skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Poor people cut out non-essentials, be more efficient, and save money. A lack of nice things now will help later.

Buy cheaper clothes, stop smoking, stop drinking, eat out less, don't have a fancy car...etc. Don't live beyond your means and consider your means what allows you to save 20%. Exactly what I'd have to do if I wanted to save more money. Stop pretending like poor people are all dizzy starving idiots that can't do a damn thing to better their condition. People tend to live up to their expectations.
my current streak is 4 days :/

but i just recommitted a project that's been dormant for 10 months so maybe I can pick away at it and make it not suck by the end of the week.
Silicon Valley is doing a poor job at connecting with the rest of the world. In people's eyes it's all brilliant MIT kids who get millions of dollars to write software that lets other kids share pictures and sell it for billions. Most of the rest of the world can't even fathom this. It's a novelty, a fairy tale which will never affect them. In a lot of people's eyes there will be no major casualty if the tech business "goes away".

It is really important for rest of America to relate to Silicon Valley. To see the millions of lives these companies are changing, not just by connecting people to each other but also by helping them earn a living. The etsies of the world are providing real opportunity that didn't exist before. The rest of America needs to see that.

This is why I am so excited about Alexis' "Without their Permission". I hope it gets a much wider audience than the tech sector and people see the tech world for what it really is.

In similar vein, it is very important for the tech world to remain humble, not to get carried away by catered lunches, google buses, 6 figure salaries and free ubers. The tech world needs to understand that this is not how life in most professions works and we are in real danger of turning into spoilt and privileged people that the rest of the world has started seeing us as.
That link has nothing to do with how ruthless Steve Jobs was.
Obama fires the FBI director? If they're not following his policies or the law, why hasn't he?
If I'm a state actor, I can get Apple to give me anything I need to compromise the client. Game over. I probably don't need to be a state actor to do that, BTW.

If I can compromise the XMPP server (you've said nothing about securing it) and get the private key, I can MitM. What if I seize the physical server (has happened)? Or I get my hands on an administrator in a jurisdiction where I get to spend some quality time asking questions (has happened).

If I can get code in the XMPP server that leaks info or fundamentally weakens security, game over. If you decide to write your server clean room and screw up security like everyone who as ever tried to do this has before, game over.

If I can control enough Tor exit nodes (which has been proven to be possible), I can do traffic analysis and potentially collect enough cyphertext to learn interesting things. You can be found.

I don't know that anyone has done an serious cryptanalysis of OTR since 2006. I don't think anyone knows if it's fundamentally secure. In particular, if you worry about AES or SHA-1, you shouldn't sleep tight.

An you haven't mentioned key-length restrictions, and don't get me started on the lack of key revocation.

And even if you can't compromise me, if you can compromise a single participant (via technical measures, social engineering or bad actor infiltration (ohes noes...NSA plant)) of the IRC channel, everyone is compromised.

Other than that, seems like you've given it a lot of thought.
I agree.

I've noticed my use of Facebook has been restricted and constrained by mistakes I made when I first used Friendster and Tribe and Orkut. I see my family and friends making many of the same mistakes I made - playing the competitive "more friends" game and connection to people they've never met or who they really don't want "snooping" on their social life - exes, coworkers, bosses, friends-of-friends…

There's no way I'd want Facebook (or Twitter or Google or Yahoo or Microsoft or … ) being any part of a "web of trust" I was using for privacy/encryption/authentication – partly because there's no doubt they're deeply in bed with the NSA (are you really suggesting Facebook's platform is trustworthy enough to exchange keys?), but at least as much because I can clearly see that most people haven't curated their social networking "connections" with anything like the rigor they might have done if they'd been told up-front that "these connections might be used to authenticate your identity and communication to others (potentially including government, law enforcement, and other legal/contractual entities), and also to authenticate your connections identities and communication to those entities."

Do you _really_ know who all of your Facebook "friends" are? Are you _sure_ the person you think that account represents is actually in control of that account? Even if they are, do you trust them enough to vouch for your identity? Are you sure enough of that trust that they wouldn't "betray" you if the NSA, or a police officer, or their local council's dog-catcher, or your car/health insurance company approached them with either a threat or a handful of cash?
You have food stamps, cheap oil and electricity, unemployement smaller than 10%, and if you are homeless you can move to a state that doesn't have winters capable of killing you.

People in Eastern Europe save money and 50% of Americans can't?
The problem with this is the application cost. An extra $75 isn't pennies to many people. Yes, there is financial aid (sometimes) available, but the process is often so convoluted and/or with so strict requirements that it isn't useful. As an example, MIT says "Here are some examples on which we take a dim view: I am applying to 25 schools and I can't afford MIT's application fee".

Additionally, there are often issues with financial aid cutoffs. I know I myself decided against applying to [not mentioning name] because my parents' total earnings brought their income just over a cutoff. It would have actually have been (a lot) better had my parents earned less that year.

When people compare "slight possibility of going to a top collage" versus "being able to eat better", well... I know which one I would choose.
That was spectacular, thanks -- everyone give this guy some karma!
As someone currently in a PhD program, I strongly disagree with you. It looks like other people are carrying the torch for me pretty well. But I will say a couple of things.

You seem to really value "learning for the sake of learning." If so, you already have it figured out that you want to spend 5+ years learning and that you don't care about planning ahead for your life after that. You already have a tentative life plan (though part of it is the default "null plan").

People who think they have a life plan figured out without going through a long, careful process of figuring it out, should still do so, just to make sure their assumptions are valid.
It says that the benchmark source is on github, but I can't find it.

It doesn't appear to be in their primary repo.

I would like to try and do my own test against another embedded data store like Berkeley DB but I want to know more about the conditions on the test. How many threads were used, that kind of thing.
why would you "try to build rep"?
I really appreciate your well-written reply. May it receive a multitude of points.
You'd be surprised. Our law assumes quite a large amount of potential uneducation and general stupidity when it comes to an unsophisticated investor interpreting financial advice.
https://github.com/jigish/slate

Takes a little work to get started, but will likely work for you.
> And the fact that the $520 towers showed up 4 minutes after the city gave me a $100 parking ticket–two punishments for the same crime–only makes me more sure that there is a close cooperation happening here.

Its not two punishments for the same crime. The $100 parking ticket is the punishment. Towing is just removing the problem that you have caused that the parking ticket punishes.

The fee to get your car back is paying, well, to get your car back after the city was forced to have it towed to fix the problem that you caused by parking where you weren't allowed to.
This might be blunt, but I found this advice to be misleading. Many lost large percentages of their 401ks in the ~2000 and ~2008 crashes.

Crashes historically happen at least once every decade.
Are you really trying to equate cost of living and saving rate in the US vs China with a straight face? I got nothing.
> No. Poor people cut out non-essentials, be more efficient, and save money.

If you have surplus income after paying for essentials, you aren't poor.
>> I never said anything about eating less. You miss read.

>Well, now it isn't clear what you mean at all, because you've said you advocate Weight Watchers while also advocating a simple belief that "it's physically impossible for a body to gain weight if it's burning more calories than it's using". The people at Weight Watchers are very clear that "we know that a calorie isn’t just a calorie": they advocate modifications in the kinds of things that you eat and the way you live your life that will lead to a healthier body and, as a side effect, weight loss; in the process, they have a fairly complex equation that assigns "points" to different food items based on a bunch of different quantifiable metrics. This is exactly the kind of "too complicated" advice that you complained at glaugh about.

You know what the complicated formula is? calories/50.

(Full disclosure: It has some very tiny adjustments if it has too much fat it gets an extra 1/2 point.. lots of fiber gets -1/2 point.)

You wanna know how well this works? I've seen people eat their daily points intake by eating nothing other than Big Macs (for most people it's around 4 daily). I've also seen a guy eat nothing other than chips and beer, but not go over his points.

They all lost weight, because they ate less calories than they used, which the WW points system is all about.

As I said, I've seen hundreds of people lose staggering amounts of weight, and I've never seen a single person that didn't lose weight when they ate less calories than they used. It never made a lick of difference what they ate, only the amount of calories they consumed.
Daniel Dennett: The Normal Well-Tempered Mind
Same situation here (only in another country), so interested in potential answers. (HN should have a "save" feature just as reddit).
As someone who was recently persuing a PhD, I would say anyone getting one is making a huge bet on the future of traditonal higher education institutes. In general, I am scared for the future of pure science
I have "UNIX in a Nutshell" and "Essential System Administration" (the better 1st and 2nd Editions, not the 3rd which was ..eh) to thank for my career.
I think some people are missing the key points of your argument -
"If we are going to make towing the purview of municipal government, then the government has to actually step in and clear the roads, and those should be the only costs that people pay. If the city contracts out to a private monopoly, it is doing nothing more than creating a giant corporate subsidy."

You also mention that the fees are very large, especially for those who are not particularly well off. I think that's VERY to the point.

I also think that this penalty will hit the poor much harder than the rich. If you get a speeding ticket or other similar law infraction, the penalty you get is set by law. If you get towed, the penalty is set by the tow company and may end up being more than the cost of the car.

If you don't get it out of impound, and they auction it off and the value they get is less than the fees they have charged you, then they will attempt to extract the extra fees from you as well.

If you don't have 520 dollars on the first day it's towed, and you net less than 56 dollars / day (part time worker? High living expenses?) then every day goes by you're losing money and your car.

With most law violations, penalties can be appealed to a judge. In this case, they cannot - it's a private debt to a private agency. It's treated as though you asked for this 'service' and they delivered so you're required to pay them for it, even though this is patently ridiculous.

The end result is that someone who is poor or down on their luck or otherwise unable to scrape together several hundred dollars is penalized much more than a wealthy individual who can pay the fees immediately. This is a fundamental inequality in the way the law is enforced.

You admit you broke the law and that you were punished. Most other posters seem to think that's the main point. I think your main point is that the punishment should fit the crime. Running a red light or speeding by 20 mph may cause people to die, and both crimes carry a few hundred dollar fine. Your crime causes no chance of physical bodily harm to anyone, and carries a greater penalty, including potentially the immediate forfeiture of ones vehicle depending on whether one is wealthy enough.

*edited to include comparisons to other vehicle-based crimes.
Poor people have already done those things. John Scalzi says it better than I ever could:

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/

You can downmod me all you want. Truth hurts.
I know a couple that was reduced to surviving on popcorn and bloody mary mix for a couple days.

They ran out of vodka before running out of the mix? Very poor planning.
https://github.com/pmwkaa/sophia_benchmark
Acoustic Cover of "We Found Love" by Lauren and Chris
I really appreciate that Small Empires exists, and we've even talked briefly about it before on Reddit (I'm /u/jhu).

I couldn't agree more that there's a dearth of entrepreneurship education at most universities. My career advisor was asking me how accelerators work. I don't fault them for it however. They can already barely keep up with the traditional employment recruitment cycle. But it really hit home to me that disregarding a few notable exceptions it's going to be a long time before people interested in entrepreneurship will be able to go their career centers for advice.

Your book tour stop at Hopkins is listed as in progress. Looking forward to seeing you right as finals come around, and let me know if I can do anything to help.
Quora looks and sounds great, but it's gathered a lot of ill will with its tactics - which Stack Overflow pointedly does not use, and so, me (and probably others) would like a Quora site with Stack Overflow-like openness.
Golden Eye-style energy beam is developed by Nato scientists
Yep! My company evaluated their service, briefly. We asked how they perform on redis-benchmark. They provided no numbers and said "We have a way to stop users who generate benchmark traffic on our service."

We tried running the actual Redis-using process of our application on their free tier. The server went down.

Would not recommend.
Now I've learned two things.
You really believe that? Congratulations, you have identified the greatest market development opportunity ever. Simply recruit a million Africans who are being kept down by racists like me, teach them to be engineers, and retire a billionaire on the recruiting commissions.

Detroit used to be prosperous because blue collar Caucasians and Africans are damn valuable in a world without robots. Now they are cognitively obsolete.

P.S. Bill Gates decided that the problem was that not everybody in our world of shameful inequalities could get a world-class university prep education. He paid out of his own pocket to make the pilot project happen. The result was ... almost no improvement.
You're missing a lot of critical details before anybody can provide actionable answers to those questions.

Who are you selling to (or hoping/intending to sell to)? What's their buying process/pipeline? Where will they be seeking solutions to the problem you solve for them?

FB "likes" is a completely irrelevant goal for enterprise sales. Leaving pricing off your website will kill your conversion rate on a consumer-oriented low-cost SaaS site. Facebook and Twitter might be _great_ sources of traffic and signups, but they also might be the _last_ place your customers are seeking your product.

Who are you selling to? What are they looking for? How can you make sure you're there when they look? That might be Facebook or Twitter, it might be Adwords or Adsense, it might be a heavily SEO-ed website, it might involve days/weeks trawling LinkedIn for the right purchasing person at a big company to email/call - without considering the "people in the segment I'm targeting", you can't say any of them is the most effective strategy.

How did you grow your mailing list? Is that scaleable?
GSLL, GNU Scientific Library for Lisp
Grand Central Dispatch is just the marketing name for libdispatch.
The do use pthread work queues if available, which they are on OSX & BSD. On linux a thread pool is used
What is Bump? Was that that business-card sharing app I remember from the past?
> A little guy with a legitimate patent may have difficulty convincing large corporations to pay a license fee.

I think the key distinction is that "legitimate patent" would seem to have a different definition for the USPTO than it does for the technology industry.

For example USPTO considers sending a scan to an e-mail a legitimate patent, while I would venture to guess the tech world does not: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/meet-the-nice-guy...

So yes, some of these are so broad and obviously just there to make a buck - like the swipe option.

The idea of a patent was to ensure that the creator who had spent considerable time, energy and money creating the invention was ensured that for some period he could benefit from that. Being the first person to patent something which is simple and often thought up does not in my opinion meet that threshold.
Well, you can have money in there...it would just be a taxable event when you do the conversion to a Roth, so you have to keep in mind that your taxable income will go up by the amount that you did not have a "basis" in.
That's a pretty big if, actually. It may be possible for the earth to give up all its angular momentum without giving the moon enough energy to escape. But then we have eternal day and night on opposite sides of earth, so that's probably not a big improvement.
Startup SustainX brings a big next-gen air battery online
With <5 second boot times brought on by SSDs, switching kernels to boost performance could actually be a viable option.
Keyboard layout shootout: qwerty vs dvorak(s) vs colemak

http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/
EE's business model was built in the early days of the internet, and before SO came around they had lots of paying customers. "Tricking people to sign up" was really just their attempt at monetizing content. It clearly did not pan out to be the best long-term strategy, but when you already have thousands of paying customers, it gets pretty difficult to "open up" to the general public vs. a company like SO which started open and monetized in other ways (Careers).
Ridiculous Things Employers Say: "Reasonable Extra Hours"
I think you're a sucker for thinking the "professional" trader/analyst/bot on the other side is some kind of deity. Incompetence is endemic in almost every profession and finance is certainly not immune. The stupidity of so many big analysts is almost hilarious sometimes, I've made big predictions that counter the prevailing wisdom of 99% of people and I'm a total amateur. Like parent said, there's always low-hanging fruit out there.
As soon as someone see there's no gun case, the charade is up.

My grandfather was an avid fisherman; he had a 15' line full of catfish "skulls" hanging from a telephone pole. Catfish can grow to 100 lbs. and their "skulls" look like shark or snake heads from a distance.

Macabre trophies do the trick, paraphernalia alone seems an obvious attempt to appear tough.
7 Best Futurama Moments
1) Selling to freelancers and small to mid companies.
Buying process? I'm trying to break into a really traditional marketplace. They haven't used new "stuff" in years. They also won't be seeking solutions to the problem I solve. Every last person I interviewed reacted in a "shit, I do waste time doing this. But what option do I have?"

2) I'm selling to designers. They're looking to spend less time on a boring but needed task in their workflow. How can I be seen by them? You mean to say, in an online sense?

3) I grew my mailing list with paid questionnaires (real life- put an ad in an online magazine) , cold calls, referalls, friends.
It is important to realize that these numbers are very, very low. Amazon's architecture has always been particularly terrible at running Redis, and the fact that they gave it a brand name has not changed that.

antirez's "How fast is Redis?" page (http://redis.io/topics/benchmarks) draws some attention to the fact that Redis gets much slower when virtualized. He mentions that a state-of-the-art VMware hypervisor will cut Redis's performance by a factor of two.

EC2's performance is considerably worse than a state-of-the-art hypervisor.

For comparison, I just ran the same benchmark the article describes on the desktop PC I'm currently using to post this. It cost me $800, last year, and that includes the video card. It gets an average of 881,670 OPS, which is over ten times faster than an m2-2xlarge machine in this benchmark.
I'm the lawyer that Tynan mentioned, and the proud part-owner of the island. There are excellent standard form agreements available for free online. Essentially you just search for the relevant jurisdiction (i.e. the State where you're incorporating)and "standard form multiple member LLC operating agreement". Then you edit the agreement to fit your circumstances, deleting and adding as required. Standard form purchase and sale agreements are also easy to find and don't require much amendment. Pay a local title search company to check the title (ensures that there are no outstanding mortgages/covenants on it, that the seller actually owns it etc. You'll need to get a local lawyer to execute the deed, but that doesn't cost much. It helps to have a legal background, but an agreement is just a shared understanding of the meaning of words, so not too difficult.
Much Ado About Who: Is It Really Shakespeare?
Slide #40: Typical Workflow is, very much like some other aspects of docker (use of specific filesystems, use of entire filesystems within containers, etc.), a false general case that is in fact unsuited to many people's requirements.

Slide #44: Docker roadmap towards 1.0 seems to dodge the question of significant differences in function with regards the apparent plan to adopt a variety of storage backends with different capabilities, use of different virtualization environments as targets, etc.

I support docker as a project but I still really think you guys need to stop and ponder your architecture and goals before charging along too far. For projects to survive long term and be useful sometimes separating concerns is necessary, and I would suggest that's perhaps not being done well at present with some one-size-fits-all assumptions that are pretty anti unix philosophy (do one thing and do it well). What is the one thing? Is that really a general need? In all cases? What does a user lose with this abstraction? Rather than increasing scope, what would happen if you tried lopping those bits off entirely?
Ahh, the great timing mismatch of public office electoral cycles and union pension/medical expenses. Incentive misalignment at its finest.
The prices are ridiculous. Look up Hennessy Hammocks for something more reasonable and be prepared to insulate a lot from the bottom, especially in moist climates.
I'm stunned. Is the standard tow fee in SF really $520? I think if I ever had to pay that to get my property back I would pack up and leave the city. And I thought the $125 fee in my Texas city was exorbitant.