skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way this is turning is really ugly. EJ is a victim, plain and simple. And it's not a simple robbery where someone just tossed some drawers and ran through the place, they took their time and found everything you'd not want them to find. There is no rectifying that, she was invaded, there is nothing that will undo that, not money, not new stuff, not anything. That's just how it is. There are police reports, it happened.

Now AirBnB should have known better, should have had a plan in place and should have offered her a very lucrative deal to keep her mouth shut before she thought to open it. They can't put it back in the bottle now. That they didn't, they just look like shmucks. Not just that, now how do you think the negotiation is supposed to go? Shit, I feel sorry for EJ, she's laid this out there and now they're going to try and quantify how she feels and what it's worth, how's that conversation go? Does she open? Maybe a VC partner will talk to her, what if she asks for too much? This is just ugly ugly ugly.

That this happened with another person.. Seems to me like AirBnB needs to get their shit in order in a very serious way. I know they're the darling but turning people's homes in to meth houses? How many others have their been? Did the VCs know this and re-up? Or was this secret?
Make ‘em smile, Make ‘em laugh
Not sure, but StackOverflow Careers is a good place to look:
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?searchTerm=&locati...
You should probably scratch the beta label in your site, too many things launch in beta lately and its an increasingly annoying trend.

Since you haven't launched yet the beta makes even less sense.

Re the UI of the landing page, looks awesome, a video of kids using the thing would be engaging and definitely a way to be notified with a simpler open ID sign in c.f. typing your email address would be better, that said, I understand you don't want to be working for too long on your coming soon page and focus on what you are building ;)
Three lessons learned from giving a talk at a technical conference
Apple purposefully chose to operate in an adversarial relationship with the telcos. They got concessions on app revenue streams (before apps existed), stopped iPhones from being peddled by fly by night phone resellers, and stressed out the phone companies networks.

An out of the box iPhone contains no carrier-branded crap. Period.

Apple is pushing the Apple user experience without the price premium. Everyone else is selling a commodity with minimal desirability. The Droids/BlackBerries/WebOS devices look and feel like knockoffs.
For anyone that has no idea what's going on here, this is a reference to a sea shanty called "Drunken Sailor" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_Sailor)
Something I created for my own development needs but thought it could be useful to others. Would appreciate feedback.
Uh, yeah, they 301 the non-www version to the www version for SEO purposes. This is standard practice. o_O
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Well, part of the issue might be that I don't have definitive goals in terms of projects I want to complete. I like doing stuff (with code and cs and related things). I enjoy doing stuff. I did some basic game development when I was younger, and I do web development type stuff more now. I play around with language development occasionally. I do lots of stuff and I like all of that stuff... at first. But then the interest dies away.

I suppose part of the problem is that I struggle in achieving balance between the means and the product. I feel like being passionate about the product but not about the means is a bad thing, because the work itself can become tiresome if you're not into it. But if you care about the means and not about the product, then you'll lose interest (as I do) because you don't see where the work is leading you.

So maybe I need to get some more passion about a product instead of just enjoying the process of making it, even if ultimately that's what I'm really after. But I'm not sure exactly how to do that (or to keep the feeling around if it floats in for a bit).
I hate to make a "me too" like post, but as soon as I read his biography, I thought "... wait we should stop supporting X browser because some kid doesn't know how to support it too?".

Are we now just leveling the playing field so experience is irrelevant, and kids just out of college should be able to compete with those who have been working the field for ages (ages which I might add included a time when IE6 was the dominant browser, and you ignored it at your own peril).
That'll be the case if you put all your css into one file. Here's a suggestion -
- Separate your css into layout and style files.
- Further separate your style into ones targeted for - different targets - dektop, mobile, IE-specific (so you can use MHTML if you want, etc)
- Use a script to compile these together into packages.
- Use a line of javascript to load the specific target based css.

Sure it sounds like some extra work, but if you're looking to optimize what gets loaded, it might be worth it.

HTH.
I have to agree, actually. The government being involved should be a last resort, and there's no indication this is a truly widespread or dangerous issue currently. Ideally, the private parties involved will figure it out.
The whole "unsubscribe" thing when you haven't subscribed to anything is a lie.
Saying it's necessary is begging the question.
not according to economists.
All right. That is a very good question to bring up. Rules like those described are not as straightforward to understand to ordinary people as they may seem to the experimenter. I had to read it a couple times to understand that the idea was to tell the truth if 2-5, and give a fixed response if 1 or 6. Surely there were participants that didn't understand and the number among rural farmers is going to be different than the number among western college psychology students upon whom most of these sorts of tests are developed and calibrated. 6 is an unlucky number, the number of the devil in some cultures. Other cultures have feelings about 1 (unity), 2 (dualism), 3 (trinity), 4 (chinese good luck, indian sacred number) and 5 (witchcraft). When talking of small effects, there may be emotions experienced that vary from person to person depending on their education, IQ, cultural background and environment. This can skew results in a way that is dependent on the particular population tested. A person from a culture that believes that 6 is an evil number and a bad omen may be very slightly more likely to change their response on a 6, seeing it as a warning. One can't take a test like this that is quite subtle and looks at tiny effects within noise signals that come not from rocket engines but from subjective human reactions and dump it on any population and assume results calibrated on a different population are a valid interpretation. That would have to be shown first, in cross-cultural comparison testing.
Perhaps the market will change to be more like the console market, where the hardware is sold at a loss in exchange for future revenue from other sources. I would look for phone manufacturers to start asking for a percentage of app sales.
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Google Chrome redirects 'www' to Google's servers
In my opinion, AirBnB should be providing more of an upfront opportunity for a host to screen a prospective client in advance, with no pressure. If they can't do this, they need to do a very good job of it themselves. That's the crucial aspect of their involvement. From my reading of the EJ story, she had no opportunity to learn anything about her client prior to accepting the reservation. AirBnB has changed this since then, I believe?

Regardless of these incidents, ad-hoc home rental is a potentially dangerous situation for both sides of the deal. It's positive that this controversy has prompted AirBnB to go beyond making jokes about piano thievery, and realize that safety of everyone involved is a critical issue.
I think you glossed over quite a few points:

1) EJ specifically points out that there was no way to perform due diligence on the other person. You are inviting someone to use your home, and you normally expect some entity to perform some sort of check on the renter. Craigslist clearly warns people about this, and gives them a good way to contact (via email, even if its obfuscated). AirBNB, for better or worse, hinders people's ability to do this. There's an implication (and I fully agree, having gone through the site myself) that the site is safe, that renters are safe, and that hosts are safe. In that circumstance, EJ is justified in feeling misleaded by ABNB.

2) There's a simple way to fix the situation: provide restitution, recognize fault, and help find (and possibly pay for) a new flat for EJ. They can't repair the emotional damage, but they can at least show that they care about the situation.

3) This robbery is far different from most robberies. In some simple break-in, robbers grab the most expensive items they can find and move on. Rarely do robbers go to the extent of systematically stealing everything in the house.

I think this entire situation would have blown over if Airbnb just apologized at the onset. A simple "we are sorry" or hotline with a person that could talk EJ down immediately would have sufficed. EJ would have felt that there were people in ABNB.

Have you ever had to make an insurance claim or credit card fraud claim? American Express is great about CC fraud, suspending all fraudulent purchases immediately. And with home insurance, one day a tree fell on the house. Called insurance company and I was speaking to an agent within a few seconds, who calmed me down and walked me through the entire process (from getting a hotel to calling police). In both cases, great customer service people make sure that customers are calmed down first. And it was only because they promptly responded that I didnt feel any sort of misanthropic dispair.
"People need to be educated..."

This is the kind of thing you learn from your parents. It's not some corporation's job to do that. If I'm renting a room in my house, I'm not leaving this stranger alone in my home. If it's an apartment over the garage with only outside access, I'm less concerned, but I'll still keep my valuables in a safe.

There is a certain amount of common sense one must have to function in this world. Putting "stranger danger" education under the responsibility of AirBnB is unacceptable.
"First-time entrepreneurs only have an 18% chance of succeeding. Interestingly, those have previously failed have a 20% chance of succeeding."

p1 = 0.18

p2 = 0.20

Naively, p1 || p2 = 0.344

Cumulative probability after N attempts assuming p = 0.2 for any n > 1:

1: 0.180

2: 0.344

3: 0.475

4: 0.580

5: 0.664

6: 0.731

7: 0.785

8: 0.828

This also neglects things like mixed-experience teams (i.e. the probability data in the article is obviously very high level and overly simplistic).
Yeah, agreed, a video or demo is definitely needed. I think we're going to deploy a sample game soon to try and give everyone a preview.

I really appreciate the feedback. Thanks for checking it out.
"The only way for an engineer to make real money is to be a quant, found a startup or join an early stage startup."
This statement should be included in every CS curriculum.

Except it isn't true (depending on your definition of "real money").

It's not especially hard to make high 6 figures (and even low 7 figures) as a consultant, if you specialize and sell yourself well.

This may be low by the standards of the $20M year Quant, but the risks are much lower too.

Most engineers who join an early stage startup won't make "real money" by those standards, either. Sure, some will make $20M when the company is sold, a few will make a lot more, and a larger number will make a substantial (5 figure) bonus when the company is sold, but many will get nothing.

Advice like this needs to be tailored to the individual. Deep algorithm expert with limited social skills? Then either quant or work for a startup. A mediocre programmer with some good ideas and good sales ability? Do a startup. Good technical ability and know how to talk to business users in their language? Consulting... etc etc...
I dunno, blood out of a turnip? Even if there's a need ( and there absolutely is ), the gov has no money. Doesn't sound like a business I'd want to get into.
I think it's safe to say at this point that most "techy" people have moved to Macbooks - by "most" I mean over 50%.

Oh, Americans and their blinkered worldviews.
Everyone loves the story of the overnight success. No one wants to read about a 10-15 year struggle, with liberal doses of failure and setback. They'd rather read about someone who had a 'light bulb' moment and cashed out six months later. The reason is perhaps that everyone likes to think they too can do it - if amazing success is available almost overnight to other people, why not to them. Not as cool to dream about years and years of toil...
I gave up on IE6 this year. Feels great.

Now, there's just IE7... and I get the feeling IE8 will feel like IE7 a few years from now. Microsoft really needs to fix their release style for IE. That is the #1 problem, not that the browsers are bad for their time.
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Most important one imho = #5:

Our analysis of more than 500 companies in high-growth industries revealed that not even 11 percent of these companies took venture capital at any stage of their existence. The Kauffman Foundation ran a similar analysis of companies on the Inc. magazine 500 list and found that only 16 percent of them raised venture capital.

The results speak for themselves.
This article makes me very angry because the guy is coming across as looking for an excuse not to do the work. When I was building websites for IE 5 + 6 there was very little help out there - the bugs weren't documented and often you would be finding something completely new. I remember discovering an issue with HTML comments (!) after floating elements that seemed to not exist anywhere in Google.

Nowadays there are a ton of resources documenting all of the bugs out there because hundreds of people have already found and documented them. The site http://www.positioniseverything.net/ is a bible for developing through browser bugs, everyone knows about conditional comments, (not used until IE7 came out) and using Javascript is considered acceptable for so many more solutions or fixes. More importantly, there are a load of people who can offer help via many mediums, (Stack Overflow?) who have been there and done that.

Just because you don't agree with a business decision, don't invent excuses like this, you sound lazy.

Edit: In case I'm coming across as a grumpy old man, I started in the industry when I left University, so six years ago. I'm 29, not exactly a dinosaur.
The costs for those wars after Obama took office are obviously not included in Bush’s slice of the pie.
which ones? How would taking more money out of the private sector help the economy right now?
Here is mine. Not too much in it. The main thing was get rid of all those annoying *~ files

(setq-default truncate-lines t)
(setq truncate-partial-width-windows nil) ;; for vertically-split windows
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
(setq make-backup-files nil) ; Don't want any backup files
(setq auto-save-list-file-name nil) ; Don't want any .saves files
(setq-default transient-mark-mode t)
We've tried a premium-only approach with previous apps and we've gotten feedback that our users like the option to try before they buy - which is what led us to IAP.

Also, when we've tried a premium-only approach our apps have been made available for jailbroken devices within a couple of weeks, with little chance to directly monetize these pirated free copies of our apps. See, for example: http://theikidsblog.com/blog/2010/11/30/arr-there-be-pirates...

This time around our approach was to build a premium product, price it accordingly and let people try it out via the free version. It's hard to know what the best way to handle it is - but that's definitely part of the fun of the wild west of mobile apps these days..and as I mentioned in an earlier comment, the freemium model seems to have a lot of traction..
It's being treated like any other search, it goes to a search for 'www'.
Have you bought a phone lately? The telco pays for most of the phone in exchange for your agreement to use their service for two years.
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Aren't they included in the 1.3 trillion not attributed to stimulus or extension of Bush tax cuts?
MIT agrees to tech school at Russia's Skolkovo
A "compromise" with no tax increases when "Only 34% [of Americans] preferred a debt reduction plan based solely on spending reductions."

And what percentage of that 34% is enjoying a higher quality of life than 10 years ago AND makes under $250K a year?

I have to wonder. (yes, even knowing the [perceived] political alignment of HN and risk I'm taking with my vital karma.)
> I want any changes that are in my tree, ever,
> to be in the order and position in which they
> happened.

Could you explain this better. When I read this I hear, "I absolutely loathe modern operating systems, I think that all code should go in ~/code and all documents in ~/Documents, but modern operating systems allow you to put things anywhere. The horror!"

Do you really loathe the tool because it allows for flexibility? Do you have so little faith in the end-user? Do you really understand git, or only at a cursory level? (That isn't meant to be an insult)

> indelible history is a good thing

So long as you have a central git repository and manage it so that no one can rewrite the master/trunk branch, then you have that. If someone screws up the history in their local tree, then it won't allow them to overwrite the history on the canonical version.

(If you say, "well someone with access to the canonical version could do X," then you're just trolling, because someone with access to the central SVN repo could 'rm -rf' it too. It's the same issue.)
… in Bush’s slice of the pie. My comment was misleading, I edited it.
More like, have you bought a phone in the last ten years?
Executing PL/SQL code in Zend Framework
Hard to believe that was the same year as Pulp Fiction. 1994 doesn't seem that long ago.

Fascinating snapshot in time.

I think we can forgive him some buzzwords as he is addressing a marketing audience.
When did HFT "destroy everything, requiring a trillion dollar government bailout" to fix?
You may or may not agree with a progressive tax system, but I wonder how on earth so many people have been convinced that a regressive tax system is good for the country. It's patently absurd that politicians are fighting tooth and nail to preserve tax havens and loopholes that allow the filthy rich to pay a 15-20% income tax whilst the rest of the 'middle class' is paying upwards of 30.

I was thinking the other day that people just don't understand how oppresive our current system of taxation is. We had a civil rights movement in the past, it's about time for a 'fiscal rights' movement.
I don't see the problem here. These people had the brains to figure this out, the bucks to bet on it and the balls to try it out.

Life itself is 'A game with a windfall for a knowing few'
But that is a business decision with engineering input, not the inverse.
Wii remote controller and wii game wario mainland review 
Nintendo "Wario mainland" series new work of family version will adopt similar game style with the GB and GBA version. The game will use the Wii Remote controller and motion-sensing capabilities, players have to keep shaking the handle to attack the enemy, get special props or complete certain actions. Game developer is a little-known small company named Good-feel, while the animation part of the story is by the famous Production IG produced.
Foxconn to replace workers with 1 million robots
We have thousands of corporate clients and we tell them all the same thing: They can use any browser they like but it must be the latest / current version. Some of them grumble a bit but we've not lost a client because of IE6 in years.
> If a change was worth committing then it is worth
> sharing that commit with everyone

You're misunderstanding some of the workflows that people are discussing. Sometimes I commit things that are half-finished, or even half-baked because I know that when it comes time to push I can rewrite things into a set of commits that makes sense.

This workflow makes sense because rewriting is easy enough. Obviously, I might not do this if I had to publish every commit that I made. But then I would just resort to using something like quilt to manage patches onto of SVN, which is ridiculous. You VCS is a patch management system. The idea that someone would use a patch management system on top of a patch management system suggests that something is broken (yes, I have had people on HN claim that git sucks because SVN + quilt 'work for me').
Pretty much all custom. On the trading client side, a lot of firms used to tie into TT (Trading Technologies), etc. Then usually they rewrite with their own order gateways / price servers, and if they have enough resources, develop their own trading clients, etc.

I've been at firms that are all Java and use command-line terminals for most of the trading feedback (while having other clients to view the market depth). I've been at firms that are all C++ and C, and have their own trading GUIs.

Generally speaking though performance is key and at some point one ends up just rewriting things in-house (and tying into the exchanges or markets directly).

But there are a lot of different types of trades, etc. A lot of different ways to go, some of which (as zedshaw was mentioning) might involve Visual Basic.

But yeah, most of my experience was with C + a very limited subset of C++ on Linux. I still probably can't say too much more than that (though it's been two-three years, etc., since I was active with it).

I can probably say though that the fun for me was rewriting the backend services and trying to make them as fast (and as stable and redundant) as possible. A lot of it is translation of different market sources, etc. I experimented with a lot of languages at the time (Haskell, OCAML, etc., a la Jane Street), but at the end of the day did most of our stuff in C on Linux (i.e., with vim and makefiles).

If I'd make one bit more of advice (and I advised/mentored maybe two or three younger developers while in Chicago -- so I'm no expert) -- but it would be that if you have the interest, a lot of this stuff gets really easy with time. I suppose that's like most fields. But yeah, the productivity I had when I started, and when I left, was very, very different. And part of that had to do with writing everything 'bespoke' / custom, when there was time. Anyway, I go on...