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It's a symptom of mental narrowness, and working with computers a lot does, in my experience, narrow the mind. It has a kind of digitizing effect on one's brain, causing it to see everything in discrete terms, which is to say binary terms, which may explain why tech nerds tend to be so rigid in their judgments. Anything that "does not compute" gets rejected. The mind becomes increasingly oriented to things that work the way computers work. Arts and humanities are far removed from that. Moreover, our technocratic age no longer assigns them any elevated status by default, so you have to seek them out, and few care to do so.

Perhaps physicists and chemists are less vulnerable to this effect because their work is concerned with nature. There has long been an alliance between nature and art in the human sphere.
Exactly. Just because one company came out with a great version doesn't mean everyone else wasn't working on it too. There were touch screen phones by the dozens before the iPhone came out -- why would Android ignore that.
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That's how they payed you at a discount; you believe that.
For $40 these guys have something that also includes area code, time zone and is recent data & quick download, if that matters for your project:

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Regions for states is not something well defined, at least that I've found, as the definition varies depending on purpose (commerce, agriculture, political, ...). If you find something good, I'd love to hear about it.
Perhaps dumbfucks don't know what's stupid!
Surely the best way to fight "bottled water" is with free water? As in public drinking fountains and the like.

I seem to recall that there's at least one person pursuing this idea. He paid an orchestra to perform all sorts of public domain classical music and was making the recordings available freely or something like that.
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I find most of the iOS5 additions taking an inspiration to how Android "improved" on the mobile space. So it's ok for Apple to do it then?
A few years ago, I got a job offer from Amazon. I live in Silicon Valley, and I almost took it, but then I was playing rollerhockey outside at around 7pm, clear blue sky with the sun setting, it was still 75 F. At that instant, I had a "California moment", and I thought to myself "Do I really want to exchange 300 of sunshine for 200 days of rain?" So I didn't take the job.

Now, I would very much like to move to Seattle. I actually grew up near the Pacific Northwest, so I'm used to the rain, but my wife wouldn't be able to handle it, so it's basically a non-starter.

But now that I'm older, I would very much like to live the lifestyle that Seattle has to offer. It's a genuinely beautiful city, and I would very much like to live there at some point in my life.
Both of Jobs' school ideas do not seem to be rooted in a better education, rather keeping kids occupied longer while their parents worked for his or other companies. It could have been a measure against reducing daycare costs or as the way to keep people at work without having to worry about their kids.

I do like his idea about breaking up teacher unions, but I think the root cause of all of that is very low salaries for teachers.
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Help Required in Google GTFS
I am working with GTFS format.I have a concern for example consider a little complex network where a user want to travel from a source 'A' to Destination 'B' and actually there exist no direct route from A to B.But we can reach B from A thru a stop C. i cant see a way mentioned in GTFS to know that there exist some route to reach B in our example(A->c->B). Do i miss something here? or there is no way to do that but to implement our own algo? or is some third party already implemented the algo in java (i believe someone did it ;) ).

Thanks in advance.

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Great choice, especially for non-US startups. We've heard PayPal horror stories, but apart from their "evasive" customer service practices, they are so far so good.
Ugh! This page has auto-playing audio, and the audio controls are way down at the bottom of the page.

@asto, I think you should have remarked on this in the title to this link. And I wish people would not post links with auto-playing audio or video.
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"keep schools open until 6" is one of these things that clearly demonstrates that people really don't understand how government works.

If you want your schools open until six, take it up with your school board, not the freakin' president.
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It's possible that the original poster didn't realize it was there. I, for one, had no idea there was any kind of audio on that page, because any such thing is automatically blocked.
Schmidt joined the board in August 2006 with the iPhone being announced and demo'ed in January 2007, including a Google Maps app, which must have been developed in collaboration with Google. It seems likely that collaboration and the negotiations surrounding it started well before Schmidt joined the Apple board - the board seat as some sort of mole-like vector of information seems far-fetched. Both companies clearly had an interest in the mobile market (Google bought Android in 2005), with the carriers being their common adversary.

Maybe there's more in the book but given Jobs's penchant for fact-bending, hyperbole and, what's the polite word again, 'mercurial nature' it's hard to really tell what the source of the falling out is. Maybe Jobs didn't expect Google to go after high-end devices or form the Open Handset Alliance. Maybe Google was unhappy with how closed Apple wanted to keep their platform. Just look at how close the dates of things like Apple's iPhone release, OHA announcement, Google spectrum-bidding, Apple iPhone SDK announcement, etc, are. There was obviously a lot going on and it probably had very little to do with *BSD origins or information available at board meetings.
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In terms of culture, pressures, operations, emotional and that kind of things.
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You really think your home-rolled static file store will be more resistant to compromise than Google?
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It has built-in sharing functions (e.g. Twitter vs Email vs ...), but it doesn't have Share, or any other general sharing extension point. This is why some iOS fans think Twitter integration is a big deal (and why most Android fans are very confused when they hear that).

I'm not sure whether the restriction is design-driven or business-driven (or both). It may just be an expression of Apple's preference for minimizing options and customizations. Alternatively, it might be that Apple wants to control the sharing menu "real estate" and require Google, Facebook and others to make individual deals to get a spot. Twitter might know (since they should have first-hand experience with the integration interface).
Matt, not sure you read HN, but I know friends of yours and you know friends of mine. Anyways; we walked in the same circles, and both decided to leave CS academia.

I wish you would honestly answer this; did you leave cause academia was bullshit? That's why I left. I regularly talk to grad students all torn up about leaving academia, and I keep telling them that "industry" is just as worthwhile an endeavor as research. I feel like reading about your path you've come to the same conclusion.
You might be right. What a horrible website -- I have no idea who the audience they are targeting is that appreciates autoplay audio.
If you borrow from your 401K, you're borrowing from yourself, and you eventually have to pay it back. It's money that you owe, to be paid with funds that can either be used to buy jelly beans or put back in your 401K.

If the government borrows from Social Security, it takes that money out of itself and spends it out in the economy. SS and the government has a smaller pile of cash, and the government owes itself. When the money is put back, it's with funds that could either be used to buy bullets or put back in SS.
I spent fourteen years in Seattle until I moved to SF this June. I sorely miss the natural beauty. The air is cleaner, the nature is encompassing, and people are smart and down-to-earth. The rain is manageable -- just don't use an umbrella, otherwise people will know you're new to the city :-)
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You have different tools to write RFC-like documents. One of the most common one used is xml2rfc (http://xml.resource.org/) but there is also rst2rfc (http://code.google.com/p/rst2rfc/).
Jobs was a businessman, not an economist.

There is a good reason regulation makes it more expensive to open factories in the US: our regulations force companies to internalize the negative externalities their businesses create. China effectively subsidizes industry by forcing its citizens to bear the costs of pollution, injuries, etc, inherent in such activities. US regulation forces companies to bear some of these costs (hardly all of them).

In its retrospective study on the 1970 Clean Air Act, the EPA estimated that the benefit of pollution control over the 20 year period was on the order of $22 trillion. Relative to the "so-called 'no-control' case, an additional 205,000 Americans would have died prematurely and millions more would have suffered illnesses ranging from mild respiratory symptoms to heart disease, chronic bronchitis, asthma attacks, and other severe respiratory problems... the lack of Clean Air Act controls on the use of leaded gasoline would have resulted in major increases in child IQ loss and adult hypertension, heart disease, and stroke." Meanwhile, "the actual costs of achieving the pollution reductions observed over the 20 year period were $523 billion, a small fraction of the estimated monetary benefits."

What's good for business isn't necessarily good for the economy. The things that businessmen push for: deregulation, limitations on tort liability, etc, create more in costs to society then they create in benefits to businesses. Indeed, our measurements of things like GDP are so fundamentally flawed that they encourage politicians to adopt such measures. If a factory's poisonous emissions causes you to have lung problems, that doesn't count against GDP, but when you seek medical attention for those problems GDP goes up!
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I think to begin with it's futile to try to cover all relevant behaviour in tests as you introduce new code. Some basic functionality tests will do fine to prevent anyone from completely breaking the code, as well as providing fair documentation as to what the developer expects the code to do.

However, I think regression tests are useful. Once you find a bug and fix it, the things learned from fixing the bug can be expressed in a test, to prevent similar bugs from happening again. In such a case, the test documents an unexpected corner case that the developer was unable to predict.
Excellent conclusion, David. I have seen this play out in vancouver, british columbia. Look it up.
>What about energy?

>It's true that if you look at most areas of technology they are advancing rapidly. Except energy. Energy has stagnated since the 1950s.

This is demonstrably false. Solar power generation, for example, has been enjoyinging the same kind of Moore's Law exponential price/power over the past 15 years that computer processing power has. This is hardly surprising due to the fact that silicon wafer solar panels often use the same semi-conductor suppliers that computer hardware manufacturers do. Newer thin-film solar panels represent a jump in paradigm that promises even greater price performance.

I could have brought up similar points about the progress of wind-power, bio-fuel, or a number of other fields. Energy has anything but stagnated since the 1950s.

tldr: Stay off the peak oil scaremongering sites. They'll blind you.
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matt & mazy - congrats on the launch and good luck. Hope you're able to recognize who I am.
This question is nonsensical. If you can't host a static file you are screwed no matter what. We can argue about how much of a risk Google CDN is (I don't think it's much of one), but it's not zero.

"Home rolled static file store"? Sheesh.
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It is interesting to note that if the Bay area had a high speed rail system, it would alleviate both of Matt's issues (quality affordable housing and reasonable commute times).
I just moved away from Seattle after spending two years there - it's a place I'd probably go back to once I'm older, but IMO it's not the best place to spend your 20s.

The neighborhoods are nice, there's a lot of nature - you're close to mountains, parks, and water practically always. The weather is relatively mild (if a little dreary for most of the year), and the politics relatively progressive (well, sort of, all of Washington state except Seattle is pretty much very pro-Republican).

The social scene though, leaves a lot to be desired. Google "Seattle Freeze" for a much more in-depth look at the problem than I can write up. Locals deny it exists, anyone transplanted from another city swears by it. I find myself in the Bay Area now and find people far more approachable, and far more willing to make a new friend, whereas in Seattle one finds a lot more polite-yet-distant interactions, none of which ever seem to go anywhere. Making that worse is the fact that the social scene in Seattle is very much locals vs. transplants - which is to say neither side interact with each other very much. For people on the transplant side (where transplants are mostly tech people) it means your circles get pretty homogenous. Nearly all of my friends from my time in Seattle worked in software (either Amazon, Microsoft, or a smattering of other local companies).

Right now I'm still in that place in life where I enjoy making new friends and meeting varied and interesting people, and Seattle was really not doing it for me. I've had a much easier go at it since moving to California, and I can't say I really miss Seattle.
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You'd be surprised how many people would take them up on this, Canada, China, the middle east and Asia in general have a lot of rich folks who's kids come to the US for university.
It's not clear Jobs' judgement would work similar magic in politics.

FYI: Jobs had Paul Rand do the NeXT logo.
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(i made this comment on that web page, but hasn't been approved in the last 3 hours, so copying here as well)

I think some of your stories are not very accurate, they are twisted to be more negative than they were.

In any case, one thing you should definitely do is remove Richard Stallman's statement -- since perhaps you don't know him -- he thinks the whole IT product industry is satanish -- nobody should ever sell any product as per him. He does not use any software which is sold and lives like a hermit in the world of tech, with so fanatic ideals that he is completely incompatible with today's world.

Secondly, labor conditions at FoxConn factories are often pointed out as Apple's crimes -- but it is foolish to do so. Foxconn is the largest electronics manufacturer in the world, and a LOT of top tech brands in the world outsource their manufacturing to them. Apple makes them most money though -- I am not sure how Foxconn conditions are caused by Apple.

Thirdly, about charity, he donated privately. And he had a RED product campaign for iPods which donated a large amount of money to Africa for AIDS. And he has left his wealth of 7 billion here, his wife spent a lot of time doing charity, I am sure she will use almost all of it in charity...

Fourthly, backdating options was a common practice followed at a lot of companies -- this has nothing to do with Steve Jobs -- in fact he was found to be innocent in this (he knew about it, but he likely thought of it as an accounting issue: he was no accounting expert -- its not like he requested for this to be done).

Regarding Amelio -- really? Can you point to any authentic source for reference? I am not sure he made Apple a 3 billion stock pile when Apple had a multi-billion dollar loss the year before Steve Jobs joined. And you are trying to make it sound like Steve Jobs was a hitler who kicked off Amelio who should have been the CEO of Apple. Are you nuts?

One more -- you mention Apple "stole" the developers from C&G, a MP3 software firm. Please can you describe more what you meant -- I never knew one could "steal" developers.... Apple had hired 4 of their key employees --- by making them an offer which they could have declined obviously but they didn't, because they wanted to join Apple -- i am not sure how this means anything. Lot of things like this happen in the industry, for example, Juniper frequently hires a bunch of developers from Cisco's team for a product, when they want to start a new similar product.

Overall - I obviously agree Steve was not a "polite" person -- he used to talk harshly and make aggressive moves business wise. But he did all of it for passion of making something that will change the market upside down. And he did that, multiple times. With innovative ideas. Who could have started a retail store chain in 2001 for an electronics company? And made it successful today when all retail is failing...

All his achievements are known to everybody. He was a person that had failings like everybody else, but he pursued his passion with such a vigor, that he made a massive impact on everything he did. He moved industries forward, with a sudden, immense push, multiple times.
We also underwent forced austerity measures through rationing.
Now if only they could get their drives to last longer than a year on average. :-)
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Whites are a minority in San Francisco as well. Would you include that city in your list?
Exactly. Cramming such amounts of knowledge into every individual is terribly inefficient.
I've been using reader for /years/ now, and I still don't think I know all its features: I just found out yesterday - completely by accident - that pressing 'f' throws reader into a really simple river-of-posts mode with all the headers and navigation widgets hidden. I hope the change will make these kinds of features more prominent (but to be honest, I really doubt this will be anything but dumbing it down)
To me, the new look doesn't seem that much like Facebook's ui; rather, it seems to just be a Google Plussification of Gmail---a natural progression.

Unless I'm missing something, basically all of the major UI elements in the new Gmail are in exactly the same place they as in the "old" Gmail.

If you squint enough, I imagine any messaging web app with a white background and three columns would look similar to either of the inboxes.
I just had the opportunity to tour the Valley a few weeks ago and talk to people. The big totally-did-not-expect-that thing that kept coming up in conversations: the relationship between co-founders is often intensely stressful and frequently a source of business failure. I was expecting that people occasionally had different ideas on directions for the business. Some of the stories put me in mind of tabloid coverage of Hollywood divorces.

Not sure if that is a funded-startup thing exclusively, as I know at least one bootstrapped startup with co-founder drama, but adding investors to the mixed seem to bring a lot of things to a boil.
My distaste for Macs comes more from not wanting to be associated with the group of people who very vocally and repeatedly tell the world that we're all doing it wrong, our stuff doesn't work, you're so much better than us because you use a mac.

I always shake my head when I see this sort of argument since it seems to have absolutely nothing to do with the actual utility of the computer. If a Mac isn't a match for your use case then that is sufficient reason to use something else. If the Mac is actually a better match for your use case but you avoid it just because you don't like some other people who happen to own a Mac it seems like you're cutting off your nose to spite your face.
The rest of the comments here are suggesting that Kindle Format 8, in adding support for HTML5 and SVG, is adding a lot.

Well, you ain't seen nothin' yet!

On October 11, the IDPF membership unanimously voted to elevate EPUB 3.0 to a final IDPF Recommended Specification. And what's in EPUB 3.0?

XHTML 5, SVG 1.1, CSS 2.1 and 3, JavaScript, TrueType fonts, WOFF fonts, SSML/PLS/CSS3 Speech, SMIL 3, RDF vocabularies, MathML, and more...

Compared to EPUB 3.0 (parts of which are already supported by Apple's iBooks app), Kindle Format 8 is behind the times.
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If you think nobody liked Steve, do you think he would have remained the CEO of Apple? Was he a dictator who couldn't be ousted? He was the best leader for Apple, period. Secondly, if your boss scolds you, sometimes unnecessarily so, but he makes you millions of dollars by leading the company to a 130X increase in stock price, would you mind??
Thirdly, employees in the company love him. I happen to work at Apple right now, and the love I have seen in the employees for Steve, cannot be paralleled for any other leader at any other company. People didn't like his aggressiveness and his abrasiveness, but still loved him and his dedication and leadership, and that he single-handedly led Apple to great success. Genius is idiosyncratic.
High speed rail isn't necessary for that. Cities just need to relax their zoning restrictions to allow more housing to be built where people want to live. Low supply + high demand = high prices.
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> In its retrospective study on the 1970 Clean Air Act, the EPA estimated that the benefit of pollution control over the 20 year period was on the order of $22 trillion.

$22T/20 years is over $1T/year. US GDP in 1990 was under $6T. US GDP in 1970 was just over $1T.

> the lack of Clean Air Act controls on the use of leaded gasoline would have resulted in major increases in child IQ loss

Oh really? Why would leaded gas in 1980 cause more problems than leaded gas in 1950?

> Meanwhile, "the actual costs of achieving the pollution reductions observed over the 20 year period were $523 billion, a small fraction of the estimated monetary benefits."

Just as the benefits are not limited to the money not spent on medical care, the money spent on pollution controls are not the only costs.
Ugh, I hate these "X looks like Y" articles.

What it comes down to is they are both trying to display the same data (picture, username, message, etc), and honestly, there are only a few ways to logically present this information. Eventually the web will migrate to a standard for displaying this kind of information.

It's like saying The New York Times looks like The Boston Globe (which looks like The Washington Post (which looks like The Wall Street Journal)).