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The cool thing is that your statement can be 100% true and you can still retire early.

As you say, a significant fraction of the population can't. But you get to choose whether you want to be part of the smaller fraction who retire early, or whether you want to help those who are.

All you need do is not spend your entire paycheck each month. The rest will be taken care of by the (still) significant fraction of the population who do.
That's a statement about intent. We do not know whether changing his mac address was in order to get around network blocks or for some other reason. The court would have tried to establish intent in the case but the case didn't get to court and we in the internet really don't have enough information do make a finding regarding intent ourselves.
Actually, in CL a list is always a linked list. It's made of a "cons" which is a two celled part of memory for holding the head (usually data but can be anything) and the tail. A hash is also known to have hash behavior as opposed to, say, an rb tree. A vector is always what C++ would call an array though what CL calls an array might depend on convention (afaik it's often just a normal vector with the access calls changed to go to the correct location).
Is there any way of getting this book without a kindle, so it can be read on Linux?
Lawyer here. The administrative search exception to the fourth amendment means that an administrative agency can search to enforce an administrative regulation without a warrant. The most common example of this that everyone would understand is a county health department inspecting a restaurant licensed to sell food to the public.

In other words, because a restaurant has submitted to the licensing scheme of a county, it impliedly gives the county the right to search it without a warrant. Consider how a county health department could do its inspections if it had to get a warrant to do so each time it needed to.

So, in essence, in the case above, the Supreme Court is saying that since you're submitting to the government's regulations by choosing to fly, they don't need a warrant to search you.
The first half of our initial Haskell module covered breaking the enigma machine, it was great fun and the lecturers made sure to give the back story in detail covering both the british and polish efforts (probably in an attempt to make the module appear 'cooler'). It was a great module and I have the upmost respect for Turing and the unsung Polish efforts made in breaking it.
All you need is to install one malicious .deb or .rpm and it's game over.
I donno but I think this is Question one:
Does something like this exist already and are people actually paying to use it? (Unless of course you're selling a (great looking) service for all the other questions).
I think the myth is that it's been proved, when it hasn't.

The bit you elided said this:

"The embarrassing truth is, there's no solid research to back up that claim."
Note that after today all the money is donated to Demand Progress (the org that Aaron started) and Fight for the Future.
Simple solution: Opt out of the naked scanners, every time. I've gotten used to the pat downs and they don't bother me at all. I just give myself an extra 10-15 minutes lead time when arriving at the airport.
Any site with a URL like 'whylinuxisbetter.net' is clearly going to be biased, but let's be honest, it's not as if Microsoft never play the FUD game themselves.

You're absolutely right that Linux does have it's own problems as well, but on the whole, I do think Linux is a better platform. However there is a big caveat there: it's the best platform for me.

The problem with having arguments about which OS is better is that the term 'better' is used too broadly. And as everyone has different criteria and preferences, what's 'better' for one person isn't always 'better' for another.
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Unless it gets taken care of by the increasingly significant fraction of the population who has their lives extended for a few more years at any cost.
> In other words, you need the protection of the law as an upstart.

Rome in the mid to late Republic and early Empire had very sophisticated and stable laws and court systems, including a body of commercial law that was not seen again until thousands of years later.
This has been exhausted I think, multiple times to see it rehashed all the time is a bit tiring.

At the risk of boring people:

1) his lawyer and his closest family seem to agree that the lawsuit was the driving force

2) he did it on the anniversary of the start of the lawsuit

3) the actual trial was to start shortly

4) So far when under outside pressure he held up pretty good, but this was pressure far exceeding his previous exposure

If you wish to argue the lawsuit was not the reason you're going to have to come up with something better.
HN: What is your go to ecommerce technology? 
Looking to re-do my online store couldn't think of a better community to ask.

Looking for:
-open source
-simple, minimal
-non ruby

Thanks!
There's a huge difference between having the power of Ortiz -- in effect, a gun pointed at Aaron saying "come to jail peacefully or die resisting arrest, your choice" -- and Linus tossing off remarks he's obviously not going to implement.

Really what Linus hates are stupid people so he spouts off about them from time to time. E.g. like those who can't see the difference between a harsh remark and actual bullying. If he read your remark we might see some fireworks.
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The hypothesis being discussed is "serif fonts are more readable". This article is saying there is no evidence supporting that hypothesis.
Don't forget that for quite a while C/C++ were free use while CL costed thousands of dollars.
It simplifies the world in a way that such narrative always does, adding no understanding and doing nothing to make the future better.

In the real world we're all bullies (1), and sometimes suicide, self-harm, and hysterical overreaction is the ultimate tactic to bully. It seems entirely irrational, and I'm sure the mere notion of it will outrage some, but humans are prone to irrationality.

One of the most dangerous behaviors is to empower suicide -- to make it the ultimate "get back at them" tactic, internet lynch mobs that didn't care at all before suddenly up in arms against the purported aggressors, the narrative of the story simplified and made completely one-sided, where there are only villains and victims. That isn't how the real world works.

Despite the ham-fisted Swartz parable in the linked thing, I was not talking about that situation above. However if I might, it was clear years earlier that Aaron wasn't exactly the happiest person in the world. There were things going on there that none of us understand, and presuming that everything would be happy sailing if a prosecutor looked the other way isn't rational.

(1)- Some of the most egregious, obnoxious bullying happened in the recent thread recounting the thread about Aaron's situation from a half a year ago. Suddenly everything was seemingly so clear to some, their righteous outrage and vilification so loud. Just embarrassing.
We can secure that using the current heuristics.
Personally, I've always found Sans Serif more readable. Maybe just that I've been trained by reading typographic blogs to like it.

I would love to see what others think over this. Which font do you prefer?
Sure, if you assume everyone just sits around twiddling their thumbs and going on vacations once they're retired. A large number of people end up continuing to be productive during retirement, but they choose "jobs" based on enjoyment rather than salary. With a free market and a global economy, I fail to see the potential dilemma large numbers of early retirees could cause.

Retirement != not working.
Thanks for this, but as others have said, it'd be great if this wasn't locked down with DRM.
The problem with the extremes of this logic is that if you scrimp and save and live poor to get to that 75% savings rate... you still have to live poor for the rest of your life on that 25% of your take home.
Surely you know the history to which the previous poster is referring? YC exists because pg and others build a company in Lisp and sold it for millions. They were a small team so they chose Lisp exactly because it helped them stay nimble.
All I meant was PG is pretty vocal about most things related to hackers / company founders etc. With Aaron's sad news being on the front page of HN for the past 3-4 days, i would have thought he had something to say about the issue. I understand he has no obligation ...
He is not a "Crusader Against Bullies", he is complaining that a US attorney is lying, irrelevant of what said attorney lying is about.
How is fragmentation hindering your usage ? This page is more for casual users and they don't have to worry about fragmentation.

My company sells software on all platforms. Our linux installer has never been a problem. Not only that Valve released their software just for one distribution. Within hours you had people working out how to get it to work on the distribution of their choice. So the fragmentation is not a problem, but more of a benefit where users do the work for you.
I think that there is a difference between a US attorney saying that someone faces up to 35 years in prison and pushing for it for years, and a software developer, however influential, making an offhand and clearly exaggerated comment that a writer of bad software should kill themselves.
i do this a lot too, specifically because it signals that I'm busy. I generally enforce the headphone rule, and even when not listening to something, the fact that it signals that I'm not to be disturbed is exceptionally useful.
The article isn't very explicit about what it means by it's claim.

Does it mean just plugging an unpatched windows machine into the internet and walking away or does it mean somebody actively using it to surf websites which may have malicious applets etc?

Also doesn't specify whether it's naked on the internet or behind some kind of NAT/firewall.

If we're just talking about random bots port scanning netblocks and looking for daemon banners that indicate vulnerable services old linux distros could be quite bad in this regard.

I had my desktop pwned back in ~1999 because it came with a vulnerable version of telnetd enabled by default.
Because you don't have permission as an unauthenticated user.
I would disagree with his point that "cutting your spending rate is much more powerful than increasing your income." He says this is because it permanently reduces your cost of living, which reduces your required retirement nest egg.

But increasing your income has permanent affects too: it increases your net each month, and multiplicatively increases all future earnings. A $3K raise or $10K bump from job-hopping today will bump up all future salaries. And then this trickles into additional retirement savings, and you get more multiplication from investment returns.

My point is that, yes, be frugal, but put at least as much time and effort into increasing your income as you do into reducing spending.

The other reason is that, you can only reduce spending so much, until you are living on bare essentials. But your potential income is unbounded. :)
A survey of preference may not say much, but it would be something. It would be more helpful to have data on Kindle page views per minute by text display choice, controlled for other factors like book, typeface size, etc.

My biggest problem with my Kindle is that I can't even get that sort of data for myself. I'd love to know when I read, how long, which topics, and so on.
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That's true, it's the flexibility to work exactly as much as you want--even if it's zero hours a year.

In my own financial calculations, I also assume that I start collecting social security benefits when I turn 67. A lot of people consider that naive ("SS is going bankrupt!"), but I don't. So that'll be either a raise for my retirement income or at least a cushion to soften the losses I may have taken in the market in the preceding 25 years.
I agree with your statement with one minor change: a password (or better, passphrase) is a brilliant authentication...

Passwords (plural) are just about the worst authentication mechanism. While brains are good at remembering one such token, needing to remember many for many different sites (and which ones go to which) is simply untenable. Additionally, the ability to easily compromise them through phishing makes them awful.

I wonder if there'd be a way to cleverly move the hashing (that all servers should be doing) to the client side such that all of the above problems could be solved. It would confound password changes, however...
Yes, arguably. For instance, before we got increased life spans, a lot of people participated in early retirement too--e.g. dying of scarlet fever before they even made it into the work force. That side of the equation no longer happens.
I do this every time, but it always ends up feeling futile. I'm just waiting for the day when "opting-out" is no longer permitted.
This is definitely simple math, because it assumes minimum current living expenses = retirement living expenses. But for people with kids or who live in expensive areas now, current living expenses are much higher than will be required in retirement.
If you're in New York, the Met currently has an exhibit on Matisse's process of making multiple versions of the same painting: classic A/B tester :)

http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2012/matisse?u...
The "second camp" that you describe does not really understand the situation. 6 months is the plea bargain. If Aaron rejected that, which is the path he was taking, he was facing anything in the range from winning the case to likely the 6-7 years the prosecution was pushing for.

Thus there was a significant chance that he'd have gotten more than a few months of jail time.

Now re-read Carmen Ortiz. She never said she was only seeking a few months in jail. She said she offered him only 6 months in jail and was never going to seek the maximum sentence. What she didn't publicly say is that she was going to seek 6-7 years.
Um.... no.

If by innovation you mean the invention of totally new and interesting things, no. There are plenty of new and innovative ideas/products that come from an agile/lean process.

What people are glossing over is the fact that building things is hard. Inventing things is hard. Changing the world is hard. It takes time, effort, the right people, the right timing, the right placement. Agile or waterfall don't matter. People do.

Smart, driven, clever, brilliant people are never going to be the majority. The majority of people are not above average. Expecting a large portion of people to become continuously more awesome every generation is insane.

Not everyone is going to be a winner. Most people aren't exceptional.

No amount of process of any sort can change that.
Not necessarily true. When you buy a guaranteed annuity, all you are doing is transferring risk (and reward). When you give the insurance company that 100k, they turn around and put it in the stock market. The amount of money they give you is an average of the stock market performance.. plus a very hefty fee to them for their trouble. So what you get out of them is the average stock market return minus that hefty fee.

If the stock market performs on average or better than average, you lose by using a guaranteed annuity.

If the stock market performs a little worse than expected, you win, and the insurance company will have to pay you out of their profits.

If the stock market performs terribly badly, you lose again -- the insurance company has no money to pay you anything.

So in 3 of the 4 cases presented here, you lose out by choosing a guaranteed annuity. It's still a solid option, but it's definitely not 'the' option. I personally would never choose such an option.
Might be referring to this essay by Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
> The plea system seems to be loaded with problems, but if you don't want to make a plea bargain you can still simply go to court. Which is what you'd be doing without a plea system anyway.

The implication here is that things would be the same without a plea system. I disagree. I think that if people regularly faced the kind of sentences that they are threatened with under the plea system, there would be political upheaval. 50 years for trespassing and downloading files? It's absurd.

The plea system as it stands is simply a means for prosecutors to acquire more convictions, and it is absolutely unacceptable. They are blatantly gaming the system, so the system needs to be changed.
Start doing something is definitely the most important step, but unless you know whether a) the idea will make money and b) how you're going to market it, chances are your effort will be wasted.

Part of me thinks that the ideal is if you have any idea in an already busy market. That way you know that the core idea makes money, and you can pick up marketing ideas for your future competitors.
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The title of this is a little misleading as I don't really discuss anything about Apple acquiring Color. I just link to the rumor articles.
Exactly, I would assume it's probably higher than 40%.

There are an estimated 270M civilian-owned guns and 132M households in the US. So basically 2 guns per household. If you estimate gun ownership at 50%, that's 4 guns per gun-owning household.
Lately I have seen quite a few "Linux is better than Windoze" posts. Each and every one of those posts woefully miss the mark. I include whylinuxisbetter.net to this list.

Especially the penguin at the bottom with the flyswatter makes me dismiss the whole post out of hand. Nobody in their right mind can take a site like that seriously.

The problem is that these sorts of efforts have an exact opposite effect and are more likely to drive people to Macs or back to Windows.

I have yet to see an article or video that explains the true virtues of Linux over other operating systems: A stable feature rich ecosystem developed by a diverse set of professional developers giving users free access to an incredible range of software.

Instead we get these lame websites littered with crap ads and factually incorrect statements.
What about just trying it instead? I, as a developer that only had used Windows, was always angry when someone posted a new library, and the instructions were linux commands. Until one fine day I started using Ubuntu 10.04 in Virtualbox, only for development. It was a joy, so a few months later when 12.04 came out, I installed it in the host, and everything was just perfect, never looked back. In my experience, everything in whylinuxisbetter.com is true. I have also used Fedora 17 in my laptop (HP Pavilion m7), and all the functions work perfectly. Windows = only for games, but even that will change thanks to pioneers like Steam.
I don't think anyone is saying the lawsuit wasn't a terrible burden on him, just that the lawsuit wasn't the only factor.
In particular, money has no intrinsic value. It only has value when you spend it. Saving money just to prove that you can is silly.
I do not understood the tale :(

Why it was genius?
This has been on request since 2005...

http://forums.cpanel.net/f145/make-cpanel-ipv6-compatible-ca...
possibly because he existed "before PC"

Or more likely because the situation, context and Feynman's actions were highly dissimilar. If you haven't had a chance, take a look at the story in the original source, it's a lot more detailed than an aside in a PG essay.

http://www.amazon.com/Surely-Feynman-Adventures-Curious-Char...
Are cable TV and Starbucks worth having two income earners each work an extra eight years for???

Well, of course they are, for your values of "cable TV" and "Starbucks". Here's a thought. Move to the Midwest. Get a couple roommates and eat simple foods. Never eat out and don't own a car. And don't buy anything else.

You could survive on less than five grand a year with that lifestyle. I'm sure a lot of HNers already have enough money in the bank to live the rest of their lives like this. But what's the point?
You were fine until the last sentence.

And that implicitly indicates the prosecutors were gunning for Swartz.

No. This was business as normal. This is what they do to EVERYONE. Whether THAT is OK is a different issue. But they really weren't singling him out for significantly worse treatment than they give to other people.
Fragmentation is a problem for casual users. Granted less than it used to be , since the casual user is probably on Ubuntu where there is likely a pre-packaged version of most stuff they might want to install.

You still do run into problems with stuff that was packaged for only Ubuntu 10.10 and it doesn't install on 12.04 for example.

In the days before there was one dominant distro it was a nightmare installing everything you wanted without browsing forums because you had Suse version X and the website only offered you a package for RedHat version Y.
Concerning your point about Thorin being the only judge:

> Disputes arising between the Contract Parties shall be heard and judged by an arbitrator of the Company’s choosing

By that clause, the company should be able to choose Thorin as the arbitrator regardless of the fact that he's the King Under the Mountain. That fact alone would put Bilbo in dire straights if, like you said, he ever crossed Thorin.
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Shouldn't salary correspond to productivity in a free market, though? So the retirees will work in less productive jobs, on average.

It's an interesting question what it will do to the job market. I suppose it means it becomes pretty much impossible to find a joby that is both enjoyable and pays well because the retirees who don't care for the salary will drive that down.
You haven't explained why I should care about the location of video content? What value are you aiming to provide?
> just that the lawsuit wasn't the only factor.

I think you will find that most people are aware of that. But it very well could have been the factor that drove him over the edge and you're going to have to allow for that.
Awesome Read .. The video looks great ..
While the author seems to be targeting Windows users I can't help but notice that most of these points benefits can accurately be ascribed to OS X as well.

alyosha ~ % uptime
up 43 days, 15:31, 2 users, load averages: 1.26 0.61 0.31

Windows is indeed subpar, but a more interesting comparison would be between Linux and OS X.
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I do this as well. However they don't allow opt-outs in the UK.
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> ...it is matrilineal...

Bear in mind they are counting mutations on the y-chromosome, which is based from father to son. Over a wide range of cultures men on average mate with women who are younder than them, so the time between generations by patrilineal descent will be greater than the time by matrilineal descent.
The difference probably stands in what it's meant to protect. If it gets stolen, it's not only a car, it's the key to your personal identity, along with maybe bank account, email, work secrets, etc. Losing that key would stress me much more than losing my car keys, even more if it just works in any computer with a USB port.
> - You can earn 5% investment returns after inflation during your saving years

Is this a realistic assumption? Just consider how much people have lost in the housing bubble.