skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That said, I never really understood why here of all places he gets grilled over that phrase. I mean, he was right - they were dumb for uploading personal data and pictures to some unknown site owned by some unknown kid. Should he pretend otherwise?

Because everything he says and everything he indicates about his beliefs is that sharing is a net good and everybody should be doing it as much as possible (I'm simplifying a little bit, of course). Just because you (and many here) feel differently doesn't mean it's impossible that someone could genuinely believe in the mission of connecting everyone, as opposed to thinking people are "dumb fucks" for wanting to do so.

Listen to Larry Page speak enough times and you'll get the same sense: he genuinely believes (to at least some degree) 1) organizing all the world's information from every possible source does powerful good that is more than worth the risks/costs and 2) advertisements are effectively a human-curated addendum to information-seeking and thus entirely consistent with the "organizing information" goal. The fact that you or I may disagree with those ideas doesn't make him a hypocrite for his true-believer status.

> Is hypocrisy or stupidity a requirement for running a social network?

This is a beyond-bizarre assertion. Loudly and constantly extolling the value of less and less barriers to oversharing when you in fact agree with many people that those doing so are dumb _is_ hypocrisy. To use the same analogy, it's as if there were early records of Larry Page saying something like "once everyone gets their information filtered through us, we can nudge them into believing whatever we want". Do you think the absence of such records indicates that LP is a hypocrite?
The Senate claims that, according to a survey of 27 multinationals, half the money held overseas is already invested in US treasury notes, funds, bonds, or stocks.

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/me...
In what way is Rust suitable as a systems language if we don't have a picture of what unsafe code is or is not allowed?

At least in C there is a consensus about what works and what doesn't -- i.e. pointer aliasing is technically undefined behavior but the modern compilers let you get away with it. In Rust there doesn't even seem to be a consensus about how the compiler should work.
Greatest service ever! Are you sending out term sheets? ;)
I wish the same happened with the software written using public funding.
These roommate exceptions are definitely needed for a verity of reason. Living with someone is deeply personal as such you should be able to discriminate more that a simple commercial lease arrangement, however from the story I doubt they would apply as the author states "crissie" is in California and not on the property, or at least it is not her primary residence, might be a vacation home, or it might be pure rental income.
Someone on a more popular tech site needs to pull this out and write a piece about it (Verge, Ars).
Apple Decided to Block Ads on the Same Day It Started Pushing a News App (2015)
> Whether overtly stated or not, is it permissible for her to manage her risk in that way?

In California, if there is exactly one roomer in an owner-occupied, single-family home, its legal to discriminate on just about any basis -- but not to advertise a preference.

Except if there are also shared living spaces that will be used, in which case it is also legal to advertise a gender preference.

See, "Limited exceptions for single rooms and roommates", at http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/discriminati...
Study report is here: http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/05/26/055699.f...

The results do not seem all that convincing to me, even though the authors seem to be saying that the results are significant.

But it's not like a significant percentage got tumors while the controls did not. The differences are in the order of a few percent. Probably worth a closer look, but does not seem to me you can draw some major conclusion from this.
Well, they did move the World Cup to the Winter thus, causing the domestic leagues in Europe to lose plenty of money.
Look past the disruptive startup hype and read the fine print, AirBNB absolutely is warning you to abide by all local laws and regulations. If they didn't do that they would be open to big lawsuits. At the end of the day your insurance company, a judge, etc. isn't going to buy the excuse 'but AirBNB didn't tell me I couldn't rent without x, y, z...'
How would I go about the learning path. Would it be something along the lines of: 1) Learn programming language X, 2) Learn Multivariable Calc, Linear Algebra, Probablity & Statistics, 3) Learn machine learning?

Also, what do you think of iOS development in terms of entrepreneurial ventures?
I'm only guessing,but since Google has no big advantage in the field of fiber, it means that their business there won't have decent margins(or returns-on-capital) like they are used to - which would make them less interested.

Also another reason they may worry, is that maybe phased-array antennas may become competitive soon, so investing on fiber for the long term might be risky.

On the other hand, stuff like self-driving cars should have a different competitive/economic story, so scaling may look different.
top of the front page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11788574
Well you know, there are "bays" for that.
Maybe one vessel will not be big enough. But a fleet should be able to support every competition but the marathon and have quarters for all the athletes.
Citizens of every country have virtually no control over how their tax revenue is spent.
Most states also have a Roommate exemption in their laws
Except it hasn't been like that for decades.
Armed FBI agents raid home of researcher who found unsecured patient data
And despite that, the fusion triple product, which has to get above a certain threshold to achieve net power, advanced exponentially from 1970 to 2000, and in 1999 a reactor in Japan got results with deuterium fuel that would have exceeded breakeven had they been using D-T.

Then governments decided to put most of the fusion money in a three-decade construction project in France, cancelled a bunch of projects, and progress slowed.

At least private investors are starting to pitch in; Tri Alpha just got $500 million, General Fusion has a fair amount, and YCombinator invested a little in Helion.
Or just hand it to states/cities that can manage it - I.e. has ALL arenas already built, has enough hotels and so on.

It would then pretty much be the last 5 mega-venues (Beijing, London, ...) that could tanke turns re-doing it. Which would be a good thing.

Next option is not having it in one place. It can be a global event. It wouldn't matter if athletics is in Berlin while all the cycling is in Madrid. Would only be worse for on-site fans.
Up... oh goodness, yes... I first saw it on a flight. Middle-aged IT consultants shouldn't be sitting on a plane sniffling over a goddam cartoon!

A masterly piece of animation, that.
Of course it's faster to drive to DC from Annapolis; Maryland does not have a river between it and DC. There are dozens of streets that connect...it's essentially a continuous urban zone across the border.

To drive from VA to DC, you have your choice of 5 bridges with an aggregate total of about 15 lanes to carry all the traffic. It doesn't take much volume to back things up.
Mind sharing some of that evidence? Having worked for a few online ad targeting companies previously with large advertisers and publishers, I gotta say, most of the data we saw coming from marketing campaigns were weak at best. Most of the conversations were around spending campaign budgets fully (which basically meant reducing the quality of targeting to a broad fishing net), and furthermore ROI tended to be measured against some insane advertiser goal not directly linked to conversions (sometimes this was charged via CPC or CPM, which advertisers supposedly obtained from their real conversion metrics).
Also, if you're curious (though I can't find any links right now) you should look into the insane things that happen in brand advertising. I recall running a campaign with a very large brand that would pay us for showing users a YouTube video of their product. Their wasn't even a link to the product. They essentially were paying us for "influence".
Lot of people tend to use the same password always, so I guess it represents a real threat.
Forcing hosts to accept questionable guests is a terrible idea. Many people don't read the house rules before they book.

Yes, you have to make effort to show that you are not going to trash my house. Its not a hotel.
It seems that our memory isn't like photos or videos - isn't recorded directly - but rather it's procedurally generated - when you access a particular memory, some the brain simulates a lot of stuff based not just on the "seed" of that particular memory, but also everything else you've experienced since. This way, future experiences can significantly change what you recall, which leads to fun experiments (and not so fun issues with eye witness reports).

A completely made-up example: imagine that you saw a colored circle. Instead of storing a snapshot of what you saw, your brain really records two things - that you saw a "circle", and that it was of your "favourite color". Many years later, you recall that memory, and "see" a blue circle. But in reality, the circle was yellow - over those years, your favourite color has changed, and since the memory stores reference to it, your recollection also changed.
SpaceX Launch (technical webcast)
(Elsevier is funny. Technically it's a subsidiary of the RELX group, aka Reed Elsevier, which is headquartered in London.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11786039
> There may be a grey area regarding a larger 6-bedroom home that the owner occupies but is renting out for a week while he's out of town. The owner doesn't have to physically share the space simultaneously with the renter. I can't tell if anti-discrimination laws applies to that situation.

Exemptions to federal statues may not apply in this case if the owner is renting out >4 bedrooms.

The owner-occupied housing exemption only applies to buildings with 4 or fewer units.

The single family home exemption may still apply, but if you're rending out all the bedrooms, it's probably gray enough that you should avoid overt racial discrimination.

But you really ought to avoid overt racial discrimination in any case...
You can make the argument at a lot of places, but Brazil is a democracy. They voted for the candidates who pitched the idea of hosting the Olympics, and it had a mass of popular support.

If the IOC runs out of countries willing to host it, then perhaps the host cities will be able to temper how much they want to spend on it. The Olympics don't have to be so elaborate.
Does Finland not have protections against defamation? If someone that wasn't an American FBI employee falsely accused you of a crime, would you have a legal remedy?

Article 24, paragraphs 8-10?

It looks like you would have to file a criminal complaint in order to proceed with a civil claim, and the state cannot act on criminal charges until you actually make the complaint, unless the defamation appeared in the mass media. If the Finnish prosecutor declines to act against the FBI, your only remaining remedy is to file a claim in the court of public opinion by getting a local journalist to tell your story on a slow news day.

You owe it to yourself and all noncriminal Finnish hackers to at least make a defamation complaint to Finnish police against the FBI. Your statute of limitations is 5 years.
> each container only needs the libs and kernel services that it needs to do its job. It doesn't need the whole OS and doesn't benefit from the whole OS being present.

Yes, but the kernel services are the part that's incompatible between systems. Containers do not run their own kernel, but instead run on their host OS kernel.
But the bullet point immediately following that says:

Microsoft will not produce servicing updates for a feature upgrade after its corresponding CBB reaches the end of its servicing lifetime. This means that feature upgrade deployments cannot be extended indefinitely

Microsoft will not keep releasing security updates for "old" feature versions: miss too many feature updates, and you also no longer get security updates. And with a declared feature cadence of roughly once per 4 months, it means when you defer a feature for more than 8 months, you will no longer receive security updates either.

As for feature packs, I do not know if Microsoft will continue to maintain optional features for the desktop. The impression I got is that they are moving towards a unified desktop image across all deployments.
A First Look at America’s Supergun [Navy's Electrically-Powered Railgun]
I was talking more about the idea that we've somehow wasted developer minds on the pursuit of non-valuable advertising. Which clearly isn't the case. Advertising might have paid for a part of it, but the benefits clearly exist.

I'll also stand by my argument that every model of financing these technical improvements (at least that I can think of) have downsides. Compared to the war machine of the 20th century, I find the ads pretty tame. Not to mention that advertising is a lot less coercive than tax based defense spending or government granted monopolies.
Which may be substantially narrower in applicability than the federal one. (That difference is actually the main relevant difference I was thinking of when I posted the grandparent post.)
Two words: Graphene Capacitors :-)
>Many states have anti-discrimination laws with broader scope than the Federal Fair Housing Act.

That's true but I can't think of one example of a state having tougher discrimination laws than the Federal code in regards to a homeowner's personal dwelling.
Brazil is a Democracy, and the Olympics had broad public support when Rio won the right to host them.
I am saying that AirBnB has no duty to hide which hosts are racist from its customers, and, in fact, highlighting the information is a fair way to combat the problem-- and let customers punish hosts with their business-- without being authoritarian.
>In California

Good thing this home is in Idaho...
Isn't this known / due to ionized air?
Lawsuit Seeks the Secrets Behind the H-1B Lottery
W^X now mandatory in OpenBSD
Oh, this is written in Common Lisp? Very interesting!
Alexa Skill Testing Tool
Inktomi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inktomi

Was valued at 25B in 2000, ended up getting acquired by Yahoo for 235M. In terms of stocks - from $241 down to $1.63

That easy replication of the product is exactly what I'm talking about. Search engine is actually a much more sophisticated setup and even in that space multiple companies went belly up.
California's roomer/roommate exemption is significantly more limited than the Federal one, so that's at least one state:

1. The federal exemption is a blanket one from the anti-discrimination rules, California's allows most discrimination but still limits advertising and still prohibits discrimination on medical condition or age (over 40)

2. the federal exception applies up to 5 rooms for rent, California's applies only when the owner is renting to a single roomer or boarder.
Introducing Our Hybrid Lda2vec Algorithm (and Hacker News Trends)
Well, it was only for people using their work email addresses in the leak. And I'm not sure, but I assume since most employees are 'at will' - they can be fired at any time for any reason?
You've been using HN exclusively to post inflammatory ideological comments. Lashing out at perceived enemies is not what this site is for. If you can't or won't stop doing it, we're going to ban your account. I don't want to do that, which is why I've asked you so many times to stop, but at this point you're doing little but abuse this site.
You think these countries freely chose this? The rampant bribery involved in the olympics is the one sure sport that'll not go away any time soon, despite being illegal. At this point it's become the necessary lubricant to keep the machination of this particular scam going.

Not for one moment do I think the Russian people freely chose to host the recent winter Olympics at a summer beach resort, where metric tons of ice and snow were trucked in, creating the Olympics equivalent of Kleenex in the most obvious one time use venue in recent memory. And the IOC went in on this total scam artistry too instead of having a WTF moment, so they are not just implicated, they're the ones who facilitate this nonsense. I refuse to believe Russians are proud of the abject stupidity that was the Sochi Olympics, even setting aside the rampant bribery and cheating.
Article clearly states Heimlich has used it before.
> If you aren't comfortable renting your home to random people then don't use AirBNB, plain and simple.

Why? Says who? You're coming up with this strict concept of what AirBnB must be, but I see no reason to agree with you. It's as absurd as saying "if you aren't comfortable giving a ride to a hitchhiker with a rifle on his back and a blood-stained shirt, then don't give a ride to any hitchhiker."
As a very white dude (http://www.digitalprognosis.com/pics/supergotchi.png) this makes me angry and sad at the same time. I don't want this to happen to you, or me, or anyone. How do we "fix" this absolutely blatant, but also passive aggro racism? This is simply despicable that you have to seriously do those sorts of things because you were born with dark skin.
Scaling Mercurial at Facebook
The Only Millennials Who Matter
I didn't notice anyone suggest that hosts be forced.

Even if you are OK with people filtering occupants based on race, it's really poor UX to allow someone to book, and then have the host cancel with a bogus reason.

If there are hosts on AirBnB that aren't willing to rent to brown people, then there's no point showing those listings to me (a brown person).
Why should anyone care who a third party rents his vacation cabin to?
Why does it need DRM? Can you imagine if you bought a monitor and it turned out you could only run specific programs and could only use approved peripherals?

"Oh, you can't run Google Chome, but we have an amazing equivalent: Oculus Explorer! We're also gonna monitor your mouse movements for the purpose of improving your customer experience. In addition, to ensure a consistent UX, you can only use Oculus approved mice and keyboards!"
1500+ points, 400+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11737232
when working physical security, you occasionally hear 'do you know who I am?'. this attitude completely undermines the security of the asset being protected.
IOC would make a fortune if citizen could bribe to avoid hosting the Olympics.
Suppose we remove everything from an OS that the particular service doesn't need, then you tie the app+OS together as a unit. How is that different from just a regular application running on the host OS? If it is something better, then why don't we write applications to be that way to begin with? Serious question.
Be it in a democracy or a dictatorship, consent for a special interest is relatively easy to manufacture.
And this is worse than not being able to find lodging because of shallow, narrow-minded snap judgments people make about your profile picture?
> I don't like to reply to my own posts

Please do! That kind of discussion a big part of HN.

(Since this is your own work, we added "Show HN" to the title.)
> but you couldn't pay me enough money to go to the 2016 Olympics.

Weelllll, with enough money you could hire body guards, or just not worry about how much is stolen from you :)
Oh... They surely care! For the upgrade rate, which historically was always very low.
He skipped over KVO, KVC and related reflection capabilities of Objective-C that make it so flexible.

I like and use swift, but I haven't reached a point where a lightbulb went off and I proclaimed "Hey I needed this".
My heart skipped a beat today when refreshing my RSS-feeds. It was like a reunion with your first love. The best of new excitement & old familiarity: Wil Shipley is writing again!
Alternatively, maybe make the picture black and white? You will stand out less that way.
That's not true at all.

You can't advertise that you discriminate but you generally can discriminate if (1) it's fewer than 4 units and the owner lives on premises, (2) it's a single family home owned by a person and rented w/o a broker, or (3) various other exceptions like religious organizations.

I suspect legally most airbnb landlords are in the clear.

I'm not a lawyer, but I do manage an apartment building. We don't discriminate; we just rent to the applications with the highest income and credit ratings.

I also suspect it would be in AirBnB's interest to weed this out, but since as a company they have no ethics, nothing will happen until there's a super embarrassing incident and it becomes news. eg Beyonce gets screwed by AirBnB and tweets it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11778289
Sold: turn any social network into a marketplace
i remember back in the day when you had to order paper reference books and it took days to weeks to get them, or for the supposedly free ones you were denied because your need/qualifications were somehow not right. And you simply could not proceed without them.
Tax holiday's are a terrible waste. Just tax foreign holdings at say 3% per year as an AMT and suddenly all that money starts flowing again.
Last time I saw an expert address any of your questions was a couple months ago, and it sounded like nobody yet had answers. https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/49nssw/plos_scienc...
Definitely a valid concern. And ideally I think it would be more open to competition. Though at least with this it's creating competition for Comcast, which currently is the only way to get adequate internet here (and a lot of other places).
Also the company (Cruzio) has been in the community for decades, is run by a local family, and has done a lot for the community over the years. They are way more connected to Santa Cruz then Comcast ever will be. Not to say they couldn't abuse this situation and that concern deserves a good response.
I'm not affiliated with Cruzio, though I was a customer way back in the dialup days.
Zika also sometimes causes Guillain-Barré syndrome.
That's pretty much what people do with containers.
Curious about the differences in approach.
iMessage came out in 2011, and was likely in development much earlier. this company incorporated in 2015. So, I understand what you are saying and it is why I noted problems with any one factor being used, but summarizing and adding what I said above:

* company does not have a product using the technology.

* company has not existed longer than the product infringing on their technology, and is not a whollly owned (or largely owned) subsidiary of another company.

* company is suiing for a sum larger than its own market cap.

* company wants an injunction placed on the "infringing" technology & ops.

* company awarded a sum 3x its market cap and is asking for a sum close to its market cap on top of that.

So, yes, I get it and noted it in a different comment, age and marekt cap alone would be bad for startups and imperfect metrics. I believe that if you consider the above points, there is a way to create scale/filter for trolls that would allow "real" companies to actually operate.

If a company has no product, and its primary source of revenue is from direct litigation and settlements, is new/has recently restructured itself, is a public company with highly consolidated holdings, and is a patent troll, it should be considered a patent troll.

edit: I was incorrect, they IPOd in 2015. They started suing apple(or the article I read referenced the suit) as early as 2013 so they are in fact older.
Downvotes? There have been proven incidences where Apple sued other companies (and even non-competing businesses) offensively for frivolous and ludicrous patents. Just because it's a loved company here, doesn't negate that fact (Sure, the degree of 'trolling' differs).