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noah-kun··on Taiwan flag emoji disappears from latest Apple iPhone keyboard
Taiwan and Tibet are part of China, but has a deal to keep the governments mostly separate until a certain date. China has made some efforts to make the changes gradual. There has been some resistance to the changes, but they are largely exaggerated or directed and paid for by the West. The U.S. official behind the murderous Contras in South America now heads a program that's paid at least $29 million to HK terrorists. Having read the CIA documents that instructed the contras to destabilize and overthrow South American states, I have no doubt there is effectively anti-China Contras/terrorists receiving the same or similar instructions and training. China is using it's power to dramatically improve parts of the world that the US has become dependant on exploiting. The West is very interested in creating a barrier between China and the Pacific to limit it's access to trade with the Americas and elsewhere. Thankfully China has many contingency plans for this and Trump's off-putting style of diplomatic relations may lose the US from friends. A better world could emerge with China's leadership, but HK, Taiwan and elsewhere may suffer attacks on civilians from US-backed thugs, and of course damage to infrastructure designed to hurt their economies. America's track record in this has not been great, and I doubt their strategy against China is fought with even more short-comings.
noah-kun··on VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed VPN
Tor is funded by the US government, probably as a way of disseminating US propaganda during government overthrows. When conducting psyops, governments sometimes block the online channels the US uses. With them also controlling so many nodes, they can use Tor for surveillance.
noah-kun··on Ask HN: Is your sleep fucked up?
Gonna call you in the middle of the night. Honestly never seen anyone post a phone number on a message board like this.
noah-kun··on ArangoML Pipeline: Common Metadata Layer for Machine Learning
Yes, I struggled with the operator, to the point where it would not install at all. I even fixed some of the documentation, but later my database was not responsive.

I ended up using the somewhat deprecated community-made .yaml files in https://github.com/sbaugher/arangodb-kubernetes

It has a problem of it's own, but I have some idea how to fix it (next time it happens), and am very interested in Oasis.

noah-kun··on ArangoML Pipeline: Common Metadata Layer for Machine Learning
Arango is doing so much right now--their SaaS version "Oasis" coming out this year, SmartJoins for faster multi-cluster joins and now ML.

I admit I liked Mongo for it's document storage. But I didn't like Postgres due to my irrational dislike of SQL Then I challenged myself to try out a graph database.

ArangoDB presents things like Mongo (as documents), has a much nicer query language than SQL (or just use GaphQL) and does graph stuff; all while being amongst the top 3 or so in benchmarks that are designed to test only specific types of databases. If databases did triathlons, ArangoDB would be unbeatable.

Only two issues that I struggled with are/were Kubernetes cluster stuff, like sharding, but this is common to cluster DBs I think.

noah-kun··on Why journalists don't put the reference in the end of the news?
They are the reference.
noah-kun··on Afrikan countries need to improve investment in innovation
Western wealth is based off exploitation of Africa and other colonized peoples and their shared resources. Our “innovation” is a boom and bust side show, itself based on exploitation. Folks profiting from colonialism are promising “investing in innovation” as an alternative to justice. Because that justice would hampern Western enrichment.
noah-kun··on Ask HN: Is there any way to better integrate hn.angolia.com?
Isn’t it “Algolia”?
noah-kun··on Ask HN: Any prebuilt frameworks/templates for single page web apps?
NextJS comes to mind.
noah-kun··on Homeless man hands out resumes, gets hundreds of job offers
I have had a very different experience
noah-kun··on Ask HN: Selenium is gone, How do you do SPA UI testing?
I read it in the title of an Ask HN thread
noah-kun··on I will build free design wireframes for your MVP in 2days
info@vmu.io
noah-kun··on Google News forget once again my preferred news list :-/
Google is actually very bad at everything.
noah-kun··on I will build free design wireframes for your MVP in 2days
I have a current product, very basic design, and it has very low engagement. Are you interested in redesigning that?
noah-kun··on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
In case you haven't seen it already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

TL;DR, Microsoft's known strategy is to feign goodness, then use the goodwill to kill competition, especially in the open standards/open source area.

noah-kun··on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
Does it matter? Twitter isn't profitable, Youtube isn't profitable. Nothing in capitalism is really profitable, or it sometimes seems. Most wealth is just ownership of speculative profit or return. But if you have profit, you're doing something wrong because you ought to be re-investing that to create more future speculative profit.

Anyway, they likely could have remained unprofitable for a long time instead of doing this.

noah-kun··on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
Notably Google banned Windows years ago and every startup I know is 99.9% Mac.
noah-kun··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
Just wanna throw in that fly.io is an incredible concept:

a) Set up a "Site" and add caching and HTTPS with ease. Inject analytics with one button press on their web GUI. Free (credit) tier and services as low as $1/month after that.

b) Create an "Edge App", basically program your own CDN/DNS, deployed to Fly's 18 servers, in the same language you use on the front-end, the latest Javascript. Use their API to cache however you like, re-route `/pathnames`, and so on. Even resize or watermark images based on the request. Or just import something from NPM.

c) Their "Wormhole" product lets you load-blanace without nginx, just by adding some text to your Dockerfile. I've deployed a swarm to Docker across several VPS using this, no nginx config required.

You can start with no credit card, only caveat is you need a DNS with flattened CNAMEs (for root) or ANAMEs or ALIASs (unless you only wanna use subdomains).

noah-kun··on Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React
500MB when decompressed.
noah-kun··on [dead]
> published April 1, 2018
noah-kun··on The GOP’s Internet Tax
Capitalism, to seem like it's working, requires such theft of public property that it's even considered an inept and devious act to...

> pass an online sales tax [law].

noah-kun··on I'm offering my web development services for free
What are the signs of a tech bubble bursting?
noah-kun··on Announcing our first Lightning mainnet release
Alt-coin nonsense.
noah-kun··on How to use blockchain for supply chain management
Thanks for the open-minded reply.

Can we push our imaginations further though? We are still thinking about the resources being distributed by businesses, for example. What about communes, central planning or automation, minus private enterprise altogether?

noah-kun··on How to use blockchain for supply chain management
Wouldn't the investigation into E. coli have been more fruitful if information were more centralized? Isn't it already decentralized, wasn't that the problem?
noah-kun··on Ask HN: Am I the only one getting spammed by pro-CCP Quora questions?
The Chinese government has enormous support from it's citizens according to multiple independent studies done by western nations. It could still be that astroturfing is underway, but there's perpetually plausible deniability because of the nature of the Internet. The CIA and US government in general has used this to their advantage to flood countries with dissenting propaganda, creating destabilization and opportunity for resource theft. Like other weapons, the Internet is showing itself to be unpredictable, and may be used against the aggressors as well as by them. Now we're seeing pressure put on Youtube, Facebook and other large networks to block out dissenting views because the ruling class feel it disrupts their control of power domestically.
noah-kun··on Reddit Cooperating with Russia Investigations. Have Handed Over Zero Documents
Given how much the Russian election "rigging" and "hacking" story has focused on Twitter posts, one could be mistaken for thinking they run the elections.
noah-kun··on Microsoft’s Surface Pro just got a feature the MacBook has never had
Saving you a click, it's wireless LTE data:

> The company launched a new version of the Surface Pro on Tuesday that has built-in LTE connectivity, something that should appeal to businesses with remote employees, or really anyone who’s tired of tethering their iPhone to their MacBook with a dongle.

I love that "Bluetooth" is now called a dongle.

noah-kun··on Python Docs for Humans. A Public Request to Kenneth Reitz
I developed some much improved Python docs. User-editable, with comments and examples. Individual page for each function. Unfortunately the client I was working on it for seemed to lose all interest in launching it. They wanted it to be completely closed source and private, and to make a lot of money. I said Python folks would probably not respond well to that. It's been probably 2 years. It's in React, Redux and Node.
noah-kun··on China bans the letter N from the internet as Xi Jinping extends grip on power
Because having only the United States as a super power has limited individual states' agency to follow their own course. The US does everything in it's power to force countries to open up their markets and resources to large multinational corporations. This often results in the poorest folks on earth having their country's natural resources robbed from beneath them. Having another large power means more economic systems can take hold.

As for things domestically in China, international groups have found overwhelming satisfaction and support for the government there.

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