skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I respectfully agree to disagree but thanks for the example about Heroku. That's a very fair point.
It would be nice to see how the 6s Plus compares as well since it has better image stabilization hardware.
* Just about every .tgz I've ever downloaded had instructions on the downloading page to verify its signature

* I can inspect a .tgz easier than a .deb (tar -tzf)

* More often than not, the tgz version is in its filename (foobar.1.3.0-24.amd64.tgz)

* With that info, I can bug report it

* Fair 'nuff on depdencies

* I know what the tgz was built for and supports by either the download page or the filename

* Just about every tgz package I've ever downloaded included a Makefile that handled installation and uninstallation

* Offline unpacking is the only way to handle tgz's

Literally the only benefit to offline unpacking a .deb vs offline unpacking a .tgz is that the former includes a CONTROL file that lists dependencies in it.
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The second, and more damaging, part of the AiRbNb story is when people become management companies and rent a dozen or a hundred apartments in a city to be 100% aIrBnB units.

Which is already illegal in SF, so if this is happening (the article states that it is not), SF needs to actually enforce its laws. This isn't a problem or criticism of Airbnb.
Of course, but what I'm not convinced by is the idea that if you lop off two of those hours it all comes out of the goofing off pile instead of the hard work pile. My own experience when I work a short day does not match that.

I set my own hours, so if I thought I could be just as productive with fewer office hours I'd be all over that.
Yeah; that's pretty much what I was going for.
The psychology of it is interesting, isn't it? Flying in a plane seems so intuitively unsafe that we go to great efforts to make it safe, while traveling on the ground seems so intuitively safe that we don't worry about it as much. (Remember how hard it was to get most people to wear seat belts?) And yet, far more people die in car crashes than plane crashes.
There is no agreement. That's my point. People serving websites with advertising are doing so under a bargain that users have never actually agreed to: that they are exchanging free content for advertising views. But the website makes an agreement with advertisers, not with the public.

So in our restaurant analogy, it would be like if you had an agreement with your food supplier that they will provide you with cheap food if you make customers eat it off the floor, and now you're complaining that customers are not fulfilling their end of this deal. The customers don't have a deal with you. You just offer them free food, and they are taking it and trying not to eat off the floor. It's not their fault you offer free food. Don't do that.
A Female VC Firm Partner Opens Up About Fighting Bias in the Industry
Or a huge bag of "finally!"
It was a casual answer to an astronomy question buried in a comment thread on a message board for startup enthusiasts. The level of rigor you're demanding is unnecessary. [Citation not needed], truly. I'm absolutely sure that I won't run into trouble with HN's moderators or community for having commented despite having no "definitive answers with better-than-wikipedia citations" to give you about the chemical make-up of the universe. Nor do I think an HN where questions go unanswered lest the leading expert in current theory happens to respond in person with a bibliography in hand is a better one.
> Unfortunately, a lot of other people have problems paying their rent or mortgage. 75% of Airbnb hosts in San Francisco say that their income from Airbnb helps them stay in their homes, and 60% of the Airbnb income goes to rent/mortgage and other housing expenses.

Sources of this data?

How many Airbnb people are putting out property they own vs those who are renting?

It sounds like people are abusing it to stay in homes they could otherwise not afford, which is in itself adding to the housing problems in San Fran.

Facilitating someone easily renting out their home, great. Allowing renters (and to a lesser extent home owners) subsidize their over extended living, bad.
"Sprint" and "agile" are googlable. There is a stable body of literature to support a person adopting the terms when communicating about workflow processes...even a person who doesn't agree with their utility has the opportunity to at least know exactly what they are objecting to.

"Sprint" connotates a methodology. "Cross functional team" barely describes personnel vaguely.
Any tips on how to find a Charlie? (I'm in NYC right now, say.)
A sample size of n=1 is an anecdote not data. Totally horrible experience but seemed to hinge on a particularly bad actor with knowledge of how best to exploit customers and airbnb. It is pretty shitty, I hope they make it right because it sounds like you acted in good faith, but this seems like a really complicated edge case.

I had a similar experience this week with Dashlane (a password mgnt app) where i installed it and it corrupted >70 passwords locking me out of vital accounts. This is why my HN UN is green for instance. Customer support was totally shit for a while but I tweeted them and they responded and actually read my responses. I ended up losing all the data but they[0] eventually provided some time to look into the issue deeper as well as a free 12 month account. Should they have helped me better up front, when the data may still have been recoverable? I think NO, but want to say yes. I had a free account and didnt had non-traditional settings. So while i would gladly trade the free account for my credentials back I bear some responsibility. I AM NOT INDICATING YOU(or the writer) ARE RESPONSIBLE. My point is that some situations are really shitty and are not indicative of the experience/views of an organization. If this occurs only very rarely, conpanies can still have a great business and unfortunately some people will be casualties to circumstance

[0]xavier, if you are reading this. Thanks for the account credit and making things right, Cheers!
There was a fascinating article about how visual art from contemporary artists gets valued. Essentially, you have a patronage system whereby galleries keep stables of artists and build brands out of their output. The galleries try their hardest to ensure that values climb steadily upward, and the rest of the industry tries their best to not rock the boat.

Auction houses throw a wrench into the works by allowing the market as a whole to weigh in. If an artwork gets sold at auction for significantly more or less than where it "should" be selling at, the whole system suffers. So the galleries representing the artists will bid on the artworks themselves and auctioneers will pretend that the piece was sold, to someone in the back, if it doesn't meet the reserve.

The takeaway I got from it was that value of art is not and can never be intrinsic, somebody is acting as a taste-maker, but that somebody never has complete control over the market.

If you think about it, it's not a whole lot different from other kinds of tradable good, (currency comes to mind) it's just that there are far fewer external indicators of value, making it more difficult to operate rationally. There's stability within the system, but the system is artificial and can seem rather arbitrary.
As a candidate, this is the best interview guide I've read.
At school I tried to do the bare minimum amount of work that I thought I could get away with, so... probably the former?
Interestingly enough, the "metaverse" of Snow Crash was the direct inspiration for the Second Life game mentioned in the article.
If I become a billionaire, I will hire my own personal metal band to follow me around and rock out extremely hard. Alas, I am not a billionaire... yet.
No need for ad hominem arguments.
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What is with languages that swap args and type? It looks cooler? It says, "Hey look at me, I'm not like those languages your dad used, tee hee!". If I want a simple and clear to understand script language on the JVM I'd choose Groovy, in fact, Grails is a pure joy to develop with I've come to find out.
And suppose we do find some biological slime there? Does that then make Mars off limits to all of humanity for all time?
I agree that there's a lot of valley fluff, but some of the content on there is really good: http://firstround.com/review/heres-what-a-real-growth-strate...
I had a quick look and I didn't see anything on the site about whether dyslexia or dyspraxia have common errors that show up in math.

There was an interesting programme on BBC Radio Four this morning about how dyslexia and dyspraxia can show up in art. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06d2fxf
As an aside, how does Ghostscript handle if the original pages aren't letter? I'm wondering if a command like this isn't doing more than it needs to. The way page trees work in the PDF file format, it's pretty easy to just create a new root page tree node that has as a child all the root page tree nodes of the other documents. This would maintain the individual paper size and orientation of each source document. The only "fun" part would be reindexing all the objects as you bring them into the new document.
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Doesn't matter. There's always the 80/20 rule. It doesn't have to catter to any and all exotic need. One could always customize further (even script that) after Otto's initialization.

Besides a lot of this variety is because people don't follow best practices, and instead have a hodgepodge of this and that technologies, with this and that settings.
I've had an issue with Airbnb this summer. I contacted them within the first 24 hours (as it's the rule to get a refund) and contacted the host exclusively through Airbnb so there would be a trace.

They told me that I should have left more chance to the host to fix the issue (I left the place after 20 hours and tried to get ahold of the host multiple times). They never fully refunded me even after countless mails and calls where I quoted their own terms and conditions to prove that they needed to refund me. In the end, the customer service told me that "refund" does not mean "a total refund" but whatever they're willing to give.

The customer service lady was very nice but it seemed like her hands were tied and she was not allowed to just fully refund me. I'll never use them in the future.
-->I have a sneaking suspicion that hiring is like stockpicking: after an initial filter, monkeys with darts would do just as well.

I couldn't agree more. I have probably had more interviews / initial conversations in the last ninety days with tech recruiters. I would say about 95%, knew absolutely nothing about what they where doing, they ask me the generic questions... What are you strengths, weakness? What was a time you where in a bad situation... A lot of times I could figure out that they hadn't read to the bottom of my resume.

Then there is the Tech guy questions: What is OOP? What does it mean when you get this error? What is the difference between PHP 5.6 and PHP 5.5, tell me right now!

I did run across some recruiters that actual read to the bottom of my resume. Usually, they where the ones that figured out I was over qualified for most positions.

The best job I ever had was in the Marine Corps and they never asked me any questions, they where happy to have me sign the contract!

In the meantime, I'm looking for work... http://www.strategic-options.com/resume/?=HN
Upvoted this. Not all cases require a rush for citations to support what you're saying.
So, block all ads is the only safe choice.
A) I did say up front that I wondered what the other numbers are that Sam is not putting in the article -- the other half of the picture. I have, in fact, read "How to lie with statistics" and I am well aware we are being intentionally given a certain framing from a party with a vested interest.

B) However, I also lived in the bay area at one time, in Solano County, and was pursuing education with an eye towards going into some kind of urban planning related career. In fact, I founded and moderated a subforum for a time on the most successful urban planning forum around at that time. So I have some familiarity with how crazy prices were back then, before AirBnB was a gleam in anyone's eye. And also I have some familiarity with the various factors that go into forcing housing prices up. Saying AirBnB contributes to the problem is not crazy talk. But acting like they are the single most important factor meriting the passage of a bill intended to kill them off -- I want a tad more data than "But look at the crazy high local housing prices, man!" Because that falls far short of proving they are having that big of an effect.

C) Yeah, I am very familiar with the saying. I am well aware of how hard it is to be both profitable and ethical. So far, I have managed to be pretty ethical. I am also dirt poor. So I am a little tired of hearing that anyone making money is clearly The Devil. The fact that this is part of a pro AirBnB PR campaign does not ipso facto make it inherently evil. The other side is also engaging in a PR campaign, and they also have vested interest that you can put a dollar amount on. Sometimes, people are actually doing work they actually fucking believe in. Those people still need to EAT and put a roof over their head. I am so goddamn sick of the idea that all the good people are dead martyrs and, if you still draw breathe, you need to feel guilty about every single fucking thing you do to try to keep body and soul together.
This addresses a bigger picture that some folks have been (ab)using vagrant to accomplish and requesting features that belonged in a new project, rather than on top of vagrant.
Technically, it's probably possible, but the problem with Second Life isn't that it's not big enough. And no, the Oculus Rift isn't going to save Second Life. There's already an Oculus Rift interface to Second Life, and it's been around for over a year.[1] Maybe with more resolution... Then again, maybe resolution won't help either.[2] (That's an Oculus Rift used to view a roller coaster simulator.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQVXl-jOKqQ
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nHvPopqYkA
That's usually because, though the shards' areas expand, the number of shards do not decrease.

Obviously, area-per-player can be held constant if shards are consolidated as the area per shard increases.
The real solution here is to change the laws protecting gigantic swaths of ugly "historic" districts like the mission. Unfortunately no politician or home owner wants to vote for this because it would dramatically devalue their homes if SF is finally allowed to build vertically. Then the tiny increase in housing costs due to Airbnb is no big deal.
It's also to make the tasks easier. The dV required for launching off the shrunk planet in KSP is less than if it was just scaled up to match Earth like in the Real Solar System mod(s).
Tl;dr, on a long enough timeline home taping did kill the music industry and it's [still] illegal.
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Thanks for the insightful and well argued opinion.
Law? Since when has the PRC even admitted that the GFW exists? If it has, it's news to me.
Philip Rosedale is pretty high up on the list of people I admire.

He's got a ton of knowledge and experience, (used to work at RealNetworks before his stint at Linden Lab and now this new outfit), has plenty of crazy ideas, executed on many of them (to varying degrees of success and profitability), always keeps moving, and has a downright infectious vision for the future.

Even if that vision doesn't completely pan out, we'll get some very cool stuff to see from the attempt!
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This only sounds like a good idea if you can get vehicles that move faster than airplanes.
Curious what you mean by "some of your data"? What kinds of data? Usually, I think of the logs as the raw data, everything else is derived data & analysis.
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What? Everyone in this room works for the government. 18F is a government project - an arm of the General Services Administration (GSA).
Are you sure it's not just postprocessing? Many of my friends and I all have DSLRs but my photos are always the best because I know how to use Lightroom.
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I agree about the battery, but has battery technology advanced so much in the year since development of the current hardware? I doubt it is such that would warrant another hardware cycle.
>but the purpose of including a high-quality DSLR shot in the comparison would be as a reference point for "this is the best that the shot can possibly look"

Ever heard of medium format? (and there are other options too).
I love the idea in general and especially using git urls as dependencies and use the Appfile from their repos to bring those services (and their dependencies). That keeps ownership to the people best know about it (the developers of a given service) instead of have that centralized.
But all this sounds very ambious.

I'm especially curious how to configure dependencies. You might need to creating tables in a database which is setup as a dependencies, but also need to support restoring from backups or setting up replication. Beside that, some of this configuration should belong to the owner of the service using the db (db names etc), other to the owner of the db (global server settings, limits etc).
To add to that, some configuration needs to happen at runtime, so you can't just update the Appfile.

Anyway, this sounds like an awesome "UX" - let's see how it plays out in reality.
> The next generation headsets — head-mounted displays like the Oculus — will pretty likely have gaze tracking in them

How am I supposed to take this guy seriously if he doesn't even know the name of the product he's targeting? The HMD is called the Rift and the company is called Oculus.
I agree. Last time I used it in mid 2014, it was unusable. I spent more time trying to fix and work around its bugs than I would have building a VM from scratch, so eventually I gave up and went back to my plain VM. It's great for trying stuff out, but anything that needs to work for more than one session was extremely problematic with a lot of networking problems that required destroying the VM and rebuilding it constantly.
I've had GREAT responses from Uber customer support when I rate a driver lower than 3 stars and add a comment. I usually get a follow-up within an hour or so.
It is comparatively free. You don't have to go through many regulatory hoops to grow food and sell it. It's not remotely comparable to concocting a medicine and selling it.

The end of famine in America happened around 1800, as the free market and the industrial revolution fixed that problem. Famine persists in other areas that insist on collectivized farms or have other problems that prevent free market agriculture, such as warfare.

Even the Soviet Union had to import wheat from Kansas, and allowed farmers to farm their own plots and sell the results, because the collectivized farms could not produce enough.
"As an aside, how does Ghostscript handle if the original pages aren't letter?"

I have no idea. Most of the PDFs I deal with happen to be letter. I found that command a few years ago and haven't bothered to investigate further, since it suits my purposes most of the time.

"I'm wondering if a command like this isn't doing more than it needs to."

I wouldn't be at all surprised.
The biggest problem with infinite worlds like that is that it's difficult to make locations feel alive and to knit stories into the world, which limits the stories that can be told. It's great for exploration games where just going through and seeing each location is the game but trying to give areas anything other than cookie cutter stories/interactions is something I haven't seen from a procedural game yet.
Are they actually NSA contractors, or is this a honeytrap?
Are you sure about that? How long does it take to run from one edge of the map to the other?
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If my downstairs neighbor rents to a AirBnB guest I would still call them a "stranger" even after 5.5 days.

Oh, agreed. I don't think there's any reasonable value of "short term" where that wouldn't be the case.

Then again, I've lived in my current building for over a year, and I don't know anyone in the building. A few I recognize on sight, but we all tend to keep to ourselves. I'd consider them "strangers" too.
> to prove certain risks are genuinely covered

Why? I'm well aware of the risks of using AirBnB (or being a contractor instead of an employee or whatever) and choose to take them on because I believe I come out ahead overall. Not everyone wants the nanny state watching out for them at every opportunity.
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Which is trivially broken by having real people simulate a bunch of real Gmail accounts. Services like this already exist for Facebook likes, YouTube views, etc.
Good point. Changed from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34379254.

Edit: it looks like a duplicate though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10280894.
It would give a sense of how far they still have to go.
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That seems like something that competent counterintelligence people should be monitoring and shutting down.

Hell, they probably should have unit in their new employee orientation covering this: "Do not list your occupation as 'Spy'" on LinkedIn.
Well it would be data from your databases, and anything they would find useful excluding private user information.
So that's great but then you are doing part of the work that airbnb should be doing.
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He knows. He's speaking colloquially.
Did you try this one? I'd be keen to get your feedback.
Yeah, PlantUML is really an awesome tool. Also has an online editor:
http://www.planttext.com/planttext

Not the greatest samples on there though - better resources on http://plantuml.com/.
Big enough re: population wise, at least. SL's still quite profitable, but the numbers are trending down, and having been a user of that world on and off since 2004, I can say it's probably because there's not a lot to do there anymore that doesn't involve making, buying, and selling things.

It demands a lot of technical literacy on the part of its users, both from the hardware demands (the SL client, or "viewer" is infamously demanding of the local graphics hardware and internet connection), and from knowing how to navigate the sometimes obtuse interface and conventions of the world.

..that goes double if you actually want to make things. Then, your corpus of knowledge needs to include 3D design and familiarity with Serious Business modeling programs like Blender or 3DSM. If you're making things besides furniture and clothing, add some programming knowledge into the mix for their own custom programming language (LSL).

This sounds damning with faint praise, but the magic's just not there anymore for me. Still, if you haven't actually had a look yet, you should. There's plenty to explore and there's quite a lot to see before you get bored. The client is free, as is an account.
They explicitly say that it does, in the third paragraph.
You're absolutely right. I was only talking about DevOps logging (should have made that clearer). Logging for data science is a totally different ball game.
You know you can tap anywhere in the image in the default iOS camera app to expose for that spot? Or tap, hold and drag up or down to manually adjust exposure. Admittedly, you still don't see the shutter speed or aperture info, but it does give you some degree of control.