skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is easy just look at China. Little original content worth anything and a huge black market, though I guess in this case it would be a regular market. Everything would be driven to the cost of reproduction pretty quickly.
Once you know the format (no upvote), they are easy to spot. But I agree it isn't obvious for a while. I believe they have the option to turn on/off comments, but most turn them off.

For anyone else curious, you are right that they are jobs for YC startups and it's the only advertising you see on HN. Generally I enjoy it..I mean for ads, they are pretty relevant.

I think merely prefixing the title with "YC Job Offer: " or something would make it more clear.
The ad looks half assed. So is startup life, in general. I agree with Davi.

It's so tough to hire that everyone is trying to differentiate themselves as companies. They're trying rather too hard to be cute about it and failing....or not trying and succeeding.
Maybe they meant, uh, somethin' badass... like REO Speedwagon! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2_SkseXtAo (:35)]

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I for one welcome the new tween season of YCombinator. Now that people are raising $40 million for unfinished photo sharing apps, it's time to start throwing that pasta at the wall.
You mean like China?
Amazing how android docs fail to link to anything...
Does anyone actually read these and say "oh man, I'd apply but I can't since I love shitty code and I want to build stuff that only a couple people use". I agree with the OP, I am not sure who they are trying to attract with these types of posts. But maybe I'm getting too old.
The interesting thing about the phrase "competitive salary" is that it doesn't say who is competing. If a salary is high, then sure, it's the sort of salary you might get if companies are competing to hire you; but if a salary is low, it's the sort of salary you might get if you were competing with N other people to get a job.
Anyone contacted him? I've always wondered what user names go for. Anyone thought of making an exchange for these? Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin URLs?
Give the guy credit for making some effort to put the maps up. Maybe when Stanford gets them, they will become readable. Currently, they are in some weird, proprietary, patent encumbered format and essentially unusable.
These ads are horrible because:

- lack of formatting
- lack of specificity (we want awesome people!!!)
- lack of respect for the reader (we're too special to tell you who we are)
- improper tone (unless you *want* to sound like a 12 year old on speed)
- high frequency of posts violating formatting and respect

I'll volunteer to proof and fix your job postings. Email them to me and I'll make 'em pretty.

For an hourly fee, I'll even teach you to sound like an adult in your written communication (ROI out the wazoo).
I'm sure whoever wrote this creative job ad is trying their best, but you're right... it comes across as kinda douchy, which they certainly did not intend.

They've just closed their round of funding, and I'm sure they're feeling incredibly pleased with themselves for a well-deserved win. But the tone of the post makes it sound a little bit like they spent a bit too much of those 9 vcs' money on coke.

The super-stealthiness is going to be a big problem here, frankly. The kind of developers that they claim to want to hire can work anywhere they want. They are choosing where to work based on being able to do work which is meaningful and interesting. This post gives

* Zero information about the kind of work

* Zero information about the founders' personalities (except to make them seem unusually satisfied with themselves) and

* Zero reasons to want to work at the company.

If this product is really live at "tons of SMBs", why the stealthiness? What are you hiding?
Why do some companies do that?

I see ads all the time seeking "world class engineers". Why are they wasting their time and money like that? There's really only a handful of these "industry rockstars" in the world. Just contact them directly.
"Uniqueness" isn't a qualification for determining whether something is "art". Most art is not unique, and certainly not most photographs.

Calling the pixelated version a "flippant" capturing is disingenuous, as it seems to be a reflection of your (apparent) dislike of pixel art rather than the artist's intentions.
Yes, backup files have the executable bit set. They have the same bits as the real file.

They are in fact created by renaming the real file to the backup name, then saving the real file and copying the permissions.
A Massive Solar Flare Of Activity Pushes Tumblr To 400 Million Pageviews A Day
Theoretically, you're right. But how many "enterprise" intranet apps actually make use of cutting-edge HTML5 and JS5 features?
Does the title itself not turn anyone else off? "Our office is too big..." is a big red flag to me. Seems like they either took too much money too early or are having internal scaling issues, possibly both. Definitely not in the vein of the lean startup...
Considering how often these files are run that would make for quite a noisy logfile.
Ask HN: Handling id10t admins?
I've been given a shell account at my college. Nice little machine runs the ssh server, except that it runs RHEL4. Yay. But to the point: THe admins are fucking dumbasses that dont know what the point of having a shell account is to those who are actually going to use that shell account.

They as well dont get the idea of UNIX partitioning very well, having successfully run out of space on /var. On a mail server. With a 5GB /var partition. I didn't studder.

My problem is that I got a little email, as follows:

<code>
to: me@my-college.edu
from: unix-admins@my-college.edu
subject: Your .muttrc has been chmodd'd.

Hi!

I found your .muttrc has a) your IMAP password in it and b) a mode of 0644. I've chmod'd it to 0600. Please take out your IMAP password.

Thanks!

</code>

So I thought for a second. I use mutt on the server to read off the IMAP (on that server). I had no ssh access so I just checked it off their webmail service.

So I try to log in... only to get an "SSH key denied" message and a Kb-interactive auth. That fails.

So I've been told that I need to log into their server, but I cant log into their server because I need to log into their server and fix my shit. What the hell?

How can I fix this?
The fact that he got caught suggests he didn't bother to cover his tracks which is fairly easy to do. So how do you not realize that throwing a brick through your old employers front window isn't a crime?
Don't forget the title. When I read it, I thought it wasn't a job ad, but a co-working space offer like what the guys at Inspire9 do here in Melbourne.
First, I can't say that I am surprised my post currently sits at 4 downvotes here on HN. A programmer's work is sacred while a photographer's is not.

Use some common sense? Baio absolutely published the photograph, which is why we are all having this discussion.

It doesn't matter why people buy something or if it had an impact on sales. A copyright holder retains the sole right to publish a work and its derivatives. That is the essence of how we protect works of art fixed in a tangible means of expression.
If they can't take criticism on the interwebs, they won't last long in the real world. Better to get it with timely advise than after they close their doors and go home.
I'm thinking about proposing to buy it for an amount covering his cost except a dollar. He will still lose money (which should serve as a valuable lesson), but not as much as if I never buy it - and I really don't need it anyway...
The History of Dialogue: Other People’s Papers
From my experience, the next IE6 is IE7/IE8. They both have the strangest quirks.

(as a random example, in IE7, try setting the hash of an iframe, from an iframe inside of that, and if they're on different domains. It... opens up a new window?! And the fix for this is to have another iframe inside that inner iframe which is the same domain as the iframe you want to set the hash on, and from that, do parent.parent.location='#whatever'; %^$^&$#@$&)

(and in IE8, WHY does postMessage not work properly across popups opened up from iframes? WHY.)

Bah.
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ninja%2C+pirate%2C+rocksta...

Apparently "rockstar" is the more popular, followed by "ninja". Despite Johnny Depp, "pirates" will always be unpopular in an industry that sells software.
Of course, 'evil' is subjective and therefore meaningless. Who's to say the Patriot Act is evil or not?
Their standing is that they sell you a ticket on the condition that you will not record the performance (or that you're not allowed to have a recording device on your person).
Insulting everyone by implying they haven't used common sense simply because they don't agree with you is incredibly fatuous. Chill with the righteous HEY YOU GUYS IF YOU JUST SAW IT MY WAY caps and italics; most of us aren't particularly dumb here.

The pixel art was definitely published by any useful meaning of the word publish, 200 copies of the liner version. Also, it was the background of the site, clearly used as promotion.

Let's say everyone accepts your argument that you can only violate artist rights if you gain a profit directly driven by the unauthorized use. It'd be perfectly fine to use a struggling unsigned band's best song to sell Volkswagens, since no one would buy a car because of music in an ad.

Of course, the unsigned band was just about to license their song to sell cat food and pay the rent, but now the cat food manufacturer doesn't want the same song that's in that damn Volkswagen commercial. Oops! Shoulda moved faster, indie band!

If you think that an artist or a musician should have no control over where their work is reproduced or published as long as it can be argued that it wasn't the main draw of any profit, you're not a hardcore supporter of the rights of individual artists and musicians.

I wasn't around for any negotiations Maisel's or his attorney had with Baio, but it does see like Maisel was a bit of a jerk about this. A jerk solidly in his rights, however.
I definitely agree with you. He's also so honest and authentic that it's fun to read.
I don't want to post that here. Give me your contact details and I will give you more info.
Actually, when I read the post I thought "I love shitty code that just gets the job done...this job probably isn't for me".
I thought of that, didn't mention it 'cuz I thought I was getting too picky. I've worked with a startup where an oversized office caused serious financial problems. Planning that stuff can be hard...above my pay grade.
The burden of proof would be on the photographer to prove that it was a "copy" of their work rather than an independent creation.
At a certain point it comes down to this intangible idea of intent and process.

Reminds me of the "What Color are your Bits" piece http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php
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I think the pixel version of this artwork is much more derivative than an 8-bit cover version of the music, yet they sort permission from Mile Davis's estate to use his music. Then they settled out of court. I have no idea why this is the internet's latest crusade.

If they'd have given 1000 artists (including photographers) the brief of an album cover of Kind of Blue, I doubt any would have been so similar to Maisel's. Give 1000 pixel artists Kind of Blue and ask then to do a straight pixel version and they'd all be indistinguishable. And despite the supposed outrage for the rights and artistic merit of pixel art, I haven't seen any pixel artists stand up for this straight copy of a photograph. I don't think any of them would consider it a particularly enlightening representation of their art form.
But more often mentioned is the lack of support for HTML5 and CSS3.
The FBI still took Instapaper's blade servers, and that was wrong. I don't think it was intentional at all, but it was certainly careless, and therefore I don't think there's any need for Marco Arment to apologize to the FBI. If anything, the FBI should apologize for their careless seizure of hardware not covered by the warrant.
Interestingly enough, the New Museum tends to feature heavily in Maisel's personal photos (albeit quite zoomed in - he does like his telephotos..). To be fair, it is just down the street from him..

eg. http://www.jaymaisel.com/v2/wp-content/gallery/recent-work/2...
Ask the person that manages this at your college?
I think the thing to remember is MacBook Pro: $2000

Chromebook: $500?
That is a good idea. I heard once that the younger generations of fighter pilots--those that grew up with flight simulator video games--made better pilots than when their elder counterparts were starting out. It would truly be awesome if kids playing Minecraft grow up to be better electrical engineers like the pilots.
Politics as usual is over
Okay, thanks - has bundling an NPAPI plugin with an extension got a future? (js-ctypes can't do what I want so it seems like the next best thing.)
Yes, but "slight OCD" (one of the requirements) doesn't mesh well with incorrect capitalization.
City flushes 8 million gallons
I don't really think so(though I am pretty sure I am wrong legally). One is highly transformitive. A picture of a house can't be lived in like a house can be lived in. A picture transformed in to a slightly different picture isn't all that different.
Well, yeah. Did anyone honestly think the FBI intentionally (and perhaps even illegally) took data belonging to Instapaper to.. what? Build profiles on upper middle class Americans' reading habits?

I'm definitely not an apologist for the post-9/11 police state, but that's a pretty silly conspiracy theory.
I love ultra high speed video. Just about any motion is more interesting at that speed, even simple walking. But my favorite is watching water balloons explode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sLxuSN2UnQ
Based on the last shot, could potentially be useful for diagnosing potential failures due to metal fatigue - the kind of vibrations that you may be able to hear, but can't see. Not sure if that's the intent, but that's what jumped out at me...
It would certainly send a statement. "You really should be using ab for load testing. Here, have a million copies of it."
Why would he accept?
I would definitely appreciate more about what they actually do and how many SMBs they are actively serving right now.

There is a huge difference between 'we have a giant market to go after' and 'we are serving 10,000 SMBs and growing daily.'
"My place is two cubic meters, and we only take up 1.5 cubic meters. We've got room for a whole 'nother two thirds of a person!"
Me too. I thought they were doing what Opzi did until I clicked through http://euwyn.com/post/4087921596/the-sf-hacker-loft
>For an hourly fee, I'll even teach you to sound like an adult in your written communication (ROI out the wazoo).

People posting jobs on HN, please give this person your money.

Please.
And you can see all of them my clicking the "Jobs" link at the top:
http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
i'd actually much prefer a lot of handy libraries (e.g., boto comes to mind) be written in C, and exported to higher level languages.

that way, each language wouldn't have to duplicate every other language's effort. the end result would probably be more unified APIs and more complete libraries.
I think your attempt at a distinction in paragraph 1 actually proves my point. Yes, GPL covers binaries, or however else the code is distributed. Just like how copyright law protects a Miles Davis picture on an album cover, a CD liner, and on a web page when it is "mostly-the-same."

Baio was mostly the same. Koons was not. See these.
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/images/silksandals.j...
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/images/koonsniagara_...

The second picture by Koons is transformative. Baio's is not even close to Koons.
What would you pick: lose a dollar or lose the cost of a domain? (the cost of a domain is still more than dollar)
These guys are trying to do a startup. It's a hard thing to do. Why grouse at them?

Because they raised millions of dollars. This isn't a game. Get your shit together.

It's frustrating seeing clowns with money when other people could rip a new paradigm-sized hole in the world given the same opportunity.
Rusty Russell had a slightly tongue-in-cheek rant about such things recently, http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=140

There's a bunch more recent articles on his blog covering similar topics
If you do it on purpose, yes; see Rogers v. Koons (although Koons's copy was a sculpture, not another photo).
I read the sudoku analogy some time ago on stack overflow, only it was much shorter and concerning the question of time.

How do you explain somebody why it is hard to know when you will have accomplished a certain programming task?

Just ask how long he will need for a sudoku, with a second in precision.
Inflation fixed it last time...

http://economics.rutgers.edu/dmdocuments/JoshuaAizenman.pdf
Sugar or refined carbohydrates makes me tired and lethargic

Well, duh, that's what stimulants are for.
I read that as "It's hard to blame the straw man when the camel's back breaks."

This probably applies as well.
You're assuming he is going to lose the domain. Which is not a good assumption. It's name squatting, not company / brand squatting
They dont exist.
The (tweetable) Wisdom of Patio11
What if the satisfaction of not selling it to you is worth more than a dollar to him/her?
Actually, that's the unsettling thing about the latest studies... people who do physically demanding things apparently don't benefit from them if they spend the rest of their time sitting. And that describe the lifestyle of a lot of exercise-friendly "hackers," your correspondent included.
"This book teaches a lot more than the basics of programming, and python. It teaches important life skills in every facet of life: attention to detail, persistence & that dedicated practice and application lead to results." ~ taotetek
E = hv. It's not just a good idea, it's the law.
TechDirt has covered cases over photography of sculptures a couple of times: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090804/0116455762.shtml (Di Modica v. North Fork and Di Modica v. Random House, over Charging Bull) and http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090717/1400565585.shtml (Gaylord v. U.S., concerning a postage stamp with a photograph of the Korean War Memorial).

In most countries, there's a "panorama exception": http://www.wipo.int/sme/en/documents/ip_photography.htm#1.6

I'm not clear what the situation is in the US.
At first, I was going to say it's tiny relative to the overall DoD budget... but if true, it's actually pretty ridiculous:
- 0.5% of the US federal budget overall (including entitlement programs)
- 3-4% of the overall defense budget
- More than 2x the budget of the FBI
- ~40% of the Homeland Security budget ($47B)
- Rather close to the budget allocation for the Marine Corp ($29B) (though there might technically be some overlap there)

If that's for 2 wars in 2 countries, what's government's total air conditioning bill? Our soldiers deserve it, but there's gotta be a better way.
You should explicitly mention that fact on the website.
It's not about an assumption of corruption. It's about the fact that the FBI took something which they had absolutely no right to take.

Whether or not they looked at or did anything with the data on his servers is irrelevant to the fact that they violated constitutional provisions against unreasonable search and seizure.
Most employees tend to take of that themselves over time. I believe the business world calls it "attrition."
On the other hand, CentOS 5 has run-parts, but it doesn't have a --help option or a manpage. The Debian one does.
OMG, my mother's internet was dropping off and on yesterday, and as I was trying to diagnose the problem, she asked "maybe its the mouse." No mom, your mouse is not causing the Internet to drop....

Maybe it was the mouse. Damn.
The US was pretty close to this during the 1800s. While there were trademarks, patents, and copyrights, they were mostly notable for their weakness and absence compared to other countries at the time and the US today.
Netbook: $400

iPad with 3G: $629
But a netbook is $250 on the low end, and a full laptop (low-end, but not horribly slow) is $400. A modern laptop (with an i3) can be had for between $470 and $500.

Based on the selection available on Amazon, chromebooks seem to have three price points: $350, $430, and $500.

Admittedly, I'm focusing on the fact that chromebooks don't seem to compare well within your price range, while you're focusing on the fact that it doesn't make sense to compare a chromebook to a macbook pro.
I'm hesitant to complain about a review because it is the author's opinion and they are fully entitled to feel however they want about the product, but if I may make one little yammer...

This is the kind of review methodology I dislike:

"I’ll give this 3/5 stars. I really believe in the spirit of the laptop. It beats out traditional netbooks like my girlfriend’s EeePC and it is going to be a lot better for typing/video watching than my iPad. Unfortunately, it’s still a long way from replacing my Macbook Pro."

3 out of 5 stars for being nicer than anything else in the price range?

There are two general ways you can rate a product: Give it a rating based on all of the possible things it can do, or give it a rating based on its intended expectation. The reviewer seems to be of the first kind.

For many products, like cars and computers, the first kind seems to me a pretty silly way to do things. Almost all of the listed minuses, such as not-impeccable speakers, are givens before the product is purchased. Its like taking points off of a sports car review because there isn't a lot of trunk space.
"Charging a cover" is not relevant to determining whether the performance is a "public performance" for copyright purposes.
Someone whose primary job is catching all the ideas, initiatives and data that otherwise fall to the ground between people: implement them; run them to ground, or tee them up so someone more better suited can execute them.

Quiet.

Food.

Frisbee.
Looks like blogger/google took it down.
Exactly. Imagine how much harder life would be if openssl were written in Perl instead of C. It might be a self fulfilling prophecy (C is good for that sort of thing because C is popular, largely in part because C is good for that sort of thing,....) but that's just how real life works sometimes.
College graduates aren't ready for big data
Stuff in decreasing order of importance:

2-3 monitors per room, with stands allowing them to mount longwise or wide.

Aeron Chairs (they're really that nice for long hours)

Adjustable Height Desks (manual is fine)

Rubberized floor mats (a la the grocery store)

Actual offices with walls and doors

Whiteboards

Lots of Zones of AC (as you grow, some parts of the floor will require tons more cooling to stay bearable. Once temperatures get out of a narrow range, a sizable minority of the population loses huge swaths of productivity from lack of concentration)

Coffee machine (1 touch, not barista style)

Coke Machine

Filtered Water dispenser (not bottled)

Dehumidifiers/Humidifiers for the AC system (you want a constant level in the midrange to not hurt equipment/cause mold yet keep everyone's sinuses/scalp not dry). It sounds silly, but it makes a huge difference for general health.
Wholesale Fashion Jewelry
Google pr updated this morning,and the site jewelora.com also get the new pr 3,original is 0.
We should remember this day and name this day.
Microsoft's Office 365 marks new war with Google