skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me like you don't want to be rich so much as you don't want to worry about running out of money. I imagine a lot of people with a decent amount of money feel that way.

Personally, I kind of like the hustle and fight at the bottom, but it can get tiring.

Money doesn't buy happiness. It only buys you time and the raw materials to be happy. Again, I think your issue might be the thought of losing what you have and that's eating you up. You still have to worry about retirement. You still have to watch your budget. You don't want to have to worry about these things.

Obviously if you want to hit 100 million you have to scale big. Since you are afraid of losing money, you would probably need to go a similar route as someone with little to no money. You couldn't hire a bunch of people and you couldn't get into something capital intensive without investors. Going web / app is one way to go. You could hit the scale with little investment. Rather than hiring employees, you would probably need to get someone on board with you to handle the software side of things.

You could do a sort of arbitrage. If you want to feel rich, come to the Philippines! On 160K per year (or even 60K) you could do pretty much what you want. If you come up with an idea, you could hire developers for $800 / month. Minimum wage in much of the country is around $6 / pay and a lot of companies find loopholes to hire people for less than that.

Maybe go to the mecca of web / apps (San Francisco) and get out, meet people and strike up some conversations. Get a notebook and write down ideas or even just general thoughts. Get that brain working. Creativity is a muscle, it needs exercise before it starts working. Find like minded people. Float the idea of grabbing a sweet party pad in a cheap place like the Philippines or Thailand. Get a maid or two to keep the place clean and cook (or to run to pick up food for you from local restaurants.) Then just build, build, go out on the town and then come back and build some more. You pay for everything (you could probably swing this on just your passive income) and your team gets some sort of stake (maybe even co-founders.) If you need help, hire local developers for cheap. When you have an MVP (and maybe even customers and a solid plan rolling) then come back to SF and pitch to everyone you can. Who knows, maybe you could find some investors and use that money to keep going rather than your own. If it totally doesn't work, go back and try again.

Maybe this is naive or not realistic, but sounds like a good plan to me. ;)
> It really has everything to do with not being rich. A million dollars is not rich. 100 million is.

100 million isn't rich, 10 billion is.

Look, there's always going to be someone richer. Only one person in 7 billion gets to be the richest person on the planet. Stop staring at the top, and consider the over 99% of the world's population that's a lot poorer than you.

You are easily in the richest 1%. You are rich. You've made it. If this doesn't make you happy, then maybe you should change your outlook in life and do something totally different.

Have a long vacation, travel around the world. Maybe go see all those places and people that have it a lot worse than you. Go build houses in Africa. Find some people worse off than you and make a difference in their lives. Quite likely that will make you feel a lot better.
I still want pseudonyms within my circles, too. Never understood why I have to be John Smith to everyone who knows me as Johnny B, or Bumface, or WeirdKink66 or RantingPoliticalIdentity23. They're different facets of my social interaction, to different people -- and Google's social graph ought to be able to work that out, too.

For that reason, I only use G+ for super-anodyne stuff, gmail and androidery. And it's just a huge hassle to keep logging in and out, and very easy to forget until the comment is committed...
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Read the fine print. There's a £24 annual fee, fuel rewards are capped at £9/month, and you only get rewards at select stores which they have no doubt negotiated a promotional deal with.

Meanwhile UK interchange is no more than 1%.

Perfect example of what I'm talking about. Those figures are based on a certain model of reward utilization which is retarded by rules and limits. If that model changes and more people exploit the reward program, the program will change. The math has to add up.
Should be "she's right" (Kimberly)
Here in the UK (and I think much of Europe) we stopped using the mag strip and switched wholesale to Chip and PIN in around 2004. What's more I live in London and I'd say I now complete >75% of my purchases using the paywave contactless payment system. I guess most point of sale devices still have the mag strip readers on them, but I can't see people going for this in a big way here ... its a cool hack but it seems like its sort of hacking a payment technique that's a decade out of date.
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I'd be interested to know what "less magical" things the author went on to pick up within less than a week to become more productive. CakePHP, Yii, Symfony 2? It seems a little bit too convenient to leave this part out.

I've tried a number of different frameworks, but despite having the same experience with Hartl's book, Rails has been the easiest for me all round. The amount of resources available to learn and find support are unparalleled.

What use somebody's thoughts are about the first time they read a piece of code 'without any context' is beyond me.
Actually, only underground tests truly limit damage. There are three destructive effects from a bomb. The explosion itself, the fission products from the bomb, and the radioisotopes bred from high neutron flux impacting surrounding materials.

Tests are conducted away from civilization, which lowers the impact of all forms of damage. However, the above ground tests were conducted generally on the surface with only a few exceptions, which would have increased the amount of radioactive fallout due to neutron activation. In contrast, actual use of a nuclear weapon would be in air bursts which would generate very little activated fallout.

Also, the total number and yield of nuclear weapons now in all arsenals would probably not be sufficient to kill even 50% of the world's population. Much of the world lives in high density areas, but much does not. The total area that the world's population lives on is extremely large and only a small percentage of it could be destroyed through nuclear weapons. Though the industrial and economic collapse would lead to massive starvation which would cause even more delayed deaths, but it's difficult to estimate such things.
I see no problem with investing in weed and prostitution if it is beneficial for all(impossible) or most stakeholders.

Yes, Snapchat provides small incremental improvement of people's lives. But it does it for 25M users, mind that. And that incremental improvement is considered to be worth more 3B dollars. Why? Because you can attach a business model to that improvement and extract revenues. It is simultaneously filling pockets of some people and providing value for users. If you don't think that sexting is valuable, that is your personal opinion. Millions of people think otherwise.
It didn't affect any code, but once I upon a time I worked with a programmer called Rem.

On his last day at the company I wore a t-shirt which said "No comment"
I carry three: two Amex cards and a debit card. The Amexes are for different cashback situations and one of them is a Costco membership card too so I have to carry both. I would actually like to add a backup Visa or MasterCard as well since lots of places do not accept Amex.
Ah, I hadn't realised this was a personally-curated list (I see it now on the 'About' section). Since these are all places you've had personal experience with, why not add a sentence or two describing what you think? It's often really useful to read what one person thinks about several places (e.g. if we both like place A, and you like place B, that gives me more confidence that I'll like place B too).

Edit: I just noticed you have this too! I didn't realise there was additional information if you click on a pin rather than just mouse-over.
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The difference between SnapChat and Hyperloop is that Snapchat has people using it today, which drives its value, Hyperloop will cost billions before anyone is using it, and people might hate it. The hyper loop could easily turn into The Homer: http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Homer and who wants to spend $6 billion on inventing that?
Note: I work on the BladeRunnerJS team - the team behind Topiarist.

I've created visualization tool using Topiarist and a service called yUML that creates a UML diagram showing the relationship between object definitions within a given scope.

http://plnkr.co/edit/WrHHtP?p=preview
Disappointed. I was expecting drama, controversy, action. Instead it's just a routine thing and there's no intriguing story of banning. No redemption, slander, betrayal or revenge. Or anything juicy at all.
A little bit on higher-end rewards cards. But those typically dish out better rewards too.

See the rates here: http://usa.visa.com/merchants/operations/interchange_rates.h...
A Girl Who Codes - This is what change looks like
Agreed; a key/legend would be good!
While I agree these magazines are frivolous and unhealthy, isn't this a stretch?

>> The disconnect between how the glossy mags choose to fill their pages and how British women actually spend their money suggests that traditional publishers are out of touch with their readership.

...except that, apparently, such women also spend their money on the magazines being criticized. Which seems to say the publishers are in touch with what their readers want.

Obviously not all women buy such magazines, but those who do are not being forced to.
I see. It would have been nice to see the problem fixed on the Cygwin side, but either way, it's great to be able to use tmux on Windows. I missed it.
But what systems will be able to use it?
Afaik Intel announced DDR4 for Haswell-EP which is supposed to come out in late 2014.
Awesome stuff mate, Ill post this on www.fb.com/yumveganrecipes if thats cool?
I think your explanation of recent partisanship is perhaps not quite specific enough. I suspect the cause is the increasing reliance on threats of filibuster which make the stakes much higher for "crossing the floor".
"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there." - Ken Thompson
At least we're still very good at overloading servers.
Indeed, a labeled break is like a forward goto with the label placed far away from the destination :-)
It's revealing to me that the US is far ahead of the Soviets in nuclear explosions. Somehow, given all the "evil Ruskies" outcry, I thought it to be the opposite.
3B is extremely high for funding a semi company. Tabula and Easic, two serious semi companies raised around $100M each.
Mandatory somewhat related XKCD:
http://xkcd.com/327/
If you click twice it goes full screen. Remember that.
The dong is also the currency unit of Vietnam, a minority group in China and lots other things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong
Perhaps there is a market niche for a good quality tech magazine for women. If there is a demand for it, some smart entrepreneur could make some money providing it!
Even then, won't this be of little impact to practical performance benchmarks?

We are not talking about bypassing the limitation imposed by slow interconnect busses.

I've been out of the hardware scene for a while. Someone more-knowledgeable please correct me or back me up.
Dalai Lama: "Someone asked me if I like counseling the rich or the poor, more. The rich. Because they come with the awareness that wealth does not solve problems".
> "You're comparing a irreversible hardware problem with a policy problem."

Telling customers hold it differently http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8761240.stm is a policy decision.
Totally cool! Please spread the word far and wide. :)
Would you then hand your cards/keys/phone blob to a waiter at at a restaurant when you pay for your meal?
It's interesting to see these messaging platforms and the new use cases starting to hit the mainstream a la kinesis,
storm, kafka.

Some interesting things about these kinds of measaging platforms.

Many exhanges/algo/low-latency/hft firms have large clusters of these kinds of systems for trading. The open source stuff out there is kind of different from the typical systems that revolve around a central engine/sequencer (matching engine).

There's a large body of knowledge in the financial industry on building low-latency versions of these message processors. Here's some interesting possibilities. On an e5-2670 with 7122 solarflare cards running openonload, its possible to pump a decent 2M 100byte messages/sec with a packetization of around 200k pps.

Avergae latency through a carefully crafted system using efficient data structures and in-memory only stores can pump and process a message through in about 15 microseconds with the 99.9 percent median at around 20 micros. This is a message hitting a host, getting sent to an engine, then back to the host and back.

Using regular interrupt based processing and e1000s probably yields around 500k msgs/sec with average latency through the system at around 100 micros and 99.9% medians in the 30-40 millisecond range.

Its useful to see solarflares tuning guidelines on building uber-efficient memcache boxes that can handle something like 7-8M memcache requests/sec.
Your point of exiting negative chats is a very good one. The instinct (for me, anyway) is to double down and try to fight it out, which is a waste of time for everyone involved.
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Judging from the OP, he's right and you're living in lala-land.

Ie - it could be a case of major conspiracy on the part of publishers (who are all women btw) to keep their readers away from tech. Or they could simply be giving their readers what they want.
> Prone and sedated is just about the worst possible way to have a kid.

There are a lot of people responding to you repeating the claim that we encourage women to deliver prone, and one who says they normally do it lying on their backs. Personally, culture has given me a strong impression that supine is normal and prone would be bizarre. Where's this "prone" idea coming from?
Shadertoy seems like fun.

SFW: https://www.shadertoy.com
well, it's also going to save some power and allows larger amounts of memory. I'm just wondering why they would put it on the market in a month when nobody outside R&D labs has the hardware to use it yet.
Those aren't theories they are hypotheses
Show HN: Tuplet for Android (social music sharing, like Instagram for music)
Old, but good. Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6140631
"Does advertising technology in magazines work on women?" or "How well does advertising technology to women work?" Would be better questions than one that applies to all demographics, at least in this discussion.

Here's a nice article[1] about why an ad campaign for women's watches appeared in the Economist, an magazine with readership 90% men.

[1] http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/11/luxury_branding_the_f...
We also have the cheque/savings/credit buttons which I've not seen anywhere else in the world (besides NZ). I have my Westpac debit card set up to use cheque/credit for my personal account and savings for my joint account, but I've not met a single other person who makes use of this feature..
Quoth the server: Infinite loop detected in JError
Yoga app smashes Kickstarter funding goal... 4 times.
Cool concept. The app combines yoga courses with a rewarding system, progress tracking and a social network.
Ah, my apologies - I was linked the article from a friend and immediately thought it would be a good topic of discussion here. At least the original article was linked prominently at the top though.
What an amazingly vapid article. First off, Crucial's comparing DDR4 release specs to DDR3 release specs; in the 6 years since it came out, DDR3 has more than doubled in speed. Second, because memory controllers need to be altered to support DDR4, you won't be able to buy it in a computer for at least another year until either Intel or AMD will release chipsets compatible with DDR4. Finally, there's absolutely no discussion in there about the interesting parts of DDR4, like it moving to a pci-e style architecture of multiple channels. So no, don't hold your breath waiting for DDR4, you'll just pass out and hit your head on the coffee table.
This. Where is the problem here that this solves? Even if you had 8 cards (the limit of Coin), how often does selecting the correct card become a problem, enough to warrant this kind of over complicated, error prone solution?

First world problems indeed! And people claim there isn't a tech bubble, if projects like this get funding...
TortoiseSVN by default tries to get Excel to do a diff (which it's not great at) - you can configure it to use a 3rd party Excel diff tool.
> If someone else did something bad in the past [...]

Earlier you mentioned "far past", but this stuff is fairly recent:

Firefox 2 - October 24, 2006

Firefox 3 - June 17, 2008

Firefox 22 - June 25, 2013

> while it's very possible some were released before being standardized

Nothing of this is in ES5.1.

> they are all being standardized now

Yes, just like Dart.

> For example, WebGL was designed through a standards process, and it is great.

No, that's not how it happened. [1]

Experiment by Mozilla - 2006

Implementations by Mozilla and Opera - 2007

WebGL Working Group - 2009

1.0 spec - 2011

And all of this is based on Canvas which is something Apple made up.

Anyhow, you seem to think that this kind of thing is a problem. It's not. This is how the web works. This is how progress is made.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL#History
what's the difference between having a credit and having a debt?
Once you know how a reviewer views thinks relative to your own perspective, their reviews become much more relevant to you. I read some critics even though I never agree with them, but because I know how they think and what they like there reviews are much more useful. "Oh, they didn't like it. Perfect! I will like this one."

I guess you're only going for pure vegan/vegetarian places? Because these days, pretty much all restaurants do at least some vegetarian food. Vegan is harder of course.

Vegan drinking holes would be nice too :) http://www.veggiewines.co.uk/popularbeers.htm
Really nice, though the 'my marks' and 'tags' boxes don't load for me, meking it impossible to find back my cute little efforts at office procrastination :(
Europe approves 3G and LTE networks for in-flight use
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Thanks for taking the time to explain it :)
So you just missed the cutoff for the refund? That's a bummer.

I could maybe have held off and gotten a Nexus 5, but it wasn't clear how much it was going to sell for, or exactly when. I had previously tried out a N4, and found it acceptable (other than the lack of a physical keyboard), so I just went for it. No regrets.
But does anyone want to return to those days?
Yes, the potential and kinetic energy of the oceans is an amazing source of energy.

I hope a 'rigorous 3 year' testing program is sufficient to justify a large scale deployment of these platforms in different habitats. They do mention that 'a few' of the metrics monitored showed naturally highly variable and lacked the statistical power to confindently rule out undetected changes. Also, I have the impression that they just checked the deployment of one platform?

Did they also publish the data somewhere?
Altera at the very least has FPGAs you can buy right now that offers DDR4 interfaces [1]. Also, I imagine a lot of this is directed towards OEMs who can get the early silicon samples of Haswell-E chips so they can start testing with them.

http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/10AX066H4F34I4SGES/...
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Looks like a buttfuck both pixelated and uncensored.
We had a similar problem with an old internal IRC bot written in TCL. Someone joined the company with the initials 'nan' (which was never equal to 'nan' because NaN != NaN). The bot never worked for them.
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I kinda like the underwater Enterprise fleet!
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It would help a lot if you could point out what you find wrong with those points in Go.
So the bank gets to charge the store a transaction fee and you don't get the benefit of the bank floating the charge for 30 days? That sounds like a good deal for the bank!
IBM's marketing is for the most part classy and subdued but this is a new low.
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Internasional names are hard: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononymous_person

In Norway we have a man named "Jo Å" that lives in a city named Å. I often uses that combinations for testing it-systems and gets a lot of odd results.
> You're arguing there's an interplay between the public and private sector. That's true. But you would be hard-pressed to find an example of a major core tech that developed independently of significant government investment

I'm not sure about the history, but perhaps the internal combustion engine?

More generally, the line of reasoning in this thread assumes "this is how things have happened" to imply "this is the _only_ way things can happen". It is entirely conceivable that the private sector would, in the absense of government funding, step up and perform/fund fundamental research. But, in the current fiscal climate where there is still, generally speaking, copious government funding available (e.g., to the military), why would a private group spend money to do that when they can let someone else (the government) take the risk (with someone else's money).
How families and feelings built human culture
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Hopefully a positive step in the right direction, but I am reticent to believe that the Re-Education camps will actually be abolished.

I'll believe that when all current prisoners in the labor camps are released.
14 Of The Most Successful People In Tech You've Probably Never Heard Of
In the US, deliveries are done by CNMs, CMs, and doulas. Only the former has a nurses level of training.
"There are three gates leading to this hell — lust, anger and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul." - Bhagavad Gita

There's a great movie about happiness on Netflix that I'd recommend:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1613092/

Ironically, some of the happiest people are the poorest. Wealth is a weak indicator of happiness.
I "almost", AKA thought of it but didn't tell my wife, made my son's middle name Null. It even entered my mind when I was handed the Birth Information card. I knew it was funny but not worth the eventual price I would pay when I got caught.
That can't be right. Dance-Dance Revolution III is not out yet.
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I don't remember original saying but it was something like - "You have as much freedom, as far you can go with weekender bag".
This guys are absolutely free, love it.