skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do disagree with the dichotomy; I doubt firms would stop paying to be official sponsors just because others were allowed to use the terms sensibly (i.e. not implying that they were affliated with the Games).

Also, we already have plenty of trademark protections. I don't see why they're not sufficient for the Olympics, given that they seem to work fine for everything else.
He's not withholding. Chances are good his workers aren't paying taxes either.

According to the manual the IRS uses to train its worker classification auditors, the three most important factors are:

Instructions to workers: Your worker is probably an employee if you require him or her to follow instructions on when, where, and how work is to be done. This is a very important factor. However, if you tell your electrician you want blue switch plate covers instead of white, you are not exercising control to a degree that would make the person an employee.

Job training: If your company provides or arranges for training of any kind for the worker, this is a sign you expect work to be performed in a certain way; therefore, the worker is your employee. Training can be as informal as requiring the worker to attend meetings or work along with someone who's more experienced.

Worker's ability to make a profit or suffer a loss: An employee may be rewarded, disciplined, demoted, or fired depending on job performance, but only an independent contractor can realize a profit or incur a financial loss from his or her work. In other words, an employee will always get paid; an independent contractor, however, has a
financial stake in his enterprise.

Also:

Importance of the worker's services: If a worker provides services that are integral to the success of your business, the worker is likely your employee.

Personal performance of services: An independent contractor should have the freedom to hire assistants or subcontract work to other workers or firms at his or her expense (this is where profit or loss could enter the picture). If you require the worker to perform the work personally, that's a sign of control and therefore indicative of employee status.

Ouch.

This scheme is going to work until he starts issuing 1099s and the government (maybe after months or years) notices them and goes after the workers for their (extremely expensive) self-employment taxes. Which, because they're probably making the prevailing rate for housekeepers (high teens per hour) is going to threaten to drive them into bankruptcy and thus cause a stink.
This looks good, what about the non standard browsers (IE<9, what did you think?)? I have been looking into d3 a lot lately, but if there is no good support for IE, then no way this can be used for business apps.
This company uses infrared technology to patch potholes, instead of traditional asphalt. They are selling franchises. The owner of a company I used to work for bought the franchise for MD-DC-VA and is doing well with it. http://www.bpotholefree.com/
It's only 'under lock and key' if you are Google.

For Google it is very much about selling ads. That's their business.

The data is obviously worth a lot of money to Google, and yet they want it to be given to them for free.

That seems like an unrealistic expectation now that the market understands how valuable data is.
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You enshrine it as a by-law of the games.
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The last image is mind-blowing, never seen anything like it! A few more which caught my eye:

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Now that they've shown everyone how valuable data is, probably the only thing they can do is to start to pay for it and take a hit to profitability.
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I would guess it was scan-line related, and that the context switch to allow for the bottom half of the bodies took longer than the h-blank required to render that waist line.

(Random guesstimation).
Agree. I'm not seeing any graphs in IE8. Graphs is for business, and businesses love their bad browsers.
This is not the good kind of subversive. This is the kind of subversive that screws people who are making close to subsistence wages over on taxes. He spends "an hour a day" on Maids In Black now and based on his pricing and the prevailing take-home for housekeepers is taking more than half the gross from the business. That doesn't seem particularly laudable (but maybe my math is fucked up).

I don't think it's going to be easy to provide the service he wants to provide (flat-rate book-online competitive-quality housecleaning on demand) profitably under a 1099 structure.
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I think this shows a confusion about what part of the problem he is solving: He is solving a MARKETING problem not a DELIVERY problem.

Yes the cleaners are probably not doing anything differently than they normally did. BUT:

-the cleaners had problems finding clients
-clients had trouble finding good cleaners

If you've ever tried to find one of these folks, it's a total PIA. Basically it involves asking your friends or posting to craigslist and then wading through a bunch of crap. This is easy - find and pay online!

If you're against "extracting value" here, you should also be against grocery stores. Surely they are robbing the poor farmer by linking buyers and sellers?
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Not any more, as a web search immediately reveals: http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=418
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I hear there is an amazing augmented reality star gazing app called Star Chart for iOS, Android, Nokia and Windows Phone 7 which does something quite similar, although with a slightly different feature set...

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http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/star-chart/id345542655?mt=8
he said what he's really talking about: you can get email addresses out of gmail but not out of facebook.
A lot of these names mean something in languages other than English. I know "farbrausch" means something like "color drunk".
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wasn't micorsoft supposed to roll something out with Vista that was sql server standing in for the filesystem?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS#Development

I don't use windows anymore, but I hang with some .NET developers, and they aren't raving about WINFS, or Power Shell, or Sharepoint. Generally they seem pretty miserable.
But how do you trademark a term that has been used since ~750 BC?

You pass an Act of Parliament to that effect. I'm not even kidding; that's what they've done.
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WebKit is quite powerful and can be quite easily used for generating a PDF, SVG, PostScript of PNG in almost no effort.

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I have a GitHub toy repo [3] where I made a few tests with WebKit. On the the programs there (screenshot.pl) even lets you use XPath to find the subnode to grab.

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[2] https://github.com/potyl/perl-App-s5pdf

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someone needs to pay for it

That someone is the taxpayer to the tune of GBP 10Bn - 5x the original budget.
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My main thing with the whole affair, honestly, is that if an apology was expected, I find it odd that she posted it on a Saturday morning, a year after the actual event took place? It wasn't as though Kickstarter banned her on Friday -- this is a year later.

I still don't know that an apology was warranted, but that's just my opinion. If I were Kickstarter, I likely would have done the same thing. Regardless, I don't know the facts of the situation, and likely won't ever, so I'm just speculating on what I can see.

It's certainly good of Kickstarter to apologize, whether or not they thought it actually necessary, but I'm wondering if her account was reinstated. If so, I'm wondering when her account was reinstated.
You'd still create an association between your ad and London 2012 in addition to using the term 'London 2012'.
You can get away with a lot in specific cases of trademarks. For example, Cadbury have been able to exert some protection of their usage of purple, but only for chocolate wrappers - not for everything. Similarly here, I can see how the IOC or LOCOG or whoever can exert control over "London 2012" which has a huge association with their brand. Generally it comes down to a fuzzy test of "would it be misleading", and for most people "London 2012 Hotel" probably would be if the hotel wasn't really associated with the event.
D3 doesn't support IE (or at least it didn't 6 months ago when we looked into using it).
Let's say they're getting $20/hr. Can they themselves hire someone else at $15/hr to deliver the service (or "assist them") and pocket the difference? No? Then they're probably an employee. Contractors are supposed to have profit/loss exposure.
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My hometown recently hosted the first Youth Olympic Winter games. Despite the fact that you probably never heard of them, they are just as official as the real Olympic games.

The organizers demanded that every non-sponsor logo in the venues be removed. Not just advertising, they wanted everything gone. Some poor schmucks had to go around and cover every logo with a piece of tape. On clocks, furniture, faucets and even inside the bidets and toilet bowls.

Meanwhile they plastered ads for Coca Cola and Samsung all over our city.

Olympic spirit my ass.
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Sorry, I like Uber, but this is a very long-winded and self-serving advertorial for Uber that essentially boils down to just two sentences:

If you live somewhere that it's hard to hail a cab, Uber cars get there more quickly. They cost more per ride, but it's worth it if you measure time in dollars per minute.

I didn't really see any "hidden cost" there except for the "time is money" argument. By that measure, I could include the hidden cost of going to places with long lines, talking to long-winded people, or anything else.

Uber has a nice service, and I've used them here in New York when cabs are changing shifts and scarce, and I have to be somewhere right now. They are much, much more expensive than cabs, and even more expensive than a call-ahead car service. That's why I only use them in very specific situations. They're convenient and expensive. That's okay. But a lot of charts and hundreds of words to say "time is money" is a rather ironic way to spend one's time.
You also have to take into account the customer's psychology and not press them too hard. That is, they don't want to feel "nickel & dimed to death." Too many extras, and they may start to resent that these things weren't just included in the base package in the beginning. A load of extras thrown at them at the end can sometimes be declined (e.g. out of resentment, frustration, etc) when a higher price upfront that included those extras would've been happily paid.
There are plenty of decades-old working cooperatives here. It's the standard business form for farmers in the countryside. It's just another business arrangement, nothing extraordinary. They get everyone's production and leverage their volume to get better deals than any individual producer could, then pay everyone a fair rate.

Upon reading the articles: that NY coop seems fairly successful, but the closest to that model around here is a just-opened Sam's Club :) You seem to have misunderstood the article on China: what made them successful and more productive was precisely working as a collective while being fairly compensated. Cooperatives have nothing to do with communism.
For comparison: total sponsorship revenues are £700m http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/05032012/58/london-2012-london...
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I'm unable to address this, as I'm not sure what you mean. I was simply saying that from his vantage point, hooking up customers and vendors who were already in the market can be a valid business model.

I believe you are talking about bringing new people into the market as vendors and then treating them poorly. Hopefully we can agree that folks that are already doing cleaning can continue doing it just using this guy's services to find customers. If not,if the point is that all cleaners should be w-2 employees, then yes, no matter what he does it will not satisfy somebody with that view. I do not believe all cleaners should be employees. It's perfectly fine with me if you feel otherwise, but I don't think that's the way the IRS sees things. (thankfully)
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"Yes, Uber may cost more."

Uber is many many many multiples more expensive than a cab. There's no "may" about it. The one time I tried them, a 5.2 mile trip cost $46.70. That was without their surge pricing which could have doubled my 5.2 mile trip as high as $93.40.
Does this mean I cannot advertise my planed trip to London in Summer 2012 as my London 2012 summer trip?

I don't even like sport! It is after the games! Or before! So my Winter 2014 Sochi trip blog falls flatt too?!?!?!!
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I'm on my not-so-smart-phone and can't tell - is this the same thing as being discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3844930

??
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I have a nephew that wanted "to be a programmer".

Turns out he wanted to make games, and he thought that making games was a lot like playing them. :\
This should make you happy then:
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Logo links to blog home, not .com home. Sigh.
I think you fell on the wrong comment tree. The "exploitation" in discussion has nothing to do with the employment laws discussed above.
The Hidden cost of a Cabs = Time is money.

Next article:

The hidden costs of long-winded blogertisments?
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When companies or people make mistakes, it's great to see an apology. However, this one is very late and given the reputation that Kickstarter has, I'd have expected more from them.
You've got a pretty big leap there between "TV advertising is required" and "we need to ban everyone from saying the words London 2012 and cover up logos across the city".

I'm pretty sure that selling TV advertising during sporting events is possible even without new draconian IP laws being passed.
True in the U.S. as well; the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 granted a special trademark on "Olympic" and "Olympiad". That trademark was challenged by the Sports Event Formerly Known As The Gay Olympics, but the Supreme Court upheld it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Arts_%26_Athletic...
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Have you introduced him to tools like game maker, construct, stencyl, etc. ? Maybe he can do some simple things and then learn some code...
This is nothing new.

The IOC always swings a big copyright hammer in every host city, even if a business has existed for a long time.

If there is any business that even remotely has a word starting with "Olymp" (think McDonald's and their litigiousness with the Mc prefix, but worse) in its name, such as a Greek restaurant, they'd better expect to be told to change your name. Local governments play along with the IOC because of the large amounts of money at play.

While the Olympic games are a great thing, the IOC, however, is run just like any other business, and can be just as dirty/evil.
Are SF cabs really that bad? With 72% (!) of cabs just not showing up at all on weekend nights?
TL;DR: time = money.

Waiting for a cab costs time. Therefor waiting for a cab costs money. Uber takes the money and gives you time.
Not usually a spelling nazi, but if you are telling people what words they are allowed to use professionally, could you also spellcheck the words you choose to employ. There are less of them, so it should be easier.
I wish their scope wasn't limited to ages 10-11. Maybe in the future.
It depends on the car.

On the 2010 GTR, using it at all voids the launch control. And had automatic ejection from the club, losing your membership. On the 2012 GTR, it doesn't have launch control anymore.

Meanwhile some other cars have launch control which doesn't void the warranty (eg BMW 135i w/ dual clutch. Of course it has half the HP...)

They sold the 2010 at around 50k miles. Similarly a f430's gearbox is only rated for 20k miles.
Remember the UK doesn't have a constitution and hence it's not clear what it can't do. One common theory is "Parliament can pass a law on anything that's not physically impossible". Kinda makes a change from "only regulat interstate commerce"
Yes, you are correct, I read that differently than you intended. My apologies. Online companies typically are more susceptible to competition.

But in Amazon's case, they don't have real competition for the same reason Wal-Mart didn't for so many years, they have the economic power to sell at a loss and/or force their suppliers to sell at little to no profit until their competition withers away.

The odds of beating Amazon as a new start-up are about as slim as any rigged casino game. PG will fund it because the payout would be huge, not because the odds are good (imho, as I'm not in the mind of PG).
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> Turns out he wanted to make games

Well, great for him! Many a programmer started this way. IMO it's one of the best motivation ever to start programming, and to actually learn stuff (you try to make a game, and suddenly maths and physics become interesting).
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On the HGR modes, every 7 pixels of a line were packed into one byte - 40x7 = 280 pixels per line. The 8th bit switched the whole byte half a pixel to the left. This was also used to make different colors - the timing change shifted the pixels in relation to the color cycler, making the colors available in that 7-pixel group different (pink and green for off, blue and orange for on). White was done with two contiguous pixels.

I think early IIs didn't have this 8th bit magig, but, from the II+and on, all IIs had it.
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I can't believe you linked to an article that uses the expression "canuck".
I could observe a recurring point in kickstarter postmortems here: t-shirts end up being way more expensive than you think they will be.
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It was pretty buggy - here is a link to one account: http://www.grosen.dk/jp/Diary_of_a_Disaster.html
Why is it late, because PR people are expected to work on weekends?
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While it's not always good, it does allow government to move quickly and avoids the kind of weird deadlocks (eg. over healthcare, the budget) that one sees in the US.

There are also limits: MPs individually vote, and on something that was hugely controversial they would defy the whips. It's not "the Government" but a collection of individuals. And in the end we can vote them out and overturn absolutely any legislation in the next Parliament.
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After re-reading your comment and the one to which it replied, I see that you are correct. My reply was not in the wrong tree but rather based on an incorrect assumption.

Pardon my ignorance, but what "exploitation" is being discussed here?
You say it's not good vs evil, and that the government's goal isn't to cripple the Internet, but "just" to bypass due process so they can easily convict people they "know" are guilty. If anything I find your scenario even worse; it's approaching the cartoon villains in Atlas Shrugged ("there's no way to rule innocent men").
Time is money, I get it.

But this article is about San Francisco only. 72% of cabs never show up? Sounds like you guys have a truly awful cab system. Thankfully for people in New York, London, Paris and other Uber markets, that isn't the case.

My personal gripe with Uber: I have no idea how much my journey will cost. I assumed that the app would give me an estimate, or even explain pricing, but it doesn't. The only option I had was to request an Uber cab to take me on a mystery ride to my destination and ding my credit card afterwards. No thank you. (Ironically, I imagine that the product works great for people like VCs)

It's weird that a company spends so much time talking about the complex math behind their product but don't use it to provide the simple figures that matter to customers.
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