skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"as much as they can ...not their responsibility."

You make it sound like Google's suddenly found themselves in these unfortunate circumstances through no fault of their own.

On the contrary, this is the reality of Android. You don't get to own the pluses of being "open" and not own the minuses.
is acquiring works too, as they are in process of getting acquired. :)
Siri brings nearly 25 percent of Wolfram Alpha traffic
Pinterest has been around since 2008 according to crunchbase, so almost 4 years, so 4 years to get to 10MM uniques? That doesn't strike me as an impressive enough figure to have a Techcrunch post celebrating, filler article?

2 sites I started would be competing for such "amazing growth" if this was any sort of record breaking bench mark. One site went from 200,000 uniques/month to 8,500,000 uniques/month in less than a year, another did 200,000 uniques/month to 6,000,000/month uniques in under a year. both of these sites are relatively inconsequential in the grand scheme of the internet and I assume many more sites have done way more impressive things. Dumb article.

I'd bet chatroulette.com was doing 10m uniques a month+ at its peak well within a year of it existing.
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"They throw it at you..."

I've the same gripe. Maybe, I can elucidate the parent's point.

I can appreciate the mathematician's fancy for reducing numerical manipulation to an indivisible, atomic precision. Creating poetic abstractions is dear to many in applied sciences. Where it sticks in the craw, where it stops making sense, is where you have this beautiful construct and it's purpose is left a mystery. If it's a piece of art, fine. It's welcome to hang on the wall over there next to the others, but I'm not going to remember it in much detail without some context. If there isn't a concrete use, if there isn't a purpose, the idea won't make it out of short-term memory. "But it's the foundation for all of these other beautiful edifices of logic that we'll cover in the next chapter!" It's like being told, "This is red paint. This is green paint. This is burnt umber paint...", without ever being shown a Picasso, Renoir, or da Vinci. If you ground the presentation with messy, imprecise, real world numbers, the logical purity of the subject will not be lost or sullied, the esteem for it's power only more appreciated. Pull the pin, show us what it can do!

You may not be a physicist or engineer, and that their respective topics will be covered in their respective classes. But those same physicists and engineers probably aren't mathematicians. So what business did they have teaching me math... better than a math teacher ever did?
You're right, there's nothing black and white about this introvert/extrovert business.

At one extreme, there are highly extroverted people who simply can't imagine not interacting with hundreds of people on a regular basis. At the other extreme, there are people who actually suffer a medical condition known as autistic spectrum disorder (which itself contains a large gradient). Everything in between is a gradient. Psychiatrists still have no idea how to distinguish a person with mild Asperger's from a person who is simply introverted.

This, of course, doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with taking a slice of the gradient and analyzing the hell out of it. Writing about a complicated topic always involves a certain amount of simplification and drawing lines where it's actually quite blurry. I've read articles that do this job much better than the link does, but this one isn't the worst, either.
Thank you for the 83(b) mention. The article completely glosses over that.
Can someone explain to me how one can use the "iterate faster" method to build highly reliable systems?

How would Google look like if they were to release GMail using an "iterate faster" mentality? Your INBOX just got accidentally erased because of our UI bug. Oops sorry, we'll release a fix in 5 minutes.

How about Windows? or a generic OS driver? Oops, your machine is just blue-screening now. Don't worry, we'll just release an update in an hour. It'll certainly make your OS drivers very reliable.

Don't confuse the Web 2.0 "iterate faster" era with "the right way". Building "iterate faster" systems is easy. Building systems "the right way" is hard.
The name of the tool is Flick Raft, two words.

Logos are typically tried under trademark, not copyright protection.

This is a good thing for Flicr because trying to claim that having two colors in your logo highlighting the text is something unique to your logo wouldn't make a very good fight in the copyright court.
Lawyer? God, get a fucking grip. No wonder companies treat their users like morons.
You're totally off base on the first part.

1) Prohibited paid search placement: This only applies to bidding on placement on search engines. Pinterest has not bid on terms on their own site, so that section has no relevance even if Pinterest itself could be considered a search engine.

2) Redirecting links: This prohibits placing links that point to an intermediate page that then redirects to Amazon. Pinterest is linking directly to Amazon (with affiliate identifiers in the query string), not to an intermediate page that performs any redirection.
You can pull up to 500 photos per flickr API call, so it's possible to fetch up to 180,000 photos per hour while staying under the limit.
To get were they are is an amazing achievement, but it still looks like Window 95.
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> At the very least, the name of the tool is trademark infringement and the derivative logo is copyright infringement.

I wouldn't say that for sure. I'm not a lawyer but I would guess that the use of the name and logo would pass as a parody.
The idea of Technical books on Kindle is not new.
I have converted numerous Sitepoint PDF books to Kindle format and read them on the Kindle AND on my computer using the Kindle app for Mac.
I loved the video and PROMISE to buy the Kindle book when it is available.
So my entire address book is on Path's servers right now?

Well shit. How do I get it off their servers?
I'm betting WebCL running on CPU cores will beat JS by 20x margin as well.
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Bullshit. TechCrunch is embarrassing these days.

http://www.quantcast.com/formspring.me
Pinterest is a new social media infested website. People are getting smarter to utilize such websites.

Don't be surprised with the numbers whether it is from Pinterest or from another hot-up-and-coming "allow-me-to-share-my-view". It's a place to promote your content.

If you can make a website targeting marketers, your number will be off the chart soon too.
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I prefer a single key to four, even if I have to move my hand off the home-row.
An RSU is not exactly equal to an option with a strike of $0, because you control the exercise date on an option. Not so on an RSU.

The taxable event with options is the date of exercise (or the 83b election), not the date of vesting. The option owner has control over the date of exercise, meaning they can delay exercise until after the vesting date.

An RSU, having a "strike price" of $0, "exercises" (and therefore is a taxable event) the instant it vests.

In both cases, the gain (the surplus of fair market value over exercise price) is ordinary income and taxed as such.

In both cases, the gains (or losses) after the initial taxable event are capital gains, and the rules are not as simple as for stocks, but basically, for employees with typical vesting, hold the shares for a year after exercise and these gains are long-term capital gains.
"We built the system to stay within the limits of 3600 calls per hour, however it seems that a surge of imports pushed it over the threshold before we could throttle it back."

It sounds like they designed it to stay within the rate limits, but had a bug, so it didn't.

"We’re a bit surprised that the key was disabled almost immediately after we reached the limit."

Is it crazy to think that Flickr abides by the rate limiting they advertise? Isn't that just like "truth in advertising"? The onus is on you to stay within that rate.

"We thought about creating a new api key but didn’t know if that would be flagged as abuse."

Is there really any part of your gut that says no? Do you think Flickr would implement a rate limiting policy if they were okay with people creating an unlimited number of keys so that it serves no point?

Sorry to be so negative, but... Is this really news?
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You're showing a disproportionate emotional response to a point he didn't even make.

The idea is that as parents, we send subtle signals to our young children about how adult life should be. A father spending 6h a day at work and the rest with their child is preparing a personality potentially lacking a builtin discipline derived subconsciously from observing the parental example.

This has nothing to do with your worries about your death bed regrets. They're valid too, but besides the point the PP was making.
It's not unreasonable to think that companies would warn you before cutting off your API key. Any time I've ever integrated with a 3rd party API and come close to reaching their limit I've gotten friendly emails from devs asking if they can be of assistance.
See this thing: http://www.iwebinspector.com/
Just to spell it out - there are three (main) reasons why we would want capital gains taxed at a lower headline rate:

1) Capital gains are already taxed at the corporate level. People seem to intuitively understand how this works at the dividend level (dividends are paid with post tax dollars), but if you do the math, it works precisely the same with capital gains. (Please note: Tax incidence is complicated. Not all the corporate tax is borne by investors. Especially in small open economies like the UK, it's actually mostly paid by the workers via lower salaries.)

2) Speaking of which...capital gains are a tax on investment. Investment leads directly to increased labour productivity. Productivity leads directly to higher salaries. If we want employees to be paid a lot, we want, as a matter of public policy, to encourage investment. At this point the observant will pipe up "wait, are you saying it's good for the workers if we tax worker salaries more heavily than capital gains income?!" Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying, and it's supported by a rich body of empirical and theoretical backing. Heavy capital gains taxes are the precise policy you'd implement if you wanted to keep labour poor and unproductive. (If it helps, consider that investment is saving - it's an accounting identity - and the US has a big problem with low savings rates, which in turn means that they struggle to get enough investment without borrowing from overseas lenders. See the problem?)

3) Finally, investment income isn't just already taxed at the corporate level - it's also already taxed at the personal level too. Imagine two people, Spendthrift Sally and Frugal Frank. Both work at jobs making $200k/year, after tax. Sally spends all her income on consumption, and saves $0. Frank spends 75% of his income on consumption, and saves $50k/year by purchasing stocks which go up in value by 5% per year. After twenty years, Frank has spent $1m total on stocks now worth a cool $1.7m (clearly he follows the buy-and-hold school of investing). He is retiring, and wants to sell them all to re-invest in safer bonds. What tax rate do you think is fair? He made those investments with after-tax dollars. Do we now tax him again on the result of those investments? Don't we want people to behave like Frank, instead of Sally? And if we charge him 15% on his capital gains, he'd end up paying over $100k MORE total tax than Sally. Does Frank, who has scrimped and saved his whole life, really deserve to pay more taxes than Sally, who never saved a penny?

(The analysis becomes more complicated if Frank received the stock as compensation, instead of purchasing it with his salary. But keep in mind that he's still (1) taxed on that initial compensation and (2) is deferring consumption; a responsible choice which we as a society probably want to encourage.)
This whole thing says to me:

* We're willing to spread rumors about our competitors, and rip off their IP

* We're willing to manufacture controversy to play the victim when there's no actual controversy

* We will use every media channel we can to amplify fake controversy to get more eyeballs

* Our service doesn't actually work; we DOS'd our competitor until it broke

I won't be moving my photos there.
I e-mailed Path and they replied. The only thing I am worried about is how to verify my information is actually wiped out. And what about all my other friends who have me in their address books? How do I get rid of that?

Zack S.
FEB 08, 2012 | 05:19PM PST
Hi Jeff,

Thanks for getting in touch with us! I have erased your contacts and their information from our servers.

On behalf of the team, I’d like to apologize for any privacy concerns that you may have had. Our current release of Path for Android requests permission to access your address book. In the next iOS release, we will have this same permission request added.

Until the update is released for iOS, selecting “Add Friends” will display the names of contacts that you have stored on your phone. But now that you’ve opted out of contact uploading, we will never re-store this data on our servers.

Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help you. I’m more than happy to address any further questions or concerns that you may have.

Best,
Zack
>I'd bet chatroulette.com was doing 10m uniques a month+ at its peak well within a year of it existing.

I run Omegle, which competes with ChatRoulette. Omegle was released in 2009, and it does well over 10 million monthly uniques routinely now.

I suspect ChatRoulette did well over 50 million uniques in a month at its peak, which was a few months after its launch. Omegle's never been that big, but it's had sustained growth, and it's bigger than ChatRoulette is now.

Getting a bit off topic, but here's Omegle vs. ChatRoulette according to Alexa: http://i.imgur.com/9vW96.png And Omegle alone: http://i.imgur.com/lfJHs.png
Can someone explain why are different stock types in the states taxed at different rates? What is the logic behind classification of some stocks as income and some as capital assets?

I am quite knowledgeable in finance, but am Canadian and in Canada all stocks are taxed as capital gains and all capital gains are taxed at 25%.

We do have a complication when it comes to distribuited dividends, but I imagine so do the States.
It's no help that JS is faster than AS for now, AS used to be much faster than contemporary JS, but how about display ads with dozens of Flash embedded? Fast is only relative.

Think about dozens of canvas animation ads embedded with Javascript. It will be as shitty as Flash. I'll switch to the first browser that allows me to selectively disable all HTML5 crap.
The truth....Extroverts are consistently chosen as leaders.

There is no way around it, from the numbers. That doesn't make them better or worse.

We all have our part to play.
self-promoters have awfully mixed reasons for promoting their own stuff. this leads to problems.

- they are free-riding, not helping the community. notice that OP doesn't really post things they are not involved with. i notice you do the same.

- they do not disclose it is self-authored.

- the behavior is often looked down-upon by communities. i certainly feel bad about doing it.

- when authors are chasing pageviews and not reputation they are often submitting everything rather than attempting to curate good stuff.

- there's an incredibly fine line between this and spam.

when someone submits something that they found, they are saying "this is good."

when someome submits something that they wrote, they are saying something subtly different: "please look at this"

it's forgivable when they are part of the community, because at least they know what the community is about. i notice that your first comment on this site is about self-posting.

you are unapologetic about submitting your stuff but the vast majority gets zero upvotes. wrong audience, probably.
That specific example may have no evidentiary value, but if you simply take it as being a symbolic name for the general phenomenon of millionaires/billionaires paying a lower tax rate than regular working folk, it's pretty obvious that this not only can happen, but that it's not all that uncommon. And in fact, nobody disputes that it happens. The only dispute is over whether it should.
> You don't get to own the pluses of being "open" and not own the minuses.

Actually you can, you wouldn't blame Linus because your linux based router comes with a broken or old version of linux.
Funny this should come up today. I just haven't really known how. But today, I forked something, changed a file and submitted a pull request. It was just one line of code and I full expect it to get rejected but I figured I needed to start somewhere. GitHub made it easier then I imagined it would be.
considering contacting our lawyer

What do you expect to achieve with this step?
It's only an internship! You're not being hired for the rest of your natural life. A Big company will look good on your CV. Of course, you should seek out even better options and as many of the other comments suggest, only accept a couple of hours before the deadline.

Assuming you accept, then stop going after other offers. You'll only upset yourself and/or burn bridges. Just chill out until you start.
Haters gonna hate ... keep hustling Andrew.
joshu, The fact is that the writer of this post and the person who posted were two different people, so regardless of what you think of self-promotion, it simply wasn't relevant in this instance.
Yeah, I'm discovering that now, lol. My "research" consisted entirely of searching for "ruby" and going through the first few pages. They were nearly entirely Kindle versions of established print books. Turns out.. Amazon prefers to feature books that actually sell ;-)

I've since discovered some cheap indie Kindle programming books and even a whole range of cheap O'Reilly "What is *?" books. So it seems there's a market but IMHO not a very mature one, so I look forward to giving it a go. Thanks for the support!
1. I just changed my phone #
2. I notified all of my contacts to change their phone #s
3. I contacted both Apple and my State senator.

I am outraged by this scandal, and I still can't bring myself to believe that Path has been collecting this sensitive personal information. My 6-month old's pediatrician's # is in my phone. If this were EVER exposed or shared with a 3rd party, I can only image what kind of damage could occur. Path should suffer for this. I forgive Apple for secretly tracking my iPhone's location for a year, but I DO NOT FORGIVE PATH. Not this time. This went to far. Dave Morin should know better. I bet an engineer voiced that he felt morally wrong doing this, and Path just fired him. This is just wrong. A defining moment in our industry. We need to stand united on this issue, and just try to move forward.
Siri has since been ported to older devices via jailbreaking. As I understand it, there are no performance issues.

However, I do agree that Google needs to sort the 'update problem'.
I've never understood this obsession with editing efficiency among programmers. When coding I spend about 90% of my time thinking about what to type. A good IDE that really understands the structure of my code without twenty flaky plugins is worth much more to me than saving some keystrokes.
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Nice strategy. While I'm sure office politics plague many companies, I think some just aren't able to dig deep into each project and group to find out who deserves recognition. It's often important in larger companies to create visibility for the instances you do a great job, and this can often be construed as office politics.
Congrats to a fellow YCS10 company! The Rapportive team rocks.
Snapfish and all other photo sharing sites lack one fundamental thing that any photo enthusiast will identify immediately as one of the biggest problems.

Image de-duplication.

Snapjoy has the only image de-duplicating algorithm that I've seen that really works.
Hopefully you type fast enough that by the time your brain noticed any lag on the "j", you are already a few letters down the line.

If you are too dependent on visual feedback while typing, you'll have a difficult time typing fast in any environment.

That said, I don't think I'd ever try remapping escape. I have long fingers though.
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Their stuff didn't work? Flickr's worked exactly as it was described to. Obviously this is a huge PR piece, but it doesn't really make me want them over Flickr.
Calling my opinion "flamebait" implied it. We all know what that means.

Your response also has nothing really to do with our topic at-hand.
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Their collective decision making has proven to be a huge liability. Would you hire them for your next venture?

A 14 year old girl could tell you that her address book is private, private, private!
[disclaimer: see my profile for my involvement with Yahoo, I have no connection with this particular incident/Flickr/etc]

This and the TC post annoy me because Snapjoy (or perhaps the tech press) is trying to spin this into some underdog vs evil big company story when it isn't.

For example, when Snapjoy says "We tried our best to stay within Flickr’s API limits, but the overwhelmingly positive response has exceeded our expectations.", what they are really saying is that they didn't implement rate limiting correctly.

And when they say "We’re a bit surprised that the key was disabled almost immediately after we reached the limit.", what they're saying is that Flickr actually did implement said limiting correctly (don't have personal knowledge, assume that's what happened).

I also like the spin from the tech press on this somehow meaning that your photos are locked into Flickr when Snapjoy has neither an API or any other mechanism to get photos out - all I see is a promise of a future feature to sync to Dropbox/S3.

I completely understand the PR game being played here but I wish it needn't be this way. Especially since Snapjoy seems to be a very slick product from a very talented team.

And all this ignoring the issues with the name - I'm not sure how it is ok to use a derivative of your competitor's name to build something designed to take users away from them.
As I emailed to Path's support, our 3-4 year old children's schools, bus companies, physicians, pharmacies and our family lawyer were in that contact list

Ok, I'm going to pick on you for a second.

Hold the downvotes everyone! Let me explain.

This seems like a bit of a knee-jerk reaction akin to "think of the children!" or the whole child porn scare-mongering that politicians engage in that we on HN are always criticizing. I recognize that Path screwed up, big-time, but I'm unclear on why them having the information you cited, along with dozens or hundreds of other contacts from your address book, for millions of users, constitutes some kind of terrible threat to your children. I mean, their schools, their bus companies? How is that even remotely useful information to anyone?

I think there's plenty to criticize here from just the high-level perspective of "they used my contacts without my permission", without use the children scare-mongering tactic. But maybe there's a specific threat in mind that I'm not thinking of?

Anyway, just thought your response was a little over the top, and more informed by emotion than reason.

Ok, now everyone can downvote :)