skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These days, "her" to combat the implicit assumption that people must be male is common enough, it's almost safer to assume that "him" means someone who is specifically male.

I think this is not true yet. Anecdotally I personally only noticed this first a few months ago and no one I've discussed it with in real life has yet known what I'm talking about.
Great article, there's something I didn't quite understand though. Why would the Sun's gravity make the probe go _slower_ as it moves _away_ from it?
This guide is short and contains very little useful information.
Yes, the main difference is that apparently this is fully automated and does not require any human intervention.
I am an italian male engineer, and my wife is an hungarian female psychologist: trying to grow a baby together causes cultural clashes about every 2 hours[0].

Moreover, my feeling is that, much like diets, parenting is a very fashion driven thing.
At some point french style parenting was hip, then nordic style parenting, then asian style parenting...

I find it unsurprising that new fads come up, and something good will probably stick, but personally, I am a firm believer in the CTFD method[1].

[0] weaning at 9 months, are you crazy? why the heck are we allowing her to eat by herself, she only makes a mess! Of course it's ok to eat parmigiano at 6 months! Stop picking her up! Pick her up more often! Do not let her cry! Kids should learn to calm themselves! etc etc

[1] calm the f* down, kids will be ok http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/55268573331/latest-paren...
You cherrypicked the one number (CIA GINI) for India that was above average, and not even above the US.

India UNR/P = 8.6, WB Gini = 33.6, CIA R/P = 8.6, CIA Gini = 42.8

USA UNR/P = 15.9, WB Gini = 41.1, CIA R/P = 15, CIA Gini = 45

I have no idea what you mean by "middle class" - there are many possible definitions.

Now that your claims about incentives and your conflation of poverty and inequality are debunked, you still believe that inequality is somehow bad? What facts (if any) would cause you to reject this belief?
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Tig: text-mode interface for Git
Since YouTube started making money, Hollywood wants a larger cut. This prompts google to make international copyright law more permissive, so hollywood's content depreciates in value.
The reason why building to block cellular is important is that many conventions would otherwise bring in cellular modems to provide internet access. Without cellular signal, they have to pay the convention center for internet access.

(for phone service, people just have to give up and go outside)
Sounds to me like there's fraud activity observed or reported, likely by more than one guest in the same location.
chinathrow is right.

A community is a body of people who respect and act in each other's best interests or for the collective good.

A company is not a community, it's a for-profit enterprise, and it does not give a fuck about respecting you or your best interests if there is profit to be made, or even if there is internal bureaucracy to be followed.

Loyalty to business and corporate interests is seldom well placed.
I would say go work for another company. At 23 y.o. there is a lot to learn about managing people, running companies, planning and executing projects.

While you are looking for that next great idea, get the skills so an investor believes that you can execute on that great idea.
Does Airbnb have two factor login ? If so use it.
"They can't be a community when participation is subject to veto by a single entity/person."

Says who?
This is not any requirement of any commonly accepted definition of community.

You certainly can just make crap up and define words however you like, but you can't expect others to go along with you :)
But we fixed it! :D
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This definitely sounds like some agency was using/used the home as a safe house.
I love cynicism as much as the next guy.
However, but considering Google has been fighting the good fight on TPP since before they owned Youtube (i can personally attest to this, since i worked in the DC office :P), i'm going to suggest you simply have no idea what you are talking about :)
I think you have the general idea - look for problems to solve.

You won't stumble upon ideas locked in your room. You must get a job, any job, and look at all the problems surrounding you.

Think about timing, luck, skill, and opportunity.

luck = preparation + opportunity
opportunity=get out there
> If you're technical enough to understand git then you're technical enough to set up your own hosting server.

I don't agree. Many people use GIT without having any knowledge of the work necessary to keep a server secure all year around.

Amateur git usage is definitely a thing and not necessarily a small one.
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This argument doesn't make a lot of sense to me when it comes to bigger companies like Google, MS, Apple, etc. etc. Do you know how much H1Bs at these companies make? The data is open, you can look at how much Google pays them in the Bay Area for example. To say that Americans WON'T accept such salaries is ridiculous to me
AirBnB's ability to handle failure modes is beyond bad.

If a host fails to accommodate you, you better have a hotel in mind for a plan B.

Their UK customer service phone line drops calls after 300 seconds in the waiting queue. Go and try it: +448435047257

Form replies to e-mails, never enough detail, multiple days' response times.

What's the procedure for documenting a host has checked in, or hasn't? That's right, there isn't one. They do everything by hand, and is't a he said/she said, I will take a week to deliberate, and then cut the baby in half kind of deal.
Quiz: How well do you know Internet slang? – Technology – theguardian.com
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What kind of R&D is Uber doing?
Because the sun attracts the probe (and vice versa). Or equivalently the probe is climbing out of the gravity well of the sun loosing kinetic energy in exchange for potential energy in the sun's gravitational field.
As the old hacker snark says 'Any language that can't compile itself is a toy language'.
I recently went through the exact same experience. Absolute shit.
Are you using forks and remote pull requests? Try Gitcolony
I just thought that this particular mission was initiative of Mr Scott himself, not the Internet Archive as business entity.
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Just FYI, you can get a $5000 scholarship, if you're accepted. Just tell them you saw it on Hacker News & you want the "Bring a Friend" scholarship.

And the copywriting of the website is very different than the program, which includes professors from Oxford, Columbia, LBS, INSEAD (Dan Kahenemann's thesis advisor!) and the Technion
"it's a younger person's game."

If you expect to work on projects like Google Maps/Earth, Android, search, images (machine learning), cardboard VR, gmail, etc. etc. and don't have an understand of algorithms or data structures, then Google isn't really the place for you.

You can't expect "frameworks" or libraries to do everything for you
I looked it up.

"a tenant farmer especially in the southern United States who is provided with credit for seed, tools, living quarters, and food, who works the land, and who receives an agreed share of the value of the crop minus charges"

There are no crops involved in the posted story. Further, AirBNB doesn't own the land so I'm not sure the term even makes sense as a metaphor.
Quick read the AirBnB terms (termination). Seems like they can basically terminate you however/whenever they want.
IANAL but that seems rather flimsy. Aren't they essentially an infrastructure provider (website, app, booking etc.) that should have service contracts?

That pretty much means you should not and cannot depend on AirBnB as a major source of income. Risk management wise that's just insane.
It puts a decent amount of theoretical "extortion power" in their hands.
"Oh yeah we see you make X which likely means you heavily depend on this income. Would you kindly agree to these new terms/new rates or be screwed?"

Independent of all of this it is horrible style to terminate someone without further notice or reason. Writing this into ToS is a pretty bad sign.
It generally seems better to have a policy that defaults to explaining the reason for termination except in special cases (funny money laundering laws etc.).

Makes me wonder, is there is any "ToS" ranking site out there? X,Y,Z in ToS are a bad sign, here's why? Kind of like the sites calling out bad UX practices that are meant to trick people into buying extra stuff.
Guix [almost] ported to GNU/Hurd
It's always possible, but doesn't seem like the sort of thing they'd do. If it's a domestic problem they'd sort it out themselves.
Sadly, this one is probably an exception to Betteridge's law.
Thank you very much indeed!
Take a look at http://olivierblanchard.net/stop-calling-it-the-sharing-econ...
This is a great way to think about the problem. Find the answer to what you are trying to deliver, and then that will define your constraints on which stack you can choose.
"It seemed to me like you try hard to prove yourself to get in just to be on the bottom of the totem pole where being recognized would be very hard. So I didn't bother and worked at other smaller companies."

Is recognition one's main objective when working at such companies?

Some people do it for the pride. But for many the chance to work on some great projects and learn from arguably the best in the industry is an opportunity which is too hard to pass up.
Stop calling it the Sharing Economy – That isn’t what it is
To me a lot of this was similar to how parenting is done in India even today - Carrying the child and having relatives take care of the child etc. Just unbelievable how resource-intensive these tiny things are :)
It's the way they deliver that message that is really messed up. If you need to fire somebody, do it swiftly, and cleanly.
Part of the problem is, that it's highly undesirable having to mark every node as rtl, when it should just be inerited.

Eventually (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/%3Adir) will be able to write it like this:

.some-class {
&:dir(rtl) { margin-right: 1em; }
&:dir(ltr) { margin-left: 1em; }
}

Right now it's probably easiest to load an additional stylesheet when a RTL language is used.
In the olden days they used to be called User Groups - most big tech corps had them, run mostly by the customers. But that's an unfashionable term these days, just like my beige cords and jumpers with elbow patches.
It's good to be the king.

Google is king of search and can cut you off without reason or explanation. AirBNB is king of home sharing and can cut you off without reason or explanation.

Companies that have a virtual monopoly can treat their ecosystem this way because there's no reason not to.

If this is the way they treat their very best hosts, can you imagine how rock bottom badly you'll be treated if you're anything less than a stellar superstar.
Previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8942783
"Have to"? That's a strong phrase. I don't have to do anything. I can filter the content delivered to me however I want. There's no EULA, no TOU, that lays down a quid pro quo of content for ads.

"Nobody has ever made the claim that they posses ownership of your attention." I think you misunderstand the entire advertising business then. It is the selling of "impressions" of some slice of "attention", else it would have no value. If I am under no obligation to view an ad then I am under no obligation to have an ad made viewable to me, period.

As for the term "suffering", way to derail an argument with semantics. That term was chosen because it fits in with the typical puritanical worldview of having to "earn" anything good by paying for it with toil. There's no value to me being even the slightest bit inconvenienced by an ad, zero. It's just an artifact of a broken accounting system and I refuse to let it rule over me like some bizarre kafkaesque daydream.

I support content creators. I pay for content. I do my part.

I spent 20 years looking at ads on the web. I'm done.
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Lovely. My first question as a noob-not-even-osx-developer-yet is why not Swift? (my impression is that it is a quite recent project).
I am not making crap up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community

Community... "who mutually define that relationship (subjectively) as important to their social identity and social practice."

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/community :

1. a unified body of individuals: as
a : state, commonwealth
b : the people with common interests living in a particular area; broadly : the area itself <the problems of a large community>
c : an interacting population of various kinds of individuals (as species) in a common location
d : a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society <a community of retired persons>
e : a group linked by a common policy
f : a body of persons or nations having a common history or common social, economic, and political interests <the international community>
g : a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered through a larger society <the academic community>
2
: society at large
3
a : joint ownership or participation <community of goods>
b : common character : likeness <community of interests>
c : social activity : fellowship
d : a social state or condition

Notice that in the dictionary definition of community is that there is lots of references to "group of people", "unified", etc. but no reference that allows for a single entity to determine membership.

Therefore people hosting for AirBNB are not part of a community.
I'm working on a exchange rate tracker, currently for Swedes working in Norway. Basically the idea is to setup alerts on favorable rates and deliver them via mail.

https://svenskpeng.nu/ (in Swedish) if it catches on I'll extend it to other currencies.
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That may not always be possible. For example, if you have a neural network doing the flagging, you might not be able to figure out exactly 'why' a particular account was flagged.
Paleo diet: Big brains needed carbs
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150806133148.ht...
Studying hard and mastering a subject can be fun too, though the fun only comes after hard work. Too often this message is lost in today's schools.
Imagine if they dealt with their employees in the same way.

Your fired, leave. I'm not telling you why.

The unicorn paradox:

1. Create a small startup to disrupt the corporations
2. Create a loyal user base
3. Ride the hockey stick on your unicorn
4. Treat your users as a commodity as you scale
5. Become a terms & conditions black box
6. Congratulations, you are a corporation.
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When?
Anti-money laundering regulation was my first guess as to why, but it doesn't really fit because companies are not allowed to do anything to warn customers that they are under investigation. Cancelling their account could certainly tip them off to this and so it seems unlikely that it would comply.

Having said that, I don't know what the Thai regulations are. Perhaps this fits better under those.
Is there a link on this post? I'm just seeing

<a href="http://[GSoC update] Porting Guix to GNU/Hurd" rel="nofollow">

and yet this post has 5 upvotes and is on frontpage #1 right now? Spambots? Why exactly are people upvoting this for?
That's the CEO of GitLab, and they do offer paid for services.
Would you recommend any particular industry? Should it be a startup or a bigger company?
dead link on Edge
I guess people who have read it from other sources and are upvoting because they want to highlight the news. Also, people upvoting to save and read it later.

EDIT: missed a word
I saw some of the photos some time ago in a different article and now recognized them. It seems they are from different place/time or for some reason workers want to show the nice jackets they have.

Google reverse image search show they collected images from different places. If I remember corectly this was the article : http://www.unknownfieldsdivision.com/blog/?author=2 it is from Summer 2014.
Seeing the same weirdness.

Here's another link: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-08/msg003...
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C# + ASP.NET is great, but have you considered ServiceStack? It is not free, but I think it's a much better option than Web API for RESTful services.

However, that being said, I still prefer the JVM ecosystem over .NET. You're simply spoiled for choice.

I've been working on a Scala (Play! Framework) web app and I thoroughly enjoy the flexibility of the Scala language.
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Shameless plug: If you want the data in dropbox encrypted, try https://github.com/lucas-clemente/git-cr :) I think I've also solved most of the concurrency problems, but haven't tested it yet.
The problem here is that this sort of termination clause is basically standard practice these days. For instance, Google's TOS just says "Google may also stop providing Services to you, or add or create new limits to our Services at any time": http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/ - That's pretty damn scary given that I (and most people I know) have a Gmail account as their primary contact!

Everyone just accepts it on the assumption that it's a last-ditch protection against 'bad people', and hopes that in their case if anything goes wrong the company will deal transparently and fairly with them.
"So far the emails have been opened and read over 350 times, from multiple places around the world. Who knows who these email addresses really go to."

1)How can you track this in a reliable way?
2)So 350 read this email and did not answer it? Do I read that correctly?
What was the point of having someone phone the account holder but not act like a human being? If you're going to hide behind the algo (and hopefully do an investigation and apology) isn't it better not to have any human contact? If you phone someone, the person on the other end tends to expect some humanity (ability to ask questions, commitment to investigate).
7 easy ways to expose your website to hackers
>We keep all of our files in Dropbox.

Wrong.
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You can only succeed if you allow yourself to fail. It is better to try and fail than never having tried at all. Try new things, 1 out of 10 start-ups succeed. Look at the past not as failures but as lessons to help you in your next start-up.
BLACK SWAN: “pictures” as we know will change if they start to speak
Any plan for importing data from Slack, thus easing the migration?
Isn't the contention "it would have been possibly affordable / reasonable if mid-tier manufacturing were still locally available in the United States"?
The company is not a community (arguable) but it has a community.
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I don't like to be the "I told you so" guy.
But I told you so.

I wrote this a couple of years ago:

"All Eggs in One Airbnb"
http://www.adormo.com/blog/marketing/all-the-eggs-in-one-air...

because I keep meeting hosts who say "I'm fine with just Airbnb".
The build a whole business based on a single website, a single failure point.

Disclosure: we help hosts be present in several platforms, including Airbnb.
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I'll assume by "the good fight" you meant "[making] international copyright law more permissive."

Surely you see how that was in your employer's best interests for other parts of their business long before they bought YouTube?
perfectly said.
Touché.

+1
+1 vote for Elixir.

I am learning it at the moment. Enjoyed the Ruby (syntax) with some functional programming capability, but the biggest selling point for me was the fact that it runs on the Erlang VM.

PS. Don't forget: http://exercism.io/languages/elixir
1. Quickly create a project you personally think is useful. Learn whatever skills that are necessary to do it yourself. It doesn't matter what it is. It could be model train videos on YouTube. The important thing is that you are personally excited by making it exist. Don't worry about how serious it seems at all. Tinker.

2. Publish it to the world and get it in front of as many likely users as possible.

3. Based on the feedback of users, give up or push ahead. Don't spend more than a few months on any project unless you're 100% sure it's awesome. Just do something new.

4. Repeat until you've found something both you and users agree is great.

You only have to be right once to have a big impact.
What is your data source? Does the exchange rate vary a lot across the sources?
Read his statement here:

http://www.lescienze.it/news/2012/03/30/news/opera_ereditato...

What happened before is described in the Nautilus article:

"In March of 2012, as the dust settled, the OPERA collaboration held another vote, this time to determine whether the collaborators had confidence in the leaders of the experiment. Each member institution got one vote. The tally ended at 16 to 13 favoring no confidence with several abstentions, well short of the two-thirds majority required to impeach the leadership, but enough to send a strong message. Both the OPERA leader, Ereditato, and the experimental coordinator, Dario Autiero, resigned."

He's, as far as I understand, now the director of the Laboratory for High Energy Physics at Bern University:

http://www.lhep.unibe.ch/modx/index.php?id=86&uid=4
Nice Post! this are some basic security masseurs that ever website owner should take that helps a lot...
Most kids start the day with a bowl of sugar, flavored corn, and lactose. They're a hyperactive lethargic mess. Is it surprising they can't concentrate?
Unless there are any unusual requirements, if I were starting a web project today I would use these technologies:

- Angular/Bootstrap on the front end
- Java/Spring Boot on the server
- PostgreSQL on the data tier
- deploy on AWS

All of these are distinctly conservative choices at this point, but using tried-and-true technologies has real advantages. They raise no red flags with bosses or prospective investors. They are well supported and will be for a long time. And it is easy to find knowledgeable people if you need to scale up staff.

Since you are a Rails guy, you might want to substitute Rails for Spring Boot. It's a respected system, and you already know it. Win.

If I had the latitude to take one risk in choosing the tech stack, I would swap out the Java/Spring Boot for Haskell/Yesod, since I grow increasingly frustrated with Java's verbosity. But this choice definitely has downsides: I know Java _much_ better than Haskell, and Haskell is rare enough that if I needed more than a couple of developers, I'd need to either hire them remotely or develop them from scratch.

Similarly, you might want to take a chance on one off-beat component if it catches your eye. But just one.
I agree. I'd also like to add that as long as architectural best practices are followed, the switching costs and risk can be minimised.
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