skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like a service that in one way made photos second class entities, and in another way treated them as the be all and end all.

I want the hires, the digital negative, to be able to pair a digital negative and a jpg... so that's the first class stuff.

But I want the current attributes of a photo on Flickr to be first class... time and place matter. In fact, a photo is an attribute of a moment in time. And so it should figure out when multiple people upload based on a shared event that the uploads are happening at the same place, and it should then work out from the timestamps when it was, so if anyone adds a geotag all matching files are implicitly tagged unless overridden.

I want to search photos like tineye.com does... provide a photo as a search token. I want to find "similar" photos to the one I have... did someone link to a photo that belongs to a set, how do I get back to that set? How do I widen the search to find other photos from the event?

I want to be able to get the original or negative, regardless of the size, if it's a CC image.

I want to be able to background upload. If the images are local, then they're magically going to be published too.

I'd like an auto image stitcher for lo-fi gigapan-ish images... select the ones to be stitched and go for it.

Lots of things really. There's so much room still.
Because you seem to be new here, I will resist the urge to down-mod you without explanation. I don't think the down-mods are for the logic of your arguments. They're for the attitude reflected in your comments (except the top level comment, which seemed to be in good spirit, but 'good-riddance' is a bit negative to me personally). Unlike most other web communities, 'fuck you'-flavored comments are not well tolerated at HN. That, I think, is the most appealing part of this community. If you do intend to stay here and prosper, it would be a good idea to disagree in a more civil fashion. No personal attacks, no arrogance, no being a jerk. Maybe a little sarcasm, but sprinkled with humor. Also, most HN readers can identify disguised attacks fairly well. So, lighten up my friend!

In the interest of full-disclosure, I did down-mod the comment that you just deleted.
I can sleep better at night now that teens are safe from mean spirited text messages. There's so much evil in this world.
In my spare time, I don't code, because I do code for a living 8+ hrs a day, and in addition to that I have a life.

When I am not working, I DO code for fun, because I enjoy coding.

A better question might be, have you ever done what you do for pay, for free just because you think it's fun.
If I have something to say I will say it irrelevant of how I feel it will perceived and/or affect my karma.

I do find it helps me concentrate on "unstupidifying" what I've got to say though. Nobody wants to see me explain myself 5 times because I couldn't get to the point the first time.
Bittorrent isn't sequential, so it'd be tough to say with any certainty that you have established a buffer. I'm not sure if this is something that's recently changed or not though, I'm no expert either.
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Endowed organizations face pressures too.

Yes. This (from Page 2 of the NYT article) is one of the many paragraphs I left out of my excerpt: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/opinion/28swensen.html?pag...

One constraint on an endowed institution is the prohibition in the same law against trying to “influence legislation” or “participate in any campaign activity for or against political candidates.” While endowed newspapers would need to refrain from endorsing candidates for public office, they would still be free to participate forcefully in the debate over issues of public importance. The loss of endorsements seems minor in the context of the opinion-heavy Web.
And what if they didn't know they had a disease? It doesn't matter - forcing someone to share your bodily fluids in such an aggressive manner should be a crime. And of course the punishment should fit the crime, but at a minimum, spitting is equal to minor physical assault.
Congrats on the link, glad to see a gaming web 2.0 site begin to really rock it. I'll also be looking into your site for my own gaming use.
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Come on... of course you could argue that all humans are mentally ill to some extent. But Arrington's behavior is easily within the realm of acceptable social behavior, even if he does like to cause minor controversy.

However, death threats and randomly spitting in someone's face are unambigiously crossing those social boundaries by a wide margin.
Or it might be a story about the expected value of an injury which would be sustained without the technology vs. its cost. If you haven't considered what various potential injuries are worth and their probabilities and what this technology costs then you are just playing the "if it saves just one child its worth it" game.
Now that's just plain rude. What makes you say that I made up my story? If you feel that your position is strong, why do you need to attack me personally? Talk about quality of the argument...
I've been usign Google Apps for the past year or so for my email host. Though I have my registration and DNS with GoDaddy, I'm terrified of Google shutting me off one day and having no recourse other than to reroute everything and suffer the downtime.

I realize this was a registration issue, but when I keep reading horror stories about people being shut out of their accounts and having no one to talk to at the Big G, I think it's time to look elsewhere.

Does anyone know of a good email-only host that has a good admin interface, support, etc?
If the disagreement is justified, the user can simply reply to the post to make his point, no?

I think a two dimensional system would just bring clutter to a good minimalist site.
naturally, i want to be interesting to you all ;p
I remember the story spammer using mechanical turk to solve CAPTCHA.
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http://www.squidoo.com/Made_to_Stick

Disclaimer: I made this for Seth's alternative-MBA program, but I thought it would be useful for people here.
I was hoping someone would mention this. It's not acceptable to spit or threaten someone with bodily harm, but I can understand how otherwise decent people can be driven to violence due to rejection. When someone or some company you look up to rejects you, it can make you feel like you're one of those "other" people, the untouchables who are bringing everyone else down and who aren't worth the air they breathe.
I would argue that this was a horrible decision, even if everything turned out in the end. It reminds me of when a kid makes a really stupid decision that by chance turns out well, and the parents (correctly) yell at him despite the result.

If it had turned out that there was a minor flaw/"bug" in his implementation, he'd lose his finger for no reason.

What would be much better is to make lots of test saws with his technology and give them to carpenters for free. The worst thing that could happen is that someone who would have lost their finger anyway would lose their finger. The best would be free publicity.
Are shrinking budgets good for SOA?
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I look more at replies. My goal over the past few years is to learn how to post a controversial argument without getting a ton of replies arguing with something that was not in my message. You can't avoid getting arguments about what was in the message, of course, but it's just wearing when you get tons of flames about something you didn't actually say.

I have found that on a good site, that argument will also tend to be voted up, even if it's against the local dominant opinion, but that's just a side-effect.

I left Slashdot when I could no longer do that, and I felt it was because I'd plumbed the depths of idiocy rather than failing to write my arguments correctly. (You can never reach perfection, of course, but assuming I didn't become radically worse at it over the course of a year, the fact that it become virtually impossible implicates the community.)

Write well, ignore karma. If you're getting consistently downvoted after that, consider that you may not be a match for the community. (And I do mean "consider"; it's not proof, but it's worth considering.)

And yes, karma encourages groupthink, though it doesn't create it. A strong community can overcome that, but the pull is inexorable and continuous. Compared to other karma-based communities I've been in, this is still a ways away from group-think dominance, though.
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They're the equivalent of the captain of the football team joining the debate team and, right in the middle of a debate, accusing his opponent of being "gay".

You need to see this movie, if you haven't: http://www.google.com/search?q=faggy+idiocracy It imagines a possible future Earth inhabited only by Fox News viewers.

It actually includes a parody of Fox News - but it wasn't easy for me to tell it was a parody. Google Images has pics: http://images.google.com/images?q=idiocracy+fox+news

One more movie quote: http://www.google.com/search?q=idiocracy+all+retarded
I'm not a moderator. I haven't even been using the site for that long. I'm just aware that sometimes the system here can be a little hard on newer users who aren't used to how things work.
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How secure is Firefox?
How secure is Opera?
I like OpenLayers, but JS maps have always seemed a bit slow and clunky to me. What's the most graphically intensive use of OpenLayers you know of?
I know :)

I was taking your comment as a cue too :D

(alsio known as hitting the wrong reply button)
Absolutely. It makes it better--usually.

Karma, the way it is used here, kills off some normal parts of human conversation, such as the making friends-by-agreeing and making mundane conversation part of socialization. From the perspective of a reader, though, those parts of conversation are very dull if I'm not the poster or respondee.

On the other hand, it encourages conformity. You "win" psychologically and karmically by saying things you know everyone will agree with, and you are rewarded with a tangible boost in your score. Granted, many of us try to upvote good arguments regardless, but there's a natural human tendency to regard opinions you disagree with as flawed.
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good question. recently there was a "capitalism as a ponzi scheme" article and i wrote that ponzi had better insight into nature than malthus. i can't see anything objectionable here - just an expression of opinion and an implicit comparison between tim o'reilly's thinking and that of thomas malthus. i got dinged 2 points for this and i just can't understand why. if there was a reason so be it but i dont understand why anonymous negativity like this is part of the system. it has made me hold back from further commenting... till now :)
Speaking for myself, I am completely uninterested in a live stream of a concert at our current tech level, because the compromises to the audio and video to successfully stream are at their worst for a concert. Give me a real, DVD-quality MP4 (clocks in at around 1-2GB) after the event, thanks.
Although the issue at hand is not exactly hacker-news, the solution (thatsnotcool.com) and the way they are reaching out to their target market is very similar to a web startup.

This article also suggests some new trends that we'll see in the next generation that's quite scary - sometimes we think that as the tech trendsetters we're on the cutting edge of micro-blogging, twitter, and connectivity. I suspect that in the next generation these ideas are already mainstream.

Social taboos are also being redefined in the next generation as well, which can be important if you're looking to build a website for next-gen users.
I do think about it, but I never let it stop me.

But a few times I've been surprised (both ways) by the karma score, so either I don't fully know the "group think" here - or there isn't one.
I would upmod the submission - but 25 individual pages?
"So what he's doing is taking the strictest interpretation of Libertarianism and arguing against it even though no rational Libertarian would ever argue that."

Well, I guess I technically agree with this statement since you included the qualifier "rational", but there certainly are some irrational (in what appears to be our shared opinion) Libertarians that do argue the strict version, and because of their zeal are the ones that get associated with the name. In particular, they are the ones running the Libertarian party itself. Remember how excited the party was that this last election, they nominated someone who wasn't a lunatic?

That's why I refer to myself as a little-L libertarian; I'm heavily influenced, but not defined by my capital-L Libertarianism.
Arrington has spat in the face of many startups and blogs, metaphorically speaking, and the most successful business people in general are ruthless. This doesn't excuse the literal spitting behaviour, but Techcrunch is a blog with way too much power, for better or worse depending on the way you look at it.
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Actually that is what separates the professional from the hobbyist (I've seen both bad professional programmers aka 9-5ers and amazing hobbyists), and when I work professionally both in my startup and in a previous life as an employee I put on my waders and jump right into the thick smelly bog. But especially when you take a couple of years of vacation and work for fun on projects that interest you, you find out that sense of ickiness is probably the best indicator of code rot.
why does everyone think startups are doomed if they get a bad TC review?

There's a perfect example of this THIS WEEK! Arrington has been ripping into Cha Cha for years, and they just got a massive funding round.
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It's impossible to know the answer, since it's hidden somewhere deep inside Mike's subconscious. My intuition says that he'd be more willing to put up with something like that if his company was still growing rapidly.
let this be a reminder that actions have consequences, and none of us lives in our own isolated bubble.

treat others as you'd like to be treated - and that applies both to Arrington and to the spitter.
Ask HN: Best banks for startups/corps, by their web interfaces
Hi folks,

How do my fellow starters feel about various bank web sites/interfaces, for corporate use? I spend (let's say) 95% of my banking relationship online, and unless I'm missing it, few bank critiques focus on these tools -- and therefore they tend to be anemic. My principle cares: it should be a) efficient and pleasant to perform routine activity, and b) possible and pleasant to (outside one's accounting system) do forensics and some of level of slice/dicing on activity.

I have some experience with three:

- Citibank (3 of 10) - a thinly veneered mainframe throwback, with a terrible contact system. Not happy.	Has taken many	years to expose	basic functions, like wire transfers or eftps payments.

- Chase (6 of 10) - not bad, functional, decent design, still some areas without online hooks.

- Bank of America (8 of 10??) - clean design, good contact system, multi-pay screens are solid with some payment history context for each recipient,
not much experience beyond that.

Areas of interest:

- day-in / day-out check-writing and reconciliation

- federal tax payments

- employee direct deposits

- import/export for data tools / software

- multi-account	management / money sloshing/transfers

- etc
I tried switching to a laptop-only existence several years ago. Didn't work for me.

I have an Apple 23" Cinema Display as my primary monitor, and a 19" Hyundai as my second monitor. I'd be lost and be much less productive without this screen real estate.

And ever tried watching movies on a laptop? It sucks. But my Cinema Display handles this beautifully.

Glad it works for you. Won't work for me, however.
I wouldn't have dinged you - but I don't think that the comment really added anything. Since as I understand it the karma's supposed to be about improving the SNR that moderation seems reasonable.

If you'd justified why you felt that Ponzi had a "better" insight than Malthus then it would have been a useful contribution.
Here we reproduce a complaint letter sent to Sir Richard Branson, which is currently being emailed globally and is considered by many to be the world's funniest passenger complaint letter.

And with that, all my remaining doubt about the Telegraph's being a near-tabloid rag were confirmed. Any time the title looks like something from Reddit, there's a big problem.
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But that's not what he asked.
I think spitting in someone's face is by definition cowardice.
Given that the US has frequently, and recently, elected children of previous presidents, and that the only serious contender for a female president was the wife of a former one, I think it hardly fair to discount other countries elected leaders on those grounds alone.

As for feudal traditions, all of those countries had been European colonies for about a century prior to organizing under their current systems. In the case of Indonesia, their first female president began 34 years after her father left office and after three other presidents were in office. She then lost the elections after three years in office. That hardly sounds "feudal".

And yes, Muslims are a minority in India. I assumed anyone reading this thread was aware of that.

My point is this: if these countries are one way or another electing female leadership, then it indicates that the issue of the views on women in those societies is more multidimensional than you're painting it. At the very least it's not consistent across the range from Western Africa to Eastern Asia. The problems are real, but they're best addressed when approached through examining the situations in their complexity, rather than trying to reduce them to a single wacky-sane spectrum.

This thread typifies why I think politics should be kept off of HN. It just degenerates into this sort of stuff where everyone's regurgitating what they already believe and on the whole the net amount of respect for one another goes down.
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The most strict libertarians I can think of are the anarcho-capitalists. Even they do not desire a society with the absence of laws, but rather they desire a market it law and law enforcement to replace the public monopoly.

You can argue about whether or not that is realistic, but to say they desire no laws is unfair.

And yes, the LP has an overabundance of socially challenged types. A rational man should be able to weigh arguments by their worth and not by their bearers.
Maybe there wouldn't be so much Arrington animus if TechCrunch would stop doing things like republishing the Twitter streams of disgruntled data entry employees as retaliation for a management team that refused to comment about that employee.

Maybe there wouldn't have been so much animus if Arrington hadn't done things like single out the lead dev for his favorite web service and run story after story about his purported incompetance.

Nobody should spit on Arrington --- at least, nonconsensually --- but it's not like this is Bill Moyers we're talking about here.
I'm just going to take a devil's advocate role here and say get a job.

A start up is nothing without capital, and until you get funded that capital is you and your cofounder. Your savings, your time. A job means you can't put all your time into your startup, but it also means you can eat.

Having coworkers to bounce things off of, learn from and both see and make mistakes is invaluable. You can learn how to start your start up from working at your day job. You might even meet driven, hard working people who can help.

As far as continuing your education, that's awesome. Do it, but get someone else to pay for it. If you work at a big corporation they'll usually offset the cost or even give you a free ride.

That said, do what fuels you. If you like to code, get the job. If you like the theory, keep on with schooling. If you're into the startup thing, just do it. If you want it all, do it all. Just remember to eat.
Nice. BusinessWeek seems to do that a lot, too. It doesn't even look like the "Print" link circumvents it as on other sites.

So what were the companies? For some articles I just read the comments here. ;)
I just modded you up to encourage you to start commenting again.

Remember to make it interesting :-)
It appears that Stephen Gass is attempting to extort revenues.

Don't you think you should... rephrase that? I believe the term is "negotiate a price", not "extort revenues".

I'm no fan of software patents or obvious patents, but if ever an invention deserved a patent, this is it.

I'm not suggesting that this is a story of greedy companies, or of greedy inventors. I believe the companies when they say that most people aren't willing to pay an additional 8% (for a tool that will probably last a lifetime) to hedge against amputation injuries. I just don't understand that, is all. Check out this abstract from some epidemiologists:

http://www.joem.org/pt/re/joem/abstract.00043764-199610000-0...

They sampled 283 amateur and pro woodworkers in New Mexico and report that "5% of all respondents suffered partial amputations." That is a really big fraction. Obviously, I'm unlikely to saw as much wood in my life as a professional carpenter, but it still seems like my odds of losing a finger as an amateur woodworker are probably far higher than one in 100,000. They might even be on the order of 1%. Which, to me, makes SawStop a no-brainer at $80. I want the miter saw and band saw versions, too.
I believe this was mentioned in the Pragmatic Programmer. They used the analogy of broken windows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows
Replying to make clear my disagreement [smile], I'll clarify that what I was writing about is the case when user 1 posts a new comment, and then various anonymous users downvote to indicate factual disagreement, rather than downvoting to indicate that it was a lousy comment. User 1 has nothing further to reply to, because all user 1 or any onlooker sees is a bunch of downvotes. (And since the comment's net vote total is shown, sometimes both downvotes and upvotes are invisible if they cancel each other out.)

I agree with your desire for simplicity. I have the opinion that a voting system that votes both on agreement with the statement of the post, up or down, and on the contribution of the post to the community, up or down, is simple enough to be worth the additional information. Reasonable minds can differ, of course, and I'd be happy to read replies about why this is a bad idea.
I've started some dumb comment threads here, but I'm humbled by this one.
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A bit bogus because the companies are ranked by most common salaried position, so it starts off with a bunch of law firms. There is a hospital with the most common salaried position being physician and a hotel chain with general director, conveniently ignoring all the orderlies and chamber maids which would make the average wage a lot less attractive. An there is that annoyance of clicking through 25 pages.
I try to make a point of upvoting well-written contentious posts which I disagree with. I actually end up upvoting many of the posts I respond to contrarily which seem to get unfair downvotes.

As for the effect of karma on my own actions, I know that I've refrained from posting poorly-reasoned or hasty posts even after I've written them. I try to get citations and other supporting evidence too, rather than just posting an unsupported opinion.
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