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I agree with you. One thing that I have a problem with making everyone move to public transit is my IBS. I loath driving the way it is because of that, but I can at least pull over to a McDonald's or a gas station. It would be horrific to have to hold it on even the cleanest, fastest bus.

I don't even drive non-family member to a local lunch because of my problem. So I really would be a shut in if I had to go places by bus.

On the plus side, there could be a new client for an eco-friendly home food delivery service if they moved to such a system.
I watched a documentary about Jacque Fresco where he shows some of his futuristic cities where this is implemented. Very interesting stuff with trains. Maybe a world without car will make the segways more popular.
It's great to see the other side of the story, at least. You could tone down your words and maybe present some facts, but I'm sure everyone appreciates your contribution either way.
> The automobile statistics seem to include various methods of suicide involving cars.

I'm not sure they include them equally, though. The most obvious way of killing yourself on train tracks is standing in front of a train, but the most obvious way of killing yourself on a road usually does not involve a car, but involves jumping from a bridge (which doesn't get counted as an automobile fatality).

> If rail inspires suicide, that's a safety problem.

I'm not too sure about that one. If there are a significant number of people who, absent trains, wouldn't kill themselves, that would be significant. But I would guess a larger proportion are just choosing a suicide modality, and if it weren't trains, it'd be jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge, taking pills, etc. It's hard to come up with any real data for that counterfactual, though. I suppose a blunt correlational approach would be to see if there's any correlation between availability of commuter rail and suicide rates, after controlling for other confounding variables. I would guess that there isn't one, but could be wrong.
>There's absolutely no reason to expect companies to comply with the GPL, other than good manners and good ethics

Nonsense, they are legally bound by the licence to provide source code when distributing binaries should the recipient request it. Obviously there are violators counting on not being taken to court but they are still violators and are running the risk of being being sued.

Let's say that Oracle would stop releasing the source code to the enhancements they make on Linux for their distribution, do you think Red Hat, IBM and other large contributors would just let Oracle use their enhancements while violating the GPL by not releasing their own? Hardly, they would take them to court.

GPL works well for this kind of cooperative project where lots of different players pool their resources as everyone is legally bound to release their enhancements. This obviously doesn't mean that every licence violation will be brought to justice, but the important thing is that they are in their right to so should they find it necessary.

However the fully open source development of Linux doesn't fit all projects, looking at FreeBSD it seems it's mainly being used by companies who wants to incorporate it into proprietary solutions where they make changes to the kernel/system which are used as a competitive edge and thus don't want to open source those.

Again, there is no 'one size fits all' solution and as such it's a good thing there's choice.
It won't be "finished" (ready for ACTUAL deployment) for at least a year or so. The dev team is pretty small and the funding is pretty small.

The way dart works is that it compiles into optimized javascript that the average javascripter wouldnt end up writing. The resulting code is weird and wacky, but it usually works. From my own understanding, that's the cool part.
> also see the comment on Google Guava, that tells a lot

What comment on Guava? I just googled "guava sucks" and came up with nothing.

IMO, Guava is absolutely _fantastic_, and they're improving it all the time. If people are thinking otherwise, that's news to me and I'd like to hear why.
First, it makes people hate each other.

That was not my experience at Google. Not all people turn to hate when learning how they are valued by others. There's certainly disappointment.

it encourages people to work on the projects that are most visible, which are not always the most valuable.

Some types of work at Google are undervalued, but it's not related to visibility.

Third, it creates a general atmosphere of distrust.

I think it creates a more pleasant atmosphere. People learn that being an asshole can hurt come review time.
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I'll take a wild guess. The reason can be Objective C. The language and its framework is fully dynamic. Your program can compile, but without extensive testing you won't know if it works. Checks that statically typed languages do at compile time have to be done by runtime tests in dynamic languages such as Objective C. And Apple doesn't have the ability to do enough testing for their products to ensure every single feature is bug free.
/facepalm.

So you've got no qualification whatsoever talking about the new interface as you avoid it entirely.

What I love most is sometimes the important buttons are red and in the top left. But sometimes they are gray and in the bottom right.

Which will it be today? Flip a coin! Consistency is an alien word to the Google Design Team.
Personally, I had to take a different route than online videos/tutorials. Between doing web development full-time and having a family at home, I couldn't find the time to focus on becoming competent at iOS development.

So I took a week off and went to Chicago for one of the Pragmatic Studios courses (http://pragmaticstudio.com). Being able to focus on that was exactly what I needed.

YMMV of course, but I thought I'd throw in an alternate option.
"After all, if you have enough money you can work on any project you want."

Well, not Half-Life 3. To do that, you have to take a job at Valve.
It would be helpful if you could elaborate some on why you think that Dart:

- has a "we-are-from-Google-and-everyone-else-is-stupid approach"
- "throws the last 2 decades of language design experience over board"

because neither of those things seem obvious to me.
Does someone in the UK even have the legal ability to send a DMCA notice to someone in the US?
The word "nudge" reminded me of a motivational speech I had to give in Speech 101 back in uni. I called mine "Small Balls" (for lack of a better term) and basically went on to explain why you don't necessarily have to have "a big pair" to experience something new. If you routinely step a just a little bit out of your comfort zone, you thereby create new and larger comfort zones. This process can be repeated as much as you like and I actually used my own theory to give the speech since I wasn't exactly comfortable getting up in front of an audience.
Okay, but Oracle doesn't own the talents of everyone who knows Java, and has nothing to do with Eclipse.

Do K&R collect massive royalties for all the operating systems written in C? Does Oxford demand licensing fees from speakers of English-derived dialects? Most of the words ("APIs") are the same.
Sounds like your implementing an Object Pool by hand. That may be reasonable solution for a one off problem, but you can probably leverage other peoples code for this stuff and gain some flexibility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_pool_pattern
Red Hat's Scott Crenshaw is a jerk. I guess since money is involved, RH feels the need to turn to negative campaigning.

RH: MS contributes more to the kernel than Canonical! psh!

Canonical: True. The work on the kernel was already good; our focus is usability. Besides, RH uses a lot of our technologies, such as our cloud and init tools.

RH: Whatever. Call back when you give a damn about the kernel.

Canonical: facepalm
and this is a problem why?
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How often do websites really change the layout of their DOM? Sure, some sites that are actively developed (ie social networks) but for a lot of business websites where information doesn't change that often, like restaurants, reviews or clothing, websites are pretty consistent.

Plus, building a parser isn't always that much more work than trying to build a client for a convoluted API.

It's obviously case-by-case, but I think a lot of people dismiss scraping outright when there are a lot of useful applications.
The article is basically marketing fluff.

And the main reason to not use Dart is alluded to in a quote in it,

> Dart compiles to JavaScript, so your Dart web apps will work in multiple browsers (not just ours).

which is misleading, since to that should be added "but they will run much more slowly in IE, Firefox, WebKit and Opera", because none of them will embed the nonstandard Dart VM, only Chrome will.
I've been using gmail pretty exclusively for the past 4 years now, and haven't really had to much exposure to other services. But I've been extremely satisfied. Enough to stick around.

So just out of curiosity - what services would you recommend to an inquiring mind?
I actually thought that the article was a joke (no offense). It starts off saying "... how you can become more productive and happier", and then:

- libraries are needed. And then it proceed to describe how if you want to get something done you have to reinvent the wheel, or port it (which amounts to the same insofar as it slows you down)

- Weekly updates (in particular the bit on downloading the new build and trying out the new features). How exactly does having to check for new features (and test them) makes me write better code, faster?

- ".. the code becomes a hell to understand. With the Dart syntax, this is a bit more difficult.." Really? I'm sure this one is a typo. Or I'm missing something.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Dart is not cool, or anything (I haven't tried it). But based on the arguments in the article, I simply don't see how exactly the language is a productivity boost..
It's strange, I was actually looking for a freelance Lua developer last year and had a hard time finding one. Adobe Lightroom's SDK is in Lua and I need to create a couple plugins (and don't have time myself).

You'd think Adobe would put more resources into promoting the language.
The website says ... "One of the biggest advantages of Dart is the vibrating community..." . I'm quite curious to know about this vibrating community. Am I missing something exciting here?
Why Windows Phone could beat Android
If you're running Windows cloud services, I tend to find Rackspace's cloud easier to deal with. I use it extensively for compatibility testing, and have found it preferable to EC2 in this regard. Setting up Windows VMs is easier with Rackspace, as opposed to EC2 which has a terrible process and UI for their windows stuff.

With that said, If I was building out legitimate infrastructure, as opposed to just a developer test platform, the article correctly points out the superiority of EC2 over Rackspace. EC2 has a powerful API that's unmatched in the public cloud space.
Ask HN: Questions about running a company from a cheap country
Recently I was thinking about this, and realized that a lot of the money issues I worry about for doing a startup would disappear if I incorporated in Singapore and ran my business (which would be a B2C/B2B hybrid, with possibly handling deposits into customer accounts) from a country which was very cheap to live in (India, Cambodia, Thailand or Vietnam).

What physical things do I have to worry about having to handle? What sort of stuff can I not easily handle with either a telephone call or an internet connection, assuming I'm working alone?

I'm particularly worried about how to read stuff that I'm going to have sent to a PO box and stuff like that. What stupid pitfalls am I optimistically avoiding to think about?
The very first example there says

> // Note: This will only work in Dartium (a build of Chromium with Dart VM)

This isn't a temporary issue. Google might add the Dart VM to Chrome, but the chances of it showing up in any other browsers are close to 0.

Aside from that, yes, Dart improves on some syntax issues like you said. But the compiling-to-JS approach lets you do a lot more, you can write CoffeeScript or C++ or C# or Java and compile those to JS as well.
LuaSocket's ltn12 module might interest you:

http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luasocket/ltn12.html
The quality of service will never reach the level of Japan. Transit operators have it easy there because people don't vandalize and they don't litter. This means that your maintenance costs are very low and it's more economical to buy high quality, comfortable seating.

As well, transit is only good for getting you around in the cities. Once you get out to "inaka", a car is all but a requirement, much like in North America.

This "world without cars" is a nice pipe dream, but the reality is that no matter how good your transit system, it's still a huge time sink to use it. The only time it becomes faster than a car is if you live in a dense city with poor traffic flow, and that accounts for a tiny percentage of the world population. That's also why it's only the pampered urbanites who dream of a carless world.
Yup, I hit this too. I think they score things without SPF records as spam. Though this causes trouble because another company I use bounces mail if you use an SPF.

In the end, I'm still using Gmail and ditching the other company...but not recommending Gmail anymore because of the disruption.
There is an idea mentioned here that seems to have been quite common in Silicon Valley during the first boom, and which perhaps is again, that tech companies are "changing the world for the better", and "making the world a better place."

Having that in your head as you work on a private, for-profit company seems very strange to me. Sure, you will make money in relation to how much people want what you sell, and perhaps they want it because it makes their lives better, but that's where it ends. As a private business, you take your pay in money, not karma.
If settlement occurs before a judgment is passed down, then the court case doesn't bind future decisions.
When all of these are fixed, then OpenStack might have a fighting chance, but until then it needs to pick up the pace (and start producing quality software).

http://etherpad.openstack.org/FolsomNovaOpsPainPoints
IME, a lot of the best programmers are anal (often to a fault), and won't lie in that situation.

Not because of ethics or morals but just because they refuse to say something they know is technically incorrect.
In addition to Prompt you should check out iSSH[1]. I've used it since the days of the first iPad and I've been satisfied with it. (Though at the moment it's a tad more expensive than Prompt.)

[1]: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/issh-ssh-vnc-console/id287765...
Interesting, what do/would you recommend? I'm really curious because I honestly can't think of ONE email service that does email better than Gmail.
It might just be my German origin, but I wouldn't call an SUV a Jeep either. We do however call all of the off road-capable bulky cars with the roll-over protection thingy ("Überrollbügel" in German, can't think of the English equivalent) Jeep.
Until someone poisons the cache by writing and requesting random junk and takes everyone offline at the same time. Remember DOS may be controlled by a few machines, but compromised machines tend to be randomly distributed throughout the world (ed: random but not uniform).
I do not like the new redesign, and will have to implement these tips just to make it a little more usable. I wish Google wouldn't do sucky things like this. Also Googe seems to have the worst branding. Google+, really? You think that's more alluring than Facebook? Also, rebranding the android app marketplace as "Google Play"? That's just terrible.
Or because nobody had so much to win as Oracle does now. And because nobody copied Larry Ellison's API until now.
You're giving me curiosity. What model did you get, when did you get it, and how much did it cost?
Discussion here on Quora: http://www.quora.com/How-much-traffic-does-a-startup-get-fro...
Life just doesn't work that way. IME the people who fib a bit and embellish when applying for jobs because they know they can, they do a lot better than those who tell the truth all the time.

Reality is most employers put up fake 'requirements' because they don't know how else to find 'smart, can learn, gets stuff done'.
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That's incorrect. The text is in the public domain but it is still covered by copyright. The copyright is not enforced outside the UK at this time. It is not pedantry; one cannot claim to have written the KJV version. A work that has passed into the public domain, or has become publicly available, still retains copyright.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#Public_domain

Here's a concrete example. Someone wrote a very successful book and it is protected by copyright laws. You may reproduce sections of it, but not the whole book. After X years have passed, and the book has passed into the public domain, you may reproduce it in full. You may not alter the work to credit yourself as the author.

Similarly, the crux of the matter is: does the Google version of the Java API constitute a derivative work that is significantly different from the Sun-Oracle version? As stated above, the UK and US do not recognize common law of copyright. So despite the fact that the Sun-Oracle APIs are publicly available, it does not allow Google to claim that the code that belonged to Sun-Oracle is free from restrictions and thus can be copied.
I'd like to help out with the website design and maybe even the logo (although I'm not much of a logo designer).

My portfolio is at madebyargon.com. Email me at inlith@gmail.com
I guess it depends on your niche. If you're solving a reasonably common problem check out searches & potential traffic using Google keyword tool. You need to brainstorm potential phrases used by your customers, see if you've hit on something that is easily described in google search terms
For heaven's sake! If I worked 2 or 3 days a week my productivity would shoot up dramatically! With a lifestyle based around communiting to work 5 days a week 95% of the year for a relatively good salary and very modest annual raises, there's little incentive to do more than the absolute minimum to get by. Unfortunately, even though it makes sense, no manager would ever work out this kind of arrangement while keeping my current salary.
I like the idea and definitely agree with the premise, but I think this could gain more momentum as online events than off. Collaborative diagrams can be drawn up on a number of sites (Google apps being one - too bad diagram.ly is single user) and a regular event would eventually catch on. I'm no architect but I'd love to sit in and add value where I can.
NKJV, the bible one typically finds in the USA, was edited and published in 1979 and is most certainly under copyright as a whole. In general, translations or adaptations of a work are under their own separate copyright.

Your overarching point that some things have false (or partially false) notice on them is accurate -- however the point that copyright law is subtle and often unclear in its details is equally valid.
I like Guava a lot!
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In web development, perhaps. In embedded systems (including the huge world of consumer electronics like cellphones) I suspect that if the linux kernel wasn't copyleft there would be few corporate contributions to its public codebase.
That's quite clever. Good work! Shame this didn't occur to me a couple of years ago when I needed it. :) Ah well.
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No it wouldn't. There existed free software before, during, and after the advent of the GPL and the FSF that had nothing to do with Stallman's work.
You can actually still use the old interface for a little while longer, even if you've been forced over to the redesign.

http://qwerjk.com/revert-gmail
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Depends on the company. Larger organizations will often have a mandate that EVERY hire go through proscribed HR processes and channels. MAYBE if you know a C level person you can get an exception.
Brilliant, always do the right thing. So catchy and yet so utterly useless at the same time.

You sound just like the 'seduction' experts, 'confidence, that's what gets the girl'.

My mum had an episode where she quite literally went mad. We spent a couple of weeks visiting her every day as she was confused, scared and angry.

At some point I turned to my sister and said 'we have to go home, our lives have to go on'.

The irony being that 'home' was 100 miles away from where my mum lives as my sister had met her husband a year earlier visiting me.

Your story is touching and totally fucking stupid at the same time. My to-do list for tomorrow has 'Get loo roll, book a ticket for Splendour festival, vote'.

Your to-do list sucks ass as it doesn't actually meet your real life needs.

And did I do the right thing? I'll never know, I still feel like a shit as she screamed that the nurses were hurting her. Humiliated, ignored. Maybe they did? Lies I hope. I will never, ever know. Alzheimer's? She won't even remember what you did, you're doing it for nothing more than your own conscience.

We are living in a very, very odd time where our parents are turning into our children.

EDIT: The reason I had to write this is that your experience seems to me at odds with points 1, 3 & 5 of the list. And the horrible thing is it's going to get worse for all of us here on HN in the next 40 years. Medicine has put us in a very awkward position, one of being able to maintain the body when the mind went long ago. Or (imo worse) maintaining the body and mind when the reasons to live have gone. My friend's grandma openly talks about wanting to die as all her friends are dead. But does my friend's Mum want her Mum to die? Of course not. This is a very odd time.
Ask HN: Where should I go on vacation
I know this is a bit of a weird question, but I haven't taken more than a 3 day vacation to Portland in the last 3 years.

I'm stumped.

Seriously... Need some time off. I'd love some suggestions.

Only requirement is amazing food.

Thanks,
Mike
Apple makes plenty of UI nightmares. Examples include Snow Leopard firewall configuration dialog, the leather versions of iCal/Contacts, the finder, etc.
You're just as dead if you jump from a railroad bridge, though.

http://www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/safety/tdreport_final.pdf

is a Federal Railroad Administration report that breaks down the cause of trespasser fatalities. This isn't 100% comparable to the previous report, but it does claim that 23% of trespasser fatalities are suicides.

Appendix H breaks down the reported fatalities - it looks like walking and sleeping (drunk?) on tracks each claim more lives than suicide.

One really interesting story is the massive increase in car safety. Deaths per 100M vehicle miles have dropped from 1.73 in 1994 to about 1.09 in 2010.

Fundamentally, I'm not sure any of this matters. We're talking a very small difference in safety - to the point where convenience is probably more important to most people.
They did create their own VM -- Dalvik.