skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't moved over to 500px...I've tried it out and appreciate its aesthetics, but am not yet convinced to make the move.

You're right that Flickr is more of a photodump than 500px...however, it is far more useful than just throwing the photos on Dropbox. Interface is everything, and being able to search by date, tags, keyword, and being able to group photos, or send them to groups, makes Flickr a wholly different service than one that is designed just to store files.

Services like Instagram and FB photos shows that users get value from places where they can indiscriminately upload photos. 500px is for pro photographers who want only their best photos on there.
Every place I've worked has required its employees to sign some form of non-disclosure agreement, it's pretty standard practice--once you're an employee. Prior to that though, everyone who hired me was able to explain (without an NDA) the big picture of what they were doing. If people can't explain what they're trying to accomplish without legalese, I'd be a little leery.

The anecdotal corollary to this stems from several friends who attended school at a different university. They had latest and greatest business ideas and would make their friends sign NDAs, for each new idea, before they'd even whisper what it was they're doing. To date and current knowledge, none of them have started their own company or actually pursued those grand visions hidden away by legalese.

That being said, (FWIW IANAL), if the people actually have a built product or devised a demonstrable new process or possess some other physical IP (eg: book of math proofs they've devised proving worm hole travel) and you'd be working on it/with it/viewing it, sure an NDA might make sense. I.E. They actually have a physical asset to protect. If they're just spouting off they're next great business idea and won't even talk to you until you're wrapped in legalese, I'd take a second look before jumping in.
How to succeed on Kickstarter
Another "Look I can build websites with PHP!" post.

The biggest draw of PHP seems to be that there is a large quantity of (often bad) copy paste-able code out there on the internet.
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Disclaimer: I am a PHP programmer. I write PHP every day.

With that said, oh god please shut up already! This dick-waving is getting out of control. It has gotten to the point that people are writing these articles just because they know they will get hits.

PHP is a good tool. It's not the best tool, but it's good enough. Over time it will get better. It is what it is.
Easier on eyes, more powerful? Surely. But can you just drop .erb files into a directory and turn on mod_ruby? That's the allure of PHP for so many.
Accessible != Simple
Tech Star Patriot Boot Camp Demo Day - Come Support our Veterans
TechStars Patriot Boot Camp Demo Day in Washington, DC is July 20th, 2012

The three-day TechStars Patriot Boot Camp at Georgetown University in Washington, DC culminates with a Demo Day on July 20th , 2012. Veterans participating in the TechStars Patriot Boot Camp will demonstrate the results of 3 days of intense "TechStars-style" hard work and mentorship. Patterned after the TechStars Demo Day, the TechStars Patriot Boot Camp Demo Day is an opportunity for veterans to pitch their business idea and present a plan to achieve their business goals.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided, giving you excellent opportunities to talk directly with the veterans and learn more about their companies.

Details:

July 20th, 2012 @ 8am - 5pm
Location: Lohrfink Auditorium - Rafik B. Hariri Bldg, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Cost: None. Breakfast and lunch will be provided

Agenda:

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM Breakfast Available

8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Welcome to Demo Day – David Cohen, TechStars Lohrfink Auditorium Session 1: Demo Day

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Keynote Speaker: Todd Park, United States Chief Technology Officer Lohrfink Auditorium

11:00 AM – Noon Session 2: Demo Day Lohrfink Auditorium Noon Lunch Fisher Colloquium

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Keynote Speaker: VA Assistant Secretary Dr. Raul Perea-Henze Lohrfink Auditorium

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Session 3: Demo Day Lohrfink Auditorium

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Keynote Speaker: VA Deputy Secretary Scott Gould Lohrfink Auditorium
I would tap that too.
No, you just take the people who used to enforce prohibition and make them collectors of taxes on the newly-legal substance.

This would not be a new concept. For most of the period alcohol prohibition in the US, for instance, Federal enforcement of the prohibition laws was the responsibility of the IRS and the Treasury Department (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Prohibition), because of those agencies' long experience as collectors of alcohol taxes. (When you hear hillbillies in old movies complain about "revenuers," they're complaining about Treasury agents who shut down their untaxed backwoods stills.) And the Prohibition Bureau's successor agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, was part of the Treasury from the repeal of Prohibition until the big reorganization after September 11.
If you want to read about general lifestyle why aren't you just reading GQ? There's nothing wrong with high quality posts about that. But "Hacker News" isn't the right venue.
This may be an inexact comparison, but is the WP plugin from seedprod.com similar to what you're doing? If so, his pricing may give you some clues on what the market will bear. I understand that the plug-in is doing pretty well as a one-man shop. (My info comes from Rob Walling and Mike Taber's podcast, Startups for the Rest of Us).

Note that the plugin is available free on WP.org and you buy up to the Pro version if you want the extra features.

As a small business owner myself, I would pay a one-time price (and seedprod.com's prices would be something I would pay). I would not pay monthly unless there are significant reasons so do so.

Significant reasons would mean (off the top of my head):

- I not only capture emails, but the emails get dumped into MailChimp (or its equivalent) so that Something Good happens to them -- follow-up marketing, etc. In other words, don't just get leads, do something with them.

- The lead generation functionality includes "give me your email address and I'll show you a good time next time you're in port, sailor" promises (see, I think promises of fun in the future are bullshit). But more important it gives me the ability to do something right now that provides real value up front to the lead. E.g., get instant PDF book.

- And along that line, not only "give me an email and I'll show you a good time right now" but additionally "buy this thing right now." Again, in my case, an e-book. Bolt the functionality of Gumroad to it. (Purpose: it is easy to have people leave an email as a lead. I'd like to have -- on the lead generation page -- the ability to get the damned serious leads. People who are willing to spend money right now are serious).

And yes I have a project right now for which this would be useful. I own the domain name. The purpose is to sell an e-book for $X and drive leads to my law firm where people will pay some exponent of $X for services. And yes the e-book is ready.

So why isn't project live yet, you ask? (1) Normal life interferes; and (2) I'm about to get into a canoe and be eaten alive by mosquitoes in Ontario for many days.

So there you are. A potential competitor, and a potential customer.

Happy days.
But, but... Autodesk is a real company making real products and real revenues. Why??
I mean this sincerely: why?

Facebook killed Flickr for casual users by proving that the context and network around your photos is what matters. Nobody takes photos to put them onto Flickr in isolation, they want to share them (Facebook is the new "family gathers around the photo album").

Instagram has taken over on a newer vertical: it's Twitter for photos (driven by what's happening around me right now, off-hand).

That leaves Flickr to scrounge over the pro and prosumer photographers. Are there enough pro/prosumer level photographers to really make a compelling case for Flickr? Maybe. But probably not at the scale its founders hoped when they set it up. They had the opportunity to create a place for every digital photograph ever taken to go. They've instead been beaten out of areas they were leading.

If you want to backup your photos online there are better solutions. If you want to share photos with friends, there are better solutions. I'm guessing that there are probably technically superior solutions for pro/prosumers, too. I've been saying for a while that Flickr's cards are marked, I don't think Marissa Mayer will put any significant weight behind it and if I were a Yahoo! shareholder I wouldn't want her to.
Yes. It costs a bit more than other models ($200), but they also have a larger battery.
Right. The implication, in my mind at least, is that fighting poverty should be one of the key goals of society. Being in poverty effectively hides gifts as poverty will dominate "natural" ability.
This is what I don't understand about "PHP" programmers.

Programmers, you are not in a position to defend a language if said language is all you know.
I have a hard time imagining the Tijuana and Gulf Cartels operating large organizations in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Who gives points to an article like this. It's just a opinion, with nothing informative in it? On that note, does HN have an extension like the Reddit Enhancement Suite, to maybe setup or hide posts I'm not interested in?
wow, that is very nice. Does anyone else think they notice that primes are near to highly divisible numbers?
This case is special. He took it personally and started acting on his own behalf, but in the initial demand for money he was just a proxy, as lawyers usually are.
This is a solid starting guide for someone who's never done a Kickstarter before, but it's gaming-focused. Title should reflect that
Couldn't it also be thought of as a list? I'd usually implement something like this as an unordered list.
> That leaves Flickr to scrounge over the pro and prosumer photographers. Are there enough pro/prosumer level photographers?

And in that space smugmug and 500px are also aiming at the DSLR owners who are willing to pay double-digit $ per year.
Aaron Toponce : 128-bit URLs In Python
Microsoft Plans a Virtual Controller for Tablets and Smartphones
ECMAScript is a language with an ISO standard behind it. Any time a parser doesn't comply with that standard, it's a bug.
I doubt it will happen. It may be somewhat of a conspiracy but I don't think society can accept that members are able to increase their happiness just by smoking a few leaves (and the price won't be that much either, once it has been made legal). It would sap the inspiration to work hard at a job in order to succeed.

It is the only explanation I can come up with that is consistent with the way the war on drugs is currently fought.
A mental test, perhaps, to determine if something truly is "obvious": if the fact is reversed, and you can come up with a reasonable sounding explanation for the reverse, then the original fact is not obvious.

In other words, only consider something obvious if you could not explain the opposite.
You could probably just go down the list that 37 Signals made of companies that Yahoo acquired:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2777-what-happens-after-yahoo...
Google would only acquire Yahoo, should Yahoo be just about to disappear - if that's even possible - or if it was going down fast. Only than it would justify to take over the patents and staff at a fair price, without paying extra for the "junk" which is supposedly sinking.

However, on the other hand Facebook would do just fine if they acquire Yahoo.
As soon as Facebook's stocks get more stable and the fuss settles, I'm guessing Dec/2012 to Feb/2013, Facebook's shares will be going for a "very fair" USD15 ~ USD21.
But if they launch their mobile device in that period, then I guess their shares will rock on USD25 ~ USD31
Anyways, considering the mobile device is not arriving before Q2 2013, then without growth and new features and afraid of new comers, the board will realise than they need content and loads of patents if they are to take on Google's array of products. And Yahoo will fit Facebook just like a glove.

However, Microsoft fearing for it's lack of social presence and weak search-engine, will possibly start a bidding war.
Cutting the story short, I'd bet Facebook takes over if not completely, at least a good chunk of Yahoo, by the end of 2013.
Programmer Disrupt
If you like this, you may also enjoy Langton's Ant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langtons_ant
Calm down, my comment was at 1 (now 0) because newly-posted comments are slightly favored for a little while before falling down the page to be in pure score order.
>to make Flickr a garbage dump of whatever you export from your digicam.

Sounds like a potential (massive) advantage to me. Having your service be ground zero for export from your cam and contain all your content? That can be exploited to good effect.
I remember reading about some twitter dev who apparently hated semicolons and went far and beyond to avoid putting semicolons. He was a bootstrap dev i IIRC. I tried googling but couldn't find anything again. maybe this is related?
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I didn't read the entire paper, but to someone who did, how much of a link is there between genetics and IQ? I know this isn't a popular subject, but if I remember correctly I believe that Ashkenazi Jews constitute 3% of the population yet have won 27% of the Nobel prizes in science.

I would think that much like how different types of people from different regions have differing athletic capabilities, there would also be differences in mental facilities as well -- some better at music, some better at math, etc. Thoughts?
I can fix it for many (not all) applications by adding this to /etc/environment.

SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_DISPLAY=1

SDK_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_HEAD=1

What surprises me, given the number of programmers that use 2 monitors. How does this stuff not get found when applications are being tested?

Not like it would be a difficult fix either, just test for weird resolutions like 3840x1080 then ask the user "are you using 2 monitors?", if they answer yes then adjust the rendering target.
Wealth Inequality and the Human API
It also means pattern. The source page also uses patrón. http://www.polprimos.com/
>They felt entitled to prevent the taking of pictures in the restaurant and felt they were being played with false official documentation.

I naturally assumed that if Mann was going to offer the documentation to defend his wearing of the special glasses, to someone in France, then he would have been prepared with a notarized official French translation (heck, he's from Canada...).

If he seriously tried to give English-only documentation -- and that was really his plan to convince people in France that his glasses were legit -- that seriously changes my opinion of the events.
If you take this story, remove anything specific to PHP and then copy paste it a few times replacing PHP successively with Perl, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript then you have my trajectory as a coder.

Similarly, I wasn't interested in the computer science part at first either, but boy has the importance of the "managing complexity" part made itself obvious over the years.

Why is it that the people who take the time to blog defensively about PHP are typically monoglot coders? After my third or fourth language helped me understand what programming was at its core, I stopped using just one and ended up writing...a lot less code for any particular task.
>but if I remember correctly I believe that Ashkenazi Jews constitute 3% of the population yet have won 27% of the Nobel prizes in science.

Can we get a citation on this?
The FDA monitored the Gmail accounts of its own scientists and doctors
I haven't read any papers, but I've heard of this experiment (or one with similar effects) before in a basic psychology class.
A Bone Here, a Bead There: On the Trail of Human Origins
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Some comment threads are getting very long. Collapse children would help keep these from hiding other worthy top level comments.
My first display for browsing the web was 640x400 at 14". My current display is 1920x1080 at 15" widescreen. That's a more than 8-fold increase in pixel count, and dramatically larger than the difference between current displays and "Retina". Yes, it's a big step in one go...the strong brand of "HD" and "1080P", and the cost of increasing density, seems to have caused the market to pause at that setting for a while. But, this is the natural progression of computer displays toward higher resolution. It is not a miracle.

"Did you live an alternative history? There was almost no change in the outputted picture in CRT->LCD transition. And especially very little change that required attention of software developers."

My guess is you never worked on games, video, or graphics software, during the switch from CRT to LCD. The way these display types behave is quite different. Colors are different. The speed at which pixels change state is (or was) vastly different. If you cared about how your software looked, and it tickled any of these differences, you tested on both and you tried to find a happy middle ground.

The change from 5:4 to 16:9 was also somewhat serious for developers.

I'm not saying a doubling of display resolution isn't awesome (it is!). Just that it is not a "sky is falling!" situation, and it's overly dramatic to act like it is. We've seen all of this before; or at least, those of us who've been around for a little while have seen all this before. Those who are too young to remember it should probably look to the past for guidance rather than acting like this is an unprecedented historical moment requiring heroic efforts to overcome.
Unfortunately it's never too early for the Linux union to go big on the blame and drama. Sometimes the product doesn't even have to be out before someone starts the bile because they can't see the source.
Of course, keeping the data decentralized on your computer is super secure, this is why botnets logging users data never got beyond theory. It is also why phishing was a clever idea but never panned out, people only would send data to the right recipients. </snark>

Sure, centralized data sounds big and scary, because a single security instance looses a million people's data in one go, but how is it any different from a million security instances in a virus losing "only" 1 person's data?

Similarly, I don't understand how it is remotely feasible to think that storing your shipping adress on your computer vs on a site that is shipping you stuff changes things -- I mean, they still have to get your address to send you the stuff you ordered. It is a fundamental requirement of shipping. Address is not a private bit of info.

Fingerprinting will be around, so it is probable that there will still be tracking. Can't beat that right now, so lets not conflate that with other problems. Instead lets look at the problems that are solved: cookies store data to make it easy to not just correlate and be probably right about the user, but be perfect. Further, they can be hijacked and otherwise stolen and used by malicious third parties, giving data beyond just the access patterns to the site in question. Session ids can be engineered to not have this inherent problem, cutting down information leakage. Further, I imagine plugins that will keep drack of your worst data offenders, and force a new session id every request from them, making the data tracking and correlation even more difficult.

It isn't an all or nothing game, even if you get rid of the low-hanging-fruit abuses, it is a win. Yes, new stuff will come along, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try, particularly when the current scenarios allow all the bad stuff you can think of, but easier.
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Why Johnny Can’t Add Without a Calculator
The Lightroom Flickr plugin is pretty good, but that's more angled at pros really.
Did you use a lawyer and/or an accountant to setup the LLC? Or did you use one of those legal template websites?
You know, there was once a time when things were manufactured in Japan because it was cheap. But the Japanese showed they could get smart quicker than the US could get cheaper, and that's why Japanese cars, cameras, watches, etc dominate the US market now. Robotics didn't help... The Japanese got better than the US at that too.

The ONLY thing that will stop China eating the USs lunch will be if its political class decide its merchant class are getting too powerful (as happened in 1425, when owning a ship with more than one mast was made a capital crime).
IPhone 5 to utilize in-cell touch technology for thinner screen
To attract a new audience to their products?
I'd even reduce that to flickr being usable for prosumers. I don't think there's much of a pro play there at all, in it's current state.

That said, I do think there's still an opportunity. I'd like to have a portable repository to back up and provide a home-base for archiving family/wedding/vacation photos at high resolution. Somewhere I can choose to share them to facebook, or also visa-versa.. something that sucks my instagram and facebook uploads over so that I could drop my accounts on those sites tomorrow without losing the content.
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Does anyone have the numbers of Gmail JS size?
Its beautiful. It has an interesting formation of an infinite coaxial cones. with semi vertical angles arctan(1/3), arctan(1/5), ... arctan(1/(2n-1))... (The even numbers slopes form the progression of circles on the top). Although that doesn't give the pattern of the primes, it is formed because every number has a multiple for each natural number.
"Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 800 individuals, of whom at least 20% were Jews, although Jews comprise only 0.2% of the world's population.": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_Nobel_laureates

Although this need not be explained by genetics. It could just as easily be explained by culture.
That doesn't mean anything other than she was Larry Page's girlfriend at the time.
This is so very exciting. For the longest time, treatment of eye diseases has gone a little like this:

Refractive errors? Wear some glasses, contacts, or have LASIK

Corneal diseases? Tricker because you need a donor, but corneal transplant.

Glaucoma? There's a handful surgeries for that depending on type, and a plethora of drugs.

Cataract? I'll take an interocular lens, please.

Partially detached retina? There are moderately successful surgeries to reattach it, rates of success depending a lot on the health of the retina.

Retinal diseases? Sorry, you're screwed.

My left eye was removed when I was in my teens, and the retina of my right eye is damaged fairly extensively due to retinopathy (from being born 2mo premature). It's lead to various complications over the years, as well.

My biggest fear is going blind. I nearly am, and I think I still have a little PTSD from the last round of eye problems.

Now, 576 greyscale pixels isn't much, but it's only going to improve over time.

It's really exciting to think that people in my situation, and possibly even myself someday, will not have to face the prospect of total blindness from retinal disease.
I'm probably going to go to this, never been before (or to any other kind of meetup). Anybody have advice on what to expect?

If anyone has any advice regarding parking, that would be appreciated as well.
We're a gaming focused blog so I thought it was implied ;)

Perhaps the title on HN should be changed to reflect it, but I don't have control over that unfortunately
French-speaking countries.