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The iOS app is already in development, we're planning to launch it before January.
SFMTA estimates that 30% of SF traffic is people circling while looking for a parking spot.

http://sfpark.org/2011/04/04/sfmta-announces-improved-sfpark...
Here's the post from Benchmark Capital on their $7 million investment in CM: http://mitchlasky.biz/cyanogen-mod/

"CM is already in use on millions of handsets, and with the simplified installer that the company is announcing simultaneously with this financing, that number is sure to grow quickly. We believe that CM is poised to become one of the largest mobile operating systems in the world."
Will look into this - might simplify syncing. Thanks for the heads up!
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Any plans for a Windows Phone app? I could see an idea like this doing really well on a platform designed for productive people.
It will be interesting to bookmark this, and then look at it 18 months from now when the market grows by about 28% (number of rental units in the SF bay area expected to come available due to new construction) SF itself has a huge number of apartment projects being built, as do many peninsula cities.
Then, they'd reset the stairs exactly like they were before and tell you to just keep using them for a while, and let them know if it happens again.
Microsoft thinks that mobile is their main enemy.

Sure, tablets will replace PCs in many places. However that war they cannot win. In meantime core PC users are switching to Linux. They can do this because so many great apps live inside browsers now.
"Can you give an example of an intrinsic reason something would be limited to the elite?"

Scarcity.

Sanitation and plumbing are cheap and easy if a government isn't corrupt. We're not waiting on advances in technology to make those things easy to provide to the world, so it seems tangential to anything Google could do.
I personally know a lot of people that stay on BlackBerry just for BBM. I hope I'm wrong, but this may be very bad for the BlackBerry platform.
There are some social groups in which everyone uses BBM as the de facto messaging service. Some carriers offer plans with unlimited BBM messaging but limited (or expensive) data and/or SMS. Additionally, peer pressure and indifference to change may be a factor (if all the cool people you know are using BBM, why should anyone switch?)
Anecdotal perhaps, but I know no-one who uses a Blackberry. 5 years a go, dozens of people I know used one, but nowadays? None.
Apple can't control the quality of discussion in forums. It's not 'bad news' for them in particular that people have illogical discussions.

As to self selection - I don't know what the composition of HN in general is, but once a thread starts echoing an illogical emotive position, people who have a different view that is complex to articulate just stay away. I'm not saying HN itself is biased (although it may be), just that individual submissions become self selecting based on the tenor of early comments.
Is it really rude to not answer a question? I guess it is a little rude to ignore it. He could say something like, "I'm sorry, but I can't answer that question."
I buy the argument for community colleges. $3500/20 = $175 per student per class. The courses are cheap, so it's a wash. I disagree with this for private colleges where the cost per course can be $3,000 per student.
Calico is a different company, so if some day you decide to give them access to your medical records, that won't automatically give access to google.
Indeed. Creaming that would be a bastard though :)
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Sure, I understand that the company was just trying to make money and keep the jobs of 50+ people. But that doesn't change the fact that the company wasted my time and made my experience miserable.

So, yes, what they did is worthy of scorn.
I admit, there is an element of that. However I think that so long as there is an easy "ejection seat", the "Lord of the Flies"-esque aspects can be kept reasonable.

I've mentioned this on HN before, but when I was a child I was a boy scout and my experiences in that organization left a very bad taste in my mouth. Specifically during long camping trips you would frequently get very strong "Lord of the Flies" type situations that would escalate for days on end. When I was just at home, getting in stick fights and throwing rocks with neighborhood kids in the woods, any of us could always just run home when the others began to get absurdly out of line. On long camping trips with BSA there was no such escape. Although I was never really the victim of those situations, on several occasions things did plainly get out of hand.

Tearing around the neighborhood looking for trouble though? I think that is fine. As long as kids can reasonably tap themselves out, and don't remain locked into the situation for days on end, I don't think there is a risk of much permanent damage. Most common worse case scenario: some kids just don't play with the others; no big deal.

Edit: Thinking about it more, having evenings "off" also probably provides a much needed 'cool down' time for kids to reflect and prevent strong 'cult of personality' situations from taking root. Constant exposure allows mini-tyrants to get people under their thumb in a way that just cannot be replicated. Constant exposure probably explains a lot of what I experienced.
EXCEPT iMessage isn't Crossplatform.

I'd install iMessage on my nexus 4 if it was a drop-in replacement for my SMS client and was a solid, Apple-quality app.
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Totally a fair comparison because the impact that updating nexus devices has is negligible. Better comparison would be how long it takes to get the latest on say the Galaxy S 3 or 4 phones. Or any of the Galaxy S phones.

My iPhone 4 can get iOS 7 today. That's as old of a device as a Galaxy S or S II I believe. I'm pretty sure that the S and S II are both in Android 2.2 or 2.3 land.

It's a side effect of the two different approaches to ecosystem for sure, but it's not an unfair comparison.
Because they have not yet discovered Facebook chat. Or WhatsApp. Or Skype.
Think it's in here - http://info.thoughtworks.com/how-do-you-estimate-on-an-Agile...
Saab is alive again. NEVS Saab pre-production has started
I am actually ok with high pay for star professors. If you're a Nobel and bring international esteem to the school, you deserve to get paid. If your lectures are beamed around the world in MOOCs, you deserve to get paid.

I think many tenured professors don't deserve it, and schools have very bloated administrations. They also have mispriced priorities. (Subsidizing luxury dorms, athletic facilities, etc)
the problem i see with that (in my point of view), is how they can distinguish itself enough from android to actually make a stand against it.. being based on android this is a very dificult task.. so this is a dificult bussiness model..

The best thing to happen to them is the acqhire, if a big player buy them and the talent and using this android branch
like the chinese Xiaomi will do..

Have more than one player using their branch is more difficult, and unlikely, but possible..

My point being: people dont change, or buy phones because of small features and details.. it must be enough distinction to make a good point, it must be the whole package..

The mobile os sea its prety red right now, full of big sharks
For me this was far better explained in the following text (also posted on HN not so long ago): http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-impl...
Sometimes the night is the only time when one can have 3-4-5 hours without distractions.
Countries with a billion USD Lego budget would go a long way in saving many social evils imo.
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Keep in mind when discussing internet access that effectively for the general public, the internet has only been with us for 20 years. And that was just the birth of its public mindshare - significant penetration would still take quite a few years yet in developed countries.

It also doesn't really fit in with the rest of the stats you're presenting - people can and do live quite luxurious lives without using the internet, but not so for the other items.
Some people Adjunct to improve their resume too. NYU's school of continuing education has a lot of underpaid adjuncts who get residual benefits for the prestige of being NYU faculty. But nobody lives in Manhattan on NYU adjunct salary alone.
> This wolf's been cried about many times, but I do think there is a hole in the market right now: Right now Microsoft is the only option for affordable really high-end desktop/laptop computers.

Regardless what I think about that claim: That market segment is miniscule. One of the reasons Apple has done so well is that Apple has managed to capture the relatively price-insensitive part of that market segment, and as a result their average revenue per unit is north of $1000.

The average price per unit for PC's on the other hand has been steadily declining to the ~$500 level.

> Contrary to the current hype, mobile is not going to replace the desktop/laptop except at the low end.

So 95%+ of the market, in other words. The PC vendors have been in crisis for years as PC's got "fast enough" that consumers started prioritising low price rather than maximizing performance within their budget.

> If you want to do anything compute-intensive you need a "real computer."

Most users don't do anything more compute-intensive than Facebook and Youtube on their PCs.
downvoted by 4 points! my most ever! musta hit a nerve!

i'm sure this _looks_ like a non-informative post, at least
to some of you, so let me explain exactly why i made it...

mine was the first comment on this post, which languished
for an hour with nothing, and looked to be on its way to
being ignored totally, like the vast majority of posts...

i made a comment so people would come and look and maybe,
just maybe, add a more meaty one of their own. it worked.

i wanted the entry to get some attention, because i believe
s.v.g. is a highly underutilized format, and that has been
true for about a decade now, more or less, so even though
i don't have a lot to say about the topic, because i know
so little about it, i wanted to say "right on, thank you!".

which is exactly what "yay" meant...

could i have dressed it up with a little fat on the bones,
so it was more than just "yay"? yes, i could have. easily.

but at heart, it still woulda been nothing more than "yay".

so i decided to go with _the_plain_truth_of_the_matter_.

and if you want to down-vote that, then go ahead and do it.

i don't really give a dxmn. i don't have that much "karma",
and i don't intend to spend much time trying to procure it,
so your little brownie-points don't mean jxck-shxt to me...

(they certainly don't deserve any unadulterated profanity!)

this post got some attention, and i did my part to help it,
so i'm quite happy with what i did. and i'll do it again.

-bowerbird
Hey Taylor, we are constantly adding features and fixes to Signal. When we say that priority inbox isn't supported, we only refer to the edits being reflected on the inbox screen. The interface works like normal on the email itself. The preview features for priority inbox should be up in the next few days!
Is It Time For Apple To Update App Store Pricing Rules?
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Navigate and filter the list where the urls are standard (SEO) but will load content through Ajax. For that jquery Address was used, catches location changed events and passes control to javascript. This way urls are bookmarkcable and crawlable by Search engine
Messes with keyboard shortcut workflow :(
When you have a family plan with multiple lines, even the first level block text messaging plans add up quickly. (I'm on Verizon in the USA).

I feel the whole text message surcharge system is just a racket, so any way I can beat that is fine by me.
You might be talking about the "Spark File" https://medium.com/better-humans/8d6e7df7ae58
Quite a few misconceptions here, that I'm surprised no one else has picked up on.

>Awhile back I was this fat, neckbearded kid in my mothers basement coding and gaming. Realized I'm trash at interacting on the most basic levels with people. Lost all the weight, got strong, got decently good looking,

You took action! That is something to be proud of. So, so, so many people never take action. They think they can't change, they think that's simply the 'way they are'.

>Every outing I need to mentally and physically prepare for, I can't just "go out" and be with people.

Isn't this a bit obvious? Seriously, what are you expecting? Do you think a person that has used a computer a couple of times in their lives is going to feel secure & confident. Do you think they will know all the shortcuts, know what to do and when, do you think everything will come naturally to them?

Of course not! Using computers, just like interacting socially, is a _skill_. Skills take practice. Being a social butterfly is not "normal". What is normal is that people who practice a skill gradually become better at it. So accept that you have not put in as many hours into social interactions as some other people. But you can, and it seems that you're catching up.

>I don't really know who I truly am because all my mannerisms are borrowed from various people, movies, figures, friends. No movement or expression is my own and it's difficult to cope with.

Your "own"? Everyone takes the things they do and know from people around it. Just because you're doing this at a point in your life where you're consciously aware of it, doesn't make it "worth any less" or weird.

I'm only replying because I can identify 100% with what you said. I do the same things, micro-analysing what everyone else is doing? Yep. Feeling insecure around other people? Yep. Wanting to be alone? Yep. Not feeling "normal"? Yep.

I think the only difference is that I'm pushing to accept who I am. (I am who I am, there's reason why I am the way I am, and that's ok. Negative self-talk will harm, rather than help me.) There is no "normal". Everyone is insecure to some extent. You can become less insecure by practice whatever you're insecure at.

Go see a psychiatrist. They will be able to help you. If you're not opposed to them, psychedelics have also helped me (personally with some aspects of this)

Feel free to ask questions
Looks like Apple's activation servers are down now from all the people updating at once.

My girlfriend had to reset her phone for the iOS 7 update, and now it won't activate. She needs it for work today, bad timing... Twitter is full of similar stories.

And on my end, the whole iTunes store seems down. iTunes desktop will load pages after a minute or two, but on the phone it just times out.
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If they wanted your health data they'd just make this a new google service. By making it a new seperate company they've gone out of their way to ensure they don't have access to that data.
That's a pretty dumb comparison.

Windows 8 has been polarising and comes at a time when PCs in general has seen almost no growth. You are better off looking back at the Windows 95 days. In which case Microsoft allowed OEMs to customise parts of the OS whilst still allowing updates.

Google has just poorly designed Android. End of story.
It's weird how people get very philosophical and accepting about death form old age, but are horrified by murder, suicide, deadly airplane crashes, gas explosions, and so on. You get just as dead either way, but somehow death from old age is considered to be just a natural part of the Plan.
Or the opposite. Do you retain more people through fear and lock in, or do you gain more by being open and transparent?
In some parts of the world, BBM is the place where all your friends are. And people tend to use the service where all their friends are or risk being left out.

I guess many HN users have accounts on Gchat, MSN, AOL, Skype, Yahoo Messenger. Why did they create them? Because they wanted to chat with someone they know or recently met.

If a guy met a girl at a concert and she gave him her BBM id instead of a phone number, they'd be installing BBM post-haste, trust me!
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Your map kind of cuts off Los Gatos at the bottom. We're still allowed in the Bay Area club, right? :-)
No, but excelling in high-school extra-curricular activities does. And the perception is you don't excel at extra-curricular activities unless you start young.

In my neighborhood, kids started working with professional strength coaches in middle-school in an effort to make varsity football or basketball. Excessive instruction in music was common. 2-3 sports a season on top of volunteer work or part-time jobs.

It's all in an effort to get a leg up at college admissions time. And it's absolutely insane.
Slightly misleading. They said "it could work".

FTA: "I don’t immediately see any red flags. I think it is quite viable."
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Justification for new logos seem to be given by placing the logo on a grid and using straight lines to show the relationship between the elements. We see it in this blog post, and we saw it for the Yahoo logo.

Serious question: what are these grids and lines supposed to show me? One would assume there would be intrinsic motivation for the lines chosen (such as a relationship to a simple mathematical object/idea). But to me the lines always look chosen to fit the design, instead of the design fitting the lines.

For example: http://www.bing.com/blogs/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserve...

How was this angle chosen for the lines? Why three of them? The lines are parallel, but are they meant to be slightly different distances from each other? If you drew a line in the opposite direction, but aligned it to the slant of the graphic, is that 'correct'?
By that logic, we should never have eradicated smallpox. Medicine extends lifespan - and a rising tide lifts all boats.
As an initial concept it's interesting but not very useful for most people in it's current state as it ultimately requires me to spend more time in my inbox. I think the real potential is in your "Coming Soon" feature, where it will hopefully be able to automatically figure out the best subject lines for me and save me time in the long run. Ultimately, it'd be great if it could decipher whether or not the email can be answered with a simple answer (yes/no, a time/date, etc), and provide the buttons to respond to it without ever actually opening up the email itself.

As far as the site itself goes - it has a clean, simple to understand interface lacks anything sexy to sell the idea. The animation is a great idea, but just seems dry and lacks context. Looking at the "Using Signal" page (https://trysignal.com/using-signal/), I'd say use a screenshot similar to the one there (albeit with the full inbox visible), and show an animation of the email being edited in real time rather than the side by side comparison. That would be a much clearer demonstration and immediately provide the context as to what's happening. In all reality you could just integrate the "Using Signal" page into the main index for the moment as it doesn't have enough information to really constitute a secondary page.
Message Protocol X: supports chat, runs on iOS

Message Protocol Y: supports chat, runs on iOS, Android, Blackberry.

I absolutely love iMessage, but I hate that I can't use it with anyone who owns android.
I think your judgement is a bit biased here. Just because you experienced such things doesn't mean everybody else experienced such things. There are plenty of things kids enjoy other than bullying other kids, so why do you assume all kids would be interested in bullying?
Fountain of youth for the rich. This is a lot more profitable than selling ads on the net :)
Yes, I wasn't trying to imply Internet access is essential, although it is such a powerful technology that lacking access to it generally sets you back a lot in the global rat race. Rather, I was trying to give a sense of how distribution of technologies progresses. It would have been helpful to have a few more data points but I couldn't think of good examples. (Especially in the higher ends -- what powerful technology do the rich have now that the rest don't? Maybe travel via airplane?)
A scale that goes from green to red? I'm unable to discern the difference between colors evenly spaced on either side of the middle line.

Mousing over to see change does help. Perhaps instead of simply colors (please, designers, don't rely on color alone to convey information. Think of the chil^H^H^H^H color blind individuals) you could have patterns for the fills.
Ken Case is a nice guy, always polite whenever you speak to him. However, someone should do him a favor and tell him that after 5 years of Apple ignoring him, it's obvious he's in an abusive relationship and needs to get out.

OmniGroup was successful before the App Store, and based on the quality of their software, will remain so even if they quit the App Store.

> “Apple is certainly aware of our desire for upgrade pricing,” Case tells me. “It's something I've been asking for since before the launch of the original App Store in 2008.
...
“Our relationship with Apple has always been great--and this certainly doesn't change that,” he says. “I don't think they're trying to work against our interests; they just have to decide where to focus their efforts, and our priorities are not always their priorities.”
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She should have been drawing SS since she was 70. It would be Medicare not Medicaid and I am not sure how it would have helped since she was already being treated for cancer.

Contracting positions are hell on earth if you don't put money into savings. Even if you work 25 years you need to put money away. We really don't have a national pension system[1].

I would be curious how the whole Microsoft contracting lawsuit would apply in this case. It seems it would have some relevance.

1) and looking at how underfunded the state one are, I don't see any hope in that direction
Yes I have seen it in the last year or two at science conferences.
I disagree with that thought, actually. I believe current models of consumption ignore human innovation, something we're quite good at doing when survival is on the line.
Gold is best. Best best best.
Here all the kids on the buses have blackberries, the London riots were run over BBM. http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/aug/08/london-riots-fa...
> Simple: indefinite lifespan for the members of tiny minority Group A will turn them into a ruling elite even if they're not one already.

Evidence or rationale supporting this conclusion?
There's also David Smith's stats (he's added an hourly widget): http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/

Currently iOS 7 is at 4.6%
From their reddit AMA:

"Monetization isn't an immediate concern and our investors and Benchmark and Redpoint feel the same. CyanogenMod has the potential to become an enormous platform play, and to do that, we need to foster and grow the ecosystem. Right now, we just want to build something compelling and grow the user base. Eventually, there are innumerable paths to monetization once we reach economics of scale: licensing our software/services to OEMs, building hardware, creating secure enterprise solutions, etc.
Creating disruption in a multibilion dollar market is enough to make any investor raise their eyebrow."

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1mnnc6/we_are_steve_cy...