skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mailbox is/becomes USPS (U.S. Postal Service) domain (I don't know about "property"). Which is why you'll never find handbills placed in them -- it's against the law, and the postal service will fine and/or prosecute companies that violate this.

Again, I don't know all the arguments, but you can, for example, leave your bicycle on public property without losing your property rights to it. (For that matter, you can park your car on a public street.)

I believe the convention is that, when you've placed your trash for pickup, you've also discarded your property rights. Where the line is, though, for example with regard to "placement"? Any lawyers want to chime in?

P.S. Or, I/we could wade through the other comments in this now much larger thread.
It's a good start, but it doesn't consider device diversity even within an identical version number of Android. Is may not be a factor for simple apps, but trust me, if you are doing things that interface with the underlying hardware it's a big problem. Apps that do things with Bluetooth and capturing audio, for example, really expose the fragmentation. I know some folks building something that records and plays audio over the Bluetooth SCO channel and even though they have standardized on Gingerbread, they still have to test every model from the major manufacturers due to different firmware builds.
Oh, the irony: http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/866124_random-business-ide...
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The question here is not about Youtube's algorithm being perfected or not, but about why they are having such an automatic censorship tool in the first place?

They aren't doing anything illegal by not having the tool, which means they are doing it voluntarily, and since the tool is not perfect, Youtube itself can be more abusive than the copyright owners asking for takedowns. Google needs to stop this practice.
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Rules are meant to be broken :-)

1) You must consume in order to be exposed to new things. If you're just producing you will tend to be limited, the world is much larger than what you're producing

2) having BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) is helpful to keep you going and not just do small goals for small goals'sake

3) Say yes to new opportunities

The 10AM code commit is a good trick. Might be helpful to resist the urge to check Twitter & HN at 9AM "just for 10 minutes".
Buried in the mass of text at
http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html
is this interesting thing:

"WikiLeaks is about to launch a distributed, encrypted "Facebook for revolutionaries" (https://wlfriends.org/)."

https://wlfriends.org/about#whatfowlis

I see no evidence it's truely distributed though.
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That's a good question. I'm not sure how I would design it. The current test uses a combined score but there's a subtlety. The curve is such that you're better off getting 350 on math and 250 on verbal (or vice versa) than 300 on each. People have suggested that this leads to accepting a many people who are "pointy" rather than "well-rounded." There are people who take differential equations freshman year as well as people who will end up publishing books by the time they graduate.
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Small claims court. Sue them for damages (and punitive, if small claim courts allow).

Also, report Rumblefish for sending fake DMCA requests, it's illegal.
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Interesting comments. Like the typos too :-)
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I think this is great and the idea may be replicated for anything else in the opensource world. For instance, how a about voting for useful git commands, useful rubygems or js libs?

It's not always clear, especially for the novice, what is currently hot in his environment-of-choice infrastructure or which vim commands he should learn first. Voting could help.
How is it going to hurt a lot of people?
WakeMate had a disastrous launch where some of their USB chargers lit on fire. I think Gabriel doesn't want to deal with/feel he can help startups with these sort of problems that only come up when you're making a physical product.
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I - you the person, you the lawyer?

pretty sure - just guessing, sure from some other knowledge, or just misusing words?

fraud - like, they have committed a crime in some jurisdiction?

I am pretty sure this amounts to uninformed speculation.
Because using 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 is less friction than having to a) setup DNS server IPs and then b) having to configure NXDOMAIN proper behavior.

Isn't "friction" what all the startup folks are talking about these days? And how to remove it? It does indeed suck if your business relies on that friction for its business model.
Sure. Pretty soon I bet we'll hear some suggestions - all backed up by hard data, mind you - to reinstate slavery, only this time around it will be voluntary. After all, slave owners fed and clothed their slaves. It will certainly be an improvement over the way some people are living now, so that's a win-win, right? Then some people will say that slavery is wrong, plain wrong, whether it's voluntary or not, and whether it is beneficial to the slaves or not, only to be rebuffed by those in this forum who'll say there's simply not enough evidence to support the necessity of ethics, and others will say: well, that's just the way of the world.

Until that happens, we have before us the suggestion to build working-booths for the poor, where they can simply walk in and work for us, and get paid directly by a money dispenser so that we won't even have to see them or talk to them. And they won't even have to commute - we'll build those hi-tech sweatshops right in their slums. We won't even know their names, and if one of them gets sick - well, someone else will take his place and we won't even have to know about it because we can't really be bothered by poor people and their problems. They should be thankful that we need cheap labor so much that we're even willing to employ them (as long as they don't have to come into the office) - it's certainly better than whatever they must be doing now; selling drugs, probably - after all, that's what poor people do, right? All we have to think about now is how to prevent them from cheating us and stealing our money.

How come people are so sure they can revolutionize the world with some stupid web or mobile app, sure that they can disrupt the market and unseat market leaders, but when it comes to social issues some of those very same people sound like slaves to power themselves? How come hackers who are supposedly able to "think outside the box" sound like old, bitter, fatalist, soulless conservatives?
Amusingly, I had to implement this not 2 days ago. Since we're using MaxMind's GeoIP lookup anyway, it was just a case of using the auto-generated com.maxmind.geoip.timeZone class.

Edit: Not quite lat / long to Time Zone, though, more IP -> Location -> Time Zone.
I think that this paragraph from the appendix is the real gem:

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The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality
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explains in great detail the distractions and risk associated with conversing on a cell
phone while driving. This search result came up first because of its high importance as
judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on the web [Page,
98]. It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads
would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying
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advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.
Reminds me of this 'solution'

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1116966310/multi-touch-k...
> The article's headline seems misleading

(zdnet.com)
Thanks for letting me know. This

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/11/06/onli...

appears to be a working link, from a website better about keeping links alive, to the same AP news story.
I'm on the verge of dropping out of bioinformatics, too, after about a decade of postdoc appointments. The corruption of biomedical research by funding imperatives [1] is heart breaking.

That said, cancer genomics could be well the field which makes bioinformatics clinically relevant.

[1] http://www.labtimes.org/labtimes/issues/lt2011/lt02/lt_2011_...
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Nice, love the concept. Any particular reason why you decided not to allow anonymous submissions?
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How much has grade school level math changed over the years? Do we really need new textbooks?
This is great, I've recently got back into using Vim and finding these cool little snippets greatly increases my productivity. I'm not very fluent in vimscript so a website like this is amazing.

As an aside, I'm having some serious issues with bootstrap lately. It seems like every new website I'm seeing is using bootstrap, especially the top navbar, and it's kind of messing with my brain.

I'm finding it hard to distinguish if I've ever seen this website or not, I always feel like I landed on a bootstrap example page.

(Full disclosure: working on two websites that currently use bootstrap as well)
I'd love to see a mashup of the two. I trialed cr-gpg, works fine, if a bit clunky at the moment. I suspect this is a much better way to interact with gpg though (+ --use-agent, etc.).
> If what you're saying is indeed true, then we're not
> looking at a technical problem; we're looking at a social
> problem.

Thinking otherwise is, quite frankly, delusional. The technology has been available for years. It's purely a matter of culture, and I'm frustrated by the persistent belief that science methodology needs better engineering.
Because of all the lawsuits from media conglomerates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Content_ID
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I think people in this thread are reading too much into his list of requirements. He's telling you some of the details you can get right that will help him to decide to invest in you, and you're taking them literally. I don't use twitter, but I don't think he'd hold it against me if I were asking for his investment. He just wants an easy way to look at my online presence, so something like a blog/stackoverflow/HN account/github/Facebook would be helpful too.
Same thing with user signup happened to me. No visual feedback, taken back to signup page, no email was sent. But I could login just fine...
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True, but the encryption does mitigate some of the problem of the email being stored on and indexed by google servers. I have personal conversations with a number of people who use gmail, and it bothers me that those conversations are indexed for marketing purposes. It's a bit of a sledgehammer for that purpose, but it looks like it might get the job done.
biochemist here...

I would love to release my data in an open format. But the software I'm using is proprietary - and the format is therefore closed.

Here's the problem: Scientific software sucks. It's stuck 20 years ago. Usually a pain in the ass. Barely works. Crashes. Proprietary. Hacked together. And worst of all - ridiculously expensive. And if it's not proprietary, then it was written by me. The script is just good enough to do exactly what I need it to. I've hardcoded file directories and tab-delimiters.

If I use a microscope to take images it can be in a Nikon file, a Canon file, a Zeiss file, or a number of other files. None of which are interoperable. TIF, in general, doesn't cut it - it doesn't communicate with the scope and generally can't store all the meta-data that must be kept with the image itself. If I were to dump my raw Nikon files it would help nothing - no one could read them without the $10k software that comes with the scope.

Open standards, even for the more commonly used scientific formats, simply don't really exist. And when they do, they're still hacky and ugly.

If someone would write some good open-source microscopy, genetic, and basic mathematical software it would make thousands of grad-students' lives easier. Someone PLEASE write a good plasmid viewer (an editor if you're feeling kind) for genbank files. An iPhoto/iTunes for microscopy images. A GUI for basic/common perl/python scripts. Some mathematical software that's not impenetrable (a la MatLab/Mathematica). If these softwares were out there and used, it'd be trivial to dump the raw data and allow anyone to use them.

(I'd love to have you guys make me some sweet software. It would take you a relatively short time - these things are standard and already spec'ed out. But sorry - we have no money - we can't really pay you.)
Right, that's what tripped me up as well. Registration just sends you back to the homepage. Login worked for me now as well.
Anyone got a full dump? I want to run the from/to's through a network analysis to understand who the 'supernodes' or connectors are at stratfor.
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The Trello team loves WebSockets for push, and we did all of our initial prototyping and a lot of the first version doing RPC over the socket for writes and gets. However, now that we're supporting a REST API for other services to integrate with, we're moving everything other than pushing updates over to that so that we only have to support one API as we grow Trello's feature set. If we decide to go back to making requests over the socket, my best guess is we'll use the REST semantics and just send method, URI, and args in a WebSocket message and expect a response.
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Well, spam prevention, abusive user prevention, and user engagement (people like seeing their suggestion get upvoted).

Further, I already needed login for up-voting and commenting (or some other mechanism, but login was bar far the easiest solution).

I'm planning to replace the basic signup/login with something better: anonymous, third-party, or openid, maybe.
It's a feature, but it's not necessarily a feature I can see any OS provider committing to providing properly. Because the really really really important part of Dropbox, for me, is that it's the same cloud storage syncing across several OSes.

Essentially, I am unconvinced that Apple/Microsoft/whoever wants to write a wonderfully transparent cross-platform experience which might, to an extent, subvert their own core platform.
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Apologies; I'd intended to post this on HN after a few more bugs had been worked out, but I was beaten to it. I'll fix the lack of visual feedback shortly, although there's currently no email verification.
Industrial robots are heavy and thus expensive because they lack visual servoing. Heartland robotics plans to bring out a lightweight low cost robot this year. Also, the predator algorithm invented last year can do real time visual servoing that wasn't possible before. Add in a person to cover in the gaps and you might be golden.

If the above is true, why hasn't it been done you might ask.

I might be wrong, but you could have the said the same thing about why a search engine that didn't suck wasn't around in 1997 - why didn't microsoft, or yahoo, or ibm have that, or even buy it from sergey and larry?
Awesome. They - indeed- beleived in their search engine reliability and relevantness.
What is truly appalling here is the claim that the video had been reviewed by humans, who had determined that birdsong was copyrighted music (although the birds ought to be flattered by that), and, as such, Rumblefish is either lying (about having looked at all), hoping to make a quick buck, or criminally incompetent. I wouldn't be surprised if Rumblefish was trying to make a buck or two off of ads here, but I'm guessing that that's their standard response, and they hope whoever made the video will give up.
Horseshit.

An angel is looking for people with hustle. Someone with hustle will find a way to email me. Not blast me on twitter (along with 35 other people all at the same time.)

"Make sure you have a working demo" is a pretty reasonable cutoff, don't you think?

As a known angel, you get inundated with requests; you have to develop a bunch of quick ways to throw out the majority of incoming traffic or you drown.
Youtube is only complying with DMCA safe harbor by doing this. It requires a speedy takedown of whatever content the claim was filed against. I'm getting slightly sick of people claiming this is Youtube's fault. YT is required by law to do this.
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The bigger picture is that WebSockets increases what's possible via the web. In theory REST isn't tied to HTTP although practically speaking, the two do go hand in hand. The natural REST application is also somewhat different from the natural WebSocket application.
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Is it even worth developing for 1.x with sub 2% market share?
Deep iCloud integration into BOTH iOS and OS X is what makes iCloud incredible. Unfortunately Dropbox can't achieve this on Apple's platforms.

What Dropbox must accomplish is iCloud-level integration in Android. Pictures, app state, music... it all needs to automatically sync between phone, tablet, and desktop. Dropbox knows this--they're already cutting deals with HTC to be a fundamental part of Sense UI.

But iOS is lost for Dropbox. They will never be able to achieve the kind of deep integration that Apple will build with iCloud.
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What are the problems with Liang's algorithm?

On a modern computer you could easily store the entire dictionary, but it's not clear that that's actually an improvement since it wouldn't be as good at dealing with unknown words.
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I had been thinking of something similar... Use WebSockets for pub-sub/broadcast notifications, but keep REST/XHR for all the normal request-reply operations. It seems like they could be very complementary.

In your API, does the WebSocket subscription deliver the full content of the updated resource? Or does it just provide a change notification which triggers a GET to pull the full content?
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You misunderstand. Your email _address_ (and mine) have already been leaked, shortly before Christmas 2011. What WikiLeaks is now publishing is a list of actual internal emails, as in, the content of their internal, private communication. Unless you were a source for them, or a buyer of their more confidential information, you won't be directly affected by this leak.
None of them seem unreasonable. My point was rather than the only thing the angel has going for them is the value of their time--the value of their money is identical across angels. To stress how little of this time is available ("don't send me long emails") to founders off the bat seems, to me, to be an undesirable quality I would want to hide from founders.
That's not particularly useful to people who want to rip through the entire corpus using standard textmining tools; we'd really rather a signed torrent of a compressed imap archive or something similar. Having all the headers in formats accessible to scripts to read and tag different emails, etc.

This is sort of like having to do research on an archive that's been photocopied onto kleenex. But, we'll suck it up, and write a scraper to turn it into what we need. But it means that some of the interesting stuff is delayed, because wikileaks is trying to get the most bang for the buck by dribbling it out.

Just to pick an example of what I mean by interesting; tag all emails that mention a country or city and see if there are correlations between who sent and received emails and the countries mentioned, or if informants are mentioned in connection with more than one country.
I agree with your compassion for humanity, but I'd think you're overemphasizing the benefits of having physical co-workers & a boss. There are many self-employed individuals who relish not having to deal with such things. I'd rather see emphasis on how this system would help someone improve their life & their community, instead of just being exploited by rich people in a foreign country.
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The only reference I found to their hedge fund said that it hasn't launched yet, not that it has failed.
For those of use without Apple devices, could you please elaborate on what this "deep integration" consists of, in particular ways in which it surpasses Dropbox?

Also, at the end of your comment, you say "that Apple will build", implying that some of iCloud's deep integration is yet to be delivered. Is this correct, or did you mean something else?
hmm.. so no one commented on pastebin being used as a newsletter CMS. i guess this is common practice? i guess this is in tune with those stories about using git as publishing platform