skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An excellent stance.

You'd have missed out on the opportunity to work with Feynman if you'd declined work at the Manhattan Project.
This is not a new idea. http://www.yotel.com seems a direct competitor. Also, in the extreme we have the Japanese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel.
Cool beans! Awesome UI!
Just a heads up on a UI bug:
if you zoom in while the image is scrolled down this happens - http://pbrd.co/PlLe2h (notice how the div wrapper is cut)
Tested on the latest chrome :)
Automate it in a test environment that simulates production as closely as possible. Once the automated software updates work flawlessly under various conditions, use that in production.
Like this? http://www.golittleguy.com/teardrops/
Hate speech laws could just be limited to incitement of hatred (what I think was their original intention), i.e. 'Catholics are stupid' vs. 'We should kill all Catholics because they are stupid'.

I'm having a hard time seeing any other interpretation as trying to make offence, a victimless crime, a criminal act.

Here are the actual lyrics of the song performed:
http://freepussyriot.org/content/lyrics-songs-pussy-riot

As far as I can see the only words in their which might be seen as trying to inspire 'harm' are 'Virgin Mary, put Putin away'.
awesome point. you hit the nail on the head i think - this is an article soaked with deep cultural ego. unfortunately, these sorts of self-centered attitudes are probably necessary to rouse the interest of the average american reader. after all, america as a country is divorced from reality. kind of makes you wonder if there's any hope for the place in the long-term.
This is a good idea. And sprinkled in all the hate comments are a few good bits of constructive criticism.

1) Remove the stock photo asap

2) Clearly define why someone using Github or Stackoverflow would want your service.

3) Tell us about your service on your home page.

What kills it for me is a personal bias though. We have a stigma here in the states about Iran's Gov't. I'd be fearful to give my data to a company who is at the mercy of the Iranian Government.

What country is your company based out of?
On work hours, the Scandinavians do still have the Protestant work ethic culturally, but have been trying to cut back on number of hours, out of a theory (probably correct imo) that in a modern information economy it's more about quality of work than quantity of hours in chair. The current Danish workweek is 37 hours, and followed quite religiously. Everyone is on time and works efficiently during the day (no 2-hour lunches), but few people can be found in the office past 3pm on a Friday.

Scandinavia is also an interesting option on the last point if you aren't up to the language-learning, though there are pros/cons. It's actually harder to integrate language-wise than most other places, because the languages are phonologically difficult for Americans (especially Danish), and people all speak good English so their patience for your broken language is low as they can just switch. So you'll probably learn more Spanish in Spain or Italian in Italy than Danish in Denmark. But because of the good English, it's quite possible to at least partly integrate culturally if you find the right social circles. (It also makes it easy to deal with formalities, since much government and bank correspondence can be done in English if you request it.)
Even if the pod is somewhat automated (e.g. linens are somehow changed without human intervention), you're not going to be able to get around the fact that you'll need someone to collect the dirty linens once in a while and replenish.

And really, the tired business executive is the ideal customer ... but you're probably more likely to get a bunch of less-than-ideal customers whose actions inside the pod are going to require a more extensive cleanup.

I have a feeling that even if the company has come up with some innovative ways to address these problems, I'm pretty sure the public perception of the pods will be negative, because you're naturally going to assume that the pods have been occupied by people doing unsavory things. It's going to be perceived as the generally gross Porta-Potty of the accommodations industry.

One of the nice things about hotels and hostels and other places that are staffed 24/7 is that if someone lights up a cigarette in a nonsmoking room, or starts trashing the hotel room, there's someone on hand to address the problem. Here, I can only assume, the pods would only be sporadically monitored.

I think a better solution to problem of tired executives with minimal needs for amenities is in the pod hotels that you can find in the biggest metro areas. They're somewhat similar to these pods in design, but because they're located in hotel structures, they are staffed and the linens are changed, rooms cleaned, etc. by humans:

http://www.thepodhotel.com/
Computer controlled knitting machines already exist. I doubt if it will take 28 more years before someone figures out how to connect a computer with design software up to a computer controlled knitting machine.
looks cool, but the website is kinda meh. that currency picture on the bottom is super-pixellated.
Yeah, that's so architecture 2.0. We've moved on.
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Musings of an artist trying to to computer science?

I think you accidentally a word.
The biggest issue with this is, how do you keep it clean? I wouldn't want to sleep somewhere that wasn't kept clean. Sure you sleep on train seats that are publicly shared with hundreds of different people daily. But here we're talking about actual beds, with pillows and sheets - I wouldn't want to put my face on a pillow that I knew was used previously by someone else without being properly cleaned.
No it is exactly the same query as if it were a separate table/collection. You can just say fetch from User.Profile instead of Profile.

If you need to fetch across users then you will need an index in order to have decent performance. But the point is that in MY use case this never, ever happens so I made that tradeoff. Much faster "fetch everything about this user by id" in exchange for much slower "fetch me all profiles for all users".
You would think so, but unfortunately ACPI is horrendously overengineered by committee and basically does have code running in it which can contain these sort of checks. I once had to recompile some part of it (possibly the DSDT - differentiated system description table - whatever that is) on an old Dell laptop of mine which literally had

if (operating_system == "Microsoft Windows NT" ||
operating_system == "Microsoft Windows 95" ||
operating_system == "Microsoft Windows") {
// make stuff work
}

baked into it. Linux worked fine once those checks were removed, of course.

Needless to say, my opinion of the whole mess has been pretty tainted by that. I try to assume that it is incompetence rather than actual malice on the part of Microsoft and/or the manufacturers, but it does do an awfully good impression of the latter.
Does this upload bug happen every time? There are still some weird bugs that I haven't figured out how to solve yet since they are hard to recreate. I'll keep working on that though.

About the copying images from a website: See my answer to arkitaip.

I'm considering adding a clickable link as well under the generated URL, that might actually be useful.

If I were to implement the ability to delete a picture, I would have to add some kind of user authentication which I'm not planning on doing at this moment. It might be possible to put some kind of secret client ID in the users localStorage to allow them to delete their own images, but I would have to make sure it can't be exploited so that other people can delete your images. Feel free to leave suggestions on how you could do this without requiring user accounts.

I would like to be able to store the images forever, but if the costs of doing so becomes to much for me to handle, I'm going to have to reconsider that.

I'm definitely planning on adding more features to the app, but one of the strong points of it is that it's very clean and simple at what it tries to do, so it's important that I don't try to add too much to it.
surely articles such as this are of value in challenging and expanding the perspective of the average american HN reader? after all, good entrepreneurs are well-rounded. and as this article (and the comments) makes it clear, the software industry in the US is something of a bubble, insulated from the troubling problems of contemporary american society. problems american entrepreneurs ignore at their own long-term risk.

as for the level of rhetoric in this comment section, I think it is high, and contains many interesting points to consider.
If nobody loses anything in this transaction, why go to the trouble of incorporating a new entity?

At the very least, the employees lost something: their job. However, in the US, that may not be a good reason for this maneuver either, as employers often/typically can fire personnel at will.

So, there either must be something else, or the 'firing risks' are larger than I think they could be. Either case, I guess they will be sailing close to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraudulent_conveyance#United_St....
Unless China starts developing internal economy as well, they will not stay as regional super power.

I am sure one billion suppressed people are going to rise against tyranny of few ruler in coming future.
Why so many of its users are based on Iran?
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Prisoner Dilemma used in cold war politics strategizing, has winning solutions
Now tack on the fact that it has an initial 2 year mission powered by an RTG. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...

...but not just any RTG, a MMRTG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Mission_Radioisotope_Ther...

It's able to supply a steady 125 W of power for 14 years, before dropping to 100W. The technology has been used reliably on multiple projects. Based on the longevity of the previous rovers that have safely made it to Mars it's worth considering that barring mechanical malfunctions and hardware failures (it has two main computers) the rover could turn power off to non critical components after 14 years and continue to run on 100W. It might not be far fetched to think that this rover could still be running if/when humans arrive in the 2030s.

That's far cooler than what you would get running on the latest and greatest for convenience.
I'm typing this on a macbook pro running Linux, and it works just fine; two-finger taps are a right-click, three for middle. That's worked on any Synaptics touchpad in Linux for at least the last seven years and probably longer.
"... The interesting thing is a lot of the countries in the Asia/Pac region primarily trade with China, even US allies (e.g. Australia). ..."

Why is this surprising?
That sounds like a pain - how are you trying to boot Linux? Have you tried refit?
I don't know. Probably not as long as i've spent working on the various things i worked on, but what i'm saying is, that if someone that an inspirational story of learning from failure.
For that much money I got a machine from Lenovo with a nice screen (not that nice) but also 32GB of RAM.
or a Kaiser Chiefs album.
>Of course, it is all economic waste, since none of the skyscrapers are occupied. No forces of demand or supply, no consumption locally of the product (people can’t afford it).

I'm not qualified to judge how sustainable the whole Chinese system is, but what the author is saying here is simply untrue.
(HINT: it's not just hype, for many people, MySQL was the product they wanted)

Just curious, could you explain what it is that people want from MySQL that they don't get from Postgres?

I (and another team member) recently moved a big project from MySQL to Postgres due to deadlocks, failure to respect constraints and similar issues, but I'm curious what I might be giving up.

So far the main thing I miss is is "UPDATE foo INNER JOIN bar ON foo.id=bar.foo_id SET foo.x={x}, bar.y={y}...".
Yes please. I have put some mock screens together and would love some feedback on them. I know where the improvements are requirement but i could do with some guidance on what direction to take.
A common theme on HN is that ideas don't matter and execution is everything, but I think the author is mistaken in this case and the problem with this project was not his video or his methods of sharing, but that his idea just wasn't something anyone was interested in.

Does anyone reading this blog post think "whoa, that really is a great idea I would have backed if only I had heard about it!"?
Short answer. No.

A true 'super power' in the modern sense is not the strength of its hard military power but its soft power. The USA influences the world through technology and culture on a level that China will never be able to match without major internal changes. The fact that it still chooses to push its smaller neighbours around is an example of this.
I like this idea, clever!
Are you saying that working with a very skilled person is worth sacrificing your ethical integrity? I would not hesitate for a second to deny working on things I consider against my personal beliefs even if there was both money and fame at stake.

To use the good old reductio ad absurdum, would you be willing to kill a random stranger if it meant you would get to work with Albert Einstein?
Nice design.

Bug report: I've copy-pasted an image file from my desktop and that's what a got: http://pasteboard.co/1345297649815178.png (that's an OSX default thumbnail image, not my image file). Chrome 20 @ OSX 10.6.8
If we're thinking of the same article, it wasn't about click fraud, but rather a unique-to-Facebook class of users that heavily devalues click-throughs on Facebook ads.
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As soon as Oracle bought them, the writing was on the wall for an open-source MySQL. Look how quickly they murdered OpenSolaris. Oracle is anathema to open software.
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They've already got a massive internal economy. The biggest growth market for cars in the world. And the biggest market for steel and concrete IIRC.
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Also see this guide how to use subscripting in Xcode 4.4 http://petersteinberger.com/blog/2012/using-subscripting-wit...
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That's just a discovery page for apps that use the Kik API.
There are some distortions in the economy, especially in real estate, but its not a universal by any means. You get some districts/towns/buildings being built where there is no demand but someone can scrounge up land and capital, these are very under utilized, but in the boom regions space is still at a premium.

There are also distortions in residential real estate, easy access to credit + no property taxes (just one upfront sales tax) means that many people by properties speculatively without intending to rent it out or flip them in a timely manner. This means many empty apartments even in cities like Beijing and Shanghai where rents keep rising.
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Your head would be the Duke of Edinburgh if it weren't for the French (sorry, Canada). Well you'd atleast have Nationalized Healthcare.
Technology has helped made our lives better, of course. It's provided "wealth".

Yet at the end of the day, the structure of our lives has not changed in the past 50 years. We spent 10 hours working for an employer for 40-50 years.
I wouldn't say China exerts huge influence over the Asian region.

The countries are fearful of China but they don't respect, admire or mimic it like they do with Japan or the USA.
insulting: a definition of C++ that includes how to pronounce it as "see plus plus".
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I disagree. The USSR was called a superpower, but they never did achieve it via 'soft power' as you say... it was mainly through their military.

China's current power in the world comes primarily though its economic might.
Life is too short to worry about votes and karma. If it really matters to you, just timing posting the right stories will net you hundreds or thousands of karma at a time. Then you can burn a couple karma expressing what you wanted to say even if it's unpopular.

But I don't understand the need for identifying who is a veteran or not. People who use the site will know who is a veteran and who isn't. In addition, someone without much of any karma will be treated probably poorer than many other users, or their ideas dismissed. Just because someone is new to the community doesn't make their comment less valuable.

The site will take care of the sorting/displaying of comments. There's no need for me to see the numbers that make the site run. It just ends up giving some people a false sense of importance. Keep the karma, but hide it, and maybe people will stop changing what they say just because of who they're talking to.
They could work towards automating it by dispensing fresh sheets for each guest and somehow improving the ease of changing them. (I'm sure there's better ways than changing sheets and covers tediously by hands. I mean a simple thing for example would be to automatically raise the mattress from the base.)
First of all I don't understand why this is HN-worthy.

China was a super power before, I mean, long before there was a USA. There is no reason why it can't be again. And keep in mind that Germany became a super power from nothing in less than 50 years.
Ask HN: I need to categorize 150,000 products
My current project is a search engine for the RC hobby (http://comparerc.com).

I have over 150,000 parts indexed and searchable...unfortunately, none of them are categorized. Search is nice but a lot of people like to browse. I need to find a way to roughly categorize these parts. Any ideas?

I have a few options, none which look particularly compelling. I can outsource it to MTurk or a few data entry VAs. This will be prohibitively expensive however. 150,000 MTurk HITs at 3 cents each will cost $4,500. I don't have that kind of capital to spend since this is a side project. It also ignores the accuracy problem - a lot of these components are highly technical and the average person might categorize them incorrectly.

Another option is some kind of hierarchical clustering algorithm, which attempts to sort into categories for me. This is appealing because it is automated. The downside is that many items don't have sparse descriptions, which may make it difficult for the algorithm to cluster well. The same issues of quality control is also present.

Am I missing something obvious?
That "terrible track pointy thing" keeps your fingers on the home row. It might not be for you but I for one like not having to constantly move from keyboard to trackpad while using my computer.
I foresee as much use for short naps as for quickies.
Since no comments here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ycucs/factor_09...
The text of the song is irrelevant. Pussy Riot have not been tried for political protest. They were sentenced for 'inciting hatred' against the religion. I suppose their presence in the cathedral next to altar, kicking air and shouting obscenities has offended somebody.

If they have chosen another venue for their anti-Putin song, I guess the prosecution would not have any case against them.

Besides, they did not have time to really sing anything in the cathedral. The sound was added to the YouTube video later.

I think all hate speech laws should be abolished, since there is such a thin line between 'inciting hatred' and 'offending sensitivities'.
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Thats a fair assessment. I'm not saying that had I executed perfectly that it would have been a success.

What I was trying to say is that had I shared it before launching then I might have gotten enough feedback to see, yea no one wants this.

I think part of the challenge of creating something, wether it's a photo book or an iPhone app, is that you don't know what impact it will have until you launch.
> Distinguish users. Reward users.

Wrong. Instead user karma system should be deleted completely. (Yes, I know that I am a "newbie" here. Think what you want.). I have seen too many portals died or degraded by the weight of "karma". The only working example is probably Stack Overflow and I think they won't last long because of it.

Only reason why SO can survive is continuous strict moderation. I like "C++ vs Java", "Most influential book" and similar topics very much but they really don't belong to SO by their rules.

The same should be applied to HN - ban those millions Twitter and FB topics. Ban topics with complaints (however reasonable). Ban SOPA/ACTA etc. topics.

In short - filter everything that is not educational for IT specialists. Yes, it would be more boring that way (or not) but it would ensure HN quality and survival.
Guess your comment is actually half-thought. I'm the person this blog post is talking about. And I'm pretty sure, I (and none of us in my family) even remotely know this 'advancetehri' guy. And who the hell has a name like that?

Also, when I clicked that link and when @iambibhas clicked that link, we both got immediate friend request from 'advancetehri'. (We blurred the link because it exposes the full phone number to anyone who clicks it) Rings a bell?

Evil plan to grab new users? Yes.
Copying actual image files in OSX (instead of image data) gives that thumbnail. You're actually not supposed to be able to copy and paste files at all, since I don't think there is any way for me to access the data in the file through the clipboard. I believe OSX is alone in putting thumbnails in the clipboard when copying files.

This might be a bit confusing, I'm going to have to figure out how to make this more clear to the user.
I think the app looks very nice :)

One thing that I'm missing here are the Terms Of Service. Uploading stuff on other people's servers is always a legally problematic business. It should be made clear that the uploader retains all rights on the images.
The interface is beautiful, good job.

It would be brilliant if you could now extend the simple interface to some additional features like cropping, rotating, maybe even some photo filters. I'd definitely use it.
Keeping these things clean would be very hard. Perhaps a better target market than single-night-guests is medium-term-guests.

I could see myself renting one of these things for a month in a city I visit on holiday.
> ideas don't matter

Not quite. The point is that there are a lot of potentially good ideas, not that all ideas are good, and that execution makes the difference between success and failure.

IMO, this does sound like a potentially interesting project, though the writing is pretty bad. Would I personally fund it? No. But check out the photography projects that are successful. Kickstarter's a big place with a lot of different people.

http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/photography/s...
What definition of super power are you using, and when was China considered this?

The term super power is a new invention. One can't consider Rome, the Aztek or Mayan Empires, Byzantium, or the Empire of Ghana to be super powers just because of their pre-eminent position in a pre-global society.
It might be a little bit aggressive, but the core point
"because it serves no purpose, nor does it solve any problems"
is totally valid.
Oh c'mon, this is brilliant, and solves a huge pain problem for lots of people (myself included). You don't have to have perfect solutions to edge customer cases in order to be successful (e.g. Zipcar, AirBnB, eBay, etc), and you can always iterate on the solutions.

The airport/station staff can do the daily cleaning and replenishing. Also, they can give you a grace period of 5 mins to reject the pod if there's a problem with it (smoking, unsanitary, etc).
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