skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suppose another person would solve this issue?

No. The right dose of the right medications for the individual affected might mitigate the issue, but another person wouldn't solve it any more than puzzle alarms would (which is not at all, essentially.)

> Or is it an even worse condition than I think it is?

It is of varying severity, with various interventions available that may mitigate the effects to a greater or lesser extent for some sufferers, but its a different kind of condition than you seem to think it is. That is, its not like being a non-narcoleptic heavy sleeper except superficially to outside observers, at least, based on what I've read and the narcoleptics I've known.
A few thought :

1/ parse wasn't a core service for facebook, nor a relevant source of a revenu AND their API wasn't standard. Those points combined made it very risky for people to use it.

2/ since they open sourced their API now, and the service was a paid service, there's a very high probability that someone will very soon create a 100% compatible PAAS.

3/ firebase will be next to shutdown. Not because they suck, but simply because they're exactly in the same case (proprietary,non standard, critical technology, held by a company who don't really care about it for its money service). People won't sign up on firebase anymore, so they will have to shut down quite soon.

4/ Every non core project run by facebook should be looked upon with extra caution now. Yes, that includes occulus. They're clearly not going to sell many devices, and gaming console maker (aka Sony) will have the lion's share of the gaming market. So, expect fb to shut it down in 2 or 3 years if it doesn't get a very large marketshare (the only use case large enough i can think of that is not gaming being porn).

5/ I personnaly would be really hesitant now to run on something like google app engine. I wouldn't be surprised to see google and microsoft moving forward api standardization for core cloud services on a much faster pace. Except amazon, nobody is really safe now.
There is absolutely nothing stopping people aggregating modular pieces into boilerplates that work well. Developer productivity isn't some entity manifest from a singular repetitive workflow. That sounds to me like an appeal to create dumb cogs of critical thinkers.

Can you justify why 'monolithic frameworks' is the right direction?
Nearly 3 ;)
> Annoyance the 5.1beta3 – Version incompatibility

That makes no sense. Yes, version X+1 is incompatible with version X. That's why we upped the version number!!!

I wonder if author never had to deal with API/Service that changed and was poorly or unversioned. Suddenly and mysteriously breaking things.
Either their mobile home page is broken or it only shows this announcement anymore, but what is Parse anyway?
[Firebase founder here]

We're not going anywhere. We have strong backing here at Google and are continuing to make big investments in our platform. You'll see big things from us soon.

What makes us different? Firebase is very complementary to Google's other product offerings. Cloud for one, as well as Angular, Polymer, GCM, etc.
Can a mod (or OP) change this submission's title? "VMware's Stumbling Cloud Adventure" is an editorializing of "VMware's Cloud Adventure", especially since the word bumbling never occurs in the post.

@OP HN guidelines say "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The LinkedIn approach is to validate people are who they say they are. We have a number of people who have very limited LinkedIn profiles, and some that have 'skeleton profiles'. Once you authenticate the profile you fill out is only seen by us for the purpose of finding you work.
We take the 'stealth' very seriously. We also didn't want to store people's creds.
It started as a CodePen. Thankfully, someone switched the build to use Rollup, which makes it very easy to move things around. Modular structure (in terms of files) will be part of the 3.0 major bump.
> Currently about 47% of working citizens pay no federal income tax at all.

That sounds a lot like the usually cited figure for the share of US households that don't pay federal income tax (which tend to have less adults per household, and a lower employment rate among those adults, than households that do pay federal taxes, so its unlikely to be much like the percentage of "working citizens" that don't pay federal income taxes.)
I can assure you that the 9-10 hour estimate for the MBP is optimistic at best, and downright misleading at worst. I'm lucky to get 7 hours if I turn down the brightness and do nothing but browse the web and check email (no video or Outlook, just regular old Apple mail). Any realistic usage scenarios net about 4-5 hours, and any semi-intensive use (IDE open, iMovie, Photoshop, streaming video, etc) will drain the battery in 3.5 hours flat. I'm not the only person with these issues; Marco Arment, Gruber, and the rest of the Apple triumvirs all share the same complaints with regards to the 15" MacBook Pro's battery life. Part of the blame is poor optimization on Apple's part with Turbo Boost, and another just rests on the fact that it's ridiculously hard to drive a high-resolution, bright screen, a powerful processor, and a graphics unit without sacrificing some degree of efficiency.
This thing is pretty sweet if you just use a laptop: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002VWJZ8S
I cannot find any information about accreditation at UT Austin (other than [1], which is out of date). I once had a discussion with someone from the academic staff of the CS department (name redacted to protect the guilty), which I may have misunderstood or be misremembering, but included a statement to the effect of, "we aren't accredited by anyone; they're all following us." (They did have an external visiting committee who reviewed and made comments on the curriculum.)

[1] https://cns.utexas.edu/undergraduate-education/academic-reco...
NIST looks to strengthen crypto backbone
AFAIK, the new Photos app in iOS and OS X are built on CloudKit. So I assume it will only die when iOS dies, which could be another decade or so.
In my case, I wanted to take advantage of React-style components, but needed to use them in a massive (MM users) 10-year old website built on jQuery and Backbone, backed by PHP. Since there is no room for overhead, Preact fits very nicely.
How is this different from existing internships? Or are you suggesting that they be made graduation requirements?
You could absolutely quote mine physics and math papers to make a point that's not true, if that's what you're asking. I think it might be harder to get such a project into a physics journal, but yes, I think it's doable.

That being said, I don't think just anything can make it into a philosophy journal either. He was clearly trying very hard to make a point, and when smart people work hard on things, the result is very rarely worthless. I'm sure that came through in reading his writing, which is why it was published. Continental philosophy is largely subjective, (which isn't to say it doesn't very in quality) and as such it can't be gauged like analytical philosophy or physics can be.

The greater intellectual fraud is extrapolating this example of a minor journal focused on postmodernism publishing an article written in bad faith to a rejection of postmodernism wholesale. There's a lot of valuable insight to be gained from studying it, which I encourage anyone skeptical of postmodernism to do.
It looked pretty clean to me as well.

Strange that they don't use trailing commas in aggregate initializers though.
When can we see CoreCLR backend for TypeScript ?
They've made a self-hosted alternative available.
Bush?

When asked a question, he'd never give an answer that illustrated a deep depth of analysis.

Now he certainly could have done the analysis all the time, but he never spoke about it so I did not have any insight into was his thinking process was.

Now, I never thought he was dumb but his persona of well-mannered everyman never slipped even one bit, so if it's a mask, I have no idea what is beneath it. He could be average or a genius or low intelligence with extreme charisma. I don't know.
If you told me 20 years ago I'll use a phone with a gigabyte of RAM..
First of all, I hope everyone reads your whole comment so they can learn about the police murdering someone when they thought they could get away with it. That's important to hear.

That being said, I have experienced something like the racial tension you say happened after that incident. It was scary but in the end I was safe partially because I made the time to get to know the people who lived around me. Not even hanging out get to know, just nod when you walk by.

If you're a good member of the community, the community will work to protect you if it can. You absolutely do need to keep your wits about you and be street safe though. I admit that's definitely not for everyone.
These fuckwits had advanced warning of the blizzard and still parked in a way to hinder emergency response capabilities. How you can paint them as innocent people who were fucked over is beyond me.
My motorized adjustable desk and highly adjustable Capisco chair work for both me (6'2") and my wife (5'3") at standard-office-chair height, tall saddle-stool height, or standing. It can easily be slightly tweaked for typing or writing with a pen.

If we wanted to do the same thing with a fixed desk, we would need some kind of platform for her to stand on, plus at least two adjustable-height seats with adjustable foot rests.
Firebase disagrees with you https://twitter.com/Firebase/status/692845862527995904
There was an interesting overview talk on predictive policing at 32c3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIQ2Xhov7D4
They certainly are. Look at the current top 10 for Steam; there are exactly two games, Fallout and GTA, that require anything more than the world's crappiest computer to play. I have no clue about the games not represented on Steam (basically Battlefield and the Star Wars edition of Battlefield), but I bet they follow the same pattern.

The Witness has has a peak of less than 5,000 players at one time so far.

The top two games (and basically the only active "pro" games at the moment), which together have about one million players playing at any given time are both carefully tuned to run on toasters according to Valve's hardware survey.

I like Valve's current micro transaction model. You can buy cosmetic items, but that's it. I can't speak for DOTA2, but in CS:GO they don't impact the game negatively like they did with TF2. Trading from free drops also allows kids and poor people to participate in the economy, which allows them to make more money for Valve than begging mom to buy a $60 game would.
US Air Force Launches First Cyberspace Weapon System
The first chapter talks too often about the Python2/3 problem, I'd say. Python users know this subject very well and others couldn't care less.
Hi, author of closp (https://github.com/sveri/closp).

TLDR; Yes, clojure is behind in regards of web development, but it is not as bad as you said. There is active work done in this area.

I totally agree with what you said. It is a general understanding in the clojure community that you compose libraries to get things done.
However, for web development that still means a lot of repitition, thats why I created the closp template.

It is based on luminus (http://www.luminusweb.net/) which is a lighter "framework" with more options.

My idea was to provide one way with sensible defaults to get started in doing web stuff in clojure.

I still work regularly on it and would be happy about contributions / feature requests. Whereas regularly means in terms of months as I do this all in my spare time.

Also I am quite active in the clojure community and I know that luminus is not shunned, but instead it also receives improvements and releases regularly. Also the author of luminus works professionally with clojure and with luminus.

And I have to admit, that luminus has the far superior documentation, he has done a good job on it I think.
If you're building a nascent mobile app it probably won't take millions of dollars and year(s) of works to get up and running, regardless of what backend you use.

If you do have a project that will take millions of dollars and year(s) of work to get up and running, I'm going to guess you have much bigger problems than what backend you use, and choosing something like Parse won't help you that much.
Or even better labour from Latin labor, laboris which also means harm, misfortune or agony.
The NDA is mutual. It might say 'company x failed our pic-audit, we need help fast'. It guarantees we keep that secret but use that info to find the right match.

Also on the pen test side, we wont't say vendor C put in a $10k bid, you should put one in at $9k. It just means we value trust and privacy, as everyone in the security field should. Testers would also sign an NDA when they take a job, so that they won't leak things they learned in confidence.
Susa Ventures Looks to Raise $50M Second Fund
You rock. Thank you. Will fix it.
You could take 10 seconds and write 1-line modules to abstract your specific imports - "import Component from 'mycomponent'". This is not a valid argument in favor of modularity or small modules (and I love small modules).
Uber using a children’s toy to calm drunk passengers
That's exactly what I did. I wrote a wrapper around their REST API. Feeling pretty good about that decision right about now.
Unlike Facebook, backand main business is being a Baas. It has a lot of developers and fully backed. In addition, Backand's unique feature is that you can get the database connection and the server side configuration any time you want!
UK GCHQ Challenge – Just got to part 3
Pissed Consumer Gets to Go After Roca Labs for Its Bogus DMCA Takedowns
I've used this desk for a month or two now. It's great. The only issue is that shaking that happens as the desk descends. Otherwise, it's solid. I'm 6'4" and have about 3" of wood* under each of the four contact-points.

* A 2x10 bucked up into 1' pieces = 8 pieces. Stack 2 under each of four of the desk's feet, and yer set!
Yes well Microsoft allowed that fraud to be perpetuated on the user and has done so for a very long time. It's actively detrimental to the user experience, and for the most part, they know it. But due to commoditization their manufacturers are dependent on it. They aren't though, any PC you buy in a Microsoft store comes bloat free.

>No one stops you from installing clean Windows OS without bloatware.

Ah sure, that's every average PC user's first step after unboxing their shiny new laptop. Wipe it with DBAN and do a fresh install.

Just kidding, it's pretty obviously not. Most people don't even know what wiping a computer entails, or how to do it, or that it would actually get rid of the bloat. These things seem simple to us but most people don't understand the first thing about computers.

No one stops you from buying a Mac because you're sick of dealing with bloatware either. Just sayin'.

>Can you tell me one single product in Apple which is sold by other than Apple.

No clue what you're trying to say there.
Very nicely explained. Now on to George Soros ... :)
Premiere Pro CC 2015.2 update
Are there some types of content where the author, photographer, etc will produce it without direct compensation? Sure.

Are there others where that's not practical? Also, yes. Maybe not things that you need, but this problem does exist.

At the moment, there's not a model, outside of ads, that works very well for that sort of thing. There are some subscription/micropayment schemes that seem promising, but nothing that works as well as ads do.
If you're making (mobile) games and looking for a replacement, I cannot recommend Gamesparks[1] highly enough. Their documentation is way behind Parse's (which has excellent docs), but their features (relevant to games) and customer support are far superior, and they are actively working on improving their docs.

[1] http://www.gamesparks.com/
Charity Majors leaves Facebook/Parse, Parse shuts down. I am not surprised.
This is going to be a pain
Do you have a source for that? The only thing I can find is this http://www.law360.com/articles/518338/nyc-loses-bid-to-make-... which makes it even worse.
This is extremely interesting to me and I would love to hear why. I skipped synthetic events because I didn't feel they were necessary, but I would appreciate additional insight.
A lightweight C++ signals and slots implementation
We don't agree. It was not rescheduled in reality. Your system would have said it was rescheduled to 7pm Toronto time while in reality the event would still be 6pm Tronto time. The people using your site/app/whatever would be an hour late.

UTC is the correct was to store timestamps (things that happened) and intervals (things that need to happen x seconds/minutes/hours from now).

For future events at a specific geographical location you need to store it as local time + timezone. Many databases have a time+timezone type.
That's not really relevant; after all, Bin Laden himself didn't pilot the planes into the towers.
Hans Island – A most civilized land dispute
I guess it depends on what your aims are. Are you new to mobile development in general and just want to learn how to develop for your preferred platform(iOS, Android etc..)? If thats the case then definitely use Firebase or any other backend as a service for that matter. This will allow you to focus on building your app and not have to worry about implementing an API that provides access to your mongodb database(this would also be a worthwhile exercise). Hope that helped.
[Firebase founder here]

Google is 100% behind us, and we're continuing to make big investments in the platform. If you have concerns, feel free to ask me questions on twitter: twitter.com/startupandrew
If the union is the primary agent blocking transparency then one possible solution is to remove the block.
Killing features – Just as important as building them
Ten days ago he was in custody and released by the UK police (and Intelligence folks)

https://www.thecthulhu.com/insurance-release/

Why? Possibly due to his release of his "insurance" dump - a dump containing unknown stuff.

Why release this bigger archive after then? No idea but I'm not touching either with any type of stick!
I was just looking at Parse & Firebase for the potential back-end on a biz app I am currently developing. I decided to install DreamFactory on AWS with DynamoDB because I felt uneasy relying on the others. I have been burned multiple times by both Facebook & Google shutting down API's.

It was fairly painless getting DreamFactory setup.

I give props to Facebook for giving such a long notice though. That should be more than enough time for app developers to switch.
PropTypes are supported out of the box in preact-compat. You could also use them via a preact vnode hook and the "proptypes" module (npm.im/proptypes), which is just pulled from React's codebase. Synthetic events I'm very much open to feedback on - I tend to fire actual DOM events in my Karma tests, but it seems that less common.
Hans Island ... is claimed by Canada, and by Denmark:

The two countries maintain a sense of humour in the
dispute. Peter Taksøe-Jensen has stated "when Danish
military go there, they leave a bottle of schnapps.
And when [Canadian] military forces come there, they
leave a bottle of Canadian Club and a sign saying,
'Welcome to Canada.'"

I freely admit that this might not be HN material, but I found it engaging and wanted to share it.
Judging by the site and the readme, it makes sense to assume that English is not the author's native language... It would make more sense to judge by the quality of the universal language there (C) and not half the readme (which can be easily fixed with a PR).
Yes! I wrote about this a few years ago:

http://geekestateblog.com/monitoring-microvendors/

It's really important as people build apps (and business value) through composition of smaller services rather than composition of code that they become aware of these external dependencies. And not just at build time, but during the operation of these apps/business processes.
Butthead Astronomer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation#Libel_di...
I think it will work fine for about two generations. People who've developed a career will probably still work, since much of the hard work is done. And there's a cultural push toward work.

But culture follows the facts on the ground. Over time the concept of a work ethic will erode away. I suspect once it becomes acceptable to not work a whole lot of people will be perfectly happy smoking pot and playing video games. It won't take that many to break the system.
I've always been a believer that smart people can come to very different conclusions on how to do things.

Just look at the number of people who fall within the Alan Kay camp of mutable state vs those who like Haskell.

Look at those who think Lisp should have ruled the world versus those who believe Prolog just never had a fair shake.

There's a bunch of issues that reasonable people can reasonably disagree on.

Granted when it comes to politics I believe all motivation is hidden because ture radicals can't win the vote by coming out and telling people they plan a revolution. They have to claim to be only slightly off center, then continually reframe the issue till people begin to see things their way.

Guantanamo Bay was a great example. If you'd asked Congress "do you want to authorize a secret camp to torture dissidents just offshore from the continental USA?" then they would have said no. Yet now that the camp exists, the question has been shifted to "Do you want to close our black-ops torture camp, and move all those people with grievances (legitimate or not) against us to your home state's prison system?"

Now even Congressmen who hate torture feel unwilling to go down in history as the one who let 'terrorists' into gen-pop, even if in fact our prison system is perfectly capable of handling dangerous individuals (like all the homegrown terrorists we have).
[Firebase founder here]

I want to help put your mind at ease. Google is 100% behind us. If you have specific concerns, please ping me on Twitter: @startupandrew
Supreme Court Asked to Review Batmobile Copyright Dispute
Facebook wants to dominate the Internet, and it’s succeeding
This isn't a counterpoint to Bush actually being intelligent, but the most convincing theory I've heard about the war in Iraq is that Sadam Hussein was going to sell oil for Euros instead of Dollars (and he had formally announced those plans). The idea is that speculation about future oil not being bought and sold in dollars would devalue the dollar as countries would hold less in their reserves, and this would start a more rapid cycle of devaluation.

EDIT: Looks like people don't even want to deal with this as a theory.
Wasn't there some recent study that both sitting and standing in front of a desk is not really healthy? We knew that about sitting but standing didn't fare much better. We probably need some treadmill-style workplace instead or taking walking breaks for 15 minutes an hour...
IIRC NASA missions (at least initially) will use parachute landing while other missions will use propulsive landing.
The propulsive landing engines serve in case of mission abort so they aren't wasted in any case, but as it's looking now NASA will not be trusting them for landings.
I didn't say it was supposed to work for all sites, just that st3v3r is ignoring a huge swath of the internet by implying that nonprofessional sites don't exist.
Islamic State-linked hacker makes First US appearance in federal court [Reuters]
Make no mistake, in prime focus photography the brightness of extended objects does not depend on the size of the scope, but the size of the generated image is still proportional to the size of the instrument.