skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So your proposed solution is one of the only two hard problems in computer science? That should be a solid clue that you're wrong.

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."

-- Phil Karlton
It doesn't matter how tightly coupled your codebase is. If you have a client app that talks directly to Parse.com, it will stop working a year from now, and you will have orphaned users. Even if you release a new build that points to a new backend, not everyone regularly upgrades, not everyone can upgrade.
Just because they're not google search doesn't mean their technically trivial either. Have you worked on either product or do you just assume?
Nobody knows all of any language's pitfalls.

Even the greatest programmer with the safest language will still code security vulnerabilities.
A relation of my wife is a canadian dairy farmer. He spends almost more of his time poring over the genetics of his cows, their productivity and exactly which sperm he will buy for her next calves.

It's a major upset when a male is born (they're killed after a few days and sold for rendering, probably for dog food.) Any sperm will get a cow pregnant, a 400$ insemination is only worth it for the potential cow sale...

That's cause his biggest source of revenue isn't the milk, it's the cows that produce more, fatter milk than any of his neighbors' on less feed per pound of milk.

And so they're inbred as hell with a handful of bulls (if that) fathering all of his cows and their mothers for multiple generations. But they sure produce a lot.
The default Go compiler, gc, doesn't link to libc at all on Linux, but directly uses system calls, whose interface is stable. It does link (dynamically, I think) against libc on OS X and Windows, since the system call interface is not stable there.
Do you see a potential solution?
Yeah that's something I don't understand about companies in the social space (in general). I'd pay for Twitter. But they won't take my money.

As I mentioned in another comment, however, I think there's more money and a better sell to developers. Open up the API & charge for high-volume access to it.

I really don't understand what they're doing. Cash, users, attention, etc. are all there but they're not doing anything with any of it.
Relatedly, I've always wondered how the commodities markets handle this sort of "Goodhart-style" problem: what counts as a tomato? When they started doing futures and forward contracts for tomatoes, everyone understood them to be "that tasty thing".

But then the participants (as expected) game the system, doing the minimum necessary to deliver 5000 "things that count as tomatoes". And so the taste and nutrition drift.

Do they have some rigorous definition of when the tomato isn't good enough? Can you define it so that there isn't this drift?
That is a shame. Given that Wayland should be a huge improvement over X this will lead to either: i3 withering and eventually ceasing to exist, or a fork of i3 that works with Wayland.

Also what is wrong with systemd (with regards Linux - the BSD's can handle their own init systems just fine on their own)? On my systems systemd has been wonderful.
You've got it backward; all the other sites are subsidizing your unlimited (but site-restricted) streaming.

Here's how to do something like BingeOn right: work with IETF to define a QoS flag that indicates streaming video, allow customers to opt in to throttling of that flag, then make sure everybody knows that they don't have to coordinate with Tmobile -- any provider can use the flag, and any carrier can honor it. Finally, the carrier could put an icon in the phone status bar (or an LED on a hotspot) indicating whether the current video streams are throttled and free.
The last part is pure conjecture. You could also bet that he should have cut his losses and started a new company with his funds, and done better. Or that even with 2x money he wouldn't have made it. Or, of course, if he hadn't engaged in nepotism and instead hired someone who could handle the job.

In any case, it's irrelevant to how "privilege" plays a role, which was your point.
Americans just assume that in Canada, taxes are slightly higher, corruption in local government less prevalent, and land use restrictions less severe.

Of course, some of us may also believe that Canadian taxes may be paid in maple syrup, Molson lager, or ketchup chips, and that the revenue agency is required to sincerely apologize for every remittance accepted.

As a national aggregate, we don't get out much, even to visit the neighbors.
The F-15 Silent Eagle is also interesting, and is a far better fighter than the F-18.

I really like the B-1R concept, too bad it'll never be built.
> Transit agreements for CDNs and asymmetric peering arrangements have been commonplace since the mid-90s.

Neither CDNs nor peering have anything to do with net neutrality. What point are you trying to make?

It's entirely another matter that some ISPs use their market power to be rent seekers, but that's an entirely different issue and not directly related to net neutrality.

> Residential broadband uses a lot of traffic management tricks to deliver high-performance last-mile access

I sure would like to hear about them tricks. Statistical multiplexing and oversubscription aren't exactly novel concepts. Or did you have something else in mind?

> At least T-Mobile is being transparent here: they're using a network management trick to allow them to offer unlimited data to their customers at a lower cost.

It's not a network management trick, it's just a novel marketing trick to blow smoke up their customers' arse. If T-Mobile can deliver unlimited data for video streaming then they can deliver unlimited data for all content types.
They didn't say it was easy, just that it was easiest. Ostensibly comparing it to other solutions that they are aware of.
Ketchup is a combination of tomato paste, vinegar, and sugar however.

Tomato paste is where you go if you need a pure tomato taste.
Along those lines, "properly made" (aka homemade) ketchup tastes only vaguely like the commercial brands. So much so that I can't get my own kids to eat my home made ketchup :-(
> Major security alert as 40,000 MongoDB databases left unsecured on the internet
http://www.information-age.com/technology/security/123459001...

Yes, it is great for prototyping, but it is bad for production.
However, there likely is a tradeoff between taste and nutrition. Nutritious compounds can often have a bitter taste, while sugar is often said to be unhealthy.
i definitely type faster than i talk

source: grew up in the 90's in Silicon Valley
High quality is a matter of opinion. If you are selling yogurt to people as is, then "plain" should have some flavor. But if you are adding things to the yogurt you care more about consistency. Lack of flavour is an easier starting point, as with vodka used to mix drinks.
Shop top level domain sells for staggering $41.5M
Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Sits Down with Vice, Talks Drugs, Plays Wu-Tang Album
I think Chris and his team's goals now are more to build a programming tool primarily for the non-programmer rather than try to be all things to all people, and also cater for professionals. So I doubt it's going to have a huge impact on how professional developers work for the issues mentioned, but I do have high hopes this can create something that is more approachable for everyone else, and also a more gentle introduction to programming than I had with learning Pascal. Anything that brings new ideas to the table, such as Eve, Bret Victor's original talk that inspired Light Table, and Light Table as a whole are good for the industry. Apple already used a lot of those ideas when building Swift, which likely wouldn't have happened otherwise.
How many fallacies is this and what are they?
>Why would you bring him up, of all people?

That's really rude. You know why he brought him up - he's one of the most famous investigative journalists. I'm sorry you're offended and that you don't consider his current work to be investigative enough.
Kind of off topic but:

At what point can a companies growth slow down without it being a concern? For example, google says as of March 2015 Facebook had 1.44 billion monthly active users. With an estimated 3 billion people in the world having internet access that's 50%. Can you really expect to see significant growth at that point?

One other thing I've never quite understood is the concern with users vs. revenue. I get that for a start up, you want to grow and grow fast. For an established company like Twitter, as long as your user base isn't actively shrinking, wouldn't it make more sense to concern yourself with making money off those users instead of trying to gain more? What would be a better sign, 1% user growth but 15% revenue growth, or 1% revenue and 15% user?
Meet the Guy Who Solved Uber’s Insurance Problem
"It's current use is similar to what it was designed for in the first place."

No, it was designed to kill tanks, not personnel. Its 30mm cannon is complete overkill for that role.

Apaches are MUCH better for ECAS, and GPS guided bombs are fine for the general CAS role (with troops cuing the targets by laser cartography).
roma & cherry do not taste like much to me anymore after having tried fresh oxheart (cuor di bue) on vacation, it really ruined tomatoes for me, a really dark purple heirloom variety I got a few times at whole foods was close, but still not as good.

I can only try to imagine what heirloom actual fresh tropical fruit tastes like, but of course that wouldn't travel well so it's not available.

This year even whole foods up here in Canada seems to be stocking produce based on price as opposed to quality, what with conventional mandarins/clementines (treated with several scary sounding .......zole compounds) or organic ones coming all the way from China (really? can't find any in California?), I really miss the organic "pixie tangerines" (some heirloom variety I assume) that they stocked until last year, but they were expensive and occasionally you found a moldy one and so probably they were nixed.

I wonder how much of the push towards tasteless ageless produce is due to customers absolutely never ever wanting to be faced with a spot of mold or a bad potato or whatever, I'd rather have flavorful produce where I have to toss 15% due to issues when I get home rather than the bland cardboardy "perfect" one that's widely available now.

I'd rather spend money on quality ingredients than on other things (also due to the fact that I cook 100% of my food from scratch ingredients), but likely unfortunately I am in the minority so even "niche" retailers like whole foods are likely going to cater less to my preferences.
List of vulnerable applications is here - https://github.com/sparkle-project/Sparkle/issues/717
It’s recap of all the news & revelations on Theranos till Walgreen’s shutting down its Theranos Wellness Center (i.e., till yesterday).

John Carreyrou just summarizes the events in chronological order through his answers to the interviewers questions.
Or it could be literally an old desktop computer sitting in someone's damp basement on a DSL connection. The problem with just saying "the cloud" is you can't tell the difference.
I'm T-Mobile user and on every their survey I let them know that I oppose their violation of Net neutrality and they should stop Binge On. Also you can tell them that since they are allowing caps exemptions, it means that caps have nothing to do with network congestion and they should stop using them altogether.

> Thing is, they're not wrong, per se. Because there isn't an actual accepted definition for "net neutrality".

It is wrong, and definition is pretty straightforward. Net neutrality means no preferential treatment for any traffic. Here some services get exemption from caps, while other don't. It is clearly a preferential treatment for some traffic. From a different standpoint, Net neutrality means that network provider can't serve as a gatekeeper and decide who gets better traffic and who doesn't. Here they are the gatekeeper and services need to ask them for permission to be exempt from caps. Gatekeeper = violation of Net neutrality.
My startup failed, so I wrote a book about it
I actually love the native part, fwiw. I've often thought that a native JIRA client could be way easier to use than their web interface. Of course they could also just invest in making their web interface much better, but native expectations are naturally very high, and a lot of the horrible UX practices we accept on the web wouldn't fly in a native environment. Essentially it would have no choice but to be better.
> I'm not sure why people are having so much trouble with this question, which can easily be restated as "why can't someone build a laptop that has at least as good a display as what Apple calls a 'retina' display while having the same battery life as an rMBP?"

After the first, short paragraph addressing the strict issue with "retina", the longer, second paragraph of the grandparent post directly answered why that would be the case: competing on different feature trade-offs rather than making the same trade-offs and competing on price allows greater profits because it avoids entering a market with direct substitutes, even if doing so in a way constrained by the trade-offs earlier entrants have made results in entering what is effectively a smaller market without direct substitutes instead of a larger market with direct substitutes.
I've heard most people do.
In fairness, manned aricarft is superior if the pilot is capable of attacking and defending at the same time. But mannfed aircarft is expensive because a good pilot takes many years to train and many hours to fly, and many hours of real combat to gain real experience. But modern days you don't really have wars soldiers and pilots are trained through simulation (but virtual and real life).

unmanned drones are expensive because the technology to develop a good one takes forever. R&D is expensive (naturally, and commercially). So both sides have pros and cons. Except, to be real fair, if you can mass produce unmanned military drones at an affordable cost, unmanned drones are the superiors.
Ask HN: One language to rule them all?
Which computer language is of. Utmost importance at this point of time.
(If we ignore the fact that both sides benefit from the free trade)

The central tenet of the rightist ideology is free market and free trade. That one is obvious.

The central tenet of the leftist ideology is wealth redistribution, that the rich should compensate for the poor. Thus, given that the Americans are orders of magnitude richer than Chinese, it is only fair that some of the wealth of Americans be redistributed to the Chinese. The international trade involve altruism for the same reason that the aristocrats altruistically share their (previous) privilege with the plebeians.
I'm instantly in love with the International Journal of PoC||GTFO. How did I not know about this before? It feels like the old Apple ][ hack/phreak days again.

http://www.sultanik.com/pocorgtfo/
Implementing Compliance Controls in Regulated Industries
For the load balancing system I would assume you would also want to keep the mirrors up to date as well? So for every request if mirror exists and is out of date, update it.
I used to live in Berkeley, CA, and both "alt" groceries (Monterey Market and Berkeley Bowl) sourced wonderfully flavored tomatos- many different kinds, from juicy salad tomatos to beefy paste tomatos. The prices were not higher than the supermarket, and they tasted far better.
Yeah, this is kind of aggravating. I'm not an engineer, but I know many, and anyone who thinks they are all just living the high life is crazy. With the cost of living they are no doubt faring better than many traditional working class folks, or service industry folks, but let's be real--they aren't just idle rich bathing in tubs of caviar.

In fact, while they might be able to purchase a home still, it often times will be quite a bit smaller, more run down, and in a worse neighborhood due to the sheer cost of buying one. And often times they are only buying out of desperation because they don't want to be forced out of the area entirely due to rents beyond their control.
"Soylent" is a good example. They regularly post about their elaborate IT infrastructure. Based on their sales volume, they do about two transactions a minute. One shared server could handle their transaction load. They could get a low-end hosting account from Hostgator, use one of the six shopping cart programs Hostgator supports, and lay off most of their computer staff.

(Soylent doesn't even make the stuff. That's outsourced to Jasper Products in Joplin, MO.[1])

[1] http://www.jasperproducts.com
Similar story.

These Vegas transplants bought a small-town Nebraska schoolhouse and let their artistic flags fly.

http://www.omaha.com/living/these-vegas-transplants-bought-a...
yes, it is out of the question. -- Source: app.net
> Because a Californian individual and a California based company pays federal taxes

The jobs mostly affected by the free trade are low skill and therefore low wages jobs. Those jobs barely pay any income taxes.
If you are in anything resembling a mid-sized city, you can get 'real' greek yogurt pretty easily in the US. Among the national brands, yeah, they're pretty anemic. The good stuff is halfway to cheese, consistency wise. It should be fresh, and it's easy pie to make at home.

I don't know about 'much much better'...maybe just one 'much'.
I guess NFA is the classic regex, but most implementations are vastly more powerful through the introduction of backtracking and back references.

In any case, a regex is hilariously unsuitable for the purpose here. It's obtuse, it has terrible corner case performance (as noticed here), it probably took vastly longer to write than a simple loop and apparently it isn't even correct.
I'm not sure I was explicit enough about part of my point: Microsoft has very clearly pointed its resources at making the Phone OS the same as the PC OS (the same as the Xbox OS, the same as the HoloLens OS). I think that leverage means that at least for the near future Microsoft has a lot of good reasons to continue to invest in phone, because, finally, a lot of those investments are also investments into the PC, the Xbox, the HoloLens, etc.

You said I should be concerned about apps, but I'm not concerned about apps because developers unlike myself that don't care about Windows phones still likely care about PC users, Xbox users, and eventually HoloLens users, et al.

If I have concerns it would be with hardware, but the 950 is still new and exciting and I likely have a few years before I start to worry about replacing it, if history repeats itself similarly to my 920.

As for "morale disaster", the problem with percentage statistics (as with most statistics) is that it is a kind of lie. Sure, 1% (or more accurately 2-3%) of the smart phone market sounds small and scary, but keep in mind that 1% is still millions of devices, presumably used by millions of people. I don't know about you, but as an engineer I would be ecstatic to know my product was used by millions of people (many daily, many happy) I would certainly still feel that way even knowing that product was in a distant third place. It's a good old fashioned scrappy underdog story, with a chance to make millions of people happy, sign me up.

As for the Zune, the "ancient Microsoft adage" is "Top 3 or Bust". Zune never quite hit the Top 3 in what became clear was a dying product category, so bust. Phone is in the Top 3, and barring some weird dark horse appearing from nowhere or a hard Android fork accidentally splitting the market (which seems perhaps more likely), it's likely to remain in the Top 3.

I do hope they do something remarkable (and I'm kind of betting they will) to turn around sales on the 950 or bring in sales to new, potentially exotic hardware, but unlike you I don't think that Windows phones go by way of the Zune even if they fumble the ball a bit and don't do something truly remarkable in the near term.
I think he was putting it more as a natural state of things. It's not "really bad", it's how things are ought to be. Yes, think about things, consider things for your life, plan out, et cetera. He does that and he is content (although I'm not sure how much he's actually considering in his daily thought sessions, as I've encountered more ignorant content people than thoughtful content ones).
Now imagine if you had to wait for a software to understand what you said... the delay kills the experience.
I don't think you've accurately identified the central tenet of either right-wing or left-wing ideology (though you've correctly identified how much of the current propaganda of the American Right portrays right vs. left ideology as if it were the central tenet of each.)
Wild tomatoes are small and unpleasant tasting, doesn't that kinda blow the premise?

The modern tomatoes we eat are genetically modified by humans through breeding which we like to call domestication. This genetic modification caused them to be bigger and taste pleasant.

My understanding was there was push to breed them to be uniformly red when ripe but this also caused a mutation to make them more bland, this occurred in the 1940's before "modern" genetic engineering, which incidentally no tomatoes currently on the market are engineered that I am aware of.

I always think it ironic to blame modern techniques like genetic engineering for all sorts of issues like somehow a cow, chicken, pig, tomato, corn or wheat are somehow "natural", these are all genetically modified organisms that would not exist without human tampering.

We have twisted nature for thousands of years to have higher yields and more desirable characteristics, if tomatoes are bland I would imagine we will twist them some more to make them flavorful again if the market demands it, but their "natural" "wild" cousins have never been tasty.
Presumably that would be the responsibility of the mirroring system once a mirror is initiated.
Dry-farmed tomatoes (of any variety) are my personal favorite.

http://www.thekitchn.com/what-are-dryfarmed-tomatoes-126811
Depends on the resources available to the company trying to popularize the product/idea. If it's a tiny start-up with limited resources, then absolutely, it's a huge accomplishment. If it's a massive company with tons of cash, together with the name recognition and momentum of n number of other products already out...then it's probably not that big of a deal, but still commendable, I guess.
At some point in my social circle, Twitter transitioned from "a live feed of what your friends are doing", to a tool people used to read the news and keep tabs on celebrities.

In my experience, SnapChat's My Story feature has completley supplanted the "live social feed of your friends" aspect.

IMO, SnapChat's effect on Twitter's is comparable to EverQuest's effect on text-based MMO's. One platform mercilessly dominated the other because of visual stimulation, and all the fun micro-features that go with that.
You've never really made it big until somebody says you're over.

Twitter isn't going anywhere, the very fact that they have survived terrible corporate management, high level turnover, and failed advertising initiatives proves the significant value of their content.
I would like to see the same thing for beef, eggs, milk, butter, and other dairy products specifically focused on "grass-fed" vs. "grain-fed". I've seen a handful of imported products that make this distinction, but not as many as I thought I would find when I searched for it locally.
Swapping VBA for javascript is not exactly an upgrade. But you can't do any in-session scripting or UDF so that's of very limited use.

And for automation I would rather use .net + ExcelDNA than javascript.

I can understand why they went the javascript route but that's clearly hearing developers, not users.
Using the wrong library or function call, exposing stacktrace to end-user, doesn't actually handle error code properly so things blow up and leak information. You will know it when you see one.