skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm more concerned with what the triggers will be. Are they actually tracking the content of URL's (only)? Are they looking for any traffic on the same port as BitTorrent? Are they simply looking for a significant amount of traffic outbound from your home connection??? (good-bye, working from home???)

For a $35 dollar appeal fee, it might indeed be time to look at other providers if this happened very often.
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we use wave accounting, and its a different product
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I would give them lots of money if they would offer service in my area. :(

I loved them when I used them in SF.
Dates in JavaScript can represent 10^8 days from 1/1/1970 in either direction.

For more, see: http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/js-datex.htm#RoND
Ususally startups are for "younger people" because they can easily change and adapt themselves to a startup enviroment like go the extra mile, more work, frequent changes, learn new things, sometimes do things that can really go out you spectrum of work etc... instead someone older might have a family to maintain and therefore needs stability and safety for his job. But if this doesn't apply to you for whatever reason I do not really see any reason why you wouldn't fit.
Great! Love the product btw, I really think it solves a clear pain point. One feature request: give the option to send checks (through the API preferably) vs. an ACH. An ACH is not always feasible.
+1 here as well.

I say never too old, but be prepared for the long haul. Many startup opportunities that would jumpstart your business favor the younger entrepreneurs with less to lose and/or less responsibilities.

There's also supposedly an overall bias against us geezers in startups but I can't speak (much) to that.

....and I'm sure ( being the wise old man that you are ;) ) you'll gladly take being a 35 year old millionaire. That "billionaire at 20" stuff is great, but it's also glitz.
This is always a contested subject because economics has so many competing branches, many of them with more or less overt ideological overtones.

IMHO, you should listen to economists that (a) emphasize looking at the operational realities of what actually happens in the monetary system, and (b) tell you that banks matter for what happens in the economy.

(If you find it hard to believe that a majority of economists ignore banks in their models of the economy, good for you and your common sense!)

This means you should read what Steve Keen writes and listen to what he says (he blogs at http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/), and what the Modern Monetary Theory crowd write, as they explain such basic things as what role reserves and bonds play, from first principles (start here: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/p/modern-monetary-theory-...).

More generally, "endogenous money" is an important keyword to look out for, because our monetary systems are endogenous in the sense that money is mostly created by banks, not by the government.

If you venture into online economics resources, you will run into a lot of (economic) Austrians. I believe this is mostly because of the Mises institute, which is well funded by people with an ideological ax to grind. It's good to reflect on their messages occasionally, but they should be taken with a grain of salt. (And since they are hardcore gold bugs, they don't get endogenous money, which means that much of what they say simply doesn't apply to our current economic framework.)
I haven't actually read it properly yet :)
Surely a fresher word than "iconic" exists to describe Twinkies. I'd suggest "Beloved", but that sounds only a little better than "iconic" when it's said out loud.

"Iconic" is the "robust" of the 2010s, doomed to look and sound dated, like the music and fashion of the 1980s.
Why would you be old for something you want to do, and can do. If you asked me, "Am I too old to be a Wimbledon Champion" I'd say, yes. Don't get fooled by the media.
Out of curiosity, what were you focusing on during that period?
Also whats your background - retail or IT?
By even asking such a question I think the startup life is not for you.
balanced ftw! I love the fact that I can send ACH payments immediately.
I'm 32 working in tech and I feel like a dinosaur. :-(
The type="time" picker UX is pretty confusing. I don't think I'd want to show that to my users.
Anyone who doesn't necessarily need to be paid for many months more than a pittance can do a startup.

Most families with 2 tech-type incomes currently who control their spending to something reasonable can have one of the two do a startup. You might have to move to a cheaper place if your rent/mortgage is too high, but other then that, you're probably in a BETTER place than most 20 somethings, who have no safety net.
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Alternately you can run -j without an argument and it won't set a limit on the number of jobs it kicks off.
Chrome has had date and time pickers for a while on Android. Which is weird, as Chrome on Android is usually way behind Chrome on desktop.
I can't believe anyone has attributes like "onfocus" on their whitelist.

Although I respect the site's aim for completeness, the whole site could be shortened to one example of each issue. One example of "on..." attributes, one example of "javascript:" URLs, and so on. I don't see the value of the second, third, yet-another "on..." example. This is just hiding the deeper issues in a mess of seemingly clever examples.

Regarding the blacklist proposal, I really hope that nobody is seriously using those for HTML! One typo, one forgotten entry, or one new browser feature, and the blacklist's security drops to zero.
Now if only Google had used them on their page. Since the change to horizontal "menu" for Search Tools, the date picker doesn't work in Opera, although it supports date/time for a surprisingly (considering support for some other features) long time (two years).
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Long answer: No.
This page could be much better with just a little bit more prose.
"Hey, POTUS, you got us. BTW, we'll never lend you money again. Or vote for your party again."

The US would never need to default on its debt, since its debt is in USD. Worst case, it would just print more money, leading to inflation.
Very harsh, very snide, very arch. I heartily endorse this mockery of Oracle.
I suspect you may be overreacting with the tinfoil-hattery. Obviously those institutions like the ECB and the FBI are interested in virtual and new currencies. That's part of their job!

But if you actually read those publications, you'll notice that they aren't very urgent at all. Their stance is basically that they want to keep up with the development, but don't see a reason to act right now.
Has it? I agree that if the concept has been weakened it would be very bad but I haven't seen that covered regarding this case.

Are you referring to this specific case or arguments Motorola was making in other cases?
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"Hoewing said his company's customers will experience this as a pop-up window."

Presumably by injecting Javascript into customer web traffic? I don't torrent copyrighted material, but I was hoping we were done with ISPs screwing with HTTP after the ad replacement scandals of a few years ago.
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iOS 6 Safari already has it.
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It's fine to have a limit to what you'll support, but please lose the arrogance and condescension. A user's choice of OS is made based on a number of concerns, some of which he has no control over. Disparaging his choice or saying it's their own damn fault or "fix it yourself" is incredibly rude, especially when you can tactfully say "We currently support the following systems:" or "We currently only support systems that can run autotools, which includes the following popular operating systems:" and maybe even add "Code contributions to expand support are of course welcome!"

That's a damn sight nicer than "but seriously, just fix it yourself."
+1 for pointing out the fallacies of human nature... I totally agree, this is probably the most dangerously evil assumption in the underlying Bitcoin implementation.

One I would argue is a necessary evil.
Accurate? - What going over the 'fiscal cliff' would mean . . .
Thanks, I'll take a look. I am definitely more interested in case study, and reality than an idealogical system.
Thanks! We've definitely explored this option. Part of being an open company is that we publicly discuss our roadmap, I'd love it if you just +1'ed via our github tracker so you can get updated about our progress in that direction.

If we have enough interest on this feature, we'll reopen the issue and track its progress publicly:

https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/69
The article concludes with the hope that Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) could be extremely useful as another step towards reducing false-postives. This article was written in 2008 and even though it's 4 years later, according to the Canary Foundation's website ( http://www.canaryfoundation.org/research/ovarian-cancer-clin... ), they are STILL waiting on FDA approval for the CEUS microbubbles...
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Wait... 31 is old? I thought 30 was the new 20
This is not about the government imposing anything.

It's about the government providing tools for parents.

From the actual report:
"The Panel believes that ISPs working together will deliver a more effective Opt-In system on a self-regulated basis "
I'm in the UK, and typing that also gave me an apartment block in Santiago, so I'd say no.
I hate that it skips me over to the next 'subfield' as soon as I've entered something that looks remotely legitimate - or as soon as I fail to. (Try typing 66 into the minutes field.)
So basically this is a Modern C for Linux book.
I think it has less to do with age, and more to do with family status. Being 23 and a family is just as bad as 40 with a family. A 22 year old with no family is as good as a 45 year old without a family. Once kids and a wife/husband enters the picture, things change greatly. If you really want to take a crack at being a entrepreneur, do it before 'settling down'.
You're spot on that it's more rejection and not really failure. Like you said "learn. move forward." and that's exactly what I'm doing.

(: I'll be back!
> She's trying to say that regular people cannot filter their own machines, and thus someone else (the government) needs to do it for them.

To me it also seems like she was trying to play devil's advocate here. But I'd say that this a a nonsensical way of arguing for filtering, because by pretending that you need to cater to arbitrarily stupid people, who apparently are completely unable to inform themselves or ask anyone for help, you could similarly make the point that everything and anything should be under strict government control.

I could just as well claim that the government should be in charge of managing my finances because, how am I supposed to know how to check my balance, or make sure that I have more income than expenses? In fact, don't confuse me with technical terms like bank account, income, expenses, subtraction and stuff!
I was a moderately successful founder at 27 ... Now I'm 39 and while I'm much more experienced, I have also become a little impatient, something I consider very dangerous for a startup. Are you impatient too?
This is why entrepreneurs (oh you don't like that word? ok then how about 'thought leaders') need to infiltrate and then disrupt the government.
Maybe. I like how everything is beautifully colored and runs full-screen. Actually, even my laptop "looks" beautiful when the start-screen is on, the tiles add some beauty, definitely. Clean and crisp.
Thanks for posting this. I often wondered `what are the Y-combinator people are going to say about this...?' while writing some opinionated section of the book, and the reaction seems pretty positive so far. Nobody has yet compared it to K&R...

There _is_ a lot of GNU in there, but that's because there's a lot of GNU in the C ecosystem. I made an effort to neither overuse or underuse GNU tools, and this is where I wound up. Also, I made a serious effort to label anything that's GNU-specific as such, e.g., the long segment on the GNU/BSD-specific asprintf() (which I was _so_ disappointed to not see adopted in C11).

Everything tests out on clang unless otherwise stated. In fact, there are little things that work better on clang, because it uses c99 out of the box. E.g., as of this writing, you'll need clang to make the example for (C11) _Generic work. If anything breaks standards without my telling you it does, you can file a bug report at O'Reilly's site for the book (or email me), and I'll fix it in later electronic versions.

As for autotools, I had a sort of epiphany somewhere along the course of writing the book: it's not so bad. At the core, if you want to do something relatively simple, like set up a basic shared library, you can do so in just a few lines of Automake. It's filled with hacks and historical cruft, but as a user I...I've grown to actually like it. Also, as above, it's a huge part of the ecosystem and therefore worthy of discussion for that reason alone. If you don't like it, skip the Autotools chapter and stick with make. I won't know.
Why wouldn't it be? I didn't find such a thing in the guidelines, and it's quite common in other areas (e.g. 5 gold coins cost you $.99, but 50 gold coins in a game $3.99).
What do you recommend over libxml? And by libxml did you really mean libxml2? I prefer to work with a DOM parser and I don't know of anything better.
Yeah, I've basically had to institute a 'no working after dinner' rule for myself. If I have extra tasks to get done, I get up early - sometimes very early - but an early morning start feels far less intrusive on my family life than working in the evening. (It's an easier rule for me to keep than it would be for some, since I'm a morning person, and the evening is a low-productivity time for me.)
There was a guy who designed/built racecars by the name of Colin Chapman founder of Lotus Cars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Chapman) One of the ethos he had was "add lightness". Every additional piece of weight is more kg's to stop, to turn, to accelerate. It's no surprise this thing is fast as hell. The first thing I thought of when I saw the Delta Wing - Colin would be proud.

It will likely be banned. It will likely have polarising opinions about it. However one thing is for sure, it will prompt people to think different which is what the motorsport industry will need. Grass roots different approaches to make things more efficent. I applaud it.

Personally I went for a drive of the modern day replica of one of Colins original designs - a Lotus Super 7(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Seven). In a 2L Honda engined version of one in New Zealand (called a Fraser), absolutely staggering performance (around 400hp per metric tonne). Got out all wobbly at the knees. The last time I'd seen that level of performance was in 500-600hp TT V6 engines in big Japanese sports cars, and that is a lot of fuel and rubber up in smoke. Really does make you think, what is necessary in a vehicle? All the climate controls, sound deadening, sound system, power windows... the whole lot is more to move.

Very analgous to systems design, every additional feature, piece of code is more movement within a system. Interesting architectural lessons.
Hi Dan. Actually, the line about "complains it's not preordering finished goods" was not meant to be about you or your post. Rather, I was using it to describe a more general trend I've noticed with Kickstarter, and with people's collective commentary about Kickstarter. Did not mean to single your post out as a "complaint," per se, and I apologize if I created that impression. In retrospect, I should have been clearer in drawing distinctions between my take on your article, and my take on other articles about the same topic.

My broader issue is that Kickstarter, in general, seems to have a dilemma on its hands. On the "buy" side, it has a lot of users who are essentially treating Kickstarter campaigns like product preorders. On the "sell" side, it has a highly variable mix of project owners. Some are doing presales. Some are seeking funding for proof-of-concept. Some are seeking seed money. Some (seem to) have finished products, and are evidently using Kickstarter as a marketing tool. Etc.

The challenge is that you have a fairly homogenous use case on the buy side, and a heterogeneous use case on the input side. Adding to this challenge is the fact that the use case most "buyers" seem to be gravitating toward is directly at odds with the use case Kickstarter wants to encourage on the input/"sell" side.

Now, my recommendation stems from my assessment of the problem. I may be wrong. But to me, when I see a lot of variance on the sell side of a market, and considerably less variance on the buy side, I tend to think the solution involves bucketing, or categorizing, the different product types on the sell side. The goal is to create some sort of homogenous subsets of what is currently a very messy, variable master set.
Probably a DNS redirect, until they acknowledge it. Similar to how pay or free Wi-Fi hotspot agreements work.
Nice work, solving a great painpoint for education and lectures! One quick requests: transcripts or place for attaching lecture notes?
Looks good.

However to actually use it in a neat app, it better be stylable via css and support localization(Month-Day-Year etc), otherwise we'll have to resort to a JS option most of the time, like is the case with styled selects.
It's self-discipline in all aspects of life, which can be acquired gradually (I've been working 100% from home for the last 2 years without issues).
While they could let it slide, they won't, because that could trigger adverse possession from him. He could wait ten years, then sue to gain ownership of the land, arguing that because they didn't kick him off when they found out, they were implicitly granting him ownership. He'd win, too. You have to make a positive defense against adverse possession, meaning if you know about it you have to do something about it.
Being over 31 just means you didn't win the lottery.

The vast majority of us are simply going to make a living, a DAMN good living, but still something small where we own a house, have a family and maybe a vacation home in Arizona.

Startups aren't just for young people because they can (apparently) work 24-hour-days. That's a failed assumption and part of the Silicon Valley Echo Chamber.

You want to create a startup? Go for it. If you are an experienced professional then being in your 30's means you'll have more 'adults' willing to listen to you, you'll have more contacts in the industry willing to sign up to your product, and you'll have a larger spectrum of knowledge to know when to cut your losses or when to quit your dayjob and go all in.
Don't let the press fool you: there are plenty of founders aged 30+ building innovative businesses. The average age of a startup founder is 40:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/08/20/innovation-...

Also, YC has plenty of founders over 30: http://blog.zencoder.com/2010/09/21/doing-y-combinator-in-yo...

Personally, I founded my first company in YC when I was 30 (Parse).
but I don't think you can _undo_ inheritance at runtime

I'd be surprised if you couldn't do it in Ruby. You certainly can do it in Perl because it uses a package (class) variable called @ISA for it's inheritance lookup.

And because package variables are dynamically scoped you can do this:

{
# remove everything except father from inheritance
local @Some::Class:ISA = $Some::Class::ISA[-1];

$some_object->foo; # finds father foo() only
}

$some_object->foo; # runs first foo() found in inheritance
This. I just got some major deja-vu, since I don't think this is the first time someone's tried to troll a major corporation over "storage size claims" (and really, what kind of consumer would ever do his or her own research on a product worth hundreds of dollars before purchasing one? Oh wait, everyone with even the slightest bit of common sense...).

Someone should inform this lawyer that he could just format the internal storage. Sure, you lose your entire tablet's operating system, but who needs that when you get MOAR GB's!

(Aside: In my teenage years, I used to work for Future Shop. I recall one customer, who came in and insisted that he needed a computer "with the most possible gee-bee's". When I informed him that it was a "gigabyte", he then said "yeah whatever, I just need one with XX many jigas, do you have one?")
You’re making me homesick.

How many ISPs can (or would) post a news item on their home page re: EFF...

“Sonic.net privacy policies recognized by the EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation assessed the policies of 18 leading Internet companies, and Sonic.net has come out with top marks. The EFF wrote in their report that...”

FWIW: No ties to sonic.net
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> I believe protecting children is partly the responsibility of the government,

While this is noble, what happens when I as a parent disagree with what the government thinks my child needs to be protected from?

Another thing, where the hell are the parents in all of this? If the kid is young enough to need protection from many things on the internet, that same kid shouldn't be surfing the internet unsupervised!
> good-bye, working from home

Good-bye making back-ups from home.

> For a $35 dollar appeal fee, it might indeed be time to look at other providers if this happened very often.

That would be great, if there were any in my area.
he paid for the bits of the treehouse (that he didn't get free on craigslist) with his carpentry jobs in Whistler, right? so no. he paid for it.

On what he does next, who's to say. In his own words:

"I now feel like I want to create something new, something of value that also doesn’t belong to anyone. It will be radically different in form and function than the Hemloft, however, it will have some similar characteristics: it will be remote, it will have a minimal footprint, it will be built mostly out of used materials, and it will push the boundaries of design."

Maybe he's lying. But the dude can at least build cool treehouses.
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Free does not work that way. I don't have access to inflight internet nor would I pay for google drive storage. So it's still $250.
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Thank you very much. Exactly what I wanted to know. But, just a doubt, even Induction motors offer full torque at 0 RPM, right? Please correct me if I'm wrong, because that's what a reviewer said while comparing a BMW and the Tesla Model S. Thanks!
I don't know what it is about YC payment companies, but they are all awesome. Would you believe me if I said that these guys are nicer and friendlier than Stripe?

Congrats guys! We're definitely looking forward to moving to Balanced.
> Some of these are ingenius. Placing an input box far down a page, setting it to autofocus, and then reacting to body onscroll?

Although this sounds quite clever, I don't see the value in this. If your HTML whitelist contains "on..." attributes such as "onscroll", you have deeper issues than this clever trick. Almost certainly you are vulnerable to stuff like "onclick", too.

Except if you use blacklists where you added "onclick" and forgot to add "onscroll". But in that case, if you are using blacklists instead of whitelists, you are almost certainly doomed anyway. (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4794745)
It's a pity it doesn't work for 64-bit systems