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Thanks for the encouragement! We wage slaves need to support each other.

Thank you for your comment - I really appreciate that you engaged thoughtfully with my question.

I understand I could make a massive amount (relatively) of money specializing, and to a certain extent I am, but I truly hate the market's insistence I be a one-trick pony. I'm willing to accept a lower standard of living to avoid this. I want to focus on other things in my life than the problems my boss tells me are important.

EDIT: I'm a big fan of ERE, if that tells you anything.

Good question! I'm assuming the OS would be a stripped down version of Debian or maybe a server-based, CL-only version of another Linux distro like Ubuntu.

Although you can tell I'm fumbling here, I think the question I'm asking related more to the TCP/IP network layer. How can I construct a simple HTTP request at that level while adding the least overhead via the language/tools I'm using?

What would rewriting the ethernet firmware look like?

Hahah

> Since our pioneering program is like an orchestra, if we prematurely perform our symphony, you wouldn’t benefit from the life-changing performances we have planned. Therefore, we perform live only when our process has rhythm, our composition has harmony, and our program has music—music with the spirit and fire to excite and inspire you to realize your greatness.

No. There are a lot of scammy players in this area and anything that will take your money to make you into a (I kid you not)

> Self-Defense Security Hacker (Snowden-Inspired)

... is an utter and complete joke. All the "elite" talk is just a tool to appeal to your ego.

But you know that, don't you? You're astroturf, after all.

This might seem a dumb question, but can you talk about how this improves on existing productivity workflows? Does it integrate with tasking systems like Jira or is this meant to be a complete a replacement?

It seems high-level (and great) I'm just curious what implementing it "in the field" would look like.

I think it's interesting, I just wonder what the 90hr/mth positions will looks like? Are companies going to hire founders as technical architects, marketing consultants, unofficial legal aids, mentors - what? And what level of success in starting a company qualifies one for entry?

There are so many types of founders, in so many industries, with such varying skillsets, that I'm confused how an umbrella program could ever hope to serve even a fraction of them.

That said, good idea, keep going with it.

I really do think it's based on optics and spin, which is what has me so worried about the long-term applications. I was wondering if anyone has really considered the commercial implications of IoT data use.

I'm generally not excited for the IoT and the total destruction of the private sphere it will entail.

Sidenote: I feel like this intersects somewhat with our entire, terrible conversation about healthcare in America. In any situation, where a business has a good someone absolutely needs and a monopoly on it - you probably can't comparison shop hospitals - ideas of fairness or "corporate responsibility" go out the window and you'll be charged into oblivion. But the idea of letting anything other than the market decide prices is anathema, and so nothing changes.

It seems like she's trying to gain credibility as someone who's been "exposed" to the travails of most women in tech, but then her solution isn't to fight the physical violence, intellectual marginalization, or boys-club dynamic in the c-suite - all of which she alludes to and confirms with her personal experiences - it's to just bury yourself in work to the point that non of that (your career, professional life, emotional health, your entire life) matters. What a fucked up apology for the even more fucked up status quo.

EDIT:

I’m astounded by the number and quality of responses for appropriate tools. Thank you HN! To shed a little more light on the project:

I’m compiling research for a sociology / gender studies project that takes a national snapshot of romantic posts from classifieds sites / sources across the country, and then uses that data to try and draw meaningful insights about how different races, classes, and genders of Americans engage romantically online.

I’ve already run some basic text-processing algorithms (tf-idf, certain term frequency lists, etc) on smaller txt files that represent the content for a few major U.S metros and discovered some surprises that I think warrant a larger follow-up. So I have a few threads I want to investigate already, but I also don’t want to be blind to interesting comparisons that can be drawn between data sets, now that I have more information (that’s why I’m asking for a bit of a grab-bag of text-processing abilities).

My problem is that the techniques from the first phase (analyzing a few metros) didn’t scale with the larger data set: The entire data set is only 2GB of text, but it started maxing my memory as I recopied the text files over and over again into different groupings. Starting with a datastore from the beginning would also have worked, but it just wasn’t necessary at the beginning of the project.

My current setup: Python’s Beautiful Soup + CasperJS for scripting (which is done) Node, relying primarily on the excellent NLP package “natural,” for analysis Bash to tie things together My personal MBP as the environment

SO given the advice expressed in the thread (and despite my love of Shiny New Things), a combination of shell scripts and awk (a CL language specifically for structured text files!), which I had heard about before but thought was a networking tool, will probably work best, backed up by a 1TB or similar external drive, which I could use anyway (and would be more secure). I have the huge luxury of course that this is a one-time research-oriented project, and not something I need to worry about being performant, etc.

I will of course look into a lot of the solutions provided here regardless, as something (especially along the visualizations angle) could prove more useful, and it’s all fascinating to me.

Thanks again HN for all of your help.

But wouldn't a faraday cage just kill your in-home electronics? How would it affect a remote UAV just buzzing by?

Fun site (the cigarette pack looks nifty)!

So in the use case that I described, for a drone, the drone would get within jamming, lose signal and ... crash? Or do modern UAVs have protocols for losing connection?

Although I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm a "Twilio dev" I do implement the service whenever I need to spin up some sort of easy SMS functionality.

That said, any ideas for what you could use this for? I'm actually interested in building a sample app for it, I'm just trying to think of a sexier use case than localization and spam-detection. Is that as good as it gets?

Unsurprising but still thoroughly depressing.

The support for dev tools on Linux is so strong, that sometimes I forget that more "mainstream" content is harder to access - or unsupported entirely.

Dual booting a Linux and Windows machine is easy. I considered that option when I first got into web dev, but went to a bootcamp that was all-mac and it was just too much of a hassle to constantly translate everything from Mac-flavored to Linux-flavored Unix.

I'm happy with the Apple dev environment, minor gripes notwithstanding, because so much of it just_works. I'm also scared off somewhat by Linux driver gremlins (which speaks to your worry). A friend of mine, who's also using Linux to learn web dev, is constantly running into issues with his WiFi disconnecting and other small things that - while they aren't critical - add up in the long term.

So Linux is a good option if you're willing to really dive into it, which you should do as a webdev anyway, because it's so important as server infrastructure, and if you're OK with minor usability issues. But if you'd like to save that for later and focus on code, I'd go with Apple.

Hope this helps. Curious to see what others recommend.

I think we're maybe 10 years away from robot police? I'd love to be wrong, but they're such a theoretically attractive solution (hey, robots can't be racist!) and so appealing to the powers that be (let's program it to give a bunch of tickets!) I don't see any way around it.

Glad you got out!

Haha, I was wondering where the downvote came from.

Flag away, good sir. I'm more than happy to disagree with you.

I think they could make some tortured legal case that because he was working as a security contractor with a certain clearance and had access to XX information and signed XXX legal release forms, he could be tried as a member of the military.

Or heck, name him an "enemy combatant" and just detain him indefinitely in some Polish blacksite. People will forget his name in time.

“I would love to put a bullet in his head,” one Pentagon official, a former special forces officer, said bluntly. “I do not take pleasure in taking another human beings life, having to do it in uniform, but he is single-handedly the greatest traitor in American history.”

Chilling

I don't think anyone would gain - certainly I think the debate would suffer - and it would be even further evidence that the NSA et al are above the law. It would be a huge scandal, maybe even lead to the restructuring of the American intelligence establishment itself.

But I don't think it's impossible. He's done more damage to one of the most powerful organizations in the world than anyone in modern history. Spooks are vindictive types.

Knowing that he would be treated unfairly and seeking that treatment just the same precisely to expose that unfairness makes me respect him even more.

I'd add here it would probably be a military tribunal, locked under the pretense of protecting state secrets, but they don't seem to be having a good time of it prosecuting the 9/11 defenders.

Still, expect surveillance and general intimidation of defense attorneys and judges on the same scale.[1]

[1] http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/...

I don't understand how he ever believes he could get a fair trial. I commend him for the belief in the rule of law that the sentiment represents, but he embarrassed the world's most powerful intelligence establishment - you know, the people responsible for killing people who want to kill us in secretive ways.

There's nothing I'd consider out of bounds for possible retaliation, not even a "heart attack" or "engine problems."

I don't get it: is that disallow targeting some sort of porn spambot crawler?

Well then it sounds like you need to show source code ;)

Even if you don't have source to show, if your back-end experience includes Node and you can converse about it freely and intelligently, I think you'll be fine.

Maybe you could write a blog post examining some confusing element of Node architecture? Or walking people though a simple JS MVC PoC? Basically just provide some sort of technical copy (on your resume/linkedIn/wherever)that shows you understand some of the basic features of JS development (closures, callbacks, prototypical inheritance - which sounds like its all old hat for you). With your other projects and experience, I think that would be enough.

Hi guys. Cool site. Quick question - and I completely understand if you can't answer - any more details on your plans for expanding MLS coverage, or particulars on your current data arrangements?

Just curious because I know some realtors and it seems like the barrier to a national MLS equivalent has been opposition by industry organizations wanting to protect their data. Any thoughts?

Love this. Great post!