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The "This American Life" piece on the NUMMI factory was great, and triple-underlined a few points in the article, especially the importance of having a unified vision, and getting all decision-makers on board.

According to the piece, the major difference between the Japanese and American production methods involved flagging defects. If an American stopped the line for anything, they would be fired. So cars rolled down the line with fatal defects, needing either expensive repairs or a trip to the trash heap. On the other hand, Japanese workers were encouraged to stop the line for any flaws they saw. This limited the loss to individual parts and components, rather than entire automobiles. This sounds like Apple's 10->3->1 approach: design flaws are discarded as soon as possible.

The piece also asserted that GM failed to adopt these measures for two reasons: upper management deferred to individual plant managers for the practices to be used in each factory, and the plant managers preferred the don't-stop-the-line approach, since they already knew it. There was no Apple-like process in place to convince plant managers that they needed to switch their methods, so they never did.
A good list of candidates is a starting point, but it is still necessary to sell employers.

Most recruiters don't do either. They swing for the fences using spam as in the article. Some prey on desperation and slide towards 419 territory with career coaching and similar services.
HN should register under the .hn domain
no matter how many times I read this, I'm always slightly caught off guard. The image many people seem to engender of fb is one of a public service -- ie they only "see" their friends on fb, not some abstract CEO.

With that reasoning, it makes sense that people pour so much blind faith into the Web site as they do -- they simply do not see a corporate structure to their giant online playground.
Cute, but no-one is going to try to seize any "assets", whatever you are imagining they might be. What will happen is instead this: that the Fed would bail them out to avoid a chain reaction, or that the state will have to go to the IMF, cap in hand, and accept an austerity program in return for further assistance, just like any other state that can't pay its debts.

The Nimitz, I'm afraid, is not going to be doing much of anything except its normal trick of sitting there and costing USD$440k per day.
5 reasons to take a phased approach to software development
Ask HN: iPad developers, are you lacking a designer?
Hello guys,
I've been doing web-design for about 3 years and I'm now looking for a way in to the iPad scene, as this seems more exciting and challenging. I would be able to give out first design for a project as pro-bono, so feel free to try me out.

Some previous examples:

Project 1 - A side-project I am currently developing in django and JS/jQuery for artists and alike. URL: http://orbita.li/disain/mindcast_001_01_1440x900.png

Project 2 - This probably gives better idea on my design/interactive skills. Sorry about the sound though, it's an artist site. URL: http://djcardinal.com/
one use case where I'd hate facebook to be down: when I'm trying to find the party address of a friend I haven't got a number of yet.

As much as I don't like facebook or most addictive 'free' services, there's many friends out there who treat it like the new email.
>Paul Graham wrote a while ago about the "Trouble with Segway"
From the linked article:
"But when he rides the Segwell, they shout abuse from their cars: "Too lazy to walk, ya fuckin homo?"

Is it routine in that area for adults shout abuse at strangers minding their own business?
Thanks for posting this. As a entrepreneur I couldn't agree more with your opinion. Previously although I work in a technology field, I was pretty functional. That is, my knowledge of coding began and ended at SQL and HTML. But on the same note, years of doing custom applications with developer teams educated me on the 'lingo' and what could and could not be done (at least, not easily).

Over the past year, we had many 'business' persons who offered to help out, and while that was awesome, what we really needed was qualified technical people. For a 'business' person, one can usually get an unpaid college intern and not have to sacrifice any shares in the company.

Also, I think as functional person you are somewhat "over the barrel" if your developers dont perform, and can do nothing except complain. I do believe it's better overall if you can build your own product.
At the end of the day, we decided to educate our own team in Ruby/Rails rather than bring in outside developers. I think this was a smart decision, and also a more cost effective solution.

I definitely suggest other start ups do the same.
Is your private phone number on Facebook? Probably. And so are your friends
I have never lived in a time where my favourite service or product cost money. It has always been free. Forgive me for growing accustomed to the world that you have built...
Buy the Warrantech-3-Year...
Thanks, that looks like a good resource, which I'll definitely need.
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One of the anti-proliferation points is that U233 (which is the isotope you're thinking of) is mixed with U232, which decays to products with high gamma output, meaning that it's more dangerous to work with than the more typical fissionable materials, and much easier to detect. For a state this probably wouldn't be a significant barrier, but it's a fair point with respect to terrorist bombs. Of course, we haven't seen any of those, which implies that there's some non-obvious factor at work, here.
Yes, these people exist, they work for independent labels... The music industry doesn't just suck the money out of start ups, they also suck the money out of artists!

Don't be fooled by the crowd that says the music industry is "investing" in talent, they are lending money (and producers, which of course they charge to the artist again)! There are some ridiculous stories about the music industry.
I guess I can't bitch about bad weather either, since I'm not paying anyone for sunny days.

Read again the examples you quote in your post. What does exactly make you think those people feel entitled to a perfect service for free? They are just not happy about the service being down. That's pretty normal.
The need-to-know basis is good, but defeats the purpose of having the shared database. If we could tier access, and grant permissions, then that might be a more viable option. I'll look into it.

We can change our own passwords when an employee leaves, but that leaves all of the client passwords. If we set up their (for example) hosting account and solely managed it, changing the password would be fine. However, we have a large number of clients who co-manage stuff with us -- we both access their hosting, domain registrar, mailchimp/constant contact, advertising, etc accounts. We can't really go through and change a few hundred client passwords or email them urging them to change passwords so that one of our employees doesn't screw with them.
That link is NSFW.
Reminded me of this old Jamie Zawinski joke: http://www.jwz.org/hacks/why-cooperation-with-rms-is-impossi...

(ObOld: I remember the time when it was why-cooperation-with-rms-is-impossible.au, not .mp3)
> Its dependency resolution capabilities are awful

Funny. I had more problems with APT dependency resolution than with ports dependency resolution, probably by an order of magnitude, despite the fact that APT was the best package system I had encountered in Linux-land.

> its third party repository capabilities non-existent

I must admit that APT's third-party repository capabilities are pretty nice. On the other hand, I have not needed a third-party repository with FreeBSD yet, so I have no basis for comparison.

> scripting it is an exercise in frustration

Strange. I've scripted half a dozen different things for working with ports, because it was so easy to do, then subsequently found out that someone else had not only already done the same thing but done it better and committed it to ports. Your experience is obviously much different from mine.

> packaging for ports is easy but leaves me with feelings of horrible guilt because of the complete and utter lack of regard for the sanity of the end user

What's so insane about its (lack of) regard for the end user? Do you just think end users should never have to wait for a compile to finish? Is this an implied rehash of what you've already said? What exactly is the problem in this case?

> uninstallation is laughably weak particularly with regard to dependencies

Uninstallation appears about on par with APT from where I'm sitting.

> the binary packages are universally unusable

I don't bother using the binary packages, for the most part, but I know there are bunches of people who basically run their FreeBSD systems entirely off binary packages. I suspect they would disagree with your assessment.

> you can't query ports for the actual state of the filesystem vs. what it thinks the state of the filesystem is because it simply doesn't know

Example, or clearer explanation, please.

> since ports doesn't support third party repositories in any reasonable fashion it doesn't matter, since you can't use the native package management on FreeBSD to distribute your applications anyway

I find this difficult to believe, but what the hell -- I haven't bothered looking into it. I'll just accept what you say for argument's sake, for now.

> Sorry for the angry rant, but my level of disgust at seeing ports held up as an example of something good about FreeBSD is impossible to contain.

That's obvious. Too bad your disgust for it runs completely counter to my own experience.
Chicago runs a deficit, but it's a fraction of Illinois'; Chicago isn't what's going to default.
Not really fair as the users haven't been given the option to pay.
What would happen to Twitter if Bit.ly got disrupted?
When you strip away the scalability infrastructure, isn't Twitter just a CRUD app? For some people they would seem to epitomize an "exciting startup".
Ouch! Sorry, I hadn't properly scrolled down. Note added (thanks!).
What makes .com the best domain is CTRL+Enter: .com is the default TLD; it's like having no TLD at all.

All other TLDs, including .net, .org, .yourOwnCountry, .someExoticCountry are bad because they have to be mentioned.
It's not an excuse to do whatever you want, I just meant it as people get into odd situations and strange things happen.

I just think about the message and let people be people. human nature is a wild elephant.
What kind of rate do you expect to work at? What would the work flow be for this? Are you going to make the xib files and leave it to the programmer to wire it up, or do you have something else in mind?
The point here is not if they will, the point is that they can, and that that's why it is silly to even start using a domain like that.

You don't put your business' fate in the hands of some third world countries legislation/semi governments whims.
> You know what? I couldn't care in the slightest that you can't be Mayor of the coffee shop round the corner, or post an asinine and narcissistic update to your Facebook 'friends', or Tweet your breakfast, or feed your virtual flock.

Good job you're not wasting your time on any of these "favourite waste of time sites" to see our rantings, then.
> The GNU project very much as a "not invented here" problem, where it not only wants to replace everything in the world -- even when it's "free software" -- with something weird and less usable that bears the GNU stamp on it.

Oops. I lost track of how I was writing that sentence about halfway through. I meant to say this:

The GNU project very much as a "not invented here" problem, where it not only wants to replace everything in the world -- even when it's "free software" -- but chooses to do so with something weird and less usable that bears the GNU stamp on it, and works in a fully incompatible manner.

(emphasis to point out the differences)
I feel that one of the causes of this bias is that startups are often thought of as the antithesis of "big finance". Because of this, disgruntled (ex)finance people come here looking for a change and a challenge in something completely different (possibly naively thinking that "completely different" means "something I'll enjoy because I don't enjoy what I'm doing now").

The core problems with finance, as I see them (from the inside):

- Many in the financial sector work in companies with 100,000+ colleagues. Depending on the role/department/team/company, it can feel like you don't make a difference.

- Many of these companies are far from 'lean' and are slow moving behemoths.

- Many people get into the sector for the reasons 'staunch' said: quick money.

- The technology is archaic and 'usability' and 'experience' are words that are seldom even known outside of new recruits.

However, most disgruntled financial employees are the victim of circumstance.

I work in finance and love it. My team is small and crucial to the company's core business -- I am made to feel like I make a difference… and I do. Those huge, lumbering systems are fantastic when trying to figure out how to get things working and how to improve them. Dealing constantly with legal constraints can be great fun if you think of them as constraints rather than just "a pain in the ass". The opportunities for learning are near endless. Legacy systems are the most fascinating bit of history I've seen and occasionally I'll spend my morning among COBOL, my afternoon with C and my evening with JSPs.

To conclude: If you're in the right place, finance is fascinating and hugely enjoyable. If you're in the wrong place, it can be frustrating and boring beyond imagination. What type are going to be on HN, mostly? Those who were caught in the last group and are looking for the polar opposite experience to see if this is what works.
Oracle was probably hoping for an out of court resolution, similarly to how Microsoft was able to do with HTC.

Google instead has to defend it with everything it has, because lately Android phone manufacturers are being under attack by Apple and Microsoft (Nokia could be joining soon).

Regardless of the result ... this whole affair is going to generate a ton of bad press for Oracle, and I hope they learned something from the SCO lawsuit and just back off before it's too late.

And when comparing this lawsuit with SCO versus IBM and Novell, Oracle sells database management software, a field in which Google probably has patents by now. Were they hoping for a cross-licensing deal or something?
Specific conference websites to find out titles and typically the author's personal site.
Regarding Djangy (and all apologies for how offtopic this is), you REALLY need to give some idea of what pricing is going to be.

The "only pay for what you use" statement only works when I have a relative idea of how much a given computational unit costs, or how much the average customer is paying.

EC2 could make the same statement, but there's a huge difference between a small and medium instance, cost-wise.
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Is your private phone number on Facebook? Probably. And so are your friends'
My guess is that the upvotes are more about telling people who have social media codependency to shut up rather than the particular rant about how they're bitching about something they're not paying for, but I could be wrong.

I'm sick of the social media explosion and will be glad when most of this crap dies and we're left with a few players that allow me to have meaningful exchanges or keep up with people, etc.
Interesting. I did not know that Smarties were Europe-only.
Early morning devil's advocacy:

Why are you allowed to complain about other people's free content? You weren't paying for the content they provided where they complained about outages, surely?

Or was a mild irony an intended part of the article?

In addition, if they are being "used", shouldn't they vote with their feet to be "used" by another site (read: evil boyfriend) that treats them better and gives them shinier things? The first step in that is voicing their discontent so other suitors get the hint.

/advocacy

For what it's worth, I also much prefer your less negative articles-- more hit than miss usually. But, well... I can't complain.
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I suppose it depends on the circumstance. I built something for an event at my company on Monday that utilized the Foursquare API to grab recent checkins at the event and make a "slot machine" that randomly picked a winner.

And, you may remember, Foursquare was down pretty much all day Monday. It was an extra thing for the event that I did after hours, a bit reluctant to be spending precious weekend time building it, but I figured it would be worth it. It wasn't.

Obviously, we should have used more than just Foursquare, aggregating checkins across multiple services — I mean, the event was about social media — but unfortunately there wasn't anymore time to do so.

I suppose the truth of the matter is that you shouldn't rely on any third-party service (especially free ones... Facebook and your ever-changing API, I'm looking at you).

Now if we could just get our clients to understand that.
Don't worry, I've got plenty of other interesting things to write about. Normal (expected) service will be resumed shortly.
I feel old, as I never wrote tetris or task manager, but have large collection of hacked-up hex-editors :)
phpnode here on HN is pretty good: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=phpnode

Satisfied customer here. Not cheap but worth every penny.
Simple math will tell you to estimate your credit card bill using old credit card bills as a reference, not your gut feeling about how much you spend.
Once you get the basic Euler setup working it is worth it to try out a more accurate integration method.

Anytime someone posts a simulation using Euler Integration someone usually links to the following[1]. It describes why Euler integration isn't good enough (with the famous line, "If you are use Euler then you are a bloody idiot"). It then proceeds to show how to implement RK4 or Runge Kutta order 4.

This method will evaluate the derivative at four points in between the previous and current timestep to detect the curvature of an objects velocity. It will then take a weighted average to get the best approximation of the derivative for that timestep. This accounts for acceleration in between timesteps rather than assuming a constant velocity between them.

[1] http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/integration-basics/
I understand that but I believe all of that can be addressed by making it very clear on the outset (things like the feedback is just fyi, we wont respond back to your feedback on feedback) yada yada...I do think that it is a hard choice for yc but it would very worthwhile for the applicants. Any feedback is better than no feedback, IMHO.
I still can't understand why, if they truly believe it is the right thing to do, the countries involved in the ACTA treaty won't publish it? It's only fueling more speculation about how horrible it will be.
People complaining on the internet is probably the one problem least likely to be alleviated via complaints on the internet. Furthermore, any argument you can construct about why its okay to complain about people complaining would apply equally to the original complainers (it's not like you were paying for them not to complain).

Just like in WarGames the only sensible strategy is to not participate.
This was (?) the way the USSR used to handle conscientious objectors:

They would send you a letter to go serve in the military,
You would go to where you where assigned,
You objected because of your conscience,
They would then send you to a force labor camp or mental institution for a few years,
The hard work, unhealthy food and living conditions,
lacking health care, medical experiments, and violence among convicts
would often destroy your physical and mental health,
Then when you where released,
They would send you a letter to serve in the military.
…
Unless, naturally, your conscience would no longer object to serving in the military…
Yeah, seriously. Did you expect you'd just drop the old domain and you'd still get the same visitors?

I changed my blog's address from poromenos.org to korokithakis.net and 301d everything, I saw zero reduction in visitors. If you tell Google you're redirecting (from inside Google Webmaster Tools), they'll even oblige and rewrite their own URLs to the new ones, preserving PR.
Regretfully there does not seem to be a single interesting or new thought in that post. What am I missing that all the up-voters are seeing?
A/B test!
I have noticed the same effect. ...Also, sometimes if I am struggling with a problem, I force myself to go get some exercise. This seems to inherently help me 'think outside the box' and I am surprised how often I come up with a new solution or approach to the issue at hand.
301 redirects as jacquesm siad. That will take care of the search engines, anyway, which is probably where most of your traffic is coming from.

That said - you should also be analyzing your logs or whatnot to see where your traffic is really coming from, and more importantly,whether this new strategy is working before you shut off the old domain.
Of course most police forces and so on will not have speakers available, but the comment said "British intelligence". Every intelligence agency has translators for all major languages, and have for decades (Arabic was an important language in the Cold War almost from the start). And they have translators for minor languages on tap - I bet they could find a Basque, Lapp, or Chukchi speaker if they needed one quicker than most universities.
Why are you allowed to complain about other people's free content?

Are you suggesting he is not allowed?

If time is money, then time spent using a service is still an investment made in that service regardless of any currency changing hands. Plus, making a free service doesn't make you immune from criticism.
Totally disagree! I own a short .biz domain (erica.biz) and have had people mis-speak it when introducing me as "ericabiz.com"...so much so that I put in a backorder on ericabiz.com and when the previous registrant finally let it drop this year, I snagged it and 301'ed it to erica.biz.

I still love erica.biz and have no intentions of switching over to a .com, but there's no question that people assume you have a .com.

Search engines, however, don't care--my site happily gets tens of thousands of visitors per month from Google et.al. and the site ranks well for some very high-volume keywords.
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No. The problem is the other way around: It _can't_ easily be converted. That's why is was not investigated in the 40s and during the cold war too much: People were interested in bombs, too.
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It's slightly funny how lots of Americans are complaining about Libya's rules for .ly, but have obviously never read the rules for .us which are in many aspects worse.
Watch, listen and browse multiple youtube videos on the same page.