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I really like this. It's simple and fun. I agree that the front page setup needs a little tweaking. I'd actually put the bottom bar up at the top with a little explanation blurb by the logo, as if you're introducing the site, which is essentially what you're doing.

Question: is there any harm being done to the sites you frame? Have you gotten any negative feedback from publishers? Everynow and then someone frames one of my sites and it irks me to no end, hence the little js breaker i run on all my sites. Thoughts there? I mean, essentially one could argue this is merely a slick little theft of content.
I agree, the big three automakers should fail. They produce cars that people won't buy and are overpriced, and unlike the financial industry, they aren't too big to go bankrupt. I also don't see that they have a viable plan to turn the company around. In the recent congressional hearings, GM blamed their troubles on the financial crisis.
The former.

I'm a fan of certain kinds of sites. I'm a sucker for elegant interfaces and elegant bookmarklets, for two things. And I think that some sort of a way of identifying those sorts of sites would keep your layout elegant, while at the same time letting people into particular sorts of sites find good solutions.
This is perfect for me, lots of people have been asking me to get my site onto the iPhone, but without a mac, developing an iPhone app isn't easy.
Hopefully this solves that!
40% of Democrats opposed the original bailout package, compared to 66% of Republicans. That's a difference to be sure, but the vote was obviously not down party lines. Furthermore, Bush was a strong supporter of both packages, and was vocal in his disappointment when the first failed to pass.

Facts exist independently of your opinion; you don't get to make them up to fit your argument. Please try to remember that.
Romney has a proven record of turning around sinking ships.

Was that a deliberately mixed metaphor? Turn around a sinking ship and all you get is a wreck which faces in the other direction.
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But they won against the Czars.
Oh, and Google listen VERY closely to what their users say. I've been involved in several user studies there, and qualitative feedback is huge to them.
In a congress that passes bills by majority, a clear majority of one party supported it and a clear majority of the other opposed it. House Republicans are consistently the most conservative caucus in Congress, and deserve praise for when they do the right thing as much as they deserve the opposite when they are wrong.
We trialed SimpleCDN in some simple cases for files I've had on it, and the performance was pretty bad as measured by Pingdom across the world. I love the idea and wanted them to be good, but it simply couldn't perform for us and always seemed to be serving from some place in the central U.S.

Maybe they've gotten better in the past few months, but they didn't do much for us except for give us a reliable alternative hosting location. The performance never seemed to improve worldwide-- almost as if they don't have many edge servers.
Best piece of information architecture I've ever seen.
Airlines have other vehicles protecting them.

For example, Qantas (the Australian Airline) is one of the few airlines to have made a good profit consistently. This is mostly because they have the US/Australia route all to themselves. The US counterpart hasn't been highly functional for a while & no one else was allowed in.

If United had gotten back onto it's feet at some point, they would have only had to face Qantas, who had themselves gotten cushy.

The auto market will not save them their seats.
It's not a huge requirement. It's just nice to be able to hit a few keys and have the password I need copied to the clipboard.
We can probably all agree that's it's silly to require that workers play dress-up and come to a non-existent job every morning.

But, assuming that requirement were dropped, you haven't exactly explained why it was wrong of the workers to ask for a piece of the (extraordinarily high [0]) earnings the company enjoyed at that time, or why it was wrong of the company to pay it.

Am I wrong to assume that the company thought it to be the best terms they could negotiate at that time? What should the union have done? Accept less than they could negotiate for? What should the company have done? Insist on more favorable terms even if the cost of a protracted labor dispute were actually more expensive?

I keep hearing people refer to outcomes that appear to be the natural result of difficult negotiations in strictly moral terms. This seems silly. Help me understand why I'm wrong.

[0] http://www.mlive.com/business/index.ssf/2008/09/a_brief_hist...
I don't think focusing on search will save Yahoo. If it wants to stay independent and survive, Yahoo needs to redefine itself. Basically it needs a Steve Jobs.
If you click on the password in the app, it'll automatically copy that field.
Only if it's used in a context that you wouldn't expect to have to edit. Here it seems like a logical approach.
I don't follow- what do you mean?
That doesn't parse. You're treating two different types of majorities as the same thing.

It's fairly common that bills will be voted on down party lines, which means all Republicans vote one way, and all Democrats vote another. The standard deviation from this is generally pretty small, which is why the small majority held by the Democrats in both houses is such a big deal.

Two-thirds of Republicans repudiated the pressure coming from the Bush administration and voted against the bailout. Democrats were only able to muster a simple majority in support of the bailout. That's as close to non-partisan behavior as you're likely to see in our government.
Technically, this is called debtor in possession financing. The DIP financing agent has a higher priority than existing debtors and bondholders when it comes to getting a payout after restructuring.
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FWIW, a large part of this problem has already been solved. You may not have noticed it, but a while back the UAW made a deal with the big three that in exchange for a large cash payout they would take over retiree pension and post-retirement healthcare obligations.
I'm aware that I can view the source, I just can't use it without a license.
I meant that they have the beta tag in their logo
It should be noted that they only fit 10,000 cores in a full rack (~40 rack units). Each "node" is actually a 4RU box with, I'm guessing, 500 dual-core Atoms, which will probably max out a standard single power circuit.
Lisp (Clojure) running on .NET (IKVM) sounds awesome. I wonder how practical it is.
One thing that isn't mentioned here is the begger-my-neigborness of all this.

These same companies lobby multiple governments for grants & incentives to operate locally via their local subsidiaries. Then when they get it they lobby another govenrment citing that they cannot be expected to compete at a disadvantage to their sister/paretn company.
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That's so funny I had to tell you. I'm sorry ;)
Seconded. You're already in emacs, and orgmode is excellent (and it should be already there). Spend a day or two learning it, and then use it - you won't regret it.
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There are a bunch of reasons that have nothing to do with ACTUAL design used to support the argument. For example, it can be maintained by one guy...it probably uses a CMS...big deal. Doesn't mean it is well designed.
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Except threads will be called fibers, and blocks will be called threads.

That's how their rasterizer works, but I'm talking about using it as a regular x86.

The way to get maximum performance out of a given chip area is to use SIMD, and that's here to stay

There's a big difference between MIMD+narrow SIMD and super wide SIMD.
...and, if I understand correctly, because Detroit made that payout, they are now in a poor cash position, which means that the credit crunch is putting a very big strain on them.
Paxos-style distributed consensus?
That's a strawman; I never said it was wrong to ask.

Anyways...

The company should have invested more of their marketing budget in R&D and produced quality cars. Empirically (consumer reports, Car & Driver, et al) U.S. cars have been subpar compared to their foreign counterparts for many years. Though some of my friends & family insist they're rapidly catching up nowadays. In the present, I don't know one way or the other.

In the States' current system, the company doesn't have any obligation to share high earnings with their employees. They have an obligation to deliver profits to shareholders - that's it. If the employees don't like it, they can get another job that pays them market wages or treats them better. In short, that's the best part & worst part of the system. Paying employees above market wages is not sustainable.

In the short term, companies can unfortunately deliver profits to their shareholders with shady tactics, breaking the law, gray area revenue recognition, poor employee treatment and "earnings management". In the long-term, that doesn't work and is stupid. And many times it's against the law.

It's not a coincidence that the companies that treat their employees the best outperform the market. [1]

[1] http://www.greatplacetowork.com/great/graphs.php
Yes, I use PyMol quite a bit. The source code is hideous, and the author likes it that way. It would take an immense effort to smoothly incorporate PyMol into a larger system like SciPy or Sage; it would be very useful if that happened, but I don't think it will any time soon.

I haven't used Mathematica 7 yet, but it looks like the tools it implements in one small library are decent substitutes for what's currently implemented in several big hairy bioinformatics toolchains. Look at how we operate now -- NCBI offers a bunch of free standalone tools; BioPerl and BioPython do some good glue, and then there are a bunch of visualization tools, and we FTP copies of whatever databases we need and keep updated manually. The extensible tools each have their own extension language, so a RasMol script won't load in PyMol (the tweaks, not the PDB file). Mathematica 7 appears to offer the basic components of this in one clean, well-organized standard library, controlled by one powerful language.

All that's great, but the especially interesting thing is their claim that the design of the whole system made all of this easy. The image-processing tricks and the unassuming Parallelize function seem like very specialized features, but they cobbled all of this together in, I guess, 2 years and some change, on top of a codebase that's almost 20 years old. It's like the anti-PHP -- brilliant design decisions all along that make adding new features easier, not harder. I have a feeling the Mathematica source code contains some very interesting ideas, and if it were open-source, it would be relatively easy to add additional features that seem like a big deal in existing tools.
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"There are 22 windows open in Safari, with a total of 43 tabs. Do you want to quit Safari anyway?"

Er, no. Not just yet, thanks...
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Aggressive marketing is not necessarily a good thing. A lot of people are using Ruby because "it's cool", not because they understand why it's better. As a result, they don't really help the community, all they do is fanboi (as though "recruiting new members" gets you somewhere).

You want a competent community so they write libraries for you. Ruby's community seems to actively discourage people that aren't using it for religious reasons, since the techniques they use for marketing tend to attract the religious type.

Ruby's a good language, don't get me wrong, but the community needs some help.
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I basically agree with you, but it's worth noting that your hypothetical Denny's waitress would pay no federal income tax (though she would pay the payroll tax), and would probably qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit. It's really the professional wage earners (doctors, lawyers, etc.) pulling in a few hundred grand who get the shaft.
I looked into it a little bit. You're completely right. I was wrong.

I remember looking at the casual games business in 2006 and realizing that there was almost no money in it at the time, but that changed, and Texas Hold 'em is, anyway, it's own beast.

I'm very surprised, though, that the Texas Hold 'em blip is still sustaining. It's a fine game, but you'd think people would get sick of playing the same game after a while, and look into something more adventurous.
Why didn't he talk like this on the campaign trail? If he'd done that instead of trying to fist bump every black guy he saw while yelling "who let the dogs out" he could have been the nominee.
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Pretty sweet.
The problem is that person A doesn't pay any taxes. You're certainly taxing some people to pay for it, but it's not person A.

Also, the idea behind bailouts like this is that they are a loan. Ideally the government is profiting from this sort of thing, especially when you consider the overall economic impact of laying off thousands of GM employees, or allowing thousands of pensions to swirl down the drain.

I'm against the bailout, but it's overly simplistic and entirely useless (not to mention just plain incorrect) to say that it's morally wrong because someone at Denny's doesn't have health care.
Well, he does run a dating site with millions of users and a staff of 1.5. He couldn't listen to users even if he wanted to. Additionally, the majority of his users are transients (online dating = if you are successful using the product you should never be back) and any long-term user community he builds up is almost pathological by definition (see earlier point).

Contrast this with your typical business: your best customers are the ones who join early and stay forever. Customers have an interest in the site/software continuing to evolve because they anticipate they will continue using it. Long-term customers are excellent sources of feedback because expertise with your problem domain is something to be sought after and carefully cultivated, rather than a black mark.
Here’s a demo of some thoughtful UI on Ffffound.com.
I love GitX. While I'm developing I leave it up alongside Eclipse, and I actually like having a separate interface to my source control outside the IDE.
http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...

According to that thread, it's a good 2-8x slower. :(
He must have been thinking of his business track record and his presidential campaign at the same time. :)
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Combination of fatique and a sense of completion. We can walk away now and say it was a success or we can struggle for another 1.5 years trying to achieve another level of success. At this point we're ready to sell, we're doing it now because it's worth something and we've reached a scalable and solid idea. We've accomplished everything that we've wanted to for our first start-up.
The speed of coding in C with the execution speed of the Flash VM! Yes!
so will we see an objective-c framework for developing web applications compiled for flash?
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"The company doesn't have any obligation to share high earnings with their employee. "

I never suggested that they do. In fact, I think I rather explicitly argued that they paid those wages because it was the best deal they could negotiate at the time. If they could have negotiated a better deal, they would have.

More generally, if I agree to do a certain amount of work for a certain pay, it does not imply that I deserve that pay (whatever that means). But surely it means that the person paying me thinks that wage (considering the alternatives) to be in their best interest.

"If they don't like it, they can get another job that pays them market wages or treats them better."

Or collectively negotiate better wages?
Heh, I noticed that (and edited my post to reflect it), apparently while you were writing your post.

However, there are plenty of people who make less money than auto workers who do pay taxes. One reason the bailout is morally wrong is that it is a regressive tax. It takes from the (relatively) poor and gives to the (relatively) rich.
1. The license you choose probably won't make anyone more inclined to hire you for consulting. You're better off trying to decide how open you want code and contributions to remain.

2. While a revision history is nice to have available, odds are most people aren't going to really look back at older versions of the code. Some code cleanup and documentation would be preferable (but does require your setting aside time to do that).

3. You'll never know until you do. And it doesn't cost you anything to do it. (With some exceptions... see #5)

4. You're not claiming its perfect so don't stress too much about it. Part of what open source is about is allowing someone to see what makes everything tick, warts and all. Because someone could always contribute back fixes.

5. Have you thought about where you're going to make your code available (Sourceforge, GitHub, etc.)? Is there going to be a Google Group or something so people can ask questions or share their experiences with the code? Even if you're not expecting a massive wave of adoption, having some of that in place can make everything better (both for people interested in your code and yourself).
GPL is hostile to commercial uses. Offering GPL only would restrict the use of your code to inhouse development and personal projects.

You could ALSO offer a "commercial" licence. That would give users the right distribute your code with their closed-source commercial code.

The dual licence approach means that users that aren't making money off your code don't have to pay, and those that are do.

On the repository point: I'd suggest putting the current code onto something like Google Code. If you're not moving the code forward and no one else can fix bugs or make improvements, then the project is basically dead.
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It sounds like your internet's untied.
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...or by himself, or using google, or a serial killer in his underpants, etc.
Presumably, he mean that the NYT is a floundering company which has been devastated by a refusal to adapt to new business realities over the last decade.

5 years ago their stock was trading at $47. Now it is at $6.

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:NYT

(For what it's worth, if they collapse I wouldn't bail them out, either.)
I would agree that pen and paper or a single textfile you keep open all the time is the easy way to keep external memory of what you're doing without getting bogged down in a complicated tool.

However, I'd also advocate focusing by multitasking less.
Actually the average UAW salary is around $73 an hour. But the executives are far worse and totally undeserving of any taxpayer help:

"While Uncle Sam debates a $25 billion rescue for the country's automakers, some 9,000 GM managers continue to enjoy one of the industry's best perks - a new car every six months for $250 a month, with repairs and insurance included. And they can write off gas on their expenses."

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11182008/news/politics/gm_honcho...
When we sold Kiko on eBay, the site was at the minimum bid (50k) until the last morning, when it jumped to 75k. In the last 30 minutes it jumped to 256.1k. Don't worry if people don't start bidding immediately, but I suggest you go out and try to drum up some tech news about it (TC, ReadWriteWeb, etc). You'd be surprised how much getting the word out can add to the value of an auction of a one-of-a-kind item like this.
> Why does it take the Mozilla Foundation more than year to issue its financial statements from 2007? After all, it is almost 2009.

Maybe their finance software is written in XUL.
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Yes. How do people buy cars? On credit. Harder to get credit means fewer people capable of buying cars. A bad economy means fewer people buying cars. GM et al, did not create the credit crisis. They did not create the bad economic conditions.

But we want them, and more importantly, all the people working in that industry to suffer? Honestly, I can't imagine how letting them fail won't cause more than 25 billion in economic damage.
there were some bad decisions, chief among which was the decision to NOT to use flash as the platform. Kinda the same mistake they made with the original Google Video.
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After getting robbed by a band of thieves you know what's really important to talk about? How you think the thieves should divide up your stuff.
I worked with these guys for a very short time, collaborating on EtherPad, and they are seriously some very smart people.

This technology rocks, and I'm glad they did such a good job of solving this problem like nobody ever has before.
Or a Bill Gates
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Because if the Big Three go under, a very large number of workers (folks working for the Big Three and for their suppliers) will suddenly be collecting unemployment insurance instead of paying taxes; given the current state of the economy, they may be collecting it for quite a while. So it would be cheaper for the government to keep those employers afloat.

The obvious counterargument to that is that the auto companies could take their $25 billion and still go under.

The counter-counterargument is that even if that happens, it would be better for everyone if they went under a few years from now, when hopefully the rest of the economy will be in better shape.
Not Hacker News... Also, it's possible they asked for an extension to file their taxes in the fall instead of March.
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Scala was the same. Its now really JVM only - but IKVM does an amazing job in running things on .net if you need to (last I tried, which was quite a few years ago, the ikvm slowdown was single digit percentage, very impressive, over "native" .net code).
The article has been updated to reflect that it's overriding an undocumented method on the UIApplication class called -proximityStateChanged. I've tried it and it looks like it's not a delegate method.

Gruber has a much better article on this here:

http://daringfireball.net/2008/11/google_mobile_uses_private...
The Larrabee SIMD width will be 16 and NVIDIA's is currently 32, so that's almost the same.

Not just the rasterizer, but any application that wants to take full advantage of Larabee will have to use the SIMD vector units to the max.

Larrabee might turn out to have great performance (which I hope), but if it does, the reason will not be black magic or breaking laws of physics. The reason will be SIMD.
Ask HN: How do I choose my startup's name?
How do I choose my startup's name? I am out of words. For every name I could come up with, the domain name has been registered.
That's why I said part of that step could happen before the flight. You would also want to have some tests in person for the people who made it past the remote test. They probably wouldn't be needed that much, though, because I don't think most applicants would go so far as to have someone else type their answers if they were doing it live on the phone with someone from the hiring co.
Tried http://namethis.com?
http://instantdomainsearch.com

Your best bet now is pairs of short words.
Exactly, you made that perfectly clear.
Without some kind of wage growth above inflation

The key is keeping inflation down. Run a sound monetary policy and keep a constant stream of productivity improvements in all sectors, so that the purchasing power of a dollar continually improves.