skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wages of professions have shifted to other directions. While wages of low-level workers may be low and getting lower, the supply is still high. Conversely, wages of higher level workers are relatively higher but the work is a lot more intense, has more hours, and poor working environment.
Great point.

People complain about windowing, but it is a sign that the movie industry is flexible about pricing to maximize the value they capture, unlike the music industry, TV industry, etc.

When a movie comes out these days it often comes out in multiple editions with different features (not to mention Blu Ray, DVD or both) at different price points. If you want it right away you will pay a high price, but the movie they sell for $20 one day will probably be on sale for $10 or $5 at some point in the future.

Thus, go to a retail store, and you will be able to buy a movie at a price you can afford or you can pay extra to get a better edition of something specific.

Contrast that to music CD and track prices that are almost always the same, or the "take it or leave it" bundle offered by the cable companies.
We loved Parse! It all started out for them with this community. Sad to see them shut down. We moved away a week ago. Of course, last moment. We have a huge user base and managed to transition what we thought would be a nightmare process, to Sashido. I saw a few others mention them as well.

Their team helped us tons in doing the switch. Probably, we sent 50 emails back & forth on details. Don't know how these guys didn't hate us! Super responsive and caring team! Big kudos to them. They saved our butts.
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> philosophy became irrational

This is contradiction.

> Eastern philosophy isn't abstract speculation, similar to theology? Why?

Due to its goal and its method. The goal was to find the ultimate reality, as they call it. The method was of removing nonsense, not pilling up more abstract concepts. A recursive process of reaching the ultimate base case, if you wish.

The culmination is, arguably, the Upanishads and to some extent Advaita Vedanta and the Buddhist philosophy of mind. For its time it was remarkable achievements and for the most parts in its fundamental principles it still does not have a contradiction with the principles confirmed by the findings of the classic sciences.
Job ordering/dependencies! Job1a must finish successfully before Job1b and Job1c.

Alternatively, all Jobs matching this query must succeed before this job. Failures can be OK if a configurable threshold of success is met. Exceeding the thresh fails the dependent jobs before they get to run.

You can do all of this with supervisor pods, but since you asked...
If you wanted to follow him, how would you do it? He doesn't exactly have a blog, or other channels aimed at a wide audience
> Do you like stretched stories over many episodes?

Calling it stretched seems to imply that you're lowering the quality to make it last longer. That just isn't the case (most of the time). Look at a show like Stranger Things on Netflix - you could certainly trim and compress that story to make it work in a two hour movie, but it would probably be a very different story than what you get with the eight hour series.

> with superior quality unseen in low budget TV series

I don't know what your experience is with newer TV series, but there are plenty of them out there with large budgets and product quality to rival movies.
Sony is terrified of the “dramatic shifts” in how we consume entertainment
Bummer, I hope they can recover from this. I just got my wife a Charge 2, and she really likes it. It definitely does a better job at tracking things and encouraging fitness than any of the other devices we've owned (Flex, Charge, Apple Watch, Huawei Watch).

I can't comment too much on quality yet, but the charging cable now grips the entire device, so that should help avoid some of the issues they've had in the past.
So the alternative options are:

- pouchDB - https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb

- RxDB - https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb

- gunDB - https://github.com/amark/gun

- horzion - https://github.com/rethinkdb/horizon

- firebase - https://firebase.google.com/
i'm really fascinated by reduction in colors. great godaddy homepage example of then and now. when it comes to large brands, where else are you seeing "less is more" of a color design trend?
Well, sure, but that's not currently the way it works. I'm sure the use of sudo could be designed away. I think it's worth mentioning that it's not just for desktop apps too, services have been ported too it as well as cli centric programs (in fact, I've personally only used those)
They used to say that most people only used 40% (or 80% or whatever) of Microsoft Word's features, but that each person used a different 40%.

I suspect that fitness trackers and smartwatches are like that, too, but that it's more like 20% of the features.
> (...) 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.

I know it changed for me too, and I think it's mostly because of having more disposable income nowadays than in the past. As a teenager, there was no way I could afford movies or video games. Now, my natural first instinct for media is buying / subscribing on Amazon, Netflix and Steam.

> What I'd like to hear is more about potential solutions as opposed to descriptions.

I've been thinking about one, and it turns out to be exactly what 'endominus described here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13523515.
I found this earlier today which I think gives a much fairer characterization of the recent executive orders. http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/are-we-going-to...

The type of fearmongering and conspiracy theory generation in this article reminds me of conservatives during Obama's presidency.
Why GUN Won't Shut Down: Our Open Source Promise, Concerns for Parse/RethinkDB
I've recently been thinking on how our human definition of intelligence might relate to holographic principles, particularly in regards to information theory.

We are small creatures, but our networks -- our brains and societies -- represent the most complex information-encoding geometries we've yet seen in the universe.

And I see the way that our curiosity reaches upward in scale, documenting the far corners and folds of the universe; and deeper, interrogating the tiny subatomic spaces; and forward and back, building models of the future and past of this point in time.

And we capture this knowledge and bring it into our tiny space, information encoded in structures along the skin of this rock floating in space.

And I wonder if that's not holographic in some way: That insatiable drive to compress information from massive scales of space and time into the tiniest of spaces...

But of course, this is just armchair philosophizing ;)
It replaces one feature of libevent, is built on top of libevent, has fewer users than libevent, and is substantially smaller in code size than libevent. That's all I meant to communicate by the word "small".
This will either be my most highly upvoted post ever or will get me hellbanned, but that MOC blog has got to be some of the most aggrandizing, self-obsessed nonsense I have ever read. It's like he's living in his own fantasy world where he is simultaneously the smartest person on Earth and incredibly oppressed.

The idea that someone is going through life thinking that way is more than a little depressing.
Check this out too: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/sashido-io
But, are there so many thousands of those types of people that it needs to be broadcast as a blog post?

I mean, couldn't he walk around the halls of YC and pat a few people on the shoulder and say that same thing?

Not trying to be facetious.
No, Trump's inner circle purposely decided to not exclude green card holders from the Executive Order even after the Homeland Security Secretary suggested they should do so (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/us/stephen-bannon-donald-...). They could have easily crafted a better policy, so I think it is naive to call this a mistake.
Yes and no. It depends. Maybe.

A Gray code, as the article states, is only referenced by the Hamming distance between codes, not the bit size of the encoding. If you repeat the two-bit code: 00,01,11,10 90 times, you'll get a one-degree resolution around a circle, which is plenty for a steering wheel and usually works just as well as a 9-bit encoding (512 states).

The problem becomes "how do I know where the wheel is at any arbitrary time?"

The answer is: you continuously monitor the wheel by counting up or down on each code transition, and have a Home sensor to set the initial position. But now you have to remember the position when you power it off, and perhaps make sure no one can move the wheel while you're not monitoring it. Is that sufficient for your application? (hint: it is for 90% of such applications) If so, problem solved. If not, then we need to get more complex.

More complex can mean: Non-Volatile Memory so we can power off and remember the last position[1], continuous battery-backup so even if main power is off, we track the wheel position, or ta-da: a 9-bit encoding so even with power off, we can encode 512 discrete states. Historically, that last solution was by far the most expensive.

1: I've worked with such a system where the position of a critical gantry was updated while it was running, then when power was off, the last (X,Y) position of the gantry encoders was remembered. Battery-powered electronics then monitored the state of an access door. If the door was opened, then the X,Y position was invalidated (someone could have moved the gantry while the encoders weren't being read) and the software would not allow the system to restart until a manual alignment procedure was done to reset the gantry to a known position and clear the "lockdown" bit. The alternative would have required two 10-bit absolute encoders that cost more than the electronics to do what I described.
This reads like a conspiracy theory I'd find on Info Wars. I really dislike the term trump derangement syndrome, but every day its becoming a better descriptor.

We need to be better than this.

Trump's very election is a coup against the establishment, and so was Bernie Sanders impressive campaign in the primary. Trump's win, and Bernie's Rise make it clear, that Americans are done with business as usual politics.

We all need to be dealing with this new reality instead of running to conspiracy theories.
The charge 2 is the same price as the old one -- but I'd agree if they could put an actual gps tracker on a $150 watch -- like with polar m200 -- it'd be a better competitor to other fitness bands.
I would also expect angel investors to be a little more understanding about slightly less than "MAX GROWTH NOW!!!!!", relative to a large VC firm, and less likely to force the founders into a path the founders don't want to take if the numbers aren't ideal..
I think I failed to communicate my sarcasm or something. I got off all drugs and I manage my medical condition with diet and lifestyle. I am sneering at this dismissal of turmeric.
Don't forget that there are few more :) like https://www.sashido.io
Au contraire: http://www.hercules-390.org/ or http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/education/master-the-mainfra....
Understood, apologies if the comment seemed terse.
I have been using Parse.com for over 3 years for various applications in production and prototype environments.

When Parse.com announced it's shutdown I started looking for alternatives but found nothing that could match Parse's simplicity and features.

So I decided to stay with Parse and finally stumbled upon SashiDo.io which made the migration seamless and painless - highly recommended.

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To add to that, in large parts of Europe it's impossible to find showings that aren't dubbed, or don't have subtitles.

Dubbing ruins the movie entirely, and I find that I can't watch subtitled movies at all, I get obsessed with both listening to the dialog and comparing it with the translation.

Around here it costs me at least $300 to see a movie in its original unaltered format when it opens in theaters, i.e. a round-trip flight to the UK + hotel, so I just don't go.
Agree on the importance of API gateway.

Feature-wise, fission router is very simple right now. It's a service based on gorilla/mux. We had to write our own router because of cold-starts -- basically, the router needs to be able to talk to the pool manager and to get an instance when one doesn't exist, while holding on to the incoming request. (I'm not sure how much of this is possible to write as an nginx plugin.)

I don't have perf numbers just yet, but the router is stateless and you can just run more replicas when you reach its limit. It caches results from the rest of fission components, and most requests are on this fast path.

(We're also thinking about adding some existing feature-ful API proxy in front of the router, to get stuff like authentication, rate limiting, etc.)
You cannot code a particle simulator that perfectly mimics 3D space despite each particle only having two spatial location variables.

We all have that new agey friend on FB who will inevitably share this nonsense. Do we really need to be dealing with it on HN? What's next, Minion memes?
I ran into a developer that was happy and proud that no report writer could generate a report of a transaction because he did all the calculation on the fly and couldn't be bothered to store some critical data in the database. He basically said that the report writer would have to duplicate the program logic in the stored procedure returning the report data. He was honestly happy and didn't think he needed to take the time to fix it.

The report was a customer bill, no report, no money.

Yeah, I get any project has tiers, but I have a special hatred for developers who dump on report writers or testers. The developers fancy achievement don't mean a damn thing unless we can get data out of it including billing.

Sadly, a lot of the trouble results from a single rule: if a developer cares about the state of a single item when making decisions, be advised that some report writer is going to have to write a report that shows all of the items in the system with that state.
Relevant to those mentioning the build quality of Fitbit devices:

FWIW, my wife and I used several generations of Jawbone UP over a few years and, we roughly go through 1 every 3-6 months. It's certainly not Fitbit only.

Compared to the Apple watch, we have a pair of 1st gens, one of them's battery and display spoilt after 12-13 months, the other is still going strong at ~14/15 months.
Probably not in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but in Game of Thrones, poor production detracts.
Over the last month (or so), I've been reading and reviewing React books on my blog [1]. I liked Fullstack React, but there is one big thing that keeps me from recommending it: most of the examples still use the createClass from ES5. For learning React in 2017, I (just my opinion) expect the book to fully embrace ES6/7 in all the examples.

[1]: https://medium.com/@jmcunningham/
I am a native speaker and I agree with 'fewer' but I also agree it's a rather fine point.

Because the commodity being described is discrete and not continuous (applicants), the terms describing them should also be discrete. Obviously, as real numbers, percentages are not inherently discrete. But when a percentage quantifies a discrete unit, the final quantity it describes is still discrete. Thus the unit still determines which word to use (fewer/less), and not the addition of further modifiers like 'percentage'.
Because I think that people like SashiDo.io :)
From the context, I believe the OP meant US employees of the said companies.
Last I heard Louie CK was in debt after self-funding his last series. Could have been different production values / unusual business model though.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/louis-c-k-millions-horace-pe...
Digital Identity Guidelines: Public Comment Period
Cool, glad it worked
>TreeStyle Tabs is the the Main reason I use FF today. I dont understand why browsers have tabs horizontally across the window, it looks stupid and is unusable once you get above 20 or 30 tabs open So you talk about have 100's of tabs open, it is pointless if I do not have TreeStyle or some kind of Vertical Tabs.

I don't see why people like vertical/tree-style tabs. To me it's always seemed extremely messy. Tab groups, searching, and a scrollable context menu at any mouse position, to me, is a much smoother and faster workflow.

Ctrl+Shift+E opens up tab groups and I can begin typing to search. When both my hands are already on the keyboard, this is most convenient [0]. When my hand is already on my mouse, however, I can right click and scroll to open up a context menu of all tabs within my Tab Group [1]. I also have a mouse gesture for opening Tab Groups so that I can switch groups if necessary. I frequently have 300+ tabs open, organized into tab groups of 20-40 related tabs (mostly research/tutorials/google docs for various MMOs I play)

I was actually frozen at FF44 until the Tab Groups add-on functioned properly. And I'll likely be frozen at FF57 [2]. Sadly, my way of tab management never seemed to catch on and the add-ons that enable it soon won't be supported.

For those interested in my tab management, I use Tab Groups and Fire Gestures (almost entirely for the '[Popup] List All Tabs' feature). I bind List All Tabs to both scrolling up and scrolling down, as scrolling up is originally Tab History.

[0] https://my.mixtape.moe/tukpwo.webm

[1] https://my.mixtape.moe/gqlawp.webm

[2] http://fasezero.com/lastnotice.html
> Until you begin subconsciously turning the alarms off or hitting the snooze.

Your counter-argument here appears to be "it's hard." Sure, it is, but your goal is to make it easier by ensuring a routine, a better nights sleep, etc. Some mornings still suck, but they still suck when it's 9am and the bed is warm and you're already late and don't want to go to work.

> That's simply not true. Coffee takes about 5-7 hours to wear off.

I didn't make any factual assertions regarding caffeine, so it's not something that can be true or false. I suggest avoiding caffeine after noon because it's a crutch. It also ensures there's no chance your body is affected by stimulants when the sun goes down and it's time to wind down. I know from experience that it's far easier to retrain your body to sleep easily and wake early if you minimize chemicals like caffeine and alcohol that interfere with your brain's natural behaviors.

> That is simply not an option for most people. Family members, roommates, gyms, all might have TV screens or people browsing their phones and talking loudly and doing various activities.

People did it for millions of years. In general you shouldn't be working out once you cross that time threshold, either, since you want your body to be preparing to sleep. Spend some time in the kitchen preparing your breakfast and lunch. Do some laundry or house cleaning. Get your things ready for the next day so you wake up without stress. Then grab a physical, paper book and read until you start to feel drowsy.

> many people don't have the luxury of choosing when they go to the gym (if they go at all).

Possibly the number one greatest thing about waking up early is that you all of a sudden have an extra two or three hours all to yourself. You can work out early in the morning, work on side projects, actually sit and eat breakfast, etc. I basically eliminated my afternoon crash since I no longer skip breakfast and overeat at lunch, and I don't hit a major caffeine low.
This is the right answerer. It pains me that we humans, in our arrogance, do not keep this idea at the forefront of our minds and discussions. I believe far fewer mistakes would be made in science if we more readily accepted our limitations rather than being constantly so enthralled by our own apparent genius. It's not amazing that we amaze ourselves.
How would a different license have helped the author of libevhtp?

He basically had two choices:

- BSD style license where people can use it without paying him, and modify without contributing back

- GPL or proprietary: it's highly unlikely anybody would have used his library. Even LGPL would probably have limited usage significantly.
Will there be a way to access query / search parameters? The URL Parameters example could benefit from a such an addition, if it's already possible. Something showing how to get the genre out of `/netflix?genre=mystery` would be lovely.
The article comes off to me as though it assumes there was no inherent flaw in the message coming from the other side. That there weren't enough legitimate reasons to support Trump over Clinton in the election, and that Trump supporters all think the way they do because they were sold some great lie. Which I think is untrue, condescending, and a terrible starting position if the goal is to understand the opposition and try and change their minds.

> Find a wound common to many, someone to blame for it and a good story to tell. Mix it all together. Tell the wounded you know how they feel. That you found the bad guys. Label them: the minorities, the politicians, the businessmen. Cartoon them. As vermin, evil masterminds, flavourless hipsters, you name it. Then paint yourself as the saviour. Capture their imagination. Forget about policies and plans, just enrapture them with a good story. One that starts in anger and ends in vengeance. A vengeance they can participate in.

> In their mind it’s very simple: if you’re not among the victims, you’re among the culprits. In your case, you’re that modern bogeyman called the liberal urbanite hipster who thinks all cultures and religions are valid and equally worthy, who thinks of the working-class disparagingly. You are, in short, ‘a citizen of nowhere’ whose utopia is a massive, world-wide kumbaya with carrot chips, no church, and no soul either.

> Because, again, the problem is not the message but the messenger.

The article is horrible.
Isn't one of the big benefits of serverless functions being able to scale transparently? Can a kubernetes cluster give you anywhere near the elasticity of something like lambda?
Dropbox's first blog post about Smart Sync (aka Infinite) and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11570888
Fun-fact: the digital rotary knobs on most equipment (given name: rotary encoder) are pretty much built like this - a disc with conductive patterning read by brushes (well, bent contacts). Only the far more expensive rotary encoders are optical with an etched or printed glass disc, like typically found in industrial incremental encoders. These optical encoders typically cost 10-15 EUR a pop.

Btw. using keyboard controllers to poll many switches isn't actually that unusual, but definitely a nice hack.
Why not let people work but for fewer hours instead of laying them off? This is ridiculous.
To me, saying that model or a theory is wrong is like saying a hammer is wrong. A tool cannot be right/wrong or true/false. However it can be unsuitable for a task. In this case, the task is understanding reality.
...less smart and more accurate

Yes---all of these failed and failing players keep trying to push some overly ambitious platform vision, and no one is focused on perfecting the health tracking app that is getting them in the door in the first place. And for god's sake, give us the option to keep our own data locally. I don't want the Cloud to know every time I go to the bathroom.
I agree, the whole process and reversal of the order for green card holders reads a lot more like the result of a disorganized administration that is rushing in, with a very small team acting like a bunch of teenagers who just got a hold of the ferrari's keys.
It most likely will get a lot worse, so conspiracy theories run the risk of crying wolf too often for nothing when the real danger is barreling down the road.
I would love to see this used widely, become some sort of a service and see improvements in the quality of the matching algorithm.