skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if his story is true there's a lot of fallacious arguments and lack of reasoning in his claims. It's the type of "I-can-do-anything" mentality that was his pitfall.

Just because he might think that using somebody else's trademark to create a revenue stream for yourself is doing them a favor, doesn't mean anybody else has to. I don't have pity for his point-of-view, but I do think that it was unnecessary and irrelevant to suspend his Google Wallet account.

Still, it doesn't matter what I think: Google reserves the right to do whatever they want.
Ask HN: Which Open source project in Pyhton should I start contributing to?
I'm fairly new to Pyhton but, an experienced programmer. Hence, I got the concepts pretty fast and can now write fairly complex code in it. However, I would love to contribute to an OS project in Python so that I can see some real life production codes in python and learn "pythonic" way of doing things. Any suggestions?
Dude, two more zero's before we even start talking.
The commoner kinds of red/green colorblindness, though, are by no means absolute. Most red/green colorblind men can tell highly saturated reds and greens apart -- they only have difficulty with low-saturation refs and greens.
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Criminals are actually fairly rare. Once everyone's genetic data is captured it's actually more likely that any given individual will be falsely accused of a crime by lazy cops and prosecutors. "You coughed on a window adjacent to the crime scene, some time in the week before the crime! Guilty!"
Not to mention conflict with Russia over Ukraine (i.e. Europe needs Russia's natural gas too much and Russians have too much capital tied up in Europe).
I thought it was weird that he kept mentioning children's apps but then has one for Vice TV.
He also claims to have done $500,000 of development for the eco system for Google in the spirit of Open Source with the development he had done before being banned.
Honestly, any manager who does not have a hands-on approach is a waste (20 years business/it experience).
That said, there is what I call management-craftsmanship, i.e. knowing how the legal environment influences you, understanding accounting etc., stuff you learn in (any) mba. This craftsmanship may be confused with being a good manager. It is not. It is just basics which wear off quickly. These types just do not add value mid- and long-term. They are usually just highly political bureaucrats.

Just be smart and study other companies. Google comes to mind. And be critical (value-adding, benevolent) with yourself.
I'm not sure I was painting him as "different" from me, or even making it about him vs. me at all.

The onus is on you, the person using the service, to understand what terms and conditions you have agreed to abide by when using that service. If Google fail to uphold their end of the agreement and you lose revenue, you can seek remedy through legal means (although, obviously, that's a pretty crap position to be in); if the agreement doesn't protect you from arbitrary banishment from the service for life, then that is important to know up front.

It would be awesome if Google's support was better; it would be awesome if they were more responsive to the people that make their money through the marketplace they've set up; but ultimately they have no legal obligation to be any of those things, and in business your legal obligations are your only obligations. (I am making no qualitative defense of that fact, merely describing its existence.)

If one doesn't keep those things in mind, then regardless of how irresponsible Google is or isn't, that failure constitutes a kind of irresponsibility all its own.

Whether I personally would never fall afoul of something like this (possible, since I'm a programmer, not a lawyer) is secondary to the best way of dealing with a much larger company that holds all of the cards (follow the terms and conditions; heed the multiple warnings they give you). My personal discomfort at Google acting like jerks is, too (insofar as I don't currently rely on them for any kind of revenue).
This Common Home Appliance Can Compromise Your Entire Security
Opencart? It's a very neat ecommerce solution but could still benefit from a lot more development. Eg proper eBay integration, improved reporting, responsive design...
I think that high-profile projects have a necessary tendency to default to a fairly high bar for contribution quality and a more heavyweight process for how much testing/review/rework needs to be done to get the patch in. This flows from the fact that they have a lot of users (so regressions are bad and UI changes or new features need more thought/consensus) and often a high rate of patch submission (so maintainers can be short on time to help bring less-than-perfect contributions up to standard). Within that there are of course more and less friendly projects.
Hoverboards... if Back to the Future was right, we'll have them in October of next year.

"For instance, Rosch and his colleagues have calculated that whereas clouds of atoms would normally be pulled downwards by gravity, if part of the cloud is at a negative absolute temperature, some atoms will move upwards, apparently defying gravity"
More informative link with actual videos:

http://kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0/
I've had this idea about how ads should work in situations like this floating around in my head for a while. I know nothing about advertising or monetizing websites and likely this idea has already been presented and shot down but I'd like to see a conversation about it either way. Company X pays Reddit a fixed fee to display a mutually approved, static image, hosted by Reddit servers, linked to a mutually approved web page, on the specified page(s), for a specific amount of time. No generic ad network placeholder, no impression count, no JavaScript, no user tracking, no analytics. Reddit is simply trusted to present the image/link as agreed and Company X is trusted to keep the agreed upon web page at the URL, no switcheroos after the agreement is effective. Maybe the community would know about this arrangement and respect it by not blocking the easily identifiable (no cleaver markup disguises from Reddit) ad elements on the page. I'm thinking the link URL needs to be static, Reddit wouldn't dynamically add anything to it. If the trust is broken by any party the deal is off. Thoughts?
IMO I'd start the role as Operations Manager or Director of Operations and grow it from there with the company. Lets you get someone for cheaper who can hopefully grow into the role as the company grows. It doesn't sound like you need a full-fledged COO yet anyway.
It was probably Harry Daghlian. I could not find any footage of him on YouTube.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_K._Daghlian,_Jr.
>I don't think he fully understands what he really did wrong.

Well, yeah, that's the point of the article. That google never made it clear what he did wrong, so that he could fix it.
Could you elaborate on the reporting framework? Couldn't find any details on it...
It's not a low rating that triggers a reciprocal low rating. But an obnoxious and fussy person who gives out low ratings should be discounted if in turn multiple drivers have given him/her low ratings (for being obnoxious).
Its probably club policy - when you become a member you sign a contract agreeing to whatever it costs to be a member, plus either hole in one insurance or the promise to purchase drinks for everyone there that day.
the Equation song does sound really interesting!
I don't necessarily think this is what he meant, but generators can sometimes be operated in synchronous condensing mode. In this mode, the generator is run as a motor, which consumes real power but can help with reactive power issues important to grid stability.
Seems like Full Contact? http://www.fullcontact.com/
Not sure I get the point? You just feel that it is over featured?

For my part, this is a nice addition, as I use gnus for my rss reading. Highly tempted to use it for my email, as well. Not that uncommon to see multimedia files there.

I also am getting in to org-mode pretty heavily. Is nice to be able to embed video for playback once something is exported to a web page.
> ...my thesis was that the Great Firewall is economically beneficial for China.

Not quite.

While protectionism can help bootstrap a domestic industry, shutting out competition doesn't always build an industry that can compete internationally. Worse yet, your industry might get involved in the political process and entrench its way of business.

Look at the Brazilian auto industry. About 50 years ago, Brazil passed import controls to boost the domestic auto industry. Today Brazil has one of the top 10 auto makers (can't remember which), and they export to...Argentina. Meanwhile Toyota--keeping in mind how big Toyota was 50 years ago--exports everywhere.

Building up the domestic market then moving to exports isn't a proven way to build up an industry. Being export-driven first, then focusing domestically is.

(I'm off topic from sanctions here, but there is a reason tariffs don't work)
I'm surprised he missed this connection: George Boole's great-great-grandson is named Geoffrey Hinton, and has not only done great work on recommendation engines, but is generally regarded as one of the worlds most important researchers on machine learning and AI.
> Google only holds power over those swaths of people who surrendered some aspects of their lives to Google

No. Google wallet is, as of now, an unacceptable payment processor for me. Its existence, however, precludes other competitors from entering the space. As such, even if I do not use Google services, its power still affects me.

For a reduction to the absurd, imagine Google wallet a payment processor monopolist, or a duopolist (with PayPal).
Yes, alterations elsewhere could most certainly have an impact on personality and intellect - but certainly a person with severe frontal lobe damage suffers more profound personality changes and working memory deficits than someone who experiences damage elsewhere, correct? I'm reminded of the story of Phineas Gage who had severe injuries to his frontal lobes, and according to people who encountered him displayed poor judgment/impulsivity for the rest of his days. There have been challenges to these reports, with some saying that Phineas Gage was very functional even after the accident.
I'm inclined to believe that the truth is somewhere between "Severely disabled" and "Perfectly functional," which means some aspects of reports about his personality changes are accurate.
http://qtile.org is written in python and always looking for contributors :)
The most amusing thing is that the Play Store has an incredibly easy way alpha test as well as beta test versions that are distributed only to users who have signed up for testing. In fact, when you upload the apk to the store it's almost literally impossible to miss it. The one issue I have with their test mechanism is that test users have to have an account with Google(even if it's just membership to a single Google Group).

What the OP did was publish spammy garbage. Not to say Google couldn't afford to put a more human touch on their customer and developer relations, but the OP is just way out of line on this one.
It's a closed tender, so that's hardly a possibility.
Yes, and many more of us wish our employers would let us use it at work too.
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That's completely not the scenario, though?

All the content is already available on youtube. He's just providing a different way of finding it. Nothing wrong with it.
As a counterpoint, larger projects will have new contributors coming along more frequently, so they may be more ready and able to help the inexperienced contributor. That’s my observation in the Rust community, for example.
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His friends consisted of "99.9% of everyone I know uses iOS", are probably contemptuous of Android. Which seems to be a common attitude amongst the apple fanbois. I don't think his friends could've helped him.
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Well within a fraction of a cycle/second. One of the big reasons is that a generator's mechanical speed is directly tied to the electrical frequency. This includes the prime-movers that actually drive the generators. Many of these large machines don't react well to operating far from their design speed, which can cause huge issues.
Here is a really baffling bug that I can't figure out, and I've tried very hard:

https://github.com/amoffat/sh/issues/141

EDIT: whoops, wtf.zip 404s, give me a moment to fix that url.

EDIT2: Crap. I have completely lost the test case. Oh well, if I manage to reproduce it, I'll reopen that bug.
Original and rather steeply priced for a job board:

"Our standard recruitment service fee is 30% of the annualized salary on full-time positions."
If one person does it, it's a whine. When Airbnb or Uber does it, it's fighting back against the establishment.

Not suggesting he was right, but you can't be apart of this community without noticing these things.
I don't get it. What does it do?
Eh? Did you read the post?

"I wrote a simple YouTube client app using the latest YouTube APIs" - The content was not pirated, he created an app with one purpose; to allow you to play videos from one particular YouTube channel.
Does he need a license to use those images in Reunion (or wherever his server is)? It looks like it could be a fair-use under USC too? Styling yourself as DeNiro in Taxi Driver might even class as parodical and so be an allowed use?

But your general point in your first clause stands.
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Didn't (Open)Suse also use btrfs by default ?

I've seen a talk by someone from Suse. He had a two part sentence.
The first part was: btrfs is good and stable (paraphrasing)
The second part was: when used with a single device

So that means something like RAID1 on 2 disks is a still a bad idea.

The way CoreOS ends up using btrfs is also on single devices I believe.
> I don't think he fully understands what he really did wrong.

Google not making it entirely clear in their hellbanning email what he did wrong makes the hellbanning double unfair in my opinion.
Catalyst is not less complex than Mojolicious, if that is your measure of goodness. From an installing pov or from usability. In Mojolicious you don't need Moose, and you don't have an explicit model layer so you aren't pushed towards using an ORM. You can use either, but they aren't a hard or suggested requirement. The MojoCasts might be a good place to start if all you've done is read and come up with a slightly off impression http://mojocasts.com/e1
IMHO, the best way to find like minded co-founders is to actively attend meetups, hackathons, conferences and related events. You will be surprised how often you will find passionate people who are very much willing to work and join forces with people like you.
This seems incredibly invasive. Can anyone imagine something positive and constructive this could be used for?

Also what does "big data logic" mean?
camelcamelcamel.com for Amazon products is pretty nifty
The SUV is the perfect "form factor" for an electric vehicle because they are typically large and heavy so the big battery pack will not hurt so much in the weight budget. The Model S weighs in at around 2100kg, when similarly sized cars with internal combustion engines are around 1400-1700kg.

The Model 3 has potential to shift the whole market if they can provide a practical electric family car for the average people living in suburban areas.
It is telling that your response is laced with pejoratives and begging the question. This seems like a common pattern. If it weren't for the fact that the actions that may be taken, using this issue as justification, could destroy economies and greatly reduce quality of life for billions of people, it would be comical that you then go on to talk about "actual debate."
What he wanted is stated clearly in the article:

"I emailed Google back and asked them to tell me exactly what I need to change to be compliant with the rules. Is it the icon? The name? The disclaimer? What? Google refused to give me any additional information. So, I just left the app in the suspended state and never attempted to update it since I really didn’t know what I needed to change".
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How does this show if one battery is better than the other? Doesn't it just show how often he charges his batteries?
What's to stop someone from selling one of these exploits to multiple nations and companies?

What is the normal process for selling these exploits? They'd want to see the exploit first, I'm guessing in person, then they transfer over the money, then you give the code and details?

What if someone wanted to remain anonymous during the transaction? What would be the best method of doing that? You couldn't really send a friend because it might be easy to trace back to you, and it would be hard to trust a stranger.
Redfin, but they don't do anything outside of the big cities. (Redfin doesn't service my area, for example - while I used Trulia to look at the school boundary markers and occasionally to look at houses.)

Zillow's site is crap compared to Trulia. Hopefully they acknowledge that and bring Zillow's data onto Trulia's stack.
This is why we can't have nice things you just assume he's not going to comply but you don't even make an attempt to resolve the issue in a gentlemanly fashion.

Why? Because you can't be bothered to

Yes, because it's a waste of time and resources.

One developer, one email conversation, fine, not the largest time investment.

What about all of the other developers in the world?

Especially if this became a recognised method of gaining work?

Suddenly you need full-time staff dedicated to the non-core-business activity of writing "gentlemanly" emails.

It's unworkable.
Ordering an expensive car ride, presumably.
On The Importance Of Forgetting
1. Don't repackage other people's content. Especially with their trademarks attached. If they had no role in creating the app, don't be a jerk. If you want to make a video app, make a general-purpose video app and teach your users how to add channels.

2. I can't help but appreciate the karma angle of someone who tried to repackage web content as apps getting bitten by the gatekeepers of the walled garden.

3. Ah, Google, the business that would certainly still exist (and be as large and powerful as it currently is) had it been forbidden to ever skirt the limits of copyright law...
Good question, has anyone tried Cofounderslab.com or similar services ?
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"Now then" - also a grammatically curious greeting in Yorkshire.
You're also forgetting the biggest thing, I think, standing in the way: Intimidation. Perhaps in their minds, they aren't expert developers, and are just learning, and therefore, their contributions to a very large project like Firefox or Linux would be unwelcome--as they probably are a little too scared to start. A self-confidence issue, as it were.

Through the lens of the internet, it certainly feels sometimes like everybody knows everything--you often forget that you're getting thousands of viewpoints rather than just one super programmer doing everything. I can definitely see how this would be intimidating for newer developers.

Cutting your teeth on obscure open source projects is a way to build up your self-confidence, work with others, and see your contributions make a tangible benefit.
> Packaging another person's content should result in an immediate take down of an app. A content owner should not have to opt out of other people using their material, that is akin to telling people you can use someone's stuff until they catch you.

Why do you place the content into the internet if you don't want other people to use it? You also don't complain about search engines indexing your content or other people linking to your content.
No, the word for "not reasoning" is "unreasoning". "Unreasonable" means something else. In the phrase "reasonable mistake" I mean it in the sense of "ordinary or usual". E.g.: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/reasonable

It is not unusual for new or small businesses to just wing it on accounting for a while and then hire an accountant who has to tidy things up. (If you don't believe me, ask any small business accountant; my pals have story after story like this.) If we take him at his word, him thinking that the payroll service was handling the withholding is also reasonable. And him assuming everything was jake unless somebody was yelling at him is not just reasonable but typical of first-time entrepreneurs. The main unusual thing here is the scope of error and consequences, but startups are all about rapid increase in size, so that's not unusual in context.

Of course, this could also be fraud: he could have known for years that he wasn't paying withholding, hoping to make it up later. It could be that he actively avoided thinking it through or was willfully careless, which would make it negligence. But as he presents it, it's a reasonable mistake. You can see more about exactly what this means if you look in legal sources for "mistake of fact".

That said, I think your skepticism about his story is reasonable. That his partners have both quit after losing confidence in him would make me unsurprised if this turned out to be fraud, not just an honest but titanically stupid mistake.
The big hole in this theory, in its current form, seems to be that the plane flew over land, at night, and the pilots should have recognized where they were from the pattern of city lights and road lights, and not flown away from the land.
Real Estate agents. Craigslist to some extent.

Generally speaking the biggest competitor to any innovate website is the status quo and apathy. Every startup I have ever been in had a harder fight against people that were reluctant to move to better technology than against our direct competitors.
Pay- or registration-walled, alas.
They don't want to 'buy' the exploit outright, just fund the R&D. Thank you sensationalist media.
Your honor, I object!

Why?

Because it's devastating to my case!
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The game sucks on a laptop.
Yeah. That's a bit ridiculous. If that was $500,000 of work, I should be a billionaire.
libffi is widely used by Python and many other languages, but it has very few contributors, and needs help.
he probably factored in all the time he spent learning to build the first app, and then multiplied it by 10...if he's an independent developer i'd be very hesitant to contract him given his poor billing techniques
Not if you're a MITM attacker... CPAN (presumably) retrieves its source code either over HTTPS or validates what it downloads using signing keys like 'doesnt_know' referred to. These curl scripts do not, they just grab executable code using http, and then blindly execute it. If you were MITMing these people, you could easily adjust this code and pwn their machines. This isn't about CPAN/github getting compromised, this is about things being modified on the wire (which is a very real possibility when using insecured wifi, or less likely if for some reason the goverment wants you).
Amazon opens web store for customizable 3D printed products
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"Open in incognito window" did the trick for me.
Human experience isn't divided up into silos. If economists notice something about biology from a different perspective, we should evaluate their findings, not immediately distrust or dismiss them.
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FWIW, The Economist is a pretty good magazine (err, I mean "newspaper"), worth subscribing to.