skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He can't experiment with pricing too much as word of mouth would destroy his business. If customer B learns that he paid more for the suit that his friend, customer A bought all hell breaks loose.

I agree he would need to be careful. But in this case because there are so many trivial ways in which he can differentiate the products in ways that will sufficiently justify price differences:

* Use more expensive materials. And mark it up heavily.
* Provide a luxury service: Visit the client for measurements with a couple of pretty assistants instead of having them come to you, and make the service look more upscale. Send someone over with samples and pictures to get feedback a couple more times than usual.
* Make things take longer to give the impression of more effort. There's a shoemaker in London that takes 6 months to produce your pair of shoes. They can optionally provide additional pairs to the same measurements, for a measly additional sum of 500 pounds per pair - the price for their first pair is not listed. I'm sure there are more - that's just one I stumbled over. But this one presents the long time it takes as a mark of quality and status: Most people just go to a store and buy shoes, but you, your shoes take 6 months to be ready. Of course it costs.
* Add on lots of stuff that indicate higher quality but that the client has no idea of the real cost/effort for: Finer stiching; more complicated patterns; more detailing inside. etc.

As you point out, he could also charge extra for faster delivery (on top of making his new "premium" service take longer by default, even), or flat out state that due to the demand, there is a waiting list, but a limited number of "rush" order will be processed if you pay a substantial premium.

This is very different from most technology products - suits, or fashion in general, is a very visible status symbol, and beyond a certain quality level, a higher price will often make the product more desirable even when there are no quality differences other than minor visible visual cues that lets those in the know realize that you've paid twice as much.
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I am guessing the customer base is already small. And given most of his business would come recommendations and leads.

'He just increased his price'- Is not very nice if you want to get new customers.
The original UDIDs are already published. The cat is out of the bag. From what I can see the only difference is that you don't know the submitters UDID if they were not on the published list.

FYI: you can get around the no reply box "feature" by clicking "link."
>Edit: rayiner claims below he (the foreman) may be correct in his statement about the patentability question.

Hogan says that the jury was instructed not to decide patentability, but the only three occurrences of the word "patentable" (or any other form of that word) in the jury instructions were where it specifically instructed the jury to decide whether specific inventions were unpatentable due to obviousness.
Seems cool but why not just go with the bootstrap or 1140?
You'd have to work out the few remaining things that do require work from human beings, fundamentally, even to exist.

Art is one of them (speaking broadly enough to include things like music and literature). The entire value of art is that it's an expression of an artist's point of view. Recorded art is obviously on its way out, but live or commissioned art wouldn't necessarily be, and we already know how to croudsource commissioning.

Academic study would certainly be another, at least in some forms.

Interpersonal services of various forms would also be important. These might include various forms of counseling and prostitution.

There would still be a market for handmade things, if only for the status involved.

The people who owned the capital that implemented the automation would have to find a way to tell the robots what to make and how, and would likely require assistance in doing so. There's a lot of essential, un-automatable difficulty in merely expressing requirements clearly.

I'm even assuming most of the actual design and engineering (post-requirements stage) can be done by computers, though I highly suspect it cannot.

This might seem very bleak, but consider that with all this automation around, everything would become exceedingly cheap. In the past it's only been cost-effective to make a living off of, say, music with thousands or millions of fans per individual musician. Perhaps it would be possible to make a living off an audience of hundreds or maybe less since it would cost a pittance to satisfy all your basic needs.
Susy (http://susy.oddbird.net) is another well-designed option for semantic grids that's been around for awhile.
Oddly, I have seen some of these other gestures used to hail a cab - but luckily it's not very frequent.

I just had my first Uber ride today - it was such a breeze and my driver Julien was friendly and very easy to talk to. One of the first things I noticed (and checked for) was that he had a TLC issued license plate - so I know he is paying his dues somewhere. One of the more interesting parts of our conversation included the fact that he owns his own vehicle and pays his own TLC fees - but at this point he only takes fares via Uber. He said it's hassle free and the people seem friendlier overall (except the one lady who rated him 1 star because there was traffic - who knew Manhattan could have traffic congestion?!)

I like the idea of Uber and hope they succeed in the NYC marketplace - while just a little bit more money, the experience was far better than I have ever had in a standard medallion cab, and even some of the other car services out there.
I noticed the same flaw, but lets cut to the chase. I sell a flowcharting tool. According to Google Analytics, ~40% of my visitors are running displays with a screen height of 800 pixels or below.

Adjusting my browser window size accordingly, I search for "flowchart software". Only 2 organic results are above the fold, whereas there are 7 ads above the fold. 2/9 = 22%, so the OP really wasn't that far off the mark for many users.
They aren't, unless you're in the oven. And that's different.
I went in 2010, but did not apply in 2011. I don't feel I will be going this year either. I just have been too busy and dedicated with my day job to work on side projects/startup projects to feel like I would be worthy of going this year.

I'm jealous still of anyone who gets in and goes :) At least I can watch the videos online after they are posted.
Try the Send Mail in Background lab.
That's great Nathan and Thanks for sharing as well.

Truly inspiring for all the folks sitting on Xcode day in an day out
I can't speak to the politics of the taxi commission and laws in NYC regarding Uber. I just got back from NYC, on arrival I took a yellow cab from JFK to Battery Park (far south end of Manhattan).

Our cab ride was during the morning rush hour and since I had the time, I was checking out google maps and other traffic info. Looking at the route the cabby was taking, I asked him why he was going all the way up to the Williamsburg Bridge in order to get back down to Battery Park (basically hitting Midtown to have to go back downtown). He was rather indignant and said he had been driving for 20 years.

He asked what direction I would take, I mentioned a few streets and one of the more southern tunnels or bridges. After sitting in a bunch of traffic, he mentioned that I was probably right, but that going surface streets in Brooklyn isn't always popular.

Experience certainly means a lot, but realtime data can trump that. I think choice is a good thing and Uber will help with that. However, with highly concentrated markets like NYC, leveraging technology could provide even more benefit.
I think you should use whatever you can develop the fastest in, this might be Rails if you are a beginner, or node, sinatra, or some python framework if you are a more experienced programmer.

The author fail to mention that node also scales way better and you probably will have no problems serving at least 10k users will where as in Rail you would have to play with scaling way earlier.
I guess they just tend to use a somewhat different value for viable than I might.
I'm not quite sure I buy that. Obviously banks are more complicated. But because of the regulatory environment what they are not is "just servers on the internet". You can break into a bitcoin exchange and steal BTC by copying data. You can't do that with a bank -- banks can only transfer electronically to other banks, and "being a bank" is a tightly regulated state.

So while the complexity is there, it's not clear to me that it correlates to an "attack surface" in the sense network security people use the term.
I guess I see your interpretation, but that makes it a weird question. "Patentability" in that sense encompasses both legal questions and factual questions. A jury can't really consider the "patentability" of an invention because some of the elements of "patentability" aren't jury questions. They can only consider specific elements like obviousness, novelty, usefulness.

At best the interviewer asked an ambiguous question and the foreman gave a reasonable answer. In any case, this would all be obviated if Groklaw and the media were precise in their use of the terminology. The lack of precision in their discussion is really what makes me question the depth of their understanding of the law.
I agree, and I think I was suggesting the wrong use case at first.

In a typical blog post, the summaries shouldn't be necessary. A good use case for Collapsible Blogging is when you are listing multiple items or events, and the reader may only be interested in reading about one or two. Then the reader can choose to expand just those. May be better as Expandable Blogging rather than Collapsible Blogging.

I'm going to try it out this way and see what people think.
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One thing I was going for is being able to type the post quickly without having to think much about HTML. <p id="x"> and <p id="_x"> is really the shortest I could get it. Maybe you could spell out your two div idea in a bit more detail for me- I don't know exactly what you have in mind.
>>Really? I happen to think that smart dress looks better on me than casual anyway,

Your argument appears wrong because you assume the definition of a 'smart dress' involves wearing a suit.

The definition of 'smart dressing' has been changing rapidly. The very fact that demands for suits is less, shows the trend of clothing around the world.

Back during the days of slavery/aristocracy- costly clothing was automatically a status signal. What you are seeing currently are just echoes of that culture.

I would consider it stupid to spend so much on costly clothing. I am hiring people to write program, not for modeling.
Quit possibly it is ignorance or fear.

I know an African woman who used to go to the living room of some lady that charged her 20 pounds for work that she could easily charge 50 for - African hair can take a lot of work. This lady never raises her prices.

But she gets booked full 3 months in advance, and everyone who goes there raves about here and thinks she is ridiculously cheap.

Now, granted, a lot of those clients would disappear if she charged 30 or 40 or even 50. But she could afford to lose a lot of them, and even at 50 she'd still be cheaper than most similar quality competition in the area.

Simple solution to testing the prices? Hold back some time slots and offer a "rush" service to those willing to pay extra. Use a sob story about how this is family time she is giving up for you. Worst case she books slightly fewer slots for a while, and gives up on it.

But she is too scared to even try because she is terrified of customers going elsewhere... Despite the fact that people are willing to schedule 3 months in advance to get their hair done in her living room instead of walking into their local salon the same day.
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Actually, in a automatic production economy, design becomes king and whoever can design the best product becomes the most important person.

This already happened in the case of the internet. Cost of labor is almost zero upon scaling, and the people who make the most valuable and well thought out websites gains the most market shares. It is not the people who owns the capital that profited the most on the internet, but great individual and team of designers and makers.

It is also not assumed that the automation would be owned by the few instead of owned by everyone. Personal 3d printers are on the rise, and I foresee a future where we print our products and 3d printers spreads like the personal computer.
Sometime it trips over pretty bad: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=restaurants&...
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There's no CSS4 right now, but eventually it will get a version bump or they'll draw a line in the sand or the community will select a new term that will come to mean the new set of functionality (even if it's not an official spec).

HTML -> DHTML -> HTML5

JavaScript -> AJAX

CSS -> CSS2 -> CSS3 -> ____ -> Profit?
I have never clicked a google ad, except accidentally, and I've been using Google since close to the beginning.
Also, check out the Vertical Rhythm Compass mix-in (http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/typography/vertic...)

It works great with Susy.
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Very cool effect! I did something similar, in reverse, on my personal site- http://andrewcantino.com
&/or follow the best comments http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
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I don't want to get very deep to the major details covering the oops part too. Will appreciate all the useful resource and books.
precisely. The cat is already out of the bag. But, my site will not be a vector of "infection" in spreading the existing information or any new information.
JavaScript in ST2 looks gorgeous in Tomorrow Night 80s. Java, not so much. Keywords, class names and annotations all being the same color makes for a lot of lavender.

http://i.imgur.com/8wRBN.png
What would be the difference between this and other services that already exist like TaskRabbit and Postmates?
Congratulations, you're an absolutist who thinks it is valid to sum someone up by a single opinion in the sea of human complexity.
> In SQL, it would be something like "select * from users where gender='male". Why can't NoSQL databases support a query similar to that?

They can and they do, e.g. Cassandra and CQL, which syntactically is the SQL you requested.
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It is like the floppy disk icon for saving.

Someday hailing a cab will be a button that says "hail a cab" and no more.

There should be a word for this.
A judge will only overrule a jury verdict for proven gross misconduct (mere incompetence or confusion is not enough) or because they judge that no reasonable jury could have decided as the jury did, given the evidence put forward. It does not matter if the jury came to the decision in a way that may not be reasonable, if a reasonable jury could have reached the same verdict.
We know that most browsers couldn't hit a single standing target of a spec. So in order to fix the problem we've made multiple specs that move independently, and at various speeds.
The Kurzweilai.net blog-spam barely summarizes the article, the original is here:

http://www.businessinsider.com/labor-day-2012-the-future-of-...
Glacier is simply meant to solve a different problem than S3.

I will be using Glacier for storage of litigation hold data -- potentially many terabytes of stuff that is being held because a plaintiff asked to hold "everything" and a judge agreed.

So I'll pay to store this stuff for a few years, and in the off-chance that I need to retrieve it, the other party will pay at least half. (A powerful incentive for them to not ask for the data to be retrieved in the first place!)

Basically, you want the data that your sending there to be contiguous -- no fancy de-duping or incrementalism. If you are going to use it for backup, just tar up everything and send it up in blocks that make sense from a recovery cost POV.
The ads on the Google result page are probably better links than most of the organic results. People who pay for traffic usually make the payoff worthwhile.
If your UDID tests negative, you still could be compromised. The original FBI file had 12 million. AntiSec released 1 million.

This linked testing site says 20 million, which is wrong, as far as I know.
Their blog ID system doesn't compensate for it. The single color icons with generic shapes don't register. They need a face or some fancy complex visual. And it needs to be large.

Obviously you don't have this problem on Google+ and Facebook, you know you're on a different user's profile each time because you find the face first.

But maybe they don't care. I personally don't care if I can't tell them apart because I'll only look at the ID if they write something that interests me and those chances are incredibly low.
It is probably related to the students sense of choice. A teenager chooses to carry around a smartphone because it adds some benefit to their life that outweighs the cost of being tracked. Whereas with the RFID card, the student sees little to no benefit but incurs the cost of being "tracked".
Well, data-oriented experience will certainly get trumped by actual data.

I can't believe most cabs don't have real time traffic data.
That'd be like gizmodo suing the source of this article!

http://www.gizchina.com/2012/09/04/chinese-phone-maker-gooph...
cassandra's consistency model is weaker than hbase

This is simply not true. What is true is that Cassandra supports weaker consistency models than hbase in addition to the strong consistency model that hbase supports (and in fact, requires -- you can't turn it off).

Hbase has it's place, but "consistency" isn't a good reason to pick Hbase over Cassandra. Rather, particular workloads can (currently) be done faster in Hbase than Cassandra, due to locality assumptions with how writes are done in Hbase, and the nature of those writes.
Here's the actual original:

http://www.oftwominds.com/blogsept12/future-of-work8-12.html
Also, the overhead of Hbase for a small install is pretty high, whereas a single-node Cassandra cluster is extremely easy to set up.

There's no such thing as a single-node Hbase cluster, since it involves, at the very least, setting up Zookeeper.

This keeps Hbase out of the hands of tire kickers.
I haven't read Atlas Shrugged (I couldn't get more than a few chapters in), but it's completely possible to enjoy a book while not subscribing to its core thesis.

It's a fun mental exercise to temporarily adopt an extreme viewpoint and think it through to its logical conclusion.

If that's all the guy said, you are being too judgmental too quickly.
No money to be made in the App store, much to be made teaching people how to build apps. Kudos.
Beware graphs not starting at 0. I'm not saying there isn't merit in the argument, but the attempt to mislead the reader by placing 57 at the bottom of the graph isn't a good start.
NoCal is bizarro world for people living pretty much anywhere else. It is also tiny. High status people who are high enough status to get recognized regularly don't need status symbols to signal their status.

But that breaks apart in bigger environments, and out comes the suits.
People told the inventor of the steam shovel that he would cause massive unemployment because "one steam shovel replaces dozens of men with conventional shovels."

He replied "Or thousands of men with teaspoons."

I'm surprised how many people still think productivity will be the source of collapse... or how many people think low productivity is the answer to all economic woes.

That view point has always been wrong in the past, and I'm skeptical anything will change to make it right in the future.
That's very true. I had a very similar idea a while ago, but it worked the other way around: semi-relevant tangents and sidenotes would be collapsed by default, and you click to expand them.
I doubt that "owning large tracts of land for the sake of social status and financial security has diminished over the last few hundred years". Look at the lists of billionaires, hectomillionaires, and decamillionaires: a large proportion of them derive their wealth from real estate, certainly enough to make it a top 5 means of capturing wealth in our current system. [1] Perhaps over the next few hundred years what you assert may happen, but much of the world population is still subject to an economic system that richly rewards the original literal rent-seeking behavior on land.

I find it ironic that even in intelligent circles like HN, no one really discusses ways to factor out land and shelter expenses. If your payroll is your #1 expense, and the #1 expense of your employees is shelter, then why has so little attention been paid to this lowest of low hanging fruit of expenses? Individuals are generally speaking not rational actors, and I think we might all be surprised at what happens if a post-scarcity reality became feasible.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2012/03/13/how-ameri...
The field is infinite; it expands as you move through it. Of course there could be a mini-map showing a fixed area surrounding the viewport. This would add technical complexity, requiring the client to save an additional scaled down copy of each drawing to the db, but it's possible.

You can change the size of the eraser/brush with the palette that appears when you click the color rectangle. Perhaps this isn't obvious. Or did you mean that the maximum brush size isn't big enough?
Zurb Foundation (http://foundation.zurb.com/) is another great one that's done with Sass.

I tend to prefer it over the more intrusive styles Bootstrap seems to add; Foundation lets you more easily pick and choose what you do and don't want to drag in.
> I'm also not convinced that ads are actually ever useful.

Look at the results of that query right there. I'd say the ads are at least as good as the results.
This is awesome. Far more useful than those other hyped services that send dildos, condoms or underwear!
I don't really understand why 3rd party apps making requests to their servers would slow down your mail.
How is one to refine their expectations of other people's abilities, if not by updating on available evidence?

Pot, kettle, incidentally. Compare parent's "I immediately lose a bit of respect" with your "you're an absolutist who [...]" The latter makes a much broader claim based on a similarly small piece of information.
I was coming to this page just to post a comment like yours above. Thanks for doing that.

I work on the Gmail backend team and we regularly see blogs go by such as this one. The vast majority of the times that prominent bloggers report slowness it's because they do have tons of apps polling their account via IMAP or other sync methods. All of these apps end up competing for resources to your account with the web UI and thus you experience slowness.

Internally we have accounts with upwards of 100G of mail still being very usable, so we know Gmail scales. Also we have quite a few people internally focusing specifically on finding and fixing these types of problems so that eventually it won't matter how many clients you have or how large your mailbox is, but these things take time. Gmail is a huge ship, we can't turn on a dime.

So yeah, check that IssuedAuthSubTokens page and revoke access to any random services that you've tried out and forgot about.

Hope that helps.
-Andrew
Neat. I like what you did with the mouseovers. There's definitely a lot you can do with simple scripts like this, especially if you craft each post individually.

I was going for something that could be quickly reused without much thought. I'll have to see if my script lives up to that as I continue blogging.