skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expected padmapper to be shut down a long time ago. Mainly because they are an incredible threat to the websites they are scraping all of their data from.

That's probably why padmapper has no way of making money at the moment.

They were hoping they could slink by, stealing other's content, until they were eventually big enough for people to warrant visiting them to list their apartments for rent. And then sell ads.

Don't get me wrong, I love padmapper, but scraping content is scraping content. And it's generally not allowed.
It's one thing to not test a site in a particular browser and to just put up an unobtrusive warning saying that some things might not work perfectly. It's quite another to actively block access based on the user agent string.
PIPEDA is a Canadian privacy law and EUDPD is a European one. I don't believe padmapper operates outside the US.
Could Padmapper reform itself as an extremely intrusive browser extension?

Is there any evidence CL was pressured by any privacy groups or regulators?
How is that an excuse for bad management?
I'm glad to hear that they are using Scheme in introductory programs like this. MIT stopping that just depresses me. I'm not sure what universities still do, except for North Eastern.
"stealing other's content" that was completely user generated...
Thanks for the correction, good to know. In the example you describe, the main mismatch seems to have been getting the two Ruby runtimes to communicate effectively. Was that a common theme?
You should work on your branding and provide a compelling value proposition. When looking at your landing page, put yourself in a potential customer's shoes and ask yourself, "What's in it for me?"

"Meeting. Preserving. Sharing. Keeping Your Privacy." doesn't make me want to sign up for a service.
Do you mean the system behind the google images search?
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For the housing vertical. It looked like this. http://www.padmapper.com/
What benefit does it have? What purpose does it serve?

As far as I know, these guys have a reputation in industry moreso than in academic circles. It seems entirely believable that they have taken no interest in language design outside of industry, where the state of the art lags a few decades behind that of academia.
Just in case you're still scanning the comments:

It works on OSX because it appears the operating system automatically creates a keypress of scancode 27 (escape) when you press "^[".

The special code in term_keypress_inner to handle this combination of keys is never hit, because no keypress event is created for ^[, but it isn't necessary on OSX due to the above feature.

You could expand your handling of keyup/keydown to handle it. For example, change your keyup handler to the following:

$(document).keyup(function(e) {
if(e.keyCode === 27 || (e.ctrlKey && e.keyCode === 219)) {
do_escape();
}
});
So is MLS data in a sense, but good luck copying that data and not getting a letter from their lawyers the very next day.

Real estate information is extremely valuable. The massive amount of trust that keeps generating a fresh database of apartments to rent on craigslist is quite valuable to them.

Why should they just allow anybody else to copy it for free?
If you're looking on the Peninsula, where school districts and crime levels vary by street within the same time, Padmapper is vastly better than craigslist.

I mean, look at all the misleading fucking tools who post "Palo Alto apartment for $1k/mo" which is actually in EAST PALO ALTO. With padmapper, it is clear. (In Menlo Park, where some areas are unincorporated, some are Menlo Park, some are Menlo Park but a warzone (Belle Haven, aka EPA North), etc., it's even more essential).
"... Where am I flaming anything to death here? ..."

The title. Change the title to something neutral and it will match the article. Good read.
Despite the very basic UI, the Dutch version of Craigslist seems to be doing well based on the hundreds of apartment listings in, for example, Amsterdam:

http://amsterdam.craigslist.org/apa/

But if I might inject an opposing data point, nobody seems to use the Brazilian version of Craigslist. Check out Sao Paulo:

http://saopaulo.craigslist.org/apa/

Can you believe that there are just 5 apartment listings for a metropolitan area of 19.9 million!

It's incomprehensible to me why Craigslist doesn't work there, especially since all the alternatives involve paying some middleman for listing. The same goes for job sites and "things for sale" sites as well. Brazilians prefer to use some scammy-looking sites loaded with graphics and eye candy and often charging a fee, rather than the vanilla Craigslist.

I'm going to venture a guess that this has much more to do with trust (Brazilians want to feel that someone has vetted the data) than with good/bad UI or web design.
I just don't get all the hand wringing. You are not entitled to unlimited use of another company's data. They can shut you off at any time for any reason. And if you build your company around someone else's API, an essential part of the business plan is preparing for the day when the API-providing company takes notice of what you're doing and evaluates your use of their service, with the expectation that they may shut you down if you threaten them.

If your only response to this is "go cry to various small tech publications", then you're doing it wrong.
Oneupsperson.
My understanding was that a logo could fall in for a design patent if the logo was part of the design of the items said company sold.

For example: iPhone 3GS. Pretty mirror apple logo is Apple trademark. It is a picture, so copyrightable. And it is part of the design and 'look and feel' of an iPhone, so patentable as well.

But I'm no lawyer..
This bit stood out to me as surprising: the rate of death to "accident" per 100k was 72 in 1900 and 38 in 2010. With all our modern technology and regulation we're really only twice as safe?

I guess my suspicion is that the big contributor is auto accidents, which had no analog in 1900 (and in any case, transportation accidents at muscle-powered speeds were unlikely to be fatal). Still, my intuition had been that the world used to be a more dangerous place than it was.
My argument is that the cost inherent in that "government backing" might be better spent on cyberwarfare.

Imagine what $100-1000 M buys you on the offensive cyberwar front vs. on the nuclear + delivery front.
"That doesn't make much sense to me either. Most video games don't teach anything about computer science. They may serve as a vehicle to get children interested in what computers can do, but no CS skills are required to play Halo."

1. First part of the answer is simple: Boys like videogames. They play videogames. Videogames are a great vehicle for getting interested in "Hmm, I wanna make a better awesomer videogame ... wonder how I go about doing that". Curiosity takes care of the rest.

2. It is, apparently, culturally acceptable for a boy to arse around on a computer all day, while the same does not hold true for a girl. This makes it harder for girls to learn subjects that take huge amounts of "being alone and thinking".
Actually not. Enough of their content is direct from dealers that it looks like they will be able to bounce back.
Why not buy a license and go hard on mobile? Then use that to get more direct listings, ideally with ACTUAL STRUCTURED DATA unlike the shit that is craigslist (i.e. closer to MLS, or even better, closer to the proprietary systems used inside large real estate investment companies), and then re-release a web version using only those listings.

Maybe focus on SFBA only, since the real estate situation is acutely broken here AND smart+rich people still rent here (unlike Texas or the midwest, with NYC being its own weird market).
Failing to find what you're looking for because of a frustrating UI is not positive reinforcement. People stay on the site because it is the largest marketplace and they have no alternatives.
Oh awesome, I thought it was a generic scraping site.
I have an issue with your wording.

"Getting free data via LinkedIn's API" != "Working with LinkedIn"
The same is true of Facebook. That hasn't stopped them from evolving their design.
I wouldn't even call it crappy. LinkedIn truly didn't owe them anything.
Save Padmapper: Craigslist is wrong to shut them down. An open letter to Craig
It's not just comparing against nil, it's any comparison or switch-case besides a type-switch.

A type-switch seems to be non-boolean-blind indeed, but it seems to have too much syntactic overhead, as Go code generally uses if branches when a type-safe case is due (e.g: When analyzing return codes).
I think the most important thing is "complexity is multiplicative". Every slight deviation from normal led to subtle errors that took days to fix, and kept coming back in different ways. The runtimes was just the most WTF way this happened.
Yes I much prefer this format, great job. The only thing thing that I don't like is that the questions are hard to read for me. Maybe because they're large blocks of text in bold.
> This is intended to make it possible to sell things at different prices in Mexico City and LA, which in turn makes it more viable to sell things in Mexico City at all. You may not love it, but it's at least a rational system.

Thanks for this explanation, I've despised these anti-arbitrage region-coding-like rules for a while, but when you put it this way it at least makes some kind of sense.
It's not a bad idea. It can be more than one item. For example, 5 sacred jewels or something.

However, I want the game to be quite open-ended too and it's hard to explain a goal like that.
I checked out gaithersburg, which it claims is > 60 minutes from bethesda. It's about 45 on average, even in typical traffic.
Autos and airplanes and the popularization of skiing, watersports, etc.
Jaket Euro 1E – Euro 2012
PadMapper is like the super helpful feature that craigslist did not figure out how to build correctly, or never bothered to build. I'm disappointed that Craigslist chose to respond by making a great social utility disappear from the market and anger the users. What about charging a license fee? What about acquiring PadMapper? What exactly does Craigslist gain by pulling its index off from PadMapper other than damaging its own public image?
It was originally an <a> tag so I didn't want to change that, and I think img tag didn't work very well with SVG and I had to use <embed>, which was another level of complexity.

But I'm by no means a web (front end) developer so I'm sure there are better ways to do this; I just didn't feel adventurous enough to spend more than 4 hours on stupid compatibility issues on older browsers :-)
Not true. Padmapper has multiple DBs.

Google can scan apartment listings and show them as results in their format. PadMapper cant. What's the difference?

See http://www.craigslist.org/robots.txt .
The question asked was, originally:

Why does the ad burger patty appear thicker and larger?

Which to mst people would be a question of appearance, not intent.
They do the same thing for PPV. It makes no difference that it's TCP/IP vs some other protocol. Those packets do not flow over your internet connection, they flow over the dedicated wires comcast runs to the customer specific for video.

They don't prioritize it over other traffic - it uses a totally different channel which you pay extra to get. It's exactly what they should be doing.

> The analysis merely showed that the packets were distinctly labeled for the routers

No, that's not correct. The packets used a different DOCSIS channel, after the cable modem the packets were not special.

If the packets went over your regular connection AND were prioritized, then that would be a violation. Anything else is not a violation, not the letter, not the spirit.

Comcast is a video provider, I bought some video and they used their wires to provide it to me. Other providers don't have the same access to the customer, but that's because they have no wires to the customer.

For network neutrality, other providers should have the same internet access as the customer as comcast, but this service doesn't use your internet connection, so network neutrality simply doesn't apply.
Do two days of Rails freelancing from your desktop then buy a machine with:

An SSD drive

8 GB of RAM+

Your productivity will thank me later, particularly if like most Rails programmers following the happy path you decide to run unit tests virtually continuously.
Bugs in your programs
I've been burnt by it as well, I didn't read the spec closely enough apparently. I would love to see it called out in an example.
The game starts with the tutorial. You answer three really simple questions and they all give out lots of coins. So, very soon you're on your way somewhere with your coins.

I am working on a "Awards" feature. What I think I will do then is to combine that with big rewards. And the awards should be awarded to you just by playing. You'll have to really work hard. For example, getting 100% on the questions under a certain time.

Thanks for the feedback!
As well as the sampling bias pointed out by jdpage, the breakage is also the fault of this particular HTML5 presentation framework – it is not necessarily the fault of HTML5 as a whole. The page’s user interface could make it clearer that there are more slides and show you how to go to them – for instance, by showing the invisible buttons along the side on page load. And it’s possible that the JavaScript could be written more compatibly, and have better fallbacks for when the browser doesn’t support certain things.
Tap versus intermediate variables
Public transit estimates from Outer Sunset to Financial District and from Outer Sunset to Fort Mason are quite accurate.
Mainline Commercial air travel (Delta, United, etc) hasn't killed anyone in a while. It's one of the safest forms of transportation there is. Certainly a lot safer than driving.
Hm. Since Facebook doesn't seem to care much for users (indivdual), perhaps hitting a few high profile people would change their course on this?

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) ?

I think that'd get the point across.
I see the project you rely on for serialization (msgpack) has its own take on RPC:

http://msgpack.wordpress.com/category/messagepack-rpc/
http://wiki.msgpack.org/display/MSGPACK/Design+of+RPC

How zeroRPC differs from that in performance, perspective and status? Did you know of msgpack-rpc when started zeroRPC?
Statically linked binaries (No dependencies hell, easy to deploy in production)

Is this always this way? I'd be interested in a discussion on the pros/cons of this. Some are obvious, but I'm interested in a deep discussion.
Anxious to see this component set evolve, looks really useful for apps that need their own look.
That's not entirely true. I don't think "You ass anything you do is pubic" is a valid MichaelApproved quote. Now, i don't know how you could misrepresent a like, but i don't think substantial misrepresentation (like my ridiculously juvenile example) is allowed.
Things To Do With Kids In Indianapolis
Despite the fact that many 3 series drivers never take their vehicles beyond the capabilities of a Buick, it is definitely one of the all-around best automobiles on the market today.
"... it's totally unknown here in Chile. ..."

Out of curiosity, how did you learn Haskell?
Avatar? Could do, but it might feel weird since there are no other avatars to interact with.

Here's an idea: You start out as an avatar of someone looking shabby and poor. Like, broken shoes and dirty t-shirt. As you progress you start looking smarter and smarter. Eventually you travel in a suit with a businessman looking little hand-luggage. I'd have to get graphical to pull that off which is not something I'm good at.

Yes, the interface needs to be improved. It's hard to make something cute without Photoshop skills. I'd happily pay someone if I had the time to organize and I knew the results would be decent.
I used it to find an apartment in Vancouver. Still, I have a hard time finding sympathy for somebody that posts something on a public web site, and expects it to remain private.
Kudos to CL for standing up for user privacy.

While I appreciate the sentiment, it is very unlikely that a landlord would object to an apartment listing being aggregated so as to expose it to more users.

If padmapper wants the data why don't they just obtain consent from the CL posters, instead of copying it without consent.

How do you propose padmapper do that without violating the Craigslist TOS in some other way like bulk-emailing everyone who lists an apartment?

I'm not saying their conduct wasn't a bit of a grey area, against the TOS and maybe a copyright violation, but I don't think many Craigslist users would object personally to their posts being reposted in this manner.
What a silly analogy. If I have a car and you steal it from me, you now have a car and I don't. What PadMapper does is it takes a picture of my car and shows/sells it to people. Analogies require handling with care :-)
In this context, LinkedIn owes them respect and honesty. Bait and switching is crappy behaviour.
`luriel`, isn't 'cat-v.org' your site?

Gordon is the mascot for Google's Go programming language.
Also was also created by Renée French.
> IMPORTANT: Under penalty of perjury, this form is solely for the reporting of a deceased person to memorialise.

Sarcasm aside, I would be curious to see someone tried over an Internet form in a court of law.
If it's not completely automated, I expect that one wouldn't go through.
It is possible to do this, but there's tricks of setting font-size and background-size involved to get the background sprite image to scale correctly.

I got this info from somewhere in The Googles, so the information is out there.

I haven't yet tried this on older browsers, so it may need extra help when I decided what browsers my app will support
Accidents presumably include falls. As people age, the likelihood of injury and death from falls increases significantly. The median age of the American population is significantly older than it was 112 years ago. Thus the death from accidents is high because people don't die at the same rate from disease.
Raphael is nice if your use case is fairly simple and along the lines of the examples provided on the homepage, but I would caution people that the lib is quite buggy and not (particularly?) actively maintained.
You wrote this just strangely. Third from the right in a 4 man photo? Look, there's 2nd from the left - that's much better because guess what, it requires less counting! Also, it's not retarded, because since your article is written in english, we read left to right. Crazy, right? Also, if it's about a 5 man startup, then why is the photo of just 4 people? I feel like LinkedIn must have killed him or something.
Just a clarification, padmapper will continue to exist with listings from a lot of other places. It will just no longer have Craigslist listings, unless you help send an email to Craig and Jim.
You're assuming that the only reason that women do not enter the industry is because they do not have the aptitude or ability, which is just plain false. This event isn't about saying, girls do this because we need more of you, it's saying, girls do this, because society suffers as a result of gender stereotypes. Having an event to counter society's flaws is not the same as having an event to artificially manipulate the perceived quality of the attendees.

Also, your second paragraph makes little to no sense. The event is not going to persuade women to enter the software development industry because of some irrational reason (maybe you could actually say what reasons you think the event promotes?), it's there to reduce the effect of our culture on people who want to get into software development. No one is handing people who attend this a free pass to getting a job in the industry; ability does still matter.

And also, I did not say that .5 is the goal, but moving towards that would be a step in the right direction. I looked up the male to female ratio of a random university course (UCL Computer Science). The ratio there was 77:23 male:female. That's quite a long way off 0.5. And before you say I am putting equality before ability, ability doesn't come from nowhere. While software development continues to be so male dominated, or at least, seen as a male career by society at large, we will exclude god knows how many brilliant people from the youngest ages. Having outreach programs is _not_ a bad thing, and to think otherwise is to be ignorant of one's privilege.
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Yeah I'm guessing that is why they went that direction. It really isn't any less enterprisey than anything else and we ended up with stuff like fmt.printf, who would have guessed printf is in something called fmt. Well I guess it stands for format, but is printf primarily a formatting function? It prints and the formatting is a convenience. If we are meant to use it for formatting, it is badly named.
SVG is worse than png, for tiny images
That’s correct. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE17r3n1kz4&t=1h25m45s (1:25:45 in). (via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4148148)
Well, even when you're not Google's product - eg you've got paid-for top-tier GAE support - you still can't get 24/7 support, and the system is pretty much completely opaque, and able to be crashed by a single user consuming too many resources (I have caused this).

They're going to need to turn this around if they want to compete with Amazon, who have been very accommodating and helpful to us, even going so far as to send engineers to our offices to help us with aspect of our architecture.
That is actually incredibly fast!