skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but take the example of pipe spooling.

For those of you who have never built a process plant or oil refinery, the piping in the plant is almost always fabricated off-site by specialist piping fabricators, who assemble "spools" from individual piping components like flanges, pipe and elbows. The size of these spools are usually limited by the transport envelope - i.e. how big a spool can be transported (say in a 40ft container).

Every spool is different, so it is quite labor-intensive to prepare the individual components, weld them together, check all the welds (via x-ray, or ultrasonic testing), and them ship the spool to site. Being able to "print" a spool from a big bath of steel powder could potentially reduce costs significantly.

(Consider also, the benefits of being able to use custom-made parts in the piping spools: while a pipe carrying water might only require a standard thickness of elbow, a pipe carrying an erosive slurry would require a much thicker section of metal on the outside of the bends, where the slurry tends to wear away the pipe. The way this is currently dealt with is by making the _entire_ pipeline (not just the elbow) out of thicker materials).

This will be a long-time coming, as the current standards for process plant pipe (based on piping made of sections and fittings welded together) are extremely well proven, and exceptionally safe. But in 20 or 30 years......
Federal Tax Revenues Suffer Biggest Drop Since Great Depression
the whole convincing people to start abandoning IE6 thing
I have a toshiba portege tablet/laptop. Screen swivels round to make a tablet.

Pro:
Good for reading in bed or on a plane. Auto rotates to show a page of text.

Cons;
Stylus is totally useless , but it has a page up/down button on front.
Too thick - slightly thicker than a modern laptop
so which one is Google and which one is Apple
It is intended to be a gloss over of functionality that I use frequently. If I want to write much more in-depth comparison then I would have written these (which I may in the future, these kind of blog post takes time to write):

* Beautiful Soup vs Nokogiri/HPricot
* Fabric vs Vlad
* Paste vs Mongrel performance using proxy pass behind Nginx
* (I am not going to write Rails vs Django)
If you don't ship internationally, Conversion Optimizer will learn that clicks from international users don't convert and will eliminate traffic from outside the United States.

I'd be curious to know how they would determine something like this (Googlebot-scraping the html of order pages and checking presence of form data?) - or if it's just marketing hyperbole.
Microsoft acknowledges Linux threat to Windows client
I would really want the exclusivity to be time limited - let them be first to market with it, let us start selling to other companies after. The length is, of course, extremely important - it is a relatively slow moving industry, but wait too long, and all other companies will find some other solution.

I would also want a clause that lets us get out if they're not delivering (roughly, if they're delivering below what we could reasonably expect to accomplish on our own).
Allen wrenches are the least usable types of wrenches or screwdrivers I've ever used. I always end up skinning my knuckles.

IKEA should develop and sell a better allen wrench.
If it works in Opera, then it is too CPU-heavy on this older machine. I don't understand what it is, and can't interact with it.
I think the best possible change to the App Store (aside from complete transparency) would be a button in the submission queue labelled "resubmit under different reviewer." Every time it was pressed, the reviewer who had rejected the app would be banned from reviewing it again; thus, we'd be able to get over humps like thirty dictionary apps being accepted and one rejected, or the same app being accepted and then rejected later in an update for things it has contained since the original version. The number of bannings a reviewer collected would be a very helpful metric for Apple come review-time. Of course, if you ended up banning the entire review staff from looking at your app, it's not going anywhere (thus avoiding people bullying the "market" for reviewers into only ever accepting apps. If you're unilaterally rejected, all the reviewer-bannings on your app are lifted—and thus no longer count in the HR process—and you're the one who gets banned instead.)
Apple is dammed if they do, dammed if they don't at this point. Do they even have a way out? If they open it up entirely, people will bitch about how it should have been that way from the start and now we can't trust them to not close it down again later, etc. If they close it down more, we get more of the same bitching which has been building for months now. If they finally settle on a solid list of rules and restrictions and actually abide by them, people will tear those rules apart for all manner of reason, too. :-/
I'm waiting for them to reject a paint/drawing app of some sort for "illicit content" after an app store reviewer draws an inappropriate picture.
"Apple, the choice of dumb people."

It worked for Wal-Mart.
This is actually the first story I've seen about the unemployed from a major paper in the last year.
Thank you - very helpful. We obviously want a good lawyer on our side (I think I can find someone), but it helps to have some things in mind already.

I know I hate it when I get asked this kind of question, but I'll ask anyway - what should we expect in fees for a lawyer to advise us throughout the process and help with the final documents? I know it's hard to estimate, but a ballpark low/high.
I'm not sure we are comfortable giving this info out yet (although we have a live # of blogs on our homepage), but about 65% of all account holders are what we would consider active, and if you wanted to get nitpicky ~10% are very active. This does not include users that do not use us with a blog, but instead just to keep track of suggestions/people they follow.

As I mentioned in my post though, this is with no formal marketing efforts aside from me blabbing about it on my blog. Hopefully in 2-3 months we'll be in a position to market and spread the word out a lot more.
Eating Fish May Ward Off Dementia
I have an alan wrench bit for my drill / driver. Minimize one bottleneck, then work on the next ;)
Apples MacBook Pro 17 Inch Laptop: This Notebook Is Absolutely Loaded.
Mozilla, Google, and Opera announce support for built-in 3D graphics
I think it's more that most men here aren't into the same sorts of things women are into, so they self-segregate by sex.

If you're going to work 70-80 hours on a startup, basically no sane woman is going to join you (I know a couple women that'll do startups, but most seem to want some semblance of a life too.) If you're going to read TechCrunch and Reddit and Digg all day, same thing.

If you go to a yoga/pilates/yogalates class, or a Harry Potter fan convention, it will be practically all women. And even big tech companies have pretty even gender ratios, at least out of my sample size of one. My cube is 3 women and 4 men; so was my last project. Back when I had roommates, it was 2 girls and me.

I think people find the Bay Area so dating-hostile because the people who move here are often hostile to dating. A lot of guys come to Silicon Valley to seek their fame and fortune with this wild-eyed technology vision, where they'll put their nose to the grindstone and concentrate on their code for 5 years. That's not a very good way to meet women; most of them don't exactly care for that lifestyle.

Then again, I've been here for 6 months and am still single. Then again again, I haven't exactly been looking very hard. I'm one of the dating hostile (well, apathetic) folks. ;-)
Emacs actually does have a kind of DSL for dates. In diary-mode you can specify recurring dates like this:

%%(diary-anniversary 14 2 1940) Dad turns %d

Check out the EmacsWiki for more examples: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/DiaryMode#toc11
I remember reading an article posted here awhile back about Zuckerberg and some other young guys being accosted in a bar by a transvestite. I thought, "Geez, only in SF can a straight potential billionaire not get an old-fashioned hetero lap dance."

Anecdotal, but I went for a few interviews in that place and it is definitely NOT the place to be for a single straight man in his 20s.
"much too high discount factor to future cash flow"

Easy to say. Except they know too many people who had $400K in their 'future' and now have $150K; or who've worked all their lives and are now destitute for medical bills.

The 'system' has been screwing those folks for 30 years. And then a couple years ago it started working its way up the food chain. And now the middle-class is starting to take their jobs.

And you talk about future cash.
I am saying that I like IKEA regardless of price. I think it's a place to get functional, well-designed, and pretty furniture. I like the design better than the "nice" stuff.

So "discount" doesn't factor into it.
Thanks - that is a good point, I think communication has been fairly clear up to now, but you can never be too sure.

The best-case-scenario outcome definitely seems worth it for us, but as always, the devil is in the details.
"I stopped reading after the author suggested that IKEA furniture be illegal."

Where exactly was that?

(Whether you like her or not, she's not someone who mistakes "I don't like it" for "It should be illegal".)
I've always just imagined it as the ultimate concession that Macs are designed to run Photoshop. Might not be good for a regular user, but I could imagine a graphics/arts/illustration department buying them by the hundreds to complement their current tonnage of desktop and notebook Macs.
Personally, I don't understand why ISPs haven't become payment processors. They already have a monthly billing relationship with their customers. Wouldn't it be cool if your ISP provided a service whereby you could buy things online and charge them to your ISP bill?

If done right such a service could be more secure than credit cards for online purchases, make micropayments much more feasible, and provide a separate revenue stream for ISPs. Why haven't they jumped on this?
I agree. If your cultural presumptions lean toward beautiful, well-kempt women, LA or Manhattan (as well as any number of other cities) are infinitely better than SF.
Ask HN:  Review my Numbrosia 2 puzzle for the iPhone and iPod touch.
In the blog post he didn't, though it looks like the HN user (intregus) who submitted the link is the author of the post.
The valley, specifically Palo Alto is not that bad at all. Actually it's damn good. It's a college town, and Stanford girls are quite good looking. The bar scene is nice at Old Pro, Blue Chalk, etc. Sadly, facebook employees often overtake a lot of the old pro.

If you're in the tech industry, then you probably spend most of your time out at "industry" events. There might occasionally be a couple of cute girls, but you're looking in the wrong place.

I can't speak for SF itself, since I always hung out in the Valley. Dress well, get in shape, and be charismatic, as you'll actually be able to stand out above the plethora of anti-social bufoons. You're also probably passionate about what you do, so make sure that comes across as women seem to respect that too out there.

This all comes from someone who now lives in Miami, where the women are supposed to be unbelievably attractive. They are, but i'll use the cliche and say looks aren't everything. Actually the women here are so dumb and pretentious that it's able to make supermodels become unattractive. The Valley has an awesome balance of looks and brains, so do not take that for granted.
Strictly mathematically, it's not hard for a population split of 55-45 to result in a singles split of 70-30. Say that 35% of males and 35% of females are in a (heterosexual, monogamous) relationship. By definition, the numbers will be equally balanced, so of the remaining 30% of the population, 20% (of the total) are male and 10% are female, for a 66-33 split.

70% in couples seems high to me, so there's probably another effect at work. It's the same effect that makes it really hard to find a job in a recession: normally you might have 5% of the population out of work and 5% positions waiting to be filled, but if you suddenly have 10% out of work and 1% of positions open (companies that lay off people generally aren't hiring), instead of 1 person for each open job you have 10 people looking for each open job, even though 90% of the population weren't affected at all.
how could there be no women in SF? get ready for fun.
This reminds me of the Million Dollar Homepage.

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

You could probably convince people to buy letters close to the "origin".
The snippet plugin with the most features at present seems to be xptemplate:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2611

There's a pretty interesting screencast about it here:

http://vimeo.com/4449258
Yeah, it's actually a lot more difficult than one would think. Heck back in 1999 I thought it'd be pretty easy. The Internet is pretty wily when it comes to this kind of stuff.
Residence increases as temperature increases, so better heat dissipation can dramatically reduce temperatures. Also if your heat sink is not working you have less than 5 seconds until this chip fries or shuts down to save it's self. So if the system boots then the heat sink really is working.

PS: Diamond is an great thermal conductor. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_conductivity)
W/(m·K)
Copper = 401, Silver = 429, Diamond = 900+
Wouldn't it be a simple optimization? Google isn't learning that you don't ship internationally, it's just learning that people from other countries don't convert well for you. It's probably tracking all sorts of metrics on the users, and constantly trying to figure out what profiles work best for you. They don't have to know or care why.
I would guess he is comparing to Mountain View or Sunnyvale.
...hence the easier way to "shave conversions" is to designate a lower effective CPA. Instead of saying 25 cents and reporting 20% conversion, you could simply say 20 cents and get the exact same result.
Confirmed, works in Opera 10b2.
I think he's asking what would happen if 10 extra gay guys showed up at the bar instead of 10 straight dudes.
"Where exactly was that?"

As you point out in your book, Ikea furniture is not quite as adorably minimalist as its marketing implies. Making a whole bunch of disposable furniture places certain stresses on natural resources, not all of which are renewable, or, arguably, even legal.

The implication is that IKEA furniture is built from resources that are not legal (whatever that means), and is, as a result, itself not legal. I guess...
That, in my mind, is the most annoying thing about it. I don't care what the rules are (within reason), but make sure we know what they are and apply them consistently.
What are you intending to do with your gun, if not to kill someone? Shoot their arm off? ("Your arm's off!" "No it isn't.")

Okay, that's fine...
I don't think silicone grease is anywhere as conductive as copper. While the 2 to 5 x increase in conductivity from using diamond is still fighting the bonding agent, it's probably helping more than you might expect.
I see -- you were just in the wrong city!

You are right - I moved to Manhattan.
I have worked at a place like this. You clearly have never worked for a large bank, or financial institution. Or a company that has a lot of internal processes designed for ie6/active-x. It is great, like stepping back into the past, but not the good past of dinosaurs or gladiators, but the shit past of 6 years ago, when we didn't know any better. You no longer want to use a computer at home, since you are constantly reminded of the shit you are using at work.
ha ha. Ok, I'll do that. :)
Me and about 5 other people were talking about slashes, for like an hour. Made up a good joke out of it:

--Two slashes walk into a bar, one says to the other, "you got to make sure you help me 'escape' from here"

Totally had a blast \\\\\
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Believe it or not IKEA is probably the most ethical and hacker oriented large-scale company currently around. They don't scam people into buying stuff which breaks and needs to be replaced, they retain customers by offering something to everybody while at the same time introducing fashion and trends which makes people want to buy new stuff. Insider tip: use ordinary glue when you put together furniture. You know how solid all the furniture seems when you try out at IKEA and you don't really get the same feeling when you put it together yourself? Well, guess what.
dang! downvoted by a virgin.
i just have to assume that apple has a plan with this... it'd be shocking for them to come out with a dud. i suppose it has to happen eventually, but jobs seems to err on the the far side of sure-ity. the questions really is what unique attribute is this thing gonna have that makes it unlike all tablets b4 it....?
NoSQL: If only it was that easy
U.S. journalists head home from North Korea
I fear that an alert-style warning may be ignored by users, just as they're used to ignoring "Warning: Your computer may have spyware!" banners.
No, they have scoured the entire web, all trillion websites, and analyse who has been doing what. Don't worry, your logo will appear in a few minutes.
Got it. I ask because the tile size will seem to directly impact the amount of data store contention (aka the number of db.TimeoutExceptions). It would be an interesting study to look at contention rates (percentage of failed datastore reads) vs. tile sizes when the app is under load.

(I also assume you make use of memcache, though I further presume that typing implies an immediate db put().)
"Choosing to stay on unemployment instead of working earns little sympathy here."

Cuz when their unemployment ran out, they'd not be able to make it on her $1000/month...no way, no how. So it didn't make sense to change their plans.
Who beat who to the punch is completely and utterly irrelevant here. It's all about sending out the right signal and taking a bold stand in bringing the web forward.

The fact that people sit down and make time to come up with initiatives like this is something I truly admire, no matter how big their audience or the volume of their network.
venturebeat takes forever to load, I wonder how long 3d pages will take to load...
25 years is not very long for furniture! I have several pieces in my apartment older than that -- made of real wood, full of character, and which I paid little or nothing for.

I've had IKEA stuff but I enjoy having furniture with history so much more. I recently acquired (for nothing) a huge, old wood desk that belonged to a CEO. There's a cabinet door on the side, out of which comes a mechanical shelf that I'm guessing was once used for a typewriter. Fascinating!

Given, it's hard to get ahold of the right furniture if you're not willing to pay much. But I've been slowly replacing my particle board with real wood, and spending less than I did on the fake stuff. It just takes time.
What are you talking about? Just 6 months ago this place was so thick with iPhone devotees you couldn't swing a metaphorical light sabre app without hitting one. I don't think think there are too many 'cutesy type' teenage girls on HN (although it would explain some things).

Unfortunately geekdom was just as taken in as everybody else - perhaps more so and they were disproportionately responsible for it's rapid growth. Geeks are more likely to

- be early apoptors

- blog, tweet, talk about gadgets

- be believed by non geeks when it comes to technical areas
and products

Most importantly they are the ones who develop the software that makes the platform actually useful. Without geeks there's no 'App for that'.

This gives them (us) substantial influence. How to you think Firefox gain it's market share. Of course now that the iPhone has momentum they aren't so dependant on the approval of geeks. But over time if they don't attract developers and if they keep removing software then the platform will stagnate. Combine that with geeks putting their weight behind another platform and change could be effected fairly quickly.
It sounds good in theory to me. I'm currently reading/writing this on my iPhone, in bed. A ten inch version would seem to be pretty awesome to me. However, you never know until you try it.
You'd be amazed how few people can figure out what your name means and why .

I named my first company ZiFiMusic because it was a online radio play, and it sounded kinda like HiFi & WiFi (this was years ago when lots of people were just equating WiFi with internet).
Of the few people who ever heard of it, a high percentage referred to it as (Ziffy), 'cause they just didn't get it. But I asked them what Ziffy meant to them and they said 'fast', so I figured that was still good.

With my most recent name, i went with HearWhere because it shows you where you can go for live music so Where do you go to Hear. People get that instantly.
Except both words have multiple spellings (HereWear, etc.).
Lesson Learned. Hopefully I'll do better on my next try.
Awesome. Good luck with skribit! The more local start ups the better.
How Talking Points Memo uses chartbeat
Great! Explain that to IT. :)
"There has never been a culture of 'saving'."

This guy never had anything but shit jobs until 2007. So until then, he had no chance to develop a 'culture of saving'. Should he have put away $20,000 that first year? Yeah - I would have. But most people in this country don't see it that way.

You're surrounded by people who're living way beyond their means, and until you distance yourself from that, you want to be part of the 'fun'. That was what got us into the mess we're in - the average US family was $100K in the hole. So it's a cultural thing.

Maybe he knows better now. So do about 8 million other people.
"And even big tech companies have pretty even gender ratios"

Thats very false. Here is a sample of companies and their ratio:

Google:
Median Age	29 years
Gender
Male	65%
Female	35%

Yahoo:

Median Age	32 years
Gender
Male	66%
Female	34%

Facebook:

Median Age	27 years
Gender
Male	68%
Female	32%

Sun:

Median Age	37 years
Gender
Male	74%
Female	26%

eBay:

Median Age	32 years
Gender
Male	62%
Female	38%

Non Tech:

UC Berkeley (employees):

Median Age	29 years
Gender
Male	51%
Female	49%

City of San Francisco:

Median Age	32 years
Gender
Male	62%
Female	38%
U.S. CTO: We Need To Extend Technological Innovation Beyond Our Personal Lives
"There has never been a culture of 'saving'."

This guy never had anything but shit jobs until 2007. So until then, he had no chance to develop a 'culture of saving'. Should he have put away $20,000 that first year? Yeah - I would have. But most people in this country don't see it that way.

You're surrounded by people who're living way beyond their means, and until you distance yourself from that, you want to be part of the 'fun'. That was what got us into the mess we're in - the average US family was $100K in the hole. So it's a cultural thing.

Maybe he knows better now. So do about 8 million other people. They bought in, and they got it socked to them. Find a heart before it's your turn.
How do you step through multi-line macros in a debugger?
This reminds me of a twitter update Wil Shipley[1] sent recently:

"I feel like Apple should rate their new iDisk-access app
for iPhone "17+," since my iDisk is full of porn. It's
only fair."

http://twitter.com/wilshipley/status/2921713963

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_Shipley