skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Economist is the only publication i pay for. I'm not sure how many newspapers/magazines could really follow suit. There is only so many high quality sources anyone can read, its a small niche I think. Also the average economist reader is probably quite high on income so I suspect thats a skews their ability to charge
Another data point from the UK:

I feel relaxed and safe when I encounter the police. Were I stopped an officer I would do my best to assist them, and to be courteous. I would be surprised if the courtesy were not returned. My interactions with the police have all been positive.

FWIW I'm white British and I live in a pretty 'typical' area, crime-wise. I accept there's a good chance I would feel differently were I a young black male living in London.
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This is like saying that because there is the possible to sue over discrimination, discrimination doesn't happen.

Their are cabals that require extreme investments to fight. Most people aren't willing to put in that investment. Much the same that many people who face discrimination don't take it to court because they don't have the resources to throw at it and the expected return is too small.

Just because a system exists to resolve issues doesn't mean that everyone has equal access to the issue resolution.
Are people unaware that early retirement is a real thing that happens to real people?

I thought everybody already knew that it was possible in theory to retire early and spend a big chunk of your life not working. The hard part is figuring out how. The article's implicit advice of "get a highly paid job as an executive at a big company, and find investments which reliably return 10%" is useless for that.
> The general rule of thumb for stock market returns is a 7% real return.

Over the 15-year period from 1966 to 1981, the real annualized rate of return in the stock market was -0.4% because of high inflation. You need to look at 20 to 30 year periods to get into the range of 7% real annualized returns across the 20th century. And there is the general issue with using the past as a statistical predictor of the future when the time window's length is a large fraction of the 20th century. Not to mention extreme outlier events whose level of impact isn't represented at all in the historical data.

A good book to read is Siegel's Stocks for the Long Run.
The Economist is the propaganda mouthpiece of the elite and it's cover is a revealing indication of future plans. It's stories are easily debunked as fiction even with cursory internet searches.
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I can't say I'm surprised. I watched her speak at a conference once and was alarmed at how incredibly ill-prepared she was to run a business
Another great approach is to take the outside view. Instead of figuring out what the path to success looks like, find a reference class which your project belongs to, and assume it'll be about the same.

Want to do better or find an edge? Figure out a way to be part of a better reference class.
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A startup just blew up and laid off its 400 employees via email with no warning
Ask HN: What if you kept employee count low?
I'm puzzled as to how startups grow to so many employees. For example, dropbox's core product hasn't changed much from inception. Why not hire a small core team of 10 engineers and focus on operating the main product?
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> The only problem with PowerShell is that you need to write C# (or any other .NET language of course) if you want to create a real cmdlet

What you say was true for PowerShell 1.0. Since 2.0 you have been able to create cmdlets and modules through scripting. An "advanced function" with [CmdletBinding] attribute is a full-featured cmdlet.

Now at version 5.0, PowerShell even has native syntax for creating classes and enums.

> The other, general problem with cmdlines/shells under Windows is the fact that they all work very differently than terminals that worked with type-writers 40 years ago

Not sure I'm following. The straight PowerShell engine is the most basic (typewriter-like) shell. But if you think in terms of support for terminal control characters - like VT220 - you'd be right. However, that is per specification not part of PowerShell but rather part of the console/shell process hosting the engine. The engine does indeed feature a number of hooks to make rich interaction possible. That is why the same engine can be used in the (admittedly) rather basic console "command prompt" of Windows pre-10 as well as with the ISE and Windows 10's not wuite so embarrassing "command prompt".
> I guess our public silence the last few months already said a lot.

While I can personally understand this reaction to having trouble, it's not healthy nor is it fair to cease communication in this way. A lot of promising projects announce difficulties by falling silent, including Limit Theory, which I was looking forward to seeing realized some day. Maybe crowdfunded projects need to shift to a mindset where it's expected to be upfront about problems.

> So with a heavy heart I have to communicate that as of now the IP of Woolfe, all of the assets and source code is now for sale

I said it before, but I'll gladly say it again: backing a Kickstarter project is a bet, not a pre-order. When I back a project, I calculate the odds and place my money accordingly, full well knowing it could be gone. As long as makers honestly tried to achieve something, I'm fine with failure.

Not everybody sees it that way, though. It would be nice if new games on Kickstarter would include a pledge for their IP to enter public domain in case the project as a whole fails. Because the alternative being played out here is most likely not very helpful to anyone, including the defunct studio.
It does scale. Low expenses mean profitability can take major hits and still work - in both companies and humans.

That $15k figure includes healthcare paid for and its very possible for a family to raise children on less than $30k combined. Choosing your partner wisely? That's important.

I don't understand your incredulity. People have lived and self-actualized on less than the $15k/yr equivalent forever - when did it become impossible? And why do you think so?
Well put and totally agree - in other words, as the start-up founder, you know it's a good idea.

My cynical take on "many bad ideas become major successes" is that as an investor betting on 100 companies, your best economics are from 1 or 2 unicorns, and not 50 base hits.

The investor optimized approach is 1 or 2 crazy ideas ended up being prescient and create awesomeness, but the remaining 98 ideas are indeed bad and go nowhere. The founder optimized approach is 50 good ideas create meaningful outcomes that aren't outsized.
> 1. Find a way to have plenty of money.

Shouldn't be a problem for a large portion of HN's readership. Those who aren't in school or building a company are likely to have a tech job that pays beaucoup bucks.
Great I can pay 5 months of rent and nothing else.
It has been out for a while (I guess in beta form), atleast for Windows.

Still using GitExtensions. This has a nice interface for hobby projects, but when working with "enterprise" huge projects at work - it lags noticeably.
And as long as the other side has more time (for example, by being better funded so they can contribute more time or by having more people invested in maintain a bias) it makes is near impossible. Technically grandparent is incorrect because they claimed the mechanism doesn't exist, when the real issue is that it is broken.
Heat your Teflon pans with nothing in it and it'll kill a canary. Hardly inert.
> Plans without *action* are just dreams.

There. I fixed that for you.
There are many reasons why a cast iron skillet inexplicably cracks.

Poor quality control in manufacturing, natural crystalline formation defects, excessive impacts in handling, extreme thermal stresses, etc.

Cast iron, being a non-ductile material, in the daily thermal cycling of cooking, any minute microscopic fissure will start to propagate through a process known as metal fatigue, and eventually fail catastrophically.

To some degree, cast iron can be annealed or hardened, depending on your cooking habits. Something I do which I would not recommend to anyone else: I buy cheap cast iron cookware, heat it up red hot and pour cold water in it. If it didn't crack, them I heat it up again in an oven and let it cool down as slowly as possible to anneal any internal stress.

In any case, if the skillet is of great value to you, there are places that actually can repair it for you.

As a last tip, stop practicing skillet abuse and trying to be an iron chef. :-)
What features did arc "pioneer"?
> before leaving the bagholders high and dry.

Well, the price could certainly fall, but at this very moment the "bagholders" can sell their ether at a 4x USD profit.

> which, as that post notes, at present rates won't be working properly for years

Funny, I deployed a couple of smart contracts today into the production network and they work great.
Wait a second. Aren't there actually two different pentagon shapes in use here?

Look at the yellow and blue in the OP. They are actually mirror images of each other. Maybe a mathematician would say they are the same, but certainly not someone cutting tile for a bathroom floor. And if these were proteins trying to form a cell wall, that mirroring would be a serious hurdle.
For the want of a shebang, the core was dumped.
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Good cover, but one could argue that the pros of devoted tutorship and freestyle curriculum outweigh the cons of limited socialization. In my everyday life as an adult professional, I appreciate more the limited educational breadth I received in public school over whatever street smarts I gained from it. Need exposure to a lower socio-economic tiers? Get involved in volunteer charity organizations. Overall, I think educational breadth and depth will make one a far better citizen than simply being among other public school students at the hands of the awful US education system with NCLB.
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There's a solar energy course on edX, where they walk you through designing a photovoltaic system

https://www.edx.org/course/solar-energy-delftx-et3034x

Although most of the current innovation seems to be focused on the panel efficiency, and that area requires some understanding of Materials Science

http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/01/understanding-perovskite-b...
Good projects last for decades and outlive companies. See: LibreOffice ;)
http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v4/n1/abs/nphoton.2009...

This device apparently generates reliably a 300 Gbps random stream. Not easy/cheap to do with DRBGs. But as I said, I have no idea of any application where this would be required.
Important people use Twitter. Teens and grandmothers use Facebook.
Thanks for the comment, this is a helpful for me too.
There is Erlang In Anger by Fred Hebert as a starting point
http://www.erlang-in-anger.com/
This is awesome. Super accessible.
There's an UX/affordance issue with merges.

Took me a while to figure out how do do them via the UI, it's not immediately obvious that the side pane (which tries to take you to the web site for submitting pull requests) has nothing to do with local merges, which are now accomplished via an option that only appears when you're comparing branches (on the new timeline/graph thingy).
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This is very helpful! Thanks for the info
Think about the old people and the retardeds.
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I've been reading The Economist for ten years, including this week's issue during my BART ride this morning. Other commenters have voiced appreciation for their in-depth reporting and liberal (in the classical sense of free people and free markets) values, but we haven't mentioned the paper's sense of humor -- the jokes are small but clever, and make for a more interesting read than the Wall Street Journal or Financial Times without sacrificing an ounce of rigor.
I wish you folks well, and I think this looks neat, but—as others have pointed out—although you follow the letter of the iOS Developer Agreement, I expect Apple will feel you do not follow the spirit of it. They may change the agreement outright, or simply say that use of AppHub falls under the purview of 3.3.2. But, either way, I recommend you have a contingency plan.

This whole spirit/letter thing comes up on occasion. Here's a previous example: http://daringfireball.net/2012/05/more_on_airfoil_speakers_t...
There are additional risks with hiring more people... you need to find stuff for them to do, and you end up building things that aren't valuable. At worst, you make the product worse. Once you've found the main valuable idea that'll get you most of the value.
Machine learning is a broad field of techniques; deep learning is an area of machine learning that I think generally focuses on neural network techniques, and usually rather large networks at that. Machine learning in isolation doesn't necessarily mean neural network techniques are used at all. Nor does deep learning exclusively mean neural networks, but usually "deep networks" are a part of it.
Literally the only they tell you not to do with non-stick pans is stick it in the dishwasher.
Tangentially related, this is a fascinating read:

http://www.quora.com/How-did-game-developers-pack-entire-gam...
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You're right.

But in general when people take out loans to buy cars they do so because it is a big purchase for them and human psychology may favor spending more if it comes out of an account in little chunks than all at once. So the "debt is okay" attitude is not good for those who do not know and cannot properly correct for their inherent biases towards spending more in small ways than in one large purchase.
Starting a company when there are already established and strong competitors probably counts as "looks like a bad idea". I think the point is that the company (or project) seemed like a bad idea, not necessarily the market as a whole.

Google and Facebook are both often used as examples exactly because they were "late" to the party. That seemed like a bad idea, but they both had a secret (as Peter Thiel likes to say), that made it not a bad idea.
Vanguard's Target Retirement funds are great for this. I make automatic monthly contributions and never worry about rebalancing.
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I agree with the comments, his 10% are way overestimated. Best I've ever did in a year was a bit below 7% across all my assets (but then maybe I'm just not very good at managing my money). That said, saving enough money to have such a life by 48 is easy for most people here.

The easiest way to save is to keep spending like a student even when you start earning real money. That means avoiding the trap of wanting a bigger house, getting used to expensive food and restaurants, spending money in big brands and all the luxuries people start getting addicted as their salary go up. This goes with the second rule of thumb, never take on debt on depreciating assets. A mortgage for a house is fine, a loan for a TV is not.

It's much easier not changing your lifestyle as income increase than suddenly trying to cut expenses. Of course this advice doesn't really work for people who are paid a low salary but for software developers who earn a multiple of the median income, saving like this is easy.
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Having used both on a Mac (where I mostly end up using the CLI anyway), I'd say that SourceTree is what you want to use for stuff like code review, whereas GitHub (other than local merges being hard to figure out - see my other comment) is quite neat and uncluttered - perfect for small projects or if your workflow revolves around their public repos.

(I don't see why this is being modded down - is it because I failed to mention I'm also using it in Windows?)
The lack of a paywall is a challenge :-) and to be honest since I did my own research in 2000 my references are out of date, but just typing 'homeschool socialization' on scholar.google.com returns such gems as this:

"Compared to children attending conventional schools, however, research suggest that they have higher quality friendships and better relationships with their parents and other adults. They are happy, optimistic, and satisfied with their lives. Their moral reasoning is at least as advanced as that of other children, and they may be more likely to act unselfishly. As adolescents, they have a strong sense of social responsibility and exhibit less emotional turmoil and problem behaviors than their peers." -- http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0161956X.2013.796...

When I was doing my research (prior to homeschooling my three daughters) one of the things I did was sit in the Stanford Library and download various journal articles on the positives and negatives. If you do the same (and I'm a big fan of people being critical thinkers) you may come to the same conclusion.
Game changer. Super excited for this!
If you'd like to see an attempt at the best of both worlds (Smalltalk and Lisp), check out Robert Krahn's work on Cloxp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQvvgzvPgQI
https://leanpub.com/intermediatepython
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

-Leonard Bernstein
All depends how you define "the same". Mathematicians use "congruency" which allows mirror images.
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The core difference is that:

- `[` is treated as a statement

- `[[` is treated as an expression

Which, for example, is why you can't use `>` in `[` based expressions. Bash thinks you want to redirect the output of `[` to somewhere else. This restriction is lifted for `[[` and makes for much more natural looking code.
If you don't know who David Rowe is - his work is amazing. He's the main force behind Codec2, one of the few opensource ultra-low bitrate speech codecs out there. The project hit ~700 bps recently! (https://github.com/freedv/codec2/blob/master/src/codec2.h - I think it was actually at 400 bps @ one point, but I guess it got scaled back)
Shoot, it's been too long for me to sort out the various features now, but you can read about the cooler parts of arc here: http://old.ycombinator.com/arc/tut.txt which won't look very exciting to any Clojure programmer nowadays.

Probably its most useful innovation, even if it sounds mundane now (and I'm not 100% sure it was first on this- feel free to correct me) is that it was the first Lisp to realize that sequences and key-value associations are both equally important and should both have first-class status in the core language (with proper literal and shortcut accessor support) ... so like clojure, arc is more of a MLISP (Map and LISt Processor)

However, the posted link doesn't have examples of the crazy syntactic sugar stuff pg did that I think was added in a later revision.
I have done this in several other comments/replies on this post, so I chose to omit that here to reduce redundancy.
>a) understanding git, and b) using git's more powerful features.

But then you start talking about pull requests, which are not a feature of git. They are specific to github (e.g. try finding a PR comment in the git repo).

Does the new tool help with advanced git stuff, or does it just serve the github workflow?
No, Cortana just uses Bing for search. They're not intercepting anything, just not letting you change Cortana's search engine. They're not doing anything to searches made from other apps.
Sort of, although I read it more as "I'm not interested in making Erlang performant because I wouldn't write anything that has to run fast in Erlang". But if I'm writing in Erlang I want to make it as performant as possible since it's doing something kind of important. E.g., RabbitMQ and Riak wouldn't be as cool as they are if it wasn't performant.
I live on less than half of my (modest for a tech job) after-tax income. Paying student loans down aggressively has become a higher priority than having a bigger place or going out all the time or owning a nicer car. And once the student loans are gone, I intend to keep it that way. There's a lot of security to be found in frugality, it's not just about being ascetic for its own sake.
Thanks for the precision, definitely puts it all into perspective!

I knew about KISS, but almost every time I hear someone mention it they think about ease not simplicity. I will also definitely check out Brooks' paper.

While I understand your position, I believe a lot of this has been lost to the new generations of engineers and what Rich did is remind them of it.
You're right, of course. My comment was premature. But I've looked at both the Windows and Mac apps now, and as far as I can tell, there's no common core besides (probably) libgit2. Each app is implemented using a language runtime and frameworks specific to its host platform. So any unification is only skin-deep. Maybe I'm just envious of companies that have the resources and discipline to keep up the appearance of a unified app while in fact maintaining multiple independent implementations. FWIW, if I were going to implement a unified multi-platform app, I'd use SWT; in fact, I did on a recent project.
It's rather embarrassing that github would consider it too difficult or too troublesome to release Linux builds. Very insulting towards a huge chunk of its user base.

Regarding GUI, how do you initiate a pull request on the command line?
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The hardest part for most people is understanding how these things even work in the first place. Use simple methods to teach the concepts. Sure you throw away those simple methods, but by understanding the core concepts, the learner can grasp the more advanced methods.
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