skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not understanding the idea here. PouchDB isn't a BaaS. RxDB is a wrapper for PouchDB, correct? PouchDB is a great project, so not criticizing, just not sure what criteria you're using.

Couchbase fits the bill as well, and has serious real-world deployments. https://developer.couchbase.com/mobile (Yes, I work for them.)
This is the opposite of my experience, both as a candidate and a hiring manager over the past couple of years. There are many openings, not enough competent people to fill them. We are essentially at peak employment for tech.
You think Trump won because someone on the internet pointed out the way you tried to phrase your argument made you sound like a fascist? Come on. You made several explicitly authoritarian points, didn't you?

As a 3rd party observer, it appears you're just trying to shut down the conversation because you don't have a rebuttal to the fact that revoking already granted visas is illegal. Or that Trump has already started messing with reproductive rights. Or accusing the AG of being a terrorist for following the Geneva Convention rather than obeying an illegal executive order. Because you can't address the substance, you're going to jump right to tone policing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_policing

"This is why Trump won" is now just the lazy rejoinder that authoritarian people now use when they don't have any other response. It's something your brain produces to explain why you don't have to admit you lost the argument. Grow up. It's really tiresome.
No argument on that specifically. I do take note, and exception, when very vocal supporters of Hillary have a "come to Jesus" moment over Trump's actions. Part of that "critically consider past actions" thing.
Reposting my comment from the other thread [1]:

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While TCS, Infosys etc figure prominently in the H-1B debate, I think this new bill does not affect them as much as it is made out to be. The real downside is for staffing firms (popularly known as "desi consulting shops"), mostly run by Indian-Americans.

TCS employs 370K+ employees worldwide and had revenue of $16B+ in 2016. They might have gotten 3K H-1Bs each year. If they know how to run projects staffing 370K employees with 3K H-1Bs per year, they will figure out a way to run it with 500. Also, with that kind of revenue, they will pay the $130K if it comes to that.

H-1Bs, I suspect, have a power law distribution. TCS, Infosys etc top the list of H-1B visas per year, but there is a long tail of companies which get allotted few visas every year. Some of these in the long tail are high tech firms in real need of skill and are the ones paying appropriately for it (AmaFaceGoodSoft etc). But I think the larger cohort are the staffing shops which bend the rules often and pay low.

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[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13534296
Techxit?
Microsoft and Alphabet are printing money. Apple had to go digital.
The attitude you're responding to is a big reason for why Trump had so much support per David Wong:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-on...

I find his analysis good on top of being entertaining. Echos a lot of what I've heard living in Red states. Forgot to add that most people around here are just down-to-earth, working-class people who go to work, raise kids, have fun with friends, etc. Normal people.
It's not irrational. It might be unfair, but it sends the intended message.

If businesses associate pro-trump practices with a loss of revenue, this protest has been effective.
I hope it is because we are all hackers and programmers. We find flaws in everything because that is (literally) our jobs.
Writing Microservices with F#
How is this to your advantage? Are you having hard time securing a full-time dev job with a US tech company? Last time I checked, there was more demand and shortage of supply for smart programmers (I have been interviewing a lot). Do you happen to work in a region where there are less tech jobs?
Was it definitely "auto rejection" or did a human read your code?

I ask because we have a coding test that most people solve (that we invite to do it) but we reject most on code quality. The purpose might not have been to solve the task, but maybe to do it in a good way?
I wouldn't think the contact hypothesis would play out quite so nicely under duress from the government. People naturally hate being forced into situations they're uncomfortable in, and I could very easily see that frustration being projected onto the individual/s that the person is prejudiced against.
It may - or may not - change the prejudice of the individuals providing services. However, the sum of those prejudices (in the absence of laws that say otherwise) normalizes separation & segregation, which creates an environment for hate to grow.

Humans tend to distrust/dislike those we're not close to. Lots of evidence shows associating with people builds empathy. Taken to its extreme, segregation causes us to 'other' people and lose empathy.
We had some success with:

- IT companies

- electronics companies (one of which is our current regular donor)

- local angel investors

- government grants (we did a series of workshops for a project run by the US embassy in Poland)

Two other options we're also exploring:

- various grants, both government (national and EU) and from company-backed nonprofits

- CSR - big companies tend to have money allocated to spend on non-profit causes because of their Corporate Social Responsibility programs; you can try and apply to those

As for how we approached companies: we mailed them directly, describing what we're doing. We created a nice PDF brochure to be attached with details and photos. However, the best results came from something else - some of our members talked about our Hackerspace at work, and the word reached their employers, who then reached out to us.
I think personally they should provide feedback for rejections on request, I personally want feedback so I can improve and better myself during a failure often times companies won't tell me so it makes it hard to understand what went wrong in their eyes.
In this case, it's not the people who are anti-Apple hardware I'm listening to. I feel like more of the excited Apple people are now just lukewarm. Part of this is the other laptop manufacturers are catching up on some features while still being at a lower price. More of it, IMO, is that Apple doesn't have that performance edge that justifies the higher price that techies are willing to pay.

TL;DR, before you were paying for a Benz and getting a Benz. Now you're paying for a Benz and getting a Saab. While the Corollas of the computer world all got their usual refresh and upgrades.
2. No kaby lake - this is an intel release timing issue, if you want Kaby Lake wait a few more months.

Nvidia 1060 graphics! I don't need faster or more power efficient CPU as much as I need faster and more power efficient GPU!
made with barley and rye in the old way

I'm assuming you're adding brewers yeast as well. My understanding is that beers made in this period where brewed purely with natural fermentation, making it much harder to reach these higher strength.
No, like, http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-scheduled-e... (and linked from that page, http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/tutorial-schedul... )

You can just set up "here's my cron string, run this function", and it will run that function when applicable. No external services, no SQS. Just a Cloudwatch event, that executes your lambda, at a set schedule.
How I feel about the latest Apple devices is that they're good despite the "innovation". Touchbar, removing headphone jack, and going all-usb-c (but not on the iphone?) all either sucks or fails to add value, but the spec bumps are still good enough and the build quality's still great, and, crucially, the competition still doesn't have its sh*t together.
> You also don't have to use Google Cloud Messaging

Unless you want Signal, which everyone (rightly) recommends. Finally off of almost every Google service, wanna install the latest and greatest encrypted chat app... too bad. But I recently heard Signal is finally working on it (after they closed my Github Issue as wontfix/by-design a year or two ago).
It's cyclical to be constantly looking back and holding every group to this impossible standard we've constructed for today that is constantly changing. This is the only argument I ever see from Trump supporters: Clinton or Obama or the Democrats did it/would have done it or worse, so it's all okay and you aren't allowed to complain. Never is the argument presented that what is currently being done is right, because it's indefensible.

Why not talk about what is right and talk about doing that? When we read 'all men are created equal' we don't say 'well, the founding fathers hated women so it's okay for me to' or 'the founding fathers had no good ideas and they are trash' we talk about what parts of their ideas had merit and try to improve upon them and do the right thing /today/, from this moment forward.
Both articles just say "unconstitutional" and say "racist" a bunch of times without citing statute or case law. Sorry if I don't find such arguments compelling.
> To the contrary, Yates claims she is ordering the Justice Department not to defend the executive order because it is not 'wise or just.' This is quite significant. I am not aware of any instance in which the Justice Department has refused to defend a presumptively lawful executive action on this basis.

In the usual course, the DoJ would pre-vet an E.O. and concerns about wisdom and justice, and particularly, as regards the former, issues of the degree to which defending the E.O. would require the DoJ to take positions that the DoJ has taken or would otherwise take defending other executive actions, and the potential adverse precedent (for public and even specifically executive branch interests) that would be set were courts to accept arguments the DoJ would make defending the E.O. would be addressed, weighed, and resolved (possibly with changes to the E.O. and/or changes to strategy in other pending cases) before the E.O. was issued.

The lack of consultation within the Executive Branch that, among others in other contexts, Senators McCain and Graham (both Republicans) called out, prevented that from occurring in advance, which meant those considerations would have to be weighed after-the -fact. But still before any defense could be prudently mounted.
Apple's cash hoard swells to record $246.09B
> by controlling the stagnation of web browser tech, they can force
> developers to implement apps with their high-lock-in native app
> frameworks

Ah, web-developer logic. Always good for a laugh.

Yes, if Google were allowed to distribute their fork of the WebKit engine on iOS then everyone would stop writing iOS apps. Just like no one writes Android apps.
I had 4.0 GPA, valedictorian, 2400 SAT, 800 on three SAT II tests, a varsity letter, awards in chemistry and math competitions, and 5s on 14 AP tests.

I got turned down by MIT. Yeah, it sucks but anger will hardly help.

And there are always upsides. In my case I went to state U on full-ride and saved myself $170k in tuition. In your case, you avoided being hired by a less-than-competent company.
Probably not. That's a very different situation. Neo-nazis make a choice to be neo-nazis.
Not the above commenter but I have the new 15 and I second that. Speakers are better, trackpad is better, keyboard is (in my opinion, anyway) better, touchID is nice, and it is lighter and thinner. I don't use peripherals much at all, so the lack of legacy ports doesn't bother me. Only downsides are slightly worse battery life overall and occasional accidental activation of the emojibar.
TLDR:

* Because beer was consumed as a source of energy rather than as an alternative to water, and high alcohol content was favored, it seems like the answer is "Yes."

* However, it's unclear whether early brewers could make drinkable beer at high ABV, throwing this conclusion into doubt.
Lump sum from the sale. Or not interested in retaining the mental baggage of owning the business.
Ask HN: Interview Process 2017 – You too are getting rejected?
I've been applying for jobs since early January and I keep getting rejected after the 1st or sometimes 2nd technical phone screen. I'll be honest by saying it took me a few weeks to warm up. I'm now super hot and on top of my game, but I'm still getting rejected. I have +10 years of experience in the field, worked for the most "prestigious" companies in the field, studied hard for the last month on CS and basic interview questions. Despite nailing most of my interviews, I'm still getting kicked out for no reasons! I can't pass the first phone screen! Again, I've switched jobs a few times in the past and landed gigs at the best companies. I'm honestly not Resume-over-rated... I took a year break and now I'm back on the market, what happened since last year?? I don't get it.

As I mentioned in another topic, I often get a 9/10 score on a technical phone screen. I got 10/10 sometimes but still got rejected. 1-2 years ago I would have had 10 offers by now. So my question is, am I the only one getting randomly rejected in 2017?

Thanks for any info!
Yup this seals the deal for this proposal. If you are a student who obtains a degree at a USA college and if you can find a competitive job then "Welcome to the USA". So basically as a foreigner you have to be an above average student.
And of popular votes with no shenanigans on registration or voter ID's.
I think the biggest contention, is what you have to pay for what you get.
Reminds me of the intro to Ingmar Bergman's Persona. I guess that may have be an allusion to this, as well as Brechtian Alienation technique/"breaking the 4th wall".
Hacker News is full of journalists who think they can code. It's hilarious.
Imagine if Apple management were a bunch of tax (aka revenue) cutters that also spent all the tax revenue handing it out to their cronies via earmarks and carve-outs in the annual budget?

It's easy to blame the Federal government when it's leadership is hell-bent on breaking it by unfunded mandates, croynism and expensive wars while also cutting the tax revenues.
On the subject of abortion and drugs, it's fairly straightforward. ACLU is not a "states' rights" organization. It is an "individual rights" organization. It sues states for infringing people's rights as much as it sues the feds. So from their perspective, if they can enshrine the protection of a right at a federal level, they'll go for it, because it's easier than forcing all 50 states to do the same.
I realize it may seem like the most relaxed form of breathing is however you've been accustomed to breathing automatically, but no, probably the majority of people tend to breathe using chest breathing and it is definitely not the most relaxed sort of breathing. You can't fill your lungs as full, it creates tension in chest, neck, and shoulders, neglects using diaphragm, which is the primary muscle for breathing. Learning (actually re-learning, because we all tend to do it right as young kids) to breathe properly may not feel natural at first, but that doesn't mean it's not the best way. If you overthink things by creating a (false) mental image of it being harder you may sabotage your efforts, though. Don't take my word for it, take a look at meditation resources, singing resources (singing well -- and also playing any woodwind or brass instrument -- requires natural relaxed breathing), general health resources on breathing. All distinguish belly-oriented breathing (good) from chest-oriented breathing (generally bad, suboptimal).

Example of a general resource:
http://www.wikihow.com/Breathe

And another:
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-breathe-correctly/

As a real world example, you may be able to notice in yourself how when you become nervous or scared your body becomes tense and you tend to chest breathe. Focussing on belly breathing in a case like this can actually calm your emotions as well as your body, dissipate the fear or nervousness, help you gain control over your fear.
I think the problem isn't liberalism, per se, but neo liberalism. The fact that the market hasn't made for an egalitarian society, but one that is markedly lopsided in terms of distribution of wealth. THAT is a problem, but not necessarily one that requires demolishing liberalism, democracy nor capitalism.
Ask HN: Has the recent rulings/news affected your hiring efforts?
I am wondering about all these recent changes to immigration and how it is affecting small to large companies and their experience these first few weeks and their outlook on the future.

I've read some medium posts... but that's just a few cases.
Try it with the airpods. I know it's cliche, but it's a fantastic experience. Truly worth the $ (for me, at least; can't say what $170 is worth to you)
Tone and message. Which are quite significant, in gestures like these.

To call it a "donation" would carry a connotation of pity, or do-gooderism ("We know this is money down the toilet; but we're doing it anyway because it's the right thing.") Calling it an "investment" suggests that in fact they earnestly expect a substantial return on that investment -- which they do, though not a directly financial return, of course.

But rather in safeguarding the very fabric of society in these perilous times we find ourselves in (which, indirectly, also safeguards their ability to keep doing what they're doing).
There is a game humans can still beat machines at with ease, Diplomacy(1). When a machine wins a Diplomacy tournament I know we are finished as anything except pets.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game)
I am a bit confused about $130,000 limit. A $130,000 salary in NYC is way different than a small town in Mississippi. Should not it be regional average?
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or real but...new computers (a) get faster over time, so upgrading is worth it, but old computers also (b) become damaged over time, for many of us at least, though this is less of a problem with MBPs than say with Lenovo's.

Yes, I could do my work with 10 year old hardware, but no, I wouldn't really want to. These days, I don't feel the need to upgrade very often, 3-4 years seems to work out, but something new and faster is always nice.

As for the environmental costs, these are real and should be considered. That being said, it is difficult to not consume while remaining competitive with your peers that are at the same time (they have a faster computer -> get work done faster than you -> you get a pink slip).
Ah: 'non-Touchbar'. Apple has gone touchbar-only on the higher-spec'd MB Pros. Those of us who touch type and want a fast developer machine to last a few years have been left behind. MacOS is my OS of choice, but the touch bar makes Apple's hardware irrelevant to me -- I literally have no available Apple option when my current MB Pro needs replacing.
> Related topic: I'd like to see an update on the enterprise vs commodity hard drives.

Yev from Backblaze here -> we wrote about this in 2013 and have honestly not bought too many enterprise drives since, simply because they were more expensive and the benefit was negligible in our usage. Lately though Seagate has had a nice run of enterprise drives and they're well-priced, so we might be giving those more of a shot in the coming months!
PlanGrid (YC W12) Is Looking for a Head of Product
I made cyder at home a couple of years ago (about 8 gallons).

I had 2 pints at one sitting, I have no memory of the evening past about 10pm and when I woke up my first thought was that I had had a stroke.

The rest of the stuff is still sitting in the shed.
Were there negative things said about the keyboard? I was playing around with the new MBP's in the Apple Store last week and I found the keyboards to be fantastic. I was actually surprised because I bought the family an iMac for Christmas and I really don't like the new wireless keyboards. The whole thing feels cheep in part because the keys feel poorly seated.
It's not one person. Trump wouldn't be nearly as much trouble if the other parts of government weren't his willing accomplices. Separation of powers can only do so much. Once all the various parts are controlled by the same party, it ceases to matter much.
Sounds like you're listening the noise and not the signal. There were plenty of people that were against Trump before the election and now he is doing the things he said he was going to do. They have real reasons to be opposing him, it just sounds like you are paying attention to memes and talking heads in the consolidated media.
But will there be enough small companies willing and able to hire H1B workers at that salary level? This might just have the effect of reducing the number of visas that are actually given out, as some of this 20% will remain unused.
> From a moral standpoint, denying entry to previously vetted residents with green cards who may have lived here legally for many years, purely on the basis of where they were born, is abhorrent.

Sure, and, despite the broad authority the government Constitutionally and the executive statutorily has with respect to aliens, that aspect is quite plausibly also a civil liberties issue.
> Those in law enforcement or counseling

Or those who have friends with "off" senses of humor, have hung out in uncensored and unmoderated forums, watched enough television about crime, and so on. I don't remember where I first heard those letters used in that way, but I imagine it was about 15 years ago, when I was in high school.

To be clear, in context, your post only reads awkwardly for me after having the alternate parsing of "CP" pointed out. Your intended "Club Penguin" meaning was the first way that I read your comment.
And Chrome is reportedly more of a battery hog on macOS[1][2] and Windows[3]. So there you go: different priorities.

[1] http://www.techrepublic.com/article/browser-wars-is-chrome-o...

[2] http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/10/8381447/chrome-macbook-bat...

[3] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/230583-microsoft-claim...
I've owned every Macbook/Powerbook from the Titanium up until the Mid-2014 MBP (while I was at Matasano, I got every refresh; on my own, I try to make machines last). My 2014 has HDMI. But then: the new one has an HDMI+USBC+USB dongle.

On the one hand: I miss MagSafe.

On the other hand: I will not miss the stack of old frayed MagSafe cables I've collected over the years, and am hopeful that the aftermarket will finally provide me with a reliable power cable.

Worth knowing about me to qualify my opinion is: I don't use external monitors or keyboards. I don't ever want to use a configuration of my computer that will make me unhappy or feel less productive when I'm not at a desk, because I strongly prefer being able to work wherever I happen to be.
This was the guy who also made the first wiki. Also note his 2 letter domain name.
That depends on what you mean by "correct". Sure, you could theoretically find Nash equilibrium of poker and by playing the equilibrium strategy, you can ensure you won't lose. But that does not mean this is the best strategy to use at a given table against the given opponents, who (being imperfect humans) almost certainly do not play the equilibrium strategy themselves. And, by playing a proper nonequilibrium strategy, suited to the specific players, you can win more.
The co-ops can be members of an international org that ensures quality and consistency among its members.
Yes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/06/19/a-...

Which is something that can be found with a straightforward Google search, I must add, so the sheer number of comments here that are asking this question makes me conclude that most of you doing that believe the question to be rhetorical. As in, you assume that ACLU does no such thing, because "everybody knows that".

Well, "everybody" is wrong.
yep. You know how much effort engineering takes? Sales takes the same effort, from people of similarly specialised actual talents.

Respect your sales people - they need to be as good at their gig as you are at yours.
you have just succinctly justified arms races and the development of new weapons and counter-weapons.