skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that is truly appalling. Hopefully they can restore all the pictures, I doubt any piece of data is every TRULY deleted from Facebook.

It's really a shame that a big company like this can just stomp all over the little guys, and we are absolutely powerless to them.
I had no idea RMS participated in POSIX to devalue AT&T Unix. It seemed like ten years later the commercial Unix vendors were trying to use POSIX and UNIX(R) pedantry against Linux.
Have to talk to people and network. Make friends and so forth.
Startups Seek to Shake Up Networking
First, neither you, nor I, nor, indeed lawyers, get to decide "fair use". It has to go to trial. That's part of the point of the article.

Second, the test for fair use doesn't include some percentage of copying. Here (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/copyright-tr...) is a case where copying an entire article got ruled "fair use".

Third, in my judgement, the transformation was quite extensive. Compare representations of neckties in both images. Lots of transformation. Is my judgement better or worse than yours?
Silverlake portfolio companies:

http://www.silverlake.com/partners/content.php?page=investme...
Safari Reader: Killing Google? Apple’s Weapon of Mass Destruction.
Predicting clicks (and other surprisingly rare events) with Veritable
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>And the next time you say something crude to a woman at a happy hour, remember that one day, someone could wise up and hire that woman in a senior management position. She won’t be a piece of meat then–she’ll be your boss.

With respect to this quote:
1. Crudeness is, at times, appreciated and welcome, depending on context and consent.
2. This is a horrible reason to treat women with respect. This is literally the same argument religious people use to demand believers to not sin (i.e. "If you sin, you might go to hell").
3. A good reason to treat women with dignity and respect is that they're conscious animals, just like you, the reader of this comment.
Please don't use the @name convention on HN.

HN is not youtube, where there's no threading of comments and where it's impossible to divine who you're responding to without the @name.

Here it's quite obvious who you're responding to, because your comment is indented under the comment you've replied to.

Also, while we're at it, replies that say no more than "I agree" or "I disagree" are generally frowned on here, since they're almost completely contentless and don't contribute to the discussion.
We don't need more "victory" here.
Would you mind putting something up on it?
How is that not a breach of fiduciary duty?
Not sure I understand your equation, but I think you're right. It's a happy photo if you GRIN IN IT. The goal was to have a name that's easy to say, short, and bring a smile (Grin). We actually had a list of 50+ names which we brought down to four contenders and checked in every language using Google Translate; we those put out to a survey. 58% of respondents preferred Grinnit.
When Roger Ebert's page was banned on the 21st his complaint was reversed with in a few hours... http://twitter.com/#!/ebertchicago/status/831526706464686

So it can be done, hopefully the attention in HN will help
Silverlake is not the only investor in Skype; e.g. Andreessen Horowitz is too:

http://a16z.com/portfolio/
While the transformation was minor, the visual change was quite drastic, and moreover is an incredibly apt description of the album he created.

IANAL, but for real, it looks a great deal like fair use to me.
When Microsoft shut down Windows Live Spaces they provided direct export to WordPress and strongly encouraged their user base to take advantage--is that close enough?

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archiv...
I have personally known two masons and they have said on many an occasion that they are obliged under their oath to do what their seniors request regardless of the law and they will be protected from prosecution in the course (which they found morally objectional). If you read up on masonic laws and history, this is normal. They're almost like the scientologists without the religious crazy stuff.

The same applies to "people's networks" such as the Oxford and Eton alumni which is ingrained in politics and the legal system in the UK.

The outcome of this is intentionally botched inquests such as the David Kelly one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_%28weapons_expert%2...

If you check the record of doctors and legal professionals involved, some of them are Oxford grads at the same time Blair was and were chosen on government recommendation. The others are professionally related to the Oxford alumni.

An independent enquiry with properly referenced sources rather than a government puppet show would do well here.
Is your site just future feature of Google? They provide us with 80% of our traffic and have launched features that directly compete with us.

It doesn't only happen on "closed" platforms.
Ugh. NASL isn't live. Not fun.

SC2 is awesome to watch, but not if it isn't live.
I'm really excited about this, not least because she claims another 18,000 words available through the site. (My nerd self rejoices!)

This is the publishing equivalent of the Stones or U2 doing what they want, since they own their own back-catalog, so at some level it's not that big a deal, less replicable by the small-fry. On the other hand, I enjoy seeing disintermediation, and I truly enjoy hearing the whining from publishers about stuff like this.

One of the major underdiscussed ways to get screwed writing is just not being able to learn how much you're selling. I worked for an author at one point with a major publisher. We literally could not get reports as to how many books had been sold, were shipped, were in bookstores. Nothing.

If you think that's shocking and we misunderstood, I did some research -- it's common. Isn't that strange? You get paid per book, but publishers can't tell you how many books you've sold. Really!

This lack of reporting happens in the music industry as well, for the same economic reasons.

Rowling is going to have access to realtime statistics of sales; along with owning 100% of proceeds, these statistics are a major change in the amount of knowledge and control she has.
I don't have a citation, but I've read that if we fall, we won't get back up. The easily mineable metals, minerals and fuel sources have been used up - starting again from scratch would be incredibly difficult.

(Larry Niven addresses this somewhat in his novel The Mote In God's Eye. I can't really elaborate without spoilers. :P)
Recruit Your Way to the Top
My point entirely.

My company uses IaaS to develop SaaS platforms or are they PaaS. Hmm. Sounds like bullshit.

I'd love to see a Venn diagram that actually defines these marketing terms.

IMHO computers is computers.
I'm sure the hostility has nothing to do with the lack of response, the screw-ups, or the handling of the situation in general ...

But, I probably shouldn't even be in this thread, because I think that building a huge user base that relies on someone else's closed & fickle platform is a hilarious thing to do.
Can't stand the teen drama that is harry potter. It's no different than twilight, in my opinion.
Analog startup goes old school, gets funding
Cluster analysis for concise results in eye tracking
I'd say that 4 year vesting with a 1 year cliff is pretty much standard across the valley.
Oh nice. I've been super happy using MongoHQ for bunches of apps. Everything from big Ars projects to crazy little side experiments.
Who DIDN'T read this as a GIANT COCK?
That, single handedly, has to be one of the strongest reason I could ever think of someone wanting to work for a YCombinator company. In particular, because YC doesn't take very large portions of the common stock, they wouldn't be able to leverage their position into a "Consulting Fee" agreement with the acquirer, so their _only_ recourse is the documentation surrounding the common.

You can rest assured that if you put your 4+ years into a YC company, and it gets sold while you are no longer with it, your interests and YCs will be aligned. With a YC company, your vested common stock actually _means_ something when you leave the company. (Or, at least it means you and YC will get screwed equally - and as PG rather ominously said, that is something "which most people would think twice about." :-) )

I respectfully disagree with PG on how rare it is for employees who've left a company to get zeroed out or severely diluted compared to the ongoing-employees in an acquisition deal. I've heard enough anecdotes to convince me it is far from "very rare."

Like O'Shaughnessy said: "You’ve got to be in it to win it."
I always try to avoid publicly discuss any company I have worked for, not just Facebook. Mainly because my opinions are my own, and even with disclaimers I feel they reflect on my employer.
Loser pays:

http://reason.com/archives/1995/06/01/civil-suits
<IANAL> Given that the image is associated with the same tunes and same album name makes it seem at least plausible that it could have an effect on the market value of the original photograph.</IANAL>
Ask HN: How do I find a marketing person for equity?
Over the past couple years, I have built an online educational tool that combines a dictionary with flashcards and uses games to help users learn. The site is called WordStash and is at http://wordstash.com. The feedback has been great and the site is growing steadily. I do not have the time to work on the marketing and promotion of the site and would like to divvy it out for equity. How should I go about finding a person for this?
TrueCrypt User Held in Contempt of Court
I upvote you as it amused me at least.
I think we all agree that GoDaddy is a hosting company for the masses, but.. what's wrong with that? The money is out there for someone who will create a better, cleaner, more pleasant GoDaddy.

There is still plenty of small business owners lost somewhere in the google search results that would love to get a decent website, affortable SEO services and "all that jazz" resulting in more customers coming to use their service/product.

If someone would create such Hosting Groupon that will offer a simple package combined of domain registration, 5 MB hosting, simple CMS + variety of themes and basic SEO services, all that with techie-wording cut off from the message and sold by direct calls just like Groupon does, there seem to be a nice market waiting for him or her.

Really, GoDaddy is still pretty technical in their message, and regular customers do not want just "a domain", they want to make their business present in the internet and it should be up to you to get this done right practically.
Hmm, sorry but I'm not convinced that writing a blog post about it counts as "doing better" either.
"Ask Michael Arrington what Heather Harde has brought to TechCrunch, or Larry Page what Marissa Mayer means to Google. Ask Mark Zuckerberg what Sheryl Sandberg brings to Facebook."

Maybe it's not that they're women. Maybe it's alliterative names that makes the difference.
Loser-Pays makes lawsuits fairer in Europe. It could work here, too.
Gitbuster If there's something strange / In your history / Who you gonna call?
> Here it's quite obvious who you're responding to, because your comment is indented under the comment you've replied to.

Right now that's indeed true. If later on there were to be a lot of intervening comments, it'd be more difficult to tell immediately who the response was directed to. In that case, the @name convention likely would be helpful to readers.

> Also, while we're at it, replies that say no more than "I agree" or "I disagree" are generally frowned on here, since they're almost completely contentless and don't contribute to the discussion.

That's certainly true in the general case, when you have a random third party chiming in with his or her agreement.

In this case, though, the "I agree" was a useful clarification: It signaled, to someone who had responded to me with what could be interpreted as a challenge, that we were on the same page.
If you really want to try and play with MapReduce on a dataset without going through setting up a Hadoop node (or 4), check out CouchDB. It's designed around MapReduces (though not distributed), and you even get to deal with solving re-reduce problems.
Agile is whatever you want it to be
There is an entire BarCraft subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/BarCraft/

You can check out one of the barfood menus here, featuring treats like the "Nuclear Launch - shot of sake dropped into a beer": http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/hkhcx/starcraft_b...
I personally use Chef to deploy PHP-based web applications (very little ruby, only running God to be honest), and at work we deploy Python, Ruby, PHP, and all the services and subsystems our applications require.

The biggest pain is that the docs were iffy, at least for me. I wasn't the one setting up the servers at work, but when setting up a Chef cookbook for personal use, it was a pain to both learn the DSL and deal with the silliness caused by bugs that hadn't quite made it to release yet. At the end of the day though, its more just experimenting with the tools available until you're comfortable with one.

You can also look into Fabric, which is a Python server automation tool.
Impressive destructive art by Vhils
Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto, also known as “Vhils” is an incredible sculptor and graffiti artist who is challenging assumptions by creating artwork using destructive methods. He started out as a graffiti artist but got tired of illegally touching up walls. So, he turned his attention to billboards, painting them all white and then putting his own artwork on top, usually as a critique of consumerism and advertising.
"That's why this is evil on Skype's part (or Silver Lake, or whoever); engineers - the "best and brightest" want to do engineering, and trust the business people to do business."

If the parties involved really trusted each other, there'd be no need for a contract.

When there's serious money at stake you'd be naive (to put it in the kindest possible terms) to sign a contract that you didn't fully understand.
I avoid unnecessary complication but wrapping your head around infrastructural complexity is part of being a programmer.
Here is a clickable link for the site: http://wordstash.com/
Official press release here:

http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2011/06/24/
An anonymous poster's behavior is indicative of what that person is really like. With nothing to fear, there is nothing to inhibit you. Absolute power has a similar effect, with demonstrable results throughout history. Very few people have the moral character and discipline to comport themselves in a civilized manner without an external counterbalance to their impulses.
The existence of a thriving replay scene on YouTube would tend to disprove that.

Live is of course better, but as long as you haven't been spoiled by the results (ahem, B-net welcome screen), there's nothing wrong with a replay.
Wonderful - I've looked at the titles, there's a lot of interesting stuff by the looks of it. Is there a particular Ruby title you'd recommend to a beginner Ruby programmer?
To me, it does look like fair use. But I'm not a lawyer. I found this argument pretty compelling, though:

http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/6840184364/hand-pixelated

"That cover is NOT the original photo, downsampled. It’s a hand-crafted, precisely drawn interpretation of the source. Anyone who’s ever seriously put pixels to screen will tell you that this is an actual artistic method, one with its own challenges, tricks, and yes, an aesthetic."
> Second, the test for fair use doesn't include some percentage of copying.

This is incorrect. 17 USC 107 spells out four criteria on which fair use claims are to be evaluated, the third of which is "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole".

Now it is true that using the entire work doesn't automatically preclude the success of a fair use claim, but it's a much steeper hill to climb and will rest heavily on the other factors being in your favour, which wasn't the case with Kind of Bloop (the significance of the transformation seems to be up for debate, the work was very definitely commercial, some apparent degradation of the commercial value of the photo-as-album-art since it was being used here as album art without payment).
I've never had such a contract but i'll take your word for it.

However, I was referring to when your options expire, which seems more appropriate to the story:)
Psychopaths?
Why does it need to be live to be exciting? NASL is filmed being cast live, and delayed a day for three reasons:

1. Provides more flexibility for the players schedules
2. Allows time to edit the video, which allows higher production value
3. Prevents the players from cheating by watching a live stream of the game.

I agree casting replays isn't as exciting (because the casters often know the winner), but I don't see how a delayed broadcast of a live casted game is any less exciting than something fully live.
You are not alone, I'm also very reticent to adding yet one more complex tool into my systems when a few simple and clean shell scripts can do the job.
Is Skype for iPad Coming Soon?  (A video says it is)
Bungie's Marathon definitely coming to iPad
...wait, you mean cool startups that are getting lots of help & attention & funding actually need a place to eat? Gee, it's a shame nobody's as interested in providing support to those businesses (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2609076).

It's unlikely that this business can be saved; if they're anything like most such small shops, they've been struggling for a long time without any of the kind of support that sexy YC startups receive. They likely have razor-thin margins and not a lot of money in the bank; getting their rent raised on them is just the straw breaking their back. They'll "pivot", but only as much as their meager resources will allow.

I've seen way too many good small businesses just completely fall over lately, but since they don't offer the kind of investment opportunity that the next Google does, nobody cares.

...unless it happens to be their favorite little sandwich shop.
Trade a Forrst invite for a Dribbble invite.
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This isn't "expecting comparative literature majors to win spelling bees." This is, "expecting comparative literature majors to be able to spell."

I don't think that programmers should be sysadmins. There's room in the organization for both roles. However, I do think that programmers need to understand the practical difficulties in deploying and maintaining a running application. The more difficult it is to deploy an application, the greater the chances of someone screwing it up. By putting some forethought into how their application code is organized and by making some small investments in automation up-front, programmers can save endless headaches for themselves and the sysadmins supporting them when it comes time to go live.
Isn't CS supposed to be a branch of math?
Wouldn't C# and Java be the two obvious choices for employability? Neither seems to show much sign of slowing down at the enterprise level, where there are huge numbers of jobs.

Edit: I live 1800 mi. from the Valley.
So did you post this to show how ridiculous it was, back when it was posted in 2010? Some may say, sure it seems ridiculous now in hindsight, but I say, from my Apple-hater perspective, that it was always ridiculous. Further recent data just proves it to be so, with Safari still sitting at around 4% market share as it has for some time (S4 + S5) http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/06/17/report-the-most-common-w...
People are disputing about whether the pixelisation work is transformative enough.

Well, this is absolutely hilarious really -- I mean, hold on, what is the original work we are talking about here?

Photography.

You know, where you put some light sensors in front of something you did not create yourself and pretty much just collect the photons that bounce off it.
> Install an Apache web server and configure it in a non-trivial way, e.g. to serve multiple domains.

Since when adding 3-4 self-describing lines (bare minimum required to add a virtual host) to config file is non-trivial?
I think that things like Second Market have the same effect. Because suddenly you risk not just screwing former employees, but also institutional investors, with large legal staffs.
"The business danger is that your plain English suggests, or is ambiguous with regards to, the meaning of something which your legal code is not ambiguous about"

That assumes that the legalese is less ambiguous than plain English. Quite often it's the other way around.
I draft contracts for a living (IAAL). The goal is always to draft a contract so that any reasonably competent judge or juror could understand the parties' intent. A lot of lawyers (most?) are terrible at this. They say things like "in the event that" instead of "if". They pepper their sentences with meaningless crap like "any and all" or "unless the parties otherwise agree" or "notwithstanding anything to the contrary elsewhere in this agreement" – all of which are utterly superfluous.

The problem is rarely that the lawyer is invoking legalistic concepts. Sure, you might find a few references to statutory laws here and there in a commercial contract, but 99% of a typical commercial contract should be a simple statement of what the parties expect from each other.

Also, non-lawyers tend to get confused by concepts like indemnities, warranties, and limits on liability. These things are dead simple in reality, but lawyers have a nasty habit of dressing them up in coded language. The emperor has no clothes. There are a few places where "magic words" are required by law, esp. around intellectual property rights, disclaimer of seller's warranties, etc. These are the exception, not the rule.

It can get very difficult to clearly express business terms, but it's JUST LIKE WRITING CODE! Case statements, if-then-else, etc. If more lawyers approached contracts like code, contracts would be better. The problem is that contracts only have to "parse" in court. Runtime for contracts is a breakdown in the relationship, and no one believes that the relationship will break down until it's too late. Those of us who approach the contract as something that needs to parse before the shit hits the fan have a different problem: everyone thinks we're overdoing it because they refuse to consider the downside potential.

I could go on forever about this topic.

Since I said IAAL, I must say this is informational only, isn't legal advice, and I don't represent the reader as their lawyer.
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It's more than important in Symfony2, it's actually the only way to cache data (beside of course memcache etc).
And even if you don't have a reverse proxy like Varnish to fully leverage HTTP caching, there is a built-in reverse proxy.
I find myself hearkening back to the old musing, "If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear, does it make a sound?"

Humans are social creatures. Is what a person behaves like when traditional social structures are removed necessarily what they are "really like"? What makes that any more "true" than how they behave elsewhere?

You could remove a wolf from it's pack and examine it's behavior. Do you know the wolf on some deeper level now? I'd argue no- the wolf is part of the pack, and without the pack you do not know the wolf.
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