skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honda India to Launch New Honda Activa Deluxe Soon
One of the forerunners in the two wheeler industry, Honda India is all geared up to roll out its two new variants, Honda Activa and Honda Activa Deluxe soon.
To be an angel investor with $100,000, why not start your own Y Combinator clone?
It seems like speed is a feature for v2.0.
Why not?

-or-

Have you ever driven in a car? What do you suppose is more likely - a false positive in Google's fraud detection, or dying in a car accident?
It's a lot of money to diversify the AngelConf strategy into anything but gambling. With three people putting up $100,000 or a generous State Government, anyone can start their own YC clone. There will always be the n-bucket list of startups that don't get into their seed program of choice. I think the long tail could go down surprisingly far in this case, especially as you started to move outside of software.
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White socks are great for sports, but you don't look very serious wearing a black suit with them...
What is Flockr?
A script can pass specific environment variables to the particular instance of the application.
Capital Factory’s Joshua Baer on incubating startups in Austin
On the other hand, you have to admire people that go for full grammar, no matter how difficult it is to accomplish on the device they are using.
Enough Wall Street, Enough
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I think you will find that customers are much, much less sensitive to pricing issues than developers are. This has been the consistent experience of people on the Business of Software boards.

Really, the best advice I have ever gotten in my business was to get over the feeling that it was somehow unclean to charge money, and charge the highest amount I could say with a straight face. (I literally winced when typing in the price the first time. And when raising it recently. Apparently I care a heck of a lot more than my customers do.)

There are significant ancillary benefits to charging more. In addition to not sending 16% of your income to the fine folks at Paypal, you can afford advertising.

I charge $30 when people who consider themselves my competitors charge $0, $10, and $22. They apparently think that means a customer doing a comparison between the two of us will choose them. I think that means that I can afford to spend more on ads than them every single time. This is a significant factor when Google AdWords is the major advertising mechanism in my niche.
Oh ... nevermind ... I was just reading his 'First stab at Clojure' post on the same blog where he writes:

"First of all, I’ve never programmed in any lisp dialect. Second of all, I’ve never programmed in Java."

Yeah. I guess profiling is a pain if you have never actually worked with Java before. Duh.
In that case, a dot-matrix would do as well as a daisy-wheel.
Light is a ... [pic] (Wave / Particle)
I spend more. 8 seems a minimum. Now, can they just perfect the Retinal projection stuff?
Isn't that tld only available to educational institutions? Although I guess it all depends on how you fine that term.
Edit: actually, .edu is only for accredited 4-year universities as determined by the USA. http://net.educause.edu/edudomain/
Small correction, `git add -a` adds untracked files, too. `git add -u` does not.
Last time I took a marketing class was in '03, and indeed, at least up until then, the 4 P's were still taught as the major components of marketing.
Why iPhone Apps Are Too Cheap
In case you didn't notice, these industries have serious flaws (caused by many things we won't get into here), that leverage magnifies.
Besides, there's still no legal basis for llcs, just convention.
I'm a big fan of Mint - no, not the financial app.

http://haveamint.com

$30 and tons of plugins... does a great job giving us the type of data we really only have time to care about. I run both GA and Mint, but Mint provides real-time data and better referrer links so we can dig deeper into sites and find comments about our products/us.
I think California has done a good thing in wooing Tesla to build the model S here. If nothing else, it should serve as a beacon to engineers interested in designing clean-tech - working on anything else will seem boring and old hat for most.

The ripples of the tech being located here could very well serve as the impetus for the next rise in California's economy.
And who decides what the product is? What about how much it costs? And who decides how to get the product from production to consumers?

Without the right marketing, you'll be building the wrong product, selling it at the wrong price, and with the wrong distribution. Yes, marketing is easier with your brand new shiny web apps, but it's still just as important.
" From Donny Ocean to Madoff, people appreciate the ability to "pull it off"."

Madoff was simply a crook with a bigger opportunity than most, not a mastermind.
Maintaining Gmail filters with XML
*Was afraid to click this link.
Yes, but it would change proportionally to the hours of playback, so if you assume the Apple-stated hours of battery life are calculated at the same volume level, then these calculations are still valid, albeit extremely rough, estimates.
It comes with a trolley that hooks on the back :P

The other two are rearward facing behind the second row, similar to what Volvo did for a few years in some of their station wagons
They think most buyers will prefer the luxury batteries
I'm really confused as to why, aside from cash problems, any company would do otherwise...

Companies thrive on hiring more people, motivating them to create x amount of wealth (on average), and giving them salaries, benefits, and resources worth 0.9x (on average). More smart engineers means more x, means more 0.1x, and more profit. A recession is a time that there are more smart engineers in the market, not fewer.
Ask HN: Does anyone else use "and" and "or" in C (iso646.h)?
Just trying to settle a friendly "coding style" debate I'm having with some colleagues. :-)

They're keen on using the spelled-out "and" and "or" as per iso646.h in our code, rather than the standard && and || operators. Admittedly they do look nice, and match well with our Python code. But it's weird to see them in C, and I've never seen them anywhere else on The Internet.

(If you've never seen "and" and "or" used in C, you can read about them and iso646.h here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso646.h)

So I'm just curious: Does anyone else use them? Either yourself or in an open-source project you've seen?
Google's "brand" is its technical superiority.
The jewelry of the red carpet. Part I.
To: Ex-V.P., A.I.G. From: The Taxpayer
Isn't that like 1% of their workforce? 2000 would be news.
While that's good advice generally, it's not enough to protect you from CSRF attacks like the Amazon wishlist one.
Some days, I don't spend 8 hours not in front of a screen... go figure.
The Lanchester Marketing strategy
I think you can generalize this to say "you can compete with companies that focus on scaling to large markets of X by providing services for X which don't scale".
The whole reason for founding in Delaware is the favorable legal structure. You certainly have a solid case if they truly took $2300 from you without cause and I imagine that once you retain a lawyer and file some paperwork they will settle rather than fight you and lose over such a small sum. You might end up spending $1000 to get it back but for pride's sake its worth it.
This has to be the mother of all OCR test cases:)
Only 8?
Now, I am wondering how will those IT guys at Amazon can do a A/B test of how effective this move by Jeff Bezos will be.
$2300 is not a small number to me if its basically flushed down a toilet
SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac - "Market Type" at Work
I don't get it -

aggregate (n): a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together

granular (adj): composed of or covered with relatively large particles

You mean that Google provides services that scale - like a fully automated checkout system, and doesn't provide services that don't scale - like personal support. I don't know if it'll end up being a wise one, but it's certainly an interesting business decision they've made...
Advertising Is Dead Again
For a typical adult, it's high enough. In fact, it's one full working day. HN members and techies are a different story.
The problem is there doesn't seem to be an accepted, open source profiler I can just drop in and start seeing some results. There probably is, but I haven't come up with a good way of finding these tools for Java.

Being a Python guy, it's often quite frustrating to have to fight so much to find tools, and then fight so much to get them to work in the environment.
what about a start-up that aims to make those 8 hours more comfortable and productive.
Twitter should be ready for a traffic spike then.
Rhomobile - anyone tried?
Anyone used Rhomobile? The french knife equiv of mobile-app using ruby? Little hard to believe. Before I jump into (yet) another framework, any of you have used it? What do you think of it?
URLs: http://www.rhomobile.com

Video: http://mwrc2009.confreaks.com/14-mar-2009-11-05-rhodes-the-o...
It's a silly little twitter portal I'm building for the express purpose of learning clojure. Basically, it aggregates different twitter searches into "channels".

There's an intro here: http://justin.harmonize.fm/index.php/2009/03/first-stab-at-l...

This article is the sixth in the series, which you can see here:
http://justin.harmonize.fm/index.php/tag/learning-clojure/
BackupPC: Open Source Backup to disk
The US government has a lot of money to waste on stuff like this.

A year or so ago I jokingly made a reference about killing the president (not killing the President; I intentionally didn't capitalize the P) on Slashdot. A month later, the Secret Service was at my house. As far as I know, the case was dropped, but for some short period of time I was facing federal charges and was under investigation. I probably have an FBI file now (which I personally think is awesome).

So anyway, I would probably not click this link, unless I was using Tor or that new VPN service by the Pirate Bay guys. If you are in the US, there is plenty of manpower around to waste your time.

(To be fair, the agents that were investigating my case didn't know much in the way of details. As soon as I showed them the post in question, they became very friendly, and I haven't heard from them since. But still, it was a big waste of my time and the taxpayers' money.)
Didier Grossemy says; Are you talking to mum?
Didier Grossemy says. Some of the major brands have educated children to their products from the very young age, and I don’t think I need to give you any examples of those brands.

They know very well that parents will have no choice but to comply with their wants and later the same children becoming parents will do exactly the same. Yeah! Very smart and we all fall for it.

Today the digital age is not any longer just driven from children looking at games or business people searching the next opportunity but from mums around the world.

Time poor, they are the prime consumers on the internet, as we know mums are “Jack of all trade”; taking the children to schools, buying and preparing food, going to work, looking after her hubby, clothe ironing, cleaning and … should I go any further to say that women these days are overly busy. So this brings me to what I have preached for fifteen years, the Internet not only save you money and save the trees but revolutionise your time management.
Well, "intending to possess child porn".

There is definitely problem with the methodology used by the FBI here, but the real problem is this law. I guess I understand the reason for laws against planning to murder someone... but planning to copy some bits to your computer that represent a naked kid?

Let's spend our money going after people that actually physically rape children, not people that click links, or that think about thinking about clicking links.
How Nokia Ovi Store will trump Apple on global stage
This is the first good article I've found that shows parallels between corruption or monopolistic/oligopolistic behavior in developing nations and the current U.S. system, written by an old IMF practitioner:

-banks too big in size

-banks influence policy (treasury officials are often former bankers)

-advice on what happens when developing nations wreck their financial system and what is usually necessary to heal

-argument for why nationalization of banks makes sense

Who could provide better advice than an organization that routinely deals with these kinds of failures? It turns out, this kind of stuff happens all the time... just not here in the U.S.
Planning poker - the real epiphany
Maybe, maybe not. While Tesla is an eco-exotic/luxury maker, and in general luxury companies do luxury cars which by definition are not for mass usage.To name a few: koenigseeg, aston martin, bentley, or italians like maserati or ferrari. It's hard to tell if they will ever build lower price car for mass usage lift off. Rather the way to go would be something that german Audi, BMW, Mercedes, or VW exhibit, a range of cars that have also a range of prices, but still in some sort they are considered to be almost luxury cars because of sustainable design in time, better quality (at least in most things inside or outside) and some additional level of innovation.
Earl H. Wood Dies at 97; Helped Invent G-Suit
What Makes an Entrepreneur?
Nice article!
Currently this is what consuming most of my thinking about how should I proceed next on my venture. To further iterate on dev cycle or solve the money problem first. And since we are not funded, and now have gone private beta bootstrapping from our own pocket, I think the monetize-first approach seems to be the practical one.
This reminds me of a recent HN thread : How Rich Countries Die

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=518776

Over time special interest groups work to reduce a society’s efficiency and GDP by enriching themselves -- in this case it's the financial industry.

Another common idea is regulatory capture:

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

Regulatory capture is a term used to refer to situations in which a government regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead acts in favor of the commercial or special interests that dominate in the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.

The SEC and other government posts like the Secretary of Treasury are unduly influenced by the finance industry. In fact, as the article points out, those government positions are often filled with alumni from the finance industry.
A time travel strategy game
Your "work/chore/business", "fun/relaxing/pleasure" dichotomy seems to be universal. I can look at any task on my to-do list and instantly put it in one of those buckets. Probably anyone with a to-do list can.

Why is this?! Assuming this ability is universal (and not just something chime and I are good at:), there must be an innate psychological reason. Possibly even a "simple" reason.

I will venture a guess: real or imagined self-threat is always associated with failure to complete a "work" task. This is never true for an individual "play" task.

Thoughts?
I vaguely remember hearing a speech by the founder in Switzerland around 2002. If I remember right, he had a single employee and was making ~1M CHF annual revenue at the time. He was so confident of his product that he listed his competitors on his own website - and he would mark each one that went out of business.
CBA is handwaving, but so is saying "what if everybody did it". I'll concede that CBA gives a false sense of accuracy.

You initially said "I'm glad we didn't make a rational decision", and I don't agree with that sentiment at all. You are free to base your decisions on your morals and ethics, but when it comes to something as global as global warming I'm not sure you can just force them onto the rest of us.
I don't know what else to say about this article except that it is the finest explanation of the banking crisis that I have yet encountered.

Seriously, this is a must-read for everyone. Sobering.
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According to rescuetime, thats about the amount of time I spend a day in textmate. Then there's also time spend in Eclipse, flex builder..etc and of couse HN.

I have no life...
Did you get a shag?
A low cost way to handle the role of "Chef" is to outsource it the microwave and packs of raman, at least fo me.
Another Maglev worth noting is this one

http://ruby.gemstone.com/

I'm not sure if its American though.
This is slightly offtopic, but I found out recently that Amazon Wish Lists are rather useful if you need to track down an owner of an e-mail, who doesnt want to be found.

Google was drawing blanks, then using Pipl the only hit was Amazon Wish List, from which I found the full name, after that Google took over.

I suppose the owner of the e-mail address could have used a fake name for the wish list, but usually people do not.
I don't see what the level of writing has to do with whether one is an author or not. You're the author of your comment, and a graffiti artist who draws a penis on a wall is the author of that graffiti. Author merely implies who created the thing.

Anyway, all I was commenting is that I find it quite unpleasant when I write blog posts and people refer to me in the third person, as either "the author" or "the blogger", but between the two, "the author" seems less dismissive and I'd pick that over the other. It's worth keeping in mind that the author probably reads these comments too.
I was thinking that it would be a really cool hack to twiddle an open source Java vm to give it a scheduler like Erlang's, in order to not rely on threads. It would not be a simple hack, but you could potentially do some very cool things with it. Erlang style "processes" are much cheaper than threads.
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Fascinating read, he seems to be doing well now...
http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/index.php, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Mnookin
Since you only had 10 orders go through Google Checkout, it is possible there were maybe 4 or 5 additional fraudulent orders which raised some red flag in Google's algorithm. Then again, it could actually be a bug in their algorithm

Still, the issue is that Google provides no way of finding out the cause.
I think the banking crisis was milder in Sweden because of the handling of the crisis in the beginning of the 1990s. Then, the shareholders of the Swedish banks were hurt to save the banks, so the banks knew they would not get _free_ money from the state in the next crisis (which makes the banks a bit of an exception in Sweden, but that is another discussion.)

After reading the article, it seems both more complex and simpler than that. Really good.
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What about buying socks when you are at a clothes shop anyway. Even if its only every two years, you could easily buy 20 pairs at once since you are hardly running the risk that they will be out of fashion next season.

Even rich people go to buy clothes themselves at last once every other year, don't they? Seems like less time in contrast to fill out an online form.
Me too, but at a certain point when you are established in a way, you want to fly a small flag just to say "hey look, it's possible!" to other women.

When I was wee (oh god, I'm getting old?! but I'm only 20!) I was put off by how many men there were and how weird it was to be the only girl in my entire CS classes, and now I think I'm over most of it (except for the really hurtful/disgusting discrimination, not limited to tech or gender). However, I occasionally meet another woman or some girl barely a few years younger who was put off by gender discrimination in tech (in general, not just startups) permanently or was on the verge of doing so, and I try to get them interested again in one way or another by mentoring in a way. I think in that aspect it's worthwhile to attempt that at least. All the women I talk to about this have found it helpful to know that there are other women in the industry that have been successful and that not everyone is so rude.
And it's not. Seriously, this last week I've seen that silly whale page way too often.
In the early days of Java, threads were actually lightweight threads that were scheduled in user space. They changed them to true OS threads somewhere along the way, which helps in multiprocessor situations, but I'd love to still have the green threads around as a tool.

I don't know enough about the JVM to have any idea how tricky it would be to hack it in; I suspect calling out into a C library that calls setcontext() is going to make the JVM rather unhappy.
Even the name implies good customer service: "I respond to you".
Calling out into C or other potentially blocking calls is one of the things Erlang treats very carefully - the scheduler by itself isn't enough. To really make Erlang turn over nicely, you have to isolate contact with external libraries, usually in other Erlang nodes (real, OS level processes). Kind of strange, but very robust.
Maybe that's the reason why they're not doing it. Cost of satisfied customer vs. cost to make him happy.
Don't be evil left google and is now at Friendfeed anyways :)
As ridiculously cool as this technology is, I can't help but think that there are some significantly cheaper, more stealthy, more reliable, smarter alternatives out there which are capable of self-replication and independent fuel discovery...
IMO, this is a problem with many things - it's very easy to focus on that which is quantifiable, and ignore the fuzzier stuff. For instance, I did a comparison of Linode and Slicehost which has proved quite popular, but one of the things I stated up front was that while it's possible to measure costs and things like memory and disk, it's not really possible to easily compare service, especially as for the most part, hosting is invisible, and service only becomes critical in an emergency.

Economics in general suffers from this problem too. It's easy to quantify things related to money, but much more difficult to deal with the benefits from more abstract things.
Here in Russia a lot of people sighed freely some years ago when our debt to the IMF finally was repaid, early and in full. The organization has a very bad name here for advocating drastic reforms that led to social shock and, yes, many deaths. It might be more a fault of our own government, but still it feels better to be debt-free.
I've always wanted this sort of thing, but given up on the idea quickly, thinking that time travel in a multiplayer game just doesn't make any sense and there's no sensible way to come up with a way to make the mechanic work.

But it seems I was wrong.

This is impressive and could open a whole new strategic dimension to RTS gameplay.
Google: Don't show evil.
I am biased, but David Neeleman (JetBlue, now starting Azul) is an amazing CEO. Just a few days ago he was flying around Brazil on his new Azul airline anonymously to verify his employees are implementing the level of customer service he is hoping for.

Edit: Compare that to the Washington DC Metro Board of Directors who don't even ride the Metro Trains they are overpaid to "direct".