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I have to disagree. Copyright prevents re-use and new work.

The novelist wishing to earn a living is also taking a risk being a novelist, just as I take a risk in paying for an education that may not land me a job. I still charge for my time. The novelist can still charge for his or hers. We both must do something useful. If his or her novel is useful "enough" to live on alone - wonderful - but we shouldn't take it for granted that that is necessarily going to be the case, or that something like copyright will help it to be, or that that would even be a good thing (that people can make a living doing something that society wouldn't even naturally value enough to remunerate).

At the same time as all of that is going on, people are going to continue trying to make the best of what's around - and that includes copying.
If they put a paywall on their IP, then they'd be bound to have a reasonable support structure in place.

No one in their right mind would want to support the Twitter or Facebook API's...
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I checked it here https://www.digicert.com/help

And the result is http://imgur.com/pXVWaue

Hope the author finds this and fixes it.
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We did an elevator pitch for our startup. In an elevator.
After a long list of ideas and multiple recordings, we decided to approach the startup video presentation as a pitch, an elevator pitch.

We have yet to launch Blogvio in private beta, but you please let us know what you think of the video. Is it short enough? Is it concise enough? Is it clear enough what we're doing?

Any feedback is appreciated! Thanks HN! :-)
If you're referring to the custom elements, Angular will also let you do things in a way that validates. Something like: <div data-plot="height=3, width=3"></div>
If using raw bag of words or n-grams, why not hash the strings to maybe 2^13-1 slots, with something like MurmurHash3 or with multiple hashes to prevent collisions, then use that sparse vector as input to a deep learning model?
Whew! I thought I was the only one!
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Is it now possible to perform basic tasks like specifying font and icon sizes without installing third-party tweak tools or manually editing text files?

I know a lot of work goes into these releases but when basic desktop functionality has been missing/broken since the 11.x series and fails to be addressed with each new release it starts to become depressing.
I use their Android app to stay signed into my professional and personal IM accounts at the same time. It's the best I've found.
I'd say less on a slippery slope, more we've already fallen down into that hole...

There's already been at least once instance of the bpi blocking a legitimate site
Why should a law that has its roots in 17th century censorship continue to be clung to in the 21st century? Times have changed, get over it and develop a business model that is more appropriate for this century.
Yes, this is a very common request: http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=sturles
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The problem with the approach of wanting to get caught, is the assumption that Twitter is going to care whether your approach is superior to their Twitter Ads approach. They will not care, judging by their past history. They'll most likely shut you down and go about their business with Twitter Ads. These days Twitter is an extraordinarily rigid company when it comes to anything outside their borders.
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Maybe not in court proceedings, but definitely will affect the court of public opinion.
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This is cool!

An option that is probably more likely to be API TOS friendly is to show the user relevant tweets and suggest that they favorite, rather than auto-favoriting them.
RubyJobs (http://www.rubyjobs.ie/jobs) sometimes has startup positions listed but your best bet is to just pop down to a Ruby meetup (http://www.rubyireland.com/) cos there's where all the startup peeps hang out. The first line of dialogue with practically anyone at these things is "Are you looking for a job" - but obviously the more well known you are in the community the more often you'll be asked.

My experience is relatively limited (about 5.5 dev years) but once you've a good reputation then you'll never have to look for another job - it'll be lined up for you. Until the bubble bursts that is!

I also know a good recruiter (one or two exist!) who does work for the odd startup if you're interested in taking that route. Email me (ger [at] getchoocreations.com) if you're interested.
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I think the reasoning is that showing ads, and marking them as such, is just fine. Bumping scores that are marked as customer reviews just because the business is buying ads would not be fine. This is not the first time that someone has accused Yelp of doing the latter in addition to the former.
obviously the users would have to be logged in for this to work, which in your case might not be the desired use. Still, this could be an optimization step that could save you some cash down the road.
Several questions :-)

1. I noticed the interactive slider, embedded into the webpage. That's not what vanilla Mma 9 can do. Is there a simple way we can do the same without the CDF plugin (e.g. a package I'm not aware of) or is this future functionality?

2. The graph with the migration data looks nice. Mma 9 can't do an edge layout like this (curved edges) by default. Is this again custom code (custom Graphics or custom EdgeRenderingFunction) or is it future functionality?

3. There's the part with the frequency of various graph motives (the number of edges, triangles, and other weird shapes in graphs). How did you count these? Was it done using Mma? Some of these motifs are easy to count (there are simple expressions in therms of the adjacency matrix), but some others like the (1-2, 2-3, 1-3, 3-4) subgraph are not so easy.

4. How did you make the word clouds? Is the algorithm written in Mma? Here's a nice but slow one (the worse answer by myself): http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/2334/how-to-c...
Can you provide any examples of the more sane notions? I'm very curious to compare.
>"Why does Ubuntu think their more discriminating user base need these" //

I assume that's because Bing and Google are paying them to think that (or inducing them to think [hope!] that via the promise of money)?

Don't personally care to check this assumption at the moment.
I've been out in the wilds of industry for a while now, so it's been a while since I needed to pay for something professionally... back in the halcyon days of academia, I worked in computational medicine and had (still have) interest in lingustics/neuroecon/neurosci and I still run into walls there occasionally. I can't cite specific examples for you, if I can't find it somebody I know can get me a copy.
I think they dont.. ( atleast I dont!! )

Anyway see this article http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/04/stop-standardizing-ht...
I think most people are not in favor of commercial infringement - it's the non-profit file sharing that most of the argument is over.
An interesting guess: What if one day the government of China bans Apple, Android, Windows, Cisco, IBM and other USA brands for political or backdoor concerns?
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It's not merely an issue of admissibility. It's also a crime to record a call without the other party's consent...
That people are willing to pay $2.50 implies that the value is at least $2.50. Of course it depends on how effective you are at getting value from your followers, so for many, the answer is close to 0 cents.
I'm not surprised by this. Writing reviews or mentions yourself or getting others to astroturf for your product is essential to getting started nowadays.
While I agree that we should do everything we can to be user-friendly and not allow what I'm about to suggest to take the form of "elitism", I think we underplay the importance of helping the user understand the system. I think your typical user should understand SSL before they do online banking and shared libraries before they let their work rely entirely on their computer, in the same sense that I think you should know how to change a tire and change your oil before you buy a car or go on a long road trip.

Yes, they all should just "work out of the box", but in a more and more literal sense we trust a lot of machine with our lives. We ought to understand all of these machines better before we trust them with our lives or vote on the leaders who will regulate their use.
I don't understand what you mean by "point the faves at people if they want testimonials". Looks to me like they're just favoriting positive feedback that is sent to them
You can swipe to a new space.
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No one in their right mind would want to support the Twitter or Facebook API's...

This could be done sensibly though: limit the number of emails per month; or only include support in higher-priced plans.

eBay's API can be pretty tricky at times, and if you want any help that doesn't involve using their forums, it costs $75/hour:

http://developer.ebay.com/join/pricing/
Yes, x = x*2 is not (y = x*2 would be better)

But expecting a while loop to exit as soon as the condition is met (as opposed as while the loop block finished) is a common case
Just in case, we used to sell a standalone Oberon-2/Modula-2 development system for Windows and Linux. It is now available under a freeware license:

http://www.excelsior-usa.com/xds.html
Is this just for Unity or is it an across the board speedup that I'll notice even if I'm using something like Cinnamon/xfce?
Cats that love writing reviews that trash a place they don't like, regardless of how quirky their preferences are.
Actually, that's not entirely true. If lawyers bill inappropriate charges, you don't have to pay those charges. Inappropriate charges include excessive hours, administrative tasks, overhead, or other charges you disallow based on your agreement (commonly called Billing Guidelines). Based on data I've worked with (insurance companies, financial services company, real estate firms) those inappropriate charges are anywhere from 5-15% of the total. Usually 5-10%.

The advantage of having the VC pay the legal bills is that they are a bigger fish and can more easily put in place and enforce the legal billing guidelines. Also, as a much more likely repeat customer, the VC will likely get better bills to begin with.
Forgive my ignorance - IANAP.

Why can't/don't we have more tools along the lines of App Inventor [1] that provide a visual structure for programming?

The vast majority of time I've spent writing anything has been spent struggling with specific syntax, not any particular function of the code.

Coding feels like trying to manipulate a clear model that exists in the machine by spelling my intentions out one letter at a time while peering through a straw.

1: http://appinventor.mit.edu/
Ubuntu is a lot more tolerable when you just decide to live with the fonts, window decorations, icons, as the defaults. Just like you have to on the Mac.

I could tweak a Linux box all day long. On a Mac I just turn it on and go to work. Now the hard part is deciding between GNOME3, Unity, LXDE...
> This statement implies that you did.

Why did I post? To emphasize that the OP is encouraging a no-standard standard. My reply adds the requirement that the people be qualified, as opposed to the idea that, as in the OP's original post, everyone who wants a tech position should get one.

My posts emphasize the opposite of what you claim.

> Am I missing something?

Yes, you are. Here is the original content:

"The goal of getting women into tech should be to equalize the gender ratio of the people who actually are in tech to that of the people who want to be in tech.

That's the real balance that we need to reach for -- and unlike what many people seem to think, this ratio is not necessarily 50%."

No mention of the qualifications of the candidates, only their number, their gender, and their wish to be in tech. It's a competence-blind standard. So I objected. Now I hear that I should have used my psychic abilities to divine the OP's real meaning.

> you didn't understand the OP's implied assumption.

The OP's "implied assumption" is not my responsibility, but that of the originator.

Effective communication starts with ... wait for it ... saying what you mean, and leaving nothing to the imagination. If a reader can reply and say, "Wait ... did you actually mean ...", then something is wrong.

Here's the key phrase:

" ... equalize the gender ratio of the people who actually are in tech to that of the people who want to be in tech ..."

If the OP really meant to specify qualified people, she should have said " ... correct the gender ratio of the people who actually are in tech by including people qualified to be in tech but unfairly excluded..." or other similar wording.

To assume rather than to specify is to make the classic error of assuming everyone has the same values and attitudes. If that were true, there would be no need to try to communicate ideas.
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Hmmm. As a traveler, I'm not sure I would find this of interest. Mainly because I still have to book everything myself. This could get onerous if the best deals have constraints that are hard to explain or easy to get wrong. I suppose that would be one of the difficult things to assess when viewing the deals pitched by the deal finders. Without knowing the agony/pain involved in the itinerary, you can't quite know if the best deal is worth it. Sometimes a great deal can be very inconvenient (long layovers, super early/late flights, multiple stops, etc) and not always what you'd choose if you knew the details. But revealing the details of the itinerary would seem to undermine the need to pay for a search by the deal finders. If you see the full itinerary, then people might not pay, unless all the pain points can be disclosed by the deal finders without giving too much away.

I dunno. Not for me. Sorry.
Yes, that's what the service does. He claims that it worked really well and people were willing to pay $50/month for it, so there must have been a decent conversion.
About the "fictive power law" thing: this is THE paper to read: http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062 (it's an easy read, explaining what the maximum likelihood method is, etc.). Despite what they say, fitting the log-log CDF usually gives pretty good results when done right (fitting the PDF does not)
What I'm saying is that it's not obvious that if the student who was admitted to Harvard decided not to go, he'd make less than the student who was admitted and did go.
Only if you're stuck treating people as one homogenous glob.

If you let people self-identify by interests (+french food, -foodie, +fine-dining) you can easily get actionable recommendations and minimize noise. The trick is that adding specificity exposes how small your user base is. And when you're dealing with an inherently local industry, even a massive user-base can start to look small when it's sliced up geographically and then by interest.
Given the small scale of the data points in question, there's no way to make the claim that advertisers in general like his product more than Twitter's. Even if I find that entirely plausible, I have to disagree with making such a dramatic statement without much larger scale testing.

Even in the case of this all being true, the real problem is the ability of in-house people to ignore reality and refuse to favor a not-made-here product. Always difficult to tell which way the wind will blow on that. Companies make really stupid decisions all the time.
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I infer from your comments that there would be no way to prove based on review display that Yelp was providing review relief if you pay for advertising, right? You basically have to trust their algo?
Well, I wish I saw the other review (or downloaded it) before getting my hopes up. It looks like they didn't fix f*ck all.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/25/ubuntu_13_04_review/

Note to self: continue to expect the worst in people.

(Edit: no malice understood, just brooding...)
So sales reps say that your good reviews will stay and your bad reviews will disappear, but what they say is untrue?

I don't know about the Thai restaurant owner, but I certainly trust JWZ. http://www.jwz.org/blog/2009/02/yelp-shakedown/
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your website is way too confusing .... I'm sorry but you need to add a video about 'how it works' and include how you're different than other networks and where is the savings coming from and for whom (publisher or advertisers or both)....

also is it free for publishers or is it free for advertisers??? ... do u mean u dont charge fees or commission that other network charge to advertisers???

btw, if your basic service is free then there is no need to tell people that u charge for adding value because the subconscious mind doesnt accept that well .... so just create a comparison chart to show how your service is FREE compared to others and in 3rd column you add your value added service which in fact should be really something that others are not offering or its too expensive ....

Good Luck
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It create the same value as a kid going to class, sharing a bag of sweet or fruits with the others in the class. Except, the bag is a star trek replicator. The act itself produce community, and community create society, and functioning society is a requirement for a even basic standard of living.

Denying people access to knowledge, culture and useful information on the single basis of money is in my view wrong. Why should we let poor farmers die of famine by denying them access to knowledge that cost us nothing to give? Why should only children from rich families be able to access culture and become great artists?

To quote professor Eben Moglen: The great moral question of the twenty-first century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?
I love that about ACL. Not only is open-access good and nice and all that, but it also means I don't have to screw around with VPNs and such when I need to get an article while I'm at home.
It's funny, they were not originally who I was thinking of when I brought up pay-capped Valley companies, but the more I think of it, the more they seem like the perfect template of a place not to work for.

Imagine being a smart kid who just spent 5 years surrounded by smart people working on nothing that's actually interesting, but the cult-like environment makes you think it is. Now suppose they sell and you go elsewhere only to find that the echo chamber you've been working in and the field engineer time you've spent has rotted away your previously top-notch CS skills, and you're coming out of it with a salary far below market norm. It's going to be a tough position for lots of their engineering staff.

It's also funny how they seem to have backed off quite a bit from the "we don't have a sales force/marketing staff" message.

* financial product line is a drag*

I was not aware of that. I would have assumed it was going like gang busters in a vertical with tons of money to put against tools. I wonder why?

Their other product seems like a fancy visio-clone tied to a database. Watching some videos makes me think that their message is "yay! Everybody is now a data-entry specialist!" Doesn't look like a fun or interesting product as a user.

having a human-in-the-loop

You'd think that with all the smart engineering talent they have, that there'd be more concentration on automating away lots of the drudgery I see in the videos. But they seem entirely uninterested in it. Videos on youtube from 5 years ago look almost identical to those released today. I'm not really sure where the engineering talent is focusing.

One guess, a move to html5?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cajoFN6yjB0

Where has all the money gone?
On a whim I took a look at their glassdoor profile, by the looks of it I'd wager they spend millions per year on useless cattle-call hiring. Some of the interview experiences are downright ghastly. And from the looks of the number of negative reviews, they're pissing off their future customers. Somebody they screwed around with and aren't hiring today is going to become a purchasing decision maker tomorrow.

To be fair, they appear to be pushing out internationally quite a bit, and that's hideously expensive, trying to replicate and size other markets they can get into. There's probably not much of a reason they couldn't find some penetration in other OECD countries.
Yelp records calls itself which is why it easily wins its legal matters.
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| I realize a lot has changed

There are a lot of non-UI changes that have happened since Ubuntu 5.04. E.g. pulseaudio, evdev, etc.
Except that the notion of property ownership predates written records and organized government. Copyright was started in the 17th century to address the failure of previous censorship efforts in a world of new technology (the printing press), and eventually became a means by which printers could secure a competitive advantage.

We now live in a world where the machines needed to copy things are commonly owned by individuals. Copyright, having been designed to regulate industry, is massively out of date -- individuals do not have the resources needed to decide if they are abiding by copyright. Even the entertainment companies that cry about the importance of copyrights know this, which is why they keep pushing for DRM. No sane person actually believes that normal people are going to stop and think about whether or not they are obeying copyright laws; that is just not how people generally behave.

The truth is, in the 21st century copyright is nothing more than a red flag law that exists solely to protect obsolete industries.
> WASP kids (like my daughter)

white nope
anglo saxon nope, and not even if she were your biological daughter.
protestant ... maybe. is she religious?
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An important distinction here - the allegations don't just devolve into he-said/she-said: they've been outright dismissed, with prejudice, by courts of law as without merit.

Yelp has tens of thousands of paying business customers, and yet with all the sensationalistic media play this type of story somehow continues to generate, no one has ever produced empirical evidence of a single documented case of pay-for-play. I'll also point out that there are at least three former Yelp engineers on this thread - some of whom didn't even like working at the company - who are steadfastly defending Yelp's business practices as legitimate and above-board.

By all means, record it if it happens. But don't hold your breath.