skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So typical - you see this all the time. Moving up too soon thinking they are the best in the world, only to lose it all.

(For non players, this means that you are a winner at lower stakes, say $5/10 - but a common trait is that you become bored with that level because the most you can win each day is ~$1000-3000. As you move up levels the play is a lot harder (exponentially so). Players like this guy crush the small levels and think they are good enough for the higher levels, and just end up losing it all - often blaming their luck in the process. If you look at his chart, you will see that he won it all playing medium stakes, and lost it all (in a lot shorter time) playing high stakes).
Renesys has written about this twice with more facts and less speculation: http://www.renesys.com/blog/2010/06/two-strikes-i-root.shtml, http://www.renesys.com/blog/2010/03/fouling-the-global-nest....

The gist of things it that the mainland Chinese network operators allowed the anycasted routes for the I-root in China to leak outside of their networks and into the global BGP routing table. If you made a DNS request to the I-root during that leak, and the best route to the I-root prefix was the leaking route from China, then your DNS traffic went through the great firewall and was altered accordingly.

Finally, I want to give the article the benefit of the doubt with regard to this:

And he said he believes there were more instances of Web traffic
being diverted to China, or "hijacked," around that time, but
wouldn't elaborate. "I believe it happened more than twice,"
Joffe said. "I can't comment on how many times because the
information is not generally public."

but many views of the BGP routing table are public (http://routeviews.org) and/or fairly well monitored for hijackings, etc. by network operators and others like Renesys and BGPMon (http://bgpmon.net/). Unless this is occurring only within China's regional networks, I expect we would've heard something about this already.
That's my point. It appears to be in response to him, but then at the end he says it is not.
If your 26, and saving 20% of your income why not spend the rest however you wish?

At some point spending money now is going to be more fun than spending 10x that much money when your in your late 50's. So, yes plenty of high income people buy nice things, but even if I had invested every cent I had ever revived I would not be a millionaire because I am still to young.
Although not totally worthless, it is nearly so. It is ~350 slides, most with a single word. To find those commands you've never heard of, you have to wade through a deluge of meaningless, when out-of-context, crap. Most readers, like me, probably said "not worth the time" after about 20 slides.
Generation Whine – Why I’m Relieved not to be a Millennial
I helped design the drill (raisebore) used to get to the miners. It was by pure chance the rig was in the country at the time this happened.

Today is one of those "I did something that matters" moments for me.
XNA was originally just Managed Direct X (direct x written in .net). So no it isn't a surprise that they don't support open gl.
The documentation that is there on the site is absolutely excellent - first there is a document that can get you a running server within a few minutes:

http://mongrel2.org/wiki?name=GettingStarted

Then there's a complete manual which takes probably half an hour to read but is worth every character of it:

http://mongrel2.org/doc/tip/docs/manual/book.wiki
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> I'd really like to drink my coffee and read during my commute as my car drives me to work.

unfortunately, I think a lot of Americans are already doing this, or something close to it, today -- but without an AI driving the car. I've lost track of the number of times I've seen women driving huge SUV's with kids in the back, and the woman is yapping on a cellphone while checking her makeup in the mirror, etc. Oh and, while driving.
I think you're in good company. My thought process timeline:

Before Apple announces: Tablets are dead. Typing is just too convenient, and I don't want an underpowered laptop (which a lot of tablets were, with touch screens).

During the 1st half of the Apple announcement: This thing is ugly, and is really just a big iPhone. FAIL.

During the 2nd half of the Apple announcement: Since when did the Apple tax become the Apple discount? At those prices, I'll take two! And it slowly began dawning on me that it being a "big iPhone" was actually genius. How did so few people grok that this was the exact right thing to do? Now it's just common knowledge that upsizing your touch phone OS is a smart thing to do.

After getting my first one: Two heavy, but it was clear that at 7" the iPad is with me everywhere. Even at 10", while not ideal for me, I can see it being great for a lot of people.

The evolution on how people feel about the tablet is an interesting and complex one. I give Apple the credit for making me a believer.
Not really. Sure, people make money on their market bets... but the real money is made by sitting in the middle of other people's transactions. That way, you get money when they open their bet, and you get money when they close out their bet. It doesn't matter whether they won or lost, because they have to go through you.
I'd rather have a 7" tablet that works just like an iPod touch.
I think there is a market for this. Here is something similar: http://www.macminicolo.net/

I know someone who used them and was satistfied, he was able to take the macmini he had his server on and just mail it to them.

Some credit card processing requirements specify that certain servers not be on shared hardware, I have overheard discussions about this with regards to hosting some kinds of transactions on Amazon. Perhaps that could be a target market.
A lot of investing (esp trading) is a game of incomplete information between two or more parties, so yes.
Here is the timeline: USB 1.0 was released in January 1996. Windows 98 launched in May/June 1998. Windows 98 was the first MSFT OS with native USB support. The first iMac was launched in August 1998. USB 1.1 was released in September 1998.

According to a June 1998 CNET article titled "Peripherals to surge with Win 98," Rob Bennett, group product manager of Windows 98 stated: "There will be a pretty impressive showing of peripherals this summer..There are 250 devices due to be launched around Windows 98 and 100 in development [to be] released in the next year..."

(http://news.cnet.com/Peripherals-to-surge-with-Win-98/2100-1...)

Looking through Google news archives for 1998, I see the following devices with USB support: Logitech scanners, Intel video cameras ("Create and Share"), Imation and Iomega high capacity drives, Kodak digital cameras, joysticks, modems, etc.

Hence, there was a collection of PC peripherals supporting USB around the time of the Windows 98 launch (in May/June) and the iMac launch later in the year (August).
What are people going to do in 55 minutes, send spam and brute-force ssh servers? Yeah, this is already so prevalent that nobody cares anymore.
>Based on our current knowledge of physics & cosmology we don't need a creator to explain the universe.

That is aside from our amassed knowledge of physics [cosmology is a subset surely?]. This is like one of those "everything has been discovered" considerations.

Anyway it seems you're taking as your axiom that the universe is uncreated/self-created (or what-have-you) and your faith in this matter should be enough for anyone. You admit we don't have any generally* objective evidence one way or another I assume (by which I mean objective truths that can be observed by anyone at arbitrary time).

>PS: I hope I will not hear the "What was before the Big Bang?" question.

I quite like that one because it seems like it would force a reductio for those who argue against the need for a creator:

An atheist (or multi-theist, or ...), say, argues that if God created the Universe then who created God? The common theist responds that God is eternal and uncreated. The atheist (in this case) argues that is absurd, if the Universe were created by God then God must have been created too. The theists position is now one arguing that a creator is necessary for existence. Reductio ad absurdum as they are arguing the counter argument to their initial objection that a creator is not necessary.

Is that why you didn't want anyone to mention it? ;0)

[Yes, I know this is a naive rendition but the atheist/multitheist/recursive-theist objection has rarely been followed in any of these fora to it's logical conclusion. I can see one easy out from the side of Zeno; But I think overall Parmenides comes off better. Very happy to hear objection to this latter analysis.]
This is awesome. Hopefully it will take off. Here's a list of recommended libraries:

http://www.cliki.net/Current%20recommended%20libraries

Maybe they should be highlighted in the Quicklisp package list?

I'll mention in passing another solution I've found to the dearth of libraries in CL: run CPython via pipes. Then I can call any Python library I want. I used it for GUIs, downloading stuff from the web, and for doing plots with Scipy/matplotlib. It works great, though obviously has some "bandwidth" limitations.
This is the Power of the EULA. By saying yes, I agree to such a contract, you are leasing use of the software, not "buying" it. This little bit of legal jiggery allows the software owner to disable that software for almost any reason. Tis a concept legal rationalized by copy protection, similar to how purchasing most media (music, movies, ect) gives you only a limited license for it's use. The only way to escape this fate is to only use opensource and non-commercially produced software (namely your own and other programmers you know)
Boomers spend the most on tech
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i think non-typical income for programmers is fairly typical. varies by individual, moment in time, project, client, employer, etc.
It took us months to get a payment system for my start up in Australia. Its a nightmare. You are correct in thinking there are only two options - a merchant account or a service like paypal or authorize.net. However, if you have a merchant bank account and use a 3rd party gateway, you are submitting and storing the credit card information on the gateway and not on your own server, therefore PCI DSS complaince is not required. Many credit card gateways have APIs so that you can create a seamless experience if you wish.
I would certainly try approaching the banks for a merchant account. Our company was fairly new when we got our merchant facility and there was never any concern about how old the business was. They were more interested in the type of product and thus the risk of getting charge backs. The bank may also be happy to provide the facility for a security deposit.
Also, before you make a final decision, compare all the charges and how much the facility is going to cost your business. The charges seem to vary dramatically between banks and providers.
Everything on that page is in Quicklisp except Maxima.

edit: It's also not a great list - I'd add a few dozen things to it. I'd like to have a nice way to rate & review projects in Quicklisp, but that's something for the future.
Hennessy actually got rich founding MIPS Computer Systems Inc, years before Google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_Computer_Systems_Inc.
It's also not really fair to include Hennessy on this list -- he is the president of Stanford, after all. That is a very different job from professor, and pays quite well. According to his wikipedia page, "As Stanford's president, Hennessy earns an annual salary of $566,581."
And of course baby showers and the like as well.
This breakdown doesn't seem right to me.

From my other comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773273), you can easily live on 250$/month in Surat, India. My friend runs an outsourcing company in Surat and he pays his programmers around 300-500$/month.

When I started my IT career, I was in Mangalore (worked at Infosys) and my expenses were similar to what I listed above. [Except for the higher rent] I rented a two bedroom apartment with another guy and my share of rent was 4000 INR (approx 100$ USD). I think in Bangalore, you can expect to pay around 10 to 12k INR in Rent if you share a 2 bedroom apartment.

Also, 4500 INR/month for Food and 2400 INR /month for coffee? That's really really high. In India, people mostly drink tea, which you can get for 5 to 10 rupees. Cafe Coffee Day (dare I say 'Starbucks' of India) charges 1$ for Cappuccino (http://www.foodiebay.com/menus/1/593/menu-photo-for-cafe-cof...), though I don't think someone making 500 USD a month will spend 30$/month (one coffee a day) on coffee.
Best sentence from the c2 Clojure Page:

"Is probably a HomoiconicLanguage"

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ClojureLanguage
Agreed. All this defining people by their age can't be done consistently.

Most people want many of the same things regardless of age, sex, race, religion, culture, or political affiliation. They have varying ideas of how to get there, usually based on experience or some belief system they adopted. Yet, despite all of us as a whole being similar and yet each of us being individually different, some people keep trying to group us into year/day of birth, political party, race, sex, etc. It just doesn't work though. We don't really fit into those groups. We are a whole and we are individuals. There are social groups (families, friends, work, etc.) and people that share the same experiential and adopted knowledge. But, there is no such thing as a Millennial.
Let's assume the device is focused on creativity - drawing and writing (also assume the device records pen input well and has a retina screen):

10" tablet screen size ~~ display size of a legal pad.

7" tablet screen size ~~ display size of a large todo pad.

I like using a legal pad already for drawing/note-taking, but if the fact that it's electronic let's me express what I want with less screen space, It may be worth getting something smaller.

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I also can't get around the author's idea of carrying an EVO in my pocket. Especially If I plan to use the same device while running/cramming into jeans/etc. It's definately a great purse-able phone for women though.
Sounds a lot like starting a company...
Please write/update such a list if you can. For most people, choosing a library is as big a headache as installing it.
I'm disappointed. I was hoping that they would explain how to efficiently use this.

I use the Amex Platinum concierge when I travel. "I need reservations at good restaurants for these three nights." They lock in the reservations and email me a schedule. Then I go back and try to use open table and/or trip advisor to find better stuff and cancel/replace as necessary.

I often get the feeling I am Doing It Wrong, and wish people would share the right way.
Oh. Oh my. This seems to be CPAN for LISP. Is that an accurate perception?
Cost is part of the methodology and they factor in per capita income, both of which adversely affect Portugal: http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/StartingBusi...
Manchester UK

Expenses:

Rent: £200-£500pm for a flat/small house. Lower end can be in somewhat interesting areas though.

Bills: Utilities usually £40ish. Council tax £80-120 pm.

Internet/Phone: Bundled from £10-£20pm. Pay a little bit more and you can throw in cable too.

Bus: £10 unlimited weekly travel
Train: Depends on how far you go, obv but city to outer suburbs never more than £4-5 return. Adv returns to London from £22.
Trams: Free in city with train ticket. £2-3 to outlying areas.

Cinema: £7-10 a pop. Or £13pm for unlimited.

Noodles: 7p cheapo packs. 80p Pot Noodles (a "Welsh" delicacy)

Beer: Scandalous £3+ pint. Go outside town for decent pubs anyway and you'll be a bit closer to £2. Find a Holts or Sam Smiths and it's nearer £1.

Eating out: Mid-market £30ish. Posher £60-100. (for two). McDonalds/KFC around £3-4.

Wages:

I think typical would be roughly £1500-£2000pm, so I hear. I'm being horribly underpaid :)

I wrote way too much for a place no one would visit :)
Learning AI (or any deep comp.sci for that matter) is not like learning J2EE or Ruby DSLs or whatever the fad du jour in the enterprise software world is — read a few chapters of the latest bestselling “pragmatic” book, write some crappy web site and hey presto you are the expert.

This seems like over-the-top smuggery. While I don't agree with a lot of the author's remarks, I certainly feel his pain and empathize with the idea that noodling or other aimless, low-motivation and low-direction play does not lead to the kind of expertise that will get you hired by the kind of people who use Haskell/F# to make money.

But this kind of remark seems wildly baseless. Is he postulating that if we find a bank using J2EE or Rails that you can get hired based on a few chapters of reading and a web site? This is not consistent with the rest of the article.

What I take away from the article is that he believes banks are very demanding, not that Haskell/F# is very demanding. In which case, if he finds himself at a J2EE bank, he's going to be discussing the kinds of things I recall working with in one of the world's biggest banks: the behaviour of transaction queueing systems, type erasure and its effects on reflection in the presence of certain generics, subtle considerations when using JDBC and Oracle, or whatever is now the kind of thing J2EE people lose sleep over (my knowledge is out of date, the things I mentioned may now be passé).
A pessimist's guide to the next 10 years
Auckland, New Zealand - NB: everything below has been converted to USD

Expenses:

* rent - small 1 bedroom in CBD - $1000 p/m

* food - cheap 1 person - $300 p/m

* electricity - $80 p/m

* internet - 10Gb p/m - $30 p/m

* supermarket ramen - $1.1 per meal

* big mac meal - $6.8 per meal

* coffee long black - $2.6 per cup

total = ~$2000 p/m (incl. some entertainment + travel costs etc. NB: depends on lifestyle)

Income:

* graduate salary - $3150 p/m gross

or

* median developer salary - $4800 p/m gross

recently #2 on list of easiest places to start up a business - according to a story from HN
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I apologise; I didn't realise there was a split.
If you are in the US, then it has to be opt-in. It's the CAN-SPAM law.
you can also check the papers and moderators links for each session at http://bit.ly/iswar2010 and follow the twitter list http://twitter.com/#!/list/discovrplaces/ar-standards
When is his book coming out? This idea of technological stagnation really rings true to me.
Bangalore, India

Typical monthly wage for a programmer / designer: $600 to $1000. (This varies a lot, so there is no actual upper/lower limit)

My expenses:

Apartment Rent + Utilities: $80
Internet (1 Mbps): $23
Food: $135
Transport (Bike): $20
Books: $75

Contrast this with RealGeek's comment to get an idea on how different the expenses could be, depending on the person and the spending nature.

Also keep in mind that I am not married. I expect the expenses to shoot out of the ceiling after marriage. :)

EDIT: Less than 6 months ago I was trying to get a startup up and running and I was living off my savings. The lifestyle then was entirely different and the expenses were around one half of those given above.
Quicklisp does some stuff that CPAN does (like make a bunch of libraries fairly easy to install), but CPAN does a ton of things that Quicklisp doesn't do, and that might be difficult to do for Lisp libraries (e.g. because there isn't a POD equivalent in the CL world).
Can anyone recommend a good way to start doing something web oriented in lisp? (and quicklisp)
Part of the reason I had a hard time taking CL seriously when I tried it back in 05 was that it didn't have this, so it's good to see people respond to that need, albeit astonishingly late. I've since moved on to Clojure but wish you luck.
I had an American programmer friend of mine that lived on $100 a month in Beijing. The university paid his rent. He was a teacher.
It is important to normalize those numbers by accounting for steal time.

http://3spoken.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/cpu-steal-time-the-n...
There weren't many other communities when that page was written. If they were, they weren't well-known.

At the very least, the only one I've heard of is on newsgroups, and most of what I hear about that is that if you asked a question some Norwegian guy would flame you so hard you would actually die.

The best resource would be a practical tutorial as easy to follow as Learn You A Haskell, or at least a language subset as easy to learn as quickly as C - C being, of course, the best language ever invented.

If people get stuck at the level where they're just capable of arguing about the loop macro, maybe you should get rid of the loop macro, or at least not let them know about it.
I have been giving alot of thought towards this problem lately, and am beginning to lean towards the rather undemocratic side of things. Meaning, not all comments or story submissions on a site like HN are equal - some users consistently hit the ball out of the park and some consistently say things that should be be said. Karma systems based on upvotes obviously detect this, however upvotes only apply to a specific comment/article, and don't follow an actual user. How do you make that power user totally invested in your site? Just rely on points? Make them a moderator? Flag "elite" member posts with a different background color?

Perfect timing for this article, as I am about to launch a niche news aggregator as side project. Trying to decide how best to handle the reputation system...
Why not say Mars?
I'm a pessimist, but from one pessimist to another- this was way too long. You could have stopped at 3. After that it went downhill. And, I'm not moving to Vancouver, nor will I live near the subway. And I don't believe I will enjoy all of the music my grandchildren enjoy.
>You actually need at least $1000 per month for decent living in India.

$1000 USD is £630 GBP. Our family of 4 (2 young children) live on about £1000, ie $1600 - we have a private home with a bedroom each, run a car (necessary for work otherwise it we'd ditch it and use mass transit) and eat a moderately varied diet with meat/fish twice a day. I would say ours is probably unsustainable long term (clothing, building maintenance, increasing costs for the children) but a couple of hundred £GBP a month would be enough to change that (sadly the poverty trap probably means that we'd have to go to both being in full-time paid employment requiring full-time childcare just to get that £200 extra; poll tax mounts, allowances decline).

Anyway, my point was I'm surprised by your figures for India. Cost of living seems a lot higher that I'd expect. But here's the rub - "decent living" has vastly different interpretations. I'd say we live decently despite living well below the official poverty line in our country.

OT: we still pay taxes (but not lots) in part to help people on as much as 8+ times our per-person income to look after their kids.
Not quite what you're looking for, yet still relevant: the UBS bank provides a (free) worldwide analysis of wages, purchasing power, benefits and the like

- 2009 study http://www.ubs.com/1/ShowMedia/wealthmanagement/wealth_manag...

- 2010 update http://www.ubs.com/2/e/medlib/wmr/pdf/Preise_Loehne_2010_e.p...

- web page http://www.ubs.com/1/e/wealthmanagement/wealth_management_re...