skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was built for use within your company / personal server - there is no authentication mechanism, so you have to make sure that it cannot be accessed from outside without at least HTTP Basic Auth.

I haven't tried running it on Heroku, it would be insecure, and I guess Heroku infrastructure would forbid some of system calls hubot-control app is doing, like checking pids, killing processes.
While Motley Fool articles are generally light, and this one only lightly connects the trends to its conclusion, it's not that big of a leap to complete the conclusion.

Assuming everyone agrees that we want standards of living and the economy to improve over time (should probably go without saying), then the fact that the article outlines how this has not happened or has not happened to the extent that it could have over a period of time, and the future projections are pessimistic, means that some previous generation failed to improve the situation for the following generations. Considering the boomers were the generation working and aging at a time when these trends were occurring (from the article: decreasing household income, increase in debt), then the evidence is pretty strong the they are responsible.

It's possible the cause of the trends stems from something or someone more specific than an entire generation of people. But if the generation before them was too old, and the one after them too young, to have influenced these trends, and the effects are too broad to have been caused by a specific subset of Boomers, then it's understandable how a conclusion like "Baby Boomers Destroyed America's Future" is reached.
Run-of-the-mill outrage article that has nothing to do with Hacker News, flagged.
Thats just because credit is so cheap that the costs can go so high. If it was much harder to borrow money, I tell you the universities would never get away with such fees.
Rights are fantasy. 95% of your life is anarchy: voluntary relationships with others based on like/dislike, mutual respect and agreements. It's not based on rights, laws or other abstractions.

Rights do not exist. Individual agreements do.

Here is a proof:

I respect any belief of rights. Your belief may be different from mine. If you peacefully respect my disagreement the same way I respect yours, then "rights" are meaningless in resolving conflicts. If we have the same idea of rights, they are irrelevant. If you force me to accept your vision of rights, you only prove that rights do not help: you abandon reason and take out the gun. There are no rights, only peace or violence. QED.
> everybody is licensed driver, which means everybody can drive stick.

You can take your driving test in an automatic in many states (US).
I am working on this problem. Feel free to contact me; my email is in my profile if you are interested in talking about it.
"For most tech people, ease of use is a non-factor"

If you're still looking for simplicity (minus the network) you might give http://postagon.com a shot.
A week earlier, President Obama, in a television interview, asserted that oversight of the surveillance programs was "transparent" because of the involvement of a special court, even though that court’s sessions and decisions are sealed from the public.

I just don't even know what to say to this. There is no way to have a discussion if they are going to redefine words arbitrarily.
TCP simultaneous open and peer to peer networking
Apparently, the agenda of Google's own browser team isn't determined by Google, since they haven't removed this option.
Ah, is that why I've been seeing more and more of those notices lately?
I think the advice in another thread here may be valuable to you: Ask HN: Becoming a Freelancer in 6 months? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5945865

Particularly the Wordpress advice. Wordpress is a good example of something where someone with no programming ability at all, but an interest in technical work, can gain some (marketable!) skills, and then segway into actual coding experience (PHP in this case).

But the short answer is, there has never been a better time when software development was more accessible to learn, or more useful and marketable, and both of those needles are moving in directions favorable to your interests!
Yes, but do us all a favour and learn it properly. Seen to many so so programmers in my life creating unmaintainable insecure software.
Learn about indexes, floats VS integers, sha512, correct password hashing, memory leaks, memory footprint, network stacks, design patterns (guilty of this one myself), ...
Yes, I know. I was making a funny!
One thing that surprised me a lot recently, is I started a rewrite of my personal website using Bootstrap as a base, where the old one used jQueryUI... iirc, I included the kitchen sink in the old version.. however, the new one came in a bit heavier on the download/overhead... even with a better min/merge plan.

I can say the new version I am working on looks better, and is actually usable on a phone, just the same, I am not sure I'd like to see the UX on a bandwidth constrained mobile connection.. it's still well under 1MB total, but it seems that we should be working towards being under 100K for an initial load, and given all the targets for different browsers, and work arounds, and libraries, tools etc.. I just don't know where we are going.

We have more target browsers and size constraints than ever, and it's more complicated than ever. I don't miss the V4 browser wars (IE4/NN4) but it seems that targeting a 700px wide or 960px wide site was way easier than the rules today, mobile first or not.
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Ironically, though that's correctly pointed out as a vulnerability of "public transit," it's also a vulnerability of private automotive transit: if not for public transit, it would be far, far less convenient to drive from point A to point B, at least for some values of A and B
Or most of the other technologies that tend to be hyped around HN.

With experience one learns languages, OS and frameworks don't really matter that much.

What really counts is delivering solutions that the customers what to pay for and the consequent business value of investing in a specific piece of technology.
I wasn't aware I could set a field to SUM(..) etc from the gui... Most of the features in Excel are a bit under the covers.. and far more so than about:config... maybe the "advanced settings" tab should be a button that just takes you to about:config with a warning?
Yeah you definitely can. My mom was around 40 when she started studying programming. I'll never forget when she called me asking questions about why her Visual Basic code wasn't compiling! I had no idea she was even studying it! Needless to say that have us a lot to talk about haha. I don't think it's really ever too late to start learning anything. Even if you don't "master" it, it's still just fun. Also, something like programming can help you improve almost any monotonous computer task. :)
Bit.ly is also useful in that you can use the same link across the web and have analytics all in one place. Otherwise you'd need to check medium to track links you posted there, and some other site for links from there etc.
You definitely should see a good therapist.

For one thing, having $1.5m is a great accomplishment. I think you are suffering from a first world problem and comparing yourself with successful entrepreneurs.

Give some of your money to a worthwhile cause and work there as a volunteer one day a week for a year. Then you will have made a worthwhile contribution.

Open your eyes and look at the problems that needs solving. Choose one and go for it!
I still completely disagree making the web an application platform. Because of the absurd HTML5 cult, many websites are obtaining unpredictable and inconsistent behavior. The difficulty of explaining it to my old parents is increasing day by day. Moreover, browsers are getting fatter unlimitedly and only a few vendors can survive and develop them. It gives browser vendors special privileges. As we are experiencing now, no one can stop this "Disable JavaScript" removing. How can people say this is "open" movement? The good old web is dying.

The web should be words and documents first (I think this page is worth reading http://justinjackson.ca/words.html). It's too late to say but if you want a sandboxed application platform, develop it out of the web. I still believe the plug-in was not a that bad idea, not the best idea though. At least you can disable it anytime and you have freedom of choice.

I suspect that the back button will be eliminated next. Because it collapses most web applications and "user experience".

If the web want to become a perfect application platform, all virtue of the web will be lost.
I just simply wonder why so many medium articles have made their way to the front page for an extended period of time.

Some good, some, eh, but propensity of solo-source gets old.
[body]
[noscript]This site requires cookies and javascript to function properly[/noscript]
...
[/body]

Problem solved.
Neat website! One quick thing - the Ruby 1.8.7 REPL on the homepage was a bit of a turn-off because that Ruby version was recently discontinued. I'm not sure if any newer versions of Ruby have been compiled down to Javascript yet though.
Clustering is very hard to do correct.
Clustering while maintaining unique auto_increments, solving split brain, rolling back transactions, ... while maintaining speed: even harder.
So the cluster is never going to be "simple", might be simple to install, but never simple.

Side node: if you want load balancing, no replication, yes then it's easy to do :)
Because San Francisco is a city.
Most definitely. Go through one of Zed Shaws books (http://learncodethehardway.org), probably python or ruby. Then from there look into a web framework while still doing exercises (like project Euler).

All the while look for something simple you can write that would help you at your current unrelated career. Even as simple as a "to-do list for accountants". Put it on Github.

Email me if you have questions or want to pair program. I'm in my 30s so I'm all about teaming up with other Gen Xers and showing these youngsters a thing or two ;)
I think your argument is wrongheaded. People want cars to get them from A to B, that is all. Some people pay more for bigger cars because they have families, want presteige etc. Modular cars is so far down the list of things that people want/need.

Even software is often hard to make modular, things in the physical world... even harder.
What is taking up that much space? It must be something with google+?

$ du -h *
4.0K	followers.json
4.0K	following.json
12K	liked.json
4.0K	notes.json
4.0K	shared-by-followers.json
4.0K	shared.json
1.1M	starred.json
40K	subscriptions.xml
I didn't suggest that easy money was the single driver, or even the primary driver.

But the financial system rarely rewards those who choose to be ignorant. Individuals and institutions investing large sums of money in any asset class today who are not thinking about the unprecedented experiment that is taking place and considering how their investments could be affected by changes in policy are more than likely to end up losing money, perhaps far more of it than they ever could have anticipated. And in some cases, far more of it than they actually have.
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You don't have to be an American company to benefit from American policy. And I'm sure congressmen benefit from the "non-american" oil companies.

The question I would like to know the answer to, is who was drilling the oil before the war... it seems unclear, but if it was Iraq (national companies) then the war was defiantly an oil grab.
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What license are you releasing this under?
TCP/IP Illustrated Vol. 1, Stevens, pg: 250-252
Actually it is. Because everyone (the majority at least) believe in rights.
This is unnecessary panic/upset.

It's only being removed from the UI

The backend ability is still there.

Extensions like no-script and yes-script (I prefer) will still function.
I'm pretty sure that Disable Javascript is not something asked ONCE.
I have been learning coding in dribs and drabs for the past many years. I think if you have the itch, you can probably do it.

I have some strong opinions about what would get you the quickest results.

- doing practical projects that interest you

plus

- learning solid conceptual fundamentals, thoroughly

I would like to recommend, in the most enthusiastic terms, you peep this course called: MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

Just do exactly everything in that course. Follow the lectures, if the lectures get boring do the homework while you're watching. Do all the homework. Google language syntax but not specific answers to the problems. Read the suggested stuff.

I swear, I kinda suspect a huge percentage of working coders do not understand or apply all the concepts in that intro course.

At the same time, just pick personal projects and do them. Complete them. All the way done. And move on, always to something a little outside your comfort zone. Like, first just build a wordpress site, or wherever your current skill level is.

If you do those two things and are having fun and sticking with it, you are golden, I say.

;-)
Well, an extra phrase might be added in the menu where 'Disable Javascript' appears - '(Note: Javascript is not same as Java)'.
If users don't know the difference between Diesel and Gasoline, better option is to educate them in context (e.g. handle of fuel pump) rather than closing down all Diesel pumps.
I also surf without the Javascript enabled. It's much safer and faster that way. I suggest everybody to try that for a longer period of time before opining.

Most of the pages I visit function without Javascript. The most of sites where it doesn't that I know of are *.blogspot sites managed by Google.
The big secret to programming is that all you need to begin is curiosity. 4 years ago, I didn't know how to program either. In school, I majored in a completely different discipline. You don't need to have a CS degree, unless you plan on being a software engineer for a large software company.

To begin, think of a fun problem. You said you don't think you have a chance of creating the next Twitter, but why don't you try replicating some small portion of Twitter? What makes Twitter complicated is the scale, but you can create a very simple post-to-feed app and learn how to deploy it to a server just by using Google and StackOverflow. Creating working prototypes of even the simplest ideas gives you the courage to pick up more ambitious projects. The cool thing about code is that you can always re-use (read: even straight copy/paste is ok) what you've done before to further yourself in future projects.
I've noticed that the posts tend to be well composed but on the fluff side in terms of content.
Exactly right. In our current zero-interest rate environment everyone with spare cash is scrambling to figure out what to do to generate a return. Stock market? Risky. Bonds? You've got to be insane. Real-estate? Very risky. Angel investing in tech companies? Used to seem crazy but now it's not any less risky than the other options. They'll all implode if the money printing ends. It is unfortunate since out of all of the options, investing in tomorrow's inventors is actually one of the better uses (for society) of idle money.
No, see, he's so good that any education would ruin his natural flow.
many web sites don't work without cookies either, specifically the authentication.

if the functionality of "modern" sites is the only rationale, it is simply a wrong decision by Mozilla.
Me too, specially now with all the URL rewriting, language and IP filtering they do.

As I travel around the world, I need to keep changing my search settings to find what I want.
This looks like a very interesting project. I do have a couple of questions:

1) My last backup from facebook was around 30MB (for a pretty conservative facebook profile). Now, if I add 100 friends, I can expect to have to store 3GB of data/year in order to participate in nightweb (at a minimum)? On every device I use nightweb on?

2) How does the system interact with DNS? Does any traffic travel outside of the i2p network?

3) I'm a little new to i2p as well -- does the traffic generated map to regular ip addresses or is there some form of onion routing at work?
Phono says "Sign Up for an API Key". It's a service, they provide just an SDK.

I am searching for open source alternatives that allow me to install the whole WebRTC server software part on my own server. (for Node.js or PHP + libevent)
I don't know why you've been downvoted. What you wrote is not what I'd like to hear as an adult, but based on what I've read it's probably true.
Firefox is the most customizable browser available. It's about time they cleaned-up their Preferences panel and leave that stuff for extensions to tackle.

I personally never disabled Javascript from the Preferences panel because I never find anything in that panel. To disable Javascript, I use the Web Developer toolbar, which is much more convenient, although not convenient enough - since one might want to enable/disable Javascript automatically on a domain basis, which is why this should be best handled by extensions that are free to innovate the UI.

And while we are at it, I wish Firefox would add a search box in that Preferences panel. Its usefulness has been demonstrated in Chrome's Settings and Windows' Control Panel.

Also, Firefox rocks and I'm so happy to see it improve.
> When adjusted for population growth, the number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter

The reason for this is more directly "The Internet" than they suggest. Nearly everything that used to require you to drive somewhere is now done online. You order products off Amazon today.
Absolutely possible! Here's some more inspiration: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/You-Should-Learn-to-Program-C...
As I said at almost every article where the "NSA officials" were defending the programs in some way - Do not trust them! They can't be trusted.

We need a real external investigation done into this (and even that needs to be done by very credible people), and then we'll see how it all goes. You can't be naive enough to trust anything the NSA or the administration is saying now.
.03% is a disturbingly small number. I don't agree that it constitutes "no evidence at all".
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I thought about that too. I can imagine a whole new category of back and knee problems in the teens who grow up with this or similar devices.
I fully agree with you, but that's why I use an addon that lets me allow JavaScript per-domain instead of having to allow every shitty social button to use the main functionality of the site, and it can even remember my preference.

Why would you use the global JavaScript disabler when there are much better options?
relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5390138
"A research report by online services provider Bigcommerce released on Thursday reveals a 200 per cent jump in the rate of new online stores opening between 2010 and 2012. This is four times the number in the United States and Britain."
Yes. Yes, yes, yes. If you're an investor, and you want a given company to be healthy (and thus produce the best return over time for your investment), provide prompt support and let them do their jobs. If you think they can't, don't invest. If you think they can, but with help, help them... but promptly. Go, PG.
Rarely discussed? I disagree. There is a strong contingent of mises.org followers hereabouts; every time anything vaguely related to economics or the SV bubble is discussed someone bursts in to breathlessly update us on Bernanke's dastardly doings.
I suppose you could argue that monetary policy isn't as big a consideration for YC as it is for other funds. YC effectively capitalizes new companies with tiny amounts of money, and it does so across a relatively large number of companies. If you're not involved in follow-on rounds, valuation is less important to you, although you probably wouldn't be happy if the paper value of equity you haven't realized gains on collapsed. Outside of this, it seems to me that YC's next biggest risk is that the landscape changes, you cannot put enough of your capital to use effectively/efficiently and more attractive risk-adjusted returns become available elsewhere.

But most angels and VC firms investing larger sums in fewer deals, and competing harder to get into those deals, have much greater risk. The intriguing/disturbing thing is that as far as I can see, those investors seem to be completely ignoring how the injection of trillions of dollars into the financial system has impacted the asset class they're investing in. I can't name any other asset class in which professionals haven't been publicly discussing this topic for some time.
Actually, the number of people physically killed by a Muni bus annually is significant: IIRC, there's a small but non-negligible (single digits) number of people who are run over and killed by Muni every year.

We focus on crime, because it's easy to lash out at order breaking down and can relate to being harassed by the small percentage of Muni riders who can genuinely be considered subhuman refuse. In reality, though, SF has several times as many annual traffic casualties (around 3000, from some rudimentary Googling) as crimes reported on Muni (around 1000).

That latter figure has some factors that may suggest undercounting (it's reported crimes, and I can see how people might have so little faith in Muni that they don't bother reporting it) but also some that suggest overcounting (it includes fare violations and eating on the bus).

Muni certainly needs to be cleaned up, but let's not get ahead of ourselves: you're much more likely to die via automobile in SF than being shot or stabbed on the Muni. I wouldn't be surprised if you're more likely to be killed being hit by a Muni than murdered on the Muni.
Absolutely. However I was imagining public transportation being improved to the point where being crammed is no longer a problem due to many more options and routes being run much more often.

At that point it becomes a lot preferable to spend 1h on a train somewhere reading a book / catching up on news or email, rather than getting enraged in gridlock traffic without doing absolutely anything productive (yes, you could theoretically do radio/audiobooks).
Good question, never thought about licensing until it was needed. I'm thinking GPL v3.
I've been a computer science professor for 13 years and have taught thousands of people. The average age of students is about 34. There is NO noticeable difference in how fast young people (20) and older people (40) learn so don't let anyone tell you that.

As far as being too late.... You are 35, you will retire in 30 years when you're 65. You've been working 13 years so far in the other industry. That means you have over TWICE as many work years left as you've already used. You're only 1/3 the way through your working adult life. Is it too late? Only if you plan on getting hit by a bus next week.

I do recommend getting organized classes at some point. They save you time, keep you from creating bad habits and aren't that expensive. Your wage only has to go up 25 cents an hour for one year to pay for one college class for one quarter (3 months).
There's very few applications I'd consider useful to me if stripped of the options that "most users" would never want to touch.