skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook hawks the email address you never knew you had on your Timeline
They were trying to end of life IE6 in Greece.
This doesn't work in real life. Your scenario would apply just as well to not serving "blacks" and "coloreds". Well if they don't like it, they can complain to management and it will get fixed when they feel like it.
But aren't people like you the reason why we still have to support IE6 and 7? I think depending on your customer base, you have to support it, but I'd bet that a lot of Airbnb's users aren't using an IE6 or 7.
The wall is that we first have to know what Enlightenment is very correctly to check if something meets the criteria for Enlightenment. The way to verify what something is, lies in the results it makes - just like our example of a fruit tree. Seeds and leaves may look similar across an apple, plum, and cherry, but we know instantly what it is when we see, smell, and taste the fruit.

I've reported Master Tathagata's definition that Enlightenment is 'the opening of one's eyes to the world'. He's also said that Supreme Enlightenment (that of a Tathagata) is opening eyes to reality completely. So the first thing is - ask them any questions in reality - if they are unable to give the answer that can be verified in the reality (if they cannot realize what is in reality) then they have not completed their Enlightenment.

A second thing I'll leave with you is like this. A bodhisattva cannot have attained Enlightenment completely - because if s/he had, then the one would be a Buddha.Yet it seems that a Buddha only comes to the world once every 3,000 years or so.
The term of Bodhisattva means "gods who have good power and are seeking for the truth". (Sorry cannot cite as it was in yet-untranscribed audio from Tathagata) They protect Buddha, but could not remove their karma totally yet, so they are still seekers. However, sometimes some Bodhisattvas who have a power to stop their karma can get into the same dimension that the Buddhas reside in (paradise). So the second thing to check is whether they claim they are Enlightened. It's a red flag to me.

The third thing is that an Enlightened Being never lies. Instead, they bet their life every day in order to inform people of the truth - this is the proof of their love for mankind, and it is the greatest teaching. So your continuous verification of what people say (imho, according to the facts in the world) is essential whether or not the person actually has evidence that they know truth, or is telling a lie.

Hope this helps
At UVA it's against the rules to call anyone doctor who isn't an MD.

1. Academics actually have a better historical- and linguistic claim to the title "doctor" than do physicians and surgeons.

From Wikipedia: "Doctor, as a title, originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb docēre [dɔˈkeːrɛ] 'to teach'. It has been used as an honored academic title for over a millennium in Europe, where it dates back to the rise of the first universities." [1]

2. In the UK, surgeons are called "Mister" for historical reasons, as explained by a FAQ of the Royal College of Surgeons. [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(title)

[2] http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/patient_information/faqs/surgeons.ht...
They're standard because of ADA.
This makes me think that their "supply side" is fully stocked and that they really just need people to book nights on existing inventory. Kind of seems like they are neglecting the supply side and focusing on the demand right now, by putting the "list your space" all the way in the top right with a small box.
The reason for the injunction is that the judge agree that the patent is valid (prior art examples are invalid).
The Google Nexus Tablet: The Must-Have Features
Evading Ticketmaster, Louis C.K. sells tour himself online
The term for this is super-empowerment (also known as Fifth-Generation Warfare).

Everyone should check out John Robb's blog, it covers this kind of thing: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/02...

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/05...

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2007/01...

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/03...
There are only 3 types of permission levels in the twitter api: read, write and write with DM access.
Those displayed there are the details of the write access.
Less than that. Tumblr has it's own followers/following/social network. This does nothing more than "attach" a blog post to a tweet. apitaru put it quite well elsewhere in the comments.
Someone turned off the firewall!
I don't get it.

Apple is not Best Buy, so comparing the per-retail-employee profit is completely broken. Apple staffs engineers, manufacturers, designers etc etc etc AND they also have retail stores. They are doing a lot more than just staffing some shops.

They also do a large amount of sales online, they also make sales in places like Best Buy or university computer stores and independents. So I imagine that would have to be removed from the equation if you wanted to compare them to a retailer.

They also design and sell software as well as get a cut of stuff from the app store, iTunes Music, Books, movie rentals and a whole lot of other things. So can we remove that from the tally too?

So really trying to compare them to a vanilla retailer is a big mistake. Also like many have said

Besides, if they pay above market, they pay above market. I don't see how they should be paying six figures for what is an entry level job.
Don't get me wrong. I love photography on web pages, but the page itself is similar to so many modern web pages. It's full of JS, it crawls on modern machines and just doesn't look nice enough to justify the size of the page. The page barely works with JS off, so I'd hate to imagine how a user with a screen reader would use it.

As for IE7 users, you may be right, but it is my experience that sites that are the size of airbnb can happily spend £10,000 to make your site work in older browsers, because they'll get that amount back from new customers very quickly.

Whether you like to develop for legacy browsers or not is irrelevant. It's poor practice not to.
It's finally here... The Revolutionary New Cloud9 IDE
> More conservative distributions tread very carefully.

Well, yes, that's what conservative means. You're using stable distros, with older versions of Python, and it sounds from your original post like you're not interested in using newer versions right now. So... what's the problem exactly?
Ramps and stalls are standard on any construction nowadays,

But that wasn't always true. It took legislation and experimentation and a lot of work to change architects' habits. It's second nature now only because we (as a society) forced them to do it all the time.
App loyalty: Android vs iOS
We moved from a single dedicated server to a colo 5 years ago and we've never looked back. It's saved us a lot of money. We started with 2 lonely servers in 24U and now we've got 9 servers, a couple routers, a couple switches, and some other stuff in there.

Here are my tips for people that are considering a colo. These are really all about working comfortably within a confined space (a half rack or smaller)

* 10U is not that much. Don't buy space that you aren't going to need but compare prices and find out about options for expansion. Space isn't expensive but you might have trouble buying space that isn't bundled with power.

* Keep your wiring organized. Don't say "I'll fix that later".

* This goes hand in hand with the previous: If everything has redundant power, are you going to run out of outlets before you fill your space? Consider installing a metered PDU (or PDUs) before you add any machines

* You probably don't need 2U servers. The 1Us that I currently buy have 2 CPUs, 10 x 2.5" drives (also handy for SSD) and redundant power: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/1027/SYS-1027R-...

Also, like justauser said, get a complete price list. Sucks to grow and find out that you are going to get hosed on cross connects or extra power or something like that.
Google Said to Unveil $199 Tablet at I/O, Taking Aim at IPad
From a cursory scan of the online profiles, I'd say TG is a venue for both out-out and prostitution (search for profiles requesting "generous men only" and you'll see what I mean) whilst at the same time being a place for relatively well-off but friends-with-spare-time-or-money poor people to find travel partners (the stated goal of the site).

I have no idea what the breakdown between those two populations is though!
Portion of Reddit Users “Waging War” on Islam
These accommodations are required legally only by "places of public accommodation". Judges will interpret this as they will, but it is certainly arguable that a website does not necessarily fall into this category.
I run a vacation website in Brazil (Temporadalivre.com) and I wish I had quality pictures like this to use in our homepage.

AirBnb is a monster so they can afford send photographers for free in each of the properties to take these amazing pictures. Even a slum would look nice via these lenses :)

But the reality is that if you rely on your user's pics you will have a really hard time finding quality images to use.
Tell that to Java.
> This is the way this is supposed to work: Netflix designs a service. People who don't enjoy service give feedback to Netflix. Netflix then decides how (and how quickly) to improve their service. If people are happy with this, then everyone wins.

Your argument misses the point of the ADA though, which is that the cost-benefit of accommodating disabled people is never worth it. The best you can hope for are ghettoized solutions for demographics that have sufficient clout for a meager market to emerge. There are some problems which pure capitalism can not solve, but we nevertheless deem worth solving as a society.

That said, video streaming is far too nascent an area to be hamstrung by this type of activist regulation.
Here's the thing: Netflix should have done this years ago, and it's a fucking crime that people are still making inaccessible websites. I'm not visually impaired or hard of hearing, but it irks me when I run into a site that is unusable by people. Especially when you're talking about a wildly popular site like Netflix.

Here's the other thing: the technology, and the data, have existed here for several decades. With the exception of old foreign movies where subtitles are burned in, or where subtitles tracks were never produced, they exist, and it's not an unreasonable thing for Netflix to require subtitle tracks be submitted with new content.

It's not just subtitles, though, there are also audio tracks to consider. Netflix has droves of anime fans as customers that don't use Netflix to watch anime, because about 95% of it is in English and because subtitles aren't available.

Netflix has made a number of really bad decisions around subtitling and audio selection, and frankly, I severely hope they comply with the ruling even as they appeal it.

Fixing these features in Netflix is not only about the ADA. In this instance, it will give them a better product.
I'm getting a little tired of articles making claims about the rate of technological progress (arguing either that it's speeding up or slowing down) that don't set any objective qualifications for where we should measure a given innovation as falling on the timeline.

Every science mentioned in this article has been the product of decades of research. All have some practical applications already in progress. All have more promising applications on the horizon.

But if you provide no measurements or qualifications from which we can judge to which decade they belong, you can simply drop goalposts where-ever you like to make any argument you like.
Considering that a (considerable/significant) section of their target audience could be "on the move" and not have a great internet connection, not sure if the 3.5MB gorgeous looking site is a good idea.
I highly suspect the negativity of this article and the comments attached to it are unwarranted. The ADAs goal here (or at least, its original goal) is not to force Netflix to create captions for things that do not have them, but to maintain accessibility for a certain class of entertainment that is already required to be accessible when it's not on the Internet. This means tv shows and movies, things that already have captions offline -- this sort of entertainment should be required to maintain their accessibility when moved online.

If this sort of law is not put in place now, then the deaf will be increasingly pushed out of access to the entertainment for which they have already had to fight pretty hard.
Not quite the same thing as none of those items really have an undue cost to the facility - ramps (when needed, a lot of those stores are built level to the parking lot/sidewalk) can be used for the disabled as well as store workers/delivery workers moving heavy items on dollies/hand trucks, custom bathroom stalls are basically just larger stalls, and special parking spots are just normal parking spots that with a slightly different paint job. There's not much extra effort that goes into these items.

This move would me more akin to requiring Wal-Mart to attach braille price stickers to every individual item in the store.
It's not incorrect, but it's somewhat telling that such a massive vulnerability that they were fully aware of "has been running for a long time" and rather than fork over $179.95 for the new version of aMember which would have completely fixed the vulnerability, they chose instead to let the vulnerability remain while they embarked on a greenfield project to rewrite their membership system from scratch. This rewrite would take an indeterminate amount of time whereas they could have paid a paltry sum for the upgrade and implemented it in less than 48 hours... as they just did.

I get that it's a prioritization issue. I've worked at places where legacy software had poor security practices and it's often a judgment call as to the risk of just letting it be vs. taking the time to rewrite whatever insecure portion remained. Often the decision is to leave it when it's a one-off project that will be shut down within a month, there is a limited attack surface involved, and the data being stored insecurely is very low value. On the other hand, security issues affecting the very core of a website (the login system that 100% of a company's revenue depends on) should get addressed as soon as the vulnerability is discovered. Additionally, they state that a server was compromised... it's not clear whether this was a SQL injection exploit that happened to display the users table remotely with no privilege escalation, or whether the server was compromised via a poorly chosen SSH password or similar and they may be dealing with a situation where rogue code is still living on one or more servers.
The non-glamorous side of disrupting an industry
My name's Brian. I'm doing a PhD in Sociology at the University of Chicago. Academia is a mess of contradictions. It's a fantastic place with brilliant, quick witted people, and at the same time chock-full of irrationality. Here's an example: academic produce work, give it to publishers for free, and then have it sold back to them at a huge markup. How does this work? Academics do a lot of work for free. They serve as journal editors for free. They peer review knowledge for free. They copyedit and improve collections of articles to publish...for free. These collections of articles are then handed off to huge corporate entities that sell this research back to university libraries for billions. Yep, effing billions. The disgust with the current system has even made it to the popular media: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/science/researchers-boycott-elsevier-journal-publisher.html, http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/23/2969913/harvard-library-advisory-council-journal-open-access, and http://www.economist.com/node/18744177/.

About a year ago two colleagues of mine and I decided to do something about it - fight the good fight, disrupt an industry, rah-rah-rah. While our backgrounds are in Sociology, Political Philosophy, and History, we also happen to have the know-how to develop web apps. So we created Scholastica (www.ScholasticaHQ.com), a platform that allows any scholar to create, manage, and publish their own academic journals. We give scholars the infrastructure to accept submissions, find reviewers, get articles reviewed, get decisions made on these articles, and then get them published online. You can see an example of what a journal running on Scholastica looks like, here: http://scholasticahq.com/the-scholastica-example-journal

While our app isn't perfect by any means and there are still problems to solve, you would think it'd be easy to get people to notice us, especially in that academics are complaining ad nauseum that they hate the current system, right? Wrong. While we're enabling any scholar to set up their own journal and manage it how scholars want, sites like PeerJ (which is only a single journal and not even out yet) have gotten into every publication imaginable. I guess that's what it's like to have Tim O'Reilly in your corner. Academics who aren't even in the bio/medical sciences are talking about PeerJ though it doesn't affect their field. The mind boggles.

The moral of this story is you should find a need, try to solve it, and realize you still have to knock on every door in order to get the people you want to help to realize you've spent a great deal of time trying to provide a solution to the thing they're always complaining about. We've had some great feedback and some early adopters which have made a difference, but our experience reiterates the tech startup heuristic "If you build it, they won't come" – at least not in droves, and not until some big names adopt the platform first.
> I agree that it's wrong that there loads of people who are unemployed, or working crappy jobs, but it's much better than when they had to shovel shit for 10 hours a day.

A lot of those crappy jobs involve the equivalent of shoveling shit for 10 hours a day. Jobs available to power in lower economic brackets and classes are demanding: retail, fast food prep, janitorial/custodial work, day labor, etc.

More importantly, just because a job doesn't require physical toil doesn't mean it isn't a soul draining experience. The fact of the matter is that increasing automation hasn't ended class division because automation schemes are employed to increase the profit of those in control of business. Improvements in technology do not automatically improve society, as most technologies get exploited to divert more wealth to few individuals.
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He wasn't attacking him. What's sad is that you need to feel persecuted.

The point is exactly as you say, just because you have faith you don't get any privileges. I and many others cannot understand how one can bring the empiricism inherent to science in accordance with the irrationality of faith. (And I don't use irrational as an insult here, I just mean that faith isn't based on a rational basis). It's not attacking for finding that incredulous.

I think of myself as a scientist and a rational person, yet I believe in some form of an immortal soul, or at least that the mind is not physical. I absolutely don't feel like I should be free from scepticism and even if I did I wouldn't feel attacked if someone questioned my "faith".

EDIT: A single downvote and no reply. That means I'm right, right?
> Ramps and stalls are standard on any construction nowadays, and there's nothing special about disabled parking spots - they're just the ones closest to the entrance with blue lines instead of yellow.

You just proved my point. Making it a law made it standard in the industry. Disabled parking spots cost more than regular because of the extra markings and signage. Ramps cost most than stairs. Even if the cost is just 1% - 5% more, that cost has to be absorbed by the business owner and over time, businesses have learnt to take that into consideration.

Other countries where ADA or equivalent laws do not exist, do not have ramps, special parking spots, or similar accommodations for the disabled. Ramps are not standard there. It is a challenge for my cousin's family in India to take him ANYWHERE because he is in a wheelchair. Some elevators are so small that even the smallest wheelchairs don't fit. Most parks, malls, and other public places usually have no ramps so his wheelchair has to be carried with him in it. ADA makes the lives of disabled individuals and their caretakers better.

The question is, does the Internet need an ADA? I myself am split on that. On one hand, I make software to help the disabled communicate but on the other, who wants to be regulated by the Government in their own field?
Sprint iPhone sales stronger at Big Box retailer than Apple Sores
appengine is a platform, how would open sourcing it help you? You have a spare datacenter? FWIW there is an opensource clone out there in the wild but you need a cloud infrastructure to run it and it's not up to date with the latest SDK.
As a Technical Writer trying to weasel his way into more developmenty tasks, I find this advice insanely insightful. I spend a lot of time frustrated at my lack of development training, and maybe don't step back enough to clearly define the problem-solution before opening Vim.
Beyond SaaS: the future of software delivery
I'd be interested to know your race and your height.

Pasty white with a beer gut that shrinks and grows according to the season, and somewhere around 5'10" or 5'11".

At the end of the day, women still have deal breakers regardless of your personality, boldness, income, skills, etc.

Are you saying that men don't? I think it's fair to say that everyone has deal breakers. Personally, I'm put off by people who judge others according to their income - or lack thereof.

The reason why I think women have it easier is that they can both wait for someone to approach AND take the initiative

You're right in that women are approached by guys far more often than the other way around. Given the number of unhappily single women out there though, sitting back and hoping doesn't seem to be a successful strategy.
Awesome that I just asked our premier support engineer if the $99 was waived for paying premier customers and she had no idea they had released SSL to everybody.
The thing I've always had in the back of my mind regarding Greece's current woes, is that, despite being the cradle of democracy, the parthenon, the diaspora etc... they're just a short boat trip away from Northern Africa. And beyond that, just subsistence Africa, the Sahara etc. They may have the trappings of a "Euro" country at the moment... but things could quite concievably get way worse for them and a lot closer to their neighbours than it's easy to imagine.
Gotta say, that's one of the slickest damn launch videos I've seen in a while.
Ask HN:  Simple stock investment web-sites?
I'm looking to get in on one of the IPOs coming this week (Service-Now), but I've never actually done any stock purchasing before outside of 401ks, etc. Can anyone recommend a website that's somewhat user friendly for this? I know there's stuff like e-Trade/Scottrade/etc, but I figure HN will know about any good alternatives if they exist.
I currently work with a number of large clients in the travel sector, and you'd be very surprised.

Yes, it's restricting at times, but any developer worth their salt can write code that works in all browsers fairly easily. I've spent enough time on Reddit to know that a lot of developers refuse to support legacy browsers simply because it's too hard.

It is my belief that we'll have to support IE6-8 until XP dies, and I think that will happen when Windows 8 becomes the default install for most PC's. The real problem isn't older browsers, but older machines that need to upgrade their operating systems, and once that war is won the old browsers will drop like flies.