skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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This isn't an issue if you've mapped ESC to jk or something similar.
The Thief series and the horror games by Trilobyte land on GOG.com
Apple-sparked 'App Economy' created 466K U.S. jobs in 4 years
This is an important point, but it's an issue that would arise even if Path allowed voluntary opt-in for contact scraping.
Pry is in exactly the same basket as awesome_print in terms of awesomeness, IMHO. It just did make my genuinely random selection for this video but will definitely be in the finished item :-)
Snapjoy doesn't give people freedom, it just takes over from Flickr.
Flickr gives people more freedom, by letting users download their files.
I seriously doubt that there's a $1m in bit coin per month.
sudo aptitude install kde-full shouldn't be "a bunch of footwork" by any standard by someone who passed high school.
I've brought sandwiches, beef jerky, nuts, fruit, etc. through security. Drinks never work.
Coincidentally I was reading The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding this morning and the 'Law of Fellowship' in that book defines it to a tee! :-)
> Isn't that the whole point of the story?

No, it is not. This sentence in bold tells you they do not understand: "Zuckerberg will be paying taxes on $5 billion in gains from exercising options." If you don't understand why that is different than my comment, then you don't understand the issues of the 83B election also.

Now, odds are you a smart person. And that is my point: It doesn't matter how smart you are; The vagaries of the tax law are so numerous and extreme and obscure that you can only come to the conclusion: The tax system is truly brain-damaged.
I used to think the same way. Then I worked a summer in a place where the n-word was used in place of it: such as "Oh, that's -work," or "I'm not sitting * (in reference to the middle seat)"

I came to realize this was a case of guys growing up in a slightly backwards environment getting acclimated to such talk. They weren't particularly hostile toward African-Americans and in fact worked alongside them from time to time. This was just a manner of speech that they had gotten used to, wrong as it is.

But it made me also realize that just because I became acclimated to "bitch" and "bitching" doesn't mean that it's OK, or that I've fully and totally disassociated the word with it's sexist connotation. Same with calling weak people "pussies." Grew up with that in high school athletics, and now it's a word I would never use.
Neither does Instagram, really.
In this case it is Google's responsibility.
Steve Yegge: Effective Emacs (2006)
I take it and my contractees haven't had a problem with setting up. But yes, it's a higher barrier than a credit card but it's not much different an electronic check. Like Paypal, it just takes time to gain mind share.
The FAQ's been linked to a couple of times from here, and it vaguely says:

Are you still working on the Android browser, or are you dropping support in favor of Chrome?

Android Browser and Chrome for Android are both derived from Chromium and already share a lot of code. We will continue to evaluate where it makes sense to harmonize our efforts; for instance, Google now has just one port of WebKit to maintain.
Most of negotiation is just asking questions about the other side's needs and constraints, and articulating yours. Often you can find a creative way to solve everyone's needs.

For example, in your case you should find out why they need an answer next week.

If they have a rule that offers can only be open for 7 days, you could ask them to issue the offer later after you've gone through your interview process.

Or if they have backup candidates they might need to engage, let them engage those guys, and you sync up again once your interviews are done.

And you should articulate your constraint: you have an interview "process" that continues for the next xx weeks, after which you can make a well-informed decision. You can also tell them it's in their interest for you to make a well-informed decision - they want someone who chose to work there for the right reasons and will be a long-term, productive employee. Turnover kills companies.

I wouldn't accept an offer unless you really intend to work there. One day you'll be a manager or director, and the karma will come back to bite you :) You always want to be a class act, even when confronted with someone less-than-classy.

If they're reasonable people and they want you, there's probably a good reason for their constraints, and they should be willing to find a solution that fits your constraints too.

If they're not reasonable people, or they don't want you, better to find out now.
I love how the process of assessing the rumours among the LHC teams mirrors the process of analysing the data from the experiments. Do we have a strong rumour here? 3 sigma?

One might even call it a symmetry.
Why the indirection via reddit?

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/bugsense-hybr...
Flowchart: Understanding Open Source Licenses
I think there's a good chance that these patches are for backdoors that would be discovered looking at the source.

I await for someone brave enough to get the source and publish a security analysis.
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Oakland isn't Silicon Valley. Fix the headline.
the furor (at least, that I saw) was that the devices stored this information and would potentially let others look at it later.

it shouldn't be upsetting that your computer knows what keys you're pressing or what network you are affiliating with. recording that information permanently could be bad.

if you have an ubuntu laptop with wireless handy, run the following command:

sudo grep AssocResp /var/log/syslog
Twitter Time Machine 0.3.3
and 512MB of RAM, minimum.
1) That's certainly lame on the part of Flickr.

2) I find it odd that Snapjoy is offering this at a time it isn't accepting new accounts: I clicked "sign up" and entered an e-mail address to be notified about when they're expanding.

3) I hadn't heard of Snapjoy before this story.
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Anyone else catch this in the footer:

"Please note: Codesonic concedes inferiority only to the lingering sparkle of an eroding afternoon daydream."

+1 for funny, +1 for unexpected, and +1 for capturing my imagination
The major benefit of a "formal" education (or in learning from someone with lots of experience) is that they have a better feel for the overall territory than a novice. They can help guide you towards the direction you need to go.

Learning by yourself should obviously be encouraged, but it's often difficult to know what thing to learn about next in order to ensure that the new knowledge integrates well with what you already know and (pragmatically) helps you solve the problem at hand.

To give a specific example, I'm lucky enough to sit next to our chief infrastructure engineer at work and he has helped me learn a huge amount about Linux over the past three years. He hasn't done this by giving me "formal" instruction, but instead he's pointed me in the right direction when I get stuck with something.
This common travel scam relies on knowing of at least a pair of friends:

http://www.lastminutetravel.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/08/tr...

More details would probably make it work better, too.
Banks aren't being disrupted. On the contrary they have an incentive to join FiSync and work with Dwolla as the current interbank systems are ancient.

The credit card companies are certainly being disrupted though. Their model is based on a limited communication capability which evaporated years ago. They will claw and hang on for dear life but it's just a matter of time.
I'd just make sure to follow up promptly and show interest. A thank you letter seems over the top.
Suspending an API key after that user exceeds a published rate limit sounds perfectly reasonable. We have no reason to believe it wasn't automated and temporary, yet. That's not "lame".

The limit was 3600 API calls per hour. They moved 125,000 photos per hour. I don't know how many calls that involves, but it appears well over the limit.
Why is it lame on Flickr's part to ban/suspend an API key exceeding the requests limit? I can entirely believe that this was automated.
I feel like this is [unfortunately] a regular practice of app makers nowadays. I'd love to abide by "let the industry govern itself" but I don't think that's realistic. I've seen so many apps that have abusive and opaque permissions.

Is there any regulation to protect consumers here? If not, are any legislators drafting any?
Would the FTC step in or does this only happen when a giant like MSFT/GOOG/FB makes a mis-step?
There's actually some serious questions about that. In interviews, Bosanke has claimed to be paying a 35.8% tax rate. She's been a little coy about her income, but in one interview she claimed to only make $60,000 a year.

Anyone with even a passing familiarity with the US tax code will quickly understand that this is not possible. Seriously. So we know that at least some of what she's claimed in wrong. And since Bosanke won't release her tax returns, that's really as far as we can go.

In short, the "Buffet secretary" talking point really has no evidentiary value for either side. We simply have no idea what she makes or what she pays; all we know is what she's publically claimed is wrong.
I've thought for a while that Vim could analyze how a user edits and spot repeated use of inefficienct techniques like these -- and then suggest the more efficient alternatives to the user. Implementing this could make a nice project.
michaeldwan, why are you posting techcrunch linkbait here? Since you were quoted as saying that you know your exporter went over the API limit, this seems like non-news. It's unlikely that you were even blocked by a human.

EDIT: it's pretty disappointing to see a YC partner jumping on the linkbait bandwagon: http://twitter.com/garrytan/status/167050449747312640
What TechCrunch fails to mention in its linkbaity headline is that it was blocked for exceeding the API limit calls of 3600/hr and was therefore blocked. I do not see how this is news at all. Most likely the article was written just to portray Flickr/Yahoo as a company that "banned" Snapjoy from its services.
Is that a market that LinkedIn want to compete in? I can see a tenuous link, but it doesn't seem to be part of their core business. I am sure that time will tell, but I suspect that they bought Rapportive for the talent.
I see the media has helped you understand the way the world really is, and how Libya was before the liberation and enlightment process happened.

Before this intervention, Libya was considered to be the Switzerland of the African Continent (relatively speaking of course).

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26686

You're notions that it was some type of a hell hole, are misplaced to the wrong pivotal point in its history.

It's all been the same formula...

1. Arm a number of "protestors".
2. Get said protestors to attack military and gov personnel and vehicles with ak47s and rocket launchers.
3. Let them go back into their homes.
4. Claim response is unprovoked mass slaughter of innocent lives.
5. Get video showing innocents caught in the cross fire.
6. Start calling the leadership despots and monsters.
7. Claim that our side is now the majority of the populace.
8. Fight the evil!
9. Divvy up the tasty pie.
This has absolutely nothing to do with open-source. Please, don't confuse things. Also, it's not because the source code is now public that it became open.
hahaha, thanks Jay, and nice plug ;)
At the very least, the name of the tool is trademark infringement and the derivative logo is copyright infringement.

If the main goal behind the suspension was user retention rather than just bypassing the API limits, whoever made the decision chose poorly. Flickr users who find out about this will know that it will be difficult to get their photos out if they decide to use something else in the future, so they have a greater incentive to seek alternatives beforehand.
I hope whoever's blackmailing Symantec get jailed.
The largest credit union in Iowa has joined FiSync so I would think the answer is "yes".
As I understand it: They can't.

If you do not open them manually or restart you phone (if they have the permission RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED) They are not executing. You can install them and revoke certain permissions before they are running for the first time.
Joshu,
I'm not sure what exactly you're complaining about. The person who posted the link is not the same person who wrote it. They just happen to work at the same site with oh 50 or 60 other writers. But even if the author had promoted her own story, so what? I can tell you that as a writer, I promote my own work on social sites because being read is a goal of mine and also because page views make my editors happy and keep me working. I make no apologies for that. It's actually part of what any good writer should be doing. After I publish a post I usually spend a good 20-30 minutes promoting it on social sites--so people know it's there and actually read it.
Would you be able to send him photocopies, as "letters"?
Is the article's bogeyman description of RSUs accurate at all? My understanding was that an RSU was equivalent an option priced at $0. The issue is the exercise date, not option-vs-RSU. Lots of public companies (Amazon, Google, etc give at RSUs). the issue, as
jpdoctor mentions in this thread, is that you pay income tax on the value of stock (minus option price, if any) on the day you exercise, which is some time between vest date and sell date (option/stock-holder's choice).

RSUs are only expensive if they vest when the stock is expensive, exactly the same as with options.

In either case, the earlier they vest, the lower taxes are (due to capital gains tax rates)

The only way I can imagine the article making sense is if Facebook gave employees delayed vesting schedules beyond the usual 25%/yr, and so stock grants vested later (at higher market price) than they would otherwise.

Yes?
Wow, congratulations guys.
That sounds like dividend taxes, not capital gains.
This is very true. I think of it like marketing: you need to sell yourself. The people that don't want to play politics or just want to code will always be left behind.
Does Snapjoy work well with photo organization apps like Aperture?

I've hit the 100GB limit on Dropbox, and I'd like to be able to view albums on the web.
When infographic is used for analytic
"We’re a bit surprised that the key was disabled almost immediately after we reached the limit. "

YCombinator founders are developing a reputation for weasel-word bullshit. Ditch the victim act.
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OpenNews tries to bring coders and newspapers together
Some introverts make it there. Some, not most. As for extroverts, I stand by my statement. They just need others too much in order to keep up. With that kind of mind set, it is hard to get near emotional independence.
Dropbox: The new /delta API call (beta)
I've never heard anyone say that they liked Vi because it was cutting edge technology. You sound quite sour about it.
Some links: (googled for mjpg.cgi)

http://pastebin.com/1pEwWPME

http://pastebin.com/nLLtNcTr

http://www.mediavida.com/foro/90/webcams-hackeadas-437690

http://pastehtml.com/view/blu14fm2p.html <- large grid of web cams
If you know the difference, why mention the FSF?

Not only this code is not free, it's toxic. If anyone does or wants to work on free or open source software, I suggest not even looking into this codebase.
Yes, I could. But I live in Poland, so mailing an ebook (100 pages?) would be incredibly expensive--and there's still no telling that he would actually receive the letter. Out of curiosity, what title did you have in mind?
If they're playing by the same rules, which it appears that they are...

Of course they are playing by the same rules. Rich and poor alike get preferential tax rates on capital gains income the same way that rich and poor alike get tax breaks on private jet ownership depreciation. Anything else would be class warfare.
I gave Snapjoy a try because of the HN link. It seemed to work fine. The pricing doesn't seem feasible for my uses and this kind of wink-wink behavior doesn't at all boost my opinion. See HN discussion about Path's "oops, our bad" thing.
I'm on the board of Stack Exchange, and I can attest -- not just Jeff, but Joel (Jeff's cofounder & CEO) and everyone on the team care profoundly about the web and ther responsibility to the community. Not a single conversation, from the Meta conversations on the site to the planning decisions on the board, happen without a reiteration, either implicitly or explicitly, of that goal of trying to make the web better. I'm incredibly proud of that ethos and of the values that Jeff's post also makes clear, and delighted it's obvious to folks who are (as I am sometimes) just interacting with the site as a coder who has a problem to solve.
It appears that Pinterest is violating the Amazon Affiliates operating agreement.

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/agreement...

Specifically:

“Prohibited Paid Search Placement” means an advertisement
that you purchased through bidding on keywords, search
terms, or other identifiers (including Proprietary Terms)
or other participation in keyword auctions. “Proprietary
Term” means keywords, search terms, or other identifiers
that include the word “amazon,” “endless,” “Kindle,”
“smallparts,” “myhabit,” or “Javari,” or any other
trademark of Amazon or its affiliates ( see a non-
exhaustive list of our trademarks), or variations or
misspellings of any of those words (e.g., “ammazon,”
“amaozn,” “endlss,” “enldess,” “smalparts,” “kindel,” and
“javary”). “Redirecting Link” means a link that sends
users indirectly to the Amazon Site via an intermediate
site or webpage and without requiring the user to click on
a link or take some other affirmative action on that
intermediate site or webpage. “Search Engine” means Google,
Yahoo, Bing, or any other search engine, portal, sponsored
advertising service, or other search or referral service,
or any site that participates in any of their respective
networks.

Pinterest falls under both "Redirecting Link" and "Search Engine" parts of this clause.

In addition:

Section 10 requires affiliates sites to state they are an affilliate:

You must, however, clearly state the following on your
site: “[Insert your name] is a participant in the Amazon
Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising
program designed to provide a means for sites to earn
advertising fees by advertising and linking to [insert the
applicable site name (amazon.com, endless.com,
smallparts.com or myhabit.com)].”
Arrogance is more about tone than content.
I don't understand these articles. Introvert does NOT mean that you're incapable of communicating well or being friendly. I pride myself on communication skills, yet I can go weeks at a time without any human interaction and prefer to work in conditions that are mocked by others as a "cave". These things have not prevented me from having good relationships with clients and/or colleagues.

As for jonnathanson's comment, frankly it doesn't sound like an introvert issue, it sounds like a basic communication issue. If no one knows what you're doing and you don't take the time to let others understand your accomplishments (even just an email to the team "Hey, I got X,Y,Z done and a proposal for W", what are they supposed to do exactly?
Path is a incredibly well designed product. Facebook mobile is a piece of s$$t product that i would never use. If the VCs are happy then it doesn't matter what you guys think. Path is incredibly well designed product, Dave Morin is a hero. You guys should stop complaining and go use the product.
No reason the security analysis cann't be published anonymously as well.
Deep-thinking, sensitive and publicity-shy, introverts.

Sensitive and publicity-shy is NOT introversion! Screw this, I give up. From now on "introvert" means shy and other social problems.
Why read malice when it could just be naïveté?

Maybe they really didn't think Flickr didn't have automatic systems to throttle you once you exceeded your API limit.

Maybe they really thought it'd take hours, maybe even days before someone at Flickr noticed the spike and manually triggered a block.

Maybe that's the level of competency and foresight one should expect out of Snapjoy...

Even taken at face value, their own words make them look bad.
Depends on if they have a business agreement with Amazon that excludes them from those terms. At their size, they very well might.

Same way large AdSense customers are treated completely different and have their own contracts with Google.
The fact that address-book upload should be opt-in is obvious, and was stated so many times here it was boring. But, there's also the other side: me, and quite a few of people I know, have good reasons to have an opt-out from being discoverable this way. If someone knows my email address, let them send me an email with an invitation code. They shouldn't even know I'm signed up until I accept.

Though I also don't really think it's something private companies should solve. Now, I can of course avoid services that let me be too easily findable, but the proper solution is to make said opt-out required by law. Otherwise it's just not beneficial for the company to provide it.
Seems like this kind of an article will get the whole thing more attention and increase the user uptake of this offer.
Engineers needed to take down cybercriminals with math
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