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Ask HN: Feedback needed for myRentr.com, a universal rental application
Hey guys. Long time lurker and first time poster.

I currently have a San Francisco roommate matching site (think Grouper but for housing) called BunkSF.com. While working on Bunk I have noticed that people searching for housing are having to fill out multiple rental applications at $30 bucks a piece. It seemed crazy to me because each application is asking for the same info. Because of this, I created myRentr.com.

The idea of myRentr.com is like the common college application but for apartments. Users buy our application for $30 (this may change) and we do the background check, employment check and credit check. Afterwards we put all the info in a nice little document (also includes photo, social media links, and personal blurp) so the user can give the application to whoever they choose.

We have also created a Craigslist Widget, so people who have spare rooms and are posting on CL can ask that their potential applications bring a completed app. It seems crazy to me that property companies spend the time to run their tenant's credit when it would be much easier to ask the tenant to bring a completed app to the showing.

Any feedback/criticism would be wonderful! Thanks for you time
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Techmeme founder: Give me human editors and the New York Times
I used to write reviews all the time. Mostly to help developers and help other Android users who have the same device as me. As a result of this move, I no longer write reviews in the Play Store. Great work Google, you helped everyone other than those that matter!
From the article: "our network team estimates that Syria likely has a small number of edge routers." I'd imagine it was an easy to implement given the appropriate access.
It has about the same battery life as an 11" MacBook Air. If you add a keyboard, then it is about the same price as an 11" MacBook Air but the MacBook Air only has 1366x768 resolution vs. 1920x1080 for the Surface Pro.
A T-Mobile iPhone next week? Unlikely. T-Mo isn’t ready
You are at an advantage, because your mind is not poisoned by unnecessary baggage. "Just" build and offer stuff that works reliable, with better quality. Demonstrate that, prove that, measure that. It's not the tools and techniques that matter, it's the results.
This is educational content not blockbuster films. Recording the output in this case would be more than sufficient.
Wow 37%! Yeah I can't see that much share price increase coming from a "choose your own price" when the games have already been out for a while. Buyouts are typically the cause for ~10%+ increases I suppose?
The civil liberties encroachments perpetrated in the guise of "stopping child porn" do a hell of a lot more damage to a hell of a lot more people than all the child porn ever produced.
Automated curation is well into its hype cycle by now. It works well as a supporting tool for human editors to use but on its own, it's flawed for the reasons Gabe outlines and more. Contrary to the punditry of several years ago, we're not all glued to Google News now - we still love editorial brands, like specific editorial viewpoints, and appreciate a human-driven editorial voice.

And the next one coming along the way is automated content generation.. http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/25/coders-cant-put-writers-out...
I've never understood GitHub...I just write code in notepad and then sftp it into my server to deploy...why go through github?
Well now you're talking about a scenario where you don't actually have any connection to the person and don't have anything to offer him next time around to make it worth his while meeting you a second time. In that scenario, spending the intervening year faking a relationship on Facebook doesn't strike me as a productive use of either party's time.
That is a frickin' awesome video. Does anyone know what tool that is, I think I want it running on my status displays.

For those who are wondering your edge router (or border router) "advertises" that it can route to a particular subnet. That information propagates around and packets find there way there. So someone in Syria told all of their border routers to stop advertising routes to Syria's IP blocks. Now the fun thing you can do is since they aren't advertising those routes, if you are sitting in a data center somewhere and have peering access and a ASIN id you can advertise those routes and all of Syria's traffic will start heading your way :-) Of course if that monitoring tool is still running it will have all these lines suddenly running off the screen toward your data center.

The traffic that is actually in Syria can't get out. So its not like you could snoop on Syria or anything.
Yeah, totally. I can already order 3D printing and get it shipped to my doorstep. No drive to staples required.
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In 2012 most UIs are html driven and not native apps anymore that have been designed to fit some mostly used resolutions.
If I was your TA, I would be worried about this. And, unfortunately, I have had senior level students who I've had to dissuade that cut+paste code is not a valid methodology past year 1.

They way to think about things is like this: code is an expression of a problem. It's no coincidence we call them programming languages. They're not write-once, any code you write will be read an order of magnitude more than it will be written to.

The way you write things makes me feel like you don't recognize Computer Science problems, and that you are beginning to realize that the code by itself doesn't constitute the problem. This is a common thread through undergraduate CS students, and it will take some people a long time before this clicks naturally (especially when it feels like writing code is a struggle alone, once you become more fluent code will no longer be the barrier).

You aren't hirable as someone in mindset you are in, but you're moving closer to someone who can be. Continue on your mental journey of seeing problems first. Start working harder at following best practices. You'll get there.
My X1 Carbon has 8 GB RAM, it has lasted for 5+ hours without the battery getting to a critically low level (I've only had it 2 days, so I haven't fully tested it), and it has a Core i5. The only issue is that the Core i7 option and 8 GB RAM option appear to be mutually exclusive, so I went with the Core i5, and I haven't regretted it so far.

Also keep in mind that there are also several advantages to the X1 Carbon over the MacBook Air, which I mentioned in my previous post. The biggest one is that despite being the same physical size as the 13" MacBook Air, you get a 14" screen.
I have one because a lot of tech people are on there and it's easy to get news I don't wanna subscribe to. But given that Google won't allow me to use my actual internet identity of ten years, I've merely got the account set up as a first name and an indistinguishable initial. Google have done a fantastic job in alienating me as a user. What's hilarious is that the name I want to use and wouldn't mind associating with my G+ reviews is the same name that I use on my email account. Google apparently doesn't care though, so no reviews from me either.
Even if you look at Jesus as a secular historical figure (Thomas Jefferson-style) it's pretty clear that he was a master storyteller.
You're very much more expensive in the brackets below 10TB amazon takes around 10cent, you up to 24. Break even is in the bracket between 10 and 49 TB but after that amazon again undercuts you with 7cent/GB/month. With you I have to pay in advance and not by monthly usage - at least that's how I read your product page.

Now there may or may not be other reasons to choose your service (data center in switzerland is appealing) but according to your pricing page, you're only cheaper in a very narrow window.
Well, you can either pay people, or do it yourself.

Big data is big business these days. If you can find free data on the scale you need, it wouldn't be a business at all.
I think that you're reading the tea-leaves all wrong. You also have made a few unproven claims.

Chief among them to my mind, is that Microsoft has made a "significant investments in JavaScript and node.js". Significant compared to what? Certainly not compared to .NET which has been a gargantuan decade+ investment.

In my opinion: A strong cross-platform C# eco-system is simply not good for Microsoft. They had to kill Silverlight. By backing Javascript, they bought some time. Silverlight was getting too good. Microsoft does not want a good, easy-to-use cross-platform kit with static-typing and native capabilities to exist. Anything cross-platform from Microsoft is a head-fake, a bare-bones concession, or someone's pet-project that grows into a monster which will have to be killed.

I could be wrong, but I don't think that I am.
I wonder how long this company has been around and how visible they are. From days ago Iris used to be the name in pre-press digital proofing. Before you went to press, you better get an Iris or a ChromaPress to be certain everything was ok.

Even now, their printers are pretty heavily saturated within google image search. If not the sane company, I'm smelling a name change or a trademark issue.

https://www.google.com/search?q=iris+printer&hl=en&c...
>He's not a telecom company, so he'll be responsible for whatever his IP address hosts.

I would challenge you to point to a specific law that actually says that. I'm not saying you can't (there are a lot of countries in the world with a lot of ridiculous laws), but what you're saying would prohibit internet cafes, public libraries with computer terminals, coffee houses or hotels with wifi, etc., because none of them are telcom companies and they allow unauthenticated or poorly authenticated members of the public to use their IP address.

The truth is complicated. But if we're trying to get things to work how they should work, raiding Tor exit nodes just because they're Tor exit nodes is not in the cards. Even if the existing laws are defective in some jurisdictions, they can be fixed, and in the meantime police and prosecutors are very often allowed the discretion to not go out of their way to harass potentially innocent suspects. I may be asking too much asking for them to actually exercise it.
Full-colour is huge. Not for practical stuff, but for anything decorative, it's massive.

For example, MMORPG players wanting to print their characters will cheerfully provide a six-figure market on their own, I'd think!
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1. I agree that the in-store staff won't be expert. But as long as they're half-way competent, that will be a big help for people who are brand-new to the technology but don't know where to start. I think this will improve over time, but I may be biased; I have this theory that we're moving away from retail being totally unskilled and that brick & mortar suppliers will start competing by improving service, because that's one area where their online competitors are weak.

2. This should have been point #1 really.

3. I think the internet is pushing things that way, insofar as one can't easily afford to let someone else establish themselves as the market leader: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstar#Economics_of_.22super...

Now I'm not at all sure Staples will end up as the market leader in 3d printing, but it may be sufficient for them to simply beat out competitors like Office Depot and become the leader in their market segment.
I've written some fantastic reviews. Why am I being punished by an unproven notion? This doesn't help anyone. It's merely a terrible marketing ploy to further push G+.
I think Microsoft and IE haters alike often overlook one HUGE reason people won't switch to IE 10: There is no reason to switch back to IE because it doesn't offer any reason to. Even your question points out that there is no obvious reason why users should be switching. If it did, it would have started with something like "Now that IE has X will you switch?"

Chrome, Firefox, and Opera have proven innovative not just in the realm of CSS, JS, and HTML5 standards, but also in things like extensions, community, update cycles, etc. IE is constantly catching up, so even when it does become the "fastest browser" it is only that for a month. Then a new version of Chrome or Firefox comes out that is faster and has new features X,Y, and Z.
That's only for SD releases; HD still use the MKV container
Versal - HTML5 education platform (splash)
"There are lots of jobs oriented around achieving specific goals with throwaway code that you might be happier in than being a slave to the CI server, and they aren't less valuable."

Hi, would you mind elaborating on this? I am a self-taught coder since this year with exactly one webapp project to show. I'm in no position to say for sure, but I think I would enjoy writing throwaway code more than highly technical code. That is, getting stuff done is more satisfying to me than the nitty gritty details. If left on my own I'd probably develop into a coder with a portfolio much like the OP. I think we're more interested in what we could do with code, than the technicals of it. So I'm wondering what kinds of jobs out there for people like me, or am I looking at building small but profitable projects to make a living. Thanks.

Edit: If it matters I have an engineering background (MSEE) and can understand some of what's going on under the hood. If I had to pass a CS exam I would just cram like for any other test. But, I found I'm more motivated by the business end.
The cheapest version of a device gets people in the door. Many people will, rightly or wrongly, compare the $499 iPad 4 with the $899 Surface Pro. That one has 16 GB of space and the other has 64 GB (well more like 48 GB since Windows and Office take a lot of space) comes into play after people are thinking the iPad is way cheaper than the Surface Pro.
It's not a tablet. It's an ultrabook in a tablet form factor with a multi-touch aware UI. Is that something that people want? We'll see.
Unfortunately very few people will be comparing it against a MBA and other 'ultra'books as MS seems intent on positioning it as a tablet that you can do work on. And compared to other tablets in the market, it seems a bit absurd. They're going to have to do an amazing marketing job to separate the two products into their proper categories, but considering they look the same, and sport the same features I imagine they're not going to succeed.
The equilibrium
Maybe many of the people that shop at Stsples are not aware this technology even exists.

In my experience, at least in my locale, the shoppers ask for help finding a USB cable over an HDMI cable. If they are in Staples paying 10x the rate on a cable instead of at monoprice, this just might be something of a value add on.

What many don't know is that a few Staples offer a significant print shop on site. Yes, you can order 1000 rounded corner 4/4 business cards online for near free, or you can pay $90.00 at Staples. Some just haven't yet learned how to enter words into google yet. It's surprising actually. So surprising that LMGTFY is a huge whoosh!
The Mike Judge/Idiocracy Theory of Evolution.
Headline is literally true but misleading. Only a Senate committee passed it.
Your definition of a "good" laptop is different than mine. A sub $500 laptop isn't going to be competitive with this.
I just started using Git and Github myself... and for me, github itself is useful as an online backup for a repository (git itself being incredibly useful in terms of organizing projects) and just having a github profile looks better on your resume, etc than not having one. At the very least, your code is right there to be looked at.
Imagine you have a gene that will make half of your kids very strong, but unable to reproduce. Because of the tendency to protect the familly, your strong kids might help their sibilings to survive and reproduce, propagating their genes.

Another example is the ants. A gene that gives workers good abilities will help the hole colony, even if the worker themself do not reproduce.
I don't think you can make such a broad claim. I've been working at startups for a few years and I don't lack job offers, but they come mostly from my past experience and industry ties. I've "launched" (as in created) two small web apps in the last 6 months and even though one has a few hundred users I still only got a 15$ donation and some interesting conversations, but no job offers.

Not to mention I have tens of github repos and even though the link is on my CV I was never asked anything about any of them in my last job search.

I live in Tel-Aviv, a city only second to SV in startup mania, yet I still feel very alien reading a lot HN articles and comments.

Edit: Thought I should add: in the Israeli startup scene ties, not launching are your best bet at getting a good job.
It's definitely not black and white, and I called out Android for specifically that reason. I wasn't actually aware that maps was not a web product at all when acquired so you're quite right that it fits into the same category.

To take the tangent further off topic it's interesting to me that Google's greatest successes post-search/ads appear to be these strategic products. Not things that bring direct profits, but those that allow them to influence the major platforms (mobile, web). Committing key resources in this way speaks of long-term thinking that other companies could learn from.
[ ] You want to use git (which allows for pretty awesome workflows)[1]

[ ] You want to keep some external backup you can rollback changes from.

[ ] You want to allow other people to collaborate with you.

[ ] You want your work to be more visible.

Check as appropiate.

[1] See http://sandofsky.com/blog/git-workflow.html, and http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ for an example.
The tool is http://bgplay.routeviews.org/
I'll be attending the conference, and I'm really looking forward to it.

I especially like their honesty here that their first attempt to get a broad applicant pool failed, and that they were willing to work to rectify that.
Its easy to make your browser resolution smaller. You can't make it bigger though.
Would you care to embellish us all with your expertise then? I'd love a link to your blog post explaining the outage. This isn't Reddit, it's Hacker News and on HN if you dispute something you have to at the very least lightly back it up.

Maybe you're right, what would a company who was voted Most Innovative Network & Internet Technology Company of 2011 & again in 2012 by the Wall Street Journal know about networking and how Internet traffic is routed, right? The very fact they even embedded a video showing the traffic dropping off in the blog post I think proves they know a thing or two about network traffic, they provide content delivery and domain name server services to a lot of happy customers after all.
I think .NET will always be there, I think C# will continue to grow and evolve as a language (with the help of its big brother F#).
IMO, “closer to the money” means “closer to the purchasing decision”. At the cashier’s desk, the purchasing decision is already made – cashiers are here to process the transaction.

You can build the best product ever, if nobody wants to buy it you are not going to make anything out of it. That’s why companies try to influence people’s behaviors by spending (investing?) money in advertising and hire sales teams.
At any rate, it seems evolution has shifted from an individual action, to a cultural (or, dare I say, a civilizational) action. And from a cosmic point of view, it makes a lot of sense.
Good stuff! It'd be nice if the data was pre-loaded in some way that doesn't hinder the page load time. Not sure how, off-hand, but know it's possible.
Nope: http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/contact

>Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 10485760) (tried to allocate 19456 bytes) in /home/jps/public_html/wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php on line 268
Your friend is smart.

If you want to run a tor exit node, create a new corporate entity for only that purpose, put it in its own cabinet, and put your lawyer on the corp documents.

If you can't do these things, just run a relay and be done with it - an exit node is not for you.
On Holvi: we completely replace traditional banks. So we do not just interface with your existing bank, we actually offer you a whole new type of current account. It is thus not merely an app, but a new banking service. One with, yes, integrated accounting and other things.

"You fill out the form, print it out, sign it, go to the post office with your ID, the post-person will check if your ID matches the form and send it to the bank.Few days later you will get your cards and passwords and are ready to go." — I'm not exactly sure I'd call that a nice process :-)
Huh. About 10 years ago I worked with some people close to the company.
I don't want my code to be looked at though...it's proprietary. It powers the software that I sell to make a living...why would I spread it around? Though I get your general gist...
Dreamhost and Constant are cheaper for example.
The importance of source control (git, svn, mercurial etc etc) is not as keenly felt by a solo developer, but imagine doing what you do in a team of developers, all trying to SFTP their own copy of the code to a server. Unworkable.

Once you start using git, even on your own, you begin to see how useful it is. You commit small, well-named units of work, and you can see the history of what you wrote. Maybe you don't like a commit and you revert it. You can go back in time to any point. If you want to work on one feature in isolation, while having a stable branch that you can make hotfixes on, you can create a branch. This is very easy to do in git.

If you want to work in any sort of team, learning source control (especially git, as it is very commonplace these days) is vital – and it is extremely useful just on your own too.
In particular, "distance" in software is surely a function of "distance in mental space", rather than simply the number of lexical-scope boundaries crossed, or the specific number of containing modules. Do we have some way of formalizing this intuition of "distance", such that we could actually use it as a design measure?

I think those metrics should converge on each other as you refine the shape of your program toward the Right Thing.

Rephrased: Your module or scoping system serves you well to the extent that you can make hierarchies of modules and scope correspond to hierarchies in your mental model.
The Humble Bundle support:

http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/867...

>We are aware of the issue going on with Saints Row: The Third Steam keys for German customers who purchased the bundle prior to 23:00 CET on November 29th.

>Please email us at contact@humblebundle.com with your Transaction ID and the subject "Saints Row Steam Key", and we can get you a Steam key for the German version of Saint's Row: The Third.
I'm not sure how I feel about it. Maybe I'm a luddite, but I prefer list view and I can't see how to flip that on in the music section.

Something still feels a bit unpolished about it as well.
Exactly as he said, think of it as your public portfolio. Honestly, though, if you want to modernize, you should set things up so you can just git push to your web site to deploy new code to it, not FTP. Many organizations require all code that hits production be committed to source control. If you think about things from a business perspective, it's insane not to have a source control logged revision of exactly what's running on the machine. When something goes wrong the machine may not be accessible. When something goes wrong, someone will have to lookup what the latest changes were. When something goes wrong any one particular programmer may not be available.
If you want to practice for technical interviews, you can do programming contest type problems. They're generally similar to technical interview problems, but a bit more difficult. Interviewstreet is probably one of the more accessible places to start doing this, but there are lots of others.