misterbowfinger

So do you have to pivot now? Seems like this will hugely impact your US/Europe customers

Do you have an idea of how far along clojure.spec is for a stable, non-alpha/beta release? clojure.spec is by far the most interesting and compelling reason for me to check out Clojure.

I would also love for it to apply to ClojureScript as well, although I understand that's a separate project.

Yup, specs can be used at runtime as well. Very helpful to validate data, or perhaps a set of business rules. Insures the spec you use to test is the same logic you use at runtime.

Kinda wish Postman had support for other protocols like Thrift & gRPC

Can someone provide a pros/cons of Contentful? I don't get what's so hard about building an API around content. The frontend I get, but the backend seems relatively simple, and the complexities are usually brand-specific

I'm curious if Net Neutrality can be enforced at the State level. That way each state can fight back, and the ones that decide not to will experience enough of a difference that they'll do the same.

Hi Justin - this looks really cool. Will the lectures and such be available after the academy, a la Startup School, or is it only for those who make it through the application process?

Seems like it depends on the content, and whether or not I was previously aware of it. Sometimes it's a news story I already heard about, so I'd feel comfortable upvoting w/o reading.

It also seems dependent on the site. On HN I'm more likely to read articles that are posted, but not as much on Reddit.

I thought journalists can only do investigations for the publisher that they work for?

What about a platform that incentivizes investigations, and publishers pay for it?

Mostly through Wunderlist. I try to keep as few lists as possible so I force myself to prioritize, so I only have two: Work and Not-Work (my "Inbox").

I'll make temporary lists for specific, detailed tasks like a moving checklist or a packing checklist. Afterwards, I'll delete them.

As for the tasks themselves, I try to make them as fine-grained as possible. Like, "write tests for that function you wrote", or "talk to Allen about something". Sometimes they're just questions I have that I need to think about, like "what about this edge case?" or "how far back do we look?"

Usually there's something else that tracks what I have to do at a higher level, i.e. JIRA or Trello. In those cases, at the end of my current tasks, I simply have a "look at JIRA"

non-paywall: https://outline.com/VV54Uc

> Predictions are available for iOS and Android apps that include the Analytics SDK

Any plans to have this work for web apps?

On one hand, I don't see how this is different than any of the other numerous influences we have in our cities through corporate lobbies. To suggest that the way we live is solely due to the good nature of elected representatives is naive.

On the other hand, maybe Google is flexing a little much here. I sincerely believe them that they have peoples' best interests at heart - because that will eventually be beneficial to Google as well. But inserting a little more competition here I think would lend itself a long way.

Ha for a second I thought you were talking about the ordeal with the Daily Stormer ;)

Looks like there's some twitter chatter:

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=aws&s...

Their status page is notorious for being wrong

dupe?

that's why we have uuids ;)

all of my fake email accounts are compromised!!!

Couldn't find a link to the study in the article, so I looked it up:

http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/ascendleadership.site-ym.com/resour...

I suppose I'd like to see what threat models actually apply to companies, and what vectors are most often used to get pwned (outside of social engineering). I understand what encryption prevents, but I don't understand how helpful it is in practice.

Wasn't sure what a hash index was vs. btree

Short version - hash indexes are faster in PG11, but they only apply to "where = foobar" queries, giving a 0(1) time. Btree indexes have O(logn)

But hash indexes can't be applied to range clauses, like "where < 50". You can still use a btree index however.

SO post:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/398921

This is going to sound like a dumb question, but.... how much would encryption help? Even if we encrypted all of our data at rest and on the wire, I feel like a lot of security vulnerabilities wouldn't have been prevented with encryption. If you have any way of interacting with the application or the database, it's basically game over, no? Is there any data on this?

The analysis was really interesting. I wonder if there's cultural bias as well - i.e. English speakers tend to be more verbose because we have a need to speak more

SQL is easily the best option at the moment, but unlike the experimentation in programming languages that we've seen in the last 10 years or so, we've yet to see much experimentation in query languages (as far as I know!)

ReQL, what RethinkDB uses, was an interesting direction because it allows people to start reasoning about a particular query. This, IMO, is the biggest thing that SQL lacks - the ability to reason about a query. I'd love to see a way to extend SQL that solves this.

The other thing that really, really sucks is that SQL has some terrible documentation and tutorials. Even for PG, for example, it just mentally takes a long time to parse through the documentation to understand how to use a function that solves your use case. This might just be a lack of Stack Overflow posts out there, but it's definitely not as friendly as, say, finding answers for Ruby code.

I'm not sure we need screens on our jackets, we just need two-way communication. Right now, Jacquard only allows one-way communication (human -> device), but perhaps there could be a touch-sensitive way for the device to communicate as well.

This would be huge for things like heart monitors and emergency phone calls. A lot of room for "cool social apps for teens", and almost definitely for gaming/VR.

One way to look at wearable tech is as an extension of the surface of your smartphone. If you can interact with your phone throughout your clothing, there could be a lot of room for (warning, buzzword!) innovation there.

> Tendermint is a distributed, byzantine fault-tolerant consensus system

what's "byzantine" mean in this context?

how'd you do that?