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Several years ago Midas gave a Cisco engineer their "America's Longest Commute" award for his 372 mile round trip commute. [1] The craziest thing is that it seems he had been doing it for over a decade. I just can't fathom that. At some point an air taxi subscription or even a private pilot's license would become a worthwhile investment if you don't want to change the location of either home or work.

[1]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/13/cisco_commute/

I'd love to see large penalties for cops who could be proven to have lied about situations.

The Fetchnotes site is so slow I migrated away from it before it even loaded. I went back to see what SaaS app could possibly have such a slow website and components were trickling in one at a time.

Even if Snowden was granted clemency, ten bucks says that if he returns to the US, he'll be found mysteriously dead of a car crash or "suicide" within 18 months.

Their announcement said you have to install it. I wonder if that has anything to do with their servers being overloaded at the moment. It's a sizable download.

In negotiation, typically the party with the most information has a better negotiating position. Posting salaries is a significant piece of information that will almost certainly help a competitor since it greatly reduces the cost of them acquiring the knowledge.

Translation: @robertfw, no, that is not an intended use of this product.

I understand the reason for the marketing speak, but vague non-answers like that really turn me off.

It looks like it barely lifts off and even then doesn't look particularly stable.

I hope someone will do a time-lapse of this salvage project. This is a huge and unique engineering undertaking.

Spot on.

Everything posted here is viewed as an opportunity for critique. It's driving me away as well. Perfect is truly the enemy of the good.

Truth be told, it was a few diagrams similar to these (though non-moving) that I saw and studied when I was probably about ten years old that fired up my interest in the mechanics of automobiles specifically. That turned into a long-term pursuit and I even spent several years working professionally as a mechanic and delving into some custom and high-performance work. It was doing engine performance management and working with ECUs that I dove into electrical signalling and decided to shift gears a little and get into the high-tech world, so I put myself through college at night. I still think of those diagrams from time to time.

Someone's creation of a few diagrams like this years ago opened up this kid's mind in a lasting way. I'm sure there were plenty of criticisms to be made on them, but they still had an important and lasting impact.

The quality of video color has improved dramatically.

But I'm still waiting for full screen.

It sounds like NJ isn't encouraging conservation, but rather more consumption. This is backwards, IMHO.

A picture of consumer-grade fireworks posted on July 4??

Correct. Anything that had some kind of open source license (particularly for acquired products in spaces where Oracle had little actual experience) required justification for why the license had to be that way to maximize the business value to Oracle. Not a single penny could leak from the purse, even on speculation that it would generate good will and lead to a better market position etc. It was solely about the money, and it felt like we were reminded of this every single day. This was in product management, so that probably had something to do with it.

I used to work for Oracle. Something I heard several times around different parts of the company was that Larry believed that open source was a good way to build products, not businesses. He was more than happy to take advantage of open source, but not willing to contribute to it. Oracle's attitude toward open source was one of many reasons I left, and one of the reasons I gave for why I was leaving.

I've seen air vests for horseback riding as well. I wonder how horseback riding helmets compare to bicycle helmets.

You should add Yoleo[1] to your list. It looks quite promising.

[1]: https://yoleoreader.com/

No JavaScript option?

We're actually working on that now.

I moved everything I had at Linode over to DigitalOcean as well and performance has been excellent. I loved Linode's stability but their response to the recent security incident really pissed me off. On DigitalOcean, I have seen briefly the network issues mentioned by others, but things have been more stable the last month or so.

That said, one production server I work with on RackSpace was completely unavailable yesterday for nearly 5 hours, so paying more money doesn't necessarily give you better uptime. Just that one outage put DigitalOcean ahead in availability for my systems over the last 6 months.

Is there any reasonably simple framework for replicating across cloud providers?

I think the folks in the Middle East have pretty much demonstrated how this works.

"In the Off position it does absolutely nothing, allowing you to use your iOS device as usual, but twist it into the On position and it mutes all sounds coming from the device apart from alarms you have set manually."

Those sound like exceptions to me.

HN is great for getting exposure, provided you find the value of the exposure & feedback worth the cost of collecting & processing it. The author's point "Unless you’re selling something for which HN is going to be the main target market (shudder)..." is good to keep in mind regarding all HN feedback, not just pricing.

The feedback you should pay most attention to is that from your actual target market. Heck, most products in existence that generate tens of millions of dollars per year in sales would be flogged mercilessly if posted to HN with a request for feedback.

Screw all that. Go find actual customers and use their feedback to figure out how to meet actual needs sufficiently to make some kind of transaction happen. And if your target market is HN, then may God have mercy on your soul.

And my expected shortcuts work out of the box. Brilliant. My import isn't even finished and I'm liking it.

I'm reluctantly probably to go with Feedly for now, even though the "slickness" of the experience really gets in the way, the preferences are limited, and the page-by-page flipping on Android is maddening. I skim in streams, not blocks.

Newsblur was my second choice, but I found it too busy and cumbersome. That arrow that follows your mouse vertically that you can lock/unlock was the last straw.

There's a fair amount of electronic bullying even here on HN, often shrouded in politically correct techie language.

Tearing down is always easier than building up and, as others have pointed out, as a community gets larger, the negativity tends to rise as well. It takes a lot of emotional energy to deal with a sea of people you respect who always have a significant portion ready to jump down your throat. This is one problem I have with social applications that grow sufficiently: There's always a mob somewhere large enough to lynch you. Sometimes that emotional energy might be better spent dealing with your in-laws or a few tough but valuable customers.

You already make personal health care decisions based on price. Did you get a complete physical and blood test today? If yes, will you do the exact same thing tomorrow?

These issues are exactly what people refer to as "first world problems." On the one hand, we want everything regulated just so in order to have a nice, well-engineered society with minimal risk and clean consciences when we buy food from another person. Then, whole swaths of affluent folks catch a craving for some good basic (or perhaps attractively quirky) street food and are shocked, shocked(!) when that kind of business is a tough thing to run in this environment.

Ever since Oracle has taken hold of MySQL (I was at Oracle at the time, and saw their goals firsthand), they have been trying to extract as much money as possible from anyone using the database in a commercial way. Just the mention of MySQL strikes fear in the heart of any executive who has had any interaction with the mob that is the Oracle money extraction machine.

The sooner we all can move on and keep from using MySQL, the better, and good riddance to it and the red horse it unfortunately rides in on.