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As an SF resident I concur w/ most of what you're saying. For me it's not a deal breaker, but I can see how it could be. Almost every one of your bullet points can be explained by the phrase, "Liberalism gone nuclear."

[Expensive] -> Rent control and Private property restrictions. Housing supply is limited w/ endless permits and restrictions on building additions or subdividing space. And rent controls not only create artificial scarcity by not allowing price to rise w/ demand, but they also encourage people to stay in large places long after they need them. Imagine what the web would look like if you had to wait for months for a zoning board to approve your server expansion.

[Casual Food] -> Wait staff must be given minimum wage and health insurance whereas the wait staff in most other cities live off tips. What happens is restaurants become EXTREMELY expensive to run and they usually fire the wait staff at lower end places. You'll notice the order at register and take a number tag game played a lot to get around it. I know a few high end chefs who had to move their restaurants to Oakland b/c their waiters made more than them.

[Music] -> Don't have anything for you on this one.

[Cabs] -> Government set prices are too low. Demand exceeds supply at that price and there is an artificial shortage.

[Parking] -> Tickets are one of the most reliable ways to pay for all the hair-brained social experiments that take place here.

[Small] -> Fixed housing supply. See rent control / private property restrictions.

[Commute] -> I don't have an easy explanation.

[Filthy] -> Amen. We don't have a homeless problem we have a zombie problem. Your run of the mill drug addict is seen as a victim rather than a scourge. He is given food, money and shelter by the government to continue his habit. My friend worked for a non-profit in the Tenderloin that offered shelter, clothes, showers, haircuts and job help to anyone indefinitely as long as they submitted to drug tests. Their beds in 3 buildings were always empty and they shut down.

[Public Transpo] -> Make a bus driver too expensive by catering too much to the unions and busses have to get bigger. It's the opposite effect of the long tail. Instead of many small vans and more custom routes, you have few huge routes that serve nobody very well. Also the homeless ride the bus for free.

[Haight] -> In the late 60's the Grateful Dead and their followers began to get sketched out living there. Heroin and crime have been the norm there for years. It's foul and there is no police presence.

All of these policies had very good intentions. But the intention of a policy does not determine it's outcome. Furthermore, almost none of their side effects are ever measured by the government. It's fine if you want to experiment, but at least measure the result.
I wrote about this here: http://blog.brandonbloom.name/2009/10/orms-and-declarative-s...

It is a subtle, but fundamental distinction: Django expects me to declare my schema in Python. Rails (and optionally SqlAlchemy, which I like) operate via schema reflection. The declarative approach is redundant, error prone, and resistent to migrations, even with South. The reflection approach matches what you'd do with a bag of Bash scripts in the absence of any framework; as such, it works better in a real world deployment.
Those apartment complexes are like nicely furnished prisons. Stay away unless celibacy is a priority.
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Indinero seems most like a cash-flow and cash-flow projection monitor.

If you need to keep a business' finances in order, prepare for tax allocation, keep track of P.Os, etc, InDinero may be a piece of the puzzle.

As you've stated you have a CPA who prepares your financial statements (I'm assuming). They use Quickbooks so anything that doesn't export to that is kind of a waste.

Indinero, Less Accounting, Xero, there are a lot of products out there that claim to do business accounting easily. Mint.com works very well too - the question is does Indinero have the feature set you need at the price you want?
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Your math assumes that there is no per traveler cost to the airline, which seems unlikely. Extra people increase the weight (lowering fuel efficiency), slow down boarding times, drink extra soda, etc.
An alternative option would be to cram the economy class into a smaller space, so they can have more space for premium economy, business and first class seats. That would be useful for routes between London and New York where there's a big demand for business class seats.
But I wonder why R actually needs to exist as its own language. It seems it could be recast in Ruby for example or one of the latest functional languages.

Indeed - it would be a shame for them to start over from scratch and end up coming up with a brand new language, brand new syntax, brand new quirks, brand new performance problems, etc., while they could have simply searched around a bit for something that's already mature and somewhat optimized as well as suiting their needs.

If they wanted to add on to or modify an existing language (for instance, to provide more concise syntax for some of the things that are more important in statistics than in general purpose programming), that would be just fine, it could become a dialect of some other language, but starting fresh seems like an awful waste of energy...

Something that ran on the JVM would be awesome, they'd have no trouble at all rebuilding the massive library of contributions.
I'm referring to the open-air drug market (and, more importantly, the crowd that market attracts). I'm not suggesting that it's a haven for prostitutes.

The drugs don't bother me; it's the people sitting on the curbs, pissing on the sidewalks, accosting strangers for change, offering drugs, asking for drugs, hiding in the bushes, howling at the moon that bother me.

Ironically, I've never had a problem in the Tenderloin. I lived in SOMA for a year and walked from there through the Tenderloin to my office.
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In Europe, most people say SQL.
Sound's like you're a buffer overflow exploit.
We (mostly) agree then. The non-opinionated stuff makes me 1000x more angry then something silly like lack of class-based views, or the inclusion of GIS in contrib (for Django).

I was probably overly sarcastic in my original comment, so for that I'm sorry.
commute takes anywhere between 45-60 minutes - i take caltrain to work. driving stress and parking costs are too significant - hence the train.
Number of syllables is the key factor. Sequel = 2 syllables. S-Q-L = 3. Sequel wins.
Flows much better in conversation that way too.
"Isn't DC actually pretty amazing for that stuff?"

Enough to spoil a person. Thank you taxpayers!
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There was a case between Mattel and MGA over the Bratz doll line. Apparently the designer Carter Bryant worked for Mattel between 1995-1998, took family leave from April 1998 - January 1999 to take care of a sick relative. It was during this time that he claimed he developed the Bratz doll concept. He then resumed working for Mattel until 2000. After leaving Mattel, he joined MGA Entertainment, who made the doll line and sold a billion dollars worth of merchandise. Mattel originally claimed that they owned the doll line because he was still employed during the leave (though it was later determined that he drew the initial concepts before the leave, and now Mattel owns the rights to the Bratz line).
This is indeed a huge plus. "I can't disinfect your computer, I know absolutely nothing about Windows" works wonders too. Geek snobbism my friend!
Leaderboards are an anti pattern in community design because they turn 99% of your customers into losers and losing is not fun.

Of course. I've always wondered about that. Do you have a source for this info? I'm not trying to lay on the wikipedia-snark but rather I'd like to see where to read on social media [anti]patterns.
Psychologically, confirmation bias and/or plain ol’ rationalization may be at play
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It rains all the time here in Oregon. It's overrated.

This isn't the city you're looking for. Move along ... move along.
Some Bladerunner DVD collections have the 3:53 hour long documentary "Dark Days", which is excellent and goes into Trumbull's work in great detail.
I built it myself using CodeIgniter.
How often will interviews be posted? Weekly? Bi-monthly? As often as you can get content? In any event, I've subscribed to your RSS.
Seafood there is Pearl Oyster in the village.
Italian there is Crispo on 14th and Supper in the east village. For fish and chips, A salt and battery in the West Village is good. All the BLT places ( http://www.bltrestaurants.com/ ) have great food but the service I've received hasn't been great for the price.

Out in Brooklyn there are a number of great places,
Carino's Cantina for excellent mexican, Pies and Thighs for great fried chicken, Peter Luger for steak, Fatty Cue for well, just go look it up. Great brick oven pizza up in Greenpoint at Paulie Gees ( and you can get in without too much of a wait. )

Avoid Indian in the city.
For excellent, Egyptian, there is Ali's Kebab Cafe in Astoria Queens.

If you want more ideas, shoot me an email at the one that is listed for my account. I can throw tons of ideas at you. In general your best bet if you are in the city is usually going to be in the West or East villages. Williamsburg and Greenpoint have a ton of great places as well.
There's a website for that :

http://seatguru.com

After being through the Lima to Amsterdam wringer with half of the front seats floor occupied by the entertainment box (literally) I appreciate a website that gives me detailed seat layouts before buying a ticket.
I think the airlines might have just found my point where comfort becomes more point than price
> Oracle isn't going to make the same mistake.

And will probably kill Java in the process.
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I've lived in one of those "hives" for a around a year.

I've been fighting with clinical depression, but I was already having problems with that before I moved there. I can't tell if it's made things worse, though it certainly hasn't made things any better.
I just ran a website I administer and I've been waiting for a few minutes for results. How long should it take? When I hover over the rolling progress bar icons, a tooltip reads "Coming soon..." and I don't know if that means my results are coming soon or the feature is coming soon.
> Unless something happens, I'd be VERY surprised if the "standard" JVM is still "free to use", let alone open source, in 5 years.

Or relevant
You actually show much higher engagement from the TC audience than from the HN audience. Highest time on site and lowest bounce rate you got was from TC.

The other note on TC is that it is a brand impression to a lot more readers than what click through. ie. ppl read/scan Techcrunch and will remember brands, only to recall them later. This is part of the '6 impressions' rule that marketers talk about.

There are a lot more stories on TC now though, so your own share of those eyeballs is lower, and is competing with the other companies and startups featured.
Rails has been dealing with the 'can't scale' accusations forever, even though it has been scaling fine for a lot of people for at least 4 years, if not longer.

But remember that a lot of people who start with Rails are not sysadmins, and may have absolutely no idea how to scale anything. I'd bet they'd probably hit the same scaling trouble if they used anything.

If you listen to folks that have had to scale out to meet demand, you hear the same thing repeated: once you get beyond a certain number of connections, things like choice of language level out and you have other things to worry about. Default installs of WordPress don't scale either, because of database load. That doesn't necessarily mean that WordPress can't scale.

Like anything else, Rails can scale, but often times those deploying it just don't know how. I know I sure didn't when I started out. And every web project I've been on has had different scaling needs. Rails has, in my experience, been easier to scale out than the ASP or PHP apps I used to maintain.
This is almost it. They missed it, by just a little. There is no way you'll persuade people to use these weird things. However, disguised as a pair of rings and a a wristwatch, I'd want!
Has SFMOMA gotten better? The Cal Academy barely qualifies as a wing of the American Museum of Natural History; the Legion barely a wing of (even) the Art Institute.

I concede that there are museums. I question whether they're in the same league as their DC equivalents.
I read about game design. It is sort of like the nicotine patch for the ex-WoW gamer in me.

See slides 27 ~ 33:

http://www.slideshare.net/amyjokim/putting-the-fun-in-functi...
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The line break between "Blow" and "Pop" made me think that this article was going in a totally different direction.
Same reason here. As a side note, I've noticed that non-techies more often refer to it by S-Q-L so I'll change it up when I speak with them. I suppose pronouncing it "sequel" is more of an industry jargon type of thing.
What's the technology behind the measurement? It would be nice to duplicate it using two cellphones.
>Twitter can have even more information by forcing all users to use t.co.

I suspect they'd end up with a lot less information if they tried this.
Sounds good, also we've set up a Google Group you can sign up for.

http://groups.google.com/group/minneapolishackers
Thanks. If you have a link to the law you're talking about then I'd like to have a read. I haven't been able to find much with my Googling.
I'll look this up. Much thanks.
Malatesta at 649 Washington St in W. Village (cash only) - incredible gnocchi.

Tenzan on the Upper West Side, great sushi, not too expensive.

Momofuku in the East Village is also a good spot.
Ok, wow, I was speaking more of the aggregate statistics, but both of those sound like great features. We're actually about to take our wholesaler/b2b only electronics site retail/open-to-the-public in the next month or so. I'm going to keep you guys bookmarked. We've never spent any time optimizing our site unless there have been huge bottlenecks. This could be a very useful service for us.

Great looking site, btw.
> I think it's incredibly hypocritical that alcohol is legal, whilst pot - demonstrably less damaging - is outlawed.

Not necessarily; IIRC the reason pot is not legal is (or was) because there was not sufficient scientific evidence it wasn't about to pull a Thalidomide.

There are plenty of things that are perfectly healthy that are illegal; that is because we haven't proven they are perfectly healthy yet.
To what end are you trying to assess/measure programming ability? Finding people to learn from? Evaluating people you might hire?
Reminds me a little bit about this article on Shane Battier: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Battier-t.html?...

It goes into how Battier gets to see the charts and statistics for the players on the opposing team, so that he'll have better odds when defending against their jump shots.
For now it's weekly. The next one is scheduled for Friday and I'm going to post it on Monday. Hopefully, I will be able to do it even more often.
I think these puzzles may be useful, but they do not respect the candidate's time. Candidates apply to many jobs, and it is unfair to expect them to each put half an hour into a problem they may or may not be interested in for a job that may never call them.

You can give your candidates this problem during an interview, but only if you are willing to give up time you could have otherwise spent in that interview getting to know the candidate in other ways.
Though they are not full blown languages, I think Apache's Pig or Thrift covers this ground to a large extent.
Critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader
Fantastic approach. Love the simple, easy-to-read layout.

Idea: Maybe you could make certain interviews "open" where you invite your users/readers to submit their own follow-up questions during the next few days after it posted to the site. These follow up questions will spur discussion, your interviewee might agree to answer these questions after the deadline, and you'll create a "stickier" site that readers can enjoy until your next interview posts. ;) Great work.
That was the first thing I thought when I read the headline. Ranks up there with Who Represents (www.whorepresents.com) and Pen Island (www.penisland.com).

Edit: I still think it is a good idea, but the domain name lends itself to obvious jokes.
Hmm, I pay just under $1500/month for my apartment in San Jose, I have my own washer/dryer, and I can walk to work. As mentioned above, though, the neighborhood is dull and depressing.

Still, you might want to look around for another place to live.
This looks perfect for research or OS programs. But you can forget commercial applications without the consent of emotiv.

Also, perhaps someone can clarify this for me. This doesn't guarantee you will end up with something better or similar to emotiv.

After determining which bytes correspond to which signals, do you have to write the algorithm for pattern recognition? do you have to reverse engineer the whole SDK or is it just a matter of calling the existing/proprietary algorithms using the signals?

Anyway, I think this will force them to accelerate their development for the Linux platform and perhaps be more open about it.

I'm not sure if they're not open about their development because they're stuck (I haven't seen any major improvements in their videos from 2008 to now... same stuff) or if they're scared from competition because they don't have the resources.

If they can recognize what a bunch of _very_ ambitious developers can do for free, why keep this thing locked?
Thanks! Extremely helpful.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/kokkari-estiatorio-san-francisco-2

Fucking delicious, an I am albanian, so I know that kind of food really well.
It is not that expensive either.

And there are plenty of similar restaurants around there.

The one thing you just can't complain about in the bay area is food and restaurants.

Perhaps the city has changed alot since you lived here, but since I lived there between 2006-2009 I can tell that the "food is not good enough" complains are just plain ubased whining.

I challenge you find a place in the USA where the produce is better, or fresher than it is here.
My only real problem with Ryanair is no one wants to compete with them. They are a bit like a virus. Once fully established in an airport, their competitors scale down and move away. Worse still, if they decide to move on themselves because the airport starts charging normal rates, that airport is then in a poor position.
Sequel on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. S-Q-L on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Neither on Sunday.
This observation is correct; exergaming won't displace team sports. However, not everyone can get involved with a team sport. Cost, location, time - you name it. Exergaming is going to deliver many of the advantages of team sports without as many costs or constraints, and it's going to be huge.
Ihaka himself seems to be eyeing with Common Lisp as the next best statistical environment:

http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/%7Eihaka/downloads/Compstat-2...
I dunno. That setup looked pretty darn expensive. Did you see the number and size of all of the pieces involved? Custom etched and built models. Huge amounts of high-powered explosives. Not to mention the cost of the film. I don't mean to undercut your point of finding creative solutions, but I'm not sure this is a good example.
I'm partial to the University of Chicago, so you won't get any disagreement there.

Evanston is new to me, but the campus of NU seems very pleasant -- I really like the piece of lakefront path that seems integrated into campus. Of course, the undergraduates are just starting to return, so it might be very different in a few days.

As for UIC, my friends and I would always bowl there as undergraduates, and some of the restaurants on Taylor street were much better than you could get in Hyde Park for similar prices. In other words, at least one group of undergraduates at UC would go to that area for fun.
Agreed. "Magic" is just another word for "I don't understand how they did this". Whenever you meet "magic", you should dig into the code until you do understand "how they did this".
Ok, so I (think I) agree with you that the following poperties make it compelling to test/develop/refactor code: purity / statelessness, algebraic properties of programs (transforms…), high level (brevity).

Where I (think I) disagree, is that I think methodology stays globally the same: I would even say that it desn't throw away TDD but gives tools to reinforce it. FP removes whole classes of nasty bugs and so it makes you test more essential stuff ; secondly the tools help you more because the compiler and the testing library know more, so for example in Haskell statistical tests are easy to write, pervasive, and often very meaningfull.
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If I understand your suggestion correctly, then it's already done. It says [name] is also answering your questions in comments and all interviewees so far agreed to answer the audience questions in comments. So go ahead and ask them.
The fact that the GGP interprets your point as 'hating on rails' says more about him than about your point.

When you're still in the honeymoon period after a couple of years I guess it should count as true love then.
My fiancee and I went for a bike ride yesterday that took us by the mission bay campus and we both remarked about how that area should be rockin in 5-10 years.
You're welcome; a search on this site came up with: http://law.justia.com/california/codes/2009/lab/2870-2872.ht...
Higher resolution photos on the photographer's website: http://eecue.com/a/1547/One-Wilshire-Tour.html
Reminds me of a DICE talk about how games will work their way into our lives providing us incentives to do all sorts of things like eat healthily, study, etc.

http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/DICE-2010-Design-Outside-the-Bo...
Sure, learn CodeIgniter- it's a PHP framework, and there is excellent documentation. You'll learn a little PHP & mySQL along the way, but the framework handles all the heavy lifting, and you can easily slip it under the (already completed) web page without much hassle.
To me real scaling is where you're having to run a cluster since a single server is inadequate to handle the traffic, where you're having to implement or leverage various application caching schemes, etc...

Can you explain how Rails doesn't handle this? Because all of my (admittedly limited) experience says it handles it just fine.
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It appears they release the sources for the GPL parts and their changes to the GPL parts:

http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/downloads/gpl-sources.php

And from their FAQ:

Yes. CRAN R is licensed under the GNU General Public License (version 2). As permitted under that license, Revolution R is based on a modified version of CRAN R. The source code to that modified version (including a list of changes) is available for download when you download the binary version of Revolution R, as required by the GPL.
As an open-source company, Revolution Analytics respects the Free and Open Source Software philosophy and respects all free-software licenses. Revolution Analytics is also a direct supporter of the open-source R project: financially (as a benefactor of the R Foundation), organizationally (by sponsoring events and user group meetings), and technically (by contributing or modifications to CRAN R back to the community).
And the thing about salesmen is that in the interview they're selling themselves. Of course he said what Rajiv wanted to hear! That's what he does for a living!