skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just another hack propaganda piece from the same Washington Post column that regularly publishes hack propaganda pieces like this.

I am a teacher in private practice. Teaching is going along just fine as an occupation if you are responsible for actually meeting your clients needs and the clients are all free to shop for the services of another provider. My wife has been a teacher in private practice for her entire working life, and it is from her that I learned actual entrepreneurship and a dedication to deeply understanding a subject in order to pass that understanding along to client learners. The huge claim on everybody's taxes that government-operated schools have (and the claim on young learner's hours that compulsory schools have) make it difficult for a teacher to thrive in private practice, but not impossible. If you have a fire in the belly to teach, roll up your sleeves and teach. If you would like to break the oligopoly of the current government-operated schools, fine, do that too, but recognize that plenty of people like the current system just fine because it protects their jobs from competition at equal out-of-pocket cost to potential clients.
So it's basically extortion?

"It'd be a shame if something happened to your little business..."
`ssh -D 8080 micro-ec2` and proxy through localhost:8080 till it's sorted out.
That wouldn't solve the problem in the posted article at all, though. The ad-inserting proxy could then just un-encrypt and re-encrypt.
That means there will be even more data to log to do this though. Many times the NAT will end up on a different port for different connections so you'll end up with something like 64k (assuming the CGNAT doesn't map under 1024) times as much data to log. It will make it harder and the companies doing the logging will have to have more information to narrow it all down.
Override Bootstrap on any site with Geocities
Actually, I think that would be a huge selling point for the hotel. That would be hilarious.

"Ooh, what controversy is YOUR room?! I have [Antennagate!][1]"

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antennagate#Antenna
This is one of those decisions that really depends on the individual making them. You really have to go with what you feel makes you the happiest. For me, entrepreneurship is the only option. For the last 10 years since I was 18 I've been a business owner. It has been quite the roller coaster as well. In that time I have experienced living in a fancy loft in Hollywood to being homeless and living in my car for a month. From working 6+ months 12-15 hour days and making no revenue to having 12 employees on pay-roll bringing in $100k monthly gross sales with a nice chunk being profit. Regardless of the ups and downs there was always this consistent happiness which seemed to be backed by hope and passion. Even while living in my car and having to take showers at the gym to then go to Starbucks to access internet in order to work on the business I was building, I was still happy, and seemed happier than most.

Most people, even with an entrepreneurial spirit will choose comfort over risk and reward. That's all fine, it's just for me I find comfort to be the cousin of death. Comfort in the sense of not worrying about how to live is good. I'm talking about comfort in regards to losing purpose in life. Living a lifestyle where you're kind of just "wingin' it". Those are traits I don't foresee myself having regardless of whatever dollar amount I'm worth.

Some don't understand passion and don't know how to put an appraisal value on it. Your previous co-workers might have found you to be wreckless or not taking life seriously, when in fact you're taking life far more serious than they are.

I think you're doing the right thing. Forget the safety net, it's going to slow you down. It's going to keep you from pushing yourself to the limit.

I wish you luck in your endeavors and..."Stay Thirsty My Friend" :)
> SMS is effectively piggybacking on the signals your phone sends out to find which towers are available, so were t-mobile being totally honest, they'd just cut out the SMS charge period.

What exactly is the difference between "cut[ting] out the SMS charge" and including unlimited texting in every plan?

EDIT: let's see if I can wrap some more words around my point.

Your parent post is complaining that t-mobile doesn't want to offer a plan which is differentiated from some current plan of theirs by (a) offering lower texting allowances, and (b) being cheaper.

You think that, since the cost of transmitting texts is nil, t-mobile shouldn't charge for transmitting them.

And by looking at the plans t-mobile wants to offer, we can see that they agree with you; they don't think it makes sense to charge more for a plan with higher texting allowances vs one with lower allowances. No matter how much texting you do, they're going to charge you exactly the same. (Your argument is phrased in moral terms, while I suspect t-mobile's position is driven more by the fact that an unlimited data plan is a perfect substitute for texting.)

But, instead of slamming your parent post for wanting something that makes no sense (plans that charge extra for more texting), you're slamming t-mobile for "dishonest pricing" that reflects exactly what you believe should be happening. I don't get it.
I like the concept, but I think I would rather use this feature by holding control/command or middle clicking, which would make my action to navigate upward more deliberate.
> SMS is effectively piggybacking on the signals your phone sends out to find which towers are available

This argument bugs me. The phone-to-tower is only a portion of the infrastructure: You have to get those messages somewhere after that. But the rest of that infrastructure isn't any more interesting than email.

So I'm not disagreeing with the point that SMS is overpriced (especially without a plan). I doubt you could convince anybody to spend $10/month on "unlimited email".
After every few days of programming in Go I start to miss C a little bit, probably more out of nostalgia than anything else,- until 5 minutes later I think about something like this.
I really like the landing page for truffle.io -- I think the fact that it points out that 'Nothing gets posted on your LinkedIn' and 'Your company gets filteres' is key for making the service stand out.

The '...or make a new story' line was clever as well. Only thing it can benefit from though would be a higher-quality background picture.
Not only that but there must be ways to monetize the upcoming baby boomer generation that will be retiring en mass
Absolutely. In a similar sense,we recognize that privacy is a right which is not enforceable in public, or for celebrities. It's possible that an expectation of privacy on the Internet is also unreasonable. You're not making the point you think you are. Show that copyright may be effectively policed.
With respect to anigbrowl and [deleted], who probably know more than I do, I think "paleoconservative" might not be the best label for TAC, even though some of their authors might use it. They're ideologically pretty loosely formed, and as a group give me the sense of something new evolving rather than of something old returning. What I have found them consistently to be is (1) anti-imperialist (or anti-interventionist if you don't believe there's an empire) and (2) intelligent. A few of their junior bloggers are too prolific to be on average very good. But people like Daniel Larison, Dan McCarthy, and Scott McConnell write consistently thoughtful pieces. They also publish serious authors that get little attention elsewhere, like Andrew Bacevich. Then there are Unz's own pieces which keep getting more interesting. But those are an off-to-the-side eclectic sort of thing.

They also stand outside MSM consensus in a way that has genuine integrity. Consider Eric Margolis' cover story from their inaugural issue (Oct 2002), a blistering critique of the impending Iraq War that got almost everything right. Not everything—in retrospect, he arguably overemphasized oil—but the piece was a truth-speaking deviation from the groupthink and propaganda that dominated that period. http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/iraq-invasio.... I think most people would be pretty proud now to have launched a magazine with that in 2002.

Basically, they've established themselves as freethinking conservatives who have nothing to do either with the decadence of party conservatism or the fanaticism of the right-wing base. That's what makes them valuable and worth reading—such voices are needed. Not that I agree with all they say, of course.

(By the way, if you have time for podcast-type thingies, I've found a couple of other sources that are surprisingly good. But I'll save that for some other off-topic thread :) Or you're welcome to email me if you'd like to discuss any of this offline.)
Yes it is. And unfortunately the laws allow it.
I do believe we support Redmine now, if we're missing something specific within Redmine, just let us know.
You may wish to find a student developer interested in investing their time into your idea. It may not be the best idea to try to build it yourself if you've never programmed before. It would certainly take longer.

Can you tell us a little bit about the idea?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_with_%22-gate%...
But what patent troll cowboy was trying to assert is that if he is depicted in a photo then under copyright law he "owns" the photo. Although as the person you were replying to pointed out there is some basis for this notion under common law right to publicity, this is distinct from federal statutory copyright law (and in any case would not apply in the context of a news article).

Since his assertion has no basis in copyright law either:
(a) he has an honest confusion regarding how that area of the law works or
(b) he was relying on the reporter's assumed ignorance of the law to engage in some good old fashioned baseless legal intimidation in order to get his way. But that's not something a patent troll would do.
the media seems intent on sinking Tesla. While I agree with the conclusion that they should stick to car instead of loan technology, the tagline under the 500$ seems enough to me to indicate it is a cost of ownership figure. These practices are certainly not more deceptive than what is seen elsewhere in the auto industry
I love the idea of this, but the fact that I have to download something scares the hell out of me.
Ha, OAAS (optimisation as a service). I like it. That's the first time I've seen that idea.

Of course, if you standardise something based on say LLVM IR, that spins into the idea of a marketplace of competing optimisation services... -Ofastly versus -Ogoogle-optimizer-cloud ...

Sadly, I don't think it would be feasible to commercialise this. That doesn't mean there aren't amusing possibilities:

"Although -Omechanical-turk does produce very good code, most people cannot wait 3 weeks for that compiler pass to finish..."
Brings old memories to me :)

I used to do reverse engineering when I was a teenager, just for the fun. It made me feel powerful in a certain way. RE is a great mind puzzler! It builds lots of skills: I learnt a lot of ASM, how OSes worked on the inside, compilers, problem solving...
YAGNI (2004)
No problem Grace, thanks for the update. I don't want to come off as negative, I love what Watsi is doing and wish you best.
HopStop crowdsourcing transit
Thanks for posting this. I'd completely miss that option to opt out.
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Cloudsigma has had five outages this week, approx. 10 hours total
As said in the title, five outages and they have been around 10 hours in total during the week.

Should we consider to move our servers or linger and see if they can fix their business? Seems unreliable.
> The eventual plan is to refactor to a simpler system and get rid of the duct tape.

Yeah, we're on the same page.

I think the critical thing with the software/systems-analogy is that it's far easier for us to understand these technologies, and more over, the technologies generally lend them selves to reproducible experiments. You can collect 'lessons learned' and do experiments, and based on that knowledge, refactor. It's much harder in politics for the reasons you mentioned.

The whole reason we have 'free' markets is that we lack the knowledge that would be required to efficiently run a command-economy, so we let the market decide, and apply duck-tape where appropriate. Same goes with democracy: we lack the knowledge to build a benevolent dictator which maximizes its people's happiness.

So I guess democracy + duck-tape is the best we can do, for now.
Actually, the first 5GB are at 4G speeds. I've got that plan. I got an email from T-Mobile inviting me to change to a new plan and explaining why they think I should, but it wasn't a notification of forced change.
Did he complain to the FTC?
Hence "at the time". =) This was last year.
I really don't think Lincoln said that (assuming he did, Lincoln certainly didn't try to apply that to the question of slavery, so under what context did he say it?). My sense of history smell is calling shenanigans and a quick search shows it's one of those things that was probably made up as I couldn't easily find an actual source.

Sorry to be slightly off-topic here, but it grinds my gears when using a made up quote by someone famous who didn't say actually it (and never likely did historically) doesn't add any real value to a conversation.
It's still there on their prepaid plans list. See the bottom left of the page here (or just click "Which plan is right for you?")

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans
Thanks for writing up your experiences! I am completely fascinated that you are not only a professional visualizer but someone who enables people to create their own.
You would love Go and using its "net/http" package.
You make some great points, but don't forget that Tuna was already trained...if you are to get a dog, or shall I say puppy, the training process will take a lot of dedication--this means time AND effort. Remember, the puppy won't come with a routine...you have to get him/her into a routine--yes, it sounds nice but it's not easy. Having a startup and raising a puppy together seem like a pretty tough combination, especially if this will be your first puppy. Once the pup is trained, though, you'll reap all the benefits as you did with Tuna--you just have to be very very dedicated during that first month.

I don't mean to discourage you at all. I've had 2 dogs, pretty much raised the one by myself, and don't regret it at all but I did want to give that insight so it doesn't go over your head! If you have any specific questions about what goes into raising a puppy, feel free to reply here or email me at aashayk@gmail.com.
Astonishing, they make a difference between "computer programmer" and "software developer".
>>>> This is wrong. There is not 'an English language'

Of course there isn't. If you are asked "do you speak English?", you have no idea what they are talking about. If you come into a bookstore and see a shelf named "Books in English", you ask the seller to point out to you which books are in Glaswegian, when one in Jamaican English, which ones are in AAVE, which ones are in Scouse... No way there's something that everybody actually calls "English". Got it.

>>>> As I keep explaining, this article does not advocate AAVE speakers should not be taught SAE

I am at loss why you keep explaining something that nobody doubted anyway. Teaching standard English does not preclude juicy grants for studying AAVE and "recognizing it" and "teaching better". I'd be happy to know how exactly better would it be? The article is pretty scarce on the details except for one method that basically eliminates the word "wrong" from the teacher's vocabulary and instead instructs the student that "we do it this way". I am not sure why this would be any different, but for this alone there's no need to even have a concept of AAVE as it seems...
Some Linuxes. Slackware doesn't use it. I think Debian Stable still does. AKAICT, most people hate it.
He is talking about having a large open source application that you can browse the code to see how things get structured. A simple TODO app and a real-world app are very different, and most TODO apps would turn into spaghetti code.

Plus it is nice to see the little tricks that are done to make the code more readable or improve the overall design.
Great SolveForX talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVzR0kzklRE

(Planetary Resources' Peter Diamandis and Eric Anderson on space exploration)
Good tutorials but how is this news?
I am not sure if y'all noticed the "//new world order// is good" propaganda in this article.

The first thing that tipped me off was when they say that IMF was a force for good (let's just say that what is called //economic development// by some is more accurately described as //exploitation//). I would tag the IMF as //clearly// evil so already some alarms are ringing.

Then they throw in a "genetically modified foods are good" in there. Again something //clearly// evil. Why did they feel the need to mention that in their predictions?

Then they go straight into the heavy BS "democratizing, privatizing,..." at this point it is time to stop reading. I am disappointed in Wired.
Our society is deviant if not sick in the way that we push old people to the side and avoid them instead of honoring them. It seems related to our worship of youth and fear of death.

I remember hearing an interview with a Canadian researcher who went to Cuba to study how they did something (I forget what, perhaps health care). While visiting a seniors' centre, she saw a bunch of 10-12 year old kids playing checkers with the old people in a common room. Later, she asked the director how they had come up with so successful a program to pair kids with seniors. "What program?" was the reply. "They just come in off the street."

Such a thing is unthinkable where I live. That says a lot.
I found this to be pretty helpful:
http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-...
Many of the complaints are absolutely legitimate and have nothing to do with sinking tesla. For example:

" the fuel savings calculator nestled among these references to the buyback program defaults to driving 15,000 miles per year. Nowhere on the page does Tesla mention that the buyback program explicitly limits mileage to 12,000 per year, and that any miles in excess are charged at $0.25 apiece ... they’d have to pay an additional $2250 in mileage penalties."

This is the type of thing you expect from a scummy used car dealer.
thanks t0, the idea is more similar to evisors website. A place where people can reach out to professionals for career development. But its complicated in the sense it involves integration to paypal and other bank transactions etc.

I want a clear design too.
It's not a cost of ownership figure. By definition, if you're paying Tesla or Wells-Fargo $1,200 a month for your car, your cost of ownership is at least $1,200 a month.
Both are my metric? Is that not obvious? I'd like to see a large scale production ready application that I can learn from. The open source apps from builtwithangular are pretty useless since they are all just slightly more complex than a todo list.
I want to know the same thing. Doesn't the printer manufacturer license these patents so each user does not have to themselves? I just can't understand how this bs is allowed.
Counterpoint: Don't quit your job. Unless you're ok with the prospect of failing, and winding up broke, homeless, and seriously depressed. Oh yes, two weeks in the sky was the limit and I was living the dream! Two years in was a different story. Even if you're single, moving in with your grandfather at age 35 because you have nowhere else to go is not a picnic. I'm beyond grateful to have a 9-6 coding job again, and I'll be here for a while rebuilding my savings all over again.
I'm surprised no one commented on the cost: 14,400!

Assuming they don't do job placement (didn't see anything about that) then this is a total rip off and is just some people trying to cash in on the data science fad.

Besides, they just listed a bunch of free resources that invalidates the need to go through them, so unless they offer job-placement in an actual data-science-like position, why waste your money on this?

Besides, 12 weeks reminds me of Peter Norvig's "Teach Yourself programming in 21 days"

http://norvig.com/21-days.html
As can be seen, their homepage is down as well right now.
Read this first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product

And then this: http://www.amazon.com/The-Four-Steps-Epiphany-Successful/dp/...

And then go validate your idea with prospective customers.

then figure out whether you want to use Grails (Java-based) or Rails (which is written in Ruby. Ruby is a programming language). Or something else entirely.

edit: And, for all that is good and holy, don't do a marketplace as your first startup. It'll fail. And I know you won't listen, but you heard it here first. Still, good luck!
for me, it's Storm (http://storm-project.net), the distributed processing technology (often described as "real-time Hadoop) built on Thrift and the extraordinary ZeroMQ. I believe Storm source is ~ 80 % java and 20% clojure.
Well that was a bit depressing to read.

I wonder how expensive it would be to make simple games that can be shown on the "community" TV in old-folks homes with a hardware component that fosters some discussions / interactions.

For example, a simple multiple-choice trivia program ("Which famous movie started with the word 'Rosebud'" etc.) with simple remotes with 4 buttons that they can use to play, like you find on airplane entertainment systems sometimes.

Thinking about it the Wii would make the perfect platform for an "old folks home" entertainment system, just needs the software.
I was reading this story and found myself smiling after every paragraph because I had gone through pretty much the exact same story. Except that it was a Nintendo Wii soon after it came out.

In my case the police officer that got the guys information after I brought it in decided to go meet the guy himself because he recognized the name. Had the console hand delivered to me that night after matching the serial number.
I think USPTO has been taking steps to invalidate the same patent for a while now, too. Also patents are now unitary across all Europe, although I think it only applies to the new ones.
NPR Podcast: The Hidden Digital Wealth In Your Pocket
Online translation on the rise, changing lives
You don't have to go through the process of imprinting a routine from scratch with a rescue dog, do you?
Software developers are the creative minds who design the software on laptops with external keyboards whilst wearing bluetooth headsets.

Computer programmers work in offices and translate the creative vision of cool guys with sideswept hair into computer code.

TIL
This is silly and borders on conspiracy theory. It would be suspicious if Tesla is being attacked over technicalities or falsehoods, but all of the criticism in this article is true, representative, and on the money.

It's not just Car & Driver, there have been recently discussions on HN also where it's been shown many times over that the $500 figure is straight out to lunch and grossly misleading.

Why is it that some of us here feel the need to constantly worship at the feet of demigod Musk, He Who Does No Wrong, and anything negative said about him is dismissed as slanderous propaganda by Big Automobile? What is this, the USSR?

I appreciate what Elon Musk is doing to advance electric cars and wean us off of oil, but he is a shrewd businessman subject to the fallibilities of all shrewd businessmen. He is neither a messiah nor a saint.