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While I won't say this is bad advice, I also don't think it's the best way to truly free yourself in the manner I think the OP is getting at. In the long run you'll be far better off learning and cultivating rock solid CS fundamentals rather than just hopping from one framework to the next hoping to glean a little more from each. Having an in-depth understanding of the types of data structures and algorithms that go into developing $new_hotness will allow you to pick up different languages/frameworks/etc significantly faster than just learning $new_hotness on the surface level.

Take parametric polymorphism [1] as a random example; i.e. what's called generics in Java, templates in C++, etc. You might know how to use it in a particular language and realize it provides some benefit. But if you truly understand the underlying concept then you can quickly recognize it and/or know to look for it in any language you pick up, whether it's Java, OCaml, Visual Prolog, etc. Note each of those languages are in three totally separate paradigms (object oriented, functional, & logic) and yet all of them still make use of the same underlying idea to achieve a particular goal (in this case, a form of type-safe expressivity). If you have a good understanding of $random_fundamental_concept then all you would need is to take a couple minutes to learn its syntax in your new language of choice and be on your way. I chose that example because it was the first that popped into my head, but in reality it goes for just about anything.

In short, with a good understanding of the fundamentals, you can make the time it takes to learn something new that will invariably be based on them significantly shorter.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric_polymorphism
On one level I want people to browse around a bit and discover new, niche apps that they wouldn't find otherwise. What actually happened though is that we have a bug in our ranking code at the moment. The search results should be sorted by popularity based on Compete score and number of tweets & likes of the app profile pages within StartHQ itself.

So, all I can say is: come back in a few days and you will find better apps faster - at the moment I don't want to rock the boat by redeploying the server wth 60+ users online at the same time due to the HN effect.
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Have you heard of someone being arrested and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia?

Drug paraphernalia could be coffee filters, aluminum foil, a pipe, roach clips. These are all things that are totally legal to purchase yet you can be charged with a crime for having them. To avoid it, you have to avoid being suspected of drug use or being added to the local 'most wanted' list.
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We'll have one hell of a housing boom, and there will be more of everything. At least until we run into infrastructure issues such as providing enough water for everyone. Or perhaps we will have cogged roadways. (Although that probably mean we can start building subways that pay for itself.)

Also, it will let entrepreneurs and startups live on ramen noodles more.
Add to that the home mortgage tax deduction which doubled the price of a new home.
I think your constant is way too high, if a new hire can't get up to speed in six months and is still floundering after two years then I don't think the right hiring decision was made.
I develop on Chrome all day every day and I cannot relate at all to these people saying it is full of bugs and crashing all the time. Nor do I find that Firefox is faster.

Chrome dev tools are still the best in the business, and Chrome just works.

Also I did a memory usage comparison on Chrome and Firefox 2 months ago and Firefox was using more memory by quite a bit (and got worse the more tabs you had open.) And this was Firefox with NO Flash and Chrome with Flash.
As a Vancouver native who's since lived in Toronto, Seattle, SF, and now NYC, you guys really do not have it that bad.

The ratio of rent to purchase price is low, which means for those who cannot afford to buy (which is, at this point, nearly everyone who isn't an oil sheikh or Chinese industrialist) the renting path is not bad at all.

The rent "per bedroom" is not $900-1000. It's only $900-1000 if you want to live the urban lifestyle in Yaletown or the West End. For bedrooms in suburbia the proportional rent (i.e., per bedroom) is lower. Which is to say, the run-up in Vancouver rent (what little there has been) has mainly impacted those who can afford it most (read: those without children).

Median family income in San Francisco is a "laughable" $72K, while studios run north of $2500 and one bedrooms bust the $3000 per month ceiling. That is a wealth gap. The demographics in that city have become "tech workers" and "everyone else", with even basic subsistence in the city becoming untenable for many who have been there for decades. Vancouver is (delightfully) free of such a stark dichotomy.

Seriously, you guys live in a veritable paradise - economically, socially, and yes, in rent too. It gets much, much worse out there.
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Part of this is likely due to building restrictions. For example, Palo Alto has a 50 foot building limit [1]. If developers were allowed to build 20-story apartment buildings, it's very likely that housing prices would plummet.

[1] http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=27136
I thought you guys were the victims of lots of Chinese speculation coupled with lots of visa hedging?

Just a bit to the south, Seattle is a bit cheaper.
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you have the right idea. it's crazy that the internet of all things is supposed to force people to move to a certain place.

SV is behind the times.
Except we're not talking about the likelihood of a child being killed by a gun v. drowning in a pool. We're talking about the likelihood of a child being killed by their guardian's gun v. drowning in their guardian's pool.
I don't mind it being posted, but I am surprised there haven't been any other comments that try to tie it back to hackernews related topics.

Every professional field seems to have its share of delusions and resists data to the contrary - programming, academia, technology, entrepreneurship, etc. Some delusions cause more damage than others. Some are harder to refute with data. Baseball scouts had their own beliefs about evaluating players, and the sabermetrics stuff (along with the results of teams like the A's that used it) at least showed them how they could improve things with more data.

I'd give examples of delusions vs. data related to hackernews topics, but ah, no thanks, because hackernews is more like reddit and every other large scale public forum than you think.
Very intelligent analysis. Take a look at Manhattan, or the entire Washington, D.C. metro area for an example of this.
Obscurity can be a great tool for security. But you have to understand its limitations, and expect at some point it will fail.

Custom captchas are probably a great use of this.
Good! Hopefully this will teach her to be nice to boys and men, instead of expecting them to be there just to serve her.
"Is there any junk food out there made without dairy, soy protein extract, or wheat?"

Jell-O gelatin snacks? Its ingredients list is "WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, GELATIN, CONTAINS LESS THAN 0.5% OF ADIPIC ACID AND CITRIC ACID (FOR TARTNESS), SODIUM CITRATE (CONTROLS ACIDITY), RED 40, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR."

Fruit roll-ups also look like they foot the bill, but I can't copy&paste the ingredient list.

As you say, there are corn chips, like Fritos: "Corn, Corn Oil, and Salt".

Frito-Lay has a list of foods which contain neither gluten nor dairy, at http://www.fritolay.com/your-health/us-products-not-containi... and a list of foods containing soy at http://www.fritolay.com/your-health/us-products-containing-s... .

Putting the two together give: BAKEN-ETS® Fried Pork Skins, ... CHESTER'S® Butter Flavored Puffcorn Snacks, ... EL ISLENO® Maduro Sweet Plantain Chips, ... RUFFLES® TAPATIO® Limon Flavored Potato Chips ... FRITO-LAY® Cashews, ... SPITZ® Smoky BBQ Sunflower Seeds ... and more. (I mostly omitted flavor variations.)

That reminded me that banana chips are one of my favorite junk foods. "Bananas, Coconut Oil, Sugar, Natural Flavor" say the lists at http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/nice!-banana-chips/ID=prod6... and http://www.bulkbarn.ca/en-ca/products.html?product=2558 .

That's at least a couple more junk food options than "plain potato chips and some corn chips."
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Building a house is cheap, having the local infrastructure to support houses is expensive. Letting people build unlimited housing without restriction is a terrible idea.

What we need is a tax on new houses that covers local infrastructure needs. We don't do this because developers have long fed on subsidies of there external costs by local governments.
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I don't know the Freakonomics methodology, but I'm pretty sure the analysis you're making isn't useful.

We're talking about choices an individual homeowner can make.

Those choices are "install a pool" or "keep a gun in the house".

To understand the risks for those two choices, total drownings and total gun deaths of children in the country aren't relevant to an individual's choice.

To get a useful statistic, you need to know how many children died in their home pool in the sample group of homeowners w/ pools, and how many children died from a gun in the home in the sample group of homeowners w/ guns in the house.

Because that's the choice -- do I put myself in this sample group or not?

Think about powered trampolines -- suppose there are only five installed in the country, and on two of them a child has died this past year. That's a HORRIBLE risk, but with your method of assessment, it doesn't even show up.

If you're thinking of installing this kind of trampoline, I'd highly recommend my method of analysis over yours.
It probably takes a while before everyone notice. Problems like this usually stays around until after we hit the end of our growth phrase.
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How are you determining the accuracy of your market predictions?
People shouldn't be afraid of antibiotic resistance so much as they should be outraged, diligent, and cautious.

According to the World Health Organization, tuberculosis antibiotic resistance kills 150,000 people per year [1], so I believe your statements on this topic are much too sanguine.

[1] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs194/en/
"It seems a lot of Android fanboys and "Google Openness believers" are sleepwalking us all into the next dark "Microsoft" chapter."

Did you change what the OP wrote or did they after you copy/pasted it? They statements are pretty different (now). Here's what the OP says:

Android fanboys and "Google Openness believers" could sleepwalk us all into the next dark "Microsoft" chapter.

Could/are... very different.

That is, people like you before you found yourself unceremoniously kicked out of the club.

I think that's who he is talking about, btw.
I'm curious, where are you having trouble finding one-room apartments for under $3000/month?

Throughout the South Bay, I'm seeing prices between $1000 and $2000/month for one-bedroom apartments (not one-room apartments!). Even that gets a bit of sticker shock when I tell friends outside the Bay Area about prices here.
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I'm pretty new to this paleo idea.

If I get this right, the idea is that we can't be adapted for a diet that changed only recently, so therefore we should eat the diet we are likely to be more adapted to. So this kind of makes sense, in a "sounds reasonable" way.

It's certainly true that switching to a system of agriculture resulted in a drop in nutritional health, in the short term.

But, equally, what about the argument that goes: when we used to eat this diet, we died a lot younger than now. ok, they were lots of reasons for that, but we died a lot younger, so it's not unreasonable to imagine that diet was part of the cause.

Both arguments seem reasonable without being rigorous. I don't see why you'd choose one over the other.

Having had friends who studied nutrition at a top UK university, and read a bit about it myself, it seems to me that we know very little about nutrition in general. The best advice appears to be "eat a well-rounded diet with plenty of fresh fruit and veg, and don't eat too much junk food."

The idea of switching to something as radically different as a paleo diet, compared to what we've been eating for thousands of years, without a full scientific understanding of what is best, seems a bit reckless to me. I think the burden of proof lies heavily on the paleo side. And that requires not just a handful of empirical studies; I read a bit about one of these studies [1], and was not well executed - it didn't even use a control group. People adopting the diet without substantial evidence in its favour might be gambling with their health.

Anyone recommend good books on the topic? I'd like to read more.

[1] Effects of a short-term intervention with a paleolithic diet in healthy volunteers. Osterdahl M, Kocturk T, Koochek A, Wändell PE.
Because cities exist for a reason: it is in many cases necessary to gather similar people together to do business. Import/export businesses are located near major ports for obvious reasons. Textile manufacturers are located near clothiers for obvious reasons. Food wholesalers are located in farm country, etc etc.

Technology rarely exists in a void - it is at its most useful when applied to dissimilar fields. See for example Uber, which has applied technology to the field of taxicabs, or AirBnb which has applied technology to the previously pencil-and-paper field of private B&Bs/renting.

When you're in a technology business that needs to interface with an established industry, you need to be where they are. Fashion startups in the US want to be in New York, rather than the Valley, for example. We are not even close to the point where the guy teleconferencing in from his country house is on the same footing as the guy who walks through the front door to have coffee.
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There is no shortage of outrage on Hacker News, there seems to be an infinite supply every other day so you've tapped a good market.
This is what a lot of modern SEO is, actually. I think we'll see increasing amounts of information made available by private companies over this next year in an effort to rank higher for their key phrases. Also genuinely useful tools/web apps/calculators.

The rest is site structure.

I know people can and do still game the system, but that's not a good long-term plan and it's a flat return. Creating a good site with good information and a good product will keep giving you links and shares for a fair few years.

EDIT: In other words, I predict that the people who are practising bad SEO (and they do exist) will fall away like rotted wood over the next year, and the people who are genuinely trying to make interesting things which people like will come out on top.
The problem with opposing improved technologies is, simply put, that JS/DOM/CSS/HTTP are broken crufty accidents of design, and enforcing compatibility with them forever is what has prevented the web from moving forward, has stifled innovation, and ultimately is why the web could lose the app war.

Imagine if we'd used a priviledged market position to religiously defend against the introduction of everything that wasn't backwards compatible with gopher? That's what you're doing to our industry today, and in that, you're almost as bad for our industry as Microsoft was bad for the web in the 90s.
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That's not even close to libelous in the U.S., even if false.
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What really made me love go is that when your code compiles, it probably (90%+) does what you wanted it to do.
Do not quote "actual evidence" without citing sources. One need only look at the murder rate in Chicago to see that incredibly strict gun laws do not by definition make a population safer. I'm sure you could find a rural area with an above-average per capita murder rate than other rural areas too.

It's almost as if the mere act of owning a firearm has little bearing on one's overall safety.
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Do you have any data on this, or are you guessing?
The quality of the available housing in the Palo Alto/Mountain View area (crappy 50s/60s construction) plus the obscene prices make me sick. I just moved from Mountain View to escape this twisted market. I'm extremely lucky I work for a company that does a really good job of supporting remote workers.
>Add-on were one of the major issues blocking Multi-process Firefox.

Well, they will need adaptation to communicate cross pages, but it's not like you can't have sandboxing and plugins (a la Chrome/Safari).

>Responsive and fast until it starts thrashing when your physical RAM gets all used up.

Haven't really seen that. But I rarely have more than 20 tabs open (usually around 10-15). OS X, and using Canary.
There's a paper that stress how this transformation occurred well before in Germany, specially in Göttingen, named "Klein, Hilbert, and the Göttingen Mathematical Tradition" by David Rowe.

It makes a good point in how the changes initiated by Weierstrass and Cantor, by throwing away Geometry as a requirement to think in mathematics, ultimately lead the way to us to think in axioms and algorithms that's basically is how we do mathematics today. (The part about Cantor and Weierstrass is not stressed in the paper though).
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Even Douglas Adams couldn't foresee The Deletionists - people erasing parts of an encyclopaedia with nearly infinite space, because they're not worth knowing about. Or the "I undid your edit, because I don't believe you're right and I have a username, while you don't"-ists. In a way, we surpassed his vision by a large margin, though I don't doubt he always knew we would.
Thanks to Jakub Mikians for making his paper available.

I'm curious if you're doing real-time currency conversion?
I'm not very experienced with circuits in the slightest bit. EE 101 is about the extent of my experience so I was expecting this to be way over my head...Man, was I wrong. You did an amazing job with this, I'm blown away that you can make such a complex subject easy to understand.
> you have the right idea. it's crazy that the internet of all things is supposed to force people to move to a certain place.

It's complicated though: people are still people, and interact with one another on a personal basis in ways that are higher bandwidth and more nuanced than can be done on line. And with lots of people doing stuff in the same place, the potential for cross-pollination and other random things emerging goes up.

This book talks about the issues involved and the economics behind them, at length:

The New Geography of Jobs: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008035HQQ/?tag=dedasys-20

I found it quite interesting.

That said, I did my time in the Bay Area and don't feel like going back.
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The ironic thing about these "progressive" anti-development policies is that they end up hurting laborers and low income people by suppressing the construction industry. There is a two-for-one solution to high housing prices and falling wages for e.g. Hispanic families.
Water, environment, earthquakes, and NYIB is why the valley doesn't get much more density.

Check out Tokyo (the largest suburban parts) for what the valley could look like with a bit more density; there still wouldn't be that many high rises. Tokyo also has a bit more fresh water to work with.
Lean doesn't mean on the cheap. It is about focusing on only the most valuable parts first. There is value in being around like minded peers. It is energizing just to be in the valley. There are millions of early adopters there. This may seem like a small thing, but it can be the difference between being eager for the next day of work or being eager for the end of the day.
This isn't "Evil". Google is doing what they can to provide "a more secure and private search experience" [1]. Sure, it may be unfortunate for web sites relying on organic keywords, but this is hardly a malicious act.

[1] http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
Alongside the rankings (Speed, Trust, Reliability, Privacy) there should be user ranking/rating. For me, curation is the biggest problem (yes, there are hundreds of startups attacking collaboration, but which is the best for my need?)
It's not that hard to carve out exceptions. Professionals can buy really dangerous fireworks that are 'illegal'.
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There is a third fact which also plays an important role - land use regulations.

Logistically it's fairly easy to expand the supply of housing, particularly cheap housing - build bigger buildings and fill them with tinier apartments. But good luck getting the legal permissions to do this.
It is, I've had nothing but issues with it on Linux, including problems where it would lock up the entire computer. There's no choice for me on Linux but FireFox, even though I prefer Chrome on Windows.
Could they not carbon date the fossils to see if they correspond with the existence of similar lifeforms on Earth?
I noticed that Bunnie attended MIT, maybe he was a friend of Aaron.
As a philosophy major you realize that not enough people are trained in logic for you to have a reasonable, well-thought out and coherent debate about a topic.

Arguments with people who believe something dogmatically end up going in circles and being frustrating for both sides, with neither one ending up making clear progress.

At the same time, it's made me question whether "logic" is really something so natural and part of the world itself, if you have to be trained for years in order to understand and argue by its rules..
Its probably worth reading the last two paragraphs first:

"There are other explanations, of course. One is that the fireball was of terrestrial origin, a remnant of one of the many asteroid impacts in Earth’s history that that have ejected billions of tonnes of rock and water into space, presumably with biological material inside. Another is that the structures are not biological and have a different explanation.

Either way, considerably more work will have to be done before the claims from this team can be broadly accepted. Exciting times ahead!"
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This is a wonderful little piece of information. Thank you.

I had the crazy idea a while back about stuffing a micro-controller, temp+humidity sensor, piezo speaker into my guitar case to let me know if the Humidity got out-of-band but I couldn't see how to get this to run for more than a few days with out having a gian5t battery pack or having to plug it in to the wall.

Now I know, and knowing is half the battle.
No longer use it in Firefox. One less security hole to worry about.

Google singlehandedly solved this for me with youtube by encoding about 80% of the videos in WebM - you just add "ipad" to your useragent for youtube.com using http://neko.tsugumi.org/UAControl.html

Sadly cannot play any vimeo in firefox without flash though :-(

Windows XP users will not be able to use the firefox fallback solution for MP4 either (Windows Media Foundation).