skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't see why this is better (in any reasonable metric) than just plain Bash. Is there really any type safety we gain here? Is it more convenient than Bash? The only thing I see is the argument about quoting arguments.
I remember reading their load-balancer shuts itself off after 2 minutes if something strange happens. The whole thing is run from memory, so no traces will be left.

I don't know how accurate this is, though.
Easily, definitely. I've never had a primary care physician that couldn't have been replaced by a "Dr Kiosk™"; which would almost certainly have been superior in nearly every way.
I'll grant that this makes it an argument against those things. I don't see that it's an equally strong argument. In any case, you have to weigh the costs and benefits.
Ask HN: Which leaderboard service do you use for your mobile game?
So I would recommend using Parse after the end of the year once they figure out their reliability. Infrastructure as a service that is in the process of improving reliability is not very confidence boosting, though.

But I do appreciate that yall have started posting on status.parse.com! That is a major improvement in the right direction.
I don't agree that all of these are exclusive to startups. In my experience, smaller, more laid back companies generally hit most if not all of these points. The company I'm currently with certainly does, except maybe #5, and it's been around for a couple decades.

To me this reads more along the lines of "5 reasons to work at a small company", and #5 is the only one that's more startup-specific, though there are companies out there that provide that too, and are not startups.
GOV.UK ran some stats on who wasn't running JavaScript and why:

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missi...
Hey there, sorry to hear you're taking off.

I'd love to hear more about why you think we're nonchalant about downtime. We definitely need to improve reliability and are working hard to do so but also spend a lot of effort on writing up detailed postmortems (e.g. http://status.parse.com/incidents/j336l474l8h4) to be as transparent as possible even if it's painful.

You're right that there are some applications that are a good fit for Parse and others that aren't. We have many social-esque apps that are doing fine so I'd love to hear more. That said, we know it's not "one size fits all" and are working to productize/integrate some Facebook technologies that should make fanning out and other things way better.

Feel free to drop me a note at ilya@parse.com.
Sure, will setup a homepage. I have just started with this and building MVP. I'm here to get some early feedback on how other startups are managing this.

I have just setup this small MVP for a closed community and it solves their problem of managing contacts.
you just need to get the right nzb site to help filter nzbs .. http://usenetreviewz.com/nzb-sites/
Yeah in retrospect we should have definitely done this. Although it causes a significant trade off to prototyping speed. I am not sure if its not just worth using your own API at that point.
I always think it's admirable when a CEO offers his help in forums.
Why I Am Not a Member of the American Psychological Association
Well, treat each feature the same way, really. Offering a less comfortable but still functional experience is precisely what "progressive enhancement" is about. I agree that for many projects, at some point, there is functionality that can't be reasonably made accessible without JS, given the constraints of the project. I do think that many people seem to be too quick to go there. I don't think we have any major disagreement.
I despise this attitude that people go to the doctor to figure out what is making them sick. Most of time, when people visit general practice doctors, they already know what's wrong with them. But we have to wait hours or days for an appointment, drive through traffic, sit in a waiting room for hours, and pay a bunch of money so that some jerk can spend five minutes typing our symptoms into his laptop.

I get it: they're gatekeepers to prevent people from abusing or misusing medicines. But wouldn't it be better to allow people access to medicine based on objective measurements taken over a long period of time rather than making people interview for it?

When I'm sitting in a waiting room, I'm thinking about what I need to say and do to convince the doctor that I'm sick. If I'm polite and smile is he going to believe me when I tell him I'm in pain? If I don't have a fever is he going to believe I had one two hours ago? I know that he gets paid whether he treats me or not and that he knows every treatment is a potential lawsuit if he makes a mistake. He has every incentive to play it safe and find some reason to avoid treating me.

The other day, I read an article about a woman in Houston. Emergency room doctors avoided treating her for a stroke because her boyfriend mentioned that she has occasionally smoked marijuana. Classifying her as a drug user allowed them to just give her some Zoloft, push her out the door, and collect the check. She'll never be the same again. And this happened in one of the best hospitals in one of the best medical centers in the world. The problem is systemic.
"universal firewall tunnelling protocol"

That obviously defeats the purpose of a firewall, so firewalls will either be eliminated, or will go deeper to do filtering.

"[HTTP is] compact"

Not particularly.
It's sad that those photoshop skills in the cover really ruined my will to look at the document.
Thanks for the link, very interesting read.
It seems no one has mentioned the long peaks fiasco yet, which is an important part of understanding OpenGL history and the committee(s) in charge of the standard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL#Longs_Peak_and_OpenGL_3....

TL;DR: This is not the first time people are pissed at OpenGL. Last time when industry, developers, etc were sick and tired, around 2006-2007, and it was decided to do something about the API, an effort was initiated. Once the work was close to finishing, those who had seen the glimpse of this yet-to-be-released API were excited and were eagerly waiting for the release. Then the OpenGL committee vanished from the scene for a year or so, and when it re-appeared, it released the same old shitty API with a handful of function calls on top of that.
Software is sometimes done
Why workflows will change your team's email habits
Europe Code Week
How do you deal with naming conflicts?
> And btw: the idea of calling something a "systems programming language" that can't even make a system call is laughable.

So C and C++ are laughable for systems programming, because the language standard doesn't cover system calls.

The APIs for systems calls and support for inline assembly are language extensions.
Google App Engine vs. Amazon EC2
I don't know, it was not me (i.e., not the submitter).
Just be wary when learning so much, so quickly - quantity vs. quality is a very serious concern in this arena.
A map would be really helpful here.
What makes VoIP / SMS sending attractive to customers?
Recently I started a company at https://www.cheapsms.eu which provides worldwide VoIP and SMS services. The service already includes SMS API, Bulk SMS sending, VoIP calls directly from the WEB browser. What in your opinion would make it even more useful service you would like to use?
This is what stood out for me actually:

"... At the Mayo Clinic’s Transform symposium this month in Rochester, Minn., I heard Eric Dishman, a general manager at Intel, explain how he had used data to individualize his own cancer care. More than a decade ago, when he was only partly responding to chemotherapy for a rare kidney cancer, he used a step monitor to help figure out what provoked his pain and then worked with a physical therapist to treat it. More recently, scientists were able to analyze the genetic sequence of his tumor, identifying a medicine for treatment. He is now cancer free..."
Ah, I see. I didn't realise you are offering hosting. "Deploy your websites from dropbox." makes me think its just a deployment tool for existing servers.

If its for designers, then with a better tag-line, I expect you can make creating a website from a drop-box folder sound like magic.
The Operations Identity Crisis
Microservice Prerequisites
That's a totally fair assessment.

I just mean to say that we've prioritized it above all else and are really crunching to make it a non-issue for our developers. Our traffic has exploded in the last year so we need to rework some things.
Dropbox doesn't play well with git, or perhaps version control in general. Having a live site which is unversioned is somewhat less than desirable. I am sure there is some category of people for whom this is useful, but I am a professional, which means I have been burned too many times to consider not using version control. Hence, this service is entirely useless to me.

Hiding complexity from the user is mostly good; it's a shame that the replication service isn't more capable.
But isn't that just artificially limiting yourself for no real reason? The no-JavaScript argument seems like IE6 repeating itself - intentionally dumbing down the capabilities at hand for a select few - except in this case (vs IE 6 in the aughts) it really is significantly "the few."

It might seem technically silly for me to have tons of parallax scrolling and DOM manipulation on my blog, but who cares?

I agree that decisions like this have the capacity to disrupt business in certain cases, but I don't see it being something that important in most businesses.

Edit: I'm taking a strong view here for certain, but I wonder who, outside an audience this technically literate, actually disables JS? True, the CDN argument is a good one, but in that case I assume most of my other static assets would be blocked as well.
In an ideal world yes. Or if your software works already seamlessly cross-datacenter. But in the real world is rare that your hosting provider is good at both VMs and metal. At least that's the biggest problem I've always encountered, specially with budget providers.
Great question :)
If the folder name 'foobar' is taken, the app renames your folder to 'foobar1a1u20c' where the appended string would make it unique. It's not the most elegant way but it works. Moreover, at the end of the day you would have some CNAME pointing to it, so the name doesn't really matter that much.
Return of the Postwar Split Families
I'm incredibly bummed not to be there on account of having to move to California...When I was new to New York and just randomly walking around without a direction in mind, I stumbled on the High Line Park when it just opened and it's been my favorite place in the city since...I probably went there 5 times as much as I did Central Park.

I was lucky enough to see the third section 2 years ago, before it underwent construction (photo album here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zokuga/sets/72157647451319277/)...I can't tell from the NYT's photos how much of the wild grass is there, but it doesn't look like much, which is too bad, considering the area is much wider than the other two parts (i.e. the narrow hallways of Section 2)...Then again, the un-renovated area was pretty treacherous to just walk around in...I remember seeing some parts of the railway siding with holes and gaps big enough that if you tripped, you'd fall down into the street.
A Writerly Chill at Jeff Bezos’ Fire
A lot of HIPAA complience also has to do with due dilegence. My organization recently when through a long period of training that covered everything from building access logs to the way we do employee password resets. Unfortunately there aren't hard, static rules that define it.

On the positive side- I've learned to love the compliance. Most of it is common sense things (like not giving out info over the phone to any random person) and has made our organization more efficient.
Moz has 140 employees and is at a revenue run-rate of ~$33mm, putting us around $235K/employee. I know companies with higher revenue/employee than us (many of those are smaller) and some with lower revenue/employee (many of those have lots of funding and are going negative to grow faster). So long as you're applying additional metrics into the equation (funding, growth rate, cost/person by location/type, etc) I think this is a reasonable baseline.

That said, there's lots of very important metrics to understand if you're trying to do a comparison - rate of growth, margins, churn, etc. - all of these figure prominently into the health of a SaaS business.
So it's like a dark pool (in the capital markets sense) for retail, in which you try to undercut the market maker's (Amazon) spread by narrowing it yourself and not telling anyone about how narrow it is? It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it would work because (as many commenters here have already said) Amazon's spread is already quite narrow.
ps3 had opengl available, and the Wii and Wii U use OpenGL.
I don't know about the ps4.

Note, the xboxs use a modified version of DirectX which is more like mantle/dx12 (low overhead)
Average Is Over by Cowen (2013) has this exact same thesis - for the next 100 years, human + machine > AI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_is_Over
It's not an easy process .

Check out TrueVault - HIPAA-compliant data store that is a YC grad.
Nice work! From where do you get that expectation?
Thanks, I changed the copy. It sounded better in my head :) btw, the website 'www.websrvr.in' is hosted on the same service :)
I'm guessing you're getting downvotes from people who are sick and fucking tired of reading the same trite comment quoting betteridge.
at the moment only certain vertical trees work!!
For real, their dedicated hosting costs are most likely not going to be at all comparable to the ones most people commonly get quoted. Hosting costs go up when your host runs out of a former Cold War bunker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberBunker
How would improved diagnosis bring down the price of medicine?

I didn't say improved diagnosis would. I said replacing humans with machines would. If the process were 1 hour with a diagnostic bot and 1 hour of treatment with a doctor, that will allow 2 patients to be treated in 2 hours of a doctor's time (increasing supply and reducing price).

Your political baiting is completely orthogonal to the point. If you play politics and tweak the payment system (e.g. adopting India's excellent capitalism-based system), a doctor still spends 1 hour diagnosing and 1 hour treating. 1 patient is treated rather than 2.
Atul Gawande's checklist manifesto emphasizes the need for processes while solving complex problems like surgery. A doctor can forget to wash his hand while a machine cannot forget. So that is a place where computer assisted techniques make sense just like the case of flying a plane where the autopilot can take care of most things except when things go wrong and humans have to take over. I don't think anyone with adequate experience in healthcare and technology would make wild claims about replacing doctors with machines. There are plenty of places where machines can aid doctors and simplify processes at scales thereby letting doctors focus on more complex things. That's how the automobile industry evolved and so will healthcare. But doctor's will always be needed. They would just be doing different things or existing things in a different way.

There are plenty of people in this part of the world (Eg. India) where people are just getting to the point of trusting a ATM machine with cash withdrawal. Assuming machines become better than doctors at asking patients the right kind of questions, knowing when they are lying or just not able to communicate their problem, there is still a significant barrier and probably a generation of cultural changes that would make it acceptable to have a machine as your primary care giver. Diagnostics have been using complex technology for a while, so there is no doubt about technology improving the decision making process. However diagnosis is just one and probably a small part of the healthcare process. Actually improving the patients health requires following a treatment plan and adherence to lifestyle and medical processes. Most people just fail to comply due to behavioral reasons. This is where technology and so call 'AI' can play a role. By understanding individual human behavior patterns and guiding people to do small changes that would improve their health outcomes. We have been working on fixing this problem for people with chronic conditions like diabetes at http://www.janacare.com.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/West_side...

The section they're talking about is in pink.
Is Alibaba comparable to a US company?
Ask HN: [Startup Inc] Asian indie iOS dev planning to launch a mobile app in US
Hi,
I'm an indie developer based in Asia and currently working on an app targeting the young demographic in US (high school/college students). I'm wondering whether I should launch the app as an Individual developer or as a company (single person Delaware LLC). The app will be a social network and therefore I think it's important that I include a Privacy policy and a Terms of Use statement to protect both parties. According to my knowledge only a legal entity can do those.
If the app doesn't flop, I'm also planning to raise funds from US investors. (currently bootstrapping)
What should be the best approach? Thanks in advance.
This seems like it should live as a layer above postgres for a while, and after it gets widespread adoption the project could become more of a standard part of a postgres distribution.

That would allow some time to sort out the tricky aspects like authentication and access control, and also to see what the performance hit is like and find ways to minimize it.
Please someone make it happen.
This isn't really news. The general consensus among (properly trained) tax practitioners has long been that partners' distributive shares of the partnership income are self-employment income and thus are subject to the various self-employment taxes. What this CCA does is formally clarify the tax treatment of partners' income from an LLC taxed as a partnership.

Note that LLCs are regarded as partnerships for tax purposes. The fundamental misunderstanding addressed by the CCA is that LLC members were commonly but erroneously characterized as limited partners by many practitioners because of the "limited" nature of their legal liability for the entity's debts. However, properly-trained practitioners have long understood that for tax purposes, "limited partner" is generally defined by the limited scope of management and control they exert over the partnership.
an aesthetic osmosis !
"The result of this struggle is a difference between the intention and its realization, a difference which the artist is not [aware] of." this i am not so sure...
Duchamp's art coefficient = gap, good or bad,
So is it possible art coefficient=0 but asthetic scale = ∞, or art coefficient= random and asthetic scale = 0 or ∞ depending on which view you take of Shannon's theory
For document-based websites, I go JS-free. My blog works without JS (except for comments, because they're from disqus and I'm lazy). And for public facing document websites it's usually possible to cache everything so it'll be REALLY fast.

But if I'm making an actual application, it's a lot simpler to disregard users without JS. For example, I use angularjs, and if you take full advantage of it, you always just send the user the same index.html page and the server has a bunch of JSON API endpoints. Then you let the client-side router take over.

If you really want to support JS-free users on your application, you're probably better of making a separate limited version of your application instead of having multiple fallbacks in the same page.
Startups Democratize Deep Learning So Google and Facebook Don't Own It All
Instant meteor dashboards
I work on a web app that is half and half when it comes to depending on JS. The site started as MVC PHP app that was all server-side but over the years JS was added to do client-side validation and other UI/UX enhancements. In part because the customers asked for them and because something would have been extremely tedious and frustrating without JS+AJAX.

As time wore on entire components were built with JS making them unusable with out it. I have some co-workers who want to move all logic back to the server side or at least provide fallbacks for non-JS users but I strongly oppose this. We have parts of our app that use google maps that would be completely unusable without JS and those parts are arguably the most important and central parts of our app.

They want to approach it as "Lets make as many parts usable without JS as we can" while my opinion is "If parts of the app absolutely require JS and are heavily used parts then why waste our time worry about people with JS disabled". Especially since a lot of the server-side only parts of the app could be greatly enhanced with JS. I should also mention that this web app is NOT public facing and is only used by our call center (which we control the browser, newest chrome) and various groups of people using our software which so far all have JS enabled.

I agree that a news website does not need to have JS-required pages for 99.999%+ of their content. If they are taking the time to enhance their site with JS then I believe they probably also have the time (and financial incentive) to make their sites work without JS. Web apps on the hand are a different story. Once you have a significant number of users it might make sense to invest the time in making a fallback or slimed down version (I'm thinking Google/Facebook/etc) but for most companies I don't think supporting a JS-disabled web is a good use of time.
If one big customer is demanding you be HIPAA compliant then they probably want to see a certification, and depending on size of customer they may be willing to provide funding for that certification. It takes months but the certifying service will provide consulting and training. Essentially it all about tight access controls, encrypting data at rest, and documenting everything and everyone who has access to the internals.
Of all mainstream professions (including software developers) medical doctors have the highest average IQ. They understood very well how dangerous for their mortgages and standard of living a computer doctor can be. The MD lobby in US have fought tooth and nail since the 1980s to stall advance in this area.
I have started several companies that have failed. One of them cost me my life savings and left me no choice but to take an entry-level job to make ends meet. I learned a lot from that experience, a small portion of which was incorporated into my response to your comment.

It might be convenient for you to believe that anybody who disagrees with your negative perspective hasn't been in the trenches, but that doesn't make it reality.

Failure is part of the game. Very few successful entrepreneurs have no losses. If you truly believe that VCs or a lack of sociopathic tendencies are to blame for the failure of a new business, I would humbly suggest that you reconsider. Such a cynical attitude is far more likely to be a detriment to one's efforts than any external force.
Agreed. Our games are played by ~200k players a day and before we added fast-polling for live-play, our peak was around 500 requests/second. That's 65k new games a day and millions of moves - obviously not directly analogous but you get the point.

I looked at parse.com for a colleague and the pricing before you become enormous seemed quite reasonable.
You may want to check out BladeLogic Server Automation:
http://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bladelogic-server-automation...

Datasheet:

http://documents.bmc.com/products/documents/27/36/242736/242...
Nasa and Elon Musk make history with the First 3D Printer in Space
Looks cool, but I don't understand the remote profiling server. Does that mean profiling server code on requests or is it a server that can let you view profiling results?
Say 'No' to Jack Ma's Alibubble
If you want a HIPAA-compliant server setup for you: https://www.aptible.com/ (S14)