skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although it's correct that the article itself is completely derivative, the simple fact that the story is in the FT provides new information. The fact that this narrative can go mainstream is itself fascinating and new, and worth discussing.
You've done a lot of complaining about the HN community.
You seem not to trust them to do what is in the best
interest of HN.

Interesting observation. I hadn't thought about it from that point of view. I think you're right. I think I used to trust the community to do the right thing, and now I don't.

That's a useful comment - thank you for making that suddenly so clear.
Merge would be nice.
Voting on a merge would be nice too...
Also youtube videos.
Same here. The heatmap for the pro users should be all on the "sign in" box.
Pasteurization is perhaps more necessary in a mass production environment, but it is not necessarily better for our bodies

It's sure as heck not worse. If boiling things is unhealthy, we've been dreadfully unhealthy for tens of thousands of years.
I was not referencing that movie line; the movie line is itself a reference to a common style of emphasis that predates the movie by... well, by quite some time.
Actually radioisotope-powered artificial pacemakers [1] has been used commercially for some two decades now, even if they aren't very popular.

The technology of generating electricity from heat was somewhat different, but the technicalities of making small nuclear devices safe for Joe Average to just carry around in his chest are solved.

Welcome to the future, please fasten your seatbelts :^)

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[1] http://duckduckgo.com/?q=radioisotope+artificial+pacemaker&#...
For those who want to have ~/Library where it always has been on Finder:

chflags nohidden ~/Library
The science behind Bing Vision 2D object recognition – istartedsomething
There's a first come first serve mentality with duplicates, so why not transfer the points from it to the first one?

Other ideas: Reference the duplicates, allow people to submit the link (makes moderation easier).

Look to Whirlpool, they lead in Moderation :D
save on lost focus or something like that ... I tend to write some code, save the file then refresh my browser ... now I can just skip that intermediate step, because it saves the file for me as soon as I leave the window.

I also love the fact that I can click through files, without opening new tabs to see them.

Would really love it if the sidebar would highlight whatever file you're working on in the folders section as well as the files section
Tech crunch says the figures are 28% phones, hence standard phones = 67%. I agree its changing, but I'm not sure how much is forced and how much is through real consumer decision making... you'd need to be a manufacture or a carrier insider to answer that one...

I know I'm an extremely impatient person, which means I loose my cool over things like battery life. That impatience usually does make me a minority as I reject half arsed products (sometimes to early). I'm also very busy, and things like worrying about cell phone battery life are really low on my priority list, often I'm only aware when I get the warning beeps while having a conversation. Having to actively worry about my phone ... when others I don't... makes it a useless product to me, it needs to do its job and not make my life more difficult.

But I can't help looking at the reported 40% return rate for android phones and start to think there is a problem there... and maybe theres multiple issues going on, battery issues maybe for some, carrier apps yo can't delete reported in other threads here, warranty issues, standard Android UI/usability issues no one has ever fixed.

Then theres reports of weird java versions especially compiled for unique chips that aren't library complete/compatible... meaning apps aren't portable. Carriers and manufacturers refusing to supply upgraded firmware, and voiding your warranty if you do it yourself.

Its a real mess, and people are complaining and advising people not to buy them. I advised both my parents to hold out for the iPhone 5 because of this, I've heard a few Android owners I work with regretting the purchases.

Anway I'm prepared to accept I'm wrong ;)
The thing is, Paul; I am fully willing to believe that TC are grabbing the sensational as best they can - and twisting the story. I more than believe the spokesman spoke in careful legal terms and inadvertently caused the fuckfest. I can totally get that we are getting tiny snippets of the story - even from EJ herself.

however

EJ has posted a blog in which she clearly feels upset, distraught, confused and worried.

Whether legitimately or not she doesn't feel happy.

This is the point where a big corporation goes into PR drive. But a startup and indie company such as Airbnb should, and could, be doing this:

* Fuck laywers, who cares about legal when a person is upset and distraught

* The Company is in SF - go and meet her tomorrow, forget the internet and the blog, make the person feel safe and cared for

* Pursue the culprits like the plague, hire a PI and pressure the police. Call in your big-guns contacts in SF and the Valley. Get millionaires calling the PD until they have a task force on the issue. After all; it is the reputation of the company at stake

* Take this girl on an apartment hunting spree, buy her something nice and replace the kit she lost.

And then tell the internet about it!

Ultimately there are two factors to consider here. Firstly her welfare, of course. After that it is OK to think of the company. If you can combine these two factors then no one is going to moan at them. Yes, the ideas I set out there are "above and beyond" - but we live in this shitty culture where everyone seems to have to consult lawyers when the shit hits the fan. Speaking for myself, if I heard about this issue (even if I heard about it after the first blog post went viral) my first response would not be to call the lawyers and see what I could say, it would be to call the damn girl, find out she was in the same city and turn up on the damn doorstep with a lawyer and a phonebook of people to ring and fix the issue. Perhaps this is just me.

This company just got over $100m of funding; there appears to be cash to spare to make this right.

Going back to pont #1; for whatever the reason Airbnb have a customer who is feeling terrible, upset and distraught. And no amount of "we are working to help this women" comments are going to help that. Fix the girl's situation, the rest will follow naturally. Companies can be Samaritans as well.
If this resonates with you, you may enjoy reading http://randsinrepose.com/ and http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Humans-Humorous-Software-Engi... .
Download and install it, and you'll be able to answer that for yourself.
Ask HN: Is it safe to download movies via BitTorrent in the USA?
I want to download a movie, but I'm worry about getting into legal trouble, is that a reasonable concern or am I being overly paranoid?
This person is a jerk.
Slandering them with the tax dollars abuse is a bit premature. It may be a manager who's offering it for download to improve morale for example, or a myriad of other reasons.
"Additional tax applies to income derived from Chilean sources by individuals or entities not domiciled or resident in Chile, where the income is available from Chile to the person residing abroad. Dividends, withdrawals and / or repatriation of profits by corporations, partnerships or permanent establishments of foreign companies are taxed at the general rate of 35% additional tax."

Note the word "additional". So, this implies after regular corporate taxes are applied.

So, you form a corp in Chile under this program, then you leave after 6 months. You're no longer a resident of chile. You want to take your companies profits out of chile, then this tax would be applied. Depending on the industry, and the corporate tax rate, it looks like it could be as much as %52! (%35 plus corporate taxes.)

This is actually one of the key indicators of a regime that you should be wary of. Currency controls are what governments impose when they find their policies are driving businesses out of the country. I'm not saying that is the situation in chile, I'm just saying that this is the historical role these kinds of taxes have played.

This tax, and the others I mentioned are confirmed by the links you gave, so it is wrong to claim they are "uninformed speculation". Turns out I was quite well informed!
Can The Simple Flywheel Replace The High-Tech Electric Battery?
I can't take a look at your photo right now, but in general "healthy" mainly equates to two things: looking alert, and looking like this- http://www.daviddarling.info/images/muscles_human_body_front...

There are of course many variables- body builders are not necessarily healthy, and neither are people on speed- but when you are healthy, you feel bright and sharp, and you look bright and sharp, and your skin does not hide your muscles.

Look at the image I linked to. Consider yourself. Every place on your body you cannot see the crease formed by two muscles next to each other, is a deposit of fat. The key to this is, nowadays if your proportions are correct (no huge belly, etc) you are seen as "in good shape"- but in reality, many people "in good shape" are hiding a lot of fat on the surface of their body, and no-one realizes it because we have lost touch with what muscles really look like.

P.S. skin quality is another, lesser factor that falls in with hair quality. Truly healthy skin is smooth, supple and elastic, almost like velvet or thin high-quality well-oiled leather drawn tight over your frame. Skin products will not get you this, only regular exercise and a good diet.
2 and 15 seem to contradict each other.
Some people like 3D-capable LCDs because they can play FPS games better at 120Hz-- but they don't bother using it for actual 3D.
I'm at the CouchConf -- the demo of UnQL was fantastic.

The idea is that you shouldn't be locked into a NoSQL database, and that one language that would work across all NoSQL databases will grow the community. How each database manages their implementation of the spec is up to them.

INSERT into c1 value {"foo":1, "bar", ["a","b","c"]};

Now ignore the datastore behind that-- it could be Mongo, Couch, etc etc, but you know that your query won't need to be rewritten in case you decide to switch databases. This can only be a good thing.
Airbnb's Rental Nightmare Ends in Arrest and One Still Unlucky Renter
Agreed. And the database can grow surprisingly large (multi GB with many millions of rows) and it still performs quite well.
LOL! Is it legal for anyone to download this and see? Won't they come knocking on your door even if you just download it?
well, man, i'm happily married for a more than a decade, and enjoy my meat and non-smoking (did quit long time ago :).
Post-PC TV: how and where we watch Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube
Reminds me of the beautiful control theory concept of relaxed stability (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxed_stability). You intentionally craft instability in the system and use a controller to manipulate and exploit it, seemingly gaining extra performance for little cost. Unfortunately this doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of control theory but it's a neat introduction to an interesting branch of mathematics/engineering most CS people aren't aware of.
They supposedly pay SoundExchange for every play, and that's what's required to cover streaming radio in the US no matter the band. Other than that, it's a question of whether it's legal for them to host the file. To claim their hosting is illegal, the argument would have to be made that storing with them was somehow entirely different than storing on, say, dropbox.
This makes a lot of sense. Well, the author makes a lot of sense. I suppose this is a more consumer-friendly way for Apple.

As someone who lives in Emacs and the Terminal, I'm not sure I'm happy about this. I like my MBP with Snow Leopard. The Apple OSX Experience rocks my socks off - today. But I sure don't like the iOS experience... at all. It's not geek friendly.

I'm afraid that the Apple train is leaving me behind, and I regret that - I like having a reliable & professional operating system that isn't weird^H^H^H^H^H Windows.
I wanted to know this. Also, how about streaming websites like stagevu.com ?
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How would you go about setting one of those young whippersnappers in their place?

I honestly think I am beginning to become one at my current job and need a reality check. I am also curious to hear wisdom from someone who has been through it. :)
As this is in effect a change of the Terms of Service, I wonder if they will let you get out of your 2 year contract if you were on the unlimited plan WITHOUT a early termination fee.

I know that any change to the ToS that involves pricing/coverage is eligible for a termination of contract with no fees, but would this be covered too?

Thoughts?
Not counting Colin's dupe lists, I think there are more posts of this article than there are comments on all of them put together.
U.S. Steps up probe of Nortel Patents
From a strategy perspective - it's better to solve the problem first and only then attack someone who is, supposedly, making too much out of a problem.

From, a 'being a good person' perspective - there are lots of problems here. Isn't there someone at this company that can throw away legal concerns and just go talk to her and ask her what in her mind would fix the problem. It seems the company still can't get out of 'its own needs and wants' and understand that there's a human being affected by this who had her home trashed.

Perhaps the thing the lady wants most is just someone who CARES!

Not about the company's reputation or legal concerns but CARES about her as a person.
I've seen plenty of people endorse the competition after being screwed by a company, so I don't think that's suspicious at all.
AT&T Aims to Throttle Heavy Data Users
> 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.

Ironically it is your ego that is so pampered and fragile that your primary concern is tone rather than content. When people want to get things done, they focus on results and ability. You seem to dismiss those important qualities for politeness, yet turn around and call the writer of this document a CUNT. I guess you have to resort to weak anecdotes of your distorted personal world view and name calling to get your weak point across.

Your post is extremely hypocritical and you're too stupid to realize it.
In a country with widespread use of fake ids, this doesn't mean a lot. Once you're past 21, what do you do with the IDs? Keep them for younger friends or throw them away?
Prompt submitters with articles using some of the same terms and ask them to be sure its a new topic or a substantially different perspective on an old one.

Use a list of the five likeliest matches. Let sphinx or some other search engine do the work.

This won't work in every case, but even 50% would be a significant improvement.
Matias Duarte On iOS Vs. Android Looks
The difference between Airbnb and VRBO is that VRBO is mainly a rental listing site. It's pretty clear to both the house owner and the renter. However, Airbnb presents itself as a service where they actually process payment for you and broker the rental transaction. It streamlines the process but also gives the impression that Airbnb is more than just a rental listing site. I think that's why this incident is more problematic for Airbnb. If this happened at a VRBO house, I don't think the publicity and implications would be as serious. It's kind of like Craigslist vs Ebay. Ebay brokers the transaction and thus carries more responsibility if people are scammed or harmed in transactions. Thus, Ebay gives buyers some automatic buyer protection. However, Craigslist doesn't broker the transaction. They merely allow people to post. Thus they have lower exposure of responsibility. Airbnb is more along the lines of Ebay.
Award only one tenth of a karma point, or no karma, for an upvote on a submitted story.

I think there is sometimes a race to post a story by those seeking cheap karma. A thoughtful comment requires at least one order of magnitude more effort and intelligence than clicking a button.
Can you share a little bit about how was it? Looks very interesting!
Why Sex in Advertising isn’t Sexy
Provide a Google -1 button
As a longtime Mac user I'm concerned about this as well as what appears to be a waning interest at Apple in supporting the professional creative market. However, Windows is much less friendly still to the command-line user and none of the apps I depend on are available on Linux so I'm not sure what to do.
People don't want to pay by usage, though. They want
unlimited bandwidth and transfer for $30/month, and they aren't going to be happy with settling for $15/GB.
they do not tell us how many GB is too many
"this implies after regular corporate taxes are applied... looks like it could be as much as %52!...Turns out I was quite well informed!"

since you appear to be relying on auto-translate, and don't understand the garbled 4th paragraph, i have added an english language link to my reply above. it is not in addition to corporate tax - that is a "first category tax" that can be used as a credit.

and if you want to leave chile, why would you leave the company here? you think you can run a startup from abroad? why wouldn't you move the company too? this is software. heck, you could even take the programmers with you - many young chileans would jump at a green card...
Cox invokes DMCA to disconnect first time file sharers. How is this legal?
The style reminds me a little of http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/08/tiger-oil-memos.html

Although, as many others have already said, the rules themselves are fairly sensible, but the way in which they're presented is a little heavy-handed (even for a 'No BS Approach!')
How to properly use cameras
It doesn't really matter whether the property you are letting is your primary residence or not, really.

It matters in terms of security. If you're using the property, that either means that you have a considerable amount of personal information and valuables on-site, or that you'll have to take them off-site to secure them.

If the property is a dedicated vacation home, then this will generally not be the case, and coupled with deposits, property insurance, etc, the risk to the owner is significantly reduced.

Good luck getting property insurance on an apartment you sublet.
While people can argue if AirBnB shares any blame (since they do make it more difficult to research the person in order to prevent people from making the deal outside of their fee), whether or not it is actually their fault is really irrelevant.

It was inevitable that there was going to be a robbery or murder or some other major event that would cause a big stir for the company and challenge their response. To me the obvious thing in this case seemed to be to immediately contact the person, take care of all financial losses (to the excess in order to show they're taking the issue seriously) and then to use this case as a reminder to the community to be aware of potential dangers inherent in renting out your home and that while they can't take financial responsibility for damages in the future, they're willing to make things right in this case since it was a learning experience for everyone.

It would have been a reasonable response that would have made them look good. Instead they look desperate, political and selfish. It will hurt them more than it should.
That's still argument from authority, like saying "Colin Powell is known to be a highly educated man and honored soldier, how could he be possibly fooled by faked documents?"

there is the possibility that the anonymous blogger has just as much integrity and honesty as pg. We don't know whether or not she does. We do know what both parties have said in public. therefore, we need to limit our evaluations to that until further information is known.
Doug Cutting talks about Hadoop, and open source
Customers always want better products for free. The problem is that ISPs are responding to the desire for unlimited bandwidth by providing "unlimited" with tons of caveats. Everybody would be better off if they would just cut to the chase and charge by usage. Advertising "unlimited" should qualify as false advertising if it's not truly unlimited, which would push everybody towards more sane behavior.
They are known as RTG's. Voyager 1 & 2 both have one.

It's irksome that they make it sound like a wicked new discovery. Sure, we don't have miniature RTG AA batteries yet, but it's hardly a new idea.
Would that they were discussing the fact that it's in the mainstream media, but it seems that they're simply hashing over the same ground in the other items.

Seems to me that it adds nothing.
This is false, the writer of THE book on MySQL tuning (Jeremy Zawodny) is also the guy that is/has converted CraigsList to MongoDB from MySQL.

But let me interrupt your propaganda. We wouldn't want to address the reality that not all data and work sets can fit well in a relational database.

Example: http://blog.zawodny.com/2010/05/22/mongodb-early-impressions...
This is a tragic story that many of us can relate to on both sides (as a homeowner and as a technologist/entrepreneur), for which the most current publicly-available information is completely contradictory. And unlike you we don't have the people who can give us the full story a phone call away. Can you really blame us for wanting to hear about all developments to this story until there is some kind of resolution?
Let's hope that everyone or at least a majority start using up more and more bandwidth so that the threshold for the top 5% is a very high amount ~30gb. At that point, we can bring the future of high usage to the present so that AT&T and these other telco's can create policies that are future-proof rather than vague, temporary measures. We should make it clear that these high-bandwidth activities are here and the telco's are the bottleneck blocking these new services from going mainstream.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2814826
It seems strange to say "This is the problem with Android" and follow up by describing how it's manufacturers and carriers' faults.

Sure, I'd love if Google rolled out their own VoIP based wireless service, but that's a pipe dream and that's not really the point. Google-branded Android phones avoid these problems. They're not hypothetical, there are many devices that are more than capable of running pure AOSP or CM7.

I guess it's just a matter of terminology, but again, I don't know what people want to have done about it. The model for buying phones in the United States is broken and there's no way to control that ecosystem from where Google sits. Period. The cat's out of the bag, and I vastly prefer being able to build and flash CM7 than the more restrictive alternative across the isle.
Agreed. The initial reports indicated that AirBnB was being very helpful. It looks like they backed off after the story went public. They should have taken it as an opportunity to do something good with everyone watching.
Maybe this is not being received well because of the startup audience here. Coming from the corporate environment, I see some excellent points.

In a big company there are simply far too many people scrambling to be heard, and a middle manager really doesn't have time to hear all of them. Getting tied up in unnecessary meetings is a huge drain on everyone. Most meetings consist of 2-3 people who just like arguing and 10 others having their time wasted.

So, sure, the list is not perfect, but I wish everyone at my company had a copy of it.