skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Someone couldn't intentionally hoax a newspaper and then sue the newspaper for having reproduced their creative work of fiction.

Your point is cogent, but the example is not. if someone hoazes a newspaper, the are encouraging the newspaper to “copy” them. Craigslist is not hoaxing 3taps or padmapper, just the opposite. In my conjecture, they’re sending C&D letters saying “Do NOT copy our data. Although most of it is not copyrightable, some of it is and cannot be copied from our web site or API. Get your ‘facts' from original sources.”

That is very different from hoaxing or inducing someone to copy and then yelling “gotcha!"
Rather than emptying out the bug database, I prefer keeping two different "levels" of bug reports. There's the "current" bug database, which you try to keep small and which you clean regularly and work from. And there's the "deep backlog" which winds up being pretty much a collection of random junk. The "deep backlog" is rarely looked at (so it doesn't become a waste of time and attention), but you also don't throw it out wholesale, because it costs almost nothing to keep around. Occasionally you'll try to data-mine the deep backlog. You may also go through every year or two and do a mass cleanup; or you may allow a sort of "voting" process to identify items from the deep backlog that are worth considering for the "real" bug list.
http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=400&h=220&o=f&c...;

Traffic took a great nosedive from the day they announced "bye bye" to CL.
If you're ever curious, the Trello board for Trello is public: https://trello.com/board/trello-development/4d5ea62fd76aa113...

I mention that because a vastly saner export tool that's highly newbie-friendly is outlined at https://trello.com/card/bulk-data-export-for-organizations/4...
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(One of the authors here.) Correct - for input widgets that have a clear equivalent, we're planning to switch to HTML5 form elements eventually.
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Thanks for the info. I would probably take another look at it if they provided official binaries compatible with RHEL/CentOS 5. A fix or mitigation for the 32 bit memleak would be good too.
> CL has dominated its space for the past 15 years and shows no signs of letting up, so your claim about losing in the long run would seem to be misguided.

Past performance does not guarantee future results.
I think the idea is that Craigslist's claim over the data is categorically different than the MPAA's over movies. The MPAA has a copyright (by proxy) over the movies. Craigslist has a Terms of Service which they assert are legally binding on anyone interacting with their servers, but (I think) they don't claim copyright over the ad.

EDIT: mikeryan, you appear to be right. Upon further reflection, I think the distinction is that PadMapper does not put up the entire post written by the user, just the fact that the post exists and is in reference to a particular location. Likewise, it's kosher for me to tell Alice that Bob posted a poem on his window so that she can go read it, even though it would not be kosher for me to make her a copy.
Well I wrote it with one thing in mind and when I finished it, it didn’t really help with that thing much. I was pretty sure it would be useful for other things though. Since then I’ve discovered a couple of other uses for it. I think this happens more when you write something that is very abstract as this is.
Sea is cheaper. Land links require roads for the trucks to drive on and much more labour than sea links.
Android support is on the way, and already in beta: https://trello.com/card/android-app/4d5ea62fd76aa1136000000c...
"identifiers are going to lengthen in new code"

I'll be holding you to this promise. :) Indeed, what's the point of super-short keywords if not to allow identifiers to be more descriptive while maintaining an 80-column limit?
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There might be regulatory concerns involved in routing the cables, or maybe the investors simply had a more straightforward path in raising money for the project by pitching it as a domestic project. As you can see if you zoom in on the map, those connections are labeled (top to bottom, or if you will, north to south in map presentation)

Alaska United East

NorthStar

Alaska United West

and

ACS Alaska-Oregon

and at least three of those lines have connections to Canada via British Columbia (as can be seen in the zoomed-in view). And of course a map labeled "Submarine Cable Map" will by definition not show the many land connections that surely exist between the United States and Canada.

So it seems to me that nothing about the cable architecture here indicates mistrust of Canada on the part of the United States (or the other way around), but just a presentation decision on the part of the map-maker.

(I'm writing this from one of the states of the United States that borders Canada. I've done limited travel in Canada. Sure enough, the one time I stayed several days in Alaska with my wife we overflew Canada, doing a direct nonstop flight from Minneapolis to Anchorage. I've been in the air over Canada en route between the United States and east Asia almost as much as I've been on the ground in our friendly neighbor to the north.)

After edit: And of course, as two other replies noted, cost and engineering ease of laying cables on the seabed rather than across a mountain range may make a great deal of difference. Thanks for adding that issue to the discussion while I was typing.
Interesting challenge, but it seems they look for a lead investor as the first signal of quality for the investment. As a result, it's questionable how much additional value their algorithm is uncovering/adding to their decision as a follow-on investor.

Said another way, if Sequoia or Kleiner or Union Square are investing and Correlation then gets to see the deal, I wonder how many deals their algorithm would pass on.

If this was truly algorithmic startup investing to be the lead investor, it'd be much more interesting. But this method of using social proof as the first filter seems like business as usual.

That said, I imagine this is a great approach from a marketing perspective when raising the fund and reaching out to investors (LPs) as it clearly differentiates the fund from a thesis/approach perspective.
Thanks! Having never been to India, I can not even guess at a possible solution.
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Not sure if this has been asked, but a philosophical question for Eric: if someone decided to start a padmapper competitor tomorrow, would you be okay with them using your data for free?
> Other than a physical lockout on the OBD-II port, I can't think of a good defense against this attack.

Make the key changing process VERY slow, as in 24h+.
If you really really lost your key you wouldn't mind leaving the car 24h at a mechanic but a thief would have a much harder time hiding a car that long. At least compared to 2mins at a dark parking lot.
I have not. I realize there are things that are more horrific on a larger scale of human suffering, but for the individuals involved at a micro level the US system is cruel and unusual to the extreme.
I don't believe the methodology used to collect the data actually matters does it? The question is fully around the copyright ownership of the content.

I can record TV content from an over the air broadcast and never touch a thing and still not have the right to retransmit the content.
How do these studies identify conservatives vs. liberals?

Surely your political ideology is a mish mash of lots of different views, often conflicting?
People may identify as one vs. the other, but that doesn't honestly mean anything because those people haven't exactly evaluated every belief they have then compared it to the master list.

I just don't understand this two slot approach to politics.
I would be interested to know their reasons behind this as well.

Anecdotally, it was a bad design choice for me. I took a Udacity class in the first round after their launch and followed along with the due dates pretty well. The next round when due dates were dropped, I basically dropped as well. I found myself saying "I'll catch up on this week's unit next week" until after a few weeks I was too out of sync with the course to feel compelled to keep going.

On the flip side, I felt the one week/unit deadline was tough to work with at times given work and life, etc and wished it was two weeks/unit, or perhaps Udacity to even give you an option to choose a schedule: allow a) one week/unit, b) two weeks/unit, or c) whatever, etc. This way the course still has some structure and fixed deadlines, but it's a little more tailored to your lifestyle.
Well, if they'll allow upgrades from vista, just by putting in the key, I'll be OK, but they may not allow for that. Yeah, buying a 'cheap' win7 license may be the way to go, but the whole install/activation thing might still be a problem if the license key is dodgy.
IT values technologies over thought
If Craigslist is explicitly disclaiming copyright in the data they post, how can they sue for copyright infringement?

The user may be able to. But the users won't do so, at least not in any significant numbers.
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Meta: For a website discussing startups, this discussion seems quite pessimistic to me. I am not aware of all the technical difficulties, I am not certain it will be the most fun project in the world, but I wouldn't give it the disparaging remarks I see here. I am certain they'll have difficulties with the local government and who knows if it will be successful, but I am in favor of people trying strange new things.

Even if it is a "completely unrealistic ... middle school project" or a "poorly thought out idea", the worst that could happen is that the people trying to put this together will learn a lot, and hopefully use that experience to try something awesome later. Considering what they are trying to put together, they clearly think this is awesome, and in that light I'd say it's worth the risk of doing.

<further muttering about "armchair entrepreneurs" and such would go here, but toned down to avoid rant-type material>

Disclaimer: I'm from near Detroit. Not sure how much that changes my opinion on this, though.
I use Trello on the side for project planning and was looking just the other day for a way to pay fog creek for Trello

(1) just so I can say I've paid them and have some minor commitment to maintaining my data and account

(2) and because I think it is a great product that I'm happy to part with a few bucks as a way of saying thank you.
Padmapper certainly helped me find an apartment. Twice, and the second one was so difficult that I might not've successfully moved to be near the rest of the Singularity Institute (no relation to SU), if not for Padmapper. If you did it mostly out of charity and haven't been trying to profit much, then I am even more grateful for that. Please let this flow of positive reinforcement encourage you to continue doing it, and ignore negative reinforcement from haters, because haters gonna hate. (You should see the hate I get for the things I give away ad-free online!) Also, consider making larger profits, because I wouldn't hate you for it, trust me.
His name is Taco. He's a very gentle dog, although (as my fiancée discovered) one who moves like a bullet if you happen to be holding a bagel and lox and let your guard down.
I don't think the examples you've provided here are indicative of a generally dismissive attitude. There's more nuance than you realize.

> Sarcasm for users who need to run on older linux kernels and distros

The person Russ is sarcastically replying to is someone we know; a contributor to the project. I can see how it might look a bit blunt from the outside.

Perhaps more illuminating is Russ' later comment on the issue: "Old operating systems will always be with us. The fact that in 2020 people will be running a Linux distribution that forked the kernel 13 years earlier does not mean we have to support it." Which I feel is entirely reasonable.

> Solutions for 32bit memory leak is: works for me on 64bit

We've acknowledged the issue and work is in progress to fix it. In the meantime, however, "It works on 64-bit" is a legitimate response because it's true, and there is nothing you could do to help the programs that were affected on 32-bit systems. We never closed the issue was "works for me," we just said that's a reasonable workaround for some people.

The Go developers and wider community care a great deal about our users. We have some of the fastest bug fix turnaround of any project I've seen. We do, however, have our goals and priorities and sometimes people don't agree with them. There's not a lot you can do about that.
The idea that he's "being a dick to Craigslist" is the weirdest part of this whole thing. The PadMapper service consists of advertising that certain content is available on Craigslist. I mean, it literally consists of saying, "oh, you're looking for a 3-bedroom house under $3,000 in this neighborhood? Here's a page on Craigslist you might want to check out." That's the extent of the appropriation.

I mean, imagine I was reading the Craigslist apartment listings for my own housing search, and I knew you were looking for 3-bedroom Craigslist listings in a given neighborhood, so every time I saw one I sent you the link. Heck, imagine I even charged money for that service. In what universe am I being a dick to Craigslist? How on earth does that follow?

I understand that it's a little different here because Craigslist has asked PadMapper not to help people out that way. But the information PadMapper is passing on, it's not getting from Craigslist anymore. It's getting it from a third party. So it's the equivalent of me saying, "hey, you know you were looking for a 3-bedroom in that neighborhood? I'm not allowed to visit Craigslist myself, but a dude told me about these pages on Craigslist you might want to check out." There is purely no way that this constitutes dickish behavior toward Craigslist, and Craigslist has no moral right to forbid it.
Judge says Samsung is ‘not as cool’ as Apple
Consider, if the situation was reversed, and Craiglist was taking Padmapper's data without permission, would everyone on HN would be supporting Padmapper attempting to block Craiglist from reposting its listings?

In such a scenario, Craiglist reposting the Padmapper listings would be a net gain for user's and posters (even though the posters never gave Craiglist such permission) because the listings would be exposed to an exponentially larger viewership.

Being a startup is not a license (pun intended) to ignore other people's rights. Padmapper is in the wrong here, and if they proceed down this path they could face a ruinous (and fully justified) lawsuit.
Old Browsers Are Holding Back The Web
Their claim:

You automatically grant and assign to CL, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant and assign to CL, a perpetual, irrevocable, unlimited, fully paid, fully sub-licensable (through multiple tiers), worldwide license to copy, perform, display, distribute, prepare derivative works from (including, without limitation, incorporating into other works) and otherwise use any content that you post. 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).

There's an interesting subtext here. The key for CL is this line 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)

I believe there was a case with Righthaven[1] where it was found that the copyright owners can assign copyright but can't assign copyright enforcement rights. I wonder if this is the loophole that 3taps is looking to exploit.

[1] https://www.eff.org/press/releases/righthaven-case-ends-vict...
I don't think PadMapper puts up the entire post written by the user, just fact that the post exists and is in reference to a particular location. Likewise, it's kosher for me to tell Alice that Bob posted a poem on his window so that she can go read it, even though it would not be kosher for me to make her a copy.
> I tend to write computer graphics and physics simulation stuff which has to be quite fast. A lot of stuff I deal with is moving blobs of binary data from buffer to another (disk, memory, dma, gpu). Or computing a SIMD fused multiply-and-add for a few hundred megabytes of floating point data. Or invert and transpose a hundred thousand 4x4 matrices. Everything the JVM does is acting against me, so better just write native.

The JVM is very fast for these things. There remaining delta is the result of more investment into optimizations in GCC/LLVM than any limitation of the JVM model itself.
The way I see it, Go outshines all other languages all things considered, at least for my use case. The combination of general speed (with quick compilation), goroutines (to relatively simply keep all processor cores working, for even greater speed), and high-level language features & look & feel (e.g. garbage collection) seems unbeaten. And what a comprehensive standard library for a version 1 (blows me away!). All subjective opinion of course!
I'm copying and pasting from a reply I had below, but to respond: "Although I think this is a bad place to stake your claim, the posts themselves are arguably purely public data the second they hit Craigslist. The data conveyed is factual, there is no IP, and it's being disseminated publicly. It's similar to (and yes, there are a lot of ways to poke holes in this analogy, but for the sake of argument...) a town crier shouting an advertisement out in a crowded square and one of the listeners taking that information, traveling to another public square, and repeating it."
I'm skeptical that Ack is "far, far better than grep." Different? Ok. Better? Maybe, based on what you're doing. Far, far better? Probably not. Omitting correct results because a file extension isn't white-listed sounds like a pain.

http://superuser.com/questions/39384/best-grep-like-tool/342...
> So are you saying that if CL had a more elegant UI you would be against the OP continuing agasinst CL's wishes?

I believe it's more that if CL stopped stomping on other businesses for virtually no reason, without any discussion or even possibility of an agreement, then [I] would be against the OP continuing against CL's wishes.
64-bit systems have so much more address space that the issue will never manifest on 64-bit systems. At least, not in the next 100 years.
Is it a public beta? I'd love to participate.
Perhaps I'm misreading things, but it says Sequoia pumped in 196 million, but its stock value of equity at launch will only be worth 150 million. Does that mean they will be 'losing' money on the investment, until the stock goes up?
the start button is still available but its on the left side now (or on the keyboard where it has always been) The only difference I see as a desktop user is a startling experience where the new "start menu" takes up my whole screen instead of taking lower left corner. Other than that there is nothing that really annoyed me to the extent of being horrified. What particularly you think that is horrifying?
I've used padmapper and its definitely teh number one choice when apartment hunting. Its not even close.

Rant/
Just keep going man. If you stop doing what you do you will lose the millions(?) of people you are helping.

Seriously other apartment sites just don't get it. They SUCK ... suck so bad that I'd rather bang my head on the table than use them.

Without PadMapper, craigslist is worse than the other sites. I don't understand why they just don't buy you outright - thats what should happen if anyone cares about the effing consumer.

/Rant

Please keep going and doing what you are doing.

-Very thankful apartment hunter.
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It would be interesting if they published stats on completions for each model. I know that in the end I stopped doing the pgm-class work after about week 7 precisely because there were due dates and I had conflicting priorities. As a point of comparison I started the ML-class long after it had expired worked my way through 50% of the material, did all the assignments and learned enough to solve the problems I needed. Did some cool projects for a few months and realized that I needed the other 50% to solve some new problem that I had, went back and did that.

One the reason we have the idea of a novel, text book, etc is because of restriction on printing. The reason we have the idea of an 'album' in music is again because of limitation on that media (it's not cost effective to produce a bunch of singles and you can't fit much more than an hour of music on a single album due to constraints of traditional media). Likewise the idea of a semester/quarter long course are essentially based on the limitations of various resources.

Ideally we'll see the length and structure of courses change with time. Why have the idea of a course at all? Why not just a directed graph of prerequisite lectures? (Khan does a decent job of this)

We're starting to see it form organically, but I think the best situation would be goal directed learning where you pick out a point on the graph and say "I want to be here, doing this" and then you fill in all the prereq nodes until you're there. This also allows us to think about knowledge and learning in much more creative ways, rather than choosing to major in art or computer science, you could say I want to use genetic algorithms to create generative art, now how do I get there?
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He's right. The defining quality of a charitable act is that you help people who need help, not that you don't make money from it. E.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=define%20charitable
I appreciate that Eric is doing this in the open. The moral argument could go either way, but he is letting everyone know what he is doing and why. He deserves credit for inviting feedback on it. Personally, I hope padmapper does well.
This looks like a tool I love called AgileZen Has anyone who has used both got an opinion?
Apart from the fact that they are very different products, bonaldi saying he would pay "fogbugz-level" prices implies he already knows about FogBugz.
This is the sort of thing I'm talking about, when I talk about the insufficiency of Java and other VM languages for high performance programming.

It'd be nice if somebody made a new systems language to succeed C or C++. Rust is looking less likely these days. Maybe Clay or Deca?
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I don't know, but why should I put my todo on a site?
I should have made it clear in the post (I just updated it), but their complaint wasn't a copyright one, but a TOU violation one. PadMapper isn't displaying the listings themselves, it just lists #BR, #BA, Price, and a few other things, and links you to the original to read more.