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As someone not invested in any of this at all, its fascinating to watch as people jump in completely oblivious to risk involved.

I've listened to friends and family discuss investing "only $100" or "only $1000" for fractional amounts of bitcoin with the idea that they're sure fire bets for making money.

I feel a bit like a rube sitting it out on the sidelines (and they're chastising me for not acting) as the price keeps going up-and-up and for most of them, these small investments (some quite large) have paid off for them.

When does this bubble burst? And, what is it going to look like? 100k people in a single day is crazy to me as a layperson, but if this was to be compared to a stock run (disregarding dilution) what type of alarm bells should be ringing for those with the most to lose? Or, are we past that point now?

How come every time I try, the response from AWS is abysmal? I've been told this many times, and try to reach out, but it is always a pitiful case of broken telephone.

I didn't get far enough, unfortunately. This was a number of years ago, and not the panacea for ML/AI that we have now. The variance in data is certainly a concern, but the free/inexpensive nature of the app itself was intended to gather as much as possible (anonymity being absolutely key, given the subject) and start looking at data points vs. positive ratings to find the correlation.

At the very least, that sort of data would be incredibly value for academia/research etc.

Back in my sleep-deprived days after my oldest was born I had an app idea similar to this, but with an added dash of AI/machine learning.

Imagine a bunch of parents using a free/relatively inexpensive application, tracking feeding schedules, sleep, food intake, play etc. and then ranking each day as a thumbs up/down.

Taking that data, properly anonymizing it and then comparing it across babies with similar characteristics (location, age, siblings etc.) you could suggest a daily schedule (with alerts) that would trend closer to a thumbs up.

Started with a prototype, but it never amounted to much. I just imagine the collective value of some of the data managed by these applications and the potential to ease the extremely challenging (but rewarding!) experience of being a parent.

Same here. Odd choices, but I'm assuming there's a reason for it.

How? Could you elaborate on the type of investigation you undertook that led you to become a skeptic? The scientific community is so overwhelmingly on the side of climate change that you'd have to be really selective to see/read it otherwise.

The "lame folksy rhetoric" is Gore's way of trying to appeal to the skeptics. The problem with issues like climate change is that they're so large and complex that most people feel powerless to affect change, so they do nothing.

An Inconvenient Truth was meant to impart the severity, but also the hope that small changes will make a difference and that, collectively, there's a chance to change course. At the very least, lower our contribution in an effort to change course.

Honestly, blaming this on Gore is beyond comprehension. I'm trying to not to be hyperbolic, but this type of knee-jerk reaction and selective bias highlights how this issue is politicized, and will, as evidence suggests, lead to devastation.

Agreed. I sold in Toronto nearly 4 years ago believing that the end was nigh.

Stupidest decision of my life. 4 years appreciation on that property is likely another 200-300k that I walked away from. Should have rented, rather than sell.

> Oracle CEO Safra Catz, who played a role in the Trump transition, plans to attend the event, but other industry executives haven't confirmed their participation yet.

Colour me surprised.

Good for Elon. He was principled in staying, believing that involvement was better than criticism from afar. Given what Tesla and TBC are trying to achieve, it's no surprise that it's largely at direct odds to dropping out of the Paris agreement.

Be interesting to see who stays on after. If Oracle is the only company on your side, you're definitely on the wrong side of history.

Yeah, you're spot on. Grasshoppers and frogs were everywhere in the 80's when I was a kid. I can't remember the last time I even saw a grasshopper.

Not sure if it's related, but I rarely see dew any more either.

This is a crazy list. Great to see it all in one place though. I don't pay that much attention to the domain registration space any more, but has the explosion of TLDs achieved the goal of reducing .com cash runs?

It certainly seems like other TLDs have reached a level of acceptance, but my experience is not reflective of the majority of users.

Also, it's crazy to see TLDs with other languages. Very cool, and not surprising at all, but I've never seen that before.

We're using it with Fusion and, I believe, it's a big part of the issues we're experiencing. We have both Virtualbox and Fusion users that have the same issues.

Mitchell,

It may not have been obvious in the original question but, believe me, I wholly appreciate the work that has gone into Vagrant and it truly is a great piece of software that we have happily supported over the years (with the Fusion plugin).

I believe that some of the challenges are not necessarily with Vagrant, but the combination of distros, build tools (Chef / Ansible -- we're still with Chef) various cookbooks / versions vs. roll your own and, perhaps most important, supporting Fusion/Parallels and Virtualbox with all of their idiosyncrasies. Add to that the introduction of "new" technologies such as containers etc.

The question was not in any intended as a slight against Vagrant, but more of a question of how people are handling their development environments today and if Vagrant is still a big part of their processes or not.

We still love Vagrant and it's promise as well as other Hashicorp products (we use Terraform and are in the process of switching to Vault) so we believe in the tools. Just had a rough 6 months or so of supporting Vagrant in our development processes (for some reason -- could be us!) and thought I'd ask the community.

Yeah, the first advertisement I heard for Rackspace's consultancy service for AWS was a bit of a shock. Having heard it, I'd assume that they're pulling away from their own cloud-based service offerings at some point.

Just conjecture on my part, but I would have serious reservations about that part of their service catalog right now if I was vendor shopping.

I love this idea. It's not important for production / env that are managed through tooling, but the "randomish" nature of losing history on dev/stage is one of those, admittedly minor, annoyances that this would solve.

Great idea, thanks for sharing.

An important one to highlight is his administrations' advocacy for LGBT rights both domestically and abroad. It's maddening to see the dichotomy between his privacy legislation and how he's advanced the civil rights of so many at the same time.

The two facets, on the surface, appear to be at such odds...

I dunno here. CR's validation around the fact that users will often visit different sites seems on point to me.

Some users visit the same sites over and over, true. But, a more accurate browsing pattern would be different sites, new content etc.

A more in-depth detail on how the browsing is done (automation) might be relevant. If they hit the same 5 sites 1000 times vs. 1000 sites 5 times would alter whether they disable cache or not. I'd say the former makes sense, not the latter.

I don't think you understand the previous comment. Often, with burnout, motivation is not necessarily the issue. You try, or believe that you're trying, your absolute best but everything is falling down around you.

It's not just about motivation, it is just that your perceived ability to execute (going through the motions) and actual ability are completely at odds and you eventually lose all confidence in yourself to continue.

It's not motivation for the job, it's belief in your own abilities / capabilities that erodes your motivation.

Agreed. This is my favourite new feature. It didn't hold me back from using it at all, but now I can get rid of my other "scratchpad" editors.

Typo in there, my point is that this President-Elect has indicated, and begun by appointment, the process of removing rights (hard won in many cases) from individuals.

This is what the voting populace wanted so clearly there is a desire on the part of many of the Republicans, Trump supporters and protest voters for this to happen.

To further allow this type of witch-hunt bullshit continue is throwing salt on a wound that will not in any way help with those impacted by this election and it's fallout.

People on the "left" will see this type of activity and continue to paint the "right" with the same generalizations that the right is adamant is not their true fight/cause etc.

The "right" should be denouncing this immediately and disavowing these types of actions if there is any hope of bridging the divide.

Unless, of course, there is no interest in doing that at all.

It's not racism. Check.

It's not misogyny. Check.

It's not bigotry. Check.

We get it. There are disenfranchised folks in the US that feel under-represented and even targeted/blamed etc.

But this, this nonsense, is beyond the pale. You got your president elect. Worst case, thousands will pay the price in rights, access to services or the ability to live in a democratic society, free from the challenges (life threatening or otherwise) that they sought splice from.

It's a small business. Parents, customers with children, sullied by this insane, malicious group of alt right sociopaths who make up The_Donald and other locations. To justify or support this shit obliterates any legitimate credibility, however remote, they may have had.

Metabase is written in React: https://github.com/metabase/metabase

I should have been more specific. The 24 hour marathon filibuster, the longest in history, put him in this position. There were others who filibustered the Civil Rights Act bills, but none of them made such a dramatic show of it.

You'll need to source that. Despite some evidence in his later actions, Strom never vocally repudiated his earlier racism. I couldn't find any sources on it.

His filibuster against the Civil Rights Act put him in this position. Had he succeeded, his impact would have been far more detrimental to the rights of those protected under the act today then anything Byrd had/has done.

Both are disagreeable sorts, but Strom's lasting impact would have been much, much worse.

It's a duplicate. Bigger discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12597109

Not a Tesla owner, but that Cabin Overhead Protection feature is pretty cool (pun intended).

Agreed! That Cmd-P slow down was just a bit too laggy. Happy to see that resolved. Fuzziness seems improved too, but I didn't do a lot of thorough testing there.

Yes. They're that high in that pay bracket.

Out of the SF bubble, the exact opposite is true. In Enterprise environments, racked servers running VMWare hosts still reigns supreme.

Typo in my post, too late to edit now. Meant to say "write this type of software". As a developer, not writing any code would put a serious dent in my paycheck. ;)

It's amazing that a simple comment on HN reminds me, viscerally, of how I will never, ever write software. So much so, that if I ever find myself contemplating this approach, I'll jump off the nearest building.