NZ_Matt

>They're not going to be putting them in separate folders by year or subject? Even Google Drive lets you organize files in folders.

I think the point is that this will be taken care of automatically based on the metadata. A lot of people don't take the time to sort everything into folders, instead they end up with one messy documents folder with all their documents.

Does the average person buying a laptop from Bestbuy really care that much about screen resolution?

The longer lifespans of PCs and laptops combined with the popularity of smartphones and iPads is a more likely reason for the drop off in sales.

picnichouse

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=picnichouse

Imagine if 50% of the crowd was wearing google glass

My take on that article was to find some middle ground.

It makes sense to at least be informed of the latest news but there's no need to keep compulsively checking news websites while they are in full "Death Toll" mode. It's probably best to wait 24 hours until a clearer story is available.

My Mum had me help her set up an Android phone recently, one of the first steps after on turning it on was a request to sign up to google+.

Spamming it on every google service is a good way to inflate their numbers, but it's a horrible way to drive genuine user engagement.

It'd be neat if there was a way for people to highlight their 'finds'. You could then have a randomizer option similar to www.mapcrunch.com

Cool app, but I can see why it didn't grab peoples attention.

It's not very clear what to do when you land on the page and there's nothing to explain what it does. I wasn't sure what I had to put in for the start and end location. Is just a city name ok? or does it need a full address?

I'd suggest having an example location already selected. That way instead of asking the user to do something they can simply click the play button and immediately see what the app does.

Ah that'll be the problem I was having, some areas don't have a high enough frequency of images available to make a good hyperlapse.

Also the very professional looking video.

I'm all for getting 9 year olds into coding but I would've liked to have seen any funds raised above the target go towards paying for other kids to attend the camp.

NZ post also has parcel forwarding service from the United States. It's pretty great being able to order anything from US online stores.

http://www.nzpost.co.nz/products-services/online-shopping/yo...

It's a shame that Twitter themselves don't seem to be doing anything to clean up the spam. I use to enjoy following twitter during sporting events but these days every trending topic is immediately swamped by automated spammers.

This isn't surprising, when G+ launched all the comments were about how remarkably similar it looked to Facebook.

Doesn't online banking already solve this problem? and without the %5 cut that the credit card apps take for each transaction.

Trying to keep ordered notes via Evernote is definitely more difficult that one would expect.

My current solution is OneNote for skydrive.com + Microsoft's OneNote Android app which performs pretty well.

Andrew Warner of Mixergy interviewed Andrew Mason in 2010 while Groupon was at its peak. I haven't had a chance to re-watch it yet but I imagine it'll be a very interesting watch given recent events.

Here's the video: http://blip.tv/mixergy/mixergy-groupon-andrew-mason-3852853

And transcript: http://mixergy.com/andrew-mason-groupon-interview/

Because the Surface Pro's specs match or surpass? a macbook air. It just so happens that it's a PC in a tablet hybrid form factor.

This is a tempting device, but I'll probably wait for version 2.

I feel like this is a step into the future where everyone carries one cloud connected device that can then be docked when you want to get serious work done. Is there an official dock that makes it simple to connect it to an extra monitor, keyboard, speakers, etc ?

I absolutely agree with this, I recently removed a bunch of news apps from my phone because I found myself using the browser to read news websites even when I had their app already installed.

One of the few advantages of a news app is the occasional notification and even then most the time they are implemented in an annoying fashion. It'd be nice if there was a standard that allowed users to subscribe to push notifications directly from websites without having to install an app. In general it'd be nice to see phone OS's opening up their api's to websites and not only apps.

I doubt that he's a billiaire, but even so all his funds have been seized at the moment. He had to get friends and investors in to fund mega.

Youtube used that defense and got away with it, isn't this what the DMCA is for?

One of my SEO savvy friends was recently telling me that being reshared by high-authority profiles on Google+ is currently one of the best ways to get a massive boost in your google rankings.

I don't think the tiles in Windows 8 and WP8 are confusing, it's very easy to understand that they all have one function and that is to open an app.

That's just not true. On Windows you only need to know how to click next and then look for the icon of the installed programme on your desktop.

God dam I hate the term "man up", it really is a hugely degrading phrase. If someone is having a hard time and asks for the help the worst thing you can do is tell them to "man up" or "get over it".

Not very surprising that there is still a market for inexpensive phones. I imagine Samsung sells far more cheap Android phones like the Galaxy Y than they do high end phones.

Think of this as a Desktop or even a TV replacement, it's not supposed to be an iPad competitor.

The way that Google is pushing G+ down my throat has really made me more determined not to sign up.

The question that I ask myself every time I get redirected to a G+ sign-up page is What's in it for me? My friends don't use it it and I have no interest in using it as a glorified RSS/Twitter.

Windows 8 starts to head along this path with cloud-based file selection from within 'Metro' style apps. For example you can add a picture from Facebook or Flickr to Onenote directly from the file picker in Onenote.

It'd be nice if they did what Collections proposes and extended this by allowing apps to natively integrate with Explorer and not only the Metro file picker.

I vaguely remember several years back Reddit added the option for users to allow their subreddit and votes data to be used for research purposes with the hope of building a recommendation engine similar to this. Does anyone know if anything came from that? It would be great if the dataset was publicly available.

Edit: Here are the original threads, I don't think the project got very far. http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/ddz0s/reddit_...

http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/dtg4j/want_to_hel...