skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think calebio is talking about the ability to steal a credit card number. If a salesman walks around and asks for cash - and someone gives him $20 - even if they were scammed they only lost $20.

If someone comes to my door, asks me to donate $20 via credit card... there's a possibility of getting skimmed. If it's a scam - I stand to lose quite a bit more than the original $20.
I was trying to, oh well nevermind. My point is that, the developer created it. He demands that for each license that is being used, he expects a sale. And we are denying him that sale by talking about "theft" and "copy" and all that.
Cool! I'm looking at building a server to be an identity provider and wiring it up to a really simple smtp server, imap client (for pulling from gmail) and imap server to make a really stupid simple email client that provides identity services with a variety of options for security. Multifactor auth with a variety of choices in factors : SMS, phone call, OTP, time based codes, PKI, etc.

I think the federated nature and options in security along with the eventual UserAgent integration has the potential to give users and integrators a really fast, easy UX. More than OpenID ever did, certainly.
Ouya project update
I think I understand your point - it's true that the word 'sexism' has really broadened to describe a whole system of behavior that subjugates women throughout society - but it is a system of oppression, and so in order to address it substantially, we need some way to refer to it as a collection of behavior.

An explanation is dangerously close to a justification - the distance between the two is not always apparent. I think that is what has driven some of the vehemence in other replies to your original comment. One might argue that an explanation does not even need to be made, as it is the default condition of male and female interaction - men are expected to behave disrespectfully, and women are expected to accept it in one way or another.

I believe that we need to call out and address this behavior as much as possible, which is why I think the card system is great. If it's the norm, it needs to be changed.

We can do more to address the intimidation that is felt by women almost every moment of every day - we can start with being conscious of it and seek to reduce it in our daily behavior.
This is really troubling and sickening. It's your property and you should be able to do as you please with it. What is the value of ownership if what you own is under government and HOA control? Disgusting.

The fact that we allow government to get involved in our personal lives at this level should scare everyone. They are telling some of these people that they can't earn money to make-up for the fact that they fell upon hard times by using the one asset that they work so hard to acquire. You can't even rent your couch? This isn't right.

As for the hotel industry. Well, offer a better product at good prices with exceptional service and you'll keep your customers. In other words: Compete.
They have fewer and better selected frames, IMO. Their website has pretty good design compared to these, enough that they managed to disconnect from the "cheap chinese glasses" feeling that the other websites give me - although in the end it might be the same product.
The technique is called Seam Carving: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_carving

It effectively eliminates the least interesting line when performing a resize, allowing you, for example, to resize a skyline by eliminating the uninteresting smaller buildings and gaps.
This looks like a classic example of regulatory capture, where the regulator becomes an effective barrier to new entrants to the market.

Factor in the concentrated nature of the hotel industry (fewer of them, more at stake) and you can see why they are motivated and able to put pressure on the bureaucracy.

The whole thing does strike me as morally irresponsible in that a city with a persistent and undealt with homeless problem should not be limiting the availability of housing units until the blatant market failure has been dealt with.
Great read. Encouraging. 27days is pretty quick from what I have read.
i stopped caring in the late 80s, when it was already clear that media rights were being treated as more important than the actual sports. things have only gotten worse since then.
The smaller the subreddit, the better it is. Also see:

http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
HOAs are a whole different beast when it comes to the discussion of markets and property rights.

You choose to join an HOA.
It's still beta. I guess he would charge for it when it reaches 1.0 (and he should).
How the app store should handle “Bug Fix” app updates
Yep, same here... Appears that the app is getting limited on it's connections to google.
It's commonplace when you purchase a condo and sometimes even a home. I do prefer to have my building's fire alarms working.
I find it amusing that people are rediscovering the age-old concept of running business that directly charges a customer for a product or service that nets a profit.

This post strikes me as a "gee whiz" rediscovery of that fact through the conflation of:

1. Web 2.0 companies that "won" were really media companies. To win you need lots of eye balls.

2. A person can charge more for a product than it costs and get profit, which can be reinvested back into the product.

3. Instead of waiting for "profit" in said point above (which is risk to you and your company), you can instead reallocate that risk on future customers (and gauge interest at the same time).

That said, I do admire Dalton's efforts.
dalton, I think that's a good answer but it needs to be way above the fold. I had to watch the video before I knew exactly what was up.
They redesigned the site in a visually unappealing way and allowed news sources to auto submit content. Overnight, it became this ugly site where the only links were auto-submitted stories from popular newspapers, cable news, and other mainstream media. See this story for more: http://searchengineland.com/digg-v4-how-to-successfully-kill...
Probably not a good idea for a beta release...
Next time, please look at at the camera :) I want to watch your video but I feel like you are talking to someone else, not me.
In defense of these laws, that sort of thing was generally for a month or longer which is not against the law in New York. Short term stays were the domain of hotels.
In practical terms, what avenues does Japanese law offer for challenging a law like this? Is this law likely to be overturned in a court decision?
The problem there is that they don't seem to be intent on building better services either. It's been a while now that they've had incredible resources to work with: top-tier tech talent, a captive audience of unprecedented scale, etc. And (possibly excluding timeline), they've done absolutely nothing interesting with their product.
The argument that they're bad at monetizing because they're focusing their energies on improving their product is a bit hard to swallow given that their product hasn't really improved (or at the very least, does so at a glacial pace).
> It is probably less useful today due to ongoing miniaturization of imaging sensors.

Not really. Dig into concepts called sparsity and compressed sensing, which are quite similar algorithms (not really the algorithms, but the underlying ideas).

I can't find the authors' original website, only this old wired article from 2010: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_algorithm/2/

So especially with the ongoing miniaturization of imaging sensors, which will allow you to take even bigger and bigger pictures, there are issues these algorithms could solve, unless SD cards get really cheap really fast I guess.
How to reverse your Desktop Image Search with Java
Thanks a lot for this, it was a great read.

I think the following phrases things far better than I did:

>The answer, for people who don't like Damoclean questions, is that since Microsoft has won the hearts and minds of the silent majority--the bourgeoisie--they don't give a damn about having a slick image, any more then Dick Nixon did.
Maybe I'm the only one, but I moved from digg to reddit entirely because digg was blocked at work and reddit wasn't. I've worked at four different places in the last five years and at each one I expect to see reddit blocked as well, but no one has gotten around to it. Maybe my situation is atypical, but I have to believe that the lack of availability of digg to office-bound slackers had to have played some part in it's demise.
Why would an embedded web view be slower than Safari on a Mac? Mac OS doesn't have the restrictions on generated code that iOS does.
Agreed. Low service, high price and no (affordable) rooms available during high-traffic events caused competition like AirBnB. The hotels can't win by competing, so now they'll try to change the law.
Not save for guests huh? Entire families with kids live in those houses. They were build by the usual and strict building safety-standards. A sprinkler in every room? What regular house has that?
The hotel-lobby using politicians and politicians using FUD to do their bidding.
I believe that the people running Web2.0 companies publicly and privately refuse to admit they are running media companies. ie "Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: We’re Not a Media Company" (source: http://allthingsd.com/20120130/live-at-dive-twitters-dick-co... )
Prototype PHP interpreter using the PyPy toolchain - Hippy VM
Thanks, I really appreciate how you broke it down. One thing that I was wondering about that you don't address directly is: how do you compile/execute your code? Do you have to exit vim every time, run your compile/execute command, then relaunch vim? Sorry if this is really specific.
FREE is not a "fucking premium" you have to "pay" to get your device serviced! And this is for the lifetime of the product!

Not that Apple products require service, but when they do Apple provides a premium service- a global network of stores that will replace even motherboards in 30 minutes. (Something no other manufacturer does, and very important for travelers who don't want to send their computer back tot he continent where it was bought.)

Sure, I'm including the cost of Applecare in the price here, and calling the service free, but Applecare is cheap and very, very often Apple will replace things out of warranty, again, for free, because most of the time something does go wrong it is due to an actual defect (e.g.: the NVIDIA chips that were failing a few years back after being used for a couple years.)

3 years is the lifetime of the product for me. And these days after 4 years the product is generally obsolete.

There is no "premium" you have to pay-- you just get premiums service at the minor cost of the extended warranty (which I'm sure has nice margins, but still is the best deal out there.)

So how can you say Apple is overcharging when nobody else offers as good a deal?

EDIT: Of course pointing out hat Apple offers a free global service network - something others don't offer at any price- being a statement of fact, is being down voted by the apple hating hordes at HN. I know, I'm not allowed to point out facts that disagree with the predominant ideology. This just proves to me that this is not a place where intelligent discussion can take place, and you guy are just a waste of time.
It's not about consumer protection. That's just a smoke screen. It's entirely about government revenue. Municipal taxes, sales taxes and government fees. Hotels and taxis and the like have to pay them and AirBnB and private rental models typically don't. By disrupting these models, these new services cut off revenues to cities and make it harder to justify the high taxes they milk the traditional businesses and tourists for. And cities are broke these days. And guess what, local voters also love (whether they realize it or not) the idea of raising taxes on out-of-towners instead of themselves whenever possible.
My left-brain says it's doomed. My right-brain says it's brilliant, and alpha geeks will lead the way in a mass secession from today's feudally-managed parasitic platforms.

So entirely separate from any quibbling about the likelihood of success, I'm backing this project at the developer level ($100).
Joel Spolsky: The Four Pillars of Organic Growth [2008]
Thought I'd repost this, as I enjoyed the discussion of balance and how going too fast can sometimes result in disaster. Unexpectedly rapid growth in revenue is a better problem to have than no revenue, but it's still a problem.
Why are we so bad at teaching struggling learners online?
Big Data in Commercial Real Estate
Check out what commercial property is worth around Seattle. There is one worth more than $1 Billion!
Why do you say it's a pain to implement? It's an HTTP+JSON API, and there's only one error code you have to care about:

If the value of the status key is 0, this is a valid receipt. If the value is anything other than 0, this receipt is invalid.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Networ...
I guess I shouldn't be surprised at the negative reaction to this here. The HN demographic is presumably tilted towards young men.

What those criticisms seem to be neglecting is that those--particularly for apartment buildings--these temporary visitors impact beyond just you.

In Australia, for example, one useful metric used by people when assessing apartment buildings to buy in is to look at the ratio of owner-occupiers vs renters. Generally the more owner-occupiers, the better the building.

Renters don't tend to look after properties, tend to be less mindful of behaviour that impacts the neighbours (parties, etc), etc.

This goes even moreso for really short-term tenants. There have been examples of this already (like the woman who had her house trashed in SF after renting it out on AirBnB). Such extreme examples aside, you are raising the risk of damage or theft to the property of others by bringing a stream of strangers into your home.

Yes most of the time it works out just fine but sometimes it doesn't and your neighbours didn't sign up for you opening a hotel.

Would people feel the same way if someone was operating a brothel in their house or apartment? After all, it's their property and they can do with it as they please right? What about operating a bar or a club?

This is not as one-sided as some suggest.
Your headline (which you toned down from the original, to be fair) implied that we can't link to the Olympics website. This is, strictly speaking, wrong. His post suggested that you could do so, if you used text and not a copyrighted image. This is also, strictly speaking, wrong.

You are both wrong. I don't see how your sarcasm is justified.
I wrote a site on contract when I was 15 years old, exactly 14 years ago this summer. That site is STILL running. It was filemaker pro + Lasso on a mac server of some sort. http://mactalent.com I don't even want to know what kind of things are wrong with it today, but it made the guy who I built it for many thousands of dollars over the years.
If you gave him a credit card (and not a debit card or such) you're only on the hook at most for the authorized charges - the same $20. And even then you could chargeback the $20.
Launch ticker - interesting use of Google docs
And at least with the Kindle Fire it made sense because it could be focused on the book reading aspect of Kindle and provide a better experience than stock Android + stock Kindle.apk.

Now Google has a decent e-book offering, a solid, similarly sized tablet and there really isn't as large of an "Amazon media" leverage advantage with a phone offering (specifically because of the form factor, that is).
It's your property and you should be able to do as you please with it.

What if you decide to start charging strangers to eat dinner at your house. Does the government have a right to start inspecting your kitchen? What if you take children in during the day. Should the givernment have any say in your qualifications as a day care operator or the conditions of your property?

Corruption is a problem that should be solved. Regulation of business to enforce standards of health and safety is exactly what the government is supposed to be doing.
I think you're on to something: An AirBnB for supper clubs.
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> people own their stuff and they're damn well liable to do what they want to with it

Morally true, perhaps, but not legally the case.

It's another example of how laws are extremely difficult to enforce if they go against the public morality; an extreme example was how difficult it was to outlaw dueling until the fashion finally turned against the practice.

A more modern example is how most people really want laws against plagiarism instead of the copyright laws we actually have in most of the world: People get up in arms if someone plagiarizes someone else's work, but will gladly support copyright violators who are scrupulous about proper attribution.

A large number of people seem to think that's actually how the law works. This doesn't stop any prosecutions, but it makes the prosecutions no more effective than trying to bail out the Titanic with a colander.

So shall it be with this law, I predict.
> How is this any worse than "fundraisers" walking around neighborhoods with clipboards taking card imprints or writing down card numbers?

Wait, people do this? And people give up their credit card info?
This is a very different situation in NYC.

1) Most people live in apartments, therefore a person who is an approved tenant is now inviting an un-approved tenant to take there place, giving them access to the building and common areas.

2) More importantly most NYC apartment buildings are co-ops and not condos. They are usually selective about owners and have appropriate sublet policy. Most Air BnB type sites would violate the sublet agreements in co-ops.

There need to be some protection for those that live in apartment buildings and don't share the same feelings about short-term sublets.
It's curious that a straightforward question has been voted down. The previous poster made some vague claims about IE being "plumbing" and the best alternative for some "things it can do" but doesn't mention what they are. Other than ActiveX integration which is not exactly a stunning recomendation.
I'm not sure if you comment is supposed to be sarcastic... ?

I don't see how replacing a transmission in a car is related to getting a glued-in battery out of a laptop for the purpose of recycling (the main discussion here) ?
Yeah fix up the look first; grab a template somewhere and modify it from there.
But he's now also caused you a significant amount of stress; not to mention, that's assuming you used a credit card instead of a debit card.
Not really, for most areas you cannot not join an HOA when you purchase a house, and there are no houses that are not covered by an HOA in said area.
Despite the touching stories about financial ruin, the government has a legitimate interest in making sure B&B's are minimally safe and operate without disturbing neighbors. All of these "It's my property!" arguments are supremely disingenuous.
How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly
I am a father, and I rent. Are my rights less (as proxied by my landlord) than my neighbor who owns an underwater house?

[EDIT] When I go down to the polling station on election day, I assure you my rights are equal.
Logstash needs full time love.
I received an email with my airbnb listing and couchsurfing listing attached saying I can't keep either online otherwise I'll get a fine.

It wasn't my main source of income, and I'm not running a business. In fact, I'd rather not have someone on my couch every day, I like my space. I'm saying it should be my choice to have a kid from Massachusetts, a student from Spain, or a grandmother from South Carolina, or my family stay.

edit: http://cookitfor.us/
There is no legitimate justification to infringe on a contract between a willing buyer and a willing seller

Devils advocate: are food standards also a terrible imposition? The government insists on coming around to all the restaurants in the city and inspecting them to make sure that no-one will be poisoned or killed by the food they eat. How dare they stand in between a willing buyer and seller. Right? Right?

Food standards, restaurant inspections, building codes, health and safety codes... the list goes on. Are they all illegitimate attempts to stand between a willing buyer and seller?
Restaurant health codes do exactly that. It seems to me that there are relatively few "black market" or "under the table" restaurants. (Yes, there are food trucks, but it's a recent and relatively smallscale phenomenon.)

Of course, this doesn't make health codes good, necessarily.

But what I'm more interested in - what kinds of prohibitions lead to speakeasies/organized crime, and what don't, particuarly on the scale of the Prohibition, with Al Capone, Elliot Ness, etc. ??
This is a British law. Everyone else in the world can link away.
I don't understand how this works:

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Skip The Brunch Lines

San Francisco has great brunch spots but sometimes waking up and standing in line for 2 hours on a Sunday is just not happening. With Get It Now, you can get your favorite Dottie's omelette delivered in less than an hour.

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If the line is 2 hours, then shouldn't it take at least 2 hours for the Get It Now person to get your food? Or is the 2 hours the wait for a table, and takeout is quicker? Or does Get It Now have some kind of deal with the restaurant to jump ahead of people who were there first?
Yes, and if I change to title more accurately to reflect exactly what the article says then it's likely to get changed by a moderator. I have become circumspect about using title that are accurate instead of the ones on the article.

I claim my response is just and proportionate because it appears that he read only the submission title, quoted from the article, and not the article itself. I believe if you're going to comment on these things and make pronouncements such as he did, then it is beholden upon you to actually read the article.
>I'm surprised at how some wax lyrical on how amazing reddit is. It's just a minor tweak on a long trend of existing prior art (the subreddits). Personally I think it's a cesspool full of trolls. Proggit (programming.reddit.com) is (IMHO) just awful.

Reddit is the easiest way I know of to generate a targeted community. I've set up subreddits, forgot about them, and come back to find them with thousands of members and fresh content. Are there other comparable ways to do this?
What was very annoying about the sourceforge story years ago was that the only way they tried to monetize it was by selling "enterprise" versions. I wanted to use SF (eventually did for a couple projects), but wanted to use it a lot, but didn't want the ads. They shot themselves in the foot by not offering an affordable subscription service. I'm happy to pay bitbucket/github/whoever $x/month, but not $yyyy/month.

I may grow in to needing the $yyyy/month plan, but most people don't start off at that end, and the majority of people who can afford something that expensive (because they're an operating concern with a lot of money) probably already have a solution in place (hence their ability to make money).
I forgot to add - I'm a poor grad student. So whatever you are calling cheap, ain't cheap for me. If Applecare is cheap and 3 years is a lifetime of a product for you, then arguing with you about cost issues is simply pointless.
Discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4241638
Davidmp must have edited his comment, because your comment is far worse than his--you make a personal attack against him and provide a citation that is just as selective as his.