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Forget IE6, unless you have an client that demands it. I've only ever seen that once and it was years ago.

> java, css, xhtml, javascript

lol well that's the stack I've been working for 10 years so perhaps I am biased.

>that it runs consistently on all the different browsers out there is a bigger task.

This is not much of an issue anymore. jQuery and GWT do well enough.

>say you want to list the rows from your db: do you use a table?

Yes, you use a table. You're displaying tabular data. You should also be thinking about data models, not rows in a table.

>then you need to write some CSS, cause there's no default look and feel provided out of the box

Lookup some templates and read w3schools to make it functional then get a designer involved. That problem doesn't go away using some other server language.
The article talks about the suspicion in certain quarters that it's an electronic glitch.
To be fair, friend lists aren't considered very private on facebook.
You might have missed it, but the authors encourage you to contact them and give them feedback. It is probably to late for the written/published book by O'Reilly, but perhaps your feedback will be used to alter the online version. You might want to give it a try and let them know?
This being HN, let's talk about software.

I have seen people very wrong-headedly trying to apply rules to all employees because of one misbehaving person, under the misguided notion that this is somehow "fair". For example, a long time ago there was a person in the admin group that was basically a slacker - came in late, left early and didn't work very hard. Management got really annoyed by this and made a "Everybody in by 9am OR ELSE, no exceptions" rule. Well you can imagine how that went down will all us geeks who were slaving 14 hours a day till the witching hour to fix problems. They managed to piss off the most productive people in the building, instead of standing up to one person and saying "you will be in by 9am, because that is when your manager needs you, and if you're not, you will be fired".

So, unless you are managing an organisation that is so large, and you trust your middle management so little, that you can not address problems on a case-by-case basis, then stay away from sweeping rules. I'm with the OP on this one.
Is it just me or doesn't that defeat the whole purpose? LoseThos rules. http://www.losethos.com :-)
Reasons to shop local first
I think that's normal, there are no longer "hidden friend lists" since last update.
Ask HN : What do you think of my app - lyrics formatting
Yes. Although on the other hand, well-accepted placebos can cure people.
After reading their Intro page, I wholeheartedly agree. That's precisely what they're saying.
While a bit outdated, it's one of the best "getting started fast" books out there.
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It looks like we have enough people in the Boulder area for a meetup. Let's plan to meet Wednesday February 3rd, at 5:00 PM at the Southern Sun. Let me know in the comments if you will be there.
I agree, electromagnetic's insistence may be a generational or regional thing.

I've mainly ordered coffee in west coast cafes where you add your own milk/cream/sugar. I see the efficiency of saying "black coffee", but it's never been a habit -- I say "small coffee" and expect to get it black. In NY or Boston, this has sometimes led to disappointment.
Apple's New Thing (iPod) - Mac Forums [2001]
> [...] for 1000 times the production cost.

Somebody has to pay for the marketing.
Jobs' salary is $1 a year, and yet he is often cited as the most valuable CEO in the world. Though to be fair, every so often the board awards him with stock options, airplanes, and all kinds of other bonuses.
Argument by assertion? You can't just state something like that and not back it up. Unless you want to look ignorant.

Tesla sells cars. After building them. For more than it cost to build the car. That's a business model.

And they're profitable as of this year, as I cited above, and you keep refusing to acknowledge.
Also, I would like to learn Rails 3, or keep as mush of what I learn applicable to rails 3.
I took a look. Just a few comments:

Typo here, I think you meant "you're":
"Formats lyrics on your screen to be easy to read while your playing an instrument."

It took me a little while to figure out how to create an account. You should probably let people create their own account on your site. It seems redundant but I think it's an accepted convention.

I clicked on "try it" and I can't honestly figure out how to do anything. I clicked all over, tried dragging the red bars, tried editing text, etc.

Hope that's helpful, and best of luck.
Upvote, but not for the suggestion to lie.

It's a terribly inefficient system and all government grants should require any resulting publication be openly accessible. But until we get there, simply look for their website or send them a nice, short email with the publication in the subject line. If there are multiple authors, you could have more success with a middle author than the leading or trailing authors (first and last are often the lab head). An alternative is looking for an administrative contact on their website.
I live in Canada and this is the norm from Toronto, to the smallest cafe in a backwater town (and I've been in coffee shops on dirt roads in the middle of nowhere). I'm from the UK, and this was the norm of my experience there too.

Here's the basics for here: Black Coffee, gets you a black coffee. Adding 'regular' gets you 1 cream and 1 sugar, 'double double' gets you two of both, 'triple triple' and 'four by four' respectively get you 3 of both and 4 of both. If you add 'with milk', you'll get the respective amount with milk and sugar, similarly if you add 'with sweetener' you'll get it the respective amount of artificial sweetener. If you use these words, it'll never be your mistake.

Tim Horton's (the biggest coffee shop chain in Canada) teaches their workers these words, and they have specific buttons on their tills to ring it in like that. McDonalds and anywhere else that serves coffee teaches their workers the same here. Starbucks might be different, I wouldn't know through the faux-italian crap.
Retarded about the platform. Why not use an island instead?

Actually their plans are very well thought out. (And apparently you didn't read them before you decided to critique.)

Basing a platform on the principle of a Spar Buoy gives them immunity to just about any rogue wave or tidal wave nature, given enough clearance. Their larger designs could ride those out, while most buildings on an island would be toast.

Also, nature's not making new sovereign islands at a particularly useful rate.
This is the archetype of a story without content. To answer the question in the title: maybe.
I'll tell you what you'll miss in Rails ... the forms API in Django is as God intended to. In Rails forms are coupled with models ... and this was my biggest pain when tried it ... maybe someone can point out some equivalent module for Rails?
If you're a small company (500 people for Tesla, apparently), building a never-been-built product and probably encountering lots of kinks along the way, it's probably worth having the factory be local. The high-priced engineers who design the thing can just blast over to the factory while they're figuring out production issues.

Just speculating, of course. But I'm assuming they somewhat know what they're doing, given that they actually built the thing and it actually works. Gotta give them some benefit of the doubt for that.

Another speculative data point, a vehicle like this, the engineering is a much bigger % of the final cost than your standard "build what we built last year" car.. that has to come into the decision as well.
Hey, using 7 dirty words worked for George Carlin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words

Now, your rewrite is entirely boring and would make a horrible blog post. You may have a problem with "profanity" (are you 65?) but most of the people who read my blog know I'll drop the F-bomb once in a while for effect.

If you don't like that, then don't read my blog. It says "zedshaw" right next to the article and the title has "Maxipads" in it. You really think it's gonna be nice?

To me, if your only complaint is that I didn't write my blog post as if it were a peer reviewed journal article intended to be read by pseudo-intellectual academics then I am totally happy with that.
Thanks. Yes, I am reading about processing.
tl;dr

Restaurants that sell cheap meals, like bowls of beef and rice, are lowering prices. The expectation of cheap food is causing other restaurants to seem too expensive, which may cause them to lower prices as well. The lower prices leads to lower revenue which leads to less money to cycle back into the economy. A recession occurs.
I'm particularly fond of this exchange in the comments:

3ricj: It's still just a damn IRC nick. register a new one and ask an channel op to give you rights to the channel. Problem solved. Don't abuse volunteer support people due to inflated self-importance. It's tacky.

Bram: If you'd spent the two minutes necessary to read the conversation you'd know there is no fucking channel op, because I was the only one. Stop being an ass.

Unfortunately Bram, there is only one person being an ass...
How to negotiate a price: Return on Indignation
Here if you were ordering from Tim Hortons or McDonalds, or other fast-food place saying "small coffee" would get you a small black coffee. They never put anything in without a request, however saying 'no cream' or 'no sugar' sounds like a request.

I've noticed here it's typically worse with the older staffers in stores, which only forces the behaviour onto younger employee's. In downtown Toronto or Hamilton some of the Tim Hortons are barely different from a vending machine. I've seen lines 30+ people long.
Apple confirms 3G VoIP apps on iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch; Skype is waiting
That will miss many non-US institutions. For example, UK universities use .ac.uk
Unless you get ill after taking the placebo. This is called the nocebo effect.
While it's true that Cohen acts like a bit of a douche, I think his point is rock solid. 60 days expiration for lack of use is ridiculous. And the admin he spoke to may have stayed polite, but his glib refusal to do anything to solve an obvious problem, while endlessly reciting some BS rules out of some FAQ somewhere as if they were unbreakable laws of physics, is a terribly attitude and reminds me of the most disinterested, cynical bureaucrats I've ever had to deal with.

And for what it's worth, I respect Cohen no less for what he said. I respect him for his deeds, not for his kind and humble soul. If reading a few lines of IRC logs, that he himself posted, is enough to make him lose your respect - I would question whether that respect really meant anything in the first place.
Up to the browser developers. I know Firefox uses codecs built into the browser only, not sure of the others.
Looking at your comments you like The New Yorker. I would respectfully say you are not in my target demographic. I'm looking for people who have something we like to call "a sense of humor". The problem is, the New Yorker has trained you to think little cartoons that aren't really funny are HILARIOUS because they're in the New Yorker. In reality, they aren't, and everyone knows you can't explain why they're funny.

Now, if you prefer, I can probably put a few totally boring cartoons and use the really big clean words projectileboy (love that professional sounding name) but where's the fun in that?

And for the record, I gave up the very over the top version of this. Having a few funny offensive phrases is light years away from a blog with neon strippers.
I poked around for a bit. I guess I wasn't sure if you have a database of song lyrics, or if I need to type in the lyrics or something. The "try it" demo didn't really explain how it works.
Although I've only seen a part of a presumably actual conversation (haven't tried to confirm it using other sources) I do find the attitude shown by Bram Cohen to be something I would not have expected from 'one of the most well known and respected people in the whole open source community'. It actually saddens me to see an open source programming 'role model' of mine behave like a spoiled child

I do understand the frustration surrounding the policies, yet I also understand Freenode which is offering a free, gratis service. A more humble approach would probably have yielded a quicker result and IMHO was more appropriate.

ps: If Bram Cohen is not really happy with Freenode, he, as 'one of the most well known and respected people in the whole open source community' probably has other options to create a #bittorrent irc channel according his wishes.
It looks like they put it in the Definitive Guide series which then has some strong requirements around the brand and most likely was the cause of the name change. It's probably a good thing for the authors as it is a respected series and will probably result in more sales.
I'd love to see an educational micro-kernel OS, something like L4.
"skill-biased technological change causes a core-periphery bifurcation where the agglomeration of high-skill workers eventually constitutes a unique stable equilibrium."

Is this even in English?
You flag articles that are inappropriate for the site. This article isn't inappropriate, just faulty.
Good plan, but:

"Future versions will call for ... network support"

:)
U.S. Military Experiments With Empowering Afghan Businesswomen
http://graphexploration.cond.org/

contains terms you want to google:

"exploratory data analysis and visualization tool for graphs and networks."

---------------

http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/11/social-network-...

http://www.foaf-project.org/original-intro
Ask HN: Review my app - LeagueSmart.com
Hey everyone,

I recently pushed out a lot of updates to my LeagueSmart web app, as well as started charging leagues for upcoming seasons. I am not sure how many people here are league organizers, but I would still really appreciate any feedback from you guys (the more brutally honest the better).

http://leaguesmart.com

http://demo.leaguesmart.com

http://demo.leaguesmart.com/teams/1

Thanks
Sure. The placebo effect is incredibly strong in quite a few cases.

But placebos aren't supported treatment by the NHS. You also don't see sugar pills for sale in your pharmacy (except where labelled as homeopathic drugs).
Interesting.... logs into Freenode Yay! My nick is still registered. I don't think I've logged in for over a year.
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I have to say Freenode came of rather well here. Bram... not so much. :P

<bramm> and I hope you realize that you just completely pissed off one of the most well known and respected people in the whole open source community

Sounds like he's possibly completely pissed off a large portion of the Open Source community :)
I might be at the Open Angel Forum. If that happens, I'll be there.
-Matt, SpeakerText
I love George Carlin.

You're not him.
Asperger and 'being a meanie' can sometimes be confused. I know Bram's diagnosis isn't official but it seems obvious to most that meet him that's he's a little different.

Edit: Okay I just RTFA and Bram does seem very douchy. If I was the admin I would have handed his ass to him 1/4 of the way through the conversation when he threw his first insult.

And I would have invited him to make a stink in public ... just spell my name right.
6 months? That's pretty lame, and I'd be a bit peeved as well. Having to go through that entire process of re-registering, etc, just to get an account back and admin'ing that group? I'm glad this isn't a global policy on email addresses or website registrations!
A better title would have been 'Bram Cohen loses Freenode nick, complains' as generally articles here take the title from the link where possible and try not to editorialize when it isn't.

...but it would probably be better still if Internet drama was kept as far away from HN as possible.
Thought experiment: If you had the full social graph, what would you build?
Thanks, I'll reword a bit.
Which is a lot more what it sounds like to me, though there appear to be legitimate literal-sticking claims too. "Sudden acceleration" != pedal not letting off.

It's one of the reasons I'm really not comfortable with a full-blown drive-by-wire car. My car's windshield wipers sometimes lose their wiping pattern, and skip a beat or delay by a second or so. If something THAT simple can't be made foolproof, why would I trust my brake pedal to always work when each tire is controlled independently to make me stop faster? Give me a hybrid system any day, though.
We're all a little different. That doesn't give him a free pass to be an ass, IMO.

Edit re: your edit - lol! :P
Man it's always so crazy to see how big/well designed Rails sites are compared to Ruby sites.
The Beagleboard has a very friendly and helpful community with mailing list and IRC channel. The Hawkboard is newer and as such doesn't have quite the same following, but you should have no trouble getting help with it either.
Restriction: you can't say a Facebook competitor/clone.
Solving a Hamiltonian Path Problem with a bacterial computer
The placebo effect is overstated and misunderstood by many. Further, using the placebo effect to treat sick people is unethical and ineffective. It should not be available through pharmacies.

For a greater and more educated discussion on the placebo effect (by a respected neurologist) please see:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=24
While I agree that he was being a complete jerk to the volunteer, there is some truth to this. Freenode has a policy of reserving the "main" channel namespace (only one hash like #bittorrent or #wikipedia) to officially registered groups. This process is carried out by filling out a long form and waiting for approval. Due to lack of volunteers willing and able to clear out the queue, it takes maybe half a year at minimum. It's nice that Freenode has a system for officially registering groups, but they really should not be actively enforcing rules relying on that if they have no plans to reliably process the gigantic queue.
Capital gains is taxed at a lower rate than your first 50k of income. Because of the lack of FICA if nothing else. 15% is lower than most people are paying on their income.

Same with the top tax brackets. Your 2nd million dollars will be taxed at around 35% if my memory is correct. If you're making 50k, you're paying more than 35% of your income in taxes. (fed + fica + medicare)
1. Tesla is not profitable.

2. Tesla currently has no profitable business model.

If you want facts, please Google them. Here's a start that's titled "Tesla Motors Files For IPO - So Much For The Profits": http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/01/29/tesla-motors-...
Thanks for the typo.

For the login, I really don't think I will do it. Maybe I'll try to make it clearer but nothing more. If it means that nobody will ever use this tool, I'm ready to live with it.

I really don't want to make a lot of money out of it. I basically did it for my own use but thought that I'm surely not the only one with that problem.
So it sounds to me quite like an electronic control problem. It seems like there are several cases where the engine control logic prevents the throttle from being closed--for example, during startup there is a faster idle. Similarly, during shift of an automatic transmission, there is some throttle control going on.

Thus, it doesn't seem too far-fetched to imagine that there is a glitch in the engine control logic that is pulling the throttle and hence the gas pedal in a way that makes it seem like there is a problem with the pedal itself.
See my link above.

"Tesla Motors Files For IPO - So Much For The Profits": http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/01/29/tesla-motors-...

VCs clearly aren't backing them further. They've resorted to an IPO to get cash. Tesla is down to its last $9 million.
tl;dr Summary: High cost workers should force employers to seek less expensive cities. The explanation for this not happening is that workers signal their quality by being in high cost areas since living there implies they are high enough quality to get a job that can allow them to afford living there.

Since high quality workers congregate there, employers stay despite the cost, to gain the benefit of a high quality workforce.
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Actually, Patri's primary reason for building free floating nations is because of an economic concept he calls "dynamic geography".

http://seasteading.org/seastead.org/new_pages/dynamic_geogra...

Basically, he postulates that the reason current governments suck is that there is a high barrier of entry into the industry and a high cost for consumers to switch providers. But a ruler of an archipelago of seasteads who passed an unpopular law might wake up to find all the residents have moved their platforms. Seasteading puts competitive pressure on the government industry and provides incentives to govern wisely.

Also see Patri's Econ Talk podcast:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2008/10/patri_friedman.html
My problem is that taxpayers have the most at risk with this company, but get none of the upside.

There is a huge difference between government funding for basic research, and government funding to bring a privately owned product to market.

Even worse, since Daimler is a Tesla shareholder, U.S. taxpayers are underwriting tech that is partially owned by a foreign competitor.
HAH! That wasn't a hack, amigo. That was an actual song by an actual T61 artist who was protesting the new design. When a song is popular, it gets pushed to the "front page." All the people protesting T61 voted for the song to get it to post front and center. Nothing was hacked. The listeners and artists worked together using the system to create that result. Boooo hiss on the misreporting.
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The source for the transcript is Bram Cohen's official blog.
Which didn't used to be true, and pretty much sucks if you're say, an Iranian dissident.
I would say so:

>Change causes a bifurcation where agglomeration eventually constitutes an equilibrium.

Then add back the extra info.
An army, worthy of Mordor.
I'll build an Orkut clone then.
Until these designs include a moderate amount of self-sufficiency, they're not going to be cost-effective enough to get regular people living on them. This means you either have to aim for tourists or provide a paparazzi-free haven to celebrities.

Fishing would be mandatory for food and greenhouses would certainly be required, and preferably a well implemented vertical farming operation could do wonders. However, unless the scale is huge it would be difficult to become self-sufficient, especially if providing meat via cattle/pigs. Chickens are relatively easy to keep in higher densities and would likely provide a good supply of protein, providing you have the room to have the graze; incidentally, chickens are only generally destructive of grasses around their nest-site (where the chicken coop is) and are excellent pest controls. Without natural predators and with clipped wings, chickens could be allowed to forage in any open gardens. You'd be required to introduce worms, certain bugs and beetles, and bees anyway, so they'd provide supplementary nutrition to your chickens (free of cost and the chickens are a form of organic pesticide).

The economy would likely have to have a vertically integrated economy. Basically, you either need to seduce a whale (rich person/celebrity/etc) who'll spend money on services you're providing for a few benefits (major privacy), or you'll have to net tourists and take their money, or you'll have to have a huge export industry, likely through fishing. If you're choosing the latter, you might as well buy out or establish a fishing platform and work from there. It's been well established that oceanic platforms can act as their own man-made reef, encouraging fish growth in their area. Essentially, a well designed platform could be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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