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Similarly, knitting clubs everywhere are applying for government aid to recruit more men.
Arduino-powered iPod remote control
Uhh . . . Do you guys know how PPP is calculated?

Using PPP the people of Mississippi are more wealthy than the people of Nebraska, New Mexico, Delaware, New Hampshire, Hawaii, West Virginia, Idaho, Maine, Rhode Island, Alaska, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and Vermont.

In fact, they are more wealthy than the people of Hawaii and Vermont COMBINED!!!

Another one an econ professor loves to throw at his students.

You ready?

The people of Gary, Indiana are far better off than the people of Darien, Connecticut!

If you are not American, you probably don't have a good appreciation for the absurdity of the previous assertions. So think of it this way, using PPP, the people of Lagos, Nigeria are LOADS better off than the people of Singapore. This is as close as I can find to the international equivalent of a comparison of Gary, Indiana, and Darien, Connecticut. If any Americans out there can come up with some better ones do jump in! PPP comparisons reach quite humorous conclusions at times. I'm sure we are all up for a good laugh.
Accelerometers for instance: when I dial using the keypad, then move the phone to my ear, the accelerometer detects this movement and switches off the keypad, so my ears don't dial extra numbers on my behalf.

I don't know, but did the phone you mention (first to have accelerometer) make good use of them?
Careful with one of those tips [* x] does return x if x is an array and [x] otherwise except in the case where x is a hash in which case it transforms the hash to an array. Eg:

x = {:a => 1, :b => 2}

[* x]

=> [[:a, 1], [:b, 2]]

Some of the other tips just make the code less readable
As I said the last time this came up, if a seat isn't filled on an outbound flight, it just makes more room for cargo.
Yeah, priceline is high risk/reward. Sometimes you get an amazing deal, sometimes you get stuck in a place with bedbugs (I've been there). Although you can probably largely protect against this by only specifying hotels with 3+ stars.
"I remember Guy Kawasaki saying he tries to follow this list of N things tactic for all his speeches"

It helps the audience judge about how long something will be going on for. With print, you don't need that, since you can see the length of the piece in advance.
Yeah I find that delegation makes more sense in an OO context when the states between the delegate and other object are closely entwined. TableView data source is a perfect example, basically the two states need to stay consistent with each other but provide several standardized methods for modifying or reporting changes to state, which is where I think delegate methods shine. "Just waiting for something to return" is where I think they tend to be cumbersome when you have lambdas at your disposal.

In this regard I think JS and Obj-C are now starting to converge, which is interesting.
vacuum cleaners aren't that expensive, so renting them out might not be a very good business plan unless you do it with larger items. and thats already a business.

http://www.rentacenter.com
I am very intrigued by this idea. But I'm not sure if people would rent clothes or not.

I know one thing: the company will have more success if they joint venture with just one specific chain of hotel - at least initially. Will allow them to scale with grace. And will get the hotel to promote their services too. (Rent luggage while you're booking your room online. Just one extra step. No need for 2 different transactions.)

And also - a lot of people will end up buying the stuff they've rented out - and this revenue can be shared with the hotel.
Your arguments are tending to sound more emotional than rational. NYC has a huge underclass, perhaps most of which would happily take a house in Jackson if they could get a secure job there and move without totally disrupting their lives. NYC is, for instance, a really bad place to raise a family on the national median income, or to start a company on same.

The point made upthread was that no German would consider a life in Jackson equivalent to the life they could have in Germany. That's true, but it's probably mostly true because most people in Jackson don't speak German or eat the same food. And the converse is also true; someone from Jackson would probably find Berlin cramped and invasive. That's why you have to control for cultural stuff.

(This post is now getting lots of debunking comments that I think are more sound than "it's ridiculous to even compare the two because Germans would scoff at Jackson").
I was under the impression that Morgellon's was viral media for A Scanner Darkly.
I think it's all psychological and the way we are educated. Many people doesn't study an engineer career because math is very difficult. But in fact, at the math faculty where I study, there are more females than males studying math, and in engineering there are more males than females. Something I don't understand.
Worth noting that 280 Slides runs the entire app on the server as well as the client.
The whole argument centers around the notion that people are, compensated for wealth creation. But it seems like some of the most highly compensated professions (short sellers, personal injury attorneys, the people who created and promoted default mortgage swaps, etc.) have absolutely nothing to do with the generation of wealth. In the case of short sellers, they actually profit off of the destruction of wealth. Furthermore, among those of us that create wealth, we are not 'fairly' compensated, not in the sense that he attacks, but in the sense that those of us who create the most wealth are very often not compensated the most. Consider engineers that invent new technologies, but the patents are owned by the companies. Consider the company that has the superior product for the superior price, but cannot compete with the advertising of the already existing gigantic corporation. Consider the gigantic corporation that lobbies to change regulations to their own benefit at the price of competition. If the market simply rewarded wealth creation, Graham would have a much stronger arguments, but the list of behaviors it rewards is an awful lot longer, and contains an awful lot more unsavory actions, than he seems to acknowledge or consider.
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I completely share Russell's distaste for the practices of pushy salesmen, but I absolutely can't side with him in condemning them and blaming the cultural problem that he identifies on them. The salespeople are a wasteful symptom of our (the consumers) weakness for consumer crap and for their antics - they're not the cause of it.

Also, while (again) I completely agree that because they are driving over-consumption that this is a problem, it's very difficult to tell how much of problem it is. Maybe some people really enjoy owning useless shit and are taking advantage of an opportunity while it's made convenient by the sales person. Has anyone attempted to do some science to understand this? What proportion of purchases "induced" by pushy salespeople are customers unhappy with X weeks later, as compared with "other" purchases - ones made with previous intent?
I'm actually quite looking forward to reading this thing, great design btw.
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Short sellers acts as signalers to the market that there is probably danger in the stock.

They're not destructive as so much telling informations via price mechanism.
Neat. Why does it work this way?
Just want to note, as the author, that this post is almost 18 months old now and I don't necessarily stand by them all anymore ;-) (I'd need to go back and re-edit to make that assertion..)
This sounds like it might be true until you write a large application and then type safety suddenly makes a lot of sense, even a stupid non-inferred type system like Java's.
Summary: use curl to download the dynamic site to static files.

It's a kludge. Everytime you add a post, you need to regenerate all pages? That'll start to hurt once you have more than 10 posts.
That's a valid comparison and an interesting point. If the premise of their "film" was about something interesting or valuable I might lean towards thinking that the cost could be worth it. However the only premise I can see is a showcasing of web 2.0 documentation as a medium.

I don't see why a month of constant, needless flying is needed to for this premise. Documenting a bicycle trip using web 2.0 techniques, for example, would be a similar project without the subtext of needless consumption.
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I would think most of the bulk in a checked bag is clothes, which people aren't going to rent. I'm not sure what else they had in mind to rent.

I think the virtual closet would be a great idea though if you split your time between two cities.
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The current level of CO2 at 385ppm is way much higher than the natural record of 280ppm thousands of years ago, all thanks to the exploitation of oil and trillions of dollars invested in internal combustion engine "ICE" cars.

Giants like Toyota, Daimler Benz and GM have already taken a big hit in 2008, partly because of favouring ICE cars over the electrical ones.

Thankfully, we will no longer have to destroy our lungs and the world as a whole new generation of companies has been quickly rising, which produce highly efficient and nature-friendly electric cars.
FreeBSD has binary packages. Just tell it to use them.
I make myself smile, which in turn triggers a good mood, which in turn makes me think about the interesting things I could be doing if I were up and about.
Holy crap man, that is the most beautiful design, with the most clarity that I've just about ever seen on the web.

Reminds me of a friend's Atlanta startup, http://ezprints.com/ It scaled pretty well.
You had better be posting this from a computer powered by a stationary bike and an attached generator.
Although he does helpfully preface several with 'this is a bad example' and 'this is not really a good idea'.

I like how #1 is about 'taking the pain out of the process' where the 'pain' to be removed appears to be 'the method name that describes what your code is doing'.

I also learned that "Array#*, when supplied with a number, multiplies the size of the array by duplicate elements". I can only assume this is a very common and useful operation out there in GPU Vector Magic Land.

I was somewhat disappointed that #12 suggested using ranges for number comparison instead of the obviously more idiomatic solution of manipulating metaclasses so every number has a working 'decade' method.
That's a great idea, and something that I've vaguely considered. For this particular design, the user saved it at 9.8 x 5.3 inches, so that's the default size in the design center. I like the idea of immediate size options, that allow you to jump between sizes. Of course, every object (piece of art, text, whatever) is a custom size, so it would have to work based on percentages somehow, and not a set number of inches. We're working on it.
Agreed, I thought that imagery was very funny. I'm on part 7 now, so far it's a good and interesting read.
very handy indeed! I've been meaning to migrate our credentials but were having the same issues.

A couple of other things:

1) allow multiple credentials ( for example 1 per app, if one app is compromised then just disable that credential, update it and change the app )

2) allow the possibility of attaching a credentials to a bucket

3) allow reporting per credential

These would also allow you to give your credentials to a 3rd party and give them access to a particular bucket, and possibly charge them for the usage.

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I do not have an iPhone, and I would if it were not for the closed platform and tie-in with the App Store. (For the record, I have a Nokia E61. It's not as slick but I can run whatever the hell I like on it, and it's an unlocked GSM handset.)

Obviously that is anecdotal but it is the best I can do, since there is no way to demonstrate conclusively exactly how many sales have been lost overall as a result of their strategy. I'm sure there are other people who have made the same decision to avoid the platform; probably not a lot, but some.

The question is going to be whether, going forward, the App Store becomes enough of a headache to Apple (in terms of bad PR and being a lawsuit or even anti-trust magnet) to make them reconsider closing the platform, or at least make it look like less of an unqualified good to other manufacturers who might try to do the same thing in the future.

It seems like the sort of thing that will eventually collapse under the weight of its own success (possibly in the form of monopolization claims), if not to direct competition from an open platform.
Well, that certainly would make for better software, albeit more expensive...
Every idiom was once a trick.

Then again, some tricks seem far less likely than others to graduate to that level...
Less total weight carried, across the system as a whole, would result in less fuel consumption.
Well, as long as you're making less than $102k/year as a sysadmin for them, they are still saving money on the monthly bill.
This is what I said the first time YikeBike was posted on HN:

"tiny wheelbase + forward centre of gravity + unexpected obstacle = faceplant."
Cloud servers are for bootstrapping only.
My workstation runs off a hydroelectric power grid.
Oh no; they're not nearly that accurate. After all, the most credible Duke Nukem Forever release date estimates were "Never" for years before it finally died.
Blueprint has vertical baseline-alignment built in and is a bit older, but this looks worth a try as well. I'm not sure what's up with the proliferation of CSS frameworks lately though, do we really need that many of them?
By the way, BigFolio and NextProof look really cool. We'd love to recruit some photographers to set up storefronts. We're especially interested in photographers who do portraits of the local High School Football team. We think there is a market for custom Fathead-style wall graphics and youth sports. It looks like you've already tapped into the Photography market. Perhaps there is a way for us to help one another out.
I was taught cursive in elementary school and promptly stopped using it because I found it hard to read.

I'm now taking a Russian course(for fun) and my teacher explained that Russians do not print. I'm now at a disadvantage at reading written Russian(cursive), not only because I cannot read cursive, but also because I'm not as familiar with Russian as English.
> Further, since we process customer card transactions through our servers (we collect details on our site but do not store them ourselves), we have to be PCI compliant, something that Amazon EC2 is not.

Once I got to this point all I could wonder is why they bothered to crunch all of those numbers if Amazon EC2 was already fundamentally incompatible with what their business needed. Seems like a waste of time.
Obj-J isn't a VM, it preprocesses and has some runtime functions.
Relatedly, and I mean this question with the utmost sincerity, what is an MBA exactly good for?

Far too many people I know are dismissive of MBAs and their degree ("Master in Bullshit Administration! Hur hur hur"), but this same crowd tends to think Ph.D's are always useless ("Piled High and Deep! Hur hur hur").
That user interface makes the baby Jesus claw out his own eyes.
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Did JetBlue's CEO meet with you today?
I don't view their plan as pointless at all. Attempting to document an "average" airline passenger is an interesting social exercise I look forward to reading about. I've recently flown to Germany and Japan from the USA and met extraordinary people along the way.

Also, the added effect to our planet by having a plane that's going to fly regardless carry 2 additional people (plus the weight of their luggage) is minuscule at worst.

I suggest a reading of "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman for a look at just how durable our planet is. (http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Us-Alan-Weisman/dp/03124...)
I refer you to my previous post on this topic:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801001
I think you may be responding to what you think I said, rather than what I actually said.

Can you give an example of a sentence or passage in the original that you feel is false?
I read this a few years ago. It's excellent, but it made my blood boil. I hate manipulation and pressure.
I work in gwt everyday and there are lots of pluses to it such as the easy communication between the client and server and taking away a lot of the dom headaches. However, I have several issues with it. Compile time from java to javascript is very slow, simple app takes a few minutes to compile. You typically will work in a hosted mode browser so changes are on the fly, in many scenarios things work in the hosted mode browser, but fail inside a normal browser, regex and bigdecimal use are two such pain points.

A big issue that I have with it is that developers end up putting way too much business logic inside the gwt portion of an app, simply because its just java anyway, right? You can't really blame gwt for bad programming, however, because of the notion of its just java it easily allows developers to not think and just put business logic in the ui. If this was javascript developers would much rather do the more complicated business-y things on the server side (typically where it should belong), rather than in javascript because most people really dislike working in JS. I personally feel that its very difficult to build a gwt app while maintaining a clean well refactored codebase and doing TDD is also very difficult with the framework. I say difficult and not impossible, because I have done it in the past, but its not easy and really takes time and care. Again because its not easy to do these things developers tend to not do them, thus leading to messy, hard to change apps.
This article reminded me of a comment posted by manvsmachine in a previous thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=105295):

I'd suggest that a large part of the reason is the issue of prestige. In America, intelligent black people will tend to choose high prestige, low-risk career paths more often than not. A lot of it is about the uncertainty of failure; In black communities, a lot is expected of the really smart kids. They're seen as not just representing themselves, but also their communities and, to an extent, their race. It sucks, but it's the truth. So a lot of them choose to be doctors, lawyers, etc, because you're viewed differently by society. If we ever get to the point that being a software engineer is viewed in the same light as the aforementioned occupations, I'm sure there would be a sizable increase.

Seems plausible.
I'm not sure what your point is. Greenhouse gas emissions (chiefly carbon dioxide and methane) don't cause smog (caused by ground level ozone and nitrogen oxides).

Edit 2 Moved reply into reply.
I love the CLI for this website. I know it's silly, but it warms my heart.
Six years of the Beatles not being available on iTunes.
The NoCLUE Movement.
Why do you think Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar hired Harvard MBA Meg Whitman as CEO?

Yes but who would you rather be in that example?
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The WSJ had a recent overview on Palantir: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125200842406984303.html
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is clearest to me
Fine, Ryan. s/smog/air quality. The air quality in Jackson is not detectably poorer than that in most of Germany.
repost:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=791124
In theory, that's what they do. In practice they are credited with utterly destroying several companies that might have been able to survive otherwise. No one knows for sure if they would have made it, but they had absolutely no chance to survive with short sellers in the mix. The stock market often encourages a herd mentality which isn't necessarily based on reality (e.g. the dot com bubble of the mid-90's). Short sellers have a way of sending that herd mentality into overdrive.
hey, way to be helpful. thanks!
In my experience, most of those women are trying to be math teachers. If you create an actual Math Education major, they will vanish.
I'm not counting sysadmin salary in that figure though, because I am the sysadmin.

I think your accounting technique needs to be refined.

The time which you routinely spend each month, setting up and updating these systems, is a cost.

When a system goes down and you must drop whatever you're doing to fix it, that context switch is an additional cost. Especially if it costs you a night's sleep. You might lose days of productivity on your regular job.

When something happens that you didn't foresee, and that you have no experience with -- you are, after all, only a part-time sysadmin, not a professional cloud administrator -- and you have to spend days reading manuals and nagging Dell vendors on the phone, that's a cost. One that is easy to overlook in advance (who likes to sit around, dreaming up the improbable but scary ways that your systems might fail?) but which is very real when averaged over time.

And when you get tired of playing sysadmin in your spare time and decide to stop -- perhaps by quitting your job -- replacing you is going to cost your company a fortune, especially if they end up hiring the wrong person, who accidentally corrupts two years' worth of backups and then drops the main database. The thing about paying (e.g.) Amazon is that it isn't just a way of hiring a competent part-time sysadmin. It's also an algorithm for hiring a series of future part-time sysadmins: As long as you keep paying Amazon, they will probably keep finding and hiring the right people. (They are, after all, more experienced at finding good sysadmins than you are.) Or, if they fail at that task, perhaps one of their thousands of other customers will discover that fact before you have to, and you'll hear the news early enough to make a clean and event-free migration to another provider.
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Why is this news? Well, it isn't. And, why is it that whenever an article comes up like this (and it's not just computer science), it's almost always written in a way that seems like there's something wrong with the current state of affairs.

I mean, so what if women are "underrepresented." Who says there should/needs to be a balance in every profession of men and women working in the same fields?

Like Tichy said below, women are underrepresented in garbage collection, too. No one seems to write articles about that, though.
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My old hosting died so I switched my blog to Squarespace. I'm very unhappy with their service. Among other things, they don't provide proper url remapping, so my old link structure was remapped to their own arbitrary setup and has completely killed my search traffic. The other things include inflexible site editing and inability to host non-blog sites. Though that last one isn't really a complaint as I knew that before I signed up.

After getting back a brief response to a support ticket about the url mapping not being supported, I am ready to switch back to hosting service that gives me the level of control I want.

I checked out Slicehost.com, and the price is right for what I want (basic 256 slice), but I wanted to get some other opinions before I hand over the cc number.

Do other HN readers use Slicehost? If not, why, and what similar services do you use?
PPP is bunk. It assumes that currency traders are morons who market trades are unable to correctly value a currency. Why not compare the US to Europe using the market values of the currencies? If you do that, then you realize Mississippi is poorer than any European country. You also realize that all of the US is poorer than several European countries.