skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Distribution is a huge advantage for Apple. Motorola, RIM and most of the cell manufacturers have no experience selling away from the carrier. HP knows how and Samsung knows how but Samsung's tablets are developed and sold through its smartphone division, which doesn't sell outside of the carriers.
Actually, this is correct. In many electronics companies the divisions internally can operate as profit centers, wherein they are incentivized by making the largest profits for themselves. If Apple can offer more for flash to the Samsung flash division than the phone division at Samsung, then business goes to Apple.

The numbers check out.

Related readings

"Using transfer pricing in decision making - Nuts and Bolts of Business": http://bit.ly/f0xBb0

Managerial Accounting Transfer Pricing Lecture Notes, UIC: http://bit.ly/fhaoUM
Health insurance.
This is good enough to come up multiple times.

Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476425
Quantcast uses it pretty extensively.
You've just been reading the wrong science fiction.

One of the great concepts in Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge is a galaxy wide internet and the malevolence in it is effectively just a super virus. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson has something what you describe also with a great "information economy", albeit earth based.
You didn't answer ars' question, you simply deferred the answer to whoever is defining PPP.
Tech Returns To The Super Bowl Big Time, An Ad Round Up
Is your design block general or web-specific? Can you make a decent-looking presentation in powerpoint? Do your word documents look like geocities web-pages ca 1996? Any useful advice would necessarily be context-dependent.

In any case, my specific advice for dealing with web page design is to 'outsource' it. Build your sites in a themeable CMS and just play with themes. It sounds like you can tell a good looking design from bad, so just spend the time trying different looks, and something will come out in the end.
Nice to hear I am not alone on this. The advantage I find is that it makes my deployments more explicit, and my pushes too and from the repository are as often as I feel.

With GIT thats a moot point in the linked article so long as you are using branches for everything and remembering to push them as well, but sometimes I just want to fix something quickly and do so without a branch. I dont care what people say when you start storing a lot of stuff in GIT a branch can take some time to process.
While the OP talks specifically about Python, the patterns of a semaphore, lock (aka mutex, a semaphore with value 1), condition and queue are relevant to many languages, many of which are not hampered by a GIL. Personally, the more I use threads, the more I like this way of programming, at least for the request/response paradigm.
I hate when I ask 2 - 3 questions in an email, and I only get the last one answered.
Not directly related but topically relevant link to Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman's paper on "The Theory of Interstellar Trade":

http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf
imho, one non-trivial issue that i can see with the whole thing has to preserve the formatting of the code while converting it back from an AST. for languages like google's go or python where indentation is kind of mandated it might be easier...
You're not missing anything!

It's just a simple little page, in the vein of isitraining.in and such sites. We started as the Super Bowl started, and worked while watching. That's all.
Manufacturing cost is ALL about the volume. You can make a device cost half as much if you buy 10x the volume, and half as much again for 100x
looks sweet! a comment: before spotting the caption, it isn't obvious if the graph shows business or desirability.
Instead of trying to copy Apple's products, their competitors should really be looking at how to replicate their marketing and supply-side management.
Once the core product is built, launch it.

There are endless ideas and features you can add. Sometimes its better for the users to watch the company grow than have the perfect product launched.
Here is a the TVC on youtube for those of us not in the US http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVkFT2yjk0A
You're right, I will start testing it out with my friends and play it by ear from there. Thanks!
I don't know if I buy that. Is there data that shows retail clerk wages declining over time? I happen to have a factory worker, airline stewardess, and retail clerk in my extended family and their wages have all increased over the past 20 years. I mean, not by amazing amounts, but definitely I wouldn't say they are doing worse than they were before.
It's a dick size contest.

This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.
I think the error that many people make in holding on to their belief that the question must have an answer is the fault of those people, not philosophy. How did you get to the point you can confidently label that a 'non-question' if you did not consider the problem philosophically?
Which is part of my point, for that $1000 in value sometimes our only task is putting the pieces together. It can't last, China wants to do that too.
To amplify this point, remember that when the iPod was first released, it was relatively expensive at $399 for the 5 GB model. Today they have entries at every price point, starting from the $49 iPod Shuffle up to the $399 64 GB iPod Touch.

Apple definitely can and will compete on price.
Do you need to reincorporate when you move?
Exactly. The problem isn't the price to features ratio, its the "lowest priced version" option. And somehow, its Apple that's offering the most choice there.
about as 'key' as twitter I'm guessing...
TrendMicro sends passwords in plain text - that's security
I just subscribed to the online account and got this:

Dear Alex Sxxxxxx,

Thank you for registering Worry-Free Business Security Services for Dell. Your account will be activated immediately.

Account Information
Service Name: Worry-Free Business Security Services for Dell
Activation Code: WF-HMWA---------------------

Logon Information
User Name: syrnick
Password: PASSWORD IN PLAIN TEXT
Validity: 455 days (2/7/2011 - 5/7/2012)
Product/Service Console: https://wfbs-svc.trendmicro.com/dell/

With password in plain text that makes me worry - what do they know about security?
> You asserted that currently the app downloads and is usable in 10 seconds. It is not. That's my contention, based on DF, and that is where the confusion lied in your comment.

On the contrary, my first comment was:

"He's right it's slow to let you interact. He's dead wrong that it doesn't download in the background."

Furthermore, I provided my own timings, none of which "asserted" it's usable in 10 seconds.

Again, I agree with Gruber it's slow. I disagree with you that I read him wrong. He did fail to acknowledge the app is engineered to download most of the issue in the background after (too slowly, whether 45 seconds or 80) allowing interactivity to begin.

Discussing this any further risks becoming circular.
The transfer of information is the primary form of interstellar relations in Ursula LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness. Of course, it still depends on faster than light communications in order to dig the plot out of the dead ends a story involving sub-lightspeed diplomatic travel entails.

Robert Sawyer's Rollback addresses the some of the human issues that lightspeed interstellar communications entail even with nearby star systems.
GoDaddy seems to draw more than their share of negative attention because they make really crappy commercials that objectify women.

Add a few more zeros to the budget and you end up with high quality commercial that objectifies women but gets far less complaints.

Bottom line: People hate GoDaddy commercials because they suck.
One immediately apparent reason would be API rate limits from Foursquare. It's easy/practical to query for "who's here" for a limited number of venues a few times an hour, start doing it for hundreds or thousands of venues and you'll start running into problems...
If you are not currently using something like it, start. If it doesn't do much for you because you don't have a good automated test suite, fix that. It's a critical problem in your build environment.

At the risk of speaking for somebody else, if Joel were to revisit his Joel Test I suspect using a Continuous Integration server would be added to the list.
I disagree. As far as I'm concerned, full text search doesn't belong in databases at all, never mind built in from the start.
I think I could probably mock something up that was decent in powerpoint or something similar. In a past life, I studied advertising, so I had a bit of schooling in paper advertising and creating a proper layout. I struggle taking that to the web though...getting it to look just right with the right mix of CSS, image slices, etc. That's a dark art to me.
I don't know about the build-up, but overall, the commercial didn't say anything. I don't know that it showed much promise either.
Hopefully the device is more inspired than the ad
It's always interesting introducing a feedback loop into a complex adaptive system. I wonder how close to an even distribution this would make attendance if it became hugely popular.
On a related note, is there a sensible implementation for cheap flights hunting with flexible dates?

Guys from Hipmunk have been promising it for about a year by now. And yet I still find myself forced to try different dates manually.
Ask HN: Anyone Else Sick at the Groupon Commercials?
Completely tasteless. If I were a VC I'd be FURIOUS right now!
Probably true in part, but they also go a lot further than most. For example, the way they post "unrated" content on their website, and push it during the Super Bowl.
Groupon's Controversial Tibet Super Bowl Ad
you can install Mac OS X on it :-)
I really don't know what to think of this ... this is the first I have heard of ICANN opening up domain name suffixes. The example .music that was described in the article makes for a good case, but it seems it will be a complicated mess. Having to get 'approved' to buy domain names with specific suffixes is surely to become a big hassle.
I've been using http://adioso.com
This is something colour-coding could help with. Red meaning busy, some gentler colour meaning quiet.
This was ridiculously painful to read. Melodramatic would be an understatement, and for what it's worth, this article has automatically made me decide that if I ever come across anything this person produces, I'm not buying it.
Which was actually my point. I don't see anyone willingly adding a feature to actually restrict functionality the way a currency detection engine would/does. At least, in an open source project, I think there would be enough resistance from contributors to keep such components from becoming standard features. This I consider a good thing about the GIMP, Krita, and any/every other FOSS graphics package out there.

That said, it does present a pretty little puzzle for the FOSS community. Given governments' recent roles in expanding the reach of FOSS software, I don't think we can ignore the question of what happens when and where the interests of the state conflict with those of the FOSS community. Here, specifically, we have a case where a government may desire a "feature" anathema to the community, but likely can't force the community to accept such a requirement. What they might be able to do is outlaw any version of the package which does not incorporate the restriction. How effectively can could they enforce it? Not much, perhaps, right now, but we'd be fooling ourselves to think they never could. It's all but certain they're going to keep trying, even if it proves utterly impossible.

Thank you for responding, A1kmm. This is what I was really hoping to see: some actual discussion of the point. In any case, I apologize for offending whoever downmodded me. I'll try not to be quite so snarky in future.
Groupon spends big on Superbowl commercials, but ads anger many viewers
Nice one. This will help me avoid the sort of people who use Foursquare, or who like playing with their mobile devices while in art galleries. And, I'll assume, will help ensure I have plenty of opportunity to meet others like me.
I suspect that it is like with money: the lack of "interacting with women" may impair men's cognitive functioning much more severely.
This may not be what you want to hear, but have you considered partnering with a designer? Is there some reason that you feel you need to also cover this part of the project too? It's difficult enough to master and stay on top of all the technologies that have listed, and design is a huge topic which in and of itself could consume you. It's also in many ways quite tangental to your existing skillset.

That said if you do insist on being the fully rounded person and doing all aspects of the project (which I often find myself doing :-) I would second the advice given here to simply borrow design elements from sites that you like (90% of 'design' is simply this anyway, with a relatively small number of people putting actual design principles to use and even even smaller number of thought leaders doing interesting and innovative design work). This should give you a start on getting something that looks somewhat decent, and give you time to think about how far down the design rabbit hole you wish to dive so that you will at least start to understand the underpinnings and theory of the things you had been cargo-culting.

Design is not how something looks - it's how it works. Think like an end-user and step back from the myopic view most developers have of their own applications. Ask yourself questions like "Is it obvious what to do here? Does the UI help me achieve my goals or hinder it?" The actual visual representation is only one part of achieving these goals. Remove redundant, confusing or cluttered elements on screen. In good design every pixel pulls it's own weight and white-space is used judiciously. Perfection is achieved when nothing more can be removed.

Pay attention to color schemes - there are plenty of sites now which will help you pick a nice color palette. Pick colors which work well together and are readable. Colors convey a message.

Don't ignore typography either. Googling will give you good suggestions for fonts which work well together and carry certain types of messages and associations. Don't use too many fonts on page. Vertical rhythym and letter/line spacing can make a big difference to a sites appearance.

Something I do before starting sites is to make a proof sheet - sample content of the basic types of tags, elements and markup you will encounter, and a CSS stylesheet defining the appearance of these elements. This may help you visualise the site a little better and will keep you consistent as you build it out.
Indie musician Ace Enders talks Kickstarter success and future of music industry
Wages by industry:

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/suppl/empsit.ceseeb2.txt

Historical CPI:

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt

From 1964-2010, weekly manufacturing wages rose from $102.59 to $765.08/week. "Private service-providing" jobs (which includes retail) went from $98.10 to $606.14. Over that same time period, the CPI rose from an index of 30.9 to to 216.687, an increase of 7x. In real terms, retail wages have fallen by about 12%, manufacturing wages have just barely kept pace with inflation.
Architectural documentation and user documentation are two completely different things. User documentation is what O'Reilly does. Architectural documentation is what Oracle is claiming to have done.
The post mentions disappointment in viewer conversion. I think it's fairly obvious that this kind of referral is awful for conversion. Viewers are loyal to Hacker News, not to the site referred. If the post showed a promise for more interesting content in the future, then you may gain some subscribers. But when it's merely a link to something else cool found on the internet, there's little incentive to subscribe.

FWIW, I had a #1 HN story that generated maybe 100 new subscribers out of 100,000 pageviews. I was impressed, however, by how many checked out the homepage to see other posts.

PS: I find putting ads on a personal blog to be a bad idea. Unless you blog for a living, the tiny revenue you might make from it is not worth the unprofessional appearance of displaying ads.
Yeah, just started it two days ago -- http://developers.propagandaproject.org
Do you have parents?

Then you have investors.
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"When you could that with a higher resolution screen, dual cameras, /and/ a built in barometer, Id say its a near even deal"

Remember though that the Xoom will spend most of its life competing against the second generation iPad, so most of these feature advantages are likely to vanish. Throw onto that the fact that judging from Apple's pricing history the next iPad will either have the same or a lower price, _and_ the Xoom will require a cellular contract to use Wifi (!), the Xoom will likely compare poorly to most people.
Is health insurance which only pays for 1970's era medical care really that expensive today? Or did you mean to say that a financial product which pays for an MRI/viagra/chemotherapy today is more expensive than a financial product which paid for X-Rays/dying of cancer at home in the past?

Incidentally, I can only find data going back to 1987, but it suggests little change the number of uninsured since then.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/p60-233.pdf
Me too. The one thing I can't do with it that would be really useful is reading from a USB stick/drive.

Mac OS has already been done and Google themselves give instructions on how to stick Ubuntu on it for replacement or dual boot.
Groupon ads are completely atrocious.
It seems you will trade objectification for paternalism. Your idea is that we should not respect Ms. Patrick's decisions. However, GoDaddy is the primary sponsor of Danca Patrick on both the IRL and NASCAR Nationwide circuits. It's very simple, she is a spokesperson because of they are a sponsor

Should we boycott Pepsi because Jeff Gordon appears in their commercials, too?
Very nice!

Another cool feature would be a temporal zoom - let me see that data juxtaposed over different months or weeks (I imagine it likely that the busy/free days vary depending on the season); conversely, it would be useful to be able to zoom in to the hour for specific days (best hours to visit today). That would help either plan vacation visit agendas, or determine an intra-day itinerary.
The comment about the bible was by cema, not mahmud. My impression was that cema interpreted your above comment as saying that people in the US would not respond well to plots based on Christian mythology because it was unfamiliar; when I think you meant that Americans wouldn't respond well to it because they didn't like seeing their sacred stories bastardized by giant stompy robots.
Yes, sending credentials in plain-text is bad. I would be more worried about your password being stored in plain text. That data is just sitting there...waiting. defended by super 1337 TrendMicro security!
Testify! Print design tools are light years ahead of web design tools. I'm looking forward to when they catch up too.
Maybe I'm wrong here, but no - I take the commercials for what they are - they're super bowl commercials. They're also doing exactly what Groupon wanted. People are now discussing them because they were slightly controversial. I also feel like they got the point across very well. When it's all said and done, I'm willing to bet these will have been a success for Groupon.

I mean, really, who did these anger? I think the media only writes articles saying that these angered people to make people think others are angry. But really, who is angry? It's a commercial.
In the past I've mentioned that I lack the talent that many of you have and I was rebuked. However, when the economist says something similar I don't see such protests. Why?
Ask HN: Are there any legal issues with using Twitter style at/hash Tags?
I'm working on a project and I wanted to use Twitter style inline @ and # tags and I was wondering is there any legal implications to that. As in has Twitter patented that? Is it even patentable?

As a side question, what do you guys think about inline tagging/referring. Is that good UX?

Thanks,

Drew
I think it's great Americans have a healthy fear of the Chinese. Keeps them from resting on their laurels.
Horse shit. Everyone skewered Kenneth Cole earlier this week and Groupon just did something even worse. They fucked up big time.

Edit: Making fun of genocide and deforestation is completely out of line. CEO should have known better, ad agency should have known better, advisors should have known better, VCs should have known better, the list goes on and on.
Moral: sign up with popular social networking sites and keep an eye on your Google rank.

I had friend with the same name as a porn star. Luckily, the porn star was in the downward portion of her career arc.
First sentence:

Some time ago, one of the male authors was chatting with a very attractive girl he had not met before. While he was anxious to make a good impression, when she asked him where he lived, he suddenly could not remember his street address.

It's interesting that women aren't similarly affected by mixed-sex interactions. Coed education disadvantages men?
Is this even true?

Clustrix, Heroku, Cloudant, RethinkDB, dotcloud...
Watch The Super Bowl 2011 Commercials On YouTube Ad Blitz
It is ridiculous to think the writers of Andromeda didn't know about Gog & Magog. Repurposing old myths is sci-fi writing 101.
Doesn't the NFL pretty tightly regulate the use of the logos?
Why the downvote? Companies are priced based on potential earnings as well as actual earnings. For example, the potential earnings of collateralized mortgages were thought to be high, so the companies that owned them were priced to account for that. When it turned out that owning CMOs was a bad business model, the companies' market values dropped, costing investors money. And, there is no difference between people stopping mortgage payments and people stopping coupon purchases when it comes to earnings projections.
Actually it did give a pretty specific answer, which was indeed 3pm EST on Tuesday 8 weeks before.
Probably the most tasteless commercial I've watched in recent time. Pretty disappointing what's become of the state of American marketing.
Twitter didn't even really invent them. The # tag drew inspiration from IRC and the @ tag is pretty self explanatory.
Get GSM up and running using an active SIM Card.
Get SubSonic Up and running on a server and access it via Cr48
Try Wiz-help
Cloud-in some non existing apps like xmame with tonido
If your cr48 is a FISH, open it up and document the inner configuration, I am certain that it is different from the PONY.
Find a way to check hardware specs without opening the machine.
when you are done, come here http://www.reddit.com/r/CR48/ and document your results.
Agreed. In the end we merely moved around atoms and electrons within chemical space. Applying labels to things which are simply transient configurations and then invoking "deep philosophical ponderings" concerning the new identity of these arbitrary assignments is quite pointless.

Philosophy seems a lot like religion to a scientist.
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I would love to see a hacker news CR-48 User group.
I feel that hacker news played a big role in me getting one.