skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hugely unsurprising responses from both parties.
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> Sounds a little like Bridge.com as described.

You mean Branch.com?
Are these original? In app referal? Aren't there many already?

chat support? The example given, SO, HAS chat.

Mindmaps online? Used many.

And some perverted ideas!
"Sleeping in public causes security, privacy and hygiene issues."

This sounds like a rationalization. For me, the reasons not to sleep in public are that public spaces are designed to discourage it, and cops will wake me up.

Public sleeping should be a right, but if something like Sleepbox becomes common, it will become even harder to sleep without having money.
>I miss Sun. They made some seriously cool stuff, and in their later years they were really quite progressive in their outlook and approach.

Yes, and look how well it worked out for them...
Keep in mind when asking me that question that I probably have a different idea than you of what "children safety" means (for example: we probably believe different reasons for why it's best for all concerned if pedophiles avoid breaking the law). But for nearly all definitions, you'd rather have us acting as we'd like to envision ourselves than acting as society envisions us, and having a community enables the creation of that self image and sense of what it means to be ethical. We're not going to go away, and we're far more numerous than most realize, so you might as well let us figure out how to be good people. That can only happen through dialogue, and for the time being that dialogue is only possible anonymously.

Also, it may sound self serving of me to say this, but the risk of pedophiles on the Internet is waaaay overblown. The behavior most of society considers sexual abuse is far more likely to be from a child's caretakers than some stranger on the Internet. And child pornography, from what I understand (and I really am not stupid enough to download it myself, even with Tor), is mostly the same old images again and again.
Same here! Read ask at least once a day! Maybe a survey would be better for this "Ask" than everyone replying separately?
except smart people pay some other loser to do it
This is of course an ultimate bike-shedding topic, but I'll add my .02 anyway:

With a multi-touch extension like jiTouch that lets you configure your own per-app multi-touch gestures, the large trackpad (especially external trackpads) are no-debate the most versatile "mouse" alternative.

I have many keyboard shortcuts mapped to gestures for PyCharm, Sublime and Xcode that let me do very cool things during specific workflows (think: debugging, deployment, etc). I've only been using it (and Macs in general) since November but it's the first time i don't totally loathe having to move my hand from the keyboard.
And then, you save it by getting a prepaid plan.
A critical mass of people with $50.
All,

I think constructive criticism is always benefitical however the reality is that HN has form a "elitist" mentality. If you are not putting out world class design or code they'll tell you about it. That is just the way it's evolved and I'd suggest you not give in to it.

Secondly, My suggestion to the "elitist" mentality is we have 1 day a week or month that you cannot be negative. See something negative and that user gets negative karma or something to that nature. We can self regulate and improve the culture within HN if we put some effort in.

-Kris
>I wouldn't buy a macbook for linux regardless of display.

You wouldn't. Linus Torvalds would --and actually did. And he says that his Macbook Air is the best laptop he ever had, and that Lenovo doesn't even come close.
> Just curious, could you explain what it is that people want from MySQL that they don't get from Postgres?

Nothing, but I'd really love the migration story to be much nicer. The only thing stopping me is a few hundred queries that will need to be rewritten to conform to the Postgres way. There's a few things that Postgres could offer to make the transition a bit easier:

- Improve mysqlcompat so that it's a really first class implementation

- Offer a configuration package that helps with a lot of annoying differences like booleans values not printing as 0/1

- Offer some MySQL style syntax sugar, like ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, backticks for field names

- Offer a case insensitive collation for text fields or build something like citext into the core

- Supporting TINYINT and UNSIGNED numeric types would be useful

- I like the mysql date handling syntax...

I realise that many of these things have perfectly good workarounds available, but it would be much nicer if I didn't have to test as much stuff to confirm it still works.
I am more concerned than ever to learn the best ways to protect myself from tick bites. I was already concerned because of the life-changing impact of lyme disease.

I am currently travelling the U.S. in an RV, and I do a lot of hiking/biking/camping in remote areas. I'm sure a lot of other HN readers do as well.

What are some of the best proven ways to keep ticks off of yourself?
I said vegetarian extremists - not vegetarians. Not all vegetarians are extremists, but there definitely are some. Please read what I actually write before responding negatively.
>Thinkpads have an understated, timeless design, superior to almost all competition, Macs included. The only distinguishing quality of Macs is their built quality - but that's not exactly a good reason to buy an ugly laptop

A Mac is an ugly laptop? Compared to a Lenovo? In what universe?

Is there a parallel universe in which Apple laptops do not win all the design awards and are generally and widely considered the best looking by plain folks and designers alike?

>But I guess de gustibus non est disputandum.

Oh, the irony.
Consumer apps might be a hard sell, although Steam might soon have its own app store. If you're selling a business app, then yes, you can easily succeed outside the app store.
》Once you get used to the TrackPoint, you'll realize what a piece of crap the MacBook trackpad is

Ooooooh no you won't. Sorry Wintermute, but you're speaking from a very, very small niche market. In my experience a huge majority of people overwhelmingly prefer the mac trackpad for all conceivable uses. Two-finger scroll is a killer app.
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Most likely 'search' as you already mentioned, would prove to be the most useful option here.

But to make sure, you can think about this approach. Get answers to these questions - (1) understand who the end users are (2) what problem are you trying to solve for them? (3) What kind of knowledge would they have before coming to this website? (4) What kind of information would they be searching on the site?

Each of these questions will have multiple answers. You will have to talk to the stakeholders (business owner, marketing dept etc.) to get this information. At the end of this exercise, you should be able to make groups of your end users. Could be 3 to 7 depending upon various demographic factors (1) age (2) location (3) domain knowledge (4) expectation etc.

Once you have these user groups decided, make profiles for each of the group. Profile basically describes that particular section of your user audience based on various characteristics like age, gender, education, language, computer experience, domain expertise and their expectation from the website.

Then the most challenging part - talk to at least 10-15 'real' users from each of your user groups and validate the 'expectations' part that you assumed above. In addition to that you can also try 'card sorting' and 'reverse card sorting' approaches to see how your users categorize the information you have.

People who are from Usability Analysis field, will understand what I'm talking about here, but @polyfractal, you can trust this as a proven scientific method for Information Architecture of your website content.
One-way mirrors!
What's wrong with sex in the box? Why not just install camera then?
Ubuntu. I've found that a decent amount of software for development is just harder to install on Windows. The open source community seems to mostly be on Linux, and they often have the best support and installation processes for Linux.

For example, setting up Emacs and getting the packages I want installed has been much easier on Ubuntu than Windows. This has also been true for a lot of other great open source software.
I agree about the vi vs. vim part, I just suggested :N since the book itself was (as far as I could tell) strictly staying vi-compatible. :Next going backwards compared to :next is a little confusing at first, but it actually fits the same pattern as some other commands that go in two directions (f and F, t and T, gg and G), if you think about the two commands as just :n and :N. Naturally, as you observed, it's probably better to use :prev if you're in a modern vi clone or vim.

If you switch to vim as the baseline, there's a bunch of other easier ways to do things too, like using :sav (:saveas) instead of :w <filename> followed by :e <filename>.
The problem is: the other 40% were screwed again -- the same 40% were screwed on every russian presidential elections ever. There were no elections with "unorthodox" result -- there is no choice. The lack of choice and circulation hurts the credibility of the regime.
90% of those already exist... did you at search for any of those ?
It does mean that they are Fair and Reasonable. 2.25% of the total sale value is neither.
Why is that a bad thing? Competition is generally good, and it helps prove theres somewhat of a market for these ideas already.
It's very unfortunate that credit card companies are willing/forced to take the side of the consumer even when they're clearly in the wrong. Maybe this will have to be revisited when/if a more impartial payment system becomes common.

Edit: it seems like the endpoint of all this is the banks. If the credit card companies could send the pictures to them, maybe things could be resolved? But I doubt the banks would want to get involved in that. Either way, if I were running a bank, I would take Visa or MasterCard's word over that of any individual customer.
So jmillikin stated that this had been posted by trustworthy sources and then goes on to list Julian's mom as a trustworthy source.

I don't understand in which way I am "flippantly rude" when pointing this out.
UI-wise. "Authentically digital" -- lots of rectangles and inorganic colors, no hint of skeuomorphism.
[personal blog, new here, 17yr, tips?] How to start programming
I also like the Python Challenge: http://www.pythonchallenge.com/
I think his point is that being quick to throw out exaggerated extremist views when describing a group can be tedious (if not offensive) to other members of the group.

Honestly, how many mentally-ill extremists who happen to be vegetarian do you think are going to risk jail time and notoriety just to breed ticks (!) and distribute them hoping to trigger this unusual side effect while knowing that they could just as easily spread other diseases?
That's the one. Thanks. I edited it to correct.
Pretty lame for me and the rest of us who don't drag or drop
Interview with Custora (YC W11) Co-Founder Jon Pospischil
Kudos for finding the actual law text (where I as a native Swedish speaker gave up after 15 minutes of reading legalese).
Photos - Google+
To get a laptop with a 2880x1800 pixel resolution?
> Real Life Game

Though I've never tried it out, look at http://www.superbetter.com for an interesting take on this idea.

Plus the relevant TED talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfBpsV1Hwqs
If they already have some experience with high level languages, I would introduce them to K&R's C Programming Language. It does a good job of introducing some low-level topics, like pointers and memory management.

I also second the books that teach using Scheme, like SICP. I think learning Lisp and C introduces many important concepts.

Also, learning a web stack is very educational. Learning how a web application works (Internet protocols, server side code, databases, etc) taught me a lot.
FWIW, in addition to MariaDB, there is Percona Server as well, and they are also maintaining a launchpad for the base MySQL code on Launchpad while Oracle neglects that codebase.

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2012/08/16/where-to-get-...
Homeless and Living at the Airport
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9109795...
"Of course, most people have pretty childish tastes and prefer shiny things."

Not to feed the troll, but that is a pretty childish thing to say.
do you have a link to the thread?
A LN competitor should do more to encourage meaningful discussion in the forums and find a way to keep recruiters from using the site to troll for qualified applicants.Really, the glut of recruiters on LN makes it near-impossible to effectively network on the site anymore. Instead of charging real professionals, they should charge the recruiters through the nose and segregate them like the bottom feeders they are.
Look, my friend, you cannot deny that Russians overwhelmingly voted for Putin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_presidential_election,_...

He got 64% of the total vote (45 million people). His closest opponent was a communist with 17%.

Now, how much votes did Putin steal? 10%? That would still leave him with twice as much votes as his next opponent. He'd still have the people's mandate.

It is quite possible that you do not like the choice of the majority of Russian people. But if you cannot accept result of a democratic election then you should not be making statements about Constitution and the law.
If meat is murder then gunning down ranchers and blowing up meeting packing plants would be justifiable too. But it doesn't happen.

A bunch of non-meat-eaters taking their clothes off for PETA ads or throwing red paint on fur coats is a loooooooong way from what you are suggesting. Please come back to reality.
Regarding installation and ease of use, can you be more specific? I see this complaint frequently but, as a postgresql user, it's hard for me to see where the difficulty for new users is and what should be done about it.
My pointless quest for the perfect web stack
Right, I'm sure the BP rebrand included new expensive signs at all of their gas stations. I isn't like the logo design walked off with hundreds of millions.
It's a bad idea to take a startup idea from this list and attempt to make a company out of it. You have to find something you're passionate about or something you want to fix.

I seem to come up with ideas daily which was somewhat of a problem but when I wanted to work on my second company I wasn't sure what to do and tried to brainstorm ideas, this eventually failed but I did come up with an idea I'm passionate about outside of this process.
I've read the interview where he says he uses an Air because it's quiet and light [1]. However I don't see him say anything about how the lenovo 'doesn't even come close'. I'm sure you're not making stuff up, so could you provide your citation? I'm interested as considering a new small dev laptop, you see.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/19/an-interview-with-millenium...
I disagree. The only flaw in the policy of low chargeback limits is that it doesn't discriminate between chargebacks due to stolen cards and chargebacks due to extreme customer dissatisfaction.

If a large percentage of your paying customers are so angry with you that they'll complain to any 3rd party they can find, something is wrong with your business and no other brand should want to be associated with the experience you're creating.

A low chargeback limit makes policies like "bury a $300 cleanup fee in the fine print" non-viable. That kind of thing shouldn't be viable even if it's technically legal. If you find a way to charge a cleanup fee and not surprise and anger customers when doing so, you won't get chargebacks. If you find a way to operate the pods without attracting people that will trash them, you won't get chargebacks.

Speaking to your edit: the banks and credit card companies are not separate entities. There are only the banks. The banks own the card brands, and the card brands are not involved in the chargeback process. You dispute a charge by calling your card-issuing bank. The phone number on the back of your card is your bank's number, not Visa's. Visa does not interact directly with customers. Your bank sends the dispute to the bank underwriting the merchant account, which sends it to the merchant. The merchant presents its evidence to its bank, which forwards it back to the card-issuing bank of the customer for a decision.
Porn is a billion dollar industry. He's just giving people what they want - he has no control over WHAT they want.
I couldn't agree more. Thanks a lot for sharing.
I own five Apple devices, and no Android devices :)

From the article,
QUOTE
The interesting thing here is that the release of the SDK with support for touch and large screens, as well as the release of this video and hardware reference design took place one month before the infamous photograph of the BlackBerry-esque device. This means that Google wasn't working with just one prototype, but several, which really shouldn't be a surprise at all, if you think about what Google wanted Android to be.

Android was never intended to run on just one form factor. Android runs on everything from candybar touch screen phones to qwerty-phones, and everything in between. Heck, there was a race to get Android running on laptops, and even before Android was well and ready for it, it was dumped on tablets.
UNQUOTE
Emphasis on blackberry and touchscreen appearing at the same time, and that Android was always intended to be form factor independent.

How does this equate to "in 2005, Android was blackberry"? Reference please.
I seem to recall there being a subreddit filled with these kind of puzzles, but I can't find it right now. Anybody know the one I'm talking about?

edit: this was the one I was thinking about http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer
As for #1)In-app Referrals - I'm not so sure if this would be a business, but on the topic of apps, why not make a "Compete.com for apps", where you can track how many downloads a specific keyword can net you, or how many downloads another app has over time. of course, this type of data is only known by Apple, but you can run some heuristics for estimating it.

Also app-store optimization is something that's relatively unsaturated now. Perhaps some sort of tool that runs statistics and gives you correlations on what factors goes into an app ranking high for a keyword.
Interesting: Personalized restaurant and bar curation based on your interests
Rightly mentioned. So, do you see any common gap they all have where a new competitor can capitalize on?
Unicorns, Banana Suits, and 500 Startups; Just Another Night With Dave McClure
the idea of really fitting in there is probably absurd in practice

Nah, just pick the right location. The USA has 300M people. A good number of them are scientifically minded atheists.
> In my experience a huge majority of people overwhelmingly prefer the mac trackpad for all conceivable uses.

In my experience, a huge majority of people don't even know what a TrackPoint is, let alone give it a shot.

I won't deny that this is because Lenovo's advertising is nonexistent. Apple has done an excellent job over the last 5 years of convincing the general public that they have the best hardware on the market. And although I personally relish the unchanging ThinkPad design, I can see how many people would find it to be anachronistic in the 21st century.

> Two-finger scroll is a killer app.

I've had 2 finger scroll with the TrackPoint for years, and it's a lot better than the trackpad way - my right index finger moving the TrackPoint and my right thumb holding down the middle mouse button. My fingers stay on the home row, and I use my left thumb for the space bar and my right thumb stays on the mouse buttons at most times. I've tried the MacBook "two-finger scroll" method, and it just breaks my train of thought to have to move my hand back and forth from the trackpad to the keyboard.

In fact, I like the ThinkPad keyboard so much that I have the USB model for use with my desktop.
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Go to any tech retail outlet, close your eyes and randomly touch any of the products they sell. I'm sure IBM has at least one patent covering it. The fact that they were here for a very long time and do a lot of pure science research means they are ahead of patent game than most.

Here's one story about Sun shakedown in 80's
http://www.osnews.com/story/24987/Microsoft_s_Android_Shaked...
Exclude Compressed CSS from Sublime Text 2 Projects
This is an excellent opportunity for the Postgres community to step up an promote Postgres.
Show HN: A multi-touch document manipulation system
Klout +K's Broken - No Limit To +K's You Can Give
I'm pretty sure, I (and none of us in my family) even remotely know this 'advancetehri' guy

Doesn't change the fact that anybody can enter any phone number and upload it to Facebook.

when I clicked that link and when @iambibhas clicked that link, we both got immediate friend request from 'advancetehri'.

This sounds like an oversight on Facebook's side. The link should only to be used by one account of the person invited.

Evil plan to grab new users?

No.
Understood, and yup it's and actual iPhone 4.
> "As part of European Agreement, Oracle will maintain MySQL dual licensing until 2015."

> "Oracle also striped out some of the capabilities from the MySQL Open Source version, like the NDB storage engine, for example, and now charges for this."

Can they do this? Dumb it down before 2015?

If they can, what would stop them from striping out more and bigger capabilities, effectively killing the Open Source version while maintaining dual licensing on paper?
One of the problems with corporate R&D in general it seems: what's successful for businesses and what's good for technological advancement often seem not to be in sync. Some of the best stuff has come from notoriously unprofitable groups, like the old Xerox PARC, which benefitted the whole sector, but not its originators.
because they never admit that they're doing anything wrong
it is still there, sadly only at Terminal 2: http://www.munich-airport.de/en/consumer/aufenthalt_trans/ho...
I built this too, but with sweet user accounts: http://imageshar.es/

I, however, did not spend much time on the UI. :)
Many comments seemed concerned about the public perception that these will often be used for sex.

Since this is aimed at business travelers, it shouldn't be too hard to limit it to single occupancy.

Just add some kind of occupancy sensor--weight distribution on the bed maybe--that alerts an employee when it detects more than one person.
Like you, I felt some serious disgust at this line given all the other people who contributed to the problem, but also very worried that innocent people were fired, suffered long-term grief, or committed suicide. You better be damn sure before you tell people at the bottom that it is their fault and it better be for their personal incompetence and not a failure of process or design that they have no control over.
The only time I see the old usage of begging the question referenced at all is when pedants wants to correct people for the new usage. I'm pretty confident I've never come across the original usage outside of these types of discussions.

That to me says it all bout which usage is current. And it also makes this type of pedantry all the more annoying.

In other words: Yes, it now means what he thought it means.
Emory University misrepresented student data for over a decade