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This is pretty unfair. I basically did just what this satire describes, minus the trust fund and eye-gouging. I did it by working hard and saving my modest salary for a pretty long time, finally having saved enough to take 6 months to a year off.

People are always mystified at how I managed to do it. They think traveling the world is expensive beyond their wildest dreams. But the truth is, for much of the world the most expensive part is the plane ticket. You can live shockingly well on $10 a day in some parts of Asia, for example. It ruins you for when you return home: "Wait, a burger at a sit down restaurant costs $12?!? That's crazy!" Meanwhile you're meeting fascinating people and observing different and sometimes surprising cultures.

The time I spent traveling became the most significant and formative part of my life. What this satire portrays cynically, I experienced joyfully, and with a profound impact on my sense of place in the world, in society, and in history.

For Americans in particular, travel is one of the most important things we can do to get some perspective on the insularity and self-satisfied back-slapping that goes on at home. Suddenly you realize how homogeneous American culture can be, and, for all the praise we love to heap on ourselves, how far we have left to go to catch up to the rest of the world in so many aspects.

I spent many years traveling the world alone. If you have any questions, or if you're interested in doing it yourself, I'd be happy to give guidance.
See previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11824830
I don't know about the details of what you said, but one more thing I find important is that even if you could afford it you take away at least one year of saving for the future.

I try to work hard these days to pay off my mortgage early and save for retirement. Using my current savings and loosing one of my good years of income seems like something that should at least be mentioned.
"It would be impossible since pixel shaders didn't exist until the 2000's ;-)"

Lmao. You got me there.

"Just turn it into a function and call it for every pixel on the screen. Making it fast is another matter altogether though."

I was imagining it took up many MB of memory and massive cycles even on a multicore CPU. Suddenly, one faces tough decisions about organization, resolution, primitives, techniques used, algorithms, and so on. Gets really, really hard to make tiny and fast stuff without that GPU doing heavy lifting. :)
Maybe they really meant croudfunding instead of croudfunded? The DAO is supposed to be a decentralized system for managing a fund that invests in other projects.
as an indian, the first thing i think of is not the money, but the visa issues. https://catapult.co/stories/my-indian-passport-is-a-bitch is a good read on the subject.
That this exists is very disturbing. Social technology firms need to consider the potential exploitation of their technology by bad actors, an increasingly credible prospect in today's febrile climate.
Interesting how the whole R thing happened, about three years ago I wouldn't have any idea what R is about and now see it everywhere, even at customer sites.
[80% of Americans have some form of debt.][1] The average total wealth for all Americans is actually positive. [It's a little over $300,000.][2] But that number is really the skewed one, as it's significantly shifted by the 0.1% of the Americans [which own 90% of America's wealth][3].

As for the median, I can't seem to find that statistic, but I would argue that it's actually a less accurate picture than the average.

[1]: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/abigail-wilkinson/pew-69...
[2]: http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/11/news/economy/middle-class-we...
[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/13/us-wealth-i...
Fully agreed. But HN's convention is to append the year to articles from previous years. That isn't a bias for newness, but a bias for oldness—that is, for things that stand the test of time.

Historical material is more than welcome on Hacker News. One key function of this site is to distribute historical knowledge into what otherwise tends to be an amnesiac industry/community/society. More historical material, everybody, please!

Edit: Speaking of which, if you haven't been following it, Alan Kay has been posting some top-notch comments to HN lately: https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=alankay1
thanks. so basically there is no way to hide the addresses i access through my vpn from the provider of my dedicated server? would it help if i used non logging encryped dns server?
Officers are paid by tax revenue, as far as I know. Any revenue they generate through tickets is still extra revenue.
T-Mobile spends much more than $43 to acquire a customer, if you could figure out how to do it with AdWords you shouldn't be doing it for a share of stock at a time.
How was that experience? Can I ask what sort of OS it was running? Did it have a camera?
Because if it weren't, you could take all your compensation/revenue as an (untaxed) "loan" that you never pay back.

"What? I don't owe any taxes! That was all a loan!"
>Not quite. You only take off some of the employment taxes, not the income taxes

My quick+dirty calculation accounted for just the net added self-employment taxes, plus other differences like state unemployment, employer's share of health insurance, sick days, etc.
> You just don't let them in?

Completely unrealistic at scale. A lot of organism are in humus.
It makes even less economic sense to farm indoors.
Fantastic news. If you happen to be in Central Europe you're invited to the next Vienna Go Lang meetup [1] I will present on building static (web)sites with Hugo and the Go Template Language ;-) Free. Everyone Welcome. Cheers.
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[1] http://www.meetup.com/Vienna-Golang-Meetup/events/230458823
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I taught english to school students in Kenya back in 2007. When teaching english, you learn the most while working with kids. They are more patient and you learn just as much as them during the process. After only a month, I was speaking Swahili.

Right now, there is a huge opportunity to teach english to Spanish speakers in Chile and Argentina.
>Regarding GPU quote, that's exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. It's sort of a cheat where a massive amount of resources are used in one place to reduce a tiny amount in another.

Since the demo was originally entered in the 4K competition at the Breakpoint 2009 demo party, it had to run on the computer designated to run the competition's entries. So it's not like it could require an arbitrarily powerful GPU.

Although the compo computer was pretty beefy for the time: https://breakpoint.untergrund.net/2009/compos_pc.php
I've always done my Craigslist sales that way, sold a number of cellphones at the corner station. Then tried to sell an AppleTV but they wanted to come to my house to make sure it worked.

No random Craigslist clown is coming into the house where my wife sleeps, even if I escorted them in with a gun to their head because they could scope it out and come back later.
I said I'd record a video of it working and send that over. No more replies. :)
Async structures aren't always availablein every environment. Take JS for instance.

Without ES6 and Babel, what's the way to write if statements with async?

if (x) {
_afterX(null, x);
} else {
getX(_afterX);
}
function _afterX(err, x) {
if (err) return;
// use x
}
// do stuff that doesn't depend on x
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-45xROH3jwF0/VuFHctFcV_I/A...
He might have found a lot of new weed customers.
> Why should a service, that is advert free and wholly paid for by the UK licence payers, be free to people elsewhere?

Why should libraries, wholly paid for by local citizens, not demand citizen-units' papers to ensure they are local before allowing them to partake of all that juicy, non-rivalrous knowledge?

Because they are in the business of providing knowledge, not being gate keepers. (They have to gate-keep to some extent, of course, but that is more about keeping the collection healthy.)

Mike Masnik (Techdirt), I think, was the first to make the case that people's understanding of economics seems to break down when encountering zero-cost. It is a real problem.

The BBS example reflects a time when a island nation-state was looking for a way to fund public TV. The non-rivalrous nature of airwave reception led them to a (much mocked and hated, but functional) taxation system.

Now that "broadcast" generally means "internet", for that model to work, artificial scarcity must be employed, denying people benefits that could be provided at zero marginal cost to protect a funding mechanism that only makes sense in hindsight.

Fixing the mechanism to function in a changed world would seem to make more sense to me. But then I'm not British, a politician or dependent on an out of date system for my dinner, so what do I know.
I've had this problem as well. Another one I've run into is that Waze doesn't seem great at taking into account things like stop signs and traffic lights in my area. So it will re-route me down some street that has little traffic, but requires me to stop every block. Even if this doesn't actually take more time, it is certainly more aggravating.

At this point I ignore Waze re-routes unless I have a good indication that the backup is severe, and I have some reason to believe that the alternate route is reasonable. This means that I have gotten stuck in traffic a couple of times unnecessarily, but it has also saved me the trouble of numerous dubious "shortcuts."
I've always wanted to travel longer, but I've found that after a month, I end up with the urge to learn, create or build something and to be with people that I've known for years, not days.

As a result, in the past 6 months, I've taken 3 overseas trips (4th in a few weeks), bouncing back and forth between home and overseas.
I'm not sure I get the point of this article. Travel nomads are a real thing, and more and more numerous. They typically don't have a lot of money and often work at local menial jobs or by doing freelance gigs online, but then again it's no coincidence that Tailand is the world's digital nomad capital. When your cost of living is ridiculously low, it's not impossible to work from the beach and spend your time traveling.
Tesla Model X autonomously crashes into building, owner claims
I've been put through neighborhoods far from me a few times, and I've always been thinking "is this really worth it? Am I making my life better by enough to justify this?"
I am sure you are right, but as a long time resident, I think this is the trees not the forest -- I would estimate these barriers reduce 95-99% of the car traffic through them, even if someone cutting through is indeed a daily occurrence. Most are quite intimidating, many are totally impassable or require significant ground clearance.
At that point, the price will fall dramatically.
I'm using a $50 Mikrotik hAP AC Lite (RB952Ui-5ac2nD-US) as a home router. It's not the most high-powered router — it only has a single 5GHz radio, no antenna, and the Ethernet port is 10/100 only — but it's stunningly solid.

Previously I had, over the span of 18 months, an ASUS "Dark Knight" (whose 5GHz network slowly faded and then _disappeared_, apparently a known issue), an ASUS RT-AC66U (frequently just choked, requiring a reboot), an a Netgear Nighthawk AC1900 (same, and also issues with unstable wifi).

By contrast, the Mikrotik has been rock stable for the time I've had it (6 months). I also love the WebFig UI. It's a lot more technical than consumer routers, but it's responsive, consistent and doesn't hide any technical details from me. I don't need 90% of the RouterOS features, but I know that if I needed something obscure, I could set it up. You basically get an industrial-quality Linux-based router/switch OS for almost nothing.

(I do like the fine-grained metrics, though. You can get bandwith and connection data not just per interface, but also per NAT rule, for example.)
I'm really tired of writers like this who project their resentment and dissatisfaction with their own lives onto people they're jealous of. See also: every article written in the mainstream press about how annoying Burning Man is, every article trashing people for being on Ashley Madison, or last year's shit storm of hate against that couple that spends their life LARPing the Victorian Era.

The default mode of our economy and society is not at all defensible. Going to work 5 days a week to make somebody else rich is entirely, completely inhumane. Articles like this are supposed to make you feel smug about being stuck in what is, objectively, a complete nightmare of a life. And I am tired of reading this crap.

Also, as other commenters have pointed out, it's entirely possible to travel the world with savings of sub $5000 without a trust fund (or sleeping outside), but I imagine whatever terrified little baby wrote this article wouldn't be able to handle the level of trust you have to put in your fellow humans to pull it off.
Lucky you. I'll be in my 50's when my kids head off to college. I have no clue how I am going to pay that off!
Mitsubishi PHEV hybrid theft alarm only protected by a short, simple WPA2 PSK
No shit, I'm doing the exact same thing at almost the exact same time. I've got a few months savings in the bank, and I'm heading off to Las Palmas... stopping along the way in Europe. See you there!
It's the eternal blind optimism of Americans. What's the monthly payment? Oh, I can swing that! My salary is X and always will be, or higher! Never mind that these been a recession about every eight years during my lifetime!
I don't know if Microsoft's management still considers E-E-E to be a viable strategy or not.

However, even if they don't, I haven't seen any indication that they've repented of their past scummy tendencies. The Windows 10 rollout is perhaps the most obvious case in point.

I'm curious if you've seen something that makes you more optimistic than I am.
Some cancers (testicular if I recall), are the result of a p53 mutation. Crucially, fixing the mutated gene did not fix the cancer. The community I work with has a lot of skepticism about claims that simply increasing the quantity of tumor suppressor gene will fix cancer.

Most likely having more genes means that there was a higher chance of receiving a viable beneficial mutation somewhere early in the animals evolutionary history, although it does little for the individual animal in the present day.
Also with ad-based viewing (e.g. YouTube), different countries have significantly different ad conversion ratios.
I think most customers would prefer better cell coverage.
Short of using something like cash...for buying something off Craigslist? What else would you use? Why do you make it sound so difficult to use the most easily accessible form of currency around? Joe Craigslist isn't going to have a debit/credit machine for me to pay on. I'm not writing him a personal cheque. Use a burner email, don't give names, meet in a public place..how would you track somebody down like that?
Not that it helps today, but the upcoming w10 anniversary update is going to get rid of the 260 char path length limit.

Microsoft is waking up to the fact that developers mostly aren't using microsoft dev tools anymore. Hence, docker on windows, ubuntu on windows, redesigned env vars dialog, no more path length limit, nicer command prompt, etc...
> - treat the internet as a new region entirely

This is actually how the internet work, or at least worked, until the olde guard discovered that it could be used for digital distribution.

Here they had the most perfect distribution mechanism on earth. A global market at their hands, at zero cost, without the need for middle-men.

So what did they do? Did they see the potential this gave them? No, because it didn't match their existing broadcasting licence contracts.

Nope. They did the only thing natural: Instead of changing the contracts, they're trying to change the internet.

Invest everything they could into systems which makes digital distribution painful, less functional, and intentionally delivering all content in incompatible formats not playable by most players and devices (DRMed), and ensure that nobody anywhere any benefits from the new technology, except them.

Why do we even allow them to do this?

If this is how the future is going to work, I might start longing for the 80s again.

I can't wait for these dinosaurs to die. They're ruining this great internet we have here, one bit at a time.
Yup, sounds like a $40 default judgement to me. I always thought it would be great to be a judge, but I'm far from jumping through all those hoops. If I were one, I'd grant exact, verifiable damages in cases like this. It would have to be a civil case over child molestation, assault, murder or rape to get me to award funny money. In those relatively extreme cases involving heinous crimes, I'd be sure to ruin the life of the perp.
or just ban those all together, no smart marketer wants others to see their stats, they should probably own their own domain or other tool that can do this type of analytics for them if they want such data.
> All these things just worked 10 years ago

10 years ago most resolvers did not use source port randomization no one had DNSSEC deployed.
Google Maps seems less aggressive about that so I run both. Google Maps for directions (tells me what lane to be in, etc.) and Waze for road hazards, cops, etc.
Repository: https://github.com/unifispot/poppet
Fair enough. The spec requirements I'm mentioning would apply to people setting competition requirements more than the authors. The authors should of course work within the constraints for any particular competition. They can still try my challenge on the side.

" Intel Core2Quad at 2.66GHz, 2GB of RAM, with a NVidia GeForce 295 GTX with 2x896MB of VRAM. "

Double CPU and more GPU than what I'm writing this on but half the RAM. Beefy indeed. .exe size is still impressive and all given what they're doing.
The Steam Link killed any reason for a Steam Machine. Perhaps they are going after separate markets (PC vs. Console), but they are trying to solve the same problem: put Steam in the living room. For this, the Link is a great solution, while the machine was a bit short sighted.
As far as keeping pests out I just realized. Maybe you could remove all the oxygen to kill any pests? The plants don't need it. Or even temporarily remove the o2 until the pests die.
Direct watering methods are doable. I can't point to any research, but I seem to remember that the water/calorie ratio for almonds is pretty good.
If you are "for-profit, founder-owned" do you likewise plan to have a cap on how much you, the Founder, can make both in salary and equity/dividends/exit event like your employees?

I think the sentiment you are seeing here (not necessarily taking a side, just playing devils advocate) is that it might seem a little hypocritical to portray a culture where compensation caps (and ones that seem a little below market rate judging by other comments) are expected when there is no limit to the upside you as the founder might see down the line or from a potential exit down the road. Startups are inherently risky for employees, and while Founders certainly shouldered more of the risk, employees are typically rewarded with equity worth the risk, market rate salaries, or some combination. To not compensate employees in such a way seems like it might be taking advantage of a mindset when you the Founder might not be held to the same standards.

Again, if addressing this very issue is part of the opening up of the shares to employees you reference, awesome. This is a very hard problem to tackle and one where it must be damn near impossible to get everyone on board, so I commend you for making the attempt. I'm making lots of assumptions that I hope are simply not the case. Just wanted to clarify and push a bit more on why there seems to be a consistent theme to these comments.
Does this mean that lots of 3:30 minutes 1080p videos could be compressed into 4kb?

EDIT: We can be generous and say 40kb for sake of adding more colours / etc.
Depends. If you travel for the sake of travelling yes, but there are ways to make it more interesting. For example, last time I went travelling I went to South America for 6 months. I travelled slowly (I probably stayed in less than 10 places total) but had activities to focus on along the way, like learning different styles of dance. Travelling doesn't have to be about cramming in famous places, you can live it with just as much purpose as when you build something with permanent roots.
> If we squint a bit do we get Dijkstra's algorithm?

Turns out that its actually the other way around! If you squint a bit you can solve the shortest-path problem with linear programming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortest_path_problem#Linear_p...
When the Steam Machine was first announced, Windows 8 was new and the Windows Store was shaping up to be a possibility. Windows could make their store a walled garden, such as others have done on mobile, and effectively lock Valve/Steam out. At the same time, Valve announced new initiatives for broader games support on Linux, which the Steam Machines run on.

In every way the Steam Machines were presented not as a platform for making money, but as a strong signal to consumers that Valve would not go down without a fight. In that regard, I see the initiative as a huge success.
I'm not taking a side on college cheating, just advocating for quality in HN discussion. Angry denunciations degrade that quality, and so does reacting primarily to titles. The combination of the two is particularly bad, hence my comment.
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Wow, that one is new to me. I just deleted a 120 MB node_modules directory by pressing "shift+del" in explorer. It went away.

I wonder what went wrong in your case.

I do remember having trouble committing a node_modules to git because of the same MAX_PATH bullshit, but then we realized that you're not really supposed to do that anyway.

More generally, by the way, NPM 3 fixed the MAX_PATH problem for the majority of cases, when they moved away from super deeply nested file trees.
You just had to label your own products in a matter that confused consumers that you were selling the same thing as someone else, didn't you? Or perhaps you labeled them to indicate that they were created in a region that you didn't have the right to claim?
I've watched clips. Just doesn't do it for me.
> I un-friended like 20 people back in the day for some burger king on facebook.

What do you mean? Did you unfriend 20 people in exchange for Burger King giving you a burger? Or, did you unfriend 20 people because they were trying to get you to go buy a burger?
So what? This is Valve we're talking about. They're sitting on Steam, which has got to be a firehose of money just by generating platform fees via game sales.

I'm guessing they don't have to make money on this.
Console functionality with gamer PC prices (low end, AFAICT, is $500), that's why I haven't purchased one. And anyone that's read one of my Xbone rants here on HN can probably picture me willing to give an underdog a shot. Too much money for too much uncertainty.

Now were Valve to bundle HalfLife 3 with the purchase of a SteamBox...
"As I left town, I cast one final glance back at Greebo. One of his friends playfully tossed him to the ground and thumbed his eyes as the others snatched all the money I had given him. I couldn’t help but smile. It felt good to make a difference in the lives of these simple people."

I'm ashamed to admit I didn't recognize this as satire until I reached this point and burst out laughing. I failed to notice the URL, too. This kind of article is so common, I just figured it was yet another. I hate the apparent trend of titling articles "Why I [insert activity here]," which made this all the more amusing.