skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought $2K worth of shares, and other people, like the leader of his coven, bought shares too.

Coven?
> There are, broadly, two kinds of environmentalists.

Not only that, I'd say there are two such kinds of advocates for anything.
The vast majority of the time that people wish to divide something evenly, they want to divide it by a small number.
LinkedIn is designed (or at least used) with that in mind - I think it's safe and helpful to check out potential candidates' profiles there. I think checking Facebook is inappropriate, but a lot of people seem to disagree.
Seems like a lot of blogs have been expressing this kind of sentiment lately. Is it really that easy to make a livable income from the kind of simple web app one or two people can build? How big is this market really? How many people are actually doing this?

I'm more inclined to believe that, like the app store, most people trying this are actually making peanuts, but I'd love to be wrong.
Which is pretty much the definition of typical little boys until recently.

No, it's not. Typical members of an age group are by definition not immature relative to the average member of their age group. Thus they can't be maladaptively impaired in their functioning due to immaturity.
> I agree to what you said, but isn't it the problem that we consider people with political views that we _strongly_ disagree with, as less smart or smart but evil?

I don't look at it that way. Smart people can disagree if they place a different weight on the various data points.
I just released a lightweight work/break time manager for OS X that can be easily configured for Pomodoro. It's freeware:

http://www.burstling.com
iPad Apps To Justify Your Purchase and Wow Your Friends
If I had a dime for every person who asked me whether the iPad was nothing more than a large iPod Touch, I would probably have a small fortune by now. Truth be told, in theory, there is something to that claim. However, once you have used an iPad, you know that in this case, size matters.
Pft, the pistons in that car were about as big as a coke can, and there were four of them, plus it had a recirculating exhaust system.

It was also mostly made out of aluminium, much to the chagrin of my parents / loved ones.
You hit the nail on the head, but I'll add a few thoughts of my own.

I'm 22 years old, I graduated with an engineering degree this may and started working 5 weeks ago at a full-time job. The job required me to move out on my own. My girlfriend (of 5 years) and I decided to do it together so she moved as well and she's looking for a job. We pay all of our own bills.

I have an older brother (26) who also has a technical degree and is full time employed, but both he and his girlfriend still live at home and are "planning" on moving out soon.

Financially they are in a much better position. They make roughly comparable salaries as we do, but their expenses are basically only for health care, their cars, their cell phones, and any discretionary spending. The parents pay for a roof, food, utilities etc. They can save up their cash and are trying to move directly from living at home to buying their own place so they skip the renting waste of money (please don't get into that firestorm here, I've heard all the arguments, suffice to say they're saving money by not renting right now).

In contrast, I'm paying absolutely everything. We have roughly $1800 a month in rent and bills that they don't have. It sure isn't as expensive as living in NYC but thats 22 grand a year that we're not putting in the bank that we would have if we could have found a job near home and lived with our parents.

So financially, moving home after college makes a lot of sense. Especially if you have loans. If I were living at home I'd be putting that 22 grand a year into starting my own company instead of paying a landlord and some utility companies.

On the other hand, we're getting an experience they're not. I go home and my brother is considering buying some fancy ass car, meanwhile my girlfriend and I are juggling bills and debt to make ends meet (that first month when you have to pay all your bills but haven't actually gotten a full months of pay SUCKS). It is nerve racking and I feel like we're "maturing" because of it.

In the end will it pay off for us? I doubt it will financially but it might in other ways. But if you look at our friends, maybe 5 or 6 out of 20 that just graduated moved out and the rest went home. It is by far the norm to move home after college now.

(Also your quote about the 20 year olds driving nuclear bombers struck me. I showed up for work (engineer at a military contracter) and suddenly I'm surrounded by a bunch of teenagers in uniform running all of the multi-million dollar weapon systems we make and I got a "they're just kids!" emotion that makes me feel really damn old. )
Do you believe the average fully employed male today has fewer goods/services than in the past?

If not, then my point stands.

(Regarding Warren, see my other posts in this thread. Her data shows that a two-income couple of 2000 has more income and also consumes considerably more stuff than a single-earner in 1970. E.g., the 2000-era couple spends 55% more on 2 cars than the 1970-era couple spent on 1 car.)
Sure, it's a huge cost to big companies (and smart big companies who are actually innovative and passionate see that as a bad thing). But it's a cost that big companies are capable of shouldering. Whereas these costs can be existential risks for smaller companies. That gives bigger companies a competitive advantage.

The same is true of a lot of regulation.
There could be a slight difference, because on this site, all men who sign up would be aware that they initiate a message, and all women would be aware that they have to initiate. This could (not sure, of course) lead to a different dynamic than a site that mainly works on a different set of rules.
Toronto does take styrofoam in it's recycling program now. Though I've never seen that done anywhere else...
Smoke and mirrors. Let's see a demo.
Agreed. For example on pattern matching it's arguably the leader. But it's weak on others, like first class environments.
I clearly shouldn't have underestimated Michigan's climate. I haven't been to Bergen, but I've been in Minneapolis in winter (it was -20 °C). I wouldn't have cycled there due to the bad infrastructure, not due to the weather.

Anyway, aside from those two cities the main reason people don't cycle has been shown time and time again to be lack of infrastructure, not the weather. Just look at other places with the same climate as The Netherlands, or Bergen. Clearly the common factor isn't the weather.

It's also a much bigger factor than people imagine. I've lived in Iceland which often has these sort of glassy ice conditions an -5 °C, and I'd much prefer it to otherwise equivalent weather at 20 °C somewhere else.

The cold allows you to push harder without being sweaty, and I've found that in mixed terrain cycling on ice with studded tires is a lot safer than on no ice. It's a lot easier to slip on loose gravel than it is to slip on ice when your tires have a dozen nails sticking into the ice.
His comment meant that 20-somethings shouldn't be disallowed from flying nuclear bombers due to age alone. In other words, if your friend somehow finished training in 5 years but wasn't allowed due to being less than 30 years of age.
Alternatively, have you thought of having the price drop automatically if x users signup?
I have seen only one company use QR codes in a local newspaper. It was in the Kansas City Small Business Journal, and the company advertising does print, design, and mail campaign work.

I have used QR codes on a few flyers and posters. The majority of people who talk to me about the QR codes I use don't realize their phones can read them.
For the first few issues everyone will get the same email, and we use the categories to make the overall content decisions.

If there is enough content in the future, we have the idea to let the backend compile the final mail based on your preferred topics (or leave out the unwanted ones).
What I find grating is the NY Times invocation of the Royal We:

"If society decides to protect these young people or treat them differently from fully grown adults, how can we do this without becoming all the things that grown children resist — controlling, moralizing, paternalistic?"

I don't see how "we", as society, need to do anything. If a parent wants to allow a child to live with them until he's 30, if people want to get married or have kids later, or if a parent wants to kick their kid out of the nest at 18 or two 19 year olds want to marry while still undergrads, I don't see how "we" as the broader society need to do anything. Leave it to the individual.

I find the idea that society is obligated to change to accommodate the indefinite extension of adolescence to be controlling, moralizing, and paternalistic.

(And this is coming from someone who got married at 29, just under the 30 deadline. I just don't see the need to reinforce the decision I personally made as a social norm.)
I have a hard time thinking about taking the plunge without any marginal success doing things part-time. I pretty much hate my job now, but I need to pay the rent which is kind of expensive since I live alone and the lease doesn’t expire for 7 more months. Right now I'm trying to work on building alternative sources of income that could help sustain me partially when I quit my job. This includes Ad revenues, flipping simple websites, and iPhone apps. Meanwhile I am trying to build on some ideas I have for SAAS businesses. I'm going to pick the best one and implement it quickly and cheaply then see how much traction it gets. If I saw at least some interest from consumers/clients in a product/service that I built part-time I would quit my job pretty quick.
Misco: Map Reduce for Mobile Systems
I think this is a great idea for me- I work technical support and often have to get large files from customers/ partners who do not have the ability to send them in a secure manner. Also I work on about 4 different computers during the day and it is helpful that it stores into Dropbox by default so that I automatically get the file on each computer that I have that account on. If worried about the secureness of your Dropbox, you can create a free new account that only stores your airdropper folder and share that folder with your primary account. That way no email addy or Dropbox is exposed, only the info. As stated already, if you encrypt the info, there should be little exposure. It is not necessary for everyone, but for someone like me who has to get files securely very often from folks with restricted firewalls, it seems a great solution. The file size would be the only limitation that might require me to find another method- sometimes even 50 MB isn't big enough which is I assume what you've said you have tested up to.
When someone claims wages haven't gone up in real terms, they are referring to inflation adjusted wages. So if costs went down 10%, but wages went down 20%, then real wages decreased 10% because people can purchase 10% less stuff than before.

So the claim that "real wages have gone down" contradicts your description. What you describe is an increase in real wages.

This presents a paradox - people often claim that real wages have remained flat/gone down. And yet, people have more stuff now than ever before, which should be impossible if real wages went down.
But might the same criticism be leveled at web content in general? So the advertisements are disposable, but then, so is most of the content.

My suspicion is that people have a penchant for content that they actually hold, because tangible things have intrinsic value (more so if they're pretty). When people start valuing the content, they (IMO) will also start valuing the advertisements.
> I'm assuming handset support in the US is the same as the EU, where for smart phones, you normally deal with the manufacturer, not the carrier ( i.e. If my iPhone or iPad breaks, I call Apple - not O2).

The iPhone is unique in that aspect, support is almost always done through the carrier in the US. Probably because handsets are almost always sold subsidized through the carrier (and frequently customized for them).
Indeed.

If you can't even get it into an investible entity then i'd just walk away. Sure there is a slight risk what sounds like a miracle will happen but it doesn't sound like the others have the enegy to do this. You don't get to make a successful company without comitment.

Chalk it up to experience.
I'd pay for a Kindle version.
Everyone's so hyped up about HTML5. And yet I am slowly coming to the realization that the W3C has made a very, very, grave error in not going ahead with XHTML2.
Easy. Because their parents don't suck to hang around with.

In contrast, the "greatest generation" hit their kids, hated their hair and music, and didn't know how to party. They were easier to love from a distance. The current crop of parents were also plagued with prosperity and overbought housing, thanks to our distorted tax system. Therefore they have cheap space available.
We are writing our own backend in Python, with the idea of publishing it under an open source license later on. Perhaps there are other open source solutions for that too.

Since I have multiple servers running for various projects there are no additional costs but the time I need to put into each week. The editors are helping lot too.

As for business registration, the newsletter is just one project of my primary (umbrella) startup.
Any pointers for the "insane amount of energy"? I vaguely remember the local tech/car newspaper writing that after something like two years of driving (used 80s car v.s. brand new efficient car) the new car has spent less energy per kilometer. Or was it even less...
I think that's a fair accusation. I had been putting off the article for a while, but thought my audience (not really technical, but appreciative of product and service recommendations) would be lost if I went into the details of what made it exciting to me as a server geek.
I have been running 1.9.1 in production for months and used dozens of libraries. Most issues were easily fixed. The move isn't really that difficult.
The new product launch on the Internet misses food drinks and the people
Please.

I'm off to play Dwarf Fortress.
It takes a long time to truly grow up. Here's Confucius' journey:

At 15 I set my heart on learning;
at 30 I firmly took my stand;
at 40 I had no delusions;
at 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven;
at 60 my ear was attuned;
at 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right.
Its still possible man. I was in your place. I focussed on the problems instead of finding solutions for them. It is possible. If you email me then I can find the articles about people in your position who started companies.

Its difficult but its better than sitting gloomily that you cant do anything (like I did for a while).

Also theres so much to learn before you start your own venture - networks to be a part of, understanding VC/Angels, knowing as much as you can technically. Understanding business ,talking to customers, getting feedback.

Theres so much you could be doing. Stop focussing on what you cant do!
How is a 60% increase in house size marginal (see my other post)

I was quoting her presentation. This 60% increase in housing size is not what the video that I linked to says. All of my points come from this and other interviews I've seen her in. If they are nonrepresentational of her views and data, then that is why, however I sincerely doubt that she would be presenting the opposite views in a presentation of about a book that she presents in the book itself.

Health insurance in 1970 didn't pay for a huge amount of things that it now pays for. For example, MRIs, viagra, birth control, etc. Far more diseases are treatable. I'd love to see her evidence otherwise.

The specific example she gives is hospital stays for childbirth. I'm out of my element here, so I will say no more about health care.

The problem her book raises is that many families take on a riskier financial profile in order to consume more

This is the opposite of what she's tried to convey in every video I've seen of her. That people are making smart decisions such as buying houses closer to good schools, which drives up prices for parents with children. That the need for a second worker leads to a riskier financial profile. She says the idea that people are fiscally irresponsible and consuming more simply isn't true.

Her data shows that costs (besides taxes) have increased less than income.

I don't know why you keep harping on income, as it just isn't the point. The additional worker is. A family needs a second worker, earning a second income, taxed at a higher rate, leaving no one to take care of children or the sick, to have the same lifestyle their parents had with only one parent in the workforce. This need for two workers makes them twice as susceptible to lost income and serious illness.

Whether she is right or wrong, I feel you are misrepresenting her argument.
I happen know a lot of HR people from different organizations and have discussed this very question with them. As a class, they seem discourage this sort of background research, and to strongly discourage hiring managers from doing it directly. Rightly or wrongly, HR people seem to feel it is very easy to cross an ethical or legal line by researching someone online and especially on social networks. They are also probably overly cautious as a class. My guess is that hiring managers are more likely to do this sort of research than an HR person (except in very large organizations where there's a formal "background check" sort of step in the hiring process).
By his logic, if you were to extend Google's policy of selecting ads based on the page content to ads with images, you would have a successful model for banner ads. I don't know if that's true though, because whereas the flashier a magazine ad is, the better, people prefer more toned-down ads online, since they're already getting bombarded with so much content.
To put it another way, I think the whole effort to frame environmental policy as a matter of personal virtue is both ineffective and cruel. Lecturing people is not an effective way to change their behavior. And in many cases, people make environmentally poor decisions because they don't have much choice. Many many jobs in the US effectively require that you have a car. Many affordable residences also effectively require that you own a car and drive a lot. People need jobs and they need shelter, and for many people their existing jobs and homes lock them into having one car per adult in the home.

In other policy areas, we've decided that an issue is important enough and should be taken out of the realm of personal virtue and placed into the realm of social action. My brother is disabled. He doesn't have to go around begging for coins so that he can eat this month. There's no opportunity for you to demonstrate your personal virtue by donating cash to him. Instead, we've all decided that seriously disabled people shouldn't have to go around begging to survive, so everyone is going to have a chunk of cash taken from their paycheck used to cover Social Security Disability Insurance. We lose a bit of cash, but in exchange we get to live in a society where severely disabled people don't die on the street because they can't work. We've taken a policy problem out of the realm of personal virtue.

We should do the same thing with climate change. Greenhouse gases are bad. So put a tax on them and let the market find a way to reduce them. Then we won't have to harass random people who make lifestyle choices we don't like; instead, people will make choices that in aggregate are more effective at mitigating climate change. In the story above, the truck driving apartment dweller would have more cash to spend than the car driving McMansion dweller, which will be far more effective in getting the McMansion dweller to change her behavior than any amount of lecturing, no matter how technically correct it is.

Trading sanctimony and self-righteousness for policy effectiveness seems like a huge win to me.
The supporters of history rarely get the credit for the work they put in. It is the person who was there when the final blow was struck that gets most of the credit.

Apple shouldn't get all the credit for creating tablet computers. They should get credit for creating the first tablet that most people actually wanted to buy. If you want to ignore the influence of the iPad on the current market and overall design of the tablets we're going to see, you're being painfully myopic.
I am on the mailchimp free plan. One reason I think it works for them is that it's impossible to stay on the free plan if you are successful. It's nice to not have to pay while I'm building my list and don't get much value out of it yet. But every day, as my list grows, I know I'm going to have to pay -- at that point it would be silly to cancel.

Another reason it works for them, is that many of their customers probably start with a list -- in that case, it's not free (if you have over 500 subscribers)
Perhaps that's true, and that it's people's perception of what it takes to begin adult life which has changed. Probably there is greater marketing of higher education than ever before.
I'm much more excited about Chrome OS than Android. You get a full featured browser as your default environment, not some weird descendant of Palm. I do appreciate widgets and such are cool on android, but give me an SVG/Canvas version of those any day.
most of the code written for wp i saw is actual spaghetti-code. including so popular and later blamed thesis theme. there is no enforced standards in coding, no clean versioning between modules and wp.
Tweet Kills Plastic Surgeon
I am really curious to see what happens in 10 years when the baby boomers start to die. The younger gen Y has been so throughly infantilized by their parents that we're going to be this "Home Alone" nation without any adult supervision. Gen X will have to step up to a very unfamiliar leadership position.
Howdy, I guess I can address some of what you mentioned. The article was intentionally vague on the details about their architecture and the techie bits since I view a lot of things from the lens of a marketer.

What I wanted to highlight wasn't so much the technical underpinnings of the offering and why it's important to engineers and geeks, but rather what impressed me based on my initial reactions.

I haven't had a chance to thoroughly evaluate the service since it's brand new of course, but I plunked down my credit card just like everyone else on the waiting list if you're implying that I have a special relationship with them.

I just appreciate good service, entrepreneurship, and what WP Engine represents.
What do you find troubling? Even when XHTML 1.1(?) Was the hype around town I couldn't see the value in using it over traditional HTML 4.
20-year olds flew the bombers that won World War II, at the very least.

I'm skeptical that bomber pilot training really takes 10 years--that seems a tremendous waste in the military. 10 years is half of your active duty career if you stay in the military until retirement.
I'm 38, and feel like I'm only just turning the corner on adulthood. My career has been grad school followed by a string of postdocs: relatively sheltered from the consequences of failure. I haven't married or had kids, and I don't have a mortgage. (I do have substantial savings.)

In a bad mood, I think I'm retarded. In a good mood, I think it's neoteny. Certainly I'm better off than my parents, who unconsciously followed societal expectations, had kids in their early twenties and in so doing doomed themselves to decades of misery because they're profoundly incompatible. It's not clear to me that I've lost anything of value by the path that I've taken.