skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"According to me, retirement means you no longer have to work for money. You then proceed to do whatever you like, without regard for whether or not it earns you money."
This is an article from an internal publicity publication by the medical school that is doing the research, so it's a bit more thorough than a press release, but no more skeptical. It may be that the Stanford Cancer Institute is doing great research on cancer that will bring us a cure for many cancers during our lifetime, but the stage of research on mice reported in this article must still be followed by carrying out "plans to begin human clinical trials of the therapy in late 2013 or early 2014." I hope this all works out, but we'll have to check back for more news about the safety and effectiveness of the treatment in human subjects later.
According to me, retirement means you no longer have to work
for money. You then proceed to do whatever you like, without
regard for whether or not it earns you money.

You could be retired and have a 9 - 5, as long as you're doing it for fun and not the money, according to MMM's definition.
So to ace your YC interview one must be empathetic and focus on the user. This is also the advice to give to somebody that wants to deliver a great product, I don't like to think in terms of what to do to get more investors and VC funding instead of thinking of delivering a great product. If you focus on the product and the user, the funding will come but that is not the goal.
You really have to replace the word 'retiring' with financially independent. MMM can stop working if he wanted to with no ill effects.
Every circular menu implementation i've seen still suffers from low command "density", lack of space for text, difficult to use sub-menus, maintaining predictable ordering, and, with touch UIs, commands hidden by the user's own finger.

I really want them, but squares are easier to work with.
> The locally-defined concept of "male privilege" is quite possibly the least productive gender generalization to use in a conversation about gender equality.

Well, let's clear it up then:
"Male privilege refers to the social theory that men have unearned social, economic, and political advantages or rights that are granted to them solely on the basis of their sex, and which are usually denied to women."

It's actually a fairly useful generalization, and most understand what's implied by the use of the term. Of course the real problem isn't the use of rhetoric, it's the outright dismissal of the argument because rhetoric or faux outrage was used to make a point (or, as in my original comment, _real_ outrage).

I'm sorry to say, but we're past the time to be calm, cool, and collected. It's time to get angry, and it's time to put and end to gender inequality. Especially in tech, where we claim to hold ourselves to a higher moral standard.
Why does MMM have ads on his blog?
Freedom of speech is and should be limited, even in the USA

It's pretty creepy to see some on HN so adamant about limiting free speech.
I actually stopped watching git 10 seconds or so in, assuming the whole thing was just going to be Ken Burns-ed stills of photos I'd already seen. Thanks for making me go back and watch it all…

I'll also drop in a recommendation for the boom "100 Suns" for anybody who finds pics like that beautiful...
It still doesn't follow from the premise that "society suppresses women to the benefit of men" that "any time an individual woman is suppressed, it is to the benefit of men". How do men even benefit from social taboos enforced my women against other women being geeky, or for that matter, slutty? That's probably the opposite of what would benefit men.

Society is more complicated than that. There are more forces swirling around than patriarchy. Any insular group will eventually enforce arbitrary social norms on each other, and since people tend to socialize with those of the same sex, both genders form insular groups in our society.
I wish they asked about health care costs. For a family of three with no corporate job in sight, those have got to eat up a large chunk of the $25k.
"Retired" doesn't mean "dislikes almost free money."
May I draw your attention to figure E:

http://www.epi.org/publication/bp359-guestworkers-high-skill...

Only a third of that half of US STEM graduates are not working in STEM because they don't have jobs available to them.

That figure, and the comparison with engineering, better supports the hypothesis that companies aren't willing to provide sufficient benefits.
The situation is a bit more complicated than that : http://security.stackexchange.com/a/6415

I don't subscribe to one "scheme" for passwords since the easiest method (to implement, not crack) will be the avenue malicious hackers also pursue.

This is why most of my custom jobs involve an application specific salt per installation, in addition to the user-unique salt + password hash and then CFB encrypt the salt using another app-specific password + username hash.
What are the implications if you logged in using Facebook connect?
Agreed, I think that radial menus are only really good for touch screens.
I host on Appfog because I don't trust the history of AWS East, and want the option to migrate my app to rackspace in the event AWS East is down (or performance impacted).

I run an app on Appfog, hosted in AWS East and not Rackspace due to Rackspace not working! Have contacted support about deploy issues and uptime issues a lot. They always respond that I shouldn't be using Rackspace because 'its in beta'. No wonder adoption is low! Either this is one hand not speaking to the other, or they gave up trying to get things to work on rackspace, and this is their self-created excuse to drop support for it.
Read the actual study (linked in other comments). The whole first section is on "high-performing students", and how the US' supply compares with other countries.
I've always wanted the core semantics of Clojure - immutability, the core abstraction of Seq over lists, vectors, and maps, with some strong type inference, and a nice python-like syntax.
He rides his bike to school, even when it’s 20 degrees
outside. He prefers making his own toys with me in my
workshop to buying them in the store, because he is
rarely exposed to TV ads. So his piggy bank tends to
accumulate in an uninterrupted fashion.

Or so you believe.
Sometimes, I love you saurik.

Just this time...try not to capitalize too much on the whole thing ;)
FWIW, it breaks if you use Tab to cycle through the links.
The picture on that article is really misleading--it looks like you're seeing the curvature of the earth, and are therefore high up in space, but it's probably just the effect of a fish-eye lens, as evidenced by the curved upper surface and the distorted box.
He does have a blog.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/11/01/our-new-237-per-mo...

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/09/21/i-can-never-retire...
And in the several decades until then, you will be...
Breakthrough Simplicity
PUBLIC SERVICE REQUEST:

If the LivingSocial hashes do end up leaking will folks who work on cracking them pretty please record and publish their crack rate as it changes as progress is made over the db?

We need these kinds of records kept on real-world events in order to do retrospective studies.

TIA :-)
There is no difference. Both are patriarchal discourses if that's the lense you choose to use.
Google officially acquires news summary app Wavii, immediately shuts it down
Please hire a copyeditor. Please.
> Well, let's clear it up then: "Male privilege refers to the social theory that men have unearned social, economic, and political advantages or rights that are granted to them solely on the basis of their sex, and which are usually denied to women."

The useful part is "... which are usually denied to women". The rest is just divisive stereotyping.

> It's actually a fairly useful generalization, and most understand what's implied by the use of the term.

Useful how, exactly? Other than stoking the flames of online discourse, and writing off viewpoints by using "privilege" as a rhetorical bat, I don't see much that can be usefully garnered by pulling the trigger on that particular weapon.

> It's time to get angry, and it's time to put and end to gender inequality. Especially in tech, where we claim to hold ourselves to a higher moral standard.

As far as I can tell, you're getting angry at the wrong people, for the wrong reasons.

You really think the tech industry is responsible for clueless mouth breathers telling your daughters that technology is 'boy stuff'?

I'd look at the educational system and the magazine rack at the supermarket. By the time someone gets to the technology industry, they've already been subjected to a lifetime of indoctrination and have missed out on critical educational opportunities. We're not paid to be educators or social crusaders; we're here to write software, design hardware, and ship products.

We do need to have access to better candidates, and one way to do that is by broadening the pool to draw from, but divisive adults playing at identity politics won't help with that problem.
LivingSocial hacked
> 25 late 2012 vintage GPUs gets you 180 billion MD5 tries per second. With a fairly modest budget you can rent a whole lot more GPU power than that. A little Googling gets me several companies offering password hash cracking as a service.

But we're assuming, at the very least, that they're not using MD5 and are instead using SHA-2/SHA-256 or (s|b)crypt.

There's an order of magnitude difference between brute forcing MD5 and brute forcing something better.
I think I'd like to get to the point of being able to retire, but not necessarily to stop working (though being able to be more flexible would be nice).

For me, I think my satisfaction with life jumps dramatically the more I feel like I have control (shocking, I know).

I got laid off a few years ago an had two months severance. I floated on it, but I think I did more coding and reading, and generally had more productive time than when I was at work.

I'm by no means in the MMM league, but I've had jobs where I couldn't quit if I wanted to, and I hate that. The psychological freedom that comes from knowing I could up and quit if I needed to, even on principle, is so much more satisfying to me than what I could buy with the money I save.

I can imagine knowing I could up and quit... forever.. would be pretty awesome.
lol. Pardon me. Chrome Version 26.0.1410.65 (up to date)
"More recently, even my hobby of writing the blog has started producing some cash, which I hope to reinvest and snowball into a big charitable operation as well as funding interesting projects related to the blog."
Ender.js - the no-library JavaScript library
The DJIA is a "bad" index but it is highly correlated with the S&P 500. I'm including a link to a study looking at ~70 years of data which shows a 0.95 correlation coefficient between DJIA and SP500.

http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/Courses/434/434Con...

So, while the methodology might be spurious (random search terms may give false positives) i don't think the use of the Dow vs SP500 is a key criticism.
Safety is no joke.
Kim Komando has been successful for decades for a reason.
A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life
SVG / CSS masking using mask-image and clip-path
Sk8trakr - Discover & keeptrack of your skate tricks in real-time
Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)
>This is completely subjective, but I'd prefer to design interactions around what I know my users are already comfortable with. My goal is to enable my users to get to their end goal with the least amount of friction as possible.

Well, there's a compromise, though, between:

(a) "designing interactions around what I know my users are already comfortable with"

(b) "enabling users to get to their end goal with the least amount of friction as possible"

in all cases where an initial unfamiliarity with a new idiom lowers the friction for hundreds of subsequent uses.

As a crude example, consider "undo" in a painting application. Say the user wants to erase all he did up to this point. We could let the artists work the way they are "already familiar with" (paint on top to cover their mistakes, or use some eraser tool to delete the whole thing part by part).

But by having them learn the concept of "undo", they could achieve the same effect faster. And even better if the learned the concept of "history" (jumping to arbitrary undo states).

(Now in those cases, all the above options can also be present at all times -- so the users don't have to give up one for another. But there are other cases where this is not the case, and you have to decide upon the better but new way to design a control vs the old, clunkier, but familiar).
That's not much of a hope, considering FTL violates everything we know about physics...
Thanks, I didn't know such a thing existed. We're a little past it though. Her interests are in industrial robots, and she's been building with a Mindstorms kit for a couple of years now. We're likely to move on to Arduino based projects over the summer break.
I wonder how many folks working in startup-land have ever seen a H1B-farm company operating in the US. I have seen qualified US candidates turned down ... because they were too expensive. Anyone looking for over $130k is too expensive.

Instead, the company hires a string of H1B employees. The day they show up, the company starts the green card process, and they basically work there for years until it comes through. The average developer is ... average, but they do a lot of GUI customization for users, so they don't need to be very good.

The company is trading a public good (right to work in the US) to an employee in return for their willingness to work at a "below-market wage" for long periods of time. I don't know how you can look at this arrangement as anything but a disadvantage to US tech workers.

You could say that a company like this would eventually go out of business given the lack of intensity behind the development of their products, but there's something to be said for keeping your costs rock bottom as a long-term strategy.
I'm struggling to see how this is different (or better) than Anarcho-capitalism or other voluntary systems?

Technically the private systems within an ancap society could be implemented in a similar technology-based fashion, without having to disregard private property laws.
This is simultaneously way, way too much and not enough at once. The 'political part' that covers justice and supposedly replaces governments and courts seems to only address fraud and deception, and uses an elaborate mixture of organizations and computer systems to solve a problem people can mostly just work out on their own...

And then it completely ignores the state's monopoly on violent retribution, which even libertarians support. AFAIK only some flavors of anarcho-primitivism reject that and this plan has way too much infrastructure for that.
Interesting article, and it would do well for most people to consider increasing wealth through investments.

From the article:
Our bread-and-butter living expenses are paid for by a single rental house we own, which generates about $25,000 per year after expenses.

One nit, perhaps, on that - is the rental house completely managed by someone else? If not, I assume there is at least some minimal amount of work associated with being a landlord... so I would hesitate to call him fully retired, such that he does not need to do any work for money.

The other thing I always think when I read articles such as this - if everyone took such advice and eschewed purchases (cars, lattes, drive-throughs, etc..), I would imagine unemployment would increase dramatically. However, it is safe to give such advice, because it is enough of a sacrifice / delayed satisfaction that it is unlikely to get enough people following the advice to negatively impact the economy. But someone needs to buy the stuff that is made, for the makers to have jobs!
* Mostly trial and error, surprisingly -- the idea was to keep everything in low power mode as much as possible, and see if solar panels would let us keep charge. Turns out that they can; one of the sats has panels. Another just has batteries and will die down.

* Yes, definitely. One of the sats was even hand soldered.

* You talk to NASA, the cost to launch one commercially would be around $20K. We mostly piggybacked on a rocket that was being tested.

* Because there was no budget for following these things on the ground, honestly :) Plus it gets people involved.

* We were talking about having these things detect circular cloud formations to indicate a possibly forming hurricane, and having a "real" weather sat take a better look on its next pass.
I think you are wrong here. How do you know that single-founder-tech-guy-and-computer businesses are so vanishingly rare?

Small businesses, at least in the UK, do not involve that much bureaucracy. You hire an accountant to deal with that.

And, seriously, you don't need to put back-breaking effort in for years to create a (non-consulting) lifestyle business. I used to work with a developer who coded a niche social network on the train to work each morning. The site now makes him far more than he ever did working as an employee.

There are plenty of other niches where developers can make good money. Competition does not work like you think - it is nowhere near as intense as you seem to think and, regardless, there is room for more than one player even in a niche market, if all you are aiming for is a lifestyle business.

Sure, there is no free lunch, but it ain't anywhere near as hard as you are trying to make out. Other readers, don't let this guy put you off setting up on your own.
But you seemed to leave out an important component of valuation, unrealized capability. The protocol supports more than has been implemented.
Yes! I remember this was on HN a few days ago and thought it relevant but I couldn't remember the exact name so I googled shoosl+keys+copy+delivery+startup and a variety of combinations based on that but couldn't find the service online. They really need a memorable name.
* You're not allowed to use electrolytic caps in space... seems trivial, but it really forces you to change designs for things.

* Technical hurdles not really, but there was a lot of bureaucracy involved.
According to her website her education consisted of one year at Chapman University (possibly it was more than one year but her About isn't clear). Chapman does have a food science program but not a medical school (according to Wikipedia)

http://stellametsovas.com/about/
Code is the sheetrock and nails of software business.
I have observed that it is far easier to naturally empathise with one who has many similarities to you rather than empathise with another who is radically different from you.

The latter actually requires conscious effort.
Damn that's impressive. Someone please port a realtime WebGL version!
Seems like it could have applications for something like a rope climbing device, since all of the internal edges converge (or diverge) as the parts are rotated.
I don't care whatsoever about 'offense.' I do care about causing actual harm to human beings. De-humanizing others causes actual harm, through things like wage gaps, (in this case) rape culture, lack of equal rights, etc.

1) There's no 'redefinition' going on here. Sex is a biological thing, a scientific term. If you say "male" and "female," I'd argue you're being a bit clinical, but if you say "man" and "female," you're obviously demonstrating something. It may not be conscious, but you are.

2) You're free to have whatever ethical norms you want, but just like 'free speech,' that doesn't mean you're free from criticism. You can call anyone whatever you like, doesn't mean that I (and others) won't think you're a shitty person, _especially_ after having an explicit conversation about it.

"Hey, this thing hurts me." / "I don't care, I can say whatever I want."
Don't write code you won't get credit for
25k/3 people is like a welfare amount of money to live on.
It's called COCOM limit (historical reasons), and you can have it turned off at the factory if you can talk them into it / have a valid reason to. Oddly enough "we want to send up a small satellite, and we are calling from a NASA facility" was not a good enough reason. Surprisingly GPS will work decentish in LEO, if you can get past that. The GPS satellites are in semisynchronous orbit.
I'm genuinely curious: why is that exciting? I don't know a huge amount about the web stack.
The android camera app has this type of menu, you hold and then swipe to get the option that you want. (On the Nexus 4 at least)
As long as it is discoverable and doesn't interfere with other actions, it's perfectly fine. Also have in mind that "click & hold" is the ubiquitous swipe in touch interfaces.

Example: the iOS keyboard. You can touch+swipe a key to type an accented letter in a single gesture.
I implemented this in PHP yesterday if anyone is interested:

https://github.com/gburtini/Learning-Library-for-PHP/blob/ma...

Edit: the thread above me is talking about bigram implementations, mine supports n-gram by setting the variable $degree when you train to anything you like. By default, its 1-gram.
True, but I'd say %99.99.. of those on welfare don't own their own house.
I'm not saying PBKDF2 is ideal, I'm just saying that it has all the possible advantages of the proposed GPG based password storage without any of the weirdness of using crypto primitives in a way they weren't intended for.
The state does not have a monopoly on violent retribution, the state attempts to enforce its own monopoly on violent retribution and succeeds in varying degrees.

If you live in Naples or Sicily for a while, you will find out.
There was a fun dystopian future book I read a while back pretty close to this topic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_%28Anderson_novel%29
You should let your users delete their accounts through the service. I'd also like you to delete all of my data.
The problem with property-rights based systems (namely "standard" anarchocapitalism) is that their economic model falls apart on externalities - both positive externalities (ie. public goods) which get underproduced and "steal half a cent from everyone" negative externalities like pollution, since no one has the individual incentive to do anything. Basically the only way to decentrally motivate participation in public goods production is to somehow leverage emergent properties of the social graph. Bitcoin is a crude example, using seignorage revenue from a currency to pay for core-level monetary infrastructure (ie. blockchain maintennance). Self-reinforcing trust/reputation systems are another, and that seems to be what this site is advocating.
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HTML is good for layout, but bad for formatting. Markdown et al. are good for formatting, but useless for layout. WYSIWYG-giness is not a part of the problem, you can have WYSIWYG editor for markdown.

> At some point you will have to allow raw HTML and JavaScript to be embedded within it

{{citation needed}}

> There are a few benefits that markup provides over a decent HTML editor - certain changes can be more semantic, and it's easier to diff

You forget about indexing and sending plaintext emails. You'll have to do something about soup of tags surrounding a typical WYSIWYG-generated html.

Besides, you don't need to think about sanitization and malicious inputs: markdown output tends to be mostly harmless. You'll have to disable inline html and custom element classes, though, otherwise it might break your page layout.
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