skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might help to change the way you "score" your life. I'm suggesting that because your comment suggests you are mentally evaluating your progress against some internal metric and seeing failure rather than progress. Allow me to share an example that my own daughter (Also in her 20's) went through.

She was 'failing' at getting a job, for the summer. She had made over a dozen attempts and not a single offer. The lack of success was putting a huge damper on her ability to motivate herself to try again. When we talked I suggested that perhaps rather than "failing" to get a job in an attempt she "succeeded" in learning something new. By letting the 'end goal' of getting a job go for a minute, and concentrating on things to learn, she when from failing 12 times to get a job to succeeding in learning 12 new things. Different spin on the same circumstance. And before you say "But Chuck, isn't that just a mind game you play on yourself?" The answer is no it isn't, you really are learning new things and recognizing that is important, like the App on this site recently called 'RememberWIN' that is the key, realizing you are making progress even when it doesn't feel like it.

This is especially important in the 'do great things' sort of arc because frankly it is generally impossible in normal circumstances to do something truly great in fewer than 5 or 10 years[1] and it is generally impossible to do great things alone. That means you have to find some folks who can be part of it, communicate a vision and a plan to achieving that vision, and then executing on that plan. All of that takes time.

Because of that the only productive way to 'score' your progress is by noting successes in 'found a great web designer' person or 'sales person type' or 'engineer' or 'mathematician' what ever. Assembling the folks who you will want to be the team will take time as well.

When I have something that it going to take a 'long' time to get done I try to write out the history of that in reverse with options, example lets says it is "deliver an electric vehicle", so just before that you've got the "car passed all its manufacturing approvals and tests". Before that you've got "opened manufacturing plant", before that you've got "designed manufacturing plant", before that you've got "found a parcel to build the plant", before that you've got "closed funding to buy a parcel", etc and walking back to where you are now with just an idea and you'll have a series of milestones you can work on between now and then.

The trick is that people see things happen when suddenly "all this stuff comes together" but for that to happen "all this stuff" has to be converging. If you plan for that you can understand when things are converging and when they aren't and that helps inform where you are needed most at any given time in the process.

[1] This arises from the fact that there are lots of smart people out there and 'great things you can do in a year' have all been taken. Times of war and disaster however offer accelerated schedules since there are lot of people already motivated to do something and leading them to do something great is then possible in a shorter period of time.
1. Freelance until you figure it out. Just pick up short term contracts if you can.

2. Spend time with family and friends.

3. Find a way to help others. Get out of yourself for a bit.

4. See a therapist. There's no shame in getting an emotional
'tune up'.

5. Life is longer than you realize. And harder than you imagine. Start being good to yourself.

6. Remember that difficult times don't create character. They reveal it.
Some realize it later than others, but life is long. There's a lot of emphasis on carpe diem, live today like it's your last, etc. That's actually a very good way to get anxious about what you're doing today when you could be doing it tomorrow. Sounds like procrastination, I know.

The thing is, putting things off makes sense. You can't do everything you could ever want today, or tomorrow, or this week, or next. But you also have several decades to do things. I think my greatest peace of mind comes from the knowledge of three things:

- I have plenty of time. And if I die suddenly from disease or accident or whatever, the bad thing will be death, not “I didn't do everything!”
- I won't ever do everything I want to. My mind is coming up with new things that might be interesting to explore on a reasonably regular basis. But that's okay. The things I choose are what make my life distinct from that of others.
- What I want to do is going to constantly change. More of a corollary to the previous one, but what I'm doing today will have inevitable influence on what I want to do tomorrow.

Choosing to focus on taking care of your family now doesn't mean you'll never have another opportunity to attain financial freedom. That opportunity may take a different shape than what you're thinking of right now though. Sometimes it's good to just let things settle for a while before launching into the Next Big Thing. Sometimes you let things settle out and you realize the Next Big Thing wasn't what you originally had in mind. That's what makes things fun ;)
Working now, thanks.
An interesting idea although you run the risk of making 'low-income life' seem like an interesting puzzle and one that once-solved is pretty easy actually.

Your idea reminded me of a project someone built several years ago to give western audiences a taste of life in darfur...

http://www.darfurisdying.com/
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Very cool site, I can see this being pretty darn interesting. Things I would like to see (but I am only one person!)

1. Mobile interface (I hate to be that guy, but this would be awesome as a native app for those travelers)
2. Widgetized! Most travel bloggers want this on their own site.
3. Ability to map out a journey (as opposed to placing destinations on a map). I think a lot of travelers really take pride in the route they take and how they get from place to place (eg a motorcycle ride down the coast of Vietnam, or a boat ride across the mediterranean, etc)
Is there some funky JS on that page? After scrolling down a few screens, none of my touches register. It's like they are preventDefaulting all touch events. Would have liked to scroll through the embedded G+ comments but I guess not. (iOS mobile safari)
He can still create a LLC but can't get a work visa, I got these suggestions from some local agents in Beijing.
Flynn is a (adjective) PaaS platform that can be hosted on your own servers so you can make it work for you.

Flynn can (verb) as a PaaS platform that allows you to do what you need to within your existing infrastructure.

Flynn runs on your servers as a PaaS platform that you can build upon to (whatever a PaaS does).

I don't really know what PaaSes do, but those should work if you find interesting words (not just generic ones) to put where I've noted. Adding extremely informative details in a sub heading would be very beneficial.
If the extortionists are able to demote the targeted website with this, then web ranking is seriously broken. This is quite basic, guilt by association needs to work in the opposite direction: my site should get demoted if my site links to shady sites and not if shady sites point to me. I would be extremely surprised if Google got this wrong.

This mass funelling of inlinks, also called a Sybil attack are not that hard to defend against if one tweaks the Pagerank equations just a little bit. The source of the problem in the original Pagerank equation was that it used addition. The Pagerank of a page was defined to be the sum of all inlink weights flowing in. Now sum is a problem because it cannot distinguish between links from a million shitty pages, from a link from a golden page if the total link weight flowing in is the same. I seriously doubt if sum is used anymore.

The solution is fairly straightforward, dont use a sum, use a function that weighs higher values higher. An extreme example would be the MAX operator. In this case, among all the inlinks my site receives, only the one with the maximum inflow counts, all the crappy inlinks might as well have not existed. Max is brittle though and causes instabilities in the convergence, but variations of soft max works decently enough in theory. To phrase it in another way, the original Pagerank equations used the L1 norm of the in-flow vector, one can use Lp norm [0] or fractional powers Lp norms with a higher p . If one chooses p = \infinity one gets the MAX operator.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp_space#The_p-norm_in_finite_d...
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I made http://itimes.ru for Russian startup community but it didn't really took off.
The problem with that is that you can then post a houndred times as many links and hope that just a few of them go through.

It is a cat and mouse game and we are going to get fucked.
A good point nirajd. We hope that travel bloggers who are fighting to generate more views for their trips will generally choose to upload interesting and attractive photos in order to stand out from their competitors. But of course being a site with 100% user generated content (travel bloggers or non travel bloggers) we expect to see a diverse range of quality.
There was no evidence presented to defend the authors claim. Things like this were prevalent:

The lack of a "real" OS as the engine behind the Chrome browser is actually a good thing for me. My Chromebook runs Chrome faster, smoother, and without hiccups, better than my fast Macs and Windows PCs.

I call bullshit on this, and he should be showing us some benchmarks or something to give this argument any legitimacy.

Edit: I am not sure how to quote things here. So I made some attempts in this post to make the formatting obvious that the words after the colon are not mine.
I'm assumed that you'll need a valid social security number.

But actually, no according to http://www.sba.gov/blogs/starting-business-us-foreign-nation...

which was the fourth link when googling for "creating a corporation in usa"
The second phase of this competition ($50k prize) launches September 3rd. It's not clear yet what it's going to be, but you can play around with the data from the first phase here:

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/f1-innovation-prize/chall...

You can sign up to receive updates when the second phase launches here:

https://prize.tatacommunications.com/home#register

Should be fun!
Thanks for sharing. Database versioning seems to be quite a challenge so it's nice to see how others approach the task.
As mentioned by someone else in this thread, that opens up for spammers to turn it up a notch and spam even more. "hey it can't hurt and some may slip through & increase the pagerank"
"I don't know if this is what they call a quarter-life crisis."

This is what happens to most post-college grads. You're led to believe that you are the smartest most capable person in the world and that _you will_ make a difference.

Then you get a real job and and eventually come to understand how the world really works.

I'd say:

1. Put your family first. They are likely the only one that will not give up on you in the long run.

2. Pursue what you enjoy. It's a long life (hopefully) and you will do great things _because_ you love what you do.

3. Plan the future. You will end up _somewhere_ is 5 years. The destination can be determined by planning.
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I fail to see how it is any different from Forth, Basic and Pascal offerings for micro-controllers that we have since the early 90's.

The only thing that failed in those controllers was to get the market Arduino was able to.
Did you really suggest to OP he try becoming an alcoholic? Like as real life career advice?
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And of course they want to get paid with western union. Anybody knows what percentage of WU traffic is legitimate?
You'll get a lot of advice on money from self-righteous spendthrifts, or workaholic try-hards like myself projecting their own image on to you -- but this is about you.

What makes you happy ... dig really deeply into this question by:

0) Acknowledging that you are free to do whatever you want (really!)

1) Seeking out and being around people you admire

2) Trying brand new (scary) things

3) Practicing collecting data about your state of mind and happiness, and pursuing behaviors that improve it.

4) Acknowledging that unhappiness and happiness can exist in a healthy balance which both motivates and rewards you.

5) Do what you want.

6) Accept that your goals and ideas about happiness will change over time and aren't static

Right now I'm an over-working, game loving, big spender. And right now its pretty fun because I have the confidence to love this lifestyle for what it is -- pretty silly. Its not who I am nor who I will be forever. I've also been a survivalist and outdoor photographer for magazines, a car-living homeless person, a Master's student, a startup-er, and most recently a researching for one of those big SV companies.

You'll find it. You'll do great. Don't be afraid.
"Seems like a fair trade off? If you want ala carte hours, you should pay ala carte prices."

That only works if the supply of workers is limited. And in this case, the low-wage bracket, it isn't. It's absolutely flooded with people, so you can't expect the workers to command any such bargaining power. It's simply supply and demand, and there simply isn't enough demand to satisfy the huge supply of low-wage workers.

My solution: Company towns. Give the workers daycare, food, accommodation, training/education and pay them peanuts... in the middle of nowhere. But that'll never fly, because the argument really isn't about "fair-wage", it's more about "entitlement" so people see it as some sort of loss instead of a huge gain in a market that really isn't favoring them at the moment.
Makes me think of how Google Analytics is a trap. Google already knows the organic & ppc traffic it sends you, but if you get plugged in to Analytics (or AdSense, for that matter), then Google gets to see what organic & ppc traffic comes from the other search engines, as well as other advertising, direct linking, etc. Google gets to see the whole picture of how everybody reaches your site ... sure gives the appearance of a conflict of interest, if/when they're also selling you ppc and if/when you're dependent on organic Google traffic, too.
Yes, Bitcoin price fluctuates.

Why is this on the frontpage?
Thanks! I liked the writing, and the article did a great job of clearly explaining a basic socket.io workflow. I would expand on this with an article either on how to use mongoose to store analytics data across sessions or on how to use some visualization library (d3.js?) to plot the data.
Are You Trusting These 30 Fastest Dividend Grower?
Financial independence is something that's been purposefully pushed to the fringe of society. We've got very few people who fit the category of subsistence farmers in the West even though we have the potential for their to be a lot.

The main reason why businesses don't grow is regularly cited as the founder/owner refusing to give up control and micromanaging. One person can only micromanage so much.
I upvoted because the article provided an interesting technical explanation of the fluctuation.
I keep forgetting I have it installed. It's grand when a post like this comes up.
I've used taxis in four major USA metro areas fairly extensively: Chicago, San Francisco, NYC, and South Florida (Ft. Lauderdale / Miami).

NYC is mostly OK, although drivers are sometimes hard to understand. Chicago was a step below, but still OK.

South Florida and SanFran were the worst. Dirty, awful, dangerous drivers.

All of those cities are very expensive, often have trouble with credit cards, and didn't have a good way to hail a cab other than calling at the time.

I can see why Uber in theory makes sense in those environments. I remember when Uber launched in Europe I got an email from someone there asking about Edinburgh (where I live). My response is that I don't see Uber doing well in Edinburgh.

Right now, in Edinburgh, I can hail a cab with an app that lets me specify my route or drop a pin where I'm at for pickup. I can see the cab on the map driving towards me. I get an automatic ringback on approach. I can pay with stored cc information or corporate account. Cabs are impeccably clean, inexpensive, and the drivers are really great. They are all trained in First Aid and most are highly accessible (you can specify if you need accessibility on booking). They will help you with luggage, engage in chat, and it's a really great experience.

There are also private hire companies that compete with the cabs. There is some tension there as those cars don't offer or require the accessibility of cars and training to their drivers, and they're on the same meter. I almost never use them. The black cab cars are really great to get in and out of particularly with luggage.

So to sum up, Uber just isn't going to do that well here in my estimation.
Let's put it another way: reporter who doesn't even begin to have the base knowledge to understand the answer, let alone write about it intelligently, asks "so, what makes your network so secure? Can you give me more details?"

Interviewee: "sigh. There are multiple layers of blah-blah, with foobar authentication schemes. That's all the detail I'm prepared to go into."

<Reporter writes down, "tight-lipped about security">

AT&T and Tata don't owe you an explanation just because you think that's the way the world should work. Such an explanation takes time away from doing other things, all so only a tiny fraction of a percentage of the world population can actually understand what was said.
"More" visible, perhaps. Visible in general? No. You've just specified a staggeringly large torrent of information, all of which your brain will (correctly) judge as useless in quite short order, at an unconscious level you will not be able to override. A shopping trip for a single week of groceries would produce a stack of information that you would still find yourself unable to do anything about, to say nothing of what it would take to provide that for every transaction. Do you want to hear about where the tomatoes on your hamburger came from? And the onions? And the ketchup? And the wheat for the bun? And... heck, even typing and/or reading the full set of questions for just one hamburger is sort of tedious, isn't it?
> How else do you propose to create a distributed concurrency?

That's the point: No one knew how to do that before Satoshi.

> The traditional approach would be a public ledger mantained by the 'miners' aka a block-chain.

Are you joking? If you knew about the blockchain and miners before 2008, you could have simply created Bitcoin yourself and become multimillionaire.

> The the issue is that's not anonymous, but while a lot research went into creating an anonymous currency bitcoin was a MVP which took off.

The issue was no one knew how to create a trustless consensus mechanism. And Bitcoin is not anonymous, it's pseudonymous. True anonymity only became possible after Bytecoin's innovation in the use of ring signatures. Nowadays the most popular coin with true anonymity is Monero (created in 2014, as a fork of Bytecoin with a fair distribution).

> the innovation was in the specific implementation not the overall idea

Clearly you don't know what you are talking about.

> Bit torrent

What does that have to do with anything? Bittorrent doesn't use a blockchain.
I think Whistle already has a product like the pet collar you mentioned. http://www.whistle.com/gps/ (also, I love the video :) )
Basic has been an easy language but python has dominance. This is key, for one reason another be it timing, era headlines IDK they never got the traction python did.

The language is key and if someone can plug it in and per-se "not be afraid" to hack as many are I think its a big deal.

Energy is an issue - sure, but its v1 and a nice processor.

I'm very excited about this.
You're not alone; quite a lot of people think that.

The question is, what can you do about it. I doubt many people in the U.S. would be comfortable with a company or government telling poor people they're not allowed to have sex or have a kid. That's very personal stuff.

And unfortunately there's a puritanical streak in American culture that makes it hard to put in place systems that would help teens help themselves, like effective sex education or free contraception.
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I'm guessing the point is to avoid the rookie mistake of saying something like:

"The total market in X is $Y billion, and if we only get Z percent market share, we will be a great success."

The hard part is to get that first net dollar of profit in a market, not to dream about some fraction of the entire ocean.

Do investors take special training to avoid rolling their eyes when entrepreneurs give them the "only X percent of the market" line?
> My solution: Company towns. Give the workers daycare, food, accommodation, training/education and pay them peanuts... in the middle of nowhere. But that'll never fly

...because its been done before, became widely and accurately recognized as de facto slavery, and the key components of such schemes outlawed.
Thanks a lot! Glad you like it!
"What do you do when you believe that you can do great things but something that you have no control over is holding you back?"

Whoever taught you that made a mistake. This is very typical of our generation (yes me included) we all think we can be the president if we just work hard at it. While all our parents heard was: "You know when you work hard you might own a house, with a garden even!"

Happiness is reality minus expectation.
(http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-generation-y-yuppies-are-u...)

And you, your expectations are too big. Yes you can change reality but how hard do you have to work to make it match your expectations of greatness? Perhaps you should just learn to be content with what you have, be happy, who knows what comes on your path. Your alternative is facing a high chance of never being happy with yourself and your achievements.

I'm half way through this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Good-Life-Ancient-Stoic/dp/01953...
On the advice of the HN crowd. So far I'm liking the message. Try, regularly, to imagine life without the things you hold dear. Try to want the things you already have.
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As long as you wake up in the morning with something to look forward to, something you are going to feel good about doing in the future, you will be able to get through anything.
The whole thing about 'wasting the crucial years of your life' applied to a time which has now passed. The Y Combinator observation that it's getting cheaper every day to start something potentially world-changing by making something a lot of people really want is not going to go away, just because you're older. Yes, your energy and health may decline in the coming years, but that could happen even if you were working on the startup of your dreams right now.
Never imagine that you're going to miss the boat: when you're feeling ready to do another startup, that will be the right time for you. This notion of whether you have a 'window' in your 'lifespan years' as far as starting startups is concerned might have once been 100% true, but if anyone tells you it's still true now, you cannot use expect the past to be a reliable guide.
On the other hand, how much of your time are you willing to spend for that house, car, and TV? Because time is the commodity you're selling.
"I would be extremely surprised if Google got this wrong."

They did get it wrong, and the problem has been well known for many months. Google has placed a weapon in the hands of anyone who wants to spend a modest amount of money to buy thousands of spammy links pointing to your site. But Google doesn't consider this a real problem, because you can spend hundreds of hours tracking these links down and disavowing them.
Reminds me of the "Java Processor" [1]

I wonder if anyone is trying to revive that now?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor