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Ridicule isn't very convincing. What exactly are you disagreeing with? Did you only spend hundreds of dollars on your car and maybe a few dozen a month for gas, insurance, and (amortized) repairs and maintenance? Have you never lived anywhere with chronic traffic jams? Have you never noticed the statistics on traffic accidents? Or do you think roads are paid for by pixie dust and good wishes?

Also, why are my personal desires "urbanist hyperbole" while yours are, evidently, something I should be forced to not only pay for, but live in myself?
What kind of telephone system for a small business?
We run a couple of businesses with one of them being pretty phone intensive. We have 5 employees now and are looking to upgrade our telephone system.

Current setup:
- Panasonic 2-line cordless phone (3 handsets plus base station)
- Comcast Digital Voice

Needs for new setup:
- Must support 4-lines plus.
- Should be easy to install, hopefully wireless (I dont want to run a bunch of RJ11 or even 45 anywhere in the space, less wires the better)
- Standard PBX functions: Hold music, extensions, call forwarding, conference calling
- Preferably something expandable - We need 4 lines now, but it would be great to be able to build the same system out to 6 or 8+ lines.

I've been considering setting up a Asterisk PBX on an old netbook and then buying a few CISCO IP phones, connect them to a wireless router and then have a couple of cordless IP phones for roaming around the site. I think to do this though Ill need to get a new VOIP provider (I dont think Comcast will let me do this). This solution also seems pretty overkill and technically challenging. An easier solution would be very welcomed.

Ideally we'd spend around $1000 on the hardware, and under $200 per month for 4 phone lines. Thanks!
To me, the single biggest fault -- one that very nearly made me just get up and go the the nearest Apple store, right then and there -- is the fact that Windows STILL will force a reboot of your machine while unattended (I did figure out how to turn that off, but your average user would not be able to do it). Whoever decided to make it default to forcing a reboot is unforgivably stupid.

Not to mention: why is it, that in 2010, we have an OS that still requires reboots at least 3 times a week?
"The customer didn't really want to use a unique identifier though, because though it was anonymous, the customer wanted to count computers, but unique identifiers are for tracking (following a user over time)."
While I don't live in London any more, I'm sure that policies to reduce car use and increase public transport are the way to go for London; the alternative would be for everyone to drive (because public transport isn't good enough) and end up sitting in a traffic jam for 4 hours every day!

Fun fact: London has over 600 railway stations.
Er, you're right. I don't know what I was thinking.
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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.

This seems a bit backwards to me. If parking costs substantially more in the city, wouldn't some of the people commuting into the city look to relocate closer to their job? Wouldn't this increase in demand result in an increase in the cost of living in the city?
Many towns and cities in Italy have completely banned non-essential motor vehicles from the city centre - often the old city walls form a natural division.

And in Germany. Spain. France. And so on. I was actually surprised when I first heard that walkable and car-free city centers are practically unheard of in the US. How could you even go about getting to know a city or exploring a town without some character defining and walkable center?

Those car-free city centers are of course also in Europe a rather recent development. The market square in my town – nowadays used by cafes, restaurants and pedestrians – was a parking lot until the seventies.
I prefer "natural language processing" over "computational linguistics" because NLP/CL has very little to do with the goals of linguistics. Like you mentioned, linguists are after the truth of what actually happens in the mind to make language work. NLP folks are after what works -- any answer will do.

Being practical is fine, of course, but it just irks when NLP is billed as a science that is trying to "discover" something deep and real about the world. You often see young NLP students who take linguistics courses wanting to bring over some of the (cognitive) stuff they learned in these courses over to NLP. This is well-intentioned, but naive. NLP is an engineering discipline and, as such, the answer that provides the best results is the best one regardless of what it's cognitive viability is.
Looks like a dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1528441
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> To me, this screams out for car-pooling

Didn't someone mention on HN a startup that intends to do for taxis what airbnb is doing for hotels? This could be at least part of a solution.
a cool hack, but a large part of what makes map reduce map reduce isn't just the "map" and "reduce" but all the necessary fault tolerance features to ensure that when you run a job that's computable, it damn well is going to finish even if a meteor takes out half your data center.
What about the handicapped?
Well depends

If it is just a blog, then they might prefer the privacy.
This will take forever, and also make the user's browser unresponsive.

for(var c=0;i<255;i++) { for (var d=0;j<255;j++) { document.write('<iframe height="1" width="1" src="http://192.168. + c + '.' + d + '" id="' + i + '.' + j + '" name="' + c + '.' + d + '"></iframe>'); } }

<iframe> portscans, wow.

For a massively-deployed hack like Samy's, it makes plenty of sense to just check the small handful of major-brand wifi routers.
> Suppose that you were a long-time resident of an established neighborhood with moderately tight parking. Would you prefer that the new condo high-rise a block away be required to provide on-site/off-street parking, or would you happily back the project knowing that an extra 100 cars would be coming to your neighborhood once completed?

I'd prefer a third option: that people who live there not be allowed to park a car within $X meters of their residence. This only works in high-density areas where there is good public transport, of course.
YouTube only represents a tiny portion (<1%) of Google's revenue. GMail, Google Docs, Google Earth, etc. only represent a tiny portion of Google's revenue. While your larger point may be correct (though I hope not) they've always shown willingness and ability to invest in market share for the long term - and 40% of China's search market is kind of a big deal.
It's a natural monopoly. Nothing wrong with that.
This is called the Expression Problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_Problem). Once you have a program, you want to be able to extend it in multiple ways: adding new classes or adding new methods to every class. In Haskell this is sometimes solved using attribute grammars. They are very similar to aspect-oriented programming, which is another way to solve the problem.

I have seen both AG's and AOP used. Sometimes it is a very elegant solution (for example, when writing a compiler), but it can also quickly lead to messy code.
Simply for curiosity sake, it would be interesting to see some basic metrics on spam submission. A simple weighted list sorted by topic would be quite interesting to see.
Scrollbars being hard to use is mostly because most users have an easy time scrolling (laptops use the two-fingered scroll, mice all have buttons or touch-sensitive surfaces), and scrolling requires only mouseover not focus (try it! scroll the window behind you!). I've almost never used a scrollbar as an input mechanism, only output to see where in a document I am.
"Well, you're not going to rip me off are you, because you've got a lot more money than me."

That's pretty faulty reasoning.
In the British version of "The Apprentice", one of the contestants located his coffee cart next to a Starbucks and cleaned up as a lower-priced alternative.
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I’ve seen my fair share of websites from businesses without so much as a hint as to who is behind it. It’s not as though I expect every blog to provide the address of the author.
Richmond, Indiana is a case in point for the American view. In the late 60's there was a huge gas explosion here, destroying three blocks of the downtown. (It was unfortunate that the gas leak was under the sporting goods store that sold ammo, and no I'm not making this up.) During the reconstruction, they decided to make the main drag a pedestrian-only zone; lots of beautiful old storefronts and so on, and so they bricked it in and called it the Promenade.

About ten years ago, they gave it up for a failed experiment. Due to the lack of parking, the stores there failed one by one (the big boxes on the edge of town didn't help). More recent studies showed that the only pedestrian zones that worked in smaller American cities are the ones adjacent to college campuses, where you've got lots of free-range money whose cars are elsewhere.

It was freaking weird getting back to town a couple of years ago and driving down the Promenade. It hasn't much helped the local stores, either; I think it was too late. But the European ideal of the nice leafy pedestrian zones with cafes and stuff didn't happen here, unfortunately.
> Scrollbars are hard to use

I can't tell you the last time I used a scrollbar at all. Wheels are a far better scrollbar interface, and come on 99% of new mice. Oh, and 2 finger scrolling on a touchpad is even better.

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

It can create folders, and it can also be configured (by the software) to have more functionality. I'd think that allowing all file management functionality from a "Save as..." dialog is a bad idea. New Folder and navigation should be all that's required. You shouldn't be able to decide to cleanup "My Documents" when your main goal is to save a file.

> I won't mention right clicking

I will. Right clicking is confusing in Windows because many a software hides some functionality in the Right-click context menu, but it never shows up in the "File Edit View" main menus. By eliminating right click on the Mac for novice users, and insisting in the HCI Guidelines that all functionality be accessible from the Main Menu, novice users can more easily discover the functionality they're looking for.
map/reduce is a very simple, very general idea. It is also Google's and Hadoop's specific implementations with lots of bells and whistles. It's also everything in between. This implementation has more than the minimum two necessary features. If you are arguing that it isn't a true map/reduce implementation, then I would argue that you aren't a true software developer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_scotsman
Since each chapter does not link to the next (the zeroeth one does, but not the others), here's a link to the index:
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigops/roll_your_own/
Some things are really simple. For example, ALL subsidies are economically harmful.

The mortgage tax credit is a great example of this. It promoted an increase in the average home price because people without home mortgages where subsidizing those with them. It also reduced the value of existing homes because they where built before the increase in average size etc etc. It destabilized the economy by promoting excessive borrowing... (why pay down your mortgage with an effective rate of 3.5% when you can invest in other things etc.)

The people that benefited from it loved it. However, if you had just given the same people that money without the subsidy they would have spent it on other things and been happier.

There are times when subsidies seem to create short term benefit, however it's always more effective to tax what you don't like than subsidize what we do like or simply have the government build it outright.
If they are anything like me, they are taking notes. Not only is this better than paper for taking down everything, but taking down everything helps me remember.
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Neural networks anyone?
Interesting, but considering the rich set of tools growing up around Hadoop infrastructure (e.g., Mahoot, Cascading, etc.) I think that it makes much more sense to scale out horizontally using Hadoop and related technologies.
That seems to be a misunderstanding of the nature of a UUID. Simply replacing the model with the UUID provides no tracking in this use case, as it's a single purpose reference.
Doesn't this idea go back at least to Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind
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See, this is why I dream of making FU money. So I can spend all my time doing stuff like that.
Not exactly. Everbody agrees that cognition and language are interconnected. But the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is a little more specific.
You are missing an important motivator of great engineers: we seek out hard, commercially-relevant problems of course, but these problems must also be societally relevant and responsible. While our actions may often reflect it only implicitly, many of us take this professional responsibility to society very seriously; we need to be engaged in enterprises that both understand and encourage this. Conversely, when an organization loses engineers over issues of principle, getting them back is essentially impossible.
There are a bunch of hosted VOIP/PBX options available. Is this an option for you?

You could have a bunch of ATA's plugged into a switch with cordless phones plugged into each.

Alternatively, you can get 802.11 native phones, but that may be expensive. For example http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6788/ph... -- I'm sure there are some cheaper non-cisco options.
Comic panels with headers? I think its for css
No - it's not semantics. Mutations are random, the process selecting which move on is not. If you're picking tomatoes, some will be rotten at random, you select ones that look tasty - that's random rottenness and active selection. Try this out:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/chance/chance.html
View source and attempt to recreate websites you like. I suggest copying designs from other media too: there's plenty of untapped potential in print. Keep a scrapbook with bits of design you like looking at. You'll develop a personal style over time.

I do interface design as a living, and that's my tip.
Even at the height of Microsoft's reign, you could still walk into a shop and buy a Mac. Just sayin'.
Subsidized? I would think that cheap or free parking would be the cost of doing business in a city.

Paying for cheap/free parking for other people currently is part of the cost of doing business in the city due to regulations which demand it. The question is, why should it be the cost of doing business in the city?

Also, I'm not proposing any re-engineering. If the current level of parking is optimal, then it would persist persist (but with people paying for their own parking). I don't claim to know the optimal level of parking, I just want to adopt a system with incentives to get the level right.

Incidentally, Manhattan comes pretty close to having market-priced parking. There is some free parking, particularly at low-demand times, but a big chunk of people pay market rates for parking. There seem to be plenty of people who want to live/work there.
Do we declare JavaFX as dead now?
Either I'm missing something or this tutorial is seriously lacking.

I'd much recommend Tannenbeum's classic text that covers implementing Minix:
http://www.amazon.com/Operating-Systems-Implementation-Prent...

But since this text is rather old, it doesn't have some of the later developments in OS. So for that additional material, I'd recommend his latest book to have at your side:
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Operating-Systems-Andrew-Tanenb...
It's also behind both IE and Firefox in various ways. You're right that it would be a better dominant engine than IE was, but it's still not as good as having a nice three way competition for browser share.
Read about the basics on http://htmldog.com and try it immediately. After running through the entire tutorial, find a project, actual or fictitious. Visualize what you want it to look like and stick with it and start reading books once you run into problems.

Smashing Magazine and A List Apart are good places to search for answers to CSS and HTML in detail. If you read five books before you get your hands dirty, you can be fairly sure to have forgotten most of it by the time you actually try it in the wild.

After that, you can check out resources and literature, but don't overtheorize it. Many people keep researching, when they seem afraid to try the actual subject.
Thanks for the disambiguation. HN keeps me posting at the weirdest hours of the day for some reason.
DTrace is in fine shape -- Oracle has monopoly over neither DTrace talent nor implementation. (And the significant patent portfolio around DTrace is licensed to anyone who abides by the CDDL -- and the name itself is not trademarked.)

ZFS is more complicated; most ZFS implementation expertise exists within Oracle's walls (for now), but the system is also much more done than it was even a year ago, and the system as it stands is suitable for much (if not most) enterprise use. So even at worst, ZFS will not be "lost" -- it will either be frozen in time or forked, depending on the fate of the ZFS team itself...
The latitude map is a nice visualization of how our species is clustered around the equator. Not surprising, but still neat to see the data.
Can we please not have these inflammatory and uncivilized things on HN? I'm sure if there was a point to it, someone else would have written it down with less drama and more substance.

Thanks.
I took a class like this once except instead of i386 we implemented on 16-bit x86 so we had to fiddle with the stack and registers manually to switch kernel and user mode, or to switch processes. It was great fun despite a few eccentricities.
You mean like Linus?
To be fair the site doesn't comply with guideline number 9:

Update your site's content often (at least show it's been reviewed recently).

But it's ok anyway.
After trying clj-stacktrace for a long while, I agree, this would be good to merge into Clojure.
I've got an alias in my downloads folder that auto adds mp3s to iTunes and iTunes auto-syncs to my ipod when I plug it in.

I don't even have to think about dragging and dropping anything.
It hasn't much helped the local stores, either; I think it was too late.

As you say, allowing cars on the promenade hasn't helped. And big box stores have beaten the smaller local businesses in plenty of other towns.

So why do you attribute the failure of the downtown to the pedestrian only zones rather than to competition?
> adding new classes or adding new methods to every class

Common Lisp lets you do both. These are not problems with polymorphism, these are problems with brain-damaged implementations of polymorphism.
When it comes to CSS, the best tool I've ever used is firebug, http://getfirebug.com/

It's invaluable to have a tool that lets you inspect everything on your page and show you why each element is styled as it is and where in the goddamn CSS file the line is that caused you to start tearing out your hair.
Looking at Europe, there seems to be much less data about Germany and the United Kingdom than France, Spain, Italy or Portugal. You can see this by the lack of contrast on the colours on the map.
The good thing about old European cities is they weren't designed for cars and they've grown organically. The Prince of Wales has been attempting to build a new town using similar principles in England:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury
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This doesn't sound like a loan to me - it sounds like a contract where the party buying equity is given priority on dividend payments, which as I understand it is reasonably common.

Of course, the money not actually appearing is a different matter.
Yes, there's no question that Windows 7 is a decent OS, but the desktop is becoming less and less relevant with each passing day. The new decade is about web services, cloud computing, social networks, and mobile platforms. Microsoft has been caught flat-footed on all of these and is playing a big game of catchup.
We're a small community here on HN. I'm sure others know him too. I don't need to toot my own horn.
Actually, I'd recommend the latest version of OSDI, which is fairly recent, and contains the complete source for MINIX3 (in text form, and on CD): http://www.amazon.com/Operating-Systems-Design-Implementatio...
Seems more like clustered around 30 degrees north.
For example, ALL subsidies are economically harmful.

You are overstating your case. In a completely free market, public goods (goods which are non-rivalrous and non-excludible) will be under provisioned, since people will have an incentive to freeload of the people who do pay. Subsidies for public goods, or even private goods with a positive external benefit can (if the level is chosen correctly) prevent this under provisioning.

Granted, parking (and owning a home) are private goods, so the point is moot for the purposes of this article and your example.
Ask HN: Weby: A new python template language, can I have some feedback please?
I have spent the last few years working on a new, minimalist, 0-magic Python web framework. It is still not done, but I have used the template language in production environments and it is a pleasure to work with. I want to release that separately today.

I have used Django Templates, Rails ERB, PSP, and many other template languages. Weby Templates have the advantages of simplicity and flexibility.

Blog and docs:

http://www.jperla.com/blog/2010/08/15/weby-templates-are-easier-faster-and-more-flexible

Repository:

http://github.com/jperla/weby-templates
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I love learning about the development of the knowledge that we take for granted today. Only a few short years ago, we didn't even know what a galaxy was. Who knows what we will discover in the future?
I gave these guys money based on a set of expectations. They haven't even come remotely close to meeting those expectations.

I think the reason I'm not being more vocal is because I feel bad for these guys and just assume they are in way over their head. I don't think they are really con artists. But, I'll sure feel dumb if that's what this turns out to be. Let's be honest, the pictures they are posting of the "new" product are wildly different from the pictures of what I bought.
not sure what you're referring to, but if you're suggesting my programmer friends all say "I hack this/that" I should clarify that I'm mostly referring to bloggers and other web presences, which admittedly isn't really a representative sample. but, putting that aside, I could use some new friends anyway.
I think it has a lot to do with different city structures. The old city center in my town really is old – as in older than half a millennium. Cars can somehow drive through it but it was never really optimized for that. There are more than enough streets which allow the traffic to drive comfortably around it. Closing the city center itself for traffic consequently doesn’t cause a lot of problems.

Providing enough parking space seems important, though. My hometown has two large parking lots just outside the city center (you have to walk maybe 300 meters), two parking garages (500 meters) and a underground parking garage (100 meters). I don’t think the city center would work as well as it does without all those parking spaces. (Those parking spaces are all owned by the city and they will all cost you some money.)