skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't eaten meat in 29 years. I don't get offended when I go to work events where meat is served or even offered as a centerpiece of the event like at a pig roast.
Ugh. That's terrible. I kinda figured that it's an eventual conclusion though, so when speedtest.net starts giving me contradictory results to what I am experiencing I have a pretty good idea of what the check first.

On a separate note, what tool did you use to create that graph?
> CPS has basically unlimited power to take the kid for any contrived reason they can imagine BEFORE it goes through any kind of court... all based on their perceived notion of 'what's best' for the child.

This is 100% absolutely false, but it's a misconception CPS agents love to abuse. CPS is NOT a law enforcement agency. If they want to remove a child from a house, they need to have the police and judge's order to do so. In fact, they can only enter your house with your permission or with a warrant with police present. However, some of their worse agents thrive on threatening parents with child removal.

If you ever, ever get wind of CPS coming to visit you, consult a lawyer, and record any conversations you have with them (on your property). You need to stand up to them. Source: I've been through this. Fortunately, the person I worked with understood she was entering a hostile environment.
Its not that I don't think that Google and Amazon are probably acting in my best interests now. They probably are. Also not that I think that the government couldn't spy on me if they wanted to. They could.

The scenario that worries me is that years from now, Google and Amazon may be coerced into turning over what I said yesterday to a corrupt government fishing through the past for word-crime. And boy-howdy, it turns out they recorded everything and retained it forever. Surprise!
We did try the other implementations first, but had a lot of issues doing what we wanted with them.
Are you sure? The dataset is from here:
https://archive.org/details/2015_reddit_comments_corpus

Looking at the thread from the release, I see no explanation of how he got the data, but I see several people commenting that they finally have a way to get comments beyond the 1000 per account:
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/3bxlg7/i_have_eve...
I use Firebase in lieu of running my own NodeJS server. I can use a backend PHP web server but still provide realtime capabilities to my app users by using Firebase as a pub/sub system.
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(firebase founder here) I’m thrilled to finally be able to show everyone what we’ve been working on over the last 18 months! When I said “big things are coming” in the HN comments back when our acquisition was announced, I was talking about today : )

We’re really excited about these new products. There are some big advances on the development side, with a new storage solution, integrated push messaging, remote configuration, updates to auth, etc. Perhaps more important though are the new solutions for later in your app’s lifecycle. We’ve added analytics, crash reporting, dynamic linking, and a bunch more so that we can continue to support you after you’ve built and launched your app too.

I'd suggest reading the blog post for more info:
https://firebase.googleblog.com/2016/05/firebase-expands-to-...

This is the first cut of a lot of new features, and we’re eager to hear what the Hacker News community thinks. I look forward to your comments!
How did you find that? I was going to echo the GP, about 2002 being the earliest visible through the date sort (so far).
ITT smart hackers asking for more features and noting the privacy implications. Unfortunately, this, Echo, and others are coming for the masses, the masses who have everything public on Facebook and won't really understand the issues until it's too late. Give it a few years and 'everyone' will have a Star-Trek-like home computer experience. What can we do to turn the tide in favor of privacy and security? Or do we just trust Google/Amazon will do the right thing?
As someone said:

"Power does not corrupt, corrups the fear to lose it"
In recent updates? We have changed how this works in the last few releases, we hope it will be more stable.
When will it support a count query? now to be able to count number of children I have to download all the data. Count is such an important feature for me.
The title should probably be changed from the submitted title, "Women in tech are taking shorter lunch breaks than men", to the actual title of the article, which is "How Long do You Take for Lunch Breaks".

It is not possible from the data given in the article to determine if women are taking shorter lunch breaks than men because the table that compares lunch breaks by gender uses the following five categories: "Eat at desk", "30 min", "45 min", "1 hr", ">1 hr". For each gender the percentages in these five categories add up to 100% which strongly suggests that these categories are meant to be disjoint. But that means that for the 29% of women and 21% of men who eat lunch at their desk we do not have any information on the length of their lunch break.
Absolutely and they have provided great metrics on the streaming performance of their customers.

This opens it up for folks who are not netflix customers, which hopefully gathers more data .
Authentication is built-in. You can authenticate users and give them specific access with a JSON-like file that lives on the server. It actually works wonderfully.
Except that they legally can't in plenty of countries, so that are, in practice, just making the problem of unclear licensing worse :(
The realtime database is IMO very cool and it's definitely worth it just for that, but integrated analytics and cloud notifications takes it to the next level.
Which is why I keep mine in a lead box at home.
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This article is coming from a frustrated developer and lacks any scientific evidence. The frustration (understandably) is coming from the overwhelming complex new features and patterns that barely a compiler can understand.

C++11 onward revamped the language to make up for the lack of progress in the past 10 years. The majority of C++ developers that aren't keeping up with the new features because they are busy with their daily jobs feel that they are falling behind and the language they thought they new has changed underneath them.

C++03 already had a steep learning curve, but with C++11+ that learning curve is orders of magnitude more.

On the upside, you can use C++11 without understanding most of the details and it will do the right thing most of the them. And I think that's the bet that the language is making.
Looks great! It will certainly be filling the void that Parse's departue left.

Google already offered a lot more more than other platforms (ios) in terms of analytics and this just makes that gap even bigger.
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Yeah, I'm sticking with Echo because business model.
Not for nothing, but Nexus is $50 and including Global Entry and TSA Pre. Also gets you into Canada, though I've not used that perk myself.
I've actually found the SFO private contractors to be fantastic. I once left my laptop at the security scanner, and they shipped it to me next day (at my expense) where I urgently needed my laptop the following day--it was boxed and packaged nicely and sent to FedEx for me for free. I just had to send them a PDF label. They simply verified serial number. They had a great lost and found tracking system and called me "customer."

The other time I brought some Chinese takeout that had a lot of liquid in it. The scanner said for future reference try to order drier dishes (I brought a papaya with soup embedded in the cavity), but she was going to look the other way and winked at me and told me to enjoy dinner.

Never had to wait long either (but I have TSA Precheck) and don't recall being barked at... I did have to wait quite a bit in the official TSA Precheck line in EWR though (those were DHS employees) and dealt with a slew of surly employees...
I think most arguments for abortion rely heavily on the right of the mother to bodily autonomy. That is, once the baby is delivered, those arguments fall apart. Breastfeeding your child because you want the "experience" is completely different.
Hello there. I love Firebase. Use it every day.

The one big request I've always had was to be able to grab the client's IP address on request. Is that possible with this new Firebase and GCE integration?

I have many Firebase apps. Most of them have an intermediate server solely for this one reason.
> Recent attempts to get the developers to shoulder more of this cost is often the next fight these communities face.

Why would the people building the housing be responsible for these costs? If new people are moving to a community and consuming services, can't they pay for those services through taxes like everyone else?
Interesting article. What I have to say will sound old fashioned but I think it is relevant.

My opinion is that power does not corrupt as much under one circumstance. It corresponds to old ideas about aligning interests of the group with the individual. About also not having to answer to competitors for your status in society.

If you are a trained member of the aristocratic class.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocrat

Aristocrats != Wealthy. Although they usually are as a side affect.

Aristocrats can be born or more rarely raised into the class. They are normally trained in an area of expertise or otherwise have a great deal of experience. Example would be the House of Lords as opposed to the House of Parliament members whom are democratically elected.

Today the word has a negative meaning but originally the aristocracy performed any number of astonishing feats I do not believe modern governments are capable of accomplishing.

In modern times it is possible that patriotism can serve a similar function for well paid civil servants and that also being independently wealthy can be an advantage against corruption. However these techniques are just derivatives of the original idea of an aristocracy class.

Example of an official present day aristocrat would be Baroness Susan Greenfield. A good example of a defacto (natural) aristocrat would be somebody like Freeman Dyson.

These are people we can trust to have power and wield it responsibly. I realize this is a highly imperfect system but it really is superior to modern day ideas about democracy and responsibility.

Incidentally I have no money or power, I gain no advantage from believing this. I arrive at this idea largely by reading history books. I just think if you can't separate rich from the aristocrats you will get confusing and conflated results as per the article.

Obviously the problem with aristocracy is the overly hereditary nature of it. Freeman Dyson's children are excellent people but in different (magical to me) ways. I could not say whether his grandchildren would share the same level though, that's kind of the problem that lead to the word aristocracy having negative sentiments.
Such a great moment when they open the "Buzzfeed instant app" and half the screen is covered by an ad..
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I might be totally wrong about this, but I think the reason "OK Google" or "Hey Alexa" are immutable phrases is because the listening for them is implemented via an ASIC chip at the hardware level, in order to save on battery life. That is, instead of a software based `while(listening) {...}`, an actual hardware component looks for the correct wave forms from the microphone output.
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Thanks for reporting. I'll test when I get home, but I'm also in Austin and have Gigapower. I was afraid that it would almost embarrassingly low, but your results gave me hope. I'm curious what the Google Fiber and Grande users here get.
I'd love to see a list of web frameworks with one-paragraph blurbs describing the problem they solve and what they work with. To an outsider (which I am) they all seem the same.
I find the peer pressure to drink more in the immediate post-college crowd. Most folks in their 30s have seen friends get DUIs, or have alcohol cause trouble in their lives. Or we equate beer with large bellies. And we respect folks who refrain.
What's the usage scenario here? I'm just not seeing mobile VR as a usable thing. Does Google expect people to carry goggles around everywhere they go like they do their phone? Worse, the crummy graphics and low framerate in the video seems like a recipe for VR sickness.

I have a Vive at home and its wonderful for gaming, if a bit undercook and still unable to deliver a pixel density that makes me happy (Vive2 perhaps?), but I can't imagine a phone remotely competing with that still underpowered experience.

I can see AR projection built into one's existing glasses a la Google Glass or perhaps what MS is doing with AR, but VR is a totally different beast. Comfort, performance, fov, pixel density, graphics quality, audio quality, "presence," etc really matter. I just don't see Google pulling that off and even if they got close, who exactly is clamoring for VR phones? I suspect Google has just become too mobile centric and is shoehorning in whatever is hot into its Android line and seeing what sticks (instead of refining Android to be a better experience it seems). I'm not sure if that's wise. VR seems to be more at home attached to a powerful computer in a safe indoor space where people can feel free to move around without injury and get a high quality VR experience. You shouldn't be doing VR at the bus stop.
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Congratulations on the release! It'll tale a while to digest the truck-load of new stuff you've got :D
Thanks so much, I love your product and am developing on it right now. When Parse got shut down, I got a bit nervous, but the Firebase updates give me reassurance that it is here to stay.
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"don't rock the boat for being different" only applies to followers, not leaders. Nobody would ever accuse the college hockey star or the startup founder of rocking the boat because he doesn't drink. They would think it was courageous that he stood by his principles.
whats the argument here? We shouldn't care about privacy because we have iPhones?

we shouldn't tight the seatbelt wheb driving because we're going to die by cancer in the long run anyway?
AKA the return of plugins! to be fair it's the most interesting announce in the whole conference so far.

By the way, this is clearly a first step for the merging of ChromeOS and Android. It is also possible that these "apps" will have limited access to Android APIs. In fact, I'd like to see exactly that in my Chrome browser on my desktop just to give it a try.
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Other code hosting platforms such as GitLab do exist. I find it plausible that people don't know about them, but if they're reading this comment now they do.
Startup Suggestion – Posture Monitor
For those looking for a startup idea, here's a suggestion: Create a device which reminds one to stand up straight.

Having recently traveled to Haiti, I found the posture of the Haitian women incredible; though living in extreme poverty, Haiti's women had the poise of ballerinas. The cause seemed to be the large water buckets women of all ages balanced on their heads as they walked up and down the local mountains. Much like the books aristocrats used to balance on their heads in finishing school, the lesson of balancing a load on one's head seems to ingrain good posture.

The question is, can a device, say something that clips in one's hair and which communicates with a device in one's belt, perform the same task? Could it subtly send notification if one's posture is slipping? Perhaps it could vibrate like a phone, etc. I'm sure others here will have better ideas.

I'd love to own such a device.
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Biologically, you're much better off with commensal organisms that expect to have a long, profitable relationship with you, giving you things you want and benefiting from you in return, rather than organisms with a shorter time horizon.
I'm not convinced that the same thing is happening here. If you look at the aftermath, it seems that the press has curved a hole through the book. The "explosion" seems to be the aftershock of the press hitting the table with force after forcing itself through the book.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, the San Francisco city government was run by pro-development Republicans who built some admittedly rather monstrous looking concrete slab modernist skyscrapers downtown.

(Contrary to popular belief, it was then a rather conservative city, not some sort of mythical artsy bohemian paradise. The "freaks," as they were then known, were a small minority of the population.)

This led to an anti-development backlash against the so called "Manhattanization" of San Francscio, which synergized with general anti-capitalist sentiment brought by the large number of leftist newcomers who arrived in the 1970s. The pro-development Republicans were routed entirely out of city politics by 1980, and rent control as well as a number of highly restrictive zoning laws were passed, aimed at preserving the picturesque postcard hillsides and views of the bay and halting all forms of physical and social change in the city.

The result is that most of the city has a "frozen in amber" feel to it. Making any substantial changes to the way anything physically looked circa 1950 is simply forbidden.

If you have to do repairs, you must demonstrate how it will not alter the appearance of the building. You must preserve the facade identically to the way it has been. You can often see gut renovations where the original facade is propped up on wooden stilts facing the street, and the entire rest of the house has been torn down to be rebuilt.

A current case in the local news revolves around the city granting landmark status to a 60 year old pine tree (not even a rare species) in some guy's backyard, so that he is legally unable to remove it: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-san-francisco-...
will user be able to opt out of tracking? Like Do-Not-Track
Self driving cars, sure. A world changing project. The rest, I couldn't be more bored. Thanks for saving me from typing "cute dog". Ughh.
I wonder if Vagrant intends to provide a Hypervisor.framework-based Linux backend. That would be cool.

Edit: Experimental plugin: https://github.com/oldpatricka/vagrant-xhyve.
All of the benefits of the web. None of the openness or interoperability.
We've been using the Firebase platform for a while now. It's pretty cool to see them expand from 3 products to ~15 overnight. I'm most excited about their analytics and crash reporting. I must say that their system has been one of the best we have used in a longtime, I am really excited to see other aspects like analytics and ads being housed under this same umbrella, as I think it is going to help with development time overall. One area that I'd like to see improved though is a deeper querying language for database, or even better would be a way to automatically export the system in realtime to a postgres database for better SQL type analytics.
For me, I would be most excited about the lecture applications.

For example, what if every TED talk had a VR broadcast so you could slap on your goggles and "attend" it. This goes for conference key notes or college lectures. Anything where Physical attendance is a barrier and not a key component of the experience I think would benefit from a lightweight VR experience like this.
That seems questionable. I haven't met a property owner that is a fan of permits.
> What's so scary about CPS?

CPS is like the police. In general, a large number of the agents are decent people who are trying to do what's best for the children. However, you will get some agents that tend to be over zealous and will abuse their position to threaten and force the parents into submission, under the assumed auspices of taking away the children. Most people who deal with CPS tend to be poor and do not realize a CPS agent is not a law enforcement agent, and thus need a warrant and police to take away children.
This product indeed sounds too good to be true but we'll probably have something that delivers within 10 years. Add that to a virtual assistant and the future could be very different. Automatthew's Friend by Stanislaw Lem explores one possible scenario.
New dashboard look & feel is awesome. Lots to digest from that short keynote, but I'm excited to see Google double-down on its investment (Hi, Facebook).

Looks like https://console.firebase.google.com is getting slammed. All of my attempted imports are failing.
Totally agree, but I'd take it in a different direction too, which is that startups have an expertise problem by definition. Most of the stuff in this article that just seemed beyond the pale WAS beyond the pale. But most of that stuff:

1. Came from people who would have definitely not been in C-suite positions at any established company
2. Would have been completely moderated by someone in HR at a traditional company, if not lead to termination / sanction

But, because it's a startup, you're getting people who have to do jobs they were never trained to do, or were never a good fit for. Your brainiac CEO may be lacking the soft-skills to actually be responsible for other people, and yet, he's the most qualified to really own the product vision. There's a reason these positions aren't mixed in traditional companies, and there's a reason why your CEO isn't the CEO at a stable company pulling in $$MM in revenue.
> Additionally once you are on AWS you are pretty much locked into AWS by the way (as you describe) things are setup. I am not convinced that at a time in the future AWS will not change their pricing to take advantage of the lock that they have (even though now they continually drop prices). Or add extra fees or whatever.

This is just FUD. AWS prices are always lowering, there is never a time they have increased. Even if they increased their prices, Google, Rackspace and Microsoft would eat their lunch. There is plenty of competition in the computing space.

> Being in business so many years I have seen this happen and changing from AWS will be near impossible. (In other words for people on AWS such as you describe there is no easy alternative competition for a system once designed and specific to AWS in the way you detail).

If your solutions are so narrowly defined that they won't run on anything else than AWS, then you are doing it wrong. You might run on specific AWS services, but there should be no reason why someone could not recreate their solutions over on Google Compute or other services. Yes, you might have to rework some of your solutions, but it should be very doable.
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people will stop going to the hospital to give birth, raising the rate of mortality and complications for infants and mothers.

According to Healthcare Triage, home births have an overall lower risk of complications. It's only in the cases of things going spectacularly wrong that being in the hospital helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWvSPhENtk

It fits with my view of things: If there's something really broken, go to the hospital to get it fixed. However, if you're fine, you're better off avoiding the place. (Do get checkups from a doctor you have a good relationship with.)
They have been for over a year apparently

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/17/app-submissions-on-google-p...
I want the device very much. But definitely not one that sends my voice to the cloud. Not one I can't tweak at all.
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I'm in talks with a company regarding building an application for users in developing countries, where Android 2.0 is still the dominant OS version.

Firebase 2.0 looks like a great fit for their needs otherwise, but is the new sdk backward compatible to Android 2.0?