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I think your concerns are way overblown. But in a broad sense, yes, San Franciscans have made a conscious decision to pay a premium so that their city doesn't turn into New York.

> economic stagnancy

It's not some god given rule that cities HAVE to keep growing ad infinitum, especially ones that have limited land. Most San Franciscans are happy with the size of the city as it is.

> transportation nightmares

I'm not sure what you are referring to here. MUNI is very abundant and isn't too expensive (compared to NYC it's really cheap). There is generally plenty of parking outside of downtown.

> destroying traditional neighborhood demographics

Lol. The Chinese are doing just fine, but I guess you're referring to the former ghettos (Lower Filmore, Hunter's Point, the TL, etc.) that had huge drug problems and violence (It's still there, but siginificantly reduced) Yes, gentrification is unfortunate - but building high rises everywhere would ruin the "culture" much faster (though I would argue the Tenderloin doesn't have much culture to lose) and wouldn't solve the poverty among "traditional neighborhood demographics". What needs to be done, is a lot more needs to be spent on schools and city college and less on low income housing (where people are locked into poverty).

> very fundamental quality of life

That's just a vapid hyperbole. Not building high rises is preserving the quality of life SF is known for. The NewYorkification of SF (started by the Gavin Newsome) is what will ruin the quality of life.

In my experience the people that whine and moan about there not being enough housing in SF are people that don't live there. I think what they're thinking is if there were more teeny tiny apartments then they could afford to live there. While that may be true, then SF wouldn't be SF anymore - and it would only be a short term fix as SF would become just as crowded and expensive as Manhattan.
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Anyone know of any comparisons?
I would compare it to the idea of international travel as "passport intensive" or of the recording industry as "lawsuit intensive".
There is also a plan in 2014 regulations that cars can only use electric engine when in pits. However, this can be delayed because teams are reluctant to it. Besides electric only engine is quiet so it could lead to some accidents in pit-lane.
How does a high frame rate movie actually look like? Some good samples for those interested here -
http://www.48fpsmovies.com/high-frame-rate-example-videos/
The housing unit looks very sterile. Almost like a hospital room. Some of the character of SF wil be lost.
Are you by any chance European? A lot of US apartments do have a shared laundry...I can't think of any of my American friends who have a washing machine.

This is in contrast to the UK, where it's culturally the norm for every flat to have its own washing machine (normally a condensor combi dryer, another thing not so popular in the US). Sames goes for heat: heat if often shared in the US, but here in the UK almost all apartments have individual boilers.

I am sure somebody here must have an explanation for exactly why this cultural difference has developed, because I have no clue!
Central vac, with shared hose and power head. Make it so, Numba One.
Agreed. I hope awareness increases in the near term. It's a sad fact, but we need to find an alternative to using helium in frivolous ways--in particular, party balloons.
The iphone doesn't zoom like the android browser and makes hacker news more difficult to use in portrait mode. (Tiny text and tiny buttons)
For anyone interested in writing HTML5 (Canvas or SVG) in-browser editors, I think there is big market potential in, not necessarily another diagram tool like this, but a content authoring tool for data analysis. It's not a big leap from this product to an editor for say, D3 or HighCharts.
I didn't say anything about "working stupid hours," did I? However:

You may well end up being outcompeted by someone who put in forty hours a week of smart, correctly applied work.

Let me know when that actually happens.
US military unclassified systems are a mess... a spaghetti bowl of disjoint networks, operating systems, hardware, desktop and Internet applications designed by a multitude of lowest bid government contractors with little sense for usability and often very poor technical skills.
What App Store hasn't something like this occurred on? The Play Store maybe?

You signed up to play the game, so go with the flow, appeal it. Posting a relatively substance-free Ask HN topic about it isn't going to accomplish anything.
hey there, did you know that tldr.io now offers an extension that allows you to read tldrs without leaving the HN frontpage? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tldr/ohmamcbkcmfal...

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You've hit on one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to software patents: by the time you've described the "invention" at a low-enough level to actually allow replication by future patent readers, the resulting patent would be nigh-indistinguishable from actual code.
"Unwavering" is a good prefix for a lot of things. "Unwavering advocate for software freedom" is good. "Unwavering support for free software projects" is another. "Unwavering asshole" is the part that causes problems.
You keep using that chart type. I do not think it means what you think it means.
RMS is an activist, not a party. If you were to hand him control of the house of representatives, indeed, he's be pretty damaging. That doesn't mean his ideas are wrong.

I spent years in the "the FSF are unrealistic nuts standing in the way of open source" camp too. The problem, looking back on those years, is that RMS was right about pretty much everything that mattered. I give him a lot of slack these days in my personal judgements, and the occasional shouting match with a law professor seems like a small price to pay.
You probably need to be more specific than that. What sort of inverse problem do you have in mind? Does your thesis deal with solving inverse problems, or with visualization, or with monte carlo simulation using forward models? If it's problem-based, what particular problems do you consider? Are there graphical representations of the forward problem? Do you intend to actually solve the inverse problem and show its solution, or just make a drawing of what you think the solution would be?

In my field, a typical inverse problem involves source term estimation. Imagine you have a forward model of atmospheric transport. That is, given a source of some gas or radiological particle, the model predicts its concentration in the surrounding area, over time. A graphical representation of that forward problem might be, for example, a contour map of 24-hour exposures.

For such a situation, an inverse problem is to estimate, based on a few sensor readings, the strength and location of a source. A graphical representation of that inverse problem might be a contour map of probabilities that the source is in a given location.
Why, exactly? If you buy a piece of software and uncover a bug, why shouldn't you be able to pay someone to fix it? As a consumer, why wouldn't you demand this?
Kind of a pointless article. They came up with a technique to create the sensation of playing at 60 FPS, despite in reality running at 30 frames. They then explain absolutely nothing about how they achieved that. I got as much from the article as I did the headline on HN.
However, I think it is a case of the acts of a few tarring everyone with the same brush.

I honestly used to think the exact same thing however I've quickly come to realise that the opposite is true. There are infinitely more shitty recruiters than decent ones but that's not to mean the shitty approach works.

The very fact that you frequent HN is a big plus in your favour. HN was incredibly helpful and supportive of me during my quest to prove all recruiters aren't scum so hopefully if you stick with your job and continue to contribute here, they'll show you the same respect you show them.
What if startups weren't worth it unless they were well-run enough to require very few hours over 40 from its employees

Are we talking about employees, or founders?
I used Debian's Multistrap on another computer to make the chroot. I just copied it into it's own directory somewhere on /home and used it from there.

You'll need to enable dev-mode, and you'll probably need to remount the partition it's on without the noexec option. It's a pretty standard chroot from there on.

I can write up the process somewhere or share the filesystem if there's enough interest.
I like: ihackernews.com

I'll check out the app though.
I do want to step on their PR. This is like looking at an RSS feed. Try something like TLDRPlugin.com that actually summarizes content, and works with any web page, not just the few RSS feeds that some guy decided to include.
I think we can safely remove Lincoln from this discussion...in any case, all of the above made compromises in their stances and approaches. Not because they were weak-willed, but because they were wrong and were wise enough to change tack.

MLK Jr's early campaign to desegregate the city of Albany, Ga., for example, is usually considered to have been a failure (in terms of return on investment) because the political dream of desegregating the entire city was seen as too big to effectively organize a campaign for:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_movement

> “The mistake I made there was to protest against segregation generally rather than against a single and distinct facet of it. Our protest was so vague that we got nothing, and the people were left very depressed and in despair” (“Martin Luther King: A Candid Conversation”).

http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclo...

What followed, of course, were the Birmingham bus boycotts and other campaigns with a much more limited scope. To me, this represents a "waver." In retrospect, we can say that MLK was just changing tactics and he never wavered in his belief against segregation...but is that something you would've guessed if you were one of his contemporaries? Or would you have thought, like many of his anti-segregationist rivals, that MLK was being an "Uncle Tom" and deliberately aiming for small-victories as to not upset the white status quo? It's easy to say "Well, MLK was unwavering all along" 50 years later...but had his smaller campaigns not gone so well (and he was most definitely not the only person making inroads in the civil rights movement) and resulted in only localized successes, then we would be viewing MLK as a man of compromise today.

The larger point is that effective revolutions encompass a large degree of compromises. Sometimes a leader will give on something to reduce the number of opponents he/she has to face.

So to the original commenter's point, it is not admirable in politics (art and martyrdom is a different thing) to be unwavering, at least by those who practice it and want a real degree of success.
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Yeah, when I see people running Ubuntu for their production servers I always assume it's developers with minimal system admin experience who just want to use the same distro for their server as their desktop. I've got nothing against Ubuntu, and have even used it to convert a few windows users over, but if you're going to run a production server then install Debian on it.
You probably already know that, but your "sponsors" page is completely broken on my system, and it blames adblock.

Page:

http://buysellads.com/buy/detail/158594?utm_source=shorturl&...

Error message:

Does BuySellAds look broken? Disable your ad blocker, their haphazard default filters sometimes break our site.

I don't care enough about you(yet) to disable adblock. I don't even know what "sponsor" means in context of your site. I was just clicking around.

Also, you probably need it for tracking, but I don't like clicking on http://toolong-didntread.com/sponsorship and being redirected to http://buysellads.com/buy/detail/158594?utm_source=shorturl&...
Yet another re-skinned Linux, if you dig far enough.
It talks about scan lines and 3:2 pull down but does not mention an actual film projector displays the whole frame at once where TV's have scan lines.
I like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tldr/giepilabiomhl... better. It doesn't make you leave a website to get the summary and even works with your email, and facebook.
Hey HN,

I am creating a smart domain search engine with focus on relevancy and this is my progress so far.

I have added all methods of name creation in one single interface. Methods include synonyms, antonyms, related words, portmanteau, misspellings, phonetic variations, short url, acronyms, suffixes, prefixes etc.

I am ranking these names based on some quality metrics like length, relevancy etc for easy discovery of good ones.

I have tried to keep it simple and fast, with allowing complex queries using wildcards.

Examples:-

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beyond dictionaries :)
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I worked for a competitor and I was shocked at the price autonomy got and then disappointed a bit when my company was acquired. Now it seems like HP didn't really do their homework on this deal.
For a kilobuck a month, you can buy a 4-bedroom, 2-story, single-family house on a half acre in a lovely suburb of Minneapolis. Of course, you'll also have to buy a down parka, a car to get you to work, a snowblower, a lawnmower, gas for the foregoing...

...and you're not living in San Francisco, which is a deal breaker for some.
For a one year lease or a month-by-month?
My room is about 100 square foot, for 10,000HKD ($1200) per month short-term.
Once you go for an annual lease you get twice the space.
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Context: mbesto said (essentially) "well, yes, that's the theory, but in practice no one pays it because you can engineer your taxes around it". My reply was "people who have a lot to lose if they are found guilty of evasion do not actually try to engineer around it".

Or, I'll say it another way: The reason most people believe it is easy to engineer around it, is because they have not yet been audited. It's actually not at all easy to engineer around it.

Case in point: Mitt Romeny "only paid" 18% in taxes, so you might assume that's his tax rate - but it isn't; he paid 10% more to his church. Had he not done that, his tax rate would have been 28%. Also, for the privilege of being shielded from lawsuits (through corporate structures), his corporate paid some nontrivial corporate tax - 20-30%. So he actually paid ~50% for his work. I'm not defending him - I would be glad if he paid more - I'm just explaining that people are completely irrational in their discussions of tax rates. The ONLY number should be (what I take home)/(employer's out-of-pocket expense to employ me), for salaried employees.
Completely agree. I was about to write something like that. I've designed processorlike hardware, but not touched it since the 80'es, so I'm not really confident in state of the art of hardware programming.
Except 37Signals took VC money from Jeff Bezos.
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This article make an assumption about twitter, that it has a technological leads in scaling things and doing it at x message a minutes. I used to think that as well.

Until i saw Weibo's numbers, which in terms of a message per minutes volume is much higher then twitter.

So while web tech and scaling is hard, both are not fundamental problem to Apple's web tech. It properly has more to do with its internal culture on Web services.
"Take that, Tokyo"?

Are you kidding? Tokyo is laughing at SF's face, with its 80 square feet (4.5jō) rooms [1]!

(not that I'd want to live in this kind of arrangement again...)

[1] 1jō = 17.79 sq.ft. 1jō is the standard area for one tile of tatami. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_units_of_measurement#A...
Thanks. This is very interesting; "Stars aligned" means, among other things, that I won't move before I know I have a job.
I used to think this until I read book The Long Pursuit. It's highly likely that Lincoln thought slavery was intrinsically bad.

It's a thin-ish book and I highly recommend it.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Long-Pursuit-Lincolns-Thirty-Year/...
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Medical patents are only necessary to preserve inflated pricing models intended to support the owner's (and/or licensee's) advertising campaigns.
Well more business for Stripe (not that they needed it).
I read most of the transcripts of the Oracle v Google trial. This was a case where both sides had highly paid expert legal teams staffed with the best lawyers in the country that spent an enormous amount of time preparing to argue a case about patents and copyright in software.

What jumped out at me, and I imagine anyone else on HN who read these transcripts, was that despite what was a set of the optimum circumstances for lawyers dealing with software issues, none of them had the slightest idea what they were talking about. They were way off the mark. "What is an API?" - a central issue to the case. The lawyers from neither side understood the answer. "How do people use a programming language?" Again, both sides were desperately clueless (although Oracle's Boies was obviously more so, sometimes hilariously.)

So often in reading those transcripts I wanted to grab one of the lawyers and scream in his face, "you idiot!! What the hell is wrong with you?!? Are you stupid????"

The situation with software patents is the same - the same clueless legal people are having the same clueless legal discussion about it. They don't understand how software works, they don't understand what software patents really mean, they don't understand the marketplace, and they certainly don't understand programming. Unlike me, who just sits back and screams in my own head at the clueless people who are the self-appointed architects of the legal world in which software developers and entrepreneurs will live and work, Richard Stallman is standing up and screaming in their faces about it. It must feel satisfying to do that. Someone needs to.
Someone in the industry told me it felt like they were watching actors in a stage show, and not in a good way. All sense of immersion and suspension of belief was eroded away into watching people in costumes fight on fake sets against CG monsters. He said with such a high frame rate it's almost like live footage has reached the uncanny-valley. It seems quite on par with the statement from Entertainment Weekly.
I'm using GIMP under Windows and I don't care about damn Photoshop.
Well it was our operations guys who refused anything but Ubuntu because "they had installed it at home". We now no longer have operations guys and the development team own the infrastructure :)
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I didn't realize Stallman was licensed under the GPL!
Does this mean you can no longer run xmonad or other tiling window managers with GNOME?
No centralized payment provider is immune from US law. Eventually Stripe will suffer the same fate.
Pretty much every large supermarket I've been in in the UK and Ireland uses pressurized tubes to send money from the tills to the back office.
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One thing not mentioned here is speed. Musk has said this could go from LA to San Francisco in 30 minutes, which is an average speed of ~700 mph - slightly faster than a commercial airliner but in the same ballpark. I'm definitely not an expert in fluid dynamics, but it seems like safely maintaining that speed in a tube at atmospheric pressure would be difficult. Maybe there's some way to design the shape of the pods such that there's a very stable equilibrium keeping it away from the walls. Or you could potentially use a magnetic field to do this (similar to a tokamak) but that seems be trickier and more expensive than a mag-lev rail.

An evacuated tube has the advantage of being much more stable at high speeds and avoids the issue of excess heat from repeatedly compressing and expanding the air in the tube.

In any case, great read. I almost wonder if Musk has thrown this idea out half-baked just to get more people to start thinking outside the box about transportation...
Quite frankly that is the worst possible thing. For some bizarre reason we expect politicians to have an opinion, never change it and be right. I'd much rather a politician update their opinions based on new information, evidence and research that comes in. Slavishly sticking to something despite changes in information, evidence and research is really stupid.
> I am trying to say that America is not one place or one people, or even one government, and that comparing the entirety of a loose coalition of independent states to single independent nations is disingenuous and ignores specific factors that other developed nations simply don't have to deal with.

There is nothing unique about that. That is the case of all countries in the world.

I wonder what you would like to see happen? Rather than compare Japan to America, should I compare Japan to Oregon, and Japan to Louisiana like they are separate places? I wonder what the attitude would be then? Everyone in Oregon sits pretty because they are ranked with the world's best, and people in Louisiana are condemned to life of poverty and suffering?

I wonder what would happen if violence and poverty broke out in a corner of Oregon, vastly changing it's position - would you then further break-down Oregon into counties, so once again you can sit pretty in the knowledge your county ranks well and can ignore the others?

You sound like a baseball team manager who's team constantly finishes towards the bottom of the ladder- then you say "yeah, but we have unique challenges because our team is made up of different races, etc. If we had a better pitcher and short stop, we'd be so much better". The reality is you have the team you have. You can choose to work with it as a team to improve things, or you can segregate yourself and say "well, I'm a great first baseman, so screw everyone else".
How is that productive?

A country is made up of the sum of it's parts - every country has areas that are way above average, and areas that are way below average for an enormous number of reasons - that, of course, is the definition of average

Apologies for offending you, that was not my intention, though reading back through my comments I see I have not expressed myself well.
Were you ever an employer?

If your salary is 10,000SEK/month (to make numbers simple), then you cost your employer 13,100SEK/month. You pay 3,000 SEK in taxes, so your take home is 7,000/13,1000 = ~55%, and the tax rate is 45%.

If the employer didn't have to pay those 31% to the government, he would have paid them to you, and you would have been taxed on them.

It doesn't matter how the line items are listed from the employer's perspective, and it shouldn't matter to you. Just assume that this appears as another line item, and also a grand total "employer expense". This is what you negotiate when you negotiate your salary - not the 10,000 SEK.
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And in Geneve, Switzerland, you would be lucky to have it at all. And it would easily set you back 1500 CHF.
I have experimented a bit with this, and this is what I can tell you about it. As soon as DPs get a hang of it, there will be no more talk about it except in "hipster" circles like vinyl or celluloid. Getting lighting and motion blur (especially motion blur) to look and feel the same is something DPs will need to adjust to. Only thing I am worried about now are render times. There are now 48 frames per second and twice as that if in 3D.