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If you're willing to include the kind of 60-minute commutes that New Yorkers living in outlying areas have, you can live in all sorts of cheap satellites of SV too, depending on where in the valley your job is. For example, if you work in Cupertino, you can live in Gilroy; for other parts of the valley, you can live in Livermore. There are also cheap parts of the southern East Bay that are pretty nearby.

Even the central part of SV is quite cheap compared to NY for some living profiles. Buying a house is expensive, but renting one is relatively cheap. Going rate for a 2-bedroom house in a tract development in Santa Clara is maybe $1500/mo, while even out in Queens you're not going to find a house at $1500/mo.

I'm not sure where they got the $2250/mo average apartment price from; that seems high. Perhaps it's skewed as a mean, by a few really high-end apartments? It'd be interesting to see how the median compares.
Depends on your old employer. If you get on well with them and they are OK with your leaving, you could conceivably use your vacation time at the end of your employment with them.
The solution to this is to write down the three most important things you need to get done the next day the night before. C.f. also The Power Of Less.
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Easy version:

If the sampling is large enought, 1/6 of the answers are forced "yes", 1/6 are forces "no", and only 4/6 of the answers are reals.

So to get the actual frecuency of "yes", you should remove the 1/6 of the forced "yes", but the total size of the sampling is only 4/6 of the original, so the formula is

Actual_YES= (Measured_YES - (1/6)) * (6/4)

Actual_NO= (Measured_NO - (1/6)) * (6/4)

(If Measured_YES+Measured_NO=1=100%, then Actual_YES+Actual_NO=1=100%)

More technical details:

You have to be carefull, because the number of forced "yes" and "no" will not be exactly 1/6 of the total sampling. For example, supouse that you ask 60 persons if they are "aliens" using this method.

If you get 11 "yes" answers, it doen'n mean that (11/60-1/60) * 6/4 = 2.5% of the people are "aliens".

If you get 9 "yes" answers, it doen'n mean that (9/60-1/60) * 6/4 = -2.5% of the people are "aliens"!

And each of this sampling results happens ~13% of the times that you make the pool.
I definitely laughed at the irony of this post.
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PS: I should add that I'm based in the UK, and would prefer a UK-based company.
Indeed. I had some tasty mutton with rice a few hours ago, and I can confirm it was goat meat.

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I've heard of it happening, but more often with companies in Saudi Arabia an the like, where they have to try harder to get people.
One cannot be insured for this occurrence. Neither homeowner's nor renter's insurances cover paid guests in the home.
Link and a bit more technical details:

https://www.socialfortress.com/

Social Fortress currently provides transparent client-side encryption and decryption within Facebook, Google+, Thunderbird and Outlook for your messages and photos.

When you download and install Social Fortress your plugin is customized to sync with just your account and the key management server. This unique plugin is authorized to request keys for messages for your Trusted Contacts and generate new keys associated with your account.

The keys are generated in parallel on the client and on the key management server. They are always rolling forward and are synced with the key management server in real-time utilizing a few unique variables within your custom plugin and a few generated randomly each time.

No two messages are encrypted with the same key and keys are only stored in memory during the encryption / decryption process. Every time a message or photo that has been protected is viewed, either by yourself or others, authorization to that messages key is requested from the key management server.

Your Trusted Contact list is managed globally by connecting with other users through Social Fortress. Within Facebook all of your friends are initially treated as Trusted Contacts and you can easily remove individuals from this list with the click of a button.

Social Fortress uses AES-256 CTR for the encryption and communicates over a 256 SSL stream from your device to the key management server. The data in this stream is also encrypted using aspects of your customized installation.

The technology for web services (Facebook, Google+) operates as browser plugin for Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer[1] and independent of any service's API.

The technology for Thunderbird and Outlook is a separate plugin which requires installation.

We integrate transparently into the products we support so the user experience is exactly the same. No extra clicks, no confusing decisions and nothing extra to learn. We designed Social Fortress to be used by individuals who don't even know what the word encryption is.

Within every environment you have the ability to enable / disable Social Fortress protection with the click of a button or using a keyboard shortcut (CTRL+Q). This only disables the encryption functions. The reader is always on so messages and photos protected by your friends appear normal without you having to protect your own. It's like having Flash or PDF Reader once it is installed you don't ever have to do anything again.

If your device becomes compromised / lost / whatever you can login to the site and disable all active installations in two clicks and this will not affect previously encrypted messages as we just disable authorization access to your old plugins and have no need to change any previously generated keys.

We also support other services but have yet to make them live:

Skype Chat

Twitter

mail.yahoo.com

Gmail.com

Chatter.com

Yammer.com

Blackberry Native Email support

[1] The IE Plugin is not currently part of the public beta.
Quite a lot of these OS X usability issues were eventually fixed
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> If someone was trying to be dishonest then they could fake any attribute of f() that you could likely verify.

Not necessarily. For example: you can't fake bitcoin transactions, as each one requires significant amount of comuptation. Basically faking would require exactly the same work (modulo problems with SHA1 itself, but that's another matter).

This is used for other purposes as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work
Yet even "EJ" points out she was offered "emotional and financial" support from Airbnb, in her own words. Hm.

I'm not taking sides: As I see it, both sides have reframed the story as it has progressed, with "EJ" retracting her original statement regarding help and Airbnb seemingly saying first one thing then another.

Finally, it's enough already: Airbnb should take measures to prevent this in the future and on the other hand people should remember they are inviting a stranger into their home. In my view, with the available facts, both sides are at fault in various ways or said another way: neither side is at fault.

Now can we move on with our lives and get back to Hacker News sans-drama?
Was this a relatively young BitCoin exchange? One would hope that the wallet.dat was backed up somewhere else (another EC2 instance, EBS, offline).

This doesn't bode well for establishing credibility in BitCoin exchanges and operators. Although nobody necessarily needs to use the exchanges, for better or worse, people use them to establish market values to more easily value their transactions.

It's obviously easy to criticize after the fact, but I am genuinely curious how backing up critical data wasn't considered. Unless, this was a very young / recently launched BitCoin exchange as a weekend hobby project that took off?
I am on a visa myself at a small 4-person startup that has only raised seed funding, so yes it is possible if you are a strong candidate.
It depends how you define "secure." There are numerous weaknesses of 2G (GSM) security that were addressed in the 3G (UMTS) standards. The major ones: 1) GSM supports one-way authentication only (handset to network), so man-in-the-middle attacks are possible; 2) encryption is optional, and when turned on by the carrier, only covers the air interface between the phone and the basestation, leaving base transceiver station (BTS) to base station controller (BSC) connections, often a microwave links, effectively unprotected; 3) GSM encryption keys are not long enough to make brute force attacks impractical (A5/1, the strongest version of GSM encryption, has a 64-bit key); 4) GSM does not support data integrity protection, making false BTS attacks like Paget's DEFCON demo possible; and 5) encryption keys and authentication data are transmitted in the clear within a network and between networks when the phone is roaming. (Ref.: 3GPP TS 33.120, 3GPP TS 21.133).

A 3G-only phone isn't susceptible to attacks that attempt to coerce a handset into 2G operation and exploit the weaknesses of GSM security. However, UMTS networks, because they're packet-based, still have to contend with DoS attacks and other Internet headaches.
You should try the vertical tabs option in Chrome's about:flags page. Tabs move to the left side of the window and don't become squished when you have many of them. You can just scroll up and down the stack.
It's my little weekend project to practice javascript/jquery. You can also save the layout if you want to share it for whatever reason :)
I used to own an iPhone (3GS) when I was dev'ing for it, and now I own a WP7. I gotta say, it's everything but "a bit of a failure". I love this OS and its interface, but mainly, I love how it doesn't just feel like a container for apps (iPhone). Everything just "flows", so to speak, and I don't feel like I always need to go back to a "main page" to go to my next app. Also, the main page for WP7 is not just apps, it's really ANYTHING you want to pin (eg. websites, playlists, artists, videos, apps, documents, contacts, etc.).

Mango is about to make that "flow" even more prominent :)
I'm not sure how excited and fulfilled one can be by doing a simple and repetitive task several hundred times a day.
And if you are really bold, just get the f out of US! You'll learn many things about life, human beings, etc.

My own experience: got out of France, to China, found easily jobs, now work in one of the big Chinese SNSes (written in python, by the way).
That's the Luddite argument to a T. I mean the historic, literal Luddites, not the modern figurative use. They were hand-weavers, worried that mechanical looms would put them out of business. They were right, and they were subject to severe financial hardship. No force on earth could have stopped the change taking place, though.
You're actually right about maximum contrast, but wrong about that meaning maximum readability (the two things don't go hand in hand even though one might think they do). Solid black versus solid white reads well, but is more tiring on the eyes than something lighter on solid white (which is what the author is doing by using dark grey), particularly for long passages of text.
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Damn, you are so right bro.
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I also disagree. I have a WP7 phone and absolutely love the OS. The apps are lacking, and there are a few irritating missing features on my phone (no custom ringtones, can't turn off camera sound, apps can't access compass, etc) but on the whole, I really enjoy the experience.
WP7 is definitely a "good" platform. I've preferred having a WP7 over an iPhone for everyday use. If you're saying "things aren't good" in terms of sales, then you might be right...but the low sales are definitely not an indicator of the OS' quality in this case... but more an indicator of the lack of trust from the public in MS consumer products.
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People can just sit around going to restaurants, doing art, doing exercise, travelling, sitting in cafes, surfing youtube. Lots of jobs today are of dubious utility, and lots of people with jobs waste a lot of their time surfing the internet and doing other marginally productive work.
Why is this getting downvoted? This ad hominem attack adds nothing to the discussion, and is specifically called out in the hacker news guidelines. It feels a little hypocritical.
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Interestingly (to me, anyway), I happened across this just 15 hours later: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827703
It is working, its just far, far from what its users really need. Just like Windows. All about a better user experience and we as leaders are missing the point. Nobody is setting a useful standard, nobody with power is looking at it from the bottom up, which is what separates Apple from Ms when it comes to UI and UX. The president is just like Bill in this situation, essentially considered the leader but without any power to changed flawed ideology.
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This has happened before, to the 90% of humanity involved in hunting and gathering whose jobs were displaced by Agriculture. It happened again when agriculture and textile production became mechanized.

It was accompanied by massive social upheaval, but it didn't lead to either a crapsack post-apocalyptic unemployscape nor a prefect utopian leisure world. Not from our point of view anyway; you'd have to pluck a 7000 or 300 year old man from his world into ours to find out what he makes of our progress.
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Hmm, the Quadra 800 shown in the 1997 branch was actually available since 1993...
We're currently in the process of sponsoring two foreigners for H1B visa, and we're a small bootstrapped startup, so yeah it's definitely possible.

The legal costs are fairly high, but we have been working with the 2 applicants for several months already, so I'm comfortable sponsoring them. I would not have done it based on a resume and job interviews alone.

I'd be happy to answer any questions if you need more details.

oh, and to address some of the other comments here, my understanding is that it's illegal for the applicant to pay for the legal costs.

Also, as employer we cannot underpay the applicant. Part of the application process requires us to disclose the salary offered and document prevailing wages for the same position in the same area. Should the salary offered be too low, the visa would be denied. (many requirements in the application process are designed to protect American jobs)
Related: there's a module for PostgreSQL called PL/R that allows you to write database functions in R:

http://www.joeconway.com/plr/
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Just based on what I've seen around the net, on a per-user basis WP7 is more profitable for devs than android, but there just aren't enough users. Hopefully that changes soon. 3 competing (and equally large) platforms will be great for users as well as devs.
Regexes are a handy tool to know regardless of the language. And something I think is worth learning.

Mastering Regular Expressions is a good book to read as Mr. Friedl does a good (great?) job of explaining the pluses and minuses of regular expressions in a readable manner.

If all you want is how to use regular expressions then there are plenty of man pages and internet documents which provide examples that you can learn from without reading Mastering Regular Expressions.

You might look at the Ruby documentation to see how Ruby does things. And a quick search using Ruby regular expression provided this link: http://rubular.com/ which is a utility to test regexes. There are several other links immediately following this one which appear to be tutorial or information for what you are looking for.
Great domain for URL shorteners or similar services. Some startups like Bit.ly might be interested... very cute!
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In general I agree. Although in terms of games, I think Windows Phone may already be on par with Android with respect to their marketplace. The Windows Phone games are quite impressive. Not iPhone yet, but moving quickly.
"As a result, sophisticated players do not actually want the jackpot to be paid out - unless it is going to them."

if they were truly sophisticated they would enjoy it just the same whoever it went to.
I'm not familiar with the details of bitcoin, but in that case aren't (some of) the inputs to the function hidden not the function itself.

Proof of work techniques are relying on forcing the other party to run a known function in order to prevent various attacks. If the other party can't verify the result they would be no use.
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A general problem is that recent products with minor differences are emphasized. A more reasonable diagram would show a confusing proliferation of products during the early 90s followed by rationalization.

Where's the QuickTake Camera? The Apple II floppy drive (which built the empire)? The ImageWriter and LaserWriter (which built the Mac empire?)? Oh and the sidecar based desktop design (the single longest-lived Mac case, and one of the best? Or its predecessor the Iicx? Oh, and the SE?

Took me ages to figure out the 2000 product was the Cube.
For those unfamiliar with medical terminology: the trailing 'S' for 'syndrome' gives away that something is a set of symptoms. They may or may not have a single cause, and we may or may not know the causes.

If we find the cause or a partial cause of a syndrome, it will get a new label. That is why "AIDS" has given way for "HIV infection", "Scurvy" for "Vitamin C deficiency", etc. CFS, being a syndrome, may Or may not have a single cause. We simply do not know.

A (IMO) problem with such vague syndromes is that, in general, it pays of to claim to be part of a a larger group. It is more accepted to say your son has ADHD than to say he cannot concentrate well, or that one has CFS than that one is lethargic., does not feel like doing much, etc.

Net effect is that, even if there is a group of true patients with well-defined symptoms with a common cause, it is hard to separate them from "me too" persons (a group that may include persons that have a different unknown ailment with similar symptoms)
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You can switch the GC off in D you can't in Go. I however wouldn't advise it - GC has a valid reason to be the essential it is considered to be today.
> The only reason I can see to doubt EJ's story is if you're in the "this is a conspiracy against AirBnB" camp.

Really? The ONLY reason? Your superlative-fu is strong.
> Www.bitomat.pl service is on sale for EUR 17,000 BTC

What?
You're often right, however, the markdown spec supports nested lists, so just throwing them out (or making them far, far more difficult to understand) under the pretense that you're organizing your data poorly and should do it differently is somewhat unreasonable in this case.
I can't tell...are you talking about the jobs the robots will be doing, or playing Farmville?
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Does anyone have an idea what kind of platform they're going to require for developers to use? Will it be flash (hopefully not), Javascript?
I agree. Nested lists seem to be completely flattened, making them almost unusable.
I haven't created any. If you refer to user "alleri", it's not me.
The whole US debt ceiling thing - no one will know what the effect is - so much of the market stuff is driven by confidence/fear that there's no way to predict reactions to something that's never happened before.

re: freelancing - if you've got a family situation, I'd suggest getting two things in line before going freelance:

1. Getting a bit more savings - 9-12 months would be better imo (but I'm a bit conservative in that regard)
2. Getting some work lined up ready to go, or ideally that you can work on part time already, even if it's not quite your target of $100/hr. Once you quite full-time, you'll already have some income stream to build on.

I was in your shoes 4 years ago, and have had some ups and downs - an early client didn't pay (~$9k) and I filed a lawsuit - 3 years on its still pending. Be prepared to withstand 'feast/famine' cycles - that's where the > 6 months savings helps out. We've got 18-24 months (depending on how we spend) saved up in an emergency fund, and I'm now looking at expanding out - hiring someone, for example.

Your country may have better social safety nets than the US, but make sure your health stuff is taken care of, and you may want to investigate some business insurance. Will your tax situation change if you become self-employed? It does in the US - well, it doesn't, but the 'employer half' of FICA is something that bites a lot of first-time self-employed.

If it were you on your own, I'd say "go for it" - the fact that you have a family (just a spouse? children?) makes me a bit more cautious. You should also have your spouse on board with you emotionally before you do this - money/work fights can be a big problem if you're not both going in the same direction.

Ultimately, I suspect you can always go back and get another job someplace, although perhaps not as cushy as you have now.

Depending on how antsy you are, you could set a goal of 3 months from now (only 12 weeks) to have another month of runway saved up, and 2-4 paying client projects started or ready to start in October.
I'd wait until after the debt thing, but it's not bad if you have enough savings.
That was my reaction as well. Not just the fact that it's ambiguous whether they're trying to sell for 17k EUR or 17k BTC, but the fact that they're even trying to sell it at all, and then the buyer is presumably on the hook for the BTC that were lost as well!

I currently had ~13 BTC in my Bitomat account- when I login they correctly show my balance, so I'm slightly confused as apparently their database wasn't lost, but their wallet data was? How does that happen? And why was the wallet data not backed up on a non-EC2 instance?

All of this is making me lose some faith in the exchanges- between the MtGox BS and this, is TradeHill the only exchange that can be trusted? Can they even be trusted? It seems they are by far the most competent from a technical perspective, but at this point who wants to trust any of these exchanges with any significant amount of money?
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Exactly, they screwed up big time by not knowing one of the fundamental things about EC2, now they're trying to sell the thing, and they can't decide on a currency on top of that?

However, it looks like the original page says BTC, so it looks like just a translation error.