skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really, firebase is a database that has a RESTful interface (and events and all kinds of other cool stuff). with this you set up endpoints, point them at cloud functions that may or may not interact with AWS' DynamoDB and your own services to provide functionality but I think you need to worr it all up yourself.
Great to hear you experienced a great improvement in the reliability of GitLab! We agree that the network effect of open source hosted on GitHub will take a lot of time to overcome. But right now we're very much focussed on on-premises installations and hosting private repos for free with GitLab.com

Most people don't regard the Y Combinator investment as a seed round. Also, the seed round can stretch out in time due to the SAFE agreements that are used (it is not a priced round).
It depends on the features of the gateway, but you can add or centralize various functions and not have to make them a part of every API ever. So you save in not having to duplicate that code as well as being able to change it everywhere rather than having to fix one API at a time. Okay, sure, maybe you had a library or something that each API used, but this does make managing it very simple and simple is good, especially if you have hundreds or thousands of APIs.

In the API Gateway I work with allows you to do authentication within the gateway and then delegate responses to the back end API (which can still have its own security, if you really want it, but usually is just hidden on an internal network). It works pretty much the same for other things like rate limiting. It also gives you monitoring for each API, again cutting down on the things you have to add to every single API by encapsulating the function in the gateway.

Also, you can separate your internal API and your external APIs. Maybe you have to always support certain operations to the outside world, but internally you'd really like to change something. By having them separate, you can create a policy within the gateway to change how the internal calls are done without changing the interface as far as the outside world is concerned.

You can also do various types of conversion (e.g. REST->SOAP) or even more exotic things so that outside devs don't have to care just how weird your damned mainframe is or other aspects of your internal architecture that they shouldn't know about.

The target market is, effectively, anyone who wants to expose internal APIs to the outside world.

Source: I work on an API Gateway and this is how our product works.
Elon Musk Gave a Speech in Idaho, Now a Bunch of Old Rich Guys Are Real Confused
I ran an I7 920 at 4Ghz for roughly 2 years at around 1.35V with water cooling (max was 55C on full load on all 4 cores).

After the 2 year mark the chip became unstable and over the period of the next 6 months the clock speed it would reliably maintain was 3.2Ghz. On that progression it would be down below its default rated speed of 2.6Ghz in presumably another 6 months or perhaps outright failed.

The current estimate is that Intel targets about 15 years for a CPUs life at the clock speeds they ship, overclocking can vastly decrease that.
Honest Dollar has a great retirement mission as well, but their accounts are structured as a SIMPLE IRA's, which are different from regular 401k's (SIMPLE IRA's have a lower contribution limit and require the company to match)
Shouldn't put all their money into equities. I would go 50/50 equities / bond fund and use $/£ cost averaging to buy in increments over say the next 12 months.
The previous submission (906 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5055371
While I'm usually in love with new features from Slack. However, this one feels a bit weird. Will be trying it out, but seems gimmicky to me as of now.
Jewelbots: A programmable friendship bracelet that wants to get girls coding
If there is one let it pop.

https://www.quora.com/If-the-tech-bubble-were-to-pop-today-l...

The people who care about building great tech companies and products will stay and the posers just looking for a gold rush will leave. Good riddance.

This conversation isnt even interesting anymore because thanks to the original bubble and the hassle of going public due to sarbanes oxley among other things only private money where people can take the hit is at stake.

Can we please talk about something else?
> And requires an underlying concrete layer to lengthen it's lifetime

Depends on the underlying soil. In north Texas it's common when asphalt is laid to pour a Portland cement concrete base, though many roads and highways are just straight concrete. In south Florida, the roadbed is usually just packed limestone, because the land has a rock layer no more than 50 feet down and the sandy soil is pretty incompressible, unlike the constantly expanding and contracting clay in Texas.
Have we reached peak, "We are in a bubble" articles? That is... are we at the, Bubble of Bubble Articles?

I mean we can only sustain so many articles about the talk of tech bubbles before it all comes crashing down. What happens when readers decide not to read bubble articles?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9749479
Show HN: Prodigy Notes – a web app for daily journaling and note taking
Hi everyone, my name's Tim. I designed and developed Prodigy Notes over the past six months. Prodigy Notes is a web app designed for journaling, but could also be used as a lightweight Evernote or OneNote alternative. There are a lot of options in this space, but the features that I wanted weren't all in one place, so I built Prodigy Notes to scratch my own itch. These features are: prominent word counter, side by side note view, and uncluttered UI. This is my first web app, and I'm putting this out there to get feedback on the usability, design, and technical approach. It's pretty basic now, so I've outlined a roadmap here: https://prodigynotes.com/blog/product-roadmap

Thanks for your time!
Here's some basic info: https://www.fidelity.com/retirement-planning/learn-about-ira...

Everywhere I've worked so far has both let me keep the existing account if I wanted when I left, and then also provided the option to rollover an old account into the new plan. Basically you fill out a form, send it to whoever the old account was with, and then get a check you can deposit in the new account through your new employer (or maybe the last step is electronic? I forget if I had to drop off a paper check at my current employer when I rolled over my old account). I generally do this, though I suppose I should look at fees and stuff in the future before just doing it blindly for convenience's sake of having everything in one place.
"Zed Shaw's Blog Is A Ghetto"
it would be great if you would change it to something like "monthly subscription" "per user pricing". Which means I could start with 2 users, add 10 and pay for them and maybe then I will kick two in the next month and will pay for 10. Paying on demand is something that I think would be really really good. AWS style.
If you discovered that, indeed, P = NP?

In any event how would you measure "social benefit"?
Let's assume that the premise is correct, that we are in a bubble. Let's further assume that you work in the tech industry. Maybe you even live in Silicon Valley.

How do you protect yourself if you know the bubble is coming? If your livelihood, property value and possible most of your net worth is tied up in tech (through say stock options)?
I don't understand why does it inherently matter.

Companies and founders know what it the state of their business, and every founder knows if they raised money at a higher or unfair valuation. Investors are just riding the horse, and they know what they are doing. Companies come and go, and the free-market determines their valuation. If they gotta fail, let 'em fail. If they gotta succeed, let them succeed. If the valuations are pumped up but eventually somebody is willing to acquire these companies, let them do it. It's a risk/reward game.

It's not like founders and investors are passively suffering the up and downs of the market. They are the market! Everybody knows what they are doing. Last but not least, high volatility in a market generates opportunities, regardless if it's a boom, or a bubble burst.
When it snows, how effective is it to shovel the gravel roads?
I think language and symbology is at the core of why they are so impenetrable.

One major sin is taking new concepts and ideas and putting the primary discoverer's name on them. Such names yield no clue as to the interpretation or application of the idea itself.

Another problem is the symbols used in certain mathematical texts. Everyone who uses them treats them like they're universally understood, but in reality the syntax and meaning of the symbols can and frequently are recycled and reused across disciplines and even theories in the same discipline. You have to be close to the 'in-group'. Like reading other people's code where operators have been overloaded, it's like learning a new language every time you want to dig into a cool new maths paper.

I don't actually have any good solutions to these problems. I would guess there are lots of lessons to be learned from the history of Chinese characters, though. They have thousands of unambiguous symbols which _can_ be learned by non-natives and which _do_ give an appreciable degree of cross-lingual intelligibility among languages that use them.
> It is the same because if I disagree with the IRS and refuse payment

Nonpayment and refusing payment are different things. The act of refusal would happen after the policy change, therefore, the only act that might even arguably be criminalized is an act that would occur after the change, and no retroactive criminalization has occurred.

No act before the policy was adopted is criminalized, even by your characterization.

Now, if the actual law allows arbitrary changes to tax calculation by the IRS, you could argue a nondelegation doctrine violation, rather than an ex post facto violation. But to argue that, you'd actually have to point to the provision of law at issue.

Or you could argue that the policy change is inconsistent with the law Congress has adopted. But, again, you'd have to actually point to the specific provisions that are violated to do that.

If, finally, the IRS simply failed to correctly apply the law as Congress wrote it previously, and the change in guidance is simply closing a gap between IRS policy and the law written by Congress, then you can maybe fault what the IRS was doing before (though, of course, no taxpayer would challenge an overly lax application of the law -- or even have standing to do so), but not what they are doing now.
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The submarine has become the ocean.
Thanks for mentioning that, and actually, GitLab.com is free whatever your usage. The paid plan is to get email support, the free users have forum support. https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/
On whether to use Git or Mercurial, my gut suggests you teach Git, but if you have the ability, poll alumns of the program and/or companies who are nabbing grads to see what they have/haven't used. Personally, I've never been around an environment that uses Mercurial, but that's just my particular situation.

Also, the basics of version control should be taught in the very first programming class. You can then expand on the basics in further courses.
A repost after that long would be just fine, but in this case there's a more recent one, which makes this a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9227254.
Aww, you ruined it. Now he's not going to do it in this thread. (Probably)
There's nothing wrong with jQuery. Aside from extending and abstracting parts of JS and DOM traversal, it also removes many of the complexities with cross-browser support, especially with dated browsers.

The biggest issue is when you take something like jQuery and try to have a multi member team working on a significantly complex and large application. It quickly gets out of hand, messy, and increasingly difficult to maintain. This is without taking into consideration the issues that arise if the developers on the team don't have a basic grasp of how to write jQuery code that still performs well with large amounts of actions/DOM manipulation.

Many interviews for front-end positions also want to make sure you don't only know jQuery, but at least have some grasp on DOM traversal/manipulation without crutches like jQuery.

A lot of the bashing though, is really just from people with a superiority complex instead of logical reasoning. Or it's just people who repeat what they hear, kind of like one of the largest hate trains of all: PHP. Kind of like the story about the monkeys, bananas, and a ladder: http://www.wisdompills.com/2014/05/28/the-famous-social-expe...
> only private money where people can take the hit is at stake.

That's not true. If the bubble busts a lot of people in the Bay Area will suffer, tech workers or not. We saw it happen in 2000 and again in 2003. Lots of small businesses closed, property values plummeted, etc.
The seed investments have a cap, which is close to a valuation. But it is indeed common not to disclose it.
There's quite a bit of u.s. government on amazon cloud. Using a cloud service doesn't magically give you better security.

This is more an indication of the NSA focusing too strongly on offensive/monitoring operations and not on information security, which is their job as well.
That's a great question, and I'm sure you're not the only one that's confused. 401k's can only be offered by the employer, so an employee isn't able to set one up on their own. That's why we want to make it really easy for companies to get a 401k, so that we can expand people's access to them and help them save for retirement and get the tax benefits.

You do indeed have the option to merge multiple 401k accounts together after you leave your job.
One thing I learned, whether accurate or not, from the original SimCity is road maintenance is expensive. I almost invariably ended up peaking city size as the roads entered a constant state of disrepair.
A bit tangential, but since you seem to be posting many _good_ math book advice. What would be a good route to read Neveu's probability book? Halmos' Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces and baby Rudin as pre-reqs? Those are within my confort area, but I will need to go through them again.

Or perhaps you recommend some probability books before too Neveu?
What scares me about microservices is the case where some operations must be transactional.

What if, in a given use case, multiple microservices are involved but the operations must be transactional : if one of the services fails, all previous operations must rollback. What are the recommended ways of implementing this kind of transactional behavior in a modern HTTP/REST microservices architecture?

I know the pattern is called "distributed transactions" and is often related to two-phase commit protocol. But there doesn't seem to be a lot of practical information available about this topic!

I found this recent presentation[1] that talks about it, but I'd like to learn more on the subject. Also, I'm looking for practical tutorials, not highly academic ones! I'd really love to see code samples, for instance.

Any links, suggestions?

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-docker-cqrs
I just tried this out with a Lambda function; I was wondering why you can't serve HTML with this (Yes, I know this product is aimed at enterprise ReST API stuff... one can try at least).

Well, it seems that authentication for the client is mandatory. This makes it unsuitable for rendering markup and serving it directly to clients.

Can anyone confirm this can only serve JSON content? I suspect were anonymous requests allowed, I'd see my markup rendered as a JSON string.
Oh yay another techcrunch bs article. When is HN going to ban tc?
Firefox Reader View for clutter-free web pages
Good work on finding and fixing the bug to those involved. I don't think this is said often enough.
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How long of a shelf life might "Catch the Monkey" have had on any platform?
We use a third party recordkeeper.
Hopefully they're more competent. I've had bad experiences with Ubiquity. Deposits going to the wrong accounts, rollovers initiated without permission, discrepancies in the website.
01/07/2007: Bubble, Bubble, Bubble: http://techcrunch.com/2007/01/07/bubble-bubble-bubble/

12/06/2010: Can It Be A Huge Bubble If Only A Few People Are Blowing It?: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/06/bubble-2/

03/01/2011: Angel-Turned-VC Mike Maples: Yes, There’s a Bubble: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/01/angel-turned-vc-mike-maples...

04/24/2011: We're In The Middle Of A Terrible Blubble!: http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/24/were-in-the-middle-of-a-ter...

06/22/2011: On Bubbles … And Why it Will All be Fine: http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/22/on-bubbles-and-why-it-will-...

07/15/2011: The Endless Bubble Debate: Kedrosky Vs. Wadhwa: http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/15/bubble-debate-kedrosky-wadh...

08/09/2011: Good News! The Bubble that Never Inflated Has Popped: http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/09/good-news-the-bubble-that-n...

12/10/2011: Double Hubble Bubble Trouble: http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/10/double-bubble-toil-trouble/

06/08/2012: It’s Not A Bursting Bubble. It’s a Correction And It Will Take Awhile.: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/08/its-not-a-bursting-bubble-i...

04/22/2014: David Einhorn Just Cried Bubble And Let Slip The Shorts Of War: http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/22/david-einhorn-just-cried-bu...

06/27/2014: VCs Don’t Think We’re In A Tech Bubble — Yet: http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/27/vcs-dont-think-were-in-a-te...

09/05/2014: It’s Time For VCs To Run To Their Bubble Bunkers: http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/05/its-time-for-vcs-to-run-to-...

09/22/2014: When The Funding Bubble Bursts It Doesn’t Have To Mean Disaster: http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/22/when-the-funding-bubble-bur...

11/09/2014: The MBAs Are Fleeing, Should SF Be Worried?: http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/09/the-mbas-are-fleeing-should...

01/26/2015: The seed bubble has popped: http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/16/the-seed-bubble-has-popped/

03/21/2015: No Need For Alarm Over Private Company Valuations: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/21/no-need-for-alarm-over-priv...

03/24/2015: Tech Bubble? Maybe, Maybe Not: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/tech-bubble-maybe-maybe-not...

04/07/2015: The Potential Upside To A Technology Bubble: http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/07/the-potential-upside-to-a-t...

05/07/2015: Building A Moat In A Bubble: Navigating Today’s Financing Environment: http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/07/build-a-moat/

05/24/2015: Who Will Be Hurt Most When The Tech Bubble Bursts? Not VCs: http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/24/who-will-be-hurt-most-when-...

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That's an incomplete list. I got bored after a while. I wonder what the term is for a bubble that takes 8+ years to "pop"?
FWIW, we absolutely loved it at the last place I worked. We were all too happy to let AWS host our Postgres instance (RDS), our static assets (S3 and CloudFront), and a bunch of other things.

We weren't particularly locked in, either. We always had the option to run our own Postgres cluster (it just didn't make sense to spend the manpower on it for us). We could have hacked together our own CDN, but that wasn't our core business focus.

For small companies with low manpower, build on the services and get things done fast and as well as possible. It may cost more upfront than doing it on your own, but you are probably going to come out ahead by minimizing your maintenance/security/administration surface area.
I think the word is "plow"...
But the proofs survive because they are proofs; if they don't communicate the proof of the result then they have failed and should not be accepted by journals. At the extreme end, machine-checkable proofs are in standard, documented formats; an alien reading them in ten thousand years should still be able to understand what's going on, at least if they understand the notation and the axioms.
HN has always treated users like power users. That's part of its design. But there are other considerations, such as its minimalism and the fact that there is a single shared view of the content.
This looks really interesting -- I think the abstraction of the server away from a bunch of development cases is gonna happen pretty quickly.

We're hacking on something really similar to this at https://stackhut.com, where we are building a platform for Microservices which are powered by Docker, can be run wherever through HTTP/JsonRPC, and are really simple to build/deploy. Think "Microservices as a service"... ;)

To give you an example, here is a task which converts PDFs to images: http://stackhut.com/#/services/pdf-tools, and here is the code powering it https://github.com/StackHut/pdf-tools which we `stackhut deploy`d.

We're about to open up the platform and would love to hear what, if you had a magic wand, you'd wish upon the product.
17.4% since early 2013, risk level 7.5. http://i.imgur.com/I9SDElU.png

I don't think the number includes tax deferrals from loss harvesting. For example in 2014 I "lost" (harvested) about $40k -- note that my account ended in the black in 2014 -- that I paired with a short-term capital gain (read: high-tax gain), deferring those taxes and letting them compound until the far future when I am hopefully in a lower tax bracket.
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The keyword is always the same, regardless if it's in technology or in any other industry: diversify your investments.
Anyone who knows the awesome people at the Tor Project know that there is not a chance they would let any government money create undue influence.
While I think the bubble talk is ridiculous clickbait at this point, I would caution on using this logic as a reason why there isn't a bubble. Sarbanes-Oxley had a major impact on the way tech companies get funded such that I'm not sure how much signal is contained in tech company stocks today vice 1999 when the IPO was the standard "exit".
One file per one component sounds like a better representation of one real world concept using code. It translates 1 to 1.
That's worthy of blog post.
Plowing gravel roads works fine.
The problem here is feedback. The higher rated ones get higher rated, so more people see it so it gets higher rated. That opens up a whole extra can of worms you don't want to deal with.
What the HERE Unit Could Mean for the Future of Driving
Ask HN: Mattermark for Asian Startups
Mattermark is a good tool for US Startups but Crunchbase and Mattermark lack features and details on Indian Startups.
Question:
- Would you use the tool ?
- Would you signup and pay ?
- What would you like to see about asian startups ? Founder's background, traction ?
Alternatively, if the goal here is to stop hedge funds from taking advantage of long-term capital gains, perhaps it would make more sense to cap the amount of gains exempted as long-term and make the rest short-term. Set a cap well above what the vast majority of individuals would hit, and below what any aggregate fund would hit. For instance, "long-term capital gains can only be applied to the first $150k of gains per year; gains above that are always taxed at the short-term rate".

> They get the relative burden of taxation shifted off the of other sources of income, including the source they are using to get money to pay for retirement. (The specific effect depends on how that relative shift is used.)

You say that as though an increase in taxes here will be used to decrease taxes elsewhere. That does not match the reality of changes to tax law; tax revenue will simply increase, with no changes to taxes elsewhere.

> In any case, if the current favorable treatment of capital is inequitable, there is no entitlement for people to expect it to continue going forward.

There is no entitlement for government to apply arbitrary taxes and expect people to bear it, either, without providing a commensurate improvement in value.
He didn't say "all browsers", he said the majority. It's been a long time since the majority of web traffic came from IE.