skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe we just need less publications.
Web development may not be around in 20-40 years, certainly not in the way it's done today. That said, I'm sure that type of technical ability will be in demand, you may have to learn some new things.
Thanks. This is a great start. I sent you an email.
This is likely the other way around. Keep in mind that the one who screams racism or complains about their check being late is liable to make a much stronger impression on you than the many who simply lead quiet lives in poverty. And even in a crime-ridden neighborhood, the statistics show that most of the crime is attributable to a small fraction of the population.
Isn't that quote a bit hypocritical?
On some days, when the nonsense of corporate drama (just like WoW, i swear) crops up. I think: Ok, ok, lets just become a janitor/garbage man so the shit that I have to deal with is up front; then spend my evenings working on OSS.
Overview above, latest analysis here: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/07/16/289311/another-oc...

This is such a flimsy business it's untrue.
Yeah, that definitely shouldn't be underestimated. Even launching a simple web-site demands a fair amount of time in support and promotion and maintenance, which you just can't blow off.
If we consider the way South Korea went from profound under-development to first-world in 50 years under a somewhat autocratic republic with heavy economic dirigisme, yes, probably.
$1.5m is a bit high for the average case. The median household income in the United States today is about $50k, so if you estimate 80% of your income for retirement, that's $40k. The conditional life expectancy of a 65-year-old is ~17 yrs, and inching up very slowly, so maybe will be 20 years in a few decades. So that's $800k in today's money, modulo investments.

And that's assuming zero contribution from social security. Even if social security gets chopped at some point, I don't expect it to go all the way to $0; people working today and paying in will probably get some payout. Even if it's only $10k/yr, that reduces the needed savings to $600k.

Granted, most people don't have anywhere near $600k either, so it might be arguing between whether they need to save infinity or 2*infinity more than they currently are.
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The idea is good but you need to use the current HN data or some sort of connection to our profiles. Having a separate website where you have to register won't really show the user data from here.
And it is great exercise for sure, I've been tempted to work at Denny's part time to get paid-exercise. I've also considered construction.
Hahaha. Belgium is a strange country from the point of view of governance. In the United Kingdom however I think there would be great constitutional crises if the Queen does not give assent. You can not simply declare her unable to reign for a day as all power is derived from her, thus, all others would have no power to sign either.

It would be an interesting time though, I wonder if it will ever come to pass.
The site is down an hour after your post and before you gave out any invites? Ouch.
Well, I'm sure there are plenty of newsophiles out there, otherwise there would be no market for 24 hour news TV channels.
I realize this probably won't be the most popular of opinions around places like this one, but the more I think about it, the more I conclude that leaving everyone to individually save for their own retirement is not the best of ideas.

There are far too many variables in the system for most people to navigate successfully for 40 years straight, even if they are earnestly trying. You could have an extemely well diversified portfolio and still lose money when The Market as a whole tanks as a result of bad decisions of other people. You could have money saved up in multiple savings accounts or bonds and be out of luck when a government you didn't vote for fucks up and causes a period of hyperinflation. I'm not even mentioning things utterly out of individual control like a war resulting from an invasion by an aggressive, more powerful neighbour.

Implementation details such as retirement age are very important, of course, but a from mile-high view, providing a decent if not extraordinary living standard to millions of people seems exactly like the type of infrastructure and public good projects governments are normally the best option for.

/jarek, who nevertheless has more private savings right now than "a quarter of those surveyed"
Here's a video about it from The History Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmuyLIrSjxI
Try Dan Deacon - especially Bromst. Discovered this a few months ago; now probably my all-time favorite for coding music.
"I have concluded that government programs designed 'to help the poor' generally do more harm than good."

The problem is that in most countries the poor are people who can't buy anything, whereas in the US the poor are people who can't be sold anything. They're like the spent fuel rods of capitalism. You can try to recycle them, or try to bury them, but moving them from place to place only causes trouble.
I'm with you on this except I want to own the company, not work for it.I see nothing wrong with working until you die, it's the working for someone else till you die that bothers me
Possibly the Times removing itself from view as far as most internet users are concerned might be a good thing for rival sites. It means that there are slightly fewer advertising slots on news sites, which could increase their value. Certainly in my case other news sites are getting higher traffic because of the Times paywall.
Yes, I had that feature enabled for a while but then removed it. In the case of "Chemistry", you'd end up with one RSS feed for hundreds of journals, maybe too wide a selection for most users.

If I can generate enough interest in this site, the next phase would be to add User Accounts, and let the user check off which feeds he/she wants to track. Then they would have their own RSS feed based on that selection, that they could view on the site or pull using a feed reader.

I want to build some pagerank and see the interest level before continuing.
While this is true, I think my answer still stands even if you plan on retirement for only 10 years. It doesn't really matter, they don't have enough income to live how they're living now, let alone having extra to support themselves once they are no longer working.
I don't usually listen to music when I code, but when I really need to concentrate or am distracted by background conversations, I usually go for Einstein on the Beach by Phillip Glass.

Back in college, I'd often listen to classical music while working on math. But I occasionally found it distracting (especially Bach, I'd concentrate on the sequence of notes rather than the problem at hand).
Gets me in the zone: John Coltrane, Chic Corea, Miles Davis, Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers
Mindless consuming kills creativity; whether at school or at home. Got to stop that and engage people to _do something_ of their own.
YouTube is currently the best place to find it, just put together or find a playlist. I was spoiled with this, because we built a website for creating YouTube Playlists and we made a bunch of really good ones for Video Game Music. That site is mostly broken now though...

But I will still provide you with my favorite collection of 8-bit (well 16 bit technically) music: http://flotate.com/?p=12352-Phantasy-Star-2-Soundtrack
You've got a great point there but let me add something. The question if percentages or absolute numbers are valuable depends on the goal of your investigation. When you want to determine the technological advancement of a country going for the relative numbers should be the way to go. However when you want to determine if a country should be a target market for your startup/company absolute numbers are fine. Even though only 22,5% of the Chinese people use the internet 298,000,000 users is still a huge market. Definitely to consider targeting.
I don't think there is a reset. Articles are ranked using two factors. One is the number of upvotes that the article has, and the other is how old the story is. The older an article is, the higher the "decay" factor.

Thus, an article with 100 points might stay on the front page for quite a while. An article with five points has a chance to make it to the front page if it gets those votes fairly quickly and the front page is not too crowded with higher-point articles.

So what seems to be important is the time zone of the readers/submitters. From the point of view of submitting stories, if you can get a potentially-popular submission in before the east coast wakes up, it has the best chance of getting to the front page. Votes of readers in Africa and Europe will possibly give it a boost.

So what this means for a reader is that stories submitted at 0700 east coast time will possibly roll off by mid-day as the pressure of good submissions from Central (go tqbf!) and further west push them off. So if you read HN at 1100, you are likely to catch those early stories and some of the west stories. But will the stories from yesterday still be there?

I wish you great success in reading HN just once a day, a problem that I find personally unsolvable.

The best way to be sure you get all the stories is to use an RSS feed reader, like google reader.
Thanks. Your impressions of the area are similar to mine, so far.

I'll definitely check out the NOVA/DC group. That's a little far for anything regular but it's great to know about.
You know very well that no programming community ever has that kind of attitude; none! The only possibility I can think of is if there existed a secret government-consultant cabal, and they had this in a super-secret manual.
I highly recommend: http://www.radioparadise.com

Listener supported radio with an eclectic mix of music, Pink Floyd to Beethovan, Portishead to Cab Calloway, and plenty of indie music I'd otherwise never have heard. DJ Bill Goldsmith mixes his playlists so they almost never interrupt my train of thought. When the music does, my concentration was usually dragging anyway and then I take a 3 min break to check the playlist page and set a rating so I don't forget to pickup the cd next time I'm on a spree.

Bill and his wife Rebecca have a nice community going and it's pretty obvious they're passionate about what they are doing.
Try the Kagi Content Delivery Service. You upload to their servers and they send links to the customer, etc

http://www.kagi.com/kagisolutions/digital.php?page=content

The charge is around 8%, which gets better if you sell more.
Rules of the Web: SEO and eyeballs. Not ad rates. Ad rates have nothing to do with the rules of the Web. If it makes them money, fine, but they're gonna lose influence no matter what way they go about it.

Michael Wolff of Newser had an informant quote an powerful entertainment publicist who said he wouldn't have his clients talk to The Times anymore because nobody was going to see what they said.

http://www.newser.com/off-the-grid/post/502/whats-really-goi...

"Why would I get any of my clients to talk to the Times or the Sunday Times if they are behind a paywall? Who can see it? I can't even share a link and they aren't on search. It’s as though their writers don't exist anymore."

Doesn't matter how much money Rupert's making if his journalists are getting scooped. It has a much worse long-term effect for him.

The only way this model is going to work is if the holy grail of SEO and the social Web get combined with the paywall model. The New York Times gets this, and they're going to try to mix the two.

As for this, you can't even click on an article without running into that screen. That, to me, is a total failure to understand the "Rules of the Web."

Try again.
Yes save that money and watch it disappear down the rat-hole the next time some Too-Big-To-Fail bank decides to raid whatever fund you've put it all in.

He's right, of course, that younger people need to save more because institutions are failing all around us. Too bad he neglects that second part...
I've heard that Costa Rica has a thriving American retiree community for exactly that reason.
That is pretty cool, good work.

Many of the designers I have worked with and currently work with love to rotate stuff. Eventually, it turns into a imagick hack-fest with some nasty caching solution. If all the browsers start supporting rotations well in the next couple of years, then my designers are bound to be happy.

It is a shame that many markets are still dependent on IE6. :(
I don't know about happiness. That is a very vague, subjective word which I am not sure it even means much in substance, but, if prosperity makes people happy, then yes I guess internet access makes you happy. So too, if autonomy, that is access to knowledge so that you have the means of pursuing your aims makes people happy, then yes I do think that access to the internet makes you happy.

So too I suppose if having better health information, satisfying the desire for fairness through learning of say if others get things on merit or other means, being able to see on video and talk for however long you want for free with your parents who might live in another town and you do not have the means to visit them... I suppose, even assume, that access to the internet makes you happier yes.

As for distractions, really they are laziness rather than distraction. I doubt people in the middle ages where fulfilling their potential and doing what they willed all the time. Besides, perhaps access to the internet can help you manage the distractions.

From the smiley though I suppose you weren't serious, but I do feel for the people of North Korea and I think we are a bit wrong to ignore their plight.
Ok, well, since it is down. What is it? Tell us more. Tell us more.
http://www.eastvillageradio.com/

HN equivalence of subculture musics radio, very diverse. My favorite is the sunday afternoon program "Minimal Wave Electronics"
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I prefer to listen to the same track over and over again. Sometimes I do this with a new song, and listen to the same thing for the entire day.

I find this less distracting that listening to a radio station or a long playlist.

I generally pick the song in the morning depending on my mood.
Single page:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2008/07/american-m...
A lot of things are likely to change over the next few decades, so I wouldn't bank on retiring in the same way that people have done in recent history. The whole notion of retirement is actually quite a modern concept, which really only arose within the last century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement). There's going to be more automation which will mean that people can work for longer, and I suspect that the whole notion of what it means to "work" will change.
It looks like a promising improvement. From the sound of it, this seems like the same sort of GC methodology that Java used the last few revs (1.5; 1.6): putting objects in "recent" and "old" pools.

That said, I would like to see a benchmark that uses a bit more memory, not just temporary stuff to be discarded ASAP. Many of the Java promotion benchmarks do that too (focus on use of transient data only). What happens if you actually need to hold on to some state, rather than merely concatenating somebody's account info into a dynamic index.html page in a web app?

Oh well, there's always memcached, I suppose. It would be nice to have languages that support app types other than stateless-as-possible web apps.
My grandmother is in her 90s and mentally she is at 100%. She gets around a little slower now.

That is a scary thought for some. She retired in her 50s!
Food Recommendation Engine

Create a "Taste Genome" comparable to Pandora's "Music Genome" and let people select which foods they like, then recommend foods with similar taste profiles. (foodgenome.com appears to be an abandoned attempt at this.)

Alternately, let people enter the foods they like. Using an algorithm similar to Facebook's suggested friends one, treat the food as friends. If a lot of people who share your taste also like something else, offer it as a suggestion.

This would help picky eaters (e.g., me) venture out and try new foods.
Even if an accurate representation of the firewall (which it doesn't seem ot be) are you arguing this is acceptable?
Thinking the same thing here. If I'm not able to work I'm not sure how able I'll be to enjoy much else anyway.

This whole model of slaving away your healthy years in the hope you'll still have the savings and the strength to enjoy life after 70 seems like a scam to me. My plan is to work less each year but keep on working. This isn't so bad if you do work you enjoy.
Never before in the history of humanity have governments been able to effectively control each person in a large population so effectively as today.

A famous general once said "It is well that war is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it."

This has the same problem as tazers: some things are supposed to be difficult, ugly, and nasty to do, like bringing a population to bear under rule of law, or convincing an unarmed (or lightly-armed) mob that there is no need to protest. The folks that think that these things are somehow more humane are living in a delusional world. These things only solve a short-term problem at the expense of creating a much worse problem later on.

Having said that, they also look very interesting in terms of doing things like patrolling the North Korean border. Hard to launch an invasion if all of your soldiers feel like they are on fire. And I support the use in Afghanistan -- there are lots of good things these tools can accomplish.

But overall I think this is a step backwards, not forwards.
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I would say if you are looking for tips/advise on starting a business, then don't start one.

Most of successful entrepreneurs I've met and consulted for have an insatiable desire/passion. They wake up, and they think about the business. They go to bed, they dream about the business.

Its the passion that's going to put the 99% perspiration into the product.

But then again, YMMV.
Completely different market (IMHO).

People watch 24 hour news not because they're newsophiles, but because there's some big story breaking, or they want the news now, not at the next regular bulletin. I'd bet money that the number of people who watch 24 hour news, who would pay for the services you suggest, is very small indeed.
India is not particularly well off. It has a higher poverty rate than Africa, for example.
figuring out how to monetize things is interesting ;) But I do see your point.
Costa Rica is safer and more stable than many other countries in the region, but even so, it's not just Costa Rica. Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua and many other Latin American countries are apparently seeing more and more US retirees.

Top two hits from a pretty naive Google search:

http://www.ehow.com/about_5488519_places-retire-latin-americ...

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/RetirementandWills/Reti...
This is same technology as crystal radio of first half of 20th century, which was also powered only by absorbed EM energy (which is also same as passive RFID and similar things). Tesla's designs are slightly different (in that they are probably not exactly wireless). See http://amasci.com/tesla/tmistk.html
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You have written down the generally promulgated wisdom. i.e. what you're being sold by Wall St and the Government.

However, if you actually need to withdraw any of these savings ahead of time, you're looking at a 10% penalty. And who's to say that taxes won't have risen on 'fat-cat' retirees in 10 or 20 years. Why not take the (known) risk now, pay your taxes and have risk-free savings now.

What about another market crash?

Can you invest in property, or in metals, in a 401K?

Can you avoid 2% mutual fund fees.

I posted elsewhere in the thread, but think very carefully before pumping a lot of money into a 401K. 20 years is a long time for the government to keep the value of money stable, or for Wall Street to not sucker you in a crash, or for fees to T Rowe Price to eat away your nest-egg.

If I had another opportunity, I'd sock 5% away in a 401K into Treasuries, and put the rest in cash and metals. There's a reason banks have vaults with gold, silver, platinum etc.

Answer this question: Do you trust Wall St and the government with your money for 30 years for the small benefit of maybe a 10% tax saving, or do you actually want to maintain the control of, and the value of that money, by paying regular taxes on it now.
I am not a financial advisor, but don't put everything into a 401k. Only put the minimum required to get your employer's matching contribution (if anything). But the rest of your intended retirement savings into an IRA, where you can completely control what your money is invested in.

Hell you are probably better off putting a bunch of money into an index fund that tracks the S&P500 and paying less expenses than the 401k funds do, for the same or better performance.

Make sure you are still saving a sizeable amount of money in a traditional, FDIC backed savings account, for emergencies.
But many of those same factors affect public pensions. The existence of defined benefit schemes, as opposed to defined contribution schemes, itself causes economic problems, including the bankruptcy of large firms. While there is risk in any investment, defined benefit simply imagines that it doesn't exist. Even traditional Ponzi scheme style public pensions are susceptible to drops in population growth.
What if you reach a point in your life where you are no longer able to work, for health reasons or otherwise?
The whole thing gets a bit less scary if you decide to retire at 75, rather than 65, which is not a problem if you take care of yourself, and don't have a physically demanding job (which most of us don't). You need 1/3 less money and have ten years longer to get it.
It's like telling your kids you don't have to smoke to be cool, while smoking daily yourself. It's not very convincing, but not hypocritical either.
Does this thing have the ability to do something low level enough for people to feel it without any real discomfort? I think if it works like that it would be the only setting you need 99% of the time people would just scatter knowing they didn't want what was coming next.
similar experience, similar thoughts, same age, same background and I made the move beginning this year
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This is incredible, I see myself using this a lot as Evernote sucks at this particular use case. Thanks!
I find it disturbing that an article about a new kind of weapon is neutrally worded, with a positive spin at the end.
I'm curious why you'd be eager to trust the government with this big responsibility when you used a government-caused period of hyperinflation as an example of why this is hard for people to succeed at on their own.
the hardest part for me to truly believe, since i'm currently in my 20s and enjoy work, is that i'll have to retire. is it true that when i get old i won't be able to program/manage or find some kind of reasonably enjoyable and sustainable employment? will my flaws, such as physical and possibly memory constraints, out weigh my virtures, such as experience and knowledge? there's so much unknown to getting old and i am so confident and able right now. do i really need to be scared of old age?
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