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Chickenosaurus··on Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
I agree. I did not mean to refute your point, but to provide more context.
Chickenosaurus··on German union IG Metall wins right to 28-hour working week and 4.3% pay rise
It should be noted the 28-hour work week is accompanied with proportional salary reductions and is limited to 2 years. It is supposed to provide greater flexibility for the worker, e. g. to provide for a sick relative.
Chickenosaurus··on Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
According to a paper by Eric Brewer, the author of the original CAP theorem, Google Spanner technically is not a CA system [1]. It is advertised as such because partitons are supposed to be exceedingly rare as the infrastructure is outstanding and a lot of operating experience is present [1].

I believe at the end of the day the CAP theorem is too fuzzy for such discussions.

[1] https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45855.html

Chickenosaurus··on Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
I think the PACELC theorem [1] should be preferred to the CAP theorem as it is more precise. It states in case of a partition (P), there is a trade-off between availability (A) and consistency (C). Else (E), there is a trade-off between latency (L) and consistency (C).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACELC_theorem

Chickenosaurus··on Ask HN: What is your favorite pocket knife?
I carry an Opinel everyday. They are great for the following reasons:

- Traditional french knife with a rich history

- Cheap (from $ 8)

- Mechanically very simple

- Lockable

- Many sizes available

- Stainless steel and carbon steel available (I prefer carbon because I like the patina)

- They can't be opened with one hand which would make it illegal to carry them publicly in Germany

The biggest disadvantage is the untreated wood handle. It can swell up if it gets wet which makes the knife harder to open and close. Some people deep fry the knife to make the wood water resistant.

Chickenosaurus··on Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-bit operating system
I think the argument is Node.js projects are often stitched together from many packages with different APIs and are therefore a good example for stitched together programs that work.

The argument isn't very good in my opinion. Combining independent services differs from combining libraries.

Chickenosaurus··on Keras and deep learning on the Raspberry Pi
http://donkeycar.com is "an opensource DIY self driving platform for small scale cars" (e. g. RC cars).

The page claims all necessary parts can be bought for about $ 200 on amazon. It looks fun.

Chickenosaurus··on President Obama's Fake FCC Comment against his own policy
As a non-american who hasn't followed the FCC debacle, this blows me away.

A government agency acting blatantly against the interests of its people and allowing such tactics is terrible. I hope for appropriate consequences for all involved parties who acted maliciously.

Chickenosaurus··on Techies Still Think They're the Good Guys. They're Not
Could you elaborate? Which grant programs are you referring to?
Chickenosaurus··on Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet Is Not a Crime
Accidental denials of service are indeed a common occurrence. By the way, it's "etc" from latin et cetera - I assume you didn't want to refer to electro-convulsive therapy :-)
Chickenosaurus··on A simple DIY Heroku replacement to keep your hosting costs down
I haven't used kubernetes yet, but https://traefik.io/ was a great reverse proxy in combination with docker swarm. I imagine it works great with kubernetes, too.

Putting a few labels on the containers you want to expose with your reverse proxy is all you need to do. Traefik continuously monitors docker to react to changes. Traefik handles load balancing and automatic certificate generation with ACME, too

Chickenosaurus··on Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
Google provides 1000 TPUs free of charge to researchers https://www.tensorflow.org/tfrc/
Chickenosaurus··on PostgreSQL Exercises
As a general rule of thumb, if something isn't used for calculations, it probably shouldn't be a number.
Chickenosaurus··on Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale
The net profit should already account for all costs including liability insurance.
Chickenosaurus··on Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit Health Than to Harm It”
The only thing that can be deduced from this observation is that these traditions are not deadly in the short term. After all, smoking is a tradition in some cultures, even though we are sufficiently certain smoking is harmful.
Chickenosaurus··on Show HN: My startup, a game server SaaS
There seems to be quite some money to be made in game hosting as evidenced by https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/arkservers-io .

For how long have you been operating? Are you willing to share your revenue numbers?

Chickenosaurus··on Uncaptcha: Defeating Google's audio reCaptcha with 85% accuracy
What are these legitimate use cases for automatic reCAPTCHA solving?
Chickenosaurus··on New in PostgreSQL 10
Yes, Cassandra supports common aggregation functions as well as user-defined aggregators which have to be created in Java.
Chickenosaurus··on New in PostgreSQL 10
I am interested in the answer to this question, too.
Chickenosaurus··on Ellipsed: JavaScript library for multilined text ellipsis, looking for contributors
A small, useful library. Good job!
Chickenosaurus··on Migrating from RethinkDB to Postgres – An Experience Report
I am currently working on a thesis paper evaluating persistence technologies regarding their fitness for a petabyte-scale sensor data analytics product. I am interested to learn more about your experience with Druid.

I would be grateful if you contact me at 8nvyve+wj7zvh7q5e0@sharklasers.com (it's a throwaway email as I avoid posting my private email publicly). Thank you.

Chickenosaurus··on Massive Malware Infection Invades Google Play Store – Fortune.com
I don't understand how the perpetrators can cash out their premium text message earnings without getting caught.

Can somebody offer insights?

Chickenosaurus··on KS addict reflects on backing $16k worth of board games, regrets everything
It would be nice if KS could be expanded to Kickstarter in the title. I had no idea what the article's topic would be.
Chickenosaurus··on One Billion Dollars Short, Bill Ackman, and the Siege Of Herbalife (2015)
Does anyone know of any legitimate MLM based companies that sell products that could probably be successfully sold without MLM?

In other words, can MLM be a useful tool for non-scammy companies?

Chickenosaurus··on Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the person’s birthday
This was a fantastic read. For anyone else wondering: "TBA" is an abbreviation for "to be announced".
Chickenosaurus··on Ask HN: Which book had the biggest impact on your personality?
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD) helped me to keep going in tough times and to be a happier person.
Chickenosaurus··on Amazon Prime is on pace to become more popular than cable TV
Not long ago, Netflix introduced the ability to download certain movies, too.
Chickenosaurus··on Hacker Pleads Guilty of Stealing $365000 Worth of Bitcoin from Darknet Criminals
It's really weird to me that the article calls the pishing victims cybercriminals and goes so far as to imply the pisher could be seen as a modern Robin Hood.

The funds weren't stolen from darknet market operators but from users of these marketplaces. The article asserts the pishing victims could utilize the money for illegal activities. It's likely the stolen funds would have been used to purchase drugs which does not make the purchasers cybercriminals.

It seems dangerous to stereotype people only because they use a certain technology (the darknet).

Chickenosaurus··on Amazing trick to make that 5AM morning routine stick
TL;DR: Practice your morning routine during the day to make getting up early in the morning easier.
Chickenosaurus··on David Sacks Stepping Down as Zenefits CEO
Your comment sparked my interest. After playing around a bit, it seems Firefox users get the paywall while Chrome users do not.
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