skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree. I too am shocked to see so many "quit your side projects" comments. The trick is prioritization, like the old saying goes: "anyone with more than 3 priorities has no priorities." I have a 6 month old that I am very involved with.

The first few months was difficult by default due to the chaos. But now that my wife and I are in a routine (and he is sleeping through the night), I am getting a lot done. Perhaps not as much "work" as before but what it has allowed me to do is get rid of everything that doesn't really matter and focus only on the things that do (ie, it makes me happy, it makes me money, self improvement, etc).

Mornings I typically get up with him and spend an hour or so playing with him, feeding him, etc. My wife looks after him during the day. When I get home from work I devote my entire attention to him and my wife. I take care of bath time. We split the feeding time before bed. Sometimes we spend time all together then, other times we each do the tasks at hand while the other feeds. After he is in bed we either spend time together and then work, or vice versa. A couple nights a week it is date time where we watch our favorite shows together or whatever and there is no work.

Am I busy? Hell yeah. But I make an effort to be effective with my time. I use the web app Rescue Time to track my productivity. It at least quantifies my time at the computer.

Also, As far as freelancing, before I cut it out altogether, I simply raised my rates. This gave me less freelance jobs but allowed me to earn more per hour. Wasnt making quite as much however I was a whole lot happier.

My point is that I agree that you need to put your family first, but feel you can live your dreams AND be a good parent if you simply remove everything that is not important.
There are two main types of security. Object-level, and app-level. Each object gets access controls that are similar to ACLs in Unix systems. That provides for the sort of security that separates different users' data from each other. On an app-level, you can also control per-class which operations are usable. For more detail, see:

https://parse.com/docs/data#security

You should be able use these in combination to secure your app. If you have more specific questions about how to secure a particular use case, drop us an email at feedback@parse.com and we can help figure something out.
Could you please provide a link to the report? 50% click rate is insanely high, nobody has that. It would be very interesting to know how Facebook achieved such miraculous performance.
Yep, and that was mostly before some fool introduced agriculture, which led to 1000-fold increase in the human population... not to mention the introduction of diseases because we're not meant to digest agricultural products. Doh!
The scam is that some people said NewSQL (including F1) is impossible and thus everyone will have to use NoSQL.
The university: still dead
So intelligence is the only positive attribute selected for? Nature hasnt imprinted anything else worth preserving?
>I barely trust Paypal, you think I'm gonna trust FB with my CC details. You gotta be kidding.

Trust isn't as big of a deal as you might think. People think it matters a lot in business because it matters in your day-to-day life with in-person interactions. The fact of the matter, however, is that many people who don't trust things still use them.

I don't trust my government, but I still pay my taxes and use the clean water they pipe to my house.
I don't trust most banks, but I still use their CC processing networks.
Plenty of people don't trust BP (and oil companies in general) but still drive internal-combustion cars.
More and more people every day don't trust Foxconn, but still buy all the gadgets they produce.

Trust matters when you are dealing with something non-ubiquitous; you don't need to use it, so if you don't trust them you don't use it. However, if something goes main-stream (like credit-cards), and the interaction is practically forced on you (like taxes) then people use it without trust. Facebook as it stands right now is testament to that. I don't trust them _at all_, but am forced to use it because friends, family, and groups I personally value use it in a way that requires me to as well.

If they launch a payment processing system that even only a quarter of their users are willing to use, that is enough market share for websites to start using it, which is free advertisement for the system, gaining more users. How long before sites that _only_ take facebook pay crop up (in the same way that some sites _only_ use paypal; a company plenty of people don't trust, but are forced to use)? How long before some site that provides a service that you depend on?
That isn't how extradition works. This is an extradition hearing on a EU arrest warrant, the UK (as the arresting country) would not be able to extradite to anywhere BUT Sweden, despite any agreements with the US.

The other factors you must take into consideration is that in the UK, the judicial system is separated from the political one (not so in Sweden) and you would have to deal with English CommonLaw. Compare this with Sweden where the prime minister has already asserted Assange's guilt in parliament for an on-going case (in the CommonWealth countries or the US, this would be grounds for a mistrial).

Although it is tempting to think that because the UK must certainly be one of the US' closest ally that it would bow to the US pressure, there is a lot of legal red tape to go through but in the last 7 years the US has had significant influence over Sweden in legal terms. For instance Sweden once had a strong stance on matters of privacy but now all call records and IP records are stored in the Titan Traffic Database and warrant-less wiretaps are now possible through the FRA law but because of the vast amounts of data with both systems, the data is handed over to the US directly for signal processing (which may be a violation of EU privacy laws and UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights).
As a ~long time Linux user (2004), I love Unity. Gnome 2 was horrid as a default. On a fresh install, the first thing I had to do was to change their ridiculous taskbar settings to condense it down to one. Then I had to spend an hour changing settings to keep it from wasting taskbar space. Icons for programs makes sense, searching for apps makes sense. The only thing I'm not terribly keen on is the behavior of the global menu bar, but it does make sense in a way.

I've never seen the point in making things overly complicated. Changing things from release to release is complicated, but it's better than sticking with tired metaphors that made sense in 1995 but not today. Might I suggest this rage Unity/Gnome3 makes you feel might be because it's radically different, rather than because it's radically worse?
It's not a solved problem. 66% of the world does not have a bank account (much less a credit card).

However, 90% have access to a cell phone.

That was the basis for my failed micropayments project :)

It didn't fail because of a lack of demand, but because it's hard to tackle without significant resources. I still might resurrect a less ambitious version (being a middleman here in Uruguay).
It's possible that Wegrzyn figured that he and the 'winner' could go to a public performance of Lowe's band, and that he could convince Lowe to come to dinner with them afterwards.
Definitely worth scrolling through the slides. The 're-imagining' ones are really good.
If you're bringing down 20k/mo, why can't you continue to do what you do? 20k/mo seems like a reasonable profit for two people running a startup.
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Correction, the only thing that was the same was the tagline. Nice app. Looks really useful.
>Many of the services that are critical to Google’s ad business have historically been backed by MySQL. We have recently migrated several of these services to F1, a new RDBMS developed at Google. F1 implements rich relational database features, including a strictly enforced schema, a powerful parallel SQL query engine, general transactions, change tracking and notiﬁcation, and indexing, and is built on top of a highly distributed storage system that scales on standard hardware in Google data centers.

Nice to see that unlike the NoSQL amateur hour (startups using flimsy non-dbs where they don't belong []), Google, for it's core and crucial business, uses a) relational-like features, b) a strictly enforced schema, c) transactions.

[] There are places where these belong, they just are few. And, no ease of development and "SQL is hard and has impedance mismatch we my programming language man" is not a reason to use them in situations where they don't belong.
1. Depends how it is used. Pepsi can use the word 'Coke' in their ads if it is in respect to the product. I imagine saying your game is an adult comedy/sex game similar to Leisure Suit Larry isn't infringing. If the game were named Leisure Suit Laurence then that is definitely infringing due to brand confusion.

2. I have no clue so I'm not going to bother guessing. :)
We are doomed to reinvent Usenet until we finally break the cycle and improve upon it.

This has all happened before and will happen again.
Why is it "wrong" for something to be priced high?

Try this thought experiment: Mark Zuckerberg (or whoever your favorite entrepreneur is) comes to you and says he's quitting Facebook. He's going to start a new company, and he'll let you invest at a $20M valuation. Do you accept?
Nice slogan :)

Just checked out your site and while our methods are different, our goals are the same. We could be an asset to one another!
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Really awesome. I appreciate the fact that the tutorial starts off by addressing authentication.

https://parse.com/tutorials/todo-app-with-javascript
Study Suggests

Let's talk when it reads "study proves . . ."
I hate it when speakers talk about "NoSQL" without specifying what they are actually bitching about, which in this case is clearly Key-Value/Document oriented databases.
Of the non-relational databases, there are actually many which provide everything you want in a relational DB (separation of logical and physical within the DB) as well as storing the schema as PART of the data instead of a physically configured separate entity. These databases are called graph databases, and they are awesome. I am convinced they would have been the major databases of today, if not for the fact that it takes way more computing power and fancy algorithms to work with graph data models.
It's relatively easy to do basic HTTP authentication using Javascript. If you're on SSL, that's reasonably secure. Once you're authenticated the server can issue a nonce that identifies you and gives you authorization (role-based access) to various pages/objects/apps based on that nonce.
if I never see another fork-tongued ribbon with the stitching and the little stars, it will be too soon
While the author may be making a good point, I couldn't understand it as presented. Instead of reading an interesting article, I stared at small screens of half sentences, tables, and pictures, with very little explanation. Slides without a narrator are a poor way to communicate.
I have seen this happen on Yammer. Now tie bonus to that and you have got a worse system than traditional performance reviews.
What is the Flame Virus?
Flame is not remotely in the same category as stuxnet.

The news agencies are confusing capability with complexity. Stuxnet was very targeted with insider information on esoteric industrial systems. It was designed to fly under the radar, cause damage to physical systems in such a way that it would appear to be from "wear and tear."

As I recall, stuxnet used some compiler shenanigans to obfuscate stackframes and make it difficult to decompile (after having first decrypted the executable code).

Flame is written in Lua! A scripting language! So to say that somehow Flame is going to be hard to analyze is absurd.

It's a 20MB package of the Lua VM, the scripts, and modules like sqlite. It's about as vanilla of an application as you can get!

They claim this 20MB package size is going to make it super duper hard to analyze, and yet they have the source code to look at, and while it's a decent size at 3k lines, it's SOURCE CODE. Not obfuscated machine language.

The coverage on this is just stupid.

Some good information on Flame is at http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193522/The_Flame_Questi... . It still has the absurd commentary, but at least it gives details on what is actually there.
Anyone know if it would be possible to implement generic javascript-based "apps" for any websites?

I'm wondering if it would be possible to implement a disqus-style service.
I'm thinking that this would only work for relatively simple apps though. There might be cases where the functionalities in your apps could only be supported by server-side infrastructure, like uploading files, resizing images, emailing, cron jobs, etc.

What would be really nice is if Parse had a way to somehow plug in existing backend infrastructure to Parse's data model.

Edit : I take it back. Parse has a REST API.
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Thanks - we've still got some growing to do, but if the founders and startup teams adopt it we could be onto something.
I'm of two minds about this. On one side I think it's a very smart service to use. It removes what otherwise might be a ton of work to duplicate. On the other side I think it's a very dumb thing to be bound to.

They certainly free you from their service by allowing an export of your data. But what about all the code written to the API? If at some point in the future you decide you don't want or can't afford Parse - it's nearly a re-write. Unless you abstract their API in an intelligent way. Even then there is some work.
It's time to print some money. - From end of article

It would seem to me that printing more money, and therefore causing the value of said money to drop (inflation) you would only be band-aiding a wound, a wound that needs to actually heal. Unless I'm misunderstanding the author.
As I understood it, it was Steve who built Reddit and Alexis is the guy who did everything else (like draw the logo or act as community manager in the early days).

I remember Alexis giving a talk on exactly this, he emphasized the importance of letting the engineers worry about building things and not all the trivial things that might get in the way of the goal.

I'm not down playing his role or achievement but we shouldn't forget Steve just because he has a smaller public profile.
‘Flame’ is a continuation of the cyberwar history
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you want pentadactyl. it's better than vimium anyway.
Then lucky you! You get to use the titannically more powerful pentadactyl: http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/.
While you're probably right overall, we all know that larger vehicles slow down traffic for a number of reasons. Therefore there must be some truth that if we all drove smaller, more agile vehicles, there'd be improvements in traffic.
Yes, if you take a $50k/year paycut for $25k/year in equity, you're getting screwed.

But mess with the numbers just slightly - a $4M premoney valuation, and 2% of the company - and suddenly you're getting $100k/year in equity for a $50k/year paycut.

Now of course that equity is risky. It still might not be a good deal, unless you think you have at least a 1 in 2 chance of success.

But the point is: you can obviously get a very good deal as a first employee without taking on the risk of quitting your job with no paycheck. Make sure that it IS a good deal first though!

The first employees of all the startups I know personally have gotten very good deals.
You can use their REST API. It's really well made and I've done a few smallish projects using it.

Annnd you just said that. Didn't see your edit heh.
The cordless drill is my standby example against the idea that people don't understand/like modes (when I feel cantankerous and want to argue against the "no modes" thinking). Bits are each a mode. CW or CCW is another mode choice. People seem just fine with thinking about modes when the current state is apparent and how to transition clear.
Also of note here should be Redwood Robotics: http://redwoodrobotics.com They'll be making the hardware behind all of this, and are a for-profit spin-out of Willow Garage.
Yes, you can implement a Disqus-style service with Parse. The SDK uses cross-origin resource sharing to make requests to Parse, so you can host your app anywhere, including on third-party sites.
One could make the same argument about Detroit.
FB has several billions of revenue from ads.

Groupon is also generating "billions" in revenue.

So far I haven't seen statistics or proof to indicate that advertising on Facebook is effective, although I've heard anecdotes to the contrary.

If advertising on Facebook proves to be ineffective, then they are in big trouble.
Sure I got screwed and the investors got a way better deal.

But then again, every other startup would have given me the same deal or worse, and the alternative would have involved me still being in college taking out student loans. I think I'll stick to my mediocre salary and nonfounder equity[1].

[1]: Since day one, the company has done quite well and my pay is no longer mediocre, and my equity would be a nice 6-7 figures bonus if the company sold today.

Quit focusing on the injustice of an employee share versus a founder or investor share. Quit comparing yourself to others, and instead focus on whether the numbers offered to you make sense for you, personally.
"Deadly" virus? I'm OK with a little hyperbole to stir up user interest, but calling a computer virus that spies on people is hardly deadly.
Really nice. That is an interesting use case.
Shouldn't you be bothered more about your emphasis on trivialities over the substance (or OCD)?
the F-117 was built based on a Russian paper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk#Backgr...
I don't remember the exact details, but I have been a long time happy customer of hotdrupal.net

The owner Steve made something like a request for bonuses for his employees and any extra money sent went straight to the employees.

I thought it was a nice gesture. Not exactly what the article is talking about, but it does seem to literally be crowdsourcing bonuses.
I was looking for a forgiving interpretation of his statement. It's better to assume someone is right, and a little unclear, then just outright wrong.
ITIL Isn’t a Four-Letter Word
I don't agree with calling these databases "NoSQL", because it grants the undeserved premise that SQL is somehow the center of the database universe. Politically that may be so, but technically, it's not. Nothing anoints SQL databases as being somehow intrinsically "right" or the logical starting point or standard by which all databases should be compared. SQL is merely popular.
This is a great move for Parse! There is some long-term issues about using a service like this, such as: the cost, flexibility, performance, customization, etc.

But for any front-end (or any person, I guess) who wants to build something and quickly validate their idea and get traction this will be very useful.

My only suggestion is to architect your application knowing that you will migrate out of their infrastructure.
I've come to understand there is a difference between "filtering" and "lane splitting". 100% on board with filtering to the front when traffic is stopped at a light. It is the weaving in and out of traffic that is still moving at a good clip that bothers me. When I'm driving in 40mph traffic it is quite unsettling to suddenly encounter a vehicle moving in between other vehicles at 50mph.
Nit: Benzodiazepine are GABA A agonists, not NMDA antagonists.
I think that mission "only" came to be, because both sides had to have a backup/rescue kit. The hot-spare became useless when both capsule-based (Soyuz/Skylab-Apollo) programmes came to an end with their last flight. By combining, they both got another "free" flight: it was too good to pass up the billion dollars found free with the deal.
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He might have been in part, but he was also probably referring partly to his talents as an entrepreneur and extensive contacts through YC.
Please see http://blog.visa.com/2010/09/02/minimizing-confusion-over-mi...

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Thanks Chris, really cleared it up.
Was there a specific book you had in mind? There are 8 at the link.
Like I said, an appeal to paranoia. Is it really so hard to imagine he might stand a fair trial in either country?
You mean aside from the glazing and/or citric acid that can be used in the preservation process?
I am aware of all of them and do agree that real estate is still very much people-driven, and in my opinion always will be. That being said, the way Realtors market themselves these days is not effective enough, that coupled with just the sheer number of Realtors, (Over 1 Million), makes for a bunch of marketing noise.
Building vert.x with first cut of the Scala API
I'm still a little confused by what Parse does and when I would use it. It sounds neat for little, proof-of-concept demos but would I consider it for production of something significant? Does this SDK work without the Parse server?
4, The customer is the government. The contract always requires that everything from the data-center to the training is in the same contract so these are the only possible suppliers

They underbid the contact and don't deliver while dumping 1000s of untrained new-grads as "consultants" at $N*1000/day for changes until the project is ultimately cancelled by the next government.

The process then repeats
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Cool site. What tool did you use to design it?
What you call trivialities I call attention to detail. And your remark about OCD is offensive.
No...? What makes you think Facebook is a success Zuck can just repeat at will? Having been lucky once already does not make him a better entrepreneur; though the brand will surely help promoting his new startup, and a billionaire has certain connections mere mortals don't have. But neither of those fact are tied to him being a good entrepreneur... look at Bill Nguyen to see where this line of thinking leads you. Color is doing great, isn't it?
it's certainly possible that it has other functions.

There are many, many, many proteins for which we are discovering new functions each day or for which we know of no known function in cells.
I was onboard until "The Facebook mobile app is absolutely awful – and hasn’t improved in years. A lot of these reasons are subtle like lack of support for the Nitro JavaScript engine in native apps which wrap HTML content like Facebook’s (Apple doesn’t allow this)."

Horseshit. The Facebook mobile app is absolutely awful because Facebook allows it to be absolutely awful. Look at all of the rock-solid, supremely pleasant, sync-and-serve social experiences on iOS and tell me exactly why Facebook is a special case.

Dropped posts, stuttering scrolling, lost comments, photo upload glitches, punishing load times, punishing layout glitches, nonfunctional UI... none of this can be laid at Apple's feet. A magical ~JIT Javascript~ wand isn't going to solve any of this mess.