skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm fairly sure that craigslist does NOT own the data, the person posting the listing does. The article mentions this.

That's what makes this a little less open and shut, at least to me.
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Can't get enough of those cute cat photos? http://catstho.com launched today, offering a real time feed of all public statuses posted about cats on Facebook.

Brainchild of the internet-biz whizz-kid Sarah Eaglesfield, the creative masterpiece cost over $5 to get off the ground, with manhours adding up to almost 7.

Sarah explained her business idea in depth during celebratory drinks for the launch. "Why Facebook else cats?"

The revolutionary website is a complete rip off of the now defunct OpenBook project code, but it also needlessly limits you from searching for what you want to search for. However, when cats get too much, you can switch to updates about dogs, babies, ponies, Jesus or rabbits.

"I dogs. Still cats tho. It's for people who like cats, and babies, and ponies, and Jesus, and bunnies. And dogs."

Rumours spread today that there is a hidden dark-side to the project, which covers athiesm, gay rights, declarations of intent to murder and confessions of sexual exploits. When questioned about this, Sarah was indignant, declaring: "I made it pink and white!"

http://www.catstho.com
So, to paraphrase:

"Guy doesn't agree with me on something fundamental. Shame on him."
Boring icon. Oh, all iphons app's icons are boring.
3taps, however, is.
Compare & contrast the CL lawyers' behavior with the Jack Daniels trademark lawyers a few days ago.
How can institutions prevent scientific misconduct?
Neonode N1 had swipe to unlock before iphone.
Client needs to place 100% of the money in escrow. eLance is great for this, but their cut is too dear for some projects. Freelancers need to establish a no-fee escrow service, of 0.05% fee to cover the cost of the third party escrow. Why don't we have out own escrow service for freelancers?
[Law student here, but I don't know the full details of the claim CL is making]

The case doesn't actually seem open and shut at all. CL seems to have a "moral high ground" in that they provide the original service and the platform for users to post information, but the legal ground is more shaky. It is relatively settled in copyright law (which appears to be the main thrust of CL's argument) that effort alone does not award copyright protection[1] (or indeed, any property rights in general[2]).

For example, phone listings are not copyrightable, nor is news. The general question is whether there was creative expression (which can include 'creative' presentation or organization). If I were Padmapper, I would argue that classified listings are just a collection of facts, in which case they are not copyrightable. Padmapper does not actually use the listings directly, but extracts the information and puts it in a different format (their interface). On this point I think their case is relatively strong.

Where CL might be able to make a better case is their TOU. The TOU forms a contract between CL and their users. In almost all such prominent cases, this type of contract has been found to be enforceable[3]. If this line of reasoning is followed, then Padmapper will probably lose on this point because they agreed not to "copy, aggregate, distribute", etc.[4]

If this is a contractual claim the damages would be what CL could have expected if Padmapper had not 'breached' the contract - in this case I'm not sure that amount is particularly large, because Padmapper redirects to CL's site for the actual listings.

TLDR: copyright claim seems weak, but the contractual claim might succeed. The trademark stuff seems like a red herring and is CL throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks.

[EDIT: see below, I overlooked the fact that Padmapper is no longer using CL data directly, so they might not be bound by the TOU at all. Same goes for 3Taps since they use Google's cache. Looking stronger for Padmapper]

[1] Feist v. Rural, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural

[2] INS v. AP, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_News_Service_v._A...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickwrap

[4] CL Terms of Use (see section 3), http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use
I think there are very few credible things about this story.

why would the computer security people tell everyone that it was metasploit? usually, IT staff tells people very little about current or ongoing security events.

why would workstations have speakers? perhaps they were internal speakers, but still.

are the phrases and word choices used in the e-mail consistent with the type of person who purports to have sent the e-mail? I'd like someones more expert opinion here on whether an Iranian person would say "maxed out", for example.

and finally, why would a real nuclear scientist risk death and imprisonment to tell an antivirus company that someone had compromised their computers to play AC/DC?
This isn't a particularly constructive comment, it's just something I've wanted to say for a while but not really had a chance.

I'm not a regular user of Batch, but Dailybooth is one of my favorite/most visited websites. I can't help but feel they don't really want it anymore, like they're just supporting it because they have to. I don't think there have been any updates to the code for about a year, 20% of the live-feed is spam and it goes through periods of being completely unavailable, the home feeds/notifications not updating and seems to have random 5xx server errors constantly. It still seems to have a reasonably active community but it's been mostly abandoned. I'm not sure if it's because they couldn't monetize it effectively, they don't have time/resources to maintain it constantly, or something else, with this (presumably talent) acquisition I wouldn't be surprised if it's been shut down within a few months.
Four years ago I went to a community college in the rural Midwest, and $2,000 a year would probably just barely cover tuition and books. And that was by far the cheapest school I have ever encountered.
It'll cover community colleges just fine. Universities is where the issue arises.

Edit: The person above me said they went to a Community College in the midwest, but I have no idea how it cost them so much. I was attending in Fresno, California, and a full semester wouldn't even get close to 1k.
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The problem is, most people I've met don't understand that profitable apps, by and large, are not software platforms.

They are:

1) Disposable
2) Timely
3) Shallow
4) Impulsive

These can be games, but they can also be many other types of content. Everytime I see a guy betting on one app, on one platform, trying to make it perfect, I try to explain to him it has a snowballs chance in hell of working, he doesn't listen. No one wants to face that profitable apps are mass produced at medium to low quality on every platform.
this reminds me a lot of Feist V Rural [1]; I just hope it turns out the same way.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural
Awesome dude - please do contribute! I seeded it and will continue to, but of course it's all about the community we've got to build.
Yea, I am currently implementing OAuth (https://github.com/ocharles/snaplet-oauth2) and the specification is not entirely straight forward. There's a lot of edge-case type stuff that's important to get right.
And, ironically, their site is down. That's a pretty bad sign for a service that's supposed to provide a more performant installation of Wordpress. I hope it's actually something on the hosting side of things (or maybe they don't use WP for their main site...)
Neat, that was in a tab I hadn't reached yet. Though for the purposes of this sort of search, the Stern-Brocot tree has the nice property of being a binary search tree. Allowing you to constrain the breadth as well as the depth of the search.
Just a nitpick unrelated to the content:

First sentence of the article has a grammatical problem, "lets the user ask there friends". Bugged me, so I thought I'd let you know.
I don't know either RebelMouse nor Flipboard, so that doesn't help. I'm also not exactly sure what you mean by "cross-platform engagement analytics".

Is it possible to describe what problem it solves without the Ginger Factor? Perhaps I'm just not of the "social media" generation, but I'm still not really sure what it does

Does your intended audience?
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This is plenty to get through community college and get a vocational certificate. A community college in Kansas runs $71 per credit hour, and you need 60 to get a 2-year AA degree. That's just over $2000/yr for the program.

http://www.kckcc.edu/academics/classSchedules/spring/tuition...
But if you let anybody use your library, and you don't own the copyright to the content, why are you allowed to stop people from snapping photos of the books and posting them on the web? It's one thing if the copyright holders asked you to, but in this case they want as much distribution as they can get.
I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
> Legally he might not have been in the right but we should be helping him out not uselessly debating and casting judgement.

If he's not "legally not in the right," why should I be helping him (doesn't that imply casting a judgement - that PadMapper is elevated above CraigsList because it's "the best apartment rental interface our there")?

What if the tables were turned and CraigsList was violating PadMapper's TOS? Would you be willing to help CraigsList (they serve more than only apartment listings)?

Should somebody be rewarded, even if (legally) not in the right, just because he/she is a hard worker/smarty pants/exemplifies the True Hacker Spirit?

I often wonder if there is some sort of unwritten clause that You-Must-Pull-For-The-Underdog to join Hacker News? (In the name of Divine Disruption, of course.)
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Ask HN: How to avoid conflict of interest?
Hello everyone, for the past couple of days I've been working on a very small personal web project. I am currently employed at a small newspaper. I am at a point where I feel comfortable making my project available to the public.

I highly doubt I will bankrupt my employer, but I would be providing free advertising to a targeted group of local businesses. Now I am having second thoughts about making my project live. I would hate to lose my job over this.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? How did you deal with conflict of interest?
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I feel like there is a win win solution for everyone here.

How about Padmapper develop a plugin for chrome/firefox that once you go to a craigslist appartment list page, it does what it does now: loops through them all and displays them on a google map. Padmapper could even develop on API on their end which handled all the hard work of actually finding the correct address of the posts and sends it back to the plugin in a nice format and all it has to do is plot in on a map that the plugin places on the craigslist page.

This sounds legal to me, as Padmapper isn't actually storing anything, and it puts a UI on top of the apartment search page.
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agreed. from the client's perspective, they are underwater (can't pay now), then after a few weeks of late fees (10% of total), they are REALLY underwater.

How about escrow or a payment plan. That would be a good payment service to offer clients.
Super Machi, good job on the app.
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Their blog has more information: http://wpengine.com/2012/07/wp-engine-announces-git-push-to-...

Also, their git site has a bit:
http://git.wpengine.com/
"repeatedly"? Source? I've worked in Amazon warehouses and they are far and above any other workhouse job in terms of both safety, pay and workload required. Granted, I only worked at 2 different Amazon warehouses so my sample small is probably smaller than yours.
If one of those had a keyboard, that might help it stand out...
Because it's copyright infringement, that's what it is, no one disagrees on that. Using "steal" tries to load copyright violations with a specific meaning, and that is not agreed on. It frames the debate, and people take issue with that as it creates a more emotional and less objective discussion.

Also: http://lesswrong.com/lw/nz/arguing_by_definition/
The users of CL never agreed to let you copy their postings to whatever website you feel like, also it is against their TOS to do so:

Any copying, aggregation, display, distribution, performance or derivative use of craigslist or any content posted on craigslist whether done directly or through intermediaries (including but not limited to by means of spiders, robots, crawlers, scrapers, framing, iframes or RSS feeds) is prohibited. As a limited exception, general purpose Internet search engines and noncommercial public archives will be entitled to access craigslist without individual written agreements executed with CL that specifically authorize an exception to this prohibition if, in all cases and individual instances: (a) they provide a direct hyperlink to the relevant craigslist website, service, forum or content; (b) they access craigslist from a stable IP address using an easily identifiable agent; and (c) they comply with CL's robots.txt file; provided however, that CL may terminate this limited exception as to any search engine or public archive (or any person or entity relying on this provision to access craigslist without their own written agreement executed with CL), at any time and in its sole discretion, upon written notice, including, without limitation, by email notice.
Most real-life applications of discoveries that advanced humanity have been done by for-profit organizations. Applied science.

Most advances in human history have been done by individuals who were simply passionate about a topic, and they did not do it for money. Theoretical science.
Not one cell had touchscreen that works without stylus.

Incorrect: LG Prada.

For me, pointing to one or two features of the iPhone as proof of it being innovative misses the target. I regard Apple products as innovative and successful principally because they are consistently usable, designed well, marketed well and technically innovative at the same time. Apple's competitors rarely hit all those targets in a given product.

(Likewise, sorry for off-topicness!)
In the meantime, CL might be able to get an injunction to stop Padmapper from using their listings, and that itself might be what they're after until a settlement is reached.
Reminds me of Craig Newmark's lawsuit against the networks a few years back. In that case he wanted to assert the right to use DVRs to skip commercials.
Padmapper was that solution.

Are you asking why nobody has made a website that competes directly with Craiglist, but with a better interface? Padmapper allows you to post listing directly, but it's very difficult to get buyers or sellers to bother with a different marketplace when all the other buyers and sellers are already using Craigslist. You can't beat Craigslist on price, and many non-technical people are already comfortable with the existing system. Convincing them to switch to a different marketplace with fewer potential customers and a new interface is very difficult, no matter how great your features are.
What about talking to your boss?

This situations tend to be very random because every company and every boss behaves different. Some don't notice, some don't care. Others fear for their business, feel betrated or are just angry.

Speaking often helps, especially when you make this an open conversation: "Hey, I've been working on this project in my spare time and I realized that this might be a conflict of interest. What do you think?".
In the time I've been working freelance (admittedly, not particularly long), I've had only one client who didn't want to negotiate a better contract, and that's because the work was "emergency" work (things on their site were broken, and they needed someone to step in and fix them so their business could continue). I made them aware of the conditions, and they accepted them.

Everyone else (who I've actually done work for since I implemented this) has wanted to negotiate a better contract. I've turned down people who refused to look at the contract, because I feel that they're probably not going to pay sufficient attention to the project, and I would have to fight them to get payment.

This isn't about trying to make big bucks on late fees - after a certain amount of time, I would write it off as a bad debt (as such) and hand it on to a collection agency, or call in the lawyers.
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I've had really bad luck with their uptime. It doesn't help that they seem under constant DDOS attack.
Defendant can ask for a chance of venue. Plaintiffs used to join many defendants into a single lawsuit, partly in the hope that this would make it less likely that a defendant would be able to get a change of venue, because one case with multiple defendants is a more efficient use of limited judicial resources than several different cases and so the courts would be reluctant to let a defendant move just their case to somewhere else.

The America Invents Act changed this. Now the plaintiff cannot join unrelated defendants in one lawsuit, and so defendants have a much better chance of getting the case moved out of EDT. In face, since that provision of AIA went into effect, more patent cases have been filed in Delaware than EDT.

EDT actually is not particularly plaintiff friendly when it comes to results. There are several other districts where plaintiffs have a higher winning percentage than EDT. Last time I saw stats, a couple years ago, EDT wasn't even in the top 5.

The big attraction of EDT was/is:

1. The judges there are very familiar with patent law and patent litigation. Patent litigation is among the most complicated litigation, and whether you are a plaintiff or a defendant you want a judge who has experience with it.

2. There isn't a lot of Federal crime in EDT. Criminal cases have priority over civil cases, and in districts with a lot of Federal crime civil cases can suffer great delays. Try to litigate a patent case in a district where the courts are clogged with criminal cases (hello, war on drugs!) and you could be in litigation for a decade or more. Neither plaintiff nor defendant generally wants that.
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The junk goes to stderr, so it won't impact anything but your screen when used from the command line. And sometimes (large transfers) you want that information. I think the default is sane. When you're using curl in a script you use -s, when you're using it interactively you want the diagnostics.
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Thank you
Aside from anything else, really? Your app allows a user to send regular, scheduled text messages to friends saying "Where are you?" so that you get the benefit of knowing where they are? That sounds horrible for the recipients of these messages that I effectively have no way to opt out of, without telling my friend to knock it off. I could choose to ignore the request, sure, with the potential for passive-aggressive drama to follow.

What are the use cases for this app that "Hey, where are you?" won't suffice for? "Here, click on this link and I'll see, on a map, verified by your phone - and this website will also get to know."
Craig Newmark said on Quora that the reason they didn't like people building stuff on top of Craigslist was simply the extra bandwidth they consumed:

http://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-anyone-built-any-products-on-...

But now that 3Taps has found an ingenious way to get at the data with zero extra bandwidth cost to Craigslist (by retrieving it from the Google cache rather than CL itself), it's clear that what Craigslist really dislikes is competition.

While Craigslist is probably within their legal rights here, this case shows that for all their talk about their benevolent aims, Craigslist is no different from other companies.
Those activities aren't fun, and if I handle customer support for you there's nothing in it for me.

There's volunteering and charitable organizations that do mundane work, right? I guess this is just a different type of public service.
The users never agreed to their data being displayed on any other sites besides CL. If they wanted that to happen they would personally place their listings on other websites, or sign up for some type of 'post your classified add to 100s of sites from us' service, which CL clearly is not.
Depending on what your knowledge is, what languages you enjoy or what is of interest for you you should just get in contact with people.

Most of them are happy you want to contribute and will help you.

Some resources: IRC-Channels, Google Groups, Github.

I started working on documentation for a project because I wasn't really ready to work on the core (both because I didn't knew the project that well and because the whole git fork-pull request workflow was new to me). I learned a lot about contributing and now contribute to a few small projects.
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Distribution of hues of the aggregate of colors present in the top 300 iOS apps icons.

What would be more interesting is if this were compared to the distribution of hues in a large collection of unsuccessful apps too. If the histograms were somewhat similar, then the hue is probably of little significance.
Why doesn't Craigslist want PadMapper using their information? (I know that's irrelevant to the lawsuit)

The more people that use PadMapper and find CraigsList entries on there, the more people that are using CraigsList.

Why wouldn't they want that? If I were a real estate listing company, I'd want my data to be found on as many real estate search apps as possible.
That was my impression as well. It's what made sense. However, that comma makes it very unclear technically.
Stifling or not stifling, it's always a huge risk to build your business around someone else's technology, especially one that has a track record of not cooperating with third parties.
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On a purely philosophical level, the data 'belongs' to the people posting it.
You should expand on this in a blog post. I'd like to know more about how you sniff out nickel-and-dimers.