skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a famous (many claim infamous) person who uses catch phrases like "don't live below your means, expand your means" and "savers are losers."

He purposely uses hyperbole, possibly to break through the established messages being broadcast far and wide by the institutional investment consortium. Or maybe he just enjoys being a contrarian and having people sling hate at him, I do not know him personally, so I have no idea.

Every time I use his name at HN I get down-voted, but I also know that SOME of his recommendations work.

Such as "the best investment you can make is in your self/mind/thinking."

He definitely rubs many people the wrong way, but just like when I read someone whom I think is a poor author but has a message to convey that contains truth, I find underlying reasoning/principles that work, or can be made to work for me, YMMV.

For example, as stated in other comments here, multi-family rentals can be profitable, and are fairly straight forward to me, now that I have done the research. My wife and I are slowly accumulating properties that cash flow - They produce more in income than they require in expenses and debt service.

Likewise arbitrage in paper assets and commodities is another way to structure gains - Having your money work for you, also called investing, in the more traditional sense of the word. I am currently studying Stock Options as a method for investing with insurance (hedging) and doing so with some leverage (buying a stock=1 to 1 - Buying an option is a ratio, like 1.50 to 100, depends on the option).

The biggest rewards come from starting a business that can be grown to be so successful that it gets to IPO stage (financial exit), or is able to continue without the founders, if they so choose (royalty/profit distributions). That is the frequent path of the majority of contributors to HN, based on my reading.

But all of it requires significant knowledge, the equivalent of another job. Knowing what/who to study is a challenge, mentors and coaches can speed up the processes significantly.

If my conservative planning goes correctly, I expect to be earning more in passive income within 10 years than I have expenses to consume. Then, "work" takes on that optional quality. I will not stop working, but which projects I take may change drastically. I do not say this to toot my own horn, but to just state that it can work, if the person is sincere.

All of that said, if you want to know more, please post such and I will answer any questions I can, what little I can offer, I have only been studying and doing this for about 5 years. An Internet search should definitely find who I am talking about, because as I said earlier, there are many who really dislike this author, but a number (like me) who have taken something away from him that works for them, and many people post. Again, YMMV.
When you're dealing with such small companies, they're usually pretty early in their market and might not have built up enough defensibility to share all of their information publicly. They'd rather limit disclosures to those who have taken some action to express interest.

Public listings increase the number of copycats the end buyer will have to deal with. This isn't much of an issue for a well-established company with significant market share, but it is for a young software company fighting it out with their other (early) competitors.
Employees and employers lie/deceive each other (point two), so assertion in point number four, "employers put too much weight on interviews, and too little weight on references" is questionable.
The list takes an OwningPointer to the object to be inserted. One of the requirements of this trait (which is unsafe to implement) is "the object cannot be moved while in the `LinkedList`." So Box would work, or a mutable reference would as well (the library implements the trait for these types already). The list itself doesn't do the allocation though.
You're right. It's not as pure as mathematics. But, it is much purer and cleaner than a lot of languages in use today. It lends itself well to translating into formal proofs, and it is a great testing bed for ideas. Haskell has a certain beauty to it that sets it apart from other languages. There is no perfect programming language, and Haskell has its weak points. However, I find that it is great for prototyping and reference designs. I can take advantage of its clarity and strong type system to build simulators for protocols, algorithms, services, and even operating systems. I can then use these simulators as integration testbeds for building solid components in lower level languages. Haskell also makes a great language for compiler writing and text processing.

I think that the language fills an important niche. It's probably never going to be a mainstream language, as it does have a certain erudite aura about it, but it is a language well worth learning.
I suspect your tangent is because you don't fully understand how composition works. Basically, it's weaker than you think I believe.

I tried to write an example that demonstrates why I don't think the ambiguity you're referring to is possible.

https://play.golang.org/p/TyMJbOjDdZ
Gates hasn't been at the helm for a decade as he's been working on his foundation ... until recently -- now Gates is actually back but not running things. I think you meant Balmer.
I think they'd like to have an open source offering like Heroku's workflow. They'd certainly migrate it off of AWS though.
Salesforce is also generating $6b of revenue per year, and is still growing really fast. It's an awesome business to own even if it didn't have the other benefits of improving Microsoft's capabilities/talent.
>I am in fact correct because I invented it

If only I was correct on all things I invented
Well doesn't burning wood also generate water? In addition, doesn't seasoned firewood consist of 10-20% straight up water that boils when the log is burned? Propane doesn't contain water.
Oddly enough I too unknowingly implemented a PID controller without prior exposure to the theory. I was trying to make a stable hovering platform using only thrusters in Garry's Mod. I remember once I tweaked the parameters just right it was amazingly responsive and stable. I only realized what I had actually done years later.
I can't quite put my finger on why, but I find this down-voted comment to be quite amusing.

I mean, sure, it's content-free, but much like the article, it's content-free in a way that I find entertaining; it doesn't at all leave me with the unpleasant feelings I get after reading a puff-piece about money or business and then reading some trite truism in the comments.

why is that? is it that while I do enjoy BBQ, I don't read about it much, so it seems fresh when writing of the same quality about money or business would seem stale?
This isn't a surprise at all. Most people won't buy version one of a new product like this (think about how few people bought the first iPhone, for example, and that was a fairly well established category already). The people who do decide to buy it, they're probably really enthusiastic about it - so they've already ordered it. I suspect Apple Watch orders will really take off around Christmas - I bet it'll be a very popular gift.
But your description sounds like a home the buyer lives in. That is not an investment, from an investor's point of view.

Instead, for a specific example, consider a 4-plex my wife and I bought for $65K down ($215K total - it is in an economically depressed area). Rents, when fully occupied (not always the case, we see about a 5% vacancy rate) are $700 a month over all expenses, including debt service.

Plus, we put close to 20% down but get 100% of the depreciation. End of the year: $7000 in our pockets, a legal tax loss of $800. And that is assuming no change in value of the asset. If someone offers to buy us out at %200 of the purchase price I would definitely consider it, but until then, I pocket the proceeds.

For me, doing the due diligence up front reduced the luck factor, my preferred way of obtaining my goals, when possible.
Nadella. He is less humble in private and pretty tough.

He is also not stupid.
The Blue City: A Human+Machine Futures Scenario
A strange attitude to have and display. Yes, the 'game' is rigged to a certain extent. Everyone knows this. Every age has had the rules set by someone other than them.

My answer is : so what? Either you want financial independence and security, or you don't.

You can blame QE and land supply and all sorts of things. You can rant on the porch at passers by until the day you die.

You can be a victim of circumstance or you can make your own circumstances. The choice happens whether you make it consciously or not. It all depends on the attitude you want to take into it.

Personally I try every day to acknowledge where I am in life is a result of the choices that I have made. I am not a victim of anything because all outcomes I have a say in. If I want different outcomes I acknowledge I must make different choices.

Playing the victim card requires acknowledging that you are powerless. Some people prefer to live that way. I don't.
Just absorbing the difference between the circle of influence and the circle of concern is a massive win for most people.
Depends on the bbq technique; many smokers include a water pan to keep the humidity high (and also to act as a thermal reservoir).

Yes, propane and natural gas have lots of hydrogens to combine with atmospheric oxygen to make water.
You're seeing problems that aren't really there.

> All businesses must be licenced.

Why? Why the hell would a grocery store need a license and what for? I'm not asking for "because the government says so", because the government says a lot of things that don't actually make sense. Is there a good, objective reason for all businesses to have to be licensed and how would the license help?

> Taxi licensing is special because of their special circumstance.

What does that mean? What are the special circumstances? It's just people with cars and people who need to go places.

> (a) 'forget' about picking up people of a certain skin color

Suppose there was no regulation for taxis. Now suppose a big taxi company had emerged. Let's call it "Toober". Now Toober, just like most companies, wants to make as much money as possible.

Do you think people accusing its drivers of racism would be conducive to that goal, and if not, do you think Toober would do something about racist drivers?

What about the drivers? They want money too, right? So if there was a racist driver working for Toober, and he knew Toober doesn't tolerate racism because it's bad for their image and thus, bottom line, don't you think the driver would refrain from behaving in a racist way so that he could keep his job?

> (b) refuse fare to a certain district they don't like

Don't like? Because it somehow displeases them like Justin Bieber's music displeases a lot of guys? What sense would it make for a taxi to leave money on the table because he finds a district distasteful?

> (c) arbitrarily set fares depending on what they see as people's willingness to pay--like say setting the fare for single women outside nightclubs to 3x the normal rate.

Again, imagine Toober getting complaints about discrimination. On the other hand, getting home safely from a night out is a more valuable service than just getting from Place A to B in less dangerous situation, so maybe it's alright to charge a bit more.

Sure, three times the normal rate would be too much, but another taxi company would be free to offer a better rate, and people would take it.

Do you see why regulation is not necessary at all? Whenever the government says it's doing something for your safety or for fairness, you can be 100% sure the results and real reasons are different.

The real reason why we have taxi regulations is to maintain a state-supported taxi-cartel.
Thanks joshmn

The backend is written in NodeJS with the SailsJS framework (which I used for Socket.IO support).

It runs in a Docker container on an AWS Autoscaling group with an RDS database.

Its been a blast to build
There is solid science behind what is moral in the world. It's a good idea for countries to work together to maintain a moral standard internationally.
Most people only need Home. That changes when you need to log into an Active Directory, but suffices for most personal use. This differentiation allows Microsoft to sell two different SKUs and makes Windows more cost effective for 90% of households. For most users, the question will be Home or Pro. It also shouldn't be a surprise that for the last several years you can buy a Pro Pack for Home that will upgrade your system to the Pro SKU for about the same cost as the difference between Home and Pro.

If you need one of the other SKUs, they are special circumstances and you probably already know which version you need, and you also will be getting those licenses through non-retail channels.
TeraDeep: 10M images deep neural network
Sounds like 219 weekdays, at a rate of 8.5hs per day.
8.5hs sounds a bit too much to do on a daily basis.
I suggest OneDrive. With a cheap Office subscription you get 1TB and can sign for unlimited space at preview.onedrive.com
Well yeah, Daesh are shit lords and should be neutralized.

The set of dominoes and destabilization of that entire region really probably could have been prevented. When economies collapse and people are hungry and desperate that doesn't really help encourage stability or sanity.
The 'expand your means' concept is really to break the scarcity mindset that many people have.

There is a difference between being frugal - not wasting money by buying crap on credit - and being cheap, like wasting your time shopping around for 10c savings on bananas or fuel.

The main thing is to control both - curtail the urge to spend, and spend time working out investment options and concentrating on cashflow.

It doesn't matter what people think of who you follow - being unafraid of other peoples opinions is arguably step number 1.
If you happen to make it to Philadelphia, try the pulled pork at Khyber Pass for NC-style, it's excellent. But yes, most places seem hell-bent on trying to do Texas-style brisket and maybe ribs.
In my experience his influence was strong but well delegated. The culture and leadership of the company was more important, and would live on without him. There are a lot of people who were attracted to Patagonia because of the way it was run, and the reason it existed, and they want to see it continue with the same focus. It's not perfect (and neither is Yvon, of course), but it seems to be on solid footing, and I expect it to be even after he leaves.
Iraq is majority Shia. Iran is majority Shia. Isis is Sunni. Saddam was Sunni, a minority in Iraq, but saddam kept the Sunni in power. When he was deposed the Sunni were repressed and pushed into a repressed role. However they... Fuck it. It would take a week of Ivy League lectures to explain what's going on. My point is that we fucked things up by getting rid of saddam and not putting a powerful repressive regime in place. But, also, the people of the region want to live under Isis and if we're not willing to utterly destroy them (which I don't think we are) then we should just let the people of the region take care of it.
Why Do We Experience Awe?
As somebody who used to work on Middle Eastern affairs for the U.S. government (and, full disclosure, a CSIS alum), I thought that this was a pretty solid op ed:

http://csis.org/publication/defeat-ramadi-time-transparency-...
What sort of area are you buying in? Where I live you cannot buy any real estate of any type for $200k. Are you buying out of state or out of country? How do you manage the risk?
Actually I just read "Dive into Flexbox" and in 5-10 min read now have a clear understanding of how flexbox is designed to work. Best explaination I've read.

http://bocoup.com/weblog/dive-into-flexbox/
Note what Sephr said. The open source product is limited by the proprietary product's business model.
> a wife (there are women hired in administrative roles who are of a different category of employee than the full knowledge worker who are expected to marry a male employee and leave the company within some handful of years)

Where can I read more about this? How wide-spread is this practice?
Mr money mustache needs to spend some of that dosh on a properly scalable server, I think.
But maybe the right lesson to draw is mod-p groups and elliptic-curve groups both seem to be pretty good for cryptography, but the mod-p groups are way less good if everyone is using the same few prime numbers p, and the elliptic-curve groups are way less good if everyone is using the same few elliptic curves.

I don't know about the mod-p analysis, but that would be an... idiosyncratic... conclusion to draw about modern elliptic curve cryptography. The trend seems very much in the opposite direction, towards standardization and reliance on a few very carefully designed curves (optimized for performance on modern CPUs, and to avoid implementation pitfalls that give rise to vulnerabilities with older curves).

In fact, drawing any kind of conclusion about the diversity of fields in use seems a little strange. Yes, if you're going to use 1024-bit prime group, you definitely want to be using one very few others use. But just don't use 1024-bit prime groups. It doesn't much matter how many people use your (properly selected) 2048 bit group; no amount of precomputation puts it in reach of attackers.
No, there is not. That is a ridiculous statement. As a American I prefer the rights of an individual, but most the world favors the right of the community. The areas that Isis controls and taken over gladly go to Isis because they are Sunni. If we went by your belief we would support Isis.
This is all great advice, but it's completely non-responsive to the point of this article, which isn't about coffee. It's about espresso, and the fact that great stuff like the Aeropress and Chemex do absolutely nothing to help those who prefer espresso. And neither does any other solution under $2000 or so. Which is precisely the reason why Nespresso has won customers.

I tried a Moka pot, and liked it, but Nespresso is better. I tried Aeropress, but that just verified my preference for espresso over admittedly very very good strong coffee that isn't espresso.
Michael O Church once lost a job due to a "back-channel reference check", so that explains why he's so hostile to them.

Also, in the USA, there are rules limiting what you can say about a former employee. By giving a negative back-channel reference, you and your employer might be susceptible to a lawsuit. However, actually suing a former employer for something like that is probably a bad idea, because (1) it'd be hard to prove it (2) it would make you even less employable when other people find out about the lawsuit.

If I ever am in a position to do hiring, I probably wouldn't do it, because I'd trust my judgement more than someone else's.
> Land prices for the boomers made them. For their kids unless they are bequeathed land they will have to pay a vast chunk of their salary to rentiers.

My parents are boomers; I received no land and only some help with my college tuition, and I've owned my own place for over a decade.

My secret? I don't waste money on stupid stuff (and especially, I didn't waste money on stupid stuff when I was younger). I've never had cable. I didn't spend tons of money eating out or partying, back in my 20s when that was the thing to do. I drove a crappy used car for over a decade. Back when I rented, I rented a crappy old apartment without dedicated parking spaces; when I bought a place, I bought a crappy little place.

Meanwhile, I had a colleague earning more than me, who literally had no savings, nothing more than a few $20 bills in his pocket, and I've known plenty more young people in straits nearly as bad. Sure, they drive nice cars, eat at fancy places and drink fancy drinks, live in swank apartments nicer than what you'd see on TV, wear nice clothes and nicer colognes, and so on and so forth—but they have no savings, or almost no savings!

You can trim your lifestyle, and you can save 20% of what you make. Saving from your very first paycheque is possible, and it's desirable.
Move to Tracy or Livermore and drive to the Bart station in Dublin to get into the Bay Area.
I hear all the time about this time it's different. I heard it when I was young, too. In the early 80's, if you invested $1,000 in Boeing stock it'd be worth $60,000 today.

I.e. you don't have to live a Spartan lifestyle to have an investment program, nor do you have to be unusually lucky, or any of that. Just underspend your income by 10 or 20%, and invest the rest in ordinary, boring investments.
Some people actually find meaning in work and would continue to work beyond their financial necessities.
Factory reset memory wipe fails in 500 MEEELLION Android phones
It seems that every post on "how to fix hiring" was written by someone who has a product that claims to fix hiring.
I've had great luck with this scale:

http://www.amazon.com/American-Weigh-Scales-AMW-SC-2KG-Digit...

A little more expensive, but it has a nice, large, level, stainless steel surface.
For me personally, it's being able to focus on one language, and one standard library, and be able to re-use that skill-set everywhere. Whether I'm working on a server-side web app, a client side JS framework, a CLI tool or a mobile game, I can use the same language, same libraries, same idioms, but a completely different target platform.

In my work I've targeted JS (browser), Neko (server), JS (server), JS (node-webkit), C++, Java and Python - all using the same language / standard library. It means my brain doesn't have to switch gears as often when I need to make something to run on a different platform / technology. Plus there is a huge amount of code re-use you can achieve across platforms.

You can get something somewhat similar with JS thanks to Node (targeting client + server + CLI), but I find Haxe a much nicer language to work with - both for Object Oriented style code and more functional style code. The GADTs, "Abstract types", and meta programming (macros) are all features I think Haxe implements in a more well thought out way than other compile-to-JS languages.
Are you saying that our current system is one in which the actors are mostly in control of their own actions? And those actions are mostly transactions with other actors? If so, how is your position (that the actors are mostly in control of the consequences) self-consistent?

e: the people who disagree with you (eg, me) are saying that intent does not clearly translate to effect in a chaotic system.
Hopefully in a couple of weeks WWDC 2015 will tell us that it's in.
Ah, Blackwater rides again!
Just do a the best job you can for a couple of years. After you've been at Google for a couple of years, lazy hiring managers will assume you're a genius, whether you actually have any talent or not.

You'll have many more opportunities after working at Google for a few years. It's just like getting a degree from Harvard means you'll be in good shape for the rest of your career.
Learning ClojureScript+Om+React:
http://faceboard.io
https://github.com/darwin/faceboard

Unfortunately don't have a demo site up yet.
Automated.

I have Raspberry Pi, running always. And I use it as Time Capsule.
ISRO Keeps Up Steady Trickle of Photos from Mars Orbiter
I invite you to tell that to the people who gave their lives trying to save archives, artifacts and records when the National Library in Sarajevo was shelled in 1992. I guess some people think these things are worth dying for.
The Kurds may be friends with the u.s. but the u.s. has not been friends with the Kurds. Our relationship with nato ally turkey has taken precedence and we've turned a blind eye to terrible actions by turkey against the Kurds.