skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Temple Grandin had some interesting thoughts on how single trait breeding can lead to adverse affects in her discussion on "Rapist Roosters", and how this relates to software[0]. It seems like this is also happening here.

Typically when single trait breeding leads to an adverse, undesirable affect (lack of taste), while the selected trait was obtained (in this case, possibly bigger size) breeders don't start from scratch by trying to isolate the desired trait without obtaining the undesirable trait. Instead, as in software, the breeders iterate by trying to remove the negative trait, complicating the hybrids and possibly more unknown adverse traits. It seems like it might be wise to start from scratch in some cases and keep it simple, rather then make hybrid species whose lineage can be difficult to trace.

[0]: https://books.google.com/books?id=aMVmhqpILOAC&printsec=fron... page 70
Thanks to all contributors that made the transition to open-source possible, parse-server is far from dead, getting daily improvements in performance, extensibility (Postgres, push notifications queues...) and ease of use.

Parse is dead, long live Parse.
Don't remember what books I read as a kid really but some book on political philosophy really messed with my mind that and some Swedish books on computer design and similar stuff. Not the same after that. Used to spend a lot of time at the library. But I have fond memories from the disc world series.
This stops working once you get portable germ carriers. Err, I meant kids.
100% agree. They also don't teach where money comes from. What a surprise. It will be a cold day in hell when they teach Georgism.
I always thought the real intellectual differences related to Marxism were between Merleau-Ponty and Sartre, the former having introduced Sartre to Marxism and later publicly breaking with him for his "ultra-bolshevism." Camus and Sartre seemed to have more personal differences, viz., Sartre generally being an asshole. Among other things, he considered Camus a notch beneath him intellectually, and Ive always personally believed that a big reason Sartre turned down the Nobel prize was because Camus already had one.

Ive always struggled to understand Sartre's popularity even among other philosophers I respect.
That's precisely how HealthKit and Google Fit work, though. You have to allow them access to the app data. The thing with the Fitbit data, though, is that there is no option to even access the data. It doesn't share it at all and doesn't have an option to share it. You either use the Fitbit website or you don't get to see your data. Some apps have hacked work arounds to get the basic data by scraping web data but it's not a true integrated solution. It's crap.
I hope to see more and more of these studies.

I've always since I can remember struggled with sleep.

During the periods where I've had it under control everything is just better: your outlook is more positive, more energy, less anxiety, and on and on and on.

People say exercise should be put into a pill - I really wish they did this with sleep.
Google docs organization is a mess. Honestly, I think an old school file system hierarchy that everyone sees would be better.

Paper seems like wave (not google docs), and you really need a spreedsheet feature to have a competitive product IMO.
It's like a kid playing basketball. He beats the odds and make his high school team. He beats the odds and is a starter. He beats more odds and is the star. He beats even more odds and wins an athletic scholarship to college. He not only makes the team but becomes a starter and eventually the star of the team. He further beats the odds and is drafted by an NBA team. He not only makes the team but becomes a starter.

Imagine telling that guy he's a failure because he's no LeBron James. Apparently if you're not a unicorn founder you've achieved nothing.
I'm not sure if it's in the guidelines (and you're right, I don't see it there). I've seen 'dang and 'sctb bring it up multiple times. One such example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13242889#13243600

I'll note that 'dang is also pretty consistent about including the "without evidence" caveat as well, which I admit there does appear to be plenty. That said, contacting the mods (which I already did) is going to be the most effective way of stopping the behavior: they've got more information available and can not only get rid of the comments, but the accounts as well. Comments such as your tend to add to the noise, and unfortunately unlikely to stop the spamming. Don't misunderstand me: I'm frustrated by it as well.

Edit to add: 'sctb responded here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13524377
#DeleteUber’s Creator: Resist Trump or ‘Pay a Price’
He's extremely right. I like RethinkDB, but it's not going to fail because of accidental success attracting parasitic litigious organisms in the post-corporate open-source phase. It's going to fail because the only people who know the code well enough to work on it aren't working on it anymore.

I like RethinkDB a lot, but A) I have no time to contribute and B) my ability to use and enjoy databases does not automatically confer the ability to write them. I think most people who liked RethinkDB are in a similar boat to me. I'd love to see this project take off. But I didn't have money or time for it before and I still don't. I don't have those things for Postgres either but it doesn't seem to need them as direly.
Since it's in private beta which started a few weeks ago there is not specific system in production of Sub0 specifically, but someone (medical research institute with lots of research data) is already building a React frontend over their massive Postgres database using Sub0 and so far it's going well.
The tutorial i provide explains building a complete API for something like Trello
At the core of the system sits PostgREST and you can see a few users here http://postgrest.com/en/v0.4/intro.html#in-production although i suspect a lot more people are using it but don't advertise it. I've also done extensive performance test for speed, those numbers on the home page are real :)
How to hack the upcoming Dutch elections and how hackers could have since 2009
I did a career change and am in the data science field. I would not get any interviews without my MS in CS. So for me it was essential...
Firebolt: the fastest, safest ads on the web
The Apple Watch can do authentication to some extent: Authy has an Apple Watch app, and there's Apple Pay.

I'd love it if I could securely store all of my passwords on an Apple Watch, which would require my fingerprint to unlock. But only if there was Bluetooth integration for macOS and USB devices for integration with random computers.
Nobody's going to use this. Seriously, Dropbox.
I liked the website for it's minimalistic aesthetic but the ease-in animations need to be faster.
Indeed. It's a hard shift in perspective from the default that we developers are biased towards given our "in the trenches, know the details" position.
That is not the point. The stomach will stay empty, but money will be spent. This is not gmo research, this is screwing the people that can't buy organic food.
There's a similar problem with popcorn. Showing my age card here, but back in the 1970's popcorn actually tasted like corn, which seems to be a difficult concept to explain to anyone under 40. It all went south around the same time that microwave popcorn became popular.

People always ask if I don't like tomatoes when I eat around them in salads or remove from burgers. Nope, I love tomatoes, that's why I don't eat flavorless, unseasonal ones.

pro tip: Use canned tomatoes instead of fresh whenever out of season; canners use varieties that have not been ruined for shipping, and seal at the peak of freshness.
There are actually a number of VCs showing up right now to address this pain point.

They're tending to fund profitable B2B companies with $5-40m in annual revenue and explicitly state that they're content with the option of 3-5X returns (while still hoping for more).
That wasn't my question, but ok. I was just asking for the list of the "many, many glaring bugs" that OP was talking about. He edited his link, though, so it's already been answered.
Both push and pull drive our Galaxy’s race through space – Science Bulletin
He said suicide is the most interesting and pressing philosophical question. The ultimate act of rebellion he seems to advise is to live free in the face of and with the full consciousness of the absurdity of this existence, like pushing a rock up a hill over and over again.
Yeah exactly I've had Linux drivers cause kernel panics a number of times.
> "I agree on the intent for the H1-B visa, no issues there. That does not mean that immigrants should be barred or Americans always chosen over the immigrant. The selection should happen based on their competency"

No, America is for Americans not for the world. You have your own country where typically Americans cannot work.

If you speak with most Americans they would agree. If you speak to people from other countries they agree that the jobs should be for people from their country.

> "You WANT to bring in talented people"

You can develop and train them and by offering appropriate wages, talented people will go into those fields. But in a situation where firms use immigrants to depress wages, who wants to be in that situation? -- they'd rather go into law or medicine where it is much harder to have foreign competition.

> "Sure, there are tons of MBA holders who cant find jobs. Does that mean she should not even be allowed to compete for any of the available jobs, even she might be more qualified for it? Or she might not be, who knows, this is why you have a free market, the employer can decide."

Free market as long as they are American citizens or in a STEM job for which there absolutely no American that can do it.

Some more junior people may just benefit from job training. I can't speak to the exact situations, but most American firms will do fine employing American MBAs over immigrants.
Show HN: A minimal clean cloud provider
"Tech companies helped stop SOPA through coordinated messaging to users DIRECTLY through their services.

It's the only industry that has so much leverage for so little cost (free effectively)

Let's put it to use."

I love this idea, especially the follow up about pointing out the contributions of the involved countries and their diaspora.
Exactly. And for even faster expansion, DMA, etc. there's Thunderbolt. You can easily (relatively) hook up external graphics card now.
I did mention those.

That works for me, with a healthy bias towards "I won't risk it." Without that bias, I'd get a lot of stinkers. But I'm picker than most.
I was talking to a financial company about aws lambda and they wanted control over the underlying containers/VMs that is running the aws lambda, unfortunately AWS lambda doesn't give you that control and 'fission' does
If you have some time and are looking for something easy check out Proxima:

https://www.jamroom.net/proxima

It's really designed for someone that is not a developer first. I built a MBaaS quite a few years ago, and Proxima was something I built on the side since I wanted an easy backend to power my own app. I also wanted someplace to do documentation, support, newsletters, etc. - so the idea with Proxima is that you can focus 100% on JUST your app and Proxima will handle your backend/website, etc.

Note too that it's not a SaaS - you would download and install it on your own server (although we do offer the hosting as well if interested). It's open source and free, so check it out if you're looking for something easy. Feel free to contact me as well if you have any questions.

Hope this helps!
try http://www.castlemagic.com/
I use the JetBrains family of IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, RubyMine, PhpStorm, WebStorm) and I'm really happy with them.

I've also been playing around a bit with Atom lately.
After looking at landing page, it's completely unclear what it is. Powerpoint with comments? Pinterest for enterprise? Google Wave with Material design? "Create, review, organize" — but even Quake level editor is about creating, reviewing and organizing.
By and large, yes. However, the responsiveness is highly variable. Both pods and nodes can automatically scale, though it is intended that this is somewhat gradual, by design (you don't want to spin up 4000 nodes because you have a 30 second spike). Because the functions tend to be _very_ small, you can (likely) pack many of them together without having to scale.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes
Yes. A fine example is that Obamacare is basically Romneycare (the health care system Mitt Romney had instituted in, what, Massachusetts?). That is, the most progressive health insurance scheme that Democrats could politically push through is basically an old Republican scheme, and they now denounce it as some terrible socialist abomination (even though it is far less comprehensive than what nearly all other developed nations have, with better results).
I think I'll pass on giving Dropbox a direct line into my computer's kernel.
Agreed. If anything, it should Pro first since individuals are more likely to accept the unpolished nature of new features.
> But they also abuse the visa process for lower wages in lower positions.

The numbers are public on this and look fine. People keep telling you "I'm on an H-1B and I'm paid reasonably".

Please, offer actual proof or quit spreading this around.
Exactly, if your model has all the complexity of reality... then you're going to have a hard time understanding it or answering any question unless it is historical rather than prediction. They key is in the model being useful locally, and a big part of that is knowing where it is valid (e.g. Newtonian Mechanics is great for most things until you exceed micro/Tera scales). Then you can choose the right model to solve the right problem or answer the right question. Trying to figure out what every molecule in a gas is going to do will drive you crazy, but measuring pressure/temperature/entropy will often lead you to insight.

In my mind this is one of the problems that moral philosophy has fallen into... rule utilitarianism works because we are about as good at predicting how others would feel as we are for ourselves (i.e. mediocre, but not terrible). Most modern moral theory is so complex in order to deal with various oddities that we're terrible at using it in even the simplest cases.
I've done so many times. Here's a good summary.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12381938#12382336
It's not terrible. Personally, since I write in Markdown, it's an excellent tool for my niche documents. It doesn't integrate with Jekyll, but it's close enough. Simplenote is another decent app that happens to have Markdown support, but the implementation isn't very good. No image previews, no tables, and on occasion it will outright mess up the formatting in `code blocks`.

Of course, I am very hesistant to put my full trust into Dropbox. Their Mac app has been known to work around security measures in macOS[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12619722

An another note, does anyone here have a suggestion for a good Notes app with Markdown and/or Jekyll support? Preferably one with a mobile app as well.
What's happened since then? Is it that the project was announced back then and is now available to businesses, as predicted? Or is that it was available to businesses back then when announced, and will be available to individuals?
It never says either "lowest" mountain is unclimbed
This sounds like NFS for the .js age

Slower, buggier and less reliable (and I mean, yes, compared to NFS)
Ask HN: What do you take in consideration before submitting to HN?
I've recently joined HN and I've posted once since then, in the Show HN category. I didn't receive any feedback which I find normal considering that I am really new here.

This made me wonder: what makes something succeed in HN? I'm sure the quality of the link surely matters a lot (probably the most), but there's other variables that matter a lot too. Things like:

- Title

- Just link vs text with a link

- Time to post

- Karma? (I don't know if it's important for submitting)

- and many others that I don't know of but you surely do!
I have ran several products on Parse over the last couple years. Loved it and was willing to pay. If you have all your data you can easily spin up a clone on Sashido.io and use them (they host the open source Parse for you and handle scaling and everything). I've migrated a few apps and other than some Parse SDK version upgrade compatibility issues, Sashido has been amazing. One complaint about Parse was customer support, Sashido has gone above and beyond in multiple instances already when it comes to response time AND knowledge. Highly recommended!
Not to mention "unicorn" is meaningless in the long term.
And Google Docs is X% there as a MS Office replacement.
My point was about the selective enforcement of a requirement, not about the merits of government-issued ID. But it's fair to discuss all aspects of my comment. You are absolutely right that having a government-issued ID and providing it upon demand of government agencies aids the efficient operation of the government. It also is indispensable for efficient government tracking and control of individuals. You might even paraphrase all that as "it helps the trains run on time." Look up that phrase if you are interested in the difference between individual freedom and government efficiency/convenience. I was only annoyed by the more strict requirements for citizens vs non-citizens. Perhaps you missed one of my points (the show-us-your-papers thing) about how it is considered a violation of civil rights for the police to simply request your ID (your papers) without probably cause. How nice for illegal aliens. And to your point about how glad immigrants would be to have SSNs, I question that. The current largest dispute around voting rights is whether requiring a government-issued ID in order to vote is a violation of civil rights. The largest outcry against voter ID requirements comes from the black community and from illegal immigrant rights organizations. Now, why shouldn't they gladly show that ID in order to exercise the right to vote, just as I duly registered and identified my children to receive their rightful education? We are back to the issue of selective enforcement, and selective outrage over this or that brand or degree of selective enforcement. ID for white kids to go to kindergarten? That's good! ID for non-whites and illegals to vote? That's bad! Strict entry requirements for almost every country on Earth? That's good! A pause and reexamination of historically lax US entry requirements? That's bad!
Is this the real-life equivalent to Plato's Allegory of the Cave [1]?

I wonder if books like Zelazny's Amber series will seem, in retrospect, more insightful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave
As far as I can tell you're just highly emotional.
I can't stand subtitles if I don't need them. Sometimes a video has captioning on by default, and I find I am totally unable to NOT read them. No matter how hard I try to ignore them, I end up spending all of my time staring at the captions and not seeing the actual video content.

And when they are useful to me, like an english translation... why doesn't anyone put the captions near the speaker's mouths, so I can read and see what's going on at the same time?
The problem with food policy is that you simply can't get rid of cheap food. If you get rid of cheap food, even unhealthy cheap food, people starve.

So the solution isn't to demonize cheap food. It is to make cheap food better. Adding back the vitamins and nutrients which also impart flavor while keeping the caloric content high is one great way of doing that.

Furthermore, in a modern economy with diverse choice, nutrient deficiency is not a concern. Cheap food alone can more than provide the essential vitamins and nutrients. What is more important is delivery raw caloric content, which cheap food excels at.

Organic is fresh, luxury food built on a foundation of cheap staples. If you erode the pillars that hold up your palace, it will all come crashing down.
Even if it could spin up machines, you also need an auto-scaling database, and an autoscaling event infrastructure. otherwise it's not really serveless in any meaningful sense, since you'd then have to have separate, manually operated servers.

Still, it's part of the puzzle.
Someone needs to start a "container global initiative", and then we can keep all of our binary containers in "cgi-bin".
Not a dumb question at all. Questions like these are the very heart of physics, actually.
That's easily remedied by defining what's meant by freedom, which was a major part of the existentialist project.
The SAP developers at my friend's company bill at $350/hour, minimum 3 hours.
Show HN: Simple Python script to tweet all active U.S. Senators/Reps
One user at $N gives a lot more money than 1000N users at $0.

Depends on your goals, I imagine. Making a living, or making a name?
It is not April 1st right?
The "disruption" of the music industry by the Internet, Napster, etc.. ultimately led to users being given greater control over the music they listen to. You can now legally purchase DRM-free single tracks from the various online stores.

Maybe a similar thing needs to happen with movies? I think the fansub community, the Tolkien edit of The Hobbit, and MST3K and Riftrax are examples of what "greater control" could look like.

Suppose there were a standard video format that accepted a separate stream of commands to skip or re-order scenes, insert audio or subtitles or splice in video from external sources and remove or alter vocal/sound effects/music from the original content.

Now, users could create alternative versions of their favorite movies and share them with each other. Suppose a movie with an alternative sound track requires songs that you already own? No problem, it just uses them. Suppose it requires songs that you don't already own? Maybe it pops up a window "would you like to buy these tracks from Amazon/iTunes/whatever for 99 cents each?" and then when you buy them it adds them to your music library. If you don't want to buy all the tracks, maybe there's just no music in that part of the movie.

I could see this as a really great way for movies to increase music sales, and for people to get excited about and re-watch old movies and have a way to participate in the creative process. It also can be done in a way that's respectful of copyright law, by giving users a convenient way to purchase all of the copyrighted content they need to watch the movie in its edited form. I suspect a lot of traditional Hollywood types will hate the idea of people watching movies in any way other than how the director originally intended, but I think they should just get over it.
I would describe it as a feature for a target audience.
/s

They took a ton of screen real estate just to show us pictures of people typing into non-descriptive text-editors and people use laptops.
"A study by Wharton professor Matthew Bidwell showed that external hires into a company get paid 18-20% more than internal workers who are promoted into similar jobs. (Gratingly, they also perform worse for the first two years.) That’s patently unjust, but it points to an important truth: professionals are often taken for granted inside their own organizations."

It always amazes me that this has never been rectified within the corporate culture. Maybe the percentage of employees that look is so low that the risk of losing them isn't worth the cost of proactively keeping them happy with their salary?