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In the recent past, I've spent a decent amount of time commuting by train. I've used Caltrain (which is fine), Bart (which is usually nicer) and even both (which is... less nice).

I've actually found the train ride to be valuable. It gave me an hour or two a day of uninterrupted time when I could focus on what I wanted to do: either work on my side projects or read books.

In the recent past, I've been too busy to read much fiction; having time on a train which was "useless" anyhow let me get back into it. I enjoyed a whole bunch of fantasy and SF novels thanks to having a commute. This is where something like a Kindle really helps: it's light and convenient enough to read even if I can't get a seat, and I can carry as many books at once as I want. It also let me re-read the Wheel of Time series on the train, which would not have been practical with hardcover (or even paperback) copies of the books :P.

If I did manage to get a seat--and, since I often travelled at off-peak hours, I usually did--I had other options as well. For one, I could work on my own projects. This was particularly nice because I had a very limited amount of time, say exactly 40 minutes. This helped me focus on specific tasks, like fixing some bugs, that would have been less interesting if I was planning to work for several hours at home.

Another option was reading non-fiction. I actually learned a good deal about theoretical CS, programming languages and type theory last summer. Partly, this was because I was working at an awesome startup; however, reading academic material on the train also helped immensely. Since the train had less distractions than virtually anywhere else I spend time, I was able to get through denser passages without any compulsions to do something else (like go on HN :P).

I've also found the train a good place to read CS papers; since the time I can spend on it is inherently limited, it helps me get a quick overview that is neither too deep nor too shallow. Given an unbounded amount of time, I tend to either quickly skim a paper and get distracted or spend far too much time thinking about particular details. Reading something on a train helps me get a holistic and useful first impression.

One thing I've learned from experience: if at all possible, avoid transfers. This is especially bad between different services like Caltrain and Bart, but even Bart's timed transfers are decidedly sub-optimal. Two 20-minute chunks with a five-minute break in the middle are significantly less useful than a single 40-minute chunk. Also, knowing you will have to get up to transfer soon definitely creates more of an overhead for opening your laptop or getting a book out of your bag.

Anyhow, in total, I'm actually pretty happy if I can commute by train. Even though it does take up a fair amount of time, the time can actually be useful. I've even found the constraints make me more productive for certain things than just having that time at home.
Probably, it's been 15 years since I commuted.. ;-) I'm not sure I could do anything "productive" standing on a smartphone though but I imagine it'd be great for catching up with Letterpress(!)

The south east of England is notorious for crowded public transport. You're basically looking at several million people hitting it at the same time (and driving is a nightmare so public transport is very busy).
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In the Boston area, Boston Organics will deliver a tasty assortment of organic fruits weekly. We get this at my office, and it goes fast. http://www.bostonorganics.com/

I'm sure there are equivalents in other cities.
On the opposite side of things, has anyone had experience trying to move outside the US without a degree?
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I need to pay that persons training, the wage for the lost day of work once a year. The training cost itself is negligible, but a day not billed to a customer costs me ~ 800 USD. I can nearly pay an AED for that.

However, given that a colleague nearly died from a stroke (he completely recovered) and another colleague permanently failed to show up for work after a bike crash, I think that having more people solidly trained in emergency procedures can't be a bad thing. And a one-time investment for medical equipment mandated for companies from a certain size on might be a good thing to consider.
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Ah, so straight-up referral spam becomes acceptable when done by somebody who should know better? Cool!

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I think something other than "Hello World" would have been better. "WorldHandler" is awkward. The comparison is neat but do something more classically concurrent. even a simple producer consumer could probably be done with nearly a find and replace.
Escrow has its own risk and cost. The hilarious thing with previous online currencies (E-Gold, OSGold, Pecunix, ...) was that the escrow providers themselves were often the weak link.
No, time wasted due to commuting definitely isn't just a Belgian phenomenon. What's most annoying about this is that this terrible waste of time could be alleviated so easily by having people work remotely.
However, most employers still just don't seem to get how letting people work remotely has huge advantages for employers as well.
I'd love to learn about examples of particular socio-economic reasons in particular countries for cybercrime being more mature than IT business.
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Why is HN hosting a direct link to a page that quite possibly contains driveby malware (as opposed to a statement and a warning next to the link). That is irresponsible.
And even if it did work out somehow (take all the hours spent commuting, work out their value, etc.) the chance of an average person getting a deposit saved and a mortgage on the remainder on a £600k property is next to zero even if you were earning £100k, say.
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Of course, and the Foleo was followed almost immediately with the x86-based netbooks. These devices seem to have grown out of the OLPC and intel's long time goal of shrinking their chips for mobile devices.

But why was there so much opposition to the Foleo? The software seemed quite useful, it had WiFi so even the lack cellular wasn't that much of a limitation. Netbooks may have run Windows desktop software but were largely used for web browsing and Microsoft Office.

I've heard the argument from some on the Palm team that the Foleo had to die, that it was more important to focus on the new webOS platform. But what software was used in the Foleo? A custom system built around Docs-To-Go. A menu which married keyboard-driven interfaces and full screen applications. The concern was that the Foleo wouldn't run the same software as the new hardware devices and also wouldn't run PalmOS software that the Palm developers were relying on, though they all knew that those revenue streams were already drying up. Of course, the new devices barely ran PalmOS software anyway with a required additional download of a trial of an emulator. That wasn't the death of the new platform though, Android and iOS were.

I'm aware that the Foleo was underpowered, but it was the first generation of a new device. It was the first netbook, and it is very similar in a lof of important ways to the new Microsoft Surface going on the size of the display and use of ARM processor.
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I guess that depends on why you mean by 'perfect health.'

I know :)

He may very well have been in perfect health by every outward appearance.

Exactly what I'm saying.

There are a large number of surprisingly minor things that can make you dead in an instant.

Yes, but my contention is that the likelihood of these things happening is influenced by the degree to which your health is "perfect".

some random cell in the heart decides it's pissed off and wants to contract early

Again, from my point of view, the likelihood of this happening, or the potential harm that can come of it, is influenced by the level of perfection in one's health.

Your comment is very informative btw, so thank you.

I know we're talking about areas of health that are not yet very well understood, which is why there is scope for discussion, and why there are no irrefutable facts that can close the debate.

But this is exactly what I'm taling about; I'm hoping for a time when medical science has progressed to a point where these issues are very well understood, and seemingly random cardiac arrests like this can be preempted and prevented. I believe it's possible.
Actually if you read the OPs statement twice, you'll realize that he just voices his surprise that no AED was on site and does not advocate anything.
I thought she was going to score poorly. "Barely" made it into MENSA, sheesh.
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Thanks a lot for the link, it is a very interesting study (reading that ATM), however they only consider the increase in year of education - or, as written in the comments on the blog "There is proof that more people received more years of schooling, but there is no proof that more people became more educated"

It could be another Leontief-like paradox, ie discarding the education efficiency.

I would be curious to know if such results hold when only STEM education is included (no humanities), and if there appear difference between pre-university and university education (I would expect raising the population literacy to have less effects - ie starting from a lower education might require more investment in education) once corrected by emigration (brain drain- remittances will help, but we're looking at something else)
With the exception of @comice, I think almost everyone here is missing the point of what this project is about.

It's not about legality of having the right to film in public. It's an act of art to point out the discrepancies in our perceptions of how we are surveilled.

When the camera is on a wall, it just becomes an object in the environment. When the camera is attached to a person walking around, it gets pulled out of the environment and into our perceived personal space. The end result is the same, video being captured of your actions at very close range and you don't know where it's going or what's being done with it.

The only difference is what the device is attached to. This is an animal instinct at play, and is why most people totally miss the point. We don't start responding at an emotional level until it feels like another creature has locked its eyes on us.

The last part to remember is how difficult it must have been for the guy. If you have ever done street photography, you'll immediately recall the gut-level discomfort that sometimes shows up when taking photos of strangers. When your subject looks back at you with those "why are you photographing me" eyes, you shirk. It takes a lot of repeat practice doing this until you learn to ignore that discomfort. This fellow was getting up close and personal with his subjects and it must have been 10 times worse. I can imagine he really had to psyche himself up to do it before he got over the discomfort.
I joined Mensa and left after three meetings. It seemed to me that they mistook being able to think quickly for being able to think clearly, much the same as a teenager who thinks he knows how to drive fast just because he has a car with a powerful engine.
To track someone through a crowd, you don't necessarily need continuous facial recognition. You can tag the identity to a person once using facial recognition or other means (credit card or ATM use if you have that data), and then revert to a more basic motion tracking system to follow them around.

I don't know much continuous object tracking across multiple cameras, but I highly doubt it's a difficult problem as long as the cameras have some overlap.
It could be "No cure, no pay". That also prevents arguments about the quality of efforts made.
My current job has me commuting 45mi each way 2x/week. So about 90mi of driving each time I go in. The other three days I am at home during the week. A good part of what I do involves working across time zones, so I am generally "on the clock" outside business hours as well. I love the flexibility, the time not getting annoyed in a car, and the ability to live in a place that has both world class mountain biking and surfing.

Whenever I get a ping from a recruiter, flexibility is the first thing I ask them about -- both core hours as well as working at home options. My favorite response was, "well, once you are established, you might be able to work at home on friday now and then". The worst of the responses usually come from established companies rather than startups.

I understand the need to time to collaborate, face time, and the like. Some people need more of it than others. That said, the best teams I have seen/worked with were ones that provided some flexibility to allow their employees to work in the manner most suited to their lifestyle. (I don't mean complete capitulation, but a base that has some give and take for both the company and the individual).

I do like driving. I take road trips regularly, but the day to day grind of other people in their metal cages, stressed, distracted, etc. isn't driving, it is commuting. For where I live, public transport to Silicon Valley from where I live involves a bus and/or train, which is 1.5-2 hrs each way, not really reasonable for me.
They were listed in the same paragraph because they were examples of people who are widely considered to be "geniuses", but who either held menial jobs at one point in their life, or who weren't "successful" (in the common sense of the term) at one point in their life (in Van Gogh's and Kafka's case it was at all during their life, in Einstein's and Wittgenstein's case, during significant portions of their lives, though Einstein was certainly vastly more successful than any of the others during his lifetime).

The OP was talking about one point in the Target employee's life, the point at which he was a Target employee and an LSAT teacher, and he seemed to be judging solely based on job titles. That's a very myopic, and I would contend, unfair vantage point from which to judge a person's life, contribution to humanity, or achievements... as the examples I mentioned (and many others that I didn't mention specifically) demonstrate.
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I'm starting to forget my lately personal projects' deep details, topics that I studied or articles that I read with high interests. How bad is it?
I mostly just remember how to find their details and what they are about when I need to use them. I think my brain works like keeping pointers.
All the pointers are void *; and yet, none of them are.
Going out on a limb and saying he's an American. I think people here are somewhat conditioned to say that about everything because you can CYA when you overreact.
> He's not an employee of the NY Times, himself. His work is contracted by them.

Why wouldn't it be parsed as that?
I think prescription medicines probably save more lives than tiny magnetic desk toys, but I don't have the stats handy to prove that.
I'm not sure about the source, but this seems far more malicious on the part of the FTC than I'm comfortable with. Shouldn't they be impartially judging this sort of thing on a case-by-case basis? Instead they've decoded that Google, as an entity, is broadly criminal, and the crime itself is just their vehicle for delivering whatever punishment they deem appropriate.
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> being intelligent has no intrinsic value

We value lots of things in life that have no intrinsic value. Art, for example. There's nothing wrong with valuing intelligence too. It's what separates us from the apes after all.

That said, I don't disagree with your overall point. I've known many intelligent people woefully unprepared to deal with everyday life, and it always seemed sad to me. Two of them ended up as alcoholics, one with gambling debts. It doesn't matter how intelligent you are if it means you can't deal with life.
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There is usually ~1 article each day where I get interested in reading the discussion. When that happens, it is often disappointing to find the discussion high-jacked by a top-voted comment that goes in a direction that doesn't interest me.

Do you use Twitter? If so, something like https://twitter.com/newsyc50 or https://twitter.com/newsyc20 might work for you. There's a threshold but it keeps you within an hour or two of most significant posts. (I'm not a fan as a lot of the posts I enjoy /don't/ reach these thresholds.)

How do they solve it? I think single threaded is great, but in my experience it breaks down when the number of comments get too large.

MetaFilter has been around since 1999 with the same format and surprisingly it continues to work well. Single threading has a big effect on how discussions go. It's hard to put into words.. I hope someone will write an academic paper on single vs multi threaded discussions ;-)

My personal experience is it increases the signal to noise ratio and discourages irrelevant contributions, with the frequent con of seemingly endless discussions and polarization into two opposing factions of commenters.

Edward Tufte's forum is unusual. The discussions there are glacial. Seriously, it's typical to only have a handful of responses after a month or two but they're always spot on. It's an extreme example since Tufte's staff personally moderates every comment and only the very best get through.

QBN is basically a mess. The way they make it work long term is that responding to any thread bumps that thread back up to the top of the site, no matter how old it is. There's a thread on the front page right now with 68,675 responses. This wouldn't work so well in an academic or technical environment but actually goes well in a more chit chatty "arty" environment, which is their main audience.

I think there's so much room to study this stuff formally. If they ever did, I would be the first to order the textbook! :-)
Strictly non-perishables that we can never have too much of. In short, trail mix and water :)

There aren't many subscription options on Amazon, either.

Something that will mature over the next few years, I'm sure.
I'd be willing to fork up the $150 to see if they could hack into my own gmail account. Seems like cheap penetration testing. Pointing them toward myself should be legal as well. So who do I pay?

In fact Google should be paying them to hack honeypotted accounts and see what they try.
Life is a fatal condition; if there was no risk, it wouldn't be as much fun. I used to skydive, but I enjoy riding more. Horse riding is 20x more dangerous[1]. Riding my bike is the most fun I have all day; YMMV.

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Here's a SF commuter's perspective: http://thesundaybe.st/cracks-in-the-clockwork/
Reddit is generally lower quality than HN, but this is a pretty good discussion!

I think the big mistake was not starting with some form of agreement or understanding on what the split would be. But what's done is done, and it's interesting to negotiation from that postponed position.

Maybe I'm ruthless, but in my mind the technical cofounder would own all the code he's written so far. And he should use that as a bargaining chip-- I'm assuming it would be easy to keep the source code from the business cofounder, and even if he couldn't the business cofounder can't do much without the first dev.
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Sounds greattttttttttttt ... can you provide a new identity, hidden bank accounts and something that eliminates my sense of responsibility too?

I'm kidding of course, but my point is that not everyone can just escape their current situation ... and in my case I wouldn't want to. For me, start-up paradise would be a very quiet office within biking distance of my house.

Somewhere with like-minded people who would like to establish a show-and-tell hour each day. It would be great to have at least peer-review of ideas and some intellectual conversation, then be able to retreat into the zone and accomplish something worthy of showing at the next get together.
I haven't seen something like this for Windows.. Looking forward for it's release :)
Not to mention calling OS X "the world's most advanced operating system" is entirely subjective, and highly debatable.
Why the fuck is the FTC trying to troll Google?
Because it prioritizes (and thinks better of) it's services than other sites? That's what ANY business is supposed to do!
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Buckyballs are just magnets of a certain material, shape, and size. There are countless shops on- and offline that sell the exactly same product, among other types, shapes and sizes, to consumers and professionals, sometimes to both.

How is the CPSC planning to implement this ban? Prohibit this exact combination? Or ban everybody that sells them in a package that looks vaguely toy-like? Are they ok if the packaging looks boring and industrial? Where do they draw the line? The CPSC is going to have a lot of explaining to do.
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There are all sorts of possibilities. My only point is that the link between education and economic growth is far from clear.
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In case anyone else is looking for it, the original Trend Micro Report: http://www.trendmicro.com/cloud-content/us/pdfs/security-int...

Some fairly interesting stuff there.
This is really interesting to me, because it could be helpful and useful (I mean, I just bought $900 worth of stuff for my startup so it's not just a random collection of crap) but it comes of as spam. Can you help me understand what it is that sets off the "spam bit"?

Also, what does "should know better" mean? If I wrote this as a blog post on Svbtle and it was a story with a bunch of referral links instead would it be different? Is the credibility of it damaged by the fact I could make money if you buy the things I suggested? Or something else...

And lastly, is this unique to the HN community and its acceptable methods of communication, or a broader turnoff you would notice even if you hadn't found this link here?
I get that plenty of companies provide decent support for open source drivers, etc., and more power to them, but what planet do you live on where people and/or companies are obligated to just give you stuff?

Shouldn't it be more a case of "ask and be grateful if you get it" rather than "ask and throw a fit when you don't"?
Reminds me a lot of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3956287
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http://blog.simplehoney.com/how-to-build-a-startup-from-a-be...
I may be cynical but show me a 16yr old who made a business with a million dollar in revenue. Then I'll be impressed.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3D...

I'm pretty sure it was a lot easier for me to come up with that link than for him to write that narcissistic blog entry.
The problem is when for majority of people Google = The Internet.

If you are not showing high in Google and you don't want to pay, you are fucked. You don't exist for the 85% of population.
Then, should Al Capone not have been indicted for income tax evasion? They really wanted him for peddling booze during the Prohibition.