skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, even though the rich have more dollars (or whatever currency) than ever, they are still affected by inflation.

Inflation means that can buy less with each dollar they have.

When the government adds to the currency without adding any actual value, usually by printing money, they're "inflating" the amount of currency available and actually making every existing dollar/pound worth less. It affects everyone, rich or poor.

It's a way of taxing without actually increasing taxes, and to my original point, rich people don't like it.
Grubes: Regarding Ashok Kumar’s Track Record on Apple
The Washington sales tax alone is 8.9 percent (including city and county sales tax in Seattle), so obviously property taxes are not included at all in those numbers.
Exactly. He succeeds through luck and accident in being a writer, but not in being a great chef.
That was one of the only Mark Suster articles that I disagreed with. He made very valid points, but the truth is that since the IBM layoff of '93, there is no such thing as vertical loyalty anymore. The only loyalty that matters anymore is horizontal loyalty to your co-workers. Anyone can get the axe the moment a manager needs to meet quarterly or yearly earnings figures.

Someone with a high amount of reciprocated horizontal loyalty can be of much greater value (and greater danger) to companies. When you hire someone with great horizontal loyalty, you get to tap into their entire network of former co-workers and they can literally build out an entire new department in your company overnight because they can bring with them all the right people. Unfortunately, this works both ways as these people can also take them all from you overnight as well.
Net Neutrality Watchdog Group Uses Ads To Attack Google
Some of the claims in the article are a bit far fetched. The "curious but deadly Ekranoplan" for example just seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
I've got a presentation at uni today. I'm quite nervous, but this might work. Just stand up with my back straight.
The claim "The aircraft was designed to cruise at speeds of 1,989 mph at 59,055 ft, with an operational range of 6,837 miles at this speed." sounds suspect also. That'd be impressive, if true.
> But I do think everyone should work at a restaurant at least once in their life. It's a customer-service learning experience and gives you an appreciation for the staff when you patronize restaurants later.

Very much agreed - I worked in the kitchen of a family run Chinese restaurant during my junior and senior years of high school. Did everything from taking orders, to chopping tons of cabbage, mopping up a drunk assholes puke to de-veining shrimp. All at the same time! J/K ;)

Although it sucked some of the time, looking back at it, I would have done it all over again. Learned a lot (I can cook Chinese and can put together a great dinner very quick), made long lasting relationships (the same family still owns the restaurant and I stop by whenever I visit my parents) and the customer service aspects have been ingrained in me since.
http://www.jaxscript.com/

How about some text before the video?
SAP patents mock objects
Change hands after 50 (uses of the control key, that is).
Organic results are cached, but adwords ads are calculated in real time.
It's Anthony Bourdain. When he talks, you listen.

It's also a talk about the facts of life, getting into careers that you think are fun but in reality will suck hard for the average joe, much like a computer career.
First 10K a month! Impressive.

Second why a savings account? Are you actually getting an interest rate that outpaces inflation? I'm curious why this route with that kind of income.
...And for the Windows community: http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/

Is there a Linux equivalent?
I'm skeptical of the Roth IRA.

I think many people will get along on a lowered income in retirement and will be paying taxes in a lower bracket than they do as working people. This is an argument against the Roth (compared to a traditional IRA).

Tax rates are likely to go up in the next few decades, which is an argument for the Roth. On the other hand, if the tax burden shifts from income taxes to a VAT or a national sales tax, then the Roth might come out equal or a loser compared to a traditional IRA. I think a VAT is likely.

There's also the possibility of retirement accounts being regulated in terms of what investments are allowed. For example, requiring a certain percentage of your account to be in U.S. government bonds. These ideas have been floated around Washington a little bit. This is a minus for both the Roth and the traditional IRA.

I still invest in my SEP-IRA (which is hella good if you want to really sock it away) and a little bit in my Roth (hedging), but I don't max either of them out any more.
Magnus Carlsen has a impressive wins and FIDE rating for his age

adding some chess facts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship

Vishwananthan Anand is the champion in most forms of chess for last couple of years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Carlsen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viswanathan_Anand

hope he qualifies to be fighting against Vishy for 2012 world title
It's very handy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping
du -hs /home/* | sort -k 1,1

/edit typo
I wonder if this is a case of building endurance. If your work level doesn't increase dramatically (IE you have to carry say 5 bags of flour, 3 bags of sugar, etc. several times a day every day from day 1 to day 3651) you're eventually going to build the right combination of muscle to minimize the expenditure of energy. I know there's a term in exercise for this, but I work in construction so I get about 8 hours of vigorous exercise a day, so I've never been interested in going to a gym and doing more repetitive tasks than my day job and actually cost me money.
Why do you put it in low interest savings accounts? If you are hitting the FDIC limit, there are money markets that will be as safe and give you a better return.
That's right kids, two hands on the desk, feet on the floor, barking orders is a stress reducing a yoga pose. It's called kicking the dog. Feet up on the desk, hands clasped behind the head is called the kicking back dog. Don't forget to flare your nostrils and breathe through the nose.
For a free, cross-platform (and excellent) alternative to PeepOpen, try Command-T

I used to use FuzzyFinder_TextMate, but that's stopped development, and the creator recommends you use Command-T instead.

https://wincent.com/products/command-t
Yea it's pretty much that. No, not Best Buy, just a great boss :)
I'm a heavy emacs user and occasionally get hand pains for a few days or weeks.

As everyone else will suggest, swap your caps-lock and control keys.

I also found it useful to have a single key on my keyboard that does M-x. You might already have one by default. It might look like a wavy window flag, or a cloverleaf, or a menu, or something weird.

As you have said, start to learn to use more of the special keys on the right side of the keyboard. Don't forget shift. You shouldn't be using the left shift for capital letters whose keys are on the left side of the keyboard.

You might find it useful to put your mouse on the other side of your keyboard and use it with the other hand a few days a week. It sort of trains your hands to do things differently.

You might find it useful to try a different keyboard. I've found a Microsoft Natural keyboard to be great. Your employer will spring for this if you mention that your hand hurts.

Adjust your chair height, display location, desk height, and the way you sit. Yeah, this actually affects the way you use your hands.

Don't forget to take breaks. Go get some tea or something every once in a while. I think jwz wrote a thing that periodically makes emacs force him to do that when his hands started hurting.

Don't be afraid to go see a doctor.

Good luck!
Eerie. Having been in/around Tempe for the last 16 years, as soon as he said "There's a coffee shop here in Tempe..." the first one that came to mind (of the many, many non-starbucks coffee shops in this area) was the exact one he meant. I've certainly logged my share of hours there studying, reading something interesting, chatting with friends, etc.

And going by that, the nearest library (likely the one he is referencing--and i went there a lot in middle/high school back in the 90s) is about a mile from the coffee shop and all in all is in a pretty suburbanite, middle class part of town. It's pretty fair to say that for an area with a good median income, high but not extreme property values, etc, something like a public library is going to be hit hardest by the advent of the internet, since the "public" is going to be pretty thoroughly plugged-in.

Not that it's a bad idea to consider bringing libraries along into the newer age...
Not on my harddrive, but yes, it comes from experience with a bunch of actual products, actually selling.
This is pretty early but nifty, and might help us in our ongoing efforts to move away from our Ruby prototypes. Needs helpers and halting to be properly useful, but will definitely keep an eye on it.
Generated with this:
http://github.com/martine/bloat

via http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/b...
Yeah, you could put it that way. Personally, I prefer "I can't pay very much, so people who think they can earn more go elsewhere" I mean, hell, I'm only paying myself about $30K a year, and I'm located in Silicon Valley. You can get new people for that, but you can't keep experienced folks for that kind of money. Not here. I'm very conscious of perceived fairness, and try to pay people accordingly, so I'm not worried about a confident employee negotiating a higher that warranted salary. I mean, I acknowledge that they are worth more, and I'm not offended when they shop around their resume... but my budget is what it is.

I also tend to go for inexperienced people for the same reason. Do you think that's unethical?

I mean, I've told everyone who has worked for me that I will expect them to leave for more money at some point (unless my business grows fast enough to suddenly pay everyone 'experienced person' rates... but so far the experience of people who worked for me has grown quite a bit faster than my company's ability to pay, so people leave, and I give good recommendations.)

You are right that you should try to ignore attributes that are not relevant to the job at hand (including, in this case, confidence) and my own personal prejudices in the matter, I agree, make me look like an asshole who doesn't like dealing with other assholes (which, to be fair, I am.)
Agreed, this is a rather cynical self-cycle of self-doubt they're promoting.

In a few months I got myself a position of respect where I work, why? Because I can do what I do, I know what I'm doing and people begin to respect you for it. I didn't work to get respect, I got respect because I actually did work rather than play popularity and dominance games.
I use WinDirStat for Windows http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/
LustyExplorer is good. One feature that I really like is that I can start exploring from the current directory or the directory of the current file. This way I can keep vim's current directory at the root of my source tree, and not have to deal with turning on 'acd' and all of the incompatibilities that can arise.
<sarcasm>Because people who earn that much by working are new money, and should be penalized for trying to break into high society. Gotta keep the riff-raff out of the country club, you know.</sarcasm>

On a more serious note, if you make that kind of money for any significant amount of time, you're going to be a member of the investment class pretty soon (i.e. making your money from capital gains) unless you have poor money management skills (or unusual circumstances, like supporting 10 people, or an expensive gambling habit, etc.).
I added a demo area for you, hope it gives you a better idea of how the app works.

https://www.rubypay.com/pages/demo
Very interesting insight, thank you. I had no idea that age discrimination was a big deal there. I am younger than 35, and I won't go into clearances, so it seems like I can get by.

My current plan is to take some trips to visit the area and see if it's a good fit. Ideally I guess I would get some company to finance that in trade for a job interview.
On a side note, the Gundo feature (http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/#gundo) is available for Emacs (http://briancarper.net/blog/568/emacs-undo-trees).
You could also delegate the login to Facebook...

I refuse to use FacebookConnect (or whatever it's called), since it's my real identity being used. I imagine a lot of people are the same.

...Twitter...

I also don't have a twitter account, since I don't really see the point of it.

...Google...

Can you elaborate here? I'm not quite sure what you're referring to, though I feel like I should.

...OpenID

This is definitely a consideration, and has been brought up elsewhere in this thread. I'm definitely going to check it out, and see what's actually involved in it, since it seems a bit involved for something I'm not even sure will work.

However, I do hate it when sites don't let you signup directly and force you to use OpenID.

Same here. When StackOverflow launched, I didn't understand what they asking me to do to log in. I understand it now, but I've never had a reason to use my OpenID outside of the StackExchange network, so to me it's pretty much the same as having a single account for that purpose.
Sequoiaview and Treesize are two good, free Windows options. Treesize, in particular, has a prettier output and a ton more features. We install it on all our Windows servers because it makes disk cleanups so much easier.

Here's the free version: http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_personal/
Cool. If you're focusing on the smaller stuff, then make that clear up-front. That might keep me interested.
I bought and ran a restaurant as part of my mid-life crisis/being bored with the computers.

I can vouch that pretty much everything he says is true
If Eventbrite actually uses it, it doesn't matter to me whether they heard about it from their CEO or not. In fact, lots of great businesses had their investors (or their friends) as first customers.
Thanks! macvim here I come :)

edit: Many of the most popular textmate schemes have already been converted and can be found at http://github.com/squil/vim_colors
Good point about how to move. I had already planned to try to visit friends and possibly arrange interviews around the same time. There was no chance that I would move without a job lined up.

The companies you mention sound a little soul sucking to me though (well maybe not O'Reilly). Is that the only way to get in to the club?
Welcome to IBM's startup cementery. Rest in Peace Neteeza.
Launching your new start-up - how slick does your UI need to be?
So you have had an idea for the next Twitter or Facebook app. The idea is like rocket fuel! Your personal brain is full of ideas to tweak and twist your concept, capture your user base, monetize your audience, to realise your dream from notepad to server.

You've invested endless sleepless nights building a rock solid scaleable backend - But your desperate to take that step and get your app live. To get your web-services responding, and your cloud filling with rich-user data.

You ponder your big move. If your idea is to really grab it's audience the UI has to be slick, right? Rich in Ajax and CS5 like sweet tasting ginger on a firm cheesecake. But of-course you could just sprinkle the ginger once your live - right?

After-all an app is not something that is complete, it’s something that is evolving. Twitter did it. Why hold back? Why keep it under the hood when a small base of users could start testing your app-model and giving you feedback. Right now.

If you were super smart you could just launch a mobile service. The UI is much simpler reminiscing sites way back before Ajax and CS5. And when you dig deeper in thought, phone users are a large target in your audience. That would get a solid UI out and running in a flash, and your beta users could really evaluate your IDEA,rather than how it does it. Comparing your mobile site on and even par to the likes of Facebook and Twitter. And while that’s getting feedback you can get the screen version live, in all it‘s glory.

Or on the other hand you could just hold back. Go to work on the sweet tasting ginger that tops your cake. Build your super slick interfaces, driven by that rocket fuel that has powered you this far.

You ponder your move. What do you do. Build the mobile site as a Beta launch tester, as a product to tease investors and on-lookers. Or hold back with your idea. Bite your tongue, endure your heart pounding and push on until you have the Ajax Ginger sprinkled beautifully over cheese cake?

Thoughts please…
I agree 1000%. I am currently trying to get my team to rewrite several WebForms apps using ASP.Net MVC. I am almost to the point of not allowing them to use the toolbox to create a single UI element, too. Autocode is crippling and encourages developers to stop thinking about what they're doing (or be afraid of overriding Visual Studio's decisions).
The point isn't whether or not relying on your investors' resources is a good way to get started in business. It is. It's just proper to be honest about it when asked.

If InDinero has so many paying customers ("hundreds" according to the interview), there should be no problem referring to one that isn't also controlled by an investor.
The interesting thing about this, though, it that Washington State borders both Canada (foreign country) and Oregon, which has no sales tax. I lived in the Portland/Vancouver area for a while, and some people were able to live / work in Vancouver never paying income tax, and do all their shopping in Portland (right over the bridge!), thus actually paying no sales tax.
Don't lose another four years before blogging about how you finally switched to emacs from vim and bite the bullet now. Emacs is to vim as vim is to textmate IF you are a hard core software developer. Vim is best for sysadmins, simple, quick non-complex editing.

I know, I know... But when you were newly in "love" with textmate I'm sure if I said you need to switch to vim you'd say no way. Skip vim and go right to the best there is, Emacs.
http://www.sinatrarb.com/

For those (like me) that had no clue what sinatra was before this.
Eh, I think it just requires a different management style. You need to be much lighter on the stick with someone who is less confident, and to use verbal praise as the carrot (along with periodic raises) The easy mistake is to blow up when something bad happens. Generally speaking, people who seem to lack confidence have a difficult time dealing with that sort of thing, so you see them becoming risk-averse in ways that are damaging to the company. But, if you can avoid blowing up, my experience has been that they can take reasonable risks as well as anyone else.

Confident people, I think, usually require a more confrontational management style. Sometimes you /need/ to blow up to get them to do what the company needs rather than what they want to do (which is something I'm not particularly good at)
I can make a note to let you know how this works out, since I sincerely doubt you'd notice a reply here.

If you'd prefer, I'm also blogging about my experience of writing a site from scratch for the first time. You can check it out at http://www.appscanadian.ca in case I don't remember to contact you when I start working on the login functionality.
Now if they're really serious they'll find a covert spokesperson to represent their views — someone down-home and earthy, perhaps like Joe the Plumber, who can express their political position in terms and with voice that the great majority of voters (WA has a median household income of ~55K; http://www.ofm.wa.gov/economy/hhinc/medinc.pdf) would find more approachable. Ballmer and Bezos may have name recognition, but any good PR strategist knows that having a couple of billionaires vocally object to high-marginal-bracket tax increases would be just a bit gauche.
H.P. and Oracle Settle Lawsuit Over Hiring of Hurd
Harry Browne can work but it takes amazing patience that most investors will never be able to muster.

Wild about Harry William J. Bernstein
http://www.efficientfrontier.com/ef/0adhoc/harry.htm
Likewise my Dad is 74 and is in a similar position. Quite frankly, he's super excited about what he does.
I don't really consider the iframe-style as a valid integration point though. You could technically hide anything inside an iframe. The iframe makes it significantly harder to integrate because all your javascript will essentially need to do cross frame communication type crap just to tell the "other guy" what to do. Plus, depending how you stack your iframes, your inner iframes may not be able to do overlays on your parent frame. Iframes in general is just an ugly hack and should be reserved for actual cross-domain type scenarios.

However, I am looking forward to the ad-hoc style integration if that's possible.
I use KDirStat http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/
Thank you! I have been using screen for 2 years and wanted to know how to fix this, but never knew what phrase to google to see if there was a fix. Every time I would background emacs (^z) it would clobber all of my previous console output so I would have to re-grep things, for example.

In return I give you my favorite screen hack that displays the available RAM on the server every 30 seconds in the caption:

In ~/.screenrc

backtick 2 30 30 $HOME/.screenrc.bt.2
caption always "%{gk}plab001 %?%{wk}%-Lw%?%{yK}%n*%f %t%?(%u)%?%?%{wk}%+Lw%? %=%{yk}%2` %{gk}%c %{yk}%d/%M/%Y"

in ~/.screenrc.bt.2

free -m | xargs | awk '{print $17 "MB"}'

The caption string above also prints the current window titles and the time/date, so this is also useful for keeping ssh sessions open indefinitely since there is activity at least once a minute when the time updates.
This is interesting, but Apply is going to need to show the server space a little love before people will start to seriously consider OS-X as a server target -- but they should, because they have a nice cut of developer mind share and an advantage to leverage (not that they should, but they could) with iphone/ipad web services
Agreed, but is it painful. (And yes, I swapped Control with Caps on day one)
How to pitch at Techcrunch or get investors to write checks
This is what I love most about Vim, it's becoming a universal, mouseless interface to just about everything you use a computer for, except maybe games.

So far there's a Vim plugin or mod for: Emacs, Firefox, Chrome/Chromium, Opera, Eclipse, and now even OS X. What others are there?
Netezza.

I don't think they'll kill this one. They needed something to compete with Exadata, and since they already own BO+Cognos, they have nearly a full BI/Analytics stack.
I've written one too called Hoboken, the city where Sinatra was bron. I don't have a complete set of docs, but it's definitely useable.

http://github.com/leftnode/Hoboken

My personal site uses it: http://leftnode.com

I'll have to check this out to see how it competes :).
Steve Jobs is never wrong. Sometimes the universe is wrong, and he has to compromise, albeit grudgingly and with bad grace.
Brackets are great (when used correctly).
The problem with these types of Ballot Initiatives:

Do you want to eliminate the state income tax?
X Yes
_ No

Do you like to drive on paved roads?
X Yes
_ No

Do you want fire fighters to show up if your house is on fire?
X Yes
_ No

As a resident of California, I can assure you that budget related initiatives should never be put to a popular vote. The voters will nearly always agree that most altruistic government expenditures are good (like roads and firemen), yet they will nearly always vote against attempts to pay for them.

In California, it only takes 50.1% of the general populace to decide to spend a bunch of money, but it requires 66.7% of the state legislator to approve a budget to pay for it.