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Minimalism or not, I would like to expand on one of the points - most cosmetics in wide circulation today are really terrible. If you look up their ingredients and look at chemical properties of those, it's all about optimizing the technological process to be as cheap as possible and producing short-term pleasant sensations for the customer, health considerations being completely absent.

Basically it's an example of a problem with market economy that probably occurs in other fields too sometimes - customers themselves do not always notice long term effects of using bad chemicals on their skin and are apt to buy products that smell nice, lather or distribute easily and so on, so almost all producers end up producing products that give a good first impression at the cost of being harmful in the long term. For example, almost every shampoo or fluid soap contains some form of SLS, because it's cheap and because it makes for a nice emulsion, despite research showing it is apt to cause skin irritation. Also popular are mineral oils, which is quite an euphemism for a byproduct of petroleum distillation. If you consider this just the next quack fad, talk to someone who uses some of those chemicals in a lab.
Not enough sure should i mention it here, but I'm hardcore soap user and still no friends :(
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As someone who has a pretty simple life (my most valuable possession would probably be ~100kgs of books, stacked in 2 fairly small boxes), I'd love to know a couple of practical details in your life (if it isn't too snooping, that is)! The question will be fairly personal, because pretty much most other stuffs won't be essential.

Do you take a bath daily? How do you brush your teeth? You seems pretty young, and things like teeth cavity might not be a problem yet, but it's hard to say what will happen in a few year.

Why did you make a decision to not have any soapy substance? It seems like a single small bottle of something that can be used both as shampoo and body soap would accomplish the same thing. And bathing after sweating without soap just never seems to work for me.

And are you sure that you're not smelly? I'm honestly wondering since it's fairly hard to for one to detect our own smell - we just get used to it.
> I don’t use ANY soapy substances: ... toothpaste, ... deodorant

So.. are you living in Europe then?
This looks like a great app.

How are you going to make money? How much money do you have in the bank to support yourself?
> If we had detailed and completely trustworthy accounts of what those people did on a daily basis back then, with photos and videos to prove it there would be no myth, I postulate.

Did you hear that vaccines will give your baby autism?
So Antarctica has the biggest online population?

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/population.png
"Xerox-inspired GUIs altogether" - icons and symbols as means of communication have longer history than Xerox
See http://useiconic.com/design/
Not really the case when you consider the huge rural population of the past and that the 20th century saw huge amounts of urbanization in the US (where 'urbanization' = developed areas and includes suburbs). The lower-density suburbs are still growing at a decent pace 1990-2013 and on especially in the South/West, but what defines a suburb is no longer the 1950s version and and incorporating urban/city-like elements now
http://useiconic.com/design/ seems like there's more on the way though
Tackle those places with what?
Or the USA? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/fashion/31Unwashed.html
Fun things never published:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2010/1026/WikiLeaks-re...

The closest thing that WL has on their website that is even embarrassing to Russia is a Wikipedia rip of Anna Politkovskaya's summary. Everything else is either coincidental or "anti-Syria" voices saying mean things about Russia. Really, the US is the only country with people in government who disagree with their government?
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From that article.

"How would user interfaces look if we had no preconception of their analogies? No magnifying glasses for search; no cogs for settings. And then, with that tweet, I realised I had unintentionally focused on icons. It’s icons that are still the problem."

He seems to be making a leap I don't follow there. Why is the use of magnifying glasses/cogs a problem? Who are they a problem for? My 70 year old mother knows what they mean at a glance, as does my 7 year old daughter, and I doubt that many people in between struggle with their meaning.

Pictures often have more impact, and more visual appeal, than words. If I have to do a presentation and I create one that's nothing but words, my audience will typically be far less engaged than if I'd replaced most of the words with other visual clues.

And the same applies to icons. A big green tick is more immediate than a button with "OK" on it. I can spot a cog much more quickly in a screen than the word "settings" buried in a screen full of other words.

So what problem is "no icons" trying to solve?
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This is no secret. Micromanagement, management, a lack of freedom, inability to trust co-workers (can't collaborate with them), inability to speak freely, out of control deadlines, etc..
Others already commented similar reactions: You're attitude is rather strict. I certainly sympathize with your stance here, understand in parts why you'd do that, but .. aren't you looking at the wrong part of the problem?

Family and friends taking pictures (and potentially spreading them) is one thing, but I guess you do fly or buy your groceries somewhere while a camera is watching. In other words: Why this rather strict policy with family and friends, if you cannot help being 'remembered' anywhere you go in public?

Aren't family and friends asking the same question? What do you answer?
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You know, if you're trapped outside the space craft and left to die, the last message you ever write could be graffiti written in a vacuum on some passing object. You want a pen that can write in a vacuum. Now, I'm sure you're saying, perhaps the pen could come with a microburst of thrust instead, to save said astronaut. Now you're just being silly.
IANAL, but from my layperson's understanding of FinCEN's statements, selling bitcoins on localbitcoins.com (indeed, even offering to sell them) without a MSB license is a felony.

I deleted my profile on there when someone pointed that out to me.
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When I was traveling in Asia I didn't use any soap or shampoo for a month. My hair didn't smell and it felt the most healthy I've ever felt.
I think many people actually believe (and specifically use for the reason) that using cosmetics product would be useful for them in the long run: reduce wrinkle, aging etc. As I have no knowledge on this, can anyone weight in?
you must be from north of europe. with a skin that doesn't create oil.
I dont know? surely a combination is needed? someone who disagrees, has the courage to act, knows about wikileaks and has access to information in a medium that is amenable to upload.
Im perfectly willing to believe that the combination is a lot more rare in Russia or China than it is in America.
You are jumping to a lot of conclusions regarding WL's agenda, when it is quite possible the reason most of the documents are from the US/UK simply because they are reasonably easy to get leaks from compared to more brutal regimes.
You are uniquely identifiable by your friends graph. Even a no-information profile is still linked to your identity.
It's funny how people who say they are minimalists start listing the things they don't have in the "physical" life arguing they are not needed. But then, they have an iCloud account, a twitter, facebook, flickr, instagram, reddit, gmail, you name it account. How about a minimalist virtual life too, where all you have is an email account? an e-minimalist?

I think a minimalist life should be more about "using" less (and accomplishing more) than about plain raw "owning" less.
But if he didn't have a laptop, he could not post on his tumblr and you would be deprived of these nuggets of life wisdom. Is that really what you want?
I have tons of possessions and when I don't feel like it I just don't maintain them! Guess what, plants aside my possessions don't give a shit and I have just the same time gain.
You know, on reflection, this is actually a good thing. Not because of the diversity - screw diversity. Because you'll have more people with aptitude admitted. Programming aptitude is mostly evenly distributed regardless of gender and race, therefore if you keep your number admitted persons constant, but give a good incentive for every kind of person to apply, you'll end up with better applicants. Or to put it another way, the best 1000 white male americans are worse than the best 1000 americans in general. And at least in this case, I'd expect that there would be about as many capable females as males. Things might go skewed if we try to have the same number of heterosexuals and homosexuals or left-handed and right-handed people though.
I know several ego-minimalists. They never post anything online, ever. No facebook, no twitter, nada. No one online knows just how hip they are on the inside.
Creating temporary accounts to post harsh comments is also something that I have hard time to understand.
Actually, I recently tried to verify the claims about horrible consequences of SLS from anything other than semi-conspiracy-theory sites. I might have missed something, but what I've found was boiled down to it being pretty much a non-issue. What it did turn out, though, is that we use too high doses of soaps and shampoos in general, and they are actually intended to be used in minuscule amounts.

Also, "byproduct of petroleum distillation!" is the new "unnatural!" is the new "if got intended X to Y, he would Z!".
Once the download is done, you might want to do:

mv GDM_February_.pdf GDM_February_2010.pdf

to make sure the nameing is consistent :)
I was more interested in why use it alongside with ansible; does it need to be multi-server automation? I thought it was just a toy server for development purpose. ansible seems enough for that kind of job (if it just needs to be a single server - and even for a few additional one that's adequate too.
Yeah I mean, it's not like the advent of soap and the generalisation of it's use (along general hygiene) revolutionised the world or anything.

All those people cleaning their clothes with soap on the river in the 16th century were clearly being lied by corporations who wanted their money.
Contrary to common belief the Great American Invention of soap is being imported and used in large parts of Europe now! ;)
"I’ve read other people’s comments about how the floppy disk icon is a good thing. Seriously? Think about it. That’s holding onto the past; and providing a lack of recognition for young people, who will literally have no idea what one is" - so what? Noone really needs to ever have seen an actual floppy disk. That's the power of symbols, they become civilizational archetypes. Is that holding onto the past? Of course. That's the POINT. When was it that hourglasses still were in common use? Long before first computers emerged :) And yet all the "young people" (which is all modern people, if we follow the author's point and define "young" as "having no first-hand experience with the object depicted by the icon") had no problem understanding what hourglass represented. No doubt that over-reliance on icons leads to poor user experience - Gmail went in that hieroglyphic direction, they replaced a "spam" label with some mysterious octagon etc. - but too much of anything is bad.
It would be difficult for Assange to appear in court to give evidence.
10/10

You made me reply.
That's nice but the most important question is, did you write a pretentious blog post about your life style on your tumblr?
The title of the article is literally the entire story.
They publicly announced that they had some pretty mind blowing shit on Russia... which they never released. This leads me to believe a) they never had it to begin with, or b) they bitched out on the execution and decided fucking with a government who might actually hurt them was a bad idea. In either case, I lose respect.
Yep, that's exactly my point. Bug Bounties are supposed to be realistic alternatives to the black market.
Out of interest: Where do you stay? Do you rent a flat/house? If so: How do keep it clean? What do you eat? Are you out-sourcing your food production? I am asking because, the smartphone discussion aside, i find it questionable to speak of minimalism if you just trade most of reproductive labor for money. I guess most of (single, childless) readers of HN could just live in an hotel suite without owning anything beside an laptop. I am sorry if that sounds mean, i am no native speaker, i mean it sincerly; 1 month ago i moved to another country to live here for one year and everything i took with me fit in a small backpack. I am still living quite minimalistic on 25m², but i have stuff like a broom, some kitchen equipment, even two beds - one for guests - and an external monitor. Oh, and soap ;)
I came here to say: Great work. I'm impressed, intrigued - and thought I would see more positive comments here.
I find it a little curious that most commenters here are focusing on his mention of not using soap, but not asking about how his source of income, food, or shelter. That iPhone 5 comes with a monthly bill and requires recharging daily.
Open letter to the CEO of HTC

Hello,

I am very excited that you plan to offer more choice to me as a consumer, but ...

... why stop at two mobile OSes?

Why not also load WebOS, Blackberry OS, and every other failed, also-ran mobile OS that ever existed?

That way, if you ship smartphones with 256 GB of flash, when all is said and done, I will still be left with 3 KB to store a few contacts of mine.

Sincerely,
Yours truly,
Joe Average Consumer
This is no doubt true (it's easier in the US than NK), but as I commented below, they posted that they had some stuff on Russia, and then shut the hell up about it. What is the takeaway?
Perhaps they bundled it in with China? A political minefield there, of course...
Assuming this is not vapourware, it's awesome! It carries 250 pounds, which is ~113Kg. So I'm like 80Kg or so. That leaves about 30kg, which is almost enough for a month's supply of food. If we can build a system of balloons to periodically float up supplies, we can seriously just live in the sky and have wild adventures!
"I have one pair of shorts with built-in underpants."

...what?
You should provide a demo, perhaps using GitHub pages?
Their raison d'être is transparency, but publicising an internal memo doesn't magically turn it into a press release. It is clearly structured and written for WikiLeaks affiliated staff to use when discussing the film, anything else is a bonus.
Sounds like 18 year old me. If I met that me, I'd probably throttle that me whilst yelling "put that credit card away and get a job" and such. But if successful I guess that would cause a paradox and so it isn't likely to happen.
I don't get it. What does failing classes have to do with this? It said about OP not being a good student for 1 second and never talked about that again.

I think this is just yet another "college drop-out/fresh out of high school make big startup" headline? Is that all it is about? I am so confused sorry for being harsh.

I am confused at another thing: are we supposed to find out what your competitors (prior to your entry to the new domain) is doing or should you just ignore what your competitors doing and go for your idea?
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> Who are they a problem for?

They're a problem for users who haven't used that interface before. Imagine a novice user grappling with binoculars and magnifying glasses.
html5test.com is a test of HTML 5 in the same way that w3schools.com is a school for the w3c. Just take a look at their FAQ http://html5test.com/about.html and you can almost instantly dismiss their scoring system.

Chrome and Firefox are awesome though.
This post is so hand-wavy and vague, it's hard to know what he's suggesting as an alternative. The last two paragraphs make no sense to me, can anyone translate?
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Meh. I am in the process of buying a foldable kayak. I plan to kayak in Patagonia in 2015 and I crossed Poland, Austria and Slovakia with a canoe the last 2 years.

Point is: my kayak won't fit in a bag. Then what? I should buy and iPhone and spend my time on fb? He doesn't even have an ebook, does he read?

I do consider myself a minimalist, but in the way I embrace only the minimum to live a full life, not just for the sake of it. You can't seriously think you can spend all your life like that. What will you talk about with your friends if you have nothing going on? What will fulfill your life growing old? You can sit and think only so much.
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Hey there,

Great post. 10 days ago, I've posted a link (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6476003) demonstrating how I was able to crawl, index and plug auto-complete on HN posts in less than 2 hours using Algolia Search as a Service API (rails + JS client). The main differences between ES and Algolia for this use-case are about the way prefix matching is handled and the way highlighting is done.

To provide auto-completion (prefix matching), whereas ES use ngrams and tokenization tricks to index all word prefixes, Algolia's data structures have a built-in feature enabling to match the prefixes of a word without doing such recipe at indexing time. As a consequence, your indexes will be smaller and your service faster :)
Moreover, with Algolia, using such prefix matching algorithm provide outstanding highlighting capability. In fact, the index knows exactly which word matched (whereas ES knows that a specific "fake" ngram matched, but it's complex to highlight the original words with it), even handling typos.

We compared ES and Algolia for a basic "record/database search" use-case in our last blog post: blog.algolia.com/full-text-search-in-your-database-algolia-versus-elasticsearch/.

Feel free to contact me if you have any question.

Sylvain
It always amazes me how many people don't know that there is no guaranteed repeatable order in a select statement without an order by clause.
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Some of the attitudes in the minimalist movement strike me as cargo-cult. What I mean by that is that they seem aimed at optimizing the how-much-stuff-you-own metric itself rather than what it's supposed to be a proxy for (lack of mental burden, control over your life). This is tantamount to assuming that complexity is inherently unmanageable, which I disagree with.

Venkatesh Rao has a good post on the matter somewhere.

Edit: As for the link posted (whether or not it's genuine), I wonder about

>I don’t have a bed or a pillow. I
sleep in a small sleeping bag.

Is this healthy in the long run?
At this time (4:48 AM EST, 2013-10-11), minutes after Hacker News changed the parent comment's timestamp from "1 hour ago" to "2 hours ago", these are the updated values:

Repositories: 4,236,957

Code: 962,598,538

Issues: 5,953,084

Users: 4,473,412

So in a space of time probably equal to either 1.5 hours or 2 hours, the numbers changed by these amounts:

Repositories: +694

Code: -149,645

Issues: +889

Users: +749
Then those MySQL apps are broken.
Do they cover the (alleged) rapes that Assange was involved in?
Patriot Act author prepares bill to put NSA bulk collection 'out of business'.
I'd not be relying on that!
I noticed myself that if I wash daily, I would not need shower gel. I use it nonetheless, but I could go days without soap (or the perfume contained). EXCEPT if I drink coffee - that makes my sweat somewhat smelly (you probably won't notice it though, only I do) :)

Toothpaste: There are people who get cavities while using toothpaste 3x a day, while I haven't gotten any cavities in the last few years although I have limited brushing to 1x per day (evening). I had minor tooth surgery once, but that seems to have stemmed from an overzealous dentist drilling too fast into a minor cavity which he should just have left alone (causing shock within the tooth, leading to inflammation). But, I'm not sure whether I would ever go entirely without toothpaste. I might research into natural substitutes with similar chemical compounds.

Deo: You certainly don't need it if you eat clean and shower every day.

Shampoo: Some people report that omitting shampoo works well, but there's a nasty transition period of a few weeks in which you might look like you dipped your head in grease. Reportedly, skalp skin reduces the amount of fat secreted if you stop constantly washing it away.
Yeah we get tonnes of them, probably 90% of the Javascript errors we get are false positives (n.b. we aren't using the Airbrake service, just their gem with Errbit).

Here is a sample of a few we regularly get:

* Out of stack space

* TypeError: Unable to delete property.

* [object Event]

* Error​ load​ing s​cript

* Synta​x err​or
I am sure this guy is still living with his parents judging by the stuff he owns. If you live on your own you NEED things like a refrigerator, a stove, pots and pans, cleaning supplies, kitchen knife, lamps, a table, chairs, the list can go on and on.
But, but... then this corporation's reach must date back to thousands of years ago, when we (falsely) discovered that proper hygiene was deeply correlated with improved health. Does it control the World Health Organization too? Oh my...
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The "Get Iconic" link does not work on Chrome.
:%s/als/than/g

I was confused until I remembered my high school German class.
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Works for me on Chromium.

Edit: Sadly, the page is down now.
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Perhaps an even easier to imagine example: would the Industrial Revolution have happened if we had the same pollution and labor laws then?

Or looking at the other side, if China had the same laws as us, if we had nowhere to outsource our externalities, would it still work? In other words, is outsourcing the reason we can maintain our higher standards locally?
From what I've seen..smelled.. you get accustomed to your own odour, it doesn't go away. You need soap, modern minimalists.
Heh, reminds me of a boss that criticised my work a few months back:
Boss: "Hey antimagic, why haven't you finished that module yet?"
Me: because the code it's interfacing to is a big ball of spaghetti (paraphrasing, because it was the boss in question's code - so I was much more diplomatic)
Boss: "You need to learn to be able to work with other people's code better - I can get in and modify your code easily"
Me: <stare at boss waiting for penny to drop>
...
30 seconds later after no reaction...
Me: Yes, I do write fairly clean code. Thank you for noticing.
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Everyone is in on it. Even kindergartens. Do you remember how you were taught in kindergarten to exercise proper hygiene? Turns out that they are really just the gov't's tool to brainwash (pun intended) you into using soap.
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