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It's amazing how we had any sort of industry before the car. I live in a relatively small (500,000) city, though Sweden's second largest. One of my clients is in an industrial area. The city has extra lines for the morning and evening commute, but only about 20% of the people use them, and I think another 5% cycle. I don't know how many walk into work, but clearly over 50% do drive in.

This in a city and country which is pro-mass transit, pro-bicycles and pro-high fuel tax. The turning point is often, as you say, when children are born. People do take their babies, in strollers, on the trams and busses, but it's much easier if you can leave spare diapers and such in the car and not lug them with you all day.

(Your comment about taking the bus with young kids to get groceries is specious. If density is high enough then it's easy to walk to a grocery store. In town there's three grocery stores within a few blocks of me, and a corner store .. on the corner. Surely that was the same in the dense European city you lived in?)

On the other hand, kids and people up to 20 ride free or at reduced price. This means greatly increased mobility for anyone over about 8 or so. I've read autobiographies of people raised in New York City during the 1950s or so, who describe the sense of freedom of being able to go to Coney Island, or Central Park. That's not possible without a car in the standard suburbia we're talking about.

That said, I really don't understand why a public transportation system needs "to be a break-even affair." The road system definitely is not. Gas taxes even in Sweden isn't enough to pay for the road network, snow cleaning, and so on. Public transit should properly be seen, like the roads, as having a multiplier effect. It means you can have areas of town with higher density, which support those people and families you are talking about, which have higher numbers of clubs and restaurants and shops, and have areas for families with cars.
Ryan Dahl addresses comments on his recent rant
Tell HN: Another PayPal Farce - Refunds my money to customer
I run an Australian Calling Card website on the side which sells roughly A$800 in cards per month. I've never had an issue previously with PayPal up until now but I've read some shockers about PayPal which concerns me (http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1096322756/working-on-a-friday-update-crying-over-paypal).

I received an email from Paypal over a week ago which states that they've decided to open an investigation of their own accord into a transaction of mine and that they require more information from me. I explained the transaction and that the buyer was furnished with a calling card code which they can use to place calls overseas in exchange for the payment made.

Today I receive the outcome of PayPal's decision. They decide to reverse the transaction and refund the customer. They provide no reasons for the decision they've made (which seems to be pretty standard for them based on what I've read).

So now the money's gone and I can't resell the calling card code either. Great.

So I write a complaint to PayPal:

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To: PAYPAL

You have decided to reverse the transaction on this case:

Inquiry by PayPal - Case ID: PP-001-*

for transaction ID: 6VB

Can you please explain your decision?

I explained previously to you when the investigation was opened that in exchange for the payment the buyer made, the buyer was sent a Calling Card Code.

This same buyer has made the same purchase on two previous occasions over the course of a year as you can see from the following transaction codes:

8TK6
9PD3

Yet you have decided for no apparent reason to investigate and reverse the third transaction.

You have arbitrarily opened an investigation into a regular transaction and have created for me an unnecessary cost of time, effort and money. Furthermore, you have damaged my reputation to a repeat customer of mine.

I request that you reconsider the said case and explain your decision.

Richard

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I emailed the buyer as well and he's decided to pay again for the previous transaction ;)

The way PayPal treats its customers baffles me sometimes. If it has a legitimate reason to open an investigation and concludes that the transaction is wrong/fraudulent or whatever, then it should state its reasons rather than leave its customers in the dark.
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Looks great. Just a suggestion, I'd add another download link to the top of the page.
I was thinking the same thing. NYC was the main US harbor, steel in Pittsburgh, slaughterhouses in Chicago. All were industry close enough that people could walk or take public transit - back when cars were too expensive.

But containerized shipping has replaced stevedores, and other industries have moved as well to their own areas of town. I think this move has partially been enabled by people moving to the suburbs, so that a commute into the city or a commute to somewhere else doesn't make a large difference.
Ok, so here's a question I've had for a while. I was wondering if I should do a Ask HN for it, but I'll ask it here for now.

What do you do when offered money for a slightly profitable service that has a small but loyal customer base ? This is in the event that your service will be shut down after acquisition. The math points to taking the deal but it doesn't seem a very nice thing (to me at least) to pull the rug on your customers.

Has anyone had to face decisions of this sort or known someone who has had to ? How did you/they go about it ?
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Maybe Apple is segmenting iPhones into the cheaper and the more expensive version being iPhone 4S and iPhone 5. The iPhone 4S will be enough for most and may feature less space for music and apps (8GB) and the iPhone 5 will be the bigger devices (16, 32 & 64 GB).
(I'm the author of this little toy script)

Some small corrections:

The script is able to set 5 digits, not 4. The prefixes in the examples are actually 0001a, 0002a, etc. I added the trailing "a" to make the numbers more readable. Otherwise you would get hashes like 00015... which would look awkward. So I'm using the "a" as a kind of separator.

Also, the script refuses to change timestamps by more than 30 minutes. So changing only the committer timestamp would allow you to set only 2-3 hash digits. That's why I'm also changing the author timestamp, which leads to enough possible combinations to set about 5 hash digits. (Unless you're unlucky, because there's always a rest possibility for failure in this kind of algorithms.)

BTW, this program has been inspired by BitCoin's proof of work concept.
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It happens. In the most stupid case, someone on an iPhone tried to upvote you but narrowly missed the small up arrow. Move on, and don't pollute the comment thread with "why did I get downvoted" comments.
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Well, if you're so inclined you could use part of the 500k to bootstrap another projcet and continue your happy startup existence only with less Ramen. (Unless you just really like Ramen, of course).
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This is the very reason I smashed my iPhone and do not keep a mobile phone on me anymore. Call me paranoid but I'm enjoying life far more without it burning a proverbial hole in my pocket.
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Looks great. Any chance you can make the line-height adjustable? I find the editor a little too squished.

It would also be useful if users could supply their own css for the preview rendering...that way you could see what it'll look like with your own stylesheet.
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Use emacs.app with markdown-mode and docpad für (almost) live preview.

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It doesn't filter by them, but it does overlay boundaries for commute time (open filters, then Super Secret Advanced Features).

I definitely need to add public transit, though.
His first point here really hit home for me. Indeed, people like Ryan Dahl hate software for us so we don't have to.
Would love some feedback :-) padmapper at gmail if you have the time.
I've not had any issues up to date however I've heard many other horror stories, and so I'm sitting and waiting for the worst to come. Till that day comes, I can't say I've had any problems.

I saw this link in my twitter feed (https://stripe.com/) and while it's not paypal, it seems relatively easy to integrate, though if I were a customer I'd probably prefer PayPal since it's much better known and there's the added bonus of not having to give your card details.

Since your client has paid you back the money, I'd let it drop so long as it doesn't affect your future payments and clients.

Good luck getting it all resolved.
It's true that there's always risk involved with advancing technology. Faster, better and more capable phones are better at doing good things for you, but it also makes them more capable of doing bad things to you too.
Good point, man has to be specific
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Ah, right, thanks. Out of sheer lazyness of setting something up I generally use the built-in github editor and preview these days. It works pretty well.
Yeah, I never really figured out how to argue against that... it's kind of a built in urge for me, and it's not strictly logical except from a "I'm partly driven by my genes, which have been optimized to protect my tribe" standpoint. I figure most people have that, but if someone doesn't, you probably can't really make them care.
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The scrolling needs some work as well. It seems as soon as I write anything, the preview just shoots back to the top. Ideally it would follow me as I type and the two would link up transparently and smoothly.
Reading back through some of the author's other posts, I see a common theme:

Author picks out a software developer whom he considers is Doing It Wrong (TM), and tells them they're Doing It Wrong (TM).

The author seems to think that the world would be a better place without Node.JS, evented IO and server-side JavaScript, and rather than putting together a concise (or coherent) argument about the pros/cons, he decides to go after Ryan Dahl himself. I'm tired of the number of S and F-bomb dropping, rockstar programmer mentality-wielding morons who clog up the innovation space, and have nothing to contribute but FUD and nay-saying.

We're developers. We create. We find itches and scratch them. Node.JS is the result of Dahl scratching his itch, and a lot of us see merit in the project. Some very smart people (I'm tipping my cap to the people at Joyent, here) are actively addressing Node's rougher edges, so we'll see constant improvement. It's still relatively young (especially compared to the holy UNIX), and so what if it doesn't solve all of your problems; there's room for everyone to play in the web server scene, even JavaScript.
So can I upload 50GB of files and will they stay there forever?
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There's a decent Linux alternative called ReText:

http://sourceforge.net/p/retext/home/ReText/
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/retext-text-editor-for-markdo...
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This. But while in friend circles, homophily can be a strong factor, the sibling and spouse relationship measurements are interesting since homophily cannot affect those to the same extent.
Ask HN: What Android apps do you use?
Hey HN, I recently got a SGS2 and I really love it. I'm always looking to improve my Android experience, and am curious to know what Android apps you use and recommend. Cheers!

I know this has been asked before, but couldn't find anything asked/written in the past year on HN.
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You are missing the fact that this is a toy project and by no means meant seriously.

Apart from that, of course you should use sensible prefixes like "0001", "0002", etc. and not use the same prefix for all commits.
This is only true if you use the same prefix for all commits. However, the script takes the prefix as argument, which allows you to use prefixed like 0001, 0002, etc.

Apart from that, this is a toy project and by no means meant seriously.
When something like this happens with Paypal, you're lucky when you get out alive. Your business is still intact, your Paypal account is not disabled and the customer has payed again for the previous transaction. Why persist with this? If your goal is to try to change Paypal, your business can't have much going on - because there should be lots more important stuff that you need to deal with. Be grateful and move on.
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I think you're overlooking the many algorithmic advances in video & audio codecs in that time period too. It certainly has NOT been case of the software guys sitting around since the 70s waiting for the hardware guys to catch up.
My exurb has these. It's quite an elegant solution.
If possible, can someone ignore the showers of vitriol for a minute, and comment on the technical merit of his criticism of Node? I ask because I'm a total noob and would like to understand what's being discussed.
Looks like Markdown editors for Mac OS X is the new dropbox-syncing editors for iOS. Everyone has a half-finished version in the works.
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Some of my recommendations:

- Hacker News Reader by Corey Trager. Currently the only client that works for me.

- DrioidWall, sort of like LittleSnitch for the Mac, you can block apps from accessing the internet.

- JuiceDefender. Some say that it doesn't work, but after customizing the settings, I find extends my battery pretty well.

- Douban.fm. Good online radio app for those of us outside US without access to Pandora et al. Chinese startup so speeds can be slower at times.

- For my todo list, I use Flick Note as a widget extended to cover an entire homescreen (with TouchWiz 4.5), synced to Simple Note. I also use Flick Note for all other note-taking needs, and have frozen/disabled a few default apps with similar features. On my Macs I use Notational Velocity to edit the list and GeekTools to display on my dekstop.
In another life, I would have been interested, but I'm too busy with other stuff right now. I endured the pain of ArcGIS for a few years in my last job.

I don't know what specific problems you are looking to address first, but have a good read of the ESRI forums. They are a treasure trove of business ideas. You might also be able to get your first users there by solving their ArcGIS problems.
Why does a text editor and a renderer with a fraction of the complexity of a browser engine require 10.7?
Reminds me a lot of iA Writer (which is a commercial markdown editor): http://www.iawriter.com/
Surely you want to maximize the learning, growing and building, and as such using math would only help.
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Thanks. Unfortunately stripe is currently restricted to US customers
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I have experienced this scenario first hand. It made me quit my otherwise fairly well paid new job.
"Vulnerability" is an euphemism, this is a deliberately crafted backdoor.

Perhaps it is a testing/debugging-facility that they forgot to remove from the production build?

That'd be about the only semi-plausible excuse for HTC to come out of this alive (when/if mainstream media decides to jump on this).
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Here's a better idea. Google and Apple take their taxes back to the US AND they pay tax on those profits. That would definitely help the economy and the budget.

It's so sad that corporations can't seem to actually apply ethical judgements in situations like this. Apparently the shareholders are better served by overseas unrepatriated profits than by actually receiving dividends which have had tax paid on them. And having a national government that can fund the infrastructure for their US offices.

(Not a tax laywer so reality may differ from opinion)
It's a difficult effect to do a controlled experiment for because of the way homophily acts as a confounding variable. Anecdotal evidence suggests the effect is real though- as Justin said in the article, he didn't actually start riding a motorcycle until he met other people who did.
You could look around the design communitites such as Forrst and Dribbble to find someone whose design you like. I have no insights in their rates or your budget though.
Hi. MakeDock is a project that I've recently started working on. It lets you quickly create a profile page for a side-project your working on and share it with other side-project enthusiasts.

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I can't believe that somebody who is intelligent enough to write this application would miss such an obvious flaw.

I literally can not conceive how it wouldn't have crossed their mind that any local app with network permissions would be able to connect to it.

Were they just being lazy? Or were they forced to do it this way by some ignorant manager? I would love to hear how this happened.
Just tried it, and you can indeed unlink the accounts. But you can't login with just a youtube account. You need a Google account.

Still useful to relink to a throwaway account instead of the main gmail account. But I'm not sure the multiple account will let you stay logged in correctly..
It would be interesting to see how PayPal justify this given that the customer paid you again after they reversed it, not that id count on ever getting an answer out of them.

I don't think I've ever seen such terrible customer service and reputation management, it's like they're trying to scare people away.
yep. don't be evil (but only when it suits us)

anyway, this is absolutely unacceptable. those corporations knew what they were doing right from the beginning. they kept their profits overseas and were hoping government will decrease corporate tax at some point. it didn't happen, now they are applying political pressure so they don't have to pay the same tax rate as rest of America. THIS IS BULLSHIT and is not fair to rest of the society. damn you Google, Apple and Cisco
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Have some similar memories myself. Definitely learned a lot from being a little too enthusiastic about modifying files/settings on the family computer.

What stands out for me is the period when I was still just a kid, albeit the "neighborhood computer kid". I'd inevitably get a call every few weeks from someone who lived nearby or was a friend of my parents. I'd go over, almost always figure out the problem and then they would ask "How did you know to do that?". I'd explain what happened best I could, but I'd be thinking to myself, "How did I know to do that? Well, I didn't until now."

Also, it was pretty cool at 11 years old to discover that I could make money just by working on my own to help other people folks fix problems and didn't necessarily need a "real" job.
I would have sworn that git would refuse to do git pull with uncommitted local changes.
Those using MultiMarkdown[1], which this app seemingly doesn't support, may be interested in the MultiMarkdown Composer app[2] that should be out within a month or so. It's being worked on by the (very) active developer of MultiMarkdown and looks perfect for fans like myself.

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[2]: http://multimarkdown.com/
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- NewsRob (for Google Reader)
- Twitter, sometimes Seesmic (Seesmic is a bit more powerful)
- GoDroid, for playing Go
- Glympse, great app for sharing your geoposition with friends for a set period
- Connectbot, for SSH
- FlickFolio, for uploading to Flickr
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Here are the beta 2 release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/TechnicalOverview/Beta...

I probably missed it; what's so radical about this release? It's not even an LTS.
Wow I'd never seen that before, very useful little tool.
Just a note, it'd be awesome if there was some way to specify the stylesheet used in the preview pane, I'd love to be able to see exactly how the result will look on my site.