skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see that much of consumerism advocacy here. Quite the contrary - being frugal to extend runway, achieving ramen profitability etc.

Also with rampant ageism in tech you do need to retire before 40 /s
I am not sure RMS makes such a distinction. To him all users are potential developers (or programmers more likely).

Frankly he is more concerned with who actually control the computing hardware and software being in use on a daily basis.

Keep in mind that one of the issues that got him on his quest was the loss of the ability to modify a printer driver to message those with a print job in the queue that the printer was out of paper.

It may seem frivolous, but it made life that much nicer at MIT. Because once the printer down the hall was out, any number of people may converge on it to fix it once they got the message. Without it, any number of print jobs may be sitting in wait because nobody had checked if there were still paper ready before adding another job to the queue.
>good luck trying to retire as a welder or car mechanic making $50k.

Maybe you don't feel the need to retire at 30 when you are a car mechanic.

I've worked in car shops (not as a licensed mechanic) and the mechanics I worked with seemed to have a lot more fun and more free time than us office jockeys despite our 'better jobs.'

And the pay wasn't half bad either.
Thanks Jedd for your kind words! We have a great Team that made this happen and is working hard to keep making Shelf better every day. And help cure that pain you share. :)

My use of 'cloud' wasn't very exact, you're right. I suppose most enterprises have or will have their 'own' infrastructure in the cloud and manage it there themselves. I really meant cloud in the way of a SaaS-model.
Congratulations to the graph.cool team! I've been following them for a couple of months now and I am very impressed by the passion and the progress that they put in. Some really cool stuff cooking in the GraphQL community.
Invest in Companies at the IPO price
It's not insider trading if the information is public.
I've been thinking the same thing. I used to start with Facebook or Twitter, and now I'm actually starting with just local auth and scrapping the social networks.

Why? I'm seeing a trend where social networks are closing or restricting their API's (ex: Facebook, LinkedIn), and so I don't want to rely on them to run my business.

Curious to learn what others think.
Actually, that's a good point - I've known quite a few people who lived carefully off of investments/property. Fairly common in some (usually rather posh) circles in the UK.
> this guy's rants sound to me like a super demanding, high-end user.

Yes. He is. He's a respected professional photographer, and most of his readership are also serious photographers, with many pro or semi-pros among them. His site is largely read by people looking to optimise for the best IQ their equipment can deliver, and he doesn't really write all that much that's targeted at more casual photographers.

> First of all, what's wrong with having a standardized mount size? I like knowing that I can fit my camera onto any standard mount I want to buy without issue.

Arca-swiss plates are the de-facto standard. I don't know any serious photographers that don't use arca-swiss plates when they do tripod work - the issue here is that not all photographers actually do that much tripod work (I know several wedding photographers, for example, who rarely if ever mount the cameras on tripods (note: they still have tripods for lighting, but that's a different system with different requirements).

> To me, the innovation in the camera market has been phenomenal. The speed at which cameras can autofocus and burst shoot, as well as the battery life have all improved while the prices have continued to drop.

This is less true at the end of the market he (mostly) writes for. A professional DSLR body has generally risen in price over the years, even taking into account inflation. Battery life has improved, but honestly battery life has never been the problem with pro DSLRs that it has been - and to some extent still is - with mirrorless and consumer cameras. The autofocus in the latest nikon pro DSLRs is a notable improvement over the previous generation, but, again, the nikon pro DSLR focus system has always been really good so again it's a lot less of a significant leap than you see in generations of mirrorless cameras, where technology is evolving more quickly.

To people at this end of the market, using high end canon/nikon DSLRs, the progress of innovation has been far slower, with lots of longstanding problems and frustrations that never get addressed. For example, neither the nikon d5 ($6500) or the nikon d850 ($3300) have a built in GPS (cost of GPS chip is less than $5), and the standalone GPS is bulky, interferes with holding the camera, expensive and is actually discontinued in some regions(!!).
I also worked for such a company. We regularly delivered small and big software projects, without failing the clients. There were several factors involved, from excellent project and client management to a solid culture of engineering and other disciplines; thorough scope management, meaningful core values, ...
> bitcoins have no real world application or substance outside of financial crime

https://www.coindesk.com/information/what-can-you-buy-with-b...
Glad you like it! Always helpful to know what's worth the effort :)
Even if they themselves do not, they have the possibility of finding someone that does.
A fringe nobody screaming the world is going to collapse for the last 30 years. The only thing this guy can predict is that if he yells and screams the sky is falling loud enough, his next book will do well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rogers
Thanks a lot for your support! :)
is that how you interpreted it? it's not until paragraph 13 (!) where author states:

"Josh realised my app might be somehow getting cookies from visiting our site inside this web view, and then sharing those cookies with AFNetworking's underlying NSURLSession, which is handling my requests."

which would have been clear if they'd checked the cookies of the NSURLSession request.

then, in paragraph 17, the author starts concluding:

> "And so the the CSRF check was failing every time, because I wasn't sending a Referer header, or any other related CSRF bits."

which would have been clear if they tried comparing a working request to a failing request.

and finally,

> "And of course, I didn't even know about these cookies, so I wasn't deleting them on log out"

which leads me believe the author never checked the request at all, let alone before anything else.

i'm ignoring the fact the bug sat for months, and took a second person to fix, and got a write up on the blog... so i'm going to have to assume my advice has an audience (like anyone who would classify this bug as "bizarre").

(not trying to pass judgement on the author here at all... we have all been there :))
'start with cheap, build a user base (and also expertise, people and money flow), and move up' is a common strategy for most of newcomers of any market, the IT history give us IBM mainframes to DEC minis to SUN workstation to IBM personal computers as example.
You're ignoring investment income. I suggest reading MMM. It's a trove of great information.
Do you restrict the content usage policy? Is it possible to use this service e.g. for adult content or e.g. political content (all legal in my country) ?
And assuming there are no bad events in your life which drain your savings, like health issues
Well rather than attempting sarcasm, why don't you tell us what you think retired means? Presumably you're banned from ever doing any task that might even possibly net you any money?
The few people I know that actually managed to get into early retirement (below 35) were the ones that founded very successful start-ups.
I don't get what problem this phone is solving. I think that's how everyone else feels too.

We already have good phones by a number of other companies, and some of them actually cost a reasonable amount.
> You're talking about VetRanch I assume?

Yes, that's it!
I an honestly not sure RMS would make such a distinction.

It seems more like one that has grown in into being in more recent years, particularly with the rise of mobile and web.
Looks like this is a Bitmovin resell - Player is Bitmovin and the DASH manifests are clearly created by them too. Storage appears to be Google Cloud storage with Cloudflare's CDN tacked on in front. Doesn't look like any radical innovation to me.
There should probably be another word for it? I'm financially secure and will be for the rest of my life. But, I still generate an income, mostly by ownership but I still do physical labor. I do quite a bit of my own labor, as well. I can easily pay someone to do it for me, but I like it.

I just helped harvest the blueberries. Next, I'll be filling my own freezers during hunting season and I'll be guiding others to help fill their freezers. I harvest and process the animals on the neighboring farm, more so if I'm to be purchasing the results. I cut down trees for my own firewood, but I've helped the crew that harvests for commercial reasons. I own a share in a few franchises, and it is not unknown for me to come help on snowy days or even just to help clean up at close. I not only plow my own snow, but I plow it for other people, I'll even shovel for them.

Some of this makes me money, some of it costs me money.

I'm not sure retired is the right word? I don't have to do it, but I like keeping busy. Surely, there could be a better word than 'retired?'
The article didn't mention it, but I think that Excel is a great example of where "the masses" have learned to do programming. It is visual and the effects of changes are immediate.
Typical advice is if you're older, say within 10 years of retirement push towards treasury bonds, commodities etc. (ultra safe investments). If you're young, you can try to time it, but even if you screw-up just hold through the crash and it'll recover in a couple of years. Do some more research, you don't want to put stock in random internet comments... including mine!
There's a setting now to set Windows 10 Home and Pro to only allow Store apps as well. How soon until that tempts more of us that do unpaid tech support in our free time for family and friends to just turn that setting on for them?
sorry, did not look at the source! Thanks.
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All Google-branded products are blacklisted on Amazon. If you search for "Chromecast", your results will be Fire Sticks and then knockoff Chromecasts called "Anycast".
In fairness the bulk of The Millionaire Next Door subjects owned their own business and could often pull in salaries of $500K+ per year.
"admired about you as an investor is that you don’t talk about what should be"

Kind of a cynical view. Investors can change the future, so the idea that they are passive players is disappointing.

In fact, if they are on the sidelines, what purpose do they serve?
Is React Native a Good Choice for Long-Term Hybrid Mobile App Development?
It's "barbaric", kinda like eating with your hands.

Of course this type of dogmatism gives us FP gems akin to [eating] a piece of Sushi with a steak knife.
I guess you are right but the price/feature combination is not for me.
I am _constantly_ impressed with all of the Graphcool team. It seems like every week there is some new innovation from them.

Keep up the excellent work Graphcool!
Equifax Proves Security Is Key to Brand in New Cyber World
What does the living room PC get used for?

If just games/movies/music then what was the logic for getting that over a console? (PS4, XBox1, Switch are around the same price point or below) Just curious, not suggesting that a console would have been better.
Yes, that's exactly my point... There will be new platforms, but they need significantly new functionality, like being able to carry around the Internet in your pocket.

There's a reason Steve Jobs worked hard to get Google Search, Maps and YouTube on the iPhone, and writing a completely new web browser optimized for it. The iPhone was bootstrapped off the web to some extent, and open protocols like e-mail. (It didn't have apps in the first iteration.)

Or they need a proven customer base which is willing to shell out money for games.

The web is the highly unusual case, because it was not developed by a big company, but by a grass roots effort. It was a distributed RFC/Usenet-type process as far as I can tell. But the web offered significantly new functionality -- at the time nobody in the world was using networked hypertext.

The ideas laid out in the post seem heavy on developer pet peeves rather than user functionality / monetary incentives.

As much as it pains me to say this, security is almost a developer pet peeve, in the sense that users generally don't adopt products for security reasons. I think there's evidence they use products in spite of bad security.

Of course, I would very much like a more secure web. I think it would be a worthy goal to attack only that portion, while leaving out all the rest of your proposal. As far as length prefixes, it probably makes sense for the control channel like HTTP headers, but not for the data channel like HTML.
> investments have some kind of builtin return like interest or dividends

I'd say, more so, the distinguishing factor between an investment and speculation is that an investment is used to facilitate a business process that could potentially create wealth whereas speculation is a bet that something of value will be worth more at a later date.
FaceID Security [pdf]
>you don't want to put stock in random internet comments... including mine

Anybody got the ticker for the Internet Comments ETF?
yup! I have 3 1987-1991 Saab 900 turbo convertibles. (extremely fun cars to drive, almost no lag) Total spent: $4.2k.

You nailed the problem, the same parts fail on all of them. But I've also gained my money's worth of car knowledge, which is more valuable to me than a banker collecting interest :)
I thought otherwise, isn't the Chery QQ 37k rmb? (comparing tiny cars)
He has several rentals and lives off other families. We can't all do that. It's not a real, scalable solution. It's not genuine.
The state of being stuck
Absolutely. Even meaningless random word (like AQVN or something), would be better.
When I sold ww.com the first thing I did was pay taxes (rather a lot), the second to dump the remainder into property to rent out. It doesn't bring a whole lot but far more than the bank or even index funds would bring, and that's at friendly rates rather than market rates.
He's functionally retired. He was living off income from his investments before he started the blog.

The blog happened to take off and bring a windfall of money that allowed him to make some purchases he might not have otherwise made, but he posts his budget every year and it's pretty clear he could easily live off only his investment income, and does for the most part. He also gave a six-figure amount away to charity last year.
Face ID: Why you shouldn't be worried about iPhone X unlock
To expand a bit, the proto_library rules were "famously" broken in that it never knew which outputs were actually used (Or so i believe that was the cause, it's been a while)

Thus, it assumed the output was needed for any language specified in the proto library rule. So if your proto library rule offered a haskell version, anything using that proto library rule would do what was necessary (usually, building haskell stuff) to make that output.

The more people offered more languages in their rules, the worse it got.

I believe this was eventually fixed (i stopped coding in the main repo years ago, these days, i only hack on open source projects).

I expect one reason the rule was not open sourced was to not expose this cruft to the rest of the world :)
Given the shady tactics pulled by Amazon [1], [2] when it comes to Google products, this move seems totally fair.

[1] Promoting Amazon products while searching for "Google Home":
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2/135-4089858-540885...

[2] Not selling chromecast because it doesn't support Amazon video, which they themselves won't make available on chromecase
Assuming you only live to be 80, you'll have to stretch out that $375k nest egg for a whopping 43 years of inflation, rising healthcare costs, and unpredictable market conditions. And God forbid you reach 80, run out of money, and then... keep living, old and frail and weak with no job prospects. FIRECalc suggests a probability of about 20% of running out of money by age 80 with a 4% annual withdrawal rate (adjusted for inflation).

Plans like this just seem downright dangerous to me.
Researchers uncover our brain's filing system for storing experiences
And that's the thing, the OnePlus One was both "cheap" as well as incredibly high-value in terms of features and performance.
Great point, even though I doubt it hurt. The price self-selects people: Ooopps, apparently no my cup of tea @$900 and back to google search.

The "essential" bracket cannot compete with Chinese low-end phones. Oh well, he'll raise money and do something else. The domain name at least will have some resale value.
It is. The highest form of class solidarity is plain old-fashioned class freedom, the freedom for the working class to decide when to work, how to work, what to work on. Socialism is economic democracy.
Let's say they decide to put a tarrif on something a lot of people hate or think problematic. Let's say for argument's sake, 2 stroke generators. But they have a lot of power (and users) so you don't think you can swing a yearly tax. But a tax on new purchases/builds might be tractable. They get to keep all the existing ones but they can't build more. That's grandfathering.

If you give the wrong people to the end of the year, they'll grandfather in as many as they can, even if they sit unused. So now you're putting off curbing the installed base and instead you've actually created a glut. Now your tax will have zero net effect for four or five years and will make things (say, smog) far worse in the short term.
How is YT different in this regard? Why are they the end user for the DMCA request but CF wouldn't be?
And that's another thing that I don't particularly like about MMM: the incessant shouting down and name calling of anything and anybody that dares to question him and his statements.
To me the sole purpose was to tell the story. It doesn't redeem or condemn Levandowski. It just says 'Check this guy out. He exists!'
Well then, this is troublesome.

Hopefully AMD's next-gen chipsets (ie: the AM4 4xx chipsets) maintain backwards compatibility with current-gen CPUs.

While AMD has been straight-forward about current-gen chipsets (ie: the AM4 3xx chipsets, A320/B350/X370) supporting all manner of AM4-compatible CPUs until AM4 is EOL'd, it is not yet clear whether next-gen AM4 motherboards will support current-gen CPUs. Probably not.
A big difference is that TiDB is not ready for production yet.

Having followed to the project for a while, another distinction is that TiDB is operationally more complex. You need to build and deploy TiDB (high-level query engine), TiKV (key/value store) and PD ("placement driver", which coordinates sharding and data migration) separately. TiDB is stateless and can be scaled freely, but TiKV and PD are both stateful and implement their own distributed consensus systems. PD actually embeds Etcd, whereas TiKV has its own Raft implementation in Rust. Compare this to Cockroach, which has a single monolithic daemon that you deploy everywhere, which contains both the distributed query engine, the key/value store, consensus/cluster coordinator, etc. (There may be benefits or drawbacks to the difference in design; I don't know the internals of either project well enough to debate that.)

For an internal project I'm working on, running TiKV standalone actually looks very interesting, but it's not very well documented yet.
And that's the remaining 1% :)
I am sorry but you're not getting my point if IDs are available in a properly controlled manner from the federal government, which has members that are independent of the white house (like the FBI head) I'm all for subsidized id's. What I don't want is it to go to the state level.
And the fact that sound was (is?) used to torture prisoners in the Guantanamo complex in Cuba makes this somewhat ironic.
I feel like the people currently mocking Microsoft for how "boring" the HoloLens has quickly become because it's primary focus hasn't been games but enterprise and it's still not very consumer-friendly, are missing exactly why Microsoft is likely to be the leading AR platform. What Apple and Google are doing are still just fun toys for kids; HoloLens is already powering incredible business applications in places as disparate as NASA JPL and Ford.
He owns and rents several properties. Rentier activity like this pushes up housing costs.
No, the point is to decentralize control.
I think your analysis is correct; regardless of one's personal sympathies it's important to get the terms correct when discussing these issues. I think the image of what Socialism is has been corrupted based on misinterpretations of its meaning, especially in my judgement in the US. The fact that some people are downvoting my comment perhaps shows how ingrained biases are, and I am very far from perfect having only read the major Socialist authors, so it would be nice to be corrected if anyone has such a correction - though I doubt I will be; HN and Reddit are similar in that "drive-by" downvotes are common.

I remarked elsewhere that the art of dialectic was at some point lost; in Plato's dialogues the method was used to free the other person's soul from contradictions by advancing questioning of their assumptions and models. On mass platforms this cannot arise, as one's reputability (which should be irrelevant) comes into question via the usage of downvotes, and further the downvotes do not advance the dialectic, they aim to put a halt to it. It were as if there were, in the time of Socrates, a man sitting at the table during a diologue who did not engage but merely remarked "That's wrong!" or "I disapprove!".
First jobs were replaced by simple tools, then by livestock, then by machines. What makes software any different from any other advancements made throughout history?
I think a better term for what he preaches is financial independence.
Spectral and Alliander Launch Blockchain-Based Renewable Energy Sharing Token
He had to go on the 'carpentour' to not eat into his savings.

Retirement means not having to work, period.
There exists a LOT of data models that don’t use auto incrementinf primary keys. Rarity or not, it’s a real use case and a real problem for master/master replication

Also, even if you do use auto increment with offsets for each server, you’ll have to know how many servers you’ll eventually have, or waste offsets and eventually risk outrunning your data types
XSS Attack Embedded in an ERC20 Token Contract Steals Thousands
Quantum Flow Engineering Newsletter #25
If you create a premium product that is successful but limits the room for your mass product you risk a competitor eating your mass product, if you don't limit the mass product then you likely trash your premium product. There needs to be a natural need for the premium offer that partitions the product space such as cost of materials or design, and allows you to pull huge margin from the niche to discount the risk you take on it.
Yawn, another "data science" site with thin content and very thick ads.

One thing I can predict is that the "popup that will not appear again" will appear again.
Thanks for taking time to try out Shelf! And for providing your feedback as well.

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We'll see how we can make tagging a better experience. Including suggested tags based on content/previous behavior.

Can you explain what you mean exactly by: expiration on items?