skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is that it just isn't that obvious.
Not one cell before Apple's iPhone had swipe to unlock. Not one cell had touchscreen that works without stylus.

Same thing with tablets. Sure, Microsoft started making them long time ago but using styluses on the same GUI was not that practical. That's why they never entered mainstream market.
iPhones and then iPads brought new GUI for whom you didn't have to use styluses and you didn't have tiny unclickable icons. Everything is made for touching from the ground up.

Sorry for going off topic.
Because it's evil. ;) THUNDERSTRUUCK!
They always use AC/DC....
Judging from this news article[1], it seems like there aren't many warehouse workers that 1) work there full-time, 2) have worked for 3 years, and 3) have the free time to pursue a degree.

Then again, the money may be targeted towards warehouse managers, who Amazon could see as potential higher-ups in the main organization if they had formal training.

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f...
Most larger corporations of a certain size would probably switch their agencies / suppliers / manufacturers over such a late fee construct. They'd laugh in his face and walk off. "Ah you have a problem doing business with us? We know 100 other companies that would LOVE to do business with us".

It's not unusual for larger companies to call for a 10% reduction after a couple of years. "Considering the size of our mandate, our generous contracts in the past, we think it would be appropriate for you to lower your prices in the future. By the way, last weekend I was at this cocktail party and my wife introduced me to John Lasseter. Doesn't he run ACME CORP, one of your competitors? Pretty funny guy that John... And smart!!!"

Of course you should never allow a business relationship to grow to a size where its rupture might impair the health of your company, but seriously, this isn't always possible.
Seems like a viral campaign to Iron Man 3.
I got through the bulk of the page thinking, "Hey, this isn't so bad". But when I got to the $2,000 maximum part I had to stop and re-read it...

What's vocational tuition like in the States? Is $2,000/year for 4 years actually going to cover most, or any of it?
I'd love to get any feedback you guys have on this!
Unless they invoice at fixed time periods, like bi-weekly or monthly.
Since when are non-profits required to accept donations or even have employees?
As I see it, they don't own the information, they own the database.

For example, they do not own the fact that you are selling a toothbrush. The do own the records on their servers which catalog the fact that you are selling a toothbrush.

Why? Because they are the ones who went to the trouble of gathering and storing those records.

This is somewhat akin to recording a verbal note from a customer in a book, and storing that book in a giant library. Sure, the user owns the information, but that doesn't mean you are obligated to let every Tom, Dick, and Harry come in and use your library how they see fit- it's your library, even though you do not hold the copyright to all the information stored there.
I enjoy the pragmatic reasoning behind the documented choices. It's an interesting input even if I don't work in Go.
Craiglist doesn't display ads
Ah! Wish I had caught wind of RubyConf. Looks great. Oh well, next year. :^)
Just to be clear, opportunity cost and maintenance / upkeep are both modeled and incorporated in the values you see on the buy vs rent chart.

There are also several components to the decision. Even if you give greater weight to the emotional rather than empirical factors (as many do), it is still prudent to make sure you can afford your home.
With that logic, HTML is feature complete and no longer requires anymore upgrades, as we can just use <div>s to our hearts' content.

Semantic HTML makes the web a better, more consistently understandable, place.
$2k won't buy anything like 95% of tuition in the US will it?
I used to hear that a lot. Then everyone went nuts for bootstrap.css, which is very decisively not semantic. Now I don't know what to believe.
The entire premise is flawed. This developer didn't leave Android. They got rid of their entry fee to try to make more money via in-app purchase. Despite the publicity stunt, that is a run-of-the-mill business decision with little or no wider significance.
No it's not. Look at the plastic "tongue" in the middle of it - it was pierced and they put the power connectors inside it.
At what distance? From across the room, they'd all look pretty much the same to me, outside of size:

http://geekntech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Surface-tabl...

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/08/galaxy...

http://www.eweek.com/images/stories/slideshows/ipad_security...

http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/4ec2a063eab8eae47e0...
But without the Craigslist data it has no value.
Exactly this. And for the 5% that doesn't work, that's what <div>s are for!
Google also indexes this data. Craigslist obviously doesn't own this data as they have DMCA practices in place. They can't claim DMCA and also say that the data is their data.
Users are free to post their listings to both Padmapper and Craigslist. Padmapper is not therefore automatically entitled to repurpose Craigslist as a kind of ad-hoc aggregator API for user listings.
I felt exactly the same way upon reading that line. I'm a very tech-savvy guy, I could easily download and install any app I want on my Android device, but I don't. I'm very cheap, I almost never pay for software, I use mostly open source software. I would rather pay for an app I find to be of value then install some old busted version from the internet, with who knows what kind of malware included in it. I'm not paying for the software, per say, I'm paying for the continued support of the developer by way of updates. Most people I know who use Android phones either don't know or care about installing pirated versions of software, of they know enough to know better than to trust something they downloaded from a random website to run on their phones.
How the heck are they scraping Google without being banned or rate limited?
By "get in" do you mean to comment or to simply read the comments? I'm all for a intelligence test (I personally would like a "actually RTFA test"), but I'm pretty sure that making that test required to even read the comments is a terrible idea.
What's stopping someone from making a craiglist like website with an awesome UI?
De jure, they're not. De facto, they do. No?
Craiglist is being known for not "innovating", at least when it comes to their platform, design etc. Heck, Craig himself said he tries to implement changes as little and as rarely as possible, because he himself does not truly know what makes Craiglist to constantly "tick" year after year.

Im sure that's why their try this lowball trick to defend themselves and show it to judge "hey we want to innovate, and Craiglist does not want to".

But sure its not their business what CL does...
Agreed, it's always better to offer an incentive for being good than a punishment for being bad.
Funnily enough, 1% of Google's searches is still an astronomical amount of usage.
This program is for vocational schools only.
I know Calacanis is a polarizing figure in the community, but I've always agreed with him that you shouldn't piggyback your company's success on top of a single service.

edit: especially one that doesn't allow you to use their data in the first place.
Snip from Craig - "Actually, we take issue with only services which consume a lot of bandwidth, it's that simple."

I guess that wasn't true.
Finding Great Employees - It's a Numbers Game
Yeah, I've sideloaded a number of betas or prerelease applications and have never pirated an Android application. This article's making some pretty big assumptions.
Years ago, I spent a lot of time providing free Mac support on IRC, back when Dalnet was busy. Occasionally there were issues that took a huge amount of effort to resolve; in one of the few cases I still remember, I learned enough Cocoa to answer a newbie programmer's question. There was a small but dedicated group that all did the same thing, and other channels on other networks full of volunteers doing the same.

StackExchange is a huge network of volunteers helping to answer other people's questions, for no (real) compensation.

They might not be fun for you, but I think there are plenty of people that just like to help other people.
That's ridiculous. Craigslist lets you refine your search down to the neighborhood. It's not that hard to use. People find apartments on there all the time.
Late is late, but there is "tolerably" late and "intolerably" late.

On a first offence, I always give the benefit of the doubt.
True, but that's ok.

The real boon to the netflix model is that it doesn't make you consider individual decisions financially. Once you're on the service, deciding to see something, or keep it longer, or whatever, doesn't have financial implications, so you don't even think about it.
But that's one (immensely popular) example. It's the very most popular indie game in the world, or close to it.
I agree I still have much to learn. But I don't let this get in the way of trying to "do things right" :-)
Are there a number of sources? Kinda seems like there are a lot of people repeating the same unverifiable story from the same single source...
Metasploit? The US and Israel spent probably hundreds of millions on developing custom frameworks using massive international teams, even implementing cutting-edge cryptanalysis to create the first trojans. And now someone broke a VPN, picked up Metasploit, and attached an MP3 to the payload? What the fuck?

If this is real, it certainly wasn't the same team that executed the first attacks. Sounds like a couple of prankster pentesters.
I wish people would make desktop application which transcends various browsers and cloud. For example, look at the Bookmarks and History in browser. I would wish to keep my bookmarks to myself wherever I go and it should be browser agnostic. Currently, there are tons of web-services out there socializing your bookmarks on the cloud but none would liberate your browser's bookmarks/history for yourself. A local application could remedy such situation.
Wasn't San Francisco already part of Silicon Valley?
I would not want you to see my playing Skyrim when I should be fixing Bug 23349.

I'm still researching Bug 23349, it's going a bit slower than expected because I took an arrow to the knee.
The posts on CL are no more "Craigslist data" than videos on YouTube are "Google data". The data is submitted by the users for the express purpose of being seen by other people. Does anyone seriously argue that users listing flats on CL do not want their listing found by other avenues? It is clear that Padmapper is providing a service beneficial to both suppliers and consumers of rental properties, and CL is using the police power of the state to prevent that benefit. Why they're doing this is still a mystery to me.
I'll quote ricardobeat's comment above (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4284877):

"Not every, but 95% do. For the rest, there are other pssibilities and tools to make sense of it (microdata, ARIA attributes, etc). Just ignoring semantics altogether won't do any better."
The individual posts belong to the users, that is true. However one post alone is worthless. What's valuable is Craigslist's collection of posts with lots of relevant data (location, description, price, etc). This collection belongs to Craigslist because their servers provide the environment for it, plus they wrote the architecture and back-end to support it.
A Simple Prime Test Algorithm
add(foo, bar) isn't any clearer than foo + bar, but usually an overloaded operator doesn't correspond to "add".

For example, in Javascript: "Hello" + " " + "World!". What the operator there is doing is concatenating the strings, so if you had a method to do it you wouldn't call it add - you'd call it concat.
I'd love to see a conference that catered to commercial functional language developers. One area I'd like to see more discussion would be the problems/solutions for doing stand-alone/embedded development (iOS/android and industrial embedded work).

Can't wait Alex! Already looking forward to StrangeLoop this year
Head of iOS security to speak at Black Hat for the first time
Or you might go so far as say OP should work on knowing how to pick better customers, which would make his A/R life even easier.
In future wars, it will be hard to know when your nuclear centrifuges have been compromised or if you've simply been rick-roll'd.
I hear you, but I don't know if the courts will agree with your interpretation. The reason for that is that the courts will look at the consequence of having that interpretation widely accepted and the impact on the current state of affairs. There are many many places where this has been litigated and the courts always come down on the side of the data aggregator owning rights to the data aggregated.

If PadMapper wanted to legally exploit the fact that the users own the listings, not Craigslist, they would have to establish a relationship with the user and get the information directly from them. They could contact the listing owners and suggest they list on PadListing. They can 'spiff' people who do so (meaning give them some benefit if they list on PadListing and the person discovers and rents through PadMapper). If they can prove that the listing owner asked them to list their property, Craigslist can't sue.

Alternatively PadMapper "need only"[1] create their own apartment listing service to have their own database where people listing apartments go to them directly. And that is a much harder thing to do than something which scrapes the listings from Craigslist and drops them on to a Google Map.

As a proof-of-concept, PadMapper is excellent. As a product, it has a data contamination issue.

[1] The scare quotes are there to acknowledge that its a challenge to get people to move from the known, to the new. I am trying to move people from Google to a new search service, its hard, its slow, but its the only way to do this and avoid this sort of litigation.
I would really love to know that kind of shady proxy bot army they have implemented in order to scrape Google on such a scale.
I like to be hopeful and think that FP has gained enough exposure and use for its advocates to support two whole conferences.
The challenge in building a brand and an audience that Craigslist has assembled.

If you build it, doesn't automatically mean that they will come.
The Wilf-Calkin tree also does that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calkin%E2%80%93Wilf_tree

I refer to it as Wilf-Calkin because that's how Neil Calkin refers to it, despite the alphabetical ordering on the Wikipedia page.

Even better, there's an explicit formula for generating rationals, without repeats:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calkin%E2%80%93Wilf_tree#Breadt...
Rubbish, I have many CD's of theirs.
Why did Craigslist decided to sue padmapper but let housingmaps.com live for many years is puzzling to me. Anyone has an idea why?
I wish I could agree, but experience has shown that not having operator overloading makes (a) operating polymorphically over different number types and (b) creating new number types (decimals, bigints, etc.) really awkward. The former is much of the reason we had to add it to Rust. We have matrices that can operate over any numeric type T that implements the basic operations (so we can write matrix math once and have it work on 32-bit floats and 64-bit floats; this is important for speed vs. precision for browsers vs. scientific computing), but we couldn't put an addition operator in the Num interface, so we had to make "add", "sub", etc. methods. The result made our matrix math operations nigh-unreadable.
People don't pirate phone apps because it's easy. People pirate phone apps because your dumb app is not worth paying for. Write software worth paying for.
This is really sweet!

We switched our Entrepreneurs Unpluggd hosting to WP Engine 4 months ago and haven't had a single issue since. Our previous host was atrocious with insecure support, consistent downtime, and an overall unprofessional demeanor.

This sort of innovation is what I love to see with a web host. Keep it up Jason and team!

Disclosure: WP Engine is the hosting sponsor for Entrepreneurs Unpluggd.
It may not that hard to use, but Padmapper is still a far superior experience (eg email alerts on apartments in an area which meet your criteria)
I don't see the pricing for Chute.
> 1. They get paid to do it. Historically, someone has realized that Java development was easier/faster/more stable than Lisp development.

http://paulgraham.com/avg.html

> 2. Java has hella libraries. I mean hella. You can find a library for almost anything. Lisp...not so much.

http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/releases.html

And that's just Quicklisp. To say Lisp doesn't have libraries for almost anything is pure ignorance.

> 3. Java is a language for doing things. Lisp is not a language for doing things. I'll change my mind when I see a 2m+ line codebase that's been in production for ten years.

Emacs has been in "production" since at least 1985, and is 650,000 lines of elisp and 318,000 lines of C (as of version 21.4, according to `wc`). The vast majority of its functionality is written in elisp, and Emacs is arguably more powerful than any editor or IDE written in Java. It's also more stable, easier to maintain, and new functionality can be added with only a handful of lines of code.

To be blunt, it does more in 600k lines than any 2m+ Java project ever will.
Your argument makes great sense if you're hiring business development people, or sales people. Both of those kinds of jobs reward skill at negotiation.

But if you're hiring software engineers, it's just not true. There's a pretty strong negative bias against negotiation for most engineers, and it's not useful to the job. Being good at demanding higher compensation does not correlate with programming skill. I don't know what kind of employee you're hiring, but you really might be driving away some of the best people that way.

That said, I'd advise really just about anyone to get over themselves if they don't negotiate. You should always negotiate when you take a job, or at least try.
It seems that Craigslist sucks for people trying to find a property.

Does it suck for people on the other end - people with a property that they'd like to rent to others?

Why hasn't some other solution come onto the market to fix the problems of craigslist?
This x 1000. I share the same co-working space with WP Engine, and couldn't be more impressed with their service and their team.

Kudos, WPE.
Google Maps now has biking directions for Europe & Australia
Of course. From their TOS: "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."
The reason why Craigslist is valuable is because of it's large network. It is obvious that smaller sites like PadMapper want to slowly try and chip away at Craiglist content (see PadLister) after they hopefully gain enough traction to supplant them. Padmapper / Padlister are fine to start their own sites and have users come and post their listings there, but not to copy content from Craigslist after they specifically asked them to stop.
I don't think the dictionary is a very useful authority, here. Dictionaries are reactionary -- they document what words we use. They don't create words. We do that.

(Patent|Copyright|IP) infringement is an old issue, yes, and perhaps in the established context of one business copying and selling the work of another, it's a near neighbor to theft. But this world of free, crowd-sourced torrents . . . this is a new thing. The laws and dictionaries haven't caught up. We are having the conversations now that will BECOME laws and will UPDATE dictionaries.

Whether you think infringement of this sort is bad or okay, it is a very fair point to say that it is not the same as stealing. It isn't. It is a fundamentally different act, and how bad it is is something we should discuss independently. It would be unfair to import the negative rhetorical weight of the word theft -- an act that can directly impoverish or even imperil someone -- with what we're talking about. And likewise, if we decide infringement isn't so bad, it would be unfair to carry those emotions over to how we feel about physical theft.

I wish we had a catchy term for it. Freeling or "copying" or something. I don't know. I'm not sure exactly how in favor it of I am, either. But I do think it makes a lot of sense to use a separate term to discuss a genuinely new issue, so we can do so in neutral emotional territory and evaluate it on its own merits.
Francis Chou on Investing
On a clear disk you can seek forever.
Will Facebook Fail Twice in Two Months?
I'm curious about these acquisitions. If DailyBooth raised $7M then how is an acqui-hire approached?

Is there contention with the investors or at this point is the business a lost cause anyway? Or do the two companies share investors and it works out as "shuffling" talent?
No. Please look up the idea of a private non-profit. There are quite a few around.
Yes, exactly. :) FP Days is doing good stuff too. And there are of course very robust single-community conferences for Clojure, Scala, Erlang, etc. But surely we have something to learn across langs.
My guess is that while that might help with the initial evaluation of the app, and possibly even smooth the initial sale (familiarity and all that), looking like other icons is a net negative for continued usage for your app.

I routinely try to check in with Foursquare on my phone and accidentally open Facebook, because their icons are similarly colored. Meanwhile, the "Words with Friends" icon is not something that could be easily confused with anything else, and I've never had a problem finding / using it.

Once your brand is established, those problems probably go away, but I know I've dropped a number of apps before because I wasn't using them because they were too difficult to easily identify in a menu lineup.
You are missing the point. You might not know exactly what add() does internally but "+" only gives you a 1 character description, requiring you to know, or assume behaviour of the terms being added. By using a function name instead, you have far more opportunity to describe more clearly what actually is going to happen, requiring less assumption which as we know is the mother of ....
I find that argument suspect when I look at all the laptops that run on 19 volts. Internal adapters are a lot messier for 120v. Most computing things love the 12 volt range, my screen uses 19 volts, a fancy light bulb is either LED and low voltage or CFL and gets no benefit from 120.

Higher voltage is better for distribution and for very high power loads (including heaters). But a lot of things like low voltage.
I got the impression it was 95% tuition plus books/assorted costs up to $2000 per year.
Technically no, the 'Valley' that is Silicon Valley is actually the Santa Clara Valley. But for all practical purposes everyone in the 9 bay area counties consider themselves to be part of 'Silicon Valley' at one time or another.
Porting a Windows Phone app to iOS
Fusion Cuisine
Read Craigslist's TOS. The copyright remains with the listing author, but they sign over rights to enforce that copyright to Craigslist.
Duplicate article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4279905), with misleading title this time. This does not apply to the vast majority of warehouse employees. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4280530
This is a terrific idea! Consider me a subscriber already and hopefully a contributor soon too!
There is rather more to type systems than method dispatch.