skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish someone would have told me about all this starting my freshman year of high school. Being from a poor rural family, I had no idea that these opportunities existed and the first thing I looked at was price of school over anything else. So, I only applied to one school which to be honest seemed unreasonably expensive at the time.

I think a huge part of the problem is not so much the resources, but the mentality that surrounds the poor. Having grown up poor, I was focused on being cheap, not on value. Of course, no one every said, "Hey, with your 3.3 GPA maybe you should apply somewhere else".

I also only took the ACT once after having been away at summer camp and only getting 3-4 hours of sleep each night for the past week, and no idea until later that people retook it.

The other aspect, is that in small rural towns it has been my experience, that the guidance counselors who do the college admissions have no idea what to do with a student who doesn't want to go to the traditional schools, which in my case were the 3 nearest community colleges, the University of Nebraska, University of Iowa, or Iowa State.

Ramit, would tell you that just because the information is out there, that isn't enough. In regard to this, it is absolutely true.
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How do you expect them to do business in the US or have employees in the US while avoiding the PATRIOT Act? What is Google or Twitter realistically to do here - shut down business in the largest market and highest-skilled workforce in the world?

edit: Also, it seems to me like your argument could be extended from the companies that provide services in such a jurisdiction to the people that use such a service in such a jurisdiction. At what point do we blame Twitter users for an (unrealistic) expectation that their data will never be turned over to authorities?
Under what circumstances is it the best thing for people to use otherwise routable IP addresses instead of private IP space?
That's awesome.

Now when are you coming to the UK with a beta?

And yes, I am going to bang on about this on every single Stripe related HN entry until it happens.
Thanks for the article link; but in the future please consider linking to the main arxiv page[1], not a specific PDF.

The direct link will become outdated if a new version of the paper is uploaded; also, the main page will contain a lot of useful data about the publication (citations/etc), will include the abstract in the page, and give a choice of what format you read it in.

1. http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.1938
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Sorry to say but there is no such thing as underemployment. Clearly there are less need for art buyers (or he wasn't good enough to do the job) than there were in 2009, so he has to do something else.
The transition plan is called Dual Stack Lite or NAT64.
courier services (aka postmates) is definitely difficult to scale in the 'burbs. And that's because of the distances, traffic etc. involved. Certain tasks on Taskrabbit could work in the suburbs, but not all. How many times do you see these kind of jobs on Craigslist ? Ikea delivery, assembling etc are fine -- but when instant gratification (Postmates, Zaarly etc.) is concerned, scaling to the suburbs will be extremely difficult.
"Underemployment" is a characteristic of the economy that TaskRabbit operates in, not one that they create.
Incidentally, $120 for a frame from Warby Parker (which is only "a couple of pieces of plastic and metal") is still too high IMO.
I'm sort of debating - I'm grandfathered in w/ one of the AT&T unlimited data contracts at around $80/mo, but am thinking of switching to verizon for the extra LTE bands and what looks like better network support in general...
Do they even need to spread to the suburbs?
A used mattress is worth about the same as a used pair of underwear. This has nothing to do with custom options.
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For people with LTE: Is the difference significant enough to warrant upgrading from a 4 or 4s?
Its is better than than. It is the answer whenever somebody comes around and complains that software is destroying jobs and not creating new ones.
Right on the same page with you. Mathematician by training, programmer by youthful joy of building games and ELIZAs in QBasic, with some MATLAB/Python in college. Lucky both things caught my interest when they did, it's made breaking into Machine Learning awfully accessible as a post-university career.

(I still think there are dragons inside the CPU.)
Yep. The iPhone 5 looks like an iPhone 4S, but longer. It should have been the iPhone 4SS, not the iPhone 5. It's not a big enough change.
The core problems of the mattress industry (which are not present in eyeglasses industry) are the high costs of shipping and expensive warehouse costs.

Given these, Bed In A Box (http://www.bedinabox.com/) started with what seemed like it could be a potentially disruptive business model. They make-to-order mattresses (will even make custom sizes) and ship Tempurpedic-like memory foam mattresses directly to you via UPS. They suck all the air out of the mattresses so the boxes they come in are reasonably sized. Inside the box, there's a backpack-style sack which makes the mattress easier to carry. I hauled a Queen-sized mattress up four flights of stairs easily.

I've purchased two mattresses through them and they are high quality and extremely comfortable. The first purchase they were easily 50% the cost of any quality mattress I could find elsewhere (including Costco, Sams Club, etc.), especially if you factored in the cost of delivery. I was surprised that when I went to buy another mattress from them their prices were markedly higher.

I wonder if consumers were concerned that the low prices indicated low quality (not the case in my experience) or if they were unable to get the volume to sustain a low margin, high velocity business.
Well, gee, did you take me to be advocating that the internet should go back exactly to where it was in 1992? How about putting a little effort into finding an interpretation of my comment that doesn't make me that dumb / perverse?

The context of my comment was advertising. In particular I was presenting evidence against the OP's assertion that things like Adblock Plus might ruin the internet.

In an alternate universe in which advertising had never been introduced on the internet, someone would probably have made maps available through the internet by now (Nokia had online maps for their phones that were probably (I am actually not entirely sure) not supported by ads), Microsoft and Apple would have download pages (why would they depend on ads?), and all the wikis I care about (the original wiki, namely http://c2.com/cgi/wiki, Wikipedia and various small or smallish wikis created by specialized communities) would have developed more or less like they actually did.
They also include prescription lenses as well.
The article mentions supporting multiple favicon sizes and old browsers. Did you even read the article or was it too hard to read on your low dpi display?
To become more social.

Seriously.
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From what I've seen many think the judge is in the wrong to not even allow them to appeal. Why wouldn't the judge allow them to appeal? Makes no sense.

http://gigaom.com/2012/09/12/the-facebook-addicted-judge-and...
While checking out the raw price tag is nice, don't forget about R&D/Production costs.
Nope. Same width, same PPI. A lot of apps (particularly scrolling list/view apps) will need barely anything changing.
moving parts != comfort, which is paramount when it comes to mattresses. For me (and a lot of people I know), having springs is actually an issue. The springs wear off, the mattress begins to sag and not to mention the back aches. So its not as simple as -- simple foam mattresses should cost lower just because they have less raw materials than a spring coil one.
More headlines = more marketing = more iPhones sold.

Being (temporarily) sold out just adds to the mystique of any device. Remember, people want what they can't have. Also think of the herd mentality - if millions of people are buying this, it must be good!

I don't think it is ever Apple's strategy to sell out, but there are reasons that this is good (as well as bad, like you say).
My response to this was... essentially... "so what?" They do not need an instant gratification task runner available for every door to have scaled to a large, very profitable company.

This is no different than the scaling limits of many online media companies, in fact. 83% of the US population is in an urban center. 81% of the US population has access to broadband internet (and not all of them take advantage of that access). Netflix's addressable US market for streaming is smaller than TaskRabbit's for tasks.
Considering that others have used it for graphics work, scaling to that in the suburbs wouldn't be that difficult.

But I imagine they either don't scale to the suburbs at all, or if they do, it will be more expensive to hire people in the suburbs, reflecting the higher cost of providing the services.

It's for the same reason I doubt they will ever came to rural areas. It's okay though, not all services have to be everywhere.
The thing that sucks is that I have two iPhone 4's that are grandfathered into the AT&T unlimited accounts and pay less than $100 a month for both. I'll probably never upgrade since I know I'll just get screwed by AT&T when they force me to move to LTE accounts.
Huh? How does a judge "not allow someone to appeal"?

Twitter and the NYCLU are alleging that by holding Twitter in contempt for not honoring a court order, the judge is effectively infringing on their right to appeal. That's a sane argument, but it isn't the same thing as "not allowing them to appeal". Moreover, if there was a clear and urgent grounds for appeal, the appeals court could expedite the challenge. They haven't.
Sadly, normal free Jabber/XMPP does not seem to be a viable alternative. On Android, sure (though the clients are not too great at reconnecting/noticing-connection-loss/reporting-message-reception) but on iOS apparently you cannot run such things in the background. At least the situation was dire when I tried to convince some iOS friends to use XMPP instead of SMS last winter. http://monal.im/ looked most promising but turned out to crash or only work when active, I don't fully remember. Maybe it got better.
So, what's the best alternative?
Cannot emphasize the note taking process enough. I did this quite often early on. Don't forget to review them either. After a point it starts to sink in. I'm still a pen and paper person but would highly recommend either method
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Filed under the "to do" section :) .

More seriously, there are tons of niches that are underserved by the HN crowd and that need some disruption.

Patio11's talk has inspired me a lot:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/03/26/software-for-underserved...
I think I'd find the guilt of knowing my mattress was made by slave labor to be a heavier price than the $1k in savings.
I've been seriously considering creating a highly secure text messaging replacement. I'm aware of TextSecure but find it lacking (and only available on Android). I'd love to hear if you guys think it would be a worthwhile project.
Network effects are not indefensible. I don't understand why so many people in the bay area think that network effects are impossible to break in. Here is an example. Orkut. All my friends including myself were on Orkut in 2004/2005. By 2008 everyone moved to FB. Why? Orkut had horrible UX and buggy system. FB was breath of fresh air compared to that. Even though Orkut has superior privacy features (I still say they had best privacy features for any social app). FB is moving in that direction. It's quite buggy system and if FB must address the overall quality of application. It looks like Orkut in 2007.
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And every time you do it someone like me will point out that there are regulatory hoops they have to jump through for every new region :)

Canada is in beta so I'm assuming the UK is close behind...
They changed things up a year or two ago. SERO +$10 gets you any iPhone/Android/Blackberry/etc., and then an additional +$10 for any phone with 4g/LTE.
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Horseshoe crabs aren’t really “living fossils”
What happens in a specialty high-end mattress store has very little to do with the bulk of the market: people buying mattresses at Macy's or one of the numerous regional mattress chains. I don't have any experience in the super-high-end, but have worked with the low-middle-high end that you get going to a "mattress store". Those models are definitely not built-to-order, they're sitting in a warehouse waiting to be delivered, even the $4k+ ones that are trying to compete with the custom shops. For the bulk of mattresses the margins mentioned in the article are conservative.

What you're absolutely correct on, however, is that the cost of building a mattress doesn't represent the cost of running a mattress business.

However, that's exactly what makes it ripe for disruption: streamline the rest of the business model and loot the manufacturing margins.
This is better, partly because it requires no plugin.

http://fourmilab.ch/javascrypt
I'd imagine that they'll start as soon as the right developers gain access to the right specs. Real hardware wouldn't hurt either.
Ah interesting. Data Privacy is a very good example of where DRM for the little guy would be beneficial.
The original chat system from 1999 from which he took inspiration was written by Ka-Ping Yee, not an anonymous hacker.
I didn't mean to imply that anyone has made the activity of creating structured data sufficiently interesting or worthwhile for "not so savvy" users, but that this project doesn't seem to advance to cause.

A lot of people and companies do make money on this, but I see the creation of rich structured data as good for everyone. We can better learn from and engage with well structured collective knowledge.
Hacker News is "peer reviewed", but that doesn't mean every top voted story is correct.

I worked in a major lab in this exact area (high temperature superconductivity) and had papers published in much more prestigious journals, and getting published was often a question of politics more than science- if your results undermine a theory that one of your "peers" built his career on, you may not be getting published in that journal, no matter how scientifically correct.

And back in those days things were a lot less political than they are now.

Don't presume that "peer review" means anything. It really doesn't. It doesn't mean the peers have reproduced the results, and it doesn't mean the peers are even up to speed specifically enough to be able to authoritatively say the results are correct.

It is about as equivalent as the fact-checkers at the New York Times, and you know how often they print retractions. At the time, quality was slipping too and it was getting more political.

I'm skeptical about this claim, but it has been awhile since I worked in that area, so I won't say either way.

But don't take "peer review" as meaning anything significant.

It's like saying Obama is telling the truth because democratic "truth squads" blessed his opinion.
+1 on Keetsa. Love the memory foam mattress. After a full day of coding/work I love coming back to this mattress.
>but for some reason I've yet to come across a page that adds to the existing context menu until today.

the reason is likely because browser compatibility for the context menu js api is pretty minimal [1]. firefox can use it on pages that are only going to be displayed in firefox, but for the internet at large it's pretty useless.

[1]http://caniuse.com/menu
It was wonderful working with you Smit.Hope it helps a lot of students like us.
I think a popular misconception is that small-towns are safer than big cities.

Calgary
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2011 Population: 1,096,833
2011 homicides: 10
Rate: 0.91 per 100,000 people

Kalamazoo
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2011 Population: 74,262
2011 Homicides: 5
Rate: 6.73 per 100,000

So the homicide rate in Kalamazoo is 7.4 times higher. So much for small-town peace and quiet!
Insane profit margins here. Love AAPL!
Hey 2004 called, they want their headline back.

When you consider the ability for inter-RIR transfer of networks, not to mention the market being developed (already released?) by ARIN (do other RIRs have markets?), and you've got a great recipe for a run on IP addresses.
Since I don't have an Atom with a PowerVR GPU, I cannot say how well (or not) it works. I'm not unhappy with whatever is in the N270, however.

http://www.unix-heaven.org/intel-powervr-gma3600-for-linux
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Kik uses XMPP over SSL and has user-defined passwords

https://getsatisfaction.com/kik/topics/how_secure_is_kik
Ditto is coming on strong, and has some way-cool tech: http://ditto.com. Warby is nice and all, but their selection is limited to just acrylic frames of their own design.
What is the target market? I mentally treat all messages as insecure, and no self-proclaimed secure system would change my thoughts.
None with enough traction so i guess this has to go mainstream.
Interesting though that i have not gotten any spam messages so far.
a /65 is a subnet, and you get TWO of them with a /64. And so on. So I don't really understand what you're talking about here.
You don't. "You can lead a horse to water...." If she knows your opinion, then all you can do is respect her choice and wait.
I was a big fan of The Original Mattress Factory when I lived in Pennsylvania. They manufacture their own mattresses and sell them direct to consumers.

http://www.originalmattress.com/eliminating-the-middle-man

Unfortunately they don't have a presence on the West Coast.
Yep, otherwise all software should cost close to price of the delivery system (cd, bandwidth)
It's a 10% penalty. The rest is presumably taxes that were just deferred anyway. If the guaranteed rate of return for the IRA was 1% and the student loan was 5% interest, he'd easily come out ahead by retirement. Especially since tax rates will almost certainly be a lot higher in the future.
This is SUCH a bummer. Honestly, I'm really happy with my iPhone 4. The one feature I was excited about was LTE and the promise that I'd get simultaneous voice and data on Verizon (I had an AT&T iPhone for years -- VZW service is vastly superior in Oregon). Now I'm seriously considering an Android device. If only I weren't so deep in the Apple ecosystem.
I have purchased my last two mattresses from Overstock, and recommend people do the same (and read the comments on all of them, preferring those with more reviews...)

http://www.overstock.com/Bedding-Bath/Memory-Foam-Mattresses...
Awesome. I did this trick too, many years ago. I stole it from Liveperson I think.
It's easy to say after the fact that Colors was a dud, because it ended up turning out that way. Instagram, which is similar, ended up being a good investment.

My point is that VC financing is high-risk, so things that you may think of as being high risk investments, or "duds", are probably potential investments.

VCs also have to deal with the agency effect. If five firms jump on one startup and your firm doesn't, and that startup ends up being successful/gets a return, you stand to lose your clients as a VC.
> You know SleepCountry is not making much from this sale

How do you know that? If what the article says is true, it cost them $500 to manufacture that mattress, or less. With a sale of $800, they're still making a good profit.
I'm the Founder at Treehouse. This isn't about replacing or outsourcing Developer's jobs. Treehouse will help non-technical people skill up so they can launch MVP products. It will also help experts stay up-to-date on their skills.
Typical BI linkbait headline. The VC said younger people tend to adopt new tech more quickly than older people.

Sometimes I wish we could ban BI articles.
Comcast is only one ISP. AT&T hasn't yet deployed IPv6 for their residential customers. (I think there are ipv6rd routers available, but you have to know about them and configure your own router to use them, and since it's not an official service, it could be discontinued at any time).

Then there's software. Many web apps don't support IPv6 (db fields limited to ipv4 format, or code assuming ipv4 format). For instance, Internet Brands is too busy with important business, like frivolous lawsuits, to fully support IPv6 in vBulletin. [1]

Some webapps have 3rd party hacks (or even first party hacks) to "support" ipv6 without modifying a lot of ipv4-dependent code, typically by hashing the ipv6 address, taking 32 bits, and using that as the ipv4 address. It's both disgusting and funny.

There's a long way to go before IPv4 is dead.

[1] http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-9397 (you need a vbulletin.com forum login, unfortunately, and maybe also a linked license; in summary, it's a 2-year-old bug for full support of IPv6, it has no comments from vbulletin devs and no assignee.)
Like glasses, it's an interesting disruption opportunity due to the sheer size of demand. Just about 100% of the population sleeps on a mattress. It's hard to find other industries with so much penetration of demand and such inefficient competition.

These days it doesn't seem like outbound distribution is too big of a deal (many mattresses are shippable in rolled or compressed-box form), it's the reverse logistics that are tricky. Once the genie is out of the bottle, good luck getting it back in. I'd love to be able to try out a mattress, like Zappos shoes or Bonobos pants, and return them for free if I'm not 100% happy. Maybe someone needs to invent an easily-compressable mattress so I can purchase online with total confidence.
You might want to actually know what you are talking about before commenting. Inmates earn an hourly wage (not great), training on how to do the work, etc. The money they earn gets split up in a few different ways such as going to restitution if applicable and some is available for the inmates to spend at the canteen or save for when they get out.
This sort of nonsense should be illegal. I've met plenty of people over 30 who still learn new stuff at an astonishing rate. I've also met people 25 and below who resisted learning new things like the plague. It's all in your mindset not your age.
To be clear, you need to find a guy who will undo what the phone company did to it. This is Google/Android's fault the same way that it is Microsoft/Window's fault that the Acer you bought from Best Buy is nigh-unusable due to everything it's trying to run when you first boot up, and "some guy" needs to come in and clock some serious time in the Uninstall dialog before it'll be really usable. (If indeed everything will uninstall correctly.) It's actually the fault of the last person to own the box.
Here's the AT&T unlock request page for anyone looking to unlock their out-of-contract iPhone4(S): https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/

I put in my request yesterday, but it has yet to go through...
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Tenmiles is bootstrapped software company based out of Chennai. !2 years old :)
Or just buy it unlocked and use Straight Talk (which is AT&T).
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Thanks Varun. Glad you like. Just curious- are you interning/ working with a startup?
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Did the author email the WhatsApp team to give them any chance to fix this before they splashed it across the internet for anyone to abuse? The article makes no mention of it, so I assume not.

In my opinion, the obscurity peeled off by this expose did more to endanger WhatsApp users than the bad programming. So, I can only conclude this post's main goal is page views. OP could easily warn them, and at least wait until they didn't do anything before publishing.