skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right that you can't copyright facts, and at any rate you can't copyright short phrases like names.

But this is a trademark or right of publicity question, not a copyright question. Copyright deals with rights in written works. Trademark is about rights to brand names and marks on products. Rights of publicity are about using famous people's names and likenesses without authorization.

I don't know much about right of publicity, but as far as trademark goes at least, there is this exception known as "nominative use," which basically allows you to use a trademark to refer to a product, so long as it doesn't look like you are using the name to market your own products. This is what allows you to use a trademarked product name in a review, for example.

My guess is that, in this case, the company could have pushed back a bit on the IOC's blanket warning. Nominative use (which, incidentally, is backed by the First Amendment) would at least protect the right to report newsworthy events about Olympians. But if the company's reports start to look more like product endorsements or marketing pitches, it would become a different question.
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I am not sure the strategy in the article will work or not but it sure does highlight the trade off problems between
internet and personal security/identity. Seems like no one likes the preferences opt in/opt out that everyone is currently using.
Oops! Great advice - I've added a stack. Thanks for the heads-up!
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It's part of a trend of stories that fancy Twitter to be the End of History.

What's missing here is an important aspect of information: accuracy. That is, while Twitter might have fomented the hysteria, did it really enlighten anyone? Was it, perhaps, effectively nothing more than interference? I agree with the post below in seeing it as yet another big tent in the media circus.

I'm never able to get past its very low signal:noise ratio, personally.
Fixed the email issue - thanks :) The design is still a bit work-in-progress (developer, trying my best) but it's safe to say it won't get any more complicated.
I've been happy with my Saleae probe, and it sure is classy looking.
They already announced plans for broadband distribution and now Energy. What is next?
I think the design looks cool. Personally, I would like to see the fonts in the main graphic a little fuller & "fatter" if you will. I think those bullet points are part of your key selling points, so they should probably be bold and strong in order to draw more attention.
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The problem is that most sites' "privacy policy" is squishy. Even if they guarantee they won't give out "private information" to anybody, they are free to define what information they consider "private." (For example, some web email providers do not consider your email address to be private information. Go figure!)

I suspect we will need laws that establish a clear baseline for what does and does not constitute "private information," and what services must offer in the way of protecting that information. This is one place where the free market will not be incented to fix the problem on their own, and cannot be trusted to do so.
It depends, if you are in europe and learned foreign languages as a kid, it's entirely possible...

Where I am now, in China and before Japan, indeed the language barrier is much higher and while I feel that I can speak well enough to both discuss politics and make jokes at a party (working in a company with no foreign speakers and talking in japanese all the time at home with my girlfriend helps). I'm still an illiterate and often feel the barrier of the language...

But, that didn't stop me from having a sense of belonging there or, now that I don't live there, to be also sometimes a bit homesick toward Japan...
Oops - I'll look into that for you. I'm sorry to say that IE testing hasn't been a priority up til now - but I'll work on it :)
If you can say both of those things at once, you missed my point. You can't deliberately "take it or leave it" (your second paragraph) if you don't know what "it" is (your first paragraph).

The point is not that I demand that Facebook be legally constrained to provide me a high-privacy option. I would fight such a law. The point is that nearly nobody would even understand what such a choice is, and in an environment where nobody fully understands the implications of their actions, it is not a legitimate argument to then cite people's actions as supporting the current system. You could argue that people would still make the same choices even if they did fully understand the transactions they are making (and I'd counterargue after that), but you can't base an argument on current people making conscious choices when they aren't in fact making conscious choices.
Yeah, this is a thorough PR apology, but it doesn't address the actual incident, just the circumstances around it.
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"Did it alarm some potential acquirers that we used Lisp? Some, slightly, but if we hadn't used Lisp, we wouldn't have been able to write the software that made them want to buy us. What seemed like an anomaly to them was in fact cause and effect."

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True... there are a ton of sites which do almost exactly the same things. But in a non-saturated market there's always room for a usurper with some kind of hook. Be it better usability, just a more stylish interface, or simply better marketing. So I'd say its got a chance.
Saying that, the service is far too invasive for me, or probably most other people on here. We already have enough goddam firefox extensions etc., and already know 1m places to get buzz and social-driven recomendations. But pitch this at the n00b-level, and pitch it well, and it could be a winner imo.
It’s a very impressive project, and make sense when
you think about it.
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Keep in mind, this is a prototype so it’s a little rough
around the edges, but the concept is sound.

Actually no. I don't think it makes much sense and I don't agree
that the concept is sound. Spokes distribute load and allow for
lightweight rim, this construction just concentrates load on few
points—looks like it is just asking rim to be squashed.
Another case of the solution for the problem nobody has?
Next, we see if they actually do something with it.
Funny you should say that. We are rolling out a bunch of features in the next week or so and this is one of them! Along with some enhancements to our bookmarking tools...So just to clarify you would like to click 'view it later' and it would email you the link to your primary email address? Is there any other features like this that you would like to see?

thanks
"Sperm whales are believed to be able to reach 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) and remain submerged for 90 minutes." - that's a lot of darkness for an air breathing mammal to go through.

(quote from wikipedia)
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My soldering iron seems to make inconsistent heat. One minute it will melt the solder instantly and the next anywhere on the iron I touch the solder to, nothing will happen.

Any idea what could be going on there?

Also I seem to be going through tips really fast.
That is a fair point - these bullet points are our key sellers and this is something that people felt we had failed to do last time we posted. Do the bullet points give you a flavour of what the site is/does?
Billy Lane built a motorcycle with this concept long ago:

http://www.partty.com/Home-Bike/BillyLane.jpg

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Did you actually read the article we're discussing? There's a great example of why privacy is important right there.

As for people being willing to give up their privacy, I think I already addressed that in my previous post: most of those people don't understand the implications and just go along with it because of peer pressure, but when they discover things like the Buzz problem or Facebook's Beacon mess, they are actually quite upset.
Used a neat tool called Prezi to do it - very cool site, check it out! We wanted a tour that was a bit different and one that matched our ideals - I.E. very visual..
Enron.
This is why Amazon is great. When people from the internetz click through to Amazon, they get all the reviews/research they need. They are also presented with other great items they didn't even intend to buy. So that means profit for content creators. But I think the biggest winners are deal sites like slickdeals.
Anyone have a good tutorial on soldering really small surface mount components?
Honestly I'm surprised to see so little sympathy for the publishers on a site like this. Aren't most of us making a living (or trying) by selling bits? What would you do if you were creating software for a market where piracy was easy and rampant? I dislike DRM as much as anybody. I'm not trying to say DRM is good. I'm a casual PC gamer, and I avoid titles with DRM schemes I can't live with. I'm annoyed when that means I'll miss out on a good title. But I can certainly understand the plight of the publishers in an age when piracy has gotten ridiculously easy. I don't want to see PC gaming disappear completely. But when even fellow software creators can't put themselves in the shoes of PC game developers, I fear it's inevitable. Building a profitable PC game business was difficult even when most people paid for them.
Ability to create more value == get paid more == be more secure.
Funny... Because the more I listen to NPR and get more "educated", the worst I feel about humanity...
> Suits are made to be as comfy as pajamas
I figured this out way too late.
I went to a school where there was a uniform and the jackets were of course very lousy and I kept that impression that suits were uncomfortable for many years. Until for an occasion I had to purchase a suit and decided that if I owned only one, I should get a really good one. I was so surprised how comfortable it is! It really is like wearing pyjamas.
"a doctrine which ...'would allow anarchy to stalk in unmolested' and result in 'government only in name.'

So, what's the FBI got on Wall Street, then?
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To give you further insight into how I would use the tool:

I'd most likely pull up Chrome, and make the site an application. This means I'd want the UI to assume it was being used as an application, not a website. It would be a little window I'd switch back to. A little window, probably the size of a normal chat window or something like it.

Keyboard shortcuts would make switching to the list easy as I could go from coding to using the tool without slowing down. Intelligent defaults should focus on my main task: Am I entering information in, or am I updating existing information. If I'm entering tasks, assume that's what I want to do, and let me keep doing it without slowing me down.

Note: Filter your input! Try entering </div> as a task. =)
" Express's 1MX shirts are a solid choice (http://bit.ly/cXBvxS) and very popular for this type of role."

Totally agreed. I dress semi-professional for work, and soon in decided that my entire work wardrobe would consist of Express 1MX shirts (non-fitted, non-bright colors) and black, standard fit, flat front Dockers.
One of our ideas that we are thinking of is 'work networks' - very much like Yammer. We aim to position ourselves, in the next couple of months or so, as a Yammer for bookmarking.

We will still offer the same 'personal service' for our users but we will also go down this other route. Like Yammer people will be able to create and then join a private work network. You will be able to bookmark work links and documents as part of your work network and build up your Favilous work page. You can share these with other people from your network and your network is private - you cannot see out and other's cannot see in.

Would this feature be of use do you think? As I say we are a couple of months away but I know I would use it and find it useful so I am hoping others may feel the same way!

Any feedback on this would be most welcome...
Guys, it's olivier from TheyMakeApps.

Thanks a bunch for your feedback.

I don't believe we're trying to re-invent the wheel with the keyboard navigation mode. It was more of an Easter egg. The first time a user reaches the site they have to choose between the 2 navigation modes before exploring the listings.

But we heard you and we're working on dropping that step and making scroll-wheel the default behavior.

Regarding the iPhone version, stats show that less than 3% of the users use their mobile to visit the site so we decided to focus for now on adding other platforms for now (Android, Blackberry, Palm). Switching to scroll-wheel mode by default will make the site more compatible with mobile browsers too.

Don't hesitate to contact me: @opeyre
Speaking of which, I had a very pleasant account cancelation experience recently. I used to subscribe to SEOMoz but didn't get much use out of it in the last year and decided to cancel. They sent me to a very nice rescue page which combined a good last-effort attempt to save the relationship with an honest, upfront, easy click here to cancel workflow. Major points from me on both counts. The last stage of the cancel workflow was "You account is canceled but will run until $ANNIVERSARY?_DATE. We'll give you a last week totally free if you take our exit survey." (They also had some language to make clear they were not pulling an AOL on you and that you'd be canceled after the week ws up.)

That was so brilliant that if I had a service which could be canceled I would have implemented the minimum version of it in the spot.
I reject the significance of the question, and I reject the purported method used to answer it. First, defang it of the direction of causal fit problem. Does being in a state of greater educational attainment dispose one towards happiness? The answer? Irrelevant.

Let us say that it was not true in a concrete case: that Paris Hilton (or someone equivalent) was happier than, say, W.V.O. Quine. Would that mean that the late Professor Quine should have dropped all that logic lark, caught the next plane to Hollywood and started snorting coke and appearing in sex tapes? Of course not.

If the only goal we had in life was happiness, we would spend all day watching TV, popping Prozac and engaging in mindless consumerist 'retail therapy' to cover up for our lack of... oh, wait.
Another big guy reporting in. I tried a few different dress shirts and professional pants before I found one fit/type of each that I stuck with religiously. I used to have anxiety about clothes shopping, specifically for professional dress. Almost every article of clothing didn't fit well because of my belly. After finding 1 type of each (as mentioned in an earlier reply), I've never been happier with my wardrobe.
This post is totally bang on. I look at this stuff every day while working at freshbooks.com, and it is scary how well he knows our business.
You need to "tin" your tips, that is keep them covered with a thin layer of clean solder. I normally touch a piece of solder to the tip then wipe it off lightly with a clean, dry rag just before I unplug my iron each time I use it. Doing it after you finish helps insure against corrosion in storage, plus it is all ready to go the next time.
"Software that makes its affordances visible without nannying or nagging users."

That's a difficult task, one which I think we'll be wrestling with for a long time.
Damn drat and blast, schoolboy error! Added some html stripping goodness.

Keyboard shortcuts are a great idea, I didn't think of those. I use GMail's keyboard shortcuts all the time, so I get what you mean :)
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When tech startups == closed restaurants
> People's most-emailed contacts being auto-added to their buzz stream doesn't count.

Does that depend on how many people's previosly private information is now available to abusive ex-partners? Is it OK in this case, because so far only one person has come forward and exposed that threat? What if it happened to 10 people? 100? 1,000,000?
I'm starting up a business in apartment problem tracking, and some related things. Help me out by adding your apartment to the site, if you live in one.
Using knobs on an oscilloscope is comparable to using a mouse on pc. They get the job done! All of the top-of-the-line oscilloscopes still use knobs - this includes digital oscilloscopes with full touch screens.
In your responses here you state you are aiming this product at the masses.
So I'm going to attempt to review your site from this angle.

Before putting on my typical user hat let me say that I like the concept quite a bit and the site design is very nice.

I am putting my 'mass market consumer' hat which means I'm pressing the back button in 10 seconds unless something good happens.

I see discover. bookmark. share. But these are kind of vague...
(I would A/B test this heading)
But intriguing enough for me to checkout the tour.

Next I see what looks like a movie/slides.
I press play and see the instructions are "click on play icon to view".
I press play and get to the "what is favilous?" slide but then nothing happens.
I don't really see another play button anywhere.
This happens when I remove my mouse from the play task bar and unless I go back over it don't see it again.
The play button to the lower right of the mouse if quite small and hard to see.
Maybe think about either explicitly stating to keep pressing play or clicking the screen to keep the slideshow going or turning this into something more like a movie.

The slideshow itself is of very high quality but the initial slides highlight features.
The entire time I was asking myself... I want to see this thing in action.
Take me through a typical user experience with the app. What can this app do for me?
This doesn't happen until much later on. I would make the slides more into a story about what a first time user would do and how this would be useful to me - a casual user.

Feel free to email me if you have additional questions.
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employees never make money in a startup, unless the company becomes Google size.

Let's say they give you 10% equity.

And let's be realistic. Even if the company succeeds, can the company become a 20 million dollar company in 5 years? 10 million? 5 million? 2 million? Or is it more likely to just be a $500K/yr business?

So if you pass the hurdle of failure, which has an insane rate on the web...how much would you really be making realistically?

Just remember to always include opportunity costs in your calculations. Is the risk justified, when you can make $450-500K in those 5 years, just being a regular coder.
Apple first disapproved of adult content. Then they added rather draconian ratings for apps and of course, parental controls. Then borderline-adult content started being really popular on the store. If Apple really really really didn't want this content on the app store, they shouldn't've approved it in the first place.

Can we really expect any other situation? And why couldn't Apple go one step further with ratings/controls and provide an adults-only app store area?

My biggest concern (other than the lack of adult content available to me) is that Apple can first approve and be okay with selling such content, and then turn around and remove them all from the app store because other people supposedly complained too much about a specific group of apps. It was bad enough dealing with their arbitrarily defined and enforced restrictions and approval guidelines. Okay, they're the gatekeepers, and they can do whatever they want, but that makes it a lot harder for me to work as I really don't know what Apple's whims will be like when it comes to an app idea I'm considering.
This is the most egregious strawman I've seen in quite a while. The FBI already keeps watch on groups prone to violence. What you have done is simply redefined communists to be communists who advocate violent overthrow and declaring that is the only type of communist there is. Your comment is a piece of trite propaganda.
Before the theories start going too crazy, I'm going to venture a guess that this has to do with their datacenters. Didn't google build a hydroelectric dam somewhere in the northwest to power one?

I'm guessing they're just looking to sell off the excess energy they're producing at places like that, I doubt they're looking to become your utility company.
...or Facebook, or Twitter, or Foursquare...this guy sounds like he couldn't get a job writing at a real tabloid newspaper so he carved out a gig at some also-ran computer publication.
I think you misquoted S&S on the front there, I believe the quote is "That this manages to work is truly remarkable".
Re-post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1136998
But I think the biggest winners are deal sites like slickdeals.

The biggest winner by FAR in "last click wins" is Google. Brand queries outconvert just about everything else, because they frequently happen late in the sales cycle after the customer has picked out what they want to buy and now just need navigation to the merchant. All those little yellow boxes -- the ones many Google searchers think mark the extra quality results (no joke!) -- mean Google gets paid money to parasite off the brand query. Unsophisticated stats monkeys might look at that and say "Dang, Google CPC ads for the win again!"
Great todo list; I love the idea and simplicity.

I'm sure you hate these, but small feature request. Is there any way you can add a "view everything" view?

I know I'm horrible at checking each of the separate projects (not just on your todo list; all todo lists), and I'm yet to find a todo list that has an overview that shows everything.
Direct example link:

http://www.groupon.com/minneapolis-stpaul/unsubscribed?mid=9...

EDIT:

Something's funky there. It worked earlier this AM when clicking from here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/b1fyl/this_is_wh...
I wouldn't have a problem with the FBI keeping tabs on anyone who has publicly stated that they want to violently overthrow the government. However...

Communism is hardly a monolithic strain of thought. There are many people who ascribe to the economic principles of communism but who absolutely reject that sort of violence. In fact, there are large numbers people who identify non only as communists, but also as pacifists, such as Einstein (though, late in life he made an exception for defeating forces such as Naziism). There is very little danger of someone like Einstein violently over throwing anything. His political philosophy is directly opposed to such a thing. The FBI keeping tabs on a man like him served absolutely no purpose related to the security of the nation.

Similarly, there are currently members of the tea party movement advocating the violent overthrow of government. They are a minority (probably a very small one) in the movement. As much as I disagree with tea partiers, I still feel that if the FBI decided it had a right to keep tabs on anyone who identified with tea party movement, it would be a gross violation of civil liberties.
3-4 years is a long time. Lots of foreigners here in Taiwan get to that point in half that time (though maybe they can't write Chinese by hand)