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Cost of living in Chicago is NOT 2x Milwaukee. Nor is salary, so you need to go more in depth.

I think 30-40% more salary is easy in Chicago. I think you can easily live at only 30-40% more expenses in Chicago (think of all the stuff a big city saves you.. can get rid of all your cars, get more free entertainment options, etc).

Thus, I think Chicago is awesome for post college people to inflate their way out of college debt. I do not know enough about SF to say if that is a good idea, but the COL to Salary ratio could be off.
Maybe they should make this a toggle or something in AOSPA. That would be nice because I would rather not have to rebuild it every time there was an update.
I love the power of the unix shell. find | cat | grep would get the job done just as well if you had all the source in an accessible file tree, but I don't think you'd see any performance increase as the bottleneck is still random reads from EBS.

The single 3k iops EBS volume being used delivers a max theoretical speed of 24MB/s with 8k pages. I'm fine living with 20MB/s in practice.

In fact, postgres does inline (de)compression and optimizes for sequential reads, so it's likely the shell would be slower for this workload given the apples to oranges characteristics. I'd love to see any performance tests making this sort of comparison, they're always educational.
In my experience Microtels have pretty good wifi and I have recently been seeking them out when possible for this very reason.
I often find myself saying the following: "We are the sum of our mistakes, though to re-offend is to not have learned".

So much is made of out and out success these days, it sets up society to be an incredibly unforgiving place and feeds a loop of setting unattainably high standards for ones self or for those around you, and from that comes a fear of mistakes, if you cannot make a mistake you are denying yourself an opportunity to learn.

Context: I was a manager of a software dev team dealing with high scale, and am now a technical non-management leader. Prior to that the founder of a few companies. Throughout all of that I've tried to fail a little less each day.
Oh Investors at Trello. With Money.

Future headlines in 1-2 years: Trello acquired by Microsoft/Google/Yahoo

Future headlines in 2-3 years: Trello team joins product X, and the product is discontinued. "It has been an amazing journey"
This guy sounds like a complete sleaze. I appreciate that he wrote the article, as it did contribute a few moments of my day's HN entertainment, but I don't understand the praise being heaped on him. Simply "coming clean" is not commendable, in the absence of any discernible remorse. In the end you just feel like someone is still being played.

Yes, people can make mistakes. But for a pattern of mistakes, and for a person who seems to have such a casual relationship with the truth, you start to wonder if some of the mistakes were... not necessarily willful, but just plausibly-deniable enough.
I've rarely seen people in (northern) California do proper zipper merges. CA has some of the most clueless and inattentive driving I've ever seen.
What are the estimations based on? Apparently not on price, hotel category or an interpolation between other close hotels.
> Something changed, and for the past 12-18 months

It's likely that a lot of these sites that made a name following consumer tech are just growing tired of it? What helped grow sites like Engadget, Gizmodo, etc was the rapid growing arena of cellphones, laptops and tablets. All of that has pretty much stagnated, and to be honest is pretty damn boring at this point. So what do you do? You explore and open to other areas beyond straight consumer technology. The problem with The Verge is I think they went too far into pop-culture type stuff.
If we are talking about £50 per year, I'd quite like email subscription to a service that popped out a couple of long form articles per week selected from a range of good quality publications. Just plain text. Its the writing I enjoy. I imagine licensing of the content a month or two after publication would not be outrageously expensive. Just expensive.

Yup, Reader's Digest for 21st Century.
$10/user/month just for licensing seems steep, considering I have to pay for my own storage on top of it.

Do you guys have any plans for OneDrive-like on-demand syncing? I have nearly 1TB of shared business data that users need access to, but I can't have each client pulling down the entire data set.
I can't really agree with you - I have made many of these mistakes (taxes! Paperwork! Forms!) and it's not out of innate evil intentions.

This sort of article is important - if only to remind the next generation not to be so damn stupid.

And I can't blame him for his lack of remorse - He seems to have built a valid company employing real people - society has a net win. Did it cause pain on the way - yes. But the people he laid off had a job for the time they had a job. That's about how I measure work these days - it's no less stressful but at least it's fewer nasty surprises.
Yo is, from what I naively understand, is a super simple app which you can say "yo" to someone. The analogy, I assume, is that someone so simple can still have a use?

And behold, here is a use for the Yo app...interesting...
I would take SF over Antarctica.
This is radiantly insightful. It makes perfect sense to me. The effect of reading it is like drinking a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster: feeling like my brains were smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

Yes, in real physics solves vastly complex equations fast. That's not enough to discount the point here. There are limits on physics itself: the particles in a cat (presumably one owned by Schrodenger) are so numerous that for all of them to express, within a reasonable time, superpositioning the effects of a single radioactive atom's unobserved state would require particle interactions occur way faster than Planck time.

Nothing moves faster than light. There are a finite, albeit large, number of particles in the universe. Nothing can be smaller than Planck length, and no particle interaction can occur faster than the time light takes to move one such unit. Upshot: macroscopic superpositionining effects cannot occur because it takes too long for full propagation among particles numbering on the magnitude of Avagadro's number.

There's an upper limit to what can happen, because there's only so much stuff and "happen" can only be so fast.
Since this is a solution that requires "everyone" to change their behavior, my guess would be that it'd be more productive (and faster?) just to wait for self-driving cars to be prevalent enough that they "set the tone" for what constitutes normal driving in these situations.
>'I have driven in many states and never has the mentality that you cannot, MUST NOT, let someone ahead of you been as bad as it is here. Minnesota Nice, indeed.'

We don't rule the lists anymore [1], but I'll put the horrible traffic and drivers of the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) up against anyone in a gridlocked struggle for the title of worst.

Though, I've routinely been told by people more traveled than myself that we hardly rate on an international scale.

1: http://www.weather.com/news/commuter-conditions/worst-traffi...
lol @ you forgetting that other businesses exist that operate in the margins of this kind of expense. That sorry scam may be the difference between a local hardware store, mechanic, coffee shop staying open and closing. Even owner/operators don't want to work for reduced wages.

It's even more sorry to sit around on HN and forget that there are many more businesses that are as important or more important than a mobile app service for checking on and generating QR codes for sales at local restaurants.

The IRS gets theirs, don't worry about that. It's just too bad that the spending side of the function is broke, not the revenue.
For the confused (and I have nothing to do with this app):

There's an app called YO, and all you can do is send and receive YOs. So, all this does is when you send the username (HardBoiledYo or SoftBoiledYo) a YO, it will reply with a YO X minutes later.
The question is whether using Yo is more practical than using a Timer app, which is native to every smartphone released in the past 5 years.

It isn't.
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> Where's the code?

Enjoy! https://github.com/search?q=maidsafe&ref=cmdform
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The difference is localized. The UK is much smaller, and therefore has less regional tastes about merging. In the Midwest and Eastern seaboards of the US you have polite and diverse people respectively. In California, you have experienced drivers. California works like the zipper merge already, and the rest of the US is flummoxed by what to do - depending on where you are.
...and in my experience the lane that's closed moves substantially faster than the open lane because Seattle drivers will actually let you merge in.

I think that's actually because more people are early-merging than late-merging. So you have more car volume in the open lane than the soon-to-be-closed lane leading up to the merge. Definitely a way better situation everyone early-merging, but sounds like there's still room for improvement: ideally both lanes should move at about the same speed.
Having stayed at a couple of the reviewed hotels in Brazil that get a good rating, you would think everything was fine.

But latency is a HUGE problem in Brazil[1], and in probably any country that's far removed from the major backbones.

Yes, I can watch Youtube just fine in Brazil but I can't tell you the number of times that Skype video or other highly interactive apps wouldn't start or conk out because of poor latency.

The public has no comprehension of latency, but it's really important that this gets factored in somehow, especially for places like Brazil that generally have poor latency.

[1] http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Wi-Fi_and_Internet_se...
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It's relevant to link to Citron Research's scathing report that Zillow is among the most egregiously overvalued public tech companies, with large insider selling and video footage from management admitting to its partners that it does not have profits with which to pay them.

http://www.citronresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/zil...
do you have a link to that analysis?
Seems nobody is hiring interns for RoR or JavaScript backend/full-stack in Europe. Pity :(
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That video explanation made no sense to me. Basically the "interface" presented to the drivers has not changed, so why would drivers deviate from how they currently merge? Because the government said so? I don't see this working.

However there are two solutions that could promote zipper merging:

(1) Force both lanes to the center before moving that center lane to the side that is available ahead:

____________________________________________
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______________________/_____________________

(2) Present a long-barrier between both lanes well before the merge that only permit late merging, so that those in the continuing lane feel morally obligated to let those queued up in.

____________________________________________

_ _ _ _____________ ____________________
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______________________/_____________________
Digital Ocean is interesting, but they don't really come out cheaper for large, continuous-duty instances. Their tiny servers look great, if you don't need much storage. But on the larger instances, it's a straight $1/GB/month for SSD. With some commitment, Rackspace is more like $0.50, and Amazon around $0.35.

Digital Ocean looks roughly comparable to Amazon for RAM, and slightly ahead on price-per-core (if you assume all cores are equal), but way behind on SSD. Again, this is assuming you want large instances and are going to run them 24/7 for at least 6 to 12 months -- otherwise, DO pricing starts to look a lot better.
As a real estate broker, I think the major problem isn't Zillow, Trulia, or any other repackager of information. The problem is the MLS. There is still one source/database of legit listings that is bought into by every other broker. Other site (ForSaleByOwner, etc) do not appear legit and nobody trusts a listing put there.

Democratizing the listing information is where disruption needs to happen. What do you think about me as a broker charging a small fee ($100-$200) to post your listing to the MLS, managing in/out calls, but letting the Seller keep the vast majority of the commission and letting a lawyer/broker service to handle the close/escrow process. Selling a home shouldn't be wasted on 15k to a broker who doesn't do anything. (Yes I realize CA has some laws that would make this tricky)

Another idea: How about having homeowners list their properties on a reverse-bidding listing site, where brokers bid for the listing in exchange for the lowest commission? Ideas?
They started coding 6 years ago.
Bet's on for Microsoft.
which areas are you hunting? i wrote a aggregator for some cities at http://twikstik.com, and can add cities for you.
Why bother commenting when you didn't read the post?

Quote from Joel:

> In the case of Trello, we had so much interest from investors that we were even able to limit ourselves to investors who were already investors in Stack Exchange and still get the price and terms we wanted. The advantage of this is that we know them, they know us, and they’re aligned enough not to fret about any conflicts of interest which might arise between Stack Exchange and Trello because they have big stakes in both.
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I would echo your point about actively correcting people. It is something I find myself doing all the time. The problem is that it often isn't worth going in-depth describing the school, most people simply don't care that much. My jokey explanation is that it is "Harvard's version of community college". Funny thing is some people will come away even more impressed after a comment like this thinking you are incredibly humble. The Harvard brand has a lot of power.
So basically CyberTanks from the 90's then later RoboRally.
Want faster and safer traffic merging?

> Part of DMV road test should cover highway and emergency (road block) situations.
> Utilize responsive testing (how fast person reacts to something). Could be an in-house application.
> Older drivers should have extra testing once they hit certain age.
> Re-test drivers every 10 years.
> Driving and doing your make up? Reading a book/iPad? Eating chipotle? License suspension. Bye bye.

In general every situation where I had to steer out of the way was caused by an older person who should NOT be driving.

Zipper merging on New York roads? Fuhgeddaboudit.
What if a Seller paid a broker (super small fee)just to get on the MLS, but not handle the ins and outs of the transaction? Is this possible?
We're strongly considering moving our infrastructure to IAD from ORD - we have 60+ VMs in ORD, and their datacenter is at capacity, to the point that only existing customers can create ORD VMs (and there was that instance a few months back where they couldn't provision new SSD block storage).

I know from their sales that ORD isn't on the OnMetal roadmap for at least 12 months (if at all - I believe "it doesn't appear on our 2014 or 2015 roadmap").
Yep, he has changed his mind. IIRC, he is now working on a Scala successor.
>Entangling yourself with the superposition pulls you into it.

following that logic and taking cat as the observer, Mr.Cat PhD, the superposition is that doubles the number of cats (and PhD's :).

Yet it works in the other direction - entangling a cat (a macro-object with macro-state) with superposition had already destroyed the superposition well before box is opened.

>> it can't see the superposition because it is inside of that superposition.

it can't see the superposition because the superposition is gone because he got entangled with it.
I wondered the same thing. My reasoning is it forces you to keep your categories simple, which makes looking at the cards on the board easier.

If using lots of labels became the way things were done in Trello, it wouldn't have been so simple. The best thing about Trello in my eyes is your ability to refer it as a tool to colleagues. Many many times they would come back thanking me because Trello was what they were looking for.
Sure, but you just mentioned an unreasonable salary. If the median is $100k, then that's reasonable, and the person only gets to avoid SS and medicare on any additional profit.

I operate as an s-corp and pay myself a reasonable salary, matching that of the salary I could get in the current job market in the area I live in. Anything I clear above this is only taxed with my regular taxes.

If I was running a C-Corp instead of an S-Corp, I'd get my $100k salary, and any extra would have been taxed at the 30% corporate rate when it was taken in, then the 20% capital gains when it's distributed to me as profit.
Grew up driving in DC/MD/VA. I think PA/NJ/DE is much worse.
What areas do you consider to be very cheap and talent filled? I always assumed that the expensive areas are expensive because well paid talent is driving up the cost of living (though city attitude towards construction plays a large role as well).
Keep in mind that Citron Research is known for providing info for short-sellers. So it's somewhat in their interest to see the stock go down for companies they review and, in turn, suggest their readers short.

Note: they've recently been doing lots of reviews on Z
> In general every situation where I had to steer out of the way was caused by an older person who should NOT be driving.

Do you have any statistics about driving accidents? Because all the stats I've seen show that older drivers are safer better drivers than young people, and this is especially true when comparing to young males under the age of 26.
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Sadly, it seems like Clear no longer takes new customers.

I'm grandfathered in... at least for now.
Two thoughts:

1. Was that really the phone company's money? My first thought on hearing that story was that the $6 in change was from people putting money into the broken phone, realizing it was broken, and leaving without their money. Does the phone company really deserve money that the phone 'eats' when it doesn't deliver the service that people are giving it money for?

2. If you sent the phone company that $6 today, they would file criminal charges, because that cheque is an admission of guilt for stealing money from them. (Much in the way that, "I stumbled across a security flaw," is responded to nowadays)
What does being on high alert entail for her?
"They seem to just take public data, present it nicely."

Worked for Google.
That's really brilliant, and should probably headline the list of Gosu features.
Ask HN: Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?
It seems like all companies that are valued at $1BN or more raised money in their early days.
Not good if the alarm drains the battery though.
Dotty is just a research project. It's not necessarily intended as a Scala successor, more as an incubator for future improvements to Scala. At least, that's how it was discussed at Scala Days last month.
Was considering doing this for all wifi networks. I have an API built in Rails for it if anyone wants it (100k+ public wifi hotspots, such as coffee shops, restaurants, etc), shoot me an email: josh@josh.mn
Is that what i said?
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I don't think he meant to store them rotated 90 degrees - just to stack them on shelves, in the normal wheels-down orientation.
>This is because the two cities are so close to each other that at least in tech they're essentially the same job market.

I live in Milwaukee and disagree. There is no tech scene here. Programmers work for banks, insurance companies, Time Warner Cable, manufacturing, etc. if they work at all. In Chicago, there are actual software companies and consultancies. You would never see something like ThoughtWorks or Matasano (and their correspondingly competitive salaries) in Milwaukee.
Zipper merging is the optimal solution. People early merge because they think it is the optimal/moral/better/'done my part' solution.

If everyone knew about zipper merging there would be no early mergers (and 'late mergers' don't exist within the context of zipper merging).
My first contract out of college specifically stated that they owned everything I make on my own time unless I live/work in CA.
Given, that the dominant comments over here are in some shape or form pointing out deficiencies of some sort in Seth, I would like to point out something. You're forgetting how hard it is to start something new. I'm sure that some of us might have avoided some of the items on the list, some might have even managed to avoid all of them. However, I'm also pretty sure that all of us would have made a lot of other gigantic mistakes along the way.

I'm in the process of starting a non-profit in the field of medicine and I've been taking a lot of pain to do my homework. I've spent my evenings quizzing people, reading books, talking to the friends I'm working with, and just trying to get something out of the door, but I wasn't even remotely aware that things could go wrong in half the permutations Seth mentions. In fact, in his list alone, I spotted at least 3 things that I would have inevitably messed up if it hadn't been for an hour of inspired reading based upon his post. It's hard to make something new, sometimes it feels that you're trying to push through the improbable, shift the odds to your favour, and achieve what seems to be so impossible. In that world, in that arena, it's easy to mess up. It's easy to make mistakes and it's very hard to fix them.

At the end of the day, the truth is that everyone messes up. Everyone has that one time where they should have done X, but did Y / nothing and that then resulted in bad thing Z, which could have dragged / or did drag them under. This is why - in my mind - the right question to ask over here is, what does it take to handle a crisis with Seth's grace? After all, not dying is the difference between crossing the finish line and pausing along the way.
I think what he meant is that your desks are not adjustable in height. They are just desks with longer legs.
Most people probably just want one desk that they can use sitting and standing.

Especially if you want to work on a desktop PC with large screens it does not make sense to have two desks, since you cannot take your computer to the other desk...
"I've chosen to never speed because it reduces my cognitive load."

Never? Never speeding also means not always keeping up with traffic which might be flowing at a higher rate of speed. Consequently you are chancing a greater risk of an accident by not keeping up with traffic and not speeding.
> My jokey way of putting it is that HES "takes anyone with a credit card."

That's nice & humble of you, but it's not precisely true. There are very few requirements for taking a random course or two (or 20) at HES, but to be admitted to a degree program at HES is not so easy. You have to take a certain number of HES courses and earn a high GPA in them to be admitted to a degree program. Then, of course, you have to pass the full slate of courses to earn your Bachelor's degree.

Some people also seem to be under the impression that HES courses aren't as difficult as regular Harvard College courses. If anything, I'd say there's far more grade inflation in Harvard College than in HES, i.e., it's probably easier to make an A in a lot of (though obviously not all) regular Harvard courses than it is in Extension courses.
Too much funding, not enough action