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This was a good read, thanks. The high-level takeaway is the same we've been hearing for a while: U.S. manufacturing output is growing in value terms, but employing fewer and fewer people as more of the value is being produced by machines, and less by humans. But the case study elaborates some more specifics of what's going on.
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I'm curious, how did Begemann start his company in 2008? There is a note in there about him raising 5M in 2009 but that was after he had a 25-person company?
San Francisco also has an artificial housing shortage caused by enforced height-limits for new buildings.

Furthermore there's a significant amount of "affordable housing" and public projects sitting on huge multi-billion dollar lots. All that contributes to artificially high prices for everyone else.

Most of San Francisco's woes directly result from policy-makers who don't understand basic Economics.
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Bott points to this iBooks FAQ from Apple, which states that the only formats supported by iBooks are industry-standard ePub and PDF. Given that the modification date on this FAQ is 22 December 2011, it seems clear that this is simply an outdated FAQ

This makes it sound like relying on a 4-week old FAQ constitutes shoddy journalism. It's not "clear" to me at all that the FAQ is outdated. It still says: "iBooks uses the ePub file format" - if it is just stale-dated information, nobody there thinks it's important enough to change.
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Question: would it be possible for me (in Sweden) to get a gig in SV working remotely, and only occasionally, if ever, flying in?

I would be willing to work for a hell of a lot less than $100k.

I'm not the greatest coder ever, but I learn fast and understand pretty much everything I read on HN :) My written English is excellent (better than my Swedish even) so communication should never be a problem.

What do you guys think? Should I take my dream and smoke it in a crack pipe, or is there some non-negligible chance of this actually being possible?

Edit: realized that my ingrained Swedish self-deprecation didn't do me any favors. s/not the greatest coder ever/a total bad ass rockstar code ninja, bro!/ :)
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They need to learn from Google how to present a new language. Although maybe they will once it reaches 1.0. When Google showed off Go they had some really great examples and a clean web page for it. Got me excited, this hasn't.

Edit: Apparently there is http://www.rust-lang.org/
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The colour scheme is (or is based on) Solarized, a popular theme. I have no issue reading it, and find it looks incredible.
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Imo your peers make a big difference in the perception.

If most of your friends/acquaintances are making, say, $70k (the median income in SF), and you're making $100k, it's pretty easy to feel well off, because your life is basically theirs, but with an extra ~$20k (after-tax) to play with. Just look at everything they're doing, and you can do the same, but a bit easier: slightly better apartment, eat out a bit more, have more of a cash cushion in case unexpected expenses arise or you want to buy something, etc.

My guess is that that isn't the peer group of most SV engineers, though, in which case perceptions can be much different, if everyone you know is making $100k+.
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just write false timestamps to the FS saying it was used more recently?
You might, for example, insert an entry into a hashtable and forget to remove it. The garbage collector can't go and clean it up because it can't know whether you plan to use it or not. This way, over time, the memory usage keeps growing.
Detecting memory leaks is easy: run some stress tests before deploying to production!
I mean, I don't see the use of this tool. Attach it to a live JVM to detect leaks which shouldn't be there?
"It still says: "iBooks uses the ePub file format""

That statement is as accurate as it's ever been. iBooks uses the ePub file format. You have also been able to do PDFs since forever. Starting last week it also supports .IBA (?) files made from iBooks Author.
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I haven't followed the iBook story but I do have a simple question. If I write a book then decide a year from now to publish in a different format, am I allowed to take all of my material and construct an ePub, for example?
of course, why not? any syntax can be broken.
I REALLY don't like how when your are running out of time it becomes virtually impossible to see the color you are supposed to match since it becomes smaller and smaller.

And as a game it's not really fun - it's basically pixel hunting.

Also, the score page is rather poor: http://imgur.com/sFniA the "10" is cut off, and you can't read the text on the top right since it's the same color as the overall score.

However, all that said, more games (and programmers) should be aware of color blindness - it's not as rare as people think.
as a point of thought: you could have a language where you introduce small changes incrementally, and a tool like go's gofix that is builtin and goes over an existing code base updating stuff that is obsolete.

The current approaches of "leave the things substantiatlly unchanged" and "release a bunch of changes all together" have not exactly been proven "the best".
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Quite an irony,
I have met many entrepreneurs who start off to be their own boss & within few months they start running around to get their new boss (read VC)
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My best hours at work are between 8am and 10:30am. This is usually because I arrive earlier than my workmates who are in my immediate vicinity and as a result I have less interruptions.

Second to that is 4-5pm for the same reason as the OP(know what I need to get complete before I leave the office).
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I don't understand why people want to go back to the bad old days of early to mid 20th century labor. I suspect it's baby boomer nostalgia for a past that never actually existed in reality.
What in particular about it did you like? Does it have stuff that's not 'generally known' amongst the hacker set?
Maybe this is just an indicator of my unfitness to ever be POTUS, but I think that after the stress of having to deliver a State of the Union address with an economy like ours in an election year, seeing some random dude's flop-o-matic 9000 pop up on screen would the sort of utterly absurd thing I'd appreciate.
He said that investors pressure you to run at a loss so they can plow more money in and grab more equity. Sounds like a bit of a conspiracy theory, but I'm currently running my angel-backed company at break-even, approximately 30% monthly growth, and investor is pressuring me to run at a 100% loss.
Are there any more experienced guys out there who can say for sure whether investors try and screw you out of equity by pressuring you to run at a loss?
It tends to be more complex than this for several reasons:

a) you usually cannot simulate the exact behavior of users in production environment. Users tend to be quite creative in ways they approach your workflows and your artificial tests might not catch it
b) Your dev/test/staging environment is usually not a 100% replica of the production site - you might lack access to some integrated systems, have different datasets for confidentiality reasons, use virtualized machines instead of physical, etc
c) Or anything else which all leads to the sad fact that oftentimes you just cannot replicate the leak in any other env than production.
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"Embracing and extending" is not a destructive thing in itself. What makes it destructive is when the extensions are difficult for others to implement, because they are coupled to some proprietary thing that can't be reproduced. In Microsoft's case, that was Windows. Is Apple technologically locking authors into their platform? Will books not be published elsewhere because the content can't be migrated to another app?

But what matters in the end is the "extinguish" part, and that can happen without the first two steps. Sometimes a technology pushes competing technologies out of existence, for a variety of reasons, such as being better. Embracing and extending just greases the gears.
If you haven't had any memory leaks slip into production, you're in luck.

Also - if you can discover the leak in staging, the tool pinpoints the source of the leaks so that you don't have to waste time on reproduction, comparing heap dumps, and crawling through your code.
I don't think most people want to go back to mid-20th-century labor in particular. It's more a question of what people are going to be gainfully employed doing, if it's not the old things.

For example, one possible result of increased technology in manufacturing could've (in some hypothetical world) been steady employment but greatly increasing productivity, so e.g. the U.S. 2010 manufacturing sector employed the same share of the population as the U.S. 1960 manufacturing sector, but thanks to technology was vastly more productive, churning out lots more stuff per employee, with employees doing more interesting things than 1960s assembly-line drudgework.

That's one of the techno-utopian visions sometimes kicked around: for every job lost on an assembly line, a new job is created as robot technician. But instead the ratio has been more like, for every 3-4 jobs on an assembly line, a new job is created as a robot technician. At least, that's the case within the manufacturing sector; it's possible that the missing equivalent number of jobs are really being created elsewhere, in a more loosely related way, but it's hard to quantify.
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where you going to hide it?
In another truecrypt volume?

It would be easier just to only use it via a VM booted from a Linux Live CD.
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http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=her...

Since when the same url can be used for many stories?
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"This is another case of people acting surprised and/or disappointed that Apple, a for-profit company, is acting like a for-profit company." -- John Gruber

Considering he said that about the same situation only yesterday, he seems a bit upset that someone is "accusing" Apple of "acting like a for-profit company".
Absolutely brilliant. As a relative HN newbie, this really should posted about once a year.

"Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript."
My understanding is that all the content you put in belongs to you. If the EULA contradicts this I doubt any court would uphold it.

The grayer area is the special interactive widget output code. It's pretty clear the EULA is claiming you don't get to do whatever you want with that portion of the output.
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I'm Norwegian, I used to live in Oslo, now live in London and was considering moving to California.

The tax difference is much lower than Norwegians like to think (what would Norwegians do if there was no excuse for complaining about high taxes). I calculated my Norwegian tax, UK tax and what I'd pay in California including VAT / sales tax, and while Norway came up on top, on my - way above average salary - total tax came out at about 39% for Oslo, and about 34% for California, and about 36% or so in the UK, before taking into consideration things like difference in health care coverage.

There are places in the US where the tax gap compared to Norway is large, but California isn't it.

It's hard to end up paying around 50% tax in Norway even including what you pay in VAT, unless you make a huge multiple of average salaries. You could of course add in employers payroll taxes ("arbeidsgiveravgift"; but in that case, don't forget to do that for California as well), but if so, you're considering it part of your income and need to adjust gross salary up accordingly too - I see people try to add in payroll taxes to inflate the tax number, but nobody takes the payroll taxes into consideration when comparing salaries, or when negotiating them.

The marginal income tax band is capped below 50% (when you add in state income tax, federal income tax and local taxes, the marginal tax rates in some US locations is not that far away either), and unless your salary is way above average and you spend it all, even with the 25% VAT adds up to much less because most people simply don't spend that much of their salary on buying top rated goods. On top of that, deductions reduce the gap. Of course if you live in the cheapest place possible and spend all your remaining money on highly taxed goods like alcohol and cigarettes and warm your house with petroleum, then, yes, you may manage to end up paying 50% or more to the government.

That said, overall you'd probably come out better in SF on the same salary due to the cost of goods and services. But the "we pay so much tax" thing from fellow Norwegians is a pet peeve of mine, after I moved to the UK, and, surprise, didn't actually pay much less tax.
Ah no, these friends are in Vancouver, Canada, where a 1BR in the poshest, yuppiest corner of town, in a new high-rise with a doorman, clubhouse, pool, sauna, jacuzzi, and glorious skyline view costs about $1100 a month. Considerably cheaper ($800?) if you take a roommate.

A similar apartment in SF (1BR, peaceful/yuppie corner of town, new building, lots of amenities, etc) would run in the $3500-4500 range.

Of course, most software jobs in that town would probably cause me an early death via falling off a tall building. Believe me, I've looked.
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I write a tech blog at https://grepular.com/blog/

Most tech blog seem to just talk about the current popular tech subject. Basically repeating news that you can read in dozens of other places.

I've tried to avoid turning my "tech blog" into a "tech news blog", and mostly just talk about things I've done or found myself. This seems to keep the content original and mostly interesting I think. At least I hope so.

Some of my more popular articles:

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Thrun's pages at Stanford robots.stanford.edu has been taken offline.

Google caches are available by searching robots.stanford.

Somethings up anyhoo.

I hope this will not affect future classes by Stanford professors, I am so looking forward to professor Koller's Probabalistic Graphical Models.
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Given that he was talking about a change which occurred as part of a major product launch which has happened since the FAQ was published I think it is shoddy journalism. I don't think it takes a genius to work out that when a new product is launch old documentation might not apply to it.

Moreover he knows for a fact that it's no longer accurate - he's discussing a new file format (.ibook) the existence of which provably falsifies the statement in the FAQ.

In terms of changing updating the FAQ yes it would be good but as far as I can tell for Apple and most others common practice is to leave the old version and add a new version rather than change them. It can make finding the right information difficult and certainly product versions on them as well as the date would be useful but I don't think you can read much into the fact that no-one bothers to manage their information on-line particularly well.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13050005/ns/business-cnbc_tv/t/h...

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/15641336/ns/today-entertainmen...

http://artherworldblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/the-u-s-supr...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchwald_v._Paramount

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-34211...

So... the question is; are you a liar or just ignorant?
> Question: would it be possible for me (in Sweden) to get a gig in SV working remotely, and only occasionally, if ever, flying in?

It's possible, but outside of contracting you'd have to expect that most companies who are prepared to outsource will want a bigger cost difference than what you can provide and/or an office with multiple people.

If you have or acquire "special" skills that are hard to get, you might be in luck.

Flying in regularly can be fun, but the distance sucks. I'm Norwegian, live in London, and spent three years regularly flying in to SV, and it took me 16 hours door to door with a direct flight from London. You'd probably need to tack on another 3 hours or so for a connecting flight most of the time...

> I would be willing to work for a hell of a lot less than $100k.

Careful. Potential currency risk. If you do, make sure your salary isn't specified in dollars or that it's adjusted up a lot to account for currency risk.

> What do you guys think? Should I take my dream and smoke it in a crack pipe, or is there some non-negligible chance of this actually being possible?

Doesn't hurt to look for opportunities. In my case I did it because I joined a startup where one founder was British and the other really love it in London and wanted an excuse to move back, but in the end the company ended up in SV due to VC's. I knew one of them from before (we'd worked together) and so got in before the decision to stay in SV was made.
First impressions is that the minimalism compromises usability. I did have to think for a moment.

(1) The control panel hides really long lines.

(2) Really long lines! A bigger gutter would be good on the right hand side. In fact, that would free up the entire right hand side for the controls and whatever else.

(3) The colour scheme got in the way for me, especially with syntax highlighting. Increasing font size drastically improved it for me so I have to ask, have you considered a bigger default font.

(4) Would be cool if you showed a list of recently edited documents (via cookies or whatever). That way I wouldn't accidentally lose stuff.
Sidenote: The popular game League of Legends recently released a special mode for colour-blind players.
I think some of the frustration may be due to Thrun and Norvig style of asking questions he has not yet fully explained and requiring mental leaps.

This seems uncomfortable at first and getting things wrong is hard to bear in the short term.

On the flipside a better and more long lasting understanding is gained from working things out rather than just learning facts.

If they had waited till it was perfect perhaps it would never have happened, teach early, teach often.
If that is the case, you shouldn't accept any offer at all - how would you know that you are being fooled?
Congrats to all the people who downvoted me for an apparently unpopular opinion. It's pretty bizarre to me that anyone would be surprised by this though. Look at what Hollywood does these days: remakes and sequals. Nearly ever "original" movie you think Hollywood made was actually taken from foreign films (e.g. "Shall we dance" was copied from "Shall we Dansu". Hollywood is now copying "Old Boy" and the lead actor for the original is upset about the behavior).

Anyway, for those who aren't aware of how Hollywood behaves:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13050005/ns/business-cnbc_tv/t/h...

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/15641336/ns/today-entertainmen...

http://artherworldblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/the-u-s-supr...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchwald_v._Paramount

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-34211...
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Great article. I'm from the boonies of Tennessee and have seen the exact same thing.

The biggest change that I've seen is that working hard is no longer enough by itself. A few decades ago anyone in my small town who was willing to work hard could get a respectable factory job that provided a reasonable lifestyle. Anyone who couldn't make it to college would be alright if they were willing to put in the elbow grease. Many of my friends took that route.

Today that's no longer true. Companies today want a few high skill jobs rather than many low skill. Those factory jobs are gone and they're never coming back. It's rough.
Hmm, if this will be a real p2p, then your data would not transfer thru server, so developers must to implement SSL(or some other kind of secure connection) in their client-side software.
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Syntax error

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Has Gruber ever used this excuse, "This is another case of people acting surprised and/or disappointed that ______, a for-profit company, is acting like a for-profit company," in defence of an action by Google?

(Has Gruber ever written an article in defense of Google?)
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