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This is very true.

My last two tax filings showed I [edit: grossed] less than $15,000 for the past 2 years, yet I generally have more discretionary income now than the years when I was making ~$50,000/yr. I also have a wife and two kids.

I have no debt of any kind (house and car owned outright), am quite frugal, have two monthly bills (phone/internet and power), and three yearly bills (property tax, car registration, and auto insurance). Telecommuting from a rural area helps, as does raising some of our own food.

Sure, we don't live like kings, but my kids always have both parents around and we live a good, simple life. I'm not rich, but I feel quite wealthy in terms of quality of life.
Ask HN: How long did it take you to reach the $100k/yr milestone?
So, it's fairly obvious many people here are making 6 figures, but how long did it take you to get there? Where you in your 20's, 30's, etc, when you starting making that much?

People here make it look easy, but as a recent grad it certainly seems like it could take a long time to get there.
Challenge HN: Can we please solve the 'voting online' problem?
After reading the recent report from Mary Meeker (http://tcrn.ch/gowSqd), I am more convinced than ever that we need to change the demographics of our career based elected officials. Our politicians need to run their country as a startup, lean, failing fast and agile. During lunch, I saw that more than 70% of Americans on a CNN poll, cared more about medicare and social security than reducing the deficit. Can we please figure out a way to securely vote online? If we can do our taxes online, why can we not vote? This is the only way to change the landscape of elected officials and promote voting from the younger generations.
Sure you can compare it to a Wiki/CMS in some way. Importantly Substance is a Semantic Editor, that means you're editing Content, not the visual representation. Documents are expressed as data (as far as possible).
This post is a good example of a phenomenon I keep seeing when it comes to how people view incomes- People pay much more attention to their own circle and to those making more money than them, so they get a skewed outlook on what is 'normal' and 'average'.

That's why everyone in America thinks they are 'middle class', whether they make 30k or 500k.

Lawyers and i-bankers are a different story, but you won't find any statistic to back up your claim that pedestrian engineers who just show up regularly make 100k+.
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Why-Oh-Why-Oh-Why-Oh? ;)

... I would happily move back (I have a Cleveland birth cert and I lived in Cinci for a while). Sorry to be a flip coastal snob ...
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I am disheartened by my lone attitude in this but I really love this idea. This a awesome way to think about developing software or really any product. This is an amazing mindset to have. How will my product, service, or software make my consumer more of a bad ass? I love it
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That'll make you a millionare!

For 100K you can ignore steps 3 & 4, and you'll still have more work than you can deal with.
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I didn't say that it was based off of the spam tool. But going on Google clearly had targets. It's not like they couldn't figure out what farmers were without the tool.
An interesting dev release. I can see a lot of potential for this product.

Specifically I would love lawyers to start using products like this for collaborative editing of contracts (which are very tightly structured anyway). Of course there would need to be some revision history with diffs, but I'm sure that will be added to this project in time.

I don't really like the global JS functions in the server code though.
I'm sorry, but no one seems to notice and explain this stupid thing: on all of the Xoom photos I've seen, it's turned horizontally. Does that mean that Android desktop wouldn't turn when I turn the tablet 90 degrees?
If you said planning fallacy, more people might understand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy
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Not to nitpick, but...

If you take the top several dozen or so most-blocked domains from the Chrome
extension, then this algorithmic change addresses 84% of them, which is
strong independent confirmation of the user benefits.

Well, what if they are mistakenly penalizing Common Jack's blog because it gets re-posted across the interwebs? I bet no one is manually blocking Common Jack's blog, so that factor is lost.

Example: let's say Google just randomly penalizes 84% of ALL domains. Chances are that they intersect with, you guessed it, 84% of the Chrome extension's data. Independent confirmation!
Until Bing starts getting "signals" from what users are clicking on Google reflecting Google's algorithmic changes...
There's a point of diminishing returns to increased income, and it's personal. I have a family, yet I took a job paying less than the previous job because it was enough money and I really wanted to work there. Later, when my wife was unhappy at her lucrative job I encouraged her to switch to a lower paying position at a different company where she wouldn't be so stressed. We still make enough money, and our children are happier since we are happier.

The "don't care about money" thing isn't really true; you must care about money to some degree. But there are people who would rather do things that make them happy than always go for the biggest paycheck.
One of Mahalo's "pride and joy" results was "How to Play Guitar". They were #2 for a while, now they're 5-6.
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I'm reluctant to participate in this because it just encourages people to compare their incomes with everyone around them. That way lies madness. Work on projects that you find interesting and other people find useful, and the money will come.

Besides, lots of people here are doing startups, where you take an immediate monetary hit in exchange for a possible big windfall later. You're not going to be making 6 figures as a startup founder, but you might end up with an 8-figure payoff later.
Ha, that's me asking those questions!

Yeah, I was honestly really surprised as well that Apple is doing an outreach, it definitely makes me extremely happy to see that Apple may finally be getting it concerning security!
Sorry, I did mean Symfony (the Framework), not the CMS.
I had a Vaio VGN-Z70B. You can somehow run linux on it but its a pure pain. On another note, I strongly suggest against Sony. Some things I experienced:

- Severe quality problems (broken cdrom plastic part on the side, white pixels screen, discoloring and wearout of plastic)

- Broke down completely once in the guarantee time, exchanged it freely but with penalty ( I had to get my data of the disk, but guess what, you can't access the disk easily you have to take apart the whole laptop for that. Putting it together was no problem, but they noticed you did that and thus let you pay penalty.)

- Broke down now again, probably again something with the power supply. No guarantee this time.

Don't buy Sony.
Also, in 1998 if you had a budget of a few million you didn't need to think about commodity hardware, so you called sun and blew some cash. Investors wouldn't take you seriously if you had a ramen profitable bare bones 2011 style operation!
Tangentially, I was looking at your query parameters -- you're just using gl=it to get the "before" results, correct? (because they've only rolled this out to US, I assume)

Also, what's the mcdonalds coupon string in there for?
This is a huge problem with Wikia. Wikia has a relatively high pagerank. Sometimes, because of Wikia's often-abusive policies, communities will decide to move their wiki off Wikia and host it separately.

But Wikia will refuse to remove the original wiki even if all the contributors want to move it, in order to maximize advertising revenue. This means that it's nearly impossible to get the new wiki to rank highly on Google, even if all links across the internet are changed to point to the new wiki, because Wikia's pagerank is so high that Google deems the new one to be a "copy". This is why Wikia moved all their wikis to subdomains: in order to piggyback on the pagerank of the main site.

As a result there are a ton of long-dead wikis on Wikia that still get more search traffic than the active equivalent. Obviously this hurts users, since they get long-outdated information as a result.

In short, once a wiki is placed on Wikia, it's basically impossible to ever move it anywhere else because of Google's anti-duplicate biasing.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikia#Controversy for more info.
Ask HN: How to make money without working visa
Hi

i'm an international student (F1 visa) in the center of the silicon valley. Unfortunately my money won't last until the end of my study and the college that i attend does not offer OPT/internship while studying.

so my question is: how can i make enough money to support for my study and stay in the U.S.? i made an apprenticeship as Software Developer, studied 2 years software science and have about 7 years experience in the job. i'm fluent in java, C# and flex and i'm currently learning android. so i thought that i could work something remote or as contractor. any ideas or tips on how to find work like that?

i'm aware that this is not 100% legal, but my options are limited. if i can't make any money, i will have to leave without finishing my degree :-(
I don't think that Google needs to determine the originality of any one piece of content, but rather the tendency for a site to feature content verbatim from other sources.

The sites Google seem to be targeting are those who aggregate content wholesale from a number of sources. One way they could identify these would be to examine the number of different sites from which a particular site appears to have copied its content from.
It's not a bubble when Sydney rents are the second most expensive in the world because of a lack of supply.

It's not a bubble when interest rates are 8% and loan conditions are amongst the strictest in the world.

It's true that prices could stagnate or even drop somewhat if unemployment started to rise. But that's a very different situation to a true housing bubble like in the US or Ireland that was driven by cheap credit and easy loans.
I had 2 Hollywood deals that were written only because there was an email thread.
Someone who needs to ditch them before they're caught? I dunno, trying to get creative here.
Oh I just took the links that mvandemar provided and then did my own query with them. Didn't think it would preserve his original search.
$450 a month isn't that much for an investor. It's nothing compared to salary.

But I guess that the old Sparcstation could only handle a tiny load. Scaling it up to thousands of customers would have been very expensive.
Understood. I guess what I am looking for is not so much about the income, but at what age people get to that level in their field. Whether you're a career professional or a startup founder getting that kind of income is certainly an achievement.

Being able to work on something worthwhile and enjoy it is a much more fulfilling goal to have.
"If you asked a lawyer, a CPA or a banker if they'd take $100k to work their ass off for a corporate master, they'd laugh in your face"

Actually, I know plenty of lawyers who would GLADLY take 100k to work their ass off for a corporate master. You must be out of touch with the state of the legal job market. Top firms have cut summer programs or significantly scaled them back which has a trickle down effect--the top candidates usually took jobs at top firms. When these top firms stopped hiring 50-100 new associates straight out of law school the top candidates had to find other places to go--the places that the less desirable candidates would often count on (gov jobs, mid level/small firms, nonprofts, political work etc).

75-90k was considered a good wage for a person coming from a decent law school with decent grades. Now you have top candidates from decent/top schools clawing for these jobs. It's really a sad state of affairs right now. Many people I know are unemployed lawyers.
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Your also missing something though. The amount put away into a 401K is much higher in SF then in San Ant. TX. I would much rather work on San Fran for a few years, make a ton for my 401k then move some where cheap and rural in my 30s. San Fran people also have more cash for trips compared to Antonio. Overall, The higher salary is better in the long term.
The results may be directly measured but they are not real time. Click on the 7 Day view and you can see that the latest numbers are from Feb 22, before the change was rolled out. You would have to wait until Sunday or Monday, I would think, before seeing the difference.
If people see you're using a BlackBerry then they'll think you're in the upper class. It's like wearing a good suit.
Distros like Ubuntu will give you updates that require an reboot more frequently. If you have it on auto-update, which an average desktop user very well may, the situation is about the same as a Mac. Ubuntu puts out new kernels very couple of months.
I know people are important. Is this a good job description?
Or, you can put a QR Code on a business card that represents a valid vCard, such as what I have done:

http://i.imgur.com/HpbLO.png

This allows someone to grab their mobile phone, scan the QR code and save the information to their address book. Now if they lose the card they still have my information on their smartphone.

I handed out many such cards at Black Hat and DefCon and they were a huge success with people.
More like 50x.
The median salary for city workers in Palo Alto is above $100k. The amusing thing is many of the jobs below $100k are meter-readers and other parking enforcement. The city runs its own utilities, etc., so has a fairly sizable workforce relative to population.
Mac OS itself is great. I don't mind paying for a version as part of a new machine. The update, though, isn't necessarily exciting enough to me to pay for.
Anyone think the HuffingtonPost is glad it sold two weeks ago... Could you imagine what a 12% shakeup did to a republisher.
yes, he never seems to show his teeth when people take his photo.
I suspect it's because he's British?
The biggest issue I see with the Microsoft tags is that the colours are blindingly annoying. For some reason my eyes try to blend the colours together and it gives me a headache. I don't have any such problems with QR Codes.
I've already posted this comment, and it seems apt to put it here as well since it helps the user accomplish something:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2261163
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Maybe you're a douche. I'll take my 'meaning' over your dogshit personality.
All of the tags are pointing towards a URL they control, and it is a 301 redirect ... you get massive amounts of data for future ad campaigns that way.
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I'm not rich, but I feel quite wealthy in terms of quality of life.
actually, that's all that matters.
At some point, I am going to have to experiment with the java command line options and redo my string whacking benchmark program. Still, I can't help but think that while these refinements limit the trips made wandering about the heap, there still are a good number of times when all of those gigabytes of pages still have to be marched through CPU caches displacing active work to check on things that haven't changed status. Perhaps with enough cores, some of them are simply left alone that vast majority of the time to do productive work with data in cache. I'd like to see some measurements of this, and how the effectiveness is affected by worker threads vs CPU cores available, as well as how many background GC threads there are. Data, anybody???

At any rate, the defaults for Java are slower than those for Perl when doing many string operations on a single thread. Measurements: http://roboprogs.com/devel/2009.12.html. I have since rerun these tests on a 6 core AMD, with largely similar results. Of course, when doing threads or fork, the comparison breaks down as these constructs are implemented so differently between these languages, to say the least.
Agree. What I think they should target is a set of sites that just copy content load their pages with Google Ads and mint money. Those are the ones people more likely to not want to see rather than sites like wikia.

In any case this is a bold step for Google. It shows they still care for the quality of the search and have guts to take big bold decisions to protect it.
To be fair, the money/time tradeoff breaks down pretty quickly - you've almost certainly used all the easy wins by the time you're even earning mid six-figures.

Basically, there are only so many hours of outsourceable stuff in your day. Once you've made the trade for cooking (eating out/chef/stay-home-spouse), cleaning (maid/stay-home-spouse/etc), errands, scheduling, minor research, and other miscellany (secretary), local transport (owning a car) there isn't much more to do.

If you really value your time, you can fly a private jet at the cost of maybe a few thousand dollars per hour saved, I guess.

And Warren Buffet, even in his frugality, does all of these things.
I just turned 22. I rake in a little over a $100k all things included (salary+stock options+side jobs). However, let it be known that I'm terribly strapped for time. If you want more money, go out and get it.
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Its easy to make fun of now, but consider the annoyance it would have caused at the time, when it wasn't already as popular as it is today.

Languages have died in obscurity for less.
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Or may be Stanford is YC of CS.
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If you're interested, there are plenty of research papers on the topic of determining the canonical source of duplicated content online.
The silly ones do
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The basic question is whether what you need to get to a competitive level today is more labor (or better labor) and less capital than it was then. It seems to me that the answer almost has to be "yes"; there was no iPhone, no Android, no AJAX, no Comet, no Django, no memcached, no Varnish, almost no CSS, JavaScript didn't work, and Perl was your only option on the server side. Nowadays, knowledge gives you a much bigger slice of what you need to compete.

Also, lots of web startups then couldn't get by on a shared-hosting account or a used Sparc 20 in a colo, because it cost so much more to render a dynamic web page or to store data. And lots of people were paying Solaris licenses, Oracle licenses (MySQL didn't exist, and Postgres was still pretty flaky and slow), Netscape server licenses, and didn't F5 start selling BigIPs for load-balancing about that time? And your domain name cost $100 a year.
I wasn't really sure what the site was for after spending 30 seconds on it. I didn't read your blurb here first, but now that I have I am still confused. Maybe you need to work on your "1-liner" so to speak. Best of Luck!
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Ask HN: Any business that provides furnished apartment-office rentals?
Looking to lease a house in Berkeley or Palo Alto as both an office space and living quarters. Anyone have any recommendations for a furnished place that's budget friendly?
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Isn't going to go very far is such an interesting statement. When I was making 100k a year in SF, I felt plenty wealthy. I guess if you have really expensive tastes 100k won't seem like much, but it's more than enough to be happy and do everything you could reasonably need to do.
What a load of horse shit. The place that is willing to sue open source developers is the place that gets shitty programmers.
That is so incredibly misleading.

The problem with these cost-of-living adjusters is that they don't consider which goods are location-dependent and which aren't. So yes, your rent will probably be double in SF what it is in Houston. However, if you make $100K, rent is only a small portion of your income. And a dollar of savings in SF is just as good as a dollar of savings in Houston.

The way COL-calculators should work is that they should take a basket of monthly expenses typical for someone in the given income bracket, index that to the given location, and then subtract that from your salary offer in the new area. It's not a straight linear sliding scale. I would much rather be making $186k in SF than $100K in Houston, because I'd only be spending about $40K in living expenses in SF vs. $25K in Houston, and $186k - $40K = $146k is much greater than $100K - $25K = $75k.
That's the problem, right? It's a system that's profitable for you, profitable for the content farms, and profitable for Google.
Just to digress slightly, if I can ask a question.

Does the x86 still use a page-based memory model? I was under the impression it went to a full range addressing model with the P6.

Page-based memory was what stopped me learning x86 assembly back in the day. I loved the Z-80 (and Rodney Zacks).
Scaling? Well, fortunately, the online population was a lot smaller then, and we were targeting a niche (machine tools) - we still had some scaling issues, but nothing at all like you'd have to worry about now.

But yes - if we'd had to, it would have gotten expensive pretty quick.
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Can you post some examples of searches that you think it will improve, along with your current results from them?
Footspoting is a great app I'd highly recommend. I love that a woman is behind it. It would be nice to see a woman run startup reach the success of facebook or twitter...
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