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That was my initial feeling, and I continued to do what I did. After several years of it now, I'm tired. I'm tired of having someone at my door, showing up where I am, joining groups and communities I'm in, and friending my co-workers and vendors, sending notes to my employers, and so on.

They're doing nothing illegal these days (with one exception about four months ago), but when I surface it's always causing just one more thing to deal with.

Once I decided to actually use my privacy, it was refreshing. Aaaaah, the calm. Aaaah, the amount of freedom I felt going that first stretch of months without incidents.

Also, after dealing with this for just over four years it's pretty tiring to always be told that I'm the one who is doing something wrong.

I wasn't necessarily a "privacy advocate" before, but understand that viewpoint more and more.

It's kind of frustrating dealing with your vendor at Google who sends you a note saying "hey, I can't find you on g+ - let's use hangout" and saying something (nicely) like "yeah, I'm not on g+" and then leaving it at that.

Admittedly, I get somewhat cranky at all the questioning about my choices and my behavior and it's all I can do not to respond "because g+ use is completely optional and no one is forcing me to use it, according to Eric Schmidt".

I give up the interaction with my friends, vendors, co-workers and potential friends, vendors, co-workers, etc. in return for lack of harassment and stalking. I'm not super-happy about it and it's not a perfect solution but don't feel I should have to justify it. Yet I did once again (* /em headdesk*).
Everybody is waiting for 2012, and eventually all they'll get is 2011s
Assume we didn't have the road system we have now, and that an entire food delivery system was organized around local sources (yay!). What would the result be?

Lots of root vegetables and drastically higher food prices.
I don't think the math the author threw in added much, but the overall piece had an interesting premise.
For whom else do any of us here speak?
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There is a solution for SSL. Of course it's not SSL, it's more secure and it's faster.

You can set several "domain names" (hostnames) for a server.

There is a working prototype.

Seek with open mind and ye shall find.

I agree what you allude to is the real web 3.0 but, imo, it's not accurate to call it "web 3.0" because it's more than just "the web". Lots more than just web servers will run on a properly constructed peer-to-peer platform.

The public "web" is for Google and Facebook, their marketers and massive surveillance.

The internet is for users.
Depends. I'm European and I'm not that young anymore so I'm not exactly the subject demography here but I think driving is tremendously enjoyable and cars can have an unexplainable personal connection to some people, including myself.

However, what isn't and what certainly isn't cool is if I had to spend a half an hour on the road, driving to/from work each day. Going to the office, I just take the tram if weather doesn't suit cycling. I'd never move to a place where I'd need a car to go to work or do my chores. A few times a year I end up driving in rush hour traffic and each time just enforces that opinion of mine.

I think that as soon as the car becomes a commodity, it loses much of its appeal.

For me, it's still somewhat of a luxury: I could do without it. I keep a car because I love to go on long trips driving myself, instead of taking the train or bus. And I love to occasionally drive to some place where I have chores to do but I can't easily reach by public transit, such as shops and spare parts stores in industrial zones, or picking somebody up in downtown or airport. Or just drive to go swim in a neighbouring city where I know they have an especially nice pool. I clock maybe 15,000km per year doing that. And there are weeks I don't start my car once.

But then again, I don't text much either. I don't even always take my mobile phone with me when I go out. So, go figure.
duplicated urls, i'll take a look at that, thanks!
I would rather do what this guy did then spend 40 years of my life trying to get people to click ads.

It sounds like he didn't enjoy his job on wall street. I wouldn't enjoy a job as a facebook developer. We all have our opinions.
I own a Bank/Credit card company. Murtza is right when it comes to the returns. But his vision of the whole process is naive.

The "clients" know exactly where the money is going, they do know about the returns, there are many reasons that make a client choose a investment, sometimes is about the taxation, compensation, or something more obscure. Sometimes that very same client had to put money there because it owes an awful lot of money to that same bank.

No victims there.
His story is a bit hyperbolic. Not sure which bank he worked at, but any business sector can have bad/incompetent companies where consumer / investor ignorance and asymmetric information allows them to add minimal value for high fees.

He also recommends passive investing, but a lot of indexes like the SPY and DIA are managed and correctly priced thanks to a lot of firms (probably including some big banks!) at Wall Street.
Second this. Extremely well-written, accessible, and thorough.
Ease-of-use wasn't the best phrase for what I meant. Perhaps fully coherent experience is better. But I still believe the gist of it, so proceed to pity me. I think a more containable example of this balance is the iPad having no removable storage (like an SD card). On one hand it means fat margins on selling higher capacity models, but it also eliminates a whole class of issues around not being able to rely on apps (or their data/media) always being present.

I would welcome more freedom on the iPad. If a switch showed up in the advanced settings that allowed side-loading of unsigned apps, that would be great. But it's not a deal breaker for what is a completely auxiliary device compared to a proper computer.
Speaking as someone who has chosen a life of public transit and walking over driving (I did have a drivers licence at one point), there are considerations more important to me and society as a whole than "pleasantness", like the air we all breathe, rediculous car insurance costs, my sanity and my time.

P.S. Everyone who voted the parent comment up is a lazy bastard. Get off your fat arses and walk once in a while.
(Picking your comment to respond briefly to).

I want to avoid giving the impression that I'm arguing against public transit, even in my case. Public transit is by far the more cost-effective option, even if you factor the cost of my time. It's also more responsible, and less error-prone.

What I was responding to was a series of comments along the lines of "cars suck, I can't imagine why anybody uses them". Well, I use them to save a couple hours of my day every day. I have a 12 year old whose middle school bus doesn't come by until 8.30; if I took the train, I'd get in to work every day at 10:00AM.
It's popular to beat up on Wall Street right now but I don't see any reason to feel bad about working for a financial firm. They provide many essential services and in the case of wealth management they provide a service that a lot of customers want and will pay for. What's the problem?
Well, on the bright side there is no "car piracy" that can be blamed for the decline. (Since you can't download a car)

Seriously, though, I think there are just a lot of things competing for people's attention, young or otherwise. There are many activities you can do at home / online nowadays, and these naturally displace some activities that would have involved driving somewhere.
He's not being even a little bit over-dramatic. You clearly don't ride the CTA.
Would you mid deleting (or editing) this comment? You're breaking the page.
Agreed : out of sight = out of mind. It's a -lot- easier to think of remote workers as a pure commodity.
Ask HN: What if karma was worth real money?
Would that do anything useful? I thought it might scale the influence of opinions to the esteem of the community member, since people with lots of karma would be able to upvote more. Also, I like the idea of giving someone more than just an intangible gesture of gratitude.
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Born and raised in the Bay Area, mostly living in the suburbs until I went to college in Santa Cruz. Biking and the bus, there are pretty optimal. The rest of the suburban Bay Area, not so much -- unless you are near BART and want to get to the city or Berkeley.

I have driven since I was 16. Over 20 years later, I still enjoy it. What I don't like? Commuting. Unfortunately, if one wants to rely on public transit in Silicon Valley, you will either make compromises in time or cost of living (or location to live). Bay Area roads and freeways are pretty bad. Thankfully, for me, I commute off hours twice a week and am at home other times.

Back to the joy of driving though -- the road trip is quintiscential Americana. The open road, radio blasting, and just letting the miles go by. If one can get out of the major metro areas (or vacation time traffic routes), you can just go...Highway 395 from the Canadian border, down through the high desert and into the Sierras; or getting out during the low season and driving down the Pacific Coast Highway; or taking it a bit slower and experiencing the gold country with Highway 49 and Highway 20...I could go on...

Unfortunately, this enjoyment means getting away from people, density, and traffic...
It wasn't bad, but I don't agree with this being recommended as a best first book.

Pine's code uses a fair amount of personal coding preferences without explaining them. To a beginner, this can be extremely confusing.

How to Think like a Computer Scientist was a superior introduction in my opinion. It got me excited about learning a language comprehensively.
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"social skills = competence"

Not to nitpick, but social skills are a form of competence. I know it's not a popular notion in some circles, but communication and the ability to articulate a position is a crucial work skill.
Yup, everyone in Michigan here has SUVs and trucks and these new "crossover" things which are secretly just station wagons designed by the people who did art direction for TRON. Seriously, look at this thing: http://www.dieselstation.com/pics/Ford-Edge-Sport-2011-car-p...

I am way more excited about bikes than I am about fancy cars. Nice bikes are within the financial reach of almost anyone, and cycling skill makes a big difference because you can actually push yourself and your machine to the limits in the city.

Save the sports cars for the track.
I made a spine.js Todo list for any php back-end + couch/mongo/pgsql -- it jquery-polls a _changes feed to show todos that other people add

code https://github.com/voitto/structal.todos

demo http://todosdemo.structal.org
I almost never read until I got a kindle. Now I use the text-to-speech feature while I drive and get through a ~300 page book in 6-8 hours. Its wonderful.
Exactly. Here's what the US copyright office says[1]...

"Copyright does not protect the idea for a game, its name or title, or the method or methods for playing it. Nor does copyright protect any idea, system, method, device, or trademark material involved in developing, merchandising, or playing a game. Once a game has been made public, nothing in the copyright law prevents others from developing another game based on similar principles. Copyright protects only the particular manner of an author’s expression in literary, artistic, or musical form."

[1] http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html
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> After recently being laid off ...

This is the story of the fox and the grapes. The fox was trying to get to the grapes. But they were too high for her, she couldn't reach them. So she said "oh well they are not ripe enough anyway" and walked away.
What You Need To Know About Doomsday 2012
12-21-2012 is the day when our dear entire world will take its last breath. Not only this, the exact predicted time is 11.11 GMT. The Mayan calendar states this fact about the end of the entire world on the 21st December 2012.
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I've found that a manual forces you to pay more attention to the task of driving. I wasn't the most responsible and focused driver before, because automatics make it easy to be distracted. When someone gets in the car with you, you have a moral and ethical responsibility to /protect their life/, which is in your hands. That's about the best argument I can make in favour of manuals.

If I end up having kids, they won't have their own cars until they are proficient with a stick.
> I find it puzzling as well. Google heavily uses python, as do a number of other web companies.

Especially after Google invested engineers on Unladen Swallow, which fizzled out. I've read that Google likes to max out their servers to the point where OOM is not unlikely, so PyPy memory usage might not be worth the runtime performance gains.
It's true that the banks aren't really as concerned with maximizing an investor's return in their wealth management divisions, but it's also worth noting that they maybe shouldn't be engaged in that sort of activity. The likelihood that the random fellow you happen to meet at Morgan Stanley actually has an edge on beating the market is small enough to be irrelevant.

However, there's still some value in having a human who's somewhat familiar with you and your personality pick up the phone when you call to execute a trade. Most of the value that advisers offer is getting you to stay in the market over time by keeping you from making stupid decisions. They're certainly incentivized to do so, but a lot of investors lose out by making thoughtless, fear-driven decisions to buy and sell. The actual amount that they lose out varies, but I've seen a range of around 2-8% in a number of studies. This [1] says average investors lag the index by 5% a year, which I'm inclined to believe.

Part of the issue that Murtza is likely experiencing is that this psychological function of a financial adviser--getting people to keep their investments in place over the long term--does not feel good. In fact, it feels like lying and it is.

The question for most investors isn't whether they can get a better return by switching to a passively managed fund, but rather whether they have the discipline to manage their own investments when they get scared/exuberant. This is not to say that advisers aren't prone to the same behavioral defects, but it's probably better to have someone on the other end of the phone who will try to get you to explain why you're selling out or buying in.

The problem for a lot of employees--particularly in the private wealth space--is that they think they're getting involved in some mythical "Wall Street," which doesn't really exist. Good advisers are 90% Mom (calms you down when you're excited) 10% psychiatrist (gives you tools to help yourself). They are not investors. They are in the business of preventing harm.

Of course, scummy advisers exist and are the standard. I'm just suggesting they are not the only kind in existence.

Full disclosure: I work in finance in an advisory capacity.

[1] http://moneyover55.about.com/od/howtoinvest/a/averageinvesto...
A complicating factor is the recruiter's take on top of your rate. I'm making up numbers, but lets say your rate is $100, and the recruiter's % is 40% of your rate. Now the company sees $140/hr.

The company may not object to your rate if they found you directly, but your rate + recruiters expense is more than they were expecting. But all you hear is, "hey bud, that's a little too high of a rate, isn't it? Why don't you come on down to something a bit more conservative" And your rate isn't too high, its just too high when he adds in his cut.
Depends on the book and how fast you read. Most of my books were quick one-time reads, not that many mindbending or thoughtful books in the mix like the link contains. I think I read 30 minutes to an hour or so a day (while waiting for things like flights and people for dinner or at the supermarket checkout lane, before bed, at the gym) and this year I've read thirty thousand pages across 61 books (soon to be 62 if I can sit down to finish my current read, http://www.goodreads.com/review/stats/2444699-jane). That's not counting magazines, blogs, RSS, HN, and technical books for work, just pure pleasure reading for me.

When your primary method of reading is via iPhone and it's always with you, there will always be opportunities to read. But in exchange, I don't do much of other hobbies. My TV watching has fallen significantly to only 3-4 shows at best and maybe one movie a week, for example.

I'm currently on a pretty carefree contract work lifestyle right now though, so YMMV. I can't imagine I'd be reading that much for fun if I had to worry about running a business or somesuch.
> Someone should tell the Linux Kernel (and other Open Source dev, where a lot of terrific "as magic as it can get" sw dev happens) guys.

Apparently someone did. The express purpose of the Kernel Developers Summit is to work out problems that couldn't be resolved online.
I think a lot of the problem with this kind of thing is that the things where the evil is obvious and wrong, i.e. finance (in which I work by the way!) are easy to pick on, especially when the industry has so wrecked the world economy, but those things which are less obvious are left alone.

How about the person working for an apparel firm which keeps people in the 21st century version of slavery? Or the people working for governments who either directly or by proxy commit terrible crimes around the world?

I'm not trying to excuse anything, rather I just think it's more complicated than it seems.
After all the costs involved, it'd damn well better be an exploding orgasm.
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3583 might be a good starting point assuming that an implementation of lambda calculus qualifies as a LISP (it should).
Yes, it's called Unix.

I mean, that sounds glib, but a lot of the Unix toolchain involves text: searching it, typesetting it, (automatically) editing it, and so on. You can use make to automate static HTML generation from a tree of Markdown files, for example.

vi lacks the "persistent, integrated environment" aspect of Emacs, which is what sustains tools like org-mode. vim can edit multiple files, have multiple windows, and the like, but it wasn't a fundamental design principle. You may be better off using a couple simple scripts and using vi(m) where it shines: editing text.
How's the pricing going to work?
The Responsibilities Of The Various Pieces Of Backbone.js
http://tamc.github.com/Sankey/ - found via http://groups.google.com/group/d3-js/browse_thread/thread/ff...
This really makes me miss California. What a privilege to have the scenic views AND the world centre for tech innovation in the same place (bay area). I seriously cannot wait to move there.
I love how Automattic runs http://automattic.com/work-with-us/.

I have been sifting through a lot of these posts and I think everyone is forgetting not everybody is a Software Engineer. There are other components to a business too. I can say as a front-end developer I certainly do not need to be tied to a desk 8 hours a day every single day to code up a mockup. Yet when ever I see a job I would be perfect for I get told they do not do remote work.
While I can see the reasoning behind this mentality, I have a hard time supporting it unequivocally.

Too many times I've come across what really feels like engineer / developer arrogance vis a vis their end users. The notion that the customer "doesn't know what's good for them" has a bizarrely patronizing air to it.

If the customer is happy, then the product has done it's job. Doesn't mean it can't be improved - but perfection comes after the customer has quit bitching.
Yes, it saddens me too. Lucky for us, there are a few companies that still understand; I love my Civic Si because it only comes with a 6spd manual.

The other very cheap and very fast option is a used street bike, since all of those have manuals.
New year comes with 40,000 new laws
Ha ha ha! nice.
College freshman - what to do over summer?
Hi, I'm a college freshman planning to major in computer science. I hadn't really programmed before college. The summer before, I read through an intro Python book and learned basic HTML/CSS. I enjoyed my intro course taught in Java, and will be taking a course in Scheme next semester. I also plan to start learning Django next semester.

I want to learn more about software development over summer. I'm wondering whether I should look for an internship, or study/build stuff on my own. Programming seems to be a field where I can learn a lot from watching someone do it, but I'm worried that I'll be assigned repetitive work in an internship and learn little.

Would you guys recommend for me to find an internship or learn and try to contribute to open source projects on my own? Thanks for any advice.
There are ways to get from planet to planet with almost no energy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Networ...

There must also be ways to get from star to star. If there are Sun-Earth Lagrange points, there must be Galaxy-star Lagrange points, and a way to transfer from the Sun's to Alpha Centauri's. This would probably take a while though.
By accident, one of the el-cheapo motherboards I used about 6 years ago ran with MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00. Interestingly, this wasn’t a problem — I could still communicate with my router and didn’t even notice this for a long time. But then I tried to communicate with my father’s IRIX machine, and we couldn’t get it to work. Until we realized the misconfiguration :).
I see this all the time. People put their purses on the bagging area or lean against it or they'll remove stuff before they're done. Then when the machine tells them something is wrong, they freak out and think its broken, instead of moving their purse or hitting the "I don't want to bag this item" button.

Not saying this is your problem, but most people's problem is that they just don't pay any attention.
Sounds great, feel free to send your spare cash any time :-)
> What's not to like?

you need to patch your kernel to use it. this isn't something that openssl alone can push.
I'm actually a huge car fan too. My friend and I drove around the south-western US during a summer in a way that would be impossible without a car. Though I take BART to work, my girlfriend drives (and it makes sense for her).

I guess I was trying to point out the differences in philosophy between private ownership and a public system - your post seemed agreeable enough that I wouldn't incite an argument :).
I long for the day when I can leave my somewhat sporty car in the garage and only take it out when I intend to have a blast driving, and use public transit, bicycles, and my feet for everything else. When I drive, my primary focus is on "not dying". Driving near Detroit every day, this is actually pretty hard. Can't wait to move to a city where car ownership isn't necessary.,
Would love to read a paper on this. If its not already written maybe we can build a google doc with a list if related resources so that one of u could write a paper.
Ok, thanks, I guess that makes sense.
Aircraft, motor vehicles, vacuum tubes and telecom equipment were next on the list of top exports.

Vacuum tubes??!?