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Guilty as charged, Ivan! :-D
Coincidentally, I left the bay area for Portland -- just got here 4 days ago. The past 20 years, I lived in Campbell, San Jose and Oakland. After visiting Portland for a week of vacation, I signed a lease on a loft up north.

Not sure if I've taken in enough of the new city to write an in-depth comparison. But if there's anything you want to ask, feel free.
At one point I stayed a couple months with some friends in San Francisco and I utterly hated it. When discussing it with my friends, who love it there, they gave me some very valuable insight.

They basically said they believe most people would hate it in San Francisco but that's the whole point. Because the people who love it there don't really fit in many other places. It's a sanctuary for a certain type of culture and that's where its value is.

Everyone deserves a place where they can fit in and for the young idealist, the aging hippie, and all the other odd balls that call that place home that's where they belong. But yes, as a consequence that means that a lot of other groups (most families for instance) don't belong. Not every environment has to be all inclusive.
Yeah. In Portland you don't have to first drive out of the city to start your experience. I can start on a bike trail in Portland, and riding out of the city is part of my activity.

(Sidebar to visitors: check out the Springwater Corridor. Cyclists/walkers/horse riders)
Berkeley and Oakland here - it was amazing. Got robbed once, saw one murder on my property, but it was five years and not much else happened. Okay, that's an understatement, but there was so much else happening that I actually think it was a net positive. For context, I live in Toronto now, and I think it's also awesome... but the east bay was better!
I'm sorry this article is silly hype. I think someone from Venture Beat would like a job at Facebook.
I'm socially fairly "progressive", but "no families" just seems kind of wrong to me. I don't care if you're gay or straight or whatever, but families are part and parcel of being human. Just to be clear: I don't think everyone needs to have a family or anything like that, but a lot of people choose to, and a place without them seemed weird to me even well before I had one myself.
There's some natural and unavoidable latency due to ssh/smb/ftp/whatever you're using but I use tramp daily and in practice it's quite unnoticeable. Local machines respond immediately, machines in the same country are very much usable as well.

Just make tramp keep the connections alive longer and cache the password. And set backup directory to something local!

C-c C-s is still faster than using a shell in another console and scp/rsync.
I've noticed this as well. NYC is grimy and can get dirty, but it's not the kind of unsanitary filth that you might find in a sewer. As such, I don't mind walking about all day and getting a bit sooty, at least I won't catch something from it.
I've always found that the city looked its best when viewed from across the Bay in Oakland rather than up close in the city itself.
We have a special neighborhood just for families. It's called Noe Valley.
The question was "What do you do to stay (somewhat) healthy?"

Nice to see such constructive responses. I'll keep lurking from now on.
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There are tons of families in SF, except most of them are Chinese or Mexican. The original article, and most of the comments here (including mine) read like a "Things White People Like" critique of SF, including the punch line: moving to Portland...
Unfortunately, $10M is 1/20th what Robert Bussard wanted to try and build a break-even demo reactor.
... families with a million dollars to drop on a house ...

http://www.trulia.com/CA/San_Francisco,1443,Noe_Valley/
Examples around the web: Focusing on Benefits Not Features
Is this related to "Why dumb toys make kids smarter?"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=860689
Elie Wiesel is a whore? I think you should maybe google the name before you imply such a thing...
Why Do Women Have Sex? An Interview.
Interesting fact: the special neighborhood San Francisco has for families is 85.8% occupied by homes without kids.
Eat when you are hungry, stop when you are full.

It sounds obvious, but it is really difficult. Avoiding social eating and resisting the urge to clean my plate has been one of the hardest things I have ever endeavored to do, but it has vastly reduced my digestive symptoms.
For me, there are two aspects to it:

(1) Make your diet decisions at the grocery store to remove temptation at home.

(2)Find exercise that you think is fun. I personally can't run for more than 2-3 miles without getting incredibly bored, but hiking for 30 strenuous miles over gorgeous terrain is enjoyable. So too is chasing a little black ball around a squash court or running after a frisbee. Each person will enjoy different kinds of exercise, but once you find the one you like it'll turn "having to exercise" into "getting to go _play_ <x>".
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What the hell, man? You're arguing all these points when the central point is staring us smack-bang in the face: THERE ARE MILLIONS OF SLAVES. I know that your gut is rebelling against this horrifying fact - since you thought that no matter how shitty the world is, at least we abolished slavery - but you cannot let that happen. There are millions of slaves in the world, and we can do something to try and free them.
Couldn't agree more - keep costs as low as possible.
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Why are pens considered an all time popular promotional item?
Today every business has to make extra efforts to stay successful in an environment that is filled with high level of competition. Besides competition, the effects of recession too are taking its toll. Therefore, it is not easy to run a business and remain successful these days. One of the best ways of promoting one’s business is by using promotional items. Many companies choose promotional pens as their preferred promotional item.
How does our world work when the mundane succeeds so rarely?
Its a fair point, but genetic algorithms could be used on known problems to discover something new. You might think you know enough to try an educated guess, but there might be some area of the search space that the theory you are using hasn't covered.

That being said, I don't know anything about image compression and we may well have a provably best way to do this...
Ask HN: Looking for advice on manufacturing a physical product
I have an idea for a small electronic device, and I'd really like to see it escape into reality.

Seeing as this is a physical product, I'm completely lost. The fact it's an electronic device has also hindered my search for information. I've found lots of companies that, when supplied with CAD files, will create a prototype, but they don't seem to do electronic devices. I wouldn't even know how to turn the electronics portion of this into a proper schematic or CAD file.

I'm guessing the most logical thing to do would be to outsource the thing to an overseas engineer to create a proper schematic, and then go to china for production. But, I'd really like to stick to north america if possible.

Has anyone done anything like this on an individual level? Is it even possible?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=791677 :)
I live in Oakland too. What I've found is that there are microneighborhoods (a few square blocks) that are very unsafe (such as the area frequently called 'ghosttown'), but you quickly learn to differentiate a lack of wealth from a lack of safety.
Very trenchant. Not sure why you got downvoted.
I suggest some relization of explicit conditional return for Clamato:
http://sites.google.com/site/abbatfilestore/clamato/cookbook...

Also, please join to Clamato google group:
http://groups.google.com/group/clamato-smalltalk/
"Unreliable and inadequate public transit, paling in comparison to most any other major city in the world."

Compared to the Chicago public transit system, the BART is much, much, much better.
I usually grab them from a science topic in Wikipedia.
For example, these names come from astronomy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy): Hubble, Nebula, Cosmology, Cosmogony, Galactic, Stellar...
Disclosure: This is coming from a San Francisco native. (one of those rare ones that still live in the city.)

As soon as I read this sentence:
"There may be some fog, or a bit of rain from time to time, but most of the time it’s sunny and hovering around the high 60s to lower 70s."

I knew that the author of this piece has fallen into a trap that many people who move here for work fall into; they never venture away from certain neighborhoods, and this filters their view of the city. That sentence clued me in because of the word "sunny." Yes, the Mission and SOMA are sunny, but the rest of the city is foggy, nearly all the time.

If the author made it over twin peaks out to the Sunset, or the Richmond, you might not find as much sunny weather, and you won't find startup offices, but you'll find the real neighborhoods of this city.

Are there bad neighborhoods in the city? Of course, like any city. However, because our city is constrained geographically, there is no real transition zone between good and bad areas. You can be walking through a generally OK neighborhood (say at 4th and Howard), walk a couple of blocks, and be in one of the worst parts of the city (6th and Howard.) Since the Mission and SOMA are near these bad areas, if that's the only part of the city you frequent, then the city will seem dirty.

Maybe he does have an issue that everyone he knows works in the tech field. It's really not hard to meet people in this city, maybe he should try striking up a conversation with a random stranger at a bar. I assure you most locals will be glad to talk. I have friends here that are teachers, police officers, fire-fighters in training, journalists, and yes, in the tech field as well. We have plenty of things to talk about besides the latest startup.

I'd suggest that the author makes it out to the Richmond, or the Sunset. It's not dirty, there's plenty of restaurants, and plenty of people that don't work in tech fields. You'll find the real residents of the city there, not just people passing through.

Though it won't be sunny.

(Also, really? Beer is underrepresented here? Where has he been going? From his other blog post, he doesn't seem to like any west coast beers. You can't call our beer selection "underrepresented" if you don't like the local beer styles. There are literally hundreds of microbreweries in this state. He can't really be surprised that the most common beer will be local.)

Edit: Also, if any of you reading this are planning on moving out to SF, or just moved out here, feel free to email me ( natmartin <at> gmail.com ), and I'd be glad to give you advice on neighborhoods to check out, things to do, or introduce you to some good people here.
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All this classic video is missing is Twitter, now the center stage.
haha. You can use a lot of b to get c done in my opinion.
I absolutely agree with the bootstrap comment.

NYC, in my six years there, compared to my six years and change in Chicago/Aurora, is substantially warmer in the winter.
I would suggest The Thirsty Scholar Pub, Miracle of Science, or Tory Row (in about that order).
Thanks for the link. A person close to me has recently started exhibiting symptoms of MS (and no, in probably the one and only case on this site, that doesn't stand for Microsoft). I will be sure to speak to the neurologist about this treatment and associated research.
I wrote less clearly elsewhere in the thread that you can be in the middle of a very diverse place, but your own life can be driven by a monoculture.
This also explains the Portland paradox... statistically less diverse, though for members of a specific subculture, perhaps more likely to provide exposure to different things.
I also think reducing meat intake, and selecting only bio-meat from animals raised with a certain amount of respect is the ethical thing to do. It doesn't need to be an all or nothing thing (i.e. vegan)...
And then after a while the Magic players start playing poker.
I named Bill Clinton, not Elie Wiesel. Also, visit the book's site and see who gave it feedback:

http://acrimesomonstrous.com/

The who's who of fascist warmongers.
If I got down voted so many times just for this comment clojure sure must be a fine language.But I am still not going to learn it just because it targets the JVM. But maybe some day I will forget the 3 sleep less nights I spent rewriting the project in ruby or the A- I got where I had expected an A++, and try to look into clojure.
Don't be so harsh. I provided a link to an article that supports my argument for Bill Clinton not being the most credible person out there wrt to support for human rights.
Hmm. Well, you've got me, I self-identify as a capitalist. I am efficient in most of my dealings because that lets me choose how to distribute my surpluses rather than having no surplus to distribute. I do things which are not strictly speaking economically efficient with my surpluses of time and money: I play video games, I donate to charity, and I pay freelancers more money than the lowest possible amount they would work for me for. That's the whole point of optimizing away the things I don't care about, like time spent writing bingo card word lists.

As I mentioned, I have a global monopsony on bingo card word lists. (A monopsony is to buying as a monopoly is to selling.) As predicted by MicroEcon 101, the market clearing price for bingo cards is whatever I say it is. I used to say it was $1 each, before I said it was $1.50 each, before I said it was $3 each. I keep walking it up because I'm happy with the arrangement and like to keep my freelancers happy. I don't need to, any more than I needed to send her a Christmas card with a month's wages in it, but I do a lot of things that I don't need to do.

Could I say the price is $30 each? Yeah, sure -- all it would take is writing another zero on my check. Am I under any particular obligation to do that? I haven't heard a compelling reason why yet.

You are, of course, free to call me "unfair". You're also free to open your own business, compete against me, break my worldwide monopsony on bingo card writing labor, and pay her any price you darn well please. If you can beat a few thousand a year, I'll happily forward you her contact information.

I'll refrain from giving my opinions as to the relative moral worth of entrepreneurship and telling entrepreneurs how to spend their money, as they would get political very, very quickly.
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As an Apple user, I'm horrified.

The way they question the Woolworths logo looks sort of like a huge monster trying to crush a small fly with their iron-covered feet.

This has got certainly nothing to do with defending a trademark logo, but more to do with extreme intolerance and total isolation from the world.
Given the observed difference between the salary of a (unionized) school janitor and a (non-unionized) cleaning crew worker for a hotel, whose job duties are essentially identical, I can only assume that either a) unions kill more people than cancer or b) that there is another factor at play besides risk premiums.
I have never gotten TRAMP to work. I just use sshfs, which is much easier to use. ("sshfs user@host:~ my_home_at_host")

I will also point out that eshell and ansi-term are much better shells for use inside emacs. I used ansi-term for a long time, but gradually weaned myself off bash and into eshell. Now I can write "shell commands" as (loop) invocations. :)
Try Seattle. Our usual response to gentrification is "oh that sucks...Oh hey, a new cupcake shop just opened up!"

No really.

Edit: plus, Ben Gibbard, the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie, jogged past my place the other day. Evidently Zooey Deschanel now lives in my neighborhood. Most of my neighbors are not involved in tech. I'm sitting in the bar around the corner from my apartment writing this on a big couch drinking a great local microbrew while using their free wifi. If I really wanted a stable job, I'd go back to Microsoft. The only downside to this whole thing is that Zooey Deschanel is now married.
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No offense intended, but San Jose is a shithole with zero culture.
Ya if he actually gets to not using Google this won't be just a stunt saying "Hey Microsoft sucks, but I can't say that publicly so I'll instead show you how when Google OS comes out using it won't be a problem at all".
Heh, interesting link. I started reading the tweets and got upset when there was no "downmod" button :)
so you need an os and a browser to run this webos ..

kinda defeats the purpose if you ask me ...
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Thirsty Scholar Pub - I like the sound of that. Saturday night or Sunday night? Looks like maybe Sunday night would be better for some.
The sad part is that these people are offered help that is much more substantial than a quarter in a cup, but they don't want to give up their "freedom" to get that help.
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> We've got to stop investing in the childish notion that we can all become bazillionaires by aggregating other people's hard work with a comment thread.

I can't count the number of times that mainstream media has done this same thing. There are plenty of examples of Wikipedia circular references (i.e. Journalist reads unsubstantiated comment on a Wikipedia page, Published comment as truth (without citing Wikipedia, though sometimes with citation), Wikipedia cites the new article as proof of the original comment). What about those articles that are basically a reprinting of some corporate press release, which are passed off as journalism?
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every street there has an alleyway, where the trash goes

This is the first thing that I noticed when visiting New York for the first time. The place stunk, because the sidewalk was half for garbage and half for pedestrians. I just couldn't believe it.

(Pittsburgh is like this too. I remember having to literally move boxes of garbage away from the doorway to a restaurant to get inside. Not a great way to start your meal. The food ended up being bad, too, and I got a big piece of paper mixed in with my food. I don't think I ate anything for the rest of that conference...)

Anyway, Chicago has its problems, but it is certainly nice-looking and well-designed. I have not visited anywhere else in the US that is as clean.

(Tokyo and Copenhagen are similarly clean, though. Even Hong Kong is better than New York.)
For a few fractions of a second I had hopes that someone was reviving and opening up the Amoeba project. http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/amoeba.html

Fun facts about the Amoeba project, started by Andrew Tanenbaum, worked on by several graduate students including one named Guido Van Rossum who used it as a test bed for a programming language he was developing.
A few exploratory questions:

* What is the nature of the electronic device? A PCB? A chip? One or several PCBs integrated with a case, batteries, buttons, etc (i.e. a finished end product or prototype of one)?
* Do you need to outsource because you don't know how to put your design in a form industry-standard CAD tools can understand, or because you are not an electronics guy at all and need somebody to design the thing themselves?
* What kind of volume do you need? 1 prototype, a small run of prototypes, a production run of an existing prototype?
* Similar to #1: Is it electronics only, or do you also need molded plastic, machined metal parts, etc?

In most cases, it is definitely possible given a little knowledge and a lot of tenacity for dealing with (sometimes several) small companies to get the job done.
I have 4.413, but I'm not the list!
> If you can trust people for anything, it's in finding a way to profit. And I fully trust my generation of journalists and editors to find a way. As ideological as it makes me sound, Capitalism really did get that bit right.

It's important to note that this doesn't exclude the possibility that they all become corporate shills for one company or another. Not that I believe such a thing will happen, 'they will find a way to profit' doesn't always connect up with the more romanticized David-vs-Goliath imagery of 'hacker/journalist' rebelling against the mainstream media establishment.
Fundable is back up?
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Hire a small shop to do it for you. These guys do this sort of thing

http://www.tieronedesign.com/

Not cheap to do mind you and I'm not sure they do china manufacture but may do domestic.
No, there were 60-odd million. The graph does not seem hard to read to me at all. There is a darker color graph overlain by a partially transparent lighter color graph.
I know a guy here in the States who would probably be glad to work up something for you at a reasonable price. My contact info is in my profile if you'd like me to put you in touch with him.
My father started his career as a lawyer in a big city firm. Growing up, we kids were often told why he left:

"If I work to 6pm, the guy next to me works till 7. If I work till 7, he works till 8. If I work till 8, he brings in a mattress."

In my first full time job I used to joke that the only thing they paid me for was to wear a tie between 9am and 5pm. At 5pm, the tie came off, and at 6pm I was entitled to wear it around my head like a bandanna. It was an obvious reminder, to me most of all, that I was there to add value to the business, and that was linked to the work I did, not the time I put in or the appearance I projected.
I certainly can understand why they did, though; for a very long time the only thing they knew was "Amazon's EBS seems to have failed". Once it was known that they were being DoS'd they quickly got that information out.
If Murdoch wants to charge for the content, then they better remove barriers to consuming their content once I have paid:

1. PDF version of the newspaper (maybe?)
2. *FULL* article text in RSS feed body
3. Little to no advertising.

Emphasis on the second point. Obviously I would have to authenticate to gain access, but the whole point of the 'teaser' text in RSS feeds is to drive you back to the side for ad impressions. If I'm already a paying customer, then I shouldn't need to be 'driven' back to the site if I don't want to.
Keeping it simple. The two main principles:
1.) you can't out-run a bad diet;
2.) effort trumps everything else.

Eat cleanly ("if it doesn't go off, don't eat it", etc).

Exercise: a mix of weights and conditioning; I favour short, high-intensity workouts for conditioning, with steady-state aerobic running occasionally for variety. Others have mentioned crossfit which is certainly good -- I've been basing my workouts around http://www.rosstraining.com for a while, with great results. Jim Wendler's 5/3/1 routine is great on the weights side of things, and you can find most of the info on it in this interview: http://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_article/sports_body_train...

Routines help; as a hacker it's likely you have at least mild obsessive-compulsive tendencies (maybe that's just me, but it seems common in hacker friends too). Being obsessive means that you're less likely to skip a workout, eat badly, go to bed at irregular hours, etc.

+1 for the mental relaxation (including rest/deload days if you're exercising seriously) mentioned by others as well.