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I think 20-somethings have been rotating in and out of that area for decades. I did my time in SF in the late 90ies.
> When that's gone, the Valley will decline. When the Valley declines, the local real estate bubble will pop.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. The appeal of a particular location as a place to live will usually long outlast the activities or culture that put that location on the map in the first instance.

San Francisco is a strong brand, and demand for housing in the city is going to remain strong for a long time to come.
The article doesn't state what level of penalty is actually being sought, it merely lists the maximum penalty for the crime they (allegedly) committed.

This should be a case where the judge and prosecutor look at the circumstances and decide a modest fine and 100 hours of community service.

What should happen and what actually happens may be two different things.

Also, the prosecutor might be using the maximum sentence as a negotiating tactic to extract a guilty plea. This practice sucks because it makes a mockery of the justice system by turning it into a high-stakes poker game, but it happens nonetheless and reform doesn't seem to be a political cause with enough momentum.
This has been the case for a long time.

Rather than wonder why reality isn't as one would predict, it would be better to understand why it is the way it is.
This reminds me of a saying in field hockey.

'Don't run towards the ball, run towards where the ball will be'
that's the hip thing to do these days
Like me, I already left. I lived in Hayward and commuted to the south bay while my wife commuted north a little bit. It was rotten and awful. I hate everything about living in the Bay Area and I love it here in Sacramento. I also lived on the peninsula. It was nicer but twice the cost per sq foot to rent and a lot more traffic to deal with during regular hours.
Have to agree. And it's very inexpensive because Yaser refused to give-in to academic publishers, who would've charged the typical $70-80, and self-published so he could offer it for less than half the cost.

Not only is the book great, but his lectures are PHENOMENAL. He breaks concepts down in such a careful, accessible way. Its a bit late to join the online course, but you can see all the lectures on YouTube (work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html) or iTunesU (I prefer the latter, using the app on iOS - awesome b/c you can bookmark and record notes at those marks - otherwise I notice these video types of courses are way less useful - no way to review - wish Coursera/Udacity/EdX had that feature.)

Yaser is an awesome guy btw - he's very active on the forum (see the link from the above caltech site - on right hand side). He is very gracious with his time - I'm not a CalTech student, and yet he has answered all my questions and even helped me find a tutor for the course that was a previous student at CalTech (I live in Pasadena). He truly cares - and that comes off in the lectures as well. Enjoy!
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What is the balance between filtering out and actual paid work? Most "normal" consultants expand to a point where full time bizdev is needed - what do you see as the equivalent here? Would you and two or three others with good reputations pay someone to filter elance for you?

What about expanding into more traditional bizdev?

Have you started to see word of mouth recommendations and repeat business, or is everything start-from-scratch?

I must say I am surprised - I have only ever browsed elance and the jobs you describe seem like hens teeth.

Are you afraid of the work not being there (ie exists really just not on elance) or is there a great deal of good quality work if you can find it?

Might have to sign up and see of course :-)
In the Bay Area, most jobs aren't in SF. That's why SF has one of the largest proportions of reverse commuters in the country. So the idea that it's a transit situation where folks are trying to live close to work doesn't really make sense.
Having been born in 1983 I can confirm it is in fact 30 years ago.
TFA actually list an Oakland location. To be honest its +- like SF all around the bay area for a decent place. There are crappy ones which are cheaper tho.
Rubbish. Back that up with figures.
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It should also be noted that by donating a smallish amount of money (377M is a relatively small amount of money for a bank like Goldman) banks can get tax breaks, which could amount to more than they donated.
>Sure. In fact you'd want to use a high-efficiency buck/boost converter to take advantage of the entire discharge curve. However you're only storing about 20% of the energy at 2.7V.

That doesn't have to be an issue. There are high efficiency joule thief IC's that'll take a voltage input around 0.3v.
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The examples at 322/280/etc. per square foot seem cheap. I live in WINNIPEG and houses on my street go for $450+ per square foot, and that's in Canada where mortgages aren't tax deductible, and Winnipeg in particular where the climate is... challenging. The one's that are $500+ per sft --- well, that's the cost of location. Deal with it.
Buyers don't buy in a vacuum. When mortgage rates rise, it reduces the buying power of a large portion of the market, and the value of the homes themselves decline as a result. Yes, a cash buyer could still pay the same amount, but why would they?
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"was"? What about the linked Google announcement? I'm pretty sure PNaCl will work on Android, I think that's why they made it.

Why are all code-in-the-browser technologies doomed? I'd really like an explanation, especially since you have a stake in the game (JSIL).
You can. Just short the stocks of REITs
you could short real estate derivatives. just keep in mind that Federal Reserve is on the other side of the contract
I'd love to chat with you about this stuff on email if you are interested. My email address is in my HN profile. Thanks for the comments!
I wonder if part of one of these shipments made it to Juarez, the city in Mexico right across from El Paso, TX and not too far from New Mexico. One day a truck full of flattened, new Atari game boxes appeared my street.

All the kids around the neighborhood started taking boxes from the truck and someone figured out you could toss the flat boxes like freesbies. We had tons of fun throwing these boxes around and it didn't occur to me how strange it was to find these empty, new boxes until many years later. I couldn't figure out how this truck-full of boxes was on our street. At the time Juarez was a major manufacturer of electronics and other stuff for the US so, in retrospect, it's possible the boxes actually originated from there.
http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/real-estate/files/spcaseshil...

Beware. The liquidity of these markets is vastly lower than that of equities. Also remember Keynes: "The market can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent" or in this case longer than the contract durations offered.
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I hope someone posts about it when the documentary is available.'it could be a while...
Yes; San Francisco was probably an interesting and desireable place to live even before anything tech related happened there.
I sold my place in the east bay and now rent in Morgan Hill. $2900/month gets me a 4 bedroom place in a 10 year old neighborhood. My commute to SJ is 30 mins up 101.
Most reasons not to use Rust come down to the implementation (stability of the compiler, speed of the executables, limited standard library), I haven't seen anyone come out and say that something about the language itself is a complete dealbreaker.
I guess the idea is to sell, live on rent for a while, and then buy a new home after the crash. Easy to make a decent profit if house prices crash by 30%.
I'm on the fence with him.

Here's why...

Answer 2 questions:
1) Could somebody else have figured out how to apply that level of thinking on these topics, and been able to convince other to donate?
2) Could he have made another ten or twenty billion by staying at Microsoft?

If the answers are "Yes" and "Yes" then he should have stayed at Microsoft.

The answers might be "No" and "No" in which case you are spot on.

My dogma says the former, but I think you're right. I'll accept him as the exception that proves the rule. :-)
Over time however more founders might start their companies in places that are more reasonably priced and have a growing tech community (Austin/Kansas city).

Investors may begin to set up a presence around these hubs outside of the valley, and eventually a shift could take place, leaving the valley a great place to live for employees of tech giants like Google, Apple etc.
The Rotary have been a driving force behind the eradication of polio a lot longer than the B&G Foundation.
Cops and teachers have to get paid somehow -- Texas doesn't print the money, it gets it from property taxes and other sources.

I'd say that even if you hypothesize a gain in not-paying-taxes of, say, 5% of income -- that doesn't change the game compared to local economy, as evidenced by the house prices that TFA is talking about.

It's not all about politics. Everyone says they believe in the free market, maybe they should look there first for an explanation of the housing prices.
"Ant turd tokens", or .,; are a big pain in the neck when refactoring stuff. For instance

case Something of
{ok, Val} ->
do_something();
_Error ->
barf()
end,

The ; and the , are easy to forget about. Indeed, the , might be changed to a . if you eliminate the next expression, and those things can be easy to miss when fiddling with code.
No, I'm advocating not making the problem worse while ignoring its root cause.
> Isn't it more important to advocate a policy than to try to interpret the placement of a comma?

I mean that question is the "emacs versus vi" of holy wars in the legal community. My legal philosophy tends to lean towards pragmatic/conservative, which means I think it's generally more important to interpret the placement of the comma. The reason is that, like conservatives generally, I tend to view the Constitution as an agreement, the last time Americans ever agreed on anything (and then just barely). So given the extreme lack of consensus today, I think it's at least a principled position to fall back to the existing agreement.

At the same time, I'm pragmatically concerned about judicial legitimacy, which is a function of how the judiciary spends its political capital. The farther judicial decisions stray from the original intent of the laws, the more political capital is spent. Every time the judiciary disagrees with the elected branches, political capital is spent (see, e.g., the response to Citizens United, which is an excellent interpretation of the law, but went against what the political branches wanted). I don't think its wrong for judges to "legislate from the bench" but I recognize that it costs political capital to do so, and that this political capital is best saved for situations in which there is an acute need to overturn the existing agreement (e.g. I'll concede that Roe v. Wade was a very tenuous interpretation of the law, but I also think it was one of the rare cases where it was necessary for the court to make up law out of thin air).

But that's my two cents. As I said, it's the subject of much religious zealotry. Lots of people would say that the most important thing is to establish the "right" policies. In terms of what policy I think is best, I'm a huge fan of judicial oversight, so I think the only exceptions to the warrant requirements should be exigent circumstances (e.g. searching a suspect for weapons at a crime scene).
How does it not work? How many people don't commit crimes to avoid prison, and how many prisoners behave to avoid solitary? Of course decades of solitary confinement for standing up to guards is absolutely ridiculous, but the general principle that people avoid the threat of punishment still stands.

I still have sympathy for (most) people that commit crimes, and I think it'd be inhuman not to. That's why we don't have the death penalty for all crimes, regardless how effective a deterrent that would be.

On the other hand, if you know the consequence of committing a crime and decide to commit it anyways, I don't have as much sympathy. You can't say that people have no choice whatsoever. Just because you grew up in a poor neighborhood doesn't make committing crimes ok.
you do not really have a true concept of what solitary confinement really means. You are viewing solitary confinement like alone time. Human nature is such that most human beings do not psychologically deal well with being deprived of all human contact for extended periods of time. Some humans can do fine with solitary but it is a very very small percentage.

I do know someone who did go to prison and basically was a slim straight haired indian prettyboy teenager in american jail... his approach was from the first day he entered prison he immediately attacked the first person he saw, went to solitary got out immediately attacked the first person he saw, did that for about 3-6 months... eventually he was so nuts he joined a gang, he liked the gang life better than the solitary
> And while we don't have proven-better alternatives for many of the problems that arise

Oh please. The US has a recidivism rate within 3 years of 67.5%. Norway has a recidivism rate of 20% within 2 years. There are proven-better alternatives, but your society has decided not to implement them.
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OP here - I think I was stretching it a littttle bit far to claim we're all good at sysadmin :) In reality—at least on my team—we're really good at UX -> visual design -> front-end MV* -> Rails
Sure. I've also seen what their median income looks like.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/slideshow/Palo-Alto-families-earn...
Just checked out Mitchell's site. Looks like he's been working on a 2nd ed for awhile. he should just open-source the first one since it's so old. But I found he just released all the vids from a ML class he gave in 2011 - wonder if they are as good as Yaser's? http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/10701_sp11/lectures.shtml
In efficient markets, buyers are theoretically not irrational either.

In theory, the cash buyers of today have factored in their expectations of rising interest rates and the effect on home values going forward.
An underappreciated point is there is a vast difference between creating something vs breaking it. Playing to win is one thing; playing to see if you can fall out of the universe in an obscure corner of a map, or trying every conceivable combination of actions in hundreds of situations, is a very different experience.
Yep.

> Instead I think we're just stupid that way.

That's culture and religion. Both could change to promote smarter sustainability.
Get a 2k sq ft 4br 2 ba place in Pittsburg for $299k:

http://www.redfin.com/CA/Pittsburg/1171-Summer-Way-94565/hom...

Commute to SF on BART.

Pay no attention to the crime, terrible schools, entire neighborhoods that have been foreclosed or never finished, etc.
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Is there a good forum/site with information with notes on what does and doesn't work for different setups, settings, themes, etc.?

edit: Nevermind, I saw your post below and realized that OpenELEC is a full on media center distro. Thanks!!
I've heard about this tactic on more than one occasion already. It sounds horrible, and I think it should be made illegal.

I agree. More accurately I could have said "It's a common and to their belief vital tactic..."
Similar to this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5021783 (minus the act API)
Your use of declarative and profound statements, with no evidence, gives me a high degree of distrust towards anything you say.

With that said, I have a few specific points.

> Prison is society's recourse for anti-social behavior

Lets speak objectively. Prison is a punishment that is forced upon some people who are found guilty of breaking some law. Many laws exist without thought for "social" behavior.

> Does it have to be a violent and horrible place? No. The residents tend to make it that.

Some residents make it that. Other residents have little to no "social" means of preventing or defending themselves against it.

> I am against pampering in anyway, with my tax dollars, people whom I've had to remove from proper society...for anti-social behavior.

Its funny that you use the word "pampering" when the alternative we are discussing is torture.

Nonetheless, this is the easiest point at which I can find common ground with you. Would you, rather than pay with your tax dollars for "pampering" prisoners, pay for educating prisoners so that our GDP grows? If there were ways to measure that GDP increased because we educated and enabled certain prisoners, would you gripe less?

> Prison is supposed to be a deterrent.

I've always heard that its supposed to be for rehabilitation. But, again, lets speak to the reality rather than the ideal: Prison is obviously not an effective deterrent.

> These people don't require reform. They are typically leaniently sentenced, pay for their mistake and move on.

What evidence do you have that people who don't need reform are typically leniently sentenced?
Agreed, but the OP's point was that while obviously desirable it wasn't at the price that it currently stands.
fun idea, thanks for sharing.

can you please try some variations in type size and weight? this would go a long way for legibility between questions, answers, comments, meta info like "submitted at", etc.
in terms of scheduling times, dates.. i would recommend appointlet.com. I use it everyday. I can set my own times, gaps, and am able style the modal to mimic our own styles and remove any branding.
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Actually the analogy is a bit off. Most people aren't buying Android phones they are buying Samsung phones.

With the PC market Microsoft tightly controlled the Windows experience so it looked and worked the same regardless of the hardware. With the Android platform this isn't the case. HTC phones looks and behave quite differently from a Samsung or a stock Android. Each company is trying to differentiate the experience as much as possible.

And the low-end/high-end split isn't playing out the same this time around. Samsung is very much in the high end and Apple is tipped to be releasing a low-cost iPhone shortly. And if Apple manages to gain low end traction like they did with the iPod then that could change the game a bit as well.
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The Real World OCaml book has released a Draft for External review.<p>The PDF can be found at: http://www.realworldocaml.org/alpha5/rwo-snapshot.pdf
This is actually a common misconception. No matter how much you donate (or a corporation donates), you'll still end up net negative.
That's a flawed test. If you pinned an icon to the taskbar or placed it on the desktop in Windows 7 he'd have just as easy of a time.
Yea, I'm glad I'm not the only one using it. It's very fast and works great. Some bugs but workarounds aren't difficult.
Look through the ruby source code.
I am curious about this as well... Why can't you connect between different VPCs?
I agree, it is complicated. That's why it is shameful for Daily Mail to take a complicated story and rewrite it as a single-cause case against GM.
Well, it does. 33%: http://j15r.com/blog/2013/04/25/Box2d_Revisited
Here's what $1 Million will buy you in Vancouver, Canada. http://realestateresults.ca/officelistings.html/details-2956... I rent a 2BR apartment in a 1950s building for $1615/month. Would love to see/hear comparisons.
I have a D830 with that resolution and I've used it exclusively until just the last few months simply because it was so difficult to find a (cheap) replacement. I now use a 13" Zenbook that has 1600x900.
This story made me want a nixie watch: http://www.cathodecorner.com/nixiewatch/watchmovie.html
I think you can take advantage of the extra bits for color calibration. Your source is still 8 bits, but those 8 bits are converted to 10 in a way that provides better accuracy.
For the curious, I think nothing beats the introduction to ML class from Stanfords Andrew Nq [1]. He lectures and explains with a clarity and consistency I don't often see.

[1]: https://www.coursera.org/course/ml
I dunno, a quick browse through Craigslist reveals many early-twenty-somethings seeking roommates who are okay with sharing bathrooms for <$2k budgets, and dangle your own private bathrooms if your budget exceeds that.

With salary boom, for many foreigners the disposable income after paying rent still exceeds disposable income in their home country, so until salaries are where they are, for a bunch of people the current price levels are still a sustainable and highly desirable proposition.
> Wouldn't that be facilitated by consumers seeing other companies/products in the category using the same/similar name (hence my (1))?

Maybe, but I don't know of any occurrence of that.

> Admittedly, consumers may spontaneously expand the meaning of a word (e.g. "google" as a verb for "to search")

As far as I know, that's what happened every single time so far.

> If Microsoft ran "Use Bing to google what you are looking for" ads and Google didn't protest, would a court really give that no weight (as an admission that Google had accepted it being generic) if Google brought a trademark case against some other party in the future?

No but that's a very different case, that'd be Microsoft very specifically using it as a genericized mark which is a very different case than trademark dilution or confusion or whatever moz argues they're suffering from.

(and Google could actually do that to themselves by talking about googling stuff ("Escalator" was originally a mark of Otis, but the way Otis used them in their ads e.g. explaining that they offered "the latest in elevator and escalator design" made the trademark office conclude that they used it generically and scrap the mark))
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Can't view the first image clearly on a mobile device.

I feel each point needs further explanation. I don't know how best to apply this particular advice.

And are you sure that these are the reasons you're following on twitter has grown and not because people are taking an interest in your start-up or similar?

I feel followings on social networks grows as a result of thought leadership, but perhaps i'm missing something.
It's not the choice here. Monsanto can not reform Indian or Chinese society into something else. The choice here is either we have better crops and people do not starve, or we do not have them and people starve. You say "people do not starve" is a bad choice. To me it looks like advocating starving off people as the means for population control.
>I guess the idea is to sell, live on rent for a while, and then buy a new home after the crash. Easy to make a decent profit if house prices crash by 30%.

yeah, if you can time markets, there's all sorts of ways to make money.

Me? I refused to buy when I got my first "real job" in '98, because clearly we were in a tech bubble and a real estate bubble.

I should have bought then. Even if I then sold at the depth of the crash in '08, I'd have still been ahead.

I mean, I'm not saying that the current bubble is similar; all I'm saying is that seeing that it's a bubble is easy; timing that bubble is /hard/
It's worth noting that SF is already on it's 3rd or 4th major evolution; between the Gold Rush, the big shipbuilding days, the 1906 earthquake, the WWII period and 90's tech bubble, it's survived a series of major changes and collapses and rebuilt successfully. I don't know Detroit's history that well, but it seems like it's basically had one major act (the auto industry) and that's still playing out.