skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that called "low-hanging fruit"?
Do British Canadians try as hard to distance themselves from soccer hooligans? Not condemning you, but just wondering about this sad state of affairs that requires you to comment that not all Chinese are alike.
Not sure if this is a popular sentiment, but the Bay Area is expensive. I would probably move to a cheaper area for a while if I wanted to work on cool stuff on my own for a while without taking a nice salary.
Love the irony in this sentence:
A site that fixes these problems is a site is being taken care of with the loving attention to detail of someone who can see the difference.
That's the point. Massive growth is coming. Africa will round off the population of the planet.
> "I'm mostly talking about the folks who are calling for this kid, or his parents, to be beaten, fined, or punished in some way. I'm also talking about the people who use it as an excuse to complain about how Chinese people are louder, ruder, or generally worse than other cultures."

These people are without doubt going to far, but I see no reason to say that they don't have a right to be offended in any capacity.

The problem is that they are being racist and calling for brutal punishment, not that they are westerners, don't care about art, anonymous, or self-righteous. Those things are perfectly fine (or in the case of "self-righteous", ambiguous.)
Put magnets overtop your prefrontal cortex to increase your potential for Flow.
> My savings could probably sustain my current lifestyle for 5-10 years, if not more.

You're successful,

> I'm single, no kids.

and you don't have obligations.

Considering these, I'd quite safely say this is a game you are not likely to lose. While it's a decision you need to make by yourself, your worst case scenario is better than lives of most people in the field. Plus, taking a year or two to work on startups as far as I can see is quite normal and even seen in a positive light in many places.
Poll: What font size do you use for coding?
14+
Maybe. But if you don't do it now, it'll just become harder and you'll regret not doing it all your life.

I did something similar, but I did it much before 30. Haven't regretted it so far.

Go for it.
a change is as good as a holiday....also sounds like there is a dearth of stimulating conversation at your current gig.
Neither you are crazy nor you are the only with such feelings. I am a 3x entrepreneur, have sold 2 companies and 25 years old. I am working for the acquirer of my last company for last 14 months and I am already tired of writing code for someone else. I am all set to leave my six figure salary and keep hacking & building products that inner me wants to build. Believe me, getting a job at the same pay scale will never be a problem for you. Go ahead and start working on your own ideas full time.
You're absolutely not crazy. I'm 30 and in the midst of traveling the US meeting with software developers for 5 months. Every minute, both the ups and downs, have been worth it. Check out my site codingacrossamerica.com and shoot me an email if you're interested in figuring out whether this is the right path for you.
I have all these problems with Safeway Delivery and Google Shopping Express (which doesn't do groceries unfortunately).

I still swear by those services. They save hours of my or my wife's time every week. We value our time highly.

This is a highly profitable (and growing) niche but one that can support multiple vendors and local stores.
> actually 12 books - over 6000 pages

Wouldn't it have been sufficient to scan only the crypto-code? I guess that the bulk of the code deals with UI, keyservers, file formats, etc, so why bother with exporting the non-crypto stuff in paper form?
I'm not an expert or anything, so take my personal opinion with a grain of salt. If you aren't happy, do something about it. Otherwise, in a couple years, you will wake up miserable feeling like you have cheated yourself out of the most precious thing we can never get back - time. You are the CEO of your own life. Enjoy your journey, take risks, and don't be afraid of being a little foolish - so long as it is in a smart way. Good luck!

(FWIW I skipped out on traditional job offers after getting my masters to begin a startup)
Yes, and his blog’s title uses an ASCII straight quote in lieu of an actual apostrophe.

Before that, Posterous’ default template had tiny, light grey, non-subpixel-antialiased text for body copy. It was excruciatingly hard to read. I never understood that; the point of a blog is to making reading and writing easy, but Posterous only ever cared about the “writing” side of that, it seemed. (This point is further illustrated by the obnoxious headers Posterous blogs had. By far the most visually noisy part of a Posterous post page was the call-to-action at the top: Sign up for Posterous, yourself!)

Actually, Garry, I’m pretty curious about this. What was the reasoning behind that small grey body text? I’m sure I am just being naïve here. Please enlighten me.
Would it be possible to make a few apps on the side, see if they get any traction and then decide whether or not to jump? You could try taking a month off (without resigning) just to work full time on this. This way you could figure out if you're passionate about mobile apps without actually giving up your job.
tangent: can I email you? I'm moving to SF in September and trying to conserve my funds, and it seems you know the area quite well. I'd be happy to buy you a drink in exchange for your time.
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Come live in Asia for 6 months. Cut your costs, have a break.

Word of warning - Its easy to take a break and end up getting nothing done. Set boundaries.
looks some one negative my comment.

Could I have the reason why you think it's shitty?

Did I say something wrong? or unproper?
Isn't it possible that this is simply a bug? If you happen to have a location when you post a status, it goes under the comment with a padding of 8px above and below. If the location is missing then a default of 8px appear below the status text.

I don't think it makes a difference
Where did all the HTTP referrers go?
I actually like the one more densely packed version. One of the core difference in design of Hacker News and other sites is just density of information. I prefer Hacker News densly packed layout a lot more than other sparse. So I guess it's all matter of opinion rather than absolute truth or one right way.
if anything, i feel like you should be more employable if you decided to pursue mobile development rather than continue on with .NET.
"Superintendent Jack Barshinger said teacher support for doing a survey grew after several suicides by students in recent years. Students and staff typically said they had no idea those teens were in distress.

'We can't help them if we aren't aware of their needs,' Barshinger said."

Honest question: Could a survey to high school students truly help suicidal teens?
Ask yourself this- Do you want to work for anyone in the future that would hold this against you?

You don't sound like you do.
So, are those reasons daft?
Yes, I should, I thought a bit more after submitting my comment. :) I only host links though and every case should be checked on it's own. I probably should add license information to entries... but that won't happen soon, too many of them already. :)
He also co-authored the excellent text Algorithms (Dasgupta, Vazirani, Papadimitriou) - http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms.html. A previous thread on the text is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4783301

This is homepage: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/.
Nice choice, I believe many of his books are standards for their subject -- e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Theory-Computation-Harry-Lewi...

The ACM link has some complimentary words on Bill Gates.
Quote:

"He had moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico to run a small
company writing code for microprocessors, of all things.
I remember thinking: "Such a brilliant kid. What a waste."
I wish I had known about ui-router before I wasted days trying to hack together nested views /w deep urls:

https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router
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You can use 3.2.12 with the security patches added, like Discourse is doing:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/master/lib/fr...

(to be used as an initializer)
I use 13 with "Ubuntu Mono" font family. I think it's worth mentioning font-family. Consider readability, height etc. of fonts.
Where I come from, it's so common we have a word for it: flatting.

Almost everybody lives in flats for at least the first few years after leaving home, and often much longer.
Do it, and come to Malaysia.

Savings that lasts 5-10 years in the states would lasts you at least 20-30 years here. Most people here speaks English fluently, and the startups/hackers culture here are vibrant and growing.

My good friend quit his cozy programming job in Canada and spent a year travelling and hacking in Malaysia + Singapore. He left with more money than when he started (took very very few consulting jobs in between). Oh, and tons of great (food) memories: http://malaysianfoodporn.com/
It's a really great surprise that the only comment[1] in this thread is what I was about to comment. Let me repeat it: Read "Logicomix".

Bonus: If you are into it, study the characters' life (Russell, Whitehead, Wittgenstein, Frege, Godel).

Links:

http://www.logicomix.com/en/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix

Edit: [1]: It was the only comment when I commented
That's extremely idealistic... I wish I could agree, but that's the same kind of well-meaning falsehood as "you can be whatever you want when you grow up."

Someone who's looking to start a company and raise a family needs to be smart enough to understand both the family's needs and the company's potential. The latter will often depend on the location in which it's started, for better or worse, regardless of whether there's an office involved or not.

What's the tax situation? How do potential employees/investors view the area? Do local lenders support small businesses? Is there a local ecosystem around business, and is it friendly or hostile to this new entrant? Does the location have a background that will invite discrimination among investors or clients, or one that will support them?

This whole discussion is a vast oversimplification. It does no service to people trying to do real things in the real world.
Dad brought home that poster in the 4th image (the wave of the future) for me when I was in the 5th grade. Weird.
Many are suggesting that the only reasons being given have to do with saving time but that is far from the case. I spent 2 minutes finding one passage (of many) that discusses 8 or 10 non-efficiency reasons. Yes, they are self-reported. Yes, they need to be verified. Yes, there could be other ways to get there or other factors involved. But these are other, very good reasons being supplied for the exercise.
If the contents of the device can be dumped, the problem remains. If not, you have no copies of your database, so when (not if) the device or the server it's connected to fails, your site is down, and once you've brought it back up, all of your users must go through a password reset process.

That one server/device is now a single point of failure and a bottleneck in processing logins.

You're also still relying on the security of a computer, just a special-purpose one.
Do it. The kind of people who will look down on you for taking risks are not the kind of people you want to work for.

In general, it sounds like you've taken a very safe / corporate path with your career. Pays well, but it's boring. That might be the problem. I did a year in a big company and haven't worked any sizeable since. I know guys who earn six figures a year working at banks, but the crap they have to put up with -- what's the point?
I use 18 AlphaSymbolic. After coding sessions, I do not incur speech performance cost, or code switching costs.
The author is a YC partner, so it almost automatically gets up-votes for that. (He’s right, but so are you — it’s hardly newsworthy.)
Your point isn't unique to Chinese culture.

Plus, the boy who wrote his own name didn't even have decent handwriting.
Be within a medevac flight of Seattle or Austin.
Perhaps good advice for HORRID reasons. Anyone spouting "YOLO" or any such thing should be ignored out of hand.
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Who, if not you (!!!), should do this?
Some notes other than what has already been said:

- Both IRC servers are currently down (connection refused).

- The C code is full of bugs, but they're probably only exploitable if you can get either a nick more than 1024 characters or a full line more than 4096 characters (in the latter case, aside from there being an off-by-one error, the data after 4096 characters will be treated as a command, so you could spoof a privmsg and cause the bot to execute a shell command).
you guys are rationalizing. brook's way ahead of ya
There are other sites for religious discussions. This one is one of the few good ones specifically for hacking and startups, so please keep the flame-bait elsewhere.
Awesome. That said, it'd be even better with a small color key you could toggle on the top right.
Because difficulty increases to the point where the folks with the cheapest electricity are breaking even. And the cheapest electricity in the world is free (dorm rooms, cubicles, etc).

The only money to be made in Bitcoin mining is in making fairly strategic investments during the leading edge of advancements in efficiency, or changes in miners' understanding of the economics.
Please figure out a way to connect the rise of Islamist insurgencies with VC-istan somehow :)
You know how to code. Take time off if you have savings. You will find a job if you desire going back to work for someone else.
If you are risk averse (assuming you are because you have lived corporate life for 12 years) I'd recommend working for a small company first, for at least 6 months. There are many aspects of running the company and your own product which you don't see in a corporation. This will help you prepare for launching your own enterprise.
It could be. That's why I said "I felt". A feeling is not a fact by definition
I agree.... used to work for big pharma as a temporary contract worker bottling meds... it was common practice to pick up your meds you put in your mouth off the floor and put them in a bottle.
I didn't say anything about reliability or single points of failure. I merely pointed out that it was possible to separate the salt from the hashes and gain security that way. Whether this is practical or not depends on how important security is to you.

And yes, it would not be possible to dump the contents of the devices.
Wow! Sounds like a dream! Sadly, the last time I went to a Fry's it felt like it was turning into a Circuit City or Best Buy.
I prefer this site. clearer and simpler, focus, than http://colourco.de/
Some more data points and thoughts:

- I have 23 days of PTO per year, which is generous for the US. I did several two week trips the past years, mostly to Asia. My job is fairly low stress, I work less than 40 hours per week. But still, as soon as I set a foot into the office, it feels like all life energy gets sapped out of me. Maybe it's the fluorescent lighting? The crappy HVAC that oscillates between freezing and muggy? The open office plan we moved to last year? The constant sitting? As soon as I'm on my bike on the way home, I feel better.

- Worst case, if I do it: I get lazy and don't do anything during my time off, and won't have anything to show for at the end. But that's entirely in my control, and I won't have anyone to blame but myself.

- I read many blogs and comments about this. A recurring theme is people saying "I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to bring myself to go back to work after taking such a long time off." While I can see the point, aren't they implicitly admitting that there is something wrong with their current situation?
Having left my native western Oregon for sunnier pastures, the thought of moving to Vancouver for the 'good weather' puts a bit of a smile on my face, but in any case I always like to hear about people making a go of it in !Silicon Valley, so +1 from me.

I'm kind of curious about Boulder, CO - it seems to be small enough that it's more livable for a family, as well as having a very well-educated populace, some nice outdoors stuff, and a growing startup community.
And of these three, scrypt is by far the best choice because it's the hardest one to speed up with specialized hardware.
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People here have given great motivating responses. But In don't think anyone has answered the whether it would be hard to get an job again after a big gap if you decide to get one again. It seems like you want to continue coding in some form, so really there will be no gap of experience in your resume.

If anything finding people who have built products themselves and put them out there is great to see and are hugely valuable to an enlightened organization. Whenever I interview people this is always a fun part of the conversation. I find that those people are very likely to be tuned to building great products and are the kind of people I want to work with.
I'll throw in my experience. I went to PennApps Jan 2013 after I learned some HTML, CSS, and javascript with some new friends I made. While we didn't associate with Michigan Hackers, we saw the rise of the facebook group, and their "recruiting efforts". They killed it. Fun stuff on the diag(the quad), awesome hack nights. It was sort of a focal point - a bright light to hacker moths, who were always around, but didn't have a community. Mhacks is definitely a force to be reckoned with, and a large part of my first steps towards software development.

Also, MPowered is our university entrepreneurship club. In my experience with them, it is mostly filled with business people trying to find software guys to build their stuff for them. However, apparently there is an incubator that has most of the people that actually build, but I never saw them too much.

Go Blue! Can't wait to see what they will do next year.
"Scrum is a methodology"

Scrum is NOT a methodology. Especially, Scrum does not answer "how" and don't give answers. Ken Schwaber repeated it many times, but people does not understand it.
There's no place to hack like Michigan. Can't wait to see what happens when people start realizing they can hack anything. Not just photo apps, but civilization itself.
You do have a point. All of us ex-vWorker users had to "put up" with the UI. Of course Freelancer is way better in that aspect. In terms of UX you have a better product than vWorker. However so do pretty much all other platforms. It isn't hard to offer something better than a "horrendous interface"

Regarding the feedback transition it indeed went smoothly, minor some glitches (for example one of our ongoing vWorker projects took two months to appear on Freelancer) The reputation, though, was greatly destroyed. To move from a long lasting #1 ranking to be in Level 10 (or whatever, can't remember which one) and from within that level to be placed in the 10s of thousands is not a fair move.

This is purely coming as a vWorker user, it has nothing to do with my business. I do understand that were existing users with an ongoing reputation on Freelancer, so displacing them because of an acquisition is also unfair.

But to offer "a badge" and "one month free membership", after which you have to pay monthly to keep your subscription is the reason why I personally know the majority of the top 100 workers from vWorker moved away from the forced switch.

They, and I, felt aggravated by a sudden and very harsh shutdown. Now this is not freelancer fault, I'd guess, but vWorker. They should have given a more friendly approach to the whole process, other than a "Goodbye folks I'm happy with the acquisition" and a "Email support at freelancer" from now on.

Most of the people I know (including me) from vWorker took our business INTO vWorker. I did not get most of my work through the platform, but I did move my clients into it. We did that because despite the awful UX there was a feeling of being a part of something that worked. You obviously have the numbers so you can probably see that was the case. And I can go as far as saying that probably 80% of vWorker business was handled by the top 20% of workers. So helping that 20% be happy about the transition would probably have helped the process.

This is, once again, my personal feeling as an ex vWorker. I do hope all those ex vWorker users that are part of Freelancer stay there and are happy with their decision.

And kudos to you matt for nerding it up and answer all these comments.
If you are a decent programmer, you should be able to find some sort of satisfactory-paying work even with the "gap" you describe. And if you truly have 5-10 years of savings, you have more than enough cushion to try working for yourself for a year. Try to retain some discipline as you go. If after a year or two you're not able to make anything work, consider looking for a boss again.
Good linkbait, I clicked.

Honestly, I'm glad it worked out for you.

After reading the post and playing around with the site, I had two questions: what differentiates Musicfellas from iTunes/eMusic/all the other music platforms on the Internet? How do I know Musicfellas really pays artists?

Kudos with launching, and I did like the site.

Rock on.
Noob question, but why would you use both pbkdf2 and bcrypt/scrypt? Aren't they all basically doing the same thing?
Rockstars have bands (2011)
Wat iz happenin hear guys
My editor claims I'm using a font size of 8, but doesn't say what units it's using; you don't specify a unit either. I can tell my editor isn't measuring in physical pixels: the glyphs aren't blocky enough.
I am right now going through the similar stage that I wanna do something for myself. I am just 4 years in this carrier and have no savings. Still I thought to take a chance, but my friends didn't allowed me to do it.

So right now I am working for myself during the nights, sacrificing some of my sleep.

If I where you or have some saving, I will definitely go for it.
Speed-up your project build without the tmpfs hassle
Running all tests in my current project takes some time. With 26 GB of free memory, why not use it for something useful? tmpfs is one way to speed up the test execution. A common approach is to work directly in a tmpfs folder and backup your work to a folder on disk with cron. I found this setup a bit complicated and error prone. I never really trusted my own setup on boot time and with cron. Now I use a much simpler setup that is not using cron at all.
I could probably move to Ecuador or Cambodia and retire outright. Trust me, I've been considering it. But there's something about the developed world that I enjoy. When I traveled through Asia, I like Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea. But Singapore seems to be even more expensive than the US?
Have you tried libdispatch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch)? It’s pretty darn powerful.
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Life is complicated, true. The point being though is that having a family to fallback to in the first year of being a parent is as much of a factor as other elements. It shouldn't be the factor, but it shouldn't be overlooked either.
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