skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm kind of in a lucky demographic when it comes to sunglasses. I live in the midwest, drive a beat-up old truck, grew up in the countryside, watch NASCAR and baseball, and fish as a hobby. This affords me the luxury of being able to get away with wearing $20 sunglasses I bought at WalMart without anyone thinking twice about it. It just fits in with the rest of my exterior-facing personality. This is good, because with my relaxation hobbies, I tend to lose or break my cheap sunglasses a few times per year in situations where even Ray Bans would be lost or broken. With $20 shades, I don't need to worry.

We all choose what demographic we're going to fit in with, and with that comes tradeoffs. I have many expensive computers and the latest smartphone. This forces me to be frugal with the cost of my vehicle and the price tag on my jeans, allowing me to be "that redneck who turns into a nerd during the week" as well as "that nerd who turns into a redneck on the weekends".

I think more than the frugal generation, we're the generation who feels free to choose who we want to be and balance the tradeoffs we have to make. No longer does end goal have to be a house in the suburbs, two kids, and this year's nicest sedan, nor are our cliques set in stone. I can be both a nerd and a redneck, I can listen to both techno and country, and that's not weird. I don't have to own the nicest of everything in order to be a part of society.
Unity 3D + monster trading cards + capacitive ink = Nukotoys' new iPad games
I'm fairly sure the reason 21-30 year olds aren't buying houses and cars in droves isn't because they are "quirky eco-conscious individuals" that your marketing "isn't speaking to"... I'm pretty sure its mostly because:

1: Many of them don't have jobs (or have low-paying jobs) because of the economy.

2: Many of them watched their parents drown in debt from houses and cars they bought but couldn't really afford

3: Student debt.

No amount of marketing is going to fix that.

This quote alone just makes me shake my head: “I don’t believe that young buyers don’t care about owning a car,” says John McFarland, GM’s 31-year-old manager of global strategic marketing. “We just think nobody truly understands them yet.”
They sell software - it's £6.99 for the full version.
There's clearly no necessity to make a site about pretty images accessible to the blind. But that's a straw man akin to asking about how running shoes should be optimized for the legless.

>How is it different from a special lift to the pool?

Because lots of people in wheelchairs swim, and some people just go to the pool to float?
Yep, this is almost exactly what I do normally with vim, but that I have another column for nerdtree and possibly 6-8 splits. I find that it's pretty easy to move around, and that I can bring out tabs with a work-area for each thing I'm working on.
To a normal person, this article is just a collection of fuzzy well meaning ideas wrapped around a bunch of technical network jaron. The fact that there is no working demo is rather damming.
When I hear the term, I think in Greek terms:

Of or resembling an oracle; prophetic.
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You are quite right, and it would be the correct way to do it with a stream filter, so thanks.

Personally I had never thought to look what the deflate indicated and figured it was similar to sdch, now I know.
I would quite happily preorder a copy of your book but there's not enough information to feel comfortable about parting with $39.

Is this an ebook or in dead tree format?
Do you ship internationally?
Cars were never a good investment, and driving a new one off the lot will cost you 20% (minimum). I'm quite a bit older than most HNers but have driven reasonably good used cars for years. And now my two college-aged kids have chosen cars they thought were cool ... a 1971 VW Super-Beetle and a 1991 Toyota MR2. These cars are both far more cost-effective than a new car ... the key is to pick one that was well maintained! I honestly don't know how the car companies can justify a price that is 1/4 the cost of a house (in many areas).

Houses on the other hand have always been held up as an investment, but I think the millenial's have been affected by witnessing the housing melt-down. Now is actually a good time to get into a mortgage (in many areas), but many people will wait because they don't want to see their investment decline. You read stories about the people who are underwater on their mortgage, but you never hear about people like me who bought a house they could afford, made payments and improvements and even with the collapse of the housing bubble, my investment is worth twice what I've put into it.

But younger people view houses and cars as tools and I can honestly applaud that view ... neither will bring you happiness by themselves.
The great majority of Americans, including millenials, live in unwalkable areas where not having a car is a major PITA at best. They can't get away with not owning a car any more than you can.
When I was 22, I only wanted to buy new cars and my very first car was brand new. Slowly, I realized that used cars are a better option and never bought a new one again. Now at 31, I don't even have a car because I just don't feel the need. Life,age and experience changes perspectives so much. Having said this, I love BMWs but not buying one anytime soon.
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Hm, in America fixies are pretty universally beater bikes that someone took the gears off of to make rideable again.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that 78 hours of minimum wage work could pay the rent in 1980, compared to 109 hours in 2010 [1], along with the other associated cost-of-living increases over the last three decades that have come without comparable increases in wages.

I doubt that most people who felt financially secure and could afford a new car wouldn't want to own a new car. Nobody really enjoys driving a beater, or being forced to walk or ride a bike everywhere (aside from doing it for the enjoyment of it), or trying to negotiate for rides with friends. Public transportation in most of the U.S. is awful, so I don't see many people choosing that over having your own shiny new car.

So the article briefly touches on the economic pressures facing young people in mentioning the recession and student debt, but it spends most of its paragraphs trying to paint some kind of cultural picture of "Millenials" as being a neo-beatnik generation that worships sharing.

No, it's the economy, stupid. And not just recently, either; for the last 50 years at least, there has been a gradual trend towards ownership of things like homes and cars costing more and more in terms of the working hours needed to afford them.

If you are among the 3.8 million people making minimum wage (or less!) now [2], a car is the last damn thing you want to own. You won't be able to afford a good one, so you'll constantly be spending money on maintaining it, not to mention that it will strand you one day and your minimum wage job will be more likely to fire you for not showing up than the average cubicle job. Cars are expensive to license, expensive to insure, and in California, old cars are expensive to smog. Even better, if you fail to pay for any of this, you're likely to receive a citation or ticket, which can quickly add up to more time off work and more money out of pocket.

If you're young, you're far more likely to either be burdened by student debts or be making minimum wage [3]. That means that the odds are that you're either not living on your own, in which case a shared vehicle (either a housemate's or a Zipcar or something else) makes more sense than owning your own, or you're living on your own and you can't afford a shiny new Ford Fiesta without a third full-time job.

Additionally, the entertainment industry tends to make more money during economic downturns, and poor people are more likely to spend a greater portion of their money on entertainment. If you can afford little, you might as well have as much fun as you can, especially if your prospects for making more money in the near future aren't that good. If you can hitch a ride to Burning Man, that sounds better than spending the money of the ticket price and time off work and food and everything else on mechanical work for your aging car.

Bah. This article was crap. It didn't have the quality I've come to expect from The Atlantic.

[1]: http://finances.msn.com/saving-money-advice/6952105

[2]: http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011.htm

[3]: http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011.htm again.
Sketchfab, the YouTube of 3D content.
Living in the Mission, Zipcar hasn't cut it for me but Lyft has changed my world! I initially was stoked by Zipcar but there's virtually nowhere in SF you want to go to where parking is not a major issue.

With Lyft, they're brought the prices down enough so that I'm no longer thinking "can I afford to go there", lyfts become an impulse purchase. Mission to Soma is like, $6 - $8. Mission to Richmond is $15, Mission to Chinatown is $12 or so. If you're going with 2 or 3 friends, then it's basically about the same price as public transit.

Disclaimer: I'm friends with several of the Zimride staff but I'd equally be a fan, even if I weren't.
Very interesting paper, especially the way it presents this as a phenomenon specific to Silicon Valley and shaped by social norms.
Uh... Something's fishy with the first graph of the 'drunken man's walk'. It's well known that the random walk veers away from the zero-line at a rate sqrt(N), where N is number of flips. Normalized by the number of flips, the random walk converges to the zero-line at the rate 1/sqrt(N). The graph does neither, so I'm not quite sure how it was generated...
Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987
> for my mobile phone the typing speed will just never be great regardless of the input method.

Actually, way back when PalmOS and PocketPC were all the rage, there was a company that released something called the Fitaly keyboard. I don't know what you qualify as "great" typing speed, but with this keyboard they advertise 50wpm with a stylus, I was able to achieve 60wpm after some practice.

The point is, it is definitely possible to achieve fast input speeds on mobile devices.

Admittedly it did take some practice and probably isn't great for the average consumer.

http://www.fitaly.com/product/fitalyppc.htm
Cool. Just signed up.

What's the tech stack for the site? Seems to be loading discussions quite slowly, which is worrying since it doesn't seem particularly busy at the moment. Might want to work on that, since it's a bit distracting (and distracting is the last thing you want when you're trying to get off the ground.)

I hope this takes off. It'd be nice to have a second place to go when the Apple news and Vim/Emacs debates take over the homepage here.
Ha, I guess this depends where in America.
If IE hadn't gone out and done something, we'd be stuck with cleaning up a Netscape-specific html mess.

Or are you suggesting a standards body would have come up with something elegant and widely adopted? I... doubt that.
The things you own, end up owning you. (Tyler Durden)
Disagreeing on a definition without giving better arguments than just stating I am wrong, then adding a comment on how companies retain the acqhired employees (which had already been discussed in other comments in the thread) is a very poor comment.

Replace the Face example by the Sparrow example, being acqhired by Google. Acquisitions are about profits, Google's acqhiring certainly wasn't for Sparrow's profits, they bought them for both the team AND the technology they developed. They made Google's product better, and Google wanted to use both of these things to make their product even better.
Yeah. On a portuguese layout, doesn't recognize the "=" character. Problem with other characters as well...

This on Firefox 14, Chromium 18, Opera 12, for Linux Mint.

Otherwise, this is great!

EDIT: Does it read the key-code, instead of the character? Is it not possible to listen for the character input?
I can also confirm this. I had one of the first iMacs and I remember Netscape crashing constantly and being way slower than IE (Hell, I think the first time I was really surprised by a browser's speed was when I installed IE on a mac).

Netscape 7 (IIRC) seemed a little better than IE, but it came too late and my machine could barely run it, so I just kept using Internet Explorer.
It's probably just the load. We're getting new visitations every second so it's taking a bit of a hammering. It's running on Rackspace dedicated, PHP 5.3, CodeIgniter, MySQL 5.5
It's an ebook with worksheets and additional case studies / interviews from freelancers who charge a lot (most notably: Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs).

Take a screenshot of this comment as witness, but I'm serious about refunding anyone who ends up not being able to raise their client rates. Paying for stuff that doesn't deliver value is dumb.
This post is great marketing for mentioned unfinished book. The HN frontpage is probably the perfect target audience, well put!
Oops, I misinterpreted how the graph was generated... but the complaint still holds. The averaging of a million trials will cut the amplitude of the fluctuations by a factor of 1000, but the sqrt(N) effect should still be visible. (Note that if you multiply the Y-axis by sqrt(million) = 1000, then you get a scale of about 20, which is approx sqrt(500))
#3 is underappreciated. We have a generation that's going to be slaving away for years to pay off large student loan debts that are at high interest rates compared to a mortgage. Naturally they're going to be averse to wasting money on an overpriced car when they could be paying a student loan instead, which has a guaranteed rate of return of 5-10% (depending on the terms of the loan), tax-free.
Just because one doesn't like it, doesn't mean it won't work. My learning was: Always, test everything.

This is a point that every single commenter on HN needs to be aware of. There are far too many people who seem to think that just because they don't like something, it can't work, won't work, should be priced lower...
Is there an example of a vote, in the last two decades, for transit projects over roads that has actually led to high density neighborhoods where residents use mass transit to get to their jobs?

The only reason I ask, is because I'm almost finished reading, in The Power Broker, how Robert Moses permanently crippled the NYC metro area and Long Island in particular, forcing them into a lower-density, automobile-centric society, when they would have been better served by mass transit, which he let rot on the vine. I imagine most other metro areas that were expanding at the time followed the same path.
> But NoSQL is pretty much based on the idea that you store data from your application in a way which is close to the internal data structures, is it not?

IMO, it's not. Try BigTable on Google App Engine, or HBase for some examples. IMO, these are often more difficult to relate to a programming model than a traditional RDBMS due to their inherent limitations. Of course, their structure is one of Columns/Rows as well.

One of the problems with describing NoSQL as a movement is that there are a broad range of solutions to a broad range of problems that are being covered by the same terminology.

On the other hand, I suppose there are quite a few NoSQL solutions that do not require structured input data and therefore may appear attractive to people who don't want to maintain rigid structures for data input. That's always seemed like more hype than reality to me, though. I've had pretty good experiences with evolving schemas within PostgreSQL and other SQL systems, and the challenges faced (data migration, dealing with old data in the model, etc) were essentially the same that I would have faced with something like a MongoDB system. I don't really see the advantage of NoSQL there at all. I can also see how they could be viewed as essentially OODB 2.0, and they may very well fall by the wayside for a lot of the same reasons.
The trend for mass transit is to remove options from travelers, thus making itself less useful to us. As such, it's hardly worth funding. [1]

That's not to say that it must be inherently so. Just that, so long as these projects are typical government projects that are expected to go over-budget and over-deadline with no repercussions, they will be used as a tool for political favors and cronyism, at our expense.

[1] http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/denver-fools-the-wall-street-... Quote:

The old-style public transit system used cheap, flexible buses whose routes could be altered overnight to take people from where they were to where they wanted to go. When Denver first built rail, it substituted expensive but glamorous trains for inexpensive buses, but still allowed people to go from where they were–provided they were willing to drive to a park-and-ride station–to where they wanted to go–provided they wanted to go downtown. ...

This has been tried before, of course, most notably in Portland. How well did it work there? In 1980, under the old bus-transit model, transit carried 9.8 percent of Portland-area commuters to work. By 2010, with seven different rail lines and scores of transit-oriented developments, transit carried just 7.1 percent of the region’s commuters to work.
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Based only on my assumptions, but dealing with solar panels fairly regularly for solar-powered security cams, it's probably a size/efficiency thing.

Spinning a motor takes a fair amount of power, and they probably want the entire unit to be as small as possible. So I'm guessing he is starting with higher-efficiency panels (more power output per given area), and then possibly modifying them to run on different voltages for the motors.
Can you trust Google Play stats?
Although Londoners complain about their public transport, it really is exceptionally good. For many routes within London it's quicker and far cheaper to take public transport (or a bike!) than to use a private vehicle.

Most places aren't like that, unfortunately.
Funny, as a Gen X-er I was reading this as a story about somebody else, but you're totally right. I'm 41 and I've only ever owned one new car. We bought it when my wife was pregnant, because I wanted to make sure she had a good reliable car for her 30-minute commute to and from work. That car has lasted five years so far, and fate willing it will last at least another five. (Her commute is only five minutes these days, and the carseat is in our purchased-used minivan.)

It's really a crazy contrast from what I remember a number of adults doing back in the 80s -- a new car every two years, regular as clockwork.
I... don't hate it. What's wrong with me? It's bold, it's fresh, it does a pretty damn good job of shrugging off the Microsoft of the past 25 years.
I'm sure the OP did that in good heart! He didn't mean to be an overzealous git advocate, just sharing his experience and why he switched... I switched to hg because I was tired of `git diff --cached` and `git update --force` (or `git revert --hard HEAD` or whatever the hell it was you do when you want to ignore local changes).
You may feel fixies are impractical but they carry benefits. The primary one being better power transfer. Second, you can often make a cheap fixie by finding an old frame, refurbishing it, and replacing the rear hub. Yes, you can buy them for $700+ but unlike iPhones, there are a number of ways to obtain one for cheap.

Further, a bike that costs less than $200 is certainly not a bike I would buy for commuting. Having commuted without a car for over three years, I can assure you that steel frames are not your friend and arguably not practical if you want to enjoy your lifestyle.
Related: http://klaut.org/app-dot-net-is-just-an-identity-provider/
You're right about smart phones, but I'm not so sure about housing. Credit is ridiculously cheap, and housing everywhere is on sale. If you have a job, why wouldn't you buy as much house as you can afford?
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Cheapest Generation?

How about poorest generation. Wages are stagnant and down in real terms. Debt burden out of the gates (thanks to educational loans) are through the roof. Social norms around employment security have collapsed. Returns in the stock market have been flat to down their entire sentient lives. They've seen home purchases wreck the financies of their parents (and especially their X-er older siblings who bought at the peak.)

Oh, and under/unemployment is running over 50% for under-30's.

I don't know, Atlantic, maybe that little recession thing we were told was over has something to do with it.
Richer in features, poorer in vision. It was already apparent as the first browser wars were drawing to a close that Microsoft would not play ball on standards (the new 'fad') and interop and had no interest whatsoever in cross-platform web development. Even developing for IE5 across Windows and Mac was a hair-raising experience. Mozilla (the avenger) had to reverse engineer XMLHttpRequest to get it into Fire*/Phoenix.

But there's been a lot of rough-and-tumble and a lot of assaults on standards-as-process from all directions (Apple, Google, take a bow). That's why the WHAT-WG was formed, right? The browser makers who want to push the web forward as a platform. The big names like M..ozilla, Mi..Opera, Mmmi. Apple, Mgoo.. hey, has anyone seen Microsoft? Try their mobile, maybe they took a wrong turn.

BTW, the standards process is faltering again[1] (and I don't just mean the W3C's petrify-ray). If they're serious about the web, there's never been a better time for Microsoft to join the WHATWG.

[1] http://the-pastry-box-project.net/bruce-lawson/2012-august-4...
With every passing year, cars become less substantial, and more like delicate metal cages surrounded by plastic fairings, and protecting their inhabitants with vinyl ballons. I just can't fathom parting with my hard-earned money for such a creation.
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Something does seem off there, but maybe it's sloppy reporting. The article states:

Unless he can show specific manufacturing documentation
by August 29, Keith said he could be fined as much as
250 percent on his solar panels -- an effective rate of
$270,000.

Besides the 250% "fine", the dangling $270,000 reference (and calling it a 'rate') is confusing.