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It's easy to break 1K if you factor in gaming or simply want a nicely-built machine. Case-in-point the Dell Inspiron line dominates under 1K, but if you want an XPS you gotta spend over the 1K mark.

The Inspirons compete with the XPSs as far as specs, but the quality and build of the XPS machines take them a notch above.
No, in New York conversation is DEFINITELY frowned upon on the subway. I take the subway every day, and only once has anyone talked to me. I was leaving on a ski trip carrying my snowboard and someone came up and tried having a normal conversation with me. I worked in a ski shop in high school, I can talk about skiing for hours and hours with random strangers, but this completely freaked me out.

My only exception is giving directions to tourists who are lost, I gladly offer help to them but thats about the limit to subway talking with strangers.
No, my answer would be: they did. iPhones and iPods are definitely markets that are growing faster. Apple did the smart thing and moved into other markets where its design expertise could make a big difference.
Pitfalls of Relying on Fashion Models & the Golden Ratio to Describe a Beauty
I flip open yet another Moleskine and brainstorm it full of ideas. That's 1.5 hours per day that I otherwise wouldn't have completely to myself.
I agree with the superficial things for the most part, though it should be pointed out that 'hg revert .' and 'git checkout .' do basically the same thing - the 'git reset --hard ORIG_HEAD' example is way more complex than it needs to be and is a bit more harsh than he's asking for.

The one big issue is the branching comments. Creating named branches like he's doing here is very problematic, especially if you're at all used to Git branches. Running '--close-branch' doesn't really remove the branch, it adds another commit that has some metadata saying it's closed - but older versions of hg won't recognize that (the feature is very, very new - it was introduced in 1.2) and even if you have a version of hg that supports it, the last I tried it won't hide the closed branches by default, you have to provide a switch to 'hg branch' to hide them ('hg branch --active'), which is pretty annoying. If I created named branches for all the topic branches I've made in my various Git projects, I'd have hundreds or thousands of named branches littering up many of them.

There are tons of other serious problems with Hg's concepts of lightweight branching - for instance, you can't NOT push all of your branches to a repo when you push, meaning you can't have any branches that are just for you to test stuff out in - if you create what Git users think of as a 'topic branch', it's basically there forever - no way to ever really remove it or not share it. If you use the Bookmarks extension, which is meant to more closely mimic Git branching, you have the opposite problem - you can't push the bookmarks up to a shared server, you have to SCP them separately. I believe the heads will be there, but that's even more confusing because now you just have a bunch of unnamed heads...

Speaking of namespace issues, named branches are way worse for that - if you create a named branch locally and someone else creates the same named branch locally and then you clone from them, you'll have two heads with the same branch name, which could have totally different lines of work on them and Hg doesn't complain - that could get ridiculously confusing.

Most Hg users I know only very rarely use named branches - the online book recommends doing a local clone instead of a named branch for branching. Many serious Hg users instead use the 'mq' extension, which provides a patch queue toolset for Hg and allows you to do some revlog editing - allowing you to do development much more similarly to how Git devs do, but the toolset and paradigm are _much_ more convoluted and confusing than the problems he states about Git branches, IMHO.

There are certainly a number of UI improvements that Git could make (and Hg, too) but I really don't think Hg's branching model is something to emulate.
I read Real World Haskell on my kindle.
Custom information is high on our priority list.
Not much fun in NYC during rush hour.
Another alternative is that they live with being the Jaguar of computers and look for growth in other markets.
Picking option 2 is a "bah, she's out of my league" decision. It may not be a smart choice, but it's a choice that a whole lot of men make.

The best explanation I've heard for this is that it's an evolutionary adaptation. If you're in a tribe of mammals with a strict social hierarchy, trying to mate with the alpha male's partner is an excellent way to get expelled from the tribe if you're lucky or killed if you're not. So we developed a survival instinct to not approach females that we see as above us socially.

This could be another evolutionary psychology just-so story, but it fits exactly with my experience. If I seriously consider approaching an attractive woman I get an immediate physical reaction very much like vertigo, which I believe is the primitive part of my brain frantically trying to signal danger. Of course this is actively harmful in our current environment, but our genes don't know that; we're adaptation executers, not fitness maximizers (see http://lesswrong.com/lw/l0/adaptationexecuters_not_fitnessma...).
NYT profits up 85%
The Website is down - Sales guy vs. Web Dude
The all-on-one-page version: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/printthis/202666.html
It's a bird...it's a plane...it's iGoogle comics themes
As far as sexual market value goes, women in their late 20's and early 30's can't compete with those in their late teens and early 20's. Personal preferences aside, this is how the cookie crumbles. A woman's attractiveness marches in near lockstep with her fertility, and that begins to decline precipitously in her late 20's.

I bet your friends didn't have anywhere near as much trouble finding dates a decade ago.
Very interesting study. It could also lead to interesting insights when it comes to swarm (or the more proper term, crowd) psychology in general. Or maybe we'll finally find the mechanism(s) by which we form/join mobs. This seems like something worthwhile.
Low latency is interesting when you're tweaking the VST in real time and want to see how it affects your recording. With enough CPU power and a good audio card, this is doable even with a complex stack of effects.

I guess it could also be important when using external processors.
The subways are different from other types of commuting. On the train I use my netbook but once I transfer to the subway I'm either reading a newspaper or listening to my iPod. Audiobooks are hard to follow in that short of a stretch + the interruptions of noise on the subway, so I go with podcasts.

For me espn.com has a lot - especially Bill Simmons, if you are into sports.
Everyone now and then you find one of those products that makes you go "woahw". Etherpad is one of them.
Nicely done site. Love the layout and design. Very clear what you offer on the landing page. The tour was also nicely accessible. I didn't sign up because I don't really have any events to plan right now.

As an aside, my site, launchly has just started offering free web startup launches again today so if you wanted to list it there for some additional feedback and exposure we'd be glad to have you. http://www.launchly.com
"I was having an epiphany. Isn’t it remarkable, I thought, how the students whined and said it was hard putting 200 words together on any subject? But when they forged excuse notes, they were brilliant..."

To me this is a great example of one of the fundamental problems with so much education: it is full of unchallenging, unrelated-to-life, contrived tasks. When any process (creative writing, math, coding) is harnessed to a fascinating, meaningful-to-students goal... well, of course they're motivated. And creative.

That has always been true of me - when in grammar school, and decades into employment.
I had to take the same exact commute (B or Q from south Brooklyn to DeKalb). I used to read mostly, and sometimes listen to music. I live in Maryland now and have a 5 minute drive to work (and anywhere else).

In terms of podcasts, I listen to "The Brain Science Podcast" and "Books and Ideas" from Dr. Ginger Campbell. I also listen to "Skeptic's Guide to the Universe". "Radiolab" is great. None of these are daily though.
I read the New Yorker on my Kindle.

It's very well written, and covers topics I wouldn't normally read up on. Well-researched, and thorough. Only risk is that sometimes I get too into the articles and miss my stop, but that's a reasonable trade off :)

I can usually finish an issue before the week's up, so I keep a bunch of other books on there as well that I'll pick at as well.

I've tried writing / sketching before, but it's difficult given the shakes and turns of the subway (a little easier if you can get a seat, but that can be tough as well).

I've also tried podcasts / audiobooks, but the subway is a noisy place (announcements, train sounds) and it can be hard to catch all the words. Rewinding to catch things I missed is just too annoying.
I don't get this option in Gmail.
I think men are much more in tune. So much so, that we pick up signals that aren't really there.
I will just ring the number back on the spot if I sense some latent refusal.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=717747

This was on the front page yesterday.
That's the old one he built a new one:

http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic
You can - by simply using the normal, mailing list-supplied link to unsubscribe.
Them taking 91% (and having single-digit overall market share) means that consumers increasingly prefer small portable cheap low-power computers

Their market share might be single-digit, but hasn't it been growing?

Another interpretation might be that consumers are simultaneously migrating towards Apple PC's and laptops as well as purchasing netbooks and similar for added convenience. That's the story in my household.
But if extreme temperature was the only factor the North would be obese, too, right?

Running in snow is a lot harder than running when it's cool out.
Great reporting, especially the part about the Model T's horsepower, weight, and top speed vs todays cars. Not to mention safety. Strap a 20 horsepower engine onto the lightest car with a 5 start crash test rating - it is doubtful you can get any miles to the gallon since it would hardly move.
Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 3 Released
Maybe sometimes self-made billionaires and centi-millionaires know what they are doing.
I've had Male Pattern Blindness ruin my game a number of times: part of the reason I stopped drinking: I was unresponsive to signals coming my way.
I read incessantly back when I was commuting, until I was given a smartphone (older blackberry) for work, with a rudimentary web browser. I still read incessantly, but on a screen instead of on dead trees.

Today, with a modern smartphone and decent web browser, it's hard to imagine not being able to get something useful done during travel downtime; my iPhone and my wife's G1 are fantastic portable desktops if, like us, most of your interesting bits are online already anyway.
I grew up in Mississippi. I lived there for 26 years before moving to Portland, OR. The point the author makes about walking to the bus stop or to the local market is absolutely correct.

I've always been really slim, but I rarely walked anywhere in MS unless it was to the mail box. This is not because I was lazy (played a lot of sports), but because there's nothing to walk to. Practically everything involved an automobile as a means for access. Exercise as a daily routine didn't exist for me. That's not to say I couldn't make a conscious effort to exercise, but a commitment to exercise as part of a routine is much harder to adhere to than a routine that involves exercise.

In Portland, things are a completely different story. Almost nothing requires an automobile. My wife and I went 7 months on a single tank of gas when we moved to Portland. We walk practically everywhere. Exercise is built into our day to day life. We walk to the post office, bar, movie theater, coffee shop, grocery store, you name it.

On the topic of eating healthy - The food choices where I grew up were not that great. We had one grocery store, one diner, no fast food restaurants (we eventually got a subway) and two gas stations. Unless you lived in the town center, you had to drive to and from this limited selection.

Many of my family members hover just over the poverty line (although none of them consider themselves poor). Grocery shopping isn't an exercise in health, it's an exercise in conservative economics. Trips to the grocery store are usually prefixed with a question: "How can I get enough food so we can eat until the next paycheck and still have enough money left over for gas to get back and forth to work". It's a vicious cycle.
Commits happen Subversion-style. Yes, this is a feature! No need to add files before every commit or use a flag.

Please, Git maintainers, don't listen to this guy and don't ever change the current behavior. I've come to rely on staging my commits incrementally.

I really care about keeping a pristine history with isolated and understandable commits. Being able to commit pieces without including temporary code or debugging comments is invaluable to my workflow. I want to be able to modify source code without worrying about any piece of it getting committed accidentally. I also want all edits I made, including uncommitted ones, to stick around until I explicitly remove them.

Maybe Mercurial can do this also, but Git has been almost completely do-what-I-mean with regard to making sure I don't lose any changes or confuse myself about where they went.
Ask HN: Good Code Review Software
Hello,

I'm looking for some good, web based code review software that I can host internally. The main goal is not pre-review, but post-review. Since everybody works on such vastly different projects, pre-review is overly burdensome. I'd like to try a post-review system to see if my group can learn from each other even if they aren't working on the same things.
Could the Cloud Derail a $300 Million Data Center?
> While NPD's sales numbers are limited to brick-and-mortar retail stores [...]

This has a huge amount to do with this. Where else can you buy high-end PCs in a physical store, besides the Apple store?
Very true - In Europe, you see those tiny Mercedes everywhere. A couple of people commented that they have been spotted in the US though I have not come across one yet in California.
Question for you then. In high school, should a kid only interested in reading & writing (english class, journalism) be required to take math and sciences?

How about a kid who's interested only in physics, should we make him read and write poetry?

Even if each class is taught the best it possibly could be, individual interests will outweigh, and the kids will be bored in the alternate classes.

So the options are either 1) uninterested kids, or 2) uneducated kids.

Basically, since interests vary so much, even among middle school aged kids, there's no platonic ideal of a "perfect class that every kid will love".
The Rails Way: Do it Later With Delayed Job.
I've driven a smart a few times, both on the motorway and in the city, and I have to admit that it's really quite pleasant to drive, in town anyway.

In town, it feels really, really nimble and quick. It accelerates quickly, it parks easily, it fits into small gaps and spaces, it can turn on a dime, and generally it just feels good.

On the motorway, it's ok until 75mph or so (speed limit being 70mph here). Above that it start to feel very light on the road... 85mph was the highest I dared to take it, and it felt like every gust of wind might knock me off the road. Around 70mph, though, it felt small but steady.

On the whole, I think it's a really nice car, particularly for those who like a modern gadget feel. The Smart feels like an iPhone car, if you see what I mean. You wouldn't do your excel spreadsheets on it, but it's damn nice when you're out and about in the city.
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i don't understand the downvote. this is a serious question. i have not been around this world long enough to know cray well. it seems to me that the original commenter made a point that cray targeted the high end market and it has not been well for them, and i would like to understand how they are doing today.
Yes, Sequioa capital hates entrepreneurs. Somehow they hate them soooooo much they were able to attract founders who made successes such as Apple, PayPal, EA, Google, Yahoo, Youtube, and over 10% of the Nasdaq.

Please leave linkbait and uninformed articles like this to other places. Maybe they didn't want to sell, but it was not a homerun exit, and there are rules of engagement when taking on VC.
something like this?: http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/
Zappos has negative working capital? Are their inventory turns that fast?

I'd be interested in your source, if available, just out of curiosity. Getting negative WC for a retailer is pretty impressive, although credit cards certainly help. I seem to remember Amazon also having negative WC.
I don't think you can just blame it all in poverty. People in poor countries (Philippines, Vietnam, Mexico) are much less obsese than Americans. And America had much less obesity when we were poorer as a country.

Being poor doesn't somehow cause you to drink soda. Water is still much cheaper.
For feature branches, I've seen meaningful uses of named branches, but as a devout Mercurial user, I actually agree that git's "lightweight tag" model of branching feels a little more useful. Hopefully soon hg's bookmarks will be push/pull'able.

Also, you totally can push all of your branches to a repo - that's just not the behavior that is allowed by default because often that isn't what the user meant. It's also confusing because bookmarks aren't push-pull capable (yet).
Personally, I think that given an intellectually stimulating home environment, passionate teachers, and a great curriculum, (almost) every kid will be interested in both poetry and physics, because they are both fundamentally interesting and beautiful things.

That's what we should be aiming for.
I wonder if they will have an Alan Kay theme?
Interesting part of the article ...

""..."If hundreds of people are copying you, competing with you and your stuff is not working, you're going to get in trouble."

The exception seems to be Twitter, who despite huge technical problems as a result of massive growth didn't spawn any legitimate competitors.
Calling an FFI tutorial an "attempt to make the language more cube-farm-friendly" is needlessly incendiary. The fact is, there are lots of C wheels out there that don't need reinventing, and calling them from a REPL is useful and mischievous and fun.
Similarly interesting research modeling bee colony nest choice through individual agents: http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2009/03/bees_nesting_an.ht...

The paper is rather straight-forward for anyone here, so I'd recommend just reading it directly.
How?

McCourt was teaching a class on Creative Writing - this wasn't in a science or math class. He took what he was supposed to be teaching (how to write stories), and found a theme to write about that his students found interesting.

Those children weren't following their "interests, inclinations and energies" - I find it very hard to believe that every single kid in that class would be doing creative writing if they had the ability to do whatever their interests led them to. They were doing what they were supposed to do in that subject-specific class, and just happened to be led by a very good teacher.
I can't help but think that this is like the frantic thrashing about of a woolly mammoth helping to drown itself in the mud it's stuck in...
The illustrations are good. The article was intriguing at first, but the last part of it was disappointing. It's a shame. It could have been a really good article.
Mexico has a high obesity rate. They drink loads of soda. I don't think people in the Philippines are all that trim, either.

A lot of very poor countries in Africa and South America have high obesity rates. They can only afford cheap starch and not enough meat and vegetables.
Looking at the Top 500 Supercomputers list, there are Crays in position 2, 6, 11, 12, 13, 21, 23...

http://top500.org/list/2009/06/100

So, they aren't out of the game. The previous lists are available, if you're interested you could compare Cray's standings with previous years.

I don't understand the downvote. this is a serious question.

The way you asked it carries an implication that Cray is not still relevant - it has the impact of a statement dismissing Cray rather than a quesiton about Cray.
I think rietvald only works with Subversion (I'd want Subversion and git, at a minimum), and it relies on Google App Engine.
Agent-based Modeling of Bee-Colony Nest Choice
Unless of course your 'game' sucks and you get slapped/kneed-in-the-crotch or her gaggle of un-hot friends assaults you.

I'll take physical pain over extreme social pain/embarrassment pretty much any day of the week.
Extensive discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=718279
The full PDF: http://www.ma.rhbnc.ac.uk/~elsholtz/WWW/papers/papers28liste...
Thank you. Didn't know that existed I hate clicking through
PDF: http://www.ma.rhbnc.ac.uk/~elsholtz/WWW/papers/papers28liste...
you might try Review Board: http://www.review-board.org/ which was developed by a couple of the coders at VMWare. It's now in use by several big and small companies, from Cisco and Motorola to Twitter and Meebo.

EDIT: Also, supports subversion and git.
When Bigger Isn't Better: Businesses That Succeeded Despite Their Small Payrolls
With Mercurial, you can either use queues and the "qref" command to continually prep a commit in progress, or use the "record" extension (like an interactive Git commit) to pick and choose parts of the working tree to commit.

I suppose it's a matter of what the common case is. For me, the majority of my commits are either one or two files, or the whole working tree -- so Mercurial's defaults make sense with that usage pattern. Of course, other usage patterns would dictate more of a "massage the commit" style.
Byline for the iPhone/iPod Touch does offline caching. It integrates with Google Reader to get the data.
I think everyone knows that, the barrier to entry is just too big
Maybe you have a point I'm missing, but I'd think it was obvious that Nature uses mappings... ;)
Every time I start to think that old media is starting to get it, they open their mouths and prove me wrong.
Great catch. I haven't read the article yet but it wasn't adding up. For-corporate-use Thinkpads and Dells are almost all in the $1001+ range, so I was confused.

One of the most fun parts of the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field is the statistics -- "91% of the > $1000 market", "most revenue during a non-holiday quarter", "most computers sold on sunny tuesday afternoons in spring", etc.

This stat is so cherry-picked it might as well have been "Apple claims 100% of the 'glowing-fruit-on-lid' PC sales."
But TechCrunch pegging them against Google Docs is just not nice for the AppJet guys. Instead of emphasizing Etherpad's selling points, they're made to look like ex-employees out for revenge; neither the screenshot nor their numbers in raised capital make them seem ready for any "fight".
The consensus of that video was that calories eaten vs. used/expelled is the primary factor behind weight gain, but that some types of foods contribute more to weight gain than others for various reasons.

For example, fats are more easily passed through the digestive system (in the sense that they often just flow through to the other side), while sugars and starches are more likely to remain in the system and actually get digested. (Incidentally, the body's inability to fully digest fats is the way Alli works -- it makes your body even less capable of digesting fats, so if you eat too much fat, it comes out your ass.)
Maybe not "feel miserable for a week" but definitely "miserable and unlikely to try again for quite a while".