skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saving for mid 60's retirement only takes ~10% of your earnings which is just not that much money. I save ~22% of what I make now because I like the safety of knowing being unemployed for 6months is not going to be a big deal. My goal is to get used to spending what I do now and keep dumping the extra into savings because scraping by is less than pleasant, but spending more has diminishing returns. So far I worked 3.5 years and took 6months off which ate up 1/2 of my savings, and I am now 2 years into my next job which is less stressful, 40h/week, and pays better. Being unemployed is slightly more pleasant but not that big a deal vs working at this job.

Anyway, I like the fact money is really unimportant in my life. I can eat out and it does not break the bank yet I also don't care if I get laid off or fired. Next time I am unemployed I could eat out less spend and spend less money, but getting a job a little sooner is not that big a deal and people look at you funny when you have long stretches of unemployment plus I never really found much in the way of a mid day social life.

PS: If in a few years I have 50k of non retirement money sitting around I could take a year off, do a start up and not feel as cash strapped, or whatever but retiring mid 40's is also a reasonable goal based on my spending habits and and how much money I will probably make with a few more years in the field.
O2 launches Litmus - App Dev Program
iPhone, Android and now Litmus ... App devs enjoy!
To me, you're proving you know how to play the game.
The data-gathering aspect of my suggestion was, to me, the most interesting part.
It's unclear why the financial industry bailout is relevant. If the financial bailout was a mistake, it's unclear why that mistake is an argument for giving money to GM. If the financial bailout was a good idea and implementation,it's unclear which reasons (and mechanisms) also apply to GM.

In other words, "he got some" is not actually a valid argument. (FWIW, that's true whether "some" is money or sex.)
"70% stocks"

That might be the traditional wisdom from the last 20 years or so, but it might not be so wise now or for the next (possibly long) while.
Ask YC: Which is better to work at, a lab or a startup?
If you have ever had the chance to work at any or both of the two, which would you rather work at again - a research laboratory or a fast paced startup? In which of the two does one learn more and gets exposed to new ideas and concepts?
> FWIW, most economists seem to be for the financial bailout and against the auto one.

Most economists think that they understand the financial system and its effect on the economy better than they understand domestic car makers and their effect. Even if they're correct (about their relative knowledge), their ignorance about the latter makes their conclusion suspect.

"Follow the money" is a dumb rule. "Follow self-interest and self-perception" is a great rule.
a-ha discovered this technology years ago to make their video "take on me"
If you expect a lot of german visitors, you might want to partner up with http://allmytea.de/ ... a site that lets people mix and then order their own tea.

I showed this HN posting to a friend of mine. His reaction was basically "OMFG THAT WAS MY IDEA!"
Don't confuse trademark with copyright. Copyright goes to creators (or their employers in the case of work for hire). Trademarks go to folks who develop/have associations.

They're not always the same.
what type of money are you looking for?
awesome talk. I love him.
You could try adding them to http://layofftalent.com/
Short answer - no. They'll inflate the currency and/or declare bankruptcy. I'd prefer more of the latter than the former.
Harvard Business Publishing? They edited my comment.

I wrote a comment, part of which you read see here: http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/stibel/2008/12/mapreduce-go...

Then a few hours later my comment has been edited -- they removed a few sentences. (I don't remember the text I wrote exactly, but I said that: 1) the author of this article should have showed his text to at least some CS student, 2) I didn't expect that Harvard Business Publishing could publish articles by such incompetent authors.)

Here we go. They could have deleted my comment, but instead they decided to edit my speech. Why just they don't rewrite everything I said?
It seems CSS is eagerly following C++ templates into the Turing tarpit. For an alternative, I've heard good things about the TeX "boxes and glue" layout model.
I would like to see if they could read images if a person just thought about them, rather than actually saw them.

I imagine it would take a bit of training to be able to visualize images in ways that a computer can read them - I imagine children would be best at learning thought-commands quickly. Just as my grandparents could never quite learn how to touch-type, I imagine my grandchildren will kick my ass at thinking into their computers ;)
Moon sails close to Earth
What on earth does a little app like tumblr need 4.5 mil for? You could run the company for >10 years off that without ever charging anyone a penny. But how is that a sound investment level?
Great, now they deleted my comment. Better than editing it.
Does anybody care to set up the experiment with short-selling enabled? Would be interesting to watch.
My biggest horror with all this new W3C tech, is that in reality: it's really old. Because of Microsoft's stupid mistakes while reigning power over the browser world, we've been in this 10 year period of stagnation in which we've go nowhere.

There's no real laws you can put against Microsoft, but if this were a real world situation, we'd be trying them for crimes against humanity. They have effectively ceased innovation for an incredible amount of time, and I would go ahead and say that they've slowed down the exceedingly fast development of the last decade.

CSS3, Javascript 2, HTML 5, XHTML 2, etc. should've came out years ago. Possibly in different forms, but nonetheless this monopolization over a browser market has killed _everything_.

I am glad that Google is getting into this game. Not only because it will definitely give Microsoft a run for its money, but we will finally have new innovation that before seemed to take years to implement.
Useless, sexist, infantile pandering that's using the 2.0 label and 'startups' to generate buzz for a dying elephant (the NYT).
That's a reason why you ought to be cautious for your own sake: why you should always be aware of your surroundings and of the things happening around you and even around your country. But you can't live your life in constant fear. Even if that helps you survive, that's a miserable life to live.

I think it helps to admit that you might die at any minute, and then throw that into a small, survival-geared part of your mind and go about living your life anyway. Fact of the matter is, a great deal of people live long and happy lives, and for most people live is pretty good. Too many bright people throw out the evidence of happiness to dwell on the bad.
Fake jobs kept afloat through government spending and therefore funds from taxpayers is even worse in the long run than jobs lost now because at least those people now out of work can find other gainful employment where they are actually needed. Over the long term (which in this case is anything over 3 years), its far far better that the big 3 go bankrupt now and fire a large portion of their employee base than for them to stay on a zombies on federal life support and continue to drain the economy forever. Remember, government financing isn't free.
The Customized Steam-Punk Mouse
Efficiency assumes rational players. When bubbles happen there isn't much rationality available.
Well my guess would be that they have a structured data back end of titles, authors, and so forth. They can then look at the query string and extract everything that looks like a proper noun (or doesn't exist in a dictionary) and and compare that against their structured data database.

I'm sure it's more advanced than that but that would get you pretty far.
Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer
This is a key notion with regards to the success of programming languages. Programming languages are only partly a technological artifact. The sociological and cultural aspects are just as important, if not more so.
Not surprisingly. Generating parseable strings, e.g. balanced sequences of parentheses, requires more than a Markov chain.
True, but they're not going to hit the cache anyway for the plugins, so download time will still be slow.
everyone loves obama / democrats until a bill actually comes up that they care about. thank god for republicans! we're gonna miss you these next 2 years.
I'd like to add a couple more points:

1. Arc isn't just immature. pg made it quite clear that it's not even finished!

2. pg has also explicitly said that he isn't interested in it becoming popular, which goes some way to explaining why it isn't.

3. pg announced some five years ago that Arc wouldn't be 'especially object-oriented' and gave his reasons why. Exactly why was this a surprise to anyone?
The Enderton book was what we used for my Mathematical Logic course, and it was pretty good. Thin, but a pretty clear and (apparently) comprehensive presentation.
What's so magic about heavy manufacturing that (stereotypical) Americans always long for it?
someone calling 70% of the users dumb makes him look dumber.

By the way don't put in tags something that wasn't said in the article. I even went back to see how I missed reading that.
Watch bigger brighter moon tonight: moon at its closest to earth since 1993
If you really love coding (and are good at it), you should never have to work(+) a day in your life.

+-Sure, you'll have to write code, but for me that's an enjoyable play/hobby activity that companies are all too happy to pay me all too much for. "Work" in the preceding PP is something that you don't like doing and would only do in exchange for money.

Find the right role in the right company, and you could easily have your "office hobby" that you use to pay the bills for your other hobbies and leisure time.

Over the years, I'd say that I've been paid on average 4x what it would actually have required to secure my services, and the minimum amount is really driven by what it would cost me to eat, drink, sleep and be merry. (It turns out however, that that "surplus" 3x has made my life considerably more comfortable and, in some areas, extravagant. I hope my boss doesn't read this until after he's decided on my raise and bonus for the year. ;) )
A Russian blogger once described his dream of a music theory book with matrices of notes corresponding to chords in multidimensional time, e.g. the classic 3x3 magic square being the 2D-time counterpart to the major triad. Every perfect musical piece corresponded to a consonant n-dimensional hyperchord.

PS: just checked the Lo Shu, sure enough it has 4 5 6 on the main diagonal, proportional to the tones of a major triad. Want some of his weed.
Some of the apparent sight deposits already have some clauses that make them more like term deposits. I.e. I read the fine print on my savings account and that talks of certain limits and (mild) penalties for withdrawing too much money at once.
All known information (whether it is correct or not) is reflected in the price of a security.

Eventually, yes. But not intermediate to short term.

EMT removes subjectivity of information. People perceive (or fail to) certain data differently than others. The market is a collection of that perception combined with uncertainty. To ignore that fact is not practical over the short term.

Evidence: see the premarket futures today.
It seems that anything that comes out of "standards bodies" ends up looking like C++. Standards in general need to become simpler.
Bad analogy, the Zune is harmful at any price/quality.
And more gibrish from the peanut gallery. Cisco by far is one of the friendliest companies to the open source movement. How friendly do you think they will be now?
> "[Writing an IE plugin using CLR that actually works on most people's computers] is a little bit tricky," Allen said.

Ya think? I'd call that the understatement of the week.
This is a personal question, and assuming you are in that position I don't understand why you are asking others what they'd do.

Nobody can guarentee the startup will be fast paced, if it's indeed a startup.
WonderGlen viral site's creators unmasked: ex-"Daily Show" producer, source says
> If the Big 3 disappear, it's an enormous downward force on demand. Japanese companies can't immediately start producing more cars to make up for the slack from a Big 3 failure, so the suppliers would likely disappear.

It seems like this is confusing cause and effect. The big 3 disappear because of a major downward force in demand, they don't cause it. If demand were healthy, they wouldn't disappear in the first place, as people would be buying their cars and giving them cash.

I need a car within the next month. I was going to buy Japanese anyway, but say I wasn't. I can't imagine any scenario where I'd just say "Well, the American car makers are gone, so I'm just not going to buy a car." I'd go buy a Japanese or Korean car instead.
I found a lot of the copy on the site was geared toward people very familiar with javascript and js frameworks, and that a lot of assumptions were made about the skill level of your visitors.

I have been doing web app dev for quite a while now and never took time to learn javascript outside of using tutorials and jquery.

What are the requirements or good-to-knows before beginning to learn objective-j? Also, more tutorials on working with rails would be nice.
Doesn't this sound like suicide for FSF?

With violations like these involving bare necessities of any application like gcc, binutils people would have no option but to pay MSFT or other companies. On these lines FSF can sue pretty much everyone.

This seems more like something went wrong with Cisco and Stallman and they suddenly cropped up.
Extending CSS Spriting
It also has some takeaway about how to build your product.

Make a product which the users are going to be excited about and want to preserve, so they will help other people trying to use it.

There seem to be enough people around who don't get that, that it's a non-obvious insight. It's probably because they are just like the "C++ people" in the story, though; they've already made up their minds before you started talking to them.
I used to do this years ago - I'd get home from a night at the bar and decide to sling some code. Ultimately I had to stop doing it though; the code I wrote was written in such a different style than my ordinary style that it became problematic to troubleshoot easily.

That being said, there was more than one occasion where I solved a problem after drinking that I was having a problem figuring out prior to it.
What part exactly confused you? Your write-up is really confusing.
You're running on the unstated assumption that the bailout will work. This is not safe to assume. Tossing people out on the street can still be more merciful than bailing them out, if the bailout fails and you still toss them out onto the street, only into a worse situation. Or, if you further distort the economy to bailout the poor auto workers, you may toss out millions of other people onto the street instead, only not in one recognizable group.

The idea that this bailout is free, harmless, and guaranteed to work is wrong on three counts. It's not a choice between "Save their jobs" and "heartlessly cut their jobs", it's a matter of figuring out where the pain goes and how to minimize it, and there are more stakeholders here than just the autoworkers. Raising taxes to save the autoworkers will drive other businesses out of business and drive other taxpayers over the edge into bankruptcy, and the fact that they are not easily visible doesn't make that less true. Failing to raise taxes means that much more debt, which has its own consequences. (Regardless, you can't get away from opportunity costs.)

I believe in free market optimization precisely because I believe it is the most merciful and the best for the autoworkers and everybody else in the medium and long run, and the more you dick with the short run by stealing money from the productive to pay for the unproductive, the worse the medium and long run get.
This link you sent me... there is no flow, or thesis. What does it say? All headlines. Trashed.
Social Media Ad Revenue Will Never Match Search
Using open source will only get us so far. I've heard the VC and angel idea that you should raise money when you don't need it, but right now that is painfully circular.
The fact that a big part of the tradition is "passing on" the techniques used to build the shrine reminds me of this:
http://xkcd.com/297/
> Nobody can guarentee the startup will be fast paced, if it's indeed a startup.

This point isn't repeated enough. I've worked with startups where the pace was crazy-fast: like, finish that impossible feature that 3 other devs have tried and failed at by tomorrow, because we've got a demo. I've also worked at variants of this where the pace is the same, but the direction ends up changing every 2 weeks, so you never actually get anything substantive done. I've worked at startups where you work really fast, in one focused direction, for a long time and then find out it was the wrong direction and jump off a cliff. I've worked at startups that were really fast in the beginning, and then bogged down as we discovered the problem was much harder than expected. And then I've worked at startups where the pace was the same or slower than a normal company.

Startups are like a box of chocolates: ya never know what ya gonna get. ;-)
The market guarantees it though;-) Otherwise it won't last long.
KPSS Tercihlerİ
What a wonderful sermon.

In today's society, when we want to criticize some kind of discourse we often say it is "preachy," implying like a sermon, which is understood to be the lowest form of human communication or something.

I never understood that mindset. As Clay Shirky demonstrates here, the sermon can be the most uplifting and inspiring and motivating form of communication we have. Turning off the brain is not inherent in the form at all, quite the opposite.

As another example, Barack Obama's oratory is undeniably influenced and inspired by sermons. Particularly, the African American sermon, perhaps the highest form of this art. The obvious example being Martin Luther King, Jr., a good candidate for greatest speaker of the 20th century.

And if you don't think Clay Shirky's talk here is sermon like, may I suggest you just haven't heard many sermons, or at least not many good ones.
Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez Condemns Free National Wi-Fi

There; fixed that for you.
IPlayer Performance tricks behind the scenes
Save the Internet and Keep Technology Costs Down
Why has no one pointed out that implementing WiFi on wireless frequencies that aren't the b/g 2.4GHz or the a 5GHz won't work with any existing WiFi devices?

Basically, this is a free, new wireless data service that requires new equipment purposes (should it go through). It would also be a service with near no bandwidth. Wireless is a shared resource. That's one of the reasons its slower than hard lines. If I was the only user on AT&T's HSDPA tower nearest me, I could easily pull data speeds better than my cable connection, but that isn't the case. I'm broadcasting to the tower and the tower is broadcasting to me - even though it really isn't a broadcast, but a single connection. If we're talking about taking a small amount of spectrum to set this up, it won't even be 700k. 100k would be lucky, dial-up speeds or lower the likely.

In terms of providing "free" access to schools, etc. it really isn't free since it requires new equipment. In fact, it's really expensive.

I'd argue that the FCC should do the same thing they did with the Google open access auction. Put a reserve price on the auction. If no carrier is willing to pay $5bn for it with the restriction that they offer free wireless to everyone on 25% of the spectrum, then it's re-auctioned without the restriction.

Oh, and for the article's author, when you say something like 'It used to be that public resources like land and radio spectrum were leased to private companies by the government so that the "people" could profit from their use,' you need to realize that we do profit from companies paying lots of money in licensing fees since that's government revenue that doesn't need to come from my pocket and it's a win as long as companies don't overcharge for the product.
Race and the Web
I'm surprised by the claim that writing an add-on for IE is harder than for FireFox. My experience of Microsoft is that they do a good job of supporting developers through examples and documentation, whereas Mozilla does a very poor job.
We're certainly under $10M in liability, we're confident in our model, and we're seeking less formal (but free) feedback from friends and peers on it, so I think you're right - we just won't stress about it too much right now.

Thanks a lot for the advice. I really appreciate it.
They're entirely different experiences-- not even comparable-- and I recommend them both.
Look, BBC, you haven't done anything clever here. The British taxpayer OWNS you. We own every programme in your archive, we're already paid for them. Rather than wasting time and money on this you should have made your entire catalogue available for download in an open format like MPEG. A proprietary, DRM-laden format on public property is an outrage.
I'd like to push to Dropbox personally. Then everything gets pushed to all my dropbox clients automatically.
If you like this, you might also like http://tabularasa.org/
NO IT ISN'T. It's any of the computers between you and Google that influence where your unencrypted HTTP connection is going to land.
This is outrageously stupid.

First, the idea that the auto companies are going to stop producing cars in bankruptcy is false. Read up on Chapter 11 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_11).

Everything else is just plain silly (even in the bizzare world in which Detroit automakers do collapse). Hacker News deserves better than this.
You've just proved my point. A lot of people want the two-button mouse. The Mighty Mouse is effectively a two button mouse. The one-button mouse is so undesirable people buy a different one.

It's not an issue in using a mac. I never said it was. However, it reveals a cognitive blind-spot in Steve Jobs.
Just to follow up on parent post here, what is the difference between your prototype and a product? Why do you need to hire additional developers? Why do you think paying someone else to develop this product will make you better instead of worse off?

Surely a working prototype is something that you can ask people to pay for. And even if you are not covering costs, getting money in the door will cover SOME development costs and help convince someone else that people will pay for what you are building, which is the only reason they're investing in the first place.