skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I'd wished I'd known
and recommend that others
realize these lessons now:

(1) ASAP quit being an employee
and, instead,
be a sole proprietor
who owns his own business.

Advantages:

(A) Can't be fired due to office
politics.

(B) Guaranteed to win in any
office politics fights.

(C) Unless the business really is a
total disaster, guaranteed to still
have a job.

(2) Pick a business with a strong
barrier to entry. The three
best barriers:

(A) Geographical.
Want a business where
all competition is within
50 miles, that is,
no business more than 50 miles
away is a competitor.

So,
Don't want to compete with
Amazon, Dell, Cisco,
Microsoft, Google,
GE, Citi, Wal-Mart,
some company in China,
the Middle East, etc.

Examples: Fast food,
gas station and convenience
store, grass mowing and landscaping,
roofing, kitchen/bath renovation,
auto repair, auto
body repair, pediatrics,
dermatology, dentistry,
some big-truck little truck
businesses (buy merchandise
in large quantities with a
big truck and sell it
in small quantities
from little trucks --
may become increasingly
vulnerable to Amazon, etc.),
bakery selling fancy cakes,
with customer decoration,
maybe with a lot of whipped
cream that doesn't ship well,
Chinese carry-out,
French bistro,
Italian red sauce restaurant.

Doing well running
four franchised
fast food restaurants
can be fine -- doing well
with 10 can do still better.

E.g., I know a guy in NYS in the US
running 4 Burger King
locations; he's from Turkey,
still doesn't speak English
very well, needs a bath, a shave,
and some clean, neat clothes,
is great with people, and is doing
well.

(B) Can't be Automated.

(C) Legally needs a professional
license.

(3) Cross Section of Local Economy.

Want a business with many
small customers across a large
cross section of the local
economy so that if the local
economy is doing anything at all
then can still have an okay
business; this likely
means no one customer
provides more than 1% of the
revenue.

(4) Small, Medium Town

Try to locate in a small
or medium sized town.

Advantages:

(A)
Real estate costs much
less, and can buy and own
a house in a rural location
without too much driving
to business locations.

(B) Easier to build the
brand name you need.

(C) Taxes lower. Regulations
fewer. To ease regulatory approvals,
can know the people
on the Town Council and the
Zoning Board and the
local people holding
elective office.

(D) Usually better environment
for having a family.

(E) If the economy gets really
sick, can then just retire
to rural house and get most of
food from own garden.

(F) Have a shot at having
nearly a local monopoly,
say, dry cleaning, coin laundry.

(G) Can have spouse, kids
help in the business --
big advantages here.

(H) Have various ways to
save on taxes.
http://history-computer.com/MechanicalCalculators/Pioneers/M...

Take a look at the ancient work in the field, and how those principles got dragged into computing.

https://calculating.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/calculators-for...

This used to be a web-museum of Russian calculators: http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/

And there are emulators here: http://www.emulator3000.org/c3.htm

But really, Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Communication crams in so much stuff that it's not too surprising that we don't go back further.
I was working at the design center while this was going on. Totally surreal. I moved out of Boston in May. Lots of people I know have or are planning to relocate. Quite poetic that the snow has outlasted us... What a wretched, miserable couple of months. Never again.
> curl -Ls http://bit.ly/gh-install-package | sudo sh

Yes let us pipe a script from a changeable uri controlled by a third-party.

But then again Homebrew, Chocolatey, GitLab, etc is also guilty of this!
I'm guessing persistence is not a priority.

The difference is management of a simple process (behind elastic load balancer, of course) vs a more complicated architecture with three distinct, load balanced process types (webserver -> queue -> worker).
Video streaming does not need lossless compression especially over the internet (unless of course it's really is 99% - then why not!)

But leaving this aside - more independent tests are needed to prove these claims.
Tech Background + Sales/Marketing + English is a very powerful combination of skills to have. The world will be your oyster.
Very nice. I'd be interested in playing around with the api.
I was thinking more about behavioral differences. For physical things like strength or height there is a very noticeable difference between the sexes.
How to Increase Customer Loyalty with Tiny Behavioral Nudges
Confirmed here as well. Very strange, yet delightful!
I always assumed it was defined by procreation - when we assign gender to individuals of a species - the females lay eggs/give birth, and the males fertilize them.
I don't know...if I were Swiss I could probably conclude that mandatory gun ownership is the way to fewer school shootings. But reality is always more complex than that, isn't it?
There's definitely a danger of Philosophical Questions. But what you want isn't necessarily philosophical.

I shamelessly stole the "What do you want?" question from the tv show Babylon 5. Here's the original, meaningful answer from that show, by Ambassador Londo Mollari:

"All right. Fine! You really want to know what I want? You really want to know the truth? I want my people to reclaim their rightful place in the galaxy. I want to see the Centauri stretch forth their hand again, and command the stars! I-I want a rebirth of glory, a renaissance of power. I want to stop running through my life like a man late for an appointment, afraid to– to look back, or to look forward. I want us to be what we used to BE! I want…I want it all back, the way that it was! Does that answer your question?"

Of course, this leads to a gigantic galactic war and the deaths of billions, but that's another story.

Another one that comes to mind is Inigo Montoya, from Princess Bride. He knows exactly what he wants - he wants revenge for his father's murder. He may take odd jobs as a hired sword, but it's all in service of finding the six-fingered man and killing him.

So at a certain point, you don't have to keep asking philosophical questions. You just need to understand what motivates you, deep down. Inigo Montoya didn't have to ask why revenge mattered. He loved his father, and that was enough.
I wonder what that would look like if you looked specifically at handgun ownership rather than overall gun ownership. In the Nordic countries (which overall have quite a lot of guns) the general assumption behind regulation has been that handguns are a problem but rifles are less of one, especially rifles in rural areas. It's a bit puzzling to me that the American debate has focused on "assault rifles", which statistically seem much less of a problem than handguns.

As an example of large differences in ratio, Finland has a fairly high gun ownership rate of around 55 guns per 100 people, but only 5 handguns per 100 people. And while it's common to have a rifle in your truck in rural areas, you can't legally carry around a handgun in the middle of Helsinki.
I don't quite see where you have found incoherency or tactlessness in this
rant.

On the other hand, there's no substance in the text, and this may be why
I don't see either of those.
I used the term loosely, but the FBI director was the one agitating for crypto legislation recently.
Sounds like a mechanism for ads. (unfortunately)
Just because all of the proposals from legislators to make background checks mandatory for all purchases involve de facto registries doesn't mean that it's impossible to implement it without registries.
"However if you wish to assign ip addresses to each service, docker is not really mature enough for that. Yes its possible, but not very nice. You're better off looking at KVM or vmware."

I don't understand. If you can't assign IPs to each service (or it's difficult/unreliable to do so) how can processes talk to each other and the outside world?
They're going from Ruby, so Go is a pretty easy transition with respect to skill set and helped them accomplish scale (as seen from the analysis).

I agree that other languages could accomplish the same effect, but I'm not surprised by their sentiment given where they were coming from.
Trying to explain to a girl who's never seen a kilt why you're "dressed like a girl" is a great exercise for anyone who thinks gender isn't at all a social construct.

Like many things, gender is a mix of both. It's an immutable core wrapped in various social and cultural markers we've come to associate with "masculine" and "feminine". And of course the range of possible cores is more of a continuum than a simple binary flag (even though we like sorting all the arbitrary markers into two neat piles as if that really means anything).

Considering we still largely refused to acknowledge something as intuitively obvious[0] as non-right-handedness less than two generations ago, I wonder how long it will take until we've learned to deal with the fact that gender (and sexuality) is as idiosyncratic as nearly everything else about an individual's identity.

[0]: Seriously. People generally have two hands. Why on Earth should we assume that there's something special about the one that is dominant for most people? Good luck explaining gender and sexuality to a society that can't even imagine not everybody is strictly right-handed.
I used to work at a steamship line, a competitor to MSC, at a US port office. The port terminals take security very seriously, but some of the steamship lines' offices are a bit lax. It doesn't surprise me at all that they were able to sneak in and install this equipment and malware, although I think social engineering (calling import customer service pretending to be the consignee and scamming them into giving you the pickup numbers) would be more effective.

Fascinating article though, and the story would make a good movie.
Suicide bomber attacks Nato convoy in Kabul
>and it's almost a shame that no one has done anything like it since.

Well, technically this happens all the time with website hacks and what not. The problem is that the "culture" of hacking is a lot like taggers. Its an attempt to promote your group or brand. Its childish bragging.

While the Headroom hack was childish as well, it was also completely absurdist and didn't promote anything. I think its rare to see something like this where the hackers aren't pushing some agenda or self-promoting. From an aesthetic perspective it was pretty impressive. It really sells the idea of being creepy and mysterious.

As a nerdy Chicago tween at that time, this stuff was legendary. These guys became heroes on all the local BBS's and in the local geekdom. Man, I miss those days.
It says this in the article.
Same as m.facebook.com?
^This!

A long time ago, I worked in a computer store and I had a couple of customers whom I suspected were involved in organized crime. They were polite and personable but something about them made the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. I hated working with them. It was a great day when I found a new job and didn't have to deal with them again.
Ask HN: Can you recommend self hosted dev collaboration tools?
Looking around for dev collaboration tools for small teams. Ideal features:

- Multiple users/role based ?

- Git integration

- Deployment

- Wiki/Issues/bug tracker for Project Management

I checked out Phabricator but was too complicated for me to get it installed on our server (i would rather want something a bit simpler to install).

What about Gitlab ? Anyone got any recommendations ? What else is out there ?
Ya, the website shown here doesn't have privileged access to the api. So, short of some basic rate limiting, we can release the same api the website uses to the public as a start.
Thailand's capital is sinking into the Earth at an alarming rate
India does have a somewhat ingrained class structure. I've criticized it myself in the past.

But from what you write, it seems as if the real issue here is the class structure and looking down on domestic labor, rather than the labor itself.

As such, it seems like the way forward would be for us to encourage Uber/Homejoy/etc to create a liquid market in labor (which ensures that neither buyers nor sellers have any real power over others) and to adopt Ayn-Rand style ethics about work over our current left-wing "anyone who isn't a knowledge worker at a non-profit or bank is an exploited victim" mentality.
It doesn't matter whether you "buy" the arguments about why gun ownership is necessary. It's a guaranteed right codified in our country's founding document, end of discussion.
I think downranking Wikipedia would make some information easier to find. Often a subject-matter-specific site has a better page than Wikipedia on a given topic - but Wikipedia has more google-juice, so people are directed there instead.

There is certainly value in presenting everything via a consistent interface, as Wikipedia does. But there's also value is subject-specific interfaces. And I find Wikipedia's notability criteria very problematic; Wikipedia can't be treated as a sole source of truth when it simply refuses to include any information about certain subjects. (E.g. I wanted to know about a band I'd seen once, so I looked them up on Wikipedia only to find no page; I wondered if I'd spelled them wrong or some such. Then I looked them up on TV Tropes and found a useful page about them.)
16k requests per second isn't fast.
Heck, tell that to France, who can't manage to root out the US influence in their telcos or their intelligence services, and who are powerless offer asylum to Assange and/or Snowden.
Hacking Team scrambling to limit damage brought on by explosive data leak
Be nice if there was a "Latest" tab or something that showed what had recently been gisted.
Start with people who have already done what you want to do. If you can meet them personally and ask, do so (and getting to meet them can itself be quite a task). If they're historical or inaccessible, learn about them. Heroes and role models really matter. Find "a man to be emulated and admired".

What you'll sometimes find is that they'll teach you to not do what they did. For example, I'm a guitarist, and a very good one. I work hard at it. I had the opportunity to have a few conversations with the greatest guitarist I've ever met, and extraordinary musician. What I found out is that he's a very small person in a lot of ways. He practices or gigs about 12 hours a day, every day. He can't talk about much other than playing music. At that, he's tremendously deep. At everything else in life, he's a wreck.
Most monitors are 16:9 with the 16 being the horizontal dimension. It's also difficult to read very long lines of text, so my browser windows tend to be narrow and tall. When I use the developer console, I pop it out into another window and put it next to the original window.
You can use crocodile clips or banana plugs to connect it into experiments without worrying so much about frying it. I wouldn't suggest trying that with the Pi - it has 5V pins right next to I/Os that are killed by connecting 5V. Last I heard, the general consensus amongst users seemed to be that the best way to get I/O on a Pi for educational purposes was to hook up an Arduino or compatible and use that.
+1 on the list!
Suppose greater male variance is true, how should feminists respond? Well, if they think more high IQ females would be good, there are things like embryo selection and iterated embryo selection that would vastly overwhelm greater variance.
If you combined iterated embryo selection with sex selection against males, you could vastly increase the number of genius women.

So even if you grant greater variance, this is all very impeachable by technological means, and technological means are just extensions of human means. Reality is allowed to differ from ideology and almost always does. However, ideology with technology can change reality. Those ideologues that refuse to interface with technology lose much of their power to shape reality in the manner their ideologies prescribe. Combine that with the fact that biology is becoming increasingly mutable and you have neat science fiction idea: ideologies competing to redesign humans in their image.
It is unclear to me as why it contradicts the social construct part of the gender.
Maybe some people negates the physical difference between women and men, but I doubt that it is the majority of people that believe that the social part of the gender is socially constructed.
I don't understand that the fact that you couldn't stand being in a man body (I'm sorry for that BTW and glad you "escaped") does not invalidate the belief that the gender side associated with pink and blue, or which kind of job is socially constructed.
> As it grows, it simply drives you insane by how many technical trivialities you need to keep in your head to keep it working smoothly

For everything else there's Ansible.

We've taken the approach to not type a single command into a live server's console and use CM tools to document and automate. This, along with well written operating documentation can be invaluable.
Well, more accurately speaking it should reduce/get rid of [testosterone]-induced libidinal impulses. Of course some inherent preference, cultural compulsion and your partner[s] are big factors too (I'm guessing haha). But yea, I'm willing to bet some money that if used for over a year it would significantly reduce sexual behavior in the treated population. Which also makes me surprised why pro-abstinence people are often opposed to such methods.
There was a five-story pile of snow on the MIT campus after the last storm:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/02/13/residents-stude...

At one point people were skiing down it, but I can't find the video.

Another interesting phenomenon was the appearance of specialized equipment for removing ice and snow from trolley and train tracks. This device is basically a jet engine (I believe taken from a Korean-war era jet) mounted on a maintenance car and pointed at the tracks:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011...
Seems like many of the features of the full Facebook are there. I wonder if they are leveraging their React components to render the same stuff on the server...
Yes, it sounds a bit like learning to read 'letters' instead of 'words'... You will read letters quite fast but what about the meaning? Playing the piano is not touch-typing, as far as I know.
I find that most of the people calling for the control (and ultimate abolition) of gun ownership have had the luxury of never living in a place where there is a real threat of danger, either from animals or other people.
"Why can't hospital visits be like trips to Disney World?" is a questions that's always stuck with me.

Beyond the efficiency of using a private auto as a livery, the service of Uber is often cleaner and more courteous than a yellow cab. A step toward Disney World, for sure.

And that's where "unskilled" labor comes in. You don't need an MBA, you don't need CS degree to make customers feel welcome and comfortable. Nor can you automate it (e.g. robot-phone-operators).

So The future is returning man's economic function back to the Host in the guest-host relationship, and moving away from a cog in a factory.
Sorry I haven't used Honey, and the demo video didn't seem to show a sidebar? Also I actually inherited this codebase, but yeah our sidebar looks good. It just injects a container div into the site.
Based on the write-up? Regardless of language choice, I thought the analysis was pretty honest and the data suggests they did indeed engineer a solution worth being proud of. Did you get beyond the title?
>"I got so upset that I wanted to bust the TV set"

I always found that reaction to be bizarre too. I wonder if some people see journalists and know that if they play up a character then their chances of being on the news goes way up. I think that explains a lot of the 'man on the street' perspectives we see in TV news. It becomes a game of one-upmanship to entertain the watcher and "get famous."
First of all: Alexa is a she.

Secondly: i've done a _lot_ of e-mails in the past. I've handcoded tables for e-mails, I've used Zurb's templates, I've used Zurb's Ink, I run my own SMTP server and used to run transactional e-mail for a popular start-up.

You're really sticking onto arguing the same point, but if you read Alexa's post she's not necessarily saying e-mails are going to be made in Markdown. Alexa is not an idiot, she's ran marketing for many big companies in the past and knows how HTML and e-mails work. All she's saying is getting her team to learn more technology is a great thing.

By the way, the rude part of your message was "how clueless you are as to the rabbit hole your devs have got you in to" -- You are automatically assuming you're much smarter than someone just because they're in marketing, which trust me, is not true.
Wow, that's fast
Surrogate Science: The Idol of a Universal Method for Scientific Inference [pdf]
There is nothing in the guidelines stating articles have to be about hacking. They merely have to be of interest to hackers or gratify someone's intellectual curiosity.

Huge, accidental, man-made glaciers in a major US city seems to be interesting to hackers.
Great Slackbot! Definitely i would use it!
IMO, the most important thing to realize is that you're not in control. If you think you're in control; it's merely an illusion.

Treat your career as a means to end; not as an end itself.
I've noticed the same thing with kids close to me.

I wonder how much is (1) subconscious reinforcement of tradition or influences from outside the home.
You don't necessarily have to annex territory to control it, either politically or economically.
For me, vertical space IS at a premium. Especially when browsing the web. How many web pages do you see utilizing the full width of the monitor? Very few, which is also the reason I choose to dock my developer console to the right instead of the bottom. This also doubles as an easy way to resize the viewport when testing responsive design/media queries without resizing the entire window.
Why do you need to wait?
There's no high tech terror for the NSA to fight. So-called intelligence about what Angela Merkel is thinking is of no diplomatic or economic use.

The NSA has almost no purpose in practical government.

But the NSA does do a lot and has a mission. It's the same mission US law enforcement always invents for itself. The NSA provides lots of leads to cops to arrest innocent drug dealers. Aside from parallel construction, the NSA does the same thing most FBI, DEA, and Border Patrol dollars go to: small time non-violent drug offender persecution.
Seeing blocky buttons made me feel happy for a reason.
Very nice. One small nitpick though, the retirement income should be adjusted for inflation I think. Because otherwise, the retirement income in 40 years would pay for much less than at the time of retirement.
If this system is merely decoding JSON and writing payloads to S3 for asynchronous data processing, why not have your clients write directly to S3?
What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?
No. Visually they're very different.

I can't open the dev console right now, but it appears there's far less JS and "responsive design" on basic mode. m.facebook.com is more dynamic. It's like the Facebook of 2005.
VTSAX (the Admiral version of VTSMX) is the gold standard in the early retirement community, as far as I can tell. Some of the lowest costs an individual can get, with widest US equity exposure possible.