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I will cling to the performance and adrenaline-rushed excitement of driving my 300hp, 6-speed M.T. gasoline-powered car until death (or absolute lack of funds) pries it from my bare hands.

I would rather die of starvation before being forced to drive one of those electric slothboxes.

Then again, that's me, I doubt many of my fellow citizens have the same passion for automotive ecstasy.
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Very impressive. 20fps from Flash is pretty cool.

I printed out the template and it worked as sold! Hopefully they will make the source available.
Four philosophical questions to make your brain hurt
No, respectfully, it is not hard. You simply have to grow up.
I'll get used to it eventually, I'd probably get used to any of the themes eventually. Except the Terminal one, I'll happily miss out on the geek points to avoid it.
That is really missing the point. If they want to make calculated decisions that are unpopular but rational, taking into account the importance of the executive team, go do that. Go make your businesses profitable. Go arm wrestle with unions. But ask for no quarter.

They are asking for bailouts. Asking for unions & employees to cut them a break. Asking for help & understanding. If you go to a bank to ask for a loan, you better not show up wherein banana leafs & a feathered top hat. Where a suit. Shut up about air flow, weather & being more productive in a banana. If you don't need the bank, you can wear what you want.

They want unions to cut them a break (or someone else to cut the unions). They want tax money. They need to meet the expected terms. The public doesn't like executive jet CEOs. Neither do unions or ground floor employees. A CEO that meets with a banks in a banana is not showing good judgement. Neither are these CEOs. It's not a good sign.
It's funny that the reputations used to be reversed; that the Python community was insular and unfriendly to newcomers, and the Ruby community was welcoming and helpful.

What you can clearly see between the tenors of the two communities is that there is more surface-level drama in the Ruby community.

What that has to do with anything professional, I have no idea. I read Ruby blog posts and mailing list entries, but I don't write them; I write code (and here) instead.
I was under the impression electric cars could deliver more performance and adrenaline than petrol cars, because an electric motor produces maximum torque at all speeds. Is this not so?
Subversion is literally a filesystem; that is all it is. Most of Subversion's problems come from the fact that the metaphor doesn't fit the task very well.

The fact that Git clients store full histories is one of the things that makes it less like a filesystem; it is, instead, a system for managing overlapping patch streams.

Check out the core svn C APIs (nb: our product is built on them); it's basically an open/close/read/write/readdir system with one additional "history" option (which history snapshots an entire filesystem, not just individual files (like CVS) or patches (like git).
we use dokuwiki for #barcampsaigon website
http://www.barcampsaigon.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=2008_org_h...
Thank you - we want to let the users be allowed to edit the Wiki - hence we're looking for no limit on users. MediaWiki is starting to look more and more attractive but it's just so visually cluttered for my liking.
they should monetize by hijacking the website's adspace. Since they are the browser, shouldn't be that hard to do the same thing adblock does, only instead of blocking the ad, you replace it with some ads of your own.
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Um, if they were, then why'd they pick a relatively shallow hack n slash game? So that they could write papers about getting ganked, camped and teabagged by a rogue who is in real life a slightly overweight 15 year old boy?
Try croc caving.
How much emissions (if any) are saved under different power plant regimes coal, gas, etc. Anyone have an idea?
I got a chance to talk to Jeff from Twilio over a month ago and the service looks really promising, especially once they get some speech recognition integrated. Definitely check it out!
We just recently looked at a few options and pbwiki beats them all. WYSIWYG and elegant.

It seems ultra expensive but you can negotiate a pretty dope rate. We got $100/year for unlimited users and stuff. Call that 1-888 number and work that magic!

http://bumptop.pbwiki.com/ is ours
he's just packaging up other people's work with a more engaging presentation

Since it's pretty so rare to find someone who both (1) spends the time to find and understands that work, and (2) has the literary ability to engagingly present it, by some definitions, that can be considered genius.
19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv
Dude, a kid just offed himself on your service, and BOILERPLATE is the best you can do?
Sure, a Tesla Roadster can do 0-60 mph in four seconds, but it doesn't _sound_ as cool as a Lamborghini when it does so.

Seriously though, I would be very sad if internal combustion engine powered cars vanished. I personally suspect that the future of personal transportation is still gonna be based on liquid fuels (maybe cellulosic or even algae-derived ethanol) because they're so much easier to store and transport than anything else.

Hydrogen storage requires weird high-pressure containers and exotic materials. Electricity storage requires weird toxic metals placed in weird toxic solutions. Ethanol storage requires a bucket.
You the bank manager, employee, union or tax payer are above the rest. You understand about the importance of airflow & comfort that just can't be achieved in a suit. You can relate to a CEO hr being worth far more then that measly $23.6k.

But take it a level further. You know that they made the bad choice of asking for a loan wearing a banana. You know that 9/10 (you're the 1/10) would've rejected them. You know they made a really dumb choice, considering all these effects. Still giving them the loan?
In the good old days stocks were considered too risky and to compensate for that they had to return more than bonds.

Earnings are a lot easier to fake than dividends that's why some consider dividend rate more reliable indicator than P/E (esp. when comparing with other asset classes). Last time S&P returned more than treasuries was in 1950's.
A kid broadcasts his death on your service, allegedly egged on by your community, and your CEO statement falls back on cut-and-paste boilerplate?

Do better. Fast.
Ethanol requires using fertile soil and in turn edible food into weird fuel.
Nokia 5310 XpressMusic Blue Unlocked
With a sleek aluminium finish, the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone blends an array of features with an iconic design. At only 9.9mm thick and weighing less than 71 grams, the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic fits comfortably in a pocket or purse.
Twiki looks really nice. I could however not get it to work with the beta of lighttpd (script hang at setup screen).
I met Jeff from Twilio at a conference recently -- his pitch was instantly very compelling. It's one of those a-ha ideas that I think is going to go a really long way.
Google SearchWiki brings custom search results
Something like this was already available as a commercial package in Japan.

Some of the features included a cube-shaped pedestal with which the virtual character interacted, as well as several other "symbols" which could have been used to reward, punish or "pleasure" the virtual character.
I think I'm going to play around with this service soon. Seems very exciting.
Ask HN: Iphone Speaker Interference Solution?
Has anyone worked out a good way to shield Iphone transmissions when docked at the computer? It is especially bad with my speaker set up, that infamous buzzing sound.
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Mozilla wants to bring add-ons to a mainstream audience
Little story about Henry Ford. Every grade school American History textbook mentions how Mr. Ford raised the wages of his factory workers above market value, so they could afford to buy the cars they produced. Little known fact: Ford was then sued by the shareholders for breach of fiduciary responsibility. He lost.

Google is a publicly traded company. Its CEO and board are bound by law to seek the greatest returns possible for shareholders. If they don't seek the highest returns, they can be sued. They have decided that it is no longer in the monetary interest of Google to subsidize legal costs for an entire industry.
There are 250 million passenger vehicles in the USA.
And 7.6 million sold in in 2006.

No one is going to take your car, but if they wanted to, you could probably keep it for 40 years or so, if manufacturing was switched to 100% electric car tomorrow :)
Well, if the government takes some tax money and uses that to prop up an industry that directly or indirectly employs 6 million people, that too helps everyone. Those people while employed buy things, pay taxes, don't create an oversupply of workers that lowers wages for everyone, etc.

It's not as cut and dry as some Robinhoodesque vision of taking taxes from some and giving to another, which McCain and Palin wanted you to believe. It's quite possible that the $25 billion loaned will not only return the taxpayers more than $25 billion directly, but also create a net positive economic impact of more than that.
Here is a startup with a "clear" business model: Pay as you go.
Tech Ranch kicks off in growing Austin startup community
I don't unless the loan comes with conditions ensuring that, which is why I'm against it. I'm just pointing out that the issue isn't as simple as its being made to sound.
In Python, [] is an expression too; it is an expression that constructs an empty list and returns it.

Again, if you change this just for argument lists, you're looking at another wart.

I'm not disagreeing with you. Your logic makes sense in isolation. However, language design invariably requires this sort of tradeoff.
Ask HN: deleted links in HN RSS: delay between publishing link in front page and in RSS?
I read links every day in the RSS feed from Hacker News that have been flagged and deleted. A delay in-between of just one hour would prevent this noise. Thanks.
There are probably 100s of industries and sectors imploding in this depression (folks hitech is getting there) that don't have lobbying power like the Autos. Instead bailing out Autos or Wall Street, this money needs to bailing out the wave of people that are going to enviably lose there jobs no matter what plan is done. But we should get something for the useful and lasting for the money - build Nuclear Power Plants, build a 100Mbs internet like they have in Japan/Korea, etc.
I have the same problem with my car's power/audio in. Some people recommend sacrificing a USB cable with a ferrous core and pulling the audio cable through that. YMMV.
His Catalog's Alisa writes about feeling comfortable with your own look.
What you're experiencing is 'GSM buzz':
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&...

I saw this link: http://gizmodo.com/5032497/how-to-cure-gsm-speaker-buzz

I have no idea what works... I haven't been able to find a cure for it yet :).
Very cool.

Out of curiosity, can you actually make a decent/living wage being a turk?
Pills? If you're going to live broadcast your own death, make it more interesting than watching paint dry. Sheesh.
I'm guessing your day job involves creating content for greeting cards?
Instead of paying 10-20 cents a mile to a number of companies and countries in a some-what free market, we will be moving toward a system where one company, not based in the United States, will have complete control over our fueling infrastructure.

If you weren't aware, the project better place system is like the cell-phone market in the US. You will buy a slightly discounted car but are only able to fill up at exorbitant rates from bp-owned equipment.

On the other hand, cars like the Volt (as if it will ever be built) or a PHEV Prius can be charged at home or any type of outlet. A completely free market with no monopolies. We can't afford to change from a dependence on one fuel to a dependence on a single company.

EDIT:

Well, shoot, maybe I should have read it all. They won't be operating the same as in Israel. Hence this line in the article:
"That’s likely why it was clearly stated that the thousands of Better Place stations to be installed in northern California will be agnostic to the type of electric car"

but we should remain vigilant; Magnacharge lobbied the NEC committee to effectively only allow their over-priced, patented charger to comply. See:
http://www.repp.org/discussion/ev/199712/msg01052.html
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Film industry sues iiNet (Australia's most switched on ISP)
For low-income folks, SS is an okay investment in their retirement. Given that, why are we counting it as a tax?

For upper-income folks, SS is a really crappy investment. (The difference is because benefits are not proportional to pay-in.) The cap keeps them from caring, much.
I am not a windows programmer. Question: Do those property sheets support setting the font to any sort of variable or expression? Does it support making that variable or expression the default for that application?

If not, that's the real problem. Anything where you have to change every property setting manually to get a new font is a non-starter, IMHO.
he told u he was hardcore
This is one of those critical moments that may well define how people think about this company in the future. As mentioned before, the CEO needs to do better, right away.

Just to clarify, I am referring to the response, not to the actual event.
One arm is more important than one finger.
God the media is going to try to blame Justin.tv for this. While the CEO's statement was bad, he was probably caught off guard and didn't know what to say. At least I hope that's what happened.
I actually saw a demo of this at a conference last week. At a cocktail hour afterward a guy had this working with his cellphone and his business card.

They're using it for some really cool alternate reality interactive events.
This reply makes every down-vote worth it. Good show, sir!
Chip Gribben does:
http://www.evdl.org/docs/powerplant.pdf

He has a 2.5 page bibliography at the end, if you need more exact answers.
Ah, good to know. I was going to send Dr. Read some typographical errors I had found, but a wiki makes that rather moot.
In a "third world" country I guess.
troll post, but you gave me a phrase that let me google a similar case I was trying to find, so: thanks.
Thank you! I am going to do that!
Of course the screenshot on the site is of World of Warcraft. Early adopters anyone?
Sad story. I'm sure they'll get a new statement out.

Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Vedas
I don't really see how this would define how people see the company behind Justin.tv at all. You would have to find a pretty delusional person to claim that IRC had its reputation sullied by Brandon Vedas when he did the same thing a few years ago.
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After looking into it, I'm very impressed; simply amazing how simple it makes it.
There are lots of options.

If you want to get going quickly, get a Virtual Machine (Virtual Appliance) that is already configured for the Wiki. There are good TWiki and MediaWiki images available that will get you going in no time flat.
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/ - http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/53 - http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/839 - etc - etc

Long term - only advice I can give is to stick with the technology set you know. I've seen MediaWiki go into lots of corporates and fail as it's impossible (for them) to integrate and maintain. Confluence (Java+Oracle) is usually a better option in that case... For you it would seem MediaWiki is the best shot.
woah woah woah! i appreciate your zeal and your need to direct your anger somewhere, but your sending it the wrong way buddy. my original comment was not meant to express how hard mine or my family's life is/was, it was to clear up statements like this:

"union workers at gm who make 8x the wages, do less work"

It's simply not true, and it does disgust me that we feel the need to degrade a whole class of people to make the point that the system is fucked up. i'll be the first one to say that all of us who live in the country are extremely lucky and this goes often quite unappreciated. maybe not my father, but both my grandfathers have similar story's to your own. i thank god everyday for the opportunity afforded to me and my family.

"Your father on the other hand, had it so easy that he could afford to put his kids through college and still retire after just 25 years of work. Oh, excuse me, I forgot. Your dad had to endure a 2-3 hour commute because it would be so traumatizing for his kids to switch schools once."

listen man, i'm not getting into a pissing contest with you. your taking little tidbits of my words and making them into the story that you want. you don't know my story nor my families.

the point of my original comment was that for the most part auto-workers are honest, working people like the rest of us. there's plenty of room for rational argument on what should happen to the auto industry, i just can't agree with the constant barrage of comments insinuating that people like my father are lazy, unappreciative, and somehow got what's coming to them for just doing what anyone of us would do in their situation.
This also might be a critical moment when people have to decide what rights and responsibilities a site has to the content it distributes, whether that be HD-DVD keys or a video stream of one's suicide.
Cool analysis. It is always incredibly hard to put a value on something. The value is really what someone is willing to pay for it. Obviously, it is in their interests to go for as high of valuation as possible.

If they are pulling 4K a month and lets say that is a peak month for them and their growth is slowing. Then they might only be pulling 48K a year. When I sold a site in the past I got 2 1/2 times yearly revenue for it. Which would only give 125K valuation.

It is kind of amazing how just looking at a couple different numbers we have valuation ranges from $38,000 - $500,000

Kiko wasn't valued on users or anything, but on development time costs. What it would take to implement the same solution in house, which is another interesting way to look at it. I would love to see a write up about how happy they are with that purchase now that have been using it awhile.

Either way it should be fun to follow and see how this works out for them...
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He's not talking about the incident. He's talking about the CEO's bad response, and the deafening silence since.
This is horrible.

Hopefully it gives the Justin.tv community a reality check. They were egging him on?!? As someone who volunteers on a suicide helpline, I'm amazed that people won't condemn that kind of behavior before it causes real harm.
I thought the same thing. Who is this guy and why haven't I heard of him before.

My initial research...

Started with his email read@hire.com. From there I went to hire.com which forwards on to Authoria. Apparently Authoria bought Hire.com in 2005.

After a little bit of googling I found an article that was published on him shortly after his orignal "how to be a programmer" article was published.

http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl...

Robert Read, 37, of Austin, Texas, is a principal engineer at Hire.com. Before that he founded 4R Technology, which made a scanner-based image analysis quality control tool for the paper industry.
Gotta hand it to Sony they are finally pulling the PS3 out of the graveyard.
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your CEO statement falls back on cut-and-paste boilerplate?
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You HAVE to fall on boilerplate or you will be crucified, by your lawyer if no one else. You just have to pick the right boilerplate:

If what you say has happened, that is a terrible tragedy. We will be conducting an internal investigation of the matter. Justin.tv in no way condones comments of the nature you have described. If we find that someone has breached our acceptable comment policies, we will deal with it as harshly as allowed to by law.
I understand your sentiment, but if you think that this wouldn't occur in many communities that have a large base of users, you are off base. I don't just mean places like 4chan- have you ever read comments on Youtube videos?
People in poor nations live just as long as people in rich nations.
He >:-0.

And yes, I was not referring to the actual incident, but rather the response.
Spending initiatives like this are why the wife and I are leaving the state early next year. We don't feel like sticking around when the tax bill comes due, which we'd have to do if we bought a house here.

Evidently the state's not deeply enough in debt yet. With the higher taxes coming up to pay for all this, even more taxpayers and corporations (7,000 in the last few years) will leave, accelerating the financial death spiral.
Nice... a reasonable next step for this prototype would be to recognize finger tips (via some kind of glove) so you can start interacting with the virtual scene (I remember seeing something like this elsewhere...) -- my first instinct was to try to smush that green monster :)
A similar thing happened on a site that I co-founded:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-11-01-rampage-messa...

It was pretty horrific. We spent about a week being interviewed by the media and trying to limit the damage both to the site and to the perception of AS.
This is exactly my father's situation. Zero deductible health care, huh? Maybe 10 years ago, but certainly not now.

Demononizing honest people based on stereotypes that people cling onto to support their perceived notions does not solve the real problem.
Tesla Motors does as well; they do a well-to-wheel analysis.

http://me222.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/twentyfirstcenturyc...
XSS detection is not just as simple as that. For example, in IE, entering the following produces a pop-up:

<table style="background-image:url(javascript:alert(1))"><tr><td>Hi</td></tr></table>

However, read debt's comment below. XSS is irrelevant here since "XSS" means cross-site scripting, i.e., ,managing to embed Javascript into pages someone ELSE sees. Only the client sees this, it doesn't get reproduced for anyone else.
Protip: This is not Justin.TV's fault.

This is no ones fault but the adult's (he was over 18). It really is that simple - though you wouldn't know it from the media.

America: where self-entitlement lives on and accountability goes to die.
Just curious - did you contemplate not even responding to the media? Or were you pretty much forced to? What sort of long-term impact did it have on your site?
The only thing worse than media bandwagoning issues is people attempting to predict how that process.
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I'm holding back tears.

We must find a way to make the internet a nicer place. Such astonishing cruelty breeds here. Why?
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who is stopping other companies to do the same. They also are explicitly saying that they need to provide interfaces that is available to all cars.

Who is to stop any other company to do the same, provide more competition and lower prices?
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Yeah, let them, if for anything the nonsense they pulled with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_killed_the_electric_car
Blue links with yellow backgrounds on top of pink and lighter pink rows? With red graphs and a purplish logo? Get some advice from a professional designer. :)