skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the chance at a high income"

That doesn't speak to entitlement to me, but rather just getting on the path that, with hard work, can lead there.

The problem is that many are unable to even get their foot in the door. The hope is eventually it will change with the boomers retiring and opening up positions, but there is always the danger that this generation will be skipped.

However, the same fear happened to Gen X, that GenX would be skipped over, but after some major growing pains that generation too found their way in.

Perhaps instead, the problem is that those who graduate into a recession are leapfrogged by those who graduate into a great market. There are other studies that show the disparity in lifetime earnings based on this.
They were pre-covering him. Like all the pre-covers of the songs from Glee....
The modern round of game systems are quite flawed from a UI/UX perspective, as the author here points out.

My Playstation 3 forces me to do various updates to watch Netflix (which is what I use the system for 90% of the time). All of the systems ask you to input text in a super-awkward way to setup various aspects of the system (on-screen keyboards really suck for typing in complex WPA2 passwords).

The XBox 360 is the most annoying by far, as it constantly bothers me about signing onto Microsoft Live. There were some fraudulent transactions on my account (which I thought was super-odd, because I use lengthy/unique passwords on everything), which Microsoft (after a 30-day period) refunded to my bank account. But I haven't been able to sign onto XBL since, and haven't really bothered to call Microsoft for support. The PS3 doesn't constantly bash my head in with sales and random junk when I just want to watch Netflix. Also, Microsoft seems to think that UI changes every 18 months is a great idea. They don't seem to add much value.

Sadly, the Wii has been turned on maybe three times. It kinda feels like a dinosaur at this point. I use my Raspberry Pi more these days for gaming...
$36 000/year Canadian for a single 29 year old person with no debt is far from poor. Especially considering he enjoys his job. If he uses the same entitled tone in interviews its no wonder he has an issue.
Really? The number one pre-requisite? I think you're greatly overestimating how much the general population shares your particular hobbies.
> "People read newspapers, listen to the radio, and watch TV, but they go to the Web to get things done."

I'm so ashamed right now.
"Given the choice" would include paying (likely significantly) more for their tickets. With that in mind, I'm very inclined to agree with the GP that the vast majority of sports fans just don't care.

> And they don't have a choice, since most major professional sports are not subject to ordinary anti-trust restrictions.

You seem to imply there are monopolies in professional sports? You get that they literally compete against each other? And there are plenty of valid substitute products (other sports).
I'd just like to point out that there is no irony anywhere in what you wrote. It is not ironic in the slightest.

(Yes, yes, language is always changing and so on. The linguists in the audience can sit down. I'm not giving up on saving that word.)
Yes, he isn't the only one.

There were thousands like him, and we were (within a day or two) told that our orders were actually pre-orders, and we were given specific delivery timeframes (2-4 weeks, 3-4 weeks... 8-9 weeks)

At any time after this point, one could simply cancel their orders. Many did so.

Once it was realised that orders weren't being shipping in order of placement, many placed new orders (canceling the second once one was delivered).

Folks here are making this out to be par for the course, but this was a very specific messup, and shouldn't be taken as the usual Google Play purchase experience. Google and/or LG severely underestimated how popular the phone would be, and that was their biggest mistake.
"It's not a sports car, luxury cars pride themselves on what you can't hear."

Are you saying people buy a maserati for what they can't hear?

I'm not arguing that it is a bad car. I just don't think we can say it blows away all cars on its luxury and performance.

In other words its not the end all be all of cars.
Ask HN: How do you find motivation to teach yourself?
I tend to have really serious problems getting motivated to teach myself new technologies and new things in general, even if the technology interests me. I've started MOOCs before but I've never finished. I similarly have trouble teaching myself new web/mobile technologies. This gets so bad that I've considered paying for in-person classes. What tips do you have for self-motivation?
Personally I would not expect them to release 'raw' logs. That would probably be confusing to most people and like many propriety logs contain lots of info that any geek bystander could not properly interpret fully accurately.

However, given the visibility of this I would expect that they would make releasing appropriately annotated logs a priority.
Yeah. I didn't think ifttt was so granular. Been awhile since I've used it though. Is it the same as Google Alerts?
Amazon are amazing and have figured out how to scale customer service and satisfaction. Most large companies can take a note of out their notebook for handling customers
Actually, for a while, IE was the best browser available. It was lighter weight, faster than Netscape, and had better web standards support. Mozilla, with its new Gecko engine, took a long time to mature, and was still fairly slow and bloated until Firefox (née Phoenix) came around. Remember, IE was where several features that now form the basis of the modern web came from. Heard of something called XMLHttpRequest? That came from IE.
What seems bizarre about this is that the licensed software market seems to be moving full-speed towards app stores with one-off fees, perpetual licenses and broad usage rights across a customer's devices. But with Office 2013 Microsoft seems to be stuck with a strategy from about 5 years ago.

Interesting data point that illustrates their confusion. On iOS the operating system can render Office documents for you with no additional software. On a clean install of Linux you can usually render and edit Office documents (using Libreoffice or OpenOffice). I imagine the situation is similar on Mac OS X and Android.

On a clean install of Windows 8 there is no software pre-installed that will render Office documents. Worse, if you click on a .doc file the operating system helpfully suggests that you can look for an app to open the file in the Store. The top match for opening .doc files in the Windows 8 app Store at the moment? Corel Office!
In fact, that seems to be right around the average income for a single earner in the country. I wonder why he feels he is so hard up when he is no worse off than at least 50% of the population?
If you graduate in 2008 (at the age of 25 I presume) and you come with no professional experience (internships, work during school etc.) you're kind of asking for trouble. Also not that many people have the luxury to not work until 25, consider yourself lucky.
They have Amsterdam instances.
I am not really in a mood for platitudes. It seems pretty callous, all things considered, for you to say such a thing to me. I imagine I will regret posting the announcement. I normally have no regrets. But I seem to have a lot of them here lately.

Edit: Have an upvote anyway. I know you mean well. But it really is the wrong kind of thing to say.
That's a ridiculous argument. The binary decision is not crap govt. schools or a voucher system. You american's are crazy the way that that has become a culturally conditioned, rational response to such situations. The solution is to make govt. provided education better. Like it is in New Zealand where I was publicly educated. Reading stuff about the american school system is quite horrifying from over here: children never exposed to music and art? 160 Public schools with no libraries? What the hell kind of system is running over there when one can be part of the wealthiest nation in human history yet that nation is incapable of delivering quality public education to all its citizens?!
Desire-Force at the Center of the Law of Attraction
CrushMail (or something like it) circulated among my friends at some point during the late 90s. Perhaps she was fibbing, but the one girl who I think I matched with (??) said she had just clicked on everyone.

So, plausible deniability wins.

On a completely different note: this is basically a non-issue after one's mid-20s, by which point most people seem to have the ability to appropriately inquire after those whom they have an interest in, and have a reasonably good sense for who is eligible and who isn't.
>"If you're not paying money, you're the product being sold" is one of those cached phrases that looks insightful on first glance, but contains no actual substance.

And that summary judgement follows a familiar pattern: 'This is meant to be insightful, but actually... let me show how the prevailing wisdom is wrong, with my new improved analysis'

The problem here, is that you're trying to be too clever in order to stretch words beyond their common usage.

Some personal perspective: Myself and the rest of the EA (Enterprise Architecture) team at my prior company spent almost a month painfully debating the meaning of word "Customer". Yes, I know, crazy and yet we had good reason for the corporate dictionary to be accurate. Financial control systems and exec reporting relied on it. But I digress, and while I can't remember the exact definition we used, the essential fact is:

A customer pays for goods or services.

It doesn't matter if they use dollars, bitcoins, or bushels of corn. Nearly all users of Google are NOT customers, and indeed do form part of the product offering, as the OP stated.

Additional references:

"A customer (also known as a client, buyer, or purchaser) is the recipient of a good, service, product, or idea, obtained from a seller, vendor, or supplier for a monetary or other valuable consideration. [1][2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer

[2] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/customer
Even though the number of "real" bitcoins remains given, there is nothing stopping individuals or banks from trading them more frequently or issuing tradeable notes denominated in bitcoins, which would both raise the effective money supply.
Agreed, but he's right in that a wrong contact name is worrisome. That said, it doesn't seem like it was changed in his account settings (at least he didn't mention it).
Doesn't your example of NYC real estate undermine the point you've made about inflationary monitory policy not rewarding those who got there first? That happened without deflationary currency -- surely it's impossible eradicate rewards for being first.
That depends on where you live.

Grossing $36k annually in Toronto or Vancouver doesn't go very far. Assume 27k net = $2,250 per month. $800 for rent, $400 for student loan, $300 for food, $300 savings, $200 entertainment, $250 for gas and insurance (assuming you own a car) and you're at 0.

And don't even think about getting into the housing market. Maybe the condo market with help from parents or 5-10y savings for a down payment...
I work at Rackspace, and I'm really sorry to hear about this experience. We are working very hard to address the control panel inconveniences that you've mentioned and we would be extremely grateful if you could take the time to provide us with some feedback on how we could improve. You can reach me directly at shaggy@rackspace.com. Thanks.
Don Quixote and the Liar's Paradox
Because those products are free. Even the Nexus Phones are probably free, as in Google makes no money with them.
my employer hits my department budget with salary x 1.5 for every employee in my dept. I thought this was too high, so i went to see the controller, who showed me the numbers and indeed it is accurate--in other words, 1.5 x salary is a very good estimate for the actual hard dollar cost to the company for each employee, as a function of his/her salary. The intention was to capture all includes taxes, insurance, office space, hardware, meals, per-seat share of enterprise app licenses, etc.
Why can't you write software tomorrow and have it available to xBox customers the next day? Why can't that other malware author have his Trojan ready to install on millions of xBoxes?

If you are going to sell to console users you have to accept that the platform will live or die based on how easy it is for consumers to use, and how safe they feel using it. The platform will need developers, but it doesn't have to cater to their every whim to survive.

Developers are only important as far as providing reliable and trustworthy applications is concerned. The gatekeeper of the market needs to ensure that software sold through their market doesn't hurt their customers.

Believing that making life easy for all developers (altruistic and malicious alike) is The One True Way to platform popularity is placing far to much emphasis on the small group of people responsible for supply, and nowhere near enough emphasis on the customers.

Follow the money, take care of the people supplying it. If some developers get upset along the way because the world doesn't work the way they want, just shrug and carry on.

I would have no trust for a market that would let me publish the software I write. I write crap :(
Our intent with the onboarding call is to personalize the new customer experience by getting to know more about your business or project so that we can then link you to the right resources. It sounds like we fell short of this goal when you attempted to start up your account, and for that I apologize. If you'd like me to look in to this or if there's anything else I can do to help please feel free to email me: shaggy@rackspace.com
Am I missing something or is that just a surreal picture?
It's been around for awhile, Jason Santa Maria probably did it most famously with his blog way back when and more recent CMSs like Visual Idiot's "Anchor" were intentionally created to allow people the ability to design for the post, rather than the site.
Now, I'm much more recently out of school than this, but I can't take this guy seriously at all. I had a pick of job offers after I graduated. Granted, I was in an engineering discipline, so perhaps I had it easier, but practically everyone I know from school even in other fields has managed to find decent paying work. I understand that the job market isn't great, but he describes it as if its completely impossible for a recent grad.
Missouri bill redefines science, gives equal time to Intelligent Design
I think you are underestimating how much the general population wants apps
No, I am saying that either people need to recognize that grades are not a reliable indicator of ability, understanding, or aptitude, or else teachers need to start assigning grades that are a reliable indicator of such things. Right now, we have grades that are interpreted to mean one thing, but in reality mean something else.

Your comment starts with the assumption that having grades that are based on whether or not homework is turned in is how things should be. My point was that teachers should not be giving bad grades to students who did not do their homework, they should be giving bad grades to students who do not demonstrate an understanding of the subject.
see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5210220
Not just IOS. Desktop Chrome here and the lines don't line up. Since when is "here is a screenful of mundane information, badly presented" Hacker News material?
Thanks for the kind words. We were able to get everything sorted with the kernel bug? Please let me know if I can help with this or anything else. shaggy@rackspace.com
Steam boxes should also be pretty open like that. Obviously you can already make a "PC game" that can run on a Steam box but, Newell promised the approval process of Steam will almost completely disappear in the future, so it should be even easier for game developers to put their games on Steam, and then having them distributed to any device that runs Steam.
I actually find it very insightful, even if it has been repeated a number of times. And repetition hasn't eroded its truth.

At the end of the day, real estate on a screen is means to an end, not the ultimate end itself. The ultimate end is of course money, which is paid by advertisers. The means to an end is more properly viewed as a factor of Google's production than an end itself.

I would distinguish linguistically by saying that I am a user of google's products, but not a customer. A customer pays.
Nobody seems to remember just how much money Microsoft and Sony have lost on their consoles.

- Through 2005, the Xbox gaming division had lost over $4 billion [1]

- Microsoft took a charge of $1 billion dollars on its June 2007 income statement to account for the cost of replacing bricked Xbox 360s [1]

- Xbox 360 and PS3 losses total $8 billion [2]

Luckily for Microsoft, they've had the cash to burn to strong-arm their way into the market. The units sold is nothing too impressive when you account for losses.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360#Timeline_2

2. http://www.vg247.com/2013/01/07/xbox-360-and-ps3-losses-tota...
What I learned as a 16 y/o engineering intern in SV
I would suggest that the writer needs to disconnect their self-worth and identity from their temporary employment situation.
That's some pretty bad markup, the rows don't even line up. Oh right, it's a single row with two cells..
I don't think Microsoft is charging developers on the order of tens of thousands of dollar per game update, just to check if they maybe put some malware in there.
Are you sure you aren't thinking of the Louisiana Congressman who complained that he had "only $400,000" left over after the costs of running his businesses and feeding his family?
You do. That's what you are paying for in a lease, the depreciation that occurs over the term of the lease, plus interest and whatever other spread the finance company/manufacturer/dealership takes. They sell the car at the lease end for the value of the car less the depreciation you "used".

Lease/buy in an efficient market should be equally profitable. Most of the lease benefits are from taxes.
I wonder if the "Eat People" idea is going to effectively get distorted by the majority in industrialized nations into a 21st century form of domestic servitude mediated by the Internet?

http://amzn.com/1591845424

I used to live in a big apartment building from 1870, with a 2nd set of servant's stairs in back and servant's quarters on the top floor. With the Internet, the granularity and other logistics of service are drastically changed, such that servants don't have to live with you or necessarily establish long term relationships. (Though these will still work better in many situations.)

Is the future going to consist of people in the service-sector taking care of the day to day needs of other people working in tech and automated manufacturing, with a fringe which has managed to "drop out" somehow?

If so, I hope we will have fixed access to health care for people not in successful companies with posh health plans.
This is the promise of things like the Oouya console but they have yet to be proven commercially viable in the market.

There are some interesting forces at work here. The amount of time and effort needed to build a truly cutting edge game console has historically been high, further tools to get the most performance out of the hardware have required similar investments in expensive engineering time. This combined with selling the consoles into a very price sensitive market.

In order to recoup those costs, given the market realities, the console makers have traditionally resorted to extracting a 'tax' out of the game developers. On the theory that charging a few extra $ for your game to cover the cost of the tools / access is possible, whereas trying to fund the tool development on the back of base console sales is not possible.

Historically this has been the PC's "secret" weapon against game consoles for a long time. The cost of building tools was offset by developer fees across a much wider base of developers. "Free" tools were good enough if the hardware was sufficiently over powered, and gamers would spend $3500 on a machine that "normal" people would budget < $1000 for. That makes things flexible.

Then there are the phone games, which like PC games, have the advantage that the phone is useful for other stuff and there are more developers trying to write apps for it.

Ooya's promise is that the existing Android infrastructure / developers will support tool development, and the wide variety of handsets will constrain there efforts to work on systems that are similar to the modest abilities (relative to all android platforms) of the Ooya console.

So to respond to the articles point, the reason you cannot write a game for Xbox using $100 worth of tools is because if Microsoft only got $100 from everyone writing a game for the Xbox you would not have enough money to actually create the tools, much less support them decently. Their best effort at this was XNA but they have since killed that due to lack of adoption, if you are EA you can pay big bills, if you aren't, there are not enough of you to pay any bills.
What's unreasonable about the S in terms of size? It's a pretty typical sedan, isn't it?

I don't think it was ever possible to go straight from the Roadster to a car that was, say, $30,000. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd have liked it as well.
Yes, I know. nginx is pretty awesome and I use it a lot in various servers. jsonip started as a node.js side-project for me a few years ago, and its scaled beautifully as traffic has grown. Its my preferred server environment these days, and I prefer to see how far it can be pushed. So far, I've yet to hit the limit on what it can do for this kind of high-traffic application.

In the future, if it started capping out, I'd look at alternatives. But I'm not there yet, and I like to continue experimenting with node. =)
I, for one, don't remember Mathematica being especially "friendly and approachable" either. Maybe for basic stuff, but my introduction to it was a grad-level computational neuroscience class, and it was the source of a great deal of misery in my life for a semester.

Maybe for amusement value it /should/ be named Stephen.
yes, apologies for over-stating it generally or under-specifying US as the "crushing it" market. i do mean US and in general the fact that xBox currently has the most "mo" getting xBox ahead of Nintendo and Sony in their native territories was always expected to be a long, uphill slog.
The "engineering" in financial engineering does not refer to engineering as a technical profession. Rather, it refers to engineering in the sense of "engineered lumber."

Engineered lumber is when you glue a bunch of different woods together. The resulting product has different properties from any of the original woods. It is more profitable for the lumber company because it can be sold at a price premium.

Similarly, financial engineering involves packaging up multiple financial products into a more complicated product. The product can then be sold at a higher price to gullible fools, aka "customers."
U.S. Govt: Harsh Punishments Needed to Deter File-Sharers
In my experience throughput is much lower on Box. Also there's no desktop client for Linux.
> A close second might be the realization that, yes, every single character matters.

And unfortunately because browsers are very generous with what they'll render it's hard for new users to know that they've made an error, because it renders correctly.
How to build a custom control in iOS
Are you secure? Which of the recent Rails vulnerabilities affect you?
YC entrepreneurs are successful with the support of YC. Will they be as successful without YC? probably not.
I have just tried to join http://www.BangFriends.com but it says i will receive an email shortly because they are still in BETA mode. Maybe they are adding the default privacy option so people cant monitor you on facebook via Open Graph?