skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also worth pointing out that for many people, servicing debts is one of their biggest monthly expenses. Credit card debt and car payments especially will sap your ability to save in any meaningful way. If you have debt, the #1 goal should be to pay it down as fast as humanly possible.
I felt enormously liberated after giving up my car.

Two caveats: I live in a city with fantastic public transport. I would not be any faster at work by car, probably slower on most days.

I'm a member of a car sharing cooperative (something like ZipCar, but on a non-profit basis). If I do need a car I have a dozen (literally) at my disposal within 5 minute walking distance.

The range is from a Smart to a Mercedes transporter. And I use this option about 3-4 times a year.

Not owning a car saves me 5-6k (USD) a year. And this includes my yearly public transport pass, car hires and even longer term rental and leaves a few hundred $ for cab rides.

If you can do it it's extremely liberating and leaves a lot of cash on the table for more useful things. Like nice vacations.
The text says you should carefully consider all your expenses. It definitely doesn't claim that you should blindly eliminate all of them. You seem to have chosen an extremely hostile reading of the text.

In fact quite a lot of the top-level posts seem to have chosen the same hostile reading of the text. It makes me think perhaps some buttons were pushed and there's some rationalizing going on in at least some of these messages.
Replying to various similar comments in one go:

I have read the original AnandTech article, and read perhaps 40 or so very similar articles from them over the last year or so. At no point in that time was the benchmark valid for comparing hardware if you used the stock javascript engine, so it's long, long past "wearing out it's welcome" in that regard.

Any benchmark is suspect, but running a javascript benchmark in order to measure hardware improvements is crazy, as the various javascript developers and phone manufacturers are in a mad scramble to improve on benchmarks and ship the latest code. The resulting graph is almost entirely worthless, you might as well sort them by time of release.

It's only rubbing salt into the wound that they use Sunspider, which even as a javascript benchmark tells you basically nothing about relative javascript performance.

Maybe it does tell you something about memory bandwidth but I can't really take AnandTech's word on that, since they've been using it for something else that it's totally unsuited to measure for so long that they've lost my faith on that topic.
I'm 34, married, one son.
OK, so you (the criminal) have addresses with known-good reputations which you're able to fence the stolen coins through. Once accepted into their wallet, they are indistinguishable from any other coin already present or added later.

It seems that the problem now becomes one of reputation management. The diamond markets in New York work entirely by trust (a handshake can seal a $10 million deal), but that's not possible when the community is the world.

A pretty challenge. :)
Great article! Thanks.
Sounds like a reasonable option. According to Wikipedia, the 11" MBA has a 35 Wh battery, so additional 60 Wh would indeed be a big improvement. From their Amazon specs (http://amzn.com/B00449I41K):

High capacity 60-Watt-hour lithium ion battery allows you to use your MacBook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air for up to 20 hours

That page also gives the weight as 362 grams (12.8 ounces). But then you'll also need the MacBook airline adapter which is another 49$. The battery itself is 168$ (and the same amount in €).

Here is a review: http://www.slashgear.com/hyperjuice-external-battery-for-mac...

Seems like a valid option if I decide to stay with MBAs after February.

Update, Amazon reviews don't seem to agree:

So although it won't charge my MBA battery it looks like it will power it for over 3 hours (three stars)

i believed the 20 hour run time they posted. right. sure. i bought it so i could use my macbook at the cabin (no electricity). what i got was, at best, 3 1/2 hours of power from it (one star)

If I use the HyperMac with just the MacBook Pro 13 inch I get probably about 2 hours of use out of this external battery. (five stars)
$15,000 In Income From An EBook, How I Did It
Firefox 15.
Blockchain.info has a taint analysis tool, and there are other tools. Most bitcoins have a long, highly-mixed history, tainted some small fractional percent of most any address from time before. Probably because mtgox, as the largest exchange, mixes coins pretty thoroughly. Risk to the thieves is that if they try to sell the coins through them, mtgox will freeze the funds. They have to be mixed elsewhere first and who knows what taint threshold mtgox uses to freeze funds.

For example, after the Linode hack the stolen coins were moving around and there were reports, from people who had bought coins from cryptoXchange or had paid with paxum, that mtgox was freezing those deposits because they were connected to the stolen funds.
This is an example I threw together to demonstrate:

http://i.imgur.com/0z73s.png

I hope it helps explain.

Also, lbotos posted an excellent example of hanging quotes and other non-bullet punctuation.

If you find yourself liking typographic details like these, consider checking out The Elements of Typographic Style by Bringhurst. Old editions are cheap, and it's the best book on typography I've come across.
Show HN: Pimp My Tweets - suggests better words for your tweets.
There's no reason you can't get short , intense bursts of exercise on your commute especially if there are hills in the way or you time yourself and try to get it down.

Years ago I used to do a 40 mile round trip to work by bike with a few good hills on route , so there was a mixture of hard anaerobic effort and lower intensity pedalling. After about 3 months of that I was probably never thinner and fitter.

Regards sweat, this depends on if you can shower at work I guess and also how sweaty you get.
If you wear cycling clothing that can absorb a lot of the sweat and then change and spray some deodorant when you get to work you really don't smell all that bad.
Wow, I use Chrome on my HP Touchpad running ICS and I think it's great. I was surprised as I had previously always been happy with the stock browser.
Youtube also has the advantage of discoverable. The downside is that you don't "own" the comments. If someone puts in a bad comment everyone else will see.

I'll give SublimeVideo a look.. seems interesting
While it sounds like a compelling anecdote, it's complete bullshit. If you are just squeaking by at 30k, and you get a raise up to 60k, you suddenly have an extra 30k per year to play with.

That can mean many things - for every year you work, you could theoretically retire one year earlier. You could now afford a car that doesn't cost more in maintenance than gas each year. You could now afford to double your extremely tight grocery budget and spend more money on healthier foods.

"Lifestyle" and "standard of living" are unquantifiable, which is why this is a compelling factoid, but the reality is that, ignoring inflation, a 10% increase in salary is a 10% increase in disposable income.

Now obviously if you have more disposable income than you need, a 10% increase doesn't mean much. If I was pulling down 200k I wouldn't move for 220k if I was happy where I was at, but if I was pulling down 40k I would move for 44k in a heartbeat.
For PHP: phpLint[1], almost makes php into a type safe language.

For .NET you have Code Contracts[2], this requires you to annotate pre- and postconditions for your functions but after that it's for example impossible to pass a possibly null into a function without compile time error. It can even do range-check of numerics after calculations etc.

[1]http://www.icosaedro.it/phplint/

[2]http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/contracts/
Very interesting and I look forward to a more detailed analysis of the new cpu in the iP5.

I'd be interested in how they handle memory managment/interface and suspect they have done alot of work on that front which would benifit graphics as well as general processing. Might of added a large cache onchip and that in itself will make alot of benchmarks whcih dont have much else running go alot faster than you would expect. This may be the case, we just don't know.

Either way you look at it this has to be unique as far as apple phone releases go with lots of people expecting lots and then still falling in love with what is released and with this new one the general press are starting to lose the glaze in there eye's and in parts poo pooing the new iPhone, which is funny as this does actualy appear to be a good product release with perhaps alot of understated features which do more than back up the claim of 2x faster. This in a world were people are expecting any claim of x amount faster to be backed up with small print outlining the conditions that claim is true. but from what it appears as a whole this 2x claim is a very solid claim in many area's of there new phone.

I'm not so sure apple have as some are indicating redesigned a whole ARM core, but they certainly could of very easily replaced parts of it and expanded other area's and in that adding cache is one area were mobile phone chips will happily accept and get a good return. Also when you write the OS and have a chip like ARM which you haeve more control to add and change things then optimizing for your operating system by adding a few extra instructions of tweaking the area's your profiling tools have identified as bottle necks and you start to get something realy nice.

I'm more a Android chap and never owned a Apple product but this does not stop me appreceiting there finer works of art and for me the iPhone5 has that gut feeling of being a good solid design. OK so it has no NFC but Apple don't do there own credit card, do they, currently - watch this space.

I noticied a few comments saying the A6 is dual and this intel is single core, well there be quad cores and they still aint betean it, be looking forward to some more hands on tests with details - especialy the memory interface and amount of cache memory on that chip.
Pylint is fantastic

Googling "$LANGUAGE lint" will probably find what you need.
Sony reveals new "Super Slim" PS3 hardware redesign
Maybe with help from Google and Adobe, Microsoft can kill Windows XP
This was a Friday project at work (http://labs.newsint.co.uk). It uses a couple of word of the day sources, thesaurus APIs and part of speech tagging. If you use a word that is a synonym for a word of the day, it will recommend the word of the day instead.

It often has rather bad (and thus hilarious) results - it could definitely be improved (it could do with some more words, for a start). But not bad for a couple of days work in total. Any suggestions to help it would be cool, too!
Fully-zoomable map of xkcd 1110 “Click and drag”
I see that you don't have a physical hold on the iPad while you work outside. Has anybody tried stealing it?
When you can get an 11" MB AIR for $1000, using an iPad in this way feels "forced". I like his thoughts on Win 8 Surface tablet, though: side-by-side apps, better integrated keyboard, likely better multitasking (or at least a simpler way of switching between apps....
Hence the two miles comment full west from center. I declare Randall and dividuum 1st and 2nd place winners of the internet today. What's the under-over on tech world productivity loss this morning?
Dear Lazyweb,

the `Controler' part of my main codebase consists of interwoven PHP and MySQL. Is there static analysis tool that understands both, one in relation to the other?
Why? I know it's popular to not like C++ now but it really is far more maintanable for a large project than C - best example is how GCC are moving to C++ for the compiler source.
Lots of space/trails in MV itself. Check out the Stevens Creek Trail -- it runs very close to YC and goes for a good 3/4 miles. You can find lots of people walking, running with their dogs. If you want a big house with a big lawn etc. you can move to Los Altos, lower prices with huge lawns. Also, if you just drive about 20-30 mins west from MV, the hills with lots of greenery are there, another 15 mins drive will take you to the Ocean.
Surely that comes from the same language structure which means you wouldn't say beans and eggs and tomatoes and potatoes, you'd say beans, eggs, tomatoes and potatoes e.g. in a list of "and" items you only say and between the penultimate and final items?
I think one should some hard math on how much food costs vs. some of these other expenses that the article says to start cutting _first_. TV is 100$, which is easily 5 days of food in New York City if you live on a budget. A car is 500$, which is a month worth of food. Even if food prices were to go down, it wouldn't be by 50%.
Prismatic Takes on Twitter in the Race to Build a Better Serendipity Engine
Upvoting for hanging your iPad in a bush.
This was my thought too. I mean I literally contacted them minutes after I clicked the button, realizing that they forced the HD content on me when I dont mind SD and I appreciate the lower price.

I am asking my bank for help with this as I have been feeling that Apple has an "We are Apple, suck it" attitude more and more.

Dont get me wrong, I am a huge Apple fan, I have been since I received my first PowerPC 6100 in high school (around 1995). But they used to care more, they used to realize they had to always be making great products to stay going. Now, they just EXPECT everyone to think their products are great wether they are still producing them or not.

There is a difference. They are "Thinking Differently" now-a-days. "we have power" vs "we need you to succeed"
A classic: http://xkcd.com/135/
The error conditions that cause bugs in concurrent code are difficult to replicate since concurrent code can have so many additional states of operation. It's also harder to program, especially in languages / environments that don't explicitly encourage it right from the beginning.
I spent more than a few years scrimping to the bone earlier in my twenties. The notion has an intrinsic appeal to me. Just so you know the context when I say:

For what it's worth, if you're a HNer, I'll tell you something Ramit Sethi says often which would have been useful to internalize, oh, five years earlier: it is very hard to cut expenditures in such a meaningful fashion that your financial situation qualitatively changes. (There's only a few big wins there, and lattes or "stop buying books" do not qualify.) By comparison, the amount of impact you can have by moving your salary up is quite substantial indeed, particularly because there's just a crazy dynamic range in our industry and, well, most of us by default do not make choices which tend to land us on the top tiers of that range.

Seriously: I get people who email me on an almost weekly basis saying they got $5k ~ $15k a year just by asking for a raise. You know how many trips to the library it takes to move your financial situation by that much? You won't accomplish it in your lifetime. And that's between a few hours of work or, literally in some cases, minutes.
Solve the Time Problem. As in "I'm a developer with a great idea but no time to do it".

Perhaps if someone has a bit of spare cash left over from the day job they could pay someone else to build their project for them (subject to stringent code review). Sort of like Rentacoder but more fine grained.
Algorithmic Composition: Computational Thinking in Music
As much as I love Coursera, their statistics so far have shown that most of the students actually benefiting from their courses already have degrees and many even have graduate degrees.

It's still great that people are pursuing more knowledge; however, I'd much rather see MOOCs find a way to penetrate the percentage of the population that has less access to education.
Do you live within biking distance from work? No? Then move closer to work. This has three huge benefits...

It also has one huge downside the article neglects to mention. If your work is in the center of town (as many offices are) you often either have to greatly increase the amount you spend on housing or greatly decrease the 'quality' of the housing.

For disclosure sake I do live in an apartment in the center of town, but in doing so I'm sacrificing things like a garden and a my daughter getting her own room. It's a price I'm willing to pay, but I'm fully understanding of people who aren't.
Daily Use Value Key to Prismatic Success
Concurrency is complex. You have to sync between threads/processes/actors, and the sequence of a function doesn't include everything happening to the data in use. That makes it harder to predict and debug the program.
More expensive than Berlin?

I just got back from a trip to both Berlin and Istanbul. As a tourist at least it's way cheaper. Is rent just that much higher?
"While it sounds like a compelling anecdote, it's complete bullshit. If you are just squeaking by at 30k, and you get a raise up to 60k, you suddenly have an extra 30k per year to play with."

That is if you live in a tax-free zone :)
Did/would you consider a tablet(/netbook) running linux instead, /why? ..do you use the touch interface much, above and beyond basic clicking?
"Do you live within biking distance from work? No? Then move closer to work." is dubious advice. If you have to pay 2x what you pay now to live closer to work, are you saving enough by not having a longer commute? Better advice is "Use common sense with where you live and work."
Videos of all the talks from DataGotham
The Internet Association Shows What's Wrong With The American Economy
Strange, I tested it out on 14 (mac) and never got prompted for quicktime. Upgrading to 15 now. Also, I disabled all sound.
UX Sketching And Wireframing Templates For Mobile Projects
No, but Munich is a pretty safe and affluent place. Also, what're they going to do? Run away in front of hundreds of witnesses while I video them with my iPhone and call for the (ever-present) police?
The 10 most common mobile security problems and how you can fight them
You do have to take taxes into consideration if you are in a country with progressive taxation.

I think it might better to think that if your income doubles you should only increase your lifestyle by 10% or so.

You should put as much of the extra income into investment , savings , getting clear of debt etc.
The Physics of Happy Gilmore
The Most Important New Technology Since the Smart Phone Arrives December 2012
Gnip: Access the Full Archive of Public Tweets
SublimeVideo is what RailsCasts using now. So you should be very familiar with how it works, :)
My wife and I have found this type of investing really fulfilling. Instead of investing in larger but more infrequent chunks, we'll buy stocks 50 or 100 at a time to add to our portfolio.

Since we've started, we've increased our annual allocation to long-term savings 100%. Investing is also a lot more fun.
Site Lets You Simulate a Facebook Hack, Goes Viral at PennApps
PassTools helps businesses build and manage passes for Apple PassBook
The problem with replacing the iPad with a MacBook Air 11" is that there are way way more distractions on the MacBook. Maybe this also works so well for the author because the iPad is very limited. He basically degraded his super-multi-functional laptop to a simpler device that just does email/web/ssh very well. Maybe that is part of the reason why it works so well for him.
Speaking in general terms, lawyers are a sign of a sick society. The law should be a set of agreed rules by which we all agree to abide in order to create a better society for everyone. If we need a specialised profession to explain to us what the rules we all implicitly agreed to abide by say we should do, or as is often the case not even explain to us but just tell us the outcome, the rules are no longer fit for purpose.
As long as someone in our industry writes "smoking scala, clojure, java and lisp" we have not progressed from being children, playing with toys in our sandbox with a mine-is-bigger-than-yours attitude. Sad.
Build a site say for eg. ahackeraday. Everyday one developer would be up for hire. Companies can go on the site and make offers.
It's an I'm Feeling Lucky query, accompanied by a bit of snark.
most important will be Google Glass

this one is merely on the Kinect level
It seems if you had the power to violate causality and worked hard enough at it, that future event would have propagated into the present day past by now.

Maybe that's really what killed the dinosaurs.
If you can get a raise, that's fantastic, and congrats! My experience however is that without asking "why do I buy the things I do", people tend to raise their spending to their new salary level. Why not two or three latte's per day? That's what $15 per day, or about $4000 per year.
> iOS neither has true background apps nor a true history

True if you are talking iOS < 4. Not so simple with iOS 4+
Raspberry Pi: Knocking the "king" Budweiser off its throne. Coming in 2013.
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TIME decided to write about our shift from Buddy Hack to Hack My Facebook
First off, the business model of being shameless left-wing shills when alternative and honest opinion is available online just isn't working

Ah yes, of course.
I wouldn't forget what day I get paid any more than I would forget what day of the week it is. Being cognizant of the details of your life says nothing of your financial health.
Well, the reviewers have had access to the same data as I have and critized the map data quality - I doubt Apple would delay an update of their map data they have ready to launch just for the heck of it at the cost of a lot of negative commentary.

The app itself is great, unfortunately the data quality isn't anywhere close to even the quality the iOS 5 Google Maps data. Apart from the obvious flaws like no street view or transit data, the pure data is not good too unfortunately. Let's hope Apple improves it fast, but I'm not too hopeful considering that Google has spent the last 7 years gathering data and improving their maps (and getting a lot of exclusive info submitted by their users).
Yahoo does have a social network. Messenger, gaming, profiles, friends (contacts), and just about everything that FB has. it's just uglier and lacks the simplistic search bar at the top that makes things so much easier.
"Publicly is certainly the commoner version, but publically is a logical alternative, mentioned in the OED with half a dozen citations from 1727 to 1998, so it can't really be called a mistake."

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/45136/difference-...
I agree, don't buy stuff you don't need if you are buying stuff you don't need then stop doing that.

My point is more that this is trumpeted as ground breaking financial advice but actually in many cases you can still have financial problems even if you aren't buying crap you don't need at which point trying to cut expenses gets exponentially harder.
A lot of the comments on the site seem to be blaming the papers for publishing poor content when better, more objective content was available online. I don't think this is true. People stopped buying newspapers because they could get the basics online for free and more up-to-date. If something is available for free people aren't going to pay for it.

I still find the experience of a newspaper better and the content slightly better and more in-depth than what is available online (although this is changing, more often than not the content of the paper is available identically online now).
Link to original source - http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2012/09/freefall-adjusted-for-in...
that patch purports to make it "more anonymous," not actually anonymous
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You're right. But spread that out across thousands of small teams and I'm sure the outcome would be greater than what we're seeing here. Having some competition among teams would also help - the big defense contractors aren't so much competing against each other as milking the government.