skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One that seems to be missing so far: www.lettersofnote.com. Sometimes, it can be profoundly stimulating.
This reminds me of the cold war. Big powerful countries growing their arsenal of WOMD to dissuade each other from attacking. Using them against the other side would mean self destruction, so instead they agree they won't let any other country get them : non proliferation treaties... . But this only works when you have something to loose that's why we are so afraid of fanatics getting their hands on WOMDs, they can't be dissuaded and these treaties have no effect on them.
Today big tech companies amass patents of mass destruction (POMD) to dissuade each other from suing. Unfortunately this doesn't work against patent trolls because they have nothing to lose. So what you are suggesting is a kind of patriot act against the "technology terrorists" and start a war against patent trolling! :)
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Sounds like the energy is bound into the material during its formation: "there is an internal latent strain between the building blocks that constrains the overall shape".
This article is just as reactionary as those who pooh-poohed the iPhone. Of course most websites aren't retinized yet. But they will be. The big, under the radar advantage of the retina macs will be in medical imaging (along with more obvious areas such as product design, simulations and photography.) the writer of this article just doesn't get it.
It's a minimalist blog written in Python called Logr. I posted it on HN, but there was almost no response. The code is hosted on GitHub at http://github.com/brewerhimself/Logr.
you have a condo agreement., not a deed. your condo building owner has a deed. ask a lawyer
I personally wished Powershell came preinstalled with Windows. Windows' native terminal is really horrible (try running a FOR loop!).
Ask if they would pay you better, let you do what you are going to do in that new position and give you a career path like the other offer would. If no, say you have something better.
Sorry I didn't pick up on it. I thought maybe part of that sentence was missing.
I am not.

The GP said that having too many renters increases the risk of property damage (which is very true), to which you replied (essentially) - why worry, let them damage, the insurance will pick the tab - to which I said that it's the actual damage, not the cost of repairs that is an issue.
I've noticed this and RideJoy is filled with dummy accounts. What happens when someone wants to use the service and tries to get a ride from one of those dummy accounts?
HN is not there for the marketing purposes of companies.
you have no land rights. ask a lawyer
> Airbnb rooms are usually more pleasant than the lower quality hotels a lot of businesses book.

I suggest you browse areas with high AirBNB usage. In NYC, a nice AirBNB will cost roughly the same as the equivalent hotel room.

> Once it becomes socially normal in larger corporations, a lot of employees will ask to be booked with airbnb.

This is unlikely. The only reason to choose AirBNB is price, and the low price options in popular destinations are rarely particularly nice.

As a corporation, we're willing to spend the money necessary to be guaranteed determinism. Nobody in the travel department would want to deal with rebooking an employee if their AirBNB experience turned out to be poor.

I can book an employee a room at The Intercontinental and I know that there will be no issues, and we can worry about things that actually matter, like getting work done.
How is Penny-Arcade's Kickstarter allowed then? (Not disagreeing, but it seems like they would run afoul of this if it were actually enforced.)
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> Thus, by lifting the weight, the magic material would be doing work, and expending energy. But where does it get the energy from?

From the pull of gravity on the weight.
I like it and wish such a thing existed (though not sure about the name). I once had a similar idea (sadly never pursued) and planned to call it www.gmuts.org (for: "get me up to speed").
Well, I used AirBnB in the past and have only good things to say about it, until I tried to find a short-term (month) stay in a big US city.
I noticed that more and more people are using AirBnB to advertise their more expensive daily/weekly stays instead of posting to craigslist with a monthly stay. So the middle ground (monthly) is also being disrupted, not sure if I'm happy about it now :)
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You hit it right. Kids are smart enough to know, "This language is for this person, that language for another person." The key is being strict about who speaks each language, otherwise they get confused. It is very doable, you just have to be disciplined.
fixed. oops.
I suspect this rule is open to interpretation. They've allowed MMORPG projects of various sorts (Your World, Pathfinder Online). Those certainly would/will have ongoing maintenance to continue existing.

It's likely all in how it's framed. There's probably a way to get this on KS if that's what is truly desired.
I like how you found a good side to this story, instead of being criticizing what the writer should or should not know.
Well you can't kill off something that's already dead can you?
Don't you think it will take more than a month? Or are you that solid at learning them already? If so, I'm very impressed!
add the same ram and ssd to a reg 15' mbp and tell me what the price is
What are your plans in case of emergencies?
When you pay money - you are leaving money trace which is likely to bite you if your product hurts people.
What you say about Airbnb vs. hotel costs in NYC is wildly not my experience. At the high end, the rooms available on Airbnb simply aren't available in hotels at all; I'd wager, if you did your best at apples-apples, Airbnb is roughly half as expensive as a hotel room.

The nondeterminism thing with Abnb is a good point. I've always figured that if something fell through, I'd just book a same-night hotel, but it was a concern.
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Unlike Galaxy Note, this is a true combination of phone and tablet;
Unlike Padfone, this is one single device without detachable parts.
Post +1 if you like the idea.
I did read the article. What I read from your comment was, you feel like regulations covering lodging are a new thing, and moreover that cities don't need regulated lodging.

Am I mistaken about either of those points?
Serious question: doesn't ice/nearly freezing water have these properties?
Were we not all once suckling at the teet? Big boobs are universal. Furthermore, the joke is so childish and innocent that it's more offensive of you to object to it than it was in the first place. Lighten up.
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you're kinda authoritarian aren't ya?
basically, if I got it right, you think that if anyone uses their freedom as an individual to act in any way you and the collective consciousness you follow disapproves then it's ok to limit that person rights

and you also think it's ok to just embed your vision of the world as a framework(like, facebook forcing this behaviour down everyones throat) because if everyone would just think like you do, everything would be better?

Well I don't agree and I'll never do and I'll also stand up against, otherwise it may well happen!

this is a nice article that touches this topic:
http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127...
The problem is, at least from my short meander over there, was that the categories of things is based on your usage of Facebook, Twitter, and/or Google+. Unfortunately I don't really use any of those things for sharing (only a Facebook account that I never post on) so this site isn't very useful for me.
What I like about camelcase is that it confers the same kind of visual classification to types as to certain other things.

Back in the day, I used ObjectPascal, where we used camelcase for everything: function names, variables, types. Borland set an early precedent by prefixing many class types with the letter T, thus to visually distinguish them from other things: So you had TWindow, TButton, etc. This system makes sense when you see it in practice:

function GetParent(Window: TWindow): TWindow;
begin
...

While a bit crude, I feel the same kind of visual differentiation is needed for a language like Rust.

Ruby has some syntactic oddities I like precisely because they provide visual classification: "@" for instance variables and "@@" for class variables:

class User
@@max_name_length = 32

def initialize(name)
raise "Error" if name.length > @@max_name_length
@name = name
end
end

The current "old-style" Rust code quickly becomes a uniform sea of lowercase to me, as does Stroustrup-style C++. It gets worse due to a quirk of mine to name things verbosely. So instead of variables like "u" to represent a user, I spell out "user". With all lowercase it gets odd:

fn save(user: user) {
...
}

While Rust have types and variables living in separate namespaces, all-lowercase names introduces the possibility of ambiguity and possibly makes some things impossible in the future, I think; consider:

let foo = user.new();

It looks like a method call "new()" on an instance "user". But what if you could call methods on types? With the discussion about the "::" operator becoming ".", such a distinction would become impossible without introducing a new operator. With camelcase it becomes obvious what's what:

let foo = User.new();
PhotoAcute does super-resolution very well: http://www.photoacute.com/
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The physics of rolling
It makes me a little sad that it hasn't made him any money. I imagine it might be good for the resume, though.
Heh - no real case, just general curiosity. But if you're still working in this area, you might want to put contact info in your profile. It wouldn't be surprising if someone around here made use of it.
"the stolen passwords had been scrambled using an encryption algorithm, a technique which generally makes it harder for hackers to use the compromised information" ...
The data doesn't prove a causal relationship in the direction you imply, or any direction at all, only a correlation. For exampke, it is possible that the kind of people that tend to choose to work at Apple are prone to marital problems because they obsess over their work and put it ahead of their non-work life.
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Don't think so. Ice is less dense than water. Ice skating creates a small layer of water due to pressure that allows you to slide around.
Don't forget Java's CAFEBABE

http://www.artima.com/insidejvm/whyCAFEBABE.html
Does that imply that it wouldn't automatically revert to its original state?
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What kinds of emergencies? I live in a pretty densely populated city, so there are basically always people around. I guess I'd just yell for help in the worst case? But if I'm not literally incapacitated in a gutter, I'd walk to the nearest police station, hospital, metro station, or 24-hour 7/11. Or knock on an apartment door to request help.

What I find strange about this (common) question is that nobody seems to remember what they did before mobile phones. I got my first mobile phone in 2001, but it's not like I was chained to my house from birth until 2001.

I admit I might be more wary if I lived in a suburban or rural area where I could end up broken down in a car miles from civilization. Then a phone is a nice backup.
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The elasticsearch thing makes it so niche and impractical though :\
> we have been spending the majority of our engineering resources the past 8 months building a “secret project”.... Additionally, we already have much of this built: a polished native iOS app, a robust technical infrastructure currently capable of handing ~200MM API calls per day with no code changes, and a developer-facing API provisioning, documentation and analytics system. This isn’t vaporware.

So basically... it's already built.

> To manifest this grand vision, we are officially launching a Kickstarter-esque campaign. We will only accept money for this financially sustainable, ad-free service if we hit what I believe is critical mass. I am defining minimum critical mass as $500,000, which is roughly equivalent to ~10,000 backers.

Oh that's interesting. The grand vision will not manifest until $500k is raised. But isn't the product already basically finished?

So what happens if they don't raise $500k? Do they kill the product and flush 8 months of hard work (and presumably a bunch of money) down the drain? Doubt it. That doesn't make any sense.

Something is fishy here.
I'm surprised that Dropbox actually uses S3 internally to store data. All along I had assumed, wrongly, that Dropbox had built their own distributed storage cluster.
Sometimes I fantasize about a company with a lot of buying power, like Amazon, retaliating by hiring some mob thugs to break a few legs.

Hey, respond to scum with scum. Of course it's just a fantasy.

Edit: Company, not Computer.
Solid improvements.

I suggest placing a cookie in the browser to remember what link I created and I "log" back in to my "account" with links I shared.
I tried again today and it seem to work. The wife was at the top of the list this time.
Thanks! We currently cookie you and remember links you created when logged out (or not signed up) and merge them to your account when you create OR login again. Is this what you meant, or is there another case I am not thinking of?
Oh god. Showing old versions of my designs is like showing the world my underwear. This thing was clutter city just 6 weeks ago.

Thanks for keeping today interesting, Danielle :)
At least they won't get fat! Those grandparents...
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They replace the top case (with keyboard) when they replace the battery, but I highly doubt they just bin the whole thing. They can send the part for refurbishing, remove the battery, and reuse the top case.
Totally off topic, but I really dislike how ruby (and I guess others?) has popularized the word hash to mean a hash table. I stare at that sentence for a good two minutes thinking "how does someone use md5/sha etc instead of a database???" before I realized what was meant. There are plenty of good (and well known) unambiguous names for this data structure that I really don't understand why it needs to be given a name that's in common use to refer to something different (and only kind-of related really). Some alternative names that have been in common use since the dawn of time are hash table, hash map, map, dictionary or associative array.
> Apple outsources manufacture, so presumably you are claiming that Apple's suppliers, rather than Apple, are the greenest manufacturers in the world.

You are operating on the assumption that Apple (or Dell, Lenovo, etc) have no say in the materials used, methods of construction or the materials not used in manufacturing their goods. They do—they don't just hand over a spec sheet and tell the supplier to get to work. They supply a detailed specification and set of drawings and likely engage their manufacturer to ensure their requests are feasible and/or meet particular national standards.
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i think that was illegal BEFORE that law...

may i interest you in some Bear Patrol Tax?
Most people care less about assurance and more about encryption. I.e., unless you're subject to a MITM DNS attack, you're a lot less likely to be directed at the wrong paypal.com than you are to say, have your password sniffed off the wire, or by a keylogger on the local machine.

And that identity assurance is where most of the scam comes in. Encrypting communication securely is dead simple (from an implementation standpoint - pick a cipher and go), making sure server X actually represents who they say they do, that's a whole different can of worms.
I think I am just being naive but I would like to see this succeed.
I'm not sure what you qualify as high-end, but our different experiences may be a factor of differing price points.
By default auto-fill is off on the ipad, did you try turning it on for names and passwords?

(I agree that the default behavior sucks)
I agree, but its a thin line, right? ;) Not the type of move I would pull, for the record.
Some combination of distributed notaries, warning for unusual certificate conditions (e.g. certs changing when they have lots of time until expiration -- Dear Google, please stop doing that), and other ideas.

Convergence http://convergence.io/ (notary)

Perspectives http://perspectives-project.org/ (notary)

CertPatrol http://patrol.psyced.org/ (cert checking)

TACK http://tack.io/ (only one cert per organizational group would need signing or notarizing)
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A short-term mitigating measure could be to place a comment nearby in the code indicating that the maintainer is aware that the constant is juvenile and somewhat embarrassed by it, but has no choice but to retain it for now because it's needed for interoperability with another system that's hardcoded it. Then at least it'd make it clear to anyone who stumbled across it that the Linux-side maintainers aren't doing it as some kind of in-joke, and do realize it might annoy people.

(What the odds are of anyone actually stumbling across it randomly, I don't know, but it's a cheap band-aid just in case.)
Crowd-sourcing has recently become a way to get free publicity and money, even if something is already built. For example, Roll20.net launched a Kickstarter campaign [1] with a tiny limit ($5,000) to build an online tabletop RPG. It became quite popular, earning something like $40,000 by the time the Kickstarter was over.

Here's the kicker: their Kickstarter video had an already-working demo! They launched the closed-to-backers beta within weeks of the Kickstarter funding closing, and opened it up to everybody within a few more weeks. They already had a working product, they simply used Kickstarter as an advertising platform that cost them NEGATIVE $39,651 and got them hundreds of loyal fans and evangelists (their backers) and millions of eyeballs (through the media covering their ~8x funding).

It's actually quite brilliant.

[1]: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rileydutton/roll20-virtu...
It looks like contrasting lines are almost vectorized then expanded?
As a hacker who just terminated his FB account, it sounds like I'm the target audience. But I have to confess that after reading the blog post and clicking through to the faux Kickstarter page, my response went from "That could be interesting" to "That's disappointing."

If they are going to leverage the Kickstarter model, then they should at least learn from other KS projects: show me the problem, build a prototype, show the prototype solving the problem, play cool music, and for crying out loud look at me (the camera) when talking.

There's probably a good reason that Kickstarter doesn't accept nebulous web businesses - scaling manufacturing costs real money, but building a software prototype is cheap. If someone had made a video dryly explaining GitHub or DuckDuckGo as a concept prior to developing them, I wouldn't have signed up. But I find them invaluable today.
Agreed, and it didn't even look like they did any A/B testing. The UI changes alone, spacing, colours, etc. totally killed the flow of the site.
Here's another thing to think about: over the long run, regulation can help business; lack of regulation might harm it.

When we talk about regs on HN, we tend to be thinking of rules, codes, and controls restricting what businesses can do. That's obviously a major function of regulation.

But another function of regulation is removal of uncertainty.

The alternative to regulation is contract and tort law. Airbnb participants who violate leases and homeowners agreements will be sued for breach; participants who create noise, theft, crime, and increased costs for neighbors will be sued for tort claims.

Court cases take for- fucking- ever to resolve themselves. Every B2B case I've witnessed up close dragged until it settled --- I've never seen (firsthand) a company stick it out to trial. The one (trivial) case I was involved in directly --- a statutory claim for unlawfully withheld security deposits --- took years to resolve.

Perhaps partly in recognition of that, and partly because of the spectacular cost of representation, the damages awarded in these cases can be enormous.
If you want to argue a counter theory, that is fine, but simply saying "you are wrong" is not sufficient. Like I said, what biological impulse would YOU account for love? What is the reason for love, evolutionarily speaking? The answer is pretty clear, and is not nearly exclusive to Freud's theories alone.
Crap, too late. I have at least three bastard children in the pipeline. ;)
This is how I get by without having a smartphone. My friends have given me a hard time since I tend to forget my phone at home more often than I forget my laptop at home.
This reminds me when everyone was driving drunk, and there was already laws that made that illegal, but the limit was something like 3 glasses of beer.

instead of simply enforcing it, they changed the law to be zero limit AND enforced it.

this is the same idiocy.

trashing a place is already illegal. Disturbing the peace is already illegal. Reducing your neighbor property value is already illegal (our intern complains he keep getting citations for not cutting the grass ...a $300 fine)

Name ONE thing this law does that wasn't illegal before. ONE. I challenge you.
IIRC the problem is that there has to be absolutely no glue present for them to be able to recycle it. Even if they can just pry the batteries out, they need to be free of glue entirely.
Two NYC-area Abnb rentals, off the top of my head:

* A 4-bedroom 2-storey attached (townhouse-style) house in W'burg, less than a block from the Bedford stop; full kitchen, back yard(!). Cost less than any 3-star pair of adjoining bedrooms we could find --- and we booked 2 months in advance.

* A full-kitchen king bed studio in Chelsea, for ~150/night.

The last one is from a few months ago, the other from last year.

By the way: both of these feel like textbook cases of the kind of situation where Abnb is a win for everyone involved. The owner of the house was picky about us, checked in on us while we were there, and was renting a whole building to one party. The Chelsea apartment was its occupant's primary residence; they were renting it out while themselves traveling.

I think it's the situations where people are literally running full-time businesses on top of Abnb where we start to run into trouble.
I'd seen RideJoy mentioned on HN several times, but didn't check it out until now. It wasn't obvious to me that there were dummy accounts, so could you show me some?

I also decided to check out craigslist listings in my area, which led me to find zimride (which I believe helped someone on their site auto-post to craigslist, which it looks like RideJoy will do as well). It's an interesting niche, which I'd never really considered before as I was a hitchhiker many years ago.

This whole idea caused me to call my trucking buddy to see if he could make some extra money with something like this. Turns out, his insurance premium would increase by $100/yr if he allowed riders, and he never thought it would be worth it because he thinks craigslist is sketchy. He thought this might be more palatable with FB integration (he still uses FB against my advisement).