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Think about how many things in our lives we do that governments don't control. We get married, we choose what to learn, what occupation to pick and what to work on, we choose whom to become friends with. All of those things are done in complete anarchy yet those are all very important things and decisions! No one in the western world who's in their right mind would suggest that it's a good idea for government to start controlling those things.

Now how come I can't choose what laws I can live by? I don't see people suggesting we all vote for one specific kind of car we are all going to drive for the next 4 years. Yet when it comes to laws it is considered normal that one group suffers because another, slightly more powerful group, wants them to live by their rules.

If you're talking about examples of societies with no government then there are a couple of those in history (Iceland and Ireland being two of them), but the more important point is that sometimes you don't have examples. If you went back to the 17-th century, would you find any example of a country where slavery was outlawed? Yet these days, it is gone almost completely and remains only in illegal forms.
> there really is not much that they can do about it

Protest?

> San Francisco's city government is not going to be able to [...] figure out a way to lower rent

Allow more homes built?

> (and in turn tax revenue)

Why would lower rent mean lower tax revenue? They could tax paycheques instead.

> It's in the cities interest

But not in the citizens' interest, which vote the city leaders.

> I really don't understand why this bothers the others in the city.

Because they can't afford to live anymore in a city where they have lived their whole life.

> If they do not own where they live (and chose to rent) then they don't OWN their home and in turn have no right to live there.

Maybe they "chose to buy" but could not afford to. And to phrase your sentence correctly, the landlord has legal right to evict the renters, but that says nothing about the renters' moral right to live there. Remember, everything Hitler did was legal.

> If they are angry about that, it seems to me that they are just throwing a fit.

By the same logic, if the Jews were angry about the German's confiscating their property and killing them, they were just trowing a fit... What a perverted logic!

> If you can't afford that, then perhaps you didn't make very good choices in your life (aka didn't make enough money to obtain what you want)

Maybe that does not neatly fit into your worldview and maybe it even directly threatens your idea of how good and moral person you are, but the truth is that most poor(-er) people are not poor because of their own "wrong" choices, but because of external circumstances they had no influence on. Likewise, the fact that you have access to the internet is almost in no way due to your own ingenuity, goodness or hard work, and mainly the consequence of hard-working people that came before you and invented and built the infrastructure, and gave you the opportunity to freely enjoy it.

> you should try and find a way to achieve that goal without inflicting pain (stress, wasted time, etc.) on others.

While it is perfectly fine, of course, for the others to inflict pain/stress/wasted time on them.

Congratulations, your logic is irrefutable!
> They tend to the sensationalist.

Really? Any arguments/examples to back that up?
The thing is the "reasonable fee" for using the curb is bullshit, for two reasons. Reason the first, if curbside space is oh ever so precious, why can you rent it at the rate of $109/year in the form of a residential parking permit? I'm sure Google would be willing to pay $1000/year to designate a half block of RPP spaces to bus loading, and the city would get more money out of it than they get out of the RPP program.

Secondly, where are all the protests against Twitters highly subsidized dedicated Muni bus? That's costing an arm and a leg, on top of the huge payroll tax break the city threw at Twitter so they wouldn't leave. Twitter people get paid, too (although God knows why; the company barely has any revenue), and are running up the rents in the Mission just as much as anyone else.
That's why Netflix's goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become Netflix. Do you think it's that easy to set up a reliable online streaming service? Those content companies (Disney, HBO, etc.) will go through a lot of trial and error before they can figure it out. If Netflix capitalizes on that opportunity to get people to watch their shows instead (presuming that they're good shows), then they've definitely got a shot at become an online content company.
An answer somewhat stolen from stackoverflow says "ps -o rss $(pgrep executablename)" but I guess that assumes that you only have one process running, maybe it would be easier to put it in a script and use "ps -o rss $!"

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7278326/how-to-monitor-a-...
Cool, I'm going to aim for $100 trillion then.
When somebody starts victim-shaming people it's very relevant to bring up the fact that they are in a social position where they have the least possible real-world experience with the negative side of the issues they're being dismissive about.

But yeah; the tone argument. Good to see that brought up. Going through your comment history is literally Derailment Bingo gold. I'm sure paul is happy to know that his bro's still have his back. ;)
My "way" of doing it is simple but probably won't get much love on HN: a good office, a fast (and quiet) desktop computer with lots of ram, a good monitor, a good chair, a good keyboard. Compared to that setup, the experience of using anything else (laptop, tablet, smartphone) is so poor that I just can't stand it.

I "do computer stuff" at my workstation and that's it. I can't stand laptop keyboards compared to real "mechanical" keyboards. I can't sit on a chair for long period of time besides my office's chair. I can't work productively on a tiny 17" screen (On my workstation I'm using a 24" screen with a tiling window manager and about 15 "virtual desktops").

So, to me, the experience of "using a device" is simply not an enjoyable one unless I'm sitting at my desk, in front of my workstation's monitor.

I used to have an iPhone which I let drop (it broke) and now since two years or so I'm back using my very old Nokia 3210 which... Allows to give and receive phonecalls. I know this is not going to be a popular view here but that's basically all I need from my cellphone. That said I may be buying an Android phone one of these days but... It's only to use it as a 2FA.

Doing this already prevents me from "wasting" time using a computer (or a tablet or a smartphone) when I'm not in my office, which is already great.

Now of course there's the issue of wasting time during work time on some of the sites you mentioned... The only really "problematic" one is HN: which I check even on sundays ; )

Got to go now: I'm going to play tennis with my brother ^ ^
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7121533
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Triathlon.

It keeps you disciplined. It forces you to spend 10-15 hrs / week off a computer. It keeps you healthy. Can't say enough about it.
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It's Wired.
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Real simple way: Cron job to dump "top" to a file. It will tell you all processes and their memory/CPU usage every x minutes. Once you need data on a specific process, you can just grep its pid.
The content licenses are a real pain. Maybe one of the aggregators will just power through and have so much more content available that it will squeeze out everything else until new content only signs up with the winner, without strings attached.

The other day I was trying to binge watch a season of a broadcast TV show, so I tried the On Demand thing on the FIOS cable box. Just 5 latest episodes available. Fine, this dinosaur is dead anyway, so I go to Hulu Plus; surely they will have the whole season, that's why you pay the sub, right? 2 latest episodes available! WTF.

These incumbents are not competing with Netflix et al, they are actively burning the subscriber base and encouraging them to switch. I think if they put up a huge banner saying "Please don't use this site and go to Netflix instead" I would probably spend more time there than now. Sad panda is sad.
> Tim (the person who commit the AArch64 backend from the post I linked) is an Apple employee

At the time of this patch, Tim worked for ARM, not Apple. Tim was hired by Apple sometime during 2013, as far as I understand after he was working on committing these patches. This information is thereby also not relevant :/. (If anything, it is worrisome.)
The thing about the company not failing, but you failing... The best bit of advice I ever got was "don't beat yourself up, there's a line of folks who will do that for you if you let them, don't do their job for them."

Remember, sometimes when an airplane crashes the wings come off before it hit's the ground. The wings failed! Of course, the fact that the bonehead flying it has put 4 the structural load on the wings that they were designed to support might* be what caused that to happen - but "stupid wings, if only we had made them out of concrete"...

Don't beat yourself up, learn, suck it up, move on.
> Higher urban density is "not" the answer.

In the larger picture, that's totally correct, but that is something that the governments should sort out, e.g. by incentivising the corporations to start opening offices in less dense areas. As long as the largest quantity of available jobs and the best paying jobs (the former is in part a consequence of the latter) are available in the biggest cities (London, New York, LA, SF, Hong Kong, Tokyo, ...) it will be in every person's individual interest to move there.
I took it as though he had a job already.
Price-rising effects of a subsidy depend on how you do it. Ideally what you'd want is something quasi-Georgist -- you tax rentier profits progressively up to a limit.
Anarchism very explicitly calls for a power vacuum to be created. That's actually what the word means. Now, I can easily believe that a majority of people wouldn't want to be ruled by anyone, but what do you do about the minority who want to rule over the rest?

Society needs a response against this minority, and this response needs to be organized somehow. Somebody will be in a role of organizing the defense of society against those who would seek to rule over it. But now it sounds as if that somebody (or somebodies) are in a pretty powerful position, no?

This is why so many anarchists are so counter-productive. Of course the basic notions of allowing personal liberty and to be baseline-skeptical against authority are good. The thing is, you won't actually achieve personal liberty by just getting rid of any sort of government-like thing. It would be more productive to discuss what kind of government is best suited to protect personal personal liberty.

Note that none of this is a defense of governments as they exist today. It is more a reminder that those who most seek to overthrow what they perceive to be the current oppressors are the most likely to end up being the future oppressors. Or, in comic form: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3246#comic
As a German (not a banker), I'm very curious what country you're from..
Yeah, totally. Not sure where we're going yet, but right now those stupid warts are just harmless tumors. Hopefully we can clean it up soon.

I, of course, prefer (defn) and (first) / (rest), but I know killing (defun) (car) and (cdr) will make a few people go nuts.

We'll have to make it sane before 1.0 :)

Thanks for hacking with Hy :3
Thanks for your post, it's informative

What I find it funny is how people complain a lot about Net Neutrality but then on the housing issue it's "free market for all and let's bulldoze SF and build high rise buildings everywhere".

They are similar issues. There's no "perfect competition" (though it can be argued that there's no perfect competition anywhere, they're examples of restrictive competitions)
Exactly. As documented here:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lpXbA6yZY-8

The Revolution Business, 2011 - Consultants are helping people countries like Ukraine and Egypt build a foundation of knowledge in order to start revolutions.
Looks like I'm mistaken, confirmed with some of my own research too. Sorry!
This ensures that you finish at least the top three tasks everyday. A good start.

There is a subset of people who have more than three tasks with equal priority to be done on a daily basis. They will still be overwhelmed, since the carried over tasks over a period of time will be too much to handle for the "role of 3" way.
I'm not sure I follow you. ADB was ahead of its time, and a precursor to USB, but nobody's claiming it was an open protocol. What was important from an electrical engineer's POV was that the connector could be replaced using off-the-shelf parts. That was because the connector was standard. If you wanted to develop for Apple, you had to own a company and strike a deal with Apple. Not so easy, but certainly possible.

Now, if you just wanted to hack peripheral hardware at the time, you would have invested in a lot cheaper (expendable) computer with a standard serial / parallel port, so I don't really understand what you are saying.
>I would argue that if you are not safe you are not free.

Sounds like every politician who tries to justify the current methods of the wars against terrorism, against drugs, against pedophilia and the general move towards censorship and surveillance.

Look, safety is good, but if you believe in freedom, you should leave the choice. Just like the root user in Linux and Android, I should be able to unlock superuser abilities in iOS.

The same applies in real life. There should indeed be certifications for food and drinks, but it's not a reason to remove rat poison or bleach and ammonia from supermarkets. Just put the proper notices and safeties.

Choice is key.
I doubt many do. The ones who would feel oppressed probably just avoid the field. Which is not an optimal outcome, in case that wasn't obvious.
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While this seems an excellent idea, especially in the small examples in the article, I find myself getting some sort of rainbow-haze in the full example.

Perhaps I just need to acclimatize, but it's a little bit colour overload. probably because of so many similar colours that take effort to differentiate.
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No need for the sarcasm, I was just adding this idea to the table bec it hadn't been mentioned here yet and I wanted to hear the community's reaction...

I didn't think I was offering up anything new or non-obvious, but thanks for being so odious.
> Why do we not express the same discontent over a PS3? Or any other closed environment? I don't think it's because smartphones were "open" before the iPhone.

Two reasons:

1. The device that plays games is a lot less important than the ubiquitous pocket computer (and for some only general purpose computer).

2. Games, more-so than other software, benefit from the walled garden / curated approach. Nintendo more or less proved this out decades ago when they entered the console market.
There's no installation, just git clone and move to your www directory.

$ git clone https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash.git

$ mv linux-dash/ /var/www/
Yes, those darn buses keeping so many cars off our roads! They can't have buses! How terrible of them.
A few points:

1) The decision to rent vs own is not as clear cut as you are making it. Google a bit - there is actually a lot of debate on this, because it makes a lot of financial sense.

2) If you feel that people deserve the fruits of their labor, this statement is hypocritical. Perhaps there is some assumption that this literally only means dollars - but I don't actually think so. A sense of home, a community, and personally satisfying lifestyle all require effort and work. They are hard or impossible to just purchase with dollars, but they are the fruits of labor none-the-less. This is being disrupted and taken on a mass scale by those who have more resources in dollars. I don't have a solution, but saying "fuck you i have more money and therefore you don't deserve those things you worked for" is not it.

3) Chicago has a lot of high rent/value property. It also has plenty of places one can live reasonably well on salary that isn't "tech worker" high. In fact those places are even cheaper than a lot of the suburbs. Those places aren't impossible to find either. On top of that there is a good public transit system that actually makes getting around the city pretty easy.
Come on, almost all those novels are less than a hundred years old, and have only really been of influence to a small underworld of people - an underworld which is only now just starting to make a real impact on the world. Maybe in a thousand years those books will have shown their true influence, but right now, they're still far too fresh, and alternative.

The books on this list, however, are mostly centuries old (or even older) and were hugely influential to generations upon generations of humans - shaping untold thoughts, feelings, and actions - and laying the intellectual and emotional foundations of the modern world (foundations we take for granted, which is why we can take these books for granted).
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This is a variant of David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. Instead of three items, he recommends always knowing what the most important task is for any project, and doing that.

Definitely worth a look.
I don't think PowerTop's been mentioned. Maybe because it's more useful for a laptop than a server. Once calibrated, it can output a HTML report on a machine's consumption, which includes a handy list of tunable power saving options. It was written by Intel so it may, or may not, work that well on other processors.
https://01.org/powertop
For every station platform, there's half a dozen pedestrian-accessible grade crossings. There's nothing you could really do without rebuilding the whole thing.
So, I think about the only way you are going to make that $100k is if you are going into business for yourself. In that light, you need to solve a problem. Here are a bunch of problems that I would pay money for(hopefully others too):

1. I need a cheap gpu powered pc, something like 300 cuda cores but with the ability to expand to 3072. I'm will to pay $1k for this plus the price of shipping.(Don't care if the parts are old)

2. I need to dress better. A service to pick out the clothes that I wear and should buy. Willing to pay $120 per year for this.

3. A book about how to make great conversation. The book needs to have tons of examples. Willing to pay $10 for this.

4. A book about 1000 ways to make people laugh. Willing to pay $10 for this.

5. A programmable human size android. That cost under $1k.

6. Designs to said programmable android. Willing to pay $100 for that. Should be able to hook it up to a 3d printer.
I for one did not know about glances and apachetop, thanks OP
Actually higher densities are more efficient in terms of land use, energy use and the cost of providing services (transportation etc). People aggregate in cities for a reason.

More sprawl stresses the environment far more.
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Definitely. We obsess about "how to avoid X", while getting fixated on X and trying to come up with an "anti-X" solution, but it's so much easier to be "pro-Y".
> It is more a reminder that those who most seek to overthrow what they perceive to be the current oppressors are the most likely to end up being the future oppressors

Precisely. This is why I'm no fan of revolutions.

> Society needs a response against this minority, and this response needs to be organized somehow

If I hire a protection/defense agency to guard against those who wish to rule me, this agency only has a very limited amount of money and power. It cannot tax me indefinitely and it cannot print money. If I suspect it does something wrong with my money, I go to a competitor - and trust me, there will be plenty willing to have my money and do a better job.

Now, as I mentioned, this is only possible if people understand there need not be any force ruling them. If people think that they just need better rulers (like, I guess, they do in Ukraine, and like they do in Russia) then they are doomed to be enslaved by their rulers without regard for their interests. Thus, I agree with you that the vacuum has to be filled if it exists (if people believe they need a ruler), but if it doesn't exist then nothing can fill it. That's why I said the problem is in the people's minds, the problem is that they believe they need a better government.
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These tools aren't limited to Linux; if you're running FreeBSD:

* http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/htop/

* http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/py-glances/

* http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/apachetop/

Some others mentioned in the comments:

* http://www.freshports.org/net-mgmt/iftop/

* http://www.freshports.org/net-mgmt/bwm-ng/

* http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/xsysstats/

* http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/atop/

If you're running OS X / FreeBSD / Solaris, there are many useful DTrace scripts for system monitoring and profiling:

http://www.brendangregg.com/dtrace.html
We have a free OS + kernel (and mind you, GNU/Linux is not the only viable free software OS) because RMS hacked relentlessly in the 80's on GCC and other C toolchain components. In fact, so relentlessly it destroyed his hands with RSI. No amount of political pushing for copyleft would have made any difference if the code wasn't there. I'd rate GCC as by far the most important enabler of the abundance of free software we have today, and for that I'm deeply grateful to RMS.

I'm fairly certain that no company chose GPL because the management's first concern was joining FSF's struggle against proprietary software. Businesses can't operate that way. Whether a company adopts GPL or not depends on perceived business benefits of adoption. So the question of this or that company adopting GPL or not doesn't have anything to do with moral reasoning behind GPL and is therefore irrelevant to what we're talking about.

Yes, they're changing, in the same way that a factory may change when it adopts new machinery. Companies who adopt copyleft adopt it because of the "open source" philosophy, not because of the "free software" philosophy. This is actually one of Stallman's talking points (open source vs. free software) I'm very sympathetic to.
> If you don't fall for their tricks, then you are free. That is how chess works.

It is? We should play some time, this could get interesting.
Well I can think of one fairly recent example....... ;)
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Directly answering your question - No.

There's a point of time where Latvia went EU route, namely 1995. Nothing changed at that time. The trend started in 1991 (when USSR was split) continued until not very far past. The most important consequence of that trend is low fertility.

I also would like to comment on your question. From what I saw in my life, happy people are fertile people. The people who feels support from all directions are fertile people. And also happy ones.
Consulting is also feast or famine (if not hustling enough).
There's a difference between asserting anyone has a right to live in any community at any time no matter what the price is, and asserting that people who have made a specific community their home and participated socially and economically for many years (perhaps decades) have some claim on a right to remain even when they begin to be priced out of the housing market (particularly one rising at exponential rates).
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