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Worcester is actually growing. I grew up in that city, lived there for most of my life, though I do not live there anymore. It's not shrinking by any means, just examining the census numbers shows it outpacing Boston in growth 4.9% to 4.8% between 2000 and 2010.

Worcester is at a cross-roads now. It has excellent proximity to Boston and Providence. It has a strong bio-medical industry as well as three highly regarded universities (Holy Cross, WPI, and Clark) as well as several smaller, less known ones. Several major hospitals too. If Massachusetts can sort out the commuter rail situation and cut travel time down to <45min between Worcester and Boston then it could really take off as an alternative to Boston for people with families and on budgets.

It does have its issues. Certain neighborhoods are giant crime-pits (Main South, Vernon Hill etc.) On the other hand it has an extremely safe, pleasant west-side with some pockets of high-affluence. East and North Worcester range from OK to good. It's a very spread out city despite having 180K people living in it which unfortunately means cars are a must.

It's all going to be about transportation. Commuter rail to Boston will improve, part of the deal to allow CSX to expand its freight yard in Worcester was to add 10 - 20 more trains to Worcester between now and 2020. The Pike bypasses Worcester but since the completion of the 146 connector that has stopped being a real issue. If those things occur, and it is a big-if, expect the urban-downtown area of Worcester to boom as it's a small downtown area and it will be important to tightly pack around the train station because of the lack of transportation around the rest of the city.
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I was hoping for more insight into why the Japanese factories are unable to keep up with the lower costs from other Asian factories.

Japanese manufacturing has always had a strong reputation with continuous improvement in their factories. This supposedly leads to lowered costs through efficiency. I am assuming that even with the decades of improvements, the lower wages of the other countries are still able to bring down the overall cost.
> It's from the article, "Smartphone apps, as led by Apple: “all the information in apps – that data is not crawlable by web crawlers. You can’t search it”"

He didn't say that though. It seems like Wired added the Apple part. The only quote in the Guardian article (which I don't think includes the full interview, unless I'm missing the link), just says '"There's a lot to be lost," he said. "For example, all the information in apps – that data is not crawlable by web crawlers. You can't search it."' Which in most cases is a true statement.

> And my issue with WebM/WebP is that Google just seems to release these standards with a complete disregard for what the rest of the industry is doing or has done.

You only see the "established open standards that everyone uses" when you ignore the long painful sausage-making process.
Not exactly, the Canadian mint rolls out all kinds of customized quarters in fact if you are Canadian look in your pocket and and I bet you'll have a differing quarter.
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In case you haven't already noticed, Yehuda has done plenty of that already.
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This may be the first intelligence gene discovered; however, it also may be yet another study [1] that is contradicted by attempts to replicate it [2]. I don't know much about Cosmos Magazine, but it's a bit disappointing that a 'science' magazine would cite a single study as conclusive without waiting for peer review.

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17160701?dopt=Abstract

2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17160701?dopt=Abstract
So this is a switch. I wonder if this is a pure improvement, or there are deficiencies common to carriers; perhaps in co-occurance with another switch (like malaria resistance/sickle cell anemia). Perhaps increased incidence of autism/asperger.
Beautiful! Almost like origami for the lazy. :)
A buddy of mine tried the same thing (math in court) using the weight of his SUV, the HP of the engine, and other things to show he couldn't have been speeding at the location the officer said he was.

Result: "Too bad. Pay me."

Like they say in the movies; with law it's what is the truth, and what you can prove. He failed the latter and got a hefty fine.
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The API is anemic, but as jmillikin noted in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3846020 the data liberation has been there since launch. I hadn't used takeout before, but I just tried downloading my circles and got a zip of vcard files.

https://www.google.com/takeout
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Share with: Just me > Friends > Groups I create > Friends of Friends > Everyone

Lots of leeway. I specifically said that nothing I post there is secret, but I'd rather confine whatever I post to the group. The power is not as much in individual posts but on the ability to piece together sites I visits, searches, "friends" I have, what type of emails I get etc etc.

When I delete a picture or comment, no doubt it will linger somewhere in backups but unless the FBI is looking for it's unlikely to be shown.

You can copy my Facebook post if you see it. Scrappers for example will not and there is no way to link to it since almost all people will not see it.

The real enemy of "Open Web" for Google are those Safari users that refuse third party cookies :) http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/17/google-under-fire-for-circu...
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This is what I envisioned for the Scala IDE when I started that project 6 or so years ago. But I got frustrated when it started turning in a Java-Frankenstein monster that was trying to embody all of what I thought was wrong with Java ecosystem. Eclipse just wasn't the right platform, and the Eclipse IDE metaphors are just clunky and outdated. My ScalaLive proposal was perhaps 6 years too early, while I never really figured out to package up my live programming work as well as Bret and Chris have.

I'm glad that this project exists and is being pursued. Its about time!
One of my middle school teachers had a lab (which we unfortunately never did) where students had to write a set of instructions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. She would then follow the instructions to the letter and you would discover your errors.

1. Unscrew lid of peanut butter jar
2. Put knife into jar
ERROR: knife cannot enter jar, lid is still on top of jar.

Her goal was teaching how to write the method section of a scientific paper, but I find it far more valuable to teach introductory programming.
I completely agree with you, and this article says exactly what friends of mine have been telling me for years. Unlike most folks that fit into the Gen X/Y mold, I cant' stand living in cities, perfer living in the country, yet also enjoy being in the IT industry which makes things difficult at best. And after living in the suburbs (Kanata, ON), small towns (Perth ON, Belleville ON, and now Charlottetown, PEI) for over a decade and change, to paraphrase the Game of Thrones, "You move to the city, or you starve". Small towns not only have a small market for prospective job hunters, but if you lose a job for whatever reason, your'e hosed. Yet if the company you are working for in Toronto downsizes you, you can have five interviews the next day. It's really no contest, and unfortunately for myself, it's the way it's going to be for decades to come. Moving to anywhere outside of the larger cities will hurt in the long run.
Show HN: Texmote helps people quit bad habits with fun motivational messages
www.texmote.com This is a fun experiment that Karunjay and I have started for people who have trouble quitting bad habits (including us :P). Quite often, the only thing we need is a little bit of motivation & frequent pep talks. So this is exactly what we've done, allowing people to enroll themselves & receive motovational emails/smses to quit their bad habits & also allowing people to enroll their loved ones to quit their bad habits. Right now, we only plan crowd source all motivation messages, but soon we might have some experts on board. What do you guys think? Also, please do share & comment! Cheers!
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Ask HN: Historical HN data
Where can I get historical HN data like links submitted, their popularity,etc going back for some time? Mostly asking this from a data mining point-of-view (maybe some interesting insights hidden in the data)
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> "This section shall only apply to work performed on company time with company equipment,"

The question then is who has to prove company time and equipment were used? Employer or employee?

I ask because practically its going to be a grey zone. If you accessed your private gmail account during office hours and happened to see you have a potential customer lead for your out-of-hours project, are you in violation?
In case anyone needs some context, sometime ago I posted about the problems with leaving out semicolons had caused for users of the Bootstrap project.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3584635

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/search?utf8=✓...
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Not really.

robots.txt has always been based on a good faith.

All the reputable companies abide by it, but I don't doubt for a second they'd stop reading it if it started affecting their bottom line.
I believe he means http://www.hnsearch.com, I used it to fetch story data too in the past, and I believe hnlike used to work like that too.
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FWIW, I'm white and Jewish, and I have a TT (ie, the opposite of this "intelligence gene").
Like I said, it's a sort of doomsday scenario. Then again, I've seen comments here on HN calling IE obsolete specifically because it didn't implement some HTML5 subspec that had been updated less than 48 hours before. It's hard to predict what will or will not enrage the internet.
> Judges and juries decide that

Once something actually goes to trial.

What if the DoJ's 'bad guy' is really innocent? If they have too much power, then how much stress and drama does the DoJ get to drag someone through just because an agent of the DoJ doesn't like him/her that much (maybe just rubbed them the wrong way, so they 'must' be the 'bay guy').
The big consumer electronics companies should be really scared right now. Hardware startups are coming. Wouldn't be surprised if some hardware incubators start popping up too
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Your initial comment would have been a lot more credible if you'd said exactly that.
Uh... crowdfunding sounds like the PERFECT model for consumer electronics!

It's a business that requires high startup capital, and where uncertainty comes with much greater costs than software. You're going to be making thousands of units of whatever it is you're making if you want it to be even remotely cost effective.

So, a method of funding where customers vote with their wallets before you face the biggest headache in consumer electronics--turning a design/prototype into something mass produced--sounds like a great fit.
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As the founding member of the npm crew, I'd like to provide some history.

I started using this style originally because I -- not new to JavaScript, and adhering to the "semicolons everywhere" style -- was bitten twice in rapid succession; first by a leading [ causing a function to receive "undefined" as an argument (instead of two arrays), and then again by a leading ( resulting in a non-function being called. Both were unnecessarily difficult to debug, because my brain couldn't see the error. (Even when JSLint complained, I thought it was lying. ,] looks a lot like ], at first glance, and is valid JS. Maybe I'm a little dyslexic or something.)

So, I thought, "New rule: Commas first, prefix ( and [ with semicolons." Problem solved.

But ending a line with a semicolon seemed kind of silly when I was then prefixing with a semicolon the next line, even though I'd learned that it was absolutely necessary for any kind of "safety" (even as an expert, even as a semicolon user). So, I thought, if I'm doing this silly prefixing thing to make ASI safe, why not just let it be safe, and drop them everywhere?

So I did. And it's pretty nice.

I don't understand why people get so upset about how I write programs, especially those that they don't even use or contribute to. The first time a professional JavaScripter cursed me out at the top of his lungs in a bar, literally spitting in my face while he screamed at me, I realized that there was some essential human weirdness involved here, and it became much too interesting to drop. Every time I ask people to please not lie about JavaScript to newcomers, they accuse me of being dogmatic or a semicolon hater.

But I maintain the JavaScript in Node.js as well, which follows Google's (occasionally insane) C++-inspired semicolon-ridden JavaScript style, and I'm fine with that. It's kind of nice, too, in a different way. More dots. Vim's auto-indenter works a little better.

What's wrong with just not lying? I don't get it at all. People who already know C and Java are usually veteran enough to grok weird language warts. People from Python and Ruby have an easier time learning the exceptions than sticking to the rule, since their habits are usually to omit the ceremonial EOL punctuation. And newcomers don't have any preconceptions anyway; they're busy learning why we call "this" a string, and why this is always something different, and crazy shit like "a function is an object and you construct an instance of it with new which calls it on a this that inherits from its prototype". (I mean, seriously, read that sentence to a nonprogrammer, and ask them what it means. It's gibberish!)

But people react to it like I've insulted them personally, when I just ask that they not fill newcomers' heads with lies and fud. I still don't understand it.
I agree, just like I said in my original comment.
It looks like the right thing might have happened here (at least in the small).

Crockford is making a change in JSMin:
https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSMin/commit/5ca277ea452...

Jacob changed the code to be compatible with existing JSMin:
https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/3057#issuecommen...

There, now don't we all feel better?
Ask HN: which computer magazines exist and which would you recommend?
When I was growing up, long before the Internet, computer (programming-slanted) magazines really fired the imagination and taught new things.

These magazines were read carefully cover-to-cover and would contain a mixture of articles including columns on game programming and puzzles.

I want to subscribe to some magazines for my office coffee table to kindle that same enthusiasm in my young colleagues.

Everyone is already inundated with RSSed blog-posts and aggregate sites (cough HN) full of stuff that they filter by what their immediate interest is; my observation is that people actually narrow rather than broaden their subject :(

Real paper magazines laying on coffee tables is likely to have more of a grab-n-glance surprise-me broadening, hopefully?

But I find no magazines in my local (Swedish) news agents.

What magazines exist today and would you recommend them?
>You can't cache what you don't know a user will do next.

The user will probably keep scrolling if they are scrolling through a list of items.
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Aren't the GitHub team members rather youthful, in general? Skilled, yes, and also opinionated and outspoken. Things might change as they get older and settle into a more balanced lifestyle.
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Those fancy single page sites with lots of parallax effects and transformations often have 4-5 MB worth of PNGs. With JNG you can easily push it below 1 MB. (I tried this with several websites.)

To make matters worse, if you just support JNG and not all of MNG, you'd add maybe 5-10kB. The PNG and JPEG decoders do all of the heavy lifting. You'd just need a little bit of extra code for taking the file apart and splicing the channels together. All of the tricky stuff is already there.
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> Of course they do. But the average car is only driven a few hours a day. If you take the total fixed costs of a car and divide it amongst dozens of people, it's much cheaper than ownership.

OK, without the actual numbers it's hard to debate the details here. Maintenance will obviously be higher, and depending on the competition and regulation, cost could vary dramatically.

But we're getting off topic. Earlier, you said:

> the rise of the self driving car is going to completely torpedo 90% of the advantages of living in a city.

Saving money on car ownership is not 90% of the value of urban life for me, and never has been.

> However, I think it's almost purely a result of demographic shifts not some new desire to live in cities. Young childless people have always wanted to live in the city, we just have more of them than we used to.

I don't believe this either, and it's what I was getting at earlier. I don't foresee myself every living outside of walking distance from essentials, especially once I have children. I hear the same from my peers, but I guess time will tell.
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Quite Frankly, I don't get what the big deal is in signing an NDA. If you believe the idea is in the public domain or the person with the idea can't execute, whats the big deal? The paper is basically worthless in both instances.

Not wanting to sign an NDA is probably more about the way it makes you feel that someone thought of something so good they wont share without legal protection. The feeling that this guy thinks he is SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOU that you must sign a contract for permission for him to show you up with his latest spark of genius.

This is about ego, about flexing muscles and seeing who can best the next bloke.

Bottom line, I most likely wont ever ask you to sign an NDA and probably wont sign yours either, but lets be honest, it is about how you make me feel, not about protecting you or me.
There will be substantial regulatory issues to deal with, so it's not too surprising they don't want to drag themselves into that. Better to maintain their focus.
To be fair, DOTA isn't great because the code is well-organized (and I believe you that it isn't), but because of the balance and design the heroes and items produces fun matches.
pferreir, just a heads-up - you've been hellbanned. This means all of your comments are automatically marked as [dead], but you can't see this.
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I thought Japan was already in the same direction as Germany regarding high-end manufacturing. It was just more diverse and also did middle and low end at the same time.

I think it has the potential to find original ways, but going head to head with Germany wouldn't put it in a bad place either. Still i'd hope the shift to a more software oriented business culture occurs.
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