skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even a charity has the right to do what they want (sans contracts).

The outrage is because they changed their possession and it's serving as a warning to other developers who are interested in developing on their platform. It's important to point out when a business is hostile or friendly to API developers so they'll know if it's worth their time to develop a product based on said API.
I think you've pretty much nailed it, although I would disagree with the ordering. I'd put Islam and healthcare at the top (not sure which is more controversial).
Anything which results in making the world an exponentially better place ;)

People seem to like hearing how awesome they are and what they are doing even if it isn't.
WebRTC is about direct peer-to-peer connections between web browsers. The real-time stuff refers to the video/audio codecs that come as part of the spec.

Persistence is handled by storing-and-forwarding your profile information to your friends. Privacy is ensured by broadcast encryption. If you want people unconnected to your network to find you, you could publish public profile information on a directory server (this could also be the status server that's needed for bootstrapping a connection if you're logging in from a public computer at the library or wherever).
Both the founders are alumni from my high school, so that's the connection that started us working together. I was one of their alpha testers, so I got 100%. Even so, I would say that 30% is more than reasonable considering that they provide the art and promotion. It would be easy to get lost in the sea of apps already out there, and their promotion really helped my game get noticed.
I'd like to see a quantitative study on the effects of ridiculous patent laws. Most HNers know that US patent law, and the entire patent system here is broken, but a quantitative study might be able to convince people who otherwise wouldn't pay any attention to the issue to give it some thought.
With regards to this project, I'm considering making a sequel and an iPad version. Otherwise, I'm pretty busy at the moment, but I have an idea for a bigger mobile project that I'm not ready to unveil just yet...
I've read countless stories similar to yours. It all seems like verbiage to me.
Your probability for Scenario 2 is very low to almost nil. Why is that. You are aiming for R-1 university but you are not confident of getting into MSR etc? And you can still switch jobs while your Green Card application is pending. I think it's called AC21 though I am not exactly sure on the exact terminology.

On a side note, H1-B is cap exempt for ALL educational institutes and non-profit organizations.
Craigslist has never sued anyone for reimplementing their 'idea'.

Craigslist didn't 'steal' the classifieds business, I recall no point in time which I could find the classifieds in my news paper copied verbatim onto craigslist.

Craigslist offered a solution which was superior to newspapers and built a business around it.

As to who holds copyright on the data that's a question for the courts that is currently undecided, if it was cut and dried as to who held copyright on the the data then summary judgement would have already been filed.

I don't think craigslist holds exclusive copyright on the data so in my mind they may lack standing as whether 3taps is allowed to use the data becomes an issue between 3taps and millions of other users, perhaps a class action suit is more appropriate.
For those who find the above so-called Grothendieck construction somewhat puzzling, here's a little motivation and background. It is the group completion of a monoid. The simplest case is the group completion of the free monoid on one generator. The monoid has as elements all the finite strings (including the empty string) built from the symbol x. Its operation is concatenation. Any such string is uniquely defined by the number of x symbols that occur, so this monoid is isomorphic to the natural numbers.

Its group completion must add an inverse for all elements. We will denote the formal inverse of x by the symbol x' with the relations xx' = x'x = 1 where 1 denotes the empty string. This cancellative concatenation is commutative because xx' and x'x both equal 1. Thus a string can be identified (though not uniquely) by a pair of natural numbers (m,n) that count the number of x and x' occurrences.

To see the connection with the sign representation of integers, add an orientation to the relations xx' = x'x = 1 to get the length-shortening reduction rules xx' -> 1, x'x -> 1. It's then easy to see that every string has a unique normal form that is either empty or consists entirely of x symbols or entirely of x' symbols, corresponding to the cases 0, +n and -n, respectively. For if a string is not of this form it must have at least one x and one x' element. But then there must be at least one adjacent pair of x and x' elements. Hence the string admits a reduction and cannot be a normal form.
Waited for the official answer. It's bad, there's no answer. As someone who started learning Titanium, this is really deal-breaker for me! Off to phonegap, xamarin, or native ...
It was 10 dollars for a month's access to a few MB of cleaned up csv historical option prices of a specific ticker.
And that's how resellers work - you pay exactly for what you want. Nobody's saying you have to pay 360000, like the other post implies.
Jorno — the pocketable, folding, bluetooth keyboard.
The reason, of course, is that they aren't actually answers, they're part of a desperate attempt to justify and deflect blame for Apple's royal screwup...

I don't know why people do this sort of thing (go nuts defending something obviously indefensible). As one of the few sane commenters points out, liking Apple's products, and even being a all-out fan, doesn't mean one can't be realistic about their problems. Indeed, well-placed and clear-eyed criticism will in the long run only make Apple's stuff better, and surely that's something any fan could get behind, right?

I'm certainly not an Apple fanboy, but I generally like Apple's products, and have even thought about buying an iphone 5 ... but now ... I'm not so sure (I guess I'll wait and see how things play out). Which sucks, because in many ways it's an absolutely delicious piece of kit (and in the case of the ipod touch, pretty much the only game in town). Please Apple, do the right thing, even if it means swallowing your pride in the short-term; if you do, I will happily give you my money...
Tonido looks solid. How come i have not heard of it?
Evernote for Mac has had word count for several months now. Click the "i" button, the popover shows the size of a note, and its word and character counts.
I can't remember which TED talk I saw but they discussed this very issue. It's alarming to think one of America's biggest export is Master/PhD students.
One dev to another, you're a whiny little bitch.
Is there any way to bump one's priority on the invite list? I've been waiting for at least a year.
Understanding what modern cryptography techniques can do is worthwhile for every developer, because it enables entirely different kinds of system architectures. A good example is the Tahoe-LAFS distributed filesystem: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/FAQ

I included links to definitions and further information about all the terms used in that series of blog posts. I'm definitely not an expert on cryptography but I'll be happy to try to answer any questions.
Meanwhile, creativity—far from being stifled without more copyright laws on the books—is currently thriving. There’s been a market increase in the amount of movies, music, and books produced over the last decade, as this comprehensive study done by CCIA and Techdirt’s Mike Masnick shows.

That's a poor argument for loosening copyright restrictions - it makes it seem as if the status quo is OK. I personally think existing copyright terms need to be significantly shortened, and that a legal challenge might succeed on the basis that Congress is empowered to grant copyrights for 'a limited time.' Insofar as copyright terms exceed the average human lifetime, they are effectively endless for all but the longest-lived members of society, promoting a creative gerontocracy.
How slow is whalesong though? I know people like to say that js is slow, but it's really only the DOM manipulation that makes it so.
First, he said he didn’t want to be “flip.”

Wow, a dick and a racist. Could Twitters' leadership get any worse?
1. The probability is low because the chance that I take it up is lower (these are two-sided decision processes).

2. The H1-B cap is not the issue. It is the green card line. Since I am from India (note: this would also apply to China) the wait is extremely long.
Well I suppose you could add android / ios comparisons for the Bay area. Also wealth distribution, taxation, and societal impact of technology.
Ok, but don't pre-IPO stock contracts usually prevent sales of stocks outside the company?
Those are the mundane ones. Almost all real numbers (except for set of set of measure 0) cannot even be given names, and are thus beyond imagintion.
Well, the question being raised by Costolo is, "why don't we know what the big picture is yet, are you just holding it over our heads?"

I've said since the beginning of these recent actions that there's going to be another shoe to drop (the last weeks' actions all being the first shoe). I'll say now that "the big picture" he mentions but neglects to describe is indeed this other shoe.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he meant it the other way (Scheme to CL) because I've heard a lot of Scheme people like Clojurescript, not CL people.
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This. And if you put just a tiny bit of effort into it and own your own domain you can switch providers at any time for little effort. A world of difference from the Facebook trap.
Then it seems to me that the first step would be to encourage more people to ride so that having turnstiles becomes financially viable.
Exactly right. Very few people want the hassle of running their own email server. It happens I am the kind of person that likes running his own email server. I run my mail server in such a way that it is appealing to many of my friends to host their email accounts with me. Many other people find their accounts with gmail, or their ISP or their business. These are ALL examples of the success of our decentralized email system. Individuals, small businesses, and large business can all enter the market, offer advantageous features, compete on price, etc.

Facebook is the opposite of this. I have no option to build my own site for facebook style networking. I have no option to subscribe to Google's implementation of a general social networking protocol.
Decentralized is not the same as self-hosted.
I did try out WASTE in 2003.

It seemed more like a chat client than something I could run any application over. It was more an application for doing certain defined things accessible in menus (the ones you mentioned) instead of being a generic means to create peer-to-peer networks.
Hello @calinet6, I've also wanted to suggest http://errormator.com - there is an excellent python client provided. It incorporates multiple features in a single package, exception gathering, integratted logging, slow query/request information.
According to this article[1], 46% of American PhDs in science and engineering were awarded to foreigners in 2007.
For 2011, I've heard 52%, but I can't locate the source.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870490560457502...
My guess is that they want full control. If you look at Apple it is clear that there are huge advantages in having this control. Not only is it possible to build a better and more streamlined experience, it's also much easier to monetize a Twitter that they fully control.
Dizorb's poster definitely got pwned by a false ad. But it's not like you have to look far to find real Apple ads from the 70s and 80s:

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/09/the-evolution-of-app...
It's interesting, really. In this specific case, I find myself stuck in a situation where maybe I'm an opportunity lots of people are waiting for, but at the end, no one takes.
The article is very light on details about how the "study" arrived at their conclusions and figures (I hesitate to call it a study, because it didn't actually test any hypotheses).

The report is published by a group that lobbies for "copyright reform that enables fair access to content", with a membership is predominantly tertiary institutes.

They argue that a number of industries are dependent on some "limitations and exceptions" to copyright law. These industries include: research and education, publishing, broadcasting, film, music, ISPs, and the performing arts. The industries currently employ some people, make some money, and contribute some amount to GDP. Their extend of this dependence on copyright limitations is not quantified by thre report and is quite vague (focussing mainly on quotation, citation, and critique).

It concludes that if Australia implements "better crafted limitations and exceptions", these industries can increase their job/income/GDP metrics, and reduce the amount paid as licensees of copyright protected works to foreign companies.
California’s first 3D printer retail store to sell $600 model
I'm a swell guy, that's why I don't get as much hate (?)
Capturing the Dimensions of Effective Teaching
"Protocol"
"Reference Implementation"
"API"

These are the highly encouraging words I keep seeing from Tent that I never saw from Diaspora.
The US Patent law, and the "entire patent system" are not broken. A lot of very vocal HNers like to go on ideological rants along these lines, but when pressed for specifics they generally cannot back them up (eg: they haven't even read the patents in question, or don't know the difference between a utility patent and a design patent, or even what design or utility patents cover.) In fact, I have yet to meet someone who opposes the current patent system who understood what patents are.

Anti-IP propaganda claiming that the patent system is "doing damage" by measuring the enforcement of patents against people will be good for ideological arguments but actually be pointless.

Because it comes from that lack of understanding of the benefit patents provide. Patents incentivize the publication of inventions so that others, who may not have been up to speed on the state of the art, can come up to speed and start competing.

They also disincentivize the need to obfuscate or protect your inventions using physical or technological means, which improves repairability and in fact, enabled the entire standard-component industrial sector we have that has allowed integrated circuits to be such a big part of our lives.

Without patents, technological progress would be severely restricted-- not because there "would be no incentive to invent" (a straw-man that anti-IP people seem fond of knocking down) but because there would be vastly less communication and understanding of how other people's inventions work.

And like Global Warming and "Quantitative Easing" and other nonsensical, anti-scientific, ideological positions, the proponents, rather than make or defend logical arguments for their positions, tend to use signaling like "most HNers know the US Patent law... is broken". You just presume your conclusion, and a lot of others do as well, which is why they can't make arguments and instead are forced to downvote or shout down those who make counter arguments. Since having a good argument (with well researched citations) is not a defense against downvotes on HN, your claim becomes self fulfilling-- anyone who might challenge the ideology of anti-IP with facts, logic or reason, is downvoted so you don't have to see them.

Which, ironically, is why I'm posting this here. Becuase I really, really, hate to see the single mindedness, and cheering that groupthink.

So, if you want to claim that the system is broken, feel free to make an argument, and feel free to account for the factors I briefly touched on.
(I work at Deployd) Our goal is first and foremost to generate useful APIs that you can use in your front-end, not necessarily to strictly adhere to the REST pattern. We do tend to use REST terminology when describing Deployd, and maybe that's a mistake that's causing more distraction than necessary.
True. Could be negotiated with company during the process perhaps. I know recruiters who have been given stock in lieu of fee by firms.
Without any regards to the stocks they are trading? Ironically, Mark Cuban shoots himself in the foot here when he complains about macro events dominating micro events.

It turns out to price an asset, like a stock, a wide variety of skills is needed. Some people focus on macro trends, like analyzing political events, oil prices, etc. Some people talk to management of the company, count cars at Wal Mart, etc. These are the micro trends.

And some people try to estimate the current supply and demand for a certain stock. That is what HFT does. So yes, it has "regards to the stocks they are trading." Just different regards. That's why specialization works so well. HFT worries about current supply/demand issues, and tries to estimate a fair price to set the market so that when the average investor comes in, and looks at a stock with a 1 cent spread, he is going to get a fair price. Over the long term, people who analyze micro and macro factors will trade with HFT, which will then force the algorithms to change the stock price to reflect their views.

Is an arms race to shave milliseconds off of trading times the most important thing in the world? Absolutely not. But is gaming the Apple app store to get your mobile app higher in the rankings any different? At least with HFT, milliseconds do matter in more situations than you can imagine. If one day you buy a stock that had bad news announced just milliseconds before, and HFT did not update that quickly so you paid a price way, way too high, you would be upset. Again, not the most important thing in the world but it does help.

The millisecond thing is highly overrated. Anyone in the industry knows that it only matters to a small degree…understanding supply demand and adjusting accordingly is the most important skill. That's why the most profitable high frequency firms don't care about what millisecond they execute in…that is one of the great ironies of this--you guys are concerned about something that not many other people who actually do this for a living are concerned about. But you guys latch on this minor point as the major one, and that is a mistake. Do developers worry about how quickly their apps load? Yes. Does it mean their product will be a success? Not necessarily. That is the same thing here. HFT shops work to make sure they aren't too behind, but focusing on that aspect is just trivial compared to the actual work they do.
Look up nonstandard analysis. It is a formalism that can define calculus, but doesn't have any practical difference on physical computations on real world entities.
Developers claim Safari in iOS 6 breaks Web apps with aggressive caching
Help with Coding in return for Financial Modeling
Wanted to see if anyone on HN could offer any help with a noob learning to code? I could help teach basic/complex financial modeling in return.
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Ask HN: Best Android (4.0+) App for Browsing HN
So I've been looking for a good HN Android app, but there are like 15 different ones in the Play Store, and all of them have a decent (100+) number of users. I tried a few and they all had various issues (connectivity, doesn't support logging in/commenting, etc.). Can anyone recommend one that actually works and supports commenting? I've just been using http://ihackernews.com/ in Chrome until now.
Sigh, antitrust is a dead end. It might have been possible to argue prior restraint if Craigslist had stuck with their silly 'we own this' clause but they didn't.

My guess is that any judge would say "Can anyone else make a classifieds site?" and "Does Craigslist interfere with anyone on their site using a different site?". Since the answer will be 'No' and 'No' thus they don't have a monopoly.
Technological advancement (eg: music software, cheap HD cameras, etc.) and significantly better distribution platforms (eg: the internet) can account for an increase in production... they need to account for that, otherwise its kinda nonsensical to say what they say.

But then, it seems this is ideologically driven from the beginning.

It is much like the "studies" in the 1990s, published by microsoft (and you see them now from google) that say Microsoft (or android) is winning. (despite, for instance, Samsung never giving sales details, and when they were forced to by the recent lawsuit, it turned out they were pitiful... so you have press claiming huge sales to further and ideological position that "Android is winning" (and thus "open" works, even though Android is no more open than iOS) using essentially made up data and then other sources repeat it to the point where large numbers of (frankly, uninformed) people believe it.

This is how propaganda works.
No. The antennas are much smaller than the length of the phone.
The answer lies somewhere between http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait-and-switch and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-up_problem.
There was a dead baby found at that house.

local news story about it:
http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/detroit/SOURCES-17-month...

thread discussing it vs that google map
http://www.detroityes.com/mb/showthread.php?13987-Baby-Zyia-...
It should be noted for non-mathematical readers that a group has a single operation called multiplication, and the multiplicative identity is called 1.

The natural numbers form a group with "multiplication" being addition, and "1" being 0. In which case the Grothendieck construction on the natural numbers gives the integers with addition.

If calling the basic operation multiplication instead of addition is confusing, remember that one of the inspirations for group theory are permutations of a set of things, which can be represented by matrices using matrix multiplication to perform the permutations.
Is aerofs java based?
There is little to compare. Tent is a protocol. Applications need to be built to use it. Diaspora is an application with an unspecced, intertwined federation protocol.
"But unlike a technical interview, give the candidate a few days’ time to come up with a plan. This will involve researching the market, doing some preliminary analysis and would require some back and forth for the candidate to understand how your product would fit with the market." - why would good sales candidates be more likely to want to spend days preparing for an interview than good technical candidates?
Rotation is multiplication. Translation is addition.
The proposal I put forward is far simpler than the kind of engineering that goes into making Facebook work. You're confusing novelty with complexity.

There's nothing complex about taking some data, encrypting it, and sending it to another computer. P2P/F2F public-key cryptography networks have been around for about a decade (see Justin Frankel's WASTE http://waste.sourceforge.net/). Putting this together with some advancements into an unhosted browser app is not a huge leap. The problem isn't going to be the technical complexity, it is going to be the UI and slow upload speeds.

The business model for this kind of network is going to be the same as the business model for BitTorrent - advertising on public directory web sites.
I think inflection point would be determined by:
a. Funding - I mean, you need to pay these guys a bunch. Equity can get you only so far
b. Stage - I think hiring a stellar VP of Sales with a half-made product is not going to play out well.

any other ideas?
Sure. What is your background, and what do you want to achieve?
(I assume you have a quant finance background and want to implement some sort of algo trading process). I have some experience with MATLAB, Python, C. Choose your poison. :-)