skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd go quite a bit further. Most users have no idea what they actually want. I think the key to building a dashboard is to ask three questions:

1. How do you measure success? -- or -- How will you know that life is good? How do you know that the sky is falling?
2. If you see this number (something specified in #1) go above or below a certain value, what are you going to do? Anything?
3. When and where do you need to have the info from #'s 1 and 2 to actually take action? i.e.-Do you need to be inside the warehouse? On your phone? At your desk? Daily? Monthly? By the minute? Push?!

1 tells you what to put on the dashboard, 2 tells you how to prioritize the information (something that's important but not actionable will be something that can be found, but isn't prominent or on display above-the-fold), and 3 tells you the form factor/latency that's needed.

I've built a lot of dashboards over the years. Some have completely changed businesses. Some have languished in obscurity. Most are used fairly regularly (at least monthly), but don't actually add much value beyond time savings of having the numbers automated. The ones that really changed businesses and provided some benefit beyond just time savings have had clear answers to those three questions.
Just to make it explicit - Volt makes use of Opal.
"This could have done with a lot more explanation."

Doubtless - thanks for picking up the slack! :)
I don't see the usual "Designed by Apple in California" sentence. Are you sure this is an original charger?
Wow, as someone who hates JS and loves the server-side, this looks really really cool. I might have to learn Ruby just to try this.
Have you ever heard of the concept of fractal wrongness?
> the reason that there are two choices are because of people like him disengaging and not supporting a third choice

I think this is untrue, or at least not the major factor. First-past-the-post voting seems to result inevitably in the situation the US finds itself in, with two main parties with no significant differences on most major issues, where voting for a third party candidate causes a spoiler effect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
> Pretty much every article that is posted about Go ends up in a never ending discussion about the absence of generics

Well either a lot of developers there looking at Go code are crazy, whiny and in general unpleasant human beings that like to make others' lives difficult or ... maybe it is a problem worth discussing.
I think it's more accurately "the illusions we create within social media sites" - if someone can do this, what subtle misrepresentations are we creating (with or without thinking about it)? Certainly, it is not unique to "social media sites", but an attribute of social interaction in general. Social sites just reify and persist that interaction in a form suitable for this kind of a project.
Really nice visualization - helps to put things in perspective. Interesting how 2009 shows a US deficit in the trillions.
> nothing seems to change

Some might dispute that, but I think you're exactly right in a "big picture" view.

E.g. lets pick on Microsoft because it's such an easy target. Bill Gates announced his company wide security effort in 2002. Yes, twelve years ago. And while security at Microsoft has gotten better, I think Microsoft still has plenty to be ashamed of.

It's the same everywhere else. There's a forest fire raging and people are walking around with super soakers trying to put out spot fires.

Our approach is therefore totally flawed. We need some big picture rethinking of how we are implementing security.
He even alludes to smartphones:

> Jobs: The developments will be in making the products more and more portable, networking them, getting out laser printers, getting out shared data bases, getting out more communications ability, maybe the merging of the telephone and the personal computer.
What do you think of my slides? ("STL Features And Implementation Techniques") I try to make them readable by themselves.
I seem to remember stumbling upon Startup News, and then the next day it had changed it's name. Bit of a shock to find out that was 7 years ago.
Entrepreneur-friendly is big focus for many investors these days. Witness Techstars equity back guarantee as just one example.

Felicis, based on its exits, is a top-tier micro VC (if you define it as <$100M funds) so this may force the hand of others.

Of course, there are those that feel that "voting along is a unrealistic commercial move that negates the investor's added value to his/her LPs". [1]

[1] From comments here - https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/founder-vs-venture-capitalis...
Is your insurance deductible $2500? If you had full insurance, as I assume you would from your comment, why not claim it? After all, it's there to protect you too. You can substitute cyclist for uninsured driver and the situation would be the same.

Registration is the bulk of the "needless paperwork" I was referring to. Cyclists get that hurled at them pretty frequently (just this weekend to be exact), with the idea that rego fees cover road costs. And of course it's simply not true over most of the world. The bulk of money for roads comes from non-registration related sources.
HIV has a very fragile envelope, which is formed out of the host cell's wall (a phospholipid bilayer). Also, the spike glycoproteins that mediate entry into new cells are themselves very fragile (a certain number of these come apart from HIV virions as they circulate, even with the full protection of the stable osmotic, pH and temperature conditions found in blood and lymph).

If these things are damaged (as they are when the virus is exposed to the atmosphere, or to enzymes in saliva), they're rendered non-infectious. So many details would have to change about the cells the virus targets, and the way that it enters them that I can't see how it would be the same virus, with the same pathogenic effect if it were somehow to become airborne. There are tradeoffs in everything, and viruses face them too.
It's a very important question, but I wonder how accurate and widespread this picture of West Africans is. Practically, I am concerned that there aren't enough treatment/care resources for those that want them.
I don't know what in my comment suggests that you can't love both Haskell and Go, but that's certainly not what I meant. Nothing I've said here is anything other than my own observation and opinion.

Thank you for the advice. I'll keep it in mind.
Americans Won't Relax, Even Late at Night or on the Weekend
Your points on Bootstrap customization - are those for v2 or v3? I have used v3 and customized I a lot by just overriding the variables and using the mixins.
I yell at cyclists for running red lights, etc. It's stupid, illegal, could get them killed and also gives everyone a bad reputation.
I'm on 10.9.4 and I ran into a bunch of problems (which seem to be covered by github issues[1] already).

[1] https://github.com/jipegit/OSXAuditor/issues/27
Interactive graph of proofwiki links
The headline of this article doesn't really match the contents. Certainly partners from Felicis Ventures will disagree with founders from time to time, they just apparently won't vote against them in board votes. In many circumstances this promise won't have much practical impact.
Just realized I double posted this - awesome quote for 1985
Well being financially sufficient gives you a leg up over most of us looking to make it happen.

I would start by reading/listening to everything by patio11.
(google patio11)

Another great resource is:
http://startupsfortherestofus.com

You're in a unique position as most of us are seeking financial independence and you already have it. So that will give you a different perspective/drive I expect.

Learn programming if it interests you . . . if you enjoy it/have a knack for it you'll enjoy it.

I would recommend learning html, css, js, jquery, php/mysql then rails and laravel. Start with TeamTreehouse.com to get started.

If you enjoy programming you'll have fun going that route.

Another angle is hiring developers instead of being the developer to get your ideas up and running.

I'm a fan of B2B SaaS so that's my ultimate goal.

You're already comfortable financially so you could be looking to do something more along the lines of helping humanity.

There are lots of opportunity to leverage technology and software to help businesses and to help people. So I would explore some ideas them pick one you are passionate about and start validating it and exploring how to make it happen.

I don't think I would intern . . . you'd probably be a better fit for investing in entrepreneurs or starting your own idea.

As far as figuring out what's going on behind the curtain . . . I would start by emailing/contacting people doing something similar to what you have in mind . . . connecting and networking with people in that area/niche . . . eventually you'll connect with the right person to show you what's behind the curtain.

You're in a great spot . . . don't forget about taking some time to travel, enjoy the world.

congrats, good luck with your next venture.
Well... does being hellbanned count as a member?
...this doesn't really tally, especially in modern automatics with electronic gearboxes. Most engines are optimally efficient at some key number of revs, and the gearbox strives to keep the car in that range.
Failed many times before raising $13M on Kickstarter
On the docs page, everything looks really big. It's a bit of a nitpick, but I think - in comparison to Picnic at least - it doesn't bode well for the default attractiveness of a site using Min.
Loved the simple, straightforward language used at the time. Currently even mainstream news sites are are just dripping with way too many marketing terms that don't really mean anything anymore.
> forcing them to stay in their village violates their basic human rights

Better-informed villages, towns, and cities have every right to refuse to admit, or interact with, individuals from superstitious villages. Self-defense is a powerful right, and I'd say it easily trumps a potentially infected person's right to visit a cousin.

People are free to die for their beliefs, whether such beliefs are true or not. But they have no right to make other people die with them. If push comes to shove, better-informed villages will expel all infected persons (preferably into quarantine centers, not into the jungle), post armed guards at every entrance, and either isolate themselves or only admit visitors from villages that have enacted a similar policy.
Generics also are a convenience to avoid subtle bugs and millions of developers writing the exact same code in every project. That's precisely what they're for.

Any abstraction can be "magic" to people who don't find it appealing or useful. Go includes some of those abstractions and excludes others, like any language. I don't know of any consistent criteria by which the abstractions Go provides are non-magic and the ones it eschews are magic.
I find your response condescending and hostile, actually. The parent was making a basic generalization; he didn't categorically claim that his statement applied to all people.

People de facto speak in the form of opinions, and if we are all to qualify our statements with "...in my opinion" for fear of accidentally making an authorative statement, then HN would become a very unhappy place.
> I don't know what in my comment suggests that you can't love both Haskell and Go

I quoted it in my comment. You said: "but [Go is] unsurprisingly frustrating for people used to more expressive languages." I'm used to more expressive languages too, but I don't find Go frustrating. Therefore, your statement is false.

You probably intended it to read like: "I am unsurprisingly frustrated with Go because I prefer more expressive languages."

Many of your other comments are similarly phrased. The read as if you are privy to some truth that people who like Go do not understand.
I got a Dreamcast well into its decline, and I was blown away by the quality of the software. It was the true successor to the N64, in terms of a delivering end-to-end quality. I remember Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, Virtua Tennis, and Soul Caliber as being nearly as immersive as arcade games games of the era. It was the last video game system I played to any significant degree. A truly underrated platform.
In the Go FAQ [1], when they list the purpose of the project, the first answer they give isn't about concurrency (as some might suspect), it's:

"It is possible to compile a large Go program in a few seconds on a single computer."

They've been consistent about this. It's a major design goal and, for some, compilation speed is worth more than support for Generics.

[1] http://golang.org/doc/faq#What_is_the_purpose_of_the_project
I'm founding a medical practice management non-profit. We're still pretty early (ramen, baby), but are always looking for help. I can't promise you any sort of salary, but can promise you a chance to jump in and learn a lot of things about programming and entrepreneurship. Seems like a good deal since you're financially self sufficient. If you're interested, shoot me an email (see the website).

resident.cs.illinois.edu
> in particular by bringing in local residents who have survived Ebola, and are no longer at risk of infection.

I have seen this several places over the past week or two – is it actually true that people who survive Ebola are not at risk of re-infection? I can see where that might be true shortly after recovery (i.e., due to there still being antibodies in one's system), but how long would the immunity last?
Srsly, this article seems littered with so many assumptions it's hard to decipher the actual point.

Tachometer has no use? Tell that to professional drivers.

Real time stats are worthless? Not unless you expect a spike in your server load (?) and need to react to it immediately.

If you can't find a use for some number, others may. That's what controls are for. You take the set of data your app (or whatever) has to offer, then you toss in some controls (your job is to make them intuitive so user does actually use them without tears) that can operate on and present the data and then everyone gets to choose what they see.

Bottom line is that the only way you can figure out that something is right for each individual is to give them a choice. The whole no one needs X seems far-fetched (to say the least). Sure you need to talk to users, but they most likely will express different opinions.

Also, don't build more dashboards. What? So we shouldn't improve on our mistakes, right? The concept is so bad that we shouldn't even try because no one (again, assumptions) can build good dashboard. C'mon..
I fully agree with your assesment, however

>security layers that protect Infrastructure from all but the most sophisticated attackers (aka state/country funded).

I think the OP was specifically talking about defending against highly targeted government sponsored / APT attacks.
I find it interesting that Ma and the other founders ended up selling so much of Alibaba in the process of creating and building it up. Just Softbank and Yahoo owned something like 80% to 85% of the company. I wonder if Ma regards that as a big early mistake (convenient hindsight), as I'm skeptical whether Softbank or Yahoo had fundamentally much to with Alibaba's success outside of the capital (and specifically that it's a steep amount of equity to have given up for that capital).
Antibodies generally last a very long time [citation needed], but would they be useful against such a rapidly-changing pathogen ?
India gears up to put Mars mission in orbit
Nope, totally unrelated. It was submitted ~2 year ago, probably by the author. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5160065 (179 points by freework 588 days ago | 98 comments)
Modern Web Best Practice: Build Tools
Is it really that prescient? By 1985 there were lots of BBSes you could dial into and connect with people from across the nation. In fact what would become America Online was just starting out as a BBS. The internet was available at most colleges, and tools like email and usenet were in full use. I think his statement is like someone right now saying electric cars will be a huge thing in the future.
All About Batteries
> You've made a HUD that fits in a motorcycle helmet.

...which allows you to see 180° behind your head, fundamentally enhancing your human capability. Unless you have worked out a way to do that organically? This is Iron Mannish, just a very early iteration.
I see this being moderately successful for apple. This is probably one of the first product launches that I saw where I thought all the work they did was cool, but just can't see myself ever wearing one of these. In fact I stopped wearing watches in general because I had a smartphone pocket watch. The less jewelry I can have, the better...
It looks like this is the function:
https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/anaconda/blob/master/twitter...

This looks like a good example of interface{} used correctly - the consumer of the apiGet function passes in their strongly typed object, which then is handed in to json.Decode. No type safety is lost from the perspective of the consumer, while the json.Decode can operate on any struct type.

Sure this addresses a different issue, but for all the complaints about interface{} I think this is a good use-case.
SS benefits are paid from current taxes. There is no Social Security Lock Box, its was a metaphor.
Kim Dotcom claims evidence that NZ PM granted residency to enable US extradition
> I find your response condescending and hostile, actually.

I don't follow. The rest of your comment posits an argument for why you think I was wrong. If you're going to accuse me of being condescending and hostile, then I think you at least owe me the courtesy of explaining why.

> People de facto speak in the form of opinions

I agree.

> and if we are all to qualify our statements with "...in my opinion" for fear of accidentally making an authorative statement, then HN would become a very unhappy place.

I did not say we should do that.

> The parent was making a basic generalization; he didn't categorically claim that his statement applied to all people.

In a discussion of design trade offs, it is important to distinguish between technical fact and opinion. In language design in particular, it is too easy to conflate these things. This thread, for example, is full of it. (For and against Go, FWIW.)
I also really like what min aims to accomplish. These are my observations and recommendations to improve the site.

* h1 font-size should be around 2.2em. It's far too large at the moment.

* .contain width seems best around 1020px. You want a thinner width to improve readability.

* All buttons and clickables should not shift the page in any unexpected ways. Clicking on the buttons, for instance, go to the top of the page. One solution would be to onclick="return false;" on relevant elements.

* The "Min Basics" sections is a bit wordy. I think there's some superfluous information and I think the word count can be cut in half.

* The Download page doesn't cleanly separate the calls to actions enough for my tastes. I would prefer having a "CDN Delivery" section and a "Download" section. I believe most people who want a minimal framework will know the difference.

* The layout of the "GET CSS" button and the textarea seems...off. The button is too large and the textarea dimensions are, again, somehow off.

Other than that, I think you've done a great job explaining the benefits of your framework, have given a solid overview of is features and I appreciate the humor of the sea monster.

Keep up the great work!
My mom works with police teams in India. From what I hear from her, out of pocket expenses is the norm. Not too surprising there. What's surprising is that the officers risked their careers and lives to nab a wanted man outside of the borders and had great success. These guys should be the media's darling now. Hopefully earning them more money and respect
I would like to reach a point in web programming where JS, or something that eventually compiles into JS doesn't have to be written or maintained explicitly. GWT comes to mind, and this does something similar with Ruby it seems. Interesting take for sure...
It would be really useful if Go allowed you to define methods against types imported from other packages. That way, you could define whichever interface you needed against those types (using only its public API, of course) and then use those interfaces for collections, generic functions, and the like.

The closest I've gotten to that has been to create a single-member wrapper struct. Go provides a little bit of sugar for that, but it results in a decent amount of boilerplate and explicit wrapping/unwrapping.
> but would they be useful against such a rapidly-changing pathogen ?

Does that explain why people are not immune from the flu after having it once – the version they have antibodies to is not the same as the mutated version which circulates later?
> The NSA/FBI/DEA can and have used tactics like extortion

Would you cite sources for that?
Guess it's the case of owning 100% of 1 or owning 10% of a million. They probably wanted to expand as fast as possible and took on as much capital as possible to fuel the growth. It's a gamble and he pulled it off big. Kudos to him.
MIMO doesn't operate via "spatial" streams, the antennas are not "highly directional" to the extent that a tx antenna and an rx antenna get an interference free channel.
Sigh, another fancy site that doesn't work on mobile, but could be presented with simple divs/tables or even ASCII art.
I like it and I might use it, if you have that feature available. Any idea, when it might be completed. I am hoping there will be some kind of call back or dialog result, to send the result back to the div.

Another question, how flexible it is, for uploading new content blocks?

I also dint find any email address or any contact info, in your website.

Could you also have some kind of trial, so people may try, before they buy.
On the other hand, how long did it take Microsoft to figure that out - remember the Windows 95 TCP/IP stack?

edit: note, Windows 95 originally didn't have a TCP/IP stack! The point is, plenty of smart people missed this boat for years, and I don't think it was at all obvious in 1985 that getting on a network would be the driving use case for widespread computer adoption by "non-techie" people.
Yep that's true actually, I forgot about the Lepton. Mike's electricstuff did a teardown/hack of it recently - http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/lepton.html.
> Playboy: Then for now, aren’t you asking home-computer buyers to invest $3000 in what is essentially an act of faith?

I'm sure a lot of people were and still are asking that about Tesla. His response is basically he doesn't know how the future will respond to the computer but he knows it will definitely change the world and before long it won't be an act of faith.
Perl 5.20.1 Released
You're right. I am holding it in my hand now and it seems like a generic model. Below it says "for use with information technology equipment".

This charger came out of a brand new iPhone 5S box purchased in an Apple store in the USA.

Apple then shipped a lot of generic low quality chargers? Can anyone else please check theirs? This was purchased in late June 2014.

Also found this: http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/25/apple-warns-chines...

Mine definitely looks like a generic one cautioned by that article.
Squire (http://neilj.github.io/Squire/) does the same thing without the jQuery.
This is the holy grail. Investigation begins...