skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK equivalent is CollectPlus http://www.collectplus.co.uk/faqs#local_shop_section
. Instead of picking up goods from a locker in a public area, you pick up your parcel from a convenience store. The convenience store use their Paypoint terminal to identify you and your item and get the item from their stockroom back of house. The advantage for the convenience store over lockers is they don't waste front of house space on items which can be held back of house.
Paypoint provides a terminal network across 24000 UK stores to take cash for utility bills, BBC TV licences, cellphone topups and so on. Collect+ is offered by 5000 of these stores, it piggybacks on the existing network which is obviously way more efficient than building a brand new network with extra hardware.
I suspect this convenience store network approach rather than lockers would apply even better to countries which do e-commerce as "cash on delivery", for example Russia.
Wow. What would Google do with this? I mean, if I understand correctly, it's just a warehouse which emails you when your package gets delivered there. Free for now(for publicity), and paid from next year.

Couldn't Google just open their own spare warehouses?
There are other concerns too. I submitted a bug report to Zappos because their emailer did not URL-escape '+' in foo+bar@example.com. Resulting in:

http://www.zappos.com/?email=foo+bar@example.org

which was treated as:

http://www.zappos.com/?email=foo%20bar@example.org

by the browser. It worked fine when I manually encoded the '+'.
The JVM seems like a really silly target for this. OH BOY! An editor that won't behave correctly in ANY environment!
GitHub down during Facebook Hackathon Finals?
Absolutely agreed. Snow Leopard was the last "true" desktop OS. I really don't see the need for Launchpad and co. when everything is and always has been a cmd+space away.

EDIT

In response to the heated discussion below, it's not just the launchpad that has me a little peeved about Lion and ML (I'm on ML now). Some of things that are being taken from iOS that I don't necessarily feel belong on the desktop: natural scrolling, skeuomorphication of interfaces, suggested words, "all my files", social media integration (yes, this is just me), etc.

But my biggest pet peeve is just the sheer dumbing down of things. iTunes 11 is pretty, but why put everything a click away? What was so bad about a sidebar that makes everything instantly accessible and only takes 80px? Why does the app now prefer to be run in full screen?
Tangentially related, but does anyone know of an easy way to push a github repo to an S3 bucket (configured as a public site)?

I'm pretty new at git/github, but understand that the solution may involve a post commit hook that somehow calls an S3 file upload service.
Yes, it is mutually beneficial. But, I have seen how new hires are suffering due to the fact that they have not gained practical knowledge at school. So, there is a problem.
I shipped something with Bufferbox a few days ago and am waiting for my pickup notification. Hope Google doesn't steal my package... :-)
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That's actually a fairly awesome idea.
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On the plus side, I can't wait to order my Nexus 4 off Amazon, and have a choice of picking it up from my closest Bufferbox vs. Locker.

I just imagined 7/11's everywhere having both Bufferbox's and Locker's right next to them. One of them should do a deal with Starbucks.
House passes GOP immigration bill for science, math grads
I think that's just a bad screenshot maybe... http://d.pssdbt.com/ruIf
Yeah, if they paid you directly from an online wallet, sending funds back to the address you received them won't necessarily get deposited in their account. And if they don't hold the private key, they can't sign a message to you with it...

You probably can't pay them back.
Like putting a rocket on a turd.
ship it.

Seriously, the only way to validate an email is to send them an email and make them click a validation link. I
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What kind of radiation does it use for sensing (infrared, ultrasound, visible light, ...)?
C: A place to pursue one's passions with like-minded people.

I'm not sure the purpose is A or B at all, though some people certainly come away with those attributes.
It's meant to be a little snarky - from a macro level everything looks simple if you just segment it into ten steps. The problem is that each steps contains many many details and years of experience and hard work that can't even be verbalized properly.
Years ago, I must have signed up or given my email address to Urban Outfitters with a +uo. They happily continue to send me emails, but their unsubscribe form does not accept it as a valid address! I've tried reporting the bug, but now just send the messages straight to spam.
I think you have a good grasp of how the execs at Time Warner Inc. (not TW Cable) see it. One can read the earnings call transcripts on seekingalpha where they all but spell it out.

But, just to make it clear here for Chuck and others (rather than wasting time reading earnings' transcripts):

1) As soon as HBO offers their content via other dist. channels, the cable and satellite companies claim in their negotiations that the content is now worth less and they deserve to pay lower rates.

2) Lots of people pay for HBO without ever watching it (i.e. my parents), simply because they'd rather just pay for the premium package than figure out which channels to subscribe to. They are like non-customer subscribers. HBO et al would not see a dime from these people otherwise.
I don't see how that answers my question. A non-zero risk does not mean "In all likelihood" things would unfold as you have depicted them.
IPO for a single real estate deal. Interesting.
Many regular users beg to differ. At least, in my experience, the people who are less familiar with computers are the ones that love the new features the most. Especially launchpad and such. Also, just curious, but what about Lion / Mountain lion disqualifies it from being a "true" desktop OS?
The quote "Vendors are motivated to protect their profits and their shareholders’ interests over everything else." misses the point. You cannot build share holder value over any extended period of time by screwing your customers. It is cheaper in the short run not to patch flaws but completely detrimental to you long term image. Just look at Microsoft who is still seen as the poster boy if insecurity despite nearly a decade of security reform.
I see Amazon Lockers at parking garages near me while walking around in New York.
Don't worry, I'd never use SO as a copy-paste job.
Well, that sort of solves some of the problem, but in other ways it makes it worse. The fundamental problem is that mentally applying CSS rules is difficult, particularly when the DOM structure being styled is complex and is determined by an imperative program.

Imperatively generating and dealing with a DOM structure using simple selector queries is relatively easy to do, as is modeling what is happening in your head. Dealing with more complex CSS rules as they apply to a static (or dynamic but very simple) DOM structure is a little trickier, but not completely unwieldy. When you run into problems is when you try to do both simultaneously. Suddenly you have to not only mentally model a mutable DOM structure, but you have to model how those CSS rules will be applied in a generalized and abstract form. It's not hard to paint yourself into a corner where you'd actually start having to prove theorems about your code in order to be reasonably assured that the CSS will apply correctly.

Of course, hardly anybody actually lets it get that far. Instead, they start applying styles imperatively using JavaScript. And that sucks.

I don't know what the solution to this is, or if there even can be one that is a progression from where we currently are. But I don't think fancier CSS selectors are the answer.
Last week I was trying to figure out how to do this with dropbox. Anyone know a way?
With Germany being notorious for its copycats, it's funny to see this in reverse.

Who would have thought that an idea that exists in Germany for almost 10 years would still be great for a startup in the US/Canada.
A "valid" email address does not have to mean a "well-formed" email address.
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Just because myname@xyz.com is valid according to the RFC does not mean xyz.com is an existing domain name with a mail server setup that an account 'myname', let alone that user who inputted actually has access to that account. Just send a validation email
The Nazis made sure to eliminate anyone who would obviously be opposed to their goals well before they implemented them on a national scale. That had two important effects: it silenced the voices that would decry them, and had a chilling effect on the rest of the populace.

Hence, why anonymous speech is important. You cannot influence the norms of a society that will kill you or otherwise ostracize you for voicing opposition to them.

Also, if you feel the best way to make your point is to Godwin the topic, it's time to take a step back.
I'm loving it! iTunes just disappeared, and all that's left is content, just perfect. Now using iTunes is not a burden anymore. It's snappy, and fun. I'm even rediscovering music in my library. Kudos to the guys who designed and coded the new iTunes!

I have only one wish, that these same guys take over Xcode, and pimp it out!
I don't see a license specified anywhere. What is it released under?
As silly as tptacek's response was, the bigger take-away from your comment is that pg needs to take it easy with the trigger finger. The moderation here is ridiculous.
Not really clear there about Mac support (other than 1 screenshot with one in it), but interesting nevertheless!

Actually, Apple should buy this company and integrate this thing above the trackpad on mac laptops...
The iCloud idea is excellent, and it hadn't occurred to me at all. I do believe that one would be entirely Close Enough.
Dropbox has a filepicker https://www.dropbox.com/developers/chooser , you can also use filepicker.io for more services support. But Dropbox doesn't support per-request CORS as I read on their Forums.
Poul Henning-Kamp said many of the same things when this came up last time, and I agree with both of you.

https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/http20.html

IMO, a HTTP 2.0 standard based on SPDY is a small but meaningful illustration of the divergence from an idealistic egalitarianism to an oligarchy of a handful of huge organizations. The issues at stake here are basically monetary for Google and a few other companies. There's very little technical finesse here despite the added complexity, and certainly little to no reimagining or benefits to the vast majority of independent site operators or web developers.
I just think that it's a bit disrespectful to the hard work that it takes to create a successful business. It's all very blasé.

The sentence I quoted basically says I should be thinking "I'll just launch a startup and it'll be easy to sell it for $xx,000,000"

We should not be thinking like this, we should be thinking that if we are lucky enough for our little idea to actually make a bit of money then we should hold onto it with both hands!
The worst implementations "drop down" a message at the top of the page to tell me they're using cookies. This invariably happens just as I'm clicking on a link. The link moves, and I click on some link I didn't want to click on.

There are no words strong enough to describe how shitty that is, and it's incredibly common, on big, widely used websites.
Same thing works in Finland. You can send and receive packages at the SmartPost points. Here is some more information http://www.posti.fi/smartpost/english/introduction/.
One way is to use something like vaporfile (https://github.com/EnigmaCurry/Vaporfile) to create a post commit hook that lets vaporfile push the new files to S3.

It doesn't do delta updates, which could be a problem depending on the kind of project, though.
Git performance results on a large repository
Spaun, the most realistic artificial human brain yet
Have they revealed anything about how it works yet? What category of device it is?

All I see are a blank grey surface and boasts.

Kinect may have been sufficiently advanced that the media regarded it as magic, but as an high-speed parallax-based IR laser projector rangefinder coupled to a webcam, it's built of real devices with real performance specifications and limitations. This company has a credibility problem, especially with their grandiose claims of precision.
Not all lecture-based schools are crappy. However, the reality is that the more practical experience people have, the faster they learn. Having a boring "lecture" on Perl is less productive then having a quick 10 minute session on building a Hello World app using Perl. People essentially learn by doing, it's as simple as that.
It's weird how often email address validation comes up on HN. I think it must be bike shedding for the web app generation. It's the simplest piece of a common web app for which there could possibly be any discussion or disagreement.

Yes, you can have a crazy looking email address. But that doesn't mean you should. And you have no right to expect a web form will let you enter your address with nested comments.

On the other hand, a lot of developers seem to confuse validating an email address against the RFC with confirming that it is the user's true and correct address. This is not possible without sending the address a message. Regardless of how good your regex is, it will let many typos through and it will fail to stop "fake@fake.com". I'd suggest spending time elsewhere.
Agree with the mathematician point. It looks a lot like something (I think) I would come up with if I didn't know any programming.
I think the iOS icons always had a gloss, but they now have a strong bevel particularly noticeable on the bottom. I've noticed that icons with text or design elements overlapping the bevel look especially strange.
Something like this would make markdown editing in Github comments usable.
How does the security of BufferBox/Amazon Locker compare to Packstation?

To get your packet out of a Packstation, you need both the (magnetic strip) card that they send you on signup and a one-time PIN they send via SMS (not email). This might not sound "easy", but there has been a lot of abuse in the past years so that DHL was forced to step up security.

How do the US systems compare? Have there been reports on abuse?
tl;dr The Viewport is a componente to ease viewport management. You can get the dimensions of the viewport and beyond, which can be quite helpful to perform some checks with JavaScript.
The reversed scrolling direction jumps to mind. Minor in the large scheme of things, but it shows a conscious move towards combining the desktop and mobile concepts.
True, but it does, at the very least, clear one's conscience a bit about downloading. I want to support the things I like. However, I hate many of the forms that they come on, and/or the venues in which they are presented.

For instance, I loathe my local theaters, but I love movies. I'll buy a ticket to the theater online, and then just pirate a copy of the movie so I can watch it in the comfort of my own home. Is it legal? Nay, but it does allow me to still support the content creators I like without having to deal with all the crap (unrelated to the core content) that I'd have to wade through otherwise.

It's my "moral" approach to piracy.
I feel the same way about Snow Leopard. I try to ignore all the things that alter my OSX experience. Like; launchpad, the lack of "proper spaces", and saving files.

Overall, I prefer to use my old Macbook with Snow Leopard, than my new iMac. It is a sad state. Sometimes, I feel like I should not be "that" guy stuck in the past. But, I dislike the iOS-fication of OSX.
Technically, it should be a single pull request that applies to eight different repos.
I can't believe http://tunnelsnakes.com/ isn't on there.
How did wi differ from the built-in pwd? I've never found myself wishing for more than that.
Going from PHP to Python is great. Python feels like a huge breath of fresh air, yet it is similar enough in some respects that it isn't a huge change in the way you think.
Anything that's a subdomain of http://ytmnd.com.

Personal favourite: http://youmakemetouchyourhandsforstupidreasons.ytmnd.com/
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What's very interesting here is the SICP-style recursive looping, combined with the fact that the non-programmer doesn't expect to be able to pass variables but rather expects to make stateful queries. That is, the infrastructure expected (here written in JS) is:

var query = {};
function print(x) {
console.log(x);
if (typeof x === "number") {
query = {last_num: x, time_since: 1};
} else {
query.time_since += 1;
}
}

And given all that, they have invented a fizzbuzz() which, as its last statement in each branch, calls fizzbuzz(). I like the way that it's graphically represented but I also think those semantics are quite interesting.
It doesn't say that at all. I said nothing about easy. I'm saying that as an entrepreneur you have to maintain the delusion that your company is likely to be worth a shit-ton of money. After all, if you don't believe that, what's the point of building it? (Assuming you don't want a small lifestyle business)
Which goes to http://hooooooooo.com/
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Without getting too existential what else could "valid" possibly mean.
I think it might be a good idea for this developer to disable the ads for now and then develop a promo code system. Then the paid customers could be asked to sign up by email, possible sending their receipt for a promocode to disable the ads when he puts the back in.

I've just started using Parse for analytics, error/crash reports and promo codes. Seems to be working well although I haven't started analysing the usage data systematically yet but I have found a number of errors I wasn't aware of from the error reports.

Http://iTunes.com/apps/fastlists

Promo codes have gone out to a couple of bug reporters (who weren't expecting them) and friends and family. When I've stabilised all the bugs and added a sync system I'll send them out to reviewers too.

New version in review should fix most of the errors (only one of which I have received user feedback about despite having a report a bug option in the settings and promising to provide freebie upgrade for users that report bugs).

I recently added in-app purchases and ads (iPhone only for ads so far). I had one bad review for offering 'Privacy' as an in-app purchase that would disable the anonymous logging and I've renamed that item. Otherwise no complaints. I did grandfather existing (free) users into unlimited items and readable email as I didn't want to remove existing features from people while imposing (high) limits on new customers that require in-app purchase to lift or remove. If the existing user installs the app on a new device they will have to buy (if they complain nicely they might get a promocode).
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My bad... I added a reference to Component in README file.
I posted this as a separate thread but maybe I'll ask here. We're dead in the water due to this latest outage. They seem to hit weekly now. I'm considering switching to another provider today.

How does Bitbucket stack up in terms of reliability? Features are sort of irrelevant compared to recurring downtime.
Also, HBO collects revenue from real subscribers based on the promise of high-quality content down the road. They satisfy this requirement often enough that a huge portion of all cable subscribers automatically upgrade to HBO. An a la carte model would allow those subscribers to wait-and-see; instead of investing effort to get engaged with a show like Treme, they'd sit back and wait for the show's merit to be validated by other people, and opt in only to the shows that were immediately compelling.
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Heh, can you edit someone's google resume after they've left? :-)
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At the introduction of the Time Capsule, it retailed for less than 100€.
My main question was "Does this work with Gmail?" and I see you've answered it in the second placeholder text (but not the first) and in the bottom right.

But if it's Gmail-only for now, maybe mention that right at the beginning?
My advice is to either (A) find a technical co-founder or (B) learn enough to be the technical co-founder.
This isn't really accurate. WordPress supports overriding the database class. Here's an example of a plugin that supposts Postgres http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postgresql-for-wordpress...
Show HN: HN Browser, yet another Hacker News reader on iPhone
I thought building something that I would use while learning iOS SDK was a good idea so I built HN Browser.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hn-browser/id578535095?ls=1&mt=8

HN Browser is a simple app which lets you to read articles and comments on Hacker News. (no voting and writing comment yet)

For the logo, I reached out to Joel Glovier(http://joelglovier.com) for his previous work on Hacker News logo(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4731140) and he kindly granted the use of his work.

It was really fun experience to collaborate and build a mobile app using iOS SDK. (although approval process was painful)

I would really appreciate if you share any thought.
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I've given up on using + addresses. As other people have pointed out, the worst thing about them is that sometimes you will find that it works initially but will break other parts of the application now or later. For example, account creation works fine, but in two years, you can no longer log in.
Aren't they essentially just PO boxes for packages? In which case they probably did exist in that era.
Also, if you feel the best way to make your point is to Godwin the topic, it's time to take a step back.

What pure unmitigated bullshit. Read this article:

http://www.salon.com/2010/07/01/godwin

I never said anonymous speech wasn't important so I don't know whose arguments you think you're addressing.
Agreed.

When damn near every application today requires the user to click a link sent to their email, I can't envision any reason for actually validating the email at form submission time (except len <= 254). If they click the activation link, it's a legitimate user. End of story.
Thanks for the feedback! We had discussed this some, so it's good to get other opinions on it.
Notable that they chose to collect these games as design as opposed to art.
And inclusion of @.