skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What was the cost to him in going to this meeting??

Time, both in the meeting and in preparing, and in information transfer. He didn't specifically say what he went through, but he may have divulged pieces of the puzzle that they were unaware of.
Apple designer Christopher Stringer tells about Apple's brainstorming to market
The service we were building (I work at app.net) was a social app discovery service. It integrated with Facebook to show you what apps your friends were using and downloading, and display stories about the apps you use.
His time is presumably valuable to him. The cost was his time. Time he could have spent building his product.
Every time I read about tech companies taking away our ability to have some resemblance of privacy I get more infuriated. We've allowed big business to control how we create new technologies, then we abuse the people we depend on to use it.

It is almost like we are begging for governments to create laws in the interest of protecting peoples rights, without acknowledging that we are the ones responsible for bills like SOPA/PIPA. We create the need for protection, then we bitch about how it is implemented.

Want to make technology better? Quit abusing your users.
He's pissed because the conversation went from "Hey, this is great for both of us, what can we do to help you build it?" to "Join us or die".

If Facebook went from expressions of support for the project to hostility, I think anyone would feel they'd acted in bad faith.

It's not illegal, and it's a fair point that developers should anticipate Facebook's conflicting interests. But it's also fair to publicly shame sleazy behavior when you see it.
As a satisfied user of AppAnnie I got an email today regarding Apple locking Apple ID's of users of AppAnnie. It just requires an email reset which is not a big deal but AppAnnie seems shut down by Apple. A shame since itunes connect data sucks.
Is that argument in consideration of the fact that padmapper started off by scraping CL directly and forwarding everyone back over to CL?
Maybe I work too much but I rarely find myself in metro. Also, there is no metro version of chrome yet while I'm finding IE10 font rendering hard on my eyes. So metro right now is somewhere I go to launch apps or by accident when I click on some content with a metro helper.
Samsung was already plagiarizing its competitors in 2006
This is the most blatant of their violation, and something that I have NEVER seen from either Apple or Microsoft : 100% copy&paste of a competitor's design.
How can anyone believe in Samsung's innocence. They're basically doing everything they can to plagiarize without obviously infringing the law.
Dalton Caldwell sends email the hard way.
Is that so terrible of a solution though? I'd wager to say that most Win 8 devices will be touch devices (my bet is people aren't going to flock to upgrading their Win 7 machines). So the people who don't have touch machines are the only ones that don't want metro apps running their media. Is it that hard to set the helpers accordingly and then never worry about it again?
well... technically it is PadLister that has the ability to post listings. Yes... same guy but different site. I would imagine that PadMapper runs PadLister listings along side CL listings. Which is a smart move for any aggregate service like PadMapper. PadLister is really the CL competition.
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Wow, I didn't even know about Padlister until today. I understand Craigslist's point of view a bit better now.
I mean, sure, but in business there are always meetings you attend for partnerships or offers that don't pan out. It's just the way the world works.
I'm not saying they are under an obligation to be fair, just pointing out that considerations of fairness are part of a conversation about the product. There is no special dividing wall here that excludes interoperability policy from everything else, when it comes to making a criticism of a service.
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Indeed. It's an interesting problem though. Given something that should be of interest✝ to the HN community✝✝, suppose it gets submitted and ignored. Should it be submitted again and again until it gets the attention it deserves?

When should it be decided that an item is not, in fact, of interest to HN?

✝ Whatever that means.

✝✝ Whoever they are.
Would you mind sharing some of the conclusions you came about thanks to your tracking ?
SF preferred, REMOTE okay.

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A visionary client of mine is using NLP and ML to improve healthcare and education outcomes, with broad application outside these domains.

They would like to build out a team to do further R&D and transition the research into a product.

This is a great opportunity for data scientists and generalists hackers who want to work on hard problems and on problems that fundamentally touch everyone.
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Wait a minute. We're supposed to be upset that the feds took a guy's computer after they matched his fingerprints to a bomb bag used in the Madrid train bombings that killed almost 200 people? And we're supposed to believe this was ethnic harassment because "he is a muslim"? If any police anywhere find near-conclusive proof that you killed 200 people, it doesn't matter if you believe in the flying spaghetti monster. They just might take your computer away from you.

It turns out the fingerprints belonged to somebody else. Blame it on faulty software and faultier human interpretation. This scaremongering about routine evidence-gathering is socially irresponsible.
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wiki search for kozmo shows 2 more similar services: MaxDelivery, Urban Express, both in NYC though.
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I do wonder how many people in Facebook actually think of their company as a "business infrastructure provider".
Those ultra books haven't been around for a "few years" yet so pc laptop reputation is still in the gutter. I have yet to experience a decent pc laptop personally, I've heard they exist, but our IT department hasn't short listed them yet. I hope this changes soon.

VMware is fairly important in the enterprise.
I think that was the point of the meeting. They saw that there was a developer in the space they wanted to enter. They could have just undercut him without a thought, but instead offered to work with/buy out his product. This happens.

Microsoft and Google are doing it with hardware. I imagine the phone/tablet manufacturers had a similar reaction as this guy, but didn't go blogging about it on the web. It's good for us that he did, because OEMs talk to each other in meetings. Small time devs best communicate a company's intentions via the web.
For one thing, the OP author is responsible for the whole meme, and is posturing his startup as the litmus test for the idea (which is probably fair).

From a certain perspective, the whole idea of Google is to get users off the search engine faster, which doesn't sound like a great way to make money as compared to Yahoo! whose core idea was to keep them on the site as long as possible to serve more ads at them. In the end, the Google idea is more profitable because users prefer to use things that don't parasite them by a huge margin, especially if both are free.

Caldwell's idea, as I understand it, is that there are a lot of interesting applications that could use Twitter's technology that aren't or can't be written because of their restrictions (or it would suck because of their ads), and that people would be willing to pay for a service like Twitter's if it enabled access to or the ability to author these applications. He thinks he can win at choosing to be the commodity by being first and doing the best job. The user value is hard to envision, because the apps that will be powered by this social infrastructure don't exist yet or are perverted by the presence of ads and Twitter's own self-interest.
I been playing around with Golang for about two weeks now and i must say I am in love with it.

P.S. in my day time job i work with ruby.
This is great. I've been looking for an open-ended life tracking tool like this for a while. After playing around with other services like Daytum, which ended up feeling constricting and unintuitive for what I was hoping to do, I kind of gave up. I'll be keeping a close eye on this as, after a quick once over, it looks pretty awesome. Good luck with this Matt!
Coming up in the next iteration (i.e. in a day or two) :)
How, exactly, is that going to work on a tablet?

Charms bar > Devices > (your printer).
I replied to veyron [your sibling]'s similar comment.
Surely he must have signed some sort of NDA before going into said meeting, which he is now breaching?
Well, except they sell only groceries, which isn't at all Amazon's core business (and isn't what Amazon does, in 99.9% of the world).
They weren't there:

The premise was to take the seven top JavaScript frameworks/libraries for single-page and rich JavaScript applications — Angular, Backbone, Batman, CanJS, Ember, Meteor, Knockout, Spine — get the creators of all of them in one location, and compare the technologies head to head.
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Rather than get involved with all of these threads, I'd like to clarify something.

I build a product that pre-dated App Center by several months. Facebook dev relations people tested it and actively encouraged me to build it. I was assured that it was considered "good" and "helpful" as an example of using Open Graph. At an earlier point I was offered marketing help from Facebook for my launch.

I am not clear why some folks don't see the issue with building something that is encouraged by employees of a company, and then, in the matter of months, being told "never mind". That is not good for an ecosystem.
I wonder how they deal with triggers which cause loops...
> PadLister is really the CL competition.

You said it yourself: same guy.
Nothing in the post suggests that Facebook threatened to turn off access.
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Right. Article.
If I don't own a machine that runs Mac OS, can I run Keynote? I only have Linux machines at home (really).
The lack of compassion here demonstrated by people who clearly have not even tried to empathize with the experiences of those with stereotype threat is disheartening. It's a phenomenon backed by increasing amounts of research and as someone who has dealt with it for years I am excited to see that it is finally getting so much attention.

For those of you who are actually able to empathize a bit here, I found the APA paper "Stereotype Threat at Work" http://www.apa.org/education/ce/stereotype-threat.pdf to be especially useful in communicating with managers, mentors and peers about what I was experiencing in the workplace. I don't think there are easy solutions to this issue, but bringing a little awareness and kindness to situations where a member of your team might have their stereotype threat activated can really go a long way.

As hackers we typically care about efficiency, and stereotype threat is making some of our peers less efficient. If you think it's just a matter of "getting over it," your empathy skills could use a little work. A lot of this stuff is unconscious and impossible to unwire after a lifetime of being fed cultural stereotypes.
John Carmack answers comments on their kickstarter page - how cool is that?

He gives more technical information:

"Technical comments based on the prototype unit I have been using and conversations with Palmer:
The display is a single 1280x800 panel; each eye only sees a 640x800 image stretched across the huge field of view. The perceived resolution is therefore much lower than even previous generation consumer HMDs. If you are looking for high resolution, this isn't for you. For immersion, the high FOV is much, much more important, though.

It is not wireless.

The prototype was analog VGA, but I think the kickstarter versions are DVI.

Everyone commented on how light the prototype was, especially compared to the Sony HMD.

The early prototype could not be worn with glasses. If you modify it to stand off far enough from the face to allow glasses, the fov will be reduced a lot. One reason it can be so light is that it has smallish lenses very close to your eyes. With the limited resolution, you don't really need 20/20 effective vision.

I hope someone experiments with the kits and builds a variable focus version, but the standard system is fixed focus."
Wasn't there a documentary about this somewhere back in the day that came to define the dot-com bubble?
I feel like a large percentage of hacker news is posts exactly like this.

"Want to be productive? Stop reading about how to be productive!"

I personally feel like Hacker News would be better if these posts stopped being bubbled up to the top.
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Who knows what positions each took behind closed doors, but do you think they aren't going into a negotiation all on the same page? Do you think they would allow someone in negotiations to take a position opposite to the company line?

Also, relations does not mean advocate. He has relations with the customer, he is not obliged to advocate their views. Especially not when it goes against FBs interests.
Yea, declining is a much better idea. Though in the long term, ideally employees should be able to post these things publicly, which is even better.
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Did I say they don't have the legal right to do that? No, I didn't. I doubt anybody did.

There's no particular reason to think that spiders are a giant problem for them. Any high-volume site deals with crawlers all the time. If it were a problem because of some site architecture weirdness, it'd be easy enough to set up something that wouldn't be problematic. For example, the RSS feeds they already offer.

Worst case, they could charge people like Padmapper a fee to license the data. Which in fact they already do, but they insist on it being mobile only.

So Craigslist's behavior is purely a business choice, not driven by any technical necessity.
All's fair in business is a bullshit perspective. It's the self justification of those who want to engage in behavior they know is sociopathic.

Deception is occasionally a necessary tactic, but it would be insane to try to argue that it is a behavior that creates economic value. It should not be the expected default behavior, and in fact, is not. Which is why there are both civil and criminal penalties for fraud.

Deceptive behavior that is less than fraud may not be illegal, but it's still shame worthy in my view.
This still doesn't sound wrong to me. You built something. You showed it to them. They liked it. They later liked it so much that they wanted a similar product.

Did they threaten to revoke API access?
This is all getting very personal. We wanted to create a fun project to see if people would join something they knew nothing about but obviously we had to lie a bit to ensure that we didn't give the game away. Ever read the book Join Me by Danny Wallace? We wanted to see if people would join a website in the same manner. We've got an idea for what we want the club to be but we wanted to keep it under wraps to keep it fun.

We've had lots of users join. It's been a really great day. I guess you've 'caught us' ) No harm done I hope.
AFAIK, this still does not support phones which lack a secure element (T-Mobile US, SGSII... probably others as well). Hopefully that will come in another iteration or two.
The StumbleUpon redesign showed a complete lack of understanding as to why users liked the service.

They were given ample warning that the new design would bomb and cause large drops in usage.

Ignore your users at your own peril.
Yeah, that might be the issue, and I'd strongly consider shutting it down if that would make working with CL possible. I disagree that competition is inevitable, though.
Forgive me as I did not follow the original story very closely, but what exactly did Betaworks buy? Are they even the owners of the old data, or did they just buy the brand and code, whereas perhaps LinkedIn now owns the actual data?
yep. That was presented as an option they could use by one exec, on a phone call.
Would you please stop being gratuitously rude?

Not compete with you, because you're a precious snow flake and

Acquire you and treat you like a prima donna, etc.

add nothing other than nastiness to Not compete with you and Acquire you, etc.
I love what you guys are doing, just wish I had more of a technical background to feel comfortable applying for your Account Engineer position...
While there's obviously a bit more nuance in your general idea, in this particular case, you may as well criticize McDonalds for not giving away their hamburgers.
maybe they purposefully put the wrong chemicals to deter 'experimenting'?
I'm always honest in my exit interviews, and I've had quite a few of them. I've yet to have this result in "burning bridges", despite often having harsh things to say (I was leaving, after all) - and in a couple cases so far I've been asked to come back to help solve tough problems (often some of the ones I mentioned in my exit interview).

Of course, I don't have a particularly large sample here: just three companies. If I had followed the advice in this article, however, I'd never know what might have happened if I had actually spoken my mind, and I think that's a tremendous waste. If you've already taken the initiative to leave a job, why let yourself be so paralyzed by fear that you won't speak your mind in the exit interview, the interview set up by the company to attempt to capture the reasons for your departure?

I don't believe in corporate loyalty, and I don't believe that you owe a former employer much, but I'll say this: If you want to be viewed with any integrity, and as a person of merit and a person that your coworkers - and even your former employer - would consider worth maintaining a relationship with in the future, you owe it to them to be honest in an exit interview. This doesn't mean you should take it as an opportunity to vent and say horrible things just because you can, but you should be honest. If they opt not to act on your feedback, that's their fault, not yours, but if you fail to give them actionable feedback that's your fault.
I think when a lot of people hear the phrase life tracking they associate it with conclusions like drinking an extra half an ounce of water each meal reduced my caloric intake by 6.6% and I think that can be a bit overwhelming and it discourages people from trying it out (sounds like a lot of work!).

Stats and analysis are far less important for me than the act of tracking. Knowing that I'm accountable for my decisions makes me much more likely to make positive choices. For example, I've been trying to cut back on coffee. Knowing that I drink 1.2 or 0.8 coffees per day has far less of an impact on me than knowing that at the end of the day I'm going to have to go in and check "Yes" next to my coffee item. It sounds ridiculous, but it works.

Sebastian Marshall has written extensively about life tracking, which is how I originally got into it. His What Gets Measured Gets Managed post is an excellent primer:

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/what-gets-measured-gets-man...
Yes, both men and women encounter stereotype threat. However, in programming, stereotype threat works mainly against women. So in context, yes, it's gender-specific.
Sure.. it is legitimate. But Dalton has the right to say as loudly as he can what Facebook's negotiation tactics are. And other developers have the right to stop developing on the Facebook platform because of it.

It may be legitimate, but that doesn't mean there aren't consequences.

How many developers would continue using Facebook's platform if they knew Facebook would kill their product on a whim?
You're free to browse the web with parts of it turned off. But you should expect that parts of it might not work, and if they don't work it should be immediately obvious why.

Yes, it should be immediately obvious, but often it isn't, and that's my biggest complaint with sites that rely on scripting for basic behavior.

Too many times I've filled in a form, hit the Submit button, only to find that proper form submission does not work without scripting. Nothing on the page warned me, nothing stopped me from filling in the form, even though there are snake-simple ways to tell no-scripters of missing behavior, or to simply prevent bad behavior when scripting is turned off.

(The other complaint I have is why sites rely on scripting to do things that are baked into HTML. For example, using divs as text areas instead of, say, using a textarea as a text areas.)
Nerd is a term of contempt and disrespect in the minds of power brokers at his level.

I suppose the idea is that if these engineers or "nerds" as he calls them would just work for less they'd be happen to be able to take a municipal bus to work each day.
Despite the domain name issue, the post itself was nice to read. I could easily sense the enthusiasm and pride when you mentioned your success in the launch of FireBase and the gimmicks prior to it. Thanks.
Ah, I forgot that the paid listings were only for certain locations, not just certain categories.
"Offering a aquihire and refusing to make an open platform is what Dalton doesn't like."

Typically, when someone doesn't like an acquisition offer, they decline it. Is it wrong for Facebook to build a platform that isn't open? I don't see why Mark Zuckerberg (or the public, as the comments on this submission indicate) would read this letter and decide that his employees acted improperly, which the letter seems to expect.
And like that, the copyright tag is changed. Hopefully there are no screen shots. Cat's out of the bag guys.