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The measures were put in place to prevent building owners from turning their apartment complexes into unregulated hotels to avoid paying additional taxes. Because those hotels were unregulated anyway, they often were in a lax state, and so health and safety also became an issue.

Conversely, per Airbnb's quote, 87% of the rooms listed on the site are people's own homes of which they rent out a portion, or the whole thing for a limited time they rent out. So these are not people trying to circumvent the tax law (and by all means tax their Airbnb income as a hotel would be), they are just trying to make additional income to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Those 87% were not the target of the law, because this model did not exist at the time.
If I understand what you're asking re [1], I believe he's stating that the HN commentators are making comments about him and his past work unaware of his latest work (shipped 2 products recently and working with javascript).
I followed Brad on LJ around this time, a time before I learned to program but was into running Linux/FreeBSD on my desktop and taking multiple unsuccessful stabs at building things. I remember his post about memcached:

http://brad.livejournal.com/1893677.html

I didn't really know what he was talking about but it was really fascinating and inspiring (as a lot of his tech posts were).
I'm sorry you had to deal with this.
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I ducked it.
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I found everyone has a different style, that's why I include all the options as separate packages. Those who love video can buy that, but if you don't like it you can get just the book for less money. Also, transcripts are coming for all the interviews. 6 are done, the other 5 should be ready this week.

The only thing I haven't done yet is print books. Maybe eventually.
Reading the comments yesterday was as Dave said, depressing. I ended up closing the window because I really didn't want read any more of the comments.
People began attacking his second name and that was when it went further than too far.
I wouldn't go as far as second-class citizens, NYC is less than half the population and, correspondingly, less than half of the districts. There are a lot of NYC-specific taxes and tolls collected. Hell, Republicans controlled the state legislature until a year ago or so (and you know they weren't from NYC).

If I had to guess (I used to be in politics), your dad spends a lot of time complaining about property taxes -- I can guarantee those don't leave your municipality.
The discussion in question is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5738455

It was about this post by Dave Winer: http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/may/myOneTalkWithMarissaM...
If I may ask, how did you manage to enroll in college without a HS diploma?
While we're talking about externalities, this is what's known as the network effect, or positive network externalities.

The value is not that someone has an XMPP server, the value is in having an XMPP server that everyone uses.
>I honestly don't care what the HN trolls, and the people who upvote them, supposedly "think" about me.

If only that were true, I'd have spent even less time this week on meta-HN-drama.

And I reject or seriously, seriously, seriously lament that "discourse has moved to twitter". That sounds like the opener to George Orwell's 2084 or something.
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As with anything, you shouldn't take it too seriously. Yes, it's depressing that trolls get upvoted ("A troll is someone who, finding that no-one likes them, decides to pretend that it's on purpose."), yes it hurts to have supposedly intelligent people pick apart everything you say or do, but hey, don't let the bastards grind you down. Try to remain positive; sometimes just being obstinately optimistic will make the worst of humanity run away screaming or quietly fume.

And yes, sometimes I've been that asshole; don't take it personally; it's me, not you :)

That being said, just because you know a language is "bad" doesn't mean you won't use it (that comment is directed not just at the OP but also the trolls who assumed he was an idiot for knowingly using a "bad" language).
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The raspberry pi is absolutely not the cool thing about this set up[1]. The cool thing is that in 12 months you can switch out your SOC for a better one.

1. The pi is good because it has a large community and GPIO pins, it's a terrible choice for a 'PC' device today-- it's pretty much the weakest CPU you can get in the ARM/SOC world, with an out of date instruction set (v6 vs v7). You'd be much better off going with a beaglebone black or MK802, at the low end, with a world of more powerful options.
Nintendo revenue over the past year has been pretty abysmal, and they've effectively admitted that the Wii U launch was an unmitigated disaster.
Want to get rid of the majority of trolls, abuse and unnecessarily negative behavior? Remove anonymity.

These fake points don't do much at all.
Agreed. The Atheros chips tend to be much better supported - you actually get non-binary blob wireless drivers, which is a big problem with Broadcom-based devices like the venerable Linksys WRT54G and similar.

OpenWRT is quite nice, and ships with a Lua based web interface, which is ideal for a low memory/CPU device like a router.
I'm not a fan of these "photographer justifying their costs of business to amateur models" rants.

Like any profession you have the cost of doing business and the prices that you set. If someone can't afford your prices then you simply don't take them on as a client. If your work can't bring in clients at the price you feel is fair, the you should re-think you prices, approach to work, marketing to attract the clients that can pay, or find a new profession.
Ah, that all sounds wonderful, thanks. Shift-enter for multi-line input is actually nicer than Firebug's modal toggle (though less discoverable). And since I think 23 actually broke Firebug's console, I'll certainly be getting more acquainted with the built-in tools for a little while. :)
from one of the comments:

> Bruce, it is getting depressing to read your posts. You don't prescribe any kind of resolution such as calling your congressperson.

(I hope they were being facetious with this remark)
It was developer humour rather than an accusation. Many of us have been in the situation where we overlooked changing something, and when it's noticed we quickly change it and attribute the original mistake to some mysterious caching issue.
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They cut out XMPP from hangouts, yeah.

I still use XMPP with GChat and IMAP with Gmail. Either of those things changes I'm probably going to start using Bing and find a new email provider.
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I do not read the comments on HN of the pieces I write.

I used to. I used to love hearing really smart people help out with whatever was puzzling me. Perhaps I can get back to that.

But damn, this is a negative bunch. Whatever topic, whatever opinion you have, it's somebody's hot-button issue and somebody else doesn't understand what the fuck you are saying. Sometimes this is the same person. Most times this is dozens of people.

At MicroConf a few of us were talking about the kind of junk traffic that HN sends any more. "It's like having a bunch of angry nerds drive by in a bus throwing food at you" one person ventured. Another had a better analogy: "It's like having a busload of grumpy senior citizens show up at your store, picking through stuff, complaining about the prices, going on about irrelevant things, and generally being ornery, obnoxious and trashing everything that you've done."

This is not a problem of individuals. HNers are some of the best folks in the world. This is simply a problem of aggregating tens of thousands of content consumers in one spot and trying to have a single conversation. I think HN has scaled as far out as it's going to.
I don't have a downvote button, probably because I'm new and I don't have enough karma. I wanted more than once to downvote insulting comments, but alas, I cannot.

I can upvote, however, meaning that I have both the ability to insult in comments and upvote insults that agree with whatever I want to insult at the time. That seems like a recipe for abuse if/when the userbase increases unexpectedly by a large magnitude, as older users wouldn't have the numbers for cutting down this behavior.

But other than closing down registrations and sending new applicants to "Hacker News 2", I don't know how to fix this.
> They say I'm old and out of date. Funny. They're the ones who are out of date! :-)

The kind of people I seek out on line are people who understand the truth as something separate from them, which comes from a diverse and complicated objective reality. The kind of people I abhor are those whose personal power derive from punishment/reward of those around them in order to climb the social ladder.

There are more and more of the 2nd kind here on HN. There is more short sightedness, and more ageism. There is far less broad technical knowledge, and the level of Computer Science knowledge seems to have fallen dramatically. There are people who casually mix up "collide" with "collude" and will downvote you for pointing that out.

HN has gotten bigger. As usual, it's gotten stupider as a side effect.
It was mostly people saying personal attacks weren't helpful and self reflection then this post came out and said "IM TOTALLY BUTTHURT SO IM TAKING MY BALL AND GOING HOME". I'm not really sure which is worse but neither is good.
There has been a recurring pattern of quite vitriolic ad hominem attacks on certain people on HN in a way that I can only describe as "celebrity-bashing" for quite while now. Other favorite targets are for instance RMS and Gruber.

This isn't just the odd troll. There's a lot of cheerleading going on in the form of upvotes, even though the attacks don't contribute anything, and would normally be downvoted into light grey.
This is tricky.

On one hand, Hacker News, despite being one of the best of its kind, is a programming community, and programming communities (or similarly populated communities: online gaming, etc.) are possibly the most overwhelmingly negative and vitriolic I find online. (Huge exception: StackExchange.) I find it perplexing that the business & finance communities I visit are consistently more civil and constructive. Remember the developer who got flamed for creating (not promoting or arguing the superiority of, merely posting on GitHub) an sed/awk replacement? Our community is an overwhelmingly mean one at times.

(You can dress it up as engineers/developers/hackers being more honest, more blunt, less MBA-y, whatever. It's unpleasant and hurts people's feelings.)

On the other hand, in the midst of all the ad hominem of yesterday's discussion (you can find it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5738455) there was a lot of valid commentary which Dave Winer (whom, for the record, I have never talked to nor do I know his accomplishments) seemed to ignore. The reasonable extrapolation from My One Talk with Marissa Mayer was that Winer felt she was an individual whom did not respect developers' viewpoints or a more 'balanced' view of the web. Specifically, he says:

All this is to say that the promises execs make on acquisitions are meaningless. They own the thing, they will do what they want to with it. It doesn't matter how many nice sounds Mayer makes on the deal. At the core she cares not one bit what the users of Tumblr think. She's saying what she needs to say to make the deal happen. To avoid a PR crisis on Day One. To make the team at Tumblr feel like their work has value to the new owners. That somehow this acquisition isn't actually an acquisition.

And I think it's entirely valid to say that, hey, isn't it a massive logical leap to get here from the anecdote of the 'BlogThis!" button?

Winer seems to be asking Hacker News to be polite, which I think is important: but I think it's better that Hacker News is good, and along the way it seems obvious that being polite is better than not being impolite.
I put myself on a self-imposed break (which I'm breaking now, sorry; it seems to be more of a one-post-per-day policy) from HN because I don't want to be contributing to the problem. But as long as the quality of my posts doesn't degrade (flame wars do that) I think 1 per day is fine.

I think we, as a group, tend to be shitty judges of character, but our arrogance blinds us to the need for improvement. We're cynical about "people" in general, but we latch on too quickly to businesspeople who seem above-the-fray or decent, often based on superficial signals. (This is like the creepy guy who fabricates a relationship with a girl because she smiles at him.)

A consequence of this is that we can't perceive it when we the people above us play divide-and-conquer games against us. Language wars. This team against that team. IDE-users vs. command-line developers. Efficient but "not dedicated" 8-to-6 family guys vs. inefficient all-nighter types. Pro-Google vs. anti-Google. Facebook users vs. Facebook haters. Young vs. old. We've all been monstrously played and most of us don't even see it.

Your enemy isn't the guy who wrote the shitty code. He was quite possibly working under an obscene deadline in a job he couldn't afford to lose. No, the enemy is the boss who mandates you use the shitty code (using the nicest possible language, i.e. "we won't be able to deliver unless <horrible technical compromise that damages your career>") instead of letting you rewrite it; when he makes a common enemy out of the original architect, he's fucking playing you.

Most of our road-wear that we get in this career comes from wrong assumptions we make when divide-and-conquer games are played against us. We eventually wise up to the bad character of the players, but we retain those biases for a long time, and start saying things like "every shop I know of that used the JVM (N = 1) was unable to hire good people"... when the real reason that shop couldn't hire talent was that it paid poorly.

Just what I've seen. All this incivility and in-fighting comes out of our willingness to tear each other apart based on superficial differences, and that's something that's been inculcated in us from above. Why? Because we're fucking easy to control that way.
What do you mean with noise?
"I googled it" didn't make a lot of sense for the first 5 years either... I tend to say "duckduckgo it" or "ask the duck" when referring to duckduckgo. It's hard to capture that last 5% of linguistic serendipity, so I'm not sure how it could be any better without sacrificing its identifying uniqueness.

Idea: "I duckduck GOT it!"
We have to realize that no product is built for everyone. Hey, Android fans dislike the iPhone, but there's nothing Apple can do about it. The reason that you dislike the pricing model is because there is not already enough trust being built between you and the author for you to believe the values Nathan can provide. Yes you are intrigued by the headline and promise at the top of the landing page. But you are also internalizing to find reasons not to buy because you don't trust the author yet. Like Apple, there is nothing Nathan can do about it. Maybe he shouldn't release anything until he gets trust from everyone on the planet?

There is nothing wrong not to buy the product. If I just knew Nathan for the first time with Authority, I probably won't buy it either. But I've followed him for some time and trust he can deliver, so I bought the complete package without much hesitation.
"I’m 24 and got most of my shares around $20 when I was a kid, so I take the long view."

I wish my parents got me AAPL stock as birthday gifts.
To be fair, technology has allowed crop yields to grow considerably which has been credited with decreasing world hunger. Lower food prices is clearly a good thing, even though I agree more buying power for the world's poor would be better.
Hangouts doesn't though, and it's the future direction. I should have been more precise.
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I read the article. Here is my personal reaction.

The sample size is indeed too low to have the statistical power to draw any solid conclusions. However it could be large enough to produce a set of candidate genes which reasonably might have small individual impacts on IQ. If you then could do a follow-up on a large population just looking at those genes, some of those candidates are likely to prove out.

It is a fishing expedition. You never know what you'll find. The odds that you come back empty handed are high. But it is still worth doing.
The problem is with the phrase "so much". I actually don't think the average photographer charges much at all.

The problem is really with the customer's perception of the value of a professional's time and the work that they do.

It doesn't help when Canon produces ads for an entry level DSLR that ends with the bold statement "This ad was shot with this camera!". It ignores the fact that the ad was likely shot by an expensive professional with additional expensive lighting equipment and a staff of assistants. When a customer starts to think "All I need is a nice camera, and I can do that too!", you've got an uphill battle when it comes to educating customers about the value of a professional.

On HN, I'd bet that many of us have probably encountered people who have read or seen books with titles like "Learn HTML in 2 hours" or "Learn iOS programming in 7 days" and think that spectacular apps and sites can be created with little to no effort.
I once co-authored a book called Beyond Blogging that my co-author and I took great pride in writing. It was the first book I'd ever written, and we wanted it to be the "Think and Grow Rich" for bloggers. We put a lot of time into writing it, and felt it was a great product.

We opted to do what Nathan did and sold it for $30-$50 for a PDF. I can't remember the cost exactly.

We took a lot of heat for the price, but it did do well, and people still buy it and email me about it, many years later. We've since quit selling the PDF and posted it on Amazon and BN via Createspace, but at the time, the cost of producing a nice looking and readable PDF was not cheap. Launching was hard, as was keeping up with support.

While I don't regret our decision to price high and launch PDF only, as we needed something meaty to get launch partners involved, I often wonder what would have happened if we took a long view and opted for a book proposal and/or gone to print first, at a reasonable price of say $9.99 or $14.99.

It's my thought that we'd be selling more today than we currently are, would probably have a 2nd or 3rd version, and might have received a follow-on book deal to write a follow-up volume.

Instead, I have a book that once made me some decent cash, but isn't really part of my average day's business plan.

It feels like a waste.

Moral of the story is:

If you want to make a ton of quick cash, this pricing model will work, and you'll be happy as people laud you for the strategy (which really isn't new) and the amount of money you made. But I don't think it's a good long-term strategy, and I don't think it helps you build authority of any lasting kind.
I did a similar write up in /r/raspberry_pi a while ago of what to buy and how to setup:

http://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/1039qv/got_my_...
I did after you recommended it. It is light years ahead. Thank you.
Or maybe a share of the payment, and a more direct relationship with the security deposit.

I was really trying to think of ways it affects me as a landlord and property owner. I really don't care what people do in the property as long as it's legal and causes no damage, but I want to be protected and considered as well.

Right now we are just completely cut out of the entire process, and there's little incentive for us to NOT take a hostile stance.
...I think most folks prefer video to text.

I'm in the same boat as both of you regarding taking little away from video, but while I see this statement a lot, my limited experience doesn't seem to match (of course, neither of these things indicates either position is correct in any meaningful way). Is there a reason you believe this, or is it just other people you've met/spoken with who have that preference?
Wow, that's sad and weird. When I was a kid some of my friends' moms bought cheaper Nutella alternatives (e.g. Nusspli). Maybe it's time for World Nusspli day. I've also seen other knockoffs in my local supermarket that look pretty tasty.
Hangout does not support XMPP, at all. Google Talk still does, but the Google Talk Android app was replaced by Hangouts, they're slowly replacing Talk with Hangout in Gmail, and it's quite likely Talk will be shut down altogether given Google's track record.
I think this is a case where his privilege is pretty irrelevant to the point being made.
It seems like there are some more subtle ways of doing it though. If Dave had a mechanism for proving to HN that he was the owner of a particular URL (e.g. by adding something to its html), then perhaps he could tell HN what to do with that url: Don't allow links to it at all; Link, but don't have a comment thread, etc.

Come to think of it, if it was successful this could be generalized to a mechanism that all forums could be expected to support, just like search engines are supposed to honor robots.txt
This is interesting. I've been following along with Nathan's posts for a while.

I checked the new website design (http://nathanbarry.com/webapps/). I love the focus on copywriting. My first reaction is that it lacks a strong visual hierarchy. Everything is blue and the call to actions (price circles) blends in with the rest of the page. Whereas in the previous design, the pricing/buttons were more obvious with the vertical table grid design.

The main difference is that package descriptions have been expanded significantly, which is great. It's no longer just bullet points + price.

More copy is always better.

But by not having a compact table with the 3 package options, it makes comparing the packages harder.

I'm curious if this is why the sales increased? It seems to have obscured the notion that it's an ebook that optionally comes packaged with extras. It is now sold primarily as a complete course of ebook+videos+resources with a secondary option of just buying the book.

That seems to be a big change in the focus of the product/marketing rather than just a simple pricing change on the book itself.
I second that. I recently had the chance to participate in an online conference with Nathan. He came across as real and friendly. He took the time to understand every question from the audience and gave thoughtful answers. I don't believe in get-rich-quick scheme either. Writing a book definitely takes a lot of time and effort. My wife recently wrote a 10-page tutorial on a single topic about Revit. It took her like 2 weeks with all the research, writing, and editing. If you are looking to make easy money quickly, this book is not for you. No book will ever be right for you. But if you are willing to put forth the effort, I think at least some people who can learn from you can benefit and appreciate.