skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup - the hunch factor isn't a "bug"; it's absolutely intrinsic to the process. Not only is fundamentally irreducible - you wouldn't want to completely remove it from the process, even if you could.

So I guess the problem with objective-seeming (and often just simply gratuitously hard) "filter" questions like those suggested here is that their real purpose seems to be give the process an appearance of objectivity - "We had a guy in here, his code samples looked great, and he talked a great game and all -- but would ya believe, he totally froze on that Lego robot puzzle question! What a poser!" -- when of course it's never going to be anything of the sort.
You can read his blog yourself, but the basic idea is that he chooses to run the blog, he's not forced to for financial reasons.

He has enough income from invested savings that he is not required to have more income to maintain his lifestyle.
Nothing goes stale faster than documentation. What I'd like to see is that when someone adds documentation he/she also adds an 'use before' or 'expires on' date.

So that folks coming after them know that the docs are probably no longer valid.
Sure, I should have been more specific. Non-founder startup employment is the antithesis of early retirement.

https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/

And in spite of your personal anecdote, after 13-14 years (35-22) at a BigCo it is certainly possible for anyone who could have founded a successful startup to gross enough money to retire.
Why are those criticisms?

The top 5% of households earn over $200,000. That is a large and wealthy audience, that is equally as interested in retiring early as people making 50k. In the United States alone, the top 5% of earners is a large audience, and again, the wealthy audience that any blog, or cult, or merchant is looking for.

The people making 50k have to figure out the irrelevance to their situation on their own.

The people making 150k don't, as they are a hop away from being in the top 5%, and a hop away from learning what is needed to cement their financial independence.
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Renters are also borrowing the credit score and down payment of the landlord.
Anything to disincentivize casual use of the huge limit.
I've found myself saying that phrase in response to a lot of MMM's posts.
I would agree that its current value is probably inflated, regardless, bitcoin provides real value, it is not a scam.
We have a support contract and I have support credits with MSDN. That accounts for nothing though apparently.
I'm not so sure about that. Matrix is the closest thing, and that has a code quality that makes me want to puke.

EDIT: Before I get complaints from the Matrix devs again that I’m bad-mouthing their app: ObjectOutputStream is NOT a suitable implementation for a "database": https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-android-sdk/blob/736643...
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." -- John Maynard Keynes (attrib)
Do your own research, don't do this if you don't know anything about options etc etc etc, but If you're concerned about a huge market crash (like I kind of am) here's what I'm doing:

In addition to your regular portfolio distribution, Buy long expiration UVXY puts. UVXY tracks volatility futures. Higher the volatility, higher UVXY price. A put gives you the option to sell shares by a certain date. ETNs that long volatility tend to decay like crazy, buying puts makes this work in your favor so it's not so expensive to hold long. This step is optional, I just like the collecting a premium off the vicious decay while I wait for the "real opportunity".

Now at some point we'll probably encounter some kind of crisis that'll make your long expiration UVXY puts look terrible if you've got any. This is when you buy even more, short expiration UVXY puts. (Weeklies and monthlies.) When the crisis passes, your short term weeklies should be worth quite a bit of money and your long terms will have recovered as well.

You'll have to learn about cotango/backwardation to get a robust execution strategy, but my heuristic is to start building a small position when the VIX is 14, and if the vix gets to 20 start going hard on those monthlies. If "the big one" hits we could see the VIX get to 50+, so if you're guarding that maybe fewer weeklies and more monthlies. :P
This is such a weird content piece from YC. Is this supposed to help us understand brand marketing? If so, I want to hear from people who have piloted the brands of massively successful startups, not a guy who says he's head of a cult.

Though I don't agree with or support self-help / Tim Ferris types personally, I'm open to the idea that this guy has some key insight into branding for startups, but this content doesn't really have any of that.

I appreciate a hustler as much as anyone, but this guy doesn't stand out from your generic Tim Ferris / Gary Vee snake oil lifestyle sellers.
Aim to be a cofounder or employee #1
Sometimes, individual optimal moves lead to a suboptimal result. In the case of banking, perhaps even a local minium.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mullen
Games that are 20-30 years old and can be had for free online with a modicum of effort. This isn't the 90s. Rom sites aren't virus-laden scams anymore.

Yeah, yeah, piracy boogeyman, but considering I've bought most of these more than once already, my conscience is clear when I don't pay Nintendo $5+ for emulated games. In my mind, it's equivalent to format shifting.
I read a couple of his blog posts, and his "your doing it wrong because you don't value what I value" attitude is a huge turn-off. He probably has some great gems of wisdom but they're lost in the moralizing about why I shouldn't have a car and why I'm inferior because I didn't get a windfall and pay off my mortgage. I do that specific "mega commute" he mentions (I'm in Livermore so it's even farther), and trust me, I don't live out here because I like to commute over 100 miles each day!
Early evidence that it is a mistake:

OH HOLY SHIT. I figured out what we should do with the new 140 characters.

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https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/912793201592999936
When Tech Disrupts Wealth and Stability, ‘Angels’ May Be Solution
I don't know if you have to, but if you don't tell investors and then they find out you are screwed.
Recently launched [1] this on product hunt, Find-me is my first 'shipped' product.

Basically, it's a database with statistics and direct contact information for content creators actively looking for advertisers and sponsorship opportunities. We cover over 79,000,000 impressions and growing.

Access to full database is $9/month, but also have a free email list where we feature one creator per week.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/find-me-2
A broken clock is right twice a day
Try to quantify each commute kilometer, for example, each km costs 1,000 GBP in lost time, car expense, and psychological damage. Plug that into an equation then ask yourself if it is worth it to live closer to work or not.
Because time after time the majority of these have turned out to be bad actors buying up old licenses, putting a few thousand into marketing and deceiving a large audience into buying into a vision of a console supported by hoardes of indie developers.

It's a narrative that has played enough times that it warrants at a minimum skepticism.

Like it or not when you do writeups based solely on the press release it lends credibility to the project. Personally I think a little diligence and curation would go a long way. Most these projects end up being funded when these sites all run to be first to publish... nobody actually spends time investigating whether the people involved have track record or whether claims are even reasonable... all of a sudden overnight it's funded... that sucks.
According to your interpretation, wouldn't gold also qualify as a decentralized ponzi scheme? You're just hoping some bigger sucker buys your over inflated metal right?
From the article, the use case is being able to post photos to Instagram?

Rather than junk up my camera with Android, why not just enable it to easily sync with the smartphone of choice, and I can Instagram/Fb the pic from there?
How Engineering Earthquake-Proof Buildings Could Save Lives
Obligatory link to https://twitter.com/shit_rbtc_says
The company that makes AK-47s just built a working hoverbike
In the manual film days, all that information was often engraved on the lens. Some currently manufactured manual focus lenses also include depth of field scales as well. These make zone focusing easier...not that I don't like autofocus.
The Socket service on the switch is called bsd:u. That's a bit of a giveaway. IIRC if you use nmap's fingerprinting feature, it thinks the switch is running FreeBSD (i.e. the switch is definitely using the FreeBSD network stack)

http://switchbrew.org/index.php?title=Sockets_services

http://switchbrew.org/index.php?title=Services_API#Service_L...
If you "invested" in bitcoin wouldn't you keep talking about how great it is?
The market has been going up at record pace. It's going to come down at some point, of course none of this is benefiting us average Joe's
I'm not a subscriber to this strategy, but the theory goes that if you save, in that scenario, 80% of your take home pay (annually saving ~$100k, spending ~$20k), you'll have, say, ~$500k invested in 5 years and can safely withdraw 4%/$20k per year indefinitely. Then you can quit your 200k job, 'retire', and enjoy the same lifestyle as you lived while employed.

Personally I agree with the message about the power of saving to offer financial stability and independence, but I prefer saving reasonably while also trying to find ways to do work that I enjoy instead of saving super aggressively in search of an early retirement from a job I hate.
This kind of dispute existed long before IoT. For example, television channels routinely disappear from carriers like cable and satellite providers [1] as contract disputes go on longer and the existing contract expires. The disappearance of a channel is used as a tactic by the channel's owners to entice complaints by the carrier's customers to the carrier, hopefully convincing the carrier that it should try to get the channel back.

The reality of the situation is that many things these days are fundamentally services instead of objects, and services are subjects to Terms of Service, and can often morph into something else or entirely disappear subject to the provider's strategies or whims. Internet-enabled devices merely enable this business model, which can be advantageous (e.g. it's really hard to consume live content without some kind of live content delivery; or, stuff I upload into a particular cloud is stored durably and resiliently with nice uptime SLAs and I can frequently access it from other devices; or, this device actually gets security updates instead of running an ancient 5-year-old kernel vulnerability), but also detrimental to the end-user (e.g. sometimes stuff disappears from Netflix and never comes back; online services that get shut down; DRM services that get shut down such that playback rights can no longer be renewed, etc).

It seems to me that in your comment, Internet-enabled things are standing in for 'captive devices'. A Fire Stick, a Google Home, an Apple TV are tiny outposts of their host companies inside your house, connected through your LAN to their HQ. They're not actually yours in any meaningful sense. You can use them if you wish to take advantage of the services they provide, but those services are ephemeral and may be radically altered or entirely go away at any time, and the giant wall of text that we all click through warns us of that, even if we shrug and use it anyway because it gates features we really want.

[1] https://consumerist.com/tag/blackouts/
Are you paying a lot in fees? I would have expected a better return than that.
> Fortunately, it's a trend that seems to have had fairly limited pickup

It's been the case at the last four places I worked: large corporations who knew their H1B workforce wouldn't ask for time off, and startups where I wouldn't get any spare moments to meet with my managers to ask for vacation.

(Fwiw, the vacation time at the start ups was perfectly decent, given the situation. I think I took ~3 weeks off each year. At the big company, it was a total fiddle.)
That's the deal. I like renting because if I want real estate exposure I could buy a diversified REIT.
I want to pay a flat fee for access (Netflix), not pay-per-view PLUS subscription fee (amazon prime video).

This seems like a strange position to have. I agree Amazon's behavior in pulling the Chromecast from their store as a means to push their own stuff is unacceptable, but Prime has plenty of content that can be viewed for 'free' (beyond the cost of Prime). Having additional paid content seems entirely reasonable.
Everyone buying put options, expecting doom and gloom, is contributing to keeping the markets high.

When you buy a put, the market maker sells a put and stays delta neutral by buying shares (or more generally, goes long the underlying asset). When everyone buys puts, everyone is making shares get bought.

The puts expire worthless and no affect was done to the market except keeping it bullish.

edit: I got that wrong, way wrong. Is there any way that hedging is having the effect of buoying the market?
I read that his blog fetches half-a-million a year in revenue and he's barely monetized it. He brags about turning down offers from large institutions for various reasons. I'm sure these offers were quite lucrative.

I suspect the unrealized worth of his brand is in the $50-100mm range. He has a huge cult following (his words) among some of the highest earning members of society.
>Optimizing for the majority of buyers would probably involve removing a few things that most people are probably never going to use.

You think people aren't buying cameras on the level of the 5D because there are too many buttons and knobs, and not because the market for a $2.3k US camera is small to begin with? The thing could be completely smooth and still only dedicated camera aficionados or professionals would buy it at that price.
There isn't any dedicated interactive online tool for explaining I am aware of.

The most powerful tool for collaboration and communication though is screen-sharing + your mouse cursor + your voice available in any video calling software.
> no adjustment to css? you savage!

You mean your CSS rules aren't auto-generated from the C preprocessor?
I'm not sure we are talking about the same bluetooth here. I have yet to see a bluetooth device that just works (I am a non apple user, so I can't speak for IOS devices).

The worst example are my wireless headphones. When I get into the car the car radio tries to connect to my phone, so it stops the wireless headphone output. I then have to scroll through the menu and disconnect the car radio, which tries to reconnect after a while.

But that is not even the worst. If I have an audiobook playing while I connect the headphones the audio switches immediately to the headphones as soon as they are connected (which is the expected behavior). But if I start the audiobook after the headphones are connected it takes several minutes until I can actually hear something and I have not figured out a way to speed this up apart from disconnecting and reconnecting after I hit play.

I for one love my wired headsets, they just work. But I have to buy some new ones every other month because I regulary rip them when they get caught up in something.
> We know that sharing Hadoop helped our competitors, but we also know that the revenue stream comes from ads.

This is not clear to me, can you please explain? I'm still stuck at thinking "if you help your competitors then you give up some of your market share".

EDIT: your pie analogy is really nice, I guess it means you grow the whole market by sharing tools like Vespa so you get a smaller slice of the bigger pie.
I still don't get how the "revenue stream comes from ads" part relates to everything else.
"You should own," no, everyone is different.

Many people have no interest or ability to take care of a property. I watched my grandparents' house deteriorate and literally fall apart from neglect. [I used to think the roof leaking when it rained was a totally normal thing] They had literally every appliance in the house break over the years but they didn't have the wherewithal to replace anything so they just went without. They lived in total squalor for years, it was depressing (as well as very dangerous) visiting. If code enforcement stopped by they'd be homeless.

For sure, there is many, many benefits to owning, I love being a homeowner (most of the time - though I did get a little sticker shocked at my first 4 figure repair bill), but don't believe for a second "everyone should own."
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https://backtracks.fm does it for us and they also host the podcast. I think they do a bit of both but don't know for sure.
One could argue that the iPhone is bad at 'openness', but that seems to be a non-factor or at least a negligible factor to at least some very large percentage of consumers.
He does have rentals. But he doesn't live off that money. He's done income reports (see this one from 2016[0]) that show where the money comes from and where it goes.

[0]: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/05/19/2016-spending/
http://www.alpsfunds.com/overview/buz
Why Colony
I was about to give them money too, so glad I saw this.
if you are doing tasks that net you money, you are working, you are not retired. Right?

definition of retired:

Dictionary

retired
re·tired
rəˈtī(ə)rd/Submit
adjective
1.
having left one's job and ceased to work.
"a retired teacher"
synonyms:	former, ex-, past, in retirement, superannuated More
2.
archaic
(of a place) quiet and secluded; not seen or frequented by many people.
"this retired corner of the world"
Disclaimer: As far as I understand it. May not be completely accurate, not a lawyer much less a lawyer in the USA.

On receiving a DMCA takedown notice they have to remove access to the content. Them's the rules of the DMCA. You can then file a counter claim if the notice is mistaken or fraudulent or you have the required permissions. The next step for the claimant is then to either remove their claim and allow your content to be restored or sue you. The DMCA also requires repeat infringers be banned from the service. In this case I imagine that means your account, not singular website, gets banned.

If they don't do that then Cloudflare loses their safe harbor status and would be liable for the content you upload.

While possibly controversial to say, the way YouTube handles copyright claims is actually far easier and much safer (legally) on the end user.

You should always seriously consider the repercussions if you're going to have a site that handles user-uploaded content. Primarily make it as easy as possible for your service to receive the initial DMCA takedown notice rather than force the claimant to go to Cloudflare directly.

For a similar process check out how GitHub handles DMCA claims: https://help.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown-policy/
Rich guy tells poor guys, "to get rich, trick poor guys to listen to you".

He's not wrong but you're all fools for caring about what he has to say.
This seems like a decent place to ask:

What is the most legit and safe method for creating a wallet and just buying a bit of Bitcoin? I wouldn't mind being able to drop a couple hundred on it and seeing where it goes, but it's hard to trust websites/subreddits that look like posts were written by nerdy 15 year olds.
First guess is regulations. A chinese car might not be so safe, or durable.
No... you can only longjmp if the jmp_buf corresponds to a setjmp created within a function call which hasn't returned yet and in the same thread. I would call this a primitive form of structured programming with some serious limitations--it's kind of like throwing an exception, but more primitive, and it's kind of like the Common Lisp block/return-from, except less convenient, and it's kind of like call/cc but with a bunch of limitations added.

You can do some dangerous things with longjmp to implement coroutines, but it's horribly non-portable.
Page Rank is essentially deprecated and those other heuristics are more impactful than they were when people still talked about Page Rank a lot.
Nope, this is exactly what low-level Rust code should look like.
It is interesting also to see financially independent people who are happy to rent, keeping their assets in more lucrative and flexible investments than the real estate they live in.

There are lots of reasons to rent. It is generally a mutually beneficial relationship, like pretty much every other business transaction.
Sorry if I didn't couch my argument with enough disclaimers to satisfy every variant of moral relativism- Yes, both the US and Saudi Arabia struggle with human rights, in some fashion.
One going backwards is right four times.

I'm not totally sure this extends your analogy appropriately, but it's an entertaining thought.
Value. Early adopters recognize and act on it. This is how OnePlus succeeded with its first phone. No bloatware, great specs, fair price.

Essential is about $250 too expensive. It would have been enough if they had released a cheaper phone with the same specs, branding anonymity, and durability - less the attachments.

Value. Value. Value. This concept is key.
Embracing technology could be a better solution. Government should fund open technology development as necessary to ease the burden of financial regulatory compliance. Technology could and should make it possible for smaller banks to comply with federal regulations with the same efficiency as big banks -- at the same time, federal regulations should be allowed to become as complex as necessary to surface and discourage fraud and systemically risky behavior.
> What is iPhone bad at?

ecosystem lock-in, not allowing un-vetted apps to run, walled-garden approach to everything. based on comments i see here, some people are mad enough about this to avoid iPhones altogether.

that's where i'd start, if i were trying to launch a smartphone platform today.
Yeah, right after I sold, I tried the not being busy thing. It was less than ideal and it only took a few years before I was bored beyond belief. I did the volunteering thing but that was, for many reasons, less than ideal. So, now I keep myself occupied in unofficial capacities, both at home and in my small community.

I'm not sure how people do it. They retire and seem to do a whole lot of nothing. They may travel a little, maybe putter in the garden, but they mostly seem to watch television and hang out with other old people.

I retired fairly young. That may account for some of the difference. I try to have hobbies that keep me both physically and mentally occupied. Being unoccupied doesn't work well for me.
Were you able to use popular off-the-shelf libraries in your codebase without any trouble, or did App Engine's different JVM give you issues?

How much App Engine-specific code is in your product? Would it be a very large undertaking to migrate off of App Engine?

Besides autoscaling, what is the feature of App Engine that you've found most useful?
Sure but it’s also naive to think that banks aren’t trying to fuck you over.
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If you look at a Pentax 7 bottom plate, http://forum.mflenses.com/userpix/271_PENTAX67BOTTOM_1.jpg you can see that additional screw location. I am certain one of the holes in the hex plate matches it.