skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is an interesting take. I feel like you have the relationship backward though. The taxpayer is investing in government. I am purchasing (renting really) the use of infrastructure and police protection.

Except it is compulsory, so it isn't even fair to call it investing. It is far more akin to the cliche of the mafia extorting protection money. You pay the mob, they keep lowlifes away from your business. You don't pay, you are punished, severely.

I feel no more allegiance to my government than I do my local grocery store. Actually I probably feel more for the grocery store because they are much better at what they do than the government is at what it is doing.

And I have some choice. If the quality goes down at my current store, I will take my business elsewhere.

I certainly don't think I should keep sending money to the old grocery store when I've moved on to a new one. And that is the way the law is written in the US. You pay taxes for the current year. It's not indentured servitude.
His misinterpretation is getting it handed to him and the conflict of interest stuff re: The Verge and Instagram is something else to consider. I wouldn't trust a news outlet with so many close ties to companies like this.
And unlike New Zealand. We are in the midst of a big fibre rollout, but don't hold your breath for getting anything soon. Stuck at an unreliable 3mb connection. And strangely, despite living at multiple location, ringing to complain always gets a puzzled response and a reply along the lines of: just up the road from you is a really fast connection.
Many startups accomplish the same thing via the performance review process. Equity is usually in a state of constant dilution, so each employee's total effective slice the pie can be adjusted over time, to a certain extent, by giving them bigger or smaller supplemental grants. I suppose the events depicted in The Social Network could be considered an extreme case.
Found some Mass. bonds (because it's my home state, so tax-free for both federal and state) yielding 6.43% just now, with expiration date of 2029-05-01 and with credit rating of AA+

http://massachusetts.municipalbonds.com/bonds/issue/914440KJ....

Also can also buy some REITs with annual high-dividend yield of 17% such as AGNC or NLY. These are a bit riskier due to fluctuating principal out on the open equity market. However, can mitigate this risk by owning ITM calls prior to ex-dividend dates and capture also run-up profits.
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And how would they make money by serving you relevant ads if they can't parse your email?
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I'm pretty sure I saw a library somewhere that could be purchased in both "raw code" and "commented, documented code" forms.

Which I can only assume meant they had the comments/documents and were intentionally stripping them out for the cheaper version. The difference in price was also actually quite significant as well, as I recall.

That, along with the fact that the person doing the purchasing is not necessarily the person who would be using the product, makes this IMO a particularly nasty sales tactic.

I've also heard war stories from Big Company folks about contracting out for a large software project, and per contract receiving the full source for the app, but none of the (particularly convoluted) build scripts or Makefiles.

Lessons Learned are why BigCo has a 900 page specification document including glossary of what the word "means" means.
The other two images are symbolic, not literal. One is a symbol of trust, another an image of a desirable place to live but is presumably not literally some specific place you are promoting. The feel good, pretty symbols draw people in. If you want to represent a contract, fine. But trying to share a sample instead of the idea of doing the paperwork is jarring and feels overwhelming and offputting. I used to make my husband read all contracts and fill out all papers. If I want your service, it is because you will spare me the trauma of piles of paperwork.

Maybe a picture of a building, followed by a handshake followed by keys in hand? To tell the story without words? But don't remind me of the paperwork. Find a way to tell me you are the person who will spare me the pain of the paperwork, because I don't fucking want to do the paperwork. That's what I presumably am paying you for. So show me imagery of how easy and painless this is, not imagery of torturous paperwork.

Just my opinion.

Best of luck.
As any gamer in the last 15 years will tell you: the Windows key is the bane of our existence. It's a classic case of know your audience and customer, because if you've ever played a video game on Windows and are now developing one, you know that you should be disabling that key.

You mentioned expected behavior, which is good to abide by. But there's also preventing accidents. Your users are imperfect. It's the reason big red buttons also get a follow-up confirmation dialog.

Now, I'd definitely like to have a conversation about whether there should be a setting for disabling that override. But as for the default: it's pretty straightforward. When playing a fullscreen video game, the number of accidental occurrences of that button press far outweigh the number of intended uses. Pick your battles.
Company: "We hire whoever we want".

Company proceeds to only hire men, despite women with similar or better qualifications applying. Company then sued for obvious gender discrimination, illegal in the US.
It is hard to tell if this is a serious or sarcastic response.

If you think Muni Bonds will stay at 6% for a lifetime, you're misinformed.
1) Government owned consumer debt is up nearly 5x in 5 years 2) Lately Muni Bonds have been swinging more than stocks themselves
3) Take Pimco Municipal Income Fund (NYSE: PMF) as an example. It's price has appreciated 7% over 10 years, TOTAL. Even with dividends you're looking at best 3% and at that point you've successfully managed to do nothing more than keep up with inflation.
Hi. This is my first mashup: the science outline page from wiki encoded as a JIT tree. Mashing itself is offline (written in Scheme).

There are around 700 branches of science. A bit less, perhaps 600, unique entries.
Michael Stonebraker's answer is that big data can mean big volume (and small analytics,) big volume and big analytics, big velocity, and/or big variety. The first three aspects fit the general usage on HN, while the fourth is his own addition, I think. He's writing a blog post on each one. The first post explains what he means by each aspect:

Intro plus the "big volume, small analytics" case: http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/155468-what-does-big-dat...

"Big volume, big analytics": http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/156102-what-does-big-dat...

"Big velocity": http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/157589-what-does-big-dat...

"Big variety": yet to come
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Microconf. No date announced yet.
The Amazon widget is standard, and being updated according to the currently selected branch.
And the Model S is being compared at less than ideal conditions by using the most expensive electricity in America.

At California prices it costs 6.5¢/mile, and at average US prices it costs 4.7¢/mile. When you use Tesla's Supercharger stations it's free.
adblock them away.

I logged in to Facebook on a friend's computer the other day and was shocked how it looks with ads. I don't know how anyone can use it like that.
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It should, make it meaningless, and thus it should be possible to talk about the various meanings like you talk about kitten pictures on the Internet.

What I have observed however that talking about God locks some people up. Sometimes in an actively un-responsive way. So for them the word is associated with a meaning they are running away from. And you can't talk about their meaning because, well they are running away. The is the circle I alluded to in my original comment.
I disagree with your lawyer.

A more likely explanation is that Legal didn't want to modify their very-expensively produced and widely-reviewed employment contract for some mere employee. And HR had you figured out as a troublemaker. :-)
Completely butchered. Thanks for the link.
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They'd add a subscription option for people wanting encryption.
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> the conflict of interest stuff re: The Verge and Instagram is something else to consider. I wouldn't trust a news outlet with so many close ties to companies like this.

What are you talking about? Have you read their ethics statement[0] yet?

In the world of journalism, that's a very serious accusation to be making without any evidence.

0: http://www.theverge.com/ethics-statement
It'd be great if the author wrote about something specific. This article contains little detail about anything that actually happened.
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The thing as always is how you define failure and success. Do all the founders of a startup that is considered a success make $10M? Of course not. In my opinion, that's where the "it's a lot less than 1%" might come from.
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> Here's another take that disagrees with their blog post -- and this one is from an actual practicing intellectual property attorney

FWIW, the author of the Verge post I linked, managing editor Nilay Patel, also holds a law degree, and previously worked as a copyright attorney.
I stand corrected. I use neither and for some reason hopelessly confuse Flickr and Picasa as being owned by the wrong folks.
If someone's directly using my content and getting paid for it, I want a cut. It's really that simple.
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Are you implying that <i>none</i> of your peers take questionable actions in business? If so, open your eyes.
I'm not buying JNK or ETF tracking bond funds but underlying bonds. If you are buying the ETF, you are not getting the best yield but at average the 3% yield for lesser risk due to diversification - which is kinda BS given the systematic risk we've witnessed over the past 10 years. Pick muni for high yield and low default risk yourself.
This is excellent advice. I dig it. Thanks for taking the time to respond!
So the subscription cost would have to cover the extra cost for not only regular gmail because they can't serve you ads, but also the extra manpower of providing encryption. A feature that they can will only sell to a limited audience. Sorry won't happen, no matter what utopian pixie dust someone is snorting.
>How many times a gun has ended in murderer's hands after being bought legally? That doesn't show up in homicide statistics either, does it?

Eh, actually they show up in homicide statistics as, you know, homicides.

>Human rights as popularly known are the global rights established by the UN and I am pretty sure they don't mention guns.

The UN has no particular legitimacy in the recognition of rights. Human rights are intrinsic, so to a certain extent they're subjective. Clearly you don't believe the right to self defense is a human right, but I think most people would disagree with you.
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Obviously the topic of the moment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4939882
Obviously the topic of the moment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4940146
It's all subjective, but that comment could be expanded to, for example, explain where the XML is assumed to be coming from or what kind of XML is expected. If the code makes no assumptions about those things, that is also something to write a comment about.
There's some commonly repeated (and likely even true to some extent) that ~60-70% of the cost of a software system is in maintenance. Which to me, sounds like if you're the contractor providing the system, that means 60-70% of the value is in the maintenance. It does mean taking something of a hit upfront so make things maintainable, but with the right billing structure you can be adding to the profits by Doing It Right as you go. It's certainly still a gamble though; you might not get the maintenance contract. You might be billing hourly and thus don't see any extra cash for your timesavings (and indeed, might see less).
Thanks for sharing a specific example. Could be an interesting investment. At the same time, you have to weigh out the other risks such as Mass. being one of the most in debt states in the country.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/state_debt_rank
This is a terrible idea. Hours clocked does not equal contribution. Founder vesting and 1 year cliffs exist for a reason.
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So, make them pay for the open source they use...
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As jtchang says above, a significant benefit of this method would simply be the opening of communication channels for voicing equity concerns.

Since the equity is dynamic in everyone's mind, it can be changed through discussion. If you think you deserve more in the case you stated, you could bring it up at a meeting and the equity could be redivided.
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Quit Instagram, They Said. They’re Selling Your Photos, They Said.
Hey there,

I was responsible for the 2010 version of Game On. We screwed up your price (long story) and will make good on it now. I know. It's late. Like in: Too late. I am sorry. Trust me - it was not done on purpose or out of neglect (well, I guess you can argue about that).

Anyway: Short of it is - I am sorry. And we will make good on it. Expect an email today (if you haven't already received it).
I haven't written a single line of Perl for over a year now and can't remember much of the language - and I am sure I would not even be able to understand my own code anymore!

Perl is a very handy and powerful scripting language but it should not be considered as a durable solution. Whatever is quickly hacked using Perl should be probably rewritten in a much more structure language, especially if you plan on maintaining this code.
>I wouldn't be surprised if at some point soon you won't be able to register a domain name ... without taking a licensing exam.

Who would impose such a requirement of licensure? Certainly not the government --- that would be a prior restraint on freedom of speech/press and therefore unconstitutional.
>The level of arrogance is too damn high.

I don't think I'm being particularly arrogant by pointing out your knowledge of my country is of the primary school variety. Even if you had a more average grasp of US society and politics, you still wouldn't know as much as an American. That's just basic common sense, something which seems to be in short supply on your end.

>And you avoided many points, like civiliant against civilian violence in the scenary of a civil war.

That's not a "point" at all. How does it relate to the discussion?
Probably even more likely is that they would be used on mobile.
Comments under the article seem to imply that most of the relevant code was somehow hand converted from (probably well commented) assembly to C which I only assume was done by someone who had no interest in how or why the code actually works, which seems to perfectly explain the lack of comments (or meaningful structure for that matter).
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It wasn't anger. I was genuinely curious to see what was about, and I don't have any problem with Windows (used it from 3.1 until XP) But after a long and windy work day with quite a lot of setbacks that line sent me right out.
Woah! That's not cool. I work for Mozilla in a completely unrelated capacity, but I'll try to follow up with folks and see if we can fix that.

Edit: Aaaand beaten to the punch by pmoz. Like always ;)
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Yeah, that's the concern I have. Instead of complaining directly about equity, people will complain about the number of hours, or start rounding, or start talking about each others' efficiencies, etc.

But I think it may be a step in the right direction. Simply stating that the business's equity is dynamic might be enough to allow more communication, which might help to dispel or at least lessen hard feelings and grudges.
To branch off of your comment, which is the best description of it, I think it should be noted that for the past two years this subject has been the most nominated topic across all of our events for both information and security officers (the company I work for empowers F1000 C-suite executives to come up with relevant material for their peers to discuss annually). For companies that are inundated with web analytics, feedback they're getting from and trends they're seeing on social media to sales numbers and any other quantifiable data, they're trying to tie it all together so they can make changes or create new opportunities for their markets.
Here's another list, sans product hype:

Unix command-line tools like awk and grep. Set operation commands are essential too (http://www.catonmat.net/blog/set-operations-in-unix-shell/)

Ruby/Python/Perl for more complex massaging and wrangling

Excel (yes, really) for quick stats and graphs, great 1st step in understanding what you have

D3.js for visualization

I've used R in the past, but I found I was trying to squeeze data into R models. D3 is pretty hard to grasp initially (I'm very much still learning) but I'm finding that it's helping me think through how to visualize the data I have, rather than just forcing it into one of a few standard charts.
Nice. A couple of bugs though:

* The close button on the intro note doesn't do anything on my iPhone

* Also on my iPhone, I can't see the whole "Who's the gift for?" pop up, and since it goes off the screen I feel like there's a button at the bottom that I'm supposed to press

And you might want to explain about the "TO:" tag in the intro note.
If you need something like this for your founding team, I think I'd reconsider the composition of said founding team...
"My understanding is that legal documents are written precisely to be as hard to misinterpret as possible."

Actually it depends on the circumstances. Sometimes you want to be precise and sometimes you want to be ambiguous depending on what you are trying to achieve.

Semi legal example: Let's say you are offering people email accounts with a web hosting service. You can be precise and say "you can have up to a million email accounts" or you can be less precise and say (believe it or not) "unlimited". If you say the latter you can then define imprecisely what you mean by "unlimited". If you specify a number you will box yourselves in. Same with customer support or a host of other things. Precision sometimes works against you. (Corrected I said the opposite before edit.)

Another example. Let's say you have a display of free utensils (plastic like at a fast food restaurant). You can say "take no more than 10 ketchup packs" and you will probably end up getting more waste then if you say nothing. In that case, precision works against you.
"Filtering spam for us and showing ads for them" doesn't quite sum all the benefits of a parse-able inbox, what about when Google Now notifies you about flight and delivery updates by scanning your inbox, and stuff like this: https://www.google.com/experimental/gmailfieldtrial

End-to-end encryption could be offered as a premium feature though.
I think it mostly is by not counting as much. In typical Objective-C code, you will find that only the UI is actual Objective-C. Also, many fields of Cocoa UI classes are 'plain old data' such as 'int', 'BOOL' or enum's. That keeps the number of objects down and decreases the amount of bookkeeping.

The GUI library also is smart enough to not allocate more objects than needed. For example, in a table, only the cells actually on the screen really exist, and all controls in a single window share a NSTextView called 'the field editor' that is used for editing text (http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/C...)

Finally, I do not think it is that fast. It is just modern hardware that is fast.
Prove it.

Reply here with a link to a scan of your State-issued Driver's License and national passport proving that your legal name is, in fact, "anigbrowl" in the next 24 hours or your account will be deleted and you personally (i.e., your legal identity) will be perma-banned from this service.

(Not really, I don't admin HN at all. But you won't do it either.)
I believe "hours clocked" was only one of the contributions included in the model.

From the article:

> "Basically, Moyer’s idea assigns monetary value to every tangible and intangible contribution individuals make to a startup, from intellectual property and relationships to time and cash."
The gray goo scenario requires self-replicating nanomachines, so not applicable to harvesters that can't replicate.

The problem of where the energy comes from for micro- and nanomachines is very tough. But if you can make the landfill harvesting work, no doubt they'd harvest the hell out of the electronics in an office tower.

Robot foraging and energetics is my area of expertise. Pleasantly surprised to see a cogent comment come up on HN, thanks and nice to meet you!
I find this thread really fascinating. I have a hard time imagining a more better apology from Instagram. They accept responsibility, there isn't a trace of hostility towards any of the people who 'misinterpreted' their terms, they are upfront about needing to make money, and they communicate (or attempt to) that they were never in favor of any of those kind of downright villainous things it seemed like they were in favor of. If anyone in the masses of angry Instagram users could be appeased by words, this is probably about as good as you could do at appeasing them.

However, judging from the responses here, a lot of Instagram users are unappeasable, and I don't think unreasonably. Their motives are basically unknowable by anyone not in their inner circle, so all we have to go on is their actions and their words. If your internal heuristics say that when it looks like a social media company is trying to steal your personal data/intellectual property, they probably are and will then lie about it after the fact... well, that seems like a reasonable heuristic to have this day and age. I'm not sure I buy into it unreservedly, but I wouldn't try to convince anyone they're wrong about it, either.

This whole event shows me (or at least, reminds me) that there are limits to what words can fix.
Not strictly true, guns were first developed as a better way to kill things you wanted to make dead at a distance, that could include people or venison. Handguns were expressly made to kill people, you don't hunt with a handgun.

That said when you own a gun you also need to keep it safe, and generally that means locking it up. You don't let your toddler play with your MiG Welding setup and you don't let them play with a gun. Is that a strange concept?
No need to be sorry for it, I probably deserve it for this comment. Of course, I've seen worse things upvoted, loathed or worshipped in HN, but don't mind for a few -1.

Even with what I read before getting out I knew it wasn't about platforms at all, but after that line I just wasn't as interested as when I decided to check it.
>We also deserve to receive the service we signed up
No you don't. They can shut the whole thing down and don't owe you a damn thing.

If you don't like the new ToS, when they switch to them and an accept/decline option comes up in the app you can feel free to decline and delete the app.