skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Percentage-based taxes stretch the supply curve upward along the price axis.

Adding a 30% tax means that if you draw a line down from the new equilibrium point to zero price, that line will cross the original supply curve at 30% of the way down. But the new equilibrium point may also be at a different (likely lower) quantity, where the demand curve could have a different slope.

For a perfect commodity, where the supply curve is nearly flat, the percentage tax has the effect of raising that flat line higher. A 30% tax raises prices 30% higher. The shape of the demand curve only determines the reduction in trade volume.

For a fixed-supply good, where the supply curve is completely vertical, the price remains exactly the same, and the tax is paid entirely by the supplier. The shape of the demand curve isn't very relevant.

If the demand curve is perfectly vertical, consumers pay all the tax, and quantity remains the same.

In order for an x% tax to produce an x+y% increase in price, there has to be some other effect in play. The demand curve has a positive slope, as with a Veblen good. The demand curve shifts upward or rightward, as though the tax serves as advertising. A 30% tariff on similar goods or general inflation produced a substitution effect that drove more people to demand garlic.

Pure demand elasticity can't account for it all.
Where exactly does the quoted text mention shady spam operations? It's about DDoS victims, not cybercriminals.

>We are NOT a DDoS Mitigation Service. Yes, we have a lot of DDoS mitigation in place. No, this isn’t here so that you can get cheap DDoS mitigation. You cannot use any services here if you are, have been or think you may be the direct target of a DDoS attack. Contact us instead for a referral to a real DDoS mitigation company. If you come on this system knowingly bringing a DDoS on your heels we shut down service (we may also wildcard your DNS to localhost and set the TTL on your zone out to a year. You’ve been warned).
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Great, now I have something else to watch after Cheers!
From a mid-level dev, you’ll learn and I doubt you’ll need to know everything in this article and understand it for your first job.

Do you understand what the web, api, and DB servers are doing?

If your interested in Python and want to start small I can recommend Flask. Flask is smaller and could be more user friendly than Django.

Here’s a great tutorial. You’ll build a blog with Bootstrap, Python, Flask and SQLAlchemy.[1]

[1]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-osiE80TeTs4UjLw5MM6...
> I can install browser extensions, no problem but local apps are restricted.

Yes, which is why I posted the alternative to installing an app. You can use Keepass + drive/dropbox sync without installing anything using keeweb.

You do not need to install apps to access drive, dropbox, etc...
from the online etymology dictionary,

com-

word-forming element usually meaning "with, together," from Latin com, archaic form of classical Latin cum "together, together with, in combination," from PIE *kom- "beside, near, by, with" (compare Old English ge-, German ge-). The prefix in Latin sometimes was used as an intensive.

Before vowels and aspirates, it is reduced to co-; before -g-, it is assimilated to cog- or con-; before -l-, assimilated to col-; before -r-, assimilated to cor-; before -c-, -d-, -j-, -n-, -q-, -s-, -t-, and -v-, it is assimilated to con-, which was so frequent that it often was used as the normal form.
Pandas was extensively rewritten since its first few versions, and its GitHub repo has 1500+ contributors now, so I doubt that Wes McKinney's initial lack of python experience had much to do with the API rough spots of modern pandas. "Pre-2010 R" doesn't mean much to me, but I can confidently point out that pandas "looks like a weird mixture of numpy" because it is based heavily on numpy.
First, that's a great stack and very well written/presented.

One comment - he dismisses serverless as being overengineering. I think the correct POV, moreso for the single-man company, is that running a server to perform a task is the overengineered option.

One can see from the snapshot the servers are indeed severely overprovisioned and underutilized. Building an api with api-gateway + lambda is less work than running django in uwsgi behind self-managed nginx, and is guaranteed to be more cost-effective for unpredicted load.

Same logic applies to the db servers - why not hosted?

And last - the inf is a good reminder that prefixing your api routes with /v1, /v2 is always a good habit.
Look very cool, and I'd love to try it out... HOWEVER....Being closed-source, backed by a single company (startup or not) is not an acceptable level of lock-in imho.. (maybe for small pocs)...

What "guarantees" that you dont decide to charge far too much (or increase price mid-way)? What "guarantees" you wont kill a feature I need/my development requires?

Its a very nifty thing but without having self-hosting ability and this being some sort of open project (at least partially so users have a 'way out' if the company's direction changes) I cant see using this for any non-personal project...
No, the implication is that people don’t understand the difference. These are the people who call every photo with people in a “selfie”.
Great to see you unveiled. Best of luck, i really look forward to having a real cloud-native way of developing software.

Do you guys plan to support smart diffs for code reviews? As you work on AST level, it should be possible to detect some more patterns, e.g. an re-arrangement of some pieces of code, refactorings of many identifiers, etc., categorise them and have a diff summary for the review.
"What you do?" You mean like breaking a customer's domain name for the next year if EasyDNS thinks they brought a DoS attack "on their heels?"
>but, devils advocate, maybe it's just there to scare off potential spammers/scammers?

Why are you engaging in these bizarre mental gymnastics to defend this? The threat is made in a context strictly unrelated to spammers/scammers.
"The United States, meanwhile, enjoyed a 5G maximum speed of 1815Mbps – about three times as fast as 4G users’ maximum speed."

This report seems to be lacking a reality check. (Is it practically possible to get ~600 Mbps from LTE? Exotic bundles like LTE MIMO don't really count unless they're actually offered as part of regular plans.)
> My understanding is making the website available to a country can be soliciting business.

Oh dear, that would make publishing any website extremely dangerous..
Same question I had. Startup = Money generator, so it's important to ask.

Looks like it's an ad-driven revenue model, and it looks like it gets ~ 1m views/month: https://www.similarweb.com/website/listennotes.com

Assuming $1 per 1,000 impressions, we get $1,000 / month.

That's purely the website. I can't speculate on the API side of his business though.
Poison the food supply so a number of guards are sick?
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Do you have an approximate translation of Abmahnanwalt? Google translate punts on it
The cool thing about 1Password and similar is that not only do they work in other browsers (Firefox), they also work outside of the browsers (e.g. in iOS I can autofill login boxes with credentials pulled from 1Password)
I disagree.

The F/OSS part is the most important. Rockbox allowed an incredible degree of customization. For something like a music/audiobook player personal tastes in interaction with the a small device mean that configurability is key. That, I suspect is why there are only larger devices with loads more buttons and touchscreens available.

The ability to set timeouts and restart from last position on power-on, led light-level, sort-order etc made devices supported by them something that I could use. I have tried various Alibaba sourced devices that were in the US$20-50 range and none of them had the right form-factor and customizability.
It always kind of amazes me when we try to have national conversations on taxation and who has 'too much money' and we never consider things like family size, which this article does - to move from upper class DINKs to upper class with three kids, you have to make 60% more money.

There's also age - if you're 5 years from retirement you need to have a lifetime of money saved up.

And of course 'enough' money is very different when lunch is $8 versus $15.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985429.
No mention of Electron? Is it no longer cool?
Amazon already lost all my "customer trust" when I found out they not only sold but endorsed untested, toxic Chinese toys. The slogan seemed sincere enough when I worked there. I guess it's a casualty of the recent drive for profitability.
My handwriting is a little better than my mouse handwriting, but yeah - this is the result:

https://imgur.com/a/Camxez9
wenbin, do you find it meaningfully superior to get Slack notifications vs. just an email?

Also curious if you have a monitoring/recovery strategy for when you go camping or on honeymoon and need to be offline.
Ditto, they have my $10/year as well.
Probably smaller, leaner players will disrupt things like Uber. They have way too much money to spend to be efficient.
>If I was a jury (but keeping in mind I am not even a US national), a fair sentencing would be to recognise him as guilty but to sentence him to a short term / time served.

In the US, the judge decides the sentence and cannot sentence him to less than a minimum. For example, if convicted (by the jury) of treason, the law states that he "shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000", and the judge cannot impose a sentence less than that.
Come on. They made this threat in a very specific context, it has nothing to do with abusive activity like running a DDoS C&C.

>As others said every service reserves the right to do things like this, they just typically phrase differently. To quote GoDaddy:

Suspending a domain is standard practice, sabotaging one by setting long EOLs is not. It is dishonest to suggest that these are similar.
Ask HN: Best way to validate a product idea?
What is your experience validating product ideas, so you're getting out most from it without spending much effort?
Correct me if I am wrong, but a TTL is specific to nameservers. So if you switch from easyDNS to say cloudflare your TTLs get completely reset and the caching does as well.
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Actually had a customer (or just angry netizen) complain about this at a hosting company. Was very satisfying to return our boilerplate about how we were in 'murica and this didn't apply.
Well I might have had trust in Amazon as a brand maybe a decade ago, as it got to the brand and product I wanted to buy pretty effectively. They've intentionally diluted it by filling their site with endless marketplace shite, and dodgy searches that hide brand leaders to show no-name garbage, and littering it with adverts for other no-name garbage. It's quite often I struggle to find the listing for the market leader directly, but end up there via a few "customers also bought/looked at" links. I go to Amazon less and less as a result.

So assuming Bezos isn't a complete numpty, that's intentional. Maybe Amazon's brand is completely disposable to fund Blue Streak.

Today I got more trust in Poundshop and eBay that I will get the right product easily than I do in Amazon. The old department stores, many now failed, sank or swam on the strength of their brand being a real indicator of quality.
Considering that you repeatedly used the phrase "you have to worry about it" or "list of devices that you worry about", I was arguing that your assertion isn't accurate. I don't worry about it, it doesn't add to the list of devices I have to worry about, and, based on the comments from others on these threads, it wouldn't be something you'd have to worry about either unless you intentionally didn't charge it at night. Worry implies that you're expecting it to die on you or that you have to monitor it throughout the day and we're telling you that's not the case.
I'm a one-person company too ( geocode.xyz ). My tech stack is even more boring than that. (Nginx, MariaDB, Perl on AWS Ec2 Linux instances. I don't have an office either.
My first code was written in Flash 4 (I think?), so I understand the value of a easy-to-use walled garden, and I understand how companies can make money from those walled gardens.

> A really great new idea should empower millions of people completely unlike us to build software.

I agree, but I don't think this is it — it doesn't feel like the SquareSpace of backends. It requires a bunch of pre-existing knowledge (requests, databases etc.), and its language doesn't have the simplicity of most starter languages.
We all use C instead of assembly because it makes it easier to express the same thing, though we lose some control, and pick up bloat. Each successive language tends to do the same. But once you're comparing languages that are basically at the same level, what are you really gaining by switching?

There's always going to be pain. I think we just assume the other pain will be more tolerable.
I'm guessing they have had to deal with DDoS attacks a lot, and as a sysadmin I can sympathise with their frustrations - it doesn't just affect the person fleeing to them, it affects their entire hosting platform, their other customers, and ultimately them getting paid for hosting those other customers. They're probably sick of it, which explains the drastic action. I can understand why they would threaten this if they've had to ride through multiple attacks, especially if it appears someone under fire is using them for 'cheap DDoS mitigation' when it's specifically a service they don't offer.
Among other things, Sears was afraid of cannibalizing their in-store sales and didn't understand the potential of the internet. They had a very B&M-centered mindset.
From my perspective all the negatives of the web app approach have largely come to pass and I'm moving away from hosted cloud apps. Once bitten twice shy I guess. I'm not sure it's time to declare a winner.
Bro. It's the descent into modernism we're talking about here. The fall of Eurasian civilization into degenerate idiocracy. Do we scrape the exoplanets or do we pick through our own landfills for the rest of eternity? It all hinges on the 3.5 mm headphone jack.
I really like the idea of monolithic repos but can see some downsides when there is more than one person working on a project. It would be cool if there was a simplified way to have an entire business operate under source control.
What You Need to Know About GDPR in 2019
Subtitle of article: Products designed for older people reinforce a bogus image of them as passive and feeble.

And elsewhere in the article: Half of older longtime job holders, meanwhile, are pushed out of their jobs before they planned to retire.
(I can only guess you are American) - American experiences with Amazon are so different to mine over here in the UK it's incredible. I buy tonnes of different stuff from Amazon(multiple hundred orders last year) and I have never ever gotten anything counterfeit or had any issues. In fact every time when their 1-day delivery arrives late they just extend my prime by a month, no questions asked. And yet every time I go on HN it's 100% negative, stories about unreputable sellers selling fake stuff - this is just not happening outside of US for some reason.
Speaking as a consumer, I'm kind of tired of companies giving themselves enormous amounts of power and then saying, "don't worry, we won't use it."

That's not a professional relationship to me. And I would hazard a guess that if I tried to contract with EasyDNS and added clauses that gave myself similar amounts of power over them, they wouldn't be as trusting of me.

The point of a legal document is to set explicit boundaries, not to set a "tone" to the relationship or scare off scammers. Setting tone is what your FAQ is for.
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The difference here is that Snowden was acting as a whistleblower in the interest of the public good, and he asserts (and many agree) that doing so through the legal channels would not have had the same effect.

While he did clearly break the law as it was written, I believe he made the world a better place. Which makes me think that maybe its the law that should be revisited, not his actions.

Most unjust laws need high-profile perpetrators in order to highlight how unjust they are, and act as a catalyst for change.
There's similar and completely indistinguishable, except for brand name and logo. e.g. their desk lamps, also their mice. Seems to be the case for almost every Anker product I remember looking at recently.
You seem to really dislike easyDNS.
It's possible I am looking at it rather nostalgically but it was one of the last shows before the world wide web took off that everyone would gather together to watch or talk about the next day. Add to that an entire generation of people in their 30s and 40s who all have Netflix and can't ever seem to find anything to play on it as well as those who were in their 20s through 40s when the show were airing having far more disposable time and income and you have the perfect show for Netflix IMO.

I'd add....I think a large reason for this is the success of the show in syndication, which has added it to its longevity and ability to stay top of mind for people long before the streaming services came along.
> Sure, but memory safety is irrelevant when considering C++ as a C replacement (C++'s memory safety, terrible as it is, is not worse than C's).

Wouldn't it be fair to say that reducing memory unsafety as much as possible without hurting performance is a good goal to have when making a replacement for C? Assuming that's the case, it's relevant that C++ doesn't eliminate it as much as Rust when comparing the two languages as C replacements.
Thank you for the Flask tutorial. I tried getting into it but was having some trouble; the tutorial looks great!
You're jumping to conclusions. I understand the distinction and that there are many options for Java. Please be charitable.

To rephrase the question more precisely: can you explain why OpenJDK, which has a multitude of garbage collector implementations tuned for both throughput and latency, performs worse on both throughput and latency than Go on this benchmark which has a garbage collector that, according to the original statement, is "tuned for latency above all else"?

Perhaps OpenJDK is problematic in other ways (the author of the benchmarks suspects it's JIT induced, even though that's attempted to be controlled for), or perhaps this test depends less on the GC for some reason. Or maybe typical Go programs don't require as many allocations making allocation time much less important making tuning for latency the correct engineering decision. Would HotSpot do significantly better as is claimed? That's the sort of interesting technical discussion I'd like to have, instead of pedantry.
I'm not offended by many things but the solipsistic thinking that results in someone trying to enforce their country's laws on people or entities in another country is one thing that makes my blood boil.
The ebook takes up no space, and can't be damaged or lost. It doesn't even have physical dimensions, so if you want you can read it on a tiny ultra portable screen or a large tablet for ease of use. All ebooks have large print options where as physical books these are separate purchases and may not be able to even have for anything but the most popular books. ebooks are searchable to a word level, where physical books rely on indexing.

There's a lot of benefits to ebooks as well.
>all the employees over 50 can’t tell the difference between the Dev team and IT support. They have no clue, and explaining it to them is impossible.

This is called performative[0] ignorance, in the world view of the person interacting with you they are a senior person (older, longer time with the company) and you are a junior person (younger, less tenure) so it is their place to assign you tasks. The world has moved on but this whole "I don't know computers" act allows them to preserve their self perceived social status.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performativity
"Amazon's Choice" was given to products in gross violation of US health and safety regulations, as revealed by a previous WSJ article.
Walmart has an interesting approach. They let whichever supplier has the best sales in a category design the shelving layouts for ALL suppliers in that category. If you abuse your rights you lose your category captain status. That means if Pepsi has the best sales they decide where Coke goes on the shelf. Pretty clever.

At one point when coffee wasn’t a big section, the category captain of coffee actually helped bring in competitors to increase the overall size of the shelf space and thus attract more passing customers.
It's not just usability: The context awareness means it will prevent you from filling a password on a phishing site. I share your wariness of the browser extensions, but you're betting that a software bug is more likely than human error. Even skilled security-aware users fall victim to phishing on a regular basis, so I'd rather trust the software.
>By being an American citizen, are you tacitly approving drone strikes? No. By paying taxes that fund drone strikes, are you tacitly approving drone strikes? No.

To me, the answer to those questions is not as clear cut as you are portraying. My gut reaction to those questions is to answer that, yes, those attributes in a vacuum imply tacit approval.

That is not to say of course anything about guilt or moral judgement. It is relatively easy to dissuade someone from assuming that approval by speaking against drone strikes.

For an American taxpayer, absent any opposition (private or public) the tacit approval is a default assumption. Not a strong one though.
Every company takes inputs (labor and physical goods) and produces outputs (products and services). GM is not the only producer of cars, this is a very competitive industry. If they sell a car for $25,000 they can't simply raise the price without consequence - there are competitors' cars for sale. So how will they cover the extra expense demanded by labor? It sounds like you believe executives are paid too much, so the extra money to pay labor should come out of executive compensation.

However, the vast majority of executive compensation is in the form of equity, and labor's demand for more cash will punish the stock price. Plus there really isn't that many executives and you can't squeeze them enough to cover the extra spend on labor.
"Rust is a better C++"

Rust is very clearly an ML derivative, not (just) a better C++
You should take a look at Reaper. It has macros, total reconfigurability and deep scripting. It's the emacs of the DAW world.
yup! best of luck, love your research.
Amazon employees have complained to Bezos about the state of Amazon's search. Bezos' response every time I've heard it is along the lines of "meh, I think our search is pretty good, quit your complaining."

Maybe it's intentional, or maybe he's deluded. I don't know. But either way, I doubt it's going to get fixed any time soon.
Amazon Basics are white label products or specifically contract manufactured for Amazon. I am using an Amazon Basic keyboard right now, works great and was a few bucks cheaper than the Logitec Model. So far, I am a fan of them.