skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty tough to get a programming job in any language if you don't understand the underlying environment. You're not going to be particularly attractive as a C/Unix programmer if you don't know 'make', the shell, IPC, etc. That said, getting COBOL talent is hard enough that there are shops that will train you up on it which might make more sense than trying to self-teach.
Erik, I recommend use Parse Open source to any kind of App project that needs a robust backend. It is awesome, simple to install and to maintain.
As a disinterested observer -- I haven't used RethinkDB and have no stake in it -- I think you're probably right. I am familiar with my BigCo's approval process for open source components used in our products, and I know that the AGPL is a non-starter.
Without the Episode you default to the release order.

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

"The Clone Wars", "Rogue One" are both on this list. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Star-Wars#tab=su... So 8 is "Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens" and 9 is "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story"

Ignoring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Holiday_Special which was never in theaters.
There's some model reuse. Pixar does it as a joke; the truck from Pizza Planet in Toy Story shows up in other movies. It's a minor business, like clip art. What can be a low-resolution detail in one application may need much higher detail in another, depending on how the camera moves.
I'm not sure why the article laments CableCard. It allows me to watch most of my cable channels using my HD HomeRun ethernet CableCard tuner using just VLC. The premium (think HBO) channels are protected by DTCP DRM but lets just say that isn't the most secure DRM ever. The proposed VidiPath replacement is just going to lock down the TV experience even more. It will allow cable companies to have a DRMed path to your display where they control every pixel, including the guide and DVR interface. It is directly aimed at taking out the likes of Tivo and Silicon Dust.
Instead of relying on Facebook, I'd rather just keep a backup U2F device in my safe deposit box. (Especially since I also have 2FA on my Facebook account, so for safety I'd need a second device anyway.)
Okay. I think we just have different expectations of the word "unthinkable".
It would only if the software source or patents compromised the value they gained from the business. This would be the case for some startups. It wouldn't be for others where brand, talent, & existing users were what they were after.

It also wouldn't take any significant time given developers could just push the final source and docs into a Github repo with a license. Or just dump it as a zip on the web. That's nothing. Also a good chance that at least one ex-developer would like to do it just so their work wasn't totally wasted.
This all reads true to me, what is arguable here?
Costs might come down in a free market system, but many chronic conditions will remain unaffordable to treat even after, say, an order of magnitude reduction in costs.

As for paying more in insurance premiums than you'd pay for treatment, that's only if insurance companies are allowed to account for your chronic condition when determining premiums. If you forbid insurance companies from charging more for existing conditions (as the ACA does) then that doesn't apply, and healthy people subsidize the costs.
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It doesn't have to be a coincidence. The Saudi education system was infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1980s. If what you say is true then that may be a partial explanation. The Saudi ruling elite / religious scholars are pretty constant in disapproving of terrorism. I'm just trying to make the point that things aren't always as simple as people make them out to be.
Racialism is is the idea that Homo sapiens can be divided into separate social categories or "races" based on a variety of relatively arbitrary society-specific markers: religion, kinship, skin color, and so on. The ideas of race is tied up with the idea of ancestry (and nation), but the biological link between genetic ancestry and racial identities is very ambiguous. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/12/22/a-lot...

Racism is the discriminatory or prejudicial treatment of people based on these socially-salient-but-mostly-arbitrary social categories. This is pretty basic stuff, really.
That's a very valid concern, and I appreciate you asking. One of the (many) benefits of using GraphQL is that it's an open standard.

And in the event of a Parse-like shutdown, migrating off of a hosted platform like Scaphold is much less painful since you could quickly spin up a GraphQL server on your own with the same GraphQL schema that you can easily export from Scaphold. Regarding the data you have stored in the system, we work hard to let you use as much of your own data as possible from various services across the web, so even if we shut down, your data still lives across those other service providers that you use. In addition, we'd be happy to give you a full export of your data in any format you wish. We use an underlying MySQL database behind the scenes, and migrating your data from one SQL database to another is much more structured than moving off of a Mongo database (Parse's data layer).

We're also pushing out more and more support for tying in your existing data hosted elsewhere on the web with advanced custom logic hooks that can tie into your other APIs and data layers as well.
Haven't they had that for years, except with more local caching?
The development of science and technology was only possible with scientists and engineers communicating their results via mailed journals, for starters. Everybody benefited from that, not just the scientists and engineers themselves. As for censorship, Internet censorship (as in the "Great Firewall of China") is rather easy to automate (and is getting harder to avoid). Paper censorship (such as in East Germany) required thousands of workers to open and read mail physically in order to check if anything subversive was being discussed. Maybe with modern OCR it could be automated a bit more, but still not as easy as just blocking a website.
I think it was released as a beta while this is the general rollout
They'd have to be left out. The rest could be open-sourced. If 3rd party stuff is hidden behind API, it could even be replaced with open-source stuff. That's not even necessary as my recommendation is to not overly burden the startups with this requirement. They just dump what's theirs somewhere under FOSS license. Others can do the necessary work of dealing with missing, 3rd-party components if they want to reuse the FOSS code.
Do you use it? What do you think about it?
Same here, arguably this is one of the most important elements on the front page, open source or not.

Look at this open source project for example:
http://activeadmin.info/

The front page doesn't leave you wondering why the fuck do you want to use ActiveAdmin for.
> how negligent and dangerous Trump is as the leader of the free world.

A torture-endorsing leader of the free world is like the meat-eating leader of vegetarians. Trump is simply not part of the free world, and therefore not it's leader.
The inclination for people to hire those who remind them of themselves is well documented which means if you're not doing it to save money then you're doing it to favor your tribe.
Protection from what? Most people release their open-source work in the "just do whatever the f you want" spirit. If there is a commercial opportunity you can always re-license / offer paid support.
I was thinking more of the businesses here that no longer exist.
http://wx4.org/to/foam/sp/spins/spins_san_jose_opt.pdf

Not so much the churn of retail that most large cities (suburban sprawls in this case) have.
So far the Charge 2 is holding up well for me. I had problems with the Charge HR. Keeping my fingers crossed. Though I did manage to scratch the screen not a week after buying it. The only other issue is that I'm starting to realize that step tracking isn't really that valuable. At least I get some benefit from heart rate and sleep.
I have a counterexample.

My blog is hosted on AWS S3 with CloudFront CDN and costs a few dollars per month (most of that comes from Route 53). One day it appeared on the front page of HN. Total blog cost that month didn't exceed 5 USD.
Is Sashido using the parse server for their army of HN spam accounts?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13522044.
I love the real-life quality of shows like Louie and Broad City.
I don't understand why everything has to be part of ASF or LF these days. Our code is open but our thinking seems pretty cargo cult.
For a while, I have interested in the idea of modifying the NixOS stdenv (standard build environment) to use a compiler that emits LLVM bitcode, and then having a function that takes any derivation to an equivalent derivation containing the result of running the LLVM IR through the specializer for your architecture. This would mean that you can share a binary cache with others, but still get `-march=native` performance. There's also some pretty interesting ideas along these lines wrt. randomly permuting instructions to prevent ROP attacks (you could even implement that as yet another package -> package function, so that you don't have to do the full set of LLVM optimizations for every package at boot time).
Are the cabinets of the 7 countries banned by trump more advanced than the US?
Side projects. It doesn't have to be anything big or anything, you can start out with a simple script that scrapes websites or something. The best way to gain experience in coding is to code [it's even better when whatever you're working on is practical].

When working on your projects I would focus on good programming practices and patterns. I say this because I get lazy and sloppy when I work on my side project vs what other people would see. Also, know what your code is really doing rather than just copy and pasting it from the internet.
Dropbox is the fastest SaaS company to reach a $1B revenue run rate
What do you mean? We don't have any criminals here, we only have "victims" who are undereducated and "rebalancing privilege" when they sell your $1,000 bike for $50 bucks so they can buy a handle.
I've always kept a README.md in my dotfiles repo with all the bits of information I'm trying to memorize. I keep it either printed out, or a screenshot as my desktop background. Works well for me:

https://github.com/ben174/dotfiles
Not anymore, after
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=646465. Hence
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=663971
I think AGPL introduces some measurable adoption friction, but it certainly isn't toxic. Licensing in general obviously matters, and my view is in this case AGPL would be suboptimal but fine.

In any case, I think it's important to move past these issues ASAP in a way that unites the community, and move forward with the project. RethinkDB may not have been successful as a business, but it seems very promising to me as an open-source project. I'm very excited to see it bloom in its new life (and will try to contribute myself if/when time permits).
It really depends on the goal. It's a success if the goal was to build something to be IPO'd or acquired for benefit of investors and founders. It was a big success in that regard. It's a failure if the goal was mainly to benefit developers. That wasn't the main goal. Incentives like this are why I don't use VC-funded stuff unless I have a fall-back option. Risks also apply to proprietary software in general but many suppliers are more interested than startups are in sucking money out of you for long-term. Market leaders stick around longer.
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>but if I was stuck on something, and could just immediately get up and walk 10 meters and ask a more knowledgeable colleague made up for that.

Working in a cubicle environment is no different here. There's nothing preventing you from getting up, leaving your cube, and walking 10 meters to another cube to ask a question.
Thanks, we've moved the comments to the earlier submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13522044.
> But they also abuse the visa process for lower wages in lower positions.

No, in lower-level positions also they are paid the same as their colleagues who are citizens. During the hiring process, the immigration status is not get considered as a positive or negative qualifier.

> Lots of other companies without hype just want lower wage workers.

I agree.

> I figure these are the majority.

This is possible, but I am not sure. It is true that many companies who get the most visas don't pay well. But the well-paying firms do not apply for lots of visas, and there are lots of them, leading to a long thin-tailed distribution. Also, many of these H-1B immigrants, once they get their green cards, go on to found successful startups increasing the size of the economic pie for everyone. One such person, Jyoti Bansal, sold his startup for $3.7B last week.
The Executive has already made the DHS disobey a court order. If that's not a Constitutional Crisis I don't know what it.

This is literally a textbook example of how autocrats take over. It has happened before and all the rules for that game are being played out right now.
If you want to use React as the V in MVC you can always use a MVC router instead: https://github.com/rajeev-k/mvc-router
I was about to say the same thing. At this point I can't tell who is genuinely recommending me a service and who is shameless plugging.
Well that's kind of like going to a library and complaining that nobody wants to chat. Art goes to the MoMA specifically to be "taken out of the world" and isolated.
Main discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13522044
Alternate proposal: in-order iterating over a set is what's causing the slowdown.

let nanobuild = Swimsuit.nanotime() {
for i in 1...size {
d.insert(i)
}
}

vs.

let nanocopy = Swimsuit.nanotime() {
for i in d {
dcopy.insert(i)
}
}

Clearly the biggest difference between the code is how he's getting the values to insert. If he changed the later loop from for i in d, to the original for i in 1...size, I suspect he'd see equivalent performance.

This code does not demonstrate the issues with HashMaps outlined in the article. I'm not familiar with Swift's libraries, but I bet it has a load factor parameter, the author could just set that to >1.0 and load a bunch of data into it, then the code would show what the article claims.
:DDDDDD all for the happy moments Parse geve i and my team.

We like focusing on building amazing apps so hosting our own Parse Server wasn't an option. After trying 2 service providers an patiently waiting for the easiest yet consistent with Parse Philosophy solution... Outta notting came Sashido.io :DDDDDD these now are for the happy moments Sashido is giving me. They are professional, nice support, easy to get along with. The technical aspects ill share in a proper blog post.

Thank you Parse, always
Show HN: Requesting feedback
https://lightqa.com/

I have been working on a side project and need your feedback (idea and landing website) . The website is a place where you can post QA tasks ( by specifying your website/app and steps to follow ) and testers complete those tasks (on different devices) and submit reports.
This is a very investor-centric article. It assumes that successful founders will one day want to "hit it out of the park" by the investor's definition (moreso than they have with a $100M company), as if founders live to serve the interests of the investors.

I'd suggest that founders who have a profitable $100M company get themselves free from the chain of their investors as quickly as possible and go about their lives running a successful company, never worrying about what investors think or want again. Remember which party is actually engaged in creating something valuable here. You might need their money to start, but if you do things right, you don't need it to live.

The other caveat here is that sama says many founders are surprised when potential acquirers don't consider them "legitimately valuable". That's because founders typically think of value in technical terms. AFAIK, acquisitions happen only because you have something that the company can't just rip off: either you already have a large/significant installed base in a segment the company wants, a recognizable brand, or you have some intellectual property that the acquiring company couldn't recreate by stuffing 3-4 engineers in a closet for a year (which costs ~$1M, much cheaper than any type of exit you're hoping for) (this basically means patents that they want to own for themselves, not really patents on interesting technology, because such patents can normally be circumvented).
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I switched to SashiDo - Great replacement and staff are really friendly!
Yes, I know that sounds contradictory, but it is still true. While it is ideal to have MIT/ZLIB/Apache2, that isn't a reality (and now confirmed, with Slava's comment) that is going to happen.

Initially, that might be scary, but Slava /also/ said people shouldn't spend a dime on it or distract from the amazing momentum of carrying RethinkDB forward (RethinkDB fits certain solutions that GUN isn't optimal for, so it still has an important niche and place).

You guys are here to do this as a community, for the benefit of all. If you are afraid the IP owners (when they said they won't) will capitalize on your success after the community has overcome the challenge... then the intent and motive is in the wrong place, and that isn't conducive to anybody.

Worse case scenario: So what if they do? The community won't be forgotten, everybody would still win. Losing momentum is far more dangerous.
Doomsday Prepping Silicon Valley Style
horace and pete was great, but it was definitely not for his core audience. it's not comedy or really a show. It's more like a filmed stage performance. A lot of people I know bought the first 1-2 episodes thinking it would be hysterical and never bought more after they realized what it was, and never even gave it a chance since it caught them off guard.
I hire both people on H-1B visas and those who are not. All I was saying that the immigration status does not positively or negatively affects a candidate's job application, where I work.
Unless you count the hundreds of engineers and multiple offices Google has in SF.
I dont have dropbox app on my mobile and am not able to view the file .
Great point. It is an inevitable concern with any hosted data platform. Though we do try our best to make your data as transparent as possible and are coming up with more and more ways so you can have tons of control over your data.
Yep, that's definitely a great solution. Unfortunately, that is not practical for the vast majority of people.
Beware committing your career to something for which you don't really seem to have displayed much passion.
I liked the graceful shutdown that Parse had. Always thought that FB would just unplug the wire
Apple iPhone 6 Battery Problems: Grounds for a Recall?
Somebody who wants to setup their own store can send a pull request making the changes they need to snapd to make it easier to configure. Right now it's unclear if a "different store" would use the same data and protocol or would want to do something entirely different. In the end it's just a means of getting a .snap downloaded, so it can be as similar or different as the implementer wants.
I wanted to escape the usual 9-5 for a long time but never got to finish a side project from scratch even though my /projects folder had many unfinished ones.

So I changed strategy and started looking for an existing side project that was bringing in at least some revenue (to prove customer and market validation). I found one such gem and bought it (thanks to some savings I had)

Since then, I have not looked back and now finally trying to actually work on my own new project that I am building from scratch. I am a lot wiser now so I know what to focus on :)
> The kind of poverty I'm describing doesn't exist in US,

It most definitely does. In the US there is "working class poor" (the kind you describe with the $40k/yr McJob), and then there is _poverty_: lack of adequate housing (e.g. shanties with pest infestations), lack of adequate clean water (not just occasionally, either, but consistently), lack of adequate food ("food insecurity", which is a terrible description for "we go without one or more meals regularly during the week, and sometimes have to beg for charitable food from neighbors or food banks"), and so on. These folks also typically don't have access to anything like sufficient education. The notion that "third world style poverty doesn't exist in the US" is a great propaganda victory for the wealthy elite here, but it's just not true.
And then they can issue another executive order that says the same thing for another 120 days... This looks like a textbook example of issuing a controversial and overreaching order, waiting for the push-back, saying "we will fix the issues on a case-by-case basis, trust us", and then waiting for the push-back to drop in intensity. In the end, we are still left with a controversial and overreaching order and the president can decide to not fix the issue as promised.
I have been using Sashido for at least 6 months now.

In the beginning I started out trying to host my own Parse servers, since I really liked the concept of Parse as Open Source as well. But running it yourself ruined the whole benefit of Parse.com. As a startup it is not my core business to run a mobile backend a first, but to create an awesome user experience in the mobile app.

Sashido's pricing model is also clearer than Parse.com's, charging per request instead of request/sec. Yu also HAVE to pay at least $4.95 that makes it less likely for them to shutdown due to lack of revenue.

I can really recommend sashabdo! Also if you've not been using Parse.com.
This looks really bad for your business.
Lots of usage at a price of $0 gives the same result as 0 usage at a different price.
Hollywood isn't over. The "we" in the article title is hollywood, i.e how it understands itself. We as HN, and pretty much everyone else knew this in 2010.
We've used this since the hackpad days at Rainforest; it's actually great - mainly spreadsheets!
It was #2 for the year and wildly profitable. So, no I am not doubting there where plenty of people who loved the movie. The movie was above average and that's the problem. Hollywood depends on movies like The Sorcerer's Stone, The Fellowship of the Ring, A New Hope, Bourne Identity, even Iron Man to drive future revenue.

Movies that build off of that success make money, but they don't prime the pump.
You should try one of these BaaS

Firebase
Back4app
Backendless
It is the second part of the quote (follow the link above): "all models are wrong. Some are useful" -- you are talking about the suitability/usefulness of a model.
As promised: http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/01/infosec-1-in...

You are free to use it, or not, to help your group get oriented.
Paper is a cross between a wiki and a google doc. It was based on https://hackpad.com/ from what I heard!
What? Wow. You're kinda off the deep end there.
For a second there I got excited because I thought it might be written in OCaml :-)
- When I used them last time, there was no python api. New https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/client-python is a big improvement. Http API required sidecar proxy container.

- Retry control is course grained. IIUC the only option are "no retry at all" or "terminate if job have been active for X seconds". If my jobs tend to be long and failure happens early, second option can lead to hundreds of retries. Each job retry is expensive, as it creates a new pod. I remember ending up with 100s pods.