skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cool, but how is it different/better than a plug computer (honest question)? It looks smaller and cheaper. But not fundamentally different.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_computer

One difference seems to be that it is started by a nonprofit vs. a commercial venture.
Twitter2plus: Find your Twitter friends on Google+
I don't know what optimal is, but the evidence is that giving more to the wealthy doesn't help much. My family is decidedly upper-upper-middle class, and I won't pretend that cutting my taxes will stimulate the economy. Extra money is going into loan repayment or savings. If my taxes went away entirely, I'd spend more, but not enough to offset the loss of revenue to the government.

I fully agree that there must be private investments, and indeed there must be wealthy people. Whenever I hear someone say "No one needs more than X dollars", I immediately know that I'm talking to an extremely naive person. However, I do think that the pendulum has swung too far in favor of the wealthy, not just in terms of taxes.

Edit: Just to be clear, dumping money into the pockets of average Joes isn't necessarily going to do anything to stimulate the economy either. The tax rebates showed that.
"...we can easily demonstrate that reading reddit is a skill that develops and changes over time..."

Actually, you've failed to demonstrate that. A better test would be to record first time visitors and then come back after they've become long time users and record again. That way, you could rule out the mitigating factor that you mentioned earlier in the article:

"...indicating that either only certain types of people become redditors, or that the veterans’ reading patterns had changed..."
Wasn't this what the Kin was supposed to be?
What's wrong with List.of(...)?

I think adding special syntax rules is a pretty bad idea.
Is AOF the preferred persistence method than I take it?

After seeing some pain that is required to resuscitate Redis from the persisted files if it goes down, I was wary of relying on that persistence.

I'm pretty excited about the cluster functionality. At my current company sadly I'm working with big data so I can't really use Redis as a main backing store, but it's always in my head for personal projects.
I forgot to say that Sid Leach is already aware of this situation and has consulted with another company that received the letter.
If you take a look at the front page of reddit you may change your mind about what Occam's Razor implies in this case. There is nothing more common than to find people reflexively upvoting stories about something they're agitated about.

You can see that's happening here from e.g.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2821399

which has no less than 275 points (so far), despite being a completely derivative article that adds no new information. People aren't upvoting it because of something they learned in it that engaged their intellectual curiosity.
Put up that sign and then refuse service to blacks, and you're not fine.

Put up that sign, implement the described policy, receive disproportionate numbers of complaints about blacks (because landlords are racist?), enforce the described policy equally irrespective of race, and you are walking a fine line. You could be sued for that and might not be fine.
> Essentially the only way you'll know about the quality of the tech you'll be working with is to be smart and ask questions at the interview stage (this is true for any firm).

Cannot emphasise how important this is. No one discusses how to navigate an interview from the perspective of a potential employee.
Careful with that type of data sharing. It can fail the game theory test. Lets say I'm a selfishly amoral actor in the room rental industry, and I want to lock up the market for myself. I can silence all my competition by releasing blacklist information on a number of current users, then those users will be banned by other sites and forced to continue using my site.

Banks do this today with their info sharing through ChexSystems. I've seen banks that will report their current account holders for the most trivial violations. The result being that the account holder can't open an account anywhere else.
You may be interested in the comments from the last time this was submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1022394

Or the time before that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554338

Or the time before that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=232192
everyone knows patent reform will -likely- not happen/is not easy.

sooo here's a _naive_ idea... why doesn't google take these patents, and offer them up for FREE to ANYONE as long as they are used IN DEFENSE of a patent attack? ...with the hope of others contributing patents to this pool for the same purpose? i would donate/license the patents i have to this pool... over time there could be enough patents in the pool to deter against almost any aggressor, effectively rendering the patent system useless and "reformed".
I looked at the application sheet, is it preferable to already have incorporated before applying? Or is that a no-no like YC?
Puffy At Work: Code right and secure, the OpenBSD way
Excellent point!

The thing though is that flashbacks are involuntary (though most often brought about by a sensory trigger). The way this victim is seeking to bring this forward is voluntary.

I'm not trying to attack the victim, merely I'm agreeing with this thread's parent comment - this case is nowhere near average.
Quick peeve: these are not programmers. These are computer scientists and applied mathematicians in the area of high-volume finance who happen to write code. They are being paid to write cutting-edge algorithms which are optimized in the extreme because it gives people who are playing with huge sums of money an edge in their ongoing tech war with their competition.
And a lot of this is probably a rehash of those WTF moments the founders have with their girlfriend. Look at this statement:

<i>(the second co-founder) suggesting we meet for coffee as he “would enjoy meeting” me. He made no inquiry into my current emotional state, my safety or my well being.</i>

So Airbnb do all they can to escalate the case, to compensate her, to assist the police, etc, or as least it is the best for a tech company to do. All these seem secondary to the victim. What she really want is for someone to ask her if she is ok.
> [I personally think that] the tone of this "list of rules" comes across as rude

> I've been around academia for long enough

I wonder if these two things are linked. I'd love to receive a list like this from someone I'm meant to be interacting with - it shows me they're serious about the work rather than serious about egos.
Haha, or an old AMD processor. I was mentioning body heat because we generally ~automatically~ generate that, and provide fuel, because we're always eating and putting off body heat, unless we're really ill. It'd be (functionally) free energy.
Learning from Turntable.FM to make immersive experiences that stick
One observation that really bugged me:

> The burden is now on technically-skilled users to find out how to get where they want to go. It’s hard to argue with this logic.

There should be no burden. Good UI should be scalable to let the 95% in to do their thing with no thought and no worries, but "expert mode" should follow that same mindset while exposing details.
"Don't tell me there's a problem without offering a solution." I disagree. While I try to think about solutions before bringing up the problem, sometimes I cannot find the solution on my own. It can be a good idea to talk about the problem to other people. Collectively, we might find a solutions.
Old news is old. Plato old. Article doesn't even adequately recapitulate the issues.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Allegory_of_t...

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/perception-problem/
Other reports of this story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2818847 <- This has all the comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822935

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822162

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2823776

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2823808

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2823949
Acorn (image editor) uses SQLite as file format.
Other reports of this story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2818847 <- This has all the comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822935

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822162

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2823776

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2823808

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2823947
Technology use in government and healthcare administration -- actually any office that uses paper. So many offices are so horribly out of date, think about all the papers you have to fill out for everything -- pen and paper, writing down your same address a million times on a million different papers sent to a million different offices. People reading your address and hand translating it into a million different databases or manually cross-referencing it to other papers.

It's enough to drive you crazy. These people are doing office work as if computers don't even exist.

So called "smart phones" aren't capable of solving this problem. For whatever reason, we lack the software capability of using our technology to really make these mundane tasks of sharing information easier.
> Yeah, that's status thinking and antithetical to rational discourse. You evaluate a story or its plausibility on _its_ merits, not on the status of who tells it (unless you have _real_ information about the author's credibility, which in this case neither of us, correct me if I'm wrong, have.)

What about in the other direction? I have no information about the author's credibility whatsoever, but from personal interaction I have ample information about PG's credibility.
it will get simpler when your statement would look like :

Redis, Mongo, <insert your own zoo> ... : db.set(), db.find()
I was just going with jonknee's assessment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2814395

My parents' rental house which got used as a methlab when the original tenants left without notice (and apparently left it open). Some of the imagery seemed familiar.

Conspiracy theories aside, I'm sure most folks familiar with airbnb were wondering when this moment would occur, and what the response would be.
Thanks. Updated the post.
It's smaller and cheaper. Why isn't that enough?
^o^, I only remember this sentence after i read the article, and I laughed...
Libyan Revolution Is Falling Apart
You're comparing Moogles and Googles here.

Why would you source Apple's effective tax rate at http://www.advfn.com/ and not point out that on the same website, Google's effective tax rate is 21.4% and not 2.4%?
this is super AWESOME.
Keep up the great work Sam.
I hate this list. It takes too long to get its point across(17 points), all the micromanagement will slow everything down, and point 2 and 15 are contradictory.

I worked under someone like this as an intern, and though I never "got in trouble", that's probably because I was scared and needed the money. I left as soon as I could and so did most of the team.
>And maybe I've met some first-rate minds who are rude and arrogant as well, but I haven't noticed because I've mentally sorted them into the "overcompensating second-rater" category.

Dijkstra seemed to fall into the category of very smart pricks, although he may be the exception that proves the rule.
You ignorance is so painful embarrassing, it almost hurts to read your non-sense.
You have to remember price point and demographics. A lot people don't care for smart phones. Smart phones are only a fraction of the phone market as well.

Lots of people don't want smart phones for various reasons, lots of people buy them and then regret it like I did. The market is pretty varied.

I've gone back to my old Sony because of battery life. I kept forgetting to put my Android on charge every night, next day its flat. Totally worthless phone IMO, gave it away.

That said these types of gimmicks usually do fail pretty hard. So disappointment maybe ahead.
I would equate it to mandating GPS be installed on all new cars for car makers to track.

This bill treats all internet users with suspicion of criminal activity the same way that the TSA assumes everyone might be a threat. It's a minor inconvenience and invasion to many innocent in order to better prosecute the few guilty.

Along the same "slippery slope", it could be argued that the government would do a better job stopping domestic violence by installing cameras in everyone's home. Sure, you're not treated as a criminal, just as someone who could at any moment do criminal things.
Automatic search while submitting and display it on the side? Like Stackoverflow?
Sub-letting is more often perfectly legal, but yes, I'd imagine if you are in contradiction of either your rental agreement and/or local laws you would also be voiding your insurance contract.
If my business could borrow at the same rates as the US government I would take on as much debt as possible, in perpetuity.
My Hacker Heresy: Hacking is what happens after the kids are asleep and when I'm not spending quality time with the wife.

Then again, I have 3 kids.
A couple of changes would make this into an actually reasonable policy that I wouldn't mind other ISPs adopting: 1. Define a usage threshold instead of always throttling 1/20th of your customers, and 2. Allow customers to pay a reasonable fee to boost their speeds back up after they hit the throttling.
Thanks for point that out. I did not know their was an api for querying data on HN.
Disagree. You make pennies on an mp3 purchase at best. It takes a lot of pennies and purchases just to hit 10 bucks.
I am not sure why you dismissed selling physical goods out of hand due to perceived complexity or cost barriers. When my company first began operations, my cofounder and I both had 'only a few hours a day to invest' as well.
SilverStripe's Sapphire framework has had this for quite a while, if you wanted to use it, with their modules. If you're in the mood for being that organised it can be really helpful.
Why should AirBnB offer to replace her stuff, when she made the mistake of not properly screen the person, and left everything free for the taking while away during the rental period. Sure, maybe they need better security, but no one forced her to rent out her place, and no one forced her to hand the keys over while she was gone.
GazeHawk intern here. These are really good points. We're aware that heatmaps can be problematic and we think about tweaking the way we build them quite a bit. Maybe in a few blog posts time you'll notice that we're using a different-looking visualization. I've put that IBM study into our "food for thought" reading list.
Most of these rules should go without saying and were instilled in me through jobs growing up and strengthened through college. I think the author wrote this for people who did not learn this yet in life, not because the author thinks they are the only one with these workplace values.
I would guess you could probably get greasemonkey to do that sort of replacement, but I don't know much about how it works.
The government will get the money eventually through increased taxes or through printing more money and deflating the value of the apple "cash" pile. All the Government has to do is to print money and they can take Apple's money without Apple being able to do anything about it!
Agreed... the RES 'loading next page' cog icon is directly above the 'reddit tools' footer in my setup, and I'm guessing it's above the 'help' for people with smaller monitors, and above the 'about us' for those with larger monitors.

I'm finding this fascinating.
It doesn't really matter whether the property you are letting is your primary residence or not, really. What matters is that you aren't using it.

AirBnB caters to shorter, less formal stays than a normal rental site. It also presents a much improved User experience. It also implies that you can get in on this game if you don't actually own the property, but whether or not you can legally do this is up to you to know, not AirBnb.
hmm, just tried <cmd>B, :commandB, and :CommandB and none worked :/

I am using Janus, so maybe it overwrites this.

https://github.com/carlhuda/janus
I like free coffee.

I don't use Facebook for log-in to services. You don't say why Step #1 is "give you lots of my financial info."

Site design needs some polish. There are a few unfinished edges. Color palette is too muted and visually homogeneous.
I love the example that this provides with respect to the conflation of "Storage" with "FileSystem", while data may indeed be stored on a filesystem somewhere, the habitual thinking that appends " to file" to the phrase "I need to save these data" seems unintentionally limiting to me.

Instead of trying to answer questions like "what should our file format look like?" It seems more interesting and valuable to ask first, "what storage is most appropriate", the answer may be REST, database, file, /dev/null, or any abstraction over one or more of these. You may then find that questions about file format, or structure simply disappear, it is the role of the storage mechanism chosen to efficently store and recover the data, use the hard work that the team that built that solution invested, and apply your own hard work to solving your own problems.

With cloud and mobile being added to the set of common target platforms (however ill-defined), I hear/read people asking "how do I read/write a file" increasingly often, when on those platforms (and many other) the concept of a file (at the application layer) may not be useful at all...
Apple is one of the few companies in the world that does both software and hardware in a competent and timely fashion. If Sony / HTC / Samsung had as much software roots as Apple I believe we would see Android handsets that actually offered credible alternatives rather than being showcases for their hardware and physical design departments. Then again I guess shipping Android phones amounts to admitting that you cant do the whole stack. I really commend HP for trying to be the other company that does the whole stack.
Alternative option: With a few gigs of read-only memory, you could burn a game image onto it, and market a device dedicated to that single game.

You could just about eliminate any and all compatibility and piracy issues, you wouldn't require customers to have an existing console, and conceivably you could still profitably sell the game at $50.

It wouldn't be very environmentally friendly (you're forcing players to buy a new console for every game) but it could make economic sense.

The devices are certainly small enough to stack behind your TV; you just need a decent KVM switch designed to work with these devices.
There are two items on that list that would raise hackles with me: email, and repeating.

I'd also hold the boss to their claims of openness and consistency. There are a number of promises made in that document which had damned well better be held to, or this is a recipe for disaster.

Email is very effective. If used effectively. There are reasons large collaborative online projects communicate primarily through email. It's good for surfacing issues, and particularly for keeping a record of what was said (in some businesses, this can be a liability, and there's a lot of aversion to it).

The problems arise when:
- Nobody owns a conclusion. Discussions can be interminable. If a conclusion is reached, it needs to be noted. If not you end up with the online interminable debate -- there's no judge on Usenet/Slashdot/HN to end the debate.

- Conventional enterprise email tools hinder discussion. There's a reason "geek style" quoting, trimming, and threaded mail agents are used. GMail gets close. MS Outlook, Lotus Notes, and the like, are horrendous.

- I've had more than one boss who was convinced of their own brilliance, but who was in fact very vague and very inconsistent. Nailing down requirements/expectations, or communicating bad news was at best problematic. In the context of an expectations list such as this, that won't work.

On repeating things.

Every boss I've had, from Mom on down, has had to repeat things, and often hasn't liked it.

Deal with it.

Management means managing. If you're repeating yourself (often and for most of your subordinates), there's a problem with your communication style, your expectations, change control, task/project tracking, or some mix of the above.

People work on a basis of repeated social encounters. There are messages which are so repetitive that we paste them on labels, placards, loop them in rail/airport/bus system announcements, etc. And that's the simple stuff. If you're a manager, you'd best get used to that too, and find ways of dealing with this that 1) minimize the requirement and 2) allow you to be repetitive without driving yourself nuts or dulling the message.

Brevity. It works for simple use cases. Complex ideas require a more nuanced exposition.

Otherwise -- yes, there are a few good points in there.
cool, this is close to what I'd been doing but much faster -- I was typing out :buffer
Wow guys, sorry 6 hours when this news was a few hours old, I hadn't seen it yet.

A totally great reason to dogpile and downvote. Do you people even take HN guidelines into account when voting these days?
> My guess is that much of the community wouldn't care if that feature was gone.

Most of the big public rooms are founded on playing pretty obscure stuff. The indie rock rooms could survive but the electro and dubstep type rooms would definitely die.

I have no idea what the usage patterns are (do most people hang out in big public rooms or small rooms with friends?) but a pretty big segment would complain if uploads went away.
You're an idiot if you keep these things in your house and then invite strangers to stay there.

That has nothing to do with AirBnB, or anything particular about their business model.
> I'm glad the author's mom found a smartphone she likes, but this isn't an Android problem. It may very well be a Google problem

It's definitely Google's problem. Experiences like this tremendously hurt the Android brand. What if you bought a "BMW" but it turned out to be a piece of crap because BMW had licensed their engines and logo but exercised no quality-control over the final products? You'd never buy another BMW, regardless of whose fault it really was.
Some friends of mine started http://Tripping.com, which isn't about room rentals, it's about meeting strangers while traveling globally.

But, even since the beginning, their focus has been on security. I suspect that this is the advantage of having a female CEO / Founder. She grokked that as a potential problem from the very beginning.

Jen O'Neil, is one of the most fantastic young CEO's I know. The whole team is simply amazing.
Well reasoned article that follows along with the current trend (stop selling xserve, FCPX, Lion).

I wonder what this implies for Apple if they've not only ditched the server and compute-farms, but are now ditching professional A/V as well (or at least pushing towards enthusiasts and "prosumers")... not sure I am convinced they are going to go that far and ditch the MacPro.
This doesn't really make sense to me because it seems that over time it will reduce the threshold for the entire network. Here is what I'm thinking: suppose that for the first month the top 5% uses 50gb of data per month. Well once the throttling kicks in they will not be able to reach the 50gb per month that they usually hit, and instead they only hit 40gb.

Next month the top 5% of usage rates is 40gb per month, and so the threshold kicks in sooner. If this repeated over the course of months then the threshold would get lower and lower, until it began to infringe on normal usage. I'm willing to assume that AT&T is doing this intelligently, and that the top 5% is a static measurement, but the way it is described makes it sound like a sliding scale that will lower the threshold more and more over time.

And that doesn't even touch the issue of always throttling connections for 5% of their customers...