skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not going to give you the "this is what you should do advice" because it is your money and you really need to figure out your goals, but for me personally, I would pick up as much prime real estate as possible while keeping a good portion liquid. Oceanfront residential, land not houses.

The point is, this property is always in high demand and even though it fluctuates with the market and did burst with everything else, prime real estate is always worth the same relative to the broad market of consumable goods. Which is really what you want to measure by (if you are only looking to protect your net worth), economies will inflate and deflate, as well currency and debt backed assets are a horrible way to keep net worth (its a good way to get rich quick, if you know what you are doing). Take gold for example (a true asset) it was once said that "an ounce gold in the 1800's would buy you a nice suit, and today an ounce of gold will still buy you a nice suit" the economy has changed but the worth is relatively constant.

That is the crux of what you are looking for if you are just trying to protect your net worth. If we look at it in a simple analogy x piece of property is worth y horses. x property may be worth $100 at current market and y horses may be worth $10 at current market, but general x property is worth y horses. It may vary slightly but the two stay relatively in sync.

This is how you need to think about assets and protecting net worth not in terms of dollars. When you do this it makes the picture of investing far simpler (for inflationary hedging and protecting net worth).

Now if you are looking for speculation to try to increase net worth then it is a whole different ball game and requires educating yourself extensively because as it was said before financial adviser really have no incentive to make you rich. If that is what you are looking for advice on the best advice is don't take any, you have to educate yourself and by all means start small.
Right, I understand. But there are ways of making it impossible to remove emergency functionality (burn it into ROM, for example).
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You don't need to hack your firmware to install other dialers. There are dozens on the android market.

Edit: Dialer One's release notes for v1.2 say that an issue was fixed regarding United States emergency numbers. Not sure if that pertains to this issue, though.
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See also:

http://petdance.com/perl/command-line-options.pdf
Yes, gladly. The iPhone was one of the biggest, most wasteful mistakes of my life,
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You have to be an enthusiast to really get the difference, though. That's not true with computers, and is the whole point. Take enthusiasts out of the picture entirely, and computers still have a variety of uses, cars have essentially one, or maybe two if you live in it.
The crazy layouts wired is somewhat famous for hardly translate to plain text with a few graphics. I don't know what they use to layout their magazine (or what they used 10 years ago!) but it's not html5. Translating, migrating, converting, or adapting their content to anything other then an image (except maybe PDF!?) would be extremely non trivial.
Build your own filesystem, hellowordFS.c in 100 lines!
There have always been news junkies. It's just that the price of crack has dropped. Anything done to excess can harm you, and even if not done to excess, give you cancer.
"Why do you eat the split-ends our of your beard?"

"Why do you eat your toenails?"

(both live, on stage)
I believe that was me, although I wasn't sure how generally useful it would be for technology startups (the biggest lesson in the first edition was to build your business like you were going to franchise it; you can't really reduce software development into a franchise plan).

What sort of companies were/are your startups?
Meh. That's not entirely true. When you're starting a company you can easily feed your existing competitors good ideas that they can act on if you haven't launched yet. Your existing competitors are probably in a much better position to evaluate your idea and may execute it more quickly than you can.
Wired iPad App Sells 24,000 Copies in First 24 Hours

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/wired-ipad-app-sells-...
Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?
Ask HN: Do you think there's an opportunity here?
I think if you look at this compete graph you'll understand what I'm asking.

These are the only real sites I can find operating in this space. They're ugly, slow, or stodgy feeling. I want to build something that's more fun and simple, and targeting people my age (30's). Fun in the way that Tumblr is fun and Typepad is not. Something that fosters interaction, rather than tries to act as an organizer or is like a reskinned groupware.

Anyone else have a good gut feeling about this idea? If you want to collaborate, shoot an email to famfam@hushmail.me
gosuri, I am doing a podcast about various ideas/projects/stuff that HN members are working on.

Interested in being on one of the episodes?

I put up the first episode and am pivoting based on the feedback I got from the HN community: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1379942

If you are interested, email me: marc {at} ideatin {dot} com
New to me, but perhaps not everyone else...
So let me get this straight, you're saying he should get over the fact that Apple is acting against his interests, because Apple doesn't care about his interests? How does that make sense?

It sounds to me like the sensible choice is not to stick with a company that doesn't care about you, but to switch to one that does. Which is exactly what he did.
This is all reasonable.

The day before google went IPO and created new millionares, they brought in John Bogle to advise them to stay away from mutual funds or whatever and at the riskiest, stick to index funds if they were comfortable with risk and then just put the rest into stable investments if they weren't.
I think if you look at this compete graph you'll understand what I'm asking.

These are the only real sites I can find operating in this space. They're ugly, slow, or stodgy feeling. I want to build something that's more fun and simple, and targeting people my age (30's). Fun in the way that Tumblr is fun and Typepad is not. Something that fosters interaction, rather than tries to act as an organizer or is like a reskinned groupware.

Anyone else have a good gut feeling about this idea? If you want to collaborate, shoot an email to famfam@hushmail.me
Israel. A concerted strategy to create a positive environment for investors over a 20 year period has led to the most vibrant start-up scene in the world outside Silicon Valley.
"Audentes fortuna iuvat" ('Fortune favors the bold') - Vergil
Android Emerges as Big Rival to iPad
Thanks Steve, this is definitely a better user experience than using flash.
I have had an Asus N61JQ for the last couple of months. 300GB HD, 4GB RAM 1333mhz, Quad core i7 1.6ghz, and ATI 5730 w/ 1GB. good solid build quality, noisy keyboard that didn't come w/ a backlight. decent system for $999. Plays well with linux as well. I bought one of their netbook models and that's been pretty solid as well.
Hmmm... I'm seeing a quote, but not following how that proves nobody will steal my ideas.
My advice:

- It's not as much money as you think. That might sound ridiculous to people without it, but you're not going to start living the Entourage lifestyle on 5m. You are 20, not 60 and it's unlikely you will ever get a higher return on an investment. It's your duty to protect and grow this wealth.

- You can't stop working, I tried and failed. Take some time off, travel, find a new passion or start over with a new company. Your life is just beginning.

- I'd suggest reading about Value Investing. I'm not saying you should invest your own money, but you damn well better know what's going on with it and why. Understand that inflation will eat away at this without the proper defense. Understand the ramifications of investments: liquidity, taxes, cash flow, etc.

- Keep a low profile, people are going to come out of the woodwork for lunches/pitches/loans/gimmicks. Be polite, but be stern (the answer should almost always be no).

- Get a good local attorney and a good accountant ASAP, an afternoon of research should point you in the right direction. Talk to them about asset protection plans.

- Stick with what you know (assuming it's computers). People are going to suggest all sorts of things, but do you really want to be a landlord, run a Subway, own a carwash, etc? I'm not saying you can never go in a new direction, but be careful. It's about 1000x easier to lose a fortune than make one.

- Buy yourself a nice, not extravagant house. Treat yourself to something "fancy" (say a slightly used BMW, not a Ferrari) and the rest goes away. Set a comfortable monthly budget, DO NOT GO OVER THAT BUDGET. Make a spreadsheet of your investments, get a Mint account, find leaks and plug the holes.

- Invest your money in a mix of stocks/bonds/treasuries. Spread the stocks across different markets (US/China/Asia/Japan/Europe), it should be about half of your asset allocation. Keep about 5% accessible.

- Stick with your friends and family, be careful with girls and sign a prenup.
I don't either, but it's all my dad uses. I suspect we're not their demographic.
These types of productivity articles have been an excuse for me to keep spending too much time on HN. The thing is, I already know most of what's in the articles, but I'm not doing such a great job of executing them. Freeing up time by spending less time on HN could help. So, perhaps finding these articles the way I do is a net productivity loss.

Of the articles I've read on the topic, though, I think this is a really good one. I like the point about seeing how something you really like is built. I think this must be how people get started with Cappuccino. It's weird, but it does some really neat things. The same could be said of Cassandra.

Edit: I just realized this comment reads like a Yelp review. It starts completely off topic, and gradually gets on topic. Please forgive me. :)
Hey loyaltspace, I am doing a podcast about various ideas/projects/stuff that HN members are working on.

Interested in being on one of the episodes?

I put up the first episode and am pivoting based on the feedback I got from the HN community: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1379942

If you are interested, email me: marc {at} ideatin {dot} com

If anyone else, that is building something/has an idea/or has built something is also interested, feel free to reach out to me also.
>I am just a regular guy who spends around $3000 a month

Holly shit! I'm trying to live and study as a foreign student in Germany with 648€/month ( about 800$ )... You spent 3000$/month and call yourself "regular" ???..
Yep, you can try Bing or Yahoo.
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It's good to see Paul getting recognized for his expertise in this area. He was ignored and downvoted earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1245906
Watching all of the iPad demos, it appears very likely that publishers see this "new" format as an opportunity to monetize content that the web (HTML) has been marginalizing. At the moment, most users just want to read good articles and content, which is freely available on the web. Publishers, Wired in this example and many more likely to follow, are looking for a way to differentiate their content by building an engaging experience around it. No one really knows for sure how this work out in the long run, but I do agree with the author in that it is very reminiscent of the CD-ROM era.
Hey freshlog,
I am doing a podcast about various ideas/projects/stuff that HN members are working on.

Interested in being on one of the episodes?

I put up the first episode and am pivoting based on the feedback I got from the HN community: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1379942

If you are interested, email me: marc {at} ideatin {dot} com

The same applies to anyone else doing anything productive, that would like to do the same.
Because you CAN churn out HTML5 in different text editors (or Dreamweaver) doesn't mean they're a GOOD way to generate rich content.

While I think Flash (the authoring tool) is a bloated mess, it's light years ahead of anything that exists for creating interactive content with HTML5/CSS/Javascript. There are no good tools for generating something like the Wired app in HTML5.
Oh, and if you're single, don't tell prospective girlfriends about it. You want to know which ones like you for who you are, not your bank account.

I read an article on HN the other day about signing a contract with a third party entity, that states if you do not sign a prenuptial agreement, when you meet that prospective mate and decide to get hitched. Then said third party is entitled to half of your current net worth.

It is a poison pill, but one that they have to swallow. If you are not married, I would consult a lawyer about setting up that contract with a parent, sibling, best friend or me. The good part is it gives you an out without being awkward when the time comes, you can use the:

"My parents begged me to do it, because they where concerned about my partying with rock stars, the coke and running with the wrong kind of girls, and at the time I had not met my one true love, It's no big deal because we are going to be together forever, right?".
Totally agree. the voting needs to be a bigger click target when I'm on the iPhone/iPad
"Pander to" is rarely used positively.
Yeah, you can simulate that stuff with lambdas. For that matter, you can simulate function calls by following conventions in assembly language. That's what I meant by "awkward/difficult". Surely you'd concede that you're happy to have syntactic support for if-statements and lambdas?

Given that, it's not a stretch to imagine that syntax could be useful in other scenarios.
In an ideal world, your magazine app wouldn't be solely using Webkit, because you might want to create elaborate and performant interactive elements.

However, creating these "by hand" in Objective C for each issue would be time intensive. Instead, you'd usually use a scripting language or a framework like Flash to create interactive elements that are beyond JavaScript's reach. 3.3.1 invalidates this approach requiring you either go Webkit, totally native, or, well, nowhere. There is no middle ground for scripting within apps beyond JavaScript on Webkit.
Voting down someone for saying it is linkbait? I don't get that. The title is entirely misleading in this community.
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Odd. I don't remember seeing that. My apologies :-)

I don't agree the tools are non-existent, but to the "wwhat do you gain from that" part: distributing a packaged "Web site in an app" has significant App Store and UI benefits over a paywalled Web site.
Funny how moderation on topics that mention Microsoft is so predictable
I think the author is responding to the self-indulgent "Reddit clone in three lines of lisp!" variety of stunt-programming, where best practices, standards, and readability take a backseat to showing off how much hard-to-read compound logic you can cram into a single line of code.

Honestly, I don't have a problem with those, as long as the practices involved in them don't seep into everyday programming.
Maybe scramjets could be used as auxiliary propulsion for launchers. A pound of oxidizer saved is a pound gained.
Who said anything about WinMo apps? Mindshare is the valuable thing!
I've been pretty disappointed that I haven't heard people mention charitable donations as something to do once you've hit it big. That we have talents and opportunities makes us pretty damn lucky and helping out the unfortunate -- not just the less fortunate -- shouldn't be ignored.
Why is clever programming always associated with some awful monstrous unmaintainable implementation?

Being clever shouldn't mean that you're hacking things together ad-hoc just to make it work. On the contrary, that is the opposite of being clever.

I really doubt that most of the bad code is written by "clever" programmers. Other factors are at play here.
Sure, but that analysis only matters if they'd been found to owe fiduciary duties.

As I understand it, there are two distinct conclusions.

One, they did not owe fiduciary duties, as discussed above.

Two, even if they did owe these duties, they didn't breach them.

Bear in mind, they would have won even if the court found against them on point two.
"RAID for money"

and i was like, "go on..."
I have a Droid for Android development. During the time it was activated the dialer crashed frequently. I wasn't impressed and definitely wouldn't depend on it in an emergency.
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You can spend that year doing whatever you want, just as you could before you got the money. No one is forcing him to invest his money if he doesn't want to.
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Second, much larger volcano in Iceland is showing signs that it may erupt
Context sensitive joke from Wall-E : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVFoDYmTyM8

:)
Go for a walk in the park. Appreciate the trees.

I knew this was coming. You can, and should, do that regardless of whether you have millions or not.
That's a pretty good addition, maybe added to the point of being able to sell 1000 units at $10 point. That point is the most abstract, Im not saying that your business model needs to fit those criteria specifically, just that 10k somehow per month needs to be quite possible, relatively quickly in order for it to be a positive thing for the business idea.

My first business went against both of your points (it was a premium product and we needed to change behavior of the users). I can vouch for the fact that this is tough, and things are slow, but that business also developed the most ardent followers of anything I have done since. It takes time (which is usually a bad thing if you dont have other revenue streams keeping you afloat), but once you do it, you have a serious asset in your customers. If you want to check it out, its HoboHookah.com, we actually patented the product and recently got our claims approved (I wrote the patent myself, which isn't experience you get in an MBA program!).
> I dont want to pay people to 'pick things up on the job'.

Google would disagree. As would Microsoft (they were very interested in interviewing me, even though I've never done Windows or C# programming and made that clear on my resume), Facebook, Amazon (http://groups.google.com/group/mi.jobs/msg/d81b6c1fa8f361fc) and other serious software successes.

Sounds like you want coders, not developers. What reason would talented developers (the ones with offers from all of the above, plus start-ups competing with you) to join you?
i guess that's slightly less bad than actually rebooting

http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=388

(this was a problem with the official android code, not cyanogenmod)
Go invest in one of the GCC countries. No taxes and guaranteed success when it comes to IT businesses.
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In part three he brilliantly draws a distinction between the objective sciences and others and subtly, if I'm understanding correctly, critiques a proponent of uncontrolled population grown by pointing out that the proponents degree from the same university is not a degree in "mathematics, in science, nor in engineering".

Feynman made explicit observations on this topic, quite critical ones, if I remember right.
The tablet form factor will exist, but that will primarily be for interface and display purposes. They may well become an adjunct to a phone sized data device.
The letter from Buffet where he outlines how Wall Street has just turned into a source of friction slowing down "real" industry is gold.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/05/news/newsmakers/buffett_fort...
being charitable is admirable and all, but i'd be pretty disappointed to see someone turn this type of article into an opportunity to impose their personal beliefs on others.
Don't do it. Not worth the $2k IMO.
I just submitted a solution. I believe that one can tell "has this person written a non-trivial amount of C code?" from 15 seconds glancing at their answer in your peripheral vision.

I agree that it can be solved essentially the same way in many languages, but the idiomatic Erlang solution will look a lot different than the idiomatic C solution.

Edit: After reading some of the code posted here and linked from here, perhaps I don't have the same sense as others of what the idiomatic C solution is either. This should be interesting to read the followup posts by RoG.
Who wants to voluntarily let their mind be invaded with idiotic comments like those you refer to on Reddit.

Me, for one.

So, for most of the past decade I've been involved in building online communities. I've been participating in them for longer than that. And I've seen the same pattern occur over and over again: as a community grows, the members become more and more concerned with what's appropriate and less and less concerned with whatever actually brought them together in the first place.

You can see this happening here, now, on a regular basis: "is this really appropriate for HN" is almost at meme status, and occasionally we see waves of blunt enforcement through downvoting of comments, or through posts designed to shame people.

There are basically two ways this can end:

1. The community becomes extremely rigid and insular, developing rules and conventions to protect itself at the cost of new members who get run off or never join in the first place. Wikipedia seems to be at this stage right now, if you'd like an example.

2. The "old guard" (who aren't necessarily original or even early members) either migrate away or get over it, and the community adapts and keeps on growing. Places like Fark, where stupidity and outright trolls just get mocked mercilessly, provide useful examples of this.

Reddit, I think, is either at or approaching the second option. Yes, there's dumb stuff posted, yes, there are comments making fun of people, but the community there seem to have realized that's not the end of the world. And because they're much less rigid and much less concerned with "is this appropriate for reddit", there's a lot more room for creativity, for humor, and for lots of other stuff that just couldn't happen on HN. And I'll take that any day, which is why I spend most of my time reading reddit instead of HN.
...for unhappy employees. It is very bad news for employers that are starting to reap what they sowed.
Now we know why black holes light up
Some people don't want Lojack giving someone else the ability to track and remotely deactivate their car. A lot of people do, however.

There's no wrong or right here, just facts about different market segments. They exist. Deal with it.
Sorry for the link bait - I just didn't feel it was right to create a new title after the author of the blog post had spent time to come up with one. I was wrong and should have come up with a different title when I submitted it.

I'd be happy if a moderator changed it.
that one tells me that the google earth plugin is only for windows and mac, so its no good for me and some others here.
Especially since you lose the people you need to keep.
Don't you Mr Oracle ?
You're missing the needed printf("\n"); at the end of the loop.

Elegant solution, but fails to meet the problem specification.
Problems with brightness usually are a result of protanopia or protanomaly, which are much rarer than what most people mean by "red-green colorblindness" (which is usually deuteranomaly).
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