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Here in Italy, most places don't seem to have all that much in terms of programs or much to encourage cycling - or at least if they do, they're fairly recent.

What they do have are densely populated cities, making driving expensive and inconvenient, and cycling a better option in terms of the number of places you can reach in a given amount of time.
A helmet might not guarantee safety, but it is an effective protection against a brain injury. If you fall off your bike and break your collarbone or leg or something, it's not really a big deal. Bones heal with virtually no permanent damage, brain injuries don't.

It isn't about removing all risk - some danger is inherent in pretty much everything you do. The point is to manage the risk, and take acceptable precautions where they are convenient.
Thank you @001sky for explaining and @jpxxx for confirming. :)
Common sense is an awful way to evaluate risk. Common sense will tell you that it's safer to drive than to fly when traveling, for example.
Google Scholar finds many research papers on the effectiveness of TDD: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=test-driven+development+...
Tell me more about how you bought a smaller device two years after your iPad and it does everything the iPad did for less money.
When they originally released iPad 1, they probably didn't quite anticipate how graphical and visual the user interfaces would eventually turn out to be.

I mean... they did release a device that's basically just a huge screen...
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Davis and Isla Vista (where UCSB is) are two cities in California where bicycling is great. The infrastructure is certainly nice but the main thing that makes it great is that there are so many bicycles that they run the streets. Cars are second class citizens and just have to drive slow and wait a lot. Safety in numbers. It's very similar in Vietnam with motorbikes (electric scooters). They do whatever they want, because there are so many of them, and the cars just have to wait.

I see a pretty decent number of bikes riding around near where I live in Mountain View but I'm scared for them. They are always riding solo and surrounded by cars who may or may not even be aware they are there.
As other commenters have pointed out, the MobileMe letter was internal. Apple is not an outwardly bulleted-list kind of company.
As a driver, those bicycle boulevards, like Vermont Ave, in Berkeley are confusing to me. I just don't know what is supposed to be different about those streets, they seem like regular streets except for the designation.
There is an association in France that is lobbying against helmets for bike commuters (and advocating them for competitive cyclist) and they have collected a pretty large amount of data on the issue:

http://www.fubicy.org/spip.php?article191

it turns out that head injuries are not very common when riding at slow speed. An helmet would actually be more useful for a pedestrian.
Bicycles can be left locked up where-ever you go, but helmets either need to be carried around once you arrive, or you need some place to put them.
I think the problems arise when app devs have to jump through an increasing number of hoops to maintain backwards comparability...which I'm sure is additionally aggravating because, as you say, the iPad appears "to do everything it did from Day 1"

Of course, the comparability game is nothing new. The problem is that as an iOS user, you haven't choice to upgrade to the latesst compatible version of an app. You only have the choice to install thhe most recent version of the app. Or at least this is what I understand is a barrier for both devs and users. At least with PCs, devs had the option of providing 32 and 64 bit versions of their latest software
+1. Mandatory training or some of kind education or just plain warning/ticketing bikers for riding unsafely is a key point. Just as there are a ton of inattentive drivers, there are a ton of inattentive bicyclists that do not ride defensively and put themselves in unnecessary dangerous situations.
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What Apple has done with the iPad 1 (I'll refrain from speculating on motives, as I have absolutely no idea why they actually EOL'd it) is still not as bad as what they've done with armv6 devices. A developer, if they want (and some won't), can still support the iPad 1 fairly easily (or as easily as any support for iOS 5). The iPhone 3G and older, on the other hand, are truly unsupported; it is impossible to build for these devices in the iOS 6 SDK[1], making them a nightmare to support (and impossible to support alongside armv7s code for the new iPhone).

[1]: http://blog.chpwn.com/post/31824877081
I would have liked iOS 6 but you know what? My iPad still works and still does everything I bought it to do. Sure, it might be cool to have some of the new features but I'm perfectly happy without them.
I actually think that in this case, Uber does a good job of protecting privacy. I don't see the email address or the last name of the people that I referred, just their first name. I'm assuming that means that they don't see my name/email either when they sign up via my link.
I'm not sure if you're missing the point willfully or accidentally, but you are either way. No one should have to expect to be sleazed onto if they're at a bar.
So we are going to ignore the 800lb gorilla? We will ignore the fact these firms which are the largest applicants for visas are being investigated by the FBI. And conversely think that Microsoft is doing this not for cheap labor, and there is no PR spin whatsoever around the 'Engineering Shortage' topic. I couldn't buy that.
Its an interesting business question, "How much do we invest in supporting the old generation vs the return?"

Apple really hasn't set a way to price it. They could of course, they could price an iPad 1 version of IOS6 to see what the market would pay for the capability. But you get maybe one shot at that.

They could do an 'upgrade today' offer where you sent them and iPad and they gave you a discount on a new iPad, but if they sold you the new iPad at the 'loaded cost' (which is COGS + warranty support + inventory costs) it might not be as much of a discount as you could get by just applying the money you got on ebay toward a new one.
Generally, I've seen three types of injuries with regard to cycling -- the classic being the collar bone breaking, next up some road rash (ie, you know how to lay your bike down or slide out due to a rear flat tire at speed), and head trauma. The first two, the helmet is useless to help. The third? Usually pretty darn helpful.

Around here in Santa Cruz, a town known for biking -- many local builders, a couple of clubs, and a very forceful pro-bike lobby -- we still don't have the infrastructure that places like Portland or Amsterdam have. In fact, the roads are pretty much crap in most places. So you have to be careful. One recent solo accident involved a young adult who was biking at night on a dark road (dumb) but also not wearing a helmet. He crashed. Currently he is in critical condition. Pretty sure a helmet (and a light) would have helped him out.

The story -- http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_21655013/santa...

Personally, I've had some spills while mountain biking where a helmet has come in pretty darn handy.
I recently moved to Tulsa, OK. I bought a condo on Riverside Drive because the area, atmosphere, people, places, etc. all reminded me of being in Palo Alto to a degree.

Every day, since I got here, I have been biking to work. However, I would still get things like groceries and little trinkets with my car.

Go to last Friday/Saturday (sometime during the night or early morning). I went outside, to get in my car, to go visit my friends about 75 miles away in another city (Stillwater, OK).

My car was gone.

I immediately called the police and my insurance provider (I have full coverage). The insurance company gave me a rental and is processing my claim right now. I have not used the rental car yet. It's still at the rental company. They said to call whenever I'm ready to pick it up. I ended up biking to get my groceries and instead of drudging it like I thought. I enjoy it and look forward to 30-60 minutes I nonchalantly bike down Riverside Drive on the bike path to the store and back every day. I wonder what Winters will be like now? I'll replace the car if and when insurance finishes with my claim.

For the Midwest, the area of Tulsa that I live in it is extremely bike friendly. Relatively anyway.

Edit: Grammar, clarity.
HN is also the only one that shows Linux at all.
The iPad 1 feels much slower than the iPhone 3GS does today. Although I don't like this move, having played with my friends iPad 1 recently. I feel that anything further than iOS6 might slow down the device considerably. When I installed iOS6 on my 4S it became much faster which is unusual for me.
Yes, I can quite easily think of Graham's number - I call it G.

You might think that I'm saying that in jest, but it is actually the way of things. There are quite literally an infinite number of numbers. Why should Graham's be important enough for us to consider. For that matter, why should we consider 1?

The answer lies in part in the question - why - it must be important in some way. That is exactly the case - we only consider numbers that, for some reason, relate to problems we are facing, whether it be in mathematics, programming, or grocery shopping, and even then not on their own merits. Past a certain point, you don't hold numbers in your head as little balls, but rather their decimal encoding. That's a clever hack, but not without its downsides. Ask some people randomly if they were in a position to decide, how much budget would they allocate to save 10000 birds, and ask others the same with 100000 birds. The mean of the second answer would not be ten times that of the first (unless your subjects know and actively try to work around that particular bias).

But back to Graham's number - if you think the only way to imagine it is to hold its decimal notation in your head - the obvious question is why? Why not hexadecimal? Octal? Why any base-p encoding at all? The usual reason to use base-10 is to quickly get an idea of the magnitude of a number relative to things we are familiar with and do some simple arithmetical manipulations on it. Both of these are pointless for Graham's number. Relative to familiar things like billions and trillions it's quite a ways of the chart, and adding, subtracting, or even raising to powers of such makes relatively no difference.

Besides which, in this case it isn't really pointless, it's impossible. Jokes about collapsing into black holes aside, there aren't enough bits of information in the universe to encode the decimal representation of Graham's number. There aren't enough bits of information to encode the number of digits of that. Not enough even to encode the number of digits of the number of digits. Interestingly, there also aren't enough bits to encode the number of times you'll have to repeat taking the base-10 logarithm to get back to a universal scale.

Which goes to show that not only your mind, but no entity in the universe can accomplish the feat of representing an arbitrary number in decimal notation, mathematician or otherwise. And what is the point, really? G is a perfectly good symbol, and so is g_64. Usefulness is important, not imagining a string of balls. For that matter, I bet you've been perfectly content to use Pi on at least a few occasions, even though in terms of representability in decimal, it is infinitely worse than Graham's number.
Incidentally, Vancouver's bike share is well en route to a stillbirth thanks to BC's think-of-the-children (literally, http://web.archive.org/web/20100829214539/http://www.richmon...) helmet law. It was first supposed to launch in spring of 2012, there's still no concrete date as of today.
The one apple-to-apple comparision is the touch command. You would think that touch would not be that big:

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/touch.c
Prostitues usually can choose and refuse, who they will have sex with. Maybe you were one of those, who do not have such choice?
There's actually some organized opposition to bike lanes in the US, from some of the more conspiracy theory oriented members of the Tea Party and the Libertarians. They think bike lanes are part of the UN's "Agenda 21", which they see as a nefarious plot to take away our sovereignty.

Bike lanes, for example, according to these people encourage people to bike more, which encourages higher density cities (as people want to be within bike range of work). Having us packed tighter into cities will make it easier for the UN troops to round is up and take away our guns and then our property.

These people tend to be politically active, and have turned up in enough numbers at some city councils where bike lanes were being considered to shout down those in favor or bike lanes, and scare the politicians into thinking bike lanes are actually controversial among the general electorate.

The Republican Party is encouraging this stuff. They made opposition to Agenda 21 an official part of their party platform. They didn't mention any particular things, like bike lanes, put simply mentioning Agenda 21 is going to encourage the conspiracy nuts.

Plenty of amusing but frightening on this in Goole, if you are curious. Here's a good start: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/06/inside-agend...
I feel like NReduce is the right answer, coincidental that it starts in a few days..
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Maybe outside of the denser urban areas it's cheap. Inside them though, I can't imagine how one could justify it being "cheap". Everything is built up already with cars in mind. You might say "Turn an existing car lane into a bike lane" - that is vastly more complicated than you might think. You're reworking traffic patterns, displacing parking spaces, and in the end just painting lines on the ground that no driver is obligated to respect. In some cities that can be an utter nightmare - I'm thinking mainly of DC here with the convoluted road network(which already has a few bike lanes and more on the way, as well as a widespread bike-sharing program). I want bike lanes or otherwise improved bike access too, but it is an immense proposition for a dense urban core that was developed around the automobile. In a lot of cases the issue is not that there is a lack of demand from the people or attention from public officials, it's that the planning and execution involved can be a nightmare.
100% bad UX, which I believe to be intentional. Un-disablable garbage that only benefits the spammer. In fact, the chief evolutionary contribution of Facebook to the world may only ever be new forms of spam.
You are absolutely right. Streetfilms.org is a great place to see short videos that show how the Europeans/Scandinavians do it. Here are a few examples:

http://www.streetfilms.org/cycling-copenhagen-through-north-...

http://www.streetfilms.org/copenhagens-car-free-streets-and-...

http://www.streetfilms.org/copenhagen-cargo-bikes/

They also have many films about infrastructure, like physically separated bike lanes;

http://www.streetfilms.org/physically-separated-bike-lanes/

You can also look up films about places like Amsterdam for more.
I don't get why the author feels the need to rationalize the decision as not motivated by money. Sure, it isn't the whole reason. But there is just little motivation to get iOS 6 on the iPad. Apple does a better job than pretty much everyone else in this area, but dropping hardware from iOS6 is win-win from Apple's perspective. Easier engineering effort while incentivizing upgrades.

I'm one of those iPad 1 owners left out of iOS 6, and I don't begrudge Apple that. If it was that important to me, I'd plunk down the cash.
It's not like Android devices have a good track record regarding updates.

I'm an iPad 1 user bought when it launched on USA (imported, I'm on Europe) and I use it every day. From RSS (Reeder) to video streaming (Plex) and SSH (Prompt).

It's running iOS5 good enough, iOS6 is out but my iPad 1 hasn't imploded and it's still working. There may be some Apps that won't work on it in the near future, but I doubt it will bother me enough to upgrade or switch to a worse platform. Most apps still target 4.2.
This article is asinine.

Not once does the "journalist" mention the absurd price of NYC's program (up to $77 for 4 hours) vs. the $2 she pays in Paris.

Further, let's not forget the safer bike lanes or areas in European cities. Getting hit while riding in NYC is not an 'if', it's a 'when.' The number of cycling deaths here are absurd. I'd hate to see the figures if we actively discouraged helmet use.

The NYT should be embarrassed they ran this piece.
Silliness. There is already widespread support for bike lanes and bike sharing in many US cities, these people are not going to affect anything.
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Why do you quote free market and not the government. Neither one has any interest in actually promoting safety- both are only interested in security theater or protecting their bottom line. See the profitable war on drugs or the TSA. I really don't know the answer to the question, but the clear victor certainly isn't the government.
I'm incredibly disappointed with the quality of conversation in this thread. I expected a nice conversation about risks versus benefits. Instead, I see a bunch of people arguing with anecdotes and insults, and turning on anyone who makes even the slightest attempt to look at the situation rationally.
Nothing in general.

And nothing is wrong with the idea of safer flights by banning weapons.

The implementation is crap and (mostly) useless though, in both cases.

If bikes _need_ to wear helmets, that's just taping about other problems. If bikers cause problems on their own (crossing red lights, driving insane and ignoring the law) I'd suggest that they wear helmets or stop using that bike.. If bikers are regularly hit by idiot car drivers and 'wearing a helmet' seems to help, soemtimes, somewhat, maybe, then the problem is elsewhere and should result in

- harsher penalties for the car drivers (20 times the mass, 80+ times the horsepower). Let them bleed in court, if the bikers bleed literally

- better infrastructure (note that this is point 2 for me. There's no excuse for being an ass even if there's no dedicated bike lane)

So .. the question you totally ignored is 'Why helmets in general and why do people force them on others in the first place'. Why?
rubenstein atrium at lincoln center. they're associated with a whichcraft, so you can get food/beer/coffee there if you want, there is wifi, but it's a public space so you don't have to buy stuff if you don't want to.
So the faults of AirBnB would be much clearer if the author would make clear that he understands he made obvious mistakes. This is one of those cases a little bit of mea culpa would have made his point so much clearer. As it is the reader skips over judgement for AirBnB and only thinks about how can this author think what he did to his family was ok.
In my experience, you don't need to order anything to get a passcode, just ask one of the people working there.
Not sure he wants it publicized, but it's not getting much traction, so what the hell:

http://ufounders.com/
I didn't get an iPad 1, partly because I figured the 2nd or 3rd gen device would be so much better. Standing behind me in the iPad 2 line was a guy that had just sold his iPad 1 for $100 less than he'd paid for it. Essentially leasing an iPad for $100 a year sounds like a fine deal. It made me wonder why Apple doesn't do leases or some sort of hardware "subscriptions".
I'd be interested to see an iOS developer's perspective on when they're going to start requiring iOS 6. From a user's perspective, I don't see any features that are going to encourage devs to drop iOS 6 compatibility (eg. ARC; background support).

It's big these types of features and functionality that are going to determine the usefulness and longetivity of iOS 5.
Sure, and I use my Oyster card most days.

But years ago TfL tried using NFC - a trial with the Nokia 6131. Ultimately it was rejected as it was too slow at the gates, a genuine concern in stations that see tens to hundreds of thousands move through it at peak times. Even now they still dismiss it as slow, as El Reg points out, despite the fact they don't appear to have actually redone any testing to confirm this.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/01/nfc_tube/print.html
I just ordered "How to Solve It" and "SICP". They seem to be exactly what I'm looking for!

The problem with CLRS is that I haven't had a discrete mathematics course yet, so the math involved in the book is way over my head right now.

Thank you for providing all those resources. I'll definitely make sure to check into the remaining books and lectures.
You really shouldn't see any of that. I do lots of affiliate marketing and companies rarely give any more information than whether or not people met the requirements for me to get paid - and how much they are paying, if I'm on a revenue share deal.

It's really none of my business who they are and would be an invasion of their privacy for me to know - in my opinion.

I guess an argument could be made for refer-a-friend programs working differently, but the default should always be sharing this kind of data only on a need-to-know basis.
Just ordered it on Amazon! Thanks!
Ah, I remember solving a few of those a while ago. Unfortunately I'm not very mathematically inclined, and some of the problems there are extremely difficult to figure out.
I wouldn't call it a scam, but it's very cleverly worded and benefits from (or takes advantage of) impulsive or rushed buys. Things like "complete checkout" but not "and join" on the button for example. It's more a matter of ethics.

Asked the wife if she heard of the site and she recounted a tale similar to the OP, albeit not spanning 8 months, only 2-3. And as I had assumed, was able to get shoes for the months she was charged for before she cancelled...which is cool. But, again, it wasn't overly obvious to her either. And my wife is a smart (and CHEAP) woman who would notice an unobsured message that she'd be billed once a month.
This is not a big concern, all modern devices with NFC have to have the screen unlocked before the NFC radio turns on.
Here in Colorado a couple years ago the Republican nominee for governor (who was a Tea Party insurgent) tried attacking the Democratic nominee for this. The Dem nominee was the then-mayor of Denver and had pushed for and gotten a bike share program in the city. Everyone realized the Republican was nuts and it started a downhill spiral in his campaign.
Why `p` though? That's a method on Kernel already and does puts(args.inspect)
i'm not an hardware expert, so I cannot tell you excactly how it works, but the point is: The device will calculate the same result in shorter time -> from what I know: If you want to calculate faster, you need more energy
Also I don't think the devices are built to supply the CPU with less power while using the GPU.

Again: these are mostly assumptions, I'm not a hardware architect!
Revenue is king. Ethics are optional.
Wix Lounge is pretty great. http://www.wixlounge.com/

It's open 9-5 every day near Union Square. Has coffee and decent chairs, though can get a little loud.
Clearly a bit biased but the argument that patent law should rise up through the circuits like any other branch of law is a good one. That is something actionable you could ask your representative to 'fix' (note to would be lobbiests, the best results are when you whine for something achievable, this wins on that basis it "makes sense" (which should patent law be special now) and its within their purview.