skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Federal income tax on $240k income as an unmarried taxpayer would be about $63k today. A good bit higher back then because the tax bracket boundaries were higher.

2) CA income tax (note that he was in CA) on $240k income as an unmarried taxpayer is about $20k. I suspect it wasn't much lower back then, if lower at all.

I'm assuming "unmarried" given the "girls" in the description of the lifestyle.

So as a start the after-tax number is closer to $157k * 7 = $1,099,000.

Then you have housing: a "beautiful apartment" in Santa Monica. http://www.trulia.com/for_rent/Santa_Monica,CA/1-2_beds/APAR... suggests that will probabably run you $3k/month at the low end of the scale for a nice place, and as high as $16k/month if you go for luxury. Figure $252k if it was a cheap nice apartment.

The "nice car" mentioned was presumably at least 2, over the course of 7 years, and presumably cost $50k or more each.

Assuming he didn't do much cooking and just ate out all the time, and didn't worry too much about the cost but also didn't go looking for expensive, figure another $20k/year or so ($50 per day is a pretty typical per diem for a highish-cost-of-living area like that). So that's another $140k.

That still leaves about $600k to spend on various other things, of course. But notice that I low-balled both the taxes (e.g he had another $100-120k of FICA over 7 years, given that he was self-employed) and the rent, and I suspect the cars, and that it's pretty easy to spend a lot of money on some of the other things on his list. Oh, and he might have bought health insurance too; that would run him somewhere between $20k and $100k over 7 years, depending on what he bought...

Once you get serious about not watching how you spend money, it's pretty easy to spend a lot of it quickly. :(
They will do that if they fail:

> If we don’t reach our target then we will focus only on commercially available handsets and there will not be an Ubuntu Edge.
Rocket: A hybrid approach to real-time cloud applications
The landing page and indiegogo campaign were already both on the front page; the comments turned into vitriol though.

Keep in mind that there are plenty of minors on HN, too.
She needs to have an idea that interests her to work on, that has a specific goal. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097155 as another good example. There are heaps of places to start depending on the language she's interested in, and it's really important she does some online CS classes from Stanford or something so she gets what is happening in the computer from the very beginning. A bit of theory goes a long way!

Once she has a base understanding she might look at getting an internship to learn the ropes, if she isn't tied to a job right now or needs good income immediately.

I've been involved with teaching girls to code so the above comes from experience.
Why does yahoo keep buying companies simply to acquire talent? Isn't it just easier to just post a job ad? I don't think there's a shortage of talented programmers working in social media.

Someone please explain.
The question is why 7 years? After all, the amount of gold to be returned is not that much!

"“In two months, we’ve brought 160 tons of gold valued at around $9 billion back to Venezuela,” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-31/venezuela-receives-...

For anybody reading this, research gold leasing by bullion banks. In essence it's fractional reserve banking... and the issue is if nations demand their gold back, what if it's not there?
How I Aided and Abetted My Own Debit Card Fraud: landline problems
Probably far more than half. Because even unemployed 19 year olds in the U.S. have a vastly better quality of life than hardworking people in the rest of the world.

Regarding your points:

1) The U.S., like every major western power in the last couple of hundred years, uses war to achieve political objectives. In the case of the Iraq war, it was to turn a regime that was slipping out from under America's thumb and replace it with one that was friendlier to the U.S. That happened. Regardless of whether you think the war was ultimately in the U.S.'s interests, it's hard to call something that so much of the population supported so long truly outrageous. "Outrageous" must be more than mere political disagreement.

2) There is nothing outrageous about the U.S. educational system. Adjusted for our socio-economic demographics, the U.S. performs about the same on international educational tests as western european countries: http://www.epi.org/publication/us-student-performance-testin.... In the U.S., the educational system has become the whipping boy for deep-rooted sociological problems. In a nutshell, whites enslaved black people for hundreds of years, systematically denied them the opportunity to advance, and when the Supreme Court forced integration just 60 years ago, whites responded by fleeing the cities to homogenous suburbs, leaving urban cores full of poor blacks and none of the infrastructure of functioning middle class society. On the other front, we let in huge numbers of low-income Hispanic immigrants, far more than we can effectively integrate into the larger society. In the face of all this, we have the gall to blame it all on the educational system.

When Chicago's public school system drag's down the average of the whole of Illinois, everyone blames the schools. They blame No Child Left Behind, they blame teachers, they blame the Department of Education. But it's not the schools' fault that so many of those kids have no fathers, that the neighborhoods are dominated by gangs, that the kids come from generations of families without any education. There is no educational fix to these sociological problems. The solution isn't within the government's power, and certainly not within that of the schools. The solution is all the middle class people from the Detroit suburbs moving back into the city, stabilizing the social structure of the city, sending their kids to Detroit public schools so as to dilute the influence of social phenomena like gangs that thrive in low-income ghettos, and to build functioning integrated communities with broad parental involvement. Butt hat will happen when hell freezes over, and until then people will complain ceaselessly about the government's failure with regard to education.

3) Massive youth unemployment relative to who else? U.S. youth unemployment rate (15-24) is right around the OECD average, below all of the big western European countries except Germany: http://www.economist.com/node/21528614.
That cringing sensation you got when you saw the scare quotes around "subversion repository" is the same feeling people in trading get when journalists write about HFT and algorithmic trading. You can see an obvious example in the article where Michael Lewis applies scare quotes to "dark pools."
"Now imagine the task of actually gluing these acquisitions together for the actual engineers..."

No thanks. I just ate.
One thing could be that buying a team is worth more than buying a bunch of people to make a team. Not sure if that is always true.
My jaw dropped when I read that line. I thought that line was just used by the crazy nutballs on Fox news. I honestly had no idea that was a literal justification used by people in power. Crazy.
Do you know of any devices that don't require a reboot when you switch batteries? It shouldn't be difficult to implement. All you have to do is build a small second internal battery into the device that could keep the volatile memory alive during the switch.
Gh/s means gigahash/second. 1 billion "Bitcoin hash" per second. With 1 hash defined as SHA256(SHA256(80-byte block header))

I don't have my notes with me but these Bitfury chips run around 150-250 MHz individually. There are 256 of these chips in the 400 Ghash/sec device. Each spits out about 10 hashes per clock cycle.
> il Serge was sent to jail for doing it, Wall Street programmers routinely took code they had worked on when they left for new jobs.

This is a huge grey area, well maybe not so grey right now.
Often you can't seperate quants from their excel sheet( or R models) and they will keep these models as they move to new firms.

As far as programmers keeping the code they wrote, This is the first time I've ever heard of a programmer, and I'm one, leaving a shop and bringing their code with them.

Let's just say, there is no ambiguity what-so-ever about how employers feel about this in the finance industry.
University of Illinois uses it for CS421 "programming languages and compilers" (or at least they used to, and I'm assuming it won't have changed).

We don't use it at work, and I haven't heard any mention of it (or any other functional languages) at the various local programmer groups I recently started going to.
Curious Media is hiring! We are a Boise, ID based Interactive Agency. We are a team of about 16 dedicated people that do awesome projects for big clients. Prefer local but are open to remote setups as long as you are in the US. If remote, must be willing to work 8-5pm MST (and overtime when needed!). Remote will require that you are really awesome at what you do.

We are looking for a few people right now. HTML5 Game developers, high-end front end web developers (some backend experience preferred) and excellent designers. Looking for full time and/or freelance if you are the right fit. Familiarity and comfort with Javascript and HTML5 a must. Drop me a message with examples of your work. phil (at) curiousmedia.com

Our work is heavily focused on the children's entertainment and education sectors. Our clients include (but aren't limited to) Disney, PBS Kids, Scholastic, Random House and more. We also have some exciting internal projects that we work quite a bit on.

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Why would HTTPS necessarily cause more CO2 emissions? Wikipedia might be headquartered in San Francisco, but their data centers are not. For example, their European data center is CO2-neutral. [1]

[1] http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/evoswitch-hosts-the-...
AppURL: http URLs for apps, connecting apps to the web
They're several years late on that strategy, though. Not a deal breaker, but they've seen how hard it is for Google Plus to get people on a social network. That's with Google even sacrificing their other products to shove it down everyone's throat. Yahoo will need some finesse and real in-house innovation if they're going to compete in that area.
comments are essential to much of HN
whatever he or anyone at Goldman did on that open-source code, belongs to Goldman, and he can't assign the rights of or share it, either, it's up to Goldman (and the terms of the license).
I've seen affiliates that can't handle the money.

At Affiliate Summit West in Vegas, I was at a party in the Palms. This big suite had tight security and was packed with "super affiliates". I remember at one point drifting to a group of affiliates that were wearing more money than I bought my car for. And it was not a cheap car.

I asked them how much of their income they were saving - every single one said they were spending it, but it was ok because they would make more money next month. None of them cared that the gravy train could come to an end, except one.
This article is also interesting in that the total blind trust McSwain put in Goldman's explanation of the situation really illustrates the typical mob hit-man mentality of most law enforcement agents. The Big Boss gives them a name and they take that guy out, no questions asked.
Then the parser might fail, and rightly so. A comment lower down shows it failing in a simple parser in go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6147478

Keys SHOULD be unique.
I found the original: http://steve-lovelace.com/the-corporate-states-of-america/

“For each of the fifty states (and the District of Columbia), I selected a corporation or brand that best represented the states. My criteria are subjective, but in each case, I picked a brand that a) has ties to that state and b) is still in business (as of 2013).”

Of course, Saks doesn't have any ties anymore to Alabama, so it doesn't even fit the author’s criteria.
Since I too lack the lofty requisite background for it, I'll just let Mr. Crockford do the job the for me:

> The reason to use semicolons is because coding rigor tends to produce significantly better software.
just shows how stupid the judge is. Or that the US Courts are not this independent from the Executive branch after all. Just rubber stamping Big Gov demands.
I was actually just about to post a corollary to Betteridge's law of headlines, which is:

Any headline asking if Goldman Sachs committed malfeasance can be answered with "yes."
I thought the argument against this was that then you lost volume to the casing, connector, removable cover, etc. which could be better used by a funny-shaped collection of various-sized batteries.
Ask HN: Why is .NET often avoided in the startup world?
I am a devops who love to explore almost any platform in which I enter in contact and, for this and others reasons, I ever prefer to work in a startup environment and not in a corporate one.

So in the last months i was exploring for my first time .NET using c# and, wow, it's an amazing platform! Then I started to look for a job in a startup in which I could learn it better and with more motivation but... it seems no one is using it. I also looked for some startup based on mobile platforms thinking that, thanks to mono, someone is starting to use xamarin products to target the three main mobile os (android, ios, wp) and share some code. But it seems also in the startup world they prefer to have a team for each language/os rather that using that solution.

So, after a month of research i am curious to get the real reason behind it. It's because no one like Microsoft 'cause it seems no cool? License costs? Support? Community?

I would like to hear your opinions

edit: I forgot to say that, in contrast, in the corporate world, i found a lot of jobs in which .NET is used. Almost as many jobs as those who require java knowledge.
The ubuntu edge phone that's being crowd funded and 3rd party phones running ubuntu mobile os aren't the same thing. Tmobile is joining the CAG for ubuntu mobile OS, not backing a particular hardware phone.
Xbox One: Microsoft upgrades GPU speed and graphics drivers
Add http://railscasts.com/episodes/368-miniprofiler to your list of tools for development mode
America depends on people having a realistic perspective? I think you're a bit out of touch...

If they want to pass these measures separately, they might have a chance, but passing all of them at once is a farce, at best, as it has no chance of passing. Of course, you can continue to root for the ineffective showboating legislation that is already DOA, or you could put your hopes and cash into more effective measures. Word is the EFF is fairly popular.
I don't see a pattern, I see a struggling company trying to remain competitive buying all it can get away with and seeing what sticks. Hope it works out well for them. If anything, these small companies can bring a new air to an old behemoth.
What about users with no JavaScript?
The title should be "Two Stories of Affiliate Marketing Excess".

Seeing "Passive Income" I don't automatically assume affiliate marketing as the income source.
yea, ask Aaron Schwartz.
I sent him an email once asking for the same JSLint license that he gave to IBM (you know, the one without the "do not use this for evil" clause.)

He responded that he was getting annoyed by everybody asking for this, so it was going to cost me $100K to obtain such a license.

I responded that I only asked for that license in order to annoy him (and thanks for the confirmation that it worked), because his immature license clause is annoying everybody else.
I've been with T-Mobile since it existed and it is awful outside of cities. And often even awful in cities if you're surrounding by a lot of buildings.
How OKCupid monetized ad block users
Why would it take some time? It's the exact same logic as 'privacy is important even if I have done nothing wrong' that we keep pointing out in response to those who say that "you have nothing to fear unless you have something to hide".
First Take: Dell buyout deal sways in founder's favor
The legal jujitsu of Goldman Sachs
I find this article interesting as I have a vague recollection of some paleo-types on here equating eating an apple to eating a candy bar. "It's the same amount of sugar!" they naively say.
Yep, sometimes that's where the real story is at. Heck, one of today's front page posts is comprised almost solely of two HN comments.
Have you checked Enlightenment lately? it's a decent shot but they seem short on workforce.

Also http://awesome.naquadah.org/ and https://code.google.com/p/wmii/

And that's just windows management which is probably the most obvious advantage of an all-open approach, but there are other things like user programmed priority systems, memory management etc which could potentially do a much more effective usage of the hardware than the standard monolithic opaque approach.
Why Not to work for yourself
A car is a depreciating asset, so all crushing it does is accelerate its depreciation. Some utility is lost, but you also have to consider the impact of the 10k. Some went to steel mills, to workers, to dealers, etc. It's not like burning a stack of $100 bills.
"and the explanation makes me want to start working decoding Linear A! :)"

Exactly what went through my mind as well.
nation of 300 million vs. 1 person. This notion alone just shows how weak the US really is.
According to the article that this comment of mine discusses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6141238 that's the only way they've found to acquire mobile talent after treating it very badly in times past. Sounds like no matter how energetic the recruiting, people in this field aren't going to jump to them unless they have little or no choice.

Key sentence fragment: "In each instance, Yahoo has locked up engineers with two- to four-year contracts...."
The displayed workflow is horrendous. And that's just one aspect of the sub-par experience of doing "real work" on pure touch screen devices.

The poll sums it all up nicely. What users want is real multitasking, a keyboard, and features that are on a desktop. Seems pretty clear that the users don't want an iOS/Android device, they want a laptop/desktop with a real OS. No app can solve that, no matter how much funding it gets.
> I have a feeling they believe their own bullshit.

Some of them do believe their own bullshit. They're not any less of a threat to us than the ones that don't believe the BS but are down with the program because they're getting paid.
But then there's no perceived need for it for 99% of users so, like many neat things, it will unfortunately never be built into mass-produced phones because it doesn't make business sense.
Hence TOML was born: https://github.com/mojombo/toml

It has parsers for nearly every language, I wrote one for js: http://npmjs.org/package/tomljs
There are 20 million accounts, 125 thousand active accounts [1]. The number of people who refer to Wikipedia is probably over a billion, since it's often the first hit in Google (speculation). Roughly 25% of edits are anonymous (no account), and anonymous edits are significantly longer than non-anonymous ones [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymous_edits
Thanks for coming back to answer. Back to school for me.
JSON has comments already. It just requires you to decide what the comment marker is.
how does buying a team actually work - when the company gets bought from the shareholders, can't the employees tell yahoo to piss off and not sign new contracts? how does the process look like?
While technically true, I personally feel that the various obscure formatting/selecting reviewers/don't piss off Linus rules [1] are pretty synonymous with 'you have to approach a non-profit in the right way and convince them to even look at your suggestion that you can help them'.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
Carmack envisions lengthy console cycle, mysterious platform configurations
In turn, wiki could inject random packets of data into the payload to obfuscate the trail.
60-70 Million for talent? Wow. I suppose Yahoo is trying a novel approach to recruiting: target startup founders/employees, give generous equity offers (via acquisition price) as well as a 'win' on the resume (successful exit). I have to say, it's a pretty compelling offer...
How does investing engineering effort in designing mining ASICs and spending dollars to purchase what is essentially a currency generating machine help us as a community?

I wish we were just as enthusiastic and race to solve other problems too -- like spreading education, finding out ways to purify water, or maximizing agriculture throughput in famine, or predicting when the next hurricane, tsunami, or earthquake is coming our way.
PyPy from Scratch
"For many of you, Rockmelt has become a daily habit and for that we’re eternally grateful… "

"The Rockmelt apps and web product will be shutdown on August 31, 2013."
Not transparent to actual clients of the data.

edit for clarity: You're assuming that the application code isn't doing something with each key that it reflectively sees in the object, e.g. creating database fields to match them, or launching missiles towards those destinations, etc.. If you wouldn't automatically add dummy elements to a hashmap or dictionary in Java or Python, then you shouldn't add keys in a javascript object, unless you control the source to the program that will processing the data. Even then you shouldn't, because it will become a habit to add comments this way, and that will bite you when an extra key does matter.
That is what I tried to create but couldn't get people to use it. I do wonder what the problem is.
The second story is not about affiliate marketing - it's about a SaaS CRM.
I am a developer in the the company but work a lot with our sales guy. So while the area is interesting to me I am incredibly ignorant of it.

Your suggestion crystallizes an approach I was considering.

My lurking on HN is part of my education in such matters. Thanks Caw for taking the time to answer my first question.
What I don't understand is why anyone would want to rub their face down with BPA. My girlfriend makes and sells 100% natural face and body scrubs - sea salt, natural oils and bases, no additives. My skin has never been so good. Oh, and the ingredients are much cheaper than their synthetic equivalents.

I suppose it all comes down to shelf life. Decentralise or die.
I see one with three comments, but not one with two...

Oh well.

But, you're right, comments are really where places like HN shine.
Ah, thanks for the followup. So basically the point is that people are recognizing the problem isn't just a growing pain of early mobile adoption, but rather is a serious and fundamental problem that needs lots of money and effort to tackle (but which offers correspondingly massive rewards, they expect).
Can't help you with this, but wow I could have written this myself buddy. I started freelancing, and feeling how tough it is now. I find myself playing catch-up all the time, and binge working, and making excuses to clients, which sucks, and do not define as how I see myself as a person. I'm pretty ADD as well. As a side-note I found L-theanine+caffeine (or just tea) helps me in relaxing and focusing for longer periods. I didn't drink any today I just realized, and boy i'm all over the place with the regular 22 random tabs open.
It's about time that Twitter did something about this 'favorite-spam' problem.