skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are missing the point of the article. I am not suggesting that people use HTML APIs in place of JSON APIs. I am suggesting that they should use something else for that:

It’s time to admit it: the REST-haters are right. REST does not make for a great raw data-level API architecture, and efforts like GraphQL and RPC-like architectures are likely to end up producing something more usable for complicated data needs.

Rather I am suggesting that the REST-ful architecture can be rescued from API use, using HATEOS and annotated HTML in web applications.

This article took a long time to write and, while I don't expect people to agree with me on the value of REST/HATEOS or the viability of intercooler as a web application library, I do think it is worth taking time to understand my argument.
CubeTutor saved my bacon several times during this most recent Holiday Cube.
Thank you for the clarification! I have worked with smalltalk (environment in which I learned OOP). I didn't realize that the default work environments in a Xerox PARC were REPL lisp, smalltalk or mesa (not familiar with mesa except as reference to mesa3d -- the same?). This sounds like an awesome environment. Mathematica doesn't really capture this either, not being integrated with the OS or third party applications, does it? Sounds like MS is trying to do this with PowerShell but with a poor interface compared to smalltalk or lisp (and probably less standardized). Did Xerox control all the software or mandate programming languages or interfaces?
"Americans are flooding the government with appeals to have their student loans forgiven on the grounds that schools deceived them with false promises of a well-paying career—part of a growing protest against years of surging college costs."

I've never seen a university that promised a guaranteed job or career. It has always been a risk and it's ludicrous that students would attempt to make this case.

Have we sunk this low with personal responsibility? This victim mentality needs to stop if we are going to progress as a society.

I think the problem I have is that not only do some students major in things like medieval history (which will not likely get you a well-paying job, let alone a career), but many think that just getting a piece of paper will get you a job.

It might help you get your foot in the door, but you still need to put the work into it.

College isn't for everyone. Some people would be better suited with a trade.
I don't think it's as much "a React in every stack" as "observables solve a lot of problems that couldn't previously be solved with promises."

Handling async events can be difficult and error probe. Observables finally provide a useful pattern to that can be used to effectively manage async operations on data.

React os the poster child because it came first but Angular2 also uses Rxjs (ie Reactive Extensions for JS).

The poster goes to the opposite extreme, "if we're doing functional programming in JS, everything should be functional. Here's what I use, everybody who doesn't also use it is dumb."

Subjective opinion addressed as fact.
Ask HN: How many LLCs for my different ventures?
Hi!

So I have a lot going on right now!

I have a freelance business I'm working on that I want to expand into a full blown consultancy agency and hire help, etc.

I also created a new invention that I want to market.

Finally, there's a startup I want to work on and create.

How many LLCs should I have? Should I just make the 1 for all of them? Make 1 for now and then create them later on?

Is there a one correct answer or is it sort of up to me?
Stop and think of it not in terms or whether it reflects badly on you but on the consequences for society. There is nothing good that can be said for creating enclaves of poverty.
If there were two tiers of citizenship - the police and the non-police - and the former has an implicit right to confiscate assets from the latter, of course anyone would worry about losing their police job.
EURGBP+Closes+Lower+On+Price+Weakness
For those following along at home, that $50k is likely worth around $250M today.

Early Uber investors are sitting on one of the largest ever venture returns.
The real problem is that you don't know what to conclude if they are silent or not. In theory we don't have proof of either outcome but it is prudent to assume the worst.
I did something similar. I packaged up business ideas I wasn't executing, along with a domain name, logo and mini-business plan. I call them "StartJumpers": http://startjumper.com
we do auto-deploy, but they aren't required to be run during the deploy process, so we just run them sometime after the deploy. but honestly i can count on one hand the number of these we do a year - i haven't put much effort into streamlining the process. whereas schema changes are quite regular. just had one tonight in fact. output from the deploy log a few mins ago:

Executing in 3...2...1...

BEGIN TRANSACTION

-- column changes for table products
ALTER TABLE "products" ADD COLUMN "dont_email_on_purchase" boolean

-- column changes for table searches
ALTER TABLE "searches" ADD COLUMN "tag_only" boolean DEFAULT 'f'

COMMIT

--==[ COMPLETED ]==--

from the one line code change that triggered it:

1 db/schema.rb
@@ -543,6 +543,7 @@

create_table "searches", :force => true do |t|
t.text "query"
+ t.boolean "tag_only", :default => false
t.datetime "searched_at"
t.integer "user_id"
t.integer "page_id"

(well, there were two commits obviously)
Flat-Earthers are back: 'It’s almost like the beginning of a new religion'
For those interested in going deeper, all the trial transcripts, as well as a lot of caas efiles, are available online now: http://www.stevenaverycase.org.
Right. The micropayment needs to be about the same as the ad income would have been. And it needs to be virtually automatic. Just a pop-up saying that reading would cost $0.013 and asking for confirmation. There'd be a browser plugin that handled payments. And payments, of course, would need to be anonymous and not trackable.
Good points. I wouldnt think that trying to sell directly to consumer is a viable business model. As you pointed that the number of people who actually think of buying a new router is just too small. I was thinking of something like what google is doing with android of their onHub platform. Build the software, and licence it (or sell support) to booth hardware manufacture (asus,netgear) and ISPs.
It is disheartening, but not surprising. Zoning officials and others in city government don't just bow out when contraindicated by evidence. Instead they just arrange for new research with what they hope will be different results.
Love it. Two years ago I did this, and wrote a little something about it when I started:

"Why my code and ideas are public"

https://sivers.org/ws

I blogged about it to call attention to it for one main reason:

I wanted to see if anyone would "steal" the ideas.

Because it seems to be many (MANY) people's biggest worry about sharing any ideas: that someone will steal them. See the comments in https://sivers.org/how2hire for example. Also this from Jason Fried of Basecamp: https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/683809719782215680

Anyway - it's been two years now, and nobody has stolen any of the ideas. It could just be that my ideas suck, but I suspect that the worry of people stealing ideas is nothing to worry about for any of us.
No, don't. When I go to Amazon, it's not for goods dropshipped from China. It's for things I want delivered quick and from reputable manufacturers and sellers.

We already have this problem in Poland with Allegro (local eBay equivalent), where people automate this at a large scale. You and up scrolling past tons of these items, because a) you don't want to wait 20 or so days for it to arrive from China b) you know you can get it cheaper from Aliexpress anyway.

Different sites, different targets.
"Indeed, there have been a bunch of promising capability research projects that never quite made it to production. Sandstorm's Cap'n Proto is based on Mark Miller's E language and CapTP protocol, while the Powerbox concept derives from Marc Stiegler's CapDesk (although of course many production systems contain narrow-purpose powerboxes "by accident"). Both MarkM and MarcS are friends of the project and have provided review and advice."

Oh I'm more than aware of these projects and people. That you're getting advice and approval from the masters of this sort of thing is a hell of a differentiator in a space where most security claims are almost totally BS.

"Sandstorm compromises by allowing legacy native code to run in fine-grained containers."

What's your hypervisor and container model? I mean, how do you do the sandboxing and execution of native code? That's first. Then, what virtualization platform to have a guestimate on TCB size and difficulty to secure.
I'm baffled that you feel this way. I actually worked on some of the science behind it when I was in grad school. Here was one of the well-known projects in the field at that time:

< http://ilab.usc.edu/publications/doc/Itti_Baldi06nips.pdf >

There are also many other kinds of psychological manipulation research. For example, this article from Gamasutra talks about techniques for monetization in games, and this is obviously applicable to many ad formats:

< http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130626/1949... >

The idea of excessive ad repetition is not at all new: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_frequency#Thomas_Smi... >.

Even just a cursory Google search for whatever popular advertising journals there are, then looking at what articles are in their current issues, turned up some pretty quantitative work on allocating to different media formats:

< http://www.journalofadvertisingresearch.com/content/55/4/443 >

Or this article on determining what cognitive factors are related to the avoidance of OTC drug ads:

< http://www.journalofadvertisingresearch.com/content/55/4/401 >

That one, in the introduction, also links to many other studies specifically about psychological factors contributing to negative ad reactions.

I'm really baffled that you think advertisers do not conduct extremely specific threads of research to determine whether they are getting their money's worth from a certain ad or not.

I don't consider any of this to be remotely like a conspiracy theory -- in fact I thought this was commonly understood to be obviously the case, and I'm very surprised to hear that you feel otherwise.
Chaos Communication Congress Talks (videos)
Send me an email. I will be a potential candidate to hire.
> I do the same thing, but I realized a while back there is a flaw in this model. It means the available creative works—which in turn effectively means the engine of culture—is determined almost entirely by people who are well-off enough to have the free time to do that.

I'm not about to claim that it's in any way an ideal or better, but isn't this how 90% of the literature, and maybe more often art, that we know hold as sacred parts of history, were created?
I worked at a data center for a bank from 1997-2001. Processing ACH transactions for our data center involved a 1970s-era NCR mainframe, a decade-old MS-DOS PC (they tried to upgrade it once, but the expansion card that handled the encryption wouldn't work with a faster system and a new card cost upwards of $10k), 9-track vacuum-fed tape drives, manually dialing a phone and then switching it over to a 9600 baud modem, and running batch-processing jobs which took greatly varying amounts of time to run. I did not handle the sending of ACH data back to the ACH system, only receiving it and processing it. I worked from 4PM "until it was done". Most nights this meant around 9:30PM. However, in situations like you described, where there is a bank holiday on a Monday, things would always take longer (higher volume of transactions, nothing was done on weekends so everything just accumulated). In situations where it was the end of a month AND a bank holiday on a Monday? Holy crap. I wouldn't get out of there until 4AM usually in those situations.

There was a great deal of hand-holding and operator intervention during the processing. The systems used were older than many of the people working on them. When software updates needed to be made, companies had to locate retired software engineers that originally made the systems and pay them astronomical amounts to either perform the modifications or consult on such modifications. When hardware broke down, like our high-speed dot matrix printer that printed on that green-bar paper with holes on each side, they had to pay specialized repair techs $400+/hr (starting from when they got in their car in a city 1.5hr away) to come out to troubleshoot. Then they had to track down replacement parts.

When you work with a bank, if something still functions, or the cost of repairing or updating it costs less than purchasing and transitioning to a new system, it does not get replaced. Systems ossify and live pretty much forever. The mainframe we used was literally the only one of its kind still in operation in the entire country (we found this out when the other people who used one, a restaurant, decommissioned theirs and gave it to us for free if we would hail it away... we finally got a disaster recovery solution that way).
The guys with the magic downvoting wand here exhibit a real tendency of groupthink. I am done with HN
It is kind of sad that this wonderful framework, from total awesomeness, came to this situation where I am not sure what will future bring and should I make my projects in Meteor.

Meteor started with huge advantage, it is auto reloading, it has data layer that is very simple to use, it syncs across clients. On top of that, you can package mobile apps with it.

One thing I really loved is Velocity, testing runner that would display a dot in the corner of the screen, it would run a testsuite, and if it turns red, you can click and learn what test failed.

I was hoping it will be more awesomeness, instead, they eliminated Velocity, testing is not clear cut, db layer that needed most attention is not getting enough, whole focus is on frontend.

React is awesome and adding it, it really brings a lot to Meteor, but I think Blaze was good enough.

Anyhow, now I am Elixir/Phoenix dev, don't feel the same pain I did before, but any positive news from Meteor would be very much welcome.
Seems like the state residency requirement was struck down earlier this year.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/11/federal-cour...
Then put faith in the fact his prior deliverable, the DARPAbrowser, got favorable reviews during security evaluation sponsored by DARPA. Just a few minor fails with major wins throughout.

http://combex.com/
I maybe know one of those ;)
Imagine if instead of libraries we made literature accessible to everyone by inserting ads, including "native ads" and product placements in the stories! Egads!
Could you do this over a sliding window and calculate a score for regions? That would let you see if something has been composited from up scaled images.
Any particular reason why you want to move away from Slack?
Maybe Tony Hawk's fans can do all the work in exchange for some credits which can be used for other things.

Through gamification, tagging and user participation can be done.
I was extremely worried to see this headline. Patreon is opening up a new path towards professionalism (a 10x improvement over e.g. YouTube, and that was a pretty massive deal), and if it goes under a lot of human potential will be shuttered. Might sound overly dramatic, but cultural shifts are always on a razor's edge
In the example of the author creating a reverse tunnel for mysql, I can't decide if I love or hate these types of tunnels. On the one hand it's nice to allow SSH to do all of the encryption heavy lifting, and to punch a single hole through the firewall. It's also nice that somebody sniffing around from the outside doesn't really have any idea what services are running on the box.

On the other handle it comes off as much too hacky for something I'd trust my production services with. It also involves two levels of authentication (PKI + whatever is built-in to the system).
I wrote that question after reading the article, I am just not really understanding why an HTML response would be a better alternative to JSON. I thought the whole reason JSON was used for RESTful API's due to the client-server principal.

After rereading the article, if I understand what you are saying, the reason why the library was written was to address two failings with JSON based API's: They do not follow the HATEOAS requirement of REST and a JSON API may not have the same flexibility as raw SQL.

To be honest, I am still a little confused and not really understanding what problem is being solved by the library... I am sorry.
I'm not sure why this is a problem, considering that if one nation-level party is interested in you, probably multiple are? As long as the users in question know someone is poking around, they can take steps to reduce their online presence, or migrate to new online identities, at the very least.

The point I suppose I was trying to make is it sounds like a lot of finger pointing since people are afraid and don't know whose door to bang on.
I care more about symmetrical plugs than I do about bandwidth. Hallelujah! My prayers have been answered!
LeadGenius is hiring a Senior Front-End Engineer
This dress reveals just the amount of skin you wish to display
Don't evaluate a technology after having used it only during a couple-days hackaton.
Great... more consolidation of major competitors to fix market problems like great features and prices from competition. Just what we needed.
One LLC and pick only one of the above. Focus.
"Housemax - Carmax for single family homes, buy it now price, close in 10 days, instant home liquidity."

Opendoor founded by Keith Rabois is as probably as close to this idea as you'll ever get.

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2015/02/26/startup-opend...
No, even the French nuclear build showed negative learning effects that had nothing to do with anti-nuclear propaganda. A global nuclear build is going to do much, much worse than France did:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421510...

Abstract
The paper reviews the history and the economics of the French PWR program, which is arguably the most successful nuclear-scale up experience in an industrialized country. Key to this success was a unique institutional framework that allowed for centralized decision making, a high degree of standardization, and regulatory stability, epitomized by comparatively short reactor construction times.

Drawing on largely unknown public records, the paper reveals for the first time both absolute as well as yearly and specific reactor costs and their evolution over time. Its most significant finding is that even this most successful nuclear scale-up was characterized by a substantial escalation of real-term construction costs. Conversely, operating costs have remained remarkably flat, despite lowered load factors resulting from the need for load modulation in a system where base-load nuclear power plants supply three quarters of electricity.

The French nuclear case illustrates the perils of the assumption of robust learning effects resulting in lowered costs over time in the scale-up of large-scale, complex new energy supply technologies. The uncertainties in anticipated learning effects of new technologies might be much larger that often assumed, including also cases of “negative learning” in which specific costs increase rather than decrease with accumulated experience.
The video I saw from Caltech suggested a mass of 1-10 times Earth's.
This popped up earlier (w/ 20 comments as of now): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10939576
I'm in Sweden and I've ordered stuff like a single USB cable from China at a price less than USD 1. Still, free shipping, and $1 wouldn't even buy me domestic letter postage.

If the item is small enough, it usually arrive in a padded envelope in my mailbox. Bigger items I may have to pickup at the post office. Most often, it arrives within 2 weeks.

I suspect that postal services in different countries have some kind of peering agreement. That they simply assume that the amount of mail would be pretty much the same in both directions and because of that, they don't really charge each other.
Agreed, storage is arbitrage, but arbitrage that's going to have a ton of economic purpose and necessity, not just somebody being a middleman.

The Chevy Bolt's batteries have been widely reported to cost $145/kWh, see for example [1]. I'm not sure what's excluded from the whole component to get to the price, but it's a point of reference at least.

The full life of various lithium ion batteries is still being studied and will vary with chemistry, but roughly a partial cycle seems to count as a partial cycle in terms of battery life. So if you're only cycling 75% capacity on a day, then you'll make up the extra 25% in longer life. Most studies I've read of lithium ion battery life but the number of cycles at 1000 +/- 200, to maintain "most" of the battery's capacity, which is why I used the conversion factor of 1000. I would believe a 25%-40% swing in practice, in either direction.

Peaker power plants quite frequently operate at over $0.30/kWh, more than 6x the cost of bulk energy. Energy storage is already gaining in this space [2]. Of course, consumers never see $0.05/kWh pricing, averaging $0.12/kWh nationwide, which is why residential solar makes so much sense for so many people. Consumers that choose demand-based pricing are already exposed to price swings on the order of $0.20/kWh in time-of-use plans both on Southern California Edison [3] and PG&E [4].

The speed with which solar and batteries are changing is going to catch a lot of people in the energy industry completely flat-footed.

[1] http://cleantechnica.com/2015/10/05/chevy-bolt-battery-cells...

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-22/batteries-...

[3] https://www.sce.com/wps/portal/home/residential/rates/Time-O...

[4] http://www.pge.com/en/myhome/saveenergymoney/plans/tou/index...?
I hate to break it to you but WebPack is also riding the peak of a hype cycle right now.

It doesn't natively support the future ES6-module standard.

Once browsers start providing native module loading support, devs will likely migrate en masse to JSPM. JSPM is the (previously missing) package manager for front-end libraries. It supports transpiling (babel, traceur, typescript) out of the box and also handles bundling.
Video - Drone flying over? I dunno, people having fun, romatic dinner, cooking, etc. Those are good bets.

The one influential travel series comes to mind is Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, wherever he visits it's a mix of local music, culture, cooking, dining, and conversation... I would look for inspiration there.
>It doesn't help that cheap ubiquitous wires would outright destroy MC/Visa, who effectively get to tax all consumer spending by being the only system with live/online transaction processing for authorizations.

Cheap (actually: free) ubiquitous wires are a reality in the UK as described or in the Euro zone, and I think MC/Visa do just fine there.
As an unrelated question - what are some of the other well known accelerators, that are at par (or better) than YC?
Hear hear!

I live not far from a really, really run-down part of town, with a grocery store that seems to attract the most downtrodden of society.

I love shopping there, even though everyone I know has sworn it off, because of how it always reminds me: a lot of people have it much worse off than me, but they are still human and worthy of compassion and respect.

I'll shop there even after I've sold my business and have enough pocket money to share, because I never want to lose touch with the non-shiny, fat, missing-limbs, dirt-poor, you name it, humanity that everyone else wants to forget about as quickly as possible.
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