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Ask HN: Relocating to SF - Find a job before moving?
I'm 25 and currently a developer for a large company in Minnesota. I plan on relocating to San Francisco proper in the next couple of months, looking for a junior level developer position with a startup or small company. Based on my research on the cost of living in San Francisco, I figure I can live reasonably in the city for around 6 months off savings.

I would move out to San Francisco without having a job lined up if there would be better opportunities available when I'm already local to the area, but I don't know if that is the case. Are there major advantages to moving and getting involved in the community even before finding a position, or is it better to find a position first and then move?
What if you put a dead body in a bank vault? Would the bank respect your privacy?

Surely there's some line somewhere...

edit: apparently HN thinks there is no line anywhere.
For those that can afford it.
I've had two people quit over just this issue. I signed mine figuring never in a million years would they actually track me down and sue me if I was ever let go.

They are getting their ducks in a row for some specific reason. Are they being Acquired?
Upgrade the links with jQuery. Here's a simplified version of what I use:

$("a").bind("mousedown", function(e) {
$(this).data("href", $(this).attr("href"));
$(this).attr("href","http://example.com/redirect?url=" + $(this).attr("href"));
});
$("a").bind("mouseup",function(e) {
var el = $(this);
setTimeout(function() {
el.attr("href", el.data("href"));
},10);
});

This works by switching the url when a user clicks a link to your redirect url, then switching it back a fraction of a second after they mouse up. This means that your redirect works even if the user right clicks and opens in a new window / tab and when a user hovers over a link, they still see the normal URL in the status bar.

On the /redirect url just log any data you need and send a 301 or 302 redirect. The destination site will see your original page as a referrer, not your redirect url.
From iBooks Author, you can export in iBooks, PDF, or text format. The iBooks format is pretty much a well organized version of the epub format. I just exported one, changed the extension to .epub, and loaded it into an ebook reader.
I don't understand why. Youth in 68 had everything that the youth has now.
Ok, I actually thought he was not Iranian either, but that makes more sense now...
This was my first thought as well. If he instead initializes:

var result = "";

and checks for:

if (result.length === 0) {
...

in the third conditional, is there still a bug?
this is a good example of the tragedy of the commons, if i am not mistaken.
Why should one person save when it doesnt make ameasurable difference, the probblem, the tragedy being that everone thinks this way and the effect compunds.

sort of broad strokes, but jon a global scale, human created by-products are bad. Reducing consumption, re-using, re-cycling, in the true sense are all great things to do - but OPs point, as i read it, is more abou the last part than the rant at the beginning. If we dont want people going after our internet in the long run, we need to make the people who tried to screw it up change their perspective. corporations will not support political support if it obviosly costs them painfully, much worse than whatever money they spent lobbying plus what they thought they were protecting against.
politicians can be ousted.

money makes the world go around, and while lobbyits throw. money at politicians for their election campaigns, in the end its the people who elect them who really matter. that money is used to convince people to elect them......
so if enough people start telling their local reps, very clearly, that they are DONE in office unless they change stance on an issue, and also that they will gain a vote if they DO change their stance, money means a lot less. If the majority of your constituents love you, and you are sure of it, you dont need nearly as much capital to stay in office.

the clear message should be "hands off the internet. totally. let it grow. its revolutionary for the human race and in its infancy, and it only works because people agreed to follow a set of standards that allowed it to come into being, it was not planned. it is a collection of networks, and it can, and will, let its users find a way around any censorship. i dont condone piracy, but the internet, and the ease of moving data around are only going to get better and better. hollywood and industries who IP laws to protect them are not inherently bad, they just have a big change in how things work in frint of them. I am sure hollywood can figure out how to continue making movies even though they can be copied globally in seconds.... because people still want new movies. there is still a market. music industry, book industry, same deal.

know when you get tempted to pirate a book? when there is no kindle edition, at the author or publishers choice. i want a digital version. i want instant delivery, and i am willing to pay for that..... its real ly simple.
Ask Author or Coomunity? Hold up, how does he listens to click events? There has to be javascript correct? I don't remember any pseudo classes handling click events?
+1 for the $15 price cap on textbooks
-10 for the cost of devices needed to use them.
Apple Upends the Publishing Industry
I think it's also important to recognize what are the steps that are leading to a situation like that, too, and not wait until it's too late to change anything.
The boomers credit themselves with having changed the world when they were young, broke and essentially powerless, but deny any credit to the generation that constituted the establishment at the time.

In the U.S. at least, I don't think anything would have changed with regards to civil rights for a while if it had been left to the establishment. Without the protests, boycotts, and other direct action of the Civil Rights Movement, I doubt that the white Northern establishment would've gotten the guts to move against the white Southern establishment: the fact that the white Southern establishment reacted so violently and lawlessly to the civil-rights protests was one of the factors that forced the timid establishment to act, lest they allow in effect another open southern rebellion. Up until the moment they were forced to act, the establishment generally thought the protestors were hotheads who should've stopped rocking the boat so dangerously. (The presence of even more "dangerous" hotheads was also useful for that; e.g. the existence of Malcolm X made it easier for MLK to position himself as a moderate partner offering a way out, whereas his demands were themselves initially seen as extreme.)

There was some spread in generations in the civil rights movement, especially among black southerners; famously Rosa Parks was born in 1913. But among whites, the participants in the protests were almost exclusively under 40.

I do agree that they've mostly grown up to be a disappointing establishment, though.
hey thanks a lot !
Right, we are not the target audience. Actually we probably aren't part of the target audience for most TV/radio ads and billboards.
Not only that, but they always have a surplus of seeders and the quality of the music (or movie, or TV show, depending on the tracker) is always of the quality it says it is.
Doesn't work in Ubuntu Maverick with X.Org 1.7.5
I'll be surprised if the iPad doesn't dip to $400 this year, and I'd be shocked if schools don't get bulk discounts on top of that. And there's no reason to assume that $15 is the absolute minimum price - we'll see free alternatives in the near future.

I'm jealous of the kids - I remember lugging around 30 pounds of books and a bulky binder everywhere, and even then making frequent locker runs. And I have few fond memories of textbooks in technical subjects, where a few simple demonstrations (now embedable!) could often go further than a mountain of diagrams and words.
1. nobody can say what the occupy was about. the next guy will have a different opinion

2. It was always about wealth disparity. The little something to aspire to never existed. Everyone aspire large wealth disparity, or they are too busy making ends meet. It was always like that. See any previous human society or moment in history. Heck even the alpha male usually has most of the females
Programmer Charged with Stealing Code from Federal Reserve
If you're playing armchair economist you can do better. First, you need to account for the relative price elasticities of supply and demand to determine who the burden will fall upon. Presumably some business-owners will also see their costs rise. There may also be additional regulatory compliance costs in excess of the cost of the wifi connection cost itself. It also may mean that would-be restaurant owners cannot run services anywhere that it's impractical to run wifi. All this may discourage new business. And maybe it's not a big deal for this one regulation, but how many other similar small regulations will a business face when it's starting up? Dozens? Hundreds?
I would presume that at some point Apple will update their "case studies"/profiles to reflect this new tech. This may not be as in depth as you'd like though.

http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/
Your argument only holds if the "effort" of recycling displaces effort/attention better directed toward other things. Some people might think that recycling absolves them from other environmentally irresponsible behavior, but I don't think that the effort to increase recycling is really an optimization problem since it doesn't really introduce meaningful costs into most everyday lives.
It's worth mentioning that EPUB3 is based on HTML5 and supports scripting - http://idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-overview-20111011.html#s...

Of course, if you need more reasons for a switch to EPUB3, it also has brilliant accessibility and will be supported by a multitude of readers, not just iDevices.
The impression I got from the article is that you'd just open it up with whatever HTML editor you want. Particularly where it says "authors can further customize their books with HTML5 or JavaScript". That's pretty well spec'd.
I know not all of the world observes daylight savings time, but why not coincide any leap seconds/minutes/hours with the changing of daylight savings time? It would at least make it simpler for those who do practice DST.
3 Steps to Optimize Your Website For Google's 'Freshness' Update
Forgot 3. If you are making ends meet, your best bet is always revolution. But the goal will still be the same, even if you have to use talks of equality to get it started
Stop with the disingenuous false dilemmas. A perfectly valid message is "we want what you offer on better terms". The actions strongly broadcast that message, perhaps better than just having an offering that doesn't sell.

If everyone keeps playing this stupid "there can be only 2 positions in any argument" game, we end up with posts like this - completely ignorant of a multitude of other options. Stop it and consider that this may not be binary.
Apple Mac-based security threats jumped in 2011
Hooray, glad to hear it! :-)
Why is this a sad thing, besides nostalgia?

On my Kindle, I have a semester's worth of textbooks, a dozen periodicals, and a few novels I've been busting through. And that's a mere fraction of the allotted storage space, whereas it would take two backpacks to fit all of the physical copies.

As someone for whom reading is a passion, not a hobby, this is far and away my favorite technological development of the past ten years.
It might have been when he initialized the variable result.

He goes on to append strings to this variable which would lead me to believe it has some value that you can append to.

This would make the third conditional where he checks for null to fail, he should check for an empty string.
What if one of your examples was the original filename and the account holder renamed it to something less obvious such as cat.jpg?
Somewhat depressing that the submission to the actual source yesterday (or was it the day before) didn't make it to the front page, only had three upvotes when I found it hours after it's submission... but when TechCrunch regurgitate it, here it is on the front page.

I really hope this was caused by luck and timing, and perhaps by the overwhelming focus on SOPA - but a voice in the back of my head is saying that it could well be getting more attention for being from TechCrunch, which would be sad.

Regardless, better to see it on the front page now than not at all, good piece.
Apple - Education - iBooks Textbooks for iPad
I don't understand this at all.

I don't read books for the experience of turning pages - I read them for the experience of reading and interpreting and taking in a story.

What exactly is more romantic or useful about reading the latest Stephen King novel on a tablet versus a bound sheaf of paper?

The death of the printed book boils down reading to the bare essence of appreciating the written word.
Their hardware cost will also come down as they achieve increased economies of scale. Net net, the profitability of the Fire should increase over time.
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

That's the last place I was expecting to find a quote from Alan Kay.
Exactly. This is great and all, but the easiest solution to the over-priced textbook system is $14.99 textbooks that can be printed and re-printed as needed, not $15 that require a delicate, pricey device to view.
Wall Street Journal Unveils Online China Econtracker
Man, that is pretty crazy. Ctrl+Alt+* and the whole screensaver goes away just like that and everything on the workstation is accessible. Glad this vulnerability is getting more attention; I think it's obvious the feature should only be enabled in debug builds.
I agree it was best not to let Citibank collapse because of the ramifications that would have on other businesses that rely on them for working credit.

But now that the crises is over break them apart into smaller banks that are small enough to fail. Otherwise US taxpayers are liable to cover bad bets that Citibank makes yet any profitable bets stay with the company.

I would argue breaking up AT&T to allow competitors worked out to the advantage of the public AND the shareholders. The smaller baby bells now had to compete and returned more to shareholders than the monolithic AT&T would have.
The "X is the Y for Z" line only works if Y is really popular and the whole analogy is easy to get.

In this case, I don't know what Hipmunk is...
I had no idea Courtney Love was so articulate. Great article!
The headline is simply wrong.

"So from a superficial analysis anything since 1.10.99.902 could be
vulnerable."

That's not _every_ linux screen locker. E.g. ubuntu 10.04 isn't affected.
the point is that cars that deviate from the fitted curve are either a bad deal or a good deal

And unfortunately, the direction of the deviation doesn't tell you which, because some percentage of those deviating cars will have hidden issues that more than make up for the price difference.

A killer disruption would be if every car seller was rated on customer satisfaction based on the 12 months of car ownership following the sale.
iBooks 2 Video (Textbooks)
How does this handle reading e-books?

The article lists that as one of its main uses in the real work, but it seems like it would be a dramatically worse experience than either paper or the e-Ink kindles that came before the fire.
And the more randomly the tool is applied the more effective it is in terrorizing people. IRI is basically broadcasting to Iranian expat community that: don't even think about technically contributing to software that can be used to topple us.
Most people here do know what Hipmunk is, I think. Hint: http://www.hipmunk.com/
While I wholeheartedly agree with your overall sentiment that the baby boomers poisoned the well of liberalism for the next few generations, I feel compelled to point out that Nixon's landslide was in 1972. 1968 was one of the closest elections of the century.
And the parent comments argument only holds if the effort of recycling at home is less than the benefit gained from doing it.

This is why unbiased figures are important. It's all relative. Why should everybody in my country have multiple bins picked up at different dates and have to separate garbage manually only to have a second group of people sort through it, if the overall effect is so tiny?
But at the same time, if I give my money to these corporations, then that is X more dollars going to lobby Congress for things like SOPA that take away my freedom. It is a vicious cycle.
Just tested on Debian sid. Damn, it worked.
I believe that price cap only applies to the current High School Textbooks. It's university textbooks where the price gets really crazy.
Arch Linux + Scrotwm as the window manager and desktop environment.

Arch because:

- It's simple, you only install what you need

- Don't have to upgrade ever 6 months

- Software in the repos is always up to date

- The wiki is extremely helpful and the community is smart

Scrotwm because:

- Tiling WMs are just more productive to me

- It is configured with a plain text file

- It has vim-like keybindings by default

- It behaves the way my mind works (much like XMonad but without the Haskell)

This setup is fast and nimble and super productive to me, someone who tries to avoid the mouse as much as possible.

I wrote a more detailed post about my setup here: http://mikethecoder.com/post/10563094906/my-minimalist-setup
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That depends -- if had had been a Citizen of Canada, rather than a mere resident -- Canada would have been up in arms.
Is nostalgia not worth caring about of and for itself? I'm a happy Kindle owner, but there's something about it that just isn't quite the same.

No doubt it's only sad for people who grew up reading paper not screens - which probably will even include people being born now - and one day nobody will care how their great-grandparents read... but for now there's still plenty of people for whom books are more than just the sum of the words.

In fact I think it's generally a case that physical objects can do more emotionally than digital replacements - and I don't mean that the story, or whatever the object is for, will be better, but the item itself. The books that mean the most to me were either given to me by people I care about, or passed down generations. The same thing can become true of watches (won't be quite the same to inherit a four-generations-old iPhone...)
A vacation does sound nice but I can't figure out how to do it. I guess I just need to learn to put it down, walk away. For me, there's such an incredible backlog of work that I can't seem to put it down. My wife calls me a workaholic... That could be the core issue.
In reply to all the Iran hostility...

Iran is not such a bad country. I can know because I've been traveling it for 5 weeks. It's a weird place, with a govt that is not much supported by the educated-youth. But not all that bad as the media try to make us believe.

US has not closed Guatanamo, where they do their own share of trial-less, unfair-trail and/or unreasonable-trial sentence execution (including death penalty). Should we all now boycott the US?

"Porn" is quite clearly just the flag under which this guy is punished for leaving (deserting) his country. Prisoners in Guatanamo similarly have an "official reason" for being there.

Believe me, here in the Netherlands I know some folks with strong sentiments agains the US, and I tell them the same: "The US is not such a bad country". So maybe it is just me :)
While you become a programming ninja, you might flourish in the new biotech job and, with eyes and ears open, learn about the business, its pain points etc. Biotech is a strong market with a lot of $$$ - a perfect opportunity. I think a lot of entrepreneurs would envy your position as an insider, but it will only be valuable if you build relationships and gain experience. I think you are in a great position, just keep going strong until you find your opportunity and have developed your entrepreneur and hacker skills.
Don't know about Europe, but I can sure rant about the situation in the USA.

The entire credit card industry is one giant market failure. The people who pay the price for a credit card are, by and large, not the people who choose which card to use. And those costs are deliberately hidden from the people who do make such decisions.

It creates a perverse situation where credit card issuers aren't really competing on price at all. They're competing on service. So they issue rewards packages. Those rewards cards do cost more. But the higher price comes in the form of a higher processing fee, which retailers are contractually bound to hide from consumers. So consumers are completely unable to decide whether a particular rewards package is worth the price.

Worse yet, since everyone pays the same price at the till regardless of what the transaction fee for their particular credit card is, even if I did know I would have no reason to worry about a more expensive card. We all pay the same price, so if my card's more expensive than average that just means that the extra cost is being paid by someone with a card that bears a lower transaction fee.
It probably contains licensed content, and medical textbooks and the like are particularly expensive. 100 EUR may well represent a _discount_ from the price of the materials it's based on.
Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian-Canadian dual citizen, was severely abused and murdered in an Iranian prison in 2003. There was little the Canadian government could do but to send a very angry letter. This issue still highly affects Iranian-Canadian diplomatic relations.

For some of the details on the abuse she faced in prison:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahra_Kazemi
Hollywood Professional: Why I Can't Support the Stop Online Piracy Act
If you're playing armchair economist you can do better. First, you need to account for the relative price elasticities of supply and demand to determine who the burden will fall upon.

As the saying goes, being a good economist entails understanding what is not seen. I think you hit a bunch of those in this post, and I think you're correct across the board.
Yes, he specifies the conditional is "examine the variable result; if it is still null ..."
Why should I care that the company is Swiss? The point of client-side encryption is that I don't need to worry about who's hosting my data or what jurisdiction they're under.
Not enough focus on shoes.
In greenfield markets, your competitors are your friends
On that note, is the iPad + keyboard close enough to a laptop that it can replace it for students in college? Obviously not for engineering students, but possibly good enough for liberal arts?
What data are you using?
Canadian: http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/Shows/TheDailyShow?videoPacka...
For those commenting on the price of iPads, I suggest you wait for the other shoe to drop in a few weeks when Apple makes their iPad 3 announcement. I think Apple will likely employ a similar strategy to that of the iPhone and keep the iPad 2 around as a lower-cost alternative to the new iPad.
When a user submits a link and before inserting it into HTML, URL encode it and append it to a generic redirector, such as

www.example.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.net

www.example.com/redirect should record url and return 302 with Location set to www.example.net.
As if awareness is completely useless in the fight. Even congresspeople admitted to not understanding the law. If I can do something (write them, call them) to help them understand, that does nothing?

Sure, I'm not willing to die for Reddit. So, I guess you got me there.
What data are you using?

...sorry if there's a faq, still offline
Larry Page: Google should be like a family