skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because humans have a sense of perspective and fairness that isn't always in sync with what a purely rational economic actor would do. Just a guess.

Something similar did happen to me. An ad agency found a photo* I had taken and wanted to use it in a campaign. I usually give things away to non-profits, but this was going to be a large-scale thing for a major drug company. I asked what price the person thought was fair and we settled on a reasonable price. Maybe I was lowballed? I don't know and don't really care. It was more than $100, though.

I didn't set a nonzero price just because I wanted to protect other artists ability to make money off of their work, I set a price because I thought it would be cool to have some extra money to buy some new camera gear.

* The picture in question: http://www.flickr.com/photos/martincron/2208026093/in/set-72...
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Because it isn't nearly as important as Instagram, apparently: http://www.evernote.com/shard/s146/sh/eb8c59f9-44b5-48bc-a24...
The $500m-valuation round happened so close to the buyout, though, that it's quite possible the investors in that round knew of pending offers, which then increased the valuation. So if that round's valuation itself then increased the buyout's valuation, that's a neat bit of circularity.
Why is it that people won't accept that life simply isn't fair?

Usually nobody disagree when you say that life isn't fair, but then they go ahead and pretend that it is. They will even go so as far as to invent religious concepts like karma do explain how this supposed "cosmic balance/scoring system" can work.
Social network != internet-connected social network. My statements are more about people (and the experience of living among them) than they are about Facebook or any other internet site. Graph visibility / searchability has increased, bandwidth has increased, latency has decreased. But the rules of human interaction and gaining perspective on the human condition have more or less (I suspect, not really my field) stayed relatively consistent since the days of parchment and ship transit.
Not sure why this isomorphism is news...
Was the "before heating up itself" that rankled, read to me as though they were either confusing the concept of heat capacity with latent heat, or were just wording things badly.
I think the difference, from the perspective of the regulator, is that a firearm is a tool with a limited scope of use, and that certain firearms (pistols) have a further limited scope of use that makes their existence noxious. In the US, the 2nd amendment makes this a controversial issue -- not so in most other jurisdictions.

Possession of burglary tools or drug paraphernalia is typically a modifier used to punish ill-intent. If I'm a carpenter walking home from work with a saw and hammer in my bag, I'm not going to be arrested for possessing burglar tools. If I'm trespassing on someone's property in the middle of the night with a crowbar, on the other hand, I'll probably be prosecuted for possessing burglar tools.

"Hacker tools" is sort of in the middle. A sysadmin with metasploit on his laptop is no different than a carpenter with his hammer. The Level-1 helpdesk technician pinched for stealing passwords is using it as a tool for doing "bad" things. The complication is that the line between "hacker tool" and "legitimate" software is thin or even overlapping.
This is the point that the haters are missing. We're using a heavily modified bootstrap with backbone, and it has dramatically decreased our turnaround for new UI features. Other than the button styles, you can't really tell it's there. To me, bootstrap is CSS boilerplate that is clever and thoroughly tested, so you know when you copy a component or a design pattern from it, chances are it will Just Work. Creating customer-facing sites from 100% vanilla bootstrap isn't ideal unless you are building an MVP or some administration panel where a custom design wouldn't necessarily improve the user experience. It also really raises the lowest common denominator for teams that can't afford a lot of design work. I think bootstrap has been a great boon to web UI in general, and I am looking forward to seeing it evolve and inspire other frameworks in the future.
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I didnt read everyones comments but i c an underlying trend hia. Mst of you are nt cnsidring dat maybe d rankin matrices r msred bsed on nt jst hw popular d lang is bt also on hw it ranks wit oda lngs in its paradim usin svrl fnctnl variabls.Lngs r nt borns equal.
For anyone that still needs it, it lives on as a separate gem: https://github.com/rails/activeresource
And those who see the credit will contact the photographer and ask if they can use his work for free "because it will give him exposure." If everyone did this then the photographer would never be paid.
The first few hits on a google search for "instagram cancel" indicated you had to write in, but then I found this.

http://help.instagram.com/customer/portal/articles/95760
I am beginning to think that "HTML5" even as a buzzword is a misnomer. For example, canvas dates to 2005!
You should only do free work "for exposure" if you want to do free work for exposure. Artists should have a realistic expectation of what value they'll get in exchange for their work, but the "never do it for exposure" advice feels a little one-size-fits-all.

The Bill Gates thing is a bit different. He was explicitly selling copyrighted works and other people were copying and/or re-selling that. He never tried to discourage people from making their own software and giving it away for free.
We need to decide if Go is a suitable language to build our app with. Our app will be deployed on end-user 32-bit systems, and needs to work 100% of the time.

Is there someone here who can say either: (1) Go will fail sometimes on 32-bit systems, don't use it until this problem has been fixed, or (2) there are things you can do to always avoid the 32-bit problems.

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Also, your customers won't know or care that you are using bootstrap unless they are graphic designers.
Well.....FB is the poster-child of tech exuberance right now. Everybody uses Facebook. Many of those users will likely want to buy the stock - not for any sophisticated investment thesis. But because they want to own what they use.

That will likely push up demand for the stock in the short-term, thereby the price.

Aside from that, we have never seen a service have 800M users and still growing at the rate that FB is growing and have the stickiness that it has. So there is no telling how big it can get - which is why the valuation is so high.

There is no doubt that over the long term, FB will figure out a way to print money. It's just a matter of time.
Funny that a search engine company wouldn't be able to derive this kind of information from the contents of their own servers. People have been giving them their thoughts in the form of the entire internet for 15 years, so this really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Google is supposed to be the smartest of the smart, so how did that lead them to run a Twitter survey?
(and if there's no one here with an informed answer, where should i ask this question? Thanks.)
I see the following flaws in your comment:

1) Twitter is inherently much more public than Instagram.
2) "to a fairly large audience" is your personal assumption. Not all people use social media that way.
3) Photo of a sunset? That sounds like your being obtuse. Obviously many photos are much more personal than a sunset.
4) To be seen "by the wrong person"? Again, seems obtuse to me. The larger concern is the photo being permanently stored by the wrong corporation(s), to the eternal detriment of user privacy.
5) You are assuming that the user him/herself posts all photos of a given user. That is obviously not the case. Your photos, or photos picturing you, can be posted by others as well.

Suffice it to say, many users who do enjoy social media nevertheless do not want Facebook using everything they post for the next 25 years for marketing purposes. They don't want that content sold to other corporations, either. And there are many other possible legitimate privacy concerns.
So now they will be suing Mozilla?
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I wasn't a Commodore user, but as I was heavily into home / hobbyist computing at that time, they had a huge influence on me. At the time, we mostly used TRS-80s and the like, but my school had C64s and I vaguely remember trying to make sure that BASIC code from a book for C64 users would work for me.

And only today did I find out that Tramiel was a Holocaust survivor who became one of the most influential figures in the computer revolution of the 80s.

My thoughts are with his family and those who knew & loved him.
It could've been nice. I don't have links to back this up, but I seem to remember getting patches accepted for it was difficult. I am assuming that is because there wasn't anyone on core that really cared about keeping it up to do with the rest of the Active(.*) universe.
Seattle, San Francisco, Cupertino (and other places), FULL-TIME, INTERN, H1B

A lot of people think Splunk must be a terrible place to work at because they think it is an "enterprise" company. But the truth is, we have great jobs for a lot of people.

Want to work on awesome visualizations for gigabytes and terabytes of data daily? We got it. Want to work on building a development platform for an extremely powerful data analysis tool? We got it. Want to help make the core server that powers our extremely fast indexing and performance better? We got it.

For example, my project for the past couple of months has been to develop our new Node.js/Browser SDK, including pulling some of our propietary UI components and sharing them with the world. We also do a lot of work with customers to best help them use Splunk. One of the projects I was involved in included analyzing social data using Splunk (like Twitter/Foursquare).

Whether it's UI, core systems engineering, dev platform or anything in between, we likely have something for you. I personally work on the development platform in the Seattle office, but I'm happy to answer questions about anything. Feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile), or comment here.

I wanted to highlight a few specific positions we're looking for:

* Dev. Platform Software Engineer: This is the team I work on. We strongly believe that there is a use for Splunk outside of logging, and we're enabling the usage of the technology for dealing with large quantities of data, whether it's for social network analysis, cloud management or anything in between. http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-
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Because of Commodore 64, I got into programming. RIP Mr Tramiel and thank you.

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RIP Jack Tramiel! Here is Computer History Museum 25th Anniversary Celebration of Commodore 64 with him on the panel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBvbsPNBIyk Micro computers were a startup movement in a true sense of the word.
RIP Jack. And thanks for my first computer and all those memories.
Regardless of everything ActiveResource is or isn't, I am very sad to see Rails lose its out-of-the-box web service client. ActiveResource is an 80% solution which really deserved to have that last 20% filled in.

That said, I'm excited for something better to get traction.
The difference is people rarely go into academic research for money - it's not just a job, it's a lifestyle choice. If you wanted to do research and receive better compensation you could work in industry or for a government lab - still research but less freedom.
Here's one of the commits. Notice that the blocks tend to be pretty short. Some are only one line. https://github.com/madrobby/zepto/commit/4624c712030063db3b7...
Can someone explain how this isn't insider trading?

Day before deal:
- Instagram closed a $50 million Series B round from Sequoia, Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital, Greylock and Benchmark at a $500 million valuation.

Day of deal:
- Company gets purchased for 1 billion.
- All investors instantly double investment.
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That's a good point. This is the equivalent of a customer asking a small time developer to give away their proprietary product for free because there are competing open source products. The developer can either rage against open source or change their business model.

The photographer can do the same by either a) take photos amateurs can't or won't take or b) take photos to order.
TOS stood for Tramiel Operating System. Yes, he is the one who brought in the Atari ST.
Ah, okay, awesome. I was thinking Node-Five was a Web framework which would take your Node-Qt code and run it server-side as a public Web application by translating the Qt API calls.
Facebook Acquires Instagram for $1B: One Step Closer to Owning All Your Memories
ANI tries to do this, although I still haven't figured out if it's a joke or not.

http://code.google.com/p/anic/
The one argument I've heard from keeping the semi-colons is to make life easier for minification tools. Is this not an issue?
According to wired, Kevin Systrom owned 40%, while mike owned 10%.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/facebook-buys-instagr...
I would also add that a newbie should check out clojure-koans (https://github.com/functional-koans/clojure-koans#readme) and try to solve some of the Project Euler problems (http://projecteuler.net/problems). Both of these have been great resources for me to get the basics of the language.
I learned BASIC on the Vic 20. I had no storage device, so I would get magazines from the library, type in the code, play the game as much as I could, then turn my machine off and lose everything.
Those were the days!
Processing several million photos a day from thirty million users is worth something.
I have a friend (in college) whose desktop computer is similar: a few circuit boards (motherboard+video, I think) stuck in a bucket of oil, with a radiator+pump, monitor, keyboard, and mouse attached. Apparently, it's effective, although it's difficult to suppress the urge to tip the thing over.

It's probably not cost-effective as far as power usage, but that's not his concern - he just didn't want fans.
This is just downloading a single static text file so there's nothing to optimize.
I think the problem stems from that no one actually have any pictures they want to share on a daily basis (exception might be pictures of babies). Instagram solved it by inventing shareable pictures of nothing.

While I can appreciate the idea of a "daily picture" (or whatever) in a more diary-form this is a completely different beast than a family photo / vacation photo / group activity photo etc., such photos only get better with time where an instagram is useless a social-minute after it was shot.
Facebook only gets screwed if their own valuation doesn't increase enough to match the amount "overpaid" in response to Instagram's acute "increased valuation" ploy.

Given current market conditions, particularly in terms of fawning over Facebook, the negative effects of this ploy seem likely to be largely externalized, with the amount of burden borne by Facebook promising to be negligible. As usual in the trading game, the bulk of the burden will fall on the unanointed schmucks lacking the information to buy low and sell high.
I even made a t-shirt to remember it: http://swain.webframe.org/tshirts/ (eight from the top)
The problem is that many people have seen something wrong with that but no one has offered a better alternative. So your observation is unoriginal and unhelpful. If you think something is better than text, demonstrate it. Text has survived a lot of criticism over the years, and a lot of alternative proposals. Let's see yours.
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They should use the iOS Simulator approach: have the whole "emulator" build native on the host PC instead of running the ARM version in qemu.
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Hey Thomas -- Given your recent CoffeeScript kick, I've been curious if you've ever thought about going fully semicolon-free by taking a stab at a Zepto.coffee. My initial take is that it doesn't make sense, because one of Zepto's goals is to hone the code down to the fewest bytes possible: something that CoffeeScript would make a bit more difficult. Have you considered it?
I'm wondering if the solution to the Sufficiently Smart Compiler is to have the Sufficiently Stupid Language. Automated parallelism becomes easier if you only give users parallelizable operators. That sounds terrible, but maybe it isn't that bad (I don't know). Perhaps users should always be working on sets of data (a number doesn't a exist, just a set with one number in it), then the compiler really just has to be smart enough to turn that set operator into just an operation on an integer. That is, deparallelize it. Is this why array languages tend to work well for these things?
While a bit harsh considering Instagram's success, I completely agree with this quote from Steve Jobs on startups:

http://instagr.am/p/JNVJIwBElP/
5) The fact that huhtenberg uninstalled Instagram will not prevent other people from taking pictures of huhtenberg.
My first job was to demo Vic-20s in department stores around the SF Bay Area at age 13. Funny that just yesterday I was at my Mom's looking for my "I'm a Commodore Kid - Ask me!" polo shirt.

RIP Jack!
Maybe they tried that. but Apple had patent on that.
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What's really interesting to me is that they have a flood of geolocated pictures of places now. And they have a partnership with Microsoft. Photosynth integration on Instagram with all your photos would be amazing.
Congrats guys. This is really exciting stuff!
Hey!

I've updated the story now, to a slightly more scientific description (involving specific heat capacity). Sorry for any rankling caused :)
UI looks great, good job. I can say that there are some important features that need to be implemented such as comparison of multiple apps. I know that flurry and others have custom metrics but I couldn't find such a feature in your dashboard. May be I missed it but that one is also crucial.
> When you think you have just found a 0-day in your systems and want to check if you are right or not.

That's like shooting yourself in the foot to see if the bullet hole is the same.
The Netscape Public License included a patent grant. So that's probably not possible. They might sue anybody not based off Netscape code, though...
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You are not accounting for liquidation preference correctly. When someone gets a 1x liquidation preference first they get their money back, then they get an equal portion to what is left. So in the case of the 3rd round, first they got their $40M back, but they retained 8% of the pool. Same with the 7M etc. Call it $50M off the billion right off the bat, leaving 950 million. Doesn't really dent the number (reduction of 5% for the founders, so they each walk away with $128M, but that is still 7 million less). Also, this assumes no advisors got shares or board members got shares and that really early hires got no shares outside of the ESOP, which is unlikely). I would guess they probably each walked away with $100M after everything was said and done.
I put CenterNetworks on Flippa about 15 days ago - starting bid at $10k. So far no bids, 13 people "watching" the auction. I've had a few private messages about stats but that is it so far. There are still 15 days left in the auction.
Zero - it's being reported as a partial stock deal, which (speculation coming...) probably has some sort of performance based component (the word "earn-out" hardly seems appropriate here.)
I love CoffeeScript, and we're considering moving the Zepto tests to use it. (We're also using Ruby for our build system, for example, because we like it, and think it's the right tool for the job.)

I think for the library code itself we prefer using JavaScript because in lots of ways it allows very fine-tuned control, one (of many) examples for this is deliberately using == instead of ===.
This is the more robust solution. The simple solution would be to generate a random number and convert that to a time of the week :)
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