skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My solution required that public transit be fast, reliable and ubiquitous. This can easily be done. I've personally experienced it in Germany. Good public transit is freeing, not restricting.

Since I drive a car, every time I go out with my wife, I have to be careful how much alcohol I consume. If I had a train or bus to take, I could drink however much I wanted.

Since I drive a car, if I want to walk around town, I have to return to my car before being able to head home. If there was public transit, I could just go to the nearest station and connect from there.

Since I drive a car, I have to pay to park if I go downtown (and hunt for a parking spot).

Since I drive a car, I have to inconvenience a friend or pay for a taxi whenever I go to the airport.

Since we drive cars, my wife and I can't meet somewhere after work unless we we're willing to have two cars.

Since I drive a car, I have to pay for gas and maintenance, and there is no good alternative if my car breaks down. A bus line can just add another bus, or reduce the number of stops. The route doesn't just shut down.
China's nine-day traffic jam stretches 100km
1. If 4 mil at 30 is not enough, it would never be enough.
2. Someone with the drive, intelligence etc to accumulate 4mil by age 30 would be extremely bored retiring at 30.
3. There are different forms of wealth (relationships, experiences, reputation, health, intelligence, peace of mind etc), and money is merely one kind.
Ok, I put my email in my profile- I had it in the "email" box but apparently that's not visible to other members. Thanks for making me aware of this.
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Thanks for the brief definition. My usual practice of using Wikipedia for that purpose failed in this case. It looks like Intel Marketing must have been editing their own Wikipedia article, because this is mostly marketing-speak nonsense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_vPro
People who put $119m into Ning either believe there will be a bigger sucker to sell it to (hey, AOL is still around) or are the kind who reads Wired & TechCrunch seriously and get star struck when a Valley celeb attaches their name to a company. That's really all there is to it.
s/a nice Latin American country/Japan/;
if($user == 'patio11') {
print "yes";
}
# http://www.bingocardcreator.com/expenses/profitability-pie-chart
The rise of non-MVC web framework?
So 24 days ago meego released pics and video and no one posted/cared
What startup entrepreneur would want to retire at 30?
I wish they showed how many people weren't using Private Browsing. For all we know the spikes might just be because more people are browsing the internet at those times (I suspect that's the lunch spike).

In the context of this discussion, percentage of Private Browsing activations would be more useful.
I believe it was Sun's attempt to say, "see, we can open-source stuff. We believe in the importance of 'community'".

I think the idea was to kinda do something like the JCP for Solaris. Give the OpenSolaris community some kind of formal access to the decision making process. I'm not sure that it ever actually worked, and if they were indeed using the JCP as a template, I doubt it ever would have.

Like you said though, I'm not sure that they ever really did anything or had any pull whatsoever.
" the freedom that comes with tenure to pursue whatever interests you is the only reason to stay and work the ridiculous hours required of post doc researchers."

In other words, in return for being an indentured servant for a number years, you get to pay it forward by being a lazy ass taking credit for YOUR servants' excessive hours?

The entire system is hosed. Education suffers, research suffers, and apparently the whole point of it is to serve as a multi-year hazing process in order to get tenure so that you can coast for the rest of your career?

I'm glad I didn't pursue tenure... I thought IT was a waste of life, but tenure track is even worse. (Actually, I knew that before I left academia, I just didn't know how much of a waste of talent the IT industry would turn out to be.)
Followed by:

> "Even long-winded users won't write Moby Dick into your <textarea>"

Which has most cases already much longer than those where the setup costs of BM are larger than the gain if the match is found on average halfway in to the text.

Typically you hit that point when the 'haystack' is about 2,000 characters and the 'needle' is longer than about 4 to 5, longer 'needles' or longer 'haystacks' would increase the advantage.

So the HTTP header one is probably one situation where you'd be quicker using brute force but in those other two instances it is very well possible that BM is already faster.
Yeah, I'm not getting where that number comes from. (And I love the suggestion that it's merely "upper middle class".) Personally, I can live a pretty nice lifestyle on "only" a couple thousand in disposable income a month. I really can't imagine what I would do with $20-25,000 / month to spend.

With that in mind, I tried a few numbers in the spreadsheet. Just to be more "realistic" I dropped the payday back down to $4.5mil. I'm also assuming that the first thing I would do is to pay off my mortgage, so what remains is basically entirely discretionary spending.

On a restrained budget of $50K/yr ($4K/mo), my assets grow faster than I'm spending, and I die with $20M in the bank. On a more extravagant $100K/yr (over $8K/mo), things are a bit closer, but still earning more than I spend and leveling out at about $7M in the bank. The crossover point is about $125K, leaving you broke at 70.

So, I'm going to say that, yes, I really could retire and not work again with a $5-10M payout.
Can you use Postini? That's been our favorite.
I've found Vitamin-R for OS X to be really nice also.
http://www.publicspace.net/Vitamin-R/
That's spectacularly illegible.
Research the web for topics about how to hire a consultant, how to work with a consultant, how to make a consulting project successful, etc. There's tons more advice available for free out there than you'd ever get here.
Sometimes these smaller perturbations are called "sub-grid phenomena". I think practitioners think of them as, say, pressure waves or flows which average to zero when observed on a 10km x 10km grid. But it is possible that their ultimate origin is on a much finer grid ;-)

Another problem, separate from these effects, is getting closure on the variables in the model. Things like evaporation from soils and vegetation, for example, which ECMWF is trying to include in their models. You put them in the weather model to improve accuracy, and all the sudden you need a time-dependent model for soil and vegetation water content. And also, sensors to satisfy the boundary conditions for your model (e.g., to estimate plant vegetation type).
tail -c offset [input] | head -c length

will do the job.
So you'll either be a poor-ish young playboy or a rich old guy? Why does the first option sound more attractive?

Of course, fast cars and country clubs are all superficial, but being a miser just so you can die with millions isn't that much better...
> Using a $225,000 microscope

I saw a microscope for sale at best buy for $40! This is waste, pure and simple!

edit: Either I'm not funny or people don't get sarcasm. Probably the former.
I like Timer Applet for Gnome.

https://launchpad.net/timer-applet
I'm not sure which schools you're referencing when you write about that status of academic teaching. If a university has a statistics program they must offer something beyond a course in basic statistics.

Grants for statistics research do seem to be relatively lacking. Possibly the increased emphasis on statistics in data analysis and machine learning will change that.

The listing of good statistic programs is missing at least a handful of schools: UCLA, UMich, UWisc, CMU (machine learning dept), and GMU (computational stats PhD).

I'm coming from computer science, but it appears the state of statistics in industry and academia is improving. Off the top of my head, here are some tech companies that depend on and employ statisticians: Facebook, Google, bit.ly, FlightCaster, Twitter, BackType, OkCupid, and Microsoft. The title might be Data Scientist or Search Engineer, but it's still statistics and probability.
I would apologize for the use of the word technology for Twitter... but I can't see where I actually used that word.

IMHO Twitter is a medium, not a technology. Not that the specific word we use makes much difference. Call it a genre, if you like.
I could not agree more. But I have learnt, not many clients have the money for a hardware solution. But one thing I too have learnt .. stay away from pound etc, just stick to LVS.
They are correct about the iPhone, and will be correct about the iPad - it's not really about closeness in this case, but price.

Cheap Android tablets are already popping up and Apple will probably prefer maintaining their domination of the high end rather than compete with $150 (and in a few years $35?) products.
Woah I didn't know about git commit --amend, that's really cool!
Depressing.... but,
I live on U$ 12,000 a year* in a Latin American country (Uruguay), but it isn't a good enough amount to retire on.

U$ 30,000 is doable, but not millionaire-ish. You could live quite comfortably and with housemaids and eating out often, but forget about a (good) car or high-end electronic toys (unless you bring them with you from abroad).

There are some nice places to retire, but I'm not sure if you wouldn't find it boring quite quickly.

Oh, and government loves to swamp you with taxes.

(*) that's after taxes, my pre-tax earnings are about U$ 24,000
I'd KILL to have scalability issues... we had one band that said they were likely to sell several hundred thousand copies of their single using BitBuffet, which got me all excited, but that never came to pass. I honestly believed it might happen because: 1) they were donating the money to charity, 2) it was pay-what-you-want, and 3) they were pretty well known.

I was actually a little sad he didn't kill my cute little Linode server...
When I don't know anything about a topic I have found Wikipedia is a good place to start

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_flow
"... and your servers will DIE!"

Di diyanu, di diyanu, di diyanu, diyanu, diyanu!
Okay. I just read your response to someone asking for your revenue model. Can you explain how check-in is going to work? I think your reply was incomplete.
20% market share, 60% profit share, 90% mindshare... which is more important?
Thanks for the excellent point re: one-off effects. Here's how I got the 12% number: 35,000 of 300,000 non-paying accounts chose to ante up, which is 11.66%.

Based on my reporting, I think the overall conversion rate might actually be more than that. Off hand, Ning has 50,000 total paid users and an estimated 265,000 non-paying ones (though not for long). That suggest to me that 50k/315k or 15.87% of Ning customers are paying customers.
I'm not a fan of Buenos Aires personally, but you can visit there for cheap :) .

(I live in Montevideo, Uruguay which is quite close to Buenos Aires)
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I think this page is remarkable just for the background. Very clever CSS hack.
So in a roundabout way, we're back to...design-driven design?

Writing a README early on (and figuring out your general project scope, etc.) is a good idea, sure. Fundamentally, though, it sounds like he's just saying that a Software Engineering Methodology(TM) is no replacement for common sense.

When people attempt to formalize (and, often, brand & market) common sense, it tends to substitute checklists for thought.
I'd be rather more worried about retiring at 65 when your 'contributions' have been locked away in some pension fund than if you sold your startup at 30 for a good chunk of cash.

Who knows, you might not even live that long, life is fickle.
Twitter isn’t your audience. It’s your community.
<quote>We have to notice that nearly no one high in business now or on the way to being high in business knows more than just
some elementary applied statistics, from long ago, that they never understood very well, never really used, and was
likely poorly taught. Also they have not seen much of significance in business from anything at all serious in
statistics. They know about the importance of computing, the Internet, and maybe some of assembly line robots, supply
chain optimization, comparisons among planes, trains, trucks, biomedical research, even efforts in applied nuclear
fusion, but they nearly never attribute significant importance to statistics.</quote>

You've never worked in finance, have you? Modern economics, especially the portions dealing with finance, is
indistinguishable from applied statistics. The Black-Scholes option pricing formula that is at the heart of almost all
trading algorithms is statistical. VaR and other risk metrics all rely heavily on statistics. Now, its an open
question as to whether such a reliance on statistical methods is a good thing for the industry. However, you cannot say
that managers in finance companies don't appreciate statistics. They appreciate it very much, since those statistical
models determine their bonus at the end of the year.
That, I should have done. I thought to save the number of lines previously read so that I could skip them; I don't know why it didn't occur to me to just save the whole damn offset.
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Saving a buck is a lot easier than making a buck.

That's one very good reason why plenty of rich people are seen as 'misers', if they let it roll then they'd stop being rich pretty quickly.

The secret to that is to not make it plain what your financial situation is and to live well within your means.
sudo apt-get install readme-compiler

(declarative programming for the rest of us!)
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You've got the dichotomy disease. There is no need to go to either extreme.

You can belong to a country club and still live within your means.

You can certainly drive a fast car and live within your means. Fast cars can be bought for well under $10k, especially in California where a fast car can last for thirty years and more without rusting. Most of the stuff on more expensive cars is just bling, or comfort features that have nothing to do with high performance.

What you have to do is pay attention. Don't spend more money than you have. Don't spend at an unsustainable rate. That doesn't mean "spend no money at all". There's a happy medium there.

And you don't have to be a miser. Though, in fact, you probably do have to die with millions, or at least several tens of thousands, unless you plan your own suicide and stick to that plan. To ensure that you're living as comfortably on your last day as your first, you need a bunch of money in the bank. And you don't know which day will be your last. So, die with a million in the bank and endow an amusing trust fund in your will.
The millionaire next door makes too much of a deal about stuff like clothing and cars. You have to control your bleed, sure. I've found that if you have half a brain and live somewhere with a lot of money flowing around like NYC you can buy fancy shirts, go out to dinner, AND save 6-10 grand a month, which is the best of all worlds.

Millionaire next door is more for people running a landscaping business in the suburbs, and saving every extra dollar instead of blowing it on a new home theatre system or an expensive vacation to somewhere that isn't as boring.

I.e. it's more for lower middle class people trying to get a leg up. In my experience it's better to become a "millionaire next door" ... next door to multimillionaires or billionaires. It's way easier if you're around a bunch of people with a lot of extra dough.
My annual spending in Atlanta, GA is about 30k/year. I honestly consider that to be a bit high. I've been eating too many meals at restaurants, and my monthly coffee budget (which isn't all coffee -- my preferred coffee shop also has great beer on tap) is creeping up over $200.
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Scaling writes requires partitioning, which can be done in CouchDB with either:

http://tilgovi.github.com/couchdb-lounge/

or in a hosted Erlang version:

http://blog.cloudant.com/dynamo-and-couchdb-clusters
How is living in Uruguay, apart from the money angle?

I've heard lots of good stuff about it but never from someone that actually lived there.

Most curious!
How the hell are all of our parents going to fare when you need 500,000 to maintain an upper-middle class lifestyle?

If the past 40 years are a guide to the future, then the lifestyle we currently define as "upper-middle class" will be redefined as "poverty" and will be available to virtually everyone, including people who can't even be bothered to find a job.

People will continue to complain about the declining middle class, how the median family can barely afford to live in a 4000 sq ft house with a robotic kitchen/laundry/bathroom and about how unaffordable their stem cell therapy and cloned organs are [1]. They'll watch TV news reports lamenting the bad economy on their 108,000p 10' 3d full immersion TV's, while the uber rich (income inequality will go up as well) do much the same thing, but in a 100,000sq ft house and a 50' TV. Also, the quality of stem cell therapy and robotic surgery available to the rich will be slightly greater.

[1] They will of course lump all medical goods and services together under the catch-all term "health care".

[edit: clarified that I'm thinking about 40 years here.]
Tony's calculations are wrong because he assumed constant inflation.

There will be periods of deflation, and many think that one is starting now. It also won't be the last.
There's even a sort-of MVC framework for Smalltalk web developers. I didn't even realize until recently there actually were Smalltalk web developers.

Ah, Java "gurus" and their extraordinary wide field of knowledge…
On FB you could easily see someone's sexual orientation, for example, or the year they graduated. It's better not to look. If you hire them and you get on outside work, then by all means add them as friends and you can see all you want.
From where I'm standing NYC has no recognizable shortage of young technical talent. Hackers from Carnegie Mellon & MIT don't need to be "bussed in" because they're already drawn to NYC in droves, as are young people from all areas of the country. The talent pool and the startup scene are both thriving. The author believes he has the solution to a problem that I just don't recognize as a significant one in NYC.
Funny, that's the thing that made me reach for readability. I don't like that style of design when people put huge titles for their blogs at the top leaving me momentarily confused as to what I'm looking at, only to realize the content actually starts further down the page. It was neat, but I don't like it.
I live in the Midwest, and I think I would have a hard time spending 200K a year. Maybe my idea of happiness is wrong?
See, at LessWrong we have a saying about this sort of thing, which runs, "How much are you willing to bet on that, at what odds?"
While splitting it up into multiple tables is probably a better design, that still doesn't solve the problem of needing "to return a list of items for any combination of tags/properties".

What I would suggest in this case is some fairly heavy-handed front-end programming in which you determine the SQL code to execute based on the props/tags your user has queried upon. One thing you do not want to do it to use dynamic SQL for fear of both SQL injection and the performance. This is done in almost every app w/ search or dropdown functionality - I'd suggest you find some open source projects in your languages that do it and copy/learn.
Obama warns Americans of covert sponsored manipulation of peoples opinion
Not a bad idea. Add an optional 'reason' field for the mea culpa as well.
Too Much Free Time on Campus?
Agreed
Except a liquidity event rarely happens.
When they do, it's often a shell game for the investors to mask losses. The early stage employee's options are from the common pool; the investors get preferred options which are paid out first. Generally it's quite easy for the board to zero out employee options if things aren't going as well as hoped.
In case anybody wonders if that's for real, yes, Patrick has made all his expenses/profits/turnover figures public.
I don't know if he reads HN but I believe the F# team is aware of the upcasting issue and if I remember correctly they were thinking about resolving this in the future. You can send him an email saying what you like and what are your biggest issues, he'll probably appreciate that (at least I would).
They don't control the web though. So it's significant, but not as dire as the article implies it will be.
Are you talking about learning new tech or just coding? I can't separate the 2, I don't feel qualified to know something unless I have coded it.

I did lose my desire to learn though...
6 years ago, my career turned into a job. This was partly because we got tired of looking at the "next great Java framework". "Standardization" was what was asked for, "stagnation" was the result.

Then about 2 years ago I started learning things on my own time. I installed Ubuntu, started playing with Ruby/Rails:Python/Django, automated unit testing, reading blogs, even started taking classes again. My desire to learn is more intense now than it was 10 years ago. It is aggravating not being able to use the new stuff at work but with enough practice I will become proficient enough to leverage it elsewhere.
Is having a $150k job and doing nothing better than starting your startup?
> "Let's assume you want to live in a major metro area, send your kids to private school..."

That's his problem. When we moved to this country, my dad had an H1B visa and was making far below what an entry level Google employee is making. Nonetheless we had quite a comfortable life: rented an apartment in a suburb with a good school. Later, my parents (both of them finally rising to market rate) were able to afford a house and send me to college (two years of community college and then transferring to a university) without taking a penny of financial aid.

This isn't just a rant against the OP and this has nothing to do with "fuck you money" (I have my own opinion on it, but I am not qualified to state it). I am sick and tired of the premise that these days a comfortable family life is two six digit incomes. No, you don't need a private school, no you don't need to live in San Francisco or a New York (try a suburb instead, which also solves the "private school" problem), no you don't need a single family home, no you don't need two BMWs. Even if you don't retire, it makes sense to live below your means to have money available for a rainy day.

If you know how to live below your means than even as an employee (looking to make a few hundred thousand from options) you have the chance of earning de-facto "fuck you money": the sum of money which means you no longer have to accept a boring/stifling job just to have a job; the money you need to take the time off to work on a "science project" (a technical project that doesn't have an immediate business model).
As a Carnegie Mellon alumnus, I can assure you that many (if not most) CS/IS/MISM graduates already end up in NYC or San Francisco. Yours truly included (hello from SF!)

DC, Pittsburgh, Baltimore are popular too, though much less so.
Check-ins are GPS verified. We are not doing a hardware solution like Shopkick, but we also aren't allowing SMS checkins like foursquare. We've gone for a middle ground. No GPS coordinates that fit in the lat/long we've set as acceptable around the venue then no check-in.

Merchants are charged based on check-ins.
Shit! Are you serious? And me thinking that was limited to the USA. :(

Do you have any link about that?
One who wants to devote himself to philanthropic pursuits for marginal pay (or none at all)?