skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. It is also highly ironic how he uses a laptop and has a blog, both of which require the existence of a technologically advanced society.
Agreed. I was reading through this and thinking that he was living as independent a live as a typical Burner is "self reliant" at Burning Man.

If anybody is _really_ interested in independent living, I cannot recommend highly enough "Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills: Naked into the Wilderness " - by John Mcpherson.

Any book that starts off with "In the spring of 1986 I, John, first published a 48 page book on brain tanning. I had spent years searching for - mostly thru trial and error - a recipe for this project. I had found nothing in print that was to be of much help." you just _know_ is going to draw you in.
and got a free caravan for shelter, and a solar panel, and...
Indeed. I'm reminded of the story of Bush the Elder at the supermarket, amazed by a barcode reader, which he had not interacted with previously. It is quite likely that Bush the Elder does not routinely interact with money -- because he has people for that.

This is "having people for that", albeit having less expensive people. He received compensation in kind from an agribusiness for services rendered -- they handled the cash, not him, crisis of conscience at being employed averted (he describes it as "volunteering", which apparently means "employment in an industry I like"). He used the telephone, but through the magic of creative spiritual accounting, only other people got charged eco-karma for the calls.
That was actually one of my first thoughts upon finishing Carr's article: "sounds just like 37-signals". Attack random people, make controversial points (even if you contradict an earlier post), do anything to generate noise and traffic.
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From EFF's Secret Files: Anatomy of a Bogus Subpoena
Yes and "rediscovered" in the same way that every teenager thinks they are the first to discover sex!
Which Steve was that, though? The pre-NeXT Steve who was kicked out of his own company, or Steve the White who came back from the abyss to throw the usurpers out and save the day?
With a cell phone you can track someone within a few hundred meters in a city cell, in a rural cell within a kilometer or two.

As for 'trails', try the past, if the person used a computer and you have access to it (legally) you could try to figure out what they were doing before they went off.

Browser histories, email, IM & skype, msn and IRC chat records as well as the contents of input fields on forms can be quite revealing.
We've discussed this before, wrt YC: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=897115
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With all due respect to Jason Calacanis, he has made his selling Weblogs to AOL...I get that. However, I honestly think that he doesn't understand the way media is changing. It's not about the 'few' large content creators anymore - it's about the millions of little content creators. The search engine business has not been commodotized, the content business has.

Sharing revenue with 'certain' content creators doesn't scale like paying the top digg users to submit content on Netscape doesn't scale.

I am not one of those that thinks that paper and ink will go away, I just think that the model is going to change drastically.

Weren't the lawsuits and withholding of 'professional content' from YouTube supposed to kill YouTube some years ago? What happened to that? Yes, Hulu is a nice destination, but wasn't that also supposed to 'kill Google'? Whenever I see Mark Cuban agreeing with Calacanis on some crazy tirade (http://blogmaverick.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-to-block-g...) it really gives me pause. No offense to Mr. Cuban either.

Twitter & Facebook have not, and WILL NOT replace Google. It's that simple. Yes, they might perform some functions better than Google, but there are two different use cases for both sets of services. When I want to find general information about a topic (anything outside of 'real-time' info and my social graph) I go to Google first. Twitter and Facebook won't change that, because they are not even in that game.

Bing, on the other hand, is finally gaining ground and that's good. Competition is a good thing for the markets and is very healthy. Someone needs to keep Google in check.

This notion of throwing money at content providers/creators under the presumption that their content is what most of Google's traffic is in search for is a misguided notion.

I don't profess to know what (if anything) will kill Google, but I would recommend that Calacanis and Cuban go read 'The Long Tail' again. That is the future. As 37signals puts it, the Fortune 5,000,000 not Fortune 100.
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I'd love HN folks' feedback on this and my previous posts; I'm just getting started as a blogger.
There's really not much information either in the article, or in the PDF it's summarizing. I mean yes, the count is higher, but why? They also say that the number of 'safari' bugs has skyrocketed because of vulnerabilities found in the iPhone version- does this mean they're double counting webkit problems, or are there actually unique vulnerabilities in the iPhone specific libraries?

In any case, that's not a security report so much as it is a long form advertisement for Cenzic, whoever they are.
I'm sorry, but you must have read a different story. There is no mention of being "independent." He only set out to "live without money" and with one exception, did so.

His goal was never the off-grid cabin-in-the-woods situation. That much should have been apparent because he was interacting with his local community in many ways.
Liability most likely - dictated by lawyers!
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Here's an insightful interview with Justin before this happened: http://www.maxim.com/humor/stupid-fun/83977/interview-justin...
Twitter gets payments from some telcos because it helps to drive text usage. It's not quite the furnace fed with hundred dollar bills that it's sometimes portrayed as.
But almost _every single thing_ he had was a result of a vast, vast, vast chain of money. If all he was trying to do was exist without cash soiling his hands, then he could simply have engaged in a barter existence and done very well for himself. I hate being such a negative on this one, because, in general, I'm enthusiastic about people trying new things, and living differently - but I read that article _twice_ just to see if I could understand what the heck he was trying to accomplish - I just didn't get it.
One thing that struck me about twitter is that the mainstream media pushed it (e.g. Oprah). That never happened with Google.

I got the sense that the mainstream media felt that they could work with Twitter, and so of course they promoted it like crazy. This article suggests one reason why that might be: it's not a competitor to media, but more like the word of mouth that mainstream media is accustomed to handling.

Whereas Google solved a problem (of endless masses of information of unknown relevance) that had never existed before. It solved a geek problem, not a mainstream problem.
I thought Adwhirl was acquired by AdMob...do you mean if there is a potential divestment of Adwhirl?
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I had a professor once who said something similar. He phrased it differently though: in math people didn't want you to understand. Something about how it made them feel smarter.

Amusingly, he's a top-notch theoretical computer scientist which is really a kind of math (especially what he does). From this, I gathered that its really the culture of the department, not the field that does this.

One possible counter argument which I'm not in a position to evaluate: Theoretical CS is generally more grounded in "real" problems so maybe its easier for people in other areas to understand...?
If Alpha Centauri has an earth-like planet around it, we will know about it in our lifetimes. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080310-centa...

This will be a very interesting universe once my other consciousnesses are floating around exploring it.
The report itself: http://www.eff.org/wp/anatomy-bogus-subpoena-indymedia
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Presumably because gemcutter was doing a better job?
Does admob have any significant competitors?
So there is some use for Twitter after all, isn't this just the "old media" attempting to get cool and "with it" by jumping onto what is a bona-fide internet hit ?

Well good on you Justin.
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That's a prediction, not an outcome. Predictions are useful, but they aren't the same as outcomes at all.

(This is a different thing to the Motion/Action discussion, too)
I don't think it's reasonable to construe a software default as a conscious choice. Yes, people ought to know enough about technology to know what these defaults are. But the world is large and busy, and people don't have time for every possible choice; that's why we have defaults.
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But can anything be entirely trusted?
In order to really live without money you'd have to isolate yourself from anything that was produced directly or indirectly by using money too.

Good luck with that, it's a lot harder than it seems. Probably you'd have to move to greenland or a place like it to be sure that you actually can achieve the goal.

Living without touching money is not the same as living without money.
seconded.
Ruby's gem might not be perfect, but it is much more intuitive than anything python has (no idea about "pip" though)
They're all disruptive and all use technology, but few seem to be inventing technology.

However, I've been told that there are several technology-based ones, but they haven't launched yet because they're working on the technology. We tend to hear about the other ones.
I think it argues the exact opposite, if your device can simply be reverse engineered by observing the inputs and outputs then it shouldn't be patentable.

That means you can treat it as a black box without any knowledge of what is going on inside and produce an identical black box with a possibly completely different implementation on the inside.

These guys are essentially trying to patent something that can be expressed as a mathematical formula, and in my opinion that should not be possible.

Reduce it to an absurdity, imagine the patent on 'Pi' or a patent on calculus. Does it seem 'right' to you that such a thing should be patentable ?

If any group of mathematicians skilled in the art could come up with it that alone should have been grounds for dismissal, just being the first should not give you an automatic entitlement.
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I think this must be one of the most underreported changes ever. They did this last week already.
The languages are much more similar than they are different (in terms of feature set, not mindset), but one thing perl has which I don't understand how the python+ruby people get by without is 'use strict'. (ObLanguageWar: I'm not trying to promote perl here - I know the other languages have particular features perl does not - I'm just curious about this specific item.)

Every sane perl programmer will have this pragma enabled, and it requires you to declare lexical variables, otherwise you get a compile-time error.

I understand (please correct me if I'm wrong) that python+ruby instead allow lexicals to be created by assignement, leading to this problem:

def important_condition():
return 1
FOO = "wrong"
if important_condition(): FO0 = "correct"
print FOO

I'm told there are lint-like tools for python which can catch this, but since people typically don't use Makefiles to manage their python/perl/ruby code I can't imagine they are routinely used on each edit/run cycle.

Can any python/ruby coders comment on this? Is it an error case which takes any significant debugging time? (Rather than the O/0 distinction above, I see this sort of error more often from inConsistent camelCase).
I don't think he wanted to completely free himself of a modern world, just free himself from money which he has done.

Unlike a lot of similar stories you read I don't think he was really trying to prove anything.
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The cloud will be huge at some point, right now the numbers simply aren't there and there have been too many high profile glitches in recent times to get fence sitters to switch in large numbers.

Comparing the costs of cloud hosted computation and storage facilities with a 100 Mbit flat rate box with 500G on board for $130 / month is a good exercise and seems to indicate that cloud storage and bandwidth are much too expensive to be competitive except for some very specific uses.

Price is of course only one factor in making this decision (reliability, scalability are the others), but as someone put it nicely building your small web app on top of the cloud infrastructure is essentially a case of premature optimization.

It's a time of transition, maybe in the long run everything will be 'cloud based', but I think there is definitely a hybrid possible, where the same architectural tricks that go in to cloud computing are used by hosting centers to facilitate easy deployment.

Portability between suppliers is another key sticking point, right now the cloud seems to be more about locking in customers than anything else.
http://www.evanwondrasek.com/post/143027043/autopager-enable...

I like it too but liked it more when I turned off the spam it adds to google results
I don't understand how you can say $80 is a rounding error, and then suggest pricing tiers that that have an $80 gap. My brain started clanging with cognitive dissonance!

Also, I think advising him to have a "Call for more" option is bad advice. Don't introduce that kind of friction at the 101st users - that's not right. Maybe, just MAYBE, he wants to say call for 1000+, but even in this case, I think it will be better to be transparent about pricing.
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+1 for the correct use of "times".
I think a better measure of this would be to count the total number of days exploits are 'open'.

So, if there are three exploits, one is patched after 48 hours, the second in 24 and one in a week that should count as 10 bug days.

Then do the same for all browsers.
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This is very solid logic... for the same reason, ice cream vendors clump together in NYC. You go where the action is... you don't create the action.
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That suggests there is some kind of optimal path in which financing to choose from what supplier at a certain stage, but I think that to be associated with a large VC usually should compensate for the downsides during a follow up round.

Simply approach another VC after getting financing from the 'first big one', and make sure that you are allowed to do so.

VCs love to be #2... getting them to be #1 is the hard part.
Wait... which one is a flash in the pan sustained mostly by transient hype?
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> If all he was trying to do was exist without cash soiling his hands, then he could simply have engaged in a barter existence and done very well for himself.

Well, yeah, that's what he did. That is the point. He forced himself to deeply - even intimately - engage with the markets for every good he used, on a level that is unattainable through the largely anonymous transactions made with money. Money only communicates price. Barter tells you about the other dependencies.

Since his purpose was to learn about forms of waste in society, I think his strategy is quite good.
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The only thing the cloud can do cheaper right now is massive amounts of compute power for short periods of time. If you need to do something every month which takes 1000 CPU-days, but needs to be done in a day for the results to be of use, you've either got to buy lots of hardware or use the cloud.

The ability to do this cost effectively could make certain computations viable, opening up new opportunities for people to do interesting and useful things.
Agreed, it's important to present errors properly. But really, the best solution is to not present an error at all, in every possible case. Auto-recovery is very important.

The example of the Windows hibernate message, while trying to illustrate a different point, is really a better example of something the user shouldn't have been asked in the first place. The solution is simple: if Windows can try again, why didn't it just do that, maybe a few times, before even thinking of bothering the user?

The case of a failed key may be less trivial, since you don't necessarily want a page that helpfully produces valid keys from invalid ones. And yet, if the key is long enough, and the mistake is small enough (e.g. 2 characters out of 16), perhaps the web page could figure out the closest valid key and just log in using that key (or have a Google-style "did you mean XYZ-123-ABC" link for the matching key).
I don't think this has anything to do with unions. Georgia has a similar website (and Georgia is mostly anti-union). I think it has more to do with being a check-and-balance when dealing with people who are being paid with public money. You often hear about those scandals where public employees gave themselves and their friends huge salaries and bonuses; I think these websites are there to expose those types of fraud. It's no different than top executives at public (public as in stock listed, rather than gov't owned) having to disclose their compensation packages. People in a position of power have a tendency to abuse that power. There needs to be transparency in these cases.
Kind of a cool story, and as someone whose generally a conservationist and stoic, I admire the guy. But he does miss quite a big point with this:

> If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we wouldn't waste it so freely.

We also wouldn't have time to do things like cure malaria, build fortifications against natural disasters, and share information across great distances.

If you were born 100 years ago in 1909, you'd expect to die in 1961. Current life expectancy is 78 years, and there's a good chance babies born in 2009 will average living to 2109. That's frigging marvelous, despite wasting some food and furniture.
Three paragraphs are several orders of magnitude too few for a serious treatment of the economics of these things. Italian restaurants have vastly different economics than, say, search engines or auction sites or bug trackers, or, for that matter, furniture makers.

It depends on the market you're in, its reach (Italian restaurants do not compete with other restaurants 1000's of kilometers away; craigslist does), network externalities and their strength in the market (they were right to say bug trackers don't have really strong network effects), switching costs and so on and so forth.
Is this really a myth? Being the first means confronting different challenges than being niche or disrupting an existing market - like creating and educating the market. The most important point in this discussion is to be aware of the impact of being the first (if it is really true) and developing the appropriate marketing strategy.
"If you were born 100 years ago in 1909, you'd expect to die in 1961. Current life expectancy is 78 years, and there's a good chance babies born in 2009 will average living to 2109. That's frigging marvelous, despite wasting some food and furniture."

This shouldn't automatically be considered a positive...
Yes, exactly, that is what I had in mind with my 'specific uses'.
But if they use all or a large part of the Tweets from that one account there might well be some legal footing.
That's a pretty scary story. Especially how gag orders are abused to stop the discussion of other government abuses.

It's almost like we're back in the 70's, on the wrong side of the iron curtain.
If you know any web forums that he would log into, there will often be a date of last activity (e.g. in his user profile). Forums often have their own message systems, too.
It looked good until...

388. If you don't know what a knob does, don't fool with it.

I couldn't bring myself ever to give such bad advice to anyone :(

;)
There was a recent Sky News interview with Murdoch on YouTube, very good and I agree that the content business has been commoditized.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7GkJqRv3BI

Come to think of it, News Corp can put out good content and people will pay for it: but it's a downhill route in the broadest sense -- so long as their are content "selectors" - those that try to undercut News Corp will succeed if such selectors are pushing free content out well via Twitter. Free Writers and Free Selectors - and making their lives better - are the future.
Essentially Murdoch is arguing against gravity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_foraging

Is a nice explanation, if you give people powerful tools they'll use the past of 'least cost' to get what they need.

If that path bypasses all your carefully created obstructions that allow you to monetize the traffic then that's a real problem.

Imagine the owners of a free themepark that have a toll road to their themepark, and you have to use it. Along the toll road are large billboards, lots of them.

Then one day some guy invents a teleportation device that allows people to zap straight in to the heart of your themepark, and back out again with 0 effort.

Just like water with a bit of help from gravity will find the path of least resistance, so do your users.

The solution, is to make it even easier to find the content that users are looking for, and to make sure that that is a way that is monetizable.

Blocking out google is going to simply drive all those users elsewhere, it will be to them as though Murdochs sites no longer exist. And that may actually be a good thing.
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Yea but what I'm saying is that it does probably log more game hours, but only because it's much better at gaming just as it's much better at being a phone, a web browser, etc, than other phones.
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