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> I like the Chevy Volt's best-of-both-worlds solution

Ditto. I'm sure it provides them quite a bit of flexibility for the future. Once gas prices stay consistently high, they can augment the battery capacity/gas tank size ratio on the next year's models.
(I am the bento author)

Let me first note that I love the apt system - I think it is a great system. And one of the rationale for bento is to make debian (and linux) packaging easier. Bento supports the same options as autoconf for integration with systems, and I want to make python build solutions more hackable in general.

Nevertheless, apt has several issues:
- it does not work on non-apt systems. Simply put, the majority of the scipy community does not use a deb system.
- it does not allow for non-root installation, at least in practice
- it forces you to follow upstream dev cycles.
That's Rolls-Royce plc, the publicly-listed company that mostly makes aircraft engines, not Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, the completely unrelated subsidiary of BMW that makes... well, motor cars.

The history of the two is awfully complicated, but I gather that they've been separate entities since 1973.
Ideally, in my opinion, when the browser makes a request for example.com/something the server should send a continuous stream of data. It could work something like this:

1) The browser sends the request along with a list of files it already has cached (maybe a special type of cache that never expires so the browser would know that it wouldn't need that file ever again).

2) Then web server sends the actual HTML that needs to be rendered, followed by whatever files the browser may need (css, js, images, etc). The browser would know where the HTML block starts and where other pieces begin, so from its point of view it's the same as if it requested those pieces. The difference is that the server anticipates these requests and sends them along all in one batch. The very first piece would be a list of files the server is sending, so the browser would know what to expect. At the end of the stream, if there are any more files that are needed that haven't been included in the main stream, the browser would just request them as usual.

Doing something like this would effectively render most page accesses to a single request, going from 10 or more requests to a single request would have quite a bit of an impact. For this to work though, both the browser and server would need to support such a feature...
Arbys beef cheddar sandwiches can never be served as they appear in advertisements. Photos of the sandwich slow plentiful cheese dripping out of the side, while cheese on the real sandwiches is doled out in small carefully measured dollops incapable of covering the entire sandwich.

Maybe this isn't a "big deal". Maybe it doesn't technically hurt anyone. But it's still a lie and I won't want a culture which turns a blind eye to small transgressions.
Paying off any consumer debt and/or student loans wouldn't be a bad idea.
Embeddable slideshow?
Are there any good slide-show creators that can be easily embedded into an existing site? Essentially I'm trying to avoid having to invent yet another slide-show implementation. So I'm looking for:

* Must have: Ability to embed resulting slideshow on my pages.

* Ideally: Allows me to embed the creator directly into an existing page. So some sort of widget or iframe implementation. Our users could upload directly and create the slide-show itself.

* Add captions to slides

For-pay is fine by me. What are your experiences? There HAS to be something out there to help me out.

Thanks HN!
It is nice to see the Pirate Bay people experimenting with models that enable profit generation but still give people free content.
What's going to be hard is preventing users from devaluing their Flattr clicks to get past Flattr-based paywalls. Simplest version: I have a personal array of strawman sites, which I click on a lot in order to funnel almost all of my Flattr fee back to myself. Then my Flattr clicks are near-worthless to non-me recipients. This can be extended by Flattring friends, Flattr kickbacks, etc.
Yes, when young, investing in yourself will yield extremely better % than stock market ever could (unless your company IPO's).

The only money I have in the market are from SEP-IRA contributions, and that's only because it is tax advantageous. The gains I've gotten were nothing compared to when I invested capital in myself and my ventures. I was able to consistently turn $10-15K/mo investment into ~$150K-200K/mo return (normalized over a year). I cannot see anything remotely close to this with pure stock investments.

It may make sense when you're looking at a fund significant size, and the % per year = significant money. One of my friends manages a fund of > billion trading mortgages on wall street, and a half percent swing translates to significant sums for him. But at a smaller scale (less than $1mil), starting your own business yields tangible (money) as well as intangible results (invaluable experience).

Invest in yourself.
And yet this problem has not only been solved but been subsequently broken by marketers. Some things that seem easy are actually hard. I'm sure defining the appropriate function isn't all roses but a semi-competent software/radio engineer could figure out something with the right properties. With Apple's budget, they could easily do this.
Although true, many of those authors are too busy with improving/fixing their compilers.

E.g. the D language doesn't have a very modern looking website atm., but someone has took the task to update it recently. It's not up yet since the community is trying it out.
i've seen it before but every time i saw the word "enterprise" my helmet snapped shut in self-defense.
There's almost no selling going on on the website, so probably most of their business spreads through word-of-mouth, with visitors to the site already having been referred by happy clients. They also probably need to control how many new clients they adopt to ensure they have adequate capacity before scaling.
Latest Peek firmware sends SMS, Twitter feeds to the wrong users
In his words his service wasn't a GA competitor, also he's saying most of what he did isn't provided by anyone even today. His service was analysing traffic for how to boost the sales
Relatively speaking. The first census was taken in 1790, the records being kept about US citizens today are a relatively recent thing compared to that.
It matters a lot more what it sounds like to people who've never heard of it before. It's like if I were to create an app called "Malware", people aren't likely to dig deeper and find out it's a random Malcolm Reynolds quote widget.

"Fake" is such a negative word, were better names taken? "Faux"? "Pseudo"?
This is one of those changes that people rebel against simply because it's a change. If the forums had started out like this, and were now changing to become anonymous, I'm sure at least as many people would be complaining as are now. So let's go over some of these complaints:

>> Gaming is stigmatized by non-gamers

How do you figure? This sounds like it's simply conjecture or personal experience at best... in which case I'll mention that I know plenty of non-gamer professionals who respect gamers. Even if it is stigmatized, it's becoming decreasingly so as older gamer generations age. And the widespread immaturity made possible by total anonymity is a big reason people don't respect the gaming community in the first place. I welcome changes like this, which only serve to accelerate the de-stigmatization of gaming.

>> lots of users will stop playing these games for professional reasons

Why would someone who wishes to remain anonymous stop playing a game, when they can instead simply stop posting on the forums?

>> They don't understand how much they're giving up people's privacy

The "invasion of privacy" flag is waved nauseatingly often. It is not an invasion of privacy for a site to allow you to intentionally make posts under your real name. Blizzard is not tricking you, nor are they exposing your personal life without your permission. They are simply changing the dynamic on their forums to one that places a higher value on personal accountability. If you don't like it then fine, but don't accuse the company of being unethical. I'm sorry, but you don't have a right to be anonymous in everything you do.

People really need to get with the times. For the past 10 years we've lived in a world where people can Google your name and find anything about you. And for the past 5 years, we've lived in a world where more and more online services aren't supporting anonymity. That's the future, and yes * gasp * it's different than the past. Instead of complaining about change, why not adapt and take steps to control your own online reputation?
I don't think small claims court is usually seen as a setter of precedent... :)

Maybe they could sue for 17.50 plus some punitive damages (or emotional distress or something), to push it into civil court. Imagine the briefs and testimony you'd get from the Woot staff. :)
The problem for application is in what time frame is it useful? In early biology just cataloging plants, bugs, and animals would be of little or no use to those not in those fields as all they were doing is developing taxonomies. The same might be said of those who started first watching the stars.

I think that Postmodernism may be a bit of a waste of time, but it's too early for me to know. Unfortunately they wish the public fund their work.
Brilliant idea, hope this takes off. And doesn't get ripped off by facebook.

The logo is a bit confusing to me, though. When I first saw the button on a blog I thought I could downvote posts, which would be absurd(if it means i post a negative amount of money)
I'd pay for it today. I've tried it out and it seems remarkably stable for an early-release product.
Very clever idea and very nice execution.
How 37signals redesigned the basecamp homepage
fake is so much easier to spell in a url than "faux" or "pseudo". It's actually hard to misspell "fake".
Very nice implementation, and clear market.

A friend has been talking about doing this for along time, as it is consistently felt that most restaurants do a horrible job with websites.

However, I wonder if focusing only on the mobile side of things is the right way to go.

I agree you've got yourself a market, but should a restaurant need to be updating two websites? If the same info is valid on both, why not provide a different css for non-mobile and be a one stop shop for restuarants.

You may also be able to provide some other related services which may provide a network effect and possibly a slight barrier to entry for competitors.
If you're 22 and you have excess money (meaning your tax advantageous retirement contributions are maxed, your bills are all paid for, and you have 6-8 months of emergency fund), and you don't want to start your own company (and you don't want to donate the money), then you can become a small angel and help others start their companies. The reason I'm not saying things like "buy CDs", or "put it in a mutual fund", is because you're 22, this is Hacker News, and you can afford to swing for the fences and play conservatively later (eg. when you have a family that depends on you).

Also, by keeping the money in the bank, you're in effect saying that the rate the bank is giving you is the best return you'll get for your money (voting with your dollars). At present time, this is most definitely not the case, so it may be beneficial to look into anything that produces a higher return than bank rates (currently maxed at ~1.5%/yr).

In my experience, starting a company early yields extreme results beyond just money, and you're in a position to do so -- why, may I ask, do you say "besides starting a company"?

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. Parent poster was looking for advice on how to invest in himself with excess cash. I'm posting from experience since I've been there, and looking to hopefully get him on some track to put his cash in a place that generates higher returns than in the bank. It's silly to give the bank free use of his cash with the return they're giving him, when he could be using the same one to generate higher returns elsewhere.
> Their brand is now recognized as the electric car manufacturer.

The question I would ask before investing is: how many people care? It's good to be the market leader, but still not worth much if your whole market is tiny.

Maybe this is a national perspective thing: I'm in the UK, and the car market does vary more than most from country to country. But over here, I'd say the main interest in new drives today is in hybrids rather than pure electric cars. The network of charging stations required for pure electric just doesn't exist yet. In hybrid world, the Prius rules for everyday driving and Lexus have run a good PR campaign to claim the high end of the market, and it's hard to see how anything Tesla have proposed so far would create any significant shift.
Agreed. If you try to think up four ideas under the constraint that they all have to cost roughly five thousand dollars, I'm not convinced you'd get better results than trying to think up four ideas you can do for less than fifty bucks. You'll probably have an equal chance of success, and wind up $19800 better off (plus if any of the ideas does start to take off you'll have some money to sink into it).
Was in the same situation some time ago with exactly $20k cash in bank account.
I invested in my new venture - developing prototype, incorporating, renting room in Bay Area etc.

Not sure that it can be good for everyone but at least it was good decision for me

Other crazy ideas:
1) Buy new chevy camaro for 25k - cmn you are in twenties that will not last long!
2) Vacation in places like Thailand can be really cheap and amazingly refreshing!
3) Taking time for self-education and trying out some of your crazy ideas!
4) Getting some more money and buying entry home around the place you always wanted to live in.
My take away:

-- build the product by yourself

-- don't take any money where you give up control

-- grow slowly, don't over-market to avoid unnecessary competition

-- have direct relationships with clients, have a 800-number

-- aim to charge yearly

-- do not spend on people unless you get busy 7h each day, then train someone for replacement

-- the biggest mistake - giving up control by taking money and trusting strangers
I'm noticing that the idiom for WSGI based frameworks, is to "layer" applications (middleware), a lot like an onion. Certain actions/functionality is only available within specific layers of that onion. I quickly found out you can't just call redirect(url('some_route')) from within your helpers (or any module outside of the callable controller); the exception will be caught, but instead of redirecting it will display it as an error.

In PHP, unless headers have already been sent, you can call this: header("Location: blablablabl") from wherever.

That's just one example of the difference in workflow, it took me some getting used to before I could appreciate it. There are many other "little" things such as above, that are different.

I'm loving Python + Pylons, the more I use it the more I get used to the workflow too...
This seems absolutely crazy to me. I was always taught put money into long term, stable investments when you are young so that you have the longest possible period for return.

You're in the wrong place.

$20,000 is more than enough for a young person to support themselves, and possibly a co-founder, while they bring their product to market. As the article states, if it hits, you'll see returns in the thousands of percents, not tens or hundreds.
EMC Acquires Data Warehousing And Analytics Company Greenplum
Maybe HN needs to supply more context when we hit the reply button so that we don't end up replying to the wrong threads.
It wasn't exactly Gödel's incompleteness theorem that was being referred to. It was the use of self-reference to create a statement that can be neither true nor false.
I'm hoping it is benign :)

I actually don't take it every night, but find I can sleep much more regular hours the nights I do.
I like concept here of creating controversy and buzz and shifting the attention to selling. The blog post serves 2 purposes: sticking it to AP AND selling the latest Woot deal.

They did something similar with the Amazon deal announcement with the Kindle deal.
Should You Trust Mint.com?
I've just sent them an email asking this question. Waiting for the reply..
This is well-done.

I'm working on a similar project, and one thing I'd like to point out is that menus are not always simple databases. There are several menus that have paragraphs of information that relates to several menu items rather than just one. How are you planning on translating that information to a mobile application, if at all? I'm trying to find a good example of this "paragraph of extraneous info" from menus in a Google Search - I'll get back to you when I can.
I like it, but I hate your logo. Who takes a bite out of just the bun? Also, by showing a hamburger, you made me think of fast food and I could see conventional restaurants balking at that.
I have been studying continental philosophy for a few years now, mostly Kant, Hegel, Lacan and Heidegger. I think it's extremely interesting and rewarding and I recommend it to anyone who doesn't feel intellectually challenged. I read a book about Maurice Merleau-Ponty that included excerpts of his writing in both English and French, and I thought that the French was much clearer, even with my limited knowledge of the language, and it made me want to improve my French and learn German so that I can better understand what they're saying.

So foreign language is another barrier to entry that hasn't been mentioned yet. There are English translations, but often they aren't very good. My process for engaging with a philosopher is an iterative, multi-pass process - I start with several introductory texts or a biography before (very slowly) tackling a main text. At that point, I usually have a good idea about where the argument is going, but only a thin grasp of how we got there, so I go through the material once or twice more. This is complicated by the fact that these ideas don't stand on their own, they are part of a tradition, and it's not really possible to take one thinker and find out what he or she thinks, because it's filled with references to others. It's just not possible to pick up a main text and read it in a weekend and expect to get anything out of it - it's more like a lifetime project, something you'd add to a "Things to accomplish before I die" list. If "Learn French or German" is on there too, you have a head start.

One practical benefit is that reading a difficult text is like running with weights on. It feels like you're flying when you read something easier. And if you're looking for critiques or refutations of postmodernism specifically, continental philosophy is much more interesting than this link. Ironically, it's somewhat self-refuting, since in trying to critique the postmodernists, it unknowingly adopts an important (although distorted) postmodern point: the role of discourse in the production of power and authority. Although, of course, the author uses this to assert the superiority of his preferred rationalist, technocratic regime of truth. In other words, the claim is that postmodernism is an imposter, a bullshit pretender to the throne that Engineering should rightfully occupy. Postmodernists, under the influence of Derrida and Foucault, would say that this claim is "logocentric", a code word which ultimately means patriarchal, racist, colonialist, homophobic, etc. The demand that "postmodernism" present itself as a single well-defined and unified idea would also be seen in this light, which is probably why no postmodernists are here to defend themselves. To them, it's boringly obvious that software engineering is philosophically rooted in patriarchy.
Instead of charging a flat setup or monthly fee, have you thought about pivoting your business model so that customers can order through your app, and you charge a percentage fee to the restaurant owner?

I think skeptical restaurant owners would choose that no-risk option, and you'd probably make more money. Restaurant owners who think it'll be successful in making sales would probably be willing to pay a decent sum per month.

I agree with the other commenter that you are probably not charging enough. I think this kind of service has high value if it can demonstrably increase sales.
It is also possible that a lot of people would hesitate to say what should be said for the very same reason
The term "pop" is sometimes used to describe the immediate post-IPO jump.

A small amount of "Pop" (no more than 10 percent) isn't a bad thing. It is a result of oversubscription, which every underwriter needs in order to assure they aren't left holding the bag. It also makes stabilization (the only legal form of market manipulation) less expensive for the underwriter.

You're going to see more extreme cases of "pop" in a market with a lot of uncertainty (like we have now). This is the underwriter being cautious. Their worst case scenario doesn't appear and the IPO turns out to be underpriced.

What we saw in the late 1990's was heinous. I worked at a startup investment bank (Epoch Partners) that was intended to take some of the pop out of IPOs (and make allocation more available to genuine retail investors).

-r
Of course they do. Customer feedback allows you to add products and services that add value to your offerings and remove ones that don't. In my experience I've found that it's very difficult to see your business as your customers do, so the only way to figure out what they think is to have them tell you.
Take it from a 38 year old with a mortgage and two kids: take time off from your current job/venture and see the world.

I travelled a bit, but not enough. My wife tried to convince me to backpack with her, but I thought my job at "CyberCash" (ever heard of them?) was just too important - turns out that it wasn't so important after all. I had the freedom, but didn't fully appreciate it.
I created that logo and I hate it too. Any other ideas? I'm a horrendous graphic designer but I'm down to try again, and I agree with your points entirely. We were sort of pushing to get it done at the time. We could consider 99designs.com at this point I suppose.
At the age of 23, with five thousand dollars to spare and no commitments outside a PhD program? Take a trip around the world.
If you'd like to sock away a bunch of extra tax-deferred cash, variable annuities (low cost ones from vanguard/tiaa-cref) can be OK options....Assuming you're genuinely saving for retirement at 65, the present value of a tax deferral over the next 43 years is pretty big.
>Putting money in the market means living with uncertainty. Young people do not want to deal with that kind of stress.

So you should start a company instead! Then you'll be totally devoid of uncertainty and stress ...
"There's no media-driven conspiracy to alter your mind."

I think that's wrong. Forget whether it's a conspiracy or not; many things are effective conspiracies. These days, media is designed to be sticky and most media is driven by advertisements, the goal of which are to make you think you're not good enough unless you buy certian things.

Video is a think pipe directly into your brain, and I believe there is evidence to suggest that "screen time" does alter the way your mind functions.