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I moved from Cleveland to Seattle, and I would agree with most everything here (referring to Seattle of course). My only differences would be:

1) It is not as dirty. There is some level of dirtiness, but I found Cleveland to be much worse.

2) The government here isn't anywhere near as bad as SF or Cleveland. SF is NIMBY hell with a counter-intuitive positive feedback loop (They won't build, so they get gentrification, which oddly enough reduces their propensity to build), and a transit system that is so far gamed in the Transit Union's advantage that it has stopped functioning for society. Cleveland is playing the bribe-the-fortune-500 game with tax breaks that they can't afford, and city services which are mismanaged and underfunded.

Seattle has a nimby problem, a noise problem, and their public transportation is pretty weak and poorly designed. But I love it here.
But now you're putting a libertarian political agenda into Bitcoin again, and this is what makes many people (including me) very nervous. You see, many people think about the terrible pain and suffering the US experienced about a century ago when the economy and law were largely unregulated and unenforced. Much of the country became quickly enslaved to a small group of individuals; terrible exploitation and rampant poverty ensued. It was through a lot of hard work that Americans were able to place government regulation to free themselves from the tyranny of the robber barons. So when many people today hear the words "without external central entity and enforcement" the horrors of the gilded age flash before their eyes.

Also, your ideas about an AI-directed or general-consensus utopia are nice but naive. People don't usually agree on what utility function you'd want to maximize, as there is no "right way" for a lot of things that matter to people. Would your Bitcoinish utopia allow late-term abortions? Or school prayer? Or same-sex marriage? Politics is a constant battle of values, many of them are deeply emotional.

But Dixon's idea of Bitcoin as internet pocket-money is actually something I can live with.
I'm 31. Been here my whole life (besides traveling). Working on finding remote DevOps gig to work from Tampa/Key West/British Virgin Islands.
My city was approaching negative double-digits a couple of weeks ago.

Enjoy that SF weather :)
Anyone else notice that the bottom-right corner of the NSA doc is dated 20070108? Is that a month after the original iPhone was released or 6 months before?

Either way, quite the implication if the claims are authentic.

Plausible deniability can be an effective tool for a company too. It's certainly possible that Apple team members were indeed collaborating with the NSA (or FBI or some contractor equivalent) or that the NSA had access to Apple tech without the leadership aware of the specifics or even without any official corporate authorization/mandate in the first place.
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Ah, thanks, I didn't know the last one.
NYC has a program to send homeless people back home with a one-way ticket:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/nyregion/29oneway.html
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I'd expect that if a trojan were to be inserted that it will probably want access to all interfaces. I would take extra care at your hardrive interface, USB interface and Ethernet interface. I'd look for JTAG connectors on the boards to see if direct flashing is plausible. I'd also look for damage done from removing them.

Small point be social sourcing could generate a false positive unless you can verify said individuals interests.

Of course removing anything placed by warrant is possibly illegal irregardless of you position on it. {this isn't legal advice}

I'd also say this would take a significant amount of effort to validate and you're likely to find quasi poor information.
Did they offer a refund, or just credit?
The weather really matters to a person like me. I find that in snow, and rain, I don't get on very well. I tend to get very sick in extremely cold weather, and my mood isn't great either.

For this reason, London, Boston, Chicago, and New York are effectively ruled out for me as places to live for a large enough chunk of the year.

I don't really like Seattle very much. Their airport uses TSA. The employers in the area that are within walking distance of any of the places I would like to live don't greatly excite me either.

San Francisco meets a lot of special requirements that are hard to meet:
-Very walkable
-Decent transportation options (Uber)
-Temperate
-Good collection of employers
-Empirical data appears to show a great number of interesting people

I don't think I've read a single pro-San Francisco blog, and even if I did, someone's opinion about San Francisco would only factor into a small part of my decisions to live here.
That annoys the heck out of me, because if it truly is not a real question, then the "general masses" of answer authors would naturally agree. Instead some deletionist authoritarian jerk needs to force his idea on everyone else, because obviously no one else is worthy enough to make a judgment. Why feel the need to force what they call the truth on everyone, if it is in fact the truth? Or more likely they're full of it and just enjoy watching the world burn. The worst part is the selection of judges is based basically on who spends the most clock time googling for people too lazy to use google, it has nothing to do with taste or skill or ability or experience. Random selection would be more effective.

A site could be designed that isn't based on an anti-social, exclusionary, classist, authoritarian philosophy. The tragedy is it wouldn't look too much different than SO. So close, and yet so far...
They shoot porn stars, don't they?
In discussions I've read about bitcoin in HN, I've seen how some people call "leftie" to those who think like this, mainly by right leaning Americans, the funny thing is that they use that word as an insult, when in other rich countries you only have center-left, moderate-left and far-left flavors for political parties.
Based on weather and cleanliness, I'd rather live in San Mateo than SF proper. None of that annoying fog-mist.
US spied French aerospace industry in 90's and there is no indication that they won't do it every time they feel US might get advantage from it.
In North Carolina the population density is much lower than SF so of course you are dealing with more pollution.
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That's why I'm a capitalist: if an American computer firm told their best employees "we're scraping this project you love and are building IBM 360 clone", the employees have had the option of going elsewhere. Indeed, exactly this happened many times.

On the other hand, I've heard many horror stories of similar goings happening with regards to technology at NASA/JPL and other tech-heavy government agencies: a great project gets built in house, it gets scraped because it isn't "up to WS-management standards and best practices and uses customized open source and not off-the-shelf commercial software". I call this the "not-invented-elsewhere syndrome", which can be just as pernicious as the more familiar NIH. am hoping recent debacles like healthcare.gov failure will get governments to revisit the way they look at building software.
If it's not a core competency (although for certain marketplaces, it may be), you can use a 3rd party escrow.

You're already effectively using an escrow service when you provide a Credit Card payment option; you just don't get to choose who provides the service, you can't unbundle it from a larger product offering, you have very little control over it, it doesn't work well for certain types of goods & services, and it's built on top of a pull payment network instead of a push payment network.
Closed as not a real question.

150 question upvotes.
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Just prorated credit. I just cancelled.
Woohoo! We have some exciting improvements rolling out over the coming weeks :-)
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This does not make sense whatsoever. You don't go to SO to get a feel for a language. You go to SO to get quick answers for a problem you are having for a language already chosen.
Of course, I opened my mouth too soon; A quick google search revealed pressing the tick (`) navigates from box to box. I'm back, baby!
I think GP refers to pressing a screen-on button.
>>People move to SF for the same reason they buy an iPhone. They want to fit in.

Lies & slander
I wish it were true that existing online materials are appropriate for both Python 2 and 3.

It's true that experienced Python programmers can easily identify the distinctions, and thus translate back and forth in their minds.

But for a newbie, the fact that print("abc") works on Python 3 and 2.7, but not on earlier editions of 2 (and yes, many people still use those earlier versions) is confusing and frustrating.

When I teach my Python classes, I always tell them that they should check a tutorial, blog post, or Stack Overflow answer before using it, to see if it's relevant to Python 2 or 3.
That's her entire point though - in the past, the transit issues would've been fixed with the help/money of the companies moving there. Now, her issue is that companies have invested private money in the shuttles, mitigating the transit headache exclusively for their employees, rather than by providing a public good.

It's up to your own personal politics to decide which of those is more desirable though.
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FWIW, I've merged his accounts now.

Probably too late, but... If he ever decides to come back, he'll be able to edit his own posts without review.
More because it is a known fact that a large proportion of the homless in NYC are not actually even from NY and I don't think we should be paying to take care of people who are not actually from the area. This to me should be a federal issue, why should major metropolitan areas have to pay for all the joe smoes who move to the city for no other reason than mooching off the "better" benefits that cities provide over small towns.
what do you do if you're a real retailer and someone says : "Hey one of your customers last week paid you with cash that was stolen from me!"

The answer is: "Well go report the stolen cash, we have no idea how to help you."

It's just the nature of cash that it works that way. People need to / will learn the nature of bitcoin, whatever that is exactly.
There's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.

I've lived in a few warm cities, and I found they suck too, just in different ways from Chicago. Plus, all the warm cities are going to run out of water soon, anyway. May as well be prepared for the cold weather when everyone has to move back to places like here.
The taxes are very high, and they are mis-spent.
I know it's not quite "not relying on banks and credit card companies", but removing ONE of them from the equation (credit cards skimming fees) is what I'm working on now. This is how it works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR5UTLxe5zA&feature=youtu.be

By removing them and decentralizing the banking process by centralizing it into a third party (which could be many third parties), I think we'll allow anyone who wants to start a bank of any size to compete for marketshare with the big boys by providing better services.
interesting blog post but could have just been titled: "my thoughts on moving to a big city"
>I sometimes wish I could get Californians to have the same courage as the Swiss do when zoning towns which require only walking.

I would settle for just making pedestrian-only some small bits of San Francisco, ostensibly the most progressive city in the state.

For example: Oh what I wouldn't give to have Third Street shut down from say Folsom to Market. I walk every day most of the length of Third Street and it is an automotive hellscape.

Literally six lanes of cars all going in the same direction. And it's anarchy. At nearly every single light change, someone ends up blocking the intersection because they tried to make it across with no room. Cars nearly mowing down pedestrians as they try to turn into parking lot/hotel access roads. Cars clogging the bus lanes. And the honking, oh the honking.

Just shut it down. From the convention center through Yerba Buena Gardens, the St Regis, MOMA, all the way to Market. Giant outdoor cafes and restaurants and biergartens. Some protected dedicated bike lanes. Nice pedestrian paths. Dedicated spaces for outdoor exhibits from MOMA, the African Diaspora museum (in the St Regis) and Yerba Buena Center.

Earmark the extra tax increment for something nice, maybe for improving mass transit, or the police, or the art scene, as penance for taking away the six-lane artery of transit misery.

Then do it again on some other miserable street. And so on.
The argument also hinges on the idea that the operator has "good-faith belief that the content is legit".

Stating that you have this good faith belief is not actually the same thing as having it.
First of all I'm sorry to hear that you have to shut down your app, but I'm confident that things are going to work out just fine for you.

I actually had a very similar experience when I was 18 as well. I decided to make a book search engine that would aggregate reviews from different sources across the web and provide a high quality, clean interface to quickly see information about a book and links to buy it on Amazon. The problem my service solved is that the Amazon interface is extremely ugly, and while I'm sure it is fine tuned for maximum sales it is definitely highly lacking in aesthetics and is cluttered with a lot of garbage. My goal was to create the cleanest, most minimal but extremely useful book search engine.

In retrospect my service was breaking many TOS because of the way it worked. When someone entered a book title or author name it would utilize Amazon API's to get information about relevant books that matched the query, then it would scrape book information from Amazon, Goodreads, Barnes and Nobles, and the New York Times sunday book review among other sources, then it would cache that scraped information in my own database for future reference.

I justified this to myself by thinking it was okay because I was remixing the information to generate my own summary pages that were cleaner and more useful, but the reality is that I was pretty much parasitizing these other services to build my own database.

At its peak my service had many GB's of scraped data from other sites and was getting about 5000 searches a day which was netting me about $500-$700 a month from commission on Amazon referrals sales. But after I started getting some press coverage in The Next Web, etc all the services that I was utilizing started sending me cease and desist notices. People used my site because it was cleaner and nicer than Amazon but Amazon didn't appreciate that I was scraping their content to build my own site so they cut off my API access and closed my Amazon Associate account.

In the end it was a wild six month ride in which I made a few thousand dollars but more importantly got tons of experience in coding a scalable site, and best of all I started getting a lot of job offers. At one point I was getting three or four job offers a month from different startups from the HN community.

Eventually I decided to settle down at one of them where I could continue developing my coding skills. Things turned out very well, and the ride of personal growth and discovery isn't over for me yet. Every day I get to code interesting things for my current startup company and this time its a legitimate business that isn't going to get shut down for stealing content.

Even though you probably feel very disappointed about having to shut down your service like I did when I had to shut down mine, you can be confident that with your skills things will turn out just fine for you, and a lot of interesting startup companies will probably be eager to employ you.
The green check mark is worth 25 points, one time, and an asker can reassign it (and the points) if a later answer proves more worthwhile than one already accepted. Every upvote is worth 10 points, and an answer can get upvoted for as long as it exists.

If you're playing the game for points, the way to win it is to find questions with lots of Google juice, and then answer them with every bit of correctness and completeness you can possibly muster. This strategy requires patience and discipline, which the "throw off a quick stupid answer as fast as possible" strategy admittedly does not. Over time, though, it's bulletproof, and if you're going to play the game for points in the first place, then I think this is the best way to combine that and actually contributing something worthwhile.
> You could argue that, YouTube has maintained their safe harbour, and hence they're a reasonable entity.

That's not how the reasonable person standard works. "Reasonable person" is a term of art. A reasonable person is a sort of thought experiment that's used often in law. We imagine a hypothetical person who is in most respects like the average person, and who makes sound judgments based on the information available to him or her. We then hold real legal entities, such as website proprietors in DMCA cases, to the standard of this hypothetical reasonable person. For example, we say that a reasonable person running such and such website would have noticed copyright infringement, and thus the website's proprietor was obligated to remediate the infringement.

The fact that YouTube has maintained its safe harbor means YouTube is successful in that regard. It doesn't tell us anything about the legal definition of a "reasonable person."
> For the love of all that is good, save your .pem file to some kind of cloud storage so you’ll never be without it.

For the love of all that is good, don't do this for anything beyond random hobbyist screwing around. A Dropbox compromise shouldn't risk your entire company's server infrastructure.

> If you only have need for one free tier instance leave it running.

No, because the 750 hours/month can be used by more than one instance. You could, for example, try out database clustering by running two t1.micro instances for two weeks.

> Finally resist the urge to use your GUI when working with your project even when your working with your project on a local machine you’ll find that as you move along with your project you’ll be in better control of the project when it’s on the remote server.

The AWS Console is perfectly usable for 99% of what you'll need to do. Most users won't need anything beyond it.
Thanks for the insight. I've never thought of the possibility of treating the stressed-out parent with homeopathy. It seems brilliant!

My only problem is how does the doctor know that will calm the nerves? If my doctor prescribed my kid homeopathic medicine, I would never go to him again. Placebo only works when the people don't know they are being duped.
I too moved from RTP to SF. The two biggest reasons I had a desire to leave NC were the technical aptitude and proximity to the beautiful places. On the technical aptitude side, I remember more than one drunken conversation with Russian nationals about compilers. I remember thinking by the end of the conversation I was wholly outmatched in technical skill. Seems like more of a good thing since technical people are celebrated like gods in some areas. I loved being able to paraglide or ski on the weekends. Having real mountains that close gives you ample opportunity to do all sorts of things that aren't possible in other cities. Not to mention the ability to get a good bottle of wine and drink it on the craggy coast at sunset.

Alas, the dirtiness of the city and production that is getting groceries home on the MUNI caused my wife and I to relocate to Santa Monica. We're further away from some of the outside things we like to do, but the day to day quality of life is 100-fold better.
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Any company with $250k++ execs working 11:00-3:00 is not going to be around very long.

Actually, there's something worse for a typical company than a typical exec making $250k++ while working 11-3: that same exec working a full day.

if you're a corporate exec making $500k+, the company owns you. When the CEO calls at 2:00 AM Sunday and says, "We've got a problem is Shenzhen", you're on a plane a 6:00 AM, too bad if your daughter's senior recital is 2:00 PM that day.

That's what they want you to think, so you don't hate them or covet their jobs. Ever hear of the complain-brag? It's not true. The politicking involved in getting those jobs is quite competitive, but once you're in the club, it's a pretty easy life if you want it to be. [ETA: being a CEO of a small or mid-sized company, on the other hand, is usually quite demanding.]
Most of those "show your work" responses are designed purely to force the asker to prove that they have tried to solve the problem himself before asking Stack Overflow.

Showing your work can needlessly complicates the question, especially if it requires a lot of explanation. It's also irritating because someone knows the answer but is withholding it until you do what he wants.

I had that exact experience when I asked this question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13240039/group-count-with...
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I moved to the area about six months ago, and after living in Oakland for 3 months, moved to the city.

I'd agree with most of these points (though a lot of the upside, particularly the huge range of people who are welcomed here, are left out).

I disagree that the transit system is falling apart. The BART strikes were a huge embarrassment, but all things considered, I haven't felt handicapped not having a car since I've been here.

Also, after the dirtiness stops bothering you. Ditto on the noise (though I may be spoiled by an 11th floor apartment).

The rents and the NIMBYism (which does drive up rents) is the worst of any city in the United States. Certainly in terms of the cost necessary for the "right to build", and as far as rent goes, it's either SF or NYC.

(From 2007, but: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/a-tale-o...)
Good place to be from.

Sounds like the noob chose to live at 6th and Market. That's where you go after you lose that brogrammer edge, not when you move here to find your fortune.

I recall the advice Steve Martin's adopted mother in The Jerk gave him, "find your special purpose", and how that worked out for him. It all starts by working at the circus.

Your fortune will find you when you find your special purpose.
> > They are already effectively communicating in plaintext

> Got anything to back up this statement, or is this what you're inferring from the post and the analysis of the group chat component a while back?

That flaw meant that key-guessing was easy, and with an easily-guessed key even the best-encrypted data becomes plaintext.

Given the numerous flaws so far found in Cryptocat and the quality of its code, I wouldn't trust my treasure, freedom or life to it.