skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using the term loosely (some of my friends would consider me someone with "FU" money - but I'm not in the "go out and buy a porsche for every day of the week cause I like it" territory")

1) I view money differently than I did before. Not because I don't have to care about it, because I absolutely do, or it wouldn't last long, but everyday worries around "how can we pay bill X" go away, and are replaced by worries about long term strategy and, at least in my case, not getting caught up in long term strategy. Life goes on.

2) It takes some effort to adjust your thought process with regards to how to treat others. Talking about my exciting trip to europe with my friends comes across to some people as bragging or showing off - and while it's absolutely NOT - it's just me being happy and sharing it with friends - after some time you learn to read people and pick up on this - and remember that money isn't the same thing for everyone, and can be a sensitive topic.

- FU money is no more or less than what you make of it... and it can run out as fast as it came if you aren't careful. Plenty of people are in the "FU" financial stage and don't even realize it, and plenty of people who wish they were there wouldn't do any better - your financial practices largely dictate your long term financial well being - whether you have a little or a lot.

I know a number of people well further into the FU money than me - and I'd say they're an even mix of people who became happier, struggled and are still unhappy, or even worse, or who pretty much just stayed exactly the same (as far as I can tell).

Remember, when most people say they wish they were rich, what they mean is they want the lifestyle they think rich people have - which isn't, in reality, what they envision it to be. (Rap stars on MTV don't sit around smokin blunts surrounded by hotties 24/7 and driving sports cars - they spend time working on new albums, hanging out with friends, and doing the scene)
Compiere Open Source failed?
Ah, did not know that... imitation = flattery but that's so so close. Well, now I know.

Can I just say again, how impressed I am at how quickly you responded to all this and took appropriate measures. I could see this locked up in processes and such for days at other organizations.
more like new feature rather than hidden feature. but agreed, it's very cool
Don't attribute to stupidity what you can attribute to malice...
If you set "showdead" in your profile, you'll see all this stuff. I'm not a moderator, but I can confirm that there was a front-page anti-Posterous story that got killed, and then there was a very highly voted "Ask HN" about that story getting killed, which itself got killed. Of course, this doesn't mean they were killed specifically for being anti-Posterous.
Bingo - time, your time, is the one thing you can't buy more of later.

Having money makes you realize you actually didn't need as much of it as you thought you did.
When a competitor goes out of business or is acquired it's not uncommon to announce a "white knight" or "rescue program."

It's a little more unusual to claim that a number of larger competitors, several of whom appear to be growing more rapidly (at least in adding number of users if not %), are "dying platforms." Offering a migration to folks unhappy with a competitor and suggesting differentiating benefits that you offer no one can get unhappy with, it's called positioning.

Characterizing more than a dozen of your competitors as "dying" seems like it will leave a bitter lingering aftertaste in both competitors and their customers.

What's overlooked in Pearson's statement "We have nothing against our competitors - we're just playing to win," is that few markets are winner take all and competitors often have to cooperate to create a viable industry.

If they had tried to own their niche and enabled bloggers to migrate who wanted their feature set I think they would have gotten 90% of the benefits, maybe more since it's not credible that they are "better than everyone else" which is what their chart graphics purport, and not laid the groundwork for long term negative feeling if they had left out the buzz generating "dying platform" characterization.
That must be the biggest cheat sheet I've ever seen!

But good work, will come in handy when playing with Clojure.
I've run a 250,000 pageview/month vBulletin forum (MySQL and PHP, you can judge for yourself how efficient you think this would be as a comparison) off a server destined for the scrapheap:

1.8GHz Celeron, 512 MB RAM, 1 x 5400rpm IDE disk

For both httpd and mysql.

The server occasionally got a bit loaded during peak times (geographically specific market), I'd say I was operating at roughly 80% of capacity, about the edge of comfort.

This was just a hobby site on the side, you may want to consider the additional costs of redundancy, off site data archiving, perhaps even splitting infrastructure across two datacentres and hosting providers just in case.

Ideally, you'd have access to the application in order to run your own capacity testing, can you arrange that?
With hooked-in lists, you rarely need to navigate through the whole list. You usually just need to get the next one. Having implemented hooked-in lists, the backing for them was a fixed size of memory chunks, but that was one level of abstraction lower. The Linux kernel does something similar.

(Felt I should clarify that it's nothing about hooked-in lists that prevent you from navigating the whole list. It's just the algorithms you end up using to solve the problems that pop-up at that level of systems programming.)
You just said something really interesting in there...... that perhaps it would be building the next geo-tagging-social network.

That's the problem - assuming the readers are techies.... if I suddenly had my FU money - the last thing I'd want to do is start a technology company, unless it was something I was really super passionate about.

I'd personally rather go back to having my computers as my hobby, and work on my family, other hobbies, travel, maybe learn to write better.... and work on long term financial managemnet so I'll be set for good, as well as my family.
And yeha, maybe a fancy-ish car or two - but the money buys my personal time back- the last thing I'd want to do is dump it into work again...
I said "a good conceptual understanding." Not a complete understanding.
It's also probably not at all true, but it does help him to sympathize with his target audience. Would

The [JavaScript] APIs in HTML5 are very powerful, but knowing that their neither relevant to or comprehensible by who I'm expecting (or fear) you may very well be we're just not going to go into any further detail right now.

really have been a better line?
Opportunity #2 isn't necessarily a win, if you're not careful. There is an industry out there ready to separate the newly wealthy from their wealth - the same one that convinces average people to dump their money into mutual funds with outrageous fees, but since you're rich they can afford to apply the personal attention and salesmanship of a luxury car dealership.
I wrote something like this a few years ago. It's hard to get all the edge cases right, but it works well enough for my purposes. I still use it occasionally as a format string generator - I paste the format strings into my code rather than doing the natural language parsing thing every time.

Here's a demo with source (PHP):

http://ramenlabs.com/dbe/
To be honest, if Assange is really stands by his own principles, he probably doesn't want you to take anyone's trustability for granted (including his).
The Death of Nemesis: The Sun's Distant, Dark Companion
I can't claim to know who Clay Johnson is, but I am really interested in his low contribution to Wikipedia article length ratio.
Meet some more people. I've saved 20+% for about 5 years now, I have over a year of FU money, and probably closer to 3 or 4 if I actually payed closer attention to my spending and cut back. I'm not rich, I just save before I spend and prolong the time before I give any of my money away (purchases, bills etc - its my money!)

It hasn't affected me much, I still work, I'm still kind to strangers and waitresses. You're rule is good, but something tells me those people you know would be the same in any situation.
"FU money is no more or less than what you make of it... and it can run out as fast as it came if you aren't careful. Plenty of people are in the "FU" financial stage and don't even realize it, and plenty of people who wish they were there wouldn't do any better - your financial practices largely dictate your long term financial well being - whether you have a little or a lot."

Eh, this just doesn't ring true to me. I'm pretty sure that everyone I know would do much better with an extra $10M, not the same or worse.
Strange Loop conference - freaking awesome.
Can the HN community work to build out a nice homebrew NAS
For some time now I have wanted to hook up a NAS to my home network for storing my music, video, and data.

There are projects like FreeNas, Nexenta, and a handful of other OSS NAS software/hardware. Of course, there are the off the shelf products like Drobo which I personally do not feel fits the bill at all.

I was hoping that as a collaborative effort, the HN community could come up with a spec sheet of hardware and software that could be put together to make a really nice NAS for the slightly above average home network hacker.

Off the top of my head, I would love to see it meet these criteria, though would also love to hear the pros and cons of these ideas. Not to mention the valuable input everyone in this community can provide.

* What OS would it run?
* What motherboard would be ideal?
* Can it be kept it fanless?
* Would it be good to also try to shove in a full blown router and firewall, replacing two devices at once?
* Serial ATA specs.
* Minimum CPU that can be used.
* ZFS? I certainly desire for it to be ZFS.
* What software would be best to control it, rather than writing our own, which would slow things down. Ideally this would amount to putting parts together, not reinventing the wheel.
* This is home to Small/Med Business, do not even try to hit the enterprise.
* How many drives
* What is the best box/case for something like this?
* How low of a power consumer can we keep it?

And whatever else people can add. I really would love to see this be a ZFS based system, with the ability to support Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux out of the box without any fiddling. All over GB Ethernet. If it can act as a portable home directory destination for other OS's, support sparse images/bundles, Time Machine backups from Apple's kit, etc. And all that, with the ability to pop in a new drive at any time and absorb that storage. Not to mention knowing your data is safe by choosing the right ZFS RAID methodology.

To date, I have not seen this done without hitting costs that are far too much to put into home use. The second you go enterprise, it is a noisy rack mount or a Drobo, both of which I am not a huge fan of.

If dialogue can be opened on this to get specs together, I think I can drum up the funds to make a first generation prototype, and find the time to write up the instructions on how to make it all come Together.

What do you think?
1) Shopping. For a few extra bucks, most large grocery stores will deliver.

Here in Tokyo a supermarket will charge about U$5 for delivery. I imagine the fee wouldn't be very different in North America. Hardly FU money. (Actually the delivery fee is waived for purchases over $50, so I buy groceries once a week and never pay for delivery.)

2) Laundry. Pay a service to pick up / clean / drop off your clothes.

6) Housecleaning. Hire a service.

These are very cheap in the Third World. You can make a living as a remote freelancer out of Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Thai, etc. Of course most people don't want to move to Third World countries buy hey, it's way easier than ever getting FU money. ;-)

4) Dining. Not in the mood to cook? Eat out whenever you want.

I don't cook and I spend less than $22 a day for food. Not very frugal but again not even close to FU money.

5) Taxes. Pay someone else.

Filling my taxes used to take 5 minutes per year. Now that my name and address are pre-printed on the form, it takes me about 1. Everything else is done by my company.
No one mentioned Python's strong typing hidden feature:

(True + True) == 2

(sorry, one of my few pet-peeves after it bit me one time)
MoD unveils unmanned fighter jet 'of the future'
> but something tells me those people you know would be the same in any situation.

That's exactly why the rule is good, it allows you to pick out people like that. In other situations they will be the same (they can't help it) but it won't stand out so much.

Some people try to impress others by bossing people around or showing they can afford to be rude, for me that's a total turn-off.

The really interesting thing here is that the really wealthy are usually quite modest (at least, those that I've met, which is not a very large sample).
Wow, cool! I really like D as a C++ replacement. Is the language stable enough, though? Last time I checked D 2.0 was still evolving.
I went to an OpenSolaris users group last year. They were talking about new network features like being able to assign sub-interfaces to different zones. Stuff that VMware ESX had available for years. I was thoroughly unimpressed. The concept of Zones or FreeBSD jails has some appealing aspects; not needing to load multiple kernels in memory, for example, but by this time, Hypervisors such as VMware that deduplicate memory blocks pretty much negate any advantage Zones/Jails once had.

ZFS definitely has some potential though. I hope it will be released under a more liberal license that will allow a direct Linux kernel module as opposed to fuse support.
And then a reply to @kevinrose's tweet about this first video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O44C765UiMw Hilarious!
I've a similar mindset, though where I'll deviate is I'm 28.

For me I think the reality is that I expect computer literacy to continue to increase, while some slick abstractions will be developed in the next 25 years. Granted, software developers will still be in demand, yet there'll be more labor available in the market, and much of it will be more accessible which will drive down salaries a bit as the labor supply starts to catch up with demand. I also lack a formal degree, though real-world experience and self-teaching myself most of a CS and Mathematics undergrad curriculum has prevented that from becoming a problem.

Also, I'm watching my 60+ year-old parents go through it. They sold their house to free up cash. I had to bail them out (for 18 months) when I was 22-23 for a non-trivial amounts of money, since no one else could've helped them out. My uncle and aunt are in the same boat. My sister is ridden with debt. Parents of neighborhood kids are going through similar motions (selling the house to free up cash).

My plan?

* Save at least 35% of my net pay every year. Already done, shooting for 40% now. Goal is 50% (at current income level/standard of living). Credit is a tool that I do use to my advantage at times, but it's rare. Most everything is cash, including major purchases (i.e. car).

* Develop something to provide a 2nd income stream of at least $850/mo that only can go into savings. That's real money over the long haul.

* Minimize purchases of durable goods. I expect 15 years out of the car (only buy a car that makes you smile every time you get in it). My furniture will outlive me. I get 5-ish years out of clothing (and don't own much). Electronics either need to last 10+ years or have high resale value.

* Plan to change careers in 17-20 years, especially if there's tangible demand in a new field. Mostly since I expect to be bored. Barring that, time to get a "real" engineering degree.
SAS, IBM (software group, among others), NetApp, EMC, cisco and others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle_Park#Companie...

Not sure if those are interesting to you.

I'm not sure the talent pool is measurably smaller if you're looking for people to help with a startup, but I've never even been to SF. There are several fairly decent universities in the area NCSU, Duke, & UNC that feed plenty of smart people into the workforce.
Exactly. Too bad no one here mentioned it, i was really curious.
I have learned that

* "legacy software" is anything not from Microsoft

* that salesmen will sit in a meeting with you and your PHB and say of the company that sold your iron "Are they still in business?"

* and in general that the two most powerful words any salesman knows are "Everyone is". That the rest of the sentences takes on steadily changing and commonly contradictory values (going to .NET/App Engine/Drupal) does not seem to diminish the effect.

So I may not believe the Posterous message but I wouldn't single them out for the delivery. After all, Nobody ever got fired for buying Posterous.
There is a lot of middle ground here, my girlfriend isn't going to leave me if I don't have a high paying job or company but she sure wouldn't object if I did come into money and gave her expensive gifts.
Even now, Solaris has a far superior VM subsystem and is better performing with multi-thread operations (IMHO).

However my company is going to move away from Solaris to Linux because Oracle is simply not trustworthy (I won't say "IMHO" because it is pretty much a fact).
Moxi (the memcached/membase proxy) update with vbuckets
Say hello to the ability to explicitly migrate and replicate keys/values between servers, without downtime, while still keeping to memcached’s uber performance.
The Breathtaking Magnitude of Our Technology
Facebook Has Destroyed Birthdays
$3M would definitely be FU money to me. Not enough to live in opulence, but definitely enough to not have to work for a living.
Mental Note: create Cobol on Rails for future Army of 65 year old programmers.
I think programming and teaching will eventually merge. That's a long way off though.
If your startup projects have failed you, you don't think your 401k plus social security are enough, you are within two decades or so of retirement and you are still "just a coder" I know exactly what you should do:

1. Pick a company you don't hate
2. Get hired
3. learn their codebase inside and out
4. DON'T QUIT

Pretty soon you will be the only person around who knows about system "X" and they will be glad to keep you around past 65. My office is filled with COBOL programmers that took this path. Hell, we even recently hired a guy in his 60's, because that's just how old COBOL programmers are.

Alternatively you could get your MBA and go the CTO/VP of engineering route. This seems better to me, (as a backup plan to startup failure).
Al, this argues for a different positioning than 'dying platform.' For example, "unhappy because WordPress cannot let do x?" or "tired of waiting for TypePad to support Y?" switch to posterous.
JsonML + Browser-Side Templating (JBST)
Sounds much simpler than these ones. I've never really found it useful to see the unordered set transform into an ordered one - the point should be in how the algorithm does divide&conquer.
> slick abstractions will be developed in the next 25 years.

Don't bet on it. There are tons of failed examples of attempts to enable plug and play programming (connecting pre-made components together), and it never scales. The devil is in the details.
Why am I not surprised?

This can happen to anyone. I accidentally shifted into reverse instead of drive and backed into the corner of my parent's garage. And when I saw I was backing up (slowly) I slammed on the gas. I managed to hit the brake fast enough to avoid damaging my SUV but not the garage.
Sounds like it failed because the VCs wanted their return too quickly, and so changed how the business fundamentally ran to something they were more familiar with. In other words, they tried to make a successful open source project into traditional proprietary software.

Maybe they just chose bad or unmatched VCs?
The most important thing the FYM has brought me I think is almost complete freedom to pursue whatever it is that my heart desires (in terms of time), and to buy tools to do whatever it is that I want to do. I would not trade that for any base salary+options package because my time is the only asset I've got that will only diminish and of which I have an unknown quantity to begin with. Having a steady passive income stream translates in to freedom the kind of which is hard to describe until you've experienced it, I'd fight pretty hard to maintain this life, even if it meant operating at an even lower level of income.

Freedom - in terms of time - is priceless.

Amen. That's my goal.
Git + capistrano + shorewall = filewall
This is much more a summary (+ star rating) than a review.
The product manager's desk reference is a good choice.
But concrete and equal in all languages, which is the point of the OP.
It's so easy to take the moral high ground when one has zero power. That briefly summarizes Clay's self-important diatribe. More to the point: who's Clay Johnson? That's right: nobody knows, and nobody cares.
Good point. He probably would not want US politicians to trust him or like him either.
Ask HN: What do you use to track your workouts?
I've been working out for several years and about four months ago I started running and swimming as well. Currently, I track my workouts by using Giles Bowkett's Calendar method (http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/11/time-management-two-pics-two-books-one.html), highlighting on days that I do a workout. Additionally, when I run, I write down my distance and time.

What do you use to track your workouts? Also, do you like using it, and do you think that it is worth the time? If so, why? Thanks.
Try The Product Manager's Desk Reference by Steven Haines. Every product manager should own it.
Http://www.pmdeskreference.com
Agreed, although I don't think it's limited to two stereotypes (for instance there is the "Maxim/fratboy man" and the "Homer Simpson" man)
I agree. Part of creativity and "thinking outside the box" is making your box bigger than others'. So really, you're just thinking outside their box.
Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit
If BitTorrent monitoring interests you, you may also want to compare this work to Spying the World from Your Laptop (http://www.usenix.org/event/leet10/tech/full_papers/LeBlond....).
This isn't FU money. FU money means you're set for life. (Maybe >$5M in semi-liquid assets in the US or whatever).

Two outstanding mortgages and a single stream of revenue (that will certainly diminish over time) is hardly better off than just having a high paying corporate job where you don't have to go into the office very often.