skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Houston Texas is like that. A few other cities too. There are no zoning laws. It has pros (economic), it has cons (personal) but it does work in specific situations. It allows the free market to decide where it wants to go. Zoning sometimes fails because you end up with massive neighbors without a grocery store or business areas too close together without residential areas nearby and forcing people from other areas to commute there. It can get messy. But when there are no zoning laws businesses naturally gravitate toward heavy loud noisy streets and intersections anyway. Industrial companies naturally go far out where the land is cheaper. And residents go towards the areas that suit their lifestyle or that they can afford. It doesn't always work out perfectly but that's the theory anyway. Anyone from Houston please chime in.
I think I still have Altavista bookmarked as http://altavista.digital.com somewhere...
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Certainly breaks a number of UK employment laws and is Gross misconduct.
I've been an internal recruiter for NASA, Google, Facebook and Scribd and I have had at least 100 external recruiters contact me and I always say no, and our site itself makes this very clear. Most will followup a few weeks later and ask again. head desk
Yes, I see you are right. I guess it seems like I'm more likely to run afoul of the clause with Pinterest. Youtube is like "Funniest Home Videos," Pinterest has gallery like qualities.

Your examples after the link don't seem to have much to do with selling the works though. In Youtube's case, it's to allow them to advertise with overlays. Maybe that is where Pinterest is going as well.
As my lawyer explained to me long ago, who eventually "wins" a lawsuit is rarely interesting. Cost, time, and agony to get there are much more relevant factors.

The "our users represent that the content is theirs" may not keep Pinterest from losing an eventual lawsuit, but it does complicate things enough that it discourages legal action. That may be sufficient for them to cash out long before the suits are complete.

Or, like YouTube, things like that may allow them to grow big enough that they end up with sufficient negotiating power that they can get away with quite a bit, and possibly reshape what's considered reasonable.
Or, you could easily figure out who this person is and then realize they are quite good and that is why they are getting contacted all the time...?
Right, so that effectively keeps me out of the good-phone market. It really is a shame that they can't make a smaller phone (iPhone size is ok but smaller would be better). I'd be a customer for life.
I've had recruiters submit me for positions I haven't approved (CrossCreek). Oh, yeah, repeatedly. And after I'd talked to them about it. Repeatedly.

I've had them email me en mass for an opportunity (varite.com).

Indian boiler-room VOIP indecipherable accents too numerous to mention (too numerous to mention).

Grossly mis-fit pitches (wrong state, country, skillset).

Recruiters who repeatedly call and leave messages (I expressly state my contact preferences, and have a pretty clear statement on my voicemail regarding same).

Others in my spam list:

aditi.com
alphasolutionsinc.com
andiamo-group.com
artechinfo.co
aurionpro.com
greythorn-mail.com
idexcel.com
infobiagrouppanels.com
infobiagroups.com
kidawa.com
mindlance.com
myinfobiapanels.com
omnikron.com
panzersolutions.com
streetdirectory.me
tscti.com

And I've worked with a handful of folks who are sincere, genuine, and turn up good leads. Best bet is of course personal contacts.
The indemnification clause is definitely 100% boilerplate and used in most any site that allows user-generated content. Facebook contains it near verbatim in item 15.2 of their terms. The license grant is a bit different, since Facebook allows you to terminate the license, though under particular conditions.

The significant issue here is the idea that the intended primary use for Pinterest may infringe on the rights of others. This is what took down Napster, and, to me, indemnifying Pintereist is too risky at this point.

It's my understanding that Pinterest is attempting to move to licensed and sponsored pins and they haven't annoyed any large industry groups and might even fare better legally than YouTube did. Who knows.
No one has pointed out that the whole business ends up increasing market efficiency--the end result was that the price for buffs stabilized over the course of the month.
Many times faster (de)compression using multiple processors.
What if they expand the data by including reviews from people of second and third order of separation from the user? Each iteration would exponentially expand the data, and perhaps after four or five separations, you'd have sufficient data (though this may defeat the whole premise of getting data from your social circles)
This is getting a bit silly. Unless you are running a gambling, torrent or porn site, just get a .com and worry about more important things in your life. Asset seizure is something that drug dealers, not startups, should be worrying about.
MAME/MESS has recently started moving their codebase to C++, so what would the problem be?
They are really inaccurate. The street I live on is completely missing in their tiles.
Be explicit about what forms of (re)distribution are allowed instead of going for a blanket license. Where appropriate, also be explicit about what is not allowed.

It shouldn't say much more than "you give us the right to use your content to fulfill the services you ask us to provide, and you have the right to remove your content at any time."
http://500px.com/terms

I prefer the old ones though http://web.archive.org/web/20110619022738/http://500px.com/t...
Nope, US
Here is a great resource to compare Apple tiles and OpenStreetMap tiles at the same time:

http://ivan.sanchezortega.es/leaflet-apple.html
Updates from the LHC and Tevatron keep the door open for the Higgs
> One caveat is that they can't royally fuck their customers.

Clearly you do not live in America. We abandoned the concept of consumer protection decades ago.
The Credit Card Is The New App Platform
Do We Really Need More Scientists?
Bring extra cheddar.
Only if you miss characterize what I said. I was specifically talking about the ZuneHD. Much like if I had an iPod classic focus on new hardware (wp7 or iPod touch) does me no good I am not invited to play in those reindeer games.
Is Netflix Coming to Cable TV?
I don't think anyone has ever run into DRM on pictures. Once polaroids became popular, everyone had access to photography which meant that there were few large corporate interests to run propaganda campaigns. There is a clear line between Hollywood films and home movies and I suspect that very few people would feel bad about sharing home movies without the consent of the person/family in/recording the movie compared with how many people would feel some kind of guilt about sharing a feature length blockbuster. So the attitude of the creators and the diversity of creators seem to play a large role in determining public acceptance of sharing certain things.
As far as I know there is no industry group for still-image photographers anything like the MPAA or RIAA. All three of those sites are and were filled with substantial original content, so they can claim that illegal use is not their primary drive. I don't know if Pinterest can successfully argue the same thing.

It also should be noted that YouTube spent a great deal of money on settlements and arrangements with RIAA & MPAA members, content networks and others to survive.
The only item I agree with is the last item: Objective-C is a nebulous term because it's so intrinsically tied to Apple and Cocoa/UIKit. The syntax? You pick it up within a week. Message passing versus method invocation? An important, but subtle distinction.

So what makes Obj-C hard? For me, it was Apple's gigantic MVC-style framework. Rewiring my brain to grok Obj-C was nothing compared to grokking Foundation Kit, UIKit and AppKit. Growing up with C++, C# and Java, you get used to a particular way of doing thing. APIs are designed and interacted with in a certain way. Apple's API feel completely different. From building strings and making network connections to working with images and animations. Apple's version just feels different.
Forget my last paragraph. Anyways, richhickey answered. :)
Wow that's a brilliant idea.

Is it legal?

Has anyone started a kickstarter campaign to run for office yet?
Sorry, I should have clarified the reasoning for my suggestion, that being that there would be some sort of interaction/partnering with non- or semi-technical contacts in these organizations that perhaps it would be helpful if the functionality of Github had a friendlier, more approachable UI for such a use.

Certainly, the developer(s) could simply use Github, so maybe Givhub is just a glossy API wrapper rather than an independent instance?
That's one possibility.

When you've got a firm which continues to establish contact when you've made very clear you do NOT want further contact, or follows really sketchy practices (again: unsolicited submissions -- having two agencies submit you for a position pretty much kills any possibility of the deal) is NOT OK and really should be called out.
>only on, through or by means of the Site, Application or Services.

That is the key line everyone is skipping over. It limits the rest of the clause quite a bit.
Energy is the only resource that matters. With enough energy and technology we can recycle and transform whatever current raw physical materials we have available, no matter how inefficient it is.

With the population leveling off, I think the amount of physical materials needed at any one time will stop growing exponentially. Consumption will rates will still be increasing, but we can recycle the raw materials to keep the absolute amount needed within physical limits.
The old Chowhound forums are still the go-to spot for really getting some good advice about restaurants in a new area, at least for me. You need to browse around a bit, but you can really get some great recommendations, from low-brow to high-brow, it's still the best place for foodies to go that I've found. http://chowhound.chow.com/boards
Spire.io is out of beta
And for a slightly more modern take on the tuple space, check out Java Spaces [1] or Gigaspaces [2]. There's still plenty of active research on the topic too [3] (disclaimer: I did my PhD thesis on distributed tuple spaces).

I've long contended that a tuple space was basically a generalised key-value store, so it's nice to see projects like this one crop up.

[1] http://java.net/projects/jini/

[2] http://www.gigaspaces.com/

[3] http://eprints.utas.edu.au/9996/
Is funny, I'd say you were being irrational due to an emotional attachment to Ayn Rands work.

That was my judgement when you used her lexicon as the ultimate arbiter of the definition of 'definition' and then just told people to read it when challenged on this position.
I just tried it. Top recommendation was Chili's. I can't imagine anybody needs help discovering the clone chain suburban restaurant strip in their home city. It had 2 specials, and was nothing like anything else on my list or anywhere I have checked in, which I assume means it's actually an ad masquerading as a search result with no indication that top rank was bought.
The same way magic_quotes was a "feature".
We see this on other rate/review sites too. I think it's an inherently human problem. It's almost like a popularity contest in high school, the people that get the most votes might actually make the worse friends while those who get the least votes are the type of friends that are much more loyal.
Yeah, in general stuff like Getty Images is intended to license redistribution of the photo: if you plan to sell or give away hundreds of post cards, or use the photo on your website, or something else. It's pretty uncommon to license photos that you just want to print out at home for private use. To me that's more akin to saving a photo and making it your desktop wallpaper.
> Just print the pictures and send the photog a tip via Paypal or buy something (anything) the photog is selling.

Just because the photographer has one image for sale, it does not mean he is selling (or giving you the rights to distribute/copy) another image.
There are no zoning laws in Houston but there are significant land use restrictions. Free market is such an ambigious term in discussions like this...
I don't know how this slipped under my radar, thanks for the recommendation!

Play Money is a fantastic non-fiction account of online gaming economies if anyone wants a more extensive non-fiction treatment of the topic.
can't you just change the credit card associated with the account, so they can't extract their monthly pound of flesh? what's the worst they can do, send it to a collections agency?
> the bandwidth that's being advertised is the bandwidth you'll get if you've got the tower to yourself

not exactly, that's if you've got the sector to yourself. AFAIK one tower has at least 3-12 sectors.

That's why LTE can't replace all of our data connections (for now).
I guarantee that every site you use which involves UGC has a similar clause in their Terms of Service. You're living in la-la land if you think that's going to change, honestly.

More important than the terms is the character of the founders and the company. Do you trust Pinterest to do right by you? Flickr has a similar clause, for example, but photographers still trust them.

If you don't trust Pinterest, that's fine. But in that case, do you really think changing some words on one of their pages is going to make a difference in their overall behavior?
Seconded. They helped connect me with top notch interviews over a two month period and were extremely professional and personable. Quite a few of the startups they represent are A-list. I would recommend them to any high caliber engineer.
iPhoto for OS X uses the pretty tile set when in slide show mode. I think it has done for the past few versions.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Windows-Phone-7.x-Windows-Phone-...
Additional sources claim that Apollo won't be pushed to existing Windows Phone users.

Rather sounds like no upgrades to me.
The first yelp review I left was a result of serendipity. I was wandering around NYC with my beloved, and we wound up in the worst, most overpriced, awesome-mood-killing bar. It was so bad that I rely on yelp in new cities now. If only I'd looked it up on my phone, I would have saved us some agony. This article makes me sad, because I don't want to miss something great because sn owner is being extorted, but I am also incredibly wary of walking into a place without checking reviews first.
"There's nothing intrinsically wrong with talking over ideas of where to eat with friends."

This, I think, is the future of crowdsourced review sites. Not necessarily "friends", but at least people with some form of shared experience and mutual interest - and a track record of being honest about what's good and what isn't.

I want the ability to look at a reviewers history, and increase the weighting of reviewers who's reviews I agree with, and to mark as irrelevant the ratings of people who (in my opinion) clearly have no clue about what they're reviewing (or who are obvious shills).

I suspect this could be built on top of Yelp - automatically collate lists of reviewers who's reviews of places we have in common align, and allow me to browse other places they've rated highly (or rated low). I'm guessing doing that as a non-yelp service would be against their TOS, and I'm guessing their business model of "Sorry, we can't 'help' you with negative reviews… Unless of course you choose to become an advertiser?" type extortion would be far less effective if there was a good way to show those poor reviews up as the rantings of the delusional disgruntled that they so often are…

(Of course, if someone were to give me exactly what I'm asking for, I suspect I'd end up with a sanitised subset of "stuff I already know I like" with very little opportunity to discover interesting new things…)
Selling Online Products by Subscription Is All the Rage
I got the feeling that it is part of the game and spend a few moments learning the triggers.
FWIW, Rackspace Cloud's brackets are very closely equivalent to Linode's at almost exactly the same price points. AWS has very different setups with very different price characteristics.
I am really, really sorry for risking upsetting the frictionless flow of money in the pursuit of comedy.
YouTube, Flickr, etc. don't provide a bookmarklet for uploading other peoples' content.
Well, I think the way you do it is provide examples of interaction that sends an explicit Accept with client interactions. Detecting Content-type and reacting accordingly is only for totally blind discovery.
> Data is seriously expensive for the carriers.

That is a load of horseshit.
Using iPhoto on my iPhone 4s right now — the maps are ... weird. Italic serif fonts, oddly bad anti-aliasing, and off-center-by-2-pixels highway numbers. Feels like it's been upscaled from half resolution as well. It's clearly not Google's maps, but it's also clearly below Apple's normal visual standards.
So, Jotform (to name just a recent one) was running a "gambling, torrent or porn site"? Right...

The only thing silly here is not taking into account all business risks. US-owned TLDs are very much now a risk.
I agree with doing something meaningful, but maybe engineers are better off sticking to what they know. You are more likely to make lots of money doing such things, earning lots of money, and pouring that money to solve other problems. Think Bill Gates.
Yes, they're definitely playing with fire, and they'll have to address it soon given the rate they're growing.

But the outrage, outrage, OUTRAGE at Pinterest over this clause here just tells me people are ignorant of (1) what this clause really means and (2) how many times they've agreed to it in the past.

It's 100% nerdrage in my opinion, and a month from now nobody will be talking about it.
haha

I completely forgot about excite

it looks like altavista is still up, too
Kartograph: interactive vector map library for web built on top of Raphael.js
"Space weather has gotten very interesting over the past 24 hours."
OS X is a gateway drug to Unix.

As a developer, Mac hardware got me started, but having easy access to -nix developer tools got me hooked. PHP, Ruby, Python, Node.js, git, etc... It's all so much easier with OS X. And if you're going to deploy to Linux on cheap shared hosting, you'll save yourself a lot of pain if you deploy from OS X instead of Windows. (e.g., PHP developers that insist on using WAMP)

That's the threat I see to MS. Developer mindshare. Besides StackOverflow, all the major startups use the -nix stack. The next Google or Facebook won't be built on .NET.
Agree. Top-management takes care of business development while the tech team develops the product per se. Anything added to the middle would be considered fat to a lean agile body.
Tumult Hype
Corbis Gets Into the Music Business
No zoning at all.

My engineering ethics class covered a case in Houston, which has 0 zoning of any kind (or at least it did in the late 80's early 90's at the time of the events we covered. things might have changed) and the effects of putting a heavy metal incineration plant near government subsidized housing and elementary schools.
Please show me in Picasa's ToS where it says you'll pay Google's legal fees if Google is sued on account of a picture you uploaded.

Please show me in Flickr's ToS where it says that you're giving Flickr the right to sell and relicense any photo you post there.

Pinterest's ToS go far beyond any other service I've seen. If you have examples of terms of service just as ridiculous as Pinterest's, by all means, please share them.
Great tech demo.
Yup! Made with Construct 2. Construct 2 is capable of making just about any 2D game you can imagine. We're really starting to see some nice stuff come though now.
> Think you're going to get funding and grow your company with a foreign TLD doing something that the US government might disapprove of?

The web's biggest sites right now (e.g. YouTube and Facebook) are doing things the U.S. government doesn't approve of. They haven't been shut down ... yet ... but Megaupload has, and what's the functional difference between what Megaupload does and what YouTube does?

My point is just that the way the U.S. gov't is going, no decent web application is safe from being taken down. Anything with user-generated content is basically wide open for seizure.
Machinima says to YouTube, 'Bite Me'
Can anyone explain why these domains are usually so much more expensive that .com domains? I just looked at .se and most of those run almost $40/year. It seems like demand would have .com domains priced higher than these cc-TLDs.
It says their fertility rate goes up; there is no mention made of it surpassing the replacement rate.
RemoterApp Conquers Nokia, Expands to iOS and Beyond
I cannot see how you can have (in reality, not legally) agreed to a clause without first knowing about it.
Kforce, also. Many people I know have had great success through them.
The Getty Images process doesn't sound too terrible to me.

Is the up-to-a-week wait partly a consequence of GI giving the photog a chance to approve/deny the request? That would be reasonable -- they might not want, for example, a Neo-Nazi group licensing their photo of blonde, blue-eyed kids for some sort of racist poster campaign.

Also, $100 licensing for a photo that you really love is cheap as chips.

By personal use, do you mean that you were literally going to produce one copy of each postcard and keep them all yourself? You weren't going to make multiple copies and give/send any to anyone else?
“Probably the most important lesson I learned working at Apple”
don't know why im responding to obvious troll. but they are really no better than megaupload at this point. Redistributing copy righted material without permission. Its a far bigger legal matter.
This runs close to arguments made by TV advertisers, for "creative" and "original" ads that "engage" the watcher and produce a "holistic emotional experience", who are more interested in scoring at Cannes than selling product.

Not everyone goes to a website and bemoans yet another instance of Helvetica. Hell, most people couldn't identify Comic Sans if their lives depended on it. When I go to a site I want to get the information I want and do what I need to do quickly. In and out. If they're using a readable font, familiar icons, and common colours, per se, I don't care about originality.

It make sense for designers to see those things. It also makes sense for designers to be offended by the notion that Bootstrap may automate some of what they do. But extending this to Bootstrap == evil isn't rational.

Caveat: there are some sites that need to delight you. Content sites, e.g. NY Times, Facebook, etc., should put higher value on branding through UI. But inducing that this is necessary for all sites isn't tenable.
Any luck mixing Require.js with Jasmine and Backbone? This might help.
If you are expected to be bound by terms that you cannot be bothered to read because that would take a lifetime, then you should hope that there are teams of nerds with OCD picking through them and weeding out nonsense on your behalf.
Netflix doesn't let you connect over a data connection, IIRC. Well, unless you're tethering, but then you're killing your tethering device's data usage...
I'm not sure if you are talking about the right thing. They take the store down to update the products (so they don't leak a product and not a spike in traffic)

In terms of scale, maybe it's just not on their list of immediate concerns.

If you people are buying your product such that you sell-out and get flak for running out so quickly, you would focus not on making your point-of-sale more efficient. In fact, it might even not be worth the extra millions that it'd cost for scaling on the one day of an announcements.

How would you? Use the power of a distributed CDN and cache everything.