skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to take away from the OP but you can enable a new feature in DropBox where screenshots are immediately moved to your DropBox directory, uploaded, and a share URL is stuffed in your clipboard. A notice is given on screen and on Mac OS X you get a notification center alert. I think I also hooked it into growl.

The screenshot is only moved, not deleted. It's in the DropBox preferences — and along with this feature you enable photo syncing and all your phone taken pics get put in your DropBox folder in "Camera Uploads", or the "Screen Shots" directory. You also get a good deal of bonus space for enabling these features.

You won't have time to grab the screenshot and edit it or draw on it. It happens fast. I use Skitch, which is a screen shot collaboration and editing tool. Once done, you can drag and drop the image to DropBox and get a share URL. Or drag and drop out of any app onto "Droppings", a small "app" I wrote.

I wrote a small script that fishes out your DropBox ID, which is used as your ID in a URL ( this is done once on install ). On receipt of a resource, the script creates a directory and time stamps it. This script is wrapped up in an app that accepts drag and drop. Drop a batch of jpg and gif etc., images, and it will copy them to the DropBox public folder, and put unique URL's to imgur on your clipboard. Full support for maintaining Mac Resource forks and all that as long as you compress on the Mac.

Drag and drop a zipped or compressed set of files, and it will do it's best to look and see if they are all web displayable, extract them, and give you a set of public links. If it contains other zips, binaries, etc, the original format is maintained.

All these actions are logged. I engage with Skitch, a screenshot type app, which I've also integrated logging for and created "cron" ( Launch Items in my case ) actions to clean up the mess Skitch leaves behind. I don't use Skitch as an image storage app, so it keeping multiple copies of everything only ads confusion.

It's pretty handy. If I want to send anything to anyone, I just find it, drop it on an app in my dock, it's 99% bash, the rest is an app that is made to take a shell script and give you same basic UI controls to make a pseudo app.

I started to have tons of link rot on DropBox. Screenshots to CSS questions that I would see posted by others but the screenshots were long since deleted.

My ~/DropBox/Public/drops/date-stamp/the-files.{html, htm, CSS, jpg, gif, png, tif, eps…etc. } directory has been filling up from this droplet for two years now. I think I have about 500MB of stuff that will forever resolve.

I do remove huge files via a "find" command that looks for specific things that I would not want in DropBox beyond a certain date or that I know were meant for specific people and the file will never be needed again. Sort of how I do IMAP image attachment maintenance in gmail but have to use a desktop app to remove attachments.
Dumb question: What does it mean that autocommit is now turned on? I no longer have to call mymodel.save()?

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.6/#improved...
Your website is a perfect demonstration of your title.

A nice funky starfield with a pretty logo taking up half of the page, and a partial screen shot taking up to the rest of my screen space (1920x1080).

Nothing about what it does instantly pops out. Then I realise there's more, so I scroll - Something, something, JIRA, GitHUB, FogBUGZ, something something.

Hmm, ok, based on that probably not something I'd need. Close the page (before even getting to any of the other stuff).

Come here to read the comments, and buried away here, I found this comment by you https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6686624, which says:

"I work on contract iOS jobs and I need to track my time to invoice my clients. It sucks using my web browser to start and stop the timer. "

And I think, this, yes, a thousand times yes, and am now downloading it to try it out.

The takeaway from all this, I shouldn't have to find out about that from a comment tucked away on HN, but your website is not arranged in a way that makes it immediately obvious that I want this product.
I am the father of an autistic child, and from experience, early intervention makes a hell lot of difference in an autistic child's progression towards social/ sensory issues. This might be a breakthrough study.
What is expected to happen when the lockup expires?

My guess is that the price drops because of so many employees selling at once, but I don't pretend to understand finance.
"But for all its power and reach, Twitter gushes losses — $65 million in the third quarter, nearly three times more than it lost a year ago."

http://triblive.com/business/headlines/5012201-74/twitter-co...
Isn't the only price that matters the total market cap? Why are people so obsessed with share price? By itself, it's meaningless.
Reading the chain of issues on your machine, are you sure there's nothing else wrong with your machine? I have had very good experiences with Firefox running for days without issue. I don't have hundreds of tabs like some people, so that might be the reason there.
Thanks for the suggestion. Here's a related video we've done to educate people about why they shouldn't care as much about trying to rank #1 for trophy phrases that might not even convert that well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21BF_IVU10I

But your suggestion is slightly different and a good one.
For those of you interested in more information on Impala and it's performance characteristics see:
* rideimpala.com
* https://speakerdeck.com/grahn/practical-performance-analysis...
I believe my comment is pertaining to the use of the word "easily". James Bamford in The Shadow Factory was talking about how difficult this is, even for government institutions.
I didn’t even realise it wasn’t free until reading your blog listing 'sales' separately to 'downloads'. Price needs to be way more obvious up the top. Only now just seeing it’ll cost $50, is a disappointment after thinking it was free.
It reminds me of when athletes' contracts are discussed - "X gets $100 million!" - with no mention of how many years the contract lasts. It matters!
I'd follow that with:

For tech businesses, "there's an API for that".

For 90% of the other businesses, "what's an API?"

There's a vast amount of value to be captured by adding pleasant and easily used interfaces over otherwise boring APIs.
It may feel self-evident to you but I don't think the evidence supports that position. The US is not exactly known for its engaged electorate or educated voters. I would need to see a lot of evidence in order to convince me that things would get any worse in a surveillance state. The UK is probably farther down that road than the US at the moment and I haven't heard that they have exhibited any of the problems you are worried about.
You're being disingenous. Congress maintains not only their monopoly on first-class mail delivery, but also control over key financial decisions. I don't see a lot of private companies that provide Congress with authority over themselves
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We have an existing infrastructure to handle dangerous drugs: prescriptions.

While I believe that making choices about one's own biology and consciousness is a fundamental right, there are realities of addiction and drug-seeking behavior that can't be ignored. Ensuring that a medical professional is in the loop regarding a user's drug choices (in my perfect world, even for alcohol and cigarettes) could lead to real harm reduction while respecting personal freedom.
I haven't seen this before. If you can, shoot us a screenshot @plugformac or support@plugformac.com.

If you click the share button and go to the hypem.com page for a track they have the option to buy the track. We'll have to look into it as well.
This is incredibly interesting. According to some people we're looking at unprecedented growth in the space. Right now there's roughly 9k public APIs. By 2019 that number could be over 100,000.

The question becomes though who does the integrations? Not everyone is a developer. The world needs plumbers for toilets and electricians for lights. I think the future of web development looks a lot like these industries. If a website is a house you'll hire a general contractor who will outsource to various experts in various APIs. At least that's our take on it.
They do not pay taxes. They are also not subject to many regulations other businesses face, and of course they are more famous for not having to adhere to parking laws.

They are forced to prefund their pensions unlike other government agencies but like private companies.

the truth of their problem is that mail service is declining, stats show it at 213 billion in 2006 down to 160 billion letters in 2012. That is a major decline in revenue.

Even if the Post Office did not have to fund its pensions it loses billions of dollars a year. If they did not fund their pensions and those pensions ended up negative the tax payers would step in.

Also consider.

1. the Post Office when negotiating with its unions cannot factor in the operational costs of the contract. As in, they cannot factor in the impact of it in day to day expenditures versus revenue.

2. The Post Office also has 535 overseers, as in Congress who can stop them from closing unprofitable offices, distribution centers, and the like. They even like to interfere with vehicle purchases. Anecdote, I remember my Aunt and Cousin (both ran local offices) bemoaning the left hand drive Windstars they had to take.

3. The EU even requires member nations to open their markets to competition, the US does not permit direct competition in letter delivery.

4. They have to plead to raise stamp costs.
It is, of course, not a mutually exclusive situation. But to your point about demos, if you look at the data it paints a different picture than what you've suggested. As an investor in FB (not that that makes me special) I read the Piper Jaffrey report that I presume you're citing. What it overlooks is that FB owns Instagram. Where FB is weak demographically, Instagram is strong.

Moreover, FB's value has never been strength among the youngest demographic. Sure, hooking a user early is great but hardly the only path to acquisition. Just ask my mom. Or, probably, your own.

And feel free to use whatever language you want. I stand by what I said.
The comparison to Instagram is interesting. I used to do some marketing on Vine. Our traffic from Vine dropped more than 90% in less than 1 week after Instagram introduced video. That's how fast a replacement for Twitter could gobble up its business as well. IMO, Twitter is better suited as a feature, not a product, and definitely not an $18 billion company.
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Datasets:

- United States Census Bureau TIGER
- GeoNames data dumps
- You can pay to be sent data files from the USPS (AIS)

Welcome to the wonderful world of public, semi-public, and private datasets. It is an interesting niche, and the ability to find them can give you a competitive advantage (e.g. machine learning datasets).
Software Development = Easy

This is only true because most people are building fairly trivial software.
Are these DVDs? Blu ray?
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The American Postal Workers Union is against the law that requires USPS to pre-fund pensions.

http://www.apwu.org/news/webart/2011/11-015-prcletter-paea_r...
Maybe if you are a USA resident.
I'd argue that the NSA is actively destroying more american business right now by discouraging large international companies from doing business with US based technology and web companies.
It has its uses, I usually leave my laptop unlocked when I'm amongst trusted friends, a layer of protection that's this quick is a great idea in my mind. I think it matters on the use case, if you're on a computer where security is paramount, don't use it, but is a convenient feature to have for a lot of other situations.
(1) Yeah, like a headlight, like a phone, ... keeping widgets charged is a routine part of modern life.

(2) Remembering to turn it on after putting it on doesn't sound difficult to me.

(3) I've done a fair bit of bike commuting, and though I always wear a helmet, I've never been in an accident in which I needed it. Statistically, I would expect this would never go off while I owned it; maybe once. The fact that I would have to replace it if it did is not a barrier at all.

I think you're dismissing it unreasonably.
> That's the HN way of saying "eeee it's not fair I'm being downvoted. Someone vote me up". I don't see you complaining about the anonymous up votes.

I could care less about downvotes, but it's nice if people give an explanation, counter-point, etc... Discussion is what brings understanding.

> It certainly seems more likely today than yesterday. But who killed him? It almost certainly wasn't the Israelis or the US - they liked the fact that they could mostly deal with Arafat, and he'd keep more radical Palestinian elements under control.

There's a good post a few lines up that explains it well. Needless to say, the Israeli cause has advanced without Arafat in the picture. It was most definitely in their interest to kill him, and they had the ability (his compound was under siege at the time he fell ill).

> Milosevic.. why would anyone bother killing him? He was going to be locked away for life, and there wasn't anyone he could really blame, so I can't see what the motive would be?

You must not have followed his trial. He said alot of things that were embarrassing to the west, and cast alot of doubt. You're right in that he would have been found guilty, since it's just a show court, but the trial wasn't going the way the prosecutors wanted.
I thought we needed the State to protect us from monopolies? There must be a certain amount of double-think that goes into this line of reasoning. But yeah, remove the monopoly on first-class mail and let them charge differently if they'd like. Let other services compete with them. It's unfair for those living in remote areas? Well, I guess everyone should be charged the same for real estate regardless of location to make it "fair."
A related point of entry is the "Gibbs Phenomenon" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_phenomenon .

If I remember my "history of the Fourier transform" correctly, before the difference between the sup-norm and L2 norms were fully understood by everyone (e.g., by the late 1800s), the sense of convergence of a Fourier series to a square wave was confusing. In what sense did the Fourier series represent the square wave? When was it a good model and when would it fail?
The same wikipedia page gives the methodology applied for those calculations.

- StatsCounter (hits, not unique visitors)

- W3Counter (last 15,000 views from 50,000 websites)

- Net Applications (stats from 40k websites having 160 million unique visitors per month)

- Wikipedia (page requests)

Only NetApplications is using unique visitor stats, the rest are tracking views. The results are in line with what most people would assume; Chrome and Firefox users are more active users. But in terms of number of unique visitors IE is still far ahead.
great to be part of such an esteemed group of tech product management practitioners. for a fun fact, I wonder what our collective years of experience is...
The nice thing about Firefox is you can stop animated GIFs by hitting ESC. There is also an about:config setting that will turn them off as well. I personally find animated/video graphics annoying when trying to read.
By then, the market will have priced in the lockup expiration. It should, but is most certainly not, doing it at the IPO.
In the context of the comment he was replying to, and the allusion to "cultural differences" it doesn't seem to be just about technical proficiency. Otherwise, the second the part of his reply is meaningless, and the entire comment seems out of context.
Arafat's relationship with al-Aqsa was complicated. It is true that Fatah was paying al-Aqsa, but it's also true that Fatah was trying to get al-Aqsa to stop attacks[1]

Around the time of his death al-Aqsa was seeking to cut links with Arafat[2].

To claim that Sharon was trying to cut any kind of deal with the Palestinians is... unusual. (For those not aware, it was former Israeli PM Aiel Sharon's visit to the Moslem area of Temple Mount in Jerusalem that sparked the second intifāḍah[3] (prior to him becoming PM). The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade is named after this incident).

Additionally, Arafat's Fatah group was seen as the one group strong enough to keep Hamas controlled.

The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade was a problem for Israel, but it was seen as much less of a problem than Hamas. Subsequent events would show this view was probably correct: When Abbas took control of Fatah it quickly lost control of Gaza to Hamas, and the Israelis have consistently struggled to find a successful approach to dealing with Hamas in Gaza (eg, they later fought a fairly unsuccessful war to try to control Hamas in Gaza).

Edit: Although I disagree with you, I think you do make some good points. You were downvoted when I wrote this, so I have upvoted you.

[1] http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CGiot772MSEC&pg=PA77&dq=...

[2] http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2004/me_pales...

[3] http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/538892/Ariel-Sharo...
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Installing node, npm and express on MacOS X
Really liking the app. Also enjoyed the "free for a limited time", adds a bit of a time component where you download it quickly and then maybe get hooked to it for when you have to pay later on.
> given a 20 year lifespan for most patents

From what I've read, in the US a patent is valid until 20 years after it is granted, retroactive to the date that it's filled. That can be a 40 years interval, or more, if the USPTO don't do it's job well (and I know of patents that did go over 30 years).
What are you expecting at that point? FB's major lockup expiration (Nov 14 2012) was preceded by a dip a few days prior (not the lowest price in the previous few weeks though) and then went up on the lockup date.

Are you expecting a similar drop as news articles go out about the pending lockup a week/days before, followed by it going up after some people realise everyone knew about this all along?
> They are forced to prefund their pensions unlike other government agencies but like private companies.

Which private company has to fund 75 years of pension plans? Can't say I've ever heard of a company being forced to prefund pensions for future employees not even yet born before learning about PAEA.

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/nader230911.html

Also I wonder if you care to comment on the sabotage provision in PAEA which stipulates the PO can't engage in non-postal forms of revenue.
Care a lot. . .follow a lot in various media. . .followed state election returns in US last night. . .
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I want this, it looks awesome, but I can't justify $50 on it. A shame.
No. The story I've gotten when I pursued this with the department is the update cycle is too rapid to bother and automated deployment too difficult to manage.

The kids that use them tend to install Chrome themselves since it will install into their profile and they don't need permissions to the rest of the system. A couple of the kids use Firefox Portable.

Since a sad number of our staff (and a fair few students) have trouble just logging into a computer, this isn't really an option for the masses.
you can block areas of your site accessible to bots with the robots.txt
In a sane world I don't think there will be enough of them to stem the losses and deliver a solid return on an IPO that values the company in the double digit billions. Happy to be wrong but only time will tell.
More realistic, device manufacturers understand that seeing a judge long enough to know his opinion (whatever it is) is more expensive than paying the protection racket.
They rent both (their DVD selection is much larger, but they have the last few years of top blu ray movies), along with a modest selection of top XBox 360 & PS3 games.

For new movies they use a revenue sharing agreement, and they own the older movies.
It would not necessarily be inconsistent to oppose mandatory helmet laws while wearing a helmet oneself.

I'm not sure what I think about the laws. But I do question the claim that helmet laws are primarily responsible for the drop-off in cycling in the US over the last several decades. I would want to see some strong evidence for that before accepting it. Just off the cuff, I would expect it has more to do with the fact that people prefer cars, and that US government policy is to keep the price of gas as low as possible.
Shortfalls:
1. Didn't implement metrics to detect delete, trial to get that feedback.

2. Giving up and ranting too early! Marketing is perception, so make sure you make whatever N users happy then tell them to share (it's as simple as this), rinse and repeat. After a ~100 happy users, you'll have a good sample of customer base and it should steadily grow to market potential from there.

3. First release is just the beginning. Your idea is but a hypothesis. As long as they're is still legitimate feedback to work on, the product is still not reaching it's potential (again, ranting too early!).
I agree, the lack data really makes it _impossible_ to decide who is in the right here. I propose an experiment: go ram your head into a brick wall with and without a helmet. (To reduce the variance of your estimate, you'll probably want to perform ~10ish trials.) Then report back, and we'll finally get to the bottom of the extremely nagging and tough to judge question of whether wearing a helmet is an improvement when it comes to smashing one's skull into inanimate objects.
1/5 seems to be the accepted number doing the rounds, but there must be other factors to consider too - I'm sure this number is still overoptimistic?

For example..how many of these habitable exoplanets also do the following earth things

1. Rotate around their axis as opposed to having one side facing the star.

2. have a stabilising moon to stop them from wobbling about.

3. Also how many of these exo solar sytems similarly have heavier elements and have evolved from spent star dust - using spent supernova explosions?
To have enough water you need H and enough O

Some other important considerations that should perhaps be factored in?

The Earth went through a couple of "snowball-earth events" which resulted in a healthy % of oxygen being made available in the atmosphere.

We also have an outerlying and right-sized Jupiter to sweep away most of the asteroids and space debris.

Even with all the luck in the world, intelligent life only involved in the last million years of our 4 billion year plus Earth history... and we needed an asteroid, the right size again, to wipe out the dominant dinosaurs so that the evolutionary stage was set for our homo sapien species.

How much of this is repeatable?

We may indeed be the only intelligent life in our galaxy.
Yeah, you could actually mess up a workflow. The current instructions would over-write your clipboard, maybe you had something you needed in it really bad.

I use a clipboard manager which is nice, and past copies are saved for a defined few hours or additional entries.
And now, the download finishes and I run it, and it turns out it won't run on Lion. It would have been nice to mention somewhere what versions of OSX it runs on.
Remember, Google has access to their own numbers from actual users of Google Apps. I wouldn't be surprised if IE9 usage looks much different for them.

They also have a sales force that talks to large potential and current customers, and I'm sure their feedback is taken into account.
Does anyone have any idea how the phone detects knocks and differentiates it from, say, rolling around in your backpack? I know the LG G2 also has a "knock detection", e.g. the phone turns on when you knock on it twice. I want this feature in one of my apps so I'm just curious about how this is done.