skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unix is incredibly guilty of this. Everything would be so much easier to learn if mv was generally aliased to move and all code examples used the long version.
I would recommend Parse. It's open source and used in production by thousands of companies.
https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server
The UK needs a devolved government for London
Maybe consider that many people just can't act that fast. Some may not have even been in town. The average time from when people heard about the announcement until the first snow was falling was probably just about a couple of hours.

I would also assume that the free or $1 garage parking was full just a couple hours after the announcement.
Unless you're in Africa?

By which I mean, I think it's a common misconception amongst those that argue this is a common misconception that the knowledge which they possess and view as straightforward, natural and obvious, is neither straightforward, natural, or obvious.

Common sense is really just another phrase for popular bias...
Agreed. That site was a good rundown at one point, but now it seems like a hurtful distraction.

Are there any other good references for what the current state of these sorts of capabilities have reached? There are any number of crates out there for this sort of thing, but assessing usefulness seems dodgy at this point.
A public entity is not an organization participating according to the rules of the market. "What the market will bear" with regard to a public entity has no meaning.
This is much worse than Google closing Google Reader.
I think people read into TypeScript too much. It's just a "right-now minimal-hassle" way to make front-end dev's lives easier, nothing more.

Maybe Microsoft disagrees, but I see TypeScript as something intended to make itself obsolete: eventually, when all browsers are running ES9 (or whichever version we decid has fixed "all" of JavaScript's problems) or WebAssembly (and we're all writing front-end code in C#/C++/Ruby/whatever), then TypeScript will just fade away, by design. For now, it's kinda like JQuery in motivation if not literally architecture: it shields you from browser inconsistencies (in this case, where you don't know what ES version the target is running) and helps you avoid JavaScript's headaches. Just as JQuery became less necessary as time went on-- not because it got worse but because browsers got better-- so too will TypeScript.
"...In a very interesting admission, LeCun told The Next Platform ..." http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/08/25/a-glimpse-into-the-fu...

Yann LeCun states on Nov 2015 (29:00 min mark) GPU's short lived in Deep Learning / CNN / NN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7TUU94ir38

https://www.altera.com/en_US/pdfs/literature/solution-sheets...
Definitely neo4j. If you're on a mac, it's just 'brew install neo4j' and boom you have the free community edition.
That's actually one of the ways you can install Gentoo. That is, over a running system. Which can be remote.
> Building on top of google is hard for this reason, and Facebook is beginning to look eerily similar.

The danger is using something closed-source and proprietary. Most of the popular products/services released by Google and Facebook are open-source, at least.

Even in this case, Parse provided open-source tools that will keep legacy code running with minimal changes. I think it's about the best-case scenario you could ask for when a closed-source platform is shut down.
I solve this with visual references on the furniture adjacent to the desk. But yeah, presets would be nice on my Bekant.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S29022488/
Right, what I should have written was "I think it's an example of hindsight bias to think that if President Bush had been more prudent in dealing with Bin Laden then the 9/11 attacks would certainly have been prevented.
Parse was the go-to platform for those who wanted to concentrate on their end product.I know people with (day to week)-old ideas who could set up the complete application using parse.It not only made life simpler for everyone but greatly supported rapid prototyping and not having to go through the hassle that comes with building your own stack.Yes I know there are combinations of several SAAS and IAAS which can fill the void,but no one can come close to the single stop solution that Parse provided. I hoped that Facebook would do with parse what Twitter did with Fabric(Yes I know that Fabric has ads as a business,but crashlytics is a god send for mobile developers). Nevertheless I hope more Parse like solutions are yet come.
>> "Anyone in the situation of seeing their platform provider acquired should see the writing on the wall."

In this case though FB seemed to embrace Parse and continued to develop it. It would have been much better to shut it down after acquisition. FB's support of it probably helped it gain more trust that it would stick around.
If you like books of that nature, have you heard of Thinking in Systems? http://smile.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/d...
This isn't a customer experience, there are no corporate overlords trying to maximize profit from FOSS.

FOSS projects exist because people want to make them. If someone feels the need to contribute their own time, FOR FREE, in an attempt to improve on something, there is no reason to put them down.

If the project is not useful for anyone it will just die away. It may, however, contribute something great. FOSS developers shouldn't give a damn about your customer experience with the language. They should care about contributing to the ecosystem in whatever way they feel they can.

Some projects turn out better than others, and some innovate in different ways. This one is attempting to innovate by recreating react with a different footprint. Don't use it if you don't like the idea, but don't discourage people from creating because you don't have the same values as them.
Wouldn't You like to be paid for Social Networking?
This is what sharesi.es is working on. Sharesi.es is a new social networking site that will pay you for posting. You don't have to be original—you can post videos that you saw on Youtube (with their music track). Or you can post a photo from your phone. Depending on what is displayed, whether or not it's a promo, selfie, or whatever, you can receive a reward. New users can get the reward of an Amazon gift card for posting for the first time. The rewards are automatic, and installation is simple. Available on Google Play (for FREE) and at the App store.
Solar power Buffett VS Musk
How to Keep Writing When No One Gives a Shit
That's pretty nice. I thought that the Pinterest implementation used VGG?
Sweet, new Microsoft is awesome!

Pyston seems to be catching up to PyPy fairly quickly ...not sure if there is anything transferable to pyjion, but if you haven't done so might be worth checking out.

Also for getting around the GIL, PyParallel seems to have a really interesting (and seemingly successful approach: http://pyparallel.org/

Its being worked on by one of the Guy's at continuum...and It's definitely in continuum's best interest to help python's future so I'm sure they wouldn't mind collab.
Also many (the majority?) of Parse users signed up with them so that they wouldn't have to self host anything.
Taoist Tai Chi http://taoist.org

It helps with balance, dexterity, openess to change, learning, letting go, relaxing and much more, both mentally and physical.

I got rid of 20 years of back pain and livea more healthy and balancee life now.
Isolating proxy:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWT...

meaning the only way to route out is to proxy via Tor. IMO it's the only safe way to run Tor and remain anonymous.
http://icri-ci.technion.ac.il/events-2/presentation-files-ic...

http://icri-ci.technion.ac.il/files/2015/05/00-Boris-Ginzbur...
Ugh. This is why you don't build on proprietary stacks like this. I've detailed tonnes of complaints I've had about the platform itself being awkward and buggy in previous HN comments, but this is obviously the #1 reason not to.

If Facebook can shut down a service this big, Google or Amazon can too. Moving a VM is (reasonably) easy, but porting an app from proprietary backend X to another is hard.
"Constant scandal" with on par with Chicago PD? I don't think so...
A Guy Like Me
Vox does an excellent job on their explainers.
The game suffers from the fact that its first hour or two can be solved without looking at the island at all, but there are MANY puzzles that aren't really about the panel: The panel is just where you enter the answer that you got from everything around it.

A couple of good, early examples (although they don't really show the game's real environmental power), are the temple in the desert, the temple in the woods, and the 'pink forest': All solvable without any information from a different part of the game, and absolutely not solvable by just staring at the panel itself: Entire series of 20+ puzzles have the EXACT SAME PANEL, just placed in a different location.

And panel solutions affect the environment. There are elevators operated by panels. a boat operated by panels. bridges built by solving panels that have more than one solution, in ways that match what you want to do physically in the game.

It's just a big pity that the beginning of the game shows so very little of that.
Awesome!

A while back there was some talk of native excel-python integration. Any chance that is in the pipes, or is MS sticking to R in that sense?
I haven't - thanks for the heads up.
Non-unionizable federal workers directly benefit from the efforts of the unionized ones.
Parse authenticates with GCM using the API key that you provide, as do all other services AFAIK. So, all developers need to do is use that same key in their new push provider, and their push tokens will work.

The tricky part is actually making sure that all of your push tokens that are in the Parse database are migrated to the push provider that you've chosen.

EDIT: I stand corrected, looks like you have the option to use their key as you said, my apologies! Should have figured the founder of OneSignal would know ;-)
https://twitter.com/internetofshit?lang=en
So she was able to get from her home on an unplowed street--immediately after a 3 day blizzard--to the airport that got 18" of snow without having to dig her car out from under two feet of snow and go out driving in it. It only took one hour and cost $640.

Wow! What a deal!

I'm not sure if she called any traditional cab companies to try to get a ride to the airport, but I can tell you their response. "We can't get any cars out to you, ma'am, due to the blizzard." Without someone waving that fat stack of cash around at the curb, the Uber driver would have taken a snow day and stayed in bed, too.
Making something better by making it more lean, more stable, or more understandable is still innovating. Originality isn't the only factor.
> For backend web development Rails is still miles ahead of any Clojure workflow.

In what way?
How is the lowering action? Does it go down smoothly?
I have to admit this looks pretty promising, I might have to see if I can find one.
Honestly, 6 hours a day in high school is nothing. For most of us that is the best use of the time that we have in a day when we are in high school. But it does provide the required base that is needed in college for a majority of the population. Are you saying we should stop the whole system for the benefit of the 0.1% (3 sigma)?

In college lectures was from a minimum of 3 hours to maximum of 5 hours depending on how many credit you took in the semester. But the actual learning happened outside of those hours and once again lectures were important only to create the base, maybe even only to provide an introduction to the base.
If you see my other comment regarding this, that's exactly what I'm saying.

It may never happen—I think Oculus may be closer to their core business—but if you're building on someone else's platform, you should be prepared for the possibility that the platform could disappear should it no longer be a part of that company's strategy.

If you're building on Oculus as a platform, I applaud you, and I wish you and your product a long, healthy life. But have a Plan B.

If it's not strategy, it's charity. And most corporations are not much given to that.
Interestingly, might've been better to:

a) release open source versions and announce pricing increase in the future.
b) reduce people using the free 30 transactions / second limit.
c) maintain in maintenance mode indefinitely.

I just don't get why companies shut down services unless they're folding them into open source projects (like Freebase into Wikidata). Maintenance mode seems cheap to me, but maybe I'm missing something?

I am most curious about Facebook's strategy for this. Total guesses - but maybe they have another developer platform in the works? Maybe it's just the focus on core businesses, but it is most curious.

Anyway, I love parse! Cool it's open source now.
I test drove Nim when it was "Nimrod" quite some time ago, sounds like 1.0 is coming soon. Looking forward to it! It's really good to see Pythonesque languages pop up.
Fosco, thank you for everything man.
difference between "it occurs in 40% of said households" and "40% of officers are the sole abusers".
I’m not smart, I just sat there for longer than you
well there's now 2 copies of the code, so everything is being maintained twice, there are twice as many opportunities for bugs, they have a list of "preact only" extensions (eg preact-router) that are only necessary because there's now another franework
I've used this desk for the past 6 months and is a really good standing desk for the value. I use it always in standing mode so if you are like me the fact that's not motorized it's not an issue.
I confirm that if you are tall this desk is not a good choice for you.
I built my own standing desk for at home and simply bought a tall, barstool-height chair.
I think Firebase's position is a bit more defensible -- Google has done well to ingratiate Firebase as a backend for angular apps.
Wherein We Run CF in Docker in CF in Virtualbox
No real advantage per se. I've used them in the shop, and was impressed with the quality. And, it seems like when I got it, it may have been on sale.

I kind of figured that for the amount of time I spend at the desk, ~$600 wasn't too much to spend. I had gotten by for years on an old Office Depot-esque desk propped up on cinder blocks and 2x4s.

So often furniture these days can only really be moved about twice due to the structural integrity of the fake wood they're constructed out of. I was able to mount solid anchors into the bottom of the desk, have mounted a drawer and a cable management tray. It's pretty solid.
By ending up being the only one who was correct about a catastrophe warning, and being vocal about it in the aftermath, you somehow implicitly throw everyone else under the bus.

Since "everyone else" > "you", majority rules, you go.

It's a bureaucracy problem. I've seen it, and it's also gotten me at least once, when I decided to stick up for principles. My ego left intact, my job did not.

This is also why getting fired should not automatically carry a negative stigma.

I have a counterpoint- I bet that, given any risky endeavour, there are ALWAYS some naysayers/doubters. So the probability that someone at an organization ends up being correct when a disaster occurs, is probably fairly high. Thus, just because you won the disaster prediction lottery, may not entitle you to as much acclaim as you might think.
I bought one of these and am really happy with it http://iwantastandingdesk.com/collections/frontpage/products...
Thank you for doing this. It is so rare not to just leave users high and dry after a set time period.

Huge kudos to Facebook for providing this for Parse users.
Libraries can always be forked. Services not so much (though in this case you should be able to self-host, but that's not always the case)
Facebook Buys Parse for $85M
I built my own as many of the commercial standing desks have a tendency to be too short (I am over 2 metres). Just two triangle brackets, some screws and a large piece of wood; total cost: ~$30 and some time.
Abusers in relationships tend to be abusers in all of their relationships.
One example of a library that has started out this way is lodash, and I think most now consider it superior to the original underscore library. So starting an effort like this sometimes has great results.

Of course, anybody considering using Preact at this stage should already be intimately familiar with React, and it shouldn't factor into a "Backbone or React or Angular or Ember" type decision.
One of the reasons you need to pick hosted services very carefully is just this type of scenario. Especially when you are deciding where your data lives.

I give a tremendous amount of respect though to the Parse team for open sourcing the server. Like holy crap they released their entire code base. It must have been especially tough since you have to go through it and clean everything up. Too bad they didn't include the commit history (I certainly understand why they did it). Commit histories are generally the most interesting.
...except being able to integrate with an API does not mean you have the ability to self host, run, and maintain the product.
Could you define 'tall' in this case?
> the Abrahamic religions have only been in the ascendancy in the Mediterranean and Middle East for approximately 1500 years

Judaism transitioned to the form familiar to the current one 2500 years before now. Christianity became a state religion more than 1600 years before now, Islam started its conquests some 1300 years before now.

> it would be a similar generalization to assume that Chinese thought has always stayed on the rails of Confucianism

And nobody claimed that. Just that all Chinese schools of thought weren't so primitive as the Abrahamic ones. I quoted Confucianism and Taoism in my post.

That the Abrahamic ideologies managed to poison even Chinese territories isn't anything to brag about, in my humble opinion.
Hm. I personally haven't used Parse and I didn't even know they were with Facebook but I've seen it mentioned as a pretty popular back-end platform for Android apps (for example). What's the alternative then? AWS probably then?
It's kind of weird once you start using it, that you'll notice the difference in the shoes you're wearing. If I come back from the gym in a pair of running shoes, there's just enough difference where I'll notice it and change the height by a couple of tenths.
I made a community where people share experience in IT companies and startups
Thats a good thing.

Context is not a good feature, and even the developers didn't want to write documentation for it because they didn't want people to use it. https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/580
Albert Speer?
Appboy, Kahuna, or (shameless plug) mParticle if you want multiple options :)
Depends on the person. I sometimes stand and eat, even walk around and eat if my plate is not heavy. And have heard a earful for it ("it is not healthy" yada yada).
And this proves that there no money to be made in Mobile developer tools. Pretty much all major tools have been acquired or face an uncertain future.
Progress bar noticeably slows down npm install
And that's not all. Parse just did a full rebranding, including a full frontend overhaul of its dashboard.

What the hell is going on?
Another thing that could be helpful is not forcing kids to go to school when they're 18. They have no clue whatsoever what they want to do with their lives and by and large motivation to truly learn something is very much lacking. Or at least I lacked it. My MSc with honors is a feat of willpower more than anything else, I ended up using maybe 10% of the knowledge I acquired in those years. Now if my career started in some kind of an apprenticeship situation, you can bet I'd have plenty of motivation to master the field. That's more or less what happened after college, except it's completely backwards from what it should be, and it's extremely wasteful: I ended up learning (and then, of course, forgetting) a ton of not even remotely useful stuff in hopes that I'd need it when I actually have a proper job. Some might say this is well rounded education, but I'd rather do it by choice, and not arbitrarily. The meta point is, traditional education is really broken, and it has been for decades. It's good that someone has the guts to go against the flow and do even a modicum of rethinking. Academic community is extremely clique-y and conservative, so it takes non-trivial courage to pursue something like this.
Man, this is an example of how to shutter a service gracefully. 1 year heads up and an open source replacement for their service with export tools to port the data in to a format that replacement can use.
Probably because Chicago is not America.
Really, that's the time it takes to print an object that size with off-the-shelf 3D printers? I have no experience in this area, so my (uncalibrated) expectations for 3D printing were that it might take a couple hours.
Silicon Valley to Women Who’ve Left Tech: Please Come Back
Fuck you, you weak bitch. If you called me a simpleton to my face I would kill your no pussy getting ass. Hope your kid dies you lame bitch
Facebook Shutting Down Parse
By way of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10990105
Microsoft beats Wall Street view on high demand for cloud products
React Native powers Groups and their ad manager: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html
Interesting. I guess I bought into the PR/propaganda that said Parse was a huge success and good acquisition for facebook. Never made sense to me why one would use such a service anyway.
The major difference though is that react is a self-hosted open source library. Yes, Facebook could drop support for it, but there are enough people using it now that it would probably see community updates for quite a while.
Experimental Evidence on the Impact of an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase [pdf]
but what situation will you find yourself in that you need a laptop that weighs 2lb instead of 3.3lb? i just find it hard to believe that the extra lb will prevent you from getting any work done, or prevent you from fitting your laptop somewhere.
Transparency Report Update and a Closer Look at Turkey
i guess i would never even consider buying from the oem unless it is soldered on.

crucial is overcharging too. 16gb ram kits are $75

i also have a large box of 500gb drives
How Technology Has Made Me a Better Mom
Urban Airship too.
I was going to buy this if I won the Powerball: http://store.focalupright.com/locus-bundle-pro-p/lbn-2000.ht...
On the Road to a Better ElasticSearch Location Typeahead
In what way it is more successful? Both TIOBE and Redmonk don't confirm your thoughts.
http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2015/07/lang-...
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
> Lastly, what major work still needs to be done before we see a 1.0 release and how best can we help Nim to move towards that goal right now?

Better standard library support for Go-style CSP. Given that CSP is one of Go's biggest selling points, it'd be great if people could easily translate concurrent Go programs to Nim and see the benefits. Right now the lack of a "select" statement makes that quite hard, especially for a beginner.