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Why is this using IMAP? IMAP is my biggest problem with Mail.app—every time I think of setting it up (for example, to grab the notes that iTunes syncs from my iPhone), it immediately deigns to eat 3GB of my laptop's hard disk by downloading and (redundantly) persisting every message I've ever received.

At least, in Mail.app, it's justified, as generic mail clients should use lowest-common-denominator technologies. However, Sparrow is just for Gmail. Why isn't it using the Gmail API, the way the Android Gmail client does? Push notifications for free, no mailbox syncing, no indexing, etc.
Funny you mention GConf, since its storage engine is based on text configuration files that you can edit by yourself (not binary and in fact those text files are even human readable).

I mean, I'm a power user and I like Apache's configuration format, but there was a steep learning curve involved, and for a production server that's super-duper fine, but for normal users it is super painful to deal with different syntaxes / conventions / locations for every god damn application you're using.

GConf sucks, but the alternatives are worse.

Also, the technical problems of Windows Registry have more to do with it being a half-arsed implementation of a filesystem, not to mention inappropriate use of it (many apps using it as a database).
This is key. If they didn't strike out against this kind of cheating then people wouldn't take any of the achievements seriously and the replay value of the game would be diminished.
Bad behavior by politicians... who are practically at the mercy of special interests. AND bad behavior by many individuals who are always looking to cut corners* or are too irrational they end up forcing leaders to overstep their oversight boundaries.

*excuse the cliche', trying to be concise.
I started getting emails from Facebook, because someone had used my work address to create an account. (I get a lot of spam on this address - it being cb@... .com)

Really, very annoying! I guess this is kind of to be expected of Facebook, though.
wow, that's whacked. And that was in place for over 10 years.

And the reason was so you could have ActiveX verifying your identity. Yeah, bet ya Microsoft worked real hard getting the latest and greatest browser out for that market.
It is still a few days away from being ready for anyone else but my email is tbeauvais[at]gmail[dot]com.
Such a great post.

I have played live medium stakes poker in Vegas for 14 years now. Have witnessed the boom firsthand. Before the poker tv "boom" it used to be sort of embarrassing when family and friends from back home would ask about poker and what not because it always had a negative mystique about it. During the boom everyone was all of a sudden interested and wanted to listen about how exciting it must be. But the boom completely skewed reality and perspectives unlike anything I have ever seen, even compared to the housing boom.

I can't count how many times in past 7 years I'd be at table full of early 20 somethings claiming they are or am thinking about going "pro" (quiting job/college for poker FT). For every Tom Dwan type of story there are probably 1000x the stories similar or WORSE to the Washington Post article. It was never my business so I never made it my biz, but I used to be sad seeing so many talented/bright and charismatic kids be so lost and throwing away years chasing the rush and shot at being famous. Gambling, in any form, takes a very special tough minded character to do in long run since, like matt says, the losing streaks will come. I have told my wife one thing I wish I could erase from my mind would be poker. And I am a long-term winner! It just wears you down and matt mentioning how most can't fathom the emotional swings is true. It becomes worse the more early success one has because the resulting crash will be harder.

The smoke and mirrors of poker created by TV is FAR from real. Away from the lights and camera while they hype most of these guys up is mostly a collection of low lives grinding 60hrs a week on their asses just to pay the bills. Many of the big names the world has come to know have also gone broke at times. Not always because of poker but it just harbors other bad habits.

Anyway, enough of that. I do want to say Matt that during it time I was an avid follower of your blog. I could always tell you were one of the more grounded and mature young players that was having success and always knew you wouldn't let your head get too big. Sorry it took a tragedy of that magnitude to get you out but in the end it was probably best.
When I lived in Kyoto, I had similar expenses...

Housing:

- 400$/month for a 15 square meter studio next to Kyoto University

- $500/month for a 90 square meter house shared between with one other person (so total price would have been $1000/month south of Kyoto's train station in a poor area)

Health insurance, pension was the same (but a big part of that was paid by my employer)... It's possible to get a refund of the pension when you leave japan (you get back about 40% of what you paid)

Food: same. One thing to note is that the quality of food you can get for around $8 is amazingly high... It's very hard to find restaurants as tasty for this price in Shanghai or Malaysia where I've lived since... I really miss living in Japan for that.

On the wage for programmers, on the contrary to japanese, foreigners have more leeway when it comes to negotiating salary. A friend of mine, worked in a game company and managed to get a 70% raise when he told them he would be leaving otherwise (it was a rather big game company who usually goes by the $100 x year of age + bonus if married rule for compensation)

I now live in Shanghai and spend a bit more than when I was living in Japan but mostly due to housing and health insurance

Housing: $720/month for a 110 square meter apartment in Pudong 20 minutes away from the city center by subway line 2 . It's much more confortable than what I used to have in Kyoto, but I'm too hold for 15 square meters apartments...

Food: cheap chinese restaurants cost around $3, western food and japanese food is more around $15... While I love cantonese food, I really don't like Shanghainese food unfortunately, so I usually go to more expensive restaurants.

Health insurance: $420/month for me and my wife (through a private expat health insurance)
I've recently gotten into the habit of putting a fingernail under the keypad and applying slight sideways pressure to the card-reader every time I use my card at an ATM or gas pump. There's minimal risk of damaging legitimate machinery (it's not like I apply much pressure), and I figure that it has to cut my chances of being skimmed by a bit.
This is a small initiative I am promoting with the aim of improving the situation in Italy:

http://www.srlfacile.org

On the off chance that any Italian HN readers haven't seen it yet.
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Some notes:

If your income is under a certain limit (which it should be if you're just ramen profitable) you can get an allowance to help with rent and health insurance through the tax-office.

Public transport is quite decent in most areas, I would not recommend owning a car (especially because there is a lot of traffic congestion in and around major cities).

20Mbit/s can be had for about 30 USD from cheap ISPs. 40 USD for 8Mbit/s from a proper ISP.

My phone bill is about 30 USD/month, that includes a data plan.

I pay a lot more for food (USD 400/month), I think it would take quite a bit of effort/restraint to get that down to USD 120/month.
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Vilnius, Lithuania

Apartment Rent + Taxes ~ $180 (I live in 3 room flat, so we share apartment rent, witch for all of us is ~ $400 in good neighborhood)

Internet (100Mbps): $40 (for all)

Foot: $200-300

Transport not in warm season ~ $45

Phone ~8$ (with G3 7GB quota)

Beer ~ $1-2

BicMac (big) ~$5

Daily lunch in Chinese restaurant ~ $4

Typical wage $650 - 2400
Hi Bapanda,

I likely know who you are but not exactly from the story. Thank you so much for the comments. Hope all is well and you are still grinding and working.

-Joe
Iasi, Romania

- Rent for a studio plus water, electricity...= $350 per month
- Internet, at least 30mbps = $10 per month
- Beer in a pub = $1.35
- Pizza (more than enough for a single person) = $7
- Bus/Tram ticket = $0.63 for one ride or $32 for one month
- Milk = $1.05 per litre
- Chicken meat = $3.60 per kg

Wages for 9-to-5 coders are around $700 per month, after tax and medical insurance (but Romanian hospitals are really crappy compared to North American or Western European standards, and also be prepared to pay bribes to the doctors in the range of $1000 per surgical intervention).
I know, I hate my life. 6 years ago I had 2 degrees and so much enthusiasm for poker, life, and the future... Now I wonder how a resume with nothing on it is gonna look in a job market I know nothing about... The habits of this oft toxic lifestyle will be harder to break than many of the good parts of my routine were to establish... Plus, for me at least, 17k months and 5k days have never translated to actual wealth... On the otherhand, my 'job' has cost me relationships and years (plus two inches of hairline) I will never have back...
Ask HN: Understanding Wireless Networking
Quick question here. I'm setting up my home server and network in preparation of adding a Boxee Box to my home theater system. I have been using an Xbox 360 previously and the wireless streaming over a Linksys WRT310N is pretty abysmal (buffering every few minutes). I'm not quite sure if this problem is more the fault of the Xbox or wireless network.

I would like to set up the network to allow internet usage while preserving the ability to stream high bitrate content wirelessly (think 1080i and 1080p). I have contemplating using a separate router specifically for the media streaming -- perhaps on 5.4Ghz band with the normal usage on 2.4.

What are you thoughts or recommendations on this subject? Thank you!
Here is a hint. Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_triangle and ask yourself why the 23nd row can be calculated without explicitly enumerating all possible subsets.

I'm pretty sure that cperciva used a similar trick, but in each row you're potentially adding another element of the set, and not potentially adding 1.

This gives you a mapping telling you how many ways there are to get 0, 1, 2, 3, etc as the sum of some subset of the set. Just sum this over the set, and subtract the size of the set. (Every element in the set is the sum of itself, but you don't want to count those.) And there is your answer.
It's completely feasible if you move to SF with a job in hand.

Spend a year working, networking and getting the lay of the land, and then jump off and do your own thing. There's tons of companies that are hiring right now.

Aside from that, $18k really isn't much at all in SF or SV. Spend part of the $18k in coming out here for a visit for a month or so, do some networking land a job and then move out. Think of doing startups as a more long term plan rather than a short term leap to SF to see how far you can get by living on ramen noodles.
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There's one in the current YC crop, isn't there?

Somebody posted a write-up not to long ago. 1000memories, I believe.
How about "I wanted to play the game on 'god mode'?" It seems a little harsh to suspend/ban/whatever players to 'cheating' at a one-player game. That's like trying to make it illegal to cheat at solitaire. The reason that cheating is bad is that it is unfair to other players. In a single-player game, who exactly is being cheated? The AI?
Do you have any examples aggregation sites that you think pull off a good UX?
Cisco configuration files don't play nice with version control either. Anyone (with access) can log into any Cisco router, make changes and forget to write the running config to the startup config. Even if they do that, they might forget to copy the new startup config to the TFTP server. And even if they do THAT, they might not even bother doing the "svn commit" or "git commit" or "whatevervcweareusing commit". I view the sqlite database as the running configuration of Mongrel2. And from where I sit, it seems vastly simpler to do a diff of a configuration file stored in sqlite than it is to do a diff of a configuration from a Cisco router.
Rooms in Warsaw are much more expensive than in other parts of Poland.

Student's dormitories are much cheaper, but they frequently have quite terrible living condition - I pay $100 for a ~16 square meters room for three people, and it is not the worst one available.

Median salary in Warsaw is more like 4000 PLN ($1400), it can be half of that in other voivodeships, though.

Your calling BS is about 9000 PLN being too high or too low wage?
I live in newtown in a housing co-operative for $70/week. No landlord. No government agents. I don't know why there are not more housing co-operatives around.

NOTE TO FOLKS THAT DON'T LIVE IN NEWTOWN: I agree with all other previous estimates, I thought I would just write this here to brag to the other sydneysiders about my cheap rent and plug a misunderstood housing model!
I took more notes the first time Craig spoke at YC than I've done with any other speaker. Most of the time I only write down one or two sentences. The first time Craig spoke I took 4 pages of notes.
When I go to Sao Paulo I have a friend in the Jardins I stay with, so I don't have to worry about rent. The down side is that hanging out with him and his upper class buddies destroys the savings I get!
Ask YC/PG: Is it ok for me to accept angel funding before getting into YC?
I recently applied to YC. On the application I put that there were no other investors. However, since then, there has been interest and I have an investor anxious to close pretty quickly.

It's not a significant stake, and more of just providing a buffer - if I need it.

Will it affect my application if I accept the investment and how would you guys handle that - if I am accepted - given that a new legal entity will be created by you guys. I would want to carve out a portion of equity from the new entity for them - is that something that is a deal breaker/stopper for you guys?

Thanks.
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Alestic does list an AMI for 10.10 now.

http://alestic.com/2010/10/ec2-ubuntu-maverick
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"So every year Martin would get his blood checked, fearing the 1% to 2% chance that the marker had spiked.

It never did, and Martin slipped into a routine that included juggling long hours at the office, raising three teenage boys, racing cars, skiing, and cycling."

After reading the "slipped into a routine..." part I took it to mean that he stopped getting the annual tests, thinking that he'd done it long enough to satisfy himself that he wasn't going to get the disease. Sounds like I read it the same way sliverstorm did.
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Except for computers and the Internet, the idea that we're experiencing rapid technological progress is a myth.

First, even if this were true, that's a gigantic except. By comparison, one would probably not talk about the mid-1400's being a time of little progress, except for the development of the printing press.

Second, the U.S. GDP has been roughly doubling every 20 years since at least 1890 (source: http://norvig.com/speech.html), and I doubt such a longstanding trajectory is going to change anytime soon, Thiel's pessimism notwithstanding.
depends on where you are. I've never seen it happen in the sf bay area, but it was a pretty common occurrence where I grew up in the central valley, several hundred miles away.
I think the point is that emailing someone directly is a better way to get some action happening... especially on a Sunday night... especially if you are looking to have things fixed sooner than later.
I think stories by early employees of successful companies are often the only way to see the messy truth of early stages. Founders are so involved in many aspects that constant self-observation is not possible.

At least books by founders highlight the big lows and the big highs, but there are many insights to be gained from smaller daily decisions or way of making them, and I think employees can remember better how was the daily life in the early stages.
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There are very few circumstances under which "you or your team might not be available for some unavoidable reasons" that are not due to catastrophic planning failure. What kind of circumstance are you looking at that you cannot put fail-safes in place well in advance? Even death is subject to redundant engineering.
To be honest, I thought the rest of the world, especially India and South America was a lot cheaper than what a lot of the other comments have revealed.

For a room, a share of the utilities, and food, it costs me about $625 / month in Phoenix, AZ. If you have to commute much, add $50+ of gas to that. I split a 3BR with 3 roommates, so if you live alone, expect to pay more -- $1000 / mo for an apt, utilities, and food would be expected.
First of all, there are robots that will vacuum/scrub your floors, clean your pool, and clear you gutter (http://store.irobot.com).

It's the not the Jetsons, but when I think about how complex other household chores can be (from an AI perspective), Thiel's theory makes more sense than yours. Are there even commercial/industrial robots advanced enough to collect, sort, wash, dry, fold and put away my family's laundry?

You say the middle class is relatively poor–relative to what?

I didn't know there was huge demand for self-driving cars–and it's cheaper to ride the bus–but Google is working on the technology.
It's not a deal-breaker unless it's botched. The right way to do it would be to use a convertible note written so that YC funding wouldn't trigger conversion. If you have a lawyer who can arrange that. But you'd have to incorporate, and you (and we) would then be stuck with however you did, so we'd hope you did it right.

If it's a small amount, is it enough to make the legal bills worth it?
That's amazing, you should write up your project and submit it to diybio google group.
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What is a safest way to set all bits of a variable to true in C?
In the source code that they used to 'normalize' the tempatures, there was a variable named -- I kid you not -- FUDGE_FACTOR. Ha!
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The in-game cheats Blizzard supplies have all the functionalities of the trainers (at least that I saw on a simple google search). The only perk of using a trainer is to be able to get achievements while cheating. You could make the argument that devaluing the achievements is cheating the people who went through the effort of earning them legitimately.
I've found this too. We also had Shel Kaphan speak, the first employee at Amazon (and really de facto cofounder), and he was very good as well.
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It's a tradeoff really, had they required an email validation before any actions there would definitely be a drop off rate in completing signups, especially early on when people didn't have large social graphs on facebook to pull them in.
> It's surprising how the disease crept up on him despite the annual checks.

Depending on the cancer, they can act extremely fast. My father died from a pancreatic cancer, he got about three months after the discovery, and before that he spent under a month with severe back pains (doctors were telling him it was nothing but he forced them to get to the end of it and find out why he was in so much pain).

Considering Mr Martin's myeloma took out a whole vertebra before he hurt enough to go see the doc, I'd say the thing was particularly ferocious, and short of checking every 1-3 months he would only have caught it by luck.

> Does executive-level healthcare exist or is it just in my imagination?

it probably exists, but you have to factor in the long hours and activity which result in both physical stress and not much time to go see the doc', short of having your own on retainer.
Blog posts do not help. Take them to court.
Euros, and no, I live in the sticks in a province called Groningen (hence the need for a car).
"A There are these cultures you see in some companies -- they are just very negative, where the way that you show you are the hot shot engineer is by showing how stupid everyone else's idea is, or how bad everyone else's code is. And honestly, we see that more at Google now then we used to when it was small. And part of it is we've got people who were used to these other cultures; it's a very prevalent, sort of alpha-dog culture you see in the programming world. But it's never been part of Google's culture. And I think even when you see it now, it's not as respected. The respected voices say, hey cut it out. "

--That's very true. What I have seen in large companies, looking good is important, and apart from building stuff and bragging about it, and even easier way to do it is by criticizing others, and finding any way on how to point at minor flaws on other's people's work, simply malignant / non constructive behaviour, but masqueraded in the name of 'quality', company standards etc..
Ask HN: Why did group chat never really take off?
In the online world, instant messaging, email, video chat, and even Facebook walls have become popular mainstream mediums of communication. But why is it that the concept of group chat never took off?

If you are separated from your friends for a long time, you can keep in touch with each of them with any one of the various popular mediums of communication. But there's no way to feel the live company of a group of your friends online (IRC channels are not included because they involve mainly strangers).

People love talking to their friends one-on-one over instant messaging or video chat, but for some reason you don't see people talking live to more than one person online. Why is this the case? Is it a problem with the medium? If so, how can the medium be improved to fix this?
I am not sure "fascism" is the common bond. Slow, bureaucratic procedures with relatively high capital requirements seem to be the norm in continental Europe, with countries moving away from that model at different speeds.
...and what's the deal with San Francisco?