skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I simply never had an external pressure that would throw me into the necessity to know ins and outs of Haskell by heart

This is the real problem then, isn't it.

External pressure is not the only thing that can exert the necessary motivation to learn new things. But the crux of his argument seems to be that you have to have these external motivators, otherwise you'll never be any good at what you are learning.

I suppose the argument could be made that if you don't have external pressures, you won't learn whatever you are studying well enough. This argument seems specious to me. I've heard plenty of stories which validates against my own more limited experience with people who are motivated to learning by extrinsic motivations; on the level, they just aren't as good, because the extrinsic motivation ends the instant you can convince someone else you are good enough. From there, you only have to convince yourself you are good enough, and the thresholds for this vary a lot. Having the intrinsic motivation to go beyond what others expect I could only see having an additive effect on one's ability.

Or perhaps I am just making an attempt to validate my own intrinsic motivation to learn stuff in spite of a relative absence of external pressure. I can't help but think this author is attempting to validate the converse of that.

Or maybe I'm missing the point. Maybe if I want a position at a bank being held to this sort of standard, then I don't really have to worry about teaching myself new things and I can survive without a motivation above and beyond getting paid. I don't know that I'd be so sycophantic toward that culture, though, if that is all that is expected of me. I certainly wouldn't go so far as to write an article claiming it is a waste of my time.

One other point:

First of all, banks are always a good indicator of the position’s value in business terms.

How true is this? He seems to take the stance that banks are pretty much infallible when it comes to assigning proper value to individuals; the folklore I am exposed to here and elsewhere suggests this isn't anywhere near true.

It seems rather odd, also, that he asserts that banks will fire people who have even short-term decreases in added value. This seems really foolish; value generation varies over time. I don't understand how organizations with such a intricate grasp of value production could miss this. That is, unless they don't have that grasp he claims they do.
"I love it when a plan comes together" -- An ironic quote from "The A Team", something their leader said every time something finally came together in spite of a zillion disasters and, no, it never went according to plan.
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Here's a few links with ideas:

http://www.entrepreneur.com/businessideas/

http://www.sixmonthmba.com/2009/02/999ideas.html

http://www.ahbbo.com/ideas.html

http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

http://astartupaday.wordpress.com/

http://www.coolbusinessideas.com/

I've taken all these from a list in the 'Start Small, Stay Small' book here:
http://www.startupbook.net/

Good luck!
Well, like I said, "I suspect this is a rare taste, like people who like yak butter. After all, you have to be willing to spend an inordinate amount of time studying the tax code before you can figure out how changes in work habits will effect your total tax bill over the long term, and few people are willing to make that effort."
That countdown app is exactly what my SO is building for a specific use case - a generic, good, customisable one would be great.
I had an issue getting through a day at trade shows and then got one of these:

http://amzn.to/cx8u6p

I spent about $30 on it and now its only $20 money well spent.
Hey, Barista!

Open these ports on your firewall, please.
Couldn't this be the result of a misconfigured router that broadcasts that it is the shortest hop to everywhere? I recall in school one of the professors said they had to put protections in place in one of the labs because one of the students router projects had once gone awry and did something similar.
Could you please elaborate on "Oh, uh, well, I uh, got some coffee for the dev team."? I'm really curious what are this kind of people saying at an interview.
The estimates of what % of the U.S. population are millionaires varies, but I was using roughly 5%. So if 95% of the population (non-millionaires) drives 86% of luxury cars, and the remaining 5% drives 14% of luxury cars, that means that the luxury car prevalence ratio among nonmillionaires:millionaires is (86/95):(14/5) = ~1:3.
Nope. All approximations, but it doesn't sound crazy; considering that someone has inputted a search term and the link will be related to that term. Obviously there are loads of variables but it's probably of the right order (single percentages)....

I've inserted all my company data into the "Social Network" model to see why we aren't netting $10MM yet.

Our main discrepency is Pageviews per UV and sell through rate.

I've got plenty of ideas on how to improve the Pageviews per UV. Sell through rate and CPM are more of a challenge.
At least around me, there is a real shift of mentality toward "save-first" again (maybe a generation thing, I'm 33). People start to see that they become enslaved to their jobs if they don't do that.
So we have 1) governments that sell water at prices too low to match the reality of scarcity, 2) private corporations who would sacrifice the environment and consumers for profits, and 3) a populace that consumes too much and is resistant to change. Are we all fucked?
Evidence of water in megacanyon on Mars
Actually with me it's exactly the opposite, I usually saturate the connection, download the iso and let it seed for a few days or so. Do you encounter the same issue with other torrents? Your connection might be getting throttled or your router is not able to handle all the peers.
Doesn't he hear the tires?
China hitting India via Net worm?
"In terms of time efficiency, the U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that people spend on average 52 minutes each working day commuting. Imagine being able to spend that time more productively."

You can, it's called taking the bus, and in the process it actually employs some people such as drivers, cleaning personnel, etc.
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I seem to recall that there were 2^22 sets in the power set of that list of numbers, so you obviously had to use some kind of technique to cull the vast majority of the sets.

Hmm... now that I think about it, did you do something like starting at the end of the list, then subtracting numbers as you went until you either found a set that added up to your top number, or found it impossible for that number to be in the set?

It seems like it would take a lot of paper to do that, but it's more efficient than the simple brute force technique I did.

I'm just curious, because I bet there are better ways to do that one and I think the challenge is probably over by now.
I'm be willing to bet money that most of the times when you saw them, the car was autonomous.
I don't think I got the same message from the article as you did. The unstated assumption that the article is trying to challenge is that luxury vehicles are the exclusive domain of the rich. Even if the statistic were that 43% of luxury vehicles were purchased by non-millionaires instead of 86%, it would still say a lot about how these purchases are actually distributed.
You site craignelsen.com is objectionable - why are you busy loading thousands of little gifs to form a picture of yourself?

Maybe if you had included some of your previous experiences hiring craigslist coders with references, you would be received more warmly.

As it stands, your ad is crap in that it doesn't provide any useful information about the job or compensation. In addition, you're either a Director at "Buddy Clubs" or a Independent Non-Profit Organization Management Professional, whatever that means. Neither title inspires much confidence in programmers.
Yeah, it was an interesting film. Specially insightful if you weren't around the scene when the bubble burst, but want to know how things were like from an insider's perspective.
Money is a commodity like anything else. Talking about wealth in the context of consumption means you've already lost. Better to think about how to produce the most than how to consume the least.
My parents are fiscally conservative "millionaires". They are 70 and 71 and may never need to tap their investments for operating cash (they can live off of pension + social security + misc income). My pet peeve is that I hope they spend a bit of money on themselves before it is too late.

I used to think their "conservative" consumption habits were a generational thing. However, they recently had a college friend who sold their paid off house, bought a very expensive townhouse in DC with their equity plus a giant mortgage (why does a bank give a 30 year mortgage to someone who is 70?), and then proceeded to loose the new house plus all of their equity because they had unexpected medical bills for one of their adult children.
Banks are the problem, not the people that think they in fact can afford this stuff.

Can't agree. Banks may be taking advantage of the situation, but speaking as one who used to have a bad habit of living beyond my means, people who do that are the problem.

I understand the temptation too well, having succumbed to it. When one first starts to have some money after not having had much, all the things one has wanted to buy for so long seem much more important than saving for the future. I don't know that there's any way around that; people just have to go through it (many of us do, anyway).

If you want to put some further restrictions on the banks, I'm not necessarily opposed to that, but blaming it all on them is not right.
Let Over Lambda does not seem to be free. Am I missing a link somewhere?
White-labelable features and email newsletter management would both fall under "provide paid service". And ad networks could be viewed as a type of lead generation.
Can anyone point me towards some good online resources about getting started in online poker?
Mercurial's hgsubversion works just like this as well: http://mercurial.aragost.com/kick-start/hgsubversion.html
And they choose which videos they show, correct? So its all carefully presented. Which means the way they are not completely confident with how the situation is handled.

Which is not saying this effort shouldn't continue. Human drivers don't always handle cyclists well either.
Other points aside, the last point this article makes is a good one: a carbon tax would be a far more effective way to create a more efficient transportation system (and broader economy), than attempting to pick the winner from the start.

It's sort of the "I, Pencil" problem - the interactions in the economy are far too complex to manage in a centralized manner. In this case, we have individuals attempting to predict the winner based on very limited information and applying a subsidy, which may or may not be anything more than arbitrary.

The alternative is to have all the millions of decision-makers be informed and influenced by price differences emanating from the pollutants themselves, motivating them to seek more efficient solutions. The effects are far more wide-ranging and actors are guaranteed to be rewarded in proportion to their benefit to the environment. The same holds for other subsidies: for solar, for weatherizing homes &c.

It's a shame our current advocacy & media landscape leaves little room for someone like me who supports a carbon tax but not cap & trade or direct subsidies. Here's to hoping http://votereports.org/, or something like it, gets us there.

Actually, I just emailed http://www.carbontax.org/, hopefully I can get them in the system in time for the election.
Banks are the problem, not the people that think they in fact can afford this stuff.

That makes as much sense as saying carmakers are responsible for auto accidents, not people who think they're better drivers than they are.
Poker is an education and entertainment product.

Entertainment, because professional players are allowing amateurs to pay to meet better players, and test their skills against them. There really aren't many other games where this is the case.

Education, because there are huge numbers of available lessons (in both hard and soft skills) for players who decide to think about the game deeply.

I don't see anything "empty" about it. But then again, I'm a winning poker player who ported lessons from poker into everything from business to my golf game. It's had such a positive impact on my life that I can't view it negatively.
What this implies is good though... The success of phone/handheld platforms is tied to successful titles by smaller independent game companies. The games/apps available are the switching cost.

Why switch platforms ever if you bought everything on iTunes or Android Store? The developers and content are a huge part of that.
Mongrel2 may be enjoying some popularity because Zed wrote it, but Zed isn't a celebrity for no reason. Mongrel was a pretty damn good idea. He's also written interesting articles on his design decisions to come this far, and explained himself quite thoroughly. I think a lot of the HN community is eager to see where this goes.

Nothing is a solved problem in this industry. Look at the way the web has changed in the last 5 years.
I think it's time to take a good hard look at what we use webservers for, and admit that Apache doesn't support a lot of common use cases very well.
"86% of all luxury vehicles are driven by people who are not millionaires."

is not the same thing as

"86% of the non-millionaires are apparently able to afford a luxury vehicle."
Link to the actual story, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1304575...
Not every place in the US has buses. I commute about 45 minutes each way and no public transit available.
I read the whole thing. The rest of it continues to say nothing about 3D TV.

It merely says that this is a conspiracy to sell us new TVs because otherwise the TVs we already have will not need to be replaced, because they do everything we need.

As I actively like 3D, when it's done well, I find that pretty silly. People who also like 3D will buy 3D TVs when they get cheap enough, those that don't won't. Making out that nobody actually likes 3D seems a tad silly.
What's the point of having it if you don't enjoy it? This article doesn't seem to do justice to those who:

- have enough savings on hand to cover a few months' living expenses
- have a sensibly invested pension plan
- spend their surplus cash on things they enjoy

I'm sure the book is simply using the popular, but arbitrary and out-dated 'millionaire' tag as a hook for sound financial advice. But if your goal in life is just to be a 'millionaire', you're missing the point.
Obviously the government does not 'become corrupt' because of the corporations, but for the most part the corporations are the people with the deepest pockets to lobby legislators/regulators. The more money there is to be made by being a stooge for a specific industry (or single corporation) the more likely there is that at least one legislator/regulator will become their champion.

I postulate that if there were less (or no) corporate lobbying of legislators/regulators, then there would be significantly less corruption. Blaming the corporations for corrupting the government, while naive, isn't that far from the mark.
My IdeaPad S10 uses a Broadcom BCM4312.
Can we also get HTTPS?
THANK YOU GUYS FOR ALL THE GREAT RESPONSES!

I will work hard to make TotalFinder the best Finder addon ever :-)
Seconded on both. I also enjoyed The Social Network.

On documentaries, I highly recommend Code Rush, a story of Netscape. It's actually in full here (scroll down to The Film): http://clickmovement.org/coderush
What's wrong with a roaming startup?
While data is nice, I see no info about "success" rates, how long the businesses lasted by founder sex, etc etc. This is just a couple polls on relationship status on starting a business, and reasons for starting.

"Not that different" mentally, once a business is founded, apparently.
Deconstruct Mona Lisa
Of course, but as the statement was said it was if there was no way of commuting without oneself being the driver.
It seems to me these days that it would be easier to run a website to keep track of employers that don't run credit checks on potential employees. Since I graduated spring of last year, the only potential employer that didn't check my credit score was Google. Granted, the rest of the employers were located in southwestern Ohio rather than CA, but it seemed to me like "standard practice" hoops you had to jump through if you didn't want to work at a restaurant or grocery store... :(
I think we'll need multiple processors thinking independently and reaching consensus before the gas pedal is pushed and letting any single processor hit the brakes (and disengage the gas, of course). Also good would be to allow other cars to request that a car stop, perhaps even communicating with the traffic control network to make it stop.

And of course, there will be the Android app the pedestrian can use as a last resort to avoid beng run over that stops any cars heading for the phone. :-)
If you're hearing that point for the first time today, then you've been paying very little attention to the discourse about the recession over the past couple of years.
A penny saved is a penny earned - ted turner
webcam mode is even better -->

http://frank.urugate.com/MyMural/MyMural.swf?mode=cam
http://www.pokertableratings.com/fulltilt-player-search/zugw...

http://www.pokertableratings.com/stars-player-search/Zugwat

http://www.pokertableratings.com/absolute-player-search/ZUGW...
True... today, it would have cost upwards of $150k.
Yeah, because all the software we build is so predictable that anyone can use it!
We are people, not programmed devices
http://ashitvora.info/post/622643260/dont-be-serious-be-sincere

Little bit off topic for Hackers but I felt, this is worth sharing with young hackers spending too much time in front of the computer.
I don't think anyone is saying it, but lots of people are adding projects on their resumes just because they were in the vicinity of team colleagues working on it.

Try being part of the interview process sometimes; you'll have lots of fun :)
domain squatting? at least do something with the urls...
The real title should be: "Theory without practice is overrated".

It's not even that. His assertion seems to be that practice outside of a sufficiently business-like environment doesn't count, because you won't be compelled to focus all of your time and energy on just those things that bring a positive change in rate of value production now. It's a dangerous game to play, but a desirable one moment-to-moment in an environment that severely dislikes disruptive ideas -- the thing that learning for something other than instant gratification is bound to cause.
In any case, the software also shows a visual indicator of when it detects that your heartbeat, and it graphs your heartbeat over time. It's obvious from feeling your pulse while using it that it's correct, at least in my case with my phone.
tl;dr: author wasn't offered a job after an interview and makes some generalizations to justify it.
I haven't seen the Python community complaining about the config methodology. It usually just seems to be the people who can't understand new things that complain about change. As someone who would be managing this in production, I welcome it.
I currently live in a neighborhood of mostly ~$1-million homes. Many of the residents are retired people who originally bought their houses in the 1960s for ~$50k. This probably explains why all the on-sale items at the supermarket get sold out right away, and why there's several thrift stores in town.

For what it's worth, my parents got here with dedicated saving: anywhere between $30k-$100k per year for the last two decades. Our investments have performed miserably, and we didn't own a home going into the housing bubble either. It can be done, but it's a lot of hard work.
Of course I have heard the contention that people are not able to buy things because their incomes are lower than they need to be. I'm saying that is a symptom, not a cause, of the current problems with our economy, and I have not seen it described credibly as a cause.
I just installed 10.10 on my netbook, and the user interface has been completely redone... again. I am happy that Canonical are working so much on UI, but I wish they would stick to a basic layout for a while and improve it until it is solid and all the details are right. It will never be just right if they keep throwing it all out every six months for something new. I am having some serious problems figuring out how to start applications and whether buttons open new windows or switch to current ones.

On the plus side, it hasn't broken anything major. Wireless just works.
Sure, as soon as they can make money doing it. AFAIK their income from sources other than AdWords is negligible in comparison to their AdWords income.
The person he's quoting tells the opposite: practice without theory won't get you far in any comp.sci heavy field, which is true, but doesn't have anything to do with being self-taught.
I don't mean to nitpick, but the sysadmins you're talking about are the bad sysadmins (or maybe just mediocre sysadmins). Any sysadmin worth his salt knows that when you automate something, you only have to do it once, and you remove any mistakes down the road. Once you have the script written and tested, you don't have to worry about typos ever again. If it weren't for automation, my job would be unbearable, but writing scripts to automate systems is the most fun I get to have in my day job.
Eliezer Yudkowsky answers 30 questions via video
I'm in the US. The closest bus stop to the college I work at is > 90 miles away and the closest train stop is 13 miles away but is unstaffed and not for local transit. Roads are the base transportation infrastructure in the US, so using that existing infrastructure is a good bet.
I think the fact that luxury goods have become attainable by non-millionaires says a lot more about the decrease in cost in luxury goods than the irresponsibility of non-millionaires.

The classification of these goods is also confusing. For example, I drive a Lexus IS250 AWD which would be considered a luxury vehicle but actually comes in at the same price point as Toyota 4Runner.

Additionally, the variance in prices between luxury and non-luxury goods is decreasing. A low-end Lexus now costs less than $10k more than a similarly equipped Subaru Outback or Honda Accord, making the difference when it comes to actual affordability pretty small.
Do people with net worths of $10m+ have similarly frugal lifestyles?
Or is this mainly a feature of people with net worths in the $1m-3m range?

My parents are with combined income of 7 figures now, 8 figure net worth and they live very frugally. My father drives 1997 Toyota. The wealth is mostly tied in investment and assorted properties. My mother mends socks instead of buying new ones.
Hasn't this been a bug for years? I think it has something to do with the core theming system making it difficult/impossible to do, so while it appears to be a minor bug it's actually a very deep problem.
But... why bother being a millionaire if you can just pretend?

The author of this article seems to assume that it's better to actually be a millionaire, even if it means living like the poor. I would think it's better to drive a luxury car (whatever that is) and drink expensive wine, even if you can't afford it, than the other way around.

It's "bad" to pretend, only if it doesn't end well: if you have to repay what you borrowed, and can't -- but if you die before you're bankrupt you win!

Now, none of this means much; it doesn't matter to live like a millionaire, or to be or not to be a millionaire, etc. What matters is peace of mind, happiness, fulfillment.

A subject for another article maybe? Although probably not in the "Color of Money" column.