skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Houses can be rented and apartments can be owned. Think of all the different local laws that might apply to someone that owns a condo, rents an apartment, owns a house, owns a townhome or rents any of these. Hell, even a HOA might have something to say about it. Then again you might rent from a person who doesn't care if you sub-rent out.

Having AirBNB try to determine if every single renter/homeowner has the rights would be a nightmare.
Congressman Issa Launches Direct Democracy Technology Lab, Seeks Developers
I'm really not sure what you're hoping to have me concede here. If you operate the kind of application that people on HN tend to operate, you should avoid shared hosting. I work with and enjoy talking to people who are serious about running applications, and I provide advice to people who are at least somewhat serious about security.

If you don't fit either of those molds, I don't think any less of you, but I'm not going to tailor my advice to you either.

It really sounds like you're just looking for something to be indignant about. I don't know you or anything about you, so I had no expectation that you were that kind of person. Consider addressing your objections to the thread, instead of aiming them at me, if you'd like to avoid that appearance. For truly, I do not care whether you like shared hosting or your friends are struggling indie shared hosting operators. That's not relevant to me even a little.

A less personal way to frame your objection, rather than "Are you commenting just so you can be downvoted to oblivion", would be to write a comment that starts with the words "There is another side to this that readers should consider..." and go from there.
Ask HN: What's the best place to find freelance Copywriters?
Is there a certain online site/ platform where I could find a good copywriter to write and review some website copy & documentation?

Thank you.
it's tipically meaningless to conflate "countries of southern europe" together because they have basically zero in common economy-wise.

But, hey, who wants to get in the way of some good ole' rethoric?
Price. I bought a Nokia Lumia 710 just to try it - it was 205 Euro. For that I get a phone that feels fast and runs the now-current version of Windows Phone. In the UK you can buy a Lumia 710 with a prepaid SIM for 99 pounds. At the same price level I get a Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 with Android 2.3 (an operating system from 2010).

tl;dr, Thanks to good software engineering and lower specs, you get a phone that is completely up-to-date software wise at a great price point.

http://www.intomobile.com/2012/06/04/uk-nokia-lumia-710-now-...
Guys the Euro is not the problem. Under the (real not brandon woods BS) Goldstandard countrys had the same currency for a long time and it worked quite well. ECB buying tons of debt and exepting bad papers as colatoral shoud of course be stoped.

These countrys should default (get ride of the debt), balance the buget (you cant live of other people forever). Iceland has done that (the stumbeld into it).

If your smart you are going to put in place a new constitution and a new democratic system too.
WWDC live blog from Engadget
Why should I invest in SEO, what ROI can I expect?
This is pretty neat, I wonder if it has to be human trained or if there's some sort of computer vision algorithm determining pointing.
ReadTweets - Displays only readable content from Tweeted links/articles
How a Single Company Gained a Stranglehold over Online Shopping
Bouygues launches free Wi-Fi to challenge Free Mobile
Node 0.7.10 (0.8 coming next week)
Having had this happen once, my only advice is to find hosts on AirBnB that own their properties. I know, not the majority for SF city, but there are quite a few home owners who are in control of their property and thus not under a tenant agreement. They might later have to pay the piper with regards to the city, but that's a much harder bone to pick.

If you want references for property owners in San Fran or near by who have their properties listed on AirBnB, drop me a line.
markokocic: when you say that some countries "spent more than they have," what do you mean?

I ask because, with the exception of Greece, the governments of countries in the Euro zone's periphery were not profligate prior to the crisis. That's right, their governments were not profligate. Look at the data, not at the propaganda.[1]

The private sectors of those countries, however, borrowed aggressively from the likes of German banks to finance unsustainable consumption and housing bubbles. And German bankers aggressively financed those bubbles.

[1] Read this, for instance: http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-myth-...
RecoVend Launches Marketplace for Postsecondary Schools and Vendors
What? I didn't say that, at all. I'm just saying there are a ton of cases where landlords don't require leases to be signed. Credit checks and references are less common than leases. I live in Chicago and in a big city like this one, there are many, many different renting situations (not just "Kleenex" ones) and not all of them contractually come in conflict with a renter having someone pay to live in part of an apartment.
Amazon, Jeep, Apple All Guilty of Blatant False Advertising
Right - and add German exporters who don't want to double the Country's exchange rate.
US argues it shouldn’t have to give Megaupload user his legit files
Seems like they are hiding part of the cost in shipping. They are even charging $30 to deliver to Asia.
Shenzhou-9: China planning manned spacecraft launch this month
Disruption happens when someone demonstrates that the existing system is flawed by creating a better system. It will cost what it costs. You sound like a traditional publisher complaining that they can't charge $20 for schlock and abuse authors anymore.
The Wrapper Object | JavaScript
I agree, and don't apply to places with taleo's application front end. I'd rather deal with a headhunter than put myself through that application, because at least with a headhunter I have the option of human communication.
Deconstructing K&R C
For close to that, you could easily get an ICS device from dealextreme.

For a $100 with no shipping cost you can get something with an A9.

http://dx.com/p/google-android-4-0-hdmi-tv-box-w-4gb-wifi-rj...
How I won a 15$ coupon from Airbnb by hating their icon.
Klout Is Not A Measure Of Social Influence - But It's A Nice Game
Weird no one mentions insurance. That's the biggest issue of all I would think. Landlords have insurance for legitimate tenants.
Thumbnail extraction on App Engine
I understand that there's some ambiguity to the term, but for most people in the US, the word for an apartment that is owned by occupants who do not own the rest of the building is "condominium". Also, you should note that most condominiums have even stricter rules for usage of the building; these are legally binding agreements that attach to the mortgage of the condo.

It is very, very easy for Airbnb to attempt to determine whether a lister owns their property. Obviously, they aren't foolproof. But for starters they could just have a checkbox, and a big red warning if you check it.
EmptyInbox for Gmail: An iOS App to Help You Hit Inbox Zero
Why premature optimization is a bad idea.
Why I Audit
> There is no disruption in education until there is parity between what Zed is able to make and what these people make.

I don't think Zed has trouble making $100,000 a year.
Which is strange, because the Germans' desire for "closer European integration" was what gave us the second world war in the first place. (Also, the first.)

We could have saved a lot of lives and effort if we'd just gone along with their idea the first time around. Sure, the capital would be in Berlin instead of Brussels, but is that a big problem?
Save Your $100K: MBA Lessons for Hackers
Where to follow today's Apple Keynote
So where should the line be drawn for using DNA analysis to resolve crimes? I mean how serious should crimes be before DNA analysis should be allowed? Murder, I suppose - but why not dog poo?

Living in the German city with the highest density of dogs in the country, I find dog poo highly annoying. It completely spoils the parks, for example.
Can you couple this with osmosis based energy production for double win?

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/10...
I don't actually see an Image of the device itself on the site.
What you're talking about is rebuilding the status quo in a different form.

Disruption is taking a $100,000/year teacher from teaching 30 students a year to teaching 30,000.
Asperger's won't keep college student from seeking local council office
Not for me. Better run a virus scan.
"...some countries irresponsibly spent more money than they had, and are now in debt?"

German (and French) banks provided loans which inflated bubbles in the periphery. The profligate countries had to borrow from someone. This is largely absent from the discussion of the bailouts. No bubbles, no painful contractions. So the "core" isn't entirely blameless.

It's a little unfair to lump Ireland and Spain into the "PIIGS" group. Both countries are being blamed as if they ran up huge public expenditure deficits during the good times, when most of the problems lie with their banks going mad with construction loans.

In Ireland for example, our debt to GDP ratio would be something like 80% (high without being utterly unsustainable) without the bank bailouts, and it's 120% (unsustainable) including the bank bailouts. It's not like the ordinary people see any of the bailout funds either, just our banks. We do get austerity though.

At least the Spainish had more sense than to lump the bank bailout debt in with their sovereign debt:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0611/break...
I know that we've already had a link to this book on the front page, but I think that the subject matter of this chapter warrants a separate discussion on HN.
That's probably just a supply and demand issue. Those sorts of profits will attract other folks to let out space and bring prices back into line (assuming of course they can sort out all of the issues above)
The Perfect Client Brief: Mick Jagger's Letter to Andy Warhol
That's funny. It reminds me of the Nokia N8, which was the highest spec'ed phone of 2010. It had an anodised aluminium monocoque case, a Carl Zeiss optic camera with 12.1 mega pixel resolution and Gorilla Glass (believe me, it's indestructible) AMOLED touchscreen. On top of this, it used a 680 MHz ARM11 processor with 256MB of RAM, with 16GB of internal memory.

Despite all of this, it's the worst phone I've ever used. The software was so dire that at one point, phone calls couldn't be made - even where other, older, Nokias could. I actually had to download Ovi, their app store. It wasn't preinstalled! It constantly froze, the touchscreen interface sucks, it's unresponsive even when it does work...

Nokia cannot do smart phone software properly. Here's hoping that Microsoft can do better, but I can assure you that if they do not, Nokia phones won't mean a damn to mostly anyone.
Out of curiosity, would it not have been cheaper to stay in New Jersey and take the NJ Transit or Path? If you could, then your options for low-cost AirBnB or short-term sublet are much expanded.

I know, it's not the same as living in the city, and perhaps you wanted that experience as well. But not sure if the Chinatown Studio gave you the experience you were looking for.
The thing is. right now I am looking at a 1BR appartment completely modern building, rooftop, open kitchen the works for 3600USD.

There are many places on AirBnB that have simply pumped up the prices to make a living and since there is not negative feedback mechanism everyone just charges more and more.

Craigslist yeah i tried that, i enden up with mostly scams and bait and switch guys.
Of all of the inventions that I would say are merely useless pursuits of materialism, air conditioners aren't one.
Show HN: Monday Calendar - Handle todos, meetings and events side by side
Finland not in the EU? Which EU are you talking about?
Twitter announces new office
If that were really true, why would the Germans have gone along with it? The Germans aren't idiots, and as the biggest player they wouldn't have joined the Euro unless they thought it was in their own interests.
Ask HN: Chairs for programmers
What office/work chair do you use? A Leap? An Aeron? A Freedom?

Are you tall? Have you found one to fit you? My hip-knee (femur) measurement is 22", but almost all chair-makers stick with the standard 19". Have any tall programmers out there found anything with a longer seat depth?

I've tried a lot of chairs over the years, with the main exception of the Aeron, and am still looking for the perfect one. Any ideas out there?
Apple’s WWDC Keynote Predictions
I live in Chicago and rented in Chicago for many years and I never saw a lease that hadn't been drafted by a lawyer. Most leases are boilerplate --- let alone rentals without leases. If you're renting an apartment without a lease, something shady is going on.

But look, in the meantime, can we just implicitly narrow the conversation down to the normal case of "renters with actual leases"? This is a stupid tangent. Obviously there are landlords who don't give a shit if people in their buildings convert apartments to hotels, just as there are buildings where the other tenants don't care either.
Apple is pretty close. They have their own hardware, OS, kernel and even retail stores. They piggyback on a lot of OSS, but when your developers are all using your hardware with your IDE to make software for your closed platform, it's pretty vertically integrated.
I am here on an O Visa so I am here to work. I wanted to stay close to the office in the beginning until I found a proper place.

Hopefully I found that yesterday :)

Will have to get approved (again an issue when you don't have credit history as the US works opposite of Denmark in that regard)
I think the most dangerous part of C is that many people assume C is perfectly efficient. It's as if C was the "100%" of performance and other languages are converging towards it as they get better.

But I don't see how this is true. Pointer aliasing is the biggest example probably:

http://www.futurechips.org/tips-for-power-coders/how-to-tric...

And then there is the huge abstraction penalty for things like `qsort()` where C++ is actually way ahead of C.
Startup Act 2.0 is a Joke
You don't understand the Germany economy.

Most of Germany's trading partners are within the Eurozone. If Germany left the euro, then their currency would skyrocket relative to the rest of the Eurozone, making their exports much more expensive, and it would absolutely devastate the German economy.

Germany needs the Euro as much as the Euro needs them.

The entire situation is a disaster, because the only solution really is for Germany to support the rest of the EU through the issuance of Eurobonds. This will never happen. So the entire Eurozone is locked in this death grip.
You have 500 friends? I have 4 friends. Are we talking about different things? I think you mean 500 "contacts".
My sentiments are the same. Gyrations are bad, but slow relative appreciation or depreciation isn't all doom and gloom.
These guys every year have the best and fastest coverage with TONS of pictures just after they’re taken, for good reason. With WWDC keynotes you want to be able to "see" new products! However they do it, they usually don’t get overwhelmed by excessive traffic either.

This is the site to be on if you’re anxious to follow the news as it happens.
Yes, but it was meant to prevent double taxation, so unfortunately it's not as simple as just revoking it.
Laughing is a sign of nervousness, not being a bimbo in order to look cute. She probably felt out of her league despite her ability to grasp the material.
Tony Fadell on Design, Curiosity, and Developing the iPod
In terms of lesson #7, how do you go about determining probabilities for different legal outcomes?
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3448573

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3048672

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3648907
Are today's "data scientists" really just software devs who have specialized in digging around in data and using various data mining algorithms with only a superficial understanding of their inner workings?

Ideally, no. We're witnessing an overuse of the name "data scientist" (which has its own problems, but that's another story). There's a non-trivial difference between a data scientist who understands the theory used for the EM algorithm or belief propagation, and a "data scientist" who is performing large-scale data analysis using various data mining tools.

Unfortunately, they're both getting lumped together. To become one of the former, you need graduate-level maths, CS, and statistics, while this certificate caters to the latter.
> Most countries, including Spain ran surpluses.

Why did the spending expand (or the tax go down)? I dont think there is one clear answer to this quiestion but it does not matter. Eitherway the government shuld have reacted and cut spending (or collecting more taxes).

> Germans should be mad at their bankers who financed the whole bubble and now demand to be bailed out with their money.

The EU made that difficult to default (imposible? we will se) and the EU created the insentiv to lend so much money to these countrys (bail out garantee).

Additionally the ECB broke there rules of not exepting junk as collateral. The just keeped exepting greek bonds.

The ECB made the hole thing worst (kicking the can down the road) and now it backfires.

Just blaming out the banks is simplistic, the just reacted to instentiv like anybody else.

> Germany being mad at Spain for bank bailouts is like New York mad at Florida for the same. We are all in this together.

Sorry that is not the case.
And why wouldn't you have to bring that hardware with you now, or with the cloud? What happens when you have no connectivity?

The cloud solution doesn't reduce the hardware requirement. This isn't even necessarily about reducing the hardware requirement.

If you need to run your own PC you now need the bandwidth, an additional PC sitting in your home, know how, etc...

The phone solution isn't increasing what you'd need to bring, it will situationally decrease the requirement, though, but that's not even the point. You don't necessarily need a bluetooth headset. Use headphones, speaker, or something. A simple microphone and headphone requirement isn't going to break the concept, it's really beside the point. Set up is a non issue, plug and play. Slide the damn thing into a dock built into the device.

The point is all your data in current state comes with you, apps and all. You can go to public terminals and it's all instantly there, you have the mobile experience, it's all familiar, it's always with you. I think cloud storage is complimentary here, not an alternative solution.

This can, however, situationally reduce your hardware requirement when traveling if your destination is outfitted with dummy terminals, and you get the benefit of local storage, which I'm not convinced cloud will be able to 100% replace for quite some time, if ever.

Don't forget you won't require internet access or any other limiting conditions, which may be the strongest advantage.

Our smartphones aren't going anywhere, they're more accessible than the cloud and they're increasingly attached to our side. I just don't see the cloud as an alternative, it's all about the use case here.

I'd rather have one device.
Death to The Lunch Economy
I find it funny ESR thinks he or 'Open Source' have made much progress; I would have thought the existence of patent trolls - things fanatics like RMS have been warning about for literally decades and been mocked as fanatics for just as long - would force even the most obtuse to acknowledge their foresight. Guess not.
> Just note a pattern. There are some countries that were spending more than they have, and those countries are in big problems.

Italy has had a massive government debt for the last 30 years, and has not changed much. And very little private debt.
Spain has had a lot of private debt only lately, but a very low public debt.
Greece _cooked the books_.
Netherlands have one of the highest mortgage debt in the world and a resounding AAA rating.

What's the pattern here?

Oversimplification and overgeneralization is always wrong for everyone.
The Peer-to-Peer Universe
May I know which books/courses/blogs you used to learn machine learning? I'm learning it myself and I have just finished reading "Programming Collective Intelligence".
One term for the applications you're thinking about is "certified pre-owned". Michel Zalewski just made a handy logo for those people to slap on the bottom of their front page:

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2012/06/this-page-is-now-certifi...
I was wondering how this compares with or compliments K&R, when I came across [this section][1] of the book that seems to slap it in the face. Here's a section from the second paragraph:

You see, "K&R C" is actually riddled with bugs and bad style. Its age is no excuse. These were bugs when they wrote the first printing, and the 42nd printing. I hadn't actually realized just how bad most of the code was in this book and recommended it to many people. After reading through it for just an hour I decided that it needs to be taken down from its pedestal and relegated to history rather than vaunted as state of the art.

This seems a bit hyperbolic to me... I just read K&R several years ago during school (could definitely use a re-read) but remember absolutely loving it for the combination of brevity and density of information conveyed. I'm not much of a C programmer though so I don't really know. Could a modern C programmer respond / elaborate?

[1]: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/learn-c-the-hard-waych...
Lisp in Small Parts
Perhaps there's a misunderstanding in the term "turnaround". I meant it in this sense t = x + y + z.
where t = total time, x = send time , y = processing time, z = send back to user time. If you can decrease y, you decrease "t". Responsiveness is important to users. With the advent of large and extremely fast memory cache, small program size will dramatically increase program execution speed by have small code and small data already in cache. Smaller program executable will enable many more instances on a real physical node. Size matters. Speed matters.
The counterpoint is movies as culture and socially relevant information. Why is it right to deny people access to information acquired and redistributed by their peers? Why should an organization be able to control the flow of information on the Internet to suit their business model? At what point do you draw the line and say "that's too much of our information you're sharing"? Is it when someone describes a plot? Is it when they share what they're looking at with their friend (photo or video)? Is it when that friend shares the stream with a hundred million friends on BitTorrent?

The Internet is a link between all of us, so that your experience can be my experience. It's naive to think you can segregate people into those with and without access to your precious information. Thanks to the Internet, we are all one entity. You can't hide information from yourself.
You can actually become a data scientist in 9 seconds because the term has no meaning.
“If you are a user and you are writing reviews and it’s getting filtered out — keep writing reviews,” a Yelp customer service person told Desloges

That's a stupid prescription. Any sensible user will do exactly what you did.

Your review is free content for their service. If they don't appreciate it screw them.

My sense of Yelp is that they are in a pickle for revenue. They are public, so the pressure is great.
Quoting the author, zedshaw, in one of those links from mapleoin: "Just for the record, I am as sick of this part of the book showing up on HN as everyone else. I do not post it here, other people do, and I apologize in advance for it showing up here all the time half-finished."