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> This sounds a lot like you are telling us what you value in life.

That's true, just as you're telling us what you value in life (e.g., the opportunity to learn to learn).

However, I'm suggesting that it's be beneficial to enter into a PhD program with a long-term perspective. You seem to be actually discouraging that, or at the very least, claiming it's irrelevant.

I can't really see a scenario where that's good advice.

In fact, that's exactly how I entered a PhD program fresh out of college: without much direction or a long-term goal in mind, except to learn as much as I could and enjoy the experience. I enjoyed the experience, but I would have benefitted (during the program and after graduation) by aligning the program with my long term goals.

Besides, your counterparts who ran the corporate treadmill will only be incrementally richer than you anyways.

Of course, money isn't everything. But to be honest, that's definitely not the case. I have several friends who hustled after college or enrolled in professional degree programs. They now make multiples of what I can ever hope to earn as a "research engineer." Other friends saved up during those years and now own a house. Realistically, I'm still several years from owning a condo.

If you really want to be rich, you need to take on big risks such as starting a company or the like. Talking about putting your wife and kids in a tough spot!

And we've circled around to yet another example of the opportunity cost of spending 5+ years (perhaps before the wife and kids) in graduate school.

(As an aside, I've heard that grad school is about "learning to learn" before, and I'm not convinced. Yes, I worked on problems to which nobody knew the answer. From my perspective, that's not significantly different from working on a problem whose answer is at the back of the textbook. The internal process is the same. Most successful graduate students I knew were reasonably smart, and worked very hard, and eventually made progress. Did I need to spend an additional five years after college to tell me that "intelligence + effort = progress"?)
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I never thought I could affect the timing. I assumed that it was just an animation.
Who cares! It's about selling a console. I care about having a BluRay player yet I still bought ax Xbox 360 back in the days. That did not prevent any purchase at all.
libdispatch works on FreeBSD (https://wiki.freebsd.org/GCD) and on Linux (http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libdispatch-dev), but I don't know if blocks works on Linux.
This is weird and niche. Why a whole setup? Why bother with an entire distribution? Why does having a SSD disk matter for running Node.js?
A mortgage is one of the few exceptions, and even then you should carefully consider whether renting or buying makes more sense. A car, notably, is not a good exception.

Education depends heavily on return on investment; you'd want to carefully analyze how much more you'll make with that education, how long it'll take you to pay off the debt, etc. It can certainly make sense when attempting to bootstrap yourself if your alternative is no higher education at all, but if you're in a financial position where you have to borrow for tuition, you may well qualify for better options such as scholarships. If you're reasonably well off and borrowing to go to a higher-end school, that makes much less sense.

And yes, the savings -> years to retirement table came from a Mr. Money Mustache article: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim... .
One of very simple answers, one that I gave 2.5 years ago, just can't stop bringing an occasional upvote: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5762327/

This is definitely not rocket science, it's just 5-6 minutes honestly spent to research and write down the answer.

Usually longer and more thoughtful answers get a constant barrage of upvotes, though.
Because it's not random in the user's eyes. We thought the number was totally based on our input; we would try so very hard to perfect our timing to get the numbers that we wanted.
'Anytime anyone expresses concern about the national "debt" as if it wasn't something Congress could wave away with a pen in 15 minutes, they're being ignorant at best and disingenuous at worst.'

Whether Congress have the power to do this is not the issue. The issue is whether they can do it without serious negative consequences. I'm curious to know why Argentina had to institute currency controls if waving a pen is such a trifling matter.
Yeah, support for Indie titles has been very impressive so far. Besides, Newell said "Linux Gaming is the Future", i.e. it's not there yet.

But if they indeed launch a "Steambox" with dedicated Linux support, that's a whole new story in terms of user base and market expansion.
"Save 20%" ... gross or net?
1. Can I develop an open source blu ray player with full aacs support and put it on my website without getting sued?
> If I flip a coin in a deterministic universe, it's still "random" (air flow, force exerted, etc), but if I "rewind time" and play it back, I'd get the same result.

Couldn't quantum mechanics mean this is not true?
Or Chuck Norris
Eh, I hated EE long before I came across SO or heard of Jeff Atwood. My experience of it was basically just an annoying minigame in Google where you had to remember not to click certain results no matter how useful they sounded.
O'Connor's own words:

http://pandodaily.com/2013/07/26/how-to-slaughter-a-patent-t...
That's the illusion though! Everyone playing the game thought it was slots!

A agree, from a game design standpoint, it doesn't make much sense to make it like slots; but that's the way it appears to the user.
Is Google Killing $150 Million In Ad Revenue?
I consider it to be a huge oversight that they left off building an emergency fund.

Before buying a house, buying individual securities, or maxing any retirement contributions, you need enough liquidity in your investments to get you through an illness or layoff that leaves you without income for a year.

It amazes me how otherwise intelligent peers of mine will be paying extra on mortgages, student loans, and retirement funds with less than $5k in the bank.
You are arguing that the US has seatbelts and can survive a car crash, while Detroit gets ejected through the windshield. I'm saying, stop recklessly speeding down the highway like Detroit, because we're better off avoiding the car crash.

The goal is to avoid a debt crisis entirely. Detroit and the US are both spending themselves into a debt crisis. That different solutions apply once the crisis is reached is true, but the analogy holds when you are looking at the cause and hopefully avoiding the crisis.
Every single person I know here in Tokyo -- except the iPhone users -- has a cellphone which can can be used to go through ticket gates to board trains, purchase items at convenience stores, and dispense things from vending machines.

Purely anecdotal, granted, but you asked for stories.

(Personally, I use an iPhone with a Pasmo NFC card duct-taped to the back of it.)
> I'm not doubting that certain markets in major Asian cities have seen NFC rollouts. But I question a) the scale and b) the public reception. Indeed, since smart phones are still catching on in major markets in many Asian markets I am doubtful of how wide-spread NFC adoption actually can be.

The strength of phone NFC seems to be that it's basically a "smart card on your phone," and smart cards as a payment method are extremely common in places like Tokyo, Hong Kong, etc., largely driven by their ubiquity in the form of mass-transit cards (Suica, Pasmo, Octopus, etc).

Far more people have smart cards than have smartphones in these places, and so offering smart-card-compatible NFC functionality on phones seems a no-brainer.

The result of this is that NFC-on-your-phone has worked for ages in Japan, on all types of phone ("smart" and otherwise, except the iphone), and as it uses a widespread existing infrastructure, there's no real issue with availability.

In other words, NFC is not something that's dependent on smartphone popularity for success; rather smartphones with NFC are simply trying to take advantage of an existing successful system to become more popular.

As for the question "do people use it?" I can't refer you to any "stories" but I can say that I personally see lots of people paying for stuff with their phone.... [The main issue with smartphones seems to be that the iphone doesn't support NFC, and lots of people have iphones...]
That looks nice.

I used libdispatch to prototype a server and would be great to compare with other libraries before starting the project.

libPhenom seems to have much more features, maybe even more than I need, but the documentation seems good. I will try to make another prototype with your lib.

Thanks.
>"Asserting something confidently does not make it so."

You're pointing to the debt ceiling as an argument? It's political posturing. You know, to scare the plebes. Apparently it works.

The article is referring to a "default" because of some artificial cap placed on spending, which proposed spending would surpass. It's a technical default, by choice, not from inability to pay.

You can argue until you're blue in the face about the risk of default. It's wrong-headed.
The problem is, they're not putting out the best books anymore, and I find myself going there less and less. Right now, I think I'd rather have access to Manning's titles, even though there aren't nearly as many.

There's something that just... isn't there anymore with most of the oreilly books.
Hey! I am the author and I am the only one author :) I can connect it with Dropbog, Google Drive and other services, if you wish. But now, I am focusing on image editing :)

Hope, in few months, it will be the best image editor for Chromebooks and iPads :-D
Net worth is probably not a great metric. There are a lot of well-paid people in the US who live expensive, flashy lifestyles that cost them just a little more than they earn every year, and consequently have a negative or near zero net-worth. I don't think most people would consider them have-nots.
They have insurance for that. Why isn't that suggested then?

No, someone thought they'd be cute and throw a political jab in there.
I don't know what this guy is getting so upset about, he claims his company isn't infringing the patent, so all that he'll have to do is file a DJ for non-infringement. If he's not infringing, he'll win. Then if the 'troll' really didn't do any pre-filing research there are sanctions the judge can use to get the company all their attorney's fees back. This is pretty simple stuff, assuming the patent isn't even close to being infringed like the guy says. Nothing to get all upset about. The system seems to be working just fine. If the patent really is infringed and is valid, why shouldn't he have to pay a license? Also, pledging $1mm to defend a patent infringement suit is kind of funny, I think the average is more like ~$6mm.
Am I alone in wondering if the advice about broad index funds is no longer good?

We're still below the s&p inflation adjusted high from ~2000 -- almost 14 years later. When will the gains finally arrive?

I worry that there is some systemic problem in our economy that has leaders playing whack-a-crisis every five or ten years that erases years of gains.

I've read John Bogle and I want to believe. But a few years ago I took some money out of index funds and placed it in a rental property and so far I've seen very predicable returns with no loss in principle, and it makes me wonder if I should keep bothering with index funds at all.
I see this misunderstanding too:

The "discovery" is that it uses a RNG at all. The player thought that it wasn't a random number at all; it was based on user input, like slots.
I just played this game two nights ago, and somebody mentioned that it was predetermined. I instantly started thinking of how to figure out if that was true or not. Thanks to the author!
I think the author is still confused:

> They took the time to display a spinning dice over Mario's head, so why couldn't they just add the random function that determines the dice roll AFTER the player head-butts the dice, and not before? Even though the dice roll IS random, the player cannot alter their fate while watching the dice spin above their head.

This reveals a misunderstanding of how the PRNG would work. Whether you compute the random number before or after is irrelevant, provided that nothing else asks the PRNG for output during that time.

What would change it is reseeding the PRNG based on the amount of time waited, or using the PRNG in displaying the animation. However, while this guarantees a causal effect, it doesn't really change the randomness in any measurable way (that is, to anybody playing the game as intended, not through an emulator) and so it would have no effect. So the designers made the right choice in my eyes.
Reminds me of something I witnessed using emulators, you could save the game state at any time, and whatever your actions, the computer would score the same sequence of shoots and/or goals (it was NBA JAM).
You are right, I meant 'display server' instead of both 'window server' and 'window managers'.
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Net. Gross is uninteresting for almost all purposes other than pre-tax investments you can make; just write off taxes as a drag force and pay attention to what fraction of your net income you're saving.

The important detail about increasing your savings rate: it also means decreasing your spending rate, and you can retire as soon as your savings generates income greater than your spending rate, not greater than your overall income.
Yea... we had some problems with ATX last time. We're switching things up with a completely new organizing team and venue this time around. It's not easy to throw these big hacks, so I have to be a little forgiving with our first time organizers from past. That said, we will get it right and things in Austin will be awesome like they are in most other cities.
Considering that Mario Kart has the rubber-banding effect to give less skilled players a chance, it doesn't seem unreasonable to assume that all their other multiplayer games have similar mechanisms to make the game fair for everyone.
Well, the problem is, that's different to real dice. And subtlely different to the expectation of how it should work. If you throw a die, you could, with enough fine motor control, throw to get the number you desired. Or, in roulette, you could pick the right number the ball will land in by observing the speed with which the ball is spinning. In theory. Is there a practical difference? No. But, it still feels wrong that the game would work in a way that completely ignores the action of the player.
> So in the ideal world everyone around you is doing the same thing as the card.

That still doesn't constitute financial advice, unless your choice to follow the card somehow influences others to follow the same card, which is unlikely at any measurable level.
This article is pretty dim, for all the reasons people said. But also - the guy is trying to rewind time on a dice roll. And Nintendo is the one cheating _him_?
A refusal of any considerable scale by the US to repay its foreign debt obligations would probably be considered an act of war. Things would have to be very, very bad for things to go that far. More likely you'd see dollar devaluation and heavy inflation, but even that would be a global political problem.
This uses Mathjax: http://www.texpaste.com/
I believe that was fixed in later Mario Party games: the animation was changed to move so quick that the player has no reason to assume they could affect the outcome.
So javascript is getting built in support for map() before java gets it? :(
It's also unlikely they'd be able to recover meaningful damages from a shell LLC. There's no real financial upside here, just principle.
If you're going to be so nit-picky then distinctions between distros become meaningless.

Your choice of distro really just boils down to your package-manager preference.
On turning Y Combinator rejection into reddit
IPython notebooks already do that, with MathJax, plots, symbolic algebra, and full programming support too. What you've done is neat - I am all in favour of remaking things for fun (working on a grep clone...) - but it does seem like better alternatives already exist.
Either you are a new dev and need a quick set up. Or you can hand pick items out of his list.

SSD is for development speed in general, not related to Node.js.

I am amazed at the long list and one simple wget. Nice.
I was also pretty miffed to learn in Dune II the enemy could cheat and see outside the fog.

But until I learned that it was a lot of fun, the AI possibly would have sucked without the cheat.
There's no need to pierce the corporate veil - RICO charges are against the individuals involved, not the corporation. Their personal assets can be seized even prior to prosecution. It's a brutal law and this is a wonderful way to apply it.

From http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corr...

"The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually commit the crime personally."

For example in the case that a corporation commits the covered crimes, such as extortion, the individuals driving the actions are subject to RICO prosecution.

The penalties are brutal, it's fantastic for trolls:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1963
Is this one of those newfangled "everything is JS" sites? Because all I get is a "RENNDER" splash screen, after which everything is blank.

Too bad there's not a simple protocol to transfer hypertext across the Internet.
I wonder if there were companies that instead of growing as a single entity created early spin-offs to diversify aside without losing the core spirit. It's so common to see success become bloated and resist death by all commercial means necessary while newcomers bring something fresh to the table.
Glad I'm not the only one that wants to have an indoor inflatable pool that takes up an entire room. The wife does not approve.
Off-topic, but it would be nice if the blog didn't use 24-pixel body type, so that I could see more than a handful of lines at a time on my laptop.

I've never seen a book with 24-point body type, except possibly for the visually impaired or 3-year-olds. Heck, most headings aren't even 24 point. What is it with this blog trend of gargantuan type, which seems increasingly common? It's totally out of proportion with the rest of anyone's OS and computer interface, and all the common sites. I'm really getting tired of having to zoom out to an insane 50% level just to make things legible again.
As someone who really enjoys taking notes in Markdown, and prefers it over most other alternatives, this is appreciated. Thanks for making this. I look forward to using it in class tomorrow.
#6 http://pandawhale.com/post/6939/reading-hacker-news-as-a-non...
I think it's too broad, because the economic efficacy of social programs probably varies wildly, especially when we're talking about government social programs.
Rentals are much more risky, as the housing crash demonstrated. If you really want to benefit from that market, buy a REIT unless you actually enjoy the work of being a landlord.

The gains are here now, and I'm more concerned about a bubble personally. Vanguard's total stock market fund has year-to-date growth of ~17%, and their more-stable lower-growth "balanced" fund with bonds included has year-to-date growth of ~8.75%. Both of those are better than the usual estimate of 7% annual growth for retirement funds (a conservative 3% for inflation and 4% for income).
This makes my head spin. Is there an ELI5 explanation of this somewhere? How can 3 trillion dollars suddenly evaporate, and how can newly printed money fill this void as if nothing had happened?
>"That might be relevant if someone on the thread had claimed such a thing."

It's extremely relevant to the argument at hand.

In case you didn't read the article, it's about Detroit going bankrupt, to which other commentators have drawn an analogy to the country that makes no sense. That's what we're talking about here.

But I'm glad you feel good pride in finding something tangential to the real topic so you can say, "Nuh-uh! You're wrong!". Yes, we can decide tomorrow to cease paying interest on our public debt, which would put us into default. Brownie points for you.
Valve Time is a popular joke because of Half-Life, but if you set that aside they actually release things pretty consistently. With all the engine improvements and content updates, TF2 in 2013 is only barely comparable to TF2 in 2007 in terms of gameplay, and not at all in terms of system requirements to play at high quality. And apart from that, since the Orange Box in 2007, they've released major games in 2008 (L4D), 2009 (L4D2), 2011 (Portal 2), 2012 (CS:GO), and 2013 (DOTA 2). The only year they missed was 2010, but that was the year they released the OSX ports of all the Source games. They also rolled out Linux support this year, although I imagine the transition from OSX to Ubuntu was much less difficult than from Windows to OSX.
The author is not the intended user; he is using an emulator. The dice roll seems random to the intended user's eyes.
It's not a no-brainer to me. My brain desires more data on the economic efficacy of specific social programs, because even the broad implication that social programs reduce the number of people panhandling on the streets is not obvious to me.
That's true on any large or remote piece of land, though, not specific to islands. It's one reason people who live in middle-of-nowhere Wyoming like it there.
It wasn't the fact that they were hacked, it happens, it was the way they handled it. Their official statement read "We have found no evidence that any Linode data of any other customer was accessed. In addition, we have found no evidence that payment information of any customer was accessed."

It was only after the hacker publicly posted detail of the hack that linode admitted that the hacker did have access to their customer database including encrypted credit card details.

Even then they failed to make it clear that the hacker claimed to have a copy of their encryption key (they made no attempt to deny this either).

All of Linode's press releases were written in a fashion designed to make Linode look as good as possible rather than attempting to protect their customers.

I used to be a fan of Linode but I cancelled all of my contracts with them as a result of their terrible handling of the situation.
4 person startup here. Our founders decided to bring 2 concert-sized speakers from their college days to our office. It's hooked up to an airport express and we use spotify/soundrop. At first, it didn't seem like a good idea but now I think every office should have speakers to lighten the mood.

We keep the volume pretty reasonable during work hours so you can still pop on headphones and listen to your own stuff if you wanted to.