skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the points you mentioned as the primary benefits of a car over a bus or train. A car requires no waiting, and takes you directly to where you want to go, with no stops or detours. A bus or train requires waiting, makes various stops, does not take a direct route to your destination, and drops you some distance away from where you want, perhaps with a couple of transfers required for long distances.

Car sharing programs eliminate some of the drawbacks (no detours or stops), but several still apply (no guarantee of timely availability, one or both endpoints does not coincide perfectly with your destination). On top of those, you also pay more than mass transit, and you still have to do the driving.

Give me a transit mechanism which picks me up from my house at the time I want to leave, and takes me directly to my destination with no stops, and I see no reason to ever drive a car again.

I certainly believe that some car enthusiasts exist who actually driving, rather than just doing it to get to a destination. However, I don't believe those people make up the majority of drivers, or even a significant fraction; I think most people just want to get from point A to point B, and driving sucks the least for them.
This is what the JooJoo originally looked like (2008): http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3030/2689708043_3afee5af69_o....

This is what a 1st gen iPod touch looked like in 2007: http://media.gdgt.com/img/product/1/101/ipod-touch-1st-gen-3...

On top of that, designs aren't pulled from thin air, you can subtract at least 1-2 years from the launch date.
I'd just like to add that Chrome and Firefox are far from niche - Lynx is niche.

I would go as far to say that I would place a badge on my website to encourage users not to use IE, but use Chrome instead.
Why anybody thought it was a good idea to replicate desktop applications verbatim on the web i dont know, the era of composing GUI's from complex fully featured widgets is dying.

Declarative presentation in HTML/CSS coupled to JS (or better CS) is the right layer of abstraction for building GUI's for most applications in the foreseeable future.

Amber.js looks very interesting, i hope it paves a new wave of client frameworks that concentrate on state sync between client/server (and multiple clients) with some simple binding to presentation.
I apologize if you've addressed this elsewhere, but do you have any specific suggestions beyond http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ for a beginner (who knows basic HTML/CSS but not much else) trying to learn Rails?

I've been using RailsTutorial, and while it's packed with info, I feel like I would benefit from a more solid understanding of many of the basics.
This is super important. Use Typekit, or another font that allows embedding (Lost Type Co-Op is great http://losttype.com/browse).

If it's not "Knockout", I'd love to know what it actually is. Always need more good fonts.
which is exactly how the queue design on the ck scheduler is, people == tasks ofcourse...
I'd say Dart doesn't even have to be atrocious -- it's just simply not that much better.
very challenging
I was impressed by their decision to drop .NET and go C++ on MS. I use the product daily and have for the last 13 months. It's as important to me as email.
You do realize that they use a similar loophole in the US too to avoid paying taxes, right? India is calling them on their bullshit, whereas the US Congress etc have been bought off. Time to buy the Indian politicians also.
This sounds like a neat idea, but I'm not sure how useful it'll be.

Relying on vendors to supply machine readable data explaining their file syntax seems... optimistic. Maybe "It's JSON" will be enough?

Also, I'm curious how the patterns will be specified. I can imagine it quickly becoming complicated.

I'm also not sure the problem is enough of a problem for people to learn the new pattern matching syntax. The occasions where I would have needed this have been inconvenient, but not enough that I bothered to look if tools existed. I usually just crank out a quick Python script to do it.
If this qualifies as "evil" to you, you have a much broader definition of evil than I do.
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Google Chrome Frame. Which actually wraps the Chrome "engine" in the IE interface; the title seems to vaguely imply something that is the other way around.
Today I learned that I can use AdBlock to kill that annoying fixed-scrolling header. Just right click it and select "Block this ad".
They are _not_ adding Dart into WebKit, they are adding the ability to add more languages.
Ah, the march of technology busily grinding the concept of intellectual property into dust. Glorious. Imagine if every patent troll was greeted by thousands of citations of previous use?
I don't even bother obfuscating email addresses any more. My spam filter handles it all for me.
Except RFC822 has been updated by RFC2822, which itself has been updated by RFC5322…
> - Add a display that shows the current positions of both control sticks. Add an alarm when the two sticks are not within a certain margin of the each other, if both are engaged. Such as if one is full forward & the other is full back.

Even better: when you have two mechanical inputs to a single output channel, mechanically _link_ the two. If Pilot #1 moves the stick, pilot #2's stick should move. So that if there is a disagreement, they can physically observe it in their hands. Any fight over where to put the stick shouldn't be "averaged". It should be physically felt by both pilots so that they realize that there is a conflict and resolve it face to face.

It's similar to why SVN commit conflicts are so damn annoying. But they're designed to be: the only way to resolve a commit conflict is to walk over and meet your conflicter face to face and resolve. Can you imagine if SVN decided to "average the inputs"? What the fuck does that even mean? This entire plane sounds like a UI disaster (modal inputs, etc.)
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The main point is convenience. Limos are shared resources, but no one complains about not having access to their glove box when riding in one, because they're so awesomely convenient and the level of service is spectacular.

This is where car-sharing services of the past didn't go. They went with the cheapskate (why have a car payment?) enviro-friendly (share cars) route. I think of a driverless pod service as on-demand limo service, with the potential to be at a price that's cheaper than owning your car.

Still wanna hear the roar of your motor on the open freeway? Sure go ahead! There are plenty of people who enjoy riding horses too! I don't think either of these "hobbies" are going to go away and I wouldn't ever want them to either.
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Upgrade from IE - it doesn’t resize fonts specified in pixels in text resize mode.
So Evernote is doing $18M a year on 750K paid users with 20 million free users. It has just turned profitable - company of the year?

Let's not forget they've taken nearly $100M of investment at a nearly billion dollar valuation. Perhaps this is my east coast conservatism, but in the average case I just can't see how this works out well for the investors.

To get a respectable exit of perhaps $4B in a few years they would have to get their revenue up to something closer to $200M/year assuming you gave them a generous valuation on 20x revenue and completely neglect profitability. Given that Evernote primarily makes money from paid users they will need to dramatically improve conversion, or somehow figure how to get 10x more users. 200 million users strikes me as unlikely, and doubling conversion while also getting 100 million users does too. It's not to say it can't happen, but I just don't see it for a paid consumer service.
This is theoretically appealing but the data does not always back it up:
http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=4646
At that speed, water is a brick wall.
> What doesn’t make you stronger, kills you

Beer doesn't fit, sorry :)

Seriously, the expression is the other way around - What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.
Let me give you a perfectly plausible transcription of the real quote, which is not at all dissimilar to actual reporters' notes I've seen:

> weth lik ON u wl ↑ that plat + mb even 1st

It doesn't make such a wide disparity excusable, but I've known enough reporters to have plenty of reason to believe it was negligence. Many reporters overestimate their ability to read their own notes later, much like programmers overestimate their ability to figure out WTF that clever bit of code is doing six months from now.
Absolute beginners: Unix for art students
There are three contingents right now. Facebook (SC2/Amber) wants to make rich web pages. Tilde (SC 1.7+) wants to continue the Strobe direction of deploying client side web applications in different contexts. Erich Ocean (1.4 fork) wants to go back to his original philosophy of creating applications that can be deployed on the natively or on the web. The primary break Erich Ocean wants to make is to drop templates and construct interfaces in the desktop / Cocoa style, not a mixed HTML templating one.

So there are still core folks working on 1.x, but in different contexts.
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There are many pros and cons other than just time-efficiency in a store.

Spatially, its actually quite complex to make one long line (it will probably have to snake around your store, and you'll need those awful movable tape barriers everywhere to make sure everyone keeps in line - customers hate these) and then to make one long line split evenly into several end points is not easy either (doing this may also take up a lot of valuable floor space).

Also, you could just have a store layout inherited from the 60s and its too expensive to change it right now...
I don't get it. The girl supposedly created the "swiss army knife of cancer treatment" and she gets only U$ 100k? This doesn't sound right... this is no "swiss army knife" or the girl was cheated.

If the project is such a great advancement she would be able to rise lots of money from some medical research company... like some millions of dolars.
Nope.

Because when you pick a line you don't know which line will go the fastest ahead of time. Neither do others on average, so everyone ends up spending more time.
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What's your point? The only difference between the the 2008 Crunchpad/JooJoo and the iPad is the color black.
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Bonin had to have known that the plane was in alternate law.

In the flight recorder log, at 2h10m05s, there was an audible "cavalry charge" alarm that indicated to everybody in the cockpit that the autopilot was disconnecting (plus message at the same time on the ECAM).

Then, on the ECAM message console 1 second later, the message "F/CTL ALTN LAW (PROT LOST)" was displayed: alternate law, protection lost. At the same time, Bonin said "I have the controls", which to me indicates that he knew that the autopilot was off and that alternate law was engaged.

References:
[1] Page 45, http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601e3.en/pdf/f-cp0906...
[2] Page 88, Ibid.
What I see is an excellent example of how tablets before the iPad did not look anything like the iPad, and those after have clearly been inspired by it.

Then again, this kind of design-blindness doesn't surprise me. There are constantly people claiming that certain laptops and phones are equally well-designed as Apple products. There is clearly a large group of people who cannot see the difference.
I would email Prof. Friedman, I've spoke with him in the past and he was very friendly and extremely eager to discuss his work (of course keep in mind he is very busy). As far as I could tell chatting with him the whole Kanren system is a continually evolving project to make a better and better logic programming system in scheme. He's an amazing hacker and extremely dedicated to pushing Scheme to it's absolute limits, I remember him showing me all the places where him and his co-author were able to reduce 6 loc to 4 here and 10 to 8 there etc. You could tell that he's continually reviewing code saying "I know this can be more abstract, more simple but how?" I think they've reduced the implementation used in the reasoned schemer from 2 to 1 1/2 pages at this point (edit: originally said 6 to 4 pages but reviewing some notes from the meeting, after seeing keithflower's reply, I've adjusted it accordingly ). If you can't get in touch with Friedman definitely try some of the other co-authors, Friedman gives them a ton of credit for making the system as awesome as it is today.
Your example doesn't go back far enough.

https://www.msu.edu/~luckie/gallery/images/2kopen.jpg
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> Either way, no alarms are audible outside the cockpit.

They should wear a Bluetooth at all times.
Spine uses HEM which allows you to develop your apps using separate files (in JS or CS), it basically uses the CommonJS spec AFAIK.

Then when you want to move from development to production it concatenates and minifies all the files for improved network performance.
Y U NO READ MY BLOG POST ON MEMES?
Why do you firmly believe that your first startup should be on your own dime? I have two issues with this. First, if you can't convince investors to give you money, it might be a sign that it will be hard to convince users to use your product. Also, it's a bad risk management strategy. You seem to be already investing over $10,000 of your time in this project, so if it fails, you will feel it regardless. An upside would be that you have more control and might worry less about dilution, but at this stage I would be more concerned about having the best resources to create a great product.
Many employers require a usage notice in the motd, stating that this computer is public property, unauthorized use will be prosecuted, blah blah. So I have to edit motd by hand, or at least edit the motd in some fashion.
The author seems to argue that only unsuccessful design is entitled to protection.
We're definitely aware of this issue and are working on some solutions that should be relatively painless.
As long as we're nitpicking, you are using "it's" incorrectly. "It's" is not the possessive form of "it", it is a contraction of "it is". The word you are looking for is "its". Usually doesn't annoy too much but you do this twice in the first paragraph.
Is the company making any money yet? If not and you are doing this for future earnings, then I would suggest following what e1ven says. As a non-technical founder it is hard for me to advocate that, but that is the free market. If you don't offer something beyond an idea, you don't deserve to do it.

Stay legal, of course. If you have signed agreements do not do anything to break them
Most of the grocery stores in my area have installed self-checkout systems that are especially great if you just have a handful of items that all have UPCs (no produce or bagged bulk), don't have any items requiring an age check and possess at least the intelligence of a fifth grader.

I love these, because I can be done in 10 seconds. The people in front of me in line to use these, however, are rarely able. It's actually faster to wait in the non-self-checkout line these days because the people in the self-checkout line use them so slowly.
Traffic lights have no purpose except for conventional cars. Driverless cars can just go through intersections whenever no vehicle needs to go through perpendicularly. All intersections would just work like four-way stops, minus the requirement to stop when not yielding to another vehicle, and with more batching and parallelism for efficiency rather than strict serialization.
Yes, the very first one on this list, .ac

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_doma...

# dig ac.

; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5_7.1 <<>> ac.
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 37041
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ac. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ac. 86400 IN A 193.223.78.210

;; Query time: 173 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.80.11#53(10.0.80.11)
;; WHEN: Thu Dec 8 11:37:09 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 36

I'm not going to go down the list and try the rest.
The problem with your first example is that in real life the queues will rebalance. The two people behind the first guy won't just stand there for 10 minutes with the other two checkouts empty; they'll switch lines.

If they do that, they'll each wait for 3 minutes, giving the same distribution as in the single line.

Ah, you say, but what if other people have entered those lines already? Then you have to count their wait times too, which will be shorter in the three-line case than the one-line case.

Using one line doesn't reduce the mean wait time; it's always the number of people waiting divided by the throughput. What it reduces is the variance in wait times, making the system more fair.
I wrote about the future of SproutCore 1.x here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/323974/Future%20of%20SproutCore.pdf
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Even if the overall mean time ends up being the same, you are reducing variance, making wait times more predictable.

There is a good amount of psychological research on waiting, and people in lines are much happier if certain things can be relied on. One of these things is fairness, as in, my wait time should be as long as everyone else's. Another thing is knowing how long the wait will be, which reduces anxiety over the wait. Single queue feeders enable those two things to happen much better than multiple queues. So even if the math ends up being the same either way, the customer will likely be happier with the single queue.
"If you played with SproutCore and liked the concepts but felt like it was too heavy, give Amber a try. And if you’re a Backbone fan, I think you’ll love how little code you need to write with Amber."

Sold! You read my mind there, Yehuda.

I don't exactly know why, but I'm excited by this. Heart beating noticeably faster excited. I'll be playing around with this on the weekend.
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The Ubuntu man page he quoted specifically said that /etc/motd was a symlink, which should be all the info you need to know "oh, just gotta remove the symlink and put in a regular file".

Until the next update, of course!
bpm (http://www.getbpm.org/) works with Amber and compiles multiple Javascript, SCSS and Coffeescript into a single JS and CSS file. It also has a mode where it does it in realtime for development use.
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The original iPod touch and iPhone came out in 2007, were in the making for a bunch of years, while the JooJoo was only starting as a concept in 2008.
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Newsflash: Apple's design patents were filed before the iPad shipped, some as early as 2004.
That one doesn't separate before and after, it separates industrial and consumer.
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Reminds me of this: http://xkcd.com/664/
2.3 is Gingerbread not ICS upon which the article is premised.

In addition, Android faces increased competition in the form of Windows Phone 7 which is offered as an iOS alternative at similar price points and with quite possibly a higher level of brand recognition among consumers.

Keep in mind that what I am making out to be bad is the author's logic, not Google's mobile OS though I do believe its market share is very vulnerable.
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Amber's object model is very powerful. It has mixins and easy-to-use inheritance. You can reopen classes too.
Not trying to be condescending but doesn't it surprise anyone here that this is _not_ obvious? At least on this site, there are still people doubting or debating this.

So I am wondering why don't stores do this already. And I believe it is because of perceptions. They understand that time will be saved, however, they realize that most people will be scared by a long line.

One long line that moves fast will still appear terrible compared to a bunch of small lines that crawl. Because people don't look long enough to estimate the rate of movement. They see both lines as static (not moving).
My friend Eelco wrote his Master's thesis about typesafe diff (and patch) for arbitrary data structures:

http://eelco.lempsink.nl/thesis-eelco-lempsink.pdf

It allows you to have meaningful diffs for any kind of datastructures, not just lists of strings. The code is also available as a Haskell package: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gdiff
Queueing theory is a prominent topic in Operations Research. If you want to read a detailed book on it, Fundamentals of Queueing theory by Thompson et al is the bible.

A couple of additional thoughts, pooling queues like this only works if the changeover time to process different types of things is low. So in the case of a grocery store where there is no separate changeover or batch setup time it works well. If you are pooling work to people though it breaks down if only certain people can do certain types of work or the change over time to switch to a different task exceeds a certain threshold.

The other thing is the title of this post is almost certainly incorrect. Switching to a single queue reduces average queue time, but it does not reduce work time. In order to be 3x faster you would have to reduce both. The other factor at play is that people continuously rebalance from slow lines to fast lines, which also helps mitigate some of the problems.

* some grammatical edits
Wow, that sucks. My local store only ever does "wait for assistance" when you buy booze... and half the time the attendant will just gleefully press "ok" on his terminal without even checking my ID, so it goes even faster :)

Implementation details matter, I guess. (Pretend I made some interesting reference to Steve Jobs' managing style here)
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Some places do this. Fry's Electronics, for example. It works fine. Some supermarkets I've been in do this for their express lines ("10 items or less").

Oh, and airline ticket counters are routinely run this way.
AMAZING!

I LOVE the PRX team, they're all awesome people and I was very fortunate to work with them. I'm sure great things will come out of this!
So the bar for quality is so low that it is ok to fuck up and fix it, it just has to be really fast? That isn't how journalism is supposed to work. If any of those bloggers had taken 30 minutes to track down the original quote rather than jumping to be first with an article based in second or third hand information, this situation could have been avoided.

I know they are just bloggers. But it is funny that they only want to be called 'just bloggers' when they fuck up and journalists when they want to be taken seriously.
Apple didn't give design advice to Samsung because they're arrogant. It's because for them to argue that their patents are being infringed, they have to point out alternative designs that could have achieved the same effect.

IP laws are screwed up, but a lot of people are jumping on this bandwagon out of ignorance. It's like people who get mad because a brand comes down hard on folks using their trademark. It's a legal requirement that they enforce the trademark, otherwise they lose it.
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I'm kind of blown away that they needed $95m in VC to create a $18m/year company. They probably would have done better by investing in high-growth mutual funds.
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"Yeah, because cars aren't a personal item? why don't we just make it public transportation? oh wait, they already have that. It's called a bus, train, subway, taxi. Sorry I like my gas car, because I can modify it and make it go fast."

What is wrong with people?