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I have no idea if this is sales tax, income tax, or capital gains tax.
It is the difference between some drunk on the street yelling at you about your behavior or one of your friends sitting you down on a park bench and saying "we've been friends for a long while and I think you need to hear a couple of things..."
Maybe not so much a tool, but the AJAX paradigm and XMLHttpRequest is, imo one of the bigger developments in the Internet era.

And, Thank you very much for making memcached, and happy birthday! I've used this as a core part of my stack for years and love it.

edit: clarity
I've found Vornado fans quite powerful and quiet compared to others of the same size.
this might be a good time to say good-bye to HN.

so long and keep all your rotten fish.
Got really mad about lack of tab completion
Git, or in general distributed VC.

Not obvious to implement. But the concept was obvious.
Knee jerk "oh no, what will the workers do?!" reactions are understandable, but in the long term society is best served by leveraging technology to get the most services for as cheaply as possible.

If this was not true, we should ditch tractors/harvesters and have everyone go back to toiling in the field all day. That'll provide tons of jobs.

Yes, in the short-term one sector "loses" jobs, but it means a service is provided more cheaply, so consumers have more money to spend elsewhere, and the jobs just move around. Society gets a net win on total output.

See Economics in One Lesson for a better/more detailed explanation.
And for good reason. Rent control should not allow tenants to make a /profit/ on their apartments. The current SFRB law basically states you can only 'pro rata' charge what you charge. So if you pay 1k a month for rent and you are renting it out for half the month the most you can charge is 500. Or if its a 2 bedroom and you rent 1 bedroom, you can charge 50% of that.

Not that that matters. You are basically saying you parked in a firezone while robbing a bank. You are already doing something against the law so the additional methods dont matter much.
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This is the new Xbox One controller
I've dabbled in professional photography a bit. I can tell you, you don't get rich as a photographer. To become a really good professional photographer you have to put about 5-10 years into it. There are a lot of cost, from equipments to other things. Not to mention the basic cost of doing a business. Answering 10 clients to just get one. Commuting, transportations, etc.
There is a lot of cost in post-production. I occasionally shoot weddings. And I spend 3-4X as much time in post as the hours I spent shooting a wedding. So if you're charging $200/hr. You really making $40/hr. This is not does include commute cost, equipment wear and tear or rentals.

The best gig I've ever gotten was for a client who flew me to Lake Como, Italy for a week. But you had to envy the view while you were shooting all day :)
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Sorry for my bad recommendation: just now my opera mobile updated itself to 14.0 . 14.0 sucks.
The entire industry has been overtaken by technology somewhat, but the pricing hasn't caught up. A serious professional with professional gear? He can charge what he wants. But for most of the semi-pro weekend-warriors? They're going to find constant downward price-pressure because it's not the '80s anymore and the quality of their work isn't really that much higher than a layman with $500 of equipment, at least outdoors.

People put up with it because of historical inertia, but it's not going to get any better for most photogs.
Last year I was with a family member in her final months... mostly spent in a hospital. Working was a sort of refuge that allowed me to focus on something else. When I returned I was a much better support. You will go crazy if you do nothing but sit at the hospital listening to beeping machines and watching basic cable. You'll want to sit there with her all the time but you need to take care of yourself as well.
Ok, lets see: UTF-16 strings encourage bugs with surrogates. Note that most C# and Java code is notoriously broken wrt those and yet I never hear anybody complain about it.

UTF-32 strings roughly take up 4x more memory than UTF-8 strings and yet hardly solve anything: The proper toUpper("ß") used to be "SS" in German (nowadays there is an upper cased 'ß'). Other languages have other rules; i18n is hard, get used to it.

IMO Nimrod's UTF-8 strings at least make the programming errors easier to spot instead of the "mostly working but fails for edge cases" style that UTF-16 or UTF-32 encourage.
I just feel safer using Dropbox or Glacier. Flickr seems more like a social network, specialising in photos, and I wouldn't feel comfortable about using a service like that as a backup. As a business, the TOS are just not clear enough about what I can and can't store.
It's all over the Internet right now.
So it very well can be, but it isn't the state of the art? Maybe I should have said "self described distributed task queue."
Apparently it is common for photographers to not give you your digital copies after the shoot.

It's common, but not the only option. There are plenty of skilled photographers who will just charge you for the time spent on the shoot and hand over the digital copies. You just need to search them out and realize that you may or may not get the same caliber of artist as one who can dictate their own terms.
Really? I've been working on making a device very similar to this (and the Spark Core), and haven't heard of anything like this before a month ago.

Please tell me, from where have you been sourcing your wifi Arduinos?
Weddings only happen once. I can come give you a free second shoot of your baby pictures if I totally bomb the first one. The risk in shooting a wedding is much higher.
Thanks! It's a rails app (although nothing really dynamic on the ruby side) using HTML / SASS / JQuery and an awesome JS terminal plugin (http://terminal.jcubic.pl/) from jcubic (http://jcubic.pl/)
We have a couple of those, I think we bought them at Decathlon[1] a few years ago. But they're fairly "thin", and not particularly confortable.

My favorite method is still the "foot pump"; some camping matteresses have them integrated, so you just need to open the valve and press down with your foot.
Most annoying to me, is we're 30 minutes into the reveal, and they've still not discussed games. Literally, we've had about 7 seconds of a game playing in the background. As far as I people can tell, this would (so far) seem to be a voice controlled cable box.

Oh, and it looks like a shiny VCR. Bleh.

Edit: Ah, at 31 minutes, we have a games developer. Pity it's EA, but c'est la vie.
Xbox One?

That's a rather confusing name since it's the third Xbox.
Please just proxy a remote ssh session on a locked down terminal to my web browser!
> I honestly don't care what the HN trolls, and the people who upvote them, supposedly "think" about me.
If that's true, why 750 words on the subject?
The issue I take with Dave Winer is that he seems to feel as though his accomplishments or contributions somehow elevate his words beyond criticism.

1) If someone wrote a scathing criticism about you on the internet, in a thread about you on the internet, it might be worth responding to. Writing 750 words takes a decent programmer very little time. This point seems petty and childish on your part.
2) I could not disagree more. Did you even read what he wrote? He said that he was annoyed you guys were making conclusions based on half truths and that you didn't know what you are talking about, which is factually correct. Your response is that "his accomplishments somehow elevate his words beyond criticism". So disingenuous.
This is one of the most insightful things I've read about the interconnectedness of different professions and the overall economy in recent memory. I'm currently at a crossroads of decision, wondering much as the author about the most meaningful use of my life. This helped me, Thank You.
you could very easily take that into Photoshop, make it look like it was painted by a clown and then put it up on your website with the photographer credit

I don't see how this matters. If you wanted to lie and discredit the photographer, you could just take your own photo, do the same exact thing, and claim the photographer took it.

I do understand the economic incentive for the photographer to keep the digital copies, of course.
At first glance, this looks like it shares much in common with DTrace--so why not DTrace?
Urgh. Not all law enforcement is corrupt. And if you don't give it a chance, watch it fail, and then write a story about that, you aren't helping with the corruption.
I don't mind particularly whether my email is public or not, but it is definitely useful to know how the sender knew/collected my email address. For that purpose I'm using two addresses: public+{hg,git} at my domain. I have bunches of other addresses of the form pubilc+<service> at my domain, and some of the form public.<service> at my domain (as <service> stupidly refused to accept an email address with +).
Take a look at lib/webelement.hpp -- there's not too much yet, notably absent is a way to iterate children. But you can evaluate Javascript.
I would donate my $20 if I didn't think Mayor Rob Ford is going to by the video first.
5 Steps To Choose Your Customer Acquisition Channel
Personally, I will only have family photos done with photographers that offer a DVD with images as part of the package. That is my opinion and how I choose to spend my money. There are photographers that offer DVDs, so obviously there is a market for it. And those who are good photographers and business people will find a way to be successful in that market.

My problem is not necessarily with the price, but the way prices are structured. People balk at paying $25 per print because they know it's a ridiculous price for a print. Even the highest end online printers are in the $2-3 range for 8x10. But we as consumers also know that you can get very good quality 8x10 prints for half that. So they rightfully question why they are paying $25 for something they know costs the producer 1/10th the price. In a world of $1 apps, $25 prints are bound to get some push back.

I understand the photographer needs to make money, so don't whine about all of the burdensome costs. Give me a bottom line and let me decide if you are worth it or not.

Last comment ... if the photographer is complaining about time spent retouching and post-processing, then they need to either improve their photoshop skills or improve their photo skills. If it's your job, you'd better get shots right out of the camera that need very little editing or touch ups.
There are so many half-baked headless browser projects, many building in some way on PyQT. I've made heavy use of Spynner and Ghost. Spynner especially. It always seemed to offer exactly what I needed but the inconsistent docs and endlessly-deep stack always seemed to leave successful implementation just beyond my grasp.

Now, as an OSS maintainer myself, I sympathize. But I'd love it if this or another one of these projects started breaking away from the pack and could build some critical mass. I'm all for democratization but in this case I'd gladly trade 10 mostly working projects for a single solution ran by an iron-fisted BDFL if it meant decent docs and a mostly stable API.
This is really nice date detection based on semantics. The one thing I'd add is the ability to use words in lieu of numbers. For example, "in an hour" doesn't work, but "in 1 hour" does. Or, "in two months" doesn't work, but "in 2 months" does. Clearly the logic is there, but I think just adding some basic (0-99) word recognition in there would make it that much better.

And if you really want to get crazy, you could add some support for "fortnight"...if you're bored.
Most minor professions from house builder to car salesman have a little bit of institutionalized dishonesty built in to them. This has creeped in by increments over a long time and so doesn't strike the practitioners of these professions as dishonest at all because "that's the way it's always been done."

People with a fresh perspective will compare it with other, less "storied" professions and it will feel (perhaps rightly so) like a scam.

Do some research and negotiate up front. If you make an unexpected demand at the end thats quite different than the usual, you'll make the photographer feel as if they are the one who's being scammed. If they know up front that this shoot is going to be different than "the norm", they will often be surprisingly willing to think differently.
That didn't stop Apple from naming the newest iPhone the "iPhone 5", despite being the sixth.
The HTC First is now $0.99, only from AT&T.
Something those who think "work for hire" and "you should own the IP" don't seem to understand... a huge part of being a good photographer is being a good EDITOR, and learning to keep only the very best images. I'm not a "professional" in the full time sense, but I've released professional work. My "keep rate" is 2-3%. I'm simply rejecting 49 out of every 50 photos I take. I do not EVER want ANYONE to see those other 49. Many are just plain bad, and even the good ones aren't good enough for my critical standards.

Because of this, I would not under any circumstances sign a work-for-hire contract as a photographer. No good photographer I know would do that.

Something else to consider... for many photographers, the editing process is inseparable from the photo. The in-camera raw image is only an intermediate step. I don't know how many times I've been asked for a complete set of raw images by models or performers (I mostly shoot dance performance), and they've reacted with surprise to my flat NO answer. I'm not willing to let someone else make aesthetic decisions on my raw images, except perhaps in cases where I consider the person an artistic peer and treat it as a co-project.
This.

What I find interesting though, this question rarely comes up with manual labor, or any kind of job that's considered "dirty" or physically hard. Nobody questions their plumber's bill, for example.

With purely "intellectual" or creative jobs though, a true professional makes things look easy. Which inevitably leads to "but it only took you 15 minutes to fix my computer!".

Creatives have it even worse.
This is true. It works very well for reddit.com/r/AskHistorians. This is, by far, one of the highest-quality sub-reddits on the site, and it's because of active, heavy-handed moderation that enforces a strict rule set. (e.g. no speculation)
This reminds me a bit of the article posted yesterday about lowering margins on website development.

We are living in an economy where technology is enabling a variety of self-service options to professional services.

These self service options are often dramatically cheaper than retaining a person with professional experience. For example paying $10 for a site building application vs $1000 to hire a web designer.

The answer of course is to sell the benefits of professional skill to your client. The trouble of course is that often clients themselves have terrible taste and are bad at distinguishing good work from bad. The website they built with yellow text on pink background may "look amazing!" to them so the difficult part is making the case to them that many of their customers will be put off by this in a way that may cost them sales.
Hangouts also provides information about whether your messages were viewed and syncs chat history across devices whether they were online at the time the message was sent or not.
If you're serious about publishing, and are actually going to make the commitment to yourself to publish your eBook idea then $29 is peanuts. If reading this book helps you sell 3 more copies (assuming $10 per eBook) you already made your money back. So it's not a print book, I get that, I prefer to read paper as well. You do get all the information, and it's coming from someone who has actually done it, 3x over. If you were doing a startup and a founder who had 3 successful startups opened the kimono for $29 would you still think it was too much ?
Totally. It screws the landlord and drives up the overall cost of housing.

That said, this AirBnB host was supporting her (very frugal) lifestyle on the profits from this rental. It hurts to know that I may have played a part in undoing that.
> If you can make one little piece of the economy 50% more efficient, you're freeing up capital for the next highest use

Nice! Spoken like an economist (I recently read Economics in One Lesson).
Ask HN: Opportunities in the Cloud
Seeking HN insight (what features would you want not currently available) or just plain old guesses into what the community believes are opportunities for start-ups to exploit to gain a foothold against the likes of DropBox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, ect...

For example KIMDOTCOM and the idea of an encryption key.

Just looking to get my brain going...
>You missed the point completely in order to make some stupid personal attack

To be fair, the blog post in question spends the first half of its content avoiding the point completely in order to make some stupid personal attack. When the author misses his own point, it can be hard for readers not to do the same.
Sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but I was wondering if anyone could explain the technical reasons why, with minimal modification, we couldn't just replace all electronic messaging systems from SMS to email with xmpp, and forevermore live in a magical fantasy world where email headers, text fees and security concerns don't exist? I mean, it has these things going for it-

1. SSL/TLS embedded in the standard.

2. Easy to set up OTR encryption, (as well as any other standard I imagine).

3. Messages are "pushed" to clients, rather than "pulled".

4. The standard is simple, and servers like Prosody are super-easy to implement (unlike Exim).

5. There are plenty of clients already available. Admittedly it's not something I've researched much, but I doubt it'd take all that much to get Adium or whatever to work like a simple email client, (but with xmpp).

I'm aware of all of the social reasons why such a thing may not work, but I'd be interested to know if it were just a question of getting people to adopt it, were it to exist.
That's what he has Yahoo's executives for, right? In a big company you need not one, but many voices/advocates of different disciplines. His role is important, because else they end up with a steaming pile of marketing gags with no awesome product to make up for them. I would also not call Ad-Driven/Freemium/Subscription mode "features and experience". Yes, this can make or break the user experience - well if it would, then David would stop them.
The public doesn't need to be educated because the public rarely hires professional fashion photographers. A professional fashion photographer should be making their money from brands and modeling agencies.

The problem is that many photographers do vanity work for amateur models who for many reasons (age, location etc...) will never make a career as a professional model. Professional models don't pay for their own photo shoots. They're working enough contracts to not have to fill their portfolio with spec work, or are represented by an agency who will cover the costs of a shoot.

Many photographers who shoot fashion style portraits and make a bit of money doing it, consider themselves professional fashion photographers and expect to be paid as one. The problem is that they'll never command the same prices by doing portfolio work as they would doing work in the industry for brands.
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You really think spamming unrelated threads is going to go over here?
I can only recommend that you take all the claims from JetBrains employees about other languages with a large grain of salt.

Having watched most of their presentations, it seems to be a sad fact that they can't seem to sell their language without spreading FUD and making misleading claims about their “competitors” (especially about Scala it seems).

I can totally understand how frustrating it must be for the Kotlin devs that they have still failed to produce anything which could be described as a stable, working release, but I think the right solution for them would be to spend less time bashing other languages and to work harder, not to badmouth and disrespect other open-source communities, their work and their projects.

If you are interested in Scala on Android in particular, there is a whole mailing list dedicated to it: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/scala-on-android
My thoughts as well. It means they'll have to rethink their naming schema yet again when they come out with the next console, because Xbox Two as the fourth Xbox just wouldn't fly.
Have you seen pBase? That's what photographers used to have before flickr
"You can watch TV"

I can already watch TV.

And I don't want to be social while I watch TV, or buy tickets for a sequel while I watch a movie.

So far I haven't heard anything that has wowed me.
Utterly false. It could never be a criminal offense; it's entirely a civil matter. Additionally, courts have given companies broad latitude in determining what actions are in their shareholders best interests. In multiple cases courts have accepted arguments that a company's long-term interests were best served through socially responsible actions (e.g. charitable giving) even though this would decrease immediate profits.

In Dodge v. Ford Motor Co., the only reason the court found in favor of the shareholders was that Ford explicitly testified that he thought his company was making too much money and he felt obliged to use the money to benefit the public. Even this ruling, which is the one that established the "maximizing shareholder returns" precedent, stopped short of preventing Ford from taking the public-benefiting actions that the shareholders wanted to prevent, it merely required the company to continue paying dividends to the shareholders.
I usually say "I googled it on ddg".
Because push doesn't scale.