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That seems extreme.

I certainly cut down to two suitcases before emigrating a few years ago, and found it very liberating. In doing so I freed myself from just keeping stuff 'just in case' as I did before. I now live a much more minimal life, and feel much less surrounded by clutter.

But as a permanent way of life? Nah, no thanks. I like my bed. I like my sofa. I like my tv. I like my microserver.
For those who might ask, it's actually useful when you have a series of work items that you want to rapidly change, like the status of a project, deadline, etc. It's a lot less time consuming to add a new row to a sheet rather than having to go through a series of menus and windows to get to where you need.
With silicon milkroundabout jobs fair they often ask if you know of any other talented people that might be interested during the registration process.

Could you not ask people when they register for tickets if they know anyone of their opposite gender that would be interested (perhaps phrased more casually than that) So girls would recommend a guy they know and vice versa.

Even if you get a low return on e-mail addresses it may get people to question the balance of their own social network & they may start to look to balance that up next time they're at a networking event, it's true that a lot of people have to go outside of their comfort zone to do that. Most of my friends recommend events to me already but they have to make a point to remember to mention it, this would just add that element into the registration process.

I think it would remove a lot of friction to new people attending, with this method they already have a friend they know that is going so it's easy to tag along.

You could explain how you're committed to making your events equal opportunity. This will help you to hear of potentially interested people & it also opens up lines of communication in social groups where people start to share in wider circles.

I completely agree that adding specific female ticket section just makes me think sigh I'm just making up the numbers.
What does he cook with?
I'd like to cut down on all of the junk I hold on to. What are some helpful tips to go from hoarder to not owning shit?
Wow, thank you for this post. It made me completely disagree. (but that's okay) I think it can be rewarding itself to feel that you are getting better. And maybe oneself is the best competitor one can find. It always keeps up with your pace.

She is the type of person I admire. The type of person I want to become. Maybe at some time in the future.

Oh, and your quote. It jumped to be my nr.1.

Again, thx for the inspiration.
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IntelliJ's @Nullable annotations are a decent workaround to my biggest complaint about Java. (Java has a static type system that intentionally doesn't catch the most common type error.)

On the NetBeans subject: does NetBeans have much traction outside of Sun/Oracle? It's been a while since I've done any Java development, but back in 2005, it seemed that pretty much only the official Java tutorials used NetBeans.
All I can figure is that he doesn't cook and just eats out all the time. He does say something about not worrying about the cost of food.
Trustwave was the outside party running the penetration test. 0-days are commonly used by pentesters, and are available for purchase by subscription as well as one offs that are made available via mailing lists etc.

For example: https://www.immunityinc.com/canvas-cep.shtml

This is standard practice for the industry and quite common. But do note that not all 0-days are created equal: a 0-day that effects 1000 users is 1000x the significance of one that effects only one user (with some notable exceptions). Also realize that 0-day is often used misleadingly - anything that was first used in the wild is a 0-day, even if that event was months ago, the vendor has been informed, and crucially - even if a patch has been issued by the vendor. Pentest firms often oversell their "0-days" in an effort to appear more advanced to their clients.
If that were actually his legislative agenda, that would be interesting. But I don't see him pushing that in terms of how he votes.

The government already does not interfere with the private, religious aspects of marriage. The Catholic Church can define marriage however it wants, and the state has no say in it, which is why you can't get a same-sex marriage in a Catholic church.

What's being debated is who should be recognized as married for official purposes (5th amendment rights, tax filing, survivor benefits, inheritance in the absence of a will, etc.). On that question, Amash supports the Defense Of Marriage Act, which says that the government should recognize only opposite-sex marriages, and not recognize same-sex marriages. If he opposed DOMA, and instead introduced legislation to abolish all government recognition of marriage, I'd give him kudos for that!
I am working on a mobile app. Seems like everyone's got a phone these days and uploading a picture of the problem seems easier with a phone. I think that a webapp for signups and searching, and a phone app to view results, and upload questions is the way to go. Just need to validate the problem is the right problem to solve before investing any more of my time on this.
While a lot of the web is still horribly broken on touchscreen devices, it should be noted that the situation is getting better.

The popularity of iOS and Android devices means that a lot of even regular websites now have to pay attention to responsive layouts, large input elements, etc.

Of course, there is a lot of web that updates slowly, HN included. Getting all those on board the modern, responsive web will probably take years.

But having used touchscreen devices daily for browsing since early 2006, the situation is clearly improving all the time. Popular CSS frameworks like Bootstrap help, too.
I've used Eclipse for about 6 years for Java development before switching jobs and switching to IntelliJ. If there is one important difference it is this: It's fast. Eclipse can take up to a second or so to generate auto completion recommendations. In IntelliJ, you hardly even notice it it is so fast. This allows the IDE to get out of your way and leave your thinking uninterrupted which is often one of the main benefits touted by vim or emacs users.

I would say try IntelliJ for a month. That will give you time to alter some of the strange default settings (like being able to put the cursor past the end of the line) and discover some of the many other powerful features (like clever renaming of getters/setters when renaming a field). But I still believe it is the speed that sets IntelliJ apart from any other IDE out there and will be the ultimate reason for your improved productivity.
Just wait till you get a wife ;-)
I'm perpetually amused by all the people acutely aware of their privilege, and how they rarely mention any of the things they're doing to try to right the injustice.

It strikes me as the same making racist remarks and then insisting you have black friends, (the corollary being that my unchecked privilege probably makes me an unapologetic racist in this analogy but at least that's honest, I guess)
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It's usually much easier for an expert in techniques to develop some domain expertise than vice versa - as long as they recognize the actual need to do so. And actually, the techniques end up being pretty good mechanisms for rigorously building such domain expertise, as you see which variables lead to good predictions and what pattern of interactions leads to breakdowns in performance.
Wikipedia is pretty bad example imo, as it is actually quite advanced webapp of sorts. More specifically, it's a webapp for authoring, collaborating, searching and viewing documents.
I guess I should feel ripped off by Nissan since I have a cookie cutter SUV. 4 wheels, the trunk has a 3rd row that pops up on demand, I can switch into 4 wheel drive. I did get to pick the color though. I really wish they had thought about making it unique and maybe putting the steering wheel in the back seat.
There are inherent problems which are not Java specific. Your app would need to have very few rights for starters, the sandbox should be as small as possible (like browser/JS).

If you have different permissions and a complex sandbox with a runtime that supports classloaders, you run into the same security problems that Java currently enjoys for applets.
The guy is obviously single. Things change after that!
Well, while he is not owning shit, as he says, he probably owns enough in terms of financial backing that he could afford shit if he felt the urge of doing so.

What a slap in the face of all hardworking people out there that don't own shit and have no choice in that.

And no, you are not painfully aware of that. You are aware of it, but where is the pain? Just cry me a river...
Liveness is an experience, hotswapping is a mechanism that gets you 5% of the way their. Its like saying "we've done 5% of the work ,the rest of the 95% should be easy right?" Actually, just figuring out what the experience is difficult. So more details...

Hancock defines the term "live programming" in his thesis [1] and its where I get my definition from (before Hancock, the term doesn't exist, though liveness was defined by Tanimoto and Maloney in the 90s). Basically, live programming is about continuous feedback for which hot swapping might be useful (though it must be said its not exactly necessary nor is it sufficient). But there is much more to it: you want continuous feedback about the code you are editing, not just some idea that the code will run sometime in the future in a running program. You want to also observe the behavior of this code in a way that is comprehensible, and map this behavior back to your code.

I wrote and presented a paper [2] on live programming back in 2007. Ralph Johnson (a big Smalltalker) was in my audience and had the same complaint: he only saw hot swapping and not the experience I was presenting. To him, it was mechanism, not exeperience. I wonder if this is a problem with Smalltalkers in general.

[1] http://llk.media.mit.edu/papers/ch-phd.pdf

[2] http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1793...
Haven't used something in a year? Throw it out. Not sure if you'll regret throwing away a memento? Take a picture of it, then throw it out.
I hope he enjoys his gut and general ill-health after a year of eating out.
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I've found myself trying to have less and less stuff. Before the big problem was that I love reading, a lot. The kindle solves that for most things, but there are still people who think that pdf is a good e-book solution , so for those I need to get dead-tree versions. Plus for comics/manga, it's the same problem.

That and I have a lot of clothes. I'm trying to make my life a bit more minimal though, and I try to avoid buying things that would require keeping now.
Yeah, I use that and I agree that it's useful. I just want a simpler way to select successive lines.
That must be a nice life. Eating out is quite an expensive way to live.
This is orthogonal to the point, but something I noticed in the link - why does something like XKCD need HTTPS? Is it just a "secure by default" thing?
I usually just tell myself : Do I want to put this in a suitcase when I move? Do I want one more thing in my place? Usually that works, after the horrors I've had involving moving.

There are a lot of boxes of my stuff sitting somewhere that will probably all go to the trash when/if I ever fetch them. Being forced to move around changed my view on a lot of things.
Thanks for posting, dirtyaura (I wrote the article). Rovio is insanely good at keeping that Angry Birds brand relevant, but I do wonder whether they're too dependent on that one brand. (Armchair business strategist much, lol?)
I'm currently hard at work with this self, but having a girlfriend complicates things.

Every day before leaving home, I visit my bookshelf, select one of my 1-200+ books that I never read anyway and throw it away.

I smile, thinking to myself that I just made moving out of the apartment a little .. lighter.

In under one year, I won't have any books left and I'll move on to some other totally uneccessary item - like a decorative item or pair of old shoes.

Not wanting to sound like a hippie, I still think the sheer amount of "stuff" we have in our lives is keeping us pinned down.
No, it is absolutely not true. Even in the fictional universe in which armed drones had been deployed, Obama does not have the authority to use them against Americans unaffiliated with Al Qaeda or while they are on American soil even if they are affiliated with Al Qaeda. The power Obama has to order drone strikes derives from the AUMF that put us at war in Afghanistan and is structurally identical to the power FDR used to order bombings in Europe during WW2.

You are more or less parroting conspiracy theories from the Internet.
> As long as it provides value for the society.

.. and this is the basic assumption of patents: They should provide value for society. If they don't, then they are a bad bargain and should be taken off the table. They are not some perpetual right. They are a grant from society in return for certain things. If the benefits don't exceed the costs or damages accruing from taking away the freedoms they curtail, then we should take these grants off the table.

> If you allow farmers to replant seeds then Monsanto doesn't exist anymore.

Someone else addressed that better than me.

> I see gm crops like a software license limited in time, it's not because we agree that you can use my software for a year that you have the right to use it for as long as you want. Don't like this business model ? Then don't use it.

... or change the law, to take this business model off the table, if the software company abuses the rights to place restrictions that we as a society finds not to be worth the benefits we get from it.

Again: They do not have a right to profit from their chosen business model when this business model is based on exploiting a grant of rights that depends on the restriction of the freedom of the public that society chose to offer with specific goals. They have a right - as long as we continue to offer that trade - to try to profit from it. But we also have a right to take that deal away if we don't benefit sufficiently from it, or if the restraints it adds prove too harsh.

> So what? If a company build a harvester that improves harvest by 20%, am I entitled to steal it because it distorts the market?

You miss the point entirely, which was that if we're already paying for this technology, then for society there is no cost saving in leaving the R&D to Monsanto vs. paying for it from public funds. And the argument
Why? Sushi is healthy. Salads are healthy. Lots of healthy stuff to eat out.
Weird. I read the post and asked myself "where's the news?" I thought the majority of HN readers lived like this. I do, but without the custom tailoring or whatever he was talking about. I can't afford that right now.

Owning lots of stuff is a burden. Really is.
Nice.

I think its important to find one'w own minimal footprint. Obviously it is different for each individual. Knowing it will ease the context switches (read: Location/Country change, status change, leaving the comfort zone etc...). Though, I doubt staying with the minimal footprint for a "really" long time is a viable option.
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(This is a response both to you, and to the sibling comment:)

I would say that the best comparison is nearsightedness.

I imagine humans used to have, on average, pretty excellent distance-vision (we can't know for sure--eyes don't leave fossils--but "seeing clearly" seems to be something with a lot of selective pressure, as far as survival goes.)

But now that that selective pressure is taken away [have you ever thought "they're not attractive, because they need glasses"?] nearsightedness runs rampant, and just keeps getting worse as nearsighted people cross their genes together.

But does it matter? Of course not! The people affected just wear glasses or contacts. And then they're normal.

You wouldn't call a person wearing glasses an "enhanced baseline human." They're obviously the result of something going wrong, somewhere. The glasses are a crutch.

But still, we don't add moral judgement to "having bad vision"; it's not something to be pitied. We don't run donation drives to get poor people glasses.

But on the other hand, living your whole life being unaware that you're nearsighted, and unaware that if you just put on a pair of specs, you could read signs twenty feet away like a regular human being--that's a terrible fate.
and kids!
Mobile apps have made it possible to write your app once and have it work on multiple platforms? Gee, I must have missed that (as I post to HN, a web app that works on multiple platforms).
People are already abusing your logos. At least this would reduce some of the poor attempts to extract a logo off of your website's navigation.
Show HN: Chrome Extension saves the last Tweet you read to easily find it later.
depends on where you live. I think you could do it relatively easily in Japan for example. 1k yen per meal (which can get you really good meals) would make you pay around 90k yen per month (around 900 dollars). That sounds expensive, but if you think about the amount of time you save, it might be worth it for some people.
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He's mostly right on the browser issues, but as a non-native speaker it annoys me when he gets 1 out of 7 occurrences of the possessive pronoun "its" right. It's probably the most contagious mistake bloggers make.
He's probably not eating fast food all the time, I lived on eating out for about 8-10 months 5 times a week and didn't put any weight on.
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You just throw them in the trash? Why not donate them to a library or used book store?
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Sometimes my nose just itches.
Thanks,

I'll wait for March's thread then.
I used to be able to live out of a suitcase, then it built up and up so I tried to declutter again a few times. I do really well, then get locked into a collectors mentality and start buying things in series (comics, books, TV series). I've thankfully managed to off a lot of that into digital content now, so I can start paring things back down. I'd love to live with an iPad, an iPhone, a laptop and some external drives.

However, my girlfriend is the opposite, and that works for her. Different strokes for different folks.
Back in the day, you would hear often something along the lines of "Chrome is good, but I keep coming back to Firefox because of Firebug". Fast forward to today and debugging with Firebug feels clumsy and sluggish whenever there's something Firefox specific to debug (no offense to the devs of firebug, if it wasn't because of them the chrome dev tools wouldn't exist; it's just lagging a bit behind nowadays)
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Having too many possible packages to use is a nicer problem to have than having too few.

godoc.org is an interesting service because its package list is produced as a by-product of people using it to read package documentation.
Group A, and B, have names, that they used themselves, but those names are too charged for me to use, people will misunderstand things, and think I am talking about something else.

Group C probably has a name, but I don't know it.

All Groups, maybe with exception of B, are not much cohesive and are easier to say who belong in them.

So, I will say some organizations that BELONG to some groups (they are NOT the groups, they are PART of them, a small part by the way).

Group A: Has on it the UN, and several countries. Also has on it some esoteric organizations and religions.

Most people don't notice, but Thelemites (followers of Thelema) frequently align with Group A, so if you want some extra information, read about that.

Group B has on it the followers of Gramsci, Frankfurt School, several atheist evangelists, and part of their strategy was very much well explained by a guy named Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, see if you find his interview.

Group C has on it Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Quaeda, "Al Quaeda" means "The Foundation", and Osama Bin Laden has read the foundation series by Isaac Asimov, so if you want to know what Group C is doing, read those books, and think about how you would apply them to present age...

Group D has people like the guy above that claimed to be part of F, also has countries that don't want to be dragged in all the A, B, C craziness, like some african countries, some asiatic countries, and so on.

Group E has among them the OP, Julian Assange, Punks (the ones from 70s), Cyberpunks, Cipherpunks, Anonymous, Libertarians, Far right groups, non-aligned christians (those that follow the bible and reject mainstream churches), a small amount of catholics, secularist arabs, conspiracy theorists, nutjobs, normal people that dislike their constitution torn apart, federalists, Catalan/Scotch/Chechen/Kurd/Touareg/Xeer/Somalilandi/Gaucho/etc... independence/autonomy movements, Occupy X/Y/Z, Indignados, Golden Dawn Party, the norwegian serial killer, lots of other random people.

Groups that I don't know their alignment: Shia countries (Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon), seemly those are related to D, several people in E are helping them (and A and C are attacking them).

For those wondering where is Israel, Zionists and Roman Catholic Church. I will leave those out on purpose.
Which is why the entire point of my post was entirely in agreement with what you're saying here. I wasn't against HSR at all, just the idea that it needs to span the country.

It should connect large urban areas as needed, to bring the megalopolises closer together and easier to access, and in a way that's advantageous over air travel. It should not attempt to compete with cross-country flights, since it's not logical given those conditions. If you change the conditions, then sure, it makes perfect sense!

You're absolutely correct about all the routes you mentioned. Those are perfect. I want HSR on those routes. It handily beats air travel in every way.

But NYC to LA? Seattle to DC? Nope. Sure you could do that, but it would make more sense to fly, and that's simply a logical combination of transit for this large country. The map doesn't show that—it shows routes all the way across the country in ways that make no sense. We don't need to connect the coasts with high speed rail, because it's not logical to do so. That was my point, and I'm sure you would generally agree.
You throw the books away? :o
Whenever you think "I shouldn't throw that away, I might need/want it one day", dispose of it instantly - sell it or dump it.
Frankly, if all the ad networks in existence fall over and die from their own crudulence, I'll not shed any tears whatsoever.

Any site that uses crap ads that affect my user experience will really have to be something special for me to continue to use them. I'm happy to leave these sites for other sites that don't do stupid things to users.
First, you are reading a legal brief, not a judicial decision or legislation. Briefs are written to throw every argument against the wall that can possibly stick.

Second, you're misreading the brief, which places the entire drone program into the context of the "war" with Al Qaeda and the AUMF.

Third, the 2012 NDAA, which I now ironically find I get to use to squelch a conspiracy theory instead of watching it used as an accelerant for one, makes this issue clear: must be affiliated with Al Qaeda, must not be on US soil.
I think it's safe to assume the author does not have a partner or own property.
Donate stuff to Oxfam or libraries.

I've long resisted getting a Kindle, but now I am very happy for every book that is not taking up space.

Some larger things you can probably give away via classifieds or just putting them on the curb with a note.