skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, on any given year it can swing wildly, but long term I believe that those who invest in individual stocks ("the rich") will do significantly better than inflation.

It sounds like you're assuming it's a fair game and that everyone gets to participate. The reality is most people don't get to do the things the rich get to do, and their gain tends to come at the everyone else's loss.

For example, the rich often pay a lower tax rate than the middle class due to various tax policies designed to benefit them, such as offsetting margin interest against capital gains or carrying forward capital losses indefinitely. Those gains have to be included in your overall returns and are why the rich are getting further ahead.

That all said, the best way to boost your wealth is to create it from scratch and start a company.
1. Get an idea.

2. Do zero work on it.

3. Set up a landing page.

4. Submit link to HN.

5. Gauge the response.

This new trend really pisses me off...

If someone puts the work into it I have no problem with it, but I know that there is a 99% chance that this thing has no substance.

Note: to offset the rant, I'm upvoting your submit.
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I am confused by the choice to feature the number of devs you had and the abbreviated schedule as opposed to a vision for how you're going to make app developers more money.

Aren't the key details something along the lines of "You implement an in-game currency, we give you a widget which lets users select from various offers to earn currency by taking actions which have high CPA affiliate payouts, we insulate you from the metric truckload of customer support requests this will generate, and you get paid on a fairly regular schedule"? Or maybe two steps beyond this, "Yeah we know you've heard this before but a) we have higher quality offers, b) we police the feed religiously to ensure your users don't get scammed, c) our CS is really top-notch to get users instant credit for things even when the actual CPA is delayed by days, and d) we're experts at dealing with the pathologies of poor people and promise to keep you far, far away from the seedy underbelly of our business."
I was commenting on the remark that the fork should be merged.

You cannot modify the source of Microsoft Office. Comparing office suites is an entirely different topic.

I don't see a divided community. One project is really active and alive, then a year later OOorg tries to start something else.

It seems inefficient to have this split. But that is the same for everything. Why have different languages, multiple OSes, multiple distributions, desktop environments, etc. Might be inefficient, but unless you take away peoples freedom to do what they want, I don't see this changing.

Trying to compete with Microsoft Office seems futile anyway. I'd rather have a focus on making a good office suite. It doesn't really matter if it can do everything that Microsoft Office can.
It works!! It worksitworksitworks.

The layout in fact could not be more perfect on an iPhone.

Tell us whatever you did, so that we can refer other people to do the same, please!
1. I'm storing them on S3 infinitely. They're stored either on my (uploadcare) S3 account, or on yours, if you prefer it that way.

2. We haven't tested it properly yet. But there are no rocket science; I believe, everything is going to be fine as soon as we get the SSL certificate
Ask HN : Where Does VC Money Really Go?
In the last few years, we We numbers like 81 million for Box.com, 11 million for enterproid etc, 100 million for foursquare. I have no experience with startups, or operation sides, but I am curious as to where this money goes? Hardware costs for servers? Salaries/wages? Legal fees? Understandably it is different for different startups, but on average what is the breakdown look like for a software startup (web-based).
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Step 0: no debt. You could attribute that to luck or smart early decision making, but that's definitely a large step ahead of everyone else.

Personally, I have measured it will take me approximately three years of post-college work experience to get out of debt (with my current income, budget, amount of debt, etc.). I haven't heard of any startup founders that go into a startup with debt already in their wallet so I feel that the amount of student loan debt universally shrinks the space of potential new entrepreneurs.
That lawsuit is - as far as I can tell - dead in the water anyway because of the number of years that the situation has been going on. If you let a thing like that lapse for too long then you can't later on turn around and demand reparation.

They'd have a very hard time arguing they weren't aware of it for so long that a very large portion of the IT world became dependent on it without becoming aware of it themselves. And all that is assuming that the claims hold water, which remains to be seen.

It's an attempt at extortion from where I'm sitting, after all, the value of the database is only determined by the parties that are using it, recreating it from scratch requires some effort but nothing monumental.

The current timezones are not at risk anyway, it is just the historical data we are talking about here.
I think you absolutely can. I am actually paying off the debt I incurred while attending a four year college with development skills I have picked up from mostly online resources, some in person classes/lectures, and a handful of oreilly books. I am also working on a tool to help myself track my own learnings and am trying to think of ways to turn it into a roadmap other people can use which seems to be in the area of what you are referring too. I have a rough working version here http://courseslate.com .
As is typical with this line of thinking, it only scales so far and only applies as long as you are "on the map" of what is standard. Stray too far and your devops personnel will spend more and more time "administrating" and less time coding. Being primarily a coder with considerable sysadmin skills, this has happened to me in every job I've worked in the last 5 years. I start out devops while everything is standard and slowly do more and more admin until I eventually quit (because I'm primarily a coder). The job I'm quitting this month is because I'm now 95% admin. Like all resources, you need what you need. Devops is sufficient is specific circumstances, but if you stray from that scenario eventually you need an admin. They're the glue when things don't quite fit seamlessly together.
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Well, it has several features similar to ours, but being a client side-only library it can't do everything.
The trick is to either hide everything, or flood the internet with so much stuff that it's just a pain in the neck to really stalk you much beyond what you post in very obvious places such as profiles.
I like how in the end the whole article boils down to a potshot at police and firefighters for wanting pensions. You stay classy, forbes.
0x12: Please explain "the only thing". I don't see this; it way more complex than this. To me it seems that the different options+projects is why we have really good solutions, even if sometimes some things take a bit longer to be developed.

e.g. project a is developed. Design is wrong according to another group, they develop project b, then maybe you get project c. Messy on the short term. Long term, seems only the high quality projects survive.
Hi!

Our widgets are open source: https://github.com/uploadcare/careful-uploaders

To handle videos, I'd recommend you to check out http://transloadit.com/ . They are something like our competitors, but I believe we have different targeted audience.

We've been thinking about splitting files in parts and everything, but not right now.

Thank you for your suggestions!
I'm actually getting to the point where my jackets no longer fit. My training is for strength, not mass, but you're still going to get a certain amount of hypertrophy.

Unfortunately I seem to have developed this habit just as fashion trends are toward ever skinnier designs -- jeans, shirts, slacks, etc. I haven't quite gone to full bespoke clothing, but I'm considering it.

Casual wear -- shorts and t-shirt -- still works well.

The other tendency I've noticed is that my body temperature is running warmer. I'll see people bundled in coats and scarves while I'm in shorts/t.

And no, I'm definitely not arguing against getting fit.
This is a Swedish guy examining the issue, resolves most of the questions in comments here:

"What is so special about education in Finland?
An outsider’s view" By Peter Fredriksson in 2006.
www.nek.uu.se/StaffPages/Publ/P949.doc

(Sorry, it's a doc file). Results over time (USA has worsened), immigration (it's not about it), underachievers (less of them in Finland).
What are your suggestions for increasing our female population?

If you are male and want to encourage women to show up and post as openly female, then engage the women in intelligent conversation. Don't gush at them about how great it is to, gee golly whiz, see A GIRL here. Please don't publicly try to hit on any of the women here. You are highly unlikely to get what you are looking for and all it does is make the girls go into hiding because it promotes a predatory atmosphere.

I'm sure that could be expanded upon. I'm also sure I'm too tired to do so without getting myself into hot water at the moment (my 24 year old son has vetoed one of my illustrative remarks as a very bad idea <insert halo>). Hopefully, it's a place to start.

EDIT: I did see your reply to my reply before you deleted it. If you seriously want more feedback, email me and I will tell you privately what I left out of this post. And thank you for deleting it.
All true.

That is to say, that the average standards around the world are not that great either. Higher education could be better, but it is far from worst of what I've seen.
I feel obligated to learn this language, just because of its name.
I'm no haskell hacker (by a long, long, long shot[0]), and I've played a lot more with Clojure than with Haskell, but I still found this easier to write and read in haskell than in clojure.

matches :: String -> String -> Bool
matches rs = dm ((fixHead . fixTail) rs) where
fixHead ('^':rs) = rs
fixHead rs = '.':'*':rs
fixTail rs = case (reverse rs) of
('$':rrs) -> reverse rrs
rrs -> reverse ('*':'.':rrs)
dm "" "" = True
dm ('.':'*':rs) (c:cs) = (dm ('.':'*':rs) cs) || (dm rs (c:cs))
dm (r:'*':rs) (c:cs) = (dm rs (c:cs)) || (c == r && (dm (r:'*':rs) cs))
dm ('.':rs) (c:cs) = dm rs cs
dm (r:rs) (c:cs) = r == c && dm rs cs
dm (_:'*':[]) "" = True
dm _ _ = False

[0] I'm particularly ashamed of fixHead and fixTail and the way I special cased matching a star and nothing else against the empty string

edit: couldn't resist doing the golf thing

matches :: String -> String -> Bool
matches rs = dm (fixHead rs) where
fixHead ('^':rs) = rs
fixHead rs = '.':'*':rs
cm r c = r == '.' || r == c
dm (r:'*':rs) (c:cs) = (dm rs (c:cs)) || ((cm r c) && (dm (r:'*':rs) cs))
dm (_:'*':"") "" = True
dm (r:rs) (c:cs) = cm r c && dm rs cs
dm "" _ = True
dm "$" "" = True
dm _ _ = False
On the contrary, this is both very common and is considered good practice where appropriate. Haskell's strong static typing and compilers will make sure there is never any ambiguity as to which instance is used. Everything has to tightly fit together or else your program won't compile.
Have just been writing something similar for http://www.webpop.com

Wrote a small service in Haskell to handle large uploads in preparation for a new feature. Does interleaved IO and streams the uploaded file directly to Cloudfiles while also saving a copy on the local disk to be able to extract some metadata and add them to our DB at the end.

Also did play with the idea of creating a general upload service based on this implementation, but for now I'm focusing on other things.
Author here - I step away for a few hours expecting HN to ignore yet another self submitted article and look what happens!

tptacek's comments sum up the point - hence the qualifier of "pure". I think the SysAdmin role is rapidly evolving to look more like a programmer's job description from several years ago.

Sure, someone still has to write the puppet configs and monitor and manage the deployment, but that person is a far cry from the skillset and job description of 5 years ago.
Why don't we stop fucking around and just use λx y→x+y?
Yeah, that one was fun to write. I still have to go back and clean up some stuff, but feel free to tell me more love/hate chapters.
Exactly. Billionaires are truly international citizens, shifting their wealth to the most amenable climates (often literally, e.g. Florida), so few of them will be truly invested enough in a certain locale for cost of living to matter.

And if they are, well then they own the entire town, so they definitely don't care.
Those common facilities are mainly intended for tourists and weekenders who would rather not have to clean their shower, toilet or deal with the pump-out station after they go home again.

Permanent residents (like we are) will have their own sewer hookup (a hose coming out of the RV which is tied into a receptacle in the septic or city sewer system), electricity, and water. So it's more like living in a small house that could technically be driven away. Every few days I have to empty the tanks which, since everything is permanently hooked up, means pulling two levers that flush the tanks into the sewer. It takes about five minutes to empty them and I can go and collect my mail while that happens.
It might differ based on the company, but the #1 cost by a fair margin for virtually every funded software startup will be the costs associated with employment: wages, benefits, and taxes. That could be 50~80%+ of expenses. (One engineer costs you about $15~20k per month.)

Companies with noteworthy other costs include Zynga/Groupon, which both spend absolutely gobsmacking amounts of money on advertising (and, depending on how you count revenue/expenses, their revenue share deals with Facebook and merchants respectively).

Server/hosting expenses tend to be heavily sensitive to what you're actually doing: Zynga and Dropbox pay a lot relative to their revenues, but at a 37Signals-esque company they're chump change.

Legal fees are typically rounding error. Ball up all administrative overhead and that's in handful of percent region.

Your physical workspace can be a fair chunk of change, depending on where you are, how you came by your space, and to what degree you optimize for having a prestigious address or office space.
Very interesting reading. thank you =)
To expand on that idea a little bit: that's a valid definition of 'powerful', but there's another definition of 'powerful' which some people mean when they talk about type systems, and that's "To what degree does this type system prevent errors?" It seems from cursory research that Shen is powerful with respect to the definition, "To what degree can we encode computations in the type system at compile-time?" and Agda and Coq's type systems are powerful with respect to the definition, "How can we limit the class of programs by encoding constraints in the type system such that the resulting programs are provably correct?" Consequently, neither Agda nor Coq are Turing-complete even at the language level, much less the type level, but that accordingly gives them greater power to know information about their programs at compile time.
With regards to the idea of having a cap on savings returns, this is very true. But savings are also different from investments in that whatever you were going to do with your discretionary investments, you now have more capital to work with because of your savings.

Example: You make $3000 a month and your monthly expenses are $2000. That leaves you with $1000 a month to invest. If you haggle on rent, clip coupons, and use second-hand stores and flee markets to get your monthly expenses down to $1500 a month with no reduction in lifestyle, then you have $1500 a month to invest.

The 50% increase in your investments means a very large gain on returns. With compounding interest at 8%, you can accrue $180k+ over ten years on $1000 into savings every month. When you change the savings to $1500, then you only need 1% return to save the same amount of money OR you'll have $276k at the original 8% rate. You're either massively reducing your risk or massively increasing your return.

In any event, saving money on expenses should be the number one priority of any investment strategy.

Note: I used this financial calculator for this comment - http://www.thecalculatorsite.com/finance/calculators/compoun...
Thinking of values as functions is more misleading than it is illuminating. There are values that are functions, and there are values that are not, and the type system is extremely clear about which are which. It's just that all values can be polymorphic, including functions.

Conal Elliott has a good blog post about it. http://conal.net/blog/posts/everything-is-a-function-in-hask...
This might argue for making comment karma viewable after a thread has existed for, say, a month: at that point, the absolute scores probably don't matter much for fresh readers, but the raw data could still be useful for efforts like this one.
I was expecting a socio-philosophical analysis of why schools are being closed down, the government and people are becoming indebted, yet supposedly the wealth has multiplied in the recent decades etc etc.

But instead you get counting of money, like kids do when they're maybe ten: how much money everyone's daddy and mommy have.

What is wealth in America? Having more money than others.
I still don't understand why any country allows databases (simple collections of facts) to be copyrighted.
I agree there's something to your observation. And yet, Quora doesn't show karma totals or leaderboards, while SO does.

How does Quora get more distracting status/attitude-competition when answers are only ranked against each other in the context of a single question – a tiny subset of the gamesmanship-encouragement that SO implements?

Is it the greater subjectivity of Quora's topics? The vague pretentiousness of its seed community? Or something else?
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No idea why this was downvoted. Maybe because it is right? One data point may not reflect the broad market. If he sold before the crash and then dumped his money back in the market when the dow hit 6500 he would have made a killing.
Here it is: http://alchemi.st/nginx-wordpress-network-and-fastcgi-cache-...

You can change the caching ttl to meet your needs.
Hi Andy. I am sorry, but not everybody had a clear twitter username on their profile. You are right, the list was complemented with the data from this one: http://talkfast.org/2010/07/28/twitter-users-most-followed-b...

I've added you to the direct list.

Note that the inference algorithm is quite forgiving, so "twitter @Locke1689", or "@Locke1689 on twitter", or even "twitter: Locke1689" would all have worked out.

About 50 people (from a pool of 1000) with twitter accounts on their profile were left out due to this not so optimal inference.
The amount of discussing the messenger instead of the message in this thread is staggering but I'll bite anyway:

- Country, nationality and language are required fields in this site. Since leaving them blank was not an option, putting some blatantly bogus values was the second best.

- My nationality is besides the point but I'm not American. The "American" writing style may be thanks to watching too many American movies, frequenting too many American speaking forums or - guess what - living there as an expat for several years.
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To get that "on-the-fly-thumbnails-from-urls" behaviour in ruby/rack, take a look at Dragonfly.

http://markevans.github.com/dragonfly/
Reality check overdue for start-ups that don’t fly
I think this is a great idea. A tag mix of artists/genre would be a great way to get started as you can quickly select different kind of style you like.. and also it works for artist that goes for a big range of style.
You missed the bit where the startup was sold to Google for $2 billion.
The clouds and the bushes are the same!
I don't see "only the high quality projects" surviving in the long term. Using and watching Linux since 1997, I mostly see a constant, perpetual flux and incohesiveness. And a lot of damn fine projects abandoned.

For example, Nautilus (the file manager, in it's original design). ReiserFS. Omega (the unicode alternative TeX implementation). The Fresco windowing system. Enlightenment E17. The Parrot VM. ...
"Imagine we're talking about clothing design. It is a large formal event, a wedding or professional conference. Everyone wears the same thing out respect for the idea. If someone were to come in with a red tuxedo it may excite a few, but the last thing you'd call them was a creative visionary. Moreover, this event requires pants - and to not do so is bad news."

Well, unless you're Karl Lagerfeld.
Sure. You are on.

It is updated automatically with time, so people don't need to worry about particular requests.
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Thanks, drallison. Generally speaking I agree, LOC alone is not a great metric of code quality, though it does roughly map to fewer places for bugs to be introduced when coding in the large, which is rarely a bad thing (though irrelevant for something like this).

In this case, I decided to implement it in a lisp after noticing that Pike's algorithm worked by consuming a character at a time off of both the pattern and the input text, lending itself naturally to a functional recursive implementation. Pike's version in C does this by advancing pointers, but it spoke equally well to an idiomatic car/cdr approach in a lisp (the recur/first/rest pattern you see in matchhere).
The trap here that I fell into during my youth is to ask this question at the wrong time....

Is going out on a date with my wife worth $X/hr ?

Is helping someone by giving them a lift worth $X/hr?

Is sitting down to read a book / watch a movie worth $X/hr?

Drove my wife crazy.
You really have to be a member of the clueless aristocrat club to write for Forbes.

"Two million bucks is the great dividing line between middle-class comfort and worry in America right now. That $2 million is $100,000 in income, if you base it on an aftertax 5%."

Obviously everyone in the middle class is sitting on $2 million in wealth.
I am glad it worked for you!

I simply removed the viewport metatag, and removed the overlay

The overlay doesn't work on mobile phone perfectly (it has to have its size computed on runtime, as I let the user bios grow as needed).

Also it is useless on mobile phones, as its only removed on mouseover (it gives the glow effect on the desktop browsers), and put back on mouseout.

As a good side effect, with less javascript floating around, the page renders faster.
LibreOffice is now default Office suite in OpenSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, and maybe others. So I guess that that the LibreOffice will get a larger user base soon.
How often updated?
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