skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as data standards go, I like Ethernet. I guess we all have our own preferences on how to do peer-to-peer. That's just the one I like the most. As for protocols and exchanging public keys, how about face-to-face or by postal letter? It's just a blob of text. Again, if the social networks involve only friends and family, why do we need to do everything over the public web? Does everything have to be complicated?

For networks with strangers, it's an entirely different ballgame. I have little interest in that can of worms. Way too complicated. That's for the geniuses who can create stuff like Freenet.

I guess I could look at the WASTE code, but I doubt I would find it simpler than the approach I've settled on. As I say, we all have our preferences. I like things very simple.
Hmmm. I don't know if its just me, but if I go to the Legal or About pages (though the links in the footer) while logged in, I get taken to the Welcome page.

Otherwise, pretty nice.

Will you be implementing a "Theme Library" (think Tumblr) where designers can share themes if it takes off?

I can't see a future for plugins if you want to keep it the "cleanest blogging platform."

Edit:

I just saw your comment where you said that you're not the developer - I guess you can't fix those bugs and address those questions...
I'll come back when they support Exchange via https.
Manager is a different thing from "agent." Agents get you jobs. Managers handle things like payment, accounting, scheduling, travel, etc., etc.

Trust me: nobody working as a developer can afford to give up the kinds of percentages of their incomes that would make it worthwhile for a potential hired manager or an agent.

It's like the infamous "buyer's broker" in real estate. It only makes sense if you buy enough.
A friend of mine, who happens to be a psychological researcher, wanted me to make an app for her team that would allow them to get real-time survey results. Her manager refused to talk to me directly and insisted my friend act as a surrogate, so I called it off.

At least one research group saw a need for this sort of product, and it would be stupid easy to make. Have at it!
Not that anyone reads newspapers anymore, but my local paper (San Jose Mercury News) is definitely guilty of this. Nearly every Apple product launch is front page news, and almost always glowingly positive. Other valley companies? Not so much.
This is all true, but if you haven't read Schmidt's patterns of distributed/concurrent systems, and you keep an open mind, you might find the approach has more value; "Abstract Factory" did more harm than good, but "Half Sync/Half Async" is pretty good stuff.
Bollocks. No university professor or researcher I know reads patents - we read journal papers and conference proceedings that describe the work in our language. Patents are written in legal language such that I can't even decipher patents written about my own work.
how much have you made off this game and how long has it been in the app store?
If the responses are actually anonymous (as they claim, but I don't believe it's actually anonymous in their database), it would be easy to generate enough false positives to spoil the system.
I agree. I don't know how it has climbed up that far on the list!

Perhaps the film companies have finally found a way to alter the minds of movie-goers.
The Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement was negotiated between 1985 and late 1987, and was signed in January 1988.

The language of the treaty hasn't been meaningfully adjusted in over 25-years.

Therefore when you are going through the process, you should relate what you'll be doing in mid-1980's terms, especially during questioning.

For example, something computer systems analysts supposedly do in the 1980's is draw flow charts. Call it that, because modern variants of that won't be on the checklist.

The border agents, who are all regular and normal people, seek what's specifically described in the treaty. So wise-up, and be prepared to hit the correct notes. Everything invented since 1987 isn't part of being a computer systems analyst under the treaty.

The border agents know this, and interpret the treaty to some degree under current circumstances. But forget about showing the border agent how much you know. You need to relate to what they know: the treaty, as written.
I'm gonna get voted into oblivion but that one left me grinning. Thanks.
Ask HN:  What are some good hands-on tech jobs?
Non-office tech jobs I guess is what I mean.
If nothing else this might help put the kibosh on the intensely annoying way Facebook users tend to use cutesy fake names so that you don't know who the hell they are when they comment on your posts.
From Paper to Product: How We Built the New Zaarly
Professional programmers intentionally don't read patents because the damages are more severe for willful infringement. You don't want to know what they say if there is any chance you might accidentally write the same thing.
I connected with makegameswith.us through high school. I first learned to program in a class freshman year.
Just one issue with that. If Microsoft is storing the hash, how does it know what the original password was and whether it was greater than 16 chars? If the algorithm is as above, then I just have to enter a password greater than 16 chars against ANYONE's username to be prompted for a password change and compromise their account.
Most HN-ers don't know anything of the sort. They suspect it based on confirmation bias and gut feelings, but they don't "know" it.
You should put a limit on your text boxes, I got a server error when giving it a really long title.
I'm not shocked that, eventually, someone stopped you and said, "Not all is as it seems here."

I completely agree. I mean, who is going to believe such an absurd cover story as a family moving around between countries and working and going to school and stuff. What did they think they were up to? I bet they didn't even get permission from their feudal lord before daring to be found walking abroad. Don't they know the penalty for being a vagabond? Get the iron hot so we can brand them as a warning not to abuse their fealty.

Next we can go and hunt down Paddington Bear, the little marmalade eating bastard. No one asks what he was doing at Paddington Station in the first place. It should be obvious to any right thinking people that he was nothing but a top Peruvian operative, embedded in the heart of London society to incite anarchy and loose talk.
Mozilla metrics team's Firefox Health Report
Very true. I tried my best to hit those bullet points but unfortunately failed.
Forgot password/username support. This is my 50th account, no joke.
You don't have to wait for 5 years to become an EB-2. You can apply for the green card in EB-2 the next day you join MSR/Google or any company. You can switch your job as long as you have a valid I-140 cleared by the employer. Although you would be applying a brand new GC at the new employer you will keep your priority date you filed with the first employer. Clearning labour certification and I-140 takes only less than a year.

AC21 is when you have an EAD and want to switch before 180 days of filing I-485.

And EB-1 is still an option, if you have a PhD. The chances with EB-1 is pretty high for you.
That seems like an awful lot of effort just to go work at Microsoft. Now maybe if it was Google, Apple or Facebook. Or one of those super-cool SV start-ups.

tongue planted firmly in cheek
Wired Interviews Mary Meeker
> Did you agree to the rules of the party before joining? Yup. One of which is: "Use your real name".

I signed up for Facebook in September 2004. I most certainly did not agree to that rule, because as far as I can recall, no such rule existed at the time. You may make the argument that my continued use of their service implies assent to any subsequent modifications to their terms of service, but that's an issue that would need to be litigated.
It has actually only been out for a few days. It was free for the first couple, and the app made it into the top 50 puzzle games in the US and onto charts in some other countries. Following that, I decided to make it paid. The numbers for paid downloads are still rolling in, but it looks promising.
'aklofas auto-killed question:

I do believe that is exactly what search engines do. Are they breaking copyright?

This is not a simple question. Huge court cases have been fought over this. In general, things that get Google off the hook in these cases:

* Publishers have the ability to opt out of Google

* Where Google creates copies of information from other sites, those copies are provided to uses noncommercially (ie, they don't make more money when you use their cache).

* Google uses DMCA Safe Harbor to avoid liability, which again turns in part on Google honoring opt-out requests from publishers.

* Google's use of the data is transformative, an idea that in part turns on it not being a direct substitute for the original.

These are not generally arguments that bode well for PadMapper, which is effectively trying to compete with Craigslist using Craigslist data and a better interface. Publishers generally want Google to do things differently... but when push comes to shove, they also really want to be in Google's index. The same is not true for PadMapper.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4521384
The App has been out for a couple of days. Apple's sales reports are delayed for yesterday so we're not sure how much Chris has made yet. While it was free it made top 25 puzzle and arcade games in 3 stores and top 100 puzzle and arcade in a couple more including the US!
People on HN have this view that the whole world is software. Reverse engineering may be practical and indeed trivial in software, but aren't for the circuits buried in an F-35. And publication is tremendously valuable for inventions that have cross-disciplinary value. Not many people working on artificial hearts would have the time or think to reverse engineer mechanical equipment used in a factory, even if there might be applicable inventions.
"stole" market share. You got it. "[S]tole" was just a figure of speech. And that is in fact what meant by stole.

re: scraping. This is something that has come before the courts a few times (I'm thinking Ebay and a few others; although it might have been called "crawling"). Do you think CL can win on a claim of "scraping"?
The name difference is just syntax, it doesn't make a difference what you call the person (a developer is not going to have a manager and an agent, but could have one person that handles a whole host of things for him/her).

"Trust me: nobody working as a developer can afford to give up the kinds of percentages of their incomes that would make it worthwhile for a potential hired manager or an agent."

I think you are assuming a bit much here. If you can get say 100 clients (programmers) to give 2K a year, you just made 200K, which isn't too bad. That might be < 2% of salary for most people who would even want an agent - if that person is a consultant, it could be 1% range.

Everyone keeps assuming the agent only gets paid during job changes, where I was assuming it was a career agent that was part of the team all year round and not just during job changes. Athletes have agents, paid a percentage, but don't change agents every time they change teams.

If I negotiate you a 5K salary more than you would have negotiated yourself, that 2K per year seems pretty small. Just spitballing the numbers of course.
I don't think these guys qualify to give advice to anyone...
I am not an American, although Canadians are, last time I checked. And anyone can lecture on open borders and minds irrespective of nationality, that sort of goes along with the concepts.
Winner Circle Training _Phase One
What's a "real" name? The one on record with the government? What if no on calls me by that name?
I tried to use the demo and it popped up the glass keyboard on my iPad. The instructions say "Press Enter" but all I have is a "Go" button and it doesn't work!
"Stacks up" doesn't mean it's a replacement, it means that given the size, price, and multifunction nature of the iPhone 5, its camera performance is worthy when compared to the SLR compared along the same metrics. I definitely find myself carrying my SLR fewer and fewer places as phone cameras get better and better, because there are a greater percentage of available photo opportunities that I feel can be done by the phone.
Sounds cool, I'll be interested to see try it out on launch.

Are you using Titanium? Wunderkit ran into a lot of trouble, i believe, partly due to using Titanium.
> Wait, wasn't RSS invented to replace mailing lists (aka news letters)?

Probably. On the server-side RSS is nicer in some respects - you're not sending out mail to old, disused inboxes, you don't have to manage subscriptions or worry about being blocked as spam etc.

One thing that I think might make email better is if people got used to the idea of "email apps". The idea that my inbox might collate stories from a given source into a scannable digest (like RSS might give me) seems like a strange departure from the traditional idea of what an email client or service is "meant to do" - present discrete, unmodified messages in the most transparent way possible.

For a social network it's clear that you'd need something like that, though - you'd need clever filters on your feed, thumbnails on images, possible integration with image-sharing services etc etc. Using email and mailing lists gives you a big head-start, but if you can't build on top of it then it can't take off like a dedicated protocol can.
What people forget is that Tim Cook played a major role in the success that Steve Jobs had when he came back to Apple. And they also forget that Steve wasn't perfect and made his share of mistakes as well.
Just out of curiosity, why is there an emphasis on getting the iPhone so soon after release (unless you are a developer who needs it for testing)? You'll have your phone for 2 years -- why it is worth spending 2 whole work-weeks in line to get the phone 5 days earlier?
why do best sales people make terrible VP sales? I heard this before but haven't seen a consistent correlation.
If my memory is correct, the immigration team at my company recommended that I cross the border at an airport. Apparently these kind of problems may occur more often at land crossings. One might speculate it's because airports process a much higher volume and are therefore more used to this sort of thing, but I don't know if that's true.

Another thing my employer's immigration team definitely warned when I did apply for an H-1B was to be careful about traveling while the application was pending. The TN visa requires non immigrant intent, and they were concerned that a border agent might interpret an open application for H-1B as intent to immigrate. They strongly recommended that if I did travel that I not volunteer the fact that I have an H-1B pending. It's interesting that MSFT started your H-1B case before you were in the US, and I wonder if that had any effect.
Hmm... didn't realize this was submitted before. Anyway, it looks like it's off the front page. Does that mean this post was flagged?
I understand your point of view. I didn't return to Canada for convenience though. I returned because McGill is phenomenal school. Moreover, I knew I would need to do internships during university. This would not be possible while under my mother's TN visa.
The problem with this private beta, as I see it, is that you've gotten a sizeable portion of your potential early adopters interested in the product; but now you just repeatedly frustrate them by keeping them out of the beta without even so much as an email update. I've been on your list for years with nothing but radio silence. You might have been better off staying in stealth mode, because now, whenever I hear the term "AeroFS" I just feel irked and disappointed. It's like you're trying to alienate your biggest fans.
The iPhone 5 has reportedly been jailbroken
Many of the emerging enterprise centric companies you hear about today initially got their start selling to SMBs/sole proprietors. Instead of targeting large enterprises from the get-go, start with small business owners and talk to them about their pain points and the issues facing their business. Odds are you'll identify a problem that you can profitably address quickly (enterprise sales cycle sucks) and sell later on to larger enterprises who have the same problem (if that's the eventual direction you want to take).

For example, maybe after talking to a bunch of pool cleaning companies you realize that there's a dire need for a phone app to track where cleaning crews are and what work they've done. They are more than happy to pay you since the app would save them thousands of dollars per year in various losses. After organically growing this business over time, you realize that other industry verticals with distributed workforces have a similar problem so you begin to expand and target larger businesses...you get the point.
Liquidity costs money. It has buyers and sellers. Obviously, those aren't terms I'm making up. I know you're not making up "injector" either, but that term is less precise.

If you want to sell at 505, an HFT can't change that. Place a limit sell at 505.

If you're not willing to hold out for 505 and want to sell at the market price, you're a liquidity buyer paying a premium (of some sort) for getting out of the market right now.

People love to point out this scenario where the HFT buys something at $9 that a human would have paid $10 for. They never acknowledge the fact that by doing that, the HFT assumed the downside risk; the HFT is now to some extent illiquid and exposed to the market. If the price goes to $11, the HFT wins, sure. But if the price goes to $8 --- which should be equally likely, else why sell --- the HFT is fucked.

Broccoli is delicious. Here's what you do: blanch it in boiling water, just like 20-30 sec, shock it in ice water, and then dry it off. Put it in a bowl, douse it in olive oil, shake some fish sauce into it, cumin, chili flakes, maybe a little sriracha or maybe some lemon juice. Shake the bowl up. Now grill it. Yum. Eat it with sriracha mayonnaise, which is the highest calling of mayonnaise.
Are there any HNers who are current users of the WeLL? I've read about it in books about 80s/90s internet culture, but it rarely comes up in online discussions. Maybe that's because a 2000 (or more? Has it decreased in population?) person community was impressive back then, but doesn't really have much significance now.
yahoo is even worse. I went to change my password from a very easily guessable one to a not as guessable one. Once I figured out a password which fit their stupid requirements (if my password is >20 chars I don't think it having an upper or lower case is going to be the kicker) the site told me I had successfully changed my password. When I went to log in however it would not let me log in.

Turns out yahoo had silently truncated my password down to 24 letters. No indication that this had been done, it was really only through trial and error (I had a feeling something was up, and my password isn't too much more then 24) that I figured it out.
Many people have lots of trouble finding even $10 jobs these days! Plus, those are the people who are most likely to sign up to be TaskRabbits. Furthermore, he can read, sleep, play videogames, etc. while getting paid.

I'd say he got a great deal.
In terms of overall capital - money - this should be self evident. Money is a proxy for resources. Resources including labor are finite. There are only so many resources to chase. Even if the market extends control to all the world's resources there is a limit on its growth. Any numerical growth after that means nothing but inflation.
Maybe put in an inflation adjustment factor. That would reflect how a movie rates compared to it's contemporaries.

You'd have to be careful not to cap a movies' rating just because scores in that era are more lenient though -- maybe pull movies toward an overall median based on their distance from a 2-3 year moving average.

So say we want the median score to be 50%. And the median rating in 2008 was 63%. Let's take two movies from 2008 -- one scored 98%, the highest score in several years, and one scored 63%. The 98% movie stays at 98%. The 63% movie score becomes 50%.
Disclaimer: I didn't create this app. I saw it on twitter earlier today, and thought it was a nice blogging tool. (I knew I should have just submitted without the www, otherwise the HN dupe checker misses it.)

Here's the other discussion from a week ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4521384

Thanks jrajav
Agree with your larger point, but your tone is a bit argumentative.

Also, civil disobedience doesn't mean what you think it means:

much like civil disobedience, you have no right to complain once
you are found to be breaking the law/policy and are punished for it

Civil disobedience is all about breaking the law in order to maintain the right to complain. "Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm
The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms
Where do startups store millions of dollars of capital?
Where's the smartest place to store operating capital in excess of one million dollars? Surely not in one regular checking account, right?
Here's a counter example: ARM.

In ARM's case, patents serve a valuable purpose: they allow a separation of concerns. The company that designs the microprocessor does not have to be the company that builds things using the microprocessor. Allowing ARM to focus on what they do best--designing microprocessors, and allowing say Samsung to focus on what they do best, manufacturing things, helps everyone. The patent in this case is simply a legal device that allows people to transact in terms of a design.

Also, looking at the outlier damages award from a patent infringement isn't really meaningful, in the same way that looking at the damages award for medical malpractice isn't really meaningful. Occasionally, you'll have a jury that awards someone $10m for a stubbed toe, but if you look at comprehensive studies of medical malpractice suits you'll see that: 1) most of the time the jury is right; 2) the actual overhead of the system is 1-3% of a $1.5 trillion industry, which is tied to a profession that is otherwise almost entirely self-regulated. People tend to focus on the damages awards and think "oh that's costing the economy money" but obviously damages awards just shift money from one place to the other. The "cost" is in the litigation fees and how the law changes peoples' incentives, and that's much harder to evaluate than just looking at a big $100m judgment.
jsonip.com close to serving 10 million requests a month
Apple's PR department really is an outlier in the tech industry and I don't think it's worth it for other companies to aspire to it, especially now that so many people go to online reviews to check out gadgets before committing to a purchase.

Making awesome products that has great reviews and having a frictionless way to buy online would pay off way more than throwing money at a way to try to steal some of Apple's limelight when it comes to product launches and culture.
It mystifies me how Microsoft could continue, with such a clear example from the competition, to fuck up such basic issues. This stuff with the retail stores is just one example, and one which doesn't surprise me at all. How hard is it to make your employees excited and enthusiastic about your products? Especially when you are on the cusp of an exciting new phase of products. Microsoft desperately needs every spokesperson it can get. Apple would never, ever, let this shit fly.

I'll tell you what. If anyone at Microsoft is listening, I offer my services free of charge to help you unfuck your business. Just fly me over to the States, send me on a tiki-tour of your business and I'd be happy to give you some pointers. No sweat.