skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also moved to a standing desk about two months ago. I already had a rather narrow shelf cabinet whose top was used for the printer. I moved the printer down to the regular desk and the monitor up there.

I started this set up as an experiment to see if standing will work for me. And thus far I love it very much. If I were to write an article myself, it would be quite similar to Leo's. I don't track my weight as I'm not overweight but I agree about the focus effect and the general "more energy to work" benefit. Standing has eliminated the post-lunch heaviness that I used to experience, especially when I was working in a corporate environment, before going indie, working at home.

So far I had no negative impacts, except temporal lower back pain while I adjusted in the first couple of weeks and occasional sore feet. On the other hand, I believe I had several benefits, related to the occasional back and neck pain which is often the result of sitting. Plus the increased energy, like I wrote previously.

My verdict, I recommend everyone at least to try it as an experiment for a month or so and see if it works for you.
> would you go on a juvenile and pointless rampage in the houses you pilfered?

Maybe EJ didn't have much in the way of credit to her name so they just trashed the place. It's what jerks do anyways when they either empowered or unsupervised.

Although I don't think that an identity theft ring would be able to generate enough cash using Airbnb's hosts, a small scale noobish operation could certainly gain some traction and maybe the people who've actually had their identity stolen don't know about it because nobody bothered to trash their apartment. So maybe the jerk who kicked EJ's toilet to death actually did everyone a favor and brought this out into the open.
Wow that's a nice place.
Maybe. I don't think free Airbnb nights is a good idea to compensate this person. Regardless of their technical liability, Airbnb should make "EJ" whole with respect to her property and the costs she's endured as a result of being estranged from that property. It's hard to believe the total dollar amount for that could be worse than the PR.

But nobody knows exactly what's transpired here except for "EJ" and Airbnb.
I think you meant to say this to the parent comment, which suggested "EJ" might be scared because the thieves still had her keys.
They can be but are not required to be. That is the distinction I am trying to make: My understanding is that the initial policy was the host was required to be present and then they changed it. And it seems to me the stories we are seeing here are cases where the host was not present.
This already exists for Cocoa, as WebView.
Seems interesting. Besides the fact that it is not open source, I'd like to know how it compares with Phantomjs: http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/

Edit: Guess the most important difference is that Awesomium is embeddable gui browser, while Phantomjs is headless, more suited to using the browser as a library, and suited for programns to to browse the web, not users.
"Orchestrated"? What? No. The idea that this is all some diabolical plot to bring down Airbnb is silly. It's just as toxic as the worst assumptions being made about Airbnb, just in the opposite direction.

I don't know what "all that matters" means. There are whole huge threads on HN about this that clearly aren't premised on the idea that "all that matters" is that her house got trashed.

Please don't assume that I'm on "team blue" just because I say something that doesn't fit "team red"'s interpretation of events.
Why wouldn’t insurances want to insure, though? This is a rare event, insurances love rare events. One problem might be AirBnB’s lack of transparency: Insurances have to know exactly how rare something is. They currently only know it’s rare, not how rare it is.

(That said, it seems they could start with a relatively high estimate and adjust it up- or downwards when they start insuring, depending on how often and how much they have to pay. It seems like this would be something insurances excel it, seeing as it’s how they make their money. I’m sure at least AirBnB could work something out with insurances.)
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High-fixed setup costs, low marginal costs make a defensible moat. That's the classic case of a returns-to-scale monopoly.

Background checks are a one-time cost per new participant.

It may be costly (in money or time) to set up your initial account, and acquire a positive reputation via a long history of mutual reviews... but then you're part of a large pre-vetted community.

Do you then want to go through that procedure many times with every new upstart? Or just once with the largest market?
It's just another assumption. But again, what makes you think there's a lawyer involved too?
But Ubuntu, say, doesn't get all the buzz that OSX releases do, does it? It has all those things.
Hi,

I'm working currently for a small startup as a developer. My personal opinion would be to find someone who can write and deploy code and can build a relationship with you. Ask for references, live website, repository and so on. But be careful with people who quote a lot of technology without using them. Student or 'real world' experience are good options.

This person would do all the major coding task for you. On top of that if you can create a good relationship, this person would be able to find you other tech people for tasks he/she can't handle and can give you nice advice.

The programming language at this stage is not very important IMO. But focusing on a popular programming language with a big community is something to have. Imagine if you need to recruit 2 others coders to do the job. Or if you main developers can't work for you anymore.

Something which may help for recruting someone is to write a draft of your needs (setting-up servers, level of front-end/backend programming...)

Hope that help
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You know, I just now realized something. When I was hosting with AirBNB, I had some guests who had their car broken into. When I emailed support, they told me this was the first time something like this had happened. It makes me wonder how many other "firsts" they've had.
I am personally very fond of the Unicomp Customizer. It's relatively cheap for a buckling spring keyboard and very no-nonsense (it has just what you need, no more no less). I must say that, much like pencils, once I went mechanical I never wanted to go back. http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/customizer.html
I'm looking for a hacker house in the Bay Area at the moment, but I wish there were more hacker houses in a more reasonable price range. $1100 is a lot for anyone trying to bootstrap and keep their burn rate as low as possible.
Hooray, another responsive CSS grid framework. Not being negative, but most of them are very similar, and I often prefer rolling my own depending on the site's content and needs.

It's however very interesting to study these frameworks' underlying code to see how they solve things.
Possibly, yes. But since there are so many other potentially fishy aspects of the story, let's spend our time focusing on those instead of this one.
A lawyer wouldn't be your first call after the police if this happened to you? It sure would be mine.
I've looked into lessframework.com and played with it, but stopped short of building something with it. I really like how columnar simplifies it, by having two layouts. One is the 12-column layout that scales up and down within a desktop screen range where the difference is just small enough that it's acceptable. The other is single-column mobile layout. Less Framework, on the other hand, can show different layouts based on whether it's a wide screen, a tablet, or a phone. I didn't really know where to begin. Looking back, I think that was the main reason I didn't decide to use Less Framework.
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My take is the #1 fault is the alledged scumbags who did alleged bad things to the host's property. The #2 fault is the hosts for showing such utter naivete and ignorance about (a) what to leave in the apartment, and (b) understanding what could possibly happen when the strangers stay there and accepting those risks as the flip side of the coin. To the extent AirBnB has done anything wrong or imperfect, it's farther down the list than these actors in the drama. And all of this assumes that the alleged incidents happened exactly as they were portrayed, and were not in fact fraudulent "hit jobs" -- an issue that has not been settled yet, or rather should not be settled in any reasonably skeptical person's mind, given the sum total and nature of the "evidence" and the market context.
This model predicts when an insurgent attack may occur. I wonder if there is anything similar that could be used to predict where with enough precision to be useful.
No probs with it on FF Nightly (6.0a1 2011-04-22).
Huh? "Fishy"? Please stop talking like that. Neither Airbnb nor "EJ" owes us the complete objective retelling of exactly what has transpired between them. When "EJ" doesn't recount absolutely every fact that isn't completely favorable to her cause of action, that doesn't make her a crook. She isn't on trial, and you aren't a jury.
Yup, you should live there. :)
The loophole appears to be that the two domains don't have to match, with a twist that the eventual domain in the case was supposed to have been banned already.

My initial thoughts were that he was complaining about an ad killing his traffic, but it's really a plea for help because said advertiser is scamming the system after being caught. This off course presumes the validity of the OP story.
I can confirm that yes, the load.c patch as outlined in the Ruby Inside post IS in Ruby 1.9.3 preview 1 :-)
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback!

The bonus and combo multipliers are explained in the Help section (press the "?" tile on the game screen before or after a game (or when its paused)). Basically the combo multiplier goes up 1 each time you spell a word with the same set of 12 tiles. If you hit shuffle, the combo goes back to 0. The bonus multiplier goes up each time you spell a word, and the amount it increases depends on the length of the word (the longer the word, the more the bonus increases).

I'll consider the "hit the timer to pause" feature. I hadn't noticed that in many other games, but it makes sense.

Thanks for the other feedback, too. I'll consider it for updating the visual layout.
4br, with 4.5 people currently occupying it? Where's the open room? (I'm not in the market, but clarification might help. g'luck!)
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While the load.c patch made it in this time, is that a good indicator of things making it into 1.9.3 from head? Just thinking about Module#mix here..
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By the time I graduated I had already worked on 3 development teams in fortune 500 companies. As much experience as people who graduated years before me? No. More experience than people my age who were in just about any other discipline than me? Definitely.

Young developer non-professional experience also commonly dwarfs what you'd expect in other industries. Try doing molecular biology at home.
Their choice on Windows 7 is severely limited. (Buy a Mac, build your own hardware, eat the cost of Windows or use a linux vendor like system76 that no one knows exists) Xbox 360 took massive amounts of marketing investment from Microsoft, and frankly, does the average consumer know that Microsoft makes Xboxes?
Be nice with your process on Linux
Website plays matchmaker for startups and investors
neat idea. good luck!
The real benefit of using one repository across multiple sites is that it increases the likelihood the library is available from the browser's cache. DNS lookup and retrieval will need to happen the first time a visitor goes to a site with a CDNJS library. If that same visitor visits another site that uses the same library then the library can be fetched from the browser's cache without any DNS or download latency. In other words, the more sites that use CDNJS, the bigger the benefit to the whole CDNJS community.
I had a 36% improvement in a mid-sized Rails 3 app start time using the core load.c patch. Will be trying again on 1.9.3preview1 soon but in theory it should remain similar. DHH also tweeted noting a significant improvement at the time with one of his apps.

It may not be significant to you or in your use case but it seems in some cases there are definitely reasonable gains to be had, which can't be a bad thing.
Great app, I've been playing with it on my iPhone 3GS for a few minutes.

The only suggestion I could offer is to make the text in the help sections a little larger. On this non-retina display, it is hard to read.
wow, really nice!
Though it may be cool, it's not disruptive at all, actually.

http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/Of-Round-Pegs-and-Squar...
Indeed. The one way for them to lock in market leadership forever is to drop the fees and make their money on payment processing, insurance offers, user screening and safety deposits that renters may or may not decide to opt in for.

This would allow users to contact and vet each other before agreeing on a sale while still having some profit streams.

Basically AirBnb would become a specialized Craigslist on steroids, but it can only be done if the founders want to build a long term business netting them a few million each year rather than a VC darling to be flipped for a couple of billion dollars.
Ewww my god. That is hideous on so many levels. It reminds me of the quake server source. Both the client and server run the same simulation, but server is authoritative.
It's also possible that she's been advised that having the place fixed up herself might establish an unnecessarily low basis for damages; fixing things up herself requires her to fit repairs into her own current budget. Think this is far fetched? It's exactly how every security deposit negotiation works, and why you should repair, clean, and document everything needed to return your apartment to reasonable condition when your lease is up.

Maximizing the amount of compensation she is getting for her damages doesn't make her a crook. It's entirely reasonable for her to want the most graceful restoration of her home possible.
CloudFlare uses Anycast. However, we shift sites around between IPs frequently in order to, for example, isolate a site under DDoS from the rest of our network.

While it may be possible to create a IP-based CDN, my guess is the tradeoffs in terms of not being able to thoroughly defend yourself against attacks would not be worth the few milliseconds saved on the initial DNS lookup.
مشاهدة مباراة السعودية وكرواتيا بث مباشر كاس العالم للشباب
مدونة يلا جول الرياضية تقوم ببث واذاعة مباراة السعودية وكرواتيا بث مباشر فى الجولة الاولى من كاس العالم للشباب تحت 21/20 سنة ( عام ) فى كولومبيا اليوم الاحد بتاريخ 31/7/2011 وموعدها الساعة 01:00 بتوقيت القاهرة لو بدك او عايز تتفرج على الماتش ادخل و وشاهد المباراة على النت بدون تقطيع اون لاين
السعودية vs كرواتيا
Do you wear shoes while standing on the gel mat?
For Linux on the Desktop it does quite well though...
These might interest you:

http://www.amazon.com/Quantitative-Trading-Build-Algorithmic...

http://collective2.com/
Though interestingly, there wasn't nearly as much blame heaped on craigslist when this happened as is currently being heaped on airbnb.
That's a good suggestion gasull, thanks for providing it. I actually just left a really promising meetup group because I was so tired of getting their spam. Maybe with this I can sign up again!
Indeed. There are also programs that have long been used for such purposes in the Windows world (i.e. Notepad++/Programmer's Notepad, WinRAR/7zip, Windows Powershell and Putty) which are likely to be better than anything MS can ever integrate into the system (err, excluding Powershell).

There is also the problem where if MS somehow integrate those features into Windows, even then they'll get flack for it for not being "good enough," so we still arrive at the original question.
Besides liability for damages incurred by the guest, hosts are also probably on the hook for liability should the guest be injured (or worse) while staying in your place.
The spell checker auto-detects the language you're writing in and switches to the correct dictionary for a sentence. How cool is that?
I switched to a standing desk after developing a bulging disc in my lower back (crappy!)

It's great until about hour five or so, at which point my legs and knees start crying uncle. I've found that I can last longer if I sprinkle in some sitting throughout the day, during lunches or meetings, and I can go even further if I stand on a foam activity mat.

I think that taking frequent breaks to walk is the best way to get a little relief for the legs and back, and some exercise, at the same time.
There are a few glaring, obvious questions to which I have not seen any answers so far - or maybe I have missed them:
Why was it difficult for Airbnb to immediately have the person that trashed the place arrested? Don't they have the person's identity - address, credit card information, phone number, IP address? Don't they run a basic credit check when a person signs up to rent a unit listed on the site? Or at least do some basic identity verification? Or was this person using a stolen identity? Or does Airbnb require that the entire responsibility for this rests on the person renting the place?
Interesting how Google tried to downplay the "patent battle" and purchased so many patents on the next day. Just amusing, I guess.
That certainly would be satisfying. A few days ago I got a survey request from a company I had recently ordered from and they were using the same old "manage your preferences" link. I wished there was something I could do to let them know how frustrated I was about getting that email and the fact they made me work for 5 minutes to unsubscribe!
I'm at the point where I think the smartest advice, by default, to give to any software engineer (probably folks in any field) is to intentionally lead a hybrid lifestyle: 1) hold down a "day job" for the steady paychecks; while 2) be working towards a business of your own on the side. That way you get the best of both worlds. The safety of "guaranteed" income (plus lots of other benefits of being an employee) while also increasing your odds of getting the much higher income ceiling, and asynchronous pay, and greater freedom/control, and ROWE, from owning/selling a business. Plus when you work for others you're almost always pigeon-holed into certain narrow roles, whereas if you are The Man you can pick and choose roles better and take on a wider variety of roles, which in turn helps justify larger total eventual payoff.
A home is invaded; robbed. Personal property is destroyed or stolen in the process.

This happens everyday. Homes are cased, the victims watched, their habits noted. Ultimately they're broken into. In some instances criminals look for homes where the victims appear to be on vacation and set up labs.

What do rational individuals do? They call the police, they change the locks, and they carry on with their lives.

The difference here of course is that Airbnb is involved and thus may be obligated (legally or ethically) to provide restitution.

That said, what they cannot do, is fix the victim. They can't repair the damage done to EJ. If that's what she's insisting on, then it's an impossible, irrational goal. That just isn't Airbnb's responsibility.
I'm sure the same's true in any industry where code contains tradable trade secrets, keeping code on a need-to-know basis makes sense. For example I imagine not everyone at Google has access to the page ranking score algorithm, because a rogue employee could easily sell that information for millions of dollars.
Love this.

Is this an iOS app, i.e. written in Objective-C? Or is this a web app, written in HTML5, JS & CSS?
I clicked on your link and got some confusing page about zune software.

http://social.zune.net/redirect/preferences/clientrequired?R...

I guess this isn't like iTunes App Store preview pages where it goes straight there, and anyone can look.

Poor Microsoft, you just have to face palm. Ballmer you idiot, did you ever think people might buy your phone based on cool apps? I would have loved to do some WP7 development, I think the metro look is great, the tools sound good, there's just no damn way now.
Ask HN: What to do with an idle server?
I recently upgraded hosting and changed providers in the process. Unfortunately, I prepaid 5 years for a massive discount and have 2 years remaining on the older server. Due to the terms of service, a refund isn't an option - the cost is sunk. I'd considered leaving it up as a mail/svn server, but the benefit would be negligible. Are there any interesting projects (e.g. wave, diaspora) out there that would be worth setting up?

Edit- fixed grammar.
The identity theft aspect brings up a whole new concern.

If a renter steals a host's identity without trashing their place, there's no way to know that something went wrong until it's too late.

And if the host subsequently rents her place to other guests, there's no way to know who the identify thief is.
I will address your concern. How do we know the validity of an answer if we don't know if the person giving the answers is a doctor?

That's a valid question. But that question basically assumes that only doctors have the answers. While doctors are certainly smart and know their stuff, that doesn't mean that other people who have experienced similar health situations are inept and unable to offer any value.

There are many cases where other people, who are not doctors, have helped others through the sharing of health information and personal experience.

Here is one notable case: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43757155/ns/today-today_health...

Curenote is NOT a substitute for seeing your doctor. But there are some cases where you may not need to go to the doctor where a simple remedy offered by others can help. There are cases where you might need to go to a doctor and other people can give you the support you need to help you.
That looks pretty neat, but how do you buy it? I couldn't see a buy link on your page.
Is that the reason?

I always get around it by clicking "link" -- that always brings up a reply box.
Thanks! It's an iOS app written in Objective-C.
Whenever I sign up with a service, I try to use the "+" trick.

foobar+linkedin@gmail.com

That way, if worse comes to worst, you can just block the whole destination email address.

Sometimes this doesn't work, though, which is annoying.
Thanks, really appreciate the help spreading the word.
Yeah, I hate to work an 8.3 day week.
Thank you and thanks for the feedback, we'll definitely look into that for the next update.
I know the father of one young person who was murdered after responding to a Craigslist ad looking for a babysitter.

http://www.startribune.com/local/south/41701952.html?elr=KAr...

(I met him after his daughter's murder.) The Craigslist founder Craig himself was involved in responding directly to that incident and appeared in public at a memorial event for the murder victim.

http://www.startribune.com/local/west/44272442.html?page=all...

These days, Craigslist has a lot of warnings about dangerous transactions, and for Airbnb to NOT have had similar warnings until last week suggests its lawyers weren't on the ball about what a reasonable standard of care is for being a third party arranging room rental transactions among strangers.

The young woman who was murdered in this part of the country was a kind, trusting, and perhaps hopelessly naive young woman who was surprised by a pervert with a deadly weapon. Airbnb regularly sets up situations, as in the recently reported incidents, in which the wrongdoer doesn't even have to confront the victim while stealing movable property, stealing identities, and destroying real property. Precisely because Craigslist incidents have been in the news for years now, it's crazy for Airbnb not to measure up to the industry standard of care.