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There is a daily mail video of a drone at the North Terminal Bus station. DM is hardly a good source, and I was sceptical at first but I'm 95% sure its the right location. The question is now, is the footage fake and is it from last week.
This is super sweet.

It would be great to tie this into a release pipeline, where the release process is actively keeping an eye on failure rates of that service, so that bad deploys could be halted or rolled back automatically.

I was thinking this could work really well when using production integration tests. A percentage of that traffic can be dynamically routed to the newly running services, allowing the release pipeline to ensure the service is functioning correctly before routing any real users.

Re:UK mass digital surveillance regime ruled unlawful on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @08:23AM (#16265017)
Yep. TalkTalk can't even keep their customers key details secure, and now they are expected to keep browser history as well? It's a joke.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/talktalk-fin...

Re:Adding Kubernetes support to the Docker platform on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @07:33AM (#15490101)
yes. `eval $(minikube docker-env)` will setup the docker cli to use minikube's docker demon.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/minikube/#...

Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @05:38PM (#13647943)
I for one would love to see a hosted offering of cockroachdb!
I've been looking into this a bit, but put off by the fact that EU VAT for digital products isnt really being enforced upon US companies, so not sure there is much of a market for it. Also, as a brit I'm not sure how brexit might screw up the business model.
Re:Why are websites sometimes “down for maintenance”? on Sunday November 27, 2016 @06:04AM (#13048648)
I really don't think there is any excuse for it this day and age especially when building sites from scratch. There are so many different techniques and technologies for doing zero downtime deploys, not to mention the numerous PaaS that will do it out of the box if you dont know how.
Re:Webcams used to attack Reddit and Twitter recalled on Monday October 24, 2016 @03:03PM (#12781780)
Would it not make sense for broadband router manufacturers to step up here, especially ISPs who provide routers to customers.

First of all, IoT devices really need to be connected on isolated vlans with very strictly controlled WAN capabilities. Obviously this already exists, but not in the fashion a layman, who wants to put their fridge on the wifi will understand. The average home routers need cleaner interfaces and clearer abstractions rather than the cruft that exists now.

Does your fridge really need to access the internet, and if it does, perhaps you could setup your router to only allow access at certain times, to a single host and with circuit breaker protections in case traffic has a signature that matches that of a DDoS attack. This circuit breaker pattern could be extended to all traffic running through the router, and provide the user with reports of potential infected devices and traffic hungry users.

Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? on Saturday September 24, 2016 @02:53PM (#12572060)
No, but we are led to believe this wont be long. They recently got partial approval with full approval expected next year. Not bad for a startup that has only been going ~20 months in quite a slow industry.

Money is currently stored with a third party that do have a license, so there are some guarantees that money wont be lost.

Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? on Friday September 23, 2016 @06:16PM (#12568346)
A good open source alternative to Google Apps. Secure by default, amazing UI, spam filtering and tools that will configure the thing properly so not to get blacklisted.
Re:Berners-Lee: WWW is spy net on Sunday June 12, 2016 @08:00AM (#11887699)
No, this from the guy who helped found the web. In my book, that gives him the right to say whatever he wants. DRM or not.

Ask HN: How do the January 2015 EU VAT directives affect your startup?

The EU VAT directives that became active in January 2015 state that any businesses selling digital goods or services to EU consumers have to charge VAT at the consumers local rate and pay it to the consumers local tax authority. There are also some hefty requirements about collection of non-contradictory evidence of the consumers location in case of audit. I believe there are other countries...

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Ask HN: How do the January 2015 EU VAT directives affect your startup?

The EU VAT directives that became active in January 2015 state that any businesses selling digital goods or services to EU consumers have to charge VAT at the consumers local rate and pay it to the consumers local tax authority. There are also some hefty requirements about collection of non-contradictory evidence of the consumers location in case of audit.I believe there are other countries who...

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Gotta love giffgaff, even their phone program is very reasonably priced. I got my iPhone 6 by mail, the day after it was released. £17pm for my phone.
Re:Facebook Wants You to Post More About Yourself on Sunday April 10, 2016 @05:08PM (#11468167)
Great reply!
Re:Issues for Self-Driving Cars in U.S. Cities on Friday April 08, 2016 @05:09PM (#11457992)
Apply HN: A city built for the 21st century.

In all seriousness, would be quite a fun challenge to build a modern city from scratch.

I feel this is a good place to mention Micro [1] which is going a long way to becoming a very sound micro service platform.

Deals with Service Discovery, metrics, tracing, gRPC, and all sorts.

[1]: https://github.com/micro/micro

I've watched about 30 minutes of this, and I am growingly disgusted by the TPP and the US government. I am a brit, and all though we aren't part of the TPP, we are still in the back pocket of the United States.

It's a shame that we rely so heavily on trade with the US, that we feel that we need to look past the so called "lobbying" and corruption in US politics, and implement such overbearing rules on behalf of Hollywood and others.

The stuff about the US putting Canada on "probation" and mandating that every 6 months Canada has to report back to the US "as if it was some kind of naughty student to the teacher" is just ridiculous.

This has to stop.

Re:Show HN: Use Slack for Everything on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:39AM (#10836525)
Should also move your CSS include to the head.
Re:Fifth Amendment Flowchart on Thursday October 08, 2015 @06:15AM (#10351779)
oh my!
Re:ContentTools: A WYSIWYG editor for HTML content on Thursday October 01, 2015 @06:23AM (#10310217)
Have you seen http://prosemirror.net? Not quite as well polished, but probably more suited to real time collaboration.
Re:Two Countries, Two Vastly Different Phone Bills on Sunday August 24, 2014 @03:08PM (#8219353)
giffgaff is a great example of this, a very small company that piggy-backs on the O2 network, giving really cheap tarifs. http://giffgaff.com/goodybags
Re:iMessage purgatory on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:27AM (#7742739)
Its a bit confusing, but in my experience, as soon as the message finishes sending, whether its been delivered or just hit apples server, the send as SMS option will disappear.

Sometimes the message will say its failed to deliver and you get the option back.

Re:iMessage purgatory on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @06:38PM (#7741068)
But then you get into a whole heap of problems with multiple threads.
Re:iMessage purgatory on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @06:37PM (#7741065)
I know that game... Trying to grab and hold an iMessage in the process of it sending, to reveal the "Send as a SMS message" button before the option disappears.
Re:Dropbox: DMCA Takedown in Personal Folders on Sunday March 30, 2014 @06:54AM (#7495809)
Link to the original tweet. He goes on to explain that the folder is private, but had a shared link. Bit strange?

https://twitter.com/darrellwhitelaw/status/45009647606079488...

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