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I tend to agree with your attitude. As a teen I saved up around $50 over a year to afford broken components to fix up to assemble my first PC. I learned how to do this from books I got from the library. I used that PC to teach myself a lot more and it catapulted me into a career. I moved from a developing country to a developed one. I now support my mother and grandmother financially.

It's tough being poor, the only way out of it is focus and self discipline, if you're lucky you can focus on something you enjoy. Fortunately we live in a modern world where obtaining information is relatively cheap and we have a market economy that does reward merit, not perfectly but it's certainly the opposite of slavery. The industrialized world is so good that our only real problem is too many options, like alcohol, cigarettes, unhealthy food, online games, consumer bling and consumer debt options. Unfortunately this means we still need self discipline, but there's certainly no lack of opportunity out there.
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What do you guys think is the best tool to use for implementing a contextual search - search queries such as 'latest android phone less than $250'. Such a search will power eCommerce sites and we're evaluating NLP tools such as langutils, NLTK and even openNLP.
I live in Texas and currently pay $780/month for health insurance through my employer. Over 1/4 of the people in the state have no health insurance at all. So no, that number isn't very high.
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For those interested in adding blur effects.. CSS filters are coming so that you can blur any DOM element, also images: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/FXTF/raw-file/tip/filters/publish/Fil...
You seem to be saying that people are simply a product of their (random) environment. I think that too is oversimplifying the problem. How can we tell the "clever guys on hard times" from those destined to wallow at the bottom? Just saying that the everyone that doesn't succeed in life was "destined to be a low income worker" reeks of confirmation bias.
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The linked-to list reiterates the same mistakes some here are trying to counter. It complains about one having to do things which are fundamental to financial success. Examples:

"having a checking account while poor doesn't just mean you have to be responsible and good at math -- you have to be perfect. Meticulous, flawless record keeping is the difference between surviving and having the bank seize your next paycheck."

Well, yeah. Don't write checks for money you don't have. Duh.

"A standard 14-day "payday" loan charges $15.50 per $100 borrowed. ... they offer to extend your loan to 180 days. It makes the payments miniscule. Oh, and you'll be paying back $1,275 at 403.10 percent APR."

The offer is there, and you can use or refuse it. If it wasn't there, you wouldn't have the option. Don't like it? pretend it wasn't there.

"having no credit will stop you from getting a loan or an apartment just as fast as having bad credit."

Some of us have learned that loans & renting are a bad idea. Other opportunities are available - yes, they are available - and will get you farther ahead faster.

"making sure to pay your * bills on time."

Well, yeah. Plan ahead, and don't sign up for what you can't afford.

"Your Next Expensive Disaster is Always Around the Corner"

Yup. Plan ahead. Yes, really, you can.

"You're Always in Survival Mode"

Yes, you are - even when you're sitting comfortably on a nice pile of money in a nice paid for home, there are plenty of things that can go utterly horribly wrong. Be ready.

Upshot: author complains bad things X Y & Z happen when he does A B & C. Well, yeah. Don't do A, B, or C, and no you don't have to do them.
While I don't necessarily disagree with the premise, the author is starting with outlier examples and applying a cause/effect relationship in a global way, ignoring the other factors for their outlier success.

It's lazy journalism at best.
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I wrote a similar post a couple of weeks back from my (shorter) stint on HN: http://willgrant.org/hn-traffic-stats-summary/
Those pictures are "false" color and detail. They in no way represent what you would see with your eyes if you were standing right in front of the object. Some of them are even manipulated by artists that add things to them.

What you are seeing are a subset of radio waves being represented as human vision color in a non-linear way with additional artistic details.
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There are also these old html5 2d canvas experiments: http://www.benjoffe.com/code/

Very similar to this one specifically: http://www.benjoffe.com/code/demos/canvascape/textures
I think you underestimate the sheer volume of spam.
Any time I'm using my phone to browse, it's IE - and I use that to read through HN all the time.
Maybe I'm the exception but I never have trouble writing posts in WordPress.
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The way I see it, when I read the constitution, it is fairly clear that the government was engineered to be a sort of anti-government. Something put into place to fill the power vacuum to prevent other "real" (defined as pretty much every other government they were familiar with at the time) from moving in and taking control.

Of course, I'm an anarchist, so I might be projecting... I think they also failed miserably though, because they forgot about human nature. Noble attempt, worthy of some praise, but ultimately it failed. Neat parallel to those who say communism failed because it forgot to consider human nature I think ;)

So founded in liberty? Basically just describes the mindset of the designers. What they were going for.
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Additionally, you could choose to just communicate with whomever the sender of the email is if you find their email interesting.
Why are "keeping the job I have" and "job hunting" mutually exclusive decisions? Keep your job and apply other places.
Continuing:

And so you start using your programming skills to travel the world while working, see some amazing places, but discover to your dismay that things aren't any better no matter where you go.

But you continue writing your own stuff, releasing open source programs here and there, and then somewhere along the way you move into freelancing, which removes the protective layer between you and unreasonable customers.

Tiring of that, you move into iPhone apps and discover that you suck at marketing.

And then one day you find yourself living in San Francisco, founding a startup with a bunch of awesome partners, working insane hours, and having a BLAST trying to solve hard problems.

There is much joy and wonder in this world; you just need to look harder.
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Yeah, much of what is now synonymous with the Adobe brand name is from the acquisition of Macromedia.
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> If I replace my memcache logic with an in-memory thread-safe hashmap, it will always be faster. I can't see how it can be slow.

Because in a threaded application context, you have to either:

- have locking/synchronization on all data structures (performance cost)

OR

- manage which of your data structures are shared and which are not (complexity cost/race bugs)

With external, shared state (RDBMs, memcached, etc) you get fast in-process access to your (private) data structures (no performance cost due to locking) and a (mostly) concurrency-safe, explicit datastore.

And as pointed out elsewhere, to scale beyond a single process you need the external state anyway.

There are other approaches to this, software transactional memory, functional programming, clojure paradigm etc. But it's a hard problem and it's not clear these are the right solution at scale.
Understandable. Wouldn't that mean that spam will roll very quickly to many email accounts? Wouldn't spam engines start picking up application emails as spam emails(assuming once some discussion goes rogue with spammers the email receivers mark the conversation as spam)? Or am i missing something here.
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Does the editor in chief need to be the center of attention? Maybe he can just hire great talent.

I guess the real question is how much less information/scoops they will have with Mike and MG gone.
Adam Riess! One of my friends took "Stars and the Universe" with him last semester here at Hopkins and really enjoyed the class (perhaps corroborating the claim that the most capable researchers tend to also be great educators).
My employer (a public school system) has blocked everything but IE9 on port 80 to keep students from using proxies/tunneling/[other firewall avoidance method].
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I'd say this is only partially true. These days labels are not, and I would argue should not be the artists' primary target for income. Touring and new media are things artists have control over to a much larger extent and that's where artists should be focused.

If a good independent label wants to pick you up, like say Bella Union or Merge or Sub Pop (still) or the like then go for it, it might help. Or it might not. For some it's a big deal, but mostly in terms of promotion and profile, better tours. The good labels, like Bella Union, get very involved in that side of it, others not so much. Even then those lucky acts that are on good labels are still primarily touring bands, and downloads and sales and royalties are a small percentage of their income, unless something really breaks on radio, and that my friend is whole other ballgame and extremely rare from the average artists' perspective. Better to hope to get on a TV show or film, raise your profile some and get better tours.

Also, most of the time those higher-profile independent labels came along and were interested because those acts already had something going, some sales, regional numbers or whatnot that made the label relationship more like a partnership.

It helps to go into it from a position of strength, where you know you can walk away. And if you can walk away, you might not even need the Independent label. Mostly you need good management and good promotion to get better tour numbers going, build into a position of strength and really think about what means of income are available to you in an age where access to distribution channels (the primary former attraction of labels) are now available to virtually everyone.
Well, in the first place, that's 8% of the federal budget, which seems like a pretty small price to pay for ensuring that everyone has a basic existence (minimal food/shelter). There are certainly stupider things we spend 8% of the federal budget on.

And in any case, one purpose is to be a replacement for the current piecemeal programs we have, which aren't cheap to begin with. Food stamps + Section 8 + EITC currently costs about $150 billion per year, plus some additional amount in bureaucracy and litigation due to complex rules, plus some additional economic damage caused by market distortion due to the fact that food stamps + section 8 aren't normal cash (EITC is better for that). That leaves maybe $100-150b, some of which is probably also redundant with existing welfare programs (I just picked three big ones), or about 3-4% of the federal budget.

If you want to keep it budget-neutral, how about an across-the-board 3-4% cut to all other budget categories in return? Or, we could just, as you point out, remove the temporary "overseas contingency operations" (Iraq/Afghanistan wars) supplement to the regular DoD budget, which is $125b in 2012, returning the DoD to its baseline budget. If I had a line-item veto pen I could pretty easily come up with another few hundred billion in savings if you'd like (cut agriculture subsidies, cut Medicare Part D, transition TSA/air-traffic-control to being fully user-fee-funded, do another round of domestic military-base closures through a BRAC-like process, etc., etc.). :)
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The usual money-grabbing scheme I've seen is to require some excessive security deposit, and then contrive ridiculous reasons for keeping large chunks of it.

One flat I shared the rental agency tried to withhold £150 for the changing of 1 (entirely ordinary) lightbulb, and cleaning a single drawer of a chest of drawers (a tiny amount of dirt under the drawer lining paper, and not apparent).

It's such a persistent theme that I tend to write off the deposit as part of the costs of moving, and consider it a good deal if I see 50% of it again.
If you're rural poor and it's better to be urban poor, guess what? Time to move to the city!
If users want us to weed out emails that we feel are spam we would do it.

But hell, no one's used the site or email yet so we can't anticipate anything.
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yep, it's a bare-bones design. The purpose if for you to communicate through email with other users. The blog is merely for posting topics.
Absolutely agree that you can make more efficient use of resources with threads.

I would say that a reasonable rule of thumb is that if your problem/workload is at the point where you want to scale vertically - or you are at all concerned about processor cache locality - your 1st step would be to avoid using an interpreted language.

i.e. I don't see this as an argument for having a threaded interpreted language.
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You really need an example on the homepage. I read the opening description and still don't feel like I understand how it works. What kind of mail would I get? Would I be able to turn it off? You say 'social network' - so, do I have friends, or is this just a public discussion forum?
Time: there are hours of wiggle room in the recipe. You'll find time; I do. Actual active contact time is about 10 minutes.

Equipment cost: I checked yesterday and found suitable crockery for $5 at Goodwill. Build a fire in the back yard around the pot, drop in dough, take out 45 minutes later. I'll be sure to buy, try, and blog per your concerns.
And I wouldn't punish cheating in those courses directly: Just add the requirement that people need to be able to explain their solutions however they arrived at them. Being able to explain other people's code is a useful skill, too.
See what people are posting to codepad.org, sometimes curious
Cool Idea. Unable to get the app to work though - Error message( This session has expired. Please return to the app to try again .) Just curious though, does it by any chance violate the content laws(like dmca?)
The US almost defaulted when it almost failed to raise the debt ceiling. Should people stop serving the US market because of that?
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I think the problem is trying to generalize things to all people. Some people, like yourself, see a lousy website and wonder, if the creator won't put in the effort to create a great design, would she really put in the effort to make a great product. Other people, like myself, see a snazzy website and wonder if the creator is trying to blind my with style to cover her lack of substance. I think that the author's main point is that there's enough people following my heuristic that a blind charge toward top quality design isn't always warranted.
I don't think much encouragement is needed there. I hear the phrase "If / When I win the lottery..." cited too often as a cure-all. That weekly or daily lottery allotment would be better spent elsewhere but unfortunately isn't.
Also worth mentioning: the latest proposal from Adobe, Apple and Opera, a complement to CSS filters - CSS shaders https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/FXTF/raw-file/tip/custom/index.html
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w/o reading the posts I welcome the change of TechCrunch with Schonfeld alone now. He got rid of chief-whiner MG Siegler by promoting him to the #1 Apple commentator (a diplomatic masterpiece) and gave Arrington some extra trouble by putting Siegler in this Mini-Crunch-Fund.

Not that Schonfeld will be the better blogger, it's about getting new life into TechCrunch.
Why are there no pirates in asia?

They're all already too busy frying the pranes.
from the forwards, select those email addresses you wish to communicate with, and ignore the spam email addresses
"If you have tried to deploy anything to Azure you'll know that it takes 15 or more minutes, which is unacceptable!"

I've been using Azure for a year and a half. I feel like I know it pretty well. Yes, this was a problem originally but has been solved with the Web Accelerator. You can now deploy your web projects instantly across all nodes.

I can only laugh when I see 'Azure done right'. Isn't that http://AppHarbor.com tagline too? Sorry, but you don't buy Azure for a single web box for your toy project. You buy it for the suite of other features that are all available in the same datacenter. Message Queues, NoSql (Table Storage), SQL Azure and many other enterprise level feature.
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Almost 10% of us are mobile. On a small screen with slower bandwidth HN is a lot nicer than /. Almost annoying that even though the site is so efficient already the site icon and the logo aren't the same url or that the arrows are not unicode arrows or just one image rotates or ... :)
There are too many people here saying that this is not realistic, and that major problems are condensed into one month. The point you may be missing is that there really are some months like that, and a paltry income isn't going to get you through.

And even if you were to have a problem-free, stress-free month, try living on $9/hour anyway. Just see how many luxuries (eating out, going to the movies/concerts, drinks with friends, etc.) you'll have to cut out of your life. You're basically working just to scrape by.
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Losers? I'll be the first to admit that I am ignorant about the situation in the USA, but do you really think that people such as these are losers considering the standard of living they can still afford? Mobile phones with $70 bills? Honestly? Hell, a mobile in itself? (My mobile cost £20, and I have yet to use up my initial top-up of £20 5 months after buying it).

I honestly feel disgusted by the fact that I am expected to feel sorry for people such as these. I managed to get to the end to the month all fine and dandy, and could see many things I could still do to improve my cash flow.

My kid may have not been given some meaningless luxuries that other kids got (I never went to school trips and the like myself), but my charisma and public services such as the library and the like would be more than enough to ensure he turns out a fine man.

Hell, if I wouldn't even have had a kid in the first place, until I could ensure that I could raise properly. Expecting me to feel sympathy for an individual who can't afford a kid, suffering from their own selfishness, is out of order. It's comparable to expecting me to pay for the treatment of some fool who didn't put on a condom when he knew he was have sexual intercourse with a - unique woman.

edit. Forgive me, due to my anger I lost focus on what I was initially trying to say. Basically, standard of living has improved dramatically. They may not be able to afford premium goods such as sparkly ipads and ps3's, but they can still afford a great deal of stuff.
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I quit when I got a collections call for an overdue car payment. I never had a choice to not miss a payment.

Being poor sucks, but this game is trying way to hard to make that point and actually backfires. The contrived situations make me less likely to emphasize with someone who is in that position.
>Window managers are a class and you should not be able to monopolize a class name without some sort of addition.

The Windows trademark is for the entire operating system product. It's not just for the window manager.

Keep in mind that trademarks are incredibly specific. Infringement only occurs if it's a similar product. For example, there is a recreational vehicle company named Starcraft that has been in business since the early 1900's. Blizzard made the real time strategy game called Starcraft. Both usages of the word "Starcraft" are registered trademarks, and do not infringe on each other.
I started a while back because of work stress, depression and anxiety. It's a very short-term fix, but by the time it stops "helping", you're dependent on nicotine to the point of continuing just to avoid the extra pain of having to quit, on top of everything else.

The final impetus for me was realising that I was spending something close to £200 ($300) a month on cigarettes. Nearly 4 months now, and I reckon in a year or so I'll have enough to replace my macbook :)
Agree about "Y", I often tap it and end up at YC when expecting HN.
Not a downvoter, but this can sound like a standard "man-up" type of answer.

Its easy to suggest and might come easy to some, but it's way out of reach for most young developers trying to get on the career track. Making a notable contribution to an impactful project requires a lot of time and understanding. Even if a project could use the help, jumping in head first like that is quite daunting.
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From their features page (http://cloud.webspecies.co.uk/features):

"Pulling code from a repository

You can configure a Git repository we are going to pull code from every minute or so. Once we find new commits they are going to be automatically deployed to the cloud."

... so it sounds like they did not take the sensible route either ;)
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One known reason why ugly marketing sells is that ugly makes you think low prices. You probably won't sell many Bang and Olufsen stereos with an ugly ad. But you could very well sell a lot of low cost chinese clones, because those looking for low cost will click those ads and ignore the elegant ones.
I would suggest you set up a throwaway yahoo email and email the site. I understand it may be confusing but all discussion happens through email and the focus shouldn't be the homepage. We can demo thru email once you set up a throwaway account. In addition, you can use the throwaway email to actually use the site if you have an aversion to using your personal email.
So, can we put the oscillating universe theory to rest now?
> All in all it seems that this trend of releasing apps for free does nobody any good, since it will stall innovation at some point.

It does nobody any good? How about the users? I don't buy the "it will stall innovation" argument. Having Linux be free didn't stall innovation, quite the opposite. I'd even say without it being free, we wouldn't be where we are now in regards to innovation. Large companies would still be in control. I know many companies depending on Linux, Firefox, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, Flash, Apache, BIND, OpenOffice, irssi, Postfix; and the many innovations these free products provided and facilitated. If I think about the projects that weren't out to make money, but to do something good, the value of free software becomes even greater.

But at the base of it all: For some of us technology is still more about solutions and making life better, rather than just money. I have a job, I'm happy, why should I take money for software I would've written anyway?