skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the PHP side of things, but I am not sure how an original CSS file would fall under the linking or derived provision of the GPL.
Entirely different budget. This is the General Fund which doesn't include the school data.
".. why did you put it out there for others to see?"

I've noticed this argument more often w.r.t FB and other such privacy issues. I think it's flawed.

I joined FB back when it was closed. In my mind I wasn't putting anything 'out there' for the world. The first time they made things public and started messing with the default privacy settings I was worried but gave them the benefit of the doubt. Then the cycle repeated with new features and settings, which were altered from their previous states. From that point on I realised they didn't actually care about privacy the way I understand the term and they've gone on to 'open-up' more and more (rather aggressively in my view). What used to be hidden (or at least you thought it was) essentially becomes public at some point in the future.

Had I known this was the direction FB was taking I would have treated it as a public site from the very beginning. Twitter on the other hand was public from the beginning, so my interactions there have been different. I think it's unreasonable to expect that Joe Bloggs out there can get his head around what's public/private on FB. Even if they do there's no telling what might change in the future.

Of course, I could leave FB but then I'd lose touch with people. So now I leave my profile alone, hardly ever 'like' anything and generally try and limit what I do there. I'm sure FB still gleans plenty of info about me from whatever my friends do (i.e tagging photos, connecting address books etc).
It seems rather fallacious to suggest that anything legal is moral when it comes to business.
Full disclosure -- I work here, and this is a really exciting time for us! We have so many things on our radar that it feels like we're just getting started. I'd be happy to answer any questions people might have.
sorry man you completely missed the point.

germany is socialist. when you go to university, and you do something you are expected to do it for free. all the research is free. you attend university for free.

the flipside of it is that you are expected to give 50% or more of your salary for everyones and your own benefit. you have no say in it whatsoever. you cannot choose to have insurance, it was chosen for you. you are not supposed to get rich. when they wanted to get indian engineers to germany the indians said what do we get? and germany said, just the opportunity to work for us should be enough. It should give you a hint on the mindset.

i had this discussion with one of my professors, and he said yes. his salary is low, but the positive side is that he research anything he wants. he doesn't have to say what the industry wants him to say, because his funding depends on it.

it has good sides, and it has bad sides. of all the things I said, you chose to pick on the open source side of it. really.... ?
I use Freshbooks to manage time tracking as well as invoicing, and client/project management. I don't use the timer, I just make a mental note of the time I start working on a task and then fill in time spent when I finish.

When I first started freelancing I would occasionally forget the start time, so I'd make an estimate that I knew would actually be less time than I really spent. By doing this I'd earn a bit less than I should have, so it's kind of punishing myself for forgetting. Now I never forget my start time :)
AngularJS is too humble to say you’re doing it wrong
Oh wow, that's a lot of dependencies. I'll give it a shot, thanks!
Paper.animate.js
"Members of the MIT community can suggest questions for Abelson’s analysis via http://swartz-review.mit.edu "
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So you are arguing that you made something public on facebook, but you didn't expect it to be that public? It looks like people who reject/don't use facebook due to privacy concerns do so because they don't understand the implications of what they put there. Personally, if I were to be concerned about privacy, I'd just make some research to understand what is and isn't public and how to use the product overall, but I suppose one could be pissed off at facebook for not being clearer about who can or could see what you put in there (even though they constantly try to improve this). Either way, the argument "I don't use facebook because I'm concerned about the data they extract from me" is flawed and irrational, because facebook won't know anything you don't explicitly tell to it. I still hear that argument from some people every now and then and I can't help but think that they just don't understand and did not want to make an effort in understanding facebook.
>it is still the responsibility of whoever is able, to protect them, even against themselves.

I think this is a philosophy you will find a great level of disagreement with. The ignorant should be protected and informed, the stupid, notsomuch.
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Brian, I can't quite seem to grasp what you're really trying to say here. It sounds (to me) as if you're trying to justify the ubiquitous position of entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs that 'I need to spend a lot of time planning and building before I launch'. I get it...it's scary as hell to launch something that is half-baked and may not feel like your proudest moment.

Some constructive criticism - I, nor you, can comment on your user experience, because you and I are NOT the user. I'd love to hear more about "Sheri Foxton, who can't get enough of the app" (made-up name and story). Comments like "Our beta product looks and acts amazing" and "two of the most talented UX/Marketing guys in the city" make lean advocates like myself cringe. Lean is about getting close to your customer, and at no point do you ever talk about how you're actually hitting the streets. Your Appstori video is cool, and is exactly what "lean" is about - asking potential customers if this is something they want/need. However, there are two things that I just couldn't get past: (1) Your video talked about YOU (Find Your Lobster company) way more than it did ME (the person who wants to find a date). (2) I'm not sure if your UX buddies explained the psychology of user experience (the UI looks great btw!) but basically UX solves one problem - user frustration. If you have no frustration to begin with, than UX means nothing. MVP's are all about creating an app (which will inevitably include some frustration) and then adding features and interfaces which reduce that frustration.

Anyway, good luck!
Why isn't the WordPress Foundation up in arms over WordPress.com? They sell commercial themes[1] that I can't seem to find GPL copies of.

Are they turning a blind eye to the company that writes the checks for the WordPress Foundation, or has a special exemption been carved out for them?

1. http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/sort/premium/
+1. Love this explanation!
The irony is that, if they weren't busy designing Portal maps, they'd have enough manpower to develop their product.
I think what the parent is pointing out that P(male, 20-30 | played through the level) is higher than the existing P(male, 20-30 | applied for job)
As a developer recently turned project manager I've come to learn a lot about planning and documentation. I understand the reluctance to plan, and to create project documents at the beginning of a project.. but there are good reasons.

One of the key was to create an environment where developers are free from distraction and able to efficiently develop is to have someone plan, and to communicate.

Here's my (somewhat brutal) response to your article: http://beardedinventor.com/blog/2013/01/23/plans-dont-kill-p...
This is just fascinating, nice work!
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Thanks for the advice, it makes sense. However shouldn't the choice be between a feature and a product as they could develop into a business? You can't just make a business like a product, it takes time. A feature/product evolves into a business since no one can be profitable from launch day.
There's nothing obscure about this. This is basic secondary school math.
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I work in BI and data analysis and this is my personal definition: traditionally, companies have mined their own internal data. Cost to sales, balance sheets, customer surveys, top sellers... Etc.

Big data are defined as those data external to the organization. My definition of big data is to also look without as opposed to only looking within.
>Of course FB is trying to destroy this as much as possible by controlling what you see of what people post.

Because the alternative brings the wingnuts out. The more Facebook lets people see, the more they get castigated for doing what the entire freaking purpose of a social network site is!
> But producers produce products for consumers to consume.

Not necessarily. You can be a producer for yourself. I think the GP is arguing that technologies like 3D printing and practices like home gardening will flourish in the near future. Rather than buy stuff per se, people will buy equipment and tools that allow them to produce for themselves the stuff they would have bought.
id Software makes its game engines free when their technology gets dated, but the artistic/creative content remains copyrighted. They do this by having a copyright "airlock" interface between the executable and the game data (WAD/PAK/PK3/whatever files). The lesson to learn from this conflict is that if you run an open-source project that encourages creative or artistic content add-ons that may remain proprietary, it's a good idea to establish a rigid copyright airlock between the free stuff and the creative stuff.
Tesla, who presumably know a fair bit about this, say that battery energy density has been improving at a rate of 7-8% a year. http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4370061/World-on-cus...
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To add to that, the Philadelphia School District is completely separate from the municipal government: its funds come from separate taxes, and (since 2001) it reports directly to the Governor, not the city government.
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A distinctive work is just a consequence of intellectual superiority.

My problem is that I am very lazy. The actual work someone can make is F * S, where the F is your intellectual power, and the S is how much you have moved towards your target. If the S is close to zero, being a genius does not help. Actually, being a lazy genius does help being at some decent level even without putting too much effort, e.g. when you have the same or better level of expertise as your average colleague, even though you have invested an order of magnitude less time in studying than them, and don't even have a college degree becaming a boss of those who do.
What would you say is the biggest difference between a product and a business though? Is a business just a company with a lot of successful products? Following your terminology, I'd say people create products and if they are successful turn into businesses. I totally get what you mean by features though and sometimes I wonder if tackling these tiny problems with full out services is a legitimate business strategy or just a fad.
The orators in ancient Greece and Rome had a taxonomy of oratorical styles, from plain to ornate, and recognized that you could be successful in any style, and that certain styles were better suited to certain contexts.

Others are saying that the purpose of oratory is to communicate, but I would say the purpose of oratory is to persuade. Cicero has some complicated sentence structure, but if you can follow it, it delights the mind and just gets your blood moving.

So perhaps what you're saying is that Jobs was more like Lysias than Antiphon.
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From the trailer, this looks like high quality stuff. I wonder what their budget was! They certainly got my attention.
There are customers left behind
WordPress.com doesn't distribute the source code of those themes outside their own organization.
I say this partly in jest but... it's nice to see a lean startup using its limited resources correctly by creating levels for Portal 2. For all I know, this could've been an employee's pet project, but if not I'm not sure I see the value.

Also, the jobs homepage lede is a little grating:

"We're seeking brilliant people ..." [Click "I'm brilliant" to continue]

Because who doesn't think they deserve brilliant people? Nice employers and a good corporate culture are obviously very important, but can't it be taken too far? I think, what it comes down to, is that I don't like seeing a company's ego on display so brazenly, especially when they're a startup which still has a lot to prove.
My stock comment on the subject originally posted on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3429906

1) MVP != half assed, cheap, shitty product. It is exactly what it says: a minimum viable product, key word being viable. An MVP for a mission critical application or a cutting edge piece of research isn't going to be cheap or easy, because it needs to be viable.

2) The cycle of expectations that your product needs to be as feature rich as your competition on day one leads to what Eric Ries calls the large batch death spiral where it always seems like a good idea to add that one last feature (I've been there, it's painful, and really difficult to pull out of).

3) RE: fear of ruining your reputation if your MVP isn't shiny enough-- good news: no one knows who you are when you launch, so you have nothing to lose. Don't launch your MVP in the press, court early adopters, listen to your customers, and focus on building value until your product kicks the competition's ass. If you hide from customers out of fear you take the biggest risk of all: building something no one wants. Even if you have the best product idea in the world, the only way to know if the features you add are having a positive impact is to measure the behavior of real, live, human users.

Unfortunately I think what we're seeing is the lean startup backlash where people use the terms but don't really take the time to understand what they mean. The Lean startup movement is a powerful set of lessons that can empower entrepreneurs and save us from wasting our time and effort building the wrong things and chasing the wrong metrics, but maybe some of the lessons just have to be learned painfully through experience.
And how would one suggest this be implemented with WordPress?
From what I've seen, codeable.io's business model seems to be "get lots of blog posts on the HN front page".
data point: I started learning Python/Django 4 months ago (after a 20 year break from programmiung). Took me 40 minutes to solve. I'm not yet fluent with syntax so I had to look up (and still managed to mangle list processing syntax and was slow to interpret error messages related to accidentally swapping my variables for size of triangle and the list. My logic was fine once I got got the syntax down and swaps corrected. So your test would have caused me to be weeded out, I guess.

Had you asked me to pseudo code it I could have done it in less than 10 minutes.

Note, however, that learning web development requires learning many different pieces in addition to Python, so I simply haven't had the time to thoroughly learn all the syntax of any given piece.
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Hate to say it, but don't really have much of a life outside of work.
Rob, rubeng, this is fantastic insight. It sounds like you have to start small to learn the ropes however ambitious you are. i.e. even if you want to build a SaaS app, if you've got no experience, you will likely fail.

So, if you're new to development, it's probably best to build small products (wp plugins, niche sites etc.) to build your portfolio, earn a little cash and more importantly increase your knowledge and experience. Amy, I'm not sure you would agree with this but I'd love to hear your views.

Aside: Rob, you mentioned that outsourcing is a continuum and something that needs to be learned. Is it possible that some people just get lucky with a great outsourced developer? For example, you've said on various podcasts that you're an advocate of VAs but have you had more than 1 or 2? Presumably, as soon as one works, you stick with him/her - perhaps that's luck rather than learning?
Lately there's been quite a development in the area of molten salt batteries, they look promising:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_battery
He is 'outed' in meatspace by his cyberspatial identities trough the irresponsibility of FB and himself, and all of the other none the wiser users enabled through this product to harm themselves.
In this case, 20-30 year old males

This perfectly encapsulates my unease with this kind of recruiting/self selection approach. I get that culture fit is important, but I also don't like the sort of groupthink and monoculture that you get by just hiring a bunch of people who are all into the same narrow pop culture niches.

I'm guilty of this kind of monocultural preference myself. I used to joke about starting interviews with "What's your favorite Hayao Miyazaki film and why?" although I never actually did it.
Selling software and data systems to lawyers is actually a huge business, there exist multiple billion dollar businesses selling to lawers ranging from legal reference systems to machine learning discovery tools.
So I've read this and I'm unclear as to why Envato and not the other marketplaces and commercial theme shops?
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I find parallels with the irreducible complexity intelligent design argument. Lean startups are oriented toward the evolutionary approach, where as fat startups are attempts at intelligent design.

On one hand, evolution demonstrates that small changes can have beneficial effects and building on top of them can lead to whole new paradigm shifts. On the other hand, intelligent design should be able to trump evolution. Humans can design a car or business from whole cloth, one that is not composed of lesser incremental changes but requires each part to make the other parts useful.
Sorry, I should have added a final point that I made in another post: "Interested in" is not interpreted by everybody as "sexual attracted in". I'd be willing to bet that in Iranian culture, it's quite common to say you are interested in being friends with men, and it is not viewed as homosexual.
To me you are potentially a psycho pervert serial killer. Possible — why not?
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The perfect mystery launching page?
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This doesn't make sense to me because the people who purchase these themes are not in the WP organization. What's the difference between literally giving you the source and allowing you to use the source?
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It's not "How to use Photoshop in Ubuntu", it's "How to use Photoshop in a VM"
[disclaimer, I work at one or more of the places commercializing these systems]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
http://www.ted.com/talks/donald_sadoway_the_missing_link_to_...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-ion_battery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-sulfur_battery

Seeing how much progress is being made extremely rapidly on getting these types of technologies into the marketplace, the idea that the last five years have been stagnant is difficult to believe.

Unless, of course, all battery research was stagnant under Bush? I suppose that's possible, and what we've seen is the standard 5-10 year research backlog starting to catch back up to a lack of funding for oil alternatives.
"Interested in" doesn't imply "sexually attracted to". If you are interested in creating friendships with men, they you will mark "Interested in men"
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Ask HN: Did financial crisis ever hold you back to release your product?
I am just thinking out loud. I have been struggling to come up with own idea/product/site. Out of many reasons, one of the reasons that always held me back was that I always thought about my family.

I quit 9-5 slavery a year back, till then I have been working as a freelancer, providing consultancy and working with pals in their company. As it's expected there were some tough days during the course. I had to think about my family first rather than dreaming about my next big idea.

To cut long story short, how did you cope up this situation beside getting investment from a VC(Being a resident of a non-US country its not easy either)? Does this mean I can never be an entrepreneur ?

Your thoughts please?
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The High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism - report on Jan 21, 2013
Businesses can pivot. Products can't.

IIR, 37signals originally built websites (or something like that). They pivoted the company into SaaS around their internal project management solutions.
Effectively closing the source with a loophole and removing user choice. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but it knocks the "for the good of WP users" argument they use down a few pegs.
Initial thoughts:

Way too much stuff going on. Why are you forcing my scroll to be messed with? Most sites that have *ninja in the name I immediately think of as immature. On /browse/ you have just WAY too much javascript happening. I'm tethering on a 3G connection on a train right now and it took > 30 seconds to load everything.
Something illegal isn't necessarily immoral either (see Pot legislation).

Morality is a mix of individual belief, faith, and community norms. My point is that what people find immoral here is pretty specious and of a rather isolated community.
> I know a lot of people will call us stupid for doing so, but I'm also convinced that the BBC will lobby (or whatever they need to do) for changes to the licensing laws once the UK officially is out of the economic danger zone.

I'm not entirely sure where you've got this idea from, but you do realise that the bulk of the BBC's funding comes from the licence fee[1], and that TVL (the organisation that sends nasty letters through the post if you don't have TV[2]) is part of the BBC[3], right?

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Uni...

[2] - http://www.bbctvlicence.com/

[3] - http://www.televisionlicence.info/tvl/who
Why? Too busy or just haven't found something to focus on?
Is this a new trend? Check inside.com .
The source never gets distributed to the end user, so there's no violation of the GPL. (This use case / loophole is the reason the AGPL was written.)
I don't think Photoshop would be too laggy with modern hardware. I have some lag issues playing modern 3d games, but they seem to be related to game events that access the hard drive. I'm guessing this is because accessing compressed drives have some overhead.

With that said, I'd think the startup time would be horrendous unless he's just suspending the vm. The side effect of that is lots more HD storage requirements. So to make this as lag-free as possible, you would need to turn off hd compression, use suspend to avoid the windows bootup time and defrag like you would normally do in windows.

To answer your question, I believe modern Intel processors have virtualization optimizations built in.
What do you think? What would you do better?