skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I was thinking more in terms of aesthetics (and long-term durability) than things like fire safety.

Also, the survival rates of older buildings has to do with a zillion different factors -- from changes in taste (and ideology) to fate (wars and natural disasters) to the simple economic happenstance of the particular plot of land these structures were located on.

That is, the vast majority of buildings are torn down deliberately, to replace them with something bigger or different; to purge a neighborhood of undesirable residents; or to purge collective memory of an unfashionable sense of design, or of place -- rather than because they run into disrepair (or get burned down).
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Having bet my entire startup on Go, I am really thankful for the steady, but measured, improvements to the language. It's been a real pleasure to work with.

It may not be as beautiful as CoffeeScript (which we also use), as rich as Python, as safe as Rust, as concurrent as Erlang, or even as hackable as Ruby, but it certainly offers an unparalleled set of features which is hard to find in just one language — decent standard library, decent syntax, decent performance, super easy concurrency, a helpful and reasonably sized developer community, a relative level of stability, automatic memory management with good enough control over memory use, usable interoperability with C, native client support and even a standard testing framework.

Thank you and happy birthday to all the fellow Go developers out here on HN.
Or worse, the INcoming mail in gmail.
They are really great designers trapped in a terrible industry.
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Although ironically, one of the printers tested (Moo or VistaPrint, hard to tell from the pic) didn't even print at the correct resolution.
When is ensuring employee confidentiality not good general business practice?
Dear Weebly, please come up with a new puzzle. This is now at least the 3rd time I've seen your puzzle. Time for a new one.
Well, at this point it's possible, and not "Economic misery". What happens when the problem is ignored for another 10 years and becomes 5% of GDP?
Had Lasik 6 years ago for $2500. Before the surgery I couldn't even see the big "E" on the eye chart. After the first op I could see halfway down the chart. Waited a year for the second "touch up" and now can see the very last row. Recommended.
There's another name for rejection therapy -- it's called sales work.

Typically it's the kind of sales work hackers dislike. But plenty of people have built good careers around a sunny tolerance for rejection. Real estate agents, insurance sales people, cold callers, door-to-door sales people -- all of them experience many rejections for each closed sale.

One successful sales person told me that "it's just a numbers game." I still think about this with every rejection I receive.
Yeah, I wondered about that too. Part of the problem with the analogy is that it isn't clear that _is_ the best strategy. Players get hurt. Usually, if you are way ahead, you gradually take your best players out of the game to protect them.

I see where the advice is coming from, I think, but the analogy fails.
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Thats how you know that you are really needed.
A lot of climate scientists have serious misgivings about Lomborg's body of research, including selective quoting - it's hardly cut and dried. Also, if you're going to try and tar me with the 'real evidence' brush, you should probably include a link to the predictions that you're talking about.

Just looking at Google Maps, Bangladesh and India have a couple of hundred kilometers of low lying coastline - a couple of orders of magnitude bigger than Holland's problem. Given the issues that the US has with it's sea wall, how much do you think they'll need to spend to keep the sea out?
I like the general idea about peer-coaching, but why web entrepreneurs? IMHO such tools would be more valuable for non-web specialty skills, where RTFM isn't an option. e.g. I use you tube to learn how to do oil changes for my car.

any insight on why didn't it work with coaches? too many conflicts? not enough incentives?
Too bad the marketing department put it in a box that wont fit anywhere. Probably could mod it into a normal box though...
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OK, fair enough. Eliminated the two unnecessary table-based layouts and removed the inline CSS.

There is still a bit of inline CSS left, but that's generated by code.
The Global Warming alarmists get by with weak science

Meanwhile, the Climate Deniers get by with a jedi hand wave and a "everything's fine, no need to do anything at all"

</sarcasm>

Strawman much?
The idiom "Don't rest on your laurels" means essentially the same thing.

"to be so satisfied with your own achievements that you make no effort to improve"

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/rest+on+laurels
Very good point brc. The next iteration of the spreadsheet will include average precipitation by location. Hopefully that can be used a gauge and be more helpful supplemented with average temperature. However, I understand that even with all the historical data simply being presented, it isn't really being used for predictive purposes. Nevertheless, hopefully it helps a few people to start thinking of destinations they might not have otherwise thought of.
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It's a cheap and off-the-shelf colour and depth capturing from IR structured light. That's nothing to scoff at. A pair of cheap webcams only gets you trying to do real-time depth processing from passive stereo and thats not easy.
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I'm thinking of making all the locations that get outputted hyperlinked to Google Maps. What I'd really like is for the outputted list of destinations to be outputted onto Google Maps as pin drops - but I couldn't find any help on how to do that online. Any ideas?
It is unfortunate how much programming is replicated by hundreds of businesses, not shared and then thrown away 3-10 years later.

Thank god for open source and the corresponding increase in code sharing.
Did you (Airbnb) do any research before deciding to build an iPhone app? Or was it primarily motivated by "cool" factor? (both are valid in my opinion)

I've had around 20 people stay at my place through airbnb and I think one person had an iPhone. At least in NY, many people visit from overseas where iPhones are not as prominent.

OTOH, Managing bookings on my iPhone is gonna be sweet.
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This is going off on a bit of a tangent but I would drop the .html from the URLs as well. Apache's MultiViews option makes this (and content negotiation) a breeze, allowing you to keep the extension on your files but drop it from your URLs. This way, if/when you decide to replace a static page with dynamic content, your users' bookmarks (and your own intra-site links) won't break.
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What is an acceptable use case for this few feature?
"If this book is true to its description in teaching the adult in such a "relationship" how to treat the child with respect, and it helps prevent the irreparable harm which could be caused by an abusive relationship, then it's better in the hands of a pedophile than out."

Unfortunately, there's no way to look inside without actually purchasing the book.

It does appear that the author is particularly interested in themes that are surrounded by controversy. His other ebooks are about legalizing gay marriage, the right of convicts to vote, and 'disproving' the existence of G-d.

I can't judge on the quality of these books, not having read them. However, the descriptions supplied by the author are poorly written, which is never a good sign.

EDIT: Amazon has succumbed to the pressure and has taken the product page down. So much for principles.
Grigori Pereleman would be doing mathematics with or without the prize money.

I think sp4rki's point is that it's a waste if not taking/making the money means that you have less time to do whatever it is you're good at. E.g. the artist who could make money from it but chooses not to, and as a result has to work at the convenience store, and as a result produces less art. Though that last bit is a bit contentious - maybe working at the convenience store is a good source of inspiration for that artist.
If IRC activity correlates to interest in the language, then data shows a bleak picture of interest in go-lang. Here is the total character count per day as a percentage of the activity on November 12, 2009.

http://i.imgur.com/8ERaf.png

X axis is days (approx) since 11/12/09
Y is % of chars as compared with the busiest day (11/12/09)

I've used the language for big projects and little projects. The strict error handling is fantastic. I like everything about the language except one thing. Just one, and it's a big nasty thing. I hope Russ, Rob, Iant or someone from the development team reads this, because it needs to be said, and others have said it, and it's the reason I stopped programming in go. Go might not need generics, the go development team might not need generics, but I DO! You wonder why there isn't a rocking go web framework? Because generics would be a huge help and no one wants to piece together a tedious solution immediately deprecated by the announcement we've been waiting a year for, "Go is getting generics!" All I want for christmas is generics ... and a pony.
Happy to chat with you to see if we can help - feel free to reach out directly: karri@leadtail.com
Relevant quote from Google:

"Mass exportation of email is not standard on most social networks - when a user friends someone they don’t then expect that person to be easily able to send that contact information to a third party along with hundreds of other addresses with just one click"

Lets recap:

1. Users use data exporter en masse to abandon Orkut.

2. Google breaks the exporter. Supposedly a bug, coincidentally when people are actually now using it.

3. Google changes the exporter so emails are no longer included.

4. Google says social networks shouldn't be expected to allow mass email exportation.

5. 12 months pass

6. Google breaks the gmail exporter to Facebook. Social networks apparently are now expected export all e-mails. Press eats it up.

Look, I'm not arguing that email exporting should or shouldn't be allowed. I don't really want my friends giving my email to Farmville so they get a golden banana, but it's not the end of the world. What I don't get though, is people talking about this like Google is some godly force of good, championing the rights of users against the evil Facebook.

Please. Google is getting scared, and made a calculated business decision to try and slow down Facebook's growth. The rest of this is BS PR spin and Techcrunch sensationalism to fan the drama fires.
The C++ committee answer to this is to use "partial template specialization". I'm hoping all the standard libraries I use such as Boost etc have already done this to avoid code bloat.

But I agree that it would be nice if the compiler did this automatically.
Grigori Pereleman would be doing mathematics with or without the prize money.

But, according to various accounts he's probably not. He quit doing mathematics and just lives with his mother and goes to the movies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman#Withdrawal_fro...
These guys sure iterated into something desirable.
I think they have a great URL name too. Very catchy and rememberable.

One thing that I get as a "take away message" from the company is "austerity". I think this was reinforced by the founders speech about the business at Startup School 2010, and articles like this one in TechCrunch stressing the founders homelessness:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/21/airbnb-brian-chesky/

I may not be the only one with this perspective. If you look at the picture that Venturebeat chose for the article, it is someone sleeping on the floor in an empty room. Which to me does not seem exactly like the kind of PR message that is congruent with hospitality.

Based on his speech at Startup School, the founder and CEO Brian Chesky seem s like a very charismatic guy, which is great for a CEO, but from a business perspective, it seems like it might be time to think about changing the message that is sent out to the public and leave the old message of austerity in the deep dark past.

Good job Brian, and congratulations on the financing!
> Each time you miss your training, you lose twice. One for being behind your schedule, and another for being behind your opponent.

But the reason why being behind schedule is bad is because you are behind your opponent. They don't count twice.

The only way this makes sense is if you actually regress during your missed practices. That way, not only do you miss 2 practices, but it takes you 2 more practices just to get back to where you were before. Then it's like 4 missed practices total.
Don't discount Plex http://plexapp.com/ and their deal with LG. I run it on my Mac Mini now, but you can expect some consumer devices with it pre-installed some time soon.
According to Lomborg's research it will be cheaper to fix it later. Why spend $1 today if you can wait and spend <$1 tomorrow?
The reward is realizing that the pain of being rejected is negligible.
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Can't figure out which packet to send and in what format (hex? binary?) :(

Update: Wow! Can't believe I actually spent 20 minutes with Wireshark trying to reply with the actual TCP packets that were next in the handshake sequence.

Update 2: Finally solved it :) Pro-tip: keep it simple.
The Evolution Of C#
Sadly; I don't live in my home team's market anymore; so I'm stuck using 3rd party sources.

Actually, as far as the NFL goes, I really don't have a choice but to use pirated streams online. The building in which I live can't get DirecTV so I have literally no other option.
Yes, we had about 2 years of research under our belts from using the site :) I just posted a little bit about our process here: http://www.quora.com/Airbnb/Who-designed-the-Airbnb-iPhone-a...

Other platforms are also very interesting to us, and we saw this as a good first step into the mobile space.

I'm also a host (www.airbnb.com/rooms/12157) and know what it's like to manage a listing on the go. The app includes a first round of features that we feel will make hosting easier, including messaging, guest scheduling, and instant push notifications.
It's really the journey (the exercise) and not the destination (the end result/benefit).

So yes, it can be worth it just for the experience.
Individually owned places also like if you can pay cash, because then they can pocket the money and avoid declaring it as income on their taxes.

Here's how you deal with big apartment complex property management companies: just commit fraud.

if you know you're going to move, just quit paying rent... you can sit there and live rent free for an entire month or more while they file the legal paperwork against you

I know startups often skirt the bounds of legality, but encouraging tax evasion, committing fraud, and violating contracts is a bit further than I would want to go.
Thanks, but i was looking at something simple and more of a sketchpad clone. Its surprising that there aren't such software even 40 years later.
Hi HN, I wrote this post because I wanted to point out how far C# has come from it's V1 and suggest you have another look if you haven't seen it since then. Sometimes its reputation isn't deserved, though sometimes it is.

I'd really appreciate any feedback on my writing style, presentation etc. The site around it is obviously still a big work in progress so don't worry too much about the design!
The reason it really works, though, is that they have great musical taste and it's full of delightful songs I've never heard before.
Ummm...they are my contacts.

"Facebook's reasoning for not providing an API" is because they want to protect me from other Facebook type companies? Really?

...or is it that they don't want us moving our data to another social network?

Let's get real. Facebook can spin it however they want. We all know what's up!
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FTA:

> We’re also exploring some further additions to the type system to make generic programming easier.
An iPhone app was the most requested product.
I could definitely imagine something like this happening. It's awfully scary how technology can be used for unintended, malevolent purposes.
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Ask HN: Choosing an Aikido Dojo (Seattle)
I am learning Aikido for exercise, self-defense, and as a study in philosophy.

I have tried out two different Aikido dojos this week. Emerald City Aikido and Puget Sound Aikikai (I live in Seattle WA). Both differ from one another a fair bit in terms of the "feel" of the classroom environment and instruction. Emerald City Aikido was much more casual and had a comfortable enough environment that I had a good dialog forming between myself and the sensei. The other dojo was much more intense. It and its students seemed much more focused and serious and I never really felt comfortable enough with the teacher to really discuss my form or the techniques. Also Puget Sound Aikikai is affiliated with the USAF whereas the other is an independent dojo.

At this point I'm heavily confused. Both seem great but in different ways. Any suggestions?
I read it slightly differently. If you want to win, you need to do more than just practice the same amount as your opponent. If you missed 2 practices they didn't, you missed 4, the 2 you actually missed and the 2 you should be ahead of them. Sort of a "hard work generates luck" thing.
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The memo says: CONFIDENTIAL: INTERNAL ONLY
GOOGLERS ONLY (FULL TIME AND PART TIME EMPLOYEES)
right at the top.

When an employee starts working at google they go to orientation where they get briefed on a lot of things about the company, fill out HR paperwork etc. One of the documents they get and one of the discussions they have is how you don't release confidential information of the companies or its clients.

I don't see how it's possible to go through employee orientation and not know that releasing a document that says "INTERNAL ONLY" would be a terminable offense.
I always enjoy a puzzle. This reminds me of when I had free time and spent days on notpron.
Yeah, but one of these things I can buy at the store, go home, and an hour later be doing cool stuff with.
There's another name for rejection therapy

Or "marriage."
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Or, you know, run a giant grep on every mail sent to or from Gmail and internal mail over the last 12 hours...
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> web entrepreneurs

Because it is a world that I understand better, and because I feel the need for this app, I think others might as well.

> IMHO such tools would be more valuable for non-web specialty skills

Interesting feedback. I haven't considered that approach. This seems like a whole new branch to explore. What craft would be more inclined to need online peer-coaching in your opinion?

> why didn't it work with coaches?

It is too hard to find true passionnate coaches. I aimed to speak with business coaches to avoid the life gurus, but it was still hard to find people who were acting with integrity.

> too many conflicts?

What conflicts are you thinking about?

> not enough incentives?

What kind of incentives do you have in mind?

Thanks for your interest, I was a bit disappointed not to get much feedback from post in HN.
That's kind of one of our explicit design goals with Gosu, honestly: we're not trying to set the world on fire with something no one's ever seen before, but we are trying to make sure that eventually we have a language that is A) has the "good" qualities of Java (whatever you characterize those as), B) is close enough that it's an easy transition for people, and C) provides useful improvements on Java (type inference, closures, first-class scripts, some kinds of metaprogramming). In other words, we'd like it to be a no-brainer for people to prefer Java over Gosu, even for people who really like Java and are scared of, say, Scala or Clojure (let alone some non-JVM dynamically-typed language). Hopefully we'll get there some day . . .
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So what if I wanted to use my Facebook contacts to see how many of my Facebook friends were on Buzz or Twitter?

Facebook wants us to use our Gmail username and password to import contacts from those services directly into their network but they don't want us importing our contacts into Twitter?

I don't get how that is not a greedy thing.
At the same time, the best is the enemy of the good. Relax a little.
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God bless rainbow tables.
Wired went downhill after it stopped being bi-monthly. I still read every issue, though.
Sometimes, to raise morale, you just have to fire all the unhappy people.
Actually, UDP opens a lot of capabilities for real-time collaboration as in chat, ,audio, video transfer in a very quick and reliable manner.
Estimating the time needed to make a program work is hard, especially with no experience. You are probably not 80% done. In fact, you may never finish this project. You bit off more than you can chew. You've learned a lot, but it's time to move on. Go get a job that teaches you how to be a better programmer.
Go where you feel comfortable learning.

What good is an intense class if you can't get comfortable to learn?
I don't understand your sarcasm. I think you misunderstand which of these protocols ARE existing, and they both seem pretty darn open.
Surprise. More baloney for our culture. These guys have done more harm then good, really.
30/30 is a completely infeasible ratio for a work environment, but the author isn't doing billable work- he's a student. As a student, his concern is raw productivity.

Ratio aside, the principle is sound. The Pomodoro Technique mentioned in other comments seems like a good fit for the workplace. 25/5 is very easy to use on the job, and you still reap the benefits of intent focus plus frequent breaks.
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