skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does $75k mean pre-tax or post-tax?

Post-tax comes out to $46,800 a year in California, that's $3,900 a month. Which is great, but yea when you start thinking about a wedding in the future and kids college, you're left with $900 a month to save for those things, granted you don't blow it on vacations and other activites.

A sample monthly expense (doesn't apply to everyone, can be reduced by a lot by eating beans out of a can and walking 12 miles to work)

If you're paying
$1,000 a month in rent
$100 in utilities
$400 in groceries
$100 eating out
$100 clothing/supplies
$400 car payment
$200 gas
$400 student loans
$200 in credit cards
$100 in misc.

That's $1,300 left over.
The military didn't solve the problem. They solved an easy variation. The problem is not just "How do I make it easy and secure to access the systems I control?" but "How do I make it easy and secure to access all systems?" The military implemented 2-factor auth and unified their systems to support it. This is very nice, but doesn't solve the broader problem. Military employees are still struggling with the same "million not-very-secure passwords I can't remember" problems as civilians, because they military does not control all or even most of the systems they interact with.
I wasn't finding the sans-serif font in which most of the article is displayed to be particularly hard to read, but when I got to the short blockquote in a serif font, I found it noticeably easier to read. The effect is persistent for me. Have a look -- do you not have the same reaction?
IN A SIMILAR VEIN, TEXT WRITTEN IN ALL-CAPS ISN'T ANY LESS LEGIBLE THAN TEXT WRITTEN IN lowercase; however, I'm sure you found the beginning of this sentence much more irritating to read than its ending.

It's about comfortableness, normality, custom. Serif evokes a relaxed, readable mood. Sans-serif is for quick points of information and eye-catchers. Capitals are for critical information. (And for us coders: mono-space is for code.)

There's nothing innate to the form to justify this is so, it's just how we've been taught/grown to interpret their presence in text. If the form doesn't fit the usual function, we feel a little uneasy (even if we don't realize it). I'm sure people who haven't been taught the distinction won't have this uneasiness... A bit related: https://xkcd.com/1015/
This is just ridiculous. Every company makes decisions about what features they provide to users based on many different factors. Netflix isn't saying you can use their service with their ISP just that they've made a decision to not support these features with them.
Of course I'm different from others.

I live on the other side of the world from my home country, I drove from Alaska to Argentina for fun, and I don't want to go to work for the rest of my life so I an buy stuff.

As for retiring at 35, absolutely. I'll travel the world on around $15-20k per year for a long time, then see what happens. (before you tell me it can't be done, I've already done it for two years)

Interesting you think I'm living "very minimally" because I said I have no cell phone or TV and an old car, but in the same sentence I said I bought a new laptop, DSLR and rifle in the last 6 months.
You are very confused about what "very minimally" actually means.

> Anyway, the main point is this wouldn't work for most people.

Like MMM said in the article, you can start making this work for you, or you can complain about how it's not going to work for you or the majority. Which one are you doing?
I don't know for sure personally, but I don't doubt that.
Paymill is a clone that looks nice: https://www.paymill.com/en-gb/
Yes. The Stripe Button documentation even redirects now to https://stripe.com/docs/button

Fortunately, the "old" Button <script> still works for now. i.e. <script src="https://button.stripe.com/v1/button.js ...>
These draconian laws like DMCA, SOPA, and copyright extensions that pushed though by the RIAA and MPAA are suppressing our creativity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4 and are destroying our cultural heritage.
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/11/48625?cu...
To top it off, their outdated business model leaches most of the money from the artists.
http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
Copyright needs to be reformed. Some changes that I'd like to see are:

* Abolish the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.

* Intellectual property should be taxed like real property.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-weaver20feb20,0,1...
It is an asset with a value, right? If you no longer make enough to pay your taxes on it, it goes to the state to dispose of.

* Copyrights are supposed to be an incentive to create. One that lasts unto your grandchildren are a dis-incentive, because not only are you not creating any more once you are dead, neither are your descendants. Copyright should last half a working lifetime (20 years), to encourage people to continue to create.

* Someone who makes copies without permission should pay a fine, but it should be at the regular royalty rate for the item x copies made. So upload a song, it's iTunes price x number of downloads, with perhaps a factor of 3 penalty to discourage doing it, not $150,000 per copy.

If you care about copyright reform, you can donate money to the EFF or at least sign this petition urging reform.
http://www.fightforthefuture.org/fixcopyright
I have a HP Mini 110 series (about 4 years old) that I've installed Ubuntu 11.10 on. Took a little tinkering to get the wifi working but now it has no problems and is very fast for 1GB of RAM and a Intel Atom CPU.

I also have a bigger Asus G73JH series(i7, 8GB RAM) which I dual boot Windows 7 and the latest Ubuntu LTS release (12.10?) on. It took no tinkering with this at all and worked fine with a fresh install.
I've also installed older versions of Ubuntu on Dells pretty effortlessly.

Most modern architectures will likely be supported out of the box for Ubuntu and its really a great starting point for familiarizing yourself with Linux. Also, Ubuntu Forums [0] has a great community with people willing to help. Just make sure you do some research yourself before posting there or the 'veterans' get grouchy in my experience.

Good Luck!

[0] http://ubuntuforums.org/

edit: grammar
Apple's cut doesn't apply to physical goods, which is how the main Amazon app gets by. If you're selling some real widget you're in the clear.
>Maybe I missed it, but did the Shockingly Simple Math completely neglect that wages and thus lifestyle typically increase over a career?

Perhaps. On the other hand, if one assumes that real (inflation-adjusted) wages are stable, then adjusts the rate of return to 3% and the withdrawal rate to 2.5% in real terms, the numbers work out in a similar way, and the general results that follow are the same.
As for me, what would make me happier financially? Not having a mortgage would be number one. Well, wouldn't making more money help that? Yes, but the temptation for a lot of people would be to just get a bigger, more expensive place.

This is why you'll find households in the 90+ percentile will mortgage payments late into life. Instead of paying off their mortgage faster, they get bigger houses, do remodeling and spend more and more on their houses. My wife and I might get a slightly bigger place when we have kids, but we'd like to be mortgage free by the time kids go off to college.
Stripe already works with several companies that accept payments and bypass Apple's cut, such as OrderAhead and Exec. There are some types of purchases that must go through Apple, however, such as digital goods/content.
Has anyone ever tried making the credit card box freeform? Where there are no rules. Just type your credit card number, your 3 digit security code, your expiry date, and name, and the form works out what entry is what data. I wonder if it would be easier to out weight the confusion of a user trusting a computer.
Granted, I'm also an armchair doctor, but... The criteria for being diagnosed with ADD seems like it can be applied to every single human being on this planet. Am I wrong?
Yes, they are .stl files which, for the most part can be opened with any CAD/3D Modeling software and processed by pretty much every 3D printer.
I'm sorry my friend but that is hardly a "steal".

Also, you can very easily live in Brooklyn or Queens for under 1.7k a month with a far larger place and only have a 15-20 minute commute.

It is very possible to live comfortably in NYC but why people choose to live squished up in Manhattan is beyond me.
At $90K in NYC you're taking home about $58,500, or $4875/month. Spend $3k/month on rent and you're left with $468/wk for everything else in your life. Half of that can easily go towards feeding yourself in NYC.
I'm fine with the TSA spending 100% of their budget on things they don't use. It's wasteful, but at least their waste won't get in my way.
Consider the source.

This does not correspond at all to my experience teaching part time at a local liberal arts college. My students have been smart, hard-working, and very realistic about their abilities and the real world. They are so far ahead of where I was at that age...
Save the world by not giving out unwanted free phone chargers
There Has Never Been Anything Like This
I'm only in the 4.5 year club, but I'd say story submissions are better now, but comments are worse. HN also goes through fashion trends. I remember when it was full of Ruby on Rails posts and Bitcoin posts. Now they pop up, but less frequently. For obvious reasons Aaron Swartz and related submissions will dominate for a while. Dunno what the next trend will be.
Microsoft has asserted the authority to decide what you can and cannot do with phones like this one. I harbor a faint hope that 3D printer owners are the type of empowered people who find that unacceptable.
I think it's to reduce the risk, and maximize its potential. Unless your company is already successful, I think selling 49% is always a good idea.
Books for Writing Beautiful Code
Meant "How bad is CRAPware this day in age?".
Java 7 Update 11 confirmed to be vulnerable
Added this to https://www.startupthreadsmonthly.com a few weeks ago and have had good success with it. Easy to implement and trigger from js. Still pulling in conversion numbers but users have said they like the flow.
Actually I felt quite cynical about the whole thing until his article on kids softened me:
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/05/26/what-is-the-real-c...

Because I share the sentiment- I don't want to have to sacrifice a lot of time with my children for my "career" (the one that makes most of my money) at all. Even though I have little interest in retiring early, the same strategies can be used to save up to be able to work part time from home on less lucrative (but still skill-building/maintaining) projects when I have children. Maybe work for a non-profit like I started out at.
Your Mac Keeps A Log Of Your Downloads
looks really nice. any free account option for mobjectify?
I'm sympathetic to the thesis, but this is a really poor article.

Read Christoper Lasch instead.
Which "NYC" are you talking about that would see someone taking home $68.4K of a $90K salary?
The State of the Fund Raising Market in 4 Charts
Is logic science?
I think it works if you treat all the [] as a single token. foo is a 3x4 two dimensional array of pointers to int.
I would like to see them run their software project as open source. It might save them some money.
My parents hired a professional to observe me for a day in the classroom without me knowing. Then that person recommended I be tested. I took about 3 tests over the course of a few days. Then went to see a psychiatrist and was finally diagnosed.

Now it seems like anyone who says they have trouble concentrating is diagnosed and given pills.
It's all well and noble to say "health journalism is flawed, everything is breathlessly reported as a breakthrough", but when you put Tara Parker-Pope and Gary Taubes in the same category, you're committing more of the same mistakes. There's nothing noble at all in shooting down all of health journalism.

He goes on to say:

"Worse still, health journalists are taking advantage of the wrongness problem. Presented with a range of conflicting findings for almost any interesting question, reporters are free to pick those that back up their preferred thesis."

It appears that this author's preferred thesis is that when presented with conflicting evidence, one should throw one's hands up in despair and do whatever you want ("apply common sense liberally"), instead of some kind of analysis of the evidence to find which side of the conflict is more reliable.
This is going to lead to phishing. Obviously the possibility is already there, but something tells me that once users get used to this, it will be lead to credit card fraud.

Not on a secure site? Well, the stripe widget just popped up, so it looks legit...

You get the idea.
I don't know. I'm in my final year in college (London), and it is very, very rare that I meet someone my age who is genuinely interesting. On the other hand, I meet very often students who think they are "cutting edge".

For example, I've met maybe a couple of persons who have an iPad and tap into its potential (e.g mobile digital library that enables annotations and dictionary; wireless, customisable MIDI controller; client for remote controlling your computer; digital notepad; etc.).

I may have very high standards, tho; but that's because I grew up studying the lives and works of humanity's champions (scientists, arists, etc.), instead of popular culture.
I doubt my idea is one that has not been discussed in depth, but I am really disappointed that students must use their name or be anonymous, and cannot create a persona.

For instance, I have a unique name, and I'm also generally private enough not to have ever subscribed to Facebook. I don't really care about anything I've have posted being traced back to me, but I do care about the reverse. I don't want some low-level HR person doing due diligence to take a shortcut and make a decision based on a regionally unpopular position on some political issue.

As such, there are real reasons to use personas, and I believe real reasons to generally minimize exposure of one's identity online. If you later have roles as a public figure, it can be a distraction to have uncontrolled material out there signed with your unique name.

When I'm helping another participant in a course struggle through a problem, or asking my own question that to me will later seem dumb, it's easier to use something more unique than 'anonymous' when having a conversation. Otherwise, I could just not ask dumb questions, but if they really aren't dumb at all, then the answer should be easy to find on Google.

I could use a pseudonym, an email address not linked to me in any other way, and if really paranoid, I could use the Tor network—but I'm not concerned about taking classes in secret, I simply want to participate as much as possible and as effectively as possible while opting out from contributing to the 'portfolio' of discourse attributed to my real-world identity. It would be naïve to pretend that the student dialogs are not interesting data for anyone to harvest regardless of user term, and that they will not eventually be as indexed and searchable as Markmail or Google's archive of Usenet.

Perhaps I'll never even refer to a certificate from a Coursera course I enjoyed, much less feel the need to display it, and I could use a handle rather than my name, but I can't help but suspect that most of the people using 'anonymous' in the forums are doing so for the same reason as me, or even just declining to contribute.

I really believe that it would be a great improvement if, like EdX, the name used in forums was different than the name attached to any certificates. And really, being a global program, and considering the attitudes with regard to academic honesty outside of the US, the certificates may not be very meaningful until there are proctored exams anyway. Furthermore I can't imagine how policing abuses by nicknames is any more difficult than people using 'anonymous', they're both linked to an account that is participating (or suspiciously not participating through quizzes and watching videos).
For me, coffee is so far down in the noise as to be ignored. But it's also made in my kitchen.

For my family, in order (note, not CA): Health insurance, Mortgage, Food, Taxes, Day care. Transportation misses by a long shot, maybe a factor of 4 from taxes, and 2 from day care.

If I had to cut something, Day care is the easiest chunk, as it's not strictly necessary, but it's a sanity thing.

(This isn't quite accurate, since I haven't added in the company contribution to taxes, but I have to health insurance. Anyway. )
3k a month for housing at 90k seems absolutely crazy to me. That's 40% of gross!

I'm in a similar situation and 1500/month is already more then I want to spend...
"a gene therapy"...

I don't think anyone feels that gene therapy delivery mechanisms are going to be plug and play. Until we master the technology, I'm sure that each attempt at gene therapy will be specifically geared to solving a single genetic problem.

It's like in software development. Often introduction of new complexities doesn't create a linear amount of work to write and maintain it. Depending upon the coupling of the complexity, the extra effort could be multiplicative or exponential.

Seriously, how long have we been hearing about "cures for AIDS". A couple of decades? Now, this particular vapor cure has an extra dependency upon an unspecified gene therapy. It's naive to think that an actual cure based upon this research isn't much further away than the article hints at.
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The monthly take home on $36k in NY would be $2,250 [1]. So after rent you'd have $550 for groceries etc.
Sure, it wouldn't be a comfortable life, but definitely doable, especially without a car.

I agree with you on the commute though. I'm paying almost $1,800 for a one bedroom in Silicon Valley just to be able to ride my bicycle to work.

[1] http://www.adp.com/tools-and-resources/calculators-and-tools...
It would be great. But the stripe gem out now is decent, and it's probably not high on their priority list.
Aside from MongoDB not being a part of the subject study, it's also worth mentioning that they cherry picked the example that made Cassandra look particularly good. MySQL actually did extremely well on the non-scan tests, while offering consistency. It depends upon your usage.
It's explained in the post, at the end, that the difference is that for most if not all of women's only colleges there are other universities that are similar that accept men. Not only was the author not referring to ALL men's only colleges, but she was talking about a unique opportunity that women do not have just because of their gender.
> moving security / trust symbols into the visual field of sensitive information remains an easy conversion gain

I recommend reading Web Design for ROI for other tips such as that. [http://www.amazon.com/Web-Design-ROI-Browsers-Prospects/dp/0...]

- I am not the author, I just found this book interesting in how impactful certain ecommerce design modifications can be towards increasing sales.
This is why I like S-Expressions
I was attempting to post some humor on HN, but it seems it's not quite welcome here. :)
You can construct a rule along those lines that would work (though just taking all the [] at once doesn't suffice), but it ends up being precisely equivalent to the right-left rule, so I don't really see the point.
Moving From API Area to API Stack
I do not know about neurofeedback, but try surrounding your child with children at their level, even if they are a bit older instead of using drugs.

I'm not a believer in ADD medication, even though I've been diagnosed and prescribed ADD medication. It just becomes a new state, most of the problem lies in finding healthy ways to deal with the issues. Try meditation and yoga to start with.
Thanks, this graph is perfect. (For everyone else, note that you can click and drag on the graph to go back in time.)

> Dart VM is used to provide smooth developer experience and
> can operate standalone on the server side (there is dart:io
> library) which makes its raw performance quite important,
> from my point of view.

The server side is a bit irrelevant here; nobody's pretending that Dart's ever going to get traction on the server side if it doesn't first have a strong stake on the client side. And if I'm pitching to my team that we should use Dart for our web applications, I need to know that my performance won't be dreadful on the majority of installed browsers in the world.

One more question: is there a reason you only run two of the Octane benchmarks, rather than the entire suite? More data points would make for a more convincing argument.
This isn't necessarily true.

At Clef(clef.io) we're storing keys on your smartphone and they're protected by a PIN wall. We used PIN-based encryption to keep a rooted device from being vulnerable to attackers. Generating the keys from the PINs take long enough to make a brute force attack time consuming. Since users can deactivate their devices remotely if they're stolen (so the public side of the key pair is deleted and the private side is worthless), even in cases of device theft, their identity is protected.
And there are "historically black universities". But if someone even mentioned the idea of a "historically white university", they would get laughed at and immediately branded a racist.
>If you want to know why the DOJ considers copying a few million copyrighted documents to be a crime worthy of jail time and enforcement as if you're mixed up with organized crime, you have to look no further than the tech industry itself.

To be more precise, the specific subset that sells proprietary software. I don't imagine Amazon or Canonical or Facebook are big BSA supporters.
"too much sugar in the diet"

This, at least, is not the case.

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/sugar-and-candy-...
If neither usage (#1) nor logic (#2) are acceptable authorities, then language becomes an arbitrary construct subject to everyone's whims. As the author promptly proceeds to show with his unsupported assertion that "different than is perfectly fine".
What I'm saying is that the metric of 'happiness' to determine whether a salary is enough or not is flawed. In most major cities, $75k is simple not enough to live well, save for major purchases, and put away enough money to retire. The reason that 'happiness' isn't good here is that most people don't understand how much they actually need to save for the short and long term, but rather look at their bills and extrapolate from there. In other words, it's happiness in the short term ("are my bills covered and am I able to go out to dinner occasionally?") at the expense of the long term big picture.
The Lala acquisition was worth a total of $160M. $80M up front, and $80M as an earn out (over time). When they left Apple early to do Color, they lost a huge chunk of that $80M (earn out money) because they left early before receiving it (vesting) which in the end was worth a lot more due to increase in stock value. Apple bought Color (and those same engineers returned to work at Apple) for a lot less than what they would have paid in the earn out had the engineers stayed and not leave for Color in the first place.
You should seriously try out the Lumia 920 then.
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The Law has become their Religion.
Latest Java Update Broken; Two New Sandbox Bypass Flaws Found