skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. This has been submitted before, 302 days ago in fact:
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nina4airbnb.com

2. This is actually a case study in how to market yourself:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150714043548/http://media.wix....

3. From the case study:

These are the numbers:

• 445,000+ Visits to Nina4Airbnb

• Hundreds of thousands of Tweets and millions of impressions

• 30,000+ New visitors to my personal blog

• 14,000+ LinkedIn profile views

• 2,000+ Emails and messages of support from around the world

• Global media coverage

• An interview with Airbnb

• A pipeline of interviews with dozens of other high impact companies

4. This is her blog post about it: http://eatwritewalk.com/2015/07/14/the-good-the-bad-and-the-...

5. Fireside chat: https://youtu.be/tcjaqeXjKuc?t=7m14s
So is ZFS more prone to defects without ECC than let's say EXT4 or NTFS?

I would like to buy a notebook with ECC ram, but Intel doesn't care.
I was half expecting some Aleksey Vayner bit of hilarity but there's actual skill on display here.
> I'm surprised their lawyers gave an OK, where FSF, SFLC and friends have given a thumbs down.

I'm not. FSF and SFLC have institutional incentives to support the maximum remotely defensible interpretation of the scope of copyright holders rights, since they are ideological organizations who rely on the maximum amount of code possible being subject to the restrictions of the GPL.

They are among the least likely organizations on Earth to publicly present a balanced view of the scope of copyright law particularly as it addresses coverage of derivative works.
So using a kernel module for the closed source NVIDIA driver for Linux is a GPL violation?

As far as I understood, the GPL only applies for code that is directly linked to it. A call to an external library (e.g. a kernel module) wouldn't necessarily apply. The code is being delivered as separate binaries.
The strangest thing about Twitter's lists on the web app is that they're this really useful feature for making sure your timeline isn't filled with noise, yet everything to do with lists is at least 2 clicks away.

At first, I just used another client, but I kind of actually liked the Twitter web app (conversations are much easier to discover). So I decided to make an extension to make lists easier to use, by promoting them to be a first class feature and always readily available.

Enjoy!
There's a number of licensing comments here. Linking with CDDL modules is explicitly mentioned by the FSF:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CDDL

I'm not going to comment further on any implications of Debian/Ubuntu's decisions, since IANAL.
1. How would you know?

2. You know this licensing system did not come out of thin air? Got an example of a working, critical certification system?
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you have no idea what the law actually requires in detail. It's ok neither did I. Here's an example of what it looks like, there is a lot more on the linked pages, which collectively comprise the actual requirements:

https://govt.westlaw.com/calregs/Document/ID813F6A0622011E4A...

> why is it important that a person spend time learning? Suppose two people know the material equally well, but one of them learned it faster than the other. Why is that a good regulation? How does it benefit consumers to make it illegal to learn things fast?

I don't know. But I do know that basically every educational institution requires some level of engagement measured in time. You can't just pass tests to get an undergrad degree or a PhD either. The requirement to spend actual time is hardly cruel and unusual.

I also know that the requirements were clear enough to be known to Zenefits and they willfully evaded them.

What is the difference between a Harvard graduate in Economics and someone who attended and completed all the requirements for an Econ degree but was short one art elective class and never got a degree? Should he just fudge his job applications since the art class isn't important?

What's the difference between someone assigned 100 hours of court ordered community service who did it and someone who went back to court with forged paperwork saying they did it?

In all the examples, and Zenefits as well, the difference is that the person is committing fraud, is lying, and is not ethical.

Cheating on requirements isn't the same as arguing to change the rules, regardless of how confused you continue to pretend to be about it.
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This made the circles ~a year ago when it was published, unfortunately didn't work out at AirBNB for Nina.

"Now, three months later, Mufleh tells Business Insider that Airbnb decided she wasn't the right candidate for the marketing role she had been considered for." (1)

But it's been succesful enough as a marketing piece to get her interviewed far-and-wide and - like a good marketer - she wrote a white paper to double down on the success.(2)

(1) http://www.businessinsider.com/the-resume-that-got-nina-mufl...

(2) http://www.nina4airbnb.com/#!whitepaper/c1e1m
Getting started with Flexbox grid systems
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I think a major factor to its success was the Google backend making everything substantially simpler and cheaper. People have been putting linux on old hardware to give away for years, but Chromium letting students keep everything "in the cloud" means they can keep the computers secure at the school while students can still access all their files wherever using Google's easier to use infrastructure. It's certainly possible to create something like this using linux and not Google products, but it would be much more expensive and require higher level staffers and better trained users.
Of course the city should do more to help the issue. Turning a blind eye to tents on the street (which are illegal) isn't doing enough. It just makes the issues of a poor mental health system even more obvious.

The article is interesting as it's attempting to vilify "rich tech bros". Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems weird to point out that he took his parents to a restaurant that serves Lobster (no word on if they ordered or considered ordering it) and that he once spent $20 on a ticket to a special theater. He's then called a tech bro nearly 10 times, always with the presumption that being a man who works in a tech job is both a "bro" and that because of that he's inherently responsible for everything wrong in the world.

He shouldn't have written his medium post, or at best he could have found a much better way to word it. The city DOES need to treat it's homeless in a more humane way. But I wonder if journalists don't also have some soul searching to do, and if they might want to back off the "All techies are evil" rhetoric which is really the basis of this article.
Possible Apple Car Testing Facility Draws Neighbor Noise Complaints
The good ones are all 2-5%. Anything below that is underperforming, a no-frills shop (eg dollar store), or trying to crush competition with a growth strategy. In any case, talking to people that work at most of them show they barely function if they're near 2%.

We must also note that this is the final profit. That's after executives, shareholders, employees, real estate, etc have been paid. The markup over the price of goods is still often around 30-50% to cover above costs. So, there's plenty of potential for competitiveness by eliminating some of that.

Branding, variety, psychological manipulation, and cost due to volume deals give advantages hard to beat. The big players also tend to acquire any company that is in the process of doing that, too.
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How this ever made it onto the BBC is beyond me. "News Flash - Legendary programmer is not a people person"...
This is a recent development. Apple only started to care about iOS security around 2012 for example.
Yeahhhh... No it didn't. I was very surprised to learn he didn't land a job after he got an interview from Airbnb. I mean, seriously Loren showed some pretty good skill with that site.
Agreed...there is a difference...a whole new precedent may be set when all this is sorted...
Yeah, that 94%, keep reading the phrase man:
The vast majority of the requests Apple receives from law enforcement ->>> come from an agency working on behalf of a customer who has requested assistance locating a stolen device <<---.
Read also the guidelines to see which information Apple does give its really interesting and i think they are one of the few companies to be strong regarding user rights.
Obviously because you'd rather have the housing that you could obtain by working and paying rent, which would be better.
> However, there is nothing in either license CDDL GPL that prevents distributing it in the form of a binary module or in the form of source code.

http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatAboutTheLicensingIss
Trump Is Right, Bush Lied: A Little-Known Part of the Bogus Case for War
> I think it's a great idea to try and bring some of RoR's developer happiness to JS.

That's been around for a while: http://ember-cli.com/user-guide/#using-ember-cli
I just went to one of my repos on Bitbucket, and it only took me one click to get to the source for master and then another click to get to the source for another branch.

You can also set up a project so the source is shown by default on the "landing page" instead of the overview.

Edit: slight re-wording
ASCII cows
> They did a job for us

Only if we are the Military-Industrial Complex.
cool look at who got the best deals from their investors, and who screwed whom
The huge, hidden upside to low oil prices
Yeah, you and I are millenials, we were born in the same year and grew up with the internet, not necessarily being raised by it like the generation after us.
To persist sparse models to the DB, especially if you use L1 regularization (like Lasso) then many coefficients will be 0, and don't need to be stored or processed. Insofar as you store coefficients and features in a "tall" format (e.g., user, feature_key, feature_value), then space is conserved. Scoring can be done in DB with joins and group by, or in another language with similar operations.

Changing variables frequently can be versioned in the feature and model coefficients tables, but takes care.

I haven't used Postgres JSONB, but if you have problems with JSON in R check out the tidyjson package (I wrote when dealing with Mongo data previously).

Scoring in another language is best avoided if you can. But supporting R "real time" services will also come with many complications. Hence, we use Python when we really want that.

SparkR was completely unreliable when I first tested it over a year ago, but may have improved. Though the Spark Python API has some limitations compared to Scala, so I would guess the latest SparkR is even further behind, but we haven't tested it. Long term I'd love for that to be the answer to these questions.
I have the same habit but it was the retina screen that tipped me off. All the images are slightly blurry on a high-DPI display and I immediately notice because I've been spoiled by super sharp fonts and crisp images.
I did a similar project with Simplisafe, but I went the SDR route and figured out their protocol, so I can forge sensor/keypad messages or decode PIN entries from keypads. (I'm in contact with the IOActive researcher, Andrew, to share this information.) It was a fun learning experience. My original goal was to just get the damn system to reach my detached garage (which is about 25 feet from my house).

In his blog post, Andrew said he didn't bother to reverse-engineer the protocol because if you can replay a "disarm" command with the correct PIN, that's everything you need. That's probably true, but it could also profit an attacker to record someone's PIN in case they use it for other things. And depending on the limits of the Simplisafe base station, you could potentially brute-force a "disarm" from every possible device ID - most likely, you'll eventually use the ID of a keyfob associated with the system, so it will disarm. Then you'd have control without the user ever entering their PIN.

These things are largely academic, I think. It's been known for a while that you can just jam the system by transmitting at 433MHz while you kick down the doors or whatever. Very cool anyway.

On the other hand, now I can build my own sensors and add them to my system, if I want. Or build a repeater so I can finally have a keypad in my garage. :)
Can Web Music Survive?
I'm sure they treat their fellow Palestinian Muslims well.
The political argument against HF comes down to the fact that it may not actually work very well. People opposed to HF tend to argue:

1.) HF is not effective at keeping recipients out of the criminal justice system. (This finding is controversial as, especially in Canada, 2-3 years often go by between arrest and subsequent criminal punishment.)

2.) HF creates 'slums'. (This finding is controversial as the solution is to attract a wider array of potential landlords. From a landlord's perspective, getting involved with HF is difficult as they feel that having one HF unit in a building will depress rents for the entire building.)

3.) HF is built around low quality data collection tools. HF programs always start with something called a point in time (PIT) count in which a city's homeless population is counted. PIT counts always show that homelessness is both older and whiter than frontline activists have found. This problem is highly complex and could easily turn this into a 250 page essay...:)

4.) HF is a one size fits all approach to a very complex problem. People who believe this fall into the narrative that a homeless woman with three children who lives from couch to couch is dramatically different from a homeless man who suffers from schizophrenia and pushes all of his worldly possessions in a cart. I'd argue that this is not so much a criticism as an example of ignorance - HF by its very nature recognizes that every community is different and each community must build its own program. Second, HF is built around personal relationships between recipients and advocates. The advocates are responsible for getting a particular recipient the type of help that he/she needs.

I mostly support Housing First, so I don't believe these, though #2 and #3 are definitely problems.

(source - I am an anti-poverty activist and have studied HF extensively.)
I like this show, much better, realistic but funny and it does a better PR for the tech sector than Big Bang Theory.
The World’s First Thermal Imaging Smartphone
This should have "(2015)" in the title.
Deserved downvotes not for missing the math, but missing the click-baity-ness, I presume.
Software-defined "Lie to Me" [1] Awesome!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_to_Me
In Canada, our grocery stores are so competitive on price that most of the actual bottom line profit derives from fining suppliers for all kinds of things (products not selling through, mislabelling, late shipments, short orders, back orders, lack of responsiveness, food safety infractions). Even the impulse items are only marginally if at all profitable. I only know this because we make financial software for the industry. It is a strange byproduct of competition.
This is implemented in pure vanilla JavaScript.
"Homeless first" undermines the normal eligibility cycle for public housing. It also destroys the communities in these developments. If you find a man screaming obscenities while taking a dump on the sidewalk distasteful, I'll assure you that the people who get stuck living next to him share your reaction -- except they can't walk away.

So you pack housing developments with addicts, crazy people and criminals. Next step is they start attracting their friends, and all of the sudden the development turns into a crime-ridden shithole. The families living in these development get screwed.

It also causes other disruption. NYC is adopting this type of policy, so people on waiting lists or in housing they don't like are flocking there from all across the region, and are receiving enhanced benefits. (It's pretty difficult to prove that someone is bona-fide homeless.) Meanwhile, the chronic homeless people who can't hold it together are still addicted, still in need of mental healthcare and are still living under an overpass.
Or a software-generated/rendered avatar?
It's almost certain the Draftkings use case was unforeseen.
The judicial branch also has made fairly sweeping rulings against both individual regulatory agencies and the ways in which Congress structures (or, rather, has structured in the past, since those rulings stopped the particular practices at issue) regulatory agencies, their powers, and their relations with Congress in general.
Investors with Cash Edging Out First-Time Home Buyers
I think every here already knew that.
The government nationalized their oil companies which, even at these prices, is still a reliable source of USD that is converted to Bolivars at the official exchange rates of 6.3 to 1.

Importers could then bid for these dollars at different exchange rates to buy medicines and raw materials. As long as US companies like Kimberly Clark, Clorox, PepsiCo, Goodyear and airlines had access to import raw materials at the official exchange rates they could, on paper, be profitable but couldn't expatriate any earnings. They were also motivated by the threat of nationalization.

Recently many of these companies have started to write off these earnings by marking down bolivar holding and writing down assets.
The newsworthiness of the piece is probablity in the rarity of Torvalds giving an interview.
Rhetoric aside, isn't this really just another example of "... Highlights Perils of Hard-Charging CEOs"? It's that simple. We can wander far from fast-growing startups and find the same kind of conduct anywhere in business.

The guy running my corner grocery store decided to set up a sit-down cafe without getting a city license. The folks running a nearby office suite are in no hurry to put in city-mandated sprinklers. Business founders/owners like to get things done without asking permission. That's how they roll. Trying to invoke unicorn valuations, VCs, etc. is silly. It's a classic case of finding an exciting anecdote and trying to attach causality theories after the fact.
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SF tech bro Justin Keller startup Commando.io, hacked, DDoS or simply load?
I tried to check out Justin Keller's startup referenced in one of the many stories, did anyone notice its been down for a few hours now ? https://commando.io/

Google cache has a copy before the story broke,
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:R-ofL4dHZEIJ:https://commando.io/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ApM7x8Dh4WYJ:https://commando.io/about.html+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk
Exactly - she's not being judged on her CSS skills, so why does it matter. She did something that is the top of HN right now. Seems like whatever she did (however bad) accomplished what she wanted, to get noticed.
I think what gtrubetskoy is talking about is Google (namely: search, Gmail, calendar, contacts, Plus--which are all tied to your Google account) and Facebook (namely: relationships, posting content, private messages, what you look at, etc) is information which is then mined or allowed to be targeted by advertisers for a handsome profit.

Apple doesn't do that. Their iAds are nothing in comparison to Google/FB's data mining. The only thing you get to go off of is the Advertising Identifier and the user can change/reset that at any moment effectively not tying them to any specific targeting.

I'm not sure what could be said of iCloud, but Apple itself isn't a big player in the ad-selling market unlike Google and Facebook. So unless Apple is straight selling off iCloud user data, it's a different ballgame.

edit: you also have to take into account Google and FB's ability to track you across the (near)-ENTIRE internet. Every FB/G-Plus share button, every video, image, asset loaded from FB/Google can track you via cookies. You could be reading a blog about pregnancies and how to prepare for a newborn on a cute little blog and Facebook may then target you for pregnancy/newborn products and services, etc. Unlike Apple, Google and Facebook aren't limited to their own properties in terms of info harvesting and ad-targeting.
I think you might want to look into the 2to3 script. It should handle the conversion of your print statements.
Once you’ve had Airbnb, you (often) don’t go back, says Goldman Sachs
ZFS on Linux doesn't work unless it's linked against interfaces provided by Linux. This is a derivative work, and thus the combined work must be distributed under GPLv2.
So just like every other country in the world, then.
> Canonical cannot ship ZFS in binary form.

Building kernel module on the fly when deploying ZFS is an acceptable workaround. I think that's exactly how it was planned to be used in Debian. I really have no clue what Canonical are planning though.
I've only been to SF once, and the difference in culture between the homeless in Tenderloin and Haight was immediately noticable.
Or you're just defending your untenable position by redefining words.
A huge number of reporters should all email him at once for confirmation that he's not a people person. :)
Welcome aboard! I'm Captain Obvious! That being said, I can totally relate to how he enjoys his 'boring' office were he can be productive and focus on what he loves: Technology/Engineering/Coding.
He really seems to know himself and is able to properly assess his strengths and weaknesses (not delusional!). Seems to be true to himself and it works for him.
Yep! Love Ember. I think it's good that this project it trying to bring some of the RoR and Ember ideas to the React Redux stack.
Police want to destroy iPad because they cannot delete illegal image
Deutsche Bank Analyst Kept Some Doubts to Himself
It's the acceptable-because-it's-male-and-white version of "blond bimbo"
At least someone is.
Services which do this by sending people to retail stores suffer from out-of-stock problems. They don't have inventory information. So you tend to get orders with missing items. Amazon, which has its own automated warehouses, knows what it has in stock when it accepts the order, and can tell you at ordering time what's out of stock.

Google is doing an Uber-like job here - they just run the shopping cart program. Others do all the work.
Let say they own this market. Than it would become possible for them to shift to an UBER like model, and with that ,margins become pretty good.
It's strange she emphasizes "Bedouin Hospitality" because bedouins[1] comprise a really small percentage of the natives/citizens of the U.A.E., Qatar, Bahrain, etc.

Bedouins are a seminomadic group of people sort of like the gypsies of Europe. Most of the citizens of Arab countries are not bedouins. They're permanently settled in one location/area, and they do not identify as bedouin.

This cultural gaffe indicates that she should have done more research before making such a prominent statement. "Arab hospitality" or "Middle eastern hospitality" would have been more appropriate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedouin
Unfortunately this writer does not understand the boot loader security on iOS. Since Apple's signing key is burned into the device, Apple is the only one who can modify its functionality by loading new firmware. Even in that case, the only firmware that can be modified without unlocking the device is the lowest level boot loader, which likely has numerous size and functionality limitations, as all the device features probably are not enabled. I would not deem this a flaw in device design. If Apple creates a signed piece of software that allows for a brute force exploit, it is creating a backdoor for the FBI.

https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf