skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I think your math is off there, more like 30k, or closer to 35 actually per year for expenditures.

I want to have a lot more money though. I want to be one of those guys with 100 million. So I don't like the idea of not working anymore. Plus, I want to work on something I am passionate about. I have had enough relaxation and vacation to last me a lifetime. I am sick of it. I want to find meaningful work.

I feel guilty right now that I'm not producing anything, and ashamed. [There are people a lot less intelligent than me with a lot more money than me. What is wrong with me? Why can't I be one of those people?] is the recurring thought in my head. But I think it's more about finding meaningful work than it is the money. Easy example, but if I was Anthony Bourdain, Paul Graham, Carl Icahn, Steve Jobs, I would be more than happy doing their work even without making the insane amounts of money that they obviously do. Because their work is meaningful.

I worked hard and made some money, but I am 31 and this is all I have to show for it http://i.imgur.com/ACsNRpi.png. I mean, I was paid by an employer and the market for that money. I want to create my own way, not crutch someone else's way. I must figure it out somehow. Just stuck and scared right now. I'm just not sure what to do. I need to push myself more I think.
Any examples? In my experience it's been the complete opposite.
I'm not a lawyer, but the ToS says you may not interfere with the rendering of the page, but it doesn't say that you may not provide software that interferes with the rendering of the page. Anyone with a pair of scissors, a microwave oven, or black piece of paper could interfere with the rendering of Facebook for a particular user, but I doubt the ToS applies to them. Not to mention browser bugs, or OS bugs, or video driver bugs.

I think this is too broad to be meaningful. I sort of get what they're getting at ("don't post broken Javascript that fucks up the page for everyone"), but it's not what they wrote. What they wrote is laughable.

All I can say is: I hope you prevail in your battle. Content creators have absolutely no right to tell users how to render the HTML they deliver; the HTML is advisory, not mandatory. If you want to control rendering, buy a billboard.
My experience is different, self checkout systems are improving all the time as the technology gets better and the humans adjust to using them.

The advantage is cost, I don't know the price but I imagine you can get a lot of self checkouts for the fully loaded cost of maintaining an around the clock roster for human staffing.

One of my local stores replaced 3 human checkouts with 1 human checkout + 5 self service in roughly the same amount of space. As a result queuing times have been reduced dramatically.
Those enlightened future beings will have to discover some theoretical side effects which justify the obvious disadvantages of denying treatment and just haven't been seen yet despite of decades of experience with these drugs.

These side effects need to be severe, given the massive amount of consequences of untreated ADHD.
I reckon the argument is that if less people fly there will eventually be less planes in the air and more stimulation for alternative modes of transportation (or efficiency goals made more prominent for airplanes). But I reckon the effect of buyers is probably not gonna cut it and the only way to truly make travel more energy efficient is incentives/penalties on a corporate/government level.

I absolutely can't back that up though ;).
So I did the same thing, also unwittingly, with my company. In hindsight, starting my company was completely risk-less. I was keeping my day job, learning a ton, building my personal brand, and had a full salary from revenue when I was ready to transition.

The next company I run, I'll probably be a bit more antsy to get full time since I feel I've also become less risk-averse now that my company is doing well. I've learned a ton on how to make money from SaaS products, and I'm gaining confidence.
Putin wants to imprison openly gay athletes? Really?
Beat me to it. Nice idea but isn't building from source more effective? Gentoo does this instead of attempting to hide complexity in one-size-fits-all packages. Also...

Fat kernel = huge attack surface.

Funky chroot / path stuff = source of bugs.

Multiple distro-specific APIs = n x sync latencies, n x diskspace, n x attack surface

Size of user community = 1 / n x 0.1337 (contingencies' constant)
I build iOS apps for businesses and have to set and justify prices for project all the time. I also started an web design company when I was a sophomore in high school and it would have been great having someone advise me on pricing back then so I will gladly help you. Send me an email and we'll figure out how much the app is worth to the law firm and what you should charge them for the app. My email is david . olesch at gmail.
"the Canadian contractor that built HealthCare.gov"

I am speechless...

No offense to our neighbors to the North, but we should have built that in the US. Maybe it's a way to shift more blame?
And since all signal functions are pure, composing those and creating ever more powerful abstractions without having to worry about system state and environment context may be a nicer way of doing server programming.

FRP signals (specifically, behaviors, the dual of events) are most definitely not pure. Yes, the functions which define them are. But the entire point of FRP is to allow one to manage state in a functional context. (Otherwise you could not manipulate a database -- an inherently stateful construct! -- as you do in your example.) You definitely still have to worry about state -- you're just forced to structure it a little better now.
> Seems like he's doing the best he can to explain what happened without being taken to a secret prison.

National security letters are only supposed to be used for national security, not random drug busts. If they used an NSL it was unlawful.

If this was just a sealed request it should be open now that the indictment has been handed down. If it was reasonable and lawful they should be asking for it to be unsealed and the request should be granted.
But is it really realistic that I will make money doing this? I hear about all this freelancing etc..., but is that just to lure in dumb money into the industry? I just have trouble comprehending that I will be able to compete with the current force, especially when their foundation in CS is much more stable than my layman understanding. I will essentially just know how to write code for the sake of writing code. I won't understand assembly and compilers, etc...
Nice. Is muddy Red/Green the best choice of dot colours for a colour blind person? I'm not colour blind myself, so I can't tell, but I know people that are, and small areas of low saturation red/green are exactly the things that cause trouble for them. (Line graphs with red and green lines against a light background are also another classic.)
Isn't French Guiana an overseas department of France?

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1117.html

National statistics for that territory would be collected by the national government of France.
We need to throw money at this kind of stuff - http://www.gizmag.com/eads-voltair-electric-airliner/18988/
> when you encrypt your address to the seller's public key, and send the encrypted address rather than the plaintext address, now all the FBI gets is an encrypted message they can't read.

And how can I trust that the seller isn't an FBI agent? Still seems kind of risky. Even if they aren't an FBI agent, they're going to decrypt the address, and who knows what they'll do with it in plaintext? For one, they will write it on an envelope, leaving open the potential for exactly what happened with the fake IDs.

If not these scenarios involving law enforcement, there's also the risk that the seller, who has my address, will extort me for cash or whatever.
I Was a Suspected School Shooter
If I'm talking to somebody in a public space, I'm generally expecting the conversation to be private

No, not legally. You have no such reasonable expectation of privacy in public. That is why This is not unconstitutional.
To me, self-checkouts are best as replacements for the express checkout lane. You've got a few things in your hands, probably don't even need a basket or cart, and just scan them through, and you're out. When doing a full shop, a person is preferrable.
Exactly. Same goes for Stripe, Braintree and Paypal. For dozens to hundreds of industries, they are the ones that take the payment. Doing so doesn't imply that they operate in every industry for which they process payments.
If you've been listening to his podcasts or actually reading his blog, you would know that gruber has no better information (and, in fact, usually less advance knowledge) than the random rumors on macrumors/apple insider. He usually trails both loopinsight and allthingsd in terms of scoops and confirmations. He is anything but an "insider."

For the last several years about the only "inside information" he's received is a week's advance use of loaner laptops/iphones so that he can write a review column. (Same thing that Pogue, Mossberg, and other prominent columnists get, and he's subject to the same embargo as they are.)

All gruber really has beyond his extensive network of colleagues in the industry are his presentation skills, his writing skills, his love of Apple, and his appreciation of things well made.

And, to refer to Jean-Louis Gassée as "someone ..so blinded.." would suggest that you have little understanding of the history of the industry, and who Gassée is.

Take 5 minutes to read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gass%C3%A9e - you'll come away more informed. He's one of the major figures in the history of computing.

Gruber is partisan, obviously, but it doesn't detract from the intellectual rigor of his repudiations. His latest one was spot on - the NYT columnist that Jean-Louis was referring to had stated that in the Jobs era, stock prices would routinely go up after a product announcement, and in the Cook era, things are not so bright. Gruber took the 20-30 minutes to go check that fact (something the NYT clearly didn't bother to do) - and discovered that, in fact, it was a mixed bag - and the stock dropped as often as it went up.

Not sure what "propaganda" you see in that.
You're probably not very good yet, just judging on experience. The best way to have a happy relationship is for you, the party causing the most risk, to charge a flat-rate for the final product and eat the costs of overruns and tangential development (or profit if by some miracle you deliver ahead of your target). This will force you to focus on productivity and making the right business decisions. It will also lock the cost into value delivered instead of attempting to get something you're happy with for some as-yet-unknown amount of work it will take you that also doesn't reflect the cost to you of value delivered. Flat rate. Charge for value. Figure out how to deliver value, not how to make crystal ball predictions and BS your way through client meetings when you go 2x over on hours. It's safe, low stress, and puts the focus right where it should be.

Also, the flat-rate model lets you ask them up-front, with no loopholes involved, for $X where X is constant and the deliverable is a static goal, Y (don't let them scope creep or else adjust X). Most importantly, you can ask for what you think the value is instead of asking the client to guess how much your vague hourly estimate and project estimate will wind up costing in the long run. They know it's X, no more, no less. Ask medium. Negotiate if it seems like you asked high. Resist if you want to gamble that they're on a fishing expedition or have reason to believe so. Ask X for Y and deliver Y and accept no less than X.
I had the same experience with my previous employer. I made sure I negotiated at least two conferences per year with my current employer.
The upvote-only strategy works really well for submissions. I'm curious if it would work with comments too.
None taken :D -- it actually happens a lot up here too! My city routinely sends major projects to designers, architects, contractors, etc. outside of the city, province, and/or country.

The likely culprit here is lowest bid != best product
crickets

I'm guessing HN is probably the wrong audience for that question. These are your slave workers and compter nerds, night life is foreign here.
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Is it? That argument assumes that school is worthwhile in the first place. If you assume your conclusion, it seems an awful lot like begging the question.

If you don't go to school, live your life, and find out everything is just hunky-dory without it - what exactly have you missed out on? Maybe you were right in the first place, and can congratulate yourself on making wise decisions that turned out to be vindicated in the end?
Kudos on being a bigger person than me; I'd be tempted to name names.
Sigh, this picture: http://www.lifestyleupdated.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/j...

The quintessential picture of a couple, lifestyle designing the shit out of their coffee after what was most assuredly an extreme bike ride.

As someone who spent significant time and effort to travel abroad for an extended period, this bothers me. This is how you spend a Saturday, it isn't what 99.5% of the population will be able to achieve (or should try to achieve) for their day to day. Once you begin living without obligation or schedules, you'll find that it is interesting for only so long.

What people should strive for is a balanced life, that affords them flexibility to do the things they want, but also includes the obligations that most of us have. Not everyone can live like Tim Ferris, at least not until machines do all the work for us.

I actually agree with the article's main premiss, work for work's sake is pointless, but to hold up the 4HWW as the pinnacle of this, won't work for most people. So here is my attempt at a list of what will:

- Live close to work (under 30 minutes)
- Save as much as possible
- Do your absolute best at work, then go home
- Embrace things you like to do
- Make time to do them

As an example I asked my boss if I'd be able to take 1-1.5 months off at some point in the future to travel. He seems cool with it, so now my wife an I are saving. This allows us to maintain some normalcy when after traveling so we have a job and home to return to.
NFC seems like a solution in search of a problem to me. What does it accomplish that QR codes or any other optical scan technology doesn't?
Standard AOL Way rewrite of http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/06/russia-monitor-...
PLEASE PLACE ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA.
Noam Chomsky is my favorite person. I will believe anything he says without researching it further. :)
Seems it could be even faster: http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/ANN-luje-01
How do you quantify if something is a decent product? iMessage does more than 2 billion messages per day [1]. I couldn't find FaceTime metrics but anecdotally for years I could never get my mom to use Skype but now she FaceTime's me all the time. This speaks volumes.

http://bgr.com/2013/01/24/apple-imessage-growth-analysis-wha...
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I too have wanted this for some time (have it on my todo projects list). A tool to track all my web usage, commits (both public and private), laptop sleep time, battery status, temperatures and more. This will make things a lot easier. Thank you!
@femto - that's a good point. That occurred to me, but for the moment I decided to stick with the red/green that was already used for the previous visualization. Well sort of, as I actually use d3.rgb.darker on the actual colors because I wasn't satisfied with the original ones, as they looked too light. Even for red/green, I think there's a lot of room for improvement here to make them stand out more.

I'm not sure off the top of my head what would be best for the rg replacement. Maybe some subtle shape differences, etc.
Very cool, I'm going to give this a whirl.

Suggestion: if you're up for folks helping you with creating new add-ons, add some documentation on how they can do that. I'm definitely interested in contributing.
Throwing some actual qualitative points on this grossly overstated article: it scored 92/100 on page speed [1], and 76/100 on YSlow [2].

Our companies site uses a mix of static/dynamic javascript which can cause as many as 100+ requests to be made and we're able to keep page load time < 2secs for the heaviest of pages. # of request doesn't automatically equal a slow website. Add the fact that this gov't site was likely mandated to support some ungodly old version of IE and you can easily see why there are so many js files.

[1]: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/131007_5J_T8/
[2]: http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.healthcare.gov/1mQBgaqI
Thanks for the guide I just moved out here this week to start as a founding engineer in a new VC-backed startup in San Francisco. Anyone have any recommendations for finding roommates in the area?
Yes people should lighten up, and then when joke threads are always the top comment, novelty accounts are always expected, tech news becomes whatever Engadget and Gizmodo are plagiarizing, meme-images become upvoted comments, and the 'leaders' list gets dislodged by IFuckedYourMom and CitationNeeded, in that order, we can reflect back on why letting funny comments become normal isn't such an awesome idea.
If this were true, that the NSA knows all, 50% of all murders wouldn't go unsolved in Detroit.
> in fact, it's pretty hard to beat even in C++

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that the wishful thinking will never stop.
It's interesting to note from page 30 of the criminal complaint, StackOverflow was able to record "Ulbricht [changing] his registration email [...] to 'frosty@frosty.com'".

Why do sites like StackOverflow keep audit logs of your account information?
I like the way Chomsky breaks it down (and I'm paraphrasing): the programs that machines execute are merely theories written in archaic notations to accomplish specific tasks. Humans are eons away from writing and executing theories that create theories.

I agree with Chomsky that progress is needed in the realm of morality. That's where our priorities should be. It's where advancements in humanity must be made.

Furthering his example of animal testing in science experiments, hopefully animal testing will be abolished as the cruel act it is.
Ask HN: What does it mean to be happy at work?
I have a background that includes working at small businesses, my own startup and most recently, F500 companies. I feel like I'm always on a roller-coaster of highs and lows, things that I need to accept or risk getting into political trouble, and the inability to call out failures, when we run into them. So, I thought I'd ask you all how others feel at work and what's considered good / bad / normal.

What does it mean to be happy at work? Is it basically tuning out, punching a clock in exchange for a pay check? Is it doing everything possible or just meeting expectations? Are you truly vested in your work and the company's success? Or, do you just make sure you always have a lifeboat in case things go wrong?

Thanks,
There isn't really an equivalent. SAT is a battery test that applies the same questions to each cohort, ATAR is a composite index of a school leaver's final subject scores. Different students can have different subjects but end up with the same ATAR.

I guess I'm nitpicking because the whole minimum SAT thing just bugs me. I imagine lots of other people self-select out too.
The Silk Road and similar protect the seller. There is just no way to protect the buyer, you are buying a physical product and at some point have to take physical possession of it there is no way to avoid this.

Just as with buying drugs face to face you have to trust that the dealer is not malicious, is there a risk? definitely. But just as in the real world law enforcement have little interest in wasting their time on buyers.
That comic deserves its own submission to HN. People should never forget: you work to live, not live to work. Who cares how much money you make when you're too stressed & cynical to enjoy life.
That's interesting, because I swore when I had a tax license in my old state (MS), there was wording to the effect of all money collected that was listed as "State Tax" to the end customer had to be remitted to the state, even if it was greater that what should have normally been due. I think this was to avoid this exact situation of companies trying to make money off of taxes.

Maybe that was specific to my state, but I would be highly surprised.

I'll have to dig up that WSJ article. It sounds interesting.
More likely historical database backups
"IT experts analyze newly released Obamacare website and determine, 'this application is perfectly architected. we can find no flaws whatsoever. Kudos to the builders of this site for producing a flaw-free architecture on day one.'"

very typical for a site that just launched three days ago!
> Meanwhile my Macbook Pro freezes on me regularly (a "hard" freeze requiring a power cycle).

I'm curious if you see anything in Console for those time frames?

"GPU reset" "I/O error" "Graphics error", that kind of thing.
Ask HN: Disabilities and employment
I know there are a few here on hn that have disabilities, so I'm hoping for some advice.
I have a few serious health problems that make me virtually housebound. I have been receiving treatment for a while now, but the situation I am in will be for the foreseeable future.
I have been working through codeacademy, and learning as much as I can with he hopes of making programming my work. As my options are limited (and I'm in the UK) I have been reading about the bidding sites. Would it be realistic to think (with time and experience) that I could make a living (£25k+) from them? Anything that could help me would be much appreciated.

Thank you.
Among other reasons, to stop spammers and trolls from evading their bans/restrictions.
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Becoming Grittier: Mindset Changes to Achieve Long-Term Goals
This strikes me as overblown piling on. The website seems to be working reasonably well now that the surge has died down a bit. I imagine that the website launched much more quickly than it would have if the developers had not used a bunch of javascript libraries. Now that the initial surge is over, the site likely will never see that kind of traffic again, and so the shortcut of using those libraries strikes me as a reasonable tradeoff.

I'm sure their going through the process of pruning the unused code and adding caching. I don't really see what all the fuss is about.

Also, anyone who launches to that kind of traffic is bound to have some launch day issues no matter how well they've designed the site.
You know...I just don't think that's the case. We can't predict what products or societal changes particle physics will result in until we actually do the research (the Schrodinger's Cat of research?).

One thing is for sure: if we don't do the research, we won't know any more, and we won't have gained any further understanding of the universe. I just don't think understanding our universe, and the world we live in, is a luxury.
A Programmer's Perspective On Healthcare.gov And ACA Marketplaces
There is no subscription. What are you unsubscribing from? Or just consider all such emails to be unsubscribed automatically after this one email, making a link pointless.

The reason for this is really for mass emails. It really should not apply when you send a few hand-written emails to a few people.
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