skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's how I feel about the events:

ABNB reacted overly cautiously to the detriment of their customers and also themselves. They were utterly unprepared and made many missteps and outright blunders --naive, really.

EJ described the harrowing experience. There was sympathy, and there was some disbelief, as well (unfortunately, there appeared to have been some strong-arming too).

ABNB, eventually, after much public outrage and prodding, finally, after severe fall-out, came correct. There was reticence, it appears.

EJ is now pinning the reaction to her statements, at least tangentially, on ABNB. She had me till that. And still has me on board for the stuff before that. However, one cannot publish something, at large, i.e. broadcast it, and think everyone is going to be sympathetic to you. It's naive. The only people one can fault are the respondents.

I'm not saying she brought that onto herself. No. However, it's just part of the deal. It's like buying meat at the butcher's and not expecting it means there's a cow somewhere that will get slaughtered. It's part and parcel.

The reaction to her posting has nothing to do with ABNB, directly. It cannot be pinned on the ABNB donkey. The reaction comes across as appealing to emotion. I think that horse has been beaten.
I agree that ebooks should be sharable, and that sharability lends a nice advantage to paper. At the same time, I'm not necessarily convinced that sharability is a decisive factor in most people's decisions to buy paper over ebooks. Who knows; it might well be. Just seems like a bit of a stretch to suggest that most people are still choosing paper because they want to share it. (Whereas I have seen countless hundreds, maybe even thousands, of people who buy paper books to hoard or display, presumably unread).

My inner optimist would like to agree with you, but my inner cynic has a less charitable view of most buyers in this genre.
looks promising! and the video effects feature is quite impressive.

Any plans on supporting CoffeeScript?
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I'd be curious to know whether the Airbnb guys were honest with pg about what was really going on, since pg commented a few days ago on HN: "I've talked to the Airbnb guys and they are already doing everything they could be doing to help this woman."

The tone of some of the comments made by public people (like pg) seemed to imply that EJ was lying, without saying it directly. Assuming that Airbnb's mea culpa about being "paralyzed" is true, I think EJ deserves an apology from some of these people that have characterized her as being less than honest, based on their friendships/personal connections with the Airbnb team.

I like Airbnb (I'm staying in one of their rentals right now!) and I hope that in the end this whole situation makes them more successful.
The horrible beast swallows up another good idea. :(
A POTS line is analog so even though you can run a 56kbps modem, the actual data is transmitted via an analog signal. G.711 is the raw digital voice benchmark and encodes at a constant 64kbps PCM a-law or u-law ecoding (8 kHz sampling frequency x 8 bits per sample).

This is the reason why digital carrier lines are always multiples of 64. A DS-0 is one 64kbps channel, a DS-1 is 1.54 Mbps (24 * 64), an E1 is 2.048 Mbps (32 * 64), etc.
Survey: Apple's lead in tech support satisfaction is slipping
I hate to be that guy, but...

Why should we have every single blog post by EJ on top stories here on HN? Why is "how she feels today" so important and still relevant? She caused all the drama and blamed Airbnb for something she is more responsible about than Airbnb. Airbnb did the right thing after all, some think that it's late, I don't. I'm just pissed about the attention that we give to her words. I won't be surprised if she authors a book to talk about how "Airbnb should have responded much more quickly to my urgent pleas for help, that they should have communicated with more sensitivity, and that they should have taken decisive action to help me feel safe during what has been a desperate time.". Come on, stop blaming them, they didn't make your "integrity being called into question", and your "character publicly trashed". You did.
And I'm trying to say that, in most cases, these things appear to be superficially easy but are more complex than you give it credit for.
In almost all cases, the sad fact is that a playable version on the PC will generate sales. Any deeper level of polish is only diminishing returns.
It may sound like I'm hating on PC gaming but I'm not. I only am giving my perspective from inside the sausage factory.
Why not go after child molestation directly? Child pornography used to be considered evidence of molestation, and it's been only recently a bad thing in its own right rather than a way of tracking down people who abuse and molest children.
Signed up. Loving it, although emails when they come to me with new questions should have in the reply to all the juice email that i need to send it to get it to show up automatically.

Tools like this are awesome though. Many of us are one man shops. I run a website with 400 users, and I'm one guy. Anything that increases my productivity without me doing anything more is awesome. Thanks!
Apple Retro Theme For Windows 7 
The Apple Logo is one of the most iconic and recognizable corporate logos in history. Its so well known that you don’t need a name to accompany the logo. The logo says it all. But the logo has not always been as you see it today. The current Apple Logo is the third logo adopted by the company.
super helpful founder answered my questions, seems like an interesting service
Point taken. But why it is more ethical to make product for consumers while it is less ethical to make money for investors?
How not to design an Social API, lessons learned
I got this quote by clicking through the article. And pretty much every single article I have seen before links to the same place. No one has the new wording, yet everyone is freaking out about it.

But fine, even if they collect CC and other information pertaining to the person... Again Comcast and Verizon already do retain all billing information anyway. This requirement changes nothing for the vast majority of the people.

Of note, no edition of the bill proposes tracking the browsing history, yet it seems to me that most people discussing the subject assume that it does.
Here's the bash incantation for that:

command_exists __git_ps1 && git="$c_vcs\$(__git_ps1)"
PS1="\n$c_path\w$git $c_id\u@$prompt_host$c_reset"

$c_* vars are just for colour, the command_exists switch lets me use the same dotfile on boxes which don't have git installed.
Yeah, if I could force site owners to fix their sites my job would be way easier. ;)

As it is, if no browser allows it, then sites will depend on not being able to do it, and any browser that does allow it will be perceived as buggy (adding to the resistance to fix the problem on the site's end).
Selling Yourself: Why? and How
I have my very own company in Mexico with existing clients.and ready to grow with more workers (we are 3 engineers now).

We have applied to Chile, sounds like a smart move from goverment.

will be cool to have a green card (i have a visa and family in usa, border its 20 mins from my home)... BUT im denitly not interested in having USA like headquarter, my TAXES must be not used to screw other countrys.
I'd love to see a post somewhere that explored some of this stuff, since I don't have a clear understanding of the arguments / precedents for both sides.
Their standard policy concerns the unilateral decisions. This was a mutual agreement outside of the standard policy. The benefit to the app maker is a guaranteed free-app-of-the-day promotional spot, the benefit to Amazon is not having to pay the 20%. Seems like a (potentially) fair deal.
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Also, that cooling system they use is amazing. Just coat entire caverns with ice in the winter, store for summer. Duh.
> The damage from this decision is still accumulating at breakneck speed, with StuxNet and the OOXML perversion of the ISO standardization process being exemplary bookends for how far and wide the damage spreads.

Bashing Windows doesn't make you cool, it's just tiresome.
You're making some pretty big assumptions about people's motivations.
That's actually not at all what Majd is saying. He's saying that a few good answers with a large community is better than dozens of one-off weekend projects that siphon energy from application developers and open source contributors.
For me the most important part of the story is this

How so? Why would there be any expectation that sales would spike in the proximity of the app being a featured freebie? Does the grocery store sell more chocolate milk before or after a sale?

I would imagine quite the opposite really.

However I would revisit the situation in a few months. The app world, especially on Android, is very much one where word of mouth rules. "What app do you guys like for managing/listening to podcasts?" Having a lot of people who now have a vested interest in this app (because they think that they got a deal on it, and that it has monetary worth that wouldn't be there if it was just a normal trial or long-term freebie) yields a lot of people who may very well promote this app.

We'll see.

This whole entry sounds a little bizarre, however. The author got exactly what they should have expected. Where is the rot? There is a unexplained spitefulness that I'm just not understanding.
The "predict network actions" option you mention is indeed the option to disable prerendering. [0]

If you use a third-party client-side analytics package, they've probably added support for the Page Visibility API [1] already, and you don't need to do anything. Server-side analytics will have problems, both with this and with HTML5 prefetching in recent versions of Firefox. I'd like to see opt-out available through an HTTP header (or even just a header to let the server know the page is being prefetched), but that's not anywhere in the spec right now.

[0]: http://code.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/prerender.html
[1]: http://code.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/pagevisibility.htm...
Mike Matas is awesome. I've been a fan of his work since Delicious Monster and I hope (if the past endeavors haven't already) that this transaction sets him up nicely. His photography and videography of his world travels at http://mikematas.com/ is amazing and I'd love to see more.
Republican ideology at is finest. Downvote away.
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Not sure, but it currently has a score of 1, and there might be a threshhold for getting into the Ask section.
I haven't read his work yet. So my argument does not apply directly to his work. Thus my statement is misleading in this direct sense.

What I have read of his work does make much sense - but is dangerous when taken out of context of his vast military experience - which is exactly what happened - what we have seen in western Europe from mid 19th century and culminating in WWI was predominantly fueled by Von Clausevitz's work. His delusion was trying to present his subjective life's experience in a scientific and absolute manner. And what happened was that people took his work and applied it literally.
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The law gets interpreted very strictly and very literally around this subject. In fact, there has actually been a case where a 15-year-old girl was arrested for taking nude photos of herself and sharing them with others via chatrooms. She was charged with trafficking in child pornography, which is somewhat understandable. But she was also charged with exploitation of a minor, which seems a bit silly in this case (unless she had a split personality doing the photography?).
Assembly, SIMDification and You
It's not limiting on a PDP/11 though, since that could only address 64K of memory. Presumably when C/Unix was later moved up to VAXen and other 32 bit machines, the field would have been extended to 4 bytes, and today to 8 bytes.
One of my most memorable childhood trips was to the Soudan mine in Minnesota. It was only 2350 feet deep, but we got to ride down in a similar elevator and my ears popped. I'd never flown before, so it was a very foreign sensation. The mine itself was something both alien (complete darkness, solid rock) and cartoonish (cart on tracks).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soudan_Underground_Mine_State_P...
The pypy guys continue to do amazing work. This project is one of the reasons why I believe the python community is one of the best open source communities out there: Let's work on something incredibly difficult, challenging and something that not long ago was considered to be nearly impossible, and produce incredible results.

If you're not running pypy in production already, then you probably should be[1].

[1]: Yes, there are some obvious exceptions.

edit: formatting.
Yeah, she's received more than her fair share of sympathy.
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Actually, he was saying you're the only people who are thinking about a lot of the problems, which is both arrogant and absurd.
Downvotes will always mean "I don't agree". It's like saying "I don't want to get wet so turn off the rain". No, no, no , us better people can change the weather, we are ELITE.
Am I the only one that feels EJ is being a bit dramatic about the situation?

I made this throwaway in case I am really just crass and insensitive... but time and time again I see examples of what I call the new "American Dream" - which is to sue someone or some organisation for hurt, pain, and suffering.

Airbnb fucked up. I see that. EJ had a really shitty experience, and I would not want meth addicts to ransack my house and steal my identity.

But what would make her happy? What does Airbnb need to do now?

I have a feeling it involves millions of dollars... because millions of dollars in compensation seems to be the cure for this kind of emotional damage.
The problem is there is no guarantee they will play nicely together, not clash, or provide similar and compatible APIs. JavaScript developers are running into a very similar set of problems and having everyone cobble together their own solutions is pretty clearly not an answer, which obvious to those who have tried. You may already know what is being abstracted by some of the more expansive frameworks (Cappuccino, SproutCore, Backbone, etc) but there are a lot of people who do not know or do not want to deal with the differences in browsers, etc.

I'm assuming that you don't consider jQuery or its ilk restrictive as far as abstracting the DOM. I don't know of many application developers who would prefer to deal with the low-level DOM API (which differs across browsers, etc) instead of a library like jQuery. There are many people who approach application structure from a similar viewpoint. Instead of rolling their own and running into problems scaling and maintaining their applications, they can use a framework that provides an abstraction that is proven to work. Everyone tries to roll their own pet framework project because that's where the glory is. That's not necessarily the best thing for the future of the web.
Apparently Lady Gaga and Kanye West are now reported to be investors in Turntable as well.

whoa
Not only that but they were able to do their update on day three of being featured.
It was inevitable that something of this nature was bound to occur eventually. The folks at AirBNB should have had better policies and procedures in place to help to avert and react to such situations.
#928F8D text on a #EFEFEF textured background? I'm not being mean or pernickety, I am actually struggling to read this.
Its high paper sales are probably due to the fact the paper version of the book is so well put together. Quality
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Consider that EJ is like most people who write anything online, including you and I on this site. We may know that everything we say is, in theory, open to the whole world, but in practice, no one cares. I think she wrote her blog post in that mindset. It's similar to a mindset that, say, you have when writing a comment on HN. Now consider what would happen when seemingly the entirety of the internet is analyzing what you said.

It's easy to say she should have known that her blog is a broadcast medium, but really, it's not most of the time. Most of the time, very few people probably read it. Most forum posts and blog entries get lost amid the noise. I think it's unrealistic to assume that everyone who writes things on the internet that normally gets lost among the noise should be emotionally prepared to be temporarily not lost among the noise.
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Other stories on the same subject:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2837693 : thelocal.se

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2837583 : slashdot.org

Currently neither have comments.
C++'s std::string solves this. Not only does it take care of all memory management for you, it also stores the string as length and a pointer. There's also a common 'small string' optimisation that stores strings a few bytes long inside the class itself, so it isn't doing any dynamic allocation. O(1) to get the size and small strings don't allocate - nice! Still, people will continue to moan that C++ is rubbish or something. You can even invent safe stack-allocated strings using templates to mimic exactly how C does it but in a safe and straightforward way, but the idea hasn't caught on - seems std::string is just fine.

To be fair C++ is best described as using both, since string literals are still null-terminated, and in many cases you have to use the std::string::c_str() method for backwards compatibility where a null-terminated string is expected (which is often regularly, in practice).
I already have -7 points and I am sure that this will also get downvoted but:

AirBnB did not warn users - even so this was NOT the first case of a trashed home. THEY did know better, yet they never warned their users that this could happen.

You might call this common sense, but their website paints the "we are all happy people" image, so they were actively trying to erode this common sense. Yes, they are partly to blame for this.
I guess im the only one that feels the icloud interface feels heavy and bloated, much like a flash interface.
Great failure story from the Biggest Turkish GSM operators social clone. They managed to be a failure from the very beginning.
Thanks so much for the positive feedback!
I think it's unfair to blame her for a lawsuit you have made-up.

As for being dramatic, people who are coping with PTSD probably look "a bit dramatic" to the outside world.
If the source string is NUL terminated, however, attempting to access it in units larger than bytes risks attempting to read characters after the NUL. If the NUL character is the last byte of a VM (virtual memory) page and the next VM page is not defined, this would cause the process to die from an unwarranted "page not present" fault.

I don't see how that could happen. Are there any machines out there where VM pages are not aligned to some multiple (even 1x) of the CPU's native word size?

If I'm correct in assuming there isn't, then by definition, if the NUL character is the last byte of a page, then it's word-aligned, and you'd read exactly to the end of the page anyway. Alternatively, if you're starting your read on an unaligned address but making your read size a multiple of the CPU word size (in which case you could read past the end of the page), you're not really gaining anything performance-wise.
Berserk Cop Arrests Photographer for Standing on Sidewalk
Entrepreneurs: when the "panic" moment hits you, what do you do?
7 minute ab: impatient man's load tests for a Heroku app
TIL: According to Wikipedia, although there are deeper mines in the world, the bottom of this one is closer to the centre of the Earth than all others. This is because the Earth is oblate, "fatter" around the equator where the other mines are, and more squat near Canada.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Kidd_Mine#Dep...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Oblate_sphero...
Terry Hart published a comprehensive exploration of those very issues yesterday, "Is Turntable.fm Legal?":

http://www.copyhype.com/?p=303
This article is out of date. Twitter confirmed the office this week:
http://allthingsd.com/20110801/breaking-twitter-might-have-a...
I was interested in what they mine there, so I searched around and found this very informative page: http://www.infomine.com/minesite/minesite.asp?site=kiddcreek

The overview from that page:

The Kidd Mine is in northern Ontario, 500 miles northwest of Toronto. The mine began operation in 1966, producing copper, zinc, indium, cadmium, silver and sulphuric acid. The deposit is one of the largest and richest volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits in the world.

There is an underground mine, and metallurgical facilities consisting of a copper concentrator, smelter and refinery, and zinc, cadmium, indium plant, liquid sulphur dioxide and sulfuric acid plant. Kidd's concentrating, smelting and refining processes are among the most advanced in the world.

The mine currently employs 1400 people and operates 7 days a week with two 12-hour shifts. The properties comprise 14 patented half lots covering 896 hectares of freehold mining land.

Kidd Creek has three shafts known as the No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 mines. Mine D is currently being developed to access reserves below the 6,800 foot to the 9,500 foot level. Commissioning for Mine D expansion began in 2004, and is scheduled to increase the operation's ultimate capacity, in stages, to 2.7Mt/yr of ore to 2012 and deepen Kidd Creek Mine to a final depth of 9,500 ft and extending the life of mine to 2017. Kidd is the deepest base metal mine in the world.
Ask HN: Restoring emails from a hacked Gmail account?
So my girlfriend's father's Gmail account was broken into by some enterprising young scammer. After going through the Gmail password recovery process, switching the language back to English, and emailing all his contacts an apology,(the scammer was trying to get his contacts to send Western Union money to "him" because he was stuck in "Scotland") I can't figure out how or if I can restore any of the emails that were deleted.

The scammer appears to have deleted his entire library of 6 years of emails.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I guess I am the only one who uses my ipod without itunes..
DOS did not "invent" it's own path separator, directories were added to DOS long after command line flags, which already used slash, and COMMAND.COM already supported placing a flag immediately after a command name (without whitespace), making backwards compatibility with their own OS extraordinarily hacky to implement if not impossible.

Also please remember we're talking about the late 70s here. This is one of those annoyingly common vitriolic ideas about Microsoft, really tarnishes the reputation of this article as being well researched by appearing here.
You don't know if she's coping with PTSD. You and a few others have been throwing that around. Learn your psychology and psychiatry first before you start making your diagnoses.
I hired a guy who did that once. Twice, actually, ten years apart. One was right out of the military and one was right out of the university. It would have been the biggest mistake of my life not to have hired each of them. They each created something awesome with no help from anyone except me. They each literally changed the world.
> "I'm quite acquainted with the general tenor of HN"

Either you are less aware than you believe, or you choose to violate our community standards anyway.

Whichever it is, I encourage you to adjust your behavior. Your "beserk button" does not need to be on display here.
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