skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Woah what am I doing wrong? Incoming 5 years ago (at age 24) was 45k a year, and at 29:

$330k liquid split over checking and savings. 400k in "retirement accounts" - bearing in mind that 18k (current max 401k contribution in 2015, so this would be higher than years ago) times 8 years (assuming starting work at age 21) would be ~144K in contributions, so pretty damned good returns there...

then on top of that 8.4 Million in illiquid assets?

I seriously feel sometimes that there's things that have gone WAY over my head despite living around here for 8+ years and working in tech.
FreeBSD has full support for GPIO and i2c on both the RPi 1 and 2. Simple wrappers around FreeBSD's GPIO ioctl can be found at https://github.com/gonzoua/freebsd-gpio
How on Earth could that possibly be any of your business?
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That would solve a lot of problems. Seems to me it's hard to say you "invented" something if you haven't done it at least once. How do you know your method is practical otherwise?
So OS X is unusably more expensive.
Ask HN: If we had to start over, would computers be fundamentally different?
Here's a hypothetical to help frame my question:

Imagine all computer hardware, software, and anything that could be considered a "blueprint" for computer hardware/software/architecture disappeared overnight. The best computer and software engineers in the world come together to build the best computer they can from scratch with no precedent and no previously established standards.

Would the computer they made be fundamentally different from the computers we have today? If so, in what way? Would they be better?

Or to put it differently: Is the computer architecture we have today adhering to any decades-old precedent and/or concept and/or standard that, in hindsight, was mistaken or ill-advised? If so, how much potential/productivity might we losing?
that is how I got around all the internet filters in our high school. nothing makes you feel more like a hacker than punching some numbers on a calculator while all your friends watch, and bam, you're browsing forbidden websites while they all say "whoaa!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disturbing_the_peace

This can include creating loud noise

Of note: A violation of a noise ordinance is in most jurisdictions not considered a disturbance of the peace unless the perpetrator has disregarded an affirmative request that he or she reduce the noise to a reasonable level. However, that would be implied in the air raid siren case.

Anyway, I agree it's not the 4th that's the issue. But, it's still unlawful conduct.
So supporting an unethical business model is fine then?
Even if there's only one convention center in an area that's suitable, there are a lot of cities with convention centers out there. Lots of conventions are not particularly tied down to a location, other than for sentimental reasons.

I get that the situation sucks. I've been there too. But ultimately you're paying this tremendous premium not because there's literally no choice, which is what a monopoly would entail, but merely because it's worth it over the alternative.

I think the fact that these things are often owned by the local governments is a good reason why they shouldn't be doing stuff like this, but that seems like a remedy to ask for from the local governments in question, rather than some sort of federal investigation.
My hat is off to you. I joke that I have a 7 month old son and a 14 month old startup but then I also split duties with my wife, so it's a tiny fraction of what you've dealt with.

"The website is crashing!" as an early phrase would be awesome and horrifying all at once. :)
It's explained more thoroughly (and with extended jokes) in the first post from the series:
https://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-a...
I'm assuming that the founders they're looking for are already on a Series A or have a nice cushion of savings or positive cashflow? I'm making 5x lower than I previously did (thanks for reminding me!) after bootstrapping through all my savings and such.

TBH it seems like they're doing a survey to confirm a story they've already written on founder successes. That's a good, rags-to-riches story but the hard numbers is that 80% of startups will fail within 3 years and those founders will be financially burned.
I get the point that this article is getting at, however OnHub says it supports 128 simultaneous devices. Not total devices ever.

I have my doubts that the author will find himself using the active Wifi on his Ebook, laptop, Xbox360, Wii, 3DS, Google Glass, and 122 other devices at the exact same time anytime in the near future. Even if he did, I really doubt that many other household routers could handle that load either.
Show HN: List of companies that utilize H1B visas organized
Relax. No one thinks this is a legit scientific survey. It's just for fun.
Why are you being rude?
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Do you mean because they aren't available, or because of something about wave?

When I tried it after hearing it would shut down soon, it seemed neat.
You clearly didn't start a company with a $15 million exit. I'm sure all the advice/numbers here will have a MASSIVE MASSIVE amount of selection bias and probably don't apply unless you're guaranteed to be making millions.
Plus, could you add your address and when you next plan on being on vacation that would be extremely helpful. And your mother's maiden name, your 1st pet's name, your elementary school's name, and your nickname in school. This last one is just for fun really.
No no - we have zero assumptions. We want anyone who's making a living as a founder. You can be a one man operation, 500+ employees, or anything in between.
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Have you tried running either a *wrt variant, or, if you don't like poking firmware, any of Ubiquiti's offerings?
We'd love for you to fill out the survey, and please put in the comment boxes what your situation is.

This isn't just for the big series A people. In fact, it's to show that everyone is different.
Have you seen https://rocket.chat ?
"Don't save for retirement" is much better advice when you know you're going to make $10 million before you turn 30.
What a dazzlingly dishonest comment. Your original comment read:

"Why wasn't the child left with the father?"

You rewrote it after I wrote my response, to which you originally replied "Flagged for rudeness".
If you own a business with no employees (therefore not beholden to the safe harbor rules) your 401k contributions can be up to $53k (for 2015), including the $18k personal contribution and an additional $35k of profit sharing. These numbers are scaled up each year, but I can absolutely see $400k spread across 401(k) and IRAs for a successful business owner.
Whistled Language
We want the one person company all the way to the 1000 person company to fill out the info. Please, we'd love to here your story, regardless if it was a hit or not...just as long as you were or are doing it fulltime.
No way in hell this is going to be representative, of anything at all.

Well-off people who feel like bragging about their wealth are not representative of the group as a whole, nor would you know what fraction of the group they comprise. The same goes for not-so-well-off people who feel like sharing. Then there will also be posers and fakes. You just cannot extract anything meaningful from a sample of 100 of this sort of data.
The speaker is to talk to your phone, not to you. (Its a low-powered speaker that's used to communicate to a mobile device for configuration.)
Sorry I didnt come back in time to elaborate (as offered). The other comments said what I would say and more.

One thought on you getting down voted: Your comment started with 'Please.', which could be interpreted to mean, 'yes, please do elaborate', or it could be interpreted as confrontational / disbelieving, as is sometimes the case when people just say 'Please!'. Just a thought.
Going off on a tangent/rant here but I'll go out on a limb here and say that web chat is often (ab)used in a way that makes it the equivalent of global variables for communication: if offers the path of least resistance for sharing information (state) at the cost of making this information harder to retrieve, search, structure, associate, leverage in the future. Or to try another metaphor, it's the equivalent of dumping data on flat free-text files instead of a relational database.

Web chat does away with two (at least) properties I have come to appreciate in written communication: being asynchronous and contextual. Although modern web chat systems typically work even when you're offline by sending notifications, they're primarily a realtime system. There is the implicit or explicit expectation that a chat message (especially a direct one) should be answered asap, unlike an email or a tracker comment. As for context, there is little to none. In more than one company I've seen chat effectively replace the dedicated bug/ticket tracker system, with people polluting one or more channels with intermixed discussions that would be better off as comments on the ticket at hand. It's a mess for anything other than transient, throwaway stuff you wouldn't mind purging after a few hours or days.

Looking forward for a "web chat considered harmful" blog post if there hasn't been one already. </rant>
Right, unless you get hit by a truck.
Do you have me confused with someone else??
Great catch. Added.
Also good catch.
I think you mean the data is displayed in a spreadsheet.
Also see here for a number of sound samples of Whistled Turkish: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-whistled-language...
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Seems like a nice router, but the WiFi on that will be much slower - 2.4ghz only and no AC.
This is a great idea for a research topic, but badly executed, which is sad, because it will produce garbage data in an important area.
Really looking forward to seeing the results. Still, what a redonkulous amount of money. Must be nice to sell a business and then move right into a comfy $250k a year job.
I think most folks at YC weren't aware I was coming alone with Adam until well into the batch. They did go above and beyond to put me in touch with a housing advisor while I was in the area for interviews. The problem was that I was only staying for three months, too short a period to rent an apartment cheaply, and there didn't happen to be any women founders' shared houses in my batch.

In case it didn't come through clearly enough in the article, I should reiterate that the YC partners and my batchmates were super supportive and often went out of their way to make it easier for me to participate in YC events - offering rides, allowing Adam to tag along with me at office hours, helping to entertain him, and generally being extraordinarily patient and welcoming.
I'm in an org that uses hipchat. On the surface it shouldn't be bad. But it fails often in fundamental ways, such as sending push notifications on mobile and desktop, chat messages, entering a chat room on mobile, etc. Hipchat doesn't scale well.
The current comment at the root of this thread doesn't even make sense. "The company" was Julia Kurnia. The child care part of the story is about her efforts to handle child care while going through YC.
We'd love to hear your opinion as well. How do you think we can do it?
The most important part of that process, though, is noticing that you don't have enough information. That's a thought process.
That is true. Many good things happened in the USA during WWII, and many of those good things were abandoned as soon as the war ended. This was also true of "Total Quality Manufacturing" using the statistical techniques developed by Edwards Deming:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

"Statistical methods were widely applied during World War II, but faded into disuse a few years later in the face of huge overseas demand for American mass-produced products"

Deming ended up in Japan because American companies were not willing to listen to him, after the war. The Japanese companies were very willing to listen to him. And thus something happened that many people thought impossible: the Japanese caught up to the USA, in terms of manufacturing quality.
The wireless radios in routers deteriorate and should be replaced every two years. The ones on your device deteriorates too, but not as quickly because it's not constantly in use like a router's. I will not be buying one of these as I consider these to be infrastructure and infrastructure should be built to industry standards so that it's easily maintained by swapping components.

The privacy concerns bug me, but what bugs me more is the prospect that my lifestyle might start relying on a product that the company putting is out has a nasty tendency to discontinue when it's no longer convenient to support. See: Google Reader.
I send you an email to set up a call.
Is there a term for regulatory capture of bodies that aren't really regulatory? This seems a lot like the result of elected folks leaning on the FBI/DOJ about issues that are important to campaign donors.

The extreme measures being taken to try to stop something that is impossible to prevent feels like a stunt, like posturing. As the article mentions, the genetic information is available to anyone driving down a road in Iowa or Illinois. The intellectual property paranoia focused on seed engineering companies feels very similar to the domestic patent legislation/litigation discussions of the past decade or so.
No, he doesn't have you confused with anyone else. I saw the same thing.
Portmapper, or rpcbind, which provides services typically used in Intranet services like unix file sharing, allows for a spoofable requester address in its udp connection. This allows an attacker to make a "request" of the service on behalf of a victim IP. This request with its amplification factor can be used to DoS the victim IP. Typically one would expect rpc services like this to be behind a firewall/vpn and not exposed on the Internet. Their second graph illustrates that very little rpc activity flows over their network typically, again underscoring that you just dont expect it in the wild.

This is really just a "well it took 30 years to become a problem", and if you operate a network this is an APB for what is now a less frequently used service as an attack vector. Also a good warning to admins to check their firewalls and DMZ hosts...
Dale Carnegie is Wrong
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> There's been tons of people asking for the removal of Pocket from Firefox

That's true. However, we have surveyed large swaths of our users and found that for all the people that dislike the Pocket integration, several times as many actively do like it. They're not you or me, but barring a significant sampling error, it means the dissenters are a vocal but small minority. Of course, both classes are overshadowed by the proportion of users who don't care one way or another.

> "oh you can disable it by going to your about:config and finding this key and setting it to false"

That's false. From day one, you could disable Pocket entirely by right clicking on it and choosing "Remove from Toolbar" or by dragging it off the toolbar in the customization mode.
Perhaps, I might be missing something. The way I understand it is that "the Luddite fallacy is not a fallacy" is an assertion (OED: "a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief"). The reason, I claim, is that humans will not be able to compete with robots for much longer (in large numbers) which means unemployment is likely to go up (I understand that that's not a strict implication since governments could ban robots). The reason humans won't be able to compete with robots is that technology is gaining more and more of the abilities that humans use in their jobs (like reasoning and visual recognition). Those reasons consists of (a set of) assertions that could be wrong, but they are reasons and an argument is (OED again) "a reason or set of reasons given in support of an idea, action or theory". Thus, I thought that what I did qualified as an argument, or am I mistaken?

In any case, if you agree with the assertion, what would be your argument for it?
By that measure, "education" includes many of the worst offenders. The most intensely political of the departments on campus tend to be the ones who talk most about "critical thinking". The loudest proponents of "critical thinking" tend to be the most ideologically monocultural. They tend to be the most adamant supporters of "speech codes" designed to silence their critics. They tend to be ones who most closely scrutinize others for ever smaller deviations ("micro aggression! he used the wrong word!") from the enforced, orthodox dogma before going back to class to teach their students about "critical thinking".

The Marxist "English" professor who tells you that what she wants most from your paper is "evidence of critical thinking" means she will judge your paper on how persuasively it argues in favor of her political agenda. Real-world evidence that casts doubt on Marxist theory will most likely be punished and labeled "lack of critical thinking".

The social justice warriors in the ed school go on endlessly about their commitment to "critical thinking" and its supposed superiority to "mere facts", yet nobody in electrical engineering ever uses the term, "mere facts". Nobody in the physics department who is trying to make sense of puzzling data from some space probe ever consults the critical thinkers in the ed school to get the benefit of their better-trained reasoning powers.

When Larry Summers, president of Harvard, suggested that a natural, statistical phenomenon (fatter right tail due to greater variance, not higher mean) might be a major reason for more male than female math professors, he lost his job. In attempting to defend himself, he clearly felt that evidence of his political conformity ("I'm a lifelong liberal with a long record of...") mattered more to the decision makers than empirical evidence of the phenomenon. If the top leadership at Harvard, arguably the world's leading educational institution, believes that other top leadership at Harvard is more persuaded by argument from political identity than argument from empirical evidence, what is it they are really promoting when they so vociferously promote "critical thinking"?
Really impressive and beautifully designed. I currently use Jupyter, but what you've built feels a lot more polished and elegant.

Any plans to open the source code or make it available in a way that will accommodate self-hosting? I'd really like to be able to use it to interact with systems (like databases, for example) that are on my local network and aren't practical to expose to the public internet.
Just as simple to set up as the Extreme if you're on iOS, and even simpler on Android.

I placed it in the same spot where the Extreme was formerly located; my signal strength at the other end of the apartment and outside is noticeably stronger, perhaps due to the multi-directional antenna.
While breastfeeding, it is just about impossible for a child to be separated from Mommy. When no longer breastfeeding, I see no particular reason that the child could not go with Daddy just as easily as with Mommy. It depends on the family dynamics, I suppose. Many children are more closely bonded with their mothers, but that may be down to (out-dated, imho) cultural expectations that the mother be the primary caregiver. I have tried very hard to share the parenting equally with my wife, and my daughter seems to miss each of us equally when we are away. She has spent full days away from Mommy without trouble, but she has not yet done an overnight (breastfeeding). She has been without me for up to a week or so at a time though we usually Skype daily. I think, now, we would be willing to have my wife go away for a few days and have the daughter stay with me, but so far a situation requiring it hasn't come up. I travel more for work than my wife does.
This note from Bezos is cruel, farcical and delusional.

Have we forgotten all the reporting on exploitation of labor in Amazon's supply chain, from the Verge story on how Amazon was having warehouse workers sign 18-month non-complete clauses; through the Independent's account of Amazon's recruitment of neo-Nazi security guards to intimidate immigrant workers working and living in crowded dormitories in Germany; through the Mother Jones first-person account of the soul-crushing and body-destroying conditions inside these same warehouses; through the stories about the 100 degree conditions in some warehouses, where Bezos was too cheap to buy air-conditioning and preferred to have ambulances waiting outside to carry off workers as they dropped from heat exhaustion? (Naked capitalism blog has a good review of all this).

Now we see that this same callous attitude towards "human capital" extends to the white-collar employees in head office, and suddenly everyone is shocked, just shocked, and we get this BS denial from the CEO.

The real story here is the pervasive and intensifying erosion of working conditions (and in fact, wages) for all workers, at all levels of our oligarchical capitalist economy.
Lending Club has been getting crushed, and Supreme Court is now its only hope
One of those machines I wish had survived. The prototype base language combined with a neat way to handle data made it fun to program. I still cannot find anything that has contacts and other base data used as well.

One of these days I'm going to write a soup implementation like the Newton had. SQLite is cool, but I crave something else.
A comprehensive guide to all types of Apache Hive functions (UDF, UDTF, UDAF)
We humans are biologically quite different from a lot of the species we experiment on. To take a salient example, we've cured cancer (all sorts of cancers) in mice hundreds of times. It's unlikely you'll find a tumor in a mouse we can't fix. But the same things don't work in humans.

And although I feel like a weird contrarian saying this, it's entirely possible that by selecting for treatments that are effective in other species, we may be inadvertently missing out on things that might work in humans.
> Ad delivery networks, and google is one of the biggest, have one core business: delivering ads

It's made by an alphabet subsidiary, not google. Google are the bad ad-selling guys, they're the good guys. 100% true!
This looks like a verbatim ripoff of Juno, but I don't see any credit given to Juno or Mike Innes. It looks like they even cloned his site or used the same template.

http://junolab.org/
That would be a terrible thing to sell. A farmer plants the seed, the plants grow, the pollen drifts far and wide, and the farmer next door winds up with his crop not sprouting next year. And then come the lawsuits...
great idea @ the hustle. now share the data with me so I feel like crap about how relatively poor I am :-D
How do DrayTek products rank these days? When I was on ADSL they were excellent, and their UK-tuned firmware outperformed Linksys & Netgear.

Now I'm on fibre I'm using the Draytek purely as an access point, and BT's modem to connect. The Draytek'll need replacing soon.
Founder here; happy to answer questions about how this works. Reach out to ryan@traversalnetworks.com if you want to chat privately.
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Augur Crowdsale
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9263193
Is that what you really want? A wifi AP that can be configured from the web? Because THAT's how you get hacked.