skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an incoherent argument when Air B&B has other ads touting their support of other government services. Splitting them up with arbitrary large amounts makes their contribution to the tax coffers seem larger than it is.

If they're suggesting they are paying so much taxes that (among other things) the library can now offer longer hours the librarian's post is a pretty straightforward approach of how you should analyze it.
With Facebook's Tech Prep, you too can create shiny monstrosities that chug while trying to scroll on an i7 with the very latest JS engine!

It's tied in with McKinsey because they hate programmers. They hate the fact that the firms they're raiding and "advising" are currently having to pay people a living wage to build and fix their systems. They want to flood the market with a bunch of cheap framework cut-and-paste developers and flood the culture with a bunch of inch-deep strivers [1]. Meanwhile, the McKinsey always-be-closing Powerpoint jockeys will bring the "real ideas". Does somebody have to keep bringing this up every time one of these "get people who never bothered to understand programming on their own to understand programming" articles gets posted?

[1] Disclaimer: I am merely foot-deep.
Yeah, and of all things - public libraries? Come on.
Unfortunately I don't have time to go into this more, but I also appreciate the tone of your reply.

A very brief summary of my position is that there is a set of "right" laws, and that is the free market with redistribution through taxation. This is not an arbitrary choice, but one justified by classical economics. Anything good for the poor that you would want to accomplish would be better done by redistribution than by unions. Except, of course, pleasing the members of a particular union, who might stand to benefit at the expense of other workers if they could increase their power.

Outsourcing a great example of this. It is actually good for people in the countries where work is outsourced to. They get more for their labor than they would otherwise, even if they get less than what a Western worker makes. If they showed "solidarity" and demanded Western wages, they would get nothing.
I think there's a difference between the fear you speak of and modesty. I can be modest and not have a fear of looking stupid. I just refrain from being stupid through modesty. When it matters I take risks and may be considered stupid, but as you say not stupid for trying.
Well, it seems like employees should be able to verify that the security information matches what's on file without actually seeing. So, an employee could enter the last four digits of the CC number into a form and then get verification if they're correct, but wouldn't be able to just pull up that info and give it to someone else.
In general - if it's a verb, it's "lose." If it's an adjective, it's "loose."
I started a men's underwear company, selling over $200k in under 5 months
Why do they have to make these videos so cheesy.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~choset/whatiscs.html
Microsoft has been laying the groundwork to build its own version of Android
ghostscript has always either rasterized or converted to individual strokes embedded fonts when I try that, but there's like 50 options for pdf->ps so perhaps I've got it wrong.
Pretty empty apology. If they want to do something meaningful for developers, why don't they remove the user login token restrictions, for example? Several famously successful API using apps hit that and suffered. Just apologizing is pointless, you have to actually change the bad policies.
This ad isn't targeted at potential customers of Airbnb, but the voters of San Francisco who will be voting on this proposition. The only reason you're even seeing it, is because some resident of the city posted a photo online to complain about it.
He is bad at joking. E.g. Where do you think Hadoop comes from?
You can still watch the videos for free, but just with ads, which is just like it is today
"Finance science" would probably be economics. HVAC and automotive engineering are intermediary disciplines that involve facets from various science and engineering fields.

That the software industry is anti-scientific does not mean there is not a computer science.
They are still pretty bad. I'm struggling through a Unity integration right now where we need to use the latest Facebook plugin for Unity, but all their examples and tutorials don't compile with it because they renamed interfaces and the like.
I burned out and it took me 6 years to recover. Still to this day I deal with it. Two weeks ago I turned in my notice to a job that exceeded the stress level I wanted in my life, and just for kicks I looked for a short term contract a few days later. Immediately I was able to double my rate and get a reduced stressed position. There is no way I would have been able to ace the phone interview for the new shot term contract stressed out, working 60 hours a week, and in crisis mode. Then, the old contract cut me lose early and I got a week off to do some needed remodeling in my house before starting the new gig. So it was a win for everyone.
chart wikileaks' leaks since Russia threatened them at the end of 2010 and tell me you don't see a trend there
To your point, I think a lot of this has to do with the way the law is written. "Blue-collar" crime involves laws that are much brighter lines. They involve things that have been outlawed for thousands of years. You generally can't take possessions from others. You generally can't kill people. I think that simplicity is a sign of good laws.

When we get to white collar crime, it gets too messy. Learn about companies before you buy their stock. But, don't learn certain things about them, because that's insider trading. This is confusing to juries because the concept itself is just confusing. We see behavior that we don't like -- "there outta be a law!" -- but it's hard to pin down the precise behavior that makes it bad. E.g.:

"Hey those bankers made a bunch of risky loans but didn't lose money during the recession when they went bust. There outta be a law!"

"Ok, so outlaw risky loans even if it means poor people will have a harder time buying a house?"

"Well, no. Help poor people get loans but don't let bankers make too much money selling risky loans"

"How do we even define risky?"

And so on.
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For intermediate programmers they are recommending a terrible book full of fake reviews by a scammy author (I purchased the book earlier in the year and returned it). Were any of these recommendations vetted?

The book... http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Success-Day-Beginners-Effi...
i'm always careful with electronics, but the flight attendants and baggage handlers often arent unfortunately :)
Something something ballot box, something something bullets? Is that where this is going?
To be fair, being an accomplished member of an agency of foreign affairs, and being in any way competent with information security and being a US citizen in the notice of the highest echelons of our government is asking a lot from a small circle of potential candidates who are predominately far older than your tech savvy computer engineer.

And in most ways, leaving his e-mail to a provider which works with e-mail and has dealt with attacks before, is probably the most sensible thing to do.

And of course, I've read Legacy of Ashes and a few of Robert Baear's books (Beaer?) and understand being accomplished in the world of the CIA just avoiding political entanglement and not fucking up too badly, but whatever, the point stands ;-).
I notice he said the final product was around 700 megabytes, which is a bit absurd. What could he have done to make the final size more reasonable?
Show HN: `monki`. Share your code across hundreds of Git repos.
Wait, "Wall" apps were supposed to "enhance" Facebook experience? You mean all those throwing sheep and farmville invites?
Even then, one has to pick a carrier carefully; I've heard that at least one person blew themselves up with a promotional text message from carrier.
This is true. One question I've always had about RE2's set interface: if I remember correctly, it reports only true/false for whether the input matches each regex but not number of matches or start and/or end offsets of the matches. Is this an essential feature of the implementation (e.g. necessary for an efficient DFA implementation of typical patterns) or a quirk of the API?

We have perennial problems with "match flooders" that, once they start matching, throw great scads of matches (especially when, given our all-matches semantics, a trailing construct like .* means 'just keep throwing matches for ever). I've often wondered whether the RE2 set interface was influenced by the same problem.
> If you're not a pro, having a well-insulated piano room is really expensive - but justifying it as part of the community is easy.

Or you could just use a digital piano with headphones. Much cheaper.

> The people I know who have tried cohousing have either left after the first year or decided that was how they wanted to live for the rest of their lives.

I imagine a lot of it depends on the other people. Tragedy of the commons can easily happen unless everyone shares the same standards of kitchen neatness, etc.
Yes. Infinitely large sets are decidedly unphysical, and taking the metaphor too literally can be misleading.

Imagine: how could the proprietor even communicate with those infinite guests?
If they were smart enough to do all that micro hardware hacking, why did they use persistent SIM cards?
That's too bad. Is there any way to report stuff like that to Amazon?
If you purchase individual tracks, you can download them as mp3s, no DRM involved. It's only tracks that you have access to via subscription but haven't individually purchased that can't be downloaded (which sort of makes sense, to avoid someone just downloading the entire catalog and then cancelling the subscription).
They have, in the form of $8 million in funding for the No on F campaign. Which is why this ad looks so pathetically tone deaf
The problem is that a lot of people are constantly trying to look confident, but trying to avoid paying for mistakes at the same time. They prefer situations when their confidence is hard to check. A whole culture is developed around that and Scott Adams' Dilbert series has large supply of situations when confidence trumps modesty.
YouTube cannot be expected to be run as a charity nor would it get contributors to make money.

If you host videos on YouTube the price is taking ads or allowing Google to charge a subscription. Google will still organize and catalog your video if it isn't on YouTube.

It might be cool if video producers could charge per view on YouTube - but I feel that might cheapen the rest of the service as you could not go to YouTube expecting to find already paid for or ad supported value and it may lessen user engagement.
> Someone's going to do this right and make a big success.

Berkeley has tons of student co-ops which are arguably a success in that the number of students applying to live there is much larger than the available space, and there are long waiting lists.

What I don't understand is trying to shoe-horn this into the mold of a for-profit startup. Co-ops can easily be run co-operatively as non-profits by their members.
Given recent other posts about trying to get women and minorities in to tech the first thing I saw was the background marketing. Facebook is very good with data and I wonder if they can quantify a positive result. It felt forced, I didn't even notice the text I just kept scrolling around looking at all the photos. I didn't see anyone that looked like me, it all felt too social and nothing at all like programming. Not one felt cubicle, nothing I've seen over years of coding.

How did it make you feel?
The Tesla Double Standard
It's crazy to me that as a society we celebrate the digital equivalent of smashing a window in with a brick and climbing in through the jagged glass.

This wasn't a skillful attack. It was a messy, shitty social engineering exploit that very many people could have done.
Cool pic, but isnt this this more reddit territory?
Google's Project Flux [pdf]
I wanted to get early feedback on a tool I've been brewing. The goals are:

1. Make it as effortless as possible to copy any code from any repo into a subfolder of your own repo. The subfolders should automatically pull in any new changes by default, and can be pinned to a specific commit hash / branch.

2. Come up with a way to do "structured monkeypatching." Sometimes you run across a bug in someone's library but don't have the time to fork it, fix the bug, submit a PR, and change your project to use the fork. This is also hard when you have many repos that depend on whatever library you're fixing. Now you can just `monki clone` the troublesome library, then describe to monki how to fix the bug.

(There's a sneaky third motive: I've been working on a new dialect of Arc, and I'm trying to hone the language by building real applications in it as quickly as possible. Then I fix whatever pain points pop up.)

Here's an example of #2: https://github.com/laarc/monki/blob/master/lumen/monki.l ... Monki is powered by Lumen, but it extends Lumen with additional syntax like """python raw strings""", without forking it.

I don't know if these scenarios are common for many other people, or if anyone would find this useful.
Japan should restart more nuclear power plants
Nurses Create in a Medical Makerspace
Valeant Plummets on Allegation of Enron-Like Accounting Business
Amazon PR guy's behavior is debatable and has been debated, but this article and its misleading title do not improve the debate. HN itself is host to dozens of Amazon employee/critics that have not seen personnel info leaked. also, "criminal activity" is a bit beyond "personnel info". Am I leaking personnel info when I tell someone about a coworker who scammed a customer?
And which specific book would they we looking for?
A riddle wrapped in a curve
It makes airbnb seem petty and misguided... why the hell would you go after libraries anyone? Like they wouldn't want to offer a better service if they had better funding?

It also makes you wonder if this is the best argument they have, their position must be pretty poor.
You're confusing language and orthography. The posters above didn't use an incorrect word in place of the usual one, they used the correct word and spelled it wrong.

As such, the only way language could change to accommodate this usage would be if "loose" became an alternate spelling for "lose". Whether the verb "loose" makes sense in context is neither here not there - it's not what the speakers were trying to say.
And this is exactly how it should be. If you want to build your business on the back of someone else who is doing the heavy lifting, then don't be surprised when they rear up and no longer let you ride.

I still don't understand why people feel they are entitled to perpetual API access.

Maybe Twitter should follow the lead that I do - those that license and use many of my APIs pay on a royalty model - they pay a certain percentage of all revenue that their platform generates. Period.
There's an article I linked to in another comment subthread, it deals in details with this issue - in particular, when we should talk about personal responsibility and when just call it an illness.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10424645
Just to provide more options. Pentaho comes with a full suite including BI and ETL offerings (Community Edition or Enterprise).

Alternatively, you might be interested in Apache Nifi for ETLs (apparently used by the NSA for big data stuff...) then combine with Metabase.
He speaks like a manger in corporate..
This seems bad, thanks for flagging. I'll try to track down how/why this got recommended.
That is strictly worse than requiring them to sign up for the contract that includes subscription revenues or forgo revenue entirely.
Microsoft Surface so good I might switch back to Windows
IMO You underestimate the tiny amount of effort to the large payoff with adblocking.. What will come along is an adblocker which skips around the ad parts of the video automatically.
This way of thinking reminds me of when everyone was shocked that Apple would call a product the iPad, dooming it to forever be mocked with feminine-hygiene references.
i got a great business, people give me 75 cents i give them a dollar, it scales infinitely, and has the potential for absolutely titanic revenue, interested in investing?
I remember as a really weird moment the first time I opened a Moebius book. Starwatcher, I think. It was like to discovering feet traces in the low tide one morning, realizing after some years that your small private island is not entirely uninhabited. That there are other.

Not all that Moebius created is equally palatable and I'm not very fond of Jodorowsky's work in any case. Probably because I was much more interested in the technique and small imperfections of the pictures, the blurred line showing a patch of paper cut and pasted over failed areas that must be redone again, the chalk scratches adding lights...
First I've heard of this rule/exception, got a link to any doc's validating this claim? If true, it flys in the face of everything on the books with regards to mandates/rules/regs for ensuring secure communications for high-level government officials.

Quite interested, as I've been watching this one closely, especially with regards to retro-active changes allowing for an escape from previously committed illegalities.

I fully expect a presidential pardon to be the end-game on this one.
Why do people feel they are entitled to perpetual API access?

If you want to build your business on the back of someone else who is doing the heavy lifting, then don't be surprised when they rear up and no longer let you ride.

Maybe Twitter should follow the lead that I do - those that license and use many of my APIs pay on a royalty model - they pay a certain percentage of all revenue that their platform generates. Period.

I predict that Twitter will regress back to owning their platform after this minor blip.
Have you looked at Julia (http://julialang.org/)?
I'm not sure I see the 'tone-deaf' piece. The argument of the ads seems to be: 'taxes' are exacted from people and companies to pay for necessary public services. Using a tax as a weapon is not just. Taxes paid by Airbnb (and implicitly by its users) aren't really going to fund public services, not genuinely.[1] They're going to city public servants some of whom see themselves as personal crusaders against. . . Airbnb.

Airbnb seems to be saying that such a use of the taxing power is a mockery of our form of government. And I rather think it has a point.

Now you can disagree and say that Airbnb really is a hotel, as a legal matter. But the sheer animus that the anti-Airbnb crowd seem to possess indicate that they want to use the taxing power to do harm.

[1] For those who don't like this, here is the California 2016 budget, showing that well over 50% of the state's spending is on benefits, not on governmental administration, transportation, education, or policing: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/California_state_spendin...
Giant Screen (18.4-inch) Samsung Galaxy View Android Tablet images leaked
Mounting Opposition Against CISA Among Tech Companies
You could be right, it's been a long time since I looked at that one. I just remember that the client claimed not to support any authN methods and the server decided that was just fine.
I wonder if the primary fallout of this incident will be a government-wide mandatory email security training course.
Algorithmic symphonies from one line of code (2011)
I was "blessed" enough to see one of their engagements - the young Bob and Bob McKinseys. So much money, so little results.

Which prompts me to recommend my favorite book on management consulting, the life, the legends, the myths:

http://www.amazon.com/Management-Myth-Debunking-Business-Phi...
They are not, of course, but at the same time the business can't control the speech and prevent them from talking and making comments online.
The Bail-In: How You and Your Money Will Part During the Next Banking Crisis
>"As such, the only way language could change to accommodate this usage would be if "loose" became an alternate spelling for "lose"

The comment I replied to mentioned that the mistake had been made "consistently upstream" -- I took this to mean that he has seen this mistake made multiple times by multiple people, which would indicate an alternate spelling has emerged, or that the two words have come to be spelled the same way.

And the comment about loose as a verb was a reference to the fact that the correction was not even necessary -- we can all get by with each other's occasional errors in typing. In this case, the error was so minor it didn't even affect the meaning of the sentence.

I'm a firm believer in avoiding any correction to adult speech, typing or spoken. People will use/abuse/misspell words no matter what, and pointing them out is merely an exercise in self-superiority.
In my opinion a modern equivalent of messing with programming at school would be Racket. There are couple of awesome books `Realm of Racket`[1] and `How to Design Program`. Realm of Racket introduce programming by writing games. Its actually very easy to write interactive programs with this framework called big-bang. Matthias Felleison recently spoke about it on Strange Loop[3]

Unlike BASIC though, Racket no toy language. It's very powerful and expressive. Its a Scheme dialect btw.

I occasionally spend some time contributing to a Racket-JS compiler called Whalsong. Whatever games you write in Racket using big-bang can run on your browser. Checkout some examples here http://bigbang.ccs.neu.edu/search?q=%23stevelikes

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Realm-Racket-Learn-Program-Game/dp/159...

[2] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayoofXuKqMY
Microsoft testifies on fighting technical support scams
Yes, and also incredibly illegal.
> We hereby hand the onus back to the kind folks at DMC who laid their progress and problems out for all the world to see. Clearly, their future pivots on a single unresolved issue: will the Dunmurry plant rise to the cause and start building the silver bullets John Z. intended? Or will the De Lorean become another Concorde—a technological marvel that turns out to be an economic disaster? Find out for sure in our next installment.

Well, we saw how that went, albeit for reasons other than the difficulty of producing a reliable gull-wing door.
Sounds very interesting... I'd love to have a look.
Hello, welcome to HN!

Quick hint on formatting lists and other site-specific things: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10411561.
It was found by someone scanning the internet at large and publishing results. Someone else went through that data long, long after the fact and looked to see if they'd ever scanned her servers. Because of that background, the public was able to see the ports--they would not have appeared in the scans if they were non-public.

But that doesn't mean she actually had VNC or RPC software actually listening on those ports, or that the software that was listening (whatever it might be) was actually vulnerable. It might be more likely than not that it was vulnerable--I mean, that's why security people look for things like that to begin with--but false alarms aren't exactly uncommon, either and my customers have proven to me that there's no shortage of bizarre server configurations in the wild.
Here in China Uber has various subsidy programmes for drivers and customers. These eat into margins and make them negative for some (but probably not all) trips.

Example: a few weeks ago, I paid ~3USD for a 13km ride that took 90 minutes (due to Beijing traffic). The driver was definitely paid more than that for the ride.
TRANSCRIPT: Sam Altman's Twitter Ask Me Anything
There's a theory that you're a * purple snuffleupagus
Don't piss against the wind in a dictatorship. That is what you should do.
Dumbing down the law is how we ended up with the war on drugs and "zero-tolerance" (policy not law) in schools.
And almost exactly like the taxi model they replace.