skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, talk to the guys at Mantella VP, I think every one of their funded startups is hiring. Many smart people there. Also, FreshBooks. There is a YC company in Toronto called Upverter that I've heard is quietly looking for python/JS people as well as a grab bag of smaller more risky startups. Shoot me an email with your Github and I can help you out.
I agree that these mocks seem to waste space. I much prefer a more compact design.

In these mocks, only the active tab actually looks like a tab. The other tabs visually communicate that they are another interface element all together. I would suggest that all tabs have a full tab outline. Currently, the S-shaped curve on the tabs feels too wide and takes up too much horizontal space. The curve on the corner of the tabs should be sharper to match the rounded corner of the window. The difference in shape of the s-curve near the traffic lights and the s-curve of the tabs is bothersome.

I am quite happy with the way Firefox 5 looks with a custom skin ("Default Mod") and some minor customizations. It would be nice to be able to move the tabs into the title bar to free up a little space.
I would think this: http://www.ugo.com/tech/iphone-boxers-20
Missing glasses.
Let it go. They did the right thing, maybe they were doing it all along, maybe they did it under pressure, it does not matter.

What matters is that EJ (and others) will be compensated and AirBNB will live to fight another day in a much stronger and more real-world grounded fashion. Maybe their margins won't be quite as high but that's what usually happens when you underestimate the cost of doing business.

Winners all around, future hosts and guests of AirBNB included.

Note that this does not take care of any emotional issues but it will certainly help with the practical part of it, and I don't think a party like AirBNB could help with those anyway beyond doing their very best to minimize the hurt from such an event.
None of them work for me on Windows 7 / Chrome. My computer is being sent to 96.17.148.105 or .120 when I ping www.bing.com (pinging bing.com goes to 65.55.175.254, which times out), in case that's useful to anyone - since this is only happening to some people, it could be an issue which isn't present on all of Bing's servers.
Hrm, someone spends a lot of time putting together this documentation about Perl and you claim he's making enemies now. The correct answer when someone tries to contribute is "Thank you". If you don't agree with the contribution, consider "Thank you, but..." I don't think the documentation is that bad. I don't read it as sarcastic either. Sure it raises some of Perl's warts, big deal.
not a good idea. To gift my friend, iam paying a cut to giftrocket and also forcing my friend to pay at the selected location.

why not just send the paypal gift to my friend directly and let him/her pay wherever he/she wants to ? Just send ur preferred location along with your gift email .

This model would make sense if businesses pay a cut to giftrocket and not the end customer, giftrocket has to then signup businesses one by one - not an easy thing to do.
In a perfect world there should be no security, as there should be no one to hack it.
For most jobs, are there really any barriers left to using a Mac at home and PC at work? Considering computing for the vast majority of workers likely consists of email, excel, word, and powerpoint, I can't think of many. Certainly in-house apps would only work on Windows, but who uses those on their home computer?
Twitter Confirms "Significant" Funding with DST Global
Yes this kind of thing is hardly sustainable, I think it may just be a smart PR move and they'll hugely downsize it or cancel it in the next months, after the storm has passed.
Facebook opens up the Ads API (Part of the Marketing API now)
On the fly github issues (chrome extension)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kameeinbjnhfgamlnaofmcicajelchjn?hl=en-US

I just made this chrome extension for submitting issues to github, it also attaches the current tab's source and a screenshot. I've found it incredibly useful for linking a screenshot to an issue on the fly, or just quickly leaving an issue when it pops into my head. Thought you all might benefit, too.

If you check it out and find any bugs, help me out and open an issue https://github.com/cambridgemike/agile-testing-extension

Cheers, mike
Second that. Words are empty, but this sounds like real action... insurance (especially retroactive) + 24 help + more overall support service - all that hits the nail on the head of the problem. This was the response people (or at least ME) were waiting for.

Good luck Airbnb.
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$50,000 is on the low side for a freestanding house (house fires are in the high tens of thousands of dollars), but seems totally reasonable for an apartment.

You wonder how much of the concern about the specifics of this announcement really reflect the typical HNer's lack of comfort with the Airbnb model, period. Remember, lots of people on HN would never be comfortable renting their place out period. And that's fine; those people aren't Airbnb customers right now. Plenty of people obviously do find the transaction palatable.

Similarly, terrible incidents like this happen without the fancy Rails app to facilitate them. Ask around for subletting horror stories. How often do we as a community freak out over the concept of subletting? A giant slice of all renters have to consider doing that any time they need to get out of a lease.
Well, if you disaggregate it, the Republican voters in blue states are statistically net tax payers, and Democratic voters in red states who are statistically net tax recipients.

It's a Simpson's paradox type phenomenon, where the aggregation at the state level conceals the individual level trends. Believe the analysis is on the net somewhere, or you can drill down to the Census micro data to confirm it yourself.
Interesting debate. Many, I believe, in the deaf community would view this discussion to be similar to the debate about Mexican children having education in Spanish in CA, or perhaps the Ebonics debate that was the rage some years ago.

Should the deaf live in a city designed for and by themselves(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent,_South_Dakota)? Should cochlear implants be planted in deaf children (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/06/02/sunday/main10794.s...)?
It seems silly to the point of trollish to argue that the $50k guarantee Airbnb announced in a post about EJ's incident would have been designed to exclude EJ. Give it a rest.
Can anyone join them, unconditionally? Obviously not.
Ditto; same with Chrome, wget and curl.
"for loss or damage due to vandalism or theft caused by an Airbnb guest up to $50,000"

As others have mentioned no exact details have been listed anywhere.

For the vandalism they will most certainly require that obviously a police report be filed. Notice that "damage" is not covered though. Only vandalism.

Theft is trickier. The actual policy might say that they will pay if your homeowners/renters policy doesn't pay. Or there may be deductibles. And once again they will require a police report to document the theft.

Typically the problem with any insurance in this situation is proving that something is actually stolen as opposed to just missing.

I think that without seeing the actual coverage you can't really draw any conclusions.

By the way if you rent your apartment you should always have renters insurance anyway. It isn't that expensive and it would cover damage (less a deductible) even if you had a party and a friend damaged something - in other words a simple accident. Or if the tub overflowed by accident and damaged the carpeting.
Let's definitely discuss this instead of the $50k guarantee and 24/7 support Airbnb just announced.
> "What matters is that EJ will be compensated and AirBNB will live to fight another day"

That's what we're not sure about. EJ, a renter herself, likely didn't have the right to rent out her unit. The blog post says "We will extend this program to EJ...", not "We'll take care of EJ." She still has to qualify through whatever insurance company airbnb is working with. It's going to be an even worse PR disaster when the insurance company says "No."
I think they need to sharply pivot to some very different products or else fold and return investor money.

What is their guarantee to guests? What prevents them from being a target for scams to collect host insurance? What statistics can they provide us about the wellbeing of all past guests and hosts?

If I'm going to rent out a room or a flat for the prices they advertise -- but apparently I better have an extra $50K of insurance before doing so -- is the two or three digit per night rent really worth it? This new guarantee sounds like an admission of failure.
If this is true, it's hard to see how it counts as optimization. Try/catch is very expensive in all js environments.
Why I’m Moving Across the Country to Join a new Startup
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science
agreed. see also redis, node.js et al.
evented is the new threaded.
>The problem also applies if one inventor invents something, then another individual gains access to it before the inventor distributes it publicly, and files a patent on it.

No. This would be fraud(because the "inventor" that filed didn't actually invent the thing) or could be theft of trade secrets(if an NDA is involved). Both of which are covered under US law.

>But in the more general case, I find it difficult to believe that the notion of Prior Art is unaffected by the elimination of first-to-invent. Under the new rules, if the PTO considers two patents determined to cover the same invention, they will accept the one filed first and decline the one filed later, even if the first-filed invention was invented at a later date. If a patent lawsuit can reverse this decision by finding prior art, then how can these be reconciled?

If there is clear prior art before either were filed, then the patent would be nullfiied in either a First to File or First to Invent scenario.

I think that you're confusing prior art and what first to file/invent means.

First to File and First to Invent means that if two people file for an identical patent, the patent is granted based on either the filing date or the invention date. The only time that First to File applies is when two independent inventors file for the same patent in the same timeframe. Ovbiously, one cannot try to patent an idea after the patent has been accepted, even if they did invent first.

Prior art applies to all patents, based on the date of the filing of the patents. If I try to patent something that someone else is selling, like a mousetrap design, then it should get thrown out, no matter when I actually invented it, because it's already in production by someone else.
Privacy is Security
Absolutely brilliant and a great example of the simple side-project opportunities that exist at every turn.
Ask HN: Rails for Django developers?
I've done some django development in the past and I'm looking to expand my horizons by learning Rails. Does anyone know of good tutorials or other resources aimed at people with previous web development experience looking to learn rails? Strangely, google hasn't turned up much that's useful.
Why would they offer renter's insurance? It's just a few days at a time.
What? Why is this hard to sustain? This is a non sequitor reply.
Thanks for your detailed response! If that's truly the case, then I could support this move to first-to-file.

One worry I have is that the order might often be more like:

A comes up with the idea, starts working on implementing

B later, independently comes up with the idea, and starts
working on implementing

B files patent application describing a grossly simplistic,
untested implementation of the idea

A later completes implementation, irons out the bugs,
files for a patent, starts a business, adds great value to
the economy

B never really does much with his patent, ends up selling
it off to C who sues A for mucho $$$ in patent licensing,
or sells it to A's competitor D for mucho $$$, so they can
copy A's product with impunity.
> pay the USPTO an $8800

This is a small thing, but filing fees (for a small entity) are $462. The fact that you think USPTO fees are this much indicates to me that you have never had anything to do with an actual patent application, have no real idea what you're talking about, and are basically making shit up. But then, your article conveyed that pretty clearly as well.
U.S. Commandos Raid Pakistan All the Time
Keeping these query things aside, Bing is not even loading in Opera mini 6 !
If you really want to learn Perl, you must install the read-eval-print loop (REPL) utility. If you have never used this utility, I will have serious grounds to doubt your Perl skills.

Unlike Ruby or Python (or most other modern high-level programming languages), Perl does not come with an interactive REPL shell, which makes no sense at all, since, due to Perl's obscure syntax, someone trying out Perl would benefit at least twice as much from a REPL shell than someone learning Ruby or Python. Fortunately, the Devel::REPL package remedies this. Installing it is super-simple:

$ sudo /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell
> install Devel::REPL

Once installed, simply open your terminal and run:

$ re.pl

Once you have the REPL shell running, you can pretty much copy-and-paste into it examples from this tutorial (or any other) and watch what Perl has to say in response.
A week and a ton of negative press later.

I still give them credit for doing the right thing, but it'd be a lot more impressive if they did it back when it was just the "right thing to do" and not "the quickest way to end this crisis that threatens to destroy the company"
Steve has needed to upgrade his jeans for a long time. If he's fond of Levi's, he doesn't even have to switch brands, just transition to darker denim (not pre-washed) and straight leg.
"may have been optimal"

I follow your reasoning, but this approach is optimized for Airbnb alone. The trick is to find an approach that maximizes both Airbnb's business goals and the happiness of the customers.
Why do you suppose this is an insurance policy and not a cash guarantee? They never use the word. It's a flat $50,000 everywhere, with terms and conditions to vary by area, and to apply retroactively— does that really sound like insurance?

I know you're gonna say fraud, but why do you think they've doubled the size of their customer support team in the last month? These guys aren't dumb, they knew this was coming. This is the thing they can do with all of their money that will keep them on top.

In fact... my money says the real reason for trying to get EJ to amend the original blog post was they were hoping to keep the story from breaking in mainstream press before they got this system launched.
AirBnB reminds me a lot of early days of Ebay.

Ebay has a trust problem. The seller needs to trust the buyer will send whatever is sold. The buyer needs to trust the seller to pay.

Part of this is handled by the transaction process where the seller doesn't typically send something until paid but the buyer if unnscrupulous can always do CC chargebacks, cancel checks or the like. The buyer just has to trust the seller.

Reputation is the big part in this but is no guarantee. Actually what Ebay needs is to show the total value of buy and sell transactions separately, not just the number of transactions.

AirBnB seeks to solve these same problems with reputation.

The problem? At worst on Ebay, the buyer or seller loses 100% of the transaction's value. On AirBnB, the potential loss is many thousands time the value and can include irreparable harm (eg murder, serious assault, rape, etc).

What's more they're facilitating people doing something generally not allowed by their leases (if they rent) or by legislation or regulation. That's potentially a huge problem.

So it's fitting they set up this kind of insurance guarantee. Much like Ebay securing transactions (to some degree at least), the extra confidence in the system promotes its use.

I don't believe this is an end to AirBnB's problems however. They're simply kicked the can further down the street.

Imagine this scenario: someone rents a house through AirBnB while the owner is away. They set up a meth lab. The meth lab explodes, burning down the house, burning down 2 neighbours' houses and kills three people, two of them innocents. What a huge liability mess that would be. Who is responsible? Clearly the person who set up the meth lab are responsible but a canny lawyer will argue that AirBnB and the owner were negligent in their actions.
Well that settles the matter for me. Wish they'd done it sooner, but better late than never. Hopefully EJ is satisfied with the outcome.
Got it to break; someone else here mentioned that when they cleared all bing.com cookies it generated the error - I got the same when I did that...
Actually, I think there is a technical solution. Say that the password system keeps a complete history of a user's plaintext passwords, stored encrypted using the current password as a symmetric key. Administrators cannot access this password list without the current password.

When a user changes his password, he enters the current password and a proposed new password. The system uses the current password to decrypt the list of previous passwords. It checks the proposed password against the list. If accepted, the old password is added to the list, and it's encrypted using the new password and stored.

Are there any threats against this scheme, or will it work?
I think it would be a fair bet that AirBNB will not risk that and will budget out-of-pocket.

Also, I don't see how an insurance company would ever agree to pay out on past cases so my guess is that they'll be paying for all of those out of pocket.

Going forward from Aug. 15th it looks like they'll have a deal in place and in the meantime things are 'murky'. The blog post leaves enough room for AirBNB to assume complete responsibility and/or work together with an insurer, but from the point of an AirBNB host that will likely make very little difference.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rails+for+zombies
Minnesota is where a lot of credit card companies are based from. I believe that there was a Regan-era law(may have been earlier, not sure) that allowed multi-state credit card corporations to basically use their "home state" laws for everyone, rather than the individual state laws. MN, at the time, had very permissive laws for credit card regulation, so a lot of companies relocated to the Twin Cities.
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"Dulwich is the place where Mr. and Mrs. Git live in one of the Monty Python sketches." (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dulwich)
Having used Thrift and PB I find myself partial to Avro because it's very similar to what I worked with in the past. Key points about Avro:

Schema is separate from data. Network bandwidth is expensive, there is no reason to transfer the schema with each request.

Data format can change allowing server to support multiple client versions in a reasonable range. Rather than using Thrift's model of always adding fields and making them Null when no longer necessary.

It's possible to layer a higher layer abstraction above a lower layer request abstraction to support more complex objects without generating complex serialization.
The potential for fraud doesn't concern me because Airbnb will clearly get an insurance company to run this program white-label, and they have whole departments designed to find and fight fraud. Based on the profits in the sector, it seems like they do a pretty good job of it.

As for the veracity of their line about someone being in custody with the SFPD, I stand corrected - my mistake. The last stuff that came to the top of my head was based off EJ's post on 28 July. A few searches reveal that the day after that post went up, the SFPD announced they had arrested someone.
Incredible work Mike!
Clearly it wasn't designed to exclude EJ, but it also likely wasn't designed with EJ in mind. airbnb is no doubt working with an insurance company, and if that company finds an "out", they're going to take advantage of it. Like most all renter contracts, it excludes subletting without consent, which is what EJ may have been doing.
July browser stats: Windows XP loses its majority share of Web users
Front page on HN yesterday and the prices are double today.

(At least for the basic offering -- I didn't pay attention to the others yesterday.)
This is a story about the #1 story on HN right now, and its only contribution is the last sentence where Arrington continues to try to stir up shit about the way Chesky wrote one sentence in the post.

I flagged it. Fuck this shit. I'm sure the story does a service to TechCrunch readers, but it's a drag on HN.
It's configurable, but then you have to map the keys you just replaced, and so on. He uses it with the default keymappings.

Arrow keys are kind of discouraged in vim, because a lot of the combo moves (e.g. 10j, y5l, etc.) use hjkl.
well done Airbnb. However que the fraudulent charges team...
It's also refreshing to see the artist open to input on this issue from their fans http://www.facebook.com/Bassnectar/posts/226030840772909
The new Pioneer Crossing intersection is great. I drive through it every day.

Here's a video describing the flow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWHEi8baCPE
> You can move the compute into the database

Yes, often doesn't scale because the database is an extremely limited resource that generally doesn't scale horizontally.

> or you can move the data to the compute

Which is what I said, which allows you to scale computation horizontally.

> There is no situation ever

You just named one, however I see where you're misinterpreting me or I you; when I said do the opposite, I meant move the computing away from the database.
They did what every great startup should do: respond to user problems with solutions that make the product better for every user. Most startups don't have products that interact with the real world so directly, so their learning is more painful, but the concept is always the same.

I'm rooting for Airbnb. I hope this incident will just spur them on to do a better job and move even faster.
Yet a renter will still be held responsible by the owners of the building if anything outside of their possessions is destroyed.
I am a fan of Yakuake, too. On OSX, I use Visor: http://visor.binaryage.com/

Does iTerm2 does roll-down terminals too?
This is all very disappointing. What am I supposed to read about now? Where is the drama, intrigue and scandal? Oh well, guess I will do some actual WORK.
Building on that, I pose a question. Has anyone here ever used a software patent as a reference to help solve a problem?
Wouldn't it have been better, as far as making a positive impact on the world goes, to just keep your job and redirect a large portion of your paycheque to a worthier cause? This is a sincere question. You must have considered that, right?
One of the key points of drawing is that it makes sure you actually see and understand what you are looking at. It's too easy to look at something without looking closely, without noticing details. If you want to draw something you are forced to understand it, visually speaking, well enough to recreate it on paper.
Let's definitely have a 19-comment argument speculating about the worst possible case scenario with the $50,000 guarantee Airbnb just announced, because that will definitely pump the oxygen back into the thread.
The team here at http://www.lifeensured.com launched (http://www.netclosehq.com) which helps families recover online accounts of the deceased.
I couldn't find a time estimate on Wikipedia, but Pearson (the publisher of the WAIS-IV) says that it takes 60-90 minutes (http://www.pearsonassessments.com/HAIWEB/Cultures/en-us/Prod...).

It's also not clear to me how they determined correlations between scores on their on-line version and on the standard pencil-and-paper version.