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Then, by all means, continue to use the taxi system.

I find it shameful that there is a defacto-forced monopoly. Another comment hand a link to DC's taxi system about illegal taxis. It seems strange to me that we have regulations on something that... isn't a limited resource.

I can understand enabling regulations for limited resources like electrics or water, but transportation? I'm... boggled to think what benefit comes from a regulated taxi system beyond customer safety? Sure, we should have a registered driver and some customer protection laws, but... a monopoly?

I like the idea of competition to deliver a diversity of goods to a diverse set of markets. I'm glad for Uber because it's changing the game and stirring the status-quo. Sure, it's more expensive, but's it raising the industry which will cut into the regular taxi's margins. I'm optimistic that taxi's average quality will improve to steal away some of Uber's customers.
I would like to know why humans are required to search for flights? Are there significant technical problems that one would face if he tries to write a computer program to do the same? I assume an automated search would be more thorough, and would produce better results, and would also be cheaper. In fact, services like Hipmunk could offer this kind of optimization to travellers for free.
...Which supports what I said, as only a small number of the studies listed as completed show the results, and even the ones that do don't show the raw data.
"In the future people will look back at comments like this and wonder how we could be so blind."

Are you trying to suggest people are going to look back on your comment and wonder how you were so blind? I'm kind of wondering that right now.
So what are your proposals for feeding a continually growing global population? Or are you in favor of population control?
"One of the problems is that students don't know what makes a good teacher."

Students don't need to know what makes a good teacher. They only need to be able to assess whether they learned, and whether they had fun in the process. Whether they learned enough is pretty much an orthogonal issue, and one that can and will be dealt with through standardized testing. Students also don't really need to give any thought to a teacher's specific methods in order to offer useful information.
In fact, I did say in my blog that "I’m no industrial designer and I’m not saying that both sides must be flush, because of some kind of design philosophy that I might not know." The purpose of writing something like this is to spur a discussion, in which I express a personal opinion, hear counter points, and maybe learn something along the way. Your "sigh" does neither, and I don't need your judging skills to tell me whether I think or am a designer.
This would be a great time for a new Ubuntu derivative to step in and command the future of desktop Linux. Something that brought a fresh DE and friendly applications. (And no ads).

One that even happened to look nice: http://imgur.com/a/AbCwV/

(Not associated with elementary OS but very much enjoying it. It is a bit buggy still).
That also depends on the terms of your funding. It's your choice to give up board control; you can negotiate for a majority voting stake, but you have to have negotiating leverage. Zuckerburg not only kept sole control of his company, he also took cash off the table, so even if Facebook tanked in 2006 he would still end up a millionaire.
"Any citations for this?"

There are only a handful of studies because it's considered kind of a dumb question to ask. But Alfie Kohn references some of them in his books, I think in What Does It Mean To Be Well Educated? But the ones that exist consistently show the same thing.

This includes the huge internal study that Google HR did:

"Unfortunately, most of the academic research suggests that the factors Google has put the most weight on — grades and interviews — are not an especially reliable way of hiring good people."

"When all this was completed, Dr. Carlisle set about analyzing the two million data points the survey collected. Among the first results was confirmation that Google’s obsession with academic performance was not always correlated with success at the company."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/technology/03google.html?e...
So innovation is a capitalist plot. Got it.
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Oh biscuits. I see. Thanks for the info/link.
Registration wasn't mandatory until around 2007 or so. The studies from the article you linked are much older than that.
Blame is a strong word, which is not what I did. I just said I didn't like it, which is a personal opinion and that doesn't demean anyones working on these things at Apple. You are just repeating what my blog said, which is that they made a decision that I didn't like :)
Microsoft comes to mind. They didn't really have a sustainable revenue model for four years and I believe didn't take any VC until right before their IPO.
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That is not a summary of the article at all.

You've missed the most important part. Ekrich is the historian who discovered that people's sleep used to be divided into two periods, separated by a waking period in the middle of the night. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep

(The Tl;DR thing is annoying on HN anyway. If it's too long for you, and you didn't read it, there's no merit in announcing the fact.)
"But how are we to know what Jobs would and wouldn't have allowed?". Thanks for pointing out the obvious. My statement of what Jobs would have done was purely hypothetical. I could have ended that with "Hell yes!" and that would be an equally plausible scenario. When did I say it was a step backwards? I just pointed out one thing on the phone that bothered me (and clearly isn't bothering many people), and that I didn't like it. That's all!
I can't tell if you're evading the question. Is every registered study a published study?
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It's entirely possible to say "there are too many people on the Earth" and not believe in eugenics at the same time without being contradictory. Strongly implying that they're one and the same isn't conducive to progress.

To me, the OP's statement read as "we have too many people for the resources/practices we have at the moment", which means a change of practices is most likely our best (only?) option.
I am not in favour of population control and mentioned it in a comment I made above.

I think feeding the population now has become a form of population control anyhow. Did you see the latest French study on GMO? Irradiated and pesticide laden food takes its toll not only humans but animals and bees (colony collapse disorder) too. I'd suggest moving to biodynamic farming methods gradually. Such food is more nutritious anyhow. For your interest, I can stop my appetite dead in its tracks with a zinc supplement, (that's soil depletion for you.)
Results aren't reported immediately. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/info/results
seems like more people are in the same boaat as you but unfortunately apple is targeting mainstream consumers and not the hardcore users who know what they are buying and also tend to be much less in numbers to affect apple's revenues.

if all developers stopped buying apple hardware tomorrow would it really hurt apple ?
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The majority of the city tax dollars still come from tourism, not tech. That business is so lucrative that the government can remain extremely inefficient for an indefinite period without facing a major crisis. As well, it's playing a huge role in the low-growth policies, by raising various fears about keeping the views intact and the money flowing.

Oakland is actually in a better position to do the right thing w/r to growth, even with all its other problems.
But. That's the thing. They CAN 'bugger off' home at any time. And often do.

If a particular market maker can't work for some reason with some particular symbol [there are thousands of symbols], at some particular time, he would just pause. And they often do.
walmart doesn't forbid you from walking into another store and buying it though.
"I don't think the literature is nearly as scientific as you seem to think it is, nor do I credit Hahnemann with the shift to empiricism in medicine, which came later."

Well I should admit that I'm not an expert on this, but if you read the JAMA book review of the book I mentioned above:

"By taking the homeopathy of that period seriously himself, Haller is able to remind readers that 19th-century homeopaths pioneered systematic drug-testing research, challenged the dangerously depleting procedures of mainstream physicians at that time, established rigorous professional standards, and valued advanced education at least as highly as their mainstream counterparts did. It was not without reason that homeopaths considered the bases of their approach to medical problems to be more logical and more promising than the inherited tradition of the ancients, upon which mainstream physicians still based their practices."

You have to remember also that 'scientific' is a relative term. Placebo controlled trials weren't invented until the 50s. And doing properly controlled placebo trials (with active placebos) is very rare even today.

Homeopathy of the 1860s and 1870s might not seem at all scientific by today's standards, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a significant advance in science at the time. (And by the way this was well after Hahnemann, who did most of his work on homeopathy in the 1810s and was already long dead by this time.)
Thing is, it doesn't seem to be beyond quite a few people here or elsewhere on the Internet. Appealing to authority is no way to prove a point. I wouldn't trust an architect to actually lay bricks.
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Same thing really. He couldn't reinstall application that he owned. Because access to the installer was convoluted.
Well there are leagues that do both. I prefer daily for the precise reason that it requires my daily attention. I tend to forget about things that only need be dealt with once a week (Ie fantasy football) and often end up with abandoned teams. As such the daily format of baseball works better for me as I am paying attention to it every day.

I understand your concern about the full time job thing, but honestly the point of it all is to have fun. Also don't we always say on here that when you're doing something you love, it doesn't feel like work?
Interesting, this is more than I thought was required. But even still, it's much less than the amount of data the FDA actually gets. Not to mention that of the 1508 drugs the FDA has approved since 1940, this only useful for the 50 or so approved in the last couple years.

Also, the last time I heard phase IV trials didn't need to be registered at all, except for when they were required as a condition of approval.
We have too many stupid people, or rather stupid people in power. And with that, we have evil as its replacement.

But my suggestion would be people try to awaken to their lifeforce which is infinite, (just like the cosmos) and then to look at places with the highest and then lowest birthrates: to lower birthrates you raise standards of living, right, you don't kill people?
"What's the purpose of having both?"

What's the purpose of looking at multiple polls when you're trying to predict the outcome of the upcoming election? More evidence gives you higher confidence and lower margin of error. And as the article says, these student surveys provide clean, stable data that doesn't fluctuate very much from year to year and doesn't require much correction for race and family income.

These surveys take on the order of 10-15 minutes. That's nothing compared to a battery of standardized tests. They wouldn't have to be very informative at all in order to be worth the small sacrifice of instructional time, and if they're the second-best predictor of class achievement, then they're certainly worth the time (if the results are actually used).

I don't think there's going to be much movement to stop paying attention to standardized tests and curriculums, since these surveys don't measure the same thing - roughly speaking, the standardized tests seek to measure how much was learned, and these surveys add a dimension of why.
> I had no problems getting around on foot

sure, when you're only visiting, you don't have kids, etc. Many people aren't amenable to having a minimum half hour walk to get anywhere, and if your grocery store is anything but close by, you're in trouble if you don't go shopping every few days (having a grocery store every few blocks is one of my favorite things about high density living situations).

> Yes. It'd have been great with more buses and trains

and even where there are a few, it can take you two hours to get to friends only 10 or 15 miles away (this is more due to the design of their interlinks). If you want to encourage people to take public transit and walk more, you can't make cars so convenient for most of the ways they travel around the bay area.

> I could get to the grocery store. I could get to plenty of shops. I could get to dozens of restaurants - I know this from making a point out of trying new restaurants every time I was in town - as well as bars etc.

And this shows the real reason behind your post: you were staying in a hotel on El Camino :) Head up into one of the neighborhoods nearby and suddenly nothing is nearby. This is less of a problem in a city like Palo Alto, which is centered around El Camino and has a decent bus service, but for many of the towns along the 101, a car is pretty much the only way you can live there.

Meanwhile, take a look at the correlation between housing prices with the more walkable cities (like Palo Alto and Menlo Park that you mentioned). I won't be buying a house in any dense part of Palo Alto any time soon.

> years ago, I did go out clubbing in SF while staying in Santa Cruz without having a car to get me back - if you want it bad enough, even that works

No, it won't work unless you're paying hundreds for a cab, you get a friend to drive you, or you head home at like 6 in the evening. AFAIK, there's really no other way to do that (and transit on google maps isn't coming up with anything short of "wait 6 hours for transfer to bus").

I would say Caltrain having its last train at midnight is an even worst feature than its operating schedule.

> So, yes: Spoiled. Large parts of the worlds population - including in developed countries - are living places where getting to stuff they want or need takes far longer on average.

Sure, but that's a pretty useless definition of spoiled; essentially any non-utilitarian aspect of living would fall under it.

City planning and public transit exist to encourage good behavior and serve the public. Building walkable neighborhoods is good, building around public transit to make it accessible is also good. When you haven't done these things, "well, you should walk more" isn't going to fly when "buy a car" is so easy, and probably necessary anyways for those few times when the thing you need isn't accessible by public transit.

You're not going to make living in SF seem less cool or convenient any time soon, so all the current system is doing is encouraging car use and this private bus system.

-- non-car-owner considering moving up to SF because he's sick of using zipcar so often and commuting all weekend to see friends up in the city
Interesting observation, but I'd extend it to posit that maybe there is no "best" vehicle for hackers to become wealthy. It depends on the particular options available to you, and your "best" strategy is simply to consider all the options and pick the ones that seem most promising.

In an efficient market, eventually you'd expect that you'd be paid the same amount for equal amounts of value created. In today's low-capital, target-rich hacker environment, it seems like good hackers would eventually become indifferent to the particular corporate structure used, and would instead choose whatever corporate structure lets them work on the highest-impact problems. Sometimes that'll be a startup, sometimes it'll be a consulting firm, and sometimes it'll be employment at a large tech company.

Personally, I'm a plain old employee of a large tech firm. I see some of the financials that patio11 posts, and I'm making significantly more than that (we're the same age). I'm not nearly as well-off as tptacek, thanks to Matasano's acquisition, but I have a few years to catch up. I see rumors posted to HN about engineers at large tech companies making outlandish amounts of money, and I'm making more than that, and yet the comments are all "Wow. This seems unbelievable, it can't be true." I also know coworkers that are rumored to have those multi-million-$ retention grants; I'm fairly certain they exist.
For me a killer problem is that it doesn't have access to the massive Google Local place database, so I find myself unable to find the addresses of things I want directions to (making the question of whether I'd get good directions to the destination pointless).

Here are screenshots of an example situation I ran into yesterday, while trying to pick up my iPhone 5 from the UPS Customer Center:

http://cache.saurik.com/tinyimg/ios6upsmap.png
Hmm, does anyone actually use Siri, I mean besides playing with it for a few minutes when they first get their iphone?

My impression thus far is that the main use-case for Siri is looking for jokes...
Numbers on that -- citation anywhere?
University grading is seldom second-guessed with wide-scale standardized testing, which is the perfect vehicle for counteracting the grade inflation incentive. In primary schools, if the data shows your students love you but they keep flunking, you won't get a bonus, you'll get demoted to gym teacher.
Eventually, as they would start developing on new platforms, revitalizing Apple's competitors, and so, after a while, people would notice that there is a better (and most probably cheaper) alternative.
These are good lessons for life, and for business.

>> The less you consume, the more you create

This is ultimately the best thing you can do. Instead of being a consumer, be a producer. This is why when I come home from a day of building "the cloud", I write fiction or paint.

>> The less stuff you have, the simpler life gets.

Very true; the less features your product has, the simpler it is to maintain and operate.

>> Stop living in the future

I failed at this pretty hard and had a minor 29-year old crisis. I worked all through college and summers, built a company, then found "what am I doing??"
Yeah. Pirating is almost an ethical choice in these cases :)

Unfortunately pirated packages are often filled with malware. Not exactly what you want. So a much better choice is just going with open source. Picasa, instead of iPhoto, etc...
I am pretty sure that you do not need to worry about Betteridge's Law coming up. The headline is not a question and after reading the article I do not know how you could restate it as a question with the answer being "No."

Did you read the article?
Welcome to the club! If you knew what you were doing, then you're be stagnating. The moment you know what you are doing, then enjoy it for 5 to 10 minutes, then you move on to the next step and there you are again... ignorant.
If, by published you mean published in a peer-reviewed journal, then no. Studies are registered before they start, but clinical trials fail or are withdrawn for various reasons (like safety problems, lack of funding, etc).

I imagine that registered studies that are completed are published if they have positive results, or negative results that contradict other well-known positive results. There's no reason not to publish if you get a good or interesting result. But publication can take years, so I don't think it's particularly unusual to see a completed study without a corresponding publication.

But again, the specific cases you linked predate the current registration and reporting requirements.
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Fair enough.

I think I (and many others) latched onto the Steve Jobs thing because it's a bold statement and because it's your concluding paragraph.

I asked if you thought it was a step backwards because you said you liked the iPhone 4, but not the 5 (and of course also because Steve Jobs was around for the earlier launch). Neither side of the iPhone 4 is flush with the frame—it's literally a bit rough around the edges.
Now I'm interested in why you're interested in knowing why people thought the link was useful.

If you have an opinion about the post in question, why not just state it?
Reminds me of this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2011013
Is that actually true? I remember my dad always complaining that the supermarket had stopped carrying his favorite snacks & meals. And I can think of a few of my childhood favorite foods that are only available in New England, and I very much miss them now that I'm out in California. People do home-cooked meals all the time that combine ingredients in ways that store-bought food doesn't have, and they have family recipes handed down through generations for things that can't be bought in stores.

I suspect that most of what people want to eat is in local stores only because their wants are constrained by what's available. Typically, people don't continue to want what they can't have for long periods of time, because it just makes them unhappy. I suspect that if you solved the perishability problem, there'd be a huge untapped market for long-tail foods.
> The reason people are choosing Uber is because the taxis suck. It's really that simple.

It isn't really that simple, of course.

Taxis may indeed generally suck in some places. They certainly don't suck in others.

Some places with non-sucky-in-general taxis: Japan, the U.K. (in Japan, the main issue with taxis is that they can be expensive ... but of course, that's one area where Uber apparently sucks as well...).

Indeed, pretty much every place I've ever ridden in a taxi, the service has been absolutely fine. Granted NYC taxi-drivers can be a bit annoying (e.g. spending the entire ride talking at loud volume on their cellphone, getting pissy if you they think you didn't tip enough), but I've never had an actual issue.
> As a developer, in addition to retraining yourself, you also may need to change jobs fairly often. Often it's the only way to utilize and develop newly acquired skills if you want to stay relevant and make the skill acquisition worth it.

This is a good point. It is very easy to pigeonholed on a big company project to work for five years, but only get "one year of experience, five times."
Great list. I'd add that "stop living in the past. learn from it but move on. forgive yourself and others."
Isn't that circular reasoning:

"Startups that constrain their growth..."

If it's cited as an example of a startup that constrains its growth, of course its growth rate is going to be low. The real question is whether it stays in business and is a worthwhile investment for its founder.
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