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The rent comparison isn't exactly fair - you are looking at the rent in the city of SF vs the entire Greater Washington area. There are certainly cheaper places than SF to live in the Bay Area. Also, almost all apartments in SF proper have rent control meaning that rent pretty much never goes up.
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I was saying yes to his last question "...do you want to add powerful features and maintain it well over time?"

I find the concept of directives one of the most powerful and maintainable features of any framework I have ever used. It's probably the "killer feature" of Angular.
Did Bill Hicks say this of SF ? LA ? California in general ?

Starting around San Mateo and going north from there through the city all the way to Sausalito (and probably beyond), there are numerous microclimates. It's not at all like the LA that I know.
You could start by spending $50-$100 on a nice WordPress theme to slap on the front end. Spend money on a designer when you've got some initial paying customers.
(this post is crazy to watch -- so many strong opinions!)

If you're like me, then you'd want to see some examples of craftsmanship to weigh the value of different opinions. Unfortunately, I can't provide links to these example works due to a very strict NDA (we did the work on behalf of a couple brand names, and ironically they wanted privacy). The projects definitely fell into the category of 'shit crud app' :)
An old guy collapsed on the street in front of me in London. I thought he was a drunk tramp, but my sister (who lives there) immediately stopped to check on him as did several other passers by. Turned out he was having a heart attack. Someone with medical training came forward and pumped his chest cavity or whatever they do while we ordered and flagged down the ambulance.

Guy was conscious but confused when the medics arrived.

Nobody urinated on him or stole his wallet. Anecdotal evidence that suggests were you really on fire people would do more than get out the marshmallows.
Do you want to run a business? Or specifically this business?

Are you a good programmer, but a terrible designer or something?

You're probably better off running freelance/I.T Service business then attempting this. It won't require any massive capital requirements.
Interesting... because I got a ThinkPad to run Ubuntu on a couple of years ago. And you know what? It was extremely unstable. It would freeze and crash maybe 20 - 25% of the time I disconnected an external display, and from time to time at random, for no good reason.

The multi-display support is also broken (the smaller display takes on same dimensions as the larger, with hidden areas of the desktop), but that's another matter.
Clojure's namespace declaration:

(ns my-app.my-namespace
(:require [some-library.some-namespace :as foo])

is pretty liberating for me after working with Ruby for so long.

Composition is tedious to reason about in Ruby when your only clue is a menagerie of `require`s at the top of the file. Or, more commonly, when your only clue is a Gemfile because all the gems are auto-required and omnipresent.
I believe that too, but I meant that also in terms that rent control punishes you for deferring decisions on moving. I have a very large 1BR apartment that can be 2BR if needed. I'm very reluctant to leave. If I had 2 children, it would be too small. A move up to an extra bedroom in my neighborhood would easily be $2k more for an extra room. 3 years ago it might have been a different story. If I was in a studio now, I'm not sure I could afford a move to a place like mine seeing how most studios are more expensive than my place now.
Maybe it should be. Contract law was written/established to govern negotiated agreements between comparably well-informed parties, not untold pages of labyrinthine jargon attached to every transaction that the consumer won't understand and doesn't have a chance to argue except by refusing to use the service. If you as a business (who has significantly greater resources and expertise, and therefore greater responsibility, than the customer) want a random person to sign a legal document with you, you should have to go to some reasonable effort to make sure they understand what they're signing, not just shove it at them and say "sign on the dotted line."
For the Chrome extension, you probably don't need to request permissions on tosdr.org. If you send CORS headers from that site, you will be able to make requests to it without the permissions.
>".... For a hint about this, gaze at the following diagram.

Very nice. No `authoratative` diagram I could see.

Re:

>"...Art and mathematics invite us to leave our authoritative guides behind and ultimately to do the essential work on our own.

.........................

`On my own' I figured out the(?) diagram, but a proof by induction, let alone any simple or elegant one, escapes me, I will idle back to it throughout the day...week(?)...
James is saying 2k per person (~24k per year, leaving you with ~40k).
I'm not sure I can really make an appropriate generalisation of the broad attitude towards it. I can, however, cherry pick Diane Abbot's views because she's often called upon for soundbites and political debates. As a consequence, my comment is a subset of reality.

In this case the fears stem from the perception that children viewing porn and sexualised content is damaging. In Diane Abbot's case [1] the concern is that sexualised environments might construct inaccurate attitudes towards women/sex in children.

I suppose that falls in the first and final scenarios you gave.

[1] : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21878027
That logo design came from a Crowdspring contest where I paid over $4,000 for a package of designs. There was no way I could've known it was lifted from their design.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'll contact Crowdspring & let them know- maybe I can get my $4,000 back.
From my +10 years experience in the hosting industry, I'd say in this case the best way to spend the $3,000 is to buy Xbox One and some other cool gadgets.
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I suppose this outlook is related to where you grew up. To someone from the north, referring to DC as cold and snowy is preposterous. They had one bad year with snowfall a few years ago, but other than that winter they rarely even crack 10" in recent years, and even that usually comes over only a couple of days during infrequent storms. Their mean temperature is above freezing every month of the year.
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Mozilla are the only ones without a hidden modus operandi. They make a web browser and have become the organization to trust because their mission is make the web a better place. Google want to sell ads and do everything in their power to bombard its users about whom they so desperately needs to know everything. Apple and Microsoft are busy creating lock-in. I don't actually understand how any one knowing about these and knowing what a force for good Mozilla strives to be could possibly use anything but Mozilla products. We are implicitly telling these companies that we accept their behavior. The same attitudes about deomcracy, "how can my single voice mean anything", applies just as much to corporations and using their products and sending money to them. It's a plague and we can work against. You just have to (at least in the context of this thread) spend a few seconds to go back to the browser with your interests at heart and quit destroying the web for the rest of us.
You can find apartments for that much in DC proper. Maybe not the average, but certainly present. And it gets better even staying on the Metro lines out into NOVA and (more so) MD.
True dat, theres already like a million hosting themes online... http://themeforest.net/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=hosting
if they have the information, says the USG, they have it, full stop.

Everybody hopes that that's true, but there is a problem with this story. The Director of National Intelligence told Congress that the NSA hadn't "collected" information that it did, in fact, have. When this came to light he, instead of admitting that he lied to Congress and resigning, announced that he was actually using the newspeak definition of "collect" - you know, the one where it has literally no meaning.

This is the problem with lying to the public and getting caught. There is no way to tell if anything else you say contains any meaning at all, let alone the truth, even if it happens to be the truth. This goes triple if you happen to have sworn on penalty of perjury that said lies were the truth and still get away with it.
If the debacle between RIM, India and I think it was Saudi Arabia a year or two ago is anything to go by[1], then it's not a back door as much as giving out the private key to the servers located in a country. India and Saudi got those keys on the threat of disallowing Blackberries in their respective countries. I remember thinking at the time that surely the US would have the keys to US servers.

[1] Whenever there's doubt, there is no doubt.
There's nothing wrong with taking a course that covers a very wide area, even if you're intending to specialize more deeply in all the topics later. It's actually a very effective learning strategy, because it motivates all the subsequent deeper dives.
Yuri Gagarin's place in American history is being solidified.

A lot of people have commented about this remark of yours. I'm old enough (barely) to remember Gagarin's first venture into space (I distinctly remember live TV coverage of the launch of John Glenn's first American orbital space launch) and I have never forgotten about Gagarin, nor about Valentina Tereshkova,

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

whose flight into space, the first by a woman by a large number of years, was just in the news on its fiftieth anniversary. A sufficiently old American grew up in the Space Age, and remembers the names of all the space pioneers.

If younger readers of Hacker News would like to move their minds back in time to learn more about (the American phase of) the early age of manned space flight, I recommend the documentary movie In the Shadow of the Moon,

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925248/

which I watched with my children just yesterday evening. There is, alas, little mention of the Soviet space program in the film, because the focus is on manned missions to the moon, but the interviews with surviving astronauts are fascinating, and the film-maker does a good job of setting the historical context.
I grew up in Syracuse NY. The snowiest city in the U.S. I don't consider D.C. to "have" winters. They have a mild falls until spring.
Dropdown buttons on Chrome are cut off on the right.
You paid over $4k for a logo and you don't know what to do with $3k? Oh boy.. I'd say spend them all on a bullish equity and get a good ol' day job
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I started a blog a while back because I do not expect this long-running story of freedom and privacy to move in a straight line from point A to point B. As this story shows, there'll be a lot of steps forward, then a couple of steps back. It's something that will require chronicling.

I won't debate the veracity of Congressman's Nadler's comments either a couple of days ago or today. I'll just assume his first comments were correct and unguarded. (They say the definition of a gaffe is when somebody in Washington DC tells the truth)

What interests me is this: who got to him? We'd all like to assume it was some kind of nefarious government source, but my instincts say it was somebody in a leadership position in his own party.

We won't know, though, either which statement was correct, and if the first one was true, how he was "adjusted" by some external force. Bet it's a fascinating story. My money says leadership in both parties are really busy cracking the whip over this behind the scenes.
> "As everybody who has been associated with the program's said if we had this before 9/11, when there were two terrorists in San Diego - two hijackers - able to use that program, that capability against the target, we might have been able to prevent 9/11"

These politicians believe it's worth invading everyone's privacy in order to prevent an attack on American soil. That's insane. A surveillance state is far more of a danger to people than terrorism.
we're currently working on an angularjs application that has to deal with massive amounts of editable data on screen (think of purchase orders, ship notices, invoices that need to be sent out to walmart, kroger, target scale). although i have had minor issues here and there all you really need to know is what angular is currently monitoring (usually you expose the mutable parts of your models) and exposing that to the angular runtime while hiding what it doesn't need to know to get a performance boost. as for reusability angular services has been both easily and wonderful to use because of angularjs DI approach to everything.

this application also has to have a pluggable(200+ different company business/validation rules) rule engine, and being able to configure angularjs services through its providers interface has been very helpful with that problem.

we're not done yet so i can't give a final verdict but we've been overall pleased with the framework so far. i also agree with some of the sentiments in here where angularjs does not currently seem to have a culture of what is "idiomatic" angular which can be very detrimental in the short and long run.

one of the reasons we didn't go with ember is that the decision was made at the time where in they were making huge changes to ember.
Not for me. Running OSX Chrome Version 27.0.1453.110.
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Oakland has about 600 police officers for a population which requires around 1,100. There have been five robberies on my street in upper rockridge, where we rent. It's an incredibly beautiful neighborhood and we pay a pretty high rent to live there. In 2010, the police announced that for a long list of crimes (including burgularies) they will not come out. We have caught people casing our neighborhood, strangers sitting in cars for hours, "solicitors" checking for who is home, etc. One woman was abducted from her home, but managed to flee before being permanently maimed (I don't know which year this was, but it was mentioned at a neighborhood watch meeting. Combine a typical neighborhood of strangers with desperate criminal elements, as well as an understaffed police and you can have a bad situation. Hoping the governor will help out (it's his hometown) because Oakland could be an incredible town.
British people are really hard to understand. The way they make whole syllables disappear is nothing short of black magic.
Mozilla observing the effectiveness of their campaign is not the same as building a complete profile on you. This is quite different from using a phone with Android or iOS or using Chrome whose primary goals are such. Be safe out there, use Mozilla products and have a little faith. Mozilla is the only mainstream force for good in its area.
Piedmont is definitely very nice. We have made some great friends there. Unfortunately, nothing was available when we moved. Pro tip: don't relocate around thanksgiving/Christmas ;).
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The DC winter is pretty mild. There is perhaps one snowstorm a year. Yes, sometimes there's ice on your car, but if you live and work in the city there's a good chance you don't drive to work or necessarily own a car.

If you want to complain about DC weather, I would direct you to the heat + humidity level in the summer.

SF and DC are very different cities, but based solely on weather I would absolutely take DC + $11,000/year. No question. It's really not that bad and some people even enjoy having discrete seasons.
No need to fear. The plebeians who worship HN will downvote me into oblivion to stick up for their fellow transient brother from flyover state Nowhere, USA.
Yup. I like this one. Easy to self host. Wiki is a great bonus. I need to figure out how to get emails to sync with cron or however that works.
And? There are a lot of diacritics to choose from if you don't know all their names, and that's assuming you even catch on that it's supposed to be a diacritic.
Next step: outlaw VPNs (only half-joking)
"All models are wrong, but some [models] are useful." - George E. P. Box
The fact that Google is backing AngularJS is a nice bit of reassurance. But are any of their current apps using AngularJS in any way? I realize most of their major apps, such as GMail and documents, pre-date Angular...but they must use it, or parts of it for something prominent, right?
sure IRC is great, but for mobile?
Don't down vote the parents comment. He/she's right!
Crime has gotten noticeably worse since I moved to Lake Merritt in 2005. Everyone I know who lives on Oakland agrees. For example, Oakland is currently the robbery capital of the nation (http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Oakland-is-Americas-Rob...). OPD employs 20% fewer officers than it did ten years ago, and probably half as many as it should for a city with its size and crime figures. Pull your head out of your own ass and look at some actual data before you post things like this.
I love quotes from old dead societies that show us how worries that our society is degrading are unfounded.
Take a walk around SF's Chinatown if you want one example of people who are a mix of: young / old / rich / not so well off.

The outer Sunset and Richmond have lots of families and older folks.
As somebody who has lived here for 13 years, let me strongly agree. This is a terrible place and nobody should ever move here. Also, if you have friends living here, ask them to come home.

(Let's see if that helps with the average rents.)
Thank you. Mozilla is a force for good. Mozilla have done nothing to show they are not worthy of our trust and you demonstrate that we have no reason to question it still.
Eh, I guess you guys are just more optimistic than I. I've pretty much assumed for years that anything I type or say is recorded. NSA, black hat, script kiddie, whatever.
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Please turn down the dial a little bit. Calling a stranger a pussy may be the norm on the internet at large, but it's not appropriate here.
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I've worked with both frameworks. You're too quick to judge Angular. Secondly, I suggest you watch Angular 1.2 & beyond:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W13qDdJDHp8&feature=c4-overvi...

For instance, scope will be optional in the future, not only that but the roadmap for Angular Next is very impressive (see around the 44:40 mark).

---

Angular is accelerating; it has more stars/watchers/staff than Ember. Embers' core devs barely have time for pull requests. To the best of my knowledge Ember has no full-time staffers. Angular is fully staffed by Google. Both take contribution from the community.
Oh typical petty crime. BRING ON THE POLICE! "Oakland could be an incredible town". It already is. If you don't appreciate it, then go elsewhere? Berkeley may be more of your taste (lots of granola for ya).
Probably the best use of money on an extreme budget, is finding a good one and then modifying it.
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Are you sure that the average rent for 1 bedroom is $2,700? I lived on Market street in a studio apartment with a pool and a gym in our building and I paid only $1500, that was couple years ago tho, but I dont think that the average rent is $2,700...sorry
Well, before enough people are telling their governments to stop surveillance, it needs to be a strong matter of public interest. The same applies for a broad application of any technical solution.

At the end we probably need both, the public constantly controlling politics and technical solutions to make surveillance generally harder, but it all requires the public interest reaching at least the critical mass.

If 99% of people didn't want surveillance, then governments would have virtually no chance to install it, but at the moment many people think surveillance is good for them.
Pointed observation from the article:

The disclosure raises new questions about the boundaries of surveillance by GCHQ and its American sister organisation, the National Security Agency, whose access to phone records and internet data has been defended as necessary in the fight against terrorism and serious crime.

So, are the diplomatic and political representatives of allied powers suspected criminals or suspected terrorists then?

I'm not sure how they can possibly wriggle out of this one without much egg on face, and possibly some significant consequences for diplomatic standing too, with the G8 summit taking place this week.
In regards to the "crazies" aspect: I've spent a few months in SF (near Haight St), and 5 years in London.

The thing that shocked me most about SF was the shear number of mentally ill homeless people on the street. London has homeless people, but they're generally coherent enough to carry on a conversation. In SF it seemed that almost 100% of the homeless were "bat shit crazy" - I pondered at the time if the NHS's mental health care was the difference, and thanked good fortune to have lived my life within countries with social care.
If David Cameron feels “sickened” by such material available online, wouldn't it be simpler if he just refrains from looking at them? :)

Seriously though, preventing the abuse and human suffering associated with the making of that stuff should obviously actually be a priority. Deleting the pictures seems pretty secondary.
I hope deleting the pictures doesn't turn out a substitute for stopping the abuses.
And I fully agree with the premonitions of those who have pointed out that this could easily be subverted for nefarious purposes such as undercutting civil liberties. Certainly not obvious that this would be a good thing for the world to have in place.
They say it only cost 30M to make a ARM, but how much would it cost to make one that runs at the same practical speed then a x86 ? That's IMO the real question ...