skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're working on a no-backend solution to help developers build great entirely client-side cloud apps. We provide a set of API's that can be used if you host on our platform or off it, and they work with any language. There are Restful API's for user authentication/signup, data management and more, as well as an easy way to get your app hooked up with other cloud API's like Twitter/Spotify/Facebook in a client-side app, which has been quite tricky until now.

We provide a Javascript library for these apps but you can also roll your own, since all our APIs are documented and are simple get/post requests.

It's quite a new space so there's only a handful of companies doing this; Hoodie is one of the others that is most notable.

Would love to hear what HackerNews thinks and happy to answer any questions.
Caps are definitely a crude tool, but given that most usage is going to be during peak hours anyway, lower overall usage usually translates to lower peak usage.

And yes, when I talk about reducing costs I really mean reducing the rate of increase of bandwidth demand relative to the rate of decrease of bandwidth cost due to Moore's Law.
This is really well spoken advice. The only thing I would add is this. On the subject of unemployment. Keep in mind that this isn't normally a go down to an office and collect a check tomorrow kind of deal. It's a long process in most places I've seen.

The real question is what are your employment opportunities in your area. If you think you can get another job quick and can afford the lack of income while you hut, then it's probably not worth the time spent sitting at an unemployment office for hours on end (time you could be spending finding a job). On the other hand if job options are sparse and you are concerned that leaving this job will leave you out of work for an extended period, then go the unemployment route so that you at least have some kind of buffer to help you with your finances.

Good luck.
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I've not heard of any software that solves the problem of anxiety in cold calls, but I can tell you that experience erased anxiety entirely for me. For the first month or two I was quite afraid of saying the wrong things or screwing up, but within a few months it became second nature.

Some scripts may help with anxiety for newbies.
I think the biggest mistake new managers make is to forget that you are principally managing people. Even though day to day there's a lot of email, meetings, project management and office politics it pays to remember that you succeed through your staff as much if not more than through your personal efforts.
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You can't uniquely identify one method as "best". In particular, there's a limit to how much you want to learn and use specialized commands versus a core set of broadly applicable commands. However, you can identify a set of broadly applicable commands that proficient users should know, and make sure they're at least using those, if not something even more specialized.

For instance, suppose you're sitting in the middle of a line, and you want to add a word five words to the right on the next line down. j5wi or /sometext[enter]i are both sensible ways to navigate. )wi might make sense if the insertion point is just after the end of a sentence. jwwwwwi is not horrific (given that visual counting may not be as fast) but probably deserves a warning as a reminder. jllllllllllllllllllllllllli is well worth warning about.
This is interesting because cargo ships are more fuel-efficient at slow speeds [1][2]. But with a crewed ship, slow speed means higher labor costs. I wonder how much remote piloting or auto-piloting of ultra-slow ships can change this equation.

[1] http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch8en/conc8en/fuel_co...

[2] http://ultraslowships.com/
> dishing out unreasoned mandates to solve things one way or another

This is the problem I've run into most often with management: the command to do things using method or technology A instead of B, not because A is better (in fact, B usually is the better choice both for development and for internal user support), but because A is the pet preference of a manager not involved in the work and who doesn't actually work with any of the people who will be using or supporting the end result.
You may add Linode servers (we work with most any hosting provider), just you can't use the Linode API to automatically pull servers and details in like we do for DigitalOcean, AWS, and Rackspace.
Whitelist away! As an Android supporter the best way to force the environment you want is to target the environment you want. Once people see certain devices do not support the features they need they'll choose ones that do, and that encourages others to add it as well etc etc.

Your Vine does a great job showing the problem and its clear that you have done your part to try to make it work.

Best of luck!
Thank you for proving my point, downvoter :D
>Theoretically this is the best scaling solution.

Html markup on your pages is probably minuscule after compression (you're using zopfli with 5000 cycles and minifying your html, right?), and amortizing the upfront cost of that extra js over the average number of page views is definitely worse than plain ol static html for your blog 99.9% of the time.

But let's get real; theoretically the best? I doubt markdown is even near the optimum in terms of bits on the wire. Don't even talk to me unless you're writing your own binary markdown serialization format.
> Can someone explain to me how the US has jurisdiction over Credit Suisse?

Because the US is a sovereign state, which means they have jurisdiction over whatever they choose to have jurisdiction over, subject to constraints forcibly imposed by outside parties.

> I see how they could have gone after the individual tax fraudsters (American citizens), but how can they police foreign banks?

The US government (even ignoring extraordinary action it could take outside of the US or with the cooperation of foreign governments) can effectively impose penalties on any entity that does business in the United States, or holds assets in the United States.
I have a Contour helmet camera. Everyone always asks me if its a GoPro. No wonder GoPro is going public and Contour went out of business a few months ago.

(and deleted all my videos on their site >:| )
No, I'm not joking.
I definitely dislike the blurred answers scheme. I think I even had Quora blocked from my searches when that was possible (without a plugin). Sometimes, though, they look like the only hit likely to provide useful info to a question I'm really interested in at the moment, so I eventually gave in and just removed the friction of reading the site by installing/making plugins for it.
Basic income would be negligible to inflation, except for medium ticket discretionary items. Deflationary for luxury goods.

This is because basic income benefits the poor but increases taxes on the rich. The poor would be able to afford lower middle class items. The professional middle class would see a wash in taxes vs. BI.

Basic necessities would show no change because items like food and housing are already being consumed at nearly the rate the population could handle. Sure maybe steak prices go up a little, but rice would get cheaper too. Maybe less people would be homeless but some more houses could be built and find a buyer/renter too.

Bottom line: inflation is related to the total amount of money in the system. Basic income only re-distributes money.

Sure temporary slowing and speeding of money flow can affect inflation, but let's consider the long term average.
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I really enjoyed your post. I actually know x86 better than ARM & I'd love to read a similar patterns post targeted at x86_64. Do you have a reference for the "lowering" term? I did a quick search & couldn't find anything--but it's a hard term to search for. Thanks!

Edit: Finally found a few references for "lowering" in the context of compilers. Here's a SO reference:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20252876/wanted-good-defi...
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Using the USS Jimmy Carter, you'd have to believe there is a web of undersea cables they have laid to backhaul from where-ever they'd like.

To think that the NSA is wholly reliant on already laid carrier cable is naive.

It would be interesting to speculate on the method by which they lay their cables to protect them from detection.... meaning, do they now have means to bury the cables as opposed to surface-lay.
That would be amazing! There's a real dearth of terminal-based amusement on the internet these days - last cool thing I remember was that telnet server that would play the first third of Star Wars in ASCII art. Being able to buy Unix swag entirely over SSH would definitely take the crown.

Good stuff though :) I see similar initial reactions to mine elsewhere in the thread, but let's not make the perfect the enemy of the good, eh?
OSM-based cycle routes: http://cycle.travel/map . UK-only... for now.
This is a sleight of hand. The crypto challenges, for instance, have a business function (albeit not one we originally intended), but are not in fact literally ads, no matter how quickly you wave your hands; what they are in fact is a sequence of 56 3-paragraph descriptions of cryptographic flaws and how to demonstrate them.

Similarly, a downloadable e-book does not transmogrify from "useful technical information" to "disguised advertisement" simply by living in an undated PDF document behind a paywall.
A number of the points in the top answer are really symptoms of not being aware of what is going on with your people. One of the fatal flaws (for the manager if not the company) I have observed in poor managers is a lack of spending time with the team members.

At least in tech, many managers are promoted from individual contributor roles and they only carve out a little time to be a manager. Usually that means they don't know what is going on, and when issues do come to their attention those issues have been festering for quite a while.
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Don't sell it. I might want to partner with you. trey@macklabmedia.com.
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It's not that difficult, but I think the main obstacle is gathering and representing the collection of knowledge in a useful form.

There was a disassembler called Sourcer that would annotate code with a set of predetermined comments based on its knowledge of the PC hardware. For example a sequence of instructions that enabled the interrupt controller by setting a specific bit in its register would be identified and get the comment "enable interrupt controller". I seem to remember IDA can do the same thing, although it's been a while since I last used it.
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I thought the question was aimed at new to the role not necessarily new to the team?

I found the advice about visibility pretty on the nose. I have yet to have a direct supervisor who hasn't stolen credit a few times. In contrast the guys or girls above them have all been really good at directing it downward. As far as my career has gone anyway.
As an American physics PhD who is continuing his career in academia in France, the situation is comparable to that in the US: the number of tenure openings (French CR1/CR2) is declining while the number of PhDs is growing.
> An analog would be like the NSA harvesting data from Samsung and then passing it to Apple, which is the type of stuff that we have no evidence of thus far.

Not entirely true. Years ago, there was a big scandal where Boeing and Airbus were in a bidding war, and a US intelligence agency passed some vital data to Boeing in order to ensure the economic health of a big military contractor. (Unfortunately I have trouble finding a good source; googling for Boeing/Airbus scandals turns up a crazy number of results. I now find myself wondering why the one I remembered stood out.)
Or because they have branches and accounts in the US:

https://www.credit-suisse.com/us/en/
http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/netflix-youtube-bandwid...
talking about themselves and taking credit are two of the big traps rookies fall into.
That's strange because I feel that AskMeFi is what keeps me going back and visiting.
agree - you are one of the reasons mefi is what it is. thanks for all of your hard work.
I disagree completely. When you have threaded comments, what happens is that people post their (often reactionary) opinions in response to OP, and then other people respond in kind to those opinions. On occasion you get a witty quip or a good story, but there's just no meaningful flow of conversation. It's soapbox vs. soapbox. On the other hand, non-threaded discussions, while more difficult to follow, read like actual, real-life conversations. You have a chance of having a pleasant discussion (or even changing someone's mind!) on those sites.

I post on HN or Reddit when I feel like adding a point of data to a debate. I post on MeFi when I want to talk to my peers.

(Admittedly, even sites like MeFi can't compare to talking with people in real life. There's something to be said for taking control of someone's locus of attention while you're talking, which you simply can't do when you have to talk in discrete, comment-sized chunks.)
Usually not. They jump from gov to private and back.

This happens with other agencies as well. FDA is full of future and past heads from agro-businesses and pharma companies. FCC is full of people from cable and satellite companies and so on.

This is capitalism at work. Achieve success by whatever means possible. The easiest means is the get in the position to re-write rules and police yourself.
I'm always disappointed with Famo.us's updates - so much hype, so much opportunity, always feels wasted. Building out a developer network is hard, and they were so good at getting buzz/interest- would love to see them translate it to something meaningful in a timely manner (like apps actually using and succeeding with the fwk), vs. sending more and more marketing updates.
When I first started work out of college I kept a notebook of "things I like/don't like" about my managers, mostly as a training piece for myself. One of the top qualities one of my managers had was his comfort level with admitting to me "I don't know the answer to that, but I think I know where we can find it".

Probably summed up as something like "check your ego at the door".
This goes for not only managers, but any member of an organization -- pretending to know something when you really don't and being afraid to ask questions is a huge red flag to me for both managers and employees alike.

And back to the list, IMO that's a pretty good list, especially coming from one person's experiences.
Can anyone think of a peace-time disaster at sea that was not as a result of human error? Titanic? Exxon Valdez? Costa Concordia? The 'humans are critical for safety' argument is flawed when we don't know how well robot ships will do.

Sail augmented with solar needs to make a comeback before we run out of oil, it would be cool if ships just found there own way around the globe, safely crew-less.
"share praise, take blame" has worked really well for me in the past. folks who fail at learning this tend not to last long or at least don't advance since no one will want to work for them.
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So, they're saying it cannot possibly be cost effective, with a global fleet of around 5000 ships, and conservative savings of at least $3000 per day per ship? It cannot be cost effective to develop a product for which the savings would be at least $5 billion per year (of which most can be claimed back in more expensive ships)? Sounds like at least a few people are trying to maintain the status quo already.
I can only image the frustration of someone lost at sea watching one of these slowly drift right passed them and no way to get on board and no crew to signal for help.
Care to provide some logic instead of downvoting all my comments?
pirates are gonna love this.
That doesn't really seem to be true. Did you read their about page? http://www.brewreport.com/about
maybe they'll need to add saas like cloud storage backups like dropcam, so they can increase lifetime revenue per customer even further.
Did anyone else read this and think that it might be a good way to do away with piracy also? If there's no steering wheel to grab a hold of, there's no way to steal the ship, and with an absence of hostages, it would be a lot easier to deal with attempted theft, too.
Mailpin has actually been astroturfing HN using separate accounts, including the OP:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mailpin

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=getmailpin

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=wenbinf (maybe unrelated, but odd submission patterns nonetheless)
When the ship is not near shore, there's no doubt in my mind that it is safer in the hands of an automated pilot.

It's only when things get crowded and unpredictable -- that is, with lots of non-automated shipping about -- where you will need serious piloting software. I imagine that there will be a long crossover period where ships will set out from a port with a small human crew -- possibly just a pilot and lookouts -- then go autonomously across the ocean to be picked up by another small crew a few hours out from the destination port.
I don't know anything about the maritime world, but playing Devil's Advocate you're suffering from selection bias: you're naming instances where humans caused the errors but not factoring in the unreported instances of humans saving the cargo, the ship, the personnel or all three.
Revenue growth is pretty astounding:

* 187% from 2012 to 2013

* 225% from 2011 to 2012

* 363% from 2010 to 2011
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This is a very good reason why, as much as I want to, I can't support Android. As a developer it's a complete pain in the ass to support. The webcam/media codecs are very similar to this and there are many other types of apps like this. Google really needs to step and figure out a way to fix this issue if it wants to challenge iOS's position as a favored dev environment.
I'd say SA's political influence is diminished by the fact that SA companies employ less people per unit of output than almost all other industries. Some may champion this fact as efficiency and strength, but for the most part, people = votes. So given a tech firm and an old economy firm, the old economy firm has way more clout b/c its workers have way more votes.

My thesis above is somewhat diminished by today's very loose campaign finance restrictions.
Offtopic, but the date on the article says 6 days from now..
yep that's a good one, it definitely has the most detail of al l the books I've seen so far wrt release/deploy. Also several people have recommended Francesco Cesarini's book as well, and I've seen a few posts about another guy who is writing one specifically on the VM itself, I think that'll be helpful also.

I would like to have one of these books that is more prescriptive than descriptive when it comes to the practices, although I think I could squeeze everything I'm looking for into a chapter-sized doc, might take a stab at it myself!
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To be sure, lighting an average room demands far, far more energy. Rather, I'm thinking more like grass-roof huts where roads are exclusively ruts from foot traffic.

In this case, you're racing to beat something approaching pitch black (on new moons), and where even a soft glow is a welcome improvement. Nothing to read or socialize by, though this could be a stepping stone towards realizing a plant that does (one can still dream, I hope)!
This is probably going to sound like a stupid question, but have you calibrated the compasses on those devices? Besides the one that's wildly fluctuating, all the other ones are displaying pretty regular behaviour for an electronic compass that hasn't been calibrated. They are very sensitive (the Earth's magnetic field is quite weak after all) and the extra metal of all the devices next to each other could also affect their output.

Here's a link explaining this from one manufacturer of electronic compasses (and the biggest one, so there's a very good chance your smartphone has an AKM compass - I know mine does):
http://www.s3sensor.com/en/s3/calibration/
Is this supposed to actually be used for anything more than a chuckle?
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We're planning to do a larger tech focused write-up on this infographic soon. On the backend it's powered by Node and Redis and runs within an EC2 auto scaling group.
I'm experimenting with a forum which lets you switch between threaded and flat format for threads... although I'm a bit worried that, once people actually use it, it might be confusing if group a is browsing in one mode and group b is browsing in another, still I don't know if you have to have one or the other exclusively. The way that the structure of a forum affects the nature of discussion is an interesting problem, though. And probably one that's been thoroughly solved but.. eh.
I'm surprised that so little consideration seems to have been given to the marketing of this framework. Your landing page should be optimized for the audience you are expecting to sell to. Running a general release aimed at developers on a Monday afternoon, they should have expected that most of their target audience would access their page from a desktop environment because they are likely programming. Having a page that seems to be optimized for mobile, albeit poorly considering the scrollbar didn't work on my iPhone any better than it did on my laptop, was a pretty egregious oversight, especially considering they constantly remind their audience that choosing reliable tools is important for their career.
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As I said: skewed demographics, certainly. Outright racism? Quite possibly.

I'm not questioning your views specifically. I'm making a comment on my own informal, but long-duration, observations of composition of technical vs. unskilled positions.

If you can provide racial demographics on people holding janitorial positions, please do.

There are numerous studies which show hiring biases for identical resumes with different names attached to them:

"Employers' Replies to Racial Names"
http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html

Job applicants with white names needed to send about 10 resumes to get one callback; those with African-American names needed to send around 15 resumes to get one callback.

"Should you be concerned with name discrimination on your resume?"
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/career-management/should-yo...

"How an ethnic-sounding name may affect the job hunt" http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/ho...

My experience with janitorial and housekeeping staff through much of the US, including the west coast, is that they're frequently economically disadvantaged minority or immigrant in ethnicity. It's a low-education position.

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Building-and-Grounds-Cleaning/Janitor...

Finding specific references to ethnic composition is difficult, but the incidental evidence is strong:

White janitors are exceptional and notworthy: "Even the Janitor is White" http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED534328

A union history of west-coast janitorial labor organization emphasizes Mexican and Hispanic groups: "Unions and the Fight for Multi-Racial Democracy" http://dbacon.igc.org/Unions/11mulrac.htm

Working-class power will determine especially if this democracy represents the needs of African-American, Asian, Latino, Native American and other people of color, who are overwhelmingly working-class themselves.