skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
;not advise

Don't focus on a number but focus on giving yourself some room to breathe. Slowly build a habit of saving money by snowballing money into a savings account to start. Don't measure your worth by money.

I didn't consider saving until I bought the engagement ring (which left me at a bank balance close to 0 and it wasn't the first time). I was 27 years old.

I started setting aside some money as a cash reserve (bucket #1) and I made sure there was enough money to:

- get me through two months on rent (3,000 GBP)
- feed myself for two months (400 GBP)
- buy one flight ticket home (to parents basement)(700 GBP)

Once bucket #1 was full, I started tossing money into bucket #2 which was disposable income stashed in a decent interest paying savings account. This was for rainy days and the future.

By the time I was 29, I had about 10,000 GBP in savings between the two buckets. A good portion of it was spent on our wedding and honeymoon (from #2). By 30 I had 15,000 GBP in savings. Most of that was spent when I moved to Tokyo (damn moving costs). I had $1,000 USD left; it was a fresh start.

I'm 32 now and I have about one year worth of living expenses in savings and then some. I make monthly contributions towards a pension, life-insurance, and a retirement fund (bonds).
This may be taking it to an absurd exaggeration but the very cynical part of me thinks step 1 and 2 could well be phrased:

Step 1: Launch company to take advantage of the countless hours of free labour provided by the open source community around your project, hoping to get rich in an IPO.

Step 2: Be shocked when Amazon also takes advantage of the countless hours of free labour provided by the open source community around your project to get rich, only they also throw a bunch of expensive developer time at it to make it really shine.
> Why isn't there someone disrupting software development paying experienced people like me a low salary for 20-30 hours a week? I'd still get over half as much done as I do working 50 hours a week, I'm sure.

I've seen many, many developers working 30 hours a week. It's generally not acknowledged openly or written into the contract, but it takes the form of coming in late in the morning, "working from home" at least one day a week. Or leaving work early "to beat traffic", pick up the kids etc.

The key in my experience is finding a manager who is willing to evaluate you on your performance rather than time spent at your desk, and to be a little flexible about accepting a job that doesn't pay top dollar. An experienced engineer should be able to get more done in 20-30 hours anyway than a junior engineer can in 50 hours. As long as you're reasonably productive and you don't cause trouble for anyone, I have seen people sustain jobs like that for more than a decade.
https://investor.vanguard.com/small-business-retirement-plan...

It is limited to business owners.
Cookie description data is crawled from https://cookiepedia.co.uk/

And I put it into CQL Database for easier usage.
Mazebattles.com: Race to Solve Generated Mazes (Node.JS)
Ted Selker at IBM Almaden Research had an amazingly successful streak of getting useful innovations from the lab to the market with the ThinkPad, including the TrackPoint (the red joy button), the butterfly keyboard, and the transparent LCD display with removable back cover that works with an overhead projector (at a time when overhead projectors were much more common that expensive video projectors).

IBM Pointing Stick #1 - 10_25_91:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6guBllqPPY&feature=youtu.be...

(Not Edwin Selker!)

Ted Selker Oral History:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpw7Bml_XvI

>He worked for short times at Atari and Xerox PARC before joining IBM in 1985. At IBM, first at T.J. Watson Labs, then at Almaden research labs, he rose to Fellow, inventing the TrackPoint cursor control device, making major contributions to the ThinkPad notebook computer, designing artificial-intelligence help and teaching systems, designing wearable computing devices, researching eye tracking systems, and designing an intelligent "living room of the future".

(Check out his red TrackPoint lapel pin!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ThinkPad_760

>IBM ThinkPad 760CDV - Similar to the 760CD, this unique model had a removable back cover on the LCD that would permit light to shine through for use on an overhead projector.

IBM ThinkPad 701c "butterfly" keyboard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLj3aCfqzOM

Opening and closing IBM ThinkPad 701c with unique keyboard folding mechanism.

ThinkPad TrackPoints - how do they work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3A7LDyizlc

Early TrackPoint prototypes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Ss6F1qIHU
Because they're wasting money that would be better allocated to companies with better leadership.

Pre-Musk, they had a decent model. Sell luxury EVs. Now, they can't make a profit and still call themselves a startup after 16 years. Meanwhile, Musk keeps promising more and delivering less.
In-house is the key. The Mexican markets around here sell lard in containers on the shelf, but it's all hydrogenated. And there's just no comparison.

I used to be able to get pork fat for next to nothing at local grocery store butcher sections, and would render it myself. Now no one has it. Not sure why.
The Best Way to Avoid Data Leaks and Privacy Scandals: Don't Own Consumer Data
The Reasons Most Machine Learning Funds Fail
That must be a touching story, I’m sure.
I think there’s some truth on both sides. The cookie warnings are definitely annoying.
Direct link to extension discussed in the article:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simplify-gmail/pbm...
McAfee seems to know /s

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-23/john-mcaf...
My Ted talk: how I took on the tech Titans
I’m a company of one and I care about quality. I’ve shipped native apps for Mac, iOS and Android.

About a year ago I began work on Label LIVE, an Electron app to interface with thermal label printers. It’s not perfect but it fills a niche. It wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for Electron. Check out the video or download and give it a try. http://label.live
> I used to work at a government lab.

Most JASON scientists haven't worked at a government lab for decades. How is this relevant?

> ...I've never heard a contractor...

These aren't contractors, they are scientists. And not just any scientists. In most cases, they aren't even the scientists employed by a national lab. They're scientists employed by all manner of institutions, including universities who will pay their paychecks regardless of whether this funding comes in. Usually senior and well-respected.

Many of those scientists have, if not "fuck you money", at least "fuck you reputations" that translate into "fuck you money". E.g., the current chairperson is fucking Russell Hemley... he's not putting up with federal background checks because he needs the extra pennies...

JASON members work on JASON projects because they think those projects are important. Nobel laureates and other top scientists don't work on grant funded projects for the money... if all they cared about was feeding their families, they would just retire. And if all they cared about was money, they would pimp their reputations to private industry labs.
It's funny people complain about regulation until they get screwed over.
I'd have to say only partially to both questions. Cloud agnosticism is important enough to us that we're able to deploy the most critical bits of our infrastructure on prem, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and OpenStack. We operate all of the above but some resources have a bit of a lock-in problem for now. Total yearly infrastructure costs in the 10s of millions, US.

If there's any takeaways that I have from this journey it's that Azure's platform is simply not competitive and is likely to continue to not be.
Bitfinex responds to New York AG's accusations, claims all funds are safe
Hey, check this out!
I made a really cool map of all UFO sightings across the world for a hackathon at my school.(3 months ago) This news reminded me of it. Looking at the map, it makes sense that the US Navy is worried. :) Data was scraped from National UFO Reporting Center.

The map is available at:
https://fusiontables.google.com/data?docid=15hfFOU0UAwfx7U95...
People always point this out. The astute ones point out the other half of this - the power to tax is based on the military's ability to compel payment.

One other way to look at this is physical security being a service - a fundamental one - being procured by your tax dollars. This is actually mentioned explicitly in the first sentence of the U.S. Constitution: "We the people...to insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense...do ordain and establish this Constitution." By being a citizen of the United States and complying with its tax laws, you enlist the full force of the U.S. military in securing your rights.

You could easily imagine someone offering to provide military services for Bitcoin. Depending on how they wield these military services, this could range from welcome to highly inadvisable; if it turns out they are in opposition to the interests of more powerful militaries (i.e. the U.S, or other major nations), they could quickly find out just how powerful the U.S. military is.
Dark-matter detector observes exotic nuclear decay
New Debian leader says decision-making an area that could be improved
Good article, but please change the URL to the real one instead of a Pocket redirect
None of which you have listed can be proven by blockchain as it has proofs for today. All would rely on external sources of truth which entirely live outside the verification of the blockchain. The blockchain in these cases would be an immutable chain of unverified facts.
This is pretty cool, but it always kind of irked me that they could still claim it's '2-day shipping' even if they don't actually ship the package out for multiple days after you order it.
It's an article about a collection of photography by an artist, not a photojournalist. Given that, this format seems typical. I would also love to hear more though.
But HODLers don't really care about tether, do they? Isn't tether mainly used for traders who want to temporarily move out of crypto and use tether for that?
Bad news is that so many exchanges use it as it is such a useful instrument for users who wish to get out of crypto temporarily when their exchanges don't support fiat trading.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/#markets

People will use it until it gets burnt and crashed.
Titan: A RocksDB Plugin to Reduce Write Amplification
>Hand the same input to the same mind and you'll get a different output every single time, unless the mind willed itself to act rationally.

Are you sure? Remember that memory also counts as an input if it's used in a computation; it seems to me that this applies to both humans and computers.

For a harrowing account of what a mind may do when exposed to very nearly the same inputs, you may be interested in one segment from this Radiolab episode: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/radiolab-loops

It describes a patient with transient global amnesia who has a looping conversation with her daughter. (There's a link to a video of the conversation on that page as well.) Under normal circumstances this wouldn't happen, as once you've had a conversation you also have memories of having that conversation. But if you're unable to form memories...
You only need to keep "crash /recovery" money around, which is a risk because you don't know how long that is. 5? 10?

But you also don't know how long you'll live for, so to have your money doing nothing for 20/(30?!) years could hurt. My wife's grandmother is 99. That's a long time in low-growth near-cash.
Ask HN: Was there a time when you realized you “got better” at programming?
Map of UFO Sightings Across the World
https://fusiontables.google.com/data?docid=15hfFOU0UAwfx7U95YqfY1IZeaxhCEXLg0FJZ5-bx#map:id=3

I made this really cool map that showed all UFO sightings across the world. National UFO Reporting Center has a huge database of UFO Sightings. It makes sense that the US Navy is scared. Data was scraped with python and was geomapped with Google Fusion Tables. I made this 3 months ago so it might not have the latest sightings.
WHY: Just to prove, we are not alone !!!
Very glad to see this article, packed with good advice.

Financial education is so important, yet so seldom presented. It literally can make a HUGE difference in quality of life. Everyone should at least understand the basic blueprint of how to care for your own financial future.

For those who haven't seen it yet, a great next step is to visit Bogleheads.org. A great community of knowledgeable savers, including many who never earned a great salary but still have managed to assure their own future. If you haven't seen it, check it out!
Use sassc and call it from your makefile.
Yes and Yes. Interviewing.io was great for kicking some rust of the ol' interviewing tires and also led to an offer that I accepted.

I have a longer reply to a different HN thread with more detail about my experiences here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11679844
> "The New York Attorney General’s court filings were written in bad faith and are riddled with false assertions, including as to a purported $850 million “loss” at Crypto Capital. On the contrary, we have been informed that these Crypto Capital amounts are not lost but have been, in fact, seized and safeguarded. We are and have been actively working to exercise our rights and remedies and get those funds released. Sadly, the New York Attorney General’s office seems to be intent on undermining those efforts to the detriment of our customers."
https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/356
> This is just one example of a changing culture that is perfectly happy allowing companies to deny access to a subset of customers based on political ideology and personal vendettas.

You're reading a lot into this ban of one guy...

> It's pretty well-known that they regularly ban more right-leaning/conservative users and allow horrible users to continue to have accounts, because they don't want to upset the left-leaning mobs.

[citation needed]
Did you take it to Apple Store? This looks like a very specific issue. Do you have any reason to believe that this is widespread?
The usual blog when it comes to Bitfinex.

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed
Learn Asset Allocation. (That's the way to make an appropriate risk-level for your own situation.)

You will need market returns. You will also desire some measure of safety. AA gives you those.
1980s 8-Bit 3D Adventures with Freescape
Alex Jones too...
The majority of this blog is just conspiracy-p0rn.

Anyway, if you are really interested in actual related news and facts just follow https://www.theblockcrypto.com or similar.
Bitfinex has been playing cat and mouse with banking for years. Even before Wells Fargo blocked their wires, they were in a nefarious banking situation. Bitfinex never wanted to take it slow and get themselves legal in the eyes of the US.

This approach would work if they were much smaller. If they just had $100M under management or something, they'd probably be able to operate in their sketchy way. They'd need somewhere safe to keep $50-60M, then they could take a diversified risk with third party processors to move money to clients.

But Bitfinex is just massive. They have billions under management. It's just not possible to hide these amounts of money when you are banned from the banking system. So yes, they should have shut down when Wells Fargo put the nail in the coffin. But like I said, by this point Bitfinex was already accustomed to opening new companies, new banks, hiding money and obfuscating its nature.

For them it probably wasn't even considered. They just kept trying to move huge amounts of money around, but from what I understand, there have been multiple instances where their money has been frozen, seized, or outright stolen by third parties.
Cutting your own hair sounds like such a minor sacrifice if it means you can work whatever job you want to after 30 and retire at 40.

I've found that I'm actually happier when I am more frugal. Spending money on things, more often than not, just makes us lazier, not happier, in my experience.
In a commencement speech, Jeff Hoefer goes a little bit into why he left the team four years ago and how he's changed his job each year since:

https://youtu.be/a7cJHTpW4Tg (jump to 49:00 or so for the more relevant bits)

Note also that he had a quarter century of experience before Apple, having worked on anything from the (RotJ?) Darth Vader helmet to the Oral B CrossAction, which is, a bit surprisingly, the product he thinks defines his career.
For that matter, what privileges "other countries' aerospace R&D assets being used in an intelligence-gathering capacity" (when those R&D assets at the very least bend what is possible in aviation) or "aliens" or "von neumann probes" or whatever over "inexplicable information is being released in a targeted fashion by some party intent on distracting the public from ongoing news events?"
Measles Concerns: 200 students and staff at L.A. universities are quarantined
It's funny, I was thinking that Inbox did this nicely, and of course he did that too.
10% is what many call a 'tithe'. It's considered 'normal' for them.

(Many of the same also manage to retire quite handsomely. It's all about living within means.)
Lucky you. I have toddler twins, and one has learned to ignore all commands. what’s tricky was at some point he thought his name meant ‘other’ while he thought his name was his brother’s, or at least that his brother’s name meant ‘me’. Worse, it’s easy to accidently say the wrong name. Together you get all kinds of goofy conditioning.
Ideas for marketing a new children's toy on a tiny budget?
> Nice way to appear to be even handed while minimizing responsibility

You're free to nitpick my choice of words and assume bad faith/intentions on my part. Doesn't bother me. We don't know each other.

But to your point, sure let's replace the word "stumbled" with "fucked up" or whatever else you'd prefer. I don't think my larger point really changes all that much.
I'll admit to being critical of the effort at the time, wanting focus to be on the browser. Ahead of it's time maybe. In 2019 making PWA's first class citizen doesn't seem so crazy, and might allow it to get to a viable ecosystem.
I was under the impression that Industrial Design, as a discipline, is primarily concerned with the aesthetics of the end product, although my interactions with others about this leads me to believe this might be an American interpretation or a newer distillation of the concept.
Forgetting about the Minonian and Cycladic civilizations? Greek mainland didn't develop until later, naturally, but it started in the thousands of little islands, the Aegean archipelago, and the big one, Crete. The Minonians had established trade routes with the Egyptians during the 5th dynasty, IIRC. DNA evidence revealed they were there as early as 9000 B.C., with cultural influence between the Minonians and Egyptians going both ways.
> And it would be pretty ironic if it the coins moved and price of bitcoin crashed and actually became a peer to peer electronic currency for the masses.

The price of Bitcoin isn't what is preventing it from becoming a bonafide peer to peer electronic currency. Scalability and UX issues are.
You will be surprised how little user contributions most open source projects receive. I have a few friends who are maintainers of key projects in the Python OSS ecosystem, most of them are struggling with burnout.
Is it really the case that calling a method in Java is the equivalent of passing a message under the hood? (I don't know how the VM is structured)
> with guns

Umm, yes?
Researchers transmit data via semiconductor laser, opening door 2 terahertz WiFi
Good skills
> What I find most sad is that most of the people on HN will rail against how evil Google is (or any other company) yet happily use their Open Source code and not complain that they're benefiting from what they claim to despise.

"We had horrible gravel roads and the dictator came and built good roads we use even today".
Is my late-grandparents argument as to why dictatorship is by far the best way to rule a country. And I 'd happily drive on those roads to tell them they are dead wrong.
This article has more content, including photos.

https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/40877/1...
What laws have they broken? Without laws to break there isn't much justification for punishment.
As long as they don’t try to replicate their Apple-specific tactics.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marketshare/2013/04/09/ron-john...
What do you mean by "Facebook's techbros?" Can you elaborate? Are you under the assumption that only men work at Facebook?
We don’t do this, that and the other thing because they are easy, we do it because they are hard.

The tedium is part of the difficulty. Making it easier is not inspirational. Although buildings the tooling to do so would itself be quite the challenge ...
Ask HN: How do you balance learning a new skill/toolset and implementing it?
I’m a self-taught Junior developer at my company. My manager has been moving me from project to project every 2-3 months, each of which encompasses a new domain.

For example, I just moved from refactoring and extending a JavaScript graphics processing library to writing a Python program that interfaces with USB and WiFi-enabled IoT devices.

I’m excited to learn new technologies, but I find myself spending quite a lot of time (4-5 hours per day for the first week, ~2 hours per day thereafter) trying to learn the new language, toolset, best practices, etc. I wouldn’t call myself a perfectionist, but I hate the feeing of looking back on my code and seeing problems that I should/could have caught, if I had known a little bit more.

So I find myself plunging deep into, say, TCP/IP network administration when I really don’t need to know everything about networking to deliver my work.

When your job requires you to learn something new, how do you determine “yes, that’s enough for me to get the job done”?
First laser radio paves the way for ultra-fast WiFi
Debate: Is Sci-Hub Good or Bad for Scholarly Communication?
They didn't believe in "life after death" like Christians do. After death, your soul got rigorously tested. And if it passed the tests, you got to the afterlife. It was actually a lot more complicated, in that they thought that there seven souls, but whatever.

Bottom line, though, was that survival in the afterlife depended on the integrity of your mummy. They removed the brain and internal organs because mummification didn't work, otherwise.
But the context is visual observation, where there's no way to tell the difference between the two.
Tether is currently being traded around 99 cents. The market, so far, has assigned a 1% devaluation, despite this report showing that they basically lost $850M. From what I can see on Coinmarketcap, there is $2.83 Billion Tether in circulation.

So it would appear Tether has lost at least 30% of its assets (cash converted to Crypto Capital debt, which = toilet paper). I am shocked that people aren't taking this more seriously.