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Re:Ask HN: Living in a hacker house – Is it worth it? on Sunday March 09, 2014 @03:28PM (#7369590)
I used to live in a similar communal-type living space. There were a lot of interesting people, great way to network and all that but things werent really run that well management-wise. Eventually the substandard conditions became common knowledge, not many people wanted to live there anymore and it ended up shutting down (bit of a pity tbh).

The irony is that the people who are happy to put up with those kind of conditions, are often the kind of people who don't want to pay their rent.

Ask HN: Quiet/cheap havens to live around San Francisco?

So I'm planning on going to SF soon (coming from O/S) for a job interview. The only problem is I have to get into the US a couple of weeks earlier to present some research at a conference in Wisconsin, and am at a bit of a loss as to what to do with the time in between. I really just want to find a quiet place to study up on Coursera so that I'm fully prepped for the interview, and to just make...

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Ask HN: Quiet/cheap study havens around San Francisco?

So I'm planning on going to SF soon (coming from O/S) for a job interview. The only problem is I have to get into the US a couple of weeks earlier to present some research at a conference in Wisconsin, and am at a bit of a loss as to what to do with the time in between. I really just want to find a quiet place to study up on Coursera so that I'm fully prepped for the interview, and to just make...

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Ask HN: Splitting Browsers for Privacy?

Networking question here:(Note that I'm using "Google/Gmail" as an example, any other company name could be used instead).Assume a typical home user setup, with a typical consumer router providing access to the outside world. A user logs into Gmail from one browser (Chrome), and then runs search queries from another browser (Firefox). Clearly cookies can't be used to track the search queries,...

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Ask HN: Digital Valley Graphics?

I recently read an article (I think it was on wired or techcrunch) which had some really amazing graphical artwork of SV geography, showing the locations of companies etc. I can't seem to dig it up though, does anyone have the link to it? The graphics were kind of like a modern version of this: http://www.grow-california.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/siliconvalley.jpg

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Ask HN: Silicon Valley Graphics

I recently read an article (I think it was on wired.com) which had some really amazing graphical artwork of SV geography, showing the locations of companies etc. I can't seem to dig it up though, does anyone have the link it?The graphics were kind of like a modern version of this: http://www.grow-california.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/siliconvalley.jpg

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