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I'm a Pittsburgh area native and I still react with shock when I find out what my friends and relatives in other cities pay for housing.

Over $1,000/month for a little apartment and $300/month for a parking space.

You could buy two houses in the Pittsburgh suburbs for that much money. A nice 3 bedroom house in a clean, low crime suburb can be had for under $100k. Smaller houses, fixer-uppers and houses in less than ideal neighborhoods can be purchased for under $50k.
I wish I knew what changed from the last time this was posted 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7637278

Also I believe last time Stephen was surprised folks had gotten a hold of content on his "pre-prod" domain (e.g. http://dev.stephendiehl.com/), because he was still working on that post, before it was ready.

I like points as much as the next person, but maybe "pre-release" content should not be posted to aggregreators like HN before they are "realeased"

That said I'm excited he's continuing to update this series, it's helped a lot of people and there is a ton for me to learn still!
The article says the device weighs about 20kg. At that weight, it is going to be the most expensive cup of joe ever... (Of course it will be!)

Anyone have any idea what would happen if one used something like an Aero Press while in space (enclosed in some sort of container probably)?
Just an example:

I play a 20-year-old video game [0] with the best players in the world. A 1v1 game requires less than 56k (that is, 0.055 megabits) of bandwidth. Yet there are a handful of players who can't play at certain times of day because their 30 megabit broadband connections end up having extreme latency/loss, because everyone on the ISP is streaming Netflix or playing WoW or downloading porn or whatever and the ISP degrades service equally for everyone.

I would love to be able to buy internet service with an option for a "fast lane" guarantee for certain types of traffic where latency and loss actually matter. (How that ties in to "net neutrality" is, as danielweber says in a nearby comment, a bit vague since NN seems to have dozens of different definitions.)

[0] remember Descent? Here's how to get up and running: http://descentchampions.org/new_player.php
Yahoo posts jobs for developers with expertise in jQuery all of the time.
Doesn't matter; there are well known and effective ways of hacking the trust channels as well.
Children aren't smart, this much is known. This is fighting the symptom, not the cause. The real issue is that children who can't spend their money responsibly shouldn't have that money in the first place. If we go by the assumption that a child won't know when they're paying for a legitimate product or being exploited then why give them any money? If they don't spend it on a pay-to-win server then they'll spend it somewhere else and be "exploited" just as much, possibly on an iPhone game or something. If I give my child $1000 and they blow it on a Minecraft server then that's my fault for giving them that much money, not theirs. Children shouldn't be given that much disposable income if they can't use it properly. Punishing server hosts for the mistakes of poor parenting is not the right solution.
Will a consumer-class OS (Windows/OSX/Ubuntu) even boot if all writes to a system drive are failing?
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On my Mac using Google Chrome , I get :
Quickbooks Simple Start: $12.95 Quickbooks Online Essentials: $26.95 Quickbooks Online Plus:$39.95

Using Safari , I get : Quickbooks Simple Start : $6.95 Quickbooks Online Essentials : $9.95 Quickbooks Online Plus: $13.95
I think most people make their decisions on where to live based on jobs, schools, and location...not on food.
Er, lots of people talk about the measurable harm. Start here and google a bit for even more :

http://beatthemicrobead.org/en/science
FYI, rice is an extremely healthy food, and typically it has been something that the poor are lucky to have. It also contains fat (in non-white rice).

Also, what do you want people to "find a cure" for? The growing population of humans? Climate change, which will radically alter geography especially in Africa, the Middle East, and India? Wealth imbalance, which has existed since the beginning of agriculture? It's extremely naive to suggest that "millions of dollars" is sufficient to "find a cure" for whatever it is that causes the "symptom" of human malnourishment.
I made a very similar choice as the article highlights. I'm a experienced Software engineer, particularly with the back end of web systems but also iOS and Android apps. I could live in nearly any city in the western Hemisphere and have a large choice of jobs. I found a GREAT place to work in Portland Maine and I couldn't be happier. I'm originally from the Rust belt (2 hours from Pittsburgh and about 1.5 hours from Cleveland) and we thought long and hard about either of those two cities as a good place to move but Portland and the Ocean were just too big of a draw. Portland is much cheaper than other East Coast cities but has an amazing food screen, great outdoor activities on it's doorstep, and a thriving art screen. It's also only 90 minutes from Boston and a day trip drive from NYC. We also considered NYC and SF, to me there was no way to justify the expense vs Portland. It's one reason why I don't think there will be another Silicon Valley, I think the next rise of tech companies are going to be far spread out and in places that it's easy to attract great engineers to.
Bought the app, seems very laggy on my iPhone 5s. Is this to be expected? I wonder if it is doing the processing as the phone is recording or if it is capturing the accelerometer data and modifying the video after that fact?
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> That gives Google a strong incentive to invest in the capacity both so they can expand their network offerings and to provide a clear, obvious example of how much better service can be than what the rent-seeking monopolists choose to provide.

It gives Google a strong incentive to invest, but what about companies that just build internet infrastructure?

> All of those companies are making far more money than they spend on their infrastructure.

Their profit margins are much lower than Google's.

> They're trying to expand into other areas to make more but they're not doing it because they're going broke charging far in excess of the operating costs.

The irony of your position is that you fault Comcast, etc, for branching out in order to make more money from other areas, but justify regulation that would make building infrastructure minimally profitable on the basis that companies like Google can still make a bunch of money using that infrastructure to push advertising.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you make building infrastructure less profitable, companies will invest less in that industry, and the ones that continue to do so will do it with the intent of peddling some other product on top.
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It's doing all the processing on the fly while it's recording.
A "veteran" is a person who served in the military. A "combat veteran" is a person who served in combat while in the military.

In the US Army's case, a combat veteran would have a Combat Infantryman Badge. In the Marines, it would be a Combat Action Ribbon.
I think there's a pretty strong argument for moving to a Pittsburgh on sabbatical, but while I'm working I'd definitely stay in NYC/SF.

Salaries here are substantially higher (I doubt devs make $150k+ in Pittsburgh, in NYC that's very achievable), and that makes a huge difference in accumulating savings. Yes, living expenses are proportionally higher here as well so I'm still only left with a small percentage of my paycheck. But that small percentage means a lot more because it can be spent on global goods like travel or savings.

Spending a couple grand on a vacation is basically a rounding error in a NYC budget, but it'd be a decent chunk of a Pittsburgh salary. Similarly, saving just a bit of my income in NYC for a few years makes it easy to build up a large nest egg for a down payment on a beautiful house somewhere like Pittsburgh.

If I'm way off base, someone please let me know. If it's actually possible to make $150k+ in a cheap area, or with remote work, I'd be interested to hear.
They are decent, but there's some high variance. It's worth doing your homework.

Anecdotally, some of my coworkers moved here expressly to raise their families; they liked the school system options here better than the larger cities they came from. I don't have children of my own, so I haven't done the research.
It's an important point, and it's not just the software industry. If two companies X and Y provide exactly the same or similar service, but company X's user experience is superior, it will probably win out. Consider that Dominos just released the ability to order pizza via a voice operated app. Their pizza is not going to be any better than it was the day before, but by giving people a (supposedly) better way to order, they may be able to take market share away from Round Table or whoever.
> What use is there for client side JS crypto?

Uploading encrypted files over HTTP. A JavaScript SSH client[1] for throwaway servers. Client-side password hashing to prevent passive MITMs to find raw passwords. These are not as secure as their native counterpart, and I don't claim they are. Nor do I claim they are resilient to active MITM attacks in the JS delivery. But they are protected from having their data logged in plain by passive MITM eavesdroppers, and that means that they may be useful to people who are aware of the security they don't have but appreciate the convenience of what they do have. This is all I'm saying.

Just like OpenSSH without server keys is vulnerable to MITM attacks, but still both useful and protected from eavesdropping. Just like people use plain Diffie-Hellman to negotiate a shared key, despite lack of authentication. Sometimes the active attack is simply not considered a problem, or the risk is simply accepted [2].

This is not a recommendation. This is a discussion about people having different requirements and uses. Almost all JS crypto used on the public internet does it wrong. But that doesn't mean that JS crypto is 100% wrong in any conceivable case. Most people using it are just stupid.

[1]: https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne

[2]: Choosing which risks to accept or not is daily practice for anyone dealing with security issues.
I honestly didn't consider for a second I'd feel bad for the blogs. The reality is they get tons of e-mails and you have to sell it like you'd sell your handmade flutes in the market to somebody that is bombarded by people selling flutes. Now, lying about it through your teeth is a different story.
OP here. While I understand that downgrades from trailers and promotional material is normal (and I can understand why it happens), in this case the effects don't appear to be unstable. In fact, some users report better performance with the "mod".

Now, the main conspiracy theory around is that console manufacturers asked Ubisoft to downgrade the game as their machines couldn't achieve a result as good the PC. Which is particularly bad as they are barely one year old.

I don't aim to start a flamewar or a a global outrage, but I want to know HN's opinion and what you think is the reasons behind this.
Nothing wrong with recruiters, but never make the mistake of thinking they are your friend no matter how 'nice' they appear. They follow the money. It's their job to do that.

I can remember being on contract and wrangling a bottle of Whiskey out of the agent. I had to go into the car park and collect it quietly there as he didn't want the other people he was managing on site to get wind he'd given me it. Funny in an odd way.

Remember that an agent is just following the money. A lot are on basic + bonuses. One reason I used to keep the company and address of my current role off my CV is that their focus is so much on locating new roles.

Of note if you hate an ex-boss, just casually mention that you worked for X :D
You are confused: you've confused sand and plastic. Two totally different things.
Sounds amazing. What's the climate like? Are winters unbearable?
Really, where? I didn't see that in the FT article at all.
It appears to be twice as long as the old 2.0 version, and a lot of the latest GHC 7.8 topics which wasn't released before the last version.
I recently moved back to Durham, North Carolina after 10 years of living in bigger cities (Tokyo, then NYC).

I expected that the rent would be cheaper but that I'd miss out in terms of culture, food, and the quality of people I met.

What I'm finding is 1) The culture that is available here is easier to appreciate and digest because there's less paradox of choice 2) The food is a little more limited but overall better 3) The people that I meet are just as smart and interesting. I often forget that I'm back in the South and not in Brooklyn.
My son and all of his friends, ages 5-7, all love evantubehd and stampylonghead and I just don't get it. The weirder part for me is then they pretend they are making youtube shows when they are playing.
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Interestingly enough butter consumption has skyrocketed and has surpassed margarine consumption for the first time since the 50s. The hype has worn off, the health benefits haven't been proven, and margarine has become the poster child for "fake" foods.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-30/unilever-add...

It helps that butter tastes so much better. I grew up on margarine and butter was like a forbidden fruit to my mom because it was "so bad for you." I grew up thinking butter was death in stick form. I always bought margarine as an adult because you do what your parents did unless you have a reason not to. Well, at some point a few years ago I questioned it and switched over to butter. Guess who also switched to butter recently after decrying it my whole life? My mom.
I thought Growl was kind of dead since Apple introduced Notification Center?
The main difference we've seen is between retained vs. contingency recruiters. Contingency recruiters don't get paid unless they find you a hire, which sounds great in theory but turns it into a lottery for them: spam as many developers and companies as you can, hoping for a big jackpot. It also leads to some of the scummier practices of hiding names and contact information (wouldn't want to lose that commission!), and paying for referrals (after all, if I'm getting $20k for a hire, I can afford to pay out $2k to the person who did the work). They don't really care if you fire the person after 6 months because they'll be on to the next thing (or, even better, they can make another commission off of you!).

Retained recruiters, whether they're contract or full-time, are ones you pay to represent your company. They work off a salary or an hourly rate, like normal employees. They expect to be there in a year or two, so if the hire doesn't work out they'll hear about it. They represent you as a company and don't have any incentive to hide who they're working for or who they're talking to. You can still get clueless recruiters here, but at least the relationship is much better.
I have to say that this line irks me: "Any preconceptions one might have for the word 'return' should be discarded, it has an entirely different meaning."

This sentence literally does nothing to help me even prepare to understand what is about to be explained. At the least, give a small example of what preconceptions should go. "All of them" implies that someone did a crap job of naming this thing.

Edit: Apologies to all responses. I responded to two, but I'm not sure I have different responses for each. If it seems I've ignored some aspect, apologies.
You aren't wrong about the weather. Which is, ironically, why I live here... I hate sunny weather, I burn easily (even with sunscreen) and it's easier for me to add clothing to guard against the cold than to shed layers to avoid the heat. I'm also allergic to the pollen of a whole host of plants that simply aren't hardy enough to survive the winters here; my childhood summers were a miserable annual struggle through one respiratory infection after another, but nowadays I just pop a Zyrtec a few months out of the year and I'm good to go.

Pittsburgh is a great fit for me climate-wise, but given that I'd move to Alaska for the climate, I'm probably an outlier. ;)
Personally, I like to follow the mantra cabal is not a package manager. Because whenever I treat it like one, I get messed up in a bad way. I buy in to this argument[1] as to why it isn't.

[1]: http://ivanmiljenovic.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/repeat-after-...
I am paying about $1400 in rent/utilities a month outside Atlanta for a 3/2 plus 2 living rooms on over a acre of fenced in land with a storage shed. Its right in one of the best school districts and one of the top High Schools in the state.

A friend of mine recently visited from NYC and remarked about how he is paying $3000 for a place in Manhattan with one room. I couldnt imagine living in a building taking an elevator to my place. Cant have pets and he can barely have people over to sit down.

From the stories I hear about SF and NYC, I am probably never going to move to either.
That's helpful, thanks
That has been my way of thinking too. Another consideration is student loans - if you pay $500 a month in loans, that will be a smaller portion of an NYC salary. Same for any purchase or bill which is unrelated to cost of living.
I doubt they are going to let you actually stream music through this, that would be super useful though..
+1 Sending a journo an email is hardly an innovative trick. All online journalists have a minimum number of articles they have to publish per day mandated to them, so are quite happy to receive unsolicited suggestions to meet their quotas.
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I don't understand your question -- the choice of language for what?

The blog article you linked is about my own protobuf implementation "upb", which is separate from anything else we've been talking about in this thread.
What languages and tools do you use? How big is the code base you work with? How do you unit/system test changes (dev/test warehouse?)
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Very nice project. I'm late to the party but here's my upvote! :)
I've been keeping an eye on Elixir for a while, waiting for some spare time. What are reasons not to use it in favour of Erlang?
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The SSI one also tends to discourage disabled people from doing any work, because any ability to earn income, even a small amount intermittently, is taken as evidence that you aren't really permanently disabled. I have an American uncle with MS, who can't work at all now, but in earlier stages of the disease he probably could have worked some of the time (not a steady job, because he'd be relatively better for a few months then relatively worse again, but a part-time job for part of the year would probably have been ok). But he was advised that SSI disability just isn't set up for that: you can't be completely disabled some months a year and work part-time other months. You are either permanently disabled and get a monthly benefit, or you aren't disabled and get nothing. Since he wouldn't be able to work regularly enough to support himself through work, he went on SSI disability and didn't work at all, which was probably not ideal for either the economy or him.
Great post. Awesome app. Just purchased it :)
Well, in my opinion it's not just the cold, the summers are hot and gross too. Not much "open-window weather", as my mom says. But then, if pollen is a consideration that would make sense for you. I live in the Pacific NW now, which is much milder year-round.
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Just as an FYI to everyone, Spotify does not allow any "commercialization" of their APi's / Platform. (Learned this the hard way when I released my Spotify app for $.99 on the app store).

https://developer.spotify.com/developer-terms-of-use/
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Every time I read about this I still can't believe Google is creating this service. Why do they need to create two of everything? They have Android and Chrome OS. Their was Wave, Buzz, Google Plus. I have separate Google Plus tied to my personal and business accounts and there is no way to resolve it. Now they have Google Play Music, Google Play Music downloads, and they're creating a new separate YouTube streaming service for music.
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Of course it is wired so naiveté is to be expected but all this article says is use Tor and VM's. I'm not quite sure that is sufficient in this day and age. Any user generated content posted using those systems is what will break anonymity for most users... How they type, what they type, and when they type it are just a few of the simple ways to fingerprint a user.

It is unwise to advise people on how to be anonymous as if it was as simple as downloading a few software tools.
It does help; thank you for the peek behind the curtain. I've always avoided outgoing, extroverted women because I thought that the intro/extro combination could never possibly work. I'm not about to jump up in front of such a woman today and announce my presence, but I do like it when my understandings are corrected and my world is opened.

And a hearty congratulations on passing the 20-year mark! Seriously, in today's climate, I count that as a huge win. With you being an (apparently) attractive extrovert who "holds court" (laughed out loud at that one), your options are very open. Thanks for helping to give us guys a good name by staying loyal and loving to your wife. If she doesn't outright say it to you, she's likely very thankful that you choose her on a daily basis, given the circumstance.

Now, if your wife has a 40-year-old twin sister...
He didn't trick them. He stilled emailed them.

That headline makes no sense.
"Ten years of hosting failures in five minutes"
It's not so much about having two of anything as eliminating non-Google space.
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I don't disagree on PHP.net's user supplied examples being horrible at times. I thought that an example voting system would help regulate bad examples. Team approved examples could also be excellent. Does that mean users could supply examples and then moderators would approve the examples?

I wish you the best luck with the new rust documentation and have well placed high expectations for what you will likely do with it.
Did he finish reading the Microsoft Metro design guidelines this time?
She should move almost anywhere else. In one of the most expensive parts of North Carolina, a one bed room appartment rents for ~$600 a month, and $30K isn't a lot, but it's enough to live reasonably comfortably.
You were never allowed to sell them in the first place. This part of the EULA was being ignored so Notch clarified.
Yeah, started skimming it, looked at what betalist is (startup reporting service)... link on startupnews to post by startup founder of startup tracking service on how he got coverage from a startup oriented news site for his startup. This is some inception-level circle jerking IMO. "The best minds of our generation" :)