skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently many of the videos Viacom is suing over were uploaded by them as a marketing ploy. I don't see any merit in this lawsuit.
For some reason this made me think of Google and how they encourage movement between teams and projects.

It seems to me that's probably a good way to keep highly skilled employees riding the wave of that 'value apex', rather than just cresting over it and then leaving.

Does anyone know what Google's turnover rates are compared to other technology companies? A quick search didn't turn up anything interesting, but I figure there might be some Googlers here with an idea...
Yes, it's a phishing email but where it's different and vulnerable is that you receive a seemingly legitimate email from LinkedIn (it's in fact a legitimate email that was "forwarded" to you), that does link to LinkedIn.com, not limkedin.com or similar. You never actually give your email and password to a site that makes you think it's LinkedIn. It IS LinkedIn.

The weak part is that your LinkedIn account gets associated to an extra email address without your express consent. (allegedly, since I haven't tried this)
Why is Yelp obliged to publish favorable reviews? If a newspaper critic said "I hate this place", that would be fine. But if Yelp does it, it's not fine? Why is that?
This really was an excellent article. I have a law school classmate who started at the New York City office of Cravath, Swaine, and Moore

http://www.cravath.com/Cravath.html

(the original "Cravath firm," of course) right after law school, having previously done his summer job between second and third year of law school there. He figured from the beginning that he would be very unlikely to make partner there. But I really envied the mentoring he received during his summer associate summer--mine was nothing at all like that. Cravath invests immense resources in developing talent, even though the firm knows it can't keep all the talent it develops. It still can keep relationships with many of the best lawyers who end up in other law firms by making that investment. My law school classmate has had a great career in another city since leaving Cravath.
He explains it more in the linked "HgInit" tutorial. An excerpt:

Mercurial actually has a whole lot more information: it knows what each of us changed and can reapply those changes, rather than just looking at the final product and trying to guess how to put it together.

For example, if I change a function a little bit, and then move it somewhere else, Subversion doesn’t really remember those steps, so when it comes time to merge, it might think that a new function just showed up out of the blue. Whereas Mercurial will remember those things separately: function changed, function moved, which means that if you also changed that function a little bit, it is much more likely that Mercurial will successfully merge our changes.
Doesn't Google do the same thing? Don't buy ads, you are on page 5 of the search results. Buy an ad, and you are right at the top. Extortion!!!!
I think you should look at the problem as an investor: which startup has the best idea/product/market-fit/potential?
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I know how svn branching works - I don't think I explained myself clearly.

I'd love a RCS that would let me see every branch that currently exists without having to check them out. The branches would exist as directories on my local filesystem. Any file operations (doing a directory listing, or accessing a file) on these local directories would actually be doing RCS commands and pulling data over the network, but I wouldn't have to think about that anymore.
Is there a law that says that you have to follow policies if you are a user-driven site that asks for advertising money? Not that I know of.

I used to delete comments from my blog all the time, and now I don't allow them at all. If I had advertising, would I be violating some rule?

Then how is Yelp any different, except that people blindly trust it?
I have one and I love it. My doc has never seen one of these, but I hope he learns a bit so that we can have actual data to discuss not my vague "I think I go to bed at midnight and fall asleep in 30 minutes". By the same token I love my WiThings wi-fi body scale - it keeps records automatically.

I love data.
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It's just a murky place. To be honest, I think I believe Yelp. SPAM is hard to figure out - especially when it's shill reviews - and it's easy to imagine an outsourced sales staff (working on commission) making all sorts of demands/promises to boost their next paycheck.

The issue is that Yelp has the incentive to be evil here. That doesn't mean they are being evil, but incentive + coincidence == evidence? It does to many people.

From what we've seen: Yelp is important to business since it's a site that creates a reputation for you. Good reviews help you, bad ones hurt. Yelp does some sort of SPAM protection to remove vindictive/shill reviews. Yelp has the ability to manipulate all their data. Yelp has the ability to ruin your reputation or create a good reputation for you through that manipulation. Some businesses are complaining that Yelp is using that power and asking for money to keep a good reputation.

But there's hardly evidence. There are no emails being posted showing someone asking for money and no recorded phone calls. Reviews are disappearing and appearing, but we always change around data and sometimes algorithms are complex enough that you can immediately see why when you don't know the intent. I mean, a week or so ago I saw an article posted 4 hours ago with 30 votes showing up lower than an article posted 6 hours ago with 24 votes. OMG! PG is manipulating HN for articles he likes!

Maybe. But maybe it's more complicated than votes and time. Maybe the age of each vote is used rather than the age of the article. Maybe some of the votes were from SPAM accounts. Maybe it uses karma to determine vote weight. I could look up most of that in the source (SPAM stuff being absent there), but I just wanted to bring a relatable scenario into the mix.

If Yelp is manipulating reputation for profit, it borders on blackmail and they should be sued out of existence. But I have yet to see anything conclusive that would indicate that. To me, it looks like blundering mistakes - hiring a bad sales staff that lies; not making SPAM prevention and algorithmic changes transparent and understandable; etc. Those are problems. Being blundering and causing problems is something that one needs to address and it might be that Yelp is derelict in their duty (morally, legally, otherwise - I'll leave those bikeshed arguments for others). And maybe part of it is hiring humans to read reviews and make determinations about shill level - we can all imagine sending out an email blast to 100 people asking them to rate us as 5-star on Yelp and then a deluge of reviews that were very short over a small period of time all being 5-star (and how that would look suspicious).

I think transparency is the key here. Yelp needs to open the conversation up a bit and explain a bit better than "algorithms do it". I know, once you tell people how SPAM prevention works, it ceases to be prevention. Still, it's the reputation of businesses.

As for now, I'm willing to give Yelp the benefit of the doubt, but I hope the whole truth will come out in the future.
There's a lot of money in businesses in which you're helping companies "find money". In this case, it's recovering at least something from a bad debt. In others, it could be finding buyers for scrap product or other material that's usually just thrown away. The sellers aren't price sensitive, and unless there's a very competitive secondary market, you can get away with high margins.
Personally I like to A/B test with new users. But I guess on an open website like Bing (instead of one with logins) you won't be able to really know if someone has visited it before.
In case anyone's interested in pedantic details, the color appears to be #0033CC (not #0044CC) and it can best be described as STRONG VIOLET (according to the Color Curious iPhone app).
This is really bad on Safari, which attempts to unzip archives automatically. Whatever you do don't download the zip if you have it set to unarchive automatically.
I'd like to know how James Murdoch manages to reproduce and distribute Pringles with virtually zero cost as compared with traditional manufacturing? I'd sure like that app, "click to create a new pack of Pringles".

Talking about trivial consumer products brings a lot of emotion into this kind of debate.

How does this differ from digital services such as FathomDB or Heroku? If I crack their service somehow so that I can use their product to help my company make more money without paying them, am I a thief?
I'm sorry, but you are mistaken. You cannot patent a concept, only inventions. You don't have to actually build the invention, but it does have to be a concrete thing and and not a wholly abstract idea. This is why patents have specific claims, descriptions, and diagrams associated with them, and not just titles.

For instance, you can obtain a patent on a self-cleaning cat box by describing one and how it works[1], but if someone comes along and invents another self-cleaning cat box that works via some totally different method[2], your patent does not apply. You do not own the patent on the concept of a self-cleaning cat box, only the subset of all possible self-cleaning cat boxes that work more or less the way yours does.

[1]: http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5113801
[2]: http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6701868
That's a bummer. I would asked for at least a small bonus (~$10,000) given how much you saved them and that it was outside your job description.
Eric Ries interview
Uhm. As a user I feel compelled to comment:

1. It's no more complicated than an alarm clock in a hotel room. Most people can manage that.

2. Depends on what you compare it to. It' about the same price as a game console (and could be as much fun), and is 4 times cheaper than a portable EEG machine (which is the only way to get the same quality of sleep data).

3. I didn't have any problems with it - it's very light.

The only problem for me is that some day I just collapse on the bed and the last thing I think about is putting it on. So I have large gaps in my data. But I have data!

The only problem for the company is that there may be not enough people who care about the data. On the other hand doctors may be slow and reluctant to accept this device's data too, so this leaves not much point for most people in having one of these. It has a potential to end up being a geek toy with limited appeal.
For me, monad tutorials that relied on analogies just complicated the concept of monads.

If anyone else is in the same boat, I'd recommend this tutorial:
http://www.haskell.org/all_about_monads/html/index.html

Particularly Part II, which shows how some of the types that you're already familiar with are defined as monads. (I'd recommend skimming Part II before reading Part I.)
When I need to do number one -- add sudo to the previous command -- I just use the up arrow, Ctrl-a to get to the beginning of the line, and add sudo. It's a little slower than the method in the article, but I find it downright dangerous to have something in your command history that means "do whatever was typed previously as root".
Google has studiously avoided ranking search results according to sites' ad spending. Placement in an AdWords block outside of the normal search results is an obvious compromise that allowed them to "sell" placement without destroying the value of their core search product.

Where Yelp has allegedly crossed a line is in manipulating the user-generated reviews of a site according to whether they pay for advertising, while claiming that no manual intervention is happening.

The truth is likely more murky than either party's depiction, of course; I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that their "automated filter" does take the "ad partner" status of a business into account when deciding how many reviews to flag for moderation or removal.

Of course, you're right to suggest that at a certain level, Yelp can do whatever they want. They just shouldn't misrepresent what you're buying with your ad dollars.
How GPU came to be used for general computation
Well, our company has a good solution for this.

People leave because they get bored, so they would switch teams from time to time, give new responsibilities and try to keep everyone motivated. Didn't always work, but they managed to keep some top guys for very long...
The problem here is the definition of "design".

For Amazon, A/B testing a button color could have a huge effect.

However, being "prettier" might not do a damn thing. Heck, it might HURT them.

The author, I think, is talking about graphic design. His point would obviously fall REALLY flat if he was talking about UX design.
I lost a job in the manner he described - told them I was looking elsewhere, but I'd be more than happy to train my replacement. I did it without first finding work and I thought I was doing them a favor by letting them know as soon as I was sure of leaving so their projects wouldn't be affected. I was laid off due to 'lack of budget' within the week. That taught me.

This is the first time I've read something which makes complete sense to me and helps get rid of the "ifs and buts" from my head (I still am looking for work). My ideas would never have been implemented, the organization was too resistant to change. The curve makes sense- it was fun for a while, but after "getting it all", the daily monotony would have killed me. At the same time other employees came in, did their work, and went home. They felt the whole system was very rigid, but they were ok with tolerating it. After quitting I've often found myself wondering if its something in my head that prevented me from "sticking it out". This post makes some good sense and I hope more employers read it.
I love the g_test_* stuff in libglib. It can handle various types of tests (slow, fast, perf, etc). Runs them in sub processes. Generates reports. Easy to use. I also love the assertion helpers included for easy readability of the errors.

Docs: http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Testing.html
Example: http://github.com/chergert/gdatetime/blob/master/gdatetime-t...
Though numbers are left-to-right too.
No, it's not the same at all.

Let me illustrate in what scenario they would be the same. Say I'm #1 for a Google Search. A Google sales rep then contacts me and says that for $300 a month, I can maintain that position. But I have great SEO and don't need to pay Google anything. After I decline to pay, Google's ranking algorithm destroys my pagerank and I am now on page 5 of search results.

That doesn't seem right.
Can anyone explain what "don't try to enforce partial ordering simultaneously with your updates" means?
I think what this case highlights best is the power of a little bit for free. Viacom knew that user uploaded clips on YouTube was a valuable marketing strategy, despite being at odds with current copyright law and potentially hurting the strength of copyright in the long run.
"Who will pay 5 millions $ each year to use H264 on Firefox ?"

I've already paid for my H.264 licenses. Now I just want to use them. The PC to my left has a video card with licensed H.264 that I paid for and free software that harnesses it, the Mac in front of me has both a video card with licensed H.264 and a licensed software decoder and I paid for both, the Windows 7 VM running in the Mac even has a licensed H.264 decoder that I paid for, the phone to my right has licensed H.264 that I paid for, heck the linux-based set-top box in the living room has hardware in it with licensed H.264 decoding and as I'm sure you can guess I'll point out that I paid for that license too. :)

"If H264 become standard, every browser will have to pay the license fee."

Why? I just want Firefox to let me use the licenses I have already paid for.

All they have to do is defer to the appropriate operating system -level decoding support as many have suggested. That they are refusing to do so suggests to me that this has nothing to do with licensing fees and has everything to do with something else we've not quite uncovered yet.

At the end of the day, though, unless the Mozilla folks change their course I can easily see techies supporting family and/or business by saying "just install Chrome" the same way they used to (and to an extent still do, I suppose) say "just install Firefox" when their supported userbase complained about IE. The real risk now is that even if in the end Mozilla's issue is purely one of ideology it won't stop them from having become irrelevant in the process.
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Is it easier to add the cache or not add the cache? If it's the second one and you do it anyway, it's premature optimization.

Like the OP says, this may obscure other problems that you can fix with less effort. You want a simple system that is good, not a complex system that is "good enough". You can add complexity later, but it's very hard to remove. So be careful about that.

If all of your sites follow some similar pattern, then you aren't doing the optimization, your framework is. And that's fine; presumably you already tested the framework and didn't introduce any unnecessary complexity.
Very interesting thought experiment, and it certainly seems to make some exciting postdictions. However, before accepting it, I would need to see what happens with negative inertial mass. Recall that, unlike electric charges, mass has a second role in physics beyond its interaction with one of the four primary forces. Specifically, it's the relation between force and acceleration. General relativity is founded on examining the connection between gravitational mass and inertial mass. If a body has negative gravitational mass, does that mean that it has negative inertial mass as well? Would this mean that if you apply a force on such a body, it accelerates in the opposite direction?

Also, regarding the astronomer that hung up: maybe he's gotten a lot of calls from pseudo-science cranks, and the author sounded like one on the phone. I can understand not wanting to waste your time on that.
If a newspaper critic wrote reviews in exchange for money, while lying about it, this sounds to me like extortion. It might be fraud, too. IANAL.
How about the talented people who are exceptional at their jobs, content with their cushy lives, and stick around even though they aren't learning as much anymore? They enjoy being a trusted go-to person on many matters and stimulate themselves outside of the workplace (or with the challenges of being a middle manager).

That doesn't describe my personality, but it certainly fits the personality of some of my favorite ex-coworkers. Aren't these folks exactly the type a company wants to hire?
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Chad Hurley’s Take From The Sale Of YouTube: $334 Million
Good point.. The one with funding is yet another social network based deal for the masses while the one I've been working on is targeted to a specific group of business users like Basecamp..

Unfortunately I don't really think I can 'split' my time between the two.. Inevitably one or the other would suffer IMHO..
Metropolis is worth the hike. They serve a great macchiato (a real one, not a starbucks monstrosity). I love any place that will throw away a shot if it doesn't look perfect.
The rating drop from 4.5 to 3ish could easily mean that of from 200 people out of 261 visited his store that dropped to 25-30 (I never personally pick a place which is 3ish on yelp)
I would be happy to seem him move to a more personal blog. Something that is a little more about his personal experiences with technology. It sounded like he didn't like the regularly-published business-oriented posts.

I wouldn't mind a picture of Taco on each post.
I single handedly posted a submission on HN that will allow me to identify the most HN users of any post ever! :)
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I think the point of the article is this thinking. Really it's not them, its not the crap people being treated with respect (altho that does in fact chafe), its that I get bored. Seriously after a while it stops being a puzzle, its just work. Once I've "solved" it, I lose interest and start getting resentful of being forced to deal with it even more. This is what "its just that time to move again" is about.

If a place could provide me with a new challenge, puzzle whatever, I'd stick around, but a lot of places that have good environments are small, and therefore one product shops.
That's why I will never invest any money in your company
> He's saying the laws we agreed on treat physical property and intellectual property the same

Well this seems incorrect on its face. e.g. Copyright law

To my knowledge, copyright does not even address physical property. Thus it does not treat physical property the same as intellectual property.
If you checkout the svn root, you get all the branches as directories in your local filesystem. After that, it seems it would be the same as what you're saying.

Besides, you can do svn ls to see the branches.

I must be missing what you're getting at.
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I would say that a better way of phrasing it would be: "Great developers solve the problem at hand in spite of the tools that are available".
At a company the size of Viacom it's not hard to imagine that one hand (marketing) was not talking to the other (legal).

If it were the legal people uploading content to plant evidence, that's another matter, but I don't think have one department out of sorts with your legal position necessarily undermines the case (tenuous as it was to begin with).

By analogy, think of a software company which has one dept. that steals its tools, does that preclude the company from defending its own IP? Morally, maybe, but I don't think you waive your legal rights by breaking the law by default.

IANAL but I've never heard such of such a principle.
No one knows he lied. May be Atari paid him just 600. I was assuming that when I posted what I posted.
A great, enlightening comment on Reddit's Sociapath IamA that discusses 13 rules for dealing with sociopaths: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a5xvv/iama_diagnosed_s...
I'd agree Yelp has no obligation to carry any particular review, and good reasons to keep their algorithms and policies somewhat obscured.

But traditional journalism and review outlets keep a clear separation between advertising and editorial decisions.

Similarly, in finance, a 'Chinese wall' prevents information and revenue from some clients from influencing investment recommendations.

And on the internet, Google got more respect than Go/Overture and other competitors by clearly marking advertising, and committing in no uncertain terms to the principle that 'organic' results were uninfluenced by ad-spending.

If Yelp wants to blaze a new trail, where review placements and ratings are for sale, I'm sure they can legally do so -- but then Yelp needs to make the proper disclosures, and take the reputational hit that entails. Otherwise they're deceiving people -- which invites lawsuits for unfair trade practices and the attention of regulatory agencies like the FTC.

(Facebook is likely to face the same disclosure issues if they ever let companies pay to highlight or bury comments on 'Fan' pages.)