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I think an advertisement printed on the tarp would help to avoid the rubbernecking. We're already great at ignoring billboards and other ads.

Then again... because so many people take the time to slow down and look at the wrecks, why not take advantage of the extra eyeballs and put up signs with ads on them?
What about for opposing lanes? A wreck going the other way is still a sight and both directions will slow to sneak a peek.

The article also mentioned that because of the spectacle, drivers are paying less attention to the road and looking at the wreck, causing secondary accidents.

Then again, a tarp with emergency vehicles is another reason for drivers to slow down and look at something, according to the article. The trick is to find something so mundane that drivers won't bother slowing down.
You turn that Niven quote on its head all right, all the way back to Arthur C. Clark.
My pleasure. I had reservations about submitting it to a hacker forum, but a second reading left no doubt.
What is weird is that the email was sent from this IP 69.63.184.102 which is registered to Thefacebook.com

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On Fighting the Web Itself
hehe, bonus points for the Warcart being more environmentally friendly than a gas-guzzling CO2 producing vehicle!
http://elisacamob.blogspot.com

part of the scam
Clive Thompson: Real-World Social Networks vs Facebook Friends
I remember when the majority of information on the Internet was on individual pages/sites; a fanpage on geocities was the appropriate place for a list of the things McGyver built. At the rate of growth it has seen, eventually Wikipedia will contain more information than the Internet (and Facebook will have more users than the Internet does).
http://www.reddit.com/r/india
Google obeys robots.txt but not much else. Just ask publishers and news outlets. And as I said, I don't see rules as a black and white thing. If they were, there would never be any progress. No iTunes without napster. No Microsoft being the biggest software company in the world without piracy. That doesn't mean it's ethically justified to break any rule. I just think it's not as simple as someone stating their own rules and everyone automatically obeying it.
Can't help but link to IMO the best piece on libraries vs frameworks: "I’d really like to give you this fork Jimmy, but you’re gonna need a knife and plate to use it." http://an9.org/devdev/why_frameworks_suck
I have always wondered if that would work for spam too. What if we would set-up a bunch of servers to follow all links (times 10) in all spam messages. Even better, make it a plug-in for Outlook & Mail. Then, if a spammer would send out 100.000 messages he would immediately receive 1 million hits. No problem if you are authentically sending a few emails but a huge problem if you are sending out millions of mails.

If would be an active spam fighting solution instead of all the 'turn the other cheek' solutions that are popular right now...
I was referring to "appears to be" and "seems to have".

Not weasel in the same sense as "people say" but just as content free. Is it just a todo list app, or is it something else/more? Does it have a web-based version, or does it not?
Yeah, but you'd wish you made the other decision, which is what everyone means by "regret".
Yes, Steve Jobs ended up in a better position because of the partnership agreement. For him, it was a good decision.
OMG YOU RECEIVED A PHISHING EMAIL!?@!1

Take this shit somewhere else.
Until they turn around and use it for DoS attacks.
What's Behind the Online Olympics
This is a great read, especially for anyone who's involved in any sort of "activist" stuff.

I point all my friends who do any sort of political writing - which is mainly things like small local zines and such - at this. It does a great job of showing how to make a point effectively, and showing how a lot of political writing fails to do much of anything but preach to the choir.

Glad to see it on here.
I've never taken a mathematic approach to playing Monopoly. Having played many a game over the years, victory always goes to however makes the best property/money trade during the game. The middle of Monopoly games inevitably involve people swapping cards for cash and vice/versa. Whoever gets the best end of a deal at the end of these trades usually wins.
Yeah, but don't they already do that?
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Thanks. The intention is to be India specific, but not necessarily 'hacker kinda news'. The clean and minimal UI is inspired by HN.
Indeed, it is based on reddit source! ('Powered by reddit') :-)
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At the time we started http://www.indiahacker.com, http://www.reddit.com/r/india wasn't a very active community. Perhaps people tend to focus on top-level domains and less so on subreddits (my theory).
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Why is a Wikipedia "style guideline" relevant to a comment on HN? Wikipedia guidelines are for writing encyclopedic content, not for comments on a discussion site.
They must be very patient, trying to bring down western civilisation one stolen fare at a time could take a while.
Same here. Starbucks is a giant corporation, but each branch has the same people in them from day to day, if you stop by the same branch on your way to work every morning, then you'll soon be chatting to the staff.

I don't know the dynamic behind the free stuff tho'. It could be Starbucks policy, it could be just the staff being nice to a familiar face who doesn't just bark an order at them, or it could be them deliberately screwing their employer. Probably all three at one point or other.
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It is 40x harder to get into IIT than it is MIT, and they've still not sorted their caste system. I can't understand why there isn't more outrage about that in the West; it's worse than Apartheid ever was.
To be clear, it is important to learn how to install Ruby on Rails (or really any package) on a Linux system. deprec and friends are great... until you want some crazy extension that they can't provide for you.
Not really - Mittal's skill has been in buying up loss making mills and turning them around. Their core skill is in training people to operate existing mills more efficiently.

Secondly, you don't know much about steel. For a start it is not "already laying inside the ground" (go on, find me a "steel mine" somewhere). It's not one thing either; there are countless alloys, and every customer wants something slightly different. Steel is a manufacturing business like any other. You might as well say the products of a bakery are just growing in a field somewhere.
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looking back and wishing you had done something else is the certain path to becoming a grumpy old man.
It's a general writing guideline, not specific to encyclopedias. It was the wrong choice though because "weasel words" can imply "weakening meaning in order to avoid contradiction" which wasn't what I meant to imply at all.

There may be a correct term for the "It might be the case that X, and if so my opinion is Y, but it also might not be the case because I don't actually have any first-hand experience with the thing I'm talking about--just speculation" form of speech, but I don't know what it is.
Video: Steve Jobs on why computers are like bicycles for the mind
Here's a good collection of Orwell's essays:

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/in...

When I first read 'Politics and the English Language', I was pleased to see the similaities between pg's essays and Orwell's thoughts about language, metaphors and good writing.
In Stockholm, Sweden you can pay transit fairs for busses and the subway via SMS (http://sl.se/templates/Page.aspx?id=4920).

SL (the ones running the bus service) have removed all money handling from the busses as a way of increasing security for the bus drivers. For the system to be practical they needed to provide various alternative ways to pay for fares.
Can computers debug?
1. What is the target audience for this site? (Its not 'hacker kinda' as mentioned in a comment here). Building that initial user base might be the key to the success.

2. Related to point 1, what is the 'essence' of the site? As in what kind of posts are allowed/not allowed, comment etiquette, is there any moderation? (Right now i see 'Bomb' blasts in India' as the top link. Incorrect headline, and and conveyed an entirely wrong message to me at least.)

3. For some reason the create login page didn't give me focus on the text boxes. (Firefox 2.0.0.16)

4. I was on a profile page, but did not get automatically logged on after creating the account.

The good part is you prefer the minimal and simplistic design. Good luck with your venture!

p.s. There was a 'pg' id on the site as well. :-)
Actually, I wonder if anyone out there has tried making toll-roads where you pay more the more time you spend on the toll-road, as opposed to the more distance you travel. That would certainly provide a nice economic signal to avoid congestion.

Of course, you'd also need to install a large number of speed cameras, to stop the obvious method of gaming the system...
I think its a result of the difficulties in quantifying customer satisfaction as opposed to simply trying to screw everyone with additional costs.

I think the economists views are that its all about ensuring that you meet or exceed shareholder expectations, so they will take the approach of "its better having a bird in the hand than 2 in the bush" when it comes to these matters.

Besides - when it comes to things like these, I think there is the vocal minority that complains and says that they will never use that company again (the majority of people do use them again anyway) and the majority of people are simply complacent and accept it.
This is South, intelligent schema migrations for Django apps.
Good read, if only for the opening story about quicksort.
They did take venture capital though, at some point, according to the wikipedia page. It could be that that is what gave them the edge to ramp up over other sites.
This is where the Firefox Petname extension comes in handy.

http://petname.mozdev.org/
Not just jailed, tortured. Unless you think that stress positions and sleep deprivation are just rough questioning. That man will have psychological trauma for the rest of his life.

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Okay, this is evidentally about people stealing subway fares or some shit. I nodded off about 3 slides in, so I could be wrong. Correct me if I'm wrong, do.

Still, I'm glad to know what the best minds of my generation are up to: utilizing their magnificent collective genius to steal the occasional nickel. The occasional dime. Great work, guys. Here's a quarter. Einstein always held out for the quarters...

Here's a tip: Just pay the goddamned fare and get some real work done. Thanks.

Seymour cray [iirc] had an algorithm for buying the best car:

1. Enter dealership.

2. Point at car.

3. Purchase car.

...point is: Don't worry about the trivial parts of life.
they've still not sorted their caste system

The trouble is that it is too sorted. :-). But on a serious note, economic development on the whole can help a long way in removing social evils as well. Some things might appear simple and logical to improve, but it ain't easy given the 'diversity' (and number!) of people in our country.
DJB probably could have found money for it. Did you take his class?
Not weasel in the same sense as "people say" but just as content free. Is it just a todo list app, or is it something else/more? Does it have a web-based version, or does it not?

Obviously, I'm not sure, which is why I used the terms. I don't think you actually understand the purpose of my post, which was partly to point out that Chandler has been unfocused from the beginning. I don't know exactly what Chandler is because Chandler has been many things in its 6 and a half year life.

I briefly glanced over the project wiki, and gathered what I could without spending an inordinate amount of time there. From what I could gather from the rather verbose, and enterprisey documentation, the things I said seem true to me, but I can't be sure, because I haven't used the project and I haven't followed it in years.

As others have mentioned, this is not an encyclopedic article and I make no claims to expertise or authority on the topic. I made comments about my thoughts and opinions and presented them as such, as we all do on a daily basis here. Those comments seem to be interesting to many HN readers, and I'm sorry you don't consider them authoritative enough for a Hacker News discussion.

I appear to have now run out of things to say on the subject.
I reckon the name is more towards lifehacker than to hackernews, like the former is not about computer hacking but life in general.
The title of the gnip homepage is not professional: 'Gnip: We got $h*t to pop' :(
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Bargaining is a frictional cost, and is best avoided for anything except the very large ticket items.

Yes, the seller and the buyer both want the best price they can get on any given transaction. However, the time and energy required to get that price through haggling are often worth far more than the difference in purchase price. When buying or selling a house, I'll haggle, but I don't want to waste my life haggling over each rug.

I suspect that as Turkey develops economically, most people there won't want to, either. Here in Taiwan, this sort bargaining is far, far less common than it used to be.
You're missing the point. This is about demonstrating that it is a bad idea to use this technology for anything other than limited low-value transactions. The smartcard industry has been pushing "one card for everything" for years, and this shows that it's still a long way off. I'll keep my credit card and my travel pass separate, thanks.
Why do they want free trips on American transit systems?
> these new runtimes have the potential of offering a far better developer experience, and hence, a far better user experience

Tim Bray has noted (correctly IMO) that this doesn't follow. "These people have forgotten that all application interfaces (VB, win32, X Windows, Mac OS) used to be "richer environments", and the users abandoned them by the millions, in favor of the browser, the moment they got a chance... Browsers are _more_ usable because they’re _less_ flexible." http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePla...
Sounds like CPAN would be more his style, rather than hanging around in the library ghetto with Python. (I should probably be running now, before the snake handlers arrive, huh?)
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Modern politics consists of framing, soundbites, talking points, context shifting, and statistics. The political essay died along with Orwell's elephant.
Don't ever stereotype people. Makes your thought process foggy which may lead to loss of obvious opportunities.
What inspired its creation? I don't find any need to hit back to Indiahacker again... hasn't got any pullback factor?
Wonder how much is it gonna live?
Clever method of near duplicate detection
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The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue)
Orwell's diary is being republished in blog form at http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/
I actually think having something like creative commons for these documents would be great. Pick a number of well understood clauses in plain language, that are backed by sound legalese.

In my experience most business transactions are pretty normal. People normally want to do non-standard things because they are standard to that person. An established framework would be quickly adopted as a low barrier way of getting on with it.
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Public transportation is the answer to traffic jams. If the government stopped renting out street-side parking for artificially low prices then the cost of parking would become a bigger incentive to use public transportation.
Because if you pay $400 for a room, then you must have more money to extract.
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This looks like the result from selection bias: did you include data from failed startups in your survey? If you tried to account for this, how did you do it?
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I think that would lead to dangerous situations. You would see people constantly changing lanes to try to maximize their speed. Accidents would happen more frequently.
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Nice article, but what's the deal with the title? I mean, his point is that patience is the secret of success-- the web doesn't really factor into his argument at all....
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Explorer Canvas aka "Excanvas" uses VML. That's kind of what my post was about. It's a very nice hack, but it's certainly not native support.
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I know I'm going to get voted down for this, but your comment is fair - I was going to vote it up until I realised its current points....

11 points - irony is a wonderful thing :)
I read this a decade ago, and tried to practice it. The only problem is that people pay less attention because you don't sound as impressive...

OTOH maybe I can recommend it: using this approach, I did win a prize for an essay-based subject (non-computer science)... And there was another essay I wrote that one lecturer gave to another lecturer to read because it was so "stimulating".

BTW: Orwell mentions "dead metaphors". There's a really cool rhetorical device called "reviving a dead metaphor". A simple way to do this is to take mixed (dead) metaphors and unmix them. The impact can be strikingly visceral.

\EDIT {it's all coming back to me now... when I used metaphors in this way, they became true isomorphisms, revealing a much deeper and more informative - and even predictive - correspondence. For an example, note that the desktop metaphor is itself a dead metaphor that is also an isomorphism.}

Finally: Orwell did not do well romantically. It makes one think twice about emulating him. I try to remember this test before following advice :-)
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So what's the phantom meeting exploit?
The logic is sound if you take the stance that phishing is the biggest threat to security. I don't know whether it is or not, but XSS and CSRF at least are under the website developer's control. Malware and phishing are the head-scratchers for people who know how to build secure websites, and the information card system does partially address the phishing problem. It prevents the attacker from being able to log into your accounts, but it doesn't prevent you from telling him lots of other things.
Facial animation in The Normals looks even better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyhf3JmODHE
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I'm in the middle of learning PHP with plans to learn a framework afterwards. I had pretty much decided on CodeIgniter since I'm such a big fan of ExpressionEngine, and EE 2.0 will be based on CI. But Kohana definitely looks interesting - based on CI, but with full PHP5 support. And the payment library looks particularly enticing. The one thing that makes me a little leery is that the CI docs looks a lot more complete than the Kohana docs, and I am guessing the CI community is more robust. I'd love to hear some feedback from anyone who has used both CI and Kohana...
One of my professors did some work in this area, as well http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/google/

I think its pretty interesting to look at those Google results from 2000.
I agree but you possibly missed something. What I got from the piece is that with the addition of the web, you are required to see through a lot more confusing input likely to make you forget what you are really trying to accomplish.
The only problem is that people pay less attention because you don't sound as impressive...

But as the brothers Heath show us in "Made to Stick", nobody will recall what you actually said.
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Yes indeed, how does it go again? Oh yeah:
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"Fortune favors the bold"

You can almost hear the other two saying "This thing is going to huge".
And him saying "well maybe...good luck guys, I'm out.

He must have failed to grasp something essential about the enterprise to make that decision.
So maybe it's all good he just wasn't an apple man. :)
His point seems to be that on the web tactics work (or don't) really quickly but it's a trap to assume the same of strategy.
I think his point is that the web is no different from any other business, even if it looks like things happen much faster, in reality you have to keep working for a long time before things really go big.

Of course, I might be wrong :-)
Passwords are dead, and what really needs to happen is that we all have some type of software we can download and put on our USB sticks. We stick the USB stick into a drive, type in a 4 digit pin code and on that PC we are now securely logged in till we pull that USB stick out. Whenever a site is opened that requires even more level of security (like a bank page), we have an additional level 2 security code.

Thank God someone finally sees that OpenID is a waste of time and resources. I really don't understand why so many tech kids are jumping on this openid bandwagen when it is:

1. Difficult to use
2. Confusing
3. Has no obvious advantages for most end users
4. Insecure by design