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Ask HN:  Mountain View Housing
I'm here in Cleveland looking at the cost of housing in Mountain View. I've checked Craigslist and some of the apartment websites in the area. I am aware that housing is much more expensive in Mountain View than it is in Cleveland. Unfortunately, all I have to go on is what I can find on the web. I was hoping some local could answer the following question: Is it possible to find reasonable accommodation (apartment, bedroom sublet, etc.) for a single person under a $1,000 / month (long-term) close to North Shoreline?
I think it is true that if nothing is listening on the port, then the packets will be dropped by the OS. However, you may have services you are unaware of running, or malicious software which has snuck in, or a running application which would be listening on the port if it was open. Perhaps you want to run a webserver on localhost for testing, and by keeping the ports closed you block remote access. For these reasons it is generally regarded as bad practice to leave all ports on a server open to the public.
Looking beyond the merits of this particular use, this is a great idea for creating valuable backlinks to your site. I wonder what Google thinks of backlinks on 404 pages? I suspect it treats them the same as links from other pages. 404s appear when there is a bad link, and Googlebot follows all links, good and bad, so there is quite a potential here for increasing your backlinks if you can get your code on somebody's site. Wordpress plugin, perhaps? :-)
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Good idea. It can be improved by showing local results based on the visitor location.
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I feel like having open source-code and no VC funding differentiates Tent's offering quite a bit from App.net, no?
This may just be me picking on one small part of the entire post, but I have a serious technical problem with some of the author's claims, not least of which is his feelings that FPGAs will somehow revolutionize personal computing.

Anyone who has programmed with an FPGA will understand the sort of tasks they're best for; hand-optimizing particular algorithms and processes into parallel pipelines and execution units.

Running a general-purpose OS on a CPU built in software on top of an FPGA is just not feasible; the yeild of transistors to logic units is very low for FPGAs compared to conventional microprocessors; and there's matters of efficiency, layout, and cost-effectiveness to think of. There has been some success using an FPGA-type programmable gate array in combination with a standard CPU, but the CPU itself is usually a proprietary core made to coordinate and assist the FPGA. These sorts of FPGA co-processors are only ever used for very specialized aplications currently. They won't be replacing general-purpose dedicated CPUs anytime soon (if ever).

FPGAs are perfectly suitable for any special-purpose functions they've been programmed for: but I think in terms of desktop and mobile computing, having a farm of parallel execution units in the form of a modern GPU will also yield acceptable results for any parallel consumer applications without the need for as much investment as with dedicated reprogrammable FPGA hardware.

The other technical concern I have is mesh networks; we don't currently have the technology to create and maintain large-scale mesh networks, but even if we did, there is a point there the communication required just to maintain the network outpaces the node-to-node bandwidth, or even the global bandwidth available. You also have to deal with privacy concerns around data storage and transmission at nodes while it is en-route to a destination, and circle-of-trust issues, etc. These issues bring the pendulum in a full circle.

I agree that the pendulum does seem to be in a state of change at the moment, and all that is keeping it from swinging back (and probably giving it more overall momentum in the progress) is government and business interests.

I think the issues we face, and that we have always faced, are not so much technical as they are social and societal. By the time we solve the issues around the commons, ownership, and governance; the technical issues will seem trivial.
I have a Mac Mini on 24/7 that's a web/mail/file server. This is for my small business, so there is activity but nothing heavy. Absolutely more than capable of adding a dozen people for social networking.

This consumes 12W while idle, which is probably 99.9% of the day, these are just background daemons carrying out requests all day for loading the website and sending/receiving email.

It's cheaper than a hosting service and I have 100% physical control over my server. If it goes down for a power outage or whatever, the same exact thing happens on Linode every few months. Email will just start to backlog until your server comes back online.

You are at the mercy of your ISP though, the biggest hurdle is port blocking if they're bastards about it. Most of them are, but there are ways around it.

http://images.apple.com/environment/reports/docs/macmini_per...
Project Austin - A Case Study In Modern C++
Disclosure: I built this feature (http://geekli.st/emostar/i-built-job-posts)
I doubt they'd have a problem with GoDaddy coming along and offering it cheaper. The whole point is to get more people involved, and it's actually pretty smart of them to go ahead and anchor the price fairly high. There are probably about a million patio11 quotes that would be relevant here.
ZeroCater (W11) is building a sales team
Sure, sounds like laziness as mentioned before. The non-responsive designs "work" because your users haven't experienced something better
I would second comments elsewhere that balsamiq is a good model for this site. I am a paying balsamiq customer. Jetstrap seems like balsamiq but you are building a functional prototype instead of a wireframe mockup. As is, this could be worth about the same on a monthly basis, and I could possibly see this becoming a hosting site for full fledged pages built on jetstrap.
Who Edits Reddit? This guy.
It is here:
https://github.com/tent/tent.io
Reddit Asks: 'How Do You Wake Up In The Morning?'
> I dunno; maybe it's "ugly," but it's also explicit, and easy to see. Assigning meaning solely to subtle presentational differences can make code hard to read, and increase the likelihood of mistakes (as well as confusing beginners).

I typically disagree when people say, "Well you haven't tried Go yet, so maybe you should," but this is one of the few cases where I agree. The exported/unexported syntax is weird to look at, but once you start using it, you quickly realize it to be amazing.

One of the key things about using a capital letter to indicate export/unexport is that you know if a function or a method is exported at the call site. That is, the export information isn't just in the function declaration, but in the name itself.

And trust me, it is not hard to read. It's not that hard to imagine that your eyes are quickly trained to see the export information.

> [It's a similar problem to Python's significant whitespace.]

No, that's not a problem for anyone who knows how to not mix tabs and spaces.

> and then just released the result without actually understanding the repercussions of many of their decisions

What's ironic is that you're criticizing a feature that they kept because of how it worked in the real world.
LINQ: Hamilton Redditors rev their engines
For the purposes of making things clear, "not having hover states for your buttons" and "not making it clear to users what pieces of the page they're meant to interact with" have very little to do with flat design as a style, the exact same things can happen with skeuomorphic design as well(suggesting of skeuomorphic is the contrary style). Your 2 examples sound more like a lack of user experience consideration rather than a poor design style decision.
Twitter users may be victims of direct message malware
It is great to see such creative initiative of linking these nuisances in technology to a good cause. Would it be possible to link to the location of the browser for the missing children (or adults) in that area?
bedroom in an apartment or house, sure, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find much in the way of one-bedroom apartments at that price around there. Resist the urge to look out along 101, that highway is a parking lot at rush hour.
If you don't want to worry about buying certificates and configuring webservers for HTTPS, check out CloudFlare. It's a bit expensive ($20/month for the first site, $5/month for additional sites) if all you care about is SSL, but they offer a lot more than just SSL:

http://www.cloudflare.com/

http://blog.cloudflare.com/easiest-ssl-ever-now-included-aut...
Netflix drops most A+E networks programming
Fair enough :) It would be awesome to have more theming control. We will keep it in mind.
AirPR Nabs $1M To Help Startups Find Better PR
Reminds me of how big media companies delay release on Netflix or Amazon to promote DVD sales. In either case it's available for the pirates before retail stores.
Facebook SDK 3.1 for iOS announced
I think the pricing is partly as a driver for folks to do just that: host it themselves and flesh out the ecosystem.
I run one on my phone daily? Why are you asking a question with an obvious answer of: not everything is 64 bits yet.
I Don’t Make Mistakes. I Use C
That's great to hear. I don't really need a full apartment. I have a one-bedroom here in Cleveland, and everything I have fits nicely in that one bedroom. I am simply looking for a place to sleep at night.
I find it fascinating (Ironic?) that iTunes is now seen as the "preferred platform for artists wishing to make money selling their music" - given both it's history, as well the complete and utter lack of DRM associated with iTunes Music.
I don't understand your objection. Do you see a meaningful distinction between "cars are safer" and "cars are driven more safely"?
Adobe Announces Amazing Suite Of HTML5 Tools In Bid To Merge Open Source
The interesting part about timestamping change to records is essentially "effective dating" and it is bread and butter in any transactional system that needs to record employee info. This is done varying degrees to columnar values or entire rows themselves. In an RDBMS, you will create a compound key to allow you to know the history and the current record.
I guess the new fangled NoSQL will make it easier to store it easily..?
Among other problems, have to put up with delays imposed by greylisting, if your email server does that.
$> gcc -o test test.c

test.c:1:22: iostream.h: No such file or directory
... people who encountered this error often purchase
GCC For Professionals [Hardcover] £12.95
What world do you live in where the judicial branch of government is not in the government.
About the same as mine as well. Although I don't personally utilize Facebook, I believe this could take the place of it. My friends' use of Facebook makes me feel uncomfortable, like I have to monitor them (they just don't have any understanding of the implications).
Good question tvjunky. By registering your car - you allow your neighbors to contact you immediately regarding issues with your vehicle. So if you were to mistakenly block a neighbors' driveway - they could CurbTXT you to move your car rather than have you towed.

An "F-bomb laced note" wouldn't allow your neighbor to pull out of their driveway.

Registering for CurbTXT also allows your neighbors let you know if you're about to get ticketed for street cleaning, if you've left your lights on by mistake, if someone's smashed your window, etc.

Hope this clears things up,
Andrew at CurbTXT (info@curbtxt.com)
DRM on music is 100% useless.
You would have to prevent a DRM free copy from existing at all.
Excellent due diligence. If you just take the revenues and expenses and project them out a bit it's not hard to see $1B in value.
Drive the Model S Electric Car Anywhere in the Country on Pure Sunlight for Free

-- Not sure about that [1]

________________

[1] Tesla Unveils Supercharger Stations; <Six> Now in California.

http://www.teslamotors.com/tesla_theme/images/supercharger/s...

PCH: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Gil...
Direct link to MIT news release:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/automatic-building-mappin...

Wouldn't smoke scatter the IR pattern of Kinect? I think there might be some more work to be done before it can be a useful tool for firefighters.
who is your target customer and why are they paying you? Does this save them time? Money? Make them money? Got any scenarios or customer sketches?

In addition to these questions, I'd also think about how to reach a point where customer feels a high switching costs. It seems that a service like yours can be offered by many, but the important competitive advantage is that the more customers have stored data on your service, the more 'expensive' for them to switch.

What part of your service increases in value the longer someone uses it? Is it the historical data of the customer's own app, or is it the cross-sectional data of apps in other categories? As mentioned above, mixpanel is a good example, so is new relic.
This is true but it also means you have to be prepared to finance yourself for quite some time. Not everyone can do that. Also, by the time these guys took money they did it to get experience, connections and sponsorship.
I had no problem finding it on usenet...
If you're ray tracing, you might as well use a vec4 for that sphere. :)
A friend mentioned that non-scheduled (no passengers or commercial freight) flights in large aircraft (eg. 737) can still operate with a single-pilot and a rated flight engineer only. The pilot had to have her mask on (or clipped to the helmet) for the entire flight. This option is rarely done commercially, obviously.
Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government (with git)
Agreed. However I managed to spend 5 years being determined on a startup that ultimately failed, so I need to focus more on the other aspects he mentions.
Inspired by Google, Chicago pursues gigabit broadband
Ask HN Freelancers/Contractors: What rates do you have?
This is mainly for freelancers, contractors, and, well, anyone who hires their services out to clients. What rates do you have, how do you differentiate, and do you charge more or less for different types of task?

And now for the background: I've been working with a Lawyer to get a standard contract and general terms written up for future client work, and the question about rates was asked.

"Normally," I said, "I will charge $X/hour for regular contracting work, and $Y/hour for very short notice or emergency work."

"All contacting work is worth the same amount?"

And that got me thinking: some stuff adds significantly more value for a client, and is much harder to do, where as other stuff isn't complex, doesn't add much value for the client, but needs to get done. Here's what I have been able to come up with so far for different rates:

* Standard Contracting rate.

* Emergency rate: Covers anything that would normally be done under the Standard Contracting rate, but which has been requested at very short notice. It will be higher than the SC rate to offset my own costs.

* System Architecture rate: Planning, designing, requirements discovery, and technical documents. This will be significantly higher than the SC rate because the value for the client is much higher for the time spent.

* Re-factoring rate: Cleaning out old code bases, removing old/legacy/un-used code, adding documentation, etc. This will be lower than the SC rate because it takes a long time, and is more of a "long term investment" type of job.

So what rates do you have, and do you charge more or less for them?
If the cars were safer and more aware of pedestrians, like what we have seen from google car demos, I would be much more confident crossing the street, etc.
You can, however, purchase it for $10. I'm glad you can at least purchase it on Rdio, and hopefully that'll sync to devices too.
Source? That's not what the article says.
While we perhaps inculcate a bit more compliance than is strictly necessary, you can't make children not gullible. To be not gullible irreducibly requires enough experience with what is normal to know when something is not normal, and alas, not only do children have a straight-up calendar disadvantage there, the children that we are talking about are also more likely to not have a normal to compare against in the first place.

This is the wrong time to play that tune.
Our pricing at Repustate.com is fixed fee for a fixed quota of API calls. Usage-based billing sucks because of the unpredictability on both sides, plus it makes invoices much easier for us. Like others have mentioned here, predictable costs are good.
I strongly suspect the "Quaker legislators" part is untrue, because I'm pretty sure Quaker dominance of Pennsylvania government had ended long before 1896. (I couldn't find a reference on this point though, so I might be wrong.)

I don't know if the rest of the quote is accurate.
> So far we've established that: 1. you run with assertions always on in production, 2. you have encountered errors caught by the always-on assertions in production

No. I gave two examples, one where assertions are run in production (mostly because it's easier) and I'm trying to communicate with you that I don't see people leaning on assertions to find bugs in production code very frequently at all, and this is the fear of the Go FAQ. I gave another example were assertions are invariably not compiled into the program when running in production. Am I not being clear about this?

> (it may be "seldom," but then all errors are seldom, hopefully.)

False. Errors (like "no permission to file", "out of disk", "out of memory") are distinct from 'an internal consistency check has failed.'

These happen all the time for completely legitimate reasons.

> Turning off error checking is stupid. Your software will never be bug-free. Start dealing with reality and rename your assertions to sanity checks, which is what they are and always have been.

Strong words. Okay, here's what I think is stupid:

* Software too slow for the purpose.

* Avoiding writing expensive invariants because it would make the software too slow.

* The notational similarity of a broken invariant that intended to never occur vs. an error condition.

My solution has been to accept the last-most option and to stop writing expensive invariants, even though I wish I could succinctly and idiomatically communicate to all maintainers that the invariant is considered impossible rather than merely an error condition and run with the expensive invariants while in development (a global variable and praying to the branch prediction gods can be close enough).
If you're willing to wear currency risk:
http://www.nab.com.au/wps/wcm/connect/nab/nab/home/personal_...

I wish I could re-finance my mortgage at 3.375% fixed. :(
Money devoured by the big labels also hurts the indies. It's money that can't be given to indies.

The big record labels have to die. They've been mostly killed, and we're definitely past their point of utility, but they hang on and on and on.
We've been using cards like this over at Fitocracy since our last redesign: http://i.imgur.com/Uy7mq.jpg and our code looks pretty similar to that in the page. Some caveats:

Firefox <5 doesn't support 3D CSS animations, and neither do most versions of IE. For some reason, in our code, when CSS3 transformations aren't available just the back of the card is shown and the text on is written in reverse (like looking at it in a mirror). This also shows up on some versions of Chrome where Chrome/Chromium just flat out decides your computer doesn't have a good enough GPU and disables hardware acceleration (which if your computer can actually handle you can bypass with a chromeflag), which made it a bigger problem :(

We ended up having to do a fallback of the animation to do a fade-in/fade-out on non supported devices, I wish CSS3 3D animations were ready for production.
There is a ~9 year old buffer overflow vulnerability in sendmail (crackaddr) that no static analyzer can identify even today (and they are specifically targeting it as a test case).
webstorm.
For an organization like IEEE that pushes for professional codes of ethics & quality, certification, etc., it is remarkable how derelict they are in providing even basic security for their users' passwords.
Because you need to test it in the actual runtime environment, not your machine? That's how mobile development works.
Then this whole post sounds like a non issue. You couldn't be bothered to even look at the log file for your app because it wasn't important enough, then you shouldn't be irate when it doesn't work as expected.
I'm going to expand this blog post into a book: http://www.layeredthoughts.com/startups/12-rules-for-buildin...

The goal is to create essentially a framework for startup ideas that can set you up for success in the best way possible.
Most people violate parking regulations by mistake - and would prefer to avoid being ticketed or towed.

CurbTXT lets your neighbors contact you regarding any issue with your vehicle - whether it's your fault or not. Like if someone smashed your car window.

Hope this clears things up,
Andrew at CurbTXT (info@curbtxt.com)
The funny thing is, even if Deadmau5 only sells his music on iTunes, Amazon etc, by the time you deduct Apple's/Amazon's cut and the record label's cut, he isn't going to make that much, maybe $100k or even $200k Net if he's lucky.

To put that in perspective, I know that Deadmau5 usually gets around $100k per gig he gets played (for the bigger festivals anyway), so really after 2 gigs he's going to have made more then his whole album.

And it's the case with most artists now anyway, they make more money from concerts then they do in song sales.
Not to diminish your point about Oracle's handling of their inherited codebase (too much). I kindof agree...

But, it bears mentioning that Ruby and Python aren't a mainstream part of browsers. And Flash (under Adobe) has actually done some pretty impressive stuff recently with regard to sandboxing.
Reminds me of the Lower Merion School District fiasco.
All of those points apply directly to every log-in system that currently allows you to reset your password via e-mail.
> Microsoft eras seem to run about 20 years, so the technology underlying Windows 8 will last a long, long time.”

Isn't Win8 still NT kernel? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Releases
Until everyone stops using Ubuntu because for some mysterious reason they suddenly hate it.
Cool. This sounds a bit like Game Closure (http://gameclosure.com/)
Ubooly, The Plush Toy With An iPhone Brain, Grabs $1.5M In Seed Funding
Negative on that. Not all algorithms produce the salt internally like bcrypt does--programmers must still be careful to supply a sufficiently lengthy random salt as input to PBKDF2, for example. Labeling folks who know this as stuck in the past or ignorant is a mistake.
It was a family business so I wasn't much older than that. :) It's amazing what children can do if you don't tell them it's too hard.
jeez I applied for four jobs just last week and I already have a job, not to sound to hard on you but you always have to keep pushing forward with career networking even if things are going well and even if its just online networking
> What happens when you have, say, a million friends, and want to post a status?

There won't be a million servers, most people will cluster around the few most popular providers.