skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think his formulas are based off of assumptions that don't fit reality for people. A good example is lifetime stock market average. I did a study recently where I tracked the date and cash amount of every retirement contribution I've ever made, and pretended I simply bought an S&P-500 index fund on each of those dates. I then calculated my lifetime APY, and it was nowhere near the averages that the magazines claim. I've been a pretty consistent retirement saver but the point is that my savings past tracks what is probably true for most people - I've had more to save in years where times were good (and the stock market was higher), and less to save in years where times were bad (and the stock market was lower). When you take the same formulas that he claims as gospel and plug in more reasonable "stock market average performance" each year, you get vastly different conclusions.
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I absolutely love Winamp and have been using it since it came out. All of my upgrades / new installs are always the minimal package without any bloatware crap. I love the small UI footprint that I can minimize at the top of my screen and not block anything else I'm viewing. I think I've been using this skin for about 8 years now: http://customize.org/winamp2/skins/6307
My grandfather was a millionaire, on a high school teacher's salary When he died at the ripe old age of 95, he had a 35 year old car with 70k miles on it. His idea of diversification was CDs in a bunch of different banks, in case one failed. He did not spend money on himself. There was a big fight over spending money on a cordless phone for him at one point, because he had a corded one that was good enough. It was better for everyone if he could have a phone in the walker or next to him, rather than tethered to the wall on the other side of the room.

I think the great depression and the shortages of WW2 were hard on him in ways that I just can't know.
looks similar to http://i.webscale.info/lipl/core.html except that LIPL doesn't have pattern matching
Do any browsers with any real marketshare (even a tenth of a percent) not support JavaScript? I can't think of any examples although I've never had any reason to dive too deep into browser compatibility specifics for my projects.
I think the approach that Valve takes to this in DotA 2 is pretty phenomenal. If you get reported you are put into a 'low priority' pool, since the people who play in this pool are generally there for a reason it makes a very effective punishment. If you play a day's worth of games with people who are total assholes you see how much it sucks to be on the receiving end. I'm consistently impressed with how the community in DotA 2 will permit long pauses, be courteous, and in general nicer than any other game I've played. Also the pace of this talk is infuriatingly slow.
Yes, I hadn't considered that... indeed, that's quite nice alternative to rolling my own.
I love pie menus. The stock Android Browser's hidden "quick controls" are incredible and by far the fastest way to use a mobile web browser. You slide your thumb in off the side of the screen and then in the same motion move to the action you're looking for and simply release to activate. It's not obvious unless you show the user it's there but once you have it you don't want to go back.

link for the curious: http://www.droid-life.com/2012/02/07/tip-browser-quick-contr...
The only reason I can think of that it'd be a terrible idea, is the company might then choose to be dicks about how they treat you post firing, regarding negotiations on benefits or any number of smaller details.
"I agree that female teenage culture has a lot to answer for in dissuading girls from studying technical subjects"
such as what? sounds like blaming the victim. Female teenage culture may happen to be just fine, and the techie culture is what alienates women from participation.
If they had access to the database, it's not unreasonable that they had access to the code
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Not necessarily. But the system as it stands is not optimized for an enriching education tailored to individual abilities and weaknesses. The education system here in the u.s. is based on taking care of the average student, providing extra services (of questionable quality) to students with disabilities, and shortchanging exceptional students. No account in class scheduling is taken for the unique circadian/sleep needs of teens. The whole system is based on old people with industrial revolution mentalities handing down mandates for the youth and how they should be treated with no objective feedback on results. Secondary edu in the u.s. runs on the prisoner/warden, manager/factory worker paradigm.
Thanks for this post. Another way to tell a life story aside from Facebook and Twitter. Gonna try this. :)
The standard figures are definitely optimistic, but when you check your returns make sure to include dividends reinvested. In recent years, they're good for about 2%/yr if you buy something like the S&P 500.

I find it somewhat baffling how many financial tools ignore the effects of dividends when calculating returns.
while it's possible PS was going to submit `low 6m' regardless, all you'd have to do to verify this mostly likely was not a joke is check to see what PS submitted
I agree, Boulder is an amazing place to be. World class outdoor activities like climbing and skiing are close by. Plus CU-Boulder is there, so you get the benefits of a big University. Richard Dawkins and Brian Greene both gave talks this year. And housing is reasonable once you get outside of the city of Boulder.
You put music on your iPod or your remove it. It's not meant to bring around to your friends house and take all the music off of it and onto his computer. This is by design.
But why? Seriously, why can't he come to his own conclusion about said lifestyle choices? You don't have to agree with him, but why can't he judge certain lifestyle choices as better or worse? Just as you have done for yourself. I think if he doesn't clearly define what he thinks is better and why, then what advice is he really providing? People can choose to agree or not, without taking it as a personal insult.
I can see where you're coming from - but I think they would say they don't need to be spending money to enjoy the company of their friends or family. The end goal should be to spend quality time with people you care about, and unfortunately in our culture, that almost always revolves around spending lots of money and doing wasteful things. They acknowledge that they don't mind going out and spending money once in a while for a good night out, but overall, they've developed a sort of gag reflex to it since it's not necessary for them to be happy.
I would be interested to see an excerpt from that!
How anyone on this forum can claim to believe in science and rationality and not abhor this is appalling and beyond me.
was curious about this too:

21.5 million age 20-24

vs

58.9 million age 50-64

80.4 million age 50-74

(from https://www.census.gov/population/age/data/2011comp.html)
Yes your delusional. Again an example of confusing sufficient with required. Good product with mass appeal is required but hardly sufficient.
Feedback doesn't always indicate what he said.

If there was cross team chat and someone voted Honourable Opponent doesn't mean it was positive cross team chat.
All mainstream browsers support JS and CSS, the question is how recent and what specific features. "CSS3" really means a whole ton of features and support varies.

Your typical "CSS3 demo" on HN will work well on Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari. It should work on IE10, has a 50/50 chance of working on IE9, and probably won't work on IE8 and below.

Check out http://caniuse.com/ to see which features are supported on each browser.

One other thing to mention is that users might turn off JavaScript support and screenreaders will have issues with some things JavaScript apps do. It was much more of an issue 5-10 years ago than it is today though.
Even if they do it can be turned off pretty easy. CSS wouldn't be affected in that way (I would think).
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I agree. Sounds like two jagoffs joking around. I used to be one of those jagoffs, and I joked around like that with friends at other firms.

That said, I believe the article. Some of the stuff you could get away with LEGALLY on BrokerTec (ICAP's electronic platform) would amaze most.
It is a good point - first time I ran the numbers I realized I was missing them, but now my numbers use the "adjusted close" from yahoo which take dividends into account. As of today, my all-time APY would be 6.02% - lower if you take inflation into account. And it's worth noting that almost all of the time before now would have had a lower APY than that.
I was just thinking, there weren't nearly enough laser sounds, polygons, or explosions.

It's not quiet there yet!
I absolutely love this.

I would love to see a project (a curated version) like this for Rails.
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As another commenter here notes, this is in fact a “radial menu.”

Terminology is important. Language loses power when we use words incorrectly, so please: Do not call this a “tooltip.” Tooltips are only ever displayed on hover (and disappear when the mouse leaves the described object — originally, the tool for which the tip was needed!)
Thank you for expressing interest in our endeavor.

I agree that by having the word "girls" in the organization's might make the organization seem isolationist. The idea is to target a specific demographic that is underrepresented in technology. If anyone interested in joining the group feels uncertain about whether they belong, they should know that they definitely do. This organization is community, and communities are built on love.

Once again, thank you for you interest in our organization.
Your landing page needs work. Reading all of that text is a chore. Here's a very similar app: https://clarity.fm/home
Ubuntu downloads from it's own mirrors (hundreds of them), with very few exceptions for proprietary stuff that can't be distributed like Adobe Flash and ttf-mscorefonts-installer (not default). Also it would not download a .exe to install VLC.
Reminds me of this story:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/daniel-ferraris-new...
I think if economic activity was reorganized around fundamental necessities (to a higher degree, I don't mean to a strict 100% extent) in aggregate this country would benefit by having investment and resources directed towards more productive ends. Certainly there would be short term friction associated with any type of restructuring like that, but better in the long run. Related to that he mentions the idea of income taxes replaced with sales taxes which I think is a great idea, incentivizing investment and savings over consumption.
I wonder when we'll see "AOL is shutting down TechCrunch"
Taibbi's pieces always make me feel so powerless.
I born on a middle class family. From the day I born, I already had a pretty decent way of life.

Started developing web pages just for fun, took control of the family bussiness at a very early age, and today I'm what most people could call a rich guy, way more up on the social ladder than 10 years ago.

Retiring as this guy has been an option since the day I born, I just born in a "goldend cradle".

When I graduated from College / Grad School (I'm from Mexico, things work somewhat different here), I had been developing web pages and software for about 9 years, and I was tired of dealing with customers, providers, and programming at all.

I tried very hard to retire. I traveled around the world, meet some wonderful people, then I returned to my home town, played tennis, frontenis, golf, I went party all night every day I could. And it was one of the most tedious works I've ever done.

After about 15 months, I was tired of my "great life", and I started working on the family bussiness.

It's been the best thing on my life.

I'm still single (almost 29 right now), I've already purchased my own house, the company is growing every day more, I feel so happy I can't even explain it.

I could sell all the machinery, lease the buildings, and go back to doing nothing, but, really, working, is one of the biggest pleasures of life.

EDIT: On your definition "retirement to be a lack of reliance on work to live." I've been retired since the day I born.
Funnily enough, I built something to solve this problem [1]. It's working out alright [2].

It's fascinating what a simple humanizing 'hi' (with a smiley face) can do to the outcome of a game.

It's straightforward enough to match people perfectly based on skill level, but the pseudo-anonymity and high volume of games means that you often never see the same people again. It's easy to abuse them and never even consider your own mistakes.

The best players focus purely on their own play and their own mistakes; they rarely blame external factors for when things go badly. Just what they can improve on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3wqhmG__Io

[1] www.teamfind.com - the idea is to find other real humans to play with that you can relate to (and have fun with).

[2] There's a voting system - 93% of all votes are positive.
Is this story of interest to hackers?

The claim that "everything is rigged" is supported by a small number of specific examples coupled with a generous helping of polemics. Facts are not placed in useful contexts. The reader, after reading this article, has likely learned very little but only had whatever pre-bias he had confirmed. It takes a lot more than that to support the fantastic superpowered-global-banking-conspiracy thesis of the article.

Since, on articles like this, you tend to be downvoted for going against the zeitgeist, I'll provide a specific example.

The civil suit over LIBOR fixing, mentioned on page one, was thrown out because antitrust laws only apply to competitive processes. (Source: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/03/30/Judge-drops-antitr...)

Taibbi writes: "In that case, a federal judge accepted the banker-defendants' incredible argument: If cities and towns and other investors lost money because of Libor manipulation, that was their own fault for ever thinking the banks were competing in the first place." This is a baffling recontextualization: suits are thrown out when they are not lawful because we live in a democratic rule of law, and there is no reason to believe the judge wished to punish or blame consumers. The suit was thrown out because the suit was illegal. This isn't an uncommon or partisan thing: the famous Walmart v. Dukes discrimination lawsuit was thrown out 9-0 by the Supreme Court, because it was unlawful. (The reason the case is famous is because of a 5-4 decision on whether it could be refiled, but that's beyond the scope of this comment.)

A long history of reading Taibbi comment threads on HN and r/economics has taught me that Taibbi routinely lies in this fashion; this is just one example.
Ask HN: Why is Objectivism shunned by the common public?
Certainly Rand was onto something. The entire philosophy of Objectivism is exactly the opposite of what is taught in schools, in institutions, and in the workplace.

Perhaps the excessive platitudes she begrudgingly liked to preach so much to others, and her resilient stand against incompetence (even though men have their inadequacies and are naturally incompetent), cause people to believe that she was a morbidly selfish, misanthropic old woman.

Her views are admittedly far too idealistic for the "real world," however, we saw a real life Roark flourish in the technologist community itself, and his name was Steve Jobs.

Any thoughts?
This works because you knew him and played regularly. In Leauge most of the time you are playing with strangers and it's harder to behave like that. Most people wont know you are joking.

A vile (friendly) player can still exist. In your own private group chats you can say what you please. And if you are playing in an arranged 5 team you are unlikely to report your own team.
Let me apologize in advance for the bad review, but I'm trying to help.

So you present me with a monochrome rectangle, and no idea of how I find the color I have in mind. So I scrub over the entire rectangle for several minutes just trying to get my bearings. Hmm, so I can find black but not white. Hmm, so there is a weird discontinuity between pink and orange.

Are "humans" not supposed to have favorite colors? Because if they start with a specific shade in mind, how are they supposed to find it without playing blind man's bluff for five minutes?

You have a color space implied by the cursor position in the rectangle - why not show the color at each location? Then I'll just go to the "magenta" area and click there. "Humans" want to see what they are picking - show the color space. Bad interfaces make you scrub all over them until you find the right knob or setting.
Cute how the site blends in the ThemeForest affiliate links in with their galleries, as if it's legit content. Automatically makes the other items suspect (not downing affiliate income, just mark it as such, and a price tag isn't the same thing)
Well, it's an article, and it's not like he's berating you personally. A less judgmental person would have made a less interesting subject. Besides, your lifestyle is promoted by the press 10x more than the frugal lifestyle is.
Despite technology, travel discovery sucks.
My wife and I have been together for about 12 years in that time, we have had some amazing vacations based on personal knowledge or hopping into a European airport and picking a last minute destination. My wife is an EU national and had the benefit of lots of vacations, working in tourism, and traveling the world. I'm a California native, traveled, but best at talking to CA destinations.

In the past decade, the best vacation spot we have been to is La Palma (Canary Islands). I can discuss the features that made that trip amazing but there is no way to express that into a modern travel search engine. In reality, it was a cheap, last minute trip, that had air fare, an amazing house, and rental car on La Palma over Christmas / New Years many moons ago. But the rural setting, lack of tourists, nature (hikes) and other intangibles made the vacation.

That trip was 11 years ago. To date, there is no search site capable of taking the assorted variables and producing a comparable output. Last minute travel sites like L'Tur (german) have starting point, destination, and maybe an activity, but ... it misses the soul.

For this trip I am reaching out to friends and colleagues. We are looking at AirBnB, VRBO, and other options. We're planning on contacting a couple of the last minute travel options (in Europe) to engage with a human -- I might reach out to an agent here -- that said, it seems like travel discovery based on prior experiences is lacking.

I've often thought, if I had the money and time, my dream startup would solve the problem of "here are my likes, here is where I am, provide me relevant content". That is very local focused, the next step up from that is, here is the sort of travel I am interested in (for this trip), here is roughly where I want to go, help me narrow down the options.

Can this be solved by data (big or small) or is it still something requiring a human touch?

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Yes.

Plus, there's an epistemological asymmetry here. We can know that it's not yet solved (and I would agree that we do know this right now). We cannot know that it is solved, at least not without waiting tens of thousands of years. Even if we escape current frying pans, we'll still have a fire to deal with.

So I agree with onemorepassword's claim that nawitus's comment is indicative of dishonesty, because it demonstrates a level of confidence that no reasonable well-informed person would have, about the human ability to control events in advance, for a hundred thousand years.

(I don't agree with all of what onemorepassword says, especially the implication that the pro-nuclear crowd is more dishonest than the anti-nuclear.... 99% of the utterances by the anti-nuclear crowd are VERY dishonest.)
Not just Brian. Brian and Joe Gebbia both flew to NYC every week.
While I agree with you, it sounds like he doesn't pay a mortgage any longer which makes that poverty level income go much further. For most of us that would be the biggest single expense. I'm not sure how that figures into the income calculation but it probably counts for something.
A1) I meant both independently though you can't really separate the two. Academic feminism is just as involved in creating a public discourse as they are an academic one.

B) Why would I? The question was obviously a red herring just like the "mouth frothing" ad-hom.

My competence in the matter is sufficient. I switched my major from sociology to CS with a focus on machine learning/data. I've dated several feminists and have been tangentially involved at various points in my life. Not that any of this matters. It's a completely irrelevant question.
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Could be worse. My bank doesn't even hash their passwords at all.
Thank you for pointing this out.

A bias toward viewing situations as "us vs. them" is part of humans' tribal nature.

Any time someone points out that something isn't an "us vs. them" situation (or that a particular position is predicated on a situation being "us vs. them"), you should really give weight to that criticism because it's a very easy mistake to make. Look hard at whether it really is an "us vs. them" situation, and if it isn't, what are the consequences that flow from that?

In this particular example, the case is pretty clear: The parent's spot-on.
I think, in the case of fixed income, there is a public expectation of fair play (i.e. competitive market). That simply is not the case, nor is it mandate. Case in point, there is no such thing as "insider trading" when it comes to UST auctions.

As for "interest to hackers", this market seems to like finance. I suppose the grass is always greener...
I think being extremely frugal is about as bad as frivolous spending (the frugal folks will hate me for this...). They're just two sides of the same coin, and the really frugal people tend to be VERY obsessive about it and stressed out from trying to not spend money. Case in point, this blog post:

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

Does being stressed out and anxious over driving a few miles and spending some money on ice cream really sound like a happy life? If you take spending to the extreme and don't live within your means, you'll be stressed about how to make ends meet and pay your bills. But at the same time, if you take frugality to the extreme, you're just trading that for being stressed over spending too much money.

Life is short. Be smart, keep a good balance and enjoy yourself.
Matt Yglesias was right! I thought he was just being satirical.

> Amazon, as best I can tell, is a charitable organization being run by elements of the investment community for the benefit of consumers.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/01/29/amazon_q4_pro...
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I use sbcl--been a while since I used clisp.

By each time, I mean for updates to sbcl.
Your parent is judging that his lifestyle choices are better for him while the subject of the interview is judging that his lifestyle choices are better for everyone. I'm not saying who is right or wrong, but let's not conflate the two different points being made.
> It's not hard to make friends with people who have different hobbies than $YOU

The above statement may be true when $YOU == "kobot", but it's not true for a nontrivial subset of the nerd population.