skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think the audience on this site is mainly out of touch

Yep!!

I grew up in an entirely different mindset than the upper middle class office workers I work with. I often feel like that I can't fit in or relate to them in many ways because they seem very out of touch with the world outside of their own upper middle class existence. Even in college they never worried about bills or living expenses, their parents paid.

It wasn't that long ago (less than a decade) that spending $600 on a car repair was absolutely unbearable for me. I went through that stress and now it almost seems surreal that sort of money was such a stress in my life when I look back on it.

I will never, ever, lose touch with the sort of lifestyle that my income can provide me (though I prefer to blow $800 on a weekend trip instead of an iPhone...)

The most interesting thing is that having so much extra money provides so much more opportunity to earn even more money. The old "You gotta have money to make money" really is true. I do money making activities outside my day job that I would never be able to do if I didn't have several thousands of dollar on hand to float for a month or so. If you are talking about real estate you need tens of thousands of dollars. The more money you have the easier it is to obtain more.
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If you loved RaphaelJS you'll probably like Snap.svg [1] aswell. It's originally authored by Dmitry Baranovskiy (Raphael's author) and sponsored by Adobe.

[1] http://snapsvg.io/
You've nailed the weirdest thing about tech to me. The insularity is horrible. I had the same question posed to me in college and even then I was like "but...tech people are mostly boring." English majors party? Good. Means I'll get out of the house.

I'm lucky in that a lot of my social circle is non-tech right now, but a lot of the keep-to-yourself aspects of Boston's culture don't sit really well with me. I've thought about NYC more and more lately. Might be worth another look, if I can figure out how to generate a client base down there before I make a jump. =)
Introducing the world’s first neural network keyboard
PhD stipends tend to be much lower than industry pay.
“Only a constant factor worse than optimal” – How to save money when you're poor
THIS COOKIE IS FOR THE CODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for your feedback, Chris. Today has been a crazy day!
The creator of noscript also seems optimistic: https://hackademix.net/2015/08/22/webextensions-api-noscript...
Here, this link will help:

http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/toyota-unintende...
> when being a landlord became such a terrible evil.

It's not being evil per se, but being an economic leech of sorts. The only reason people need to rent is because of the requirements to own (down payments, emergency funds to cover your mortgage in tough times so you don't lose your equity). Its an arbitrage between someone on financially sound footing versus someone not so.

Disclaimer: My family has a landlord or two in it. I make my disdain for what they do known. If I had Facebook money, I'd create a B Corp to provide housing to people that gave them a non-transferable equity stake, co-op style. A small amount would be "off the top" for management of the organization and for upkeep of the properties. I would make the org fully transparent ("Buffer Style") and ruthlessly accountable.
Looks like it might be Disqus.
Very cool! Also, a nice elaboration without getting too granular. I'm hoping none of these scenarios come to pass...but they aren't called "rainy day funds" because of sunny outlooks.
I guess the real worry is the quality of the APIs that are going to replace native access.
"Morell has documented 800 injections given to Hitler over 1,340 days, the first in 1943 ..."

Not possible; Hitler committed suicide about 850 days after Jan 1 1943. There are some issues in this article.
He publishes his family's spending every year: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/01/16/exposed-the-mmm-fa...
What does that even mean, "escape the influence of Earth's gravity"? Even the sun is under the influence of Earth's gravity.
Thank you, the comments look like something from the Onion. "Oh, I don't have any savings either, it's all tied up in my money market account, stock portfolio, house, car, and business."

When someone reads "less than $1000 in savings" and interprets it as "they must mean less than $1000 in a single investment vehicle" there's a huge empathy gap.
Zero correlation between state homicide rate and state gun laws
This is kind of tricky, as I'm assuming that, unlike say a hard engineer that works on a Power Plant or a Bridge, they're not licensed as a Professional Engineer.

http://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe

In that case the organization would be responsible to a degree, but so would engineers that sign off on something like this. The coder shouldn't solely be responsible, but if you sniff something dirty in the water imo it's your moral responsibility to raise something, or resign. I hope that if I'm in a similar position (probably won't be because I don't work on anything that will kill a person if poorly engineered) that I would react appropriately.

That said, this guy is probably full of crap and is just throwing whoever he can under the bus to preserve whatever stock value is left.
Hi, it's meant to give you ideas to write about in an article or blog post. If you're every wondering what to say, this can prompt you.
Weird how this stuff goes in circles. So here NASA attempts to move away from basic research and toward startup trivialities, while just yesterday we've been reading about YC branching off a division to go away from startup trivialities and towards basic research.

Maybe let's just switch Sam Altman with Charles F. Bolden and skip the slow process? ;).

Also, BTW., ESA seems to be playing the same game too. Only few hours earlier I've been watching a video on international flight where ESA described their program of technology transfer and startup incubation...
It's not, and you're completely right and I agree with you, but the schtick of ignoring all context that doesn't help out privileged folks is alive and well and highly encouraged on HN. Please try to keep up.

=(
"Yellow Pages Ltd. is cutting 300 jobs by November in a corporate “realignment” designed to make the company leaner and free up dollars to invest in its digital ventures as it continues to move away from print directories."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/yellow-pag...
How about this from yesterday:

How did the Democrats become favorites of the rich?

"The party and its candidates have come to rely on the elite 0.01 percent of the voting age population for a quarter of their financial backing and on large donors for another quarter."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/opinion/how-did-the-democr...

The NYT ain't exactly Fox news.
Making guns highly restricted/illegal doesn't make them hard to get. Did making meth completely illegal make it hard to get? To make this even remotely feasible imagine the New Orleans 2005 door to door SWAT raids coupled with the worst part of New York's stop and frisk.

In France, where guns are highly regulated, full automatic military AK's can be had for a few thousand dollars. A bargain by US standards.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/01/09...
You know how those software guys are always trying to impress people with the performance of their software...
His whole message of frugality makes zero sense in the wider context of his behaviour. He's giving advice to everyone but if everyone behaved as he did the world would end because we can't have a world where every family derives a significant proportion of it's income from two other families for zero value added.
Dude. The guy lost. You don't have to propagandize against him now. Let it rest.
I have heard about Little Bits from advertising on twit, and it looks like what you are describing:
http://littlebits.cc/

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Please try again :)
Ignore availability. You should be architecting your app so availability doesn't matter.
Against CSS in JS
Only 38% of Americans are capable of being self-reliant in the event they miss a paycheck or two.

edit: Why the downvotes? Is there a problem with being moderately self-reliant?
How a “this” became “that”
Mostly medical costs or getting laid off are the scenarios I'd be worried about. Even if you're insured, medical bills add up and you tend to be billed very soon after care is provided.
This is pretty cool. I usually had to add a little more context to get the correct result though. It would be nice to see the top ten results, maybe with a relevance score.

It would also be great if I could pipe in the search and bypass confirmation, e.g:

> echo hide your love away | instantmusic -f
Why?

I have over $100,000 in invested assets, spread across a diversified pool of ETFs. The only cash I have on hand is en route to my brokerage.
100k in stocks after a shock crazy crash of 70% can still be painfully liquidated for 30k.
Aggressive MMM savings strategies aside, $52k isn't a ton of money... Your profile says you are in Kansas City, so lets run some numbers really quick...

$52k means take-home (after tax) is about $38.5k.

This site [1] says monthly rent is about $1.4k plus $150 in utilities. One car payment on modest transportation will be about $200/month and insurance and gas might cost $200 more.

We're up to about $2k/month in expenses for what is a relatively normal cost structure. That monthly take-home on $38.5k annually? $3.2k.

We're down to $1.2k remaining cash each month and haven't considered heathcare, food, student loans, retirement, savings. And there aren't any kids in this equation yet, which causes another pile of problems if we assume the 1.8/family rate from the CIA Factbook.

These are just ball-park, but then, so is that household income. It is very easy to eat up income without living an extravagant lifestyle full of smartphones, laptops, and luxury vehicles.

[1] https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/kansas-city
An interesting take on how someone really feels about programmers.

http://www.movin925.com/2015/08/10/second-date-update-podcas...
The trick is learning how to compose promises out of one another. For instance, then() on a promise doesn't just support a callback, but another promise or a function that returns another promise. Often you can build multiple async operations as chains and flows of promises. Additionally there are "higher level" compositions of promises such as Q.whenAll(promise1, promise2, ...).then(), making it easier to deal with things like parallel promises.

Also, it's often cleaner to use something like Q.nfcall to turn a callback accepting function (like request in your example) itself into a promise that can be chained. (I just noticed that this is contrary to Q's own documentation which surprisingly is pro-deferred.)
My favorite manager ever told me when I took my first management job that "you can delegate work but not responsibility"
What do you mean?

Let's assume the individial he is talking about is a manager of a group of hundreds of engineers working in this area. This means this guy's direct manager most likely would not be in a position to inspect the work of people 2-3 levels down for any irregularities.

What processes should be in place, exactly, to do what? Quarterly polygraph tests performed by all engineering managers to assure top management they haven't broken any laws?
That's not his income. I see his mortgage / rent is zero. So if we all had no mortgage/rent to pay MMM would see his income fall as he has rental properties.

I'm sure many families renting would love to "build stuff out of wood" but most have to have both parents working to pay the rent and bills. If only they had no mortgage. Still it's tough what with all the speculators in the market feeding off basic human needs so back to work for them.
The official rate of inflation is intended to be a measure an increase in the overall money supply; it's an average.

The increased cost in certain segments is offset by deflation in other segments. While the healthcare market is booming, the energy sector has been decimated. In other words, life sucks if you're a sick oil worker, it's awesome if you're in medicine or production.
Give me a call when you find a company that lets its employees work on whatever they want with minimal effort put into politicking/explanation.

Plenty of excellent engineers take unpaid time off work between jobs for the opportunity to work on personal projects without interruption.

Point is, 30-40k/yr ain't bad pay for that sort of freedom.

EDIT: I've been in a PhD program. The reply to this comment DOES NOT describe a normal or healthy advisor/advisee relationship.

Ultimately, there should be a point in every PhD where the student carves out a project and works on that project, and it should probably happen before the student is spending most of their time on research. The student shouldn't have to play politics to convince people to allow him/her to work on their own ideas, as long as those ideas have scientific value.

If you find yourself consistently working 80 hour weeks and answering 2am emails, switch advisors or switch programs.

If you're just working on your advisor's stuff without any autonomy and/or don't have any say in the direction of your or your lab's research, switch advisors or switch programs.

A lot of the "bad press" PhD programs get aren't indicative of a healthy PhD and are not as common as they're made out to be. And never necessary. It's usually a combination of an abusive professor and a niave student. Which, BTW, happens in industry as well ("death marches" etc)

A phd isn't a 40 hour work week kinda gig, but it also shouldn't be abusive. But in general, it's really simple: don't let people abuse you, and if you're taking a pay cut in return for freedom, be damn sure you demand the freedom.
I wonder about food cravings. I get them sometimes and they are less of a craving for food and more of my mood suddenly being extremely unstable and an inability to focus. This is something of a problem that I have had for several years I don't know if maybe I have something medically wrong with me. I am in excellent shape and work out regularly but I am very heavy (240 lbs) so it might be I just need a very large caloric intake and I don't eat enough at each meal.
If the sources have basis in truth, even if not to the extremity put forward, it's worth keeping in mind in the context of the person's worldly outlook. That noted, when talking about the effects of drug addiction on the mind, I find it relevant to point out Ayn Rand was an amphetamine addict for 30 years[1]. As a writer myself with an alphabet of substances consumed over the years, I can attest to different drugs having different influences on what gets put to paper...the most common in the field being alcohol. There's a long tradition of people saying things they wouldn't otherwise when their inhibitions are lowered, and that seems to hold true with the written word as well in many cases.

[1] http://theweek.com/articles/493764/ayn-rand-speed-addict
Hi. I agree most people here are out of touch. While I am no longer in such a desperate situation, I was once in a few of them. I resolved to, and ultimate worked for and sold a financial product to help people with many of the problems they now face (sort of not making enough money or being in a debt spiral, but give me a few years to amass capital and I can try that too). I assure you, I have excellent data we use to help understand what features our customers need and which features customers do not need.

I share your frustration, but would like to provide some alternative narrative around this story for the benefit of the audience here.

Consumers avoid savings accounts across the board of income. They do this because financial advisors, both public on TV and private, tell them to. Many lack liquidity at the scale of 4 figures, but even those that have that avoid them. They do this for a lot of reasons, but it's incorrect to imply that the only reason they do so is because they don't have a cash buffer.

In fact, our data suggests a surprising number of people keep a cash buffer when they'd be much better served paying down credit card debt with that money (and of course, better still served by converting a large revolving debt to a more attractive fixed loan). Again, many reasons (e.g., protection from credit-related cash seizure) exist to justify this approach at all income levels.

Stories like this exist to belittle younger generations and further the narrative that our nations financial decline is somehow tied to the imprudence of its younger and more vulnerable citizens. This could not be further from the case; the real story is one of outrageous wealth extraction from the young to the old without a hint of remorse or self-reflection. That story spans many financial domains and also places like property tax law and policies around public health care.

Stories like this also exist to push the burden of innovation off of banks, who say, "No one uses these savings products so we should focus on spending products." The point, "Your savings tools are terrible" is seldom offered. Stories like this are solicited carefully, by highly paid people, to help avoid painful discussions like, "Should the savings account rate be locked to at least the rate of inflation?" that many people (including people at the CFPB) have raised.

Just sayin', this article is not only a pile of garbage, but it's a meticulously crafted pile of garbage designed to tell a toxic narrative.
Very much this. If you're starting out or have a very dynamic load pattern (Netflix), AWS is for you. If you have a fixed load pattern, you can see quite a bit savings going to dedicated hardware (Stackoverflow/Stackexchange).
How to format content that gets shared
"Software Engineering department will get bonuses depending on emission results!" - legal way to push department to cheat.
Quintessential hipster bullshit. His community doesn't have any special rights to dictate the culture of the region and if he doesn't like the newcomers he can leave. It's also absurd to presume that just because someone has a high paying job they cannot qualify as a legitimate part of the community. Your petty and insular mindset is gross.
Think Microsoft is back on the right track with Satya Nadella.

Will Surface Book run Linux well?
I've worked at a couple different companies that made safety critical software, and I have to agree with joezedeco.

Dav3xor's Law -- Code Quality is Inversely Proportional to Risk.
But... how do we know by leaving out the retirement/investment accounts?
Compare your savings interest rate to the rate of inflation.

You're literally better off with credit card rewards and paying down the debt monthly, in many cases. That's how bad most savings accounts are.
Other commenters weigh in with excellent counters. However, the OP (and I) didn't split between equities and cash.

It would have been very rare for one to have -- while trying to be prudent -- constructed a portfolio of assets across checking accounts, equities, bonds, and primary residence that saw anything like a 50% loss from peak to 2008-crisis trough.

Note that the checking account loss was 0%; bonds did not perform as badly as equities; and in the vast majority of the US, residential RE did not fall 50%. Also note that if one did not choose the absolute generational bottom to liquidate the entire portfolio, the actual losses would have been lesser still. In other words, allocating across a diverse set of assets would have protected from the worst of the downside (while letting you participate in the historic run in equities since).

Irrational fear of volatility is going to have a lot of people retiring much later than they would like, with less money than they would like.
But who merged pull request to master?
Your flikr is interesting but its so typical Seattle. Lots of fake shit and old dude perspective.
Spend a month learning to interview with a book like Cracking the Code, and yeah, you'll get a great job.
I'm not sure what you mean here. In that case, you could be arrested as a material witness and compelled to testify, but if there's any chance that a statement on the matter could incriminate yourself, wouldn't you have to be granted immunity first?
Only my subculture has value and deserves to be preserved.
Yeah that's the scenario I was imagining, where you have no physical assets in EU territory.
But see the reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10355200
> "We didn't even know [he was a member] because he was using an email that was not descriptive, and he was not using his real name," Cakarel says.

This implies that the company looks through their subscriber rolls for famous film-industry personalities, which is an unusual thing to glibly admit to.
> Why not ban cars, more people are accidentally killed with automobiles than guns used for homicide or suicide.

The auto fatality rate has been drastically reduced through better regulation and better technology. Safety features, insurance, inspections, traffic regulations, registration and transfer documentation, taxation have all increased public safety and reduced the burden auto use has on society.

Regulating guns like cars would be a great idea.
The CFAA makes knowing, purposeful access to computer systems you don't have permission to use a crime, and a felony when that access is used to attempt to perpetrate additional crimes. It's a simple statute.

There are two common arguments against CFAA.

The first is that it shouldn't be a felony to access computer systems without authorization. The logic goes: if you use access to a computer system to perpetrate a fraud, charge fraud. If theft, charge theft.

A variant of this argument suggests that maybe "serious hacking" should be a felony, but things like reusing an old password, or guessing the URL after the login screen, those things shouldn't be felonious.

These arguments are problematic. For instance, in cases where the offender has used their unauthorized access solely to cause economic harm to someone else, there may not be a better crime to charge. The vandalism statutes weren't designed for offenses that can easily rack up tens of thousands of dollars. There's also the basic issue of trespass and violation of property rights. And, of course, civil remedies to these problems have their own problems, prominent among them the fact that all the burden for collecting those remedies falls on the victim, who under civil law receives no assistance from the rest of society.

The second set of arguments against CFAA is that the sentences are draconian. This argument seems much more straightforward. A particular problem with CFAA is that the sentence scales with damage, but damage can trivially scale with the induction variable of a program's loop; it does not seem intuitively just that typing an extra '0' into a single program can ratchet your sentence by years.

A variant of this argument suggests that damages are also inflated by victims and prosecutors. This is likely very true, but it's less meaningful in this case than in others, because even the most charitable view of the offenses charged suggest he did more than 15k of damages, and is facing a multi-year sentence.

I think CFAA should be reformed so that damages accelerate sentences only to the extent that the prosecution can prove intent to cause damage. That wouldn't much help Keys, though, who is convicted of deliberately trying to maximize the harm to Tribune Corporation.
> That's a long way of saying, be careful when you think you've got a lesson from history. It probably says more about you than the Romans.

Isn't that the whole point of the exercise - finding similarities with Roman history conveys authority to something you want to say about the present.
Have you ever tried traveling anywhere around South Lake Union at the end of a work day? It's an absolute nightmare, and doesn't do anything to ingratiate Amazon to the rest of the city.
Scientists say a dramatic worldwide coral bleaching event is now underway