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EDIT: We disagree. But, rather than try to convince you, I've removed this comment. It occurs to me that I have a different way of thinking about this that others might appreciate and find helpful.

It's also part of a bigger set of "issues" that I have with the status quo. That is, it's one of several things in the current startup ethos that I believe constrains too many good people. So, rather than continue to discuss this on a soon-to-be obscure HN thread, perhaps I will find a different format for injecting a different set of more broadly empowering ideas into the environment.
> You need to be physically out of the USA for 330/365 days in a 12 month period (not a calendar year--this is stupidly overly complicated and tricky)

That it how you capture partial years. I moved abroad in November of one year, stayed abroad the whole following year, and repatriated myself the follow June. Using the rolling 12-month period I got out of paying US income taxes for the entire time I was out of the country. The forms were straight-forward enough.
Of course you do. Violating the TOS that you agree to does give the provider a reason to block your service though.
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Thanks - I messed up linking in the post.

On "The Power Broker," Swartz says:

"I cannot possibly say enough good things about this book. Go read it. Right now. Yes, I know it’s long, but trust me, you’ll wish it was longer. I think it may be simply the best nonfiction book."

[0] - https://zolabooks.com/list/aaron-swartz-reading-list/1
Wagers and science are opposite endeavors. A scientist must not care how his theory turns out, but a gambler must care.
US education has both private and public aspects. Private schools are, surprisingly, almost unregulated in terms of the content that they must teach (high school students are required to take one class in American History).

Public education is administered at the county level (if you can believe it). States have a decent amount to say with regards to what schools teach; the federal government does not. This system is not great for a variety of reasons (primarily the fact that education quality varies astronomically from county to county), but it does mean that "propaganda in schools" is hard to effect from a centralized location.
3 (Hutchinson)

also free 4G with no data caps.. they might be slower than the others but they own their own cell towers and offer the best deals.
Entrenched ISPs have complained that Google is getting special treatment. I find that somewhat disingenuous. It seems to me the difference between existing ISPs limp efforts to expand broadband and Google's is that Google did a decent job of telling municipalities what they needed to bring higher speed data to their constituents—and they did it in a very public way.

I think it's a good example of how one can bring attention to the senseless bureaucracy we all complain about. Instead of complaining, bring about actionable steps.
You can turn on visual buttons in accessibility. Which to me just becomes one more thing I need to test for as a dev ;-)
What about things like Toyota's unintended acceleration debacle?

Just because driver's actions count for a lot of accidents doesn't mean that car manufacturer are absolved from doing anything. Considering how many accidents there are, cars need to be designed with that in mind, much like how touch keyboards work around our fat finger inputs.

User error is a design consideration (or else we wouldn't have undo commands in all of our software).
I thrive almost precisely because I'm willing to explore and learn interfaces. The day I give up the desire to figure out how to use rather mundane objects is the day I officially give up being a tinkerer.

Does it take some figuring out when I jump from one android to another? Or to an iPhone? Or an old style phone? Sure, but so what? Do I want to do it daily? Not really. However, doing so every now and then is hugely beneficial to seeing how others see the world.

This is no different than why you should try different programming languages. Sometimes, it just helps to see things differently. Even if it is the same old todo list you have seen countless times. Maybe something will "click" this time.

Seriously, consider that when you are using a new UI, you are seeing something as envisioned by someone else. It may be that the someone else is a committee that couldn't agree on anything. In this case the learning experience will be mostly frustration.

However, do you really think that things that you know and use daily are truly easy? Watch a child try to operate a door sometime. Any kind of door. It does not matter.

Maybe I'm just projecting and hoping that by instilling a sense of "keep trying" and "learn what you can do, do not get upset with what you can't" to my kids. Surely I am not alone in this, though.

And this is far from new. The devices we have to learn nowdays are downright easy compared to the stuff from years past. Have you seen some of the heavy machinery that people operate? There are more levers on a standard worksite tractor than I can really make sense of.
I saw one posting for a C# consulting position January and February. Wanted 5+ years of experience and a degree with no remote option.
> Instead, I think the answer is better road design, separating cars and cyclists using dedicated lanes, and automated vehicles.

One way of keeping the status quo is to suggest things that are incredibly expensive and time consuming will never be done.

Making driving more expensive however, does reduce traffic and fatalities.
John McAfee doesn't deserve any more attention.
If you have €650,000 to spare, Malta will sell you an EU citizenship...

If you want to do it without a big pile of capital, the easiest route is probably to get a job offer from a company that will sponsor you as a skilled immigrant, and live/work for enough years to qualify to apply for citizenship (as well as doing whatever else might be required, such as passing a language exam). Sweden is one of the easier countries, with about a 9-year path to citizenship (4 years to permanent residency, plus 5 years to citizenship), no exams. Period can be shortened if you live with a significant other who's a Swedish citizen.

If you want to be self-employed and run your own business, this route is generally much harder, especially if you aren't moving with an already-successful business. Many countries assume by default that "self-employed immigrant" means "doesn't have a job or want to get one" and/or "probably will sell drugs for a living", and treat the category more skeptically. But you can go self-employed once you get permanent residency.
If anyone can setup / use a web proxy, it's the Russians!
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Annoying hipster alert.
If you're only in it for the storage, I don't find it to be important whether or not Google Drive will eventually be shuttered—there is a very little barrier to switch to another provider if the need arises. Google has a good track record for letting you get your data out in such a case.
Nice try Samsung. Not falling for any more of your "viral" commercials.
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IANAL but I was in a similar situation (didn't end up going through with it) and did some research.

The technical answer is you are probably in the clear unless some part of the app's flow or design was "non-obvious", and obviously you can't re-use code.

The real answer is if your old company decides to sue you, you won't be able to pony up the money for lawyers to fight it. If you get huge before they figure out and sue you, then at best you have a crazy expensive settlement on your hands.

Don't do it. ideas are dime a dozen, why not pick one that doesn't have strings?
What fibonacci taught me about programming
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Why yes. My primary tool is the M1A1 Flamethrower. It does wonders for spreading my development philosophy which is my own variant of FDD; fear-driven development.
In firearms circles there's a saying "There is no such thing as a firearms accident. There are only negligent acts."

SOMEONE is always responsible, and should be held accountable.
Yeah, wired runs lots of stories about stuff that quite simply never happens.

I used to keep a lot of back issues of wired, which I saved because I thought they had some cool stories. Surprisingly, many are packed with examples of very obvious vapor ware, and have aged really poorly.

A small handful, however, still read like notes from an exciting future, and I find myself returning to them, when searching for inspiration.
This sounds like an argument for introducing a separate class of "city car" to the USA. On a highway, I want a big comfy car that can be efficient at 55-65 MPH, and protect me in a collision at those speeds. In a city, I don't really need that.
I learned about relational databases just from playing with Access at one of my first (boring, nontechnical) jobs. Just the fact that the GUI gives you a valid query for multi-table joins, even if it's not the one you want, is extraordinarily useful if you don't know SQL and want to poke around.
fuck russia, right?

but, seriously. fuck russia. shitty country.
I think SQLAlchemy's documentation is actually pretty good; it's extremely thorough. SQLAlchemy is also extremely well designed/written (as is Django), though it tends not to hide its complexity. SQLAlchemy's sessions are more complex than Django's equivalent. This is because SQLAlchemy assumes a more general case, where as Django assumes you're making a standard CRUD web application. They're both good at what they do.
I think it's pretty clear the Author of this game is a NSA agent trying to distract us.
Well, I can give you my perspective.

I'm lazy when it comes to food: my primary motivator with respect to food is not being hungry. While I like to eat food and definitely have types I prefer over others, I don't like to source them, prepare them or clean up afterwards. I also don't like that I have a whole room dedicated to the storage, processing and cleanup of food and food-related paraphernalia.

Basically, aside from the 'provides vital sustenance' aspect of it, I don't believe food enhances my life in any way. A product that claims good, fast, palatable nutrition with a minimum of effort? I will give that a try.
Interesting option. However, the "invest mauritius" website isn't even loading for me, which perhaps isn't a good sign for this "good" connectivity...
the 'squinting at power series' paper by mcllroy is very cool demonstration of this technique using new-squeak
... those who sought to drive by what the law declared to be the rules of the road were deemed to have done something wrong only if they failed to meet a reasonable standard of care in driving - that is, if they were negligent, careless, inexcusably inattentive, or otherwise failed to exercise a sufficient degree of caution

But the letter of the law seems to indicate otherwise. The California "basic speed law" says: "22350. No person shall drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent having due regard for weather, visibility, the traffic on, and the surface and width of, the highway, and in no event at a speed which endangers the safety of persons or property." (my emphasis)

That seems to me to pretty clearly say that if you hit someone you were in fact breaking the law, not just "failing to meet a reasonable standard of care". Do you have any insight in how this plays out?
They run new aerial fiber. They're asking for the right of way on the poles.
which dont kill people in quite the same way
http://www.nextthing.org/archives/2005/08/07/fun-with-http-h...
Ask HN: What's your favorite keyboard for programming?
Mine is HHKB (Happy Hacking Keyboard Profession 2), and loving it. What's yours?

http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=pfu_keyboards,hhkbpro2&pid=pdkb400w
Exactly. I hope this is taken as a learning experience by those who are quick to declare any concern about slippery slopes as "fallacious".

Sure, some assertions of slippery slopes are fallacious, but others could not be more real.
Anything wrong with: http://gdfuse.forge.ocamlcore.org/ ?
Link: http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=pfu_keyboards,hhk...
> Some applications (especially on Mac OS) tried to stick to Apple’s human interface guidelines

It would have worked, too, if Apple had ever been willing to follow suit.
I know your point is that Ruby is where it's at, but do this:

In the top line of config/boot.rb above EVERYTHING else, put this:

require 'tracer'
Tracer.on

Now, start Rails. Wow that's a lot, huh? Stop again. Now try replacing those two lines with:

set_trace_func proc { |event, file, line, id, binding, classname|
printf "%8s %s:%-2d %10s %8s\n", event, file, line, id, classname
}

Start it again. Lot going on there...
"Never claimed otherwise. My example was intentionally as simple as possible."

This is disingenuous. The primary reason your example was flawed is the lack of a control group, and your phrasing in establishing that it is flawed more or less points that out. Using that to condemn single-blind studies is inane - if it were double blind but there was no control, it would give the same result.
US: Fox News, CNN, 'embedded journalists' in US military campaign reporting.

About censorship bills brought in by dubious 'five horseman of the internet apocalypse' arguments, yes.

Honestly though, almost every nation I've lived in or have citizenship has equivalent rules (Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, China, UK). The US perhaps doesn't but it's still bullshit to hold it up as any kind of do-gooder because it would be hard to argue that its recent actions have any positive outcome for the internet (re: extralegal persecution of Wikileaks, MegaUpload, pervasive PRISM surveillance, encouragement of allies to do the same, peddling of lofty-sounding international agreements by bribery/cocercion to effect 'IP law' changes that essentially undermine funamental freedoms, domestic shackling of IANA, politicization of DNS, etc.)

After visiting it on the eve of its new government, I wonder how Tunisia is doing with enacting freedom-protecting internet legislation?

I wonder if perhaps, perversely, Germany might be doing OK in this regard?
Are we sure that this isn't just an oversight, or they haven't gotten around to updating the Apps pricing page yet? I mean, it's not like Google has consistency problems across all of their properties.

However, I did the same thing as you when I read this post: I went to our GA for Business account to see the pricing.

Hopefully Google will rectify or clarify the situation.
Why does nobody open source near real time satellite imagery
I would love to help the search for MH370 but would need satellite imagery from recent images (ala digital globe) why won't they release the raw images and let us crunch away to try to find potential debris?
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I just use my laptop keyboard. That way I don't have to readjust when travelling.
Similarly "the gun is always loaded".

On it's face, it is a silly thing to say because obviously a gun can be unloaded. The point however is to drive home a respectful attitude towards guns, for the sake of safety.
I haven't done a lot of research, but from the few public school teachers I know personally, I glean that a lot of state and federal public school "regulation" is not of the explicit legal type, but rather takes the form of pressure from conditional subsidies.
There are currently efforts to implement something similar for farmers around Fukushima - radiation-free vegetables grown "inside" in hydroponic farms.

See for example: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-10/fukushima-seeks-rev...

Personally, I would eat both the bomb shelter food and the hydroponics food.
Not sure I buy this premise. For one thing, I just had to decide between DO and AWS. I wanted something I could jump in and try something, and then later scale out. I was heavily leaning towards DO. But then I noticed AWS gives you a free year of their micro instance. DO isn't beating that.
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I wonder how much of that is confirmation bias and/or appeal to authority, though? Not consciously, mind you! But I found that after reading that book, things that previously didn't bother me at all began to annoy the crap out of me, just because I'd read the book, and here was this authority figure telling me they were doing it all wrong.
Logitech K350 is fine.
In a frontal collision, the engine is directed down underneath the drive and passenger. That design alone gives you a few extra feet.
Ask HN: Would you use an API for your personal bank account?
Transaction notifications primarily. Open to other function ideas.
Hopefully they use re2[1] or a similar regexp engine without backtracking.

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/re2/
I think a core premise of the parent argument is the existence of '100% comprehension' when reading and believe arguments against this premise are very much not directed towards a strawman.

Sure the meaning of words flows with time, but more importantly our languages are imprecise and subject to much interpretation. How any one person translates the meaning of a word or passage into internal conscious and unconscious understanding is most certainly inconsistent. Ask any hundred academics the meaning of a passage of literature or a poem and you'll get 100 analyses. Ask 100 judges to make a determination of how the law applies to a case and you'll get 100 different judgements (even though the law is supposed to be very precise language by design).

My position is that complete comprehension is absurd therefore all comprehension is incomplete.

Given all comprehension is incomplete, arbitrarily setting limits on levels of comprehension based on tools and reading speed is absurd.

Any comprehension is useful, and doing things quickly is useful therefore a tool that provides some comprehension over meaningfully shorter periods of time for a given block of text has definite utility in some circumstances.

A person can be skeptical of the utility of a tool for their own purposes, but the absolutist opinion of the parent is a silly overstatement of that skepticism.
"My favorite real-time software is the XM153 remote control software that comes standard with the XM153 50 caliber machine gun. It is solid, never crashes, easy to use and easy to install."

If you don't appreciate the genius of that answer you are dead inside.

BTW it's obviously a fake.
They all look fine to me
My eyes aren't good enough to sit that far away from the monitor. I had back pain, and other aches too -- then I decided to just get in shape. I do high intensity circuit training (mix of cardio / strength) 3x a week, and all my physical problems disappeared. I've never felt better.

I often sit at my desk exactly how you are not supposed to: slouched with feet up on the desk...but b/c my core is strong, it doesn't ever phase me. I think most people will find if they just get in shape, a lot of these desk fads will just go away for them.
im started thinking.watch now because my android out of juice and i cannot see current date and time.
Really? How many friggin house cats can kill eagles? Hawks? Hell, a goose can damn near kill a human much less a cat. How about you find a cite for super cat the eagle slayer.
> Firstly the observable universe is nothing compared to the whole universe.

We don't know anything about the unobservable universe. And who cares in this context? johnvschmitt was explicitely talking about 'receiving'.
You have often thought of this, but never did any research into what they currently do?
Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000. It works really well in my lap and that significantly reduces fatigue.
Your landlord doesn't rifle through your apartment to see what kind of laundry detergent you buy so that he can sell that info to advertisers. There are also very well defined limits on how your landlord can access your apartment, and you have a property interest as a renter. Read Facebook's TOS and tell me there are any such limits to what Facebook can do with your data, and explain to me how you have a property interest in the data Facebook collects about you.

In a struggle to make your analogy work, you're posing s hypothetical online service very different than the ones that exist. If Facebook and Google didn't mine your data and provided strong contractual protections limiting the situations in which their engineers could access it, like landlords do, then you'd have a much stronger argument that these things are protected by the 4th amendment.
TLDR: The approach we take for IT works (for us at this point in time in the scope defined as IT by me and/or our internal customers).

Netflix talks generally can be fascinating and inspiring. However, when considering IT it's also important to consider the charter and challenges of Netflix IT.

i.e. it's no more valid or invalid that the talks of how IT is delivered in so-called build vs. broker models in other companies in other industries http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-07-05/
If my bank had a properly secure API to download the electronic statement .pdf's they generate I'd use that.

It would beat the trouble of having to manually click to download each one, and then being presented with a suggested filename of "session.cgi" to save the thing into (i.e., they are not even smart enough to set the mime headers to give a proper filename to the file).
Complaints as Amazon Raises Cost of Prime
Expressive faces in JavaScript
U.S. Agrees to Allow BP Back Into Gulf Waters to Seek Oil
We should never judge someone's productivity by how many hours of "work" they do. Especially not for CEOs. They have all the resources at their finger tips to delegate and automate the tasks. If they are busy frantically responding to emails there is something wrong with their approach.
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The funny thing is that is a fucking GSG-5 .22lr mockery of the HK MP5, with a fake suppressor attached to make it legal as a rifle (16"), in his photo.

That's like posing with a "mac" from fisher price.
It's true that the US ranks fairly low for social safety net, but it's incorrect to claim that this implies that you will be living on the street.
> Why you would think I have a problem with that, I have no idea.

Because you're having this visceral, irrational reaction to what is essentially a nutritionally-modified Ensure or Slimfast or any other meal replacement drink that's been around for the past 20 years!

Wait until prosthetics are on equal ground with the real thing - I'd wager once that time comes, willfully trading the real limb for an artifical one will become a real thing.
Read between the lines - it's not bragging, it's a pointed threat.
I'm actually not fond of separating cars and cyclists using dedicated lanes. My experience has been that roads with bike lanes tend to be more dangerous - cars stop paying as much attention to bikes, so you get a lot more instances of them forgetting you're there and making a right hand turn right in front of you. Not to mention that they often force cyclists to ride within swinging distance of car doors - which is a far more popular way to injure cyclists than actually running into them is.

My preference would be to have designated bike thoroughfares where cars are permitted, but the speed limit is kept to something low enough that cars and bikes are going at approximately the same speed so bikes can ride in the lane without (reasonable) motorists feeling obstructed.
Cancer kills incredibly rich people who have virtually unlimited resources.
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I work with a few ex-AWSers. Apparently work conditions are terrible and there's a lot of churn. That would explain why the design is so inconsistent.
Russia is the only safe place for him. If he hadn't gone to Russia he'd be either dead by now or living in a cage wearing an orange suit.