skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proving that something is a derivative work is not so cut and dry, and in your case a lawyer may not be able to successfully argue that a black and white filter represents a derivative work. Even the Barack Obama Hope poster was never successfully argued one way or another as to whether it was a derivative work, and the 2 sides settled out of court.
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There are two good reasons to access an index instead of the original server:

1) You won't DOS the host site.

2) You don't have to respect robots.txt. If you need to crawl a 1 million page site, and its robots.txt restricts you to 1 page/second, then you'll have to wait for a long time. Downloading a crawl dump from a central repository would be much easier.
It may take some time, but start a blog about something related to the app and push your articles to as many places as possible (stumbleupon, twitter, etc).

When you pay for marketing, you will make mistakes that cost you money during the learning process. You should only do this when you can afford to do so.
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Wow! Interesting answer! Glad to see Alaska on HN. I just moved to the Bay, I've now got this site bookmarked. Thanks!
After it was manufactured, it could be calibrated and the counter could then tell itself that 100cm is actually only 98cm due to manufacturing tolerance errors, for example. Then, after it was installed on the wall one centimeter too high, it could then be re-calibrated to reflect that error as well.

Abstracting the way the device counts (incremented binary marks on the wall) away from the measurement (inches or centimeters, etc) with a re-programmable digital device has many benefits.
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Google wouldn't trust the sites to do this correctly. So even if they did provide some push mechanism I think they'd still send bots to your server to be sure.
So this is Heroku's version of SimpleWorker?
EULA's are private matters though. They don't come into play with a DMCA complaint, which is entirely based on copyright law.
In before "why not just write it", "the site hurts my eyes", "who cares", "what's so important" and other beside the point postings.
Mine. :)
But more seriously, if it's not by yours, then does it matter?
No one seems to remember that Amazon did this 5 years ago: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/12/5756.ars
I'd like to see mail clients disappear from production ... or if people insist on making them make them simple ... build one that does what chrome first did as a browser.

Make it get out of the way. We do not want to see it we want it to work. Plain and simple no "extra functionality" that we did not ask for. have it simply interface with things we already use, whether that be services or websites and have it let us get back to our work faster.

As it stands email is what drags productivity down in a lot of offices and that is not what it was meant for, integrate your system where we can read and respond no matter what computer we're on or operating system we're running quickly and then get out of our way so we can go back to our tasks.

maybe features that will alert us to emails from certain users with a pop up while not alerting us of others where we know the mail will be less important.

just a few thoughts, there is tons more I could say here but I'm sure most people could care less what I think. hope that helps with your research
That is where you and I disagree. I don't think the verb "watch" has any such inherent implication. Our society has given that meaning to the word in very recent times. Rather than dismiss my point, I think the modification of the meaning has proven it.
This is just a speculation, Windows Phone isn't showing any significant sales figures and I doubt it ever will. Where is Windows Phone better than Android and iOS? Nokia is making money selling cheap phones based on the decade-old designs and software, they didn't offer anything interesting for a few years already.
"War" gives an interesting and very regular yearly pattern, aside from the obvious spike in 2003. Part of it might be explained by the summer slowdowns in insurgent activity in Iraq, but the rest of it - especially the drop right at the beginning of the year - mystifies me.

Maybe people avoid searching for anything war-related around the holidays.
"Python has twice been awarded as TIOBE Programming Language of the Year (2007, 2010), which is given to the language with the greatest growth in popularity over the course of the year (as measured by the TIOBE index)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)
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And, beyond those facts, my opinions:

1) This is pointless. If you want to block adult-apps, go ahead and do it in Parental Permissions. Especially since a lot of apps are adult because they do web stuff generically.

2) This is pointless, in my opinion, since you can't tell what they plan on doing with the alerts.

3) This works OK, although it is generally triggered after you request something location related so it feels redundant. Like, why is it asking me again, didn't I just click the location button? Does the average user understand that the prompt is coming from the OS rather than the app?
Investors are similar in general to him in terms of questions, but they don't try to give as much help/suggestions and mulling over of your idea.
Lots of patterns are determined by the time in the school year when they are usually studied.
Or better, the good ol' "copy of a copy" analogy.

Or you might compare it to re-compressing a jpeg over and over.
The article reads, these pyramids were close to surface and therefore were found so early on.

As for how deep does heat actually go, I would say, that if earth wouldn't have any temperature of its own, it would go all the way down. The process just takes extreme amounts of time. Empirically it takes time for earth to freeze at winter (if you live north enough) and likewise one cannot dig the ground has melted at the late of spring. Other empirical example would be rock near a campfire, they will stay warm long time after the fire goes down. Earth is just a very big rock.

While the ground doesn't freeze at Egypt, they certainly have some seasons, with different average temperatures, to warm up or cool down the deep ground temperature. So within time they should be able to see temperature differences of objects buried deep into ground. Assuming the resolution of satellites is good enough.

Other question would be how much interference does the warm sand over these objects cause. As the sand is somewhat flat, it probably has black body like radiation curve and removing it should be easy, but there always will be some static from these processes reducing the total resolution.

Well all in all, I really don't know how they do all this.
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For the record, the Google exec (Berthier Ribeiro-Neto) is the co-author of "Modern Information Retrieval" [1], an excellent book and close to a standard text on IR.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Information-Retrieval-Ricardo-B...
What bugs me isn't so much the deleting of this particular website - although I've never been there, I guess it's important to somebody. What bothers me is the attitude companies have, that all the users' content only continues to exist by fiat, the content has no value, and has no inherent right to exist.
When I say 'the idea of' I'm talking about the ideal, not the actuality. You can see from this thread that I have an overwhelmingly negative view of the actual implementation here in SF.
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What about when people are employed to work on a project?

It's not a semantic game, contractors are hired this way all the time. Programming skills like most crafts can be applied equally to paid and unpaid work. When you get hired for a programming job, presumably the main concern is whether you can program, which has nothing to do with whether or not you were previously employed to do it (that has more to do with your cashflow situation).
(You're probably getting all sorts of back-seat job-hunters giving you/her advice, so apologies if this is frustrating.)

I highly recommend she network/attend events/meet industry people outside of a job hunting context. What technical topics is she into? What business topics? She should be around topics/events she naturally finds interesting, and lots of opportunities will come up.

Though I have my own indie business and am not seeking employment, people inquire about jobs I may be interested in all the time. (My point? If you're concerned her current job status is influencing things, having people admiring of one's ideas, talent, etc... before they even know where you work... would solve that dynamic.)

I feel especially confident about this recommendation because like your wife, I have more of an IT background than dev (which is indisputably undergoing a talent shortage... but so is IT.)

If she's more into virtual networking/learning, I can't recommend Twitter enough. You have to put effort into following great folks, but I've learned so much stuff from Twitter buddies.

buena suerte :D

[aside: I am also English/Spanish bilingual and have just started to enjoy http://www.noticiashacker.com, which is a Spanish Hacker News. She may like that, too.]
"you still have to include the Scala base libraries with every app. Proguard may help, but it seems wasteful."

I have started to see Scala coming into Android market apps, and haven't felt they were worse for resource utilization. Bump is the most widely deployed example that comes to mind.
His hope is that sites would only need to be indexed once. It would only be the 4.9GB for Google and he would save the 4.8GB used by Yahoo and the 11.27GB used by the other search engines.
In essence, take any line from the center to the edge, and take three copies (giving four in total) rotated by 90 degrees. Provided they don't cross, that's a solution.

And that's one infinite family of solutions, one that I didn't (initially) find.

There are more.

Initially I had 5 actual solutions, and I thought I had them all. Then someone produced this infinite family, and I suddenly had my mind expanded. I've since found what I hope - but have not yet proved - is all solutions.

Can you find any more? You might not care, but that's the challenge. I find it akin to the best sort of programming, except it doesn't, in the end, actually do anything.
I don't know either, but, I made the switch from Mozy to Backblaze (after their CEO told me via e-mail that they won't jack up the pricing), and I've been happy. (like other commenter, I haven't had to restore yet - aside from some tests)
I was there during some of those dinner-table conversations. Topics that were raised: Number of for-profit and non-profit founders who didn't get all the way through college; how successful founders and interesting people seem to be missing the "imitation gene" (Thiel's term); how the standard system filters out different kinds of innovative people at each step of the process; how making it possible to bypass a single stage of the system might have a multiplicative effect on the total number of innovators who survive to adulthood with their creativity intact.

Topics which were not raised, at all, not even in the slightest: Universities having a left-wing influence.

I'm genuinely shocked at the amount of vitriol and conspiracy-theorizing which Peter Thiel is getting over this.
I don't understand why a decentralized, open, free index is a bad thing. It's not the same as it is today and there's no reason one person would have to carry all the load.
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Any straight line through the center point will create 2 identical halves.

Any 2 straight lines through the center point at 90 degrees to each other will create 4 identical pieces.

In both of the above cases each line segment from the center to the edge can be distorted in any way which does not intersect the edge of the square or any of the other lines and the distortion can be rotated 180 degrees in the first case or 90 degrees 3 times in the second to create new identical shapes.

The only special case seems to be using 4 lines to divide the square into 8 pieces which is, I think, the only configuration of 8 pieces.

I think that's every possible solution.

I'm weak at math, but I think that means there are an infinite number of configurations for each of an infinite number of configurations for both of the first 2 solutions, and then there's that 1 extra solution. So does that mean there are uncountably infinite solutions? I'm not sure how you would apply the diagonal method to this.
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The people who "get it" are just going to have a chortle and move on. Commenting to the effect of "I got it, that was funny" doesn't add anything to the conversation.
The willpower "battery" can be recharged or trained (it's also a willpower "muscle"). I reviewed some of the research last year: http://jonathan.graehl.org/mitigating-ego-depletion and http://jonathan.graehl.org/evidence-that-self-control-can-be...
It's WAY More than an insurance policy. (It's that too) Making your site faster is good for SEO which can help you go from "never gets that much traffic" to "I get a fare amount of traffic".
I watched it live this morning on Ustream at noon Eastern.
It seems like the web server should be able to report what has changed since a timestamp. The first step when crawling a site would be first to do something like an HTTP STATUS request, if that succeeds the bot could merely crawl the pages that have changed. Or if the bot did not trust the site, it could always do the full crawl and verify the result.
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> 2) You don't have to respect robots.txt. If you need to crawl a 1 million page site, and its robots.txt restricts you to 1 page/second, then you'll have to wait for a long time.

Yeah, consider a site like Hacker News, where the crawl delay is not 1 second but 30 seconds [1].

If you're trying to grab historical data like iHackerNews did [2], you might be better off hitting Google's webcache instead...except, to enumerate urls you have to scrape the search results pages, AFAIK.

This is why Google opening its webcache via an API is a GREAT idea.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt

[2] http://api.ihackernews.com/
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It's hard to believe some of the projects in biotechnology and energy will only require $100K to be built. These things cost more than a laptop and pizza. These kids are certainly enthusiastic, but why not spend some more time learning about things? Why not take the $100K for a sabbatical, and then proceed to build businesses? Science can be pretty exciting, just as entrepreneurship is, but they are different things.

Success is a relative term, and i don't have the data, but it seems that the role of luck is bigger in entrepreneurship than it is in science. It will be interesting to see how many of them go on with the program, how many go back to school and how many succeed (although the sample is small).
Where does the soil to cover the pyramids come from? Those are not small structures, and you aren't just covering them - you are covering a huge area of land.

That soil has to come from somewhere, anyone know where?
You've found two infinite families and one sporadic solution.

There is another sporadic solution, and the 8 piece solution you've found is not, in fact a sporadic.

And yes, the infinities are uncountable.
The design was tested on users and changed to fit their needs?
In order to eliminate aging and death, you must have an educated and ambitious populace who can mobilize resources to wage war on mortality.

He may not have put 2 and 2 together there yet.
I'm now at around two months of experimenting with a standing desk made of 2x4's and pine boards.

Despite using a ~28" high stool to vary my foot and leg positions for stretches and rest, I find that my flexibility has significantly worsened in specific ways. I do the 'old man groan' when I need to hoist a foot up to pull on a sock or tie my shoe. I've never done that before. Tension in my lower back is much higher. My forward bend flexibility is much worse than when I sat in a chair, despite regular stretching.

My neck feels better (an ongoing issue for a few years), but I have muscle pain in the left side of my upper back. It's due to some combination of holding my shoulders back and my arms up, something I never thought would present a problem. (I left-hand mouse, by the way, which is likely exacerbating the issue)

I'm a reasonably fit person who visits the gym every other day for about 1.5 hours (30 mins cycling, 1 hr of weight training). In the past, I've been an avid rock climber, cyclist, and yogi, so I'm fairly well in tune with my body's flexibility and strength.

Next steps:

1) Play with monitor height even more. I think it's crucial to elevate your monitor, but my Dell monitor's stand is still keeping it a little too high. I haven't yet determined the right height to achieve a neutral neck position.

2) Build a better chair. I suspect that support of the elbows and forearms may be important for shoulder health when it comes to day-in, day-out human-computer interfacing. I will take a mold of my back and build a chair back from it, providing lumbar, spine, and elbow support, with nothing to encourage my shoulders to rotate forward (a persistent problem with every chair I've had).
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Depends what they are. More to the sale than just source code.
On a resume, you would state that you worked under "Your Name", and you can elaborate by describing "A project" to stick with generally accepted formatting rules, but in day to day dialog I have to disagree with your assertions.

A project is exactly how I describe what I am working on, whether I am being paid by someone else or if I am paying myself – someone is always paying for your time, even if that someone is you. I'm sure even you would agree that my day job projects are employment.

I believe my question still remains. If not all projects are employment, when does working on a project become employment? What criteria need to be met?
First, I don't think this link proves that Google is political, because that link is about their employees. That link just greatly increases the chances that Google's employees are political, in this case democratic.

Second, I think I'm using the word political here to talk about ideological interests, rather than self-interested ones.

But let me presume that link was about the actual company donating to the democrats. Setting aside the issue of Thiel, because I don't know much about him, I think its harder to classify businesses as 'fundamentally political' because of their more singular motive of profit. Businesses, at least those on a massive scale like Google, have a clear goal in mind when donating to candidates: procuring legislation in favor of themselves. Thus, their choice doesn't seem 'political' because it can be boiled down to self-interest. If they were giving lots of money to democrats, it could probably be explained by the democrats being more easily 'bought' on something Google wanted. I wouldn't say that an oil company is 'political' for giving money to republicans instead of environmentally conscious democrats--that's just self-interest to me.

Meanwhile, I think a person donating is much more likely to be doing so because of ideological reasons. However, the greater a person's stake in the outcome of legislation, the more likely their motive is not 'political'. For example, if billionaires don't want a crackdown on tax havens, its probably because of self-interest rather than some ideological commitment that taxation is unjust. Given this, Thiel's donation record alone could just be evidence of self-interest. However, as per the posts around this discussion, frequent interviews with the National Review, Cato, etc., plus the fact that I think its much more probable that individuals are political than companies, makes me think that the Google/Thiel comparison is inaccurate.
FWIW, the puppet book [1] was pretty good. Didn't end up using it for the project, but it seemed readable/informative.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Pulling-Strings-Puppet-Automated-Admin...
The fourth guy (TvTak) didn't seem very interested in Paul's idea, which I thought was magnitudes better than his original idea. The idea of being able to signify that you're watching a show could actually be disruptive.

...so who wants to do it? I'm down.
It speeds up the web, because we can't our entire data set in cache -- "we" being anyone with a large data set and "can't" being defined by available hardware (costs) and time (lost working on "real" problems). Google will crawl several million pages, a day, which can be quite costly to keep hot in a cache -- not to, again, mention resources, time, and money not being spent on improving general speed.

Considering there are dozens of bots that will crawl one's site in "random" order, they all begin to wreak havoc on caches, as each robot and the humans don't browse in uniform.
GAE is fast for things Akamai isn't. GAE actually has a more global foot print, because it has more peering agreements than any provider on the planet, and while you would be right if this was a CDN for pushing 1 Gig files, it is a CDN for pushing your 60k images all over the place. The cost of a Cache Miss on Akamai for a small file is VERY high, and nearly non-existent on GAE.

Building the right tool on the right platform for the right kind of job. (oh and pricing, You can't even get started with Akamai for less than $1000 a month, which goes a long ways on that pricing thing. Plus Akamai's 8-12 cents is not really 12 cents when you pay for storage, and all of the other nickel and dime things. CDN In A Box is just Simple Pricing, and Simple Deployment. ( you ever tried to write a blog post then upload the images to Akamai?)
The MPAA famously predicted that it would die due to home taping because of the VCR, only to go on and make billions from it.

The industry has always been short-sighted.
I agree. Our aim is not to create just another mail client with extra features but to innovate the way people interface email entirely.

The type of innovation I'm talking about is analogous to what Facebook has done with messages. We're not taking this exact approach but we are looking at doing similar types of simplifications.
That's what correlation is, no need to put it in quotes.
The cause-effect relationship is exactly the point. IRL, I am an app developer. When I deliver a new app, I have two ways to monetize my development time: I can either charge money for the app (and call it the "Pro" version), or I can put ads in the app (and call it "Lite"). If someone ends up with a copy of the app that they did not pay money for (Pro) and does not show my ads (Lite), that is pirating. Whether you stole a copy of the "Pro" version or circumvented the trust I placed in the OS (to make the internet available for ad delivery whenever feasible) does not change the fact that you have broken our (admittedly loose) agreement and stolen my software from me.

I agree that it is entirely possible for the user see no ads in the Lite version anyway, perhaps because they actually don't have an internet connection. Similarly, it is entirely possible for Paypal to make some mistake and fail to credit my account properly for a purchase of the Pro version. My advertisers might by paying by click-through rather than views, in which case I am operating on a statistical basis and not making any money off of many of my users. Those details do not change the ethics and do not cancel out the wrongness of pirating.

(@chc suggests that I should say "morally wrong" instead of "pirating". I think that sounds kinda ad hominem, so I've stuck with "pirating".)
Me, too! I far prefer the density but it's probably ruining my eyes. Also, on TextMate you have to adjust the line height.