skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compound 'interest' does not necessarily mean interest on T-Bills or in a savings account. It can also mean value appreciation in capital assets (e.g. investments in stocks, property, etc) + dividends. It basically means that any capital asset compounds in value over many years.

Let's say the stock market, on average, loses 30-40% in a down year. On the other hand, you usually have 5-7 good years between crashes, where the market appreciates by 10-30% per year. Even if you can't liquidate your stock holdings 'when shit hits the fan', you'll still be making money.

Achieving a 20%+ return is realistic if you don't mind taking some risk (not crazy "seed fund a startup" risk, more like general business risk) and you make sure to minimise your taxes.

The stock market has been BOOMING for the last 5 years. I have a wealthy friend who told me his net worth doubled over the last 5 years. That's tens of millions in capital growth.
I seldom refer to knowledge I gained from university classes. It was an important signaling device and a great time socially, but it was not an efficient use of my time as far as preparing to be successful in my career.

I would be surprised if there isn't a good alternative to higher education for bright kids 10 years from now, but I don't think it will have anything to do with legislation.
It's not about the commands. Names, whatever. I learned GNU and BSD command sets cold, names and obscura are not a problem. It's about the experience of using the thing. Everything is so insanely verbose, except when line-noise symbols are injected to break up the monotony, and the editing environment for actually using it is absolute garbage compared to either bash or zsh's emacs/vim modes. You are stuck writing long, complex (not complicated, but complex) commands that can't be easily factored down, with an interface that isn't doing much to help you (and isn't good at the little things besides, ISE is unacceptable compared to a decent terminal emulator like iTerm2). And so iterating--exploring your problem space is unreasonably difficult compared to everybody else in the same space.

A shell is a REPL. If your language makes actually writing things in that REPL hard, it is definitionally bad at Shell Stuff. I find it significantly easier to write code in C# and then transliterate it to PowerShell than to actually write PowerShell. That's a disastrously bad situation for a shell.
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From everything I've heard, the cutoff is around $25MM to really not have to ever worry about money
CoreOS (YC S13) is hiring for systems, front end, back end, design, support
Bonobos are an edge case in sexuality. Far more mammalian and primate species behave similarly to stcredzero's conception.

Still, the author's basic assumption as HarryHirsch says 'that men want to "acquire sex" (to use the terminology in the paper) and that women are pure... as if women didn't enjoy sex as much as men.' fundamentally undermines an otherwise interesting paper (and probably relevant to the authors, is kind of anti-feminist)
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I'm pretty sure Theo understood what the parent poster meant.
By healthy I mean that for lunch everyday I have 500 calories of something nutritious. This is more healthful than going our for lunch and overeating or grabbing fast food. I might be setting the bar pretty low there, but that was often my habit. Given that it's the habit of of about 80% of my co-workers I don't think that's too out of the ordinary.

I agree with you though, it does concern my that I'm eating powder for 2 meals per day and that might not go well for me in the long term.
Then don't phrase it that way if it bothers you. They can be a maid, cleaning-lady, garden-worker, whatever. And the other poster that responded to you is definitely right, it is quite a culture "clash". I had it the other way around when I visited Europe for the first time as a grown-kid, after being in Africa for all of my earliest memories.

Just to be clear, they are not your servant, no matter the usage of the word, or how you see other people treating them. You define the relationship, and it is up to you to treat them the way you would treat other individuals. And above all else, they are an employee like any other (either yours, or the company's). Just because they work in your house, and do so in an ad-hoc fashion rather than for a set list of tasks does not mean it's different, i.e. it doesn't change the employer/employee relationship.
States are required in markets (as we understand them) fundamentally for protection over the transaction. History shows if you remove the state you end up with inter tribal economies where arbitrary homicide is a "valid" outcome of exchange (organized crime is a good predictor here). Not sure what you're advocating exactly though, so you could be right on different terms.
That RfA does this work quietly makes it all the more impressive to me. We did work for the program in my last couple years at Matasano (I imagine Tom Ritter's NCC Cryptography Practice is continuing it). They paid real money --- specialist cryptography practice money --- and their only terms were "find good bugs". The projects were coordinated with the open source project managers, who got full reports. Some of those open source projects even publicized the results!
Modern physics currently cannot explain what most of the universe is made of, as in the dark matter problem. While not exactly "down to earth" this would seem like a very pressing problem to me, that may be in need of more attention.
You find the legal reasoning behind an application that manages FISA court orders to be risible? Because that's what PRISM is.
You are pedantically correct, the least useful kind of correct
Here's the whole PDF[1] - the landing starts around page 160. Neil does ask for some readings, but not many. Really crazy to read through.

1. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/AS11_CM.PDF
Most of my business trips are airport/hotel/work/airport, but occasionally, I'll use accumulated frequent-flier miles to have my wife join me and extend the trip. We've done Australia twice this way. When you're that far away, it makes a lot of sense to take advantage of it!
Soft error
Linus' rants are usually (if ever?) not targeted at newcomers, but at people who know him well (and vice-versa).
Would be really nice to see this framework used with an actual graph database in addition to MySQL.
In USA, regular Americans do that.
TED talk with clickbait title, now HN clickbait.

It's a "single reason": can someone post that single reason here to save us the time of sitting through a TED talk?
Does anyone have a pointer to the actual internal binary format? There have been a zillion attempts to do this efficiently (JSONB, BJSON, BSON, ubjson, MessagePack) and I'm curious which one they chose.
Regular people are by definition not sockpuppets.
I think it's not that people don't care and there are some projects (most relevant is probably coreboot) that try to replace firmware with free alternatives.
It's just that this is a very hard problem. Basically everything these days can be its own computer, sd cards, hard discs, network controllers, ...
Their inner working is usually not documented and often two revisions of the same product are different internally.

And the lifetime of these devices is short. Projects that try to replace firmware on consumer hardware often have this problem that they spend a fair amount of work on something and once they have reasonable support the device is no longer sold (e.g. the rockbox project constantly strugles with this).

I think the only possibility to have widespread free firmwares would be if this could be made a selling point for vendors. However to do that you'd need a widespread demand for these things, much larger than the open source / free software / hacker community is able to create right now. If it'd be considered "cool" to release the code of your firmware that could change things.
Wow, I started designing a language called Crystal in the 90s, which a) looks similar to this, and b) I'm pretty sure I even bought the domain crystal-lang.org at one point, but I never did anything with it! I had a very similar logo too :)
Hm. Not caring about material possessions is selfish? Not sure I follow that logic...
Comparing PowerShell to REPL environments that make exploring a problem space easy is illustrating your point? Its differences excuse how tragically bad it is at doing shell things? Maybe I come from a different part of town, but I don't consider that an argument.

The job of "administrator" in an IT shop is a largely make-work one that can be done by automated systems and process-aware developers, and as an infrastructure and automation developer I am working towards that goal. PowerShell makes that harder than it absolutely has to be because of how blindingly difficult it is to actually iterate on a problem in a way that can be factored into a reusable process--the actual hands-on-keyboard experience is so stilted and stupid that finding the solution in the exploratory manner I described is significantly harder than it should be. As I've said elsewhere in this tree, it's easier to just solve a problem in C# than try to explore the space in PowerShell and reify it into a script. That's as scathing an indictment of a programming environment as I can make.

And absolutely nobody says that somebody's right because of karma. I've read through some of your posting history, though, and you go to that well a lot. Consider that maybe nobody likes that you play the oppressed martyr.
See lowrisc.org

It's also quite disingenious to rant about the rant without noticing that it has nothing to do with Linux (except for the last sentence where Theo points to That Other Community)
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I learn more about that wonderful man every day.
The workaround for source port exhaustion seems obivous: bind lots of IPv6 addresses on the interface that haproxy uses for communication with the backend servers. They are enough of them available :-). (Or if you use a private network, IPv4 addresses work too, of course).
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I don't see any reason not but you should have provided your LinkedIn profile or resumé so that we could see your experience.

Then it depends of your working eligibility, do you have the authorization to work? If yes you should start to reach startups and you should easily find a job.

If not I encourage you to check out https://techmeabroad.com/search/de/berlin, it's a website that only job offers where companies want to recruit abroad and sponsor a working visa if necessary.
I agree. I started with MySQL because it is what I know best, but it should be fairly simple to create new DB adapters.
As wrong-headed a question as you're ever likely to find in a computer language discussion.

Guess what? Every language is implemented in a more powerful language. That is just the nature of things.

The point is to make the power available in other ways, which may - or may not - be more friendly to the intended user.
I save you time : timing.
Luck, basically. And taking advantage of luck. Like always.
I really wish that, in addition to two videos, he linked some regular text telling us what JSON-LD is and why it matters. Videos, for me, have a much lower information density than text, and are much less amenable to skimming to see if I'm interested enough to go further.
Yeah, we need to document this better, sorry!
Yes, and "piu" is the Portuguese onomatopoeia for "tweet".
Choice of words on a loan application can help predict defaults
Mathematics and biology are not interchangeable like that. One is specific knowledge, other (at least the parts we're talking about here) is mental tools and models, which are useful for every field.
I'm not educated in the field, so I am happy to learn if I am wrong. But aren't bonobos one of the closest relatives to humans? That would indicate that the comparison is most relevant to human sexual behavior, regardless of what the rest of more distant ape relatives do.

Anyhow, my point is more about using evolutionary biology to explain current situations. EG, it would be incorrect (yet tempting) for me to reply with: "bonobos exhibit paternity-confusing behavior. This is because their more highly developed brains allow for more complex behavior that bonds a group of primates together more closely, e.g., males will care for the groups offspring, rather than just his own."

What I did there was to couch my personal opinion/narrative into the scientific language for increased authority. This is how I most frequently see evo bio used.
- Greed

- Lack of empathy

- Short-sighted thinking

- Organized religion

- War on drugs

- Lack of quality in education

- Death and sickness

Or, you know, social apps and internet of things. Whatever floats your boat.
Well yeah, FISA is a legal farce.
Especially after he slags off so many other writers before him.
For the length of the article it is actually very uninformed.

Not any new information. OMEAGA program has been around for years it is known for years.

SEAL team articles are hot and get readers, unfortunately this is a glorified article and its main point "no oversight" in the opening paragraph is seldom visited.

TLDR : Seal team 6 rescued many hostages, lost members, has the coolest toys in town.
In the article, he explicitly compares American doctors with Irish doctors. They both go to school, but the Americans go for about three additional years. There is apparently no real difference in medical outcomes.
While you'll find many who legitimately complain about Microsoft's products, I think you'll find very, very few folks around here who were actually burned by EEE :-) Most of the hate seems to come from people who:
a) are open source fans and didn't like Microsoft's stance on their religion of choice (which was actually not EEE); or
b) worked for companies that competed unsuccessfully with Microsoft; or
c) just parrot what they hear from people in groups (a) and (b) because they don't know any better.

It would be interesting to poll HN to find out who got actually burned by EEE and how.
The difference may be that you need a car, and that you can easily cut the cost of one from 300k to 30k, but you can't easily cut the cost of one from 30k to 3k.
Cool thing about software, at least when talking about coding up stuff for fun and not programming career, is that it tends to expose you to a great amount of different fields of knowledge.
That looks like some blog pushing info products and ebooks...
At rough estimate, like half the calories most people need: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+cup+oatmeal+%2B+1+tbs...

scaled to the 2000'calories in soylent: 2000/951*$6.20 = $13.04 or 43% more expensive than soylent's $9.11.

shopping and cooking and eating and cleaning for this must take at least around 1/2 hour - hour each day (compared to about 5 minutes for soylent) equals about 3-6% of your waking hours.

Also, for the first time in my adult life, I'm pretty well prepared for natural disaster. before I would only keep a couple days of food in my apt and a lot of that needed refrigeration or cooking. Now I have a couple of weeks worth at the ready.

I think, though that the value prop probably makes far more sense for single people without children. For them, preparing food is far less efficient and they have to coordinate their eating with others less often. Also, it probably makes less sense if your employer provides you with free meals.
Or for it to seem credible that Iraqis had WMDs and hijacked planes to crash the WTC.
I don't understand; what does a graph DB library have to do with an MVC framework? Why not just write a nice graph schema / model library?
I love seeing new, interesting work done with PHP. I'm particularly interested in ORMs so I'll definitely give this a try. Thanks for sharing.
As human beings, we long to be understood, accepted, and loved. Casual sex/relationships and the culture centered around it manifests this in short order and duration. The culture of casual sex and relationships benefits corporations the most and is thus heavily promoted by them via numerous media outlets. Divide and conquer... Isolate and manipulate via norms of manipulative games and economic exchanges dictated by corporations who set the dominant ideology.

The gold still remains in long term relationships in which there is mutual understanding, acceptance, love, and in which individuals build something lasting with someone and grow. The observation of Sexual Economics, at least in America, is that corporations have come to understand how to manipulate the 'market' such that it renders them max revenue by ensuring people are perpetually unsatisfied and against each other. In this model, the concept of a stable family is attacked and the supplier (woman) is convinced that it is in their best interest to be as manipulative and self-serving as they can (after-all, they are manipulated to falsely believe that's a man's mindset). In this model and on the demand side, the man is trained on the idea that they can do nothing to get the supply side to 'see the bigger picture'. As such, the demand side resorts to counter manipulation practices and removes feeling from the physical exchanges... Everyone against everyone for hollow experiences that need constant reinforcement.. all to the benefit of the corporations. It really results in a delusional, lost, and alone society.. Albeit, economically active.

3rd wave feminism centers on this very agenda.
Meanwhile, men have been pushed into a lessened state of being in which they game their lives and identity to acquire sex/women they have emotional checked out on (Taxing pursuits of empty experiences).

That's the bigger economic model... Focusing on what the participants have been trained on ignores the driving force and the real 'engine' which is pure capitalism and profit. So, try not wasting time on what system participants are doing in this forced and set environment and focus more on what's the goal of the environment that the participants are subjected to.
Different project structure, I think. You'll likely get told off by subsystem maintainers or even kernel janitors before that. If it gets to Linus, it must have been something unnerving.

This can be interpreted both ways, however. Where Linus will be more elusive, Theo will have no qualms with just barging in and telling you to read the source code, ivory tower be damned. Almost as if he sort of respects even newbies enough to slap some quick advice to their face.

A funny example is here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/212565
While I am as convinced as you about the urgency of these issues in the context of physics itself, a crisis it is not. Not for physicists and certainly not for civilians.
False flag riot-inciting operations by police are extremely common at protests, at least. And police supremacy is a right-wing tenet, as far as the silly wing analogy goes.
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> Like I feel a bit sad for Scala having native XML.

In what sense?
I agree with vasco that 12% is a very large expectation for compound interest. In the early-retirement community 7% (before inflation) is a good benchmark over long periods of time.

However, your tax assumptions are probably too high for the current environment. If you earn 100k gross, but max out your 401k and HSA, your net income after taxes will be close to 60k, but you'll already be saving 20k+ pre-tax.

Yes, you'll have to pay taxes on the 401k when you reach retirement, but if you're living frugally and only taking out a small amount, your tax obligations will be way less than 35%. Without breaking a sweat, my effective tax rate is under 16% and I'm in the range described.
I do understand your point here. But, as the article points out, the very thing in question here is: are we going to determine science funding solely by politics, or are there measurable, objective ways of determining where to allocate funding? If the underlying science is not testable, falsifiable, then we really are in the realm of politics and taste. One might almost say, religion.
Principles are principles. If hardware designers have no competition for their hardware then there is no reason for them not to make the firmware source available. The only commercial reason for firmware to be secret is the fear that competitors will create alternative hardware designs based which may be compatible with the firmware or even improve on it, or that the firmware can be enhanced to extend the working life of the hardware.

As more and more functions are being baked into software this issue is going to become more critical, and all talk about tackling the planting of secret backdoors into software becomes moot, as it can all be done in firmware without detection. This does not even deal with the issue of unintended bugs which are just as exploitable.
He somewhat address this in the article. Would as many people pay the substantial cost of college merely for the "life enrichment".
What would be a convincing argument for people who don't believe 9/11 is a US government conspiracy?

Edited for clarity.
You have some good points here but keep in mind that some of the things you mention (health care, education, etc..) are very US-centric and far less of an issue in other places such as Europe.
There is a difference between a taxpayer and a citizen. Taxpayers includes people who are non-citizens, and even non-resident.
And this is a thing that reassures me Google won't turn actually evil any time soon.
Yeah but the one specific on ISDS was held early May/late April.
D has a memory safe subset (@safe). You could argue that Rust 3rd party libs rely on unsafe blocks.