skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, there are definitely places south of Belmont but North of downtown. Like, say, Gold Coast.
Solution to climate change? Learn to let our current civilization die
Especially if combined with a privilege escalation exploit or two.
Petitioning Facebook: Don't Shut Down Parse.com
Is Coca Cola really more popular though? I never got that impression.
Maybe I'm the exception here, but in a decade of using MacBooks, I've never experienced the power adapter falling apart.

I remember this a lot back in the PowerBook days, especially those clearish gray translucent adapters.
Yeah, the Air Force tries hard to wash out dimwits before they get behind the controls of an advanced jet fighter.
Then, my wife divorced me. I lost a large portion of my net worth during that process.

This is a very real issue that happens, and honestly something conveniently overlooked in the "Fuck male privilege" of the current times.
Agree. I think the HN title should update to reflect that. The current one is a bit sensational.
Very interesting suggestion. I'm also not too familiar with the field, but it seems that most benefits are non-cash (e.g. health and housing), and cash grants tend to be <$1k/year [1]. I would guess there are many other reasons for the issues they face, particularly lack of integration into the broader economy.

As a counterexample, the Alaska Permanent Fund [2] is very popular, and economists have found it keeps thousands out of poverty.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund
Interesting approach, skipping the space. But I think it would be simpler to just start with whatever's configured on the install disc. It's a pretty normal archlinux install, just need to change the passwords.
I bought just the frame at IKEA and then purchased a different top than what they recommend goes with it because I felt the Skarsta tops were ugly. I ended up with a butcher block style top also from IKEA.

It's sturdy and I prefer it to the electric model because I didn't feel like I needed one extra thing to plug in. The top I went with is much heavier and I haven't had any issues with weight either.
And Facebook was 100% behind Parse, just short time ago.

If anything Google is probably THE most aggressive company in discontinuing products: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon...
SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold
What if you didn't do it via sync?

What if everything was built around streams that multiple people could read and write to and each stream would have a server that would be the authority on which operation done in which order?

I think that's a more flexible system that can include sync, but also other things.

That's what I've spent years building, and I'm hoping to make it also a completely distributed solution that works across domains:

http://qbix.com/platform/guide/messages
One side of the chord is shorter than the other.
I agree that the fragile cables on Apple chargers suck, but I've had chargers replaced at the Genius bar for that reason (free), so you could try too if it's worth your time.
The care and feeding of the [developer's] brain
>Some companies err on the side of robust

And on the side of not shocking people to death.
10 VR Games That You Can (And Should) Play This Year
Your reductio ad absurdum is not particularly convincing. I draw the line at exactly the BaaS layer specifically because of the high risk of these providers pulling the rug out from under you.

If you disagree, fair enough, but I feel pretty bad right now for the poor developer who decided to adopt StackMob, then migrated over to Parse when StackMob shut down, and now has to migrate once again. Fool me once...
You can get a pretty good standing desk in the form of $25 plastic shelves from Walmart. It's what I use every day, and works brilliantly.

If all you're using is a laptop, there may be no need to adjust the height of the desk - just move the laptop to where you need it. Voila.
Easy on the spam buddy.
Do you have sources for the Spain-beach-hitting? Several studies have found that cash transfers do not reduce work incentives, except in specific populations like new mothers and teenagers. Much more significant disincentives are those generated by current programs with welfare cliffs.
I've had a hand in hiring no less than three people from Northeastern University, and every single one of them has hit the ground running in their role. I can't speak highly enough of their program's co-op requirement. It's one of the smartest curriculum moves I can cite.
This is a really classy way to shutdown your service. Well done.
Never thought of that before. Would be a good reason for a startup to choose Java (I can't think of many others)
Einstein: emulating NewtonOS
Thanks, that's a very true and good reminder. I didn't know the Atari one was released, I take back what I said.
Haha, I've just always thought that if XML was too hard for you, maybe you should stick to graphic design...
So when we interview people, can we change the answer to "I would profile it and see" from the answer based on Big-O from the textbook? One can dream.
"international" sort of depends on your point of reference, doesn't it?
The opposite, I think. People with that much money mostly fold in on themselves and spend all of their time managing the money for their own benefit (or even as a compulsion for its own sake).

The money was irrelevant, just as you think, but Bill spent his precious attention to give us Feynman instead of the nearly limitless other opportunities that money gave him. That rocks.

I didn't like his business practices. I very much like his philanthropy. One doesn't "cancel out" the other or any of that nonsense. They plot on different axis.
Show HN: Customizable REST API documentation
I really felt like I was being gaslighted, being surrounded by all these YC alum douchebags who never fail to have some gushing remark about it...
Many thanks for a great product, for giving away the server code and migration tool but...no thanks. The whole point is that many of us don't want to run the back-end. We cannot afford to do so, we are not fully qualified to do so, our clients will not pay us more to do so.

Anyone else selling a similar service? I'm up for grabs!
So, now you want to write open source code, launch projects, co-author papers,... not on my watch, kiddo.

Now go put your nose down on those damned spreadsheets. Copy from column A to column Q - no, no macros, thankyouverymuch - but convert everything to UPPERCASE, and fix typos please, unless that was not a typo, in which case don't.

And remember, the Dean already cashed the check I sent him, so you better hurry up. I want no less than 100 rows per hour. Otherwise you flunk the semester, and while you don't pay tution your parents are going to get tired of having to support your lame ass if you do not start to bring a wage home one of this years.

Is that "practical" enough for you?
The trouble with learning things like math is it requires effort, work, and persistence. By default, the vast majority of people simply will not learn it (including me).

But without knowing math, you'll never get very far in science and engineering. You'll never get a chance at the fun stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWKG6ZmgAX4
Excellent article.

I came up with a similar approach, and lost 50 lbs. My basic principle is to eat all I want, but make sure it is mostly food that is moderately low in calories, and avoid processed carbohydrates. I call it "the low willpower diet"

Nutrition scientist Susan Roberts has a book, The "I" Diet, that lays out this sort of approach in detail, with lots of recipes.
Ironically enough the founder of Parse said the exact same thing two years ago in the StackMob shutdown thread:

> You could just use Parse. We're not going anywhere.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7221823)
There really is a lot to this piece, but my favorite passages, to start, grapple with Nietzsche's quote, “Man will sooner will nothingness than not will.” -

"When he wrote 'Man will sooner will nothingness than not will,' Nietzsche was exposing the destructive side of humanity’s meaning-making drive. That drive is so powerful, Nietzsche’s saying, that when forced to the precipice of nihilism, we would choose meaningful self-annihilation over meaningless bare life. This insight was horrifically borne out in the Götterdämmerung of Nazi Germany, just as it’s being borne out today in every new suicide attack by jihadi terrorists — even as it’s being borne out here at home in our willfully destructive politics of rage."

"Our drive to make meaning is more powerful than oil, the atom, and the market, and it’s up to us to harness that power to secure the future of the human species."
> Eventually a C# that compiles to JavaScript?

That actually existed internally at MS, along with many other projects to improve developing large JS codebases, most of which have fallen by the wayside. There was even a Flow-like compiler that worked with type annotations in comments. TypeScript has won out, although there is a LOT of code written in these other projects.
Freedom and money.
I've been using a Varidesk for about a month now, and I love it. "I just own one", too.
I don't think this applies. I don't believe anybody else was doing what TypeScript does when it was released, that is JavaScript + Type Safety. Even today the only other real contender is Flow.
The idea is that the taxes scale, so for the middle class the tax is negligible. You get $10k, and your taxes are increased by $12k if you're making less than $100k.

As for teenagers sitting in their parents basement - The thought is that $10k lets them live and do anything they please instead of being tied to a shitty job or their parents basement. In theory they will choose to contribute to society in some way and not just play video games all day.

But that is what we need to test - Will people choose to play video games and watch TV all day, or choose something fulfilling and 'productive.' Then we have to redefine productive, some other comments in this thread speak about that.
1 Way NDA: Let's have an open honest conversation, but as you signed MY NDA, written in MY favor then: I CAN tell everyone about YOUR secrets, but you CANNOT tell anyone about my secrets

2 Way NDA (also called Mutual NDA):Let's have an open honest conversation, and as you signed MY NDA, written in neither party's favor then: I CANNOT tell anyone about YOUR secrets, and you CANNOT tell anyone about my secrets. It enables honest dialogs.

TLDR>> 1 Way NDA's suck
How do you gel the 'move fast and break things' ethos with an internship / mentorship role? The former requires existing domain knowledge to hit the ground running and achieve large things quickly, whereas the latter requires going more slowly, explaining the reasoning behind decisions, allowing mistakes as learning processes, etc.

edit: Unless you mean established former YC companies who are no longer in the startup mindset. I didn't consider that originally but then why limit yourself to YC companies if you can snag some sort of vetted supply to the Facebooks/Twitters/etc. of the world?
That in and of itself is a weird equivalence to draw. Calc 2 and Linear Algebra are radically different courses...
Any chance this contributed to the Dark Knight being filmed there? Choosing Chicago for the cityscape makes sense by itself but the film focused heavily on corruption.

I found a nice breakdown of scene / real locations while looking into this:
http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/d/DarkKnight.html
Apple Said Developing Wireless-Charged Phone for as Soon as 2017
It wasn't myopia. VMWare suffered from the same thing that other companies have gone through. They tried/are trying not to cannibalize their main source of revenue, and the world has moved on without them. CloudFoundry was their way of attempting to control the conversation, but it failed.

They couldn't go from a lucrative private cloud revenue stream and then somehow convert it to a public cloud and expect to make the same amount of money. During that time that was mentioned, from 2006 until probably 2010/2011, AWS was great for small companies, but there were still issues with security, availability, reliability, etc, so VMware could get away with selling the private cloud.

I mentioned this is another post that got a lot of vehement comments, but virtualization itself is dying. Not dead, but dying. Many large companies with their own datacenters are running off of bare metal, and this will be the trend going forward. Yes, virtualization is still in many private datacenters, but bare metal is how newer companies are going, and in 10 years, I bet virtualization will be gone from all but the slowest of private datacenters. It's a level of overheard now that has been completely circumvented as unnecessary for the most part, and it will fall into disfavor as more and more people learn techniques on how to avoid it altogether.

This doesn't mean that VMware will be gone in 10 years. Even WinZip to this day has something like $50-75M/year in annual revenue. But it will be relegated as a legacy app.
Telecoms, anti-government groups oppose new Kentucky state broadband network
I only replied in more detail because they disagreed with my initial comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10992673.

I'd rather explain my reasoning in detail than simply continue to throw sentence-long accusations wildly.
Same here! This is a great lesson to newer developers... :)
The Messenger lectures are the basis for Feynman's book the Character of Physical Law, which I would highly recommend.
The ACME protocol is open and as a result there are several alternative clients which do not require root. Here's a few:

https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo

https://github.com/kuba/simp_le

https://github.com/lukas2511/letsencrypt.sh

Or you can go a more manual approach via https://gethttpsforfree.com/ but you will need to manually renew your certificate every 90 days.
I don't understand their decision. Developers are crucial for Facebook's success as platform, and the amount of distrust and bad-will they just gained would seem to far outweigh their cost savings in grand scheme of things.
Good, relevant discussion here: https://m.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3xs6mg/how_do_lar...
Has he given any hint when we will see him using his programming language in the real world?
As I'm reading it, you and pashakym are making the same argument. Not sure why they are getting down voted.
Firebase is lacking in terms of ease of use and feature set.
At the time of Feynman's death, there were two quotes on his blackboard (along with a to-learn list, and several formulas). The first one is "What I cannot create, I do not understand", followed by "Know how to solve every problem that has been solved". Since the years I've known those quotes, I have those as my personal motto for software development.

Also give me a cute excuse to boo-boo Java-land and framework heavy ecosystem ;)
I have an Apple made thumb drive of lion(its tiny!), they do exist, they are just rare.
Apple has a fetish for putting weak boots on their cable ends, so if you tension them too much, the jacket of the cable will fail.

Personally, I've only had it happen to iPhone cables that get abused in the car. Still, it's a ridiculous problem to have when almost no other quality cord is so fragile.
Or maybe, the takeaway is: revisit your work later, when it's no longer fresh in your mind :) You'll understand what the strengths and weaknesses of your new design are, and are better placed to make an improved iteration.

Incidentally, writers have been doing this for years with drafts and editing. We definitely need to do that with our APIs and designs (aka. more incremental refactoring).
I'm using parse push notification service, is it still working?
Hiring is hard. You're trying to meet someone, and evaluate them in a short period of time. I get it. Multiply that by many candidates and...

I care way more about personality than technical skill. Technical chops need to be adequate for sure, but anything above that is just a bonus. If you hire the right personality, adequate tech chops is just a temporary problem.
They might even be including credits in their run rate.
Just another anecdotal datapoint: I've tried to do that both in Switzerland and Japan, and they wouldn't replace adapters I brought with broken down cable shielding.
I hear you and I get it. What you are describing are security-focused pen testers, mission-focused red-teams.
They are absolutely welcome, and they are a subset of the pen-tester universe. They are not a good fit for someone needing to get a PCI pen test, but they do incredible work in other areas.
It highlights the point in the blog that the landscape of finding the 'right' pen-test team is not easy. Some are brilliant at one thing, others at many, but even an elite group may not be the right fit for the task at hand.

We are taking the feedback system seriously and are slowly testing it out. An easily gamed system is useless for everyone.
When pirates play a game dev sim and then go bankrupt because of piracy?(2013)
I came to enjoy Parse, but alas I have $600 in credits from it. Any ideas I should use it for?
You buy an electric car because you want an electric car. If you wanted to save money, you'd buy a Honda Fit.

If you're already willing to pay a $10k+ premium, another $3-5k in fuel savings shouldn't be a problem.
Thanks for the response. If the choice is between manually specifying that (type of) code for every kind of object (and likely moving to a #create factory method) or using a native syntax for class declaration, I can see why people would choose the latter.
I haven't experienced this, and I wonder which of these is the reason:

1) I don't wrap/unwrap the cable around the plastic clips each day.

2) When I do wrap the cables, I'm careful to (i) leave a little slack before I start winding, and (ii) grip loosely so as not to cause twisting stress

3) I remove the magsafe by pulling the outer edge upwards, rather than pulling outwards in the opposite direction to the magnetic force.

If the reason is mainly (1), then this would indicate poor design. If it's some combination of (2) and (3), then it seems like more prominent instructions would help many people.
whoa.. I think we were literally in the same class at Lab. Nice to see you here!
This failed on me recently (a couple weeks ago) and I was very surprised when it happened. It was a US 10-watt(?) adapter that came with a 3rd-gen iPad I bought a while back.

The adapter is two pieces that fit together (like Apple's macbook adapters), and the piece that inserts into the outlet broke into two pieces when I tried pulling it out one day. The way it split, half was stuck in the wall and half was still connected to the little power brick in my hand. The piece that was still in the outlet had two bits of exposed metal that were clearly just extensions of the prongs in the socket. I removed it very carefully realizing what would happen if I touched the bits of metal and threw it out.

That said, it looks like they don't list the US as affected on that page :-/.
Swift 2 to Swift 3 will be a distruptive change due to Cocoa 'renamification'
lol, Dont get me started on the magsafe and its easily breakable pins. it can also destroy the plug on the macbook itself. And there is the heat ... It ruined 2 computers I had and Apple refused to fix them for free ...
“Today's engineering interview process is inefficient”
MIST for a newer generation! I'm surprised nobody else mentioned MIST here.
> According to the domain registrars, the longest legal domain name is 63 characters starting with a letter or number.

So no

http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/post/the_worlds_longest_domai...
"I had lost about half my fortune in my divorce."

How is a 50/50 split after a divorce anything to do with privilege?

The author, btw, attributes his going broke to:

"My team screwed up some basic arithmetic that led to my financial fall." ... "You might be wondering what an idiot I am for hiring such bad personnel who couldn't even add up some basic budgets and realize there was an issue." ... "But as to the specific person (the manager) who actually was responsible for managing and supervising budgets, I have absolutely no anger towards. He is my son."

It sounds more like you can attribute it to nepotism. Though even there the author says:

"It was definitely not his fault."
Correct, when it closes.
New version of Clojure website
Now is nearly 3. When it closes will be nearly 4.
Same. I still have an adapter from a 2006 MacBook Pro which is used daily and not a hint of damage on it bar scuff marks.
>systemd makes life easier when building a distribution

Can you elaborate on this? I found that it mattered more what live-cd system an upstream distro used (e.g. dracut vs Debian's older tools)
You know, I bet the immense refined carbohydrates industry is shitting in its pants (or will be soon) over the fear that soon the population will realize that this sort of diet is the way to lose weight and keep it off.

And that means the refined carbohydrate industry will do what corporations always do when science discovers they are making a product that is harmful to society, namely launch a massive disinformation campaign. And of course that will include a small army of astroturfers.
Can you cite sources for your assertion that bare metal will eliminate virtualization for on-prem operation? This does not square with the emergence of technologies like software defined networking.
Take a look at google's certs. They're only valid for a few months. A system that tracks certificates encourages site operators to share the same cert and key across many servers and to allow it to live for a long time. With the sorry state of certificate revocation this is not ideal.

On the server side it's better for each server to have it's own private key and certificate which is valid for a short period of time and frequently renewed. So the compromise of one server does not compromise certificates on any other servers and the useful lifetime of a compromised key is very limited.

I think DNSSEC and DANE is the best solution. Allow the certificate thumbprints to be published securely in DNS. At least then we reduce the number of trusted authorities to the TLDs and the scope of authority for each one is automatically restricted to it's own TLD.
Not every city experiences the same logistical problems, and for a snowy city, I think it's quite reasonable to penalize people for parking in snow emergency routes. If Washington DC were such a place that didn't historically snow, I would sympathize with the fined.

The needs of some city residents to travel for weeks or months without thinking about where they are parked don't outweigh the needs of a snowy city to have emergency snow travel routes.

If you wanted to park some place and hope that it doesn't snow, that's both your loss and gain.
I had an idea a while ago for a "telescope as a service" platform. The idea was to build relatively small telescopes and put them in ideal places (maybe partner with existing observatories). They would be fully controllable via api and from a web interface. I was thinking it would be a good educational resource for educators, you could connect and use a telescope right in your classroom during the day, on the other side of the world where it is dark. Researches could buy time and program them to observe the sky as well since as you said, even small telescopes can be useful for some types of astronomy.
Easily breakable pins? I honestly can't imagine what I'd have to transport an adapted beside to break those pins. Any hints?
Stamina to tolerate bullshit and get things done despite thinking they're totally idiotic is valuable skill set in many industries. The piece of paper is also proof that you can follow directions well.
Facebook spent $85 million buying Parse in 2013. Now it will be closed.

I used Parse. But I found it's expensive if you want to use some Pro features. I built my own server on a cheap VPS later.