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http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2008-08-20/news/out-of-contro...

Ask virtually any store manager at the Saint Louis
Galleria about shoplifting, and you'll invariably get two
responses: One, it's out of control; and two, it's gotten
exceedingly worse since August 2006, when MetroLink opened
a stop just 500 yards from the high-end shopping center.

In the first six months of this year, Richmond Heights
police made 345 arrests at the mall. That's nearly double
the number of arrests made in all of 2005, before
MetroLink opened its Shrewsbury line.

More alarming are the numbers of juveniles (kids under the
age of seventeen) arrested at the mall. This year police
are on pace to take 276 juveniles into custody for
shoplifting and other offenses — a sevenfold increase over
the 39 kids arrested at the Galleria in 2005.

"I know it's not politically correct, but how else do you
explain it?" comments a frustrated Galleria store manager
who, like many Galleria shopkeepers interviewed by
Riverfront Times, says her employer prohibits her from
officially speaking for the company.

"Anyone can see all these people crossing Brentwood
Boulevard from the MetroLink station," the manager
continues. "Most of them aren't here to shop. They're here
to hang out and cause trouble."

These statistics appear to support the supposition that the MetroLink connection did indeed increase crime at the malls. Do you have any data to support the alternative hypothesis that "rich white folks be crazy"?
Did you add a title? Otherwise the image validation could have failed.
zanny, if you are interested in a Python/Django job in San Francisco, email me. My email address is in my profile.
If an LA - Vegas rail funded by the Casinos brings wealth along the way to Indian country then I am so grateful.
400 graphic files! It must be a game of some sort, right?
Yes, they both had titles (something like "My cat is not a Twilight vampire" and "Holly and Thunder on a sunny afternoon". One other thing that might be relevant is that they were both PNGs.
$180 for a flight tomorrow AM on southwest SFO LAX. That's $360 RT. Of course Palo Alto is more convenient than SFO and you're going to be taking a $100 car ride each way that's $200. So $560. Four times a month and it's a bargain... I know plenty of people from Palo Alto who had made that type of commute twice a week.
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Totally agree. The reason is this: one will at some point have to debug and wade through all the generated JS and CSS code, and unless already familiar with HTML, JS and CSS, this is going to be difficult.
The font size is responsive, try re-sizing the browser. The font scales.
My take on pre-processors like LESS, SASS etc. is this: To truly appreciate and benefit from them, you should first start facing problems in scaling and managing plain CSS. I would argue that the same goes for CoffeScript. For simple apps, preprocessors offer negligible value addition.
If you already happen to want to develop on the Windows Mobile platform, it's a free phone.
Of course American cities aren't built to support it, with their own present state of extremely automotive, exurban decentralization and highly distributed typography. It's a catch 22 that can only be solved by rather preemptive "build it and they will come" style investment, the goal being to slowly influence organic behaviour patterns over time. In the best possible case, people will start moving closer and closer to rail lines, and density of coverage will continue to usefully increase. In some cities that have developed entirely along the automotive paradigm, particularly New South developments like Atlanta (where I live), that may not be possible without a very radical restructuring, given their extremely hostile layout to anything but the car.

Nevertheless, if you give any credence whatsoever to a hydrocarbon-constrained future (and there are plenty of compelling reasons to do so), electric high-speed rail is the only option that makes sense.
Sequence alignment and string search are different enough problems that we really should distinguish between them.
You may see some very nice libraries/tools coming out around node.js, like jade, coffeescript, and stylus. These are all nice and good, and they do increase your productivity, but, only on the client side.

I disagree. Firstly, CoffeScript is not confined to the client-side. Besides, there are some modules like socket.io for which you will hardly find any substitues in other eco-systems.

You're also discounting the effects of context shifts between two separate languages - one on the client side, and the other on the server side.

Lastly, I would like to know what you find productive about Go, that's not the case with either CS/JS on Node.
Suburbs of Atlanta, where I live, have also very energetically blocked any expansion of the downtown subway system, for the exact same reasons, rooted in racialised politics. As a result, the system has not been expanded since 1989, and, despite its potential, goes to uselessly few places that have no imaginable relevance to the existence of 90% of metro Atlanta residents.

The funny thing is, all the poor black people from the inner city come to their suburbs anyway. Who else is going to work in their low-wage retail sector? It's just that instead of doing so in an efficient and economical manner, they do so in old, broken-down cars that greatly contribute to the traffic problem that causes these very same suburbanites so much agony.
The real key is the bottom line for the shop, if theft has doubled and sales have doubled then the shop should be making more money.

That isn't addressed, all the article says is that theft is up.
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Uh, the part where you get a free $600 phone? I thought that was pretty explicit from the headline.
This is a terrible idea. Why do people still need to do vast amounts of air travel when we have the Internet, Skype, gotomeeting, etc. air travel involves a lot of wasted time and a LOT of carbon emissions. We should be encouraging less travel not more.
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Sure. Then he will want to kill himself when trying to use of all those inferior and mismatched technologies for any kind of complex application (achieving crossbrowser support will ensure many nights of fun!). He will then go back to coding server-side where at least you can use sane language and tools so you can be as productive as possible. However, he will be thinking about this glimpse of hell for the rest of his career.
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Lots of comments about not being able to "just turn up and fly." My wife and I are in a boat club that's structured the same way--one flat annual fee and you can reserve a boat any time you want. Only one reservation at a time.

Never once have we been unable to reserve a boat, even on a holiday with only a few hours notice. I assume the same level of availability would be possible in a flying club, dependent of course on the ratio of travelers to planes.
Just email it to yourself? Long before apple invented email you have been able to check mail on pretty much any phone made in the last 7 years? (or more?)
When the same thing (at much smaller scale) happened on my Nexus One it definitely stopped me buying apps. In fact, to stay current with updates I had to start uninstalling apps I had paid for.
I agree. For practical reasons of coworkers and family, we have decided to try a stricter scheduled work day. But it must go both ways; After the scheduled working hours, we shouldn't work.
+1 for GV. What's cool is that there are libraries in many languages to allow you to use it in creative ways:

* java: http://code.google.com/p/google-voice-java/

* C++: https://github.com/mastermind202/GoogleVoice

* C#: http://code.google.com/p/sharp-voice/

* obj-C: https://bitbucket.org/joeygibson/gvoice/wiki/Home

* Python: http://code.google.com/p/pygooglevoice/

* PHP: http://code.google.com/p/phpgooglevoice/

* javascript (node.js): https://github.com/amper5and/node-google-voice

I dont know how many of those are still maintained. Disclaimer: I am the author of node-google-voice, which is still maintained.
Well, that's why we have solution called RetroShare, it protects you privacy. Only thing that it leaks is connectivity between peers. If you prefer to hide it too, then you can run it over Tor.
I deleted my facebook account last year after i upgraded to the new timeline which was still a preview to developers only. I was concerned about the lack of privacy at the time, it was only till recently that they included more settings.
The one thing i regretted the most was losing my facebook vanity url. Even after deleting your account your url (facebook.com/username) is gone forever!
Assuming your time is free though...

How many hours will it take you to write "two high quality applications"? I'm guessing more than a couple hours depending on the strictness of the term.
How many developers are willing to create and upload 3 different versions of their app? I seem to remember reading a thread here on HN complaining about that...

Would Apple allow an app maker to release their app for only newer iPads and iPhones, and not for the older devices? (I have no idea...)
PeepCode[1] has been doing just this lately, they've done a really great job too, I've learnt a lot watching them.

[1]: https://peepcode.com/
Sure, but your reply doesn't really help to answer the question, "How do non-English speakers learn programming?".
Do you think that that concern is as outmoded as forcing people to have a good sense of x86 opcodes, and assembler, to have a sense of what the CPU is actually doing?
How do I nominate this comment for "Best of HN"?
"detect device type and capabilities and load resources accordingly on app first run."

That is not sufficient. You also would have to detect the case where a backup is restored to a device with a different resolution (could even be a lower resolution)

"you will have to foot the bill for your free graphics-intensive app getting three million downloads."

Not necessarily. The App Store could have provisions for doing these kinds of downloads. Because of the backup issue, I even think it would have to have support there, given that Apple would want to prevent the cases "sorry, cheapGames.com's server is awfully slow" or "sorry, junkSite.com's server has disappeared; we cannot get you the graphics for that game you bought anymore" (site names made up; if they exist in real life, the name match is coincidental)
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My suggestion: allow users to flag inappropriate photos. Only a matter time before someone uploads a dead cat pic.
Excuse the ignorance, but what is the big deal about DCPU-16?
It's a joke, except it points to the wrong link. It should be have been to http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/r4rs_toc.html
Red herring. Node can increase productivity as well. It's all about your requirements and workflow.
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Yup, demise is too strong.

Not a native speaker. I thought it was a suitable synonym for "ruin" (Stallman's term).
It is the basis of http://0x10c.com/, an upcoming game from Notch/Mojang of Minecraft fame.
While I agree that I've never really felt that limited by the 89 for something that I wanted to do on a calculator anyway, but the price is absolutely ridiculous. The prices on calculators have barely dropped anything the last 10 years (and the calculators themselves have barely adopted either, you still get 32 KB of ram on the lower end (that still cost > $100)) and if it weren't for schools requiring them I have a hard time seeing how they would survive.

For the same pricepoint you will pretty much be able to get an android tablet with many hundred megabytes of RAM and gigabytes of storage combined with WIFI, bluetooth etc. etc. But these devices will of course not be allowed on an exam.

Not saying that a regular calculator doesn't have advantages over a touch interface but damn are they overpriced and there sure are advantages to a tablet as well, being able to zoom a graph decently (fast) and having like a hundred times more real estate that you could easily copy+paste within etc.

Yes, I'd still want a real calculator but no, I would never buy one at the price point they sell today.
I've also ran into the issue of not being able to update all my apps so now only tend to pick and update those apps that I use frequently.

As it only takes one large app to disable the whole update all process, it'll be interesting to see how this impacts the overall update numbers.
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Not long ago some Israeli security hard cases explained how they handle this issue at Ben Gurion. You can probably still find it online somewhere, basically their monitors are highly trained in profiling and they use psychology and hyper profiling to spot potential threats.

I want to say it works like a bomb but...
I guess because you effectively have to re-initialise most things on a per-request basis or run into race-conditions etc.
Not to get completely off the OP, but I would be interested to hear your reasons for not thinking Reno would be good for a startup founder and specifically how Las Vegas would be different.

I don't disagree with you, just looking for an outside perspective. I've lived in both Reno and Las Vegas and have been working to build up the Reno startup community through Reno Collective coworking, Ignite Reno, WordCamp, Hack4Reno, etc. We've pulled off a lot of things and seen a lot of growth in the last few years but we know there is still a long way to go.
It would require no extra work on the developer's part. The 4 binaries could just be bundled in a "super" bundle and still even look like one thing and keep the ".app" extension. So we could actually keep everything as it is (code and resource wise), then when you hit compile, it simply makes 4 copies: 1 for iPhone (non-retina) which includes the .xibs for iPhone and non-HD images, one for iPhone HD (same but with HD images), one for iPad (blah blah) and one for iPad HD. It then shoves those into MyApp.app. That gets uploaded to iTunes as normal, but then only MyApp.app/Real-iPhone-HD.app gets actually downloaded to your phone for when you buy it.

What I'm asking for isn't crazy: You can kind of do this today by shipping a separate iPad and iPhone app (you can't separate non-HD and HD). The main thing I'm asking for is for the App Store to recognize that they are the same thing without forcing me physically combine them.
To use English seemed to be easier than to use native language. First you know your native language. Then you need to learn programming. Programming uses symbols which don't make sense - except as concepts in programming. So you just learn that "while" is a loop with condition, and "print" makes letters appear on the screen. "While" doesn't, for example, associate with time, only with condition; "print" doesn't evoke images of a printing machines, newspapers or anything else. No semantic confusion whatsoever; to the contrary, if that would be written in the native language, it would immediately bring associations, which may be unwanted.

A few comments to above. Some words are already used in the language, so, knowing how a certain combination of English letters is pronounced, one still gets some associations. "Function" is a rather international word, for example (brought into English from another language?). Next, learning first some programming helps with learning later English itself. For many words first associations remain related to computers; e.g., "performance" (though not widely used in programming languages, but it is used in technical manuals) is first for a processor, not for an actor on the scene.
Apple adding a SD card would mean shooting themselves in the foot - no reason to sell overpriced Flash inside the device anymore.
Fascinating :). Nice work.
Hey Thadeus,

1. Interesting idea

2. We are rebuilding the home page, should have something far better soon.

3. What browser are you using? It's possible there is a bug, however on Firefox and Chrome latest editions there are 166 photos and 91 people.

4. To prevent porn from trending we will have community reporting features. I also believe we would handle this quite similar to how twitter, facebook, or flickr handle this.

5. We don't have a TOS because we threw the project up very quickly but plan on having one soon. Our TOS will aim to protect the greater good of the community.
I'm not sure that answers the specific question being asked here, which I read to be about HN, not the impetus.
Too bad it doesn't follow the calling conventions proposed on #0x12-dev: https://github.com/0x10cStandardsCommittee/0x10c-Standards/b...
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i like steve blank's definition of startups: it's an organization in search of a business model.

thus if you get a revenue stream after a quarter, you are a "small business" and not a "startup"
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"How dare people hate me for being a complete cunt!!"

That said, context is everything - once back in the days of Counter-Strike, I pissed off a female clan member because I called her an "awp whore". In CS, this is not a gendered insult, and I was merely joking around as I would with someone who was male (it's a generic term for someone who uses a specific sniper rifle too much). She chose to find that as personally offensive, and despite me apologising and explaining, she left the clan. It left me feeling horrible despite just treating a woman as an equal. I mean it's a long shot from what these people are doing, which is gendered and nasty, of course.
To be pedantic, the important metrics are not percentage increases but rather the change in profits and the change in costs associated with theft.
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No, because C compilers are no longer as buggy as they used to be.
There is a reason why there are hashes and cryptographic hashes and CRCs. Some hashes are fast and some slow. Same hash algorithm isn't right choise for every usage.

Excellent article about hashes: http://home.comcast.net/~bretm/hash/
Was the page forced on you somehow? Do you have some specific criticism or even evidence of it being untrue? I can believe it has some basis in reality, there was an episode just last year where purchased orwell books were stolen off kindles.
I've been on Reddit a long time. I'm kind of desensitized to harsh and abusive comments.

On the other hand, the comments might be honest. To someone who havent experienced or heard about burnout, it is the expected reaction (minus the resent).

"You sound like just a weak person."

Well, yes. That was the point of my post. The pressure was more than I could handle, and I got sick from it.

"You should try farming some time. What you described is what a farmer would think of as 'retirement'"

I know farming means lots of hard work and little free time. My grandfather was a milk farmer, and could hardly ever get away from home. The cows needs milking every day of the week, early in the morning.

They also are under a lot of stress from events out of their control. Particularly the weather.

The greatest difference might be that farming is not necessarily a very creative field (pun intended). Most of the tasks are rather mindless, while a programmer simply can't produce if the min is not clear.
Not directly responsive, but here are two interesting Prolog-based systems for statistical modeling:

AutoBayes: http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/opensource/projects/autobayes/ by the same group that did AutoClass, one of the original publically available clustering codes.

PRISM, http://sato-www.cs.titech.ac.jp/prism/
I've heard that we've got a great existing rail infrastructure--the problem being that most isn't straight enough or suitable for use with high speed trains.

For example, the last train trip I took stopped a handful of times while we waited for livestock to finish crossing the tracks. High speed trains do not do this.
"Binary distribution for Linux x64 is available. (v0.0.2,
170MB)"

170MB to emulate and compile targeting a 128kb virtual machine. Funny how things have bloated.
For some people, it's "another CPU I can write a compiler for".
For others, we love playing Minecraft and are excited for Notch's next game.
Still other people are intrigued by the complex gameplay Notch has described and have confidence from the success of Minecraft.

And others will find it evidence of the further sub-redditing of HN.
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This is so cool! Just finished my implementation and it runs the fib example flawlessly†!

https://github.com/tkahn6/dcpu16-haskell/

† Because mine is a pure state machine and Haskell is lazy, I had to introduce a HLT instruction instead of using `:crash SET PC, crash`. Nothing ever gets printed using the latter convention.
If you're a student, "your time is (close to) free" is not an entirely unwarranted assumption. In fact, most students are paying people huge sums of money to take up their time, so one could even argue that their time has negative value. Anyway, let's assume you are rather unambitious and go with an app that takes, oh, 24 hours to write. You would only have made $240 before tax in your job at Starbucks, so the contest is a win on a monetary level. And that's not even counting the fact that it gives you some rather marketable experience (which, again, is something students normally pay for).
Great idea and can relate after two months without proper internet availability. I spend so much time just surfing and having a smart phone doesn't help. I don't have the self discipline just to stop. Maybe ISP s can offer a service tolock your connection at certain times off the day?
Can't you do some sort of custom image compression? Bundle app with the highest resolution images, then scale them down, arithmetically subtract from the respective image and pack and ship the difference. Just gzip or paq it, and see what the savings are like. If it works (and my gut feeling is that it would), then reconstruct lo-res images on the fly when they are needed.
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For reference, the PDP-7 that Unix originally was developed for topped at 64k 18 bit words, or 144 kB RAM. Cycle time was 1.75 microseconds, so clock speed was about 571 kHz. (http://www.soemtron.org/pdp7.html)
The decrease in productivity with node comes from having to write everything with callbacks. Programming asynchronously is crazy, it makes very simple algorithms very annoying to write.

I'd say it's almost like writing in assembly. You have to write your code in some pseudo code first, synchronously, then translate that into the asynchronous callback spaghetti than node requires.

> Lastly, I would like to know what you find productive about Go, that's not the case with either CS/JS on Node.

Not having to write everything asynchronously?

I haven't actually used go, but the way goroutines communicate (and synchronize) with channels suggests to me (from what I've read/seen) that this callback spaghetti problem is non-existent in Go.