skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a very large site that caters to landscape businesses (lawnsite.com). Browse through the forums there and you'll quickly get a feeling for how useful the software tools unique to that industry are.

Not in the business, but I used to hang out there when I was looking for software business ideas.
Data handcuffs
I made this. Neat!

For those that didnt read more than the title, it's database agnostic. It scales vertically and horizontally. It's not a framework, frameworks are dead. Its just a bunch of packages that fit together like Lego pieces.

If you don't need these things (or don't know what they are) don't complicate your life! Get off HN and build something :-)
Think the work explode is overused. It just reminds me of lemmings (the game).
Whataboutism is lame when used to excuse a behavior, but completely valid when used to rebut accusations of unique malfeasance. There is a big difference between something being your problem vs our problem.
Too late. Ublock even blocks sourceforge. The damage is done.
Eurisko
Oooh sunshine is about to take a hit I guess.

added: wish you could subscribe to users on HN, I missed all your previous goodies

wow you make it all look so easy, but it's not at all
Banned by the Publisher
I tried to below, but I continously get downvoted by friends of the OP here. This thing is a joke, the time you spend reading about it and trying to get it installed/setup you could have already read the docs for RN, installed the ACTUAL React Native CLI tools that Facebook THEMSELVES! This is for people that are lazy, don't actualy build a product that gets anywhere, or prototype something that is actually junk and needs rewritten because they had no idea what they were doing, because they didn't read the docs that the creators of RN put SO much effort into maintaining (WITH EXAMPLES!).

https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started...
It was so awesome when you were fine if you either were male or knew enough to pretend to be male!
This is one of the most useful-looking things I've seen on HN for some time, going by the video. It's a step closer to being able to live art-direct (as it were) sitting with a developer.
It is so sad to see people on Hacker News with so much potential, but take the easy route out, and end up with nothing.
Why the hate? I see 8 negative comments from you in this thread. Edit: 13 by the time I finished writing this post.
First of all, your website is painful to use. It requires a ton of scrolling to see anything and as previously mentioned scrolling is painful.

Secondly there is almost no detail so while your product sounds cool I can't see what it is like to use your product. Give me examples of creating queries or dashboards. There should definitely be a documentation section on your site!

Also, a really cool feature I can't see anywhere else is reliable journald log uploading. You can dump as JSON which does most of the work but it is a pain implementing a reliable uploader with a HTTP API.
The HN filter bubble sometimes forgets this, but there are a lot of developers out there who use Windows (even if they don't always deploy to Windows).

Not having to set up a vagrant box just to give Rethink a try may seriously influence developer adoption in this space.
When did I say anything about either? I made a general statement about the effect of interest rates on borrowing, which, the last I checked, is equally applicable to governments as it is to private borrowers.

In fact it seems you disagree with my original metaphor, and are commenting without having actually stated the way you interpreted it.
OR you could just install react native CLI tools, then use the BUILT IN hot module reloading (which is basically like LiveReload for web editing), and just do it yourself without this bloated piece of thing.

Look how beautiful these docs are:

https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started...

Now would you rather rely on something that one person made? Or would you rely on a huge group of amazing folks, which would GLADLY help you with your project, such as the folks from Discord channel or ExponentJS on Slack.

http://slack.exponentjs.com/
I learned to type with speed by playing Police Quest when quite young, and developed a quite quick, but interesting style where I never use my thumbs. I tend to cover roughly 2/3 of the keyboard (the left side) using my left hand, and the remaining 1/3 (and 10-key) with the right.

It's worked out well for me, and I can touch type both code and English wonderfully. The only time it falls apart is when I find myself in front of a split, so-called ergonomic keyboard, which expects each hand to do a 50% split.
I've considered it several times, but always got turned off by the price. Given there's a number of free alternatives, it wasn't justified to pay $600+ per year for a small team.
I've said a lot on the subject, but for me the top benefits that come to mind are:

- Built to be distrubted (sharding and replication are super ez to use)

- Easy to use admin interface comes built in

- RQL (which is a minus for you, as you noted)

- Joins

- Streaming (you're right, but I think this niche grows bigger by the day)

- Functional chaining interface, with lots of nice utility functions

- Geospatial commands (this is oft overlooked, and another really awesome thing it does, check out http://rethinkdb.com/api/javascript/#circle)

If I were to summarize your points:

- RQL is not that compelling, DSL is preferable

- No full text search

- No transactions

(please correct if I've missed anything)

The DSL problem is probably relatively straightforwardly fixed (just write a DSL that translates to builder calls), but I think that RQL sprung up from a disdain of DSLs that were built by mongo (and probably in some part SQL), that often become overly complicated, hard to use, and sometimes use obtuse/hard-to-remember terminology.

The other missing-add-on points are valid of course, but they're just about as equally valid for any document store you can find. I don't speak for RethinkDB, but as far as I can see they do not claim to offer those things, so I don't know if it should be held against them that they don't. Of course, it makes sense that you're not super excited for it because of those missing features you want.

However, I think you'd be hardpressed to find another document store that has gotten the rest of the things it does as right as RDB has gotten them. RDB has iterated their way to a really high quality document store, yet (I find) does not get the press to match how well it performs (and how many big pitfalls it avoided).
I actually really like "while you were away," but from the blog post, I can't tell if/how this new feature is different.
How skewed are those polls by high-population states like New York and California?
As the article itself states:

> Experiments and retrospective field studies each have advantages. The advantage of experiments is that they can more confidently infer cause and effect by isolating gender as the predictor variable. The advantage of retrospective field studies is that they tend to have higher ecological validity because they are conducted in real-world situations. In this paper, we use a retrospective field study as a first step to quantify the effect of gender bias in open source.

The research is presented in context, an important and valid context, too. At the end, they discuss potential explanations and never go so far as to say "And all of this is clearly because ______".

A controlled study would be a great followup, but I'd sure put stock in these compelling and well documented findings.
The problem is not that I made a profit in selling my house, it is that my wife had money in a bank account at all.

As she didn't file, she didn't know that you need to file an FBAR annually for each foreign account. And the penalties for not doing so are those mentioned above 25% of the balance a year for 5 years.

and there are plenty who do file who don't know to file an fbar too.
Yep I can confirm that its working. No problem :)
> idiotic twat

Ouch. Please stop posting uncivil comments to HN. Even assuming you're right, putting it this way encourages the worst from others.
Yeah, I knew you were being a bit hyperbolic but this is a bit of a touchy issue for me (see other comments on this thread) so I apologize for my sharp tone.

Obvious examples would be people like aid workers, religious clergy and others who ostensibly hew to some unselfish non-discriminatory ethical code, but as well know such activities often sacrifice material wealth in exchange for significant social currency, plus there's a disappointingly high proportion of predatory types to be found among those ostensibly caring for the most vulnerable. I don't have the paper to hand now and can't remember enough to look it up but I was surprised last year to discover that people with sadistic tendencies (as measured by clinical instruments) are over-represented in the paramedic profession, for example.

One group that I am inclined to think is extraordinarily concerned with maintaining a level playing field even at their own personal expense is the community of economic theorists, although this claim might seem pretty counter-intuitive at first glance. It also gives rise to a weakness at the heart of the profession; economists are so concerned with discovering objective criteria for efficient outcomes that they don't have a don't have a good model for greedy or altruistic behavior, and until fairly recently have relied instead on the conceit of everyone being rational utility maximizers, much as you did in your grandparent comment. This implicit assumption has led to the discipline being long labeled as 'the dismal science,' notwithstanding the majority of its practitioners' positive rather than normative aims.
Monkey see, monkey be.
http://file.io/ does that, but it is great to have alternatives.

What I'm yet to see is a file sharing that doesn't generate URLs, but real-world locations. For example: I upload a file to the address "335 Pioneer Way, Mountain View, CA", then I call my 120 year old mother who lives there and say: "I've uploaded the file for you!" When she opens the website, the website will try to track her and then show the relevant files near her. She will recognize it by reading the filename. No need to type bizarre URLs.
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Thanks!
Great work, mholt!

He also wrote json-to-go[0]--copy/paste JSON and it generates a matching Go struct. This ends up being extremely useful and saves a lot of time for extensive JSON responses.

[0]: https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/
Veertu added Fusion/Parallels/VBox import support
The new App Store update allow you to import your Fusion/Parallels/VBox VMs to your Veertu.
www.veertu.com
There are a lot of fanboy lurkers that downvote me because they are friends of the OP on here. That's why. The hate is because I am so frustrated with all the scrubs on here that praise this thing when they could just use the amazing tools that Facebook and the open source crowd made to do this themselves, actually learning to code and think. Instead of dragging sliders and stuff. There is built in LiveReloading into React Native now even. This is a useless layer for noobs is the message I am trying to get across, that will leave you with an app that needs rewritten from scratch.
I'm surprised by the business model. You're providing business management software but monetizing through ads?

I think this means you're trying to earn dominance over the attention of business owners by providing good software for free, and that you expect to be able to charge a premium for well-targeted ads. This might make great sense for landscaping, where there are significant equipment and material costs and those vendors are highly competitive. "Hello Husqvarna, I have 300 users with $10000 of tree work booked in the next week and only one functioning chainsaw" sounds like a pretty good pitch.

It's kinda the long tail version of facebook's business model, serving a business need instead of a social one. Nifty.
Good example of choosing a niche market, but being able to jump to other markets with the core product built (e.g. any service based small business is going to need invoicing, route planning, customer management). Geoffrey Moore (crossing the chasm) would be proud.
I mean, it's not like it's a novel procedure or anything. This is basically how all brains are sectioned for immunohistochemistry.

A quick search turned up this protocol, labeled 2006: http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/pharmacology/CRGweb/internal/l...

I don't know when it was first used, it's one of those protocols that every lab has sitting in an ancient three-ring binder. The procedure is essentially the same everywhere, with minor variations depending on the tissue you're working with, the stains, etc:

1. Knock the animal out somehow (usually isoflurane or similar)

2. Perfuse with Phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) followed by 2-5% Paraformaldehyde (PFA). You can also use glutaraldehyde, which is better for EM, while PFA is usually better for histochemistry

3. Rinse in PBS for a while

4. Drop the brains into sucrose solutions, let them sit there until they sink. Usually labs will have a few sucrose baths they like to use (e.g. start in 10%, then switch to 30%). Sucrose is the cryoprotectant here

5. Dunk in liquid nitrogen, coat with OCT, mount on cryostat and start sectioning

6. Go about your business staining, etc

The only novel thing here, really, is that they perfused the cryoprotectant instead of just letting the brains sit in it for a few days. Letting a rabbit brain soak up sucrose likely takes longer than a mouse, so perfusing would definitely speed up that step.

But it's a rather moot point, since fixed brains can chill in refrigerated PBS for a month or two. There's no rush once it's fixed ... that's the point of fixing. I'm with the other folks, this was really just a grab at some money imo. And fancy headlines. There is nothing interesting here.

Credentials: worked in neuroscience wet-lab for 5 years.
Does anybody know how Multireddits are working out? I personally use them extensively, but I've never seen any data on how successful they've been overall.
Let me just remind everyone that "mind" and "body" are constructs. (I'm looking at you, "skeptics".)

for example: http://news.wisc.edu/study-reveals-gene-expression-changes-w...

If unspecified "mindfulness" can have such fundamental physical effects, I'm having a hard time seeing how direct psychosomatic engagement is so far fetched. Truly, while the Wisconsin studies are lumping participants' psychosomatic experiences into a broad category of "mindfulness meditation", every participants experience of "mindfulness meditation" was a unique journey into the depths of their inner world, mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually; these categories are different angles on one thing: the experience of the human animal.
The other issue is performance if you look at their GitHub issues.

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues?q=is%3Aissue+i...

Particularly concerning is this combination which makes me think I'll have to shard like I would with MySQL rather than relying on RethinkDB in certain situations:

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/5218
https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/5301

Also crashing on building a secondary index:

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/4808

I mean, don't get me wrong, its a hard problem to solve and overall I think the product will work out but it does seem to have some limits on its horizontal scaling and it seems like you are better off stopping somewhere in the 5-9 node range then scaling those vertically then sharding on clusters of nodes.
I'm disappointed they still kept the code element in. Everybody knows that things like control flow, variable types, functions etc can easily be represented visually. There is no need for code. But programmers have the esoteric textual knowledge, so they guard it and don't want to give it up. It's like the early church and academia keeping everything in Latin.
+1.

APIs have created this false confidence that every action is an API call away, until you run up against real-life, necessary regulations (financial, life safety, etc).
Since CCL uses the compiler everywhere, even for interactive use, it is useful to have quick/dumb and slower/optimizing modes.

Some Lisps use an Interpreter for interactive use in the Listener and the compiler for the rest.

It's a typical tradeoff.
Agreed on the LogEntries UX. I find it really frustrating.
> We are only interested in the information that is specific to the individual.

Not necessarily; there's a lot of value to be had in the non-specific information, too.
Proving that crime would be a great challenge and the defense has little leverage to bring that charge about.
I think it's important to note that, for the most part, both patriotism and religion need to be deeply ingrained in a person at a very young age for them to defend either so blindly.

US families take care of the religious aspect; US public school take care of the patriotism. If you weren't of the age where you simply don't question what you're told yet, I believe (perhaps hope?) both of these would die out in a few generations.
I actually think Twitter's "while you were away" does a great job finding things I care about.
Nobody is going to investigate the background of a drive-by jerk
I think you're doing a disservice to marketing. Whilst I think a lot of it is just made-up hocus pocus as much as the next engineer =), how you present something is important. It's like being a genius inside your head, not not being able to express yourself.

Ultimately, if you combine a good technical foundation with solid communication, you have a winning combination.

Like it it not, that's how the world works. Nobody cares if you have great code and awesome tests, if you have poorly written documentation and you can't tell somebody what you do in a few sentences. Don't underestimate how difficult it is to get these last two right.
The Discover tab (added in 2012 https://blog.twitter.com/2012/discover-better-stories and removed in 2015 https://blog.twitter.com/2015/updating-trends-on-mobile) solved this problem much more elegantly. Now it's a setting most people won't find, can't be shown on demand.

The "While You Were Away" view has been really frustrating to me, because I follow thousands of people and appreciate a summary, but if I accidentally click off it to Mentions I can't get it back. The Discover tab was great because I could click on it whenever I wanted.
There's also going to be paid product features it looks like.

But yea, if successful it's worth quite a bit to the equipment suppliers in lawncare.
> There are a lot of fanboy lurkers that downvote me because they are friends of the OP on here.

FYI: I'm not a friend of OP but are down voting most of your posts here. If something, you look like the fanboy here.

I now see elsewhere that you are an active react native developer. You should be happy for people building a community around the platform, shouldn't you?
So the commoditization of mobile development begins...
One reason that I've always liked AMD is they have a limited number of products so they don't play games like this. AFAIK, every feature that an architecture supports is available on chips released. The only exception that I'm aware of is "black" edition allows for an unlocked multiplier, meaning you can overclock the CPU without overclocking the BUS.
Is this specifically because of the history of IK12 and YC?

I'm wondering if YC is planning to merge with any other accelerators. It would be an interesting way to grow YC.
Great suggestions! We are waiting for the touched up images of our bottles to come back today so we can at least show the actual bottles on the homepage. And that's a fair point- we collected the name to help demonstrate how it looks on a bottle in the next screen and we also didn't want to lose people during the order process for some glitches we were having which is why we get an e-mail address. We'll probably be able to do without it soon though!
"Carrying a gun during a crime" is not "having a gun at home", unless you're doing the crime at home. It's particularly hard to do the crime of breaking and entering at your own home.
I disagree. This seems to strike a good balance between ease of use and power. It offers a visual tool for layout while still placing the code front and center.
you've been shadowbanned.
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Speaking generally, it's more difficult to do much useful with that, because it's hard to do much more than route on the URL. You could prototype code that merely looks at the mentioned headers, but it's getting kinda silly at that point.

More specific to JSON, you may be looking for something like https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/ (by the same author) or https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson (which I've used myself).

(I find that what I pay in using a static language like Go to manipulate JSON and having to use a tool like that often comes back to me pretty quickly when I take the tool output as a template and start turning all the structs into Real Objects (TM). The dynamic languages are pretty good at taking JSON and yielding a simple pile of dict/map/array/strings/numbers/etc., but if you want to get real objects back out of them the advantage over Go evaporates. Not because the dynamic languages make it "hard", but just because with one of these tools, both Go and the dynamic solutions are roughly as easy.)
New bill looks to save smartphone encryption from state bans
I run some pretty large NTP deployments and our NTP drift is never really over 1 second. Now the difference between NTP serverside drift and client server-side "skew" isn’t something I have looks at but for the most part I get a nagios alert on anything over 1 second of drift with 5 seconds being the most I have ever seen.
They are! All our formulas are free of parabens, sulfates, phthalates, GMOs, and triclosan.
reddit is on the other side if you want to troll
www.talkfusion.com -- in specific, the live meetings & video chat portion use socket cluster as its backer. We generally use c4.8xlarge instances to back the socket infrastructure.
Although we just had https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070192, this article appears to give more information, so we won't treat it as a dupe.
You're absolutely correct. The cost of my AWS deployment in service of my personal email, and less than 5 other people comes in at ~$5.06/mo. The time, however, is the real cost. If/when I gain significant users, Fastmail would be at the top of my list of companies to consider.
Or maybe more experienced/open-source involved programmers have a stronger proclivity for choosing abstract user handles? There's no end to this guessing game, all they revealed was some correlation (and not a very strong one at that), and this by itself means next to nothing.

Obligatory: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
"If you have a Euro passport, you might as well torch your American one."

Even if that were true, what proportion of US citizens living outside the US (the class to which my comment and the immediate parent referred) have a 'Euro passport'?
The article states that the vast majority of the Amazon employees works in the fulfillment centers. And yet they compare Amazon to Microsoft and Facebook. A retail giant like Walmart (1.4m employees in the US) or Target (370k employees in the US) would be a better comp in my opinion.
Yeah same here.
Or connecting it with a Toaster???
Give me syslog target, and I'm all yours :)
Neo is optimized for the German language, not for programming.

http://www.neo-layout.org

Other languages have a different letter distribution so different keys should be on the home row, for example.

Other popular layouts include:

Colemak: http://www.workmanlayout.com/blog/

Norman: https://normanlayout.info/

Workman: http://www.workmanlayout.com/blog/
It's not about the ads, why don't you put this much effort into not using "free" online tools and quality checking the content your customers recieve.