skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> The “insiders” can immediately tell who is an “outsider.” Often it doesn’t take more than a sentence or two, an odd expression, a term used in the wrong context, a phrase that nobody in the field would ever use.

seems a bit like when you're on top of your game with a certain programming language and feeling bored with stackoverflow questions and mailing lists asking the same old questions. Happy that in software we can easily move on to a new language / concept / idea to keep things exciting.
Did he stay true to his word?
In this case lack of JS is not the cause. The Economist is serving an error after seeing the user agent string. Spoofing the user agent string would be enough.
That doesn't really seem to fit the infosec definition of a hack.

AFAIK so far there's been no evidence of the compromise happening via swift software.
I thought that about the Wii, but me and my lads still stand to play that. The games are a bit crap, so we only play for an hour or so, but standing to play isn't an issue for us (much to my surprise)
I've had similar thoughts - that containerization might start opening the path for microkernel style OSes.
Analysis of Firefox Extension-Reuse Vulnerabilities
If you see below, I clarified what I meant, but admittedly just a thought expiriment. However, it would certianly not be dooggooders. It would be a group of self-interested companies colluding to kill patent trolls to protect themselves from future litigation. e.g. if you can't beatem join em. Which if such a strategy were workable, i would hath ideological confliction about anyway. But I guess, I am surprised (or am missing something key) about why this has not been done as they are going against very smart and very well funded companies, it is their business model.

Apple could buy the troll suing it hundreds of times over(although assuredly it isn't for sale now) so patent trolling could be limited if they were stopped within the mareket. It is already a risky investment as they must litigate smaller companies to prove the patents as they gain the crediblity to go after larger ones.

Small companies are fighting them in court, big companies are fighting them in court, it makes sense that we take the fight to the market, and hurt them financially as well.
> AirBnB is a platform to connect vendors and buyers; they're closer to a measenger app than a hotel business.

Since they monetize by taking a share of transactions, they are a lot more like an involved participant in the transaction than an uninterested messenger.
Back in Win XP days, I caught a nasty virus that installed itself in the master boot record of the hard drive. I formatted the partition, reinstalled everything, and the damn thing kept coming back. Paranoia made me switch to Linux for a while after that.
you mean like this: https://boingboing.net/2016/05/20/airbnb-stealth-updates-ter... ?
I would refer to @mikeash's answer as I feel it addresses this question.
My crying is triggered by positive stories. Most of the times, specifically by solidarity demonstrations.

Sports, natural disasters, simple day-to-day actions. Whenever i feel there is real and genuine altruism.

I rarely cry by sad or melancholy reasons.
That's a nice theory, but it seems to be common to get emotional with age - senile lability if you want to google it.

My first introduction to the term as a teenager was in Earthly Powers[1]. Didn't get it then, but as I get older (and like you after kids), I find I tear up at stories of sacrifice and generosity.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=PsJyuYIL-_MC&pg=PT6&lpg=PT...

[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=RRV0DbfOsqUC&pg=PA207&lpg=...
The parent post wasn't making a statement about why planners should be funding the smaller projects, they were making a statement about planners who were ignoring fusion of any form in plans about power mixes and civil engineering 10, 20 or 30 years from now. Much like how some people criticize some departments of transportation for not addressing driverless cars/transit in a plan stretching out til 2025, say.
There are several reasons.

A couple could be shareholders believe they have better uses for the money elsewhere and to keep management disciplined (i.e. too much cash makes management reckless).

Think about if you were a partial owner of two businesses. One business has a lot of cash but isn't growing. The other business is growing but doesn't have a lot of cash. As a partial owner, what would you do?
You're missing my point, but simultaneously agreeing with me. Stoicism during an argument is the self-induced test to determine results. It's easily created and pretty repeatable in a scenario that doesn't matter so much. That was just a simple example that you can control.

And then, yes -- when it does matter, you know what already gets you best results.
Jawbone has stopped producing its fitness trackers
I would love to ditch both Origin and Valve for GoG which feels like everything I want out of digital distribution for games. GoG also has a more usable desktop app than Steam which suffers from a very overstuffed UI (not unlike iTunes).

Although Steam unquestionably dominates AAA game distribution, GoG's selection is great for the kinds of games I'm most interested in these days.
The champion of mods. The champion of being as open as you can (while making money.) He lectures, he helps, he's open and honest.

I'm sure he is disappointed in where facebook+rift is heading.
The only sensible thing to do in this case. Olympics should have been a showcase of cooperation and participation of all countries in the world.

What will it become if confined to one city? An experiment in finding boundaries of vanity?
Pirated IDA+hex-rays is the industry standard.
It is an interesting question how far AirBNB could go to reduce racism on their platform.

An email reminder won't work. Someone who is uncomfortable having a particular ethnic group will not be swayed by an email reminder not to be racist.

Furthermore, unless racism is widespread in a particular area, it may not be possible to identify racists with statistical analysis and threaten racist hosts with banning. I can imagine this working in a relatively racist place where >5% of hosts refuse service for a particular (and relatively common) ethnicity but it's likely rare enough in most parts of the U.S. to avoid reliable detection without false positives.
Pakistan Is Officially No.1 and Only Nuclear Power. Thanks to X-Men: Apocalypse
First i was little intrigued and little insulted, except for pakistan every country nuke were mentioned/destroyed.

But on the bright side, only Pakistan is the country whose nuke were not destroyed. That makes us the sole nuclear power in the world.

love you Hollywood, i thought only CIA or Mr. Obama were assholes.

I can tell you for sure, when one of my generation become Prime minister of Pakistan, we are definitely going to be No.1 nuclear power, so you can keep your motherfucking drones from our homeland.

pssst! we are believed to be 3rd nuclear power. yet we are ignored for political reasons. we have more nukes than india for sure, yet they got a mention.
Tesla is NOT shipping an autopilot in the first place. They are selling LANE FOLLOWING driver assisted system and CALLING it autonomous AI "Autopilot".

This is the main problem.
Sure, there are attention whores but the existence of an outlier of people doesn't seem to me to be a very good reason to shame most people for something that our bodies are designed to do.

The parking ticket thing reminds me of a teenager I worked with once who got a speeding ticket. He started getting really choked up about it. To your point, was it really a big deal? So he got a speeding ticket. He should put his big-boy pants on, pay it and move on, right? Except, what we found out later was that he was crying because he knew what his abusive father was going to do when he got home.

So yeah, sometimes they are on the same level. Context matters.
Every day hundreds of thousands of people fly in and out of Brazil to and from all corners of the world. Rio Galeão alone handles 17m passengers per year, much more than the total number of Olympic tickets available (most of which are sold to Brazilians, and most of the attendees buy more than just one).

Nobody I can find is giving credible numbers that show the olympics will constitute a significant increase to affected areas over the year as a whole (edit: as adevine points out, below, the article puts the increase at c 0.0025), nor that travel is currently only from a handful of places worldwide.

If international travel to Rio is a public health problem, then focussing on the olympics is pure tokenism.
> does protected status apply?

AirBNB and their lawyers believe that US Law does in fact apply. They note explicitly though that there are certain classes of exceptions.

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/898/ada-and-fha-complian...
They have enough experience with Google Fiber now. If they really wanted to put some of that cash to work they could start building fiber networks in 10 cities per year and blanket the top 50 metro areas (just to side-step arguments about how big the US is and the expense of deploying to rural areas).

The reality is Google Fiber exists to scare the existing players away from squeezing too hard, but not as an actual plan to create a large profitable business to deliver actual competition. Google has orders of magnitude more capital than they would need to do that if they wanted.
Because it used to be that companies that don't return dividends back to share holders weren't worth much. What's interesting is microsoft's sales in 2005 and 2015 are both 12B. The other companies at least have none flat revenue numbers.
No. I used it to mean paying high and unnecessary tax assessments.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11787093
> Is it discriminatory for colleges to not group men/women together in dorm room?

No, but that's not relevant. The correct analogy would be "Is it discriminatory for colleges to refuse residence to one gender?" That said, I respect the right of anyone to choose who they let into their home, even if I might disagree with the criteria.
What would be the goal of this public exposure exactly? How would it help?
Except that it usually isn't a net positive for the host country. The host country gets zero percent of the signage revenue, tv revenues, ticket sales, or merchandising revenue from the Olympics.

The only way the host country makes money from the Olympics is if tourists spend enough money on lodging, food, etc. That pipe dream hasn't worked out well for several countries who've recently hosted the games. The deal is so bad for the winter games that few countries are bidding it anymore.
This would probably be the most practical way of dealing with issues like this. A tag such as "[Unreliable] Host canceled prior availability dates 5 or more times." would make these assholes think several times before canceling on someone because of their skin color.

I also like the idea of showing someone's profile photo only after they book. Really, there is no reason for anyone to see my photos for short-term rentals.

Maybe the two could be tied together! That is, if I start canceling prior availability dates more than a couple times, AirBNB will stop showing me profile pictures of prospective tenants in advance.
> So give these hosts a permanent badge of honor for all guests to see

Why not just kick them off the platform? If they don't approve of a behavior, and want it to stop, why should they continue working with people who they know for a fact are engaging in that behavior?
Most of Apple's "cash" is in various securities. If they follow the typical pattern, the vast majority will be US Treasuries and other sovereign debt.

Apple has "only" $11 bil in cash & short term debt. Of the cash portion, the vast majority (99.9%+) will be in bank accounts.

Most money in the world is electronic, not paper :-)
Illinois senator’s plan to weaken biometric privacy law put on hold
This is why I just book hotels.

Uber on the other hand may actually reduce profiling . You don't have the fear of a driver ripping you off
I have found arxiv to be a dead-end when publishing without affiliation. It's impossible to get feedback on papers, let alone the necessary endorsement to submit. That leaves SSRN as the only option. Arxiv requires you to email authors for endorsements which almost never works, since it's essentially spam.
>Excluding the energy sector, tech comprised 40% of non-financial free cash flow in 2015, similar to the 42% average since 2007.

This writeup is a bit sensationalized. They try to argue that "tech" is the biggest by ignoring the actual two biggest. This is like arguing that men are the majority population, 100% of the remainder after women.
So you would discriminate based on sex?
Stoicism != sociopathy.

I never said not to feel emotion. Stoicism simply doesn't act on it without first checking other valid logical responses. Understand what you're dealing with here.

Extremely emotional people are only predictable in that they are going to behave unpredictably and irrationally.

What I find hilarious is that I explain what's gotten me superior results in life and everyone argues with it rather than try to understand why.
Is it possible that an OS could be the one loading Linux, and thus would effect your Linux instance?

edit: I used to get really paranoid after using Windows for an extended period of time. Still do sometimes, but learned to live with it. I feel like I have no control over what services are listening on 0.0.0.0, the firewall is completely unusable compared to iptables.
This is really cool. Thanks for sharing
Personally I had a horrible experience with Azure. It seems they spent too much time on the UI and too little time on making it usable to understand billing. I was amazed billing could be worse from Amazon.

I used their IaaS which was a pain to setup and constantly rebooted but maybe that's just because of Windows which is pretty problematic to begin with...
[engage cynic mode ...]

And health care is a trillion dollar business, so don't cancel the Olympics, instead buy call options on the various pharma companies that might provide a vaccine soonest and invest in any lab that is working on a fast blood test for keeping the blood supply clean.

[/engage]

Random questions I don't see coming up in the news coverage, does anyone know how long Zika remains in the blood stream post infection? Are you immune once you've had it once? What are the risks to pregnant women a year after they have been infected?
Or instead of one plot of land, build a sufficiently large seafaring vessel and host it at sea?
Oh no, I just meant that I think that sort of deep longing/suadade for some sort of physical (competitive or not)... something, while not often expressed as a desire for wrestling, seems fairly common in the general population. That's "not wrestling specifically" as in "not limited to just wrestling".

Although I usually recommend Judo.
I'm not proposing the only form of consequences is monetary.

Trump is overwhelmingly perceived as a con artist who cons only the most magnificently bored and/or stupid people of the earth. And not always a successful one either or he wouldn't have had to declare bankruptcy, he could have just conned another handful of investors. Clearly some of his messes were too obvious for even the dumbest rich people of the earth to fall for.

And note that this thing hasn't really played itself out fully yet, so we'll just have to see. For all we know, he may be declaring bankruptcy again to get out of candidacy debt.
More specifically, the list of protections for rental discrimination in the particular jurisdiction that the rental occurs in would be appropriate, since its actually the legal requirement. (This may be different than "protected classes" under other laws.)
I found this article to be way too long and rambling. I could be wrong, but I think the author also suffers a bit from focusing on too small and unique samples. You can use New York, LA, San Fran, (even a suburb of Tel Aviv) etc, as examples, but these are not representative samples of your average American community (be it any community large enough to (at least previously) support a mall). Even in areas where there is no true urban center, or the urban center remains essentially deserted, Malls are still dying at a phenomenal rate.

The Internet and technology, has largely killed the mall. Teenagers, for example, no longer need to go to the mall to exchange gossip and be "seen." They also have high amount of disposable income. (see: millennials and car usage for similar changes in a market) And Shopping online has become too easy for many people.

The malls that have been able to survive is due to the fact that they are more about entertainment (including shopping as a form of entertainment, such as "build-a-bear" and the like) rather than any other reason. This is one of the reasons that the city centers that have been re-developed have been successful. They're not urban shopping centers, they're urban entertainment centers that happen to have shopping.

There are other reasons that malls have been struggling as well (Suburban sprawl is a big one, especially due to factors such as in part, the Concentric Zone Model [0] (as housing stock gets older, and population increase, many persons move further out to newer/better/larger housing stock, and the previously housing is then taken up by a lower socio-economic class, which may no longer be able to support the local mall. So far, this has been repeating for the past 50ish years.)

The Mall may live, but they're on life support.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentric_zone_model note: There are problems with concentric zone model, but it's a model, it can still be good for explanations, especially in this case.
Network-Less Laptops
If I let people into my house I want to see them and decide whether I want to let them in. As far as I remember airbnb requires pictures. Maybe they shouldn't do that and let property owners decide whether they want to see a picture and reject people without.
There's a name for this sort of misunderstanding on the internet, but it escapes me.

To be clear, what I meant is "All other factors ignored, it can be mildly convenient to have access to this abundance of choice." Although, I actually hate having this much choice, as it makes it impossible to shop in a grocery store you don't know, and while I'm at it, I love the size of Trader Joe's parking lots. I was trying to address one (of many, many) complaints that people bring when you suggest something taming the infrastructure demon. Also frequently heard: "If you shrink the lane width and slow the roads down to 25, it'll take forever to get across town!" First of all, if you stop building dumb stroads (street-road hybrids, the aforementioned futon of traffic engineering), the towns will be much smaller, so you'll only have to go half the distance. Hell, you might even be able walk or ride your bike!

I feel for you if you're living and commuting around DC. I did a month-long internship that had me commuting between Fort Meade and Annapolis, and it made me swear off commuting by car. I also spent years making frequent trips between Annapolis and Charlottesville, so I got to watch the expansion down the 95 corridor. You haven't experienced the madness of crowds until you've seen people buying expensive homes as far South as Stafford so that they can spend the next decade hating themselves as they spend 10% of their existence hating themselves as they idle on 95. The DC beltway is the epitome of poor land use.
Hey, come on, 3D was huge and the glasses you have to wear for this don't make you look as silly and are totally not going to give you headaches or make you sick, plus there'll be even more content for this, and because of the standards you can just buy any hardware and choose from thousands of great, great games.
I don't know what was inctomis, but in the case of lycos it was very easy to switch of search engine, while someone who wants to compete with SnapChat will be facing a chicken and egg problem (nobody will want to join SnapChat because nobody will be there at first), so en barrier to compete to SnapChat is not that low, even if the product isn't technically hard to replicate.
In fact 40% of its sales in 2014 were third-party sellers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Marketplace
To those saying "that's bad, but what can Airbnb do?", I will repeat my comment: they can definitely end this problem if they wanted to, using the same techniques that the bloggers have used to uncover it.

If Airbnb sees a suspicious rejection of a person of color, Airbnb themselves could try rebooking it under a fake white profile. If it gets accepted, ban the host (or flag for further review, etc.)

It could be mostly automated and has no negative impact on good hosts.
When you turn 50 at GitHub, they take you out behind the barn and shoot you
Maybe I'm not as aware of all the details as others, but it seems to me that Valve has maintained their position by creating an incredible platform and collection of products (Steam itself, Steam Link, the Steam Controller, etc.), not by engaging in anti-consumer practices. For instance, SteamVR has full support for the Rift. The Chaperone features will even work with the Rift.

More than that, though, I see very few examples of people being upset about the existence of the Oculus Store. People are upset about hardware exclusivity. Hence...

> Further, Oculus doesn't make any money on hardware right now, what can a person expect them to do?

I'd expect them to act in such a way as to maximize software sales, which means avoiding hardware exclusivity at all costs.

Again, I and most others don't really have a problem with Oculus creating their own store. Sure, it's a bit annoying, but we understand they can't really survive by letting Valve profit off software sales of games they've funded. None of this justifies hardware exclusivity though.

This leaves open the question of why they are in fact pursuing hardware exclusivity. I don't have a good answer to that and I'm not sure anyone outside of Oculus does. If I were to venture a guess, I'd say that they must have thought that their content was just flat-out better than anything available for the Vive so that it was strong enough to drive both software and hardware sales. Unfortunately, I suspect they were wrong. Their approach backfired and developer support is centering around the Vive now.
This is _so_ well done!

Could you talk about how you kept track of this when you were away from your computer? Any app etc?
did you make a record right then? or just a mental note and then trancribed later?

I apologize for focusing on the logistics part of it :-)
Stop hacking for a minute and work on your abs :)
Magic Leap alleges workers stole its secrets
The movie used the projections from the 1951 "The Marching Morons" story: http://tonova.typepad.com/thesuddencurve/2007/07/the-marchin...
It is all a legal fiction. The money is deposited with banks in NYC, so it's all here in the USA. Legally it is deposited in the accounts of "Apple Ireland", "Apple China", etc even though those subsidiary companies are wholly owned by Apple Inc, a US company.

To be clear I'm in favor of a lower corporate tax rate and making up the difference in taxes on those worth >$10 million. Money sitting idle in bank accounts doesn't even do any good for the "capital" part of capitalism, let alone put money in consumer's pockets. It represents a sink, reducing the amount of money available to the rest of the economy.

(A separate issue is the fact that accumulating money into corporations or the top 1% of individuals is bad for the economy as economies function on consumer spending, either external or internal. You get much greater leverage by taking money away from them and giving it to consumers, who will immediately spend most of it and ultimately putting it back into corporate/1% pockets anyway. The ultra-low taxes and stagnant wages in the US are a form of killing the golden goose).
So you are calling those 133 people racist?