skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that moving the parts factories here is a political decision. The core operations are still essentially Japanese and most of the hardcore expertise for Toyota, say, is in Toyota City, Japan. Its not because we Americans are less capable or something - its just a typical industry cluster.

Anyway if I had my say, I wish the car industry was less Madison Avenue, and more Silicon Valley. Why aren't car prices decreasing? Why can't I easily swap out parts myself? There needs to be a rethink and it can't occur as long as .gov is propping up the existing edifice.
Sony VAIO AV model. 18.4" screen, 1920x1080. I have four monitors at my work desktop so I need at least a double monitor equivalent laptop. It weighs a ton and I had to go to five stores to find a bag big enough to hold it (most bags only hold up to 17") but it's wonderful to work on. It's not Apple-sleek but Sony-sleek is an ok substitute.
this sentence struck me as particularly shocking:
"Most of the profits generated by the Big Three in North America came not from manufacturing vehicles but from financing the sale of those vehicles."
how could anyone think that was responsible business?
Yelp, Newspapers, and the new face of local advertising
Agreed that putting their own search results at the top might be considered non-democratic, but if one searches specifically for one of their most recent and supposedly awesome product they will promote and billions of people might end up using, one would expect that would be the first search result at their search engine. Apparently not!
I don't think lying to users is ever acceptable. Perhaps "web 2.0" just makes a common phenomenon more transparent and easily recognizable.
depends way too much on what you're building and how you define costs.

in a generic sense, can it be done? sure. can you do it for your specific site? maybe.
Interesting to see Milton Friedman cited as an advocate of Basic Income. I think he championed the Earned Income Tax Credit, maybe they are referring to that?
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The post's title is misleading, since this only affects threaded Ruby programs, not all of them.

It's a good patch and the author knows his stuff, so there's no need for sensationalist titles.
Who would want to be the next Access? Access completely sucks. It's truly awful.
I became very sensitive to my I/O rate. I feel I'm spending too much reading News and too little producing (code, writings, etc.)

As a trade off I've created a lifestream blog using Google Reader as backend for aggregation.

So when getting input I'm immediately producing output.
I left my day job at a major search engine company a few months back. I was wondering if we are colleagues? :) Drop me a mail?
Is this enough to short Apple?

This, and Steve Job's secrecy around his health issues.
Unfortunately I can't try Parallels (again). I already tried their demo version a while ago when I was trying to decide whether to purchase VMWare or Parallels.

It seems possible though to get it running with VMWare so I'll do some further investigation.
A joke metal band. Well, it should be one, anyway.
It's not that Rails culture makes GUI's the end product, it's that it's the necessity of the product. It's a web framework, not a database GUI. You could build a database GUI in Rails easily enough, but you're still using a database GUI that happens to run on a web framework.

The ignorance here (or at best, tenuous reasoning) is apalling. Jeez. You'd think this guy has never used Rails or something.
Why Twitter catches on: No guilt
> whereas one might expect "expensive bits optimized in C"

There is no important difference in performance between C and Java according to http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
The point is that it's Facebook's walled garden. Their policies are visibility, privacy, and opt-outability and they have every right to boot out an app that can't follow the rules.
Cool! Care to provide a link?
The key, I think, is that Jobs is a strong enough leader to ignore his shareholders and the Street. Had they heeded the "conventional wisdom" of the financial press, Apple would have ceased as a going concern long ago.
From w3schools : "our data, collected from W3Schools' log-files"

And as they say : "W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user."
I don't personally see much difference between incompetence and malice when they've made it seem like they really don't care all that much about their incompetence.
Notification Strategies for Social Networks (w/ math)
6+ years, 200mg daily, no detectable tolerance.
patternWare - 1990s company, Smalltalk Application Frameworks. The name is in "camel-case" as any cool Smalltalk company should be. Later we rewrote the frameworks for Java and the name continued to fit.

eunum - 1999 dot-com start-up. Name came from the latin "e" and "unum". I got the words off a dollar bill sitting next to my PC after a late nite of searching for a domain name that wasn't taken. eunum was about convergence between client/sevrer and web-centric interaction. This would later be called "rich internet applications".

ShellShadow - current company. I like the alliteration and thus far I've never had to spell the name for anyone. I'm still quite amazed that my first choice was available.
I'm not sure if it alleviates eye strain, but using less blue light at night has a definite effect on your ability to get to sleep. (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08065/862394-51.stm)

It turns out that blue light even affects the circadian rhythms of blind people (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ask-the-bra...).
File under: blamecore.
Revitalizing a Technical Career
A related problem with CAFOs is that the conditions weaken animals' immune systems such that the animals have to be given prophylactic antibiotics, otherwise they'd all get sick just from the sort of common pathogens that are always around.
Ralph Nader really did kill the American-made small car industry, but that was a long time ago...
The colour scheme gives me a headache while I'm reading the words.
Love the way this is presented. Wanna do my stuff? :>
Quote: many RSS feed readers make feed URLs public and indexable

Where can I read more about this?
Who better to bet on you than your customers?

This is exactly the method taught to me by my mentor, who affectionately referred to our first customer in any business as our "sugar daddy".
I think he is likely talking about this one:

http://devblog.rorcraft.com/2008/8/13/the-facebook-autocompl...
As far as I know Earned Income Tax Credit is one possible implementation of Basic Income.
allmylifeforsale.com did this years ago
I've noticed I can have different physiological responses to the same dose (same batch, same time of day, etc.) I took the stuff regularly for several weeks and mostly stopped because of two side effects - false sense of urgency about everything, and waking up unusually early the day after taking a dose (I was using it for productivity, not sleep avoidance). But I did not notice a drop-off in effectiveness. Still seems to work the same way on the rare occasions I take it now.
A bug? Maybe. Worth a post to HN? Definitely not.

Just email pg if you're concerned about it, it's pointless to post it here.
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Not even sure where my clothes are made. Probably not in America.

There are several reasons for buying American:

1.) For the price point I buy at (low to middle < 30k) the American cars have the same quality as I can get in a foreign car.

2.) Given equal price and quality, keeping the money in the US keeps more Americans working.

There are lots of foreign products and services where the price to value ratio isn't even and for those purchases I am more than happy to buy from anywhere.

It is kind of why I typically support local businesses in my town rather than go with large franchises if the price/value relationship is equal.
"Microsoft Access had been my preferred tool for creating applications centered on a relational database."

Here come the down mods, but anyone making that statement automatically loses any credibility of tech savvy and generates an enormous amount of pity. If access were all I could use, I would run scratch my eyes out.
You're right - I made a stupid copy&paste mistake with both documents open :/

This is the link I was thinking about: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~grze/papers/gc/appel87garbage.pdf
Oh I thought the HN standard way was to provide a link in your profile instead of spamming up comments.

The site is http://www.forumwarz.com
Creating JavaScript widgets in Rails
My fiancee had a similar problem. I used some X.org black magic and avoided a re-install. ("Black magic" because I did not know what finally made it. The steps outlined in the blog-post did not suffice.)
Either she never owned any underwear, or it's all sold already.
It is, in the form of the now-open-source Enso. (But really, Ubiquity is in Firefox alone because the general case is a whole lot harder.)
Spam? Black hat? Do you even use Twitter? I'd advise you to go conduct a Twitter search for any given trend, and return with an assessment of the value those results carried. I'm wiling to bet that you'll find a good 99.9% of what you find to be 'spam.'

What I did was no different than what you see on television when you hear 'the cure to weight loss is here!' It's tapping into the human psyche and appealing to a very irrational part of the human mind. Just like how Apple markets their products as 'these will make you look hip instantly!' Sure, you could argue that because it was swine flu, I was dealing with a more sensitive and morally weighty issue, but I'm sure more people die every year of obesity, etc. And to be fair, the name of my account, flushirts, and the shirt linked, shirts that said 'oinkment' or 'theraswineflu,' did provide some context to those tweets.

You are more than justified in arguing that other things I did can be perceived as unethical. My use of Twitter, however, was not. I used it to directly communicate with those who were discussing a topic I happened to be catering to. And the 'Breaking:..' tweets were just a way to grab attention amidst a society in an irrational and unnecessary panic. That's how some marketing works. That's how Apple conducts its marketing, believe it or not, as subtle as it may be.
Did your karma decrease when you posted it?
DIY TV: Any hackers care to make it happen?
A New Kind of Writing?
Of course it depends. If your code is going to last for 20+ years, though (like the code I work on), I can guarantee you that it becomes very difficult to see the forest for the trees.
Wouldn't Django, with its automatic admin, be better for replacing Access than Rails? The scaffolding in Rails is pretty bare-bones, but the Django admin (IMHO) is good enough to be used as the actual app if the situation warrants.
If my family's income depended on getting the money I made from Apple, I'd be doing a lot more than sending 22 e-mails. It might be tricky if you're in Europe, but legal action is certainly appropriate in this case.
Here's a video of a presentation he did for The Dot Dot Dot lecture series. It's pretty interesting, and he goes on to kind of explain his reasoning for designing his site the way he did:

http://vimeo.com/4394152
I am definitely working on the plan as to how to go about presenting all the content in alternate formats from a book. I want to build a community around this, since I believe that there is a lot of learning to be had from the collective so long as there are specific measurable outcomes that have or have not occurred.

Here's a little sample. All content is copyright. Please send feedback...don't be afraid to be brutal. That's the only way it gets better. There are 7 chapters envisioned, each with anywhere from 5-8 essays.

http://www.manyniches.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/booksam...

I own the domain www.thefailingpoint.com and www.failingpoint.com and plan to put content up there shortly. Am still designing what that will look like.

I find your point about entrepreneurs wanting a "to do" and not a "not to do" list very interesting. As I was testing this idea out, I found that my target customers in their mid careers were far more receptive to this idea than younger potential customers.
Anyone know why it makes an outbound tcp connection?
At least according to (browser usage)/(units sold), it appears there will be more of a market for (at least some kinds of) Android apps:

http://blogs.computerworld.com/android_iphone_apple_google_m...
Looks very cool. Anyone actually use this?

I'm thinking that looking at the compiled code for some of the example models might actually be a good way to learn more about Hierarchical Bayesian models.
It beats abusing Excel to accomplish the same objectives. Access is most certainly not aimed at people who read this site. It's a great tool for what it does (GUI relational-ish data design and user interfaces, such as forms and reports)

Yeah it's slow and crappy and weirdly integrated, but it's certainly more powerful than any of the alternatives that I was aware of when I last used it (mid 1990s).
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Moving from Detroit to Alabama? Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Garage sale is still a more efficient use of time for the truly small stuff. Craigslist and Ebay for the higher dollar items. Goodwill\freecycle for the hopeless. Trash for the even hopelessier.
I also want to dispute the notion that life today is so incredibly busy and challenging. Sure, we work 8-10 hours a day but for the most part its doing higher level thinking and interesting work (at least for people on this board). On the other hand, jobs at other times in history required probably the same number of hours but in more labor-intensive pursuits (farming, construction, etc..).

Whether we want to believe this or not, all of us could leave our job and find something easier. We might have to downgrade our lifestyle a little but we would survive. So not only do we work jobs that really aren't that tough but we have the flexibility to leave at any time. In short, we need to stop being whiners.
Actually, if there is indeed an off-by-one bug that's affecting only one poster, then I'm very curious what the bug is.
Not everyone is a professional graphics designer. Sometimes you just want to resize and sharpen your photo before you put it on your blog.
Possible suicide? Should we be worried?
I believe this, AND I was just playing the advocate. Note that belief and approval are orthogonal. I think this is really happening, altough I do not really approve it.
One of my friends is involved with Project M. Not sure if there are multiple groups or not, his group is setting up a Pie shop.

http://www.pielab.org/
When I was in university I would have loved to have all my textbook in one (really small and really light) Kindle as opposed to hauling around 3 or 4 textbooks every day. Even if the margin is only the 30% printing costs it would pay for itself a couple of times over for a four year degree.
We are using this model of financing at our business. Up until reading this, I didn't know there was a name for it. This method will probably only work for certain types of businesses though, especially one's that can't get customers to prepay for service, or are not subscription based.
Maybe a bit closer, but still a huge miss. Both Rails and Django are frameworks for developers, whereas Access is more of a "prosumer" product for clever office workers.

If the OA was so impressed with Access, maybe he should learn real programming, because Rails and Django will never be as consumer-oriented as Access. You could build an Access-like program on top of some of the guts, but it would inevitably be just as dumbed-down and cumbersome as Access.

The vision is misguided.
Not in every respect. It's easy to create a schema in, and get a nice entity-relationship diagram, and knock some data in. I don't know of another tool that even comes close to being as lovely to work with for personal databases. Of course.. a lot of evil is done because people use it for more than that.

Excel and Word have the same dyanamic. They're quick to get started in and have a user interface to die for, and they're really really bad underneath.

For small single-user projects these things can be OK. I do most of my personal finances in a python tool, but run monthly position in excel. I write speclets in Word because I like the default styling. It's great for quick letters as well.

Both are dangerous for anything larger, or anything involving multiple users.

I'm trying to get my current organisation to be serious about using a wiki for documentation tracking. I want to scream most days because of the way that use of Word and email is hard-coded into people's brains regardless of how many times I try to find tactful ways of winning people over by making the case for how effective wiki is for merging, searching, history, navigation, version control and centralised single-port-of-call. It doesn't have any effect.

The problem would just go away if there was a way to get Word to sit as interface to a wiki, and excel as a frontend to something appropriate for its datastructures - even if it meant significantly reducing the functionality of the tools. Unfortunately the only way I know of of doing this involves using sharepoint which has lots of lockin and deletes files when I save them in vim. In the same way, I suspect Access would be fine if you used it as front-end to a serious SQL database (of the three tools, the only one where such a thing is practical).
Absolutely...

I run a small but growing web business (about 500k PVs/month) thats getting very popular in its target segment.

I take it as a challenge to grow it without spending money on anything other than web hosting ($40/month).

Product is built on open source solutions and there is no better way to promote it than getting some relevant press.

What do you need money for?
Its one of its big downsides as well IMHO. There's no real incentive to reply to tweets. It's not about discussion, it's about "Here I am! Here's what I think is important! Listen to me."

I don't think that model is sustainable for most people. Which may go some of the way to explaining the high churn rate.
You can use google docs to view your twitter or friendfeed streams. http://www.manu-j.com/blog/view-twitter-updates-excel-google...
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Well, I think sub-optimal performance is to be expected if you upgrade from a fairly entrenched system, rather than doing a clean install.

I've yet to run across an OS that does a seamless upgrade from a preexisting installation.
Could you help me find the connection to the original submission?
Not that it matters much, but this is definitely not an Apple innovation, and I don't see a reason to let them automatically get credit for everything.

If you are first going to name none-web-based things which has done this already, get it right at least. I'm pretty sure Microsoft Outlook was years ahead of OSX here.
Right. For newfound Twitterers, if they have no vested interest in those already publishing, there's no reason to stay. Twitter serves two purposes: Follow others, and broadcast yourself to others. New twitter users must construct both of those social graphs by hand, and for most people who just heard about twitter on TV, it isn't worth the effort.
The tactics employed in that post are pretty much the reason I hate "search engine optimizers", "search engine marketers", et al. They're also the reason I end up on Hacker News instead of Digg and Reddit; people who expend so much energy trying to game the system end up ruining it.

While the author may have made a quick buck, they did so at the cost of their customer's trust and their own credibility. Once lost, they're impossible to regain. I think the author should follow Seth Godin or Gary Vaynerchuck for a while and learn the value of honest, permissions based marketing.
Yes, the site is very well designed, but mostly I just like this because I'm such a sucker for any article, photo essay, blog post, or tv episode about getting rid of stuff.

I love Paul Graham's Stuff essay (http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html), and often think of this part of it:

"...humans constantly scan their environment to build a mental model of what's around them. And the harder a scene is to parse, the less energy you have left for conscious thoughts. A cluttered room is literally exhausting."

I've by no means reached the state of minimalism I aspire to, but sites like this keep me motivated.
Its funny because that is the total budget of my project. :) It can be done, I just have to survive on instant noodles for only a few more years!
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depends on what you are trying to do. send me an email (in my profile) and we can talk about it.
I don't see how updating your status on Facebook presents any more obligation than putting out a tweet on Twitter. There's certainly not so much of a difference that it would make me use one over the other.

Funny Story, every follower I have on Twitter is someone I know from the net. I tried getting some folks from my actual life on but they thought it was "a poor man's facebook"

(in fairness, I'm a lousy salesman in general so it might be my fault)
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Apple set to buy Twitter?
The Mac Myth: So Sick Of All This Mac Love. Macs Are A Pain.
Yahoo's new home page fails to learn from Google
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A solution to the Arc challenge in Mozart/Oz
Check out MythTV http://www.mythtv.org/ an open source, linux based DVR - this will do all of the low level nonsense for you. I suspect this does what you want - you can record the things you like and play them back. Now, I don't think you will have fancy channels etc so there will be some manual work, but most of the functionality is there. There's a whole community that talks about setting up HTPCs and once you have this open source stuff setup, you can then extend it to do what you like.
What the heck is that picture?
I guess Apple weren't wrong when they said people want a full size screen and keyboard.

6 months later, I'm very happy with my MacBook Air, and I'm glad I chose it over a netbook. In fact, it's become my primary computer.
It's the brain bug from Starship Troopers.
For me, it starts off at 1, but it does not immediately update my total karma.
so cheap laptops have quality issues, small laptops have small keyboards, small hard drives run out of space, and running a hacked-together, unsupported operating system has bugs. oh my!
I think thats the brain bug from starship troopers
rss feed for the "best" section would be nice.
That site (pielab.org), and Project M seem really cool, but I must admit I don't think I totally understand what they're about. (I'm used to art and design co-ops/firms using slightly vague language so as to not shut any doors, but sometimes it's hard to understand their past work.)

Would love to hear any examples or stories about them you can share.
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I've sorta wanted an "enterprise twitter" for a while now. A way to broadcast quick, intra-company messages that don't rise to the level of e-mail on channels that can be subscribed/unsubscribed to. Sorta like private IRC channels, I suppose.
The use of twitter to interact directly with users that are interested in your space, I approve and recommend completely. It's one of the highlights of your post.

I'm objecting very specifically to announcing a cure for swine flu. I couldn't care less if 99% of the world uses those sames tactics. In my book, they are wrong.

And yes, I have been exposed to Apple marketing for quite a while now (~1985) :-)