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Is it risky to rent a short sale condo in Naples?
Today’s question from the email bag come from Michelle - “I am interested in renting a condo, however was a bit put off when the broker explained that the unit was in short sale but the lease would not be affected. It’s a great deal but does not sound too good to be true, I’ve heard horror stories in regards to short sales and don’t want to end being kicked out before the lease is up. Do you think it would be risky to go forward in renting this?

There are some items which you need to research before making your final decision for renting the condo.
1) What does the actual leasing agreement say in regards to if the condo is sold?
2) Where will your security deposit and if required, your last month’s rent be held? Escrow or trust account? Or with the landlord?
3) What stage of the foreclosure process is the property in? If there a final judgment has been issued by the court what is the auction date?
4) You should be fully be prepared to live in a fish bowl you will have to be willing to have the condo shown. If you do not allow to be shown then it could go into foreclosure.
5) What is the success rate of a property which is a potential short sale of actually being closed or sold? The success rate, expressed as a percentage, does vary from local area to local area.
6) How many short sales has the listing real estate agent listed and what percentage of them have succeeded in being closed or sold? Compare this percentage to the local area percentage to get some idea of the chances the property will be sold.
7) How many lien holders have liens against the property? With some condos at a minimum there will be first mortgage and the condominium association holding liens. The greater the number of lien holders, in most cases the less likely the property will be closed or sold. I have seen some condos having as many as 7 liens.

In order to say if it would be risky, the above questions need to be answered. Once you have obtained the answers you will be in a much better position to determine for yourself how risky the rental would be.

Glenn Ginsburg and A Delta Realty is providing this answer for informational purposes only and does not constitute any legal, accounting or tax advice. You are advised to consult an appropriate professional for legal, accounting and tax advice.
This is a brilliant idea. I am looking to create my own media center for my family to gain access to from different parts of the country. Any commercial or open source alternatives to ZumoCast?
Eventually your hardware will fail. If you can't even safely reboot your machines under controlled circumstances, you've already lost the uptime battle.
Chatroulette Calls The PoPo And Crosses Fingers In Hopes Of Investment
Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large
I'm in Canada; I don't believe we've got a free credit report law here. And based on their response, after I resolved a dispute, I still had to pay to find out the outcome.
As long as you're capable technically, the best thing I can ask you to do is smile. When you smile, even on phone interviews, you come off as sounding confident. A smile changes 'I'm not sure, but I imagine it works like this...' from a 'nervous candidate' to 'honest but thoughtful' even though the words are the same.
> I understand these posts may be helpful to others as idea generation material, and obviously the up votes are a sign of that - but for me it's the equivalent of answering a complicated calculus question with a one line answer. Show your work.

This comment is entirely reasonable except for one little thing - you just got some marketing advice for free from a knowledgeable guy, and you're here saying it isn't exactly what you wanted and telling him to "show your work". Maybe try saying thanks first?

Really, I'm torn between which cliche to quote - either "You get more bees with honey than vinegar" or "Beggars can't be choosers" - if you got a single valuable idea from this post to try out, then that'd make it worthwhile, yes? I like empirical case-study type works too, but hey, free advice on marketing from a smart knowledgeable guy. That's pretty cool, yes?
Same here. Up to recently I would watch a movie every single day. If it was too long I would watch it in two days. Amazingly it is isn't as if I did less work. I would just stop browsing the net and looking for stuff to read and simply enjoy a good movie at the end of my day. Worked very well.
Right, Gamestop used to have an advantage in being the retailer that did trade in games, but from what I've seen -- both Best Buy and Walmart have expressed interest in getting into that end of the business. So I think that not only will that advantage eventually go away, but they might become less competitive. Gamestop derives all their business from games whereas competitors do not. They might be able to offer better trade in prices than Gamestop.
Out of my experience, you only 'get' math when your boss gives you a paper on a subject you have absolutely no clue and says: "I want this implemented in our system by next week" :-P

On a more serious note: Other people have recommended very good books that will teach you problem solving so I would like to give you a feeling of what "real" math is. In high school and in most University degrees you only do applied math => how to use math to solve this or that problem. The more math you know, the more tools you have to solve your problem. For a given problem: could I solve it with a partial differential equation? with a Bayesian approach? etc. You can see how the more math you know, the wider your search for a solution can be.

However, most people never get to do "pure" math => to create your own new math. When you read a book or attend to a class you only get to see the finished product. When you see a finished building, they have removed all the scaffolding, the cranes, and all the other tools that were used to build it. If you spend some time creating your own new math you will get a very deep understanding of what math is and it will widen your learning abilities.

Of course I don't expect a high school student to create something truly new, this is just a learning exercise. I just want to provide a 'feeling', I won't be formal or rigorous.

Definition 1: An object of class TIAM is composed of an integer and a set. The set can be empty or contain letters from the English alphabet with no duplicates.

Definition 2: Operation "+" This operation will take two TIAM objects and produce a new TIAM object. The integer part of the new object will be the sum of the cardinalities of the sets. The set part of the new object will be the union of the two sets with all the letters shifted as many places as specified by the integer part of the second TIAM object.

Example 1: [1, {a,b,c}] + [2, {c, d}] = [cardinal({a,b,c}) + cardinal({c,d}), {a,b,c}U{c,d}>>2] = [3+2,{a,b,c,d}>>2] = [5, c,d,e,f]

Example 2: [0,{z}] + [1, {}] = [cardinal({z}) + cardinal({}), {z}U{}>>1] = [1+0,{z}>>1] = [1,{a}]

* TIAM objects are closed under +. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_%28mathematics%29). Do you understand why? Can you prove it?

* Is the operation + conmutative or non conmutative? (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutativity) Why? Can you prove that it is / it isn't?

* Can you find a neutral element? (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_element) I mean, can you find a TIAM object (I will call it TIAM-ZERO) so that TIAM-A + TIAM-ZERO = TIAM-A for any given value of TIAM-A?

Etc.

This is just an example, try to build your own stuff and reason about it. Ask yourself questions about it and answer them. Once you get used to this kind of thinking, you will learn faster and deeper.
I should clarify: I have a handful of Sass mixins that are based upon the Blueprint CSS grid system that I use to define a grid-based layout for my websites. There's nothing presentational anywhere in the Haml.

I don't particularly care about older versions of IE, but some of my clients definitely do.

Another useful aspect to employing Blueprint (I can't speak for 960gs or others) is that it drastically curtails the amount of work I need to do to ensure that my presentation doesn't break in Gecko, Webkit or Trident. I've seen plenty of edge cases (unfortunately, none that I can cite off the top of my head) where Webkit and Gecko work very differently, and using Blueprint smooths those over.
Generally speaking if you have to do terrible things then you need to a: know exactly what you are doing before hand and b: have the fortitude to be able to withstand harsh criticism until you can prove your code.

In this case I think the harsh criticism was fully justified. People should be warned away from doing this sort of thing, precisely because it's hard to get right. As the thread makes abundantly clear the original programmer was fairly clueless, otherwise he wouldn't have gone off half-cocked thinking that the fault was with cygwin or somesuch. He was making his own dynamite and was too clueless to realize what he was doing wrong.
I thought this was a hilarious comment considering the article. but I know, this isn't reddit
I'm not sure I understand your concern here. How does monocle make decomposing logic into functions difficult?

The "yield" keyword is an indicator of where control is returned back up to the event loop and other things can happen. We like that in monocle, because we view it as dangerous; in thread-and-lock terms, it's sort of like "unlock everything".

Eventlet (http://eventlet.net/) is an example of a similar framework that decided not to require "yield" at these points.
Perhaps you could make a customizable "Candy Wars" that lets the user change the names of the candies. That'd probably be the best way to get it through the approvals process.
I think DDG is a great example of why Google doesn't have a BOSS-like API. It seems pretty clear that DDG is violating the TOS of the Yahoo API by mixing search results. Yahoo seems to be looking the other way (for now), but you can bet that Google would be less forgiving.

There's not a search engine out there that wants to allow you to muck with their relevance algorithm by changing the results, and Google has more to lose from DDG-like activity than it might gain.
Simple/complex search engine concept
simple/complex search engine concept

normally to search google you have to goto google.com then type in a search, but what if you could type in directly into the url address bar i.e:

lipfeed.com/%searchterm

for example:

lipfeed.com/music

or

lipfeed.com/art

that would be very quick and cut out the extra page loading time if you get the drift...
I suppose I am assuming that the purpose of a discussion on HN is truth-seeking. If we are also enforcing social norms, then it makes sense to attack the status of those who propose offensive things.

Enforcing social norms must come at the expense of truth-seeking though, and I think truth-seeking is more important. Anyone can easily think of examples from history where offensive opinions turned out to be correct, and there are sure to be views today which are regarded as offensive and are also correct.

Paul Graham wrote about this in What You Can't Say: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

Edit: We have drifted from the original topic somewhat. The snarkiness I objected to wasn't calling out his opponent as offensive. It was just snarkiness.
There's a JavaScript library called async.js (http://github.com/eligrey/async.js) that does that exact same thing (pseudo-asynchronosity using the yield statement in decorated functions).
That's what I thought when I saw this thread
Yep, this was a big part of why I eventually abandoned generators in diesel in favor of a greenlet-based approach.

http://github.com/jamwt/diesel/commit/2fc64f9d50bc6f9a5cfff0...

I'd worked my way through all the problems having to do with simulating a generator-based "stack" and it was not pretty--exception handling in particular with these "fake stacks" was hard to make behave the usual pythonic way.

I wasn't eager to give up on a generators, but I had to eventually concede that the practical quality of the project was more important than the founding idea.

Everything has been faster, easier to program, and more stable since giving up on generators and moving to the greenlet library. At bump, we just launched version 2.0 of our app, running our backends 100% on diesel2/greenlets:

http://mashable.com/2010/07/26/bump-2-0/
Sparkfun's Musical Stairs
I don't know, but Vernor Vinge talks about such an interface in his book Rainbows End.
It's one hypothesis. A weird one, and probably unscientific because I can't imagine how you'd prove or falsify it. Well, I guess you could falsify it by proving how wave function collapse does work.
I feel the same way.

In the old-world way of things, the Architects of the system would take all of that into account - the sysadmins were just there to keep the systems up and running and install the software per the developers instructions.

What's new, or seemingly new, because of the rapid advance of technology and the internet in general, is the rapid develop/deploy cycle, which ends up requiring a much tighter coupling between development and operations... the two almost blend together. The lines are getting fuzzy.
Yes I do, though shouldn't that line of reasoning be another strike against some of the tenants of the BBT? If you have an infinitely dense object that represents everything, time shouldn't pass, so how could anything have ever gotten anywhere?
Same goes for rebooting after upgrading libc and other core libraries. Running processes will keep on using the old version of the library and that's problematic with long-running processes like web servers and databases. You don't want to find out months after the fact that your business-critical application is incompatible with the updated library.
Do you have to wake up to pee during the night?
Do you have to wake up to pee during the night? What's your age?
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
It always startles me a little when a brand I used to trust blindly has been relegated to garbage status. Happened to me with Belkin and LaCie.
Who cares? This is a serious question.

Pixel font sizes are bad because they might not scale correctly, but why are presentational class names bad?
OSX now has tabs on top like Chrome. Nice.
Being in the index isn't very meaningful. Very little of our spam-fighting/ranking prevents sites from showing up for "site:" queries, because in general we think that if someone is intending on going to a domain directly, the only reasonable thing to do is to show that domain.

Unfortunately I don't have a better way of assessing it to offer. Internally, we often look at impression-weighted precision as a metric, but I don't think there's an easy way we could expose that to you.

A more reasonable thing to do would be to take a sample of DDG's query logs, scrape the results from Google, then see what percentage of Google's results come from your spam domains, but that requires sending a lot more queries to get any useful data.
Whoa! Ever wanted to lose almost 100 karma in ten words or less? Ask me how.
I thought about that also, but I think it would take much longer for the crust to change to a spherical shape; much the way that large parts of the northern hemisphere are still rebounding from the loss of ice cover at the end of the last ice age.
While I understand your opinion, I couldn't disagree more.

I've lived in Costa Rica and Honduras as a child. As an adult, I've also lived in Minnesota, Chicago, Rhode Island, LA, Fresno and now the Bay Area.

Depending on your personality type, the city where you live is going to have a dramatic effect on your outlook on life. For instance, if you're a foodie or an artist Providence Rhode Island is going to be phenomenal for you. If you love sports, microbrews and hanging out with fraternity buddies, Chicago is phenomenal town. If you love hunting, fishing and "Going to the lake" every weekend, Minnesota is really wonderful. If you're trying to get into the film industry, or visual effects industry, there's no other place to be other than LA.

But, if you're a young programer and want to live in a place where in an evening you can meet over a hundred other programmers doing cool assed shit with in functional programming, NoSQL, startups, iPhone programming, mobile, search, natural language processing, etc... Then, I would suggest avoiding Dubuque Iowa, and I'd suggest moving to the Bay Area: http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders/calendar/13712630... </shameless plug>

No, location doesn't change who you area as a person, but it certainly does open up a lot of different options if you're interested in that.

No, making more money doesn't make you happier, but if you're seriously interested in debt reduction, and you commit to avoid "keeping up with the Joneses" and choose to live in a crap part of town for a year, while you pay down your credit cards, making $120k vs $60k is going to get you closer to your goal all other things being equal.

A job: Wow, I couldn't disagree with you more.

At 25 years old I'm not yet in the position of actually making big changes. Sure I can decide on a framework or the language to use, but do I choose which direction the company goes? Do I make hiring decisions? Not yet. Certainly in 5 years this will change but at 3 years out of college, even in startups, you're not given the sort of responsibility

Completely disagree. In the Silicon Valley startup scene, no one cares how old you are. They generally care about what you can do and how well you do it. I hang out with 23 year old founders that have raised millions in funding, have revenue, are close to profitable, and have hired a dozen people. I have a hunch the scene in NYC may be quite a bit different.
Come to Phoenix, AZ. I'll give you a demo.

:)
You could definitely increase conversion rate by making the overall design better. Perhaps try out something like http://www.yola.com

In a startup like yours, its pretty easy to spend all your time working on the product and skimping on the marketing web page. While your layout/design isn't bad, it can certainly be improved by 120%. Save yourself some time and offload that to someone else who is a better designer. Just my friendly opinion.
Seems like it requires too much from the user to be true, particularly stepping back onto the exact square at which the game started. I also find it unlikely that it's interesting enough to play "many, many times". Interesting work of fiction, though.
You're spot on. NIO has always been slower but it allows you to process more concurrent connections. It's essentially a time/space trade-off: traditional IO is faster but has a heavier memory footprint, NIO is slower but uses less resources.
I work in search UI and we're explicitly told not to worry about revenue, outside of certain gigantic projects, like, say, redesigning the search page (where we're told to ignore revenue but try not to bankrupt the company). There's a whole other department dedicated to making sure we can continue to pay our salaries; it's not our job to worry about money, only to make users happy.
http://atimcalledoak.com/ - but he isn't taking any more work right now, I am keeping him busy.
I think this method would violate (at least the spirit of) my privacy policy: http://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html

That said, if anyone has a meaningful sample query set, I'm certainly interested in running it against my spam index. I see a lot of hits on it via other search APIs.
That is good to see. I'm pretty sure I and some other people commented negatively about it in another post. It might work, but I think it falls under the group of things to not do, even if they do work.
Kickstartup: Successful fundraising with Kickstarter
I use Tarsnap to backup the Tarsnap website. :-)
At work we use NetApp. It does hourly incremental and nightly full backups. The backups are replicated across 2 datacenters. It's pretty expensive, but it's the only sane way of managing backups for 200+ sites across too many servers to count.
I think you're making a common mistake, one I made for the first 30-ish years of my life. You believe that we consciously choose which things bring us happiness and inner satisfaction. So you have consciously chosen a whole set of goals and a "timetable" to hold yourself accountable against.

But step back a second. Think about something you really love. Did you choose to love it, or did you merely discover you loved it. I remember in 7th grade, someone brought a Trash-80 to show and tell at school, and I was suddenly obsessed. Ever since then, I've learned new programming languages on my own and built stuff. But the key insight is this ... I DID NOT CHOOSE TO LIKE PROGRAMMING. I merely discovered that I happen to love it.

The same is true for millions of other things, from whether or not you like onions, to whether you prefer beaches or mountains, to whether you're introverted or extroverted.

When I was your age, I thought I wanted to build up a little real estate portfolio by converting my personal residences to rentals (aka, "leap-frogging"). The idea felt prestigious and had a feasible chance at leading to wealth. But it turns out, I HATE managing real estate. I just want to focus on my software projects. Owning a rental property is just a way for me to buy myself a bunch of hassle.

So the point is this ... life is not completely about consciously setting tasks, deadlines, and goals for yourself. In fact, much more of life is about listening to your inner self, finding out more about what really makes you tick, and then steering your life more in that direction as you learn. There's an element of excitement to it, because you don't really know exactly where it will lead. Take time to get away from the hustle and bustle and reflect on your life, always asking, "What do I want more of in my life? What do I want less of? What changes can I make that will move me in the right direction?"

To do this, you have to get free of the "hold yourself accountable" mindset. You do not have to meet anyone's standards, you don't have to achieve anything, and you don't have to prove anything. Your life is yours and yours alone. It was given to you, and you are the absolute sovereign over it. If you truly find happiness from surfing the internet 12 hours a day, then you should do it every day of your life, with no guilt whatsoever. The only reason that's not a good idea is that it won't truly make you happy. So you reflect on that, and decide to make a change that takes you in a better direction. Guilt and shame are not in the picture. Neither is time pressure, or needing to "hold yourself accountable". Merely self-acceptance, and leisurely looking for ways to increase the satisfaction and self-actualization you get from life.
One of the comment refers to netcraft for example of long Linux uptimes. According to http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html Windows have better or just as good uptime as Linux servers. (maybe I am missing something)

The last time I used a MS web-server was ~10 years ago. I have almost exclusively used debian/ubuntu servers most of the time. Apart from the Linux fanboyism, what advantages does MSFT have as a server OS?
You could let people opt their queries into such studies.