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Yes, it is almost certainly legal.

The other option landlords always have is to withdraw the unit from the market. You can Ellis Act anyone you want; the price you pay is $18k per person or so plus waiting 366 days, and a stained title. You can still renovate then TIC the building though, and you'll find plenty of takers.

ps -- having been in a legal fight with an sf landlord, the fact of the matter is despite all the pretty bullshit sf claims, there are vanishingly few actual tenant protections that work against a malicious landlord. At best, you can leave and sue after the fact, but be prepared to spend years on a fight.

@harry: an ellis act eviction, or other no-fault evictions, permanently prevents the building from utilizing the 2-unit lottery bypass to condo the building, so it will have to remain a TIC. TICs have a variety of negative implications, including complicating mortgages. The lottery, which is still necessary for larger units, is suspended until 2024.

see eg http://www.andysirkin.com/HTMLArticle.cfm?Article=158

and

http://www.andysirkin.com/HTMLArticle.cfm?Article=219
How about using a stripped down version of such a system to re-target just the eyes of a person in a video chat? Could this be used to solve the "not looking into cam, thus not looking at me" issues in video chats today?
This is my thought as well. It seems like a perfectly feasible solution to me, but I might be speaking out of the naivete mentioned in the article.
The thing with a digital "prank/crime", is that a minor action similar to a prank, can have major consequences similar to a crime... or no consequence whatsoever, all of it with the same action.

I agree that in this case the consequences seem laughable, but I think that should be a matter for a judge and/or jury to decide.
Unodered, in-memory queues shouldn't be anyone's goto solution. I think there's a time and place for these, and having at-least-once delivery is a huge win over just using Redis, so I'm excited.

Still, unless you know exactly what you're doing, you should pick a something with strong ordering guarantees and that won't reject messages under memory pressure (although, rejecting new messages under memory pressure is A LOT easier/better to handle than dropping old messages).
That you dislike a law does not make it any less the law.

That a thing is very popular does not make it lawful.

The law has always been distinct from morality, with clear gateways from moral sentiment to the law.
I think UK needs US style property taxes to discourage this 'housing as investment' behavior. Yes, UK has council tax but from what i understand its not that high.

In most US cities (except SF, LA, NYC) the ratio of average house price to median income is very reasonable (about 2.6). One main reason is the high property taxes which average about 1.5 to 2% of the house value. The tax also increase substantially for second homes. This discourages using a second house as investment/store of value.
Right, that's absolutely a problem, but it's orthogonal to the supposed problem that OP was mentioning (e.g., it could be that those funds are so bad that even the top quartile doesn't outperform the index in a particular period).

Or perhaps OP intended to refer to this problem, and it just wasn't done very clearly.
GPG in Mutt is fantastically well integrated.

Now, of course, you have to get used to Mutt first :)
I think it's sort of obnoxious and should be illegal to force renters to leave their homes just because. That hardly seems fair to the tenant, no?
Interesting - the Reuters article claims that this car has a 186 mile range, which is greater than what Wikipedia claims (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_e6)

Charged in 30 minutes, a typical Uber driver might need to charge it a couple times a day. The $200 rent option results in a fixed charge. The Electricity will cut down on the cost. Environmentally beneficial.

Feels like a win/win/win all around.

It's obvious that as batteries continue to improve, this is going to be the default case for fleet vehicles like postal, UPS, taxis, etc...

[Edit: It looks like from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_New_York_City that Taxicab vehicles are driven an average of 180 miles per shift. That means charge before the shift starts, and a charge (at lunch?) in the middle of the shift, and you are good to go. If you need more, it's because you are making $$$. Uber charges $1.31/mile - so approx $237/day, or $1185/week - $200 car, -75kWh$.10 /Kwh 2 times day*5days = $65 electricity. So, $1185 - $265 $920/week. I wonder what the insurance story is.

]
The law was passed in 1979. It's hard to seriously claim landlords could possibly be unaware of the law before becoming a landlord. If for some reason they just can't possibly see themselves in any other career, they may also choose to solely invest in buildings built since 1980.
If they think it's unfair, they could just... not rent their buildings out. There's plenty of buildings in the US that don't come under rent control laws that they could buy and rent out.
How about Ctrl-W to just close the Gmail tab?
property taxes are capped in CA, so the landlord's costs are essentially fixed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_%2819...
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YC sings the praises of San Fransisco, and they're right about the culture and the startup scene there. But things like this, and the cost of living overall, make me hesitate to start something out there.
Build more houses. None of this shit would happen if SF would just build more houses.
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"(2) Effective May 5, 2015, the security deposit amount required shall increase to $12,500 per month."

Is this a typo? I have never heard of a monthly security deposit.
Ship or aircraft tracking data.

Or if your the NSA, tracking mobile phones.
Every action is like that. You can put your foot down and step on the floor and keep walking, or you can put your foot down and step on a baby and kill it.
Me too, I have yet to graduate from college but things like that make me feel that I should stay in Waterloo (Canada).
As a software engineer, I agree with you 100%.

But you are likely aware that this type of 10x engineer is not who the vast majority of corporate managers and "non-technical" start-up founders are thinking of when they describe a 10x engineer. For them, a 10x engineer is simply one who produces code 10x as fast as the other engineers.

In fact, simply writing code 10x as fast as usual is not a difficult task for a competent developer to accomplish. With significant overtime, and reckless abandon, any skilled developer can churn out poorly thought-out code at a rate roughly 10x greater than the rate at which a skilled developer can write well-designed, tested, documented, refactored code.

This is why we have so many "10x" engineers, and so much technical debt.
Here's one I think is probably 101 level for others here, but what is the difference between a multidimensional scalar and a vector? I'll gratefully read through any reference you can link to.
"the security deposit [...] shall increase to $12,500 per month"

Can someone explain what this means? I've never had to pay a security deposit per month. That must be a copy + paste error?
But this is growth hacking, don't you know?
If you really want [0,1], it might be more simple to include a check at the start:

if (1-in-number-of-floats-in-[0,1)) return 1;

Your version of 50/50 split with the mantissa will mean that 0 and 1 will be less often chosen than others.

However, your version won't generate a (quite) uniform distribution anyways, due to subnormals. I think a simple fix for that would be to, if your exponent reaches the subnormals, just return a random mantissa with the subnormal exponent.
I wouldn't worry too much about this. People are going to copy success.

Unless the Iranian market is critical to your success/rollout I would just write them off as a clone.

Take it as validation of your idea.

Maybe start looking at ways you can move more of your app in to a backend that they won't be able to copy/paste as easily. But I would take it as a compliment.

Carry on, keep making progress on the english version.

Maybe have some fun with some javascript or images if he's hot linking.
OTOH, how much can you restrict the property owner? What if the other unit needed to be knocked down for a reason other than to get rid of rent control? Would it be OK for the law to tell the owner to fix it some other way? What if both units were destroyed in a natural disaster and a new structure had to be built from nothing? Is that still rent-controlled?

Also, is rent control even a good idea? In the short term, it obviously protects a renter from the market running away from them. In the long term it seems to create artificial conditions which eventually blow up in everyone's face. Imagine a plan where the current renters had a viable alternative. Now drop all rent control laws and let the market correct itself. Lower income renters move out, higher income families move in. Rent goes up higher. Newly moved in renters realize that they are paying 10x as much as the rest of the country, leave. Rent goes down. The market has corrected itself and all is well. What am I missing?
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I wonder if, instead of focusing on the secretly terrible engineer, we focus on the secretly good engineer. This is the good engineer who you hire, despite your elaborate hiring process.

Your entire business could be staffed with SGE's, and you would never know it.
You seem to be asking for this:

http://postgis.net/docs/ST_DWithin.html
It's not a commodity, it's livelihood. SF renters are still making money, this is gouging.
If you don't own it. Yes.
And if you're fine with the supply contracting further in already-choked markets, then that works! If not ...
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Ironically, rent control is exactly why there is so little housing available in SF. Iirc, only 30% of the voting population owns property. So how is it that the rest of us (70%) don't vote to build more? Well, because 3/4 renters are under rent control, and essentially don't care. So only 70%/4 < 30% of people are motivated to push the market towards more housing. The rest profit handsomely from increased home prices due to high demand. This is the real tragedy of rent control in San Francisco IMO.

Edit: source:
http://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-San-Francisco-apartm...
It seems that at some point, the property holder's right to dispose of their property as they wish ought to trump any claims that a temporary tenant might have.

That said, I don't know enough about California law to say what 'point' might be.
Simply brilliant. I understand some of the criticism of TED but I've seen stuff - like this clip - that is so damn good, I don't really see what all the fuss is about.

And since we're talking about Reggie Watts, I have to share my fave of his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bLFO4ZV0i4
"Basically all this 10x is just a way to make people produce 10x while paying still for 1x. "

Actually, I see it more frequently referenced as reason to pay people more than 1x based on productivity. There are some that deny 10x productivity exists, which is the controversy around it that I am most familiar with. If you are an order of magnitude more productive than your peers, but paid only marginally more, this becomes an incentive to start your own business, or join one where you significant equity, where you will be able to capture more of the value.
that sales guy is annoying.

and i love how 3d printer sellers never mention the flaws of the material used for the filament. it's all perfect.
Is there something in the indictment that you find to be in direct contradiction to the petition? I couldn't find it - of course the Brian half of the story is missing here.
I got caught up on that line as well, especially the authors use of "we". As far as I can tell, the author has certainly studied algorithms, but has never worked as a software engineer.
Or why didn't the real admin just rename/ban the account? Edit: Reading the indictment posted in another comment, that's exactly what they did. The indictment also says the Hacker Dojo network was DDoSed several times over a few weeks. So this petition starts to feel more like outright lying.
They want to sell the house. This is their way of kicking people out without explicitly doing so.
Landlords have the right to change their mind when it comes time for lease renewal. You're arguing that landlords should be forced to always rent their property to the same tenant once they begin. That's how ownership, not rental, works. Rentals are for a limited time by definition.
If you own the building, i'd say you should be free to do what you want. Just because you rented out a unit 5 years ago doesn't mean you want to rent it out forever. You own the building after all. Imagine a building with 20+ units, you'd never be able to clear it out.

But, that doesn't make it a fun process to go through for a renter. It sucks. Couldn't the owner just ask the person who is renting the unit to move out in a reasonable amount of time? That seems like the ethical thing to do.
Ideas are worth $0

Find out why the other apps failed. Firstly just the two of you thinking, then perhaps try contacting the previous builders (though initially, maybe not from the angle of "we're going to make it work better this time"). You might think of things they didn't.
This looks like a good effort, congratulations.

Personally I'm torn on the usefulness of generic brokers for all circumstances... there are obvious advantages, but at the same time every messaging problem scales and evolves differently so a broker can quickly become just one more tail trying to wag the dog.

I am also interested in the architecture of tools like ZeroMQ and nanomsg, where they provide messaging "primitives" and patterns that can easily be used to compose larger systems, including having central brokers if that floats your boat.
So why don't programming jobs have the equivalent of technicians like most other engineering fields?
I would like the difficult interviews if there were upside to them. Let's say that I'm a Level 6 engineer (on an abstract scale) and you're hiring me for a Level 7 position-- a small promotion to offset the risk of changing jobs. If the technical interview, I might fail (false negative). If that came with upside-- really nailing that machine learning brainteaser would make me eligible for Level 8 or 9 and the comp increase along with it-- then I'd be fine. My issue with the tough, multi-day interview processes is that there's often only downside. Why throw 4 hours into a company's take-home code test just to (possibly) get the same standard-issue, market-level offer I could get somewhere else?

A few years ago, I submitted a code sample that was ranked among the top 3 submissions ever-- I worked hard on that fucker-- only to receive a junior-level offer with <0.05% equity. So what was the point of doing the code sample?

On age and the quality of engineers, I generally find that older engineers are very good. That said, I'd be skeptical of someone who did "regular old" corporate engineering for 20 years. Why didn't he get out? I completely understand not wanting to move into management, but why didn't he look for an R&D job or move into an architectural role or try to become a consultant? (He may have good reasons, like wanting to stay in Ohio with his family, and therefore having fewer career options; I'd just try to figure out what they are.) Corporate engineering has a low ceiling and anyone good is going to have at least the desire (some may not have the ability, like someone tied to a geographical area) to break through it.

The cult of neoteny-- Agile and open-plan offices and the all of the other subtle signs of an age-discrimination/permanent-junior culture-- is somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Mainstream engineering, in most organizations, is a user-story ridden ghetto, a backlog-retrospective meeting that never ends. By 35 or so, the good engineers have either gotten out of it (possibly moving into R&D, data science, management, or independent consulting roles) or left the industry entirely. The culture of short-termism, open-plan offices, and business-driven engineering provides no exit. You don't get to escape it, in most companies, by being good at your job-- unless you become a manager.

What's happening is that tech's "thought leaders" are creating conditions that are hostile to older talent (which is necessary if you want your technology to be any good) with "Agile"/Scrum micromanagement and bullpen office layouts, then saying, "See, no one over 40 is any good". (In fact, there are a lot of good people over 40; they just don't want to work for jackasses.) This is congealing into a pernicious cultural assumption, based on shitty data, when we should actually be blaming the VCs and the mediocre middle-managers-I-mean-founders they fund instead of "old programmers".
I just don't see the news here.

It's totally legal, and done all the time: it's why people lease houses rather than go month to month.

It's not a reflection of the market in SF. This happens everywhere a landlord who isn't getting on with their month-to-month tenants and want them out, for whatever reason. It happened to me in 2005. It's not a necessarily a reflection of anything outside of the personal situation of the poster, and their relationship with their landlord.

If this had happened anywhere but SF, there wouldn't be the flurry of hysterical outrage that's exploding on Twitter and Facebook: there would be crickets.
>I continue to believe that Wikivoyage, the CC-licensed and Wikimedia-hosted fork of Wikitravel, holds great promise...

I can't believe in Wikivoyage at all. Wikitravel has been flawed from the outset and forking into wikivoyage has succeeded in making two bad sites. Trying to apply travel to the (current) wiki model is not going to work.

>...you'd need to build a hybrid -- a Wiki for factual info, and unlimited personal reviews -- to get the best of both worlds.

Tripadvisor does pretty much what you are describing, with a strong emphasis on selling you a hotel room, tour or whatnot. And it is a little light on factual information and heavy on fake opinion.

Time for someone to build something better.
The idea behind limiting the landlord's profit is that many believe that it is more important for people to be able to afford housing than for others to make larger profits through, literally, rent-seeking. It's not just because, it's a social priority.

Kinda like the comment the other day on HN that was something along the lines of "I don't see why we need the gov't regulating water prices, why can't the free market just sort this out" ... "because water isn't like an iPhone, it's something that everyone needs and there's a huge butterfly effect to this, less crops, less food, etc. on a very large scale -- not to mention supply/demand doesn't work for something with fairly inelastic demand".

What's next, "I think it's sort of obnoxious and should be illegal to force insurance companies to not take into consideration pre-existing health conditions"? "I think it's sort of obnoxious and should be illegal to force politicians and political parties to reveal who gives them money"? "I think it's sort of obnoxious and should be illegal to force people who are working to pay for the retirement of older people via Social Security"? "I think it's sort of obnoxious and should be illegal to force companies to limit the amount they pollute"?

There are plenty of arguments against rent control. But I find it hard to accept "but this guy could be making more money if the government didn't get in the way!" as an argument against rent control (or most other things, for that matter).
It is kind of the difference between owning and renting.
Well, obviously, given that we're discussing rental in a rent-control city, it doesn't entirely kill off rental.
It's an eviction by another name. The rent they are asking for is just a way to make it happen.

There's no story here.
Moonbase Commander is a fantastic game that never got the attention it deserved. I highly recommend buying it from Steam or GOG.com. Despite being released in 2002, its graphics and gameplay have aged well. Playing a multiplayer game today is just as fun and deep as it was back then.

I would suggest using a fan-created third-party tool, Moonbase Console, to generate random maps and facilitate online games. Not sure if someone's hosting the file, but the source code for it is on my github https://github.com/michaelbarlow7/moonbase-console
>The law has always been distinct from morality,

Has it? If you look at Hebrew and Christian tradition, the two are highly conflated.
I can't imagine someone going through this trouble instead of just asking. It is a dick move, for sure. I just don't see GGP's point about making this specific action illegal as the solution. Seems to me that it would the just complicate things and in the end negatively affect everyone.
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The numbers are just there to make it impossible to pay. They want the tenant out so they can sell the house.
Rent control does not force landlords to keep renters ad infinitum. It protects tenants from price gouging. Landlords can impose rent increases far beyond fair market rents for new tenants because it's costly and inconvenient to move, but (in a sellers' market) cheap to replace tenants. This imbalance of negotiating power necessitates regulations.

Now, you can argue that particular rent control laws are too aggressive, or that the strategy for calculating bounds on rent increases cause excessive opportunity losses. But that's a far cry from the implication of your message.
It's plenty fair. This is why we have lease contracts. The lease protects both the tenant and the landlord for the lease's duration, and contractually obligates the landlord to prevent habitable premises while the lease is in force, but the landlord is under no obligation to renew if he wishes to do something else with his property. That's how ownership works. You don't lose ownership just because you choose to rent to a tenant.
Where did I say that managers were "a useless component in organizations"?
> Rentals are for a limited time by definition.

I know people (in fact, every branch of my family, along with many of my friends) who have rented their entire lives, because they can't own - they've never been able to amass enough capital or convince someone else to lend them it. Should they be uprooted every year (or more often) because someone wants to make a bit more money?

Rentals are whatever the combination of the contract and the local law say they are, by definition.
But if we do that, the skyline will be ruined for the residents of Palo Alto, and we can't have that!

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2014/07/10/growth-debate-...
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This happens everywhere, all the time. The butthurt it's eliciting however, that's pure San Francisco.

EDIT: fwiw, I'm an SF native, and this same trick was done to me in 2005.
i take it you are under 25 and never have to move a family into a rental house?

when you do that, i'd love to see your opinion then about living in a place where every month you need to set aside a weekend to find a plan-b place just in case your rent jump to a price you can't afford next month.
My statements regarding the severity of a felony are true independent of this particular case. So I certainly stand by those.

As for this particular instance. An indictment is quite literally one side of the story. One should be exceedingly cautious when forming any opinion based on one. There's a lot more to this story than is currently clear. I would not be surprised if Jason David Miller is guilty of actions worthy of punishment. I would not be surprised if those actions are a considered a felony in the eyes of the law. I would be exceptionally surprised if those actions are worthy of a felony in my eyes. (which means exactly nothing, I know).
Probably a typo.