skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the link:

>But if I try to revisit this later, it’s impossible. I can remember what I found, but it wasn’t a linear progression, therefore my browser history is useless.

If I want to find a page I visited more than three days ago, seeing a tree of history is not going to help me much more than seeing a linear list. There is just way too much information to sift through manually.

The obvious solution is to add full-text indexing by page content. And maybe even store pages for offline use. Perhaps when you enter special browsing mode akin to "private browsing" (although it would be the exact opposite, since it would retain more information).

I am aware of the complex issues this would require to solve, but those capabilities would qualitatively transform browsing and give users back some modicum of control over their page navigation. These days Google is our history. We remember a few keywords and instead of sifting through a giant list of URLs we simply search. Again, sifting through giant tree is not going to be any simpler. In fact, in terms of visual identification it might be more difficult than skimming a list.

...

Some simple machine learning algorithm that learns to bookmark and auto-tag pages would be an awesome feature/experiment as well.

...

And filtering open tabs by a keyword. Many people use tabs as a sort of dynamic set of bookmakers. Partly because they (sort of) preserve page content locally.
There are a lot of comparisons between the Parse Open Source and Parse.com as a service ...
Oh I don't doubt there are very high quality private schools, even religious ones.

The problem is there are also abominable ones, and there's no assurance with the voucher systems (as proposed) to discern between them.
>An "imported" doctor needs to get US certifications, and that's a limiting factor.

Yeah, that's the factor Dean Baker wanted eliminated.
Reading this comment and your other one above, I think we are in general agreement. I think there are two pieces here: one is a change in perception to some extent: you're right that many people value digital delivery differently and lower. To some extent I think that can change. I know it's changed for myself personally over the years.

The other is along the lines of what you wrote here, which I think sums it nicely:

we need to rethink the path that currently leads from "X created it, and deserves compensation" to "Y receives a copy and should pay for it".

What I'd like to hear is more about potential solutions as opposed to descriptions.
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Yes – Piotr Wozniak (creator of SuperMemo and one of the pioneers of spaced learning) designed the system as a way to retain knowledge you've already ingested and understood.

Rule 1 and 2 from https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/20rules are these:

> 1. Do not learn if you do not understand

> 2. Learn before you memorize

I use Anki to retain programming snippets and gotchas in the same way that Derek Sivers describes here:

https://sivers.org/srs

This article cited there is well worth reading too, as it's specific to programming:

https://www.oxbridgenotes.com/articles/janki_method_refined
I think you're interpreting this differently than the author intended. Later he says this:

> Without tons of rules and process, it becomes very obvious who cares about the organization and who does not, thanks to the lack of rules & process and not because of them.

An abundance of rules and process provides a system that bad actors can and will game, giving the appearance of adding value without actually moving the needle.

> Even if we wanted to, we can’t write a rule that will magically make people engaged. We have to compel them by building a workplace they love and can do great, meaningful work in.
I've spent the last 15 minutes on parse.com, github.com trying to find out what the parse backend actually is. Can someone explain?
Excellent list of devs already. I would add:

Tess Ferrandez: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/tess/ (Fantastic analysis of Windows debugging internals)

John Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/
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Could be the bang that pops the bubble.
I follow anyone on github who is doing something that's interesting.

It seems this thread mostly lists folks with white sounding names. May be because software development mostly happens in the West.

When I was in college, I actually believed white people were superior because they had faster neurons. Took a while to invalidate that theory out.
Glad to see I'm not the only one with that plastic housing problem. Once that comes off, you pretty much can't charge your device. I superglued mine back on, but it's just asking for trouble having to do that so close to the connectors.
I don't give a shit about the founders I'm talking about the employees.
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Firebase has a few issues.

Take a look at this video and tell me this query and the required data denormalization is acceptable.

https://t.co/xd1KUPc8xY
This is why I've been eyeing a Garmin Vivoactive HR. I know people slam Garmin because they feel behind but if there is one thing they know it's accuracy. There's a reason they're the goto brand for cyclists, runners and triathletes. It's because they work reliably.
In a competitive market, cost+ pricing is a thing.

In a monopoly market, value- pricing is a thing.

Neither one is more inherent than the other, but the latter favors humanity in general over a narrow few.
All three. A half-time locker room pep talk gives information about the coach, the players, and football culture generally.
but we still got screwed and I still hate facebook because of it.
The <insert Republican president> is Hitler thing is getting old... Also, not real journalism.
Now back to our regular scheduled program.
Blockbuster was bankrupted by Netflix + streaming making their product obsolete and overpriced.
And there is where you are wrong. If you cannot get them because they are "not free" and this bothers you, then you have to recognize that those bits have some value to you. You want them, and want is value. If they had no value they would be free and you would care less that you didn't have them.

I demonstrated this physicality to a friend by showing them a pad of 580 pages, a bottle of ink, two pieces of cardboard, and some slightly heavy paper stock. All totaled up they represented about $8.30 worth of material. They had physicality and they clearly had a production cost, we agreed they were "worth" $8.30. Then I pulled out the same material except that the ink had been spread about on the paper such that it told the story of Harry Potter's adventures during one of his years at Hogwarts. Now it was valued at $34.99. What changed? It had information on the pages now that it didn't have before, and that information has some value.

I've spent quite a bit of time trying to understand the economics of information, what gives it value, how is that value captured, and how is that value lost. I can tell you unequivocally that digital goods should no more be free than automobiles, and for the same reason. It takes an action to create useful or desirable information, and that effort is an economic action which we reward by sending capital toward it. When people get stuck in the mindset that the 'bits are free' they for get that the order of the bits is not free. It is that ordering that has the value, not the bits themselves. Most people agree that the value of a DVD full of zeros is different than the value of a DVD with a movie on it. They won't agree on what what the value is, but I've yet to find people who don't think there is at least some value[1].

Digital goods should not be "free" and appropriating them without economic exchange is theft, but how 'not free' they should be is an interesting discussion.

[1] For the pedantics, yes some movies could be zeros.
Laymen "easy" language makes everything harder to understand.

The holographic principle means that if you take a sphere somewhere, the amount of entropy you can push there grows with r^2, and not with r^3 like you'd expect.
AutoSleep app does a decent job of retrofiting sleep tracking into the apple watch. With a data lockin, I have an Aria scale, and Sync Solver is good at extracting Fitbit data into the HealthKit.
I agree with that, but not sure how it refutes the point I was making.
You're better off using PhantomJS to take screenshots.

There's still no great solution for Flash if you have to support that. I did a lot of research on this previously.
It's 5 + national holidays.
One suggestion you can make to the founders is early exercise. Some companies offer this. That at least gives the employer the benefit that people put money on the table and "invest" in the company by buying their options before they vest. It shows some belief and financial commitment.

Of course, in a very early startup, that investment might be so small they won't care, and there's a tax implication for the employee you'll want to be aware of.
> You also greatly overestimate the amount of competent people in the US. Most companies, like FB and Google and Uber, and not hiring from abroad because its cheaper. They are doing it because there are not enough competent people in the US to fill the jobs.

I disagree with this. I think companies abusing H1Bs aggravate the issue of lack of diversity in the tech industry based on my experience alone as a minority in the tech industry. There must be a good amount of competent people in the US, they just happen to be minorities. There's recruiters and even hiring managers at tech companies that believe that a South Asian, East Asian, European, white male/female is more competent than a Latino or African American male or female, based on their name alone. Being on hiring committees at a tech giant, I've found that bias is even greater when dealing with South Asian and East Asian hiring managers, who usually prefer to hire competent people from their countries (Sometimes requiring visas, sometimes not). I can't imagine it's that much different at other tech companies.
Baseless conjecture shot down immediately by someone intimately involved with the project is truly something beautiful to behold.

Are you at liberty to discuss the actual reasons and shed a bit more light on why things went down the way they did?

Side note, your product was unbelievably popular at my university. Parse made getting a functional DB up and running for courses and side projects completely painless and a no-brainer for tight deadlines and PoCs.
>How do you break into a career in a niche field like SAP development.

OH GOD WHY? Have you used SAP? SAP is the most expensive pile of shit I have ever seen. No company in their right mind would deploy such a system at this point in time.
That's all this project does.
> When the developer is the domain expert, you've achieved the singularity. /s

agreed with /s but...

If your report wr... excuse me... business intelligence developer doesn't become a domain expert, then you are going to have some serious problems down the road.

I've seen many developer in enterprise get asked pure business questions because they have to think about them all day long to do their jobs. Its really a strange thing about our profession because in order to program the process and take into account the edge cases you really need to be an expert at the process. Some companies lose their damn mind when a developer knows more about their business than the employee who does the process.

I've often found the most trouble from companies with managers that repeat the mantra: "we are not an IT company". That's basically the signal that you will never be acknowledged for your business knowledge.

> Sorry guys, my fingers just kept typing.

long form is alway good
If you have something worth saying, you can take the 5 minutes it takes to make it readable.
While not conclusive, does this not sound like support for what could be Intelligent Design - ID?

'Patterns imprinted in it carry information about the very early Universe and seed the development of structures of stars and galaxies in the late time Universe.' [From the Bulletin]

If the universe is encoded on a 2d surface and has been projected on 3d, doesn't that sound like some design/intentional purpose encoded on the 2d surface?
And good riddance!
The mistake is assuming audiences don't want the age-old well established hugely popular and profitable cinematic forms.
I think it depends on your level of expertise and the requirements of your project. Having Parse Server as something you can set up in a few minutes on a VPS and start building a client-server app is great. The integration via the various SDKs is incredible, and it takes a long time to build something like that out. All the available options have their tradeoffs, but I think having the source and an interested community is a great pro in the Parse column.
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At least for screenshots, the headless support recently introduced into chrome might be the most straightforward solution, with the fewest pieces.

Some detail: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VTcYz4q_x0f1O5IVrvRX4u1D...
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You can argue it does indirectly.

If blue collar job wages are driven very low, more people will choose STEM careers, which will also serve to drive IT job wages down.
I would like to see an art gallery where the surfaces were treated with Vantablack. I think it would further enhance the experience by effectively disallowing the eye to focus on anything but the work in question.

It might be a tiny bit expensive though.
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Hi there, it would be awesome to have Zappa support Fission, happy to talk more about it!

We're working on a detailed comparison with Openwhisk, but basically -- we bet on Kubernetes as a good foundation to build this on, and it seems to be going well so far. It's true that we're at an earlier project maturity stage than Openwhisk is. In particular, we're actively working on integrating event sources and adding support for more languages.
SFV is a conscious effort to welcome newcomers and it's very simple. In some ways it's less complex than SFII was (certainly at high-level play I think that's a reasonable thing to say). Finding matches locally is, I concede, more of a challenge, but that's not really the fault of the game developers.

Also, maybe MKI could be described as really simple, but I think by the time MKII and III came out that wasn't really true of those anymore.
Hi Fosco ... Thanks to you @flovilmart and the other heroes who made this possible :)

You guys are aweosme!
"Edit: Can we get a Red/Green/Blue Mars miniseries on HBO, please? That would make my decade."

(spoilers follow, although this book is 24 years old so if you haven't read it, you're probably never going to read it. Also Vader is Luke's father)

I also enjoyed that trilogy but the problem is the studio execs don't define "adult" as above room temp IQ or for actual adults, they define it as using the word Fuck every five minutes, disgusting bloody gore, and plenty of ratings boosting sex, because in their twisted freak world that is in fact the only difference between kindergartners and adults. "Hollywood" is too screwed up to relate to real people.

So imagine KSR's series absolutely brutalized and... I don't want to think about it. Imagine 30 minutes of steamy sex between Hiroko and Coyote (Vlad's home life is probably even more photogenic) then Phyllis has every spoken phrase contain the word Fuck and when Maya kills her we get at least five minutes of gore-pr0n of dismemberment and blood and organs lying on the ground. And to save money they rewrite the entire story to be a scientific research station in antarctica and vampires are still hot so we'll add some of those. Just horrible.

If you really want a mind-warper, imagine modern degenerate media execs trying to do a on screen Bible.

We're in an era of narrowcasting where only trash is made and only trash sells.
Backendless is a solid option: https://backendless.com/
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We migrated to Sashido about a month ago. Migration was pretty painless. There was one brief outage lasting a couple of hours but other than that the experience has been positive. Beats having to rewrite the app or deal with running own Parse instance (at this early stage of our startup).
Having organised a pretty large student conference in the past, here are some further considerations:

- Obviously the specific countries behind those numbers matter. If you're organising a conference on 14th century Flemish literature, the Netherlands will be more important than North Korea

- Not all restrictions are created equal. Specifically, the activity I was involved in (University Debating) has a sizeable Israeli community, who would argue that travel restrictions that jews encounter across the muslim world should be considered more harshly than most other travel restrictions, which tend to emanate from a fear of economic migration.

- beware self-fulfilling prophecies: If you chose a location that is hard for sub-saharan african nationals to reach because they're underrepresented in your audience, you are also perpetuating that underrepresentation.
I disagree with your assessment that this is simply a new industrial revolution following the same path as the old.

Farming is hard work but is not necessarily difficult or hard to learn. Same with assembly line factory work.

But when college graduates are put out of the job by neural networks that can analyze information better and faster than the ugly bags of mostly water ever could, what do they do? Where do they work? What kinds of jobs will they have?

And if they cannot find work, what happens to the the income of their hairdresser? Their grocery store clerk? Their barista?

What if they can't find jobs either? What do they do?

ML is fundamentally different from any technological revolution that has come before. Humans have a long history of automating brawn, but not brain.

I refuse to accept hand-waving that things will simply change and be ok as they were before. Machine learning will be the biggest reckoning in the history of humanity even without full-blown artificial intelligence. And nobody knows how it will play out.
Exactly. I may look back and regret this later, but I don't see a circumstance where both my job will be outsourced and my skill set as a senior dev who can communicate architecture and business clearly and has developed soft skills won't give me a competitive advantage over cheap outsourced labor.
On the shadow of one of the two major BAAS providers shutting down, I still do not understand the hate towards BAAS. There are billions of real life applications out there that could benefit from a BAAS provider that allows developers to put together a production-ready app very fast, reliably and without the need to worry about managing a server. I simply see BAAS as just a higher level of abstraction on top of a VPS/container.

I'd like to thank the guys that built Parse.com, it is an awesome product and I hope this shutdown does not move the industry in the opposite direction, BAAS companies should continue to develop and improve their products.

I should add that after the shutdown I went shopping around for migration and found Sashido.io to be a good option. Migration was automatic and I just needed to change the API URL of my apps to get them going. Zero downtime.
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When I read that, I was impressed how simplistic they were.

canonical article: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3938/the_pacman_dossie...
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Can you think of a more accurate headline that's as easy to express? Maybe "Godfather of Pac-Man" ?
It sounds like we are almost entirely in agreement :D
I just think this order should be the new textbook example on why move fast and break things should not be executive policy.
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I hadn't heard of t7 - looks very nice. Similar to https://github.com/maxogden/yo-yo, but I'm impressed with the level of React inter-op and spread support.

I meant more on like Angular implementing it's html templates using template literals and importing them into the runtime, making them inspectable. On second thought, it might be less a matter of the underlying logic and more a matter of when templates are evaluated
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Production cost is a problem, and technology has made it worse. Look at that long, long list of animators and technicians at the end of any effects-heavy film today. A cast of thousands.

In the late 1990s, when I was working on physics engines for animation, I was talking to a major Hollywood director. He'd done some of the first films that had both live and photorealistic CGI characters. He wanted to get the cost down, so he could make $20 million movies. At $20 million, he could direct; at $100 million, he was running a huge operation that had to have everything pre-planned in great detail.

His model was the early CGI cartoon, "Reboot". Reboot was a weekly half hour cartoon made by a staff of about 30. He wanted to get to that level of productivity at theater quality - make a 2 hour film in a month with 30 people.

That didn't happen. Not even close.

It's been tried. "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" started as a low-budget picture rendered on Macs. In that film, if nobody touches it, it's CG. Ended up costing $70 million. Worldwide box office $50 million. Fail. "Iron Sky" was made for €7.5 million. Worldwide box office $11.5 million. Fail.

There were successful low budget directors in the past, Roger Corman being the prime example. (His autobiography is titled "How I made a hundred movies in Hollywood and never lost a dime".) It's harder to do that today. Viewers today expect incredible production value. Most TV shows have more production value today than 70s movies did. Hollywood has so many people on set because they bring a team together on short notice to do a job, then disband the team. They need many competent people with different skills to make that work. If you cut corners, it looks like Youtube crap.

On big movies, we've mostly replaced set painters and carpenters with people who sit at workstations and do the same job with CG models. "Big" is now cheap, but "detailed" remains expensive. Procedural visual content generation can generate good landscapes and vegetation now (check out SpeedTree), but as yet, nobody has been able to procedurally generate one convincing block of a city street seen at ground level. Making GTA V cost $265 million. Not seeing an incoming reduction in production cost.

Netflix has no huge advantage. HBO is in the same position - they make content to sell to their own customers, and know exactly what sold. Data collection is retrospective. Trying to figure out what movies will be box office failures in advance remains hard. That's why Hollywood generates so many sequels - predictability.
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In Europe we get blockbusters with a delay (4 to 8 months), so the choice is, either you pirate now, either you go watch it in theaters in 6 months, either you pay for the DVD-with-unskippable-ads next year.

Dumbed-down movies are also a result of trying to conquer worldwide markets with massive social inequality, from Brazil to Philippines. You need a movie that everyone can understand, including partly-illiterate people and people with various cultural backgrounds (try the same facial expression in 15 languaages and you'll run into constraints). And you also need to abide by China's policy. Result: The lowest common denominator, but distributed in 158 countries.

Which is sad, because we'd prefer to see movies with half the production costs and a good scenario.
It's not at all inevitable that we have to allow the hiring of mass amounts of immigrants.

Why do you think it's inevitable?