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Ask HN: Where to live in San Francisco (URGENT)
I am leaving tomorrow night from Indianapolis to move to San Francisco for a startup job I accepted a few weeks ago (and found through HN :)

I had a woman verbally commit to me 3 weeks ago for a condo and she sent the lease to me. I signed, and sent it back last week and this morning she called me to tell me she didn't feel comfortable renting it to me all of a sudden and she was going to rent to someone else. I've tried calling and emailing, but to no avail (yet).

I need to be in San Francisco by next Friday and have got to find a place to live ASAP.

My biggest problem finding a spot is that I would like to have a decent place to myself, but I have a bad credit score (580).

If anyone out there could offer any help or advice to me, please let me know by emailing me at bradley.t.herman@gmail.com.

I know this is off HN topic, but seeing as I accepted a web development startup position for a job I found on the site, I figured I would ask if anyone here could help.

THANKS!
I'd set aside enough time/money to allow as many of them as possible to be wired, if they want to be. Cisco [1] do 24 ports for $157, there are cheaper non-gigabit on Amazon.

http://www.telephonyware.com/telephonyware/products/cisco-sr...
Well, it expands difflib. It looks a bit like what google-refine does.
In that particular case, yes.

I don't remember him advocating corporate or estate tax increases though? Capital gains? Hardly applies to Berkshire Hathaway anyway.
How about Bulldozer sometime soon? I've been putting off my upgrades to see how it compares to Sandy Bridge, but that Q2 2011 launch didn't exactly happen.
Thanks _mattb--I appreciate it. The default view shows elapsed time as you saw. When you search for items, it gives you a transactional view with start/stop times. I'm thinking about adding a setting for how you want the default view, e.g. transactional vs. summary. I've been using this app for a long time (since 2007). I spent the last couple of months cleaning it up for public consumption. It really has helped me keep track of my projects. The most enlightening thing is how much time I spend on phone calls with certain clients. Now I try to monitor that a little bit more.
The "you too" was just me reacting to the fact that I often see posts from men that don't seem to argue in good faith. As an example, elsewhere in this discussion a guy decided to correct my tone. He's been a member for over 100 days and this was his second post - nothing else has struck him as sufficiently important, but my post, oh yeah, my tone really needed to be corrected. That post was not in good faith - it wS someone objecting to the content of my posts, by attacking the tone. Your post struck me as more of the same, if that wasn't the case, I apologise.

Anyway, your point is still wrong. Judging someone as not sexually attractive is pretty much the opposite of sexual objectification, it's a refusal to treat the person as a sexual object. I might be perfectly willing to have a relationship with fat bald guy as a cOlleague, or as a tennis partner, or as a friend - I'm not denying his humanity, I just don't want to sleep with him. Compare that with his action of rubbing himself against me, even after having made it abundantly clear to him that I wasn't interested. He doesn't care about me and my wishes, they are irrelevant to his goal. He finds me sexually attractive, and he wants to get laid, and too bad for me if I don't agree.

So no, refusing to see someone as a sexual object is sexual objectification in the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby.
> So sure they make a lot per year but once they're done, they're done, since they tend not have much by way of marketable skills

More often than not, players become coaches or bureaucrats in the corresponding sports organizations.
The solution is essentially to take a hard look at your design and see why you have to pass around config options, event loops, or message buses to begin with. The need to access global state is a code smell.

When you DO need global state, then a singleton object is a reasonable way to achieve it. But chances are fairly high that you don't.
Perhaps not compared to, say, car accidents in the U.S., but that doesn't by any means imply that it's rare enough to not be a valid concern for potential victims.

From the wikipedia article cited above:

"Rape prevalence among women in the U.S. (the percentage of women who experienced rape at least once in their lifetime so far) is in the range of 15%-20%, with different studies agreeing with each other.

I'm personally not aware of any statistics that would justify calling rape an 'ultra-rare' occurrence in any part of the world; perhaps someone will enlighten me.
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Could you put some newlines in that? For some reason, my browser (IE9) is rendering that construct as a VERY long line and extending the page to match it. (no code-specific scroll-bar for me)
I suppose I agree with you: piracy is an equally poor description of digital copyright infringement. Note I am not defending copyright infringement. Still, theft it is not.
that big of a risk I just can not afford to take right now. especially without an idea and market research backing the idea.
45% of lottery winners have started their own business
It's a very healthy balance. I don't think it's because I'm not rich. Believe it or not, I'm not that pressurized to making money fast- I've saved enough from working to have already placed a down deposit on a house in Canada.

I'm really not frustrated despite what people think. I'm just tired of the 9-5 work 8 hour schedule that I've been doing and wanting to change exactly that. Instead, view my situation as someone who;s so interested in working on their startup that they want to quit their 9-5 job. That's exactly like me, except that I want to be able to spend more time on the startup which means quitting the life/drama/responsbilities/work/ I have here for 3 weeks.

haha I'm up by 6AM already, workout, make myself a fantastic breakfast, and begin coding with breaks in between. I'm looking to add more time to my coding schedule, not because I'm frustrated or stressed or even inefficient.
In 2010, Ottawa saw 27,446 property crimes, and 14 homicides[1]. In general, about half of murders are committed by a friend or family member[2]. So even if the other 7 murderers _all_ started out doing petty theft, there's still only 1 in 3,920 laptop thieves who's going to kill someone.

I appreciate what you're trying to say, and believe me when I say that if you consider the risks and want to go get your laptop, that's fine and I'm not arguing with you making your choice.

However, the statistics you quote above do not support your quoted odds. Since the 27,446 reported property crimes did not all involve the owner confronting the thieves, we cannot use the numbers to draw a conclusion about the risk of a confrontation resulting in a murder, much less an attempted murder or assault.

On the flip side, while I do not have statistics handy, deep diving, dry suit diving, cold water diving, decompression diving, mixed gas diving, drift diving, and other activities I have enjoyed of are thought to be associated with slightly higher risks than the overall statistics suggest, although not as high as the three big killers: Cave/wreck diving, rebreather diving, and commercial diving.
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You don't get to decide what's illegal or incriminating, the court and justice system do. Just because you don't think it's incriminating doesn't mean it can't be used against you.
It seems like it would give you a false sense of security. You have to think about it in terms of "could an attacker who can spend $1000/hr brute force a duplicate pub/priv key combination that generates the same robot.

I wonder if you could get better results using a markov chain to generate english prose from a large sample. If you take the top N next word options, and select one based on the next log_2(N) bits of your hash/key, you lose no key space and should get a nonsensical but perhaps easily remembered string.
I do: cloud computing and mobile.

5 years from now, it won't be a windows world. Consumers will be spending most of their time using iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile devices. On the server, a large % of apps will be written on a layer above the OS (GAE, Azure, Heroku, DjangoZoom, ...).
I imagine he was thinking of the problem of proving a negative general statement, e.g. "nobody has assassinated anybody". It's trivial to prove the statement is false (if indeed it is false), but it's nigh impossible to prove that it's true.

The more controversial wording of this is that you can't prove there is no god.
Being on this site implies disagreement with the idea that hard work correlates to better pay in a typical company. HN, to a great extent, reflects the ethos of startup culture in general and PG in particular. That, in turn, means that the median HN reader is on board with statements like "a large company can't accurately measure your work; no one incapable of measuring your work can compensate you appropriately for working hard" and "part of the point of joining or founding a startup is to let the market judge your hard work directly instead of filtering that judgment through layers and layers of corporate bureaucracy - even though you risk that that judgment may be 'your hard work is worth zero dollars.'"

This is not to say that I like that state of affairs - I agree with Keynes when he says "Nothing corrupts society more than to disconnect effort and reward." The fact that in the average company, effort and reward are distantly and indirectly related, I claim is a major, major, social and moral problem. That state of affairs corrodes the rule of law and attacks the stability of a society. Stability is a prerequisite to entrepreneurs getting interesting things done - remember the recent article here about Argentinian entrepreneurs and the crippling effects of a currency that collapses every decade or two? Stability means, to pull from PG's essays again, that honest accumulations of wealth won't be plundered. Stability of that sort is a prerequisite to rewarding entrepreneurship - and that sort of stability is disappearing in the US, generally on account of the very same people who are responsible for disconnecting effort and reward at typical corporations. The financier class (and the political class that they have purchased - in this regard, the last four US Presidents are clones of one another) is eating everyone's seed corn. That's deeply harmful to those of us who want to have our labor judged by the market, because without stability and the rule of law, it is impossible for markets to operate efficiently.
What exactly is the definition of "broke"? Declaring bankruptcy and having your house foreclosed doesn't mean you're broke like a homeless person is broke.
http://retardzone.com/2008/09/23/abandoned-mike-tyson-mansio...

For an idea of where the money goes.
I think "More often than not" vastly overstates it. It's much more common in baseball, with its extensive farm system, or football with the large number of position coaches, but even there it's the exception rather than the rule.
I was in a similar situation a little while ago. Here's how I handled it:

Two weeks at the pacific tradewinds hostel. While there I found a 3 month room sublet in a house with other people in the crappy part of the Mission. From there, I found a 3 month studio sublet in Berkeley. From there, I found a permanent, large house sublet in a nice part of Oakland (Rockridge) with a roommate.

I don't have bad credit, but none of these places asked me for a credit check. Basically, what I am saying is, you will have a way easier time once you are actually here on the West Coast, and I strongly recommend the East Bay (Berkeley/Oakland) as a place to start rather than SF proper - cheaper, and landlords seem more eager to let tenants in without running proper background checks.
I imagine these responses aren't what you were expecting. The general consensus seems to be that this is a misguided idea. Maybe you are romanticizing it a bit.

A couple of years ago I decided to do something similar. I rented a cabin at a state park a few hours from my house. It cost me about $200 for the week. I had a kitchen and TV, but no cell service or internet. I got a ton done.

So, I understand the idea behind what you are doing, but I don't understand Hong Kong at all. Maybe try it for a week somewhere close (but remote) and see if it works for the two of you as a team.
Thanks, this will be useful for many screen scraping tasks!
Spotify To Rely On Facebook at U.S. Launch, Aims for 50 Million Users
Oh I make frequent use of Google Contacts. The high order bit that makes social networks a better Rolodex is that the contact takes some onus in keeping their contact and profile information up to date.
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hey Jaber. Singletons are fine for that purpose, actually they are probably the best solution.

iOS uses singletons everywhere, so feel free to use them.

Don't fall the trap of the cargo culture thinking. Google has a completely different problem than you do. Their code spans hundreds of thousands (or millions), of code, in distributed systems, etc..

your iOS app probably has different constrains.
History of Coffee - Dateline on pg2, interesting
"Some person worked for some agency on something, or something"? Thanks for the well-researched comment.
Strangely, AMD had almost always better technical talent/product in terms of architectural design, but always stumbled on intel's business practices (see computer history museum panel) and manufacturing weaknesses.

For the better part, they made a better x86 for their time: 386, 486, K5 (core), 3DNow (all the SIMD intel lacked, and the MMX patch in response was a joke), 64bit (which intel was late by years) etc. comes to mind. I hope it will be different this time.
It wasn't that clear to me from the video what was being offered by your service and what was being done with tmux or other CLI tools.

Is the benefit that you will spin up an EC2 instance from a config file in a repo and then me and my friend can work on it? Or is there more benefits to pairing with your service, like the collaborative editor?
AnandTech review of Promise Pegasus R6 & Mac Thunderbolt
b/c they were advertising a "safe" way to store your files and they seem to suggest in that advertising that nobody but you can view the contents of your files stored on dropbox. however, that is not the case...hence the flak. is

also a universal TOS that pretty much says "we can do whatever the fuck we want." doesn't make false/misleading advertising legal. besides, the TOS you linked to is a universal one...any "Additional Terms" will override them and are usually more specific. for example, http://mail.google.com/mail/help/terms.html
In the spirit of Tom Christiansen's lexer solution, here's a link to Robert Cameron's seemingly forgotten 1998 article, "REX: XML Shallow Parsing with Regular Expressions".

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/REX.html

"""

Abstract

The syntax of XML is simple enough that it is possible to parse an XML document into a list of its markup and text items using a single regular expression. Such a shallow parse of an XML document can be very useful for the construction of a variety of lightweight XML processing tools. However, complex regular expressions can be difficult to construct and even more difficult to read. Using a form of literate programming for regular expressions, this paper documents a set of XML shallow parsing expressions that can be used a basis for simple, correct, efficient, robust and language-independent XML shallow parsing. Complete shallow parser implementations of less than 50 lines each in Perl, JavaScript and Lex/Flex are also given.

The syntax of XML is simple enough that it is possible to parse an XML document into a list of its markup and text items using a single regular expression. Such a shallow parse of an XML document can be very useful for the construction of a variety of lightweight XML processing tools. However, complex regular expressions can be difficult to construct and even more difficult to read. Using a form of literate programming for regular expressions, this paper documents a set of XML shallow parsing expressions that can be used a basis for simple, correct, efficient, robust and language-independent XML shallow parsing. Complete shallow parser implementations of less than 50 lines each in Perl, JavaScript and Lex/Flex are also given.

"""
Lotus Notes has one of those with a set of keys. I recall that the first couple of times it was weird -- then it seemed to make sense. What is really weird though -- it puts in additional XX characters when you typed out your password. So type out "pass" and it might display "XXXXXXX" Which I guess is effective for preventing over-the-shoulder information leakage but weird all the same.
A new productivity app -- tell me my baby is ugly (or not)
What is used for the instance configuration? What assets/scripts come from pair.io as opposed to what comes from my repo?
I've been a participant in GNU since 1990. I've been a maintainer of GNU Emacs, GDB, Guile, and (briefly) EGLIBC, but many others have contributed a lot more than I have. Mlynarik's contributions to GNU are relatively minor. Calling him a "founding father of GNU" is a bit rich; it was pretty gratuitous of him to bring it up.

Note that Mlynarik could have made every single one of his contributions without verbally abusing anyone. It's not like you have to swear at someone to explain why you think something is a bug. He freely chose to add the abuse to his technical content. Since the abuse is utterly inessential, there's no reason to put up with it.

The abuse doesn't even express depth of feeling. He's always written like that, to pretty much everyone, in all circumstances. It's noise in his signal.

I think Mozilla is absolutely right to ban him from its sites. As someone said, "Sure, you have the right to be a jerk --- just not on my web site."

I'm amazed that HN readers are so backwards on this.
Have you nicknamed the Google bar as the "funeral bar" because it's dark? Are all dark things funeral things?
Also, earning $10 million over 15 years is far less tax efficient than earning that same amount over 50 years: you keep less of your income by a few marginal tax brackets.
The architecture reminds me of the PS3's Cell processor, but not as insane.
From an economics perspective, there would have been a simple way to solve the problem. Create an imaginary market for cobra corpses. Basically the British government could have simply paid a price = 1 Rupee (or whatever max price they were willing to apy) /(total number of cobras purchased in the last Period of time) {where the period of time would obviously need to be adjusted for it to be sensible so that farmers dont just hold onto snakes and then come with many at once).

The denominator could also be adjusted based on some biological factors - i.e. how long does it take to breed a cobra, what is the estimated number of cobras out there, so on and so forth.

Further more there could be limits to the number of cobra that any one seller can sell in a the aformentioned period. As well as limit to the total number of cobras purchased in each period - (i.e. - we've bought out enough for now - thanks).

I could go on...
Ask HN: A good startup lawyer (basically cheap yet technically correct)
I need a lawyer who can take care smaller tasks like creating intern/volunteer work agreement, terms of service/agreements for any kind of payment from customers. Location: San Jose (or near by)
Juli Crockett of the Evangenitals is only an overdue (philosophy) dissertation away (and now that she's pregnant she may never get the damn thing finished).
RubyConf 2011
What I don't understand is why the players association doesn't do something about it.

In theory, they could do something like this: All monies paid to players go into a common fund, which is managed by the player's association. Each player gets a small stipend from this fund for entertainment and housing. The rest remains in the fund, and the player gets a statement every year showing how much they earned from playing and how much from investing. Hopefully, after a few years, the investing is making more than the playing, showing the player that investing is good.

Then upon retirement, the following happens. 2 million is set aside and put into a fund. From that fund 5% is paid every year to the player, with the rest being reinvested. Then the rest they can choose to either remove from the fund, or keep in the fund and get earnings payments, or maybe take some out and leave the rest. The hope being that they saw their statements and know that investing is good.

But even if they don't, they still get that 5%, which starts at $100K/yr and in theory goes up with inflation, which should be more than sufficient to keep them from being totally broke.

They could do the same for football players, who tend to have the same issue.
I did something similar for product matching across a Yahoo! store with products in a Amazon merchant account.

I had a set of products from Yahoo! that needed their equivalent product in a set of products from Amazon. I indexed all the Amazon products into Xapian and let the search functionality do its magic by using the Yahoo product title as the search keyword. It also had a scoring mechanism and worked flawlessly for my needs.
Can you give an example of a band that recorded a CD for $3K? I'm curious what that sounds like.
I have been wondering the same, about other developers.

I am working on an application that periodically pulls information from a server about a physical object (sorry, I can't be more specific than this, so please don't ask). This information needs to be accessed by several different classes, and displayed in view controllers on different tabs. A view controller will pull the information and make it available to all the other view controllers.

A singleton provided an effective solution to this because only one data model of my physical object's state can exist at any given time, with the added benefit that I can access it from any view controller without much effort.

I may be wrong, but I thought the purpose of a singleton was for models where there can be one and only one instance of your class? Singletons (like other design patterns) were designed to solve a specific problem. But I concede that they are probably overused.
I suppose my original post was incorrect. The thief's life is never worth less than my laptop. But the thief's life, to me, is worth less than my own life. Society would most likely agree with my assessment of value. A productive, peaceful citizen is better than a harmful citizen, which is why we have self defense laws, for those specific situations where I am forced to choose between my life and his life (although I don't know how I would make such a choice, I'm certainly not qualified to defend against a criminal who is armed with a knife...)

I don't believe that I should ever have to be responsible for another person's tendency towards violence. It may be unwise to fail to account for such tendencies, but to be legally responsible for them is wrong. Had this situation turned violent, the woman and her neighbor would be no more responsible for that unfortunate outcome than a rape victim is to be blamed for wearing revealing clothes (again, perhaps an unwise decision, but certainly a legal and moral one).
Can only speak for basketball (my brother plays in our NBL and I run hoops.com.au) but I'd say you're correct. Some go in to coaching or admin roles, but not many and, at least in Australia, many of those positions are not particularly well paid.
Where does IOS use Singletons?