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>"The San Francisco units will rent for $1,595 a month." Even in this property market, even downtown, that's just ridiculous for a dinky 160 square feet. Even furnished.

Even for a carbon-nuetral home? Eco-homes are pretty expensive usually.

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The 4-inch frame around the edges makes it look like one of those mediocre VGA-resolution displays they have available now.
This is all speculation.

Possibly because they treat it as an extra curriculum activity

And as such:

a) Perhaps the lecturers teach in their spare time because they enjoy the activity.

b) It's a fairly specific skill set that would mean hiring new resources for an extra curricular activity that means diverting resources from your primary operation (teaching) which you don't want to do.
Pushing prices down is good for the consumer, keeping prices high is bad for the consumer. Even as a producer, I would prefer lower prices with higher volume of sales. Amazon may be a near monopoly but they are forcing prices down not up.
Hey, would you put your email address into your profile's "about" section (or alternatively, would you email me)? I have a quick question I'd like to ask you.
Because it lets you estimate revenue? $35,000/month

Or sales volume? 389/month
> Which requires that the betas or at least the GM version of the OS update (all shipped to members of the developers' program) would contain the copyright attribution.

Nope. The OSM maps are in iPhoto for iOS, a completely new app without any outside beta testers (who would tell, anyhow).
Very nice! Just one little bug, the first item in a list gets covered by the title bar when selected and you can not longer see what it is.
Edit: This seems to happen only after going into a folder first.
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Someone hasn't tried to do Azure development with Visual Studio if they think this Release/Debug type management is a nightmare. Oh let me name the number of inconsistent ways of transforming config files depending on environments.
Hacker News implicitly asked him, by having a comment box and a community that generally rewards good comments about linked articles with karma and accolades. If you don't want to change your book based on one person's feedback, that's your right. But edw519's request was reasonable. I found his request more rhetorical than an actual request of you, anyway.
> But the creators of go certainly do.

The only person who knows C better than the lead designer of go. (Ken Thompson IIRC.) Is in a casket right now.

EDIT: I didn't mean that in a ill-spirited tone. I'm just pointing out that the people working on go are the best alive.
Is writing something like this in pure assembly beyond the realm of possibility for some reason? There are still a few dedicated people that code on the metal for high level operating systems (Steve Gibson comes to mind immediately)
At $2/sqft, people would be snapping these up by the dozens just for crash space. At $10/sqft it's a ludicrously bad deal. This seems so obviously doomed that I wonder if the article is a misprint.
Ahh, that makes more sense, I thought it meant simply creating a higher level language from Scheme rather than manipulating the last stage(s) of producing the binary.
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Sometimes I see posts by lot of young kids want to learn programming or do something. I thought this was very well written so submitting it.
It is that attitude that we're all sick of.

Yeah, it's great that some people have the time and talent to gain deep understanding of their computer and software. Some of us just want to use great tools to actually build things and don't have the time to learn something new.

Version control shouldn't have to be hard. I don't understand why some programmers think it's a step backwards to use tools to make things easier. Yeah, maybe you lose some understanding in the abstraction, but not everyone who wants to use VCS needs to know deeply how it works.
One of the more interesting things I noticed about the new UI when it hit my account was that the usage meter that sat in the bottom left of the screen has now been hidden in a dropdown. Presumably this is so users will be more likely to hit their storage limit without noticing?
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I've having this vision of a Jedi being required to construct their own light sabre.
The view is probably fake to hide the building's (as the article puts it) "top-secret location."
Presumably, rent costs don't remain linear as you approach 0 square feet.
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The system can let the user choose from a selection of random passphrases.
Off the top of Google: Company that isn't Apple uses open-licensed content without proper attribution, gets written up in an article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1619205
Just to clarify, you say its where they are... Is this also where you are, or would you be working remotely? You may need to consult a lawyer as I'm not 100% sure on this but my understanding is its based on where the employee lives, so if you live somewhere where its not enforceable it wouldn't matter if the company is based somewhere where it is enforceable
First thing that came to mind for me was various forms of sculpture that interact with people. Not far from where I work there's a shopping center with fountains right in the floor in the middle of a little plaza, but they turn off when people come close. I know there are other (better) examples. And that's not even getting into performing arts.
I wasn't, at all, confused by the solution derived in the article. Ant is fairly common to Java builds I've worked with. But why not have VCS hooks to fix per-dev, testing, staging, and release configurations? I know of dozens exotic build processes, and this seems rather tame.
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This is a little off topic, but... As a matter of fact, Chrome is not the first browser to offer that mailto config. At least Opera and Firefox already had (a long time ago) a way to customize the mailto handler to open a given client / webmail client. However, that process was way to difficult and obscure for most users. So -and given they have a special interest in it- Chrome became the first ever browser to come up with a frictionless webmail setup (only for Gmail, obviously). Anyway, as others stated here, it is not so clear for users: I had my girlfriend asking me what that message meant, and I was thinking it twice before answering her.

Besides the excursus, as tikhonj said, if that idea becomes a trend, it could modify a bit the landscape. I feel comfortable when I can choose.

A problem I had with forms is that people may and will eventually mistype their address. And, from a customer relation management point of view, that is a very bad thing, as you will never be able to get back to the user (if you are not asking for another way to contact, and even in that case, you could not get back to them). On the other hand, an email has always a sender.

It's also a fact that an email could easily become unnoticed in the spam folder. That's why I've found myself wondering if there could be room for a service that would fill the gap between both solutions (and be convenient for the sender and the receiver).

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Or - how to re-purpose old hardware?
A company already makes these at http://www.theipadframe.com/ . My wife got me one for Valentine's Day; we keep it in the living room to charge the iPad when we're not using it on the couch. I love it; it's a nice way to give the iPad a home without it just laying around on a table or having an empty dock hang around most of the time.

The difference seems to be the one I have is easier to load/unload (just slides in/out), not matted but has a thicker border, and uses an acrylic peg or two to stand it up instead of the wood piece. Also, it doesn't look like the iFrame can be in portrait mode, and the one I have didn't come with a wall wart.

Oh, and this one has a tiny brass peg that presses the home button for you, if you ever need to hit it. And it's a bit more expensive - I never actually saw the price until now.

I think I prefer the style with the matting, but I think, in the end, I'd prefer the ease of use (no clips) of the one I have.
On the other hand, boats don't stack very well. But I'm sure you could take all the stuff from your 160-sq. Ft. boat and fit it just as easily into a stackable box-shaped 160 sq. Ft. apartment.
... or tried doing iOS development.

Granted, given all the complex permutations and needs the iOS development team and XCode and Apple App Store has to support, there's probably a lot of method to the madness, a lot of "necessary" complexity. The problem is that if you zoom out a bit, much of the complexity one originally thinks is necessary, is not actually necessary, if you change one or more of your premises.
Actually, it's not de facto, it's the opposite: de jure.
Apparently I am the only one who thought immediately "Goldman Sachs." My money is on this being SLANG.
Seems like an expensive solution... silly anecdote I feel like sharing ahead: 4 years ago as a senior in highschool, I built a wireless digital picture frame using a laptop purchased for $90, a customized frugal distribution of linux on a CF->IDE adapter and a friend's wifi dongle. A bit (heh) thicker than this (used a lightbox and just put the border piece at the front of the box) and a less pixel-dense screen, but otherwise comparable. Told my father to put pictures in a folder that was shared via Samba and they magically appear and rotate on the picture frame. It's still running, though I had to edit the wireless key on it once (fortunately I was forward thinking enough to create a separate FAT partition where my config files are read from). Somehow feels a bit techier/satisfying than throwing a $500 iPad in a frame.
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Agreed, it's trite, overused, and arguably obsolete phrasing. My point was more that we often face large degrees of adversity early on when we approach a difficult challenge. If we get up and walk away after we're knocked down in the beginning, we probably didn't want it that badly to begin with.
Where are they using hash urls? I'm not seeing that for my files
Isn't boating quite a lot cheaper than conventional housing too.
>Even though the helicopter can't fly above 400 feet or in >bad weather, officers consider is an extremely valuble tool.
And Seattle is a well known for it's good weather most of the time of year. :)
The error type is an interface. You can return values that contain contextual information as long as the error value you return has an Error() method returning a string.

type ParseError struct {
line int
}

func (e ParseError) Error() string {
return "Parse error at line: " + fmt.Sprint(e.line)
}

Note: The current release may vary slightly on the details. I'm using a pre-release build. But older versions are similar.
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First world problems ...
Again, I probably got a bit carried away with the language, but when I say "hit back", I mean what my examples said: They got me with x, so I learned how to defend from x. They got me on y, so I learned how to defend from y.

Sometimes it takes a gut punch to learn how to block a gut punch.
Even if you want to move towards resolution independence, when you have a huge universe of apps at a particular resolution, simply doubling the screen size is the easiest way to let them migrate with minimal pain. It's a lot easier to tell them that the _minimum_ thing they have to do is double their measurements than force them to jump entirely over to a non-pixel-based regime. At the same time you can start introducing resolution-independent UX for new apps.
I would not have minded living in such small of a space in the past. With two big caveats. Based on actual experience, I've found the two biggest problems living in apartments -- well, sharing walls/floors/ceilings with strangers, anyway -- is the noisey neighbors phenomenon, and the smoking/non-smoking thing. No matter what the official policy is on noise, there will be that guy who decides to operate what sounds like a jackhammer at midnight, on a work night. Or you'll be in an absolutely non-smoking building, floor, apartment, etc. and yet this mysterious cigarette smoke will come out of the ventilation system.

Providing a small living space? Not that hard of a problem.

Solving the rude neighbors problem and/or totally insulating/mitigating it? Harder. (Still not impossible, in my judgment.)
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Do you guys think that the frustrating for building on Android has made more developers switch over the just developing on iOS?
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There's a great book by brazilian explorer Amyr Klink[1] where he tells the story of how he became the first person to cross the Atlantic by rowing a small boat.

He starts out rowing whenever he feels like it, sometimes rowing to the excess of 16 hours in a single day.

So Amyr adopts a regular "work" schedule, rowing at most 8 hours a day, but allowing 2 extra hours whenever he feels energetic and motivated.

He then becomes so productive that he's able to cut 40 days from his initial schedule (it took him 100 days as opposed to 140 days to cross from Africa to South America).

Edit: link to the book

[1] http://www.amazon.com/100-Days-Between-Sea-Sky/dp/0747549478
Is there an implied threat of being less cooperative with feeding the journalist info though?

It doesn't have to be "we will put you on a no-fly list" so much as "well, that's our right but we don't have to let you in to any press conferences anymore...."
Go doesn't lack exceptions. It just uses some different names (throw -> panic, catch -> recover) and uses a different way to write the code that catches them.

http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html#Handling_panics

Edit: Also, here's an interesting pattern to illustrate that Go's panics are a little different.

func parse(s string, config *Config) (x Thing, err error) {
defer config.RecoveryPlan(&x, &err)
x, err = doParse(s)
}

It's contrived, but you can see that the "RecoveryPlan" can choose to ignore panics or recover from them and it can also affect the return value of the "parse" call by assigning to its parameters and recovering from the panic.
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Isn't Redmond largely suburban? I don't think the two compare.
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I'm doing my part in building out the community here in southern Connecticut, but it's kinda lonely lol

If you're in Connecticut, please join me on the HN Connecticut google group!

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Sadly too CPU intensive. The last image (mountains) freezes my chrome tab solid. The others take 1-2 seconds to process.
I hear of downtown SF studios going for up to 2500/mo. Perhaps they're betting that demand will keep rising uncontrollably over the next decade, making their prices comparatively reasonable.
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You're correct, there's plenty of space and they're continuously building new apt complexes. My old apt was 1300sqft for something like 1500/mo with 2 garage spots. It's a completely different situation compared to SF.
This is a very destructive and incorrect attitude.

Psychogenic illness is not "faking it"...it is very real. It simply means the cause of the problems are based somewhere in the "software" rather than the "hardware". The brain is an exceptionally complicated thing, and the interactions between parts of it can result in all sorts of feedback loops, errors, etc.

If you really don't think it's perfectly possible and probable for a group of teenage girls to develop a shared psychogenic illness completely spontaneously without any sort of guile or even conscious awareness on their part, then unfortunately you have a very simplified and inaccurate understanding of just how complicated and fuzzy our brains are.

Most people have a very poor conception of just how fuzzy the line between what lay people call "sane" and "crazy", and just how easy it is for your brain to trick you. Consider this: a sizable portion of your memories are false. I don't care who you are, this is simply a fact of being human. Some of your memories are constructions based on friends/family describing the event to you some of them are just complete fabrications. However, if asked you would swear up and down they are real. It's not hard to create false memories in people...show them commercials of a non-existent product and many will remember having used it at some point. They're not liars....they're not fakers...they're not idiots...it's just that the human brain is not as simple as we like to think.

This attitude is extremely harmful because it creates an environment where nobody wants to be told they have a "psychogenic illness"....and we get people claiming that hamburgers/magnetic waves/whatever are causing their strange symptoms...and since that's not the case they won't get effective treatment. Furthermore, these people are now potentially harassed by the ignorant; accused of "faking" it for attention...so we have a whole class of illness that isn't being treated due to this ignorant idea.

You've actually got it backwards. It's "possible" that they are faking it, but this sort of involuntary tic is not easy to fake under medical examination. The most likely scenario is that to whatever extent the girls are "doing it themselves", they are unaware of it. I'm sure the attention they get is a part of the feedback loop causing the behavior, but it's important to realize that that does not mean this is some cynical plot to get attention. That's possible of course, but there's no reason to believe it's the most likely possibility and many to believe it's not.
Not surprised. Twitter seems to have a large amount of bot traffic that tends to drown out the normal human-to-human discussion. It's a write-mostly medium.
In my case I paid around $36.000 for the boat, and I pay on average $300 a month for mooring, electricity and heating. A small apartment in Copenhagen, which is where I live, is around $300.000.

So yes, it's a lot cheaper. Also a lot more fun.
The best definition of a boat I've heard is a hole in the water you throw money into.
I'm sure you could stack a few, they're pretty sturdy :-)
If I could answer that question I'd be Steve Jobs.
In my country, iPads are USD$1100. You could very easily sell your 2yr old ipad here for USD$400.
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The IO libraries are kind of a mess but I don't find the algorithms and containers significantly more difficult to use than similar implementations in other languages.
Exactly. Apple should love this. I'm sure there are many people with the original iPad thinking 'I want the new iPad but the old one still works fine. It would be wasteful to get the new one.' This potentially solves that dilemma.
Kapow? You mean this company: (http://kapowsoftware.com/solutions/content-migration/index.p...)?, mind to share about your experience?
That book is an excellent read, and has some interesting insights about boardroom shenanigans if memory serves. Also, his yacht is pretty badass.
The inconsistent placement of the "this" argument in function calls seems to support this being C. The vtable moving around would indicate that each class layout is hand-written, though.
The author does a lot of fence-sitting for very little conclusion. For instance:

Your focus should be on responsibly tracking your cashflow

versus

[A]ll I really only care about is one thing: my bank balance

Responsibly tracking cash flow is completely different than knowing your bank balance. One is hard and requires keeping track of income, payments, expenses, etc; the other involves pushing a button at an ATM.

Similarly:

You...need an accountant. Someone who can do your tax

versus

what you really need is software

TurboTax != a trained accountant.

It's also childishly written. "The nasty stuff the tax man needs to see," really? It's almost as bad as Blogger Bob. This reads like (bad) advertising copy for a press release, but it somehow got five points in five minutes. I'd suspect fake accounts, but pg is good about detecting upvote rings.
I have always been excited about virtual currency but then realize the federal government has a concern with currency being used to move money around illegally. I am curious what the law specifically states about virtual currency: when it is legal and when it is not, it's limitations etc.
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Not trying to rain on Dropbox's parade (they offer a great service), but I switched to a TonidoPlug to keep my own data and have been very pleased. It's worth checking out if you haven't seen it and an interesting business model.

http://www.tonidoplug.com/
Are you in Tokyo? Space is prized but at this size even in Yokohama, living out of a hotel room downtown cost barely more than these apartments. And that was before I caught on to all the 50000/mo ALT-havens...
How many places do you think assume security is a problem that can be solved by buying fancy products?

This is an all-too-common mistake. I am sure we have all seen it in the IT industry. I am surprised we don't just recognize it and call it out as such when we see the federal government doing the same.
"Get $5,000 to move to NYC and work at some of the city's hottest startups"

Real truth: 5,000 will help you pay the first and security on a shared apartment in East Williamsburg *cough cough* I mean Bushwick. It will pay for your flight and a few nights out at Brooklyn Bowl with microbrews when you get here too. It doesn't leave any money for going back to where you came from though. You'll have to pay for that yourself, kid.

"TRUTH: Our public transit system is better than yours. Six hundred and sixty miles of tracks running 24 hours a day."

Real truth: Our underground public transit system floats atop a river of rats, garbage, and sewage. The L train doesn't run on weekends, and your face will be in someone's smelly armpit on your way to work everyday.

"TRUTH: We have the smartest and best looking people in the world, including Scarlett Johansson."

Real truth: We have the fastest walkers and the most cynical people in the world, including that guy from the Princess Diaries. And we never smile here. Ever.

But hey, who am I to judge. Come work in New York! It's the concrete jungle where Donald Trump's dreams are made. And don't forget to pack your blue striped collared shirts! It's our Friday night bar uniform.
I'm guessing this guy isn't an accountant anymore because he was really bad at it. What he refers to as "keeping accountants happy" is actually keeping the government, investors, and partners happy. It's also answering questions like "Where is all my money going?" and "Is one of my employees stealing from me?".

Anal-retentive bookkeeping exists because life is often deeply unkind to those who fail to keep track of their money.
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