skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Amazon has an absolutely amazing return policy."

Watch out of Amazon Marketplace though. I bought a copy of The Wire through there that ended up being pirated (and terrible quality), and Amazon would neither refund the purchase nor shut down the vendor, even after we got a letter from HBO confirming that it was a pirated copy.
It's one third of the total, but it's one half when added to the original.
I was only thinking of security updates, new features can often be added by third parties and that leads to a healthy market that will fill the gaps on older OS versions.

HN completely ignores the class of computer users who only need Safari, Mail and some variation of Word, and then live in these apps for years without any major upgrade. In my experience, these people don't even feel entitled to any upgrade and they don't add any complexity to any testing matrix. All they need are baseline security updates, and existing services better don't stop without a plausible reason (see MobileMe). I'm not thinking of MegaCorp here, but rather my own and friends' close relatives.

The machine that got excluded from 10.8 after only 4 years was not a rev-A MacBook Air in the hands of some early adopters but a Mac Mini, the most traditional Mac money can buy. That really leaves little hope that all my "slow adopter" relatives will ever leave the Windowsverse.
To clarify: the warehouse and the showroom would be separate but contained in the same complex (much like Ikea). Each person has an app on their phone to record their purchases while browsing the showroom. When the shopper is done some items are retrieved robotically for them to pickup while some items (or all items - it's up to the buyer) are delivered later in the day.

I don't believe the robot technology is quite yet up to this. But in 5-10 years it should be.

This setup would feature primarily first party products but it would also be possible for third party products to be on display in the showroom (to be delivered later from a different location).

I agree that Apple-sized showrooms with mid to high-end first party items would be the logical first step.
I can see a website offering only Persona/BrowserId, as it doesn't force you to create an account with a "commercial" website. If you go with Facebook for login, you have to offer an alternative because if a user doesn't have a fb account, it has way more implications to open a fb account than to create a browserid account. I just hope Mozilla don't overgrow it into something more than a simple auth system (like building a social network around it!).
If Amazon can deliver in one-day, why even worry about stock at these showrooms. Find something you like, order it, and it's delivered to your door the next day.
If you ask for the permission Facebook will give you the users email address.

You can additionally just ask for the users email address.

Any one building a serious business using facebook auth does one of the above.
How is that even possible? Surely there must be a type tag associated with each object if you can dispatch on it, just like in other languages.
I think if you look at Kim Cameron's Laws of Identity, it's clear that the research team at MS has had it right for at least a decade, it's just that none of their ideas have made it into production.

http://www.identityblog.com/stories/2004/12/09/thelaws.html

Ballmer had both the plans and source code for an identity product that would have been 10x more advanced than Facebook, but they decided to axe the project so they could make the Zune instead.
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This post makes me really appreciate that I have sane working hours and don't live in a big city.
The required skills and desire to work only for karma are practically guaranteed on a site like reddit.

Also, if it's a marketing campaign, the op was exactly the right person to target as he exhibited best-case behavior for such a campaign. Going online for help to a highly viral community is precisely what you'd want as a marketer.

Now.

I'm still not sure I believe that somehow someone targeted him in such a way. That's the part that seems unlikely. The profiling is too perfect in this case.
This post describes the "Captivity of Negativity"
The apple TV remote is already a controller, just of a different sort.
Apparently the White House petition page uses Mongo and has no dedicated 500 side. I am sure the tax payer paid many millions for this

"Additional uncaught exception thrown while handling exception.

Original

MongoCursorException: couldn&#039;t send query:  in Mongo->__construct() (line 35 of /mnt/codebase/petition-release-2012-07-11/sites/all/modules/contrib/mongodb/mongodb.module).

Additional

MongoCursorException: couldn&#039;t determine master in MongoCollection->findOne() (line 22 of /mnt/codebase/petition-release-2012-07-11/sites/all/modules/contrib/mongodb/mongodb_cache/mongodb_cache.inc)."
The iPad is/isn't a content creation device
Except for the times they charge you $8 for return shipping on a $5 item.
New York starts turning payphones into free Wi-fi hotspots
There is work underway to transparently proxy between several major identity providers and the BrowserID protocol that underlies Mozilla Persona:

https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-bigtent
3 Reasons Sports Fans should be Excited for Google Glass
In blogging there's little editorial oversight, thankfully. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to write anything. Here's how the article came about since you seem to view journalism as some kind of conspiracy: The Touchfire people reached out to me, sent me the Touchfire for review, and I reviewed it. Simple as that. I'm not bashing Apple fans since I clearly am an Apple fan in that I make known that the Touchfire is unworthy of a "beautiful" device - i.e the iPad. (Yes, I had fun with the lede though.) As for some kind of Kickstarter bias, I wrote a very positive review about the Zboard which was a Kickstarter project. I'm all for informed pushback from readers, but that's an awful lot of unfounded speculation.
That's called Section 508 compliance in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_508_Amendment_to_the_Re...
This isn't just true for women's shoes, but women's clothing in general. I don't understand the reasons, but men's clothing tends to be made with less design and more durability.

A fashioner designer once told me he made the men's clothing first, then crafted the women's clothing out of its leftovers + some embellishments.
Yes. The good ones get resoled, just as with men's shoes.
not having to drive to the store is huge

on Amazon you just search, compare, read reviews and click buy.

with brick and mortar stores, you have to drive to the store, park, then roam the store to find what you are looking for, then hope that they have it in stock before you buy, then drive back home. Even a small purchase ends up costing you an hour of your time.

and for large purchases almost always you have to wait 20-30 for the store associate to bring out what you want to buy...and you have to deal with a sales pitch for an extended warranty
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Tell what to the people being bombed? That you're hard at work changing their fortune by refusing to reform the IT procurement process of the US government? They will be eternally grateful.
This is great! Does Torque support uTP for doing NAT traversal through STUN?
And the store makes money off of amazon affiliate links?
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For the Apple figure, I'm pretty sure it was Inside Steve's Brain. This was some years back and I'm away from my books, though. I'm sure it was 100 iterations on some Apple device, but I won't swear it was the iPod. The 3-5 number I got from a consumer electronics designer I took a class with.
This is certainly some sort of viral marketing but the whole real-world aspect of it was almost surely made up.

I doubt any homeless man or $50 was involved, that's just to goose the curiosity level.
Are American's protected by the SPEECH Act now?
Show HN: D3.js to Visualize Salesforce.com (SalesVisual)
Makes more sense for Amazon to set them up themselves. To an extent this is what Apple stores are, although they have a limited range and stock for standard configs.
What makes you say that Facebook will "sell your personal data to advertisers"?

Do you mean that advertisers pay to get information like your name, email address, street location, and other identifiable information about you, like in a huge spreadsheet?

Or do you mean that advertisers can pay money to have their adverts displayed to the sorts of people who most likely will be interested in them but receive no personal data, as explained at https://www.facebook.com/about/ads/ ?

While I get that some people like to make it sound more dramatic by saying "sell your personal data to advertisers" while understanding how it works, it's also common that people just don't understand.
And yet some would argue that Google has begun to get search wrong. What happens when the "right" identity solution does the same?
I also heard programmers like to use computers. On desks. In offices. With air conditioning. Uh oh, those darn costs keep going up.
IIRC email is one of the few pieces of information about users that you get by default, and cannot be revoked by the user (without revoking the app entirely)
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Not for white collar jobs AFAIK. The salaryman is expected to come before his boss and go home after - work may extend to drinking after work to build team identity/loyalty.
I did exactly what title says for 18 months. 3 million users, about 20% simultaneously active, 5 servers. Not a web app, but an online service nonetheless. Programming, design, support, scaling the damn thing, busdev, support, marketing, scaling, sales, support, IT matters, support, scaling, OEM version, support, scaling, dealing with fraud, support, support. Fun times. Never again :)
Ex-employee of Accenture here. Accenture basically earns most of their money selling horrendously overpriced "solutions" to customers who don't care about cost.

The thing is, the bureaucracy that you mentioned, it's not just the government. Too many large companies, especially non-IT ones, assume that you can complete a project by throwing 100 mediocre programmers at it.
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I think there's less reason to fear that. Some of the best parts of government are the science- and data-driven ones, and evidence-based medicine provides a lot of data. Plus, doctors are notoriously independent.

Personally, I'd feel much better about government-run healthcare than for-profit-insurer-run healthcare. At least with the government option, everybody works for me, either directly or indirectly. Plus, a bureaucrat's natural fear works in my favor.
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Never been to Walmart, no plans to either, why would I want to. I plan my purchases a few days in advance, know what I want and like that amazon makes it show up at my desk a couple of days later. Haven't shopped in a regular retailer for years. Except groceries, which I buy fresh every day.
Reddit Unlocks the Secret of Cryptic Subway Code
Yes they are. Cable companies get to overwrite some but not all advertising on a given station. Generally speaking Honda would buy an add from Viacom and your local dealership would buy a separate add on the same channel in a slightly different time-slot from the local cable company. It's setup like this because national brands don't want to deal with all the little cable company's out there, but local company's are willing to pay a premium to get to reach out to local customers.

As to satiate TV, they can still do regional advertising if they have multiple satiables just not 'local'. Which actually hurts because 'local' company's have little interest in advertising to the entire east coast.
Nodes deployed in a virtual environment are still assigned to a location. Linode for instance provides different datacenters, AWS provides availability zones. A grouping can take care of most of this problem, however relations between the nodes need to be visualized.

For management tools do exist, just not fancy looking but get the job done... it should be a full package; monitoring and deployment, etc etc go hand in hand.
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Then there's the slamming of mobile game developers "People who do exist are the hacks who are responsible for the 99 cent garbage you see flooding the iPhone and Android app stores."
I actually kind of like Hulu's ad system compared to traditional ads. Most of them I've seen have a "did you like this ad" thing, so they can actually track if people liked the ads or not and advertisers can make better ads in theory. This all hinges on people actually judging the ads rather than the fact that there are ads, of course.
I have 2 theories for why this happens:

1) The people drawing up these contracts know nothing about software. They are often non-technical, elderly, upper-management types that have never written a line of code in their life. For all they know, adding a link to a webpage is a 2 week project.

2) Congress punishes federal agencies for not spending all of their budget each year by cutting their budgets. As a result, towards the end of the fiscal year every federal agency goes on a crap buying spree to make sure they've spent every last penny.
As a USian, sometimes it seems like the high cost of war is the only reason we haven't invaded yet more countries. The vast cost is certainly one of the few arguments that has resonance across the political spectrum.
My money is on elaborate viral marketing scheme.
The videos are not pulled. The trick is to stop the browser from loading the popup -- similar to the nytimes.com popups.
There's a lot of people who code on any site like reddit. While people may have relevant skills, the likelihood of having the raw talent isn't that good.
This is noteworthy because of Viacom pulling down the show from the Internet, which impacts everyone (well, everyone who would want to watch The Daily Show on the Internet) and not just DirecTV subscribers.

Usually I'm totally neutral about these sorts of spats, but Viacom crossed a line here. In the grand scheme of things, this is nothing to pull the pitchforks out over, but my opinion of Viacom is now far worse than it was before hearing about this and this issue wouldn't even otherwise impact me since I don't watch The Daily Show on the net and don't subscribe to DirecTV.

Bad PR move, Viacom. You should probably consider firing someone over this because whoever made this call is not good at their job.
It has been solved.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/weo8j/today_a_hom...
Did they edit the post? I don't see that anywhere.
It's not really double-dipping. Plenty of the ads you get during the Daily Show are sold by your television provider (DirecTV, Comcast ...), not by Viacom. You could easily think of it as Viacom charging DirecTV for that valuable ad space (which they don't sell directly because it makes sense to let the TV provider customize a slide for its audience - usually local ads for cable, but I'm sure DirecTV has their levers, too).
70 cents * # of downloads is how lots of artists make money nowadays.

I don't think many people are going to sign a legal agreement and then purposely claim other people's songs. The legal and financial liability from that is huge and much more direct.
Certain huge items are obnoxious to purchase, evaluate, and then return if unsatisfied -- like 80" LCD TVs. Not sure what percentage of Amazon that is.

Also, many people feel "bad" about buying and returning. The "buy 3 pair of shoes, return 2" where you know you'll only keep 1 from the start feels dishonest in a way, although I'm more than happy to return something which isn't as described or is otherwise unpredictably unsatisfying.

I actually do a mental calculation before buying something which I might return, trying to figure out if Amazon is better off by me buying it (given my odds of returning it, and the costs/residual resale value if returned), and if the return is due to a bad description (Amazon's fault, and thus ok to return if the product turns out to match the wrong part of the description, like when it is internally inconsistent with the photo or whatever).

"Which of these two should I buy" is sometimes addressed by buying both, but buying 10 items and returning 9 is probably going to get your Amazon account flagged at some point.
I do agree that there is something about OUYA that makes me hesitate to plonk down my $99 for a console.

However, I'm not sure it is all the reasons outlined by the article.
iA Writer is great. Syncs from my Mac to my iPad via Dropbox. Very simple and elegant interface. Its "Focus-mode" might be exactly what you're looking for.
Why are some people so eager to give Facebook the role of dictating social behavior, rather than forcing them to be what they should be, a tool that facilitates our own social desires and expectations?
Neil Gaiman says it best. George R.R. Martin is not your bitch.

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.htm...
Spent a lot of time, hopefully not in vain!
You get another one. There's no true stability in this world. You try your best to find an optimal solution and keep working at it.
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I'm not 100% sure but I think pulling shows from the web is also a normal part of this.
Daily Show is on vacation this week anyway, and these things usually get resolved in a couple of days. A lot of posturing on both sides, with the consumer ultimately losing.
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No the contention is that the op is behind the viral marketing campaign, not that he was targeted by one.
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My impression was "associated".
Just look at the TSA.
Can you explain how your service is different to 80legs?

I don't think they've had much success, and I recall they had a few competitors at some point, but not sure who's left.

I think the interesting thing with scaping services is that we likely need to write so much stuff to extract the data, that the actual scraping portion isn't a significant time drain.

Just my two cents, as 80legs tried to get me to use their service when I was doing a ton of scraping, but I was more comfortable doing it myself.
I think the better question is "who has gone from a safe, corporate job to a risky startup in an incubator?"

Hopefully, you are working full-time if you go to an incubator :)

Assuming this question is about work-style not risk-reward, I have the following insights:
- The biggest change is that you are in charge of your day, not your manager. It is very easy to get distract by the glamour of meetups, TechCrunch, and posting on HackerNews (love that Karma). There is no overlord telling you where to go or what to do. It is you and your company (or idea). Even if you have a CEO and you are the first hire, most likely the founders are going to be busy. They expect you to be an awesome self-starter.
- Work life balance no longer applies. In a startup, your identity is wrapped deep into your company. Your work is your life. Startups require a significant amount of your time, but a TON of emotional investment. Prepare your loved ones for the bumpy road ahead.
- Most things suck, but a few things are good. Startups prioritize. There are going to be things about your product that suck and things about your product that are great. This metaphor also applies to the entire business. A lot of what you will be doing on a day-to-day basis will end up adding little value to your company. You are trying to figure out your bread and butter but you will lose a lot of loaves and cream along the way.
I'd go if I was in NYC and had the time.
Crap streaming selection is the real reason that spinning off the DVD business couldn't work. Most of the good movies are DVD-only. If all titles were available in both forms, consumers would have been a lot more comfortable with the change.

The moral of the story is that success teaches us little.
Putting iterations into a procurement process is very hard. How does one bid against that? How can one control costs? How can we know the cost of the project up front if we don't know exactly what will be done? And if there's a disagreement about whether the project is really done, how do you litigate without a clear spec?

It's not totally impossible to do something agile in a government context, but it requires much more skill and trust from all involved. It's risky. And nobody outside the government is very understanding when things blow up, which happens more when you pick risky choices.
I've been on-call for my webapps 24/7 since I was 18 and started offering subscriptions. I'm 27 now. I have never truly taken a day off; even on vacation I'll have a laptop in the hotel room, and a phone with me to get SMS alerts of any failures.
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I don't disagree with any of the points raised. I think the counter to all of them is that the console costs $99. It's quite possible to have a speculative purchase of it on the basis that it might work out, but even if it doesn't, it's a perfectly hackable box you could maybe use as a media centre.

The bigger fear to my mind is that despite taking all the money, they'll somehow never ship a product. Certainly, they are not obliged to by the terms of Kickstarter. I'm sure they will, though.
This is like the archetypical great long-form Reddit comment. Reddit has a lot of pointless craziness, but their highest highs are also way better than HN's.

I'm long since past the point where the words "Great comment explaining this on Reddit" will get me to automatically click something.
I believe that a native implementation has been on their plans from the start, but I haven't heard much about it lately. Here's some mockups:

http://people.mozilla.com/%7Efaaborg/files/projects/firefoxA...

There's also some work on integrating existing e-mail providers, so you can get instant identities:

http://identity.mozilla.com/post/17207734786/id-provider-sup...

This is probably the web-thing I'm most excited about today, even though the development is kinda slow. I really want to implement it as a sole identity provider on my websites some day.

EDIT: I also began writing a Safari extension that would work like the mockup above, but gave up halfway since it was too convoluted and totally insecure... maybe I should try writing a SIMBL plugin or something like that.