skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true.

But some answers are so blazingly obvious or common knowledge that it's worth asking. It might at least speed up a conversation with a lawyer saving many hundreds of $s.
My "not a lawyer" answer to this is:

It depends on the terms of service of the site.

#1 The TOS of the site may not let you use a robot on their site at all

#2 The TOS will define who owns the user generated content (UGC), either the user or the site

#3 Depending who owns the UGC you may or may not be able to scrape it, if it's the site it's against their TOS if it's the user you would need permission from the user.

#4 As other people have said fair use might come into play. If the site owns the material using a single user contribution might be fair use within the context of the whole site. If the users own the content you are likely to be using all their content, thereby not able to use fair use.

Again all of these are my observations. Hopefully it will give you something to think about. If you are starting a business based on this, you do need to consult a lawyer. Also starting a business based on page scraping is a pretty risky thing to do. If the scraped site turn you off you could be pretty screwed.
What about the people you used to outsource to? There's nothing that matters like the ability to produce and having people work for you on contract is the best way to test that.

The test-type questions I've seen have been almost entirely useless. When I'm asking questions now I mostly ask what about someone's goals and what I'm judging is whether I have a company and position that can meet those goals.
What's not mentioned in the story is that the tenth guy owned the bar. Not only was he drinking for free, he keeps his overhead down by not paying the first four guys (migrant workers) much of anything and occasionally chats with other bar owners to make sure nobody charges too little.

The other nine guys might have learned this, but the local paper needed the bar's advertising dollars and the local politicians are the tenth guy's golfing buddies.
I can get a along fine with 2 gigs of memory on a MacBook while it would be excruciating to run Vista with anything less than 4 gigs.

There's no way that Vista needs 4GB of memory. 2GB is plenty. 1GB is more than enough, especially if you disable some of the effects.
it seems tc coverage for yc startups is 'a fair bet', another perk of yc ? ;)
There are a few things that concerns me about some of these claims (and Yahoo who I work for claim this too).

It removes the impetuous inside the company to reduce carbon wastage because they just offset instead.

I'm not convinced by the way they claim to measure the carbon use. At Yahoo flights are often booked at the last minute, people often get rental cars when travelling, etc. I doubt that anyone has a full grasp of the real cost of carbon in the company, let alone an external organisation charged with offsetting for us.
On the agile projects I have worked on, you had to micro-manage yourself by updating a burndown daily (a spreadsheet of granular tasks and hours). I could see you making developers happier (and selling to Agile shops) if you could somehow automatically update a burndown sheet for them (based on their tasks). Managers love agile because it delegates accountability; developers hate it for the same reasons.
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Ironically because of a flaw in Adobe reader #2 is also a security hole which allows malicious 3rd parties to run arbitrary javascript on your domain.

You should force all PDFs to download.
nice, just bought some music
direct link : http://www.popcuts.com/
I wouldn't suggest you listen to them blindly, but you're crazy if you think YouTube didn't ask actual attorneys for a risk assessment (their VCs would have required that). They certainly didn't ask a bunch of hackers.
In that case, after they beat up the tenth guy, they can only afford about half as much beer as before.

Or rather, they would be able to afford half as much beer if the bar were still operating... This is very bad, since the first 4 guys really need a drink, having just lost their job.

By the way, really not HN. Somebody post this on reddit, it will make their heads explode.
Currently my commute is 6 miles each way. I do it year 'round. I've been bike commuting for the last 8 years.

My max commute, by the way, was nearly 20 miles each way, thanks to an unexpected office move. That lasted about two months...
Oddly enough we'd still get credit for the sale.

So right now that's a result of the frequency of our crawler runs. We're in the process of ramping that up to provide as close to real time results as possible.

Unfortunately, most of our ticket providers are stuck in the dinosaur age so it's difficult to provide close to real time results (like the airline industry).
Based on usability alone, it's not even a competition. The biggest hurdle is getting people to change their ways. Last time I checked more people used yahoo mail or hotmail than gmail.
Luckily, anyvite has built in advertising (of the the Anyvite product) any time someone uses it to hold an event.
great idea guys this is definitely something people want.

i have a similar system, but much more rudimentary in place, i've got an email sent daily automatically to all teammembers asking them 2 questions.

what did you do today? how long did each task take you?

i hoped to do some reports but haven't done it since i must get the info out of the emails, so i was thinking on getting a webpage up where team members would update their work done, and now you just did it.

so thank you and congratulations!

just one thing, so now that we can measure the amount of work done, what about the quality of the results and the time it took to do?
oh, and what about what i need to do, maybe something like nowdothis.com could help...
True he's very good, but the dvd is him teaching how to do it. I'm not as good as he is, but I've fried people with it.
I like the MacBook hardware a lot but I'm not so happy with Mac OS

You can easily install Linux on Apple hardware. There are detailed instructions somewhere on the web. I'm writing these words from a Mac Mini with Ubuntu. I used to use Mac OS X as my primary system for a long time before and my experience was good. On OS X you can have most of the things you have on Linux, but some things require much more effort to set up and some don't work. The fonts look much nicer on OS X.
True enough. The other missing bit from the metaphor is that the 10th guy is actually buying most of his beer (and overwhelmingly more beer) at the "long term" rate, which is the same rate that the other guys would pay. So while his bar tab looks high, he drinks at home for almost free. Needless to say, he doesn't spend much time in the bar.

Also, while it's stepping outside the clever metaphor: the 10th guy is literally tens of thousands of times wealthier than the 1st guy. Most normal people would consider that an important moral point in any discussion about who is paying "too much" for their beer.
Nothing that a good software update (e.g., iPhone OS 2.0.1) won't fix.
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Don't worry, there are sister sites to help you out. Once you get fired for breaking your contract and divulging project details on the Internet, you visit ineedalawyer.com and later on, ineedajob.com
I'd be interested in seeing more data, as well as to know whether he's talking about NYC or NY as a whole. He uses them interchangeably, but is he also counting the rest of NY? Some from NYC tend to forget the rest of the state is here.
I think this is something that can be solved with trust and good customer service. Too many times people look to the technological solution because thats what they know. But people give sensitive information out all the time. If they trust you and know who you are and know you've got their back, they'll be more than willing to work with you.
Evite is a complete pain to use, and confusing to anyone who's never used it before. I think the bar here was set pretty low.
Thats just a TC sound bite, and you should be skeptical until you try it. I'm sure there are a lot of things out there TechCrunch thinks will eliminate the need for something and it hardly ever does.
I would think that datacenters would love to have such a power unit. Two of them could easily back up each other, allowing for 100% power uptime without the use of lead-acid batteries which are expensive, heavy, require replacement every 3 years, etc.
Did anyone notice that part of his list is in French?
Hrm...santa fe, NM....I hope this company invests pretty heavily in security for their facilities before ELF or ALF decide to pay them a visit...
1- No need to login to use. Add Twitter support << @IDW finishing presentation.>>. Add SMS support << 41411 IDW spent 2 hours playing basketball>>.

2- Although being focused is good, it can be open to anyone as anyone can find a "use model" for it. eg students who want to track their progress throughout the semester (while using twitter).
Whether it's a hack is not something you can decide a priori. It depends how much more liquid it is than other mediums.
How do you know some readers here don't read Supreme Court decisions because they're interested in law, even if they never went to law school? How do you know your lawyer doesn't hack on Arc on weekends? :)

Seriously, though: of course the person asking the question should retain a lawyer for definitive guidance. However, asking around to get a feel for the opinions of intelligent people makes sense, too. It might, at the very least, clarify the questions, and it will help detect if the lawyer's words make sense. While attorneys are valuable, they are also fallible, and their advice should be as critically considered as any other.
Why not let the guys take a look at what you have and hopefully you can come together and increase the chances at becoming successful.
All you really need is a way for companies to pay you and get a contractual obligation for privacy.
How does your software fit in with the purpose of timesheet software? I know they're not the same, but people have to enter this information for timesheets to bill clients. I know that people put that off all the time, so if they had to do this as well it would be a nightmare. How would you convince a company that already uses timesheet software to also use your software? I see one or the other becoming a repetitive task and the odd thing out that everybody starts to hate.
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Tools for 3D "browsing" of a file system?
Can you point to software that gives user a 3D visualization of a file system? Any tools which you like and can suggest to others?

If done well it can be incredibly cool. Unfortunately all the projects I found are old and not maintained any more.

xCruiser seems to be the best of the bunch - http://xcruiser.sourceforge.net/
What he neglects to mention is that the requisite cost of living for guy 10 is not any higher than for guy 1. But guy 1 pays a much higher % of his overall earnings to the government due to capital gains taxes and low estate taxes.

Ask Warren Buffet what he thinks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLD0p1QpcI8&feature=relat...
yeah, but not making that logo a link to the site was freaking annoying!
Agreed. Name bad. Not just the "first time" for me, either. It continues to look like "idiotwork". Notice that a 'd' is basically an o and a t jammed together.
Dual-majoring in two separate fields is a challenge, no matter what you decide to do, so as a fellow person who seems to kick his own ass too much, I salute you. grin

Japanese is certainly harder for an English speaker than German, French, or Spanish, but even so, it should only take a dedicated student about two years to attain fluency in the language.

I was not a dedicated student, so I've got another year before I think I'll pass the JLPT 1, bringing the total to about six years, which is (somewhat) respectable, given that this is just a hobby.

But the majority of my classmates were majoring in the subject, with many planning on going on to graduate school. Even so, most were utterly incompetent, thanks to an education system that has taught them to avoid effort. I think that, if some of these kids had had their asses kicked, and gotten some real challenges, that they would have done some incredible work.

I actually feel sorry for my teachers; I could see that they wanted to push the students harder, but that they knew that it just wouldn't work, and that they had no power, because it was such a small department at the University. So, if they ticked off too many people, they'd be out of a job. The head teacher, who is a really sweet woman, has had a couple of nervous breakdowns over the past year, partially due to the stress of dealing with her classes.

She's actually one of the motivations for my study tools project, because it should help her out quite a bit.
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Let me be a contrarian here. I have both a Mac and a Windows PC right here on my desk. I use the Windows XP machine far more often (and not because of any apps I cannot get on a Mac).

Before you flame me as a Windows nut, keep in mind that my first computer was a Mac, and I started on Windows after 2 years of Mac.

I am fairly certain I am not alone, but most Windows users are the silent types.
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I never use Evite (no one evites me either) so I may not 'get it'. But I don't think anyvite necessarily needs to get people to switch (though maybe declaring war is probably good for PR).

There is potential in the many people who have never used evite. I think anyvite has more of a chance for after work drinks or meals (maybe you need to reserve a table) an other casual & short notice stuff like that. It's probably good timing for a second wave of this kind of thing as mobile internet is getting a critical mass.
The true meaning of Twitter
Some of the projects that are old and unmaintained may still work. Have you tried running them at least?
We're getting into "Not Hacker News" territory, but if you're into Luke Jermay, I'd recommend checking out Wonder Words; it's got some interesting tools in it. It's a bit dated at this point, but makes for a good foundation. You also have to remember that Kenton used to run around dressed like a wizard.
Just something casual, I figure.

Meet at 12? Chat in line, get food, hang out, etc....
I wish you guys the best of luck. There is certainly an absolutely enormous amount of money in solving this problem.
I heart anyvite. I use it weekly to organize a poker game.

(If there are any NYC HN people who play 1-2/2-5 NL, give me a holler).
I think that this is without a doubt one of the more promising models for music. The whole concept of the listener and artist getting paid is pretty innovative and forward thinking.
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Reminds me of the template for newspaper articles:

Introduction. Anecdote. Quote. Anecdote. Quote. [Good articles use solid stats instead]. Something is changing faster and faster! [some journalists seem to unknowingly love the idea of positive second derivatives]

"This is what's going to happen," says expert #1, author of some book you've never heard of. "This because of this reason."

Summary of other side of the story (only one alternative view presented). Summary of topic. Mention of scientific debate with oversimplified theories, poorly presented.

"I think what's actually going to happen is this," says Mr. expert #2. Expert #2 is the author of this other book, and chair of something or other at the University of America. "Etcetera."

Hanging question? After all, this irrelevant little topic is crucial to something intangible that is deep and meaningful. If we don't all do something quick -- something really bad is going to happen. [a comma would have been just as good as an m-dash, but an m-dash is more dramatic.]
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Here is the translation of the parts in French (courtesy google translate)

Linking

1.Intégrer la première mention du mot-clé sous forme de anchor text, pointer vers une page interne de votre site parlant du même sujet

Google Translate :

Integrating the first mention of the keyword in the form of anchor text, point to an internal page of your site speaking the same subject.

My interpretation :

Use the keyword as anchor text pointing to an internal page related to the keyword or describing the keyword.

For ex., <a href="searchOptimization.html"> Search Optimization</a>

Site Content

2 ou 3 expressions-clés par page maximum o Ne mentionnez chaque mot-clé plus dd
e 4 fois par page

Google Translate :

1. 2 or 3 key phrases per page maximum . Use each keyword more than 4 times per page

3. Mot-clé 2 fois dans le premier paragraphe, et 1 fois dans le dernier pour coohérence d'ensemble

Google Translate :

Keyword 2 times in the first paragraph, and 1 time in the last one for overall consistency

8. Pour chaque mot-clé, environ 150 a 250 mots

Google Translate :

For each keyword, approximately 150 to 250 words
It allows you to have a gun in case something like that happens. On the day in question, you can go down fighting, or maybe survive. It's not trivial to bust into a house and arrest someone if that person knows the corridors better and may have set booby traps.
ICFP features a new event: DEFUN 2008 (Developer Tracks on Functional Programming)
I used Gentoo but switched away when some expat change caused tons of apps to break at once and some dependency cycle prevented me from fixing the problem. I switched to GoboLinux, which is sorta like Gentoo but better.
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I wikipedia'd Mitch Kapor right after posting.
Were you there? Were the NYPD picking out people at random?
That just reflects a 40% efficiency converting the heat to electricity that is typical of a steam turbine system. The heat wouldn't be dissipated by the unit itself but by the generator system.
seems like a weak version of the timesheet functions in employee management tools like workbrain, which are also 100% web
The legacy of arrays and hashes only storing scalars is pretty much because of sigils.
It's awesome that Twitter is getting so much press, but I think I would have appreciated an update on the recent technical problems and perhaps a reference to Friend Feed.
Dell is trying to make up for the decreasing quality of their machines and their poor customer service. I'm betting declining sales is also the reason for their decision to start putting Dell machines in retail stores.

I applaud them for putting out Ubuntu laptops, but I doubt I would ever buy a computer from them again. I'll stick to building my own desktops and buying Apple when it comes to laptops. All their efforts to put out Ubuntu laptops and go green won't make up for the fact that I had to waste over a week with their customer service to replace a broken hard drive (especially when I paid extra for next-day on-site support)
I liked the comment which suggested the yc startups always try to get tc converage, since tc stories are likely to be upvoted on hn, leading to hn coverage. :)
I said "design", not "build".
Woah, woah. The minivan is usually credited to Chrysler, not GM, and Toyota had one out the same year. Both of them beat the Chevy Astro to market. The first SUVs were done by Jeep and Land Rover, and the "modern" SUV craze is usually credited to the Jeep Cherokee. Toyota beat GM out with an SUV as well.

GMs never really been an innovator, at least as far as cars go - the company was formed as a conglomerate of several existing carmakers and their suppliers. Their main innovations have been in marketing and internal organization: they pioneered the approach of having multiple nameplates, each targeting a specific socioeconomic strata.

As for the Volt, it's cool but I've yet to see any reason to believe it'll be better than the Prius, and given GMs reliability reputation, I see a lot of reason to believe the Prius will be better than it.
Face it – arguing over computers is futile.

Certain characteristics simply hold more value to some individuals over others, which is why some people choose to share their lives with blondes and others with brunettes or redheads. Similarly, some people choose to have Macs; while others choose Windows or Linux.

Suggestions that WomanA is "better" than WomanB are incredibly subjective e.g. a 5/10 to you might be a 10/10 to someone else. Although such suggestions can promote passionate discourse (as in this thread), inevitably the arguments that ensue end in deadlock - where you realise that no matter how much you argue, you and your critics will never see eye to eye.

Quoting hardware specifications is like saying "she's an X out of 10” and running Windows, Linux or OSX is like preferring blondes, brunettes or redheads.

Hackers, it’s time to agree to disagree - because we all like to think we’re spending our lives with babes.
Twitter drives me crazy, I still don't understand the obsession. I finally tried it after enough people badgered me; it was exactly what I expected: online away messages. I'm baffled how 300 million people seem to love it
Yeah, well. I try.
1. We're looking to use other methods of input (im, email, etc) - not sure about using twitter since it's out in the public (whereas companies probably don't want that)

2. Yep. We're first focusing on companies because that's the one we're most familiar with. That being said, there's no reason a student couldn't use it the way it stands now ...
Better:

http://www.bofunk.com/video/7217/human_saw_trick_revealed.ht...
Right. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results especially if the facts about past performance are all wrong and the company is starting with a mountain of debt.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-shee...
When Will The Social Media Well Run Dry?
And of course:
"W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers.

These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users."
Yep, we've gotten a lot of suggestions regarding 1) todo lists and 2) # hours a task took. We're trying to figure out the best way to do this since we're trying to preserve the simplicity of this site, while still giving users power options. Thanks for the feedback.
I was, even got a ticket to prove it. I'm just a random participant, so I guess they are picking random people.

According to veterans of this event, the cops have been holding a grudge since 2004. Several of them lost their jobs due to committing perjury in the aftermath of the Republican Convention ("he was resisting arrest!"), and they aren't happy about that.
I don't know if this exists in the states, but I know in Canada tech companies can submit credits for hours their employees log as R&D (it's a pretty loose definition). At many of the large companies that is the main reason they use timesheets.

If this exists here in the US and were integrated into ididwork somehow it might be a great way to get adoption from managers.
According to the article's links (& I think this might be fairly accurate), we are on the 'mac is high' end of that swing. Ant this time it's higher more then a $100 difference.
quite obviously, it didn't take five people to make it.
It was a bad deal, the cop basically picked a guy out and assaulted him, then filed a completely false report accusing him of starting it.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0729081bike1...

Its good that no one was seriously hurt and that this fool's true color showed early before he could do any real damage. They can't all be heroes, I guess. That's what makes the ones that are special. This joker was probably hiding in the broom closet on 9-11.
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