skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can't help you there as I wasn't the one that made that comment.

But you're totally derailing my thread as that is the entire point of my comment. The OP presented it like some sort of foregone conclusion that SV would obviously skew to Sublime. Why!? I am not trying to make a claim that A) geographical variances don't exist or B) SV over-represents vim / emacs (that was merely a wild guess, not meant to state a position, just meant to demonstrate that intuitively the OP's argument makes no sense).

I hope that's clear now.
I think you could argue that both initiatives will lead to job creation. But since this link wasn't at all mentioned in any of the advertisements I saw, I agree - it felt odd. That's why I can only make sense of them as a quid pro quo.

However, I don't think the attacks on FWD.us are because they were simply 'off-message' - I think it's because of the content of that message. A different, less-objectionable 'off-message' would've passed by comparatively unremarked.
That comment reads like reflex than anything with much though put behind it: "Google is closing a service", "Google is new the Microsoft" the same tired cliche.

First of all it's far form an unexpected announcement seeing as they have been developing another payment service in paralleled, and second "monopoly" is a specific legal term, it shouldn't thrown around lightly, it's not just another synonym for "big".

As for your points:

1) Great things could come out from experimentation so it's a new positive and by definition most of those experiments will fail, you can't really be any sort of a self respected tech company if you shun experimentation.

2) This is anecdotal, they have a selection of core products and when a preferential one gets deprecated it's done through a reasonable process as spelled out in that post.

3) That's subjictive.
Jet engines fail with decent regularity. It's not exactly common, but nor is it too rare to measure. For example, this claims a failure rate of about once per thirty years:

http://www.airbus.com/fileadmin/media_gallery/files/safety_l...

Which, based on the number flying regularly, means there's an in-flight failure happening somewhere in the world every few days or so.

There is a reason that every airliner of appreciable size has two engines or more.

The 787 is rated to fly up to three hours away from the nearest airport. A gliding airliner will be lucky to make a tenth of that distance.
I hadn't seen it prior reading/replying to your comment, but I thought it looked comparable to RDS as I skimmed http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/produ...

I've not used Heroku's Postgres stuff, so no idea what it offers beyond that
Yeah, the doublr plans are not consistent with the lower 1TB plan.

Now this is like -- 1TB online storage = 450$/year, doesn't make sense now.
Google Drive on the Mac anyway is a buggy, intolerable mess. I've lost data. I've experienced hard crashes on startup, during syncing and on exit. You only have to look on the product forums to get an idea. Data loss is simply inexcusable.

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!categories/drive/rep...
We actually implemented something similar to what you are describing. We map locations to tokens found in album titles. It's turned off though, until we fine tune this feature a little more, we're getting too many false positives. You're right though, travel related albums are very often labeled with the destination and the date.
They are in no way comparable.

I make a pretty damn good living and can easily afford a $400-$500 phone, but there is no way I'll be buying a $60,000 car from either Tesla or Audi.
Isn't that then a really good argument that relying on markets is decidedly not the way to go, and that socialism, for example, is more fair and just than capitalism?

In the end, we all want a society that's "fair" to the largest amount of people, where each person gets about as much as they toil for. It seems the market is apparently doing a pretty lousy job, if we've come to a reality where two lucky dudes who were well connected could sell their photo-sharing app for a billion all the while a good half of the country risks getting financially decimated come an unforeseen disease or bad accident somewhere.
I didn't get around to looking at it again after this post until just now, but still shows an empty table for me.
Thank you I was wondering if there was an official way. I have a site that currently uses onfocus / onblur to turn on background scrolling for the grey ominous clouds. (http://www.residentevilradio.com) Wouldn't that work as well for video? The scrolling doesn't start until the page is in focus and pauses the scrolling when you navigate away. (constantly scrolling an image is apparently still a bit processor intensive). That and a lot of us browse with 40+ tabs open.
That comment reads more like reflex than anything with much thought put behind it: "Google is closing a service; Google is the new Microsoft" that old tired cliche.

First of all it's far form an unexpected announcement seeing as they have been developing another payment service in parallel, and second "monopoly" is a specific legal term, it shouldn't thrown around lightly, it's not just another synonym for "big".

As for your points:

1) Experimentation is net positive, and by definition most of said experiments will fail. You can't really be any sort of a self respecting tech company if you shun experimentation.

2) This is anecdotal, they have a selection of core products and when a peripheral one gets deprecated it's done through a reasonable process as spelled out in that post.

3) That's subjective.
Except for prepaid, every debit card has a bank account behind it that you could ACH to.
Only in the spirit of media taking a shot at itself, which I think we can all respect, I think the paradigm of the article can be applied to any type of news story. For example, 14,612 people were murdered in the US in 2011, but how many of those stories were ever heard on national 24 hour news channels, such as CNN? Perhaps a handful through the course of the year which the media focuses in on and exploits to their own financial gain, and the majority of those stories involve attractive white women.

It is hard to beat up one anyone openly critiquing themselves, but this could have had much greater impact by examining media behavior vis-a-vis a controversial issue not unequal treatment of two otherwise non-controversial mergers.
I'm not sure why they'd dump the prestige of the Pro badge? I imagine users would've liked having that displayed, like the red ring on a pro Canon lens being a visible differentiator in public?

"Ad Free" just sounds like a bland name.

Does the paid membership make your browsing experience ad free or prevent ads from showing on your profile on photos? I could see the latter allowing for much cleaner and professional galleries.
Question: Does FDB have any sort of "find" method in its API? As a key/value store I understand that I can set/get keys, but is there any way to find keys based on nested values?

I.e. fbd.find({someproperty: "123"})...
This is bizarre considering that the Gmail money thing just launched so Google is remaining in the payment processing business (different from Play in that Checkout and Google Gmail Money are much more accessible to recipients).
$42/month is pretty cheap for 2TB storage. $499/year gets you just 500GB in Dropbox, for example.

And you'd find it quite hard to leave a service after you've uploaded 1TB of data to it..
This Airbus documents suggests a failure rate of of <1 per 100,000 flight hours [1]. (just an FYI, pretty increasing. 40 fold decrease since start of the jet liner era).

I think the point he was trying to make is that while Boeing's actions clearly do not reduce the risk dangerous battery fire to zero, Boeing not only does not have to reduce it to zero, but really there should be no expectation that it be reduced to zero, given that we already fly accepting some sort of failure rate on the engine. This stems from the original posters implication that Boeing just used some sort of cheap hack fix so they could stem the deluge of bad PR and start making money again - with the further implication that the actions taken are a cheap hack fix since they clearly do not reduce risk to zero.

[1] http://www.airbus.com/fileadmin/media_gallery/files/safety_l...
But the interesting part is, once a subreddit grows too large, a splinter group will emerge and form another subreddit.

(And I think hiding the scores is a per-subreddit moderator option. They are adding more and more of those to let moderators customize their communities.)
If someone were going to attempt this, they would look at far more than just the "From" address. There are a lot of email headers and other data points that can help figure out the identity and authenticity of the sender.
wow, amazingly clever and simple idea.
1024GB * (1024 MB/GB) * (8Mb/1MB) * (1s/0.92Mb) * (1 hr/3600s) * (1 day/24 hrs) = 105.5 days/TB.

I was talking about uploading a terabyte. Also on my connection, when one person is uploading, download speed falls from 25Mbps to a crawl. I think it's something to do with coax being half-duplex. My family wouldn't put up with slow internet for the 24.73 hours it would take to upload 10GB, let alone the two months it would take to push a terabyte.

If I had to move that kind of data, I would mail storage media.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2720958158.png
Ugh, this is terrible. The one service I actually used with Google, and they shut it down. In their defense, its been dead for a while, they made the UI horrifying to use and a giant PITA. Glad I got my one last payment in.

Time to move to stripe.
* IDEs. I can't find one I like. I prefer VIM for typical editing, but Rails projects are so large, in terms of filesystem navigation, that I like a normal tabbed IDE. Aptana with VIM keybindings is okay, but heavy and has some pain points.

* Heroku db:push. Have to use ruby 1.9.2, and it's a bitch to get it working on Windows machines. I eventually did, but it was a big problem for a couple of days.

* Interruptions. My office space is public. I can't always concentrate with headphones on, though.
She's making lots of moves that are young and women focused. She is cementing the Yahoo! brand with young entrepreneurs again and most importantly women and younger women.

If you have a brand problem you go younger, later on these people are a massive force if you do it right. It could be argued that Yahoo! is really a ladies platform and that is also what brought Facebook to critical mass (in fact top gamers in the casual space are middle-aged women, they also consume lots of content like Yahoo broadcasts). My wife loves Yahoo. She is buying future.

And yes, Dave here is right, don't think for one second that controlling stake in a company means it won't change, not alot soon, and maybe carefully. But, she has a grasp on the future with this buy. Mayer is the same individual that oversaw product during Blogger, YouTube, etc at Google. Meanwhile at the old Yahoo, Flickr and Delicious were not used correctly.

The only thing I didn't like about Mayer's moves is still the remote worker changes she enforced, I think that is a huge limiting factor for Yahoo talent. Will Tumblr's team be forced to move into the Yahoo! offices? Is a remote office too remote? I think moving operations that work like that would be a mistake.
I understand the aversion to haggling but, consider that it is one of the most economic uses of your time. If you haggle for 10 minutes and get $50 off, you are working at a rate of $300 per hour for the duration of the haggle. Not money to be sniffed at by any measure.
We're betting the same, and have put our money where our mouth is: http://feedsnap.com/
They haven't done anything with Google Finance either, and bugs seem to go a long time before they're fixed.
No, but you can utilize some data modeling techniques, such as the ones they mentioned on their website [0].

[0] http://foundationdb.com/documentation/beta1/data-modeling.ht...
When companies get more revenue by allowing full albums on YouTube compared to selling the cd/mp3, it's possible that YT are on a exponential curve upwards.

Good read:
http://www.volokh.com/2012/12/28/copyright-and-full-albums-o...
This is almost as much a comment on the process of making a decision as anything else. Having made a few big decisions recently, I was surprised at how ill-equipped I felt in evaluating possible directions. It's really quite difficult to imagine how you'll feel about a decision after it has been made.

For my recent decision, I spent many hours of careful consideration, developing factors and ranking their relative importance. Not a happy process, but I do believe I made the correct decision. Nothing worse that living with a decision you regret.
It's empty now for me as well. It was up just not long ago. Looks like they are in the process of fixing something. We'll have to wait.
I am a fan of electric cars because electricity is a buffer against volatile (no pun intended) gas prices. A gallon of gas cost $1.20 just a decade ago, compared to $4 today, a jump of over 200%, compared to a maybe 20% increase in electricity costs. As various fuel sources experience price fluctuations, it will be easier to change the mix of power plants than to change which fuel cars use.
The video is probably gonna be offputting for some people but it's hilarious. I actually laughed out loud at it.
Why is this comment thread on top?
You should know that these companies are just making money and not paying taxes on it, they are making money and leaving it off shore. Should they ever need to bring it back to the US, they would pay tax on it as repatriated earnings. It's not like they are saying "Hey! We earned all this in Bermuda!" and then bringing the cash to America. It actually has to _stay_ out of the US (unless there is a repatriation holiday).

Source: my schooling. (CPA in Texas).

Repatriation holiday: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/05/14/173951/repatriat...
How did I say anything worth being downvoted here?
> I can't get this idea of tech destroying jobs out of my head.

You may enjoy reading "Capital, vol 1"[1] by Karl Marx, specifically, chapter 15: Machinery and Modern Industry. Sections five and six discuss this in great detail.

1: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
Yes, but they're constantly iterating, reviewing, and consolidating. While I agree that Google is tangling itself in many products, I don't think it's going the route of Windows. I enjoy using Google products; I can't say the same for MSoft.
This is why I wrote "we do need government, but we only need it for things the rest of society isn't going to do independently."

I think we largely agree on the role of government and we only end up disagreeing on whether any one particular policy, enacted by the government, would really end up doing the 'greatest good for the greatest number' when weighed against the efficacy of the private sector / costs of the taxation to the taxpayers.

Since I believe in many cases the government, while well-meaning, does more harm than good, I really don't see how expanding the government through additional taxes can be considered patriotic. If you think the government only rarely does more harm than good, I can see how you'd have the opposite opinion.
I don't even need 1 GB for my photos. What I do need, and what flickr still doesn't have from what I can see [if I missed it, I'd be glad to be corrected], is a way to update an existing photo (upload the tweaked file, but keep the tags and URL etc.). Maybe this is to prevent abuse (make photo of cute kitten, wait until a lot of people favourited it, swap image with something gross), but still... carving digital images generated from RAW files into stone like that just rubs me the wrong way.

That said, I still love the fact that something is happening to the site. Just like 500px, I think such sites are great to get feedback and exposure, just a little awkward when it comes to really calling them home.
Oh! OK. Thanks. I've never used Go, I was very confused.
> This is bizarre considering that the Gmail money thing just launched so Google is remaining in the payment processing business

The "Gmail money" thing is a Google Wallet feature, as Google Wallet doesn't include credit card processing on the merchant side, I suspect that for things where Google is, effectively, the "merchant" (like sending money through Gmail), they are paying a third party for processing services.
Since when has it not been about viewing and sharing photographs as it's #1 priority?
While the statistical failure rate is quite low, with the total hours flown, they still happen regularly.
http://avherald.com/h?search_term=engine+shut+down&opt=6...

A contained battery overtemp failure is not a big deal, but an uncontained battery thermal runaway is a huge safety issue.
Qantas A380 was a extremely rare uncontained failure, the most serious type of malfunction. The Hudson A320 was a double engine failure, also is extremely rare. There have been incidents of maintenance SNAFU causing oil loss in all 3 engines on a DC-10, but ETOPS rules for twin aircraft prevent such incidents from maintenance causes.

An uncontrolled fire on a plane is a worst case scenario, and ironically in some cases a water ditching might actually be advisable. A contained and extinguished engine fire in one engine is not nearly as critical.
Speaking from experience... apartment numbers are one of the most difficult things to process correctly when geocoding, particularly if your service is backed by Google. The experience you describe sounds exactly like someone didn't correctly handle the edge cases surrounding subunit numbers.

I spent quite some time banging my head against these issues for a former employer. Lots of trial-and-error was employed to build up a basket of test cases around apartments. Certain addresses remained intractable.
The simplicity of this process seems to be a big draw.

Anyone know how to score an invite?
> Based on those projections of about 7% improvement/year in batteries, in a few years they will.

Take this with a grain of salt, but it might not be in their best interest to move to the lower end market.

If they can make a cheap EV car then so can another producer somewhere else in the world.

Just recently I read Ferrari actually dropped the number of cars they produced per year.

Why did they do that? The wanted to make their cars more exclusive by making it harder to buy a Ferrari, increasing the length of the waiting list and allowing them to charge more for the car.

Strange things seem to happen at the top end of the market.
How about using shorter-term data to build a lie detector, an attraction meter, a deeper A/B tester that shows how someone physiologically reacts to a logo/web page/ad.
Wait, so what's the difference between this and Google Wallet?
Show HN: Minimail (opens source android email client) and quick video
An inspiring story written in a humble perspective. A story of keeping focus in the face of funding problems that are all too common in early startups.

It reminds me of the Facebook story where some of the early founders wanted to introduce advertising very early on.
Mozilla's Python tools
Fox News Reporter James Rosen’s Private Emails Given To Justice Dept. By Google
If you don't mind me asking, how is Drive much worse? I agree about Dropbox, but I don't think Drive is any worse. If anything the experience I've had with it has been more positive for the simple fact that it integrates with the existing google services I use a lot better (i.e. attachments in gmail). But I don't think it would be fair for me to hold that against Dropbox. Additionally, I haven't had much time with the OSX Drive client, as I work mostly in windows currently, but that seems to work fine as well.

The biggest gripe I've had with anything Drive-related, has been Google's 'Keep' losing some data from notes I made on my phone while I had a tab open with Keep on my laptop. Apparently my phone didn't get a chance to sync properly before I touched my computer again, so it just totally discarded everything I did on my phone. That was annoying, but it's not really something I associate with Drive specifically, since it still seems like an experimental side project they could potentially kill off at any point.
Project file for an HTML5 "Motivational Poster Generator"
Been working on this for about 9 months, just reached a release candidate. Love to hear what anybody thinks of the (admittedly short) video and screenshots.
"build...data centers...millons of dollars of inventory"

All of which are irrelevant in this case, of course. Which just means the case of Tumblr provides more clarity into the reality of these processes. The case holds for the data centers along Kifer Road as well.

And of course, this required capital is only the expropriated wealth from workers that have gone before. The old rip-off money to pay for the new rip-off. Which will go to future ripoffs. What does the marco.org link on the front page say? "I look back on Tumblr's crunch times with mixed feelings...I won't make yacht-and-helicopter money". This is the guy who hit the jackpot of his startup job.

Plus where are these SV offices located? On the old hunting grounds of the Ohlone. Now owned by landlords talking about how they're giving their land as input to this ecosystem.

I'm concerned with the facts of the past, not whatever sappy liberal sentiment might be attached to these facts.

I know you're probably happy with your, Dave and Jeremy's big payout recently, but at the end of the day, whether it's OK with your or not - you were all still on some level ripped off.
Yes, and it says "any debit card" which would include prepaid cards.
Yes I use it and love it.

>IMHO The only reason Dropbox is successful because the alternatives e.g. SkyDrive, Google Drive are so much worse.

Thank you for partially restating what I wrote in my comment.
Can you copy/paste it?
Xoom.com? I used them to wire money to Argentina when I was traveling. Better rates than other exchanges and relatively low fees.
I'm done with airbnb too. I applied for a place at its earliest opening - 2 months in the future. I saw the cancel policy was GREEN (full refund) up to one day before checkin. After some messaging with the owner (who was gracious and helpful) I had to cancel. This was about a half hour after my reservation was accepted. Then I found out my card had been charged $2200 for the month and they would refund all but their "processing charge" which was about $200.

So for 2 clicks during a half hour, and a cancellation 2 months in advance, airbnb took $200. Then they offered to refund me $40 of their $200 to make peace. No, airbnb. That's not how you keep customers. I'm done.
Shoddy API's are not unique to Checkout. Most, if not all, of Google's API's are actually pretty terrible. When they DO update their API's it's pretty rare that they tell anyone, and they never update their documentation. So, a workflow that worked fine last week will suddenly fail disgracefully and you'll have no idea unless you find the right version of the docs.
Not to mention, could they get a favorable VC round given their poor revenues?
I didn't say that we're not in a good time. I said centralization will meet its inevitable end. It's inevitable whether it's good or bad. (Usually it's a lot of both.)
Pretenders and Contenders in the Hybrid Cloud
Gack!

Thanks.
On the old Flickr this was possible with a pro account.

On the new Flickr, if you go to a single image page and click the three dots in the lower right corner, there is an option to "replace this photo."
It's just under the standard $500 authorisation limit for big corp credit cards. It also makes the $49 per year offer seem cheap.