skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. We had a very similar experience with Technorati in 2007. We were working on a system for controlling pingbacks based on the "authority" ranking that the pinging site had, and we wanted to use the Technorati "authority" rankings. We wrote to them many, many times, using the official contact page, we offered to pay them, and then, we heard nothing. Getting desperate, we tracked down the company email addresses of some of the people who work there, and wrote to those. And we still heard nothing. We came back to the idea 3 months later and wrote again. And again we heard nothing. We came back to the idea 5 months later, and wrote them again, and again we heard nothing. When a company says "Commercial use of our API requires payment" and then you say "We would be happy to pay, please send us an API key" and then they do nothing, then you can tell that company has abandoned their API effort, but they've forgotten to take it down. And that leads to frustration.
Get Habilis used to do this, but has sadly died: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=28736

I wonder if a similar fate will meet sendtodropbox.com? (at least they have less of a weird URL)
I use bootstrap as the base for all my new projects for clients. You guys are fantastic! Thanks for open sourcing such a great project!
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>You're saying that GPL isn't restrictive enough to provide the security for businesses to open-source their work?

No, perhaps reading the comment I left in reply to another child will help clarify. I believe that the GPL has created a false equivocation that releasing source means you have to allow everyone to resell your product. I think that companies can release source to licensees only and I would like to see that practice enter general use. In short, I reject Stallman's "freedom 2" as an essential fundamental component in "moral" or "free" software.
Agreed. I won't use this app, and also won't share it. I'll Stick to my command line like a lot of idiots that haven't got laid since 1994.
Hell, if the music industry ran Pirate Bay themselves and profited from having higher quality ads on there, you would have something a little closer to the radio experience (ignoring ability to choose what you wanted). People would be seeing/hearing ads as they explored new music, as well as buying limited edition products, physical releases, concert tickets, t-shirts and other merch.

Problem is, the big players are hanging on to the cliff edge by their fingernails, rather than locking into the harness at the bottom ready to start their climb.
NuFlick is applying to YC, with all the "Kill Hollywood" vibe going on. This is really cool!
The issue of compensation for the artist never seems to come up in these conversations. Neil Young can charge $75 for his cheapest concert tickets. So record sales mean very little to him. For younger artists this is not the case.

> but they won't pay any money for something that they don't know whether or not they will like it.

people bought albums for decades without knowing what songs were on the album.

I don't see how it's fair to justify the acquisition of someones property with the pretense that it's gonna be better for you. Even under extreme cases like nationalisation and imminent domain, the owners are compensated. I made this comment on the Neil Young link, but it was censored.
If we are so certain that the artist will benefit under the 'new' system, fine, but if he or she doesn't they have to be compensated to bridge the earnings gap.

Comparing music now to music in the 1930's is not fair, artists got paid almost nothing in the 1930-1950's. The whole industry was corrupt.
CEO of Apple, too:

http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/tim-cook.html
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No, it's not. You might as well say that it doesn't matter if your programmer doesn't use version control, or your surgeon doesn't clean under his nails.

Major e-commerce sites will have tested under every major browser anyway, so invalid HTML won't matter so much to them. Smaller shops don't tend to do as much testing, so it's more important that HTML validates.
As with most investments of this nature, a large part of the decision to invest will depend on how much you believe in the team/project. If you've done your homework and the numbers look good and you trust the team, go with it.
I think we need a stufftheTSAconfiscated.tumblr.com.

I went through for a job interview and I had a cast on and a blow dryer and flat iron in my luggage. They swabbed my cast, and took the items and made me wait while they checked them out. I bet someone walked away that day with perfectly styled hair.
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There's already been a rich culture of mods, re-contextualization and remixing. You've been able to do all of the above before this release of the source code.
Refreshingly cynical. It makes me want to just open a bar or something, rather than do battle with TOADs, JOCKs, Product Management Pirates and Social Media Ninjas.
Love the new stuff - any reason why you removed the animation effects of button presses? I always thought that was one of the coolest pieces of bootstrap
It is called a one time password for a reason. Since it has been sent out via some medium in plain text, it is a good practice to force change password on next login.
From the referenced SO question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/209170/how-much-does-it-c... on apps costing $50-150-250K to develop.

Is there really enough money made from apps, to justify this cost?
According to their bug tracker the issue with Popover not accepting string constants as title/content has been solved. I'll be moving to 2.0 right away, or at least trying to shim that fix into my own project. Should take care of a bug I've been battling for the last few hours.
I can't speak for the TSA, but here in Australia I am routinely "randomly selected" for bomb screening.

I have a terrible beard. I know it, my family knows it, my friends know it, people on who drive past on the bus know it. But it conceals the chinese phone directory beneath my jaw, so it stays.

But it definitely gets unkempt and quickly. If I forget to clean up before I fly, bam, I'm chosen for the bomb test. If I'm clean shaven or have trimmed that day, I sail through.

It's absolutely random, I'm assured. No bias whatsoever. When asked to show a random number generator the staff tend to get a bit grumpy. Appeals to the combinatorial unlikelihood of being chosen so many times in a row fall on dead ears.

Because my beard makes me look like a convert to Islam, I get bomb tested. It's as simple as that, in my opinion.
From the comments, made my entire week:

They were obviously homeopathic bombs. Security found no traces of explosives, which had been diluted to the point that it wasn't present - thus making the devices even more effective.
I didn't know that tclsh autocompletes commands; that's pretty neat. In this case, it looks like [incr 1] is incrementing a variable called 1, and appears to start from zero if the variable isn't initialized.

I find Tcl's command model interesting because it leads to a very tiny semantics. A few years ago I spent a lot of time thinking about how it could be extended to have lambdas, and I couldn't come up with a way that wouldn't break the command model in some way or another. They aren't something Tcl needs to have, I just thought it'd be convenient. (Tcl's evaluation model allows you to simulate higher-order procs, which, along with `apply`, covers many use cases of lambda).
Honestly, I think the best advice would be to just find a new job. Don't mention this issue at all when you leave--just give the standard name, rank, and serial number (i.e., "I love working here, but someone made me an offer I just can't refuse, etc.")

Unless you're getting filthy rich working with this guy, it's probably not worth it.
It may be my slow data connection, but it seems as though AreYouResponsive is not, in fact, responsive.
What, specifically, would you have them do? Are you advocating a full hard-line stance? That they will not take down anything, ever? Or that they won't take down things if they feel the reason is political oppression? Or what?

Those questions are not rhetorical. You haven't said, really, what you believe their moral obligation is, only that they are falling short of it.
I think most MBAs are looking to work for a large company, climb the ladder and so on. The training focuses on that -- it's not called a Masters in Business Administration for the heck of it.
Quite honestly the thing I find most deeply offensive about this move is the gratuitous stupidity of it.

Who believes terrorists would post their intentions on twitter? and even if they did, all they need to do to avoid this ridiculous farce is swap out a word: psst 'engage in revelry' = 'destroy'

There is no trade off between security and freedom taking place here, there is just a parody acting out that not only fails to make anybody any safer, it causes all reasonable people to blanch in shame.
poTAYto, poTAHto. The fundamental engine of consciousness is fuzzy pattern matching; when done poorly, it's called "guessing", and when done well, it's called "intuition".
Complain to google, it's not possible currently.
Pardon my ignorance, but could someone give me a rundown of what bootstrap is, and how it works?
I agree that this is possible. I'm just saying that if you don't engage with this issue at all in your essay (as the OP failed to do), then your essay is missing a very key issue and should be largely discredited.
You mean besides a whole crapton of 1 penny apps? That was one hell of a discount if you ask me.
Glad to see that Bootstrap 2.0 is out. Been following along on the 2.0-wip for the last couple days and very impressed with the new Responsive Design.

One slight problem (Chrome, Mac OSX Lion): http://i.imgur.com/SOrUZ.png
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If Bing (via IE+toolbar) improves its results for me by watching MY behavior (behavior I OWN, not Google), regardless if I'm on HN, on Amazon, on Google, or on some random-website, I'm fine with it.

Watching IE (+toolbar) users' behavior is not the same thing as using Google's work.

If you can't come to terms with the way click-stream data is gathered and how post processing works, that's your failure, not Bing's.

It's like if you don't get spoon fed exactly the flavor you expect (the one that agrees with your preconceived notion), you spit it back in my face.

Google came out and blatantly said Microsoft is copying its index. That is nothing more than a simple lie, that's designed to be easier to believe over a more complex truth.
That is most unfortunate. The 30c flat fees most gateways have make selling things that are <$10 pretty unaffordable. Any suggestions?

I'm wondering if it is possible to register as a business in the US or even just have a US bank account?
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just for argument sake:
1 - freelancers union is working very hard to pass the Freelancer Payment Protection Act (S4129/A6698) that grant freelancers the same wage protection as traditional employees and require the Department of Labor to pursue freelancers' unpaid wages holding deadbeat executives personally liable for up to $20,000 and jail time.
2 - on the union website you can find the Contract Creator, a free tool that allows you to easily create a strong (and nationally accepted) contract to protect yourself.
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Some other useful css frameworks include http://blueprintcss.org/ and http://compass-style.org/, if you are interested. That being said, I have used all three for different projects and have enjoyed working with bootstrap the most.
That or go work for Wall Street.

I think another issue could just be that Engineers aren't paid as much as MBAs. Which means we need to take that risk if we want to make the bucks.

Also its generally easier for us to take the risk. If you're an engineer making 120K its easier to take a paycut to 100k if you form a startup. If you're an MBA dude making 500K it just doesn't make sense to give up the Rolls etc and take a paycut to 100K.
The photo-sharing site I made, OurDoings, will pull photos from a shared Dropbox folder and delete them after posting, allowing you not to be limited by your Dropbox quota. Hopefully someday lots of photo-sharing sites will have this option.
my tabs open up immediately but it does take a little while to log in, which really is annoying. I think depending on how you configure things you can move where and how often the wait occurs and by disabling certain things, how long it is.
re: Linkedin: I found it hard to believe. I receive the same emails from them for years and most do not open /straight delete. and they never stop.
Yes, I agree that Lua metatables / metamethods look and work a lot like JavaScript's prototype property.

I should have been more specific when mentioning self-modifying data structures and Lua metatables in the same post.

Consider: it is possible for a table to be its own metatable, and for that table to contain (pointers to) some functions that govern storing data in the table. For the non-Lua reader, these tied-to-an-event-on-a-table functions are called table-access metamethods [0], and they allow for some dangerous shenanigans.

If these particular metamethods knew how to add to, rearrange, or delete from the set of callable functions already stored in the table, the subsequent layout and contents of the table could change in a non-deterministic way.

Something that looks like a simple assignment/update (__newindex/__index, insert/update, or your favorite pair of terms)

t[0] = "command phrase"
x = t[0]

could trigger wholesale reorganization of the table, including deletion or addition of new metamethods.

[0] "Programming in Lua 1ed (Chapter 13. Metatables and Metamethods, 13.4 – Table-Access Metamethods)" http://www.lua.org/pil/13.4.html

edit: incomplete example
* While buying via Craigslist is generally easy ... selling can sometimes be a complete PITA.*

Tell me about it. The only vehicle I've sold on Craigslist was my motorbike, but I had about higher than 50% rate of people making appointments to check it out and then just not show up. I mean, how f...ing hard is it to say you changed your mind?
Cool stuff. I can see this being a fun interactive way to participate in tons of reality shows...e.g. Project Runway.
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Are authors paid for books purchased at the library? The library does not provide the public with a free personal copy of any book they want.

I do not doubt that artists may be compensated in the long run. But the compensation my come through higher ticket prices. I paid $32 to see Molotov, Eminem, The Black Eyed Peas, and Suicidal Tendencies in New York City back in 1999. Those days are long gone. To see those artists now, maybe $120.

Saying "will" seems speculative since the examples are not comparable to piracy. Museums dont give free copies and have collections which are sometimes donated. In radio there is a cooperation between radio stations and the record companies.
To my point of no keywords, and touching on the interesting model @groovy2shoes is talking about here[1]:

$ tclsh

% set a set
set
% puts $a
set
% $a b 9
9
% set b
9
% set set set
set
% $set set
set
% rename set foo
% foo set
set
% foo a
set
% foo a 9
9
% puts $a
9
%

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3536419

[edit: formatting]
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For a data point, I found it no problem.
It's pretty common for engineers to enter an MBA program in effort to accelerate their careers into management.
> I think that companies can release source to licensees only and I would like to see that practice enter general use.

Companies already license out their source code to whoever they wish, and many already do what you suggest ("enterprise licensing"). Many prefer to open-source non-critical software, because the community can help maintain it.
> > * Array indexes start at 1.

> [...]

> However, I'll admit it's a bit irritating when you're frantically switching between C and Lua.

I would imagine it can be confusing when swapping between C and Lua, but when working in a Lua-only environment (e.g. writing addons for World of Warcraft) it very quickly becomes a non-issue.
I'm not sure what your point is. He was talking about after_commit callbacks. Your quote is about the callbacks during a transaction, not after it.
I'm curious about this as well. I was checking out the 2.0-wip earlier today and all of the button animations remained intact.
Facebook app privacy
Facebook features 81 "Timeline Apps" — apps which share your activities on them on your Timeline or Wall (if you haven't been bumped to Timeline yet):

http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline/apps

Among 71 such apps, if installed with default settings:
58 apps would share your activities with the PUBLIC (81.7%)
& 13 apps would share your activities with your FRIENDS (18.3%)

7 out of these 58 publicly sharing apps still don't warn the user BEFORE INSTALLATION about the public sharing part. You can only verify that individually after going to your own app settings page.

12 out of the 71 apps examined, explain (in 1 sentence) why they would like to publish activities, etc to the Timeline/Wall

19 out of the 71 apps examined, access data ANY TIME (i.e. even when not using that app) but ONLY 5 of them explain why they need such permissions.

10 of the featured Timeline Apps cannot be properly installed or need mobile app installation and hence were left out of this "study".

Raw data is available at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AplwJ3hTKuqKdHlNajV2NlE5YXFucFRIdjFBV2VUQXc&hl=en_US#gid=0

Bottomline: I can't tell if Facebook is doing enough to make the privacy practices of these apps transparent to the users. I did this "study" after noticing many people being unaware about this "frictionless sharing" thing.
Seems like it. I graduated from a business program, the curriculum is generally focused towards fitting into a large or otherwise existant organization.
Exactly. MBA programs (traditionally, things are changing slowly) aren't really designed to create entrepreneurs, either.
I work at Zipline Games and we're building out a server side hosted lua system. We're targeting it at game developers, but there is nothing game specific about the lua handlers you can write. You can find out more about it at http://getmoai.com

If you don't want a hosted solution you can look into mongrel2 and tir http://tir.mongrel2.org/
"The problem that Apple is experiencing is the exposure of the tension between its marketing and its image, and reality."

It's funny how relevant the Eloi and the Morlocks still are today, more than 100 years after being put down in ink.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morlock
This is definitely food for thought. However, I'm not sure it tells the whole story. I'm interested in the size/valuation of the companies in addition to a count. I'd argue that it's a lot easier to found a tech startup and call yourself founder/CEO than it is with more traditional MBA-geared companies. Also, the survey sample is probably pretty skewed since it uses Identified and Facebook.
Radio pays far more per song than Internet streamers do. Running a radio station is $x/song, on the web it's $x/song/listener.

(Radio stations cost lots to set up up front, web radio costs kick in when you get bigger, but until then you'd have to operate at a loss, or go ad heavy.
Right after 9/11, I got "randomly selected" just about every time. This was when they were still calling out the last names of the people who had been selected.

It was basically a roll call of Arabic sounding names with a few Jews thrown in for good measure (me) and then usually a Smith or a Jones to make it seem random.
This can go very wrong - I would advice against doing car deals with friends. If something very expensive breaks soon after purchase it can create a lot of stress for both you and your friend.
This is exactly what I want. I need something good to queue downloads from my iPhone.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. Large companies need at least some specialist management types.
Throwaway account.

I had emailed you the last time you did you similar submission. I didn't even receive an acknowledgement. Even an automated reply after a certain date stating that the position is filled or I am not a good fit etc., would have sufficed. If you can, please do this. I would have really appreciated a reply and I would remember you as someone who had the courtesy to email back.

Thanks.
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I don't think it helps to talk about censorship in the abstract. We can start with the position that "all censorship is bad", but we quickly get into the same tricky problems that first amendment cases do (where do my rights end and yours begin), not to mention that "free speech" is literally defined differently in different countries.

Next, we can look at things like if censoring certain types of material is ever wrong. Citizens reporting on each other for anti-patriotic behavior horrifies us, but I have no problem with Google reporting a site that hosts child pornography if they discover it while indexing images (I don't agree with the thoughtcrime laws that child pornography seems to engender, but I certainly have no problem with that site being shut down).

Since we're looking at an American company, what about DMCA take down notices? Many on this site have serious problems with the way those laws are enforced and in how they favor large content conglomerates, but if companies were to not follow them, large segments of companies on the internet simply could not exist (if based in the US). Is it morally wrong for them to honor these takedown notices? What if most are in fact legitimate (in our copyright system, not some platonic one!), they just deny due process to some minority? Is there a moral difference between a court order and a national security notice?

There's an easy transition from these questions to ones of censoring hate speech and incitement to violence, to censoring Holocaust-denial and Nazism, to censoring criticism of the King.

If we're going to draw a bright line for companies we will financially support, we'll have to talk about specifics, because "censorship" won't cut it (what did you fund with your taxes this year?), and we really are going to have to talk about "I don't want an American company censoring blog posts in India because I think the laws there (that some portion of the population likely supports) are wrong". And then we'll have to call up someone in the EU that supports "the right to forget" and see what they think of our notion of free speech and censorship.
Thanks for a good start, will definitely look into that!