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Alternate Headline: Disabled woman outraged that things aren't just handed to her because she is disabled, actually has to do stuff.

For the record, I'm Canadian and I have never once had to proffer ID to purchase an iOS device, and I've owned an iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Sounds like a requirement of whatever carrier you are trying to get the phone from because you don't have much of a credit history or an existing relationship with a carrier. Not exactly Apple's fault.

I'll give her the accessibility thing, but when is that ever the case? I mean with the exception of possibly wheelchairs and items that are designed for disabled people, what company has reps that can properly explain all the accessibility features in a given product? Accessibility in iOS and OS X is documented much better online.

How about this: just buy the damn thing from Best Buy, try out the accessibility features, and if you feel they aren't adequate, return it within 30 days. You'll learn everything you need to know, and you'll give some kid an open box iPod touch to purchase at a discount. Everyone wins.

> I understand that Apple is trying to position the iPhone as the phone that's great for people with disabilities (which to Apple means "blind people").

Custom vibrations are for blind people? Screen flashes/LED flashes for alerts? Mono audio? Custom gestures and TouchAssist? I don't know why she found it necessary to throw in that little condescending comment at the end.

Apple bakes in thousands of dollars (literally, what it costs to add these features in to Windows 7 or XP) of accessibility features into iOS and OS X, for people with all sorts of disabilities. It's really insulting to characterize that as just some token features for the blind.
I'm agree with you 100% but I would like him to sell candy rather than selling drug on the street.
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It's an awesome feed. Stallman's analysis is pretty different from typical commentators.

"The pesticide atrazine interferes with reproduction of fish, frogs, and mammals including humans. Reducing human births is a benefit, but I doubt it is sufficient to outweigh the damage. "
http://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-sep-dec.html#1_Decembe...
Discover on my frustrated way out the store that "expert in accessibility" apparently meant "took the accessibility training".

What more do you expect from a retail store? They're going to have someone who went through a training course on the devices they sell.

They're not going to have someone on staff who has studied and published manuscripts on device accessibility, just like they're not going to have a baseband firmware engineer there on staff to tell customers what airplane mode means.
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Clearly. As anyone who has ever purchased any iOS device besides an iPhone locked to a carrier knows, Apple couldn't care less about your drivers license number. That's something the carrier you picked wants so that they can run a credit check.
What is with the sudden appearance of a number of todo/agile/gtd apps? Trello, Assana, Do.com and a few other who's names escape me.
Maybe have a video for those of us without Android phones? I'd be interested in seeing what you do differently from everyone else (if you do things differently)
Separate your perspective. Most likely they're just counting on your common D/R consent-voter not knowing about Moore's law.

As competition in the free market is all about finding ways to do things cheaper, most things should be continually less expensive. The Fed policy mandates the exact opposite, with the ensuing monetary expansion (+ over-encouraged consumer investment) driving the parasitic FIRE economy.
Today you can buy a Pizza 2011 that is twice the cost of a Pizza 2000!
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Chiefly because if you have a fast machine, good connection, and a nearby CDN node, ~10 ms may be enough to establish a connection, make a request,and see the response.

Plus, if you do setInterval(..., 1) and then measure new Date().getTime() deltas, you will probably see that even if the browser isn't doing anything taxing, you get 100 ms or more every now and then...

I'm assuming there is someone working on JavaScript-RT as we speak, though ;-)
The music from my father. I never thought I'd end up listening to the same music as him, which seemed kinda old-fashioned when I was just a teenager. Unfortunately he passed away six years ago. It makes me smile we can still share common thoughts and feelings through his music today.
I was more surprised by Maryland, just comparing the third quartiles.
I agree with your point that "each purchase vector should either be done right or not at all." In Pizza Pizza's case they should have stopped at an easy-to-use location finder with address and contact info and avoided the ordering bit altogether.
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Precisely. When I get carded I don't complain that this discriminates against people who don't drive, I realize they want any sort of applicable government ID and offer what I have. I'm pretty sure all states and provinces offer an alternate form of ID for those who don't drive.
The bar graph doesn't let you compare a state to its surrounding states.

State lines are also arbitrary, so the map allows you to spot regional trends.

County-granular would be better, perhaps with a thick color-coded state outline.
"Useless", you say. Maybe expand on that a bit?
Good to know. I'm just assuming the articles I've read are correct, it's nice to have a little corroboration.
good job. But I am still not sure if its legally Ok to use this data.. btw Dropbox has temporarily disabled the download links..
It's telling that DC has the highest concentration per capita of people making more than $200,000/year.
> Google is that they feel the same way, but haven't figured out how to gracefully handle the errors those bugs cause, while Amazon has

That's because Amazon sees you as the customer, while Google sees you as some type of a cheap-commodity/product to be sold (via click-throughs) to the real customers, the advertisers.

Google has burned many many people with their complete disregard towards us, including myself...
Have you been on the subway when a peddler, beggar, dance troupe comes through with a loud spiel?

It's more like the subway version of spam.

Clearly lots of people are demanding spam, right?

He's providing a service that a few people* are demanding, and most people find annoying.

Plus evading sales tax, creating litter, reducing rent from the legit concessionnaire, etc. If that's OK, why stop there, why shouldn't I set up a candy stand in the movie theater?

*the ones who take up one seat for each butt-cheek
Sure, but I think there's still this lingering perception that just being in the App store at all buys you some attention. It doesn't. My most popular app has even been featured several times but it's still bringing in chump change.
Their iPhone app is amazing though. Give it a shot, whoever built that deserves a free slice or two.
How is it you are magically divining from 9 short bullet points posted on her personal blog how she acted in her encounters with Apple employees?

And how is it you're magically divining that the people she encountered were not whiny, rude, or disrespectful?
Personal bulletin boards won't return without a good reason
very interesting but 2003
Tons of startups are breaking the law either intentionally

I challenge you to supply three examples.
>Copyright made it possible for an artist to make a living without having a wealthy patron.

Excuse me, but that is bullshit. You seem to have exactly zero clue about the origins of copyright. Since I've explained this countless times here already, let me just quote myself from an older comment of mine:

The fact is, copyright was never meant for creators. It was invented by distributors for distributors. The first copyright law was a censorship law to limit the amount of books printed when the printing press was was getting widely available in England that gave a total monopoly on publishing to a guild of publishers, without even attributing a book to the original author, but instead to the guild member who registered the book, attaining its newly invented "copyright".

So no, copyright was never meant to "make it possible for an artists to make a living".

>Copyright is the only proven way of producing an abundance of art CREATED FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

Proven? Your throwing around fallacies here. There's nothing proven about this, it's quite the opposite already. Unlimited sharing has enabled the creation of more art than ever before.

>I think it should be possible for a writer, musician or developer to make money from ACTUAL creative work

If he or she can find a way to make money from it, sure why not. The point is, you cannot make that money with distribution anymore. That's a reality and there's nothing you can do about it.

>Do we really want a system which rewards the creation of tangible products like tables and haircuts, but not the creation of ideas? In the 21. century? Seriously?

Again your throwing completely unrelated things together.

- A table is indeed a tangible good. You make one, then you can sell it, and have to make another.

- A haircut is not a tangible good, it's a service. The hairdresser gets paid for the work he/she has done.

- The creation of art isn't a tangible good either. It's best likened to a service, except many people do it proactively instead of waiting for someone to pay them to create art.

Yes, we as a society should find ways to reward the creation of art. Copyright is not, and never was, the solution.

>Environmental regulations also create artificial scarcity.

Except there already is scarcity in nature. If there would be an infinite amount of fish, it would make no sense to regulate catching. Huge abundance != no scarcity. With reproducible art, there is truly no scarcity.
MS. McArdle is a journalist with strong insights in tech and finance. Her blog is a good read, if you skip the politics content, which isn't so bad either.
What bothers me about Apple's claims, and I assure you, I have no understanding of how design patents work, is what seems to be good clear prior art, or prior use of these elements in Samsung's own digital photo frames or in the movie 2001, and how little that seems to have been addressed by the courts.

Apple's workarounds seem to indicate that Apple wants some exclusive right to rectangular shapes, rounded corners, thin frames, flat surfaces, thin computers, uncluttered appearances.

Take the last one, Apple wants a design patent (monopoly) on uncluttered appearances.
In that case why specifically say "driver's license"? And when she complained that she did not have one surely it would have been easy for the person on the phone to correct her and state that any valid ID would be fine rather than insist on a driver's license, I'm sure it's not the first time this has come up.

In the UK people will usually say "Passport or Drivers License" (or if your in a bar just 'ID?') since almost everybody will have at least one of the two.

Pherhaps this is because less people in the US have a passport?
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Having commuted on the subway at one point in my life, yes. That has happened to me hundreds of times. Usually I ignored them, other times I wanted some candy and purchased it.
I don't think this is anything sudden. There are a hundred more each year.
I doubt that it's possible for you or your attorneys to understand every single law that applies to your situation, so you are almost certainly breaking some law or regulation somewhere. The difference between you and this guy is that he probably knows that he's breaking the law, but you don't.
You don't need a link. I was at the YC NYC event too and the Grubwithus guys did indeed do this.
Somehow, I feel like those being critical are posting from a SF coffeeshop, sipping a $5 latte, planning the next social-deals-crowd-sourced "startup".

The man is more of an entrepreneur than most of the people on this site, myself included. What makes it even more inspiring is that he didn't have a 150k offer from Google to fall back on.
I've lived in New York, and it's just a fact of life on the subway, kind of like the way that it stinks on hot summer days. I'd rather that the police and the court system spend their resources on real crimes because I can always ignore these guys and the panhandlers while I read my book in peace.
I guess I don't understand how people use task lists. For me, it's a simple list in my text editor that is always open. I use it to free my mind of the next 5-10 things I want to do, typically during the current and following day.

To me it wouldn't make sense at all to be able to synchronize with my friends or to add tags and other kinds of metadata. That would be extreme over-engineering for my purposes.

I am curious: if you use these complex features of a task list, how exactly do you use it and what does your daily routine look like?
That's not putting it bluntly.

If you were blunt you would say that people are suggesting that his alternative occupations would have been burglary or drug dealing because he's black, and they are fools. And you would have been right.
I had the same question. I found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMa1w2TX1f8
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As for tablets, Apple identified a similar list of alternative designs available to Samsung:
Overall shape that isn't rectangular...

Kubrick's 2001 cited as prior art: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/collectibles/e1e0/
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I second this recommendation. It's fascinating story, and very interesting to see the inspiration behind the game. It's also pretty amusing how all the computer scientists in the academy got totally hooked on it. In soviet russia game plays you!
Appreciate the effort. I asked this other day on HN on a related thread. But is crawling the official sites legal? And also how frequent it's going to be updated? Just want to make sure before using this in an idea I have for a Windows phone app.
Thanks for the list! The Hacker Dojo looks like a nice place to visit (and work in!), I wish I had more time to fully appreciate it. By the way, is it open on Sundays?
Why sell candy on the subway, when you can literally pan for gold in NYC? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxG8HBy3hpk
Just of the top of my head I could say Paypal (when they started out) and AirBnb operate in legal grey areas.
You're scratching the surface of a much deeper issue. Yes, a lot of people would be annoyed if they were bombarded with train salesmen. On the other hand, the fact that this man and others like him are able to bring in this kind of money shows that there's demand for their products. So if the laws were actually being effectively enforced, the market would go underserved.

It seems that we're only having this discussion becuase the transit system is government-owned. Private trains, airlines, etc. have all tried to serve this market in an unobtrusive way.
Watch out. Some HNer is right now investigating whether or not you're allowed to sing on the subway.
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If you're looking for something to try out, check out Wunderlist. It works on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. Syncs among all the platforms. The website features a nice overview (http://www.6wunderkinder.com/wunderlist/).

My wife is a bit of a to-do list snob, and she likes the way it works for her.

Best of all, no waiting for a beta.
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Pizza Pizza received 111,111 orders through their mobile app in the past six months. [1] Dominos' gets over $1 million a week in sales. [2]

Online ordering accounts for millions and millions in revenue for pizza shops alone. Anecdotally, I know several pizza shops that get more than 1/3rd of their orders from the web now.

1: http://www.pizzamarketplace.com/article/187570/Pizza-Pizza-s...

2: http://www.pizzamarketplace.com/article/184814/Domino-s-iPho...
(Edit: I'm rather displeased that the comment I'm replying to here is getting downvoted. It's in no way deserved. He asked a reasonable question as a European to whom this aspect of American culture is, not surprisingly, alien.)

It's an embedded cultural assumption that gets written down for people who abdicate thought to what their computer screen literally says.

Historically, almost everybody in the US has a driver's license, and almost no one has any other meaningful form of ID. Many, if not most Americans will never leave the country, making a passport useless, and up until a few years ago, a US citizen could travel throughout much of North America and the Caribbean without one anyway.

They say it because it's what people say. Treat it as an historical quirk of American English.
Ok so I downloaded their app and tried it out. As for a todo list is simple, clean and really pretty. I mean REALLY pretty. Animations and slickness all over the place. Its gorgeous. For an android app its A+ quality.

As a todo app, its good enough in that for an individual its what most people would need but it doesn't compare with some of the more advanced todo lists out there.
I disagree with this criticism. The very act of going to the store and buying candy in the hopes that it will bring in more cash is risk. He's risking money that he could otherwise spend on a new television, a 401(k), or M&Ms for the kids. That he planned a route for selling and segmented the population and carries different products to meet demand is the core of what managing an enterprise is.

This is to make no comment on whether what he is doing is good or even legal; but clearly there is 55k worth of demand for a service that he is providing so it is difficult for me to accept that the world would be a better place without this particular gentleman selling candy on a subway.
According to the Dojo's site:

Hacker Dojo allows guests from 8AM to 10PM
depending on member presence, and is open
24/7 to members.

I'm sure there'll be people there on the weekends.
Then add 'thinking my friend getting into local politics would start changing things from the inside' to that list (yes, also factual with that time of my life). The point being, it's a state of thinking that we just need to democracy harder to fix the problems.

To accurately evaluate systems, one has to step back and look at their actual (emergent) behavior, not just their purported (axiomatic) behavior.
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I'll ignore all the political baiting the author does ("...hate-filled healthcare-reform protesters...") and actually focus on his core arguments since they are intellectually interesting.

the belief in free will leads to a lack of compassion for those who suffer

The belief in free will merely suggests that one should look more closely at why a person is suffering.

I.e., was the person born into bad circumstances, from which virtually no set of choices could have allowed them to escape? Or are their circumstances caused by choices they made themselves?

To borrow examples from my own life, I (an atheist) have a great deal of sympathy for the average hard working upper middle class Indian. I have far less sympathy for the typical "poor" American (far richer than the Indian) who chooses not to look for a job.
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Also, is the day you have free a Sunday? That might change things a bit...
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This is the first explanation of the differences between Facebook and Google+ that has connected with me. I don't know that Google+ is what I want though --- I like finding people with shared interests, but I prefer in person.
One thing that seems to be missing from this page, the "trying to buy an android phone" page, and the about me page, is what the actual disability of the author is. I'd be interested in knowing what they can't do - it's worth taking it into account when designing your own UIs.

It's very hard for someone who doesn't suffer from a disability to imagine how someone with a disability will interface with their product. Screen readers/accessibility for the blind is relatively easy - write some software that reads the screen and presents what it sees in an auditory menu. Imagining how other disabilities affect the user, and then working around that, is hard. Given the extensive range of disabilities in the world, it's impossible to take into account everything. A device has to be designed with the most common disabilities in mind.
"trigger for me to root my phone"

I think this is the most sensible response. I imagine that there may now be a market for smartphone "rootkit detectors/cleaners/etc" but that path is about as sensible as the PC "anti-virus" industry.

It will not solve the problem and inevitably people's trust will be abused by some bad actors.

In my opinion users need to be more involved in or at least aware of the boot process. They should be able to ascertain what is running on the device.

There is no way for a consumer to retain full control over her device if she ignores the boot stage(s)... unless she can absolutely trust whomever is controlling them for her.
Judging Fire return rates via online reviews. I call BS.
IBM made a similar argument about microcomputers. "Our customers aren't interested in microcomputers. They want mainframes. We'd be better off optimizing our mainframes than investing in microcomputers."

That's the nature of the innovator's dilemma. If you listen to your existing customers, you lose out on the ability to win a nascent, but growing market that ends up being bigger than the market you're in right now.

I wouldn't be surprised if in the next decade or so another pizza chain came along with a better website and ended up with a more dominant marketshare than Pizza Pizza. As more and more people get ubiquitous internet access, the competitive advantage of having a web-based order form will grow.
I don't know about "breaking the law intentionally" but here are some examples of things startups have done that other people have thought were illegal. In some of the cases people have thought that so strongly that they've filed lawsuits.

Groupon selling coupons for alcohol in Massachusetts:
http://articles.boston.com/2011-03-18/business/29351154_1_gr... (here are some other suits: http://www.portfolio.com/business-news/2011/03/29/groupon-fa...)

Facebook not living up to privacy promises:
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111129-710865.html

YouTube/Google not paying royalties/failing to control copyright infringement:
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-music-publishers-settle-w...

AirBNB's operations in New York: http://www.betabeat.com/2011/05/31/airbnb-takes-manhattan-wi...
I think this demonstrates why no one has really "won" the todo list, people use them a variety of ways. I agree that some are over-engineered; those that require you to categorize, color-code, set a due date, but I have no evidence that those types aren't popular with some people. Without having used Any.DO, it appears to strike a decent balance between features and simplicity.
i think it boils down to using what works for you. some people still use pen and paper and carry a list with them..

to me the main feature of such programs is synchronization.. while i may not remember to wear the pants with my pen and paper i will always be next to some internet device that can quickly retrieve such lists. And all the better if said lists are contextual. for now i am still on rememberthemilk.com one thing that is missing from there, is sublists.

i'd like a better way of listing steps for each task. i.e. expand something like "Find a cat sitter" and see a list of sources i need to check and be able to check them off, w/out cluttering the main list window.

if i could find that (something exactly like RTM but with nice sub-tasks) i'd be a happy camper