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I live in Slovenia. In a village. My living expenses are less than $1500 per month (a family of 5), all bills included (phone, internet, heating, food, water and electricity and child care). While I do have a dream of coming to Silicon Valley some day (I guess it's every hacker's dream destination), it's just not cost effective for me at this moment.
In english: I can't afford it.

So the question is, why people even bother living in one of the most expensive regions in the US/World? What's wrong with living in some remote village, as long as basic life necessities are available? I know people (most of them senior folks) that live in our capital (Ljubljana), and whine about not having money while owning a house in a city center that's worth more that they could spend in a lifetime should they choose to live in an inexpensive countryside.
I think this is a necessity to justify AV to the masses. They have to find lots of "threats" to a) keep your average user scared into renewing every year and b) impress the owner that the application is so thorough. Look at this! it found all these cookies that could harm me! This software rocks!
I can only hope that this trend will go hand in hand with development of better wood burning stoves that pollute less.
> Usually Hacker News doesn't let you post the same link more than once.

I believe that's wrong. From what I've seen, I think that that time is also a factor. After some amount of time, you can repost things with exactly the same link and title. And I believe that it's deliberate (the posts are likely to be new to many people since the population turns over to some degree after x amount of time).
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As someone that works in a large University, I can tell you this is NOT common at all. Last year a faculty member here had a heart attack and was out of commission for awhile-it was almost impossible to get permission to access his email account and set an out of office response-we weren't allowed to 'see' his email (we had to pretend we didn't see any of his message). At my institution even staff email is not allowed to be read unless we have a subpoena.
Is there a reason recent Chrome extensions never have desktop notifications? Is non-user-initiated scraping banned or discouraged?
I guess HN is not immune to the Eternal September after all
MRSA is already drug resistant. That's what the MR bit is - methicillin resistant.

> Probably the worst culprit is the abuse of antibiotics in factory farming.

That's certainly a problem, but misuse of antibiotics in humans is still a big big problem.

Antibiotics were routinely used for illnesses where they shouldn't have been - ear infections, viral coughs and colds.

In developing nations people often use antibiotics in the worst way - a short course until they feel better, not a long course until the bacteria are all killed. This is partly because they don't know any better and partly because they buy what they can afford.
>I'd really love to see some browser comparison stats that go in-depth on this. Basically the only numbers

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/internet-explorer-10-chr...
In the 40 tab test, Chrome used 1619MB while FF only used 872MB.

This memory bloat is why I switched back to Firefox. After reading this article I fired up Chrome and it loaded about 20 tabs, then a message popped up:
Close programs to prevent information loss. Your computer is low on memory.

Looking at the old browser comparisons on Toms, I can see that Chrome's memory has ballooned from 991MB in Chrome 13 to 1619MB in Chrome 23. This is a real problem. I wish Google would return to it's roots of making a lean responsive browser.
If you click through, there's more info on the app. A popularity rating made up of the site's Compete.com rank and number of likes+tweets on StartHQ will be added this week. I'll also need to merge some categories and create new ones, e.g. "Office" is really empty despite there being 600 apps in the directory, since most are better classified as "Collaboration" tools.
s/could/do/

This is the problem with these manner of laws. Criminalizing the very method by which entities guarantee their security is never a good idea.
Speaking as someone of "lower means" and mostly with a lifelong dedication to computers, I don't particularly care what software I use, and if you forced me to try and rationalize my choices, most likely I would, like the majority of people on the planet, spout mostly meaningless bullshit.

The "tech savvy" only differ in one sense: they are incredibly more delusional about their choices than the rest of the planet. I certainly haven't taken the time to study Chrome's design in depth (or for that matter Firefox's), and probably never will. My reasoning for using Firefox is due to a vague-warm-fuzzy ideological alignment I seem to have with Mozilla and their approach to software. Nothing quantitative, and certainly nothing adequately logical that I could use it to command authority over anyone else on the planet. In fact exactly the kind of thought processes that "joe user" experiences ("I like the icon.. it bounces"). 23 years spent in front of a machine, and that's still pretty much me.
I like the point about smaller firms' vulnerability to this kind of thing. I think it speaks to the whole "code literacy" issue. An educated consumer solves cures many ills.
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I was a Firefox user since the Phoenix/Firebird days, but I switched to Chrome about a year ago. On two separate occasions recently, I tried to switch back to Firefox for daily use. In both cases, I was back on Chrome within a week. Firefox has made great strides in memory usage, Javascript performance and overall UI polish, but on my hardware* and with my usage patterns, it absolutely CRAWLS compared to Chrome. I found myself restarting it almost daily to keep it responsive, and even on a fresh startup it wasn't as snappy as a fully-loaded (15-20 tabs open) and long-running Chrome.

I can honestly say that if performance wasn't an issue, I would prefer Firefox. I love the addons that are available, particularly NoScript, ABP and Vimperator. The Chrome equivalents are imperfect due to Chrome's extension model, and I miss the real things almost daily. However, I just can't go back to a browser that's slow and unresponsive. Maybe Firefox and Chrome are just making different trade-offs, and I happen to benefit more from Chrome's choices. I don't know. What I do know is that I can't tolerate my browser freezing up or taking 5 seconds to process clicks.

* - A fairly modest laptop with a 1.6ghz dual-core AMD APU, 6gb of RAM and an SSD. It's easily fast enough for everything else that I do, and Chrome flies on it. On my much beefier desktop, Firefox is usable, but still noticeably slower than Chrome.
I agree with you that the community at large is full of individuals looking for quick-weight-loss diet magic and that ketosis can be a fringe benefit of Paleo if you intentionally limit your carbs. But the community is not the diet, and the _majority_ of the community are, as with most diets, people following a fad insomuch as it doesn't actually interfere with their current habits. /r/paleo was a good source for a hot month or two a few years ago, but nowadays it should be called /r/bacon and its content taken with a grain of salt.
First, the age of the Roman republic was a long way from the stone age. Second, by then grain was a HUGE part of the diet, so drawing conclusions about life expectancy from Roman traditions is probably not a great example. Third, Romans didn't live that long - here are a list of emperors I could find who died of natural causes...

Augustus - 75

Tiberius - 77

Vespasian - 69

Titus - 41

Nerva - 67

Trajan - 63

Hadrian - 62

Antoninus - 74

Marcus Aurelius - 58

I'll stop there - the next century is a drag.
Part of it is that exact mathematics run afoul of several atheist articles of faith. Depending on your interpretation it either disproves the "Jacobian" scientific model, or more flexibly interpreted it means science is at best a subset of what governs the universe (assuming -yes, assuming- it isn't entirely wrong). Godel's theorem runs afoul of the principle that science can explain everything. It answers the question whether mathematics directs and/or predicts the events in our universe : it doesn't, it can't. It's too "weak" a theory.

We're at a very exiting point in time where we know basic mathematics to be wrong. It predicts a great many things, but there's problems that make it thoroughly unsatisfactory. In a way it's like physics in the beginning of the 20th century, with the black body radiation problem. Of course, we have been in this less-than-satisfactory state for ~70-80 years now, and no Einstein in sight ...

Godel's theorem means that there's an infinite set of empirical truths (ie. simple experiments you can try out with marbles and bags) that are completely unexplained by mathematics - and thus by every science built on top of it.

Worse : this is not a fixable problem. Sure we can fix it for specific problems. Wherever we see an obvious leak (say the birthday problem, or large cardinal number problems) it can be plugged with a new well-chosen (or -more often- ill-chosen, like choice) axiom, but there's infinitely many leaks and the proof means that there's no plug that will stop any significant number of them.

So right now in the set of all empirically observable events, there's a set that's explainable by science, and there's a set unexplained by science. The unexplained set is at least as large as the explainable set (and keep in mind that's because both sets have been proven to have a cardinality of at least the largest known cardinal number, given the actual definitions of those 2 sets I'd say the unexplained set is going to turn out to be bigger).
Breaking and entering under the cover of darkness is a very dangerous activity and one for which I don't have much sympathy, but I agree with you, communication is key: communicating that your domicile is occupied, and if the criminal persists, communicating that you are armed prepared to shoot.

I have very little regard for the life of a robber. I don't feel that I should take valuable time out of my life to learn skills for applying measured non-lethal force to dissuade a person who intends to take my personal property by force. The only reason why I would be very hesitant to just shoot someone who broke into my house, would be my inability to identify them -- I don't want to shoot my mother-in-law.
This was a very refreshing change to read from the normal articles which all concentrate on "how to get more women into CS". I think you hit the nail on the head when you said that all these events and questions are just so backwards.
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I'm sure that there will be people here complaining that the particular stack you're working on now doesn't matter, that a good programmer is a good programmer whether she writes code in Forth, Fortran or C (or Fortran in C).

This is true in the same sense that quicksort is faster than insertion sort - that is when we ignore some constant and are interested in asymptotic performance.

Very few companies are able to ignore this constant and hire someone who - being as good a programmer as he is - for half a year will be less then proficient and then for two more years will be still under-performing in some cases. Companies would be stupid to ignore this constant, especially given that in three to four years the programmer in question will leave for a better work.

For the vast majority of jobs it really matters what software stack you know and it's not really a bad thing to do for companies to check for that when hiring.

It's also worth noting that learning a language is something entirely different than learning to use a language. That's why it's that important to actually build something when learning - because then you are forced to use various tools that come with the language, it's entire stack.
Regarding YouTube on Chrome, have you tried the "YouTube Options" extension? Among other things, it can set the default resolution and size of videos. The version on the developer's site can also add links to download videos (the Chrome Web Store version cannot due to YouTube's TOS).

Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-options/bd...

Developer's site: https://spoi.com/software/yto/

I'm surprised to hear that you've not found a KeePass addon for Chrome. I'm using LastPass right now, but I've been thinking of switching to take advantage of KeePassDroid on Android. Do the popular options on the Chrome Web Store not pass muster?
I highly recommend The Salmon Of Doubt - half of the book is his collected essays and newspaper columns, and he had lots of fascinating ideas about technology, science, atheism and art.
Mostly agree. It seems like they're saying that they're sorry there aren't enough servers to handle the online requirement, but not sorry that SimCity has an online requirement. (They also want to remind you that they're making a lot of money, as it's a major hit across all major markets.)
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No matter how much you love a certain language you should always keep an open mind and learn something new.

If you are an expert in OOP, try to code for a few months in a functional language.
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That just means they're tallying the numbers. Sending out checks is another story.
Just because they are stupid, does not mean they are not malicious.. in my experience the two are common bedfellows.

Though in this case I think maybe there is a third option.. ignorance maybe?
Is the duplicate posting issue relevant if the post is receiving up votes?
> You haven’t hit 10% week-over-week growth on any meaningful metric (revenue, active users, etc)

10% per week = 313% per year or ~1000% per two years. Or very modest 3000% in 3 years. Good luck getting that kind of growth. (of course it depends on your initial number but the percentage growth stated here is a bit crazy IMHO).
I must be a serial contrarian, because I actually can't get enough of facts like these. I have no internal resistance whatsoever - I've already decided not to get a house with a wood burning fireplace in my next move.

I'm sure most people on Hacker News are capable of accepting things like this without having a "religious" reaction.
Since people started criticizing Google :) I'd like to point out something really quite annoying (and also a little Evil) that Google is doing: They are hiding the search terms in your Google Analytics report.

Google pretended that it's going to affect a single digit of your search terms (check the blog post), but for me, it's from 70% to 90% on my sites (around 8 sites, same issue).

This is really the worst move that I have seen so far from the Search giant.

Here is a good blog post explaining the issue: http://www.infront.com/blogs/the-infront-blog/2012/12/14/key...
That's probably true for most of us here, but definitely not for every demographic. My personal blog that focuses on software development gets almost all of its search traffic from Google, as you'd expect. However, you might be surprised that a consumer focused site I run only gets 55% of its search traffic from Google (and this site gets more total search traffic than my blog, which does pretty well itself).
> does that impinge on free-speech?

It could be argued that free speech necessarily has limitations. Depending on where you are in the world, this involves hate speech and incitation to violence.

I would readily agree that distributing (especially SELLING) tools with the expressly stated purpose of criminal use should be punishable. That being said, the same tools are likely useful for legitimate purposes. Heck, I could see an argument for Back Orifice being useful in that one would really like to be assured that their network's egress filtering would raise flags when BO traffic is on the wire. This brings up another important point--these tools are always useful for people who are writing protection and mitigation against the tools' methods.
While the technical meaning may be part of why they are using it, I think they are clearly using it mostly for its connotation related to controlling a person.
yeah, that piece of paper is kinda like the HS Diploma that those 80% of graduates who can't read received (NY article earlier in the week). The college degree is just as useless. How many people remember everything, or even a large portion of what they read in college? Or still remember all of the lectures? Even going to college and getting a degree is no guarantee that the person will be capable of doing the job.
> In developing nations people often use antibiotics in the worst way - a short course until they feel better, not a long course until the bacteria are all killed. This is partly because they don't know any better and partly because they buy what they can afford.

I wish I could say this was limited to developing nations.
That's an interesting question - which 'exotic' languages have the highest probability of becoming 'the new hot thing' at one point and when.

Watching the evolution of programming languages and programming jobs for the last two decades I still have no idea how to predict this; I can only believe in my intuition and bet.
By consequence, Paleo is low carb if, while following the diet, you don't eat a lot of carbs. What you call an "oddball variation" is what some others might call "what works for them".
It may be expired now, but a couple of years ago there was actually a tax credit for putting in a wood stove.
As a PR practitioner, I feel like I can dispense some advice here. Here are some thoughts after reading these:

-Your thing likely does not require a press release so skip the articles that try to teach you the 'perfect' press release. Reporters, in my experience, don't give much of a rat's bum about them.

It's business execs who think a press release is the end-all, be-all for media relations and that miraculously, reporters will see your press release somewhere and your phones will be ringing off the hook. In my relatively short (5+ years) PR career, the number of times that has happened is exactly 0.

Instead, focus on crafting a perfect 2-3 paragraph pitch and fine-tuning a list of reporters who cover your thing. The most important thing when crafting this perfect pitch is editing, in case you couldn't tell that that was a recurring theme in the better articles.

-Some of these posts are really good and some are totally bogus. Don't take any advice from the ones that are from people whose method has a name. Your product is unique and so should your approach to announcing it to the press; don't apply some cookie-cutter formula.

Also, eschew the ones that recommend you subscribe to an expensive media contacts database like Burrells or Cision. Those things cost upward of $1,000/year and contain information that, with some reasonable Googling skills, you can find online gratis. Yes, they'll make your life easier but if you're a startup you're likely better off dropping the cash elsewhere.

-One thing none of these seem to address is: you got Johnny Cakes from ZOMGTechBlog to agree to speak to you or your spokesperson about your widget. Now what? How do you make sure you don't stick your foot in your mouth?

-IMHO these are the better ones: Cheat Sheet, DailyNewArticle.com, Top Story PR, PRtini (for as much as I hate the name), Jason Baptiste's, VentureBeat and PRDaily.

Hope that helps!
Good ole socialist wealth envy class warfare blah blah blah.

Wealth is produced. If there were a fixed amount of it, we'd all still be nomadic hunter-gatherers. Therefore, the gain of wealth is NOT a zero sum game. When some CEO (good, bad, or hopelessly incompetent) makes 14 bazillion dollars, that does nothing whatsoever to take anything from you. You don't need to worry about what that CEO makes. You need to worry about what YOU make.

Consider the White House Chief Calligrapher makes $96,725 per year. What a complete and utter waste of tax money. If it were not for the fact that its our tax money, it wouldn't matter a hill of beans. If Microsoft or Apple wanted to hire a Chief Calligrapher at $96,725 or $967,250 it wouldn't matter a hill of beans except to the shareholders of each company who might not think such an expenditure is going to pay off all that well.

I recommend reading Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson: http://www.fee.org/library/detail/economics-in-one-lesson-pd...
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Dude, risk/reward. The reward for having a pool is tons of fun, exercise, comfort... Besides you can't go to statistics for gun safety: either you handle them safely or not: you are not a xx% safe statistic.
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This was a big fad with air traffic controllers a few years ago.
In general, no, natural gas is not part of our infrastructure and people don't use it for heating. This has to do with our easy access to hydroelectric power.
Nice work! As said by others; would be nice to be able to switch between dark and light themed CSS though.
Is this true? It sounds like an opportunity for karma bots to re-post popular posts from the past.
22 tabs open now in Firefox on Win7, and they've been open for days in between hibernation, gaming, other stuff. All kinds of dodgy developer tabs and video sites etc.

Firefox takes it, and provides a huge range of tools and options to make the browser environment exactly how I like.

Amazing add-ons, custom looks. I prefer an old fashioned status bar at the bottom of the browser. Thank God for status-4-eva add-on.

I'm glad Chrome was made, it's an option for anyone who doesn't mind the 'Google feel'. There's a Google vibe that has a sort of marketing agenda that you can sometimes see, manifesting in a few different ways in and out of browser. No big deal, just sometimes it feels like you're renting your online experience from Google rather than on your own journey. Hard to explain.

They make amazing things, so can forgive, just don't want to sign up to Google every time I'm online.

They currently push you to sign in and stay signed in on Google.com search when not logged in. And they try to sell you Chrome too, with "no thanks" as the button to hide the ad. You know when you make a button that says "no thanks", you're assuming the user who clicks the button is thankful, for being given the ad on google for the 500th time. Your assumption would be wrong.
Til people are snobbish and only use one browser , personally i use whatever is avail i have no allegiance to one or the other just the one that works first.
If political/economical views are reduced to its basic concepts, then communism is about sharing and socialism is about the state caring about its citizens. Capitalism isn't about greed either, but about individual freedom.

But that might be a bit too reductionist (let Stalin spread the love).

IMHO this is not about "capitalism". It's about "human greediness". Homo hominis lupus.
Is this really scraping the data or just checking for links and getting status?
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> In developing nations people often use antibiotics in the worst way - a short course until they feel better, not a long course until the bacteria are all killed. This is partly because they don't know any better and partly because they buy what they can afford.

This brings up an important topic in infectious diseases right now: in many cases, long courses of antibiotics increase selective pressure and favor the antibiotic-resistant bacteria. One strategy to reduce drug resistance is to (rationally) minimize duration of treatment [1]. This isn't to say that medication nonadherence is good, but it is to say that the field is moving towards a shorter duration of treatment for many infections.

[1] http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/46/4/491.short