skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He started a 50k early and has no college debt, which is a wonderful starting salary and situation that the vast majority of Americans don't see/have.

Not even many college educated Americans. His accumulation to 100k was a few years, saving 40% of his after tax income since he wasn't paying down debt.

That's wonderful for him, but I don't think it's mass advice to give back to the world. It's just sort of a 'glad that works for him'.
Even for companies, latest Google flagship was described as an attempt to pass iPhone quality. Everybody still wants to out-apple Apple; which says something.
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Probably for good reason :p
I thought worrydream was very nice and I could see why it was being upvoted.

Then I enabled JS, and it completely breaks scrolling and loads a ton of images :|
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I agree. That is the hardest part
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I love the style, I am very temped to steal this from you.

Is the link at the top right really necessary though?
IMO: For something B2B like this, plans are a way to segment your customers. Your solution might not be worth much to someone's side project, while it might be replacing an entire employee's worth of work for a larger company, saving them thousands of dollars a month.

You might want your basic plan to do everything a solo developer or hobbyist needs, your middle plan to do everything a small shop or agency needs, and your top plan to do everything a household brand needs for example. Then price accordingly to the greater value and ability to pay each group has.

Come up with the plans and price them according to that mindset. If the main thing that differentiates your customers is the number of users, or number of servers they run, or how many API calls they process, or what level of support they need... that's the metric you want to find and use to set your pricing. Not necessarily the technical parameters of your product. Maybe that "wiring into a CI" is the only thing that differentiates your customers, and you only need two plans.

Decide on something and put it up. You can always change your pricing later (painlessly if you grandfather existing accounts) as you learn more from actual customers.
I saw one on here that I've bookmarked and have been using pretty frequently. Great for getting a file over to a group of people I think. I used it once for myself as well, pretty neat!

https://destructible.io
Looks like the wheel chart has already been added to the Wikipedia page... talk about circularity...
In Swedish there is an expression "The smith's horse and the shoemakers children are worst shod" that comes to mind.

It's kind of when fashion designers wears an ill fitting t-shirt and jeans I guess.
Interesting issue though.. that it should not become an harassment
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I'm a big fan of Mr. Money Mustache's advice: If you have a large chunk of money in savings, don't leave it in a savings account because the interest is so low. There's a Vanguard index fund (I'd have to look up the name) that's designed to represent the entire US economy. Use your savings to buy that fund, and you'll at least be able to get a better return than a savings account and still keep your money accessible.

Is this risky? Not at all. Will it give you a huge return? Maybe over 50 years, but not in the short term.

But it's better than leaving it in a savings account.

The one time that I decided not to contribute to my 401(k) was when I had just graduated and still had some credit card debt and my salary was low(so the value of the company match was minimal). Getting rid of the debt was more important to me than saving a little for 40 years in the future. Arguably, this was still a bad idea, but mentally, not being in debt was important to me at the time.
I would say be very worried about layoffs .. Your job will be to program a spell-checker for bad words - At which time your usefulness has ended. Mr. Snowden shows the government is very interested in collecting information on posters. Therefore your next assignment would be identify and write an exit routine to report them. End the end you will be found useless. Because powerful interests like abuse - so the spell-checker dies and the exit grows in very direction.
I've known successful people that have done both.
Just like the patent system, the small beneficiaries are used as a political human shield for a system that overwhelmingly benefits the large incumbents. Often against other small creators.
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To me it also has to do with some evolving capacity. As a kid there's not so much things you can plan. You enjoy what you can. As an adult you start foreseeing (or at least believe you should try to). As you get older, this goes away (for many reasons) and you gradually go back to finding pleasure right there.
Could I get a little context with the VR metaphor? Perhaps my interpretation is a little off, but would you not be bearish on VR, and bullish on the concept of it being the next 3D TV?
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Many older people are horny but truly clueless about technology....The body is willing but the mind is weak.
> At least on the tech side, most people don't move.

Recency bias. GS moved their tech to NJ in 2005 after they put up their building in jersey city, while also shedding weight on some I-Bankers who didn't want "New Jersey" on their business cards.
Nowadays, it's true. They can't put tech in NJ because no 25-30 year old NYC-dweller would do that commute when the city is filled with tech jobs.
My brother works there and told me how odd it was that during the interview they explicitly stated they would never move him to NJ. He didn't understand what they meant until we had this exact discussion.
I feel like this is artificial happiness, to a certain degree. I feel like something for a reason. If I feel unhappy it's more of a benefit to me to figure out what's making me unhappy and do things to remedy that, rather than spending time on a hack so I can continue to do things I don't enjoy, for example. It's treating the symptoms of the problem but ignoring the problem.

I also think that with myself (and possibly others), that it would lead to the habit of "Rather than setting aside time to do things I enjoy, or stepping away to do things I enjoy, I'll just do this exercise to be able to continue working my life away".
Seems like the safest place to work at Goldman Sachs is in their HR department
> one big local chatbox.

If you are within the range of one user, who is having a conversation with someone in their range but not in yours, will you only see one side of their conversation?
No .. there is something to it. I socked away cash in my 401K and then found myself with a big fat 401K and not being able to afford the insane downpayment required to buy a million dollar home. Home prices in a few places increased by quite a bit over the last few years. So by not having cash accessible, I had a big setback. Since then, I lowered my 401K contribution to just be what the company matches. I expect I'll be able to increase it after I put in that 20% down payment. Btw .. I did look into getting a loan against my 401K for purpose of buying a house but I think there is a limit that doesn't reflect the current market in the Bay area (don't remember but something like 20-50K; too early to remember the details).
"Earn more money" seems like the most tautologous kind of financial advice.
Likely a lot of the same biases... Look at the categorization, these are things any general system of intelligence is going to have to do at some level. Only a system with infinite computational power can afford to be without bias.
I originally replied to a child of this post, but if you are interested in the book, I think its "But What If We're Wrong" by Chuck Klosterman.
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Actually, my adviser was quite laid back. As a result, I was able to build a lot of skills in order to complete my project. However, notice I said able. I had to self-teach and self-fund to do it, the academic stuff was really just an obstacle.

I think something like a basic income would allow the a certain type of person to achieve the same, and do it much faster and cheaper than getting a higher degree. I wonder if that is one reason why most of these problems started when higher education/research became less of an "elite" activity, ie as discussed in subnaughts link in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12805406
In the HN spirit, where's the opportunity? How can we help improve the life of researchers?

Start ups trying to help:

Science Exchange (YCS11) https://www.scienceexchange.com/ : outsource parts of your research to companies

Instrumentl (YCS16) https://www.instrumentl.com/ : identify and push relevant grants towards applicable research

Experiment (YCW13) https://experiment.com/ : crowdfunding platform for scientific research

Transcriptic (YCW15) https://www.transcriptic.com/ : a robotic cloud laboratory for the life sciences

LabGuru https://www.labguru.com/ : inventory management and lab notebook

Lab Spend https://labspend.com/ : tracks spending and finds savings on supplies and chemicals
It may be that the lack of broadcom Linux drivers is starting to have some effect, at least at the high end? The new Dell 13" XPS comes with an atheros supported wifi device - I guess Dell got tired of having to create an entirely seperate SKU just for the developer editions.
I think it's a really bad idea. High risk high reward opportunities are essentially gambling. Whereas a 401k is a back-up plan and a safety net. Don't take money out of your safety net and gamble it away (which is a very likely outcome on a high risk opportunity).

If you want to participate in high risk high reward opportunities, create a separate account for it and consider it "throw away" money from the beginning. (Your high risk opportunity might pay off, but don't count on it.)
Perhaps murder victims that bought knives and pointed them at themselves and invited strangers to push, should take more responsibility. Also sarcastic.
I was using Windows 2002, Linux from 2003-2006, OS X 2006-2013 and back to Linux since then.

It really depends on what you're doing. I'm doing some desktop app deverlopement and a little webdevelopement in my free time, with git, Emacs, QtCreator, Thunderbird, Firefox, Gimp on Arch. I also record podcasts and master them with Ardour [1] on my Linux machine. I seldom play some game from Steam. I use Skype to call my parents. I also use it to manage my photos with Darktable [2] and RAWTherapee [3]. I listen to my music collection with Gnome Music and synchronize it between my computers with Syncthing.

In my case I basically don't need to use anything which doesn't work on Linux, I bought a computer which was made for Linux [4], so I didn't have any driver problems. I don't do much with graphics.

For me the values with which Linux comes are important, especialle freedom. I am aware that there might be more convinient applications out there but because they don't respect my freedom I don't have the desire to use them. I like that arrangement and it seems to improve a lot with time.

[1] http://ardour.org/
[2] http://www.darktable.org/
[3] http://www.rawtherapee.com/
[4] http://www.tuxedocomputers.com/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Notebook...

[update] I forgot to write that at work, I work within the automobile industry and we do infotainment systems based on Linux (with yocto), in our company basically everyone uses Linux on the Desktop and we have gotten so far that a big portion of our customers moves over from Windows to Linux while they work together with us because they see how much easier and faster developement is when you develop for Linux and at the same time run Linux on your dev-machine. [http://www.pelagicore.com/]
> Don't we \have\ to do what gives us a living?

Of course, nothing says you have to have only one job. Luckily, all of my interests are viable professions, so I try to do them all.
> If that work belongs to anyone, it is the current domain owner.

Not at all. A domain parker taking over a domain does not imply they have any rights over all the content that the previous owner of the domain posted.
Not having to name your list variables "lst" is a big one.
> I'd far rather hear about where to put that $100k than where to build it.

Typically, you'd put the money someplace where it does work for you (ie. earns more money).

Parking it somewhere where it does nothing can actually harm you since inflation will eventually diminish the value of your parked money, even if it's the same number of dollars. This is even true in most savings accounts since they pay so little interest.

Essentially, the author's advice is generally the opposite of what you'd normally want to do.
Does he have any oceanfront property for sale in Indiana?
To summarize biases further, in one word: Incompetence.

Lab results confirming cognitive biases come from testing small groups of students (up to 200). Among other things, it means: (1) respondents with similar background, so we can't generalize (2) respondents don't care about outcomes, (3) tests are synthetic. Plus publication bias and other standard issues.

These results are themselves a sort of confirmation bias.

Mistakes in real life happen when we don't know what we're doing. If a person can learn, he'll discover systematic mistakes. But that comes with domain experience, not cognitive science.
I would love to add video games to that list but I have not looked into the data for game distribution - Steam claims that it has over 1000 games for Linux but Microsoft also claimed it has millions of apps for Windows Phone and that didn't help it get wide adoption.

I will probably look into various factors (support for the latest hardware out of the box, game libraries, support for Linux by popular games from day 1 etc.) but from the last time I had looked into it (back in 2013), Linux was definitely not "gamer" friendly - (Everything from drivers, random bugs and game libraries).

The reason I added those points to that list is because, in my opinion...those are easily achievable in the next 5 years (but that's definitely not the case for games at the moment).
Which one would you recommend?
http://worrydream.com was a horrible experience for me. Between the extremely slow scroll-hijacking and disabling of my vim-based scroll events it was a nightmare to try to navigate and I gave up without actually viewing any of the projects. Even using my colleagues hyper scroll wheel gave us a brief chuckle before quitting the page entirely.
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Jpegs and most video formats aren't executable
Wouldn't the world fall apart if GS bankers weren't working at 100% capacity around the clock?
Its a matter of degree of risk. The 401K isn't guaranteed either. The job isn't guaranteed. Each of us has to make our own call on this.
I've done transformations of complex pricing spreadsheets to code for providing dynamic quoting on websites. It was amazing how complex the logic gets sometimes with even what seems like a simple spreadsheet.
This, exactly. Or, even better, use a separate user-agent ("ia_retroactive" or similar) for retroactive removals.
I think this article underestimates the power of brand loyalty. Tons of customers have almost a decade of iOS under their belt, and convincing them to learn something new is often impossible because they don't care. Their iPhone is working for them. Tech people think they can list off android-only features and convince people, but it usually doesn't work that way. Only when/if their iPhone really lets them down will they look elsewhere. I say this as someone in that situation. I'm not super interested in my phone, and the iPhone works for me, so here I am.
Isn't that like asking "How much money Apache web server made?" Did IIS "win" the HTTP-server wars?
I say choose Option 3. Understand him

I know this come way out of left field but I believe in understanding why people are the way they are over you're dead to me!

The quick and dirty way to understand him is to read his natal chart.

Go to http://astro.cafeastrology.com and read up.

You'll find some fascinating insights and you'll be able to pinpoint his problem with working with others.

For example he might have his Saturn in Leo which would mean: Weaknesses: abuse of power, little feeling in the workplace.

So once you find out all this info you can have your team read his birth chart and you'll know what to expect.

Astrology might seem like it's bullshit but it's not, I've heavily tested it and it's super real. Check out https://cafeastrology.com/articles/signcompatiblitygrid.html which will show you the basics of how we get along with folks we aren't compatible with. This compatibility runs through friends, family, loved ones and lovers.

With understanding of him you'll be able to ignore his wild mood swings and why he looks down on people and is so insecure.

The key to reading his birth chart effectively is using your own experience of people in your life who are Sagittariuses for example.

Some interesting parts of his birth chart you'll want to look at include:

* His Sun Sign: This is what we all know about astrology but is not that helpful without all the underlying detail

* His Moon Sign: Your moon sign controls your emotions. Most likely his Moon and Sun sign are battling each other and his moon sign is more dominate than his Sun causing some of the instability you've mentioned.

* His Mercury is how he communicates. If he has a fire sign here or it's in a strong sign like Leo or Scorpio that would explain why he's a jerk

* His Rising Sign: This is how the outside world views him I've found people whose rising signs are in Aquarius (Contrarians) put people off.

Balance

Astrology is very unique because you can use their birth chart to find out if they're in or out of balance.

For example let's say you meet a Scorpio and they're being super cautious, that's because they're out of balance and behaving like their opposite sign which is Taurus (Known for being very practical and patient). Naturally Scorpios are risking and extreme). You can use the compatibility grid to find out his opposites and see if he's just being himself or out of balance.

Finally have everyone at work read their own astrology and compare it with his, you'll learn a lot about yourselves and you might find that clashes are happening because of similarities not incompatibilities.

P.S. Have you asked about issue with ladies or his spouse? That could really be the issue.
Taking 20% on top of 5-10% processor fees seems high compared to Flattr's flat 10%.

Something doesn't sit right with me ethically about this concept.
In the case of the Dog and the Duck, the Duck has much more money (waterproof feathers) to deal with his problems.

The same car crash that drenches the broke student rolls off the retired millionaire's back unnoticed.

e: Of course, some people cope better than others regardless of the situation. But to imply that having more money doesn't make coping easier is simply foolish.
for the record, I did not claim that Android wins over iPhone, the point is that the article claimed the opposite
With which video drivers are you experiencing problems?
http://danielodio.com/project-stargate-always-on-skype-video... is the first popular article I can recall about this.

http://danielodio.com/remote-always-on-connecting-our-office... is a followup that mentions that the always-on connections would have problems.

Perch is a startup that's mentioned a lot in the comments, and I trialled it and it was pretty nice, but it just shut down last month: https://perch.co/blog/goodbye-perch/

If you have a couple of Macs to spare, https://papercutsoftware.github.io/teleportme/ looks interesting, but I haven't tried it myself.
The only real difference between that and Cardone's approach is sock it away into a savings account you can access at some point, then invest in real estate (or whatever) with it to make the real money.
As is the dollar itself.

If a future politician 20 years from now decides that printing money is great for the economy, you're screwed if you go the savings account route.

Politicians control the world. They can screw you in many ways, like bombing you with remote missiles from a drone strike. Or taking away money.
Both have their value. Personally I prefer broad over deep, but that's me. You need to figure out what works best for you.

Deep has the advantage that when specialists are in demand, you're really in demand. It's good to have someone on the team who knows absolutely everything about the thing you do. The downside is that when technology or your career moves on, you know nothing. You're stuck doing that one thing, and may have a harder time getting into something else.

And broadness has a specialization of its own. Knowing multiple things is particularly valuable if you know how to connect those things. If you can develop front-end with an eye on what's easier for the back-end, if you can design the graphics that you will need, rather than having to wait for someone else to get around to it. Knowing different unconnected things is less valuable, but even there you may find unexpected connections. But for the deep technical stuff, you may find that you'll have to ask a real expert.
Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/care...
The issue is that the burden of validation is so great that the government demanded Google do it themselves, and Google realized the burden is so great that they basically treat all complaints as valid and in good faith, because the effort to actually hand validate each request would make it one of the most labor intensive divisions in all of Alphabet.

In terms of liability, Google would rather prematurely remove content (no penalty) than accidentally leave up covered material (violation of safe harbor, could be used by Verizon et al to indicate in another lawsuit that the entire system is flawed, thus safe harbor protection doesn't apply at all, and Google can be directly sued for violation of copyright, something Verizon would love!)
Yup, I use them a lot of in Excel. Outside of Excel, End to go to the end of the line and Home to go to the beginning. Ctrl+Home, Ctrl+End to go to the beginning/end of a file.
no he is still renting, he also eat a lot of instant noodles due to his economical style of living.(not joking)
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I just tried doing this, as it sounds interesting, but I don't think I did it quite right, or a lot of interests just didn't connect so well. I'm curious to see a visual depiction of the type of graph you made.
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I too found the anecdotes rambling and in the way. On the other hand, some folks may find the stories to be parables or mind palaces [1] that enhance retention of key points. YMMV

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
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But let's say you have a 50k 401k that you can borrow against in an emergency, and a 50k index fund - that's 75k in liquidity that you have available to you with a few days notice. 100k in the bank sitting there is getting you maybe 1% and the need for that money on an instant's notice seems...low.
http://learngitbranching.js.org/?NODEMO

I haven't seen a git article link to this amazing website recently. By far one of the best ways to teach someone git is to walk someone through git by executing commands and allowing them to see the visual representation of those commands.

There is also an amazing single-player learning mode.
If you don't have to full-time manage the startup after it's created, and it still makes you money, that money IS 'passive'.

Passive income without initial effort is called a trust fund.