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Eric's confusing method with goal.

Craigslist's past method was to claim TOU violation on the part of PadMapper, denying PM ready use of its content.

Its goal is to maintain market position as the dominant classifieds listing service. TOU is just one way for CL to enforce its market position, and as a commercial entity, it's very likely it will continue to do so.

There's very little reason CL couldn't create an alternate legal claim based on content (the cartographic watermarking example comes to mind) to make multiple infringement claims against PM, which would invoke a whole host of copyright remedies ranging from injunctions and monetary damages to DMCA takedown notices (which could comprise the entire service depending on how construed by PM's hosting provider(s)). There's also the notion of a compilation copyright, in which a collection of CL postings could have standing. While Feist v. Rural Electric holds that a simple compilation of facts doesn't meet the minimal authorship requirements of copyright, a compilation of postings with some level of curation to CL might. I'm not aware of relevant caselaw here.

My own suggestion would be that PM pursue a dual strategy of coming to a business agreement with CL (PM's interface is vastly superior) while curating its own set of rental listings independently (CL is ripe for disruption here).

Disclaimer: I'm a long-time CL user and fan of much of its philosophy. I'm also a recent fan of PM. I hope the two will either work something out cooperatively, or manage to improve apartment and classifieds search by competitive means. I don't particularly care which.
I find the lack of accessibility to the poor for such treatment troubling. Dr. Wartman was lucky enough to work in a cancer research lab that covered the costs of the genome and RNA sequencing AND he had rich doctor friends who helped chip in to buy enough drug for him.
While the costs of sequencing are dropping quickly, medical drugs don't fall in price at the same rate. And there's always the chance that a drug to cure that particular mutation doesn't exist. What then? Spend millions on years of research to make the drug?
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https://trello.com/card/let-me-pay-you-for-trello/4d5ea62fd7...
We implemented Trello, along with daily working/billing about a month ago, and I don't think we'll ever go back. Working on one project per day instead of trying to do 100 things at once cut my stress in half and doubled my productivity.

Trello makes it easy to see what's getting done by whom, and who is available to work on the next item coming down the pipe. Client work gets done faster, and we have more time for internal projects. We have one board for invoices, one for leads, and one for projects. Its a great system.

So, we owe a huge thanks to the folks at Fog Creek, and I can't understand why we can't pay them. But also to Ryan Carson and Thomas Ptacek, for their strong recommendations of Trello[1] and daily billing[2], respectively.

[1] http://ryancarson.com/post/24884883426/how-i-manage-40-peopl...
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4101802
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Why would anyone have a .min version of their CSS anyway? Gzip does the real compression, I'd imagine a CSS file with line breaks and one without are nearly the same size after Gzipping.
One change is that it groups results. In particular, hit Windows-W if you're specifically searching for a setting.
Well awesome! Eh, I have pretty simple tastes, if I didn't, I might care more about money.
> building any company is a charitable act

This is a Randian and ultimately vapid definition of charity. I am all for capitalism but let's not get crazy.

Edit: Capitalism is the opposite of charity because you earn your keep. This is always preferable for both parties IMO.
I've always had a bit of an issue with these if statements. It might be slightly more concise, but your code also isn't as straightforward to read. In fact, it's really only more concise in its use of vertical space, so for clarity's sake I'm not sure I see the point.
In addition to the vimcasts, I also found Derek Wyatt's video series very helpful (as well as entertaining).

http://ontwik.com/tools/vim-from-novice-to-professional-by-d...
San Francisco, CA. Contract

The CBS Interactive games group is looking for a talented Javascript engineer to join its team. You'll be working on some of the world's largest and most fun entertainment properties including Gamespot, Giant Bomb and Comic Vine.

Who you are
Candidates should be comfortable writing Javascript projects from scratch, though familiarity with JQuery and other platforms such as Node.js are expected. As we rebuild our CMS platform you'll be building dynamic messaging systems, complicated canvas based image systems and building wiki editing tools for some of the web's most passionate online communities (which means they're brutal!). This is a really fun job for someone who likes building new tech as our Internet-native audience is always hungry for the latest and greatest.

Who we are
We're a motley crew of experienced programmers and front-end designers that wants to keep our team small and personal. Outside of launching the sites mentioned above, our team members were there for the launches of TV.com, Zazzle, and Bloglines. We run a fairly flat organization within the team and try to ship on schedule.

Send us some code
Along with your sites please send us some code or small project you're proud of to danny.chi@cbsinteractive.com
This is great. I am a Flask fan and was looking to build something like this. Will definitely try it out.
We'd rather have you tell your friends and colleagues about the product than send us any money at this point. If you get one other person to use it, that would be vastly more valuable to us than a few bucks.
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iPad Mini to be produced in Brazil, with a 4:3 ratio 7.85 inches display.
It's $40 if you upgrade from release preview as well. So you don't have to buy anything.
If they merely renamed "Start" to "Menu", there'd be a mass of horrified users. Both power users and casual users hate change, as evidenced by the amount of both groups still using Windows XP and refusing to upgrade.
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"Neither does charging."

As we saw almost happened with Sortfolio.

"little chance that we're about to disappear (or get acquired)"

Have you seen The Godfather?

"Not to toot our own horn, but Fog Creek has been around for 12 years"

I do get your point and I know of the reputation of Fog Creek obviously. I'm not comparing you to Apple cancelling Newton, rack servers, or clones (to name only a few examples at that company). And while you are correct about saas companies each situation is different and from experience I am weary of profitability of a product or a company. Fogcreeks financial circumstances can change (as can googles or any companies obviously) and in that case the best intentions go out the window. It's every man for ...

I remember a time when it was close to unthinkable for someone to walk away from their mortgage for all but in the most extreme cases. Obviously the mentality with that has changed (as well as with bankruptcy) and jobs for life. In the end companies and people do what they need to do to survive and make hard choices. To me the fact that a service is paid makes it more likely to survive (once again the outlier being the Sortfolio threat to close if no buyer found at 480k.) than one that is free and generates no revenue but has operating costs.

As a general rule.

Each situation is different.

Otoh, I do believe that a paid product from certain companies (Apple just shut down Mobile Me) is not always better than a free product from another company (Fog Creek) as one example.
Awesome news, Jesse. Definitely looking forward to it. Missed this year's, but planning to make 2013. Might even try to come up with a talk proposal.
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Obligatory link to Neal Stephenson's Wired article from 1996, in which "the hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth": http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
What exactly is the purpose of this app?
Yes, but also note that this applies equally to both sides of this issue.
I don't actually think that's relevant.

The point of the "fake streets" on maps is to prove that the rival map maker copied data rather than driving all the roads themselves. Here, there is no doubt that the data in question is originally sourced from Craigslist. There is no need to prove it.
> Hang in there long enough, and Craigslist won't be able to cut you off, because a good chunk of their traffic will come through you.

If Craiglist was motivated that way, why would they have sent the C+D in the first place? It seems that CL is opposed to anyone violating their TOS, period, regardless of benefit to CL.
For another few months, at least
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I'm not sure having someone invested in determining 'cool' is valid in any way or if it even has any meaning or should be given any importance.

But seems you attribute a value to that, so subjectivly that will work for you and it will provide a self rewarding feeling of belonging. Look at it in a broader way and we are back to square one, each person gets to pick what the person wants and likes, no matter how influenceable one is. It's just that. Lets not group this judge, Jobs and the Fonz for reinforcement conditioning.
It actually doesn't align, though. I'm not going to go into detail, but my expected finances are probably higher without doing this. That was an argument against doing this.
The current version of ARel is not a relational algebra library, it's an SQL compiler according to Aaron Patterson [1]. Many of the concepts and names for internals are based on SQL not RA. There's nothing wrong with that, it's a pragmatic choice for Rails given that ActiveRecord is an RDBMS only abstraction.

I've been working on a relational algebra library for ruby (tentatively) called veritas [2] where the sets are closed under all operations.

Given that it's a higher level abstraction than ARel the trade off is that there's not a 1:1 mapping between it's pure RA ops and SQL operations. I err on the side of producing SQL that will returns the correct results, which means some of the queries are a bit verbose. I consider that only a temporary problem though; I believe I can get to the point where most common queries are identical to what you'd write by hand. I'm focused on correctness before performance.

I've also written an optimizer [3] that takes the RA AST and rewrites it to be smaller and more efficient. It handles lots of the low hanging fruit, but there's still room for improvement. The advantage to this approach is that it simplifies the AST for all targets, not just SQL. There's even room to do per-target optimizations, which is nice because there is often multiple ways to form a query, and some approaches may be more efficient than others on different backends.

[1] https://github.com/sconover/knit-js#footnotes
[2] https://github.com/dkubb/veritas
[3] https://github.com/dkubb/veritas-optimizer
Heh, thanks. Nice to know that Taco can be as fast as a bullet when the opportunity presents itself. :)
From original post: "mud samples taken from the seabed around 5,600 metres (18,300 feet) down"

The techniques to extract these deposits would likely be similar to deep sea oil extraction. Their proposed timeline of production in five years is optimistic, especially given these are just the initial samples.

Original post: http://news.yahoo.com/japan-finds-major-rare-earth-deposits-...
Sigh, I keep seeing this article, and ones like it, and keep thinking maybe I should go back to vim. I'm happy with Sublime, though I like the idea of vim.

I've used vim a great deal in the past and it really is exceptional for editing a given file. The thing that really tipped me to ST2, though, was its management of multiple files in a project. The sidebar and Goto Anything are indispensable. I know vim has command-t, but I just haven't been able to browse a family of related folders as easily. How do others do it?

Also, I just can't get used to the line-by-line scrolling of vim and emacs vs. the pixel scrolling of Sublime, or TextMate, or even TextEdit.
I've been sticking with the defaults pretty much since I started programming (around 1984) and always came across people doing a LOT of tweaking.

I can't help but wonder if that's a bit like guitar players that spend more time tuning their instrument than playing :)
"Legally, it doesn't matter who hosts the site"

False. Terms of use and copyright are orthogonal. You can't enforce terms of use on someone who doesn't use your site. Copyright would still be enforceable if Craigslist held the copyright.

"As a licensee, Craiglist has the right to enforce this copyright against you if it chooses."

I know of no legal precedent that backs this up. Craigslist claims this right in its terms of use. I think it's bullshit to scare people away from doing what Padmapper and 3taps are doing.

"Morever, by violating the TOU, you are either directly breaching a contract with Craiglist or committing tortious interference in the contract between CL and the poster."

Neither of those claims are true. The terms of use don't apply to someone who doesn't use the site. Neither Padmapper nor 3taps are causing posters to breach their contracts with Craiglist.
Learning to see the commands as a language is helpful; but, it doesn't really reach its full power until you start to see files in terms of the various groupings that Vim affords you (either the out of box things or custom text objects). If you stick with Vim, you'll start seeing things like whether or not you want a word or a WORD, or around (a) or inside (i) an object. Moreover, start to pick up on when you're hitting the same key multiple times or repeating a command. There's almost always a faster way to do something than repeating a command N times.

I'll be totally honest, it takes time and a real commitment to using Vim as your only editor. But, over time, you'll start to think in this text objects and, combined with the "commands as a language" concept--that's when Vim will really start to show it's power.
What Craigslist is afraid of (probably) is Padmapper becoming the first place most people turn to when looking for an apartment. Once that happens, Padmapper can cut Craigslist out of the loop by inviting landlords to make Padmapper listings instead of Craigslist listings. (Note that once Padmapper become to "go to" place for apartment hunters, Padmapper's refusing to continue to host or "index" Craigslist listings helps towards that goal.)

Regardless the morality or legality of Padmapper's latest action, it is pretty clear to those of us who have spent a lot of time observing online ecosystems and software ecosystems that Padmapper's latest action is not in the interests of Craigslist since (even if Craigslist is not out to make money, but rather out to influence the world for the better) the only important source of Craigslist's potential for making money and of Craigslist's influence is Craigslist's being the first place people turn to when apartment hunting and doing other important things.

That is why Craigslist is against Padmapper's latest action even if Padmapper never posts the full Craigslist listing.
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There really isn't a need to do it in the manner that was suggested. If a frontend developer wanted to provide a copy with comments, it's better to host it on github & comment the link in the css file.
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I genuinely think any new JS web application framework needs to answer several key questions on the front page, above the fold - for starters:

- How is this different to Backbone.js/underscore.js, Spine.js, Sproutcore, etc.?

- Who's using it? (I realise the list will be short for new projects)

- Why should I learn a new framework when my other tools seem to be working just fine?

- What are its dependencies, and what templating libraries does it use/support?

There are probably more (chime in if you have any!) but if you can answer these without resorting to impressive demos or long lists of (expected) features, I'd consider trying it out for a low-risk project and hope it saves me some time/hassle...
This is one of the reasons I stopped messing around trying to find the perfect text editor. I focused on getting better with a stock VIM install.

I think the spirit of this post is that you should at least give the defaults a chance before you go crazy trying to make everything "better". However, I would add that you shouldn't totally ignore that voice that says "is this setting getting in my way?".
"Little is more disheartening to a developer than seeing a project with 3000 bugs."

Try 100,000

I was slightly active as a tester for Ubuntu 12.04 (a long term release so things that did not make the UI and package freeze would be there for years)

I noticed a lot of minor bugs being labelled 'won't fix', and I noticed a lot of 'down chain' bugs happening because of kernel/X server &c which automatically got sorted once the fixed packages made it in.

The whole thing was most educational to me (as an end user) and the result is rather nice.
Poor google, facebook and craigslist. I wonder if those 3 will ever make it, what with the giant red flag all over their business model.
I'm assuming here, as it could be something like one of those pens that you take a note with and records the sound (I forget the name), and it has the ability to share the actual notes.

I think you're referring to a Livescribe Smartpen (http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/). I have one and even extra notebooks but I never ended up using it. Very cool device, at least at first.
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So a few days ago, someone posted my site here when it was unfinished. It frontpaged for the entire day but when it was only half done. I spent the last few days making changes based off of all the awesome feedback you gave me and finished up the site. Thanks for all the support!
Although it's tempting to say that CL should make an investment in these 3rd party sites - the most direct solution is for CL to say "We'll license the content for 30% of your equity". Cash element of zero : CL has already invested in making a site that has the raw content that everyone wants.
Honest answer: depends on his audience. But I would never pick c), even for a consumer. It's not specific. No one wants to "consume content." They want to "read the newspaper" or "watch videos" or "listen to music." Those actions are, of course, consuming content, but you want to use words and phrases that allow people to imagine using your product. "Consuming content" does not cause me to think of myself using it.
Should we be suspicious or admiring?
>I would think the capability of having an Off phone receive a radio signal to turn itself On would require pretty deliberate hardware design.

Wake on LAN (WoL) is a pretty common feature for network chipsets. I don't know anything about mobile networks (so take this as the semi-educated speculation that it is), but it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine WoL over 3G. It wouldn't have to be a feature advertised to end users of the SoC.

What it comes down to is "what does 'off' mean on a cell phone?"
Just a plea - remember that there is a tier between "freeloaders" and "companies willing to pay $$" - it's what you would call the "supporter" level. This is the level that dropbox, for example, lacks - some ability to give, say, $3 a month not in order to get premium features, but to feel good, and support a product you like.

I use Trello every day for a whole bunch of things and it really does make my life easier. It would make me happy to give Trello a bit of money for services that I already use for free.

[Edit to comment below: I don't think it is such a strange suggestion - it's the NPR model: everybody gets to listen to the radio station for free, some get to feel good about supporting it in exchange for something nominal like a bumper sticker. Sure there is a difference between accepting money and never having to deal with money, but I assume Trello has some plan to accept money eventually for something]
What is the volume pricing guys? 1/2 million SMS, 1 million SMS, 10M, 100M?
I'm on it ;) Seriously! (in regards to disrupting the SAP business)

Interesting. If you're willing to talk about what you're doing at all, drop me an email. I'm working on an enterprise focused startup as well, maybe there's some synergy to explore or what-have-you. If we're not pursuing the same space (and we aren't doing anything ERP related, per-se) then - at worst - we could bat some ideas around and maybe help each other out in some fashion.
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None of the bug links are working for me.
That's all well and good, but wouldn't any LISP be way insufficient for your needs then? I mean, Java's going to be closer to C's performance than any LISP dialect until we have a "sufficiently smart compiler", right?
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Is there anyone on HN not using textmate and sublime no Mac OSX?
Could you elaborate on what those advantages may be, for those of us who don't quite understand the difference?
I love the new Office ribbon, but I always end up using it on underpowered machines and it takes forever to switch between menus on the ribbon. On my desktop, it's wonderful. On my netbook or work laptop, it's a horror.
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Obviously I wouldn't call either "a charity" because charity used in that (comparatively recent sense) means a nonprofit.

Crazygringo's point is that there is a much older and more important sense of "charity," which simply means helping those in need. In that sense, Google is a very charitable project. In fact it is hard to imagine a nonprofit doing a better job.
So a few days ago, someone posted my site here when it was unfinished. It frontpaged for the entire day but when it was only half done. I spent the last few days making changes based off of all the awesome feedback you gave me and finished up the site. Thanks for all the support!
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I really can't believe that this webapp wasn't able to secure funding from anywhere after 6 fricken years, and yet we have thousands of people with literally nothing for a product valued at extravagant amounts.

Something is seriously broken with our sector.
I don't think that's possible, but I'm not a lawyer. I'm very interested in seeing an example of a clause like this being applied. Another commenter cited the Righthaven case as a counterexample: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/righthaven-case-ends-vict...
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Trello is more general purpose whereas agile zen really focuses on software development. You can use Trello for development as well but it doesn't provide fields for determining which build something was fixed in etc... You're sort of expected to do that yourself with more columns or commenting. They do have an API so you could have your build system manage cards as well.

I personally like it for the fact that it is so light weight though but for larger groups it may not be flexible enough.