skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can actually get them for even less than that and get more in rent. The cheapest way is through Tax Sales. You can buy a 3 bedroom house at a Tax Sale for low thousands of dollars and rent them out Section 8 for $800/mo or more and the US Government pays you all or a portion of the rent so it's reliable residual.

Of course it isn't that simple, sometimes the houses need a lot of work to get rent-ready and if you don't live near them you need a property manager. It's complicated and a lot of hard work but the dividends are incredible. You can also lose your shirt if you aren't careful.

I'll email you.

EDIT: Strike the email, here's a post to a blog with results from a Tax Sale in Tulsa County Oklahoma last year:

http://www.gavelhound.com/blog/Final+Results+for+the+2012+Tu...

Some of what you read in these comments below is true. Skepticism is warranted. It's hard. It's dirty. The houses do need a lot of work. The tenants don't pay sometimes, but the US Govt always does. Property managers take 10% or more of the rent to manage the properties. It's a BIG risk but BIG returns can be had as well. Plus, it does take time and emotional stamina. Imagine buying a house that was a meth lab. It happens. Imagine removing the person who lives in it and they burn it down. It happens.
I know that in our most emotional moments, we tend to act rashly and sometimes say things we eventually regret.

I'm not saying Lessig will regret writing this, but I wonder.
The hardest part on my current startup is slipping traction.

We are consistently hitting high review scores from both users and critics, yet downloads are abysmal.
Actual citation:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=23298160

The full-text article is behind a paywall :-(

The protein these guys are 'mutating' is Tat or 'Trans-Activator of Transcription' [0], required in the HIV life-cycle for expression of viral proteins in the infected cells, formation of new viruses and subsequent infection of more cells. So, basically, they create (mutated) HIV with this protein that then interferes/competes with 'healthy' ('wild-type' in semi-correct biologist-speak) HIV in the infected 'patient'. Sounds simple, way more complex in practice, highly improbable to pull-off as an actual therapy.

(Don't want to bore the majority non-biologist HN audience with more details. But if HN'ers are interested I'll write more. :-)

My take on this story (always a good idea for spectacular claims) is to take it with more than a grain of salt. In HN-speak, this is not even a MVP, yet.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tat_%28HIV%29
"Red October" - part two, the modules
>It sounds like you're passing judgement without really experiencing the area.

It sounds like you did the same to California. The parts of the government being reacted to are probably the laws about when you can kill people (e.g. if they rob your neighbor), express lane to the death penalty, etc., etc.
Rome was awash in capital, but it was missing other economic structures that help support innovation, such as the corporation.

Even at the height of the Roman Empire, or later Italian Renaissance, the accumulations of capital that existed were somewhat hamstrung by the fact that they were concentrated in the hands of individuals and families. So personal aggrandizement was a huge motivating factor in deciding how the money would get spent, hence the large mount of art and monumental construction projects we see at those times.

I'd suggest that corporations are much better for producing technological innovation. As compared to what things were like in Rome, their key characteristic was that decisions about how money would get spent are generally made by groups of people who don't actually own the money themselves. That cuts way back on the motivation to just blow it all on yet another temple in one's own name.
If you can deal with downloading a Java plugin there's some pretty advanced games that run in a browser.

Example: http://www.drakensang.com
I miss Lala, at least the final streaming iteration. It had iTunes Match for FREE years ago. You would upload your library to Lala, they would decide what they already had and just let you stream that, then anything they didn't have would get uploaded. It was iTunes in the cloud. Their webapp was phenomenal, especially by 2009 standards.

I had big expectations for Lala after Apple bought them. I thought they might actually get a true iTunes in the cloud built.
Hopefully WebRTC data channels will enable UDP-like comms from the browser.
It's DRM free. You should be able to convert it into whatever format you want, from what I've heard.
Very neat.

Just wanted to add, the demo works if you use the 4242 sequence for all fields (YMMV).
Does texas even have property taxes? They didn't use to.
Ripped off? Apple won what was effectively a sealed-bid auction: they paid a lot of money to beat Google (and Nokia, which was probably less of a big deal). They paid a lot of money for a real service to beat off real bids from real competitors, and to do so immediately. The fact they didn't realize how low Nokia and Google's initial offers were is down to Nguyen not being stupid enough to tell them.

If anyone got "ripped off" it was the venture capitalists who later threw $41 million at the "Facebook-killer" being developed by one of the few people in the Valley that had barely used Facebook. But again, they were sophisticated specialists who knew how to evaluate risk and do due diligence, so if they were so mesmerised by Bill's confidence in his ability (and his team's track record) they wanted to take a premature punt that size in an already-crowded space it's their own fault.
Two things I can think of:

1) it was a typo for $50k which is a reasonable number. The house down the street from me just sold for $55K and reasonable rent for it is $650 in the neighborhood. My house was a bit more (housing boom) but I will easily be able to get $900/mo in rent for it (nicer inside), and I am only paying $530 on it. Just need to find another house to upgrade to.

2) the 5000 purchase means closing costs/fees/etc on a house with a 100% mortgage, and in a lot of places the rent can easily be $500 more than a mortgage.

The best places to find things like this are college towns, because there are always lots of renters. The example of my neighborhood is based on the fact that there are a pile of grad students living here.
Hi Jimmy, we've since simplified pricing so there are now only two options - https://www.draftapp.co/plans

For an individual there is a Solo plan at $10 per month. This gets you 5 projects, unlimited storage.

For teams there is a Team plan at $25 per month. This gets you unlimited projects, unlimited storage.
Contractor Disasters 3 Things that Almost Always Go Wrong
What about the people who know you? People who never interact with you in the flesh don't care if you have a girlfriend, but the people you actually see on occasion will eventually expect to see her.

You will get caught by friends and relatives. And you may laugh and explain what you're doing, but even as you explain people are going to think "What a loser!"
Are you serious you don't have a cellphone? Just curious, what do you work in, and how much do you manage to save each month?
The "Clockwise/Spiral Rule" in C
gaaaahhh please let me play with it! Can't you come to europe, or at least UK ?!?!

pweassee
> Here is too not sweating the small stuff.

3 letters of irony here.
As Lessig says, there's a difference between free as in free speech, and free as in free beer. Today, the book is free as in free beer. But the day, and the causes to which the book proceeds go, both go go to free as in free speech.
They're in the financial services industry so they are the manifestation of the infinite monkeys theorem.
The deal was that Apple would buy a million in pre-IPO stock if Xerox "opened its kimono".
I like this part:

"I’m puzzled by people who write to me saying, “If I were to write a patch for your library X to make it do Y, would you accept it?” First of all, you don’t need my or anybody else’s permission to modify my code. That’s the whole point of open-source! Secondly, how can I decide whether or not I’ll accept a patch I haven’t seen yet? Finally, if you do decide to send me a pull request, please don’t be offended if I don’t accept it, or if I ignore it for six months and then take the idea and rewrite it myself."
Best Practices Panel on Pondering for Startups...
If I did not explicitly subscribe to a newsletter, I will hit the SPAM button. I do not care if I completed a transaction with the sender, spam is spam. I don't bother with the unsubscribe links.
what is so frustrating is that Google don't actually seem to support OpenID or OAuth the other way round. Why can't I log into Google Docs with a company OpenID account? Why can't Google Google Docs pull company data using OAuth? They support it as long as they are the provider. But in a commercial setting the business itself is the legally culpable provider of authentication and authorization and would be absolutely crazy to put it in the cloud in the way that Google are begging them to do.
Wow, you're shockingly ignorant for this site. Go education yourself a bit: http://politicalcompass.org/
MEGA by Kim Dotcom
I've seen you guys before, I'm gonna have to play around with this sometime. I like how you've decided to also be the publisher/CDN for the games. Right now it seems like everyone who launches some demo has to build and manage their own web presence. Something a native game developer doesn't necessarily have to do. This could help take that extra load off their back. I imagine you'll eventually offer internal APIs of sorts like Steam does, achievements, cloud storage for saved games, etc.
see http://golang.org/doc/faq#unused_variables_and_imports
No, I really meant $5,000 -- total cash money for an entire house that you own free and clear. No typo. I know it sounds too good to be true -- but it's not. See the link I posted above.

Some of that stuff you see on infomercials really does work, but it's really hard and takes time, smarts, and dedication and most people fail en route to success simply by giving up or making bad purchasing decisions.
Hacker House in Medellin, CO: Flatmate wanted for 2/04 to 3/06, $800
We have an open room for a cool hacker in an awesome apartment in Medellin, Colombia. Our 5th person dropped out at the last minute due to an emergency, and we're looking for a cool replacement.

It is for 1 month starting Feb 4 and ending Mar 6. Right now, flights from the US are as cheap as 330 bucks from Washington DC, LA, NYC, and Chicago. Rent will be $800.

A little bit about us:

Eric L, founder of rocketlease.com, online rental applications for landlords
Sean C, founder of havemyshift.com, shift swapping for hourly workers (Techstars)
Alex P, founder of thehoth.com, link building for digital agencies
Clayton J, founder of thehoth.com, link building for digital agencies

A little bit about Medellin:

Awesome city, you'll be living in the safest, best neighborhood in town, and there's a large and growing startup culture.

Here is a photo album of the place you'll be living: https://plus.google.com/115675522907727282422/posts/QgWoK89FZCT

Obviously we're intersted in filling the place, but it's equally important to us that we think it'll be a good personally fit and that you'll be fun to be around.

If you are interested, available, and able to make a decision quickly on this matter, please get in touch!

email: eric@rocketlease.com
Not trying to take anything away from Cassandra (or any of the other products mentioned), but I would have liked to see the article focus on the actual data presented rather than a somewhat speculative discussion about 2 products that were not evaluated in the referenced study.

Unless I'm missing something.
We judge and punish actions by their consequences. We give some consideration to how likely the consequences were, and some to how socially acceptable the actions were. Examples abound, including drunk or dangerous driving, getting in a fist fight that kills someone, or bullying.

Ortiz's actions were one cause of Aaron's death, and she is being judged on that basis. She probably will not face serious consequences because her actions fit a norm. Hopefully those actions will become less socially acceptable, much like bullying in recent years.
Perhaps, you misunderstand my original intentions. I'm not trying to stop the propagation of things I believe to be wrong. I have no idea if it was the trial or not.

However other suicidal people reading us all saying "Oh it was definitely the trail, that's why he killed himself", they might just think that if there is a lot of external pressure they are justified in killing themselves. This might lead to people killing themselves. Please try to discourage that.

It's like security research. We follow Responsible Disclosure for vulnerablities where you don't tell the public first. When there is a big bug (e.g. the recent Ruby on Rails bug), we don't all post links to proofs of concepts. Why? Because doing these things tends to result in innocent people getting hurt. The same thinking should be at play with suicide.
Foreclosures in bad neighborhoods that are in rough shape that go up for auction, where there aren't many bidders.

The unmentioned parts are that (1) fixing these places up costs money on top and you probably can't afford to hire contractors, so this is basically a second job and (2) the renters you get at the low end are terrible, and also require a lot of time and effort. It's not just invest and forget here.
Am I the only one who just yawned when Megaupload was taken down?

I have no ill-will towards the people who run or use that (or those types of) site, and I don't really like how the government handled the Megaupload thing, but with the proliferation of cloud storage sites hosted by Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Dropbox, etc., it just seems stupid to subject yourself to all the security issues, fake download buttons, ads, etc. that you find on sites like this.
That's a good one. I've also recalled that a field being dominated by arguments over things that are not correct or incorrect but merely matters of personal opinion and taste is a sign of a "dead field." Repeated recurrences of the same idea repackaged as the "new" thing is another sign of such.

The takeaway: One's time is better spent writing useful code.
I'm not making lame excuses for the government. At no point did I say that it was ok for them to store the images. My point was that this statement:

They told us they wouldn't store the images on the
previous scanners, but it turns out they were.

was disingenuous. Saying that 'they lied about storing the images' has no basis in truth here (at least without presenting other evidence that I'm unaware of).

I don't know about you, but I don't think that there's any reason to make misleading statements in order to present the case that these images shouldn't be stored.
May I ask where you are getting the driving numbers?

I live/work in soma and as long as I avoid commute traffic, Daly City really is only ~10 minutes away. A coworker lives in Brisbane and his commute averages 11 minutes. I frequently visit parts of Oakland far further from City Center (say Mills College area), and it is just under 20 minutes.

If you lack a car, well, the numbers look terrible as well in San Francisco. This is most obvious when you note that you can bike from most A to most B faster than Muni can take you. As another example, downtown Oakland is closer to Embarcadero or even Union Square by BART than Inner Sunset is by Muni Metro.
Joy - now that's another protocol it can suck over...

cPanel is a positively horrible piece of software.
Does anybody have a link to the site that tracks user-submitted reviews of security lines sorted by airport/terminal/airline and tells you which lines are forced through which types of scanners?

My google fu has failed me...
it's 2013, anything will work strait out of the box...
Very cool. Good job.

How about the ability to subscribe someone to multiple subscriptions now?

nudge nudge.
I'm a bit conflicted about this post. It's very interesting, but it misuses the term A/B testing.

More later, if I get time.
I don't have a "company" -- i.e. something incorporated. What I do is a bit more one-woman-show/grass roots. Historically, public image (aka trust of my audience) has been my big issue. In the past year, I have made in-roads on that issue. Things are better recently. Next up: I need more traffic and when I have that I will need to work more on monetization. For now, I am happy to no longer be a pariah everywhere I go.
I disagree. Judging by his comment I think he would make a great barista: smart, lots of personality, and commands respect. Good on him.
> cost up to $5 a month

Your opinion. Storage is constantly getting cheaper.
> This kind of code clean up should be the job of IDE's, not compilers.

Why should it be the province of IDEs? What about command line tools? How about "any thing that works well?"
clickable link for apartment photos: https://plus.google.com/115675522907727282422/posts/QgWoK89F...
Or you assume that the coffee is the only part of the experience that counts. I gladly pay $5 for my morning coffee, because I really enjoy the shop. I could drink coffee at home, no problem, but I like going to the shop and reading the news and waking up there. I know I'll see people I enjoy. I actually have to get dressed/ready for my day to get out of the house so I'm not as likely to just be lazy. The window I sit in catches the morning light In a way that I find pleasing. In the warm months I can sit on the patio and enjoy the weather.

Or I could spend $1 or less on my morning coffe that doesn't taste as good, and not wake up in the same, refreshing way, and be overall less productive.

Oh, and I still manage to save 20-30% of my overall income (depending on the month). Lattes don't matter. Overall spending habits and and fiscal approach do.
Great looking checkout form. Stripe's adding some clutch features, somewhat seem to be evolving for just payments for developers to payments for developers and others.
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Ditto, because I'd like to know right now as well. Usually if you can buy a house for $5k, it needs _a lot_ of _TLC_
Does this mean the older Stripe Payment "Tag" is deprecated? We're currently using it to great success, but I'm no longer seeing it mentioned in the docs. I don't really want my users to have to press an additional button -- right now as soon as they're on the payment page the form is right there waiting to be filled in.
Why ask for the name on card? That's not auth'ed.
When I started using Mint, I became aware of how I was spending my money. That cognizance made it easy to cut back in areas like going out to eat and going out at night in a way that didn't impact my quality of life. I started hosting group dinners and did my nights out more efficiently (happy hours, house parties, etc.)

2 years later I had a ton of savings, quit my job and left to travel the world for a while.
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Yeah, nothing like putting people who want to help into their rightful place! Must feel pretty good. I may not be a high-profile "rockstar", but at least I was making an honest offer. But you're right, of course, I should have known I was making an ass out of myself.
Yeah, that's what I thought he probably meant, too -- that someone trying to shoot at a threat would miss and hit a child. That's what triggered me saying, "you must not know much about guns." You're welcome to your own judgement call on that, of course, but to me that's really unrealistic.

One of the places I went shooting was a weekly practical skills tournament. Everything we shot at moved or popped up or had something you weren't supposed to shoot next to it; sometimes all three. Most of it was pop-can sized, too! And while a lot of the guys there were pros, they had a deal where first-time shooters were free, so a lot of folks brought friends, and I got to see a lot of amateurs try to handle those situations.

And you know, they did pretty well. Even if you've only been shooting for a week or two, even if you have to run up to where you're shooting from and peek out from cover, even if you're under time pressure and all the targets are in motion . . . most people can hit one paper-plate sized target and not another one at ten yards or so, most of the time. And that's kind of a worst-case scenario!

So now you put a man-sized target in a classroom, probably less than 10 yards away, where he's probably holding still or at most walking, where everyone else is frozen or running away from him (and at any rate, isn't IN FRONT of him), and so on. I'm sure it's emotionally stressful, but . . . that's not a difficult shot.

I'm not trying to pick on the GP in particular -- he just stepped on a pet peeve of mine. I've heard people opine that in that situation, the odds of missing and hitting a kid are something like 50%. I think that's crazy. I think, based on experience, that the odds are close enough to zero as makes no difference. And I don't mean just me, either; I mean anybody could make that shot.

But more than that, think about what the cutoff should be, from a game theoretic perspective. These school shootings generally result in what, ten people dead? More? Wouldn't that mean the shot is a win even if the odds of hitting the wrong person were up around 90%?
data-amount="2000"

It looks nice but every payment solution where the client can arbitrarily change the amount they're going to pay is inherently flawed.
Nice. It's been such a long time since I've read something about Nokia and thought, "wow, cool!".
Twitter / elonmusk: Maybe already under control ...
On the subject of psychology, I think part of the problem is cognitive overload. It's difficult to make good long term decisions and maintain self control when you're overwhelmed by economic choices. The poor suffer from this even more than the well off. Effect with references described here:

http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/89377/poverty-...
The amount is just for display purposes. You then charge whatever amount you want on the server.
Yep, we think that this is a better solution than the tag (which we never really launched). But I'm glad to hear it's working well for you!
This is great, and I've implemented it on two different sites so far. It's great to be able to tell a client "Just go to Stripe.com, link it to your bank account, and add my email to the account" rather than setting it all up from scratch.
I have watched the documentary, and I strongly recommend it. It shows some values in Japan that are being loosing in new generations there and in other countries.

That said, Jiro is an example of many things in their craft but his life also have a lot of drawbacks, like he barely saw his sons when they were children and if a social event comes up he tries to spend as less time as possible to get back to work.
Just don't insult the king.
The most important thing to note is that cutting your spending rate is much more powerful than increasing your income.

Note to our government, cut spending!
Very well put, and surprisingly earnest. I respect Lessig immensely and this sentiment only reinforces it.

There is a very pervasive and troubling thread of professional "politicking" invading every single aspect of our lives both institutional and private. No one cops to anything, no one apologizes, and no one ever sees the errors in their ways. Admitting otherwise is weak and will undermine ones political future, career etc.

It's sad that honesty is no longer the best policy.
Where's the MongoDB comparison? They mention it but don't see it in their graph
The tricky part is that it's very easy to not notice when your "investment" turns into a "second job" that may not really be paying that well per hour.