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"As for the main takeaway, it is that being unemployed will give me, for the first time ever, a clear look at how employable (or not) I am. That is a valuable thing, to me."

Totally fair, and hey, best of luck to you. I'm sorry if I came across as overly harsh.

In general I liked your post; I want to be clear about that. I was just kind of bummed you didn't go into a bit more detail about what funemployment means in perspective. I guess that's my way of saying that you sort of whet my appetite with an interesting subject and a compelling story, but that I wish it had been a bit longer in certain parts.
I love it. It's also very small and portable. Available homebrew and ease of using custom firmware also adds a large hook for me.
But we don't get to see the 'interesting' charts. You're just kind of taking it on faith that he noticed monotonically increasing performance as he soldered more and more expensive caps to his power supply.
I like "Ignosticism".

Which is the view that when discuss God they (very largely) do so without any definition of what they mean by "God", and thus their conversations are meaningless.
Web sites like this are better for a designer's portfolio than the product they are pushing.
Our use cases are of Twitter too, so it makes a certain sense. We haven't designed the UX yet, but it's meant to convey the idea.

That said, the architecture supports not only Twitter but FB-style friending and private group shares; we want to encourage different clients in different form factors, with the advantage being that they'd all interop. No more siloes.
Perhaps he meant century?
If I am not mistaken, the drink was "Crush".
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Yeah, I agree with these points, and I believe the last one is a big deal. The ideal would be a tech community where there is a suitable balance in all respects. It doesn't provide any benefit if a lot of people have to self-censor in the name of political correctness. When people claim that this is necessary, they are missing the point. This is a nuanced situation where it would be very easy to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The PyCon incident perfectly illustrated this.
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"[Economists] often consider the value of a statistical life (VSL). The VSL is the value that an individual places on a marginal change in their likelihood of death. Note that the VSL is very different from the value of an actual life. It is the value placed on changes in the likelihood of death, not the price someone would pay to avoid certain death."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life
I tried viewing it on my phone (iOS 7) with little success too. I am not a fan of the change to Safari where going full screen is no longer a manual option. The pseudo swipe and resulting animation seem to be javascript animated too, which is extremely slow and jenky. Considering the intended audience, this experience is piss poor.
Well, it's a kickstarter, so it's by definition trying to get backing for a vaporware product. But fair point.
Part of the problem is that pitching VCs and investors is a well documented process these days. It feels easier. Plus, you're selling a dream/spin/hope/promise... and that you believe in. Taking money for a product means you believe the product is worth it--and often times entrepreneurs see how bad the product might be in the early stages, and feel hesitant to ask for money for it. They might just assume it's at a state where no one one would actually pay. Also, asking for revenue and getting a no means it's just not working--and that's scarier than asking for investor money, getting a no, and just assuming that guy just "didn't get it".
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In fact, shorter flights may carry more risk with the regional pilots that operate them typically having less flying experience and a higher likelihood of suffering from fatigue.
The awk example is valid Perl.

$ awk 'BEGIN { print "Hello, world!" }'
Hello, world!
$ perl -le 'BEGIN { print "Hello, world!" }'
Hello, world!
Correction: You can't control other drivers.

I've been rear-ended multiple times. None of the drivers that hit me were drunk or intoxicated. I still had no control over their actions. Short of not driving at all there was no action I could have taken that would have prevented me from being hit. I was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time (e.g., I had been fully stopped for about 60 seconds at a stoplight, not in rush hour traffic, when the light turned green and I was almost instantly hit from the rear. I was about 16 cars back from green light, and there was no way I could have been rolling. But, the driver behind me saw the light turn green and decided that traffic would be moving before he reached my location.)
The gloss baked into the screen of the iPad not moving in relation to the imaginary light source as it rotated really annoyed me. Well, as much as that could possibly annoy someone.

It's a major minor thing...
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Roku has been around for years, sure, and it's available in 5 countries. Add on the fact in the UK outside of the tech followers the name 'Roku' is mostly unknown, Sony on the other hand has significantly more cachet.

What they're bringing is two things. Game quality and quantity, ranging from a classic like Final Fantasy 7 through to modern PS Vita games. There's very literally something for all the family, with some strongly recognised titles. The next thing they're bringing is not just access to Netflix, but most likely access to the Sony Entertainment library. That's a big ol' collection of entertainment that they can leverage against.

What Sony brings is brand name recognition, and most likely worldwide distribution. If they promote it well they'll sell a lot.
>Also, assuming the author does live there it seems a little hypocritical that he's criticising other's life choices

I believe it would only be hypocritical if he were also making those choices and not owning up to it. Saying "I make good choices, you make bad" (not what I think the author is actually saying) is not, in itself, hypocritcal.
The problem is that we all have so much to lose and it makes this so easy for the government. I have a wife, I own a home, I need my job to keep these things and many people will do anything to keep their job and these things. If you're a founder and your options are give the government what they want to no pushback from your userbasr, or to not give the data and face harassment, audits, suspicious legal problems and things like that. Even as a pretty moral guy I have a hard time imagining putting my livelihood on the line for the very little reward if the alternative is possibly losing my home. The government knows how 95% of us NEED to work and keep an income going so they know they can do whatever they want because the leverage is 100% on their side. The only way I see this changing is if people on the Internet/citizens of our country start caring that the NSA is spying on all of us and realize that this harm is way worse than a plane crashing into a building, as horrible as that was.
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Um professionals with good paying jobs aren't immune to making bad health and, especially, bad financial choices. There's many examples of doctors who make great money who live beyond their means because making more money to them simply means more money to burn.
(ref photo 1 caption:) FYI, a nibbler would do the board-trimming job better and put less fiberglas in your air.
For all the moaning and complaining I've seen on HN over the persistence of this topic, the conversation still hasn't gotten loud enough, and hasn't gone on long enough.

As much as MA rubs me the wrong way, I applaud him here. What an incredibly non-trivial and important use of his public platform with those guests.
It's so dangerous to look at the exceptions to the rule and extrapolate out strategy. How much money did they raise before revenue? Is it a good strategy to start a business by saying "Step 1, raise $100mm in VC money." That's not realistic for most people, so probably not a good strategy to apply to your business.
Look I'm not a "big conspiracy guy", but how does knowing the number of user data requests create any additional transparency?

For all we know, there's only been one request, but maybe that request is something like: "Give us a plaintext copy of each email sent and received for all of your users for the last 10 years"

The only thing that will create transparency is to eliminate secret orders all together. That's what these guys should be arguing and I find it strange that they are not. Instead they are all fixated on just being able to show how many requests they've complied with and not what those requests were actually for.
As a tall person who is prone to motion sickness, not one bit. If I so much as looked at that screen, I'd be ill.

I have a feeling that as time goes on, this will be seen as more and more of a handicap instead of a minor inconvenience.
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Redbull.com is a random source for this information, just saying. Anyway I'm a huge fan of Syndicate and used to play it on Atari Jaguar so I can't wait for this.
Their website for a new browser is ironically aggravating.
this story is made up, folks. immigration 101: L2 visas are granted for 1-year initially and then for 2-years afterwards. so the OP's claim that his wife went back to the embassy after just 6-weeks of getting her visa is nonsense.

also, we're supposed to believe that his Belarussian wife, who went to visit her parents in Belarus, who has a Belarussian passport is now alone and in an unfamiliar Belarus? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6353620)

this makes zero sense on all levels. There's never a state dept official that's this stupid and unprofessional. they can be rude nut never this far. saying a passport is fake by just looking at it and accusing someone of lying like that would never happen. I've had my fair share of interactions with state dept officials
We should make our own browser where we can make those decisions!
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No, I actually meant that it is the most likely possibility. I'm just not sure, but I take it that if you inspect a few billion air travellers that you occasionally will find something real that may have cost an air traveller to die. The numbers are too vast to discount a few lives lost as a good possibility.

In my opinion the balance is completely lost.

Contrast it with: chances are that if we equipped every passenger airline with a mandatory ER that we would save a few lives. And yet, we don't do this because the economics and the logistics are simply not worth it. (I can't prove that one either way).

Ditto the TSA.
If I had to summarize the outlook toward the middle class of the rich people I've known over my lifetime, it would be more or less not understanding relationships between time and money. In about 50 zillion interpretations of it. Basically the middle class folks not understanding there is a relationship at all, other than obviously for hourly laborers.

This is aside from obvious cultural differences WRT the type of status symbols and such.
I don't doubt that you can influence your own safety on the road to a degree. But the question is, how much? How safe is an extremely safe driver compared to flying on an airliner?

I doubt that even the best driver can get safer than an airliner. It's going to be hard to measure. For one, it's almost impossible to measure the risk of a "safe" driver compared to an unsafe one. For another, it's almost impossible to measure the risk of American airline travel today, because fatalities are so rare that it's no longer possible to turn them into a meaningful number. That last part suggests to me that even the safest driver will be far more at risk on the road than in a plane.
And the thing is, they are right.

Although you're probably not wealthy enough to go to the right schools, you may be able to get in via scholarships.

Although a middle class pool of good connections is limited, there are ways for a creative person to seek out better ones, often by something as simple as changing their environment.

Tax code knowledge is useful and valuable, and can be learned if you're willing to put the time and effort into it.

My point is, if you wish to elevate yourself, you must first study those whose ranks you wish to join. Learn how they acquire, and, more importantly, keep their wealth and power, and find ways to do so yourself, even if you have to be scrappy to do it. The whole startup thing does just that in the business world.

There will always be things you are simply blocked from doing. Instead of focusing on how unfair that is, focus on the things you CAN do, even if it requires greater effort or a more creative approach than someone more privileged would need.
The problem is that there may be a god such that your belief and your attitude in life may affect ultimate fate (life after death, etc.). If you worry about going hungry tonight, as you have established, then you should worry all the more about going hungry forever. Therefore, the existence and the nature of God is actually of the utmost importance to you (objectively, if not subjectively).

The exceptions are:

- if you have confidently established (to your personal satisfaction, even if you don't discuss it with anyone else) that there is no god, or at least no god whose existence would affect you. But you seem to imply that that is not the case.

- if you are in such a state of urgent need that you have no time to worry about anything else but your day-to-day survival (which is necessary to be able to consider theological issues, and thus can take precedence). But the fact that you are on Hacker News eliminates that possibility.

In practice I mostly act the same as you do, ignoring the issue. But I am aware that it is a completely irrational choice, and that I in fact do not have better things to do.
Interesting! never heard of this before, even google seem to bring up mongodb answers as default. Have you used this in production? Care to share your experiences?
this is exactly how the visualization works! If you click on any cell, it shows you how that has changed over time. If you double click, you can see more details about whatever you clicked on.

For example, if you double click on the department of Justice, you can see it is made up of X billion of the FBI, X billion of the department of prisons, etc...
I do like FRP though, it'd be nice to be able to automatically update cells in an iPython notebook when dependencies change their data. Also, a notebook is quite a linear structure, a grid (or tree, possibly just an acyclic graph) might be a better representation.
Not to be a pedant, but the Colgan flight (Buffalo) was on final approach so I'd still consider it landing.
This is a bit off-topic, but these marketing efforts seem to take away from what the product is doing or trying to do. The first 50s of the video contains urban scenes with some dramatic music. It doesn't really explain what the product is, how it's useful or even how it's unique from the current competition.

The product itself could be really really good, but I wouldn't know it from their video or website.
You'd think this would be fairly obvious coming so soon after a high-profile crash in San Francisco which killed only three people out of nearly 300.
I wonder if gimbal-mounting a seat could address motion sickness.
Could it be that you have not adapted your resume/cover letters and so forth to the American market?

There are regional differences between what should/shouldn't be included in a resume, like a picture of yourself, your age, your family status and similar things. A resume not tuned for the local market may disqualify from some positions in the hiring manager's mind.

Finding a job in a new city is never easy but a capable programmer has a better chance than most others! Have you tried any visiting any local meetups, conferences or co-working spaces?
I maintain my stance that your original statement was phrased poorly.

It's a semantic argument at this point. We're both using the term "exists", but our personal meanings are different. I personally believe that stating something "exists" in the context of religion/mythological-creatures/magic/otherfakethings usually means that you believe it exists physically.

Obviously I don't deny god exists in the sense that he/she/it is a delusion held by a large portion of the population which effects the world around us; but I do deny that god "exists" in the physical sense...

I don't adhere to your train of logic... as I stated before, for your belief system to be consistent with itself elves/dragons/magic/fairies/etc.. "exist"; Of course the concept of them exists and the world is altered as a result, but your original statement seemed to imply a more literal meaning to the term "exists".
Are these interviews or this conference being live streamed?
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I loved this series so much. Challenging, interesting, cyberpunk.

Best of luck to these guys. I'm 100% in on whatever they create.
> You probably read at some point Manning was facing the death penalty, and despite having years and years to correct your initial misperception....

Manning was charged with "aiding the enemy". This is a capital crime, and while prosecutors stated they would not "recommend" the death penalty, they do not determine sentencing and the military judge could have ignored their recommendation were Manning found guilty.

It entirely true that Manning faced the death penalty.
They only leap off the page if you actually read the article. More and more "journalism" today I'm convinced goes from author to print without so much as an editor even acknowledging something was published.
Have you used pgAdmin? It certainly does everything but it's user interface is too horrific for any simple tasks (like viewing rows or filtering by column etc.)
I'd guess 1500 or so spread across three browsers. I like having separate bookmarks in separate browsers, but this is a bit much...
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I hope you at least consider a java client as well, so there will be one implementation that is actually usable - as javascript and crypto doesn't mix (unless something is happening wrt api-support in the various engines/browsers? But then I guess you'd say html5, not "javascript").

Should be much quicker to develop a common library for use by the server and a (webstart) client - than to do two separate implementations? Also some of the code (and most of the interfaces) could probably be used on Android as well.

If you are doing javascript wouldn't nodejs on the server make sense?
I think military kids are just taught to get over it - and not be whiners...thats really my take. I went to plenty of 'offbase' public schools where I was not only one of the 'few' military brats... but also completely foreign ( I'm half-Asian - try doing that in the deep south? ). ;) Being receptive is about learning to accept that shits changed and you either adapt or turn into a hermit... its also about knowing that people are not that different from each other - they just have different experiences of the world... I accept people for who they are - not where they live or what they do - or even for what the may not have experienced...and I usually find it easy to make new friends.
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I started getting worried about this after Google announced encryption between servers recently, because if they have spies there, then that move might not be much of an improvement. Google should start triple-checking everyone working on security there and with access to the encryption keys, even if they are "friends".

This is what NSA created, a society filled with paranoia. But after all the revelations about them having spies inside companies, and subverting standards bodies and so on, only extreme paranoia will protect us.

It might subside a little if we manage to repeal the Patriot Act, the FISA Amendments Act, fire everyone at the top right now that has been in charge of this: the current president, the current FISA court, the current Intelligence Committee, and then dramatically cut NSA's budget, the "black budget", and establish much stronger oversight over NSA.

That doesn't seem easy at all right now, and it's going to take a while to fix everything, so start getting paranoid until then!
I remember GMail being oft talked about due to:

- The huge amount of storage space they provided
- No folders, only search
- No spam

Those are backend processes. I might be misremembering, but what how was the google interface significantly better or different than traditional webmail?
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* I'm just not sure, but I take it that if you inspect a few billion air travellers that you occasionally will find something real that may have cost an air traveller to die.*

The question is: why did nothing like this ever made the national news? There has been the odd instance of someone bringing a knife on an airplane, and that was about it. There have also been several FBI-led entrapments and leadings-on of wannabe terrorists, who could never have caused any damage even if they had wanted to.

What we haven't seen is the TSA preventing an airplance hijacking. My best guess is that these things are rare to begin with, and if there were any plots it was the police that got on top of them, not the TSA ballsack grabbers.
Why does it resort and regrow all the blocks when you switch between years or other settings? If the same blocks simply grew or shrunk, it would be a lot easier to follow the difference.

Actually, it sometimes simply converts blocks into others - switching between 2012 and 2013, the "Justice" block morphs into the "National Infrastructure Bank" block. Very confusing.
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Eh, depends on the type of work you're doing and your command line skills. For maintenance work and administrative tasks, a GUI tool really shines, but during development the cli runs circles around every GUI tool available (for an experienced terminal user).

edit: Also, GUI tools are very useful when you want to familiarize yourself with a large or complex database you haven't previously worked on.
Yep, the disagreement stemmed from our personal definitions of exist in the context of the subject at hand.

When you're talking about god I would argue that the typical(most commonly used) definition of "exist" would be "physically", or even "spiritually", but not just mentally or based on a concepts impact on the world.

I would never argue that religion hasn't had a huge impact on society, but I think his original statement could definitely have used a qualifying statement as to his actual intended meaning.

I think a more accurate representation of his point would be "the concept of god exists" because the _actual_ diety itself doesn't exist in the traditional physical sense.
The unanswered meta question is why it should matter.

They went into the game knowing they were doing a meaningless internet quiz, so its going to be hard to abstract how intensely groups goof off when they're goofing off (or propensity to cheat in a meaningless internet quiz using an adjacent google maps tab), vs actual knowledge.

Oh well, result were reported to 3 sig figs using a whopping dozens of samples, so it must be meaningful, LOL. When you know the denominator is extremely small, you can play a math game trying to find small integer fractions that divide out to about .493 and so on.
Elance could make it easier to find top providers if search results could be sorted by skills test results.

This would not solve the problem of (1) slacking off - poor work ethic, and (2) bait and switch - putting a less capable person on your job.