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I agree that the article by Vivek is totally misinformed.

I've taken a couple stabs at minimalism (of possessions) in my life, staring when I moved from Austin to Seattle in 1995. I'm doing so again after relocating from Seattle to San Francisco a year ago.

There is absolutely no doubt that I've been happiest during those periods when I've had the fewest 'things'. I look back at the time when I downsized from a 1000 sq. ft. apartment in Seattle to 500 sq. ft. studio as the most productive and enjoyable time of my life.

Since moving here to SF, my wife and I have almost halved the space we occupy from a 1600 sq ft townhouse in Seattle to a very comfortable 850 sq ft. in San Francisco. I continue to get rid of the stuff and replace it with either 'virtual stuff' (e.g. electronic books) or just happily do without (e.g. espresso machine).

The main reason I 'upsized' from the small apartment to the large townhouse was that I felt like at my age at the time (30) I was 'supposed to'. I was the only one of my friends/work-mates that hadn't gotten married and/or had children, and bought a house. Oh, what a mistake! Now, ten years later, I'm so glad I'm back to shrinking the possessions in favor of a leaner, simpler life. For the first time since I was 16 I do not own a car. I have no debt (and with the exception of the townhouse and a couple years of credit card debt, I haven't since 1998).

I'm totally sold on continuing down this path, as she is as well. We don't plan on having children. We are both 40+ and enjoy the idea of moving around some more, perhaps even relocating overseas in time.
Dating hack of the year: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ekd1o/iam_my_own_okcup...
I hated Cortex. It was always in my way.

For example, when I would click on the title of this post, it would pop-up. It was annoying. I'd rather have 'Share on Twitter' etc. as bookmarklets (and I do).
I have cupcake #40.

In some ways it is incredibly satisfying. In other ways it's disappointing. It's pretty clear this particular device will never pay for itself in terms of what i get out of it. I could buy a lot of plastic tweezers and cups for 1k. I imagine it's like using an apple 1 to fiddle with recipes. A box of index cards is cheaper faster and easier. I think the parallels between people building these things because they want one, and early PC's are pretty clear. Not many people can afford 30k for a really nice metal sintering system. But we can swing 1k for a system that will let us print plastic cups.

To my simple simple mind, objects are getting more diverse every day. There are pretty obvious issues involved with routing and storage when you have more diversity in size shape purpose etc. 3d printing can, in some ways simplify that process by sending just a few raw materials rather than thousands of completed objects. Also the warehouse or retail space taken up by thousands of objects could be used a bit more efficiently with raw materials.

i don't think 3d printing alone will be good enough. the reprap style just won't get the resolution. there's likely a good solution with 3d printing to rough in parts and a cutter to follow along the print head and sand down/polish the rough shape created by the printer. maybe some other technology will appear. maybe the powder style will get a lot cheaper.

I think in the next few years there will be a small shop revolution sort of like the desktop printing revolution. a good, reliable system somebody can produce custom stuff with is going to come about sooner or later.

Perhaps a rental place that prints out "congratulations bob" cups for bob's retirement, then melts them back down when they're returned. That seems pretty doable with the ABS i've been playing with. i haven't turned printed objects back into filament, but that is just one device away.

So, yes, a 1k 3d printer kinda sucks. but my cupcake is the grandfather of something amazing. Also, it's mine. Hackers from the 80's needed work or school accounts, or needed to build their own machine. i'm spoiled, i grew up having a PC and so i want my own manufacturing.
I think it's too much work for a news site, but the idea of continuous/rolling mini-challenges has merit, both as a demonstration and education tool. This warrants further exploration.
> Death is a superset of life

Um, no. It's pretty well established that one can start or stop playing WoW at will from real life. There is no evidence that one can return to real life from death.

Of course there are some belief systems that claim that death leads to an unimaginably wonderful heaven, but even those belief systems tend to discourage suicide.
I disagree. I think a lot of people that play with others geographically close to each other already know each other in some way and the reverse would not necessarily be the same. I mostly play with two "real life" friends, and most of the groupings of people I know in my guilds are couples, friends from college/home, coworkers, and similar. It's usually not "oh we know each other after we found out in-game that we're geographically close".

For every interesting person I have met in WoW, I've come across someone I can't even begin to describe...social misfit, awkward, creepy, misogynist, immature, stalker doesn't even begin to cover it. Whenever I find a random group of people to raid with, I am afraid to talk in vent/mumble because I don't want to give away the fact that my voice gives me away as being a very, very valley girl/California English spoken woman. The few times I slip and talk, some players didn't care but others split off into various assumptions, usually along the lines of my being incompetent by being female or "no way, she's a girl! (I'm going to harass her in whispers now!)". The few that didn't care and judged me based on my actual performance were the ones I ended up really appreciating being grouped with and that in turn were the ones that outright told me that they were sad to see me go before I changed servers a couple months ago. The ones that assumed I was dumb, well, I had an ignore list longer than my arm by the time I moved away. Moved away to a guild where I vetted the GM and his guild for his female-friendliness and zero tolerance to harassment first above all other concerns, including raiding. (And for what it's worth, I left my very first WoW guild because I couldn't stand even the smallest playful insults anymore. Starting with "you sure do get around" for getting an achievement for exploring a zone.)

So in an environment like that, I really hope that such a thing is never, ever, ever possible in-game and is something people do waaaaay far out of game on their own accord. Blizzard really scared a lot of people with their initial implementation of RealID and still kinda do despite all the privacy settings, and I would cancel my WoW account the day Blizzard ever considers putting in some kind of interface for geographical guild finding no matter how opt-out it is. I want to choose which basis I use to find friends in this game and I never want Blizzard to help me with that. I especially never ever want some dumbass 15 year old punk that hits on me to find out I live in Los Angeles, let alone what my real name is.

(And really, I'm sick of the people that think that WoW can't be real life. I have come across some of my best friends online, and WoW is no different from IRC or AIM or email or any means of online communications. It is as real life as it gets without being face-to-face with someone. Some people just don't learn to manage their in-game time very well and that is the fodder for all those horror stories, not the vast majority of people that do know how to stop playing a game.)
you don't need to get rejected on purpose to overcome fear.
I'm surprised homebrew 3d scanning via kinect (and modded kinects that work at smaller scales) wasn't in there.
Those needing flash video with alpha. Flash player 9(.115, I think), supports h.264, but not with alpha channels.
Actually, I'd bet on just random theft from obviously absurdly rich people staying in the Alps over the holidays. If this were industrial theft, I would have gotten in/out faster (without going for wallets). Also I don't think the kind of professional thief you'd engage to do an industrial theft would want to risk robbing a house full of people unless there were no better options.

The question is what does the first level fence do once he receives this -- he'll search on google and see what it is, and it will be obviously impossible to sell. He could try to fence it to a competitor for industrial espionage, unless he had existing contacts at Red's competitors (who? Sony?), they'd probably refuse or contact the police.

The safest bet is probably to destroy it, unfortunately.
80-90% of computer users never leave the browser. The tablet will take over. Everything except power users will be using tablets in 5 years.
Agreed. You may also be ruling yourself out of consideration for future opportunities with the same company that you genuinely are qualified for, because you've created the perception that you're incompetent or just don't interview well. (Let's face it, it would be difficult to give good answers at the interview when you're clearly not qualified.)
Gizmodo is not exactly an unbiased reporter of Apple news.
How do I find a partner?
I'm a junior web developer, more out of interest than actually being very good at it though. I know it's not a life time career for myself, but I enjoy the challenges and thought process that comes along with it.

I feel like there isn't much I can't do, or figure out, but most the time I'm just slow at it, which is where I run into trouble. I have lots of great ideas, but I tend to lose interest and give up after being discouraged when progress seems to be slowing.

I've always wanted to find somebody I can trust and rely on, and relay my idea's to so that if they believe in the idea as well, we can work on it together and actually get something launched. My problem though tends to be that I've never been able to find anybody, and wouldn't even know where to start looking (That's a lie, I have one friend but he's in high demand and despite showing interest in many ideas, he's too busy working with another startup and contract work).

So HN, any tips?
3D printers are going to do for physical products what bittorrent and limewire did for digital ones.
this is the most awesome thing i've seen in 2011 so far
It helps to keep clear the distinction to "contributing to someone's open source project" and "writing code for an open source project".

The code might be open/free, but the maintainer of a given instance/repo is ultimately in charge of at least that.
Octocat's name is Octobi Wan Catnobi (view source)
I want big money with no risk.

And I want Natalie Portman, Elisabeth Shue and Olivia Wilde to show up at my door, naked and bearing hot grits... but that ain't gonna happen either.

Life doesn't always give you what you want. Tough, huh?
I'm also sold on the minimalism of possessions, but somehow I'm not as sold on the aesthetic and cultural/work-habits stuff that articles like this tie in, which I don't think necessarily have to go together. I don't want to own tons of stuff that I have to spend money on, haul around when I move, etc., but I actually like clutter, distractions, etc. The way I combine those preferences is by outsourcing the clutter: for example, instead of owning a huge library of books, I spend my time in libraries that other people own (universities, public libraries, the occasional book-heavy coffee shop). I couldn't imagine working in a minimalist environment!

I haven't made much use of it myself yet, but hacker spaces do that with offices to some extent as well. You can have a minimalist apartment, but still work in a hectic, filled-with-stuff place like Noisebridge.
Want to get your kids into college? Let them play
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UTorrent Users Want Anonymity & Encryption More Than Any Other Feature
uTorrent is a BitTorrent application that burst onto the scene in 2005. It quickly became popular mostly because it consumed less resources than other BitTorrent apps. uTorrent’s Website has a section called “Idea Bank” which allows visitors to request new features or add their vote to previously requested features. By far, the most popular request is for the inclusion of the anomos protocol in utorrent.
Take http://www.webpop.com from private beta and to a profitable product!
The population density difference between living in the city and living in another place is much larger than between living in the Netherlands vs living in e.g. the US. The range of population densities available in nearly any country is enough for the vast majority of people.
Ask HN: What New Year's resolutions do you remember making as a kid?
Ask HN: Thinking about changing business model
I built a scheduling program for businesses in a niche market (~1000 potential customers) that now has 4 customers that each pay ~$300 per month. While current customers love the product (saves time/money, very simple to use, selling point to their monthly customers), attracting new clients has proven very difficult. For every prospect I have talked to, they say that price is the only obstacle. These customers are operating on a "very thin" budget and I am having tremendous difficulty convincing new clients to sign up.

So, I am looking into switching from a subscription model to an ad-supported one so more clients will sign up. I assume my per-customer revenue/profit would go down, but my increased customer base would overall make me more money. But, I have no idea how conversion rates work.

Does anyone have estimates on what the following data would be able to produce for monthly advertising income?

Monthly averages (total, not per customer):

72k pageviews

48k unique pageviews

9k visits

2k users

7.92 pages/visit

3 min average time on site
The way I see it is, he's encouraging you to try new ways of doing things. And I think he's right. They exist for a reason.
I talked at one stage about starting a business with another IT guy. He had many fine attributes, such as being fiercely adamant that if any manager ever described a person as an asset or a resource, that they would get sacked.

People deserve respect, not to be objectified by describing them using the same language as things that are bought and sold and casually discarded.
Not to hate on Mark because I think he is likely a brilliant person, but I fail to see why it is intriguing that someone young started 11 startups.

Let's be honest, starting a company is not hard, anyone with $300 could file a C-corp in delaware. But how many people have actually built just one business with a few million in revenue, how many sold for even more? Sure starting a company is glorious, but I expected people on this board to value building a successful business more. =\

Mark, if you're reading this, any plans to stick around in one company for a while and build the next Baidu/Taobao/Youku in the US?
Nice, that's only 18Tb of storage (I think) required to record 225Mb/sec literally all day.
Assuming you count iTunes and Microsoft Office as part of the browser, which isn't really that much of a stretch. (However, he iTunes Store is a browser (possibly still using their proprietary/strange markup language), and for many (if not most) tasks Google Docs or Microsoft's offering is good enough.)
Report: iPad will grow 250% in 2011 at the expense of PCs
Wow you are 100% right, how the heck did I miss it was a house and not a car?

Sorry about that!
That kind of thinking perfectly represents why I'll probably never get married.

No, she isn't always right. Nobody is always right. Women just think they can yank men's strings with the threat of A. witholding sex, and/or B. divorce (marriage / divorce laws heavily favor women, at least in the US.)

Before I'd even consider getting married, I'd have to know that my wife to be understands that we're equals in the relationship... I'm not kowtowing to her, and I wouldn't expect her to kowtow to me. But no way would I ever voluntarily enter into such a lopsided relationship as the typical American marriage, where the wife has her husband "by the balls."

If nothing else, it's a good argument for keeping one's pickup skills sharp, just so the wife knows that "withholding sex" isn't much of a threat. And a good argument for a well-written pre-nup.
(Unless you claim that Android is "bad software that actively interferes with usability" (because it doesn't officially support tablets yet, or has custom skins, or isn't integrated, or whatever), which the author seems to be, in a sense, saying. I'm not sure if I agree or not.)
Monkey Island, perhaps? Or am I wrong?
Also, it might be worth reading what Roissy has to say on the subject:

http://roissy.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/dont-get-married/
This got sent to my dba team. =)
There's the additional problem that a traditional book store has huge advantage in selling limited edition signed copies of books, which I've seen in local book stores many times, but I've yet to see in a big name book store.

I remember seeing a Charles Stross book selling for around $50 signed. I saw a signed Nights Dawn Trilogy for what would have been $400... all used books.

I wanted to ask what the signed (second edition IIRC) copy of The Colour of Magic was going for, but I didn't dare as it was locked up behind the counter and I knew I'd want it!
And you can open .docs on iPad very very easily and edit them with an app that costs 1/10th of MS Office, if not for free with Google Docs.
This is so cool! Imagine the future of web based gaming where it detects your head movement (like the mouse). So close to 3D! :-)
Yes. It has been pointed our many times that, Publishing which involves averagely written news item targeting mass market is gone past the traditional model. That is where aggregators and social media platform triumps now.

However , the model of high-end journalism is already happening. Good research and analysis would always be in short supply and small focused teams who do that are already making gains. There is no reason why big companies cannot replicate this.
I would say that while popular, Android on the whole is 'bad software' the same way Windows is. Doesn't mean it wont dominate the market.
Axiom: The most important thing is not what's on the table, it's what's in the chairs.
The table only denotes what the borrower took the loan for, and not for what actual use the money was put to. Basically it boils down to this: once the money is in their hands, unless the borrowers have had some information dissemination of a substantial sort, it can be used for any purpose.

I don't think (and I could be totally wrong, I don't know the process of actually getting one of these loans) that the left column denotes what the borrower took the loan for. I think it's what the loan was actually used for. The data collectors, I believe, sampled some subgroup of people and asked what the loan was spent on.
And 6 of the WD 3TB drives at newegg would cost only $1374, which blows my mind when I think about it.
Of course blindly smearing Fox or Talk Radio isn't much better...
So why not wait a few months and buy one?
You forget the impact interviewing has on you emotionally - if you fail x number of interviews, each accompanied by the typical deafening silence as to why, exactly, they don't want you, things start to grate pretty bad.

I think it's better to take a more balanced approach - interview until you have enough information to determine what it is you need to work on (even with their silence you can eventually work this out to some degree by examining what you were able to deal with well and not so much), then stop, go work on that, rinse and repeat until you're getting offers.

The whole concept of rejection therapy seems a rehash of the simple wisdom that you should have the balls to get out there and gather data, so to speak, on the things you desire rather than simply letting yourself rot in a less desirable situation out of fear.

However, I worry that people will lose sight of the fact that it's about actually challenging assumptions and treat it as some macho game. It's not smart to go out and get rejected, not think about why, then simply repeat the rejection over again.
Oh I see - Interesting. Well I still very much see it as a very valid criticism. I don't believe the situation should exist (or at least be as prevalent) where you can unfairly become discouraged to the point of no return. In most cases it's completely unnecessary and is a result of a misunderstanding on both ends. In most cases I believe it's a result of having no life direction and following a path laid down by certain expectations of you, or just poorly rationalized by you in general, and so you easily become swayed by insignificant details. Fixing that should focused on before going full force into a passion/study and spending thousands in the process.

Put differently, all those details you talk about should be in support of your development towards a future passion, not distract you to a point of no return.

Sorry if that appears incoherent - I'm in a hurry. Anyway I see that as a major issue in people and something our school system should do a better job of handling.
"This week, each one of you has a homework assignment. You're going to go out and start a fight with a total stranger...
You're gonna start a fight...and you're gonna lose."
The shares do elect, but the owner of the shares can be required to vote a certain way. You could sell 90% of your shares and add a "ELECTION OF BOARD DIRECTORS" clause to the agreement.

This is the same way drag along rights work.
Their 503 https://github.com/503 collection of random github-approved youtube videos.
I had to look up 'jobsworth'. Glad I did. It's an excellent word.
I like this one better than the 404.
The Problem With Home
Josh makes a good point. VCs are in the business of making money. One of the most important factors in making an investment successful is the management team. If the founder can't deliver, they need to be able to find someone who can.

I would never invest in a company where the founder had a no-fire contract.
I don't know how casual you are or how long it's been since you last played, but Blizzard flipped everything around for casual players not in a guild with Cataclysm. Those features you name are still there, but now they're next to rated BGs, guild achievements, and more features you can only really get while playing with a group of other players, i.e. a guild. Even basic non-raiding perks like 15 minute hearth and increased xp/rep gains are tied to guilds now.

I had an alt that wasn't in a guild or cared to raid that just recently joined the <reddit> guild because I really wanted those perks while being in a guild that didn't demand anything of me. I only raid a very strict max 3 hours 3 weekdays a week on my main toon in another guild and I refuse to tie myself down with raiding on a second one, and <reddit> is perfect for that...people are always online to play with, raids are always going on if I ever want to check them out, but I'm free to stay in the guild with zero commitment towards any time sink and I can solo all the content I want. You might want to check out joining a similarly large and open social guild for yours.
Based on headline, expected pictures of naked Justin Bieber refuting greenhouse effect. Severly disappointed.
The best way to do this is to set your vesting date as early as possible. Once your stock is vested, they can't take it away from you without your consent.
Honest, open communication. If your wife knows everything that's going on in your head & your life, & you know everything that's going on in her head & her life, you'll be equipped to deal with pretty much every problem you can face.