skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's take a look at the real problems facing America and the rest of the developed world:

1. Mismanaged IT in critical infrastructure.

2. Misallocated funds in programs helping the destitute.

3. Cyclical loops of depression-lack of opportunity-lack of skill building.

4. Health disorders on a massive scale, like metabolic disorder, that can be solved with very simple things like diet and exercise.

These places are not where a bootstrapped startup can make a difference. They are mired in red tape and ignorance.

Show me the path to get people off of sugar diets. Show me the path to get the VA to modernize their forms and applications. I'll do it right now for free. It isn't just me, so many of us are ready and willing to help.

The truth is that we build Instagrams because people will use them. We build them because the biggest hurdle is Apple's insane app verification process; but the bigger problems are so much harder to solve because the blockades are human and political. Barriers that most of us can't hope to cross.
I disagree. There's a lot of pain that you can solve in everyday peoples' lives that people could create businesses around. Look at patio11. He builds appointment reminders.
Can you believe that's a real feed-your-family business? It is.

Here's what I think he was getting at. Build a solution to problems normal people have. An example of this: A jobs site that works for everyday people. IE: Monster.com that doesn't suck.

There's all sorts of developer rank and 37signals job boards for you to go to if you're one of the supermen(women). But if you're a normal person, There should be.
Don't you run the risk of getting the text file or spreadsheet cached to the temp directory?
And of course attending a black-market meetup with cash in hand is both perfectly safe and an unlikely target of surveillance by law-enforcement.
Thanks for the info. Do you recall the model number of the IPS panel you used?

Poking around on youtube a bit more, here is the x201 TN screen (same as mine) in a side-by-side with an IPS screen - it's quite a dramatic comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzP3rFZXSgE
Young GM crushes strongest chess tournament in history
Yeah, as someone who qualifies as privileged having grown up firmly middle-class and blessed with computers and the interest to learn them since the 80s, I am not incredibly inclined to channel my entrepreneurial spirit into something unfundable to satisfy the moral call of an ex-Goldman MIT graduate on a guilt trip. Put simply, I can not move the needle through self-sacrifice. That doesn't mean I don't have ethics and integrity about what I choose to do, but just that I'm not fool enough to believe I can solve (eg) poor single mothers' problems in this country with an app.

The problems are not going to be solved until culturally we come to a common understanding about what the concentration of wealth is actually doing to the country, so the zeitgeist can move past this sort of ra-ra Fox News pro-corporate anti-socialist propaganda that millions of people believe on principle because it appeals emotionally to their rugged individualist values, but actually only serves as an idealogical wedge to distract the proletariat while the oligarchs continue with business as usual lining their pockets behind the scenes.
Experience tells me an allnighter would be a poor idea, as sleep deprivation is just as harmful to cognitive abilities than being drunk. Especially in the times between 5AM and 8AM, which I've found affects individuals the most.

If something goes wrong with your database, you'll be in a shitty condition to make fast and sound judgement calls.

One could say that not everybody's the same, but in those conditions I think that's not true. I've trained extensively under sleep deprived conditions in the military, where we were continually asked to make quick decisions in harsh conditions. Everybody's bad when sleep deprived and everybody's especially shitty at 5AM.
Yeah. I am really surprised by statements like that as well as articles that "anonymity is dead" om the internet. Tell that to any pastebin.

You can build any number of fake identities by using a tree of accounts, starting with services that don't track who you are (or using them to launder a tree root) and build from there. The tough part is keeping the identities from leaking, eg by stylistic analysis or other patterns. Sometimes when a network authenticates every account you have to hijack some random accounts and tunnel through that in order to communicate over that network. Like intelligence agencies texting "Pizza!" over SMS - although that was a pretty lame example.
> They are mired in red tape and ignorance.

So was provision of taxis
More like "Where the hell is IPV6 already?" :)
Talking out of ignorance, but why is MySQL so dominant in big companies? why do these companies choose MySQL over Postgresql? I see people bashing MySQL all the time because of Oracle, but technically, is MySQL less capable than Postgres? Would it be wrong to start a new business on MySQL?
The "unexotic underclass" that the author refers to is already being served by a multitude of entrepreneurs and businesses. The degree to which it is served well varies considerably from demographic group to demographic group, geographic region to geographic region.

What the author apparently fails to recognize is that the biggest challenge for the entrepreneurs and businesses trying to serve her "unexotic underclass" is access to debt financing.

Venture capital is not appropriate for every type of venture. While there's a strong argument to be made that venture capitalists would be wise to make a conscious effort to give greater consideration to businesses run by and targeting people who don't look and live like they do, the reality is that the economic structure of venture capital is incompatible with the majority of businesses that require capital. Put simply, for every business for which equity financing is appropriate, there are probably a hundred or more for which it is not.

If the author wants to see more businesses serving the "unexotic underclass" and serving it well she should focus more on the market for debt financing and not the market for equity financing.
That's wishful thinking. Undercover cops must commit minor crimes all day every day to be truly undercover in a drug ring. If the cop had to stop and say, "Sorry, I can't drive over the speed limit", they wouldn't be effective or ever used.
Wow, mac & cheese has been around longer than I realized -

http://rarecooking.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/maccarony-cheese...
PhysicsForums had a thread on this article back around the time it was published:

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=182229

The thread contains a link to a paper published in a scientific journal by the article's author (Michael Disney), which is considerably more strident than the article is.
Yep, I hate having my boot process finish in a fraction of the time with simple and straightforward configuration files. I hate it so much I'm going to abandon the entire kernel I've architechted my system around so my boot process can fully remain a bezoar of copy-paste mutated shell scripts.
Just because it is not a primary revenue stream does not mean Apple lacks a profit motive to collect the data on their users.

They certainly do. And since I cannot audit any of their upper layer code for any of their products, I cannot have any faith that they don't.

At least with Android, I can get my own spin on AOSP like Paranoid Android.
"Make something people want." - is on Y-combinator t-shirts. It is not about class, it is about solving a want or a need in a sustainable way.
For charting, d3 has an insanely high learning curve. (spent last weekend looking for one and while there are a few good d3-based charting libraries, they aren't very robust)
> See for example ghc's RTS options for its GC

I have heard Simon Marlow himself lament that GHC's garbage collector has too many knobs.
That flippancy cuts both ways.

The solution to the western diet is right there around the edges of the supermarket, and probably most people by now realize it's there, but they keep buying the flavor-enhanced processed grains because they taste good and are addicting. There is no red tape from people solving this problem for themselves, and that problem (#4 from pi) is about 10000 times greater than whatever problems people have or had with taxi provisioning.
Even disregarding the topic to be taught, as a trainer / facilitator there should be a responsibility to ensure the following:

* create content that matches required outcomes for the course

* have assessments that measure leaner competency in the content

* account for different learning styles and teaching styles that may be required

* assessments and training techniques adequately account for people with learning difficulties

Almost all the lecturers I had literally sat in the classroom, faced the projector wall, and read out the word-heavy slides.

We then had a final exam worth 75%-90% of our grade.

Calling them educators is laughable.
I've been running PFSense on an old Acer Aspire (now called veriton) and it's worked decently well for home use (100 Mbit downstream internet). It's only real downside was a single gigabit NIC, so I had to use VLANs and a router-on-a-stick configuration on a managed switch.

Since the hardware is aging (and I want more NICs for no good reason) I recently found the edgerouter from Ubiquiti. It's running a modified version of Vyetta/vyos and shares its powerful CLI. It's also dirt cheap at <$100 and has been said (I haven't tried to max it out yet) to handle 500Mbit throughput.

So far I haven't found anything that it can't do. It will also POE a few Ubiquiti access points, if you are into those. Makes a really nice home setup for the home network engineer for <$200.
"to invest in"

You forgot to look on the back of the t-shirt.
I also had this idea, but I never executed it as I haven't thought of a way to solve the real vs. estimated times perfectly. Probably can get close w/some data mining, but not sure if it's worth the effort.

RE: scraping - instead of putting logic in your scraper, just download the entire section you need, store it in file format. Then parse and shove into database whenever you feel like it. You could rerun the parsing since you'll have all the historically scraped website data on disk.
It is an standalone smartwatch and virtually you can do everything on your watch as your smartphone and much more. Our major motivation stemmed from the fact when we researched and found out that 68% of smartphone users are 'distracted' users wasting ~3hrs daily by just getting distracted by notifications and engaging into other activities on phone. That accounts for almost 10yrs of your life getting distracted unintentionally and not realizing it. We started with the mantra of - "Organizers for your Mind" and heavily focus on giving Life back to users so that they can focus on important things in life without getting distracted
Find alternative services that protect your privacy (for email, DNS, OS, etc.)
The second post (http://nickpegg.com/2014/8/building_my_own_home_router,_part...) mentions issues with getting the 7260-ac to do 5GHz.

Does anybody have suggestions for another card that would allow that without having to do kernel-level hijinks?
Highchart has been so good for our work we HAD to pay for it. We've looked at almost every single charting library (mostly open source) but in the end, the power & flexibility of Highcharts coud not be beaten.

Another awesome thing is their support. Ask a question on their forum or SO, then you'll most likely get an answer with a working JSFiddle example either from the community or the developers of Highcharts.

This is #1 on our JS library list.
Does anyone know of anything a bit larger? There are a lot of great little devices for running WRT for your home, but are there any open distributions for, say, a 50-person startup? At that level, things like maximum connection count and QoS play more of a role. Is it possible to just scale up the hardware and run openWRT, or are there other concerns?
Old news is old, but highcharts is GREAT! Worth paying for.
Startpage?
A lot of open issues means a lot of active users.
I would expand your argument to say there are more effective ways to serve the underclass than entrepreneurship.
if you will not delete it so it will last forever.lol
It'd be a great little coffee shop.
Here's what I built: (Copied and pasted from one of my gists)

Motherboard: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4918#...

RAM: http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-PC3-12800-204-Pin-Notebook-CT2...

Hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008U3038I/ref=oh_aui_detai...

Case: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HWYRYMY/ref=oh_aui_detai...

OS: Debian Wheezy

Software: iptables, isc-dhcpd, bind9, openvpn

edit: formatting
We used phonegap for a big app for the world cup and discovered that phonegap isnt ready for nothing serious, everything run slow, the plugins are a mess, sometimes compilations fail w/o warning, the documentation is bad an never acurrate, it was very frustrating, if you want some simple 1 page app. Its meh but for everihing else its just horrendous( sorry my bad grammar)
The purpose of a briefing is to inform and educate. So of course the people attending are going to be those in need of informing and educating.
I've always wondered what the cost of manufacturing would be for the the TI-84 would be today? Is there a BOM or estimates out there?
>'Commute to work? Apply for benefits? Schedule appointments with doctors? Successfully keep those appointments? Keep tabs on kids while working/errands? A smart phone makes you better.'

Spot on.

Years ago, I maintained a couple of desktops in a sort of 'job center' where people could submit electronic applications for various low-end, entry-level positions.

The most common issue - no email address. Second most common - has email, but has to take the bus to the library to check it.

Cheap smartphones have been a boon at that level. There's a whole segment of the population that was missing out on all the benefits of being connected until very recently.
A bit Offtopic: Somebody have used http://js.devexpress.com/WebDevelopment/? I between it and highcharts for a dashboard-type app for Desktop + IOS browser.

I have used DevExpress before and is a good company but never the JS products. Is less expensive and bundle a JS grid, that I need too.
Haskell: 20M new web requests per second. On a single machine (2013) [pdf]
Fastmail would be more attractive if they accepted bitcoin.
>In my opinion, the reason this leak contains only women celebrities has nothing to do with misogyny...

I'd say the main reason the leaks are all women is that hackers are predominately heterosexual men.
Aside from expensive, and questionable reliability, there is are a few other major issues SMS just doesn't address:

1) Blocking phishing: where are you typing that code into? the real site? Are you sure......zeus-in-the-mobile coming at you

2) and once you are into the actual site and you want to do something of value, man-in-the-browser becomes an issue

>>>> this sums it up http://blogs.computerworld.com/data-security/24250/financial...

oh yes, and the 34 banks that have been spear-phished and SMS compromised know about it too.......
33 years later, none of this is true of FreePascal, Delphi, or any modern variant. Except maybe the cosmetics. If you think {!@#$} is easier on the eyes than begin end; well that's like your opinion, man.
Every page on that site returns a 200 status code, and the same content as the homepage.

This means that http://www.highcharts.com/license (linked to from GitHub) is currently failing silently - you get content, but it's not the licensing information.

Note that http://www.highcharts.com/licenseoneutahenuo returns the exact same content again.

404s are useful! Don't disable them.
I use Dropbox, but my password for Dropbox itself is stored inside 1Password. The escape hatch is that the 1Password sync folder is shared publicly, and the URL is copied to a slip of paper in my wallet.
Rolling your own firewall is almost always a bad idea. Hardening a full blown distro is a terrible place to start, and no place for a novice to "guess" that they have it locked down "enough".

There are numerous open source firewall distro's that have the advantage of being authored by people well practiced in security coding, pen testing, etc, and are continually crowd tested for loopholes and shortcomings.

It's your edge device for security - not exactly a place you want to take risks with.
CSS Shapes are still pretty new; looks like support is only there in the newest version of Chrome: http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-shapes
Two nice links for anyone who wants to nerd out about the physics of closed timelike curves:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-travel-phys/

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/1673/1/TMArchive.pdf
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread: https://www.pfsense.org/ works when you provide enough horsepower.
Leap Motion Straps Their Sensor to a VR Headset
d3 is not really a charting library. It's a general data binding engine that happens to have exceptional SVG support. Entire classes are taught on d3 due to its generality.
"In another sign of a new focus on the issue, the IRS and U.S. Treasury Department last week included taxation of "employer-provided meals" in their annual list of top tax priorities for the fiscal year ending next June."

IRS has nothing else to do... May be they can look for the destroyed/missed emails instead?
Given that you get a stateful firewall as a facet of NAT, the main risk would be if your edge device was listening on the external interface with vulnerable services.

I appreciate the level of specific engineering that goes into purpose-built firewall distros, but "locking down" a device whose sole function is to perform NATing for a network is not terribly complicated.
Looks like this restaurant on the corner of the Ballard Blocks was also a "holdout"...

https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=47.662934,-122.375759&spn=0....
Building a Wullenweber is an expensive business:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wullenweber
Care to share on the assumptions that didn't work for you?

I ask because I hit a few weak spots in the docs and a maintainer that wasn't really interested in understanding my pull requests last year.
A flower shop that has long occupied a choice corner in my town recently made a unique deal with a developer wishing to build a large apartment building around it:

http://registerguard.com/rg/opinion/31978793-78/everything-c...

> Neal offered them a novel solution: He would design a building that included commercial space for a new Eugene’s Flower Home and give the family a deed for that portion of the building.
I had this exact same thing experience, thinking, "wow, they want me to write marshal/unmarshal code for every type... is it 1999?" and then, finally, stumbling across the horrifically written "JSON Macro Inception" articles--as if no one had ever used reflection before for serialization--and feeling very, very stabby.

And lets not talk about all the wrong/missing import statements in code examples...
What specifically is wrong? Are there too many paying WSJ supscribers on HN?
If you think IE has "just as much compliance" as Chrome, then you don't know browsers and can leave now.

First, you can try http://css3test.com, then you can peruse http://caniuse.com/ When you're done with those, try http://html5test.com but come back for more.
When I joined Apple in 1987 it was a Pascal shop that had just started moving to C. The Pascal they were using had been developed and was maintained in-house and had a number of extensions, and with the exception of a few things like different semantics for pointer arithmetic and the presence of nested procedures it felt in practice nearly the same as C, just with different keywords. I wrote a ton of code in it, and I really didn't think about the difference much.

But in college I had to use unextended Pascal, and it sucked pretty hard. Maybe that's the point of a teaching language; make it stink to the point that students are encouraged to move to better languages. Maybe the current vocational approach of teaching a "Real Language" -- ahem, Java -- to beginning programmers is flawed because they're less likely to get experience with other, better languages. [I'm not sure how serious I am about this. I know that I hate Java, at least how it was circa 2001].
Who is putting up 'interceptor' cell towers?
Thank you. This is closer to a much better upgrade path. The official documentation is really not a good way to have non-technical customers move from South to Django 1.7. With the new version of South, you could package both old South (perhaps some of them not yet run) as well as the new migrations. It could be better though. With this approach, they would still have to:

1) ./manage.py migrate
2) pip uninstall south
3) ./manage.py migrate

Better yet would be to have either South or Django 1.7 migrations check for the other's existence and run both sets of migrations and not force South to be removed. This would make it a truly seamless transition for the system administrator.
These are the best SBC routers on the market. It used to be between Soekris and pcengines, but Soekris dropped the ball.

and the enclosures are also very nice too

http://pcengines.ch/apu.htm
http://pcengines.ch/case1d2u.htm

It uses coreboot, which you can recompile from source to be reasonably sure no BIOS backdoors, and it also has a hard firmware flash write jumper (thanks to me)... to make sure your recompiled BIOS doesn't get overwritten remotely when a vulnerability is found in your OS (easy with coreboot if you leave the .config in the firmware image which is the default). I suggest you run the latest OpenBSD, and add the NEUG USB RNG. This is a dream machine. 64bit 1ghz dual core... up to 4 gigs of ram,low power, great great design, two PCIe card slots, gig eth. The best. And I have tried everything.

Building your own PC tower as a firewall, well been there. Its not the way. Fun project sure, but wasteful and inefficient.

There are a few really good cheap routers that can run OpenWRT amazingly fast ie.

http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WR841N-Wireless-Router-300M...

If you

1. add the packet shaping module and fill in your modems speed

2. replace the routers /etc/hosts file to block all internet advertising inc youtube ads with this ;

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

and 3. change the DNS to googles 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

Then you have the ultimate home router setup. But if you want secure / vpn / tor bridge etc then you need to go to the above mentioned with OpenBSD and be careful to buy a compatible wifi PCIe card.
WSJ allows a certain number of free reads per month.