skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We all know the Euro is a sinking ship. The idea is now to take the engine of that ship (Germany) and put it into another smaller ship. Replacing the engine by... a new one that is yet to be build.

That will surely safe the Euro ship... I for one, would panic and try to get to the new currency.
You should link to somewhere we can read about and maybe even buy the book.
mmm.. yes that is true. It will be interesting to see which paradigm wins or we might have all of them exist side by side. Apple is betting on separation of mobile and full size computers. Windows and Ubuntu are betting on the same OS on all screens.
I'm by no means an expert on trade dress, but look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress , especially the law itself (which is pretty straightforward) and the section on distinctiveness. The key point is that to win a trade dress suit, you must prove that consumers are actually confused about who made the product.

Now look at me. Now look at the clambook pictures. See how it prominently says "clambook" when it's open, and prominently shows the clambook logo on the back? I suspect that it would be hard to find a meaningful group of people who would answer the question "who made this" with "Apple." If you know enough to associate that design with Apple, you know it's not going to have a picture of a mollusk where the Apple logo's supposed to be. No customer confusion == no trade dress problem. (This isn't a hypothetical -- they literally do this kind of survey in trademark cases.)

Incidentally, not all IP law is the same, and trademark/trade dress law in particular is a Good Thing. You don't want to buy a knockoff Apple power charger thinking you're getting the real thing. You don't want to pay French champagne prices for California bubbly, or Coke prices for store-brand soda. The basic question in trademark law is "how often does this product succeed in tricking someone into buying one thing when they meant to buy something else?" Obviously courts will get the answer wrong sometimes, and there might be areas where the line should be drawn a little differently, but for the most part this is an area of IP law you should vehemently support.

I'm on a horse.
As Abraham mentioned, there's a timeout for duplicate detection.

In this case, it's probably worthwhile. I remembered the post from a year ago, and it's much more polished a year later, and is likely to get a better reception.
C needn't be the only credible option in its domain forever.

There is another axis of 'badness', other than suitability for the problem domain. C's main problem is features that look fine but might subtly invoke wrong behaviour - the infamous traps and pitfalls.

If you can accept this view, then there /can/ be such a thing as a bad language, and it can be possible for two languages to suit the same domain and one to be better than the other. The domain that C serves well is not going away (though it might shrink, as more suitable tools are used for things like compiler-writing), but a better langauge for the domain could come along in the end.
Here's a one-file, ISC-licensed test framework I wrote for ANSI C: "greatest" (https://github.com/silentbicycle/greatest). It doesn't depend on any dynamic allocation, or anything beyond C89, and compiles with zero warnings under -Wall -pedantic.
Ask German exporters...
Jerusalem doggie DNA database to trace poo offenders
Much of the criticism of Airbnb in this article seems to stem from renters "subletting" their apartments to vacationers. Why does Airbnb allow renters to list their apartments on Airbnb at all? In virtually no case does a renter have a lease that permits Airbnb-style listings; the boilerplate lease that virtually everyone works from requires landlord approval for each subletter.

It seems unconscionable to rent an apartment from a landlord and then use the space to run a hotel. Anybody who's ever rented more than one apartment knows that landlords are picky about tenants, often requiring credit checks as well as references from previous landlords. Renters sign a binding agreement with their landlord stipulating that they're using the space as their private residence. Breaking that agreement for profit is unethical.
> We all know the Euro is a sinking ship

I don't know that.
Interesting concept. I'm not sure it will totally catch on though, I use my smartphone when on the go. I have a PC at home that vastly outperforms any smartphone.
Why is this the top link on HN? There are already numerous courses available that will allow you to learn this stuff for free from very highly ranked universities, including Stanford [1] and CMU [2], among others. This will just teach you similar things while also taking your money and giving you a "certificate".

I guess if you want to enter a new field and you need to have some certifiable expertise, this may be a good option. That being said, if the field you plan on entering really does require some documented education, having this certificate will not even put you in the same playing field as those with actual degrees in the field, not to mention those with advanced degrees.

[1]: https://www.coursera.org/course/ml

[2]: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/10701_sp11/lectures.shtml
Are you saying professionals are not prone to bias or influence?
How early is early days? Your about, faq and privacy links are blank pages.
This kind of lettings are a PITA for the neighbours, with or without AirBnB. I used to live in a city with high level of tourism and the apartment next door was rented in a short term fashion. Sometimes the people was nice, others they were noisy, there's nothing AirBnB or the owner can really do apart from removing the people form the property if they are breaking the law or community rules.

Taxes and laws are a totally different beast here.
Another +1 for wanting to see comparisons and an analysis.
Are Agile plans Better because they are Feature-Based?
Or more likely because there's an apple event today...
I'm really glad to see that C can get in the spotlight even on HN.
I don't think there is any immediate prospect of war. However, I can't help recalling the start of Nial Ferguson's "The War of the World":

"The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people."

I'm sure everyone then thought that a war in Europe was impossible - even for no other reason than how closely related all of the relevant Royal Families were. And yet we all know how that turned out.
If you think Spain's problem is normal people evading taxes, you are wrong.

Every middle-class worker is paying taxes, and social security. The only ones not paying anything are low-class (who cares?), high-class, and extra-high-class.

I am not that much into this EEUU movement of "tax the riches" but the sector of people evading taxes are right there.

It's sad to read things like this, saying Spanish, Portuguese , Greek and Italian people enjoy evading taxes.

Now, tell me more about MY country.
Wouldn't it be simple enough to write an app for your phone that would check if it was connected to your "home" wifi and then upload incoming sms messages to your desktop/laptop.

The phone app could wait for you to type a reply on your PC which is then sent back to the phone and then the phone would send it.

I'd be amazed if something like this does not exist.
Not just this... Facebook's BASE privacy settings for basic sharing on wall posts/timeline etc are extremely counter-intuitive.

My girlfriend recently discovered that professional contacts here in a foreign country could look her up on F'book from behind their desks and see pictures from her college days during their meeting.

Should she have turned her photos private earlier on? YES

Did Facebook give her any indication they were so open? NO. In fact Facebook changed their settings numerous times and each time left different defaults.

Now she had to go through and make numerous settings changes, and each time she didn't really know how things looked to a non-friend logged into Facebook.

Ultimately I think she had to manually make EVERY album private to friends only.

Seriously if I wasn't so locked into Facebook I would be so out of there. Bastards have really abused our trust.
You have a point, however in regards to render times I was more speaking to films in this budget range. Big studios have custom toolchains, and do everything in-house, rendering included. If you are using non-proprietary 3D software, there are rendering services at your disposal that are often pretty reasonably priced.
I can do this with my current phone with this device:

http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/Motorola-Lapdock-100/73...

The clam case is much sexier.

But, even at $250, I can't find a compelling reason to use my phone in laptop environment. The apps just aren't there.

Also, $250 gets you a fully funtional (and more powerful) Windows/Linux laptop. Spend some more and you get a machine you can write code on and game with.

I wish them all the best, but this is going to tank.
If they're shared tenants in a building owned by a landlord, they need to report the Airbnb to their landlord, followed by a notice-and-cure letter demanding that the landlord end the use of the building for Airbnb rentals. Conversion of an apartment in your building into an ad hoc hotel is a material change for any number of obvious reasons.
At first, I thought the article is about the soccer tournament. :)
Whatchu wanna do God?

Who do You love most?

Ouch.

God says...

offering, which was for himself.

9:9 And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped
his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and
poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar: 9:10 But the fat, and
the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he
burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.

9:11 And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp.

9:12 And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented unto
him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.

9:13 And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces
thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.

----

Zuckerberg!!?? Nooo!!!!!

(God laughed)

God says...
gold, to bear the table.

37:16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes,
and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure
gold.

37:17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he
the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and
his flowers, were of the same: 37:18 And six branches going out of the
sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side
thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side
thereof: 37:19 Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one
branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in
another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches
going out of the candlestick.

----

I donno.

God likes the color of gold, He sorta said one time. You can guess how seriously you should take what I say God says. Mostly, I just repeat sure stuff. Sorta.

Zuckerberg kills all his meat himself.

In my early days, I was more unstable, certainly doing stranger stuff than that. At least he's not a hipstir Zen buddist guy. That seems kinda pathetic. Zuckerberg seems Jewish... at least the same basis as what I believe.

Highs and lows balancing might be true, but God exists!!!

God says...
5:19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert
him; 5:20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the
error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a
multitude of sins.
How do you come by this figure?

They could go for 30% of the number of users that have interacted with another user in the last week. Yes, that number would include some spam activity.
So, US banks have no responsibility for the sub-prime crisis?
I think the key point is that no-one is in a better position to know your business than you are. You'll get lots of conflicting advice which you should listen to carefully. Ultimately you are responsible for the decisions you make.

And for those that are successful- when you are giving advice, remember that everyone's situation is different, and you are just one datapoint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd8BeDiHawQ
That's fair, if we're continuing a monetary analogy (which I did do).

My spare time is worth happiness/distraction to me. Not money. I will confess that in that particular regard, I may differ from some, or perhaps even most, others.
Another exception, mixed Python and C/C++ debugging is apparently possible in gdb these days: http://misspent.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/debugging-cc-and-cp...

I haven't had the opportunity to try it yet, I only heard about it a couple of days after the last time it would have been really really useful (naturally). But I know it's going to come up sometime.
Yes, there are some good options available online. However, the certificate program and data science are more than just machine learning.
The first step in opening up a position for hiring is to define the position you are looking for. Most companies call this a job specification (or spec).

I'm still shocked at the number of employers who don't create one before they start looking for somebody. Especially those who don't think about how the new hire will fit into the existing organisation.

For example, I've seen this pattern multiple times.

a) Lead Developer (let's call 'em Mary) gets massively overloaded. No time to do the numerous things she's asked to do.

2) "We need another Mary" is as far as the job spec goes.

3) They find "Bob" who is, indeed, mostly another Mary. Bob gets pulled off onto NewFunProject, since Mary is waist deep in keeping CoreCompanyProduct running. Pattern repeats.

4) Mary rapidly gets rather annoyed that Bob gets to play with all the fun new projects, and promptly finds herself a nice new job. Walking away with a head's worth of CoreCompanyProduct that never got to Bob.

5) Bob gets massively overloaded. Goto 2.

Hiring is not what you should do to fix a short term problem.
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This makes any imports (energy, goods, materials, services, ...) totally cheap.

Thank you.

BMW has factories world wide. With that exchange rate they would go on a big big shopping tour and buy any market they can.

This would be the big expansion of the German industry.

Do you have other good ideas?
It's a bit more than half the price for a course that is half as long, so as such the pricing seems fair enough. Also it's not just a random certificate, but a certificate issued by a well known University. I'm sure ITB is a fine university, but it's hardly got serious name recognition, so I don't think that an argument can be made that an MSc from ITB will be worth more than a graduate certificate from UW.
Flame and Stuxnet makers 'co-operated' on code
Orange censors all blogs, not just GigaOM
The unfortunate thing for Yelp is that there is a cornucopia of stories of similar things - but often it's because folks say they didn't pay Yelp for further advertising.

I'd never use Yelp for reviews. Either they are glowing when they shouldn't be, or they are rubbish when they should be glowing. Who would want to use a site like that?!?
Well, I didn't exactly single the guy out -- he was presented to me by a major news outlet as poster boy for the problem.
Coding in C is like being presented with a grid of buttons of various shades of blue and green. You know to press a specific colour, but it doesn't always do quite what you expect, and half the buttons segfault.
Italy's GDP is larger than California's and they manufacture a hell of a lot of desirable high tech goods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_between_U.S._states_...
There was a story about Doggie DNA on This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/420/n...
Where do you get the saltwater high above sea-level?
We did in West Germany decades ago.

The answer: the exporters adapt to every exchange rate. What they really prefer is a STABLE exchange rate - high or low. What they prefer even more: no exchange rate. Trade in a large market with a single currency is even easier.
A pro studio will go for the best tool (with cost considered as a factor) not the cheapest tool. It doesn't pay to cheap out on tools, especially if it leads to extra labor costs because of bad workflow, etc.
The $4000 MacBook pro coming to a store near you
Agreed, but it's still so hard to do. This is the biggest obstacle I face.
Weird that AirBnB wasn't asked to comment on this piece; or if they were, that they didn't provide anything significant.
Which is true for local storage as well. If fact, I will argue that data on cloud is more reliable than data on my local machine. I carry it all the time, I don't have back up for a large part of it (I use versioning for code, everything else is painful); I did have some backups on external storage devices but they are more prone to faults and crashes than my internal drives. Carrying such devices around is a major hassle - actively taking backups is an even bigger task!
I just scanned through the free HTML book and this looks definitely a good start for a modern "get started fast" book about C: everything is important about the language seems to be covered. Good work.
I'm not sure that length of coastline is actually the limiting factor.
It's not like a state with a mere 3000km coastline would have difficulty fitting the pipes in
> If the Germans do nothing at this point the Euro collapse will take down their banks as well.

Agreed, but leaving would be a big blow to their export market. Their best interest would be for the PIGS to stick around as weak as possible (to keep the euro devaluated) but still (mostly) solvent.

> The other incentive as I see it is that this could also be argued as a more politically palatable solution for the ruling party since they have been (rather disingenuously) selling the line that only the Germans were responsible in the run up to the crisis and pulling out of the Euro fits rather neatly into that model of the world.

Maybe, but I'm not seeing a strong push to leave from Germany. And let's not forget that there isn't any opt out procedure from the euro: do other countries have a say?

> I think it is clear that the better solution is more political union in Europe instead of trying to drag the current arrangement through the crisis as-is. We have unfortunately seen a real rise of an "I got mine jack" voting all over the western world and this crisis is really not being dealt with precisely because that philosophy is tied to the right-wing parties that have risen to power (and are now maybe starting to fall) in Europe.

I wholeheartedly agree with every single word of this, my fear is that we European aren't really ready to be that united and we'd all rather die leaving than get hurt to save another country in the "union" and as a result the EU will fail the only way it can: spectacularly.
Spam filtering is hard? You are a programmer, imagine trying to find a way to objectively and fairly filter reviews

and

So what is to be done?

From a consumer's point of view, don't use Yelp. Easy.
Many employees don't know how to interview and you should teach them the basics as well as educate them on what you are looking to learn from their interview

If you're in the position of doing interviews for the first time, and don't have anybody around to teach you the basics, I would thoroughly recommend getting a copy of Lou Adler's book "Hire With Your Head". It has some really excellent advice on how to approach interviewing, and the hiring process in general.

There's a brief article on Adler's site that covers accomplishment based interviewing that you can find at http://www.adlerconcepts.com/resources/column/interviewing/u....

Having a focus on accomplishment based questions - drilling down into a candidates' experiences on real projects - is a hugely useful technique. Talking about the work in detail helps you separate candidates that interview well from those with real skills.
all too often, the rules, laws and regulations in place that make the old way of doing business so boring and hard are actually in place for a very good reason.

{{citation needed}}

I can just as easily say that "the rules, laws and regulations in place that make the old way of doing business so boring and hard are actually in place because of corruption, greed, nepotism, and/or incompetence and are universally immoral, unjust and should be ignored".

And on a semi-related note... did anybody else notice how the phrase "scarce rental housing" kept cropping up in that article? Hmmm... so if there is actually demand for more long-term rental housing, and that demand is not being met, I'd bet money that the primary reason is drumroll please government interference. And I'd be strongly tempted to suspect that said interference has it's root in more corrupted relationships involving the local government and powerful special interests.
@lispm: imports would be cheap, and German labor would be very expensive. Germany (like most of Europe) imports raw materials, adds value with labor, and exports finished goods. BMW could not export made in Germany cars with a profit anymore; this could still be good for BMW (just like Apple, they could build everything in China), but it would be bad for the Germans.
Of course I'm being serious. Don't run serious applications from the shared MySQL databases at shared hosting providers. You seem shocked that I'm saying this, but we work with a lot of very young startups and I have never met one running their app off a Dreamhost-style shared server.

Tens or hundreds of millions of database servers? That's hyperbolic.

Do you really think that we've come close to eliminating all the vulnerabilities inside a MySQL session, post-authentication? Because what you're arguing is effectively that application owners should trust that MySQL is resilient against attackers who can get an authenticated handle to their own database and run nearly arbitrary SQL statements against it. You think all the code in the MySQL query parser, the planner, and the various storage backends have been fully audited? This is a project that didn't even get authentication right.
I had long since concluded that the Free Software Foundation’s moralistic rhetoric was serving us badly.

Which "us" is this exactly? ESR presumes too much.
I have no love for ESR, but of course it doesn't. It's about the reaction of RMS to ESR's essay in which he addresses that particular point.
Avengers made money so piracy is OK in this case? Why don't you want to pay for the movie? Is the price too high? You don't like theaters? Piracy is not a good solution to this problem. Movies cost money to make and a lot of it, production through distribution. Yeah some make a lot money back but many don't make any. Working with movies I know that when you put little money into a project your chances of getting something good out of it are slim.

It's clear there is a problem with the business model and someone needs to start coming up with a better solution, other than piracy. The solution needs one goal ... to make money for those that create the movies.
Yes, and I recall perfectly well what the German industry said whenever the Italian currency (lira) was devalued. They weren't happy.
The look & design is great. I'd love it if you'd let me filter on rotten tomatoes ratings, discover movies in certain genres, especially more underground / art house type movies. Most of TOP50 is just cheap hollywood action movies that don't appeal very much.