Hacker News: cstpdk

New comment by cstpdk in "Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location"

cstpdk — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 11:09:38 +0000

The content of that link sounds fine in terms of GDPR if one only uses the EU servers. Am I missing something?

New comment by cstpdk in "GoodGuesser"

cstpdk — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 12:20:35 +0000

What's that tablet looking device your using in the video and why is it not the lisperati? :) Also, are you done with Common Lisp and more into Clojure now?

New comment by cstpdk in "Austrian DPA Ruling Against Google Paves the Way to EU-Based Cloud Services"

cstpdk — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 17:22:39 +0000

You got the charges wrong. It's speculation on my part because it's kept secret, but all journalists in Denmark more or less agree that he is held for leaking information on the NSA partnership and two other stories involving the intelligence agencies (one about an agent being left in jail in Spain and one about a withheld security assesment of refugees held in camps in Syria). This is based on which journalists got interrogated and what stories they have brought to light

New comment by cstpdk in "Building single-page-apps with PostgREST"

cstpdk — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 05:04:57 +0000

FTD = Frontotemporal demensia?

New comment by cstpdk in "NSA Spied on Denmark as It Chose Its Future Fighter Aircraft: Report"

cstpdk — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:28:05 +0000

They are neither bribed or blackmailed, every danish government for the past 20 years have been informed about this agreement and has complied. It's absolutely a crime against the population (since innocent Danes are also being spied on). The reason the politicians are complying is that we are reliant on US for military support through Nato (which I guess you can call a bribe, of sorts)

New comment by cstpdk in "Head of Danish intelligence suspended after whistleblowers hand over information"

cstpdk — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 18:48:43 +0000

It shouldn't. There's no political gain for any of the major parties. It also happens after several, relatively minor, cases of corruption and nepotism in the military and intelligence services (former high-ranking official just got 3months prison today). It stinks mostly of a corruption and several decades of lack of proper oversight

New comment by cstpdk in "Low-Cost VPS Testing"

cstpdk — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:35:00 +0000

Ah, thanks for clearing that up, I was unaware. How is the traffic blocked by default? Firewall layer?

New comment by cstpdk in "Low-Cost VPS Testing"

cstpdk — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 07:45:39 +0000

But, correct me if this has changed please, last i checked Cloud Run did not support private networks. So you SQL instance has to be exposed to the internet, correct?

New comment by cstpdk in "Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers"

cstpdk — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:29:49 +0000

Copenhagen has about the same salary ranges as quoted in the article. Taxes are a higher, but healthcare is free and foreigners can get 3years of 25% flat tax rate if you get a tech job (based purely on income, I think). Living costs are lower than Switzerland, I rent 100sqm for about 1900EUR. Good cheese is more readily available in Switzerland though

New comment by cstpdk in "Re-writing the site of Norway's largest transport provider in Elm"

cstpdk — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 05:23:34 +0000

What's your evidence that train journeys have gotten more expensive in Norway due to this?

FWIW i am Danish and almost all of our public IT projects are done in .NET, almost always the reasoning is "more developers, more mainstream, less lock-in". Our IT projects are always hilariously belated and more expensive than budgeted. More often than not the same contractor (one of 5ish big corporations) keeps getting the same contracts from the same departments because they have pre-existing knowledge of the system they previously built (hint: this is lock-in). Now, the last part is changing somewhat due to EU tender rules, which I think Norway also abides by (they are not in EU, but are committed to complying with most EU laws)

New comment by cstpdk in "The Awkward but Essential Art of Office Chitchat"

cstpdk — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:33:03 +0000

Concluding that something is not a learned skill because it comes easy to some is illogical. Human upbringing consist of a lot of social interaction (at least when done right), it is only fair that some people actually get good at it.

Anyway, I should probably have disclaimed my first comment more loudly: it's anecdotal. For me smalltalk is absolutely a learned skill. I used to suck at it, now I can get by, and it took a lot of conscious effort on my part. YMMV

New comment by cstpdk in "The Awkward but Essential Art of Office Chitchat"

cstpdk — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 07:54:52 +0000

`For one I'm not really that interested in other people, and secondly I find it really boring`

I am totally with you on both points. The important thing to realize is that it is uninteresting and boring, but that is not the point. It is a skill like many others, if you want the benefits it brings, you have to learn it through practice and however else you normally learn skills

New comment by cstpdk in "The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clojure and Haskell"

cstpdk — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:15:01 +0000

This is quite an elitist position to take. Why is it inhumane to find beauty in structures? Human society is riddled with structure

New comment by cstpdk in "The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clojure and Haskell"

cstpdk — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:12:30 +0000

I have, evidently to too small a circle of people, described several non-FP coding styles and paradigms using aesthetic terms such as "ugly"

New comment by cstpdk in "E.U.’S New Digital Czar: ‘Most Powerful Regulator of Big Tech’"

cstpdk — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 11:18:03 +0000

> where it doesn't seem like a tech issue per se,

Much of the privacy issues around "tech" companies revolves around the fact that they are advertising companies. That is the driving force behind them spying on users. But we do not group them as such

The remaining issues around "tech" companies usually revolve around their monopolistic nature, which is also an issue in other sectors.

I guess what I am barking at is that phrasing this as a battle against "tech" is a misnomer and might lead to unfortunate backlashes.

That being said, I am happy that Fru Vestager gets to soldier on, the fight itself is definitely valid. Now if we could just get our governments to stop spying on us we would be golden

New comment by cstpdk in "Flaws in Cellphone Evidence Prompt Review of 10k Verdicts in Denmark"

cstpdk — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 05:43:45 +0000

It is, sadly, a lot. And it's trending upwards. As mentioned above it's a human rights violation but unfortunately we are relying on NGO's to try and stop it (they are raising money for trials against the government). The political will to stop this is sadly sorely missed

Ask HN: Is this normal practice from cloud vendors?

cstpdk — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 08:11:38 +0000

In my new startup we have opted for going with google for both their g suite as well as hosting (kubernetes cluster). They recently had a problem with their billing system which affected "a small subset of users" by rendering the submitted billing information useless (from the outside it seemed like a data rollback going wrong). The resulting effects was service outages, since their reaction to missing billing info is to suspend the account right away. This caused us to not receive emails for several hours and we had to contact support in order to have them make a temporary fix (i.e. they didn't reach out). I have since bugged their support about how there is no public writeup of this, and their response is that there won't be since only "a small subset of users" is affected. Is this normal from similar companies or does google have shady practises in this regard? I have grave concerns about our choice of hosting provider now.

Please share any similar or dissimilar experiences if you have them

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17282639

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New comment by cstpdk in "Google Provides Free Nvidia K80 GPUs for Anyone to Train Deep Learning Models"

cstpdk — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:15:34 +0000

Providing a tl;dr: Google provides a jupyter / ipython research environment with some amount of integration to their existing services. This environment they call "Colaboratory". They have now started providing free access to GPU resources from within this environment. Details for using with tensorflow here: https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=/v2/extern...

New comment by cstpdk in "A checklist of marketing ideas for side projects"

cstpdk — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 05:56:45 +0000

Great list! Might there be a market / an interest in a dashboard + chatbot for taking care of these things? Keeping track of milestones, doing the trivial signups an presenting how the different initiatives are performing and can be tuned?

New comment by cstpdk in "Universal Now: Now, on Every Cloud"

cstpdk — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:40:47 +0000

Bad luck to announce support for `every cloud` the day alibaba cloud reaches the frontpage