skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An immense amount of destractions are stopping me from really breaking down the doors. I've been doing independent game development for the past couple of years, but I haven't really been able to focus as much as I need to despite releasing two products.

I moved out to the bay with $1k just a 1.5yr ago to find a job after college. I thought it was going to be awesome. Found a job at a great company, got to meet some really great people, learned a lot, but come to find out my wife is not coping well with the new location which is really consuming time and energy. I spent the early part of this year trying to figure this puzzle out, but ultimately it is what it is.

So at this moment, I need to break away from the destractions. Moving back home in late December to the midwest where I can live on a fraction of what it costs out here. I'll have a happy wife that will have the ability to buy a house for 80k and will be with her family/friends. I plan to do consulting (which I'm already starting to build relationships for) to earn money to live / bootstrap with, and I'll start working on a business away from the gamedev train.

If building something in the midwest that ultimately brings me back to silicon valley, oo-rah. But, in the end, a location isn't going to define me.
I have some specific in mind but I kept the question vague as it brings out the most interesting answers and you've given a very good one. The gmail system you mentioned might just be perfect.
Thanks!
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Yet Another Proposed Federal Data Security Bill
> For example, participants estimated that line-drying clothes saves more energy than changing the washer’s settings (the reverse is true)

Huh? Line drying saves plenty of energy, what settings are you proposing we change?
Back button support appears to be broken in Chrome 5.0.375.99 on Linux :(
bash < <( curl http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head )

See http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/
...but it was unclear that you were giving your own view and not her's,...

From my first post: "According to her data," [...] "(you need to read carefully, she plays down the tax numbers by presenting them in a confusing manner)."

From my second post: "Her raw data is great, but her presentation is really confusing. I'm rather leery of her conclusions - she is great at gathering data, but terrible at analysis."

Not sure how I could have been clearer that I was relying on her data rather than her opinion. If I cite her again, I'll be sure to use all caps.

I'm also not sure why you feel my comparisons of square footage, # of cars or maternal death rates are misleading.
Of course you can tell. The one that is cheaper used less energy.

Since pretty much all our energy comes from hydrocarbons it doesn't much matter. All you need is to check the price.

Energy costs money, use more energy, pay more money. Your market signaling method is already there.
Thanks 280 North for open sourcing this app - has been a tremendous Objective-J learning resource.
Unlike C# (I think), there's a difference between "int" and "Integer. Integer is a class, while "int" is a primitive. Due to auto-boxing you can create an Integer object from an int, but it will still remain an object.

The problem is caused by him comparing objects as if they were primitives. The Integer class is basically just a wrapper around an "int" primitive. When an Integer object is initialized with a value between -128 and 127 it will return an object from an internal cache.

The second time he creates an Integer with the value of 127 it uses the cached object, which of course is identical to the previous one. When he tries this with 128, the cache is not used and a new Integer object is created.

tl;dr; Integer is an object where some values are cached to avoid creating a new object. The "==" operator compares the objects, and not the values they represent.
Since the author of the parent comment expected other users to pick up what "anecdotal" evidence he was talking about, I took it to mean what it typically means.

I know what the study is saying. I wasn't responding directly to it.
I know that seems extreme, but even in some liberal orthodox Jewish denominations, men and women don't touch (except for husband/wife of course). I'm pretty sure that not hiring on this basis is illegal, and in some places, like NYC, it's extremely common. I'm not Jewish, but have worked with, and known, and have many friends who hold these beliefs. I have never thought of them as being extremists.

I think this specific person might have explained it inartfully.
Bob's Railsconf 2010 talk, "Twenty-Five Zeros", is also worth a watch if you enjoyed this post of his.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mslMLp5bQD0
Maybe it's a different about inside the USA vs. outside of it, but I don't feel everything ends with .com: a lot, yes, but not a massive absolute majority.

I think it would be nice to have different prices according to what they are _supposed_ to be for. Just like .gov is reserved, so .com could be priced at 100$/year since if you are a commercial company, i.e. you make money, then it would be a fair price to pay.

Others like .org should be almost free, but only for companies which are legally non-profit. A domain for personal websites on the other hand should be cheap and have no limitations. And so on.

So basically I agree with what you are saying but I'd just make it slightly more fine grained.

As for the problem you mention, I think people would change pretty quickly to be honest. Maybe there could be some governmental ads to drive the message home, but com-> commercial is pretty easy to remember, and similarly if it's not .com then it's not commercial. :)

The point of having a hierarchical URL, with most people buying the second level, is to increase the number of choices. If everyone ends up buying .com it's just a waste. :)
For MS to keep whittling away the needless UI complexity and preferences bloat
A very insightful comment - if your political views are evident during the interview process = you are "doing it wrong".
I don't get how counting cars in Wal-Mart and comparing rate of change over time can really help predict profit margin.

The average size of basket (retail sort-of-equivalent of ARPU), profit margin on goods, etc are all equally important but easily fluctuating factors which also make up profit projection.

Even in the article says that the 4% increase in cars parked in June this year over last was due to extra cost-slashing WalMart was doing... well that can lead to lower profits per customer so even with more customers coming in the store it could lead to a net 0 profit gain (but more merchandise shifted)

It's like saying I can guess the value of a in a = x * y * z by just monitoring the change in z, when all 3 are variables.
Well, the other half of WWII ;) Naturally you'd pick a very experienced pilot to drop The Atomic Fucking Bomb, but the average age of bomber pilots over Europe was famously in the early 20's.
This is insane. I have just had to explain 3 people on #ruby-lang why my error log has 1.9.1 in it if I am running purely 1.9.2.

This tangentially breaks the principle of least surprise. I can't see any good reason for doing this. This will result in unnecessary head aches during debugging for months to come.
Why not? You could also auction being the registry for .com domains: if it's worth so much they will spend more money, which the ICANN can use to subsidised as needed.

As an example look at the auctions for the mobile phone frequency licences: that worked pretty well.
Curious: how many of those thousands of messages are actually personal and worth reading? How many are notifications from stores, social sites, and so on? (Programmers only:) How many are notifications from your apps, giving you updates about processes you're running?

I find it incredibly hard to understand how anyone could have a thousand personal worthwhile messages coming in every day. I guess an Internet celebrity (or famous angel investor!) would have a large number of contact attempts each day, but that counts as work email, right? (The author's post says "1002 unread personal".)
That always confused me before, but at least I know it's intentional.
Google CEO: Change Names to Avoid Social Networking Past
Godspeed you! Daft Emperor
>Windows won because DOS was already everywhere.

Actually previous poster made a good point with Vista problems - after a few years of bad press and Apple being a favorite, MS made a killing with Windows 7. Not for free.
My first reaction from just looking at the site for 30 seconds:

Make the 'Tour' page the home page, instead of the 'Register' page. Seeing that huge form first (without knowing what it does) makes me want to leave.
If you end up running out of energy, or find yourself slowing down on your businesses needs, you can always give up your side-job. But why not try and make a go of it? Esp. if you need to eat and pay the bills.
"20-somethings can fly nuclear bombers, I think they'll do alright with career choices. If we let them."

I tend to agree with the general sentiment, but I think this analogy is very misleading. For one, bomber pilots are a very selective group that have been screened. Nobody screens you for life in adulthood. So, most 20 somethings probably don't have the chops to fly nuclear bombers in combat situations. Also, the set of skills needed to perform the function of piloting bombers (where one is also given extensive training in those skills) is not necessarily the same set of skills needed for making career choices and navigating through life where the acquisition of those skills is a lot less clear. So yes, while some 20 somethings can fly nuclear bombers that doesn't tell us anything useful about how well 20 somethings in general are able to make career choices.
Excellent. Since picking up (and falling in love with) Clojure a few months ago, I've had multiple "Why Clojure?" discussions with friends and co-workers. This post is short, sweet, and hits all the points I've tried to make (poorly) to others. Saving it now as ammunition for the next "Why Clojure?" discussion :)
You've good points - but I think you missed something.

Marriage/childbearing has been delayed because we can't afford it. My father at 30 could afford a bungalow to raise his kids, and my mother could afford to be a housewife.

Try doing that today.

Where I grew up housing has inflated to the point where I'd have to be making the equivalent of 3-4x my father's old salary to even afford the mortgage. Keeping quality of life level, it's hard to imagine being able to own a home in a decent neighborhood, even if your partner works also (which, btw, makes childbearing even less attractive).

IMHO it has less to do with sexual empowerment and more to do with the fact that the middle class is shrinking alarmingly quickly, and fairly soon will be all but a memory. The whole concept of the breadwinner feeding a caretaker and children in a home that he/she owns is practically impossible for most of America today.
That is quite the thesis.
Gmail search will now search your docs, sites and email
ChromeOS is trying to solve some of the last limitations of the web as an app development platform so that it doesn't need native apps.

I would be surprised if this thing didn't support webcam/microphone access through the new HTML Devices API as well as WebGL. With Local Storage, Workers, and the other HTML5 APIs, ChromeOS will be the first time someone presents the browser as a application development platform on par with iOS and the other native platforms.

This is incredibly exciting to me... it's a push back towards the "write once, run anywhere" spirit of the web. Not all developers want to write a web app and two or three mobile apps just to get good market coverage.

My hope is that Google uses ChromeOS to start building a stable of apps built with web technologies that can compete with the native app stores, that they slowly replace the Android Market with it, and that Apple and Microsoft will support these new web platform technologies in their mobile browsers, and 5 years from now, the web is again the only app platform that matters.
Are you certain about that? I know a car emits much more CO2 and H2O than most anything else, but as an example, I was pretty sure the smog over L.A. was a direct result of oxides of nitrogen. Or was that only toxic, and not greenhouse, and thus not part of our consideration?
He's a cool guy with a great personality but Reddit was his first startup and it had a tiny exit, certainly not enough for angel investing. I don't see angel investing as the next logical step for him.

I'd like to see him pull off another startup and grow it to be as big as Reddit is, then everyone would know it wasn't just luck and would have much more confidence in him.

As an angel investor, what is he bringing to the table? He has some experience with startups but not a whole lot. He was a non-technical co-founder and spent most of his time using Reddit like any other user. He didn't do any coding, scaling, or sysadmin work. Reddit isn't even profitable.

He did draw the Reddit alien though...
The same percentage of improvement as there was from vista to 7
It also could go to subsidies the free (or cheap) extensions.

For example: .com could cost 15$ instead of 7$, but .net could go from 7$ to 3$ or even less.

Yes, you would end up with Internet ghettos, and "high-street" areas, but given it's only the extension, and a .com address is not really surrounded by other .com addresses, then it's not such a bad thing.
Looks like I fit the definition of an emerging adult like a glove.
Still in college, so I live on my parents dime.

Haven't done anything on my way to adulthood.

Undecided about my future, and career choice.

And, guess what, I just turned 20 last week.

Since, emerging adulthood doesn't happen to everybody, perhaps it is the default "life stage" when we have no monetary requirements, and no expectations (which would really only happen in our situation, other than, perhaps, after retirement, but I have no experience with that one).

I'm not sure what will happen when I finish school, and I prefer not to think about the details of its existence (time after school). But I am considering career paths (ones that vary greatly) which is the main point of the "life stage". (If you have a path decided; you do it, sometimes. If you don't have one decided, but you need income; you do a convenient path. But if you don't have one decided, and don't need one, you linger on it untill the prior is true).

Now, as I said before, I'm undecided, and what is really scary is knowing that we basically jump into a job, with little to no real world experience (not theoretical or technical knowledge, we get that through school) about the career. Internships, would be the closest to what I'm thinking about looking for, but we have to compete for the one's that we want, our dream jobs may not even be looking for interns, and we're basically restricted to one per summer.

Perhaps what would help is a program, that allows for an array of different jobs, that you jump from each month. Assuming if your interested in the career, you would have some technical knowledge about it, and that there are enough companies signed with the program to allow the plethora of jobs.

Okay I'm probably talking out of my a- ...bum, because it'll have the same problems, and I'm sure there are those out there to tell me it won't work.

But I am here, decisions pending.
my plans for name change back in business :)
Mute autistic girl uses laptop to communicate
think bookmarks, history or info retrievals in browsers is broken?
I'm doing some work on this front. Basically need to know how many of you think retrieving boookmarks or something from history in browsers is broken. Or there could be better way at doing these things.
As a 23 year old who has worked almost every day of my life AND held a job since I was 13, this is bullshit. There is work if you want it, nothing is beneath you. Don't settle, but always be working towards something more. The key is always be working.

Seriously though, what is this article going on about? People complain, I know. Shit sucks. But get over it, and get to work. There is always work to be done, money to be made, goals to be reached and people to marry. It`s not so bad.
Society has been going to hell in a handbasket because the younger generation is (lazy, stupid, disrespectful, ignorant, wanton, lustful, unmotivated, etc...) since Plato's time. I think it's B.S. The people in the 20'S are the ones that we've asked to fight two expensive, difficult ground wars for us in a decade, and they've stepped up. I trust that generation (I'm a mid-40's Xer) more than I trust the Boomers or my own, as we're the ones that have racked up a 13 Trillion dollar debt. We're now leaving it to the twentysomethings to pay off. Dear Twenty-somethings: On behalf of my "older and wiser" generation, I apologize. Sorry we wrecked the economy and spent so much of our nation's wealth on crap that we can't even afford to hire teachers any more.
Yes, but not all such "religions" are fashionable.
What's your advantage against shopify - http://www.shopify.com/ ?
> Who doesn't have $20 a month for their blog?

Vast majority of people in the world. Everyone who is below middle class income in the USA (which is a lot more than you probably realize).

The Internet is not just for rich people and it should certainly not just be for making money.
Building out your sales plan as a startup
I agree that the mechanisms behind lower success aren't specific to digital, but they do often apply more.
Much of it is about honesty and trust. Beyond relevancy, most of us have learned to distrust and ignore ads. Certainly even in traditional media, the U.S. has had lower standards as far as claims and truthfulness go. So the credibility value of ads has declined. Of course trust for vendors online with no physical address or phone number (not that a phone means much anymore) will be even lower.

It really hit me a while back when talking to someone dealing with selling hardware and landscape supplies. He went on and on about the great results he got advertising on Spanish speaking radio compared to other stations (rural area in California, not a major station). The audience, much of it illegal aliens, regards the station as a trusted friend compared to the rest of the world around them. Some of the trust rubs off on the advertisers. (This was a long time ago, I'm sure the trust has eroded some) Looking at Spanish radio was a bit like looking back in time at English speaking stations and earlier days in media.

We're in an era where the public sees through most online sites as being there solely to make money by nearly any means, not out of any love for a particular skill or interest and desire to make a living from it.

The shift from local owners to large corporations or VC groups has accelerated the shrinkage of trust in broadcast media. The anonymous or corporate behavior of most online sites is even worse. Unless you've acted in a way to make people love you, you're more apt to be ignored. (There's a major lesson to learn from Apple here!)

How many sites actually care if their advertisers are a good thing for their readers? How many sites don't support data-mining of their viewers?

If you treat your readers as hog bellies to sell to advertisers they'll grow to hate you. Look at how many people feel towards broadcast tv. (NBC stands out)
(To whom it may apply) Your ethics are showing and you're paying the price.
Wow - reading through the Mail Deliverability one and this is really great info. Surprised how much MailChimp spills the beans here and gives lots of insider secrets of their business. Thanks for the link!
That would be likely to exacerbate the problem, further marginalizing young adults from their community. Also, the thought of raising the age of consent in this society progressing towards sexual and moral liberalization is laughable. As for voting rights, young adults have shown themselves to be a significant political force in recent elections in the US, guaranteeing the issue wouldn't be touched with a 10-foot pole.
Sorry, but why are you adding the probabilities? They are not mutually exclusive.

If there is a 1% chance that the company hits $7M, it's value is $70k -- that's it. It would have achieved all the other milestones you mention.
I think he was only going to kill programmers who didn't learn statistics.
Thanks Steve, appreciate it. Nothing earth-shattering but useful nonetheless..
I really could have gone the whole day without seeing a cartoon panda's anus.
Thanks for the link. After reading that, I'm very suprised to see this for the 'Perhaps' category - given that every Linux distro other than Debian falls into that group:

We think Ruby works on it, however, we do not care about it.
I sometimes release Ruby even if there are issues on it.

The release part I get, but "we do not care about it" seems awfully dismissive. Maybe it came out differently than it was meant.
Is there something I don't know here?
Why most golf statistics whiff and how to fix them
Bookmarks, as built in browsers, are unusably broken. Delicious + Firefox add-on makes some sense of bookmarks, but they could still be a lot better. One thing I would really like is the ability to do a web search only on sites I've bookmarked, so if I can't find something but I know I marked it, I have an option.

History, I clear after every browsing session, so I'd rather just see it go away.
It's interesting. First thing I wanted to see was the tour, not the signup page. Tour has screenshots of stores.
For the entire product line to be axed, for the good of the world. :)
Links to the rest of the series of articles here: http://linkbun.ch/0bf9s
I didn't feel that way. I thought, "just a couple fields to fill out and I'm done!" - the creation of my store took just a few seconds and didn't require e-mail verification. It couldn't have been easier.
GEM OS was a contender too iirc.
much simpler to use and quicker to setup. free plans with no monthly fees, socially integrated (sell on facebook etc) and we help with traffic and sales through our marketplace and networked checkout.

Shopify is a great solution - but we want to help more casual/hobby sellers - and they find shopify a little complicated
There is much more to HTML5 (or to HTML4 for that matter) than three elements (those are elements, not tags).

You can have your XML with XHTML or HTML5 XML serialization.
Oh, but that does not solve the "flexible" part, right?
Well, you have to choose there — either flexibility or interoparatibility. HTML5 focuses a lot on the latter.

What do you want? To have any arbitrary element in your markup? Ok, you get your <foobar>barbaz</foobar>. And then what? What should it mean to everyone else beside you?
What do you gain by that?
I'm really struggling to be offended that this guy is making money on a side business selling things that people buy, even if I wouldn't personally buy them and think they are kind of puerile.
If no one will give you a project then give yourself one. Help someone - your mom, dad, brother, friend. Anyone. Make something that makes their lives easier. Thats really what all businesses do in the end. Make life a little easier for as many people as their product will allow.
I would be interested in hearing from companies that actually believed that and spent no time or effort on PR / Marketing...