skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think of maintaining a smaller emergency fund as a form of risk-taking. Every form of investment is a risk, so we are hardly new to risk-taking here.

For example, I keep a very low cash balance and divert most of my surplus to investments. This is partly a gamble, in that I may be forced to sell at a less than ideal time, and partly a credit-backed risk in that my credit cards provide me a buffer large enough to liquidate most of my investments.
Unfortunately the chosen font renders very poorly (at least for me in chrome).
The hardware supports it. The specs are open. But they don't have to take responsibility for any patch that rolls their way. When you accept a patch like this, that means you have to be responsible for fixing it if it breaks. If Ubuntu wants to make their own window manager separate from everyone else, they can maintain their own Intel driver patches too.
Offering suggestions
What about games like Minecraft where users can use relatively simple tools to create their own worlds within some technical bounds?

By way of example, it looks like Everquest Next is implementing a more advanced version of Minecraft's building-block technology, which would seem to provide the foundation for allowing players to create whole new worlds in separate servers, like Minecraft but with more sophisticated world building tools.

Any thoughts on whether that might take off?
Why Video and Film are So Emotionally Powerful
The difference here is that Valve is strongly pushing for Linux, and helping out developers to follow their path. That did not happen with OSX. And they know that serious gamers are not OSX users. The people who play the most are on Windows currently, and even if they convince 1% of Windows users to switch to Linux at some point, it will make a significant impact on the Linux gaming market.
MathJax's HTML+CSS rendering looks much nicer than an image to me. I wish there was a way to run it on an HTML document in a batch fashion. (e.g. for generating an epub file)
Good job! After years of putting around with debt, I have kept a promise to myself that I wouldn't get into debt unless it was under dire circumstances. Peace has value, in my opinion. Not having to worry about debts and payments really frees my mind (and my funds) for other things.

I'm not one for biblical citations, but "the borrower is slave to the lender" always gets to me.
This statement feels like so last century. Isn't the future of the gaming is in the browser? Operating software wars feels meaningless and ridiculous these days.
Professionals isn't all you are betting against. There's plenty of ordinary Joe's day trading as well.
At least for me, what would be really valuable is the ability to easily add data from WA to a cell. For example you could type "population of Russia" into a cell, and it would grab the integer from WA for the math. Really a low-latency, tabular form of Wolfram Alpha would be the spreadsheet of tomorrow alone.
Honestly, when it did become so evil to give honest, practical advice to the middle class?

The wealthy have been sufficiently vilified that we now have to crucify those not born into money, bu starting to do okay?

This was a very reasonable & practical post with good advice for those starting to come into money. Why is that so bad? That type of advice can't be dispensed without a holistic social program? That's total bullshit.
I think people on this site consider Samsung to be "that company that invented that gimicky feature that pauses videos when you look away" and not "the company that makes pretty much every flash memory chip or LCD in existence".
Property taxes in Texas can vary by quite a bit depending on where you're located, since so many special districts are overlaid, and have taxing authority. One of the properties I'm looking at has City of Austin, Williamson County, Austin Community College, Williamson County FM/RM (roads??), Round Rock ISD, and Upper Brushy Creek water collection.

Total tax was $1800 on $210k
If you fall below those limits, do you really need "financial advice?" If you're making below, say, $60k/yr -- and you're still young enough that what you do with your long-term investments can serve to multiply your returns -- then what you probably need is not financial advice, but bootstrapping advice. Starting with "go to school for STEM--or finance, if you can."
I don't think there are very many quantum effects working on coin tosses. It seems (to my relatively inexperienced eyes) like something handled pretty adequately by classical mechanics.
My family has a summer house out in the Stockholm Archipelago, it's on one of the tens of thousands of islands, it takes an hour to get there from home, and on our island there are about 60 houses, and there's ok infrastructure including public transportation to get there.

If you want more solitude, you just take the boat and go out to the more remote ones, there's nothing special or magical or mystical about "owning an island" to me, since that's how I spent my childhood summers.

Then I realized that archipelagos are pretty rare, which keeps the concept out of reach for most people.
Android 4.4 on Nexus 5
Keeping an open mind is one thing, but if you ever take what any politician says at face value, then you're nuts.
I'm sure we all agree that saving is both prudent and desirable. My comment is in response to the idea that you should be saving most of your money.
Basic point made is that a user cares more about the design of a product that matches our desires, that is more human, more elegant over whether it simply goes faster.

"We no longer want a faster computer, but one we like more."
> No, it's a Netflix subscription, so when they drop your kids' favourite shows you have fun explaining corporate politics as the reason they can't watch Bob the Builder any more.

Mate, the 'future' you're suggesting here and the related straw man argument is one of your choosing. Netflix or some known current company isn't a future to a medium. I'll assume you're suggesting online streaming as a service as opposed to other potential digital medium schemes. Physical disks provide no advantages in this scenario either, what happens when (not if) this favourite disk becomes scratched and unreadable?

> Very little of my Steam library is available with Linux versions.

Very few of mine don't have Linux versions. This might not be the norm for most people of course, because it's linux that is gaining in the field of gaming platforms over windows. Sure, I can't play the same amount of AAA games as if I ran windows. With the Half-Life engine now running on Linux and many indie games having ports, I don't _need_ to run windows to game.

I'd love to throw in some data, but alas many a site related to numbers are classified as 'games' and blocked on this connection.
The new SEO - Independence from Google
I also trade individual securities. I'm not quite as thorough as you, so I typically pick companies I am familiar with on a more personal level.

I don't expect to beat the market, and I don't put much into individual securities. However, I have fun and have been making modest returns. Besides, you'll never beat the market if you never even try shrug. Of course, with the portion of my capitol that I put in, "beating the market" makes me feel good, more than it makes me money.
Hey Alexis.

Between Small Empires on The Verge, and a number of recent media appearances, you've recently begun very publicly advocating in favor of entrepreneurship.

Any particular reason you chose to do this now, instead of earlier, or even sometime in the future?
Stick a gone hunting sign on the door every time you leave, and get some gun paraphenalia (but not a gun) visible near the door. For extra points, time delay a loud pre-recorded bang and scream from a distant speaker when motion is detected near the door.
While I don't per se think this is bad advice, the implicit "since you have disposable income, save some of it" pretty much invalidates the concept that it's "all the financial advice you’ll ever need". That's some pretty entitled bullshit there.
But then you'd have to keep your interior around.
Then all you gotta do is ask for them. Just tag your question as `javascript` and ask for a "pure javascript" solution.
Technocrats
Don't be mean. Calling someone's work "pointless and outdated" when they were looking forward to featuring it on HN is just brutal.
As a follow up, after April I intend to reallocate so that 20% goes toward savings each paycheck.
Very nice quote. But I think I am having a hard time seeing the genius of it. There was voice in my head saying 'Duh..' as I finished reading it.
The Black Swan of Cairo
Hypothesis test (I'll tell you the hypothesis after you answer): What is the experience of thinking like for you?
I believe that you mean "white flight," not "white plight," but a good catch on your part nonetheless.
For a firewall, the hardware is pretty constant. You don't generally need new filesystems. It's just a matter of frequently downloading the source, compiling, and rebooting (with the option to boot back if something goes wrong). If you need to test, it isn't that hard to set up a testing environments with a duplicate set of hardware if you need high availability. For lower availability needs, testing in place is sufficient. For may consulting business, my availability needs were such that testing in place with the option to roll back was sufficient.
Mac apps are harder than iOS apps
401(k)s are also generally protected from creditors in bankruptcy cases and from being subject to seizure from an adverse lawsuit settlement.

Hopefully few people will come to need such protections, but that's an additional way to keep it "truly your money".
Right. Additionally everything was configured, where a network service was required (for example ssh) to be only listening on the internal interface. The external network exposure was tiny.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I know it's a tough gig. I'm working on an iOS game, and it is quite a challenge (but fun, nonetheless!)

Gabe has mentioned that there are customers that are making $500,000 a year via content production in the Steam Workshop. From his perspective (or anyone's, really), that's simply too compelling to not be a part of the narrative being discussed with regard to having full control (again, both technological and financial, in my opinion).

Clearly, they are seeing compelling experiences (and equally compelling cash) being delivered via user generated content, and it is in their best interest to foster and mature that space.
For firewalls, the solution is simple: Choose your hardware carefully.
Can you point me towards some people arguing this? It's patently false. If it were true, every single application on your typical GNU/Linux box would also be GPL.
It says it has all the financial advice you could ever need, not all the advice you need right now.

Poor people: save money and pay off credit card debts.
Middle Income And Above: do that + other rules.

And saying poor people couldn't save even a dollar is nonsense. Poor people are not 100% optimal in their spending and financial matters - often quite the opposite. Furthermore, poverty is often something people grow out of (the poor skew young), and this has some good advice for doing that faster.

Stop making a useful article out to be some elitist hogwash.
> and another 1:1000 difference between millionaires and people worth 100k.

1,000,000 (one million) / 1,000 (one thousand) = 1,000 (one thousand) not 100,000 (one hundred thousand).
Ask HN: Save two different desktop layouts on OSX for different environments?
I'm basically in two different modes when I work on my macbook. In one mode, I have a few apps running in desktop 1, another in desktop 2, a few in desktop 3 etc. Then when I switch from work to school mode, I want to run an entirely different layout at the click of a button instead of closing applications, retiling them, making new workspaces, and re-organizing everything.

Anyone know how to accomplish this? Maybe two different user accounts and just log in and out of both? But then it won't 100% preserve the state of everything, like when you close the lid and re-login..
PlainSite keeps track of trolls, patent assignments, trademark assignments, parent companies, litigation, judges, lawyers, firms, and a lot more.

http://www.plainsite.org/tags/index.html?id=635
Happiness and Flow
Much of the hardware for the higher end Android devices is composed of stuff from a handful of OEMs, so that also helps. Also many of the devices that come out around the same time are using at least some identical components.

SoCs are all mostly Qualcomm or Samsung, radio chipsets are mostly Qualcomm, LCDs are Sony/Samsung/Sharp/LG and a few others, AMOLED are all Samsung as far as I know, GPUs are mostly Qualcomm/PowerVR/Nvidia.

Much of the time, the Android modding community ports newer versions of Android to other devices simply by hoping some OEM releases a newer version of Android for another device that happens to have some identical hardware component so they can either drop that particular driver into the other device or tweak it a bit. Porting the OS is never really the problem. The problems generally lie in outdated proprietary drivers no longer working with the newer version of Android (Camera/Bluetooth/Radio/sometimes GPU are the most likely candidates to break).
That's why devices have adjustment knobs and settings that let you adjust the contrast, if you're using it in some unusual situation.
Why being a digital nomad boosted my career
RIP Nexus 4
The last line of the card is for those who aren't. Otherwise, they need to grow their income, because nothing you do is going to fix the problem if you are making 15k per year.
Linux is the future of gaming?
Have you outperformed on a risk-adjusted basis (ie: delivered alpha)?

Or simply beat on an outright basis?

That time period, aggressive buying of nearly anything beat the DOW-30 (as my portfolio handily beat the DOW30 as well, since I'm full risk-on at this point in my life). I know I crushed the DOW, but I'm much less convinced that I delivered alpha.
Never borrow money? You've just completely eliminated car ownership for a good chunk of the middle class, and homeownership for pretty much everyone but the very rich. That's probably a defensible position, but it's definitely not normal financial advice.

If putting $7,000 away for retirement right now nets you more by retirement age than the lifetime cost of a car loan, you should take the loan.
Yeah, I agree. I was a 3rd country indie and strongly believer of UGC. I still am, but not in the mod sense. Modding is useful only if you want to break into the games industry, but that's it. And only the 0.1% of the good mods generate good game developers.

On the other hand, if you have "fun" tools for users to create content, they WILL create it. Like in Little Big Planet, ModNation Racers and others. It's amazingly hard to make a game, and amazingly harder to make a tool that is fun to use. And with this "fun tool" obviously you strip down all the publishing barriers (technical and legal) that "common game development" have.
any word on support for unicode keys?
Did anyone say that it was genius? Taking something that some people see as "duh" and phrasing it in such a way as to provide clarity is a valuable thing.
S&P 500 is higher now than it was then. Sure variance can hurt, but investment made from 1994 through 2004 would be doing fine right now.
Get over yourself. What is total bullshit is entitled twats like you mentally rewriting the article so it's not "all the financial advice you’ll ever need" as claimed but "all the financial advice you’ll ever need if you're in the minority and an up and coming middle class wage earner who has sufficient disposable income to act on the advice".
Why we moved our startup from San Francisco to Berkeley
If the big music labels are so terrible, why do artists continue to sign deals with them? It is because the benefits they afford outweigh the drawbacks.
2020 isn't that long term any more.
"they need to grow their income"

Hey lazy poor people, work harder. Got it.
1. This is awesome. Could be really useful.

2. I'm not sure I would ever put it inside any of my web stuff however, because what happens when the service goes down, or disappears?
It's been something on my mind since SOPA/PIPA. After that, I turned my eyes toward getting people think about the internet economy happening outside of the Valley (e.g., INTERNET 2012 bus tour + documentary: http://siliconprairiefilm.com) so that more Americans (and our politicians) realize just how important protecting + nurturing the internet is for the American economy.

I'm spending the next year promoting lowercase "e" entrepreneurship -- not just for people who want to start companies, but just use the same entrepreneurial skills to help themselves be awesome. The motivation for Small Empires was not only to make founders + startup employees more relatable, but also the users who are using these tools.

For everyone one person who wants to start etsy, there are tens of thousands who just want to start an etsy store -- I'd argue they're even more important to reach.

And after speaking at enough universities, it was clear there is no curriculum in the country preparing students for the new economy, yet we're sitting at a time of unprecedented potential. That's what lead to the book (Without Their Permission) and the 70-university, 150-stop tour I'm doing this fall!

http://withouttheirpermission.com/tour-dates

There is no master plan, though, I can guarantee that.
http://www.startalkradio.net -- Latest episode (Part 1) with Buzz Aldrin was very good. Next week for Part 2.
The money that you take out of the 401k is no longer protected against creditors. (Someone borrowing from a 401k seems more likely than the average 401k holder to be at risk for bankruptcy.)

Some plans do not permit net-new contributions while a loan is outstanding. Even when plans permit it, the fact that you're borrowing on Thursday might not have you in a situation to make payroll deductions on that Friday. (This is situational, of course. If you're in dire straits overall, you might still not be making contributions.)

I'd consider borrowing from a 401k to buy a house, or to pay off credit card debts that were 15% or worse and that's it, full stop. Refinancing 7% debt at 4% seems not worth it, especially if you're taking money out of equities to do it.
> - behavior for arbitrary sizes, such as integer overflows for large sizes

Actually, I don't see how they could have a bug of this nature unless the caller actually passed in invalid data. In the context in question, they have 64-bit pointers, and they are using unsigned 64-bit values (which conveniently have defined overflow semantics) for the lengths of the input buffer.

Even if the calculation for data_end overflows, that would mean one of two things: the caller improperly specified the buffer, or the memory model really does have a buffer whose addressing overflows. In the latter case, because they use an equality test and they have no check for magical address values (like say, NULL) of currbyte, I don't see how that'd be a bug in the implementation.

> - bugs when using particular functions of the API, such as base64_encode_update()

You mean bugs when using specific parts of the API in ways that are not consistent with their specification. It's hard to see why you'd even consider that a bug in the implementation. That's a bug in the caller.

> The latter problem means that there is no proof that b64enc.c is correct at all, even for a fixed size: it's entirely possible that multiple calls to base64_encode_update() would corrupt the internal state.

Are you sure about that? First, there doesn't appear to be much that would qualify as "internal state" to base64_encode_update(). The closest thing to internal state it has is base64_encodestate, which really only captures which of three states the state machine is in and a result code, both of which are provably in the correct state at the end of each invocation of the function.

I'm not clear as to why you think the proof doesn't cover base64_encode_update() being invoked multiple times. It's hard to know without understanding what their simulator does, but it sure looks and sounds like it is expanding the full set of possible execution paths through the b64enc, which would include up to N invocations of base64_encode_update(). The only way I can imagine it wouldn't be proving correctness for multiple base64_encode_update() calls is if the simulator always had fread() return ball all requested bytes AND you never proved it for cases where N > BUFSIZE (which would just be silly).
What?! No view counter? Come on guys, you're slackin'!
Opportunity cost.

$250,000 invested now could be substantially more by retirement than the cost of the mortgage over its lifetime.
> but if they stop wanting to pay for it, that's your problem

So if your boss could get away with not paying your at the end of each month he feels like you didn't perform up to standard, you would be OK with that yes?
Silly Dylan, you know these folks don't believe poor people deserve insurance.
I agree with this approach. Keep the number of individual stocks you invest in at a manageable level. Know why you invested in them, and go long. IMO the longer you go, the less noise in the decision-making. Ex: Ford is at >$2. Will Ford go bankrupt, or will it survive? If it will survive, then it will be worth having in 10 years, especially if dividends return. In that case, you have based your risk on just one question that you need to settle to your satisfaction. A much more difficult question is: Will Ford be higher next year than it is now?

I also agree with investing in the management.

Finally, I think investing in some individual stocks is probably a good way to stay mindful about your investments in general.
People acquire culture, they aren't born with it.

Let's be welcoming.
This isn't pointless, as it allows you to easily post latex equations on any site that allows images.
For Twitter, Key to Revenue Is No Longer Ad Simplicity
Logan's Run wasn't really intended as a desirable way to structure society.
How not getting into 500 Startups helped our company
I believe he already said there was cell coverage. As someone who can only dream about owning a private island, how big would a helipad have to be? And how much concrete would it take to make that sort of thing?
Researchers create accurate computer model of RNA tetraloop
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X.org is an ancient beast that works, but is creaky. Intel has really been leading the charge to develop a new display server named Wayland. After much publicity from none other than Mark Shuttleworth about how Ubuntu was going to adopt Wayland, they decided to write their own display server from scratch named XMir.

They want to use the same code for Ubuntu on phones, desktops, tablets. Intel doesn't much care to support anything other than Wayland because after 10+ years of X.org, they know better than anyone (most of all Canonical) what is best when it comes to display servers. They are putting all of their weight behind Wayland and don't see XMir as a viable future. As a result, they made a decision to not support it upstream.

Their driver their call. Seems relatively cut and dry to me. As usual, another case where Canonical can't play with the rest of the open source community.

Edit to add all below:

I would also highly suggest anyone curious to read:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_wayland...

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/26254.html

Those two articles are both critical of Mir, but are also from some very senior developers in the low level Linux/X related plumbing of Linux. I'd argue they are more qualified to speak about the failings of X than the Mir developers primarily because they've been the people fixing it's bugs the past many years.
Feeling their oats. Ha!

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/feel_one's_oats