skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really dig the simplicity of the process. I love that the entire top of the homepage not only shows exactly what you offer, but it is, essentially, your entire user-facing product. The price point is a little high compared to normal custom t-shirt offerings, but if you're offering higher quality shirts and a better user experience, then that isn't a bad thing.

A couple of suggestions:

1. The person/model used for the primary image/ordering system looks miserable. "Look, you can get your own custom shirt, but it isn't going to make you happy" doesn't exactly seem like the message you're trying to send here! A smile would go a really long way. Also, the cropping around the hair makes it look a little less professional. I'm not a designer, and I'm sure it is difficult to get something like that perfect, but I think it is worth the effort given how prominent the photo is.

2. The photos of the t-shirts themselves make the t-shirts look like they're low quality (specifically, really thin). I'm not a huge fan of white shirts in general, but I definitely don't want any t-shirt that I can actively see through. Sure, your "gallery" model may be attractive, but it doesn't look very professional (nor does it speak highly of your shirts) if you can see her bra through the product.

3. I feel like the "About, delivery & more" link should really link to the "About" section. I was a little confused when it jumped down the page and I was just staring at some random "suggestions" which, in my case, were not interesting. There's nothing wrong with the suggestions, I just don't think they should be more prominent than "About".

4. I'm on a 27" thunderbolt display, and the marketing material in your bottom tabs is taking up less than half of the bottom of my screen when I am scrolled down as far as I can go. That's not the worst thing in the world, but I would rather scroll down than just change the bottom 40% of my screen when I click "tabs".

5. I'd want more information about the product, the company, and possibly you before I order anything. If you're trying to sell quality, then a full page talking about how damn awesome your shirts are would go a long way to converting me to a customer. And after you sold me on the product itself, I still wouldn't feel safe ordering anything from an unestablished company with no business address, almost no information about the people behind it, and no contact means other than email/twitter.

All in all though, it is cool to see what you can accomplish in only four days. Best of luck.
I second this. This isn't some internet troll that should simply be ignored. If left completely unchallenged, the base assumption by many not familiar with the context will be to take it at face value.
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It seems like Blue Toad's customers were intermediaries between Blue Toad and the final end-users of Blue Toad's apps. Much like the RSA breakin a few years back, it makes sense for Blue Toad to make a general announcement and leave the direct customer communication up to Blue Toad's customers (who own the direct relationship with the customers).

Of course, this brings up the question of why Blue Toad should have Personally Identifying Information about its customers' customers.
Here's another (mock-up?) photo of Google Glass attached to regular glasses, this time from Google I/O: http://imgur.com/q4tDX
So £25 (fairly expensive) for a t-shirt based on a fairly dead meme that is available in one colour and can have no other details? Apple fans are going to love it.

In all serious, I'd be tempted if this was sub ten quid but for £25 you can get so so so much more for your money, and if you're willing to pay that for a white t-shirt with a word on it you have far too much money.
Hmmm. I think replacing your prescription glasses to contact lenses can be a good temporary solution.
I have never heard of the 360 Secure Browser before, but I have found the link for it http://se.360.cn/. I was going to download it to see what it was all about.
I remember that two characters sit on a seat and have a conversation, then move off again, and never mention that they'd been sitting on a Cray.
There's a whole book on this type of topic called "Making Ideas Happen" that discusses the idea of the "Backlog" for all your ideas. There's also a dedicated website called http://99u.com/ that supports the materials in the book. Check it out.
Because it is a pretty cool project? Linking directly to the Kickstarter would have been more useful though: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/impossible/impossible-in...
I think this site is going after a good initial target market: hackers. Making it dead fucking simple is a nice touch

BUT 25 British Pounds for a tshirt basically makes you ridiculously expensive to any American. Why would I pay $40 for a t-shirt ever? It doesn't matter how "hacker cool" it is :)

If you localized, you would significantly improve your prospects in the US.
> It does not protect anyone's privacy unless the recipients believe it was set by a real human being, with a real preference for privacy over personalization.

User choosing a particular browser advertising itself as `privacy oriented'† is plenty enough of indication of user's intention. An extra manual action should not be needed.

It was an open question whether using OS' default browser could be considered a valid choice, but not anymore. On Windows, users are prompted to select a browser, via BrowserChoice.eu.

† yea, I know it is quite ironic to call IE a privacy-oriented browser. Still, it should not be singled out for any perceived shortcomings.
500 Errors:

Lynx on Linux: https://aboutmybrowser.com/1909674851

w3m on Linux: https://aboutmybrowser.com/1942341369

links on Linux: https://aboutmybrowser.com/3183933151

elinks on Linux: https://aboutmybrowser.com/3918182904

Also, it works just fine on Firefox with NoScript blocking JavaScript from your site.
Wow -- great read
You weight the intent system too highly and ignore the effect on the reader.

SO's interface worked pretty well for opinion. Who cares if it's impossible to accurately score? The most useful stuff generally ended up near the top, so readers could quickly find a lot of good material.

As to the green checkmark, a querent isn't obligated to select a best answer. And if they selected one, so what? It pushed one answer up, but readers were perfectly capable of reading down.

SO's behavior with opinion is a classic case of founders saying "B-b-b-b-ut they're doing it wrong". Which is backwards. The purpose of a discussion system is to serve its users, not its programmers. This is exactly the same sort of idiocy that killed Friendster: https://plus.google.com/116014836340643816850/posts/WFH5eDug...
Ah, apologies! I posted that on the wrong topic, I meant to post it about that ivory thing.
It also doesn't rule out the aliens from Zarvox who may secretly control our government from the highest levels.
I hardly think that 1987 counts as the early days of Silicon Valley.
Lynx 2.8.6rel.4: https://aboutmybrowser.com/1283428590

Lynx 2.8.8dev.2: https://aboutmybrowser.com/4027520259

Links 2.1pre32: https://aboutmybrowser.com/3138479085

ELinks 0.11.1: https://aboutmybrowser.com/3604611808

(Text-based browsers deserve love, too.)
Most of those have nothing to do with threading.
The all-in-one doesn't look all that much like an iMac but the keyboard and trackpad sure look like they copied Apple.
E&M has always been a tricky subject for physics students which is exactly why I want to tackle it! I'll have to figure out a clear and concise way to communicate the concepts to beginners, and while that'll definitely be challenging, it's not a challenge I'll shy away from easily. Bring it on, physics!
That would be insanely stupid [#] for the attackers to do - especially as they claim the FBI have the original 2%.

diff ours theirs | xargs fbi_arrest_warrent_generator.py

I cannot come up with a convincing reason that the 2% is missing however - or if the 2% is in addition to. Which would raise even more weird questions.

edit: [#] that seems a bit aggressive, but I am not aiming at the parent post here, apologies if it reads badly. I think I mean these guys would make it onto Americas Dumbest Hackers TV special if that were the case.
Turning up the volume to cover up the white noise is not an ideal solution and in many cases not a solution at all. A neighbor in an apartment building may not care for the extra noise coming through the wall. I feel your 360 example is supporting my thought, fan noise is an issue that different people handle differently. You accepted the additional level of white noise in the situation but it's not reasonable to assume every else will too.

> People still care but many either tolerate it or work around it based on the games.

Of which I totally agreed with. My point is that it's an issue because I expect Steam to expand beyond games. If the box is not built with this in mind then it's a potential issue. To expand into the TV audience market you'll need a box that won't make noise that people who are not accustomed to may not like.
"Can XCode help in this case or do you have to basically be writing Mac/iOS apps to access that power?"

I'm also very interested to get the answer of this.
I seem to recall reading a $999 3D printer being announced at a hardware conference recently, but I'm afraid I can't find the link.

The Cubify (http://cubify.com/cube/store.aspx) is $1299, so I don't think it will be long until we have a few sub-$999 models to choose from.
Regarding the inheritance features, he's been writing an extensive series on the subject recently:

http://ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com/2012/08/intro-to-postgresql...

(though he should provide forward/backward links in the posts -- as it stands you need to find the other parts in the archive links on the right)
> You can sell modified copies of physical products to your heart's content.

Yes, but only in a very limited way. You've only mentioned examples where I can modify the original physical atoms.

I cannot modify and re-distribute the ideas present in textbooks. It is those ideas that have the most value, not the paper it's printed on.
Yeah but it's not authentic man
Google Drive: Updates for iOS and Android
On the contrary, I think publications like Venturebeat are, quite literally, the professionalized form of internet trolls. If I'm right, it's definitely not a good strategy to engage with them.
Yeoman: Modern workflows for modern webapps
Great work.
It works well, it identified everything correctly, including the Windows Version (8).
I think that the distinction is that this is a fully analog photo printer using the old (and beloved) Polaroid instant printing technology instead of the more mechanically complex inkjet approach.

Cute, but not really revolutionary.
Just to make sure I understand.. It's IRC on the web? Is there anything I am missing? I.e. Compared to grove.io.

But design wise, it's simple and clean, I like it :)
IMO there's too much uncertainty over WebOS. There's no real deployment of these devices (dwarfed by even Windows Phone at this point), the helter-skelter handling of killing it and bringing it back has scared people (thanks Apotheker for coming in an destroying WebOS and HP in general!), and a roadmap that hasn't unfolded yet.
Blue Toad seems to be essentially a white label app company, something like a CMS for apps. They'd have many publishers, who'd have many apps.
I should add that I've been using Trello to track my personal "Spark File" (or Backlog) for awhile now. Works wonderfully. And as a bonus makes it easy to "riff" on certain ideas for a couple minutes without committing to anything.
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Ridiculous. Other than the bezel color, bezel shape, metallic logo, logo positioning, aspect ratio, foot design, choice of materials, choice of finishing, keyboard design, key coloring, key layout, keyboard LED, keyboard footing, trackpad design, trackpad footing, keyboard battery chamber, and trackpad battery chamber, this is a totally unique design.
I like it; a fresh new look at forum interaction
For ~$40(USD) I want a much higher quality shirt than Gildan. That seems ridiculously over priced. With a quick Google search "Gildan's 100% cotton, ringspun, pre-shrunk sofstyle tshirts" (what the about page says you use), the shirts cost less than $3.00(USD) to buy in bulk.

Suggestion: Why not lower your profit margin a little bit (you have to be making at least $30+ USD on each order right now) to make it more affordable? I just imagine this could probably go much more viral at a more affordable price.
ah, gotcha, thx
Cray also uses MPI afaik, so if you are using big-iron you may see it, this would include JPL as well as pretty much all the three-letter agencies under the DOD umbrella I suspect.
Is this one of those strata, though? I keep seeing "get a load of what she's wearing" excerpts from fashion shows for bizarre stuff that's never seen again.
The Heroku Hacker's Guide
One thing I love about PostgreSQL development is all the small nice fixes added in every version.

Of the small fixes in 9.1 my personal favorite is probably the cleanup of pg_stat_activity. There are also many other nice small fixes like improved tab completion for some commands and the ability to set environment variables in psql.
No Hollywood cliches? Please.

The NSA and CIA are evil.
Stealing is ok as long as it's for a 'good' cause.
On a computer screen encrypted data is formatted the same as unencrypted data. I guess CRs, LFs and spaces don't get encrypted.
... and the BlueToad blog post. Nothing of substance, mostly just a "sorry" and "we've fixed it".

http://blog.bluetoad.com/2012/09/10/statement-from-bluetoad-...
How would you envision a desktop trackpad that doesn't converge on the design of the apple magic trackpad?
They also said the data was taken "in the past 2 weeks". Assuming that Blue Toad's data changes daily or so, getting a 98% match to their "current" data seems reasonable. If the data changes "real time" then it might be impossible to find the exact time when the data matches 100%.
Thanks for the really comprehensive feedback.

I actually agree with every point you raise. We've got a great deal to improve upon but like you say at the end, it has only been a quick project thus far.

I hope you'll take a look back (or follow one of us on twitter - @tomcavill / @helvetitee / @ccharlesworth) so you can see the site improve over the next few weeks.

Thanks again for taking the time to comment.
You are not an expert
Yeah - I would say they should have considered the name a little more, and looked to see what was using the name Slow Loris before putting this out... Whenever I am talking about DoS attacks on webservers, SlowLoris comes up, and this will just add to the confusion.

(Thanks, Captain Hindsight!)
Is that the Assassin's Creed logo?
You won't get them in an hstore[0] column, which was the context of my reply. Of course in a JSON column you want full JSON support, but my and my parent's post were about converting back and forth between hstore and json.

Since hstore only handles string:string mapping, the choice is either to silently corrupt data by stringifying all values in the json->hstore encoding, or erroring out if the input data is anything other than string:string.

The latter would be what I'd prefer, and more in line with usual Postgres behavior.

[0] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/hstore.html
I think that’s exactly what makes this so strange. HP already was selling all-in-one PCs that did not look like iMacs at all. They could have continued with that – but for some reason decided not to.
Indeed, instead it just looks like an ACD.

http://www.apple.com/displays/
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/mice-pointers/mice/wireless-to...
All the feedback so far indicates our pricing is too high. That'll definitely be the first thing we'll fix.
Well...there are many that might not see them like that. I, didn't view them as that. Partly because I don't pay much attention to them, but when an interesting article that they wrote appears on HN I would read it.

But now, I am much more likely to read it with a skeptical eye - and possibly not even read it altogether.

This cuts to the heart of journalism.

It's the equivalent of the WSJ or NYT writing a hit piece on either campaign, just to find out that the author's wife/husband is a top advisor for the candidate - without them explicitly stating that in the piece.

The most ironic thing about the VB piece, is that the title is: "Paul Graham’s ‘lowball’ accusation of Google Ventures may hide an ulterior motive".

How ironic that allegations surface that may hide an ulterior motive for VB.
I'm starting an IT Book Club called The On-Call Pagers
The app store corruption thing did; the Mac app store sandbox restriction doesn't, however.
MPI shines mostly in the context of tightly-coupled applications operating on multiple nodes with a fast, reliable network. Most implementations are well-optimized for operating on extremely high-bandwidth low-latency networks like Infiniband or Cray's Gemini. They can also use remote direct memory access (RDMA) to do cool stuff like let CUDA applications directly access GPU memory accross the network (GPUDirect).

Scientific applications which involve a lot of interprocess communication -- for example, large CFD simulations -- can get a lot of benefits, especially since the popular MPI implementations are highly tuned for those types of apps. Also there's a ridiculous amount of legacy code, which leads to the usual lock-in effects.

edit: clarification
What makes this better than mcollective?

The examples make it look very similar, but written in python.
Meh...

Tries to portray MS as being heavy handed while being heavy handed himself by forcing such a brazen opposition. Where is HE giving the users the choice? At least on the browser, users can turn off/toggle the value. But on the Apache server, the users have no such control and hence are at the loss..

Hypocricy much...
There can't be any other possible design, can it?

http://technabob.com/blog/2011/09/13/logitech-wireless-touch...
Range types combined with exclusion constraints solve the problem of not allowing overlapping bookings using a database constraint. The solution is simple, clean, and flexible unlike the workarounds.

Example of adding such a constraint:

ALTER TABLE reservation ADD EXCLUDE USING gist (room WITH =, during WITH &&);

In this example a room cannot be double booked.

EDIT: This is a feature entirely unique to PostgreSQL.
I watched the Kickstarter video and I have to say, I feel like I'm being trolled in the most epic fashion.
Fair point. We'll come up with a better price as everyone seems to agree it's too high.
It's a display feature in the "psql" client program.

Normal result:

column1 | column2 | column3
---------+---------+---------
1 | a | 9.9
2 | b | 19.9
(2 rows)

Using \x:

-[ RECORD 1 ]-
column1 | 1
column2 | a
column3 | 9.9
-[ RECORD 2 ]-
column1 | 2
column2 | b
column3 | 19.9

The first form is tabular and works well for a few columns; but doesn't work well when there are many columns, because the lines start to wrap. So you use \x for wide tables to make the result readable (but, obviously, fewer rows are shown at a time).

Using "\x auto" automatically chooses which format to use based on your terminal width.
Because it's being used to talk about the scrollbars in it?
I'm not sure if you are kidding, but I'm quite certain that my dad (who owns an iMac) wouldn't be able to tell them apart at BestBuy.
I gave this out in a suggestion couple weeks ago in #javascript on freenode. Nice job, since this is what I was looking for. Previously was using http://www.mybrowserinfo.com/detail.asp?bhcp=1
Can you elaborate a little bit on how an architecture like that would look like? I had great hopes for CouchDB once.
Ahh....ok....I get you.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4500479
\x in psql switches if things are like a table or a list. Before you'd have to run a query and see that you cant read it, then hit \x and then run the query again. Now you can just have it figure out which one to show you based on your terminal size
Here's another angle[0]. It doesn't even begin to ressemble an HP TouchSmart[1].

[0] http://www.engadget.com/photos/hp-spectre-one/#5256829

[1] http://img1.lesnumeriques.com/produits/23/3739/23_3739_2.jpg
Building Cheap Batteries to Circumvent the Grid
Thanks for the information... that's actually news to me. In Canada I've mostly seen salt, water, and "natural preservatives".
> It's interesting to see people who think their phone somehow equals the abilities of a console or PC.

I don't know of anyone who thinks that, and I don't read the above post that way. It's almost a pointless discussion, though, because the three year old phone in my pocket is more powerful than most of the desktop computers I've owned in my life. It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect mobile devices a couple of cycles hence to be able to match 90% of what's on people's desks right now.
Statement from BlueToad regarding the cyber attack and Apple UDIDs
GGP:

While I don't disagree that C# is good, I don't see how
you could say that Java is in any way behind.

GP:

[List of features where Java is behind.]

(May have missed that the sub-thread is about 'scalable, concurrent systems', though typical C# development leaves threading worries to ASP.NET/SQL libraries.)

Personally, I would appreciate it if you'd share how Java threading beats C# threading, particularly C#'s async/await. I don't know much about Java.
Nice story.

It's a reminder how powerful the combination of simple tools and a little reasoning can be.

I once found myself by chance with a customer just as they got smacked with a DDoS attack that they were completely unprepared for.

The security folks threw up their hands claiming that they couldn't do anything to stop the attack due to certain random elements. The executives panicked and everyone started pointing fingers while their site went offline. It was chaos.

I asked to have a look at logs on a hunch that the "random" element wasn't entirely random. One line of awk, grep and uniq later it was revealed that roughly 85% of the attack could be mitigated with a trivial change at the edge.
“Log in to unsubscribe from this e-mail”: annoying, possibly illegal
What kills me is there is a great touchscreen with dramatically different design headed to market, just need to add a CPU:

http://www.wacom.com/en/products/cintiq/cintiq24touch.aspx
Also worth reading is the link to how the 'Qihoo 360 Safe Browser' won the Internet in China:

http://www.digital-dd.com/qihoo-browser-war/

Basically, exploiting people's ignorance of the Internet, security, and, according to them, the Chinese people's deference to authority.
Fair. I had interpreted you as saying you didn't feel like Java was far behind C# in general.

I'm not terribly versed in what Java's got going for it in the concurrency department, so I'm not really qualified to speak to that. The stuff that's been happening in C# and .NET since version 3 is pretty fantastic, IMO, but I don't really know the details about how what Java has compares.
In fairness to HP, the Touchsmart line is terrible. Bad build quality, BSOD's on first boot, awkward design decisions, atrocious touch experience, and literally forty preinstalled and thoroughly rotten "touch" apps that join forces with dozens of sludgeware packages to make the first hour of use punishing. The Spectre looks like a work of art compared to them.

(By awkward design decisions: there's a secret chamber that holds a secret USB port that's already got a secret USB stick in it that drives the radio for the included wireless keyboard and mouse)