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Hi there, I'm the creator of this webapp.

I made BestMeta because I like to buy the best of something when I pony up the money.

I'm sure that makes me frugal or cheap - but I just think it's smart to buy something that's been highly reviewed or a favorite for a category. I hate buying something and then finding out that I should have just got "The other version that doesn't have X issue". I love reading reviews and finding the best of the best.

I got tired of scanning for the small yellow "Best Seller" badge when searching on Amazon - so I figured - what if I could only see the best selling/most popular items during my browsing?

Being a full stack dev - that's what I did. I signed up for API access (which is its own story ha) and got cracking. The result is BestMeta.

Let me know if you have any feedback if possible. Thank you.
I suspect that, like most things that young people are spending less on, it's due to ever-growing financial insecurity. Interesting application of the avocado-toast argument, though.
I agree. We started using Redis with AWS' managed offering (Elasticache), then migrated to running it on our own once we were comfortable with it. I can imagine the same path for Kafka use.
Ever since Oumuamua went thru, I've been thinking of Greg Bear's Forge of God.

Aliens spike the earth with a binary matter-antimatter neutronium weapon. They orbit the core for awhile...
I always appreciate a good joke but unfortunately this has become the top comment as of now and is not adding to the real discussion around Go 2. This is a typical case of when I use my downvote power. Great joke but we should keep HN noise free.
I think the question is a bit too broad because every form entry application has many dimensions you need to think about.

On the one hand if all you need is a simple form which gets shoved into a DB then every web language/framework makes that very easy. Usually you can do it with just the standard library. Forms are trivial to deal with in JavaScript, Java, Rails, Python, Perl, Go, etc.

On the back end if you're allergic to writing your own SQL queries you have a myriad of ORMs which will shove the data into your DB schema with minimal fuss. Most of those are also language specific.

On the other hand there are also many commercial solutions which you can use that let you completely avoid re-inventing the wheel, e.g. WuFoo, Google forms and the like.

On the gripping hand [0] in real life any serious business application which takes form input and shoves it into a DB winds up becoming a custom, hand crafted, artisanal, locally-sourced, specially grown mushroom. Why?

Well, is data entry on phones/tablets or not? Web forms cover both cases, but the UI solutions would probably be fairly different. What's your back end for dealing with the forms? What kind of business logic validation do you need? What are your security requirements (tamper proofing forms, storing input securely a-la GDPR)? How do you ensure your form inputs are not lost in case of failures (reliability, availability)? What's your form acknowledgment infrastructure (e.g. email, SMS, error feedback, etc). What's your DB security, availability, and performance look like?

You get the idea. The app you're trying to create is somewhere on the spectrum between a standard language supported libraries, all the way up to the how your bank deals with forms. The framework answer will be somewhere on that spectrum also.

I suggest you narrow down your question and I'm sure HN will point you in some good directions for your particular application.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gripping_Hand
The writer addresses hardware only, not discussing the number of software nuisances that have been added. Using Mavericks on an ADSL connection was next to impossible because it insisted on downloading 300MB of trivia right out of the box - an update for some plaything like Garageband. Finally tamed the "phone home" tendencies with Little Snitch.

From my POV the apotheosis of OSX was 10.6.8, so my daily driver on my 2013 retina MBP (Mojave) is... SLS 10.6.8, virtualized in Fusion. When this machine dies, that's it, no more Apple anything.
"All that is excessive is insignificant.", said Talleyrand.

By your standards c and c++ are not professional tools.
>Specifically, it plans to open an AWS-based data center in Frankfurt in the first half of next year, and it will set down more roots in Asia-Pacific, with offices in Sydney and Tokyo.

Is it normal (in tech journalism, at least) to say "opening an AWS-based data center?" I had to read that a few times over because I thought the article switched to an Amazon article.
They aren't incompatible. The people who want houses with gardens just need to live further away from the transit stations than the people who want to live in apartments and take transit.
Bee-brained
Don't forget about not supporting Amazon. This, for me, is the number one reason why I would price match elsewhere. Amazon could benefit from a little competitive pressure.
So what does it have to do with you or anyone else that never lifted a finger, but have expectations? If it is not your family's properties, hands off and move on.
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I disagree that using rust means trading a lot of developer time. I'm as comfortable with rust as I am go, and I develop equally fast in either language. I would even say faster in Rust because of the type system.
Please do not take HN threads on further flamewar tangents, especially when the thread is already tending that way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A personal opinion:

The old site said to me "Here's a programming language made by programmers for programmers.".

The new site says to me "Here's a programming language which has a marketing team.".

The "Featuring" bullet list was an excellent way of calling out what makes Rust distinctive, and I felt I could trust what it said to be basically true.

But claims like "empowers everyone to become a systems programmer" or "Rust has great documentation", coming from the language's own designers, convey little information: they might be an over-optimistic view.

(Or, in the language of the blog post: I trust them to tell me what a fireflower is. I'd rather judge for myself whether I believe that it will turn me into Fire Mario.)
same but with music here. Just starting to pick it up to 'keep the dream alive' but there's no way I see being a full time composer would make anywhere near my salary in the IT field. Truly a first world problem though, so a lot to be thankful for.
My understanding is that they are keeping their REST endpoints flat, however their gateway graphql layer can still respond with nested resources - it would require aggregating multiple REST requests together.
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You are acting like someone that just got into carpentry and just discovered that hammers are a thing.
As an addition, I really love Robert Anton Wilson's flavor of this idea:

“under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.”
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The important part of that stat:

> 97 percent of our folks were arriving by themselves in a car

Emphasis mine. Cars carrying just one person to and from work every day is a waste.
> They're there to keep you healthy.

This is probably the issue under contention. I don't like doctors either (or really the entire medical establishment). Some part of that is a belief that they aren't in fact there to keep you healthy. No I'm not trying to argue something like profit motives or whatever driving an unethical effort to make you dependent instead of healthy, or say doctors shouldn't exist, or that I wouldn't go to one if I thought I needed medical care, just that I don't like doctors or the systems and methods they operate under (some by force). nonbel unpacks one aspect of the dislike, The Elephant in the Brain unpacks another aspect (e.g. by the finding that people who receive free healthcare consume a lot more medicine but aren't any healthier, which wasn't actually surprising for me to hear!), and there are other aspects for my dislike too.
Please keep religious flamebait and religious flamewar off Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The story says the project intends to “increase lethality by enhancing the ability to detect, decide and engage before the enemy”

So I would guess feeding information from scout and observer drones and other types of sensors to the soldiers so they can more effectively see camouflaged or hidden enemy positions, be more quickly aware of enemy movements, etc.
I am in the exact same situation. I moved to Canada from Europe and it has been really tough thanks to three measly weeks of vacation. I can't remember the last time I have been on a real two+ weeks vacation somewhere that is not my home country.

I am thinking about all those same options except the moving to the US thing. Even though I could earn much more money, I don't think that would be worth it living in a country like the US.
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Nuitka produces binaries, Pythran can produce C++ source code.
I'm the author (CF contributed quite a bit) of the ebpf lib (https://github.com/newtools/ebpf) that they are using for this. I would love if anybody would love to team up and create a project that mimics this architecture.
The argument is that the baby boomers, by being a demographic bulge, have a relatively large electoral influence and so over time government policies have been disproportionately targeted to their changing needs.

While 'directly responsible' is a bit of a stretch, at least in the UK voting preferences are currently quite correlated with age (though this hasn't always been the case). Because the current crop of older people are much more likely to vote than younger people, the political parties have made various commitments to protect and increase social security for pensioners. These pensioners are of the same generation that had free education in the 60/70s and then voted for tax cuts in the 80s when they were earning, of course.

Yes it is a generalisation, it's far from the only factor that determines policies and the demographic bulge isn't as pronounced in the UK as it is in the US but I still think it's interesting to see how government policies have changed to follow the bulge as it ages. Of course, many baby boomers will tell you that they paid taxes all their lives, thank you very much, and had mortgage rates of 25% etc etc etc.
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what is this obsession with having "something to show for it"? why is it not enough to just be a normal, decent human being?
I think "though" was in reaction to the GP saying that the volcanoes on the island are inactive. I was going to say the same thing, the piton de la fournaise is very much active.
In those 15 years never learned about Java AOT compilers to native code?
I'm old enough to see Apple go from selling computers you had to put together yourself in your garage, to selling the most hacker/tinkerer-hostile products ever made.

I think the straw for me was the fact that I had to factory reset my entire MacBook down to the "ROM" just to get the left side of my keyboard to work.
Boomers didn't just reject the old way of parenting. They rejected anything which didn't improve the bottom line for them individually. There has never been a more self-important, self-centered generation.
It is similar to hockey paradox when NHL players are most likely to be born in December
Google had Guido working there for a very long time; there's probably a lot of institutional memory built up around the 2->3 transition, and likely a lot of lessons learned, and a strong desire not to repeat the experience.
I think you're reading too much into the epidemic. Availability and over-prescription is the primary cause. People aren't prescribed opiates for depression for instance, but the over-accessibility to opiates allows for illegal use to take place more easily.
I guess the point, in general, is not to follow somebody else's story or the story that society narrates to most.
The point of life is to go with your true will, whatever that is.

For the comment above, it seems like he is blissfully happy because he has funded and followed is true will(as personal and empiric as it is).

In the case of the author in the article, seems like root is the unsatisfied purpose in her life. The depression for the past, the anxiety about the future doesn't help with the present and like a snowball, it just gets worse with time.
May not work in the Bay Area, but the London solution for that is a Brompton folding bike.
>To my eye, the real problem is finding the correct perspective -- the one at which an optimum lies at an extreme.

Something which has brought a lot of happiness to my life and dramatically changed the way I live is taking responsibility for my own happiness and life choices. I used to spin my wheels and drift through life but at 30 I was diagnosed with cancer. It's a long story and it turned out to not be serious, although I did have two surgeries. There was a time period where it seemed very serious, however, and this period completely changed how I view my own life. I didn't want to die with this sense of being so unfulfilled and I wished I had made better choices. Now I try to make these choices as I live.
But what is the long term value of seeing places and things, if the person experiencing them expires leaving nothing behind?

I went on some great adventures as a young man, backpacking round the Middle East and later in a job that involved a lot of world travel. I always thought I'd do more of those things, and while I have enjoyed family life I felt I lost something when I settled down and had kids and a career.

However, now that my kids are teenagers I can share my experiences of the world with them. We've been on some great holidays together, and have more planned. Those old adventures now have value, because they made me the person I am today and I can share that and leverage it in how I bring up my own children and shape their introduction to the world. Those experiences and the stories I have to tell and lessons I learned have acquired a new value, beyond merely myself.
My kid was born in September and I remember my wife doing a little research around that "for fun" (yeah, that's how she has fun) a while ago, how kids far and/or close to the cut off do.

She found a few studies mentioning that older kids (like born between September and February or something) were doing way better in terms of the academics as well. Which in a way makes sense, but maybe indicates that either children start school too young or that programs are too agressive.
Ask HN: How to move into computational biology?
I have CS and Applied math degrees and ten years of software development experience (Google, Amazon...). I'd like to migrate towards companies such as Calico, Human Longevity Inc, etc, yet many require PhDs in Comp Biology. Is getting a PhD the best usage of time or is there a way to self study the basics and learn on the job? My statistics knowledge is admittedly pretty poor at this point.
I still dont quite understand what that means
Having used the new Go module system (introduced in Go 1.11 as an option, to be the default choice in 1.12) since August, it's my opinion that this is now a solved problem.

The biggest source of pain moving forward is going to be the projects that haven't transitioned, including the various command-line tools that work on parsing, generating and manipulating Go code (e.g. linters, code generators). Most of the important ones are already there, and I've transitioned several myself.

As an added bonus, word is that the Go team wants an official package repository system (similar to Cargo, RubyGems etc.). I wouldn't be surprised if this happens rather quickly.
Most writers who are successfully published later in life seem to have been working at it for years/decades prior. Richard Adams, who published "Watership Down" in his 50s, may be the closest thing to a successful "newbie" who emerged later in life:

> Adams was 52 and working for the civil service when his daughters began pleading with him to tell them a story on the drive to school. “I had been put on the spot and I started off, ‘Once there were two rabbits called Hazel and Fiver.’ And I just took it on from there.” Extraordinarily, he had never written a word of fiction before, but once he’d seen the story through to the end, his daughters said it was “too good to waste, Daddy, you ought to write that down”.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/04/richard-adams-...
Except that in the article it said that even the sub-million dollar homes were being pushed down by the same forces.

Tax law changes, higher interest rates, and currency controls on foreign buyers means it costs more in real wealth to buy a home, so the prices shrink to match. (or they don't shrink and the houses just stay on the market)
Is it really so harmful to have it at the top of the comment thread? I think HN can be focused mainly on serious discourse without being completely humorless.
Almost every lecturer my wife has is tenure track or already tenured.

One of them just plays videos of himself in his lectures. He doesn't actually go to them. He is actually around during less than half of his scheduled office hours. He complains to (and at least once has shouted at) the TAs about how students keep asking him questions. He has tenure.
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The Udemy course that I saw gives an anology to how Redux is meant to work in the form of an Insurance Company and how Action Creators, Actions, Reducers, Stores etc. map to a real world scenario. That really helped my understanding of the 'Redux' model.
If you are going with the premise that someone's parents rightfully earned their wealth and it is fully theirs for them to do what they please with it - then it is also theirs to give to their children.

It is not about child's right to that wealth - it is about parent's right to give it to their children.
Sorry to be so harsh, but this article is mostly BS. Booking.com built there entire corporate culture around A/B testing, and they (i.e. parent Priceline) were one of the top performing stocks of the 00s.

If anything, the biggest issue I've seen with A/B testing is that it biases organizations to things that are easy to measure (i.e. shopping conversion) while sometimes at the expense of things that are longer term/harder to measure (like brand reputation). I'd be most interested to hear how some companies have dealt with that shortcoming.

But all that said, one of the biggest benefits of a culture around A/B testing is that it gets companies away from the endless back-and-forth around opinions (like this article) and builds a culture of "OK, we'll try your suggestion and see if it succeeds or fails".
From the promotion part, it just got obnoxious, egocentric and insincere.
How is it a "paradox"? It makes total sense that kids older and bigger will dominate most sports. It will re-enforce their self esteem and confidence and help them get even better. I don't dispute the phenomenon, I've never heard it called a "paradox".
Thanks, glad you liked it. This it's something I've noticed people need to come back too when they focus too much on conversions.

To answer your question that totally depends because in the end what you'll need is cash flow to maintain that reinvesting process and that's something (finances/management) I'm not an expert in :P
The purpose of getting a CCNA is networking: not only the digital kind, but also the social kind. That could help me get a student visa to be in the right country, where I might meet the right people to help achieve my dream of settling there.
That's unexpectedly low, I'd say. In SZ, the daily commuter count approaches at least 2.5-3 million for people living on municipality's border.

Shenzhen has twice as many people as Chicago. So, if we extrapolate, the amount of people commuting will double for Chicago if Chicago were to be turned into Shenzhen.

That tells that much, much, more people in Chicago work outside of urban centre, or the portion of population who is working is simply less.
> Life is so much better if you just do what you evolved to do.

> Pair up, get a trade, build a home

You have evolved to reproduce.

Getting a trade, building a home are very recent constructs and certainly not what you "evolved to do"
All those saying they won’t buy another Mac will silently regret this once their new windows machine is infected with malware, slows down, or otherwise suffers from all of its ailments. Unless they are already proficient in Linux, one of those will drive them nuts with the relatively limited software offerings.

The author doesn’t actually say which of the possible upgrades he personally did, and how he benefited from it, and thus how he has suffered since the ability to custom upgrade components was taken away. I think he just likes the idea. He won’t like the reality of the hassle of a PC, and I hope he writes a follow-up article when he “returns” to Apple. And loads of people I know who have moved _from_ a PC to a Mac actually have benefited, without the need to then upgrade the already-powerful (Apple) computer they now own.

Anyway, the need to upgrade was driven by software that was ahead of the curve. This was good, people were making and improving Mac software! And they still are, without the correspending need to upgrade RAM to make it run. It just runs. I started with a PowerBook 170 (maybe it was 190?), and worked my way up through models, upgrading ram or HD as needed. I worked with people using windows... holy moly, their misery was non-stop. And it’s still that way!
In the subject of the workings of the US judicial system, season 3 of Serial is all about courthouse stories. I really enjoyed the episodes so far.

https://serialpodcast.org/
Ok, which trade? Is it possible to get a student visa to study that trade? I figured out how to find certifications that are in demand; is there a similar way to find trades that are in demand?
The last computer I ever upgraded was a machine I built in 1997. Meanwhile my Macs are lasting 7-8 years. I haven't used an MBP with the Touch Bar, so I can't speak to that (the two MBPs I have currently are a 2012 and 2015 model). As other commenters have stated I'm certainly not switching to Windows. I love Linux on servers but I'm not thrilled with running Linux on a laptop. So it's Apple. For me they're still the best value for the money.
Gotcha. Any aspects of the Redux docs that you felt didn't explain things well enough?
Sorry, but no. I do this for a living, and you're deliberating misrepresenting how taxes work, including how business property taxes work. To note: a company with millions of dollars of business property might have a $10,000 business property tax bill. If you can't afford that, you have no right to call yourself a functional business.

The minimum LLC franchise fee is $800. A real business can afford that, a pretend business cannot.

Double-Irish structures don't work to shield US income. They never have, so US companies can't use them to reduce their US taxation either, regardless of size.

And finally, you chose a pass-through form of taxation, meaning you chose to be taxed as an individual instead of as a separate entity. That's on you--not on California. That same choice would screw you over pretty much everywhere there's a state income tax--meaning all the states where people actually want to live.