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They could just copy OSX's approach: a privileged system search-indexer daemon "discovers" new app bundles users have plopped onto the disk, and then it tells a privileged "Launch Services" daemon about those bundles, which extracts their metadata and sticks it into its registry. (This is why e.g. filetype associations for apps get registered on OSX the moment you extract the app to disk; or, more recently, the moment you de-quarantine the app from its internet origin.)
My parents have traded "regular TV" for netflix series. It's surprisingly easy to consume it quickly once you remove ads and other interruptions, as well as setting the schedule to fit your own.

No more wasting 15 minutes for it to start, no more waiting between episodes, no more waiting during the episode ...
[fission developer here]

About that 100msec overhead -- there's a bunch of optimizations yet to be done, and also we think we can reduce the median at the expense of tail latency; but for now 100msec is good enough performance for a good enough set of use cases (but of course we'd love to hear from people for whom it really doesn't work at all).

Also, we could add knobs that let you tune how long a function stays "warm", so you can tune the latency overhead vs. resource consumption trade-off.

> But with modern progress in fast-starting compiled languages like Go and Rust, I'd love to have some easy way to supply small static binaries instead of source code.

We're very interested in this use case. We're redesigning the function environment stuff right now to better support compiled languages, and allowing users to bypass the source-code level stuff is quite possible.

BTW, to be clear, for a compiled language Fission wouldn't compile source code at runtime; there would be separate build stage that would run when you add the function to fission. I'm also not sure why you say we pay interpreter startup overhead on every request (we don't).
The end to end principle strikes again.
React Router V4 has been a pleasure to work with for me as well, and I've used it in a couple of projects that have some fairly complex routing.
Will be interesting to see delta between next week's financials and leaked financials from 2015
You should consider the fact that someone can simultaneously be cheaper and better at your job. See robots.
Yesterday was the trial balloon for a coup d’état against the United States
Auditors cannot provide other services—mainly tax and IT—to audit clients for auditor independence (SOX in the US, Combined Code in the UK and similar laws are in application worldwide).

All Big4 firms had to shelve their IT consulting to separate divisions or into new companies which most later sold:

Arthur Anderson formed Anderson Consulting which later became Accenture.

Ernst Young - Ernst & Young Consulting which was acquired by Capgemini

PriceWaterhouceCoopers sold to IBM Global Services

Deloitte retained its consulting division I think

KPMG - KPMG Consulting - Bearingpoint?
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All immigration serves to drive overall wages down.
I'm surprised. It seems like for the last several months I've been noticing fitbits on the wrist of several prominent people.

Maybe their product is just too simple and does it's job too well. Judging by trends in the market, people won't be satisfied until their watches have about 8h of battery life and are privy to all the 0-days of android.

Ignore my grumbling, I'm just an old fossil who wants phones to at least be phones and watches to at least be watches. Call quality on my phone seems to drop every year, and my wife's $500 smart watch barfs on syncing her music library.
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The open source Parse Server offers more benefits than hosted parse.com. Many of the benefits are outlined in this blog post: http://blog.parse.com/announcements/what-is-parse-server/
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Thank you for the praise, however i really want to stress that Sub0 (and PostgREST) are not prototyping tools only :)

It's true that you don't build api's with them the way you would with a more traditional stack but you can build real products with this a lot faster.
This style of building APIs clicks faster with people that use (and trust) Postgres
We've banned this account for continuing to violate the guidelines after we've asked you repeatedly to stop.

What we've said before still applies: Hacker News is not the place for such political trolling and other incivilities.
So true. Why are high school graduates unable to repair John Deere tractors? Well, maybe because they need some training. Why should they pay for a university degree? Which degree? Mechanical engineering? No. Computer Science? Also no. There is no degree in John Deere tractors. Donating your equipment to schools won't help. Hire people, train them, and put them to work.
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Following the blogs of people whose work you like doesn't take much effort. All it takes is a good RSS reader.

Because most of them don't have time to write frequently. The people I follow tend to write once in a blue moon, but when it happens, the articles are really good and I consider it a shame to get lost in a sea of noise.

If I open my RSS reader right now, I'm sure to find 10 good articles that I like, which is not what I can say about HN on any given day.

In fact on HN I'm glad to see an item worth my click once per month. The content promoted here is really bad IMO and I only come for the discussions, which tend to be interesting as people bother to post long comments.
When can we expect Python 3 support? (2016)
I'm not sure what your point is. Do you mean that if only people used DAOs then Parse shutting down wouldn't be a problem? It only encapsulates the problem. You still need to go through a process to switch from Parse to MariaDB or whatever else you switch to. You just don't have to rewrite your whole application.

I'm in favor of DAOs and use them myself but they don't have anything to do with what I was talking about.
Is their plan still to make money via ads in the stories?

How will Facebook's new features (basically a clone of Snapchat) affect this?
Hi Kriro. For image search, DuckDuckGo may be a hair faster because it uses Amazon AWS servers. But other searches should be about the same speed.

Please contact us if you see this happening so we can address it.

A recent article did a speed comparison test of StartPage vs. DuckDuckGo, along with other comparisons. See: http://securityspread.com/2016/10/24/duckduckgo-startpage-20...
uhhh...sorry to say but I don't think you're getting that data out anymore.

>When your app is disabled, you will not be able to access the data browser or export any data, and your applications will no longer be able to access the Parse API.
Don't assume whether my wife is an immigrant or not. Or, that her job is fungible enough to be so easily displaced.

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

So, from a economic standpoint your comment doesn't make sense.

I understand that Americans coming first in Americah is what you believe in. That doesn't make it right. It's something you can fight for/vote for[0]/we can talk about. But you can't just beg the question when asked why you think so.

[0] It's not something I have or will ever vote for. Because I believe in a meritocracy and pursuit of happiness open to all.
Agreed. There was definitely a characteristic "Williams sound collection" that was common across many of their video games (Joust, Defender, Robotron 2048, etc.), and pinball machines, too (e.g. Gorgar). You didn't even have to turn around - you knew a Williams game as soon as you heard it. Personal favourite = Joust respawning sound.
I'm guess Cibachrome prints though you can't fully appreciate online.

Pigment prints are pretty rare these days. A photographer I was at a dinner a couple of months back favored a Bay area company that prints on metal as an alternative.
I've seen a notification like that, but it had to do with an App not being compiled for 64 bit architecture.
To be fair, changes are that if you work remotely there's nothing stopping you from working 4-12 every day :)
This is an article about 250 Disney of FL jobs that were displaced by H1-B Visa abuse. Trump was clearly against the abuse and spoke out against it. Rubio on the other hand was for tripling the number of Visas to 250,000 and had Disney as one of his major donors.

Much of Silicon Valley wants to keep wages depressed and have more American unemployed by hiring more immigrant workers over using Americans. Many people say they dislike Trump, but of all the candidate except for Sanders he was the only ones who wasn't bought by Silicon Valley and Wall Street. I believe Joe Biden also was not bought by SV and Wall Street and was concerned about American workers.

"While Donald Trump has called on Disney to hire back all of these workers and has pledged to end H-1B job theft as President, Sen. Marco Rubio has pushed to expand the controversial H-1B program—he has introduced two bills that would dramatically boost the issuances of H-1Bs. As recently as last year, Rubio introduced a bill—endorsed by Disney’s CEO Bob Iger via his immigration lobbying firm—that would triple the issuances of H-1Bs. Disney is one of Sen. Rubio’s top financial backers—having donated more that $2 million according to Open Secrets."

http://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2016/02/28/displaced-di...
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> But with modern progress in fast-starting compiled languages like Go and Rust, I'd love to have some easy way to supply small static binaries instead of source code.

Isn't that just what "regular" Kubernetes is, except that you wrap a Linux image/container around your static ELF binary? The Stack build tool for Haskell has an option for building as a Docker image, wrapped around the static Linux ELF binary that it would otherwise produce. I assume something similar exists for Go and Rust.
then it may well be a smarter deal fiscally even without the pay increase, particularly if your marginal tax is high.

How could that possibly be the case?
The science isn't out, but much evidence suggests significant genetic correlation between race and IQ. In that sense, I'm not "making a case for racial superiority", I'm simply pointing out that some of the racial injustice the left perceives may be due to biology, and that they denigrate and deny this science.

It would be great if every race had the same distribution for height, athleticism, IQ, etc. However, that doesn't seem to be the case -- we're genetically different in more ways than just our skin color and facial features. I simply don't understand people who make these emotional appeals or dark accusations against someone making a dispassionate scientific argument.
Nine months ago I had an offer to join Fitbit's engineering team. When I first started interviewing I didn't even realize the company had gone public a six months before. I guess I missed the news.

Looking at the stock price and talking a little with the employees, it was hard to get excited. It had gone from an initial surge of $47/share to $14/share. It looked like an overeager IPO to raise funds for a company that really hadn't quite figured out its market yet. We've seen them many times, but I'm not yet sure what the commonality is. Not having a lasting market? Not having the growth potential?

Most people at the company had an optimistic outlook, but it would be hard to work there and do recruiting otherwise.
The Apple Watch can do authentication to some extent: Authy has an Apple Watch app, and there's Apple Pay. This is the kind of stuff I don't think Fitbit can easily duplicate, which is why I think they're going to struggle in the future.
I gave it a small go recently to try and learn "loopless" methods for permutation generation. Also used it for heap methods. Plan on using it for a few other things, but haven't gotten there, yet.

In both cases, it worked better than I was expecting it to. I have no doubt that I would quickly forget either method, as I don't use them often, but I can at least type them up quickly into a scratch buffer. Even better, by having the entire thing worked out out and known at the algorithm layer, I was able to focus on some of the language specifics in implementation later.

All of that is to say, it was great for remembering pseudo code that I would then later focus on implementing. Gave me a much better appreciation for pseudo code, actually.
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Would it though? I don't question that there would be some increase, but will it really be an explosion of consumption?

Personally, the biggest constraint on my ability to watch the large amount of films that are on my "to view" list is not the cost of the individual rentals but the availability of time in which I can actually devote to sitting down to watch a 90-, 120-, 150-, or 180-minute long film.

The ability to split up my viewings over multiple sessions helps but with the way that most online streaming rental services work for current films, 24 or 48 hour windows, I've had a number of films I've rented age-out before I've had a chance to finish them.
I think that SW7 analogy does not work here. Disney is exception to this article and their movies are profitable, big time.
You made the point that the tradeoff can bite you. I mentioned DAOs as a way to make that bite less painful. Not a hard connection to make.
Yes, this is very much on the roadmap. We're working on better support for compiled languages. Once we have that, adding a language should be a matter of creating a plugin.

(You watch this issue if you'd like to stay up to date on progress https://github.com/fission/fission/issues/24)
Differently, yes. Better, unlikely.

Unless you've got a password type and a regular string type, how's the compiler to know you've swapped the password with a config string?

Joel on Software wrote an interesting article that's related to this, oddly about Hungarian notation.

His point was that *lwistrp = "foo" tells you meaningless stuff (lwip and str) about your data. That's what the compiler is supposed to track. But 'u_pw' and 's_pw' (unsafe/safe) for pre and post-processed user-input tells you something meaningful the compiler has a harder time tracking. (Not impossible with taint-tracking, but ...)

The relevance is that types tend to be based on the implementation details instead of the higher-level facts. For this sort of function to be actually safe, not just compiler-safe, it would need higher-level types and to be compiled into your language (not called via an opaque FFI) to check them.
Though still in early access, I kind of adore Catacomb Kids, and I'm even more of a fan after I looked up one of the GDC talks [1] of the creator he mentioned in his blog [2].

[1] http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021877/Constructing-the-Cataco...

[2] http://catakids.tumblr.com/

I'm not affiliated, and I'm not saying there aren't others that may be worth your money more, but I am absolutely convinced that he has the heart and mind in the right place when doing this, and it really shows. I'm hopeful to see where it will go and what he'll come up with after it's finished.
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It's a comfort/environment problem, at its core. Just like was pointed out in the article.

Do you know what the most popular type of monitor stand is in a major corporation? Paper reams. In fact recently where I work they came around to people with these and asked they not do it because it screws up their paper ordering/estimation.

Why is this a problem? Because offices are super picky about the $100 equipment order but NOT about the $2000 plane ticket/hotel. One is considered a necessary expense and the other is "waste".

People are more productive when they are comfortable/have the tools they need. The building doesn't matter as much. Just an opinion.

You don't want to allow work from home? Cool, give me my two large enough monitors, my adjustable stand, a motorized sit/stand desk, and maybe something simple like free coffee/soda so I'm not spending $X/day on it. Let me come in at 10 and stay until 6 if it suits me.

At the office, make sure there are places I can go to escape from noise when I need to. What would even be MORE awesome is if you somehow worked it out if I could get a discount on noise cancelling headphones.

Pretty simple stuff, and really at the core of what is written here. The title is just meant to infuriate some of you.
The history of the United States largely revolves around subverting workers.

Are you seriously doubting that large corporations want to drive wages down?

Let's not forget that that Silicon Valley was the epicenter of the largest wage fixing cartel in modern history.

Of course there is a plot to drive wages down.
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Ask HN: Are there actually any exciting companies in Berlin, Germany?
By no means do I want to offend anyone, but I have been in Berlin for around 2.5 years and having worked in ecommerce/foodie companies, I now only see similar ones, nothing interesting or new.

I keep reading about innovation in other companies, listening to more senior talking about the drive that companies like IBM had and I wonder is this gone?
As an immigrant, I _came here_ for capitalism, and you will have a hard time persuading me that Venezuela should be our role model. :-)
This.

Why the broadspread interest in a technology so unpredictable, whose payoff is so little and that requires so much investment in hardware/developer time? Wouldn't you be better off learning tools you can understand and that can be used to build reliable and predictable programs?

Why not warn graduate students:

"You'll be working on this project for about two years. We don't know what to tell you about how to solve the problems involved. We don't have any good general guidelines; this field is changing all the time; nobody knows how these things work except in very broad terms (there is no explanatory power). Sometimes it takes years to find something useful. Luck is the key - if you're unlucky, you're screwed."

"Nothing useful will come of your work when you're done. At completion you'll be dumber than when you started, because you will not have learned anything useful except possibly 'patience', a trait not valued in our field and sometimes viewed as equivalent to 'stupidity' or 'stubbornness'. You will, as a result of working with deep learning/NN, forget that sometimes you must cut your losses and quit exploring a particular solution path. At the end, you _may_ get a Master's degree, if you can show you made a good effort or even some progress. Three months after graduation, everything you have done will be obsolete and no firm will hire you: those familiar with NN because your knowledge is obsolete; those not in NN because they see no particular value in your training."
Trump is playing "divide and conquer". Make every action benefit some segment of people, and sow discord among your opponents.

That said, as a highly skilled, highly paid H1B person at one of those top companies who probably needs to wait 5 more years to get a green card by virtue of being born in the "wrong" country, I completely agree that there are a lot of things broken in the current system.
I just don't know if Trump is actually interested in fixing them, or if this is just another populist move to appease his voter base.
People find value in the experiences and services that provide no lasting tangible effects all the time. Considering these to be of no real monetary value seems seriously mistaken.
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Ha--exact the same three.
Plus one more, I think, though I can't remember which one right now.

On the other hand, I've been hooked to The Man in the High Castle, Black Mirror, strings of documentaries and cartoons bought through iTunes, et cetera.
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Bret Victor is amazing. I saw his video about the future of programming[0] and have been following him since then.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4
Yea this is one thing I was thinking. Part of the downfall of music and newspapers, which are the prime examples cited in the article, are that those industries were ripe for disruption by everyone with a little talent (and even some without). Anyone with a guitar and some practice can create music and anyone with a little money for a personal sound studio can even create pretty good music that can go up on Spotify. The newspaper industry had even less barrier to entry. Anyone with a computer can setup a blog and write an op-ed piece. Film isn't unique because anyone with a good camera and some basic lightning and sound equipment (which aren't very expensive these days) can put together a movie. But really good films also take more than one person to make, unlike the other industries cited. You need crew and actors to bring everything together on a set and none of those come cheaply. I do think film is ripe for disruption, but not in the same way as these other industries where only a single person was needed.
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Ah yes, the all too familiar, "What is art and why does it cost money?" conversation. At least we're in well-tread territory, right?
I don't think the article is about founders needing reassurance or emotional support. It's advice for founders to navigate the dynamic with investors that are pushing them to go for a bigger outcome.
But a layman might conflate two things that they do not understand.
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You realize that you are now shifting the context from original "protesting wars, black sites and torture" - which are Iraq war theme - to a tiny subset of military activity that was protested least, precisely because they were protested least?

Of course you do, and you are using it as rhetorical device only, you couldn't care less about people bombed. If I go and find protests and statements against droning, you'd switch to Delta raids, TOW shipments or whatelse. The purpose of exercise is to show that people opposing Muslim bans are not any better and are simply hypocrites, hence the scrupulous fact-combing.
I couldn't find it on the website, is there a detailed list of the changelog for this beta? Looks like some really great changes were made, but would love to see specifics.
Because HN is a community where people have discussions with each other. Pseudonyms are fine. The community benefits from consistent accounts that others can relate to as members of the community. Otherwise there are effectively no users and no community, which is a very different place.
I look forward to the next API revision. Churning your API frequently turns me off as a developer who would rather not be deprecated out the gate.
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