skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in Mountain View for a while. The walking distance between locations was large, but not too bad. There was a Starbucks and a few restaurants around 15-20 minutes walk from my place. Despite this, I would not see anyone on the streets. I felt odd, almost like everyone was staring at me, when I would walk from my place to the Starbucks. There are large enough footpaths, but everyone would be in their car.

I also lived in a residential neighborhood in San Francisco for a while, and despite being more walk-friendly (with restaurants/coffee shops nearby), I wouldn't see too many pedestrians. The situation was much better than Mountain View, but still very sparse. Despite the housing being more dense, I just don't see people on the streets.

I agree that the streets are huge compared to the rest of the world. Crossing a major intersection in Mountain View seems like an eternity.
I suppose the additional two phones are for your kids? Does your wife need a smartphone?

Check out Net10. You can get an unlimited plan for $50 for a smartphone, 750 minutes for $25/mo. and 200 minutes for $15/mo. The 200 minute plan has carry over minutes. Your net total would be $105, and ~$115 by the time you include sales tax. Granted, you still have to buy the phones.

You could also look at Walmart's family plan. http://www.walmart.com/cp/Family-Mobile/1076544 That would get you down to $150 for the whole family and it's powered by T-Mobile.

FYI, I'm not offering this simply as a suggestion. I did this back in 2009. I was looking to move away from Sprint (poor coverage where I moved to) to a regional carrier. They wanted $60 per live for activation. I was told they'd only charge for one but I ended up still getting billed for all three. They wouldn't honor the discount the sales person offered me saying the offer wasn't approved by a manager.

Fed up with the state of wireless companies at the time, I originally moved to Tracfone and later to Net10 when Net10 came out with monthly plans (both owned by the same company). Only this past August did I finally upgrade to Android. While my phone is no frills (800 MHz processor and 3.2 pixel camera), it keeps my calendar and contacts in sync, which makes life easier.
Living in the country is fine. Living in a city is fine. But suburbs are dumb. They're too high-density to have good privacy or really have a "slower pace of life", and too low-density to have good relationships with your neighbors.
These?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2161302

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3059743

If not, roughly how long ago, and was it recent when you saw it?
I used to work with Sun for quite some time; I can say without failure every single Sun tech I came across was pretty damn cool, knew what they were doing and was hooked up in the Sun-universe enough so they could provide excellent pointers and ultimately that translated into happy customers. On top of that a lot of their enterprise-y software wasn't half bad to begin with, it was just always terrible getting good documentation and information as an "outsider" oh and there were a couple of years when you could just forget the sorry excuse they passed off as "support". But there was always the possibility of going "black-ops", just de-compiling and providing your own fix and although this is far from great, things just worked and everyone was happy. Sun's suits didn't really matter from our point of view anway, they did no harm, stood in nobody's way, shook hands and invited folks to dinner when appropriate. Fair enough, you cannot really ask for more, anymore and it would literally be paradise, so I was happy with that. Even-though I never got that project manager I was basically paying for...

Enter big red. Talking to brain-washed zombies cannot feel very different from talking to Oracle's sales drones and customer relation dummies. You were talking about "A", they would start trying to sell you pricey-addon for the database when you weren't even talking databases in the first place. Whoever was a useful tech contact inside Sun before now turned into a walled-off zombie as well and I guess I was lucky they didn't just slap a price tag on picking-up the phone or simply answering an email. And to top it off I had to suffer one of their pre-sales dummies loudly telling an oh-so-ridiculous story how, can you imagine, bigcorpA was running tomcat(!) in their production environment! And not the abomination from hell that Oracle gets away with charging huge amounts of money for!! Well can you imagine that!!!

Another case of too-big-to-fail and nobody ever got fired for buying Oracle, hm?
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The USA has been "urbanizing" itself for decades. More than half the population now lives in cities.
I think the last few years have shown conclusively that the it is not a good thing in the Browser because the sandbox security model is too complex to be implemented correctly.
"Philosophy in a time of Software"
And what of working retail, or in a factory?
Evernote has a free version also that has even more functionality than Basecamp Personal. I'm not saying Evernote is the perfect alternative, that was just an example of many.

I guess I'm just getting to the point that there is lots of alternatives out there that give much more value for a better price. I feel like 37signals is trying to sell products just because of their name and are no longer put real value in their products. Or at least putting enough value in to justify the price tag associated with their newest products.
This seems like a great price point for a freelancer doing small projects. You could just charge the $25 straight to the client. However it looks like they don't have a unified dashboard for the personal edition so it might be a pain if you had a few of these running concurrently.
Let's hack it! make one open source.
Should we be recording our phone calls?
The best way I can think to phrase it is "in-browser VMs are dead". This covers Java, Flash, that one Microsoft had for a while, and anything else that uses the browser plug-in mechanism to load heavy frameworks.
I agree with this. I live in the UK, and work in the centre of a major city - and it's nothing other than a pain.

Driving is hard. You are always starting and stopping for endless traffic lights, and when it's not the lights, you're stopping because you've got to weave around clumps of parked cars at the side of the road.

Everything takes so long! I have a parking space where I live, but not everyone is so lucky.

When I was living in the US (northern Indiana suburbs), I was so surprised at how easy everything was - you just get in the car, drive where you need to go on a street that's wide enough for two cars and not plagued with endless parked cars and clutter, park right outside your destination and you're done.
How many plain old PMs know how to code?
How many plain old PMs mentor the developers and lead the code reviews?
Most applications written in Java these days don't have UIs.
If I am an employer in a society where, for each birth, the government mandates six month minimum paid maternity leave. I am hiring for a particular role and have two candidates of equivalent skill with the only difference being one is female and of child-bearing age. Which would you hire? The female may get pregnant and impose two costs on my company: firstly, the cost of maternity leave and, secondly, the cost of finding and training a temporary replacement for a minimum of six months. The rational thing is to hire the male to mitigate this risk since the costs will be lower and productivity assumed to be higher over term of employment.

A better solution is for governments to not force such things but allow companies to negotiate freely with employees. Some may decide to offer extended maternity leave as a differentiator and to attract and retain female talent. But if they do so, they are doing so with coercion and for rational reasons.
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I've tried, and failed, twice, to introduce IRC into organizations. The first organization wanted policy and procedures around logging all chats - ugh ( yes, I know how to set up logging bots.) At the second, I had most of the team balking on the 'ugliness' of (whatever) IRC client they installed and insisted we use campfire.

I'm more than a little jaded at this point, and would love to hear if anyone has faced and solved these sorts of issues.
You would think that a company Oracle's size wouldn't need to resort to install commissions from something like this.

You would think that after several years of conning people into using their search engine, the employees at Ask would feel dirty to have to engage in such tactics.
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I feel the same way about LoL. I've kicked the habit recently.
Listening to music is like taking drugs
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>When I was a kid in England in the 1980s it was common to be out on your bike all day, to walk to school, to head into the woods, etc.

When I was a kid in the USA in the 1980's it was this way too. I'd be interested to hear your perspective on this since I've attributed the playing indoors thing to the kidnapper/molester panic that ramped up in the 80's.
my first thought was "Oh god, the comments will be full of half funny spam" ... looks like he's actually has some good discussion on them though https://github.com/frabcus/house/issues/66
Sorry, I should have said "un-activated." It was a boxed version of Windows 7 Home Premium that I had run out of valid licenses for, so I just never activated it. I was then able to use the upgrade edition of Windows 8 to install and activate successfully. I have since reverted back to my un-activated install of Windows 7.
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What face does the Wright Brothers card use? It can't be Futura - it came out in 1927; Wilbur Wright died 1912.
I have always thought that SF accounts of intelligent robots were far too hand-wavey.

I predict we'll never have machines with minds like humans. They will always exceed our abilities in certain tasks for which they've been programmed, but will never pass a long-term Turing test; for example, you'll never mistake a bot for a human remote programming colleague, with whom you chat and collaborate on features every day.

I take it as an axiom that the human mind cannot understand the human mind fully, for the same reason that a box cannot contain another equal sized box. The "singularity" requires a series of boxes, each of which contains a bigger one.
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We just received a cease and desist for a somewhat generically named product website, from a US LLC's attorney because we have a similar name.
Imagine they own abc.com and we own abcMY-COUNTRY.com

The US company's domain name was registered in 2009 and they don't seem to be very popular.
My product is intended solely for my country and has no relationship with the US product.

The US product is a registered trademark in the US only and has no presence in my country and does not have any offices here.

What is a US corp's legislative power in another country? What actions can they take?

Is DMCA a worry considering our domain names and servers are hosted in the US? Are EU / Asian domain name / hosting providers safe from DMCA?
I was going to say the same thing.

It's very interesting to follow their new tendency to release one-time-fee softwares for consumers. Hope they talk about public reception on their blog.
I may be weird, but I'd much rather use trello + properly sorted email than basecamp.
That almost sounds like our current political state?
Yeah. In some ways our vast area is curse.
Firefox OS is not bootstrapped off of Android. In fact, it is nothing to do with Android. Firefox OS is a Gecko engine (the one behind Firefox) being run by a light-weight Linux kernel. There is no Android in there.
Thanks. In all honestly, I delayed writing and then struggled with writing this post for knowing that this very exchange would take place.

You can't have a post too long or it will have less readers (learned that over the years). On the other side, you risk getting dismissed in this manner.

I decided that introducing the concept would be useful, and that I could do follow-on posts based on feedback from this one.

That said, I don't see what is so vague. The premises are very specific. The process is very specific. If you need more details to implement it, please let me know what they are. What is really missing is all the arguments around the nuances, which I referenced at the end. But those felt more like footnotes, which I generally jettison.
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Exactly this. The mental pain and anguish from second to second can feel absolutely unbearable and hellish. When every synapse in your brain feels on fire, and overwhelmingly awful, being able to not exist anymore seems a very enticing proposition.
I live in Barcelona since, 2001. I love this city, I'd rather die than moving from it.

work: you can work in Barcelona in english if you want. Comparing it with the rest of the country, Barcelona it's way more bilingual than the rest. You can live well with spanish anyways. But in the tech industry english is really awesome. Side by side with Madrid, Barcelona it's another big technological hub. I would really love to connect with anyone from HN to start projects (I have a couple in queue).

lifestyle: Barcelona is relaxed. It's organized compared with Madrid. You have the beach near any point without making an hour in bicycle. Food is not expensive, prices are affordable.

rent: since 2001, Barcelona was the 5th most expensive city to live in, but now, with the crisis, things changed a lot: I have a nice, new flat for 625€/mo. Fully equiped, not so centric located, but at 10min in train, 15 min in metro from the center of the city and 7 mins from the beach, so its a big deal.
The guy who created activeCollab first released it as open source → http://web.archive.org/web/20060810011430/http://www.activec...

Then, he realized it could make money and put a $499 price tag on it → https://www.activecollab.com/pricing.html
Android too is catching up with the apps spamming the notification bar.
Not that I agree with this, but there are a range of factors that make infringement a criminal offense:

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#506

Specifically: "(C) by the distribution of a work being prepared for commercial distribution, by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public, if such person knew or should have known that the work was intended for commercial distribution."
Switch some or all of your phones to pre-paid tmobile.

Get google voice numbers, and use them for SMS and voice calls for personal business (like calling your bank).

I don't have 4 accounts like you, but I have saved hundreds of dollars this way.
I meant Search and their media holdings. Not cloud services. Sorry for not clarifying.
Thanks for the quick reply, it sounds great to become more part of this community. I am finishing off high school this year, but have been working at the amazing @AanZeeNL as a creator for over a year now (although not actually working all the time due to my obligations to school). As for the Amsterdam hacker/founder community, could I just meet up, or should I qualify to some conditions? Conditions being: working at a startup or being a founder, or is it enough to be interested and be an aspiring founder?
I'm not sure if the two products are comparable though, I love Evernote for unstructured content but to me Basecamp has always been more structured.

In particular for keep track of todo lists (along with audit trails of who's done what) and allowing email notification and response of discussions around todo's and documents.

I know you can do some of this to an extent in Evernote (e.g. todo lists) but I'd be interested to hear more about how you use Evernote such that it can be a Basecamp replacement?
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May I asked what is your job ?

If you're a programmer does it affect the way you think about things ?

I was highly infected by such programs (Maya hypergraph, SekD Samplitude non destructive virtual tracks; all share this lazy composition of generic nodes) before entering a computer cursus and it shapes everything I do ever since. And since few people experienced that level of generative-ness, I often look like a fool.
Another BS "mobile" site. Is it really necessary to take 5 seconds to load just for that? When I see that BS on the iPad, I hit the back button and go elsewhere.
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Having a user base of folks that aren't very knowledgeable is no excuse for abuse.

Also, I do not think other platforms can be as plagued as Windows is, because it's a matter of culture and user expectations being driven by that culture. The size of the user base has nothing to do with it.

On Windows users wishing to get anything done resort to installing some crap, even for basic things like uncompressing an archive, watching a movie, listen to some MP3 or viewing a PDF or an Office document.

Things got better with open-source software that was ported to Windows, but considering that Windows is the dominant operating system, the ecosystem is actually kind of lame. If you want quality software, the few exceptions are some open-source apps and some products being sold by some big publishers and that's it.

I have a theory that this is because Microsoft itself encouraged piracy and bundling of crapware, while discouraging indie developers, communities and open-source.
I wonder how difficult/viable it would be to crowd source actual people reading the articles? I am sure there must be radio journalist students who wouldn't mind reading pieces for feedback from listeners (on their reading?).
Re crazy parking story: A man says to his doctor "It hurts when I move my elbow like this."

The doctor replies "Then don't move your elbow like that."

E.g. sounds like car ownership is more trouble than it's worth.
Microsoft has lost; there's no getting back the head start they once had. It's not like Windows 8 is going to set the record straight and grow Microsoft to 10x the size of Apple and Google combined, like it once was. In part, this is because of their utterly flawed understanding of internet and the way humans (not businesses) work. Steve Ballmer is a joke of a CEO; a loud, screaming monkey that thought the iPhone was "cute". The guy is a moron.
> Dynamic variables (a very specific term in CL) are simply awesome.

I may be wrong but I think the name is rather common outside CL too (assuming you refer to "variables with dynamic scope rather than lexical"). E.g. as we are talking of scala

http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/util/DynamicVari...
This website is made by geeksphone, which Wikipedia says is a Spanish startup

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeeksPhone
I use a combination of Google Voice (free) and H2O wireless ($10/month for 200 minutes). H2O uses AT&T towers, so your existing GSM phones should work fine. I give people my Voice number, which I set to forward calls but not SMS, so text messages don't use up my minutes, and when I'm in a wifi zone (pretty often) I can log in and check my text messages.
Your opening sentence makes me wonder: why does it have to be an all-out switch?

When you need a car for getting places and a truck for moving things, and you can afford both, you don't need to choose between one or the other. You can have both, and use each for what you need it for. Operating systems are not a life-choice; they do not demand exclusive relationships.
In the actual chat logs (which Ars ignores), another chatter brings up shorting the stock, weev explicitly says shorting the stock would be illegal and that if someone wants to do that, not to involve him. Aside from the fact that no one did it and this was obviously silly chat room banter to begin with, weev is actually showing intent of not running afoul of the law.

Later in the chat, another user says that weev should post the leaked data to a public mailing list, and weev says no because that could potentially be criminal.
> the sandbox security model is too complex to be implemented correctly

...is there any other simpler security model than this? Java even seems a simpler and more "well behaved" language than JavaScript, and JVM bytecode is said to be even simpler (though I'm not an expert on this...), and browsers had they own share of Javascript related exploits but people rolled updates quickly, acted responsibly and didn't do anything particularly stupid (as opposed to the described crapware incident perpetuated by Oracle).

EDIT+: one can buy browser exploits cheaper on "the x market" and they are more useful than JVM exploits so "security" is not Java's Achilles' heel, and it's Swiss cheese all the way down if you at most web-facing software unfortunately...
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I was one of the developers of a product in the same space, consider myself a pretty good programmer, and can assure you you wouldn't build basecamp (our any competing product) in a week or two. There's so much that goes into a product like this, that reading a comment such as yours can even be considered offensive. It is, at the very least, quite naive.
You can transition that experience to other languages. Try out Java or Scala.
I STRONGLY recommend Asana:

http://www.asana.com

It's like using a smart piece of paper that just gets out of your way and let's you create, assign, toggle, set dates, etc really intuitively.

I'm a freelancer - and for my usage I typically have a Workspace called Freelance Projects. In that workspace I have many projects, each for each freelance gig I land. I then invite my client (YOU CAN INVITE UP TO 30 PEOPLE PER PROJECT FOR FREE HOLY BALLS) and collaborate intuitively from there.

He/she can upload photoshop files, images, text files, edit desriptions and I can comment on them and we go back and forth. Better than email.

I used to procrastinate a lot. It was my achille's heel; but since Asana I enjoy working because there's something deeply psychological in ticking things off and seeing them grayed out.

If you haven't checked it out.

There's also Trello but I kind of dislike it when there are more than 5 items in a list. It gets unwiedly.
I live on a cul-de-sac and it's wonderful for my children. They play outside all the time. There have been various families of our age come and go on our street. We hardly know them because no one comes out of their homes. It's very lonely at times, and yet, we live so close together.
Definitely not Futura. Closest I could find are the following:

* http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/typodermic/winthorpe/

* http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/berthold/quadriga-bq/

* http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/dtptypes/garamond-nine-six-dt/