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Ask HN: What are better alternatives to Meteor?
looking to quickly build a SaaS platform MVP that can scale. No need for real-time socket stuff. thanks
One of very few Amazon reviews I have ever posted was a 5-star of Feuerstein's PL/Sql Best Practices. I might not have done so, but for a one-star review given by somebody unhappy with Feuerstein's dedication of the book to Palestinian women (I think it was). I was not out to endorse (or damn) Feuerstein's views on the Middle East, but I thought that the content of the book should be reviewed on its own terms.
It looks like different because they use virtual money
From what I gathered from the links below, they were intended to stop mining if an unintentional hard fork would have happened. Or maybe also to force miners to upgrade? Did the Frontier release not yet have the ice age mechanism?

The wiki page suggests that there was an option to ignore the canary contracts. So you could mine nevertheless without recompiling the source.

There's no such option with IOTA as the coordinator is closed source.

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Bad-Chain-Canary

https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/07/22/frontier-is-coming-what...
Both used 4 TPUs at playing time. At training time, AlphaGo Zero used unspecified amount of computing resource, AlphaZero used 5000 TPUs for self-play.
But they are also leaking your phone number next to your keystrokes, so 2FA based on text messages is also broken. (To attack/reroute SS7, the subscriber number is all you need – which isn't much of a secret, but mostly public data, anyway.)
Yes, if by "the same information" you mean the advertisements. Bring back the classified ads, and the newspapers couldn't care less about competition from Drudge etc.
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> That's 1.2M people eating and commuting 5 days a week for the purpose of supporting fiat.

They aren't really "supporting fiat" as you say, they do things that (presumably) have value like storing money, making loans and...whatever else it is that banks do.

If all the world's central banks decided tomorrow to stop the printing presses banks would still have a function in society independent of "supporting fiat" as they have had for a long time.
I don't think that has happened here though. The drug use rate in portugal is still extremely low - 2% compared to 5-10% elsewhere in the EU
Token holders vote for 21 block producers. Pretty much all of these block producers have to be controlled by the same malicious party so that an invalid transaction could go through unnoticed. (In fact I think even more than 21 nodes will track the network, as runner-ups are rewarded also to some extent) Malicious block producers, when noticed, are voted out of the system by token holders probably for ever. Unlike in case of most other currencies, block producers will be actual respectable 'real world' people (but the physical location of their servers will be unknown)

In fact one can say that in case of POW if an entity can get cheaper electricity than others, it can happen the mining is unprofitable for everyone except this entity, so the system can become centralized simply by fierce competition to mine efficiently. I am not saying that I know for sure which will be the more secure method in the future: I have diversified my investments into DPOS and POW based currencies (BTC, DASH, EOS)
*Down 60 percent in physical sales

Physical sales have been declining across the board.

And their stock is at a 5 year high almost exactly 5 years after doom and gloom over how SimCity’s DRM debacle would end EA.
Me either. I mean... it’s comparable in price to my mainline alternative (a ”New 2018” MacPro, whatever form it may take and whenever it may be released) but the mainline alternative is sure to be a well-integrated system and fully supported by the producer and software houses alike, whereas the fascinating novelty... <shrug>
anyone who hasn't watched a clip on Tokyo's massive drainage system should check this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o85teh1vU_0
So far I fail to understand the excitement with Go.

Error handling in go feels like going back to 1960s programming.

Garbage collection is already implemented with high performance in Java and other platforms, what's new? You can use GC with different strategies in C++ as well, if you like, the libs are there. There are many libs to get dynamically managed memory in C. But the author wants to program for embedded devices and my choice there would be to avoid dynamically managed memory for the most part.

Coroutines and tons of different concurrency and multiprogramming and parallelism paradigms and strategies are already available for most mainstream languages.

Syntax in Go looks like a poorly done copy of Algol-68 (1968, and -surprisingly- a more powerful language.) Why?

At least if they would have went with s-expression syntax, they would have enabled metaprogramming and this would have solved some of the problems with missing features.

As for use in embeddable devices, the author discards D and other languages for lack of portability to other platforms; but AFAIK embedded devices programming goes to very low level details and thus I can't think how a code that is tied to the specific hardware would be portable, no matter what the language is.

I thought Google had smarter language designers. At least Mozilla did a decent effort with Rust. Perhaps Google do have smarter engineers and they actually use Julia, Lisp, and Smalltalk for Google's internal projects...
IBM Launches Power9 Servers, Initial Offering Takes Aim at Enterprise AI
That is the classic Burkean view.
How to Make Your Curriculum Vitae (CV) Impressive
It depends if you have somewhere benign to drain all the water into. If there is a population downstream that might get annoyed if you dump lots of run-off on them, then making your land more sponge-like can be really useful. If "downstream" is the ocean a mile away, not so much.
GDPR for SaaS companies
The Feynman ciphers
I'm pleased to see this happen. It's always going to be tough for a victim to come forward but now it's ever so slightly less so.
JavaScript Zero: Real JavaScript and Zero Side-Channel Attacks [pdf]
There's a related story on Berlin being built into a sponge city. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-08-18/sponge-city...
Buffer Introduces Salary Formula 3.0 – Remote first approach to salaries
President Xi Jinping separate from U.S due to China confidential files exposed
The Perils of Outsourcing Your MVP
There are so many options for very small and quiet desktops. I don't understand the appeal of any of the various streaming devices from the major corps, AppleTV, Chromecast, FireTV, etc. With a small htpc you have total freedom. You can install your preferred OS, ad blocking, media player and more. You can play your own content or photo albums without uploading to a cloud service. You are not restricted to the main streaming services and can watch anything on the web. I suppose people are just lazy and would rather be frustrated. :)
> we do not have control over our borders.

Arguably, Portugal doesn't have much control either. They can control their ports but there are no checks of anyone entering from Spain by car and airport security isn't as tight in passport-free Europe as would be intercontinental flights.
Google to drop chrome apps in favor of progressive web apps
It’s a big internet with room for both approaches.

I just personally would write off anyone who claimed Autopilot left them refreshed after a 1000 mile drive (it just doesn’t work like that in my experience since you sill have to be constantly alert and holding a moving steering wheel). Reads more like an attempt to brag about AP on Twitter turned into an impromptu review.
Sometimes, an analogy is just an analogy (and not a model). They both have their uses, but if you are taking an analogy to be a model, you are likely to wander into areas of inapplicability. In particular, you cannot validate a claim about software simply on the grounds that it is so in the physics analogy.
I'm ok with this. If more retailers switch to a longer tail model the only downside I can think of is what to do with all the malls we have rocking about.
In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit
I will be a bit harsh with the project since I understand it aims to be a technology to be used in production and not just a pet project... (not "Show HN" tag was present.)

I only see here yet another key value store with an application programming interfaces that resembles the typical filesystem operations, but it is only accessible within a programming framework.

I know it is not finished but the flaws I see at the moment are completely fundamental: it aims to be general purpose, not unix compliant, not mountable, not language or truly operating system agnostic and in conclusion does not permit leverage existing filesystem tools such as mount/find/grep/sshfs etc... not to speak about support for multiple processes, users, time validations...

I wish you all the luck in the world as pet project (really! especially since filesystems are quite hard to get mature and stable) but I hope it never succeeds as a serious alternative to filesystems, because that could be worse than mongodb to rdbms.

Now trying to be constructive: there is value in the concept of runtime embeddable file systems. Why don't reframe the project as a key-value store which is embeddable within applications and mountable? (for example via fuse so you can even mount it mac/linux/others). Even if it is mountable only as RO that could bring several advantages over existing key-value-stores and advanced filesystems which are not embeddable.

Again, impressive work, good luck.

EDIT: the way you store data is also a great discussion topic... who is interested in so many possible ways to store the information anyway? that mostly depends on the requirements of the consuming application... for example if you target users which want to have a file-system-alike embedded runtime, why they would like to use this project if they have access to advanced unix compliant filesystems which support encryption and RAID and advanced tools out of the box?
Statecharts are used a lot in model-based design in automotive software development. I especially like a tool called IBM Statemate it was lightweight and easy to extend compared to Simulink.

One key issue in the tooling however (which is perhaps applicable to all "visual" programming languages) is the inability to view proper 'diffs' of changes. This was eased in Statemate somewhat because all statecharts were stored as plain text files but I feel it could use some good ideas.
There's nothing wrong with having conventional political opinions, and I wasn't really critiquing them as such. Again, my point was really about Feuerstein's weird psychology, in that he thought cramming his database programming book with such unremarkable observations was some bold act of defiance. I'm just picturing him at his keyboard, "I'm gonna blow these SHEEPLE'S minds... by opening their eyes to the TRUTH that companies profit from operating prisons."

It reflects an indifference to his reader and a general kind of solipsism about the proper role of political discourse. His subsequent explanation that "everything is political" reflects the possibility of an obsessive, neurotic mind, focused on every possible slight or injustice, restlessly waiting to explode at any instant with unwanted political diatribes. I bet he's a joy to be around.
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> Hardware is cheap, people's time isn't.

Sadly it's not always that simple.

People's time, salaries, falls into the base expenditure.

Hardware acquisition is a discretionary cost, which is usually squeezed particularly in a cost-centre like IT support. Or the existing hardware is under a multi-year lease from a vendor like Dell or HP and has to be paid-for whether it's obsolete or not.

Where I've worked ( big non-IT-orientated companies ) it's more typical to throw a couple of people onto a project to debug and refactor an application than buy better hardware. Or even worse, implement a new project on existing shared hardware.
Power9 might be a better fit as the invisible hardware behind the #serverless services today (think BigQuery, etc...)

Lots of good points in this thread, but Power is likely going to go for the invisible de-facto cloud data center hardware route.
Broad statement for the subject. I suspect even a sponge can be saturated.
The electric-flight plan
> Indeed, but w.r.t gun restrictions, I don't see this guy thinking "Going for a spree kill today... oh wait, guns are forbidden! Guess I'll stay home and watch something on Netflix instead". My point being, someone with the intention to kill will find a way to get a gun, with or without gun ownership restrictions.

I think the problem here is: what makes a person even think about the concept of a mass shooting? What makes it even enter someones head? This is obviously very hard to provide any facts on, but I think it's an athmosphere in society. If you are wronged/crazy/whatever - why are guns even a thought? Or put another way: why doesn't this happen anywhere else - regardless of gun concentration? It has to be either genetic, environmental (lead in the water??), or cultural. There is no fourth option. And I don't think it's genetic. I think people are just as evil and crazy all around the world, but elsewhere people are much less likely to be mass shooters regardless of whether they have guns.

So I completely agree - the problem isn't that the individual criminal had a gun. The problem is that guns permeate society in such a profound way that guns are the go-to idea in so many situations. And that can either be seen as good/inevitable/bad - but it's certainly "different".

Similar thing: why does a fight escalate to a shooting? Why does someone being stopped by a police car escalate to shooting (regardless of whether the driver had a gun)? Because one person (for example the police officer) was afraid the other might have a gun, so pulled a gun. Now you have potentially dangerous situation, regardless of whether the driver had a gun (doubly so if he does, obviosly). Fear is the big driver.

I think perhaps I can express my opinion on why fewer guns is good this way: for shootings to stop, you need to get the gun out of the peoples heads not out of their hands. But you can't just magically make people belive that no one has a gun so they don't need one. You can't magically make police officers calmly approach any vehicle in any neighborhood without worrying that there might be a gun in the vehicle. For that to happen you have to actually lower the odds of there being a gun there.

> I don't know in which country you live

Sweden. And my opinions on most things political assume "stable/functioning/non-corrupt public institutions". I think things can be very different if you aren't so lucky.
There's an interesting related wikipedia article on the "Weinstein effect"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinstein_effect
(Not the AG speaking)

The Internet did not exist for 20 years without regulation. Title II was the reason you had a choice among various dialup ISPs in the 90s; line-sharing requirements gave you a choice among numerous DSL services until 2005 when the Bush administration deregulated those services.

In fact, almost immediately after DSL line-sharing requirements were dropped, and with cable line-sharing never implemented, the abuses started and the FCC began regulating ISPs more directly. That was a decade ago, and the 2015 rules were a response to a court ruling that only Title II regulations could be used to impose net neutrality.

Personally, I would favor a reinstatement of the line-sharing rules or a hybrid approach in which an ISP can either be subject to net neutrality regulation or to line-sharing rules. That would give us the best of both worlds. Unfortunately, Ajit Pai's plan is just deregulation, without any proposal or effort to set up a competitive market. At best most Americans have either no choice or a choice between DSL and cable; in a competitive market we would have multiple DSL, cable, and fiber services to choose from, so that if we need the technical characteristics of one type of service we can still benefit from some level of competition.
So, how come no one has done that?
M68K and PowerPC architectures died out, and were available in consumer systems (Macintosh) and while not "dirt" cheap still in the ballpark of affordable. And you could find old cheap ones and run linux on them too.

The real reason Intel/AMD64 is popular is the same reason Windows is popular -- mindshare and economies of scale. IBM and the x86 platform won the business desktop in the 1980s and that has been propelling everything on that architecture ever since.
Recently discovered mysterious runic inscription perplexes archaeologists
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Sorry... not going to sign up just so I can read your "article".
That's what I mean by negotiating. "Sure I can do that" when you actually can't isn't a good move for you, nor for your employer.
4K Video in WebRTC
I'm very glad that they didn't go with "Person of the Year: #MeToo" and instead opted to create this exclusive group of "Silence Breakers". It strikes me as very important to separate these accounts from a hashtag which can be used by anyone for anything.
Web Development Advent Calendars for 2017
It is a bundler...
Suppose you are a physicist and you have a theory you want to test, ok? Then, you design an experiment to test your theory. If it fails, you are sure that your theory is wrong. Otherwise, you know that it works, unless future experiments show that it fails.

In my opinion, this is pretty like Test Driven Development, which has lots in common with the practice of physics (aka Popper's falsification).
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Jobiki is a platform where the job seeker can look for the best place to work for them. We use photos, benefits, amenities, location data, and other unique company information to give you a picture of what the company culture is like.

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Our ideal users are people who care about culture/company fit more than just job fit. The ideal company for Jobiki is those who prove the value of their employee as much as their bottom line.

We mainly have companies in Minneapolis and Sioux Falls, so we may not be in your area yet. But, what we would love is, if you could take a look and try it out. Tells us what you’d like to see, what we could improve on, and any concerns or other comments you have.

We are still in beta and building out the platform. We have a lot of work to do, and some cool new features soon, but would love your feedback.

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Network Neutrality Through Virtualization
Sure, but just don't limit yourself by the Rollup.js only. Again Webpack is a module bundler (modularization is there), and it was a module bundler before Rollup.js went public. So you can use all the ES6/7/TypeScript stuff (including modularization) using Webpack, Rollup, Fuse-box, and other bundlers, the difference is in the configurability, performance, configuration syntax, etc. Though yes Rollup provides some specifics, which might be more suited for the standalone libraries releasing, while Webpack would be better choice for the complex app development (that is it not supposed to be released as a library, but deployed somewhere as a complete app).
That Uni course is rubbish
We would be better off with regulated heroin for free in clinics than fentanil/carfentanil cut street drugs.

It depends on whether society values the lives of addicts or just wants to punish them.
Consider seeing if the particular pieces of software you use have their own donation system, then donate there. A donation to a smaller project could have a very large impact on its future.

The Linux Foundation is carried by billion-dollar companies and that's also the interests it serves, from what Icm hearing. I wouldn't worry about its survival.
Would love to see a browser ask which search engine to use at at first launch and at every major version update. The list could be randomized as to not favor any.
I guess you haven't read the link posted. Changeset evolution is not about draft commits that a developer changes locally. It's about actually changing the public, pushed history in a way that nothing breaks for other developers who already based commits on those that get altered.
Can it run in the browser and store files on IndexedDB?
Same version of Firefox here, and no problem. Site uses valid Let'sEncrypt certificate.
7) Why are you going to transfer a complete netural network instead of sending the data to the server.

Privacy is one reason I can think of. By running the trained network locally I can benefit from it without sharing all my data with the company serving it.

Data size is another reason. If I want to categorize 50GB of images using a 300MB model it makes a lot more sense to download the model than upload the data.

8) There are no useful applications in web sites for neural networks.

I admit that I haven't got a clue how these things will be useful. If I did then I'd have started a business to implement it already. My lack of insight isn't a good reason to suggest they'll never be useful though.
Yeah I don't think google not using a EV certificate really changes whether I can sue them
You still have to pay your taxes but cashing out a few thousand BTC on one of the large exchanges can be easily done. 24 hour volume at bitfinex is $781MM so you would have to dump a lot of coin to move the needle. A multi-thousand coin sell all at once can cause a brief flash crash though. If you have tens of thousands of coins you go to the OTC market.
FYI the United States had line-sharing requirements for DSL service until 2005; that could always be reinstated if the FCC actually wanted to rely on a competitive market for ISP service.
Yes that can happen if people are already on staff and can be assigned to such an effort. But if the choice is spend $50K on new hardware, vs. hire three new devs to rewrite/optimize the software, the decision is easy.
What project management skills are you applying to your role
Author here. Happy to answer any questions or hear feedback you may have.
Can you post this as 'Show HN'? https://news.ycombinator.com/show