skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't push the repo to an external host?

Fucking amateur; if these kids are twice as good at designing games as they are developing code, the main gameplay mechanic will be your characters ability to shit in it's own hand.
I think this is completely feasible starting with a $0 net worth and having a college education. I am not remotely surprised he got to a $100k salary working full time plus nights and weekends. You'd be surprised how many people you can pass up in the work force just by showing up on time and working more than them.

Frugality is also huge. If you can save 15-25% on products you knew you were going to buy anyway by clipping coupons or buying in bulk or searching for deals, that's far better than making 15-25% in the stock market because there's no risk.

The real estate thing, too, isn't as hard as you think. Multi-unit dwellings can often be purchased at the price of a normal house and rented for 2-3x what a normal house would go for. If you can find a three or four unit building for $100-$150k and live in one of the units while you pay down the equity and fix up the other two to increase they're rental value, then getting $500-$600 per unit becomes very possible. That's $1500-$2400 a month to go towards mortgages, which would easily support two $100-$150k houses.
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Exactly...a bit misleading. It's more about making smart investments and having a lot of luck with the timing. Like my parents, who had successful careers (dad was a dentist, mom was in real estate), but in the end selling the house they bought in 1975 for $87,500 (and paid off) for $950,000 in 2004 was what put them in the best shape for retirement.
Just to be clear, I am not a proponent of standardized-test-based curricula. I just thought it was odd that they used an international standardized test as a basis for criticizing US standardized tests.

The curricula you linked to looks similar to the curricula that my children's schools use. The difference is in how the subjects are taught. I'm old enough to have gone to school before standardized testing was widespread in the US, and since my children go to school near where I grew up, I can compare the quality of education between then and now. The reading and writing requirements today (including vocabulary and grammar), are much weaker than I was exposed to. They rarely even read full books and do in depth reports. Instead, they simply read excerpts from anthologies and write in-class paragraphs. It's pretty sad, because writing teaches you a lot about how to think.

In all, I would say the science curriculum is broader and better. I was dismayed to learn that proofs are no longer taught in math, and I think that may be a result of the test-driven mentality of education.
If your kids are toddler-age and older, it is certainly possible. But when you have babies, I consider step 1 impossible. I do all of the steps he mentions except number 1, and I am tired.
If you commute by bike, the longer the best...
Is the Finnish educators' ignorance of the American education system any more a sign of "ignorance and stupidity" than American educators' almost certain ignorance of the Finnish education system?

Given that Finnish educators appear to be doing a better job, I'd argue the latter is the more "ignorant and stupid".
> It is thus not likely to be the schools. It is more likely to be culture or (more controversially) genetics.

But finns are less smart than say, Asia, most of Europe and North Korea :( (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations)

There is likely a multitude of reasons. And yes, stuff like ethnic diversity do cause problems. But that shit is not unsolveable.

In Finland, there are schools & classrooms with very diverse ethnical backgrounds and yes, they rank worse than your average, homogenous classrooms. But the system still manages to achieve significant improvement with the individuals, even though the end-results are sub-average. And we are talking about students that often do not even know any local languages (or English, Swedish, German or French, which are in some rare cases available as teaching languages) and start their primary education years later than their Finnish peers.

The shit is, you don't need perfection. You need improvement. Sure, it's theoretically possible that genetics or culture gives you edge on some stuff, but it is about as likely that they don't. In any way, that stance is incredibly counterproductive against any kind of thinkable improvement. It is also pretty bloody likely, that Finns and Chinese have figured out something right and there are lessons to be learned.
Looks like a web implementation of the old People's Computer Company game "Bagels" published in the classic
What to Do After You Hit Return: PCC's First Book of Computer Games, now long out of print. PCC materials were published under a "free to use with attribution" copyright license, an really early version of the Creative Commons idea. I am not sure about the original source of the game, but I am pretty sure the use of "pico" and "fermi" was due to Bob Albrecht.
It's not that hard. Just make a script to do regular backups to S3. Cheap and easy. Hell, just run the whole thing on Amazon. Unlimited private repos, reliable uptime & backup, and cheap storage.
It might have been if he had a normal pancreatic cancer, but, as has been pointed out in numerous informed sources, islet cell carcinoma is very slow-acting. His initial prognosis was presumably fairly good.
Yes, 'creators' are part of the public. But the 'IP owning' side are clearly getting an unjustly disproportionate power over government.

The extra money IP supposedly allows creators to make does not come from nowhere: it is paid for by everyone else, the consumers. And consumers have just as much interest in having money as creators.

So IP is a tradeoff, and for that to work properly, both parts must be properly represented. Which is the point at issue.

(And this 'artists rights' stuff is nothing but PR spin. They have no intrinsic right to have a special market-restriction set up for them. Do tea-makers have special rights to a monopoly on tea-selling: so tea can only be sold in tea-shops, and no-one is allowed to make tea at home? With a justification that otherwise tea-makers cannot make so much money? How would the public greet a law to do that -- here is the proposition: everyone must pay more for tea, but in return tea-makers earn more money! No-one is going to be interested in that; do you want to pay more just so someone else gets more money? No, of course not. So, mutatis mutandis, the 'public' is only interested in granting monopoly privileges to creators of 'IP' because they get something in return (supposedly, more product) -- and they expect to get a good deal, not one rigged in favour of industry representatives.)
There's just something about an application that not only performs well, but also doesn't look like a Geocities homepage sprinkled with sendmail.cf, that makes me smile.
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Well, this kind of puts a new spin on the saying "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"!
So they re-opened that offer? When they closed it I had to endure about six dire e-mails when all I wanted to say was screw you, I've already re-hosted my stuff.
That's why you check what school the degree is from.
gitorious is open-source, therefore you can run your own instance.
"Be less busy. Seriously, we’re too busy these days. Cut back on commitments, put space between things, allow yourself to have a slower pace. Your energy levels will thank you."

I think the key here is not to fill the "space" with directionless Internet/Twitter/Hacker News perusing. Easier said than done.
ihackernews has recently gotten better on comments, and is currently the best solution. Can't a mobile style sheet solve this? Or does HN's script assembled html format bollocks it up?
Retiring on 900K? Here's a breakdown for 3-4 mil range and, no, it's not enough under conservative assumptions - http://www.tonywright.com/2010/no-you-cant-retire-rich-at-30... - though this is not to say that this analysis is accurate.
My bad. From his article, it seemed as if he had something to do with choosing or making the icon:

"we used an icon from the Pictos collection. I have an email from March of 2010 where we selected that icon, in fact."

"we updated the old site's cloud icon"

"the icon isn't from Apple, it's straight from Pictos 1. I know, because we bought it from them for our site."

"it seems there is only one cloud icon in the universe and it's four circles with a flat base. I like it."

Nevertheless, though the author talks about the Pictos 1 icon set being around for years, he offers no proof for that. The Pictos website was made in 2010, years after Apple's MobileMe.
Brazil here, I always have been trying to get excited with subjects that i learn. Thats when it gets easier to be an autodidact.

So, my way to get things cool its to visualize them. from my entire hight school i've been doing that, for example:
http://wonderfl.net/c/o5vy
http://wonderfl.net/c/OskM
http://wonderfl.net/c/veRP
http://wonderfl.net/c/oD09
http://wonderfl.net/c/kkNQ
yet, still doing that on computer college
http://wonderfl.net/c/jkiG

on hight school days, i even got an friend on C++ who used to compete with me. not really compete, because we would won nothing for it. instead, we colaborate. because when you compete, you can just bring your 'enemy down', to get better than him.

ok, khan's struct is well-known.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTFEUsudhfs

I really always wanted to make an website where you could just do apps, basead on your classes, doodling or whatever. if i do that, i would aim on education, website internally. really running for it.

and, wolfram's about programming + education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60P7717-XOQ

cheers!
Baby navigates iPad, but frustrated with magazine.
Yes, I was only stating facts, and I really want to point out that if we want to understand what the world will be like in the near future, we have to understand what rapid urbanization and "mega cities" will entail - massive urban populations living in slums (chabolas or favelas, there are several terms).

Usually in these areas I just cite United Nations estimates - here are the facts from the UN:

http://www.unfpa.org/pds/urbanization.htm

If you want more info regarding "mega cities" and "mega slums", look here: http://www.itt.com/waterbook/page80.pdf

For people who want to know the other "downside" of this massive urbanization, then here's a GREAT link to an article. This website also a ton of forward-thinking articles about economic trends with larger implications:

http://www.newgeography.com/content/002170-the-problem-with-...
99% is still unfurnished, most Germans I know would never rent a furnished place unless they are students.

Update: A kitchen is often the exception.
This is my first submission, and I thought this was an exception to the "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
Better commentary on the same issue (the actual underlying blog post by a doctor and Steve Jobs fan cited by the blog linked to by LaGrange):

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-death-of-s...
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If I recall correctly, it was in his book The Red Queen where he mentions that some mushrooms have 17 sexes.
The video is way cool-- makes me think of Intel's video for their 3D transistor where they shrank (who?) down to transistor size to demo it.

Just imagine somebody shrunk to fit inside a CPU, giving exactly the same tour.
A great education system is a means to an end. The end being the host country gains a great economic engine and generally happy citizens. Does Finland have this? Singapore? South Korea?

Curious not disapproving...
I admire OP's financial project and appreciate his sharing it. I imagine quite a few people may benefit from it.

But make no mistake about it, the #1 reason for any "How I did <anything regarding money>" is really, "I am cheap."

We only get one chance at this life, and the thing that bothers me the most is, "What are you missing that you're too frugal to consider?"

Some of the greatest pleasures of my life came as a result of a discretionary purchase. Incredible people, experiences, even business opportunities came my way because I bought a product, went to an event, or took a trip that most frugal people I know wouldn't have.

Once you decide to be frugal, you'll probably be stuck that way for life because you'll rarely be in position to take advantage of those opportunities that would break the cycle.

If that works for you, fine. But not for me. I may not be extravagant, but I don't want to miss any wonderful opportunity because I was too worried about my bank balance. In the grand scheme of things, how sad that would be.

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[EDIT: Yes there is a difference between "cheap" and "frugal". Every time I mention "frugal" above, I really meant "cheap", but I was trying to be nice. I will leave it that way to make the thread below make sense. Also, I failed to mention that there's a big difference between being cheap because you have to and being cheap because you choose to.]
I am not unhappy with my carrier, China Unicom. I have a good 3G for 15$/month, no contracts. I go to the nearest cigarette seller and buy cards to pay them, and it stops when i stop paying, that's all.

When I see my relative in France talking about their locked contracts, I cry with them.
These results are based on asking people for a subjective evaluation. Objectively speaking, Americans are still much wealthier than Chinese, and enjoy a much higher standard of living.

What's really being revealed by this poll is that it's easier to feel good about your finances when you're upwardly-mobile, and it's not so easy to feel good about your finances when you're downwardly-mobile.
The sound reminded me of piston contraptions in minecraft...
The best book for Lua by a longshot is Roberto Ierusalimschy's _Programming in Lua_, second ed. (http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/pil2/) It covers the core language and the C API with the same clear, erudite treatment as K&R. (He is one of the core Lua authors.)

Once you get the big ideas, there's a very detailed reference online (http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/), and the mailing list and wiki at http://lua-users.org/ also have a lot of helpful info.

Lua is transitioning from 5.1 to 5.2 right now, which introduces some changes (improvements to the GC, adding to the standard libraries, and improving the package/module system). The main language and C API haven't changed significantly from 5.1; you should be fine if you learn 5.1 now and update later. Lua is small enough that you could add 5.1 to your projects as a library dependency and maintain it yourself, though - it's only about 16,000 lines of code.
Sorry Colin. I didn't at all mean to imply that 50 is any kind of... "end", or some such.

I deeply respect the judgement, wisdom, and mental strength that comes to a person only by experiencing four dozen years. The person who mentored me in my first professional programming capacity was almost 50, and I learned so very much from him.

That said, it is a unique personal decision: I have decided (when I was 21) that I personally only "plan" on living until 50. It seems the safest course. Maybe it's playing it safe. I have more thoughts, but I don't wish to accidentally offend anyone; they're merely my own.
Previously on HN (54 days ago, 62 comments): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2916352
I just hope HN can place a apple-touch-icon.png at its root folder so that shortcuts on iPhone and iPad can look not the ugly blank it is. Why the reluctant?
How is being self employed retired? Is this a new meaning of the word retired that I have not heard of?

He notes on his 'start' page that a mere 1 in 9 Americans are self employed like him. Only a few 10s of millions of people then?

I think your office of national statistics would disagree with you buddy, you're a handyman, your wife's a realtor. You're not retired.

What a plonker.
People like the author of this should be banned from the Internet. Almost everything in that post is wrong or misleading.

1) In C, a struct maps to memory

A struct maps to memory, sure, but not in a defined way. For popular machine architectures, there is usually an ABI standard which specifies the mapping. For less popular ones, each compiler does whatever it wants.

It is correct that a struct representation may include padding, but the author makes several mistakes explaining it. Firstly, there may never be padding at the start of a struct, which is the only rule dictated by the C standard. Secondly, he fails to mention why padding is sometimes used (to achieve natural alignment for all members). Finally, he suggests using implementation-specific pragmas or flags to pack the struct without padding.

Apart from padding, there is a further problem with this approach which the author fails to mention: byte order. If the data file was written with a different byte order than the machine executing this, all multi-byte values will come out wrong.

As another commenter points out, the correct solution to all of the above is to perform explicit marshalling between the struct and a serialised format.

2) In C, structs are allowed to "run off the end" [...] As long as a symbol is backed by real memory, you can do what you want with it -- including running it past its boundaries

Nothing could be more wrong. C very explicitly disallows accessing an address outside a declared object, array, or dynamically allocated block (malloc). Even computing such an address is forbidden. The errors resulting from breaking these rules are often very hard to pinpoint.

The zero-length array suggested is also in violation of the standard, which requires that arrays have a positive size. In C99, structs are allowed to end with a "flexible array member", which is an array with no declared size at all. This array can then be accessed as though it has as many elements as will fit before the end of the containing object or dynamically allocated block.

Declaring a 1-element array and accessing beyond the end of it is invalid even if the resulting address is otherwise within the containing object. Violating this will, again, lead to subtle errors which are hard to find.

3) In C, you can compute an offset within a struct [...]

While the null pointer casting suggested here usually works, offsetof() is the preferred method, and the author even mentions this in a footnote. An important distinction not mentioned is that offsetof() must expand to an integer constant expression, which the address-of expression is not. This means that only the former may be used where an integer constant expression is required, such as (static) array sizes and case labels (using a struct member offset for either of those seems rather unlikely, of course).
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What are the problems that you see with Gitorious?

I just set it up at work and it went very smoothly. I'd like to torpedo it before we actually start using it, if it's going to be a problem.
Well, they're so easy once you've taken the time to get your head around how to set them up. Before you've engaged in that minimal amount of shaving, though, it's just one more freaking detail you don't have time for.
it wasn't working then but then the next day they changed something and it worked. Thanks :)
Sorry, but his stock trading seems bit hard to believe.

He's saying that he made money on stocks during the dot com boom and during the bust as well? I don't think that's possible, unless he was psychic enough to short at the top.

Anyone who made money on stocks during the bust got their heads handed to them during the bust. No one believed that the bust was going to happen. One of my coworkers turned 50k in 1999 into 250k by 2000, and then 6 months after the bust started, he was down to 20k. EVERYONE during that time thought they were stock picking geniuses, so when stocks went down, they thought it was a buying opportunity. I can't imagine there were any stocks you could have bought during the bust where he could have made money, let alone increase in value by 50%!!! During those years he went for 67k to 150k to 250k!

Unless he was shorting stocks, there really wasn't any stocks that survived the bust very well, especially if he was investing in the likes of Cisco, etc.

The same goes for 2008/2009. Unless this guy is some sort of stock trading guru, he would have lost 50% of his stock portfolio yet he made $35k. It just doesn't sound right.
True, but didn't it used to be that sharecropping mainly meant building plugins to existing applications (i.e. adding a plugin to Microsoft Word). Suddenly sharecropping is broadened to writing an application on someone else's Operating System! This is extremely scary that we now consider that sharecropping as well.
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damn i saw it and the potter fan inside me woke up, i clicked it and.. bummer. but the vid was nice :)
I was hoping for a site where I could finally enter a hex code or something and find out what color it is. I find it very hard to differ dark blue and purple and dark yellows and bright greens.
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Apparently, this is based on Qi, which tried to update Lisp with, among other things, types (type checking/inference/pattern matching/etc.)
If Copenhagen is anything like other Scandinavian countries (I'm Norwegian), then it goes like this:

- If the ad doesn't list dates and times when the apartment will be shown, you phone up the landlord and make an appointment.

- You go and see the apartment. Obviously you will be in competition with other applicants.

- Talk to the landlord and make a good impression -- do whatever is needed to make the owner pick you.

- If you are interested in renting, you write down your contact details in the applicant book.

- The landlord will go home and consider the applicants and phone up the lucky winner.

- The landlord may require a credit assessment to determine your financial situation. Some landlords require references from earlier tenancies.

- You meet the landlord to sign a formal lease (Scandinavian countries are pretty strict about landlord/tenant rights) and get the keys.

When I was renting in NYC, things were different. None of the places I rented (which I found on Craigslist) would have open house dates; instead, you would make a personal appointment with the landlord. Also, landlords seemed to prefer email.
Browsers have used cache and tmp directories for as long as I can remember and none of them automatically delete that content for me.

Is it really so hard for me to get some type of notification from the OS saying I have very little free space and I have x amount in temporary files stored and give me the option to remove them. It could tell me that removing these files may have adverse effects on 3rd party applications I might have installed.
I am assuming the author and his wife are both Canadian citizens. If he moved to the U.S. in year 3, and his wife a year later, I wonder how the guy has retired (without moving back to Canada)? He got his green card in 4 years or less? Not likely. Did he already have it? Also, if he was on H1 visa, it's very unlikely (if possible at all) to become less-than-full-time worker (as he did in year 8) in this status. Lots of questions..