skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can host media files on Wordpress or Drupal, but the goal here is to build an application that's very focused and tailored user-interface wise to media. Furthermore, Wordpress and Drupal alone might not very easily handle some of the extra tooling that MediaGoblin does: if you upload a video, that video needs to be transcoded; we have task queueing and infrastructure so that these things can happen in the background without you just sitting there and your browser timing out.

As for how federation will work, we may enable a plugin called "diskgobbler" or something that might dowload files, but no, by default, MediaGoblin will not mirror all files from the other sites it is federating with. :) Instead, the goal is to keep the social side of things alive: you can create galleries that have entries that span multiple sites, favoriting a piece of media can happen across instances, you can subscribe to things a-la YouTube channels. That's what we mean as in terms of what we aim for by federation.

Hope that answered a bit!
Updated the story with the pic of the guy: http://www.minyanville.com/business-news/editors-pick/articl...
Didn't necessarily disagree with you until "If you don't understand this, there is something severely wrong with your moral compass." Personal attack and severe hyperbole wrapped into one, comments are about encouraging debate, so if you can't do that, just...shhhhh...
Hmm, it seems I was mistaken. We do let osteopaths prescribe medicine though, and that's almost as dumb. The rest of my point still stands.
The larger analysis also need to consider that some people won't ride a bike if required to wear a helmet; eg, to prevent helmet hair while on the way to an opera.

In Denmark a more common reason isn't hair so much as where to put the helmet. People bike everywhere, and usually you just leave your bike in some random location on a sidewalk, with the rear wheel immobilized with a built-in device that most bikes have (minor theft deterrent). Then you're left either having to carry the helmet with you everywhere, or to try to lock it to the bike somehow (presumably with an extra lock you carry just for that). Also, it drizzles a lot, so your helmet will be very wet if you leave it outside, unless you carry an extra bag or cover for it that works together with a lock.

For commuting between home and office it's not an issue, and more people wear helmets in that case. Of my coworkers, I would say about 1/3 wear a helmet when commuting, skewed towards those who live further (~10km), and those who are somewhat older (>40 y/o). Parents with young kids also tend to wear helmets, rather than trying to explain to the kids that they have to but mom and dad don't.
Fair play, well done! Follow your dreams and the rest will look after itself.
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Hey, you're the one that made argument that other countries are worse thanthe US because they kept doing bad things after the US abolished slavery.

Now you are moving the goalposts once it is pointed out that that applies to the US, too.
"But once you accept the small chance of winning, you may as well set it up so that if this unlikely result came out you'd maximize your winnings"

If there was a way to do so, sure. I'm not convinced there is.

Like I said, I get the logic behind it. I just don't think it's any more likely to produce an unduplicated sequence than a randomly generated string would. If anything, an intentionally chosen sequence (e.g., 1,2,3,4,5,6) seems more likely to be chosen by someone else. Assuming that nobody else (or, at least, fewer people) will ever choose a specific sequence is a pretty naive assumption, IMO. I totally understand the thinking behind it, but I don't think you're likely to do better than a random number generator at outmaneuvering the X hundred million other tickets in play.
The SEC Shows Why Bitcoin Is Doomed
I worked on a similar app [1] and it runs as a standalone web app on the iOS homescreen as well. A couple of things that I love about it:

1. I've done away with a lot of the features the OP has - such
as comments (unless it's Ask HN), time of post and link. This
has made it more lightweight and faster to load on slow mobile
networks in my area.

2. Also, it's only updated twice a day since I actually built
this for myself to stop spending so much time on HN.

3. And since I found myself only reading the front page on my
commute to work, it aggregates all the front page articles into
one nice page instead of opening one article up at a time.

Not to take away from the OP, but would love any feedback on the whole "less is more" approach.

[1] http://hn.dinopost.com/
Serious question -- have you taken vacations? Real vacations -- not the kind that turn into "work from home" days? And multiple days/weeks in a row? And for those stuck in a similar situation, does a 2-3 week vacation help at all?

I'm finding myself in a similar situation, about not working on my own side projects enough. The only time I've got anything done personally is when I took off 2 weeks around the holidays (and since it was holiday time, I didn't feel the need to keep "checking in" to the office, as there wasn't much going on). But normally I'll only take a day or two off at a time, which doesn't seem long enough.
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Judging from this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6042197 it sounds like you want to start your own company (and do more than code). Good luck.
Please do run a MediaDungeon instance, and make it a dungeon crawler theme. I do like roguelikes. ;)
YouTube cofounders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen unveiled MixBit
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I'm not sure if your post is intended as sarcasm or not. If the bias was obvious, how could he not be aware of it?
Actually the Howard Samuels seemed pretty rational, was all for using marijuana as medicine, and even stated its less harmful than alcohol. He just was pretty clear on the fact that most of the users of marijuana are in it for the high, and that politically medical marijuana is more of a stepping stone for folks interested in recreational use, rather than a deep seeded concern for those who need it medically.
Sorry dude, I disagree. As an employee, an employer, and an investor, I see your action as a giant red flag.
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I sanity-checked the service with some common unisex names. Here are the results I got:

Unisex: Robin, Alex

Female: Kelsey, Carol

Male: Leslie, Jodi, Jody, Frankie, Kelly, Marion, Casey, Jamie, Jordan, Mackenzie

Null: Pat, Taylor, Dale
This is worth an article, right there.
Persona makes signing in easy for Gmail users
The thing I really don't understand is the persistent meme that companies have some obligation to their shareholders above and beyond their obligation to their employees

What you call "meme", most people call "law".

Directors and Officers of a corporation have a fiduciary duty to shareholders by law. They do not have a fiduciary duty to employees of the corporation.
Client side encrytion for your photos in the cloud
"Arse longa, vita brevis" - nice work, Economist sub.
Not going to create an account just to check out your new app. I just can't be bothered.

You should have some sort of anonymous/dummy/demo account where users can preview what your app is all about without signing up.

BTW, I made an app that is, I'm guessing really similar to yours, back in 2008 where I have a live demo so people don't have to signup first to check it out.
>had Ford released the Model S and sold the exact same volume with the same revenue and profit/loss, would they have added $3 billion of market cap with yesterday's earnings report? I for one doubt it.

With all due respect Ford has been around a lot longer, and could produce a lot more , so could (potentially) sell a lot more. Tesla's selling those numbers because they're starting from scratch, and thus don't have the capacity to sell more.
I guess under maybe certain $STANDARD_FANTASY systems, maybe! But "goblins" are actually a very amorphous "creature"... there's a lot of various designs of them throughout folklore, and even in recent fantasy, a lot of variations on what they actually are. We have a very different set of branding around what goblins are, and our own little goblin universe, at least as sketched out through the character art over release art and etc.
That's fine. I just feel like there's a dangerous overtrust of doctors among intelligent and educated people, and I hate to see comments that encourage that.

If you're scientifically illiterate and generally uneducated, trusting doctors is a very good idea. If you have the cognitive tools to check their work, though, it is very smart to do so.
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Just the first few results from Google Scholar.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890856709...

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/180/3/216.short

http://www.bmj.com/content/325/7374/1195.1.short

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022395607...
Yep, I figured that out! Now that I know I like the sidebar better than full width.
A little while I go I did this in HTML and Javascript, it won't let you extract a .ttf but the basic idea is there. http://fontsie.herokuapp.com/
This is a really cool post, and education is somewhat of a passion of mine. Does anyone know of any other posts like this?
This whole debate centers on the fact that the website is at fault, and that is something everyone has pretty much already decided. The father of the victim has claimed the owners of ask.fm should be charged with murder, which is just ridiculous.

Any website which promotes, glorifies, or encourages bullying should be punished (definitely not with a charge of murder), but it would be fair game for a boycott or loss of advertising revenue. Ask.fm does in fairness provide a fairly easy platform for people to bully you, since it is all anonymous, but then so does any other social media site. The website has a duty to do as much as they can to stop abuse, but then so do the users themselves. No one is forcing you to have an ask.fm profile, or indeed engage with it.

If we look to Lawrence Lessig's four modalities of regulation, up until this point, ask.fm has relied on the social norm of users not making hurtful comments to other users. Advertisers pulling out is a form of regulation by the market, but it will hurt the site, not the offending users, and I believe the site does as much as it can to stop bullying. Removing some of their revenue won't stop the problem unless they shut the whole site down because they run out of money.
The UI performance for your web app is impressive. Did you use any other libraries besides fastclick? Or was it a lot of manual work and research to make the UI perform well?
The Case against Public Science
Have you read Mindbody Prescription by Dr. John E. Sarno?

It's the only thing that could cure my constant RSI/chronic pain after years of trying everything, and in the book he talks about fibromyalgia.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Mindbody-Prescription-Healing-Body...

The idea of psychogenic disorders would have normally have sounded like esoteric BS to me, but I ended up picking up the book at the recommendation of an ex-Google coder who went through all the same things that I did. I'm glad I did; for 15$, I completely cured myself after years of trying everything else (physiotherapy, standing desk, stretching exercises, working out, various books on RSI, ergonomic chairs, keyboards, mouses, trackpads, switching hands, etc, etc), and it turns out the book takes a very scientific approach to these conditions, even if it admits that there's a lot we still don't understand about exactly how our minds work and how they can affect our bodies (it's kind of an engineering approach -- we figured out something that works, now we need to figure out why).

Highly recommended to all those of you suffering from constant back pain, neck pain, RSI, etc.
i know it doesn't help, but i can confirm it works really well on wp8..
Ehh, it'd be nice if authorities made perfect pronouncements, but they don't, which is why "appeal to authority" is a logical fallacy. You shouldn't be for or against medical marijuana based on what a celebrity says, even if he's a celebrity doctor.

But conversely it's unfair to criticize an authority for being fallible. At least today, at least in this case, Dr Sanjay Gupta is one of the good guys. Not for espousing one opinion or another, but because he's publicly changed his mind after considering more evidence. Maybe he has incomplete evidence, and maybe in the future he'll change his mind three or four ways from more evidence. But he's basing his opinion on evidence and telling you what that evidence is.
PG's essay on thinking about how you invest your time (and how much easier time is to misinvest than money) is relevant here.

http://www.paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html

I found when I had kids, I became a much better time investor, by necessity.
Being an expert in something doesn't prevent you from talking crap on the subject, you need trust for that.
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Usually I'd make a joke about not wanting to search that (lest I end up on a watch list). Now it's not so funny anymore
"we should just measure whether cannabis gets people off opiates."

This is something that could be major. My wife was in the hospital off and on this summer with stomach pains. The doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong (ran all of the tests, put her on liquid diet and the pain continued) so her doctor put her on OxyContin until the HMO approved a referral to a research university. The insurance declined the referral stating they wanted a second opinion, so my wife went to get one and the doctor wanted her to get off all of the medications. She did and almost killed herself the day after; the withdrawal from the OxyContin was terrible. If there was a way to manager her pain without constantly worrying about her becoming addicted or worrying that when she stops the med she will end up doing something drastic, it would be amazing!
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Does somebody deserve a cookie for doing the right thing and apologizing for using their image in the media to malign those they now agree with? I'm glad he changed his mind, but he doesn't deserve a special thank you and people are right to be bitter about it.
Older generations could, in fact, smoke whatever the hell they wanted: large-scale criminalization of cannabis started in the 1960s in the US. In Europe, even heroin was legal during most of the XIX century!
" It isn't a meme, its a rule. And it is enforced (or not) by the SEC and the shareholders themselves."

Enforced "selectively" by the SEC...
Well if you end up not liking it you can install Android on it and still have a great phone.
>I really can't understand it when people claim to be addicted to weed.

Well, I really can't understand how people can be addicted to gambling. Doesn't mean it's not a problem for some.
If you liked this, you might also like a general technique for automating NES games, with Mario Bros demo [1]. There is a video, research paper, and source code too.

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/
What is the status of the "federation" feature? I see there's two ideas of it on the Wiki.

Will it support easy mirroring of media? Will the site be also metaservers (servers that provide the addresses of other servers), or proxy servers (they serve the content of other servers they know of)? What about the bandwidth issues (often bandwidth is asymmetric between upstream/downstream)? Maybe some form of load balancing by redirection to another server. But one would need URI scheme across all the sites... Oh my.

Also: one-click-install for Windows/Mac when?
I might be wrong about MSG. IIRC animals produce the D- entantiomer (MSG is chiral), and industrially produced stuff is D- and L-, and apparently L- can be harmful.
Apologies, I will work on reducing my apologies. ;)
>The closer to retirement you get the more you shift out of risky equities and into safer, lower-returning investments.

Which is the same nonsense that people have been spewing for years, in articles just like this. It's wrong.

"Bonds" aren't inherently less risky than equity. This will become apparent when interest rates rise, and people who piled into bonds at historically low yields get hammered.

Like the article says, and is being discussed throughout this thread, if you want to make enough money to retire following rules like this, you're going to have to sock away far more than is realistic for 90% of Americans. The only answer is to learn as much finance as you can, which also isn't realistic for 90% of Americans. It's a tough situation.
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Grassroots Scottish independence campaign crowdfunds their professional polling
Actually it has been demonstrated that cannabis can cause brain damage in teenagers. How's that for "less harmful than tobacco"?
Rain is not a problem - temperature is. In Poland we get two completely opposite extremes. Today it was 40C outside and I can't imagine biking anywhere, and in winter it can go as low as -30C. Again, almost impossible to bike. It leaves you with a few months when biking to work is a reasonable to choice. In the UK though, I could bike to work every single day of the year, because it's never too cold or too hot to cycle. I imagine that the Netherlands are similar.
The real problem lays in the default trained behavior of the user - leave a review if _anything_.

Both app developers and Apple have wrongly been pushing users to voice opinions publicly in app reviews, leaving app developers exposed with no way to communicate with those users.

The real solution is to start pushing users to communicate their suggestions and issues privately, in the app, where you can better manage conversations, keep users engaged, and establish relationships that can turn upset users into long-term evangelists.

1) Do not bury support or email buttons multiple taps deep. Surface a contact button so that it's easier for users to contact you.

2) Do not ask users to fill out more than a single field to send you their thoughts. Automatically capture user ID, device, platform, OS version, app version, etc. by passing a unique session or user ID.

3) Keep them in your app, engaged, and talking. Think of this more like "user relations", not "user support". You need them engaged and sharing their thoughts more than they need you and your app.

In terms of what can be done now for helping to avoid iOS 7 app reviews, here are a few suggestions:

1) Add an alert for iOS 7 users that your app is not yet compatible: http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/iphone/uialertview/

2) Here's an example:

[[UIAlertView alloc]
initWithTitle:@"Unsupported iOS Version"
message: @"This version of the app is untested on this version of iOS, please check for an update in the app store."
delegate: self
cancelButtonTitle:@"Skip"
otherButtonTitles:@"App Store",nil];

2) If you have an email list of your users, send them an email with when they can expect the OS update. Users will expect a great, new experience with iOS 7 and will be deleting apps that don't meet their expectations. You can't expect users to keep using your app when there is so much new "eye candy" on the App Store.

P.S. Stuart from Appbot actually covered this with a scary screenshot of iOS7 reviews only one week into Beta1: http://stuartkhall.com/posts/stop-allowing-app-reviews-from-...
Your analogy to hedge funds is utterly inaccurate for most large funds. Smaller funds tend to take more bets but most large funds and fund groups attempt not to take on too much risk. If you got to a conference for large asset managers you will hear almost nothing about how to make returns, instead on how to gather and retain assets. 2% on $2B (smaller end of medium size) is $40M per year.
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Congrats on the launch! Sharp team and great product :)
I'm the OP -- happy to answer any questions those of you running B2B startups might have!
you sounding real crazy right now... giving false scientific opinions when you make a living as a medical 'educator' because its better for you personally is cool now?

Dude coulda, woulda, shoulda been surgeon general with that much influence i would expect this dude to actually scientifically analyze stuff before giving his scientific evaluation.
I saw a short news report (over a decade ago) about a Swiss heroin addict who daily attended a clinic to be given heroin (not methadone) for free (the cost of legally available heroin would be minimal).

She was able to hold down a job, pay rent and had no need to beg or commit crime to fund the habit.

She also could afford to eat properly and was no longer at risk of acquiring disease through contaminated drugs, dirty needles or prostitution.

Also methadone is an absolute destroyer of teeth not least because of the slowness to provide a sugar free variety.
It's also highly addictive in its own right I believe.
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Stop bagging on Microsoft!

;)
Sounds in many ways like your management, instead of empowering you with autonomy, purpose, and control over your projects took it away. Developers should call the shots on a number of things. This doesn't always mean running to use that cool new language you've been itching to use or to pick up that piece of technology you've been dying to try, it means being able to feel like you're the one in charge of the things that you're doing. If your team's voice is no longer heard and no longer takes part in the discussion of a project until after it is decided, you're only along for the ride. It's a tricky balancing plan, to both include new ideas and have the organization solidify around common methodologies, but one that needs to be taken. Otherwise, your "boredom" becomes a moral issue and you lose the people who crave stimulation.
Legal standing > Opinion

Patents can and should be used when they were legitimately obtained through costly R&D.

Value based on brand value? Bullshit. Value based on innovation? Solid.
Yet, people are ready to start a holy war against Oracle for shipping free Java with an Ask Toolbar.
>>. Thats why I buy them on the net, from newspapers or on flea markets for cheap

As a person who had a really expensive bike stolen - I would never buy a bike from those places, I would not want to finance any criminal activity.

If you want to buy a cheap bike there are charities which sell them, and these bike will never be stolen since they are given to a charity for free, so why would you steal a bike to give it away for free? And they the charity fixes it up and sells it for 30-40 euros so they are cheap and reliable.
I was thinking of buying that book, but he sounded like a typical wackaloon to me.
I mean, just from reading the first few lines of the Amazon review:

> Dr. John Sarno caused quite a ruckus back in 1990 when he suggested that back pain is all in the head. In his bestselling book, Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection, he claimed that backaches, slipped discs, headaches, and other chronic pains are due to suppressed anger, and that once the cause of the anger is addressed, the pain will vanish.

Slipped discs are due to suppressed anger? What the fuck?
I've been having back pain for a few years now (it returns whenever I slouch), but it started directly after a gym injury... what has that got to do with suppressed anger?
The fact you leave off Portugal indicates you don't really know what you're talking about. The US is often behind the curve. I have no idea what 'sex marriage rights' are but DOMA is pretty much not going to prove your point.
I ordered bacon pants.