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Expect to spend at least $1,000/month in rent in San Francisco. The competition for anything less is fierce. Essentially you're competing with everybody who doesn't work in tech but wants a room.

Ignore the guy who said "avoid SOMA" because you can find some great deals here. There's a building in this small alleyway on Sumner that has huge 2-bedroom apartments which could comfortably be converted (and often are) to 3-bedrooms for $1800/month. If you realyl want to be cheap, my current building is filled with AAU students who double up the bedrooms and split $2825 4 ways to live in a building with a pool and a fitness center a cross the street from Twitter (sort of).
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Strange that they buried the most important factor way down at the bottom of the 3rd page of "Advanced" options.

At its core, the whole rent vs buy economic decision boils down to comparing your expected returns investing in the housing market to your expected returns investing in the market in general. The rest of the factors in that calculator are just there to help you arrive at the conversion factor.

Since it's pretty much impossible to determine what the stock market and housing markets are going to do, it's probably best to base your home buying decision on something more rational. Such as "Do I want to own a house?"

For me, the answer to that question is quickly arrived at by asking a few of your homeowner friends what they did last weekend, and what they plan to do next weekend. The answer will invariably revolve around some form of maintenance on the house.

Like it or not, buying a house gives you a new full-time hobby. Lots of people like that hobby, and that's why they have houses. If gardening and cleaning gutters don't sound like fun to you, there are plenty of other ways to invest your money that are less hands-on.
"God's Number" is 20 - Rubik's cube has been "solved"
Except it's not a choice between a level 100 demon master controlled by a person or an AI. The developers would not put a game-breaking, completely unbeatable opponent right at the start of the game. I mean, if that's really the experience you want, I'll write you a "challenging" RPG where you die in three turns no matter what you do.

As I said, I really like PVP. I wish it worked that way you're talking about, but it doesn't. When I used to play WOW, I played PVP, hoping for exactly the experience you're describing. But it didn't mean fun challenges to overcome, where enemy players are a great obstacle to overcome. It meant getting stunlocked and then finally killed by a rogue 30 levels above me. There's no overcoming that. The only winning move is not to play.
I recently read that Kazakhstan was one of the USSR's main testing areas, and has suffered tremendously - this due to the fact that a lot of the tests were atmospheric.
They're still there, but not a very hot topic.

For new concepts, the web is a much more attractive platform - quicker development, fewer (but not no) compatibility issues between platforms, etc.
I think Twitter succeeded because it gave user only one action. All user has to do is type some text and press enter. Users essentially didn't have to think or even work to get comfortable with the system.
> Processing makes more nutrients available to the body.

This is certainly true, but it's just as important that processing eliminates toxins. Despite the moaning you hear about processed food, a major problem is that our modern diet is under-processed.

There are many foods that used to universally be soaked & aged, sprouted, fermented, or treated with lye, or a combination of these steps, in order to eliminate anti-nutrients and allergens. This is rarely done on the modern industrial scale for reasons of cost. Modern flour is not the same thing as people were eating 150 years ago. The native americans always treated corn with lye. The settlers didn't and consequently got pellagra, and we continue to eat untreated corn.

Read Stephan Guyenet and the Weston Price Foundation have literature on various traditional processing steps and chemically what they were achieving.
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Actually it mostly seems to link to "Sorry
There has been an error processing your request. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try again later."

Could just be recipe.com though...
Scot Aaronson bets 200k$ that this proof isnt true

http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=456
Not 'everyone' agrees but most experts seem to.
I gained far more than information from my engineering degree, and most of it came from working in labs with other students.

I think the problem is companies don't need educated people anymore. For years public education has spit out idiot after idiot, myself included, who are just the bare minimum needed by socirty. This online method simply takes away the growth people now get from University and allows their minds to remain closed and set in the ways of HS, just with more memorized facts. Anybody can remember and regurgitate.

I can easily say that I am a completely different person than I was before I went and studied engineering at University. The classes are not what did it, they where a part, a small one maybe.

Before University I hated to learn(didn't know how, HS was memorize and forget for the tests), I sucked in math thanks to my pristine US public education. I really should have never even been considered for engineering school. At least I don't think so, but I guess they saw something.

I graduated loving to learn, great in math and regained my mind. I was opened up to a ton of new ideas, great professors, amazing TA's and great students, some who became amazing friends.

I just find it very hard to believe you can gain the same from sitting at a computer watching a video. I have watched many MIT and Standford lectures online and its just not the same.

I'm certainly glad I went to school when I did, it was the best decision I ever made.
So you didn't know what your value was. That says more about you than outsourcing or anything else.

What you should have been able to say is that that $3/hr Indian worker doesn't have the experience (and therefor level of skill) that you do. If he did it's extremely unlikely that he would continue to work for $3/hr. Sure, maybe he can live a comfortable life on $3/hr in India, but if he leverages his experience to move to a first world country to make money he can become rich (provided he lives frugally in said first world country and invests his money back home). Which is why so many do it.
I posted this to HN forever ago, it's a list of games coming to Mac OS X in 2010 and 2011: http://neosmart.net/blog/2010/our-list-of-highly-anticipated...

Only games scheduled for simultaneous release on both Windows and Mac or Mac-only releases are included in that list. Games that are being ported to Mac after being available on Windows or gaming consoles previously are not included. StarCraft II is the first of the bunch, and there are a _lot_ more exciting games to look forward to. I think the days of OS X gaming are finally upon us.
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For pete's sake, for the last time: you were using 1.3.3 which is UNstable and not production ready. Its developers know it's likely to have problems and you proved them right. What you wrote was not "true". You found a bug in beta software.

This instance of CouchDB data corruption is in a production-ready version, aka a stable version. No doubt eventually MongoDB will hit a similar issue and then we'll all calm down and stop poo-pooing all the hard work everyone is putting in building these databases.
My mom once read a theory that very young children can sometimes remember the birth experiences

Is you mother a neurologist? A memory researcher? A cognitive scientist, perhaps?

It's pretty well established that long-term memory formation doesn't really begin until after age 1. Here's a brief interview with a researcher: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/11.07/01-memory.htm...

Was my daughter just telling me what I wanted to hear?

Sure sounds that way.
Agree fully. Also worth considering if this proof turns out to be correct, is that he will probably have employment contracts and speaker deals dwarfing that $1M quite soon.
Well said, but that doesn't make the calculator wrong.

It'd be cool if there were some form of financial instrument for the weak-willed individuals you describe (which as you say probably represent 90% of the population), that acted exactly like a mortgage but simply left your money in a pile you could access later.

Sorta like an IRA that you could force yourself to commit to, with nasty letters arriving in red envelopes if you skipped a payment.
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This is an article which I think sums it up nicely

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/07/27/american_people...
As are property tax, neighborhood dues, garbage fees, and a half dozen other little fees associated with home ownership that, comically, add up to about the rent on a nice apartment in most cases.
The fact that a coral atoll will sink naturally on its own in due time doesn't change the fact that a modest rise in sea level would sink lots of atolls all over the world.

About your carbon dioxide non-sequitur, as carbon dioxide gets absorbed in the ocean it forms carbonic acid, which changes ph levels. A relative modest change in ph level causes problems for animals that use calcium carbonate as a building material. (You cannot lay down calcium carbonate structures when the water is even slightly acidic.) A prime example is coral, and ocean acidification has already been blamed for large coral die-offs in the great barrier reef of Australia.

Therefore whether or not global warming is man-made, more carbon dioxide is the last thing that coral reefs need right now.
Maybe incorporate offshore (Belize, Panama, Seychelles), and work from Costa Rica. Zero tax, and no sea-sickness issues. Might be a problem to get investment, or sell your startup though..

For bootstrapping, the main problem I found with taxation and incorporation is the bureaucratic overhead - it becomes the top idea in your mind for a time and distracts from building your product. So the trade off might be worth it.
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> question of whether this workforce can be trained that many times

You're missing the point that roughly 25% of the population can't be trained to a modern skill in the first place. They simply aren't smart enough. A fifth of people are "functionally" illiterate. It's a real stretch to blame that on training/schooling rather than dim wits.

Fifty years ago these people could earn a decent living tightening nuts on an assembly line or picking fruit. Now they're just borderline useless as we have machines to do most of that sort of work. It takes 100 people to build a sky scraper, whereas there used to be an army of men running around with wheel barrows.

The whole point of the article and the referenced book, "A Farewell to Alms", is that people have different genetic and cultural potentials in a modern industrialized society. The book documents how the English gene pool changed (eugenic forces) leading up to the industrial revolution. It argues that the industrial revolution happened in England because the English people had become smart and disciplined enough to work in factories. English industrialists in the 1800s kept on trying to take factories to cheap third world labor, and over and over it failed because the local population couldn't hack it. Productivity was too low. It was not a matter of training.

The point here is that we are dealing with uncomfortable issues that transcend something like a "no child left behind" act. A large fraction of humanity may simply be useless to modern commerce.
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Enjoying food is a tricky thing.

People love the taste of sweet and companies have engineered such foods so people eat it, but it doesn't mean it's good for you.
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Too bad that you can't try out all the brushes as a new user :(
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My personal first "contextualisation" about the food industry was a book called "A Diet for a Small Planet" (the reedition, not the original one). I liked it because it was the first time I saw some data and graphs about how and why (hint: profit) our food production is plain wrong.

Now, I try to be as cheap and sane as I can, mostly by cooking more stuff myself and eating more vegetables (non-industrial whenever possible).
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That study tells of kids being given a toy for a little while, then revisiting them months later and seeing if they remember what to do with the toy.

For some reason I find that less than convincing, maybe they weren't interested in it, maybe it wasn't significant enough.

Birth is pretty much the single largest event in a babies first year of life trauma wise, I wouldn't be surprised if some remnant of that experience remained because of its intensity and I wouldn't be surprised if a baby remembered the sounds of being in the womb because of the duration of the exposure. Compared to either of those a toy seems to be pretty insignificant and if there is one thing the brain is really good at it is discarding stuff that isn't relevant. Older children that would remember the toy might have been more captivated by it. Babies that I know can be utterly fascinated by some things and completely oblivious to other things, then reverse their interest a while later for no reason that I as an adult can fathom.

Of course the memories of any early experience will fade over time but I wouldn't rule them out so quickly based on this specific experiment, which seems to assume rather a lot about the subjects desire to remember that particular toy and about vision, not memory per se. It's a pretty indirect test.

If something doesn't interest me I won't remember it even today, and I take it as read that my 'long term memory' has been formed by now.

Interesting reading:

http://www.google.com/search?q=do+babies+remember+the+womb

If there is a definitive study that babies can not form memories that could make it through to the age of the OPs child then you'd have to wonder how come babies age 1 can use words and seem to be able to understand some pretty complicated concepts as well as having learned how to use a good part of their bodies musculature, it's not at all rare to have 1 year olds that can walk or even run. If they can do all that without long term memory you'd have to posit some mechanism that allows them to do all this with a memory that spans at most a day. After all, if every day is a new day then you would have to explain the kind of character development you seen in babies during their first year and all this other stuff that I think is definitely memory based without the ability to form long term memories.

Also, vision is a relatively new thing for a newborn, they've seen colours but not actual objects and it takes them a fair amount of time to start to make sense of our 3D world. Sound is different, babies can hear pretty good at a relatively early time during the gestation period (about 5 months in), which means that they then have 4 months to be exposed to their moms heartbeat in a way that they could be aware of it.

Also, you can refresh memories by re-thinking of something that you still remember and you can remember that experience as something by itself, so even with only a shorter term memory you could theoretically carry things over a longer period. Shades of 'memento' there.
Most of these are underground; that's the least fallout-producing way of setting off a nuke, since there's no irradiated debris going up into the sky. The second least fallout-producing nuking method is an air burst. The ground bursts are the worst, and also the rarest in the doomsday plans.
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http://mobiputing.com/tag/jackeey-wallpaper/

Update 2: Google temporarily banned the developer’s apps, but has since decided that they’re safe. You can now download them from the Android Market again. But the bigger point is that you should look closely at the permissions required by some apps to determine whether you’re comfortable with the type of information they’re collecting.

http://www.androidtapp.com/android-wallpaper-apps-falsely-ac...

The worse part about all of this is no one, I mean no one fact checked accurately. VentureBeat, The Wall Street Journal, CNET, Fast Company, Fortune, PC World, Computerworld, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, etc. the list goes on and on and everybody jumped the gun in reporting the issue. No one asked the developer about it nor really looked into the methods Lookout used in building it’s report called the App Genome Project.
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the interesting bit here is that most of those things are really only risky for entities who have money; larger entities. You are going to have a pretty difficult time getting a lawyer to bring an employment lawsuit against, say, me- the problem is that I don't have enough money to make it worth the lawyer time.

(I mean, yeah, if you really have it in for me, you could pay the lawyer yourself, or try to make it a criminal matter (usually a /much/ higher bar) and take me down... but few self-interested lawyers would take the case for a cut of the winnings, simply because the winnings would be so small.)

and the problem of expensive mistakes is also mitigated; you can't make a mistake at a company that does worse than bankrupting the company and the owner personally; And, uh, I don't consider myself a low-skilled worker, but working for other people? I've made at least one mistake expensive enough to bankrupt my company and myself personally, had my company been liable. (the thing was, I didn't get fired... in fact, my review that year at that job was mildly positive and included a 4% raise. That was, apparently, a relatively minor mistake at that company? I mean, I felt pretty horrible about it, and took steps to prevent it from happening again, but there weren't the heavy consequences from above you'd expect from blowing many years of your salary.)
I didn't find this at all. Plugged optical out on the motherboard into the optical in on the amp, set mythtv to let the amp decode dd/dts itself and everything worked fine.
> I would consider WoW, EQ, and others(Perfect World), economic successes of course.

I wasn’t referring to MMOs in general, but those that assess the players various forms of "loss" for sloppy play. I played WoW for about a year, and for the most part, the game has mostly removed the "loss mechanics" that the original poster was complaining were absent in most modern MMOs. Originally, WoW had experience and even equipment loss penalties for dying too much. These have gone by the wayside, as well as making the crafting mechanics in the game more about personal buffs than creating goods for an economy, something that EVE is supposed to excel at.
Wow, what a terrible article.

Can you think of a use for an unpaired left shoe?

Sure, if the matching right shoes are also available. That's the whole point of the anecdote, which is so absurd as to most certainly be an Urban Legend.

My friend’s father ordered a huge shipment of sneakers from a U.S. company with the stipulation that all the left-footed shoes be packaged separately from all the right-footed shoes. The left-footed shoes were to be shipped to Bombay, and 60 days later the right-footed shoes were to be shipped to Calcutta.

Step 1: I buy X thousand shoes for a price of Y$/pair, and probably pay a little over the regular market price, because I want special handling, and double postage.

The shipment sent to Bombay went unclaimed, so after 30 days it was auctioned off

Step 2: I fail to claim the shoes when they arrive. I now am out the money I paid for the shoes, and have no shoes.

Because no one could think of a use for a huge shipment of left-footed sneakers, no one bid against my friend’s father and he picked up these shoes for next to nothing.

Step 3: I now pay for these shoes again.

Step 4: Profit!

Naturally, I can try to get out of paying for the shoes in step 1, but then our story would simply be one of fraud.

The strategy is ingenious, and it reminds me that a savvy businessperson is someone that can see value where others see none.

Quite the opposite, really.
It was driven by the desire to be able to guarantee that, even if the Soviets attacked first and took out as many military and infrastructural targets as possible, the US would still be able to launch a crippling nuclear counterattack. The Soviets wanted the exact same thing, but in reverse. It wasn't driven by bragging rights; it was driven by the dangerous fact that the advantage in a nuclear war goes with whoever strikes first.

The development of ICBMs, missile submarines, and so on, actually made us a lot safer by making the "strike first and strike hard" approach much less effective. The situation was more volatile back when it took a month or so to put together the bombs for a nuclear attack. When you look at it from such a ruthless perspective, the Cold War made a weird kind of sense.
As some of you have already said it, some cities have a better ecosystem, others have a low cost of living but no ecosystem and crazy bureaucracy, others have low taxes.

The solution is an offshore: you start your company in a low-taxes European country (Cyprus, Bulgaria) or a tax haven, you live close to an ecosystem (near London, for instance) and you hire developers from Eastern Europe (low wages, highly skilled).
Hmm the thing is, the Star Trek universe isn't post-scarcity in any meaningful way. Sure, if you are living on a starship you can replicate anything and spend all your free time on the holiday deck. But the Federation (and all the competing civilizations) have very finite capacity to build and crew starships.
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Is it possible OSX just has more overhead? I mean it's not like Valve or Blizzard write the drivers, Apple does and they've of course been with OSX from day 1.

I know when I ran Warcraft III on an OSX machine, it felt like a little app in a window/box, whereas on Windows it's allowed to basically take over the machine.
As an amateur speedcuber, I am impressed. Currently I probably use around 100 moves, but my technique is obviously flawed.
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So, they've brute forced the problem and they now know that there are no positions that need more than 20 moves, but that does not get you closer to developing an algorithm giving you those 20 moves (edit: or however many that configuration takes).

Is there any progress on the algorithmic front?
I met almost anyone I chatted with and was in my region (actually they were only two persons) and I had a business with one that we wouldn't do if we didn't meet off-line.

Talk with interesting people in your regional Network. And if they/you are really interesting you'll meet and make things together.

And as you said most people meet in coffee spaces, but the arrangement of the meeting can be done anywhere else and not only in University.