skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, I'd recommend this book:
http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads'_Guide_To_Investin...

It's easy to grasp and straightforward. Some basic ideas from the book:

1) What is your timeline? You seem to have multiple goals/timelines (car, retirement, home) and you need to define each clearly so that you can save for them in the proper manner. Needing money in 5-10 years for a house going to present a different goal than needing it in 30+ years for retirement. Generally, the shorter the time-frame, the less-risky the investment. If you need it in <=5 years, I would stay away from equity, but that is me. Once you know your goals and timeline you can figure out what kind of expected return you want to target.

2) Risk tolerance: You touched on this, but again, you need to clearly define what you mean by "I don't want to risk too much". How affected would you be if your investments were down 30% in one year? Would you hold or panic and sell to avoid further losses? Answering this question is a lot easier to do when you haven't lived through a huge market drop. (People tend to overestimate their tolerance for risk)

3) What is your financial situation? I assume no debt if you're saving 50% of your pay each month, but if you do have any debt, you're probably better paying that off before choosing to invest. Talking a financial planner (who isn't trying to sell you product/services from his/her institution) is a good way to figure out a plan in this respect. I would also ensure you have a decent emergency fund - depending on your situation, 6 months is usually enough.

4) Other assets: If you have a decent 401k match (as you indicated) this gives you a little more flexibility since you already are saving decently for retirement.

5) Taxes: This matters a lot and tax rates for different investments can vary quite a bit. I'm not familiar with US tax code so again, this is something you should talk to a financial planner or accountant to understand.

Having said all of that, I'm personally pursuing a passive, asset-allocation plan. I'm mostly invested in Vanguard Index ETFs with a percentage allocation of bonds, US equity, Canadian Equity (I live in Canada) and International Equity that I feel is comfortable for me. I chose this mainly because of the low-cost/low-MER (Vanguard ETFs have even lower MER in the US) and went passive because I don't like to have constantly make adjustments to my portfolio.

Most of my assets are invested for long-term capital growth, but I have separate accounts for an emergency fund and saving for a real estate purchase where preservation of principal is my concern. (high interest savings account)
Hopefully this can be replicated in the last few nations that still have Polio and humanity can finally be free of it.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,288...
The OED has citations of "intellectual property" in English back to 1769.

There's an 1855 book by Lysander Spooner[1] called The Law of Intellectual Property.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner

[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=lS82AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1
Horse-breeding, and the art of writing your research paper
Apparently, lying at a young age is a predictor of success, so you might be onto something there :) :

http://www.mamiverse.com/children-who-lie-more-likely-to-be-...
Are there limits to how much you can use them? Suppose I want to use AI techniques that require tons of tests to be run. Is that okay?
I use tarsnap for all my backups, but that's a service as well as a tool.

This is my daily crontab:
http://pastie.org/8982530
Smartwatch Mobile Payments App on Pebble
All of the symbols are optional in J, except for =. and =: which are used for assignment. If you don't like % for division you can define

divide=: %

and then only use divide. If you don't want to come up with your own names for all the built-in functions, you can just use the names suggested in the vocabulary (J's main help file). If you don't want to write all those definitions to give names to the built-in functions, there is already a module in the standard library that does it for you.

If you do decide to program in J, however, I recommend you just learn the symbolic names, they're so much shorter and fun. :)
NSA infiltrated RSA security more deeply than thought: Study
That's very interesting, can you elaborate on the "small lies" you found yourself telling? (obviously without disclosing anything personal or confidential).
The administration has said that you can avoid the penalty if you sign up by April 15th and affirm that you couldn't use the website before March 31st.
UK will finally allow citizens to legally rip CDs
If you pick "peer reviewed research" you probably never held your own newborn child in your arms, promising you'd do anything to protect them, and secretly wishing they never grow old. And perhaps you overestimate the strength of evidence.
How exactly is this fine supposed to be enforced? Simply added to your taxes? For the record I think it's BS that I get fined for not giving my business to companies that I don't trust and are incentivized to screw me over. Signing up for Obamacare isn't signing up for health care, it's signing up insurance against grossly overpriced healthcare. Lets fix the problem, not play the insurance companies game.
Indeed. Either you give distro-specific instructions (long) or you make people build a gcc cross-compiler from scratch (also long) or you gloss over that bit (prone to failure).

Many Pi users' only linux system is the Pi.
Turing's sunflower
I wouldn't say that VS loads "Internet Explorer", that's a bit of an exaggeration. iexplore.exe is Internet Explorer, mshtml.dll holds the DOM implementation it's using [1,2]. Now that's still close to a web browser, but one may also use Trident to work e.g. with generic XML documents. I don't know if VS does that and whether this is a good idea or not though.

[1] N. Zakas: High Performance Javascript, p. 35
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(layout_engine)
The question “why is my computer unresponsive when doing dozens of simultaneous compiles” is difficult to answer

Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this!
Hey, the first kernel release with a patch from me in it! It's just a typo fix in a comment, but hey, it's a start.
Actually, no. The S&P 500 was 20% higher in Jan 1994 than in Jun 1994.

I'm not saying it has to be around 7 years, I'm just saying it's generally not a good idea to start investing all your money into the stock market when it's at or near all time highs.

There's even an urban dictionary word for it. "BTFATH" - Buy the fucking all time high.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BTFATH
For anyone wondering, the Obama administration has already built in a system for letting people who tried to sign up in the next couple days but didn't complete an application sign up without a fine in preparation for this. I'm sure it won't handle all cases and seems odd given how strict they said the deadline would be, but just for clarity of debate I wanted that out there.
My social life is just like I'd want it to be.
I got few close friends that I can trust and that's all I asked for.

If someone only sees sexual relationships it's probably not caused by pornography at young age but some other mental problems.
You mustn't mix up porn and relationships because frankly they don't have anything to do with eachother.
I am using that to mean the various order rules for capping trading losses/gains...I know the finance jargon meaning is slightly different.
You've hit on the challenge. Any hard and fast room either has unintended consequences, or can be worked around.
"[Zoobe] Founder and chief executive Lenard Krawinkel told the BBC: "[...] You can employ people for far less money than in San Francisco - and even for far less money than in Asia.""

Yes, the wages are low. Comparable to east-european wages.
Color palette generator JS library, not color picker – KolorWheel.js
This is not yet another color picker, but a small javascript library which is designed for developers, who have no talent and time to create professional color palettes. Pick a base color, build a transformation chain, and if you haven't choosen too weird parameters, the result will be satisfactory - https://github.com/ern0/kolorwheel.js
And that is why I shouldn't post comments online when I should be sleeping. You're right, it was for blind pedestrians.
Fining people for failing to purchase a product is asinine. There's more precedent for requiring people to buy guns (and fining them if they don't; see Militia Act of 1792), but imagine the outrage if every able-bodied male 17-45 were required to buy an M16 and a case of ammo at their own cost (about $1000).
NSA infiltrated RSA security more deeply than thought – study
Welcome to Wrdz – A simple blogging platform for introverts (Medium + Reddit)
He does claim that it creates a window, even if that's a conceptual one rather than a physical one. Hence the lock contention in the desktop window manager.
Andreessen Lashes Out at Buffet for His Anti-Bitcoin Comments
If you think that Hacker news is a "general interest news" site then you clearly have no idea what the general public is actually interested in.
There is no legal basis for that waiver. The administration has violated its own hard-won law in all kinds of ways trying to compensate for its failure to effectively implement it.
Logic inversion should normally be caught rather easily, flow control misdirections not so much : #define if while .

My favorite (C++) : #define private public
Heroku could give startups 20% discount for a year.
I see LOBC coming soon
> In other democracies you might have three or four directions but those countries tend to have more issues with incompetency and corruption.

That's a joke, right? Germany is more corrupt and less competent than the US? Sweden is? The UK is? On almost every metric of government efficiency, the US is behind most european countries.

> If people care about wars, the parties would align towards "war" and "no war" for an election. But they don't,

This is a stupid assertion. Why would they align towards "war" and "no war" when they don't have to? They have enough divisive things like Row vs. Wade, Planned Parenthood, Food Stamps, ACA, etc to make sure that every single-issue voter is accounted for in one camp or the other.

Do you remember that Obama campaigned on the "Close Gitmo" promise?

> But they don't, because beginning and ending a war isn't something that works well with elections or any arbitrarily timed decision process for that matter. Governments have to be able to start a war or not end it at the wrong time, otherwise you might as well let non-democratic countries take you to the cleaners...

I will assume you are naive, because otherwise I would have to assign malice to your argument. The US has been, for years, opening a new front every couple of years. Regardless of timing, "more military action around the world" and "less military action around the world" are things you can base policy on. In fact, Ron Paul campaigned for the latter. But in a two party system, anything except the big two parties is meaningless, and the big parties like it that way - it means they don't have to align with anything the public at large might actually want.
So they are going to still provide the servers but not support the development? That's an odd choice..
I use the tiny brace extension for visual studio that sets brace lines to 3 pt font size. My C# code resembles Python code, for the most part.
Are 2 interviewers better than one?
> Once every device on the Internet is uniquely addressable again, we can do away with these NAT hacks and two endpoints should be able to reliably connect to each other again, no matter where they are.

IMHO, this is a common misconception. IPv6 doesn't magically solve the problem.

In an IPv6 world, we will all need stateful firewalls (imagine a typical human's home router). These will generally be configured to allow all outgoing connections, and block all incoming connections - just like a NAT router effectively does today.

Now, you have the same problem all over again. How does the firewall know what new inbound connections to accept, and which to reject? We're back into the realms of packet inspection ("ALG") or protocols to explain to the NAT router what is required, such as NAT-PMP, uPnP etc.

Sure - each endpoint will have a unique address, and this is useful. But a direct peer-to-peer connection between these endpoints will be firewalled by default, except via the same (equally bad) solutions that currently solve the problem (badly) in a NAT world.
What they discovered (as have others) are innumerable canceled quotes, which are the mechanism for price discovery. A bit more than wiggles on a graph.
I suppose you're more of a theory type than I am.

For the record, I invested every dollar I had but $100 into the market between March and May 2009, though it was not much (several thousand) as I was but a humble student. I also bought TSLA at $28 and SCTY at $12, and I still hold both of them.
Costs, Benefits and Masterpieces in Detroit
I hope no one sends her the link to imgur/spacedicks.
Pocket is a very useful tool: http://getpocket.com/
Hope you don't mind me asking why you're still on 17?
Not sure what you mean, but you do a stop loss to make sure you don't lose your shirt when a stock moves against you.

No one intends to sell at a loss but that is part of the game. The problem is when market manipulators artificially cause the price to move against you thus triggering your stop loss.
Good thing they extended the deadline a bit for those experiencing technical issues, then.
Okay, but are they being held to high standards?

This is a serious question, not rhetorical. Can someone demonstrate how the officers are being held to a high standard?

For example, what percentage of officers are fired each year? There is no one "right answer" here, but if it's less than 0.1%, we know that they practically cannot be fired.
Having and Being
The Tony Stark from the comics is very different from the one in the movies. He specifically said the "films' portrayal".
I'm using spideroak. The Linux client is actually functional.
You are asking how fines are enforced?

Ideally you wouldn't have to pay for health insurance but this is what was able to be passed at this time. It has provided insurance to millions and largely reduced costs across the board. Everyone gets sick or at the very least eventually old. It isn't gambling, it isn't a risk, it's certain. You need to be insured. I'd just suggest it's better than what you had before.
The behavior sounds considered; the web site doesn't describe it to the user.

How about if the Destroy dialog read something like:

This is irreversible. We will destroy your droplet and all associated backups immediately. We will keep a snapshot that you can use to recover your droplet; you can disable this below.

[v] Scrub data - [etc.]

[v] Temporary snapshot - this will keep a snapshot that you can use to recreate your droplet. This snapshot will be destroyed in 24 hours.

and the Select Image list showed something like:

Destroyed Droplets

chef.nl-haa1.infr.as f… — automatically deleted at 2014-04-01 09:25 UTC
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Savesm – request a deal on your terms and save
Why wait for a sale or promotion or holidays … or collecting coupons, when you can submit your Best Offer for any product or Service? It works at retail stores, hotels, repair businesses, car dealerships, real estate for sale, etc. Your Best Offer is sent directly to the merchant and you get response, no middlemen, and no commissions. Give it a try, start saving today!
The combination is much more effective.
BlackBerry's 'Bold' Strategy: an Old Phone
Can you mention some companies that are doing cool innovative stuff? Most of the stuff coming out of there that I know of seem to be copies of US start-ups geared toward the EU market.
Microeconomics of Uber’s attempt to revolutionise taxi markets
Ask HN: Do you care about sustainability (and how does it show at work)?
I'm a computer science student in University and I've developed a passion for sustainability over the past few years. Bottom line is that I want to make positive social, environmental, and economic contributions to the world in my professional life. Do any other HNers share similar goals? Is anyone achieving this now and, if so, how specifically does it show at work?

I know the term "sustainability" is super broad but, for the purposes if this discussion, I think that's okay.

Right now, my particular interests are in collaborative consumption and education. It would be nice to hear what specific components of sustainability you are interested in as well.
Yeah, an apt comparison would be race conditions/spooky action at a distance vs. space/resource leaks. Pick your poison.
Here's the how: http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/The-Individual-Shared-Respon...
I thought Malaysia's Cyberjaya was the "next Silicon Valley" due to its close proximity to the Iskandar megaproject with Singapore?
It has a bunch of limitations. It doesn't support hardlinks, it doesn't track folders so empty folders don't show up/disappear, it doesn't sync file permissions, etc.

The developer is awesome but he seems to be going at this from "how can I make git more userfriendly" instead of "how can I implement a dropbox that just happens to use git". clearskies/btsync/syncthing won't inherit all the great git stuff (great versioning mostly) but they seem to be more on track to give a good user experience.
Its a good guess that the simulator or game engine behind this competetion is TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator) [1].

Simulated Car Racing (SCR) [2], is an existing annual AI car racing competition based on TORCS, though without the attractive prizes. It also has a client-server architecture with controls and sensor information sent over UDP using what seem like lisp sexps.

[1] http://torcs.sourceforge.net/

[2] http://scr.geccocompetitions.com/
The Supreme Court has ruled that the "fine" is a tax. As such, if you know you will be paying it, you are obligated to pay as part of your quarterly taxes. This unexpected requirement was made famous by Matt Drudge: https://twitter.com/DRUDGE/status/447057404568424448
What interests me is what are implications for general computing performance while using GUI/xServer on raspbian or raspBMC? As I was told rPi has ridiculously powerful GPU compared to processor, but basically it's unusable due to lack of proper driver support. With such quantity of Raspberry Pis sold one would expect more support from Broadcom.
Do you think Oculus is going to be limited to just VR? Facebook didn't purchase them for VR alone. Their gains in VR tech will help them in AR.
My friend etuttle once told me, "Lying is like taking out a loan. You will typically have to pay interest on it: remembering that you told it, and remembering who you told it to... so it's usually not worth it. But once in a while it is."
How To Lower Virtualized Data Center Expense With USB Flash
Thanks. I learned of this from the Blender developers' mailing list, didn't think to look for a website article.
I didn't drink a lot more caffeine than you. It's hard to say, since I my sources and timing varied a lot, which may have been part of my problem.

I had a lot of problems with headaches. That's why I quit caffeine, as an experiment to see if that was the cause.

The worst headaches were on the final week, when I was transitioning from very little caffeine to no caffeine.
Dynamic and mixin inheritance cover most of what entities are doing. Given a more expressive language where these inheritances could be expressed succinctly, you would probably find them very useful.
In the US, your capital gains grow tax free, making it an awesome deal. You only pay when you take the money out.

We also have Roth IRAs which are tax free when you take it out. You pay tax when you put the money in.

I would suggest the OP creates an (Roth?) IRA and maxes that out too.
Mandating people to buy health insurance and mandating people to buy weapons are two entirely different things.
Korean Gov’t to Develop Security Tech for HTML5
Is your friend not a UK taxpayer? Giving up tax relief is 99.999% never a good idea.

If your a higher rate taxpayer after maxing out your ISA (£15k) then EIS , SEIS and VCT's are an obvious no brainer for a home with your cash.

For non uk readers an ISA is a tax free wrapper which you can put cash, shares and some other assets which is then tax free both for income and CGT.
Okay, "expensive" might be stretching it a bit... But in my specific case it's a lot cheaper. If you have several TB of data/photos and/or want an impeccable UI, by all means, go for one of these!
THAT and WHY IS half of the screen TAKEN UP by a BIG EMPTY black SIDEBAR? it's CRAZY unreadable!!
Except that he said the film's portrayal, not the character itself
Precisely. This piece seems like an over reaction to the discovery that averages are a relatively blunt way of looking at data. They're not terribly useful in a vacuum. Looking at a distribution (histogram) of your data is a great way to understand the distribution of your data, but even then, you have to be careful about how you bin your data.

This is good advice for data analysis in general. When looking at data, I like to start with a histogram. Web server benchmarking is a great example. Developers appear to have a strong desire to boil things down to a single number.

"What's my endpoint response time?"

The answer is often an average, but the data is rarely well represented by that number. Looking at a histogram reveals that.
There was an interesting section in "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" where Heinlein writes about electric cars, and how the law eventually required them to install speakers which produced fake engine sounds. This was because the cars were so quiet that no one would hear them coming, and they'd step out into the road without looking.
The Administration actually does have legal authority to execute various parts of the law as they see fit. It does undermine credibility and set a bad future precedent, however.
The most obvious and simplest thing wrong with open outcry and human market makers is the number of specialists that it takes to handle a full universe of stocks. A small electronic trading team can provide/take liquidity in 8000 stocks or greater. If you need specialists you are going to have to provide a living salary for every single specialist who will only be able to handle 20 stocks at most. The cost of trading for the end consumer is higher.
This is normal for any systems of this type. The online tax returns system for HMRC in the UK does the same thing every year. People need do it earlier.
I'm the opposite. Chromes UI is awful. Doesn't scale for non-standard DPI screens, ghastly colour scheme, and the integrated Window decorations are primitive.

In KDE I can hide the FF window decorations, and it then uses no more real estate than Chrome, while still offering a better native UI. I'm just crossing my fingers that any UI changes in FF don't negatively impact us Linux users or drift too far away from native widgets.
It has provided insurance to millions

It has cancelled the insurance of more millions. You're not just required to have insurance, you're required to have insurance meeting higher standards than many can afford and/or were living just fine without (ex.: not paying for birth control coverage when there is absolutely zero chance of pregnancy).