rubyrescue

Our maid runs it now (hands off keys/cleans up). It costs us about 15% of the rental money we get. We focus around 1 week stays.

Sure my email is in my profile... it's $110 US/night but 4 can stay. Cheaper than a hotel and separate bedrooms. So compared to a hotel, way cheaper. Also, safer than zonaprop or BYT where you have to show up w/$700 cash for a week PLUS $700 deposit. Then they argue w/you about the deposit, etc...

4chan is not heavily moderated...

That's roughly a 25% annual return. nice. We're renting out our place in Buenos Aires. We're clearing 10% return and I use it when I go back there to meet with the team. Stays about 80% -90% full, great location. Guests love it. My wife (who doesn't work full time) manages it remotely. It's been a very positive experience and my takeaways are similar to the writer's. It's not passive income, but it's steady...

Seattle is a very religious city, I think he means. I grew up in the South and lived in Seattle for more than a decade and I'd describe Seattle as equally fundamentalist as the South at this point; the only difference being the religion is environmentalism.

This is surprising. Consultancies are generally worth 1.25x their annual revenue, or 5x their EBIDTA meaning they are doing 52mm in annual revenue or 13mm in EBIDTA. Perhaps the multiple is significantly higher for the client book.

Sorry for not elaborating on what it is. You have to download the app because the web is just a view on some of the content. It's an alternative, pseudo-anonymous social network with a LOT of users (though not generally the demographic on YC). It's not a meme site / image macro site at all - it's just hard to see what it is the same way it was hard for people to understand Twitter for a long time after it launched. (Is it a blogging site, is it an RSS replacement? etc)

Whisper (http://whisper.sh - but download the app to see what it really is) - Santa Monica, CA - Use Erlang, Node, Ruby, Python, and Cassandra. Help us grow from 2.5 BILLION pageviews/month to 25 Billion. We're a team of 8 devs and need a lot more - in data science, functional programming, iOS and Android. Come work in a house two blocks from the beach. (Sequoia and Lightspeed funded) - chad@whisper.sh

can you elaborate on the types of headphones that appreciate in value?

This is great. I'm a huge fan of J Hilburn, but what I'm learning is, it's not binary. I also want sportswear, i want polos that fit, etc. The whole market for custom shirts is just opening up and my sense is that you'll get a ton of folks who have tried others and therefore are open to Vastrm.

see my comments here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5968355 - basically the market is very illiquid and the volumes are small.

That's actually a famous paradox - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

Inaka is hiring iOS and Android devs in Atlanta, GA (and Buenos Aires, Argentina). We build very popular mobile apps for funded startups and media brands. I'm setting up an Atlanta office and we're looking for our first development hire in the US. If you like mobile apps, wouldn't mind the idea of travel to Latin America (or North America if you're in Argentina), email me - chad@inaka.net.

Inaka is hiring iOS and Android devs in Atlanta, GA (and Buenos Aires, Argentina). We build very popular mobile apps for funded startups and media brands.

I'm setting up an Atlanta office and we're looking for our first development hire in the US. If you like mobile apps, wouldn't mind the idea of travel to Latin America (or North America if you're in Argentina), email me - chad@inaka.net.

Having just recently lived in Argentina, I can say the bitcoin community is really active. The biggest problem is that it's still really small so you're dealing with a few hundred pesos at a time. To take a subway across Buenos Aires and meet up, for say, $300 ARS ($37 USD at the unofficial rate) is a huge hassle.

I had the idea of bringing in say a few thousand USD/month (I have an office and a number of things like random office lunches, office rent, nespresso capsules, snacks, etc are for various reasons not payable via a check from a business account.) I could buy say $1500 USD in bitcoins but then I couldn't find people who are not miners to take the other side of the transaction that had enough bitcoins to buy $8000 to $12,000 ARS in one transaction.

WHY would that be useful? Well, if I have $1500 USD of bitcoins, I can get the "blue" rate of 8.05 * 1500 = $12,075 ARS. If I wire myself $1500 USD from outside Argentina, I'll get $8092 ARS. So, imagine I could use bitcoins to do the transaction. I'll get about 40% more money if someone properly values the bitcoin to the peso.

What we need is the coinbase of Argentina, but then being "legal" would kind of defeat the whole value of bitcoins in such a warped economy. Just check out http://dolarblue.net/ for the TWENTY different ways to convert ARS to USD/EUR, etc. Argentina is not a place you are going to setup a legal bitcoin exchange and have it last very long.

http://github.com/inaka/edis is here now for that purpose

Needs to be payable in bitcoin?

Thanks for writing that. How do you spend your time? Do you find it fulfilling?

Introducing Elixir by Simon St Laurent is coming out soon. I read a pre-release version and it is exactly what you want.

Joe's points are really good. This drives me crazy in Elixir:

iex(1)> f = fn x -> x + 1 end

#Function<erl_eval.6.82930912>

iex(2)> f()

(UndefinedFunctionError) undefined function(stack trace trimmed...)

iex(2)> f.(1)

2

I'm not sure that the demographic or the site is money losing over the long term, like youtube.

This is not a good analysis. Tumblr has a demographic access that yahoo doesn't. Yahoo can generate ad revenues due to scale that Tumblr couldn't. Karp adds a perspective that Yahoo needs.

It's unclear whether the acquisition will be a success, but if it is a success the article's reasons will be irrelevant. If it isn't a success, those will not be the reasons why it failed.

Tf you live outside of the US or just travel a lot, and have a US account, the Chase Sapphire Preferred is THE card to have. it saves me a lot of money. i like it slightly better than the Starwood Amex just because i can use it more places.

wow please tell more. "for a while" means people's anger passed? or you guys switched back?

it's $95,100 for 2012, per person. so 190,200 if you're married.

That was my plan, then i ended up with 30 consultants. Now I'm just really enjoying running a consulting business!

This is written by someone who actually writes a popular web framework for Erlang - the exact opposite of throwing a static site on S3. That gives this piece more credibility - he knows how to build active server-side software as well.

Erlang (or Elixir) runs really well on the Pi - and cross-node communication is brain-dead simple.

no atlanta?

I'm going to assume you're not just trolling here.

There are whole companies who make elaborate servers that speak simple protocols. Membase is essentially a much more elaborate, multi-server replicated database that speaks the Memcache protocol.

We started edis as an experiment to teach some developers Erlang. We had a use case that was quite interesting at the time, so it was a great way to teach Erlang while working through some interesting database scenarios.

Imagine you have a bunch of users come into a site and they'll hit the server for an hour and then go away for at least a week, maybe more, like the demographics around a popular TV show. Imagine you need to handle a HUGE number of users for that hour, but after that hour, you have less than 1/10th of 1% of those users during the week. Also, imagine that you are pretty happy with Redis's speed, but that you've outgrown what you can comfortably handle on one server and so you are happy to tolerate less speed for more space.

This is a really nice use case for a disk-backed Redis server.

It's not the only option, of course, but we didn't need to store documents and we didn't need ACIDity.