skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jesus Christ, HN and the creators of this (ugly, toy-like)phone seem to never get basic, rudimentary supply and demand in action that anybody running a business should already understand. People don't care about being tracked and they certainly don't care about running some obscure Linux distro on their damn phone. A million people showing dislike on how the market works won't magically change how it works.

People buy fast, sexy, bleeding edge smartphones with GREAT CAMERAS (not surprised the whole website decided to omit this, it's probably terrible). Companies that make these phones thrive (see: Apple, Samsung, etc. ) while companies that focus on things only a handful of programmers like (for free)wither away into obscurity, see: the Ouya, Firefox OS, opensolaris, etc.
> I have experience being both very high income and very low income.

See, I could do the same thing, but the blog would really boil down to a single post - "stop fucking around and just learn web dev." I really don't see a more accessible route to go low income to high income.
The general rule that people use is the 4% rule. If you take your comfortable living amount and divide by 0.04, you will get a rough estimate on how much you will need to retire. This is based off of market returns, primarily invested in index funds. If 40k / year was comfortable, then the target would be 1,000,000.
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundIntExt=I...

Yields 2.99% - 0.15% for expenses. So you'd need roughly 34 times spending to get by on dividends alone.
The revolutions that occurred in electrification (up to and including sophisticated home appliances), mass production (clothing, food, shelter), and transportation (from horses to cars) brought a lot more people into the workforce and into the same connected market economy. Prior to these inventions, people were spread out and almost entirely disconnected from a shared economy: in the 1870s about 75% of American families were rural and very time-intensively grew/raised most of what they needed to survive themselves. Over the next hundred or so years a bunch of wonderful inventions moved everyone together into the same very tightly-connected market economy, and reduced non-leisure time commitments at home by 80%+ (notably allowing women to join and remain in the workforce in greater numbers). There is a strong argument that this connective effort is what led to massive GDP growth - that these were a series of "one trick" ponies, by definition - and that while there are amazing inventions on the horizon, no doubt, they will have much more impact on quality of life than on traditional GDP and productivity, at least in terms of Wall Street's expectations. Even if autonomous robots come and reduce non-leisure domestic commitments to absolute zero, it wouldn't be nearly as impactful as the advancements that we've already experienced, from a productivity standpoint. I tend to agree that "it's different this time" is one of the most dangerous phrases in the English language but at some point, maybe it's true.
I'm in that 5%, for sure. When looking for a smaller camera than my DSLRs to carry around I was tempted by the Ricoh GR and Sony RX100 series, but ultimately their lack of manual controls turned me away and I went with Fuji's X100T.
The reversed problem is more interesting: given a doubly-linked sorted list (and its length), convert it to a balanced binary search tree.
Thanks hypercluster! Why wouldn't you want the daily email? Not the right medium?
Code refactoring is the process of restructuring existing computer code—changing the factoring—without changing its external behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring
Coinbase is solid. They have ACH setup for hooking up to your checking account and their security is solid.
>I'm also not buying a machine with less than 64 GB of RAM as my main work machine any more.

Who is offering 64GB laptops right now?
A shot gear in gearbox can easily be 5K in repairs. And whether you going to junk a vehicle depends a lot on its market value.
I gotta say, I agree with that alex dude's reply on the supply being out of touch. The focus is all on the wrong stuff. I've specced out my own phone to build from scratch and these are the requirements I came up with:

Make and receive calls

Send and receive text messages

Wifi hotspot

If you put a goddamn rad camera on it, it would be a winner.
We're on it spookyuser! Probably the next import method we look at.
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If there's a system that can be exploited, it will be exploited...

How much does it cost to personally transport a car across the pacific ocean to the westcoast of the US/Canada? I've heard of people doing that for nice Japanese import cars.

Otherwise I could see plenty of these cars showing up in South East Asia or Russia. But then again, it will still have to find a market with a few thousand markup (to make flipping them worth it) which will likely have plenty of competition from gas cars...
I’m on my company’s language group. Do you have any more info on what boundaries are setup for experimental usage of a language? What does the sanctioned/unsanctioned distinction provide if teams can experiment freely?
A shame. It's missing too many features I'm interested in but it's definitely the nicest looking "flagship" Android phone imo
> good code generating systems

To discuss a different perspective - why have text as an intermediate representation at all?

To elaborate - if you look at something like Smalltalk, you modify the 'running program' directly.
Estimate is off. $500 if the town is small enough. Additionally, typically lower-income people aren't trying to pay the whole of it (family lives with them and contribute).

May or may not be relevant in the context of this discussion.

FWIW you can buy a lot more than you'd expect for a small amount in very rural areas. Homes and acreage for well under $100k, which gives you a pretty small mortgage. Much, much smaller than $750.
Learn Mandarin and go to / stay on the west coast, where the majority of that extracted Chinese money is going
I second this. He has a ton of blog posts though, so it can be like drinking from a firehose. Start with this one: The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Early Retirement - http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...
It's why I won't fly Qantas Airways.
Have you ever heard of the concept of niche targeting? I definitely recommend checking it out if you haven't. :)
I see, I hadn't considered the "lean fi/re" approach. I guess by that definition you can retire much much earlier than you would think normally. I can't imagine living off of only 20-25k per year during my retirment.
It's only protectionism if the existing taxi companies didn't have to do it. In fact, if Uber doesn't, but the taxi companies do, that's also protectionism, but for Uber.
I'm going to guess that you are correct, and that alternative will be called "world wide web" and run over HTTP(S). It will just be different somehow.
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That works. Anything I make, at least for money, gets donated or given away, pretty much. Some of the things I do result in my being given things like lasagna and fresh baked bread as payment. I eat that. I'd be crazy not to.
I've found asking about runway during the interview process turns off some hiring managers. Fortunately, the kind of employer that would hold that against you isn't one you'd want to work for anyway.
I'm with you and need someone smarter to make a better argument against renting than I can formulate on my own. All

What I was taught: Renting is often times optimal, totally fine, the right choice for a lot of people!

What my experience has taught me: Renting is for suckers or the incredibly wealthy that want to be able to move to a new city on a whim. I was a sucker for many years, and paid a very rich man 100k+ for the luxury of paying down his mortage. Never again.
if they have enough money that they don't actually need to work and yet do work that generates income why don't they take that income and fully donate it to charity? if MMM doesn't do that, it means he needs that income - not different from just having a job
I completely disagree. There is nothing unfair about this move. It affects both parties equally.
Feeds into the universal basic income philosophy: if you don't have to work to survive, you might still work on things you care about.
> Also, doesn't take into account healthcare costs

See http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/11/01/our-new-237-per-mo... and http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/17/its-all-about-the-...
"I can't support the idea of letting a family buy food for decades, then something happening, and they're starving with nothing to show for the tens of thousands of dollars they have spent on food."
We need more computers with Linux preinstalled. So don't complain and appreciate that it's happening.
Hey Bretts89, this seems cool! I'm curious, who expressed that they wanted this? It's an interesting place between a MOOC and a podcast, just curious why this intersection was interesting to you?

Did you make it for you? Friends? And is there a reason you picked audio as a medium?
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Or god forbid, you work a little bit to supplement your nest egg during those 43 years.
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Sentiment aware input
Ew. Open up the OS but please don't replace it with Android.
As a leyman it took me a while to grasp what the concept is. Perhaps keep the language, but also have something "graphical" so its easier to follow along what the value proposition is. By the way, this = "Basically, it's a database with statistics and direct contact information for content creators actively looking for advertisers and sponsorship opportunities" was far easier to understand. keep grinding!
> Bluetooth LE devices can have upto a year of battery life !

Bluetooth LE is highly unsuitable, if not impossible, to use with high bandwidth applications (like dumping a 40MB+ file to a remote destination potentially dozens of times a minute or more).
Ah, my mistake. I misunderstood. I thought that they were replacing the C++-based RocksDB storage with one written in Rust. Yes, it makes perfect sense to use something if it is already proven itself.
Welcome to HN lol. You’ve got it easy. Try being a front end dev, because as HN will tell you, none of us know anything about computer science, which is why we are wasting our lives making over engineered bloated shit. And we have a obsession with novelty, which is why all our technical decisions are based on what is currently fashionable.

HN is not a very understanding place...
You shouldn't be driving and wearing wireless headphones
I'm going to say far less technically involved than fixing their harassment problem.
Does that comment constitute a binding contract? If not, it doesn't matter who said it, it doesn't actually add anything to the discussion. Of course the CEO is going to say they won't take down your site, but how can I be sure?
Sure, and that is a special case I was referring to. (Another one would be a class factory method returning a unique pointer to an interface.)

In general, though, passing a unique_ptr around is a bit cumbersome as this requires calling std::move way too often.
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Of course scale should be taken into account; it’s a sad state that this would count as exceptionalism.

Iceland and Portugal should be lessons for entities or similar size, like individual states of cities in the US.
Free markets are all good until the government fail to regulate them. Decentralization from state and political influence is good, until nobody is in control anymore. Then it's chaos.

To be frank I think that US banks might be influenced by foreign powers just like it happened for the last election.

I think that finance will damage sovereignty in the long run. It really looks like common citizens don't really have a say on how finance work in terms of politics.
From my own experience, most people have not. I work in aerospace and there are a large number of employees with 30+ years tenure who are of retirement age who need to stick around because of the quality and cost of the health insurance coverage. Engineers with good salaries who have saved much more than the average Joe, much more than most "financially independent" bloggers.
The problem is the lack of competition. Yes, you read that right: even though we have several "major competitors", they have reached a state of equilibrium, where they try to preserve the status quo as much as they can.

This isn't much different from the automotive market. All the cars are pretty much the same, except for Teslas. The DSLR world is waiting for their Tesla.
Do people over 30 actually use YouTube? I see my younger colleagues on there a lot, but be yet to find anything that was worth my time unless it broke copyright laws.
I agree with your approach and that is what I have implemented so far as well. As much as I would love to have the 40-60 hours a week I work back to myself, it is just much too difficult for me to live off of only 20k or less per year. I am not interested in living like that anymore, I'm too familiar with it.
Can you help me find the RSS feed? I'm trying to subscribe in a popular iOS podcast player (Overcast) and struggling to find the feed.

Never mind found at: backtracks.fm/ycombinator/ycombinator/feed
It isn't sanctioned but it does look like it's gaining popularity. I've been following the xi-editor project for awhile (an editor with the backend written in Rust).

https://github.com/google/xi-editor
That is exactly my thought. Actually it was microtransactions.
Hey now, we're a scala shop :)
https://github.com/flagello/Essence

That's one fork of VS Code. Not sure how to find projects implementing .NET Core I do know Mono is implementing code from .NET Core though see:

http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/dotnet-integrati...
The camera people described are living in the past. They're talking about rigid mounts and tripods, not active stabilization. They're talking about aiming the camera, rather than taking a full spherical picture and selecting from that.

Here's a 360 degree camera on a gimbal mount [1] and a video taken with a similar rig.[2] View the video in 2160p, and click and drag the image to change the direction of view. No need to focus. No worries about depth of field. No need to aim. Not even that expensive.

Pointing the lens is so last-cen.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P69-mh-Jw6k
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTcx0OHehdE
I paid $220/mo for a room in Tucson during 2012-2013. Nice and big one-bedroom houses are close to the university are like 400-500 nowadays. Obviously having kids changes things.
If more vendors would take BTC, I would gladly buy things using said BTC. I would rather do that than convert to cash and then buy.
At least one of these 7 should be evicted for "what was last year's number, what's this year's number, what's next year's number, and has this year's number changed at all this year?"
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Why not make it Linux based? Developing a new OS isn't something they want to do I assume. Leveraging Linux and established APIs (Vulkan / OpenGL) and etc. sounds like a pragmatic solution.

"Traditional" consoles used lock-in not because it was good to do, but because they were either too weak and required very close to the hardware APIs (and no portable APIs like that existed), or because vendors were just lock-in inclined.
They're really not a huge amount of work if you pay a nominal amount to have it done for you. After I edit a podcast, I get mine transcribed by CastingWords, clean it up minimally, and paste it into the blog post I do for the podcast with show notes, etc.) e.g. http://bitmason.blogspot.com/2017/07/red-hat-mark-wagner-on-...

If I want to do a longer blog post based on the interview, it's also nice to just have the transcript to excerpt from.
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All of these concerns are real. You'll be reassured to learn that health costs are probably the fourth-most discussed topic in the MMM community, after safe withdrawal rates, asset allocation, and game plans during the next big market crash.

MMM's blog posts are very basic - you won't safely retire early if all you do is read them. Fortunately, people are responsible and put slightly more effort into planning their entire lives than uncritically following some blog post on the internet. For example, many people are planning on using a 3.25% withdrawal rate rather than 4%, and have much more in bonds than the 100%-equities-or-bust message on the blog.
'Crony capitalism' in opposition to something like 'self-restraining capitalism'? :)

I would very much like to see such a creature.
Better get a real estate license while you're at it, since that's where the extracted money ends up.
It's a two step process.

1) Make lots of money

2) Don't spend it all

You need to succeed at both steps to be wealthy. However doing well at either step will still improve your circumstances.
It's just a logo, why does it matter? read the docs and see for yourself
I'm running Firefox in private mode with Ghostery enabled, so all Google is getting is my IP address. Try it that way.
It's not dishonest, you're missing the point of that sentence.

The Etsy shop could fund the family's lifestyle. The family is already funded by investment returns. They could shut the shop down and continue living just as they do. MMM is just using "fund our family's lifestyle" to give an idea of how much the shop is pulling in (about $30k/year).
Boy who cried 'wolf'...
Point taken :)

In the car they are used as a hands free kit. My car radio can be used to do calls as well but the headphones, only in one ear while driving, do have much better call quality
There is a position in between "all rental arrangements are okay" and "no rental arrangements are okay".

I think the parent and others that dislike rent-seeking would have no ethical objection if the landlord charged an amount corresponding to costs of maintaining and renting the house (taxes, upkeep, risk, management, etc). The objection is when a landlord is able to work a few hours a month managing their properties and realize a sizable income.

Rent-to-own arrangements might also be considered ethically acceptable.

I'm not trying to propose a practical policy here, just suggesting some potentially ethical arrangements.
Assassin’s Creed Origins is getting an educational mode early next year
You can view the political arena as a sort of market as well -- there's horse trading, money, people lobby and and trade for access.

Except one part of society (corporations) use this market to the hilt, while the rest of society largely abstains or is unable to participate in this market.
thats the comment I was looking to find on HN haha.
it may be applied to any industry, not only in recruiting
A raspberry pi can play all the games this will ship with - why is it $250?
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He told me to save some money and invest it. I gave him nothing and have more money in the bank. How does this make me foolish?
Juicaroo!
There's a difference between Stormfront, a neo-nazi site, and "a conservative bent"
Am I the only one who thinks Amazon Alexa is overrated?

The only three voice features I use are:

- Set the timer to 10 minutes (mostly pasta)

- Wake me in 1 hour (for a nap)

- How is the weather today?

That's it and and I don't have a home which is connected to my phone like most out there.

I think voice control only makes sense for commands where you don't need further interactions with the system, like watching a result on a screen or when driving a car. Then it's ok, otherwise I can't imagine any voice driven killer app.
I'll second coinbase.

They are one of the few reputable companies in the space. They follow all the laws, have a great looking site, have an exchange called GDAX under the same system if you want to try trading at some point, and they are pretty secure. Not to mention that any USD in your account is FDIC insured, and any Bitcoin is insured privately in case of a breach of their systems.

You will need to provide your id and it may take a week or more to get verified, and the fees are higher than alternatives, but honestly it's not that big of a deal, and it just reaffirms that they are trying to build a sustainable business and aren't going to close up shop tomorrow.
On a longer timeframe you'll need to have a lower withdrawal rate, but not a huge amount more. The 4% withdrawal rate is based on the Trinity Study [1] which was looking at 30 year time periods. (edit: added the link)

Per cFIREsim, with "success" defined as having more than 0 dollars at the end of the time period

375k -> 84.62% success
425k -> 96.15% success
450k -> 99.04% success

Additionally, the median portfolio value at the end went from 650k to 1.1M to 1.4M.

375k is definitely cutting things close. But at the same time...

* you're always going to have unpredictable market conditions

* you're likely to get at least some level of social security (which is unaccounted for in the above numbers)

* pulling back the expenses even a couple percent in the particularly bad years has a huge effect on success. This is admittedly difficult at 15k/year expenses, but padding the 375k by 5-10% would do a lot to mitigate that risk as well.

* If things start going downhill in terms of market returns, you retired young enough that you can reasonably go back to work for a short period of time. Even working at McDonald's at 7.25/hour would be approximately sufficient to cover the annual expenses.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_study
> there's zero brand recognition

Really? I was going to take the opposite perspective and say celebrity and name recognition goes a long way, irrespective of actual success...

I always hear the "Essential" brand name brought up now whenever Apple, Samsung, etc are mentioned. Even in the non-tech news sites. Which is funny to consider given their sales count.
According to Nintendo they will have plenty (and they’re more worried about having enough Switches to keep up with demand). Time will tell if they’ve learned their lesson.
You had some terribly bad luck. I had minor BT problems on some Android phones, but everything else works flawlessly.
The web is a publishing medium. It sucks a lot as a sharing medium.

If your audience is any less than the entire mankind, sharing your data by the web requires an unending number of hacks and another medium where you can communicate how to jump through them.
There are plenty of behaviors like price anchoring that are irrational regardless of the supposed interest. The whole rational actor model is an interesting thought experiment, but naive.