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What a riot. The city of Pittsburgh still has jitneys [1], and still calls them that, too. I always considered it a part of Pittsburghese, but I never knew the word was once used nationwide — I had never heard it before moving here. It's particularly interesting as the Pennsylvania Utility Commision has been giving Uber and Lyft a very difficult time [2] while the jitney has survived all these years.

1. http://www.post-gazette.com/news/transportation/2013/09/07/P...

2. http://www.post-gazette.com/news/transportation/2014/07/23/P...
Indeed, what could be better than having both Big Brother and Little Brother taping your every move!
There are already too many links to the twitpic.com domain that would break if they changed the name.
Awesome, this is how it´s done. Finally some real founders start to be out there!
http://essej.net/sooperlooper/

Thought it was going to be this (very fun) JACK-based loop-sampler. The name not exactly the same, but it seems close enough to be mildly confusing.

Maybe change the name slightly? (I'm no expert on naming issues; it might just be my lack of coffee)
Misleading title IMO. None of these CEOs gave up their fortunes, they just shared a (small) part with their employees.
The more I push the line of "I don't care what others think about me" to its absolute, the happier I am as a person. That does not neccesarily mean me earning more money or having a better team morale.
This doesn't mean it's not scientific by definition.

If science required double-blind trials, then you'd be throwing out a lot of physics, too (for example, the study of planetary motion). Science is 'robust reporting and observation', not 'double-blind trials'. The more robust your methods, the stronger your case - double-blind trials add a lot of robustness. Predictive value is also helpful, but again not required to be considered science (eg dark matter, which we still have no idea about).
While I think you make a good point, public live streams have downsides as well. I think there's a higher risk of vigilante justice when snippets can become widespread so easily (perhaps without context). There's also the likelihood of police officers viewing things that should be private outside of official business, like identification documents, etc. I listen to local police frequencies often and even with that I hear all sorts of stuff that shouldn't be public knowledge.
Unlike many other similar outlets, New Yorker editors generally don't try to write a bunch about science that they don't understand (because why should they? they're trained to be write). If you want to understand the exact science behind it, your source should be a journal or actual scientist, not an editorial content house.
The CSVs and Excel sheets thing is out of control. Basically the entire telecom infrastructure runs off assorted attachments sent to people with essentially zero verification. (I have a sinking suspicion that many other industries might run the same way.)

To govern which calling party number can get sent, you'd need an access control system that goes all the way down to the end user. For instance, if I start using Skype, I may want to place calls from Skype using my cell phone number. It's not desirable to block such usage.

Which means I'd have to have a way to make ABC Comm (who I bought my number from) signal their provider to signal their provider that I've now granted access to Skype. And this would be required every step of the way (ABC Comm would need to let everyone know which 5 providers they use. Each one of those providers would need to let everyone know which 20 providers they use, etc.)

So it's not really a lack of care or time. It's just that to make it work like you want it to actually work, you end up with this massively layered, complicated thing. And if any part goes wrong, you end up messing up people's calls. (And some of those calls could be 9-1-1 emergency calls, so you might end up killing someone.) All for what benefit, exactly?

The FCC could fix this problem overnight. They just need to levy fines, get serious about it. If I was liable for my customer's behaviour, I'd make them put up a deposit or go through some serious hoops - maybe require insurance. The entire problem would be solved within weeks. It'd just take a few hours of work in drafting the law to make sure good-faith actors aren't going to get hurt.
> They just stand to lose some of their time that could have been spent in more profitable employment.

That's exactly what employees have to lose too. The way that I've always looked at it is that any employee, founder or not, should be entitled to current-valuation equity that's equal to the difference between their market rate and what they get paid by the startup.

Founders are frequently unpaid or poorly-paid at a time when the valuation is near zero, so they end up with a ton of equity. Early-stage employees should get considerable equity, since they're likely taking salaries well below market and the valuation is still tiny. Late-stage employees likely won't get much equity because they're not taking much below market and the equity is already worth a considerable amount.
The thing about standing desks is that you're supposed to stand at them.
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>I don't know if that's really the winning track.

It is usually either evolutionary irrelevant or advantageous for one species to cause the extinction of another. It can help to eliminate resource competition or predators.
Same buyer didn't work out as well for us
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Yeah that was frustrating. Very cool tool though!
An 'Ask HN' with this level of input is not a guessing game where the people that try to help have to play 'bingo' with the asker for information that may or may not be important for the answer. If there is context available and the asker is free to talk about that context then it should be supplied up-front.

There is nothing snotty or condescending about that, but there is something very weird about this whole thread, I wished I could put my finger on it.
You could find out how many people were dependent by taking it away. What would happen if tomorrow Twitter was completely gone?

I guess society would move on. But probably one way they/we would move on is by building another Twitter.
So you're arguing that daycare should be compulsory, even for kids who don't need it.
Ha. The problem in such places isn't transportation regulation, it's basic rule of law. Kidnapping is already against the law, as is charging more for a service than you advertise.
Awesome. If you lower the tempo a bit, you can create pretty neat patterns.
I too use WordPress for work daily, I have a lot of hope for the JSON API from Ryan McCue that would allow us to use a frontend framework like Angular. The only benefit it would have over Thermal is it is supposed to get baked into core someday.

Either way, my disdain for WordPress grows slightly everyday.
No, but the major differences I find are:

1. The FreeBSD base system is developed intact, so there are far fewer kernel/library versioning issues.

2. FreeBSD, possibly because of its academic heritage, tends to take a more careful "let's study this problem and make sure we come up with the right solution" approach. This means that FreeBSD development is often slower, but once a feature is added it is more likely to actually work. (This is somewhat self-reinforcing: FreeBSD's stability attracts companies building servers and appliances, and when those companies contribute back they care a lot about having things continue to not break.)

3. Linux is far more popular, especially on desktops, so it tends to get drivers for new hardware faster (especially for consumer hardware).

4. FreeBSD is BSD licensed, which makes it available for a lot of companies which wouldn't want to get anywhere near Linux.
In my neck of the woods(San Rafael, CA 94901) San Rafael police have a pilot program that will equip a few officers
with a CAM. The problem is the camera can be turned off
by the officer.

It's a small program and will go nowhere. These Cops are
harassing Anyone they feel might be Homeless. They are ticketing for jaywalking, sitting on side walks, sleeping.
(They are trying to make there life so miserable they will
be forced to move on to another town--basically). It's hard
to watch them(SRPD) swarm around a suspected Homeless person
--take their picture, frisk them, make them empty out all pockets, put their hands on their Crotch, etc.) It looks like something out of Germany in the 30's.

That said: I can't protect them, but I have the resources to
protect myself--kind of. I bought two Dash Cams off Amazon
for less than $16.00 each. I bought two because they are
cheap and I wanted a spare. I have this Cam on whenever
I go out. I don't get pulled over because I drive an older car, or happen to be out after 10 p.m. anymore? I only wish I had this cheap form of protection when I was younger!

Basically, you need to protect yourself. The price of Dash
Cams is so low, there's no excuse not to have one on your vechicle? Look at the purchase just as vechicle maintence.
There's no need to buy anything fancy.
I agree that Woz's contributions to Apple are greatly understated and Jobs's contributions are greatly overstated, but I think you're taking it a bit far. Jobs was clearly a dickhead, but it's difficult to dispute that he built Apple into a great company.
See also 18F:

https://18f.gsa.gov/

They've made a lot of good hires, too - see e.g.:

https://twitter.com/18F/lists/team/members
I couldn't tell if that was intended to be a slight against the avg. American's tenuous grasp on English, or if they literally meant people from the Americas which may include Central and South America.
The commenters here bitching about how crap Wordpress is (dev-wise) could only dream about having a product even a hundredth as popular Wordpress.

I know this is a kind of shitty riposte but if you don't like the code-base or some feature it is open-source you know. (I say this in the full knowledge that I hate this come-back but for a project of Wordpress's popularity I think that it's valid enough.)

I have to deal with a lot of non-techies who want to get stuff online and nearly all of them gravitate towards Wordpress. It's a dead simple model, the admin UI is uncomplicated and it's pretty ubiquitous. How it got to be ubiquitous is another question, of course.

Full disclosure: I use it myself even though I could conceivably hand-roll my own blog if I absolutely had to, but why should I when it does what I need which is post a missive or two that know one will ever read.

Congrats on the Four Oh I say, long live our PHP blogging engine overlords.
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What about your caring IT support person that just so happens to be able to edit the logs to make it looks like the camera crashed? Or if the data somehow becomes corrupted during the file transfer process? While cameras are great people will still find loopholes and exploit them. That is the nature of man.
That same flippant attitude might be why the output of his employees is less than stellar. Chances are respectful leadership is absent at whatever company this is.
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I agree here to some extent, but there are a lot of ways companies can exit with employees receiving less than their equitable share of the company's acquisition price/value.

Ex. Salary & retention package for founders & certain execs while common stock purchase price is drastically reduced. (just one example)
But in places with regulated taxi service, you won't generally be getting into the back of a random car claiming it's a taxi either. All the taxi livery, car #, driver info, etc. in a regulated taxi industry is polite-speak for "won't kidnap you can sell your body parts off to the highest bidder" and this is ensured because somebody(s) will get in trouble for doing this.

It doesn't appear to be a problem with Uber or Lyft since they have some kind of QC, but what happens when the market is deregulated for anybody to open up whatever kind of taxi service they want? It's the next next guys that worry me.

Random cars pulling up to people hailing taxis and offering a ride is basically the kind of stuff we were all taught to avoid as children because you shouldn't talk to strangers.
That your probably a not very nice person with Narcissistic tendency's - no wonder you have a hard time attracting good talent
Your attitude is probably pretty standard fare for business overall. That said, you're probably going to continue to have the same problems that business overall has these days; detached employees, mediocre performance, and a generally escalating bitterness that the world does not love you as much as you think you love yourself.

Have fun with that.
Not in the tech industry, but @ 42 I've worked in a lot of industries with a wide range of experience and worked with a lot of entrepreneurs and founders.

Without actually knowing you, I can't say what type of person you are. But I can say the type of people I've met who had similar viewpoints were very arrogant and rarely recognized the great contributions of their employees, and often took personal credit for directions or products created by others (often when they were incredibly dismissive of those ideas before a breakout success). I would ask you to re-examine your view of your employees, but if you are an example of the type I'm talking about, it most likely wouldn't do any good. Your ego will not allow you to actually recognize any contribution as anything but your own hard work. You blaming your apparent bad hiring decision on lack of talent pool rather than your own ability to seek out the best does not paint a favorable portrait.

The shit your employees have to deal with working for you just might be a magnitude order worse than what you are going through as their boss.

That's what I think solely based on your post.
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This is true. Most companies either start using Cassandra when their existing database infrastructure is struggling with a particular workload or they're planning a new feature that would be prohibitively difficult or expensive with an RDBMS.

The one exception to this might be a need for higher availability, especially if expanding to multiple datacenters is part of the plan.
Read: "I'm not good with people. So instead I'm pretend not to car so I don't have to confront that fact as often"
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God this is hard. I've been trying to get at a solution to this exact problem for a very long time as well. It needs to be there when I'm walking down the street, sitting in a busy meeting, or at home in bed. A hybrid of mind-mapping, notes, and a document database. I'd also like to be able to publish and organize documents for others to view.

I wish I had a solution.
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Cassandra is a great write-only database.
I think it's worth noting that TeX was standardized and frozen by Knuth (at version 3.14159...). I recall that Knuth wrote that it was important to have a documentation format that didn't drift over time so that in the future TeX would properly process documents written many years before.

Knuth also protected the name TeX. There have been a number of important packages that run on top of TeX, for example LaTeX and ConText and even enhanced implementations of TeX itself, like LuaTeX, pdftex, and xetex; however, only Knuth's TeX can be called "TeX".

It seems that this has worked out for TeX, something similar could be done for Markdown.
And this is where the innocent geeks realize that the biggest problems to solve are not technological, but political.

No amount of tech will change the fact that if LEOs treat themselves like a gang and the courts side with them through complicit inaction, the only recourse for the people is potentially violent pushback.
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Perhaps it is similar to how people buy lottery tickets for an epsilon chance of super happiness? Except it's easier to convince yourself that this startup isn't in a random lottery. And that your work can really influence things and change the outcome. It's true to some extent, but people are usually too prone to not even thinking about the priors.
So convoluted, needlessly complex and filled with legacy code that it makes the most useful slow program for php acceleration benchmarks.

Sure, why not load 1000 files to process even the smallest request that might even just be a redirect after the first few lines.
> If there had been very good free versions of Common Lisp 20+ years ago, then I think the language would be more popular today.

I guess it depends on what you mean by "very good" and how big that "+" is, but weren't there at least two? For people with access to a Unix box (usually via universities, companies, or a shell account), CMUCL was available, typically on SPARC/Solaris, since the mid-80s sometime. And for people running home microcomputers, clisp was freeware on the Atari ST from the late '80s, and released as GPL in 1993, with ports to DOS, Amiga, and Linux.
I think I'm very glad you are not my boss, and never will be
Yes, I just need time to write the code. It's quicker to refund the money right now. I should have some time to write the code in the next few months.
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HealthCare.gov was hacked in July, feds say
> $250-$300k
Probably not the going rate, but to convince a top-notch dev to work in SF proper? Sure. Keep in mind that adjusted for cost of living, that's like $125k-$150k in most parts of the U.S., which isn't crazy for a top-notch systems engineer.
This has been around for a while; it was called Taxi Magic, it's now called Curb.
Removing the signal of YC Partner investment is probably good for YC batches as a whole.
If there was a cross-platform, open database that could be used by commercial or open-source apps, then we could have a competitive market on "organizing UX" without worrying that a policy change at our favorite indie developer or global conglomerate would orphan the data. E.g. WebDAV, CalDAV, OPML, a dublin core metadata file which accompanies artifact files (photo, pdf, warc), sqlite db, camlistore, git-annex, ..? Currently using a combination of these tools for cloud-neutral kb:

Mind mapping: iThoughts HD on iOS, export to PDF
Idea capture: OmniFocus on iOS, export to XML
Contextual & tag search with preview snippets: xapian + recoll on Linux
Web clipping: Print To PDF (wkhtmltopdf) on Firefox or Epub
File tagging: Calibre on Windows, plus SumatraPDF for viewing epub, pdf, djvu
OCR: Abbyy on Windows
>"strangely malfunction" when they could be used in your favor.

There is precedent for courts to dismiss cases due to technicalities in police conduct or how evidence was gathered. It seems reasonable for courts (or lawmakers) to establish that lack of video invalidates an arrest.
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It wouldn't have to be public live streams in my view.

Closed circuit transmission to a third-party who assumes liability for missing archives would suffice.
FWIW, one of the founders in the article phrased it as being "long-term greedy." I'm sure it felt good to make millionaires out of employees (having been part of an acquisition where only ~10 people out of nearly 300 became millionaires, I can only imagine the parties we would have had if the majority of the people had gotten life-changing exits), but there was definitely an awareness of the long-term benefits among the founders in question.
I share some of the thoughts behind the founders' post http://blog.seahorse.co/post/96569213113/why-we-needed-co-ow.... I'll try it and see how it goes... but looks promising
Pretty much every one I knew that left a company or was terminated made some statement to the effect "They will be sorry when they realize all the crap I've been doing around here that won't get done now." And it is largely true, and largely irrelevent. Companies are the sum of their parts, regardless of how irreplaceable one or more employees feel.

If you read the article, the people in it generally liked and respected each other. That is key to making a healthy workplace. Without it you don't get nearly the output you might otherwise. My experience so far has been that when there is a lot of 'crap' that isn't getting picked up by anybody I have found issues with ownership (nobody feels like they own the results) and communication challenges.
Thanks for the shoutout! Twitpic-Backup is pretty old but will definitely get your images. Props to pcgMongo for today's PR:

https://github.com/Stantheman/Twitpic-Backup/pull/2
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Simple UI.

Assloads of plugins.

History.

Lowest-common-denominator hosting requirements.

I mean, I've been using WP to run my site since before Ghost was even an idea. I've got a blog, a couple of image galleries, and a couple of graphic novels. I'm using styles I designed myself for all of these, plus about a dozen plugins.

I didn't have to dig into its guts to make this stuff work. I didn't have to type a single terminal command to make it happen. I just had to upload some files via FTP, then leverage HTML/CSS and some basic PHP knowledge. And now I just type stuff into a web form, or fire up a client app on my computer (or my phone/tablet), and post whatever the hell I want to with very little friction. Those posts get mirrored to Facebook, Livejournal, Twitter, and Tumblr automatically. Comic pages get automagically collected into [chapters](http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/chapter/01/). Images get optimized, then mirrored to Wordpress' CDN. Spam comments get caught.

I'm looking at [Ghost's download page](https://ghost.org/download/) and what do I see? It requires Node. How many web hosts have Node preinstalled? Do I really have time in my busy schedule of drawing comics to install Node, get it running, and keep it up to date? My host keeps PHP up to date for me and I can get on with making the content, rather than fiddling with the blog.

I wouldn't want to dig deep into WP. Version 1 is ten years old. There's probably some horrible code from 1.0 still lying around that codebase - hell, there's probably some code left over from 2001's B2, which WP forked off of. But I don't want to dig into its code anyway. I just want to have a website that I don't have to edit by hand.

From the perspective of someone using WP to manage their content, rather than as a project in and of itself, working with it is pretty easy.
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We’ll use this instead of individual introductions, where we often don’t think of someone that would be really interested in the company.

I think I understand what this means, but it really needs to be reworded. It could be interpreted as either "We'll use this instead of individual introductions (which often have the property of unintentionally missing people)", which I think is the intended meaning, or "We'll use this instead of individual introductions when we don't think anyone will be really interested", which would be a very bad misinterpretation.