skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, as a company owner, would like to pay Twitter, as a news distribution service, to make my tweets more visible to my followers. Stick 'em, emphasize 'em, repost 'em - I don't care, but do something that would help me reach these people. They are already targeted. In fact, they have targeted themselves, voluntarily.

So here's the money, Twitter, take it. Help me help my subscribers get the information that they have subscribed for. Thank you.
Full time or part time? I assume anyone taking advantage of this would be going part time, so the tuition would be lower.
Probably yes re: early MediaWiki. It's not a non-profit because it's not registered as such with a government.
While most of these discussions tend to focus on performance benchmarks as the primary criteria, there is another factor to consider.

To a large extent, it depends on the target platform. If you developing an application to work across the widest possible range of desktop and mobile platforms, C++ is your best bet.

Using C++, you can have a single code base that can be compiled for Windows, OSX, Linux, iOS, Android and WinMo. There is no other language that gives you that.

The UI code is not portable in any case, but that would be a common problem regardless of language.
Even if you go with the "it's not their data" argument Craigslist would seem to own the specific compilation of the data. I'd apply the same copyright principle as phone books or encyclopedias.

http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/database.html

Craigslist invested in the infrastructure to enter, store, and display this information. They should be able to set their terms as to how it is used in aggregate.
yes. almost every employer offers some degree of tuition reimbursement because, as far as I understand, they can get a tax deduction for the money they pay to their employees under such a program. most places will offer around $5000 a year, as the federal cap (the last time I looked) for reimbursement was $5250.
Models to accurately predict the location of future of military conflicts
Oh, it's blue. I seem to be the only one bothered by it but starting any iOS or OS X device for the first time bombards you with a lot of blue icons. I'm starting to equate blue icons with brown video games, more of the same.
They are plenty of cases where copyright enforcement is voluntarily handed over to a third-party: for example, Hollywood to the MPAA, or the BusyBox developers to the SFLC. Does anyone know what the difference is?
While I wasn't getting reimbursement, I was working roughly 60 hours a week on the assembly floor at Dell while taking a full load of classes (12 credit hours). Before any financial aid or assistance, tuition and books at the community college I was going to was around 1800 a semester. After financial aid, it was around 800. This is a great program for those who cannot live on financial aid alone (need to work for whatever reasons) and have the drive to better themselves. I didn't get a degree, but not because I was working so much.
That is meaningless. The terms may well have been ridiculous (only covering mobile is a good start at ridiculous).
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Product appears to have nothing to do with Redis and isn't even remotely compatible. Marketer uses buzzword to attempt to get credibility and hence immediately loses all credibility with actual market.
Thanks for the link I'm checking it out now. You're right about there needing to be more detail than just pictures for a coders portfolio. I'll try out the blog format. Thanks!
You are correct. There are private and public non-profits. Similar comments further down the thread.
Wow thanks, I need that. Can't believe it's only $25.
There have been a number of articles about this. For some reason what pops to mind is: VC's dont really like it, Conway thinks it's good for entrepreneurs. (Who knows though, maybes there's a pretty good chance Conway is invested in both the acquirer and the acquired.)

From what I've heard, despite not liking it, VCs haven't done anything to protect themselves in the event of an acqui-hire. A lot of times the cash in an acqui-hire doesn't go to the company, but rather to the salaries of those being hired. So while a VC may have negotiated preference on the cash that results from on acquisition, they never see the cash from acqui-hire situations.

That said, I suspect it's hard for an entrepreneur to take a deal that screws their investors in good conscience, and they would make an effort to get their investors at least paid back (which still kinda screws them, but might keep things more amicable).

Edit: Regards to sharing investors, in this case they seem to share Sequoia, Conway (SV Angel), and YC, but there are a ton of others including Ignition (which led DailyBooth's A round) that aren't also invested in AirBNB.
I think Facebook and Twitter ads are being unreasonably benchmarked against Google adwords ads. Facebook in particular.

Google ads typically convert to a total handoff of the user from Google to the ad buyer. That's the only dynamic Google really admits to. But that's OK, because people routinely engage with Google in order to find products and services. Very low conversion rates are repaid by purchase intent.

People don't engage with Facebook to find products and services. So the ad dynamic Google has doesn't work very well on Facebook. And so, story after story about how nonperformant Facebook ads are compared to Adwords.

But Facebook has a compensating strength: it admits to other dynamics.

So for instance, after "Liking" almost everything (I actually liked) from the "Recommended" block on Facebook, my feed is awash in announcements from brands. Not an entirely welcome development, but not a horrifying "hope you like hot dogs" experience either, since those announcements tend to actually be announcements. So far as I know, every one of the brands that got something on my page that way paid nothing to Facebook to do that.

People do engage with Facebook in order to "Like" things, for the same reason they fill out personality quizzes: benign narcissism.

So Facebook ads can have the objective of generating "Likes", which give advertisers many possible bites at the apple for each user down the road. I know there are brands that have exactly the same process on Twitter. The "like" count isn't all that interesting, but any measured conversion from announcements to "likers" establishes an ROI for Facebook ads.

It's not at all surprising that lots of big companies haven't figured this out; they're still throwing Google ads at Facebook to see if they'll stick; the ads don't stick; they drop the ads; the only ads left are from a few "savvy" brands trying to generate "likes", and from skeezy "hail mary" inventory that generates so much return from a single scammed conversion that it's worth posting ads anywhere.
I think that's non-sense. Just because X and Y cost the same to solve doesn't mean they are equal pain-wise. It doesn't take into account any of relevant factors like market size. I've seen a lot of services that are trivial in comparison charge a lot more because it's a much smaller market and/or the value of a very specific tool is worth far more for people in that niche.
Readability is just client-side code. Think of it as just a different implementation of a browser that ignores some markup and renders some markup in a non-standard way.
If you're looking at it full time, then yes, but my partner just finished her part time AA in WA, and the peak we had for tuition/fees/books in any one year (she did it in a little over 3 years) was $2100 (the link you had shows the maximum that a community college can charge for 3 15 credit terms, not all charge that). If we had spread it out over 4 years, $2000 would have easily covered it all.

Not to say that this is an people will be lining up to get a job at an Amazon warehouse for, but it is something that can help some employees get a little ahead.
There are some jurisdictions that protect software that's running in production. In the case of industrial control software, there can be serious safety considerations to shutting down software. I know this from a previous job with a vendor that constantly had licensing disputes with industrial customers.

I may not be remembering this correctly, but I think Canada is one such jurisdiction.
Unfortunately, most companies don't seem to publish it, but you can find out through HR. I worked at a company (now Lonza), and they had 100% tuition reimbursement with no caps. I did my entire Master's degree at their expense (ECE), and I am familiar with one full-time warehouse employee who started moving boxes and ended up leaving after he had enough education to become an actuary! Of course, your reimbursement was contingent on maintaining at least a B in each course, which I think is completely fair.

Yet, for some reason, this company has never made it in the news for its tuition programs, but Amazon offers basically nothing in comparison and somehow they are worth mentioning.
I absolutely agree. I attended College of the Albemarle for two years before transferring into UNC-Chapel Hill.

The teaching quality at COA was astoundingly much higher at COA than at UNC.

At UNC most of my classes, even at the higher level, were taught by graduate students who had clearly received little to no instruction on how to effectively teach. They were there to learn and research, not to teach.

At COA my classes were taught by professors with a graduate degree in the field (usually a PhD) who were dedicated to the art of teaching. They were there to teach, not to research.

Of course higher education should be dedicated to research and expanding our knowledge, but that doesn't mean that they are good at sharing the basics.
Dow Jones to sell newswires through WSJ.com
Libertarians make the case: net neutrality is unconstitutional
Yeah, I heard it plays 'Thunderstruck'
What I'd care more about is whether the people posting the ads wish to be indexed; I'd be surprised if many don't. (I don't know about the legal bearing either.)
It can be used in the same way and for the same purpose Redis is used, only for spatial updates/queries. Take a look at the Thrift/Erlang documentation.
You'd be surprised. During Operation Just Cause in Panama, US troops used loudspeakers blasting music (including Van Halen) to flush Noriega out of his hiding place.

Believe it or not, even government workers have a sense of humor ...
He wrote "it's downright shameful for this guy to run around promoting the idea". There is a level of badness at which ideas become shameful to promote, but that's a pretty high bar to clear, and I'm pretty sure electronic brands that don't actually kill people can't clear it at all.
I'm a grad student at the University of Arizona, and many of my students say they prefer math / science classes from community colleges precisely because so little real teaching happens in lower division classes at the U of A.
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Casting price competition as a sin might be the most preposterous possible reaction to market failure.

There are definitely barriers to making a living selling apps, but blaming them on your fellow victims is utterly foolish.
Sure. Since Ellis Don is a huge company they often end up doing join partnerships with other huge companies because large projects often need companies with multiple deep fields of expertise. This results in needing to use both companies systems to track things like concrete truck tickets, personnel on site, meeting minutes, etc.

Usually the tools that are built for very large construction companies use fairly open file formats, like xml, or CSV files. Instead of having to double enter the data, he'd like to be able to enter in the information once, then have it propagate to the other system. This would free up about 5 hours a week for him on his current project that is expected to take about 3 years. So the total time saved would be about 750 hours, minus the time it took him to program the system.

That would be the most complex case. Others include needing to rename hundreds of thousands of site photos, or to include in an email only photos that matched a certain pattern (for example: duff-site_2011-09-14_4201.jpg would match a pattern looking for all the photos on the duff site taken in September but only between floors 40 and 45).

Other programs he would like would be to import into their in house tracking system any invoices his subtrades email him, again, matching a certain pattern (dig-con_final-invoice_duff-site_req-345.pdf).
Is it actually common for hourly staff? I know it's common for tech employees, but I didn't realize it was also common for warehouse staff, janitors, etc. to get tuition reimbursement.
> Hopefully, the various platforms (Coursera, edX, Udacity) play nice together, i.e., it's only a small amount of work to setup the same course content on a new platform.

As Google SREs say: Hope is not a strategy.

(Especially when you're hoping against the economic interests of the players involved.)
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If you don't like the site, don't like the UI, and can't stand the UX, then don't use the site. Nobody is forcing you to search for an apartment on CL. Nobody is forcing owners to list apartments on CL.

Apartments aren't a fungible item. If I'm looking for an apartment in a certain area and 75% of the apartments in that area are only being listed on Craigslist, then how can I realistically "choose" to use another avenue for apartment listings?

Look, there's nothing preventing landlords from listing their apartments on Craigslist AND your new Craigslist replacement/improvement.

There are huge barriers preventing landlords from listing their apartments outside of craigslist. Nothing is as popular, so why waste the time? They don't have hours to scour the internet looking for alternatives, nor do they probably want to have to manage listings at many difference sites.
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No, they mean as in MP3 format. I did look at trying to purchase a complete set of none physical music. It's hard to give them my money...
It does not. One main source and a handful of secondary sources is not at all comparable to a true aggregator like Google News.

Look, it's obvious that even PadMapper believes Craigslist is THE data source they must have.

Google News could drop any given data source and not blink. PadMapper simply is not in the same position.
> Users and developers are exasperated with Craigslist’s insistence on preserving an outdated interface and design.

Well then go use / collect your own apt listings, lobby congress to pass compulsory use licensing for all entities that collect data, or STFU.
Brilliant engineers working on a machine that can turn hot dogs into caviar.
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He doesn't have an HN account, but I've answered the question here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4287400
It's been available at companies such as UPS for a while:
https://ups.managehr.com/Benefits.htm

I'm not sure if it's the norm.
This is actually bad.

It means that the US is out of ideas on how to stop Iran's nuclear program via cyber weapons.

Because if they had an idea on the level of stuxnet they wouldn't announce infected PCs in such an obvious way. :/
In my city, Craigslist is hardly used for rental listings. Everybody uses kijiji.com, which is available on Padmapper. There are alternative data sources, and they are actually used. Just not where you are.
It's hard to compete with a site that is both free and "everyone" uses already. Both of those are very strong barriers to entry.
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Yes. we need a Sub-Reddit for HW startups. Good job!
I'll add to your comment just my observation of the necessity for good health. Some injuries without ready solutions disrupted my focus to the point where I simply couldn't perform at my prior level, no matter how much raw effort, willpower, caffeine, etc. I attempted.

Guard your health!
With regard to the source you cited, "such as" is not a blanket translation equivalent to "still accepts donations." As a single example, a foundation can be created with a one time funding and a foundation can also receive investment income. A non-profit can also consist entirely of only a Board of Directors. Whether you consider the Board as a staff is open to interpretation.

You mentioned in an off-topic comment here in the discussion about being in the Pittsburgh area. May I suggest contacting the Pittsburgh Community Foundation who might be able to share more information with you? They should be able to tell you with more clarity and reference as to why some non-profits are not able to receive donations and are possibly not members of their "community." There are several hundred Community Foundations around the country if Pittsburgh is not accessible to you.
So eventually this comes down to CL trying to protect it's monopoly as the listing site of the internet
Why, this is a browser, not some evil plot? They could dedicate it if they wanted to.
The license offered by craigslist was for a mobile application only. There was nothing offered for websites. You can see this as either, 'license offered with terms' or 'no license offered at all'
Davy Suvee created a Dataomic Blueprints implementation (http://datablend.be/?p=1641) so you can run Gremlin (https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki) queries on it.
Padmapper doesn't crawl Craigslist. That's not how it happens.
hacker tool Metasploit

I was thinking had it happened to US, some nutjob would have declared Metasploit illegal. Though US regulations don't apply to us non-US folks, developing nations tend to pick things from west, especially for issues concerning technology. I blame US for broadband fair-usage quota.

Also, EU or US regulations make travelling difficult. Hasn't EU declared hacking tools illegal? Man, it would suck to be detained in a foreign country for installing metasploit.
I'm one of the project owners on the GoClipse project. I do a lot of polyglot development (Java, Javascript, C, Go, & a little Python). I've used and liked vim, Sublime w/ GoSublime, and GoClipse. All with gocode. I have a hard time escaping Eclipse, in general, because of my skill profile. It kind of unifies the experience.

http://code.google.com/p/goclipse/
https://github.com/nsf/gocode
Do you have a source for this claim?

Although honestly, I think we shouldn't talk about "most" throughout history, because democracy/free trade/capitalism is pretty new, so we need to normalize for that.
To make matters worse, social media ad inventory is rapidly moving to phones, where advertising is even more challenging.
This ought to be front and center on their site. What you wrote there turned a bunch of meaningless buzzwords into a useful product description. I'm now actually interested in the product. Well done!
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Where does Padmapper's license to the listing data originate? When do the posters of listings grant Padmapper a license of any kind?
Question: would Amazon hire anyone with just an associates degree?
to pull one's chain, to see what kind of reaction he'd get from whatever suckers and chumps he can fool with this BS

or he really believes this BS and has narcissistic personality disorder
Just in germany, and trust me, you'd much rather be detained in germany than in the us, in europe you actually have rights when someone arrests you..

edit: sorry I couldn't resist, just watched Harold and Kumar escape from guantanamo bay yesterday :P
So you want something like this then?

http://swapped.tumblr.com/post/22976646861/twitter-is-doing-...
There is the ability to protect memory from malicious devices with IOMMU, but it is often disabled by default. My experience with DMA attacks via Firewire or Thunderbolt is that they work out of the box.

Inception is a nice tool to play with if you want to try out DMA attacks:
http://www.breaknenter.org/projects/inception/

You may also want to check out the Volatility forensics framework:
http://code.google.com/p/volatility/
This seems to be real. A number of sources have reported it.

Yes, but they're all referring back to the same original claim. I don't find this story credible at all, and think it more likely that someone has spoofed an email using the addresses and header data found in a previous Wikileaks release.
I know, I wasn't claiming otherwise, I just meant what I wrote.
I really really like the idea of non-commercial use of a copyrighted work being legal 1 year (or so) after a copyrighted work is no longer commercially available. If it's not commercially viable, then copying it isn't going to lead to a loss sale, and it means that a work isn't locked away for 50 years.
what Craigslist really dislikes is competition

Hm, would you not say that what Craigslist really dislikes is their competition piggy-backing off their data? Craigslist seemed quite happy with the existing situation until Padmapper launched their own listing service.

Though I agree that it's not in the spirit of a .org, if such concept exists.
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Every time I come to any conclusion about what's happening with Iranian computers, I'm proven wrong weeks later. It is nuts what is going on here. I agree: playing AC/DC on nuclear facility computers sounds too theatrical to be real. Which probably means it was a Sepultura/Muppets mashup and not AC/DC.
Let me know if you rent your next place without it.
Same exact response I had. No clue what this service actually DOES.
First of all, you are talking out of your ass. You make many claims, but provide no sources.

Amazon has many thousands of warehouse associates. Most of the temporary workers, however come in during the holidays - that's no surprise.

Amazon is experiencing tons of growth right now, the last thing they want to do is keep having to rehire associate workers. If you are good, there is no reason why they should fire you.

A reimbursement of $2,000/ year may not seem like much, but it goes a long way if you are in a state school or in community college. A lot of the associate workers are making somewhere around $12-$14/hour, so this ends up helping them a lot more than you realize.
Take a look at any of the JSConfs, particularly the national one that was most recently held in Scottsdale.

http://jsconf.com/

Most of the JSConf events are well known for their quality and are specifically for developers. They tend to sell out fast.
Super cool. It's good to see better uploaders around the web. Such a silly problem, but still not solved.
I like to think that I am ahead of the game. My startup is so lean and progressive, not only do I have very few employees (none) but once (if) I am (ever) ready to hire, I have the ultimate address for my headquarters: the internet.
Stop assuming things that I didn't claim. I meant what I wrote, nothing else.
I think the notion of having a steep penalty isn't necessarily bad. My problem is how he implements it. It's totally unreasonable to charge someone %10 if they're 15 minutes late. It's even more unreasonable to implement the same penalties for someone who is 15 minutes late and someone who is 7 days late. If he is going to be that strict, he should charge per day and not per week.

Think about it. If I forget to pay and he charges me %10, I'm probably going to wait the whole week to pay him just to make life harder for him as payback. This system over-punishes people who have just made mistakes and encourages and enables his customers to antagonize him.
But that is where the source of the problem is - CL has the largest user base for listing and classifieds on the internet and since they have the monopoly on this they have never felt the need to improve the experience on their site. Now that padmapper has started getting large number of users CL feels threatened and is suing them to shut them down.
I would bet that 99% of CL users not only never read this TOS, but they also do not care if padmapper copies their listings.
Total nonsense. I found my current place with them, without craigslist.