skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> know of no one either famous or even within my social circles who's become rich solely by investing in the markets alone

Contrary to what late-night informercials on CNBC portray, people in that position keep their mouth shut.

Here's a profile of Robert Mercer, for example https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/us/politics/hedge-fund-ma...

"Mr. Mercer told the audience he was daunted by the prospect of speaking there for an hour, “which, by the way, is more than I typically talk in a month so it’s quite a challenge.”"

Here's another random scientist growing his savings into $14 million portfolio http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/07/nation/la-na-scienti...

If you have a major win in the market, you likely have an edge. Publicizing your egde will only draw the attention of pesky competitors trying to reverse-engineer your strategy.
I'm in the US, and we have recycling programs too.
I'm sorry, but I feel compelled to ask: "eccentric sexually"? Overactive libido or something else?
There's an effective strategy called the snowball strategy. You pay off your smallest debts first, disregarding interest rates. This works because it takes advantage of psychology - you make progress by eliminating debt items faster.

It is not the strategy with the optimal use of money, but if you feel defeated because you seem to be making no progress then you are less likely to have the motivation to live frugally, and thus actually​ do worse overall.

It can be more important to encourage yourself than to actually optimize your cash depending on your personality and situation.
To me, a disengagement means a situation like "the car thought there was nothing in front of it so it kept going 80 km/h straight at a construction worker with a red flag". I don't see how a self-driving car would even identify that it's doing something wrong in order to slam on the breaks.

Are there any breakdowns of which disengagements are due to things like that, and how many are due to "the car failed to see that a red light turned green and refused to move" or "the car refused to enter a road that looked too narrow so it got stuck"?
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You need to be in the market to maintain buying power with stagnant wages and increasing costs. Most people do not have $400 for an emergency so they aren't participating in the market.

And if you have to borrow to buy a house/car or buy health insurance, then you are paying those richer than you to exist, their rate of return will continue to be higher than yours, and wealth inequality will continue to rise.
Given her own lowly origins Virginia Foxx (opposed aid for Katrina, a bill against hate crime, hates gays - nice) you'd think someone like her would be against such forced disclosures. It won't affect her because she is nearly dead but her grandchildren will almost certainly carry defects causing hemoglobin mutations for sickle cell anemia, neurogenetic disorders and have increased risk for chromosomal disorders such as Downs. Republicans voting for this kind of widespread intrusion is like turkeys voting for xmas.
Nope, just that quality content that's worthy of my $$ is mostly produced by bloggers that don't really ask for money. How many sites are there that are as good as LWN?

Ad network business is a big balloon soon to explode as the amount of actual customers you get is so little. Guess most advertisers know this but still publish ads because they're not too expensive to not do. When is the last time you willingly clicked an ad? I believe in the past ten years I only willingly clicked less than five ads.
"You can’t build a decent modern application without frameworks."

Bullshit, especially on the PHP / backend side. It's 2017, we should know how to avoid over engineering simple things.
You should correct the Wikipedia article[0]. The title and references within the article don't use the hyphenated version.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
I was referring to CSS-in-JS and what is coming out of it.
https://speakerdeck.com/vjeux/react-css-in-js

Not all of them use inline styles and a lot are library agnostic. Here are just some of the ones I have played with, plenty more exist.

https://github.com/rofrischmann/fela

https://github.com/FormidableLabs/radium

https://github.com/Khan/aphrodite

https://github.com/threepointone/glamor

https://github.com/MicheleBertoli/css-in-js

https://github.com/styled-components/styled-components

https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules

https://github.com/cssinjs/jss

https://github.com/smyte/jsxstyle

https://github.com/rtsao/styletron
They could still be investing, just not in the stock market. Buying a larger house (with the goal of taking on renters), buying a rental property, or just a plain savings account, which is a proxy investment in Treasuries.
OK.

I have collected old e-junk for a while, now in the process of getting rid of them. They take up a whole lot of space, especially in intended to be preserved in a usable state. I have more often than not failed to keep them operational. I'm not a museum, and don't have the resources. You should also consider this.

Now if you don't want it to be usable, live demoable, then just take a few pictures and videos of it working. That will be enough to remind you of the olden times, and to recall some nice memories and anecdotes.

edit:
Also consider: it is not worth preserving anything if it is not used in any way: economically or educationally useful. You just to have them around, it is a waste of space. If you intend to showcase to people it is worth the effort.
It's updated monthly but really worth to have in your rss feed http://spritesmods.com/

The guy hacks and create stuff from time to time and it's very interesting to read. It's also more on the hardware side of things (I had to Google what's a shift register and how they work to understand one of the article)
Majority is owned by retirement accounts: http://www.businessinsider.com/who-actually-owns-the-stock-m...
Correct me if I am wrong, but since all trades go through the exchanges (circuit breakers), them right? Plus they can rollback trades if needed.
In theory your future 'smart-grid' aggregator will give you a lower electricity tariff if you meet your 'flexible demand targets', by letting them control the cooling of your fridge. They will cool it deeper when there is an energy surplus, so they can switch it off for a while when demand on the grid is high.
Came here to suggest http://reddit.com/r/Tulpas. I accidentally joined the community a month or so ago as the result of research into how gender identity works. Now, I have a female voice in my head along with my own & we're studying the potential therapeutic/developmental reasons one might choose to create a Tulpa.
Raymond Chen's posts are excellent https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
Sure, always a way to find someone else to blame for everything.

People who are successful never make these kinds of comments. Because they don't matter. They are irrelevant. Success in the US is decoupled from a privileged standing in life. People from all walks of life can be successful.

And, BTW, being a billionaire isn't the milestone. Most people would feel wealthy with incomes in the $10K to $25K range (depending on where they live in the US). This does not require PhD parents and two years at Harvard. In fact, most people who start businesses making, say, $1MM+ a year probably don't have more than a high school education. Yet, they do have a lot of grit.

The victim mentality of blaming the rich might be fulfilling to some but it is utter bullshit. I am not talking about the rest of the world here. In the US, this is pure nonsense. The opportunities available today in the US have never been better.
I revised my post.. have a read. What you are doing may seem great.. but it really is not a great idea. I highly suggest you roll back & get off the margin. Put some money into gold perhaps. (IAU) Keep the margin for sure bets if you can find some.
Basically what happened is that I did sell it for $8, then I did a 50% sale and saw an increase in sales. I did the sale on and off a few times then just got lazy and didn't get around to removing the sale flag from the website for a while and eventually I just decided that most people only buy it once, so from their perspective it's on sale now. It also saved the effort of remembering to switch the pricing back and forth every few weeks.
Why would you ever write such a thing?
With ~$2M, where should I move to have impact and relax in life?
I can liquidate for around $2M. Where can I move to in the world that will allow me to participate greatly in local business and community while also living a luxurious, relaxed life?
Look: there were a lot of people to whom he mattered, whom he left behind, and they're good people, a number of them my friends, and I care a lot about them. Their voices and concerns deserve to be heard, whether or not I agree with them.

The people who never knew him, and who don't know MIT or MIT culture, and who want to turn Aaron into some kind of Internet freedom martyr all out of proportion to who he was and what he actually accomplished, those are the folks who I have a beef with.
The market does not exist to make anyone rich. The math never works out. Desperate and clueless people delude themselves into thinking otherwise, and more reasonable people use the market as a glorified lottery ticket.

All of these people are missing the point. The only people that could ever meaningfully participate in the market are those for whom 6-10% returns on their income vs. 2-3% are meaningful. Everyone else needs a larger return, the stock market cannot and never will offer the kind of return on investment that a job or business can offer.

Stock markets encourage liquidity of capital. They are instruments by which hungrier, but still large investors can take money from their more well-heeled contemporaries without having to resort to ugly political action.

There are only two financial investments that really make sense from a personal point of view, mortgage loans and retirement. Mortgages make sense because it's an accessible form of leverage, take the leverage out of the picture and everyone would rent. Retirement makes sense because it's the only other scale people operate at where single percentage point differences in return make a real difference. Otherwise we'd just put all our retirement funds in a savings account.

I'd say you need a few million in the bank before financial investment starts to look better than hunting for business deals. Sure, financial investment is less risky, but savvy players can de-risk by studying the market.
Advertising isn't just about clicks/conversions. It's also about brand/product exposure.
I wanted to see what kind of videos would come out and they turned out to be of good quality so I released it. Right now it has rather low traffic so I am not thinking too much about monetization, I might open source it and write a blog post if I find some time.
Ask HN: Books/Resources to read for parents to be
What are some recommended books or resources to read for parents?

I would like to know also why are you recommending a specific book (or what can I learn from it)?
Aaron Swartz is mostly dead because of untreated mental illness. The things that happened to him were bad, but it's not MIT's fault he was suicidal.
I am keeping a mind map of all blogs that I want to read and follow (https://my.mindnode.com/Lr33AxQg1yTrPzYJrAbFD7E6Wr7cM6YyoUfX...)

It's part of a bigger mind map I am making (https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge-map)
Are we on the verge of 3D printers at home?
I wish people would stop citing that old AskTOG article.

The $50 million (in 1989) research figure sounds impressive, but they don't say how much of that was keyboard-vs-mouse research and the answer is quite likely "very little".

It seems that, like most UX research, they were testing how well novices manage rather than how well people do after weeks of experience (the latter is expensive to test!).

When you get to "It takes two seconds to decide upon which special-function key to press. Deciding among abstract symbols is a high-level cognitive function." it's clear that what they were looking at is a very very long way from how a typical Vim or Emacs user works.

I think the article _is_ interesting as evidence for the proposition "it's possible for people to believe that they're quicker with the keyboard when they're not". But it's nowhere near enough evidence to get as far as "we can dismiss people who believe they're quicker with the keyboard as mistaken".
The problems start when the rich get richer faster than what it takes for the poor to get a little less poor. This is what is described as 'divergent behavior'. In the long term there is no equilibrium to this, and we revert to pre WWI Europe levels of inequality.

What happens then to reduce inequality is anyone's guess, but in the XX century the Russian Revolution, World Wars, and the Great Depression have been very effective.

Other than that one could make the point that for someone who is already very rich, getting marginally richer doesn't do much while lifting someone from abject poverty is something that has a great effect on that person's life (in other words utility is probably sub-logarithmic).
Now I understand why they hired Guido back then.
I have found Fossil very good for solo version control. I swear by it, but then again I don't work in the industry.
From Vagrant to NixOps
Even if you don't buy the latest Google or Amazon or Microsoft or Facebook HomeSpy, the ability to get away from other devices is ... difficult at best.

And not just PocketSpys and MobileAdDeliveryTablets.

I've recently been through the experience of replacing a major home appliance for a friend. One which need not intrinsically be electronically controlled. But is. With intrinsic BlueTooth connectivity (and quite possibly WiFi, I've been afraid to ask).

After units #1 and #2 arrived DOA, with electronic faults, I went through the exercise of looking for a device without integrated electronics. So far as I can tell, they simply do not exist. Perhaps if you were willing to buy a used model from the 1990s or prior -- and even in the 90s, there were electronics, they just weren't connected to anything else.

After unit #3 arrived with exterior physical damage matching a previous shipment (and directly over a very insufficiently armoured printed circuit board), and having failed to identify an alternative, we had all three boards replaced (at manufacturer cost). That's $300 in parts, or 20% of the cost of the unit, plus labour. I'm wondering how that breaks down on a per-unit basis, though our experience suggests "poorly".

I've no confidence that the electronics are suitably protected from environmental or other damage over the life of this appliance, which I estimate will be substantially less than the 20+ years of its far more robust 1960s ancestors. Which did the fundamental job very much as well.

This, I'll add, was an experience with an expensive and major purchase, based on physical characteristics. The amount of debugging and security proofing going into the $10 - $100 price-point light-bulbs, thermostats, toasters, humidifiers, security (hah!) cameras, etc., can be at most a very small fraction of that retail figure.

I'm less than enthused.

And feel that exceedingly strict legal protections will have to be imposed on manufacturers and/or retailers.
Programmers should not call themselves engineers
If you look at pages today and compare them to pages some years ago, it seems to me that because of usability best practices, they have become a lot more alike.

The step to a default style
doesn't seem such a large one.

When enough people use Twitter Bootstrap, we could just support that natively in the browser.
Not that it changes my opinion, but I am no longer using any margin (took some profits). My Robinhood post was originally from Nov 17th 2016, but I updated it on Feb 6th 2017.
This needs discussion
Can you provide more credible data on this?
I'm a rather emotional person with a very pronounced sense of empathy. I can, to an extent, feel physical or emotional stimuli that others feel, even if they're fictional characters or animals. It can be crippling but also very rewarding.

Given that short context, your post is interesting to me partly because, from my perspective, it sounds like you're searching for some empathy from me so that the channels of communication will open.

So either you aren't wanting us to empathize with your way of life being exhausting, in which case the purpose of the post eludes me, or you do wish for us to empathize. And finally, you certainly don't wish that you had the ability of empathy to minimize your (potential; real or theoretical) damage to other people's life experiences or feel other people's joy.

In other words, this logically deduces to being entirely self serving. You wish for us to empathize with you so that you can make a personal gain, not because you wish to do better by other people.

Isn't everyone self interested? To an extent, yes. I "selflessly" help someone, which increases my fitness as an organism because I experience their positive experience. If this goes both ways, it's a 4x net gain vs. 1 self interested individual. Two self interested individuals with aligned goals still only get 2x net gain, which is half as much as two selfless individuals.

Maybe I completely missed the mark but that's my evaluation. I'd be interested in hearing more on your perspective.

I have one question: can sociopaths express altruism?

Thanks for your valuable time!
It's also similar to what Microsoft does (did?) with Windows during development[0] - text that hasn't been translated yet is shown with a whole bunch of meaningless diacritical marks and replacement characters so it stands out.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudolocalization#Pseudolocal...
https://dzone.com/ actually technical articles for people who prefer tech over pop and culture.
Sure, let's repeal Obamacare and tell the poor to invest in the stock market to get enough money to get medical treatment, I'm sure that's gonna work out great for them.
Coal industry is dead, pretending otherwise is not healthy or helpful.

Attacking the media is not healthy or helpful.

His most egregious crime is destabilizing public trust in climate change facts. The world climate is changing because of human actions, and drastic action must be taken by world leaders to prevent catastrophic damage (aka, human extinction events). Leaders like Trump that deny the facts contribute to the damage that may cause these extinction events.

So if you call contributing to effects that could lead to flooding most of our major population centers with rising sea water over the next hundred years "making america great," by all means support the man.

EDIT: Because Trump supporters always say "but Trump didn't say x y z!"

Let's listen to the man: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/26589529219124838...

"Listen to what he says, he's going to make america great." Yea, I'm listening.
> If most of your income is salary, you will be paying a much higher effective tax rate than if most of your income is capital gains.

Correct only for individual incomes above $165,000. Current long-term capital gains rate with ACA surcharge is 23.8%, and according to https://www.taxact.com/tools/tax-bracket-calculator.asp the effective income tax rate for a single individual goes above that at $166,000. Having any family or other dependents introduces new deductions, and so does contributing to an IRA or 401(k), extending that runway.

This also ignores the fact that planning to generate stable income via long-term capital gains is akin to planning on generating stable income by consistently winning the lottery.
Oh man. I just read your blog post.

You have a list of returns on the SPY, etc.

First off.. notice what happened in 2008? Reset! It was -40% EOY, but have a look at what within 2008! You've got skin for that?

Do you know what a margin call is?

Know how W. Buffet made so much bank off of 2008? He had some cash.

Also.. Those amazing returns from 2009 to now. Quantitive Easing. Mean anything?
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I followed that for a long time, but stopped a few years ago as the articles felt so fake and/or fluffed up.
The pattern-matching gone haywire visible in schizophrenia, applied in mild dosages on principles not related is in my opinion the secrect ingredient that allowed in the early days of science for the "genius" myth to occur.

So madmen might be usefull- but not all the time, and not in all situations. The true art in project managment is to keep the madmen around against all resistence ("That guy is constantly reinventing the wheel"), prevent the usual specialization silos from walling off against this and get a stuck project to "shift gears" as in, temporarily withdraw the usual project-management ("We need fast, easy solutions- not something custom made") - and get the recombined stuff at least discussed.
And down the Rabbit Hole lies a Templar Cave!
I appreciate your response.
Sometimes it's difficult to part from things, especially with the concept that they are valuable.
However, the hippy dippy idea that nothing has value isn't effectual in "this day and age".

If we're going to accomplish Elon Musk level relevancy, then we can't ignore the significance of past technology.
edit: I basically agree with your comment, and thanks for it.
What's with the disk speed?! A SSD that only does 240MBps and 15kIOPs?

Why would I ever want this over a pair of 1U colocated dedicated servers, each with an m2 NVMe? The price is alarmingly close at 1y and obviously much cheaper for the dedicated ongoing.
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> so a Canadian insurance company could let people disclose good genetics for a discount, I presume?

I don't know whether insurance is regulated federally or provincially in Canada. But for all federally-regulated matters, the fact that the bill "...amends the Canadian Human Rights Act to prohibit discrimination on the ground of genetic characteristics" should mean that they would not be allowed to do that. It would be similar to having straight discount or a protestant discount, i.e. super illegal.

If insurance is provincially-regulated, I hope that the provinces follow suit to add genetic characteristics to their prohibited grounds for discrimination.
3) Maybe a language don't need to be that "elegant", it's not required in all situations. I think I would prefer a "practical" language over "elegance" but like the appearance.
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Croatia, Crna Gora, Serbia, Canary Islands, ...
It's the best there is... IF you believe that the market will continue to grow. A lot of people think that we are hitting very high valuations now.
Well, I personally am not bothered by the concept of a state having the right to ban abortion, but I know that statistically it's stupid decision because exactly the states that would end up banning abortion are the same states that would refuse to give proper sex education to prevent the abortions in the first place.

Also, not allowing abortions desperately increases the tax burden.