skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those exist in China, as well as the artists you describe, as well as smaller studios doing anything from copying paintings to passion pieces.

We don't use the one in the picture because they basically just mass produce things for Kmart, Wal-Mart, etc, but the smaller studios are usually actual artists that can do custom pieces.
That's why AT&T (of all companies) has a team dedicated to teaching app developers how to make better behaving apps (the lecture I attended was by one of their guys).
If I saw you in person, I'd kick you in the groin for that type of behavior.
Similar behavior when you search for something in Amazon, then click on something. The original search is in the URL of the page that you're on. Be careful sharing that last link.

Not Safe for Work:

Here I searched for "blow up doll" (yup, they sell them), then clicked on a cute alien inflatable doll. The original search is at the end of the martian doll URL, that I so thoughtfully shared with my kid, or grandkid, or spouse, or employer's decorating committe ...

http://www.amazon.com/Green-Inflatable-Martian-Alien-Decorat...
You mean bill gates is not a rockstar?
All the rest are NINJAS!!!!!
oh cool! I tried one here: 0xa93eb477fe671f5911ddb56b2c0aa6bb4b74b8de
It was my first question when I saw the title: "What do you mean, 'we'? Which 'we' are you talking about?" A little more context would have been nice.
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This is much more inconvenient than just pirating the music, and if you plan on subscribing to a streaming service long-term, there isn't any point in doing this since you'll just have access to the song through the paid service (and most services let you cache songs on mobile devices to avoid running out of data)
>Most problems are systemic, which is a nice way of saying “ultimately management’s fault”.

Systemic problems are _everyone_'s problems. Both management and employees are a part of the same system. Firing bad apples for human behavior is equally as pointless as firing/resigning management (or pointing fingers).
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10466725
What you don't get is that if a customer subscribes to Spotify, thinking its money is going to the artists he listens, well, it isn't the case, most of the money goes to Sony and co anyway, because they have a deal upfront with Spotify where they will get X hundreds of millions no matter what.

So the customer money goes directly into big label's pockets. How that "new model" is different from the old one? it's not it's exactly the same, aside from the fact that even big artists are getting ripped off.

It has nothing to do with your rant about how artists should sell t-shirts, posters, mugs because you know it's not tough enough to be musician, one must also produce all that shit ....
DuckDuckGo is another good option - just include the !g before or after the search terms.
You should look into robots.txt for telling Googlebot (and other crawlers) about where they should and shouldn't crawl on your sites.

Blocking by IP isn't the way to go, especially since Google's actual IP space in 66.249 and 66.102 is much smaller than the entire block (a /19 and /20, respectively) so you're causing a bunch of collateral damage to other networks in that address space.
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Independent replication does occur when someone furthers the research, usually as a preliminary test of current knowledge before diving into new experiments. I personally took great joy when what I had reported was used and confirmed in the preliminary experiments done by other labs for their further studies.

But there is a deeper philosophical issue with your idea of the scientific method :

Consider what is meant by independent replication. Does it mean that the experiment must be repeated from scratch with different material etc. such that it is an independent test from the previous attempt?

Or does it mean that it has to be repeated by different people as well ?

It raises a conundrum. If people are a factor that must be controlled for by this definition, no replication can ever occur since the exact individuals that performed the experiment will have changed by definition during this 'replication' attempt. The skill and knowledge of people is a factor that is notoriously difficult to objectively quantify. This often results in statements such as "X method/assay/procedure does not work well in our hands ".

On the other hand , if people are not a factor, then replication of the experiment by the same group of people will also qualify as an independent replicate.
Pretending someone else created something is a shitty thing to do anyway.

Also the defacement thing is a rather special case. If you'd buy a painting and defaced or burned it, no one would care. I also don't see how it could possibly apply to software or music. It's certainly an interesting case and kind of weird but apart from that not all that important.

In practice you can sign away pretty much all of your rights and none of those that you can't sign over really matter when it comes to software.

It's not like the GPL is some questionable license either. It's a well established licence and has been tested in German court. Based on the information from this court case it also doesn't appear as if that's in anyway in doubt. The focus is entirely on where the lines should be drawn in this particular case.
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If vendors and industry groups don't regulate themselves, some form of government will do it and likely the consequences of that won't be liked.
Using robots.txt to block them should've worked as well.
It's an accessibility effect.

Because "front end web development" is the most easily started of the items you list, anyone with a browser even most mobile phone browsers are sufficient these days, there is a larger pool of "interested" people who recognise the topic. Since the larger pool is more diverse it starts to exhibit behaviour we consider more typical of "the general population" instead of "us programmers".

The modern trend of ninja and rockstar developers is nothing more than normal group psychology. Your options are "run away into a more specialist niche" where the population is more to your liking, "ignore it" like reality tv, or "go native" and learn how this new aspect of technical culture can be useful to you.
>This is how The Web works.
This is one of many ways the web works, URLs were designed way before there was an easy way to share them outside of the scope of the website it self.

Looking at my history 50-60% of the URL's in it aren't humanly readable and are 10 miles long, many of them do not require authentication it would be nice if people would adhere to URL's are meant to be humanly readable and easy to share but you know...
...life.

>Google already does exactly what I described when you make a search on *.google.com with a Javascript-enabled browser. It's what lets your back button work with their JS-based page updates. ;-)

No it doesn't my back button works just fine and there isn't a single request made when i click it, just tried it know both with the network parses in chrome dev tools and fiddler.

And again the history API isn't used for this not to mention it has been deprecated and turned into the App Activities API which has quite a different set of functions now, moments are still supported but it's pretty weird now.
https://developers.google.com/+/history/ https://developers.google.com/+/features/app-activities

Yes info leaks are bad, but this isn't even an info leak if you start a completely new query it resets the original query variable

e.g.:

You search for query

you'll get ?q set to query and ?oq set to query

you search for query history it will set ?q to query history and keep ?oq set to query

you search i got a rash on my butt it will reset both the ?q and ?oq URL parameters to the new query because it's unrelated.

So you won't leak the fact that you searched for manliness enhancing spa treatments to your friends if you link them a query of a pole dancing cat. Your honor is safe my friend.
I'm guessing this is OP's title for software architects.
homejoy barely gave it a college try. more like high school try
It is completely unacceptable that you have kept your customer's credit card details. You are completely violating Requirement 3.1 of the latest PCI-DSS (which has been the same since I looked at v2.x of the standard, incidentally):

3.1 Keep cardholder data storage to a minimum by implementing data retention
and disposal policies, procedures and processes that include at least the
following for all cardholder data (CHD) storage:
 Limiting data storage amount and retention time to that which is required
for legal, regulatory, and/or business requirements
 Specific retention requirements for cardholder data
 Processes for secure deletion of data when no longer needed
 A quarterly process for identifying and securely deleting stored cardholder
data that exceeds defined retention.

These standards can be found here: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/PCI_DSS_v3-1....

You might be trying to reboot your business, but your Comms didn't say that you were dealing with the same company owners. You also appear to have ripped off a competitors website.

You don't sound very trustworthy or reliable. If you can't keep to at least the PCI-DSS standards, what makes you think anyone can trust you moving forward?
Documents are now fsynced to disk before indexing requests are acknowledged making writes durable-by-default.

Will this solve the problems noted by Ayphr? https://aphyr.com/posts/317-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch

Great progress!
I am a contributor to the project and for my reward, I named my potato "Spudnik".
He didn't mention it, but if you look carefully in the third image: http://i.imgur.com/r1EvMIwl.jpg
>We're a small team that has been focused on moving quickly while bootstraping. We tried to quickly test different approaches, but we realize now that we did so in an unclear manner.

Sometimes moving quickly isn't the best although most people say launch fast. Being that homejoy didn't do well,why didn't you take time to research well what you want to do next instead of copying a competitors site word for word?

Also, in the email to the person who wrote the article, you referred to flymaids as a "partner". Why not just come out and say it is your company?
Any idea of the max and min temps seen inside the box during the flight? How'd the potato fare?
Me too. It really is a long shot, but we didn't do ourselves any favors with our video, and we were way too early in the cycle.

The YC Fellowship would have been a better fit for us, I really hope the experiment works and they do it again :)

(In case you didn't know about it: https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/ )
I'm a dba but do a lot of automation and build self service websites for internal use.

My side project is http://rebrickable.com which will calculate what LEGO sets and custom fan creations you can build by reusing your existing collection of sets and loose parts.
Aaron, I was a homejoy customer. I am frustrated and concerned that my credit card # was sold to another company without my consent. How can users opt-out of having their data sold to flymaids (or any future ventures)? The fact that flymaids' site is a poorly-built clone of a competitor's site also makes me scared that my data is not being protected.
It is most definitely the latter, although SV isn't the only place this happens.
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Thanks, we are working on that part ;)
You know there is a reason why parents who are interested in their childs education chooses charter schools.

But apparently miraculously when SA started in Harlem the parent who cared about their childs education appeared in perfect sync with the charter school. Before that they simply didn't exist.

I have lost track of what this discussion is about anymore. No one is saying that charter schools is the only way to do things. I was reacting to a claim that charter schools had advantages compared to public schools.

There is a very specific reason why the kids spend a long time in school btw but since you are more interested in miracles I will save that for another day.
It makes me uncomfortable that the CA system is set up in a way that makes this necessary. If an alternative, such as Convergence, had taken off we wouldn't be in this situation.
Moderator, can you merge this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467672 with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467290 ?
Of course it is. Otherwise your point is trivial. Some schools don't live up to their obligation. No shit.
And, more importantly, you only need to pay for Joint Venture once per organization up to a certain number of computers. The article quickly shoots past the fact that their organization (that they admit has 5 laptops) could have easily justified that cost if it was so important for them to avoid downtime of more than 1 day.
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I get put of applying for jobs when they request a "Ninja". Sounds like a bollocks startup full of kiddies who think they know way more than they do.
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I'm actually tempted to write a response so harsh I'd probably be banned from hacker news.

Instead I genuinely hope that YC will force companies taking the 7% into a no selling on data policy; I'm not saying that is easy to write but I am saying this situation without response smears YC, something I'm sure could be avoided in future.
That's an interesting argument, but in the field of web development, "full stack" has a particular meaning, so you're kind of arguing that a widely-used and -understood term in this field should have a different definition than what's currently agreed upon, and, well, I don't think many people are going to be too receptive to that.
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Your answer is not very reassuring on the mutation front.

Considering that what you said can be translated to "we are curing cancer with an infectious disease that was modified to spread more slowly and kill cancer cells faster than it kills you", I don't think it is reassuring to the people that has to live day to day with the patient either.

It is a horrible necessity to have cancer patients be dosed with poison, but infecting themselves with something that can get to their families is in another league.
I personally wouldn't call it excessive. It's more like set it once and forget about it. And it's something that basically all professional Go developers do, along the same lines of how everyone runs gofmt.
You can prevent it from advancing by keeping you cursor in the carousel body. That doesn't really make up for the fact that a carousel is a poor UX choice, but it's a handy trick for carousels that advance too fast and it works on most implementations.

Edit: Now that I think about it, using the cursor hover to prevent the carousel from advancing seems like an anti-pattern. If most users are like me, they will move their cursor out of the way of the carousel to prevent obscuring the content. I have seen users who like to trace and/or select the current text they are reading, so maybe it works better for them.
If anything the deal with IBM should make you more worried. It's more likely that intelligence agencies have hooks in IBM than the Weather Network, and barometric data can be another heuristic to define who/where you are.
Not. First of all is not our "conception" of a previous state. We know that Europe had a big mammal fauna in the past and that this fauna was erradicated.

Second, We are restoring the coevolution and making the system stronger in fact. A well managed predator benefit to thousands, maybe hundreds of species. Entire communities of insects and fungi need the temporary ecosystems created by predators. Preys benefit also by mean of disease control.
Sent. Once the transaction has been received, you should be able to click on "Start Poll" at the page :)
Perhaps you simply hear more about Web devs because most Web gigs are relatively small - compared with many of the lower-level jobs. As a result, Web folks are constantly advertising themselves to find the next gig. Also based on this small-job phenomenon, these people may have better skills at marketing themselves.

The other thought that comes to mind is that the results of Web skills are usually apparent in a very short time after the person begins working. The user-interface is the "face" of a long path of other systems that make the whole thing possible. Hence, those persons closest to the UI get associated with the results of all the systems working in tandem. It's as if they themselves made it all happen.
In the US, you're supposed to claim the sales taxes for all of your out-of-state online purposes every year. There's a supplement to your tax forms where you can itemize all of the online purchases you made and how much sales tax you owe. Since this form is voluntary and results in higher taxes, you can guess how many people actually go through this step.

However, like TrisMcC says, most states assess Sales Tax when you register the car in the state. So if you bought a car for $50k in Oregon (no Sales Tax), but then registered it in California (7.5%+ Sales Tax), your registration fees would be the standard fee + $3,750. If you bought your car more than 1 year ago (in California at least), you don't owe any sales tax and if you bought it in a state with lower tax, you just owe the difference.

For big online companies, we've started mandating that they collect sales tax on behalf of the customers, so for instance, Amazon now automatically collects sales tax based on where your billing address is. If direct sales were allowed, there'd surely be legislation to ensure that the manufacturers collect the tax for their customers.
I am going to sound contrarian, but I don't mean to be.

How does this violate PCI-DSS? The data itself is likely stored somewhere secure (who knows) – what's being displayed in the web app is the last four digits of the card and expiration date, this isn't where it's stored.

There is obviously a question of what the retention should be, but it's definitely the case that payment information can be transferred between companies.

The whole situation exudes a lack of trust, but it's not clear to me that PCI compliance is a problem here.
Obligatory half-joke:

The most commonly used definition deduced from reading online articles is, in terms of size

"More data than naively fits into the memory of my (midrange) laptop using a high overhead platform"

or in terms of speed

"More data per second than can be handled using the same naive database code we used in the 90s for our website's comment section"
I think it goes without saying that there is nothing remotely legitimate happening here. The fact that Aaron posted this comment and expected anybody to believe it is remarkable.

That being said, I spent 5 minutes researching Aaron Cheung and I was astonished by what I found. He has a Twitter account, but has posted exactly 0 times [1]. He has an HN account, but has posted exactly 0 times [2], and only commented twice (including today). He graduated from MIT in 2009 and this has seemingly been the only real job he's had for the past 5 years [3].

I think, from this perspective, I understand why Aaron is doing what he's doing. It doesn't make it right, not even close, but this person has lived and breathed the home cleaning space for his entire professional career. He may not have the slightest idea what else he could possibly do instead.

[1]: https://twitter.com/aarontcheung
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=aarontcheung
[3]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarontcheung

Edit: I'm certainly not claiming that people who are inactive on social media are bad people. But given the complete picture of what has been reported in the media, what was revealed today and the tone-deafness of his comment, I personally think this lack of engagement is part of the explanation.
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Convergence was the perfect replacement, but it never gained any traction.

Moxie's talk at BlackHat[0] introducing it is a good watch for those unfamiliar with the idea, and if you want to be wistfully frustrated at what could have been.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA
I thought it was pretty clear, but I'm willing to elaborate.

The requirement is that card data is securely removed when it is no longer required. They are no longer billing customers at HomeJoy as the business has been wound up, so the credit card data should have been deleted.

Also: no customer has given them any right to have their credit card billed to an entirely new entity. Credit card information should not be transferred due to sale of customer data to an entirely separate legal business entity because no contract of sale has been established between the customer and that new entity.
How it's phrased, sounds like people who sell things or services must have it as an option.

But also, what's wrong with cash? Why is it a problem if you have to use it?
So did my previous team leader, meaning I had to pick up the slack. Usless bastard that he was.
Pretty cool you can earn significant amounts with low cost of living. They must be proud of their son. :)
Your CC is probably safe on Stripe's servers.

Which makes me wonder -- does Stripe allow entire accounts to change hands willy-nilly like this?
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Except that even that's not true. You can service it yourself for pretty cheap by getting a kit from iFixIt. It's just that you need a Torx screwdriver (which comes in the kit). It's absolutely user-serviceable if you have the right tools.
Perhaps: web devs are so ashamed of their privacy-violating, resource-hogging websites that they need something about themselves to feel proud of so they give themselves a dramatic job title and say "I'm good".
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A minor point, but the app was rejected rather than "shut down".

It's a shame, it seems like a neat application and I can totally imagine using an app like this to weigh spices or coffee beans.
Issue a PR. :) There are some great PRs already...
I never bothered on having a machine upgarde at work when offered for a similar reason. If stuff is running slow, then it will be noticable on my mahcine rather than on the more powerful production server. That and reinstalling everthing is a pain.
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The problem with this line of argument is that one could just as well say that logic is philosophy, so anyone who reasons about anything is a philosopher... it is not so much a wrong argument as it is a pointless one, leading to a trite and unhelpful conclusion that strips the word 'philosopher' of any useful meaning. In the context established by pierrec's original post, a more meaningful question is 'what contributions are academic philosophers currently making to the sciences?'

Then there's the fact that you have ended up agreeing with me that scientists can do it themselves.
I wish I had one then so it would kill me faster.