skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree with this. My grandfather is a millionaire...apparantly. I never would have guessed it. He drives a near-broken-down 1980-something honda. He takes frugality to the extreme. I love talking to him and hearing his investing advice, but it gets irritating hearing about how he saved $0.50 on a book or hitch-hiked to Colorado for a family event. I don't see him much, but I've hardly ever seen him smile.

I think we have to be very careful in a society that promotes living in such excess. It's a hard balance to find between casting off all expenses to the point that it becomes frugality for the sake of being frugal, and frivolous-spending yourself into debt.
What do you mean by "figure out"? Options (mpoe) and futures (icbit) exist in some form.
DDOS attacks are way more common than terrorist attacks, and there's a rarely a clue why they happen.
Disagree! Lots of people have MBAs. It's not an effective differentiator. A smart, ambitious engineer can do most of the jobs an MBA normally qualifies for, so MBAs have that source of competition too. Meanwhile: your landing includes $100k of non-disposable debt.

A couple years ago, I worked for a UMich MBA in a product marketing role. I remember hearing about how MBA's weren't worth getting unless you got one from a top school. But that was years ago. In 2013, even if you can pick one up from Wharton, you're still probably going to end up worse-off unless you manage to parlay the degree into a role in finance.

Don't get an MBA.
"More recently, even my hobby of writing the blog has started producing some cash"

So technically the blog money was somewhat covered in the article, though in a way that I agree is likely very misleading.

As a "living frugal guru" you can't exactly come right out and say "Also, I'm making a bunch of money by selling advertising to you all", though it is almost certainly the truth.
Simply cracking hashes that somebody else already leaked shouldn't be a crime and it's a common activity for network defenders and security researchers.

Some fundamental concepts used by defenders like "password strength" are subtly dependent upon the abilities of a putative attacker, yet we know that attackers are evolving their skills with every new breach. Thus in order for defenders to reason intelligently about their security and resolve the numerous trade-offs they face, we need data from the widest possible variety of sources when these real-world events occur.
How is it better than iTunes? I'm seriously asking. I'm always hearing people bitch about iTunes, but they never explain why.

P.S. Yes. It has been getting bloated, but people have been complaining about iTunes since day 1.
I take it you don't realize that arguing from logical fallacy is itself a logical fallacy?

(Ah, recursion...)
I just got one of my servers attacking TicketMaster by a faulty cgi.
(my alert system notified 5 minutes after it started)
The mob is angry now It was disabled..
I think it has more targets that only vlc...
I've been answering emails along with other Ada Initiative folks all afternoon!! A lot of women all over the world are very happy and excited to get to try things out on github. The Systers list was so helpful in distributing the link to a diverse worldwide group of women in the field and students just starting out. I think this will have a very positive result and bring many more women into fully contributing to F/LOSS.

Since so many times, people in open source projects wonder what they can do to help, and given the incredibly positive response I've seen so far today from women who've read the blog post and who say it is going to help them, I'm feeling hopeful -- and proud to be part of TAI's efforts to contribute.

I love supporting anyone's learning, especially in free/open tech and culture, and spend a lot of my time trying to do exactly that. Some of that time, I make sure to focus on supporting other women. Taking the time to support other women is often something that has to be a deliberate act, because it is all too easy to just pay more attention to men, who expect and to some degree demand it, so, I have tried for many years to make that an essential part of my life.

Cheers, HN.
Let's say you have some static landing pages on S3, and you want a contact form. How would you do it?

Normally you'd have a PHP/python/perl/ruby/node/whatever script listening on the server for an HTTP POST (or AJAX request, or RPC, or websocket, or whatever) that would send the mail for you. But this won't work here because S3.

Your first attempt at solving this will probably be to turn to Mandrill/Mailgun/Postmark/whatever, most of which have some easy way to send an email from javascript, but all of which have some secret API key you need to keep secret. Again, this won't work because S3.

The trick is to find someone who'll run a server for you that will accept messages over an HTTP interface and pass them along to a designated email address. And apparently Squaresend will do this, which is honestly pretty nice if you just want a contact form on your S3 hosted website (which is not that strange a need!).
Good posts. But for the other side, read these posts:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/07/27/youll-never-be-nor...

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/07/22/protecting-your-mo...

It seems as if the lifestyle has colored their ability to enjoy things like going out for ice cream, or dinner with friends.
Well prove me wrong with substance if it's so easy.
Driving the same route is safer.
Nope, it doesn't. A single person can very easily live on $15kpa. Even in the Bay Area. I've been doing it for 3 years, in fact, at $12-$16kpa.

It probably does mean having housemates and being careful about where you choose to live, but it's imminently doable.
This is Wordpress, install the BlackBox Debug Bar plugin and then load the site.

A black bar will appear that will track queries and DNS requests being made on the site.

I once had a custom hook that I had copied from a site online to do some random function and for some reason it was SUPER ineffective and caused a 10 second delay when loading a new page.

Try it, you should be able to find what's going on.
For those on Linux or Windows, Audacious is a beautiful audio player heavily inspired by Winamp 2.x, both visually and mechanically. It supports Winamp Classic skins out of the box, and comes with quite a nice one as stock.

Screenshot: http://community.linuxmint.com/img/screenshots/audacious.png
Homepage: http://audacious-media-player.org/
Healthy discussion about this new service 3 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5598852
We do, and I think the right & ability to work under pseudonymity is very important. But at some point having a career means that people want to hook their identities together. A bunch of the CS students coming into this only have an inkling of the crap they are about to face in the field. Hopefully more of us will stick around to find out all the awesome stuff and will believe in the philosophy and idealism of F/LOSS's potential to make the world better.
No, the point is he has $600K+ in the bank as self-insurance. If he has to pay $10K in one year for medical expenses, he would do something like reduce the amount that his family draws by $1K a year for the next ten years, not cut the draw rate in half for one year. The self-insurance bet is that he won't have to do that more than once every ten years on average. Given their healthy lifestyle, he's probably going to win that bet.
I biked to work in Seattle every day including freezing 35 degree rain in winter and enjoyed it. Half an hour biking in such a weather made me feel like I achieved something before work day starts. And biking was totally optional - I had a car.

But people are different and I get what you want to say.
People have been cracking passwords and releasing stats for something like two decades now. Point to one of them who got prosecuted.
I am retired, and I code on the side, for which I get money, which I use to finance charitable giving and interesting related projects.

I am glad that about half of HN doesn't fall for this guy's Rich Dad Poor Dad schtick. The other half, though...
> fucked some really beautiful girls

I downvoted you for this crass sexist drivel that drags down the level of discourse.
Oh Not what I thought, Its not pure JS.
Why do you return 403 (according to the article) instead of 444? 444 will drop and close the connection, so I am guessing it has something to do with keep alives vs connection overhead?
Dropdown menus are typically 'mouse-over and move mouse', not 'click-and-drag'
You described everything very well what I am like and what I think of the subject. It is nice to know that I am not alone.

I am also nomadic, although yet a university student, still making it eventually possible working in an industry capable of earning over $100k per annum. Nothing would change if it was not as prosper.
One of his themes is to maximize frugality/stinginess. He claims to have no debt. He has some assets, has some income. Still, I doubt it's as easy as he makes it sound. But OTOH, there are a lot of optimizations I know I could make, yet have tended to ignore.
A bug worth 4200$
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More importantly, why do you have all those services (including ftp and mysql) open to the world?
The attacker has pairs of hashes and known passwords (for instance, for their own accounts) and only has to figure out what the mapping is for those; the answer then extends trivially to the rest of the passwords.

That's the "theoretical" answer. The real answer is, popping someone's database virtually always --- you know what, let's just assume always for now --- gives you a remote shell, and from the the actual code.
That's great, and maybe you have student groups too that will be supportive and in which you will develop a useful network of peers and mentors!
I agree that female teenage culture has a lot to answer for in dissuading girls from studying technical subjects. But this article is full of silly stereotypes. I'm not particularly interested in science fiction or playing video games, and I would not find software engineering very appealing if it were full of darth vader t-shirt wearing nerds.
True, that's another good point. Talking of plugins for other music formats, the Oldsk00l MOD Player Plugin for Winamp provides much more accurate playback of Amiga MOD files than the built-in Winamp MOD player. Absolutely recommended and essential if you like Amiga (crack intro) chiptunes. Hasn't been updated in ages but still works fine for me.

It also supports some other Amiga formats, you can find it at http://www.rift.dk/page.php?1
It's easy to argue about logical fallacies because anyone can look them up on Wikipedia or Less Wrong.

It is harder to make a substantive case against the need for a cybersecurity bill because to do that, one would have to actually know what one is talking about.

Here is an example of the sort of distortion that the current legal environment is causing:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732488360457839...

I hope you will consider the idea that if companies feel forced into going to lawyers for network security advice, the system might benefit from a bit of tweaking.
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I tried iTunes back in 2009 when I was trying to get some music off of an iPod. Worst user experience ever. When you have to watch 5 minute video tutorials on Youtube to figure out how to do something, your user interface probably sucks.

Also, yes, the bloat and the constant updates to support the bloat.
I've never understood why media players in particular feel they have carte blanche to completely ignore any attempt at integrating with the system look and feel. I never really got along with WinAMP due in no small part to that.
> Ahh, but that's the guts of male privilege isn't it. Their hard-earned success was much easier to come by than a women whose achieved the same level of success. That's what privilege means. It was easier for man to gain that success than their women counterpart. Perhaps not so rhetorical after all. It just stings. Sometimes the truth does that. And sometimes, the only way to break through the denial of an issue is to take a hard stance.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be heard?
People laugh when i say,"i dont know how it's going to make money"
i had an idea once, still have it. so, i did the obvious thing, i talked to bunch of people about it. they listened and then they asked, ok! tell me how you going to make money off of it? i pondered and said, "i have no clue." everybody said don't bother, what's the point of doing it. i always though if one were to make good product and it appeals to mass, money will just come. it becomes secondary in a way. Am i delusional in thinking this?
In India, the no of women that get outcasted for being a geek is phenomenal ! I mean really, I hate all those inferior girls who only aim to marry a successful guy to live off his income, and adjust if it isn't much, instead of going out there and doing something themselves, and if someone is doing so, let them be, or support them. My own sister have faced this problem, quite a no of times, when the girls in her class, come to know that she can play FIFA 13, they made fun of her! Can you imagine? Though she was strong enough to not get effected from it, but still, it isn't having zero effect at all.

As someone who values intelligence, I tell her, that it may require her to do more hardwork, but she can be actually beautiful+intelligent at the same time. I'm thinking about taking her to some start up events with me,to meet other women, so that she knows, and their is someone to look up to for her.

Thanks to this post, for making my decision firm.
I agree he sounds happy, but it's important to remember that happy means different things to different people. Life is short and you only get one shot at it, so if you get a lot of enjoyment out of a new car every 5 years, hell, go for it. Be smart about it, make sure it's something you really enjoy and not just a temporary distraction, but do it if it brings you lasting enjoyment.

Some people, in my experience, really enjoy being frugal. Having a wad of cash in the bank is what makes them feel secure and happy. Others, not so much. To each their own.

One nice thing, being able to live reasonably happily on $25k is nice to see if nothing else than that's probably what a lot of today's middle classers are likely to get in SS benefits down the road. And given the dismal savings rates, that's a fine thing. The trick is to pull it off you need to have a paid for home and live in a relatively affordable location.

Of course that's another thought, retiring at 30 means your SS benefits are going to be small or non-existent. If this guys rental properly burned down and his investments tanked, that could turn into a pretty bad situation someday. As much as I hate to rely on SS for retirement it's the closest thing to a guaranteed income many of us are going to get, and retiring early means opting out of that.
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This sounds great! I hope you can make it happen, and do stuff like go together to hackerspaces and interesting talks! Good luck.
The link is part of the larger survey to understand the allocation of addresses on the internet:
http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/paper.html
We're working on a new idea, coming up with a proof of concept and are talking with Investors and other Entrepreneurs in the area. Would you guys use this kind of service? How do I bring in revenue from something like this?
On the contrary, when Winamp came, I found it full of innovations that could not have been there if they were to follow the system look and feel. It was great to see the old ways broken to make an interface well-suited to the application at hand. I still admire and use Winamp to this day.
Love it when two sites I love, like MMM and HN cross paths.

I'm disappointed, but not surprised, by the animosity here. Too many HN posters seem to be obsessed by hitting it big monetarily, instead of developing exciting projects. Is it that mysterious to value freedom from monetary worries so you can focus completely on the projects you think are important, for whatever reason? Seems to me that is exactly what MMM is doing.
An anecdote this brings to mind: I use to work with a lovely lady who managed the running of a large number of training courses. Whenever we were discussing software needs she was always apologising for not knowing or always understanding some of the things we were talking about.

It took me a few weeks of this to notice the pattern, but one day I just said, "You know what? I couldn't do you're job if my life depended on it. Please don't apologise for not knowing every little arcane thing about software development, it's a whole other skill set and expertise. That's why you hired me. I couldn't do what you do either."

She was so chuffed that I don't think her feed touched the ground for several days, and things proceeded apace with a lot less anxiety on her part.
I might be willing to switch if it can do a minimal interface[1] like Winamp does (depending on the skin). That's what keeps me on Winamp the most.

edit: Awesome, it does[2] (if you switch to the winamp classic skin). Just need to find how to minimize it to the tray so it doesn't show in the taskbar and get switching between tracks with the mouse scroll wheel working.

[1] http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/901/winampm.png

[2] http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/6972/audacious.png
This is the best discovery I've made all week! Winamp was always my go-to application because it was so compact and less clunky compared to Ttunes. Now that I use linux, Its like i have winamp again. Thanks for sharing!
Why is encrypting pointless if you generate the equivalent of a private key in code? Of course, if the attacker also gets the code, then you're toast, but getting the code is not guaranteed. So, seems like you'd have some additional protection with encryption.
It was. Since JD left, its been much less personal and more corporate. Few of the writers resonate with me, and many of them come across as "here's the standard personal finance solution to X, described plainly".
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I've read his analysis before and I had the same issue. It's quite easy to retire early if you have a high income and live frugally. Unfortunately a lot of people have to live frugally just to get by. Your average middle class family couldn't even dream of putting away $490k in 7 years even if they lived frugally and got lucky on stocks.

I read another blog, I think it was a different guy, who talked about how he did this by living on 30% of his income and putting away the other 70% and then went on and on about how anyone could do this. Of course, he made about $300k a year. He talked about how even if you make way less than this you can still do it, you just have to be willing to live on 30% of your income. That's easy to say when 30% of your income is more than 100% of most people's income...
For one, it failed to even install on my Windows 7 x64. I could never figure what was wrong after trying for an hour.
If github tables supported '+' as a field delimiter in the horizontal dividing line, in addition to '|' as they support currently, then github would support org-mode tables. It sounds like a small change. github, if you're listening -- any chance?
He lives in a $400k home and saved $800k before he retired after working for 10 years. He isn't living near poverty level.
In the Scandinavian countries (or at least Denmark) it's possible to "retire" early (or at least cheat the system and do this), but I would not really wish anyone this. Working on what you love to do is important, especially in the modern society. And in Denmark your kids can still get into the best schools and you can get free healthcare without having a job. This said, being on welfare and "retiring" early is not something most Danish people dream about and I doubt most of these people that retire "early" are that happy about their life.
This is the part I feel needs to be highlighted. He got an early influx of money through stock plans, the dot com boom, and quick house appreciation. A lot of people have to make do without any of those things.

I feel with those conditions, his "advice" for retiring early has a huge asterisk.
#lang racket

(define (naive-for start end my-body)
(let ([operator
(if (< start end) + -)])
(my-body)
(cond [(not (eq? start end)) (naive-for (operator start 1) end my-body)])))

(naive-for 1 -2 (lambda () (displayln "For loop? Who needs those!")))
it has something to do with author's name.
What is each speaker trying to prove?

1) the idea that God exists

2) the idea that aliens will never come visit us

Both start their proof with an assertion that contains within its concept the very conclusion that they are trying to prove.

Both attempt to leverage an opinion that is personally held ("I think God is perfect", "I think alien science will obviate the need to visit") into an objective statement that applies universally ("God exists","aliens will never come visit").
Not just own their own house, but also own a second rental property (another house).
I've read about studies [1] which shown that boys and girls under 1 year old already show preferences which we attribute with stereotypical gender roles (boys were more appealed to mechanical objects while girls were more interested in human faces (=>social interactions)).

[1] Since there are also studies which show that a nontrivial part of results in social science papers are not replicable, it has to be taken with a tiny grain of salt.
You can, but it's going to be a high deductible plan. I just did a quick search on e-healthinsurance, for a family of 4 with 2 kids I could get coverage for $265 a month. Of course, the catch is that has a $7500 deductible and then 30% co-insurance after that... At $400 a month I could get a plan with a $10,000 deductible and then no co-insurance after that.
You wrote under counter but what I was pretty confident that you meant under cabinet. My two big complaints with the current offerings are that they are either too thick so they end up being a little proud of the cabinet face or they are the thin strips that only project the light in a stripe across the counter.
I'm pro-elitism. It seems to me that only the most dedicated and obsessed have even a small chance of ever doing decent work, and I'm all for dissuading everyone else from adding to the mountain of poorly understood and unreliable garbage holding back our profession. I don't think anyone knows how to give (inflict?) that obsession to any child who didn't already have it, but luring the timid into a field at this stage so lacking in rigor is a waste of the useful talents they could offer to other fields.
(what (do (you (mean ; vim/emacs completes the rest for me

I find the parenthesis make me more aware of scope than other languages.
Most of the time, the economist is right about that: the vast majority of ten-dollar-bill-appearing things found on sidewalks are obviously not real ten-dollar bills once you pick them up. They're advertisements for nightclubs or get-rich-quick schemes and whatnot.
Everyone who wants to help can install the Archive Team Warrior.

The ArchiveTeam Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts.

http://archive.org/details/archiveteam-warrior
It certainly can work. Twitter is a good example.

But it's hard to get any investment, pay any bills, or hire any employees if you don't at least have a plan to make money in the future. Don't say "I have no clue", say "I'm focusing on growth now. Profit will come later."