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I was saying it means antitrust litigation; you're saying it shouldn't. :-)

Yes, change may bring new competitors that could upset google - disruption seems the destiny of most tech companies, it's just a matter of time. Interestingly, what we're seeing right now is a valiant effort on Google's part to shift from pagerank to "social-rank", in response to facebook, a new competitor. Going by history (as in "The Innovator's Dilemma", google as the incumbent will succeed if the technological innovation serves their business model - which it does.
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This is hilarious:

If all else fails, I drink half a bottle of rum and play a Handel oratorio on the gramophone. This generally produces an uncontrollable gush of copy.
There is always room for negotiation. If you'd started the interview process discussing the salary range, then you've already weakened your case. If, on the other hand, you waited till you had an offer to talk numbers, then you are in a comanding position, because then you can sell you "value" instead of getting locked in on a "price range".

Checkout the salary ranges on glassdoor.com http://www.glassdoor.comhttp://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Cisc...
This is important context that should have been added to the quote:

I am a lousy copywriter, but I am a good editor. So I go to work editing my own draft.
Whoa, that's not cool. That goes against a number of things that I taught my team when I was the photo editor for the school paper in undergrad. While we had editorial restrictions regarding post-processing wise, I tried to impart to my team that being there with a camera in your hands was 90% of the work.

I was taught that a fundamental aspect of photography is... if you were there and shot it, it's yours & you should be able to create derivative works accordingly.(Ya, this doesn't apply to taking a camcorder to a movie theater.)

Does this mean that in 20 years after every square inch of London is photographed that no new commercial photographs because they might infringe? While the case had to do with more with the post processing of the general content, who knows how this will be interpreted in the future. I'm sorry for photographers in the UK, this could really end up sucking in the future.
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Hi Jon,

Thank you for the bug report, and the criticism. I was surprised to see that you had not already disabled your profile, so I went ahead and disabled it for you.

We are a new service, and we are truly trying to create the best possible experience for software engineers. Sending you an email about our job openings was a mistake. I'm very sorry about that, and it won't happen again.

We recently implemented a feature where users can see job listings we have open in their profile and let us know if they are interested, so in that way we only contact people who let us know they are interested in specific job openings. I think that this is great start of a feature that could be good for everybody.

Thanks again,
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Above is the form letter you sent me in response to me calling you out on spamming me. I wonder how many people also got that same exact email? Never mind the fact that the original email was a form letter too!

The part about 'surprised to see that you had not already disabled your profile' seemed pretty absurd given that there was no way that I could disable my profile from your site.

In fact, I shouldn't even have to disable the profile on your site. To begin with, you should have never created one for me, or anyone else. I certainly never asked you to do so and you've clearly violated GitHub's terms of service.

Why are there still profiles up on your site? Why do you feel it is necessary to post the big names first (http://githire.com/best) and try to profit from their profile information? It isn't like they are looking for jobs.

I'm sorry you made multiple bad judgement calls, but that isn't my fault. I also don't know why you expected a response from me. I really don't want to have anything more to do with your spam business.

Even the title of this HN article is misleading. You are basing the failure of your business to recruit people from GitHub on economic indicators? Seriously?
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Thanks for linking that. I recently contrived my own computer vision color difference formula by using distance within an HSL bicone (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9632169/HTM/Hcl-hcv_models.svg). This is much better in that it takes into account differences in human sensitivity to certain colors.
Are you kidding? Apple has only half the market of smart phones (and that market itself is growing quickly), and only single digit market share in PCs. And people actually replace their phones and their PCs over a few years. They can keep this up.
Y u post it here instead of reddit? jackiechan.jpg (its nice btw :)
What kind of precedent does this set in the UK and is there potential for appeal? As you can tell, I'm not familiar at all with the British legal system.

What is the UK law on trademarks? I could see this being a potential trademark issue in the US, but not a copyright one.
Even if this was the case, the little of this article gives you enough info to google "SPYW google" which is even more likely to get what you want. Personally the second result down for me was on this topic for your search.
Those are both non-issues. They're a startup. Their product is a two-sided marketplace, naturally geographically limited. Any other open source hosting service would do just fine. It may happen that github is the most insular and the one most likely to have a critical mass of programmers in certain skill sets (it seems to massively dominate for Rails folks).
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Have you considered letting users also spend bitcoins to downvote posts, but at a high ratio (e.g. remove 10 by spending 1)? That could clear up the advertising.

What to do with the leftover bitcoins? Maybe hold on to them.
Normal ranking algorithms apply normally. Social networking profiles have extra data, you know, like social activity and social graph, that Google doesn't have access to. The pages you're talking about already show up and are ranked normally like all other pages. G+ pages show up higher because they have a lot of extra google juice from social signals. Those are the ones Twitter and FB are complaining about.
Digg had plenty of competitors, even when they were at their peak. Arguably Google clearly has the best product, and they have become synonymous with searching the Internet.
Won't help. I saw some article somewhere that Google have more than 50 different identification points on a internet connected user.

The only way to opt out is by not using products or services by Google. You'll still be tracked of course, and their AdSense still profiles you anyway, displaying the ads "relevant" to you.
I wonder if this can be used to sort out the Zynga vs. NimbleBit issue?
Disclaimer 1: I work for Twitter.
Disclaimer 2: Not a twitter spokesperson, opinions are my own.

I don't understand how so many people are missing the point demonstrated by http://www.focusontheuser.org/. It uses information available from Google search to inject twitter, facebook, etc results into the "your world (as long as it's google+)" module. The ranking it uses is Google's ranking of the relevant results. No special API access. No back-end deals. No money. It's stuff that's available to Google and that Google already has and has already ranked.

If they choose to dilute the worth of their search engine by injecting less-than-relevant (according to their own relevance algorithm) results in order to attempt to grow Plus (presumably hoping that'll ultimately increase the revenue to offset the losses on the search engine side of the business), they are perfectly within their rights to do so. Just don't buy their "oh we'd be happy to show more stuff but boo-hoo we don't have the data" line -- they totally have the data, and it doesn't require sweetheart deals. The only thing they can't do is grab your personal social graph and re-rank according to it. So they use something they know is sub-par (Plus's currently very partial graph) and don't bother dialing in relevance signals against their own best-in-the-world search engine.
I hate how we have to refer to stupid judges with honour:

'His honour Judge Birss QC decided that a photograph of a red London bus against a black and white background of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, with a blank sky, was similar enough to another photograph of the same subject matter to infringe copyright.'
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Check out this fork of D3 that features Lab conversion and different distance formulas https://github.com/jheer/d3/blob/master/d3.color.js
What if (as it appears to be in this case) the second photographer intentionally used your photograph as a template for his own, copying it to the extent that a casual observer would not notice that they are different, putting in the effort to make it as much as possible like yours? There's many more similarities in those pictures - e.g. it's the same location, the same iconic background buildings, the same shade of red and the detail of the sky has been removed in both.

I don't think the judge would have ruled this way if it had been a coincidence that the photos are alike.
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I do not like these kind of services because they take away ad revenue from the sites providing and generating that content.

"Mongout" seems to do this for reddit and imgur, both sites where I willfully disable my ad-blocker.
At this stage, any link between obesity, brown fat, and melatonin is somewhere between one of many highly speculative hypotheses, and randomly selected string of grammatically coherent words. Not to be dismissed, but not worth reading any more unless your actually the one writing or funding the grant.
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really hard for a person to have a social life on the web that's entirely different from their work ethos.

I don't know... maybe the problem is the belief that there must be a difference between your "social life" and your "work ethos." There seems to be an assumption in this thread that having, say, "pictures of the applicant drunk at titty bars" is somehow a bad thing, something an employer (or potential employer) will take a dim view of.

Maybe the solution is to look for (or found) more open-minded organizations that don't care about shit like this. I mean, if I were hiring right now, I couldn't give a fuck less about somebody's Facebook profile pictures of them drunk and puking at a frat party, or hanging out at a strip club, or snorting coke off of a hooker's tits. As long as they can convince me that they can and will do the work that needs to be done, meeting the relevant parameters for quality, timeliness or what-have-you, I don't care about any of that jazz. Surely there have to be some other folks out there who feel the same way.
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Thanks for responding. I do realize that HN has a strong libertarian bent, still I assume that healthy debate is more important than ideology.

For the record: I am not advocating suffocation by regulation. I am asking where the line is drawn, and how people feel about the basic marriage between operant conditioning and micro transactions.

Responding to what you said about WoW and Farmville:
I did specify that I am talking about the REWARD systems employed by the games. Having played both, I know the differences between them as games. (suffered as a Shaman from nearly version 1)

Both though do use basic operant conditioning techniques. In WoW you have your XP bar which gives you your fixed ratio reinforcement, and then drops which provide your variable ratio reinforcement. Then you have your various other schedules which come from leveling up professions, progression, achievements and so on.

Farmville has similar mechanisms - your constant crop growth and timings are your regular reinforcement and then you have random drops which provide your variable reinforcement.

There really isn't any other science behind these systems when it comes to how the reward mechanisms are designed.

The games themselves are very different. Skill/ingenuity does play a huge role in WoW (like the rogue who soloed patchwork), I am in no way comparing the skill requirements of the two games. Farmville can be played by a bot.
oh so where is all this UI mint innovation ? stop bitching at ubuntu it's silly.
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This isn't an economic indicator. GitHire spammed me and all my coworkers with offers of a $10 Amazon gift card to interview at a startup. By doing this, they basically said our time was worth $10.

Unfortunately, the emails were sent as the company they were hiring for -- so GitHire didn't get the brunt of the ill will, the unsuspecting company that hired them did.
Bullshit. GitHire are HR spammer scum. I've gotten multiple requests for Rails and JS jobs. Look at my github profile. Clearly that is not my specialty.

And they do not respond when I point out that I'm clearly not a good fit for their form email. I should report them for CAN-SPAM because there is no way to opt-out of their emails.
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I understand the technical reason for this, but it sounds backwards. In order to opt out, I need to authorize GitHire with my Github account.

They already spammed my email once, so they have it. Send me an opt out email.
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I did this test as well when I first heard about Prey. The first couple times when I knew the picture was going to be taken I did not see the light.

The reason is because we can only focus on one thing at a time. While waiting for the picture I was casually browsing the net -- probably reading HN -- and only periodically looking up to watch the light. I assumed a light source would catch my peripheral vision. It had not. For the third test I stared at the camera with an unbroken focus. Sure enough, the light turned on as expected.

Net: I could not see the light unless /I was looking at the camera/. It's a side effect of how the mind works and processes information. It's also important to keep this fact in mind when building interfaces: don't alert users in places they aren't looking. They won't see it no matter how red or many sparkles you add. :)
Plenty of us" where plenty equals...how many?

Honestly, from my point of view, just myself counts as "plenty" in this context. But I'm pretty sure the number is actually higher than that. Just count up all the F/OSS ideologues who refuse to use closed-source / proprietary software as a matter of principle, for starters. And I'm guessing there are a handful of folks who don't count themselves as total GNU hippies, but still prefer to shy away from companies that sell products based around such a locked-down, proprietary, closed-off ethos.

Apple was crowned as the biggest PC maker in the world this week.

I never said they weren't successful... I'm just saying that not everybody buys into their bullshit or likes their shitty proprietary products, that's all.
There's a sucker born every minute. For every existing user that realizes that clicking a button 800 times in a day is a waste of time, there's at least one new unsuspecting zombie adding a Zynga game to their Facebook account.
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So, the advantage of this scheme seems to be that you don't have to wait for the end of a transmission block before doing error correction and extracting your data. But, we have error correction schemes which work well with fairly small blocks of data. It seems to me that this isn't a saving in network comms, where the delay for a few hundred bit-times is outweighed by other delays. Maybe it will be useful for buses inside chips.
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The big problem that githire has is that it is an opt-out service and not an opt-in one.

Programmers are usually very savvy internet users and don't want to be opted in automatically. If I want to participate I opt-in.

Also the opt-out procedure where you have to authorize their application to get out is very counter productive to say the least.
"I was taught that a fundamental aspect of photography is... if you were there and shot it, it's yours & you should be able to create derivative works accordingly.(Ya, this doesn't apply to taking a camcorder to a movie theater.)"

Maybe the problem is anyone thinking they own any sort of rights at all in images, patterns, etc.
Sorry to bring this up, but what about the impact on environment? Sure, you can replace cheap batteries more often, but that means you're increasing the environment pollution by doing that (you need to recycle more batteries).
Really, guys, you're downvoting this quite reasonable complaint? [Edit: I realize that by the time I posted this, it was no longer downvoted, but I'm not going to ninja-edit beyond posting this disclaimer]

Take a look at http://githire.com/best - do you really think Linus Torvalds is actually looking for a job, let alone going through this site to do so? If not (which is obviously the case), how is it not spammy and misleading to put him as number 1 on a "best" list on a jobs site? That goes along perfectly with the story that latchkey has told about being approached, unsolicited, with unwanted interview requests, and makes me think somewhere along the line, somebody forgot to think about what was proper and what was not. That's not okay, and I'm not very willing to dismiss it as "oops, we were launching, so we took a few shortcuts", it's spammy behavior, plain and simple.

There's probably something that could be done in this space, but this all just seems super shady.
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Huh, Wasn't this always the norm? as specified in http://donttrack.us .
I think that's old link (already did hit front page). But, I'm talking in this context.
I could be wrong here, but those rates appear to be just for the US. I think I read somewhere that only about half of what Apple has is sitting in the US ($66 billion comes to mind).
Yes. I might be able to do that, but I don't wanna push too hard since I am Visa sensitive and financially I prefer my existing company as per the current verbal offer from cisco.

I did look at glassdoor, one I noticed is at an avg of 99k (upper bound at 137k) anther one at an avg of 112K (upper bound at 150k). I was personally expecting to hear a number north of 130K or at least 125k for the base salary + RSU, so was really shocked to hear their offer.
I'm talking about this http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/19/dropbox-minimal-viable-prod...

Also that Eric specifically mentioned this in the book. I'm confused that this is surprising to you. I'm assuming you've read the Lean Startup?
Neat little tool. For add's though probably 99% of the time I use 'git add -p' Not only do I not have to type the file names, but I get a quick little final code review to boot which seems win all around.
The problem in this story isn't Google, or the con-artist, or the drug-dealers, or the people buying the drugs, or Canadians, or GNU hippies or people born on Wednesday or whatever they're trying to spin it as... the problem is the US government. The government has no business attempting to regulate voluntary transactions between free individuals, or trying to regulate how people medicate themselves.
I personally use http://pics.fefoo.com/, and I see two points of improvement for Mongout:

* Title is below the picture, so now you see the image, check the title and have to look up again: reverse this title/image order.

* I' missing a reddit upvote/downvote embed, now I can't rate the pictures.
I don't really get why they would get rid of the 16-column instead of only adding the 12 and mix them with something like <div class="row12"></div>.

I have use for both.
Well, that's where 1) fuzzy search and 2) intelligent, usage-based sorting kick in. Not sure about other mentioned launchers, but Kupfer (which I use) indexes not only applications, but a myriad of other indexable items, such as files, media player items, window actions and so on, so we are talking about hundreds of items, some of which certainly similarly named. It would be completely unusable without great sorting and searching algorithm.
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I think it would be better to offer the whole menu bar as an expanded tree in a vertical strip rendered to an overlay on the whole screen.

This would help the user get an at-a-glance view of all the menus' contents, sectioned logically by each top-level menu entry. It would also reduce menu navigation to mere up/down (and pgup/pgdown), and allow for some sort of an instant search (start typing letters) would also work. It would even work for touchscreens because we've already observed that scrolling up and down is one of the best and natural UI concepts that you can do with a touchscreen.
I'm surprised you aren't getting more love on this one. I've already added the site to my bookmarks bar. I love reddit primarily for the images.

Usually my browsing of reddit is done like this.

1. Click homepage.

2. Determine which links are images.

3. Click image link

4. Chuckle, or shrug

5. Two finger swipe back on my trackpad on lion

6. Scroll

7. Repeat 2 - 6

Now its

1. Go to Mongout
2. Click right
3. Repeat 2 ... again and again

I'm also a big fan of the progress bar. If there was no bar I'd feel ungrounded in the infinite space of reddit. Additionally, because its so addicting to look at reddit images, I can say to myself "I'll look at enough images that fills one progress bar"

Its super simple, and really well executed. Big time props!
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I am not convinced by the underlying concept; I initially ran queries as well in Google to find Github users located in my town that I may be interested in meeting.

The thing is that these people are usually not the ones you can hire, they are more proxies that may help you build a network of connections which will help you reach out to a potential candidate.

In the end, I think you'd need to tap in a much wider community than Github to find your next hire; it's what the cool kids use but it's far from being the white pages of the development community.
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