skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a hobbyist photographer this definitely sounds interesting in terms of allowing more control over the camera (especially automated uses, build your own timelapse, get past the 30s long exposure instead of having to buy a $150 canon timer remote, et cetera). But doing anything with image manipulation and transfer (maybe there's a reason Eye-fi hasn't moved into the DSLR space -- no CF version, only Class 6 speeds) seems like a daunting task for the pi..

For those more familiar with the Raspberry Pi, does it actually have enough performance to move big RAW files around? A 5D3 will output ~30MB RAWs and in a shoot you may end up with 500+ of them. Having a Pi transfer/move/adjust them sounds like a slog.
It seems that you are disregarding the vast majority of Facebook/Google+/whatever users -- who still don't know how to, or don't want to setup their own domain and manage blogging software. Yet, they also want to have a place to put their voice out there.

A system like the one that GP proposes, while it could be pretty awesome, would be limited to a very small, extremely homogenous population. It's not hard to see why Facebook beats that.
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maybe all these portable entertainment devices will be the doom of GDP growth.

Lower complaints means longer waits (less efficiency) and everyone's happy because it lets them get that final star on level X.
http://sivers.org/trust-but-verify

In his book there's also a story about how, when asked which profit share scheme the company should use, he said "you decide" - 6 months later his accountant rang and said all the profits were being shared amongst the employees - so scrapped the scheme and never spoke to them again. I can't find the post on his site though.
Well, to be fair, that's typically how the online world works in practice in America.
And in Romania, I'd guess it would be no more than half of that :)
I would argue that it could be made possible to allow folks to get domains, hosting and software that they control as easily as buying a toy on Amazon. Domains, DNS and hosting setup doesn't need to be hard - it's hard because no one has tried to change it.
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No, no, no. If you are told "no" by someone who actually means it and decide that this really means "I should keep trying" it means you are being totally creepy by disrespecting their clearly-stated wishes and may well be crossing the line into sexual harassment. "No means no" does not apply strictly to contact only.
nailed it, tx
Nicer ones do: "Dufresne, party of two." (But if no one answers they'll just go right on to the next name...)
I think we agree with "the blog gets my best content." I'm active (and it works) on all major networks. The tone of the article is intense only because I'll never put my best work on G+ for example, and I was surprised when Yegge did a 6 Yegge long article on G+ rather than his own site, even if he works for Google+.
Yeah, I think there is an all or nothing attitude somewhat. I think the most common pattern i've seen that people maintain a personal blog and use facebook/twitter/google+ as channels for sharing. That being said, this article is a great means of encouragement for the people who only post to one platform. I've definitely read lots of thoughtful posts on Facebook and wondered why friends don't take the extra leap to start a blog. Personally, I think a catalogue of interesting thoughts/conversations from any platforms would be pretty cool and far from a substantial investment of time.
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"No, no, no. If you are told "no" by someone who actually means it"

That suggests that it is not actually meant that way at least a significant portion of the time, correct?

The problem of sexual harassment though is that it is usually something that is going to hit the employer (or public accommodations provider) before it hits the individual engaging in the offending behavior (because of standards like "severe" and "pervasive" which often involve multiple actors to prove). So it is not usually a personal cause of action although that may vary in some states.
He does mention resetting the USB port after every image transfer, so maybe that solves that problem as well.
In the world before 1913 when the unconstitutional tax mandate became "law". People are blind
One obstacle, in my eyes, is that some of the best blogging software out there is provided in a Software-as-a-Service model. This is, of course, less of a headache for the original developers—they have a guaranteed long-term income (rather than one-off license fees), and they don’t have to worry about portability or varying server specs. The result is that now, if a person wants to run his/her own blog and have total control over the content, s/he will need to write the software for it. I personally wouldn’t mind paying several hundred dollars for a piece of really good blogging software.

N.B.: I looked into Wordpress et al., but I always avoid using software written in PHP if I can, and theming in Wordpress involves more time than I have to spare.
I could not agree more with Scott. I still have the hardest time trying to convince people to start a blog. "I don't have time to blog" "I don't know what I'd write about".. yet they end up posting lots of content casually on various social networks/forums.

Perhaps blogging tools need to adapt to more short form uses and have posting interfaces that seem more accommodating rather than a massive empty textarea with tons of options from slug to categories and tags.

The WordPress Prologue/P2 themes comes to mind.
> RTFA

It's not spelt out whether your intent here is to berate the guy or not, but I get the distinct impression that it is. Your response is rude and uncalled for.

I read the article and it's not clear to me that STL is supposed to be equivalent to St Louis, because it isn't spelt out, and furthermore, I don't intend on looking it up in a dictionary of acronyms referring to foreign places that I may never visit, without first knowing that STL refers to a place.
As someone who's lived nearly my whole life in NZ and considers myself a large part Kiwi, I think they're overdoing this a bit.

- Auckland is not walkable. It's very spread out, and the public transport is awful, so it's not practical to visit many places without a car. It probably helped that they had friends with an apartment overlooking Herne Bay, but that's a pretty expensive neighbourhood; most of us couldn't afford to live there.

- They didn't see a Target or Gap because we don't have them, but NZ certainly does have McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Subway and a few other multinational fast food joints. They must have been amazingly lucky to avoid them - I'd think it'd be a pretty hard trick to plot a journey that didn't run into any of them.

- You can actually get tomatoes at any time of the year.

A lot of the reasons I left were work-related, which they wouldn't see from a ten-day holiday. Even in Auckland, interesting IT jobs are rarer than you'd like; 99% of the jobs I saw advertised looked to be soulless C++/Java/C# forms-based applications for some internal business thing.

Money's not great either; despite paying a lot more on rent in London now, I'm financially better off than I was in Auckland. Salaries are higher to counter the rent, and most of the rest of the cost of living is not a lot different. Some things are much cheaper; books, for example, cost a fortune in NZ (weirdly, milk as well, despite all the dairy farming).

The nightlife is okay in Auckland but a big pain in the ass to get to/from, unless you can afford to live nearby. The lack of public transport really bites here.

I like the place overall, and I'll always have a soft spot for it, but there's another side to this story that I think they're missing.
True (my own company uses Github private repos for most of our work), but what's nice about that is that the barrier to transitioning a useful internal library into a reputation bolstering Open Source library is nearly zero.
"But I pay other taxes" does not seem like a great excuse for not paying sales tax...
I have to disagree. Dreamhost makes it very simple to register a domain and have WP installed. Wordpress.com makes it simpler still. How much simpler does it need to be?

Everyone knows what WordPress is, I think people who entertain the idea of publishing are aware of their options now. The draw of social networks is that there is a low friction process -- facilitated by an interested party -- which makes it very easy to go from ideation to publication. Until very recent versions of WP, it was a pain in the ass (from a regular user's perspective) to simply post a set of pictures along with some thoughts.

If we look at your set of questions, something like e.g. Facebook provides answers to all of them which are, yes unsatisfying, but the trade off is a low-effort process.

EDIT: Also, out of curiosity what do you use to host your site, and how/why did you choose it?
But one could go to Amazon or Azure or Herok and install Wordpress in 20 minutes from start to finish and OWN it...if this process could include domain names and take just 2 minutes...
Well, arguably it has to be as easy (and hip and fun and attractive) as signing up for Twitter.
At least initially, I think it was to maintain an applications barrier to entry--think all those businesses keeping IE6 around to run their web-based applications. Also, if a broken web browser is the most used, Joe Sixpack will think that standard-conforming web sites are broken rather than thinking that the web browser is broken, and thus stick with IE.
Wow! This sounds like you could design an experiment for this. It might take at least something like 5 years to see any results. But thats a timeframe many scientists should be willing to pursue.

If you don't want to do those experiments yourself maybe you should eMail some Professors who are interested in this topic.
Brains, Sex and Machine Learning (Geoffrey Hinton at Google Tech Talks)
TECO - The text editor from hell (on which Emacs was based on)
Occupy Ruby: Why We Need to Moderate the 1% - Ryan Davis
You can actually get tomatoes at any time of the year.

I dunno man I paid like $5 for two watery hydroponic tomatoes at New World the other day.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396931
Does the money go all to Beeminder or primarily to a charity (with a cut to Beeminder)?
How many skills are there already and can you show us some more examples please?
There were briefly some Sony cameras that had hackable built in OS. An open firmware or at least apps (Instagram in camera) would be great. Too late now perhaps as the compact camera market is shrinking and DSLRs are premium products?
> That suggests that it is not actually meant that way at least a significant portion of the time, correct?

No, it merely suggests that it is sometimes not actually meant that way, anywhere between a single occurrence and always. Extrapolation into actual numbers is both difficult and meaningless. Even if 99/100 people never actually mean "no" it would not make it okay to harass the 1/100.

> The problem of sexual harassment [...]

This entire paragraph seems to be written from the perspective that harassment is only a problem if you are actually held legally liable which is both wrong and a dangerously horrific place to come from so I hope I am misinterpreting what you say.
I plan to go to New Zealand in 2 months and live there for one year :)
There was a discussion a few days ago about splitting shares : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4379079

CodeCube provided a link to Joel Spolsky's answer on how to do this. He speaks about your specific case where you'd work full time on it while your co-founder does not : http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s...
Well if I told at least 3 clients have introduced "agile" in an attempt to solve perceived process problems and "speed things up" but have in effect made things worse, what would you say?

Agile is bollocks and just another excuse for consultants to fleece money from companies.
That's a pain in the neck.

I steam 720p video for hours on end over a IOGear GWU625 (Realtek RTL8191S) with no problems.

(Requires powered hub AFAIK, I don't think I tried it without though).
Kickstarter? :)
It doesn’t if I use a tap-click on my trackpad either; it only seems to if you hold it down.

Do these actions (tap-click, screen touch) not send separate mouse{down,up} events? Because that might be related.
Hate to tell you but version control has zero to do with being agile nor does "collaborative development".
The Pi does about 10MB/s over the network, I believe.

As for image manipulation, sadly, the Pi is fairly fast by embedded standards, but running general-purpose software on a full-blown OS takes a lot away.

For comparison, the original Xbox used an x86 of the same clock speed.
Yeah this is the one I got:

http://www.amazon.com/Airlink-compatible-Wireless-Mini-USB-A...

I suppose a thing that small and cheap is too good to be true.
Coping with summer heat is actually possible without air conditioning. I know because I live now in a country where air conditioning is virtually inexistent in spite of summer temperatures comparable to Tokyo's (although usually less humid).

Insulation is a major factor and probably a main reason why you consider air conditioning in Tokyo that important: Insulation is virtually virtually virtually, i.e. air conditioning becomes more of a necessity and waste more energy. In the winter time, on the other hand, heating in Japan is very inefficient as well. During my last stay in Japan, I was happy to see at least some new building with better insulations, that is a beginning!

Another factor are long commuting times in Tokyo, another contributing factor to energy consumption.

And there is of course always the possibility of a siesta. The Japanese have somehow a reputation for Coping with summer heat is actually possible without air conditioning. I know because I live in a country where air conditioning is virtually inexistent in spite of summer temperatures comparable to Tokyo's.

Insulation is a major factor and probably a major reason why you consider air conditioning in Tokyo that important: Insulation is virtually inexistent, i.e. air conditioning becomes more of a necessity and waste more energy. In the winter time, on the other hand, heating in Japan is very inefficient as well.

Another factor are long commuting times in Tokyo, another contributing factor to energy consumption.

And there is of course always the possibility of a siesta. The Japanese have somehow a reputation for long and busy workdays, however, most of it is inefficiently spent office time. A siesta would therefore easily be possible or just try to be more efficient and spend less time in a warm office.

Do I like to work in a warm office in the summer? No but coping with summer heat is much easier than with winter cold … I hope the Japanese will get the priorities sooner or later right, despite the lamentable state of the country (and that began not with Fukushima). and busy workdays, however, most of it is inefficiently spent office time. I often compare the Japanese with the Italians in regard to their work ethic although the Italians at least admit that they are not efficient … anyway, a siesta at least would easily be possible or just try to be more efficient and spend less time in a warm office.

Do I like to work in a warm office in the summer? No but coping with summer heat is much easier than with winter cold … I hope the Japanese will get the priorities sooner or later right, despite the lamentable state of the country (and that began not with Fukushima).
That's great news for Github, and truly as a community its a fantastic place to share and find code.

But recently I've really begun to question Git for version control, two recent experiences are really making me reconsider with its complexity outweighs its perceived usefullness. Its quite possible that for at least one of the projects I am involved in we will move back to SVN for the next version build.
> For six months the CEO didn't notice anything bad in the work place...

Both he didn't put in place any controls and the required task was mostly useless. In such a situation I'd fire the CEO, because he mandates employees to waste company time. Each one hour 1:1 useless meeting wastes two hours!
Here's a proposal/mockup from last year that illustrates how the setup part of the process could be made more understandable and convenient for the broader public: http://markmhendrickson.com/homesteading-on-the-indie-web
This is about income tax, not sales tax. It being a sale is important because if it weren't one, it would be a gift, and gifts aren't subject to income tax.
The amazing CHDK: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK_in_Brief for those who aren't aware of it. If I could ensure a new camera was supported, that alone would be enough to make me buy it over any competing models.
also a startup scene - http://meetup.startlouis.com
It's awfully easy, when writing software that interacts with only MySQL, to end up depending on MySQL-only features.
That wouldn't stop you switching to a MySQL fork, but would put a barrier between you and, say, PostgreSQL.
What I'm wondering is, is this parameter new? I check privacy setting at least once a month and I really can't remember seeing this one which was set at "everyone". I NEVER set a parameter to "everyone"
well the title of the article is 'your words are wasted' - which is a bit hyperbolic if you agree with the diversification view. That title - along with the content that follows - seems to imply that it's a waste of time if it isn't going onto your own blog.

Don't get me wrong - I would love for there to be a decentralised social graph that allowed us to eat our cake and have it too. But that aint going to happen any time soon.
In addition, we as mankind know how to deal with the aftermath of a tsunami: We clean up, rebuild and so on …

After a nuclear disaster, we mostly remain helpless observers. As of today, the Japanese neither fully know what actually happened and still have no idea how to deal with the Fukushima aftermath in a long-term. The same goes for Tschernobyl and many other sites with nuclear fallout and waste. Nuclear energy is like a dragon awoken without any possibility to put him at sleep ever again.
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So happy to have created an email address just for facebook.
Do you really base your decision on facebook profile page?
I have always been extremely tempted to just throw together a quick and dirty preprocessor in maybe Awk for the few personal projects that I've used Java for. It would just make everything so much nicer.
Acqui-hires seem to me like a Silicon valley thing. I have not heard of them being done anywhere else. Where I come from, if your product is in decline and you have a talented, well-known team, prepare to get poached.

Acqui-hires seem like favours between investors to me. In SV the concentration of investors and companies is so high, which means that the overlap in deals is also high. So an investor in Acquirer A pushes for a soft purchase of Startup X, knowing that there's a high likelihood Startup X's investors point him to a sweet deal in the near future.
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Speaking of Geoff Hinton: He will be giving the course Neural Networks for Machine Learning on Coursera, starting this September.
https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets
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Rails because I'm already familiar with it, and a JS heavy front-end because it will let me take on more of the work myself and depend less on the developer.
Isn't the issue that the 'walled gardens' would need to pull the data in? - what is the benefit for them to this?

Maybe app.net will be part of the solution, but I've not seen any promise from app.net to not be acquired.

The borg eventually acquire anything good with a user base, the result is mediocrity (see DejaNews).
I've thought about this for quite a while and have concluded: you could start a community and weight comments based on concurrence with the community (most likely from the get go) but unfortunately it's a fine line between stagnation and simplification.
Well, you're not a beginner, so it doesn't really apply to you. Consistency and completeness are very important to avoid confusion.
I like how you can say "hosting over 3,514,881 repositories" because by the time the HTML has loaded it there would surely be at least one more ;)
That is not true. None of the practices applied by Agile actually originated within Agile. Agile is simply a collection of best known practices. CI, Pair, Estimation, etc. are all aspects of Agile.
No, it merely suggests that it is sometimes not actually meant that way, anywhere between a single occurrence and always.

So you think that sometimes but not a significant portion? Not enough to pay attention to?

This entire paragraph seems to be written from the perspective that harassment is only a problem if you are actually held legally liable which is both wrong and a dangerously horrific place to come from so I hope I am misinterpreting what you say.

Well, you have a problem. Yes, harassment generally is a bad thing. Most people you would hope wouldn't keep asking someone out on a date after getting shot down a bunch of times. That's not necessarily harassment though. It could be socially clueless or stupid, or whatever. Moreover at a bare minimum such behavior smacks of the sort of failure that builds on itself.

But being afraid of committing harassment is as big a danger (or perhaps even larger) as actually harassing someone. You can't have the confidence that people find attractive if you are always afraid of crossing lines. Sexy men are unafraid of sexual harassment lines. They don't need to be. It will never become sufficiently severe or pervasive because there are always greener pastures and one isn't going to waste time with the uninterested.

If "no means no" means you don't get to ask again for a date even if it is not made crystal clear that no means never, then if you are ever turned down by your spouse for sex, I guess you have to get a divorce if sex is important to the marriage. Nobody believes that. And between those extremes it is impossible to draw articulable lines.

It's like these recent cybercrime laws that makes it a crime to knowingly cause offence or embarrassment. Sometimes people should be offended or embarrassed. As Eugene Volokh has pointed out these on their face criminalize on-line complaining about cheating significant others.....
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Russian Constitution forbids two consecutive terms. Putin served two, then endorsed his close associate for the presidency. The associated gets elected, serves a term, then steps aside. Putin runs again, and gets elected for the third term, but not a third consecutive term.

For many this looks like twisting the law, but Putin is genuinely popular among common people so most people are kind of happy he found a legal way around the limitations.
A Constitutional amendment specifically authorizes income taxes, so it's pretty impossible for them to be unconstitutional. Or are are you referencing one of the theories [1] that the 16th amendment was never ratified?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_Sixteenth_Amendme...
Youll get the same connectivity issues with a native App that requires a connection that suddenly loses connection

Native platforms are far from bug free

It makes sense for the business to release a just good enough HTML5 app rather than platform specific apps built by multiple teams at x times the cost.

It's easier to find a html5 developer than it is to find an android, iOS and any other platform you want.

How do you propose you solve these issues?
Based on the number of kiwi accents I hear living in Perth: apparently not.