skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am one of the biggest dmr and ken fans in the world.

dmr and ken are definitely the pioneers, they're like elvis and jerry lee lewis.

sj is bob dylan (inspirational)

larry page and sergey brin are milli vannili (one hit wonder copy cats)

and bill g is linkin park (he just plain sucks)
I got it from here: http://spamcheck.postmarkapp.com/doc
Very, very cool.

If you think about it, the underlying technology is not that much different from those LED/LCD video games back in the 80s where different images would light up simulating motion, etc. I remember the coolest thing as a kid was a Pac-man LCD watch, which in fact really sucked, but I was a dumb kid and didn't know better. Also, it was cool that it was a portable video game.

Regardless, this is definitely cool. (But is it just me or does Mario go from left to right...?)
Is there an overview somewhere of the (necessarily nonstandard!) ways of getting malloc() to crash your program instead of returning 0?
Fucking piece of shit Arc. I'm very sorry that this comment I wrote above is completely fucking wrong because of the deletion of asterisks.
> ...you're very much a net negative.

Not he spends his life inspiring and educating people about how to control their finances, and make money serve them instead of the other way around. That would be a very valuable social contribution.

And yes his lifestyle is extreme, but people don't have to follow him that far to get benefit from what he says.
From my own experience, the fastest way to learn is to think of some project you can be passionate about and start getting your feet wet. Start with something simple, and don't worry if it's already been done, go and do it your own way.

When you have a vision of how you want something to work, that becomes the driving force you need to go out and find the resources you need to get it done, rather than stumbling through exercises with no end result. To me the difference is like riding my bike outside on a nice day to get a workout, and riding a stationary bike indoors.
How much music production will be done on the iPad?
No, a byte is not always 8 bits. byte and char are basically synonymous.

byte -- addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold any member of the
basic character set of the execution environment.
...
Note 2: A byte is composed of a contiguous sequence of bits,
the number of which is implementation-defined.
Thanks! A lot of folks are saying they live on the cheap. It's nice to see a commenter who actually is showing others how. Keep up the good work.
> Next time you want to argue regarding economics, please argue with actual theoretical knowledge rather than some flimsy theoretical base that you have created in your own mind.

I can't imagine a better base for economics knowledge than Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson."

> I know every economics model there is in and out.

Then you should be familiar with Austrian economics.

Though that is probably not covered in an "advanced degree in economics!"
1. Don't reject equity, but don't lower your salary for it either.

2. If their product is profitable, why are they taking funding?

3. Go ahead and ask for numbers, they shouldn't be secret.
Yeah, that's what I'd have thought.

But I don't see the need to do the processing on the web servers.
All I read:

Peter, "put your money and energy behind your convictions" since "the world is ripe for another revolution" through "tablet-type devices" that are "ubiquitous".

Tl;dr, this whole thing is stack of non-sequiturs.
This is actually the Real Cost of Commuting
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Do without English in Computer architecture?
Is it theoretically or/and practically possible to make a new computer architecture and subsequent devices and technologies like Desktop, Tablet's, Smartphone, Camera, Video Recorder etc. without using the anything of the English Language from hardware level programming to high level. From the design of the motherboard to every aspect of Hardware and Software.
That's a good point and one of the frustrating things I find about an otherwise awesome blog. Living with a significant other is cheaper than living by yourself because I really doubt you're going to want to live in really close quarter with someone your not sleeping with.
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"you're very much a net negative"

Not at all. I can vouch that he's certainly has had a positive impact on my life and on the lives of those I have recommended read and follow his advice.

The nice thing about retirement is you can engage in "charitable" endeavors (which really is what his blog is basically, I see no way he can make a lot of money off of it and that's not his intention).
I think the question here is, how big is the company? Depending on how small or large the company is depends on everything.

If they are a small company, they probably would not be able to afford a large cash deal, and would probably try to sell you with royalties rather than a big cash payment.

A medium sized company, a nice chunk of cash and small royalties if any.

And a large company - it's an all cash deal.

I would go for a lump sum cash payment if you can take it, and if you can add royalties on top, more power to you. But again like previously stated, that can be a fishy area.

You are in an employee relationship, so you will never be able to audit books, or verify things that a normal founder would be able to easy reference check.

Get as much UPFRONT cash as you can. Consider royalties as a "bonus".

My 2 cents.
Google Labs no more
No more cool apps that we can browse via google labs
Sizing Up the Small-Business Jobs Machine
At some point during my college career I learned about the Rat Race and was propelled to discard my desire to climb the corporate ladder and decided to live a life similar to jfoucher (How I live on $7000 per year). However, after living frugally for a couple years I saved up enough money and decided to travel the world. Fast forward to today - after witnessing first hand the lives of those less fortunate while traveling in SE Asia I realized how self-centered I was to sit out of the "Rat Race" and meander along the road of my meager existence while there were other people wishing they had the knowledge, opportunity, and capacity to live and succeed in our society. There are people all over this planet that don't possess the means necessary to make impactful changes in others' lives, let alone their own, and so I asked myself: What if I took my determination and drive (clearly demonstrated in my previously frugal lifestyle habits) and applied those characteristics to actions that might benefit other people? Would those actions then be better, or more worthy, than the actions of squeaking out a living on $7,000? Personally, I decided they would be and have since then devoted myself to helping bring about change in this world.

I'm not saying everyone should view their life this way, but I understand what the author is describing and I have went through the internal struggle of trying to decide what to do with my life. Recently, I decided to go back into the world of the Rat Race and try to make the lives of those around me and myself better (building interesting software, spreading joy and wisdom, raising awareness of certain issues, etc.). I don't unconsciously spend money on things I don't need but I do if it deems fit. More over, I don't think you need to have a garden or be a homebody to live frugally.

I hope other smart, determined people don't take the route of sitting idly by the side as hoards of unaware, materialistic consumers perpetuate a system of greed and excess.
Yes, it is more to build.

However, this idea eliminates the risk that your uers won't bug each of their friends to install your app.

Also, the right design for the email notification can act as great marketing for your app. You can certainly make a better landing page on your website than your app's product page in the App Store.
Unfortunately the story focuses on the celebrity angle, but it is interesting for one specific detail that there was a substantive disagreement over mandatory use of Facebook accounts with Spotify that was the source of contention.
Cultural pressure must start with awareness.
But it's not clear that Instapaper is allowed to put the files in Documents. According to the Data Storage Guidelines cited in the article:

1. Only documents and other data that is user-generated, or that cannot otherwise be recreated by your application, should be stored in the <Application_Home>/Documents directory and will be automatically backed up by iCloud.

2. Data that can be downloaded again or regenerated should be stored in the <Application_Home>/Library/Caches directory. Examples of files you should put in the Caches directory include database cache files and downloadable content, such as that used by magazine, newspaper, and map applications.

I don't know if this is something enforced in the approval process, but it seems like Apple's intention is for redownloadable content to all be stored in temporary, wipeable locations.
IOS 5 Bugs
Yes!

I wasted almost 6 months last year attempting to replicate some results from a paper I was reading. It turned out the authors of the paper hadn't included in the paper a key addition to their equations, which they were nonetheless using in their code. ANGER.
A sort of mixed 5-ary (pentinary?) works well too.

Count to 5 on your dominant hand and then use your other hand twice for the the next highest place digit. Count from the thumb, then when both hands are full, at 30, drop the left hand thumb. This is strong IMO as counting to 5 on one hand is quick and easy. Though I've only used this a couple of times.

I know some BSL too which means I can count to 19 using different hand gestures of one hand (my right) quite readily. Using that with the above method of holding the higher placed digit gives me a count of 200 that I can work with much more easily than using binary. I find binary finger counting very hard.

Practically I tend to just use mental arithmetic and work with images of digits in sums in my head.
The article is miss-titled, it should be:

Leveraged Retirement....

not in the Donald Trump way but the concept is similar...now for the bonus question what is he leveraging and what benefits does he get in return for that leveraging? He did somewhat obtusely answer it..and no the previously earned and saved Six figures is not what he is leveraging..
Woz on Apple: 'I'm a little afraid'
I don't understand what you're driving at.

Software represents only a fraction of "everything that's on the Internet", creators of software only a fraction of creators in general, and creators in general being only a fraction of "the masses".
I agree. Sounds like a great app, but to be useful, I have to pay for it and so do each of my friends (unless you add the email / SMS feature suggested above).

I suggest a fremium pricing model. Perhaps all features are free exept one killer feature, which is an optional in-app purchase. For example - push notifications when one of your friends suggests an activity.
Plus he has the shittiest $82 health insurance plan he could find, and he doesn't calculate the costs of what will happen if he gets sick.

A bigger issue with the cheap health plans is they tend to have a very high deductible, usually in the $2000 - $3000 range (his is $3500! http://earlyretirementextreme.com/my-hdhp-hsa-and-some-comme...). If you end up in the E.R. once for anything, like a fever, you have to pay that entire deductible. For some, a single blood test will trigger it too.

Granted you typically only have to pay it once per year max (meaning you won't pay it for subsequent E.R. visits in the current coverage period), but it's a heavy penalty none-the-less.
It's not that hard to accumulate $100K if you're in IT. Just working for $100-150K a year and investing $20-30K annually should do it very quickly.

Now accumulating $1M in a span of 5-10 years is much more challenging. I'm yet to solve that problem.
If you need more than Dropbox's 2GB for free, SkyDrive offers 25GB. It's not as usable, though.
Make a sandwich with it as the bread.
Maybe they don't believe in the Lisp notion that code is data.
You're conflating open vs closed, customizable vs non-customizable and (strangely) open source development.

open/closed and customizability are at least commonly related in practice so I can see the train of thought there. Mentioning design by committee is just weird though, it's only related in that Apple has famously not done this as well as been closed and non-customizable.

I can only assume that you own a car you have modified with aftermarket parts all to hell and "fuck[ed] every aspect of" because it was possible and really wish someone had made it tinker proof to save you from yourself. Otherwise you sound like some arrogant technically literate person who feels that he or she knows what less technically competent people should be allowed to do with their own possessions because it's for their own good.
Most academic code is poor quality and not easily extensible/wrappable. I suspect many people would still develop their own code.

People might be more lazy in some situations, I agree, but at the same time the number of eyes per lines of code will increase, which may be a net gain.
In theory, sure. In practice, it's easier to learn English than to translate all the field's knowledge into another language (or reinvent it).
Living in an RV is not "living well". Flush toilets are generally a minimum standard for that.
Actually that is NOT at all what my argument is. My argument is that people can produce as much as they want, but you still need someone to consume your product. Just being productive gives you only the supply side, but what about demand, why make would make something when people do not demand it.

Remember PG's rule: Make something that people want. Want is demand.

You cannot make things without taken into contention who would consume them and by how much. A business is based on how many people actually USE what it makes, and are ready to pay for it.
Spot on if you write A* for a game company woopty do, if you write A* for a delivery company you just saved them millions.
Unusual problem for me... I installed it on a MAMP instance and I don't seem to be able to do an initial authentication. At first I thought just didn't remember my username/password correctly. So I dropped my tables and started again. But the same thing happened. I stepped back a few screens and noted what I thought to be just weird typo... but it showed:

Your Account Credentials
You can login to the control panel, and throughout the site, with:

Username: or
Password:

This is unmodified output from the page. It looks like the username and password should be present here. It was not. So maybe something usual with my installation of MAMP that could be creating this side effect.

The user record definitely exists. I don't see errors in the server logs. Want to help me figure out where I went wrong?
How to set up a faster Android emulator
This is touched on in some of the other posts, so I won't belabor the point, but the issue with only positive feedback is that there isn't a way to identify items that are popular but also controversial.

For example, an Airbnb venue with 5,000 likes would be considered 'better' than one with 500. But add in negative feedback, and consider if the same venue with 5,000 likes also had 4,500 dislikes, while the venue with 500 likes only had 50 dislikes.

Negative feedback helps us discern between if something is 'better' or simply 'popular' -- the latter can be gamed with marketing, while the former is much harder.
It's brutal when you think that if you made one giant repo they'd do it for almost nothing, but because you picked this other layout it could cost you $20-$50/month.

I want prices to be based on resource usage for the most part. If I've got a huge repo and I'm always using it, that would cost more. If I've got fifty tiny and essentially static projects then they'd be almost free to host. Give me non-arbitrary pricing and I'll be there.
You might not like his politics, but former Vice President Cheney's auotbiography shows how many second chances the real world provides.
> This is a REAL potential game changer

There is one problem. Google is going to spend $150 million on content, to earn about $10M in ad sales, and then will cancel the program. Cable companies charge an average of $1000/year per household and have 90% penetration. The economics of web video just can't compete.
Permanent structures do wash away in floods and blow away in storms. And if you have a storm warning, you can actually move your house out of the way of the storm.
Books are a horrible example of a consumption device, the printing press profoundly opened up the ability to write and distribute books and ideas.

Sure, the modern pace of life makes writing and printing a book seem difficult but at the time modern books were a fantastic democritization of the ability to produce literature and distribute ideas compared to the status quo of being illiterate and going to church to be read to by those with access to the books.
If people are willing to move for college they should be willing to move for "uncollege" (and people who aren't willing to move are in trouble; see Detroit). Likewise, borrowing ~$12K/year for living expenses should be less burdensome than borrowing ~$40K/year for college.

(Although I don't think those particular objections are valid, I'm still not in favor of the "uncollege" concept.)
I really like Boulder as a city. What I tell everyone is that its a perfect mix of big-city happenings with a small town feel.

The people there are exceptionally nice and the weekly farmer's market is the best I've ever been to. It's a great vibe.

As far as tech goes I know its got a significant scene there but I don't know how it fares relative to the big players (SF, Seattle, etc). check out http://boulderstartupweek.com/ as I think there's a list of companies currently based in boulder.

Lots of outdoor activities as well. I personally would live in Boulder and just may do that soon enough =)
Adidas Star Wars for Sale
how is this different to Current TV? and the ratings for this haven't gone through the roof.
Yes, but you won't go bankrupt like so many people claim you will without health insurance. Why don't more people get this $80 plan?
If they are really profitable (and make sure to check that), I'd take as much equity as I could, but I'd definitely ask what % of all equity these stocks represent.

It could be like "here, we're giving you 10,000 SHARES!!!", only to later find out they issued 10 billion shares.
There actually probably are enough restaurants to cover it in NYC and SF.
"Its very easy but I won't put one of those on this page."
I could program an Arduino with a pair of tweezers, son.

...

Seriously, I have no idea. I suppose Apple's too cool for USB ports, but maybe Wifi? That ups the cost of your Arduino setup, it's true, but still - there has to be something you can do to communicate between your iPad and your Arduino that doesn't involve a general-purpose machine in between.
Programming is just one aspect of being a software developer, You already are touching on design by your mention of OOP, the syntax, data structures, etc should come fairly naturally after some experience but learning proper design patterns is also very important to progressing as a developer. Also, I'd recommend really delving into some projects on your own, if you are applying to programming jobs and haven't spend (at minimum) hundreds of hours programming on your own projects you can't expect to succeed in the interview. When I decided to pursue dev as a full-time career I spent about 3 months doing nothing but writing code all day, for my own projects, they were just stupid things I thought would be cool at the time but it taught me a lot and led to getting hired.

Also, in my work experience, the ability to just get things done (or elegantly explain why something is not possible given current constraints) is what matters. Get the basics down, get some self-projects under your belt and then go into a job with the mindset that you are going to get things done, even if you have to go home and spend extra time at first, its worth it as you will keep learning and progressing. Overall, its not about knowing every possible aspect of a language or having everything memorized, its being able to take resources you have available (which includes search engines) and finding a solution to a problem. Even experienced developers (people I work with who have 10, 15 years exp) still spend plenty of time doing research on given topics, in software development its expected that you can do research productively to learn to solve a particular problem, if you haven't already encountered it, no one would, or at least should, expect you to have every possible solution memorized.
I actually like 5 stars: 3 is average, then 4 above average, etc. I just don't like that you can't give 0 stars.
“The Applebee’s of software development” – we aren’t your neighborhood waiters
I'd be curious of stats via the API as well as stats you guys are processing on postmark as well. Not so much to change my life, but an impressive view into the life of a processing system.

Starting with the type of stats you mentions is great... rates at which the API is being called throughout the day overlapped with rates at which that volume is spam.

I could envision a nice looking bar chart (green) for every hour showing the standard volume bell curve ramping up at 6 am and back down around 4pm and then overlayed on that is another set of bars (red) that show how much of that mail was spam, and how much was (orange) ham or something like that.

Would just give a nice pizzaz to the service and by extension postmark I imagine.

I suppose if you throw what I'm saying into a pot and boil it down, I want you guys to become like Akismet. Every WordPress user knows what it is, everyone uses it and when you find yourself in a non-wordpress environment you reach for the Akismet APIs to help you out anyway.

I figure you guys can popularize postmark via a similar route.
James Altucher has a great writing style.

www.jamesaltucher.com
Well of course there is that other Austrian Economist, you know the one produced the Chicago School of Thought with Milton Friedman: Friedrich Von Hayek, who is one of the biggest reason that monetary economics came to the fore. And with all due respect Henry Hazlitt, as brilliant as he was as a public intellectual, he is not an economist that is often taught in curricula. Economics is highly quantified and Hazlitt's contribution was economic philosophy.

And here is a concise history of Austrian School of thought, most of which came from London School of Economics post-1930, Nowhere does anyone mention Hazlitt:

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/AustrianSchoolofEconomics...
> eating out more, because I realized it was relatively cheap.

Relative to what? My experience is that eating out is extremely expensive.
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Out of curiosity, why are you asking this? Sure, most of those topics are covered in other popular languages too. Most of it is translated though, so I'm not sure if that would be allowed. You would have to reinvent the wheel many times if you don't want anything that's in English.
Every Austrian economics school recommendation should immediately be followed by the caveat:

The Austrian school of economics is like the anti-climate change minority, but in economics. If you accept their premises you are in the minority of professionally recongized economics.
Regarding vendors or business opportunities, I usually respond and politely tell the person that I'm not interested. It only takes a few seconds.
I am not trying to be dismissive, but I am trying to talk with some theoretical base. Initially Nirvana derided my claims, in my opinion, without producing an actual theoretical base for his claims. He also said I should learn economics from Hazlitt's economic philosophy, rather than from a university, which is quite demeaning.