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Keep in mind that pornography is a 97 billion dollar international business. [1]. A dollar is a dollar is a dollar, yes? And yet, one reader of Commentary magazine is worth a million listeners of Howard Stern.

[1] http://www.editmymovies.com/pornography_statistics.html
As I mentioned, Mountain View is very nearly as expensive as San Francisco. San Jose and Sunnyvale and Santa Clara and Redwood City are two or three hundred less, in general, for the same space.

The funny thing is how living out here in the valley warps your mind about real estate rental (and purchase) prices. When I moved out here I was stunned that I'd be paying twice as much as my mortgage in Austin for less than two thirds the space. Now that I'm out here, I see a place in SF going for $1675, and I think, "Wow, I need to jump at that one! Nah, probably already gone, at that price...why get myself worked up over nothing?"

I'm also probably shopping in somewhat nicer areas than is strictly necessary (in addition to shopping for a bigger place than someone right out of college is probably going to want). I have a dog, and I tend to walk at all hours of the night...it's just a habit I've had for ten to fifteen years, and I think altering it would negatively impact my life, so I'm shopping only in pretty safe areas. And, because my reason for moving to the city is to be nearer to live music, I'm shopping pretty centrally, as well.

You can get a small 1 bedroom place in the $1300 range in both SF and Mountain View. But, that's probably the lower bound, without living in a really sketchy or far out location. I guess that's a big part of the reason most YC founders live with roommates. Splitting a $2700 place three ways works out to a pretty good deal.
I commuted between SF and Stanford by motorcycle for a few years and loved it. Cheap and fast. Caltrain was not in my vocabulary.
Only if you have a scientific mindset. Otherwise it might be just inspiring ;)

A lot of rich people didn't theorize much about how to get rich. They just followed their gut feeling about how to execute, and they did it with confidence. Maybe the confidence makes all the difference.
The ipython shell (http://ipython.scipy.org/) was great to experiment and learn with, and it's a huge productivity boost every day. It's where I do most of my work. It would be very hard for anyone going back to the plain python shell after trying ipython.
You'll find good jobs in either place. Do consider also the cultures of the two locations. I know granola west coasters that would not be able to hang with the east coast hustle, and I know east coasters that would be driven bananas by the happy go lucky California lifestyle. Which stereotype do you dislike less? You'll be interacting with these people when you're not at work and if one of these grates on your nerves it can easily build resentment and unhappiness toward your living arrangement.

Whichever you choose, make a concerted effort to try to learn from and appreciate the different social norms of your new home. I didn't do all that I could/should have once, and I regret it.
I won't disagree that Pogue likes Apple products. I just disagree that it's reasonable to expect Jobs's perverse incentives to not impact journalists, or to not be suspicious of anyone that tight with them.

Any reporter given the sort of access he has is in a feedback loop where bias begets access which in turn begets bias. To pass it off as "Apple just rocks and Pogue knows it" is naive.
I run my own power station if it ever goes down, instead of complaining I just replace the spent fuel rods.
Unfortunately the offer in Boston is actually about 10mi outside of Boston, so I'd still need a car.
no chance of having biological offspring, while for hetero couples society can't know it in advance.

What about hetero couples where one or both of the partners are known to be sterile, possibly due to elective surgery?

Also, as I noted above, many gay couples do in fact raise (one of) their biological offspring.

On your other points - I'm going into a corner to think. You made many correct statements.

A winnar is you, then, if you get new thoughts. Thanks for prodding me to justify all this. It's been fun. Conversations like this are why I love HN.
I'd love to see the same for my school (Georgia Tech).
thanks i was looking for that, searchyc.com didnt help much or maybe i failed in my 10 searches. thanks a lot
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Interesting. References? I want to read more.
When you get down to 0 or -1 often it's just assholes being arbitrary or pedantic. Don't worry about it. Asking why you were downmodded is a sure way to get dowmodded more though; it annoys people.
No, didn't mean to pick on Schneier. He's a self promoter, but the analogy breaks down after that.
I had offers in both SV and Boston and it was a tough choice. I'm still not sure I made the right one.

While Boston is cheaper, it's not that much cheaper. I think you'll probably do slightly better off depending on the offer you get. (I currently live and work in Mountain View)

Startup-wise Boston seemed pretty sparse compared to the Silicon Valley. That was definitely part of my decision (not just where to work, but as you say, networking, conferences to go to, etc).

I still think little fish, big pond is the better way to go. It gets frustrating otherwise and limits your growth. Important team in a less known company also is much better for career and personal satisfaction.

I'll be honest, weather also greatly influenced my decision. Also what's your move going to be like? Getting all my stuff across the country was yet another reason for me to stay in the SV.

I personally actually much prefer Boston city and the general vibe of Boston, but career-wise I decided SV was better.
IMHO The UK is slightly more complex than that. When it's hot, we use Fahrenheit - "It's almost 100℉ out there!.
When it's cold we use Celsius - "Brrr! -7℃"

Probably best to show both.
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Indeed, and as the crow (or 747-400 or A380) flies we're 10372 miles from the fam: MEL->JFK
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My biggest issue is CDN support. Our CDN does not support https so all of the js/css/img files come from http subdomain. If we serve them from the www domain (which does support https), we will duplicate a lot of content that we serve. So it's a no-win situation :(

How do you deal with this issue?
I'm using the freely available thinkpython.pdf from http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/

here's my setup - http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2008/11/playing-with-python.htm...

I just wrote a script to getch results of all my batchmates from the college result site... :)
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Build things people will pay for. It's too easy to build something people want but won't pay for.
Those are all nice frameworks for building extensions, but requiring an external build step is a bit cumbersome.

Ultimately though, I agree that a JIT is the way to go.
Oh, that was subtle.
I have one of these (or had - lost somewhere) and they are fantastic. A real pleasure to use. They fit snugly in hand, and you can drive force into the work. The metal itself somehow feels soft. There's even an integrated component for removing eyes from potatoes (I never use that; but I like the idea).

I don't know if they are really all that great - however, they are so much better than the standard ones (pencil shaped).

As in the old saying, you don't have to make a perfect mousetrap - just a better one.
There is nothing wrong with blowing 20% of whatever you make on pointless stuff (though 10% would probably be more prudent), key is not blowing the other 80%.
You can use a web console to the Google App Engine:

http://con.appspot.com/

You can have that console in your own app (i.e. having your data and domain logic available).
Thanks -- scipy.weave looks to do the trick!

BTW, while that linked code is a good example of how weave works, it's a bad example of when to use it. I've no doubt that the code runs faster with that portion written in C, but a different algorithm could blow it away. A prime generator like that would be MUCH faster with a sieve, even in pure Python.
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...sounds like a good way to lose your best employees. When done without thinking.
Wow, thats pretty lame, I use biofuel for everything, I stick plants in one side and my computer comes on. I have to find new suns periodically...
Is it bad if, after watching that, I start thinking "Hey, I'm already flying halfway around the world next week... what is adding a stop to New York to pick up a peeler? After all, its closer than Switzerland."
Actually, unless you're on AOL or a handful of other IPs, you can geolocate too >99% accuracy to a country level for free. See this: http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity .

The city accuracy outside the US is not great.
Suspicion is one thing. But Pogue has never played the part of the Apple fanboy. He's pretty thorough with his reviews, no matter what the product's for, and he's good at spotting the good and the bad with everything. He was the first reviewer to say he didn't like the iPhone keyboard, for instance, in his original review.

With the Storm, he's being much more dismissive than usual, hence the suspicion - but he's dealing with a product that's visually and feature-wise a direct face-off with the iPhone, only with added layers of abstraction and difficulty inherent in using the device. Pogue's very clear about all of that. To read this review and say that Pogue's being negative because of the messed-up incentives is missing that Pogue is in fact reviewing an inferior product.

I mean, I suppose there's some bias in my statement, since I do trust Apple and its products, and therefore I tend to see straight in this only with people who are in a similar place. So in my mind, Pogue is only doing the logical thing when he slams down this phone as being a cheap Blackberry knock-off.

The Apple journalist deal is one that gets a bit argumentative. I think that Apple fully has the right to only give products to journalists that like Apple, and I don't think that there's a bribe inherent in that. And I know I'm in the vast minority for people that think that, too. In my mind, though, Apple gives those devices as a favor, not as a responsibility, and they are sensible when they only hand out to people that happen to like Apple. That's my inherent bias in this discussion: I think that Apple's in the clear for this.
Just upgrade. If the singularity gets here, cybernetic grafts should be easy to figure out.
Any OpenID-enabled site should, until the transition to everyone having such an account is complete, have a "create an account" link that just redirects to http://myopenid.com or somesuch. Link, one-page form, check e-mail for verification link, get a URL (username) handed to you, put it in. Exactly the same workflow as a traditional registration.
The problem with money in politics is only incidental. As long as we allow politicians enormous and ever-increasing power to pick winners and losers and grant special favors to friends and interest groups, the money will keep flowing into the system. Money flows to power (as long as it remains a good investment). The problem is the unrestrained power, not the money.
Question: I've always wanted to see today's temperature in terms of yesterday's, so like, "it's going to be 5 degrees warmer." Anyone know if this service is already offered somewhere?
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Interesting guy, and good article too. It's not every day I read an article about a guy who sells potato peelers and enjoy it.
I have more success with pyinstaller than py2exe because it's not targeted at a particular target platform. There is a complication where you need to configure pyinstaller itself for the target platform and then build the app. I scripted this though and now it builds seamlessly every time I need my app (which uses wxpython as well) to support a new platform.

I found this more practical than having different packaging systems for each platform. With those scripts I can now package even for systems I have zero experience with but which python runs on (e.g. AIX, HPUX, QNX).
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Ah, yes. An attacker could fetch the resource themselves, discover the ETag and serve their malicious resource with the real ETag. Sorry.
Terrifying 41 hrs of Mumbai - 200+ hostages rescued(40 from &gt;10 countries listed). Operation still on.
The "svn" in the url is a reference to the name of the blog: "Signal vs. Noise". It is very much in public, the second link on their front page goes to it.
Why would the 10^10 neuron simulation take up more space than an actual human brain? We would at least get to that level of technological advancement; we do, after all, exist, so the technology can't be that far-fetched ;)
Indian here. Mumbaikar here. Bad idea.... Very bad idea... You simply can't manage signal to noise in such an effort and the cost of false-positives is zero to you and very very high to the poor false-positive.
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Living in the UK, can't say I've ever seen that. Celsius all the way!
I think quite a lot of poor people also just followed their gut feeling about how to execute, and did it with confidence. But of course you don't get to hear so much from them, for obvious reasons.
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Yeah, maybe. Can't say without reliable data.
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I only wish http://www.doineedajacket.com/ would look as clean and lose the clutter (ads, discussions, blah, blah, blah). However, I still prefer it because it gives a reason for needing a jacket (it's chilly, rain etc) and works across the world.
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I'm not sure you can legislate "unrestrained power". You can however make it "painfully illegal" to input any form of money into the politic process. You have a choice to start at either end of the problem. I think the only viable solution is where Lessig is heading: remove all the money from the process. Not easy, but achievable. Going at it from the "power end"?? I have no idea how to start with that considering the U.S. Constitution already provides the best known 3-way power infrastructure.
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Good rational. Not so much a vote for secrecy in a strict form, but rather a vote for less formal transparency in order make progress with less distraction.
I just asked the LilyPond documentation editor (also known as "my brother") and LilyPond isn't completely written in Lisp; it's a "rather unholy" combination of Scheme and C++.

This is, however, still an improvement on the early days, when it used TeX as well...
More importantly, the UK is far simpler than all the others.

The answer to "is it going to rain?" here is always "Who knows? Probably... can't really say. It looks sunny outside, but it was raining this morning so it might rain again later today."
What's this? A poster who thinks this is Reddit I assume.
The US Constitution was designed to restrain the power of politicians. The problem is that we don't follow it. And unsurprisingly, the more discretionary power that politicians accumulate, the more money flows into the political system despite all number of laws such as McCain-Feingold. Similar to nearly all regulations, campaign finance laws have the effect of excluding small players from the system entirely and benefiting large players and incumbents who can front the compliance costs and reap sufficient benefits from the system to overcome any hurdle.

For an entertaining introduction to the effect of unintended consequences on campaign finance reform, watch John Stossel's Politically Incorrect Guide to Politics, part 4:

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In terms of locations:

I lived in Boston for quite awhile and experienced a bit of the startup scene there. Bay Area beats it hands down. Boston/Cambridge isn't a bad place to be, but my experience has been that the diversity doesn't give you any benefit. Most of the time I was there and doing startups, I felt removed from where the action was really taking place. There's not a lot of momentum there. I'm a strong believer that the people you surround yourself with and who you let influence you have a big impact on your mentality/success.

The price difference in terms of rent/everything else is negligible if you want it to be. As long as you don't need to be in a certain location to make you happy, you can live quite cheaply.

In terms of your job offers:
You need to consider what you actually want out of the job. Most likely the real difference is not so great, so the actual consequences of your decision don't really matter. If you are just out of school, you should be focused on opening doors and making connections. But don't put so much emphasis on this one decision -- it's not like you are going to be there 20 years. For all you know, you could be there 6 months and realize that you want to do something else or move.
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I think he refers to The Economist.
It has been suggested, before we got into the current bailout boondoggle anyway, that the US government could extinguish its debts and past entitlement promises by simply selling off the western states. With an accrual-basis calculated debt rising towards $60 T and real estate prices dropping, it's an open question of whether even this would still be sufficient.
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These problems have been solved by the various popular php-based MVC frameworks. My favourite is http://www.cakephp.org/, but I hear a lot of good things about http://codeigniter.com/ as well.
PSD2HTML cost about $200! That's hardly cheap... I can do it myself for that price...
In the Netherlands we've got http://www.buienradar.nl, pretty cluttered with ads but it's more accurate than a 'maybe' :)
You can see when rain clouds are approaching your area; almost 'real time' ;)
Either support good old classic login/registration or give us a link to OpenID providers. I have NO idea what my OpenID url is, but I know I have one with Yahoo. Now I have to go look it up, so a link to it all would be nice. (Most sites offer you to click on the various OpenID vendors and it auto-fills in the "base" url for you)

Otherwise a nice site and I'm actually interested in trying your app, looks like a task management tool that might be done right
Nah, just a guy who thinks the Onion is funny.
But now that I think about it, you're kinda right, this is not really HN-like content!…
Sorry.

(but read the thing, it's hilarious).

Oh, in my defense, it's a reference to the New York Times using 96pts fonts : http://www.kottke.org/08/11/obama-is-big-news-at-the-ny-time...
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I had thought about the very high noise level. My argument is at a given place / time, if atleast one guy is "good" (obviously the immediate question arises is "which one"), it would be sufficient to escalate a "real situation" and supress a false positive.

Maybe this still is a bad idea. My point is we need to figure out how do we harness "intelligence" of ordinary "good" citizens who are on the streets at the time when things are happening or about to happen.
"break the connection between money and results"

Ha! We've already done that, just in the wrong place! Check the massive crash\bailouts!
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odd.. Although microsoft has been an innovative company at least during the 90's, it seems open source outplays microsoft on all five of these strategies. Would explain a lot.
Newspapers no longer have monopoly on information, and since educated consumers are increasingly searching out alternative information sources on the web, newspapers have to concentrate on the casual reader. And the casual reader is interested in celebrity - it has always been that way, and it will always be that way. It's not making us dumb, humans have always wanted to know about their queens and aristocracy.

Challenging material, or material that only appeals to some upper crust 10% is going to move to a medium where only the 10% who are interested in it get to see it. A mass paper needs to appeal to the masses, this not only makes commercial sense, but it's logically right. If some guy has no interest in some massive review of a huge book written in big words he does not know, then why should this review be in his paper?

Being average is a good thing, and specialists should not complain that the average people are no longer interested in what they have to say. Instead, they should focus on the people who are actually interested in them.