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Yes, people lock their bikes: they all have that built in wheel lock thing. It's not like it's a perfect utopia. People are actually very careful about that. Nobody rides around with the giant NYC-style bolt-cutter proof chain like a belt though. You couldn't even have a $1000 bike in NYC but you see them all the time here. There is definitely some theft and crime but it's definitely less.

Also, the biggest bike thief is probably the city. ;-)
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the explanation that there's no looting because the Government's emergency response is very good and people are getting what they need at the shelters.
Oh now I see. I thought they forgot to divide by 10 in the old results. But the story is that they did new measurements which were too large because they screwed up. So the story is that nothing's changed. Yeah, I agree with you...
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Not unsurprisingly, x' AND email IS NULL; -- works as the username with no password. Injection FTL.
1. "Not sure if serious"

2. Jazz is barely a genre anymore there's so many different sub-genre's and movements within it that actually using the term how you did is disingenuous.

3. You did the same as above with about the same effect for "pop music". Seeing as you addressed harmony, you'll actually find that there are lots of common harmonic (chord) progressions that are shared between the two idioms. They reflect each other more than they are different to each other. If you really wanted to make the point you were trying to make I'd suggest looking for some form of obscure ethnic music (Pakistani throat singing or Indonesian Gamelan perhaps) that has not really had much chance to mix with western music and absorb its paradigms.
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Vending machines are not vandalized regularly here, but on occasion there is a bust of theft either by breaking them open or machining fake coins so it's not unheard of.
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Have I mentioned recently that Japanese megacorps' engineering excellence does not extend to web apps?

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I love seeing stuff like this published..

Even though this one release may not be representative of the company as a whole, at least it gives us some reason to believe in TechCrunch's journalistic integrity.
This is exactly the reason I started playing Rejection Therapy. It challenged me to get out of the house and have a meaningful (exciting even) interaction with another human being.

Just take a card (or make up your own challenge) and that will be your mission for the day. Trust me, it's fun and it's a way to meet new people.

Oh yeah, and consider taking an anti- depressant, even if it's for the short term.
I hope more and more OpenBSD rubs off on all OSes. Excellent documentation is a virtue worth sharing.
don't know about a lever, but practically all vending machines have a phone it them that can call home about being short on drinks etc. There are also specific machines that have water, speakers, and a screen in addition to the usual fizzy drinks that the local municipality can use in an emergency to give out drinks free, display messages, and sound warnings. These machines are rather few and far between at schools or near city offices, but I have seen them here and there.
By getting married and adopting your (new) husband's/wife's lastname, apparently.
I just want to reiterate what was said above: "Depression can be serious business, do not neglect it, it's not worth it."

Some people simply cannot work/live alone for long periods. I tried it for years myself, but was completely miserable and have since changed my life.

Having said that, little things that may (or may not) help you are: having a workspace with tons of natural light, morning exercise and having a strict and balanced schedule of work/play/sleep. Good luck.
I think it's called fan service, though at this point it's almost indistinguishable from picking on the retarded kid.
once you get to lesson 10 or about, it limits the input quite a bit since the lessons start to build atop each other. Before that, or after you are done, you can do a lot.

The commands are executed against a real unicorns mongodb collection (each user having his or her own)...so you are only limited by what's been implemented in the javascript shell and on the thin proxy backend.

This does mean that someone who wanted to take the server down probably wouldn't have to try very hard.
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The original article is definitely full of that sentiment, although the responses here are more measured.

Still, why has no one mentioned the fact that there is nothing left to loot in the areas most effected?
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They strive very hard to appear trustworthy which while admirable really proves nothing and everything they (and others) print should still be taken with a grain of salt. What they are trying to do is prove a negative to their readers i.e they don't ever take brides. It is in fact it is only practical to prove a positive i.e that they have in at least one instance taken a bribe.

As the old adage goes "Don't believe everything you read."
While I agree that URL shortening stinks for all sorts of philosophical and practical reasons, it grinds at me that HN's crippled markdown doesn't let you specify text for links. It makes it hard to integrate multiple links into text, because I am forced to line-break after each to achieve a minimum of readability.

You can see that the HN formatter is sympathetic to this type of textual disaster and "shortened" your links, just by omitting the last 20 or so characters of each.
so, there was an amazing structure built by ants and humans poured concrete into it, which i took for destructive, for studying?
I agree. I'm actually glad bycicle theft is just about the worst crime that can happen to me.
Mizuno is really nice as well: https://github.com/matadon/mizuno

It's wicked fast.
> What about this new rule about subscriptions then?

I think it sucks. I think it reflects a narcissistic view of the company and their platform. I think it's bad for innovation on the iOS platform. I wrote about it on my blog too [1], but so what? Users don't care about that either, apparently.

Interesting that you'd say that about Gruber, because the majority of the time I've seen his posts show up here, he gets lynched.

Please don't confuse my remarks with saying that Apple is "right" in any greater sense than that they're making a lot of money. The problem is, users aren't asking questions about what's right, but that's nothing new. If we want an open platform to be widely accepted, it has to deliver what users want, not what we (geeks) want, and it won't sell based on any higher "principles".

> However, the bigger failing is the failure to recognize these even among technical people, most of whom seem to have something akin to devotion for Apple.

You'll make as much headway fighting against this (devotion to a product) as you will fighting religion. As one of the greatest marketers I ever met once told me, "No one but schools and universities ever made any money trying to teach a customer anything." His point is that buyers are just as self-centered as Apple. They're not interested in being taught why they want something; they want whatever scratches their itch. Some people are interested in what's "right", but for most people, it never crosses their mind.

I also reject the notion that this is any sort of "failing" on the part of someone who buys an Apple device. Business isn't always quid pro quo. I still assert that Apple wears their intention on their sleeve. If you don't like what they're doing, you shouldn't buy their products.

1 - http://www.bradlanders.com/2011/02/21/its-not-greed-its-narc...
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Critic Scott Weinberg announced on Twitter he will no longer write for Moviefone due to this. Kudos to him.

http://twitter.com/scottEweinberg/status/47766848476946432
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We did that because we thought people may not want their request public. We also thought we may want to ask a few follow up questions to improve the post.

You're point is well taken though. I can change that and make the email optional. I could also set it up so people can ask questions in the comments.

I really appreciate the feedback. I'll make the change shortly.
Drug dealers have known for years about untraceable cell-phones. One brand in the US is (strangely) called "tracfone". You can buy one for $20 cash, and, since there's no contract, it's way more difficult to link you to the device and therefore more difficult to track your movements.

Also, I don't think proprietary software is a moral issue. People should have the right to make and buy something non-free if they wish. I do admire Stallman's principled lifestyle, though.

Finally, it's interesting that Kevin Kelly (former editor of Wired), in his awesome book "What Technology Wants", also makes the case for not owning a cell phone, but for different reasons.
I'm loathe to hand credit to Microsoft, but I think they're onto something with Powershell. Rather than being limited to passing text streams around, Powershell commands pass full-featured objects back and forth (with callbacks and everything!).

This flexibility really seems to break down the transaction costs that the original article talks about, when compared to traditional Unix pipes.

I'm still trying to come up with a Linux-y way to do this. Microsoft can mandate that all Powershell commands run under the CLR (and therefore can talk to arbitrary implementations of some CLR class) but any FOSS equivalent is going to have to deal with people wanting to interface programs written for a dozen different runtimes (and probably even some C code running on the bare metal).
Moviefone's response: http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/03/15/moviefones-response-to-...
I started working from home 4 months ago and have noticed the same thing to some degree. For the first time in my life I have though it would be nice to not live alone so its not so isolating.

I love being able to focus at home in a way that I never could in previous work environments so I don't want to give it up. My suggestion is to move into a larger place if you can afford it. I'd go crazy being stuck in the same 1200ft all the time. Right before I started telecommuting I moved from a 2 bedroom apartment to a 4 bedroom house (and then some.) This gives me a dedicated work area that I can get away from in the off time. The other thing I do is get out of the house for lunch almost every day, usually with friends.

I think its normal to feel this way, but you're obviously aware of it and you can find a way to cope.
I don't see how this says anything about their integrity. Integrity is when you do something against your best interest because it's the right thing to do. Since AOL seems to have given them free reign to attack their sister sites there's no risk in this. In fact it's in their best interest because it drives page views.

I'm not saying it says something bad about their integrity I'm simply saying it's not really relevant to a discussion about their integrity.
It would be nice if they posted a diff between their version and the original, if only for the people who already read the original and just want to see what changes were made.
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Wow, I had imagined it to be around 10%. Thanks for being forthcoming.
(Note: I didn't finish this article, I skimmed it.)

Whenever I read something like the following:

> "Apparently, the post was not enough of a blowjob for Summit,"

The level of reporting drops to the floor. How is this professional at all? That phrase made me close the tab; TechCrunch has had its fair share of childness, but this is an all time low. Really guys? Really?
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Is it not a compromise of your journalistic integrity to alter your published opinions because a partner/parent company is afraid that the truth makes them look bad?
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The idea is to be robust around groups, and to be dead simple. So as a beta, I only use facebook because quite honestly that was the easiest way for me to get the product out fast, and get feedback.

The key differentiator between this and facebook (right now) is that the album is shared i.e. multiple people who were in the same place/event, and shared the same experience, also share the same album. Basically perfect anytime several people do something together and want to have access to everyone's photos, to share, to print, to store, whatever.

Our mobile app will extend this functionality live to events happening in real time and will be a way for hundreds of people, taking pictures at the same event, to have all their photos (instagram/picplz etc) in the same album - the end value in this is that it becomes an additional discovery mechanism for people with similar interests.

It's important that we break away from a facebook login for example, but this is really the crux of my question; my goal is to build something robust that a lot of people can use, and I'm torn between depth and breadth; depth being making it more useful to the people currently on it for now (and focusing on functionality/UI before acquiring users) or building out features more slowly, and focusing on acquiring more users.

If we focus on depth, we'll have a better product sooner, but less users for now, which means less feedback to react to, less traction etc. If we focus on breadth, it will mean more users more quickly, but it will take longer to realize the vision.
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This sort of post has to be the best thing (only good thing?) about the AOL acquisition of TC.
Employee transaction costs are not lower than contractors. Employers typically pay vacation, sick pay, workers comp, health care, 1/2 social security plus other payroll taxes, equipment, office space, and incur certain liabilities for the employee.
I'm not worried. According to the scanned test log, the radiation level was 0.0. Everyone knows that 10 times that is still zero, so we're safe.
I went through a similar thing as a one man startup (also in Vancouver). Like you, I've come to realize I simply can't do it.

The funny thing is that people often think you're living the dream by working from home. After all, you can work in your underwear if you want to! Indeed, I thought I had it pretty good and couldn't understand why I was so unhappy all the time.

It's my opinion that people who can work from home for long periods of time and maintain a healthy mental and physical state are the exception and not the rule.
Hey, why stick to octaves? The Bohlen-Pierce scale divides the tritave in 13 (a tritave interval is a 3:1 pitch ratio).

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You're right, RMS could carry a Free Software phone right now, the OpenMoko. I think that your comment is basically condensing his argument. This problem is bigger than a Free Software issue, but any solution would require a Free Software base to resolve issues of trust.

That being said, it's going to be really tough to find a technical solution that allows people to be found in an emergency, but not tracked by a Big Brother government. The solution might end up being legislative.
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Definitely. For safety concerns, we don't care so much what the "average" victim is getting. Much more important is what the machines do to people at the worst.

Is it OK to give extremely high doses to, say, 1 in 100 people, if the other 99 are normal?
Yes, I live for the day when people start being greedy on a super-long-term, multi-generational basis, and finally investment banks will work for the general good of humanity.
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Also, peacefully protesting about ongoing violations of the 4th Amendment in an airport will apparently get you arrested. A student describes how he was intimidated and threatened by the TSA in this filing, starting from page 9: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/03/tobey....

He had done nothing more than write the amendment on his chest and expose the text after being selected for body scanning. The story was submitted earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326382
Idle speculation from someone who is not a nuclear or a chemical engineer:

I'm suddenly wondering if the pressure relief valves for the primary coolant system could be designed with ignition circuits. The idea would be to burn off any hydrogen in a controlled fashion as it exits the coolant system, rather than giving it a chance to accumulate and later detonate. It would be similar to the way oil rigs burn off unwanted natural gas.

No doubt there's some very good reason for not doing this that I'm just not aware of. :-P
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I know TechCrunch has a bad rap around here. But one needn't like TechCrunch or believe in its integrity to appreciate a little dent in the armor of old school gatekeepers.

Hollywood publicists have traditional entertainment media in a tough spot, able to withhold access to "talent" without some sort wink + nod about what the story will be.

Of course many outlets do not kiss ass and still get courted by Hollywood creatives. But they need to establish that voice early on (Perez Hilton, Pink is the New Blog), not do a crazy 180 (What if Entertainment Tonight all of a sudden asked Tom Cruise a truly tough question?).

I think it's important that "big" tech media establish some boundaries early on. Sure TechCrunch gets some easy traffic for this. But that doesn't mean it's not also cool.
> For example, think of the Microsoft Office suite.

Beneath the covers, don't the Office applications share a lot of common code?
No response would've been better than that response.
Don't you guys remember Antennagate, where the following iOS update smoothed how fast the bars change? I bet if you did the same thing with a phone running iOS 2.0 it'd move instantly.
This tutorial was totally cool! Props to the guy who made this, and for doing something like this while in his bored spare time... 1 complaint however is that it doesn't explain much about the difference between MongoDB and MySQL, or other databases. I was really hoping to get to hear how it compares, what the pros and cons are out of using this vs. other databases
From what I've heard many vendors are also giving away their goods, especially food, during the crisis, so it sorta precludes looting doesn't it?
If you want to talk about tested and battle-hardened code, make sure that you really have the older API :)

Foundation (and, by extension, NSHTTPRequest and NSURLConnection and such) is a few years older than cURL is. Foundation is really an implementation of the OpenStep API designed by Sun and NeXT. in 1993. cURL was released in 1997.

What do you lose by having a higher level of abstraction that is more flexible? Do you have raw profile data that shows that libcurl is significantly faster and performs better?

Newcomers to anything should be aware that old biases die hard and people on the internet should be taken with a grain of salt.
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I wonder if the trade-off of devoting those 10 hours to deliberate practice results in much better use of the other 25-30.
> Vending machines are so ubiquitous in Japan that they are an icon in itself

More pertinent example: Several Japanese vending machine companies build into their machines backdoors to dispence products for free in the case of an emergency http://inventorspot.com/articles/vending_machines_japan_offe...

Compare this to the vending machine in the Computer Science department that is always being probed for new attack vectors to allow free products. On the bright side, we do get the latest machines first ;)
Sorry, not trying to anger anyone or anything, I am genuinely interested. Where in the US was there a natural disaster of significant scale where there was no looting?

I'm actually from Wisconsin, but was living in Cedar Rapids during the floods, and there was looting there. My neighbor was the cop chasing these guys down. I am just curious how other communities were able to avoid looting.

BTW, Cedar Rapids is in Iowa.
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I'd recommend sending base64'd data down. Use this to encode/decode from javascript strings of 1-byte-per-character data:

https://github.com/mcarter/js.io/blob/master/packages/std/ba...
Packrat parsing has fairly horrible memory usage. LPEG is amazingly frugal in terms of code size, run time, and memory usage.

It's worth noting that the PEG ordered choice operator leads to much more restricted backtracking than occurs in most regex implementations, so LPEG has much more predictable performance. And unlike a DFA matched you still get straightforward capture handling.
The UN Gini numbers:

Japan: .249
US: .408
Haiti: .592

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equ...

Aside from media exaggeration of looting, which is almost instant after a disaster where there are significant numbers of black people. Pretty much, the mirror image of this post. Google "looting in Japan" if you want to take a sample of the most racist invective on the internet. I mean, if the Japanese have honor in their blood...
Daimyoyo, I made a change on the blog to reflect your concern, which I fully understand. I left the form up for people who want to keep their question private (for example, we're thinking of firing our head of sales.) but anybody that is fine with a public forum can just post a comment.

Thanks for your input.
Wow,

where did you get the idea that no one in Iowa got robbed during the floods?

As a matter of full disclosure, I think I should tell you that I lived there at the time of the flood and had to listen to my neighbor go on and on about what he was dealing with. Neighbor was a cop.
I'm guessing they haven't run out of food yet. Then there's the "no guns" thing.
I wonder too. It would be really nice, and I should try it. But, I do remember Jason Fried telling me that their four day week didn't work out because it effectively became a 3.5 day week, and that simply was not enough time to run the business. 3.5 days is 28 hours in a 40 hour week. And the 37signals employees seem to do a lot of deliberate practice on their own time.
Magic, or a surge of vitamin D3 in their bloodstreams.
What browser are you using? It plays for me in all browsers on iMac and MacBook Pro, but I've also tested on a bunch of other machines including a pretty old Windows desktop at work. It is pretty CPU hungry at points to be sure.

That said, some things definitely need optimization before it could go 1.0. Thanks for checking it out btw :)
I do believe joebananas is referring to this[0] comment, which is indeed on HN:

> Honor is something we can't describe but japanese people carry it in their blood.

0: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=2330020
Honest question: does the Unix philosophy apply to all kinds of software?

I am curious to know if it's fair to compare typical Unix software (CLI-based, text-based --- usually system software is what comes to mind) with application software (Word processing, enterprise software, etc).