skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're falling into the "exponentation extrapolation" trap. We could be at the start of a logarthmic curve, or in the middle of an S curve.
> I have to lease their modem ($12.95) because of the static IPs.

This isn't actually true, assuming you are on the consumer side of the fence. No experience on a business line though.

Source: Has extra IPs on his owned modem, after fighting with them for a couple weeks.
I agree completely. You need a "rockstar" if you're doing a rockstar project. 99% of projects don't even approach that level of need.

I found simply talking to people about development gave me more than enough to know whether they could develop or not. It's hard to fake out someone else that's knowledgeable. Now when you have managers who haven't been engineers doing the interviewing, they have to focus on other shit because they have no idea how to differentiate. I've dealt with that so much in my career I've pretty much given up.
Would you be able to send an email to info (at) thinkpacifica (dot) com from the email address you created the account with. If you could let us know which device you're on, we'll check it out as soon as we can. Thanks and sorry for the trouble.
You can also see React in use on the Your Account page: https://www.netflix.com/YourAccount
Thanks for sharing! The last section about enterprise licenses for OSS was especially great.
Yeah, congrats to both teams. I agree wholeheartedly with Dan's comment; I love each of your products separately and look forward to playing with the integration down the road, but I'm disappointed to lose the existing Screenhero now.
tor exit is effectively a proxy. nobody should run an open proxy. that's just common sense.

on the other hand it may be a good feature if implemented correctly. for example, sites explicitly saying they allow tor exit connections would be a good start.
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+1 on Piotrs comment (disclosure: founding team of ReviewNinja - http://review.ninja). We also found that most users like to put some more structure around their code review and appreciate the fact that tools like the ones mentioned by Piotr give more visibility into outstanding issues that need to be closed, before a pull request can be merged. It is also helpful for most to get a better handling around who 'approved' (+1ed) a PR.
according to @tptacek, you might be fine:

> There already is a Screenhero integration for Slack. If you pay for Slack, you can set it up in like 3 minutes, from slack.com/screenhero.
It's well documented, and even Scott James Remnant, the original author of Upstart, didn't sign the Canonical CLA after leaving Canonical.

https://plus.google.com/+KaySievers/posts/C3chC26khpq
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I would love to see React added to mobile app frameworks like Apache Cordova.
This is another facet of the "amplified-teams" trend that's been happening over the past few years. This book review of 'Average is over' has some good information about it:

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/searle20150109

"In his vision intelligent machines will revolutionize everything from medicine to education to business management and negotiation to love. The human beings who will best thrive in this new environment will be those whose work best complements that of intelligent machines, and this will be the case all the way from the factory floor to the classroom."

Very interesting times ahead.
I feel like the polygon graphics in Another World (or Out Of This World) haven't aged nearly as well, much like Star Fox and Super Mario 64 haven't aged nearly as well as Super Mario World and Chrono Trigger. With Star Fox, Super Mario 64, and Another World, you have to look at them through a lens of "well, for the time..."; they were astonishing at the time, but now they look dated. On the other hand, new sprite-based games are still being made and sold today, as well as romhacks for console-based games.

I don't think this is my nostalgia filter talking; there really was a certain peak at the height of the sprite-based era.

(That said, Out of this World is also amazing for being the work of one person.)
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Yea, that would be really a great idea. I have a friend, whom I ask for help some time, but he also has only limited time.

And I lack the time to really dive into automation stuff and that sort. So many interesting tools are available, but you always have to take time and learn it first.
For linux based laptops to gain battery life it's important to use software as powertop / tlp.

It is logical that the apple laptop has a decent battery life, since apple uses a pre-defined hardware list, according to which operating system drivers are polished.
Raise funds. I was just being a control freak. I also had another project going at the same time which made me significantly more money, so my time became more limited.

If you have a few customers, make them super happy. Let them know you're going to be looking for investors so using them to help sell your business would help both you and them.

I had the opportunity, I just let it go. Good luck!
The duplicate detector is left weak like that on purpose to allow for reposts of good stories that didn't get significant attention the first time they were posted. This is described in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

We treated this one as a dupe because it's pretty hard to argue that the previous post didn't get significant attention at 46 points. On the other hand, the interest in this project (including the repost) looks organic and genuine, so as an experiment, we've unburied it and merged yesterday's comments into this thread.
What kind of text editors do you use? Notepad? I have never used a text editor without that feature (for more than 20 minutes).
This is worse than reddit
I have a (rather morbid) book containing cockpit voice recording transcripts from plane crashes, and it includes the Challenger transcript. Directly after that "roger go at throttle up", pilot Michael Smith says "Uh Oh", the final thing it captures. There is nothing else to indicate they were aware of any problem, which is some consolation I suppose.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8961739.
The thing I didn't realize about the hiring process before going through it a couple times is that it's not an inherently evil process or system.

It's just that no one knows what the hell they are doing. It's Hanlon's razor.

The initial filtering is done by HR people only looking for keywords and looking for canned answers to basic questions.

They can also be done by recruiters hired by a hiring manager who hired every recruiter, thus inundating themselves with resumes by their own fault thinking more would be better

The phone screen will check you for "status". Having an Ivy League education will help because even if you fail completely the hiring manager won't lose face. If he takes a chance on a non-ivy league he will be roasted for wasting company resources. You will also have to claim to be very very passionate thus over-promising and in a position of constant not-good-enough-its-an-honor-to-work-here.

After they decide to bring you in, random people are chosen based on their free time to interview you. The list will usually include an extroverted person who tries to be buddy-buddy too soon and feels stiffed unless the other person has a similar personality. A puzzle lover who looked up an answer to a riddle before-hand and uses it to gauge your IQ. A new person who googled some good questions to ask just a few minutes before and makes sure he knows the answer. An H1B employee who doesn't speak that clearly and assumes you are an idiot when you ask a simple question to be repeated. Finally a boss type will come in and make a final decision. The process is semi-democratic in that her yes cannot go against many no's but her no can veto the yes's.

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Nowhere in this chain do people actually care. People are just trying to do their jobs. The hiring manager is trying to fill in slots b/c a project manager is behind schedule and needs and excuse. The interviewers want to "have beers with you" thus gauging your integrated-ness into american culture.

Startup hiring is also fundamentally different and confusing. Young 20s make the best friends in their college days and often seek that same level of camaraderie in colleagues. However the resume process doesn't lend itself to that. You are essentially blind dating. Startups escape the large system failures of large companies and so can focus on product rather than system management, but they also have to relearn many thing or else follow a heuristic script in semblance of a skeleton system. (e.g. top schools only)

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Broadly speaking however, jobs are becoming more and more sparse because tools allow one person to do the job of many. One very very smart person that is. It's already happening with many developer positions. Good tools for IT allow developers to do IT work, creating a merged "devOps" position. Easier web frameworks allow designers and developers to be merged. Good testing tools and frameworks gets rid of QAs. The merged positions reduce the amount of time required for these tasks but the new tool-user has to be super qualified.
And on the command line, you can use the dummynet(4) command (can be useful to automate testing under various network conditions).
If I'd not been able to run Sun OS 4.3 was it? for a long time, until Solaris was tolerable, a lot of future Sun purchases influenced by myself would not have happened.

What was most galling was that guinea pig advertisement, crowing about a rather broken current version of Solaris in comparison to the still not yet ruined and much less buggy Windows NT of the time. To those of us with a foot in both ecosystems ... it really rubbed us raw when struggling with Solaris.
This is massive. Some more details:

"React Native: everything native, controlled by async batched JS put in a background thread. Learn once, write everywhere. #reactjsconf" [1]

"Fb groups app in iOS App Store is powered by it #reactjsconf" [2]

"iOS and Android native using all the same ideas as React, all the power of native." [3]

React has been gaining traction as I'm sure we're all aware, but this is next-level stuff. I'm particularly interested in how styling's going to work; if this is really translating into true native stuff then there must be a CSS-analogue?

[1] https://twitter.com/AnnaPawlicka/status/560505089207463936

[2] https://twitter.com/floydophone/status/560504204343521280

[3] https://twitter.com/voodootikigod/status/560503641920921600
Yeah, I used to do stuff like this with tc directly back in the day, but I could never remember the options. This wrapper seems to make it a bit more obvious what goes where.
Well the average citizen cares about certain things such as "jobs are good" or "terrorists are bad" where they don't necessarily care but they at least make associations with certain topics. I guess I hope that privacy/open internet will become one of those simple things people can understand.
This looks very interesting! On the homepage under supported project types it has: Nodejs, Docker, Ruby, Python and Java. Would it be possible to get Erlang running on the device (using http://nerves-project.org/) ?

I guess if I used Docker it wouldn't matter what language is running in the container, but it would be nice to have that confirmed.
you can be raided just the same.

fbi will probably send one agent to pick up the server in the data center, and 20 others will be picking you up at your credit card billing address.
When you are rich, let's join forces and get a bigger, badder mansion!
Gnarly idea, I wish much success to y'all.

Host college students too or nah?
Ask HN: API/service for pushing text notifications to android/iOS
Hello HN! I am looking for a API/service similar to PushBullet that I can use to send plain old text to devices that have subscribed/installed an app. The reason I ask is that I am working on a ruby script that checks an API and lets users know when it has been updated. see https://www.pushbullet.com/channel?tag=metacritic-new-albums.

Thanks!
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8960068.
Weirdly enough, I'm not in a corporate environment... I think maybe I'm just a bit burned out from a) leaping into a PhD straight after school with a job in the few weeks between; and b) all the bad tech-related news lately.

Hackerspaces are awesome indeed! Thanks for reminding me to head down to my local one more often. Maybe I'll swing by there tonight...
Sure, college students are cool too.
Never found a use case with a tablet that worked for me. I have my main PC, a laptop and a large phone.

Then again I was never one to sit on a couch and watch tv with a laptop so I figured I was not in the right demographic for an ipad.
What does this mean? Can't you use any javascript tech to build native apps with nwjs or cordova?

Edit: looks like this isn't hybrid as I assumed but truly native
> create a memes

"Did you win the Putnam?"
i think in most countries the pipe is always more expensive than the server
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You can use ReactJS now with Cordova/PhoneGap - no problemo.

This announcement is about replacing html elements (div, h1, img, etc.) with native elements. Should be faster going native than via web elements.
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I've been using Ractive + Reflux for two decently-sized projects and I'm very happy with it. I'll probably make the jump to React for most future project because of developer mind-share and a bunch of other smaller reasons, but I can definitely recommend Ractive.
Yes, of course. But the best way to fake evidence that you have a significant other is to build a SMS history. I send my (real) girlfriend 15 to 50 messages a day. I don't think I would fool anyone with an history of 100 messages a month.
Its a sin for Muslims. Why would it apply to non-muslims ?
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This reads like a progress report from a temporary experiment rather than an announcement of a supported capability. I wouldn't get too excited.
ahem. my bet - https://github.com/facebook/css-layout

cannot wait for more details.
As you rightly say, with Docker any language can be used, so it's certainly possible to use Erlang!
If it runs in a Docker container, it runs on Resin.io. Try it and let us know how it goes. If you put the source up, we'll link it from the docs.
Heck yea, once I get more projects under my belt I'll see about applying. Good on you guys for doing such a cool thing 👍
It was different in the US before ACA (Obamacare) was implemented. Before then, employer subsidized healthcare was significantly cheaper than buying private insurance on the open market. That was a major impetus to taking a full time job. Now, the employer health plans are little better than what you can get through ACA, especially if you're young and healthy and can opt for the cheaper options with less coverage.
This is what the iPhone homescreens of the obsessive compulsive look like
Has anyone actually seen that "study" from Portsmouth University?

I tried to google it but all I get is useless soundbites and fear-mongering, all over the mainstream media, with everyone linking back to Wired.com.

No one links to the actual study or to any evidence to support the claim.

Shame on you Wired.
It's not that humans will program AI's to kill us, but having more influence would probably be a very efficient way of maximizing it's utility function
Preach it, brother.

Committment forces cultivation of talent rather than frontrunning.
>Why not share it as an image?

I can think of many reasons. Lack of semantics, no screenreading capabilities for the visually impaired, lowered quality, extreme waste of bandwidth and storage. I hate this trend, even if it offers some convenience to me.
It is true, what I said. I have Business Internet and they will not allow activation of a non-Comcast-owned modem when you have static IPs. I know, I tried to do it twice.
Charles, what Shim & Yoz said… …Be aware that Robert Sheckley did in fact deliver a couple of drafts of the novel. This I know 'cos the second draft is sitting in front of me right now :) And had ST gone along that SF satire route, that might have been appropriate. As it was, it ended up in the 'fiendish family entertainment' space, for which Terry's lighter (frothier, if you like) style was more suited.
Does not mean it is optimal, only (potentially) marginally useful.
"This project implements a subset of CSS including flexbox and the box model using pure JavaScript"

So all the good bits of CSS without any of the bad - including browser compatibility problems?

Doesn't explain stuff like fonts & colours though...
I am pretty confused as to what this actually does. How can it be native?
In America, there is plenty of money to be had by taxing the affluent, wealthy, and "obscenely" rich (a lot) more. There is nothing to guarantee any source of money beyond varying levels of confidence. Medicare and SS have lasted a long time, albeit after repeatedly being weakened. For similar reasons I have some confidence that said taxes used explicitly for guarantees of basic income and health care would be left in place for some considerable time.
Beware. This is how they shut down Usenet.
riotjs has a complete html based style also that is interesting in this same category I think.
A keen observer of changes that can also relay change events reliably to interested parties. Provides useful infrastructure for building eventually consistent data sources and systems.

It currently has support to listen events from mysql events (from binlog), hbase events, transform & relay them to mysql, hbase, elasticsearch.
When MVC is expressed as a composition of functions - whose purpose is data transformation, it is an absurdly simple concept.

Only MVC described in object-oriented terms is "hard".

view(controller(model0,event0)) = representation
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This is a cool feature, and is one of the prime example of what Spark's tight integration of various libraries can enable (in this case Spark Streaming and MLlib). It was originally designed by Jeremy Freeman to handle workloads in neuroscience, which IIRC was generating data at 1TB/30mins.
Perhaps another way of stating that is: The people who will best thrive are those whose work cannot be automated. Which, in some ways, has always been true.
I'm not sure if it was cut out but you didn't seem to explain how your product determines the appropriate time to wake you up.
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My guess is we're missing an important piece of the puzzle. Unless they have a js to everything interpreter. In which case thats much bigger news than react.
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Parse, UrbanAirship; they all do it.
Hot tub coding. Is that the new thing?
People who chose AngularJS are looking more and more foolish everyday.
Since the folk who accepted this article for publication had shown themselves to be oblivious to argument this was a suitable response. As Raymond Tallis wrote "For many years, Lacan, Derrida, Kristeva et al got away with murder, confident that their readers would have only the slightest acquaintance with the areas of knowledge they expropriated to prop up their ideas and their reputation for scholarship, indeed for omniscience."
That dude lost a bet. My secret plan is to one day make that photo famous.
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Death to the minimum viable product
Oh snap. This is HUGE
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I administer a small vBulletin forum that I inherited from a friend who inherited it from... well, whatever, this thing's been around for over a decade now.

A few years ago we discovered that we had parasites! Apparently, that version of vBulletin had some sort of secondary built-in way for users to register - totally bypassing the moderation tools I used - and a whole secondary forum which these vermin could use! It didn't show up on the main boards, and was only discovered by accident.

Apparently they'd hitched a ride on our forum to start discussing some pokemon-like game.

We ended up flushing them all out. In hindsight, I really regret this. It wasn't anything as neat as the Starlight Lines forum, but it had only been going for about a year. On the one hand, I probably should have let them continue. On the other hand, I would have to be the benevolent admin of a bunch of people that weren't a part of my community, who were using a server I was personally paying for, and posting god-knows-what. Considering I'd already had to ban several regular users for posting awful things, I didn't want to double my workload.

edit: did a little research; the feature they used was "Social Groups", and they still had to sign up normally, via the moderation tools. I guess they had just signed up far enough in the past that I either had moderation disabled, or I had forgotten about them.
This is brilliant! You could even get the hiring companies to pay your rent for the month if they get a hire :)

Also, I imagine it will be interesting how pre-qualify the guest to make sure they are worthy candidates.
Note to devs, the fixed header on your site covers half the page on mobile devices.
Aside from the regulation about building backdoors into hardware - is there any any reason why it would be disappointing to hear that bank software must be essentially open source?
Coupling your app to any framework has proved to be a really bad idea in the long run, to me this is a step in the wrong direction. If I've understood this announcement correctly.
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I don't know for sure of course, I'm just extrapolating. What we know is that a lot of technical innovation is driven by economical motives. So I presume that there will be engineers who will implement AGI applications with a utility function to make as much money as possible. And making money does not necessarily mean to add value to society. One core aspect of making money today is to supersede competition. And that alone allows a hostile interpretation.

And by disguising as humans, I don't mean that robots will put on human costumes, like the aliens in Men in Black. I think that it will be corporations with an AIG as its actual CEO, but still having a human puppet as its official CEO, just to have a friendly face, for obvious marketing reasons.
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This is neat, would be nice to see it on a global scale.
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It is normal to be underpaid in this industry relative to the astonishing value a software developer creates, yes. This should not be controversial. $85K is low, even taking that into account, for a new college graduate.
The post says:
>We'd like to make more complex queries available via realtime push. In particular, efficient realtime push implementations for the eq_join command and map/reduce are fairly complex, and aren't making it into 1.16.

Will innerJoin be supported in 1.16?
Battery life is about the same, but it was never great (13" 2013 MBP with HDD).

When I'm using my laptop (at a client, in a meeting, at the airport) I always have a power outlet, so my productivity is much more influenced by the OS than the battery life. Your lifestyle might be different.
Thanks! I actually think someone should make a business out of this - that would be a cool recruiter! But we're just doing it as a free service to the startups we've funded over at Wefunder.
Citation please. Is this sin specified anywhere in the Koran?
very interesting post. ironically, hackernews uses a similar type of time-decay algorithm!
The picture of the guy in the tub, with laptop, says so much about what is wrong with tech culture.