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As a HEAVILY involved React Native developer, I am strongly suggesting you to NOT use Deco Software. It's pointless. Get Vim or Atom editor if you want to build a React Native app. There are CLI tools anyways to make your life easier. Your hardest battle will be you needing to afford a new computer to be able to run both the iOS simulator and Android simulator (or Genymotion) all at the same time. HMR reloading is already in RN v0.18+ I believe. I'm on 0.20 and it's AWESOME. We even have pull to refresh in now. The RN docs are FINE. Don't use this IDE. Again, don't use it!!! You're better off learning on your own with GitHub. The environment changes so much, because its so new, and things break all the time, that you'll be left in the dust because of this IDE. Just look at my GitHub activity feed to see all the issues that spring up, not to mention all the ones I don't bother documenting because I want to keep moving so fast.
> men do hobby programming and women don't

One possible reason: Women have less free time available for hobby programming. There are some statistics on this at http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/the-ethics-of-unpaid-labor-an....

Another possibility: Women are in such demand in the industry that a hobbyist contributor will soon be hired by someone, and no longer be a hobbyist.
Dude. Sauron and Saruman never met.
Yes, I was thinking specifically of client-side caching. I would like my mobile apps to aggressively cache forward in the play list so that I always have

a) the complete current song, and ideally
b) the complete next song

Except in game over insufficient bandwidth full stop scenarios, natch.

I would imagine the most user-friendly version of this would be to start playback using as soon as there is a conventional "sufficient buffer," but to be much more aggressive about sucking every possible byte to maintain the above caching...

Personally I would solve the 'very long delay before play' problem by defaulting to the 80% case of playing one of N songs from the last used playlist/station, _as cached locally from last play_. (Maybe not simply the most recently played, maybe the highest ranked, least skipped, whatever...)

That wouldn't help with people who are flipping stations, but my road trip case would be sudden bliss... no more constant drop-outs.

Disclosure: part of my problem is no doubt sticking with Sprint because I don't want to lose unlimited (sic) data. :P
>the LINQ (IQueryable?) interface is very well designed/used

It's very well designed/used if someone else does the heavy lifting of creating the data provider for you. Speaking as someone who has done it, writing your own IQueryable LINQ provider is a serious hassle, though fortunately it only has to be done once. If it's something you really wanted, I would try to lean on RethinkDB to do it rather than implementing it yourself.
People get their kick from caffeine the moment they start their drink even though it obviously takes much longer for caffeine to actually work. There's a little something there, but I don't know how MUCH of something.
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Seriously fuck the government.
Consider switching banks. It's really easy with the "current account switching service" (they close the old account, redirect any payments to the new one for 13 months, and switch over all direct debit and standing orders).

That that service exists shows they're not quite the dinosaurs you imagine.
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The claims made in the article kindly submitted here (which does, by the way, come from a pretty good source publication) far exceed what reliable evidence on the issue has shown, and is characteristic of the exaggerated misunderstanding of similar study results by the article author, Jo Marchant. Marchant writes in this vein in other publications, most timed to promote her new book Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind over Body, but careful researchers who have examined the evidence disagree that the reported effects are real and meaningful.[1] A review of the book[2] agrees with me and with the whole planet that current medical care could emphasize empathy with patients more, but finds much to disagree with in Marchant's book after commenting on many things the reviewer liked about the book. The overall review summary is

"I can’t wholeheartedly recommend the book. Overall, it gives the impression that we know much more than we do. The studies described are very preliminary and far from ready for prime time; we know that preliminary studies are often overturned by larger, better-designed studies. I found some things in the book disturbing. I don’t condone her use of the term “Western medicine;” there is only one medicine. I was appalled that after a C-section she had a VBAC at home, giving birth to her second baby underwater with the assistance of a non-NHS midwife who she believed was less likely to transfer her to a hospital if something went wrong. In my opinion, that showed very poor judgment. She misrepresents the safety of home births. She even trots out the old “death by medicine” canard. She claims that statins may only benefit 1 in 50 patients (true, but misleadingly alarmist when taken out of context as statins do save lives).

"Conclusion: Marchant has interesting ideas, but a bad title"

[1] David Gorski, 11 January 2016, "Is 'harnessing the power of placebo' worthwhile to treat anything?"

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/is-harnessing-the-power...

[2] Harriet Hall, 26 January 2016, "Cure Is About Caring, Not Curing: Placebos, Alternative Medicine, and Patient Comfort"

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/cure-is-about-caring-no...
Try this: http://www.rinkworks.com/namegen/
It is not misogyny, and if you keep conflating them, then you will lose the support of most people with common sense.

Yes, there is gender bias, and yes we need to fight it vigorously. I do not want my daughter living in a world where she is considered an afterthought, or even a single atom inferior to a male. I want her growing up knowing that she is a full equal to any male on every level. And it's an uphill battle because of gender bias.

But not all gender bias is misogyny.
Oh that's what I meant -- RethinkDB is thoroughy open source though, so I'm sure if someone in the community found the time to do it, the rdb devs would give it a look and improve the code, and possibly merge.
The question of whether the physical structure is enough to preserve the information that makes you you is the key thing, and Myers is right to say we should be trying to figure out how to read the information off of very small brains.

On the other hand, if you think that the physical structure is sufficient (I don't) then figuring out how to preserve whole human brains is pretty important. There's a long time to figure out how to read the information off the preserved brains, but any unpreserved (or improperly preserved) ones are gone for good. So I see why Hayworth etc are interested in high-quality preservation of larger and larger animals and aren't focusing on the reading portion.

"I'm more inclined to believe their goal is to pocket lots of money exploiting people’s fear of death. ... Fruit flies and nematodes won’t pay them a substantial annuity to have their brains vitrified and stored, and their gratitude upon being resurrected wouldn’t be at all remunerative."

I've met Hayworth, this really doesn't fit him. He is genuinely interested in better preservation methods as a way to fight death. As a neuroscientist working in connectomics his association with cryonics only hurts him professionally.
The goalposts are all over the place. The only reply I have for this is that private institutions only waste my money if I own them, the government wastes my money by force.
This thing is a joke. Just learn to code dude.
If you're going to do toilet humor, I woudlve thought you'd work the "2nd largest/number 2" thing in there.
It's about control, violence, and domination. It is a sociopath state.
I recently noticed a very poorly named / linked article on the New York Times. Something to the effect of “What’s Next for Hillary”, only to find an article with 8 paragraphs, each merely summarizing the primary results for 8 candidates after New Hampshire. It was a stunningly bad title and I was distinctly left with the feeling I didn’t get what I came for and that the clickworthyist link text was chosen instead of an accurate title.
Just bring your own epipen. I would not risk not being able to "believe".
What do you need differently about the build chain? It's so damn simple. Just use code push if you wanted to, then you only have to build & release & submit to app store once. https://microsoft.github.io/code-push/
It's not just about knowing what you're doing though, it's about having a team that can support the service 24/7.
Email is usually sorted manually, I think.
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Yet another package registry? There are tons of awesome packages for RN on GitHub and on NPM. Just use Google, GitHub, and get involved.
After reading the first few pages of text, I still have no idea what this is about other than being related to *chan...
>It's pointless

No, it's not. Prototyping.
If "something like celery built in" means a tool that runs Django as a network service in a concurrent context, with APIs to allow asynchronous processing of tasks, you might want hendrix, which serves Django on Twisted:

https://github.com/hendrix/hendrix

(Others have pointed to django-channels, for which hendrix may eventually evolve into a backend)
Yep, I do some metagenomics in an autoimmunity lab in Cambridge and this should be quite easy to address with a small and cheap trial. I'd definitely buy a bacteria-friendly shampoo. Ping me if you need some help.
Haha not really, it's bloated. You end up wasting time dragging a slider when you could just put in a number and enable HMR hot module reloading which is BUILT INTO REACT NATIVE. Lol.
Google increase awareness of email TLS encryption
"Supposed to" implies either a requirement or a moral obligation. There is neither. "Should" doesn't have that same sense. Perhaps the word you meant? It would very much surprise me if that fine print exists as I looked for terms like that when I moved overseas, to make sure everything was legitimate.

Such a requirement is very unlikely for travelers. It's just not practical given how often plans can change. (I visited a salt mine in Austria. To my surprise we crossed into Germany during the tour. Would I need to tell the US about those 20 minutes in Germany, and when?) How much would it cost to run such a system? What happens if the system breaks - and we know the foreign tourist tracking system breaks? What are the advantages to the US?

It's more possible for permanent residency. But the US doesn't even require that of domestic citizens, despite the clear advantages there would be to know where people live. So I don't think it's going to happen any time soon. And what would be the penalty of getting it wrong?
To be clear, the money is not intended to transfer into a US bank account. So for all intents and purposes, it has remained outside the US and will continue to do so.

The point being that the US has no business trying to tax income generated from funds that has never entered the country. Residence based taxation (like the rest of the world) would address this immediately.
I also wouldn't be surprised if it turned out there's a significant difference in the average age of women on Github, compared with men.
You seem to be lacking perspective. The deterioration of both journalism and basic respect for the reader isn’t “just” anything.
Ugh, that 'brogrammer' culture. How off putting. I agree. We should be more inclusive by formally asking them to relinquish aspects of their sociolinguistical model of communication in order to allow others to feel like they can participate in the community.

It's something to avoid because I don't like it. It's bad. I like diversity. I mean, all types of people and cultures, just not yours. We're better off. Thanks.
Hard to find a problem where there isn't one, it is a thing that happened, that has happened before, in one of the driest regions in the planet.
Here's how you prototype:

npm install -g react-native

react-native init myproject

cd myproject

# open xcode simulator or android emulator

# make changes to index.ios.js and read the damn docs

# otherwise you end up dragging slides and dragging drop

# having no idea what actually goes on behind the scenes

# when if you learned what went on behind the scenes

# you could code so so much faster and have so much more control
> To me, the real horror show is the 1:18 ratio between contributors who publicly identify themselves as a Woman and contributors who publicly identify themselves as a Man[1].

To me, comments like yours highlight the toxic nature of the software industry.

It is an expectation in software dev that we do most of our learning and development on our own time and part time work is generally frowned upon. GitHub accounts and side projects are becoming a larger part of interview processes.

How do you think this looks to prospective female employees? Basically it gives the impression that they have to be prepared to work 45-50 hours a week in order to be competitive.

This isn't compatible with many women's focus on flexible work for when they have children.

Notice that none of this is inherent to software development. Companies could provide proper on the job learning and development. Companies could be more open to part time work. Companies could use better proxies for developer skill than personal contributions to GitHub.
It was the best I could come up with.
I left facebook for this exact reason. the platform has diminished so greatly that it's now virtually unusable to me.I'm really not sure what to equate the experience to, it feels like trying to read a newspaper that is all ads. It's all vapid useless sales instead of meaningful interpersonal connections over long distances... the way it started. I fear twitter is not far behind.
Yup, the second slide from the bottom shows their CURRENT AUM and it is lower than the number filed in their September 2015 13 F form ($2 billion now vs. $2.5 billion in SEC filing in September 2015).

I agree with you about potential sustainability issues - they need to grow their AUM really quickly to justify ~$100 MM in venture capital investments.
Ask HN: Best places in Europe to leave city life and work on your projects?
I'm in UK at the moment. I just want to quit and go somewhere to nature, seeing mountains and stuff, and work on a few projects. What are the best places? Thinking Switzerland, but it's really expensive, any other options?
If I read the methods correctly, then how does this fall into the category of "learned behavior"?

Exposing the body to these temperature extremes, which are far outside the norms most of us experience and which must induce borderline hypothermia, surely has its own physiological effect.

I don't doubt the effect can be beneficial, but that seems squarely in the camp of physical treatment as opposed to "thinking" yourself into a different bodily state.
If you make to the end of the article, they do account for exactly this issue by comparing cases where they could find an out-of-band gender indication (google+) but where the name was not identifiable via github name/profile.

From the article:

> For gender-neutral profiles, we included GitHub users that used an identicon, that Michael’s tool could not infer a gender for, and that a mixed-culture panel of judges could not guess the gender for.
Probably not enough to make US companies a legal place for EU personal data.

Remember the 4th Amendment doesn't apply to Europeans in Europe (but our Charter of Fundamental Rights applies to USians in USA)
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Example2: https://avdaredevil.github.io/highcharts-chart/Demo.html
Is there a link to the full article without the paywall?
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Also, you can touch type without necessarily using the 'correct' fingers on the keys.
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You guys are fools to use something like this. Just read the damn docs.

This is like selling candy to kids, when the candy is actually bad for you.
Speak.io is closing down
An "airtight echo chamber" would be a situation where the only information I get is a restatement of something I already know.

It's not even remotely analogous to what I'm suggesting, which is simply filtering out (some of) the noise.
It overlooks that Stackoverflow has its amount of trolls and people who are too lazy to do their homework on their own.

Rating, closing, deleting, etc. is a way to deal with those. I'll try always to leave a message why I downvoted or voted to close a question. That way the person gets some feedback what to do better. It's absolute essential that programmers learn to deal with such feedback.

There are also a lot of XY problems. To get those problems addressed may create some frustration (why is my question not answered directly). Be prepared that sometimes the answer is not what one expects.

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy...

Also essential: There needs to be a way to keep signal/noise ratio to a certain level.

It may sound mean, but when you can't format code, can't read a manual, can't formulate a question, can't provide examples, can't provide an error message, or even can't code at all, then you should not participate in a forum for programmers. Better learn quick - this helps also in the job as a programmer.

If I see that somebody has put ZERO effort into the question, then I'm really not motivated to help that person.

There are many people on Stackoverflow who post great questions and many who post real programming problems. Let's support those and let's help people reach the level of a competent programmer.
Any interest in partnering with a lead provider? if so, email me at rsnyder@bid2mow.com. Actually, I plan on being a bidding platform soon.
How is it terrible exactly? Works great for me.
100% agree, read my comments that everyone seemed to downvote because they're a fanboy of this noob IDE
Oh good. I am sure they will manage to fuck this up. I have about as much confidence in Congress getting tech stuff right as I do a monkey performing brain surgery.
"Let third parties manage the customer interaction."

Bad idea. Dealing directly with a regulated bank, you know who to blame and have more legal protections. With some third-party intermediary, who pays for fraud? App developers will try to wiggle out of taking any responsibility. PayPal and WePay, for example, have routinely done that.

Read "simple.com"'s user contract.[1]

[1] https://www.simple.com/policies/bancorp-account-agreement
buyer beware; its not protection that the US is averse to, its interference
Please do not take this as a knock on your business. Why exactly do we need special software tools specifically for landscape business? Are there any specific challenges here that usual small businesses do not encounter (handy men, pet grooming, plumbing etc etc). I fear for the worse when I see companies starting to cater to a very specialized markets. Obviously YC and hence you have answers to all of the above and more. But these are questions I hope at least a few HN readers have.
No, a '95 is not modern at all. It doesn't even have traction control, which probably would have gotten you out of that ditch. It gives you the same effect as a limited-slip differential, to an extent, by applying the brake on the spinning wheel so power is redirected to the other wheel. It makes a huge difference when starting from a standstill on slippery surfaces.
Prosecutors must disclose exculpatory evidence, including the video you're describing
Downvote me when I have a TON of background knowledge here, look at my damn GitHub.
Had you looked into ravendb at all?
I agree it's not rigorous, but it's not necessarily bullshit.

We know the placebo effect is quite strong (stronger than we can fully account for, in fact.)

Postulating that it is possible to engage the placebo effect voluntarily is an interesting claim, but given that the placebo effect does exist it is not, on the face of it, impossible.

I'm definitely interested in more rigorous research in this area.
Population-wise, the Scandinavian countries are tiny. The problem in Japan is the combination of a relatively large population and a small amount of arable land.

Sweden, Finland, and Norway have 21.7, 16.2, and 15.6 people per square kilometer, respectively. Japan has 335.6. While the Scandinavian countries do have a lower arable land % (5.9, 6.5, 2.7) than Japan (11.6), the ratio of population to arable land is much lower.
The problem with comp.lang.lisp (and similar forums): it has very weak ways to deal with the garbage.

I'm not motivated to participate in a forum, where people interact with racist abusers like WJ William James (or whatever his name is). Minimum would be a filter which gets rid of all his posts, answers to it and discussions about that. Well, than I prefer to use a forum which bans him or has other ways to get rid of that garbage. Free speech is fine, but I really don't want to see Ruby code in a Lisp forum mixed with White Race Supremacy signatures...

That's why I prefer to use Stackoverflow: Metadata, rating, detection of duplicates, etc etc.
The main advantages of electron are html, css and javascript. This is not going to be an alternative to it unless you implement a browser engine on top of it, going full circle...

On the other hand, something like react-native for desktop, coupled with a nice GUI library, could be very interesting.
I'd have thought if anything, we'd be more trusting and supportive of the person disclosing a picture, name, etc. (the criteria used for gender identification).

Why though? My experience is that aside from everyone's monkeysphere, people generally tend to hate other people.

Social media where you interact with a higher than Dunbar number of people (ie Not Facebook) is often just a nasty status game.

Humanizing a pull request can bring all sorts of baggage from that into the evaluation of a contained block of ideas.
Care to expand your thoughts?
Love the name! Django Reinhardt and Frank Zappa are 2 of my favorite artists! ^^
so i need to learn IOS and Android development to learn what's going on behind the scenes as well? Ideally right? But that's definitely not a prerequisite of building RN apps. Abstractions are great if its done well..
I don't understand the Roman part. But yeah I agree with everything else you said wholeheartedly.
This seems like an interesting idea, but your posts feel like spam and the previous one was flagged. If you keep doing it, your account will probably be banned. This probably qualifies as a "Show HN", and if so people would receive it better. Write an email to 'hn@ycombinator.com' and ask Dan what to do. I think he'll be helpful and supportive if you approach him first.
The difference between long-term investors and startup founders is that no sane long-term investor puts all their money and resources into one asset.

Startup founders do not have diversification or a fallback, and it's humanly fair for them to be concerned when things are on a serious downtrend with tech stocks.
This is another example of the "ends justify the means".

Okay. So what's the problem? Consequentialism is a valid philosophical outlook.
I honestly don't know how people can follow hundreds of accounts and stay sane. I "follow" like 6 accounts and I can't keep up! I use twitter very casually and hardly ever twit something about myself at all (if ever). I mostly just respond to someone else's twit or fave the ones I find clever or funny. I don't even use twitter's home page at all because it's filled with noise. I rather just visit the accounts (not necessarily ones I "follow") individually depending on what I want to read about.
Barcelona & Lisbon.
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