skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not been following the case. But normal practice is that when you sue someone, you put forth every legal argument that you can think of in the hope that at least one sticks. And any lines of reasoning that come with minimum damages are even better, because you want to sue for as much as you can. (I believe that copyright infringement comes with fairly significant minimum penalties.)

This often leads to weird counter-factual arguments of the form, "A is true, and if A is true, then my client should win. Even if A proves false, B is true, and if B is true then my client should win. Even if B is also false..." If you think A you can show that A is true, why do you need the rest? Because this is about convincing the judge, not about the rest. No matter how clearly A is true, there is a chance the judge will disagree with you, and you still want to leave them a way to rule in your favor.

Not, IANAL, this is likewise not legal advice.
There are multiple levels, and the = or != box changes to a clickable bunny which does more.
"...master (Facebook) password with which we could log in as any user"
I learned to check the upvotes before clicking through. Again. Sigh.
I think there's more to it than that. I know people for whom craigslist is one of the very few websites they interact with. It's a very different demographic from the one that hangs on HN. I think this is a big factor in the CL design and the reluctance to change it.

I also think the network effect is being overstated in this instance. eBay has much stronger lock-in because I can't list my item in more than one auction at a time. But I can certainly list my apartment in more than one service.

I already check the local paper in addition to CL when looking for an apartment. If I'm looking for a bargain, I'm fine with shopping around.
New Apple iBook - Master Class with Eric Ries
no, we're slaves of our pointless fight against entropy.
It's tolerable on my iPad 2 (iOS 6), and absolutely smooth (the smoothest animation you can imagine) on Safari 6 beta on my old Core 2 Duo 2009 MacBook Pro, so hopefully that's just a matter of browser implementation.

And I completely agree with the last statement. It's cool, but we have better tools in HTML5 for a simple animation like that.
Is that where John Goerzen (of http://book.realworldhaskell.org/) works? I watched Bryan O'Sullivan's CUFP keynote the other night, http://cufp.org/videos/keynote-real-world-haskell, and he mentioned that John was working at a tractor company in Kansas or something along those lines!
It is not necessary, but it is still done. Why? Because it takes away the defense, "But I didn't know that it was copyrighted!" It also makes the copyright holder easier to track down for people who want permission.
Good luck, but I doubt it will work.

My first experience with craigslist was trying to figure out why they had the capability to block my wife's ad for a free dog that contained a mispelled word while the site's creator was busy trying to tell the government that there was nothing he could do about the many child prostitution ads that appeared on craigslist.
Larry Sanger is a founder of Wikipedia in the same sense that Ronald Wayne is a founder of Apple. (Edit - Or, better yet, Martin Eberhard is a founder of Tesla)
You must have never used Padmapper to find your apartment. It is truly a great experience compared to crawling through pages and pages of non-standardized listings.
Having type-safe/correct software is a huge benefit when you're controlling machinery

program vehicle computers that control hybrid
powertrains for heavy duty trucks -- garbage to be
specific. Our systems interface with engines,
transmissions, brake controllers, and yes, accelerator pedals.

Haskell GADTs ensure type correctness of the generated
C code. I find it interesting that a type system in
one language can prevent type problems in another.

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-April/075...
X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future
Nvidia  education, and embedded architectures
Round robin DNS wouldn't solve that. Your DNS servers will happily keep serving out the defunct IPs of your failed datacenter.
I'm so happy that the global ajax events are going, they were a big weirdness for me, especially in light of the custom events that were added in recent releases.
And to round out the seasons, I added one for fall:

His machine halted

fall foliage fell later

Entscheidungsproblem
Planetary Resources's Kickstarter Project.
Show HN: Taskr - "Tasking Done Right"
Hello guys!

I need some help reviewing, and refining the landing page for an app that I'm building: http://taskr.punchdev.com/ (and here's a screenshot in case my DNS hasn't updated yet: http://cl.ly/0M1w340S1M2T1m0W3G2I )

It's a to-do list app that differentiates itself from others by making sure you add new tasks daily. Plus, it makes it easy for the user (you) to see the status of a task thanks to colors (blue for week-long tasks, red for overdue, orange for nearly due, and green for not due yet.

Bonus points: The screenshot on the right is actually made with Keynotopia!

Thanks a lot guys!

Georges Duplessy,

PunchDev Labs :-)
I like this, although I do think it would be better if each comment had a permalink back to the original so that we could see all the responses, not just the one by the person who created the thread.
Get-rich-quick schemes?

Padmapper is an amazingly useful tool. Couple of months ago, I had a coworker relocate from Irvine and he was raving about Padmapper before I even had the chance to tell him about it. I run into people like this on a monthly basis to the point that I brag about personally knowing Eric.

I know Padmapper makes some money but it's not exactly a cash cow—though I hope someday it will be as it definitely provided me with more value than all the Groupons and Instagrams in the world, and asked me for nothing in return.

I can almost understand by what you mean with "Silicon Valley get-rich-quick schemes" but Padmapper is the last startup I'd ever categorize as such.
We're just at the very beginning of building this, so specific styles aren't finalized yet. We are also talking with as many designers as possible to make sure it's themeable in the way they want. At the end of the day, we won't define how it looks, but rather enable you to be as creative as you want to be.
Well one nice affordance jQuery offers, is you can do manipulations en-mass without having to write out a loop, or use Array.forEach(). This helps simplify event binding and manipulation code. Also there are selectors in jQuery that are not available in querySelectorAll. And lastly querySelectorAll has some pretty buggy implementations. jQuery smoothes these out.
Link: http://taskr.punchdev.com/
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/0M1w340S1M2T1m0W3G2I
"powering" is a bit of a weasel word in this case. Plenty of those sites should work just fine without jQuery or any javascript..

So to say jQuery "powers" half the major websites on the Internet is like saying "Cup holders power 99% of all passenger vehicles world-wide".
My apologies. I may have used some improper wording there.

But if I may... you must admit that you have taken "something" from Craigslist.

Whatever you want to call it... be it geographical location points, links-to-listings, content, data, images, etc... it is inevitably some form of information that was originally curated by Craigslist through their 10+ years of existence online and is thus available to be used (and not used) at their discretion.

Canada Post for example charges $5,500/year (http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/business/productsservices/ma...) just to have access to a postal code verification system. It's all publicly available information... if you walked to every city, suburb, nook and cranny in Canada and asked the local people what their postal code is, they would tell you without hesitating.

But if Canada Post gets wind that you may have copied any of that publicly available information from their databases instead of doing the hard work yourself, you can expect a lawsuit at your door fairly quickly: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/04/13/technology-...

I don't think Canada Post had a case in the above example because the company in question didn't actually copy anything from their database, but you did when scraping Craigslist (for however insignificant you found the information to be), see what I'm saying?

Just because you are sending them traffic, doesn't give you the right to take (insert whatever might have been taken here) from them without their permission.

That being said, I love padmapper and have used it numerous times already for myself and friends. I wish you all the best going into the future!
I guess we should be glad Craig Newmark does not own Reddit.
How is this different from when Bing was using Google search results? If people want to use Padmapper great. if people want to use Craigslist then great.. Am I missing something here? I don't see the problem. What if it were the other way around?
If Apple really pushes the whole industry into Retina-era, we can probably forget about subpixels in a year or two.
I can appreciate why it took a while for the thought to die off that "brandy drinking women" were prone to spontaneous combustion.
Is the site down? The map loads but the progress spinner just spins (seemingly) forever on Chrome, Safari, and Firefox (on my fast MacBook Pro).

I'm a developer at Mozilla, so I wanted to test your site so I could file an SVG performance bug for Firefox. :)
Can you open source padmapper so we can run it ourselves? That way, no matter what Craigslist does, people would still be able to use the great service.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0
Decent article about why DRM and other copy-proofing measures are poorly effective. Really bad title, both here and the original.

Best quote:

"The computer industry are not opposing your bill because they want to encourage copying, or because they are bloody-minded, they are not opposing you because of your self serving rhetoric about rewarding artists (remember Peggy Lee, Michael?), they are opposing you because what you want is provably impossible. You can only succeed by making all Turing machines illegal."
You have support for driving and public transit but not for bikes? Seems like you could get some rough estimates by using elevation variance as a multiplier for driving time.
In Facebook for iPhone, there is a way to report an issue: you can go to Help Center -> Something's Broken -> Report an Issue -> "please let us know", which then shows a page to file a report. It could be made even easier to find, but there is a way.
A particularly aggravating problem when the college in question already have a separate software engineering major.
"iBook" is an old plastic laptop that Apple used to sell. Things that iBooks can display are simply called "books" (or PDFs).
The analogy drawn between evolution and artificial intelligence is interesting, yet ultimately deficient in at least one key aspect. Yes, the steps performed by a computer are unintelligent, just like mutation and natural selection within evolution. However, unlike the process of life according to evolution, computers are not purposeless or directionless. Computers were designed and imbued with a purpose (computation) by intelligent beings, in contrast to evolution’s “blind watchmaker”. Yes, unintelligent computers can perform intelligent processes (for a particular definition of intelligence). Yet it remains up to intelligent beings to judge the final output produced by computers: whether such output makes sense, is useful, or is true. Even if eventually a computer designed by another computer (or a lineage of computers) manages to pass the most brutal of Turing tests, you can’t get away from the fact that such a computer ultimately owes its direction, purpose, and intelligence to the intelligent beings who put together its oldest ancestor.

For an apt analogy between AI and evolution, a computer would need to exist and compute without any involvement from intelligent beings at any point in its existence. That computer would need to develop its direction and processes in absolute, unintelligent independence. We couldn’t develop such a computer ourselves; we’d need to discover it somewhere in the natural world (perhaps lying within a mineral deposit). However, at this point we’d be drawing an analogy between evolution and another form of itself. Circular analogies aren’t very useful.

The author writes, “in order to be a perfect and beautiful computing machine, it is not requisite to know what arithmetic is.” This is true, but knowledge of arithmetic (or a higher form of reasoning) is required in order to produce such a machine in the first place. At least that’s what we can tell based on the only computers available to us (all of which owe their existence to knowledgeable beings).
Nice, we started out building this almost exactly with a horizontal 'timeline' ui, but dropped it half complete when fb launched theirs.

There's quite a few big challenges to overcome, beyond the coding, resonant data presentment being the big one. If you guys can nail it, it can be a serious contender.

I'll be following for sure, best of luck.
PHP was designed (I use the term loosely) to get dynamic websites up and running very quickly, and it's default configuration succeeds at that. So I don't think it's fair to call the loose error behavior a problem in PHP, as changing that would go against that ease of use, even if it's a problem when writing complex software with PHP.

I think a simple "use strict"-type declaration would go a long way for making software that's actually reliable rather than the barrage of set_error_handler, ini_set and related calls, but oh well, I'll file a feature request. It gets more complicated when security enters the mix (remember magic quotes?), but there are about nine thousand different frameworks which deal with that better since they're actually designed for a specific purpose.
would-be replacements?

Padmapper provides a service on top of Craigslist: it maps Craigslist ads. It does not provide classifieds, and Craigslist does not provide mapping. There is no overlap. They are not competing.

Maybe they will compete in the future, but that's just because Craigslist isn't making any effort to provide a mapping feature.
If Padmapper is really going to die without the addition of Craigslist real estate listings, then why would Craiglist want to allow them to allow them?

Padmapper is Craigslist's competitor.
Is it confidential to say which company you're talking about? I also live and work in Chile and I almost always get blank looks from people when I mention Haskell.
But go to Miramar and look at how the heat is drawn. Huge swaths of area off the scales, and then north of that, inexplicably, is the heat again, saying that something five miles away is somehow 60 minutes, but nothing in between could be reached in 60 minutes. It just obviously does not represent an accurate commute time for the local area... it's some generic calculation done which they probably assumed was correct when they tested it because the one city they were looking at's traffic pattern correlated with their algorithm.

And i'm not trying to give them a hard time, really. It's a neat visualization. But for me, practically, I couldn't use this to tell actual commute times, and I think that's apparent based on the other comments on here. You want my opinion? They should crowdsource taxi drivers. Who else would have a better idea what the traffic's like at any given time of day?
Haha brilliant solution!
I thought about adding something like this to my comment, but you said it better.

In essence, the way to take market share from Craigslist is to take any market Craigslist dominates, and reimagine it as something other than "classified ads". It seems like you have to compete with the whole concept of "classifieds", not Craiglist.
It's actually much more variable reinforcement - of course, the most addictive kind.

Each individual search has a low probability of success, but occasionally you'll succeed.
Most frequently asked questions by Entrepreneurs 
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For me I see coding as:

A) R&D/Learning - Code/hack out new ideas and learn.
B) Production - Use known methods + what was learned in A to write production code.

For A, it seems that we can R&D/Learn all we like without TDD/BDD etc. Hack away. Get a proof of concept out. But please don't put that code into production.

For B, use something like TDD to assure robustness. I would also argue using BDD to assure coverage of system behavior.

I feel a majority of bugs in code is because developers stick stuff created in A into production.
Do you think "Microsoft" is stupid? I do.
Or "Apple", for that matter.
Craigslist is an evil monopolist that literally wastes millions of hours of its users time every year through the enforcement of shitty UI (if the amount of money that I save using padmapper is typical). They get a good reputation for some bizarre reason because their CEO is an anti-capitalist, but they are still evil for holding back innovation.

A human lifetime is about 700,000 hours. Craigslist is the moral equivalent of a serial killer.
It's negativity through and through here, and it's impossible to get away from it. Consider the following:

- You have a team that has been working incredibly hard pursuing a dream: that they can build a product, from scratch, that is truly useful to millions and millions of people. This is not an EA requiring engineers to pull insane hours -- this is a labor of love and everyone has considerable equity.

- It's a small team and that means each person has a lot of responsibility. Don't like ever having to pull an all-nighter? Never want to work a minute past 5? That's OK, but it means you have no real responsibility, and you will be compensated accordingly. Others choose more responsibility, and they man up when the shit occasionally hits the fan.

- Have you ever coordinated a massive press push with the top print publications? Then you have no business telling them how it should be done. It's extremely difficult, it requires dates locked down months ahead of time, and with that kind of advanced commitment, planning 100% accurately is beyond difficult.

- After this ordeal, the team posts an honest story from the trenches. Go to any successful startup and you will hear many war stories like this. Nothing is ever perfectly planned, unexpected shit happens. It's frankly awesome that they shared it and gave some insight into what goes on behind the scenes that you don't normally hear about.

- What is your reaction? You shit all over them. Tell them that they're horrible people and that they did it all wrong. Exclaim that you could have done it all right and they have no idea what assholes they are.

I have no idea what drives this extreme negativity on HN, but it's gotten completely out of hand.
Come to think about it, aspiring entrepreneurs are the ultimate market to target. They'll be willing to do anything and spend any amount of money to become the next Zuck.

That's where the real genius of people like Ries lies.
I don't think you are bound by their TOS simply by indexing their site. Whether it makes business sense to test this legal theory is a wholly different question.
No reason why it has to be unpaid overtime.
I agree. It's abysmal. Each girl has a separate "slide" with a photo and blurb. Hit "next" near the top of the page (even the landing page) to progress through them.
People come back because craigslist has monopoly power. Craigslist knows this. They are afraid to release an API that would allow people to experiment with UI because they know that would train people to go to sites other than craigslist (I save hours using padmapper over Craigslist).
It would be better to say Facebook begrudgingly uses PHP due to not wanting to do a major rewrite.
To be honest, this app sounds like a feature LinkedIn can easily implement on their own. There is no viable business here. The real thick value lies in the data.. that's 99% of the work. The app just adds 1% value on top of it.
I don't think it's enough to rely on the TOS. Sure, there are obvious examples like porn on the iPhone where the TOS will give you a clear answer. Frequently, however, the TOS are ambiguous and are interpreted inconsistently. They can also be changed at will.

Sure, you're right that developers should try to give as much benefit back to their platform provider as they derive from the platform. But the fact is that different companies perceive benefit in different ways with reasoning that is opaque. Often a decision can depend on a strategic direction for the firm that you are not privy to.

All this is why the reputation of the company matters so much. From reading the article, it looks like LinkedIn not only acted in a very inconsistent manner--giving praise before shutting them down--but they even began reverse-engineering the application. That's not the kind of behavior that breeds a healthy ecosystem regardless of whether they have all the right to act that way, and regardless of whether Pealk was careless in relying so heavily on LinkedIn.

If everyone were to take a cautious approach to the APIs and platforms that big companies offer, as has been suggested in this thread, then the tech sector would be a much less interesting place. The fact is that a lot of innovation happens because there actually are API and platform providers out there that care about their developers and won't pull shit like this.
Or "e-books."
Taskr is a real product that competes directly with your app. Might want to change the name.

Your big "Download" button has some UI issues.

* When I click it, a popup happens far away from the button.

* The popup prompts for my email address, but when I type nothing happens.

* When I click in the popup field to type, letters appear after the demo email address "email@address.com" rather than replacing the demo.

* The letters are in light gray (same as the demo email) and hard to read in sunlight.

* The popup field continues to show a tooltip "email@address.com" even though I've typed in my email address.

Pricing seems off to me because of "Only $0.99". I want to know about value, not cheapness. I would gladly pay much more for a task manager that works well for me.

Differentiate your app from Clear and Task. (both great apps)
Our company had a meeting earlier this week on front-end style guidelines. This may be a useful tool after we vet it. Looks extremely promising and what we need on large scale applications.

I appreciate your work! And on behalf of everyone who uses this. Thanks! +followed
The uproar over this is ridiculous. Craigslist is free to choose who can consume their data.

If you choose to build a platform that is dependent on third-party data and APIs, then you choose to accept whatever choices those third parties make that could possibly affect your application.

The whole "craigslist doesn't innovate" argument is moot. If they were selling buggy whips at a million dollar revenue rate a month, someone out there would attempt to get in that same business, copy it, mimik it, resell it, etc.

Innovators create stuff that people want to copy or leach off of. Poseurs copy and leach off of innovators.
New York Times Said to Seek Tech-Savvy CEO for Comeback
Show HN: Mood tracking app, Moodology
Hey guys, it's been awhile but I've been busy working on a new app called Moodology. With this app you can track your moods and gain some insight into what's causing your mood and analyse your mood 'highs'and 'lows'. Check it out - http://konec.ky/software/moodology
They're monopolists with a shitty product. Craigslist is the IE6 of classified ads.
How Alan Turing set the rules for computing