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> “I don’t believe in houses or mortgages. Who in their right mind would spend their lifetime paying for a building they never get to spend time in because they are always working?”

> The intentional poor are “looking for something real that goes beyond commodity,” said Karen Halnon, a sociology professor at Pennsylvania State University and author of "Consumption of Inequality."

See, the historical edition of "something real" and the mainstream reason to pay for the house is called "your children". I don't expect many of these people are raising any, so there you go.
Definitely, but at the cost of requiring more memory and processing power. If its goal is to be compact and lightweight I think it would be helpful to have something in protocol itself.

Looking at the spec though, it does allow numeric keys in maps so you could use id's and provide the definitions elsewhere.
Yeah, something like a Withings weighing scale for labs would definitely be interesting.
Lead, follow, or get the fuck out of the way, as they say.

Your whining accomplishes nothing, and just might discourage people from getting out there and making a difference. You are aiding and abetting those who would stick to the status quo.
I see, so a coercive currency is just fiat currency (or just currency) with an appended modifier. This modifier itself is then qualified with 'indirect' because the regulations enabling the use of these currencies is backed by government force which, although rarely utilised in the context of the commercial transaction, is ever-present. In relation to this indirect coercion these economists are (directly? or indirectly?) forcing people to spend money through monetary policy.

Is that about right in standard parlance?
Ask HN: How does the US manage to have no bribery at lower levels?
I moved to US from India about 9 years ago. I appreciate all gov departments being corruption free ( as far as interaction points are concern). India is far from it, I do believe it's part of evaluation and India will be like this one day. but just wondering how it happened here?
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"not in our lifetime" , as Rumsfeld said.
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I feel like I have been experiencing many dejavu's here lately. Doesn't HN have a detection for re-posts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6544012
This has been true of several places I've worked in the states, too - you're technically a contractor (e.g. no benefits) until the trial period is complete.
They're all that bad. We have to remember that voting isn't democracy. Unless there are true alternatives, having the freedom to choose between Pepsi or Coke is no freedom at all.

The system has been gamed; it's fundamentally broken. I believe that we need to have some form of direct democracy, such as allowing the public to vote directly on any bill, and if more than 25% vote in any district, their choice overrides their representatives.

Don't tell me it's a technical issue -- that's cowardice. We can do this. If you were CEO of a company, you wouldn't throw up your hands in impotence as your employees ran the company into the ground. It's our country. We're in charge. No more whining. We can do this.
I vote this because the post layout is much better to read (I doubt people are going to understand my point).
Trivial to decode / decrypt. But as Gary Klivans says in the article, you still need to know the vocabulary, culture, etc. to understand the meaning.

I read about the British code breakers during WWII. After they decoded (decrypted) messages, they still had to work to understand them. They needed to know the acronyms referring to stuff and places, the units of the quantities, etc.

Making up an example, so a line "ABC XYZ TTT 45" might mean send 45 barrels of fuel (TTT) from Boston (ABC) to Atlanta (XYZ).
Not at all.

Suppose you need a stapler for some work. You don't have one, but you know a colleague who does and who is willing to happily share it with you. You could go to her office, open the second drawer in her desk, take the stapler and leave. Or you could just ask her to give it to you. In both case the result is the same: you will get the stapler.

But there is a major difference : in the first case, you had to know where the stapler was. Your colleague knows it - it's her desk, after all - but because you decide to ignore the service she can provide and do it yourself, you have to know it as well. That means that you are both dependent of the manner of accessing the stapler.

What if someday she decides to move the stapler into the third drawer ? Because of this dependency, you would have to be informed of this change and start behaving accordingly. Your implementation would be impacted by a change in her implementation. And this is bad.

On the contrary, if you just asked her to give you the stapler, it wouldn't matter at all where it's stored. As the owner of this item she would the sole responsible for its location, and your behavior would never be impacted.

This is the purpose of encapsulation: preventing objects implementations from being impacted by changes in other objets implementations. You should be applying this everywhere, every times. Even for such small services as "give me that value, please". In your example, you should not need to know if a field or anything else is used to store the value because it's an implementation concern. You should just ask the value to the object.
I'd love to try this sort of lifestyle, but I can't help thinking I'd be bored out of my mind after a few weeks (without power to run a computer - programming problems in the evening might be interesting enough.)

I once worked minimum wage at Starbucks for a couple of weeks full time (gap between A-levels and starting uni.) I had worked there a day a week for about a year, and I enjoyed working there for that proportion of my time, alongside challenging-ish studies. But - when I hit the third or fourth day, the tiredness set in. Sweeping/mopping/hoovering a large store three evenings in a row, after being on your feet all day making coffee and smiling at people, is seriously hard work. And don't get me started on cleaning the loos. I am very courteous to people who work in retail.

It's not quite doing odd jobs around the town, but it's certainly the order of magnitude of work required to live this kind of lifestyle. Also, does the $5,000 a year seriously cover a return flight to Hawaii?!
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Phones are too cheap -- and getting cheaper. And I suspect most people find just simply selecting a fully-baked phone intimidating enough.

The actual market for this kind of device would be tiny. (Why I suspect this won't even make it to market.)

This is just Motorola brand marketing.
It might take a few attempts from a few different companies but this is the way smartphones are going to go. We've needed modularity in these tiny computers we carry around for a long time now. The cries of "more battery" for example are just a symptom of modularity deficiency. I am fully behind this project.
If you bundle install with the `--path` flag (which you should), you can specify the location the gems will be installed (typically something like `--path vendor`) which gives you the ability to easily remove the gems the project uses all at once.

Coupled with `bundle package` which stores all the .gem files in vendor/cache, you can ensure that your application always has its gem dependencies available.

Here's a great article with more information about all the above: http://ryan.mcgeary.org/2011/02/09/vendor-everything-still-a...
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I wish I had more than one upvote for this. As somebody in Dallas my job searches over the past five years have been a hell of arbitrary, narrow requirements lists and lack of interest in anything I have done that is not professional work.

To make things worse, I can't get SV companies to give me the time of day. They all seem to be focused on poaching "rock stars" from each other and operating under the arrogant assumption[1] that anyone worth a damn has already moved there because, duh, everyone wants to be here.

[1] An assumption I have seen voiced here and elsewhere, and can probably dig up the references if I try hard enough.
@kyro:

Out of curiosity, which native app do you use for Gmail?

I am asking because I have not found a satisfying native app for Gmail so far. Standard IMAP clients like Apple Mail and Thunderbird are usually in a constant struggle to update all the folders (labels) and new mail outside the inbox might show up with major delays in comparison to Gmail on the web (or in a browser-like client).
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It's not crazy, it's realistic. Nothing is free and this sort of pragmatism lets/forces users to act like grown ups.

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I've heard of it but never took a hard look at it. The one thing that's interesting about it to me is that it's a Lisp with "normal syntax", which is people's main complaint about Lisp, yet it hasn't exploded in popularity the way one might think it would.

Just a thought.
Fastmail which is increedibly fast and lightweight compared to Gmail. It feels like going from Hotmail to Gmail all over again, if you're old enough to remember what that was like.

At home I stick to Thunderbird, which leaves a decent local copy with ability to connect to CardDAV and CalDAV which I handle via Baikal.

Hopefully Fastmail will live up to their promises about providing CardDAV and CalDAV themselves, as that would leave me one less thing to worry about.
In this day and age, that move was like shooting yourself in the foot. This is the second page like this to make page #1 of hacker news... we're in the sharing information age people, you can't do stuff like this.
This is bullshit. The Brazillian labor law is not that draconian. How it would be with Sweden? Italy ?(which Brazil's law is inspired)

This is bullshit, these guys say this so no one could fine about discrimination.
You can use Gmail without ads if you pay USD 50/year/user for Google Apps for Business:

https://support.google.com/a/answer/60758?hl=en
I commented yesterday on another thread, worth repeating in case it helps people in the US:

If you read their iOS and iPhone EULA's, they disclaim all sorts of liability but don't disclaim iPhone hardware damage caused by iOS. I argued with them for three days after an iOS update bricked my phone (outside of its warranty period) but only after pointing out this issue in the EULA did they finally replace the phone free of charge (with a refurb that had a scratched camera lens and bad battery).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6631457
That is a very nice little enhancement though. If the app trusts the cache headers, this widens the scope from "your use of this app is compromised while on the rogue AP" to "your use of this app is compromised wherever you connect from once you've used it on this rogue AP". That's a non-trivial difference!
- 36 million people across the globe march in protest, Iraq: still invaded.
(Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War)

- Millions protest regularly, Guantanamo: still open
(Couldn't be bothered to source exact numbers, but here're some pictures: https://www.google.com/search?q=Protests+Guantanamo&source=l...)

- Ditto patriot act, status: passed

Exactly how much of a stink did you have in mind? Perhaps people setting themselves on fire en mass? Getting run over by tanks?
Thanks looks interesting, have ordered it.
It is actually very reasonable. Other alternative is that iterator returns an error if underlying collection was modified (fail fast iterators).
I'm not aware of any other language that makes it so easy to write your code in either a functional or object oriented style. It doesn't do either perfectly, but it gets you a good 85% of the way there for both. Good enough that advocates of a particular style are able to write and enjoy writing JavaScript. I can't think of any other language that has that level of flexibility. Can you?
I hate to sound condescending, but what are experiences with direct democracy? I recall someone mentioning that masses would make rather bad popular decisions with bad consequences that were hard to guess.

It might be true or false. Maybe masses still did better than politicians.

If you ask me, I think politics should be automated in some way. AI for that probably doesn't exist yet, but hey if they can replace surgeons, why not politicians?
I'm not as interested in upgrades as I am in being able to replace failing components. It's just silly that a faulty graphics card can cripple a whole computer currently.
The new site looks great guys! I have had our dev staff using treehouse for over a year now, and for the devs that get into it, I can see their excitement after each new technology they start to pick up.

Treehouse is AWESOME!
I'm aware of the strange views of Libertarians, but I'd never heard a currency itself marked as coercive! I agree: It's a strange view of coercion where getting fired and ending up on the street provided you're fired by a private employer is less a coercive act than having to pay a percentage of your income for social benefit, or, worse yet it seems, having to use a 'coercive currency'.
A certain amount of it is people convincing themselves that the constitution says what they want it to say. But even if you take the position that Feinstein's disregard of the 2nd amendment is so clear and unequivocal that it must be obvious even to her, all that really shows is that "regard for the constitution" isn't a good model for her. That doesn't mean that anti-"regard for the constitution" is a good model; there could very well be other principles we would expect her to hold true to, which this could be in violation of, which would yield surprise.
In a day and age where computers are seeing more soldering and glue than ever I am hard pressed to believe that anything like this would ever see the light of day, production-wise.

It's a neat concept but building a mobile device is more than just schluffing together a bunch of random parts.
The way in which you shoot down something matters greatly.

When I saw phoneblocks, I was instantly reminded of designers who work without regard for their medium - a great concept with zero thought given on how to make it a reality, or even awareness of the compromises the medium will inevitably impose. If you're a front-end developer, at some point you were probably given an awesome-looking PDF, then expected to make a website/app that is a 1:1 representation of it. Of course, that never ends up happening and you have explain why it could never be a reality.

I'm really excited to see where this goes, but whatever it ends up being, I can guarantee you it won't look much like that phoneblocks video.
So you are saying you have evidence that without government you necessarily end up with pirates running around with guns? Remember that Somalia is in this state due to utter failure of government in the first place.
Drinking sodas is a personal choice. Being trafficked isn't.
> The US isn't a democratic republic anymore.

I also used to think that my government wasn't a democracy because they don't represent me. But the truth is, they do represent the majority of the population.

If no branch of your government gives a shit about this issue, that's because the majority of your society doesn't either. So long as they have McDonald's and reality TV, who gives a shit about some random terrorists being tortured?

Change the mindset of your society and then, only then, you will see change in your government, but not before.
I had friends that lived like kings in Santa Cruz CA for easily less than $500/year.

They lived for free in hidden tents/camps above UCSC, ate/made free food with Food Not Bombs, biked everywhere around CA and generally just lived it up.

There are other ways to exist and thrive in this world outside the grind.
That'll teach me to make assumptions. I assumed Mac since you wrote somewhere that you didn't have the Java web plugin added 1 and 2 and got 4.

As to abandoning your account, I wouldn't worry about it. You're far more likely to get a relative's interest some other way -- perhaps an event notification on a smartphone screen, or the auto-complete bar in a browser. The simplest approach is most likely though: dinner table conversation on some evening in the future. :)
I would argue that it is not prediction that is failing with economic systems; it is the lack of interest to change anything (from those who could) that triggers the consequences. After all, rich didn't get any poorer with the last crisis.
Agree. JS = gavno. It's faster than Ruby only because Ruby is slow like gavno as well.

The fact that many are eating gavno and are feeling happy about it does not make it healthy or tasty. The problem is when there are no other food to choose (browsers).

That's why I love backend development. I can choose a decent, compiled, strongly typed language and well-supported framework.
With Apple acknowledging EU's consumer laws, maybe they should start looking into Micro-USB connectors as well?
Exactly. I bought a house right after my first kid was born (second on the way) and I would not trade it for anything else. Yes I am paying the mortgage+ taxes and what not but I know that my kids are getting the environment we want as a family to grow up. Yes you can always argue that kids can be raised in rented apartments, condos etc. but to each his own. I recently painted one of the rooms for the kid and loved doing it. Imagine dealing with landlords asking for permission to put a nail on the wall. Many more things like this.

tl;dr: People buy houses not because they see it as investment in terms of money (well thats also there to an extent but besides the point in this context), they buy it to call it their home where they have the freedom to do whatever the heck they want.
> ObjectiveC) has the best design decisions (IMHO). ARC instead of manual memory management or GC, strongly typed but still allows generic object pointer (id),...

It's funny, because objects in Objective-C are dynamically and weakly typed, and as flexible as in JS. The syntax has unnecessary rigidity that doesn't map well to actual semantics of the language.

Message passing in ObjC doesn't care about types (you can send any message to any object, and the receiver can capture the message and do whatever it wants). You can change/add methods (and "associated" properties) at run time, of instances and class definitions, just like in JS.

e.g. Cocoa bindings will subclass your objects (create a new subclass at run time and swap identity of your object) to replace setters with ones that notify the UI.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/cocoa/...
There are alternatives but all will cost something... especially memory :-)

For example every element may have an epoch, and every time a new element is added the epoch is incremented. Then what you could do is to only remember elements with epoch <= the epoch at which you started iterating, so that all the new elements will not be returned.

We tried to do our best with the state available, that is just a 64 bit counter the server does not even need to remember, but just to return back to the caller, and get as argument in the next iterator call.
It really never was. The fairy tale is over, the curtain pulled back, the unappealing truth revealed. This is how an imperialist super power operates. This is the necessity of maintaining a long established way of life, not some spiral into corruption and descent into madness.

You were always mad.
$50/month for a phone, plus a MBA and iPad is an easy $1500, and that's buying used stuff.
I would suspect that the main people interested would be the desperate ones - this isn't going to attract the best & brightest, who know what they're about and don't need to waste their time on something like this.

So in short, nay.
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>I wonder what would happen if you need a bigger "slot" for your block or if the "slot" is too big.

You swap out your camera for a 5-block expansion hub, attach your camera to that and enjoy your 4 new slots.
Turns out the whole computing world is built on top of this terrible tech which many people hate, yet somehow it's moving forward.

Well, yes. Your hyperbole is actually the current state of affairs. Progress doesn't mean the things you're building on are good, just that they can be made to work. In fact, progress is the evolutionary process of throwing away some of the old stuff, calling it shit, and replacing it with the new hotness.
Ask HN: Any current or former strategy/marketing/financial consultants?
Following on the idea of understanding my market and speaking with my customers, I am wondering if there are any current or former strategy/marketing/financial consultants on HN that would be willing to have a chat?

I would like to understand the problems that consultants face on a daily basis and hopefully, find a solution to these problems. What I have to offer in return is a token of my gratitude and a cup of coffee to get your day going or a beer to help you relax.

Thanks!
>> Are you active in the dating pool? How often do you socialise in situations that require spend?

Chances are he would find a date who has similar interests - and there are lots of free things to do, walks, parks, bike rides, picnics (grab something from the dumpster at Subway before you leave)
Instead of asking how big is the sector? I believe the real question should be, How joined/fragmented is it? I won't call it a problem, but the difference between CA and other places is that other places are much fragmented and disjointed. NYC tech sector might be large, but it doesn't have that CA appeal because everyone is everywhere. If they were all brought together into the same region it would bubble up like Silicon Valley.
No, you can write bad code in Ruby. Ruby's advantages are that it's insanely flexible, very OO, very easy to write and get started with, but has lots of very powerful features. But in some ways Ruby is like C++; it gives you alot of rope to hang yourself with...
Boo hoo - protests were had, and it did not change things. So you keep working and keep trying, it's not like you get to just show up at a protest and everything magically gets better. It takes money, time, and hard work.
I kind of agree, I see a possible move to wearable devices as moving the integrated device out of the device. A speaker and mic in watch allows for voice communication. Google glass like devices for cameras and display with antennas and sensors embedded in clothing. These types of peripherals could be developed by third parties and connect to a core "device" and be somewhat platform independent.
I don't see why I can't have a smartphone as my battery and processor, which connects wirelessly to any number of gadgets that "appear" individual.

I don't see why my glasses and wrist computing or whatever all need separate powerful discrete components and radios when they should be parts of a modular whole.

It'd be great to have a modular smartphone that sat in my pocket automatically recharging based on movement being converted by my clothing, powering a glasses or contacts based display with say a wrist band or something that tracked hand/finger movements in 3d and allowed me to interact with the 'alternate reality' UI I saw through the display.

It doesn't really seem that far away, now.
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true. I didn't want to use the "swap up to a newer battery when capacity drops" as an argument, because that's trivial on Android phones at the moment (and not too bad on iPhones either.)

Graphics card example is better, but I'm not convinced Ara is going to allow processor upgrades this way? (assuming system-on-a-chip, including graphics.)

I would suspect that the endo would have 8GB flash for Android, and the processor/RAM/GPU chip, and you can add on top of that (at least, the endos seem to come with a fixed screen size, even though two choices or size are pictured.)