skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some speculative numbers at the end of the article:

> * American Giant pays the factory about $25 to $30 each, and then it sells it to you for $60 and up. Compare this to a model under which you’d buy standard sweatshirt at the mall—say, this $58 Levi’s crewneck. The department store likely buys that shirt from Levi’s for about $30. Levi’s, in turn, pays the factory about $12 to $15 for it, and the factory likely makes it for $6. So you’re paying 10 times what the shirt costs to make, and Levi’s is earning $18 per garment. With American Giant, you’re paying five times what the shirt costs, and American Giant is earning $35. Since there’s no retail middleman, everyone does better under the American Giant model—the clothing company, the factory workers, and you.*

Seems like a lot of cost-savings are actually from throwing out the middleman.

Also, I doubt this is the best-sweatshirt known to man...There must be better ones out in mass circulation. $80 is not very much for a heavy-duty piece of clothing...In NY, high-end stores sell plain white crews for as much as $200 (though admittedly some of it has to do with superficial branding).

I'd expect an upscale mass-produced hoodie, in terms of durability, comfort, look, and neat features, would be at least $200, if made in America.
Interview, get ridiculously low offer, counter offer with something reasonable. Repeat until someone accepts your counter. With so many jobs out there, you should be able to get several interviews per weeks. Someone somewhere is going to finally say "screw it, we've been looking for 3 months, let's give this guy the extra $20k - we need this stuff done yesterday".

That, or all the software development companies in London will eventually fail from lack of employees.
Yes it does not help, but I prefer not to share the address.

I wanted to see if there are some general advice; what others are doing that works.
Are You Working On The Most Important Problems In Your Field?
"Smart and Gets Things Done" is necessary, but not sufficient
One of the useful features of Lorem Ipsum text is that it's clear that it's purely there as a place holder so there's less danger of it accidently making its way onto the live site.

If there's some reason why you need actual real text as opposed to Lorem Ipsum, then I'm more of a fan of "indicative" text rather than random nonsense. By that I mean briefly write something related to what is actually going to appear in the space. It doesn't need to be great copy, but a person reading it can make out what is generally going to end up there and if it does accidently go live it's less of an issue than if you productionised "bullshit ipsum".

Given that Bullshit Ipsum appears to have neither of these features, I don't really see a use for it.
I am selling web design services. My goal is to get them to order a website which is not happening.
Anyone know why the photo app (Snapseed) is only Android 4.0+?
It's also about sustainability. It cost money/resources to ship product assembled in China. Lots of money.
That's why I said "someone with a clue." How about Apple?
Any word on Profig? Are they still alive?
their URL is 404. Anyone?
Bitcoin-Central, first exchange licensed to operate as a bank.
Seven manufacturers share $1.92 billion fine for 10 years of CRT price fixing
"The Radioactive Beasts of Chernobyl" - my favorite episode of The Vice Guide to Travel: http://m.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/the-radioactive-b...

Another great episode is the one where they visit North Korea, and sing karaoke to "Anarchy in the U.K.": http://m.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-nor...
Exactly. The modern AC power grid is very resilient due in part to the multi-interconnect nature which allows for parts of the grid to go down without taking down the whole network.

On an AC grid, there are breakers that automatically disconnect and often reconnect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recloser

I guess that this HDVC hybrid breaker accomplishes more or less the same thing.
Vice footage of the detainment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWqiVhRa0xI
1. You're wrong
2. You're probably right (that the wages include a lot of tech support, not specifically software developers)

Anyone who thinks money is made through stock in this industry is going to end up poor.
Nepean Real Estate
Nepean Real Estate: New Condo, Homes for Sale in Nepean. Nepean Realtors.
These guys have a good reputation:

http://www.gandi.net/hosting/

They're not in the UK, but in France... Git is "being implemented, and will be released in the next version of the website."
Check their source code :)
Bomb Sight - Mapping the World War 2 London Blitz Bomb Census
It backfired http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2012/12/05/...
Leaked ITU secret Internet surveilliance draft
3D stem plot with Python
This post shows how to make a 3D stem plot using mplot3D through Python.
I find the characterization of that California crime as "stealing one slice of pizza" to be wildly misleading. It conjures the image of someone sneaking up and nicking a piece while everybody's attention is diverted, or similar. The punishment isn't so much for the actual theft as for the threat of violence that was used to carry it out.

I'm not sure that threat deserves life in prison, but it's much more serious than the headline makes it sound, and I don't think it deserves to be called "petty".
Show HN: my evening project - "Urgency-Addict"-Style toDo-list
Getting a real productivity-boost from being short on time, I built a mashup of a toDo-application meets built in countdown-timer.

Hope it'll be useful to some "urgency-addicted" ;-)

Link: http://www.apps.bitsimple.net/urgency-addict/

(ps: trying to improve my programming since I have a biz-background only. Built this on angular.js. Any feedback really appreciated!!)
Apparently Microsoft is sticking with the philosophy of, 'Without apps, your phone can't get infected'!
http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/09/yc-backed-virtual-phone-sys...
If your definition of art is only that made with no profit of the artist in mind then your definition excludes a vast amount of what most of the world considers art.

Commercial music? Artists who make a living selling their work? Commissioned pieces? Art doesn't have to be produced by the idle rich and the impoverished and starving. It's hard to define art precisely, but your definition seems to be at odds with the generally accepted one.
Hit the Insert Key, this ignores every vimperator command until you hit Insert or S-Esc.
You're not the target audience for this thing then =P.

I tend to agree, but spend a few hours on Fifth Avenue in NYC, or even on sites like gilt.com and you'll see that there is a huge audience (including lots of men) who spend serious money on clothes.

I don't know a thing about the product, but the market is definitely there.
Clickable: http://www.apps.bitsimple.net/urgency-addict/
Call it what you like but as all software has bugs it's not a particularly useful differentiator.

What I'm curious about is why closed software seems to get such a rough ride on the privacy front compared to services such as Facebook, Google Search and Gmail which are business models which don't leak data incidentally, but piss it up against a wall as a fundamental and entirely necessary part of how they work.

Facebook gets a tough time but Google it feels to me gets off very lightly.
Combined with the 3 votes & 0 comments, this was the one that got me to guffaw.
From our point of view guns are the core of the problem. An individual can decide not to buy something if they don't like it. Apple can tell Google to piss off when they don't like the terms of a deal. But you can't tell the government to go and pound sand if you don't like the opinion of a regulator.

They have the power to send in the SWAT teams and not vice versa. Try fighting USG on anything of substance and police will quickly appear, and with them guns, and then your choice is to die, to be imprisoned, or to submit.

The Buckyballs owner just had to submit. CPSC put him out of business:

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/02/magnetic-buckyballs...

This is one of the stories that made the papers. Most don't. FDA alone issued 10000+ 483s in 2011:

http://blog.fdazilla.com/2011/09/fda-will-issue-10000-483s-i...

mpyne, because you are within the federal government you don't see its bad side. Most of your work is just office work. Your agency is not about to be banned by another agency. The worst thing that can happen is that the budget is not substantially increased.

Things are a sight more dangerous for non-government businesses in the US today, at least those which are in politically unfavored categories (like Keystone XL) rather than politically favored ones (like the green energy companies).

While once in a while it so happens that political favor coincides with technological merit, as in the case of Tesla, most of the time innovation means pissing people off. Innovation and consensus are antonyms. Innovation is not democratic, committees don't make breakthroughs, and it'd be nice to not have to deal with a regulator waving a gun in one's face when your disruption disrupts their assumptions.
I don't see any ads anywhere, and this service looks entirely free. It's not cheap to host large files for people en masse, especially since you allow up to 250MB. For example, if this were hosted using Amazon's S3, somebody could literally just upload a lot of 250MB files and directly hit your wallet. How do you plan to keep this service afloat?
The Future Of Foxconn: 200 Pigs
Steve Jobs, like many other corporate leaders was always fine with making broad forward looking statements based on Apple's position right now. He would then have a complete and immediate turn around once Apple was ready to do something. I'm not criticizing, it's a smart strategy. All I'm saying is that we shouldn't look to the past words of Steve Jobs as a guide for the future.
Well, we never can hide our roots ;-)

Logback has been developed by the same guy who wrote log4j 1.x. He left and log4j 1 was not maintained a long time. But before a good while a few others have teamed up to bring the project back to life. With log4j 2 we have looked closely at other frameworks, including logback, and tried to make things better. Actually we have found a few things which we consider better. Still you need to consider log4j 2.0 is a young framework and in beta. That said, we are always glad about feedback. You and your developers are invited to join us on our mailing list and tell us what you think - good or bad. Thanks again for your interest (and bearing with my english)
I am in the camp that it is a product like the Mac Pro. A product which has a large number of user customizations combined with low sales volumes that effectively removes it from common mass production methods.

Oh I am quite sure you can bound up the chassis, power supply, and perhaps the main board, and ship it off for final assembly here and still be labeled as made here.
Except when you don't proof-read your fancy French wine bottle label: http://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/nice-bottle-of-lorem-ipsum-2009....
This is how the website looked in February: http://web.archive.org/web/20110207234611/http://american-gi...
Speaking as the operator of a similarly themed site, allowing drive-by downloads is a huge target for malware uploaders.
Arduino: Creation is Child’s Play
A “web documentary” about Arduino
Agreed. The idea is to act as if the outcome of what you were working on was the most important thing in the world to you, but to place no value on the actual outcome itself.
Its TL;DR for me. Could anyone enlighten me if this means their profit margin will drop and price will remain, or that their profit margin will remain intact and price will raise?

It has to be one OR another...
At age 27 after working as a Software Engineer since graduating, I could see the writing on the wall. I was "Jamie" as described in this article.

I made a conscious decision right then to turn off the "Life autopilot switch" as I call it.

I quit my good job, sold all my stuff, and spent 2 years driving 65,000km from Alaska to Argentina in my little 2 door Jeep. It was a life changing experience, and I was shocked when I visited my old workplace afterwards to see the same people, doing the same things, with the same blank expressions on their faces.

http://theroadchoseme.com is my blog of the entire journey.

I'm so passionate about helping and encouraging others to do something similar, I created http://wikioverland.org as a resource for people wanting to travel in this way. I also give presentations and talks about what I've done, and will be doing more of it shortly.

I am currently aware of 5 couples driving the Pan-American highway who directly say I gave them the courage to do it. I have never had a better feeling in my entire life.
The problem with this I feel and one of the advantages of Twitter is that if a certain company controls their community page (e.g. Audi USA) and I go to post some sort of customer service complaint, they have the option of removing it. With Twitter, I can just add a hashtag or @message them and it'd be visible globally with search.
Open Aerial: The Data Behind MapBox Satellite
Beginners Guide to Maths and Stats behind Web Analytics
Black Hawk flies, lands and avoids threats - all without pilots
So how do we solve this? By only allowing hotlinks on Images or similar?
How do you intend to make money? You could end up with a significant server bill if lots of people start using the service.

Great service, btw!
Gemini blew the socks off of all my middle school friends, but I'm embarrassed by the amount of time I spent on Galaxian in math class. Maybe one of these days, I'll dig out my 83+ and complete the no laser, no death run that I was always aiming for, just for old time's sake.

In hindsight, I wish I had spent that time learning Z80 instead...
I'll bet they work in the hosting industry and they're just using spare capacity for this.
Not sure what is complicated about VLC? It's the simplest player I have ever used, you point it at a video file and it plays it. You get standard DVD player like controls for pause/play etc.

In contrast WMP refuses to play a bunch of filetypes altogether unless you mess with codecs and asks me a bunch of questions every time I start it up.
To the naysayers: I'd buy it. Would have bought it then and there but they didn't have my size in stock. I would gladly pay $80 for a garment that looks good and lasts more than a couple years - especially if I don't have to go to the mall to get it! When they get my size in stock and I get my order I hopefully wont be disappointed.
You gotta start with something in order to build up a manufacturing base. Also, given that Apple is building huge datacenters of its own, it's likely they could be looking to in-source their own servers going forward as well.
After graduating with an engineering degree in a field I enjoy, and taking my first job, I soon began asking myself what's next. I grew up alongside many kids whose parents funneled them into the typical "dream careers": doctor, lawyer, finance (and other people who got there on their own). After quickly hitting my head on the (relatively low) glass ceiling, I wondered if I hadn't missed out on huge opportunities in life.

I reconnected with one of these friends, and he told me his life wasn't perfect. He hadn't reached some state of perpetual bliss that I'd imagined. And he envied that I got to work on creative problems that provided constant challenge. Then he paid for lunch and drove off in his Porsche. If everyone can be happy or unhappy regardless of material things (as long as their basic needs are met), is it better to be rich and happy rather than middle-class and happy?
Are we reading the same post? I think you've missed the point entirely, or you made a conscious decision to ignore everything he wrote just so you could respond critically.

He says nothing about trying to find the best of everything or making sure to squeeze every ounce of happiness out of every decision you make. He's saying people who are unhappy should stop and think about whether or not they're pursuing things that might make them happy in the major aspects of their lives (location, career, friends, hobbies, etc.).

I don't buy into your BS about "learning to be happy with what you have" because it glosses over the whole "what you have" part, which is the crux of the issue. That's like asking miserable people "Have you tried being happy instead of being unhappy?" Brilliant. I'm sure you'll be a top contender for the Nobel Happiness Prize this year.
thanks Josh. I missed that.
I'm not sure what makes me more upset, the fact that this hoodie costs $80, or the fact that this very kind of story is eaten up by desperate wannabe 20-somethings that are brainwashed into thinking that they deserve the "very best."
Goodbye, Silicon Valley
Why is this better than using one of the many other services that do the exact same thing? Like, say, http://ge.tt (not affiliated with them, but just a personal favorite).
There was very little engineering in the Mac Pro that hadn't already been fully amortized. They're not like the rest of the product line, where there continues to be serious money and effort spent to refine manufacturing processes.
That's precisely what I do. You probably also want to scan the files for viruses at the time of upload and at regular intervals. I use ClamAV and F-Prot.
This has all the hallmarks of a "PR" story along the lines of: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Ask HN: Should we ditch Git for SVN?
I've worked with SVN before. I love the simplicity. Then there are things like TortoiseSVN which makes SVN's usability much better.

I've got a small team and we were looking to move into GIT. However, it seems like there's a pretty steep learning curve and the more I look at it the more I'm thinking SVN w/ TortoiseSVN is the way to go.

I have 3 interns, one of whom accidentally deleted all his work afew days ago and I'd like to introduce them to version control. I asked them to go learn about GIT and 4 days later, they're confused as heck.

What's been your experience with Git v SVN? The user interface thing is a serious issue to me. It looks like merging is a giant pain in the ass compared to svn. Before I course correct and move to svn, wanted to get some feedback from the HN community.
Webfaction by far. They are just awesome.
Wouldn't a shill just indicate that they're not a shill? I don't think self selection works the way you think it works.
I can't wait to see it!
Their web site says free shipping both ways and satisfaction guaranteed, so not that hard to find out.
Any plans for Ireland? They used to assemble Macs there, too. I'm sure Cork could use the work.
I gotta say American Giant gear is pretty great. I am a big made in America fan and when I first heard about them I bought one of their half zip sweatshirts. Order number 212 or so. Came with a signed thank you card from the CEO. The quality is excellent and the look is classic with a great fit. I actually just received my Black Friday order yesterday, the day that Slate article came out. They were out of one of the colors I ordered and I got a hand written note from one of their customer service people. Great stuff, great customer service, great story. Go get some of their gear.
Great customer service is a sustainable competitive advantage for your MVP
Assange's alleged assaults would put him in a different class than a con-artist, I suppose.
Facebook's real mobile opportunity is right outside your door
I guess I just don't understand that logic. I also work in a hosting-focused industry. We host large amounts of files for paying customers in a much less sexy industry, but we still revolve around file hosting. As a result, we have a lot of storage space and at times we have a lot of free storage space. What would be the benefit of letting people upload files to our open storage and then download them, as well, entirely for free? Seems like it'd only really "get your name out there", but with a lot more downsides than that.
Still nothing for Google Apps users.
The government should be building out infrastructure like this.
Measuring the Distribution of Spitefulness
We have a few other hidden upload limits, and we'll probably use ads later on to solve the financial issues, but right now we're trying to estimate the interrest of the service in general.
D3 seems to be gaining strength here. Sure, it doesn't work perfectly in all browsers and requires a bit of customization effort to make the charts look really good. But for me, it is a joy to interact with a chart and show different views without fetching server data each time. Data lives in the DOM -- this is a powerful thing.
I thought they had finally figured shit out after that brilliant IE ad. Guess not.
> It looks better and feels substantially more durable—Winthrop says it will last a lifetime.

who needs a sweatshirt to last a lifetime? when was the last time you wore a 10yr old piece of clothing outside of your own house?

you buy $79 hoodies/shirts for the brand and current trendy design, not to pass on to your children.
there's also http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ similar with TortoiseSVN.
Depends on a) how comfortable you are working with HTML to begin with, b) what functionality you're implementing with your DSL, and c) how many people are working on the project? If you're someone with a lot of Python experience and no HTML experience, and you're doing a solo project, this is a perfectly appropriate.

One other area where abstraction is appropriate is form generation. I've used Django a lot and recently Clojure+Noir a bit, and in both of those I've ended up using an abstraction for all the form code (Django forms in the former, Hiccup+helpers in the latter). In the Clojure project I was even working with someone knew HTML and not Clojure, so most of the site is rendered using Mustache templates, but I ended up rewriting all the forms in Hiccup because it's just easier to work with.

All that said, you seem like someone that might like Enlive (https://github.com/cgrand/enlive). I'm not sure if equivalents exist in other languages, but the gist of using it for templating is that you write a plain HTML file, and run the text through Enlive along with some transforms (identified by CSS-style selectors). I've never used it for anything major, but other people have, and it seems really cool.
Nvidia Launches GeForce Experience Beta for Optimizing Game Settings
In my opinion unrealized happiness is not equal to grief.

Grief is a negative factor that directly impacts your life, like your car breaking down, or dreading going home to your spouse.

Grief can be the lack of free time or the abundance of it.

Grief is not I could be x units of happiness happier if I moved to California, therefore I am x units of happy less than I could potentially be.

I think most people know when something is missing in their life. They know if they HATE going to their job. They know if they HATE their neighborhood. In those cases, by all means seeks something better.

Basically this is the same argument has the "I want the best of everything" articles and the 50 dollar utensils. Many people pointed out you don't need the best or the worst you need good enough. What good enough is, is going to change from person to person. However I think we all have a pretty good idea about what good enough (both materialistically, and philosophically).

Aristotle was right, in my opinion.
This success of this move will come down to how good the US is at manufacturing proprietary screws with weird heads and battery adhesive that's really sticky.
D’oh The top 5 mistakes when attempting US market entry