skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are going to charge people for what they use then it isn't insurance any more. That is the really silly thing in the US - the "insurance" system is really just a mechanism for obfuscating how much things cost.

And if you want to start down the "lifestyle" road then why shouldn't people who have kids pay more (it is a choice too), or the people in LA (who are more likely to get skin cancer). And remember back in the 60s people didn't think cigarettes were that harmful. Soon we'll find out that fat is good, or bad, or was it salt? Do we get to retroactively charge and refund people as scientific evidence mounts up?
So what do we call programmers who are too cool to be Brogrammers?
> If anybody finally does manage to create a transnational money beyond governments, it's going to need to be highly decentralized.

ok, but can you explain why Bitcoin is not starting to fill out this shoe already??
"They’ve surpassed their $25,000 goal so these things will definitely ship."

Someone doesn't have a clue about how kickstarter works heh? There's absolutely no guarantee of this! Also, there seems to be one of these "sense the world" devices coming out on kickstarter each week, so one wonders why the first / second / third project like this didn't follow up and grabbed the market since there seems to be one (one successful funding after another). Is this a kickstarter trend? Just have the one funding round and stop?

Kudos for the Disney soundtrack on the video I guess
To be fair, repeat once means repeat once. That's exactly what it says and so its what the setting does. It might help if they added a note in smaller text like they do for other settings.
Sure, but those who inherit PHP systems may not belong to the PHP's target audience that I was referring to. Neither must all people who choose to use PHP necessarily idiots, because PHP does have some legitimate use cases. But all in all I don't think PHP maintainers can expect sanity from their users as a general population nowadays. I know it sounds harsh, and it probably is a bit judgmental on my part too, but I hope you get the idea.
Well...it's one of these:

>Hashable, Purpose, Gumtree (eBay), Trampoline Systems
Well considering they are the 9th most visited site in the US and the companies ahead of it are all making revenues in the Billions (except Wikipedia and Twitter), then, ridiculously enough, $100 million sounds pretty modest.
Like any other part of the labour market wages are largely based on the supply of labour. There are probably millions of people in the United States alone who are qualified and would be happy to work at an Apple Store for the same wages. Truth is there are plenty of people who would work for lower wages. Retail is not really a career. It's a job. If you want to make money you need a career not a job.
They also mention going through social media profiles for insurance data mining. I wonder what this practice can lead to, if taken to an extreme.

For example, if I apply for credit and I can't provide some/most of the information they ask in the application, my request will probably be denied. Suppose in not so distant future I apply for credit and I don't have any social media accounts. Will I get denied because the bank could not dig enough information about me that they expect to be able to find about their applicants?

I don't like the world this social media craze is making us into. Being concerned about your privacy has always been a rule, not an exception. But that is changing now.
Does exercise induce autophagy in neurons?

What are the most interesting developments in research?
Looks like it was hardcoded in the URL submitted to HN - nice hack, but I agree with others that "bing" isn't really a widely accepted verb like "Google" is.

"Let me search that for you" might make more sense for now.
I am not the creator. I just needed an example query. :)
All the advertising in the world doesn't close sales, it just gets people in the store (or to the website). If salespeople were not important, Apple wouldn't carry the burden of 30,000 of them.
How loud are these hobby/open source drones? Spy-worthy?
I just think of all the wasted man-hours - probably centuries - of developers' time reimplementing existing software because the existing one isn't supported anymore and/or lacks some secondary features, and of course it can't be adapted or improved by anyone else.

Of course, that's more to do with it not being FOSS than just being copyrighted.
Unfortunately mobile devices handle the transition of the map element from position:static to position:fixed poorly. It's something we still have to figure out. Thanks for the heads up though!
It is a sad day that speaks volumes about the world we live in now, that we encounter an article on such an important, ground-breaking topic, and it's titled 'Airport security refuses transport'.
Apple Chomps At App Store Search? Developers See Shift In Search Results
So McDonalds is going to sell their customer data to insurance companies so that insurance companies can raise premiums on McDonalds customers?

While I agree that the data sharing has gotten way out of hand in the pursuit of profits, only the stupidest of companies would sell their customers out in this way.
Ask yourself in what circumstances might a coroner come to a hurried 'suicide' conclusion in the absence of any supporting evidence? Instead of evidence engage in character assassination of 'a man of this type' having 'unpredictable mental processes'? If the coroner did not find any suicide evidence it can mean only one thing: there wasn't any. Furthermore, why would he claim that Turing ate a poisoned apple when it was not poisoned?

Why would Turing's visiting Norwegian friend disappear without trace?

Turing had become a convicted criminal and overnight he turned into a security nightmare: someone with detailed knowledge of secrets but without the security clearance.
I think it's a throwback to 20 years ago, where in order to play videogames, you had to fight with your system, whether it be for memory allocation or soundcard install or whatever. I used to work with a guy who wrote his own mouse driver just to save a few k of memory. That kind experience exposes you to the gubbins a bit more than modern games do.
I think the reason people here feel this way is because the general consensus among HN users is that the best product wins and that's all that matters. If a company has a monopoly on data and refuses to provide an API they're saying that they don't want to compete on the quality of their product (craigslist for example) they want to keep their position without the benefits to the users.

Padmapper made craigslist apartment searches much better, instead of making their own apartment searches better craigslist shut Padmapper's access to craigslist data down. It shows that they value their own business more than they value the experience of their users, which to a lot of people here isn't exactly "good".

Companies are free to do with their data whatever they want and they're free to restrict access to it however they like, sure, but it's still lame when a company does it because they don't want to improve their product and don't like competition.
Choosing Pealk as the example in this very short rant is a classic Straw man argument. What about Padmapper?
Hear, hear. With all the talk of "pivoting" and whatnot on HN, I'm really surprised at how many people are so utterly hostile to businesses changing course at Internet speed. Have your cake and eat it too, eh?
To quote, "That done, Birchall's team booked the only direct flight from Bristol to Barcelona, operated by an airline called easyJet." Thus, your "business class with a premium airline" doesn't (appear) to have been feasible.
But wouldn't it be nice?

Wouldn't we all better off as a whole if technology wasn't solely based on profit only?

I think that's the real question, and what started the whole "API" "open XXX", not "OMG I WANT IT /CRY/CRY" that the image suggests. Remember that most devs nowadays participate in open source projects and start to have different ethics than they used to have (which was, money > everything, and justifies all actions)
All the mentioned companies form at least part of their business on data collected from their users. Not products or sevices formed of raw material. Even Netflix depends on its users' data heavily in order to run its recommendation system. So to expect that they allow the public, in the form of other companies providing other services based on said data, is not so unreasonable at all.

As a provider of data from which these companies make their profits, I believe it is entirely reasonable to demand that they make those data accessible to other services I'd like to use. Sadly the trend of the Internet has been away from open systems and toward siloed, proprietary data stores.
I'm glad someone said it. It's foolish to develop a product exclusively with another company's API. But maybe Pealk was looking to get acquired all along? In that case this whole debacle has a valuable lesson in it: Don't build a feature, build a product.
When was the world not like this?
Correct. But, IMHO, they (Craigslists of the world) owe us, consumers. We're their eyeballs, customers, users, we bring them food, directly or indirectly. Well, at least for myself this is always the case, to greater or lesser extent: when I do something for a user, and user pays me, I feel somewhat obliged. If he pays me $5/mo, it doesn't mean that our contract is renewed from scratch every month. I feel obliged to do something that would entitle me to issue an invoice next month. It doesn't mean that I will bend over backwards for every user (it just doesn't scale) but nevertheless.

I mean that PodMapper was a service for Craigslist's users, first and foremost. And banning PodMapper means that Craigslist doesn't give a shit about us, its users. Do you really believe that PodMapper did any damage to Craigslist?
I end up publishing it, with a thanks message on the Readme and with the pertinent copyright message were I found it would be fit.

The result is here:
https://github.com/waldman/puppet-pgsql
Interesting perspective that I'm inclined to agree with. It seems that large companies with vast amounts of data or users are generally expected to give developers a way to interact, but the reality is that they have the ability and right to control access to said resources however they feel benefits their business best (or even reduces the amount of shit they need to monitor). I've always agreed with Calacanis that startups should not stake their business model on the good nature of a larger service (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc). It seems to me that if Ayn Rand were still around, she'd be writing tomes on the new generation of "data looters" - those who feel entitled to the hard earned data of the large faceless corporations that exist within our tech industry. "Sacrifice your data and business to us poor, helpless developers who are just looking for our next meal. It's for the good of the industry!," they cried.
The iPad needed nearly double the battery to keep up with the larger display+GPU's power requirements. The MBP still had to add 20% to keep up. There's no room in the current Air for extra battery, so even if the current GPU could keep up to Apple standards, running time wouldn't. Which means either becoming less Air-y or waiting for a more efficient part (likely Haswell)
I believe you can get a standing desk for your cube at Intel. I remember seeing quite a few of them.
If that's the general consensus of HN users I don't think many stand to make any money.
Using strncpy is not a remedy at all. The function was never designed for safe string copying, but for copying fixed-width inode names[1]. The fact that is protects against buffer overflows is pure coincidence.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1454071
No, McDonald's will give their customers' data to marketing or ad companies like Google so that these companies can get McDonalds' customers to go to McDonald's more.
You mistake my use of anticipated. I agree with you, I meant the change was anticipated as in "It was expected to happen". It was in the cards to happen eventually, whether it was intelligent or not.

Returning null in the math library at all just seems counter-intuitive.
Craigslist's one goal in the world is to make a profit. That's it. Everything else comes secondary. If they decide that providing users a service will help them accomplish this, then have them provide a good service (which they do). However, they don't owe anything to any businesses or even any users. If users don't like this, let them go to an alternative. Welcome to capitalism, where the users decide what product they want. (Now if you don't like what the majority of users are deciding, then that's another issue altogether.)
I fully agree, but unfortunately us hacker-kind are no longer the norm nor the majority here. It's all startups and tons of people with business degrees.

Technical papers get downvotes while people's blog posts about how to hire/fire people get upvoted.
I think his ability with English maybe giving the impression he was being flippant. If you remove implied meaning, it says only that "I know it was bad for the company, but I found it fun".
People have a right to complain if they don't agree with a given company's decision. The fact that the company has a legal right to do something, or the (alleged) fact that they are basing their decision on "the bottom line", does not make that decision the right one. And if indeed it is the businesses's prerogative to do this or that, certainly consumers have at least the right to voice their disapproval.

I really would like to stop hearing the whine "but they have a right to do X" every time a business's practices are criticized here on HN.
It is frustrating that due to network effects, for-profit companies, gain a near monopoly on important data types. YouTube owns video, Craigslist owns classifieds, Netflix owns video viewing, etc.

It would be great if there was regulation over certain types of data that would require companies to post back to a central database if they take certain kinds of information. It would be great if there was a device that could help level the playing field.

The point of my post was to highlight that complaining, or being shocked by these companies behavoir is sort of missing the point.

How can we unify and provide access to what we feel to be 'universal' data types?
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boo-fucking-hoo, someone said something I don't like. awwww.
Hell yeah they owe us. Their services would not exist without our user data (netflix excluded).

Internet is still relatively young, but I think eventually we're going to have to have laws that regulate how companies that collect user details allow access to 3rd parties.

Monopolies are illegal for a reason. Companies who build infrastructure have to manage it fairly.
Honest question, what devs are you thinking of that put profit above everything else? Newcomers during the dot-com bubble?
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Save it for econ class. A company's goal is to build a sustainable profit generating engine. To allow this, it needs to play a constructive part in the marketplace and community.
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Yeah, looked at Seattle -- what is typically an insane 60m commute (the 520 floating bridge) is a cheerful 20-25m. NYC was also pretty laughable -- traffic really matters outside of sprawl cities with six lane highways masquerading as main streets.

If you are going to measure the distance and use that as a basis -- just report the distance. Otherwise, the estimates based on time will just flip the bozo bit in your customers.
No one can ever fake transactions out of thin air. Bitcoin is cryptography. The requirement for confirmation is due to possible double spending, which will cost far more than a VPN account to do it successfully (to cheat a 0-confirmation system).
I don't think Craiglist has a "monopoly on data", they have a monopoly on their data and they have not incentive to make their data freely available.
I find Google (much) better at address lookup and searching for commercial establishments, but most of the places I've lived/visited have better OSM data in a number of other ways. Google is particularly bad if you're a pedestrian: it seems to be missing a lot of non-auto paths, especially things like urban staircases in hilly cities.
If there were laws regulating how data is provided, I think that as a company, I'd simply stop providing data entirely. It definitely wouldn't be free.

APIs are nice, but legal hassles aren't worth dealing with.
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But if I use it in my web-based app it is downloaded automatically (thus passed to others) by the browser. Any user that has a tiny bit of knowledge about technology is simply able to get it.
The point is not a concatenation of two symbols -- the point is that this one little point will kill the glider beside it, where by "kill" I mean it becomes the static sequence:

. o o
o . o
. o .

So if they are saying "death to the hacker" they are saying it much more dramatically than you can hope to get by your analysis. The point is, "there is the symbol for a hacker, flying freely diagonally across the grid, but we've added a point which will get her stuck in one form."
You point is valid about the "but they have a right to do X". I think it does provide good discussion however.

My point wasn't so much that they have the right to do that, but more about when your playing with another company's API don't expect to disrupt them.

Choose a start-up that is already successfully and profitably using a company's API and make your service even better. AKA don't compete with the mothership.
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There was definitely some entitlement among the community, but I don't think that should silence the call for better services (and API enforcement) from these providers (or, hopefully alternatives all together).

If there is API access it should be enforced with more care or not made available at all. Personally, I was skeptical that PadMapper would go anywhere (expecting CL to kill the scraping early on). Much to my surprise it stuck around and furthermore was really useful. I'm not mad that it is gone: I read the TOS from CL - it's totally their right to do that. It just hurts end users which is the problem.

And sure, I do believe it's dangerous (and can be misleading to users [like when your data access gets pulled]) to build a product entirely on a platform, but it's almost unavoidable. (That's why you are the platform). Companies like PadMapper are going to try to improve where you have left off. (They probably didn't even register on CL's logs until they queried a lot which might explain the delayed C&D).

Let our entitlement / disappointment be a message to these companies on how to improve their services (ideally they could improve in a way that makes them more money). Or hopefully fuel for others to build competing products.
Let's play around a bit with this mentality:

Google: man up and build your own database of everything. Stop indexing our data when we already offer our own search mechanism.

I get that everybody wants to build ajax web apps and ios apps and android apps and so on, but what's the point of the internet except for being the default client-server protocol if we can't create mashups? The whole point of the internet is that data is public and linkable and interconnected. If companies don't want to allow scraping and they don't provide an API for their non-user-specific data then they're defeating the whole point of the internet.
What Craigslist has is what economists call "positive network externalities" or network effects. Which just means that it's a really valuable service because tons of other people use it. Buyers go there because lots of people are selling, and lots of people selling go there because they know lots of buyers visit the site.
Lets get to basics, If product was providing value and doesn't anymore there will be attrition to userbase and that is the gist of it. It is also the foundation of wealth building and whatnot. Ancillary benefits, as APIs are, help shallow out the curve of obsolescence or even grow the product sometimes if cards are played right, but that is that...

my 2c
> Hell yeah they owe us.

And for that data, they provide you with services. That doesn't mean they should be required to hand that data out to any service that requests it?

I mean, are you really asking that companies like LinkedIn allow free access to it's api's and user data to any 3rd party that requests it?

> Monopolies are illegal for a reason.

Well, no. Monopolies just require additional oversight. Microsoft, for example, didn't get in trouble for being a monopoly, it got in trouble for unfair business practices as a monopoly. More importantly, a monopoly doesn't exist with any of the companies presented in this article.

Really though, your comment fits with the picture at the top of the article.
A company does not need to provide a constructive part of the community to achieve their goal of profitability... they just have to provide something that some segment of the population is willing to pay for, or build in a degree of lock-in that guarantees continued profits.

For example, It's probably fair to say that Monsanto is not a constructive part of the marketplace and community, but they sure do have a sustainable profit generating engine.

Edit - if you're going to downvote, how about some discussion as to how this comment does not add to the conversation... since I'm sure there was some other reason for the downvote other than not agreeing with me :)
No.

I might be inclined to agree, if it weren't for network effects.

Once a company reaches a certain size and market share, like Craigslist, would-be competitors are at a competitive disadvantage. Lots of people have created objectively better sites than Craigslist, but they fail because of network lock-in. Normal capitalistic competition is failing.

This is the same thing that happened with railways, utilities, and other natural monopolies. In these cases, it is necessary and proper for the government to step in and regulate access and interoperability.

Sites like Craigslist and LinkedIn have become the new natural monopolies. And demanding that they open up their data is the natural, and right, action to bring back natural market competition that benefits consumers and the world at large.
Netflix included, actually. Their recommendation engine has been a selling point for them since the start, and it's built on data provided to them by the users.
You make the mistake of assuming that you gave them your data and got nothing in return. You did.

What you're upset about is that you've already given them your data, and now you want more for it. You've upped your price after handing over the product, and them having delivered the product.
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These companies owe the consumers who are paying them. That's it.

The consumers absolutely have a right to express that they are dissatisfied with the exchange being made.
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Hey -- I've been doing some work in a related area, and would love to hear more about how you're using Haskell (my stack is centered around Python).

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Thanks!