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>>Nothing like studying your ass off for 16+ years, only to work your ass off for another 40+ years, taking on debt that you wind up spending a large portion of your life repaying (while often paying more than double the original price just to service your debt), only to finally retire - old, broken and in poor health, and never enjoying much more of your life than 2-4 weeks every year...

With all due respect, and I can tell from your other posts you are grateful for what you have, but this needs to be put in perspective. That 16+ years of studying your ass off is an investment someone else made in you, hoping you become a productive member of society that makes life a little bit better for someone else while earning a living for yourself along the way. There are roughly 3 billion people on this planet who are desperate to get any sort of education, let alone the education you were given, for free (before college). I get your complaints, but a 9-5 gig (or even an 8-7 one) would be considered a life of leisure and luxury for most of the world for pretty much all of history. In fact, the only time a life you are wishing you had has been common has been in the last 50 years or so in the developed world. I'd say we're pretty damn lucky. If you want to get ahead, instead of thinking you need to out-compete your rivals, I would instead focus on ways to make someone's life significantly better, then figure out how to do it for 10 people, then 1000....see where I'm going with this?
Could be worse, could be a Yahoo Answers result.
The president is the highest paid person in government, though.

But baseball players are paid more than managers.
I would argue that it is XNU (instead of Darwin) that is equivalent to Linux.
Don't forget the distro version names! Ubuntu 14.10 'Utopic Unicorn', Debian 'jessie' (the Yodeling Cowgirl)...
I'm definitely missing something coz I've never used this site before and have no idea how to even see what everyone is so angry about
I think most people are underanalyzing this as being another instance of "keeping up with the joneses." I think however it's more fundamental than that about someone's place in society.

From what we can tell of recorded history, our societies and influence has grown exponentially. Several thousand years ago it was likely uncommon to be exposed to anyone who wasn't within a few hundred miles of you - at the most. Today every person on earth has the potential (if not necessarily the means) to be seen by thousands or millions of people.

This shifts how we view ourselves. It makes you think that if you aren't personally impacting the lives of millions of people - in a profound and reasoned way - you are worthless. Where as in previous years having an impact in your small community was good enough, now you need to be globally recognized just to be anyone.

It's quite an interesting time for the ego.
A better teacher is when your students really understands what you are teaching about.
I would never do this day to day - but I love the idea of this for backpacking? Anyone have any experience with that?
Less mining.
This person seems extremely picky. I have pretty much every generation of kindle and they just keep getting incrementally better. Resolution, backlight, multiple dictionaries, x-ray, etc.
VIM . A lot of people around me are into Sublime, Atom, or even Eclipse depending on the project. But straight up vim for most coding tasks is my "unpopular" software that is my favourite (and gets the job done quickly :) )
Is lending to investors finally starting to slow? Cameron Kusher
Learn Lua in an Hour
I wake up about 5 minutes before I wish to wake up. After doing this a few months I stopped setting the alarm and continued to wake up on time.

I think it is likely related to training against other criteria: birds, sunrise, cars ... etc. since a change in location will throw off my timing and require a few weeks to learn the new 'time'.

Zen alarm clocks are awesome btw, http://www.now-zen.com/. I love mine and used it extensively when I was a student. The alarm is sounds beautiful and seems to week. The association of a particular bell sound with the requirement of waking is powerful. After using the alarm for a few weeks I no longer would remember hearing it but feel compelled to get up and disable the alarm before it could ring again!
We did indeed test it out on coworkers without previous experience with Storm. The inclusion of the chapter on the Storm UI that I detail in the post was the biggest outcome from that but there were other changes as well that came from questions as we were onboarding people.
Verifying State Machine Behavior Using test.check
This project looks really cool, if the OS ends up working well I'll switch to it for my day-to-day laptop.

On a side note I'm extremely happy with recent events. It seems like the Linux community is making a large push to break the only market that linux has not completely taken over. I remember watching a video of Linus giving a talk. He said something to the effect of "I write Linux to be a desktop OS and that is the one market where Linux has not completely taken over. It kind of bugs me." (Note: This is from memory).

If this movement of the development of a "user-friendly" Linux desktop is successful I can see a future where it becomes a standard. My children might well be running Linux with me yelling "Back in my day, we dealt with corporations who put backdoor in their OS. You whippersnappers have it easy!"
I think you're disagreeing with a couple of things here:

1. 50+ year olds are just as good as 30 year olds aka 'ageism'

2. Making 1/2 pay would not be enough to live comfortably

I don't know if I even need to argue the first one. If you take sports, it's a no brainer.

If you look at the physical shape programmers are in at 55, that alone hinders their productivity somewhat. Sure, there's outliers here and there, I am talking most people. If you honestly think an average 55 year old programmer is not significantly less valuable than an average 30 year old programmer TODAY, I don't know. I'd need to know why.

What other areas of life are 55 year olds more valuable than 30 year olds? I'd say they're more likely to be a bit more level headed and having had more experience, can avoid some common pitfalls a 30 year old might fall into.

That's exactly why they should be occasionally mentoring 30 year olds, not competing with them. I just don't think 55 year olds have the stamina/energy to keep up, it's as simple as that. I'd need proof of them having equal stamina and not significantly worse health and I just don't see how that can be possible. Experience can't offset 25 years of stress, you are likely beat up!

Now on to the second point - if you make 100k/year and you live in Toronto (where I live), you can live on 50k. That's if you're the sole provider you can live on 50k. If your wife worked and you were making let's say 200k combined or 175k whatever - and you don't have stacks of money saved up - I don't know what the hell you've been doing!

I was suggesting half-pay half-hours to people who are around 100k salary - which's what teachers, programmers, nurses, on and on make in Toronto, Canada. I know for a fact you can live on 50k, I am living on less than that and I have a mortgage, so...
Yes, it fixes most of it. I would not say it's perfect either but it's much, much better than the default Kindle Viewer.

it also gives you a lot more options on how to tweak the way it reflows text, as well as font choices. It makes it a much better device for reading.
I'm curious: were you at Lab126?
4.0? Why would anyone use an OS that's six versions behind Windows?
Do you know, what is the state of the illumos ecosystem? What are the major distributions? Is SmartOS on top there?
Amazon, please hire this person and pay them whatever they ask.
As a strict vegan who felt very drained mentally from Soylent, with no expectations going into it, I much prefer the meal replacements from the Garden of Life brand (no affiliation), and for me I felt much more awake and alert afterward with their stuff. http://www.gardenoflife.com/Products-for-Life/Foundational-N...

Soylent was a downer for me but I did not stay with it past the first 3 bags to see if the feeling would pass. The most productive I ever feel (mentally) is generally after eating a very large salad, usually with lots of kale, tempeh, and tahini (no sugar) for dressing. Takes awhile to prepare that so I find meal replacements are still really nice to have around. Still, if you haven't tried that kind of meal before, you might not realize what you are missing.
"Max potential" will not happen in a few years. It will take a decade or longer. But yes, you will make astounding progress in the first couple of years assuming you stick to a proper meal plan (even if that's Soylent and hitting the right macros) and train appropriately (progressive overload).
Exactly.

What has life ever offered but hard work with little chance of reward? Unless you're an oligarch you will probably have a shit life.

There is no way this will ever change. Maturity is the process of getting used to this fact, moving on with your life, settling down, buying a house, having some kids (that better get into a top school or you'll die penniless), and repeat the process.

If you think you will, or should, be "happy" while doing this, you're a product of a self-indulgent culture that flared up in one country for half a century, and you'll quickly learn otherwise.
Amazon's octopus stranglehold on books. He mentioned that he reads a lot and listens to audiobooks... audible is basically the only game in town, and Kindle editions add $1 to the cost.
Yes, we took soylent backpacking. I would summarize it as 'mediocre'. You needed water to make it and wash it down, it was kind of gritty, the bottle we had it in reeked of soylent and pretty much couldn't be used for anything else.

I don't know what exactly was the issue but it felt cumbersome. On later trips we opted not to take soylent.

There are no major problems or things to warn you about. It just felt like it was in the way.
>But leaving the founders of a company with nothing while others earning money feels completely wrong.

Why? They founded a company which tanked. They made poor decisions along the way which led to said taking. They did it on someone else's dime. No one made money here, so why shouldn't the investors get some of the investment back?
Feedback for an email alternative service
Hi everyone!

First of all, HN is awesome and I'm really excited to learn about and join this community of fellow entrepreneurs; to receive and provide feedback on our ideas is such a great feeling. Secondly, I want to disclose that we applied to YC for the S15 class and didn't get an interview... although disappointed, we're actually really motivated by that. Hear me out.

We're developing a service that is an alternative to email. It's unbelievably ambitious and I'm jealous of the folks that have visions that are far easier to implement. With that said, Lucolo believes that email communication needs to be made more efficient and we believe that we're the masochists that were born to give that a try. We're developing a super simple service that enables folks to start conversations online, have full control over the conversations' participants and content, and even how those conversations are viewed. We've studied real-life conversations and have basically mirrored their nuances for the internet. I know - we should've started an IoT company.

Anyway, we're trying to determine if we're onto something. If you agree we're even sniffing at a problem that needs to be solved, please head to www.lucolo.com and sign up for an invite. I'd also love any feedback you have - either leave a comment or send me an email to dave@lucolo.com and it'd be great to hear you out.

Best,
Dave
Does anyone know author's height?
I think that's a pretty blind statement. Just because you're a technical founder doesn't mean you have to ignore the finance and other non-engineering activities. That's just a bad way to run any company.

Also, being a technical founder doesn't mean you don't have common sense. Yes, GS's founders got nothing, but really it's the employees that saw the largest loss... They signed up to see the company really take off, and it didn't.

But at the end, if your company doesn't make enough money and requires raising amount of money you just don't know how to waste you shouldn't expect a big payday. Being technical isn't an excuse.
Rice is also pretty cheap for what you get.
Was 1991 the zenith of video games?
I lost my first love. Should I stop pursuing girls?
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/TvigQqA9m3w
Yeah, but ycombinator's involvement seems like it would keep vcs on their best behavior. It's (I believe) common knowledge that all the founders and the yc principals share info on vcs, so screwing founders (for real, not just in the founders' opinion) has much higher costs.
There's brown on your nose.
For those confused about the codename, it's explained in this post by Linus: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...

> .. after extensive statistical analysis of my G+ polling, I've come to the inescapable conclusion that internet polls are bad.

> Big surprise.

> But "Hurr durr I'ma sheep" trounced "I like online polls" by a 62-to-38% margin, in a poll that people weren't even supposed to participate in. Who can argue with solid numbers like that? 5,796 votes from people who can't even follow the most basic directions?
Result of internet poll. So is the 4.0 version opposed to it being 3.20
John Carmack's First Games
I had initially trouble with the sign up form. I was clicking on the "firstname" label which reacted to my click but I couldn't get a cursor. It took me about 10 seconds to figure out that the text field is actually "beneath" the label. Just to prevent other people from the same frustrating experience it might be good to have a label click set a focus on the input.
First Apple Watch Data: One Just Isn’t Enough – Slice Intelligence
I think you have the causality backwards. It's not that Google doesn't care about getting indies on Google Play (though, to be fair, not enough to deal with the havoc their automatic discounting creates for indies, last I heard), it's that indies often don't really care about being anywhere but Amazon (largest market, extra perks for titles that are exclusive, less to manage and so on). For obvious reasons, this may not be a great long-run choice for them, but it can be very attractive in the short-run.
Turning an Idea into a Photographic Product
Great job, it is really awesome for embedding graphics, the array plotting would suggested by amk_1 would be nice, +1 on that one too.
I think we can safely assume GetSatisfaction didn't have 9-figure revenue.
How are they a threat? They comply with the NSL and operate as normal, plus the kickbacks that come with a strengthened relationship with the intelligence apparatus.
USD 17,000 seems a lot for a cellphone accesory
i'm glad I'm not the only person who read it as expert sexchange every time

Atwood and Spolsky get a lifetime of karma for stack overflow
Not sure where you're seeing 9 employees. At the end of 2013 they had 40 employees, and while they laid 10% off in early 2014, they still had over 30 a year ago. Larger customers (of which there weren't 1000's) were paying much more than $1200/year, too. But still, the money coming in wasn't anywhere near the burn rate.
I was not at Lab126. :)
I was fortunate enough to get a Kindle DX. It's the best of the Kindles. The second best is the Kindle 3. I have some other Kindles, but I always go back to the DX and the 3.

No, I don't like touch screens. The buttons are much better. The Kindle 3 nailed it. The only thing it is missing is a backlight.
Hackathons are a fun way to demonstrate/test your talents. "Losing" one just means the subjective judges didn't get it. They have nothing to do with what you're capable of.
At least you don't have to log in with a social network to see the answers.
Mam Efkę – Artykuły: Osobowość Paranoiczna
To be sure, but that wasn't really my point. $1,200/mo for such a simple product seems excessive.
It's ac.uk for "academic".
Man, If I had the money, I'd take the chance to see the world. Run around Asia and Europe and (the safe parts of) Africa. Meet some people. Find some good problems to solve. Build networks for future ideas. Maybe even fall in love ;)

I work full time now at a fantastic job but I often wish to venture to places that technology haven't penetrated very deep and learn more about social structures and how oppressive they can be in the eastern world. A young person with passion can do a world of good things if they can find the right problem to solve, the right solution, and the right partners.

Best of luck!
There's Sparksee/Dex. Not sure it has everything you're looking, and it's proprietary and a bit pricey.
"Given what some other people survive on I doubt you'll get the opportunity." - yep.
OSX is popular in the tech industry despite Apple, not because of Apple. Microsoft knows how to support businesses, Apple ... not so much.
Fedora 17: Beefy Miracle always leaves a warm feeling in my heart.
That's pretty good for Texas, right? I've heard it's really really cheap down there. Hence, relatively speaking you're making more than me. Who do you work for? Do you think it's possible to get a similar salary in Dallas too? Any companies down there?
This is why digital nomadism is so fascinating to me. People move to rural Thailand and make very low wages, for example $2k a month, from their online businesses and live like kings. $2k a month in the bay area is essentially poverty, but if people outsource themselves they can join the upper middle class, at least in another country using the so-called "micro multinational" strategy. This is what big business has been doing to the American worker forever. They've been doing production in countries where the cost of living is orders of magnitude cheaper and putting American workers out of a job because they can't work at the wages people do in other countries and still pay living expenses, especially when it comes to food, housing and health care. Health care is 1/10th the price in parts of South East Asia, for example.
happy to provide feedback... just got on the list.
Best performance for non memory-bandwidth-limited problems, yes.

For memory-bandwidth-limited problems (such as you often see with HPC), power8 looks better.
I wouldn't be surprised if Linus pushes for 5.0 after 4.9 this time. And then maybe after that you realize the major version number is meaningless when you will never break backwards compatibility (like with web browsers) and drop it entirely.

So maybe Linux 30 by 2020?
does PitchBook show whether the founders cashed out some stock or not? I doubt they raised series B without cashing out some money
I just wrote a buggy program, should I stop programming ?
I just failed a business, should I stop being a business man ?

Obviously you should stop because it never worthwhile to spend time on what you like to do :)
Custom Barcode Generator and Better Layout Engine for Handling RTL Text in Docs
> I love my Kindle, but I hate the touch function.

I don't know, I read a lot on the Paperwhite and I got used to the touch screen. It's quite comfortable, even though I would probably prefer some actual buttons. In any case I was won over. I was reading a lot of paper books before and I am finding the experience of reading with an ereader to be superior in almost every way.
This is not just about teaching but clarity. If you don't define what terms like 'web scale' mean then the reader brings their own baggage about what they think it means.

The classic example is "the MVC pattern". Which one?!
The irony is that, like 3.0, this release does not actually do anything different from normal releases.

Linux will never break backwards compatibility enough to justify a major version bump, so the major version is effectively meaningless.
Senior Software Engineer, Javascript MEAN Stack
Battlefy - http://www.battlefy.com - Vancouver, Canada

Please see the follow link to apply http://jobsco.re/1CMoLzI

Battlefy is a fast growing eSports startup, building the platform major game studios/publishers, brands, and eSports league use to create, market, and scale competitions and leagues.

We are a grassroots, community created organization that believe passionately in supporting and empowering the individual regardless of their role. As such we have little time for titles, “senior” means that you have more experience and deeper skills, it does not mean that you are someone’s boss. We focus on “output”, holding ourselves and each other to a very high standard.

Battlefy is the workplace where it is expected that you’ll need to play MOBAs in order to get into the right frame of mind before brainstorming on a new product idea, where you are able to argue the merits of gamepad Vs joystick in an award winning blog posting, and where all disagreements are settled by Super Mario Bros. 3 speedruns.

You’ll help make the largest tournaments in the world and see everyday players rise to be legends. While doing so you’ll receive a competitive salary, flexible hours, health benefits, a $2,000 hardware budget to buy a gaming rig and the support of a talented team that shares your passion and enthusiasm for video games.

Ideally this position is based in Vancouver, Canada; however, if you have the technical and communication skills then we're happy to try remote working.
You would fool no one because the UK uses *.ac.uk for academic institutions.
Bubble, My Ass: Some Unicorns Might Be Overvalued, but All Dinosaurs Gonna Die
> absolute top-of-the-line device the software feels half-baked.

Install alternative reading software on the device (see the other post in this thread).
I just want to reach for it. I don't need to hit it. I have a personal trainer 3 times a week who does HIIT and conditioning, with some weights mixed in but not as the focus. And then the endurance cardio I do on my own. I'll probably stick with the trainer for quite a while, I learn a lot and it's so convenient as the gym and trainer are at my workplace, it's a real sweet setup.
Amazon, Google and More Are Drawn to Home Services Market
Yeah, it reads like no matter what would be done, this person would find something wrong with the product experience.

I use a paperwhite and read to fall asleep. The white-tinted light isn't as much of an issue as people or f.lux make it out to be.

If the paperwite were tinted, this person would probably be complaining that it makes them fall asleep rather than stay alert while reading.
Working on one! Give us a few more weeks though, we don't wanna release something we aren't 100% happy with, even as a 0.1 .
http://streaming7412.sourceforge.net/
http://www.redbubble.com/people/rustycsz/works/14566020-dive...
Multi Index Locality Sensitive Hashing
That's why I moved from a keyboard up to the voyage. The back light is really nice, as is the much higher resolution screen.

The touch screen isn't bad, but the software doesn't make good use of it. The fake touch that's why I moved from a keyboard up to the voyage. The back light is really nice, as is the much higher resolution screen.

The touch screen isn't bad, but the software doesn't make good use of it. The fake touch buttons are acceptable.

If they had used real buttons, or actually polish the software, it be a pretty great device. As it is, it's just okay.
2.2 should prove to be significantly more scalable than OpenBSD, since we have SMP-capable pf now, which isn't doable in OpenBSD

I don't think Solaris needs very high performance (aka SMP-capable) pf.

People want SMP for pf because they want to push bytes thru a firewall. That sort of application probably isn't important for Solaris anymore. But that's just my conjecture, I don't really follow Solaris much nowadays.

So if ultimate performance isn't absolutely necessary, why not start with the original source, aka OpenBSD?
You might be a supertaster. Have you ever noticed that cilantro tastes like soap?