skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today I learned that one of the Chinese words for avocado – 鳄梨 – is actually a translation of the older English term "alligator pear", and not a fanciful neologism as I'd thought. Interesting! I look forward to learning the roots of the other Chinese word for avocado – 牛油果, or "beef-fat fruit".
This makes me sad. I understand where people are coming from, but at this point people should realize that you cant build business on someone else's free products. Its for a reason that big companies pay money to get, sometimes even open source software (Red Hat) or get certified machines (from Dell/HP).

Building a business/livelihood is very different from experimenting. Experiment all you want with free products, but if you're gonna do the former be very sure of what the risks are.
Actually, I think Frontiers (http://explore-frontiers.com/) might be even more ambitious Unity-using game, but the developer working on it is in over his head. Still, what he's done so far is amazing already.
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It makes sense stay tiny if you are creating a small component yo be exported.
I don't think it is possible to replace an artist. The definition of artist, that I could find, is recursive so that's the first problem with that.

Then the appreciation is subjective; to replace an artist you would need something like; 'I like Rembrandt but now I like this guy instead'. I used to like Jean Michel Jarre then Beethoven then Iron Maiden then Slayer then ... etc. I still like all of these and can get excited when hearing any of them. No one of them replaced the other.

So we might have MORE artists. Once we accept that computers can make art 'without' humans. I am fine with that, but this example is definitely not a very good example. To me it looks like fancy filters.
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Because my time is limited and I would like to know why I should spend time evaluating it, instead of using a battle tested library that exists since late 90's and that follows modern C++.

If the OP only wants to learn how to do it, or to build its portfolio for a possible job interview, it is fair enough and I don't need to bother with it.

If the author wants to do a kick-ass replacement of libsigc++, then it is probably worth my expensive time to look into it.
From a customer's perspective, Parse is not remotely related to Facebook's core products. But Firebase is part of Google Cloud Platform. So I guess as long as Google Cloud Platform is active, Firebase will be operational too.
I also found several items in Pony to be interesting, and Andreas is very aware of Pony. One drawback of Pony is that it is written in C, while Nim is written in Nim. But a lot of the concepts in Pony are worth looking hard at :)
Well, it will track hours but my requirements are just "arrive/leave" tracking. I could have a bunch of timers per day depending on which work I was doing (but I only work on one project) and add things like lunch breaks etc.

https://www.hourstimetracking.com/images/large-timeline.gif shows a fairly granular usage.
Just tried this, you are correct... http://imgur.com/J9tP7lk (note the incorrect bracket highlighting)
I have a document I keep notes in for major life lessons or principles for myself. I've added your perfect quote under the principle for mastering the value of time and compounding: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4hdwbj0igcyivcd/Screenshot%202016-...
FWIW, I'm "clinging" to Mavericks because nothing beyond it will run iPhoto. Also, I really hate the new "flat look."
Developers will now be skeptical about using any BaaS. It can be acquired and shut down. They have every reason to be. We built a BaaS too. It is however built around this core philosophy of developers having complete control over their app backends. Here is the post we wrote about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994104
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Pure CSS Masonry Layouts
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>So one, you completely missed the part about her suggesting a hosted solution

Hosted != wpengine.com, hosted can mean a managed site with CPanel installed.

> you're being a snob about stuff for no other reason than to be a snob

No, I avoid using or recommending technology that is insecure-by-design. That includes PHP and just about everything built on it.

>I don't think anyone can take your assessments about this stuff seriously.

Considering how much I make consulting about "this stuff," I have no worry about how seriously I'm taken. Sorry if I've offended a technology you like, but it's really pretty awful.
I wasn't even aware that VMware had a cloud service, and I follow this stuff reasonably closely. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Rackspace, Linode, Joyent - these are all the companies that I think of when I think of "Cloud Services" - I would have bet money that VMware wasn't providing this as a service.
The support of fancy features like backtracking does not cause any degradation of performance for simple regular expressions. You are not obliged to use them, but they do not hurt you when you do not use them. Some other people may love them despite their poor complexity.
Fair enough, I was going by the "first appeared" date for both languages on Wikipedia.
I'm masochistic enough to run my own email and web server. Letting someone else hold my data? I as wrote, I'd rather not have the iNSA view my iData without my iKnowldege. Is that so iWrong?
I wouldn't know, I do not research every game developer and their financial standing. But considering the games on my list range from small indie stuff to big AAA stuff, I'd say it's a cross-section of both.
> Go was originally described as a systems language (which it never was according to the usual meaning of the term)

Fun fact! Go has roots in the Limbo[0] programming language, which runs in a VM, is garbage collected, has communication channels, and was used to write the Inferno[1] operating system, which is sort of a successor to Plan 9 (which is itself sort of a successor to Unix).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo_programming_language

[1] http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_%28operating_system%29 http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?InfernoOs
Not to be too critical without reason, but I think you meant http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pastime.

Also, I think you're being rather rude.

Nobody forces you to read whatever the OP posts, much less dig up the history to see if you agree with how he chooses to spend his time or not.
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> great term btw

Thanks! I was actually surprised to find that I apparently invented the term. It just seemed so obvious that I figured someone must have thought of it, but when I did a search to find some place to link to, nothing came up.

Anyway, glad you liked it :-)
"Is it better to run outside or on a treadmill?" "Yes" makes zero sense.
See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10992077

It seems to me that a) Nim is (or at least is meant to be, but bugs can sidestep it) memory safe if you stay within the rules for it, and b) Nim is not throwing around vague claims of safety that are not documented in the language manual.
I don't often write AST parsers but when I do, I don't and write regexps instead.
> I am sorry but I don't really appreciate it

Well I do, and I found the article fascinating, so I'm glad your opinion isn't the only one that matters on Hacker News.
That's exactly our thought (hasura.io) while we prepare for our "launch" next week. We've been studying Parse's growth and are definitely going after their market. Our core philosophy with the BaaS is however to keep it as open as possible. We wrote this up in response to Parse shutting down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994104
I work with a lot of enterprise companies, typically in the billion dollar market cap+ space. Exactly zero of them are thinking about leaving virtualization, and every one of them uses VMware as their platform.
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Yes absolutely. Hasura.io is coming up with a BaaS which is also simultaneously trying to address the "full control over your backend" problem. We put up some of our thoughts here:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994104
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(for the sake of discussion) Why sit or stand when you can lie down?

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/sit-stand-nifty-new-w...
Definitely worth a look. One of the guys behind this is pfalcon who maintains the best open development environment for programming the ESP8266 directly[1].

I love the ESP as a platform. It's low cost but still pretty impressive. Having micropython running on it just increases its ease of use, but you've also got Arduino and NodeMCU (Lua) so there's a great budding ecosystem around it.

[1] https://github.com/pfalcon/esp-open-sdk
According to Google 3kg is 6,61387 pounds.

As a rule of thumbs if you multiply kilograms by 2 you get a rough equivalent in pounds ;-)

I can manage inches, feet and pounds quite OK but Fahrenheit are a bitch though.
Android's device search is lacking.
So we set out to build a better version.
WhereDat can search Slack, Salesforce and Gmail too.
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I'm guessing parent means compiling TypeScript down to CoreCLR bytecode instead of to Javascript and running through Node for execution. Pretty big job, that one.
> The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter

You can see this influence in Windows ME
Once upon a time, there was a man here who built stuff, in Berlin for Albert Speer his name was. Philip Johnson and he was a wonderful artist and a moral monster. And he said he went to work building buildings for the nazis because they had all the best graphics. And he meant it, because he was an artist, as Mr Jobs was an artist. But artistry is no guarantee of morality.

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Would you like to try out our alternative approach instead at Hasura.io? Parse like API on Postgres - with all SQL queries possible! We'd love to chat if you are still evaluating options @HasuraHQ. We are launching our public beta next week. Here is a short post of our take on the Parse shutdown: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994104
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Bank of Japan shocks markets by adopting negative interest rates
If you had restrained your point to the misrepresentative title then you might have built consensus. Instead you lead with a creditworthiness argument, which was your weaker and more sensational point.
I'll just put this here: phpsadness.com
> you cannot beat a lift-system like the one in the Ergotron

I think if you really want something fast you need a sitting desk AND a standing desk with mirrored monitors and each desk with its own keyboard and mouse.
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That is absolutely phenomenal. Any sourcing on this, so when I repeat it it's not just a case of "somebody wrote this online"?
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TLDR: View the videos on youtube and not on microsoft website

For a moment i too thought the same, but it got spoiled soon. To view the videos you need to have sliver light and it takes a long time for just the page to download. Why cant it be just a downloadble file.
Maybe it's just me but I find the short ones much harder. Was it strnCopy or strCopy etc.

And I mostly use some form of auto complete so I'm not worried about the effort saved from typing.
Qt Framework uses them extensively. You might find pretty good examples there. Its been a long while, so I can't specifically give examples.
I've been using Skarsta since August 2015 at my home office. I'm pretty satisfied with the desk.

I always wanted a standing desk. I saw pictures of many awesome home-built desks here at HN so I thought that I could built myself one too. However, it turned out that it's not very easy. So I started looking for one at local shops.

Fortunately, IKEA is about 10km from my home so I went there and asked. They told me they have some Skarsta desk. Long story short, I bought it for 200 Euro (the larger version). The assembly took max 1 hour. Initially, the desk was a little "bendy" and unstable, but I discovered that the screws were not tight enough. After tightening them, the desk is pretty stable, even at the highest position.

I'm about 190cm tall and at the highest position, I can comfortably work on the desk. What I like the most about it is that it's pretty huge and spacious. You can put three 22" monitors on it + smaller speakers + mechanical keyboard + notebook for drawing without a problem. Although you have to manually get it up and down with a handle, it usually takes something like 30 seconds and you can look into the monitor while doing that. :) It's a good training for your hands.

All in all, Skarsta is very nice and comfortable standing desk for a reasonable price. Since owning it, I no longer understand all the standing-desk startups with their smallish desks for Macbook + one monitor for 500 bucks. What is more, you can put a spin bike under the desk and exercise while doing a light work, reading or watching videos.
It seems strange to me, that Nginx, Varnish and mostly getting the headline and not ATS, any idea why may that be?
I didn't know React was born by taking another library and removing all the polish and most features from it and then publishing it with almost the same name.
The headline promises more than the article ... what exactly has changed - we still get a cookie banner?

Also the "just announced" link is dead.
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Do you have any references? I HoMM (3) is my all time favorite game and I'd love to have better AI.
technically yes.
but i wouldnt be surprised if deciding on "best practices" is hard given that regex are very often used to get something "just to work".
Why do I have to download an app to use it then?
The retail stores aren't really interested in the free WiFi - they're more interested in the silent tracking of customers that comes with the access points, even if the customers never actually connect. Think Google Analytics for brick & mortar retail, and being able to track location & frequency of individual customers in stores.
I was using linked-list to append things to the head, which was supposed to be it's optimal use case. I've refactored the function it's calling to take an n argument, which means to leave first n holes in the returned vector for the calling function to fill.

I had also used a linked list of characters to represent strings to iterate through them one by one. This was very slow compared to iterating through an array.

Linked-lists were supposed to be O(1) inserting at the head, and O(n) iterating through it. However, it's no match against array O(1) assignment and O(n) array iteration.
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The gifts Bill Gates gives always come with a little string attached. In recent years his propaganda became strong enough that most people don't see that anymore.
you sir deserve this https://xkcd.com/208/
event though you can generate more than 36^63 combinations, it doesn't make sense to use 63 character long domain name and even now it is difficult to find & register representative domain name.
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Why wouldn't you use caching internally, between services? Only caching user-facing files is a very limited approach.
When they don't find something, maybe there really is
nothing there. When they found something, maybe there is
more there.

Also, if you try to evaluate on "number of issues found" you encourage the testers to report junk issues to get their count up.
Contemporary phones (e.g. iPhone 6S) are capable of running GoogLeNet at 1 FPS, see, for example, this demo (mine): https://github.com/krasin/MetalDetector

AlexNet will run at ~10 FPS, I guess.
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Hacker culture of Facebook makes it really valuable company in terms of engineering. Dropbox and Google (Mailbox & Reader at least) should learn something from them. Incredible move and good luck in future endeavors!
No it's not if you want to have feature parity.
METAFONT (1984)
It lets them monazite it in a way which a web-app might not.
That's great. I'm not regretting we chose Parse!
Because regular expressions such as that one can be applied line by line which becomes important for thousands of lines file and because you can adopt them more easily between languages: they are more loose. This is the reason why all text editors use them (IDEs can choose to use an AST).
front page already... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10988948
This is like saying that rsync and dropbox are the same thing. A github exodus is certainly possible, and it's great that github doesn't have a ton of tight lock-in (though it has some) via proprietary crap, but it's still a lot of work to leave github.
I've always admired METAFONT (and I've got my first Knuth cheque for a mistake in the METAFONTbook).

And even though font designers moved closer to programming (writing Python plugins for FontLab etc.) they never really explored this avenue (except for the short multi-master episode).

Sure, METAFONT itself is archaic, spitting out only bitmap fonts. But the general workflow, the programming, the elegant and intuitive way to specify curves (Beziér curves are simply unfriendly), and the concept of pens made it not only state of those days' art.

I'd argue it is still very much ahead of everything else, except for all practical purposes. A bit like Haskell maybe. ;-)
Totally disappointed with this announcement. Facebook is making billions of dollars of profit but can't keep up the lights at Parse. I will think twice to jump on these platforms next time. Now, I am more sceptical of using ReactJS, ReactNative and other stuff from the FB spearheads. Perhaps a high time to learn typescript and angular2.
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Actually, this is false. A lot of regex implementations use a backtracking approach in all cases, causing pathological behavior even on regexes which match a regular language (and so should never take any significant amount of time to process).

See https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html, which gives

a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

(see the backtracking? me neither) as an example.
[1] Stephen Wolfram is missing. But I guess he is too far out.
The main ISO link is able to be used via HTTPS (by adding an "s" to the URL) but it's got some compliance issue. HTTPS would likely not provide anonymity, since it leaks to much metadata; might be wrong, just my opinion.
Thanks!

There are US resorts, eg http://www.piste.io/northstar.

If you type in USA into the search field they'll show up

On iOS, this was due to needing an 9.0 API, we hope to expand it as soon as we can.
You're not the first person to point this out. Will get onto fixing it.
I've seen one where every single business object was actually encapsulated in it's own vertical stateless service, from soap frontend to database. just the authentication overhead on the network was more than 70% of all data exchanged.
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> browser-based CSS, one of the simplest and most reliable parts of the web development stack

This is absolutely ludicrous. CSS is weird, complicated, and insanely unreliable. Sometimes it's hard to figure out how things will work when just reading the standards, and then browsers all have incomplete or buggy implementations of the standards.

I'm not saying CSS in JS is the answer, but CSS is broken enough that we're already using tons of not-CSS solutions to write it.

> vendor lock-in built-in

I don't understand how using an open-source library is getting locked into a vendor. You could have made the same argument about React, but there are already frameworks that implement the React API. Why would this be any different?
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To be fair, until recently Netflix/Amazon etc used Silverlight, Microsoft could hardly elect to use some other video technology while they were pushing SL.
Why not use something like this? https://salt.bountysource.com
Try re-frame, is built on top of Reagent to provide some more magic (and the README is just AWESOME, worth reading it): https://github.com/Day8/re-frame
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It doesn't look good, it's great. I mean it. They give Gitlab CE for free on their website, see what it can do: https://about.gitlab.com/features/#enterprise Only gitlab.com does more than github + integration service. Recently GL CEO wrote here on HN that if you host gitlab yourself for your opensource project you could get lifetime CE version by writing to them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10924406
I wonder if Firebase is doing somersaults...
Had a Bekant for over a year now. Lower it maybe 3 times per week. Works flawlessly! At the time I bought it for $500. Best setup "pound for pound" in my opinion.
HFT don't provide liquidity for liquidity's sake. They make markets more efficient, i.e. closer to the "one true price" (not necessarily the fair price, because there's no way HFTs can outbid all the money collected in index/sovereign founds or printed by central banks). They also reduce the spreads. For an ordinary person, they improve the markets.

The complaint about "brilliant minds being wasted" rings true, but you could make the same complaint about all of finance, and even most of Silicon Valley focused on extracting rents by serving ads - both are ultimately zero-sum games where insiders profit at the loss of society.

I think the ultimate problem is, there are no real problems that smart people could work on and make a contribution (and earn a good living) - or at least I don't see any.
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So, where's the enterprise bus? :)
I was ecstatic to discover this desk in Ikea a month ago, and I bought it right away. It's so much less expensive than any alternatives I could find, and the material and build quality is superb.

Raising and lowering takes some time, but the brief mechanical labor involved in changing the height is probably a good mental and physical break for the operator. I don't change my desk height often - it stays in standing position 90%+ of the time.