skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The article points out an annual income of $172,000 as being rich, but by implication, these people still have to work for their money."

I think the real issue is that someone making 300,000 probably doesn't have much more disposable income than someone making 80,000. Whatever extra money they have is likely just going to a slightly nicer house, their IRA, dental insurance, a slightly better preschool for their kids, etc. In other words, if you're making 300,000 per year then you probably can't afford to fly to Hawaii for the weekend on a whim any more than someone making 80,000 can.
Relevant (has also been posted in the past to HN):
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/09/yes-phlboschisea...
But Linux caches files in memory anyway. I doubt this speeds anything up. Did they bother to benchmark this?
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Interesting - do you have a sample chapter you can make public?

(if there already is on the site you linked to, sorry for being obtuse).
I really like how easy and effective the A/B test creation looks from the demo video. I would definitely sign up if they had a permanent cheap 1000 visitor per month plan. I don't need a ten thousand visitor a month plan, and my startup can't afford a $49/month recurring fee. (Yet.)

Then again, if I really want A/B testing I should just code it myself. The advantage to using this system would be its ease of use.
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Ugh, another story provoked by the tragic shooting in Arizona. Worse yet, it implicitly links Beck to the shooter by its timing. It's clear now there is no link. Period.

The shooter's videos and writings cite everything from the Communist Manifesto to Mein Kempf. His friends describe him as a liberal. Most people are unaware Ms. Gifford is Jewish. Is that why this Nazi-influenced man killed her? Let's not draw lines connecting things that create a desired picture. If he was Arabic and owned a Koran, would we make the same leap that some would eagerly make if actually owned a book by Beck? What if he was a registered Republican (he registered independent and didn't vote in the recent election)? Stop it folks, please.

He was a nut case, plain and simple; no more and no less.

That being said, can we agree that violent rhetoric and imagery is a poor choice for anyone in politics? Does it really matter if it a map with cross hairs created by a PAC supporting Sarah Palin or a map of bullseyes created by the DNC? So Beck uses violent wordplay? Don't forget Obama, "They bring a knife, we bring a gun" and "hit back twice as hard" or even "punish your enemies." Just yesterday, Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa said about GOP Gov. Rick Scott: "They ought to put him against a wall and shoot him." We can find an equal number of bad examples from all parties, races and genders.

Maybe it's time for everyone to stop.

P.S. His most violent video rant has the song "Bodies" by Drowning Pool playing in the background. I would be remiss to point out what a horrible influence heavy metal music is on our youth today. That must be the real reason why he shot those people...
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seems to be a OSS OSX (wannabe) based on linux :),
If they do it right it could be cool.
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Oracle is dropping the ball here. They appear to only see value in the trademark, but not in the people. I predict the brand value to shift over to Jenkins fairly quickly.

Jenkins is a great name, by the way.
Hi Nathan,

Thanks for appreciating the video. I made it :) -- well, it is difficult for us to provide a cheap plan as economics of infrastructure and support doesn't justify it. If you are looking for some free A/B testing solutions/options, we have a great list here: http://www.wingify.com/conversion-blog/15-free-ab-split-test...
It's all about the tone. If you'd expressed concern that religious powers are holding us back in terms of scientific progress (stem cells, attempts at creationism in schools, etc), I think you'd have wide agreement. Instead, you said it in a more "reddit" mocking way, which rarely goes over well here.
I am Chinese and grew up in China. although I wasn't subjected to such parenting style growing up, I have many friends who were. now we are at the age when we are beginning to have kids. for what it's worth, all my friends swear that they'd never put their kids through what they went through. unanimously they hoped for a happier childhood for their children, "like those children in America", even if it means less career success and (Heaven forbid!) less virtuoso-ness with a Western instrument.

I suspect by the time their kids reach school age, some of that parental competitiveness would return, but so far the evidence is clear which way the pendulum is swinging.

I have a feeling that this article is just product of our time, in which the sole remaining superpower of America suddenly realizing China is hot on its heels -- a fear that I think it's largely blown out of proportion. As a reaction there arise all this interest in China, including our parental style. I remember reading Gladwell's book "Outlier" in which he attributed math abilities to Chinese ancestors growing rice and not wheat. seriously? Such farce is more telling of the changing balance of power than parenting styles having anything to do with said change.

On a similar note, we Chinese have been interested in how Americans raise kids for decades. the thinking goes, surely you guys must be doing something right to hold your position in the world for so long.
How exactly do you think cloud services could run with encrypted data?

Either the cloud service can decrypt your data (in which case the government can order them to decrypt it for the government), or the cloud service cannot, in which case the cloud service can't do anything useful with your data whatsoever.
It grieves me when someone texts me and says "do you want to do lunch?" and I text them back saying "sure, where and when?"... and then I end up having to pick the time and place, and usually the first three or so suggestions get knocked back.

I mean, if it was a woman, I would understand, but when a bloke does that to me I'm always thinking to myself "Dude, take off the lipstick and put on some trousers for goodness sake".

Texting should be a more efficient means of communication, but alas, is still imperfect. :D
There's this: https://github.com/jurisgalang/jquery-sexypost which is a fit for a more general use-case, but it allows you to attach to upload events and roll your own progress indicator.
Perhaps it is a new kind of SEO?
> Joseph Banks Rhine, a psychologist at Duke, had developed an interest in the possibility of extrasensory perception, or E.S.P. Rhine devised an experiment featuring (...) cards printed with one of five different symbols: a card was drawn from the deck and the subject was asked to guess the symbol. A [test subject] averaged nearly 50% during his initial sessions, and pulled off several uncanny streaks, such as guessing nine cards in a row. The odds of this happening by chance are about one in two million.

I think this is what happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn7-JZq0Yxs#t=1m24s (opening scene from Ghostbusters).

The point of "replicability" is to eliminate bias; but it assumes bias affects each person independently.

In fact, bias is also a cultural phenomenon and is subject to fashion. Some results are expected at a certain point in time; replicating an experiment with different experimenters ("scientists") at the same time doesn't eliminate the "fashion bias".

Repeating the experiment ten years later does.
It seems to me like they realize that Hudson would be a good asset for them in some way and since the code was so long ago open-sourced, they feel like their only move left to play is this (dubious) trademark of the name.

The other half is this is that it seems like they want to avoid any sort of bad PR over a pretty visible OSS project which was under their (inherited) hosting umbrella (java.net) moving to other hosting platforms because Oracle's platform is so unreliable or just flat-out not popular.
There seems to be a bunch of problems with them making a definitive statement about internet business based on this research.

First, the Nielson list doesn't include data from two of the G8: Japan and Canada. It also doesn't include China, but we could guess (perhaps wrongly) that there's not serious money being made by internet companies there yet.

The list also only includes websites, which does not correlate to "internet businesses" (They freely admit this problem in relation to B2B, but what about something like Blizzard?).

The restriction to the stock market is necessary for the reason they give, but massively narrows their sample based on an awkward criteria (Facebook isn't listed and is making $100 million or something)

21 companies does not have much statistical significance against seven criteria. I think (I'm not in stats) you'd need more like 600, and then I'm pretty sure you don't start with a list and see if they fit (if you start with a larger potentially overlapping set of business models then you could run a series of algorithmic tests to see which subset provided the best fit).

Their list looks somewhat generic, although even at a pinch it looks incomplete. What about selling real goods on subscription? This model has been viable enough offline, and in a way that should translate to online (eg magazine subscription, regular home care product delivery) but it doesn't fit into any of their models.
I believe he's referring to the fact that every SVG element becomes part of the DOM and can be manipulated accordingly; including event handlers.

In Canvas it’s not possible to manipulate existing shapes or attach event handlers.
Hours?

sudo apt-get install midori

Download and install the elementaryIcons theme from gnome-look, deviantart or [launchpad](https://launchpad.net/elementaryicons)

(put them in /usr/share/icons)

Download and install [eGTK](https://launchpad.net/egtk)

Download and install docky

sudo apt-get install docky

Took about ten minutes. And you've just saved yourself $10.

Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/4cVN4.jpg

Edit: Dexter's available on a PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lallenlowe/dexter-ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dexter

Postler's a little more difficult to get

sudo apt-get install bzr
bzr branch lp:postler (make sure you're logged in to lp)
sudo apt-get install valac libunique-dev libunique-1.0-0 libwebkit-dev libwebkit-1.0-2 libnotify-dev libindicate-dev libdb4.7-dev msmtp (in my case, you may need build-essentials, python et al)
./waf configure
./waf
sudo ./waf install

Postler doesn't have a gnome menu icon but it does run if you Alt+F2 and run postler.

Edit 2: Postler seems to be non-functioning.

Latest and greatest screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/awG2V.jpg

Enjoy.
Oh wow, I was wondering why there were no prices in their "prices" page. Talk about situational blindness, I was about to reply that there were no prices there when I saw them. I think they should make them stand out more, it's probably because I was ignoring the dimensions as well (inches mean nothing to me) :/
I don't have one typical visit. Of an evening if I have gotten a lot done, I might spend an hour looking at articles and links (Not every night.) Over lunch, maybe 5 - 25 minutes, depending on if is stuff there I am interested in. I would say 0 - 3 times a day, I find myself waiting in line or on hold or something and check for anywhere from 30 seconds to 10 minutes on my phone.
It's not really the real anatomy of a Wordpress theme until you've included the spending 90% of your time fixing the thing to work properly in IE, although to be fair that seems to be quite a large part of web design in general.
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Did I miss the 'how to' part of this article? All of the points address the 'why to' question.
>She saw that she was working so hard and moving so fast, that even if she was delivering quality results, she was working against herself, putting her job at risk, and making things harder for everyone.

Maybe she just needs to start her own company?
I don't really see how this is "Interesting" - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's the same old dull write up about users who don't know better giving out all their private details on social networking sites. This isn't anything new, it's been happening for ages and their are constant warnings and articles like this.
I guess the devil is in the details. Who is allowed to be an identity provider. How much information do you have to give to the Attribute Provider before this system is usable to you? Is there tracking? Who, besides hospitals, will require this? Who will be able to get these ID's? US citizens obviously, but what about green card holders? H1B's? Visitors? What if the woman in the example lives in the UK and her husband happened to be in the US when he was admitted to the hospital? Is there a fallback to this system? Can you host my own identity provider in some fashion?
This is just a tangent, but I wonder whether Robert Gibbs really quit at least partly because his salary was too low. (That’s what Obama’s remark about his departure seems to suggest.)

I don’t think you become Press Secretary of the White House because of the salary, you become Press Secretary because you are passionate about it. (For all you cynics out there: replace “passionate about it” with “power hungry”.)

You certainly don’t have to feel ashamed or poor at cocktail parties if you are the Press Secretary of the White House, I would much rather suspect that you don’t actually have time to go to any cocktail parties and that that could be the much larger problem.

Press Secretary is not a job you have forever (eight years seem like the natural maximum) and I’m certain that you have great chances of landing a highly paid job after that.
Couldn't agree more. While Silicon Valley still has the upper hand on available talent, capital etc. there is steep competition for all of it.
The amount of money I have left over at the end of the month makes a much bigger difference in whether I feel rich than the number on my paycheck. But, we're trained and encouraged by our culture to spend up to and beyond our means no matter what our income. Even the "responsible" rules of thumb like buying a house for 3x annual income or having debt payments of 40% of income encourage us to increase our expenses as our incomes increase.

It's easy to see why somebody making $200,000 wouldn't feel rich if they own a $600,000 house. Their mortgage costs almost $50,000/year! Design your life to maximize the money in your pocket and you'll feel much richer.
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If that happens, you call the cops

Just because one child did it, doesn't mean all children can. Heck, even adults can't sometimes. Haven't you ever heard of Stockholm syndrome? Or battered wife syndrome? Going up against someone who has power over you is hard.
Perhaps better called "the multidisciplinary curse."
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Yes, there's more angel money these days but the investors outside tech hubs are naieve. They have to be educated, they have a long tedious investment cycle, the friction is just enormous.
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I definitely noticed this in grad school. For a few years, I had a $30k fellowship, when the normal stipend, which all my friends made (and which I made the other years) was around $20k. I felt like I had more money than I could reasonably spend, saved about $5k of the excess, and splurged about $5k on what seemed to me to be luxury items, like fancy beer and trips. From my perspective I was, if not wealthy, at least well-off. Supposedly $30k is on the lower end of lower-middle-class, but it didn't feel like it. (Granted, it also helps that I don't have kids.)
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That sums it up nicely. Essentially people in the 90th percentile who aren't truly rich (ie they are on the wrong side of that curve in the article) usually have a much higher standard of living they simply don't appreciate.

For one example I moved to an apartment not infested with mice and roaches and it's cost me an extra $2,000 a year in rent. And honestly the roach place was overpriced and my current apt is a pretty good deal.

Basically, someone in the 90th percentile but not feeling rich is probably living somplace nice, buying a lot more reasonably-nice clothes (and bicycle and ski gear maybe), brand-name groceries (Whole Foods, etc.), newer cars, an entertainment center, college and retirement savings, etc. No individual item seems like a massive luxury, like a Yacht or a mansion or luxury penthouse; and you can't invest a million in startups just for the fun of it; but across the board it all adds up.
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In Russia ISPs are legally required to block access to "extremist" materials from the publicly available list (in Russian: http://www.minjust.ru/ru/activity/nko/fedspisok/, most of entries are leaflets or books, but grep for "http" or "www"). The list is known to contain some technically-impossible-to-block entries so most ISPs probably resort to domain-level blocking by filtering DNS entries or filtering access by IP address. Some sort of gray area here.

When ISP reach certain size, they also must set up a special device to allow Federal Security Service to sniff the network traffic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM#SORM-2) for law enforcement purposes. I've never seen such hardware, but contrary to anecdotal evidence, it's just a specialized passive packet sniffer, connected to mirrored port.

Also, ISPs are required to keep access logs, and give them out on legal requests, but this is probably common virtually everywhere.

Officially, that's all (unless I forgot something, but hopefully I didn't). I don't know whenever the level of "unofficial cooperation" were ever estimated, but I suspect it to be fairly average, compared to the rest of the world.
I'm surprised to see this article cite sync as a major problem. I find iCal's CalDAV support to work very well, and if you're competent enough to use Emacs then you should also be able to set up your own install of Darwin Calendar Server (or just use Google Calendar) to sync against.
I've been watching Elementary for a while and have to say that some of the things they are doing are great.

DanRabbit is a talented designer and I do like his style. The apps they have created (Midori, Dexter, Nautilus-elementary among the most popular) are generally clean, fast and lean. I like that.

However, elementary is a bit all over the place right now. I think they are trying to figure out what they are and who they are. I would like to see them be a bit more focused and present themselves more coherently.

My current understanding about what they are trying to do is this: Make an Ubuntu based distro (think Mint) that is highly themed, customized and styled to make a very stylish and hip Ubuntu/Linux distro.

That being said, not sure that is what they are going for b/ c I think their message has changed a bit over time. Not sure if anyone from Elementary project is a HN reader to comment.
or:

make $100k, spend $85k = happiness

make $100k, spend $101k = misery
The chance that the author's idea might interest other fellow members, as it did for me.

Feel free to ignore it if it doesn't capture your interest.
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Catchy title? Check.
Appropiate topic? Check.
Interesting story? Check.
Sympathetic people? Check.
Real world problems? Check.
Common sense approach? Check.
Actionable advice? Check.

They why do I hate this post so much?

Because it's so 1990s.

Waiting until the end of the day to evaluate it is way too late. What once took days now takes hours, even minutes. You need to be doing the recommendations in this post all day long, dymamically, as you go. If you're looking back, you already lost.

Then what should you actually be doing with the last 5 minutes of your 2011 day?

Make a "list" of the #1 thing that you must complete tomorrow.

This one little item will probably have more impact on tomorrow's success that anything you could possibly do about today's.
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It's not that simple. It's more like

Make $100K, meet basic expectations for standard of living with $20K to spare = feel comfortably well-off

Make $100K, do not meet basic standard of living expectations = feels poor.

Have enough money to blow a few million investing in startups just for the learning experience = rich.

The catch is that living near people making more is likely to raise your standard of living expectations (but does not have to). Also, the cost of a particular standard of living is determined (roughly) by the market rather than its worth to you. For example living in Cambridge, MA costs more than living in Hudson, MA, whether you actually value that or not.
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I'm doing this now without realizing it. I started last September and I haven't missed a day since. I write a short entry everyday in a "journal" detailing what happened in my day, how I felt, what I did, where I went, etc. It's quite nice reading entries from a few months ago.

I can't wait to read old entries a year from now.
From what I understand(which isn't much because I haven't learned Ada beyond hello world.) It is more or less java before there was a Java, all memory access, array indexes, etc. are checked at run time. Strong type system, no implicit casts. The language was designed to be amiable to automated verification. You can see this in the way close tags are done. There is no generic end of block. There is end if, end loop, end function name. This way the compiler can narrow down exactly where the missing end block is in your code.
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That's a lot like how abuse works: cut off from any social reality outside the abuser's, you come to think you deserve it; being abused becomes normal.

Reading that WSJ article made me angry, because it's obvious that's what she's trying to do. She wants something from her daughter (probably doesn't even herself know what), is abusing her until she gets it, and cutting her daughter off from any outside support so she'll put up with it.

She said that she gives praise and affection only as a reward for getting good grades. Of course that works; the motivation to do anything to get love from your parents is incredible.
Excellent article. Thank you for sharing.
You can start a tech company anywwhere outside Silicon Valley. The problem is its harder to scale a fast growing company.
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What does it feel like to be rich?
It's a theme. See my comment further down to see how to get it up on your Ubuntu.
I would hardly say there are only seven.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/07/10-business-models-that-roc...
Yes! Let's all live in fear of criminals and professional failure, constantly self-regulating our activities in order to avoid temporary loss.

Do people really have no concept of cost-benefit analysis?
Irresistible, and instantly forgettable. That's how we keep clicking on these articles, and how they keep getting written.
Indeed; this website is apparently designed for people who already know what it is, and the two links (Donate and Pre-Order) are bizarre. Why donate to a commercial project? Why pre-order an open source project?
I'd love to know what the success and failure percentages are for Silicon Valley startups. I'm sure there are overall higher successes in raw numbers, but in per-VC dollar invested, or per-developer capita, I'm skeptical.

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like most of the startups I hear about these days are just CRUD apps aimed at some social niche. Those can be built anywhere, and don't require rockstar programmers.