skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I said, the law isn't anyone's idea of a good first option. The law is where you go when talking to your neighbors has turned out to be useless, the lawbreaking is obvious, and the damage is great enough that you need to coerce someone into stopping. Also want to be fair here, - in general, I would not expect airbnb rentals to lead to this kind of dispute very often.

But the gov't wouldn't be interceding in the minutiae of a dispute between neighbors here, they'd be creating and enforcing legislation around minimum lease duration, which I think is a much less objectionable role for government.
Facebook Graph Search, now GutHub Search, whats next?
Every time I do something involving with timezones in Python I find myself having to figure out the API again from scratch - it just doesn't fit in my brain. Having read the docs for this it appears to cover everything I ever want to do in a much more obvious way. Thanks very much!
The sociopath is one willing restrict to someone else's choice for his own gain, or one who is willing to condone such behavior. Yes, that's what many businessmen or people in power do. No, it does not mean we have to like them or let them be. Mosquitos bite people too, and it doesn't mean we should like them or avoid making it harder for them to act on their predatory instincts.
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Those decimals are distracting and dont seem to have any purpose at this scale. Also it may be easier if you just put the $s in millions.
I appreciate the encouragement. What would be much more useful is some actual feedback. :)

I have baked in some of the niceties of dateutil into Delorean, such as rrule and parse.
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Without real privacy, it doesn't protect him or his users.
It'd probably looks quite a bit like pure communism.
Thanks for your interest in SpiderOak! Indeed we will open source the SpiderOak desktop client one day. We've been saying that for a long time, but we're very close. One of the reasons we haven't done so previously is how open source products often get spammed with copycat repackagers, like the VLC guy was explaining the other day.

I should also note that the crypto code in SpiderOak is in one specific module, and we have repeatedly paid for careful audits of that code.

Lastly, we have a new crypto product in the works which we will announce at RSA in February, which is 100% open source, and of particular interest to developers in addition to SpiderOak customers. Please stay tuned!
Do theme authors without the dual license make less money? I don't have the data on that, but it would be interesting to know. I don't think a split license actually makes a positive difference on the bottom line over full GPL on both php and js/css/etc.

I find Envato's licenses very limiting and authors have to play by their rules to be in their market place. However, I'm not against the split licensing at all, just wish authors could more freely choose under what terms to sell their works, such as pricing and what the terms are for installing a design on multiple sites.
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`git grep` within repos as well
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20-25% is about average for non-pension expenditures on police.

It's easy to lose context of just how massive a part of PA Philadelphia is. The city proper alone has more than 10% of the state's population (1.5MM to PA's ~12.7). Add in the other PA counties and you're close to 4. Add in the out-of-state parts of the Metropolitan area and you're quickly closing in on 6.

I've always felt safe when I've been there but given the sheer volume of people, I'd surprised they're not spending a larger amount of police forces.
Don't presume that people already know the story.

Here are a few links, to start with:

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/att-ipad-hacker-when-em...

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/21/ipad-hack-statement-of-resp...

http://cfaadefensefund.com/

I recall at the time this story originally hit (or soon after) some concern/speculation as to whether he originally intended to report the problem or whether he did so after thinking through the cost/benefits of using the data privately versus reporting the problem publicly. I do not know whether this is the case; perhaps someone else can speak to this more authoritatively.

Regardless, he reported the problem. Also, I think many non-technical actors and reporters in this have no concept of how quickly and effectively a very simple script could scrape that number of... I don't even want to call them "accounts", because they were public pages and set up in the vast majority of cases without the data owners' knowledge.

Once you have the proof of concept script, 10 examples versus 100,000 examples may be just the difference between a second or two's run and several (well, maybe many) minutes' run.

Hell, the phone could ring, and you hang up a half-hour later to find/remember that your script is still running. I'm not saying that's what happened; on the other hand, it easily could have.

P.S. Regarding that defense fund link, whoever's managing it should try a little SEO; currently, it's not in the top two pages of Google results against Andrew's full name. (I got frustrated and didn't look further into the results.)
We have an API and our maps are open for free for everyone to see. You're totally right though, we don't offer source code or data dumps, and aren't an open source project.
That's no justification for doing it on purpose.
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Ask HN: Price Comparison Startup
Hey guys,

I need your help with questions regarding the legality of crawling retailers sites for prices (not for competitive reasons). We want to create a price comparison app (trying to recreate the horrible experience of the decade old websites that currently do this) that compares prices of products across different websites. Naturally, I need to be monitoring prices and right now there is only few ways to do this. One is through API, which not every retailer has and is also very challenging to be trying to integrate API of hundreds, if not thousands, of different retailers.

The other way is to scrape prices from retailer's websites. And the last but definitely the best way is to create API that lets the retailers integrate into their system and send their inventory data to your database (which is what Google Shopping does). But the problem here is trying to partner up with big retailers and get them to use your API. As a small startup with no virtually user base to start out with, is this even possible?

My solution was to crawl their online stores and get the prices until we can get a decent user base going and then approach these retailers and ask them to partner with us and use our built API. By showing our install base and usage data, we won't look like students working on some side project. The question is, before we get there, is there any legal repercussions that we should be worried about? Crawling and scraping prices isn't really the most ethical way to getting data but it's not like we're stealing content but rather driving traffic to their sites and helping them make more money, right? If say BestBuy has a sale on tv and we can let our users know about it then that would be helpful for them. Anyways, am I treading on thin line here? Any other solution people with insights to this matter can think of?

Thanks,
BG
It's because timezones can be part of business logic. For example if you want to start trading at 9 London time, whether London is GMT or GMT+1 at the moment.
This looks great, and I think it's a really good price point. $200 is quite reasonable, IMO, for the kind of detail you guys are getting into.

Definitely going to consider this for future testing :)
Well, at the very least, it's getting attention, including yours. How many other startups are desperately seeking employees that you have no idea exist?
Is there way to simply get APK? Some people are not using google market, even if they are using Android.
I've read your statement about five times now. I still only have the loosest idea of what your dissertation would be about. Which makes me kind of curious!

If you have a link to the dissertation or would like to chat about it, my email is in my profile, and I'm interested in learning more.
Same thing for Windows Phone. Obviously, it's on every marketing material from Microsoft, but I don't see it as the killer feature of the OS, especially on WP8. The tiles have three different sizes, can be pictures or not, can be animated or not... The result is a mess. Highly connected and informative, certainly, but a mess nonetheless.
...and I thought to myself, "Well, that's not going to really help you learn Functional Programming techniques and design strategies"

That's where you went wrong, then, because it doesn't in any way rule out the possibility of learning it either.

In your initial response, you said "Maybe you should actually learn something about FP...". Let's make this clear: you don't know me.

Pro tip: if you have to make assumptions about other people, then it's possible to make a wrong assumption. In these cases, it's often better to ask a question than to launch into criticism based on assumptions.
Personally, I don't expect that any wrong-doing on JSTOR's part will come out of this, so while it makes sense to list possible biases in the report, I'm more interested in MIT's and the prosector's actions.
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Oops, didn't mean your directions but the OP's, of course. Just thought this thread was a good place for the answer and you had a nicely formatted pyramid.

And, for the record, I'm a programmer, think I'm reasonably intelligent, and still not entirely sure I get the question based on the description. Language is tough sometimes.
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> And, furthermore, it's very common for journalists to
> receive anonymous posts.

Publishing implies validation, at least to a certain extent. Otherwise media become nothing more than a fully transparent channel; there's nothing useful about that in this day and age. This prank (which doesn't resemble the physician example you mention in the least) shows two things: First, fact checking and double or triple sourcing appear to be a thing of the past. Second, on the internet, anonymous tips mean nothing. Even if you disagree that the former point is an issue, you'll have to grant the latter.
Looks excellently useful, good job. I must say the graph on the test page (http://beta.testelf.com/builds/share/0b78d05c4f5d11e2ab5a220...) is particularly wonderful, great use of D3.

Also, would be very interested to know if you have plans as to how (or if) you will overcome the issues you would have if you wanted to scale such a bespoke service?
Just to add to your list (Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation): Abelson also cofounded MIT Open Courseware, Public Knowledge, and he is a Director at the Center for Democracy and Technology. His contributions to free culture and technology are amazing.
But the gov't wouldn't be interceding in the minutiae of a
dispute between neighbors here, they'd be creating and
enforcing legislation

Every new law makes something that was previously discretionary either compulsory or forbidden. Do you trust the DoJ to enforce these new laws for the benefit of the guy with loud neighbors? Or do you think instead that they will be used to help landlords and hoteliers with deep pockets come up with excuses to chuck tenants and soak internet rental startups?

If you don't want AirBnB rooms nearby, (a) talk to them, (b) talk to your landlord, (c) move, (d) look on a map to see whether AirBnB rooms will be rented nearby.

Most people in SF, NYC, or the Valley don't even know their neighbors. A large NYC apartment is like a hotel anyway, there might be 1-2 faces you'd recognize in the elevator but that's it. These fears have zero stats behind them while the USG moving in murderers next door unfortunately has plenty of statistical backing.
How do Norwegians feel about the cost of their licence fee? Are people generally happy with the quality of output and services provided by the publicly-funded broadcaster?

I'm in the UK, and the BBC licence fee is approx 175 euros. Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark all have more expensive license fees. Obviously, the UK has a much larger population than Norway, Sweden or Denmark so the BBC gets more revenue.

Generally speaking, there is broad support for the BBC license fee. Given the BBC's long history, many people in the UK see them as a cultural institution rather just a broadcaster - which may sound strange to people outside the UK. Of course there are plenty of people who dislike the BBC in the UK. And then there are lots of people who like the BBC but are irritated by many of its programmes or behaviour.
I understand your point, but just because we all love Miyazaki films (the objective truth :D) doesn't mean we each don't have our own unique traits/interests/hobbies/etc. that provide a well-rounded cultural outlook.

I agree with your notion that in hiring one should maintain a good balance of breadth and culture fit!
This reminds me of gun control debate. The more features FB enables to dig deeper in the social graph, the more chances for people to shoot themselves in the foot.

Should we restrict guns so there are less accidents and murders with them, or should we trust personal responsibility, with the cost it goes attached? Is restricting even possible?

That's for you to decide, but a cost certainly exists.
Thank you for conceding they do indeed still exist.

Of course they don't exist in the same way. This is 2013. What you're describing is some sort of semi-mythical pre-WWII world.

Technology changes everything. TV killed small movie theaters. Netflix, etc. killed video rental stores. Amazon killed brick-and-mortar bookstores. Ubiquitous cars killed passenger trains, and meant putting the big shops on the outskirts of town made more sense than putting them in a smaller building right in the middle of downtown.

And guess what? If you live in a small, rural town, pretty much all those changes were huge net positives. (Presuming, of course, that you have a car, a TV, and Internet access.) Sure, you don't have a local theater anymore. But the local theater was the only way you could watch a moving picture of any sort back then. Now you've got 200 channels of TV and cheap streaming movies on a big screen right in your living room. That supermarket you disdain probably has 5x as many products as the old grocery store downtown did, including entire categories of food they probably never dreamed of carrying, and better prices to boot.

All that said, most of the small towns I'm familiar with have a grocery store within city limits -- and they're small enough places that means they are walkable, at least in the summertime. Indeed, every place I've lived since leaving my childhood home has had a grocery store within walking distance, even though I never even vaguely considered that a factor when considering apartments or houses.
They have a right to offer whatever terms they want, and you have the right to accept or reject those terms.

If you can't find a company that will grant you the service you want on your terms, you have the right to attempt to form your own company and find customers.

One thing you do not have the right to do is to try to assemble a mob and get them to vote a new law into place that would force the company to bend to your ideas on how it should be run. That kind of unlimited democracy is precisely the sort of tyranny that killed Socrates, and I say that is morally wrong.
It is pretty common for any news organization to embargo scoops to maximize their impact. They might schedule additional, related stories or or a special ad/launch campaign. These things take time and the newspaper will often work with the source/subject to make sure they maintain exclusivity. Startups might learn lessons on how to maximize initial launch impact by studying the behavior of news organizations.
I got 255. I'm the worst.
Steve Jobs threatened Palm with patent suit if it objected to no-poaching pact
I'm not trying to justify what they are doing, just get a handle on how much damage they could be doing by breaking the rules in this way, not how much damage they could be doing by breaking the rules in general.
One of the core differences between "videogame news" and "gossip news" is that the gossip rags don't rely on pseudo-sources to run a false story; they invent them themselves.

The few number of times I have looked at gossip stories, they're usually a paraphrases of copy and paste from a single shit rag like US Weekly, or whatever they're called.

And here we're talking about spreading false rumours about actual people, not inanimate product prototypes.
"I'm sure you realize the asymmetry in the financial resources of our respective companies when you say: "We will both just end up paying a lot of lawyers a lot of money."

Sounds eloquent to me.
If Abelson has ties to JSTOR and/or JSTOR involved personnel, his should disclose these as part of his reporting.

I was initially pleased with his choice, then subsequently surprised to learn of these ostensible ties in a sentence or two within some reporting or commentary that I don't have at hand, at the moment.

(So... if such ties don't exist, I am fully open to being corrected on this point. But, my recollection is fairly strong, if not specific -- in part due to the reinforcing nature of my surprise.)

P.S. I'll have a look for that bit of reporting that caught my attention, when I have a chance...
Because all the major theme shops are 100% GPL. GPL != free. Some other marketplaces would fall in this category like TF, but they are a tiny fraction of the size of TF.
The combination of datetime, date until and pytz is annoying, but its not clear from your example whether you're better. Why not try using you example to show many of the nuanced issues with computers representing time (that many don't know about) and how your API helps.

For example: is it 5:30 in Phoenix, Arizona?

Sorry, can't look in detail at your API - on my phone.
I will say that I have occasionally been burnt by using the litmus test named "Microsoft aren't that stupid ... right?"

Sadly, at times they have been. There is also something to be said for the proportional likeliness of ridiculous a story being run and the perceived ridiculousness of the associated company.
I was thinking JUST the transactional/retention emails as a service, which is what this seems like. the others are more on the analytics side (at least mixpanel is)
Or put more simply -- recurring events :)
Claiming that battery chemistry itself hasn't improved is like claiming that the physics constants haven't changed... scratch that, it is indirectly claiming that physics haven't changed. This seems like it's a few steps from a tautology.

If you look at this graph ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Energy_density.svg ), which is from a wikipedia section linked in the article, there are materials that hold more energy both per unit volume and unit mass than gasoline, we just haven't been able to exploit them yet. Isn't that the whole of materials engineering progress?
My understanding is that evidence of voting rings is acted upon. My suspicion is that the algorithms for detecting voting rings are sophisticated.

The practices you describe sound like the sort of thing voting ring algorithms would be designed to catch. I doubt those practices add much to HN.
You didn't? It's the only screenshot a section with W8, Android and iOS. Really looks like a representation to me.
Don't confuse a reduced number of jobs that can be replaced by machines or algorithms with total capacity or demand for human labor.
Or variations of AWS Secret
https://github.com/search?q=aws+secret&type=Code&ref...
I've always pronounced it "Lah-tech", though some people insist it is "Lay-tech".
The most interesting part of this whole Mega Crypto drama is if Mega would in fact straighten their implementation, or if it was perhaps made bruteforce-able by design.
In 2012, something remarkable happened at The Times.
It was the year that circulation revenue — money
made from people buying the paper or access to
its digital edition — surpassed advertising revenue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/public-editor/a-milestone-...
From TFA: "The games industry is the only one I can think of that will quite happily publish guesswork as news."

Yeah, it's not just the gaming media. The 4th estate is pretty much just a rotting corpse, and online media isn't any better (but at least it's free).

There is an awesome insider book about media manipulation: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-church/ryan-holiday-tru....
They're not opening anything, it's just that you open YOUR data to them :).
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As the current top answer implies, it's really rather easy to explain LaTeX to anyone who a) has some concept of a printing press and movable type and b) understands that computers can be used to automate manual labor.
Does this not turn it into a poll tax?
Not sure if that's the joke flying over my head, but I believe that's a typo, and should be Pb (i.e. lead) acid.
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Really frustrating to see such sexism.
I think turning off mouse integration in virtualbox helps with the tablet issues. I use virtual box for Photoshop and light wave 3d, and the mouse integration feature always upset how the program read the cursors coordinates. You just have to remember to use the keyboard shortcut to turn it on again before trying to move your mouse back to a host program.
And the douchebag of the year award goes to...
This was mentioned a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5096764

but didn't get much traction. Whichever/whatever side you might come down on in it, it seems worthy of attention/discussion in this current timeframe and context (Swartz).

So, I don't need any associated karma (e.g. going back to the earlier HN thread), but I'd welcome a discussion.
I have a precious "right" to complain to my government that monopolies are causing me to be underserved, especially since those same monopolies are often the beneficiaries of government assets (rights-of-way, spectrum, money from my taxes, etc. )

Don't see what is "morally" wrong about that.

I live in Israel, which passed strict regulations about contract term limits, number portability, service bundling, and even SIM locking (all devices must be sold unlocked by law). As a result, cellular service prices plunged due to competition here—not because they were regulated to be lower, but because they were regulated to compete vigorously.
I'm talking about a native 'Click to open' function. The article only mentions sharing a folder to make it visible from the VM.
Not sure if that's true. Typically you can't sublet rented apartment. Maybe with landlords agreement.
There are plausible ways to fix cancer, outlined in some detail, but they are so different from the present status quo of cancer research that the community does not pursue them. If it doesn't look a lot like a drug, good luck in obtaining funding for your research.

For example, WILT / OncoSENS. Which is to say turn off all mechanisms for telomere lengthening and work around the issues that will cause by replacing stem cell populations:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/10/accumulating-the-...

http://sens.org/research/introduction-to-sens-research/onco

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Further, even a robust cure for a specific cancer based on targeted cell killing (by surface chemistry or other markers) doesn't require a complete understanding of the cancer cell - you just need to identify a reliable marker, no need to understand why it's a reliable marker.
A hacker-with-a-heart-of-gold will write a script to harvest these emails and send them a warning message with a link to this thread.