skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big Data Is Nudging You to Buy
Influx is absolutely amazing. We're using it along with grafana to store and display our desktop and web apps' analytics (it completely replaced GA), store and display HTTP health analytics (piping custom uwsgi request logger into UDP input), and do continuous analysis of Hearthstone games.

It's incredibly fast and the grafana/influx/telegraf stack is really cool to play with. Highly recommended.
> They are. Once they turn it into a public accommodation - which Title II defines as "any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests" - they don't get to do that any more.

Are all Airbnbs title II rentals ? I don't think so. That's why Airbnb is successful, because it operates at the "edge" of the law, shifting the risk on both clients and hosts.
It didn't hurt businesses in the American south enough to compel them to stop discriminating. I don't get it either, why would I turn down someone's money because they're black, but lots of people did and whatever economic pain they felt from it was apparently outweighed by the joy of being racist assholes.
Ask HN: How effective is the Windows 10 Ubuntu shell?
I use a 5 year old MacBook Air running Ubuntu. When that laptop dies, I have been considering getting a Windows 10 laptop and do my work in the Ubuntu she'll. How has that worked out for you, if you have tried it?
I'm confused by the responses in here so far. How does discriminating based on race, gender, age, etc guarantee that your property will not be damaged?
If you want the access and business that using AirBnb's platform provides then you need to adhere to their rules. Pretty simple. If that's a problem use craigslist or some other service so you can use whatever prejudices you have to screen guests.
I would never accuse Python of "language clarity and friendliness". Far from it. For someone who came up through C, Java, Perl, and Ruby, but who's wrangled with Python, Javascript, Go, and even Haskell in recent years, I still find Python mysterious, self-contradictory, and filled with implicit rules and assumptions that are entirely un-intuitive to me far more than other languages. And yet, people seem to like it. Certainly this article does. It's an interesting effect.
Autobahn: using genetic algorithms to infer strictness annotations
> But Tesco describes it as "Truffle Flavoured" [1], which seems to me to more strongly imply it actually contains some truffle

"X Flavoured" is accepted terminology for not containing X. For example, sweets can be "fruit flavoured", crips (US/chips) can be "bacon flavoured", with no expectation (either cultural or legal) that they are made using real fruit or bacon.

"Flavoured with White Truffle", on the other hand, would need to use actual white truffle in some way.
Also not true - the analog jack is bidirectional, so there is no reason that devices should not be required to handshake when plugged in.
Oil Massive shale discovery in Texas
On topic: $40k seems pretty decent for an operator, though with training.

Off topic: I'm still new to WH40k (started running a Rogue Trader game), but my impression is that the tech ignorance was a mixture of a psuedo-religious cult seizing control, information lost in the many wars, and the intentional intellectual poverty of the populace that keeps them docile.
iOS can refuse to play anything it fancies. If Apple wanted to add DRM it could have done it already (I thought it did once but took it off but I may be recalling incorrectly). I can't for the life of me see how this makes any difference.

BTW I don't mean this as some sort of "Apple are too nice to do this" thing. TBH I think they don't enforce audio DRM largely because they wouldn't be the beneficiaries. If and when that changes then I'm sure we'll hear different rhetoric.
I think the issue is well known in the industry. Traditional bluetooth/wifi headphones could get away with it because L and R speakers are wired even if there was no wire for the audio source.

There is a standard[0] being worked on but AFAIK currently there is no wireless version.

Bluetooth is really a joke for audio. The reason why it is used on so many speakers today it's because most(if not all) of them don't work in a multi-channel configurations(i.e. stereo pairs) so they just allocate a big buffer to make up for the poor connectivity.
The issue in multi-channel configurations is that you need to re-sync all the speakers constantly(i.e. every 0.5s) so the big buffer approach is not good enough anymore. Most of the bluetooth systems also convert the audio source to a more lossy format to reduce the bandwidth requirements.

Shortly said bluetooth is not the future of wireless audio. At least not as it is today. Today it's rubbish compared with wired versions. Apple just packed a flawed technology in a nice package.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Bridging
Any idea where we can find the most common subset of system fonts?

Isn't canvas fingerprint linked to your window size, if you maximize your browser, does that help?
Hotels usually have the credit card number of the guest.
> There are no "obviously invalid email address[es]".

An email address which doesn't validate against the applicable RFC is ipso facto obviously invalid.

Validating against the RFC is somewhat complex though.
> Ingredients:
> Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Truffle Extract

That's like a double lie, right there. If they are cheap enough to skimp on Truffles, what is to say, they aren't cheap enough to skimp on Virgin Olive Oil?

> Honest ingredients:
> Sunflower oil, Olive flavor, Truffles flavor*

* which might have at one point passed near a guy
that ate actual Truffles
Fullstack Developer Is an Outdated Term
Isn't it Hiro?
Still scanning the MD5 key space 2^128 would take a while to brute force passwords. Of course it only takes time. But a lot of time. SHA1 is better, because it's 2^168 options. Also there's a problem, what if the data isn't in single block. Then you might find collision, but that collision might include something which can't be put in the password field, and therefore doesn't solve the problem.

MD5 for PQKDEj52vGQVKudQaBMSewJ5MMifgaVxNYK9zsRTxMzBkyvompLMtgYCYv6SNzDE is cd5480cf1ad1cf7fab3aedbc6495609d. I would love to see someone to reverse that. Even if you find the colliding hash with sorter set of input bits. It's highly likely, it won't be in the acceptable character set. Or am I getting something wrong?
I have no idea. At the time this idea didn't really occur to me. It sort of crystallized as I gained more experience. Hopefully some of them are on here, listening :)
Nobody (well, nearly nobody) denies that the body contains toxic substances. The disputed claim is that various fasting methods will remove those toxins, for which there is no evidence (in typical "alternative therapy" fashion). Of course, this doesn't mean that fasting can't have other health benefits.

Want to help your body shed toxins? Drink some water, and your kidneys will get rid of them. The view that fasting will flush them out of your system appears to be wrong, though.
They will not do. That's okay though. I can switch off music by myself. Audio quality and ease of use are the only things that matter in head phones for me.
And correction: charge was said to be 5 hours in the keynote.
It's still quite possible to buy truffle oil with real truffles but of course, it's not going to be 2.5 pounds for 250ml but instead 12 pounds for 250ml...

I usually buy this one http://www.edelices.co.uk/olive-oil-flavored-black-truffles.... which is quite good...
Apple won't reveal first-weekend iPhone 7 sales
What if there was a reputation threshold for a traveller to make an instant booking? Of course it's still not immune to racism or sexism, but it seems that it would provide a decent buffer against it.
leave the fact that you have a PhD out of your application materials

How would you explain the several year gap in history without mentioning the PhD program?
Extreme ultracapacitors
I'm sure this helps....

https://www.thestreet.com/story/13696336/1/retrophin-with-he...
Many other commenters imply that since people would flee the platform if they couldn't discriminate, that AirBnB shouldn't have to deal with the problem. It's the opposite. AirBnB is required to deal with the problem. Their challenge is to make it look like they are dealing with the problem (e.g. hire Eric Holder) while not actually dealing with it in any substantive way.

Lots of these new companies have as part of their secret sauce the hiding of racial discrimination and avoiding regulations and fees that their old style competitors can't. once/if the govt cracks down a lot of these valuations must be reimagined
Oh, very nice. :-)
That is ridiculous. Why would you even filter passwords? It's not like it is public, unless you are planning on making it so.
This is either largely unrelated to the original post or intensely problematic. You would do well to reconsider what you have written here and how it relates to the topic at hand.
> Saying you are wearing a condom when you aren't is wrongdoing.

Of course it is. Assange disputed the accusation and claimed that there was mutual understanding of the status of the condom. In any case, barring an unwanted VD or pregnancy, it seems peculiar to decide to pursue legal action about this a month after the fact.

While it's possible that Assange acted boorishly and inappropriately, I think rape is not the right word to describe it. Would a woman who lied about having been on birth control reasonably be said to have raped a male partner?
They are proprietary, not BlueTooth, although they do leverage BlueTooth.

What, you thought Apple used a standard?
Usually such cases only apply to monopolies and Apple is very far from being one, considering the world market.
The article says that one way AirBnB is handling racial discrimination is to "accelerate the use of instant bookings, which lets renters book places immediately without host approval." It's not AirBnB's goal, but as a side effect it would affect bobjordan, so it is relevant.

(edit: it would depend on how they implement more instant booking. If they just encouraged renters to use it (but could they just encourage and still stop discrimination?), people like bobjordan could just opt out).
But that's not a new thing - I definitely booked places with AirBnB through their "instant" feature more than a year ago. It's clearly advertised as such on selected places, and obviously the home owner has to agree to that system, but it meant that I knew where I was sleeping that night, without having to wait for the host to approve me.
And "Extra Virgin Olive Oil" generally isn't. This has made the rounds a few times - a quick googling turns up this article from about a year ago:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11988...

EDIT: I see @codezero beat me to the punch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12453683
I mean, sure... there might be a couple of these left in the world because ( I believe ) that no one can be absolutely certain there aren't... but that picture/video is an insult to human intelligence.

Come on... we're past those crappy photos of the Loch Ness monster, Big Foot, etc. Like Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki commented - "It's remarkable that it is out of focus in a time that we have autofocus cameras."
That wouldn't allow ceo@cocacola, which is a valid email address (I don't know if mail will be delivered to it, but cocacola is an actual TLD).
I'd love being able to walk to work. On the one hand it's very medieval -pre industrial revolution kind of thing, on the other hand you're right next to work... I don't want to be a five or ten minute walk away from work when someone thinks I'd be the ideal option to come in on off hours b/c I'm so close by.
Maybe you can open my eyes a bit, because right now that seems like splitting hairs to me.

One way or another, the audio is cut off. Just because it's another jack/plug customers won't be upset?
Meh. The truffle fries at my local burger spot still taste good. As long as it doesn't kill me I'm not overly concerned.
You'll want to, but you won't be able to afford it. In a future with UBI the city will be for employed people only.
Introducing the All-New Fire HD 8 Tablet
and insurance and the means and laws to go after the former guest
It could easily have truffle extract in the practical sense but none in the homeopathic sense if you know what I mean.
Udacity is launching a Self-Driving Car Engineer degree
For a student, I would recommend Racket over Haskell and Clojure because:

1. It is very easy to set up a batteries included development environment.

2. The community is dedicated to teaching students functional programming principles.

3. The Racket ecosystem provides tools for learning other programming paradigms including: lazy, statically typed, declarative, reactive, meta-programming, etc.

4. The sweet spot of Clojure is professional developers. There is often an assumption of foundational knowledge of the JVM [or Javscript in the case of Clojurescript].

5. The sweet spot of Haskell is programmers with a strong computer science background. The literature and discussion tends to be more toward the academic journal paper end of the spectrum.

Good luck.
>The browser asks you to save the password/username for the website, but it does so for the domain, not the subdomains which all have different passwords. I give up on a company if it's using Taleo. I'm not talented or competent, but I'm sure really competent people wouldn't want to put up with this either and it hurts recruiting.

This sounds like your browser's password manager's problem, namely assuming that users will only have a single password per top-level domain.
Sure, but what if two humans share an email address, but both of them want to sign up for your game/service/whatever independently? This is a fairly common situation if you are (say) designing a game that might appeal to kids. Or old people.

If you block that, you're going to lose users. Either because they just can't sign up at all, or because there's too much unnecessary friction in requiring someone to go out and sign up for an email address just to register for your service.
Because somewhere they have a decades old legacy system that can't handle more than 10 characters.
not to mention retina-smoove
We updated the SNMP plugin a few weeks ago. Was thanks to a contributor who has been super helpful. Does the updated one do what you need?
Exactly; Apple has always controlled what can be sent to the DAC on the audio jack. (I don't know if it has a dedicated DAC, but even if it shares with the speaker, the device knows when something is plugged into the jack).

How secure are these dongles? Will we see third party ones, or do you need key material from Apple before they will light up?

The Xbox is full of this kind of thing, btw (most peripherals require a "security chip" that just needs to handshake; purely revenue protection, and nothing to do with security).
I don't think he's saying it would. I think he's saying that a hiring-employment gap means wages should rise. That brings in more employees, while pricing out some marginal job postings.

What we have right now is moderate unemployment, static wages, and an industry insisting they can't find employees. If we accept the article's premise that it's not about irreducible skill shortages (i.e. skills are available, or on-job training is an option) then something is badly wrong with that gap.

There's a known pattern where an industry yells about how they can't find employees until some external force solves the problem for them: usually rising unemployment or government-funded training initiatives and subsidies. This is especially rewarding if people get educated/trained into your industry specifically, and therefore can't easily change careers and get value from their labor. Basically you keep wages low and beat your breast until someone hands you a captive labor force.

So one possible explanation for this 'gap' is that employers are keeping wages sticky in the hope that someone else will come and save them from raising wages.
Do you have any evidence that drinking more water alone without weight loss will remove the toxins from the adipose tissue that have accumulated over the years? I'm interested in learning how that works in more detail.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12443629
Yes but Jersey is not going to give you the 1/2 acre property for nearly the same price as Montana, let alone the mountain views :(
Wow, you're right :

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/technology/airbnb-hires-ex...

It's like these corporations hiring diversity officers who won't fix anything in their discriminatory hiring process. Pure PR.
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That would kill Python for scientific use. Also, while nice, Fractions have their own pitfalls due to potentially catastrophic runtime behavior.
If everything's native[1], whether you're talking about Python, Java, or any other language, you're golden.

The issue arises when you're calling out to something written in, say, C. You'll have the same pain in java if you start using JNI to call across the JVM boundary. It just crops up more in Python because C extensions get used a lot in Python.

Addendum:

[1] By this, I mean within the boundaries of the runtime environment and not using things like Python's C extension API or JNI. 'Native' is a poor choice of words.
This reads slightly hyperbolic. I suspect Apple will fight against DRM on music for quite some time having made the decision to remove it.

In the past the Apple's designs needed to respect a vast pre-existing ecosystem of headphones, amps and assorted other audio gear. Dropping the socket largely takes them out of that ecosystem, but today the success and reach of their devices exerts pressure on that ecosystem to move in Apple's direction too. That pressure does the rest of the ecosystem a significant disservice: the interoperability of the devices, cables and practices in that ecosystem provides so much utility!
> "Despite the name, most truffle oil does not contain even trace amounts of truffle; it is olive oil mixed with 2,4-dithiapentane, a compound that makes up part of the smell of truffles and is as associated with a laboratory as Californian food is associated with local and organic ingredients. Essentially, truffle oil is olive oil plus truffles’ “disconcerting” smell."

That implies that (most) truffle oil is only different to olive oil in smell, which is a big difference from oil that tastes of either real or artificial truffel flavouring.
That paper isn't the original- it's a followup. The original is a strict fast (water only) for 72 hours.

The FMD (Fasting Mimic Diet) is for 120 hours (5 days) and has more food allowed:

"The human FMD diet consists of a 5 day regimen: day 1 of the diet supplies 1,090 kcal (10% protein, 56% fat, 34% carbohydrate), days 2–5 are identical in formulation and provide 725 kcal (9% protein, 44% fat, 47% carbohydrate)."
My understanding is that it is about what is the output. The 3.5mm jack outputs the regular audio data. You could just make it output encrypted data, but that is the same as removing it, all the headphones won't work. If you replace it with a proprietary system you can add in DRM, like not outputting anything if the connected device (which can be an adapter) is not certified. Everything has to get transformed into regular data at one point, but the content mafia is trying since many years to control as many parts of the system as possible. This is one further step.

I could be a bit off the mark here, not my area.
Not to mention it provides further evidence of Wikileaks' complete lack of scruples in vetting their leaks, or really processing it in any way whatsoever. I was largely on board with Wikileaks at first, but kept their mishandling of personal information flagged in my mind for future reference. Since then they've shown basically zero ability to identify and admit mistakes, let alone learn from them.
Isn't this tacitly assuming that Apple will be able to single-handedly eliminate the headphone jack? I think it is quite likely that post-Jobs Apple has finally overstepped it's bounds, and despite it's good qualities the iPhone 7 will be a relative dud. In which case the iPhone 8 will (reluctantly) put the jack back.
Just saying drm sucks. Apple calls in digital resources management not rights
Wouldn't the plug trigger the hardware audio switch (assuming the iPhone has one) and permanently mute the phone? Would a plastic plug instead of an aluminium plug solve that?

Maybe I'm overthinking this.
Agreed! There are bad businesses making bad decisions all the time. Just waiting for someone to come eat their lunch. But we sort of shelter them from those consequences.

My only disagreement with you is that I'm happy for a bad business to exist as long as it can manage it. I just don't think we should save them from being destroyed by their dysfunction.
Here's on bottle I bought in Marianno's, a supermarket in the US. The bottle was around 10-15$ I think.

http://i.imgur.com/6ygdyRR.jpg

I does say olive oil, flavored, but also has a dehydrated truffle in it. Does the dehydrated truffle not contribute anything to the taste?

Also, it tastes pretty good.
Where is Apple claiming they invented stereo speakers in phones? The line is literally just "iPhone. Now in stereo."
> Besides, with only Apple earbuds currently supporting the Lightning audio connection, the only way to connect an iPhone 7 to a recording or mixing device will be over the suboptimal Bluetooth connection or a dongle provided by Apple.

If you are recording stuff from your iPhone using the 3.5mm jack you are already suboptimal perhaps even to the bluetooth.

For one you are going through the iPhone DAC (luckily the iphone DACs are pretty descent) then through a generally crappy mini amplifier. If you are doing this you are expecting suboptimal or really don't care about the music quality. I'm not audiophile and hardly care about extreme music quality but If you are mixing/recording you shouldn't be adding artifacts.

If you do care about quality recording you either tranfer content off the iphone, bypass the phone jack (aka amplifier), or bypass even the DAC (and get a stream directly). There are several products that already do this on the market for the existing iPhone.

(It would be nice if some one would comment instead of downvoting. I don't know if my comment is inappropriate or factually wrong... or just in the way... seriously who records stuff off their iPhone? I'm not disagreeing with the intent of the article just that I doubt audio/music experts are going to be affected by this change)
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Peek-a-tab- Chrome extension for Quick and effortless tabs management
Title II is explicit:

"any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests, other than an establishment located within a building which contains not more than five rooms for rent or hire and which is actually occupied by the proprietor of such establishment as his residence. "

If the proprietor is not using the rental as his/her residence, it's defined under US law as a "place of public accommodation," in spite of current efforts to pretend that law doesn't exist.

So: not all AirBnB rentals fall under this rubric, but certainly many of them do.
Only if you are not able to characterize the hashing scheme, or if you think the app uses a static salt that you don't know. Then having a known plaintext would help figure it out. But I think you would only need one, not a ton of them.

It seems like if someone hacks a system so badly that they get the whole DB, they can probably also figure out the hashing scheme while they are in there.

I doubt that a dramatic uptick in new user registrations is a useful precursor signal.
I know it's a parody, but if someone actually made this, I bet they'd make money!