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> It's pretty obvious that a lot of people want density

Yes, but folks living in suburbs don't stop folks who like density from having it.

It's interesting that suburb dwellers never complain about other people's living choices. It's always the city fans who can't tolerate folks who want something else.

BTW - If you want high-density housing, you're going to have shared walls. It's unclear why you blame suburbs for that.

> 4) Tying education and education funding to geographic location.

That's actually less of an issue in densely populated areas, for somewhat obvious reasons.

As to the "car subsidy" argument, every time I've checked the numbers presented by folks who claim it exists, I've found that their accounting is borderline fraudulent. Of course, they're typically just passing along numbers from someone else, but ....

There is maybe one mass-transit system in the world that pays its operating costs and they all receive massive subsidies for capital expenditures, often from the gas tax....
The book sounds good, but better than the review would be reading http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/106.2/ah00034...
That's absolutely true. Are there any good articles/posts out there on doing test-first with something bigger like integration tests?
It's very telling about the culture of an organization when they actually appreciate their employees, even more so when they leave.

I've worked at too many places where managers try to block people from leaving by panicking, giving guilt trips, or being outright hostile, even more so after they've left. It's like they took a page straight out of Animal Farm and started blaming all problems on the employee who left.

Kudos to Mozilla for being the former and not the latter.
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I wouldn't mind "fixed in 981db17b8 (gen 1853)".
But there is a $9.6M secondary component to the deal as well. Employees can participate in that, no?
Agreed. After a fetch, I always review the changes on the remote branch. Depending on the circumstances, I can then make an informed decision about my own code, with the following possible outcomes:

1. I might choose not to merge. The upstream code may be bad, or it may not be ready for a merge. I may need to do some more work to prepare my own code to merge.

2. I might wish to perform a fast-forward merge (if one is possible).

3. I might wish to force a non-fast-forward merge (if a fast-forward is possible). This is often a good idea, as it helps keep groups of commits related to a particular feature isolated.

4. I might wish to rebase.
Except as they add infrastructure and upgrade existing roads, utilities, etc, they also add long term upkeep costs. When the oil goes away and people leave you're left with roads and sewers to maintain, people to lay off at Wal-Mart and McDonalds and lots of empty housing to depress real estate prices. That's why boom cycles seem so often to be followed by serious bust, because boom creates long term costs.
I've been where you are now and I perservered on and it was for me the wrong choice. For you it might be the correct choice. How do you know?

Read Eric Ries the lean startup and Ash Maurya's Running Lean and I truthfully belive you will get your answer. Just wish they had been published ten years sooner.
Not sure what you're disputing.

'Qualified dividend' treatment only requires a 60 day holding period.

Also, those with founders shares have almost certainly held (via an 83b election) the shares long enough for long-term capital-gains treatment, as well. If you're saying that yes, the dividend treatment may save them on taxes (or at least be no worse) than other approaches, we agree.

For employees who might have to exercise vested nonqualified options to collect the dividend, other ordinary income taxes may apply... but shares that were early enough could still be in a dividend-is-more-than-all-exercise-and-tax-costs situation, again making the participation a riskless no-brainer... in fact helping them set an earlier start date for future capital-gains calculations.

If they're not in the no-brainer situation, they'd have to decide whether the dividend and early-holding-period-start was worth the cost/risk of converting to actual equity. That's a matter of tax law and risk-affinity... any dilemmas created by having a new range of possible choices aren't a knock against the offer of a dividend.
Same here. One thing I've noticed is living on a road or in an apartment you don't really talk to your neighbors all that much. On a cul-de-sac you do get to know them.
You really should not say this sort of thing when you only have half of both stories. The Airbnbs are not only among the most upstanding people we've funded, but among the most upstanding people I know.
Not so fast.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasland

"Laboratory tests concluded that Markham’s water well contained biogenic methane, a combustible gas that occurs naturally in underground coal beds.[10] Further investigation revealed that Markham’s water well had been drilled through four different coal beds containing naturally occurring biogenic methane gas. The 2008 investigation concluded that "there [were] no indications of oil & gas related impacts to [Markham's] water well." It was also concluded that the water well of Weld County landowner Renee McClure, also featured in the film, contained naturally occurring biogenic methane not related to oil and gas activity in the area.[11] On the other hand, Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, the D. C. Baum Professor of Engineering at Cornell University, whose research has involved fracture mechanics for more than 30 years, has said that drilling and hydraulic fracturing can liberate biogenic natural gas into a fresh water aquifer. Thus, just because gas is biogenic does not necessarily indicate that it reached a well by natural means. [12]

"The COGCC concluded that a well belonging to Weld County landowner Aimee Ellsworth, also featured in the film, contained thermogenic methane that was attributable to oil and gas activity in the area. The report states that Mrs. Ellsworth and an operator in the area had reached a settlement in that case.[9]

Note that "oil and gas activity" doesn't imply fracking wells.
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Looks like Mike is going to Facebook.

http://shaver.off.net/diary/2011/10/01/whats-next/
I included that Buffett piece not to argue against Justin Kan's write-up, but in full support of it. That Buffett quote goes to show just how resilient culture is for the long-haul in organizations, and how very important it is to set it right or "hack it" from the beginning.
But then people would complain that you were tracking them after they've logged out of the website...
This is indeed why I live in the country. I don't have kids, so I guess I should focus more on yard sex :p
Me and my wife love the quiet, the the privacy. I grew up on the farm next door so I guess that isn't all that suprising though...
I think the issue is that fracking is far from a solved problem, environmentally or scientifically. The scientific community is divided on the issue and, as a result, we're letting that unsolved problem get drilled into the ground permanently. It would be one thing if this were a relatively small scale issue and a few wells were around to let us analyze the long term effects, but we seem to be drilling up a quarter of the state in North Dakota.

I no longer trust industry to protect me after such major failures and Bhopal or Deep Horizon. Even if those were isolated accidents, the repercussions are so large that we need to know without question that what we are doing is safe. We don't.

Furthermore, companies constantly try to get less regulation. That's part of what they do. They want lax regulation on living conditions, safety and wastewater. Not to mention that they recently hired a former governor to lobby for lower taxes on oil companies. I don't trust these guys to keep us safe.

Those issues aside, the destructiveness goes beyond the environmental issues immediate to that area. Fracking simply gives us more greenhouse gases to burn and they do not force us to reanalyze our lifestyles and public policy as it relates to the environment or our communities.
Chrome 14 on OS X works for me. You have to hit "Get Directions" after choosing your two locations.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasland

"Dave Neslin, Director of the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission, offered to speak on camera with Gasland director Josh Fox during filming. Neslin requested that he be allowed to review any material that would be used in the film because "the issues are technical and complex and arouse concerns in many people." The statement concludes that "Such a discussion might have prevented the inaccuracies [in COGSS's opinion] noted above." Director Fox refused those terms, which would have given editorial control to COGCC for this segment of the documentary.[9]

Letting someone know what you're going to talk with him about is not giving editorial control, it's just letting someone prepare.
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Wall Street generally refers to financial companies - not technology manufacturers.
The poster is not the article author...
OF COURSE it was an Airstream owner...
The twitter says they were led away from the main group (likely by people who wanted them arrested) and onto the bridge, which was cordoned off beforehand, where they could be boxed in and justifiably (within the situation that the authorities created) arrested, but I don't really know because sadly, I wasn't there.

My guess is that this is happening on Saturday because there's a hardcore group who stays in the square and on the weekends, when the numbers swell with working people who feel solidarity with the cause, they march.
No. My kids were not high school age at the time, and we didn't live in the area for that high school.

I would have had no qualms about it, if it were otherwise.
I don't know, it's not that hard.

Write acceptance tests (with Cucumber or something), use a good unit test helper like Shoulda for your standard unit tests, and write unit tests for any complicated methods.

The acceptance tests will cover pretty much everything, and the unit tests will cover anything that's hard to test from a high-level point of view.
Very interesting - good prices and all, still have to dig in to their work. One thing to always ask is not if they have creative references...ask if they have conversion rate references.

Find out if their clients will go on the record for improvements in conversion rate or how well they work for them. With banners, as always, your goal is to make money. Gauge their work based on that if possible.
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Not on current Ubuntu using Google Chrome. I'm filing a report with Google. Thanks to the OP, when this is working on Ubuntu I look forward to using it.
I think this is a bad assessment. It depends a lot on the book. Text books, for example, are a lot easier to read in print than in ebook format. That's because it's easier to go back a page or two or look at two pages simultaneously. Also, one could easily go back and forth 100 pages in a second in a textbook, which is a lot harder with ebooks. Also, since ebooks can go on the internet, reading a paper textbook significantly limits the number of distractions.
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What would be the best platform to built a large website with tenth of thousands of pages and tens of thousands registered users and high traffic from scratch? The registered users could also log in and i.e. publish various stuff to the site etc.

Any advice will be appreciated. So far I am thinking about:

- PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript & PostgReSQl

- Ruby on Rails with PostgReSQL (not sure about this one)

- not sure about Java Frameworks either

I am also thinking about hosting it in the cloud so I do not have to worry that much about the servers stuff. I would like to spend most of the time on the site development.

Your suggestions are very welcome.
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Also Chrome 14 on OS X, and can't see it.
This reminds me of something the CEO of a fortune 500 company I worked for said during a company-wide Q&A. An employee had mentioned that he applied for an opportunity within the company and never heard back from the hiring manager. The CEO didn't miss a beat, responding: "Let me just say to all the managers in the room, if I ever hear of that happening, you won't be managing in this organization."
The point was more that if you've ever written a "make clean" rule, you've probably blown away your source tree a few times trying to do it. The software development working directory is the wild west. Bugs that destroy data here, frankly, don't rise anywhere near "devastating" in my book, sorry.
Just stepped into this thread and I thought that was the cul-de-sac: pointing back to 127.0.0.1. Would have made somewhat sense. :-D
How do you use a computer that's 30 years old, has no monitor, and no keyboard?
Why do the founders want to cash out?

It looks to me you can increase your salary to live a good life, while waiting for the big exit. I understood Groupon did this because they thought Groupon was at its peak. Is that the same thing for AirBnB? Am I missing something here?
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The DMV database is not publicly searchable by the whole world. That's an important distinction.

Remember those dystopian visions of the future where microchips would be inserted under people's skin so they could be tracked? That future is here, no forced microchipping required. People are volunteering for it in droves as they buy smart phones (and use social networks).

I don't understand why people get so upset over things like National ID cards, and then turn right around and give all their private info to Google and Facebook.

You already have a national ID number. Several, actually. They are your cell phone number, your Facebook account number, and your Gmail address, among others.
I don't pretend to know the ins and outs of this, but the dividend is to common stock. What if the next step after closing the deal would be founders telling employees to exercise as much as possible, and then announce the dividend?

Granted, most of that money would probably have gone towards AMT, but let's not vilify AirBnB before we hear their end of the story.
I could imagine it being real. Some history:

When AT&T acquired ORL, makers of VNC, one of the projects VNC was applied to was the "Broadband Phone:" http://www.qandr.org/quentin/att/bphone

This turned the desktop phone into a thin client with its entire UI served up over the network via VNC, including the phone-number-dialing UI (not unreasonable, since if your network is down you won't be able to make a VoIP call anyway). This also means that there are no remote applications to upgrade and features can be added and removed at will: no-download apps.

This is in contrast to the "no-install apps" movement pursued by ventures such as Thinstall (an application virtualization system, now part of VMware) and Zero Install: http://0install.net/

VNC is a pretty expensive protocol; RDP is much more efficient, but requires the client to understand the high-level windowing system calls. But maybe for mobile phone apps, a well-compressed VNC stream is enough. You already have multiple web-based VNC and VNC-style codebases available as open source:

noVNC was discussed here a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1463395

Guacamole plans to support more than just the VNC protocol: http://guacamole.sourceforge.net/

But if you specialize you can get dramatic performance improvements, as discussed by FX PAL with their WebNC paper and demo, optimized for remote manipulation of web pages: http://palblog.fxpal.com/?p=1653

And a high-level windowing system like GTK+ is in a good position as well, with their recent release of GTK 3.2, which includes their experimental "Broadway" backend, supporting rendering widgets and windows to an HTML5 canvas. A startup could pitch existing web developers on using Seed, GNOME's JavaScript binding, with Broadway output, or perhaps using one of the fledgling NodeJS bindings, but I'm not sure there are any big wins there over using regular web development practices.

The bigger win would be for allowing traditional desktop developers to write web- and mobile- friendly apps using their known solutions. Quick, cheap redeploys get the slower VNC-based solution, serving as a proof-of-concept to the higher-ups, and then you sell them on the more expensive GTK-based system (learning a new windowing system is easier than learning a new web- and mobile-development paradigm) where you write GTK apps and deploy using Broadway.
More likely the eradication of the Fed.
All things are not created equal. The single most environmentally friendly place to live in the US is downtown New York City. Yet we still feel the need to subsidize single family dwellings though a wide range of tax breaks and subsidies.
I got downvoted here, so I thought I'd expand. If we replace "South American gold mine" with "the release of the iPhone" or "the creation of Google" perhaps my point is clearer - i.e. the creation of value should have economic impacts. Even in a fiat currency situation, the discovery of a massive South American gold mine would have an economic impact as someone now has access to more valuable resources than they did previously.

Now, if the currency was based on a commodity that has no value, then maybe your argument makes some sense, but precious metals were chosen specifically because they are valued irrespective of their role in currency. Besides, if an enormous amount of gold was discovered, sovereigns and governments still had control of the currency through debasement.
Not sure, but you got my vote. Love your summary of the company mission. Also, I love that beach. :) Best of luck in finding a good teammate.
Agreed. If there's a place where I can place a cash bet that SpaceX will be the first entity to put a man on Mars, I'd do it tonight. They have the people, the vision, leadership, philosophy, and just enough of a successful track record so far to put meat into it, and de-risk it. They have momentum.
It's the second time around for most of these towns and there is another industry. A lot of the people will move on, but I think the folks in that area are pretty resilient.

That all said, it will probably be a number of years before it goes away.
Are prospective startup employees really motivated by stock options? There's no shortage of HN posts that actually work out the math and conclude that you won't get rich from employee stock unless the startup succeeds on the scale of Google, Amazon, or Microsoft.
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I wanted to submit this, because in the recent hiring thread [1] I got some responses complaining that we'd been posting for ages now, without apparently hiring anyone.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3060406
Neither's the case. We want what we say... but we're picky, and wind up passing on a lot of applicants. It's a multi-step process, and we prefer to err on the side of passing people up, so there's lots of opportunities for perfectly qualified people to not get hired.

One downside is that we get enough resumes coming in that we don't tend to respond to someone who's rejected at the resume-evaluation stage.
I may need to re-think my "don't want to work at Google" statement.
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Are taxes lower in the suburbs of most American cities?

I thought they'd be higher due to lower densities (more roads, sewer pipes, etc per capita to maintain). At least that's the case here in the Greater Toronto area ...
I think of this like horsetails in my Mom's garden. My mom's garden is shot through with horsetails, but it's really all one horsetail connected by a single, massive rhizome. If you pull up one horsetail stem it won't do a thing to the horsetail as a whole. If you pull up 100 horsetail branches the horsetail might be slightly weakened, but it'll come back. These things've been around since the time of the dinosaurs. If she wants a garden without horsetails she'll have to get a backhoe and uproot the whole thing, then plant a new garden. The horsetails will come back eventually, then she'll have to do it again, but for a little while she'll have a nice clean garden.

There is a fundamental sickness in the system. A giant, rhizomic structure of venality and corruption that has undercut and basically replaced the system I, as an American, have been raised to believe is the proper form of government, with a government where all activity is dictated by power wielding corporate interests. Greed has become the dominant ideology; all branches of government and the media have become subsumed by it. A just and functional society is not and will never be an emergent property of a greed-based system.
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OS X and Chrome 14, in Canada, can't see it. I'm thinking location might have something to do with that...
I think he just mentioned it because they are located in Jacksonville.
The Apple event is October 4th actually. Also, I think you mean "anyway".
Fyi, George has been around a while:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=grellas

http://grellas.com/
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Betting against John Dvorak seems like it might be a viable strategy.
There are plenty of amazing beers to be had that do not require working at Google. DFH brews are rarely anything special. They are typically worth a try once and then forgotten.
At first, it seemed that this was another rant about a misbehaving piece of software.

But I was impressed that, unlike so many others (myself included), the author went beyond just complaining. He actually made a real effort to identify the conditions under which the issue occurs. But I was blown away when he actually examined the source code and identified when the bug was introduced. Great work!
DbC doesn't need to be dealt with at every level of the call chain if that's what you mean.

It may seem a bit verbose, but it usually expresses logic that would be in your program or in your tests anyway. Difference is, you will be doing it in a pretty terse and declarative manner. IMO, DbC is one of the coolest features of .NET 4.0.
Let's take away money from boring and put it into interesting! How can anybody be against this?

How about we take it away from "boring" and give it back to the taxpayers from whom it was taken via coercion.