skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for a very mature startup, and recently led our first site on ASP.NET Core. The framework itself is very nice and very solid, basically a "do-over" of all the previous ASP.NET frameworks with the benefit of hindsight. Although there's been some new things to learn, I've been very pleased with how consistent and thought out the new ASP.NET Core is. We run the site in production.

Having said that, the tooling around ASP.NET Core has been an absolute disaster. They went 90% of the way with one mechanism (project.json), then decided to start over with a new mechanism (msbuild). While I believe it is ultimately for the best, the interim has been incredibly difficult to work with, as ASP.NET has been officially released now for ~8 months with neither method fully working. For example, in the current project.json stuff you cannot reference another project without first putting it into a Nuget pacakge.

Hopefully this will all be cleared up with the upcoming release of VS2017, but if you need something sooner and aren't interested in dealing with a lot of pain, I'd stick to ASP.NET classic for now.
Great EVs are starting to appear from other manufacturers? I know of the Chevy Bolt and nothing else. Are there others you're thinking of? I mean, that's one car, which generally seems to be reviewed along the lines of "not as good as a Tesla, but hey, at least it's not a Leaf" — so although it is great that somebody else is doing it too, it seems pretty fair to say that Tesla is still leading the charge here (pun not intended, but it did make me smile).

Even if you like the Bolt better, AFAIK that's literally the only long-range EV that isn't a Tesla. So if you like EVs, you kind of have to cheer for Tesla, or else you really just like one EV.
>It's Google docs but instead of being aimed at producing documents for prints, it is aimed at producing document for online consumption (multimedia)

Pretty weird to name it after a printed medium if it is not primarily meant for printed media.
The truth is is that all labor is of equal COST, that being one hour of a person's time, but all labor is not of equal VALUE. Someone building a machine to do something is more valuable then the equivalent time spent doing the task by hand for example. The calculation of whether the machine should be built and then what it should be used for, especially if its function is very non-specific, such as a lathe, is where socialism gets messy and capitalism does better.
Eastern European immigrant here.

Lots of people are telling me "not to worry" since I'm not brown and/or Muslim,
but it's hard not to worry about the future direction of this country. I'm seeing some really familiar, troubling signs - a way of thinking in people - that I was hoping I'd never see here.

The amount of irreparable damage to America's soft power - it's reputation and image - that Trump has done is hard to quantify, but it's pretty "yuge". At this point, I can't honestly recommend this country to any other potential immigrants/friends - I'd say Canada, Australia, or even Germany if you can swing it, are better bets at this point - more urban overall, more cosmopolitan, and more likely to have seen others like you and not be scared of you.

I can't believe how quickly the fly-over (hate that term) states became frightened and closed-off - it's really a different country compared to what it was in the late 90's when I first came here.
Could be a dimensional thing too, what if you're like an exhibit in someone's living room like a hologram and you just live your life for someone's amusement. You'd never know but can you prove that it's happening?
Sadly, it seems HN may be getting overrun by Trump apologists.

The HN community is pretty diverse, including both members who support Trump and those who don't. That diversity is important, because, among other things, I don't think any of us are accurately and wholly described by a single test, ideological or otherwise.

While you might very strongly disagree with members on a particular issue or issues, it's important to remain civil and respectful, even more so on contentious issues.
IANAL, but the current United States v. Texas case seems to imply yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Texas

tl;dr if I'm reading right: Texas and 26 other states sued the federal government over Obama's DAPA executive order. The district court said Texas had standing and issued a preliminary injunction against DAPA. The court of appeals also said Texas had standing and affirmed the injunction, and SCOTUS 4-4 did not reverse them. (Alas, poor Merrick!)
nowhere in there I was able to find what's Parse

This is a major failing of a lot of open-source projects and a lot of real companies as well. Fortunately Wikipedia often provides some background. It's my go-to place whenever I'm confronted with some un-navigable home page filled with hipster jargon about how a company wants to "empower" me with "cloud" "solutions".

Here's a brief history of Parse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parse_(company)
Ask HN: Easy hosting for kids?
Do you know of any simple hosting solutions that are so easy a 10 year old could use them?

Preferable but not necessary are custom domains and let's encrypt integration.

At my local codeclub we have kids that finish the html & css courses and want to build their own websites so everyone can see.

In the past I have written a tutorial to get kids started, using github pages for hosting as it is free and pretty easy to use.

But introducing children to git is not easy and seems like an unnecessary step to making their first website. The only other solution I can think of is hosting with FTP access, but that comes with it's own complications.

Maybe something that syncs files with Google Drive or Dropbox?
The TI-99/4A uses the TMS9900 16-bit processor. I looked it up on Wikipedia and was surprised to see that this chip requires a four-phase clock. Anyone know why it uses a four-phase clock?

The reason I'm curious is that four-phase circuitry was a big thing in the late 1960s, used in mostly-forgotten early MOS computers such as the Autonetics D-200 and the Four-Phase Systems AL1 chip. But I'd be surprised to find TI using four-phase logic in 1976.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-phase_logic
If none of these companies hired non US citizen cheap-labor, would they still be suing? Would they still care?

Cheap-labor is the only reason any of these companies gives a rat's-ass about the 90day travel restrictions. President Obama signed heavy travel-restrictions into law in 2015, not a peep from this forum. Not a peep from Microsoft. Not a peep from Amazon.

But all of a sudden, NOW we care! Yeah right...

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/29/politics/how-the-trump-adminis...

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> In December 2015, President Obama signed into law a measure placing limited restrictions on certain travelers who had visited Iran, Iraq, Sudan, or Syria on or after March 1, 2011. Two months later, the Obama administration added Libya, Somalia, and Yemen to the list, in what it called an effort to address "the growing threat from foreign terrorist fighters."

> The restrictions specifically limited what is known as visa-waiver travel by those who had visited one of the seven countries within the specified time period. People who previously could have entered the United States without a visa were instead required to apply for one if they had traveled to one of the seven countries.

> Under the law, dual citizens of visa-waiver countries and Iran, Iraq, Sudan, or Syria could no longer travel to the U.S. without a visa. Dual citizens of Libya, Somalia, and Yemen could, however, still use the visa-waiver program if they hadn't traveled to any of the seven countries after March 2011.

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Trump's order is much broader. It bans all citizens from those seven countries from entering the U.S. and leaves green card holders subject to being rescreened after visiting those countries.

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President Trump may have enhanced the restrictions, but he's not the President that enacted them. Where were you Armchair Justice Warriors then? You sure weren't here posting about the -exceedingly heavy- restrictions in 2015. Nope, not a single one of you...
No, I'd just want an unbricked, functional, phone. The point is if you buy a $100 phone from wherever and it works, then it suddenly gets bricked due to some company pushing an update, that company is being a dick.
I agree the owner got terrible service. I agree that the car appears to be a lemon and the owner is well within his rights to ask for a refund or replacement.

All I'm saying is that the letter is not actually wrong; as far as Tesla can tell, they had repaired everything wrong with the vehicle and therefore it was in good working order. And for all we know, this diagnosis is correct, seeing as how the owner didn't try out the vehicle again after the last repair.
Click baity title. He's digging a trench on his own property.
Forgot to mention I also ported my personal side project to ASP.NET Core and had the same experience, it's a fairly decent sized live site.

https://communiroo.com
But here's the deal: for someone like AWS who isn't giving back, the choice is not "do they give back or don't they?" -- it's "do they run your software or someone else's?" So: do you want to grow the ecosystem around your software or not? Do you want AWS to at least create a market for people who understand your software? Do you want at least the intrinsic satisfaction that your software is being used in an important capacity, even if it doesn't mean immediate remuneration? Finally, if AWS runs your software and it becomes core to their business, there is a non-zero probability that they will contribute something tangible in the limit -- if they do not run it, there is, in fact, zero probability of such contributions. It's not dissimilar to the arguments around open sourcing otherwise proprietary software[1]: you need to get out of "what will this buy me?" and into "what does this cost me?"

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/corporate-open-source-an...
Excuse you, that was General Ripper. As for fixing this: it will not be difficult, mein fuhrer!
The Normalization Trap
As someone on a work permit at Microsoft, I'm far from "cheap labor".
I don't think the issue was that the vehicle had problems. I think the issue was more about how Tesla handled those problems.

The first failure was while they were away from home and had to convince the service manager that a week was a long turn-around time. They offered them a loaner, but not one they were allowed to drive to their destination so they had to rent a vehicle with their own funds. They found nothing wrong after three days.

As they left from that repair, the car announced that it needed service twice between Ohio and California. As such, they brought it in for service in CA. This service took 10 days and they found nothing wrong.

1 week later, the problem is back and they took it in for service (at yet a third service center, this time the headquarters). Another 10 day turn-around time.

The next problem was that the car refused to start.

Through this, Tesla kept taking their sweet time and being less than communicative. They also didn't offer a Tesla loaner (rather giving them rentals from Enterprise). Most luxury automakers try hard to make their customers happy. Tesla didn't.

When it came time to deal with the lemon law, Tesla offered to re-manufacture the car for them. They accepted and around 2 months later Tesla told them that they'd have to pay up for the re-manufactured vehicle.

Finally, Tesla wouldn't even admit that there was a defect with the vehicle.

As the author notes, friends with similarly priced cars had much better experiences with actually getting them repaired or replaced.

It's frustrating to have problems with a car, but if the manufacturer/dealer is communicative, prompt, helpful, and honest with you, it feels a lot less bad. In this case, it doesn't feel like Tesla was any of those. They had to keep checking in on the status, Tesla took much longer than I expect car repairs to take, Tesla wasn't able to help them, and the dealing around the re-build and refund feels like a bait-and-switch.

Yes, car trouble can happen to you if you buy a Porsche or BMW. But that's not the issue in this story. This isn't a story about Teslas being unreliable. This is a story about Tesla service and customer support being non-communicative, unhelpful, slow, and possibly even dishonest.
> It's a 90 day travel ban

It's a 90 day ban on certain countries followed by an permanent ban by countries that don't meet as-yet-unspecified information sharing standards.

Plus some other parts (like the complete refugee ban) with different timelines.

> How fast can a lawsuit reach the courts?

Pretty near instantly.

> It'll be over before it goes to trial.

Perhaps (or, more likely, the parameters and legal issues will shift before that happens), but that just means that getting a TRO pre-trial may be as good as prevailing at trial, as far as the initial 90 day ban policy is concerned.
> this is a polished, high-quality, sexy solution for a problem that simply doesn't exist

At a certain level I wonder if this, like Google X, isn't more a recruiting tool than an actual product. Something to say "we do sexy things here".
They had multiple out of pocket expenses due to their supposedly "no defects found" Tesla. Rental cars (they were half way across the country from home and Tesla's idea of a rental option was "cannot leave the state you are in"), etc.
Agreed. An overloaded WordPress site with a minimal 5 minute page cache can now handle a HN storm. Throw in a CDN for the static assets, disable commenting, and it could likely handle the front page of Reddit.

Amazing how fast a site becomes when it's no longer recalculating every response.
Every few years it seems like I do a complete survey of all the personal wiki solutions out there. TiddlyWiki always comes in a close second to vimwiki for my use. Tiddly is an impressive system and kudos to the developers.

I think my ideal would be an updated VooDooPad that uses markdown syntax with wiki style [[links]], with support for drag and drop attachments and expose pages as text files on the filesystem. VooDooPad is really close to this but seems to be abandoned and more complex that it needs to be. Actually, now that I think about it, Typora very close. If it had wiki links that opened the linked page in the same window (and added back and forward navigation) it would be perfect.
Here's Lynda Obst talking about what, how and why it happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_oHW31jQfg

tl;dw; DVD dead, Netflix ruins it further, New markets
But the wording tells the customer something that the customer did not experience, which is a terrible way to create goodwill. The customer experienced several failures. Surely that indicates a defect. So why contradict the customer? Tesla's people could privately believe the car was defect-free if they wish, but in dealing with the customer focus on the remedial action they are taking, rather than Tesla's beliefs about the car.
Googlers stage a walkout to protest Trump's immigration ban
> They use and adopt new products much faster than people in other countries, new trends start here, they are not shy of moving on to something better.

Nope. Just nope. Doubtfully on a personal level (Music streaming spread in Europe first with Spotify, for example), but infrastructure-wise the USA is so far behind it isn't even funny. The internet lines suck. The traffic light systems suck. The sewage and water system suck. In-house tech is decades behind Europe (most house furnaces are still the unmodulated on-off type ffs!).

>  U.S. has people from almost every country in the world. Most big cities are filled with immigrants. New York City is a prime example of that. It has people from 180 countries and people speak more than 800 languages in the 5 boroughs. This is unprecedented compare to any other country in the world. The most important part is that with such a high concentration of immigrants, people are more accepting of new cultures.

Again, no. Amsterdam has people of a 180 nationalities, for example. Also, because Europe is such a blanket of different countries (= different cultures) we've had to deal with 'new cultures' since before the USA existed. Furthermore, Europe has been (and is) socially more progressive for a very long time. We've had gay marriage much earlier. Drug use has been decriminalized for decades. Prison is rehabilitative instead of punitive.

All this article is basically an immigrant who feels like an American saying 'America, fuck yeah!', whilst not doing a modicum of research (the Amsterdam fact is easily Googleable).
"You do realize it can become indefinite right?"

Legally, it could be, but politically, it probably won't.

This temporary ban is political theatre.

First - migrants from different parts of the world already face very different degrees of scrutiny - this has been ongoing for a very long time, certainly under Obama etc.. - so the issue of 'national discrimination' will hold up under legal pressure, I think.

Second - the commenters point is pragmatically valid because this exec order is a political means for Trump to show that 'he's doing what he said he would do' and to give impetus to his base. That's mostly it. It's not a real operational measure.

After 90 days, Trump will declare that 'we've made changes to the vetting process and have 'extreme vetting' (even though there was already 'extreme vetting' under Obama) - and this will be over.

Caveat - your point about Iran is valid - but Iran is a very different country than the others, and is on the list for different reasons.

I believe that stronger restrictions may be put in place for Iranian citizens after 90 days - this is the beginning of the 're-establishment' of a new Iran-USA relationship which will go in the opposite direction Obama had it going in, for better or worse. Probably worse, but hey. Remember that Trump promised to 'end' the deal that Obama made with Iran - and this ban is going to be part of Trump's 'negotiating process', if you can call it that.

It may be worthwhile to legally challenge the order anyhow - for local political reasons (institutions and governments want to seem like they are 'doing something about this injustice) - but also to make sure that, as you say, this could go on for longer than 90 days - but I doubt that.

Anyhow - it's important to look at this from a political perspective as much as a legal one, because the game that's being played is mostly political.
How Jewish Frat Boys Rescued Refugees in the 1930s
I know this will be unpopular, but I'm so sick of this topic already. Partly because there has been so much emotion and as a result, misinformation disseminated as part of this action from the media to social media. First, it was alleged that Trump was only banning Muslims from countries he wasn't doing business in. Then, it turns out it's not even a Muslim ban at all, since ~80% of the world's Muslim population is unaffected, and the countries chosen were actually chosen by the Obama administration in 2011. Then, there were major protests that clogged up the airports this weekend, which turned out to be a Delta computer failure that stranded everyone. Then there is the usual parade of cries of fascism and comparison to Hitler, when no evidence can be offered to support those claims. The simple fact is that these 'refugees' have been spat upon by their own countries, neighboring countries and muslim brothers/sisters who have turned them away.

They're desperate and someone should help them, but the US doesn't owe these people anything, so unless we are sending them straight to death camps or shooting them right off the boat/plane, the twitter-verse is making a lot of people act like fools by acting like everyone agrees that these people have all rights outlined in the constitution.

That said, we should help these people as best we can, but a permanent home in the US for any people that have no love for our laws, our people or constitution doesn't do them or us any favors by letting them stay permanently. The question is, who wants to conform to our way of life and who doesn't? Can we keep inviting everyone in unconditionally before we pay a very serious price?
My opinion is "no", because causality still exists on a 2D surface. The speed of causality will limit information from entangling with other information faster than a given rate in an offset of X or Y - if there was no limit, there'd be an infinite amount of calculations occurring on the surface in an infinitely short amount of time. You can sorta imagine it as the cells in an area of Life must be "recalculated" to fill in when you left or arrived. That certainly might translates into a different type of causality here, as it does seem that this reality is pretty intent on limiting the ability to change things here instantly.

Which reminds me of Feynman's theory that there was only one Electron and it was everywhere in the universe all at once over an infinitely long period of time, and could even travel in time if it had to.
Of course, unless you prefer an independent community that does not revolve around French and Italians movies. :)
I dont know of any existing solutions to your problem, but you could build your own server. Such as get a Digital Ocean ($5/mo) or linode server, configure it to your needs, setup chroot and ftp and nginx/apache for each of their sites.
> Parse was an API as a service. The idea being that you don't need your own servers and parse would provide API, database, push messaging and so on.

I'm still unclear. It's some sort of hosted database+services?
But you do lower the market value of people less competent than you, which is apparently a problem to such people.
Don't forget the typography on the SS's IBM Hollerith punch cards, too. Scroll down, 2nd to last image.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ibm-and-quot-death-s-cal...
I'd say it's a standard when you are getting into bigger applications, but the Redux docs do say that you might need it: http://redux.js.org/

So, I wouldn't consider it a standard for doing performance/size comparisons.
With respect to the word racist and its usage, I think we're in the midst of watching it expand its meaning. I'm not sure what to think about it, given that I both strive to use words carefully and precisely, while also understanding that language changes and attempts to control it can prove ultimately (frustratingly?) futile. I'd hate for that to be one more thing that gets in the way of effective communication, particularly on difficult issues like this.

After all, the point is ultimately to communicate: if we let strict adherence to a single definition of a word from getting in the way of understanding. Better to just ask what meaning is being used if necessary, while perhaps lamenting the loss in precision in silence.
Could you try with any extensions disabled? We've had problems with some recently
I quite like what I read! Even more impressive for a beginner, but that combination is a challenge for many seasoned professionals. I hope you'll continue!
https://neocities.org/ ? Online HTML editor and drag-and-drop upload.