skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone Ripping Off Our Site/Logo & Defacing Our Brand. What Can We Do?
Hey guys, cofounder of Manteresting.com here. Recently we've been getting a lot of attention. Outlets from BuzzFeed, E!, Maxim and Bloomberg to Refinery29 and Jezebel have written about us. We were even invited to speak on Playboy Radio.<p>The attention is great, we're grateful to have the exposure and have seen our traffic increase by 1000% in a single week.<p>Media has been mostly positive with people supporting the idea through comments, tweets and FB messages. Ladies and gents appreciate that we filled a need in the market left by Pinterest's 80% female user base, and find our content refreshingly different and recognize that we are a bunch of stand-up guys (and girls!).<p>But with all the attention, I guess we should have expected this, we've been completely ripped off.<p>

<p>Manterest.org not only rips off our name, they actually stole our v1 logo entirely. Technology aided this ripoff as these guys just threw up a WordPress theme with Pinterest-esque qualities and went to town posting affiliate links.<p>The worst part is that their navigation includes "Boobs" and "Sex" -- the majority of negative press we get argues that we are a bunch of pervs sitting around with our hands down our pants and we only post pictures of naked girls when in fact, nudity of any kind is against our TOS, we encourage our users to be respectful of women and we police our content nearly 24/7 between the founders and community volunteers.<p>These guys are just trying to profit from the recent press and seeing as I found them through a Google search, they probably are. We've spawned legitimate clones before (I won't name names) but to yank our logo and hope we don't notice? That's pretty bold.<p>PG, thoughts? What would you guys do?
> be a founder, which probably isn't within your financial resources right now unless you have the connections to get immediate funding

Could you elaborate on this a little? I realize this is a minor point of your comment, but it's not often that I hear about the financial requirements of being a founder. It's mostly "you're young and smart, you deserve to found a startup" and "follow your dreams," both of which seem fatuous to me.

What financial resources would you say are required to found a company? I'm currently in "save every penny" mode anticipating the moment when I strike out on my own, so I'm curious what people have to say on this topic.

P.S. Sorry to comment as a thowaway, but I forgot the password to this one and I'm engaging in another thread...
Eh, no wonder it's a 69Mb compressed download!
Thankyou for posting this. I'm graduating this year and I just find the lack of response from startups frustrating.
Biz Stone’s New Startup Jelly Sounds Like A Home For Do-Gooders On The Go
In the culture I was raised, the word "shitty" was highly offensive. I'm not offended, but my childhood community would be.
No, not using encryption, mostly because I haven't found a solution that doesn't get into my way inconveniently. I accept that any file stored on a network connected machine could become available to others through my own or somebody else's mistake. I select what I store and where I store it accordingly. Of course that doesn't stop me from doing what I can to secure my Dropbox account: strong unique password, non-obvious email address, and 2 factor auth.

edit: Just remembered, there is one encrypted file in my Dropbox, but that also only exists encrypted on my computer.
You went on too long to fit in a comment, so you made an "Ask HN" post that consists of just a link to a pastebin. That makes little to no sense.

Also, because I was surprised to hear people were posting such nonsense in Ask HN, I went and looked through this month's for some of the things you complain about. There are zero requests for "rock star interns" and nobody I could find asking you to be passionate about their company. So this whole post is just mystifying to me.
There is a lot of work done for this in the scientific community, there are many algorithms. (is http://modis-atmos.gsfc.nasa.gov/MOD06_L2/) The most basic way is to look at the reflectivity, which must be very high, and the temperature, which must be very low. In this case, however, they probably do simply throw out all the snowy/white areas.
>I'm a 3rd generation Soldier that was in the Army for a decade, what you are describing is called toxic leadership, and it destroys organizations. Slowly, the military is starting to admit that its ineffective when your subordinates aren't a bunch of mouth breathing illiterates.

Totally different situation. You're talking about maintaining high morale with career soldiers. I'm talking about rousing up a bunch of conscripts and packing them off to war. Historically, these types of people made up the bulk of the armies and didn't live long enough to cause trouble for the organization.
http://ipythondemo-zemanel.rhcloud.com/1f98e2af-dfdd-4ba5-a5...
I quit law school because I could see it was going to be a misery.

(This is a less dramatic situation in Australia because law is an undergraduate degree in this country).

Nevertheless, I greatly value the habits of thought that law school taught. I find the legal way of thinking illuminates a lot of the work I do, and the practice in writing brief upon opinion upon statement upon tutorial paper is an education in itself.
As I read this, I can't help but be reminded of the old adage, "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch".
If I get it correctly (not being an US citizen), they are streaming something that already got over the air for free in one area and streaming it to more areas, right?

In that case, the Big Owners are already giving it away for free in New York and nobody gets hurt, if people somewhere else see it for money, right?
I think getting a usable web stack on julia will take it a long way in terms of making it useful for problems at-scale.

My major nitpick with julia so far, if I can be real, is that its package tooling isn't enough like npm. <_< While this gives away my obvious biases, I do think that spending time on making a really good package ecosystem is important, and is something not enough people take seriously.
I'm not sure this is a case of responsible vs full disclosure. Obviously, we don't have full disclosure of the issue yet. However, that doesn't mean we won't have it on the 4th when Postgresql said they would be releasing their fix.

To some degree I don't think "full disclosure" and "responsible disclosure" are very useful terms since they have so many different interpretations.

But looking at this particular practice, I'm not sure there's been much debate in the open source world about this practice of pre-notification to vendors/large installations.

In my personal opinion I think it's absolutely necessary. Most open source users depend on binary packages provided by someone else. Unlike a closed source model when everything happens within a single company. Even then I'd be surprised if some of this doesn't happen with large customers with closed source software.

So in practice I don't think it's anything that doesn't happen with just about all heavily used pieces of software. It's just that this case happened to be more obvious this time. Largely because Postgresql closed their public repository in order to package the fix and announced that they were doing so.
How does that make little to no sense? There's a 2000 character limit for a new submission. The pastebin contains almost 2000 words.
Amazon summer intern chiming in, I'm being paid $8,000 cash, that's not factoring in all the myriad things that Amazon pays for.
I believe he was referring to the idea that you could have just posted the pastebin as the comment.
Meritocracy is the best -ocracy there is. Which unfortunately isn't enough for human liberation.

In its ideal form meritocracy guarantees that ruling institutions will choose people who maximize some kind of merit function: there are many ideals, however, that aren't incorporated into that. Equality of outcome (an ideal I don't desire, but many people do) inherently contradicts it. Equality of opportunity is a vague and slippery ideal, but whatever it is the absence of it is very compatible with meritocracy. In the end all that ideal meritocracy guarantees is some kind of global merit function that organizations will use to maximize their effectiveness: individuals per se aren't guaranteed anything. And even that weak guarantee ignores huge and intractable political economy issues about whether different interests have commensurable merit functions, the measurability of individual merit, and whether the people implementing the merit function actually implement it according to spec. But those issues aren't going to go away, whatever -ocracy you choose.

And since meritocracy's fundamentally focused on social and organizational needs instead of individual ones, it's plenty compatible with systems that are horrible violations of the principles of the world we want to live in. Imperial China was, supposedly, quite meritocratic: whoever you were, if you did well on imperial exams, you were selected (if you were male and not Miao). The Soviet Union was similar (though those practical issues I mentioned earlier made it de facto more a clientele system). None of us would want to live in either of those systems, though, despite their meritocratic underpinnings.

Assuming that we have to have an -ocracy, though, is a failure of the imagination. If we want something better, I'd say trying to build a decentralized, self-organized, fault-tolerant society without hierarchy is the way to go. Any given organization can fuck up, and most people will end up fine, living in the interstitial spaces between organizations. If someone is unfairly passed over (according to some imagined meritocratic standard), well, it might have wasted a couple hours of their life but isn't the end of the world, because the zero-sum game of having power over other people just isn't played.

End drunken rant.
You could have a) posted the Pastebin link as a comment, or b) submitted a normal post linking to the Pastebin instead of an Ask HN with the Pastebin URL in plaintext.
It's a joke. They intentionally misspelled"check", too.
Why does that cause a pit in your stomach? I love knowing that, as an Amazon intern.
Wild. It's a little flickery in Chrome, but looks awesome. I'm sure this would crash after running long enough, but... awesome.
> The "Law School changes how you think" line seems to be a popular one, but I'm not sure I buy the premise that it's inherently different.

I've done both.

Law teaches how to bring rigour to fuzziness. In software we can set boundaries and push the fuzziness back into the problem domain. Lawyers can't do that, they must address the world as it is.

Let me explain what I mean.

Suppose you use constants with values for HOT, WARM, COOL and COLD. In a normal computing system you will need to define these precisely -- you'll need to give float or decimal values to the thresholds between them.

By setting those thresholds, we simply make the complexity go away. Users wind up carrying the bag for any paradoxes that arise.

Lawyers can't do that, they deal with linguistic variables:

The reasonable person similarly circumstanced.

The buyer at arm's length without notice.

Offer and acceptance.

Reasonably foreseeable.

You can't give any of these a hard value (though the general features of each are pretty clear for almost all cases). They are fuzzy sets.

Dealing with fuzzy sets without destructively reducing it to ordinary logic is almost unique to law. About the only other people doing it are some control engineers and the attendant theoreticians.

edit:

I'd also add that the experience of extremely careful examination of facts and teasing out subtle distinctions are useful skills. So too the learned ability to do that with buckets of documents, quickly, and then having to draft reasonably straightforward briefs or case notes.

I find that skill particularly useful when discussing requirements / user stories.
> If they don't then the money disappears from the system, but in most booming economic times, more money is created, and eventually more money is printed to provide more base money in order to pay back all that interest.

The financial systems works different.

You seem to be conflating wealth and money. Money doesn't disappear from the system when someone fails to repay a loan. (Unless you are taking a rather wide, but still sane, definition of money, and hold that lending increases the money supply.)

No extra money needs to be printed to pay back all that interest. That's because central banks pay a dividend to their governments.
Man, really? I feel kinda screwed then that Amazon is only paying $6k, before housing & misc benefits.
There's lots of material online if you just want to learn. ADUni, OCW etc etc.
OK sure, for all of NSW it's 3700+ intersections [1] (for a state with about half the population of LA), and 11000 across Australia [2] (about double the population of LA) with the same technology.

I can't find any reference that mentions every single intersection being hooked up, so I'll cede that one.

A very large grid might be a pathological case where it makes sense to hook up every single intersection, but in terms of scale, it is not unique or ahead of it's time, like the SCATS system was.

[1] http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/usingroads/scats/index.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scats
Down to the programming language is hardly the entire stack. There's also the VM the language runs in, the operating system, the assembly language the CPU executes, so on and so on down to the transistors in the CPU. At some point you realize you can't understand the entire stack.

(In case you thought these issues didn't affect you: http://bugs.python.org/issue13703)
I find that posts like these send their message better when formatted with "Here is an awesome example of what I like, DO THIS!!! (and casually mention how you feel when you get the opposite treatment).

"Company Foo made it optional for me to list my GPA, I liked that!"
vs
"Never have I ever, or will, apply to anyone asks for GPA. Make it optional."

Which feels more likely to be taken seriously?
see, and this is why nerd-news is so frustrating. one article, plus one cool term 'evergreening'. super, let's hit wikipedia and whoa i can spout internal sounding knowledge.

problem being that here we have a larger pattern in india's behavior which is not neatly laid out in a few linked articles. so no way to quickly read up on it, you need to be in the industry or closely following it.

so yeah, evergreening, awesome. same with roche, bayer?

and in novartis case:
you know that the original molecule was never patented in india? india only started recognizing patents issued after the early 90s.
you know that novartis already gave away 95% of this particular product for free in india? right?

this new item is a trainwreck, just like the pycon thing. problem that far fewer people here will recognize that.
I'm making a product, and selling mostly online.

I was shocked (in the newbies do) to find out about the sort of gross margins retailers want. From where we are now, it seems like the only way we could reach that is through economies of scale that we are uncertain would pay off. Chicken meets egg once again?

In the market we're in (musical instruments/audio) the retailers with stores are going away, sales have moved online.

I'm not sure yet but I think the margins for online retailers could be less?
Look up "legal reasoning" on ssrn:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2000788&#...
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2145478

There are a bunch of papers on what counts. My take away was that many courses of study say they have a way of reasoning, but at the end of 4 years (or an additional 3), most students perform no better on abstract tests of whatever metric was selected for that major (e.g. law, analogic reasoning
How I Tried To Be a Better Startup Weekend Judge
Actually, it is. Speculators help in price discovery, and that is a real service.
San Jose, San Francisco

We are the team that built milo.com, built "the Feed" new eBay homepage[1], and are currently building eBayNow[2]. There's more on the way!

We aren't a startup anymore :(

However ...

We can offer all the advantages and benefits of a big, highly profitable company (including work/life balance) along with the product ownership, hands on learning, fast pace, and camaraderie of a startup. If you are smart and ready to contribute, you will be writing code and making critical decisions every day.

So, if you're tired of the startup game, want to take a few years off from worrying about 'burn rate', or you just want to learn how to build a product and find market fit without losing a few years of your life working 20 hours a day, check us out.

What we are looking for:
Smart.
Gets things done.

Feel free to send me your resume at justin@milo.com .

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/18/pulling-from-more-than-400m...

[2] https://now.ebay.com/
So does this mean that I would have a persistent JVM daemon running in the background monitoring file system events? I don't know why, but that gives me a nasty feeling in my gizzard. Besides, something tells me that I don't really need a ~100 MB process to do something like that.
Some of the most popular people I knew in high school went on to full rides at Stanford, Harvard, UNC, and the like.

Being a "nerd" means what? Because it has no correlation to intelligence, and is purely a social label, generally self-inflected/self-assumed.

Edit: public high school
In this case, you end up paying by the tolerance that builds extremely quickly.
What grounds did they give for removing the project? Trademark? Copyright?
I think this misses the central idea in the essay - it's not that nerds are arrogant for thinking they are above social games (they're not), but that nerds are "nerds" because they prioritize the pursuit of knowledge over the pursuit of popularity (in broad strokes).

In fact, nerds would very much like to play the social game and be at the top of the ladder, but at the stage in life being discussed (high school), nerds don't have the kinds of life experiences or knowledge to play the game well, precisely because they spend most of their time tinkering/hacking/learning about other things.
How to convert videos for PS Vita
Dated back to the year of 2006, Sony released PS3, as part of the 7th generation game consoles, mainly to compete with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii.

Whether PS Vita can compete with Nintendo 3DS, let the market law decide.PS Vita features a 5 inch OLED touch screen with up to 32 GB expandable storage. It will absolutely perform better when game players want to relax their brain and watch a movie.

How to transfer videos to PS Vita? You can turn to DVDFab Video Converter for help, which is a well-known video converter software for converting personal owned videos to PS Vita compatible videos.

You can learn the details at:http://www.dvdfab.com/video-converter/video-converter-for-PS-Vita.htm?ad=hcj
Slightly OT:

I am surprised to hear this sentiment on HN as often as I do. It seems to imply a somewhat Luddite-like fear of technological advancement, versus the generally positive interest I would expect from hackers. Am I off base?

I'm not talking about modafinil specifically (no opinion there) but more generally.
I find the number of Google "so-what" apologists rather striking in this thread. Not saying the OP did it right or did the right thing, but as a life experiment, it seems honorable. Personally, I find Google's omni-presence a bit scary as well. I never adopted gmail (except as a throw-away address to sign up with HN and other websites :-). The other service OP didn't mention is Google Analytics: so I tell Google everything about my site, then I expect it to broker ads for me honestly?

In addition to the personal tracking, I really agree with the following quote from the OP:

"I find that Google and SEO and tracking have soiled the web in unbelievable ways. Google has imposed a constraint on content through its ad business that I can't get away from, because content is trying to adapt to Google so it can be found, but especially because content becomes monetized in doing so-- to the detriment of us all."
As a co-founder of a startup that is about to begin the recruiting process, I think you have a lot of valid points. Sometimes we do get swamped but I personally try to reply to all queries within at least 7 days. This may seem long but its really a function of wanting to give thoughtful replies when possible. It would be good if there was a way to anonymously call out companies with such crappy processes. Both because applicants deserve transparency but also because founders should always want to know if they or their staff are mistreating applicants.

-max cantor
co founder, docmunch.com
This post went in a completely different direction than I expected. I expected a lament about the difficulty in obtaining interviews or a lack of response from prospective employers but this blew my mind.

While I actually agreed with a number of your points, I found the theme a little disconcerting as it seemed to convey an attitude of entitlement and a lack of humility. You aren't owed an ideal environment for your internship hunt simply because you exist, moreover having created your account literally one hour ago makes me question if you have any non-lurking history with the community.

Maybe I'm off base with this post but IMO this attitude isn't one to cultivate and it's a pretty negative first post.
Or you can install the ComputerCraft mod, which lets you build and program computers (and turtle robots!) within the game using Lua.

http://computercraft.info/wiki/Main_Page
It's understandable to want acknowledgement when you apply for a position, but when you're doing the hiring for a small team that doesn't have automated processes to handle all of that yet, you'll understand why so many people don't send you anything unless they want to interview you.
Is My Bachelor Degree Really Worth $293,059.15?
My issue with both this and the post it's replying to is the underlying sense of entitlement. The "who is hiring process" is great for reducing friction in matching good employers with good employees. All the pride (in the deadly sin way) I see from both sides does nothing but add friction. "You didn't send a timely response" is no better than "this applicant's reply is terse". And in both cases neither makes any attempt at determining how good the employer matches the employee.
No other employees work offsite, except our lone lawyer who comes in every 3 weeks give or take. Nobody in my department (Tech) works offsite either.

The company I work for is not a software company, rather it's an education company that needs some custom software built every couple of weeks. Basically I meet with the bigwigs every 7 to 10 days and plan out new features. It's a REALLY laid back job, that's why I would like to work from home.

They are very pleased with my work as I'm a self'starter and have already saved the company a lot of money due to my diligence.

The person who interviewed me in the Number 2 of the company, and he's my direct 'handler'.
Here's another one (not written by me): "My Story: From Lawyer to Ruby Hacker"
http://coffeespoonsofcode.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/my-story-...

It's always interesting to see these types of posts on HN. I disliked the whole 'law thing' so much that after graduating from law school and passing the bar, I never applied for a single legal job but instead went into tech (which has been my true passion since I was 9 years old). In my case, I learned that it's always a bad idea to live out someone else's dreams instead of your own. In other words: don't go to law school simply because your parents/spouse/etc want you to.
Great minds....