skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to travel, I think it's more about just deciding to do it. Your salary certainly is enough to travel. You make more than most in upper management here in Finland. On a bare bones budget, you could spend a year in many SE asian countries on a budget of $12k and that includes flights. Actually you could probably travel forever there if you just do a few hours of freelancing over the net.

But I get a feeling you want to do something big, and I hope you will have success.
There's always a "risk" that a company in which you work as a salaried employee "takes off", which could cause thoughts like "the founders are rich now" (are they? have you seen their bank accounts?) "because I worked so hard and well" (as did others in your team, I presume --- pat yourself on the back, take a day off, look into the sun and enjoy your capabilities and life, that's about it).

You mutually agreed to certain salaries and jobs with fixed rates, you got your money and you did your work. Who is being taken advantage of here? If you feel abused by such a simple, mutually voluntary agreement, then clearly you need to stop working for the man. While that will be worthwhile no matter how much you make, I'd caution you to rethink your take on your current situation, and your underlying mode of thought. Employees make a certain amount of money even when the company doesn't yet, for the sole reason and on the calculatory basis that if it succeeds, they still don't make that much more money. In return, they only work a fixed number of hours and take some time off for holidays or sickness every once in a while, unless for some reason they choose to work harder and longer than they'd have to, like you did. Go to the other side of the table and be a founder, if you have or have earned the means to take on the financial risks. You certainly have the passion and work ethic to make more money for yourself, but don't take it out on your previous employers now when all they did was stick to their part of your agreement.

Other models exist in the world if you don't like that one, such as mutual co-ops, non-profit foundations etc.

Oh yeah, your sex life with your girl friend is certainly something you need to sort out yourself too, just like your riches --- your previous or current employers might not care that much. Sometimes they do and that's great and all, but they certainly don't have to and hence you better not count on it...
What an amazingly insightful comment.

Our Scientific American experience is pretty much parallel, I have about 30 years worth of them I think, and I still feel that canceling my subscription left a hole.

News on the whole (be it scientific or otherwise) is being dumbed down, everything has to fit our fast paced lives and has to literally scream for attention or it is lost in the background noise.

I think that it is too late to turn that around now though.

The papers that appeared in Scientific American before they switched to 'full page color photographs with three words on them' were of a different grade as well, more in-depth, less sexy. But you actually learned something from every issue.
Sounds like you are in a great position to start your own company.

- You can make products that make money.

- You have startup experience

- You can work hard.

It's time to make yourself rich. What are you waiting for?
the majority of commands you use (clone, pull, push, branch, add) dont require many options at all .. -a -m -b ..

Of course if you're doing something elaborate then you will get some random options like -soft or --before="yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm" .. those are generally things you can't do in svn ..

edit: I forgot to mention that good guis like gitx do most of these things for you
"Change your margins" is one trick for reviewing your own text. The author says it makes it easier to be impersonal.

I wonder if changing your highlighting scheme would help you review your own code?
designed with ... speed and concurrency in mind

I won't argue with the speed part, but I feel the concurrency support is a bit weak. Go routines, locks and channels don't seem enough to me for a language that was designed with concurrency in mind.

Hell, if thats all it takes, I would argue that Python 2.6, with its multiprocessing module, is designed for concurrency. Now, I do think that these features are an improvement over C and C++, but they seem to fall a bit short of more modern languages.
yeah, git documentation does suck .. but you can find most things on http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/
and example based things on http://gitready.com/
Point 2: You can use Femtoo.com (http://www.femtoo.com) to track a webpage (wikipedia for example) to be notified of new seasons/episodes...

You can be notified by email and Instant Messager (if you register using a gmail account).
I'd rather have things more complex and have the ability, than simpler and not. By that argument we should all use horse carts instead of cars.
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Point 2 - you could try to see if Femtoo.com (http://www.femtoo.com) (Internet tracking and notifications) will help solve your problem.

I built it with the intention of 'reducing' the amount of correspondance, and to only notify you of something that you exactly want.
Microsoft are long past the day when they were evil. It's just that, unfairly or not, if they tried to do this people would be going through the license with a fine tooth comb in the certain expectation of traps.

I wonder if Microsoft will one day redeem themselves to the public like IBM did?
I might hack together a version, I might not. Don't worry about that. If you're this interested, I'd encourage you to take the idea and run with it.
This is the kicker - when he registered them all he didn't think to install any analytics software. He has done it now just in case but it's not much help.
Yeah, and that's laudable. It just reads like he assumes a constraint and starts worrying rather than understanding the constraint his decision imposes. Also, I'm sure, if he shops around, he can find a cheap shared host that'll host multiple domains for him. This further implies that he's in constraints-mode rather than solutions-mode.

The optimization comparison is meant in the sense that it's like he's focusing on whether the compiler correctly unrolls this or that loop, rather than focusing on getting his product out of the door where it can start creating some value for customers.
...I'm working on this now! I am planning to add a feature to Femtoo.com (http://www.femtoo.com) so that users can drop a 'track this page' link onto their site (blog etc) and be notified of changes...

...should be done by the weekend...
http://www.traderji.com/data-feeds/19943-commodity-historica...
"create ZIP compressed files from within the OS ... Control-click on the file and choose Create Archive (which is Apple-speak for 'make a compressed ZIP file')..."

To decompress a zip, double-click.

http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/zip.html
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Have to agree here, employment is a contract you and the other party decide. If they held to that contract and you over delivered without discussing further compensation that was your mistake, not theirs.
Huh?

New York:
http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=40.724039,-74.00176

What am I missing here?
A toaster combined with a smoke alarm 'SHOULD' result in a machine that does not burn toast.
Seems to be Palatino Linotype (that's the first one of the font-family my OS has available). Not sure why Opera has decided to italicise it though, as the installed font looks fine normally.
New Go integrates with Chrome and Chrome OS. 
You've heard of Chrome. You've heard of Chrome OS. Yesterday I brought you news of Go, Google's
new programming language. Now...
The echo program from the tutorial[1], line 21:

var s string = "";

Now, I don't see it written there that it is on the stack, but I imagine so. From the source code of 6g, in cgen.c[2], line 884, you can see this comment:

/*
* n is on stack, either local variable
* or return value from function call.
* return n's offset from SP.
*/

Sounds to me that local variables and return values are always on the stack, which makes sense to me.

[1] http://golang.org/doc/go_tutorial.html#tmp_44

[2] http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/cmd/6g/cgen.c?...
Long past?!

I don't regard the shameful approval of OOXML as an ISO standard, and all the questionable things Microsoft did in order to accomplish it, as a particularly nice thing to do. There are a lot of NBs that were formed specifically for that purpose that were never again heard from. As it is now, the damage to ISO seems irreversible.

Also, there is the trolling about "Linux infringes 4 bazillion of our patents" empty threats (because if they weren't empty they would have acted) and the failed attempt to sell some of those patents to trolls that would go after Linux users. The fact if failed (because a non-invited group won the auction and donated the patents) makes it not less evil.

No. Being evil is in their soul.

They may be less evil now - I can agree on that. But it's so much more because they are far less relevant now than they were in the 90s than any particular change of heart.

They deserve no redemption.
Internet TV: When, dammit?
It is unbelievable how things can change in a few days.
I did the same and now I'm going to be a father (wanted) but the thing is I found balance, got a new contract with a different company which will start next week for double the money and normal hours and above everything got a new perspective and more time to think/work on my stuff.

Take them gradually and you'll see how things are chained together.
re #2: cab fares in both the UK and Australia are higher at night during the peak times when everyone wants to get to or from a bar/club
In return, Microsoft gets a ton of concurrency-related IP that could be used to stifle the market for non-Microsoft implementations in the future.

This makes me uncomfortable.

You just don't trust your money to an apparently unarmed bank-robber.
I want to work on #3 eventually
I've been in the same shoes several times and I had to realize that it is a personality issue. I was raised to be respectful, helpful and a "good guy" and nobody taught me how to negotiate for a salary or how to draw the line for helpfulness. Those who are different will take advantage of you without noticing, and I can't even claim that they are the bad guys. Once I realized this - and that it's not that easy to change - I established my own startup/consultancy and I work harder than ever, but certainly don't feel exploited, only exhausted :) A good alternative may be to learn to stand up for yourself, easier said than done. You could also consider working for a different kind of company where you can have some slack sometimes, usually the bigger ones are like that. Or come to Europe, we invented "work-life balance" ;)
I don't know what stone this reporter has been living under, but here in Europe internet TV is a commodity, the internet has enough capacity now to allow the delivery of all the video channels you could ever want (none in my case) to your home via for instance ADSL.

Telco providers are using this technology to move in to the niche formerly reserved by cable and satellite operators en masse.

And then there must be 100's of products in the space 'computing meets TV'.
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It's interesting to see the two attitudes. When an engineer says "I quit" it means "I really am done here and I have already accepted another offer", but management hears "I'm finally ready to negotiate seriously". Worth going back, if you haven't already, and reading yesterday's post on part 2 of the Gervais Principle.
First of you are already burned out so make yourself two year holidays to rebuild your strength and relationships with the people you care about. Surely you must have accumulated enough wealth by now to afford such things (of course this will require cutting down on some expensive stuff).

After two years start freelancing. Eventually build a startup. Live happily ever after.
I thought this article was a rather silly cliche. Nerd cave?

Often so-called "nerds" are just smart people working on projects which are too advanced or too abstract for most people to grok. And no, it's not always about computers either. You can find the same intellectual focus amongst many people - architects, surgeons, lawyers, artists, and so on.
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You may be clinically depressed. If the personal problems you've described persist do not hesitate to seek help from a physician.
HN readers are smart guys :)
I'm baffled by all the 'do a startup' advice.

Your complaints seem to be:

- you feel you're working too hard and too long

- you don't have a work/life balance, hence the girlfriend problem

- you want to lead the good life

- you are peeved that your hard work is making money for others

And who are you?

- by the sounds of it you're a good engineer

- in your twenties you can command a salary in the $100k range

- you're a workaholic, or you allow yourself to be sucked into being a workaholic

From all the talk on here about what startups are like, you'll end up working long hours, you won't improve your work/life situation and all for the questionable payoff at the end. Of all the YC funded startups, all the posting on here of 'feedback on my startup please', how many of those people are walking away after say two years with anything comparable to the $200k you'd make in those two years?

If I were you, I'd restrict my working to 9-10 hours a day Monday-Friday, don't work in the evenings and don't work at weekends. Sort your personal life out. If you're as good as you think you are, which I have no reason to believe you aren't, then in 5 years time you could be earning a salary + bonus of $250k+, all for working a sane schedule. What life style do you want to lead that that wouldn't be enough to live on? And don't worry about the fact that your CEO is earning more than you, someone's always going to be earning more than you, the only thing that matters is whether you have what you need to allow you to live the way you want to.
Ask HN: Anybody kind enough to share scraped iTunes appids?
I'm working on a service that needs to extract from iTunes some info about any iPhone app.

Having an app ID you can fetch from Apple most of the application properties with http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/wa/wsLookup?id=_APP_ID_GOES_HERE_&mt=8

So a list of all/most app ids would be enough to bootstrap the database that I'll keep updated with new releases from there.

Anybody can help with SELECT appid FROM iphoneapps?

Thanks.
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You just gave me an idea
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I find the original far more interesting and useful:

http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
You forgot one: if, for some reason, none of the four mentioned concurrency strategies suit your needs, you can fall back to Javas monitor-based threading model. I don't see why one would want to, but I'm sure there are situations when this actually is the most appropriate mechanism.
30s are different from twenties. Suddenly you'll have family to worry about.
Go into banking.

Seriously. You picked the wrong career. Become an investment banker. If you're smart, competitive, highly motivated by money, and want to be rewarded in some respect, at least at junior levels, in proportion to your diligence (as opposed to your commercial acumen, sales skills and depth of your network), then apply for Goldman Sachs. If you can stomach the hours and the culture, the pay is unsurpassed.

www.vault.com has more info.
Just don't work 100 hours for somebody else, while only being paid for 40 hours. Why do you do that?
I've always wondered what good it would do me to know that I have a certain percentage chance of getting Alzheimer or Parkinson disease. In some situations I could understand the use (certain highly predictable cancers), but in most cases I don't see the point.

I already live a healthy lifestyle. I eat right. I don't smoke. I exercise 2-3 times a week. I don't think I could try much harder.

To me it's kind of like trying to figure out when I'm going to die. Why do I want to know this? Just let me live my life.

These are some reasons why I don't think people buy these kinds of tests. That and the fact that it costs $500!
It's not always possible to quantify what $50k of work is though. In the original post jquery states that his work made the company $1m. What does that figure mean though? How much of that $1m does the infrastructure team deserve credit for? How much was down to the marketing team? How much to the fact that the company already had the contacts to sell the product to? How much to your boss and co-workers for guiding/helping you?

Put another way, if he'd done the work, whatever it was, as an independent worker, how much profit would he have walked away with after a year? I imagine it probably wouldn't have been $1m. If it ended up being $50k then maybe the $50k he was paid was actually fair.
Its more a case of do you understand lisp, because it seems to me that few people who really understand it actually dislike it, while most people who don't understand it seem to dislike it (parentheses and prefix notation being the two things people seem to hate most). Its difficult to explain the benefits of Lisp to someone who doesn't already understand Lisp...
I still have some invitations to give away: http://honato11.posterous.com/pay-it-forward-10
You just dont know how to LIVE. Dont panic, You are not alone. Most people (and i´m like you) only exists and dont know how to live.
When the adrenalin is pumping you do what it takes and sometimes you get in a box, and you get out anyway you can.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, either you are all in when the chips are down or you fail.
The original '95 version is here: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~jperry/procrastination.htm
Two weeks old. Not News.
I also like to add that after that stress and uncertainty phase, things seem kind of flat and boring.

Which is where I am now. What's next?
I looked at this space a few years ago. It falls under the heading of "competitive intelligence" in most companies. Ultimately I decided not to pursue it, basically because I saw what rivalmap was doing and realized the opportunity wasn't as big as I thought it would be for a similar idea. (Not knocking them, they seem to be very sharp guys who are executing well and very focused on learning their market)

Most likely to make any real money at this you're going to have to market to non start-ups.

The most knowledgeable person on this topic is August Jackson, @8of12 on Twitter. He runs the competitive intelligence podcast. Plus he's a great guy.

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I can't agree enough. Even if they can't help you directly, it is very helpful to be able to talk things out with a 3rd party. They may put you on drugs and those can help, but it's the talking that really helps. If you aren't comfortable with someone in a clinical setting, you can always find help at your church, if you are religious.
Cool - good find. I've checked - the text is identical, it's simply been transferred to the new site, so in that sense the link I found is "the original" - it's the original text.
Polymath and the origin of life
BBC iPlayer launches dedicated Wii channel
The BBC iPlayer is relaunching on the Nintendo Wii in the form of a dedicated Wii channel on 18 November.
How demand for oil will change by 2030
Smart guys make typos too.
Very true. I'd only add that if the OP really wants to work 100 hour weeks, he can use some of his time on his own projects.

Also, if the OP worked the hours he worked, chances are he didn't have any occasion to get a solid business experience. And a startup's success depends on many more factors then good engineering - for example sales.
There is some interesting discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=381920
I personally doubt that you have been taken advantage of the way you describe it. Did you really take the one product from $50 to $700+ daily revenue all by yourself or did you “only” make it easier for the salesmen to place it in the market?

If you had worked for yourself, would you have been able to actually sell the mentioned product to anyone? With 3 years out of college, I don’t think you have the necessary network and sure not a huge experience in any industry.

Even the most genius products seldom sell themselves. Marketing may seem “banal” to you, but in reality it requires good talent and experience. And even if have both, the whole thing is still highly unpredictable in comparison to the outcome of some programming task.

Therefore, I don’t think you should feel exploited. As I see it, your employers gave you the opportunity to concentrate on what you like most and can do best.

In short: yes, you are too impatient … and maybe too focused on money.
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Jared Diamond explains in "Guns, Germs & Steel" that coffee beans were first domesticated in what's currently Ethiopia, yes, and from there it spreaded through Eurasia via de Fertile Crescent.

Does that fact have anything to do with the battle between Starbucks and Ethiopian local coffee producers around the right of using the names of the different local coffee beans?
Being European, I'm amazed that the US carriers have been able to keep their stranglehold over the phones for so long. Over here, the carriers have no say over which phone I put on their network, and which features that phones has. They can't cripple the phones, limit the phones, or force some sort of default configuration that gives them money if I accidentally push a button.

I have no idea how you could break that stranglehold though, and I've never really seen any good debate on it, only outrage and acceptance of defeat?
Amusing as this may be it's not very impressive, since it's easy to code any program in any language as sequences of whitespace and then simply decode before passing it to the translator or compiler.
"Don't start your own company because you want to be your own boss." reference http://philip.greenspun.com/business/startup-tips/

Potentially you were the means that their product did succeed thanks to your talent, but assuming they were lucky to have you on board and you play that role it doesn't mean they wouldn't have done it without someone else.

So, what you should do I think is deal with the burnout, feel better and then when everything is clearer decide what you want to do.

About the salary, I suppose the market defines the salary except if you are the founder/co-founder you will always feel being exploited.