skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they supposedly have 75 employees, so maybe that says something about how the company was run...
It might matter how recently you posted them. I don't know exactly how facebook works but I'm assuming they have multiple servers that changes have to get synced to. Sometimes it can take 30 minutes after I post something before it will reliably show up. You can refresh once and see it, refresh again and it will be gone.
Things people want that aren't a means to get something else.

Burrito? Yes. Clothes? Yes. Art? Yes. Money? No. Liquidity? No.
I'm not acting offended. I did mean that. And at this point you are adding nothing to this discussion. Quoting generic Wikipedia articles, of which you only skimmed the first paragraph, does not prove your point, whatever that may be. Neither does the sentence, "You are wrong."

Have a nice life.

PS. You called me "an idiot of the first class." I have no idea what the first class is, and I'm sort of curious what an "idiot of the second class" might be, but that is irrelevant. You infer that my intelligence is lacking, and that that implies my argument is weak. That manner of argument is known as ad hominem. You should read your own Wikipedia article.
They probably have some clause in the terms and conditions about the automated interaction with the page (e.g. point 3.2, but there might be more)... but I hope it would be very hard to enforce. Especially when you can download the public pages without accepting the terms and conditions document or even seeing it.
Whilst i agree with you, the devil's advocacy in me says,

"what happens when Facebook gets sued for this data exposure?"

And there are two avenues that might happen - investors suing as to loss of potential revenue, and user(s) suing over privacy violations.

Bear in mind, FB have already had class actions against them.. i don't think setting aside another 10m+ (conservative) just to defend yet another nuisance lawsuit is something they're going to be up for.

So, as Pete Warden described, they bullied him into shutting it all down with threats that they could just as easily lose in court - based on the principle that it's cheaper for them to sue Pete and lose cred amongst us than it would be for them to face a class action from users who are led to believe that their privacy has been violated by the data set via an ambulance-chasing lawyer.

Facebook should have instead invited Pete in for a chat and a job, but instead they took the full frontal lawyer bulldog approach. Sometimes that happens. Hopefully next time it wont- and i've already poked my friends at FB to raise the issue internally if possible -- and so should you.
Surely ToS is only applicable if you use facebook - eg create an account.

Either facebook wants to allow people to crawl it, or they don't. robots.txt should be binary - yes or no.
" If the insurgents hadn't fought the US would have left a hell of a long time ago."

In other words the invaded folks didn't do what would be convenient to the invaders so they could achieve their goals and go home asap? How surprising!

The insurgents fight the US because the US invaded their country and no one likes being invaded and having their friends and family killed/raped etc by trigger happy dumbasses.

They fight as an insurgency (vs as a formal army) because they are overmatched.

(Fwiw, The American War of Independence saw Americans use some "unfair tactics" (shooting as individuals from behind cover vs lining up in ranks and columns - essentially Indian fighting tactics) against the British who lined up "properly" in the open. I am sure the British just couldn't understand why Americans considered themselves "patriots" for refusing to roll over for continued British rule and why they didn't fight "properly" like gentlemen!.

If the Chinese (say) were to invade the USA tomorrow to "liberate" you from a political system they thought was inappropriate for you and they had an unbeatable advantage in firepower, I bet there would be a raging insurgency all over the United States and it would make sense to all Americans why this happened (though a few Chinese may be puzzled).

" Nobody can really believe the US wants to CONQUER Iraq in the sense that they want to stay there indefinitely for control."

Conquest does not necessarily equal "staying forever". Puppet governments who do what they are told would do very nicely too. Which is easier when you have the planes and tanks and drones and the rag tag "native" forces have AK 47s.

A steady drain of blood and treasure over many years for dubious gains eventually discourages the doughtiest invader. But to argue that the Americans aren't occupying Iraq is sophistry. It is an occupation(just ask any Iraqi or Afghan) and it is war. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

(This isn't to say that the insurgents are heroes. (Successful) Insurgents are nasty,ruthless dangerous people. That's how war works)
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One of the problems until recently with Ireland was massive inflation in salaries and housing costs. Even with low taxes, it's difficult for a startup to get started and grow there (sort of a victim of their own success). Hopefully now that real estate prices have dropped a bit, Ireland can grow more from productive things like startups vs. speculation.
It's interesting he mentions Flash being a problem. I've yet to see the blue lego block. Not even once. It really depends the type of sites you visit. For some people the lack of Flash is a big deal, for other people it's not at all. Unfortunately this requires the customer to know a bit of technical background on the sites they visit frequently to judge how much of a deal breaker the lack of Flash really is and they won't easily know if the site serves up H264 to iPads based on the user agent.
"For a nominal fee, you may fill out a preliminary MicroVentures funding application and submit your business plan."

Pay to play? Are you kidding? All my enthusiasm got wiped out as soon as I read that sentence.
IANAL. It is a tightly written contract which on its face restricts your rights arising out of any extracurricular activities as well as those performed in the course of your employment.

State laws about the enforceability of such provisions vary, and your situation might be more complex again if you and the company HQ are based in different states. Your employment contract will say which jurisdiction applies in the event of dispute. I would suggest calling your local bar association and requesting a referral to an attorney knowledgeable in employment law, even though your actual question is about IP. Some attorneys will offer a free or fixed-price initial consultation, otherwise expect to spend maybe $300. I would not discuss the issue with your employer until you have done so.

You probably know this already, but basically any more specific advise you get via the internet won't be actionable - even an attorney will only feel able to speak in the most general terms so as not to risk a charge of malpractice.
Public domain is just its copyright status. The legality/illegality of publishing or disseminating it is a separate unrelated issue.

Everything created by the USFG is automatically public domain, but just because something is public domain doesn't mean it can circulate freely in public.
So? That's that's a tiny benefit, even to me, let alone society at large. Our society already has very efficient allocation of resources. Devoting significant resources to increasing that efficiency by tiny amounts is just a waste. I'd prefer Carter devoted his intellect to making it cheaper to put cargo into low-earth orbit, than to making it cheaper to sell bonds.
User-agent: *

Disallow: /directory/people/*

Disallow: /directory/pages/*

Done. Google crawls Facebook. Every social media monitoring company crawls Facebook (and every other social network). Tons of other companies do the same every day. I know this because many of these companies are our customers.

What really irks me is that Pete collected valuable data and whoever he shared it with was probably able to derive added value from that data - in ways that Facebook is not doing. Facebook is prohibiting value creation.
I was actually planning on building my own car pc - had all the parts ordered and ready to install....

Then I got word that one of the employees that works for my father-in-law killed two people via a head-on collision because he was watching a movie using an in-car dvd player while driving. The accident was terrible, and I believe the driver who caused the accident literally watched the victims burn up in flames inside their car.

Subsequently I decided to sell all my car computer parts on ebay so that I'm not a hazard to other people on the road. The temptation for me to fiddle with a computer while driving is probably too high.
Wait, from reading the article it appears he didn't get sued by Facebook (they just threatened to sue).

There's a difference.
10000 albums in picasa, but only 1 GB free space.
Sure! I plan to write a good post-mortem on my blog soon, so I will go into all of that in detail then.

In general, I'm really glad I used Scheme. Gambit Scheme worked great, and let me develop the game much much faster using incremental develop commonly found in the Lisp family of languages. View this video of mine to see what I mean:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6k7fjOjqZw

There were some downsides. The main one being that people didn't understand what I was doing, and I couldn't have hired another programmer if I wanted to. I also developed it from scratch because I didn't want to bother with writing bindings (but that was also to learn more about graphics). Also, I feared that the GC would make it too slow, and in the end, it was hard to control what the GC was doing. It worked out pretty well, but although it runs decently fast, the GC still incurs a pretty hard performance hit.

All said, I would do it again in a heartbeat, but I would probably make bindings to an existing framework and use it more as a lightweight scripting language. That way, the GC isn't run as often, and a lot of developers would be familiar at least with the API.
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I love it. Gambit-C Scheme is my favorite also (although MzScheme has lots of great libraries). I have an Android phone - any chance of an Android version? I've seen some links of compiling to Java byte code, and there is a native SDK.
Sure I am. I have equal access to WN, Al Jazeera, BBC and dozens of other news sites, most of which were closer to Al Jazeera's front page than CNN.

A better (less incendiary) title might have been "Tabloid-ification of CNN renders it nearly useless for news of anything except United States celebrity gossip."
there's a bunch of work for each investor both at closing time as well as in terms of information and communication requirements.

also, the better angels do more than just handing over some money; the better deals are oversubscribed so you are actually in competition for a limited space.
> I've yet to see the blue lego block.

I think Flash content is just blank on iPad.
I don't have access to any of the Android platform yet, so not any time soon. There should be no problem targeting it though. This was highly an experiment, and I already had enough on my plate.

In the next year or two I hope to move away from the iPhone in favor of Android.
Sorry, that was tongue-in-cheek. Yes, I believe in for some more blowback.
Good question, sounds like value is being defined way too narrowly here. The value of farm equipment isn't the intrinsic or salvage value of the metal and other raw materials it is made out of, the value is equal to (value of crops yielded with the use of equipment) - (value of crops yielded without use of equipment). Just like the value of liquidity is clearly evident by the liquidity preference in debt markets. An upward sloping yield curve means investors demand higher rates of interest for longer tenor debt http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates/index.html Same situation applies to equity markets and is one of the reasons VC investments require higher discount rates than equity investments in public companies.
Some good comments here, too: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bml4i/support_l... , including:

There's a reason companies pay hundreds (or is it thousands) of dollars a seat for Perforce.

Semiconductor industry similar to games. A big chip like a GPU or large CPU can have millions of files, with multiple branches for development and different models.
>I really don't understand why everyone is angry that the iPad takes another step away from tradition of computing to help make computers more accessible to a broader audience,...

Because we think it means that an even larger % of users of our software will understand even less about "how computers work"™ and their expectations will be based on even shittier "apps" => will be even more unrealistic & difficult to "work around".
IPad deconstruction
Best use I have seen so far.
Yes... a difference between a lawsuit and a "legal extortion".
I thought one particularly sickening part was around 18:50 when a Humvee drove over a body, or at least the driver thought he did. And then the other guy on the line jokes "well, he's dead". Talk about disrespecting the dead.

When an American soldier dies, his mates will risk their own lives to recover the body and a book and testerone-fuelled movie get made about it (Black Hawk Down). But when an Iraqi gets shot to shreds by a chain gun and run over by a Humvee, its some sick joke. We live in a twisted, unequal world in many ways.

ps. How amusing that this comment is getting down voted. The truth is unpleasant, but still the truth
So what are Americans doing from stopping their Army?

Choosing between the candidate who supported the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and the candidate who only supported the invasion of Afghanistan.
cf. http://mixergy.com/pr-lies-destroy-your-understanding-of-how...
Well, it made perfect sense to me! ;-) Seriously, I had a tendency to be a little ... verbose. The genius of the early access approach is that these types of things can be identified before print. Thank you.
Tell HN: Great new co-working space in LA: CoLoft + Lean Startups Meetup tonight
I've been looking for a place to work in LA that is startup friendly for a few weeks and just found CoLoft last week. Wanted to post to let other members know about this place, they just opened up a few weeks ago.

The space is great to work at. I've been very productive here and met some cool people. There are two conference rooms you can use whenever you want, monitors (keyboards + mice) are provided so bring your laptop and dual monitor, there's free parking and its in a great area: 5 minutes from 3rd street promenade in Santa Monica.

They also host startup related events, there's a lean startup event here tonight at 6:30. You can see more events on the calendar on the coloft website.

Hope this is useful to someone!
It's mostly from the next MEAP update -- available soon. (I wish I had a better estimate than that, but we tend to be the last to know about these things)
Clickable website link: http://coloft.com/
Tell HN - MS-SQL database administrator position in SFO needs to be filled
Mrs Browl's employer, a litigation support company using (mainly) C# over MS-SQL, has an immediate need for a skilled database administrator and is offering a competitive salary (IMHO). Application via the linked craigslist posting only; no brownie points of any kind for seeing it here on HN.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/sof/1657488643.html

If this is inappropriate and you feel moved to flag, no problem - but please let me know so I don't offend in the future.
> All I know is that when it's inexplicably over 3-4

Depends on the box. Say you:

a) have an app that spawns worker threads on demand and doesn't have a limit

b) Have a modern, cheap Nehalem X5600 CPU.

2 sockets * 6 cores * 2 threads per socket mean you're only fully realizing the investment when you have a load average of 24 (assuming that each of these cores is 0% idle, which you can tell with eg top).

High IO would show up as high %system time vs %user.
i would php for dummies
His jeans don;t fit, his shoulders have lost enough muscle that the shoulder seams are hanging down where his bicep should be. He reminds me of a family friend with a terminal illness.
It's confusing to a non-techie because they don't realize that the most battery draining activity is using the wireless radio- streaming from Pandora (or anywhere) will kill your battery far faster than listening to MP3s in the iPod software will.
His jeans don't fit, his shoulders have lost enough muscle that the shoulder seams are hanging down where his bicep should be. He reminds me of a family friend with a terminal illness.
The fee is $99 and we do that so that we get legitimate businesses who are interested. We also have guidelines on the site to prevent businesses from applying that we know we will decline because they don't meet our criteria.

Bill
* Seems like all the more reason to try harder

* Financial innovation does help here, such as micro-lending, although admittedly not something done by Wall Street

* It's a complicated issue. Maybe the best solution we can hope for at the moment is to not keep funneling resources to corrupt regimes, where the most starving happens to be in. For the record, foreign investment has been a huge part of China and India's recent success.
The Wifi doesn't have to connect to know where you are. I'm pretty sure it's not doing anything fancy like caching -- it's just occasionally looking at available wireless routers and locating from their broadcast.
i'd hardly call huffington post 'mainstream' ;) not when FOX News has a huge lead on all other mainstream news outlets in the US.
In fairness, they were drunk. Not that that's much of an excuse, but should be mentioned nonetheless. :)
I'm surprised that shutting up about this wasn't part of the agreement, either that or he's violating it. I've never heard of a settlement that didn't involve keeping your mouth shut.

I'm glad he posted about it though, that legal issue regarding robots.txt is good to know.
Sometimes the location manager will also just report the billing address of your credit card if all else fails. And hey, a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Maybe. I thought about changing the title, but the techniques apply to any large program on Linux.
yes, I realise that I'm not going to get any very specific leagal information, which is why I was also really curious about other people's experiences- not just with for-profit side projects, but also open-source. What are the practical implications of all this?

Do you just have to quit and find an employer with a more liberal contract?
A tiny benefit multiplied by a billion people and several trillion dollars per day suddenly isn't so tiny anymore.
We will allow sophisticated investors as well. The definition is on our site. You don't need to be accredited but we expect most will be accredited.

Bi
As a long-time (but sadly former) EFF donor, I hope they pick it up too. This case is tailor made for them.
I can't find the source; but I remember a (liberarian?) article that attributed it to: Hard working people and great land more than economic policy.
I don't see any support for statement #1.

Statement #2 is a false dichotomy.

The Terms for facebook is a terrible document. It is written to be intelligible to humans but is full of ambiguity and undefined terms. Any lawsuit about the theory "robots.txt did not forbid my actions; therefore they are legal" would probably disintegrate into how the Terms language is interpreted.

Their lawyers probably leapt from high windows when it was released.
We just moved to Portland: http://web.elctech.com.
About a block away from the ENTP guys. We're also hiring!
I think the point was that it might be similar to Reddit's "ninja ban" whereby for you, it seems as if everything is working, but in reality, you are the only person who can see your content.
It seems extremely unlikey that the van occupants would fire on the chopper, do you think they would pull up and try to grab a wounded guy if they thought a chaingun was aimed at them? And who says they are grabbing weapons? All that that was visible was a guy pulling a wounded man off the street, who got turned into a human rag doll for his trouble. Do you think any sane person would intentionally go into a combat scenario with a little girl in the back of his vehicle? That unfortunate man was probably nothing more than a good Samaritan. Iraq does't exactly have a highly organised ambulance service.

Also, the original group of Iraqis didn't notice the chopper at all, even though it was circling for a while. They surely would have had a potshot at it had they seen it, as they were supposedly all armed with AKs and RPGs. It's probably quite a distance from the target, with the camera zoomed in creating the illusion its a lot closer than it would appear. Notice the amount of time it takes for the rounds to strike the target. That's why I reckon the van pulled up, he thought the street was empty.
They never asked me to keep quiet about it, and they've been willing to comment about it too, eg

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18721-data-sifted-from...

I'd imagine they want to deter people from following in my footsteps, so publicizing their actions serves as a warning.
The first two comments on the site provide a great insight into the question.

The first commenter posts to try and explain what value is being created.

Efficient markets -> lower transaction costs -> greater access to the markets by everyone. Why is that un-noble? Isn't Art.sy doing the same thing?

All true. Then Carter responds agreeing and writes a bit about what Art.sy is doing.

Art.sy is not saving the world, but our goal is to create a fundamental change in the way art is bought, sold, and appreciated. We envision a dramatically different future where artists can pursue their passions more sustainable, and where everyone else will be more inspired by original art.

The first commenter isn't wrong about why creating liquidity has value, he just hasn't gone far enough. So there's greater access to the markets by everyone. What good does that do? There are several more steps before getting eventually to the production of things that have real value.

Art.sy does the same thing, but hasn't lost sight of the end goal. The reason for providing a more efficient and liquid market is so that more artists can create more original art.
I think this is it. Look at the conclusion if you are in a hurry.

http://mises.org/daily/1568
i coded a simplified variant of Koren &Bell for my term project, it ran on Hadoop with some Jama components for SVD:

public.research.att.com/~volinsky/netflix/BellKorICDM07.pdf
Are leaks of classified info usually prosecuted under copyright laws? It seems that they would apply something more severe or specific. It is my understanding that all works of the US gov. are public domain and classified content is protected under secrecy laws, not copyright laws.
You're talking about money value, not "real value." (I guess that might not be the clearest term for what I mean)

The value of farm equipment is in more crops being produced.

The value of liquidity is less clear. An upward sloping yield curve means people are willing to exchange more money for shorter term debt. That money can then be used to invest in the creation of more products. It's not until that point that it's clear what "real value" is being produced.
It might be more convenient to mount it under a cabinet, so that you can easily access it when cooking and baking. Something along the lines of this:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Kitchen-PC-with-laptop-twist...
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