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Residential real estate. I bought a few short sale condos here in San Diego from 2010 to 2012 at 1/3 their values from a couple years earlier and hired a property manager.

Now I get about 1.5% their purchase price gross in rental income every month. After buying them and fixing them up the majority of the work I do on them is at tax time (still do taxes myself to stay in the loop). HOA and property management fees eat into it a bit, but it's not a bad haul. In addition to the cash flow, they've all appreciated from 20%-50% in the last couple years.

These days dividends from Apple stock (not bad for a tech company) and some other investments are doing better, though not even close to as well as the real estate.

The key is often to save up enough money to be able to take advantage of opportunities. For example, we just decided last week that we're moving to Florida. We were planning to rent, but we found a 3BR condo in a high-rise gated community on a golf course about 1mi from the beach for around $300,000 that went for $800,000 before the financial crisis. Luckily, we had the cash to be able to capitalize on the opportunity. I assume the property value will at least double in the next 5 years. Even if it doesn't, if we had to rent it out tomorrow we could break even on what we pay for the mortgage + HOA fees with rent.

It's risker than other endeavors, but investing in residential real estate like this is the best kind of investment I've found for my risk profile with the amount of money I'm willing to invest.

The hard part is getting together the initial capital to do so. I started working full time at 21 and it took me until around 25 to be able to make my first investment saving most of my modest income during that time.
Junk patents like this one are are a real threat to innovation, progress and small business in America.
I meant this in the sense that, for most cases, a typical deploy of something (most likely RabbitMQ) is going to meet their needs. There's a large community, stable libraries for every library and plenty of blog posts and tutorials.

Maybe you're doing something I consider atypical..maybe you're pushing more messages, have lower latency requirements, than I'm used to. But at that point, nothing "cloud" is going to help (at least, certainly not something like SQS).

For what it's worth, we essentially treat a write to our queue as fundamentally important as a write to our DB (wrapping the latter in a transaction of the former). This helps make sure that reliability issues shouldn't go unnoticed (I've personally never seen RabbitMQ swallowing messages, though it is something I've heard about, but seemingly always from relatively outdated versions).
Regardless of the truth of the conclusion, that's a terrible analogy. Nobody needs a BMW to live.
Pleco: Building a Business, not an App
Why does "lifetime of the cow" matter? It's not like you can harvest beef from an given cow more than once.
Wait a minute, if that's true won't it imply that traffic violations/infractions convictions get you a criminal record ?
The legal status of something like AWS is up in the air.

On one hand, you have what the law has been to date: http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_data_question... ("In essence, the doctrine holds that information lawfully held by many third parties is treated differently from information held by the suspect himself. It can be obtained by subpoenaing the third party, by securing the third party’s consent or by any other means of legal discovery; the suspect has no role in the matter, and no search warrant is required.")

On the other hand, you have the recent decision in California v. Riley: "The United States concedes that the search incident to arrest exception may not be stretched to cover a search of files accessed remotely—that is, a search of files stored in the cloud. See Brief for United States in No. 13–212, at 43–44. Such a search would be like finding a key in a suspect’s pocket and arguing that it allowed law enforce- ment to unlock and search a house." Slip. Op. at 21.

It's difficult to reconcile the Third Party doctrine with Riley. Under the third party doctrine, storing a document in the cloud is like leaving a box of papers in your friend's garage--not protected under the 4th amendment. But under Riley, storing a document in the cloud is like storing it locally on your phone--protected under the 4th amendment.

How the two will be reconciled is something that has yet to shake out. Note that Microsoft has already decided to appeal this: “We will appeal promptly and continue to advocate that people’s e-mail deserves strong privacy protection in the U.S. and around the world.” What the Second Circuit ultimately says on this case will go towards figuring out how this will shake out.
I have four of them in my apartment in Shanghai. They definitely work; I verified it over and over with a laser particle counter. They're loud, but simply running them in the rooms you're not occupying (e.g. in the bedroom during the day, then in the living room during the night) is already a significant gain.

If you get some for your own home, make sure to cut down on the drafts first; running your purifiers full power won't help you if polluted air is always coming in. I lined all my windows with foam tape from the hardware store.

Rather than fighting every day to keep my indoor air clean (that still doesn't do anything for me when I head out) and my internet connection to foreign servers above dialup speeds (four VPNs and counting), I've simply decided to move back to the Bay Area though. :|
A single patent can bring a business to its knees or stifle a whole potential new industry. When it comes to patents, "not perfect" means "very broken".
"ochoa" wouldn't mind some stellar sans Facebook account.
Even when the entire Mediterranean Bronze age civilization collapsed catastrophically with people starving to death, cities burning, widespread brutal and chaotic warfare, and obliteration of conventional social structures the civilizations still bounced back in a few centuries, sometimes in less than a single century. And that's without widespread literacy and widespread availability of printed knowledge (as we have today). Yet out of the ashes of those civilizations the Iron age arose, and an unprecedented flourishing of scientific inquiry occurred in greece, egypt, and elsewhere. All of that without a previous roadmap of knowledge, and struggling to rebuild the shattered pieces of civilization. Rebuilding civilization from a more modern collapse would almost certainly transpire differently. For one modern subsistence crops are superior to those of the Mediterranean bronze age. We have potatoes, corn, yams, high yield wheat and hybrids (like triticale), etc. We also know better techniques for farming like use of cover crops, crop rotation, etc.

Some aspects of modern, industrialized civilization are tenuous (like worldwide inter-continental freight shipping), others are simply insights or knowledge gained through hard work that doesn't need to be repeated. Such as even the general idea of the movable type printing press, or literacy, or the germ theory of disease, or food preservation via canning, and so on. A modern person with a little bit of knowledge transported back 2 or even 3 thousand years could change the way people live their lives at a fundamental level. Boiling water and pasteurizing milk before drinking it are things that have been possible since antiquity. As would be canning of various foods, enabling preservation of fruits, vegetables, and meats harvested in the summer through the winter or through several years. That sort of thing transforms the basic subsistence equation enormously and massively accelerates the amount of time it would take to return to some degree of modernity and industrialization. Not to mention the huge transformation due merely to the ideas of rewarding individuals for their labor and their inventions, the idea of the scientific method, and the process of advancing knowledge and technology in general. All of which were stunted historically because people didn't know any better, just as people didn't know to wash their hands or boil their water.
In economics, given things like the Reinhart and Rogoff paper on debt, that would seem to apply to places like Harvard as well.
Illustrator needs disruption, true. But Photoshop needs disrupt even more!
(And don't get me started on only two computers for the full subscription install!)
The recommended way to "publish" from Hacker CMS is to follow the in-app "DNS setup" instructions, rather than point nginx directly at the storage. The latter was the old way of doing it -- is there a doc you're seeing somewhere that still recommends that?
In Bitcoin, you trust the way the network as defined by the code has been set up, not the miners specifically.

In this situation you have the code to audit but you also have to trust the Stellar Foundation... I have to trust they are telling me the truth about how they are distributing the currency, that they won't sell their shares early, that these 3 people heading the foundation are going to act in my interests, etc.

What if the Stellar Foundation dissolves in a month? What happens to the currency?
In this case if the user was using Azure and was putting EU data into their EU based cloud (owned by Microsoft) the US is arguing that it should still be able to get access to that data since it is owned by Microsoft, a US based entity.

So while I agree with your statement that it was already technically possible, it required various hoops... with the current court case it is much scarier since there is no going through international agreements to fetch the data.

The US is basically stating that if you are a US based company, even if you have subsidiaries that are technically registered as foreign companies you are still required to produce data those foreign companies hold.
Yet 'USAian' looks weird everywhere.
Yes, very curious about this too.

As a first guess, I'm not sure what the v8 strategy is here. The new compiler seems to use the "sea of nodes" approach as opposed to SSA form. A comparison of the two is here

http://static.squarespace.com/static/50030e0ac4aaab8fd03f41b...

The "sea of nodes" approach can give some speedups, but they don't appear huge - 10-20% in that link. Not sure how representative that data is. But it is interesting that modern compilers, like gcc and LLVM, typically use SSA form and not the approach v8 is taking, as further evidence that the "sea of nodes" is not clearly superior.

Perhaps the v8 designers believe there is some special advantage for JS that the new model provides? Otherwise this seems surprising. But hard to guess as to such a thing. If anything, JS has lots of possible surprises everywhere, which makes control flow complex (this can throw, that can cause a deopt or bailout, etc.), and not the best setting for the new approach.

Furthermore, the "sea of nodes" approach tends to take longer to compile, even as it emits somewhat better code. Compilation times are already a big concern in JS engines, more perhaps than any other type of compiler.

Perhaps v8 intends to keep crankshaft, and have turbofan as a third tier (baseline-crankshaft-turbofan)? That would let it only run the slower turbofan when justified. But that seems like a path that is hard to maintain - 2 register allocators, etc., - and turbofan seems like in part a cleanup of the crankshaft codebase (no large code duplications anymore, etc.), not a parallel addition.

Overall the Safari and Firefox strategies make sense to me: Safari pushes the limits by using LLVM as the final compiler backend, and Firefox aside from general improvements has also focused efforts on particular aspects of code or code styles, like float32 and asm.js. Both of those strategies have been proven to be very successful. I don't see, at first glance, what Chrome is planning here. However, the codebase has some intriguing TODOs, so maybe the cool stuff is yet to appear.
I don't understand your problem with the thinking behind that statement; it demonstrates that even scarce, labor intensive commodities can be made available in sufficient quantity to satiate demand if there is a well-functioning market with "real prices". The pricing mechanism prevents waste in the BMW market as it does in the water market, and this same price encourages produces to create more supply when the consumers require it.
Have you looked into prior art for the asserted patents? That's one way to get it abolished.
If the patents really are as josho characterized them, what kind innovations would those be? How do you "innovate" storing GPS data in a database?
SpiderOak: https://spideroak.com/

It's Snowden-approved! http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/07/17/snowden-says-drop-dro...
> Because, in general, they can trigger layout/reflow, so they can't run on the compositor.

If you're doing absolute layout, it's easier/better performing to just set top/left to zero, set width and height to their correct values, and then use CSS transforms to position the element where you want it on the page. :)

(Not meant for you, pcwalton, but for others who might not know about a reasonable workaround.)
AltBeacon May Become a Default Standard for Android and Other Devices
Roxen WebServer is a open-source web server distributed under the GPL license
I think you're trying to say that agriculture is a national security critical industry. OK - is depleting the water table and causing a chronic regional drought good for national security, too?
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Except that in this case the box was left in the hands of Microsoft Ireland, and Microsoft USA might have access to the property they don't have the right to touch Microsoft Irelands holdings...
I hope so.
Have you ever been to China or India? This is the opposite extreme and it is worse. No one invents anything novel.
Every product is cheap replica of something else. Its a race to the bottom.
Much worse.
That is certainly the norm but it is not universal. There are certainly individuals that do not follow this pattern but, unfortunately, you are unlikely to ever meet them if you have a more conventional existence.

For example, I am a computer programmer, mid 30s, I have a wife and child and I work 20 hours a week, 25 absolute max. I've been working reduced hours for almost three years. I also work remotely so we spend most of our time in places like Thailand and Malaysia (warm, good food, low cost of living) although we will shortly be heading over to spend a few months in Europe.

And we are not the only ones. Most of our social circle is composed of similar people. If you go places like Chiang Mai in Thailand it is crawling with westerners carving out an existence that involves a high quality of life and personal control over how much and when they perform income generating activities.

Unfortunately if you are in the 9-5 routine yourself you will never meet any of us.
You could basically file suit, not sure it would be worth the time and effort though.

Hell, even a $500 small claims court suit might make for a good option.
I think 1-800-GOT-JUNK does that.
Nice use of the pink there considering the founder past :D
As I read it, yes. But other account holders would have an incentive to band together in order to surpass 1.5% (or even 5%).

I wonder if it'll be possible to vote for an account that promises to immediately distribute new Stellar back to its voters. If so, newly-created Stellar may always end up being distributed in proportion to the Stellar wealth distribution.
How about if we instead reduced how many lawns people have?

I come from a country with more water than we know what to do with and it blows my mind that people in California will just throw perfectly good water on their lawn. I understand irrigating crops that you're going to eat, but a lawn? Seriously?

I keep hearing how places like California are chronically deprived of water and yet I keep seeing sprinklers everywhere. What gives?

This[1] says that "The typical suburban lawn consumes 10,000 gallons of water above and beyond rainwater each year." ... according to numbers quoted in other comments around here, that's worth about 10 burger patties.

[1] http://www.epa.gov/greenhomes/ConserveWater.htm
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If your payment processor builds a product offering around a webhook which tells you when someone has paid for something, and that webhook fails hard at their end for over a week while no one there even notices, then your payment processor is broken.
There is a discontinuity in demand for water that does not exist for BMWs.

Specifically, there is a certain amount of water that each human needs per day. Provide a human with less than that, and they will die.

BMWs do not have this property. The vast majority of humans have never owned and never will own a BMW, and they are still able to live rich, full lives.

When you say "satiate demand" for BMWs, what you're really saying is that the market finds the intersection of the supply and demand curves, and produces BMWs at that rate. When I see "satiate demand" for water, what I understand it to mean supplying every human with at least the minimum amount required to sustain life.

A free market for water will find the intersection of the supply and demand curves, just like it does for BMWs. However, the BMW example does not tell us anything about where that intersection lies, and whether it lies at a point where humans die of thirst or at a point where everyone gets what they need.

It is, ultimately, equivocation. Fulfilling demand for luxuries is different from fulfilling demand for necessities.
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> years are spent examining it

It's more like a day or two are spent actually examining any case in general. It takes so long because a) it has to (there is an 18 month period between submission and publication) and b) there are a lot of patents and the queue is long.

Also you've asserted there is a high false positive rate, but I would put money on the fact that the rate is extremely low. Like people having a fear of flying because they see news reports about all the accidents, the realite is the chances of a patent getting through or you dying on in a plane crash are miniscule, but successful flights and genuine inventions are rarely worth writing about.
Or we could let the cows eat grass.
Ew, clean your coffee mug.
Man, if that's the only alternative to patents, I wonder how we managed to bootstrap the idea of a patent system.
I taught myself ( and continue to teach myself) programming by displacing my audio background which is similar to yours ( just replace all the video suite applications you mentioned with audio daw's like Pro Tools, Logic etc) and I learned JavaScript in parallel with the web audio api.
I would suggest it might benefit you to you possibly follow the same path but learn the video-esk api's like Web RTC.
It makes sense if you want to demonstrate -- concretely -- how the system is broken. Heroes do what's right despite potential personal risk.
Biosemiotics: To Know, What Life Knows (2009) [pdf]
I doubt it'll be worth your time trying to get something out of it. My experience is that they'll say sorry, and keep on doing it anyway.

Depending on how often they sell the info, you can just change your address with them, and permanently scuttle the original address (saves you from having to look at spam, etc).
sent you 1000, my username is leshow
it's only going to be useful to understand how a kernel works, as an overview. But the specifics (ext2?) are horribly dated.
You are mistaken about industrial and development water use in the US West. Agricultural water use in California exceeds urban water use by a factor of almost 4x, and exceeds industrial use (broadly defined, minus agricultural industry) by at least 16x. Agriculture is the elephant in the room. Residential water use (lawns!) is a distant second. Everything else is a very distant third.

Source: http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_211EHChapter2R.pdf
Do you honestly think that it even possible that examiners spend years examining cases? I can tell you with 100% certainty they do no, and the cost to the tax payer of doing so would be astronomical. Most bad patents are rejected, but you never hear any news about that do you? Selection bias is clearly at play here, and only idiots would think that examples of a few poor partents are evidence the system is broken. There are definitely issues with the system, but the system is not completely broken as some who have no knowledge of the issue would have you believe.
The fight's not over yet. Microsoft is appealing and it remains to be seen whether this decision will be upheld. In the meantime the order to turn over the data has been suspended.
Forgot to mention - if they'd sold it once, they probably sold it more than once - you just haven't received mail from anyone else yet. Even more reason to just scuttle the address now.

If more people do this, then hopefully selling information like this will become less lucrative over time.
It's great to see Matz investing time with the community whenever he is in town. And a nice bonus to have it streamed
The "sea of nodes" approach is just a data structure for representing a program in SSA form. It's orthogonal to anything that has an impact on speed. E.g. GCC uses a tree representation, LLVM uses a CFG, and Hotspot (C2 and Graal) uses a "sea of nodes" representation, but they all represent code in SSA form and that representation is orthogonal to the quality of particular optimizations implemented within the framework.

The speedup reported in that paper is from running constant propagation and dead code elimination at the same time instead of doing them separately, which finds more constants and dead code because the two problems are coupled. The same process can be implemented in a more traditional CFG representation (and generally is--sparse conditional constant propagation).
I wouldn't chance it; the first time I implemented IPNs, I had to spend almost a week on R&D aimed purely at discovering and working around all the undocumented fuckups.

Webhooks are not hard. That Paypal fails at them this badly makes me think their infrastructure is a (much larger) disaster waiting to happen; if I still did freelance work, I would be moving all of my clients to Stripe right now, before the next inevitable mishap.
In vast areas of the region in question, there is either no grass (just sagebrush) or it's so sparse that you can't reasonably feed a cow with it.
Good suggestion, Ty. We've at added support in code and data for the LTR languages.

While that means Arabic and Hebrew won't be supported without refactoring, it should be an appropriate compromise.
>Unless you believe correlation is providing evidence of causation here:

In both cases, yes, it is evidence of causation. However the low prior probability of causation in each case massively overwhelms the evidence provided by observing a correlation.

Here's an easy way to tell if A is evidence of B: ask the inverse question - is "not A" evidence of "not B". If so, it is trivially provable that the answer is yes.
You can make an API call to check the status of a transaction very easily.

When my users are redirected back to my site (thanks page, or similar), I check if their transaction is completed, if not, I kick off an every-five-seconds check while asking the user to hold on while we talk with paypal. I will eventually fail after some number of checks of course, but this means PayPal can stop sending IPNs and everything will just keep going along just fine.

If the user might not end up back on your site for some reason, run a cronjob that tries to verify transactions created in the past day/hour/whatever.

An issue like this doesn't have to, and really shouldn't, cripple your business.
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> You just openly admitted that you knowingly infringed on a patent.

US patents have no baring in Canada, they currently haven't done anything wrong at all.
In most countries those aren't valid because they aren't a Manner of Manufacture. If it's a physical impossibility, it's not allowable.