skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on what the bills are for. Most sites that don't have content-production staff need twenty bucks a month for hosting, plus an occasional prod from a sysadmin.
sigh, I just made my first app on Parse and now I have to migrate to another BaaS. what do you recommend? Firebase?

I dont' think running my own servers with Parse is viable as Parse won't be updated from now on while other BaaS will stay updated and keep improving
I am enrolled in the Georgia Tech online computer science masters (OMSCS). The rigour and the grading is the same as for internal students for many classes. Some classes even posted comparison results for exams between online and internal students (results are very close in every statistical measure, even the number of failures is similar). There is a substantial workload required to pass courses and I have taken leave from work in order to complete assignments. Saying a masters is at least a dedicated full time job is delusional and out of whack with many students today. I worked the whole way through my undergrad because my parents were not wealthy and I needed to live in another city to go to university, I was not alone in this.

Cheating is cracked down upon and students have been expelled for collusion. Exams are proctored by humans or AIs (it is easy to do eye tracking and screen scraping, it even detected me trying to open the exam from a VM and refused to open). These (Georgia Tech's, MIT's, Standford's, etc) online programs are going to eat the middle out of the rest of the university sector as the content is substantially better than most midrange universities for a fraction of the price. You may be prejudiced against online programs for whatever reason but they are here to stay at the top end and the bottom end and it is important to be able to distinguish between the two.
Would you mind adding a "Disclaimer: I'm the co-founder of CloudBoost.io"? I've got nothing against you promoting your project when people need alternatives, but it's important that people realize you've got a stake in it. Like so:

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine, but not Firebase ;).
Improvement on an existing design is still innovation.

The invention of rubber tires WAS innovative, even if we had stone/wooden wheels for milennia.

And the iPod was innovative, even if we had heavy, crappy UI, plasticky third party mp3 players before that.
I'm coming at this from a starting point of "I want a fairly safe modern compiled language" - I'm a lot more interested in hearing why I'd choose nim over a similar language than why I'd choose it over e.g. python (which is such a different language that it's hard hard to even begin to compare, IMO). Maybe that's not the same question that a general audience would ask.
You're right, I don't want any of that. It's not going to happen because it would be career suicide.
If you want to take your life into your own hands, the way to monitor the infection is by using a pen to draw a line around the red part. If the infection spreads outside the line, it's time for an infectious disease specialist.
>Can't unions negotiate for fair wages while also throwing the bad apples to the wolves?

But why would they do that? What incentive exists for them to expose themselves to possible additional legal problems if they screw up?

Isn't it the local and state governing body's responsibility to represent citizen interests.
Correlation. Causation. You know what I'm saying.
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Does Microsoft use TypeScript for any of its other products or web services? How strongly are Microsoft web teams encouraged to dogfood TypeScript? :)
Hey @kenbaylor! I think that this is an awesome approach to addressing the issue of the infosec employee shortage. I've actually been kicking around the idea of building something similar for a while now, so it's exciting to see someone making progress in the area!

I saw the StealthWorker table at Shmoocon and wanted to swing by and ask some questions, but I got distracted by some of the other goings-on. Anyways, I finally got around to signing up a few days ago.

One issue that I have from the pentester's point of view is the lack of transparency after sign up. I haven't seen any confirmation that my application was received and is under review. However, I understand that StealthWorker is still in its infancy so this is understandable.

Excited to see what the future of StealthWorker holds!
i would not be surprised to see a company reusing this code to provide a 100% compatible service in the coming month.
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This is a pretty good idea to implement for security in general, but isn't it a pretty exhausting amount of work just to avoid confrontation with a single person?

You could just put a lawyer in the mix, and make the employee sign a document that ensures all PII has been destroyed at time of firing, with a little more severance for the indignity of it all and clear consequences for non-compliance. If they're not an idiot, they'll do it
I have had the idea lately that liberal arts universities should be replaced with a year or two of critical thinking, logic, and emotional intelligence training.

These are the skills necessary to enter the "modern" economy outside of STEM and trades, where the most valuable skills are thinking and emotional intelligence (relationship development and management).

Link up with progressive employers who recognize the value of this training and are willing to take on young graduates and unleash them on their own internal domain knowledge for a couple of years.
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It is not like that is the only report relating to Vice to raise suspicions:

https://medium.com/thoughts-on-media/vice-media-kit-warning-...

http://gawker.com/working-at-vice-media-is-not-as-cool-as-it...

> Gavin Mcinnes, one of the founders, left Vice under not particularly friendly circumstances and has since come out as a white nationalist and he and Chuck Johnson are pretty tight online. Just some food for thought here.

You can tell a lot about a person from their cofounders. McInnes was at Vice from 1994 to 2007. Vice was built on shock journalism, McInnes never hid his racism and homophobia:

http://www.nypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?avis=NP&date=20...
Cloud at your own risk.
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What would you recommend? Im' a new app developer. Debating whether I should begin using Firebase or .. what you just said.

The thing is, there are articles guiding me through using Firebase. I'm not sure there are articles telling me how to setup mongodb and where
Google Cloud Messaging actually works really well for this.
The way I've heard of it working (third-hand, so grain of salt and all that) is basically that an unscrupulous grocer fails to report some cash transactions. He then "sells" those groceries to someone with food stamps, in reality trading some fraction of the cash for the food stamps.
> > Do we feel that the civil service is sufficiently isolated from rapidly changing political pressures to ensure the rights of workers and to avoid the inherent issues involved in political control of a large group of government workers?

> Why is that the goal?

The reason it became the goal is that there was a time when it wasn't, and people saw what that became once the people in power realized what it enabled them to do, and said, "Hey, that sucks, we should stop that."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system
They were also frustrated with how cumbersome astronomy had become: Modern astronomical projects are typically large-scale affairs, requiring a small fortune, a mountain of paperwork, and plenty of patience. “You have to envision ways to get $10 million and put a team together, and even then, you only know if things will come to fruition a decade later,” says Abraham, a professor at the University of Toronto.

Sounds like big company software development.
I meant as a mindshare. Given Dart is older, it's just a matter of months for TypeScript to catch up and beat it in these indirect charts as well.
But there is a global search of the whole network, chat rooms are separate thing.

Well, it does not match wcd at all anyway.
I just cloned the repository build it and did some tests with asio_httpd (and found a possible memory leak/fragmentation), overall it's well designed and coded.
To build it I went to the xmake repository and through it also found this small and performant network library https://github.com/caikelun/libsvx .

Thank you for release this nice and util library !
It's actually better for GWB's legacy if he was an easily manipulated simpleton. If he's truly a secret (to all observable evidence) genius, that also makes him a heinous war criminal and corrupt crony capitalist.
Any data to back your bold statement with?
Thanks, that actually made me feel more optimistic about it, although I hadn't thought of the issues you raise. Keeping a camera charged and working shouldn't be harder than other maintenance already needed such as keeping a firearm clean or keeping a car on the road. If we refine the condition to "you can't appear in public or interact with the public without your camera" then the bathroom problem goes away. Connectivity and confidentiality are harder problems. Confidentiality in particular if it's the case that that's also where a lot of the corruption is.
Hi, Logan Abbott from BIZX here. The OP is misinformed, and he certainly wasn't at our first company meeting as we announced that the first order of business was to discontinue DevShare entirely. We disagree with some of the previous monetization strategies from an industry and business perspective and have immediate plans to discontinue programs inconsistent with our being a trusted and reliable resource for the entire open source community. I think large and small project developers will quickly see that we are very serious about supporting their long term needs and the industry will see we’re more interested in doing the right thing than making a few extra short term dollars.
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Yeah, I keep Moznet running for the awesome #rust channel.
That only tunnels traffic through Tor, right?

If the browser leaks identifying client information through HTTPS or other encrypted protocols, the proxy (torify) will not be able to help. That is why Tor Browser is important.
Ultimately the reason these small telescopes are so useful for finding these faint, diffuse galaxies is because the surface brightness of an object is independent of the collecting area. Larger optical telescopes have much better resolution, so the amount of light detected from a diffuse galaxy is fairly similar per pixel to a little telescope like Dragonfly. But a little telescope costs probably about three orders of magnitude less than a big telescope and you can afford to hammer a particular target night after night, whereas you'd be lucky to have an hour of time on a large telescope.

There are a number of other great small-telescope projects in different areas of astronomy. The one closest to my heart is ASAS-SN (pronounced "Assassin") since it was the idea of the professor across the hall from me when I was at Ohio State and an officemate of mine was the one who spent much of his graduate career building it. The idea was to get a little telescope (like Dragonfly it's pretty much just a telephoto lens with a detector attached) and then have it look at ~1/3 of the sky every night. That way if a supernova goes off in a nearby galaxy (or there is some other transient) it's discovered within a few days. Just this month they published a paper on the discovery of the brightest supernova ever observed [1]. They currently discover more supernovae than all other groups combined (including amateur astronomers, who are a formidable force!).

There's another small-telescope project built to search for exoplanets called KELT (the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope). Since transiting planets are generally detected around bright stars (at least in apparent magnitude), telescope size is not so important for their discovery. In fact, having too big a telescope can be an issue because the host star is so bright that it saturates the detector. So far they've discovered (I think) somewhere around a dozen planets, though my favorite is Kelt-4Ab because it's in a triple star system (and also because I'm on the paper) [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASASSN-15lh

[2]: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.00015
We don't need to remove school bias. We need to create new/better schools that others can trust will put out better results than what comes out of universities.

I can't tell you how much I have urged, at times forced, my friends in CS who didn't learn programming since 7th grade (me) to do more before they graduated. Those who listened and did an intensive summer apprenticeship with a student founded web agency I worked at previously have progressed to the point where you probably couldn't tell they came from my university (which, is to say you probably never heard of it and if you got to know it, you wouldn't think very highly of it).
I am just sitting here, watching elm organically growing, while people creating "new" react-flux-redux-ember-angular-dojo-backbone frameworks every day.

I meant to troll, sorry.
While I feel like I'm close enough to tame the React ecosystem (and like it!), I honestly agree. Personally I do prefer opinionated. Luckily Ember exists in the JS world.
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Migration is based on data size, but setting up the API server on a new VPS is quick... I'd say less than one hour from a fresh image on Digital Ocean. I'll try to publish a guide for that part.
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I feel like it reflects FB's character as an open source company.
NASA Is Using Unreal Engine 4 to Make Mars a Virtual Reality
> They may not get the Science or Nature papers though, as those are typically reserved for data producers.

[I'm an undergrad research student at my university, doing research into Asteroseismology.] While this might be the case for medical data, I can give a counterexample of astrophysics data. As a community, we only have so many telescopes. Most of the work I'm doing is involved with the NASA Kepler space telescope, and several of my colleagues have written articles in Nature and Science about new techniques and results from data that is publicly available from that telescope. Several papers I've coauthored have mainly been new data processing techniques to learn more about stars using existing data.

So, from my perspective, the whole "research parasite" FUD was particularly ridiculous. It's incredibly arrogant to claim that you've learnt all you can learn from a single collection of data. Calling people that salvage even more information from other data sets "parasites" is incredibly arrogant.
It really, really depends on the technology. Moving JavaScript to TypeScript or PHP to Hack is easy by design. The new technology is built specifically to allow you to migrate the old technology gradually.

Angular 1 to 2, on the other hand, wasn't designed to be an easy transition. They're very different frameworks.

So to answer your question, I use a new technology that allows gradual transition (when possible), or I use "free" time to do a full rewrite. If I find enough time to make something stable enough to move into production, great; otherwise, I've demonstrated empirically that we don't have enough time to invest in a transition.
Nope, this was an SP3 with the newer type cover IIRC. Haven't had the chance to see an SB in person yet, but I've heard good things about it.
It's as if millions of independent developers cried out in terror and then suddenly migrated to DigitalOcean.
VS Code, IE11/Edge's F12 developer tools, and Sway (Office) use it to name only a few.

VS Code's source: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
Police dashcams and bodycams are there to protect officers as much as the public. This being said, I can totally understand why many officers aren't too thrilled about being recorded every second of their shift, and clearly in Chicago several of them have taken action. Police officers are thrown into highly stressful situations every single day, and even "good" cops will make poor decisions from time to time. I think Police dash cams are in the public's best interest, and strongly believe that citizen journalism is helping communities hold authorities accountable, but there needs to be a balance between accountability and unfair scrutiny. Once this balance is found, hopefully incidents such as those described in the article will drop significantly.
Take a look at the work by https://stormforger.com/

They offer a ruby DSL last time I checked.
that'd be great! thanks. please post the guide to HN or on the parse blog
Not true. There's https://www.backand.com, kinvey, appcelerator titanium and others. There's a list here: http://www.frontendhandbook.com/tools/baas.html
I have two questions that the steam page didn't answer; Can I play this in VR, and if not, why not? Jonathan Blow is a master artisan - I can't wait to try this game.
I bought a treadmill desk recently. It's fantastic. I'm walking 15k steps at 2.3km/h daily, and slowly increasing the speed. I've dropped 3+kg and will soon have a healthy BMI again. After the first few days, the novelty wore off and I stopped noticing it while I worked. If I want a standing desk, I just turn the treadmill off.

One thing I've noticed is that I still have to sit down to maximize focus and think through certain problems. Alternating walking for 30-60 minutes, then sitting for a while feels natural.
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To those concerned about Firebase, here's the latest tweet from Firebase:

https://twitter.com/Firebase/status/692845862527995904

> Not a great day for app developers :( Firebase is healthy & actively working on many new exciting features here at Google #parse

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine not Firebase (but I sit next to them).
I can't see any scenario where deciding against extending surveillance in that manner is the wrong decision for the executive: the potential downside of not doing it is very high (in the event of an actual attack you will be hit by your opponents for endangering the public); the potential downside of doing it is only criticism from the very small number of voters who take communication privacy very seriously.
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http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/28/parse-ceo-ilya-sukhar-is-l...

when a venture capatilist leaves the team things are not going good somewhere ;)
Kinda. I mean, I can dust off my old console and play the games on that any time I want. App Store stuff means built in expiration date. Cloud integration means built in expiration date. Price of progress.
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But a little telescope costs probably about three orders of magnitude less than a big telescope and you can afford to hammer a particular target night after night, whereas you'd be lucky to have an hour of time on a large telescope.

Precisely why PCs/workstations revolutionized research/individual analyst computing.
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I think that you make a good point, there will likely be a fair amount of readers asking those questions.
I haven't worked with Parse, but the announcement reminds me of something I decided to do as much as I can.

We sometimes choose to build features on top of third-party vendors' services, and the reality's that unless that third-party derives decent revenue or primarily provides that service; one shouldn't expect that the service will always be available. Twitter was a good example, Google SEO is another, where people who were relying mostly on search traffic got wiped when algorithms were changed.

It takes longer at times, and seems like reinventing the wheel, but for features that I deem to be very useful to my users, I choose to roll out the relevant underlying detail myself. In most cases there are often already third-party libraries that can help with bootstrapping the features. I'm glad that the parse-server is available so people can run their own local instance though.
This is exactly why I chose to implement everything myself rather than use a cloud wrapper.
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The library looks neat but I'm horrified that he says "optimizates"... repeatedly. That is not a word. The word is "optimizes". The English pedant in me is having trouble getting past that.
"This announcement just underscores the importance of having full control over your backend"

I disagree. If using something like this let's you get to market much faster, much cheaper, and find market fit faster/cheaper, then it's worth it. Depending on the need it can take millions of dollars and year(s) of work to then begin working on the actual business objectives.
Keep in mind that any videos you're seeing are out there because they're mostly very good examples of lectures. Any large research university has lots of classes with very poor lectures. Not to say that the material isn't in depth and peer/TA interactions aren't valuable but don't assume YouTube and OCW are representative of lecture quality.
I hate to be "that guy", but I use their analytics too, along with in-app push notifications that can be targeted to groups of users. Anyone have experience and recommendations for alternatives that are just as easy to implement in an iOS or OS X app?
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>This sounds like a positive development, but it's actually an indication of something quite ominous that most people don't realize: for several years now, Apple has been deploying a strategy straight out of Microsoft's Big Book of Dirty Tricks which I am hereby dubbing the version ratchet. A version ratchet is a software deployment strategy that forces you to upgrade even if you don't want to.

Nothing dirty about it. If you "don't want to" just use an OS vendor that doesn't force you. Or you can continue using your old OS on your old Mac. It's not like it will stop working altogether -- people use Amiga computers still with 1990-era OS/WorkbenchS from what I hear.

The alternative to what Apple does is slower OS upgrade cycles and/or devoting resources to 5 and 10 year old OSes. Which we had with MS -- 15+ years of XP (and a decade of IE6 dominance), holding IT back.
Hiya! author here. I have used Mercury and Mithril, both are great. I personally think there is a use-case for both modular and batteries-included libraries. There's an open issue for modularizing preact in the tracker that'll be addressed shortly if that helps.
The original 1:1 ratio was set for mechanical reasons I believe. One unit of energy coming in from the grid spins the meter a certain amount, one unit going back to the grid winds the meter back to where it started from. I think I read that the first solar panel user just plugged in without telling anyone and it just kind of worked so everyone adopted it and not enough people had solar for it to matter very much.

For similar reasons, most people pay a single energy rate despite peak generation costing much more to generate. With more modern meters you can have off-peak tariffs or even more complicated schemes.

Now of course, solar starts to matter as uptake rises, but there's no reason to assume that the energy is necessarily worth less than the retail rate (in which case the homeowner would be subsidising the utility rather than vice versa). Solar correlates well with peak loads on both a daily and yearly cycle so the cost of generation avoided at those specific times may well be much higher than even the retail rate. As far as I can tell the wholesale rate they mention is the average for the whole year, not just the peaks when solar is contributing.
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The Windows 8 -> 10 update doesn't require much manual intervention.