skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I've played with the Dev Preview. It wasn't horrible. Although, I embarrassingly admit, I had NO idea how to 'close' IE after I opened it.

I'm a huge Linux fan, and I use a Mac at home. But much of the development I do at work is Windows only and I really don't hate "The Squares". I love the look of the newer WPF applications. Git for Windows is a perfect example. Now not everything should go this route. But I'm just not willing to jump on the "MS has crapified everything" bandwagon.

I'll be interested to see the general acceptance factor in all of this.
“Rocketr is a bottom-up approach to knowledge management. We connect people through their notepads. Basically, people take notes and decide how to share them. The primary mechanism by which they share them is through co-authored notebooks."

"2. I stripped out so much of the marketing jargon (a YC rule)"

No, you didn't. I couldn't understand what you were talking about. "Knowledge management" is jargon."Connecting people" is jargon.

"Rocketr is about having one author for a given note, and a threaded conversation around it."

I thought Rocketr was about "co-authored notebooks"(your words). So we co-author notebooks but not notes?

"Rocketr bridges two worlds that could not be further apart right now how we capture information (using personal tools), and how we get work done (using team-based tools). We’re betting that these worlds will converge, because if they don’t, it will get harder and harder for teams if they can’t collaborate at the speed that information is changing around them. Oh and the medium we use to facilitate all this, is note-taking something we all know how to do."

That still doesn't tell me what Rocketr does.

"Organizations need this to drive innovation" = Marketing speak that says nothing.

I still have no clue what Rocketr does or how it works after reading your blog post. Keep it short and simple.
The interface for annotated examples is quite cool: http://oxjs.org/#examples

Looks a bit like Docco: http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/
For some reason this makes me think of the matrix. Not the design of the site, just the "series of tubes" that are now surrounding the planet.
Just a heads up, the live demos took a bit to load (the network here is poor), but there was no indication they were loading. An indicator would be nice.
Your lucky day, it's back in stock! http://www.megamacs.com/index.php?action=frameview&id=40...
> the reason padmapper is able to hire someone in the third world to read the internet and manually screen scrape the data—or whatever it is they’re going to do—is because craigslist aggregated it for them.

Here's where the rubber meets the road. As far as I can tell, 3taps is taking data out of the Google Cache and re-aggregating it. While stealing someone's aggregation of data is clearly wrong, re-aggregating data from public sources clearly isn't, both from a legal and moral sense, at least in the US.

The material facts in each ad are public data. The fact that such an ad appeared on Craigslist with such facts is also public data.

> And I join Phil...in suggesting that arguments that the ends justify the means are suspect.

I'm also suspicious of ends justifying the means, but that isn't the whole story here.

> I’d prefer to see the padmapper folks put up a pirate flag and openly declare war on Craigslist. Just come right out and call them the evil empire already.

To me, Craigslist is the one being selfish and shortsighted here. If they back legislation seeking ownership rights over re-aggregation of data, that would be an "evil empire" move. It would be better for everyone if they subvert Padmapper instead of fighting it.
Driving Sales: Ways That Consumers Are Hopeless at Math
I'm reminded of the old BASIC magazines, when the tech didn't exist to download programs, so you'd type them in by hand to run them. Yes, it's unnecessary work, but it also forces the user to see how the code works. (I wonder if Apple would allow pre-cooked Python scripts as in-app purchases, like a store-within-a-store?)
If this was true, wouldn't we see more links between cities on the NE coast and in the gulf of mexico? I was always under the impression we ran fiber along railroad routes.
Remember that YC backs founders much more than ideas. Also remember that they've already vetted both the founders and the idea, with the help of YC alumni, prior to the meeting. I would also imagine they have a strong aversion to BS and a well-honed BS detector.

Ignoring the pre-packaged pitch you have spent months preparing and asking you some unexpected questions would seem to be a great strategy to quickly figure out what they really want to know - which may or may not have any relation to what you want to tell them.
Call me crazy, but why would you waste a user's bandwidth on this? Also, usually, there is a foo.css, next to a foo.min.css, why introduce a new paradigm?

on top of that, there's right click on an element -> inspect, and it will tell you all you need to know, in any proper browser.

I really don't see a need for this.
Copyrights can't apply to material facts. And apparently, there is no "database right" in the US either, so they don't have a claim against re-aggregation of their data from public sources.
> nnoremap ; :
> I don’t remap : back to ; because it seems to break a bunch of plugins.

That sounds like another good trick. But then how do you jump to your next f,F,t? I find myself frequently typeing "f=" to find "=" and then hitting ";" to jump through all the "=" in that line and reach the one I want.
If 1% ~= 10 million then that means their user base is nearly 1 billion, which clearly isn't true. There are not 1 billion people with a blogger blog.

There is no conflict of interest. They are not severing opera completely. just off of one section of one part of one of their services - one that is probably one of the lesser used ones at that.

Not to mention, they are not going to make it not work in Opera, they are just not going to fix opera specific bugs. that means that if they stick to the standards like they normally do, then this really shouldn't be that big of a problem, outside of esthetics.

I think this is the sum total of bad publicity. Honestly, Opera's biggest issue has been a lack of advocacy.
It is a real shame that the app doesn't register as a handler for the ".py" file suffix.

I develop on the iPad by using Textastic as my editor and file manager and then use "open in.." to send source files to a runtime app that has registered for certain file types. In my case it is Scheme and CLIPS - but any runtime with an interpreter could work in this workflow.

I don't know how Apple would view this ability in a production app - i.e. the difference between downloading code (as prohibited in the legal agreement) and having code pushed sideways from another app.
I'd rather spend an extra $100 on a decent netbook, mostly because of the warranty. Spending $140 for a piece of hardware that might fry in 91 days feels risky to me.
It's important to look at the relative upside and downside for different parties.

If you are the voice of uncomfortable truth for someone you have the possibility of a big win (e.g. say out loud that the emperor's butt naked) but are probably viewed as a big meanie and may burn bridges in most typical cases.

If you are the voice of sugar coating and go with the crowd, or whatever you think the other person wants, you are unlikely to have a big win, but at least you are considered "nice" most of the time.

In practice, no one is all one or all the other. It also depends on who is risking what. In the Dan/Dani case, the surgeons and doctors didn't have to deal with the consequences of a mistaken decision, but they did have to deal with the possibility that someone might label them anti-trans bigots. When nothing is really at stake for you, personally, why not be blandly, gently "nice" to someone and avoid hurting their feelings?

On the other hand, if $1M of my own money is on the table (e.g. investing it in a startup), even though I want to maintain good working relations I will ask the hard questions, because there's big downside risk for me if I don't.
I assume a lot of IIT's top faculty and brightest kids major in engineering. That puts their nobel count at a disadvantage.
Nah, they don't touch the servers either (I asked very explicitly about that). They get the info from Google's cache.
Let's be honest here. User's don't post to CL rather than Padmapper because of their TOS.

1. The average user has never read the TOS and doesn't care about it.

2. User's don't post to padmapper because A) they don't know about it and B) posting to craigslist is (until now) a superset of posting to padmapper and craigslist

3. The data Padmapper is taking is your address and posting time. You'd be hard pressed to find more than a handful of people who mind Padmapper reposting such info.

Besides, it's incredibly difficult to steal CL data for apartments. The posters are incredibly technology unsophisticated; I'm amazed how apartment owners can't take a simple 2 minute video walk-through. A lot of places don't even have pictures!
After reading that, I still have no idea what they're actually building, who would use it, or why.

"Driving" is horrible advice, too -- even in sales. The best introduction to sales is SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham; in short, "consultative" vs. "slimy used salesman", where you work with the prospect to develop needs and then show how your product addresses them.

In the 10 minute YC format, I wouldn't put more than 30 seconds into developing needs (i.e. getting buy-in that a certain problem exists and is worth solving), since I'd assume the YC people are both informed and generally biased towards accepting that problems exist. If they don't believe a problem exists, having a few great datapoints to justify your position is worthwhile ("medical transcription is a $10b/yr industry, and 0.1% of people are killed by iatrogenic errors traceable to mis-transcription every year. We want to make billions of dollars and save 50k lives per year with our direct neural interface for doctors, and we're the team to do it because we've each earned MDs and started 3 fortune 500 companies in the past 5 years...)
I read it as meaning the 196 million came from a combination of Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Accel Partners, so I think they are still making money.
IAAL.

Both 3Taps and Padmapper are potentially liable in this scheme. DMCA compliance does not protect this type of use; the safe harbors are very narrow and specific. It only protects websites (or services) from liability for content posted to the website directly, by users of the website (or service). The DMCA does not protect the website (or service) from content it actively acquires, on its own or on behalf of another party.

3Tap is scraping the Google Cache under some misguided interpretation that the copy of the Craiglist site is not protected by copyright. This is as ridiculous a legal interpretation as Carreon's charges against the Oatmeal for defamation. Google has fair use rights to maintain a copy of Craiglist's site in its cache, but ownership of the content remains with Craiglist. This is no different than if the site were hosted on Akamai or CloudFront servers instead of Craiglist's own servers.

Copyright liability does not stop with the first infringer. Every infringer is potentially liable (which is why the DMCA safe harbors were necessary in the first place).
Eric, it's not even close to a grey area. Like...not even remotely close to a grey area.

Consider the following:

I leave a bowl of candy on my doorstep for Halloween with a note that says "Please take one piece of candy.".

You, however, have a bunch of friends back home who aren't at my house to get the candy, so you take the entire bowl. You defend this, citing a "grey area" because your friends want the candy, and you're making them happy because you took it from me and gave it to them.

That's what you did.

No grey area. You just wanted the candy.

(Do I support craigslist's decision? No, I think it's stupid, but it's their stupid decision to make.)
It is more efficient and that does justify the decision. Consequentialist ethics runs on quantitative considerations rather than right-of-way, so "it's more efficient" isn't an absolute right-of-way that would mean that you ought to do anything efficient regardless of the consequences - a lot of deontologists have trouble comprehending this - and if Craigslist were acting differently, or Padmapper, "efficiency" might not be enough to make it right. If Craigslist had their own version of the service, or they were about to roll one out, then efficiency wouldn't make it right. In this case, though, I'm willing to say that Craigslist doesn't have a moral right to prevent there from being a better UI to the renter's market, which is a key system resource even if they happened to create it. How would you feel if there were a private company that had invented DNS, taken on the task of gathering DNS data from many submissions, done it ad-free for a few years, and then they started deleting sites they didn't like from the Internet and suing anyone who tried to scrape their data and add the missing sites back in?
> step over the moral grey lines of using someone else's data without their consent by claiming my service is better

OK, IANAL, but isn't the content of craiglist's post owned by the author of said post, not the Craiglist itself? (sorry haven't read their TOS/TOC). Just like you own your tweets, not the twitter?

Otherwise, I could keep posting copyrighted material (like books) and then suing Craiglist for copyright infringement (something Vivendi did to Youtube) since CL would claim responsibility/IP rights. I am sure that CL protect itself from acts like that pushing the blame/responsibility at users (I don't think DMCA would work in each and single case). So one could argue that this is each and every CL author right/responsibility to file copyright infringement claim with whomever harvest CL posts, and CL should, for lack of better words, "mind their own business". In other words, they lack copyrights over the content their users are creating. Sure they can remove the post if it violates TOS, but in the best scenario they could email the author "hey we stumbled upon your CL posting on XYZ website, do you want to file a claim?", but really nothing more than that, right?

I know it sound bit weird, but isnt't it what AirBNB and others do: while your local/state law may forbid subletting, AirBNB hands are clean because they are in business of providing a social platform to find and post vacant apartments, not enforce or monitor if their users follow their local renting laws.
As someone who knows Eric personally, I can vouch that he's not an asshole. In fact, that is literally how he thinks and those are his real motivations.

He's not the type to come out and call someone else, like Craigslist's CEO, an asshole. In fact, he comes out saying that he admires Craigslist. That's just the way he is.
> If Craigslist is explicitly disclaiming copyright in the data they post, how can they sue for copyright infringement?

By having the user sign their right to sue over to Craigslist. They're saying "it's your copyright, but you're giving us the enforcement rights to it". It's in their TOS:

> You also expressly grant and assign to CL all rights and causes of action to prohibit and enforce against any unauthorized copying, performance, display, distribution, use or exploitation of, or creation of derivative works from, any content that you post (including but not limited to any unauthorized downloading, extraction, harvesting, collection or aggregation of content that you post).
This is why I am eternally grateful to Norbert Preining...
> According to Betable’s Griffin, social games average $1 of monthly revenue per user. Existing gambling games, which Griffin says are mostly boring, average $300 of monthly revenue per user.

That seems way, way off. $300 average would require either all of your players are hardcore and put in a lot of money, or you have a decent number of players at the high end skewing it. Assuming they're getting something out of it (at least some of the time), this number seems to be quite... deceptive. I'd love to see the data behind it.
Why Facebook Should Be More Like McDonald’s
Personally, I think your biggest problem is going to be that WordPress is a hunk of shit and the people who would make good first employees don't work with WordPress because they don't have to

Sadly, I'm very much in agreement with your point; I don't want to spend every day of my working life hating the work I'm doing, and based on past experience, it would take minutes before that happened again.

Still, there are plenty of masochists out there, and also plenty of competent people who don't mind working on such stuff if the money's right, so don't give up :)
Indeed, I prefer this approach to Joel's. Whether a giant bug list actually wastes any attention is a matter of attitude, terminology, and interface.

If the moldy oldy bugs collect mostly out of view, but can be found when needed – for example when a similar bug is reported again, or an overlapping feature is being added – then this 'long tail' of bugs can be an asset rather than an inventory cost.

In fact, I would suggest any mental model that relies too much on the 'physical inventory' analogy can't possibly be making optimal use of the possibilities of digital technology. Bits are nearly free, interface is iteratively-malleable, and improving search offers instant only-when-needed access to arbitrarily large backlogs and historic records.

I understand that some meticulous personality types can find this approach disturbing – and these are personality types that are especially good software developers in many dimensions. This tension should be resolved with terminology and interface: let each team member see only the backlog that helps them allocate their attention.

There are parallels to the deletionist-vs-inclusionist split in wiki/reference communities. Joel is a bug-deletionist. I am a bug-inclusionist.
> Non-sequitur. If you can interpose the man in the middle, then most protocols are broken.

It does follow. There is no basis for the belief that the transport channel isn't secure! For all we know, it's well-encrypted.

Yes, MITM is a concern with all communications that are intended to be secure. Granted. Established. Not an argument. But, it's not relevant to this attack.

Even using the best crypto available won't save you if the client barfs the security keys to unauthenticated clients upon request. The challenges here are in the authentication and authorization layer, not the transport layer. But there are non-technical constraints at play.

Backing up a bit, this even better illustrates the root of the problem. The way the law is written, you can never build a secure system, because the law mandates that the computer in your car trust all clients. Any system that does not secure the channel between an identified client and server is not secure. Hence, when all clients are permitted, the system is not secure by specification.
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> I don't believe the methodology used to collect the data actually matters does it?

Actually it does, from both a legal and moral standpoint. It shouldn't be wrong to re-aggregate data from already public sources. That way lies insanity and oppression.

> The question is fully around the copyright ownership of the content.

Actually, it's around ownership of the material facts in the content. Those can't be owned, at least in the US.
Please make a plan about official binaries for RHEL/CentOS 5. Yes it's an old kernel, but it's still used heavily by many organizations.
Plivo (YC S12) launches scalable API platform for Voice & SMS Apps
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That's probably a good summary of the way I feel too - like Craigslist defected first in this Prisoner's Dilemma.
Just to give an example from I project I'm working on now:

output.WriteString("<statements>\n")
defer output.WriteString("</statements>\n")
As I understand it, random access just means asking you about different facets of your products, probably in the same way you and your teams have been thinking about and solving problems related to your product. You did not sit during Day 1 and outlined every single problem and feature you will support did you? There is randomness involved in your journey towards evolving a products, and that randomness already answered most of the questions PG might have asked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural

This is (to my knowledge) the most relevant case regarding facts and copyright. Rural made a local phone book, and Feist made an aggregate phone book which wholesale copied Rural's listings (and presumably others).

In this case Rural did seed their phone book with fake listings as you describe. Feist copied the fake listings along with the legitimate listings and still won the case.
How about something like "Generous, competitive salary"? Would that work?

Heh, it's definitely a tricky one to spell out, agreed :)

If it was me, I'd go with a more personal touch, something along the lines of: "I know that good developers don't come cheap, and I'm happy to pay market rates for the right person."

Only thing missing is whether you're talking about permanent employee rates, or consultant rates, but it addresses the biggest of my concerns.
You're misreading, I think.

They're offering $100mm in new stock at IPO, but they are only offering x% of the company in that IPO. So the total market cap is $100mm/x%, about $1b. (I'm going to cheat and read the filing and then change X to the correct value, but I think it is 10%).
At the end of the day, I'm not writing my CSS for others to learn from outside of the // hidden comments for my devs that don't get compiled in the final CSS. There are tools out there to reverse engineer/un-minify CSS and JS files if they are so intrigued, and if they want to learn the best way for them to do so is to get down and dirty the same way the rest of us did and just learn what works and how it works outright. Having the Inspectors already gives them a leg up over a lot of us.
Wouldn't that depend on what percentage of the company they are offering? I believe they have ~26 million shares total (from a previously filed S-1), and are offering 4 million...
I believe it is against their terms of service to have an interpreter download code from the internet and execute it. Maybe a workaround could be to already have the scripts, but to "unlock" them? No social aspect to that, though.
That made much more sense, I saw it as 196mm from Sequoia (of the 223mm raised total) with the rest coming from the other VC's.
Fascinating, not sure if you can easily mine the stuff underwater though.
Well, if so I think this is an issue that designers of military systems have been well aware of for years. Drones don't seem any more at risk than submarines, which have used INSs successfully for decades. Drones seems much less likely to go through large stretches of time without access to GPS than submarines, so I'd be surprised if it's an issue.

I think the real problem is that INSs are simply to bulky and heavy for drones, rather than anything to do with drift.
Padmapper is awesome, way way better than using Craiglist to apartment hunt, even if the data ultimately comes from Craigslist (among others).

Maybe craigslist should buy padmapper instead of getting all lawsuity and take advantage of just how good their interface is for apartment hunting
It's the latter. A small number of big spenders ("whales" in the industry lingo) can easily skew average number. Median is a better metric than average here.
The thing about morality is that it's much more subjective than law. If someone does something that is legal (or is presumed to be legal), on what authority do you claim their actions to be "morally grey?"
FWIW in ack 2.0 (currently in alpha) this behaviour will be different: it will search all text files by default.