skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what the dash of the particular vehicle in question looks like, but every manufacturer has a "design language" that drives their choices in external and internal appearance. Lately it seems that Honda/Acura have been embracing a very modern, technical, feature-dense design. In contrast, early/mid 2000s Toyotas favored simplicity and parts sharing, with little regard for the fact the trunk release button is a different shape, color, and texture than the radio/heat controls on the same console surface.

The domestics have really worked to bring their controls up to par in the 90s. The Honda design language is moving forward, as well, but they're optimizing for the Japanese preference for many neat features executed well, as opposed to minimalism and key features implemented flawlessly.
Startup Interview: Desk Away – Simplify Teamwork
> The problem is that the other car companies can quickly copy them, and the price range is set by the market, which is flooded with Japanese cars of the same sort.

In minivans maybe, but otherwise, not so much. There are no reasonably priced Japanese "large cars" (Impala, Town Car). There's nothing like the suburban or expedition. Toyota is finally trying for the "large pickup" with the Tundra, but it's a ways from an F-150 and there's still the f-250, f-350, etc.

The domestics problem is CAFE. They have to make cars that they don't make well (small cars) in order to sell the vehicles that they do make well. They don't get to count their imports either.
"The threat to Windows comes entirely from 'netbooks'"

Do I really need to read any more of this reasoned argument?
Definitely interested in hearing the strategies / meditations that you have found successful.
The tables are full, the bookshelves are full, the walls are full of bookshelves, the garage is full of boxes that weren't unpacked from the last move, and my GF drags me to the quarterly library sale. I'm looking for a good lossless compression algorithm for atoms.
It seems like Graham here is talking about one specific kind of credential--a university degree--and making conclusions about all kinds of credentials.

It's impractical and inadvisable to "just measure performance" for all kinds of medical practitioners, for example. And credentials can be used to determine factors other than just "performance", like trustworthiness.
Psychology Today seems to be a fluffy 'self help' style resource than a serious Psychology publication. Am I mistaken?
The misleading aspect you mentioned is exactly what irks me about the book. It is a fantasy being sold to every person working a dull job. The glorification of the no-work, jetsetting lifestyle is misleading as well. To have a profession and be a member of a community should be a source joy and accomplishment, not something to run away from. I think most people would find traveling the world alone, constantly indulging fantasies, would become boring and meaningless after a few months.
Well, that's what happens when you oversimplify. Unexpected bugs! :)
Anything that's "public" is documented on developer.apple.com (and in the Xcode documentation window). Everything else is "off limits."
Must be because news.yc is where we come to procrastinate instead of actually doing things
Not sure why you're moderated down. The parent noted that has a four word title, you responded that he's four times smarter. Perhaps your scarcasm was too subtle?
Fun with Threads
It means X is really strong.

I feel good about Linux right now.
I have to say that Hatha Yoga can be quite helpful. (But be careful because some people tend to see it as a religion). It's more of a physical and mental concentration exercice (Probably like your meditation).

Although It helped me a lot, i don't practice it anymore. But it's worth a try.

Good luck!
Interesting finding. It truly hurts me to know that even if I lived another 80years, I will most likely not witness the most interesting discoveries about the mind, consciousness, the human psyche and all related subjects. If I could trick Time.
Subconscious eye, while not technically wrong I guess, is not the mystic qualia some might think of.

This phenomenon is called Blindsight (also mentioned in the article) and not that rare. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight
you can already use user-entered strings in tinyurl so i dont see the point of using them as an example
Pretty awesome, but one part of it stood out and jarred - perhaps because of my subconscious sense of language.

"He never touched any of it. We were like totally amazed,"

How old are these scientists? 12?
The point that Linux enthusiasts become Linux realists is when they realize it doesn't magically work on every computer, and buy something to suit.

I hit the power button, choose suspend or hibernate.

Later I hit the keyboard to resume, enter my screensaver password, and resume work.

Edit: I play music and download files with the lid closed. So I don't want my computer to turn off when I do that. And OS X uses screensaver when resuming too - I own one.
Many/most blind people also have their circadian rhythms regulated by light taken in by the eye - there are cells that respond to light in a non visual way.
Thinking Machine: The machine's thought process
More irbrc files on dotfiles.org
http://dotfiles.org/.irbrc
Article already pointed out this is the biggest growth area in computing. But I gather you didn't read that.
Interesting, but I was hoping this story would deal more with psychic abilities. Headline should read: "Brain-Damaged Man Doesn't Know He Can See"

Journalists, always over promising...
That's pretty long-winded. I save several seconds on each of those operations by not having to do any of them, ever - just close the lid, open the lid.

I love my Mac.
The threat to Windows comes entirely from "netbooks"

I stopped reading here.
It's like the triangle inequality: N(opinions) > N(economists)
Ruby Developer? You’ve Got 24 Hours to Apply for a $11,000 Prize
I wonder how much time it will take until human brains can be inspected like that.

It would be an interesting tool in job interviews.
Targeted Advertising Challenges
Startup Looking for a Hacker
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It doesn't just look like deflation. It is deflation, which is defined as a persistent increase in the value of money. Similarly with inflation.
Ask HN: Rate my webapp
Techfuga-if-techmeme-and-alltop-had a baby
Really nice! A baby about tech news-, seems like popurls and techmeme got a nice competitor service.
I too have panic disorder, OCD, PTSD and mild depression. I also used to be hypervigilant and a hypochondriac. Being hypervigilant means that you are constantly monitoring your body for signs that something massive is wrong. I used to get a mild chest pain and would turn that into angina. Or I'd get a headache and convince myself it was a tumor. Fucking miserable.

I've been battling the panic disorder for the last 7 years or so. PTSD for the last 15 and everything else since day 1.

I have one recommendation for you and it's cognitive behavioral therapy, aka CBT. It's less talking about all the stupid shit your parents did, and more about changing how you think about these particular issues.

I did my fair share of medications (nothing too major, ad's like effexor and zoloft and benzo's like ativan, klonopin and xanax) but I don't do any of them anymore thanks to CBT therapy and the growing understanding that everything is temporary. When you're facing down a vicious panic attack, considering a call to 911, I've found I can stop the entire process in it's tracks by simply acknowledging that this is all temporary and transient. Sounds so simple, but it's so very hard to do. Takes a lot of practice.

I've beaten the mild depression by forcing myself out amongst humans and participating with people socially. Really, anything that puts you out of your head.

My two secret weapons, beyond CBT therapy, have been marijuana and poker. Poker has definitely hardened me quite a bit, but more importantly it's helped me grow my own power base. Any activity that satiates ego is good for people like us.

Marijuana, counter intuitive since it typically promotes anxiety in people, has really kept me out of my head for the most part and definitely greases the wheels in terms of accepting my lot in life and the issues that I deal with day in and day out. It really is my Adderall. I can't wait for it to be decriminalized.

Finally, the biggest thing I did to change it all around was quitting smoking tobacco. That one single thing probably caused the biggest change out of all the things I've tried.

Anyways, hope that helps.
Reminds me of gscott's http://officezilla.com/

I hope one of these things adds some specific features for AWS like keeping track of accounts, access keys, instances, roles, etc.
Enthusiasts always put their language of choice on a pedestal. Python is a very good language, but I often find it to be too restrictive and will use Ruby/Perl for elegant metaprogramming and Erlang for functional programming.
Thanks! This is nice. Can we get a nice icon for it though? :)
Techfuga: get to basics...
Well why not list and aggregate ´the tech news aggregators? yes they did it quite welll
Jeez, this sounds good, but if people here are like me then they already have about 5 books on their list that they want to read. I don't know how many would commit

Read? Who spoke about reading? I thought we would discuss the books without actually read it. Isn't that what everybody does?
Think of it this way: you make $60k a year, but somehow borrow $1M to short a bunch of stock. Unfortunately, the market goes up, and margin calls come in on the $1M you borrowed. It doesn't matter that you can cover your living expenses with your salary (i.e. that you're cash-flow positive); the banks want their $1M back, and you don't have it. You're insolvent.

The situation in the banks is similar: there are collateral requirements that have to be met, trades with other banks that have to be honored, etc. A bank can cover its day-to-day operational expenses and be cash-flow positive, but if it suddenly has to pay someone else a big chunk of money that it doesn't have the liquid assets to provide, then it's still insolvent.
I hate to nitpick, but this isn't comparable to the author's code. You're including empty descriptions and your output string will begin with a newline. These seem like small details, but they make a big difference in the conciseness with which you can write the statement.
OMG someone has invented the tricorder. Really. Here is the link to the Wired story http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/12/...
They site is live as today at http://www.techfuga.com/ and made an impression on Robert Scobe : http://scobleizer.com/2008/12/23/techfuga-makes-it-clear-tec...
One of my previous coworkers and I were interviewing a guy together, and I believe his was one of the most ridiculous questions ever:

"If you could get rid of one of the United States completely, which would it be and why?"
It's undeniable, the XBox 360 has been extremely successful at losing money.
looks good to catch up with all popular tech news: Hacker News is also there :)
So, it's an online bookmark manager that solves the problem of a long to-read list by... deleting the list?
This is very true. I was not attempting to port the author's code to .NET 3.5 as much as to introduce C# lambda expression syntax to the readers here.
Weeding people out based on whether they give a "correct"
answer to this question seems kinda ridiculous.

With the exception of someone admitting to a horrendous
fault (anger problem), I don't see how this answer could
dictate a hire or no hire.

If your interviewing someone with great credentials, great references, and then they answer this question with "sometimes I work too hard"... your not going to hire him?

What this question does is force the candidate to make a snap decision: Is this particular interviewer hoping I express an honest weakness or is he seeing if a can turn a weakness into a strength?

Guess wrong and your out?
...good selection of tech news aggregators. I must say all the best are there inclusive Hacker News. I guess popurls now has a competitor ..well kind of as Techfuga is only for tech news..
Microsoft Layoffs?
Yeah, I figured. I just didn't want others coming away with the impression that C# is more concise than Haskell or Python. I mean, I love lambdas as much as the next C# programmer, but there is still a fair bit of clunky syntax to deal with when using C#'s great new features.
Carbon Nanotubes Will Rewire Your Brain, Make You Smarter
Here is the original article:

http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nnano....
This is pretty cool. It's actually a lot closer to being really RESTful than I thought.

This is definitely not just putting and getting serialized SQL.
Official google.org Blog: Sharpening our focus in global development
My workaround for this when it mattered to me was simply to scan through /newcomments
This is a duplicate of a post from a couple days ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=406049
Krugman: We're In For A Year Of "Economic Hell"
Design Fast Websites (Don’t Blame the Rounded Corners)
This came through a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=282841
We have a bunch of Unity-made made games at Blurst.com -- we've been really happy with the engine.
That's funny. I was just looking for this.
Yes, but even better would be to use jQuery's excellent JSONP method.
English is not their native language. Acceptable use patterns may be different in the Netherlands.
I work in advertising, and we are seeing several clients greatly reduce their spend.
Is your mental illness diagnosed (other than a self-diagnosis). I am not implying at all that you are, but am merely posting this for the community's sake: mental illness is serious (much like any other illness) so if you do seriously suspect mental (or other) illness seek professional diagnosis.

(It could also reveal that the symptoms are that of a physical illness, at times with an easy cure: I've a friend who experienced anxiety/OCD issues but the doctor recommended that he instead take up exercise and get fresh air which essentially wiped these issues away).
(Maybe he just really likes their corporate culture?)

This seems like a snide remark, though I can't tell for sure. While you doubtless know everything when it comes to Microsoft (viz, they're evil in every possible way) most of what I've heard is positive related to "corporate culture".

It's weird how people pick a side and stick with it whatever the context. So, when google gives its employees kindergarten toys to play with, that's great. When Microsoft gives every employee his own office, that's nothing.
It seems like the Windows tax would have an even greater effect on the netbook market. People will pay a lot more attention to the difference between a $350 and $400 netbook than they will between a $1950 and $2000 laptop. Why spend 12.5% more when you can get Linux for free and still do everything you want?
From mental point of view, I'd think at least impact on attention and energy levels.

That's aside, of course, from the physical dangers: diabetes (or diabetes like symptoms), very serious weight gain. That also applied to all carbs, not just sugars but some carbs are worse than others (e.g. high fructose corn syrup, white bread) while some are better (brown rice, whole wheat).
That was actually the switching point for me, from Linux to OS X. After months of effort, I finally got suspend/resume working well on my laptop, but still couldn't find a way to close the lid, connect to a monitor, and have X11 automagically handle the screen resolution shift.

I'm not sure I could switch back; I'm more likely to switch to Windows than Linux again, just for the international support.
> The Japanese can undercut them because of their lower employee salaries.

Because they're not burdened by silly deals by unions?
I've worked in the online dating industry for long time, and yes, POF is making lots of money, though I don't know exactly how much. Adsense is only one part of how they are monetizing their site.

The idea that it's all click bots is just silly.
Whether you'd like to believe it or not, there are a bunch of smart guys who still work for Microsoft. Some really smart computer scientists actually prefer a steady, high salary in a company that's treated them well for a decade over the chance to make it big or go bust trying.

I've never worked for Microsoft and I doubt I ever will, but I have interacted with some really smart folks who do.

All I'm really getting at is the fact that you dislike the business tactics, operating systems, office applications, or corporate culture of Microsoft doesn't mean you should assume they don't have anyone smart working for them.
So I'm guessing that you own both TechFuga and this account?

Correct me if i'm wrong.
That was my thought too, but then so many good ideas look dumb at first glance. It's possible that someone could make something of this. One trouble is that there can't be very many smart hackers with a passion for regulatory compliance.
I'm embarrassed to say but my own logical reasoning leads me to the conclusion that I might actually want to date one of those super intelligent PhD bots.

Google, do you hear me? Or are you just a creature of Microsoft meant to stop the DoJ from breaking them up?
The only time I was asked that question, I responded with "That's kind of a weird question, don't you think? I mean, it's not really in my interest to answer it honestly." The interviewer agreed, and we chatted about interviewing technique for a little while. He admitted that he only asked to see what people say, and that mine was probably the best answer he'd heard.

Got an offer the next day.
Would you be willing to accept a remote founder?
Neat project. I think this is how we are going to fully take advantage of the cloud resources we have right now.
Oh come on. The "use pattern" here is obvious, and somehow I doubt there's a linguistics thesis coming on the great Holland - Southern California migration.

Edit: besides, the Dutch (especially younger ones) tend to speak English at practically native speaker level. The cited example may even be an example of that: if you can sound dumb in the same way that a native speaker would, your English is obviously very good :)
Agreed. Making a living with Haskell may be difficult in the world that we live in, but doing so with Python should not pose a serious challenge. There are still plenty of jobs out there for talented coders, but you'll always be stuck at the same job if you don't GO AND LOOK FOR A NEW JOB that allows you to wield your new-found power. Nobody's going to change your situation for you, that's something that you have to do for yourself.
Will "core gamers" or casual gamers keep the gaming industry afloat?
Twitter is getting four nines uptime, but questions about the business model remain
This is a great article. Of all the smart people I've worked with, Kyle Gabler is probably the only one I would call a genius. The fact that he can also articulate the way he works is a nice benefit for the rest of us.

Little known fact: Kongregate and 2D Boy both operated out of Kyle's apartment for our first year. We all left EA at the same time and were going to have a game studio together but then I had the idea for Kongregate and tried to get Ron and Kyle to do that with me. They stuck to their guns, with great results.
Waking Up from the 'Nightmare on Tech Street'
remember: we're gonna fuckin' kill google.

and the fuckin' ipod, too, by the way.

Ballmer: just shut the fuck up.
If all they do is browse/design the pages, maybe.

If your developers need to run Eclipse, JBoss, Oracle, SQLDeveloper, Safari, IE6, IE7, Firefox, run Maven/Ant builds, email client, IM client, etc... Then the faster their machine runs those builds, switches to the next browser, lets your app retrieve data from Oracle, etc... the better.

Ideally your developers would have the exact same specs as your users' machines + your build server + your web-app servers/cluster, if you want them to see things the same way they'll be seen in production. Since that's not really viable, lets settle for a really fast, high RAM, desktop/laptop with a big screen:)
Ask HN: A good online broker without Windows
Can anyone recommend a good online broker for stocks, options and possibly currencies? The requirements are:

1. Operating system independent (Microsoft not required).

2. Works with Firefox and other browsers.

3. Low commisions and fees.

4. Good and prompt customer service.

I don't need research or a data feed.
Are people doing anything to reduce their consumption? I just spent $300 to have a laptop repaired. In the past I would have rather put that money toward a new one.
"The fact is that functional idioms work badly in languages that don't have syntactic support for them."

Then don't use those idioms. Work with your language, not against it. Learning Haskell taught the author to be more conscientious with state. Good. But nobody wants to debug imperative/OO code written by somebody newly infatuated with Haskell* -- it's like when people study a foreign language in high school and start dropping little fragments of Spanish/French/Japanese/etc. into casual conversation all the time, oblivious to whether the people around them understand it.

One of the comments (by "tom") nails it:

One of the more potent reasons for learning other modus operandi in programming to keep you from building tolerance to the same assumptions.

Learning several unrelated languages will almost certainly make you a better programmer, but code that assumes everybody else you're working with has the same background as you will be difficult to maintain. The language you're working in is the foundation for your shared culture, so do your best to write idiomatically in that.

* I have been guilty of this.
Alternate title: Another article demonstrating that trolling works.
Not necessarily. It's only easy to walk out because the majority of companies don't have their employees collectively share profits and losses. If they did, workers would walk out only to share the responsibility someplace else. I think the question becomes much more interesting when you think about it on a larger scale. What if most companies operated like this? Of course, it's all very hypothetical since it's a very socialist philosophy and would require a very, very major shift. It's not going to happen (and I'm not sure I'd be in favor of it either) but it's fun to speculate.

It's also worth mentioning that we already see this sort of thing on a much narrower scale with auto and airline unions. They are often willing to accept wage cuts because their options elsewhere tend to be pretty slim.

There are other contributing factors as well. I imagine that in an exceptionally bleak economy workers would be more willing to accept a pay cut if it meant job security.
--for some sense of the word "available"
But why do so many people go to plentyoffish in the first place? Do they get more clicks per user than other sites?
This is really really awesome I hope it gets resurrected!
Sometimes I have a problem with anxiety and OCD. Generally I can control the OCD but sometimes the anxiety is overwhelming when I'm stressed.

When this happens I've found exercise to be a good release. I'm able to clear my head and work out all the nervous energy.

Perhaps you could have a journal instead of a public blog? This way you can still write without the side-effects of telling everyone your secrets.
So has Facebook. Does that make them not formidable?

Almost every console loses money at launch. Consoles start as loss leaders. The XBox 360 recently turned a profit: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/24/the-xbox-turns-a-profit/ ... and the value of the platform is likely to continue going up.