skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who said they're doing it by hand? It takes 28 minutes to receive feedback from anything, so they're going very slowly and monitoring what happens.
"$50 for an extravagant meal, far beyond nutritional needs"

"Would you discount those goods/services as "not improving the world" and not worth millions of dollars?"

Yes. Considering how people actually starve because of speculation with food, and considering global warming, I wouldn't even blink when saying that makes the world worse.

So I'm all for stepping on that toe and see where it leads. Kinda like making wearing fur uncool -- why not? Where is the problem?
HN just repeated slashdot? I don't remember that happening before...
> twitter gave a marketing company the power to rebrand their logo now it would cost thousands.

Many many thousands.
What makes you think they haven't already tested the hell out of it?
We're using MariaDB at linkup.com and love it! Whenever I read "MySQL is becoming closed source" I think its just an indication that MariaDB needs more community interaction (like how the Fedora team ramped up marketing efforts when RedHat killed their non-RHEL distro.)
Hard drives will not work in a vacuum. http://www.dansdata.com/spacecomp.htm:

"Many people think hard drives are hermetically sealed, but they're not - they just have no through-flow ventilation. In vacuum, a hard drive will instantly eat itself when turned on.

[…] Even if you run at full atmospheric pressure, you don't want all your computers to die if you lose some air.
As a random guess, I assume branding and messaging (advertisements, print material, ...) to get the word out there is included.
Travel Health Apps Aim to Keep Travelers Healthy While Abroad
Nor did Pussy Riot receive 3 years in jail for that.

This was something they did 4 years ago, and since then they repeatedly broke the law. (other examples: "Samutsevich took part in actions which involved releasing live cockroaches in a court room and kissing policewomen in the Moscow metro and on the streets (which in some cases was seen as attempted assault)")

The sentence for the DJ was perfectly resonable after this misstep, and I hope he didn't have trouble with the police any more after counseling. But imagine what the sentence would look like for him after repeatedly showing such behaviour.

Edit: Actually he did have sex in his car .. doesn't even look like if it was his intent to get caught. Thats a whole different thing and not comparable to having such a performance in a museum in front of 20 news reporters.
If both a trackpad and a trackpoint are available, I always use the trackpoint. I feel like I have better control with it while the trakpad makes me sloppy.
> but I know how much work companies are doing for the 400k price tags

I absolutely agree, by far the biggest portion of most redesigns isn't so much "just" the logo, it's changing the whole corporate design that is attached. Letterheads, website, slide design, business cards etc. etc. etc.

That is obviously only the case if you already have an established brand and established corporate culture. The small startup with just a handful of people doesn't have to worry to much (since not much is in place), but if you need to ("retroactively") change the specs for thousands of workers, subsidiaries etc, that quickly ramps up the price and the amount of work needed.
You can also use (set a shortcut or gesture) for mission control applications. I think that's what it's called. Or maybe it's still exposé. Anyway, it zooms out on all open windows of the current application and - for instance in Sublime - will display the file name on mouseover.
It depends on what you my by "doing it by hand." The update process is "automated" in the sense that it's completely scripted. Every step is known ahead of time, and has been extensively tested on ground-based duplicates of the flight hardware. The only aspect of the process that is done "by hand" is "pushing the big red button" to initiate the next step of the process, and even this is a very stylized and well rehearsed process. The only reason for having even this step of the process be manual is so that humans can assess the situation between steps and satisfy themselves that nothing has gone wrong with one step before proceeding to the next. That's the real challenge in a situation like this: your communications link is operating on the hairy edge of the limits imposed by the laws of physics, so lots of things can go wrong in production that worked in rehearsal.
7 years later and this is still truer than ever.
> Many English speakers use "begs the question" to mean "raises the question," or "impels the question," and follow that phrase with the question raised,[17] for example, "this year's deficit is half a trillion dollars, which begs the question: how are we ever going to balance the budget?"

Yes it does.
"China was a super power before, I mean, long before there was a USA."

Also the Greeks, the Carthaginians, the Romans, the Persians, the Spanish, the Japanese, the French and the British. Even Portugal got to control a territory bigger than that of ancient China (without Tibet and other recent conquest).

"And keep in mind that Germany became a super power from nothing in less than 50 years."

?? I don't know what nothing means to you. Do you mean "nothing" as the WWII? were it was the most scientifically and industrially developed country of the world with scientist that later will launch rockets for the Americans and Russians, develop modern chemistry or psychology?.

I believe Chinese are very hard working people and there will be prosperity there but not under communism. China could break apart very easily into smaller states. The coast is very rich while inner China is so poor.
Incorrect. Microsoft invented XmlHttpRequest during the time that they had the dominant browser.

They also brought Windows from 95 to NT, 2000 and 7, with plenty of innovation, during the time that they had the dominant operating system.
I use a small rectangular scope to help me read menus at take away restaurants and have learned to hide the device because it make people very uncomfortable despite not being a camera.
As am I. The issue is, how much space would the unfolded thing be, how would you ensure it's soundproof, and would you be able to carry it around normally? Presumably it'd be something that expands, maybe self-expanding. It wouldn't exactly be secure (someone would likely be able to cut through it) but it'd be easy enough to make it so if someone does so, it sets off some sort of alarm (to stop people cutting the thing open, and taking your stuff while you're sleeping).

I think the obvious thing would be to integrate it with a backpack (with the backpack itself expandable in size, probably), and have only the bed/matress there (so it's not very tall, even when expanded).)
Very good point. I guess the other thing I hadn't thought about is temperature (variability in particular) which must affect hard drives with all their moving/expanding metal parts a lot more than it does SSDs.
Cool idea, but website needs significant work. For example, the font changes from sans serif to serif mid-page, for no explicable reason.

I'm assuming you'll require a credit card to use, which should cut down on a lot of the unsavory activities people are discussing.
Hey Facebook: Fuck Wall Street
There's an opportunity cost though. A product that's solving a specific pain point can be good and even profitable, but it's never going to take off the way a truly disruptive product does.

I suspect what's happening is that startups themselves, like everything else, are being commoditized.
Linux has been capable of driving multitouch trackpads for years (specifically the synaptic driver). Even then, it can 'fake' it on some, by detecting the width of the touch area. The main problem is all the touches must be handled in the driver, so pretty much only two finger scrolling, two finger click for right click and three finger click for middle click work. There is work going on to bring a proper multitouch api to xorg, so gestures can be used correctly.
Discussed 5 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842033

The original submission date for the paper is interesting (http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0162) ...

Yes, it is real:

- http://www.sdsc.edu/News%20Items/PR041312_trafficticket.html

- http://www.caida.org/~dima/
But it appears that something in the balance has changed, and I'm not really sure what.

Google are trying to stop software patents by actually using the ones they have? Force a meltdown?
Ah, hadn't seen that one, thanks.
Physical changeover of signage at all sites with the logo is another big cost. It usually must all be done at around the same time which often means higher after hours costs. For BP, this means all of their petrol stations.
"When, and it’s a question of when, and not if, the crash happens – which could be the collapse of exports, the internal property waste bubble bursting, the GDP will see a very severe contraction"

wait what? i missed the paragraph founding this claim. especially important because you're basing other claims on this.
Attack the argument, not the author. Intents are a great idea. Does that mean they are a bold re-imagining of a smartphone? Not at all.
Not sure, but trying it out would be a good way to find out...
(In a Bizarro World, it's Siemens bringing back Symbian)

OMG
Thanks for the pointer to original discussion. Some interesting points on that one.
Ah, I stand corrected. So that "raises the question", right?
Thanks for linking this. I've been using my GF's MBP while I look for a new laptop, and while OS X is nice, I just don't grok it. I'm an Ubuntu guy, and this looks like a good fit.
If the tables were turned

I'm sure there are examples of Apple following the pack. For example, an App Store is similar to apt (or other package managers) in Linux-land. Podcasts where included in iTunes after someone else invented them (I think). Apple produce Unix servers after other people were selling unix servers.

That's how the tech industry works, we all copy each other, to some degree.
> team Postgresql has never seriously asked the question of why MySQL has had more market traction than Postgresql.

And how could you possibly be so sure about this?
The lawsuits about prior art should be enough to lock down the judicial system on its own.
Complaining that most people find interesting something that you see as banal, and demanding they protest what you deem significant is not having a contrarian opinion. It's just being innapropiate to this conversation. Posting about the Marinaka Mine Massacre on HN would be more constructive.

Now, blaming all of this on the "western media narrative", a mindset relic of the hawkest hawks of the Cold War, who exaggerate a simple incident of "vandalism" in order to discredit the democratic government of Putin... Yeah, that's a contrarian opinion. Which just happens to be false. Western media simply does not give that much of a fuck now about Rusia. Past protests in Russia about the legitimacy of the elections? Here covered, at most, in passing. The law banning reunions? Don't care. The Pussy Riot incident? It's only on HN's front page because Kasparov was arrested.
Sorry. You've got it. We arent sure yet. It depends a on what kind of people get most excited about backlift. Will our users be mostly designers? People just learning how to code? Will people want to deploy production websites with backlift or use it primarily for rapid prototyping? I think different answers may point to very different pricing models.
Well to write the automatic bit you'll have to manually figure out the rules :)

But yeah, something like that would be a good start. I don't know anything about this domain so I'm of limited help here. It might be too hard to categorize based solely on words if they're not distinct enough.
So where do the images go - sorry to ask a dumb question but if I want to delete the uploaded snap, is it possible ?

If you can enable batch upload that'll be fantastic.

Kudos to keeping the app really simple and beautiful. +1
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Feel free to take, comment, do etc
Looks great.
Did you consider having it automatically upload on the drop? Having the upload button seems like an unnecessary extra step.

Anyways, I bookmarked it and will be using it.
Mongo-DB Notes
>For my use case I do a single query to fetch my self contained User object which would need 30+ queries if I was using a relational database.

This can't possibly be right. The 30+ SQL queries would have provided additional information that your 1 NoSQL query doesn't.
"Single, double and triple Sleepbox units are available at prices starting at EUR 7,000 ($8600). With an average annual income of USD 30,000 per unit, investments pay back in six to nine months, the company says."

From: http://www.springwise.com/lifestyle_leisure/sleepbox-helps-t...
That timeless design isn't exactly timeless since they messed with the keyboard [1] [2].

[1] http://blog.laptopmag.com/thinkpad-type-off-is-lenovos-new-i...

[2] http://blog.lenovo.com/products/why-you-should-give-in-to-th...
I hope something like this takes off, mostly because I'd buy one for my apartment.

A few years back I spent many weeks trying to figure out how to purchase and get shipped one of the Japanese capsule hotel units to my apartment. I found a manufacturer (whose website was entirely in Japanese) and eventually was able to figure out that it wasn't really feasible (getting one of the units shipped to the U.S. was a nightmare, and the units are generally meant to be purchased in bulk), which made me sad.

I fully concede that I'm a weirdo, but I've dreamed about sleeping in a little cocoon module for most of my life (I spent a lot of my childhood wishing I was on a submarine, I'm a-ok with enclosed spaces).
There was significantly more behind the scenes. It would be very similar to what PwC just paid for (rebranding from PriceWaterhouseCoopers) [1].

Accenture was a rebrand of Andersen Consulting, the consulting division of Arthur Andersen, the large accountancy. The Big-5 accountancy gave them their entire brand position, so the creation of the Accenture logo involved all of the campaigns for them to emerge, not just the logo or mark. This is also why their ads are in every airport—the brand identify had to be built from scratch. For Accenture, it ended up being exceptional timing, considering the Enron scandal would emerge in a year or so and end up destroying Arthur Andersen.

Most of the accountancies examined spinning out their consulting divisions, similar to Accenture. I wouldn't say the results were as successful as Accenture for those that chose to rebrand. E&Y sold their group to Cap Gemini, becoming Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, and eventually just Capgemini. PwC was going to spin out their division as "Monday", but instead ended up selling the group to IBM (only to eventually restart again). KPMG had BearingPoint, which eventually went bankrupt. Deloitte contemplated rebranding their consulting group as Braxton, but it never happened.

All in all, seems like the $100M was worth it.

[1] http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662367/pwcs-mighty-morphin-logo...
this is my first senior author paper; i imagine i'll be more haughty after I start teaching a few classes.
I used to follow Dustin Curtis. I liked that each of his blog posts had a unique theme/layout/typography/imagery.

Then once he became popular what does he do? He built svbtle, a blog network of bloggers who all have pages and posts that look identical...

I also avoid the greater-than-thou grouping.
The functionality is present for iOS, it just isn't being exposed. If you create a category header file (just header, not implementation) the compiler'll pick up on it and all will work fine.

This isn't my code, but I've been happily using it for a week or so now:
https://gist.github.com/3299750
http://www.genomics.agilent.com/GenericB.aspx?PageType=Custo...
TL;DR do your sysadmin job.
> You don't have to have perfect solutions to edge customer cases and you can always iterate on the solutions.

This isn't a high tech startup. These units would be placed in very public places, so initial impressions would have an enormous impact on their subsequent success (or failure). Imagine the worst things someone could do within one of these units and then ask yourself how you would discretely clean that within a public space.

The previous poster is right: Given their semi-public/semi-private nature and the fact that they include beds, there's no way in the world these units wouldn't be used by mischievous travelers. The media would have a field day with this - and not just the news: TV sitcoms and certain nighttime dramas would be racing to be the first to be the first to include a pod episode.

It's hard to see the units not turn into a running joke that no concourse operator would want to be associated with.
I would add a check if pasted text is a url to an image and load that in
Maybe you want a Macbook to run linux on. The Macbook Air 2011 is great with linux.
This[1] article is brand new, though.

[1]: http://blog.mariadb.org/disappearing-test-cases/
The problem is that you can't just implement the Japanese system in the US. The Japanese are much more respectful of other people's/business's property than Americans and are much less likely to be using drugs (and although prostitution is widespread, the prostitute/john won't trash the place). That's why completely automated vending machine-style systems, such as those used by capsule hotels and many love hotels, are feasible in Japan. The success of a similar system in the US will hinge on whether the increased costs from running it in America will keep things profitable.

The best solution I can see at the moment is to accept only credit cards and then charge heavy fines/institute a ban for trashing the place.
It actually starts preuploading the image to the server as soon as you insert it, clicking the upload button just confirms that you want to upload the image. When you click the button the server starts uploading the image to the cloud and generates the link for it.

The extra step is also there to let you crop the image, if you wish.
Their corporate headquarters is in Cincinnati, OH and they have gone beyond the local standards corruption in a couple of widely reported ways.
You forgot to mention, that MySQL has no transactions support.

Seriously, before claiming your beloved choice as "superior solution" would you mind as much as to learn something about competition you dismiss as inferior?

For one I cannot wait PG go become popular—maybe when more people start to use it and start to shoot themselves in the feet will they shut-up about superiority.
If you asked me, Safari is the centerpiece of the iPhone and always has been. It's even more important than the ability to run third party apps.

It was the first phone browser done right, and is still arguably the best. Outside of the phone operations, I would trade away every possible feature of iOS for Safari.

Notifications is an annoying piece of crap for a lot of people including me. That isn't to say the previous generation of alerts were not worse, they were.

But I highly doubt that many people think it is THE cornerstone feature. For some, like me, it's Safari. For others, it's FaceTime, others the camera, etc.
I've played around with multitouch on Ubuntu, it does work
with some hardware (but not if the driver intercepts the touches and synthesizes something like scrollwheel events, that's bad).

See eg. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch
and https://lists.launchpad.net/multi-touch-dev/msg00997.html
buy one if i can't afford a house in the modern city
as much as i'd like this to be a reality there are some valid concerns on comments here.

Possible ways that this could work:

- Make it subscription based with the regular credit card deposit liability. Any type of damage to the equipment would be accountable to the person who stayed there.

- There would need to be persons responsible for maintaining these units 24 hrs a day. That person could be responsible for units in one space, or an area depending on use frequency. The unit would not be available until serviced after every use.

- Make the unit more transparent. Use tinted glass instead of opaque walls. Tinted enough to block out bright light, but not opaque so that inhabitant(s) are not free to do whatever they want. this is just a more comfortable way to nap/relax and not an actual hotel.
I did a site:comparerc.com in Google, and most of the pages that show up are blank such as: http://comparerc.com/items/xk2845-b-3700kv-brushless-inrunne... . I'm not sure if your site is down, or if Google is indexing expired pages? Might want to look into that...

As for tagging, if I were you, I'd start out with a very simple categorization: by first letter.

Also, how are you going to make these pages filled with more high quality content? Google doesn't like thin pages and might penalize you in the future for having 100000+ thin content pages.

And how do you plan to get links? Without links, you have little hope of ranking even for long-tail queries.
Yes, I'm considering that. However, the main point of the app is to let the user upload images to the web that aren't already hosted somewhere else.
Also same story with OpenOffice, and Jenkins/Hudson.
There's no way to delete the images at the moment. I'm considering different methods of handling this, since that seems to be something that many want.
> The various Linux desktop environments are also less than ideal in handling high-density displays. Compared to OS X 10.7/10.8, the Unity, GNOME Shell, and KDE desktops all looked like shit at 2880 x 1800 on the Retina MacBook Pro. The text was difficult to read and even when toying around with different scaling factors, the text ended up looking awkward in relation to icons and other visuals.

I wonder how could a better resolution make the text more difficult to read. Too bad he didn't publish any screenshots.
I just noticed the search syntax link, these are better searches:

Ask HN: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=tit...

Show HN: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=tit...
Video: At one trillion frames per second, you can see light move
IIRC, HTC settled up and is paying a license fee. There is no way for Barnes and Noble to be the only one paying, since it is widely known that MS makes more from Android makers than it does from Windows Phone.
Retail sales of consumer goods in China in 2011 were about $300B USD and growing at 17% per year. I think this places it close behind the USA and EU.

More cars (units) are already sold in China than any other market. Other categories are not far behind.

Obviously China's growth was fueled mainly by exports. However, that doesn't mean its internal consumer economy is anemic. Further, current government policy in China is to encourage internal consumer spending.
You don't like my argument so I am trolling ? Nice.

And you ignored Windows, Mac as well as the huge number of LAMP based installers. Being able to quickly get the entire stack up and running very much helped the popularity of MySQL.
Some of these examples are redesigns so it makes the actual cost extremely difficult, or impossible to quantify.
> In absolute positioning, we define exact pixel for html element where it will appear. This starts from the top left of the parent element.

This is quite wrong. Here is what the W3C specs say:

> In the absolute positioning model, a box is explicitly offset with respect to its containing block [1]

> The containing block for a positioned box is established by the nearest positioned ancestor [2]

> An element is said to be positioned if its 'position' property has a value other than 'static' [3]

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#absolute-positioning

[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#comp-abspos

[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#position-props
No transactions support?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/ansi-diff-transaction...