skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple really, the factories pump out the cars whether the people want them or not and they force the dealers to take at least a few of the ones no one wants. If it was on demand the less popular car factories would be idle.
Stay Classy, Richard Stallman
school does suck. or rather, is does most of the time. i think outside of school also sucks most of the time.

what i mean is, those rare instances of mentoring, nurturing, collaboration, sharing--those can happen anywhere. maybe they tend to happen outside of school more often. i don't know.

but many times, people view each other as being on opposing teams. competition is great--i love being motivated by a sweet prize, pushing myself towards some awesome goal--but false competition, in which people strive to one-up each other needlessly, hoarding knowledge and putting others down to lift themselves up, really sucks. we can accomplish a lot more together by helping each other out.

i was hoping it would be a presentation on the culture of "we're all learning and getting better" in open source and beyond. nonetheless, this is a reasonable angle; change comes on multiple fronts.
And delete key doesn't do it job: delete ... I constantly hit the delete key just to have Finder stay there doing nothing laughing haha at me. Take me 3 seconds to realize that i must use Cmd + Backspace to delete stuff. What is the delete key for then ?
Aaahh cool. I didn't think about putting fetchmail in between. I was assuming I'd have to do Gmail forwarding to Lamson. We'll probably migrate to Lamson eventually to make good use of things like this neat bounce handling. Thanks!
Terrible title. Interesting article but very bad title.
You've never seen one of these? http://www.dvguru.com/2006/10/03/the-dvd-rewinder/
They don't. But, dealers are an unstoppable state-level lobbying force.
Just for the record, Philip Greenspun is many things, but Harvard professor is not among them (he's simply using a blog service run by the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, which you can find out about by, as per the article, "hacking" his blog's URL: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ ).

Anyway, while not a Harvard professor, "philg" is a very interesting guy who has done a bunch of worthwhile things (e.g. "Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing", htttp://photo.net, Ars Digita, etc.) that should be of interest to Hacker News readers. He writes well--in books, essays and blog posts--and he writes provocatively, with a mix of snark and self-deprecating humor that many enjoy.

In short, he's worth knowing about in my view (and I'm happy to know him). For links to his past and present projects: http://philip.greenspun.com
For background info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Greenspun

P.S. As many readers here already know, he's also the author of "Greenspun's tenth rule of programming" (which led to the term "Greenspunning"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspunning
That's how it works in Israel. You go to a dealership to see which car to buy, test drive, etc. After you pay, your car is ordered and shipped via ocean freight. When it arrives, you pick up your car. The problem is, you forfeit the beloved concept of instant gratification.
I think Chrome has something that preloads stuff. Starting it right after login takes a lot more time than if you start it a couple minutes later. I don't think it's all due to the heavy activity a Windows login takes.
As a game developer, I find myself clicking on a lot of game ads...both for fun and "research". Out of all of the game ads I've seen, Evony fr. Civony are the only ads out of all of the game ads i have ever seen that I haven't clicked on. And I see them a lot.

Because I see them a lot, it makes me wonder if this means they are actually profitable? They've been running these ads net-wide for at least a year.
Facebook Status Messages To Become Publicly Searchable
FWIW, Google.com has the Wikipedia link up top:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Infrastr...

Though it is interesting to see that ITIL originated in the UK, which might explain why not everyone has heard of it.

BTW, here's an article from '05 describing ITIL use in the US (and ITIL's history):
http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/95672
Its not that there aren't outliers. Its that bootstrapped divorce is very common - maybe more common than not.
this part got me thinking: I then erased the bash history, he said, referring to a method of recalling commands used in previous computer sessions.Goldman security measures prevent such deletions, which tipped the firm off to his activities, prosecutors said.

Perhaps he would have gotten away with it had he not erased the bash history. Outside of that, there's probably a lot of data/operations moving about, and would be tough to spot, because I get the impression that he was up to stuff for a while and no one was the wiser.
The background melody ad thing is actually a nice idea (I wouldn't accept it, but some would) but I think the time for major cost disruption in the telcom space is ripe so this biz model will have a limited life span.

I have heard that AT&T in the '80s (before the breakup) determined they could put every home in America on a fixed $20/month payment and allow unlimited calling. Keep in mind this before digital switching, which should make it even cheeper now.

Enabling every cell user or land line user in the U.S. to have unlimited calling for a low fixed price is achievable. What makes it not happen is lack of regional competition (sure, there may be several cell providers in your area, but only one has great coverage) and this happens due to lack of teeth in bills from Congress. We're still waiting for cell providers to let us use unlocked phones like most of the rest of the world.

I think the telco's days are numbered. Consumers have known for a long time they are getting ripped off. This lengthy recession (call it what you want) may cause pressure on Congress to provide some relief. We may very well finally be able to buy an unlocked phone for less than $200 and use it on the most competitive carrier with no long term contract. When that happens, you will get your unlimited calls for $20/month and only the poorest of the poor will use such an advertising supported service.
That's really sweet :).

An IRC style chat on the left column would be a nice addition. Nothing fancy, just a way to message / chat about the ideas. It could even be auto-update message board for the idea.
The Firefox 3 + Flash in the current Ubuntu.

Something else might be fucked, as none of the buttons on it's little toolbar seem to do anything.
TurnHere makes millions from video ads
I'd prefer 3 options, saveas, open directly, view directly.
It's easy to specify secure systems that don't do anything in the real world.
Neither ONEList nor Bloglines had any revenue. Why are they considered "successful" companies?
Because they were pretty big acquisitions, built at a time when building to get acquired by bigger internet companies was a completely viable business model.
It means a terrorist could easily perform a denial of service attack with much fewer resources.
"Mr. Goto"

The name suits him well.
Can you Digg It? Maybe Not, If You’re Stuck On IE6
Because car dealerships have successfully lobbied for state laws that make it illegal for car manufacturers to sell directly to consumers.

Back in 2000, Ford (IIRC) have tried to fight the cartel and sell directly through ford.com but lost in courts.
The IRS doesn't recognize that business model. If a business has no expectation of making a profit, then it's a hobby.

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=169490,00.html
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I don't understand why folks make such a big deal out of RMS. He's nutty, has views widely considered odd, and very rarely compromises or backs down from a confrontation on any intellectual subject (wrong or right). We know all that. RMS has never been anything but, to the best of my knowledge.

Why anyone, particularly someone who claims to be "an active and vocal member of the burgeoning mobile open source community", would ever be surprised by that is baffling to me. And, yet, about once a month I come upon someone absolutely flabbergasted that RMS has been "caught" doing exactly what it is that RMS does.

So, umm, next time anyone feels like getting all aflutter about something RMS says or does, check the google. You'll find he's said or done it, or something very much like it, before. He's practically a parody of himself at this point.

Note: It probably sounds like I'm being critical of RMS, along with all of the people who criticize him. But, I'm actually quite fond of RMS. I think his existence is a net positive for the world, despite his many (amusing) flaws. And, I would encourage those who rail against him at least make an attempt to do as much good for the world during their stay on the planet.
Firefox is following the mime types in the obnoxious spec whoring way that ignores reality, common to ideology-driven FOSS.

Since in the vast majority of cases the declared Content-Type comes from Apache sniffing the filesystem extension (or at best, the magic number), all you've done is push the problem server-side.

The end result of Mozilla's anal-retentive 'bug fix' is that less content will be served with correct Content-Type, with everything as text/plain if you're lucky (all sorts of shit is served as text/html). I ended up just editing /etc/mime.types when I was a CS Lab administrator -- faculty like it when they can view goddamn text in a browser without spawning fucked processes in the background that eventually crash your session.

I don't know why the fuck they don't have a mailcap blacklist -- not everyone uses GUI-focused distributions that let GNOME defecate in every crevice of /etc/

How would I program it? Always display plain text as text, with an explanatory infobar at the top giving other options. I swear, the infobar idiom is the only good new thing to ever come out of Mozilla.
if reddit, myspace, facebook, twitter, and other applications i don't use also did this --- perhaps that damn thing would finally die
When negotiating you need to be creative with alternatives. From what I understand from your situation, you could consider doing a joint venture rather than selling out or licensing. It appears that you have the skills in creating a product that has "pulling power" but not much expertise in building a business. My definition of "business" is one that makes money. It doesn't take much skill to throw $40 / day at some hosting provider. As many of the posters have commented you need to charge in order to have a business. You probably need to shift your marketing when you start asking for money.

From a product / technical perspective, you also need to look at how many of your "users" continue to use your app after a month or more and how much they use it. That will give you an idea of how many tyre kickers you got and how many switched on, passionate users you got.

Do do a joint venture, you decide on split of revenue, a buy-in value that gets you off stressing about where your next Ramen meal is coming from. Heck, I'd even put the word out to your user base and invite applications for a venture partner. You can't get a better marketer than a passionate user with sales, marketing and business expertise.
While I appreciate that Digg actually took the time to do a survey of reasons why people are still using IE6, I don't think the results are really that surprising to most web developers.

However, just because users are not empowered to switch away from IE6, that doesn't mean that an IE6 upgrade reminder page is useless. It's just the "squeaky wheel" philosophy of getting things done. If enough users see enough "Upgrade Your Browser!" pages, and if enough of them complain to management often enough, then management might actually do something about it.

Let us not forget that Internet Explorer's market dominance was built on the notion that, after some time, many pages didn't work in other browsers. The only way to break that dominance will involve the same, but in reverse.
"Display it in the browser" is not an option. Have you even looked?

The preference pane does not let you create new lines -- the only way to add rules as a user is to encounter the Content-Type in the wild.
At the time, eyeballs had a premium dollar value. Being 2 for 2, Mark is comfortably rich. Clearly in today's market one would need a more concrete revenue model than eyeballs.

Do you have a point?
The ABC's of People Not Having Done Things and Then Asking Google About It.
I think it all depends on people's personality type. Extrovert will be more successful when he lives in a startup hotbed.
Introvert doesn't need anybody, he can live anywhere he likes.
Making the Most of M&A
if you happen to be at cal, the single most functionally useful class I took there was hilfinger's programming for blood: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Courses/Data/701.html

the premise of this class was to build a better team for the ACM programming contest, but I learned a ton about the actual mechanics of programming, rather than just the theory--- similar to the ideas vs. execution meme that floats around here. I think what made it so different from the rest of my courses were a) we spent lots of time reading code and looking at different solutions to the same problem and b) the competitive nature of the class.
Why, just because some Zeldman-humping git noticed they could put a bigger number there?

The browser could display an infobar if it actually encounters something it doesn't understand
This is now a high-priority feature for us; I see the value in this. We usually have campfire open at the same time, but it really is tied to the brainstorming process.
Of course. The purpose of a business is to generate a profit. Anything else is a con. You might as well post an interview with the founders of Kozmo.
Is it actually illegal or just a violation of their contact with dealerships?

I understand that legacy agreements with dealerships are a contributor to The Failure as are (we keep hearing) legacy agreements with unions. But overall I think that people are very quick to believe a "they lobbied dumb politicians" story over "they signed dumb agreements stories."

If you had bought a license to sell Ford cars, you might want an agreement not to go around you at a later date.
From Startups' Inferiority Complex to the Open Dark Side
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Both services, or their descendants, are still in operation at the profitable, ad-driven acquirers, years later.

We can thus assume they have been profitable or fit strategic goals which generate profits elsewhere for these companies.
Will Google get anything but shit out of their ChromeOS hardware OEMs?
Fletcher also had a entrepreneurs' community site called Startupping that came on the scene about the same time as News.YC (back when HN was called 'Startup News').

Compare the sites in February 2007:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070224011950/http://www.startup...

http://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombi...
The thing that trips me up most, for key behavior differences, is that in (most?) Windows applications, pressing the down arrow on the last line does NOT take you to the end of the line, as you'd expect. Nor does pressing up while on the first line take you to the beginning.
http://itunes.com/app/AppName works. Case insensitive, remove spaces if necessary.
Serve them this: http://m.digg.com/
Flag. The title at least isn't according to HN guidelines, which prefer the original article title.
I thought the fandango thing was pretty much fair game as that is one of the first thing people learn, or should learn, about web scripting is what can be controlled by the browser versus controlled by the server.

And in a perfect world the programmer would have made up the price lost not the theatre nor fandango.
Google's Microsoft Moment
Both these businesses generated a large profit for their founders. Maybe if you learned from guys like Mark, as opposed to the IRS, you'd make a better Hacker News commenter and... I daresay, a better entrepreneur?
Ask HN: How to get input on New product Ideas
I'm at a start up and we've just come up with our next possibly great product. Our target customers are managers and store owners at corporate hardware stores. I'm trying to get feedback on my idea but it seems I keep on getting the cold shoulder. What's the best approach? Should I just start out in full pitch mode? Is it just a numbers game? Thanks for your input!!!
13% and 8% down to 10% and 5% if you stop supporting the browser now why support it previously it seems as though the 3% drop was irrelevant.

The real issue should be who is using ie 6 is it people that are loyal diggers who have no other option while at work, school, etc... or is it indeed people who refuse to upgrade or unaware that other browsers exist. It seems the former with the low percentage.
Startupping got off to a great start. Unfortunately spam took it over. :(
Odd. When I hit ctrl+a in the location bar it turns on find highlighting. Perhaps it only works when the find bar isn't activated?
The guy says he was uploading OSS work he did at Goldmans, same as he did when he worked there. It's not unusual for Quant researchers who work in R or SciPy/NumPy to update the modules they use to build their models, that source code is copyright by the developers of the statistical language modules - Goldman's don't own it.
Like GeoCities?
Ask people who's opinion you trust.

Ask the people who you are going to be selling.
Considering you got the cold shoulder doing this maybe you are talking to the wrong people... maybe you should be targeting the technical portion of said company.. If you are going for managers/owners I'd go full on pitch quick and easy.

Make an example product.
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Howard Marks: So Much That's False and Nutty in Finance
This is an awesome comment and I am now reading everything else you've ever written here. Thanks!

[edit now I'm done and must respectfully insist you write more.]
The problem is that FF isn't Cocoa (or wasn't, last I looked), so the native Cocoa text handling doesn't kick in.

That pretty much keeps me from ever using FF.
That's only harvard, but harvard is still the center of a lot of business research. Of course, the vast majority of people getting MBAs from top-tier schools got in through hard work throughout their lives.
One day I will post the story...one day.
doing this through ebay is stupid as hell. GM should have built a brand new website for this.
most people find the car on eBay, then go in person or pay someone else to try it out before buying.
I heard about that a few weeks ago. I think I need to talk to Opera about it. Just in case, I grepped for the obvious things, without any success.
If no one knew you're a newcomer until you told us, there's no way for this article to be pertinent to your perceived slights.
I don't think I was mature before I had written http://canonical.org/~kragen/urscheme/.
I think they mostly want to avoid the extra time and money and ongoing maintenance that go into C-corp-ness. Also, a change at this point will certainly have tax implications for the partners and the angels. Good or bad I don't know--more complicated, almost certainly.
I think one solution would be to include an affiliate code, and let the user click a box to donate money back to the recommender after the purchase. That way, the recommender isn't "getting a cut", but is "getting a reward".
> will be taxable immediately to you even if you never buy the stock and the options expire worthless.

That's the picture I'm getting, but your way of putting it certainly drives the point home!
"When you ask for credible evidence of illegal actions, no one can point to anything"

This isn't true. Taibbi's article justified every claim that was made. I read it twice because it felt more like entertainment journalism than fact the first time through. But that is just his style. He is very personal in his approach. I spent the entire night looking into his claims and allegations because the article was very unexpected - I haven't heard of Goldman conspiracies before. His claims all check out. His conclusions are just that - his - and you are to make your own as a reader.

It's a shame he didn't reference everything in his article. But nothing was more than a few Google searches away to verify.

So again, yes Goldman did many illegal things in it's past and it got punished for it every time by the government. Taibbi argued that the punishment did not dissuade the firm from further illegal activity. This is true as well. The penalties were all mere fractions of windfall made from the crimes - for the specific instances mentioned by Taibbi. I personally see the Government organizations at fault there - Taibbi says they are stacked with Goldman alumni so you be the judge of who to blame.

Megan McArdle says the same thing as you just did - in many more words.

"It's not that everything he says is wrong, but the bits that are true aren't interesting, and the bits that are interesting aren't true."

She spent the article attacking Taibbi instead of CLEARLY pointing out which "interesting bits aren't true." Even in the comments, she is more concerned with attacking Taibbi.

Example:

"I don't disagree that the banks need to be taken down about eighteen pegs. But I don't think that Taibbi's the man to do it."

I wish she would tell me why she is right instead of insisting that Taibbi is wrong. In fact I would settle for WHY she thinks Taibbi is wrong. But we get zilch for details.

In her words "I don't think that the message excuses incoherence on the details."

In John Travolta's words, "Look who's talking.."
the affiliate codes aren't really there for friends. They are there for random website, to throw up a link and profit from people clicking on it.
Blasdel has some good points here, I think, but (s)he has phrased it in an unnecessarily offensive way. Please allow me to translate. I don't entirely agree, but it's not all wrong either.

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Firefox is following the MIME type spec with the sort of excessive zeal for standards documents at the expense of real world practicality that you often get with open source projects.

Usually, the MIME type is coming from the web server guessing the file's type, which is not itself reliable, so you've pushed the problem to the server side. [interpolation by jerf: Slavishly following these MIME types is not a valuable thing to do, since the MIME type is not very reliable here.]

The end result of this is to ruin the entire value of the MIME type by encouraging people in the real world to serve more content up as text/plain (or even worse, text/html). I just edited /etc/mime.types when I administered a lab, because my users just wanted to see the content without spawning extra processes.

I don't know why they don't have a mailcap blacklist; not everyone uses GUI-focused distributions that spew bad values all around /etc in a misguided attempt to be helpful.

How would I program this? Always display unknown MIME types that look like text as text, with an infobar at the top giving other options. The infobar idiom is a nice feature and they should use it.

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jerf: I do quite like that suggestion. I'd also point out that while deciding whether something is text may be, strictly speaking, undecidable, in practice it's about 98% feasible.
The gross URL is irrelevant -- the problem is that there is zero content in the HTTP Response, and not even an index of the URLs.
Imageshack.us being hacked ?
Example: http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/6351/iphoneua8.jpg

You can do a search for any keyword on imageshack, and look at result. A lot of pictures on imageshack are replaced with this image. As I see thumbnails are untouched but all direct links point to the poster in example.

Quite a fatal blow to imageshack with a very bad (good?) timing ...