skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It would be impossible for a startup to work with the government in processing Veterns claims, for example.

This is changing" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11...

> MOOCs? Don't make me laugh. Most of these people wouldn't want to take one, they are not interested in an Education. They can barely fit in their current paycheck to paycheck lifestyle into their current schedule.

That's an obnoxious and senseless statement. A MOOC is (1) lower cost, and (b) more flexible than existing *very popular education programs (ITT, DeVry...), solving the two problems you called out.
A good password is one that's not known or readily knowable.

There are archives of know passwords -- millions of them. These should be rejected on any online service.

There are tools for guessing passwords. Any password which falls into any of he likely-to-be-guessed divisions should _also_ be rejected.

Dictionary words _could_ work in a sufficiently large namespace. But that's pretty iffy.
Creating Highly Available Message Queues Using RabbitMQ
Spending 10-15 hours on the phone two weeks a year to get the insurance company to pay 3K/month of medicine is cheaper for most people than spending 300/month themselves. Even if, as in this example with numbers pulled from nowhere, it's 1/10th the cost in monetary terms, the risk is not worth the savings for a drug that is actually necessary, rather than recreational or mere enhancement.

A flatmate of mine has an immune deficiency disease which requires a drug every week which costs more than 3K/month, which is covered by her healthcare. If she doesn't get it, within a few months she'll be in the hospital with serious infections. She has to fight with the healthcare folks two or three times a year to remind them that this is actually a life-or-death matter for her, and then they grumble and continue paying. It in no way makes sense for her to start paying money out of pocket for questionable drugs from a source that might cease to exist in a month or two. If nothing else, assuming she needed to get it through "legitimate" channels again, they would use the time when she officially wasn't getting it as evidence that she doesn't need it.

The risk around quality and continuing availability mean that there's no good way to use a shadowy market for anything which is actually required for life, if it's even semi-rare.
Tragedy: Russia’s orbiting zero-g sex geckos have all died
Many large-scale data-centers are located in desert areas with extremely reliable electricity.[1] Besides, size is irrelevant, they could achieve the same result by splitting them and placing them in smaller complexes. Might cost them a bit more, however.

A random example:
[1] http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/12/data-centers-desert-technol...

EDIT: Am I wrong?
Agreed. VC's fund companies that target markets that can be served by VC-fundable companies. And most young entrepreneurs from top schools hear that it's easiest to Get Rich Quick by founding a VC-funded company.

But those aren't the only kinds of companies worth building, and "young entrepreneurs from top schools" aren't the only people who can build good companies. We shouldn't look to them (err, ourselves) as "humanity's only saviors". Which I think this article makes the mistake of doing.

A similar problem that I have with this piece is an over-reliance on entrepreneurs - that is, the free market - to solve the problems of "the unexotic underclass". The free market will solve the problems of people (and businesses) who have discretionary income. That's how capitalism works. Capitalism also has a lot of inequality baked-in. He shouldn't be surprised that difficult-to-serve, low-income individuals are failed in America.

Keep in mind, too, that the other part of "discretionary income" is "discretionary". Schools, Hospitals, Government Agencies like the VA? They typically have terrible purchase processes (and generally poor management) that make it almost impossible for entrepreneurs to sell to them. I recently folded an Education Technology company because schools are so difficult to sell to and have so little money. Don't blame the entrepreneurs here; blame a government which over-regulates and under-funds schools, the VA, and other services. (And then vote to make a better one!!)

All that being said, I do agree that there are opportunities for entrepreneurs in these markets. They may be hard to find, but we're not going to do it by holing up in Tech/Wealth bubbles like SF and NYC. Spending some time in the heartland may be a great way to find those rare business models that could profitably serve the underserved.
Berkeley Pushes a Boundary on Medical Marijuana
Agreed, he is teaching you the fundamentals, and how things interact on molecular levels on up and dissipates a lot of cargo culting, from a purely tv show perspective its a show that's worth watching.
>>In particular what are the irreconcilable beliefs on each side that have led to this?

I'm not familiar with this one. But in general most of these forks are generally out of personality clashes where one person just refuses to take another as the boss.

Scala is still not among the top languages used in the industry. This kind of my way or the highway attitude will only fragment the already fragile ecosystem. Imagine any serious software shop wanting to use Scala reading this. If I want to be writing an enterprise application which I plan to keep running for the next decade, should I be choosing a language which isn't just not widely adopted, but the existing ecosystem itself has forks because a few members don't give two hoots about stability(Which is far more important to 99% of the software shops out there, than adding new features).

Instead of doing something like this, and putting your broader community of users in perpetual confusion as to which ecosystem to use, you could rather contribute to something meaningful.
Sure, but CTCs only allow one to travel back to a time when the CTC existed, so I don't think that's a good argument unless there was a CTC-generating device in our neighborhood. Of course, as far as I know, all CTCs require infinities (Tipler cylinders, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipler_cylinder ), which is an argument against constructing one...
Why can't we have something like that running locally, on hardware we control?
Show HN: Angular-permission is dead simple access control for your routes
Yeah, I think there's a strong possibility that the Play JSON docs constitute a much more worrisome suicide letter.
I have a 3 year System76 warranty for my laptop ...
DinnDinn App
app already doesn't get killed. it's a gps tracking app that has gps in background mode also enabled.
There are a lot of reasons IMO. MySQL has a proven track record for stability and performance powering huge sites. I would say MySQL has a nicer replication story as well.

In general MySQL is a lot more widely used with a greater pool of knowledge out there.
Not to mention, finding an ATM is always hardest when you need it the most.
I'm not sure how that applies here? that's not what they rejected. rejected for something in settings file that has nothing to do with what a user ever sees.
I'm not really understanding the author's position. He seems to think the point of business is to solve problems rather than turn a profit. There are no end of problems to solve in the world, but only a very few of them are profitably solved. You can't keep going without profit. If you want to solve a social problem, you need the tools of social policy, which can bring enough resources to bear that you can afford to ignore profit.
Facebook's algorithmic changes to the timeline are more frequent and more disruptive than Google's changes to search result rankings. With Google, search results are a show of explicit interest by a user to find something particular but with Social Media like Facebook, there's no indication of explicit user interest in whatever is shown in the timeline except what Facebook's psychological consultants believe a particular user may want to see based on a number of factors.
Because it's for laying out text, not creating images.
A dating site for algorithms
We used it in my previous companies and our developers were very happy about it. Previously we were using http://www.amcharts.com/ good product (but we switched because at that time amcharts was flash only - I think), but my dev colleagues told me that Highcharts was more powerful.

P.S. at that time (4-5 years ago) it was possible to use Amcharts for free in commercial app but with reduced features (for example you couldn't handle a click on the graph because in the free edition it would open their site) and showing a link in the bottom of the chart. It seems it follows the same rule now according to their download page, so consider it if you want a good free charting library (I used also amMap and it was ok)
> no one gives fuck all about the poor.

That's blatantly untrue. People care. Ask yourself; how many of your friends "don't give fuck all about the poor"? I find it hard to believe that a majority of people would not wish a better life on poor people.

But solving their problems is intimidating, difficult, and probably unprofitable. If the true problem is that poor people are poor because they don't have any money, the obvious solution is to give them money (eg; EITC, UBI, free healthcare, free education etc). If all people have money -- and if you're correct that savviness doesn't really play into it -- all people will have companies trying to solve their problems.

I think Silicon Valley needs to wake up to the fact that some problems aren't best solved through technology, or through "people caring", but simply through better governance.
but the full question being is we = all ?
> why do these companies choose MySQL over Postgresql?

Even though it is not without its faults it is a reliable and high performing database, which is what is needed at scale.

> is MySQL less capable than Postgres?

Definitely not.
We're opening our startup's data
Ask HN: Gumby Framework vs. Bootstrap?
Has anyone used Gumby Framework? This seems to be a fork of Foundation with added features like Responsive Images, Toggles & Switches, Fancy Tiles, Shuffle etc. It has flexible Grid where you can change the columns from 12 columns to any number you like or embed a grid within a grid. Also the grids seem to be not restricted to 960px. I would like to know if anyone has used it and if so how was your experience? Do the extra features make a big difference? How does it fare against bootstrap?

Gumby: http://gumbyframework.com
Bootstrap: http://getbootstrap.com/
WebscaleSQL is a great project.
Nice! I've also been working on some vector tools in the browser: http://mattdesl.github.io/path-illustrator/demo/advanced.htm...

I think dev-centric vector tools present a really good opportunity to improve the workflow between devs and designers and change the way many of us design web UI/animations. My main goals and interests:

- modular tools that are not encased within a monolithic editor

- animation/key frames

- renderer agnostic (for use with canvas/WebGL/CSS/etc)

- publishing path/animation state as a npm module, so that others could just "npm install spinny-preloader"

- ultimately building a suite of tools for more fluid motion graphics that render in real-time in the browser, but look just as good as something from After Effects

I wonder if some aspects of your tool could be reused for some of these goals.
I have 1Password for iPhone and copy the generated password from there every time I need it. Certainly a pain but worth it. In the end, it doesn't take that long: 1Password is on my home screen, the Apple login is favorited and I can type my master password fairly fast. The most annoying part really is switching between apps.

I also have my phone set up for iOS not to ask for the password for 5 or 15 minutes (can't remember the exact option) after I entered it.
NSA bulk collection of phone data under scrutiny as federal case opens
I am soo happy about this release I think my neighbors dog just went wee on their floor!
Do you want a reason?

None of your post give any single proof, just some grandiloquent claims.

[Too many people here have a salary dependent on advertising, or an identity dependent on Google fanboyism.]

Tinfoil too much?
Want to predict food trends?
Sony LevelEditor
Regardless of the truth or falsehood of what you're saying, no good (for you or anyone else) will come of making this one of your personal crusades, which it sounds like it is. There are far nobler causes than standing up to SJWs you feel have crossed some line of hypocrisy, and you are much more likely to be a force for harm than good in the world as a result.
Highly recommend Mikrotik for those interested in something beyond your average household router. Their Tilera-based CCR series routers are quite nice and affordable. More L2-L7 features than you could wish to nerd out with for your home network.

Also agree with the statement that rolling your own is generally a bad idea.
Less weight to support per ground area, the mirror would not sag as much.
The problem with going into too much detail is that it can become a list of recommendations that might not even apply to different people's infrastructure.

Most of the time MySQL optimization is workload specific.
Weavi (weavi.com) would be a great choice to organize lots of things.
> You mean the box is ticked in a terms and conditions screen when you first turn the device on and that counts as opting in. It's on by default.

Photo backup on Google+ is off by default, you have to enter the settings part and switch it on
I'm running an Asus U38n, which has AMD chipset and graphics. I picked it because I liked the Asus design, AMD made it substantially cheaper than the Intel Asus Zenbook, and it allowed me to upgrade RAM and hard drive (unlike the unibody Zenbook). However, I've had repeated problems with Ubuntu updates breaking the Radeon graphics support, to the point where I've had to reinstall from scratch several times (and currently have 400MB of delayed upgrades to avoid going through that rigamarole again). 14.04 has greatly improved power management, moving from 2.5-3 hours in earlier kernels to well over 4 hours now, in part because my display brightness settings now work correctly.

Because of the problem with the Radeon graphics support, I wouldn't recommend using a laptop with AMD graphics. I previously had a Dell e1505 with Nvidia graphics that worked without trouble, and I've had no trouble with integrated Intel graphics support.

Also, I have a 1.5 year-old Sony Vaio from work. The weird BIOS Sony uses is completely borked for Linux, as I have not been able to so much as boot from a USB drive, much less dual boot. Actually, I may have gotten it to boot to a USB drive once using some dark voodoo magic, but you shouldn't have to sacrifice a chicken to Jobu just to boot into Linux, so I strongly recommend against even trying with the Sony laptops.
Letting Robots Make Decisions Also Makes Human Workers Happier
They are universal function approximators, which means they can map any set of input values to any set of output values. Of course to do this sometimes requires rote memorization of every possible input and it's output, rather than generalizing the function with a few parameters.

Adding more layers improves on this and allows you to make functions that compose multiple smaller functions. The problem with this is the nonlinearities cause the gradients to explode or vanish after a few layers. So the amount of computing power required to train them is huge.

Recurrent NNs had the same problem since they are equivalent to a very deep feed forward network; where every layer is a time step and the weights between every layer are the same.

But the invention of Long Short Term Memory has made training RNNs practical. Basically, as I understand it, some connections do not use nonlinearities so the gradients don't explode or vanish.
and my favorite refutation is that they've been here for a while now.
This is good post. I suppose you're prepared for downvotes? ;-)

>Somehow Europe, Canada, Japan, etc, all make health care work but we can't.

The thing is, that's mostly accurate. Those places all have governments that still occasionally get out of bed in the morning and serve the interests of their citizens. America does not. Now, the reason it doesn't in the first place, is mostly due to the actions of the same sort of assholes who would oppose universal healthcare on ideological grounds. So it's rather chicken/egg to be sure, but the fact remains. As P.J. O'Rourke wrote in one of his more self-aware moments (when he was younger, basically), "Republicans insist that government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it".

So on the one hand, universal health care is a good thing and Americans should have it. On the other hand, the US government is, at best, barely capable of pulling it off. You praise the ACA, but surely you realize what a piece of shit program it implements? Compared to, as above, Europe, Canada, Japan, et al? It's better than the regime that came before it, probably, but only just barely. It does little to address spiraling costs, for example, which is an enormous problem.

If it's a first step, great. Time will tell.
With Album sales at all-time low, Apple's purchase of Beats looks shrewd
What would be the total hardware cost for a single PC engines router?
Source Code: https://github.com/mattdesl/path-illustrator
Thoughts on Highcharts vs Google Charts?
What people fail to realize is that Facebook/Google/Twitter/<insert every other digital advertising company that exists in SV> are solving the greatest business problem that exists - how to create a customer.

Peter Drucker:

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

It is the customer who determines what a business is. For it is the customer, and he alone, who through being willing to pay for a good or for a service, converts economic resources into wealth, things into goods. What the business thinks it produces is not of first importance—especially not to the future of the business and to its success. What the customer thinks he is buying, what he considers “value,” is decisive—it determines what a business is, what it produces and whether it will prosper.

The customer is the foundation of a business and keeps it in existence. He alone gives employment. And it is to supply the consumer that society entrusts wealth-producing resources to the business enterprise.

Because it is its purpose to create a customer, any business enterprise has two—and only these two—basic functions: marketing and innovation. They are the entrepreneurial functions.
> Show me the path to get people off of sugar diets.

http://www.soylent.me/

I think we'll start seeing a difference when the economics improve making it a lot cheaper than fast food.
I never understand why people place all their hope and faith in courts to fix what's broken.
I understand congress is broken. But it's like everyone wants courts to sit around as a council of learned elders and fix the stuff that congress won't.

They then get upset when courts just rule on the laws as laws, as they are supposed to.
Android security mystery – ‘fake’ cellphone towers found in U.S.
Nice work, could user remove their photos (if they want)? Maybe you could provide some special hashtag like #noindex, just some thoughts...

keep going!
Xidel – download and extract data from HTML/XML page
Let's be honest here. They probably have the full details of every transaction in plain text in a database.
Small Programming Languages - What does "small language" mean?
4 Game Development Programs for Beginners
Yes, it's less than ideal. But I don't think you're ever going to find a nice, proper, trustable device. Communications gear is basically just complex software (DSP and the like). The parts count will be minimized to keep costs down, so the necessarily-proprietary parts get mingled with the needlessly-proprietary ones. Redeveloping those blobs as free software is certainly possible, but it will always lag behind the proprietary version. IMHO, that effort is better spent on working around the brokenness of such devices - maintain your own txqueue at a slightly slower rate than the modem, etc.

(My thinking on the "ideal cellphone" is the same - physically separate the baseband from the personal computer, with an IP-only interface (eg Wifi) between them.)

FWIW, I haven't noticed any packet mangling from my ADSL2+ modem in bridge mode, but I haven't looked very hard either.
I imagine people who are interested in this would also be interested in the Silk Road Gourmet: www.silkroadgourmet.com. Everything from Babylonian recipes to reconstructions of Roman fish sauce.
I posted separately on my experience with my laptop, but I would vehemently +1 the driver issues for AMD Radeon. My laptop has Radeon 7700 graphics, which in practice means I have had to wipe and reinstall Ubuntu four or five times in the past year after a system upgrade broke the graphics. Catalyst drivers work great, but they break completely upon some combination of upgrade (kernel? who knows). I realize this was naive reasoning, but I assumed that AMD's sponsorship of OpenSUSE would mean better support for Linux.

I didn't have trouble with my Dell e1505 running Nvidia drivers, but I didn't tax it very hard, either, other than using Compiz for some desktop effects.

I thought having a proper graphics chip rather than integrated Intel graphics would make for a snappier experience, but in the future I'll just stick with integrated graphics and max out the RAM.

Edit: Good to hear the Samsung works so well. I remember seeing some issues with those on the Ubuntu forums when they came out, which is why I opted for a different brand, but I'd expect to revisit them on my next purchase.
The password file itself is an encrypted DB. Unless you choose a weak password for that, it's pretty secure.
Some articles flow better when they follow a specific person / character / personality. Also, some journalists are more comfortable with this narrative form ... or may be limited in how many others they can bring into a compelling story.
I'm using Highcharts for all the charts on https://zenobase.com/. There are a lot of open source alternatives, but none I've seen so far handle axes labels as well as Highcharts does out of the box (i.e. ensure that there isn't a mess of overlapping labels).
Yeah, you can find these on ebay.

Brand is Hydis

HV121WX4-110
or
HV121WX4-120

There's two screens you can choose from. The 120 is a matte finish just like the stock screen (a little finer/nicer than the stock finish) and the 110 is a glossy finish. Your preference.

The screen is a direct swap for the x200. For the x201 you need the CCFL/screen controller from an x200. The x201 has an LED backlight and it doesn't work with this screen. You need the CCFL controller from the x200. Easiest way to do this is to source a broken x200 with the lid intact and swap the screen into the lid, and then the lid onto the x201. Aside from that it's a direct swap.
> The key is that they allow for decentralized, secure comms at the speed of light.

Until someone sends in a drone with a radio-seeking attachment on it and a few hundred pounds of high explosives strapped to its ass. It's hardly infrastructure-free when the infrastructure it relies on has just been blown to Hell.
It can learn any input to output mapping. What more do you want?
It can be easier, but saying it's ever easy belies the bevy of issues that can (and will) always crop up.
A little pcengines apu4[0][1] or a lanner[2][3] - both work very well with pfsense.

[0]: http://store.netgate.com/APU1C4.aspx
[1]: kit http://store.netgate.com/APU4.aspx
[2]: http://www.lannerinc.com/products/x86-network-appliances/desktop/fw-7541
[3]: kit http://store.netgate.com/Netgate-FW-7541-BTO-P1893.aspx