skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On my W520, SD cards go in all the way and then pop out when you push them in further (spring-loaded). Something like that could be built into this card itself pretty trivially. Added complexity increases costs a decent bit for something like this, though, I'd imagine.
Yes. I find that I can make it work by applying a little bit of pressure to the underside of the SD card that sticks out of the drive. This is easily my #1 complaint about the MBP.
In regards to getting more developers on board, are they other freelancers that you got from Elance, Odesk etc? What is your process on ensuring that the job was done right?

Great advice, especially those three main points Market, Market and Market!
Spoiler alert if you're reading Blindsight, as I am.
Much like the tool that Apple includes for removing sim cards from your iphone, this tool is a glorified paperclip. Not the end of the world if you lose it.

Also, prongs break.

That said, I don't have a macbook with an SD card. Nor am I running low on internal storage, so this thing isn't for me anyway.
I think you could design a tilting removal handle such that if broken off it could still be removed with a paperclip.

In any event, I could.
You pay $35 to remove a mild annoyance. It is definitely not for everyone. Neither are macs
Good luck! Posts like these just help motivate me to do the same.
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You should run and debug the C# code, before you compile it to JS, that's how I understand the idea behind this project.
Ask HN: Inheriting a large ASP.NET app, what would you do.
tl;dr:New CTO, dump asp.net for bootstrap + RESTful API?
I'm a consultant, and I'm charged with completing development on a large asp.net web application. It's about 25-50% of the way to being complete thanks to the previous devs who abandoned the project. I have full creative control of the project, so I am faced with a conundrum: If I stick with asp.net, I'll likely end up rewriting the app in place. The developers abondoned the project for a reason. They followed OO to the point of making a huge and hard to manage code base with hundreds of classes that need to be finished. Should I trudge on and finish this? I ask because I gave the client a substantial discount on my services for an equity stake in the company, and we have already made plans for extensions to my contract to deliver peripheral apps and additional features once the web app is delivered. My instincts are:
Put all the functionalities into an API,
Call the api from a new web app, possibly using bootstrap.
When phase 2 comes around, call API from native apps.

Or I could just stick with asp.net and have no jumpstart come phase 2, but it just seems so inefficient. Can I get some feedback as to what you would do in this situation?
The idea is that you don't generally remove it. In reality if you lost the tool you would use a paperclip.

Also I disagree that it is a design fail. What (i think) you are describing is poor industrial design; it would be more prone to break, as well as costing more to produce (bearing in mind this is being done by a startup).

The real design failure is Apple's. My laptop (like nearly every digital camera ever?) has a spring loaded sd-slot, that allows the SD card to sit flush with the edge.
Use wget with --no-check-certificate or change https to http
My failed chrome extension that acts as a hub for all news. Basically an rss aggregator but included some video and social features as well. The USP and reAson I created it was I didn't like the way google reader was later out and being a designer thought everyone should be able to customize the layout of their reader to their tastes. So I built MESH ( http://www.digi-dil.com/MESH ) which let you design it yourself..

Learned how to code JavaScript doing the project and also helped me a bit landing my current job but nobody except my girlfriend and my mom have it installed only one of which knows how to use it...
Oh, I agree with you. You don't have to be an ass, just because you're anonymous. I didn't troll, either, but I did find that I felt more free to comment on things I otherwise wouldn't for a variety of reasons.

That's certainly both good and bad.

The negatives, in my case, were that I would end up getting into discussions over trivial topics, or would end up reading tons of comments, some good, some bad, and comment on them just because I could.... For example, if I disagreed with you, I would tell you, event hough most of the time it was over things that just weren't worth the time and effort of getting into a debate with a random stranger over.

On the other hand, posting anonymously also gave me freedom to talk at length about things that matter to me but maybe aren't the best things to go talking about using my real name when everything is indexed in a search engine (politics, religion, etc.). I'll certainly stand up for what I believe in, but in cases like a potential client who may be looking me up on Google, my religious views, for instance, shouldn't be the first thing they find. It's just irrelevant in a work relationship 99% of the time.

So making the switch to my real name, I did lose some of that freedom, and one could argue that this is a bad thing, but for me, the constraints it places on the types of discussions I'm willing to have means better time management and (overall) more thoughtful responses when I do respond. I suppose if there was a real hot-button issue that I felt compelled to comment on, I would create a throw away account and do so, but sticking with my real identity forces me to think and evaluate those situations more closely before doing so.
Just switched to neocomplcache from AutoComplPop. Enjoying it very much so far.
I actually tried really hard to get ido-mode to recursively search files under the current directory, but I was never successful.

Is there some really easy modification I have overlooked?
Because that is one of the major advantages CtrlP or Command-T have - and trying to use https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm with https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile turned out to be by far too slow.
That's the beauty of designing with plastics. Sometimes you can add significant functional complexity to a design without a corresponding increase in cost. The mold costs are not correlated to functional complexity. Adding the "push to remove" function could, depending on design, cost exactly zero both in terms of mold costs and materials cost.

The same is the case for a number of other options.
You're certainly free to market a competing product with a tilting handle.
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> I have never really understood the rationale behind the US model of charging for received texts.

Vendor charges customer because they can and customer is powerless. What about that don't you understand?

More seriously - I think it traces back to the fact that in the US you pay airtime for both incoming and outgoing calls, including "free" (1-800) numbers; The reason for this was that originally:

a) mobile calls were really expensive
b) there were no number range or pattern allocated for mobile phone numbers (thus, when you call a number, you generally don't know if it is landline, mobile, virtual or which operator it is (or ever was)).

So caller-to-mobile pays the same (they don't know they are calling mobile), and recipient-on-mobile pays the rest. And since everyone was used to that, the operators extended that to text as well.
There's a lot of terrible software on the app store, median revenue is a poor indicator of the market's success. Most restaurants fail, but that's not to say restaurants aren't a good business. Some are just a lot better than others.
There are several books about the MS-13. Here is one of them:

http://www.amazon.com/This-Is-Mara-Salvatrucha-Americas/dp/1...
I see a lot of uninformed and unwarranted (apple-)hate in this thread.

The removal tool, is a reference to how Apple includes the "SIM removal" tool with iPhones, which is just a paperclip. To me, it's obvious that you can just use a normal paperclip to remove this as well. This is also demonstrated in the video on kickstarter, which admittedly you need to search for. It's made as a semi-permanent piece, so the fact it's hard to remove doesn't matter here.

It's not "just an SD card adapter". It's something that fits flush with the design, so you can leave it in and it doesn't impact the visual appearance. If you don't care about this, that's fine, it's not for you. I could easily see myself buying this, however.
> True, but not as many as hype makes us believe.

I'd wager a ton more than the hype make us believe--most people just go about their lives and don't bother hanging out to talk about their SaaS or app business. Bragging about $70k between three people is not much more than bragging about a minimum wage job.

> How much revenue is that generating?

I don't think he's announced it, but a lot more than 70k/3 I'm sure. (He'd only need 25 customers using the featured value plan for that kind of coin!)
Half-Life 2 is Steam's daily deal for today.
Hi, I'm a physician who deployed as part of the US military response, specifically, I was in the contingency planning cell. Assuming there is a hole in the wall, which is a curtain wall, not a containment wall, then it leads to work areas around and outside the base of the reactor containment vessel. The presumed hole is above the wet well and may or may not be on the side facing the containment pool.

If it is on the side of the containment pool, the wet well may not be covered by a floor (I have seen conflicting schematics on this). However, Unit 4's primary issues were with their spent rod pool. If that is involved, there are two concrete decks between the bottom of the pool and the space exposed by presumed hole.

So, my guess is the wet well may be exposed by that hole in the curtain wall, and may or may not have any damage, but the wet well is definitely failed in Unit 2, and I can see where they wouldn't want people whooping and hollering about wet wells. I'm sure the insides of that are a complete mess at this point. Even if this was a normal construction site, it would be a complete mess at this point.

I see others have mentioned there may be a truck access tunnel at this spot. Perhaps, but I'm unclear as to the orientation of the 4 sides, and that seems a bit irrelevant to the reactor.

Meanwhile, the NRC daily updates petered out long ago. I'm not planning any trips to Fukushima any time soon.

Update: here is a great presentation we got from Areva. Glad to see it's available to the public:

https://wikispooks.com/w/images/5/5d/Fukushima-areva.pdf
Nobody is forcing you to buy it. It appears that a lot of people out there put a $35 value on that 1cm. I certainly don't, but I'm not going to tell them they're wrong.
Why is the number of tabs limited to eight (in this browser and in Safari; Chrome doesn't have a limit AFAIK)?
Am I the only one who finds it strange there are no buttons to change to languages other than English (or if there are, they weren't obvious enough for me to find)?
Its "something you have" - your private key. Someone would have actually get access to files on your device (or the physical device itself) to beat the system.
I remember when I first saw it on kickstarter and it was described as a kind of memory upgrade device. They later clarified what it really is but I wonder how many people really thought it was for increasing system ram.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1342319572/the-nifty-min...

"An easy to use device that allows anyone to quickly and simply increase the available memory in their MacBook computer."

"NOTE: A couple of people have pointed out to us that we have mixed our terms a little. To clarify; when we refer to the MiniDrive increasing the "memory" of your computer, we mean the storage space, not RAM. Sorry for any confusion that this might have caused!"

edit: link and quote
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Two people freelancing iOS development should be bringing in a whole lot more than $70k a year combined.
Except this is the actual thread that's still evolving while the other was some cut up quote filled "news" post.

The conversation here may parallel the other but I think this link is more valuable.
That's a perfect example of something that is both easy AND a headache. It's not certainly difficult to do, but I don't want to be replacing my gvim executable with one provided by an anonymous forum user just to make one script work. Ignoring the potential security issue, what happens when I want to upgrade vim, or run another script that's similarly "easy" to install on Windows?

I can't speak for other vim users, but I haven't had a lot of luck with distro versions of vim and Ruby/Python extension scripts on Linux either. After fighting with it for a while, I ended up just declaring my .vimrc to be a VimScript-only zone. It sucks losing Gundo and Command-T and a couple other great plugins, but it's done wonders for my sanity, and everything works well on Windows as a bonus.
Lets remove all newspaper apps too because e-mail would do the job. Also remove all other communication because e-mail would do the job.</sarcasm>
What is this referring to? Is there an actual product that allows you to flick to TV and provides no other UI for that functionality?
> some piece of equipment that they agreed not to publicize

exactly

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4471850
I know Persona allows a user to attach multiple email addresses to their Persona identity, but can a user log into a third party service with any of those email addresses and get their same third party account? Alternately, can a user create separate accounts on a third party service that are associated with different email addresses of the single Persona identify?
Is this designed to work with Time Machine?
Show HN: Version Control for Whiteboards
Triple Point Robotics specialises in the hardware and software design of robots and robotics technology. Their first product, Synchroboard, is a collaboration and version control solution for whiteboards.

See their pitch video at Hey ★ Startup.

www.heystartup.com
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This official history of Labor Day by the United States Department of Labor is described as a "sanitized" history of Labor Day in the United States by another webpage

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~campbell/gened/labour.html

(written by a professor of mathematics who definitely has a point of view on labor history) that I find more informative, even as it expresses a point of view, than the government webpage. Ever since I have lived in Taiwan, a country with a red flag (adopted during the worldwide socialist movement) and Labor Day on May 1st, I have wondered why the United States doesn't have Labor Day on May 1st. See also my submission from yesterday

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4468530

of another website about this issue.
This is pretty cool I currently use a lexar 32Gb usb dongle[1] though it does protude from the macbook air.

There are also usb drives that fit inside the usb port and does not need a special tool to remove, though I cant find it on amazon anymore.

[1]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lexar-32GB-Echo-Backup-Drive/dp/B004...
> Organized crime is actually not very complicated or creative

I was going to respond, "Well, neither are most established businesses" but I think you misunderstood me. The disruptors, in this case, are not the Yakuza. They are the established entities. How much actual power they have is up for debate, but not terribly important to the point. The point is that they have a seemingly rooted place in Japanese society and the question should be: How can a presumably criminal enterprise still exist in a lawful society?

The answer, according to the OP, is relatively benign; it's not "because they utilize ninja stealth and James Bond-like technology". I think if you step back from the specific context of criminality and ask the question of why any established enterprise/institution still has power/recognition, the reasons are likely to be depressingly uninteresting than intriguing or complex. Exhibit A: Most political entities and regulations.
Not quite as easy as installing vanilla vim and dropping my ~/.vim (IIRC it's ~\_vim on windows) in place without touching anything.
There are some slightly uglier but cheaper alternatives for Raspberry Pi users that want a lower-profile SD card. They might be too thick for a Mac's SD slot though.

There's a $12 version on Kickstarter now:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/443556734/pio-microsd-ad...

Adafruit will also offer a similar one soon: http://www.adafruit.com/products/966
This post summarizes what I personnaly find wrong about Hacker News.

Ridiculous apple fanboys and total ignorance
It's just dust.

Blow in it like an old Atari or Sega.

Trust me.
There can always be worse wreckage. For example, there could be something leaking.
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Better in that it requires me to use Mozilla/Firefox? I think not.
How many small devices -- not television sets -- had Samsung delivered before 2010 when the Galaxy S was launched? How many iPods had Apple delivered before the iPhone?

To cite a simple example: the iPod disk drive system was based on exclusive access to Toshiba's then-new hardware. Apple did many, many deals of that nature, including outright acquisitions, to gain a technology advantage. Samsung has done a lot to keep up, but only after watching Apple do it first.
Dan, your work is very impressive & inspiring.

Where do you host your apps?
Submission two weeks ago of news story developed with original reporting on this same finding:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4426010
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There are some really cheap microSD USB adapters that fit almost completely inside the USB port. http://www.dealextreme.com/p/kawau-world-s-smallest-microsd-...
I'm a big Android fan but I can't agree with that until / unless Android develops some kind of windowing system that allows multiple apps on the same screen. On a phone, full screen apps are fine. On a tablet it starts to get annoying. On a desktop it would be a disaster. Windows 8 is pointing the way, I hope Google has something thoughtful and well designed to eventually allow apps to share a screen (officially and without hacks).
Here's one data point. I found the app through HN a while ago. I've since moved on to non-Virgin phones, but really appreciated your app. :)
Is the iPhone an extension of the iPod, or conventional mobile technology? Apple did a hella lot to create the iPod supply chain and, because they sold direct to consumers instead of through carriers, knew a lot more about how to deliver the ideal experience.
I never wanted an argument. I think you are using my article to show off a few of your own personal pet peeves. You are trying to squeeze my article as an example of those but I think you are trying to fit a round peg into a square hole. The word desperate is really inappropriate since desperation implies that I have some sneaky agenda. Over 15 years of experiments and research is not guess work which took place in a real laboratory. The guesswork I was referring to was that which will take place to do even better reactors than have already been built. The Molten Salt Reactor was very easy to operate. When they finished a weeks work. They simply turned it off for the weekend and turned it back on the following Monday. That cannot be done with the reactors that became the dominant reactor Light Water Reactors.
Not sure how this relates to the real world experience, but there's a Samsung Phone TV ad that shows a businessman flicking his presentation onto the conference screen.
And your post summarizes what annoys me about people who still throw around "apple fanboy"; you're in an endless witch hunt to find some kind of subtext in what people say just to call them out for their choice of computer. There was nothing in what mdonahoe said to suggest "fanboy".

Grow up.
The Hacker News welcome message

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

gives an overview of the community experiment here, summarizing the site guidelines.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The Hacker News FAQ

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

gives some additional details about how Hacker News is administered. The welcome message distills the basic rules into a simple statement: "Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads."

The The Unofficial Hacker News FAQ

http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ

by Jacques Mattheij (a high-karma veteran user here) gives his personal answers to questions that are frequently asked
about the forum settings and features here.
An existing implementation of that are Smart Cards. They contain a Public-Private key pair, and they will actually perform the crypto themselves (when plugged into a reader), so the private key never leaves the card.

Here in Portugal our new ID cards (Citizen Card) are already smart cards, so we can log in to e.g. our IRS using it, at least with browsers which support PKCS#11, like Firefox.
At times like this I wonder why am I even trying to read discussions on G+.
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So much of this depends on context, some of which you provided. What is your comfort level with these technologies? What would your effective rate be for each of the scenarios? Are there components or databases (sql server) that make particular tech choices more sensible? How much time to tear down and start anew? What pressures or deadlines are you facing from the business?
Here's the thing: Even a completely perfectly managed coal plant does more damage over it's operational lifetime than the nightmare scenario at Fukushima.

Yes, the damage done by the coal plant is more diffuse. But it is not less than the damage done by Fukushima to the ocean and to eastern japan. Coal plants worldwide kill half a million people per year from direct effects, and a lot more from indirect ones.

Also, the nightmare scenario at nuke plants is commonly overstated. Fukushima did not, and cannot, threaten the entire food suppy of Japan. If all it's radioactive isotopes were evenly laid out on all of its fields, the concentrations would be small enough that eating the food would be bad for you, but no worse than breathing the air full of SO4 and NOx found in places where coal plants are run badly (like china).
What happens if you lose your phone?
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The signup process was interesting. Download the app, enter some personal info, scan the QR code on their site. Cool.

After logging in I got bogged down in trying to understand their stupid point system. Invite blah,blah,blah and get so many points so you can 'unlock' a website to log into. Huh?

Worse, it kept composing a self promoting tweet each time I logged into Twitter which required me to click on a small x to close it. Lame.

Great idea. Decent start at getting me to sign up. Not so great at converting me to use it full time.
A little context: this appears to be an attempt to emulate UT Austin's 1SemesterStartup at Georgia Tech.

[ http://techdrawl.com/content/put-me-home ]
It does not require Firefox. I just built it into an app as an alternative to Facebook logins and it works just fine from any browser out there.
SoftLayer primarily. They're rock solid, their hardware is top notch, their management tools and infrastructure are top notch, their support staff is top notch even at 3AM on a weekend.
The last sentence absolutely says it all. Great post.
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Digg didn't collapse because of hardware or headcount...they collapsed because they trashed their product with unnecessary changes and pissed off their user base

Sure, the fact that they had a huge headcount, meant that they had to take more risk to try to monetize...but the nail in their coffin wasn't cost...but loss of traffic