skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could say that about a lot of cloud based products... Think of the information in gmail or salesforce.com. The value those tools provide and the flexibility vs the risk of them improperly using your data and the cost of running them yourself (likely running them improperly too.). That's the cloud.

What is more interesting is what the EULA said about this sort of thing and if they hand data over without notification to the owner. I suspect that they did.
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500 to down vote is what I read too, fairly recently as well. However can't remember what post I read it in.
Is sending password to user email secure?
When a user posts, they are representing that the content is theirs. If the real owner of the content posts somewhere else, that CL would have a claim against the fraudulent poster, not the actual creator. Either way, these contracts do hold up in court.
The recent review at http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R2I26D6N27OE91/ indicates that "Managing the Design Factory" can be seen as more of an introduction, whereas the latter book has more detail.
Makes a lot of sense from use case and branding perspective. Always used their product just to sign docs, and never to send or receive faxes.
I have to agree, I like it. While they certainly have their work cut out for them on re-building the community and on the technical front, this redesign shows a willingness to be different from the other news aggregators. It's popular to hate on digg, but I wish them the best of luck!
They're changing it to have legal grounds to fend off sites like Padmapper. If they have the exclusive license and another site copies the add and gussies up the display, they have legal grounds to go after the infringing site now. Prior to the explicit issuance of an exclusive license, lawyers for alternative services could make a compelling argument that Craigslist did not assert any license to the content and therefore couldn't legally prevent them from offering a service on top of Craigslist. Adding the copyright license closes that loophole. Now, whether or not an exclusive copyright license is the best way to go is a different question.

Standard IANAL disclaimer.

Edit: replaced copyright with license. Low caffeine morning.
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Couldn't you just substantially rephrase your post for other sites?
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One of this really interesting things I've discovered over the last year is that the government is really heterogeneous; extraordinary competence exists in many places. When you think about it, it makes perfect sense. There are talented hackers working on the kernel instead of Wall Street for ideological reasons. It not that great of a leap to imagine that there are also talented hackers (and people who are talented at recruiting) who ideology causes them to work in government.
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Just curious why you think they should use text-transform: uppercase instead of just typing in all caps. If you localize your site, text-transform: uppercase can render some things meaningless in other languages, or just cause issues in general with some languages (Turkish i, certain Greek accented letters).
This would suck but it sounds a lot better than being straight-up blind.
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It also provides a number of additional channels over IP
I don't think the issue is protection so much as whether we should go out of our way to create a specific visa program designed to bring STEM workers to the US.

I think this is a very complex issue - the US should make a greater effort to attract highly skilled and educated immigrants. However, I think that focusing too narrowly on one specific segment of the economy can end up stifling wage growth and suppressing the market signals that might have attracted more US citizens to the field.
Not surprising. Remember, we're talking about a service that at times lets anyone login to another user's account without a password.
I'm always fascinated when companies make that one decision which seems to lead to their downfall -- and everyone seems to be able to see it, except the company itself.

I think this is a great thing -- if Craigslist can get enough bad press from this, then maybe a movement for "free and copyable" classifieds listings can take place, and there can be competition in the space again.
Counterpoint: Twitter went "down" for five hours about five months back because someone typo'd true in the blob of javascript it serves up.

If your site still works without javascript, at least something will work if a bug slips through to production.

(I agree with you for the most part; it's just when even page navigation breaks it can get more than mildly annoying.)
Then there is no point in it. What the hell Samsung?
"I didn't say that I have contempt for the people who do this but for the "act" or process itself."

So what? Showing contempt for your opposition's behaviour is hardly going to be any more conducive to reasoned debate than showing contempt for them as individuals. The difference would be scarcely noticeable to your readers.

Either way, a scornful tone does not foster the impression that you're interested in having a reasonable discussion, and no amount of protestation to the contrary ("address the facts!", "critique the data!", etc) will change that. Why bother even trying to offer a high-quality counterargument to someone who thinks you're a "sheep"?

My point remains:

If you want people to "address the facts as reflected by the data", then, yes, present the facts, as you believe them to be, and present the best data you can find to support your position -- you've got those parts down -- but stop there, so those replying can only address what you want addressed. Leave nothing else for them to reply to.

In particular, keep your own emotions out of it if you want others to do the same.
annnnd it's down.
Downvote at 500 - search and you can find previous times this question has been asked and answered.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3722788

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A(ka...
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Well, they are pretty terrible responses. And people expect brusqueness from jwz at this point.
Imagine what we might not have if everyone followed this misguided advice. The flip side: if you're breezing through your work, maybe you're not challenging yourself enough? You don't think searching for the Higgs boson can grow weary? Or training for an Olympic medal? Great things require great effort.
40 - starting with a 4x4 grid, that makes 16+9+4+1 = 30, and adding 8+2 for the inner ones
Can someone explain where is the 41th, if there is one?
Bad metaphor. If I make a commercial, am I allowed to run it on more than one television network? Can the TV network say, "you can only run this on our networks?"

I don't know the answer to this question, but I would be annoyed if the network were allowed to lock me in like this. Other networks should be annoyed too.

Should all companies be forced to give up their competitive advantage to make it easier for competition?

Depends on the competitive advantage. Fast code? Theirs. Marketing know-how? Theirs. Monopolistic or illegal practices? Can't keep. Sorry. I definitely disagree with the "companies can do whatever they want" crowd and side with the "you have a business here you play by our rules" crowd.
This is what I do. Most of my stuff degrades gracefully, but for the few things which can't (JS demos/game things), I generally do something like this:

<noscript>example.com is a HTML5/ES5/CSS3 3D graphics demo. Unfortunately, your user-agent doesn't seem to support ES5, sorry about that.</noscript>
I don't get your point, or maybe I do and I disagree.

I hate doing my taxes. I hate mopping my floors. I truly hate weeding. These things are the cost of life.

Adulthood means doing things because they have to get done, not because they are fun. They call it work or chores or taxes because it isn't play.

We all come to grips with that if we are to survive. No sense denying it.
Me too. Thanks.
And they never really did specify as to how we should "Think Different".
The trouble with that solution is that email is not an instant protocol. It's usually instant, but SMTP RFCs give mail servers up to 72 hours to deliver before they must send back a delay notification.

We use Google Apps to host our email, and I've seen plenty of occasions where their systems don't deliver mail immediately. This "issue" used to generate a lot of calls when I was doing freelance consulting. "Bob sent me an email over 20 minutes ago and it's still not here." I'd get those calls all the time.

Imagine you're trying to get logged in somewhere and you have to wait an hour or two for an email to show up.
Looks like a sparse Huffington Post to me.
They are letting the market decide.. They just aren't letting people use their content. Craig is a bit of a nut, but it is a business. People are free to use other sites an post ads on other sites. CL isn't stopping them. Even the smallest indie record label would sue if another record company released an album with that label's songs. They may be in it 'for the music' but they aren't going to cut off their own foot or let people shoplift the product, even if the recording quality is bad and the packaging ugly.
>focus on universal access to 2 Mbps broadband instead of higher speeds in cities... assumes that you can't have both

I don't think it assumes that at all, just that the free market will provide for the cities (which it is.. >100Mbps is available in most urban areas, 1Gbps trials are being held).

I agree 2Mbps is too low though.
non-revocable license != exclusive license
Glad you found it valuable. My mission is to debunk the standard myths, misperceptions and outright lies about the exit process.
Yes. And a virtually incandescent flame. I too burned just about every household chemical I could get my hands on. I remember trying to light my name in fire on the concrete floor of our basement... Good times.
Do Apple's engineers work orders of magnitude harder than their peers at Nokia or Asus or anywhere else? Or were they just working on more important ideas and managed by people with better taste?

The real insult is to suggest that Apple engineers are just much better than anyone else. Apple hire good people, but relatively few of them are truly exceptional. Apple has been led by once-a-generation geniuses - first Jobs and Woz, then Jobs and Ive. A man who can see the future, paired with a man who can build it.

Apple will continue to make good products, but there'll never be another iMac or iPod or iPhone or iPad. Apple will probably dominate their markets, but they're not going to invent new ones. Doing that is far beyond the scope of skilful engineering, it's the stuff of genius.
You're probably thinking of "Hostess", by Isaac Asimov: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostess_%28short_story%29
Here's a productivity tip. If you're not feeling motivated, then motivate yourself with a reward: after you're finished what you're trying to do now, you get to search for productivity tips online and make your life even more productive. Hurry, they're really good.
Dude... did you see how they built this in six weeks??

This is a MVP, not a finished product. It's a first iteration, an experiment.

Chill.
It was also ahead of available display bandwidth. 640x256 non-interlaced was not a display resolution suitable for a business machine, and it was shut-out of the business-use market for anyone who wanted to preserve their eye-function...

Of course, the Amiga was originally conceived as a gaming box, but the initial price and inept marketing scuppered chances of real success.
Well, the UK has gone mad about safety, and the US is following them. Chemistry is not safe, no matter how you want it to be. You can generally avoid injury with proper equipment & training, however.

Anyway, this set seems to be relatively complete.
http://chemistrysetstore.com/chem-c3000-chemistry-set
"Raspberry Pi, the credit card sized low cost mini-computer..."

Wow.. I am getting old.. I still remember being a kid and read that minicomputers were a cabinet size computer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer) as opposite to microcomputers which were desktops... I guess it's time to upgrade definitions :)
"No need to send us your CV, we already have it"
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Leaving aside the psychology for a moment, and assuming the market prices the stock correctly before employee's are allowed to exercise their options, doesn't that mean they would get the same amount, regardless of whether the IPO was high or low? Am I missing something?

Bringing psychology back in, yes I can see how it would really tear people up to feel like they are "missing out," and the understanding that they are getting the "true value" is probably not much of a substitute. If the money in my bank account fluctuated daily, for reasons beyond my control, it would drive me right up the wall.
Interesting, but wrong use of conditional probabilities. All OP is saying is that the frequency of people from school x following topic y is p.

The dataset is just not the right one to say that P(x|y) = p, because of, say, all the people who follow food in NYC and go to NYU which were not taken into account here.
Does the chick down the street selling her old couch really care about exclusive rights or not? Not anymore than I care about the lubricant used on the subway wheels. I just want to get there cheaply and quickly and that chick just wants to sell her couch. The HN community is a very tiny subset of the population and our views often have little corespondence to those of muggles.
Can Digg make a run on Reddit?
I'm surprised to discover I actually like the layout. Mainly because, with sites like Reddit, much of the time the content is just an image, and you're just interested in the top couple of comments. If they can put this content straight onto the main page, it's actually more efficient to consume.

I hope they implemented threaded votable comments soon, though -- the community discussion is the main thing, for a lot of people!
Thanks, that was succinct and informative.
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Amazing what can be done with ~200 lines of code. Its a little much to wrap your head aroun, but once you do doors just start to open.
What if Facebook charged $1/year : Would you still use it?
FB has been a great execution of an idea overall even though I am not a big fan of it lately due to every changing things with it. Anyway, looking at the recent issues with fb and its dismal projections, what happens if it asks its users to donate/pay $1 for a whole year ? Is this something that active users will consider ? Personally, I don't use fb at all these days but out of the 900 million claimed active users, even if 500 million pay, wouldn't that mean 500 million in revenue for the year ? Is that pocket change ? Would that help ?
"Blind activity" -- I like that term. I'll have to remember it. That is used quite often in working environments to give the appearance of work so that managers and peers can see it, with the expectation that come review time they'll all say "so and so is making so much progress". In the case of a single individual this "manager" is the perception of oneself -- so in a way it is cheating yourself (and that's not necessarily a bad thing). However there should be a higher level supervisor, in a way, that can detect and say "hey, yeah, there is plenty of churn, but in the end there are no results, something has gone wrong".
Yes, that was it! Thanks!
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This may sound ridiculous, but the practice is actually more common than many might think.
Without Craigslist people everywhere would have difficulty finding massage 'practitioners' and old couches. The horror!
The RAM on the RPi is shared with the GPU, so you have less than 256 MB available
You are not having problem slearning how to "code". You are having problems learning how to design LISP programs. You will only learn by designing them, and posting the code online for others to help you. All there is to it.
What CMS did they use; the URLs look from something enterprisey like Vignette?
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I viewed mopping the floors as a few things:

1) Maintaining the house value

2) Discipline

3) Exercise

4) Stress reliever

which all are positive.

I viewed doing taxes as one of the ways to know my financial situation.

If you sprinkle the positive dusts around these chores, they won't be chores.
Not a chance. I think I'm one of the decently large group of Facebook users who are looking for any excuse to stop using the service.

Not only do I think its a poor way of sharing information, its always had huge swings of spam-ridden News Feeds, and forced user adoptions in terms of UI, etc.
Congrats! I play C64 games on my Pandora often. Great stuff.
If >1% see a broken website, and >99% see them reviving a dead platform extremely quickly

It is their tradeoff to make, personally I think they are making the right one.
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You missed my point, indeed. There will always be specific aspects of any job that are less than pleasant, but if the entirety (or, at least, most) of your job is so discombobulating that you need a rigid system to be able to function, you might not be in the right line of work.

As a side note, I don't buy that "adulthood = being miserable" racket. You can do honest, income-generating work that's fulfilling and fun. In fact, you probably should be. None of this "coming to grips" nonsense. That's an excuse people tell themselves when they feel stuck in a miserable place.
Shorter barrels are useful for hitting multiple targets rapidly at short ranges and less useful at long ones. Which has a lot to do with the design of military style weapons vs. a rifle used for hunting vs. target practice. If your attacking a target you want longer range accuracy and a large clip, if your defending yourself you want a hand gun. Which is a major reason why the police don't go around with swat style weapons.
I stand corrected: 40.
Liking what you do and wanting to do it doesn't make you organised and effective. Or to put it another way my interest definitely doesn't gravitate to the best order of tasks or let me know how far I am from doing what I want to achieve.

I've spent the majority of my life having a certain low grade contempt for people who are organised, because doing stuff without being organised seemed more authentic. Well its stupid and organisation is a way of using the focus you have better.
Not everyone has those awesome powers of introspection (which is why a whole rang of jobs starting with "psycho-" exist in the first place). Quite often we're not really that aware of our own motivations - and even if we are, they're not always that easy to overcome.

Never mind that the task itself isn't always that simple. Some of them are outright impossible, some are just hard to do. Let's not even get into the "I wanna be at the next olympics in gymnastics, but I'm overweight and 47" bunch, let's consider something relatively simple like building something, like a website or a house.

"You will do it" doesn't really get you there. You will try it, and you will most likely fail, nevermind what Vivek or Yoda are saying. Sure, some "productivity porn" is just along the motivational speaker line, getting off your butt etc., but there's a lot of stuff out there at managing your productivity, planning, etc.

Granted, most of that is crap, too, but then again, most of anything is crap.
Personally I'd like them to crack down on Apps that change the homepage of my browser to an affiliate search engine, or add home screen icons to affiliate search engines unrelated to the application itself.
To add:

Get traction + Get attention.

Shout from the rooftops whatever it is you are doing. Reached a small goal (like the 100th member)? Write 25 blog posts about it, tweet it, post to HN, and just put it out there. In fact, make a video out of it.
Or the government is just the last place left where you can count on a stable paycheck, and lots of engineers like to optimize for that instead of for the possibility of striking it rich.

It used to be, anyway.
> we should be aiming for 1Gbps minimum in cities

Without wishing to make a "nobody will ever need more than 640KB ram" comment. There has to come a point where bandwidth speed starts to matter less. I have 100Mbps down at the moment, and my LAN (802.11n or powerlines), my hard-disk, or the ability of my CPU to decode video are gating factors in most cases and not my Internet connection.

Getting every home to a _good_ (e.g. achieved) 10Mbps is in my mind far more important than aspiring to Gbps connectivity.
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As someone not living in the US, my takeaway from this article was that citizens and visitors should all wear bullet-proof vests in public places similar to the way everyone wears car seat belts for safety. Since one shouldn't over-react and take away the freedom of toting around assault-rifles.

Body Armour companies would LOVE this.
Polls? I didn't know we had polls.
At no point has anyone said this was considered a final product.
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Because they have sucked up (and will continue to) valuable time that humanity could've spent on other worthwhile endeavors. It's 2012, where's my colonies in Mars, damn it?
I grew up with the Oric, Spectrum then the Amiga and 486 PC. This guy reminded me of those horrible load times and why kids today simply wouldn't have the patience to hang around.

Pickup iPad, press game icon, play game.

However, great to see Last Ninja 2!
That's actually why I do government consulting. I would make more money working for twitter, but IMO my skills are much better utilized working for the government.
There's a big difference between a tv ad and a classified ad. The content of CL IS ads. The content of a TV station, ie the competitive differentiator, is based on the quality of its shows, not the ads. If you made a TV show, a network wouldn't allow you to broadcast it on other networks.

Still, CL isn't a public good. Don't like them, turn the channel.
It seems financial problems is the top reason for clearance denials. The other major one as you pointed out is falsifying information (lying or hiding stuff).
You're absolutely right, and perhaps I'm veering away from the original post a bit. Task lists are useful; obsessively seeking out productivity tips is a sign of an underlying problem. I guess I'm more concerned with the general obsession with capital-P-H Productivity Hacks as panacea for a bunch of other issues.

The line between a helpful to-do list and being unable to function without one can get fuzzy. Given how popular these sites are, I'm just wondering how many folks have crossed that line, and why.
It should also mean though that cross-posting to other sites like Kijiji (very common) could result in having take-down notices sent for your ad (- since it's an exclusive license you're granting them). [IANAL]
Very nice article. I especially like the quote (paraphrased): "Activity is not necessarily progress". It's this common misconception that keeps a lot of us tied to the chairs for 8-12 hours every day, when we could often accomplish the same in half the time.
For the USA degrading into a service-only economy, there sure is a funny attitude against preserving a pretty good service.
There was joke among mathematicians at US universities for a while about how if you want to work for the NSA, pick up the phone, call your mother and ask to be employed at the NSA.
I've got 40 too :-)