skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unrelated, but that page showed me a popover asking for demographic information. In the top-right corner, there was a "close" looking [X]. Oddly, it was only an image that didn't do anything. You had to click a "No thanks" link beside it to close it. Bad design.
Well, you haven’t addressed any of my points, but that’s fine. To answer your question, just because the transaction was consummated doesn’t mean she had to let the guy into her house. If the dude was suspicious or ungoogleable, she could have called Airbnb and explained the situation or she could have simply not left her key. Instead she just got on an airplane without thinking about it. That’s not Airbnb’s fault.

And you’ve just illustrated my point perfectly: if she hadn’t used the service, she would be fine now. But she used the service of her own volition; nobody forced her to; and she made the decision herself. Airbnb might have made the gun the guys used to trash her apartment with, but Airbnb isn’t the one that fired it: she pulled the trigger. Again, the people who trashed her apartment committed the crime here, though.

This is a business problem

I never said it wasn’t a business problem—that’s exactly what it is. But it’s not an issue of morality.

in what universe can you trust a service like Airbnb now?

I would never in a million years use Airbnb. Why would I leave a complete stranger alone in my house so that they could trash it and go through my things? You realize how insane that is, when evaluated outside the reality distortion field of the startup craze we’re in right now, right?

I think the genesis for your arguments is your desire to live in a world where you can trust a service like Airbnb. But if you just think about it for five seconds you realize anyone could do this and Airbnb in no way prevents it from happening. Just because Y Combinator funded it doesn’t mean it’s magical.
hotmail spam filter has improved greatly, more or less caught upto gmails. You'll probably find switching her to gmail won't fix the problem as shes probably signing up to things constantly online and causing the issue herself.
Yup, Google should stop making successful products because people like zobzu like to list them ominously and imply that Google is making you use them. I don't understand posts like this.

Use a Microsoft Windows laptop to access Bing with IE, use Bing and Hotmail, talk to people on Windows Messenger, [no GVoice equivalent], checking Hotmail, managing docs on Live or Office 365, etc, etc. What a bunch of nonsense.
In a positive analysis (should rather than shouldn't), assuming no default choice, it seems rational to use Tokyo Cabinet or CDB _hashmaps_ for unordered data, and LevelDB for ordered data, from a datastructure and performance standpoint.

It's as rational as doing optimizations. If the specific performance is extremely critical, yes, it definitely makes sense. But LevelDB does well with random reads [1]. With all its features and its permissive license, I think it's a strong contender as developer's go-to embedded key-value db, like SQLite for relational data.

Don't get me wrong, I do think your comparison is valuable, but I'm afraid it could be misleading; I specially found the wording LevelDB is for if you need ordered data misleading. Someone could read it and assume that LevelDB doesn't do well with unordered data.

[1] Compare today's benchmarks with these http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/benchmark.pdf, it looks like random reads in LevelDB are quite faster than BDB.
"And real gangsta-ass niggas don't run for shit, 'cause real gangsta-ass niggas can't run fast" -- Geto Boys, "Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta"
He could argue that he created $50,000 of value since now there's 2 copies.

(and maybe pay the fine with 20 copies of the database)
If you span it right I think you might be able to get away with it - after all, Netflix works and that takes longer than 12 hours! This would also be less effort as you wouldn't have to post discs back.
Before you all rush to judgment again, notice the update at the end of the article:

"Update: I spoke with Brian Chesky. He says the company has offered “to assist financially, find new housing for the host, and anything else she can think of to make her life easier.” He says they intend to “go above and beyond” to make the situation right for her."
I don't get it. They require you to file a police report, just like insurance companies do. In fact, since they know the identity of the renter, they can require that the renter's name appears in the police report, and Airbnb can call the police station themselves to follow up with more information. A claim against the fund necessarily means pressing criminal charges against another individual.

So as the owner, it's my word against the renter with the cops involved. They're going to figure it out eventually. Maybe I'd be able to float a few grand for a while before it caught up with me, but surely there are easier ways for me to turn false testimony to my advantage than screwing over the web site that's earning me money?
This appears to be a chart of our recession. Obama is just one of many loosely-connected actors here.
As nice as the Sublime Video player is, I wish their pricing model wasn't subscription-based. It's been a barrier to using it in some client sites where they don't want a recurring fee for their video player. Not everything needs to be cloud-based. My video player's javascript is one of those things.
As of right now I am not willing to pay the monthly fee to get cable and the like, since it airs at a certain time of day and I'd need to get a DVR to then grab all the shows and whatnot I'd want.

If I could pay a monthly fee of around $20 to get all of the TV Shows I want to watch at any point in time (not even perpetuity but that would be nice) I would subscribe. Hulu+ comes close, but still doesn't have a lot of the back catalog I am interested in, or is hog tied by the content producers and can't make certain content available until 30 days after it has aired on TV (USA's show Suits for example).

I'd love to watch Game of Thrones from HBO, but the only way I can get access to HBO's online site is to have a monthly subscription through my cable provider... that makes my choice simple, TPB or don't watch them at all... either way HBO loses money.

I don't understand why the content industry doesn't see that if they help Hulu+ succeed that they too can start seeing more of the money from that. Instead of screwing over the "cord-cutters" cut out the middle-man (the cable company) and let me subscribe directly for a low monthly price.
This is because GDP dropped, hence tax revenues dropped, hence debt went up. None of which are related to his policies. It's not because he started some big spending program. Some relevent links:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/hey-small-spende...
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/big-spender-upda...
U.S. insurers are heavily regulated by the states. They aren't going to get involved in a line of business that appears shaky or is crossways with the political tide.
Yes, but crimes that have the potential to benefit people without hurting anyone else?
This is refreshing to hear, thank you :)
None of these authors have been published by any respectable publisher. I doubt any are in use as textbooks. The whole premise of this article is flawed.
I see the anti-cop contingent from reddit has finally arrived. Seriously, for your sake, I hope you are just trolling.
Where are you sending your resume? As a VC funded start-up in San Francisco we see lots of resumes, just not lots of great ones. And so we pay. $140k base for most positions. And we're open to telecommuting and relo. Its just even harder to find remote engineers then local ones. If your interested, ping me ;)
Fisker Karma ships (electric vehicle w range extender)
Well there's this notion that bikes absolutely do not deserve to share the road whatsoever that's surprising to me.
I feel downvotes are cool as long as they don't affect a post's popularity and are only used to as a tool for teaching posters about this forum's tacit rules.

After that you can (maybe) pose a filter on something that has >10 downvotes. 1-3 downvotes should not affect a post(er)'s credibility.
That's already happening. Google, MS, Apple, IBM, Intel, AMD/ATI, nVidia, AT&T and a few others already have cross-licensing deals essentially between everyone and everyone. It's just that HTC and Samsung are not part of _this_ cartel.
Not every pair of unknowns are equiprobable.

True enough, but the unknowns 'is there an afterlife' and 'can I be reanimated from frozen tissue' are sufficiently unknowable at this time to appear equiprobable to this reader.
He said it more than once, and clearly said project one of those times. He also gave context that made it quite clear he was talking about the project.
Don't they know it's all about Epic Sax Guy now? http://youtu.be/KHy7DGLTt8g
I think tools are very important for society. Improving them is important too.
I haven't had that trouble so far. But, also, I have a dynamic IP, and I think I'm behind a couple layers of NAT.
Yep, but some of that bounty goes into a fund to head hunt new placements. You've probably encountered yourself without realising, when a recruiter meets you in town and buys you a coffee. He doesn't pay for that coffee the agency does.

Im not sure what its like ATM as i avoid recruiters like the plague these days, but it went nuts in the .com days. I remember people getting given cars as joining bonuses and all ksorts. It was mental.

Spending £200 quid a month on me, at the time didnt even raise an eye lid. It probably would now, but so much then.
Brilliant. I can't wait to use that idea to save my friends from Big Brother. Hmm… But they would have to trust me instead of Google.

Well, better send them a FreedomBox for Christmas, then.
That doesn't change the fact that you bombard every post in any way related to nodejitsu with angry comments.

I get that you have some serious personal vendetta against them, but if you aren't going to add any value, save it for your blog.
What I've learned from larger companies:

1. Your manager there is concerned with building their fiefdom and without a loyal crew, they know they won't succeed internally. They'll have little time for your negotiations skills and will be very unimpressed if you bring up offers from unknown starts-ups. They're a manager at a Fortune 500 company, dontcha know? It's their life and chosen career, not to mention their lifeline. You're dead to them once you leave or hint of leaving for more money.

2. Salary levels and compensation packages are designed and set by professional HR crew whose job it is to keep labor costs down and weed out malcontents. Where do they get their salary guidelines? From industry groups and consultants who specialize in companies of that size and who share that same info with every one of their clients. Good luck walking around with an offer from a similar-sized competitor. They'll be on the phone to them, probably friends, telling them what a dunce you are and you'll find your offer rescinded. Never ever mention where you're going or what they'll be paying you. Much less at a big company.

3. No matter how big or small the organization, outside of the entertainment industry, and I include sports here, very few will be willing to tolerate a disruptive prima donna for very long. Especially rank and file developers with visions of grandeur brought on by big money stories and newly acquired skills.

Like I said, present your situation to management but don't wait around for them to bring salaries into line. Some times they simply can't, you've misread the market or your importance to them. If that's the case, don't force their hand.
By Anna Patterson, "Why Writing Your Own Search Engine Is Hard": http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=988407
If you haven't noticed police skepticism on HN until now, you haven't been paying a lot of attention! It tends to go across the civil-liberties-leaning political spectrum. Before the left-leaning Reddit had a subreddit on cop abuses, the libertarian magazine Reason (reason.com) had them as a regular feature. And of course many of us read Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown as kids, and I wouldn't say that I mainly sympathized with the "crackdown" side when reading it...
Some of them - not all. Just look at all those drug-related laws.
I'm not interested in the soap opera, but I hope this serves a lesson to MIT: Always shutdown unused switch ports, and protect them with 802.1X.
I doubt I've posted to even a third of their advertisements on HN. Please show data before making a claim like that. The last 24 hours do not a sample-set make.
Oh one more story for you, about fake listings.

My same dodgy recruiter friend I mentioned in my other story created fake nicely tailored CVs and got an 900 number.

He applied to every big job he could find, even some in his own company. Ones he knew other recruiters would jump at.

I think he made around £500 before someone dobbed him in and they shut his account down LOL
What did it say initially?
It's not entirely painless, but I do it anyway because I can. A third party is never going to have access to my personal email, it's just not going to happen.
Functional Programming For The Rest of Us [2006]
My understanding is that Voldemort is a distributed key-value storage system, while LevelDB is a local on-disk key-value storage system.
AirBnb is not legally liable. They are however morally liable. Every company does legal. It's the moral compass that differentiates a company and their founders.
Seems like a good compromise would have been "Nissan uses HTML5 instead of Flash for their new Leaf campaign"
Except Google build and run some of the largest datacenters in the world.

Dropbox uses Amazon S3 - the whole point of being a hip and trendy web2.0 cloud service is that all you need is a web designer an SEO expert and a PR firm

In addition renting a large expensive trendy building in the middle of an expensive trendy city seems to suggest a certain lack of hip-and-trendy web2.0 cloud thinking.
ING (the online only bank) has started clearing it's people out of expensive city center office blocks to work remotely and (very profitably) renting the space to hip-and-trendy web2.0 startups
Http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pubid=www.nigerianwap.com
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2812503
You need to learn how to use paid traffic. Writing little checks to earn big ones. Relying on free methods is manual labour! Look up a HN user called ilya and if he has time he can prolly do some paid consulting to get you started. I would but I need to focus single mindedly on what I'm doing.
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And share those links with the rest of us!

http://digitalauteur.wikispaces.com
My post was not about the specific buzz words, which is why I borrowed the example from the grandparent.

If I were describing a technology stack, it would include the actual development language and further specific, relevant details. That might include the exact example as given, but the example standing on its own still ranks low on the desirability scale.

Also, my description would exclude "building every website in".
Not impossible in the strictest since, but highly improbable. Even Bin Laden went down and he had a lot more on his side than all of the members of lulz and anon combined.
I'm guessing that at one point the post's text was gray due to downvotes.
And if they had bought it, it would probably we worthless now. So really, it was a good decision!
It was the title of the blog (Hacker News Fires Steve Yegge ), which I understand that can be misleading and offsensive to some.

Edit: Guess I was wrong. Someone changed back to the original title. I guess it is more compliant with HN guidelines.
I'm surprised Stevey didn't mention that this is not the first time something like this has happened: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/boring-stevey-status... .
Great idea, love it.
The Sociological Breakthrough of Google+
Days of the Week
Attention Startups: Here Is Why Incubators Like General Assembly Are Dangerous
In the UK one needs specific landlord insurance for this situation.

I expect that unless you rented out your space a lot in a given policy year, it may render it unprofitable to do so.
"... If pg wouldn't mind me scraping the site, in a manner that would not impact the sites performance ..."

you don't have to scape the site, RTFM. The official 'hnsearch' api will most likely yield the info you need ~ http://www.hnsearch.com/api
What Netflix and Hulu Users are Watching… and How
When submitters rewrite titles of posts we almost always (if we notice) replace them with the original title. We've done that since HN started. Otherwise submitters compete to make attention-getting titles, and you end up with the frontpage of reddit.
Lodsys fiercely opposes Apple's motion for an intervention
What about this from her own blog post?

> I would be remiss if I didn’t pause here to emphasize that the customer service team at airbnb.com has been wonderful, giving this crime their full attention. They have called often, expressing empathy, support, and genuine concern for my welfare. They have offered to help me recover emotionally and financially...

(http://ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2011/06/violated-travele...)

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Depending on what you're thinking the authority can do, "for survival's stake" may very well be exactly what those people in the Milgram Experiment were experiencing.
"No, I-I can't, b-but he's in authority, and I'll be in trouble if I don't, so", he cringes, "I must."
Chrome supports <marquee>. cowboyhero was making an allusion to the browser wars[1].

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Browser_wars#...
Facebook Moves an Elephant (or 30 PB of data)
History of Everything – explaining why Murphy's law applies so well to computers
I've been busy updating my Radi app (for Mac) over the past few weeks. There was some interest on HN in this app when I put out the first version some 7 months ago, so I thought I'd keep everyone up to date on the progress...

Radi is a native Mac app that can create HTML5 compatible animations and videos. It's got keyframing, visual effects, a JavaScript editor for seamless Canvas graphics programming... You can also freely mix canvas and video elements on the same timeline (e.g. to annotate a video with canvas-drawn vector graphics).

And yeah, it kind of looks like Flash. I'm not sure if that's a positive or not ;)

The site is: http://radiapp.com
Source code can be turned in the form of wikipedia information, how awesome that would be, reading and understanding bad code or not properly documented or written code is one hard problem in the industry that needs a really good solution. Good luck Steve.
He mentions how broken the typical interview process is, something I hear repeated frequently. I'm curious what you guys think the "ideal" interview process would look like?
Munch On Me (YC S11), a deals site for restaurants, expands to West Los Angeles
Actually, it isn't. Airbnb job isn't to guarantee the sanity of its renters to homeowners. They merely provide the interface for that interaction. I've been burned on ebay deals before (none of this magnitude, of course), but I don't place the responsibility solely on ebay for all of those -- in a few cases it was because I was trading with someone who was in another country, or had a low seller rating, etc. In situations like these, where you are putting your faith in a complete stranger, it is up to you to do your research and protect yourself. Sure, I think that there should be more on airbnb about the risks homeowners are taking on (as in, craigslist style), but to say that recognizing their limited responsibility in this incident would be "villainous" seem overly sentimental to me
It's an interesting point, but I don't see why it would be any different from any of the usual insurances (car, house, etc). A market based on life insurance policies which then incentivizes assassinations is a chilling thought, and strikes me as analogous to your scenario, but I don't think such a thing happens, right?
People having been saying "feature X is the biggest limitation of HTML5 over Flash, but it's coming so Flash days are counted" for years now. Don't expect it to change any time sooner.
The news and the hotel lobbies are going to be all over this. VCs are probably tapping their fingers on the table.

Like others said already, If I were Brian, I'd have lunch with EJ, like, today. Whatever solution they find financially, Brian can't let ABnB's cool image turn all corporate and aloof by leaving this one to the lawyers and bean counters.
Here's an algorithm you can use to predict that for all submissions. If the link here has the post's original title, we won't. If it doesn't, we'll replace it with the original title.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2814665
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A film a romantic comedy that is ready to entertain you komedy in this film is very powerful and contemporary for adults and especially co written by Will Gluck director Easy A
I feel claustrophobic just looking at the rendering!
Funny that EVERY BROWSER VENDOR out there is playing the same game.

Funny how, for web developers, "standards" is not about something being actually fucking standard.
[no GVoice equivalent]

Skype :)
That is the current system's default mode of operation. What do you think MPEG LA is?
Meh. Since the 2006 acquisition: Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up, Toy Story 3.
Do you remember how useless search engines were before Google?
Plus some of us Bellevue-ians and Redmondites are lazy :)
Since Google's early days, Google has been my homepage and search engine exclusively. Recently, I challenged myself to use Duck Duck Go for a month.

I have not found a significant reason to go back to Google. Search might be "hard" but my experience with DDG has told me that it is not so hard that it can't be solved by people other than Google.
It's slightly more than a week, which means that if you miss an episode, you can't use Hulu to catch up before the next episode airs. It removes an entire (potentially large) use-case.
I agree with jkuria that paid traffic can help a lot though (and I cannot find the article now) I did read someone who broke down how the various paid traffic items worked for them.

I have been using a blog to draw attention to my site and that has worked okay. HN is a good place to use for trying to get word of mouth and Reddit might be something to try as their sub-reddits (e.g. http://www.reddit.com/r/photography) offer targeted audiences... on the other hand you might be seen as spam.
Hi, I launched BugMuncher 10 days ago, with a total cost of £55 (plus at least £5,000 worth of my time...) and I've already racked up 3k uniques. A lot of that is down to constant plugging on Hacker News and other sites, but also a very large slice is down to a great article in the next web. I'd definitely recommend trying to get some tech blogs to feature your app. A lot of my conversions have been because of that article, I can't thank the next web enough :)

I've always found getting traffic to any website is a daily battle. If I don't push BugMuncher EVERY SINGLE DAY my traffic can drop as low as 50 uniques, where as days I plug it I get around 700.

I hope this post doesn't come across as gloating, I'm shocked and amazed at how well BugMuncher has been received, I just want to show you what's worked for me :)

Best of luck with your app, it looks like it could really be useful.

EDIT: Also, is that a typo, or is your homepage meant to be imdex.html? (with an M)
I was confused, too. From what I gather, this is to allow authors to control fullscreen mode from script.

I don't think you deserved the downvote. The linked article certainly could have afforded to be clearer. After a reread, I'm still not convinced that what they're trying to say is clear without some outside intuition.