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> I am no Luddite, but I think that perhaps taking a step backwards in time could be an interesting experiment - create more towns that are self-sufficient, grow their own crops, build their own houses, etc. It seems like much of the wealth is getting boiled down into the hands of fewer and fewer big companies.

They tried that once, and it turns out tha tin practice this idea is much much worse than you'd think it is at the surface: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement

Maybe it would be different now, what with communications technology like the internet making proximity to major city centers less important. But to me, this doesn't sound like a practical solution
Unless the authors of the software behind HN make up a large portion of its comment contributors, I don't see the relevance.
In addition to the other suggestions posted here, go see a doctor, have your blood levels checked to exclude the possibility of some deficiency or illness (it's easy to ruin your body without noticing by working hard for many years).
Somewhere in all of this, I suspect a Laundryverse story lurks...
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I don't think I'm understanding your point. Why would they need to invalidate previously confirmed transaction?
Please support your first statement. Because the link you give does not fit with your assertion. It shows price compared to 1979, once of the worst years in the U.S. for the price of gas. The chart shows a steady climb in recent years to a point where it now matches or exceeds the inflation adjusted price of 1979 -- again, one of the worst years for gas prices in the U.S.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_energy_crisis

Further, the theory of Peak Oil is rooted in actual history. After the Alaska oil pipline came online, oil prices steadily went down for a time. It came online in 1977 and the reduction was in the 1980's: http://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas-overview/exploration-...

So please explain to me how a chart showing that current prices are, in real terms, as bad as or worse than 1979 prices supports your first statement.

Thank you.
So you don't believe the words Jesus is quoted to say? Why? Who's more to believe, Jesus or Paul?

But back to the topic, tell me, do you approve what GCHQ did?
What? Sorry, I'm not parsing that at all.

Just to be clear, I'm saying the hybrid XHTML/SVG works just fine in all major browsers.
> Life is far easier today than it was 50 years ago, at least for most workers.

Whenever I find myself following the line of thinking that OP put forward, I try and remember: I'm the first generation in my family to be able to rely on the fact that any place I'm in (read: my car and my personal residence) has air conditioning
From skimming the article I can't tell if C++ will have anything akin to type classes, which is how Monad is expressed in Haskell? Is that what "Concepts" will bring and which enables Monad to be expressed as well?
> and still wear the scars from a particularly tough hashref autovivification bug

As an infrequent perl programmer[1], I'm curious about the bug. Googling tells me that perl if($foo->{bar}) will always pass, which is pretty goofy to me. Was it something like that?

[1] Well really, a bad perl programmer. I've occasional had to make minor edits to legacy perl. I don't write perl. And, as the mistake in this post shows, that's probably a good thing :)
> He never said he's spending more than he's making, or that he's failing to save money.

Which has nothing to do with anything. He doesn't feel financially well-off or stable, so obviously he's not happy with his earnings to savings ratio.

> He asked about why things aren't better than they are

And my perspective and advice is that things are better than he thinks they are, he just needs to adjust his attitude.

> Telling him to cut costs is absolutely absurd. He didn't ask for advice

Obviously you're welcome to your opinion and me mine. If you don't like my advice you can always down vote it. Cutting costs is actually extremely sound advice for someone that doesn't feel financially "well off" or stable. He admits elsewhere in the thread "I feel like the goalposts keep moving".

> He didn't say his costs are extreme

Nobody that's not entirely satisfied money-wise thinks their expenses are extreme. That's the whole point.
> What's better, the docs for Backbone.Marionette, or Backbone?

Offline or online viewing? Should I need a web connection to read the documentation?
Please please please let this lead to a P2P version of Twitch.tv.

It would be amazing if gaming broadcasters could stream directly to their subscribers/followers, with very little latency (not the 30 second video lag Twitch adds). Broadcaster monetizing could be tricky, but definitely doable.
Thanks for your reply.

Maybe it has to do with WWII. After WWII, the US was the only great economic power left undamaged. Our industries supplied the world, and they boomed. That wealth trickled down to many people in the US. Now, decades after WWII, other countries around the world have developed their own industry, driving down global prices and wages. As a result, perhaps the average global worker is better off, but the average US worker is worse off. This may partly explain why median wages have been stagnant in the US since 1974ish.

I wonder how much of comfort is attitude or perspective. I also happen to be a single man living in a high-rent city (Palo Alto). My income is about $30,000. Rent is my largest expense by far, but overall I feel quite comfortable. I manage to contribute $5k each January to my Roth IRA. No doubt if I had children or medical expenses, my $30,000 income would be strained, but right now I feel relatively comfortable on it. My needs are met.
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how would you monetize?
Still waiting for proper WebGL support without having to force it.
Your local rental costs are whack, and not representative of most of the country.
It sounds to me like you just need to take a break. Try for a week long vacation in the mountains or on the beach. If you have the money, somewhere even better like Hawaii.

Most importantly, during that week, TURN OFF YOUR PHONE. Don't read the news. It will all be there when you get back.

Can't do that, because your the only one in your solo app business? Then it's a sure sign that you need to. Find a friend to take over for a week, or hire someone (maybe permanently, if the workload can justify it).
I like frugality, but rushing to live on a fixed income seems like a big mistake. People on fixed incomes are especially sensitive to externalities such as assuming their investment returns will outpace increases in prices and taxes.

For example, if increasing capital gains taxes or introducing a consumption tax become popular, people living frugally on modest investment incomes will be hard-hit. Considering that someone in his thirties could easily live another 50 years, it's hard to adjust retirement savings goals to match that sort of risk.

On top of that, careers are the biggest investments of most people. The idea of abandoning that investment and assuming the risks of a fixed income lifestyle seems half-baked to me.

Anyway, that being said, I like his attitude and tips on spending, at least when he isn't spending inordinate amounts of time on something to save a few bucks.
You're correct, the law has not passed away. The requirements of it have been fully met (fulfilled) by Christ. By submitting our lives to Christ, his perfect fulfillment of God's law is credited to us, thereby freeing us from the penalty of the law.

This is obviously off topic from the original post, but hopefully it's a valuable conversation. It's actually a really important point that is reiterated throughout the New Testament explicitly and foreshadowed throughout the entire Old Testament.

This is a short helpful explanation
http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/how-christ-fulfilled-and...
How does it compare to Bittorrent Live?
I've thought about this before - where you have a 2D array of images with infinite scroll in all directions.

You need to track the scroll position, and kill the elements that are scrolling away as you create the new elements in the direction you are scrolling - with the entire purpose of creating enough cached images so that it is seamless to the user.

The problem is that the scroll position changes back when you kill the old elements, so you need to keep a running tally of the matrix somewhere to track the user's position.
1) Those are false choices. If rent is $2,000/month, a mortgage would be far more than $1,500. Just an example, my rent is near $2k in SF, an equivalent sized unit on my block just sold for $700k. If you could put 20% down (just save $140,000!), a 30-year mortgage would be $3,500/month -- 75% more than renting.

2) Get a new healthcare plan through Healthcare.gov. The out-of-pocket maximum is $12,700 for a family plan.

3) Find a credit union, no fees, no shenanigans.

4) Call around and get a deal, my phone plan is $65/month and my cable (25mb internet + digital 'starter' TV) is $65/month

5) Agreed.
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It totally is a lot of money. Unfortunately, everything seems to cost a lot of money these days...

Ten years ago I wouldn't have believed you if you told me I'd be spending nearly $10k a year just to get adequate health care, or over $20k a year just to have a reasonable place to live. I was thrilled when my first salaried job paid $35k/year, and couldn't understand why that barely covered my expenses! $35000 is a lot of money! $110000 is a truckload!

(Thankfully, I'm in the OP's position this year, and I earned more than I spent on essential expenses... not so much last year, though.)
I use Python Eve. Pretty good Restful API built on Flask.
The difference is that defense is an unnecessarily expense. There is no credible military threat to the United States in the world right now. We would be just as safe if we stopped maintaining such a gigantic standing army and stopped interfering in overseas conflicts.

In contrast, spending for healthcare, education, and welfare measurably makes Americans' lives better. Cutting funding for these programs looks attractive for those who don't use them anyway (the rich), but would ultimately widen the class divide and be harmful to the country.
Well, if you had a website that cataloged and displayed the streams, much like Twitch.tv, then people can still find streams and subscribe to them in much the same way they do over at Twitch, while the site gets a cut.

Additionally, broadcasters can still do Paypal donation links, like they do over at Twitch.

Advertisements playing before videos, I'm not sure how it could be done, but it probably could be an overlay before the stream starts, or just a HTML5 video that loads first and must finish before the P2P stream begins.
I have 0 familiarity with Perl 4, and some(but not a lot) of familiarity with Perl 5(I have maintained Perl, I don't ever use it for a new project).

What makes you call it an abomination? I'm not a big fan of the language, but I have no idea why it'd be worse than Perl 4.
They don't need to be representative of the entire US. We know where he lives, and I know what the layout of that area is like. If his job is in Seattle he doesn't have access to many low-rent housing options and the same is true for many other people in that area.
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I drove the Jeep into a Shipping container and shipped it from Colon, Panama to Cartegena, Colombia.

http://theroadchoseme.com/shipping-across-the-darien-gap-pt-...
The worst offender here is Salesforce. Ten items by default, click "Show more" to see ten more goddamn items.
> You say you eat out "some of the time". Most people I know say that, and they mean "at least one meal per day". This is not good for your finances! I personally increased my monthly savings by 50% once I limited my takeout to once per week, cooking the rest of my meals myself.

I feel like I eat out less often than most other people I know. I budget for restaurants and stay within my budget. I buy lunch from a cafe or restaurant daily during the week, and eat out for dinner maybe once a week. I thought I was doing pretty well until I got my credit card statement summary for 2013.

Almost $7000 on restaurants / cafes / etc.

My fifth biggest category of spending (after Rent, Aggressive Car Payments ($1000/mo), Savings, and Healthcare, in order).
Because at the military level, all encryption is assumed to be compromised. Plus, it is assumed the phone may contain data of national value, so it assumed an adversary would spend unlimited resources to crack the encryption.

For example, lets say "unlimited" is $100 million dollars. How many groups would spend $100 million to lets say, get details about the missile defense system in Taiwan? Plenty.

As other posters have stated, this is not a phone for anyone but only very specific gov't employees.
Oh... I think I could probably psychologically handle 30 job offers in a month if just one of them was from a company like Google :|
I think I have seen something similar a few months ago on HN.
I live in a quite nice 2br condo in Seattle proper. I make just slightly less than you do. I don't live frugally at all, including eating out far more than I should and plenty of discretionary shopping. I have nearly $80k in student loan debt, and I contribute liberally to retirement accounts.

Even with all of that, I've got a healthy buffer in my budget, which is currently going towards a rainy day fund, and will be redirected toward loans after that. Within 3 years I expect to have a big buffer of money that I don't think I could manage to spend.

So it sounds like the problem is either: you aren't living frugally by reasonable standards, you're leaving something big out (dental ranks on your biggest expenses?!), or you have such astronomical standards that I can't ever see you being satisfied.
I like your use of emoticons to express your opinion about the historical context of text.
I think goalposts move by nature, even when you set them yourself. Once upon a time, my goalposts were "graduate college". Then they were, "get a good job". Then they were, "get healthy". Then, "build social circles".

These are moving goalposts. But without them, I would stagnate and achieve little.
Actually in the developed world mining deaths are a lot lower than they used to be - fishermen have some of the most dangerous jobs

And at a supervisory/professional level in the UK, coal mining deputy's can earn £80-£100k PA (twice what the average dev in London gets paid)- the going rate for a single 12 hour shift at the weekend is £2k

I was one a course (on TUPE a really acne bit of uk employment law) and 3 of the other attendees where from the mining industry and shared some figures with us.
The problem is macroeconomic illiteracy by policy makers and the press has the economy underperforming. Taxes are to high and spending is to low and policy makers believe the government -which can issue infinite amounts of currency- can actually go bankrupt. We can model the macro economy using 3 sectors: foreign , domestic , and government with money changing hands between each sector. Money flows into the gov sector via taxation and out via spending. Money flows out of the domestic via taxation(to government) or spending on foreign and in via government spending or foreign consumption. Foreign is similar to domestic. In order for any sector in aggregate to increase its income, the other sector(s) needs to spend more than its receives from other sectors by either going into debt or spending from savings. Now, with austerity carrying the day in Washington, the private sector cannot increase its aggregate income with money flowing from the government sector. With the foreign sector structured to mostly export to America ( worlds largest consumer) income is not going to flow from there. The only thing left is for the domestic sector to borrow and spend from savings till it all blows up again. After it blows up, automatic stabilizers go into effect ( unemployment, food stamps, stimulus etc , lower taxes due to less income tax revenue) the government picks up the slack and the economy recovers proportional to net government spending. This is the cycle our economy ( if not the world's) operates on.

Income guarantee/Job guarantee, lower taxes, and infrastructure programs would serve to proactively increase income to the domestic sector. The political will -due to deficit myths- to do what is required doesn't exist.
I generally don't get past the recruiter for jobs I would be perfect for. then for some reason recruiters always want me for something out of my league like CTO.
The economy got shipped overseas.

A trickle at first but then like everything else the practice got optimized.

So the upper-end mostly survived. The low-end is being stepped on harder and harder to squeeze more profit out of labor, any way they can.
That will not always pass.

if (exists $foo->{bar}){ .. will not run .. }

if ($foo->{bar}) {...}

if (exists $foo->{bar}){ .. will run .. }
He didn't complain about his wages, and he made it clear that he is not spending excessively. His lifestyle sounds fairly frugal by modern standards. He didn't even express discontent money-wise, as in 'I wish I made more money'. He's clearly expressing a general sense of uncertainty about why the economy is how it is, and why costs are how they are.

Also, he asked about other people and you're saying he needs to adjust HIS attitude? What does that do for everyone else? Do they all just need to adjust their attitudes and accept their lots in life?

The goalposts moving doesn't mean he's setting the goalposts for himself; if anything, it implies the opposite: Someone else is setting the goalposts. If those goalposts are essential (rent, health care, food)... what is he supposed to do?
Except that during the early part of that period both British and American intelligence agencies had free reign untroubled by having to obey that law.

Hoover's FBI did what it want, MI5 famously "burgled their way across London". Oversight came later.
Digital currency is a huge threat to the Fed if successful, so it will need to be dealt with in some capacity. Right now, I suspect they are hoping it is a fad or a toy that will go away. Gox certainly doesn't help change that impression.

They believe this to be the case. If they didn't, they wouldn't believe in the need for central banking. :)
Dragging with the scrollbar is far more accurate if you know where on the page you're headed (of course an impossibility with infinite scrolling).
https://github.com/cjohansen/Sinon.JS/pull/358

Longer story:

using npm to install sinon; shimming sinon in my karma browserify plugin config (`'sinon' : 'global:sinon'`)since it doesn't follow CommonJS; using browserify (and the karma browserify plugin) to require('sinon'); sinon is undefined after var sinon = require('sinon'). Might be something up with my config, but none of the other non-commonjs modules I shim (jquery, swfobject) have the same issues.
My self-assigned title is financial systems architect ... as distinct from pure software architecture, I see systems architecture as focusing more on the intersection of business process, interconnections between individual software services, hardware to run it all on, and of course individual software services including the entire lifecycle of conceive/research/spec/build/test/deploy/(rebuild/retest/redeploy/)retire. It's basically software development with a whole bunch more levels of abstract, where perhaps software development winds up getting less attention due to https://xkcd.com/1319/
"I don't feel I have the freedom to take a vacation."

This is a sure sign that you need to.
Cant wait for Stephen Wolfram to claim it his own invention.
And if Apple's servers lie to you and tell you there's a device with a private key they generated?

They may never have your private key, but you are still trusting them to deliver the correct public keys to other users.
I make $65000 in NYC and support my wife also. We live in a 2 bedroom with a one hour commute. At this time I feel like I'm making more money than I can easily spend - and easily better off than any generation of my white american family before me. I eat out or order in 5 times a week at least.

Its hard for me to imagine scraping by at $110k, truthfully.
Um, which industry do you work in? Enormous amounts of words from mathematics have been incorporated into the programming lexicon. Vector, matrix, index, graph, tree, function, domain, ... the list goes on and on.
Sorry, I didn't mean to accuse him of complaining. It's a perfectly fair question - if $100k income is not enough to cause happiness, then what is? I suspect that even $1 million might not be enough to cause happiness. Or even $10 million. I remember reading that income stops being a predictor of happiness after around $75k per year. Here is the first source I googled: http://www.inc.com/news/articles/2010/09/study-says-$75,000-...

Even though it seems like money reduces hardship and should increase happiness, I think as long as you aren't broke, relationships matter more than bank accounts.

What do you think?
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Unless Apple is omitting something or there’s some backdoor tucked into their many-layers-deep encryption (which, while unlikely, isn’t inconceivable) they really can’t read your iMessages without a fairly insane amount of effort.

That is, assuming, that there isn't some code in the app that allows Apple to request that the app send your private key up to the server. It's conceivable that in order to comply with law enforcement, for example, that Apple could just tell the app to send up your private key so that it can decrypt any message they have stored.

There's also no way to verify that your messages have, in fact, been removed from their services.
You said:

that still pales in comparison to the cost of rent in pretty much any part of the country.

Do you actually know what the cost of rent is in the rest of the country? Not long ago I paid $450/mo to split a 3br apartment with two friends in a moderate town 1 hour from a major city. Compared to that, $200/month on connectivity is indeed quite a lot.
Betteridge's Law of headlines applies here, I'm pretty sure.
> If the 'goalposts' are 'live in a studio apartment, pay for health/dental care, have heat and light and hot water', and the costs of THAT keep going up, what is he supposed to do about that?

That's a very good point. If the world changes under your feet and makes it impossible to live with the quality of life you had or were aiming to have, I think your only option is to adjust your internal thinking so that you don't become unhappy.
They don't have to have your private key to pull off a MITM.

In reality, it is probably secure enough against most adversaries. State level adversaries is a different story.. That you need OTR and key verification in person.
There is a key advantage to what this is doing over current activity trackers I am aware of - and that is that it gives real time feedback and is moving towards performance metrics that matter rather than merely tracking how much the sensor is moving.

(I was involved in a startup doing something similar in the past, we never got to market - www.runnr.me - Good luck!)
Yahoo fought/fights this pretty hard:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2342200/Revealed-Yah...

Now companies are able to release more info about what the government had requested, though it is delayed and limited to giving ranges periods of time instead of absolute numbers.
Just want to chime in and say thanks for your comments in this thread, getting a behind-the-scenes on what might be the highest-profile software project fiasco ever is really cool.
the best is when you say "yeah I know the folks over at X company. they're great but I'm not the right fit." then they continue to try to pitch you.