skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"young padawan", "you're just a number", "your lot in life is to...", "you're inferior"

Really?

Why are you playing the bully here with people younger than you?

You obviously have personal issues: you use the fact that you're conducting interviews to feel "superior", to believe it's not an equal transaction, etc. Who the fk do you think you are to try to make youngsters feel inferior by bullying them with such sentences?

I agree that, when you're experienced and have actually delivered impressive things (technically impressive, that it failed is not a problem as long as it didn't fail because of technical issue), potential employers / interviewers will look at what you did and think: "This guy means business" (as in "he's good").

I've been both interviewee and interviewer and I didn't use riddles to determine people's "way of thinking".

And that's where I disagree with you...

It's not because I don't need to answer to (sadly too often silly) interview questions anymore that I do consider it "normal" for interviewers to do riddles and to consider applications as "numbers".

You don't get it about the offer either: some interviewees won't let you even make the offer because they'll politely (or sometimes not so politely) give you the finger way before you have the opportunity to be the one deciding. If it has never happened to you then you haven't interviewed nearly enough people. If it already happened to you, then it destroys your argumentation...

I can see all too clearly the type of person you are: you are feeling "superior" not because of your skills or what but because of your age and your position in the company, which "allows" you to conduct interviews. Which you love all too much because it gives you the impression to be "superior".

Also be careful with the patronizing: there are still a few of us entrepreneurs around here older than you and you should not generalize about HN being all about people in their 20s or even 30s.
It is actually possible and Facebook does do it. Everywhere you see a facebook like button, javascript is loaded from Facebook. Facebook logs certain browser characteristics[1] with the request and uses this to identify you. Then when you log in it can match your account(s) to your browser identity. There's more complex data mining going on at Facebook but it is happening.

[1] - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/tracking-by-user-agent
The author has a kid.

Just be careful that by retirement he doesn't mean "stop the work and do nothing". In the author's view retirement means financial independence - the point in life where you don't need to work anymore but you work for your own pleasure (or you work on what you really like to do).
What's Your Problem?
There are environmentally sound reasons to control the population of wild animals. A population boom/bust cycle wreaks havoc on the environment. We've already interfered with nature on this continent to such a degree it cannot self-regulate. I don't enjoy killing animals, but those that I know who hunt are in fact doing us all a public service we would otherwise have to pay the government to do.
When Jobs represented himself as an engineer but really got Wozniak to do work for him and then didn't even share the bonus earned by his work, where on your IP scale does that lie?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)

"The original deadline was met after Wozniak did not sleep for four days straight. This equated to a bonus, which Jobs kept secret from Wozniak, instead only paying him $375"
I live in small-town Texas.

Yes, people here are (on average) conservative and well-armed, and the most common vehicle is a Ford F150, but I wouldn't describe anyone here as a redneck. They're happy, polite, friendly, community-minded people.

I'm not entirely sure I could say the same thing about San Francisco, where I didn't like living at all. But that's fine, isn't it? Different cultures for different types of people.
Things haven't changed that much. If you have a case and it does not involve one or more of:

- child porn

- someone famous

- a large amount of money

There is not all that much chance you'll get any cooperation.
People are fucking lazy with Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary schooled us on the life of a hustler!
I think this varies heavily per field- some disciplines are more collaborative (eg, CS) and others are more competitive (biomed).
All this does is show that it's possible to commit crimes and later in life be successful in business. I don't think that knowledge gets us anywhere useful.
Actually he pretty much did say she lied: "But having the involved US attorney then basically lie about it all in a very public statement"

Second paragraph
> The Romans were too busy inventing […] medicine, education, viniculture

These three long predate romans:

* Imhotep is the first known physician (technically a polymath, but one of his specialties was medecine) in ~2600 BCE and we have his descriptions of a number of disease diagnosis and treatments

* There are traces of formal education dating back to >1000BCE in ancient India and China, scribal education networks in ancient Egypt and middle-east.

* As for viticulture, while it spread to Europe through Rome it predates Rome by millenia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viticulture
The blog adresses this issue somewhere (it's been a while since I read it) and argues that the topic is so niche that it won't be applied by a significant percentage of people.

Whether that's true or not is another issue of course.

edit: An earlier (and I think better) blog on this is http://earlyretirementextreme.com/, which is now discontinued. (The author recommended reading Mr. Money Mustache instead.)
Very interesting point from that article:

"Readers may rightly note than most workers have not see the gains of productivity growth over the last three decades, but this just highlights the importance of intra-generational distribution. The impact of battles over distribution of income within generations will dwarf the impact of battles over distribution between generation."
One of my favorite infographics ever: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...

As I say every time I link it, read it carefully; it does not say what most people initially think it is saying when they first see it.

In this particular case I bring this up to show that the "standard" 7% over a long term can be optimistic. As it happens that corresponds to the first light green color, and that is not as pervasive as you may have been led to believe. Sub 3% over 20 years is a very realistic possibility.

Individual snapshots of that graph can be highly deceptive. The whole is quite interesting and difficult to summarize.
Is the ‘quantum singularity’ near?
I was going to shoot off "with a retrovirus", but then I thought I'd wikipedia it. Glad I did. Looks like the non-viral delivery methods are improving.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy
Right, just a nit pick:t if get() times out, it throws a TimeoutException instead of returning null (much cleaner).
I think the impact of this phenomenon is partially mitigated by globalized finance, i.e. I can save/invest my money in countries with different demographic profiles than my own. Capital won't stay in countries where everyone is trying to retire early - it will flow to countries where it is relatively scarce and earns a higher return.
Your source is the same government who's trying to get you to go through these things. The issue is, I don't know, you don't know and the TSA guy sure as hell doesn't know. Those scanners are one of the few places in the world where you can get an xray scan by someone who isn't a certified xray machine operator.
Pitting online courses against one-on-one sessions with good professors is great if you have that privilege.

I'm currently in Nepal, where I have spent some time teaching kids QBasic, one on one, so they can pass their grade 10 school leaving exam.

You read that right: QBasic. The curriculum and pedagogy here is so ancient, most students would be vastly better off learning from Khan Academy than from their teachers. Lucky students get the hell out of the country rather than study at a university here. Those stuck here would be better served with MOOCs.
Drugs are illegal. The fact that the war on drugs is waged disproportionally towards the poor does not make them legal in the places and social classes where it is relatively safe to get stoned.

But see what happened with nudity and the stigma. Once a nipple slip was a big deal. Nowadays a celebrity sex tape is welcomed with boredom. And there is hardly a person without someone else voluntarily sent naked pic on the smartphone. And when they leak it is usually meh
Because he wrote multiple times about depression on his public blog?
He crashed significant parts of the Internet, causing considerable alarm amongst sysadmins. His father was working for NSA at the time. I seem to remember he went to his father and was persuaded to own up, but maybe I misremember.

Here's Eugene Spafford's write up:
(http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1701&...)

Page 26

> However. at a recent meeting, Professor Rick Rashid of Carnegie-Mellon
University was heard to claim that Robert T. Morris, the alleged author of the Wann, had
revealed the jingerd bug to system administmtivc staff at eMU well over a year ago.

Here's Seely's "Tour of the Worm"
(http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jeffay/courses/nidsS05/attacks/seely-...)

> These notes describe how the design of TCP/IP and the 4.2BSD implementation allow users on untrusted and possibly very distant hosts to masquerade as users on trusted hosts. [Robert T. Morris, "A Weakness in the 4.2BSD Unix TCP/IP Software"]

Here's Mark W. Eichin's and Jon A. Rochlis' "With Microscope and Tweezers"
(http://www.mit.edu/~eichin/virus/main.html)
the blog comments by 'TopicalSquirrel' are pretty awesome
Consort Desktop Environment fork of GNOME Classic announced
I think there are plenty of reasons one does not see more hardware startups, but I would argue that 'lack of funds' is more likely being used as an excuse to mask deeper problems.

One can expect bad things in any venture where the development costs exceed the expected return. If anything, this would be an argument for general purpose computing and not shouldering the cost of developing an ASIC.

If you would like to see a Kickstarter with better project accountability and a hardware focus I suggest looking at Christie Street: https://christiestreet.com
For the same reason people buy $5 lattes. People are people.

That said, I question a life so stoic it has absolutely no frivolousness. Sounds a little boring.
Oh, you misunderstand — I mean you don't like to do the work of wireframing. I certainly didn't mean to imply that you were averse to work in general.

If that was what you were trying to portray, it didn't come through to me; it looked like you were saying, "It should be convenient yet completely invisible."
The article is about what OTHER people can find out you, not FaceBook. But I am also aware of browser tracking as well, which is why I'm still not worried at all - I pay the same amount of attention as if I was walking down a crowded Manhattan street.
Check out http://www.android-x86.org/

From the site :

This is a project to port Android open source project to x86 platform, formerly known as "patch hosting for android x86 support".
I'm definitely calling you an asshole too and a very big one at that.

You're tone (in your very post here) isn't acceptable at all.

People bullying youngsters (I'm in my 40s, thank you) by telling them they're "just a number", "your lot in life is too walk on your toes", "your are a nothing", "what you've delivered doesn't count", etc. are assholes.

And it's a fact.

And just like the other poster here (pekk), I pitty people who have you "above them" in any hierarchy because you're personality is seriously disturbed to say such things.

Don't try to justify the behavior of your post. Talking like that about people isn't acceptable.

That's why you get insulted openly as being an asshole: you begged for it.

I pitty your wife too: it's a major pain to live with cocksure people who know it all and who feel superior. I had a friend like that (I can't stand him anymore) and after a few years she demanded divorce.

Good luck in life (I leave you the last word because seen the discussion and you're type of personality you're obviously the kind of person who thinks he always has the last word) but remember: karma's a bitch.
in mockuptiger, when you press the ESC key, everything goes away. it is just you and the canvas
ITT: Butthurt extraverts who can't imagine why anyone would want to be left alone. No, I don't want to hear about something your cat did last night. Leave me alone; I'm working.
On the issue of the Dwarven Kingdom, the point about choice of law is further complicated by the fact that Thorin, a party to the Contract, is the de jure ruler of Erebor (or 'King Under the Mountain'), and, depending on the Folk of Durin's constituional/legal tradition, could be considered a (even the only) judge - or else might issue royal decrees to overturn a ruling.

As the Shire lacks an effective government, and particularly lacks awareness of matters outside its borders, Bilbo could easily be strung up under a foreign legal system if he crossed Thorin.
The author hasn't missed the "what if everybody does that" scenario: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/04/09/what-if-everyone-b...
keynote kung-fu works super well: http://keynotekungfu.com/
Fun fact: The Chinese invented a movable type printing press almost 500 years before Gutenberg, but it wasn't practical due to the enormous number of characters in Chinese.
> It is only Euro-centrism which treats them as separate languages while dumping diverse tongues into Chinese.

This couldn't be further from the truth; it is the Chinese government that insists that all different Chinese languages are merely `dialects' of a common Chinese tongue, based on a Soviet-era ideology of national unity.

China does recognize distinct languages like French, Italian and Spanish, because it recognizes France, Italy and Spain as independent nations. This view isn't inspired by Euro-centrism, but by the idea that China is an indivisible nation while Europe clearly is not.
I've always liked to have the latest and most powerful piece of hardware I could afford ... I know it was a stupid thing to do, but this is the way I was.
This isn't replacing passwords, it's to be used with your password; 2-step authentication.
No matter what you believe in, someone will disagree with you. Many employers have people in positions of power who can, and will, try to hurt you, legally and/or financially, if they don't like how you believe.

Is it right? No. Does it happen? Oh, heck yeah.
You do realize you've disproved your own point, right?

>>This is vitally important because it means it's impossible for a significant percentage of people to retire early unless the remaining workforce becomes correspondingly more productive<<

...

>>Arguably, that is already happening even without additional early retirees, simply because the increased average life expectancy (and thus the time people spend in retirement). Effectively, everyone is already doing an early retirement, compared to people 50 years ago.<<

Obviously the remaining workforce has become, and continues to become, correspondingly more productive. If you need another example of this, see 2008-2012. We lost millions of workers from employment ranks, and our GDP is currently higher than its ever been. Sure, past performance is no guaranty of future results, but I and many others believe this trend will only increase in the future. Fewer workers will be producing even more.
"The biggest copyright trolls are on the left"

[citation needed]
Keen.io tutorial, analytics in minutes
Yeah, it's not that simple and on top of that "historical performance is no guarantee of the future one".
Kevin Spacey talks about House Of Cards, and future of how we watch television
MMM has an excellent philosophy, however following his methods and working toward early retirement does require a salary level that is a considerable amount above the minimum basic cost of living for where you are.

By minimum cost of living I'm not talking about the average cost of a restaurant meal in one area/country vs another or the average cost of a cable tv package in one country vs another (if you consider those essentials then you should spent some more time reading the MMM blog).

I'm talking about the cost of a pint of milk, a loaf of bread, a chicken (dead for eating, not as pet), public transport when you can't cycle, car insurance (if you can't avoid owning a car - some people can't), rent (in the UK this is pretty consistent, except in London), mortgage, TV License (don't even try to tell them you don't have a TV, they won't believe you and you'll be fined), gas and electric bills etc.

There is a minimum cost to live in a country and you need to earn a reasonable amount above before you even get to the point of choosing between buying a starbucks or putting that money into savings.
when i was younger we did the same thing, and everyone I knew did as well. It wasn't ever intended to do damage.

the incredible level of trouble that I could have gotten into would have dwarfed my imagination. thankfully this was before anyone significantly cared.

I'm not even old. Then again, now there are tons of outlets to learn and play with things. breaking bbs's and other random things was a lot of my childhood simply because I lacked real outlets to learn. although a lot of that time seems wasted as being particularly good at taking efnet channels doesn't really translate into much but problem solving technique.

today i imagine i'd be working on yet another javascript framework.
No offense. Just curious. I know someone who is so obsessed with Apple that he buys all their latest products, which can be a pretty expensive hobby.
The solution is to use gdb instead of printing variables in your code for debugging purposes. Go has great gdb support and gdb is a great debugger.

There are also multiple editors that support gdb plugins if you don't want to deal with it in its raw form which honestly isn't that bad once you're used to it.

I think I could say with a straight face that you will be able to debug a program faster with gdb than sprinkling about print statements even if you didn't have to worry about unused variables.

In other words, get used to what the language has to offer and then leverage it before saying it's annoying. The problem you have is 100% solved by gdb.
There's been a recent push for optionally open reviews- I know some of the PLoS properties allow it.
Are there any good hosting control panels at all right now?

Like others have said, cPanel's interface is extremely mediocre, Plesk has turned into a total mess after Parallels acquired it, H-Sphere was equally confusing before the acquisition, DirectAdmin is stuck in the stone age, ZPanel is written in PHP4..

I tried out WebFaction's custom panel and wasn't a huge fan of it, and NearlyFreeSpeech.net is nice, but doesn't offer anything for resellers.
For exactly the same reason. That should be obvious.
yep, if I'm not mistaken he has an article named "first retire.. then get rich" where he mentions learning carpentry or something like that and making even more money, even tho he wouldn't need it
Python Scientiﬁc lecture notes (2010)
"People willing to tell a stranger on the phone that they own a gun" is not the same group as "people who actually own a gun". At all.
What the Boeing-747's troubles mean for airlines and other planemakers
I think you've made a cogent argument against somebody else's position. I wasn't stating a position; I was asking about what mechanism exists to keep the broader, only semi-organized militia you describe well-ordered.
Are you arguing with someone else? That claim was never made.
The Romans (and many other civilisations) used to build beacons to signal various things along walls and coastal lines.
It seems like you guys have had a marketing/awareness issue for a while. In fact, I'd love to talk to you about it off-HN- I've wondered if we (@ scholr.ly) could find a way to collaborate.
Why are you playing the bully here with people younger than you?

Because a great many young grads need to hear it. A great many have been told they are special all their lives and can't take someone dispensing the fact that they aren't. You only need look at the replies to my (admittedly, and by design, harsh) comment to see this.

My comment is designed to serve a purpose. If it gets one person to realize where they are and what they should do to get where they want, great. I'm personally not concerned if it offends 40 other people along the way - it's a net positive for one young man/woman.
This is completely naive. There is a reason that modelling is mostly done stochastically - if you get a 1 in 20 event then your years to retirement is going to change hugely.

Worst of all is the assumption that you can live on the interest of your retirement savings - complete rubbish unless you can actually drop your living costs negative should the market (or, more accurately, your assets) drop by 10% over the course of a year.

The closest to a secure way to have your lifetime income guaranteed is an annuity. Guess what, 100k will buy you 4k pa for the rest of your life at age 65. At early retirement it is probably closer to 2k pa - assuming, say, 55?

This, of course, ignores insurance companies going bust - but is clearly safer than investing chasing an RPI + 4% benchmark with your entire retirement nest egg
Xerox didn't seem to think that Jobs was pro-IP.

Jobs didn't seem to think that Gates was pro-IP
Understanding Your New GoPro - A Detailed Video Mode Analysis
It's hard to believe that serif fonts are not more readable than sans-serif. It would seem such an easy thing to test. Apparently not so.
I don’t need your newsletter
Not sure if you are serious or just trolling.

JSTOR decided not to pursue with the litigation because they realized that Aaron had a point - it was not fair to lock up the wealth of knowledge and restrict access to the public who payed for them with their tax dollars, not because ZOMGAARONSWARTZ
Al Gore's Apple score
And that's why the got hacked all the time. On the other hand, the argument of comparing servers and desktops PCs is flawed.

The technical skills of an user behind a desktop windows PC in average is at most fair.

The technical skills of an user behind a Linux server is very high, so no wonder why there are more viruses on Windows in comparison with Linux.
I don't know whose life works in this extremely simple way, but it sure isn't mine. I've gone from making good money to being broke to making good money again and everywhere in between in my 35 years on this planet.

These types of things never make any practical sense because they assume I'm going to be working at the same job for the same pay for the next 30 years or so. Maybe that was the norm in the '60s but few people do that anymore.

Saving money is good, no doubt, but if you're concerned about retiring early, you're much better off figuring out how to do it by making more money.
So, Internet is free only for today.
It sounds as if you're implying that it is not possible for him to have been found guilty and have gotten the maximum penalty?
Ask HN: difficulty accessing HN outside the US?
For the past couple of days, I haven't been able to reach HN from either the UK or France despite having done so for years, except through a proxy server in New York. Is anyone else having trouble? Is there a new policy in effect?
There's also full TSA security at rallies for presidential/VP candidates. Clearly the problem isn't solvable by treating people worse until they won't bear it- the parties' core bases seem to have no problem with being cleared by TSA just to see a speech.