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That's also true, but on the flip side I think what we're seeing in Chicago is that the middle class black folks are more reluctant to leave for the suburbs and try to stick it out longer in those neighborhoods than the middle class white folks.
It'd be interesting to see some research on that. Most of the plants I'm aware of aren't actually in Detroit proper, but the metro area.

A quick glance over the list of GM factories[1] shows just one assembly plant in the city. Chrysler has a bit more going on[2] in Detroit. Of course, this doesn't take into account all of the suppliers, which is a huge omission. In my experience growing up in the area, it wasn't so uncommon for someone to be working for a company whose sole customer was one of the Big Three.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_General_Motors_factorie...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chrysler_factories
It's not a canard, it's the ostensible reason for the current (high) state of rental and home prices.

That said, it's great news that so many rental units will be made available in the next few years.
Okay, so who exactly are you going to trust, then? Basically all of the major companies most people use day-to-day have been caught. Are you now going to excise every one of them completely out of your life?
Well, non-prescription sunglasses don't work for people with corrective lenses either. I wouldn't call that definitive evidence.
Is a $10,000 console devkit a luxury good?
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Wouldn't the velocity maximum be 90 degrees out of phase with respect to the density? (in steady-state standing-wave operation)
Pensions are a joke. I hate to say this but look at the teachers of Mass as a good example of just how much so. 20 years ago teachers paid 2% of their salary into the pension, today they pay 10%. Do you expect that in any reality today's teachers are going to see that returned to them?

Basically, promises are made that have no bearing on reality and the now has to suffer for it. I wish they'd give them the opportunity for a 401k. At least then they'd have an option of seeing something after 40 years of dedicated public service.
Carbon applications still run on the Mac, they just can't run in 64-bit mode. But Starcraft 1 is a PowerPC app, so it does need Rosetta.
because they are hypocrites. this is a pr joke.
Exactly.

>How many times has Eric Schmidt publicly said that people need to get over their ideas of personal privacy?

And now we know definitively WHY Eric was saying this BS -- because he knew it was ALREADY compromised, deliberately, by Goog and NSA!!
"the way things should be" (according to low taxes, etc) is not the same as "the way things are"

It is instructive to understand the difference, i.e. why entrepreneurs start businesses that thrive and succeed in San Francisco when the pundit's supposed "climate for business" is better in other places.
That's nice for you that you don't mind an invasion of privacy and think that those who do need to see a therapist. I love how you pretend to diagnosis mental health issues over the internet, maybe I should get into that game...

Your claim that they do not treat people as criminals because you don't mind or encounter trouble is laughable. Some of us don't have a case of Stockholm Syndrome to sooth the abuse.

Of course as someone who sympathizes with and advocates for your aggressors you won't understand where I am coming from, but get some help.
Note that much of Detroit's debt is insured by monoline insurers who viewed the probability of a majour U.S. city entering Chapter 9 in the way S&P and Moody's viewed a nationally correlated housing meltdown pre-2008. I have not yet seen how this bankruptcy will (a) affect the monolines' solvency, or, (b) change their behaviour around municipal credit wraps.
Is there any more impressive open source project than Wine? I mean, yes, the Linux kernel itself and maybe GCC, but Wine just blows me away. The sheer audacity of sitting down and deciding to reimplement the entire Win32 stack including bugs to the point where DirectX is reimplemented in OpenGL and everything runs natively is just unbelievable. It's truly a testament to open source. No business would initially fund a project like this, it's nuts. And yet it exists, and continues to improve, and now companies like Codeweavers are built upon it. Congrats!
> You can ask "why" all the way down, but the effect of you sitting on a chair still has an explanation.

Trading one problem for another doesn't really solve anything. You take issue with the blog post for not answering your question but neither does current cosmology answer your question, except by raising another question. So the blog post doesn't have the disadvantage over current cosmology that you suggested.

> "why isn't gravity working the way we thought it worked?

Objects can move away from one another other even as they are attracted to one another by gravity. Are you thinking of how the galaxies are thought to be accelerating away from one another (dark energy)?

> "why are the galaxies moving apart?"

Physics doesn't need to answer that. Why isn't our Moon larger than it is? It's enough for physics that it's possible in principle for the galaxies to be moving apart from one another.

If something we observe is thought to be impossible in principle, then physics should change to address that. So maybe you're thinking of accelerating cosmic expansion here (dark energy).

> "why is the sky dark at night?"

That's Olber's Paradox. It's already explained by the redshift. The faster a galaxy moves away from us the more redshifted it is. At some degree of redshift our eyes receive only 1 photon per century on average, or less. So that spot in the sky is dark.
That's Marin, where all the rich professionals who work in SF live, and where they intentionally prevent development because they like their bucolic atmosphere.
Soylent hasn't broken anything... yet.
1) Those lofty retirement guarantees were much easier to bargain for before everyone realized that the days of heady growth in America were done.

2) The bankruptcies will dramatically weaken the public sector unions.
I think FogCreek does a really good job of this. When entering a ticket, they asked three simple questions:

1. What did you do?
2. What did you expect?
3. What happened instead?

Just these three questions really help focus the task of entering a problem ticket.
The city government is still corrupt and incompetent, and the remaining population is largely unemployable. Yes it's a good thing that the city is going from broke to just poor, but I don't know if it will every truly recover.
Except that many of us carry smartphones that are worth more by themselves than the amount of cash we would normally consider carrying and expose you to further online fraud if stolen.
Perhaps it's just a conspiracy theory: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-a...
nice turn. Drugged out psychopaths can't organize into long functioning multi-layered mafia organizations who would control whole cities and whose extortion activities go well beyond simple robberies of private citizens where is the "nice" guys can and do.
But that's not the point at all. Would it be legal for the military to waterboard Bradley Manning? I have no idea. Twenty years ago, the answer would be clearly "no".
Holy shit... I'm so sorry that you and your family have to suffer through something like that. Best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery for Peyton.

As for the business... meh. I had the good fortune to be able to volunteer as a firefighter for about 10 years, and worked as a 911 dispatcher for a while... after having been in those literal "life and death" situations a few times (including a couple dealing with my own potential death), I've found that you just don't get as excited about certain things... perspective really does change things.

When you are dealing with life and death situations, the business world seems a lot less important. Even if the business fails, at least everybody goes home at the end of the day.
No, I don't live in SF. I just don't see why it should be turned into a New York clone.

I've lived in New York for 7 years and I'll be leaving (at least for a while) soon and there is exactly one major negative of New York: the cost of real estate.

Of course, there are cultural problems-- douchebags, shitty cutthroat people, unimaginative technology scene-- but all of that garbage flows directly from the extreme cost of living.

Given that San Francisco has now been fully infected by the one major negative of Manhattan, and is already experiencing the attendant cultural complications, it really has nothing to lose by fully Manhattanizing.
I do like that comparison - but let's add a twist:

He bought the console devkit, because he wanted to _play_ with the console and there wasn't a normal unit available. Okay, that was a bad idea and he (obviously?) isn't impressed with what is available right now: Should he still hold on to that expensive unit, or wait for the normal console to appear for a much more reasonable price (and maybe with actual features/'games' he'd be interested in)?
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Thank you, as an occasional user of Jetstrap, I was wondering what the benefits might be. I'll have to take a deeper look now.
What do the green and yellow dots in the map represent?
I think there's a big difference between "We're letting you go because you're not a good fit for the company" and "We're letting you go because you're chronically late, dodge work assignments, and basically work as hard as you can to avoid work." The former is the fault of the employer - they should have interviewed better. The latter is the fault of the employee.
Which was disabled starting with Lion in 2011 :)
It's pretty unfair to criticize some speculation of how the system might work.

It might release the documents to selected people who may be required to use their judgement on what to release. It may require cooperation from several individuals to decrypt. It may be enough of a bluff for someone to think twice
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So does this support emacs on one side, vim on the other? If so, thank you, you're awesome.
Even though it was two years ago, we're still feeling the after effects. There is a considerable lag time between approving new construction and actually getting some built. One bad year (such as 2011) can cause lasting pain for many years afterwards. 2011 still feels very much like the present.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag

Now who is the idiot?
Is there documentation somewhere that shows how to setup our a self-hosted registry?
How much of such "collateral damage" is acceptable in your opinion?
The very nature of Anonymous precludes false flag operations, as from its inception, anyone who claims to be Anonymous is, ipso facto, Anonymous. It doesn't mean they're the same group of people everyone else is thinking of, but it's never meant that. It's simply a distinction that's lost on many of the people who comment on Anon's activities.
I would love to bike around but I consider it too dangerous.
One thing to note is that many people moved outside of the city limits into the suburbs, which including Detroit has a population of something like 4 million people (ie. Wayne, Oakland, Macomb counties). The population of the city of Detroit proper is much less than that, like 750,000.

Michigan has a very strong "home rule" law which concerns the annexing of these suburbs which prevents Detroit from amalgamating these suburbs, which has led to decline in tax revenue for the city proper. As people move out to the suburbs, the city can't sustain itself due to declining tax revenue.

Many other cities have amalgamated recently. Toronto, for example.

Here's an interesting read: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/03/dont-shr...
Our company was in a accelerator program based in Austin ( Capital factory) this Spring. After the program we were seriously considering moving to Austin. I am based in ATL and my co founder is based in Orlando.

But, we decided against it. There was no compelling reason to move to Austin. For us, it was only worth uprooting our lives, if we are moving to areas such as SF/Bay Area.
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Keep on doing it! I always appreciate the effort some people put into the Inmail, although it's usually direct from companies rather than recruiters
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True. I was being a bit hyperbolic. I just didn't detect one shred of empathy in the post.

My guess is he is actually a fine guy with fine character, but was making an argument on a mailing list along the lines of, "even if you totally lack empathy, it is still rational to pay severance".

"I hate severance. Hate it." - Assuming he is of good character, it is more likely that he was also hyperbolic. Surely helping someone land on their feet provides him some emotional satisfaction.
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You should expect to see this more often than not. Cities in Florida are going through the same things, but just haven't defaulted yet. Expect it. Its going to be the norm.

most of this is due to the archaic pension system.
I see many reaction around the indulgence towards pickpockets you can read in the article.

It reminded me about Vidocq, that at some point in his memories denounce the behavior of high society towards thieves that, he says, could even ask police to get a thief out of prison to let him demonstrate his skills to amuse guests for an evening.

Thieves were glamorized and victims were seen as fools by a great deal of society. Until one of those would be a victim himself.

It's not new, and more visible in cruder societies of the past, and I suspect it finds its roots in the very common, and almost reflex, respect given to ones that can show great dexterity and cleverness. Which is totally lost when brutality is involved, tools of the lesser mind. Well, except for war, where you can find respect even if violence is involved.
I've often wondered how hard this would be, there's a lot of games released for OSX that aren't released at all for linux that you could play with a piece of software like that. Feels like it should be easier than implementing D3D, etc.
Because if Edward Snowden had not taken the actions he took, your employer would never have written this letter.
> I hope that the most sensitive secrets that he is in a position to disclose stay undisclosed

Why? This is like a married person saying "I hope that the affairs my spouse has had stay secret." Which, I suppose, some would agree with...
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This is why I wont move to SF area. Housing prices are insane. Not worth living in a cave for that amount of money, I don't care who I work for.
I did not mean to imply that all firings are the result of employee incompetence or poor performance. Because that's clearly not true. There are often other factors that lead to a bad "fit".

And yes, the first thing you should do post-firing is examine your hiring process to see if it could have been foreseen and prevented. But in some cases it does come down to someone just not having the experience, the talent or the work ethic to meet the performance required. It's those cases, especially with tech workers, where founders are apt to ask "do I really need to provide severance to HIM (or her)". Writing at $20K check to someone to walk out the door is never an easy thing to do especially at a startup where that $20K could go a long way. That's what I was addressing here.
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On this topic, I thought I could use a service like BrowserStack to do all of my Windows/IE testing in the cloud. However, I found that the latency was still too much. I agree that you have to run less and less on local Windows, but there are quite a few things that still require it, and for those, I'm really happy that Wine's around and I can use a VM on my own machine.
Can you provide an example of something you've done with Rails?
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A group of Argentinians in Buenos Aires city run a full web site with videos, images, and tips against subway pickpockets: http://www.peesba.com.ar/

They have even links to some of the pickpockets facebook pages!
What was vague about the responses? Google issued something like three separate denials the day the news broke, with increasingly clear and strong language. They stated they had never heard of "PRISM", at least not by that name, and that there was no direct access or backdoors to their servers. They also acknowledged, I believe, that they get FISA requests for user data but that they weren't allowed to publish statistics about them. I honestly can't think of much else they could have said, short of releasing the exact numbers they're not allowed to, to clarify the situation.
Congrats Kevin and Charlie! Awesome idea
I wrote a post about the startups trying to change things in this space http://www.mobileinc.co.uk/2013/04/designers-making-moves-to...
In practice all of the compilers have arrived at a common ABI for each platform.
As a practical matter, the collateral damage is a lot lower with drone strikes than they were in Clinton's day when we lobbed cruise missiles at countries, or before that when we'd do targeted bombings.
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If you want to find out if that console is fun to use? Yes.

Probably the 10k would be a bigger showstopper for people that are 'just curious' to even give it a try, but in this case this guy seems like someone interested in a sneak preview.

The devkit buyer hopefully plans to build stuff, _generate_ money with it. It should be an instrument to generate income, the money is spent on 'tools'.

Glass? That's a gadget. I said it elsewhere on the thread: I do like the comparison with a developer kit, but .. most people that seem to get one/use one (even the ones mentioned in the very article) look like end users, trying to get a sneak preview. Not 'I want to build my business on Glass apps' type of guys.
But as far as I can tell, the affected companies are the victims here. They were forced into doing this by the US government. There's no "cooperation" when the US government says "we are legally compelling you to do this".

I totally agree this is (belatedly) a step in the right direction, and I'm pleased Google are getting together with other SV companies to question the right of government to extract data at will from their servers, but we don't really know if PRISM was a voluntary program or not at this point, or even what the extent of the surveillance is, because no-one is willing to tell us. So it's hard as a customer to decide where Google stands on this.

Are other companies like Twitter and Amazon cooperating with PRISM? As far as I understand it some companies are cooperating, and some are not, and some like Apple only agreed relatively recently, unlike say Microsoft, Yahoo or Google. The response to the news that they had been cooperating was also a bit odd because rather than siding with their customers and asking for more transparency at that point, the non-denial denials issued told us nothing about what exactly Google have been doing, but lots about what they're not doing in quite specific terms.

The real focus of people's anger should of course be the government which has insisted these companies take part, and refuses to allow any transparency on numbers and methods, but there are lingering suspicions about whether the practices are legal, and whether companies were actually obliged to take part on pain of sanctions, or just strongly encouraged to do so.
Ask HN: What is necessary for a launch?
I am working on a product which is an application with heavy server integration. I have this laundry list of features that I feel are necessary, but I dont know if they really are.

1. Monitoring - we currently have only the devs as users and therefore dont hit any server limits meaning that server monitoring hasnt been necessary. Going forward, I feel like this will be more important, but it seems to me like the pitfall that is always talked about where founders are worried about scaling without any users. Furthermore, we currently have no way of detecting or reporting an application crash. This will make it hard to iterate and fix problems without.

2. Server capacity - We are currently bootstrapped and running off of a single t1.micro instance. This is fine before launch as we only have devs as users. For a launch though, I do not think that it will be enough. Furthermore, we currently have the web server, blog, database, dns, mail, and application server running on the same machine. This feels like putting all our eggs in one basket. Moreover, we dont have any sort of cache setup.

3. Payments - we have no way of collecting money or even infrastructure to deal with the various plans that we will have to offer. While this feels important we arent even ready with a beta. We kinda want to get the product out and get a little bit of traction before implementing a payment system.

4. Analytics/Growth - We have no idea how our users will perceive/traverse the website. Furthermore, without things like A/B testing we have no idea what the best way to market the product is other than the experience we have from talking to people first hand.

5. Features that the users want - We want to implement the above things, but we realize that features that the users want in a way trumps the others.

So the question is how do you order these responsibilities and what level of these is acceptable for a launch?
Any time I see stories of how crazy the situation surrounding the SF housing market is, I compare it to my own city (Amarillo, TX), which has the opposite situation. A much smaller population over a larger area with plenty of land to sprawl into means that the population density (and average rent) is much lower. My 1 bedroom apartment is ~650/mo, and my impression is that that situation would be a laughable offer in any larger city.

The only issue? Amarillo is pretty far away from the other larger cities. In the plains, we talk of distances between cities based on the number of hours it would take to drive that distance. Six to Dallas/Fort Worth, six to Denver, four to Oklahoma City, ten to Houston. Combined with the lower population, not much of an urban culture makes it out here. I don't mind, though, and because of the low cost of living and the Internet bringing the world to me, the low cost of living makes up for it. I'm not working with a startup nor on any products of my own at the moment, but should I start, I don't think I'd relocate unless a very compelling offer came my way.
Most comparisons I hear involving Austin run along the lines of "the San Francisco of Texas," or "next to San Francisco..."

Except surfing. No one ever talks about surfing in the Austin area.