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The mere suggestion that all of us middle-class schmucks are out here dreaming of an Audi or some other bling shows how out of touch he/she is with middle class America. Maybe that's the way it was in the 1980s, but now most of us in the middle class are just desperately trying to pay rising insurance bills, electricity bills, childcare, groceries, and clawing with all our might to not fall out of the middle class. I can honestly say I haven't thought about wanting money for something that wasn't an absolute necessity for a decent middle class life since my early 20s (I'm in my late 30s now). Many of us don't even dream about getting rich -- we just dream of having enough income to pay the bills. Based on my experiences, and that of my peers, middle class life around the country is changing drastically. I've watched a number of families formerly in the upper middle class fall into the mundane middle class, and middle class folks fall into the lower classes. I wonder if the boom in SV has isolated many of you from this. If that's the case, I'm sincerely glad you don't have to deal with it -- it's depressing to do well in school and work hard, only to see the dreams of a stable, secure middle-class life float away. For most of us, it's just paycheck to paycheck now.
Not just ERP, but in my experience people use Excel for everything - project management, data cleansing/manipulation/conversion, test scripts, status reports, etc.

All things that can be done better with other tools, but for many people, it's easier to just work with a tool that they know rather than trying to learn a new tool (witness the groans every time a new $PROCESS Management Tool is introduced).

Not saying it's a good or bad thing, just what I've observed.
> If [...] would Aaron have killed himself on January 11?
> The answer is unquestionably no.

I appreciate a willingness to share a unique perspective on something so intensely personal, but I did not see any value in the article's chosen hypothetical situation over any other: dropped charges, never downloaded all that stuff, been committed to a mental institution by caring friends, etc.
He did say it: you don't have to worry about money as much anymore, so you can quit your job at anytime because you don't need the money.
This is the argument in favor of "Affirmative action". Minorities have been discriminated against for 100 years, and so we need a period of time where they are discriminated for to make up for it.

I can see both sides of that. But ideally, you want to fix the systemic issue not just try to correct for it, because your correction is almost guaranteed to add more unfairness to the system not reduce it.
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Isn't MIT network open

"MIT running an open network" is not the same as "MIT allows anyone to do anything on their network." MIT runs an open network because it trusts users to use it responsibility. If someone does something that MIT admins don't like, they will try to shut down that activity.
This book is aimed at affiliate marketers who want to spruce up their websites with php...BUT, it's actually not a bad intro to PHP on its own. Free Today for Kindle.
OP here.
Thanks for the feedback. We also asked respondents about sexting over text messaging, and got a similar rate (26%) to other studies about sexting[1].
Of course, as we note, this is entirely self-reported behavior and not observed behavior.

[1]http://cbsloc.al/Nv7WPR
Get started to Meteor? I never create web app so quickly! For the customization, it depends what are your needs. Meteor is clearly cool to make collaborative web app;

If it's about Mailgun, you can get started for free without any configuration and if you want to send more than 300 emails/day later, you can create a mailgun account and easily integrate your own SMTP credentials into the app using the steps outlined in the blog.
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Actually if you import "net" go links to libc.so and some others.
An other fun one:

(a) - (b)

which in statically typed C-like languages can mean either "cast the value -(b) to type a" or "subtract the value (b) from the value (a)"
That's what's so twisted about the American Dream™, is that it's the desire for a certain type of individual freedom, but a freedom that is always based on the subjugation of others. It's not a universal freedom, which to me is the only kind.
It's very possible that you are right. Some things are too far out for the mainstream economy to support. However, if you see a real need, then there should be a way to finance a solution.

What can you do for your dream before making your first kajillion? You can develop the proper skills, research the problem, form a plan. You can find people who agree with you, raise funds. Start small and switch to it full time when you can.

Waiting to hit a golden figure will really delay the start of your project. Worse, you may find yourself always needing "just a little bit more" before you can cut over and start. If you truely must wait to self-fund this way, keep that target figure in your mind always, and have the guts to jump when you're ready.

Good luck!
"I don't know , I haven't noticed bandwidth caps getting much better."

Yes, a lot of people have gotten so cynical they haven't noticed, no sarcasm, but many consumer internet connections over the past few years have simply gotten better, without much fanfare. I believe right now my mid-grade Comcast connection is now primarily speed limited by my wireless router, rather than the Internet connection itself. This was not true when I signed up for it four years ago. I still have a 250GB/month cap (which I still only come about 33% of the way to using) but I wouldn't be surprised that grows sometime before the XBox720 gets out there.

It seems like games have been shipping less video as the in-game engines become more and more capable. Game companies were already straining to fill the disk in this generation, I think in the next generation it is very likely to be game company resources that are the limiting factor rather than bandwidth concerns.
Getting tired of this response.

I'm dealing with this issue right now with Snip.it. They were clearly in talks with Yahoo! about being purchased (and potentially others as they were putting out surveys every few months about usage and purpose that I filled out each and every time), but didn't inform any of us that the site would literally be shut off late one day and we would be unable to retrieve (or even look at in read-only mode) all of the data we'd put on the site.

We were initially able to grab a PDF or HTML file of the links we'd posted, but none of the additional descriptions we'd place along with them. They told us to try Kippt and Diigo but the way they'd formatted the file wasn't friendly to either of these services, which would lump them all together instead of separate them by the categories we'd placed them in (although it would "tag" them with the category, but that doesn't help me navigate when my tags aren't listed out anywhere). When I complained about the descriptions issue on their Facebook page, they added them a few days later and another service (keeeb) tried to reach out and ask them how they could better serve the fallout (not sure if they responded, but keeeb looks like a neat service). I got in touch with Kippt to ask if they could figure out a way to get the imports to work correctly since they were being advertised, and they asked for my export file and said they'd work on it, but I haven't heard anything back.

I don't care if your service is free or not (and I even informed Snip.it I would have paid for the service, as some people replied on the linked post did as well), you owe it to the users that gave a shit about you and wanted to see you succeed to have some sort of grace period, and better, to escort them to similar services so they aren't left completely in the dust, having spent months and years of time contributing to and advertising for your company. At least in my situation, they tried to do the latter, even though these services weren't actually anything like their own and couldn't parse the data.

Whatever Yahoo! plans on doing with the Snip.it team, I won't be using it. I hope they're happy they've alienated a vibrant and growing audience.
You should read "So Good They Can't Ignore You."

It lays out a clever mental model for turning interests into skills into control over your career.

http://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/145550912...
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I too am all for nice web design that puts the user first. It's definitely possible and positive for the web; it just takes (sometimes a lot of) extra work and people are too lazy to test everything.
"We did a survey where we asked 1000 respondents about whether they lied in survey responses. 100% answered 'no'"
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I think that the anonymity provided by craigslist is something people value. Having strangers looking into your life after posting a for sale ad doesnt feel right.
No, this isn't just about Clojure. You could do similar things in Scheme, or CL, or even Python or Ruby.

What's cool about this isn't that we've managed to put functions in a data structure. It's that doing this in a particular way allows us to describe computations in a declarative way. This declarative specification opens up lots of interesting avenues to do new things with our code that weren't available before.

Of course the idea of declarative programming isn't new either, but we think this particular instantiation is cool because it's extremely simple and close to the language. Writing a Graph doesn't feel any heavier than writing the corresponding non-declarative code, and this is crucial for making it actually useful in many kinds of situations (rather than just cases where heavy lifting is necessary, like distributed stream processing for example).
Yeah, Patch hit on a pretty big gap in the news market. The bigger newspapers cut and cut on local reporters, to the point where a daily newspaper might have a half-dozen local stories covering their very large coverage area. Patch can start a micro-site, have someone write an article or two about that town each day, and be much more interesting to people.
I wouldn't call most tech blogs these days "journalism". A journalist would at least put a little blurb in the story describing their attempt to contact Microsoft and corroborate the story.
That ~40,000 men kill themselves in U.S is not a molehill. That men are statistically more likely to get a much harsher prison sentence and are filling up the prison-industrial complex in record numbers is not a molehill. That men are on-course to be outpaced in college degrees 2:1 is not a molehill. As users of ycombinator we're most likely privileged men that have never experienced any of this. But don't be so self-absorbed to assume that your cushy life is representative of the average man.
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Civil Disobedience means accepting that what you are doing is illegal and dealing with the consequences. Period.

"Fighting the system" is a different can of worms. Being a revolutionary is also different. But Civil Disobedience means that you put civility -- the willingness to not fight -- at the same level as your moral outrage. Civil Disobedience is doing the right thing, being willing to take the consequences without a fight, and daring the public to put up with such an immoral system. The person who is being disobedient is asking "How can our society continue in a practical way when we treat people this way?" It's both a moral and a practical question. It's not just outrage.

It's an important distinction. I'm fine with revolutionaries, after all, the U.S. started with a revolution. But we were very clear in the Declaration of Independence the reasons for our taking up arms. We had a job to do, and the king had a job to do. The king wasn't doing his, and after trying our best to meet his demands, power then reverted to the natural legislature of the people.

This wasn't a moral crusade. This was a reluctant servant taking the only action possible.

If you want a moral crusade and a revolution, then you have to answer one key question: what makes you so right? After all, if we're talking morals, other people have morals too, and I betcha they're not going to agree with yours. What do we do? All get clubs and run out into the street and whoever wins gets to decide what's right? Been a lot of that going around, and it never ends well. Majorities don't decide the correct construction of a society that's going to last. All they get to do is bully folks into getting their way.

I can't make a call on Aaron because I have no idea what his intentions were, and the story never finished. So the reader is free to add whatever he would like onto it (one of the reasons it is so powerful, probably)

But I know from Civil Disobedience. Powerful concept. Poorly understood.

ADD: Was going to link to MLK's letter from a Birmingham Jail, but that might derail us. MLK put this in religious terms, "So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love?", but the core of the question in my mind is not religious, it is this: how are we all going to continue getting along together if things continue like this?
Well yeah. What's advertised? What's in stores? I haven't seen a 'plain' lego set in stores in years, outside of lego-brand stores.

If they don't know it exists, they're less likely to want it.
There are a ton of software development jobs open in the DC area. The companies are not as sexy as Twitter or Google, but they're hiring.
I used it for information about crime in my neighborhood, not much else.
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You're not alone. The Verge published a feature titled "Beyond lies the wub: a history of dubstep"

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/28/3262089/history-of-dubstep...
But when people ask for gender neutral language in Violence Against Women Act and family law, countless feminists scream "wut about the menz?!"
A different approach, which has served me well, is to study and understand Perl's parser/lexer, which are more intertwined than your grandmother's Friday night challah. Once you get that, understanding the MRI parser is a snap.
> No, you're paying Elsevier to digitize, index, catalogue, and host publicly funded research. None of that is free.

So why aren't those services let out for competitive bid?

The agreements that were made in the past have severe negative externalities in the present environment. They must be renegotiated. We should not live in a feudal society where mere tradition grants a divine right of monopoly to publicly funded goods.
actual reddit link: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18063g/i_am_panos_pana...
About ten years ago I set out to do this using a peg memory system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_peg_system that I customized to card suits and numbers.

The best I could do was 4:25 and it was far more exhausting than I thought it would be. Trying as hard as possible three times in a day was my limit but the result was magical because I really knew the entire deck.

Instantly you can answer questions like, What is below the two of hearts? What how far is the ace of spades from the seven of diamonds? It felt surreal. I never noticed any improvement in other memory abilities as a side effect but it definitely felt like exercise of a mental sort.
Scarcity does exist in the digital realm - only on the production side. Distribution is effectively free.

Until dev/random spits out complete programs that are worth using, it needs to be taken into account that all software requires effort to produce, and giving the author(s) the ability to dictate the terms of the software use is often the only reason certain software gets made.
With respect, unless the first sentence of the first chapter of this book is "hire an actual developer to install a tested framework" then it runs the risk of doing more harm (both to the marketer/wannabe dev and PHP's reputation) than good.

That said, good luck... I might pick it up as a reference myself.
Show HN: HackerNews group on goodreads
I made a group on goodreads for HackerNews. I've seen a number of threads with book recommendations (both seeking and giving). I thought it would be nice to have a place to collect those.

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/94469-hackernews

Open to all...
That's what I was thinking. On the other hand, Microsoft has already ported some of the functionality to JavaScript to make Office 365 -- maybe they could offer cross-platform support via an Office 365 client that could run offline? It would still be a far cry from Office on Linux/Android.
It seems to reason that people who use SnapChat for sexting are doing so to hide the fact that they're sexting, so they might be less likely to admit to it (even on an anonymous survey). Someone who uses text messaging may feel less compelled to hide it at all. This would be especially true for kids (under 18) since you also ask the age on the survey.

Not sure how big a role this might actually play in the results.
It is well known that Aaron by way of his associations with MIT had the right to download JSTOR articles there.

He also had "legal" access through his fellowship at Harvard, he could have downloaded his articles while at work.
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Everything you're saying is true. But so is a lot of what the author said. Especially in the last section.

I've run into situations with Windsor along the lines of what he describes, and it really is a distressing situation to be in. You're happily coding along, whipping the project together, hacking decorators, auto-registering everything with a great set of conventions, and generally having a grand old time. And then something goes kachunk and suddenly it's damn near impossible to figure out how to tell the container exactly how everything needs to be wired up without creating a raft of custom dependency providers to deal with special cases that the container just wasn't designed to handle properly. And the configuration becomes increasingly diffuse, devolving into a mishmash of conventions, manual registrations, and registrations that are implied by custom implementations of IFooResolverProviderFactory, until eventually you realize that you're working with a modern-day edition of what Dijkstra was talking about when he wrote GOTO Considered Harmful. And at that point it might be time to tearfully say goodbye to the IoC container and hand code some abstract factories, because not only will they be less opaque but you'll soon discover to your own horror that they actually reduce the SLOC count.

But - butbutbutbutbut - where I depart with the author is in thinking that this means that IoC containers are bad. Quite the contrary. Avoiding an IoC container because your dependency graph might, just might turn out to be more complicated than what the container was designed to handle is a premature optimization. And will probably lead to worse code than what you'll get if you start out with an IoC container and are forced to give it up later, since using an IoC container really does encourage SOLID code.

I guess what I'm saying is, IoC containers are only "mostly amazingly great." It's still a young technology with some kinks to work out. Even venerable old Windsor is still experiencing significant API flux. They don't necessarily have an answer to every use case yet, even if they are getting damn close.

Oh, and writing libraries. If you're a library, you are not the composition root, by definition. And if you're not the composition root, you don't get to use an IoC container. Sorry. Have a facade.
I disagree.

Success is all about trial and error. If you want to call it luck when you run out of things that can go wrong, then call it luck. I consider luck to be an exception, not an inevitability.

The only role luck has in achieved success is avoiding the errors by doing things correctly the first time around, but that still isn't exactly luck, because not knowing what can go wrong leaves you vulnerable to future problems.

> When someone uses lottery winnings to start a successful company, do you really think they would have gotten "dozens of opportunities each year" to invest a large amount of money however they want?

My point was you don't often hear about lottery winners investing their money and turning it into a business system. You do hear about lottery winners blowing their windfall with nothing to show for it in the end though.

If good luck is the only reason that people born poor can become wealthy, then is bad luck the only reason that people born wealthy go broke?
That is the whole point :)
So all of a sudden we have become a design Nazi and telling people what their website can or can't include for design.

The alternative to not allowing custom fonts is that people go back to using text in images to display their custom fonts which sucks when you are dealing with multiple languages or just want to change the text for something else. Or something like Cufon [http://cufon.shoqolate.com]. Or use flash.

I think I prefer webfonts, the developers just need to be smarter about how they are used and the implementation for including them.
Let's collect 1000 positive comments on the Nexus 4 and AOSP
I go to work every week day to do stupid stuff people want me to do it stupid ways to pay for a stupid house and stupid food in order to make sure I survive. For the area I live, I get paid reasonably well I'd say and I do it they way because they pay more than the other guy.

Money offers choices. It allows people to live and work where they want and makes it a helluva lot easier to stand up for yourself or leave your job to find your passion. I currently have none of these allowances.

Even without any it's plain to see how money can make it easier to be happy in life, but at the end of the day happiness is up to yourself. I'm reasonably happy without any money, but I know if I had some, I could probably make myself happier. :p
I remember watching that come to life, Wilson's work on it and the maps etc. A fantastic piece of development.
EB may have suffered from a lack of discoverability of its best features.

The feature I found most useful was the ability to define an area on a map, then get email updates when other users posted news in that area. I think that should have been the primary focus of Everyblock instead of the raw stream of data.
The next thing you need to understand about money is this: all of the things you picture buying, they are only worthwhile to you because you cannot afford them (or have to work really hard to acquire them).

That was one of the biggest surprises for me. I never realized the degree to which not being able to afford certain things was what was making me want them. That childhood excitement of saving up your money to buy some coveted thing is completely gone. And without it you find you covet the thing far less. When you realize you can bring it home from the store whenever you want, you're often surprised to find yourself thinking "let them keep it there for now."

Curiously, this affects people in different ways. When the excitement of e.g. buying a fancy car is diminished by 10x, some people respond by buying 10 fancy cars, and others just lose interest. I turned out to be in the latter group, and judging from what I've seen in SV, a lot of HN readers probably also would be.

It's slightly sad, in the way that losing one's appetite or sexual desire might be. On the other hand, you're arguably less of a slave to people marketing luxuries, and the other things you long for might be more worth longing for.