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Okay, but EDB is the largest corporate contributor to Postgres, and one of the people pushing against the feature (Bruce Momjian) also works for EDB?

The PG community is a lot of things, but I think “dominated by commercial interests” is not one of them.

Disclosure: I work at EDB :)

Your comment doesn’t seem to be in good faith. What cloud company is pushing this through?

How does this handle sort ordering / collations?

pgbackrest works purely at the file level, by looking at checksums. It’s rather primitive by comparison.

It seems that “younger generation” programmers underestimate the value of governance in OSS. The recent Terraform kerluffle couldn’t have happened if Terraform was in the ASF, etc.

3 of 7 work at EDB, and the core team doesn’t drive the project roadmap. And EDB hackers fail to get patches in all the time, just like everyone else :)

I’ve personally deployed O(TBs) and O(10^4 TPS) Postgres clusters on Kubernetes with a CNPG-style operator based deployment. There are some subtleties to it but it’s not exceeding complicated, and a good project like CNPG goes a long way to shaving off those sharp edges. As other commenters have suggested it’s good to really understand Kubernetes if you want to do it, though.

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http://whichpicis.me/

CPAN vs RubyForge vs PyPI isn't exactly an appropriate comparison.

Take a look at:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=python%2C+perl%2C+ruby&ct...

vs

http://www.google.com/trends?q=cpan%2C+pypi%2C+rubyforge&...

Google Trends isn't a great measurement tool, but the 3 languages have similar search volumes (with Perl declining, Python stable and Ruby ascending), yet CPAN is has a much higher volume than either RubyForge and PyPI. I think the relevance of each repository to its language community isn't comparable.

The bottom-of-the-page bar in Safari can be toggled with CMD+/

This is drivel. The author labels Google "pirates" for linking to AP content and states that there would be no online marketplace for music if the RIAA hadn't sued napster, even though the pirated music marketplace is vastly larger than it was in 1999.

A prescription for newspapers is specialization. Let the AP be replaced by a looser agreement for content sharing between sources. Every paper focuses fiercely on its locality.

And hire some people that understand BOTH journalim and the web.

Agreed. Newspapers aren't generating the content that the 'hyperlocal' sites are focusing on; how often does a school board meeting story come off the AP wire? The 'trivial and irrelevant' blogs are what the sites are feeding off of (except everyblock of course, which the writer appears to entirely misunderstand).

How much of your traffic and content at windycitizen revolves around major news sources, Mr. Flora? Do you think that your community would be considerably less rich without them?

(Also, what was the address to that journalism startup aggregator that you built? I seem to have lost the link. Many thanks!)

I think I missed the RSS reading part of it; it makes more sense now. Seconded on the themes looking very nice!

@jacobbijani: I'm not sure if you care much, but Firefox users can remove the start.io menu from their pages by adding a display:none tag to it in their layout. Also, users can write javascript in the layout editor. Mine is currently redirecting all visitors to google... Perhaps the layout editor should be restricted to css?

I'm guessing it's your site, since the name 'Jacob' is all over it. Why didn't you post a comment about it in typical Ask YC style?

Anyway, outside of the marketing-counter thing, I would suggest that the initial layout for a user's start page is the same as the one that is so prominently displayed on the sample images (with the grey background and color bars). Not that it was difficult to change, but it was a little disappointing when I found just a simple white layout with my single forlorn link to HN on it instead of the stylish advertised one... I almost took off right there. Perhaps selecting a layout could be a more prominent initial setup step?

Why do you need my email when I sign up? The signup doesn't ask for a password re-entry as well, which I found strange.

What do the ampersands mean?

Nice work. Looks great, too.

[edit] Why should I use it? Chrome and Safari (and FF in the near future) offer close to the same functionality.

How is Google's search share nearing 100% any different from Microsoft's OS share nearing 100%? Microsoft could have quite easily done whatever it wanted with the flow of information during the mid-late 90's, with a huge market share and very little competition.

The government won't just 'take control' of a public company; it may attempt to break it up, perhaps, but the Internet is, as of now, about as much of a free market as exists anywhere. If Google has near 100% market share, perhaps it deserves it?

Open source does not thrive on the fuel of non-profit alone. Red Hat and Sun are for-profit, but they're major contributors to open-source projects.

Open source is successful with not-for-profit models because people like hacking on open source. I don't think that's necessarily impossible for a social network, because people like to waste a lot of their lives on social networks, but are open-source hackers going to be interested in working on a project they aren't interested in using? I'm assuming that the primary appeal of social networks has long moved past the techie demographic.

WordNet is actually quite good. If you're looking for some accessible NLP tools, NLTK (http://www.nltk.org/) is nice. It's written in Python, and uses WordNet in several ways.

The author of ots isn't really interested in working on it anymore. A couple of the features are deprecated, but this isn't documented.

There's no way that Google is "threatened" by Twitter search. Google's search dominance is not maintained by providing the best car reviews or up-to-the-minute news. I'm not going to go to Twitter to search for research papers, or obscure little facts, or tech help on some issue I'm having with my OS. I can't use Twitter search to find all of the news.yc threads regarding Twitter, but Google can: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+t...

Additionally, for a lot of people, Google's not just a source of information, but a gateway to the Internet. Twitter, I think, can't do that. I think that this whole real-time news & Twitter search thing might prove interesting and fruitful, but it's not a threat to Google.

Here's hoping News.YC doesn't become "Job board for suits looking for hackers"...

How high does the quality have to be before the average user pays for it?