skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just two of us at the moment and only I am leaving my job (putting in full time). I can ask my co-founder but we've talked about who is willing to or can do what and the ability/willingness to take higher risk resides with me.
It's a good thing for photography that even though Kodak is fading out of film, film itself isn't quite dying. Last year at PMA there were 22 new emulsions announced and demoed, and there's still a market for even very large format film sheets (up to 12x24, that I know of). There are also new large-format cameras appearing on the market yearly, so the medium isn't dying.

Calumet ran an industry survey a few years ago, and discovered that large format film was actually a GROWING niche in the photographic industry, primarily with amateur fine art landscape photographers, and it is still common among current fine art landscape photographers.

And there are still people shooting portraits and still lifes with view cameras.
Competition is good.

As they say.
discover.com -- there's a "log in" link at the top that takes you to a secure page, though.
No, technically downloading every dev book ever written in pdf via bit torrent is 'a steal'.
Desh Deshpande's talk and Q&A at Anything goes Lab
When I began to realize I was spending more time building random web apps with a friend instead of doing my research. To be fair, my research was pretty bland, so it wasn't that hard to get distracted :)
I prefer #1 since #2 somewhat hinges on the startup making enough money to pay me back. I don't think my co-founder will realistically be able to write me a check out of his pocket.

We haven't done a cap table or stock valuation...perhaps now's a good time to start.
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I think we have seen for ourselves how dangerous democracies can be when mixed with fears.

Alas, people will continue to argues that democracy is the best form of government despite its various flaws.
Yea, I would generally agree with you. The problems of the law is that it's largely made and enforced in a arbitrary and over-complicated way.

On a startup side, there is actually is a big difference between common law (e.g. Anglo) and civil law (e.g. Franco) systems - with common law being more advantageous to entrepreneurship because of the reduced risk of arbitrary laws - unlike precedence in common law systems.

PDF: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/eblj/issues/volume1/number2/Smith.p...
If a user can't see the feature, it doesn't exist. Typically enabling a feature means revealing it at the view layer, which is quite simple. Any DB schema change can take place ahead of time.

As for the complexity of testing permutations of features - that sounds like a problem with your Q&A process, no matter how you implement it.
How do you start a massive culture shift without a really infectious idea? you don't.
You can get high dynamic range digital cameras but they tend to be expencive and lower resolution.
>But that's not all; prison labor is now used as cheap labor to compete with foreign countries, instituting a new age of under-the-radar slavery.

Oh, don't worry, those countries are fighting back, too:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8677486.stm

Free the market, free the people, eh?
What's wrong with the Chrome method of opening new tabs right next to the current tab? This way related things tend to stay together. This one "feature" was why I switched to Chrome. This seems like an overly complicated solution in search of a problem.
I think that we feel a loss of control over our common politic and that is making even the most rational of us feel like we have to yell and curse to have our disagreements registered, even in a quiet room.
You can do that in vanilla Firefox 3.6 and I'm pretty sure it's worked since at least 2.x
1099s are for services only, not products. Buying paper doesn't count as a service.
Open sourcing Tickery
Excellent Idea to have friends actually contribute to a cause; who wont pay 25 bucks to see his friend jog in underwear, lol.
How is this germane to hacking and/or startups?

PS, voting me down won't make the article any more on-topic, and it doesn't matter anyway, I have oodles of this karma shit, and if I have to burn it pointing out the reddit-bait, so be it.
I am a jerk, obviously.

But I'm saying, photo sharing is something that people who love to take photos does. The more you love to take photos, the more you'll want to share photos. And the more you love photos, the more likely you are to have a camera besides your phone.

It seems so natural to me I'm surprised it's controversial to you.
I don't have a good "end goal" answer for that right now. I do think that the technology that has popped up over the last few decades allows for means of organization and collaboration for providing life necessities that were not available for the vast majority of human history.

If I'm being idealistic, I think that a good bit of the historically useful functions of government ( on a more abstract level, historically useful functions of centralized authority )is made quite outdated by the availability of global communications and exchange to the "common man". It's a can of worms of a topic, and I don't really have the time to get into it right now, so I'll leave it at that.

If I'm being extremely idealistic, I think we should be in a state of post-scarcity in terms of shelter and food, and I think that the internet is a large part of the way that humanity will get to that point if it ever does. In the same vein, I lean towards thinking that getting to that state will become rather necessary for the continued growth and survival of our species, if we're going to continue to grow and survive.

But yeah, can o' worms.
Samsung Makes Fun of iPhone 4 Signal Problem
Samsung today went a step further and mocked Apple’s signal reception problem with its iPhone 4 in a newspaper advertisement in which Samsung’s Galaxy S is shown with the word “Hello” written with full signal strength bars, indicating that the Galaxy S doesn’t suffer from the signal drop phenomenon like the iPhone 4. The ad was published at the Friday edition of popular UK newspaper, Metro.
Thanks a ton for this.
No you can't... I just tried dragging a tab into a window. Doesn't work.

The whole point of tab candy is to fix this deficiency.
Another piece (brought up in the comments) that warrants investigation is the role of privatization of prisons. With that, you have private organizations lobbying the government to increase their bottom lines, and politicians get to look tough on crime as a nice bonus.

The part that scares me the most is that is may be impossible to live in the US without breaking some law. When everybody is a criminal, the state gets too much power.
Apple doesn't care about making computers anymore
That's odd. If I, as an individual, work with a work visa in another country, while living and paying for myself in that other country, I am still subject to US taxes on that income.

IIRC, most other "western" countries don't do that, but I could be wrong.
Except that defending the nation is all over the constitution, whereas giving people health care for free isn't anywhere. Specifically in the preamble, when referring to the "common defense" the framers used the terminology "provide"; when referring to the "general welfare" the term promote was used instead. Air Forces didn't exist then, but health care certainly did.
>> "It's the good old British "tall poppy syndrome""

That's absolutely wrong. It's nothing of the sort. We could argue about this all day though. The biggest motivator for me is to be told something sucks. People telling me something is great is no help whatsoever.
Article 1, Section 8: The Congress shall have Power To [...] raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

Are you seriously going to argue that "Armies" doesn't include the Air Force?
I find the author a little naive for not knowing that most excuses that people have are just made to protect the ego. :/

And it's unreasonable to expect everyone to be hard-working on something whose outcome will be largely determined by chance.
Great story, sounds too good to be true, it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone#Success_with...

Here's poetry and stories of edgar allan poe (fulltext): http://poestories.com/index.php May it get us, too, out of ourselves.
Those are fair points and I think that the example you use with Dick and Jane is a good one:

Suppose Dick and Jane both implement their simple feature which is fairly similar. I'd estimate that much of the time it's costless to have two slightly different approaches in the codebase. In those cases it's also nearly costless to retroactively standardize.

In the remaining cases where it isn't costless to retroactively standardize, a better optimized abstraction would have been useful. But, depending on the product's life cycle, building that abstraction may or may not count as premature optimization. Suppose Dick's feature takes off but Jane's ends up being phased out, now the extra month building the abstraction was totally wasted.

Is that technical debt a big leveraged call option that could cripple the team/org? Maybe, but maybe not. Maybe it's just a hassle that needs to be borne only if the feature succeeded, and thus would have been premature optimization if the feature didn't succeed. In other words exploration vs exploitation and the risk of cementing possibly unneeded conceptual overhead. I guess my intuition is that premature optimization comes from attempting in advance to pave the way for a low technical debt future on an unknown feature horizon.

It takes real skill to avoid this if one is too attuned to technical debt elimination as a design goal.
Advice on Advisor Option Grants
http://tryruby.org/ (Ruby)

http://www.trypython.org/ (Python)

http://tryclj.licenser.net/ (Clojure)

http://tryhaskell.org/ (Haskell)

Did I miss any?
Why isn't this automatic? Maybe it's a privacy issue, but it seems to me that some sort of neural-networky thing (excuse my AI ignorance) could automatically group these. Especially with some training from the user, I bet a program could determine for 99% of cases what 'tab group' a tab should go in with broad enough categories (development, camera shopping, photo browsing, social networking, etc.).
No. Attackers will just modify the (insecure) login form so that it posts somewhere insecure, and then relay the creds to the secure handler without you noticing. You can't safely serve a secure login form from an insecure page.
I would guess that almost all companies in the United States spend over $600/year with Office Depot.
This will likely boost the prepaid anonymous credit card business (for those who don't like the government being able to track how they spend their own money).
I'm curious. How much of a speedup in regex when using DFA instead of NFA? I believe most regex implementation use NFA but there are well known algorithms to convert NFA to DFA. It should be worth the try.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1536356

... with much discussion.
But civil law more easily may degrade in a byzantine mess. Here in Italy there are more than 100,000 laws (estimated, for no one really knows, and this is just for national laws, and not including technical regulations). Which means that no one is realistically able to understand what is right and what is not. Under such a system, one lives with sort of a random fatalism.
With those kinds of provisioning times, why would I want to bother with something that requires the extra step of "black art" bootstrapping[6]? At most extreme, to make a configuration change on a running system, I'd just need to trigger the installation of a new package version on the relevant systems.

In my experience, "making a configuration change on a running system" is not an extreme case. It happens all the time, and 5-10 minutes of downtime for reboot just to add a comment to an apache configuration file is insanity. Especially if there's a problem and you need to rollback.

Frankly, if you are booting machines in 5-10 minutes with all the packages they need, you've almost entirely solved the bootstrapping problem anyway. There are just a few security bits left.

edit: I did a quick check of our subversion repository, it looks like our commits per month are in the 80-100 range. Systems get reconfigured, at least in minor ways, a LOT. Installing a new version of a package for every single change would be a huge amount of overhead. Far more than the one-time overhead of bootstrapping cfengine. In fact we could do it that way, if we wanted, but we don't.
Your hypothesis isn't the only plausible one. Have you considered that more crime = more inmates, sentences aside?

First: since you go to prison after the crime, the inmate population size should be a trailing indicator of the crime rate. More serious crimes affect the prison population for a long period, since their sentences are longer.

Second: take a look at these graphs, and how dramatically they shoot up around 1965:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=murder+USA

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=rape+USA

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=crime+USA
And if he gets audited before then for under-reporting his income?
Google search may be improving, but the cambrian explosion of SEO/Made-for-AdSense/Spablum content is growing faster.
It's easy to blame privitization, but large public sector unions can be just as influential. As a politican I'd be much more afraid of angering, say, the AFT than I would be of any single private company.

Just because someone you don't like is clamoring for more money doesn't mean no one was clamoring for money before.
This is really interesting, Fabrice Bellard's tcc is able to build and boot a Linux kernel.

http://bellard.org/tcc/
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Dragging tabs between windows works for me in both Firefox 3.6 and 4.0b3pre, with a clean profile (no extensions). You have to drop the tab into the tab bar area (just like Chrome 5 - I don't know if other versions of Chrome are different).
This already has happened in Boston.

http://joshuamcginnis.com/2008/08/09/wow-how-to-hack-boston-...

It's really shocking that people think storing MONEY on a card that everyone has read/write access to is a GOOD idea.
You still have problems when you open LOTS of tabs. You can no longer tell what page is loaded in a given tab.
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I'd argue that storing reversible passwords is almost the same as plain text, but I'm interested to hear if people think reversible is significantly better than plain text.

Reversible can be secure, but only if it is done right.

I once had to set up an affiliate section for a website, and we needed to securely store sensitive information such as tax IDs. My solution was to salt it then encrypt it with a public key. (The salt was not stored. Its only purpose was to make it impossible to do a brute force search through possible answers.) The private key was only available on a machine on a different network. (Because it only needed to be run every few months, I went further still and stored the key on a disk that was on no network at all!) From there it was easy to suck in the information, decrypt it with the private key, and put it into the financial system.

Yes, I was storing sensitive information in reversible form. However even if you managed to compromise the webserver, the database, and had the source code, decoding that data was still effectively impossible.

If you follow this strategy, the one thing that you cannot do easily is have the ability to have your website extract the sensitive information. (If you really want to you can have a table of requests, and a batch job elsewhere that attempts to fulfill them. Be very, very careful in setting something like that up though, because your attempt to open things up a crack may result in a hole a Mack truck could drive through.) However for certain use cases, it works quite well.
My biggest problem with this approach is I lose context. I prefer tabs to open on the end of my browser. That way I can open 5 tabs, type Command-9 to to get to the last tab, and quickly deal with my tabs in a LIFO manner.

Tab Candy seems awesome to me for power browsing (20+ tabs), as long as there are intuitive keyboard shortcuts.
Not just random fatalism, but also greater acceptance of the idea that individuals can pay authorities not to enforce the vast and unknowable system of laws.
Could it just be that computers have gotten good enough for most things that most people want to do ? Apart from incremental updates cpus, graphics cards, peripherals and interconnects havent had a breakthrough innovation in the last few years. apple does update their lines now and then to include the latest cpus and graphics cards.
The Tab Candy team has plans for "rules" that would work kind of like mail filters for placing new tabs into groups automatically. And these would be exposed to add-ons, if someone wants to write more complicated classification code.
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Just because a small portion of the mentally ill commit crimes does not mean that a small portion of crimes are committed by the mentally ill.

A quick google search finds a source claiming that about 10-20% of the prison population (a few hundred thousand) are seriously mentally ill:

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/forensic-psych/content/artic...
Sounds like quite a handout to credit card companies.
I will defer to Winston Churchill: "Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Hm. I have the sudden urge to construct such a distributed online hackerspace.
It's often admitted in Europe that jails are the US substitute for European social policies.
> What's wrong with the Chrome method of opening new tabs right next to the current tab?

Firefox already does this.
Incorrect solutions are nearly always less complex than their counterparts.
Fair question. Maybe not directly relevant, but I think the article highlights the challenges for business owners and managers who may find themselves subject to criminal prosecution without ever having had any intent to commit a crime.
But unlike normal OS-level window managers - even ones with very nice features like Exposé - Tab Candy gives you a single overview of all your "windows" and the sub-windows (tabs) nested inside them. And you can interact with the "windows" and change their contents from the Tab Candy overview, which you can't do from Exposé or similar. And the naming, the simple physics for arranging spatial groups, etc., make this suitable for different use cases than ordinary windows.

Try it out and see. I've been using the internal Tab Candy alphas for a while now (I am a Mozilla employee) and it really adds some useful new possibilities.

In fact, I would love to see an operating system with a window manager that had more of Tab Candy's features. (GNOME hacker Jeff Waugh agrees: http://twitter.com/jdub/status/19052579869)
Interesting they went with jquery ui rather than using the closure library...
+1 for the tempur pedic pillow - it may be my best investment ever
Is there any reason that your comment is more substantive than flipping the political ideology by 180 degrees?

He successfully defeats his straw man. But aside from the conservative groups it's not a correct characterization. Generally trying to pare down human resource extraction, given it's own natural processes cause it to increase, would seem necessary to achieve homeostasis. In the last century the long term tread has been strongly on the side of increase but it can't always be or eventually we'll run out of stuff to extract.
Funny. Sony DASH is a well-known name : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Stationary_Head

Ah, the wonderful per-track delays of the 3348...
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Incorrect according to whom?

If you're going to say "look I just want it that way because that's my ideological bias", that's fine. But don't pretend there's some objective measure involved here.
I think the unhedged call is a better metaphor. The stuff you gain by writing sloppy code is not sales but saved development time. The potential downside is the development time spent debugging or updating the system.

The lost development time is bounded by the cost of reimplementing the system correctly, which is theoretically infinite (assuming a non-zero chance of error each time you reimplement it). But in practical terms it is merely expensive -- potentially more expensive than you can afford -- just like the financial case.
The whole article is pretty questionable. Take this quote for example:

"Spending per prisoner [is] about $50,000 in California, where the cost per pupil is but a seventh of that."

Yeah, if you count the cost of building prisons but not the cost of building schools. And they're really using the ban on trafficking endangered species as an example of a stupid crime? The fact that there are people in prison for using drugs while people who catch/sell/eat bluefin tuna walk the streets freely is an embarrassment to the country. And it's one thing to complain about being charged for the weight of the whole cannabis plant and not just the buds, but complaining about it being illegal to adulterate drugs is beyond me.
A naked put works better.
Why does the data collection only start in 1960? The fact that the rates shoot up five years after they start collecting data might just mean that for the first five years, the data collection system was just getting ramped up.
And the enforcer gets to decide who is allowed to live normally and who isn't. And that, IMO, is the scariest part of the whole thing. Don't piss off the DA or the police.
The problem is that in the worst case, converting an NFA to a DFA gives an overhead of 2^n, while keeping it as an NFA only incurs an overhead of m (where m is the regex length).

So, in the worst case (ie, under algorithmic complexity attacks), the NFA implementation is O(m * n), while the complexity of the DFA implementation is - I believe - O(2^m * n)
It's a shame his politics are so polarizing and that he doesn't really develop conclusions as the juxtaposition of society's complexity and how humans manage complexity is interesting and does have political ramifications.

Humans seem to manage complexity by creating categorizations/abstractions until it's reduced to a workable amount. This can lead to a kind of fractal experience where zooming into any area presents the same seeming level of complexity as the whole did.

If you haven't made that particular zoom it's tempting to assume it's as simple as the assumption makes it look. "It's just" or "it should be easy to" are phrases that computer programmers are fairly familiar with and aren't overly fond of.

The political side would seem to be that if there's a lot of embedded complexity in pretty much anything then trying to change something, replace it with something cleaner or clearer, is going to be far harder than it would seem. Without trying to make the same mistake Stross did, President Obama and the disappointing gap between rhetoric and reality would seem to be a current example.