skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally think this is the healthier way to live. I mean all power to somebody who can be in a financially beneficial position at the same time as doing what you love...

but one's place in society is not (or at least shouldn't be if the society is healthy) an isolated position. There's that old phrase "no man is an island". I understand I'm probably applying it outside of its original context, but it works just the same. Society is an interactive and interdisciplinary thing and I think we probably have need of more auto mechanics, welders, construction workers, rescue workers, firemen, pilots, etc than we do financial blog writers. Of course, I still appreciate a diversity of opinion and there's nothing stopping a financially-sound fireman write a financial-advice and good-living blog.

Ultimately the whole retiring at 30 thing just reminds me of a Trailer Park Boys beer/plotline: "Freedom 35" (its not great beer, by the way)[0]. They work so hard and so terribly to try and escape the need to do any work, and their lives are so much worse off for it. Of course, they're a poor example of the strategy to be sure. I've worked beside warehouse types who ended up working overtime for 30 years with successful investments and all with the same dream, but they still wound up working an average of 60 hours a week for 30 years...

And I really think there are more blindspots than are even mentioned here in those kinds of ideas, though I appreciate how many people have chimed in to that general aspect already.

[0] http://www.lcbo.com/lcbo/product/trailer-park-boys-freedom-3...
Walmart follows jet.com and offers free same-day shipping in NYC
Anywhere in the UK, or just in the largest few cities?
Technically, YC is selling consumerism if they invest in startups that encourage conspicuous consumption.

If you're selling consumerism and buying mustachianism, it means you think the former is overpriced.
Stressful lives of older tech workers
It's the DIY go-to for my parents and I'd argue most people - sure, my parents aren't subscribed to video game streamers or whatever you call people like h3h3 but if there's a channel similar to HGTV my mom is all over it
tl;dr privileged white guy tells you you can retire at 30 if you have access to >300k a year for 10 years and ride a bike
Try transferring $1 million (or hell, even simply more than $10K) of legitimate cash to another country. With USD you have to jump through hoops. With BTC, it's less than an hour to clear and the transaction fee is peanuts. BTC has properties of physical cash and credit/debit cards. That's valuable.
If I live on $30k/yr (I lived comfortably on a less for years--Austin, not SF) and pay 30% in taxes (again, Texas is an exception this way), that's $550k after five years without interest. If you can then earn 5%/yr on that $550, that gives you $27.5k/yr to live on--and you've already been making it on $30k/yr...

Basically, learn to be comfortable on a reasonably low income. In the interview, he talks about biking as an example.

I've always been confused by single people struggling on much more than I lived comfortably on, and I recently realized part of it is that the average cost of car ownership in the US is something like $8k/yr[0]. (My first two years in Austin, I was in Americorps, so that would have been over 70% of my income.) That's just one example of a major expense we just treat as a necessity.

Maybe you don't want to live without a car. Maybe you want to go out to eat twice a week. Maybe you want a bigger apartment. Those are all fine--but those are also all choices that will raise your cost of living, which will likely push out your retirement age.

Personally, I don't mind working past age 30, but if you want to retire early, it will probably require arranging your life to live without things that might seem like necessities right now.

Again, totally your choice, and it might not be for you, but let me anecdotally provide that it's very possible to live a great life without a car, an expensive phone and phone plan, etc.

I'd recommend breaking down all your spending and looking at what you want to live without and what you don't. With things you can easily turn on/off (Netflix is easy to cancel for a few months, or biking to work for a couple weeks if you have a bike--car ownership or apartment size/location, not so much), experiment on living without and see how you feel. You might miss it and you might not.

Don't rely on my experiences, but don't rely on your guesses on how much you like the status quo either. (I guess that also means I should try renting a car and driving to work for a few weeks to see if I like it better than biking.)

[0] https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/total-cost-owning-car/
Do you now have a better or worse understanding over what kind of locks are not secure?
Much more tractable problem.
Here's another dumb thing. The camera companies make things harder and more expensive for underwater photographers by making minor changes to size, shape, and control positioning in every new model. Much of this is just change for the sake of change and doesn't actually improve functionality. Every little change means photographers need a completely different waterproof housing. These are quite expensive, often more than the camera itself. So you see a lot of underwater photographers still using old cameras because even if they could afford a new camera they can't afford a new housing for it. The camera companies are missing out on those potential upgrade sales.

And one more dumb thing. They don't include internal GPS receivers or electronic compasses for geotagging even in fairly expensive models. The chips cost <$10 now so this is just a silly limitation. Add-on GPS receivers tend to be bulky and fragile.
The comment was perhaps a satirical take on the "BTC as investment" philosophy's implied endgame.
Totally agreed. My point was that making the camera 75 grams heavier by adding a little more battery capacity to run Android wouldn't make a noticeable difference to most users. I would assume some pros would want the lightest possible body, but most photographers wouldn't care that much. And worst case scenario, yeah just swap batteries.
You mean R's data.table and ggplot ;)
.NET Core also made me doubt their efforts. It looked good at the start but it has turned into a very confusing experience. There seems to be no direction.
They worked hard to make the popular extensions possible. The dev worked hard to make the extension compatible.

All I was saying is that the Firefox team at Mozilla got way too much hate for moving the state of Firefox forward. People were leaving in droves because Firefox was not fast and used a lot of memory and crashed because of addons. Firefox took steps to rectify that and the release of quantum shows that they may actually be faster than chrome. The have made monumental strides in performance and memory use and the webext model has allowed them the aggressive refactoring that made those strides possible.
"an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself" - Ibn Khaldun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Khaldun
They shot themselves in the foot by putting this ridiculous limit! Make it 500, or, better yet, limit the number of words, which makes more sense, but I don't use Twitter much if at all, because I hate broken English, missing punctuation, and having to restructure your thought to fit into the SMS limit of the '90s!
I don't disagree with your broader point. But I would point out that owning doesn't need to mean owning a standalone house. In addition, in general, renting starts to become problematic at some point in life where being forced to move because the landlord sold the property becomes a really unpleasant situation.
ok... i think the point is that it should be mandated by law to have chip+pin(+maybe contactless)+CCV with credit cards, and also two factor authentication for most online transaction.
Whether the current business model does not provide these assurances is inconsequential: it can be imposed as a customer protection law.

It is to be discussed whether the increase in the cost of the service would be worth it though.
> But the fuel efficiency wasn't as good as some other contemporary vehicle models.

That's surprising. How could this be the case given the size?
Niche targeting is how you end up selling 5,000 phones.
Isn't that what Tesla did, though?
He has said that he has enough money as is, but continues to do what he does because it's more interesting than sitting on his thumbs all day.

Being retired or financially independent is really about being able to do what you like when you want to and not having to worry about money. Choosing not to work at all simply to conform to what other people's expectations about what you're "allowed" to do if you call yourself retired is kind of silly.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/13/mr-money-mustache-...
Well, he would sound like he's pushing an agenda if he says "I have invested in it".
P(economy(t+1) > economy(t)) ~ 1

and

∫economy(t) dt | 0..t + E[economy(t+1)] < 0

are not at all mutually exclusive. The market is not a normal distribution of i.i.d. samples or anything similarly wrangleable

absence of evidence (not proven correct yet) < evidence of absence (if/whenever the hypothesis is observed).

This just shows that for 6 years he was not yet right, not that he's a 'broken clock', implying he isn't adapting to evidence (, which, I don't know and may be true -- but I can't say either way).

He can't claim anything beyond what's been observed, but neither can we claim the prediction (or any) not being yet observed as suggesting it'll never happen, regardless of how clickbait-y it can be packaged and whatever the intentions are behind that decision..
Indeed, Front enders will never be the geniuses the people writing ad hoc CRUD operation end points are.
MMM gave a talk last year[0] where one of his key points was "Work is better when you don't need the money."

That's what he's doing when he says he is "retired" and yet works odd jobs to make money, or his wife sells things on Etsy for fun. I do think there's something behind the idea that it's more fun to do money-generating activities when you don't need the money they generate.

Also, his talk is pretty funny (and a good intro to his way of thinking for those who haven't read any of his stuff). Worth a watch.

[0]: https://vimeo.com/183016901
The source doesn't help you untangle the interactions of complex systems to find the root cause now does it? Even then, it is often easier to simply work around the problem than go through the trouble of rebuilding from source, with all the headache that comes with that. That you even consider this a viable answer is evidence of the deeply rooted problems with the mindset of the Linux Desktop community.

Windows has a lot of the same problems now, that's what I'm saying. That's where MS is screwing up. My opinion is that they still haven't screwed up as badly as the Linux Desktop has, and more importantly the advantages Windows Desktop brings to the table are greater than those of the Linux Desktop. This is why I said it was "barely the least-worst" instead of "the best".

I could spend hours writing about all the problems I have with the Linux Desktop, but it would fall on deaf ears because you'd just point at Windows and say "but they suck too!", which has basically been the Linux Desktop Evangelist strategy since 1990. Unsurprisingly, this hasn't spurred mass adoption.

It's great that the Linux Desktop fits your needs well enough that you can use it as your primary OS. Apparently there are about 4% of Desktop users for whom that can be said and "works fine for me!" is not going to win any of the other 96% over.
I'd argue that he quite clearly does actually make that distinction, though perhaps with different words. (I'm also under the impression that he elaborates quite a bit on the core concept, though I'm unable to easily find a reference). But, e.g. from the GNU Manifesto, 1985:

> GNU is not in the public domain. Everyone will be permitted to modify and redistribute GNU, but no distributor will be allowed to restrict its further redistribution.

The phrasing is a bit different (it's from a point of view of freedom of distribution), but essentially he's pointing out the copyleft idea; that the code can never go back to a model that doesn't provide the same guarantees.

So, there's the freedom of distribution, versus the freedom of someone to restrict the distribution. Both cannot exist at the same time. He's quite clear that the benefits of freedom of distribution outweigh (any potential) benefits of restriction, so he's happy to deny others that "freedom". It gets phrased in many ways, but right or wrong, that's what it is. In that sense, I agree with the poster I responded to; to the person doing the coding themselves, an MIT license leaves more doors open, and hence feels more free.
If the author of this blog is here, there is a nice padding around the content at most breakpoints, but not at 1200px. It makes it very difficult to read.
AI now detects the majority of new malware on Android
If it is a test of ideas, it's a demo or proof of concept and not a MVP. Again MVP is ready for sale with minimum features. also at 15-20 an hour you get what you pay for. Quality will be lacking and you won't have a good foundation to build a business on.

20-30 hours - does this include a Unit test framework, a code review process, QC front end testing, security considerations, documentation? Probably not. Again you get what you pay for.

if you cut too many corners, you will have a circle and it will eventually come back on you, which you will pay for your decisions.
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In my case, the founders answered all of these questions in a manner sufficient for me to still take the job.

If only I had asked the employees what they thought of the founders, I would have saved myself a lot of headache, heartache, and stomach ache.
I used to cover long events with my DSLR - on a single charge, I could do two back-to-back 12-hour events, taking hundreds of images at each with the camera on the entire time, and still have some charge in reserve. Five hours isn't a lot by comparison.
Closures in JavaScript for beginners
That channel is ridiculously over-sexualized.

Also 360° video is as much a gimmic as 3D video.
I saw it happen during dips (but not spikes!) on Coinbase three times in two months.

I'm not buying that it's a scaling issue personally.
And when someone's phone ends up with spyware, bitcoin miners, and they're signed up for 12 different $10/month "premium" SMS text services do you believe they'll be happy to be outside the walled garden?

I consider myself a nerd and I find it amazing that some of my fellow nerds learned absolutely nothing from IE and ActiveX: Users will always click Yes/OK/Install/Please_own_me. Providing an "Allow side-loading" checkbox guarantees these people will get completely and utterly owned. The latest free-to-play game will promise a "Chest of Gems" if they check the checkbox.

Some spyware purveyors and scummy ad networks are even now prompting iOS users to install mobile provisioning profiles and the users willingly tap through multiple prompts to install them despite the scary warnings! These users end up with MITM VPN profiles installed that redirect all traffic or get extra spam email accounts setup.

I enjoy having a gatekeeper that keeps most of the riff-raff out. I haven't always agreed with the decisions but I've never been secretly signed up for a premium SMS plan, had a coin miner installed, had my browsing history or contacts harvested, etc.
I think his definition of "retired" is pretty simple:

his family could cover all of their living expenses from investment income alone.

When you think about it, this is pretty much what we mean by "normal" retirement as well. If a 70 year old retiree does some maintenance on his rental property we don't accuse him of lying about being retired.

Your point about medical bills doesn't really hold water. I'm sure plenty of unlucky people who retired at a more conventional age end up having to come out of retirement because of an unforeseen tragedy.

Unless you want to change the definition of "retired" to: "having sufficient investment income to cover any possible expense that you or your family could possibly incur from now until your death, without ever doing a single hour of paid work"

I don't agree with MMM all the time but accusing him of not being retired does seem like a pointless exercise in semantics.
Some people, but clearly not a lot of people.
The fact that the maximum tweet length doubled means that Twitter's external behavior did change
I don't think its really the news sites job to care about a products viability for longterm success. Almost all software/hardware is pretty short lived when you think about it. They'd be pretty hard up for articles if they only covered the stuff that was going to be around for the next decade. It looks interesting, their readers enjoy reading about it. It probably will ultimately fail, like most products.
Twitter's original limit was 140 bytes, but it's been 140 normalized Unicode code points for years. The physical message can be much longer than 140 bytes.
I'd take a fall from grace over having to work every day like a schmuck.
Walmart owns jet.com
Ing. Direct ask for copy of your documents to be sent by mail
Ask HN: How does the following apps work behind the scenes?
Ask HN: How does the following apps work behind the scenes?
1. http://heedzy.com/
2. https://reviewcommand.co/
3. https://feedcheck.co/

I know there's a Google play API which lets you get reviews for the apps you own but how then the aforementioned apps get all reviews for other apps?
Interesting "to be a part of everything you do online: either by doing it, or cobranding it, with a goal of being in the top 3 of every internet vertical." Could you say that part of the reason they lost was a mission/purpose that from the above seems to be purely focused on internal value creation? No word on how they would benefit their customers? It does not say anything about the value it creates.

Put another way should your purpose be something customer focused?
Yup!

Fortunately you don't even have to read it from cover to cover to get the meat of it. Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIINXhGDcs is a talk 80 mins long Graeber gave at Google.

Then once you've done that listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y_wz85ViLY to Robert Paul Wolff talk about the problem Ricardo, Smith, and Marx tackled. This one is a bit longer and it is tougher going but the pay-off is immense.

––

What this New York Times article and the recent Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-21/why-wages... (“Why Wages Aren't Growing”) article that hit the front page here have in common is that they both refuse to recognise that Marx's critique of capital was correct in his day and it _remains_ correct.

The next part is important. We _must_ separate the critique from his proposed solution. To be very clear I can agree with Marx's critique but I do not have to agree that central collectivisation is the solution.

The very simple observation is this. For-profit capitalism over time will cause (a) workers to be exploited to the point where they can't actually take part in the society they're a part of (which hurts the capitalist too!) and (b) wealth gets concentrated inefficiently.

What the New York Times and Bloomberg (and many others) outright refuse to admit is that _Marx was right_.

Universal Basic Income. What is that but an alternate solution to collectivisation? Same applies to profit-sharing. It's the reason why charities are non-profits because we all recognise the alternative would be unseemly. The Tobin tax (taxing certain international financial transactions) is another solution. As are regressive tax regimes that hit the wealthiest hardest. Consider also alternate forms of incorporation like cooperatives. And so on. What all these have in common is that they try to address the flaw at the heart of capitalism. The sooner we stop calling people communists for putting forward sane solutions the better. If we don't address this there will be ruin and revolution and when that happens we'll have a messy rather graceful transition to a fairer society.
I'd recommend against Coinbase, and instead recommend Gemini.

Coinbase has zero customer support.

Edit: Apparently they have a call center now, but my previous experience with the company has left me with no desire to go back to them.
Just to recap, the allegation appears to be that Counterpath "screwed" Mac users by not upgrading old versions of their software to work with a brand new Apple operating system.

They do offer a new version of their app that works with the new operating system, and they do offer upgrade pricing. And old versions continue to work with operating systems that existed when those versions were developed.

Sorry, but complaining bitterly online about this just reeks of entitlement. It costs time and therefore money to support a new OS version. (Besides which, the new Bria apparently has other improvements.)

I looked, just because this person seemed so outraged, and the cost of the upgrade is $35 [1]. It appears Bria 4 launched 3.5 years ago [2]; if Bria 5 lasts as long you're talking about less than $1 a month. That seems eminently reasonable!

(Maybe this is a generational thing? When I started using computers, it was not unusual to spend $100 on a software upgrade.)

[1] https://secure.counterpath.com/Store/CounterPath/ProductInfo...

[2] http://www.counterpath.com/counterpath-launches-bria-4-softp...
> maybe it is something to look into for cars, airplanes, medicine, etc. For the rest of us, who still wrestle with complexity but probably would't accidentally kill someone, here are some simpler aids:

TLA+ isn't perfect, but it's actually not that hard to use! I'm a webdev and it comes in handy all the time.

> Data-driven programming. I'll just quote some really smart people:

You might want to check out Alloy. It's a formal spec language that specializes in verifying data structures.
I didn't expect people asking how to buy Bitcoins on HN.

Just get an account on Kraken, Coinbase, Gemini or wherever and look that you don't keep your coins on the exchange for too long. Start with small amounts. And those nerdy forums and subs (I think you mean Bitcointalk and Ethtrader on Reddit) are actually good places to get started/informed.
We looked at the user data around MOOCs and saw completion rates hovering in the single digits. Most people are exploring different classes, universities rather than doing deep dives on full courses. We even spoke with a former administrator at Princeton who helped form their partnership with Coursera and they admitted that MOOCs fall short in catering to this type of learner. We built Podium to cater to the 90% + of learners using MOOCs who want to explore content and listen to what's relevant to them. I had this problem myself which is why I'm passionate about this. Initially audio is the simplest way for professors to DIY record their classes. Capturing video brings a lot more complexity also some legal hurdles with images in slides, access for the blind, etc.
Had mixed results on my first two searches:

"C#" returns C++ and Objective C classes, several ranked above actual C# classes.

"Unity" as in the game engine, returns classes on "unit testing".

How are you approaching stemming?
Could you elaborate more on the HTTP2 support being difficult? Enabling it is a one liner in the relevant config file, so I'm guessing there must be some more subtle gotchas.
The market will remain irrational longer than he will remain solvent (if in fact he is even playing the contrarian game)
thanks for such selection of tools in one place, really useful info