skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> who saved enough to buy a house,

If you saved enough to buy a house then live in your house.

If you're moving around then don't buy houses. They are places to live. Your problem is that you want them to be investment vehicles to increase your wealth. Well, if they are investment vehicles then you also have to accept that you will make a bad bet and will lose in value.

You want your cake and eat it too. It is like stock investors crying that Intel shares lost value. Well, then they shouldn't have invested in Intel, they should have put their money in a savings account.
Also, poorer people are probably more likely to imagine themselves as recipients of charity rather than its providers, in which case the exact same self-interest motivation would move the answers of rich and poor in opposite directions.
Thanks - this makes a lot of sense and match my impression when browsing flippa, as well :)
Try creating a circle and then invite.
Yes.

And Yes.

But someone should write an async SSL stack.. at some point, right?

As an outsider to OpenSSL, it doesn't seem viable to do that kind of refactoring, so it seems the only viable place for it to live is a new, risky, terrible for security idea project.
Ask HN: Pomodoro Technique: Does it work?
I am reading the book on the pomodoro technique and right now i'm feeling like it probably wont work, has anyone tried it? Should i continue to read the book? Is there anything better to focus my brain on a specific task?
You're getting downmodded because you're expressing views on economics that are so far off that they "aren't even wrong", and doing them in a way that implies you're smarter than everyone else.
What I get and don't get about the Google/Verizon proposal
My initial reaction was 'awesome', very cool, and just what the publishing industry needs. I hate the idea that each publisher is going to try to create their own 'app' and we'd end up with huge images and inconsistent layouts, etc.

However, is a column/page based layout really the best we can do with modern UIs? Pages between different sites/articles makes sense, but within a single article, I always found it to be a sacred cow. Same with columns. I know columns are faster to skim, but isn't there something better?

Maybe this is just a way to get a foot in the door with publishers so you are giving them something familiar, but I think a new standard will be introduced into the publishing world to better fit the technology now that we are no longer bound by the limitations of paper.
Tested it with some sites, that works pretty well!
Bookmarked - thank you!
I would really need a "How it works" or "Tour" site on here to sign up. I'm a sometimes-designer and I would want to make sure it would be useful to me before forking over my email address.
So if one would believe in a universal "fair trade" principle, the cost you pay for security and fluidity is heightened attention from the participants in traffic. One would wonder how well would this scale: if drivers had to pay the same attention to every intersection, how long before they would start making mistakes?
I wouldn't have deemed it trivial, but the part I quoted made it sound like the associated workload was pretty heavy.

I haven't looked into the API or what it takes to integrate it, but I assumed (bad habit, I know) it wouldn't necessarily be rocket science. Aren't most API's relatively simple to use compared to the actually building of an app?

Plus, if it causes a huge increase in users and tire-kickers, it seems an app would get more chances to show off their sexy features anyway.
Thanks for comment! We're working on it.
One thing I don't get is, what would be wrong if Verizon decided to prioritize VoIP packets as a group. That's a good thing. What about video content, also a good thing. These are the things that Google I believe is talking about in the exceptions.

That is not to say Verizon would do any of this properly but I still thing net neutrality must take into consideration that not all internet traffic have the same needs.
>Google is telling the FCC how they might want to do things precisely because they're just one random company that couldn't possibly influence anything?

Just as Verizon tells them how they want to do things. As does Microsoft, and Apple, and every other big tech company.

You grossly overstate Google's significance.
Like ryanelkins, I only answered the first 2 questions in the survey because the rest didn't really pertain to me. I've checked out many of those apps but never became a real user. That being said, there are a couple of things that I think could be killer features.

On the working out side, I want an app that intelligently tracks what I'm doing. For example, I could strap it on my arm while I bench press, and the accelerometer detects my reps etc. Not a trivial thing to do, but for me this would be incredible.

As far as nutrition goes, I've often dreamed about a service that taps into credit card purchases (via Yodlee API) to give a rough estimate of nutritional intake. For example, a purchase total of $6.47 at Taco Bell could be items X, Y, or Z which has an average of 650 calories. Once again, not a trivial problem to solve but very very valuable. Good luck, once you get an MVP I would love to test it out.
Interview with Dave Knox of new Cincinnati seed accelerator Brandery
True, and eff-you-forever Taligent for unleashing this stylistic horror on the world.

But the flipside of this is positive. It feels incredibly good to take a Java library down into your mad scientist workshop and come back out with a beautiful, functional, efficient, and useful interface to a previously ugly library interface. A great example of this is how most Clojure programmers use Jetty. Just pass in a lambda!
Think small, any place that is to small to have an HR department is too small to have a getting past HR department problem.

2nd have you actually had a getting past HR problem? Most job ads I have seen would consider 4 years professional programming experience the equivalent of a degree and should give you a shot at an entry level position. On the other hand they may be trying to type cast you as an embedded programmer and passing over you for that reason.
Keyspace 1.8: Now features key expiry
Do they really? Or do programmers like complex UI elements and then have trained clients that busier screens are somehow more valuable?

The simplest design is not pencil and paper. It's a neural interface that presents us with only the important information and allows us to think of the answer. The computer then executes it. The next simplest would be a question with a physical button to push for yes/no.

The problem (I think) is that each layer of the OSI stack, each piece of the O/S, each tool vendor, each website out to make a buck -- they're all demanding more and more attention to things that are not important, but distracting. If a neural interface is ever to work, we're going to have to start setting some standards for what's appropriate stimulus and what isn't. Hence the discussion on the extremes of design simplicity
"The phone is brilliant, but the market went elsewhere with it's carrier locked subsidised junk models. That's just a market reality, like it or not. Google tried to "do the right thing" and the market went somewhere else."

Carrier locked, subsidized junk models are the norm, not the exception. Google tried to take that in a direction similar to what Apple did with the iPhone but without the same effort behind that. To say that the market shifted away from that ignores the way cell phones have always been sold in the US.
The trolling on that page is disturbing, some of those peeps may be math experts but also lacking self-awareness of their inner caveman. Makes me glad for the type of infighting we have in the software development community. Seems relatively constructive.
You have it EXACTLY right. Most Indian roads have exactly this sort of system in place, so it's a pretty good comparison.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-is-worlds-roa...

Not so great of an example.

The model is like every classic "We turned up the lights and people became more productive. And then we turned down the lights and they became more productive. And then..." It's flawed.
Interview with Andrei Alexandrescu
But will I be able to hire a designer to design themes for it? The advantage of popular CMSs is that I can hire several designers for reasonably cheap to produce different designs and see which one performs better.
The visibility problem is one of the first things they mention in any safety training. You definitely don't belong on a motorcycle if you don't understand that & don't have the skills to deal -- it's not for everyone.
I agree with the overall sentiment that this is a relatively minor vulnerability.

It could be put to malicious use by phishers. If I know your full name I can make more realistic phishing emails.
Thank you :)

I put a lot of work into it, but am not getting the traffic I imagined.
1 & 2) http://crgwbr.com/blog/

3) http://www.linkedin.com/in/crgwbr

Thanks! I'll try going around HR to get to the top. As far as unpaid interning, its not really possible since there is absolutely no work where I live (middle of no-where, western PA). I'm not opposed to relocating, but relocating for unpaid work is tough.
I can't say enough great things about blogging.

I earned my new job directly as a result of my new employer discovering me through my blog and I won a lot of contract work to help pay bills in college as a result of the projects I posted on my blog.

Think of it as a way to differentiate yourself from everybody else by showcasing your unique experiences and learnings in a way that's expressly you.
Amazon to Make Android Tablets. Why This Can Be a Good Thing
Amazon will start making Android tablets, and will hopefully come with Android 3.0 and great reading experience.
How black people user Twitter
How Rich Is Rich?
Here's what I don't really understand: if a website is actually, for real, bringing in decent passive income, WHY would you ever sell it? Result: only failed passive-income websites are for sale. So why not start from scratch then, especially with the risk involved (site may be banned by Google etc)
> Big corporations tend to operate in their stock's best interest, and this can still cause serious problems for their shareholders.

Erm, what? This seems contradictory on its face. The shareholder's only interest in a company is its stock performance, be it stock price or dividend payments. What sort of tendencies are you thinking of, here?
Ask HN: Is Google evil?
When I naively read the the statement from verizon and google, I thought it was fine and understood it thusly:

Everything internet is neutral, both on wireless and wired. Wireless bandwidth could be used for things other than 'internet', and those would not be subject to neutrality.

There seems to be this 'zomg google sold us out' explosion, so I question myself when I don't see anyone defending google.

Is Google evil?
Er, if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
Climate Lessons: Why Would You Believe This?
New solar cell uses that other thing the sun emits: heat
How to handle it when the bottom falls out
Just keep coding, it'll work out.

Your resume is all about experience. Some people care very much about what companies you work for, but as you're getting started, what projects you work on is the best you have.

Build a simple product and launch it. Find an itch to scratch, to the HTML/CSS, user signups, backend code. It's unlikely anyone will use it but it's great experience and it's something tangible that interviewers can look at.

Contribute to open source. What does your Github profile look like? How networked with other developers are you? The best job is the opening at your friend's company, where he can put in a good word for you.

Move to a tech hub. In Los Angeles both software companies I worked for hired 18 year olds at one point or another. (The last 18 year old I worked with was also quickly fired because he couldn't maturely handle the work, but that's a different discussion.)

Apply everywhere. Whether you are over-qualified, under-qualified, would need to relocate, etc. This phase of your career is largely a numbers game. Get your name out there, get good at writing a cover letter, interviewing, etc.
Does this give the Fed more influence over treasury note yields? If it were to start buying in higher volume, I would think so.
Time to stop developing (the autosuggest feature is a bit too much I think) and start promoting. Try asking for ideas here :)

One idea would be to have some kind of widget I can put on my site. I'd also recommend simplifying the UI, it's a bit overwhelming now. Think Google results page.
Intern at a funded startup.

1. They'll be more responsive.

2. If you do well, they'll keep you full time in most cases.
Hey all, I'm one of the developers at AppNowGo.

All good points here. In the short term we're focusing on servicing customers with simpler data-driven app needs, e.g. member directories, job listings, knowledge bases, recipe books, etc. Applications in this class don't require any custom programming to fulfill their requirements and most of the customer discovery we've done so far indicates these are the types of apps that most people are looking to build. It's the old 80/20.

Data exporting is going to be available at any time; you'll be able to export data from the application in a variety of formats (spreadsheet, csv, xml, etc) and even re-import it with new/updated data to update your apps. We've also kicked around the idea of exporting an application's entire schema in some sort of format that other "application builders" could presumably read. Openness and portability are important to us.

The front end of AppNowGo that you'd use to build your applications is built entirely on top of our APIs and we're dedicated to making them very powerful. It's possible a lot of the custom programming needs power users might have could be solved with some creative use of the APIs; if anyone would like to chat more about what they'd like to see along those lines I'd be happy to start a dialog.

If anyone in here would like to check out the beta, fill out the form here: http://appnowgo.com/beta-signup/ and mention hacker news; I'll make sure you get an invite ASAP. Also, please feel free to email me at mike-at-appnowgo.com with any questions or comments.
Inter-conscious communication (psychology / productivity)
Make one.

* Create a portfolio of your work (some of which may have been created just to show off your skills)

* Establish your own personal brand online, under your real name, with a video of yourself talking about your services (this sets you apart from the Indian and Hungarian chop shops).

* Get incorporated.
Yes, buying its own debt is basically license to print money. Which will lead to inflation because China isn't going to buy US bonds/debt anymore, which leads to more printing money ... and so on and so forth.
Surprisingly ebay's businesses for sale > websites for sale can be a decent place to search
Without a college degree, you need to target places who don't really have an HR department or where the technical folks are so revered that they can overrule HR (not easy). I would look for small software shops. Alternatively you can brand yourself as the wiz kid and freelance for small businesses. Either way, aim for small companies until you're older than the new-hire college grads.
Ask HN: Investing Network Idea, can you help?
I have an idea for a project related to the stock market that I'd like your opinion before I start doing it (I'm validating one of my markets here).

The idea is pretty straightforward: A StartupToDo.com-like community (with small payments of $2-$5/mo) where users can share their investment ideas and receive money based on the number of upvotes (HN, Reddit style) given by other users. For each upvote the user receives an amount of money.

It allows the more knowledgeable investors to earn money sharing their ideas while the beginners can learn from the pros.

What do you think? Would you pay? Would you use?
Google's self-marketing is entirely based on how ethical they are. Google does no evil. Android is open. Whether true or not, Google has benefited from that image. They can't betray their supposed principles and expect no one to notice or care.
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It's less about having/not having 'foo' and more about letting or not letting 'foo' dominate your life. In the case of cell phones 'foo' is the cellphone as well as all the people trying to contact you through it.

I couldn't agree more. This problem appears to date back to landline phones, as well. Telemarketers can't interrupt one at dinner if on simply doesn't answer the phone.

Insisting on not having 'foo' at all times states that, at no time, will 'foo' be desireable, and that stretches credibility.

With effectively ubiquitous text messaging, which is asynchronous like email, the whole "operate on your time" argument falls apart.
You've now compared Microsoft to Hitler :-)
T-Mobile does that; their unsubsidized (and contract-free!) plans are $20/month less. Of course neither Google nor T-Mobile ever bothered to tell anybody about that.
>>Finally, owning very nice things makes using them less pleasurable because you have to be extra careful not to damage them (as Paul Graham says in his essay “Nothing owns you like fragile stuff”).

clearly we have different ideas of what constitutes "very nice" cause in my world very nice implies dependable and nigh invincible.
In typical girl style I'll say that I never realized I had a passion for the hacker lifestyle. In fact, if I think about it explicitly, I eschew it. It's rather that I've fallen into it by being good at programming, enjoying building something out of nothing and solving problems and also like making good money. So I code all day and code all night to accomplish these unrelated goals and fancy myself the unhacker hacker.
The student loan crisis will dwarf the housing market crash.
I would definitely try to get more education. If you can't afford it or it is impractical, you should at least read some books on your own. I used to think I was fully educated at 18, but I learned a lot at the university. Even the stuff I already knew, I learned in a new and better way.

While it may still be difficult to get that interview without a formal education, this will at least make it easier once you get there.

(Two places to start: Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et al and SCIP (available for free online))
Infographic: The Retail Phenomenon Called Apple
The lifecycle of software objects
I think adding financial incentive would add too much incentive to game the system.
I would not pay.
I would not use it.
Fortunately for China, Chinese corporations don't believe that.
What I meant by my initial comment is in no way contradictory on its face, nor contradicted by any amount of real world data. Allow me to clarify with a simple example:

Consider the case of a shareholder invested in a company behaving in anti-competitive behavior that negatively effects the market as a whole. Now suppose the same shareholder owns many stocks across the market. This is clearly a loss for the shareholder, and a win for the company only. That's what I was trying to express.
Morro Bay, CA, is a small town that replaced a freeway offramp/frontage road 4-way stop intersection with a roundabout. Transit time through the intersection improved because you no-longer had to stop and wait for your turn. It seems like a good model for low to moderate volume intersections. Flow is increased and speed is reduced.
DailyJS: Ryan Dahl Interview: Part 2
No. Not 'evil'. Evil has always been too strong a term.

I'm still reading through all of this myself. I think I can sum it all up by saying the following:

I switched from an iPhone to Android phone because Apple had gone out of its way to say it wasn't like other companies but then did so when it came to their Walled Garden, approval process and the idea that I do not really own my phone.

I like Android but its not the same clean crisp UI experience that the unpolished Android is. However thats a small price to pay for a somewhat clearer conscience.

Google has now turned tail on many cherished beliefs that they once championed. I'm going back to iPhone since while they are both tarnished products at least its a better one.
Google already has this feature:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&tbo=1...
Yeah, I hope for their sake they don't use all their money for this pilot program because I suspect when people find out about it all the bikes will be stolen/destroyed within a week. New Yorkers use serious locks and chains on crappy-looking old bikes in hopes that the thieves will go after something shinier with less protection.
Most internships in Software Engineering are paid these days anyway (I wouldn't ever accept an unpaid one). It's probably a good area in which to look.
> Above the rate for the year 1960, but not the rate for the decade 1960's.

My point is that the rates were changing so much during the 60s and 70s that speaking of averages loses too much information. 1960 and 1969 were very different as far as violence in the US is concerned.

> 5.1 vs. 5.4 for such a rare and random event is not particularly meaningful.

It's frequent enough to be statistically significant. We're not talking about the difference between 1 and 2 incidents in a population of 1M, we're talking about 10k incidents in a population of 180M.

The advantage of talking about murder (which includes manslaughter) as opposed to rape and drunk driving is that reporting isn't a big problem - the only argument is over the circumstance of death.
For years I was conditioned to pick up the phone as soon as it rang.

I'm extremely curious as to how this happened. I doubt I was conditioned, but I never felt the obligation to answer a ringing telephone. Perhaps this was a consequence of being a first-generation immigrant from a country without ubiquitous phones?
Given that we're already experiencing zero or negative growth, inflation seems like a really good idea, especially since the Fed can stop anytime it wants and begin raising rates.

By the way, this is not just my opinion. Conservative economist Tyler Cowen (who teaches at GMU) also thinks that a little inflation would be helpful: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/business/economy/02view.ht...
And everyone who's ever said that skill isn't everything, you need people skills is missing the much more important point that without good coders, you have 0% of building good software. The friendly, super-competent coder is the golden ticket, but barring that, the asshole programmer is your second best shot.
> However, is a column/page based layout really the best we can do with modern UIs?

This is a great question, with no clear answer yet (requires more experimentation in my opinion).

One issue I've run into when designing for this is that, without columns, it's hard to use the full width on wide screens. You're left with a ton of blank space on either side of your content.

Once you flow text into columns, you end up needing to page, because scrolling and columns don't mix (you'd have to scroll down to the end of the first column, then scroll back up to the beginning of the next -- it's terrible).
This is excellent, I really hope it becomes widely adopted. I linked you up immediately on our little Tumblelog

http://tumblr.com/xxcfidizt
(Incidentally, foreigners have awesome faith in the US government,...

This could also reflect a lack of faith in other governments rather than faith in the US government. If assorted European debt became 10x more risky but US debt only became 5x more risky, that would cause a flight into US debt.
P.S. I only mentioned gold because you mention gold.
Oh, there are definitely crazies. Was not advocating hiring them whatsoever.
Please, then tell me why my arguments are wrong. Don't be offended just because you're one of those sheeples that go to work every day that have to withstand long commute and increasing workloads, so that you can be effectively taxed at 70% after inflation.