skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why women have more of those sugar cravings
Check out the links below.

-Sugar addiction is similar to cocaine addiction. Same brain circuits are affected.
-Estrogen makes cocaine more attractive to women
-Women get addicted to cocaine (or perhaps sugar) easier than men.

http://health.msn.com/health-topics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100228625&gt1=31036
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926651.600-brains-apart-the-real-difference-between-the-sexes.html
How about moving to Europe? :p
Ops... substitute 9.64% by 9.56% in that comment. :)
And take care of the kids.
Designers tend to have different sets of skills then programmers. In my experience they're not stupid, but they would tend to find a tool like git much harder to learn then you or I and it would give them less benefit even if they did.
I live on a yacht, and when I need to get it on land I rent a crane (with operator) for the job. Price: $1000 an hour.

I'm seriously considering buying a big crane and renting it out....
I'm very happy that Subversion works for you. For me, it just blew up on an update, which corrupted the fragile .svn directories it litters all over the working copy. "svn cleanup" couldn't repair the damage. This sort of thing happens on a regular basis.

Git, on the other hand? No problems.
And how many developers have instead opted to make an iPhone-specific version that does not work on other browsers or phones ?
"I think we are in violent agreement." (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ViolentAgreement)
Read the Fun Article?
a) Why would Chrome, a browser that doesn't come bundled with PCs, save PC users from IE when they already have Firefox as an unbundled IE alternative?

b) Chrome is not a competitor to IE or Firefox or Safari or any other traditional browser. It is a competitor to Windows and OS X and other operating systems that is being snuck in wearing a very unconvicing mask with a picture of a web browser on it.
Ask YC: Do you know how to cut down a .caf file?
We just released an iPhone app that's 2.2mb. We're trying to cut down the audio .caf (.5mb now) to make it more efficient. Any ideas?
Marry a trust fund millionaire and then run for the Senate, like Kerry (D) or McCain (R).

Those guys haven't done anything productive in decades, and the paychecks keep rolling in.
It's ironic, considering that the whole thing is based on WebKit, which is the rendering engine behind Safari and an OSS project spun off by Apple.
A friend of mine runs innocentive.com, which is a smaller-scale instance of this sort of thing.
Recently laid off? Try layofftalent.com
Maybe it's on the same dev cycle as Picasa for Mac.
Curious, we use assembla on our team and our designer uses git (assembla's git) without any problems.

It's great if people want to have the choice for subversion, tho. Some people just prefer the tools they are used to instead of learning new, more powerful ones. But to use that as argument that svn doesn't suck is not a very strong point.
I'm afraid the good times won't keep rolling.

Over the next fifty years, humanity is going to face the largest ever crises amongst those that it has the ability to deal with: potential global catastrophe from climate change, and certain global catastrophe unless we develop and widely deploy effective non-fossil energy sources.

I say "it has the ability to deal with" because if people become aware of the seriousness of the situation, and are prepared to put themselves through half a century of much less comfort than we've been used to these last 25 years, then we can pull it off.
Dude, I could have written your post (with some minor changes) I feel the same way quite often.

I think it happens after you have a certain level of expertise at your job - you're not really learning anymore, you're just maintaining, putting in new features, etc. I don't job hop TOO often, but I have worked on average 2 years per job. Part of that also is geographic as well as career considerations, but it was always about the right time to leave.

I too am into Lifehacking, loved the 4HWW etc. So I think I come from a similar perspective. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer to the question, or I would not be working at my current position. It is good, and the money is good, people are awesome, etc - but it definitely feels like "work."

I think the bottom line is if your hobby can't make you money, you need to make money somewhere, somehow, to trade for the things you need (food, shelter, etc). Some of this can come from the government, depending on your personal standard of living that you are accustomed to.

In my case, I am happy to give up a portion of my life for a relatively easy, enjoyable job so that I can live comfortably, eat well, etc.

In the long run, I would definitely prefer to not trade my hours for cash programming, and would prefer a website (or large conglomerate of websites) that provided passive income, but I am not there yet.

If you would like to work together on something, you can contact me sid [at] sidsavara [dot] com.
3d isn't how to think about the interface outlined there.

Basically, apple is investigating making multitouch part of the "normal" os x interface. A touch interface has to overcome the fact that fingers aren't good for precise pointing, and thus a lot of tasks that are tedious-but-doable with a mouse (like positioning windows, or using pulldown menus, or clicking small icons) become hugely painful with a finger.

It's pretty obvious what a good touch interface for os x would have to be like:
- the app is designed with full-screen mode in mind
- the app's primary content area fits in one central area
- the tools and so on are in sidebars-and-bottom-bars

...and the app would avoid:
- overlapping windows (either within the app, or between apps) or floating palettes
- lots of little icons or finely-detailed controls

In other world: every app would look like iphoto or ical or itunes.

A "2.5d" interface like in this patent makes a lot of sense: each open app is in its own "slice", and you navigate forwards and backwards through the slices using some multi-finger gestures. The edge of the screen is used to show contextual information about what's currently open, and provides cues as to how to navigate to different items (eg: is that photo "behind me" or "in front of me"?).

In a touch-heavy environment the gimmicky 3d interfaces from the past all of a sudden become potentially a lot more helpful. You'll notice apple's been working on possible solutions to making a touch interface usable for a long time:
- a lot of the expose tools make more sense as ways to easily navigate between windows with a finger (eg: hit the expose key, see all open windows in miniature, then touch the one you want to maximize...)
- dashboard makes a lot of sense in a touch context, as a way of easily pulling down some lightweight apps without disturbing your current ui arrangement
- spaces makes a lot of sense in a touch context: each collection of screen layouts in its own little slice that's given a spatial location, and so not only do you not destroy a layout by bringing a different app to the top, you also give spatial cues as to where your other open programs are
Payoneer.com

is maybe a better way to go.
I don't think those charts show what he wants them to show.
A 50 / 50 split between 99c apps and all apps over 99c shows how dominate that price point is. Free is also more popular than the other two options.

Edit: They don't quantify the number of apps in each category. It does show the number of popular apps on a logarithmic scale with the most popular apps overall being free, or 99c. Also there is also a huge gap between .2 and .5 on a logarithmic scale.
[Comic]: Pirates = Bad
I'm curious as well as to where you live... and also, about your experiences doing software over in Japan. I've never really had the chance to live there for an extended period of time, but I'd like to give things a go in a year or two... just to get that nagging monkey off my back, and to do something different.

Hopefully, the stack traces don't just read 'エラーが起きました。たいへん申し訳あります。' grin
It's a line from Pi, the movie. (Hence my soundtrack comment.)
Curious what you mean by shady deals on the digital point forums.

What kind of deals are these?
To answer your a)... Because most users don't think about their browser and hence use whatever the default is. OEMs will likely never bundle Firefox, but there is a chance that they'll bundle Chrome since it has Google's name behind it.

Hence, Chrome rescues users (developers?) from IE.

As for your b)... I agree totally. Chrome is nothing but an application delivery platform for Google apps that is disguised as a browser. Which is all the more motivation for Google to pursue bundling deals with OEMs.
One thing I wish I could do with Eye-Fi cards is push images to the card. I think this in combination with CHDK[0] could allow me to create Mobiphos[1] to real cameras.

[0]: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

[1]: http://nirmalpatel.com/research.html#mobiphos
Video Shows Every Flight on Earth in 72 Seconds
"This sort of thing happens on a regular basis."

Seriously? I don't remember ever seeing that, perhaps it's restricted to a certain O/S or version.
Though, when I showed him the article, he agreed with it.. so maybe he's right. :-D
I was a little confused about how it could be out of beta without any steps up to this, but apparently it auto-updates without asking or telling. Not complaining, but that's news to me.
Good observation. I wonder if anybody here has actually read the report. (The author of the linked post writes a cocktail blog, so she's at least upfront about her biases.)

"People of above average intelligence don't always have equally intelligent coping mechanisms" isn't as punchy a headline, of course...and this is about people whose drinking has caused them serious problems (hospital visits? incarceration?), as per the report, not people who just drink socially or whatever.
Crash the Inauguration: How to Be at the Woodstock of Washington
Check Chromifox 2
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9427

I was fooled by good Chrome UI design myself, but after careful tweaking of Firefox with good theme and plugins I just can't use Chrome, I switched back to Firefox completely, it's so much better in every way...
Apple had a lot of Pascal code that worked well. It's still used for a lot of embedded code and there is a strong argument for using a flavor of Pascal when building operating systems.
I don't hate my job. I hate the person I am at my job, I have no passion for my company's mission, and I feel like I am missing out on something better.

I don't intend anything I say in regards to jobs or callings as advice, just as a data point. When I took the safe route 11 years ago, I never imagined what I was risking.

At this point, I regret not believing in myself and not having the courage to try - even if it meant failing - much earlier in my life. I settled for a sort of half-life, in which I am happy in my personal life but not in my career or in my greater contribution to the world. For me, that's just not sustainable for another 30 years.
Visual Image Reconstruction from Human Brain Activity
Various similar concepts have been explored.

http://bumptop.com/
Branching and merging suck in Subversion. Offline commits suck in Subversion. Does that mean Subversion sucks? Depends on whether you want good branching and merging and offline commits. I do; therefore, for me, Subversion sucks. QED.
Taking care of kids is a lot of work...
I wouldn't class alcohol as a stimulant. Stimulants are things like speed, meth, etc. Alcohol is a depressant.
I'm getting chills as I read this. I wish that I could vote it up more than once.

To borrow a term from 4chan: MOAR!!
Why would Chrome save users from Windows when they already have Ubuntu as an unbundled Windows alternative?

If the Google name gets people who currently use IE to try out something else, that's a win for web developers.

Chrome is different than the other browsers in its slimmed-down interface, sure. But as other browsers, and the computers they run on, get faster and more compliant, the advantage that Chrome has over them as a client for web applications will erode. Apparently FFX 3.1 Beta 2 already has a faster js engine than Chrome's beta did.
What are your hobbies?
I understand your point about maturing technology, but distributed anything is usually hard for people to wrap their heads around the first time.
I am SO telling my sons this (4 and 6 years old, starting to really get into the superhero thing).
"The thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life more refined, with a bleak capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me. - Einstein

I think most people on HN could relate to this quote. Like it or not, as professional developers, we rarely create, but simply refine. It was fun at the start of my career, but now my professional life seems rather unimaginative.
Recall that Apple hid a lot of their iPod interface patents, like the scroll wheel, in a patent application for an "advanced TV remote controller". I wouldn't be surprised to see this turn up not in a 3D OS X but in a different device.
Working on your own without any bosses or superfluous meetings is a big motivator. Especially when rent & grocieries are on the line.
Is it then even more ironic that Apple used Konqueror's code to make WebKit, and that neither Safari nor Chrome are available for Linux?
Solar power stocks drop as orders are canceled
Apple is the most secretive company in the world and have no need to publish unpractical prototypes on YouTube, lol. I assure you, they've been exploring alternative interfaces for quite sometime... their entire history encompasses the user experience.
I think people who never drink, may tend to do so for religious reasons. If someone has never had a drink, they could have a tendency for alcoholism that never has a chance to manifest itself. So maybe that justifies excluding teetotalers from the data?
Man, I love hearing stories like these. It's curious how people plan and apply and work to get into top university programs which last a few years, yet they seem to stumble quickly into amazing places like Bell Labs, these super-learning environments that can make a person's career.
To make 20k/year safely for the next 60 years you need around 1/2 a million invested well which you skim off 4% and use the rest to keep up with inflation. (70% stocks 25% bonds, 5% cash or cash equivalents.)

Saving 1/2 a million is hard but if your willing to live off of 20k/year then ~7+ years at 120k and you can reach that (tax is your major problem). Max out your 401k etc and dump the rest directly into savings. Now clearly you don't really want to work 7 years strait at a high stress job so aim for 1.5 to 2 years, take 4 months off collecting unemployment if you can and ~10 years out you can do it.

One way to get a major tax break is buying a home. (This is risky.) The market is down, but will still probably fall for a while. Try and get a home with a low interest rate tax deductible loan and you can funnel a lot of money into savings fairly quickly. If you can find a home / location where you can rent out your extra space to cover most of your overhead your golden. But watch out for all the extra costs that go along with home ownership.

PS: Long term heath care will become a problem. Also try and get as many quarters working to maximize the amount of SS you can get.
James Siminoff: I would create a fully self contained incubator
Make your hobbies your work. There is really no other way. I only ever worked for 2 weeks in my life, the rest of the time I've just been playing around with programming. It's not work, it's what I would be doing anyways!
You could rob a bank.

Other than that, I'm not sure I know of a surefire way to make money without doing anything, except for the "work like hell for a few years" thing.
Who is to Blame? Can Ayn Rand Survive the Economic Crisis?
The question isn't how many apps are released at what price points. The question is, does a 99c app sell twice as many copies as a $2 app, or 10x as many as a $10 app, and according to this article the answer is no.
If this is true, at least facebook isn't expecting the government to bail them out for their own poor business decisions.
They only provide a Windows binary for drawing them. If you want a start on doing it yourself, here's some postscript: http://basecase.org/code/numberspiral.ps .
Is there any evidence suggesting that Apple is actually working to implement this UI into OS X? I don't think filing for a patent necessarily means betting on it big time.
Several quotes came to mind when reading this:

"If you win the rat race, you're still a rat."
- Anna Quindlen, Harvard Commencement speech

"No man on his deathbed ever said, 'I wish I had spent more time at the office.'"
- The late Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas, speaking at another Harvard Commencement

There's another quote that also springs to mind, but I can't remember who said it. It is "time is the ultimate luxury." I think of this more often as the years go by and more responsibilities land on my plate, and my personal and family time suffer. I like what I do, but there are real sacrifices that come with leading a career-driven life.
I think what he wants the data to show is that an app that's priced above a dollar can be at least as popular (and substantially more lucrative) as a 99 cent app. The distribution of popularity for >$1 looks indistinguishable from the popularity for <$1, in most categories. (excluding free in this)

That indicates that, even though there are a huge number of 99 cent apps, there isn't a strong correlation between that price point and the app's popularity/success. So a developer doesn't have to aim at the 99 cent price point just to make a profit.
Argumentless linkbait. I want my thirty seconds back.
As much as I sympathize with your sentiment, I'd just like to point out that the real benefit of a larger-than-necessary paycheque is being able to actually save money for when you are too old or technically outdated to continue working.

It's certainly enjoyable to switch on and off from work and live off savings, but then you eventually get to the point where you can't find a job to switch back on to, and your savings are all gone...
Admittedly I am a bit sleepy right now, but am I somehow missing the part where he supports his argument in any way?
The Future of Coding
A combination of not spending too much, consulting, and taking loads of holidays is your best bet. It doesn't take that many consulting hours to have decent living when you compare that with time wasted on activities like shopping, preparing food, transportation and other pure waste.

Businesses have ~20% success rate even for very weak definition of "success", your chances of epic success and early retirement are negligible, you'll just work your ass off for years and fail.

PG-style startups sound like a lot more work, a lot more risk, a lot less money, and a lot more boring and painful non-coding work than either consulting or a regular job.
more work for me ;)
Walking (hence the username), reading, languages (human or code), hacking roguelikes and muds, knitting. Doesn't sound like much when I just list them, but I can happily spend a roughly infinite amount of time on them.
Agreed, the "because..." part is missing.

Is it because VCs are being conservative right now? Will they be conservative forever? Is it because all business models are going to become failure in this economy? It capitalism dead?

And why the big building full of hackers? How is that entirely different than it is now? If they create self-sustaining businesses, is it necessary to have VCs?

Couldn't you build the business up using the traditional model of making money and then sell it off to a bigger company?

Article smells a bit link-baity to me. Use Y!C in any title and it's automatically going to climb to the first page here.
Investors haven't stopped investing. In fact the record series A valuation for a YC-funded company was set just a few weeks ago.

Even if investors did stop investing, it wouldn't kill us. At the last Demo Day, 4 of the companies presenting were already profitable. (All 4 have had offers of investment, incidentally.) At the next Demo Day the ratio of profitable companies will be even higher.

As for his alternative suggestion, among other problems, it wouldn't give startups any more runway. There's no reason to suppose that if we got into the real estate business, we could offer space to startups any cheaper than they can get it on the open market.
Just surf around... stuff like scraping and reposting blogs, domain parking, spam, affiliate marketing. Not always outright evil, but they do make the world a slightly worse place.
Absolutely. I've got nothing bad to say about Posterous whatsoever. And I doubt Marco does, for that matter. He was irritated at how TechCrunch announced Posterous as the new Tumblr, which is a fair thing to be irritated at.
My mother grew up in DC and was around for many inaugurations. They used to make metal parking signs for the inauguration saying "Kennedy Innauguration January 20th 1961". After the inauguration my uncles would go around and take the signs down. We have many inauguration signs around my grandmother's house. Now the signs are paper :(
and pay someone to take care of the kids
i think his point is that seeding and growing businesses that lead to external VC capital and acquisitions is dead/dying.

his alternative is to essentially do the same thing, but gear it not towards external funding/buying, but just a single company that grows, fosters and continually owns the companies it helps to start.

its sparse on the details, but i had/have similar thoughts and would love to start or participate in something similar.
I want to make a screensaver out of this. I just Googled for youtube screensaver. I'll do that later =)
Arizona State and HP Demo Flexible, Unbreakable Displays
Have you considered that you might enjoy your own business more, thus making the "hate working" part no longer so true?

I'm on a shorter time scale than you. I consulted from 14 to 20, when I had a bit of a trainwreck of bad luck and choices all at once, then I held 3 jobs: one for 3 mos, one for a year, and one for 15 mos. I quit each when I got to the point you're describing. I've been consulting again since Sept 07, thinking that charging the premium rates would help limit my exposure to bad customers and boring work. It hasn't, really (I'm charging "hundreds" per hour as you say).

But it has given me the flexibility to ship my first real product. And I'm actually having a blast. And I'm not working balls-to-the-wall like the expected YC work ethic. We built v1 in 3 mos, a couple days a week, and we've already got a small stable of happy paying customers... with almost zero promotion.

Even the boring and unsavory stuff (bug fixes, answering tickets!) is more fun when it's something you're passionate about.

Maybe you're not anti-WORK, but anti-job?

That said, if you've learned a bunch doing what you were doing, why not try to sell software or do low-commitment micro-consulting or write about it for a subscription site?
Perl's Mechanize was probably the basis for both.