skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
or to rephrase, If your application a valuable is a labor saving or time saving advancement, what is the best model to make sure you can benefit the most from that?

How do you effectively distribute that advancement so that it "rises the tide"? Is a price a valid indicator of value? No, we see these days that free services are much more quickly adopted. Most people judge value by practicality and word of mouth.

If you start extracting value from that service by charging for it, aren't you effectively negating the benefit to society?

Imagine you invented a murder App. (lets call it iMurder) This app replaced the need to murder people, through a complex spanning tree alogirthm that combines social network data and communication and travel restriction protocols (commonly known as SAML) and a fully immersive augmented reality overlay. (compatible with Google Glass)

How much do you charge for this app?
I'd recommend putting your (throwaway) email in the about section of your profile - you may get responses you wouldn't otherwise from people who don't want to go to the trouble of making a throwaway HN account.
No: was definitely present on iOS 5. In fact, this plagued people during the first week after the 5.0.1 jailbreak release[1] and was later defeated by planetbeing as part of "crazeles"[2].

[1] http://www.redmondpie.com/fix-ibooks-on-ios-5.0.1-iphone-ipa...

[2] http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Crazeles
How many companies offer internships longer than a summer? I have a co-op position for this summer but after my 3rd year I'm hoping to get something longer, a 12 or 16 month position.

Also -- are many American companies friendly towards Canadians who happen to have dual citizenship? To be honest ideally I'd work in Waterloo or Toronto (both are driving distance, ish, from my home) but I'd love to spend time in NYC or the Bay Area too.
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I like this: tl;dr if it'll take the company more effort to reply to your email than you put into sending it, you're doing it wrong.

I don't particularly care whether it is an employer's market or an employee's market. My rule of thumb is that if your email is going to jobs@foo.com, you can send anything you want. But if you are sending an email to a person by name, it is a matter of courtesy to write a personal note.

Likewise, if that person replies to you from their personal email, you deserve more than an obvious form letter, even if it's just a single sentence.
Perhaps you should interpret it as feedback that its not a hirer's market. In a market where most people have many opportunities the incentive to respond with a high effort response is very low. The better thing to do would be to consider the casual emails you get as leads to a potential hire - you'll have to put the effort in. Additionally what you are seeing is likely not by mistake - its an indication that hiring right now for applicants is in many cases more of a numbers game than it is about crafting a great cover letter. That being said I honestly don't think you are doing yourself much good with this sort of message - I'd just do the best that you can with what you get back.
just because something is "your" content doesn't mean you should be guaranteed to make money off of it

So you'd be cool if someone ripped off your source code at siasto.com and started charging for the service? Good to know!

For example, if I set up a stand on a street corner that creates an amazing aromas, it would not suddenly become my right to charge passersby for smelling these aromas, even though they are "mine".

/facepalm

That's not how analogies work - you're supposed to invoke a prallel situation as I did above, not a completely different one. If you play your original music compositions on the street corner you can't just demand money for it even though pasers-by may be consuming and enjoying it. But if I copy your work and start charging people to listen to/inhale it, then you're infringing.

Rather than trying to get the law changed to guarantee I make money, I should instead modify my business model to one that doesn't suck.

What you actually need is one that doesn't blow.
The article raises some interesting ideas but I think it misses some really big things. I've always seen O'Reilly as more of a passionate commenter/pundit as opposed to a influential operator. This isn't to say that he has no influence, but I think he's mostly just synthysizing the Valley zeitgeist. In other words, he seems like an odd target for what I see as a cultural critique. Maybe I'm not smart enough to actually disagree with Morozov, but I find it difficult to see the problem here. Even if Morozov is right, is O'Reilly really the most guilty party and why exactly are the things he is doing bad? For such a long article, there seems to be a lot of unstated assumptions. FWIW I live in SF so maybe I can't see forest for the trees.
It always amuses me that in Australia primary producers identify themselves as conservative and align with the conservative party but have historically been a bunch of agrarian socialists. We even had some towns founded as agricultural communes in my area back in the late 19th century and when I was a kid there were still farmers co-ops running lots of local businesses. The patrons at the local hotel will tell you how much they hate unions and socialists while the pub they are drinking in is community owned and actively fights independent competition. Farmers are a strange bunch, they hate government intervention but love a handout. We used to have similar things like a single authority handling grain exports here. The justification was that it allowed us to compete with countries which distorted the market due to subsidies and barriers like the socialist USA :-) That has all gone as far as I know. Now large corporations (still community owned in a sense via the stock market) pretty much perform the same functions but there is the illusion of choice where in fact little exists as dominant players in the market distort things just as much as statutory ones. In fact that is their job.
Nice job wrapping a statement on ideological purity in niceties about being "patient" and "friendly". I guess there is no escape from the long arm of the diversity corps; in the schools, in the corporations and now in my web application framework.
As a law student, I think both of these are defensible positions, and neither approach bothers me. I like the result as a policy matter, but don't know enough about the precedents or the Copyright Act to comment on the result as a legal matter.

TLDR of the opinion for the rest of HN:

"Public performances" are subject to copyright protection. The Copyright Act says: "To perform or display a work 'publicly' means to transmit or otherwise communicate a performance or display of the work to a [public place] or to the public, by means of any device or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance or display receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the same time or at different times." That last part was written specifically so that cable companies are engaged in public performances (three boos for Congressional idiots who write laws specific to one technological era and then don't update them).

The majority says because that sentence talks about public transmission, it implies there's such a thing as private transmission. And transmission of a unique server copy to a specific customer is a private transmission. (See pp. 29-30.) They think this case is about a "rooftop antenna [that] is rented from Aereo and its signals transmitted over the internet."

The dissenter says that "public performance" includes any stream whose fundamental purpose is to retransmit live TV to a large audience. And that's what he thinks Aereo is doing. (See pp. 49-50.) He thinks Aereo is functionally doing the same thing as a cable company, and that "Congress made clear its intent to [cover] ... 'all conceivable forms and combinations of wires and wireless communications media,'" so it doesn't matter whether there's a private copy on the server or not.

(Link to opinion: http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/82dcbc3a-986...)
Oh I try so hard to not go meta, but this complaint is too much.

I was favourably inclined to your original post ("I noticed an uptick..."), and disfavourably inclined against coldtea's ("violently politically correct"; anyone who says "politically correct" gets dismissal from me!). But everything you said after that was somewhere in the set {unproductive, confrontationally unproductive, paranoid}.

You made an observation about patterns, and proposed an explanation. He proposed an alternate explanation for the same observation. They're equally epistemologically privileged, and your nonsense about "first-order observations" doesn't hold water. His reply added to the conversation (marginally... ugh). Your "incorrect" added zero to the conversation, it was simple static, so it deserves downvotes. I didn't bother to downvote it -- as I usually don't -- but I understand why other people did.

You then complained about the downvotes. Obvious straightforward infraction of site guidelines, and now you retroactively deserve even more downvotes.

And then you went on a paranoid screed about him attacking you personally. It becomes clear that YOU were talking about why YOU hellbanned people (I guess?), and thus you interpret coldtea's alternate theory as being about YOU, but no reasonable person reading the original comments would have read either of those posts that way.

The only problem here is you.

Oh, and one more thing: just as hellbanning isn't really psychopathy, neither is uttering childish threats on the internet, even if I happen to agree with you that the latter is a more serious offense. So when you use "psychopaths" metaphorically, it licenses people who respond to you to use the same metaphor. When you start the hyperbole, you should put up with its continuance.
Property rights don't apply to other people's property, apparently.
The only way I can make the phones of my loved ones ring with a video call is by using FaceTime.

Now what?
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Wow, this is very cool.

I am trying to choose which station to live near in Tokyo and I wish this existed to compare commute times from the station where I will near.
Thank you! Lua is great fun - very similar to javascript. The only weird part for me is that it's 1-indexed, but I see that as a feature for kids learning to program for the first time.

Also, the code for PacPac is not very clean. Just like javascript, globals in Lua are the default, easy to use, and require discipline to avoid :)
That's an interesting consideration, and it's worth thinking through. What happens when it does become possible to download and print cars? Who will still design cars if designs are not protectable? Hobbyists? If that's the case, will they be any good? You can point to top-notch open source software, but so much of it became really good only because some company figured out how to monetize it. Maybe some company will figure out how to monetize digital cars without charging for the designs. It'll probably be worse than just paying for the designs (e.g. advertising). Or, maybe nobody will figure out how to monetize it, like open source games, and the results will be crap.

And even if hobbyists do design say sports coupes, will they also design say minivans? If they don't, that's a market failure--there is a demand for minivans, and people capable of designing minivans, but no way to monetize the designs hence no minivans.
Show HN: Weekend hack to learn backbone.js and prepare for my US citizen test.
It is a very basic site. I couldn't think of anything else so I decide to create simple prep test for myself.
May be I'll add quiz to it.
It's hard to do a TL;DR on this. Here's a link to a meta reddit post I made of all my debates with traditionally trained economists :(http://www.reddit.com/r/austrian_economics/comments/kufu2/ca...). It should be somewhat easier to understand.
Will Insurance Companies Kill the Sharing Economy?
Perhaps it was an April Fools' joke, because if anyone were serious about the position, they wouldn't put:

"Hi, saw your listing on HN, here is my LinkedIn. Call me."
I understand they have more clients to please than myself. Even a smaller window of time would be helpful or to know it is going to be done in off hours. There's no reason I should be fine with this as a paying customer.
Very nice video but it makes me sad. It appears there are no places left to discover, to explore. People and cities everywhere.
> Doing this does nothing but motivate the bad guys even more to find the hole on their own.

Please explain the logic here. How does Heroku getting early access provide more motivation to discover vulnerabilities?
You change the metric of succes. If I wanna the most spread, do it for free. But he is saying about $$$, not reach. So the question remain.
Mark Shaw: One very dry demo (video)
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We are looking for skilled software engineers at all levels of experience with a focus on:

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Those are our core needs, but all talented individuals will be considered, regardless of directly applicable experience. There's plenty of work to do beyond the above!

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In my exp, Frontend Development is not the highest paying area of software engineering. I jumped from doing mostly frontend to doing mostly backend and system admin and was able to demand more money. Now I am at the Sr. Level and can demand more.

Albiet, deeply knowing the full stack is a big plus on my resume.

Complex Backend dev, big data, iOS/Android dev all seem to offer higher salaries.

Checkout the Angelist job section, they list tons of salaries.
Food is cheap, petrol is cheap, cars are ridiculously expensive, property is unaffordable.

The worst part is that, I can't afford the plane ticket to hunt for overseas opportunities.

So yeah, I am underpaid.

If anyone is looking for an experienced software engineer from Malaysia for C# or Python development, please do let me know.
fwiw, I'd take that back if I could. It came out wrong and definitely was not intended to imply entitlement on anyone's behalf. I'm willing to put in crazy effort to find the right fit for our company, and I expect the applicant will do the same to find the right workplace/job. I'm not going to waste my time on someone that doesn't value it.

I guess like you said: common courtesy, don't waste my time or yours. Why send an email if its' not worthy of a response?
This is evil.

Please don't force users to do something they can already choose to do.
Definitely underpaid if you don't have much in terms of equity.
I'm not one of the people you're looking for, but like so many things, a flexible mix based on the character of the work at hand is usually most effective. Sometimes (sometimes) you doodle to think, sometimes you code to think: how do you write a failing test for doodling?

FWIW I was writing what were effectively unit tests, and doing them essentially first or all but first, in the late eighties before (I think) TDD even had letters, but it didn't rule my life. I was chastised for being too new and not good enough to carve the whole monolith at one sitting. I did what I needed to anyway.
Can we liquidate those responsible for the unfooable barness of baz while we're at it?
"Micro$oft" used to be perfectly socially acceptable on USENET. I wonder who they paid to get that changed?

The level of discourse was raised, MS didn't pay anyone.
Try http://rssident.com

It's all web based. No apps/plugins to install.

Doesn't support importing OPML files yet but it does have it's own feed indexing service so it's not at risk when Google Reader API shuts down.

A bunch of UI improvements are being tested now and will be released soon.
The problem with them is that their OPML import times are ridiculous.

I've literally been waiting over 2 weeks for 1 OPML file with about 30-40 feeds in it to be imported now.

They really need to step up during this advantageous time for them and spin up more servers to handle imports.

I've been checking in every few days and their import rate seems to be less than a thousand OPML files a day (when I signed up weeks ago, it was around 25000 users ahead of me with OPML files to be imported and I'm still waiting). Not giving me much confidence in their company at this early stage.
I totally agree with your rant, but the fallacy is that you are posting with the absolute expectation a certain level of talent to apply, when this is not the case. HN attracts under-qualified programmers along with high-quality programmers, and I suspect there are far more of the former than the latter. You're more likely to get the low-quality programmers because they are more likely to be looking for work, especially in a field where who you know can get you a job easier and with less effort than sending off resumes to companies.

I didn't apply anywhere, but if I had, I would certainly write a well thought-out cover letter because I would rather not apply to everyone and I understand my chances are quite a bit lower than the company's expected talent level of the baseline applicant, so I would want to focus on places where I have a semi-decent chance. If you are applying to a job via HN, then it is a given that the company is setting a high bar for talent.
High quality engineers don't give a shit about your process and don't need your crappy salary. Get a clue.
On Usenet in the 1990s, people used to whine if they weren't given attribution for the work they did scanning and uploading somebody else's published porn photographs.

Punchfork's attitude here seems similar.
iBad is still obviously using the "marketing term" iPad. If he wanted to not use those terms, he could write "Apple's tablet device" or something to that effect.
Glencore owns farms, mines, and production facilities around the world. It also has direct supply relationships to manufacturers, power generators, and food processors. It is not the example you were looking for.

If you want an example of someone who has "little to no interest in [accepting] delivery of said commodities", pick me. I'm a trader. What I do is analogous to the person at the Department of Agriculture who decides how much supply at a given price should be produced. Central planning has an aesthetic appeal, but especially when it comes to consumer discretionary products like raisins, it is a messy way of shifting the burden of forecasting from those unable (the farmers) to those with little incentive to get it right and an even lower chance of being displaced.
Wouldn´t the sun-synchronous orbit allow you to use a similar a pipeline with local-time filtering to create a night-time map? That would be quite amazing, and also useful for socio-economic folks (or even correlate that with OSM coverage)

I could only find a related talk about this here:
http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/sci_team/meetings/199905/presenta...
Can anyone point to any serious exits from an accelerator program not named Y Combinator or TechStars?
Start talking to recruiters to see what opportunities and salary you can get.

You can be amazing, but if you can't communicate your value and what you have done then people will undervalue you.

Honestly, I think your salary is average.
Agreed. It only makes sense at minimum to say why you're interested in the position.
Why bring a caricature here? RMS and FSF tell us what is bad and less bad from the point of view of software freedom, which they and other think is important. RMS said explicitly that Android was less bad than iOS, which is obvious, while still not being perfect according to freedom of software, which is obvious too.

Nobody said you can't buy an iPhone, but what you can't reasonably do is value highly software freedom and at the same time prefer iOS over Android.
A small business bought $200,000 of Segways for tourists to ride around the local lake. The road authorities discovered Segways were classed as vehicles but could not meet the roadworthy requirements so the use had to be banned. The government granted an exemption to the road laws allowing such a use of Segways only in tourist areas (where there are no blind intersections) and only at low speeds http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-11/canberra-segway-ban-li... http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/es/db_45369/default.asp
Versioned Dependencies with Compass
People who don't read the job ads for GrantTree, and therefore don't send a video, corrected text, etc, make my filtering job easier by automatically filtering themselves out. We don't even respond to those who don't bother to read the job spec. I think it's fair.

Sadly, when posting the spec to some of the worse job forums (e.g. Gumtree), almost all the applications are like that. Some do not even bother to write a note at all. They just attach their CV, and that's it. It's hard to believe that there are people out there who think that such an approach will get them any kind of decent job.
I came to roughly the same conclusion from the emails I received from my "How to Hire Me" post. People make all of the mistakes there that they make with online dating. From an abstract point of view it is the exact same problem.
Is this itself an April Fools' joke?
One ^W would have been sufficient.
So yet another business gets it's start by only using content from another site(s) via data scraping, and they are upset that their source of content was acquired and shutdown? Cry me a river...

This reminds me of the Craigslist/Pad-Mapper event, except that Craigslist hasn't been acquired.
> tl;dr if it'll take the company more effort to reply to your email than you put into sending it, you're doing it wrong.

No no no, they're doing it right.

All those lame responses? You think you're gonna get better behavior after hiring?

It's not a response so much as an organization intelligence test. You hire 'em, you get what you deserve.
Most of the posts specified a location, and mentioned whether remote workers were acceptable.
The other problem with california is the state tax. You can make 10% less in Washington + take the same amount home.
Yes, all sites with Google Analytics..
To those who are applying for a biz dev role like this: do you honestly expect to get a job where you will be selling for your company (whether it be vision, product, etc.) when you cant even sell yourself to get a job?

Finding a job isnt a game of percentages. Or atleast finding the right job isnt (imho). Find the 2-3 jobs you really want and spend the time to make the recruiter believe you could actually sell for their company one day.
Some did, though yeah - that can mean effort you put ends up wasted unnecessarily.