skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great point - would be hugely valuable for people planning projects as well. http://kicktraq.com is at least starting to head in that direction making it easy to see activity by day - so you can start to see the impact of social media.
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The quote from the article, “my work life sort of is my personal life.” is the common attitude put forth by the sort of employees that a company like Zynga attracts. Young, without family or interests outside of work.

A company with a focus on long term employees that will stay and focus on the underlying structure that permits the business to exist will be more interested in hiring and retaining employees with interests that encapsulate more than simply staying late into the evening to "crush some code."
Ripping off Makerbot? Please. Makerbot uses plenty of Reprap-derived technology, and how much money did Bri pay for that?

$0, since it was all open source.
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Wait, so open-source isn't all sunshine and rainbows and intellectual property laws have a purpose? That's crazy talk, lets go back to discussing how corporations are evil and selling things for more than they cost to make is greedy.
An unspoken issue here, and one often facing the industry I'm in presently (I'm not going to mention what it is, as I don't want to attract any flak down the road, given I run an OSHW company at the moment) - is that it's easy to take a design that's been proven, and sell it for less.

It's easy to attract a large segment of the market over to your, near clone, of that product for less. You don't even have to make it in China - you're one guy with some outsourcers that'll do everything for you - you can just lower your margins. The problem now becomes that you need to sustain that business. You're not making enough margin to hire a handful of additional engineers to design the next generation products while you sell today's. You're making a comfortable living for you - while driving the innovator you just copied to lower their margins and lay off staff. (Or, exit the market entirely.)

Copycats of OSHW at cheaper prices who don't innovate new capabilities harm the market in the long run, but make today's customer happy. It drives OSHW vendors out of the market, and forces new players to make a choice between open-sourcing and facing massive margin pressure, or come out closed-source and ensure they have enough breathing room. Of course, it's a false dichotomy: we've been copied several times, but focus on extreme customer service, and way out of our way warranties to differentiate ourselves, while also continuing to invest in new products. But, we're also in a much smaller niche.

That being said: I haven't followed Makerbot in a while - how much new R&D do they do? That is, have they been coming out with systems with newer capabilities and competing aggressively, or have they largely been resting on their laurels?
So obviously I don't work for the white house, but I suspect that since this code depends on bits of gpl'd code to function, they made the entire project licensed similarly.

Also, it is not as simple as you think, government code isn't always pd. If written by a contractor, the contractor/contracting organization can decide to not release code/work to the public.

Finally, if this code was written by Macon's team, and not by contractors, then you could maybe make an argument that the parts of the code that came from original gpl parts would be gpl'd, but not the code written by the wh team that doesn't depend on the gpl'd parts, as the code isn't distributed to end users the way the gpl mandates sharing.

Anyhow, I'm trying to simplify a lot here, but thought I'd chime in.
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However, what we're trying to build is more like an open-source product, essentially an entire service made public so anyone can use it.

I think the part of this that got me pondering is that typically a basic prototype or initial version would be open sourced, people would play with it, and then funding or sponsorship would come along. Projects like Redis, WordPress, TravisCI, jQuery, Node.js, Ruby, Phusion Passenger, and PHP come to mind.

Your approach is different in asking for money up front and then promising to open source only when the project is finished.

While it seems you are awesome guys, much loved, and do good work, it's that leap from the previously established model that gets me wondering if it's a good approach. Maybe it is and I just don't realize it yet. Maybe I'm being nostalgic. But if this project were already open sourced and you were asking for funding to make a serious go of it, it would, to me, seem an easier sell than "we want to build X, give us the $ we need, and we'll open source it when we're done."

I suspect I'm just being a bit of an old fogey, but without questions come no answers.. ;-)
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Nice example! This clears it up for me a lot.
Which CC license is being adopted?

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
I quit my job as a biologist, became a freelancer, working for clients found on HN, and was eventually hired full-time by one of those clients, who I had previously interviewed for a side project that I was working on so I could show Hacker News.

So basically, Hacker News is pretty awesome, regardless of whatever people say.
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Dynamo looks very interesting. Thanks for pointing it out.
The way USA.gov puts it, government works are "not subject to copyright" or restrictions thereof, which I think explains the situation better.

I am having a hard time finding a model for (or even discussion about) what happens when government works have been derived from copyrighted material. Anyone know of another example?

But I'm assuming that since there is no copyright to the additions, from a copyright point of view it's essentially equivalent to the software from which it's derived.
I think the best way to display date/time is to have the text in relative date/time and title in actual date/time.

For example:

This post was made <span title="2012-08-23 2 PM EDT"> 2 hours ago </span>

This solves the problem of both clutter and practicality. Now whenever you need to know the absolute time, just hover over the relative time and it will also show up in screenshots!!
Don't forget the cost of supporting people when they make a mistake putting it together, or having to send out another package to someone half way across the world because you left one bolt out, etc.
You should also not override the keyboard shortcut for navigating back (alt-left arrow).
They can't, but only part of the code is public domain. If you want to use the whole pile of it, you do so under the GPL - if you pick out the changes made by the govt, then you can apply those elsewhere.
I totally agree. Honestly MS really needs this sort of overhaul if they want to remain competitive down the road. They still have a pretty good hold on enterprise IT (slipping with the cloud) but I personally think they are in a bad position in just about every other market.

Though I've never had much love for Redmond despite using their products for 20+ years, since they feel like an underdog now I instinctively want to cheer for them. But, like someone said in another post, they sure make it difficult.
I seems to work more when I am home.
App Engine handles many hundreds of requests per second for us, and as Jamie mentioned, big spikes like the CS launch are no sweat.
I think I finally "get" it. Thanks for putting it succinctly.
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You are just using a different way to describe the deal. The grandparent described it "$300M cash plus 1% of Facebook" that description of the deal was accurate when it was announced and it is still accurate. You choose to measure it as "30M * FBStockPrice-in-dollars + 300M * $1 cash" which is also accurate but it is not a 'stable' definition because it varies day to day.

The point the parent was making (IMO) was that the terms of the deal haven't changed, the point you are making is that the value of the deal is changing. When the deal was made part stock (variable) and part cash (invariable) the folks at Instagram 'bought in' or agreed to the fact that the value would vary with FB's price so the fact that the stock component is worth half what it was, may not have been 'expected' but it was already accounted for.

The discussion about stock collars (a financial mechanism that keeps the variable bit within some bounds between the time the deal is made and when it closes), suggested the Instagram guys could have made a better deal for themselves, but we don't know, perhaps they (Instagram) felt that $300M was fine even if FB went to 0 (it won't but its an example).
What does whether or not a petition is responded to have to do with open-sourcing code in a White House repo? Your complaint is like if Mac open sourced a component of OS X and you went on a rant about them not moving work out of abusive factories in China due to a petition.
I guess the $200 is ugly enough as it is.
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We also use Hive on Amazon Elastic MapReduce to do some of our analytics.
Yep. This also extends to the publishing, marketing, etc: http://www.laurenipsum.org/like-a-startup

I don't think that it's exactly like a software startup. You don't have to deal with bug reports or upgrades, for instance. But the same instincts and habits work well, especially if you are self-publishing.

Good luck!
Relative dates are effective up to a point. People think relatively about events for perhaps a month or two. Past that it probably becomes more effective to use absolute dates.
I'll be honest, I've been browsing HN for years but never posted as you can see from my history lol.

But seriously, I thought this was something the HN crowd would enjoy. We're putting together a lot of content around how to generate large lists of potential ideas for blog posts (or other content) in any industry.

For example, if you're interested in the broad topic of ruby on rails, we're going to discuss how to make a Google Doc that does all of the following automagically...
(1) goes to Topsy.com to search for Tweets linking to ruby on rails topics (i.e. http://goo.gl/36eaW)
(2) scrapes all of the tweets as well as actual links the tweets were about into the spreadsheet
(3) scrapes the # of tweets for each piece of content into the spreadsheet so you can sort by this to identify popular content over various periods of time.

That's just a quick snippet of what we'll go over on the webinar, but I think the a few people on HN might find this helpful for hacking content ideas to promote their products and sites.
Yeah, I think this was a case of the developers just wanting to try the latest thing without really understanding the impact or tradeoffs.
While this is the first with respect to releasing on Github,
in April 2010 White House also released 2 open source Drupal modules (for Akamai integration and another one).
No, they are at WAR!
So is anything not "hacking" anymore? Or can we just use that verb for anything?

If so then I'm hacking pretty hard in this comment section right now.
Microsoft’s new logo invokes touch-screen tiles
Hadn't heard about OR impedance mismatch... good to know about.
However, the point about the brain is accurate. While this is purely my own experience, two people I've known, have developed schizophrenia in their early twenties (when the onset usually occurs) and both had smoked pot heavily in their teens. I and many more friends however, have and continue to smoke pot with no ill effects save short term memory.

Link: http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/medical/pediatrics/2...

However, repeated studies and surveys show that it is easier for teens to get certain drugs, including pot, than it is for them to get cigarettes or alcohol. This make sense considering someone mandated by law to check for id is selling it to them, oppose to another teen selling them unchecked, non taxed pot without doing so.

Link: http://blog.norml.org/2009/08/28/study-says-its-easier-for-t...

While this thread may be about the white house's code base, hear this; don't put your github account near this. You may think it could be harmless, but they could be collecting your account names. After all we are all just dangerous computer hackers!

Link: http://www.channel4.com/news/hackers-are-more-dangerous-than...

Disclaimer: Just my opinion.
Surely there is every possibility that the next "one more thing" would involve the creation of an entirely new, rather unexpected market segment.
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Any idea when the first Google Fiberhoods will go live? Even if someone is interested in hosting - this may not work till later this year or early next year depending on which fiberhood they live in.
Gruber didn't seem to even consider the possibility that there are not enough new things to announce for iPhone and ios, and that the event has been stuffed with other product announcement.
The 'name and shame' angle is really curious - the lawyers threatening to do this are instructed by the copyright holders -- ie the companies that own the rights to the pornography in the first place. The rights holders probably produced the pornography too, or at the very least are in charge of its distribution.

It's a peculiar state of affairs when a company wants to assert shame for (allegedly) viewing/possessing the material they produced/distributed. I wonder what message that says to people who legitimately purchased, viewed and own copies of the same titles the rights holder is trying to shame people over?
It's much more sensationalist and page hit attracting to make absolute black or white claims rather than something nuanced. How many hits would "When to use relative versus absolute time" get?

It's on the HN front page. Look at this thread. The joke's on us.
Providing perfect information isn't always as important as providing information that's quick and easy for people to process.

Take a piece of information like '12 Apr 2012 10:09 AM PST'--there's a fair bit of mental arithmetic required to work out how long ago that was, if 'how long ago' is important to you. And it's different arithmetic depending on whether you're looking at it on the 12th of April (time zone adjustments, crossing noon)or the 14th of June (how many days in April and March). Multiply this by the number of dates on a screen, and you might end up with a lot of information noise.

A lot of the time, a quick, rough idea of 'how long ago it was' is really helpful. I wouldn't be so quick to label relative dates as stupid. Information overload is a real problem for humans, not so much for computers. It really depends on the circumstances, but for most UIs designed to be read by people, relative dates can work really well.
AT&T, have you no shame?
I could see the iphone "sharing the stage" with a phone peripheral -- say a camera equipped bluetooth headset.
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Hidden message? It's as plain as day. There's nothing subtle about it. My Korean friends know instantly what it's about and why it's hilarious.
> I wonder if this is the case because of dedication to backwards compatibility or because the original syntax was based on some fundamental mathematical concepts that are sound and thus don't change the same way most APIs do.

I would say it's mostly the former. I don't see anything unusually mathematical about Mathematica syntax.

Also, a good, simple & versatile syntax was chosen in the first place, so there was little need to change it. The syntax doesn't look too remarkable now, but Mathematica is 24 years old, so clearly some very good decisions were made in its initial design.
I once developed a similar application for a large charity which included the ability to place a widget to donate to the 'current charity' on your site/blog and had an associated leader board of who collected the most donations.

That project was never launched due to the cost of integrating with their ERP, but the idea might be worth considering for Watsi as well.
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I think there's room for both relative and absolute. Encode the absolute in the metadata for machine readability and display relative to the people for as long as it makes sense. We can go beyond 'it must be 0 or 1' when it comes to the presentation layer!
I purposefully use duckduckgo several times a year as my default search engine for several weeks because I like to support alternatives to mega corps.

Google meets my needs better and their recent power search class was very cool.

A little off topic but I have had more than a few fantasies about starting my own micro search engine. Text analytics and knowledge management in general have been an interest of mine since the early 1980s. What stops me is that if I were to invest my personal resources in this I would want tens of thousands of users getting value from my system every day, and frankly, I don't think I could achieve that. Gabriel gets an order of magnitude more than what I would hope for, so I hope that he is very satisfied with what he has achieved. Good job!
As I was reading this I was thinking "yeah, that's all great but what about the working capital requirements caused by horrendous retail deals" and then you brought it up. I think a shift in retail philosophy has to happen as online customer acquisition cost is still the white elephant that no one likes to talk about and big chains with high margins, long payment terms and "sale or return" deals are stifling what products can reach the masses.

If these terms can improve then that working capital requirement can drop and then you'll see a much greater impact on the market. I would argue that things like arduino are great for prototyping but they are actually making the electronics design for manufacture step harder as you are one more step removed from the in production components than you would be going down a slightly older fashioned route.
Thank deus for readability.com.
I just finished installing helm in emacs. Of course its something completely different. Always confusing when something open source appears that has the same name as something else entirely. Not that it matters overall.
http://emacs-helm.github.com/helm
The Fb web app was originally hailed as a triumph for web technologies, e.g. HTML5, which some believed was going to kill the app store model. Fb's web-centric (versus app-centric) employees would be susceptible to this view - they probably the move was viewed as being in the long-run best interest of the users. One can imagine an alternative outcome where competitive pressures forced Apple to upgrade its web application functionality to where the Fb app became not only competitive with native apps but, owing to its head start, shone as brightly as its first native app did in the app store.

With the benefit of hindsight the move was biased by ideology. The takeaway should be pragmatism over ideology and intellectual aesthetics, not the super-prioritisation of UX.

Note that around the same time, the Financial Times jumped off iOS and went pure HTML5. For them this turned out to be a good move - it is a delight to use.
Here I'll weigh in. Working with groups like Public Knowledge and EFF in killing SOPA, we were going to lose the Senate on PIPA until the President weighed in. We heard from Senate staffers who felt there was an arrangement between the parties until the President (through IP staffer Victoria Espinal) put out his statement.

The White House letter, as murky and contradictory as it was, represented a clear break with its previous unequivocal support for the MPAA/RIAA position.
Now if we could just get THOMAS into Github so we can upgrade that beast...
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I think you just did. Careful, don't look directly at the aperture!
It's not exactly a hidden meaning... if you know what Gangnam is, then the meaning is quite obvious and blatant.

Also, it says that, "He writes his own songs and choreographs his own videos, which is unheard of in K-Pop.". This is however pretty much the norm for YG, the record studio he belongs to.

Big Bang's leader, G-Dragon, writes much of the music and lyrics for the group, along with T.O.P.

Examples:
1) 38,354,253 views, "Fantastic Baby" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAbokV76tkU

2) 20,106,612 views, "Bad Boy" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qnV55LUFVM

3) 27, 084, 596 views, "Blue" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GRP1rkE4O0

Also, they don't write their own songs, but YG band 2NE1 has a video with over 50,000,000 views, but it took a few years to get there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_lSP8Vc3o
If you can make a case for why you need an absolute date at that level for a Pinterest item, then I'd be all ears. But for now these use cases demanding absolute dates for ephemeral social media content seem ephemeral.
I did it in an undergrad lab class in 1994. It took some fancy equipment, target data from published reports on particular sequences, appropriate cells, salts, and enzymes. And it took me about 25 lab hours to get it right.

But it wasn't hard. An undergrad could do it.

Maybe not in 1988, though. I was in junior high then.
You can just send a weekly email with three suggestions and clicking on one of them opens a web page which will select that cause.
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I completely agree. Always ask why. I think retrospectives are a good weekly thing to do, but it's difficult to do retro's for company vision type stuff. Ultimately, I think this comes down to a leadership thing. What the company is doing, the "vision", must be evangelized and communicated constantly and thoroughly. With that in place, it makes trying to answer the "why" a little easier.
Also have a mid-2010 that I use mostly for design.

Definitely noticed the artifacts at 10.8 - haven't seen any during work today after updating to 10.8.1 though FC
It's not exactly a hidden meaning... if you know what Gangnam is, then the meaning is ridiculously blatant.

Also, it says that, "He writes his own songs and choreographs his own videos, which is unheard of in K-Pop.". This is however pretty much the norm for YG, the record studio he belongs to.

Big Bang's leader, G-Dragon, writes much of the music and lyrics for the group, along with T.O.P.

Examples:
1) 38,354,253 views, "Fantastic Baby" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAbokV76tkU

2) 20,106,612 views, "Bad Boy" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qnV55LUFVM

3) 27, 084, 596 views, "Blue" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GRP1rkE4O0

Also, they don't write their own songs, but YG band 2NE1 has a video with over 50,000,000 views, but it took a few years to get there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_lSP8Vc3o
shuffling the deck chairs...
Ask HN: Do you have a ThinkPad X1 Carbon?
I'm debating getting the X1 over a Macbook Air. What are your feelings on the X1? Also, whichever I end up buying is getting a big fat linux partition.
ok, so Apple have an entire event devoted to the iPhone. How on earth are they going to fill the time?

Here's the new iPhone* It's a bit thinner and lighter than before. the battery runs a bit longer. it has a bit better camera and it runs iOS 6 which you've all seen before. er, thanks for comming...

* there's absolutely no way this will be called iPhone 5. It'll be iPhone 6, the New iPhone or just plain old iPhone - my money's on the later
I assume you mean GCD - Grand Central Dispatch?
Who cares? This is boring code. Save all the "it portends an open government!" handwaving for once the Obama admin does something _actually_ meaningful (in a positive way - starting a new war doesn't count).

Seriously. Much ado about a Drupal module that is used for people to petition the government to be patronized and ignored.
There's no value in dressing down trade-offs as being anything but ubiquitous, either. Supply chain and operational concerns constrained and changed how Apple products turn out, too.