skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO, Amazon's killer advantage is their long-tail inventory. I don't care what item your making a profit on and I know most of what Wal-Mart stocks is overpriced disposable junk. I want something that lasts and I want what I want. The last thing I want to do is drive to a location and not find what I'm looking for, or even worse, finding a cheap alternative made in china then I have a anxiety attack thinking about my role in our consumer/disposable/oil society and whether to settle for what they are carrying.

Wal-Mart has their own highly intelligent logistics and will continue to be a major force, but they are a victim of their own success/algorithm. Amazon is also trying to reduce their inventory of non-profitable items, but this is being replaced by 3rd-party sellers. Hopefully this will be a good alternative for their long-tail inventory.
There are still extension issues causing me to wait. Also, I should probably start a fresh profile, and the effort is not something I'm particularly looking forward to.

Plus, the "Chrome wannabe" interface changes just piss me off. ;-)
Very cute. Desperately needs control over the displayed range if it's going to be useful. And tic marks on the axis wouldn't hurt. But good job.

And unlike every other Web3D demo, it loads instantly to a useful state instead of displaying a blank interface for 3 minutes while it downloads a 100M data set.
IBM Switches from ioDrive to ZeusIOPs
It's hard to say in this instance, Google has historically been very hands-off when it comes to the Market. I think this is the first time they've explicitly done a sale like this; as opposed to devs operating on their own.
I watched a talk posted here a while back that also explains how Ring middleware works pretty well, and I'd recommend some of the other parts of the talk to Clojure web developers as well:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2971919
Sure it is, but calling that "reinventing" is unfair to people who actually do something innovative.
Maybe they re better at capturing value than at creating it?
Because Android Market users more often download free apps than users of the AppStore. Google most likely intends to get people to enter their CC number, and to get used to pay for apps.
Derman: gradient of unequal opportunity &gt; attraction of common destiny
The same is true for pretty much any profitable industry. I'm sure the profits made by the medical or technology industry are vastly larger than the fines/penalties those industries paid for fraud. So what?

The right comparison to make is gains vs losses due to fraud. Take ABACUS as an example. According to the SEC GS lost $70m when they committed against themselves, and paid another $500m in fines for a total loss of $570m.

I don't know what world you live in where losing $570m is a "great business deal".
The employees of those stores have very little training on the individual products they sale. I observed a Best Buy employee answer some questions about a Kindle Touch, which he didn't seem at all confident on. For example, he told them that he "thought" you could upgrade the With Offers model to remove the ads for an extra $30.
you could take that graph out of excel by cut & paste, this makes it WMF format I think on the clipboard? anyway, it is some kind of vector format, and then paste it into illustrator or inkscape or something. i'm sure open office can create clipboard data that is vector.
> What a shock that a body building website would say that. I can't believe it. Let me ask Microsoft if I should use Linux for my servers or not, hold on BRB.

The source of the argument does not take away from the validity of the argument itself. You should be able to evaluate an argument on it's points alone.
I can see google wanting to have your credit card number in file to ease future purchases ;)
Coming soon from 37signals: Basecamp Next
Even what counts as a "month" depends on a lot of things. You could go by months' worth of current expenses, but I think what really matters is how many months you could actually live on the money, which depends on how variable your living expenses are (which is a mix of "real" constraints and psychological constraints on how frugal you could get if you needed to).
PostgreSQL does some compression automatically & transparently for large values: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/storage-toast....
I've got to say: This is the rational, homo economicus way that textbooks say buyers should behave and, to me, it's just terrible! You may find it pedantic, but I think that if BB provides a utility for you you should reward them. The same thing is happened to large bookstores, music stores, etc., people checked out the wares and then bought it online.
Why Selling Kidneys Should Be Legal
> If this was a YC startup, I suspect people would be more forgiving.

Evidence to the contrary: the Dropbox security fiasco (which sounded worse but was resolved in hours with claims of no malicious activity) prompted several HN entries. HNers aren't so biased as to be blind to inexcusable negligence (esp. because a large majority of us are users of those services and have personal stake.)

Facebook has a history of such "mistakes", a founder who thinks FB users are "dumb fucks" (and has reportedly maliciously used FB's password log), and all the motive in the world to be "negligent" as it's a way they can make money (as long as we don't find out).

The foolish thing to do is to assume this is still a mistake after repeated history of such "mistakes".
Can you share the experience?
Until the day that wars are fought with EMP bombs.
Hey Brian! So you think ESOLID would be good for general BREP operations tool, or are you saying it could replace OpenCASCADE. I really want to see more resources for this stuff - who are working these problems?
So Regretsy gets a (potentially) reasonable human to look at their case only after making a media fuss? This is pretty troubling, as for every Regretsy out there, there are many more smaller fish who will continue to get quietly screwed, simply because they cannot attract the attention of the media in the same manner.
Things take a while to fall out of CDN cache, I forget what the TTL is these days but it should be reasonable.
My guess is $0.10 might be cheap enough to motivate people to jump the "pain in the ass" bar that is entering credit card data.

The fact that Apple forces iTunes sign-up before you can use the iPhone gives paid iPhone apps a huge advantage over Android Market apps.
I only mentioned it due to the topic of fasting. Yes, you can carefully control the process to ensure you don't burn protein, but fasting doesn't do that.
The author of the article negates his points and attempts to protect himself by saying that all the information was based on anecdotal evidence. Well, no kidding?!

First of all, we need to determine the type of work being done here. If you're in a creative environment, maybe 60-80 hours a week won't make you more productive. However, if you worked in some kind of production facility or in manual labor, you'll be a hell of a lot more productive if you put in the time. The first time I adjusted the valves on my motorcycle, it took me over a week. I took several breaks, I wasn't very organized and I mostly felt discouraged. When I did the same thing to a new bike, it was equally challenging since the parts and process were different, but I forced myself to work at it several hours at a time. I did about three hours on a Friday night, six hours on Saturday and two to three hours on Sunday and it was done.

If we're going to take anecdotal evidence as gold here, I might as well mention that I learned complex piano pieces much faster and with greater accuracy the more time I spent on the piano. If I would have studied the music in 30-minute or 1-hour blocks, it would have taken me much longer. I tried. Instead, I could learn and memorize a piece like Chopin's Polonaise in A flat Major in just three days if I spent six or seven hours a day on it.

Everyone is different - that's my point here. Some people can work with razor-sharp focus for several hours at a time, and others can't. There's nothing wrong with that. The best you can do is learn what works best for you, then do that. Can you get more done if you put in more time? Or are you the type who can be productive for four or five straight hours so you can have the rest of the day off? Figure it out.

Lastly, I want to include something that David Baltimore, former president of Caltech, said about work and academic rigor:

"When I grew up, we worked hard, played hard and never thought to minimize our activities because of stress. Sure, people were under stress and some cracked under it, but leading a "stressful" life was honored because of the accomplishments that could be achieved by those who could handle it. Today we deify the spa, not late hours solving problems at school or work. Caltech's high-achieving faculty and students are seen as weirdos because of their intense focus, but even here, some graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are seeking a more balanced life."

Source: http://articles.latimes.com/2004/nov/29/opinion/oe-baltimore...
Yes, that I did.
i am not an expert but he is having day job, family, not one but two startups and side projects. that does not sound good to me. he should totally focus on one thing on professional front.
I am somewhat mystified by the level of paypal hate going on here. The major issue here was bad customer service (something that google, and even say Mojang, for example, seem to get away with quite easily).

A big problem here is people acting with good intentions and believing that somehow that should be a shield to the world. Unfortunately, even the best intentions can't shield you from having to comply with business, taxation, and financial regulations. Make no mistake, regretsy was in the wrong here. Paypal was in the wrong here too, but mostly because they were rude and unhelpful in enforcing a legitimate policy enacting legal and regulatory requirements.
What a funny cool baby
Take a quick look at this funny baby and read what the baby wants to say ;dd
My favorite on that promo? Endomondo Pro. I love the free app, now I'm going to rock it Pro!

Sketchbook Mobile is a brilliantly designed app as well.
I get the impression that Customer Service is something subsumed under PR in the corporate chart of PayPal.

Did PayPal respond to this as customer support, or was it just damage control?
"""Chickens are omnivores, not ruminants like cows. They'll eat grass but can't subsist on it. There's no such thing as "grass-fed chicken"; people who say "grass-fed", when they know what they're talking about, mean cows."""

Well, re: wording, no native english speaker. With "grass fed" I mean naturally fed, not necessarily grass or solely grass. In my chicken hen I used wheet, corn, wild grass, and something that I don't know it's name in english, but I found a translation here as: " small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica millet"

http://www.lexvo.org/uwn/entity/ell/%CE%BA%CE%B5%CF%87%CF%81...
I wish you could actually price your apps at $.10
Because you need to limit the size of the board. Also better if your board has an odd number to minimize ties. You can't reasonably have 50 people meet in a room, discuss a complicated issue and then vote on it.

Having the employees elect some of the board members wouldn't be terrible, however.
Type study: Sizing the legible letter
This only works in Chrome for now!
For a little perspective - the App Store passed 15 billion downloads back in July [1]. Google seems to be catching up.

[1] https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/07/07Apples-App-Store-...
Note that the first graph is "Six Years After College Entry". So that's 1-2 years after graduation. BARELY any time (if any) for interest to accumulate (as it doesn't while you're still a student).

I'd like to see a graph of 5 or 10 years after college graduation.

Edit: I was misinformed about college loans, please read the comments below this post. It is worse than I thought.
Leg Avenue Lingerie
> "In this instance, we recognized our error and moved as swiftly as possible to fix it." — eBay

I wonder what those defending eBay in the earlier thread will think of this.
All you need is a building with walls, then BAM, Sprint is blocked.
Yep it is, the drink of choice for people who don't want a particularly cheap bottle and pay for label not taste.
Please also have a look at this presentation the original article linked to: http://pgeu-plv8.herokuapp.com

Ever since we began storing document data as JSON instead of serialized PHP arrays (yes. PHP - I can't port this behemoth to a more convenient language), I was thinking that maybe Postgres would eventually get some way of peeking inside these blobs.

Now that pl/v8 exists, we can. Combined with the right functional indexes, this can make our life much easier and help greatly to either reduce joins or data amounts transmitted between database and application server - both of which are concerning me at particular places - nothing real bad yet, but potentially.

Thanks a lot for posting this article. You might have just made my day.
Is this roughly what Soundcloud is doing, or are they doing it server-side?
Their statement actually isn't nearly as bad as you imply. They mention that there was a problem, that they handled it incorrectly, and that they were multiple conflicting factors associated. They even admit at the end (again) that they were wrong. It's short, sweet, and to the point. I think on the scale of 1 to horrible, this is pretty far from horrible.
The TouchFire Chronicles: The Year Of Bad Prototypes
Occur also works nicely for this use case, as you can visit each place in order with C-x `. Actually, something like eproject-grep is even nicer, because you can visit every occurrence in the project that way.
Hi all - thanks for all the comments, great to see this article made it to Hacker News! Glad some more people are finding a use for the library. Feel free to get involved with the project on Github - not sure of HN etiquette so won't post the link but it's available via the article.

Cheers!

Nick
Here's to the Crazy Ones - Letterpress Poster
I use Assistly for one of our CS portals and due to sporadic downtime was interested to see what Groove had to offer after reading this post. In terms of marketing, this is exactly what you want to have happen. And after all the talk of meeting the feature set of your competition, I expected to see just that - feature for feature parity or better.

Instead what I saw was an emphasis on the social media SCRM features at the expense of having a functioning Knowledge Base, which really surprised. KBes (done well) are the real win for support since they are self serve. Moreover, this is a key feature of Assistly which they can't match.

I'd say Groove hasn't yet met the bar, which is slightly ironic given the tone of the article.
<easierSaidThanDone>Build a better product and market your ass off!</easierSaidThanDone>
Presumably you have to press a key to accept a completion. With dabbrev or hippie-expand, you don't.
There's a lot of innovation in technology for online fitting of shoes and clothes.

There's a company using the kinect to create a virtual mirror so you can see how clothes will look on you. There's a company that asks you the model and size of a shoe that fitted you great ,and enables you find great fitting shoes online.There's a similar company for jeans. There's a company that ask you a few measurements and show you how a wearing the clothing item will look on you. They built a special robot that generate many human forms, and used it to photo the clothing item in all available sizes.

There are also business solutions to this. Zappos, for example solved it simply by a great service and a great return policy.

Amazon is just betting those solutions(in clothing and elsewhere) will be "good enough" , not perfect. I think it's a reasonable bet.
I really wonder how this will impact the commercial real estate market and if commercial real estate is an incredibly bad investment these days even at its current lows. As we all know, you have this obvious and unstoppable force of doing stuff now at home online. More and more people who used to go to stores now stay at home to shop and more and more people can perform their jobs via telecommuting rather than sitting in an office. Consequently, we have less and less need for commercial real estate space. My feeling is that in X years commercial real estate will be even more vastly under occupied and will only be occupied by services that cant be done online (restaurants, bars, night clubs, salon). Maybe as a result the expanding geographic human footprint on the earth will slow down a bit in that Walmart wont need be putting up its next super store.
Tell HN: You said not to. So I quit my job and started. 5 mos later: OpenPhoto
Original Ask HN post, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2184603

Almost a year ago I asked if you would pay for a photo management and sharing service that allowed you to store your photos into your own Amazon S3 bucket. The overall response seemed to be NO.

A few months later in May I decided to leave my job at Yahoo! and pursue it full time anyway. Shortly after I launched it as a Kickstarter project[1] it ended up getting coverage on Techcrunch[2], RWW[3], and TNW[4]. I reached the goal of $25k on the last day of fundraising on Kickstarter.

In August we were the first project to be accepted into Mozilla's WebFWD program[5]. I say we because by this point there was a community helping build OpenPhoto. Did I mention it's 100% free and open source? That's pretty important.

What was originally pitched as a "Wordpress-like" photo service is now a full fledged photo management and photo sharing platform. The OpenPhoto API powers not only the web client but an Android and iOS client as well (not yet in the app store). I had originally thought it would take me 2 months to build but it's taken me and a team of volunteers 5 months.

What we've built is orders of magnitude beyond what I had originally envisioned and I think OpenPhoto stands a chance to actually disrupt the photo space by giving control and ownership of people's photos back to them.

To find out more about OpenPhoto go to http://theopenphotoproject.org

Here are a few invites:

* http://openphoto.me/?code=zd065
* http://openphoto.me/?code=zd635
* http://openphoto.me/?code=zd92d
* http://openphoto.me/?code=zdb3f
* http://openphoto.me/?code=zdd72
* http://openphoto.me/?code=zdde9
* http://openphoto.me/?code=zdfbd

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jmathai/openphoto-a-photo-service-for-your-s3-or-dropbox-a

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/29/former-yahoo-engineer-quits-to-build-a-flickr-killer-on-kickstarter/

[3] http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/save_your_photos_to_amazon_or_dropbox_with_app_pla.php

[4] http://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/07/16/creating-a-portable-web-when-your-data-is-truly-yours/

[5] http://blog.webfwd.org/post/9300091721/webfwd-welcomes-the-first-fellows
You have to pay for shipping one way or another -- whether it's explicitly, or in the form of higher prices. It's not really free.
While the blog only links to the Mac client, they do have a DNSCrypt proxy that appears fairly complete and should be a good compliment to any *nix system: http://shared.opendns.com/dnscrypt/packages/dnscrypt-proxy/
I completely disagree.

It's incredibly easy to get a little bit into either. Ruby however hits a HUGE hockeystick of difficulty when you start to use the web tools (the primary use case for ruby).

Python however seems to have tons of non-expertise intensive uses that are not primarily used by professional programs. Scipy et all, etc. The "mouthfeel" of the communities is considerably newbie friendlier on the python side in my opinion.

tutor@python.org is great

Zed Shaw's Learn python the Hard way is good

Alan Gauld's Learn to program site is great

I find Why's guide both outdated and discursive to a harmful degree.
They've already released Regretsy's money (says the tone-deaf, possibly inaccurate response). So solving matters is just to convince them that they will have more trouble getting away with this in the future.

I believe Jon Stewart can help with that.
Unfortunately for them, I closed my PayPal account last night. One too many stories like this for me, thankyouverymuch. If I ever need them again to buy something I'll purchase without logging in, anonymously, like most people do, manually entering my credit card info. I'll pay that price.
They do it in Flash - and I think they do the actual computation server-side. There are other javascript version, but they do it server side as well. This is the first client side implementation that I'm aware of.
>The same is not true for many other types of goods, such as clothes. Shops are performing a useful function in letting consumers see, touch and try what they buy.

I used to feel the same way, but now I feel that this experience is highly overrated. If I could get away with buying all of my clothes on Zappos and Amazon (especially Zappos!), I would. They have plenty of pictures so that I know exactly what the clothes look like. Reviews from other users tell me more about the quality than I would be able to discern by simply handling the clothing in a store (e.g. how well it holds up to wear and tear). If an article of clothing doesn't quite fit right or if the color is a little off from how it appeared online, free two-way shipping solves my problem quickly and easily. Even in the cases where I have to exchange an item because of size or color problems, the total experience still requires way less time and effort than a single trip to a brick-and-mortar store.

The only reason why I think that brick-and-mortar clothing stores might survive against sites like Zappos is that most of the women I know (especially my wife) really enjoy the experience of shopping for clothes. Then again, I used to enjoy browsing electronics stores the same way, but I sure don't miss it anymore. Also, the aspect of clothes shopping that my wife seems to enjoy most is "getting deals:" using complicated combinations of sales, specials, and coupons to knock the price down as far as possible (in other words, to pay a price I would consider sane). It's not the only thing she enjoys about clothes shopping, but it's a very big part. If online clothes prices were to get sufficiently low, they would become such a "great deal" that I think she would be unable to resist. This process has already begun: she buys most of our daughters' clothes, and an increasing percentage of her own, online now.
The kill ring gets my vote.

Regional undo/redo is a close second.
how could a serious pr department attach that photo to any statement?
You're a rare breed sir.

Most people are using it for entertainment.
Sal Khan is MIT's 2012 Commencement speaker
The dollar value of shipping isn't the only cost - 2+ days is a long time to wait and Wal-Mart is only a couple of miles away. Some things can wait and you can plan ahead to account for shipping times, but not everything can be planned for and sometimes you just want or need something tonight.

Weekends are especially bad - once Thursday afternoon passes, you're probably not going to get what you order until Tuesday or Wednesday.
I looked at the pricing, it costs $34 for the '2 month supply'. 100 Softgels are $5 each and last a month, so I can get at least 6 months for the same price as your boutique 2 month version.
This is not really a feature, as such, but it is a classic work-around for one emacs' many silly defaults:

; Ask for y/n on all queries that normally ask for yes/no.
(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)