skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, read the section on Google in the article which finishes with "Google is nothing but a series of infringements snowballed together", and tell me again that this demands a serious response.

If you post an inept trolling article you are likely to get an antagonistic response.

"http://www.timecube.com play the ball not the man please", really?
I'm sorry for sounding a bit like a troll, but the number of votes this article is getting is surprising. Let me elaborate:

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All newspapers look the same to me. I don't have designer chops to explain it clearly, but the main style is:

A whole lot of white and no other colors except in the advertisements.

They all use a lot of text to portray their information and they always use black for the text.

They all have the most noteworthy news stories on the front page and with less serious news in the back of the paper. etc...
You know...after doing both Django and Rails in depth, I really don't agree with this sentiment. Rails brings things to the table that Django doesn't, and Django brings some things to the table that Rails doesn't. Understanding the differences between the frameworks won't come easily, unfortunately...you almost have to try each. Any judgment without some sort of true experimentation (at least a full reading of the docs, and one relatively complex test app) will be superficial at best.
Manufacturing The Coffee Culture (Anthropology In Practice)
Not really. Here's what there is tho

http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Robin-Willia...

http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Web-Design-Joel-Sklar/dp/06...

Other than that, I'd ignore dublinclontarf and learn to design directly in your edit + your browser. That's where the magic happens. As far as I see it, there is absolutely no reason to use Photoshop or Gimp up front for that much stuff if you are a html/firebug/css ninja.
They are living as best they can in their current circumstances. Local maxima. If no free parking meant better public transit, they wouldn't have to struggle to keep the car running.

Of all the many possible subsidies the government could or does provide, do you really think free parking is the most beneficial?
You list one thing that happens to you that doesn't make the OS or windowing bad.

OSX has the following UI issues:

Scrollbars are hard to use

Window Max & Min buttons randomly work depending on the application

file dialog can't do any of the things the window file can do (Create folders, manage files)

Finders is pretty basic

I won't mention right clicking

accelerator keys are not as easy

*System monitor is pretty non-helpful most times

OSX shell is good, Windows 7 is the far better operating system. The hardware is also better but microsoft can force people to build awesome hardware
If it doesn't demand a "serious response," why respond at all? If it is a poor example of Hacker News, ignore it. If it isn't Hacker News, the flag link is right up there. Posting ad hominems and then complaining about the article's content is a little like telling me, "Dad, she started it!"

I know for a fact that you are capable of better, and so is everyone else that chooses Hacker News over Reddit.
I was expecting pedestrian-utopian drivel here, but the author actually makes a good point.

Why should there be zoning laws mandating parking at houses[0], apartment buildings or stores? In every case, there are market incentives for the developers and owners of these properties to have parking. Stores with too little parking won't get as much business. Houses and apartments with too little parking are harder to sell and/or rent.

It does seem that there's a subsidy being mandated by local governments and paid by property owners, and I can't think of much justification for that.

[0]In the case of houses, overuse of street parking might be a good argument.
that's great! i can't login though.
Better, I enter my login credentials, but I still see the "login" link (instead of the logout).
I agree. I went back to pen and paper last year, just for thinking 'out loud' about problems and I could not believe how much it improved the quality of my programming.
That's right. It should be Apple is evil, Google is trying unsuccessfully to be as evil as Apple, and Microsoft's confused attempts at being anything at all are clearly failing :-)
What do you mean by

>One social engineering event per conversation, please.

Wasn't the central 'event' of the article social engineering?

The central point of the article seemed to be the assertion that people who are that poor and should not be living so far from their place of employ would be better off if we did this. Yes, they would lose their jobs if they stayed where they are.

But the taxes on parking would discourage borderline-poor from owning cars in the city, which in turn would bring down housing costs in the city, making it possible for your neighbors to live more cheaply and healthfully by biking/busing to their now nearby job.

Yes, there would be hardship involved. But the alternative is waiting until fossil fuels rise to such a cost that they can't afford to drive to the city anyway. We've then destroyed their chance of earning a livelihood by chasing their short-term comfort.
You can only a/b test what you have come up with in the first place. This is not convergence on the optimum. It's just slightly optimized fashion.
Yes, that tendency bothers me as well. If you want to buy that kind of stuff that is powered by commodity batteries, you are really limited.

Some recent stuff you should be able to buy easily (though they are powered by AAA betteries, actually):

iriver T60SE mp3 player
http://www.iriver.com/product/view.asp?pCode=001&pNo=73

WikiReader
http://thewikireader.com/store/

but, alas, those are few and I feel like these things go against the general direction of technological progress.
I hear this a lot -- this notion that suburbs are some sort of artificially propped up and sustained artifact of automobile life -- and I wonder how people can ignore the overwhelming historical evidence to the contrary.

Virtually every large pre-automobile city had a very similar population density distribution to modern cities, albeit with a gentler distribution curve. Usually the poor clustered densely together in the center, the wealthy layered out in decreased density patterns (essentially suburbs), and then the rural areas surrounded.

The desire for a bit of space and not to be around quite as many people -- aside from being simply more hygienic and less fragile -- goes back through time, just as it exists today.

I don't want to live in a 500 sq. ft condo and like it. I don't want to cluster in crowds everything I do.

And if you do find yourself living in some shady little inner-city apartment, don't fall to the classic justification pattern of suddenly pretending that you're doing the world a favour. You aren't.
Posted late on a Saturday night when everyone's out doing stuff or home asleep, artificially upvoted to 8 or so at which point everyone assumes it's not a load of crock. Also, people upvoting without reading; wishful thinking on seeing the title (though I do think that the Google/Oracle showdown does have some capacity to knock down software patents depending.)

Flagged.
How to Write an Operating System
Help Movie Reviews
Help is a horror film with the spirit of the dead sister seeking revenge. This film appears to be inspired by the Hollywood spooky film Mirrors.
http://www.limesurvey.org/ should solve your problem, take a look , and I'll recommend you to host it on your own servers.
2010 is the Year of Linux on the Phone.

Linux is outselling Apple and Microsoft.
Seems like you agree with the existing point, "Walking (the free database alternative) isn't always better ... As far as I know there is no cheap alternative to Oracle RAC (the same point can be made to no cheap alternative for having a car which is better in some situations as you just agreed)."

This doesn't mean the open source community should just give up on making a database capable of meeting the needs RAC does today -- at the same time it also doesn't mean business should only use the free alternative when it is a more efficient use of resources for them to purchase RAC.
Most Americans do not live in rural areas.

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census/cps2k.htm

Land is cheap in rural areas, so parking would not be very pricey there.

Lastly, the edit to your post is nothing more than the implied claim "is == ought". You never actually give a reason why people living in rural areas deserve to be subsidized at the expense of city people. We may have historically forced city folk to subsidize rural folk, but that is not a reason to continue doing so.
there's only one thing it has done that I consider really evil. And no, the Net Neutrality proposal isn't it.

Curious: what is it? Android? ;)
there are a couple of really good tools to make your own too
We all want different things. For instance, I would like to have a way to get around that didn't involve a non-negligible risk of death, the stress of spending an hour or two trapped in a metal box on a congested freeway, the complete isolation from the surrounding environment, or the desolate, isolating distance between various places I may want to go. I would also like having shops near where I live instead of across town. It would be a nice bonus if I could get along without spending thousands of dollars of borrowed money on a depreciating asset, or spending hundreds of dollars a month to maintain, insure, and operate it.

But only one of us has had their desires subsidized by various levels of government for decades. That's you, so I guess you already win. You even get the right add insult to injury by calling it "social engineering" when someone asks them to stop.
for me this generic look is the strongest with web products
and i assume its that way because you as a customer would expect them to look a certain way

its the same with fashion ages (say black white/ubersized black serif font)

we tried to have a own look.but still not to be off shot

would appreciate feedback if we managed that or not
Integrated PDF viewer is a very nice addition. I always liked how my preferred Linux browser, Konqueror, had Okular to integrate with.
A monopoly is when a company actively prevents other companies from entering "their" market. Such as by buying them all up, or using their deep pockets to force them out. Not by producing a better product.
The Baskerville font you are talking about (Monotype’s) is based on large-ish sizes of a typeface designed in the 18th century for print. The stroke weight, x-height, and letter shapes are not well suited to setting blocks of digital text at normal screen sizes. It might work okay for titles and headings, but you should stick with Georgia or similar for body copy.

Helvetica is not an especially readable typeface for more than a few words. It works best for uses like logos, signs, posters, etc. For website copy, Verdana is a much better choice.
I have to think that if licensing fees were required for Android Google would re-tool 3.0 for Python or something. Mobile processors are getting fast enough that Python wouldn't be a problem

And if they didn't, I suspect device manufacturers would look to the truly free Linux platforms.
Your First Sale Is The Biggest Startup Milestone
If the gains due to free parking outweigh the costs, stores will provide free parking themselves. If they do not outweigh the costs, stores will not do so.

No one is advocating restricting parking. If a store wishes to provide underground parking, for instance, they should be permitted to do so.
I'm pretty sure actually that they don't do it when it gets to 20,000 docs (and thus we pay a bit extra for postage/materials than we might otherwise have to), exactly for the same reason you think so. But that's the adamant claim of those from whom requirements are gathered. It'll take me 5 minutes to implement the filter function to make this happen -- far less time than it'd take for me to sit down with them and have them prove that they actually do this operation. So I haven't pressed the issue.

I know for a fact that they do do it on smaller batches, though. It takes a lot of room, as you can imagine!
Speaking Chimpanzee
What is the species survival motivation of me enjoying Tolstoy, classic rock or scrabble? I'm sure you can come up with a retrofitted explanation to observation, but the point is you cannot reduce _every_ single human behavior and action to evolutionary impulses, at least not without a heavy amount of speculation. In many cases, we have to be honest enough to say we simply don't know.
The question is: "Does anyone know how/why this came about?"

Answering the same question w/r/t newspapers would be fascinating, and well worth an extended discussion.
The Daily Cable - Battling The Global Financial Crisis
There has been a lot of discussion about how different countries have went about coming out of this deep recession, if it is indeed limited to that, or more frighteningly the severe chance of an economic double dip and probably further deterioration past that point. Why am I so confident that if there is a double-dip, equities will tank? The answer lies in how the major central banks and their play toys, have “gotten out” of this crisis. I will look at the Fed and RBA.<p>Let me start by talking a little about the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). If you are an advanced know-all person, please skip ahead. The GFC is widely believed to be caused by greed and as a result the almost totally unregulated sub-prime market. The truth is this is correct to some extent, however it is not the start and not the end. While Investments created pooled investments of these loans and bet against them while saying they are wonderful, behind the scenes a continued problem was brewing. A problem that started in the 1970′s when banks altered the way they approached loans.....
Great extension.

I really agree jumping between top level comments. Having to go through a whole branch of replies is a little frustrating.
I'm done here, but let me explain.

Too often the pattern in "what do do about problem X" is to write an essay espousing that we do "A"

Usually these essays gloss over, ignore, or belittle side-effects because a discussion of all the edge cases and results doesn't make a good essay (or a good book). In addition, most things in life are complicated, and authors need to make a succinct point, quickly.

The problem is that what makes for good essays, what makes for good political talk, very rarely is as clear-cut as the essayists make out to be. So along comes some schmuck (I volunteer for this role in my story) and points out the half-dozen or so unstated implications of A.

No problem, the supporters say, we'll just add B and C in there. Now, that fixes all your concerns.

Well yes, but are we talking about A, or A, B, and C. You're just adding in more stuff. Because now we need to talk about the implications of B and C, which you probably haven't thought that much about and are probably worse than the ones for A.

"No problem," folks say, because when we do B and C, obviously D, E, and F come along. They're needed to take care of C.

This can continue ad infinitum, with each addition of terms being less and less thought out, and the implications more and more unpleasant.

The thesis of the article, if I understood it, was that the cost to society for parking in the city (and he seemed to be saying the suburbs as well, although I might have misread) outweighs the benefits. A tax, or elimination of some parking would produce more good than bad.

I take issue with that conclusion, although I grant his premise -- costs of stuff keep going up -- to be true. I take issue with it for many reasons: cost to the rural poor and middle-class, cost to the urban poor, view of the problem from an academic standpoint instead of a practical one, using a long-term problem without clear costs (fossil fuel issues) to directly hurt people living today. There are all kinds of reasons I take issue with his thesis. In addition, the premise was trite. Mundane. The conclusion I found supercilious. It was just really bad. I'm sure the author is a great guy and wonderful and all, and I agree with his cause, but that doesn't mean I have to like this essay. I don't.
That's what I'm afraid of. I wish they would make better e-Ink displays. And I wish they would make better vacuum tubes too.
original source: http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?histpop
gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.de.pgp.net --recv-keys 4E9CFF4E
gpg --export 4E9CFF4E |sudo apt-key add -
Those are some extremely annoying landing pages, except for Loopt.
Sort, with this map/reduce done in Bash:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1604780
Here's a video of Kanzi understanding spoken commands:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxmbjLoUnhk
The http://boagworld.com podcast/blog is great. They are on hiatus at the moment but they talk about really interesting parts of web design; tools, techniques and inspiration.
Huh? You mean the guy that stole intellectual property from Goldman in the hopes that he could enrich himself by working for a different company that tripled his pay? Should Goldman just say, "Meh, don't do that again?" What is evil about protecting yourself--whether you're an individual or a company?
Ask HN: Can you make a living with free flash games?
Any of you or your friends heard any success stories?
You've pretty much covered the gamut of ridiculous urbanism hyperbole, so there's that.

>But only one of us has had their desires subsidized by various levels of government for decades.

This is almost comically wrong, but given the ridiculous hyperbole you engage in, you won't be convinced otherwise.
It's probably working, I just haven't made the text change from "login" to "logout". See if you can register a vote.

Edit: I added the logout feature.
Martin Odersky?

http://blog.fogus.me/2010/08/06/martinodersky-take5-tolist/

(credit to dpritchett: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1581486 )
Land is cheap in rural areas, so parking would not be very pricey there.

Pricey is a relative term.

Subsidized? I would think that cheap or free parking would be the cost of doing business in a city. That was my argument, not that it has been going on for a long time. Yes, it has been going on for a long time, and for a good reason. Folks need a place to park, even in their solar-powered hovercraft.

You are asking if cities can be re-engineered by fiat -- let's pick parking and make it more expensive, thereby driving cars out of the urban area. The internet is full of folks saying a lot more than they know -- hell I am one of them. But even by this standard that position is pretty far out there.

But why argue? I think cities should try all of these things. I will refrain from living or working there. I suspect many others will do the same. Perhaps I am wrong. Don't know. It appears on the surface that this "tax commuters" "tax parking" and "tax tourist" idea is counter-productive to the entire idea of a city. There's only so much of it you can get away with.

But that's just me.
are there some other effects similar to (or as powerful as) this one?
Model numbers? Isn't that why UUIDs were created? Unique identifier, and anonymous:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/UUID
> Goldman Sach's [sic] treatment of Sergey Aleynikov
> [m]akes Oracle look like Mother Teresa

I don't see how this follows. I'm no fan of Goldman Sachs, but the grand jury apparently was shown enough evidence to justify indicting Aleynikov for stealing Goldman's source code on his last day working there before jumping to another company. See the detailed allegations in paragraphs 12-15 of the indictment at http://www.docstoc.com/docs/25202761/Aleynikov_-Sergey-Indic....
Tech Conspiracy Theory, Part one
I think that this view has been around longer than 2003. Steven Pinker describes how integrated as well as parallel thought is in his book The Blank Slate, which came out in 2002 (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate). Assuming that he took 2-4 years writing it. He must have been working on it in the 1990s.

This is an important thing as it isn't an assumption anymore. This idea of a complex and rich network of networks is now starting to be seen in computer simulations of actual neural networks. The best bit is that people can do deeper experimentation based upon those two facets like the blue brain project.

Although, a lot of questions remain unanswered. A good starting part, I think, would be to see how information itself is transferred and stored at the 'nodes' of the network. For example, recently Dr. Thomas Sudhof (see: http://neuroscience.stanford.edu/research/laboratories/Sudho...) from Stanford won a prize because he decoded the protein that causes synaptic exchange to happen (see: http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2010/june/sudhof-0603.html). That's just one piece, but it's a crucial piece.

What I love about the current state of neuro-science is that it's like a scattered jigsaw puzzle waiting to be put together. Almost every month / week (?) some small, but crucial piece is found and it gets added to the box. It's simply beautiful.

Another really interesting thing is that everything that's usually here on HN from map reduce to manipulating huge amounts of data is laying the foundation for creating tools that tackle this problem. It's like everybody is inadvertently working to complete the jigsaw without realizing it, which is really, really mind blowing.
This might all change with the entrance of tablets, especially if they reach higher resolution.

Serif fonts have the advantage that they have stronger row structure than sans-serif as the serifs act as a line.

So with the improvement of dpi in tablets happen, so will the use of serif fonts increase.
Wycats noted in the comments of the article that the pg driver is indeed safe for use in rails threaded mode.

As a psql fan, it makes me wonder what the rails world would be like had dhh had picked psql from the start.
> I increasingly see a vast difference between urbanites and suburbanites/rural America.

Transport policies that make sense where there are high population densities might not make sense where there are low population densities (in fact, probably won't). So it makes sense to have different policies in high density, medium density and low density areas.
From the previous threads about design I would recommend "Non-designer's Design Book" which includes simple exercises. I also found this (http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/169/) article very helpful. And "Designing for the Web" book (http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/) which focuses on core principles of design and how to apply them for the web. For basic understanding of usability I recommend "Don't Make Me think" by Steve Krug which is an excellent book.
careful: does that mean your ISP can prohibit you from running servers?
One solution used in Britain is park-and-ride schemes: people drive to the edge of the city, park their car, then take a bus/train into the city center.
Great response, I couldn't agree more.
I remember reading somewhere that pilot accident rates are high for very low-time pilots, then begin to decrease around 100 hours and then increase again between 500 and 1000 hours, perhaps as pilots become more confident than their skills deserve, and then from 1000 hours on, slowly decrease.
That's cool, but do they have a "pedestrian" one too?
Nice. Now that we have that solved, let's investigate why every iPod/iPhone case costs $30 even if it's made out of dryer lint.
In your example:

* there are about 100 families within a mile or so of you
* they need to spend an hour or so to drive into the city
* they can already barely afford a car and "to keep the lights on"

To me, this screams out for car-pooling, or some other shared transportation solution, as it would be better for the environment and cheaper for them.

Also, economies are complex systems. If low income people can't afford to commute into the city, the jobs wouldn't disappear, as the work wouldn't disappear. So someone closer who was previously unemployed might get the job. Or in response to the shortage of workers, the wages of these jobs might be raised.