skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a non-developer who found Parse extremely easy to use, is there a similar product in the market that I can switch my iPhone app over to?
True. The commercially available Atari 2600 Pac-Man was not a visual treat. And that is an understatement. The lead developer for Pac-Man at Atari considered it a rushed effort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man_(1982_video_game)#Rece...

Since then, however, some hobby developers have taken another swing at Pac-Man on the 2600. The 400/800 port still holds the crown but the following is an impressive difference in my opinion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA3mIWzwrZk
Flattered, but honestly many of us are just well-known because we work in the average domain, where many people happen to be. I don't think people should really look up anything I do that way, there are plenty of far more skilled programmers out there, they're just working on more obscure things haha. There's nothing I do that someone else couldn't easily achieve, just takes some time.

Besides, most of us also had the perk of working for startups where we got to produce a lot of OSS. Anyone in that position can do the same. The only skill you need is persistence.
please, report the bug in bugzilla.mozilla.org and describe your problem. Thank you!
I feel as if I wrote this article.

Help I'm trapped in cubicle... and the programmer next insists on having a mechanical keyboard. (He is not old enough to remember real mechanical keyboards.)
Even still, those $20-100M companies still get bought out by bigger conglomerates. If you look just at Google and Facebook's acquisition list, it's pretty much all the deals they did the last 2 years.
H1B reform has been talked about for going on a decade now.

The fact that Trump wants to tackle this in no way represents a "divide and conquer" tactic.
The website is broken on mobile - elements overlap and content is not visible.
It's the same people making the content, it's just different people paying for it. Netflix and Amazon are just wave number #928288919 of funding sources for Hollywood.
To read more about Flatpak security system, please check https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/:

https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2017/01/24/the-flatpak-securit...

https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2017/01/20/the-flatpak-securit...

https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2017/01/18/the-flatpak-securit...

Flatpak supports Portals. So it can be restrictive, then on a toolkit level it'll automatically allow certain things based upon user interaction. E.g. it'll securely allow a user to select a file. Therefore the sandboxed app gets access to that file.

Practically, because some things are on a toolkit level sandboxing can take a bit longer. E.g. 'gimp' uses gtk+2.x, I'm guessing (though no clue), that the Portal is only for gtk+3.something. If you cannot nicely sandbox then meanwhile there's only one solution: almost no sandbox (e.g. still have access to the home directory.. which gives way too many options to break the sandbox).
Yep, I'm really sick of seeing Tom Cruise in so many movies. I'll actively shy away from watching a movie with him in it. I just can't disassociate him from all that Scientology cult silliness he keeps pushing; it ruins the suspension of disbelief.
This is very common on this forum. Bay Area = SF. In any given topic about the "Bay Area" you can tell they are usually talking about SF, and use very sloppy language and often randomly switch between the two names, sometimes in the same sentence.
This is pretty good advice, this is how I ended up getting into Salesforce stuff. Started at a company that used Salesforce heavily on the help desk (which used it as a ticketing system), after 4-5 months I managed to get into a Jr. Salesforce Developer role.

I no longer work there, nor do I work full-time on Salesforce projects, but I do maintain our small Salesforce org at my current employer as an additional responsibility and if I ever decide to move back into it full-time I'll have the experience to do so (I can't really see it, Salesforce is a great tool but not something I enjoyed having 100% of my time consumed by, I'm much happier in my current DevOps role).
You can try to delay the inevitable but you can't hide from competition forever, especially if you want to live in a country with capitalism.
> "Don't assume whether my wife is an immigrant or not."

From the context you supplied earlier, it seems she is not allowed to work here, therefore, not a US citizen.

> "Anyway, my point was that the US as a whole benefits from immigrants."

I don't disagree. My problem is not with immigrants. My ancestors were immigrants. But they did not displace American jobs or depress wage rates through an H1-B Visa type program that was abused. They became American citizens.

> "I understand that Americans coming first in Americah is what you believe in. That doesn't make it right."

It is not only what I believe, but more importantly what about every American believes. What is wrong is that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans or depressing wage rates. There is no question that that is wrong. Perhaps immigrants should get jobs in their own countries.

"ComputerWorld reports that following an announcement by Disney in October 2014 that the company would be using an offshore outsourcing firm for future hiring, tensions between workers and Disney became strained. The company began hiring South Asian workers at a rapid pace, and some current Disney workers were forced to begin training their H-1B visa worker replacements.

In January of 2015 nearly 250 Disney IT workers were laid off, leading 30 of those former Disney employees to file a lawsuit in the US District Court of Orlando."

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/12/14/disney-it-workers-f...
“Worrying about licensing is what PG would call a sitcom idea”
Any links for this great free content? (Asking for a friend)
Yes, I am one of the co-founders. Thanks for hosting with us.
Privatize air traffic control
Fire in the Belly? Employee Motives and Innovative Performance in Startups
An hour of labour is, for all intents and purposes, also free or 200 kcals of food at the most.
>Many of those hired on H1B are doing roles for which they simply can't get enough local talent

This is the scam they want you to believe, but it's being abused to simply keep wages low.

It's very easy to post fake job ads to make it seem like "you can't find someone" for the job, and there are plenty of lawyers who will help you get around those loopholes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
Yes, that.

We all hold prejudices that we all need to be mindful of. Getting tangled in the weeds of arguing about semantics completely derails that point.
You understand incorrectly: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000405.h...
I think you should try https://www.sashido.io. Please share your feedback afterward.
that logic doesn't make sense to me for digital goods

It makes some sense. There is (effectively) no first sale doctrine for digital goods. One organization gets to set the price for every single consumer. There may be middlemen, but the licencing deal will (at least implicitly) control the lowest price the middleman can offer without turning the "rental" into a loss leader. The copyright holder can sacrifice possible sales/"rentals" today, to maintain the market's perception of what such a product is worth tomorrow.

A lot of people expected all digital stores to take Steam's approach to pricing. The steam store is known for the price of games dropping rapidly after release, and multiple deep-discount sales throughout the year. Even outside of sales, steam's "new" digital copies of aging games can be (and are often are) priced lower than physical shops selling used copies.

But things generally trend towards the PSN and Xbox route. Their stores are notable for keeping prices high. Even on aging titles, their prices can be higher than physical retailers selling (new, not used) copies. Retailers need both the shelf space and to cut their losses from over-ordering at release.

I'm sure they both have spreadsheets and models that explain how they'll make more money in the long run.

But, for either model to work AT ALL it was important to find a way around the first sale doctrine for digital goods. If resale existed on any of these platforms, prices would be forced to respond to market forces.
I second the Firebase recommendation. Facebook killed off their BaaS acquisition while Google doubled down on theirs. If you prefer open-source, Horizon (http://horizon.io/) is a great alternative to Firebase but does not have many of the key features like file storage and iOS/Android SDKs.
But most immigrants from Mexico do not drive down IT workers wages. But abuse and increase of H1-B Visas does down IT worker wages.
I am not following this:

>"A CRC32 over a couple megs of data is only good enough to likely catch "gross"

The CRC on TCP MSS or on the ethernet frame would never be higher than 1460 or 1500 byes(or 9K in the case of jumbo frames), how or where would a CRC over multiple megs come into play in regular networking?

CRC is used on jumbo ethernet of of sized of 9K and it works just fine. In fact this is the reason that 9K is the limit on jumbo frames.
That was the origin of the theory, but from what I understand it's been developed beyond that point.
Knowing that string theory requires 11 dimensions doesn't mean one understands it. And even string theorists aren't sure which version of the theory represents everyday reality, and the number of candidates is quite beyond imagining. Finally, to date there aren't any reliable empirical tests to place string theory on a firm scientific foundation.

In the long term string theory may contribute more to mathematics than to physics.
Context matters for cutting people open and removing bits of them.
Nice analogy, but we generally don't select development tools on the basis that we want to grow old with them.
I just want to say thank you to the HN community. We learned a lot in engaging with folks here over the years.
itunes charged the cost of a DVD/Blu Ray PURCHASE at one time for rentals, so 17-18 dollars
>The barrier to entry is lower than ever, with lots of high-quality engines available for free (or free to try), and big asset marketplaces.

I wish I had that 20(mumble) years ago when I was doodling Mario levels on my high school book jacket...
GitHub 2016 Data Analysis
It's not my intention to start a flame-war, I'm just interested in hearing hn's opinion on the merit of this viewpoint.
Your mention of "dependents" made me smile.

I'm from Ghana, and from what I understand Ghana and a lot of other countries with these immigrants share the common theme that when people say they're "supporting their family/people back home", "family" is not the meaning that the IRS gives for a dependent, it's very literally everyone who's back home.

For example, decades after moving to the US parents still support dozens of family members back home, not just siblings, but their own parents, cousins, nephews, even people from the same village who aren't necessarily family. Of course on the flip side those are the people who rally together to get them to the US (at least that's how it was for my parents and some other family I've known). It's a support system where people who come to the US are then able to fund things like education that will bring the next generation closer to the standard of living they left to the US for in the first place.

I suspect to workers supporting "family" in that position who don't even have financial security for themselves wouldn't even dream of something like packing it all up living out of a van and bootstrapping their dream startup. In all the years it took my parents years to even get to something considered financially secure, they still had people counting on them back home, I can only imagine the position of those counting someone who just got here on a visa, often at considerable cost relative to what wages are where they come from, meaning they needed help from family.
Consider 8 had a $306,000,000 budget, 9 had a $200,000,000 budget. I have no problem saying it was profitable, but so was The Land Before Time 9. When a movie pulls in ~1/2 has much as the previous film it's a sign.

http://www.the-numbers.com/market/2016/top-grossing-movies

Just looking domestically we have Finding Dory (squeal), Rogue One (franchise), Captain America: Civil War (squeal), The Secret Life of Pets (kids movie), The Jungle Book (kids movie), Deadpool (franchise), Zootopia (kids movie), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (franchise), Suicide Squad (franchise), Doctor Strange (franchise), Moana (kids movie) etc. Down at #14 The Revenant was at least nominally an original movie, though very similar to several other films.

I don't think any of these where bad for what they where, but there was nothing new for the 14-40 group. 2015 had #6 American Sniper, #9 The Martian, but was again mostly rehashed movies until #17.
rah rah- everything's great!

Your devs are fleeing the ship.
Yeah, that's pretty impressive. YC should consider making it a requirement of funding that the components go open-source if they shutdown without acquisition, etc. Aside from collective benefit, a future, YC startup might get a head start from their docs or components. They seem to fund multiple startups in the same market segments at times.
What's crazy is Ubiquitous language isn't even that hard to start doing. It starts with a common glossary. I like to use an internal wiki, but that's just me.

The harder part is getting people to use the language and not misuse the terms. Saying "You're saying you need a Foo, but it sounds like it's a Foo with an added Bar. Let's call it a FooBar to be clear" requires some effort to start doing.
Browse soundcloud for a bit, or even just YouTube. There's practically infinite amounts of free music out there, gotta be some your friend would like.
I think this is a problem with wearables in general. All in all, I've never seen a wearable last more than 9-10 months. I'm not that rough on them either.

My MS Band 1 lasted ~8 months before it suddenly died. MS replaced it. I then borrowed a friend's Band2 which had already been replaced 4 times. It died twice for me. MS replaced it once, then issued a refund check when they ran out of stock.

And then there is the Moto360 sport I had that went into an endless bootloop after ~9 months.

My wife's ChargeHR had a physical failure of the band after 9mo, and the same exact issue happened again last week.

I now have a Polar M600 and my wife has a Samsung Gear Fit2. Hopefully at least one of them will last more than a year!
Yeah, because HN is one person...
The way you phrased it almost seem sarcastic in the context of this thread, although i think you are actually recommending them :)

They offer a interesting product but i think at this moment it has the exact same problem that Parse had (my other comment in this thread), you don't have access to the raw data, hope they will do that in the future (provide direct access to the source database), it will certainly be a more interesting/flexible service
I think part of the point is that tech startups aren't founded upon chats over coffee, they're founded by a couple guys working on a project nobody else thinks is important in a garage. Completely anecdotally, that still seems to happen more often in the South Bay than in SF, if only because there are more garages. There are probably more startups being founded in SF, but there's more tech being developed in the South Bay.
It doesn't have to be the main focus of the article for it to be revealing about silicon valley and the author.
I'm kind of the opposite. I'm not a big fan of movies, and I only see a few a year. My problem is that I'm pretty picky, and it's tough to tell if a movie is worth seeing. When in doubt, I'll pass it up and do something else instead.

When I'm looking at a movie I think I want to see and it's a $5 rental, my thought is always, what if it sucks? And then I usually decide not to risk it.

What I don't get is why they don't offer the first 30-60 minutes of the movie for free. I'll be able to tell fairly confidently by then if it's any good, and would happily pay to see the rest once I'm hooked. Instead, I have to take a guess from badly edited and misleading trailers, and reviews from people whose tastes may vary enormously from my own.
>Interesting (and probably appropriate) that the market is pricing

I'd be cautious in considering the valuation at last funding round to be "the market".
I get there are people who want to see more of the same.

Do you like stretched stories over many episodes? I don't, I want movies, 90-120min, with superior quality unseen in low budget TV series. Comparing to 1980s TV series, they had a lot of stunt work and felt higher budget than most todays TV series.
No, it doesn't mean anything about being a simulation or not, but it imposes lower limits in the information it can contain.
Is it really any different from any other service economy item, such as a waitress bringing you your food in a restaurant, or the cook preparing it? Those people get paid for the service they provide, not for the materials that make up the items they worked on. The fact that all the work is "up front" for the movie/music/etc is irrelevant. Someone did the work, and should get paid for that work. The best way to do that (that's proven to work so far) is to distribute the cost of that work to everyone that wants access to the output of their service... unless the first person to get that digital asset is going to pay 100m for it so everyone else can get it for free.
New and improved two-factor lockout recovery process
How a simulation could reveal anything? A simulation has no connection to reality whatsoever. One single major (or even minor) factor missed in the model, and the whole thing is a bullshit. Imaginable factors with real weights - same kind of result.

Simulations and probabilistic estimations could be applied only to fully observable environments.
I bought FB on their IPO day, as a retail investor you'll not get it early, took a few hours for some to become available, so the IPO price is not what you'll pay.

Or, be a big-money account with the underwriting bank. They can get you these shares at base.
This took me a while to read because I ended up going down the rabbit hole of reading about the PoqetPC - a tiny subnotebook that could last for weeks or months on two AAs: http://www.bmason.com/PoqetPC/
Delegated Recovery (Facebook)
On one hand, I think that under any administration -- whether they are new or newly re-elected -- Americans should warily view the actions of the Executive branch. I think we're all in agreement that those checks and balances are important, and I think most of us would agree that there's little good in weakening them for whatever reason.

After an election won by Team Coke, then it is natural for Team Pepsi to be unhappy and view everything that Team Coke does with skepticism. It's also expected that some supporters of Team Pepsi hope that Team Coke stumbles a bit, gets egg on their face, and generally looks bad while taking a victory lap.

But I think we're a bit beyond that. To move to a more specific analogy, we're at the "Glenn Beck telling his audience about Obama's FEMA camps" stage of hysteria and nonsense, writ large.

This mania has crept into just about every facet of American life at this point that involves the Internet or the media. It's built upon a foundation of hearsay and rumor -- the Trump administration has been in power for less than two weeks and has signed no legislation into law, implemented 8 Executive Orders, and has appointed zero judges.

Concern is fine. Concern implies vigilance and understanding. What we're seeing is more akin to frenzy.
browsers are handling that now https://majido.github.io/scroll-restoration-proposal/history...
According to the article it has ~100ms "cold boot" times for Python and Node.js
Ask HN: Most influential books you read growing up
While reading the post, "The Domain-Driven Design Paradox" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13520209), I was reminded of a book that I enjoyed as a kid, called The Paradoxicon [1] by Nicholas Falletta. This was where I learned about the works of M.C. Escher and Moebius strips. I didn't originally own this book; instead, I had checked it out from the library. I eventually bought the book in college out of nostalgia and was hoping to thumb through it again after reading the article above, only to realize it was not on my bookshelf. I was considering buying it again and was reminded of all the other technical books that were influential to me as I was growing. What technical books did you love as you grew up? Bonus points if you have the title as an adult. Even more points if it is the same book that you grew up with.

[1] - www.goodreads.com/book/show/2521223.The_Paradoxicon
Link to v4 branch: https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router/tree/v4

^ helped me understand what changes are coming.
Yeah, I found that, other than the cars and people, it looked a lot like the San Francisco I've been to last year.
Ilya's a VC now. http://venturebeat.com/2016/08/09/parse-cofounder-and-y-comb... James and I are still working at Facebook, on other projects.
Slightly off topic, but do you find that docs really need to be mobile friendly? I'd personally rather the developer focuses on the actual project and all those concerns rather than a perfect responsive docs page. Esp when assuming most of these docs are eventually translated into markdown on github which are then mobile friendly.
what are the public academic debates that we are having today? creationism vs evolution? populism vs neo-liberalism?

I hate to reminisce but having two existentialist philosophers debating about socialism vs communism makes me jelly.
Warm Lambdas (using Zappa's auto keep-warm) are actually 20-40ms, which makes them suitable for web servers.
Same here... It just shows how React isn't mature yet and also the scope for the future.
There's a lot of misinformation here, so let's go 1 by 1. For the record, I'm a night owl, and I've been trying to change my schedule to a morning person for about 11 years now (with limited success).

1. Sure, that works, for a time, possibly even a few months. Until you begin subconsciously turning the alarms off or hitting the snooze. That leads to a self-reinforcing loop of "turn alarm off --> pleasure from sleep --> no mental block to turning it off next time --> turn alarm off".

Anecdotally, the periods where I've lasted longest as a "morning person" lacked any sort of alarms at all.

2. That's simply not true. Coffee takes about 5-7 hours to wear off, so if you're going to bed around 2100, your safest cut off would be 1400, but generally 1600 wouldn't be that bad either. I've also had coffee and had deep, restful naps just an hour later. If you're really, truly tired, coffee is not a significant inhibitor after 5 hours.

3. 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. You can't simple "escape" the digital world entirely at 8pm. This is realistic on vacation, and I can confirm it results in better sleep, but in day2day, you're bound to slip eventually.

4. Workout - working out can prevent you from falling asleep from all the adrenaline generated during the workout. Just like coffee, it's better to not do it within 3 hours of sleep but many people don't have the luxury of choosing when they go to the gym (if they go at all).

But what's the end result? You wake up earlier, and you get tired and sleepy in the afternoon, around 1-2pm. Most workplaces don't allow you to nap for an hour, so you keep feeling tired and unproductive for the rest of the day. Not to mention waking up early makes you feel really hungry if you don't eat a big breakfast.