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As a new landlord in San Francisco, I can tell you that the biggest issue forcing this is rent control. The way rent control works is certainly designed to help those in need but instead it creates a artificial demand for affordable housing.

Without rent control, the market is free to compete and suddenly open up a ton of bottled up apartments. The issue is, a family on welfare with a income of 40k a year should not be living in a 4 bedroom apartment in pacific heights for 1k a month. I have no problem with giving affordable housing to those in need, but rent control is not the answer as it places the burden on individual landlords to provide social security.

The biggest gap of people who can live in SF are not the poor (taken care of by rent control) or the rich (dont care/buy homes) but those in between. Run of the road engineers and others who make between 75k and 150k a year. These are the people who are hurt most by san franciscos crazy rent laws.

If rent control was abolished, the one thing you would see is that rental rates would lower significantly as supply starts to balance with demand. Yes, some people would be displaced but the question is- If the city of san francisco wants to provide affordable rental units, why dont they instead just pay lower income people directly, letting them be free to choose where to live?
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The Linux kernel has over 15 million lines of code, people normally don't hold it against it.
Judging a piece of software by its LOC count is a fallacy.

A project with rigorous error handling and testing will have more LOCs than a corresponding project without.

Some problems are just hard, and you'll want as much code as is necessary to make it secure and performant. Some parts of the code you will never run, but inactive code seldom hurts you.

MySQL has its issues, but none of them would be fixed just by having less code.
Yes, unfortunately the whole area is built on an assumption that you have a car. Santa Clara County in particular is amazing in that it's one of the few places in the world that has three levels of grade-separated freeways: national highways, state highways, and county highways. The latter (San Tomas Expressway, etc.) were paid for out of the money that Santa Clara County saved by opting out of BART, which is not coincidentally why the public transit is bad.
> The biggest downfall of Internet Explorer 6-8 is lack of support for transparent PNGs.

No. It's not. The. Biggest downfall is the total lack of advanced CSS selectors, forcing you into adding needless classes and/or additional non-semantic tags.

Also, IE 6 and 7 are full of bugs even in the little CSS they support. Transparent PNGs have been solved long ago. So have the various bugs, but the workarounds needed are much more painful to develop and maintain.

Using various libraries to patch in missing functionality only seems to work until you reach real-world complexity with your DOM at which point you will run into any of the countless performance issues with IEs JavaScript implementation which relies on COM marshaling for all of its DOM support, so all these patch-ie-to-add-missing-features-using-JS projects are practically nothing but nice demos.

The moment you can at least target IE 8 and you can start to rely on CSS having more ore less the intended effect without stacking hack upon hack, the moment you get to use stuff like display: table, that moment you will see how much you miss by staying in the late 90ies with the code you are writing.
You're making kittens cry! Stop pointing out the obvious. Nobody wants to hear why zoning and rent control is still around.
Sure, but there was no warning, no notification of violation, and (if what they say is true) an erroneous categorization of being "spam."

In short, incredibly poor customer service (completely absent) and disrespectful to the user.

Personally, I think it's a shame, given the breadth of other content on Blogger, that this would be killed without recourse.

Imagine if this were your gmail account and you had a politically charged email :). Different terms of service, but people expect the same terms from the same company.
We experienced some significant difficulties with sharding; the automatic methods of doing so only seemed to shard a single-digit percentage of our data. We've also encountered some wildly unexpected issues with master/slave replication and related nomination procedures.

You're right that this post is vague with regard to those details; they would be a good candidate for a future blog post, but the desired takeaway from this one is that we're quite pleased with the performance and scalability that Riak provides.
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From the numbers I can find, I don't think this is true. The biggest population constraint in the Valley by far comes in the form of explicit density constraints, such as minimum lot sizes, not rent control. Palo Alto has no rent control, for example, but is less dense than SF, despite the fact that demand exists for much denser housing to be built (especially near Stanford) if it were permitted. Some kind of scared-rich-person-club mentality going on where they're worried that allowing apartments, or even townhomes, might bring in too much riff-raff, so by law everything has to be an undivided and large single-family home (in a large portion of the total area).
There are a great many areas of computer science that are incredibly difficult. There are a lot of long standing open problems that some of the smartest people on earth cannot solve. Further, a university gives you some of the best access to resources around: lots of domain expertise in various areas and access to nearly every worthy journal article in the world.

It astonishes me that you could come out with the attitude that everything is easy and college doesn't teach you anything useful.

Computer Science is not about learning to program C, or Java. If your college gave you that impression then it most certainly failed you.
I was tempted to say "because he wants to donate to WikiLeaks", but yeah, it's an unheard of BitCoin address. This is annoyingly absurd. If anything this person would reach out to a third party or WikiLeaks themselves and set up an account that could be monitored. (Or they could follow the blockchain and check the Wikileak's account's current balance and see if it is increased the desired amount)

Granted Wikileaks may want to stay out of this entirely. I don't know who to laugh at, raise my eyebrows at, etc more... anon, the Jester, or this person who wants a bunch of money to reveal the identity of some braggart.
It's funny. I used to use Psi, but then I switched to iChat. I used to use Quicksilver, then I switched to Launchbar, and now I just use Spotlight. I have Homebrew, because MacPorts can't install 3.2 of GNU Smalltalk and for no other reason. I haven't installed Dropbox ever, or Skitch (never heard of it, will check it out) or Divvy (I think I downloaded a demo of it once, thought it would be cool, and never went back to buy it).

I don't know what my problem is, but I guess my need for new features keeps diminishing. Maybe in forty years I'll finally be able to use Plan 9.
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To put it another way, when someone can't afford food, we provide them food stamps, paid for by our shared tax revenue. We don't make grocery store owners grant them discounts out of pocket.
The author uses three examples to assert his 11 million number, but he doesn't explain why he believes the bay area should model these growth points.

In the case of Detroit, the boom was driven by many cheap manufacturing jobs available to all. This differs significantly from the fairly specialized and specific technical positions available in the valley. Cheap, uneducated labor isn't seeking out the valley -- in fact the economic incentive is an exact opposite: If you can't earn a high salary, you flee to a cheaper state.

Las Vegas has a booming service industry, which is much more in line with the manufacturing boom in Detroit.

Phoenix is where people go when they flee expensive southern California life. Phoenix is also close to Mexico, and the hispanic population is by far the fastest growing demographic (46% growth vs 17% for all other demographics per 2010 census).

The author of this Forbes article ought to spend more time analyzing the cause of population booms, rather than trying to rely weak and unsupported correlations. What a disappointment.
Here's a theory, maybe I'm crazy but:

Let's say you somehow manage to breach the account of The Jester on Twitter and also his wordpress account. Let's say you want to make money from this: what better way than to fake a reveal.

The only reason anyone is giving this thing any weight is because "he" wiped out his blog and deleted the twitter account. To me the supposed Twitter messages don't look very real, they read as if they're written by someone acting scared, but then maybe it is just as simple as his identity is known; it was inevitable I guess.
>I don't know if there will someday be a language that is as easy to work in as a Python or Ruby for simpler programs but which lets you get (almost) as fast and fine-grained as C as your features stabilize and you start to optimize

Have you looked in to Cython? It seems like it tries to do what you wrote.

From http://cython.org/

"The Cython language is a superset of the Python language that additionally supports calling C functions and declaring C types on variables and class attributes. This allows the compiler to generate very efficient C code from Cython code. The C code is generated once and then compiles with all major C/C++ compilers in CPython 2.4 and later, including Python 3.x. PyPy support is work in progress and is mostly usable in recent developer versions."

The latest Gevent dev uses libev (same as node.js) I'm curious to know how Cython and the new Gevent will perform vs the alternatives.
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Greg Egan has quite a few amazing stories dealing with the transition process. "Transition Dreams" is the one I remember, it is a bit dark.

I cant find a free link, but here is a paid e-book, $0.59: http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/b876/Transition-Dreams/Gre...
This sounds like an issue for tech support and has been solved already. Most email clients have an option to do what you're looking for. I believe gmail also has something like this. Google it.
Are you asking me if I typically root for the evil side? No.

When The Jester started making headlines it was amidst constant LulzSec and Anonymous attacks and retaliations all on very stupid targets for selfish reasons. The climate on here was unbearable. So many people would gang up on you if you spoke out against anon. It was ridiculous.

The Jester poked fun at those people and exposed them for the lame script kiddies that they are (not that it took much to figure this out, but he paraded it). The IRC logs were hilarious.

I like The Jester for this. He's an anti-hero of sorts. Even if he is still a "bad guy."
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This doesn't really answer any of the questions I asked you but from what you wrote here you have to agree that going with a tried-and-true RDBMS that's been around for decades is a much better prospect than choosing one of the new, unproven NoSQL products.
The purpose may not be to save money. The purpose may be to have flexibility. To install only what the user wants to install. Maybe the user does not want OSX preinstalled on the HDD. Maybe the user wants to boot diskless with a blank HDD only used for storage or something else, but not the OS.* The point is that it allows more flexibility. Let the user decide what she wants to install. Sell the user the hardware. Charge whatever you want. Then stay out of the user's business. How she uses the hardware is her business.

*There are some real security benefits from keeping the OS on read-only media.
So what you are saying is I was right. Thank you. People who report a bug and give less than half of a day for someone to investigate has never dealt with a vendor like oracle or IBM. This tells me you haven't had a data problem before and based on your willingness to give up so quickly leads me to believe you won't end up with data problems that this article is talking about anyway.
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My experience with Wikis are that are only religiously updated by 1-2 people. Everyone else just kind of goes meh. But you absolutely have to document things somewhere that is shared for the bus scenario.

My requirements for a wiki:

1) Awesome search. Xwiki has a very good search, including in attached documents

2) Fine grained access controls. I need to be able to have a space W with pages X,Y,Z, and Z needs to be public, but nothing else.

3) I need to able to use my existing authentication systems.

4) It needs to be user friendly. XWiki has some serious usability problems for anyone who hasn't used a wiki before. Confluence is a bit nicer.

My nice to haves:

* Site-based documentation. Sometimes I have a workflow that's 80% similar, but the exact steps depends on the site (Example: ssh to this host, run these commands). I don't feel that it justifies having a separate page for each site when the content is mostly the same.

* Editable from my Linux environment, preferably via command line

* OneNote integration

I've used mediawiki, xwiki, twiki, and confluence before.

If you can provide me with most of the things above, and either the source code, or a service SLA (or both), I'd probably buy.
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> People hire college graduates because they have demonstrated that they can be given a list of work, and a criteria for how their work will be judged, and complete the work. That's it.

One of my professors (Dr. Mazumdar, NMT) had a saying about complexity theory: "A computer science degree will never get you a job, but it may keep you from getting fired."
The post is not arguing against conformity - it is arguing against submission. It is arguing against a system that rewards submission.

I believe that a generation of extremely sophisticated, powerful, people who are eager to submit is a powerful and evil tool.

Fashionable status symbols are means by which one man dominates another. Many believe that a society of mutual respect will not seek tools of domination.

The issue with hierarchies is that they are historically weapons of oppression wielded against the marginal and unprivileged.

The issue with listening to what your friends think is cool is that your friends might be twats.

There really are problems with these behaviors, categorically. There really is a problem with submission, categorically. We are animals, we are spirits, we are not robots.

There's nothing wrong with robots. Be a robot if you want to. There are many people eager to use and reward you.
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The 21k reviews is for "this version" -- there's actually nearly 2 million reviews for "all versions" with an average of 4 stars.

The Android app has 3.2 million reviews (averaging 3.6 stars - 600,000 or so are 1 star).

So it doesn't seem as bad when you consider "all versions" instead of just "this version". I wonder if it's a matter of more tech-savvy people reviewing the newer versions when they come out? Or it could just be that the app really is getting much, much worse with every release...
Bonus: it is a list all on one page.
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According to following in theory it is possible to use IP valuation instead of cold cash investment to apply for E2 visa. But how it works in practice? Have you ever tried that?

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Probably up until 1968.
Daniel Brook's book "The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America" [1] does a great job showing how the rising costs of student loans, urban living, and health care drive students into corporate jobs.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003F76G2Q/ref=as_li_tf_tl?...
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This article seems to have missed or glossed over a number of critical relevant points:

1. Few people on this planet would consider Atlanta, Phoenix or Las Vegas as cities to emulate. They are all excellent examples of unsustainable growth - and to the point where water shortages are a very real future possibility for any or all of the three.

2. The 'nut' of the story is that Silicon Valley needs more engineers, and that more engineers would move there if only the cost of living were less. By this logic, Silicon Valley investors should be able to take a quick drive over to the cheaper Las Vegas, where all the cheapskate engineers must be hiding out waiting for a Silicon Valley investor to show them the way to the riches that can be found building web services and phone apps for sweat equity.

3. No mention of telecommuting? Still a taboo topic? If it's such a problem, maybe one of those start ups should start looking for a solution to that problem - that way engineers could live wherever they wanted and we wouldn't have to contemplate what the Bay Area, Phoenix style, would be like.
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The way I understand (correct me if I am wrong) is that Perforce’s value add with features like this is what makes it sticky. So from my gut they will have some patents on this.

But that said, I had once used
http://code.google.com/p/svn-time-lapse-view/

The experience wasn’t usable at all since there was no caching, prefetching etc. Each move of the slider resulted in a web request.

But git is a different story …. :-)
I don't see how they can center that vision around a question/answer format. To me it seems limited.
On a separate note, and given a recent HN discussion about some of the constraints Stack Exchange puts on free flow of discussion, I see an angle Quora can explore.
I really wanted to attend ... but couldn't justify flying out the Bay area for a 3 hour event. If you could post your impressions of the event to this thread, I'd appreciate that!

To do in the Bay Area:
Food: In-N-Out, Patxi's Chicago Style Pizza, Bob's Donuts
Meetups: Go to meetup.com and sign up to attend a meetup or two.
Places: If this is your first trip to Silicon Valley, make sure you go to SF, Palo Alto and Mountain View. You can take the Caltrain to visit all three.
Sightseeing: Muir Woods, Santa Cruz (meh), do walk the Golden Gate Bridge if you get a chance

Have fun!
Coincidentally this other article also published today has a similar theme making the case that California's previous prosperity was caused by higher population growth and advocating construction in Silicon Valley.
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True. But I think his point was that by not investing in other parts of the country, people are not giving a chance for the ecosystem to develop.

I think local culture plays a big part as well. In most other parts of the country people join big large companies and then spend their entire life being the company man or woman.

If I did that I'd cry just like the other guy said he would if the Bay Area got paved over.
Why can't the ship generate its own power? Is a power plant can do it, so can a ship - it's large enough to be able to make the generator efficient enough. Load it up with LNG every one in a while - LNG is transported by sea all the time anyway.

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if you are aware of anything dealing with this concept of human metamorphosis, fiction or otherwise, I would appreciate a link.

This free Cory Doctorow piece could float your boat: "0wnz0red - Programmers who hack their own bodies don't need exercise and never get sick" http://www.salon.com/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/singleton/
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I appreciate your long and thoughtful response. It's probably worth including the disclaimer or notice that you work for Wolfram [1].

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3779764
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True, but the whimsy of a popsicle is probably part of the reason the concept resonates with people.
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In any case, the number of fully copied items would almost always stay below one hundred (not hundred thousands).
And even those "copies" would not really be considered a copy by our contemporary judge (circa 2012). These are "backups" at best.
Then use the USPS. You can go online and print a label complete with postage and request a package pickup. Pickup doesn't cost anything.
All I know is I have lived in and visited many other places in the US, and the SF Bay Area (and especially San Francisco proper) is hands down the most distinctive and beautiful. Whatever is being done here needs to be done more and not less.

If the author wants to take his ball and stomp off to some urban-sprawly McMansion-filled city that is supposedly more optimal for talent, go right ahead. You have your choice of the vast majority of the country. There is a wonderful lack of regulation and population density out in the plains of South Dakota - just go there and I'm sure all the talent will follow in droves.
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State machines are a powerful approach for programming, but often expressing them in structured languages can be inelegant- state machines and error handling are the primary applications of "goto" in C. They aren't an impassible obstacle, though, if you're working with a language that can define new syntax easily.

I am reminded of a particularly interesting DSL[1] for Forth that makes state machines look like their transition tables:

4 WIDE FSM: <Fixed.Pt#>
\ input: | other? | num? | minus? | dp? |
\ state: ---------------------------------------------
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( 1 ) DROP >1 EMIT >1 DROP >1 EMIT >2
( 2 ) DROP >2 EMIT >2 DROP >2 DROP >2 ;

[1]http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/551.jvn.fall01/fsm....
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You get the core functionality because you are an early adopter (e.g. Hacker News user). The frills and marketing, such as the custom design, is what will acquire customers like your friends.
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