skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my suggestion to the Airbnb CEO... "Dear EJ, We really messed up and I'm truly sorry. I'm sorry for trying to cover up the incident and asking you to edit your blog post. I'm sorry that we didn't attend enough to your personal well-being and recovery after the incident. We should have done more, and for that I'm truly sorry. I hope you can forgive me and my company. Though it's late in coming, we'd like to give you some real help to help you get back on your feet. First, we will pay for all damaged property and compensate you for your inconvenience and lost work time. Just tally the damaged items and their worth. For your inconvenience and lost work time we would like to give 3 months salary compensation (just let us know your monthly salary and we'll times that by three and send you a check). Second, we will pay your rent for any place you find for the next year (rent limit is $10,000/month). Please find a good, safe place. Third, we will provide you with a full-time assistant for the next two months. You can find your own assistant and we will pay them directly, or we can find you one. The assistant can help you with any of your needs, including but not limited to helping you find your lost items, new housing, research, etc. Fourth, I have authorized our customer service manager, XXX, to be your official point of contact in our company and make sure you are well-attended to. Her phone number is, 999-999-999 and her email is xxxx@zzz.com . Again, I deeply apologize for my actions and my company's. Regards, ..."
Can it be dodged by emptying browser cache as well blocking iframes which I assume is causing such content to be stored in browser?

Edit: seems so: snip ... the persistent tracking can only be avoided by erasing the browser cache between visits.
It's usually appropriate to call females women instead of girls when they are of age to be renting out their houses. It sets the wrong tone to use this word and makes our community look sexist, which has been an ongoing problem.
Pretentious is the word. +1.
Right. Just like the internal combustion engine is a kludge because you need to change the air filters in your car. A real solution would be an engine that didn't need filters, anything else is just a clunky hack.
Google is gagging user advocates
I don't know if anonymously joining a press release constitutes "piling on". If anything, this is pretty weak sauce. There's an existential threat to MPEG-LA and the best they can come up with after a year-long search is 12 anonymous companies and a secret list of patents?

Yawn. At least the handset vendors have the gumption to actually file lawsuits against each other. This is the very definition of FUD.
I used to be a sublime user and I switched over to vim. Now I'm in a weird position where I use Sublime for the ability to instantly find anything and go anywhere in my project and I use vim just for editing.

On a side note, Sublime has excellent project navigation functionality.
There's going to be a hiring thread here for both employees and freelancers next Monday. You could probably post here then and beat a firm.
That's not true. Companies aren't free to set transfer prices. The IRS has many rules on how much a company can charge a foreign unit for a product (and vice verse). That method of tax avoidance was closed a long time ago.
If I'm honest from the sounds of it this guy just gave out the standard sheet to anyone her interacted with - which is a bit of a douche move.

This attitude is the right one. But it must be pitched to the employee in the right way. This format synced with what I like, but I see others don't feel the same way.

If this isn't an ego-driven thing it rocks. If it is then it is more "meh". I guess context is everything.
Haven't looked at KISSmetrics, but I assume it's some manifestation of evercookie: http://samy.pl/evercookie/
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I'm pretty sure there's more to it than just that. For example, the difference in power output between the two engines wouldn't be necessary if the enhanced stability were due only to reduced distance between engines.

For example, the Blohm and Voss BV141, an experimental German aircraft, used an asymmetric single engine design wherein the weight asymmetry was balanced by the prop torque, which tends to cause yaw and generally needs to be trimmed out on non-counter-rotating twins and single engine airplanes. [0]

With regard to push-pull config: the Cessna Skymaster was designed this way. There are about 3000 of them flying around, including about 500 in military service, according to Wikipedia [1].

Another amazing aircraft design that never caught on and had some of the enhanced stability properties inherent in closer engine placement was the Beechcraft Starship [2]. For my money, it's the most beautiful business aircraft ever built, and it's got some seriously amazing aerodynamic features. For example, since it uses a canard design, it's very hard to stall: the canards will stall before the wings, which drops the nose, decreasing AoA and increasing lift.

There's an amazing image of a Starship chasing a SpaceShipOne during a test flight on the Wikipedia page.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blohm_%26_Voss_BV_141

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_Skymaster

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_Starship
Looks to be using the individual etags associated with each cached object. Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/FhUYuRsb
his another asymmetric http://stargazer2006.online.fr/aircraft/ares.htm
If I'm being a fucking moron (it happens to us all) I'd rather hear it like that than couched in a half-hour of newspeak.
(written in a previous thread about this)

MPEG-LA licensing is a joy compared to the licensing of a certain pair of audio codecs...
This surprises me. Though I've used it with great success for several small projects, my only experience with SQLite on anything remotely large was a Rails app with maybe a million records in the DB. Over time, performance became very slow and switching to MySQL made a world of difference.

At the time, I attributed it to SQLite, but now I'm wondering if it was Rails or (more likely) my inexperience at optimizing performance of the app at that time.

It was about three years ago, though, so I am sure performance in SQLite (and Rails, too, for that matter) has also likely improved a lot during that time.
> Anyone redistributing those versions is violating the GPL, through no fault of his own.

This is not correct and I would expect RMS to call him out on it. You can distribute binaries without the sources. You just have to make them available when someone asks for them in writing. It seem that this is the first time that someone has asked for them, and they are being provided.
Yup, he built that too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Defiant
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Isn't this something the .Net Framework should be good at? Integrate your OOP (C#) program with functional (F#) modules, and so on. There are implementations of Eiffel, Smalltalk and Prolog for .Net too.
What about your TV? An expensive rug? Any desktop computers? Why doesn't AirBnB tell you that you may need to move hundreds of pounds worth of stuff out of your home to use their service safely?

What's to stop them from cooking meth in your home? From what EJ says, her bathroom smelled deathly horrible, and the arrested suspect had meth on them. You don't need valuables around for someone to turn your home into a meth lab.

Finally, this type of rental is advertised by AirBnB as a main use of their service. And they don't tell you that the only way to do so safely is to clear your home out of anything you'd like to see again - saying that up front is pretty bad for business.
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Yes, but not easily seen unless you have a tool like FireBug to see.

It works by setting a unique cache tag (etag as in screenshot) for each user of a resource such as HTML, JPG, GIF, etc files. The later requests can then be extrapolated of what the user views per site. It's in effect, a cookie.

I think it's quite brilliant as an alternative to cookies but unfortunately I can't use it as a form of cookies as they are not a HTTP standard.

More: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/HTTP_ETag
I believe that's how modern fighter jets are designed, for exmaple JAS 39 Gripen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAS_39_Gripen

They deliberately make them unstable and can then utilize that to make turns that are sharper than otherwise possible. The drawback is that they have to be controlled by computers all the time. This led to a spectacular crash in Stockholm in 1993 where luckily nobody was hurt.
I am reminded of the "egoless programming" movement of, oh, I can't even remember how long ago. What I have always wondered is why there is no such thing as "egoless management". I see by the attitude expressed here that the author would not subscribe to this plan either.

I have been a manager in other lifetimes and have had some serious A players on the team. This tone and the expectations listed here might work for B players or C players, but no A player I know would sit still for this for a moment.
I suspect the boss in this situation consider you quitting a net positive if your style of interaction is so dissimilar to his/hers.
If I was in the US, I'd use a VPN like IPREDator. According to TF, more than 200000 people were sued since 2010 for movie sharing.
This is the very definition of FUD.

It absolutely is. Lets be clear, no one cares about the patents per se. What MPEG-LA wants is for people to not support WebM. Is the best way for the 12 companies to come forward and show their patents? No. I'm sure we'd like for them to do that, but strategically that's a horrible play. It allows Google to say, "We can change this part of the spec. We can invalidate this one. We have a cross-licensing deal with them." Etc... OTOH Google might be up a creek. Which is it? I don't know. Neither do Google's partners. Are you willing to bet you don't get sued in order to support a nascent technology?

A lot of techies see FUD as evil. It's business. It reminds me of when my 8 year old cousin learned about bluffing in poker. He said, "you can't do that. it's cheating. you knew you didn't have a good hand, but i folded. i could have beat you." His dad said, "next time stay in the game. but i might not be bluffing next time. it's all part of the game."

It's all part of the game.
>Morally wrong? Yes.

Subjective.
Fuckin' cool! 3D print will change the world!!!
Actually, Goldman repeatedly claimed in their defense of their actions on the Fab CDO that they had no fiduciary responsibility to their clients.

Also as a market maker, it's difficult to ignore what's going on if all the smart money is selling, and all the dumb money is buying.

FWIW, the vast majority of market-making is taking place outside of the stock exchange : End-users are at a natural disadvantage, since they can't see all the flows.
True that the transfer rates aren't specifically spelled out, but if I'm advertised the nation's largest 3G network, or something to that tune, then my expectation is unlimited data on that network.
> #1 - Duh, everyone does.

IME this isn't even remotely close to true. This applies to at best 10% of people in an average corporate environment (which is the context I assumed for the document).
you know, there is a difference between "largely" and "only".
So this is only about retaining IP address assignment records? I don't think this changes much, as my Comcast IP address hasn't changed in over a year anyway. You couldn't rely on IP address rotation to preserve your anonymity before this law, and you can't do it with this law either.
I like the merge idea, but it would be good to preserve all links at the top. So more like grouping than merging. That way if several stories offer different perspectives they are all still viewable
I think you numbers are way off. The average user is using less than 100MB a month. If your assumption is correct that the top users are using 12x as much data (don't know where you got this info) - it seems like they'll be throttling anyone that uses more than 1.2GB of data a month...
I have often noticed at conferences groups of somewhat overweight techies, clustered around a limited number of electrical outlets, to power their laptops.

I've thought to myself, "these people have too little outlet and laptop energy, and too much energy stored in their bodies." Of course the next step should be obvious: what if we had a power adapter that could plug directly into excess body fat? Lose weight and extend your battery life! Eat all you want and work it off in a marathon unplugged session of 'Angry Birds'!

This new heat-to-electricity-pathway brings us a tiny step closer to that dream.
Nobody says substitution is a cure, rather a lesser evil out of 2 choices.

Different diseases / treatments cause different pain levels and suffering in those that have them and the ones close to them. Spending 3 months next to your loved ones or 6 months in a hospital bed is a heart-breaking decision to make. The ability to manipulate the probabilities regarding how one's diseases progresses is the most basic human right that an ill person can have. I really hope you're not advocating taking that liberty away from them.
The best comment I heard on that slogan was from a businessman whose name I unfortunately forgot. It went along the lines of "The customer in not always right, that's nonsense. The customer does have a right to be heard."
I understand certain pro users being skeptical on the whole 'Back to Mac' iOS-ification of OSX, me included but i'm already loving the Lion terminal. Nice implementation of full screen, 256 colors , no distractions and just one swipe away from all the 'consumer' things I want to do. There's a lot of fluff in this release, but the new Terminal alone made the $30 upgrade worth it for me. As for the Mac Pro disappearing, I couldn't care less. I would think this would impact high res image/video guys more since that seems like the Pro's target market. Developers seem fine on laptops with an external display.
OK these stories are starting to get a bit tiresome.

Such a random and twisted act is not the norm, nor is it indicative of any aspect of airbnb's business. It's just as likely one would have this happen in a hotel (to their travel belongings) via a crazy housekeeping staff member.
The author switched to Emacs. https://twitter.com/#!/justinlilly/status/96630245226061824

But yeah, as a vim user I agree. Pathogen helps a lot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Democrats

There was a time when the Republicans were at least as liberal as the Democrats.
I scanned and noticed some common newbie mistakes... I wish the life is so simple :(

I don't like email, particularly for discussing
complex topics

Dijkstra is rolling in the grave... If you cannot write down your thoughts about some complex topic, waving hands in the meeting will not make it more clear. I guarantee.

Don't tell me there's a problem without offering a solution.

Good luck with that. The result will be: look we have no problems. Sometimes (actually more often than you think) problems don't have solution at all and the best way is to cut the loses.

Don't send me long documents. I like precision and
concision. Say it on one page (or less).

Simplification: if you are a knowledge worker sometimes very long elaborated documents are very much required.

Bring pen and paper to every meeting with me.
Pay attention to what I say; I'll try to speak with care.
If I frequently must repeat instructions, or
remind you o something I've already told you, you
will not work with me again.

Effective managers say things twice using multiple communication channels:
http://hbr.org/2011/05/defend-your-research-effective-manage...

If you have a meeting with me at an assigned time, and
I am in another meeting with my door closed, interrupt me.

You know, you should get some kind of calendar or watch... That is how people rise to the top ....

If you disagree with me, voice your differences.

That is fine but don't push that responsibility to your reports. I was lucky to be once on a meeting with our CEO (big corporation - CEO is very very rich guy). And he would go around table and ask everybody (including me) what they think and to voice disagreement.
I dont' get the fear that because some elements of iOS are added to Lion, it means its getting dumbed down.

I've used Lion for a bit over a month now (in beta and release), and beyond some changes for the better in terms of my workflow (gestures for spaces, etc), nothing really changed. Ruby runs fine, autotest, Spork, git, etc.

The things that are great, like Spaces and Mission Control (nearly) have made things easier. The system is a bit faster than it was before, and I don't have to install a bunch of mods to get rid of Aqua.

But really, nothing got dumber or smarter. It changed, and mostly for the better. My wife likes it better, as do my parents. It makes more sense to them. My dad for instance never got the hang of the Applications folder, so he loves Launchpad.

Until you can write iOS apps on an iOS device, OSX as we know it and use it isn't going anywhere, but I welcome it getting easier on the surface for others.
From other things deriving I would guess, that veteran users become more efficient, looking for what they really care about instead of letting their eyes and brain parse every letter. It's the same for me here on HN. I don't care about 90% of the content, even from the front page. So I don't even read it just scroll until my eyes find words they consider interesting. But I spend more time researching other sources to an interesting topic and actually spent some meaningful time writing meaningful comments (or at least try to).

edit I even end up more often these days using the browser search function to not need to read every entry.
Their apparent patent: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=_wPKAAAAEBAJ

It appears to be a switched capacitor front end for a conventional inductor-based converter. The special sauce appears to be that the design requirements for the back end converter are relaxed if its voltage varies over a smaller range.

Efficiency can be much higher than 50% if the capacitors are only lightly discharged during a cycle. However under high load that means fast switching, which means high capacitive losses in the switch transistors. A hybrid approach might be a big win for small systems (cell phones) that spend most of their time asleep, and it could save cost and circuit board area over a complicated SEPIC converter.

Their elevator pitch: http://www.thebusinessmakers.com/index.php?id=2761

Ouch. Data centers are not small systems that spend most of their time asleep. My gut feel is that even the static current draw from a big CPU and its DRAMs is well outside the sweet spot of this technology.
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I think that is also due to a form of lock-in.

Emacs and Vim are so different from anything else, and you invest so much time customizing and tailoring them to your use that in the end they are actually your own editor, not Emacs or Vim anymore.

Other editors instead are usually based on the same general idea and interaction, so switching and trying different ones is easier.
"ends in arrest"

As in "one month ago police issues a statement that a person had been detained". Since then "EJ" claims that this person has not been charged.

This article came out today, after EJs post. The article is based on a police report over a month old. So what prompted its writing? Was it EJs post? If so, why no effort on the part of the journalist to investigate if the individual in the police report was charged (or even any mention of the allegation that she has not).

Or was it just a reprint of an AirBNB PR statement...
It doesn't matter if the number for average usage is way off. The math stays the same. Light users are bearing the cost for heavy users. In fact light users are by and large carrying the cost for even average users.

The 12x number came from the article.
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The problem for a potential competitor to AT&T that could offer a 'REALLY unlimited' contract is that the people who would switch would be all the really high bandwidth consumers. All the 'juicy' decently paying, (in reality) low bandwidth people don't feel oppressed by AT&T. So the competitor would just be setting themselves up for providing a better service, for the worst ($/Mb) customers.
I was looking into living in Chile after I heard about this program and one thing that really jumped out is that the Chilean Peso is running at more than 450-1 against the dollar. Does anyone know why the currency is so devalued? Is the political situation unstable? Or is the sovereign debt situation out of control?
It was not closed, it was reduced. Companies are still doing it. They wouldn't continue if it wasn't beneficial to do so.

US regulations also don't do anything to transfer prices in other countries. Google apparently pays something like 2.4% tax on their foreign profits because they funnel them all to the Bahamas.
I've been a fan of Burt Rutan since the VariEze first appeared on the cover of Popular Science in 1974. Oh how I wanted to build one of those planes. Burt Rutan has made more contributions to aerospace than anyone since Glenn Curtiss.

This wikipedia article is certainly relevant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_engine but I'm still not sure how the Boomerang can be so stable that it requires no rudder input during takeoff.

My guess is that by having one engine further back he creates the equivalent of the dihedral effect. If the plane starts to yaw in one direction. I have nothing but intuition to support this idea :)

I would love to see a detailed explanation of how this plane is so stable.
A theoretical flash-mobbing of the 5% throttle on unlimited plans?
1. All subscribers of an unlimited plan ramp up network usage massively
2. This will shrink the upper percentile distribution since it's not likely that the top 5% of people will use much more data than they already do
3. The result is more unlimited bandwidth that would not be throttled since the 5% threshold goes up

Any bets that the current ultimatum will not be modified for "the benefit of the people" ?
So what are the patents? Or do they just want press headlines?
The dark theme is nice. I quite often use Sublime in full screen mode, because I need a large font size to see the text, and use the blackboard theme to repvent eye strain. Having the bright sidebar on the left was always a distraction (while distraction free mode, of course, meant no sidebar).
If you are asking this question, then probably no.

From practical point of view: if your interest in video entertainment is quite mainstream, then while being in US it's actually cheaper in all aspects to carry Netflix or other video rental subscription than download something protected by RIAA. If you have non-mainstream interest, then I'd think, the risk of being caught is lower, since chances are RIAA won't care about some obscure movies.
I think this has been one of the major innovations of the iPhone: not allowing carriers to tamper with it.

MS understood this and they are doing the same with WP7. Google knows it is a problem so they release the Google Experience phones, but they can’t disallow it completely.
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FYI, I edited my comment once to remove an errant comma. The content never changed. I definitely did not have anything in there about feature phones. I was somewhat confused by your reference to that and previous comments I made. Are you sure you were looking at the right comment?
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A recent situation that, um, puzzled me in the past few months was a story being posted here and getting no traction until someone else posted it 24-48 hours later. These things just happen, it seems.
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