skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically, China nosed ahead of the USA as the world's biggest exporter of manufactured goods a year or two ago. Which means we're not on the top anymore, but also goes way against the popular misconception that the US has had a weak manufacturing sector for decades.

Not that Americans should see China exporting more goods as a sign that the US economy has fallen apart. China has over four times the population, meaning it's exporting less than a quarter as much stuff per capita. China could grow to export four times as much stuff and that still wouldn't be a sign that the US's manufacturing sector is declining, only that it's holding its position.

And realistically, the US's manufacturing sector is incredibly strong - not just compared to other countries in the present, but also in comparison to itself in the past. I've got no idea why Americans get so worried that the country can manufacture so much stuff so profitably and with so little labor input that most their citizens get to work in the booming service and leisure economy made possible by that unprecedented level of efficiency, and feast on the luxury it produces, instead of grinding away on assembly lines. It seems nobody's quite capable of seeing the forest for this one particular infuriatingly backward-looking tree.
He also leaves out the Airport Extreme/Express base stations, Cinema Displays, and keyboards and mice. The Apple TV (as it stands now) is really more of a peripheral than a core product.
Yeah and now compare how limited an iPhone is compared to a general computing device where programs are allowed to talk to each other and rely on each other.

You only get the functionality a single app gives you. For many things this is sufficient or at least you can live with. For games it almost doesn't matter.

This only works because 99% of the people don't use iPhones for creating stuff but for consuming content.
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I like how simple this is. Make it so I can copy the URL that you generate on my iPad. The photo upload is quick and easy so once you fix that this could be useful.

I find it hilarious that you mention .wma - you truly are old-school.
I tried leaving some feedback but apparently "Sorry your feedback could not be send[sic] :-( Please try again."

Would be awesome to have a command like _ that opens the first result in the last batch.

Otherwise, kudos, this is amazing!
Interested in position
How to Handle a Social Media Superfan
Social media superfans can have a negative impact on your business and brand. This post looks at the threats and how to handle them.
(Oh, I got the emails for my feedback though, so maybe it worked after all)
Sounds like a break from Steve Jobs. http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/01/obama-spars-with-...

I suspect this is to combat negative PR from their overseas subcontractors.
> 1. Spying on everyone out of paranoia over terrorism.
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> 2. Doing whatever the RIAA and MPAA's lobbyists want them to do.

With direct access to the various ISP's that actually carry traffic, the US doesn't need ICANN to do either of these.

Honestly, how would ICANN do any of that anyway?
slf4j has had placeholders for a while
A good read on this is [0], he calls it the hedonic treadmill, where you are always thinking that thing that will make you ultimately happy lies in your next goal achievement.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/The-Joyless-Economy-Psychology-Satisfa...
I have known a few people driven to distraction by this sort of thinking.

"I will be happy when I get promoted/I buy a house/I move area/Some other future event happens", seems to me to be some sort of mental defence to justify being unhappy now, because obviously you can't be happy now because X hasn't happened yet. The event that's due to happen never makes them happy when it does happen though, they just make another event to pin their supposed future happiness to, all the while missing that life is happening now, friends and family and good times are around now.

Perhaps it's part of the human condition.
Small correction: "You must chose a file to upload" -> choose.
Bullsh*t Ipsum
is somebody knows about the agenda?
It's a very quick and painless process.

Here's one I made using an illustration I did a couple years ago http://teespring.com/gigiphinaleus
Yeah, and they took out a loan on their logo. Unfortunately, Ford is in worse shape now than GM and Chrysler because they didn't get a reset button to fix every problem - the lost by winning.
A gift guide to please any geek ... 25 years ago
Asynchronous logging versus Memory Mapped Files
Ha thanks, that looks "amazing"! I will definitely check that out.
Without an address it is hard to tell.
Hi there guys I've made a basic introduction to running NodeJS on AWS that expects you to already have some AWS knowledge for the AWS Chile Group.

I'm giving a little talk about this next Wed. and feedback about it would be really appreciated, thanks!
What I really like is that these commands work: http://duckduckgo.com/goodies

This includes returning images, for example type this "qrcode http://ddg.gg/ into the cli.

ps. !Bang tags don't seem to work though.
DC doesn't have phase and frequency issues AC does. Presumably a shared DC grid would be constant-voltage. What surprises naive me is that gigawatt inverters seem to be a done deal. Once we have gigawatt-hour ("utility-") scale storage, then we can have a fully renewables-based future (again, naive me thinks).
Market share for IE8 and older is dropping pretty fast so I don't think a few years is fair. However you can get D3 working with older IE browsers there is a discussion on it here:

https://github.com/mbostock/d3/issues/619
Christmas gift for someone you hate: Windows 8
Ah. This makes more sense to me. I believe the issue here is with the terminology, and (as usual) poor reporting.

So what you are saying is that the author is objecting to that view which limits one's understanding of the universe to a fixed-state system.
Find bars + good beers around each FC stadium (soccer)
What about logback (http://logback.qos.ch/)? I thought that it was the new log4j.
Intel CEO Otellini Sees Successor Coming From Inside
>Articles you read that claim they have 100 billion (or whatever) in cash are seriously confused about how cash and cash equivalents work.

It's semantics. It's cash. Not in the literal sense that they are wallpapering the headquarters with it. But it's cash from profits they've earned, that are invested in bonds and securities, just like you are I would.

>Long term marketable securities are basically those things that they would likely take a significant hit on if they had to actually convert to cash in a reasonable period of time.

Not necessarily true. Apple holds something like $15BB in Treasuries under their LTMS holdings. These are liquid (hence the label marketable). They also own a bunch on municipal bonds and corporate debt, most of which are also extremely liquid.
So why is this better than slf4j + logback? I'm not seeing any advantages.

log4j, slf4j, and logback were all written by the same guy, Ceki Gülcü. I'd be interested to hear what he has to say about it.
Why BioShock Infinite‘s Creator Won’t Settle for Success
In the original code, the debug call is guarded by a condition:

if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug("{}", expensiveOp(), debugModeOnlyOp());
}

But in the new code, the calls to expensiveOp and debugModeOnlyOp will be called every time this sequence of code is run regardless of the condition:

log.debug("{}", expensiveOp(), debugModeOnlyOp());

which is equivalent to the old code:

var x = expensiveOp();
var y = debugModeOnlyOp();

if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug("{} {}", x, y);
}

In most languages that do not support macros, it's impossible to correctly state the dependency of expensiveOp & debugModeOnlyOp on the log.isDebugEnabled() flag using log4j's new API.
California emissions regulations[1] gave them a reason to reengineer the fuel filler parts, and they built something that's inexpensive, genuinely nicer to use, and can be used by more people. I appreciate that they improved part of my $24k Mustang without making me buy a $57k electric car I wouldn't really reap the benefits from anyways (I don't commute, most of my driving is a 200 mile highway trip).

Tesla's main innovation isn't electric cars, it's electric car fashion.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_zero-emissions_vehicle... "zero evaporative (fuel system) emissions"
Making free trials work: 3 tips
Rails Engine Testing with RSpec, Capybara, and FactoryGirl
A friend's father worked on a massive DC power line project in Manitoba in the 1960s [1], so HVDC technology has been around for a long time. The article discusses a potential incremental improvement that might make HVDC useful in more circumstances, but the article seems to be making HVDC sound like a big new breakthrough.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_River_Bipole
"How I managed to get VIM to work just like Eclipse. With dotfiles."
I think he's saying exactly that. His post is kinda confusing because of how he quoted the article.
Personal Opinion:

When T-Mobile Acquired MetroPCS they paid a large cash sum, in excess of $1.5M in addition to a large minority stock holding. Deutsche has said publicly that they are interested in liquidating their stake in T-Mobile for some time, and a quasi-leveraged buyout, with the public markets providing capitalization, seems possible.

My theory is that MetroPCS essentially did a leveraged buyout of T-Mobile, ASSUMING Deutsche actually exits. Their minority share could potentially become the majority share.

This further complicates things in addition to the excellent analysis to which I'm replying :).

On the subject of MVNO's, the only major Wholesale carrier left in the US is Sprint and that's also quite interesting. SoftBank, the company which applied significant downward pricing pressure on the Japanese market, just took a 70% interest in Sprint (pending regulatory approval). Assuming this transaction goes through, it could mean that SoftBank wants to lower the retail pricing, and they've publicly made comments indicating this as well.

IF that's the case, the lower retail margins will put significant pressure on Sprint's wholesale business. It's impossible to have Retail and Wholesale priced near each other, so the likely conclusion (and what we've seen time and again in the MVNO space) is that the carriers will exercise their capricious will and jack up the rates significantly at the first contract expiration. What happens to all the subscribers that the MVNO had? Converted to the carrier; time and again this has happened.

So no, I don't think Google will be an MVNO, it's suicidal on some level to base your primary business on someone else's private enterprise IMHO.
Certainly the mainstream - design focus of apple is switching.
The Power of Ten 10 Rules for Writing Safety Critical Code
The "gun" narrative, in addition to being literally true, also has the rhetorical advantage of emotionally short-circuiting many people of a particular ideological bent. While you fume about being explicitly associated with the violent force that implicitly enables your everyday actions, you're unable to reply in a fashion that will convince the majority of people who don't have irrational ideas about guns.

(I don't necessarily mean "you" literally, but surely we've seen enough guns-r-bad silliness online to know that it exists.)
A 2BR in Louisville for $450 puts you squarely in the bad part of town. Aside from it being less safe and generally less enjoyable to live in (probably noisy neighbors, people up all night, etc.), you also are going to be commuting 20 - 30 mins per day to the other side of the city where the decent jobs are.
No, low wages are due to pre-1978 history.
At current "lawless regime" they are growing fast.
Something really scary is going on in Germany
What a nice man, and a very understanding wife :-)
Y Combinator: B&C plan
Ask HN: Best web hosting provider?
Looking to host a low traffic site with PHP and MySQL database. SSH and Git is a must. UK based servers preferred. Any tips much appreciated.
MetroMile - Per-mile car insurance
like watching TV with subtitles

Subtitles are great when the volume is way too low, it's in a language you aren't proficient in or the person is talking in a language he isn't proficient in.

For the sort of slides being suggested here to work requires a lot from the topic being presented, the presenter and the audience. Only follow this advice if you're confident that all three components will line up for you.
How likely is it?
Manufacturing leaving the US in mass was always a myth. The jobs went away because of automation. In some cases the cheap labor offshore was still cheaper than automation, but like most technology automation continues to get cheaper every year while cost of labor goes up.

As automation gets cheaper I expect more and more manufacturing that really did move to not just come back to the US, but also new manufacturing to set up shop. Shipping costs are expensive and it only makes sense to be as close to your customers as possible. The one exception to this trend will be manufacturing that is inherently 'dirty.' Those will continue to be overseas until countries like China decide that destroying their environment for a short term gain isn't a very good long term strategy.
Knotch Launches On iOS To Give Opinion Sharing More Color
Apple CEO Tim Cook talks Forstall, privacy, and making Macs in the USA
The global wage arbitrage bubble depends on huge spreads between "first world" and "third world" wages. That's because there are all kinds of hidden costs to outsourcing: the difficulty of communication and coordination, travel, long-distance shipping, longer lag-times, political instability risk, etc. Even a seemingly small close in this wage spread could crash the outsourcing bubble when these hidden costs are considered.
Fix the java vs. javascript thing, credibility is very important. I have not looked at your whole site but you may need to do some research to make sure you have your content properly organized under the right category.

Think about who your target audience is, I don't think you have that determined just yet. Once you get that down figure out how you are going to get them to your site.
I was using chip fabs as a point of comparison in regards to the scale of Apple's investment. It was chosen because HN readers are more likely to be familiar with the cost of such manufacturing plants than, for example, those associated with automotive manufacturing.

I agree that Apple doesn't need a fab. It doesn't need a manufacturing facility in the U.S. either.
LOL that was my first thought, interested by all the other discussion about how they move money, financial engineering is such a bizarre subject.
Are you implying that marijuana use and depression are somehow linked? That's bold!
This article is an interesting read, and fits well with the recent theme of insourcing articles on HN.

However, the author gushes so much about the quality of these shirts that the article feels like advertising. Does anyone have any experience with the brand? Are their products as good as the author makes them sound?
I made this point in another thread but part of the reason it's so easy to just take your car to a professional is that it's not "locked down".

So anyone with requisite skills, knowledge and tools can fix your car, therefor auto mechanics have to compete on price and service. If your car was locked down in the same way you would be forced to go back to the manufacturer and accept whatever service they offered.

You could argue that this is a bigger problem with computers because they are more prone to monopolies due to the complicated interfaces between hardware and software systems, your car only has to interface with the road.

There are of course other issues too, when 90% of the people on the planet use computers that are almost entirely controlled by a small number of companies and these people use their computers for all of their communication and consuming all of their news this gives those companies a huge amount of power in terms of censorship , evesdropping etc.

So there are issues here that go beyond the computer in itself.
Full Disclosure: I'm an Apple user that has been criticizing them for the last few years for a variety of things but...

This article (at least the first half) comes down to:

Apple makes products that don't suit me (okay, so don't buy an iPad).

Apple has glued their new screens to the metal (Is this really that big of a deal?).

Apple uses proprietary screws (This has been done for years)

There are lots of things in the curated Mac App Store that are of no use to him (So don't use the App Store or don't buy apps that are useless to you)

In the comments, the OP admits that he will continue to use Apple hardware because it is the best but will run Linux (Apple makes their money off hardware sales, so its of no loss to them).

There are many reasons to criticize Apple lately, I just don't see these reasons as having merit.
Could it be the new imac?
Californians will pay highest Tax rate(52%) in US
Apple has a "huge plan" to make Maps even better
jnoller, What's the thing at the end of Pycon where people showcase their projects built with python? It's like the science fair of python projects?
how long will the files be stored?
Stop sending 'important' emails — Matthew Lang
The quoted report in that article is interesting. It details the top marginal tax rates in all the US states for various source of income - http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2176526
For N <= 8, making allowances for lunch hours and breaks.

Short periods of time (measured in days, not weeks) can be spent working for N > 8 hours per day, but it becomes counterproductive (from the employer's business standpoint, not even considering employee health or satisfaction) beyond a few days in a row.
In a way though, this could serve as a kind of test for the student beforehand to see which parts they're comfortable with. I recently gave a presentation like this as part of my course and tried to follow the style described in the article. I started out with quite a nice visually appealing set of minimalistic slides, but ended up with a hybrid of that and what you usually see in lectures that also need to serve as handouts for later. So yes, I agree that people giving presentations as part of school projects should be cautious about trying to do more than they are ready for, but I also think it's somewhat a shame that we aren't given enough opportunities to practice that other side of presenting as well.
His name is Gabriel Weinberg and I am continually impressed. I wish I had a chance to work for him.
Dharmesh Shah pays out $3,001 for Twitter contest hack
> Now what I really want is an xterm that can render HTML/CSS.

Have a look at https://github.com/unconed/TermKit
Apple CEO Tim Cook announces plans to manufacture Mac computers in USA
Apple might be doing this to get contracts from US gov't(local/national/military). One of the requirements for doing business with US gov't is to manufacture these device in US.
I know it isn't exterior doors as a whole. But the vast majority of doors you will encounter on a public building have to be usable in an emergency. So, I think you'll be hard pressed to find one that doesn't open out. (Again, unless you drop into residential doors.)

Your point that we have the knowledge to make doors that are immediately usable is just something I don't believe. I've seen people use doors incorrectly that fit the guidelines of that book. Hell, I think I've done so myself. And, I argue that this is almost completely related to the consistency of how a door opens. Not the handle. (e.g., after years of living in a high rise where the entrance opened out and all I did was go to public buildings where all doors open out, not too shockingly, I was more prone to opening house doors incorrectly.)

My argument was never that "so long as it is possible..." The argument I put forth was more that the cost for getting a door wrong is ridiculously low, so people don't put that much thought into it. On either side of the isle. (Well, designers want doors to be pretty.) Your 90s example is attacking things where the cost was actually high, but the designers didn't care.

I think you can basically sum up my viewpoint with the common attack on intuitive designs that nothing is truly intuitive in and of itself. Pretty much everything is leveraged on something you have previously learned. If it seems intuitive, it is really just familiar. In the case of doors, the familiar behaviour trumps any design decisions. (If you have some good studies against this, by all means I'm game to read them. More than just the book that started this thread, though.)
Good SEO is Just Common Sense
You shouldn't worry about the word ending, at least not according to a NASA's scientists [1].

Either way, thanks for releasing your code. I'll check it out later. I love reading python.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57556172-1/nasa-there-wi...
Amazon belches fragrant clouds of AWS Node.js for JavaScripters
inception some ideas into their heads

Good god!
How NASA Used Social Media to Tell America the World Is Not Ending in 2012
Don't run this over production files without backup & testing!

I have just run this over my SVG tests and I'm afraid it has broken 7 out of 25 of them.

It appears to be mangling paths and changing the order of layers.

d-_-b I can send you my tests if it will help you.
Reporters are sometimes lazy, those in the techpress perhaps more so than others. If there's an Apple manufacturing in the US, that's a feel good story. Easier to write than a muckraker about rural Chinese who stepped off a turnip truck and into dormitories, long days, and low wages. Cheaper to cover, too - like that won't speak to editors.

It's a sausage factory for Disney's main street. And good PR.
Nielsen Social Media Report 2012: Social Media Comes of Age
Definitely will do, thank you!
An $80 sweatshirt? That's considered a "made in the usa success" ? Are they remotely serious?

Put a 10 year replacement warranty on it and maybe.

Otherwise I am sticking to my $8 sweatshirt.
What is the problem with beamer?
SwiftKey is incompatible with other apps. Typing in Firefox or Sygic gives all kinds of problems. If these issues were fixed its prediction capabilities would make it the best keyboard out there. I've reported the issues and haven't seen any progress.
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The issues I have with App.net is that their claims of "we won't screw the user" don't really have any legs to stand on. No company starts out wanting to screw users. But when it comes to turning a profit sometimes you have to put users second. There's nothing built into App.net's model that would prevent that.

Federation bakes that into the model from the beginning. So they're making core claims that aren't built into their core model.

I'm happy to pay for online services like App.net but I wish their messaging would have more sustenance.
Feedback: the text box you're using to show the shareable URL to the image is impossible to select and copy from on an iPhone.
Considering cryptography is advancing rapidly this is not surprising?
Not to turn political (And I'm independent) but Obama said something during the debates that rang really true to me. He said that the low level jobs in this country are going away for good and we need to focus on creating mid-level jobs.

It makes sense that as society and technology evolve, the low skill jobs will be replaced by automation. I think this is a good thing. In the long term, we shouldn't shun technology just because it keeps a real human from doing a mundane task 40 hours a week.
Somewhat related: http://slipsum.com/

Pulp Fiction Impsum
That's customizable isn't it? When I text I'd much rather have emoticons than a newline, whereas it's opposite with emails, and I've found that Swiftkey does a good job switching between them (somehow).