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Ask HN: In the Bay Area for two months, need housing feedback
Hey guys!

Me and two others are moving to the Bay Area for two months (1 Oct - 1 Dec). We are currently looking for housing, but haven't found anything within our budget yet (<= $3000/month). The three of us would like to live together (a 2BR apartment would be fine).

We already found accommodation at Silicon House (http://siliconhouse.us/#), but it's over our budget. However, we're still considering. Anyone has got experience with Silicon House? Is it any good? What are the opportunities of meeting other people/mentors? What about the in-house events?

Anyone else that might have some leads to a $2.5k-3k/month apartment in SF/Mountain View/Palo Alto?

Thanks!
The fact that they are showing up as wall posts means nothing - it just means that the bug was that facebook swapped messages for posts somehow, and now they are all showing up on the wall.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/07/24Apple-Reports-Thir... gives 26M iPhones sold in the last _quarter_. Even assuming all of those were top of the line, 5M sold would be 2.5 weeks of 'regular' sales. I guess 'top of the line' is less than 50% of normal sales. If that is true, at least a month's worth of customers wanted this product so much that they went to a store in the first weekend. Also, to get to 10M, they would have to sell almost a quarter's worth of top of the line iPhones in one weekend.

So, 5M looks like a good start to me. Of course, one cannot declare succes on basis of one weekend of sales. For all we know, 4.999M of those phones will be returned to the store and none will be sold afterwards.
Well, I suppose you could argue that the extra risk is the knowledge they have gathered as part of being a scammer. Knowledge being power and all that. A jaywalker doesn't know your phone number, where you live, and where your wife works.

Hopefully the scammer doesn't either, but hopefully this still conveys the point.

Edit: There's a difference too; jaywalking et al do not implicitly harm other people. I don't know all the legal intricacies, but theft (scams) is different.
http://www.infomaniak.com/?language=english unknown about the vanilla cards
Thanks for linking that paper, fascinating, the thought had never occurred to me.
"nothing of the sort has yet emerged to balance out the JavaScript infestation"

Au contraire, nothing of the sort is needed. Just stop using JavaScript. I very rarely turn it on and I get by just fine.

If there is some content that we find the web developer will not deliver to you without engaging him in his JavaScript follies, then we must deconstruct his JavaScript monstrosity using another scripting language. Lua, e.g., is quite fast for this purpose. We can even do this within the kernel. The web developer who infests the web with his self-entertaining JavaScript makes us work harder to retrieve content. But every time he makes us work, we learn more, and we get better and better at piercing through the JavaScript and the indirection, to get to the content. We want content not JavaScript.

The question is not Will Web Developers Ever Learn?

Rather, the question is Will Web Users Ever Learn?

And the answer is Yes, they will.
The new myspace
really nice! I love the visual consistency and clean modern design. What I like most is that it brings in color in an easy sleek feeling without going overboard. I want to use it :)
Being tech-savvy is only a small part of it.

Anybody who knows how the US legal system works should understand that there's no way they'd be getting a letter from the FBI encouraging them on behalf of a buyer to ship a product.

And anybody with an elementary school grasp of the English language has got to recognize that whoever wrote that letter is certainly not an FBI official, and probably not even a native English speaker.
According to the source[1] it looks like a chrome plugin that enables inline-commenting "web2.0" style here on Hackernews

Screenshot from source: https://raw.github.com/Gwendall/ypander/master/screenshot.pn...

[1] https://github.com/Gwendall/ypander
I am not trying to get personal. I use the second person as a rhetorical device because properly consistent use of the third person sounds really stuffy.

That said, you are touching on something I left implicit in my original post. Yes, there is a really small chance that you are the smartest person with the most relevant experience relative to a given problem to approach it. And, if this is the case, that is your valid answer to why you haven't seen someone else do it before. But for most people this is simply not the case and even for the people you are thinking of now as the smartest should assume it isn't the case, at least at first.

If analyzing the situation and doing research legitimately leads you to "I am better/luckier than everyone else who's approached this", good for you because you're off to a great start.

As far as Larry Page goes, a sibling post said that pg, to name one person, had something very similar to PageRank futher driving in the point that you usually can't count on being the first to figure out a solution. But, regardless, it absolutely would have been fair to ask Larry those same questions at the time he was founding Google. No matter how smart you are, due diligence is a key concept.
Publishers are in the business of helping teachers convey information to students by selling schools and teachers materials such as lesson plans, textbooks, and workbooks. TPT does the same thing but cuts out the publisher.

I am not sure what you mean about captive audience. Are you saying they should just build their own marketplace?
Yup. And besides, it's an easy buck from some chumps, not a 1000$/day job you can get by buying my book and following my internet unlock steps!

Your Parent is insane to think that simply breaking rules means people have no ethics or morals themselves. Everyone is a dynamic person, and IMO someone who screws people within the confines of the law can be just as bad if not worse.
Facebook Gifts Is a Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity
I strongly suggest you read up on what constitutes libel/defamation. Just by saying something is your opinion does not protect you, as least in the US.

https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/defamati...

They didn't apologize for extortion. They apologized for accidentally charging a developer. That is not extortion. Extortion is a very serious criminal offense. Unless you have proof that they are actually engaging in extortion, and that they are engaging in criminal activities, you are making yourself vulnerable to a lawsuit.
"the Kamermaker is designed to print huge objects including furniture, architectural elements, and even entire rooms."

Guess this could be seen as a luxury on demand printer for those who have money and don't want to wait.

Thanks for enlightening me.
Looks nice, but that right-angle lowercase i next to the hybrid curve/angle of the lowercase l is killing me.
People will love it. What you see in the video is what you get, I work for the company (Josephmark) which is a design studio in Brisbane, Australia that is solely responsible for designing the new interface. The video does a good job showing what's coming, although I'm not on the design team I did get to help prototype some high-level HTML/CSS3 prototypes of the MySpace interface to help drive home some of the design teams ideas in an interactive context when pitching concepts to MySpace.

It's an exciting project and I think everyone will be impressed with the results. Don't forget MySpace isn't competing with Facebook any more, if anything myspaces new competitors are Spotify, Rdio and Pandora.
That would be too easily spoofed for it to provide any meaningful evidence.
> But I've got a vague thought in my mind that I can't quite work through, having to do with demand level (as opposed to actual quantity demanded). It seems to me that if the amount that consumers would like is huge, then the degree to which demand pulls on the equilibrium is much greater. Ordinarily, a supplier's production limit is how much they can get the consumers to purchase. But if demand is so great that consumers will buy everything that can be produced (due to input resource constraints, or long lead times in building production capacity or something), then producers can continue to sell at prices that are high relative to production costs.

Markets are very very rarely perfect. Everything you have described above is a barrier to entry in the given market: it will make the market take longer to reach equilibrium, if the market ever reaches a natural equilibrium at all. Keep in mind though over time supply becomes elastic - if you're making a killing selling deodorant, you can bet that competitors will take notice and open up their own deodorant factories. Or you can expand your own production and make more profit.

> Where's the hole in that logic? I see the potential for one in my caveat about input resource constraints: if there's a high-profit item whose production and sales are bounded only by resource availability, then presumably the producer will attempt to buy more of that resource, thereby raising its price. Thus, the underlying cost of production would rise to meet the price (rather than the price declining to meet the cost, as previously argued).

"Resource availability" is a tricky thing. Generally as a resource becomes more valuable, more opportunities open up to produce it. See oil drilling: at first, the oil was under the ground in so much pressure that it would gush to the surface. People in Spindletop TX gathered oil by putting out buckets in the early days. Now we have to do seismic surveys use complex drilling techniques to get oil. What makes those techniques profitable? The current high price that oil commands.

This is why supply and demand are modeled as linear relationships. Cost of production generally increases per unit as more units are sold and the producer starts running out of ways to produce. Demand generally decreases as something becomes more expensive per unit.

However, both are more flexible (elastic) in the long run. Let's say you produce widgets and there's a sudden surge in demand. You can't expand your stock overnight. But you can open a new factory in a year increasing your supply. On the other side, if you are a consumer and gas prices double tomorrow, there's not much you can do immediately besides fill up your tank. But six months from now, you might set up a carpool or start biking to work.

All of the examples you give were studied in my microecon class (take a look at supply elasticity, which sounds like what you're describing here). If you'd like to learn more (and are in the position to do so) I'd highly recommend taking such a class.
I was actually making a reference to Archer, but the video seemed to work for me.
Thanks! Although I think my HTTPS connection (I use HTTPS Everywhere) is stopping it working on some sites. :(
I'm afraid that's not how it works at all. TPT is selling these materials to other teachers. They are, in effect, a publisher.

The teaching exception means that a teacher in a classroom can show a copyrighted piece as part of her lesson plan. It does not mean that you can "package" a lesson plan that includes the same materials, then sell them to other teachers.

If it were possible to use the teaching exception in this way, all educational book publishers could use any image they want without paying for it. I've worked with a children's educational book publisher for the last 10 years. They have to buy all copyrighted materials used in their books.

A caveat. I've never seen a TPT lesson plan, so maybe I'm unclear on how they "package". Specifically, I use the term package to mean that the actual copyrighted materials are included with the file you receive. TPT could get around the copyright issue by inserting reference placeholders, then instruct the purchaser to acquire the images on their own, but that's a significant amount of work. I would be surprised if that's how they were packaged.
UK: The TV licence costs £145.50 per year. The bulk of this goes to the BBC to produce TV and radio programmes and to operate their network of transmitters. None of this money is going for Internet connectivity to homes so far as I am aware.

The 'local loop' to the home is provided by Openreach(BT) who have to make connections available to any company at an appropriate rate. There are also cable TV networks in many towns and cities.

http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/

My postcode says 'not currently in plans for rollout' so we are stuck on ADSL over copper for the foreseeable future.
Yes, I have seen it before! I have build a personal search engine MindRetrieve back in 2005.

http://mindretrieve.net

Specifically I'm not comfortable for big web company to keep the history of my web activity. So I make it work completely locally. My project did not get much uptake, probably my lackluster marketing and other assorted issues are to blame. So good luck on this one!
If you read the included notes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microburst#Danger_to_aircraft

You'll see that, at least according to Wikipedia, the main threat to aircraft is the combination of a microburst and an inexperienced pilot, in contrast to your parent's claim that non-rigid aircraft simply lose all control.
If it blows your mind that people would write to mongo without making sure the write succeeded, then doesn't that make the default behaviour itself mindblowing?

Perhaps a better option would be to have an 'unsafe_write' option. But then of course, benchmarks would look less impressive which didn't use a function with 'unsafe' in the name.
+1. I almost never make it through a video tutorial. The only exceptions are Railscasts, and my batting average there is only .500.
How well does it cope with wind?
I'm going to take this opportunity to list a few of my biggest web develeper peeves

1. Forms that auto change fields

99% of the time using a computer tab goes to the next field so it's muscle memory to press tab after filling out each field. Then some dumb add web dev decides that for zip code, once I enter 5 digits he'll automatically move me to the next field. This has at least 2 problems. Either my muscle memory had already moved me one field too far or, I made a mistake on one of the last digits and backspace does nothing because it's been moved to the wrong field.

2. Credit card or phone number fields that require a certain format

Many sites insist on 1111222233334444 or 1112223333. Entering 1111 2222 3333 4444 or 1111-2222-3333-4444 and they complain. Just filter out the digits on submit or on the server! Stop making me do things the computer can do so easily.

3. Auto formatting fields

Stop trying to be clever with a form that shows one field that looks like (111)223-3333 but doesn't let me type the (, ), or -. Apply #2 above. Stop messing up my keyboard usage by making it different than every place else I type.

4. Forms that ask for city, state and zip code

Ask for the zipcode first and then fill in the city and state (the let the user change them)

What are your web dev pet peeves?
Why should I use your service rather than take 10 minutes to implement my own popups?
It's interesting how I am in the same exact boat as you and everyone up the thread to the original commenter as far being basically fed up with Apple's shit. I am also quite glad indeed that there are now alternatives for those of us who do care about the UX, and my favourite of them is Gnome 3.

It's received a lot of bad press, but I feel like the majority of it is by the more hardcore Linux users who are understandably not used to the carpet being yanked from underneath them. I am still amazed, after an entire summer of using it, about just how much Gnome 3 has re-thought in terms of its UI. The experience is not without bumps and is definitely buggy in places, but I feel like it's the first open-source shell which places user experience at the top of its priority list.

EDIT: there are rumours Ubuntu 12.10 will come in a vanilla Gnome 3 flavour, as opposed to Unity. A "pure" Gnome 3 Debian is all I personally ever need to stay happy, particularly on my Apple hardware that (for now?) supports loading non-OSX operating systems.
True, I wouldn't give Facebook a free pass on this alone.

Is it really so hard to imagine that somebody, somewhere fudged a query and accidentally ran [pseudo-SQL] "UPDATE posts SET type='status' WHERE type='private-message' AND date = 'x' TO 'y'"?

I'll admit, it's a bit of a stretch; but the fact that these show up as wall posts is not necessarily an indication that there is no bug.

The bug may very well be that data has been manipulated to look like wall posts.

Unless Facebook discloses that these posts were flagged as "status updates" _in an archived version of their dataset_ (specifically an archive before the issue first manifested), this information means practically nothing. We could gather from the bug itself that these were flagged as wall posts in FB's backend.
The Great (Southern) California Exodus: A Closer Look
As Bulgaria came into discussion, let me give you a short glimpse at what the biggest cable company in Romania (4th rank in Akamai average peak connection speed 2012) has to offer. For about 25 USD you will get: - 100Mbps Internet access fiber optic, - +100 TV channels including HBO, HBOGo, - one 3G data SIM with 3GB/month, - access to various WIFI hotspots around the country, - 1 phone landline with various free minutes.

All this infrastructure for this network was build in the past 15 years and it is national. Romania is as big as Oregon State.

In my opinion the prices in US for triple-play are as the article states very very high.
The ignition point of magnesium is fairly high, and its ability to act as a heat spreader further reduces the risk.

To put it simply, you can set off magnesium with a blowtorch. You can set off hydrogen with a match.
You seem to have misconstrued the parent comment; he was talking about trusting FB (and by extension the media outlets that are reporting their statement as fact) over his social contacts on this issue specifically.
If you're in California, you can book a zeppelin tour almost any day -- http://www.airshipventures.com/

Unfortunately it's quite expensive starting at $375 for a 45-minute flight.
If you like that, have a look at http://www.419eater.com/ where there's a large community of people doing all sorts of scammer pranks. Obligatory warning: will decrease productivity for the rest of the day :-)
Old facebook that we don't remember:

A post on someone's wall had a link to 'Wall-to-wall' or 'Write on wall', in place of what we have today, the commenting system.

Screenshot: http://blog.hishamrana.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/facebo...
New Myspace
I would not describe the Amish relationship with technology as "fear". It's not emotional; it's very reasoned and deliberate. Modern shop tools are common in Amish villages, but anything that connects with mass media is rejected, as is easy transportation. The idea is that they want to keep people connected to the local (self-reliant) community and make it difficult to connect to outsiders. It's reasoning we on HN don't agree with, but it's definitely reason rather than emotion.

Much of the "war over little pings from inboxes" strikes me as similarly deliberate. It's not a fear of technology, it's just a recognition of certain consequences we wish to avoid -- excessive distraction, possibly even addiction. So we reason about which technologies are really worthwhile, and reject the ones with too much downside.
I used to work as a bank teller while in school. About once or twice a month someone would come in with checks from these types of scams. The spectrum of who was falling for it was a lot wider than I would have ever imagined.

We were trained pretty extensively on stopping these checks from being deposited, but it sure broke my heart being the bearer of bad news so often.

I remember one guy who didn't believe me that it was a scam, asked that I at least try to clear the check (we'd put it on hold for about a week). Lo and behold, he came back in a week later to tell me it turned out to be fake.
Yeah, reminds me of CargoLifter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter

Though maybe it will work out this time, who know. It’s not like this is some sort of earth shattering innovation, so whether it works or not seems pretty unimportant to me.
Quit My Job For Consulting: Two Months Later
Editorial: Apple's smart Maps maneuver
OTOH if you don't specify which hash is used, you'll be stuck using SHA1 for all time, or with a messy transition. Nobody knows yet what to do about git as SHA1 becomes more broken..
A little OT but I just realized a compromised facebook could do more harm than a compromised bank account. With a compromised bank account, at least you are guaranteed your money back. Who's gonna return broken relationships and undo other harm caused by facebook privacy screw ups like this? Facebook better begin taking privacy as serious as banks take security. It will naturally SERIOUSLY slow down the pace at which they can do new releases but at this point, they've given pretty granular privacy control that hundreds of millions of people use with the expectation that it will work.
You should talk with Mary Himinkool.

http://www.googleventures.com/team/mary-himinkool
Direct Link
http://vyou.com/group/p/85
It is rather infuriating if you are stuck under that relationship.
My beef with gittip
Get AppleCare+ then, it's $99 for 2 years of replacement coverage (3x). If you can't afford life to happen to it, either don't get the phone, or get a coverage plan and hedge your bets.

I don't put my 4S in a case, but I did get AppleCare+ (haven't had to use it).
The Apple Maps Lesson: Build a Data Moat Around Your Business
No BitBucket for Source Control.

No Cloud9 for web-based IDE.

No BugZilla for bug tracking.

No XNA for Game development.

This is a weird list.
Well, its a some sort of an Internet Explorer plugin that records IE session, all the clicks, even mouse movement. Within BoA you can use Chrome browsers for your personal browsing, but as you can imagine, most of the websites are cut off. But Google works! :)
I should really try and figure out if some of the Bitcoin mining FPGAs on the market can be used for this...
This was a very interesting list. I like to see redhat on it, it seems to prove there's a viable open source revenue model.
Also I'm interested as to why Baidu is "one of the most innovative", sure they're big but is that innovation - also from my limited memory of the press around them I'm pretty sure they cooperate with the chinese gov't on blacklisting search terms and general information hiding from the chinese people - definately not innovative.
You know, you are quite right. My thinking with the local government bit is in terms of normal cable service, not this type of wireless service.
A bank blocking access to a provider of anonymous VPN services. Makes sense.
I don't think his problem was the size limit, it was the lack of exceptions being raised or log errors being recorded.
If someone's swinging it at you, then it's understandable as a method of self defense.
A monopoly means only as much as the amount of control its owner has over it. In the case of Android, most of the power seems to be concentrated amongst the carriers, since they get to decide what versions of the OS will be available on the devices they sell and what UIs/crapware they will be bundled with. With the resulting fragmentation (which is massive), the effectiveness of the monopoly is significantly diminished.
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I don't think anyone here is ready to tar and feather the jury foreman here - but the fact that the interviews were given, and based on interviews with other jurors, it certainly seems suspicious.

And considering $1bn is on the line, I don't think it's too much to ask that we investigate this.