skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that not relevant? I used craigslist to sell a car recently and with strangers showing up asking for solo test drives, the least I could do was ask for a valid license so I could make a copy and a cell phone number, which I verified on the spot. That or no solo test drive. True in extreme cases this would not have stopped my car getting stolen, but I cannot imagine leaving a house full of personal documents and valuables to a stranger whose sex and last name I did not even know. You can tell a lot from meeting someone in person, at least enough to raise red flags or some doubt and maybe have a neighbor check in from time to time.I think airbnb and the internet in general lull some otherwise smart, educated people into a false sense of security they wouldn't have offline but people need to use just as much commonsense online as they would in the real world.
Nice idea but I don't see this as an easy "disambiguation" tool like we have for the NATO phonetic alphabet[1]. There is even the PGP word list[2] that is not really used it's usually easier to say your fingerprint directly than to use an alternate world list that you need to look up and disambiguate with a phonetic alphabet one more time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list
Thank you for your feedback. The amount of data will be huge and that is a concern when thinking about the practicality.

Your first statement, that schools evaluate transcripts on admossion is absolutely correct, this is not to solve the schools problem

oftranscript evaluation but to solve the prospective students problem of " where can I go to complete my degree in the shortest time possible? And what degree will be quickest for me to complete?"

Of course a formal eval by each school would still be required, but that step is further in the process.

Thank you for taking time to read thru this and give a response.
Yes, and I think most programmers have profoundly experienced the effect, you are not thinking the same way before and after learning a new programming paradigm.

You don't think the same way after learning LISP, Erlang, or...
What exactly is your complaint here? How do you expect a multinational corporation to deal with this sort of issue? How do they know that you're the parent, and not just some pervert who likes pictures of kids in bathtubs? I'm fully supportive of both Google and Walmart in this.

I'm a parent of four young kids, so I can appreciate that those tub pictures are adorable. If I really wanted that picture, I'll take the hassle of finding a smaller print shop willing to do it over enabling child pornography any day.
This is astounding! I would have never predicted that people's brains could regenerate at such a late stage or undergo such rearrangement without loss of function. It yields light on an implicit assumption of mine—which seems almost as outdated as phrenology now—that even if the structure of the brain is not so localized as we might want it to be, a large amount of gross structure is needed for normal cognitive function.

Instead, plasticity wins out again? The brain will proceed to function given stimulation and time despite pretty grave odds.
"Live in fear of strangers..."

Strawman. I don't live in fear of strangers. They don't haunt my dreams or make me break out in cold sweat or make me stop going places. But I keep my eye out, because I am not stupidly naive about it.

It's not as irrational as you think, either. The majority of people are decent, or society wouldn't exist at all. However, the non-decent ones tend to seek out travelers and other people who can be victimized. This is why the best advice to give to your kids is that they can probably trust anyone they walk up to if they have a serious problem, but anyone who approaches them for anything out-of-the-ordinary should probably be treated with great skepticism. Statistically speaking there are many situations, such as traveling, where you are disproportionately likely to encounter the non-decent types. Ignore this fact at your own peril.
This video is purposely being kept off the front page. Number 8 has 7 points, 1 hour ago. This has 20 points for the same time frame and is now 40 and dropping.
It's not just subscriber revenue. As others have pointed out, for most newspapers subscriptions were/are a minority of revenue.

The fall of newspapers is actually a perfect storm: classifieds (something like 40% of revenues, historically) have been gutted by sites like craigslist, and CPM rates for print have been on the decline because the internet has essentially infinite inventory. In the web world, we think a few dollars' CPM is pretty decent, but the newspaper industry is built around the assumption of much higher rates (i.e. in the tens or hundreds of dollars per thousand "impressions"). You can't build a strong local newspaper with paid reporters, investigative journalism, etc., on a $2 CPM. The market is too small.
Take a look at the c10k problem, a classic resource for this problem domain: http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

You probably don't want to spawn one thread per connection, but get notified by the operating system when one of a bunch of TCP socket connections has an event for you to handle. You can achieve this by the kernel calls epoll, poll, select, kqueue. For Python, I recommend taking a look at tornado (https://github.com/facebook/tornado), an asynchronous socket handling framework. In particular the "io-loop", which you could use for handling the connections.

As for serialization protocols, don't roll your own but consider JSON for maximum flexibility, and protocol buffers for maximum efficiency. For communication between servers consider well known libraries and protocols such as AMQP (eg RabbitMQ) and Redis pubsub.

Be sure to read up about Linux kernel settings to improve the number of maximum open sockets, etc. Here are several good readings referenced: http://serverfault.com/questions/10852/what-limits-the-maxim...

Also, you'll want to get familiar with some tools you'll be using a lot, such as lsof and netcat.

About the infrastructure design: you'll most likely end up with several different server applications and possibly a number of simultaneous running instances. Consider Amazon EC2 micro instances or something similar to start with.

I'd recommend to experiment with building several prototypes before the real product, getting to know the approaches, architectures, bottlenecks, etc. Enjoy the learning experience!

Finally, spend enough time on the supporting tools, such as automatic deployment (chef, puppet, fabric), automated clients, etc. which will make your life a lot easier! :)
I didn't mean to say that it is fraud or money laundering, just that it might look like it.

Anyway, what's the difference between giving something away for free, and selling something and receiving $0?
MIT's OpenCourseware:

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I don't think it would work. The big corps would own all 10k slots and nobody else could file one because they would recycle patents internally.
Welcome to the real world, such things are bound to happen. The main question is: to what degree does AirBnB know the identity of the perpetrator? Let alone helping the police catch them; but is AirBnB even able to prevent this person from making a new account and repeating the deed?
Agree. Investors are quicker to jump on any reasons to take profits and run more than they have in better economic times. I don't think 24,000+ tweets or even 10x that number are influencing markets, especially given the nature of the boycott.
What we all can do is to donate our CPU cycles to folding@home or WCG projects. How many of you have your PS3 siting idle? Do you know that you have folding@home built in your PS3, you just need to tour it on :)
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I beg you not to organize this on Facebook. Start a wiki.
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-PS3#ntoc3
Why don't you start a business that offers competitive insurance packages to people who want to use airBnB (and similar products) instead of demanding a law that obviously would have a lot of unwanted side effects on people who _do_ know about the risks they are taking by entering this business?

Protective laws have very high hidden costs. These costs are hard to quantify and routinely are neglected when discussing pros and cons of said laws.
Whether they're sane by some objective standard is irrelevant to this understanding of the underlying game theory. If someone handcuffs himself to you on the edge of a cliff and starts dancing a jig, he has the upper hand in negotiations, for pretty much anything he wants to negotiate.
How many people did they test this on? one, two or many?
It will also work with a Mac Mini. The trend here is it will work with any Apple computer that does not have an optical drive. Assuming the new MBP's are sans optical drive, it will probably work with them, too.
How WYSIWYG editors are broken, and why we need to fix them
Why dialog boxes say OK
If Hugo Chavez Goes, So Does Cuba...
If you thought that Cubans were worried about Fidel Castro falling ill, don’t overlook the heartache stemming from the recent news that Hugo Chavez has cancer. For many years now, Cuba and Venezuela have enjoyed a close and rewarding relationship. Chavez regularly ships around 115,000 barrels of oil to Castro at discounted prices which sums to about $3.5 billion of subsidy a year (note that Cuba returns the favor by stationing 40,000+ doctors, intelligence and security experts and others workers in Venezuela). To be sure, Venezuelan aid has been the biggest factor in aiding the communist island in its recovery from the slump it endured following the demise of its previous sponsor, the Soviet Union, in 1991. Older aged Cubans remember the hard times during that period and, if Venezuelan aid ceases like it did with the Soviet Union in 1991, could they expect a similar downturn to follow?

If Hugo Chavez’s opponents take over power in Venezuela, it’s completely reasonable to expect a dramatic haircut to the annual aid sent to Cuba. Opponents have long criticized the cozy relationship between Chavez and Castro and would be keen to use that money domestically. The Venezuelan economy shrank by 2% in 2010 - compare that to Brazil which grew by almost 8%. Venezuela suffers from one of the highest inflation rates in the world, a contracting economy and one of the worst crimes rates. All of this despite having more oil than any other nation in the world…The bottom line is that there is absolutely no reason that Venezuela couldn’t find a better use for the $3.5 billion per year than sending to Cuba. If (or rather, when) this aid to Cuba ceases, the economic effect could be detrimental to the island. Of course, Raul Castro (Fidel’s younger brother and now President) has been doing his best to mitigate any potential fallout by soliciting investment from China, curbing food imports, enacting key domestic reforms and aggressively pursuing deep-water oil exploration. All of these might help lessen the blow from the downfall of the Venezuelan-Cuban relationship, but might not be enough in the long-run.
I think I remember my father telling me about a cat who wandered into a particle collider as it was being built. It died inside, and nobody realized it until they tried to pump it down to a vacuum - and kept failing, because the dead animal kept outgassing.

I can't find any corroborating evidence after a 5 minute google search, so it might be an urban legend - but regardless, the answer to the next-to-last question is pretty well known.
I remember reading about similar phenomenon concerning colours - people who have one word for red and purple in their language treat them as same colour; I can't find a link to those information provided in concise manner on this topic. However, I think both of these facts are smaller than the title could suggest - though it seems that usually we put 'things' we think about into buckets (so if you put both 4 stones and 5 stones into bucket 'many' you can't distinguish between them) labelled by words from language we use, it gives us little insight on how language shapes our cognitive algorithms, which is much more interesting question to me.
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There is a branch of PIE that supports text-shadow which makes it even more useful.

I used it on my site re-design because we have multiple text-shadows creating a graphical effect on our logo without images.

It works really well and performance doesn't suffer noticeably. In fact with multiple box-shadows IE8 was faster to scroll than Safari 5.0!
I disagree. The 13" MBA is available for $1299 and $1599 whereas the 13"MBP is available for $1199 and $1499. The tradeoff used to be performance vs portability, but the benchmarks on the new MBA look like there isn't much performance difference anymore.

I am using a 13" MBP right now, but there is no way I would buy one today. I could see the MBP line going away and the MBA line replacing it completely. Not sure if they would stick with the "Air" name though.
They have perfectly sane reasons for wanting that

Name one.
Fashion

Other Creative Industries (i.e. Art, Design)
As far as I know "Fake" is the surname that she was born with.
In some cases, informing the user of the presence of a subpoena is illegal. These secret subpoenas are typically used in conjunction with the PATRIOT Act, but could be in use elsewhere.

For example, Nicholas Merrill (John Doe, of ACLU v. Ashcroft) was hit with a national security letter that barred him from disclosing anything about the subpoena, even that he had received a subpoena: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_v._Ashcroft.

As a response, some providers have started providing warrant canaries:
http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

They're obviously not infallible and have never been tested in court, but at least companies are trying.
To me, it's not even clear that it would end up with a decision in the Supreme Court given the political questions doctrine and the fact that's hard to imagine who would have standing. I think that the worst that would happen is long impeachment proceedings.
So as a parent I am forced to be fearful and jump through hoops to obtain pictures of my kids?
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I'm not sure if he'd get away with it but for the fact he had some great successes with his name attached in the past, so people seem willing to keep giving him a pass. Why after so long, I have no idea.
Does it only matched based on the three categories you pick? Seems like a broad amount of info to suggest suitable users.
Ha, thanks. Yeah, there are just a lot of things I could ask for, and I have a great attorney to help make sure my contract is solid, I'm just not sure if I'm going to know how to ask for exactly what I need but from writing this post I think I covered it (worried about my knowledge being stuck in some NDA loop and losing ownership).
"Producing quality news content is expensive and people seem largely unwilling to pay for it."

I'm not sure how to precisely formulate this, but it seems to me that an ironic effect of our ever-increasing command over automation, manufacturing, and production, and all the other things that used to take humans but now are done automatically far cheaper, is that in relative terms an hour of human time has become ever more expensive, even as we theoretically have many more of them since we have more people and need fewer people to support them. You can see that in things like how expensive a maid service is in an industrialized country vs. less industrialized ones relative to the average local wealth level.

"Real" news collection isn't really something that can be automated, though. It can be assisted with databases and content management software, but the hard work of digging through facts, correlating them, doing interviews, background checks, and all the other stuff necessary for a really good story isn't getting easier any time soon.

I'm really at a loss as to how this can be made economical in the modern environment, even in theory.
Well, if multiple lines were really that important, does that mean Dell, HP, Lenovo etc. all get it right?
I haven't watched the linked video, but the word "mistake" in no way applies to this situation. This was an entire week devoted to thinking up ways of being cruel to another human being.
Exactly, it seems much harder to blatantly vandalize the home of a like-minded person who personally welcomes you into their home, offers to show you around etc. than the fancy loft of some faceless traveling businessman. Also paying for something tends to give certain people a sense of entitlement.

Of course none of this makes what happened to the poor person in this case OK or even remotely acceptable. Nonetheless, I think understanding why things happen is a good step towards coming up with a solution.

Maybe if AirBnB can get some of the personality of the Couchsurfing community, it can get some of these positive norms that go with it as well. The trick would be how to do that without losing the low social barrier to entry they have now.
I don't see where the monopoly is. Customers are free to switch to a better payment processor by just changing a few links on their website.

If someone offered European customers better service than Paypal at roughly the same price, I'm sure it would be popular. But it turns out that handling transactions in 30+ countries is pretty complicated and fraught with bureaucratic problems, which is why Paypal remains the only option.
Why doesn't AirBnB simply do the checks you would do? In fact AirBnB can give a checklist of services they can run from nationwide background to credit checks. You check off what you want done, and AirBnB bills you for them.
PayPal better be reading this and arm themselves against security breaches as best they can...
that is allot of code (== effort) for making things looks good (aesthetically) on IE 6-8.

I see there files created few days ago, and I wonder, why in July 2011 people and corporate will stilll choose to use IE6/7/8 when FF/Chrome/Safari available for Windows, for free, and support all or most advanced, neat HTML5 features

Should not corporate care most about information security?
How can they let instances of those versions of IE in an organization's network?
It tickles me the way this title blithely summarizes a great deal of 20th century postmodern philosophy.
> United States law compels companies to react to child pornography in certain very specific ways

Maybe they don't have a choice.
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Just a simple office picture blog for me that earns $200-500 month:
- http://officedesigngallery.com
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Maybe it's the difference between "people act good most of the time" and people truly being good. I don't think the vast majority of people are up to something criminal right this moment, but I might be less confident that 99% of people are motivated by good intentions. "Good intentions" and "not a criminal" are very different standards, but that's the point.

The fear thing made me think something else entirely: does it count as being good if a person acts good out of fear? (Of being caught/punished.) Everyone's answer to that question may also colour their views on peoples' goodness.
You are still stuck.

You think they are doing things just to annoy you, or for no reason at all.

They are choosing things because they think it's the best thing to do.

But you seem incapable of realizing that someone may actually have a different opinion about something. You seem to think that if they have a different opinion it must mean that they are not rational.
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Ouch. Not sure what everyone has against this simple speculation. The hotels have already used some sleazy legal tactics against Airbnb and corporations have been known to do worse when an entire industry is under threat.

I just find it odd that a mere thief would go to so much extra trouble to destroy things and cause grief.
1981 usenet is hard to fathom.

But the first 5 1/4 hard drive came out in 1980 so it's possible some ancient history is buried somewhere in a landfill.
I think I'm weird. The first thing I thought of when I saw this was, Hey that's what the Judoon enforcers on Dr. who were speaking. It was digits they were transferring back and forth when they say Toe-Noe-Fro-Joe-Low-Toe. And the stuff at the end is just a CRC check to assure validity of the previous conversation.
I'm definitely in the K&R camp. I keep alternating between 1TBS and Compact Control Readability, depending on the preferences of the other members of the team working on that particular project. I personally prefer Compact Control Readability.
From the article: "Gordon says this is the first convincing evidence that a language lacking words for certain concepts could actually prevent speakers of the language from understanding those concepts."

I've studied multiple different human languages over the years, and have also studied the methods of linguistics fieldwork used when scientists encounter previously unknown languages. I find it interesting that the article says Gordon's work is the "first convincing evidence" for strong linguistic relativity, as the strong linguistic relativity claim is a claim that has been made over and over again, so I guess the previous claims are mostly doubted. I doubt the claim here, as I doubt the previous claims. Peter Gordon has spent most of his career attempting to produce publications from his field work with this tiny tribe, but he hasn't even convinced other colleagues who do field work there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_people#Language

"Some researchers, such as Prof. Peter Gordon of Columbia University, claim that the Pirahã are incapable of learning numeracy. His colleague, Prof. Daniel L. Everett, on the other hand, argues that the Pirahã are cognitively capable of counting; they simply choose not to do so. They believe that their culture is complete and does not need anything from outside cultures."

If the scientists and the subjects start out communicating using mostly gestures, and perhaps a language that one side or the other had acquired only poorly as a second language, how does either side know the full range of communication available in the language of the other? (This is one of the defects of much cross-cultural research in linguistics--something is declared to be "impossible" for speakers of one language by investigators who didn't grow up in a community of native speakers of that language.) Here's a link to a PowerPoint describing the study:

http://ling.umd.edu/~zukowski/courses/Spring2005/hon218L/Cha...

People do learn from engaging in new activities--including speaking new languages--and also from entering new environments while continuing to use their native languages. As always in such studies, the difficult task is disentangling what people learn from a new language and what people learn from the environment that surrounds them, whatever the language. Some forms of learning produce "imprinting," which then prevents highly malleable learning on the same issue, but it's not clear that any human language does much to constrain thinking about truly universal concepts of human experience.

The submitted article was submitted here with the (tentative) original title. An even more cautious title might be "Researcher who has devoted his career to obscure tribe thinks that the tribe is proof of a controversial concept, but his colleague disagrees."
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