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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Anyone Using RethinkDB in Production?

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

The consulting industry has infantilised government

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: With Twitter's acquisition, will cryptocurrency gain legitimacy?

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Ask HN: What is Elon Musk's strategy in buying Twitter?

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www.bbc.co.uk 3y ago

India village goes offline daily to help people talk

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Is this a good design to store history of a graph in graph databases?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How to retain history in graph databases for auditing?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What Is Happening in the UK?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Anyone using RethinkDB in production, what are the pros and cons?

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Ask HN: What all content can a MitM proxy/app decrypt from the HTTPS traffic?

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Ask HN: What all programming languages does your company use?

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Ask HN: Who is using C++ as the main language for new project?

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Ask HN: Is my software stack choice sound?

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Ask HN: Is there a way to solve this using Maths?

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

India and Russia got so close, DW News Analysis

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What prompted you to convert from non-vegetarian to vegetarian?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Will there be a petro-renminbi to compete with petro-dollar?

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Ask HN: Are we seeing a start of the wider conflict?

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

A Contrarian View on Ukraine/Russia

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Should having just political borders and no social borders help?

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

Milton Friedman: Money and Inflation

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www.telegraph.co.uk 4y ago

Middle class people now paying more than £1m in tax during lifetime

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

The Hacking of the American Mind with Dr. Robert Lustig

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Please recommend a free online movie/documentary

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www.bbc.co.uk 4y ago

Morrisons, the UK retailer, scraps 'use by' date on milk in favour of sniff test

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Who Is Right Here?

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

Britain tech company OneWeb launched 36 communications satellites into space

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

'Suicide Pod' for assisted suicide

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

What Happened: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on 19 Months of Covid

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What is your use-case?

Want a DB to store highly connected massive graph structure with requirement of auditing and analytics.

Why do you think RethinkDB would be good for it?

It is a document store, supports changefeed, is distributed and fault-tolerant, supports geospatial types, auto-sharding and can scale horizontally.

Have you yourself read the book? The book provides massive list of references from all over the world used for researching the topic.

I will give you an example of how the UK manipulates the facts for consumption of its citizens. After Shashi Tharoor's Oxford Union speech went viral, the BBC published an article by a leading UK "historian". This guy claimed that he never "heard" of the UK damaging hands of Indian handloom weavers to destroy the Indian textile industry to promote it's own! This shows how the UK historians write history. I would urge citizens of UK to visit the former colonies of the UK and talk to the locals and get their facts. It is very well known both within the UK historian community and across the world that the UK history is whitewashed to hide lots of misdeeds of the past. Unfortunately that does not help the country to move forward as most of the country still thinks that they did good by occupying other countries.

A scam of top-5%-bottom-5% rule. I hate this stupidity of non-tech people out of business schools who understand zilch about tech companies.

For information on how this rule has affected people, watch BBC documentary on this topic from the series "Billion dollar dreams".

Learn PWA 4 years ago

This is baffling to me, Google is promoting PWA and at the same time promoting Flutter for web development and native mobile development!

This argument is like, "to save the kittens, kill the puppies".

Also, is the Moon really separate from the Earth? What will be the ecological effect on Earth if we start destroying the Moon?

Edit:

For anyone interested in understanding how the Moon affects life on Earth, following articles might help:

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-does-the-moon-affect-life...

https://www.iop.org/explore-physics/moon/how-does-moon-affec...

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210820-the-subtle-influ...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-moonlight-...

https://sciencing.com/moon-its-effect-weather-6315413.html

https://www.space.com/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-a...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/moon-life-tides

Any other deep-dive guides on fintech/payments that would be helpful for readers here?

How online payments actually work behind the scenes, complete flow from sender to receiver. That deep-dive would be really useful.

Online newspapers have tried it. Only Financial Times has succeeded to some extent. What you are proposing is "nagging paywall" i.e newspapers are using in-or-out type of paywall whereas your suggestion is to keep users nagging with a "whitespace" for payment. One-time payment request has not succeed, why do you think nagging users with blank page every few minutes is going to succeed.

There will be very few content creator who will benefit, most of them won't. This has a massive scalability problem.

English channels:

https://www.youtube.com/c/ItchyBoots

https://www.youtube.com/c/TomScottGo

https://www.youtube.com/c/hihokids (the artist section, and food section is good)

https://www.youtube.com/c/britishpathe

https://www.youtube.com/c/JayForeman (typical British :))

Documentaries from Vice, Vox, Journey Man Pictures, Al Jazeera and DW TV are very good and available on YouTube.

Non-English channels:

https://www.youtube.com/c/Raanvata07 (the guy treks various unmaintained ancient "forts" in the Indian state of Maharashtra; photography is good as the guy himself is a photographer)

https://www.youtube.com/c/TribalPeopleTryOfficial (some tribal people, may be from Pakistan, try western food for the first time)

There is a Hindu mythological story in India about how the elephant god ganpati/gajanan/ganesh(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesha) got his elephant head while his body is of a human.

The story goes something like this, Shiva/Shankar/Mahesh(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva) is a god of destruction in Hinduism. When he was out in the forest, his wife Parvati was alone and had to go for a bath. But she was concerned what if some stranger gets into the house while she was bathing. So to prevent anyone getting into the house she removes the layer of sandalwood and turmeric paste she had applied to her body and makes an idol of a boy and puts life into him. As the boy comes to life she instructs him to guard the house and not let anyone enter while his mother(Parvati) is having a bath.

Her husband returns after a while. Parvati is still in the bath. And as he tries to enter the house, the boy prevents him from doing so saying that his mother has instructed him not to let anyone inside the house. Shiva, known for his temper, gets angry and throws his weapon, trishul(trident), at the boy which chops off his head and it falls somewhere in the forest. Parvati, when she returns from her bath sees the headless body of her son and gets angry at Shiva and demands that he bring the boy back to life. But there is a problem, the head is missing. So Shiva goes in search of the head into the forest but he is unable to find it. So when he sees an elephant in the forest, he chops off the head of the animal and attaches it to the boys body and puts life back into it. That is how people of HN, the Hindu god Ganpati got his elephant head :)

Now, did I mention this is a mythological story? So please be kind to this gentle soul. I only narrated this story because it includes the concept of bathing :D

There are lot of such stories in Indian mythology where there is mention of bathing.

This relies on public-key cryptography? If that is the case, then who is responsible for maintaining the private key? If that responsibility is with the user, then what happens if the user loses the private key? Does the user loses the identity as well? Is there a way to recover that?

One of the episodes of the BBC's "Billion Dollar Deals" series talked about how the anti-depressants were pushed on to the masses by the drug companies, even to people who did not require it.

With React Native you have the option of deploying OTA updates

How is this done? Any documentation, tutorial or example that you can point to?

this allows you to deploy fixes and basic updates without going through the app store review process.

Does Apple and Google allow this?