skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Firebase, but will never use it unless I absolutely have to. It's not anything they've done, it's what happened to Parse. I built a half dozen apps using Parse as the cloud backend because it was so easy.

My last project my CTO chose Parse to build a backend for a Website. Parse Cloud Code was fairly limited, we'd have to do a separate server for Stripe for example, but again it made the specific client project really easy to do (and he had been tasked on building it really cheap given our crazy CEO had given the client a fixed bid). I knew it was screwy but said "At least we can be confident that Parse isn't going away any time soon" since Facebook had bought them.

I finished the site on time, on budget, the web service demoed great at it's launch show, and the client signed up a ton of customers and was just waiting for our e-commerce implementation to launch their important new business.

Then Parse was canceled.
Good luck. And remember to read! Read read read like your life depended on it
It applies to any service where having them host your domain is done by publishing a CNAME record.

But, that's not the only way to do that sort of thing. Firebase, for example, allows you to use A records pointing at their IP addresses.

Cloudflare and WordPress.com allow you to make them the authoritative server for all your records, then they provide an edit interface.

Netlify doesn't mention these as good options, probably because they don't have them to offer.

Edit: Apparently they do offer these options, but have their own reasons for preferring the CNAME approach
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6rf56475#page-50

20% of people dies before reaching adulthood and only 50% passes the 55 mark.

on a side, it's incredible the amount of information one can dig out of internet
I agree with what you're saying, however the fact that those were throwaway accounts and the pattern of their answers (not only to me) weigh heavily towards some kind of coordinated commenting.

I see there are official ways of reporting suspected shilling, at a time where astroturfing is having an important impact on the real world it's important that the administration keep these in check in this space.
My daughter went through a vegan period. I treated it as a phase, and fully supported her, including periodic nutritional testing to ensure that she was meeting her needs for calcium.

Listening to her rationale for being vegan, I got the impression that there was more emotion than science in the move. I didn't argue with her, but she'd throw statistics out like 'It takes 600 gallons of water to make 1 hamburger, and there is a shortage of water in the world.' [0] The LA Times does report this in the context of the recent drought, however, the bulk of the water is used to irrigate the grain the cows eat. They eat a lot of corn, which is grown in the Midwest (in the US, at least) and that water falls from the sky on the Midwest and is therefore not a candidate to relieve a drought in California. Certainly, we grow a lot of beef here, and providing drinking water for the cattle in California is a factor, about 40,000 gallons in one cow lifetime. But not the 3,400,000 that is implied by this data (1,800 gallons per pound on a 2,000 pound cow over 3 years).

Anyway, she grew out of it. It's beef stew and sausage pizza again.

[0] http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-gallons-of-water...
Yes, what better way to prove your humility than a campaign slogan like "I am with Her" .
Decades?

Most people who buy Macs are not very price-sensitive, and they decidedly buy them so they don't have to personally build that "much better hardware".

So, this option does exist, but it's the exact opposite about what they want.

Assuming they even need the increased power in the first place, which most (except creatives pros in video and 3D) don't.
Yes, that can be done
Clover is fully open source. And it's not too complicated to follow along, so it's actually a fairly auditable piece of software.

I've been using hackintosh for a while, and it's almost a vanilla OSX with the exception of Clover and FakeSMC. I doubt there's any malware in there...
The helmet law in Seattle stinks. It makes using the bike share as a visitor completely un-workable. From a cost perspective, they had to build in an entirely separate module to each station with helmet vending, which I expect just gets pillaged on a regular basis.

I also suspect that Seattle is just too far on the other extreme - it's such a bike-friendly city that it's not a big hassle to lock your bike up at home, or at the office. Your biggest potential customers, daily commuters, already commute by bike.
Petition for Google to develop a Linux distro for professionals
Those cases still look really ugly. Reminds me of the look I was going for twenty years ago when i was a teenager w all the neon. The Macs at least look elegant and like something I'd want in my house.
While not at the Trump level, I wouldn't call Hillary exactly "humble".
Can this be answered by doing a security review of the Hackintosh installation?

Would all that is necessary be to put the Hackintosh behind a network inspector, say Wireshark, to check if anything nefarious or unexpected is going on.
> On the other hand the one lisp guy produced cool working programs you are not able to understand,

It's this precise attitude that turns me off Lisp. First, it's not actually that hard to understand. Sure, it's harder than most other languages, but if you've done programming in half a dozen languages (some functional, etc.) Lisp holds no real mysteries.

More importantly, being hard to understand is a bad thing. A large part of what makes a good programmer is the ability to write clear, robust, easy to understand code. Yet Lisp advocates seem to love to talk up how hard the language is to learn and how subtle and mysterious it is. I'm sure that appeals to teenage boys, but it is objectively a bad thing! Like, literally - hard to understand code has all sorts of obvious disadvantages, and no compensating advantages over easy to understand code. It's a bad thing!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12962776
Amazon invades smartphones in war over voice-controlled computing
it really depends what type of hardware you get.
I've first heard about this guy on Sword and Scale. Peanut butter. He loved peanut butter.

http://swordandscale.com/sword-and-scale-episode-77/
It's _NOT_ a problem anymore. I just bought a Hackintosh with components from Tonymacx86's guide. It was literally just to assemble everything, create a bootable USB with the Unibeast tool (which uses the Clover bootloader) and then install it. And it just works. OS updates etc. are not an issue, and I do it just like I would on my Macbook Pro.

Only thing is iMessage/iCloud. It takes a little to set up correctly, as you'd have to "hack" the serial numbers etc., but once it works, it just works.
So? Have essays and thinking outside of formal studies gone out of style now?
Current confirmed non-working list on AP 2.0 ( all models since oct'16)

1. Auto high beam dimming of the headlights

2. Blind spot detection

3. Auto emergency braking

4. Lane departure warning

5. Auto lane change

6. Summon

7. Auto transition to another freeway

8. Auto freeway exit

9. Auto wipers

10.headlight movement with steering
This is from a few weeks back - http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-murder-of-an-hon...

I accept it is not black and white and it is all shades of grey, however as you point out these are people who have been around from before the concept of citizenship became rigidly enforced. Now, to them this world however horrible it is to them is their reality and it is where they were born and raised and call their home - it is not like how you portray the US and Mexico but more nuanced. Lets say any immigrant had a kid in the US, that kid doesn't know of any reality except the one he/she was born into, so is your hypothesis that everyone in the US has lived on it for the last 500 years? Most if not all made their way in through porous borders. So, by your logic, everyone should have lived in their own place - which by your logical conclusion means US is an illegal state because it is not ruled by the Native Americans who are technically the people who lived there from long back.
MIT Professor says powerful elites set up monopolies so they can abuse consumers
Well for a few years it could have been fairly argued that the Paul's talent had died, until Band on the Run was released at end of 1973.
That's your only criticism? Maybe choose a different case?
Also, the biggest employer in Mountain View gives out free bikes, which everyone uses. I do not work for Google, but co-workers of mine regularly show up at the office on g-bikes from Caltrain or the light rail.
I am not blaming anyone, Before people think Burma is a mountainous, rosy and cheery place you must remember the blood they spill everyday.
I assume it's http://www.nextbike.de/en/prices/, which I also subscribe to.

There is advertising on the bikes.
> under the direction of the Court as to the law

The point here is that jurors decide on facts according to law, as instructed by a judge[0]. The judge is also asked during trial to consider legal questions -- not the jurors.

> I suggested that two different judges can interpret the law differently.

I suggested that is why there is a hierarchy of courts, with the hardest and most important ones being delegated upwards via the process of appeal.

I am, of course, not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice. I did enjoy my time in law school though. The main thing I learned is that the law is a language that resembles but is not common English. Phrases like the one you quoted have to be read in the larger context of case law and statute law.

[0] http://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/resources...
That's the thing here, Michigan has some of the most clean, abundant sources of water in the country, and $100,000,000 is not very much money for a long term investment of this much importance.
>It changed the way I view all social sciences.

It should have changed the way you view all sciences, period, because the replication crisis concerns biology, medicine, physics, computer science etc equally.

In fact some of the most powerful studies on the subject have been on the topic of biology.
A really sweet one is Transport Fever. It is however more like of an electronic model railway and less of a game - there is no competition, scenarios (pretty much a tutorial actually) are very straight forward and it is difficult to go under.
However, the beautiful part is modelling the transport network and the detail of it, however I was mostly fascinated by the city growth and development.
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Those using iTerm should try out imgcat: https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-images.html
I don't​ believe for a second that Google doesn't understand most of their markets. That they choose to ignore them (looking at you, myriad chat apps) is another issue, but they definitely understand e.g. France or Germany well enough to start roll-outs there.

Would be nice to see them switch it up a little now and then so everyone​ not in the US don't have to feel like 2nd class citizens.
> It's ironically sad, in fact, because psychologists and behavioral scientists are the ones exposing the replication crisis and doing the most to try to address the problem.

On the contrary, psychologists were shamed into addressing the replication problem by a Nobel Prizewinner's now-famous "train wreck looming" open letter[1]. They certainly wouldn't have gone there without being pushed.

> Arguing that psychology will give way to the neurosciences is akin to arguing that nothing in the computer sciences is a legitimate topic of study unless it involves bare metal issues.

Yes, unless the computer science theories under study are falsifiable and based on empirical evidence, in which case they constitute science as science is defined. That's what distinguishes computer science from psychology, or, for that matter, science from psychology.

> The link you provide amounts to nothing more than ignorant intellectual bigotry and killing the messenger.

I include this to show the essence and basic character of your argument.

1. http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/daniel-kahneman-se...
The Deepest Metro Stations in the World
Thanks. :)

Currently reading a textbook about Math for CS from MIT, written by a Googler.

Also, have a stack of books helpful to entrepreneurs/scientists that I will bring with me.
I buy an original mac because I want a machine that does what it does without all the overhead of assembling it myself. if i spend just 2 hours of my time assembling something equal for 400 bucks less, ive gained nothing. and chances are itll take a lot longer than those 2 hours. with a mac, you click a button and receive a machine that is "pretty fuckin good", for 1700-2500 dollars. do I know I could do better? Sure. Do I give a shit, though?

i could almost turn "could macs be good value?" into a mandatory interview question, because those who say no don't understand how trading money for time works. working with such fools is incredibly tedious and painful.
I agree. I would love to deploy this to production, but I have hesitated due to the mental gymnastics and concerns you mentioned.
>economics states they are only as effective as their payout.

It's a bit more complicated than that as the value of the bug bounty only has to be greater than the lowest economic value to all of those that are aware of the bug to be effective.

That incentive, even though small, dramatically reduces the size of the total number of individuals who will know about the bug before it's disclosed. Since the set of people who are willing and able to exploit the bug for gain is small keeping the number of people who know about an undisclosed bug small reduces the probability of an overlap.
Was feeling kind of sad to see this is the last year these appear. After watching the video also understood the reason behind the decision - same problems from year to year so there's really not much new stuff to talk about.
It's an advertising slogan. Whatever happened to Coke wanting to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony and getting sexy women hit on you when you put on Lynx?

Besides, being "the crazy ones" and being a cpu/gpu power hungry is orthogonal. Apple never sold the most powerful computers (except briefly and accidentally, when Motorola did something right).

Just friendly and easy to work with computers -- which the "crazy ones" could get going with without needing an IT debarment. A "crazy one" can be e.g. a human rights activist or some novel graphic artist, that just needs a simple computer to work with.
For Detroit locals here's a few groups to check out:

Detroit Civic Tech Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/Detroit-Civic-Technology-Meetup/

Maptime Detroit
https://detroitography.com/maptime/

Disco Tech Detroit - Primarily community groups using tech to effect social change. Few of these people are programmers but their causes would be greatly helped if programmers volunteered to help them. They have Saturday all day events around the city. I've really enjoyed attending their events.
https://www.alliedmedia.org/ddjc/discotech
>> Maybe Apple have been waiting for the recently released Ryzen CPUs from AMD?

You can't even run the stock kernel on AMD chips. How much QA and other work Apple would have to do, I have no idea.
> I had to RTFM to figure out what the yellow highlights are.

Yeah, I was confused at first too. It is mentioned lower down in the article.

> In your example Fremont should presumably be highlighted yellow. I think the renderer puts far too little visual emphasis on the bike network roads (and omits the markings from the key!)

Yeah, although the Seattle yellow highlights are missing a lot (e.g. the Westlake cycletrack, which is one of the few "green" corridors in the city and used by tons of cycle commuters, isn't highlighted). The Elliot Bay trail, another "green" corridor along the bay, is highlighted around the interbay area but not the portion that heads into downtown. The Interurban North multi-use path is also missing from the highlight. But that's just bad data; it can be fixed.

Edit: Oh wow. It turns out some highlighting isn't shown at some zoom levels. (In particular, the zoomed out view I would use to try and plan a route is missing some highlighted segments that show up at higher zoom.) I saw a random block highlighted yellow; zoomed in and it is part of a much longer segment. That is a big UI problem.

(Fremont Ave is highlighted at that higher zoom.)
Yeah, but the more honest politicians are.
That's what I had always thought would happen; it makes sense. However, if I'm reading things correctly, the posted article disagrees, and this link also disagrees:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p013...

"It is implementation-defined whether the lifetime of a parameter ends when the function in which it is defined returns or at the end of the enclosing full-expression."

Hence why I asked for some substantive clarification or solid interpretation of the standard. "Common sense" doesn't cut it with C++. :)
> Kind of feel that replication study gets abused as a kind of "psychology is unreliable" argument.

Since the study demonstrates that psychology is unreliable, I think it's something other than abuse.

> I mean, most of our day to day cognating about other people is fraught with unfalsifiable claims, dubious reasoning, and horrendous sample sizes.

Yes, but we don't call that science or open clinics to treat people who also behave that way. Psychologists do.
Sure - as you probably know if run a SaaS business you will be receiving requests for users wanting to pay using alternate methods (Orange payment, invoices, bitcoin, onecoin, etc.). But not via this email: these were normal support requests.
It was basically a conspiracy theory. And a lot of people who today make fun of conspiracy theorists probably believed that one back then.

Careful what you make fun of, and carry a mirror.
For the record, I've been using Linux as my main OS for 10 years when I finally decided to switch to OS X about 4 years ago. I have no problem switching back if Apple stops offering me enough flexibility. After all, you don't need to recompile your kernel to install drivers any more :)
Font on https://www.imgix.com/pricing page is broken in Windows/Firefox (look how small "e" and "a" are displayed):
https://image.ibb.co/ei7m8v/windows_font_problem.png

This is without zooming (100%), 120 DPI, Windows 7 x64.

Please use standard fonts and don't overengineer, font hacks like this will never work as expected across all platforms.
The preferred styling is OpenStreetMap. One word, no sss.

Part of what loeg is saying is that the dedicated bike infrastructure they have is not especially bike friendly. To the extent people are following OpenStreetMap's "on the ground" rule, it will be hard to extract information about that from OSM.

Here the main highways are US Bike Routes, which means they get highlighted on the Mapzen style, with the exception of someone doing a through trip (where they are the logical route), they are the absolute worst places to cycle in town.
Obligatory: https://hillbrad.github.io/sri-addressable-caching/sri-addre...

(List of problems you need to solve to introduce hash-addressable caching to Web)
Yes! The Dutch should really ban bromfiets from the bike lanes.
Yes, completely tiny, but great if you'd like to rent a Cessna for a few hours. I'm sure the extra detail helped a few people :)
Child mortality rates are conventionally very high for traditional people, often around 50%. But if you make it to age 5 the odds of living into your 60s or 70s goes up considerably.
> But what excuse does the tech community have...

You may be confused due to the name of this site. "Hacker News" is not, nor has it been for a very long time, by and for hackers.

The success of YC has turned this site, and the community around it, into a money-centric zeitgeist. Marketers, "growth hackers", salespeople, recruiters, and other forms of greedy, parasitic professions, are now the dominant voice in the so-called "tech community".

Anything for a buck, even at the expense of privacy and real technological advancement. That is the mantra of HN.

Perhaps you might want to try Slashdot.
Thanks for pointing this out. The pricing page is on an older version of our site design, and I believe this may already have been corrected in the design proofs we've been working on.

I'll prioritize rolling out the fix for this particular issue next week.
You can never start a successful startup without drinking the koolaid. Every single startup is a crazy impossible idea, until someone buckles down and grinds it out.

It's far easier to do this with a partner than alone. Self doubt is a killer and it's easy to lose motivation, but when you make a commitment to another person it will reinforce and motivate both of you.
Absolutely. Great example: container workloads without high data volumes. Slap those into GCP if you can-- or arbitrage between different cloud providers / regions / on-prem if you have them.

That said, clients who come to me already have a significant investment with AWS. Getting rid of that is a high bar in terms of engineering effort.

That said, I've no financial incentive to recommend one provider over another. My clients pay me, the vendors do not.
Didn't Amsterdam have a "park it anywhere" bike share system about ~20 years ago? The white bikes, which if memory serves mostly ended up in pieces, in the canals, chained up to people's front steps, or repainted and sold by drug addicts for next to nothing.
Why Google?
That's pretty far from the mark, but being made to provide multiple versions of content to accommodate all ranges of accessibility for anything, not just vital or government services, published on the web could be a pretty difficult thing.

Content without captions spurred a lawsuit by the National Association of the Deaf against Netflix a few years ago. What if your personal website hosted some dynamic content where an uncaptioned sound bite appeared, and you ended up being faced with legal action?

What if the scope were broadened so that all websites required content compatibility modes for color blindness or spectrum sensitivity? Would that responsibility be shared by the browser makers as well? Would Google pull ads from businesses whose websites were not in compliance?

And in the Netflix case, the judge found that it would be “irrational to conclude [that] places of public accommodation are limited to actual physical structures.”[1] That's quite an interesting interpretation.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/07/closed...
Broken for me on Stable Firefox (52.0) as well
This takes a while to get to the point, but it's a nice little thesis: worth a read for game devs and the like.
National Book Critics Circle Announces Winners for 2016 Awards
>And a lot of people who today make fun of conspiracy theorists probably believed that one back then.

A lot of people who "today make fun of conspiracy theorists" weren't even alive back then.
I host my own sites and simply use A name records.

> When it looks up example.netlify.com, it connects to our advanced traffic director, that returns an A record with an IP address of the server from our pool of currently available CDN nodes that’s geographically closest to the end user.

It looks like the way their DNS redirects/loadbalacing work is the reason they don't simply allow A records to a static IP.

This gets into the whole "you could be redirected to other servers based on your geographical location" issue; and not necessarily your location but the location of your DNS server! I'm not sure if Netlify does this, but Akami does work with ISPs DNS servers around the world to return different results to get to the closest CDNs. This is why using Google DNS (8.8.8.8) resulted in slower loads for Akami customers.
Sure-- but I'm usually not retained until the environment is built out. The client's starting point is relevant to what comes next.