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The awful recruiter is nowhere near as unethical as the awful hiring manager. I know folks who were asked by the prospective "hiring manager" at companies like Cisco (for a contract gig) to basically show how they'd do the first 3 months of the job.

Some replied with a load of work that they figure would put them ahead of the other candidates. All they got for their efforts was the sound of crickets on the other end... turns out the "hiring manager" was really just trolling for the candidates ideas and work output.
Same here, I spent 5 minutes reading 'Get Started', and still couldn't make heads or tails of it, so went back to HN to see if the comments here make it any clearer.
Actually, Flickr’s TOS (now a general Yahoo one) is quite different. They make it clear that their rights are limited to the specific uses obvious and essential to the function of their sites:

> Yahoo! does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Yahoo! Services. However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services, you grant Yahoo! the following worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license(s), as applicable:

> With respect to photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services other than Yahoo! Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Yahoo! Services solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Yahoo! Services and will terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo! removes such Content from the Yahoo! Services.

The key here is “solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available.” Pinterest’s ToS doesn’t have such language.

Additionally, Yahoo’s ToS doesn’t indemnify Yahoo against all possible liability or force their legal bills w/r/t copyright claims &c. onto users. The relevant language is much more constrained:

> You agree that Yahoo! has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any messages and other communications or other Content maintained or transmitted by the Yahoo! Services. You acknowledge that Yahoo! reserves the right to log off accounts that are inactive for an extended period of time.
That's true, but I still feel like the nature of MMOs encourage the "novelty factor", even if it's longer than many video games. Chess, Go, Starcraft, Sim City and other timeless games share the characteristic of being different and continually challenging. Most MMOs have a tendency to get repetitive. Sure, you can go on raids, trade, etc, but there's not the continually evolving strategy and new challenge of a different style of play, new sequences, etc. The games engine simply isn't that rich, it's underlying structure is still limited.
At the risk of being downvoted, I'll point out that sand-boxes are virtual. Virtual is pretend. Pretend things are easy to break and easy to fool. You just make them believe that everything is still OK.
Had to try this on my quad core laptop, as I never heard of these tools .

josh@snoopy:~/Downloads $ grep -m2 -i intel /proc/cpuinfo
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz

josh@snoopy:~/Downloads $ ls -l test
-rw-r--r-- 1 josh josh 1073741824 2012-03-07 20:06 test

josh@snoopy:~/Downloads $ time gzip test
real 0m16.430s
user 0m10.210s
sys 0m0.490s

josh@snoopy:~/Downloads $ time pigz test
real 0m5.028s
user 0m16.040s
sys 0m0.620s

Looks good.. although the man page describes it as being "an almost compatible replacement for the gzip program".
It handles them fully. I haven't played with the many to many support, but from having looked through the code it fully supports getting/setting many to many relationships.

One thing that does seem to be a bit lacking is the documentation. I've used all three django frameworks though (piston, tastypie and django-rest-framework) and django-rest-framework wins in my book.
"positions I am wildly unqualitified for"

Is the way you misspelled 'unqualified' supposed to be ironic?
Is xz less resource intensive then bzip2? My testing (admittedly two years ago or so) showed significant differences, better compression ratio with xz but significantly longer and/or more memory used.
Uh...

First, you seem to think that search is a "gold mine". This is completely wrong. Ads are gold mine, but nobody is making much money off of search. Nobody is looking to "pay real money" to have their search queries answered.

Second, you seem to think that Bing is making money. They're not; the most recently available figures show them burning a billion dollars a quarter. That's not doing "well" in most people's books.

Third, a couple of minor points: DDG has their own crawler, and doesn't just repackage Bing's results. On the other hand, Yahoo does just repackage Bing's results, and is shutting down their crawler. I'm not sure why that makes Yahoo "second tier" but DDG a "weird niche search engine". :)
There is very little variable cost to create one additional domain name, so it's hard to have a logical explanation for their pricing. All the TLDs have different beliefs about which price will maximize profit.
Note to sibling comment by SaltwaterC: a previous negatively-voted comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3593799) got your account auto-killed.

SaltwaterC 5 hours ago | link [dead]

The API token is still there, in the "plain": https://github.com/settings/admin

Fetching it via XSS should be fairly trivial. Via a simple script in that page is straight forward. Still have to see if I can get it via XHR :).
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Ditto - this comment mirrored my thoughts/experience exactly
I don't think in-network calls cost them much of anything. It's the connection charges to a different network that may actually cost them money.
I second this. I receive emails from them on a weekly basis for jobs that are outside my main skill set.

I'm glad they have my google voice number..it's much easier to block people.
4sq employee here. It's not bought, just a bad search result. Can I ask what the home city is here?
There's a huge difference though. Desktop apps are usually functional tools. Where they are not (games, for example), the Human Interface Guidelines break down fast and consequently aren't followed.

The Web is very frequently about marketing materials, akin to pamphlets, rather than about simple functional tools. Additionally where you do have those functional tools, they aren't going to fit in with the desktop in the same way that native thick clients will.
Interesting. How is this capable of extracting LZMA "solid" archives where all files are part of a single stream to achieve better (and very much slower) compression?
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There's still some value there. For some chains (Applebee's is one that comes to mind), some locations are actually pretty decent, while others are worse than fast food.
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As a content owner, if I post my own stuff then I've still given them the right to sell it through the Site/App/Service by these terms.

It provides some limits, but not the ones consistent with the service they claim to offer. They can start selling mugs with my photos whenever they like. The horror :O
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The "gigantic watches" trend (see http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/fashion/mens-watches-keep-...) comes handy for selling those things.
That's the one thing I really like about AngelList's job board (http://angel.co/jobs) – most startups list salary and equity ranges.
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Take note about which administration wants to do this. This is why big government is a bad thing.
On the flip side, I override a site's design (I usually keep the layout), and apply my own styles - and I'm glad to say that the web is a much better place for me as a result. I gain in having a more consistent experience across the web. This I think is touched on in Dave's article.

I still appreciate aesthetic beauty, but the web just isn't the place for it. In my mind at least.

Edit: I would change the layout also, but sadly to do that is non trivial.
Since the usual expected slowdown for jit compiled scripts is somewhere on the order of 5 times (obviously, this is a very loose guess, and the number will vary by script, style, and workload), I wonder what they could have been doing to cause a 200x slowdown.
Some trivia that not too many people know.
Lycos almost bought Viaweb but backed away because of some potential ip issues with one of the viaweb employees.
I think you're confusing UX with visual treatment. UX deals with where things are placed on the page, how information is laid out, and the flow of the website. I could feasibly do most of this within the confines of bootstrap.

The visual treatment for bootstrap sites, however, completely lacks any branding. The problem isn't that users can't figure out how to use your site (a UX problem) but that users don't associate the look and feel of your website with your product.
Excellent article, totally relevant, thanks.
That's why I find it's much better to find and follow someone with similar tastes to you that posts a lot on chowhound or other forums.

Never really got Yelp. Taste in food is too subjective to bother with aggregate data.
"The second is that they can claim to have introduced a candidate to you and can try to sue. Often a company will just roll over especially if it turns out to be a good candidate."

It depends on the market. I have known companies to say outright that due to the conflict, they wouldn't touch the candidate for 6 months or more.
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Their customer is abysmal. They never respond on Twitter—fair enough, other registrars do, though—and it took four days to get a response to why I couldn’t log in. I even had to go through weird escalations to higher “tiers” of support.

If someone knows a good non-American registrar with a wide selection of domains who also has two-factor authentication like Name.com, please let me know. Until then, I’ll probably just postpone the domain purchases.
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The strongest selection pressure in the western world is for people to spend every waking hour making babies. It sounds very likely that population growth will pick up its pace this century unless it is actively prevented.
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It's not unprecedented. The Macbook Air was marketed with "Thinovation"
Yes, that is certainly a possibility. And if they are that good, then they'd definitely have set up a spam filter and not have complained so loudly, so publicly. I don't really care too much either way about it. It seems to be too much huffing and puffing over a trivial issue.
In the tests I did (including compression of an entire filesystem image), xz always compresses better for the same effort (amount of time).

One example (using the standard tools, not the multithreaded ones):

igorhvr:tmp/ $ ls -la co_2011-08_import.mdb*
-rw-r--r-- 1 igorhvr igorhvr 261832704 2011-10-11 07:19 co_2011-08_import.mdb
igorhvr:tmp/ $ sudo time nice -n -20 bzip2 -k co_2011-08_import.mdb
42.85user 0.14system 0:43.16elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 31968maxresident)k 112inputs+0outputs (3major+2268minor)pagefaults 0swaps
igorhvr:tmp/ $ sudo time nice -n -20 xz -3 -k co_2011-08_import.mdb
30.99user 0.19system 0:31.48elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 130640maxresident)k 96inputs+0outputs (2major+8389minor)pagefaults 0swaps
igorhvr:tmp/ $ ls -la co_2011-08_import.mdb*
-rw-r--r-- 1 igorhvr igorhvr 261832704 2011-10-11 07:19 co_2011-08_import.mdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 igorhvr igorhvr 24020243 2011-10-11 07:19 co_2011-08_import.mdb.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 igorhvr igorhvr 23949408 2011-10-11 07:19 co_2011-08_import.mdb.xz

In this case xz compressed roughly to the same size (slighly better than bzip2, actually) using only 72% of the time. This is often the case.
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Yes, that's the bug. I have tried to use NDK with OpenSL and it doesn't get any better. I wonder why google doesn't fix this, hardware limitations?
Put two spaces before your lines of terminal output to prevent HN from munging them.
Does the ToS indemnify them the way they think they do anyway? If it ever came to court , i doubt pinterest would be able to put the blame solely on the user.
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I think this is extremely common. Most people don't read Terms of Service Agreements. And an even higher percentage of people don't read Updates to such agreements.
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Not really. Depends how badly you need credit, I guess. It'd actually be amusing to see how long they'd pursue a couple hundred dollars.
I like Foursquare explore because everyone in my office uses it. If I want some overpriced, whole-grain, organic and unprocessed artisanal foods that will leave me feeling like I can punch through cinder blocks, I look for places that Steve checks into, cause that guy loves that shit. Also, he sits across from me, so I can say "Hey Steve, you've been to Tony's Sandwiches, what's it like?". Or maybe I want some really cheap greasy bullshit, and I know that Dave is a cheap bastard, so I look for places that he's checked into. Etc. Searchable, local reviews by people I know.

It's not useful if you don't have friends that use it. It's kinda like last.fm: not actually worth using until you're already using it. Some things you have to see to believe in; others you have to believe in to see. Foursquare is the latter, not the former.
"According to Justin Schuh, a member of the Chrome security team, Glazunov's exploit was specific to Chrome and bypassed the browser sandbox entirely. "It didn't break out of the sandbox [but] it avoided the sandbox," Schuh said in an interview."

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/cansecwest-pwnium-google-...
30%+ of its images are flickr images...

What's the source for this?
It looks like LEB is hosted on Linode.

http://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?t=8530&postdays=0&...
There are three possible explanations for your comments:

1) You're a multimillionaire without aspiration, and shouldn't be giving financial advice to the rest of us non-millionaires.

2) You're a troll, or are acting like one to get yourself hellbanned for some reason.

3) Your recent spat of negative karma comments are the result of some kind of new mental health issue, and you need to see a doctor.
Interesting I may have been comparing parallel bzip2 with single threaded xz or perhaps it was just the data I was using for a test.

I'll have to look at it again, thanks!
What we have here is manufactured outrage. Total non-story. I hope others don't start piling on now that this has been written.

The real deal is that Pinterest is screwed either way. These terms sound scary but so long as they are enforced sanely there should be no problem. What do you expect them to do? Assume liability for users posting content they should not be posting? They might as well not exist. A lot of startups these days may as well not even try to get traction as long as bloggers keep getting their panties in a twist over every TOS they see.

Pinterest provides a service for free that people seem to love. So long as no one is paying them and they haven't gone public they're damn smart to have these terms. If I ran Pinterest I wouldn't want to assume liability for some asshole who leaks a top secret photo on my site that I let him use for free and as long as I'm giving that service for free I'm going to make some cash out of my users. This is nowhere near evil. It's business. If someone doesn't like it they don't have to use it.

Question: How do you get over writer's block?
Answer: Start reading some terms of service or privacy policy docs from any popular online startup and manufacture some outrage over it. Truth is, if you read any TOS or privacy policy you're going to find something you can turn into a big deal most of the time. I've had it with the TOS/privacy policy outrage blogs.
I don't think the OP is really talking about internal tooling, but rather the wider web.
Brilliant. Thanks for the clarification, and for the cool resource!
I think the point is well made about Youtube. There was indeed a huge amount of 'pirated' content on Youtube in the early days. Pinterest may be even worse because (a) the UI is specifically designed to make it incredibly easy to copy content. The overwhelming majority of Pinterest's content appears to be copied in this way. With Youtube at least people could and did upload a huge amount of their own content. And this is directly relevant to (b) Whereas Youtube was about hosting video content which may or may not have been copied Pinterest is so dominantly about copying content that it is much more like the case of the P2P sites whose whole modus operandi was to enable copying. It wasn't an unexpected or relatively minor aspect of their business - it was their business. And IMHO copying is Pinterest's business. The courts took a dim view of the P2P sites claiming that they were just the innocent service providers because of the overwhelming dominance of the use of the service and the fact that the site was designed to facilitate it. My suspicion is that Pinterest's moves to provide facilities to block pinning are legally motivated to fend off suits to the effect that they are unashamedly a copying engine.
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What if the user is put off from seeing another bootstrapped site? They already have a negative connotation before even trying your product/site. That's UX.
That sounds about right. I've gone back to Java and C++ for most of my own projects because of the uncertainty factor.

(OpenGL is a festering mess, though. DirectX is a wonderful API in comparison.)
Would you need to replace Bootstrap?

I just started a Bootstrap app and customising it is surprisingly easy. If I were worried about my app looking like a bulk standard Bootstrap app it probably hard to modify the Bootstrap CSS enough to give it a unique style.
Also, 4G is too unreliable, at least on my Verizon Samsung Stratosphere. It works great in some locations, but when I'm in transit (the main times I could risk running up a tab) it drops out pretty regularly.
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Perhaps real programmers communicate telepathically, why should you need a pen as a crutch? Perhaps the other two gentlemen who think an IDE is a crutch will know the answer.
I really wanted to read user-submitted emails they've received from recruiters.
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+1 (I hope +1 is ok as a response here.)
I would have thought attribution using comments in the main HTML would be an easy solution if you're minifying your CSS.
They are talking specifically, it seems, about RESTful and related API's, but self-documenting API's IMO should be present at other levels of an application too.

I would take it further and say that truly self-documenting API's should be discoverable by software as well as individuals. This is something we have worked on hard at LedgerSMB, doing so with stored procedures even (see http://ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com/2011/10/introduction-to-sod... for more info).

Anywhere there is a connection between software, this can be a good approach. Why limit it to the web?
If it is OSM data then it is a stale cut that is several years out-of-date, more likely it's data pulled from the same origin's as OSM, but with none of OSM's improvements. Map styling is pretty ugly IMHO too.
If Apple is going to get serious about the mapping space it needs to start buying data.
Well on paper that is true but in reality I don't see it, look at all the indexes for pressfreedom and other things. Sure Amerika is not North Korea but its not anywhere ontop.
(Does the Bill of Rights not say seperation of church and state? At the same time you are not allowed to be elected into Office as an Athist.

One thing that the US does pretty well is opening up data and code after a gov project is finished.
So your argument is that everyone has bad TOSes and therefore we should just ignore it?
Right, but your domain is your 'store front.' Depending on your customer-base, you could lose out when it comes time to switch domains from example.com to example.ca or example.co.au...
But naive...

http://translate.google.com/#de%7Cen%7Cgoogle%20ist%20wirkli...
Ignoring the US government, what legal use would a company have for un-patched exploits?
Nothing stops you from sending in a one line "resume" with your github url.
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I agree completely, but there's a double-standard here. What if instead of (mostly) photographs pinterest was mostly video? Then it would be YouTube, and everyone is pretty clear that you shouldn't upload a video to YouTube if you don't own it. Of course, some people flout that rule, but I figure the majority of content on YouTube is genuinely owned by the people who post it, while I very much doubt this is the case on Pinterest.

So which is it? Is it bad that Pinterest is mostly "stolen" content, or bad that we're not allowed to post similarly "stolen" content on YouTube? The former implies that Pinterest should start cracking down on people who post content they don't own; the latter implies that YouTube should stop doing so (and therefore, copyright law should change).
It was fun and imaginative, it ran great on Ubuntu 11.10 in Chrome too and an old machine at that.
Funny that their "new" feature doesn't take into effect the new timelines. It won't be hard to integrate, just doesn't seem like they wanted to change it before making the announcement.
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> but Megaupload has, and what's the functional difference between what Megaupload does and what YouTube does?

The difference, at an organisational level, is that MegaUpload is run by a very small team and is "foreign". Google/YouTube, on the other hand, is an American company employing a number of Americans.

The majority of voters probably care little about MegaUpload (even if they should care). But you can be sure they'd care if YouTube was shut down/the domain seized.
> Having css3 query support in legacy browsers is awesome.

No it isn't as you send all of the supporting junk code to the newer browsers that don't need it.

> Not to mention productivity gains from method chaining and batch assignment such as
$('.somehting').find('*').css({'font-weight': 'bold'});

Chaining has nothing to do with queries.

> Do you really want to type the 10-20 lines of JS that are required to make that happen? I don't.

Then learn to write (cross-browser) functions that fit your needs. Leave the ham-fisted queries alone.
Want! just tried to buy it on Amazon but they don't ship to Australia, trying to contact them directly to get one sent out. Hopefully i can land one soon.