedule regular doctor visits. I even asked my doctor's office staff if they could re-schedule me 6 months or a year later, and they wouldn't do it ahead of time, just "call us in a year" - which of course I never did. I suck at such follow-ups, but I've gone regularly to the dentist every 6 months for the past 25+ years - because they always schedule the next 6-month follow-up for me before I leave the office.

I don't understand why it's not done as a matter of course by regular family practice doctors (though they seem to do this - I think - for children; but at some point you "age out" - or more often, leave home out from under your parent's care).
> Anyone who hasn't eg watched the recent Jordan Peterson/Slavoj Zizek debate

I watched that debate and found it a tedious rehashing of tired old talking points and straw men criticisms of Capitalism/Marxism. To use that in any way of a yardstick of intellectual depth seems odd.
Sure. Amazon Neptune is garbage, but that's not the issue. They are competing fair and square here. The problem is when they fork <insert liberally licensed open source project> completely.
There were a lot fewer university students back when you could attend a polytechnical institute and make a living wage in a factory. With globalization and deindustrialization, Britain is now a "knowledge economy" so you have hundreds of thousands more in universities.
> Sure, but those are not features you want in a cargo or passenger aircraft

Depends on the use case: for a feeder aircraft (regional to international airport) load, range and speed isn't terribly important, but fuel economy still is, for economical reasons (and for ecological reasons, which translate into economical by making the tickets an easier sell to a climate-aware population). In well developed regions, the main draw of feeder planes over ground transportation is not travel speed, but the convenience and piece of mind of checking in at your home airport.

Since a lot of regional (or effectively regional) airports are wildly overbuilt in hopes of attracting bigger connections there could be a market for a plane that fills the available width with a modern high aspect ratio wing to max out efficiency for small loads. If new aircraft designs weren't prohibitively expensive or fuel would be much more expensive this kind of plane would exist. Basically, put the wing of a Global Hawk on an ERJ-145.
Annotated Hacker News traffic since the beginning
So are they complicit in the crime then?
Hey... I'm not citing. I'm not even arguing. I'm quoting their answer to your question.

Supposedly Kik did seek clarification from the SEC and didn't get any. Then they received an enforcement action which is supposed to include details about the problems involved and the actions to be taken, but it contained none of those. Since then, they have been working for a year to get any kind of detail from the SEC, and the SEC has declined.

Personally, I think the root problem is that it seems the SEC is wildly under-funded and over-loaded. If a politician ran on a platform of election & campaign-finance reform + fund up the IRS & SEC; you couldn't call me a single-issue voter, but maybe a "2-issue voter" in that dream scenario.
The tutorial itself uses Google, but the library seems to support CMUSphinx. Its documentation seems interesting:

https://cmusphinx.github.io/wiki/
There is a big difference between them being able to activate a connection to my machine at their whim and execute code, vs me downloading their software or an update at a time of my choosing, especially since if I am very security conscience I can wait until an updated has been audited or tested.

With a remote code execution engine, someone could hack into their backend and then start running malicious code on thousands or millions of machines. If they compromise a software update, at least there is a chance it can be caught before it gets to me.
Amazon Business: UK Deals
> Kik is different in that they have deep pockets, strong legal counsel, and a product that's been out there for 8 years.

Except they don't. The only money they have is from an unregistered sale of securities which was only undertaken because they HAD NO MONEY. Their product costs more to run than it makes, and is irrelevant to the SEC lawsuit.
I absolutely love Adafruit tech for low-volume hardware hacking projects. Particularly the Feather nRF52832 [0]: onboard flash, Bluetooth Low Energy, a 5V-to-3.3V converter, and USB battery charging all in one little off-the-shelf board. And the runtime [1] and bootloader [2] are totally open! I'm tinkering with my own little fork to add signed updates, lock down the OTA DFU mechanism, and switch to a more secure BLE pairing mode.

By the way, if anyone knows of an alternative to the RedBear Nano V2 [3] in terms of form factor and power profile, please let me know, since Particle is sadly killing that board off after buying out RedBear. Glad I don't have to worry about that with Adafruit.

[0] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3406

[1] https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_Arduino

[2] https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_Bootloader

[3] https://store.particle.io/products/redbear-nano-v2
Years ago I heard the same from a Postgres-contractor friend who said amazons ready-to-go (now RDS, but iirc, back then just MySQL; I don’t recall the service brand name - maybe also RDS) SQL service was welcome, because it sucked. Its not clear to me though that 1) it would stay “sucky” 2) users would make the distinction my friend did.

I’m worried it’d play out where Amazon would vacuum up the “low end” part of the market and the “high end” would further have to be competed for, because Joes Expert RDBMS Service v Amazon.
The biggest obstacle for any new social media application is the network effect. There needs to be a reason for a small set of people to use it in the first place. That's kind of app-specific, though, and it's a product-centric issue. I think with Axiom the backend technology is ready for such decentralized apps to be built.
Most fresh sushi counters are operated by an LLC unrelated to the supermarket, and a baffling percentage goes unsold throughout the day.
Additionally, you may not notice it but it you don’t floss you are likely to have bad breath due to the food trapped between your teeth (it depends on the gaps between your teeth but any food that sits in your mouth will eventually smell like shit). Outside of the other benefits of flossing, knowing that my breath smells better and not worrying about it is worth the 5-10 minute effort once a day.
Watchdog says FBI has access to about 640M photographs
Ask HN: Fair competition in tech: patent reform, or antimonopoly action?
What, in your opinions, would most improve the industry’s ability to innovate and give smaller players a more level playing field: patent reform, or antimonopoly action against the biggest companies in the space?
Braking is higher G but consider that the descent and landing aren't really nose-down situations and the braking part itself takes seconds. When taking off you have nose up for quite some time throughout the climb. Sitting backwards would make it pretty uncomfortable unless the seats are somehow redesigned (they'd have to be anyway to handle the different stresses).
Great discussion. This seemed an appropriate place to interject an idea from another systems thinker[0]:

"A loss of X dollars is always the responsibility of an executive whose financial responsibility exceeds X dollars." - Gerald Weinberg's 'First Principle of Financial Management' and 'Second Rule of Failure Prevention' [1]

By this model, I'd say engineers have some responsibility, but managers and, especially, executives shoulder the primary responsibility. By the same model, engineer's choices also have to be mediated by their own responsibilities to pay the bills, take care of their families, and so on.

[0] An Introduction to General Systems Thinking, Weinberg

[1] 'First-Order Measurement', Quality Software Management, Volume 2, Gerald Weinberg, Dorset House Publishing, 1993
This sounds.. crazy to me but hey if it works for you that's great and maybe you should post something! I'd be curious to see a workflow that uses handwritten code.
Having recently road tripped across the country for a move to SF, I found myself admiring the design of national park signage. It feels very timeless and iconic.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/13/76/e2/1376e2e5690719701689...
This seems like pretty flawed reasoning. What you are describing is not a prior but a posterior - the distribution after the observed data has been taken into account.

If anything the prior can help make you less racist by incorporating the knowledge that immutable characteristics are not good indicators of danger/not danger.

The thing is though, even if you are told race doesn't matter through a prior, if you observe a strong correlation over many instances it's going to be hard to ignore that regardless of your prior (what you are told). While it may not be a causal relationship, it may still be a good predictor.
From the last line of the article, Canadian regulators appear to be helping the SEC here:

> The SEC appreciates the assistance of the Ontario Securities Commission.
What's audacious is that Ben thinks Apple hasn't considered the antitrust implications of the above hypothetical.

I really doubt they'd force developers to use Sign in with Apple, instead they'll just make it desired and profitable. My guess: this goes as far as Apple Pay app integration does now - some but not all apps, and in the least required.
I'm reasonably certain that a lawyer (that is: your lawyer) would tell you not to do that, since it would be pretty obvious that the wrapper is only being used in an attempt to evade the terms of the license.
Is pro-film and audio production the target market for the new MacPro?

At first I thought they might be going for the ML demographic, which has the budget and demand for beefy workstations, but they're using AMD GPUs, not nvidia.
The climate crisis is our third world war. It needs a bold response
Not to mention the PC at $6K with 256GB SSD. Still consider the most innovative company. Those guys one day will sell smart coffee cups for 500 dollars.
It never ceases to amaze me the trust that the tech industry has in both the competence and the benevolence of the government.
"Freeing up those spots" implies that US students are barred from competing for grad school places or that international students have some advantage that domestic students do not.
It's French, it means both nursery and the nativity scene. Each side of the Atlantic decided to land on the other definition
Yeah its just not practical to take their food. Plus i m not talking only about climate scientists
> We would not accept a program that rewrites itself in response to myriad inputs and is therefore highly unpredictable and unreliable, and config/infrastructure should be held to the same standard.

Fwiw, that's what web browsers do; they download code that generates code and runs it, and every request-response has different variables that result in different outcomes.

And again, it's really not "config", it's input to a distributed system. It's not "infrastructure", it's a network of distributed applications. These can be developed to a high standard, but you need people with PhDs using Matlab to generate code with all the fail-safes for all the conditions that have been mapped out and simulated. Writing all that software is extremely expensive and time-consuming. In the end, nobody's going to hire people with PhDs to spend 3 years to develop fool-proof software just to change what S3 bucket an app's code is stored in. We have shitty tools and we do what we can with them.

Let's take it further, and compare it to road infrastructure. A road is very complex! The qualities of the environment and the construction of the road directly affect the conditions that can result in traffic collisions, bridge collapse, sink holes. But we don't hire material scientists and mechanical engineers to design and implement every road we build (or at least, it doesn't seem that way from the roads I've seen). You also need to constantly monitor the road to prevent disrepair. But we don't do that, and over time, poor maintenance results in them falling apart. But the roads work "well enough" for most cases.

Over time we improve the best practices of how we build roads, and they get better, just like our systems do. Our roads were dirt and cobblestone, and now they're asphalt and concrete. We've switched from having smaller, centralized services to larger, more decentralized ones. These advances in technology mean more complexity, which leads to more failure. Over time we'll improve the practice of running these things, but for now they're good enough.
Much shorter working weeks needed to tackle climate crisis
Why Working Class New Yorkers Drop Their “Rs”
Did you, though?

The first hour was Jordan Peterson making a hacky point that capitalism is good and communism's not and Zizek doing Keith Jarret-type improv touching on a thousand topics. Then in the actual debate rounds Zizek got Jordan Peterson to agree with him.

It was an actual debate. There was a winner and not in the sense of a rap battle. The loser was happy to have had it.
I don't disagree with what you're saying. But it's also reasonable to focus just on working with those who see the same thing you do, and develop widely usable systems based on that. That's where everything comes from, basically. If we keep pandering to the lowest common denominator, the results will always be compromised.

GDPR is having a big impact on these discussions. Organizations don't want to own data any more. It would be a true tragedy of more collapsing of the net if it came down to using one of a few big providers, without alternate options. Yet we're seeing this happen, since many sites now only offer login via social media, with no option via email. IMO, these sites should be boycotted.
Even if cloud providers give back more than they take, there nothing legally stopping them from stealing an open source project as their own. The Business Source License (BSL) seems like a good reaction. What Amazon did to confluent.io and so many others seems pretty cold hearted.
If you think like #3 you're one of the engineers that should work on safety critical software. Recognizing that you may produce errors I think is akin to the Dunning-Kruger effect. It shows me you know enough that you don't know enough, which is far preferable to people who don't know they don't know and thus think they're good.
Also important, not using a power of two sized ring is leaving lots of optimization on the table.
AT&T was a government sanctioned monopoly before they were broken up and their rates were regulated by the government.
The USDA just descheduled tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
Open Datasets for Self-Driving
So pretty much NordVPN pokes TorGuard into suing and now... NordVPN gets to put TorGuard in a body bag and call it a day as they've always wanted. Mission Accomplished.
The problem is the amount of vertical movement which will be the same regardless of seat orientation. Passengers will feel sick.
Something that came as a surprise to me was the fact that QEMU and FFMpeg are made by the same guy as well.

Kind of depressing; either one of those projects has that person set for life in the job market, and that jerk has both! How am I supposed to compete with that?

EDIT: Just a note, I say this with all the love in the world, and certainly wish no ill-will towards Fabrice. I hope my dumb joke above didn't come off as hostile...I think it's pretty cool that one person was able to build two apps that I use daily.
Right Google Apple and Amazon all take exactly %30.

Seems like a fair competitive market. /s
> Sure, Chrome is worse

I'd like some clarification on that. Does Chrome send automated telemetry reports about my browsing to Google when you are not logged in with your Google account? Does Chrome give remote code excecution privileges to Google (Yeah, via the Updater, but that does not really count)? I searched but I found nothing on the net about telemetry.

I never use Firefox because it has these horrible defaults, and keeping up on all the about:config switches I need to toggle to be able to use it is just too much.
The "API" you are referring to is known as SQL, transmitted over the wire using the pgsql protocol. There's nothing to copy. The magic of Cockroach is in the implementation.
Why a VM? That seems like the ultimate bandwidth abuse. I could whip up a /bin/sh script that selects one at random from/etc/shells for you that is only a couple of bytes.
A purpose of statistics is to make generalizations about a population. The solution to your problem is to have a larger sample size.
This is something that i would buy for sure.