skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a lot like you temperamentally and currently homeless, though the two things are not really directly related. I have thought a lot about it over the years. For me, part of it is that I was one of the smart kids in high school and got a lot of not subtle messages about how I owed the world benefit for my gifts and would be evil incarnate to try to, gasp, get rewarded for them. For me, I think gender also plays a role. I am female and a lot of my strengths have a social element which is routinely treated by other people like I owe them some free motherly love, I should be a total fucking martyr about it, and, to add insult to injury, making people feel good is not some sort of intelligent, valuable skill set or knowledge. It is treated like I am just cute and lovable like a tribble.

I have my own ideas on how to solve these issues for me. I sm not giving you advice here. Just saying it resonates, fwiw.
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Do you have any empirical data to back your point up? Or are you basing your thoughts about gut feelings on gut feelings?
Have to think about it like android, FOSS linux base that in most cases ships with a non-FOSS storefront application from its primary contributor.
It's about right for salary + payroll tax + benefits + office space in Silicon Valley.
I agree that the degree should not be the goal. However, I do not think a student should enter a PhD program unless they are mature enough to consider the opportunity cost and make sounds judgements about it. Liking research is not a good enough reason for taking a PhD in my opinion.

I learned a lot and pushed my theoretical understanding during my Phd, and I can not imagine being without that. However, most people is probably better off finishing off with a masters (including my former self) and getting that downpayment instead of a PhD degree.
Certainly, and some people would be better served by not going to college. The point is that you can't just call it a life after high school and expect to earn a respectable (in a financial sense) income. Unskilled union mill work is no longer going to feed a family of 5 and pay for a nice mortgage.
The PS4 does not use DirextX, they use their own system, people are getting confused because they said it had features equivalent to 'DirectX 11.1+'.
No prob - a most of them are from the advertisers/brands themselves through the big affiliate networks. Almost all of them are on Commission Junction. The few left over are on Linkshare and even less on the others like Impact Radius, etc. Google shut down their affiliate network a few months ago and almost all of the brands went to Commission Junction and Linkshare.

For coupon codes you can't find from the retailers themselves, you can take a look at competitor websites.
Exactly! Having more alternatives makes it easy to talk about money more openly and calmly. You are assured you have nothing to lose, and so does your manager.
Our chance to live on, or slowly recede into history as a community.
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As a male 20-something tech enthusiast that is friends with others of the same, I don't visit many living rooms which don't have a keyboard and mouse as permanent fixtures.
No, as of June 1 the company had $2.8B of cash, cash equivalents AND short-term investments (liquid securities). There's an additional $2.5B of accounts receivable on the balance sheet.

You are correct that BBRY has $3.4B of current liabilities.
Or it makes them less likely to be poached, because potential poachers will discover they don't measure up to expectations after a phone screening. At this point we're all pretty used to sussing out title inflation at step 1.

Or maybe someone will perceive it in a completely different way. At an individual level, big moments in people's lives (like changing jobs) are shaped by the edge cases that lead to actions, not macro average behavior.

Making personnel decisions based on worst case hypotheticals only seems to increase the chance your employees will have a hard time imagining long term career growth by sticking with you. Deflating titles seems about as viable as forbidding conferences. Except where titles impact compensation, all of this is completely independent of actual competence.
Parenting is not about quid pro quo, improving his childrens livelihood is his investment.
I can't quit you, LinkedIn.

On one hand, I hate it for all the reasons everyone has already mentioned.

On the other, I wouldn't have my current job (which I love) if not for LinkedIn. And since that job has paid me something in the neighborhood of a quarter-million dollars over the last several years, that makes LinkedIn about a quarter-million dollars more valuable to me than all other social networks put together.

I can't quit you, LinkedIn.
A master's degree is almost certainly worth less than than a year of full-time work experience on your resume.

So, the master's is potentially costing you triple - you're paying for it, you're not getting paid, your value as an employee isn't going up as much as someone who is working.

If you can't find a sponsor to pay for a master's degree, then I would assume that nobody values you having that master's degree.
So what does your mother do when you get hit by a truck? What does an old person who doesn't have kids do?
Looks to me like the distribution for the more expensive schools on the Y axis is nearly identical to that of the inexpensive state schools. So no, paying a lot for college is not worth it, when you could get the same result for $50k at a state school.

Unless, of course, you go to one of the top four or five private engineering schools in the country.

The question that really jumps out at me is "What the hell are you paying $150k extra for at a private school?"

Edit to add: If I wrote an article that said, "Buy US Savings Bonds - it's a great investment! You are guaranteed at least to get more money back than you put in!" I'd probably get criticized, because the interest rate of a savings bond is fairly low compared to most other investments. But apparently by the same logic I can feel great about saddling myself with $200k worth of student debt, because hey, eventually I'll make it back and then some.
As this is as good a place as any to record my guess, I'd go for some sort of virtualization.

O = SteamOS

[O] = Hardware partners Steam box (in tiers inc. an inexpensive stream target box for $99)

[O O] = Being able to run a SteamOS game on your Windows system. Think DOSBox or HyperV.

If they could do this then really it's a case of convenience vs performance, and a few exclusives or two would push people to dual boot rather than VM it.

It could also be the way they plan to stream, i.e. a self-contained mini-OS that runs under Windows but streams out/in visual and inputs. The 'local' version fits ok with that, in that you can run a SteamOS title in Windows by localhost'ing it really.

Just speculating, but it's interesting to think about.
Ah, but 0.1x engineers do exist.
From your second link:

2. To provoke; arouse: The portrait piqued her curiosity.
Part of what makes blackface so horrible is the power imbalance that underlies it. In the days of minstrelry, black people were deeply and powerfully unequal in civil society. They had no recourse against the indignity done to them by blackface performance, and it was an indignity forced on them by a more powerful social class.

Try replacing nerds with black people in that paragraph and tell me it's at all comparable.
> However I think there is a problem in America of young people rejecting what you are saying not because they think it is wrong, but because they don't like it.

Like how they expect Social Security to still be there even if they cut taxes, and how 'Socialized Medicine' is evil but Medicaid is utterly sacrosanct and untouchable, and ...

Oh, wait, that's what old people are on about now.
I am sure it will be just 3b or 3c. a VR peripheral would be a long shot but I would be glad to be wrong. :)
It also demonstrates SEO value but it's not representative of all SEO. That same stands for online reviews: many are worthless but some of them are not.
>>Hire fast / fire fast is fine, but seeing a founder do this is a big red flag for me. It screams indecisiveness, lack of confidence, and mediocrity. Does he try to pull this stunt with everyone he hires? What am I supposed to think of the rest of the team? Can I get behind someone whose hiring process is so driven by fear that he's willing to miss out on the best candidates?

At the startup stage, someone who is mediocre or outright bad can cause so much damage that they can sink you. That is why hiring is the one area where you should be very risk-averse.
Because most of their target audience isn't pedantic existing users of Desktop Linux, it's people that are using Steam on Windows.

Furthermore, for most people an "OS" is not a collection of general purpose kernel and userspsace as components, it's a vertically integrated and holistic product + experience.
Agreed. What linked-in does is absolutely the correct behavior. When someone uses linked-in to send me an email, my response should go directly to the user. This takes Linked-in out of the loop of the conversation, which is perfect.

Other networks (I'm looking at you, Facebook), instead trap you in using their interfaces to communicate with someone.

I think Linked-in is actually really protecting privacy in this respect.

Also, if the user grants you permission, you can see their email address within linked-in and avoid sending any communication through linked-in itself.
This kind of BS analyses are exactly the root of the current problems with the higher education system (insane tuition, CS majors who can't do fizbuzz etc.) - because they are self-fulfilling prophecies.

For comparison, let's imagine that some evil marketing genius decides to examine the corresponding statistical impacts of wearing a business suit. "Our data indicate that people who wear a business suit to work earn a career average of $1M extra over people who don't. Considering many quality suits cost under $2000, this results into a higher than 100:1 return on investment." Before long, tailor shops are doing a booming business, wearing a $400 suit becomes a faux pas, and candidates get dismissed early from interviews because they showed up with an Armani at a Dolce&Gabbana shop. People no longer care whether a suit is useful or even comfortable in their line of work, and prices shoot through the roof for apparel that offers little beyond a famous label.

I don't know who started the trend of promoting flawed statistical studies [1] in this regard, but if they worked for higher education they must have been a very evil marketing genius indeed.

[1] Why are people who couldn't go to college lumped to bring down those who wouldn't? Is "college" a monolithical category where e.g. differences between majors matter much less than four years's experience in specific industries?
It's far more trivial to port now that PC and Next-Gen consoles are all X86.
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But false positive reviews are extremely unlikely to fall afoul of libel laws...
On twitter, he says that he thinks gender neutral language is boring. You seem to have the same opinion. I'm sorry that including me as part of a potential audience is boring to you, and yes I find that sexist.
May I ask you why people should be against capitalism?

I'm against cronyism, but an advocate of pure capitalism.
> Can we at least agree that laugh tracks are awful, even on otherwise-phenomenal shows (Seinfeld)?

No. Multi-camera sitcoms with live audiences are very, very different in writing, tone, and end product to single camera comedies. They both serve different purposes.

Shooting a sitcom in front of a studio audience radically alters the pacing, the way jokes are told, and the setup (you're inherently constrained to fewer sets).

I think there is still a space today for comedies with live audiences (and the ratings seem to back this up). I love Arrested Development. I also love Frasier. AD would obviously never have worked with a live audience, Frasier would have been a far worse show without the laugh track.

Now, I'm not talking about canned laughter. I think I can agree that adding laughter in post is bad. And Big Bang Theory is particularly guilty of 'sweetening' live audience reaction, meaning jokes that shouldn't be that funny often have huge waves of laughter. I don't appreciate that.
True, but populous though Manhattan is, it hardly warrants its own data center. If latency was their prime concern they would build the data center in the middle of the population density. For North East US, a location between NY and Washington DC would make more sense.

It could be for transatlantic latency, but this would just be between the US and European data centers anyways.

In short, no, I don't think latency would be a big deal here. Correct me if I'm wrong.
renting machines really close to multiple exchanges and keeping them running would be cost prohibitive for most individual investor.

I'm currently taking https://www.coursera.org/course/compinvesting1, it's quite basic but the next course, 'Computational Investing 2' will go through Machine Learning for investing (scheduled for January I think).

Hope this helps.
So, "Are Design Patterns Missing Language Features"?
It is true for Silicon Valley but not for the country.
I earn 1,500 - 2,000 a month off of niche websites. Nothing fancy.
LinkedIn is ripe for disruption. A great idea for a start-up but without LEO.
Germany has a state run retirement fund that gets deducted from you paycheck (about 19%. split between employer and employee).

That mostly solves that problem, but leaves people like me that would like to handle retirement savings themselves a bit annoyed.
I guess I should have said "Windows tablet/laptop" then, or better yet, "Windows 8 tablet." It's very similar to other Windows 8 tablets, like the ASUS VivoTab or the Dell Latitude 10.

http://incredibletogether.asus.com/vivotab.html

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/latitude-10-tablet/pd
Time to start a Flat Universe society.
"And I actually think paying for certain masters degrees, for example in computer science or engineering, is a better financial investment than paying for most law schools, particularly in the present environment."

Maybe. You can't just compare the outcomes of people with these degrees, though, you have to consider their prospects going in. Typically, someone who applies to cs or engineering already has a closely related undergraduate degree.

A history major who attends an elite law school probably does see a pretty dramatic jump in salary prospects. A computer science major who gets an MS? Probably a bump, but the undergraduate degree is pretty employable already.
If one of your biggest obstacles to financial success is personal discomfort with the social/emotional piece, being cornered is an excellent experience for getting over it. I am going through that currently. It really is helping me change things about myself I have long been frustrated with but could not figure out how to change. So it kind of depends, I guess.
One thing I've never understood about forums of this type: Why assume all votes should be equal?

In any knowledge community, some voices mean more than others (e.g., experts and novices). Why shouldn't a similar distinction translate to votes?
Don't bother. Look at his comment history; he seems to be a complete anti-BSD zealot and spreads FUD about the BSD projects and BSD licenses.

As for linux compatibility, the provided link has nothing, nothing whatsoever with linuxemu, the Linux API compatibility layer provided by the FreeBSD base system. I won't bother anymore, as by reading his post history it's obvious he mixes BSD technology and terminology because he is completely unfamiliar with the concepts he speaks about.
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Are you saying that you'd ignore all financial incentive to protect your assets and rely on the government to protect you? We already know how well that works. It doesn't! I'm not against the AG investigating and prosecuting fraud, but I certainly don't want to set a precedent based on entrapment or put more ink on the books to grow bureaucracy.
If only I were young!

10x income is a sliding scale - anyone can and should do that.
That doesn't seem to say the same thing: the article says it has the feature set, but it doesn't say it uses DX11.1+.

Edit: oh, just read MLR's comment.
Nice. We'll be doing the same shortly.

How many nodes did you deploy? Are they within a single DC or cross WAN? Do your clients write to all nodes, or just one? Basically, how much can you share about your topology?
Like playing the ends, I believe you need substantial bankrolling to turn a profit as your betting on the smallest gains with a very large amount of money.

For the individual you would either need to be very good (best of the best) or do it for a very long time. You would still require a sizeable bankroll.
Defer, Panic, and Recover in Racket
I'm of two minds about this. On one hand, brain scans seem to show that development of the frontal lobe (planning, foresight, organization) continues through the mid-20s, especially in males. On the other, people throughout history seem to have been perfectly capable of handling themselves by their late teen years. Are our brains developing more slowly now? Is our world now so complex that it takes a fully-developed brain to make sense of it? Or are we just big whiners?
this is why i advise young american's to start developing ties and knowledge of developing economies.

make your money in the US. Retire to Bangladesh/Philippines.
I actually find Linkedin useful. I like being part of a social network whose focus is professionals. If only they weren't so smarmy. I used to be able to link my Behance.net portfolio and github there but I can't even see those apps anymore. It's sad, but I still go in and check my groups every day.

I'll definitely sign up with whoever can do it better.
HFT Trading is an expensive proposition even for trading firms so I doubt individual investors can participate. Last I heard that it can cost you upward of $10K/mo to locate a HFT server in a low latency location (a primary requirement for HFT).

If by HFT, you are referring to quantitative trading then there are several sites like Think or Swim, Ninja Trader, etc that you can use. There is lot of research literature available online for Quantitative Trading ideas.
In my experience most seed stage startups raising money do what I call "reverse valuations". They figure 2 things:

- how much money they want to raise. Say $500k.

- how much equity they're prepared to give up. Say 10%.

--> and there you have it. $5m valuation!
Similarly, a phone with a Blackberry-designed physical keyboard and [a maintained] WebOS on it would keep me from ever choosing a new smartphone again. I'd just keep buying the same phone over and over again, personally.
Rejecting reality because you don't like it certainly is not a problem only seen among young people.

However young people are the people I am talking about here because they are the ones going into, in, or recently graduate from university. Old farts saying "I am going to study Foo, so I am going to, employment rates be damned!" is not exactly a significant problem.
Complicated.

While I understand the whole social push of "be more mature", I think there's something to be said of having a healthy carefree childhood & young-adult-funtime. I think 18 is fine if only because society supports this cutoff. Since you can get in trouble with the law like an "adult" at 18, you better understand consequences by then. Personally, I think there's plenty of time to figure out adulthood(barring horrible life-changing mistakes) but losing out on your childhood & young-adult years is a greater loss than not being "mature" by 25.
But that's just my viewpoint, to put some context around it I think the people who condemn shows like the jersey shore are (sub)consciously jealous they couldn't live life that way or somehow lost out on their childhood/young-adult-funtime and think their speedy rise to "maturity" is something everyone should strive for. I told my wife that if I ever won the lottery, like the powerbowl's 400 million, I'd travel all over the world following all the Hed Kandi parties. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyJ7He58rcE . Is partying all day & night "mature"? I don't know, but it's fun!
Can't give you due to [...] (feel free to interpret that :)).

Not sure which one is harder: port just Cocoa (or even a minimum subset of Cocoa [or just the icons/layouts], the demo/screenshot doesn't look as rich as the total package of the latest iOS and it's still in the work) or retrofit iOS for cars?
Lets first not confuse the issue too much, and note that the number of GPL licensed software projects is increasing by each year. The "fragmentation" you are talking about is not a clean cut. GPLv3 added a bunch compatibility with GPLv2 incompatible license, which for example MPL users was quite happy about. This has clearly helped brining the free software community closer, rather than more fragmented.

As for any added restrictions, GPLv3 added two things exactly:

1#) they added a clause that says users should have the right to exercise the permission given by the license to devices those users own. Adding technical, rather the legal restrictions is equally restrictive to the user.

2#) They copied the patent clause from apache license, and included the term "patent agreement" to it.

If you do not intend to add technical restrictions to customers owned devices, and you or your business partners don't intend to sue for patents when people use software that you distribute under GPL, GPLv3 will give the exact same legal instructions as GPLv2.

Many BSD projects approves of Apple use of BSD. Apple will add technical restrictions to devices owned by their customers, and Apple will sue for patents if they see a business edge in doing so. GPLv3 and FSF do not approve, and that cause the BSD and GPLv3 to view Apple in different light. If you need to take a "side", feel free to do so, but I won't see either BSD or FSF as evil, nor do I think its appropriate to view their disagreement in that light.
OTOH, I can totally see Steam allowing me to stream Minecraft (not available on Steam) to my TV simply to encourage me to use Steam for gaming.
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I got married at 21 to a girl I'd been dating for 6 years. We moved off to our own rented place a year before that when we started college. At that point we were supposed to be adults but a lot of the time it just felt like we were playing house. We constantly had bills coming due that we couldn't pay, we struggled to eat, and I even sold my own vehicle at a $9,000 loss once to pay half of our over-due rent.

It was a nightmare that lasted about...4 years...but things slowly got better.

We each graduated with our B.A.s (barely) and went on to complete Master's degrees with high marks (her a 4. 0 and me a 3.9) and each with glowing recommendations from our professors and colleagues.

Along the way we have made horrible mistakes, learned tons of really hard lessons, and become better people for it.

I don't know if I can pinpoint any specific time that we "became adults." But I know that we are each closer now than we were when we first got married. But from conversations with our families, our story isn't all that different from my parents or hers, or our grandparents. The main difference is that our families had the ability to help us through the darkest times, where as their families did not. And I think that is one reason that it may seem like the "age of adulthood" has become extended: people usually adapt pretty well to their situations. So, when my grandfather was married at 19 and he had to feed his family he didn't have anyone to count on for help. I knew I could always ask for help if I needed to (although it made me hate myself when I did). So, it took longer to become independent because I wasn't forced to do so by my situation.

Not sure if that is normal for most people, but it's how it was for us.