skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on which Craigslist you use -- the neighborhood listings aren't particularly granular, and neighborhoods themselves aren't fixed, so one person's Glen Park (for instance) could be another's Outer Mission. Using a map is an uncontestedly superior interface for organizing geographic data. People find apartments on Craiglist despite the interface.

This is not to address the issue of ownership of listing data, or the case law, which latter isn't settled anyway.
I don't know if it's open and shut either - but not because of the search analogy. That's covered in the CL ToS, sections 3 and 5. (http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use)

My problem is with section 3. CONTENT AND CONDUCT, part a, where they first state "CL does not control, is not responsible for and makes no representations or warranties with respect to any user content." Then it goes on to state that posters assign a bevy of licensing rights to CL for the use of the content.

How can they claim copyright to content and at the same time aver that they don't control it?
Okay, that's peachy. Here's the flipside:

--most people working in Amazon warehouses are employed by temporary staffing firms, not Amazon

--most people working in Amazon warehouses don't come anywhere near 3 years of tenure before quitting or being fired

--reimbursement is limited to $2,000/year for four years, while $5,000/year is pretty much the minimum direct cost to take such programs

--the program is limited to full-time workers, so only those who can take classes while working full-time and mandatory-or-you-get-fired overtime can partake

The number of warehouse workers eligible for this is nearly zero. Might even be precisely zero.
[Poll HN] Who is at fault: Craigslist or Padmapper?
Which version? There were 30 mutually incompatible draft versions of OAuth2 last time I checked
> "Most companies are developed for the society and for people"

I think most companies exist to make money. However the "invisible hand" often leads to mutual benefit.
> Internal adapters are a lot messier for 120v.

Why do you say that? Look at any USB charging plug - very simple inside. You only need "messy" electronics for high power or high (above 80%) efficiency.

Basically you would need 20v -> 5v vs 120v -> 5v - there isn't really a lot of difference. (There is some, but not enough to make changing everything worthwhile.)

Also, the double conversion isn't great (you would need a power supply in each plug), assuming typical 80% power supplies you would end up with end to end 64% efficiency.
I don't know about the best way but the easiest way is to start a project yourself. It must be a real world project that can be used by others. Once you are satisfied with it, attach an appropriate free license and upload it to your github repository. Then it's important to use it, maintain it and even talk about it. Start simple. I started with yet another node.js template engine, for example. It's also important to respond to any response from the community.

Also, not to be pedantic but you probably mean "free software". "Open source" software is not necessarily open to be edited and republished as free software is.
Ah. Gotcha. Here's an iPad with a keyboard. http://www.warepin.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ipad-keybo...

Ok, I'm not entirely serious with that. The thing is that the keyboard is an accessory for the surface, and the styling of all the tablets is quite similar. (I was actually surprised by how similar when I looked up the images). If shipping an accessory is enough to prevent design patent infringement...
WhoSay Raises $12 Million For Celebrity Content Management
It's more of a "best practices" than it is documentation. In the vein of Effective C++ by Scott Meyers. It's well-written, informative and interesting. Definitely one of the best resources on Go I've come across.
NASA Image Shows the Mayhem That Created Life on Earth
Thanks for your feedback. We have had an internal conversation about copy in the header and are currently using Optimizely to test a few variations. We are definitely open to suggestions :)
hahahaha quote from the same blog:

"Well, fuck you. There’s always going to be some kid who can find a way around your next big DRM scheme. There’s always going to be a teenager who places zero value on their own time, and will gladly spend days just to know that, in the end, they fucked you back just a little bit. It’s a losing battle for you, and it’s insane to even participate."
The scientific communication revolution: Why disrupt scientific publishing?
SalesPortal Adds Real-Time Sales Lead Information to End-of-Call Live Transfers
Read this before lunch and hoping that the author was opening an actual restaurant in his postscript.
Denver.com Acquired in "Seven Figure" Deal
Also FYI, but Microsoft hasn't used the 70/20/10 system for over a year.
In my humble opinion, in the vast majority of cases, yes. Because " C ", " D ", " C# " should be easier for search engines to disambiguate (at least working with Lucene, it is, and I imagine Google etc are similar-ish).

As for Java, Python the context in the page likely to point to its intended audience (and it helps they have been around for ages etc). Otoh, " go " is likely to be used in a lot of literature, including other programming related texts.

Try searching for something with clojure, and then try go -- the quality of results is usually substantially different, and my unsubstantiated hunch is that not all of it has to do with lack of go-related content.

Seems to be getting better though..
Setting up a branch of a foreign company in Moldova
Batch has received some updates, but there's been a lack of new features & updates over the past 6 months, and I've stopped using it because very few people are using it.

I can't help but agree with you and think they'll be shutting down relatively soon; both have been maintained less and less, and I highly doubt Airbnb wants to let the team continue working on either of them.
well you should check them history books - only 15% of americans supported the idea of kicking out the brits. i'm not saying we need to topple the government, i'm saying we should keep the opportunity to do so as stated by the constitution (did you check that it explicitly says in order to defend against the government or you just assumed this was nonsense? better check that)
This is absolute bullshit. Craigslist is located in San Francisco, and they should be intimately aware of how fucking difficult it is to find an apartment in this city with Craigslist's garbage interface.

Are there any Craigslist employees reading this? Would any of you like a full time job sorting through the cesspool that is your apartment listings page? Oh, you wouldn't? I don't blame you, because that's my job right now, and PadMapper is the only thing helping me preserve what's left of my sanity.

Do a better job than them or shut the fuck up. Stop hurting people by trying to shut PadMapper down.
Not sure you'll ever read this, but I feel compelled to argue on the internet! :-p

Yes, motivations matter to me, and that's why I initially liked the show: it's a losing situation, he does what he can to provide for his family.

That ended the moment he was given an out by the rich family, as I mentioned in the original comment in this thread, and could pay for the cancer and satisfy his wife and child for life.

At that point, he was too prideful to stop what he was doing and continued to put his family in danger. I couldn't empathize or support him at all after that.
Amazon Cracks Down on Kindle Web Browsing
We at filepicker.io (https://www.filepicker.io) are trying to solve this pain point for developers working with user content
I've thought about taking this approach but after being at my current job for 7 years I have made certain observations about my boss. My boss holds grudges and frankly I don't trust my boss (but that's another issue for another day).

This is a very small project and would not make a dent on our bottom line but I cant help but think my boss would see this as betrayal.
Wouldn't this be pretty much like MediaWiki, prior to it having paid employees, or other non-profit foundations?

I'm actually not clear why this is a company instead of a non-profit foundation. It says:

"An open company differs from a non-profit organization in that an open company does not itself accept donations, and it does not compensate its employees. From the open company’s point of view, whether and how its employees receive money and for what, is undefined."

A non-profit can also not accept donations and not compensate employees, so the only thing that differs might be how employees receive money, which I don't really understand here.
Why would you need a new instance for it?
While some may argue this is not much in regards to tuition, this can get you VERY far in a community college. See this tuition graph here: http://www.maricopa.edu/about/?tuition

I went to Maricopa community colleges and I had better instruction there than I had at the big schools. The best teachers I had were at community college.

So while some argue its not much, its almost enough to cover your tuition for a year at a community college.

If someone has the drive, they'll go do it and take advantage of the program.
lol the joke is on you, your rights are diminishing by the second and you still swallow government pr
Having a broad license is not the same as owning the copyright (especially a non-exclusive license).
If we agree that the ad-supported model is broken, why not try to create an alternative?
Bane's Plan to Bankrupt Batman Doesn't Make Any Sense
That's strange, we've not had any notifications of downtime from our own monitoring.

I'll investigate now, but not sure what might be causing that.
A Shorter Letter: Switching from SproutCore to Enyo + Backbone.js
I had the same thought, but I hopped over to the web site of the local community college and did some arithmetic. It turns out that $2,000 per year will easily cover four courses, two per semester, which is a decent part-time load. Cost works out to about $1,250 per year, plus a textbook rental fee of maybe $300 or so, depending on course selection.
That just means that the users of Craiglist grant them an unlimited license. The users still own the copyright, though.
I'm not sure what the needs of the Hardware startup community are but I'm not a fan of the super specific subreddits. /r/startups isn't really that subscribed or busy, why not just post articles there?
3G and me
This is where the lawsuit gets _legally_ interesting. Craigslist can't really claim copyright over the listings themselves (see post above), but they can certainly restrict user rights through their terms of use (which is a contract). Generally, contracts can be used to reduce a set of rights a person has against another (e.g. waivers), but it cannot grant rights that they did not have in the first place.

So the first part of that statement is akin to waiver, so that someone can't sue CL for what the listings say. The second part is a claim on copyright and licensing, which they may or may not have.
> We get it... the ad model is broken, a subscription model is, in theory, always better... However, I don't think the app.net experiment will succeed.

I agree that if App.net succeeds it will be construed as a data point for this line of reasoning, but I think Dalton's business experiment should be regarded as independent of his technical experiment. Things fail for lots of reasons, not just because free is better than paid.

> - If it does succeed, twitter could just copy you.

By that logic, MySpace could have just copied Facebook.

> - App.net will not have a good one-player or even two-player mode (good 1-player: DropBox, Github, Evernote).

That seems like a given, but I wonder if it's a foregone conclusion that App.net will turn into the same kind of thing as Twitter. After all, technically there isn't a huge difference between HN and Reddit, but the way they're used is very different. Even cultural differences can be dramatic. I haven't invested in App.net, but I do find myself toying with the idea of having something I could use like Twitter, but without being Twitter, and I admit I find the idea attractive. If I could control whether the messages are public or private, I could see using it as a pub/sub framework if the payloads were essentially encoded API messages. That's not something I'd be inclined to try out with Twitter, even though it's free.

I guess I'm saying subtle differences can be meaningful; maybe they can be the difference between success and failure.
Uncle Ben's To Compete Against Apple With Brand-New Smartphone
Yeah, our DNS provider Zerigo had a nasty DDOS attack over Sunday that many sites got caught up in, including us.

As you can imagine, mitigating DDOS on a nameserver is tricky due to the nature of the requests coming in - harder to Deep Packet Inspect and scrub, or easily identify patterns of bad traffic access to zero-route.
The numbers that you're producing can be better produced by the following Python code:

from fractions import Fraction as frac
def continued_fraction(x, n=10):
"""Represent x as a continued fraction out to n places."""
last = int(x)
out = []
for i in range(n):
x = 1/(x - last)
last = int(x)
out.append(last)
return out

def bras(x, n=10):
"""Compute the best rational approximations to x."""
base = int(x)
nums = continued_fraction(x, n)
S = lambda depth, i = 0: \
frac(1, nums[i]) if depth == 0 else 1 / (nums[i] + S(depth - 1, i + 1))
return ', '.join(str(x) for x in (base,) + tuple(base + S(k) for k in range(n)))

from decimal import Decimal
print(bras(Decimal('3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993')))
# 3, 22/7, 333/106, 355/113, 103993/33102, 104348/33215, 208341/66317,
# 312689/99532, 833719/265381, 1146408/364913, 4272943/1360120

These are the best rational approximations to pi, which are determined by the continued fraction of pi:

pi ~= 3 + 1/(7 + 1/(15 + ...))
pi = 3 + [7, 15, 1, 292, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 14, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, ...]

Large numbers are opportunities to "grab a lot of extra digits" and thus the large qualities come when we truncate after 7, 15, 292, and 14.

You may wonder what the "most irrational" number is, in the sense that all of its best-rational-approximations are of low quality. That distinction belongs to:

phi = (1 + Decimal(5).sqrt()) / 2 # golden ratio
continued_fraction(phi) # [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
bras(phi) # 1, 2, 3/2, 5/3, 8/5, 13/8, 21/13, 34/21, 55/34, 89/55, 144/89

Those last numbers you may recognize from your intro to programming as the Fibonaccis.
"Because Palantir has taken over all of the available office space in Silicon Valley, the Startup Bubble has shifted and grown. The Bubble now encompasses the majority of San Francisco, in addition to the Valley and its other territories."

(not from the article)
No they don't. They just have to check the stupid checbox that doesn't do anything because otherwise they can't post advertisment they wrote. I'd say cheking this checkbox is coerced. Also you may check it witout reading what's written next to it.
This reeks of empty PR gesture.
would you mind telling us more ? Tweaks/Cache system ? ...
> a device that isn't selling much anyway.

In EU, Samsung Galaxy Tabs (either 10 or 7) are the only non-iPad tablets I've seen in the hands of not technical people. Most phone carriers offer cheaper mobile data plans bundled with a Galaxy Tab. I have no data at hand, but I'm pretty sure that they are the only non-Apple tablets with a 2-digit percentage of the current EU market.

They are also much appreciated by people that call them "iPads", the kind of people who mostly use the Facebook app, the camera app and, seldom, the browser.
I don't think that's what he said at all. I read it as a criticism of a bad premise. Do you mean to imply that there is so such thing?
Some of it is gut feel. If a person's first impression on me is that they're a douchebag, they get an instant "thanks but no thanks".

But there are some more concrete clues. If they ask for bulk discounts on hours, if they ask to negotiate the rate up front, if they seem to talk "bigger" than they need to, if they think the work you do is "easy", if they act like they're doing you a favor by offering you a chance to bid on the business, etc., those are hints that money will be an issue or that they don't really value your services.

I never, ever, deal with small local businesses - i.e., those that don't seem to have owners with corporate backgrounds. Smaller business owners tend to not be accustomed to throwing around >$100/h for services. I'm generalizing, but if they're paying their staff $10/h, they expect 10 times the output for $100/h. IMO, those guys are trouble, run, run, run away if you can, because you'll get nickeled and dimed out the wazoo.
Looks like it will be good.

Seems to go very wrong when you can afford very high down payments.

Also tricky to use sliders on iPad.Would be good to allow direct numerical entry as option.

It should offer an existing home equity option with the available cash and gifts options.
don't they work 10-12 hour shifts? sometimes more? for 6 days a week?

also aren't the warehouses generally in areas of the country that don't really have schools?

yeah, I don't think they're going to be paying much out on this program ...
Zynga games peak earlier but with less users
A Love Story In Status Codes.
Similar (but more entertaining): Fuck You, Pay Me http://vimeo.com/22053820
I'm the "self-identified data scientist". I agree that there are quite a few holes in my analysis, but I was not aiming for an actual increase in sales just by designing the icon this way. I however wanted to have an icon which looked good enough and could blend in, at least from a color point of view.

So I guess it might not be an interesting problem to you, but I actually had quite some fun thinking about it. Which is the most important for a side project, right? ;)
Each successive Zynga game seems to reach its peak quicker but with less users than the prior 'ville' game.
> I am trying to move people from Google to a new search service

Care to share? I've been trying to move away from google, but DuckDuckGo's search results are so often massively inferior. Other suggestions would be nice to have!
Amelia Earhart: 115 Years Old Today
Kim Dotcom Is a Rapper Now
Just like they try to keep the facade up that CL barely makes money. They are swimming in so much $ it's insane.
You sir, are spot on. You put it perfectly here:

> Any tool that appropriately allows for all this complexity to be specified, has already become as complex as CSS itself, thus defeating the purpose.

This was my immediate issue with CSS Hat. The designers are not trained to set up their photoshop files to be properly evaluated in CSS. They do not know CSS, or how it works. They get their pixels "perfect" (or way off most of the time when doing real math with css), but the fact is to use tools like this they have to get on board 100%. For some designers, this is easier than others.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still interested in trying out the tool. Maybe it is magic...
They provide the license to everyone to spread the word that they have apartment for sale by default. It's more resonable to assume that than anything else.
Actwitty: Psychiatry for your social media
Posting to Craigslist isn't a Constitutional right. Don't agree with the terms? Don't post there. No one's coercing.
Google indexes craigslist (obviously)

https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=iphone+...

They even have cached thumbnails and you can likely use their custom search API to get results, snippets, etc.

Is what 3taps does that different?
"The Internet is positive about Adolf Hitler": http://www.whatdoestheinternetthink.net/?s=adolf%20hitler
Yea, this is fair point, but if you saw what we're seeing in HardwareLand, you'd see that we very underrepresented and feel VERY different from the standard startup crowd.

There's some similarities that HN does very well on - general lean startup stuff, etc., but HN will never be a community that up-votes "How to manufacture in China" type articles more than "How to Deploy X web stack in Y way" ones.
Fix “Operation is not allowed by operating system policies”.
I suppose it's better than nothing, the full time thing is the kicker, I'd say a year and part time should suffice to weed out people that are just getting hired for college money. Plus, if they quit before the schooling is up they wouldn't keep getting tuition.

On a side note, does anyone know of other workplaces that offer a tuition payment program? --- A google search later and I actually find this site http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/finance/746434/

I does look like Amazon isn't really doing that much of an amazing thing here though.
A few of humble opinions:

Padmapper is probably getting enough publicity out of this to get over the critical mass problem and will be able to rely on their own listings.

Craigslist content is user generated, and the copyrights remain property of the users. While facts aren't copyrightable anything that padmapper displays that isn't just a fact, photos or a realtor's description for example, is a copyright violation.

This is why sites like stack overflow are awesome, because they licence "their" content, aka your work cc-wiki and claim no ownership.

The bummer here is not that craigslist is suing over unauthorized data access, it's that your work is too restrictively licenced on their site to be of maximum benefit to you.
A page of examples of the Zen of Python got almost 200 upvotes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2203101 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3697378
Noty - A jQuery Notification Plugin
Something I learnt learning to drive I wish I learnt learning to program
Again? This feels like Amazon PR is spamming HN...
>most advances in human history have been done by for-profit organizations.

Not even close. Also, see the article about how cartels are an emergent property[1] of a free market. Not that there really exists a better system than what we currently have, but don't kid yourself into thinking capitalism is some kind of benevolent savior of mankind. It's just not true.

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3494224
In all fairness, allowing people who are unhappy, in a first warehouse job, or in skilled occupations to train themselves out of their unhappiness is a very novel and extremely favourable idea.

This is like saying, it's not you, here's a chance, take your time, we'll help you and then move on when you are ready. I wish every company did that... It is way better than laying you off and even more superior to keeping you in a job you resent and do just because you need to pay the bills...
What is terrifying is that WordPress is very easy to set-up caching so it can withstand heavy loads. Not setting this up either means:

a) They don't know as much about WP as they ought to.

b) Their service is bad. Even Bluehost/Dreamhost can take heavy traffic without problem when WP is set-up properly.
I think the guy who'll be interested in Datomic isn't going to be looking for a data store describable in a few sentences, like "NoSQL with feature X". It looks to me like a NoSQL-ish Datalog with Clojure-style concurrency, reified by its distribution model. You would only go with that sort of thing if you know how it works, or are interested in experimenting and learning about it. It's not something the guy looking for "data store, alternative to SQL, meeting requirements X Y and Z" would choose.
Is this what you mean?

"Non-profit organizations typically fall into one of two categories: public and private. While a public non-profit organization receives the majority of its funding from the general public, a private non-profit organization receives most of its funds from only a few private sources, such as through donations from a single family or corporation."

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/difference-between-public-pri...

Still accepts donations. Still probably has a staff.

Do you have a better link to what you're talking about?