skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I just got one for just that purpose and I can vouch for its suitability. I actually prefer the Chromebook to the $1700 Windows laptop most of the time because it doesn't take so goddamned long to start up when you open it.
You maybe right. But if _everyone_ does it, the customer doesn't really have a choice now does he?
That's surprising given the publicized Facebook acquisition: http://m.techcrunch.com/2012/10/01/facebook-acqhires-founder...
I guess this blog post was one of those 100 ideas? (not trying to be cheeky; you seem to be doing great, and keen.io looks great)
How do you make a website that is 100% client side? Where is the SQL, PHP? I am not sure I know who this for...
Good news. I used Carsabi a lot when they first started it since I was in the market at the time. I also emailed one of the guys (maybe OP) a little bit offering to help and he seemed like a good guy. Congrats.
I'm not talking about apps, I'm talking about the entire OS. This is not intended to be a general purpose computing device. It is not a traditional notebook or a replacement for one.
For what it's worth, Apple also offers on-site with AppleCare.

And then in the cases for certain quality programs, such as the iMac hard drive replacement [1], they will do on-site even if you don't have AppleCare and/or are out of your 1 year warranty.

[1]: http://www.apple.com/au/support/imac-harddrive/
3-D Printed Gun Only Lasts 6 Shots
The probes were launched to take advantage of a favorable alignment of the planets during the late 1970s.
Does your brother have access to a desktop computer? If so he didn't replace a computer for an iPad. He replaced his mobile gadget for a lighter option.

Tablets are great for consumption, but extremely poor for generating content. Even with an external keyword, writing a document (not even talking about a spreadsheet) in a tablet is least than pleasant.
HTML5 MMORPG
I am just getting started with writing my first book too.

I recommend reading these articles.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/28/why-every-entrepreneur-shou...
http://scottberkun.com/2007/how-to-write-a-book-the-short-ho...

Createspace is a recommended resource, although you should look into similar sources.

Other sources:
lightning source
writersmarket.com
bookbaby.com

- Bharad (star at bharad dottt net)
But these same lay people are going to create html and css files ?

I'm not trying to obtuse but I'm having a hard time seeing the value proposition of something like this.
There are static sites all over the web that have no SQL or PHP or anything like that (http://shows-app.com/, http://www.usefabric.com/). Static site generators like jekyll could use something like this. Splash pages for startups and apps could also use this.
It's easier than ftp, and I suspect ftp is the most commonly used deployment mechanism on the internet.
cmd-k also clears the scrollback buffer. It's probably the single thing I miss most after moving back to linux from macOS.
Do you agree to an EULA when buying an MBP or another laptop, implicitly or otherwise? Serious question.
Still a beautiful website design though.
Whenever I want to feel excited about the future I just look at this video; seriously is really magic stuff. Changing your bathtub temperature with one gesture of your hand in the water; changing the channel by a simple gesture in the couch, the use-cases are virtually unlimited. Also if one day it becomes even more sensitive it could transform any object into a fingerprint detector!
Tweetro+ Windows 8 app released for $9.99
I really liked the demo controlling the music player; it struck me as the one I'd be most likely to actually see in the near future (The door with the different signs was neat, but requires a bit more hardware).

I'm curious where the sensors were placed for that one (I couldn't see them on the guy's arms) and if say, getting caught in the rain or a really dry day, would throw it on the fritz.
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Good-old Wordpress plugins.
Looks nice. I wonder what will be your next step for 2u.fm.
I will be trying it out.
Guys, just want to say thanks. This site is awesome. Exactly what I was looking for when I woke up this morning.
I've found it great for quickly showing clients a semi-functional mockup or prototype. I just replace my database connection with a big lump of json. Great if most of your application logic is in javascript.
I'm curious, why is my post here getting downvoted?
Given the massive, dominant install base of Windows, you'd of hoped for a better result after the first tablet friendly version was released.

Particularly the slashed OS price, and bundling of the previous cash cow, Office, in RT.

Agree it might take time to catch on, but these days that doesn't seem to be a truth either. Windows Phone looked like a sure winner to me a year ago - or, atleast, more than its current 1%.

Things are moving fast, and people have broadened their minds in the past 3 years of iPad exposure.

What MS needed was a product that took the iPad by the horns. Either that or released its Surface "compromise" (which it certainly is) 2 years ago.
"2. Employees gradually switch away from using Windows PCs for work."

That's not happening.
One reason that might explain why you don't see that decline on Macs is because is being cancelled for all those people trying to develop for iOS devices.

What it is true is that we don't need new hardware in the same way we used to. For instance, my 5 years old laptop is running faster with Win8 beta that it did with Win 7, and that is the only PC I use at home and probably that won't change any time soon. Before that I used to change PCs in a two years cycle.
I'm looking at tindie.com and I see the inifinite scroll but I don't get the need for masonry. All The blocks appear to be the same width and height.
You have 11 opportunities to be great at something
Is forecasting baby urination possible with sensing electrical signals?
Online sites like eBay, always want to reduce their personnel costs. Dispute resolution should be a last ditch effort that exists to identify loopholes in a system that should ideally NEVER need dispute resolution.
Postgres has non-classic-rdbms features suitable for lock/wait sort of behavior for a queue.

I haven't experimented with it myself, beyond to note it's there.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-notify.html
Does anyone know of such a site? I recently came into possession of a deceased relatives various stuffs, and have a bunch of semi-recent semi-old computer parts to sell off, but have been hesitant to use ebay for this reason, but I don't live anywhere a local Craigslist would work (yay for rural).
Isn't that what Thunderbolt is? PCIe lanes with displayport?
You got it for free - why should you expect more? If there's a demand for accurate, well-supported, and much harder-to-produce news and commentary, which someone is willing to pay for, many journalists would be happier as well. This, however, is a free publication that (simplifying) earns on a per-view basis. Perhaps there already exists another source of information that's accurate, but behind a paywall.
Bummer. I was hoping carsabi would take off.

I used them to find my car. It was great. Especially the graph that tells you whether a car is overpriced or underpriced compared to all of the other listings. I used it to negotiate $1,000 off of a $6,000 car at a used car dealer, making them sell it to me for the average private party price.

Kelly Blue Book purports to offer a similar price guide, but it is terrible and dealers know it. If you try to cite it to them, they say its wrong - but if it benefits them they try to use it to their advantage. However an actual database of actual private party sales going on right now is very powerful.
Who Decided Apps, Esp. Third-Party Twitter Apps, Had To Be Cheap?
Always HCI (or Robotics) too. It's like, you never actually see what they're doing but it's always awesome (except for that large robot in some room on NS second floor right near the Wean bridge, but that might not be HCI). Also #proud :)
Dropbox is an interesting idea with that. Given their API, it's entirely possible to build a bunch of services on top of it, such as archival DVDs, or uploads to printing companies. When I was on vacation, I wound up sending my photos I wanted to print to snapfish via Flickr. (after running them through iPhoto for editing)

There are a couple of sticking points:

* There's still going to be space management issues. 2gb on Dropbox doesn't go far when you've got a 4gb cf in the camera, and the next step up is 100gb@$100/yr.

* the other half of space management is clearing it off of the iPad. It's difficult to manage storage of imported photos, it turns out that if you don't delete them after import to iPhoto on your desktop, you either have to delete them individually or use image capture on the Mac to do it. I'd love to see the high res ones synced off to the cloud, leaving smaller jpegs around, but with the promise that the high res ones were securely stored. What I wound up doing for that was using a USB stick and my work netbook as the real storage for all the holiday images, rather than being able to do it on the iPad.

Finally, and this isn't a problem for the inlaws, but for me as a photographer, I shot raw+jpeg. iphoto imported raw+jpeg, and then didn't use any of the raw data, just the small(well, 8mp) jpegs. I tore through them, using iPhoto as a passible Lightroom substitute. And now, the adjustments are orphaned if I want to apply any of them to the raw files. That's annoying. Not critical, but annoying. And it's not as if there isn't a raw converter in the core of OSX that couldn't be used here.
Not defending anyone. Just explaining one possible reality of a supply and manufacturing pipeline that moves that fast.
Mary Meeker: 2012 Internet Trends Update
West meets east: SV accelerator to tackle future of journalism
Jasmine Benjamin found dead
http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/13/paypal-gets-its-own-share-o... URL still says Java even.
I suggested on twitter to just transfer Microsoft's keys if possible.
Not sure about portal, but I've used a PS3 controller with software that emulates xbox 360 controllers. It was fairly difficult to get set up and then running every time but once it was running it was rock solid. Played my way through Lara Croft: Guardians of the light with it.

I think it was this: http://motioninjoy.com/download
Even Y Combinator Can't Grow Forever
Unfortunately being similar to 2008 Apple Air specs just isn't going to cut it.
Initially didn't know what to make of this given how highly I think of Carsabi and how new Ark was. Put the pieces together with the FB aqui-hire http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/01/facebook-acqhires-founders-...

and now I think it's probably beneficial for all parties, but not as big of a deal as a full acquisition (by a mile).

Love to see Ark pursuing other verticals though!
1. It's possible to connect a keyboard to an iPad/Android tablet. (and larger screens as well)
2. You imply that only a minority of people would be doing "heavy" production work on a computer. The trends seem to be the opposite of that, at least in modern cities (I doubt office workers can avoid keyboards and decent-sized-screens.)
Right. I'd much rather have an Asus Transformer style Windows 8 tablet + keyboard dock / second battery. Hopefully they'll come with more storage and battery time than the Surface Pro. Plus they'll likely be in the major retailers rather than just Microsoft's stores.
‘Sell It Before You Build It’
Medicine and military applications would be great!

Dentist: How dentist grips the tool indicates how it behaves. Eg. control speed of a rotary tool like a drill based on a grip.

Doctor: Patient giving doctor feedback with their hand.

Military: For some guns, one finger on the trigger does a single shot for precision, two fingers does bursts for rapid fire.
"I am not making excuses for Apple. If you pay that much for a laptop you want it to be perfect. I get it. I also get that it just won't happen. Too many moving parts."

I'd agree if this were, say, the SD card reader or maybe the keyboard backlight. But it's the fucking display. The very thing customers are paying a premium for is the thing that's unusable on their overpriced laptops.
Maybe these lay people pay a few hundred dollars to a freelancer for a simple website and don't know a good hosting option. E.g., I just designed a very simple, 3-page static site for a roofing company.
Another thing unsaid about the Lean Startup approach is that it seems to heavily favor software startups, almost to the point that it is more of a manual for a software/web startup than any other type of company. In creating a vertically-integrated retail brand, for example, there's very little margin for error and iteration bandwidth in the initial stages. You really need to do your homework, understand the market, and design a great product to truly make an impact. Scraping the surface with shabby clothes at high prices just to get a feel for the market, for example, doesn't work. In many industries, true product-market fit can only be proven at scale. Man-power tests don't always work in the early stages.
Whether or not you should adopt a lean startup/pivot approach is based on your view of the world, and how you fit in it.

Peter Thiel wrote a great article[1] about this.

In a nutshell, for the purpose of this topic, you can divide the world into two axis: optimistic/pessimistic & determinate/indeterminate.

If you are optimistic and indeterminate, then the Lean Startup method is for you. You think there is an answer (somewhere), but you don't think you can know it ahead of time. Your company won't create products like the iPhone, but it will discover niches like AirBNB did through trial and error.

My own company, Fohr, is firmly in the optimistic/deterministic camp, as am I. Trying to "find" a market, pivoting endlessly, etc. are not for us. We already know what we want to build, and the only "customer" we have to please, ultimately, is me, and I've known the essence of our company/product since the late 90s, when I first came up with the idea at Siggraph. The only "pivoting" we've done is to accomplish that vision in technical terms (aka, R&D), not to determine if "people want it" or if there's a market.

Maybe I'm just too stubborn to pivot, but I'd like to think it's because I'm optimistic and believe the world is knowable and the best way to predict the future is to invent it, so that's what I'm doing. I suspect Elon Musk feels the same way.

[1] http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/23435743973/peter-thiels...
I wouldn't bother arguing. If people want to use other laptop hardware, for reasons partly imaginary, defending their choice by juvenile name-calling, let them.
also, how would you say it compares to CPC ads via google?

adwords kw tool says that there's low competition for 'analytics backend'

it'd be interesting to know how twitter ads compare to more 'known' networks like adsense as far as ultimately increasing your user base.
We're working on it! Lots more to be added thanks to some awesome submissions.
Tiny migration script for MySQL using PHP, built for the minimalist
Why 'The Daily' Failed
I have a "News" folder on my front page with 10 items in it (including CNN and AP Mobile and Wall Street Journal and Zineo and a few bookreader apps...and then I have a "Newsstand" folder with ONE item in it, the New York Times app. I can't put the Newsstand or the New York Times app into the News folder, even though it's got a couple slots free. I can't take NYT out of the Newsstand even though it's a folder of one item. How is this helpful? What was wrong with the prior system, when NYT could be in my News folder with all the other news apps?
Mathematical Describability
i don't really agree with that. while there is overlap with TC in terms of 'heres a flashy new startup,' their general technology articles, tend to be better written and more interesting than TC.
> But the fact is that the data doesn't lie

Well correlation doesn't imply causation. (http://xkcd.com/552/) Sorry I couldn't help it :P

The thing I don't think your conclusion is necessarily true. I can understand that people just don't need to upgrade their PCs as often of they used to (I noticed that on my self too). In my case, I just don't need to upgrade and since Win 8 is running faster in the same old hardware I don't see that happening anytime soon.

But the true is that people is just wasting their money in something else. I wonder if that grow in the tablet market will decline now that new game consoles cycle is coming up.
One can only hope. The mortgage interest deduction is regressive and distortionary and should be phased out. Unfortunately that's one of the many sane policies that economists across the spectrum agree on and that no politician will dare support. (http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-poli... has the rest).
Should Apple Give a “Special Dividend”?
I downvoted you for a couple of reasons. 1. You say you're not sure if he's innocent, but yet you cast aspersions on the legal system, as if it's better for him to not be caught. 2. Photo does not look fake, and Vice most likely forgot about EXIF data. Not like they deliberately attached the address to the photo.

By the way, "blood would be on Vice and the author's hands, where is the decency?" - wow, really?
Did you read the article? It says they plan to sell off the carsabi site/service. So, it's not really surprising at all...
Apple has had all sorts of screen problems for many years now. Most customers don't notice them, but if you're keen to such things, you probably don't approach powering up a new Apple device with the joy that's supposed to come with it. You hold your breath and scan the screen with great anxiety for dead pixels, yellow stripes, pink and green splotches, uneven backlighting, ghosting, and light leakage.
This is inspiring... So I was a little overzealous and created three campaigns.

One - Antifragile, on Nassim's new book. http://teespring.com/antifragile

Two and Three - Holidays, Christmas and Hanukkah
http://lastshirts.tumblr.com/

The site is very easy to work with.
Yes. We created Backup Box back in March to solve this problem. https://mybackupbox.com

We have also released our technology as an API at http://mover.io

Feedback is welcome!
Viraliti is the Adwords for Pinterest; Helps Brands Leverage Pinterest
one of my primary motivations for joining google was because i really wanted to be in (what i felt, from talking to my friends that worked there, was) a place that was passionate about the quality and health of their codebase, and that was constantly striving not just for better things to do but for better ways to do those things. so far (18 months in), it has pretty much been everything i expected it to be.

it's not true that i "don't care what i'm working on", but the basic engineering culture of google is such that i'm pretty sure i'd have been happy here even if i hadn't got my first choice of product area. i notice an overemphasis on hacker news about how there should be one Problem You're Passionate About Solving, and that that should be what drives you, but that's very much a psychology-of-the-individual thing.
But: many people have had no problem with any of these Magsafe designs, despite frequent use. Weird, huh?
I don't see the inconsistent lighting directions folks are talking about. I'm curious what directions you guys are seeing. (FWIW - I'm a photographer). I read the lighting direction as potentially about 4pm from the photographer and rather lowish (some shade over subjects), McAfee's face shaded by the other subject, and some of the other differences (highlight on top of VICE guy's shoulder versus McAfee's for instance) very explainable by the dappled light from trees above them and in the background. Maybe I'm missing something though, I definitely haven't spent much time attempting to identify fake photos :)
You Don't Have to Be Local
Apple's successes and failures often make the news. How is that the fault of anyone frothing about their complaint?
99% of ppl attened to learn about the lean startup. Big tunechi never rides with the crowd!
Spotify does not use Echonest for recommendations.
You could argue that Microsoft's biggest competitors are being propelled by missteps made my Microsoft. For example, MS could have easily owned the smartphone market; they breezed past Palm and Symbian but they massively dropped the ball.
Thus, apparently you should continue to use Lenovo T61s running off a UPS. Enjoy your path.
Microsoft Goes after Enterprise Customers, Raises Licensing Prices
The merchandise reminds me a lot of Brookstone. Compared to the generic cluttered "me too" Brookstone website, this is rather pleasant. It would be nice to have some captions under the products though.

Take the "Assurelink Belt" which has nothing in the little round rect box to tell me its a smartphone controlled garage door opener.
This is too cool. I cannot wait to try how a manipulatable material and holographic interface feels.

Glad to see Bret Victor's important rant[1] resonating as well.

Does anyone have any tips about getting involved with this area of work? Any good forums or open source projects?

[1] http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
Why am I not surprised to see you trolling HN too? What's all too sweet is that you've brought your anti-Go zealotry here too! Joy.

> Except Google Go returns several values instead of tuples, so you can't just collect all the results as-is.

This is false. Functions in Go do not have to return multiple values. Therefore, you can "collect all the results as-is".

> And with no generics it would be annoying to actually use e and the result, since they would need casts. Too bad.

Actually, it wouldn't be annoying, because you wouldn't use a general purpose map like you've shown. You'd use code shown in the parent.
TIOBE: Objective-C on its way to become "language of the year" again
Tomboy is really not in the same league as OneNote.
I think the point about being to willing to call something a failure is a good one. It is important to be "Ok" with failing but it is also important to be honest with yourself in terms of whether or not you gave it everything you had to give.
IIRC the Arch isos are set up such that you can literally dd them onto a usb drive and they're automatically bootable. Not sure if any other distros do this, but they ought to.
ToS are not always enforceable.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120907/15424120313/barne...

http://www.mashedreport.com/2010/07/29/website-terms-of-serv...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090508/0212134792.shtml

Though there have been cases where ToS were enforced.
That alignment was more about favourable planetary alignment than a noticeably faster trip to the edge of the solar system.

The Voyagers did pretty well, but if your only aim was getting away from Sol it's not too difficult a target. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Networ....
How to Land a Customer for Life
In this case its "how history will remember them." Having talked with a number of congress people over the years in various stages (campaigning, lame duck, between elections, Etc) there is certainly a desire not to be known for a scandal or indiscretion.
Actually, I have. I got a knock-off memory card once. I threatened the seller with all kinds of things (basically send the feds after him), and he sent me the money back. Didn't even need to involve Ebay/PayPal.
MIT Researchers Create The Swiss Army Knife Of The Robotics World
Making things with Maths - Full Frontal Conference talk
If the stated claim is true (killing off upgrades) then their assumption that people will buy new PCs needs to be substantiated. For example when having to upgrade many will consider going for a tablet or similar form factor instead which won't come from the PC OEM, and when it does will be a far lower margin item.

As one example my parents upgraded from their Windows PC to an iPad.