skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3% of $1.5m is only $45k. If you and your spouse can live off of $45k while you're still earning, you can save ~$100k per year and accumulate $1.5m by the time you're 40, easily. See Mr. Money Moustache for details on how this isn't as unreasonable to do as you would think: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/
It's probably because their KPIs/metrics are in fact grounded in reality, the reality of being the cloud platform provider. This isn't a blog post by Niantic.
Oh, easy!
You need baseload power from SOMEWHERE. Some lucky types live in favourable geography for geothermal or hydro, but the rest of the world still has to decide between nuclear and fossil fuels. And fossil fuels produce much more, and less controlled, waste and radiation than nuclear.

Compare if we dare: one person lifetime of nuclear power generates about 350ml (one coke can) of waste, which you can keep in dry cask storage and monitor. One person lifetime of coal power produces 77 tons of carbon, and 68 tons of solid waste, plus ash containing lead, mercury, arsenic, uranium, and thorium. The solid waste we can monitor, though it poses a much bigger dumping problem than our coke can of dry storage did. The rest goes into our atmosphere and lungs. Not to mention, that thorium and uranium in the ash is radioactive. Coal ash gives off up to 100 times more radiation than the waste from equivalent nuclear power generation. And this is released into the air.

Don't be a sucker for the persuasion tricj of rejecting methods because they aren't perfect in the abstract. Always compare against the real alternatives. Nuclear does produce some waste, it is not a perfect world solution. But it's vastly better than any real world alternative we have, particularly on the waste front.
It's not difficult if you plan for it and make it a goal. Mine is to be financially independent by 40, so I could never work another day.

Realistically I love working, and can't wait to be able to donate more, volunteer more, and help my children with education a starting businesses.
It's a Commodore 64. It has no moving parts (I assume the disk drive isn't ever touched) and the CPU doesn't really produce enough heat for cooling to be an issue.

The story would be perfect if it were an original C-64 instead of the C-64C redesigned variant.
(Regarding Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21))

key quote: " the metabolic outcomes
associated with elevated FGF21 depend on the nutritional
context, differing according to whether the
animal is in a state of under- or overfeeding."

The news article badly misinterprets the results in implying that low protein alone = high FGF21 = longevity.
A key development here is the move away from Blogger to what looks like a custom CMS.

I wonder if we'll see Blogger deprecated or even shuttered in due course. Perhaps the only real indicator that Blogger was still in development was that Google was dog-fooding it for their own comms - and this just ended.
I have seen a couple of examples like this but what happens when the market falls out of the sky again? My understanding is rental property income will drop and the 4% in investments becomes what, negative 40-50,60%?
I know this isn't a great answer to your question, feel free to ignore it :).

You may find that books are under rated. With all of the free resources available I find that I often underestimate the value of someone having spent several hundred hours preparing material specific to a subject that I want to learn more about.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/143390/recomm...
Or alternatively have 500k in the bank and move to a cheap European city where you can live off 14k per year.

I'm actually more of a fan of Stefan Sagmeister's method of retirement, where he split up his retirement years and moved it to in between his productive years.

https://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_the_power_of_tim...

I could earn in a year enough cash to take the next year off, do fun things, learn new things and then spend the next few on what I figured out in that one "retired" year.
One of the benefits of having these more abstract concepts is that you can more easily reason about code you're about to write. Instead of asking "will this new code work in cases A, B, C, D..." you can ask yourself if it preserves the properties of a monoid morphism.

For this to actually be a helpful tool, you of course need to have internalized the concept.
I don't see this as easy. They key is you have to be married because the average income after taxes and expenses for a single person until the age of 40 probably is not much above $100k, by itself.
Assuming none of your CAs have been compromised.
Living on $45K / year is certainly doable (I have), but the model of having $1.5M in assets to freely generate that income does not represent a very broad population.
It's easy if you're earning $150k a year, but not if you're making a median salary and living mostly paycheck-to-paycheck. Remember that most people outside of the Silicon Valley area don't have the luxury of being able to save $100k every year.
That's the trick for sure.

To help save I like to weigh every large potential purchase against getting 4% every year for the rest of my life.

For example, I want and can afford a Tesla, but $100k/25/12 is $333/month for the rest of my days. So I drive an old Toyota.
Military pensions aren't super high, unless you're very high up. I picked 03 on the calculator (Army Captain, mid-level officer) and got < 40k before taxes. High enlisted ranks are looking at < 30k. The benefits are good though.

http://militarypay.defense.gov/Calculators/Active-Duty-Retir...

An extra 25k/year after taxes does give you a bunch of flexibility, but it's not really 'do nothing' retirement unless you live somewhere cheap, especially if there's a family to support.
> Hard tech companies go through the same 3-month batch format as all of the startups we fund.

Is 3 months sufficient time for working on hard tech startup ideas. The original 3 month batch format was designed for software & web startups - YC's initial focus. It seems to me that the cycle time for iterating and testing different approaches to solving problems in hard tech would be much longer - hence require more time?
I got it from here [0].

I just rechecked my numbers, and it turns out I was reading from the wrong column, earning >$180,000 a year would put you in the top 2.7%

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/loudoun-county-va/#income_dis...
Hobbes was wrong.

http://popten.net/2010/05/top-ten-most-evil-dictators-of-all...

No democratic country has killed millions of it's own citizens. Even Hitler waited until he changed the law to give himself dictatorial powers.
Looks like you're using the GNU toolchain- for reference, the MSVC toolchain gives me a 107Kb exe from a 43-byte hello world.
With a gp2 SSD EBS volume you get 3k iops baseline per 1TB of storage up to a max of 10k iops (~3.3TB volume), there is also some burst allowance over that. In my experience so far the baseline numbers have been pretty accurate.

This is a relatively recent change (last year?), it used to cap out at 3k iops rather than 10k. The only real reason to go for provisioned iops now is if you need > 10k iops per volume.
> If you and your spouse can live off of $45k while you're still earning

That's easy! I can just move back to Europe. Sweet.

> you can save ~$100k

Oh ... no ... no I can't get that in Europe. Well maybe I could, but my SO is not an engineer and can't get decent remote jobs.
made a product like this before that passed FIPS 140-3, same idea, i.e. a battery-backup-mcu + mainboard.
I've never spent more than $30k per year in my life. I'm 28 and live in the Bay Area
> We asked three people who retired in their 30s and 40s to explain how they’ve made it pay off.

Alright. Let's see how they do it...

1. "a blog where he chronicles his retirement experience"

2. "writing a book about retirement"

3. "blogging about financial independence"

The trick to early retirement is blogging about early retirement.
Not that much people in SV can do that either.
Most in-place algorithms. E.g. quicksort

You can do merge sort in Haskell asymptotically as well as C, but not quicksort (because you can't mutate things in place).

I am of course omitting things like ST which do give you this sort of ability in Haskell, but I doubt that's what the OP meant by "purely functional".
Canada is almost as bad as the US.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/civil-forfeitur...
To put that into perspective, the Squeak interpreter for the gold standard of OOP languages, Smalltalk, was about 3951loc of Smalltalk for logic to handle language and 1681loc of C for OS interface. A lightweight scheme for dependency injection took them more loc to express than a whole Smalltalk interpreter. And to hack around bad OOP or tooling in the first place.

This might not mean anything. It just jumped out in my brain for some reason.
Quickest path to get rich is to write a book "How to get rich"
With Xamarin now being free you can target mobile with C#/XAML as well.
How you frame the question can produce vastly different responses.

That said, I'd say the perception of Americans being selfish has more to do with our terrible electoral system in which the incentives are such that we elect politicians that, in aggregate, portray a more selfish representation of our populace than really is there. This is how you get polls saying large majorities of Americans believe in Issue X, but you have Congressmen and POTUS arguing over whether or not to implement Issue X.
Indeed, that's exactly what the post says they did.
Oh I see, thank you.
$145K take home pay is surely like $200+K/year? (In the UK, if you earn ~£110K+/year after tax, you're in the top 1% of taxpayers.)

If your spouse is going to work too, I admit that is a lot more doable.

If not, well... looks like the secret is, "be rich/well-paid, and don't piss it all away". Excellent advice, but I could have told you that already ;)
I too found it a bit strange that the list didn't include software, or at least some specific types of software. I can assure you though that YC does invest in this and doesn't exclusively look for software that can be built in a weekend. My startup, Pachyderm [0], is a pretty good example of this that they funded in W15. A ton of other hard tech software startups have come out of YC including: Docker, CoreOS, Memsql and RethinkDB. In general I think it's one of their more successful verticals, although probably not quite as successful as consumer software.

In general I think you are right that VCs have the bias you're talking about though. Not all VCs but many. It's not totally irrational, software that can be built in a weekend has fewer risks associated with it and can have just as much upside. However there are many very problems that are worth solving and can only be solved with complicated, hard tech, software. Investors with this bias cut themselves off from this opportunity.

[0] https://www.pachyderm.io
Ahh, so the text on the page (like U.S.S. Ektorp) is not a title and has nothing to do with the randomly chosen episode. That's what threw me.

Well, that and my lack of a Netflix account.

Thanks for un-confusing me.
Mars has nearly no atmosphere because the solar wind blew it away. The magnetic field acts as a shield that prevents the atmosphere from leaking out into space, basically [1].

[1] http://m.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cluster/Earth_...
> Without going into a long technical explanation, our mobile monocular SLAM implementation, semantic segmentation, structure from motion and relocalization (loop closure) systems are firmly in the Machine Learning/Hard Tech sphere.

I am sure it was hard for you guys but aren't these systems no longer technical unknowns? There are lone PhD students who managed to build them and open sourced their work. [1]

This is no longer hard in the sense of "I'll need a research team and five years -- and we might not figure it out." It seems like it's just academic technology transfer where you need people who can read the latest papers and implement them.

[1] http://vision.in.tum.de/research/vslam/lsdslam (The author is now at oculus research)
Yeah, but are you under rent control ?
Most people are very hesitant to admit that because they recognize that there are a host of people who would act upon that admission to promote malicious policies
This is great feedback. I will make sure to contact YC and simply ask them. I'm not really interested in VC but the network seems very valuable.
Show HN: Automatically publish to npm from Travis CI
If you consider the typical MMM budget caveat of owning one's own house, $45k is an extraordinarily high rate of expenditure. Given a $45k expenditure in the SF Bay Area, with rent of $3k per month, and with a typical tax rate of 39%, this equates to someone spending every penny they make of $113k.

The MMM achievement of annual expense spending of $24k is not far off from what I assume most HNers have after rent and savings.
I own a home in Hayward. I did get lucky and buy in 2012 tho when prices were about 35% lower
1. You should work on acquiring customers / beta signups while building MVP, it should be parallel not serial.
2. Have you done any validations that it's a important problem for your customers i.e. vitamins vs painkiller
3. You shouldn't be worried about a YC competitor. Focus on building, talking to customers and growth.
On a related topic: This couple on a dentist's salary and after escaping Nazis and the holocaust saved with Warren Buffet and $400 million -- the largest single donation in Israel's history -- to the water research for Ben Gurion University.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/after-fleeing-the-nazis-a-legacy...
Your idea about a parking lot for "liveaboards" sounds kind of cool. Or how about an airbnb-like service where people offer up part of their yard for people to park their van or pitch a tent. Especially in more rural areas where people have a lot of land that is just sitting there and other people could take advantage of it.

And I'm also curious, in what ways do you regret taking the CS path at your age? Did you just get your CS degree? Are you experiencing a lot of ageism?
God is perfectly just.

Jospeh in the Old Testament went to prison for 7 years for false rape.

Highs and lows balance. He got to rule Egypt.

If you go to jail, it balances with a high.

It doesn't matter if you are innocent or guilty. Justice is absolute.

God says...
captivation's Pegasuses maze's eyrie's refurbishment's helots Spackle postponements welled Rasalgethi's impetuses Atwood's Xiongnu rotogravures cushion Mandy promos Phillipa undid exorcisms somethings lodged Unitas Malabar crime's bolt revoking lenses gladdening Petrarch Spirograph footballer's

====

The radio had a Jewish guy who got married. He said he had bliss for 8 months after marriage, then got a twist in his intestine. Had surgery. Leaked. Had more surgery. Almost died. Got better.

======

Turn the other cheek. It doesn't matter if the cops lock you up or not. Bring-it on retard-nigger. As you judge you will be judge. Retard.

It was the 8-months of absolute bliss that did it.

====

No one has great joy without great sorrow. They balance.
Self-Service DevOps  Coinbase
Waze Carpool is now live in San Francisco
@mastazi Thanks for the heads up! I was testing in Chrome and Safari and missed that one completely -- apparently they allow for a circle radius ("r") to be defined in a stylesheet, but Firefox doesn’t. It’s cross-compatible now -- cheers!
How do you think humanity learned about new medicines before clinical studies? A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step; or in this case, a single experimenter.
Dutch bike company prints a television on their shipping boxes, damages plummet
Oddly (or perhaps not), this does not include news from Google Cloud.
I completely agree.

Actually, at the risk of being reductive, an encounter between you and HR is roughly the same as an encounter between you and the police.

Your motivations aren't aligned.

HR's job is to shield the company from financial liability, the police officer's job is to get more arrests to hopefully get a raise or a promotion.

Everytime you're in an adversarial encounter with either one, just lawyer up and shut up.

If they (HR or police) had solid evidence on your guilt, you'd either be fired or arrested immediately. If they're just talking to you, they're just fishing. Don't take the bait.
Perseverance is a skill, a habit one develops. I think it's worth considering what circumstances in someone's life make learning that habit easier or harder.
Knew they wouldn't let me down: "rental income,". So can everyone live off a big chunk of another families labour?

"The equity in their home—worth about 21 times their annual expenses". And what about now where the average first time buyer age is near 40!

Last one is a banker. Just need to work in an industry secretly building massive debt and take your bonus each year and you are golden.

Money moustache man all over again.
Blogspam of

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/health/does-this-25-year-ol...
Gates was already a multimillionaire from Microsoft before the DOS deal. IBM also went to Gary Kildall first.
At the very least, the Raspberry Pi has a much lower power footprint, so even it's overkill, it's still probably better than a C64, at least in this one particular case.

That said, I think the C64 thing is pretty neat, so I can't really knock it.
> Business is irrelevant once...

Not really. In the case described they had accounted for some maximum number of users and instead got 50x that number. It is reasonable to design a system which handles just some planned number as long as there is a strategy in place to manage a situation beyond those limits. In this case the strategy was to apply engineering effort. That seems like a valid risk management plan to me.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12605680
How many rental properties does the man who says a bucket of grain is actually a big deal? Guess.

> This was achieved not through luck or amazing skill, but simply by living a lifestyle about 50% less expensive than most of our peers and investing the surplus in very boring conservative Vanguard index funds and a rental house or two.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/about/

Just a couple of extra people (maybe two families) working and giving a big slice of their income. Everyone can do this, right? Wait. If we all do it how can we all live off part of the wages of at least two wage earners?
you didnt spend more than 30k in 2012?
SBIR/STTR funding is non-dilutive but it is far from free. To apply, you:
(1) Spend 1+ month on writing the grant, doing all the paperwork, getting letters of support, etc.
(2) Wait up to a year to see if you got the money. The hit rate is often 15% (on average you need to apply 6 times to get 1).
(3) Get ~$150K if you're lucky for phase 1, and this money is only for research. You cannot use it on lawyers or keep it in a bank. You also have to spend the money in 8 months. And write a report on your progress.
(4) Then apply for Phase II, which can be up to $1M. Even if everything goes right, it will take at the least 2 years since you start applying to get a phase II application.

It's great money if you have all the time in the world and really like writing grants. Or if you have no other choice. But you will pay for it with your time. Also, you will be at a huge disadvantage unless you have a PhD and university contacts. Writing successful grants is a difficult skill that takes a lot of practice, and you will be competing with people that ONLY write grants.
Facebook Chrome extension shows everything that the site knows about you
20 Looking at his disciples, he said:

“Blessed are you who are poor,
for yours is the kingdom of God.
21
Blessed are you who hunger now,
for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.
22
Blessed are you when people hate you,
when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil,
because of the Son of Man.

23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.

24
“But woe to you who are rich,
for you have already received your comfort.
25
Woe to you who are well fed now,
for you will go hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will mourn and weep.
26
Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.
Love for Enemies

27 “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 29 If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. 30 Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. 31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.

======

Laugh-->Cry

Cry-->Laugh

Highs and lows balance.

Turn the other cheek. Doesn't matter if cops lock you up. Get reward. The hilarious thing is "as you judge you will be judged." Cops are retard-niggers.

God says...
annihilation's kazoo pallets zing ewe's Serbia's oxymoron pithier Elijah azure's guardsman shirted curacies irritant salvers latency conserved kennelled shutdown's sharpeners using groovier Belize embarked Eleazar Lapp Dangerfield's checkbooks endorsements Brit Elsinore checkers's
The guarantee it's making is that it's not going to manipulate program state that is outside the scope of "db". That is a pretty big deal for a systems developer since, as I discovered while working with D, many standard library functions that you wouldn't have given a second thought about happen to do unpure things like set a processor flag. We aren't even talking about your own program.

From an abstracted viewpoint, it's not great, since a whole database covers potentially a lot of scope, and you may not want to care about the details of your floating point calculations in hardware, but in a concrete sense this is totally correct!
GBPUSD: Retains Its Broader Bias with Eyes on 1.2914 Zone
If you and your spouse can live off of $45k while you're still earning, you can save ~$100k per year and accumulate $1.5m by the time you're 40, easily.

To spend and save $145k net income per year, you need a gross comp of $240k per year where I live. To save $1.5M at a rate of $100k per year would take 15 years. To do so by age 40 would mean that you need to be at a $240k/year salary by the tender of age of 25, and also have the restraint to live off of a mere $45k per year (presumably in a city with a high cost of living, since you are earning $240k at 25). And after you retire at age 40, you get to spend 2% of your $1.5M per year ($30K) which is below the poverty line where I live (at least as a household income).
ES2017 Specification
The awesome thing about Rust is that the behemoths don't know about it.
Although it is advice that an alarming number of people don't seem to follow. I have spent the last decade and a half working with plenty of reasonably high earning individuals. Although I have only occasionally got any insight into their personal financial situation the number of them still living pay to pay is mind blowing.
I didn't mean to say you were dishonest, only that you're talking about a different thing than I am.

It seems like you honestly can't tell the difference. Thanks for the chat!
I don't disagree that hardware itself has more dependencies. I don't think that makes it harder or less probable of delivering though than bleeding edge computer vision/machine learning systems.

I too have worked hardware and on those projects we could get fairly low level line workers on assembly up to speed quickly, source our parts in a repeatable fashion and build systems to scale without too much brain power. Not easy, but more logistics management than creativity.

With these non-deterministic CV systems (for example point cloud generation) the path to working is much less clear.

I'm not saying one is harder than the other, but the class of unsolved problems in CV/ML doesn't have off the shelf solutions, so they pose different but similarly hard problems as hardware.