skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone tell me how this compares to SDF in terms of both speed and quality?
Datomic is awesome and I'm a huge Rich Hickey fan.

The language is different and I believe better, and having history/versioning of the data baked-in is a big plus in our column. I could make a deeper comparison if you'd like.
I've implemented the same thing in a Usenet/NZB streaming project a few years ago - it's actually trivial since the multi-part rars are uncompressed, so the raw bytes of inner-content are there ready to be read. Just have to handle RAR headers/trailers. Seeking worked too since Usenet posts were commonly made up of 700kb posts, so if a seek occurred, you prioritize retrieving the required posts where the user seeked to, to fill the media player buffer. Code has never been released for obvious reasons :)
Our immediate area to look at is do we have a business or a license? And what is the best product for us to invest in? A catheter may be the easiest, but funding may be more readily available for heart valves or stents.

That being said, we'd like to spend at least half the money on additional testing. Primarily how the structure size and pattern effect adhesion. Pillars w/ points vs pillars with flat tops, or any other geometry? 600nm vs 60nm? Whats the optimum gap spacing? And after all that how do the same tests we've already performed compare?
Show HN: PhantomJsCloud, Headless Browser SaaS
"Thank you for your comments, very interesting to read. I've taken note of some of your feedback."

Hope it helps you. Long-term, VC or not, I'd rather have your model dominant than Facebook's. I also doubt you're more scheming than Zuckerberg as he's like a special breed of it. That said, it might be valuable to allow people the option (at some point) of paying you directly not to be tracked or to be barely tracked. That way, they can explicitly decide if you're working for advertisers or them in the case of their data/activity.

"If you are to take out the element of the public identity, you end up with something like the "anti-Facebook" - a place where you can be who you want to be, where you don't care so much how you act, or even what others think of you."

You end up with 4chan, Reddit, Youtube comments, and the like. I've seen this too many times. It overpromises the potential but ignores human nature. The combination of social power that can be projected with anonymity leads to domination. Only a combo of reputation, culture, and effective moderation seems to create good, anonymous/pseudononymous communities. Keep that in mind as exploring combinations of that might help you in your goal.

"But after 12 years of Facebook, things are definitely changing - and we're listening closely so that we stay in tune with what people want."

You're so lucky to have started at this time. Or smart. I agree. I think the reason is that Facebook is so big and capitalizing on lock-in that they don't give a damn about their users. They've been doing it for years but people are noticing a bit more. Things like videos they can't turn off that blow up their bandwidth, people tagged in photos that don't use Facebook, no protection against creeps using tricks that are years old, and so on. Time is ripe for disrupting Facebook even if it's just a niche of people (a) care about privacy or (b) just want to be counter to Facebook.
Apply HN: Baasil.io – Open Source as a Service
Baasil.io (https://baasil.io) is currently just a pub/sub service but we are working to turn it into a full-blown Backend as a Service.

Our broader mission is to help make open source projects available 'as a service' and we want open source founders and maintainers to benefit!

Baasil.io itself will be similar to Firebase except you can swap out the database layer (you can self host your database or use a third-party db as a service).
It will be fully database agnostic.

Our founders are long-time open source contributors and creators of https://github.com/socketcluster/socketcluster and https://github.com/mattkrick/meatier

We are part of a broader loosely-coupled collaborative of 10+ popular open source founders who are working to create a new generation of tools and compatible services for building
and running the next generation of web applications.

Our open source collab runs open source projects with an aggregate of 10K+ GitHub stars affecting all levels of the application stack ranging from Graph databases, deployment utilities, realtime data transport layer, frameworks and even react-based drag-and-drop UI builders.

We want to turn open source repos into compatible services (both compatible with the self-hosted open source versions and with other services).

Some projects maintained by our broader collaborative:
http://socketcluster.io, https://github.com/mattkrick/meatier, http://dgraph.io/, https://github.com/ipselon/structor, http://www.azk.io/

We are always looking for new trending indie open source founders to join our collab and work with us.
Mass transit will still make a lot of sense where there's, you know, masses of people. Frequent train service into Manhattan works much better than a fleet of Uber's.

Outside of dense areas though, Uber-like services (or even privately owned self-driving cars) win.
Thanks, we need more of these.
There are people who go into politics with the status quo in mind as a policy.
My baby, represents about 2 years of work at this point. I'd love to hear [constructive] feedback!
Do you plan to mostly focus on urban centers?
<snark warning>

I have a hard time understanding why people would vote Zuckerberg (unless they are equating that more money means more influence). If he is the most influential, I see little evidence that he is using his influence to effect anything meaningful to happen.

Facebook has only advanced the status quo since inception (iterative, not innovative). It seems to just blatantly rip off other services to advance their market position (periscope, medium) or just acquires competition (instagram, whatsapp).

</snark>
And you thought google glass was creepy. This is a whole new level.
FYI Student loans are federally guaranteed. The original lender does not loose money. If default occurs, the tax-payer pays them off. The debt is then sold by the government to credit collectors at a discount, who can seek the entire principle, plus interest, plus steep fees. So the typical defaulted student loan, if ever paid back, procures two to three times the original cost of school. Consequently, the student has no credit, so it is basically impossible for them to fully function in our highly debt-oriented society. This includes not being able to go back to school to finish their education if it not yet complete.

Meanwhile $200 billion is the cost of two-months in Iraq.
20 years on top of the application date, as far as my Googling returns. Seems like a fairly standard term.
> Updating a server and redeploying should be automated and take only minutes in the vast majority of cases.

There's much more to running a product than 'running a server'.

Eventually, the software is going to stop working on my SOE. Which means more and more boxes are going to be running non-standard deployments in my environment (or it costs me to update). Every maintenance window, infrastructure upgrade, disaster recovery exercise (and event), has to take those servers into account.

Perhaps I pay licenses for those servers to run - OS, support, databases, backup, whatever. Maybe I have a contract with an SI to run all this as a managed service and this costs. There's opportunity cost in terms of resources for keeping all these legacy products on as well - both infrastructure and resource related.

And that's just the technology related part of it. There's business and accounting impacts as well.
Website doesn't say if it's MFi certified.
I always turn to product managers who think growth hacker is a thing when I want to learn more about hiring for technical roles
The 410 club
I used to be involved with this sort of thing, and it's actually pretty interesting stuff. There are enormous open source projects, operating largely out of public sight, that have recreated the WoW server backend in most of its glory. The lower-level content works quite well these days, though a lot of complex raid scripts are missing or broken.

This one is probably the most popular: https://github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore

It's pretty rare for Blizzard to go after these companies in court, but it's happened here and there. Look up "Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. v. Alyson Reeves" if you're curious what such a lawsuit looks like! Every patch since Lich King, though, has attacked these reverse engineers on the technical front by adding layers upon layers of obfuscation to the protocol. That's had some effect, and many private servers have stuck with the old Burning Crusade or Lich King releases.
I'm intrigued, I live in Boston and am a software engineer, shoot me an email if you'd like to get coffee. seibeljames@gmail.com
Perhaps it might be more profitable to simply seek out the most entertaining types of work going on around the community and live-stream it. This would remove the costly and risky aspect of managing the work "entertainment".
The student loan system lies in the special place that brings in the worst of private and government sectors.

General loans work pretty well out there: Loan costs are aligned with loan risks, because nobody wants to loan money to those that can't pay. But student loans are guaranteed by the government, so for all intents and purposes, anyone can get a loan, whether they'll be able to pay it or not. At the same time, it never goes away, and it's given to people who probably still live with their parent. They bear a bigger risk than I do with my mortgage, but they might get tens of thousands of dollars in debt without deciding on a major first!

What really makes this pernicious is that, since everyone gets access to the loans, in practice, this means college can be far more expensive than it'd be otherwise: Without all the loans, most colleges would have to be cheaper. Same thing if colleges also bear the risk of non-payment. And it's not as if this money is being spent enriching teachers: It's mostly administration and facilities.

So now we have a system where everything is very expensive, and most students get huge loans that they can't afford, and where ultimately, the taxpayer will end up having to foot the bill: The only winners here are the universities themselves.

Just think of what this is doing to medical schools and law schools: They know that even the poorest student will be able to max out on their loans! So dropouts, and in the case of law school, graduates that went to the wrong school end up in a worse situation than they would have been 30 years ago.

The country must choose: Either stop giving money to private colleges, and just focus on good, cheap, no loans, public universities, or let people pay for their own college with no guaranteed loans: Less people will even go to college, but those that do will afford it, because colleges would have to adapt to lower budgets.

Guaranteed loans to pay for expensive, private universities? This just makes sure that millennials will end up worse off than their parents for the first time since the industrial revolution.
Good question.

Although that would quite frankly be pretty surprising, given the immense value we offer our customers, the next step would be to spin off the technology we've developed to an existing topology optimization software vendor. We're breaking new ground with this software, and some of our developments would undoubtedly be highly valuable to established companies in this area.
not so much useless, but really just a negative in so many respects. A massive debt right at the time before you've really even had any personal freedom at all. It's terrible.

Though i went to college, I'd recommend people who don't have a wild passion towards a specific subject (if the outlook is cloudy I mean) earn, save and buy a house in cash.

And in regards to passion, I don't mean necessary a love for something, I mean a drive to REALLY get good. If you don't have that for school, then work, earn and make yourself a good situation so you can get education with disposable income when the passion comes.
Begin and end annoys me a bit too because it's harder to write. Yet, we learned years later that code is read more than written. Now, all the advice in the world is to optimize code for reading, maintenance, and extension. Kind of like what non-C languages were doing, eh? Short-hand could still be useful as we pick up little things like that easily without need for verbose syntax.

Now, := is another situation. Let me ask you: what did = mean before you learned programming? I'm guessing, as math teaches, it meant two things were equal. So, making = be the conditional check for equality is intuitive and reinforced by years. A colon is English for something similar where you assign one thing a more specific meaning. So, := for assignment and = makes sense even if a better syntax exists for := part. W

hat makes no sense is making the intuitive operator for equality (=) into assignment then equality becoming ==. We know it didn't make sense because Thompson did it when creating B from BCPL. His reason: personal preference. (sighs) At the worst, if I were him, I'd have done == for assignment and = for equality to capitalize on intuition.
Like these quick deployment solutions zeit.co/now and surge.sh Sacalbility and security is something that needs to be attested.
There's also a cool community around reversing the battle.net protocol(s).
Of course it's an important question, but it's rarely the first question. The first question is usually about why the idea is good in the first place. The next line of questioning is about the market opportunity.
If you make it through those two lines of questioning, than they figure out if the team is the right team for this project.

I was only pointing out that the idea itself seems to resonate enough with the voters on HN that they don't question the validity of the idea, only the ability of the team to deliver.
Bobby Fischer: from prodigy to pariah (2011)
Forgive me if I've missed something but the original comment says the group that threw the most clay scored higher on creativity, not scored higher on pounds of clay thrown.
an associates degree does count. it shows initiative. it's something completed. don't just toss it out, it's not trivial to employers. And you can learn a ton in community college. I know people who enjoyed it a lot more than 4 year universities and had more available to them. depends on the school and the person of course, always.
> Once autonomous vehicles are ready for prime time, mass transit will be instantly forgotten.

In some places, perhaps -- big American cities with decent overground infrastructure capacity -- but the world will not just stop needing subways and trams. I cannot possibly imagine the chaos if the 5 million people who use the Hong Kong MTR every day suddenly started using cars.
Reliable, secure package management systems have existed for a long time [1] [2] [3]. Ruby, Node, Python, et al. just choose to ignore them, just like they choose to ignore other proven development tools [4].

[1] https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.package-auth...

[2] https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

[3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Package_s...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_(software)
How does Node.js work
Apply HN: EventCast – the simplest event planner
EventCast is a simple, mobile application for event organization. In this era of app-fatigue we’ve sought to create a frictionless, bare-bones tool that satisfies the major needs of event organizers and guests (big and small).

Download EventCast and the first thing you will notice is that it is (relatively) anonymous. We never ask for a username or email. We track a device ID out of necessity. You can start using EventCast immediately, though.

Let’s say you are organizing a soccer tournament (or a wedding party, pub crawl, conference, festival). Create (+) an event and give it a unique HASHTAG code (or EventCast will do it for you). Then build out the agend. Team Alpha against Team Drumpf on Field A at 9:00am; Team Beta against Team Tesorio on Field B at 9:15am; etc. As an organizer, you’re done. You can share that hashtag code as you please through any media you like.

If you are attending the event, simply subscribe to the agenda using the HASHTAG code. You are then synced with the schedule. Any changes the organizer makes will automatically flow to all subscribers. It’s great for pop-up, surprise-location events, too. Once you’ve synced the agenda, you can customize the agenda to get notification for only those items you are interested in attending. Are you part of the Team Drumpf family? Just select those games and you’ll get notifications 15 minutes before the start of each of those games. The notifications will also provide directions from wherever you are to the destination.

Interestingly, we think, this is an application that you may never open after subscribing. You may “live” in the notification windows on your smartphone, which we think is pretty cool.

We look forward to your feedback:

Play Store - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eventcast

App Store - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eventcast-simplest-event-planner/id1069897109?mt=8

Demo - https://youtu.be/nFIDUYobQF4
If anything, the FBI's recent success in cracking the iphone without even Apple's help should tell us that this is merely more security mummery. A mummer's farce if you will. Real security is more in line with Stallman's position of not using cellphones at all except maybe to fake normality.
If the Bay Area spent serious money on good public transportation, we would not have a "housing crisis" like we have today. People prefer the vibrance of SF, and choose to live in SF because getting to/from SF is a pain in the ass. And BART shuts down before midnight.

We can build as much housing as we want, but as long as we lack a solid public transportation system, we'll be miserable: more cars on the roads, longer commutes, etc.

SF itself has to fix its MUNI; we need a 24-hr BART that is cheap and reliable; a CalTrain that runs very frequently and is 24-hr again; and feeder routes in the smaller cities.
Google Taps IBM, Rackspace to Dent Intel's Hold on Server Chips
Where do you live? If you are coming so close to what you make why do you have car loans?

Two people can easily live on $40-50k in most areas. Eliminate all the unnecessary expenses like $150+/m in phone payments, $50+/m for cable, etc.
Thanks for your advice. I think none of the social networks got groups right. Groups is a trick thing. I think the first flaw is creating membership of groups. Instead I think people are more interested in topics(HN, reddit, twitter, etc). So I think the first step is to not have groups and instead encourage discussions around topics, links, etc.

Thats why the importance is to have a platform/features that are geared towards users.HN, reddit, discourse are great pointers btw to learn from.
I think even slang terms have a place here. Not sure if the goal is to really improve language skills. If not, any new widely accepted terms could be defined and optionally rated by a community for wider acceptance. If the word is fairly new it could be highlighted in some way to indicate its popularity.
Taking out massive loans to study, so that you can work, so that you can repay the massive loans over 20-30 years. Sounds like indentured servitude.
I haven't used Datomic but I thought its entire premise is that the data is immutable and thus history/versioning was baked in. Am I missing something?
Living Happily Ever After: Tract Houses and the Growth of the Suburbs in America
I'm somewhat concerned that, as far as I can tell, my application (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11442038) seems to be unlisted on the main index.

Could someone from YC please explain what's going on here?
>In my experience, there isn't a huge difference in the level of racial bigotry between northern and southern states. The difference lies primarily in the openness of it.

When I was managing people in the '90s in California one of the technicians who worked for me was black and had worked all over the country.

He said he much preferred living in the South, because while there was no difference in the number of bigots he ran across, outside the South the bigots weren't brave enough to be open about it so it was harder to tell where he stood.

I think there's probably some legitimacy to that view, but I always wonder how much "shit happens" type stuff gets identified as racism. I'm white, so when a white guy is an asshole to me I assume he's an asshole. If I were black I might assume he's a racist.
Very well said. Thank you for the feedback.
A microcontroller based on RISC-V was announced recently called the pulpino [1].

They actually produced some silicon recently, but unfortunately they don't have plans to sell any. It would be so much fun to play around with a fully open micro!

[1]http://www.pulp-platform.org/
I do too. i like some of the pulse/blog post articles from influencers. But lesser so since they opened it to everybody the quality plummeted and now i see articles from people I did not even know I was connected. Some of them are job postings, real estate postings or a redirect to some other website.
Feel free to provide your email on the site! (if you haven't already)

Do you have any questions or concerns? Any feedback is definitely helpful for shaping the product.
I said this before. The recruiters are not the problem as they are likely not going to give you a lot of info. for fear of losing out.

It is the users you have to talk to. I have spent countless hours talking to users and employers over the last 8 months as I am doing something similar to OP. There are so many changes they will like to see with some voiced out here in the thread. There are also many ways to monetize as the employers I spoke with are frustrated and willing to pay for the right service that yield results.
One thing that might be a friction point reading this proposal (it was for me anyway), is that I don't know what a "staffing-prenuer" is, and a quick google search raised more questions then it answered. Is it someone who starts a staffing agency like a restaurateur?

Sorry this might just be me; but I just wanted to let you know.
You are incorrect. At start (speed == 0), an electric motor will put out a lot more torque than a diesel. When you're stopped at a steep hill, this is what matters the most.
SoundCloud are moving to Kubernetes too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5378N5iLb2Q
Is this google's attempt to take on pinterest?
No. The services maintain their own databases, and don't disclose their access logs.