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Arnoron Sorry, everyone: The future of sex is total apathy

This is all very perplexing. I don't understand any of this internal logic. I can't see how you can "treat [sex] exactly like you would any other experience" because we treat all experiences differently. We don't treat riding a bike like eating. We don't treat gardening like watching a movie. So how can we treat sex like gardening, watching a movie, biking, and eating? Likewise, I don't see how making sex "just another experience" makes it "not special." I hope that most of our experiences in life are special. I'm sure I've completely missed the point. Sorry if that's the case.

Arnoron FBI says it won't recommend charges in Clinton case

I'm with you on this. It shouldn't be hand-waved away. It's serious. I just wish we could find some appropriate action between hand-waving and federal indictment...

Arnoron FBI says it won't recommend charges in Clinton case

As will you, yes?

Arnoron Summon Your Tesla from Your Phone

Accio Tesla

Arnoron Web login using SSH

No! That is pointedly not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that I don't need every detail of my life to be private. I prefer that nobody go in and start playing games on my chess.com account, but I'm willing to take a higher degree of risk with that specific account than I am with, e.g. my financial accounts.

It is possible to care about privacy and still accept a more convenient (less secure) way to access specific things.

Arnoron Web login using SSH

I agree in principle, but in practice I don't care much if many of my accounts get hacked or subpoenaed. Sure, I'd like to keep my communication and financial information as private as possible. My code, maybe and my personal photos and documents, but if a hacker or government organization gets access to my chess.com account or my GrubHub, I really don't care. They'll find out that I have trouble against the Sicilian Najdorf and that I eat too much cheese cake (which as of this post is open record anyway :)

Arnoron I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil

There's been a lot of up/down vote action on this Big Bang theory reference. I've found it quite entertaining. Thanks HN. :)

Arnoron I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Arnoron I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil

> ... playing host to a herd of feral cats.

A group of cats is called a clowder... or a glaring :)

Arnoron The Haskell user experience

That package looks useful. Thanks for sharing!

Arnoron Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit

Though I agree with others that the price is a bit high, I want to see where this goes. I hope a strong community can grow around it and folks come up with interesting ways to combine previous kits. It would be really fun if some of the monthly projects consisted of compositions of previous projects. That may break with the model of each kit containing everything necessary for each project so maybe it would work better as a monthly challenge on Reddit or something. Anyway, here goes nothing :)

Arnoron How Much Does an Experienced Programmer Use Google?

On any given day I use any combination of the following languages: Ruby, Python, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Haskell, Bash.

If I could remember how each language handled list operations and JSON/Base64 encoding I could probably code much faster, but the real efficiency gain wouldn't come until I stop reading HN :P

Arnoron Add bytecode cache to Ruby

How significant is the performance impact on a mid-large Ruby on Rails application?

Arnoron 8^8 – Find another you

There's a wide spectrum between "exactly like you" and "opposite"

Arnoron Announcing Rust 1.0

Awesome! I assume you intentionally released this on a Friday just to eat up everyone's weekends :) Thanks for the hard work. As I dig in, I'm hoping that Rust will fit in the "useful and safe" sweet spot in Simon Peyton Jones's diagram here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSmkqocn0oQ

Arnoron Wego: a weather app for the terminal

Haskell combinators for ALL THE THINGS :)

Arnoron Show HN: A random startup generator

WE ARE STRIPSTR. You like to strip. Stripstr does too.

Arnoron So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs Without Permission

Perhaps the commenter I replied to above wasn't interested in engaging with the idea. Maybe he just wanted to express his displeasure with the tone. Not every interaction is going to be the type of interaction you expect (i.e. "engaging with an idea"). Sometimes, critiques of written works have to do with the tone. There is nothing wrong with that.

The reason that comment got down voted and the reason I got down voted had nothing to do with PG'S 2008 post. It had everything to do with an abrasive community...

Yet, as my old man used to say, "Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and only the pigs like it." So it is on HN...

QED Turtles all the way down.

Arnoron So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs Without Permission

I disagree but don't understand why you were down voted... it seems that others disagree and think that's who they should express themselves. Maybe they are smug?

Arnoron The User Is Drunk

AWS failed this test hard for me a couple weeks ago. A cat walking across my keyboard terminated an EC2 instance. Lesson learned: no cats on the desk when logged into mission critical software :)

Arnoron Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU

LLAP

Arnoron The Miracle of Minneapolis

I don't have such a hard time getting to Minnetonka and back from Minneapolis. It's about twenty minutes each way with a rare slow down. In the summer I get to cycle past lakes Harriet, Calhoun, and Cedar on my way to the luce line trail which takes me all the way to the office. That's a pretty great way to start/end the day IMHO.

I'm glad I didn't have such a bias when I took the job as my equity arrangement gets more exciting every month.

Arnoron The Miracle of Minneapolis

I'm working at a Minneapolis (well... Minnetonka...) based startup as well and I agree completely. Finding talent in the city is really difficult. I've been wondering if this is unique to the Mpls/StP metro or if CS talent is just getting really hard to come by in general. We currently have 2 (soon to be 3) openings and I still haven't seen a really exciting candidate.

CS talent, please come to Minneapolis. We have beer!

Arnoron Matrix – An Open Standard for Decentralised Persistent Communication

I'm confused as to how it's similar to Tox. Matrix seems to be a server with an API that allows you to send and subscribe to messages. This would be useful for a software engineer working with M2M communication. Unless I'm looking at the wrong `Tox`, it seems to be a P2P IM client. These seem like completely separate domains, right?

Arnoron HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites

Confused...

Arnoron HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites

I'm sure you're right that the information is getting used by DoubleClick.

To the other point about this information not being appropriate for the purposes Albright mentioned: Isn't this exactly the information that a health insurance company wants to know for outreach? If I know that all the pregnant women in Tuscon are signing up but none from Pheonix, I suddenly know where to put my next billboard or field office.

If this was a private sector company, nobody would be surprised at collecting this data. It would also be a different story if the data was being stored and analyzed in house or even if the doubleclick request happened on the server side instead of the client.

I agree with the general sentiment that this is a privacy violation, but that's because of the way that the data is collected and who processes it, not the collection and use of the data generally.

Arnoron The Groovy project is looking for a new home

> IMHO, it's a lot easier to track down what is happening where in Grails as opposed to Rails.

Do you have any examples here? I can't think of a time when I've had to hunt long to figure out where things are happening in Rails.

Arnoron Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

You're right that I was looking at household income. Thanks for the correction!

Still, that number doesn't seem accurate for the cut-off for the global 1%

2010 census has over 180,000,000 Americans over age 25. So assuming that there are people making more than $35,000 outside the US, this number still smells fishy...

Arnoron Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

I'm confused...

Sniff test:

    World pop: ~ 7,000,000,000
           1%: ~ 70,000,000

    Population of the US ~ 300,000,000
    Median income in the US ~ $50,000

So you can come up with well over 70 million people in the US with incomes greater than $50,000. How then can the global top 1% cut off be $35k?

Arnoron Obama calls for municipal broadband

> Last year, the Republican-controlled House passed language banning the FCC from banning states from banning cities from building municipal networks.

This should be a case study in every civics class...