skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, but I suspect that they can. If I own some data, I should be able to give (or sell) it to you and not to someone else.

That said, once I've given it to you, if you choose to give it to someone else, I have no claim against that someone (although I might against you, depending on our contract). That's the heart of 3taps' position as I understand it; they get craigslist post data from third party sources like search engines, instead of scraping craigslist, and so do not have a contract with craigslist.
Ashamed of "our community"? Your account is incredibly new to HN.
If you go around and talk to everyone you can see what the goal is and what problems you'll face. You need to get the Radio fixed within 40 days. The engineer can fix it the fastest, however you need the rest of the team (and the fire) to support him.

As the game progresses talking to people shows different problems that could arise and how you might solve them. It's interesting as talking keeps up morale and gives you insight into how to beat the game.
I really hate that OWASP page (it's not as bad as it used to be --- that is, godawful --- and now it's just incoherent) and think we shouldn't be directing developers to it. If there's something "OWASP" (whatever that is) is truly bad at, it's cryptography.
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You believe in violence and force just as much as anyone else, becauser you believe in property rights and the use of force to protect them.

If 40% of people don't accept your interpretation of land ownership rights then you would have no problem forcing them to follow your interprewtation of those, so stop getting all high and mighty as if you have an unassailably correct and violence free philosphy. You don't.
I don't feel like "but I like it, so your argument is wrong" is a very good counter-argument to "facebook makes human interactions worse".
You'll notice though in the Uptime and Performance History that most of the Google APIs have been marked as being down for the entirety of the last week, which indicates to me that the logic they are using to test the APIs may no longer be valid for some of them.
It may not be that the ideas are 'stupid' per-se. It's just that we tend to underestimate how complex some tasks are for ordinary people.

I mean, I could take thousands of pictures and automate the process of applying photoshop filters and uploading them as they arrive - and I bet most of you could do it too, perhaps in some even cooler way. That'd be just black magic for most people.
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No. The problem is that they are not measuring the ground state; they are measuring an exited state. It doesn't mater what they do with the system later.
Except when you talk about something like drugs it's easy to show the total violence increases, and when talking about something like unregulated taxi firms you can't make any such claim because it's easy to see how that market is killed dead with little to no black market, because nobody particularly wanted the product in the first place, it was just there.
This is one of the best comments I've seen on HN in awhile. I think once you spend enough time in the valley, you see how many hacks are trying to "change the world" right until their startup is about to fail and then they adapt the exact same behaviors they were trying to disrupt. It's about survival and once a company becomes your baby you will do anything to survive. It's not a terrible thing, but it is something we should be aware of. This isn't all the peak of innovation, many times it's just people working on a CRUD site trying to "disrupt big industry player x" until they run out of money and then resort to the same cheap tactics as everyone else.
I'm more interested in understanding what is going on in the brain/body rather than arguing over terminology. Both psychological and other factors seem to cause burnout/CFS, although psychological factors do seem to be the most important. Depression is a resulting symptom, not a cause.

Stress and burnout affect different people in different ways: some people get depressed, others develop chronic pain (fibromyalgia, ME), others have chronic fatigue etc.

As for the psychological factors that seem to be important: motivation, goals and emotions all seem to play a large part.

While you're correct that CFS is not entirely psychological (functional would be a better term), it does appear to be mostly caused by psychological factors. If you look at the main triggers for CFS they are: job stress, relationship stress, and viral infection - and there is some doubt as to whether the viral infection is a cause or just a symptom of a weakened immune system.
I was writing in a lot of Markdown, and didn't want to edit our CMS to support Markdown -- so I was doing a lot of converting from Markdown to HTML.

Most tools require a few extra clicks to convert Markdown into HTML -- and I wanted something really simple. Here it is.

It has the side effect of helping you play around with and learn HTML, if you're familiar with Markdown.
I think that every first-timer's company is personal. Even if you're working on a problem that you don't experience, it's hard not to see your company as an extension of you. After all, you've put hour of your life into it.

Eventually, through the roller coaster of the startup life, you begin to learn how to separate yourself from the your company.
The Double Fine Adventure guys are doing that, for an example of how it could work. They call the second round supporters 'slacker backers' [0].

I would also pre-order now if I could.

[0] http://www.doublefine.com/dfapay/
I'm pretty sure I agree with you, if you have a specific agreement with one of the parties.

What about "anonymous" scraping, however? (I put it in quotes because I know you can reverse DNS/UserAgent/etc. identify... but that's simple to spoof, and we're discussing within a sophisticated context.)

Can I say that "OOgle" can use my data (because I want visitors) but others can't? (To complicate, can I exclude only certain, specified, parties and include all others?)
What power does a private agency have? None. That's why you choose a government agency, so that when someone starts selling cheap crap to kids that's covered in toxic paint, it can be shut down.
xbox 720 is not released yet.
When something a company does seems insane, look for other motivations.

Did they get long-term preferential pricing from their aerospace partners for sharing the R&D risk and giving the project a high profile?
Those are good points. I think the analysis tries to challenge the assumption that an MBA is the ticket to a good future. Today in the technology world thats not true anymore and there are alternate ways for people to learn and advance, i.e. coding bootcamps.
Lately, he did a lot of work on a campaign to legalize cell phone unlocking[1][2]. I'm not sure how that turned out.

[1]http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/the-law-...

[2]http://www.forbes.com/sites/derekkhanna/2013/02/25/white-hou...
I really enjoyed this. I like the way it models the sorts of management problems one might have in the real world by interfacing with the problem in conversation and instruction.
Because Pinterest is not a platform for publishing art. It is comprised primarily of products and feeds directly into the consumeristic culture that pervades society. Those that are not products are nonetheless incredibly succinct and are displayed in such large volume and quick succession as to trivialize any artistic value derived from them. A picture of a latte or a beach in the Bahamas might be "art," but a thousand pictures displayed in a grid is superficial fetishization. It might be entertaining, and I don't fault anyone for enjoying Pinterest, but it certainly isn't contributing to the culture in a meaningful way.
Hardware startups
I've had this nagging feeling that Google Glass type devices are going to gain traction far faster than anyone expects. Personally I have no inclination towards this type of connectivity. I'm fairly amazed by my regular eyesight, and already have a problem processing the information it provides.

My fear is that as ubiquitious, wearable computing takes over, it will increase the pressure to be connected all the time, as it further lay a meta network over the physical world. Of course culture will start to develop quickly around this new space, and those that don't want to wear such a device will be hopelessly left out of vital activities.

As a sliver of hope on the opposite end, maybe those who choose to stick with natural senses can improve those through mindfullness type methods. This might provide balancing benefits.

I don't understand the impulse towards this type of interface. I don't feel that great when I'm online, I have a feeling of being in alternate space, a mental space, and being kind of detached from "real" reality.

How about a drug that would improve standard perception and cognition at low cost and minimal side effects? That seems like technology that I could get behind!
Its absolutely flabbergasting when a company, which has the sole purpose of protecting customer information, allows this to occur. They've raised 4 major institutional rounds (their last $42 million), its discomforting that neither their team nor investors thought to secure their systems better than this.
(Side note: Google's probably the wrong example if you want risk adverse. Projects fail all the time at Google. I would've picked a big company like IBM or Cisco, where I've heard you tend not to try at all.)
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buy a computer with all the keys and mouse buttons :)
I guess they should have disallowed vowels eh?

Has spam appeared yet? Because you know that is next.
What's the worst thing you can transmit with 20 bytes? A link to a website? A couple of the 7 words? A "yo mama" joke? C'mon this is a BS linkbait article
Also, their exit and sale to google was perfectly timed. As copyright started to loom on their future, they got bought by deep pockets.
Illusion is just what we call a model that we've determined isn't an accurate reflection of reality. It's curious that you're asking your questions about "illusions" in particular -- you should be asking them about "mental models" in general. Your idea of a lightbulb doesn't exist outside your brain any more than your idea of redness or free will does. Your brain is playing a trick on you and correlating your idea of a lightbulb and lightbulbs in the real world. That's a useful trick, of course, because otherwise we wouldn't be able to interact with the world, because obviously our brains can't shuffle real lightbulbs around inside itself like it shuffles idea-of-lightbulbs around. But it leads to confusion when dealing with mental models that may be useful but don't correspond to anything in reality.
are we getting novelty accounts here too?
Is this the new 'First!' in comments on Apps ?
I've had this happen to me a few times. These days I don't even get the stupid ideas in the first place anymore. So I guess I don't have to feel so bad about missing the opportunities now. There aren't any!
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Out of curiosity, why is underscore.js the sample repo on your homepage?
Is what you're referring to something like Growl that pops up and says 'Hey, metrics.sessions.active just dropped by 70%", or something pre-configured to spin up additional VMs/instances/dynos when some metrics misbehave?
TL;DR: How autonomous is it?
The comments on hackernews are displayed in such a large volume and quick succession as to trivialize any intellectual value derived from them?
Life is in beta
This is the Arnold Rothstein method of decision making, as seen on Boardwalk Empire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
Covers the same thing with more technical jargon, but much more accurate and insightful:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=time-crysta...

EDIT: A lot of comments appear confused about stuff in the article from Wired. That's due to the journalism. The Scientific American article addresses many of issues raised here.
I think you're confusing forever with a really long time.
(1) Asteroid's velocity is eventually overcome by external forces.
(2, 3) Structure decays.
(4) Bodies converge or diverge.
(5) Radioactive decay.
(6) You are observing a high energy system.
(7) Etc.
There aren't that many different ways to do it. Either cold turkey, or taper. Try cutting it down to half what you drink now. It'll be shitty, but stick with it. At least you're getting half.

Look into the research about breaking habits, so maybe read "The Power of Habit".
Like camelcamelcamel.com? I set up price alerts for big wishlist items; it's a great service.
wrong. I'm describing the value I get. The fact that I get value means it does have value. My guess is that some of the other millions of users also get value. That is a fair guess. His/her comment is ridiculous.
> That's a decision for each individual developer to make.

I generally agree with this, which is why I find the idea of a "developer's code" somewhat ridiculous.
In slightly related news, I am going to change the world... the pain point I will attempt to solve is... pain, physical pain... literally; if there is anyone interested in Colombia (not Columbia, Colombia, the country) who is an investor or an electrical engineer please get in touch (ivanca/gmail). I already have a functional prototype.
This ruling did not just deal with the copyright claims, it dealt with all of the claims.
It simply dismissed the copyright claims.
Wow, that was a great answer. I'm actually watching a show about Everest this very moment, and was telling my wife about how Everest is less prominent than 3 other mountains (except for the fact that there is a special definition for prominence when it comes to Everest).
That's really the least of your problems when writing cross-browser audio code, as I learned last weekend. You can't play an audio object a second time in Chrome without calling .load(), and you shouldn't call .load() in Firefox because it introduces delays. I spent way less time converting to both Vorbis and MP3 than I did trying to get the audio API to work in a sane way. I'm not planning on installing Vorbis for Quicktime, I'm happy without it. I still don't have satisfactory audio timing on Firefox and not only can I not figure out what is causing it, every demo I find for "low latency" audio has significant latency problems on Firefox.

(Note: Theora is the video codec, Vorbis is audio. Safari and IE don't support Vorbis, Firefox doesn't support MP3, presumably due to licensing costs which I've heard estimated at $300k.)
Zapier is seeing widespread outages on:

* Google Tasks
* Google Drive
* Google Calendar

Seems like Spreadsheets and Gmail are still chugging along fine though (though we've some Oauth issues).

Edit: looks like Tasks, Drive and Calendar are back as of about a minute ago! (~Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 4:05 AM UTC)
What is the enforceability of a TOS that you aren't forced to see? It seems silly to make this a legally enforceable contract when you didn't even so much as click through it, or checked a box that says you clicked through it.

When it's possible to, in good faith, use a website without once seeing its TOS, how can it be legally enforceable?
He can ship it to you as an mp3.
Okay, hold on. I think I see what you're saying. Let me think about this.
I happen to like McDonald's every once in a while.
How have you solved the technical challenges associated with background noise found in real world conversations and recording a high enough signal:noise ratio to index the audio and make it searchable?
The really popular malware WILL have fixes in an antivirus/malware database ;)
Since you integrate with some many web services, have you ever considered publishing a dashboard of their statuses?
Nope, scheme is still being taught in the "Python class". The final project is writing a Scheme interpreter in Python, so students still get to learn Scheme.

http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp13/projects/schem...
You make an interesting point about the shorter lifespans when tobacco was first smoked. Wikipedia says cultivation sites in Mexico date back to 1400-1000 BC or possibly even further [0].

On the other hand, you say, "This is the WORST type of comment on HN...I'm just sick of reading comments like this." Please try to be civil -- Hacker News normally has such a positive community.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tobacco
There are a few items on the menu specifically aimed at adults who would be otherwise reluctant to bring their children.
Wikipedia is actually a great example of how getting something started can eventually lead to something much better. Here's the first version of that article: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abilene_paradox...

That's what Wikipedia was like after it was created: random people writing a few words about some subject they thought they knew something about. It didn't seem like it would amount to much, at the time.
We have one internally, we've talked about opening it to the public (we'd have to scrub data a little better as it is). Would there be interest in this?
What about this makes it inherently 'sustainable'.

Sure, the pricing model makes it easy to see where the money is coming from, but that doesnt immediately make it sustainable.

There's still a critical mass of people that are needed to make the service first pay for itself, and then profitable, and then profitable enough for this guy to maintain it for the next X years.

If it makes 'ok' money and he gets bored of it and shuts it down in a year, that's not sustainable to me, and I can't see evidence otherwise why this might not happen.
IBM Creates World's Smallest Movie with Atoms
A link to child pornography, perhaps, with which law enforcement would have an excuse to make any selected bitcoin user's life a living hell.
Nothing wrong with McDonald's in the states. The guy is probably some hippie who thinks he's too good for fast food. You know, the type who flairs his nostrils if he can't order his favorite bottle of wine at a restaurant.
Your "true data rate" is completely wrong. You have no idea at what frequency they are converting analog to digital signals. You don't know for sure they are using off the shelf sensors. Your ignoring data sources in your calculations like OBD from the ECU or even GPS and AGPS data. etc etc.
IBM makes a movie out of atoms
Hopefully some day Craig Newmark will be held responsible for being the internet pariahs he is. Craig is a sweet, awkward man with a lot of power which he has allowed to be abused by others, and he is responsible for that. He needs to step in and control his company in the direction of good, or be seen for what he is - an appeaser of greed and evil.
I don't think it works like that at YC. That's more common in larger funds, and usually is just an excuse except at the more dysfunctional ones.
Congress tried this...and we got the sequester.
They told me that if I voted for Mitt Romney that lobbyists would be put in charge of the internet.
>it certainly isn't contributing to the culture in a meaningful way.

How do you define 'meaningful'? Pinterest has millions of users. It's contributing something to the culture, but whether or not it's 'meaningful' kinda gets into No True Scotsman territory.
You may want to revisit your history then - a woman wrote what is widely considered, by both men and women, to be the first computer program, an extremely complicated algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace). During WWII, women were "recruited to do ballistics calculations and program computers. Around 1943-1945, these women "computers" used a Differential Analyzer in the basement of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering to speed up their calculations." In 1949, Grace Hopper was the first programmer of the Harvard Mark I, known as the "Mother of COBOL", and developed the first ever compiler for an electronic computer, known as A-0. In the late 1950s, orbital calculations for the United States' Explorer 1 satellite were solved by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's all-female "computers", many of whom were recruited out of high school.

While attitudes may not have done a 180, your inference that early women computer scientists were "not programming" and only transcribing is factually incorrect.
It doesn't matter who you vote for; lobbyists already control the Internet.
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Hello, I'm interviewing for a test automation engineer. Any ideas on what types of questions to expect? Will probably vary based on industry but in general, are the interviews more technical, process oriented or both?
I usually rely on OWASP for general guidelines, but if that page isn't enough for you, what is? (not a rhetorical question)

What should one look into in order to fill in OWASP's gaps?
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This notion that each industry knows best how to regulate itself keeps ending us up in one disaster after another.
Right, and my point was simply that you getting value does not invalidate the argument that this may or may not be bad for humanity. I'm sure pretty much everyone who uses it gets a non-zero amount of value from it, but the person, right or wrong, was arguing about the negatives outweighing the value, not whether or not there was value.
Exactly... and we're already "guessing intents" way too much! It's all Apple-style, leave the user with as few choices as possible.
In a word, yes. We've looked at doing something similar for upstream telecom providers as we interconnect with so many of them. When someone drops a DS3 somewhere we know about it and folks in the industry would love access to that info.

I can tell you that I would love to have an API health Dashboard, and I'd love it even more if you made an API for it.
Not only these, there are niches in hardware too which aren't immediately attractive to the big boys - like think of doing a new digital stylus but not a tablet. Playing it low gives for the necessary time and opportunity and then, like PG says, startle the world with something nobody ever thought of.
Yep - I spearheaded that campaign. We got a bunch of bills introduced in Congress, White House reversed their position, FCC is still investigating. I'm trying to get the best bill through Congress while we lay the groundwork for an overall copyright reform bill.
Finding a gecko in the crowd
Hear hear. Don't get me started on Twitter.
I actually could go for some McNuggets right now.