skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm spitballing here so I could be wrong, but assuming a few things, one this is all being done by a single person (or the airbinb side and app side are being done by a single member LLC) if you took all the airbnb income and plugged it back into outgoing app dev costs shouldn't these two streams offset for tax purposes (ie 10k in from airbnb - 10k out for dev = 0 taxes)?

You'd then just be paying taxes on the income for the app sales.
At Research In Motion, a new CEO vows to silence the doomsayers
The author suggests waking up at 05:30. Going to bed at 7pm implies you require 10 hours sleep/night (allowing 30mins to fall asleep) which is way off at one end of the bell curve. For many people, who require 7-8 hours/night, you should be able to go to bed between 9-10pm. Realistically, what do most people do between 9pm and their normal "going to bed" time on most nights? Something productive? Or watch TV?
Great write up & many phrases that sound very very familiar :)
All these are minified versions. I believe these were kept in place with different version number attached to be able to quickly switch between, not for version control reasons.
Microsoft quietly kills off the desktop PC
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul refuses TSA pat-down, turned away from airport
Yes, but in terms of governance inside EU institutions this doesn't matter as much. If we had a situation were Germany was doing very well, but everyone else wanted to tweak the currency in a different way, it would go in a different way. As it is, thanks to the enlargement, on economic matters Germany can rely on a block of "faithful" countries whose self-interest is perennially aligned.
Ask HN: Does anyone need a freelance PHP coder?
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actually the major versions upgrade problem is fixed in Fedora, there are some "yum upgrade faq" which document how to do it: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum

but I'd still prefer a rolling release like Archlinux does
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The article briefly touches this.

> One of the Obama administration’s main arguments in support of warrantless GPS tracking was the high court’s 1983 decision in United States v. Knotts, in which the justices said it was OK for the government to use beepers known as “bird dogs” to track a suspect’s vehicle without a warrant. In that case, the police had the consent of that truck’s owner, which was not the case in the opinion decided Monday, Scalia wrote.

So they had "the consent of that truck’s owner". I'd like to know what they specifically meant with this though.
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Writing articles claiming x y and z is not 'working on your skills'. He's claiming things that are flat-out nonsensical, and portraying it as if he knows what he's talking about. One doesn't learn about law by writing a lot of articles on it. He could write 20 articles like this every day for 20 years and still be writing nonsense. "Early efforts" are not writing blog posts acting as if you know stuff, it just wastes everybody's time. As is evidenced by the upvotes this is apparently getting - there are probably people believing what he's writing!
Doesn't matter. As always the government is 2 steps ahead. Drones are already being deployed in the US: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/15/9476623-domesti...
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Just because the work can get hard doesn't mean it can't still be enjoyable. For me, the enjoyment of work comes from the results you get out of doing it. There are times when I despise the actual work I'm doing but I enjoy doing it because I'm excited to see the final product.
Focus on the user? There are so many sharing links that I can't focus on the search results!
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Yes, but why did anyone feel entitled that their browser should be bundled with Windows? Or that Microsoft shouldn't be allowed to include their own software within their own software? Seems to me that is a sense of entitlement from non Microsoft companies. Yet, it was monopolistic abuse and wiped out Netscape. That is why we have antitrust/anticompetition laws.

Facebook/Twitter aren't the real losers here though. They will survive. The problem is that Google is pushing their results to their average content on Google+ while tossing thousands of smaller content websites aside. Don't expect that to decrease. It is too easy for them to grow profits by pushing their own content. Whether they start other content companies or buy them, this is their growth.
paulgraham.com is also blocked by Vodafone's filter.

Prepaid (pay-as-you-go in UK terms) users that look over 18 can show up at a Vodafone store and remove the filter.

I did it without giving away my identity by registering online with a fake name and confirming the name at the store. Your mileage might vary.
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The problem some of us have with AGPL is that we do not consider it to even be a free software license, as we think it violates freedom 0 on the FSF's definition of free software.
Every 6 months, Ubuntu grabs the latest packages from Debian unstable. In contrast, it usually takes two years for new versions of software to move from Debian unstable to testing to stable.
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Thanks.... some very interesting reading (sorry if this post is breaking hn ettiquette)
Meh, over 5 years for the same price you could just properly configure your own server. It could also double as web server if you are feeling adventurous. And then just maybe the built in send mail features of various programming languages will work.
The publishing is for peer review. If you write your first PHP script with errors galore and nobody else ever sees it, you might be left thinking what you have done is perfect. Posting it invites people to show you your errors in thinking. By writing about how he interprets the law, he will receive feedback about the errors he has made, and can take steps to correct those errors.

The portrayal of truth goes back to the old joke:

If you ask "how do I do X in Linux?", you will not receive a
response. If you state "Linux sucks, it cannot do X",
you will be flooded with solutions to your problem.

If you make bold statements, people will be keen to correct you. That is how you learn.
And a libertarian would count this as yet another instance where government intervention causes problems.

To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish.
Love the idea. But can you restore the default behavior for the spacebar?
Fake Camera+ App Hits the iPhone App Store
I'm not sure there are many completely objective reasons to choose one or the other. Things like release-cycle style and package layout come to mind. CentOS also has a different toolchain for some system management tasks like run-level management. Keep in mind that for everything you like about Debian, there maybe someone else who dislikes it. For example, some sysadmins would rather the Apache 2 package not create folders like sites-enabled/sites-disabled along with the associated tools.

It comes down to a matter of preference.
I'm not sure this is entirely true. I understand the logic, but it's important to note that theres still a net positive in the more subjective ideas of "greeting the day" and finding yourself in a more calculated, healthy routine. Waking up early in the morning, if surrounded by many who also do the same, also lends itself to being surrounded by a group of typically disciplined, motivated and honest people, where little downside can be seen. All of this is deeply subjective, but I think there's some logic to it.
So a government acts socialist, distorts the market, causes damage, and you think this is an argument for more socialism?

All starting from the unwarranted assumption that telephone access was necessary to farmers and food prices would have risen dramatically.
The supreme court can only rule on issues brought before it, rather then make broad corrections to law. One of the reasons the ACLU case against the Fed over wiretapping was rejected early. (Who are the people being hurt by it, is one of the requirements)
http://www.aclu.org/national-security/federal-appeals-court-...

It's one of the checks placed on their authority.
A statement like that which is not part of the official decision are referred to as "dictum". Lower courts review higher court rulings, including dicta, and over time dicta has a way of becoming law.

Scalia is a kind of a Fourth Amendment hardliner when it comes to _the home_, so I'm actually surprised at this result. Fourth Amendment rights in so far as automobiles go have been eroding for years. Note that the concurring opinion wanted to reframe the issue such that there _was_ a reasonable expectation of privacy when it comes to automobiles (which would be a more expansive reading of Fourth Amendment rights).
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The scan is entirely digital, and uses a generic image (to "protect passengers(sic) privacy") to show an agent the targeted alarm.

In that way, a pat-down is more intrusive, to me.

On another note, I always assumed Senators to be immune to this sort of "questioning".
From the blog post:

>Quietude. No kids yelling, no babies crying, no soccer balls, no cars, no television noise. //

Um, yeah, if you live in the countryside and don't have children or neighbours.

The quietest time is actually about 2am-4am IME. Provided your kids aren't up yet ...

Not that anyone cares but I'm not productive in the mornings, also commuting later is easier too.
I smell some gender issues: the icon for "Couple" is one step away from adding a leash and the icon for "Team" is all men...
YouTube is racking up page views like crazy: 4B per day
I read that part differently. They're asking if the Government is arguing that, since the search produces only public information here, like in Knotts, that would mean that it's automatically constitutional under Knotts; and they conclude that no, that can't override the trespass involved in installation.
Fred Brooks says to plan to throw one away. It won't directly help you keep your final product simple, but if you don't worry about making your first pass beautiful, you can get through it faster and learn all the details about your solution sooner. From there you can simplify. (I'm talking at the level of writing a function or two at a time, then simplifying)

I like to throw together my first try however feels easiest. Special cases, multiple loops, wrong data abstractions, whatever. Once it works, I look at the big picture: where are my data abstractions hurting me? Where can loops be combined? what macro-scale blocks of code could be re-shuffled to be clearer. Then I recursively look at subsections until I've gone as far as removing the superfluous variables and ensured everything is named sensibly. Then I push the commit (not earlier, or it's too likely to be interpreted as 'done')

As far as anti-patterns that lead to unnecessary complexity:

* Is anything un-idiomatic (Python especially)?

* Is the same information stored/handled in more than one place?

* Is any variable being asked to do double-duty?

* Are errors being detected/signaled/handled too early? Too late?

* Can the data be re-organized to provide a more natural problem?

* Are there un-necessary branches? (Where applicable, develop an algorithm that works for all inputs, instead of seperate algorithms for different classes of input)

* Has anything been added because it's "basically free"?
It's a victory, yes, but probably not huge. The majority opinion, written by Scalia, takes the narrowest of views: that placing a GPS device is a "search", and as such, subject to the limitations set out by the 4th Amendment.

In a (concurring) opinion, Justice Sotomayor agrees with that narrow view, but she asks what will happen when the Government doesn't need to place an actual physical device in one's car in order to record where it's going?

And indeed we're probably already there, so this decision is in fact more about the past than about the future.
This may have been a good idea back in the day but the problem with social policies like this is that they are very hard to change. Now that we have few farmers living out in rural areas and food prices are cheap, us city people are in fact subsidizing the living costs of those living in the country.

Its not just phone lines but also streets, post offices, etc. The overall efficiency of city living is much higher but due to policies like this we don't end up getting lower phone bills or pay less for our roads.

I don't believe that telecom companies should be completely unregulated but policies like this are an example of socialist policies that can decrease overall efficiency.
I believe that is unavoidable givenhow things work. Getting something in front of thesupreme court is more difficult than law enforcement moving forward.... so there will akways be a lag between the two.
true. mobile devises are the new PC. With data streaming to the cloud for backup, and LCD/keyboard as omnipresent plugins for desktop work, desktops and laptops will largely disappear in 5 years.
Does anyone know if YT is actually turning a profit for Google yet?
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Rand Paul has on numerous occasions spoken out against the TSA's use of pat downs...
Kozinski's dissent from a similar 9th circuit case (United States v. Juan Pineda-Moreno) is an awesome bit of reading ("Some day, soon, we may wake up and find
we’re living in Oceania."): http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2010/08/12/08... . I'm also glad the supreme court ruled more sanely than the 9th circuit did on this matter.
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This is standard practice for mobile networks in the UK and it should be. As the OP says, it's removable on request. You don't have to give them any details other than prove you are over 18. Turning up in the store is usually good enough.

Without this, if you are in the UK an 8 year old can quite simply just buy a pay as you go mobile phone with cash from a supermarket, top it up using cash and use it to browse porn etc.

With respect to the providers, O2's ADSL/POTS broadband offerings have no censorship in place at all.
At $200 a night, you'd still have to rent your extra room in your teeny tiny apartment 105 days out of the year.
I'm on Mac OS X Lion and Firefox. I lost my cursor after I loaded this page. So now, when Firefox (any firefox window) is active my cursor disappears. It returns when I make some other app active. This sometimes happens on Chrome and Flickr, so I wonder if there is some HTML5 thing that is buggy for FF and Chrome?

Any one else with this issue?
One hour per second - visualisation of video uploaded to YouTube
The people who wrote the petition don't seem to actually have a clear understanding of how treaties like ACTA work. They should read this fantastic summary: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/or8ag/ive_read_the...
One of the downsides with a statement like this (i.e x city is making y$/person) is that once you hit enough of a threshold of people on airbnb, it seems like there's going to be too much noise for anyone to really find a place of any value. Reviews and location/price filtering obviously help with that, but I'm curious as to what other types of filtering algorithms the team is working on.
You might find this interesting:

http://www.dimensional.com/famafrench/2009/11/luck-versus-sk...
Sports aren't a meritocracy. They (generally) aren't equally funded, and often compete on money. They outsizingly reward hits over simple strong performance.
The code has long been lost to the great pastebin in the sky, but my first serious PHP project was an absolute nightmare. I built a disbursement tracking system for a local food bank/church while I was in high-school (~6 years ago).

The system was your basic CRUD application that tracked who the food bank gave money/stamps/assistance too. It also allowed them to generate some fancy reporting.

The code was so. damn. bad. This was before I even knew what an MVC framework was. The "main" control panel page was a single, enormous PHP script that was switch-cased. There was zero data validation, zero security, zero maintainability. It was a nightmare in retrospect.

To be fair, I did it for free and the church loved it, so oh well :)
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In France in the 60s the police used to have fill-in-the-blanks search warrants: pre-signed and pre-approved, with the name of the searchee conveniently left blank, so officers could type in whatever they wanted whenever they needed.

I say "in France" and "in the 60s" because it's been proven to happen there and then, but it's probably still common in many parts of the world...
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The ruling does not cover cell phone data or GPS devices that deliver data
to a third party.

Cell phone records are not the papers or effects of the person being
investigated, they belong to the cell phone company. The Supreme Court
"consistently has held that a person has no legitimate expectation of
privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties."(442
US 735,743-744)[1] That
quote is from the Court's ruling in a case that was specifically about
police getting a record of telephone calls that a suspect made,
Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735 (1979)[2].

Congress laid out rules for police obtaining such records in the Electronic
Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986[3]. The ECPA doesn't specifically
mention cell phone location information (since this was 1986), but it does
include "name; address; local and long distance telephone connection
records, or records of session times and durations; length of service
(including start date) and types of service utilized; telephone or
instrument number or other subscriber number or identity, including any
temporarily assigned network address; and means and source of payment for
such service (including any credit card or bank account number)."

A court order may be issued under section 2703(d) of the ECPA[4] "only if
the governmental entity offers specific and articulable facts showing that
there are reasonable grounds to believe that … the records or other
information sought, are relevant and material to an ongoing criminal
investigation."

This is a lower standard than for a search warrant. A warrant
requires "probable cause", that is "information sufficient to warrant a
prudent person's belief that … evidence of a crime or contraband would
be found in a search".

[1] http://supreme.justia.com/us/442/735/case.html#743

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Maryland

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Priva...

[4] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title18/html/USCODE...
Presumably they only need to guess the flags you used then. There is really not all that much entropy there.

And I suspect doing so is fairly uncommon in production environments anyway.
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The maintenance of those (very long) lines is not free. However, if these local companies can do this, they are obviously receiving more than they need for that.

In any event, do cell phones make this whole model pointless (or are there similar ways to encourage building towers in the middle of nowhere)?
I find that both when writing code and when writing papers I usually just try to get my ideas typed out first. Then I start over (often from scratch) and refine the ideas. I keep doing this, but re-using more and more of the ideas until I come to my final solution.
"I'm just not waiting 6 months for a movie for no obvious reason when the torrent is a mouse-click away."

You could also try really hard and find better things to do with your time. It's just a movie, not dialysis. You won't die if you don't see it RIGHT NOW.
I guess those falling under #Win are too busy growing/spending (the later applies to exits :)) and those under #Fail are too disappointed/dejected to post here.

If you don't mind something that has neither Won nor Failed yet, here goes:

http://GetLocalNe.ws (my self-funded startup).

Launched about 10 months ago. Have been at it since then (using a goodish number of people I employ), pumping in cash/time/effort etc.

Still working largely on back-end, but it seems to be gaining at least a small (and growing) user base slowly. Started averaging 5k unique visitors/day since the beginning of this year/month.

Will keep at it through 2012. :)
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Unix permissions demystified. How 755 got to equal rwxr-xr-x
Some organizations get upset if they detect someone on their network trying to use bittorrent.
Good article.

In many ways, I think the author is echoing the same frustrations as with Google App Engine's Datastore ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3431132 App Engine charges $6,500 to update a ListProperty on 14.1 million entities ). Both Google Datastore and the new AWS DynamoDB are great, fast services, but they are a bit too expensive at the medium/high end.

Frankly, I wish App Engine/AWS/Heroku/etc would introduce a database that traded speed for cheaper costs. I'd be fine with certain writes being delayed if it meant lower costs.
A lot of creativity comes from the most unexpected of sources. When you are not thinking about a problem or thinking about something unrelated, some neuron fires and makes connections with some subconscious notion of your original problem. Looking at things from new and unexpected angles also seems to trigger creative neurosis. You just have to turn off that filter and start to look at things where you normally would not.
Some packages are more stable or up to date on CentOS than on debian, java, virtd and xen comes to mind. When I used the packages on Debian I needed to do some tweaking whereas on CentOS these things worked out of the box.

I got this idea that in general Debian is easier to manage but for all the 'Enterprizy' stuff CentOS has the edge.
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Fun question, putting aside the tax implications (which people have already discussed): how legal is this when you're already renting the property?

Everyone I know in NYC rents their apartment. Is it actually legal for you to sublet out your room in short term bookings?
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Oh good lord.

Yeah, not having access to free entertaiment == holocaust.

Get over yourself. People need to do some introspection and figure out how they became so pathetically dependent on being entertained.
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"fake banking". The trip to urban dictionary for "fake baking" didn't turn up anything plausible.