skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is basically the conclusion of the book the millionaire next door. The authors comb through statistics of the rich and interviews with wealthy people.

Building a business is probably the best way to make a large lump sum of money. Unfortunately the business is more likely than not to fail before bearing fruit and even after successfully running the business for large profits over time competition, laws, and factors out of your control usually kill the business. Due to the inherent risks and stress involved the book states that most successful people would not advise their children to start businesses but to get professional degrees, especially the kind that can work for themselves or consult such as law, medicine and accounting. Not so much the non-professional jobs such as business management.
This is a super interesting area. I think it's one of those technologies that will really open the door for some cool tech to follow.
I'm not actively involved in anything in a volunteer capacity at the moment, but for pretty much the entire decade of the 90's I was a volunteer firefighter.

Now, firefighting is too big a time sink for me, especially in terms of being as active as I was back then. But if I could free up some time to do something volunteer related, my first choice would be to volunteer as a tutor for the local Literacy Council.

I've also toyed with trying to squeeze in some time to teach some free programming classes at the local hackerspace, including maybe a kid centric thing using Scratch or something of that ilk. But right now I work a full-time job AND am working on a startup, so I've kinda put that stuff on the backburner for a while.
Just yesterday, while developing a Cordova hybrid app intended to target iOS, Android & Windows Phone 8, this very notion became unsettlingly apparent for me. BTW, http://icons8.com is a great place to do icon recon.

Personally, I like the iOS 6 icon over the iOS 7 version. They're almost the same, except the new one places too much emphasis on "up." For example, when using the Meme Producer app and you want to save the picture to your photo library, the app uses the iOS 7 "action" icon but it feels awkward to then immediately go to the "download" icon to actually save. http://i.imgur.com/YtVd5WZ.jpg
$23,000 is still a pretty penny.
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There isn't much to "sell". They're metal+concrete installations.
S corps pass through profits, which are reported only once, on the owner's personal income tax statement. It avoids the double taxation of a C corporation.
Use this: npm --registry http://registry.npmjs.eu/
Better is subjective. There are many people who will find Google's much easier to understand and use for simple needs.
I can't say for sure. My only experience with a browser OS was an early Chromebook. There it was possible to develop an app in an online IDE, then download and install it. (I had to do this to build a rudimentary text editor that could save locally, although I believe there are usable editor apps available now.)

If there's no way to do something similar on Firefox OS, then I see that as a much worse hindrance to the ecosystem than the income demographic they are targeting.
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As a parent, I still can't believe Netflix doesn't offer better parental controls. All we want is a whitelist of programs that our kids can watch.

Children programming is by far more than 90% of our Netflix usage.
> And yes, you can start coding after 22, but it's an uphill battle.

"Getting an undergraduate degree other than CS" isn't the same thing as "start programming after graduating".
Playing a rigged game is never a threat to the game-rigger.

Do more than that[0][1] and the kid gloves come off.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_%28journalist...
[1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coo...
I wonder how much India is investing in health and fitness. Hope we do something similar seeing the current fitness levels of the Indian youth.
That was a great intro video. Pretty amazing stuff.
I bought a home in Berkeley recently. It was not an easy choice. In the end I decided to bet that this accumulation of new tech wealth in the bay area will continue. There will be more IPOs every year with their hundreds or thousands of engineers/etc making solid six figure paydays. And more growth and hiring and big RSU grants from existing tech giants. And more people selling pickaxes to the miners.

I think demand will continue for a long time to come.
But given the level of expertise which would have supposedly been their target market, wouldn't this have been an ideal environment for security analysts to develop within?

If you buy into the sales pitch, highly trained teams of developers would be properly outfitted with workstations well-suited to roll their own crypto, for development purposes, and then easily test against a wide array of complex scenarios.
HP's Machine technology rethinks the basics of computing
Google Finance is largely useless when compared to Yahoo Finance, however Google Now and Google Search have become remarkably good at providing quick and relevant stock data.
Iraq Signals Openness to U.S. Airstrikes Against al Qaeda, U.S. Officials Say
Build your own drink mixing robot (part 3)
According to this NYC stats sheet (page 8), there's a sharp drop off after 12. 8 AM -> 11 PM is better most days. Although, who knows, maybe Lyft has some special pricing.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/downloads/pdf/2014_taxicab_fact_...
I love Bret Victor's talks, blog posts, etc. They're super inspiring.

2 things came to mind though.

1. It seems, possibly, the exact wrong time to make rooms with giant displays. With things like Google Glass and Oculus Rift as first gen (2nd?) VR/AR you could project all of that info virtually and cheaply and be able to have all the visualization he describes wherever you are, not just at a makerspace that only a few people can use at a time.

2. I'm always super inspired by the Bret's visualizations but when I actually try to figure out how they'd be implemented I'm clearly not smart enough to figure out how that would happen.

In this example in particular, he shows graph toward the end where the system tries every setting and graphs the results so it's easy to pick out the best setting. How would that happen? How does the system know what "good" is? It seems to me it can't know that. You'd have to program it which in itself would be pretty hard. Worse, most system have not just one adjustment but many. Just a few and there'd be tens of thousands of variations/combinations to try to figure out "best".

I'm not saying we can't get there. Maybe the first step is building a framework that would make it easy to make systems like that with various kinds of visualizers, analysers, time-recording, searching features etc, and maybe somewhere along the way we'd figure out how to automate more of it.

I'd love to help work on such a system.
> Providing transportation with adult supervision for single parents who need to work and don't have a car to drop the kid off with.

Is this really necessary? Surely a substantial fraction of kids could walk, bike, and/or take a public transit bus to the nearest school like I did. Or if driving has to be involved (why?) they could organize/join an informal neighborhood carpool.

Anyway yeah, I'd probably drop most of that. Or pay for it out of a very small fraction of the money saved.

> People in wealthier areas can pay more and schools are partially funded through property tax...drum roll please...this means schools in richer neighborhoods have more money.

That would have been a fine argument to make in, say, 1970. Nowadays, not so much. Though it might depend on what state you're talking about. Today there is in most states quite a lot of redistribution of state funds to make up for local variation. And many of the worst schools and school districts spend the most money - they just spend it badly.

>> the post office was at the time losing money on package delivery - it was only seen as a valuable market niche after Fedex showed that it could be done at a profit!)

> LOL. [random links]

Your two articles are completely irrelevant to whether package delivery and urgent message delivery were profitable for the post office in the 1970s, which was when Federal Express (now FedEx) got started. (The "urgent letters" exemption to the postal monopoly was made official in 1979.)

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

As for time-sensitive delivery today, FedEx is so much better at it than the Post Office that by 2000 the Post Office entirely gave up on providing that service themselves; they now subcontract to FedEx and UPS to carry most of the post office-branded urgent mail and packages.

(They don't do this just because they were terrible at delivering stuff quickly and reliably, but also due to a boneheaded post-9/11 rule change about carrying packages on commercial flights that broke their previous business model.)

(the post office also now subcontracts a lot of local rural delivery, fwiw.)
I notice that in his conversation with the chatbot, Mr Kurzweil himself fails to meet his own criteria for the Turing test. Shouldn't the machine expect the human not to behave like a machine and thus have a sensible conversation?
Brazil produces almost four times as much beef as Argentina.

However, Brazil has almost five times the population, so the Argentines are still ahead on a per-capita basis.

In any case, the Brazilians are not about to run out of beef any time soon.
Same thing happens if you drag the date selector past 2013.
Newnal: Calling Software Engineers to Change the Way Music is Created
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We are looking for an engineer who can help us build out our vision. If you are someone who can work as passionately as we do, and can learn quickly, then this job is the right for you! You will be working closely with the rest of the team to build a mobile music messaging app. You will be designing and building the primary systems and algorithms that will augment the messaging experience with music.

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•	Experience in database management
•	Familiarity with the iOS development environment (our first product is for iOS)
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•	Love music!
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I think Bitcoin has different appeal to different people. It might be around in 5-10 years, but not necessarily because of any anonymity advantages.
A lot of the buyers right now, particularly the all-cash-over-asking buyers running up prices, are not necessarily the newly minted tech millionaires. They're newly minted Chinese millionaires. If that market deflates, I think we'd see a significant price correction, or at least a stall-out on the current frenzy in SF housing.

If you buy now, your property probably isn't going to tank (unless it's just ridiculously overvalued for what it is, and some houses in SF certainly fall into that category). SF will be a hot market for a long time to come, thanks to its constrained inventory. But housing might not appreciate significantly over a 5-odd year horizon. Which is fine, fwiw, because one shouldn't be buying housing as an investment in the first place, much less as a short-term investment. Buy income-generating rental properties, with significantly better tax incentives to boot, if that's the goal. Buy a house because you want a place to live. If it happens to appreciate in real terms, and not just in theory, that's gravy. But over the long run, it's unlikely to do so, especially when you factor in all your maintenance, holding, and transaction costs.
My Mom on Making 'Cosmos' Without My Dad, Carl Sagan
My understanding is architectures are different enough that the fastest SIMD strategy is sometimes CPU-dependent.

The author of FFTS, for example, chose a different strategy on ARM than x86_64: http://anthonix.com/ffts/preprints/tsp2013.pdf

He found himself writing the NEON code in assembly entirely by hand because vector intrinsics didn't even expose CPU features he wanted to use—even in C, where vector intrinsics are CPU-specific.

Having access to SIMD is definitely better than not having it, but it really should be paired with good optimized implementations of things like BLAS and FFT libraries.
However "You can move and zoom in or out on your saved map, but you can’t search or get directions on it."

Reduced the utility considerably imho.

Both Navigon and Co-Pilot (on Android) can store the entire U.S. in about 1.5 GB.
Who is using etcd in production?
How is etcd performance compared to zookeeper ?
I understand your definition, I disagree that it's a pointless semantic argument. Employees at startups, riding an exit or two, can easily get to the point where they have no financial worries for them or their kids. My claim is that this outcome, financial independence, is a much more common definition of rich and a much more common goal, than the one you posit of "being able to fund businesses."

For what its worth I've worked with, and know several dozen people who were non-founders and achieved that goal. I also know a few people who were not founders and got to the ranks of the .01% (the 1% of the 1%). Folks like Dan Warmenhoven who joined NetApp as its CEO after it was founded but before it was public, similarly Tom Mendoza (also at NetApp), Geoff Baehr who I got hired at Sun after it was public and who did quite well for himself.

Being a founder has a bigger payout in a successful exit, being an employee has a better rate of return. The reason is that an employee has the freedom to say "Ok, this isn't working, eject!" and a founder doesn't. As the author points out, Founders that eject at the first sign of trouble find it hard to ever get funded again. Back in the dot com bubble they were the joke entrepreneur the wantrapreneur. They came out in the bubble to found a company and collect a big payout, but they had no idea why people got big payouts. Kind of like cargo cultists making landing signs hoping that somehow that will cause a plane to suddenly appear on final approach.

I really believe its great when people are passionate about something and they invest every fiber in their being to make it happen. It doesn't always work but it is thrilling to be on the journey with them. It it much less fun to work for someone who is "just trying to get rich", they make poor choices. As an employee you can bounce bounce bounce until you find the right fit and the passionate people and ride it to the exit. As a founder you have to ride it and it you have to give it your all and you have to only step off that horse when you've exhausted every possible alternative. Anything less and your done. Yes, when it wins, it wins bigger than the rank and file, and when it loses it can destroy any advantage that extra sized piece of pie gave you because at the end of the day 10% of 0 is still 0.

Founders do much worse in negative outcomes than employees do. I don't know if its two or three orders of magnitude but it is significant.
Parts of this article bother me.

Let's say that banks could set rates based on risk and this did force lower quality colleges to reduce their tuition. Those colleges would bring in less revenue and program quality would likely suffer, possibly resulting in a feedback loop. Meanwhile, ivy league universities that are funded primarily by endowments would be able to raise their tuition without burdening their students, who would be able to afford larger loans given that they would be paying lower interest rates. In short, rich schools get negligibly richer while poor schools get significantly poorer. More importantly, Ivy league program quality would not improve significantly while lower tier college programs would spiral downwards.

If the goal is to promote quality education, the current system lets ivy league students subsidy lower tier college students to some extent. It makes more tuition dollars available to institutions that depend entirely on tuition at the price of restricting tuition dollars available to institutions that are less reliant on them. The status quo has significant advantages over what this article proposes. Higher default-rates are a problem, but the lesser of several evils (unless you happen to be a banker).

North of the border, university tuition is subsidied by provincial governments and regulated by them as well. It varies from province to province, but average tuition in Canada is far lower than it is in the U.S.. In most provinces, tuition is still expensive enough to be considered an investment, but cheap enough that thrifty living, summer jobs, and a minor scholarship or two can see you through undergrad without debt. It's a different approach that's worth considering.
A link to the research paper referenced (http://www.nds.rub.de/media/nds/veroeffentlichungen/2012/07/...) were they explain the methodology including how they had to capture electricity consumption at a higher resolution than the smart meter broadcast and also that the TV had dynamic backlighting. The actual method of predicting usage based on brightness of screen and some of the false positive problems they had is interesting and also the inability to identify some kinds of broadcast (such as tv news) because the picture didn't change enough.
> Private schools don't have tenure and cost on average about half as much per student as public schools do.

Private schools should cost less per student because most of them systematically exclude the most expensive to educate students.

Public schools don't have that luxury.
Any signal that has some non-zero propagation time also needs proportionally high capacitances/inductances because of the energy storage requirement you mentioned (resistors are memoryless so can't model that).
Onwards we march to dystopia.

Thanks, everyone at Onzo; you're solving the world's problems. /s
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The reason for the comfort of Node is imho. NPM and the way it easily gives you fast access to a lot of functionality. That being said it is worrysome that NPM has the size of 80GB+ as far as I know and mirroring is not quite that appealing. I wonder what spoke against a repository-list instead URL of a single-repository URL with fallbacks when they first developed NPM.
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Shameful that the word "black" was elided from the beginning of the title. It's a whitewashing that completely obscures the point of the article.

Edit: Happy to see it's been restored.
"Physical precious metals have some of the worst spreads/fees"

Here is a site that buys 1 ounce gold bars for $10 below the current spot price and sells them for 30 above. that is 0.8% spread on the side a slightly over 2% on the buy side.

http://www.goldeneaglecoin.com/topProducts

Are there bad vendors out there, sure, but they are in every market. Look at Bitcon ATM's some of those charge fees amounting to 10%
> The OS definitely has a really long way to go and I've noticed quite a few bugs and plenty of missing essential features

What are the (significant) bugs and missing features? I had guessed that, being in production, the basics were finished.
I know Leica doesn't make their own sensor. The company I work for made it (for the M). It is a pretty damn good sensor. Don't know enough about photography to judge the rest :-)
I'm an atheist, FWIW. Perhaps I did a bad job of correcting you when you kept jumping to conclusions above, but whatever my motivations are doesn't change the fact that the average private school costs less than the average public one. :-)
Our sincere apologies for tonight's downtime. We're back up now after 30 incredibly frustrating minutes, but we're making changes to ensure this incident can't be repeated.

The root cause was a network failure at our CDN, Fastly. The incident was limited to a single Point of Presence (POP) in San Jose, so if you were in Europe or Asia you didn't see anything wrong, but obviously at this time of day most traffic is from the west coast.

While our uptime over the last few months has been pretty great, in the last week we've had two non-trivial incidents. That's unacceptable to our users, and to us, and we're not just sitting around hoping it doesn't happen again, but will be making fundamental architectural changes to eliminate the sources of failure we've seen.
Marvell has a license to design their own cores, don't they?
Amazon orders subject to replacement fraud (still)
That's about four cents, or a twenty-fifth of a semitone. I don't think I can even distinguish relative pitch at that level (although 15 cents I can do easily -- roughly the difference between a just major third and an equal-tempered one).
That's really cool, good to know that Russia is the #1 most infected place! These statistics are really helpful with companies.
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> A lot of the buyers right now, particularly the all-cash-over-asking buyers running up prices, are not necessarily the newly minted tech millionaires.

Yes, it's funny that so much of the mainstream discussion around housing in the Bay Area focuses on the wealth created in the tech industry when much of the eye-popping housing activity has actually been driven by foreign buyers.

When it comes to the prices these buyers are willing to pay, it's incredibly important to understand their motivations. Many of these foreign buyers are not buying houses in the United States as "investments" in the traditional sense. Instead, they are using houses as stores of wealth because they are acutely aware that their capital/assets are at risk in their home countries. In other words, a house in San Francisco may be more secure than a bank vault in, say, China, as far as wealth preservation is concerned.

American buyers competing for assets that have appreciated rapidly in value in recent years due to foreign demand, and who may be far more sensitive to the potential for gain or loss, should at least understand this.