skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're creating all sorts of situations and "what-ifs" and "buts" that don't fit the facts. We don't really have any idea what kind of investigation was conducted, or what other steps they have taken before this point. I don't imagine police in most democratic societies -- especially ones with robust free presses -- conduct raids lightly.

Furthermore, it's not really the police's job to interject possibilities into this situation. Phrases like "digital forensics are crap -- way to easy to forge" and "If the ISP employees are the criminals then getting a wiretap for the customer's IP address that they've been spoofing is going to tip them off" and "if you know enough about Tor to set up an exit node" don't really enter into their though process. The investigation reached a dead end, they got more evidence.

I would like to point out that I don't know the specifics of this case either. I will say, however, that in the US, raids and seizures like this are subject to judicial review. Probable cause is shown and permission is granted or denied. It's not as if the police can just walk in there and take what they want. I also don't feel that police work needs to be held up in the face of new technologies. As the public's access to technology increases, so must law enforcements access to tools to investigate crimes. This is not to say there should not be checks and balances, but that getting a warrant already is a check.
I love superbad.

Its been around for a while, and with this reminder I see its been updated.
Would be an interesting idea to juggle different constructs in order to preserve Tor exit nodes. Maybe they could join together to form some kind of legal entity that acts as the owner of the hardware acting as the node. Would something like this be enough to claim that he only rented out the specific tor machine, therefore not getting the rest of his hardware raided?
"Well, the alternative is... legal child porn?"

The alternative is police doing their job and prosecuting the people that sexual abuse children, not the people that own the channels used by them.

If they prosecute the people that own the channels every time those are used badly it means somebody will have to intercept and analyze ALL COMMUNICATIONS.

People in power have passion for power and control, they use the excuse of thinking of children for extending their power, they want to know everything from everybody. This is absolute power and is way more dangerous than child pornography because it affects the 100% of the population, not a 1 per 100.000.
you're the man now dog - looping audio with gifs

Good example - http://jeffgoldblum.ytmnd.com/

www.ytmnd.com started 2001 - memes and fads. Mostly gradeschool level humor: sophomoric, casual racism, sexism every ism you'd like to mention. Equally hilarious and offensive.

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http://ytmnd.com/sites/top_rated/alltime

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Shift-tab generally has the meaning of "untab" already. Overloading it to mean "move to next input" would be very confusing for those of us expecting the old behaviour, and not at all discoverable for anyone else.
Kids Design Their Classrooms with Minecraft
I switched to Notational Velocity years ago after trying to type things into Evernote, yet I am a premium user. Why? Because Evernote's killer feature is pasting in any kind of content and syncing that across devices. It is an extremely useful dumping ground for miscellaneous pasted content.
This is an issue (the way I see it) where helpless people will be harmed if the "opposition" (sounds kind of adversarial, but I guess it is) get their way. It's not a case where you having your belief only affects you.
Don't forget the camera companies. Oh, and all the companies that sold food to the creators of the child pornography. Bunch of enablers.
It's pretty killer as a library. I use it to clip books (with its web clipper) from my browsings around the web. With the tag feature, it's bloody simple to build a highly organized library.

Its architecture applied to any data store (books, websites, articles, thoughts, poems, art, jokes), with easy storage, easy tagging and easy retrieval, makes for an excellent thinking tool.

I'm a fan.
Isn't renting a room for a few nights different than the guarantee of housing for months at a time? If not then why wouldn't the same landlord just do away with conventional leases and only rent on airbnb? They write the lease after all... but after all I'm just quibbling and maybe I'm wrong there.
CEO adamant there will be no IPO before 2015
While that is a noble goal, does it work? And is it really worth the sacrifice?

Yes, it is awkward to compare something as awful with something as intangible as anonymity. But if you don't draw the line somewhere you will not be able to have a functional society - in which case we might as well be as humane as humanly possible and make good use of our nukes and make sure that there will be no human suffering in the future to worry about.
I wouldn't be so quick in concluding that the long back arrow stands for recursive looping. I'd guess it's just a non-coder notation for "and then do that thing again", for which the closest equivalent in actual language would be the `while` loop (most likely infinite, as the author remarked). I don't see the meta-level of considering the algorithm/procedure as a whole here, a one that is needed for thinking in terms of recursive application.

Furthermore, the fact that non-programmer expects to be able to poll the state of everything around (like the numbers which were already printed) would indicate that in their mind, there is no separation between the program/algorithm and the environment it is executed in. (Ironically, this is completely accurate viewpoint if we're thinking at the level of actual machines, be it real ones or abstract models like Turing machines.)
The point is: what does REQUIRED_FIELDS do? Model validation? Form validation? Can you put a blank=True field on REQUIRED_FIELDS? Can you not put a blank=False on REQUIRED_FIELDS?

It's duplicating behavior in two different places, and it's not entirely clear what it does, or what overrides what. This is much worse than introspection, because you'll have to patch Django to fix any inconsistencies instead of just changing your model definition / inheriting forms accordingly.
People who aren't comfortable with the uncertainties of homeownership are free to rent instead. There are plenty of other investment opportunities out there. It isn't self-evident that keeping neighborhoods static creates more value than it destroys. I think there's more evidence to the contrary.
A printed zine about start-up life
The Verge: Surprisingly, touchscreen laptops don't suck
The curated categories coupled with upvoted resources within seems a pretty useful model.
This will backfire so badly if a porn site wins... Also too bad he didn't do this during the Presidential campaign. He could have been Jason Romney or something.
'tptacek claimed that bundling makes perfect sense. And it does, for the same reason that newspapers don't charge extra for the sports section.

Bundling happens in every industry with high fixed costs and low marginal costs.

I don't want to subsidize any of that crap

You are in a shared market.

CNN makes around $250 million a year from cable subscribers. Let's say 100 million households with cable just to make the math easy. So each is paying $2.50 for CNN.

Now, let's say all those households got to choose yes/no on whether they got CNN, and half those houses don't watch any CNN and half of them watch CNN regularly. They wouldn't be paying $2.50 each. They would, to a first approximation, be paying $5 each, because built-in to CNN's pricing to the cable companies was the fact that only half their customers watched it, and it doesn't cost the cable company any extra to provide it to those people who don't want it.

To a smaller degree, this is what happens if you shop at one store in a mall. You are "subsidizing" the other stores in the mall because they have joined forces to reduce their shared, fixed costs. But those other stores are also "subsidizing" you.
Constructing the query as a string is actually much more difficult for clients. Basically it comes down to the difference between having to splice little snippets of code into a string, being careful that you get it on the right side of the parentheses. And just setting a field on a structure where you have no chance of misplacing the value. Not to mention, assuming results came back in the same format client developers would need to write a string parser and with protocol buffers it's written for them.

It also makes it much easier for developers because the server can better detect errors and send more meaningful responses.
These laws don't require AirBnB hosts to purchase insurance. They outlaw renting out their homes. An argument based on the need for insurance doesn't justify the laws.
I like the analogy. Well done!
And here we go again, another design by committee to haunt us. If this piece of crap sticks we all will have to keep using HTTP 1.1 which by the way isn't that bad. First web sockets, and not this. Just great.
I wonder if there would be a new hotelier who might emerge who builds 'hotels' solely to rent out rooms via ABB to avoid some of the regular hoteling regulations.
It doesn't sound easy at all, most other crimes don't require you to produce and widely distribute evidence of the crime.

I'm more worried about all the people abusing children without doing us the courtesy of publicizing the fact on the Internet.
The useless pages reborn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Useless_Pages

with memepool.com updating again its like the 90s...

now only if Grant Barret would start posting articles to worldnewyork again, we'd have come full circle. (all thats left is an archive of broken links....)

http://grantbarrett.com/old-format-archives
What is your process for investigating further to prove the card is not stolen?
What I believe is weak is that someone could put files in your computer and you become a criminal, completely out of proportion response.

"Suppressing" the market is impossible. How did it work with drugs? or with alcohol?

The law of the unintended consequences strikes again.
Perhaps you were an incompatible teacher? It happens all the time. One size does not fit all when it comes to teaching which is why we're so hit an' miss these days.
This sense of protection -- ie, to be protected from the government -- is probably not the best use of words. Its akin to a protection racket (pay me and i won't hurt you).

That being said, its still a valid point...hotel customers need "protection" from unscroupulous "hoteliers" becase, for example, they are tourists from a foreign country or small-town USA etc and are thus less sophisticated and make easy prey (historically) for scam-artists (bait ans switch rooms, or general hold-up probelms, etc).

The Interesting question is this: Does the transparency and accountability of Online provide adequate protection? If it does not, does it have the potential to? Back in the day (like, pre-ww2) its easy to imagine things going on in hotels that hurt clients but were "behind the scenes" with no proof other than he-said-she-said. But now we have e-mail, terms of service, electronic booking, CCTV and other things that might change the calculus a bit--at the public policy level.

Open for debate, at least.
These look really nice! Thanks :) Would you consider putting them on GitHub? It would be much easier to keep track of them this way.
These are great, thanks for sharing!

It'd be fantastic to get something like this for app-based communications (sign-up, notifications, PW change, etc), and there may be just as much of a reach as with campaign marketers.

Tons of people try to build responsive/multi-platform apps these days, but responsiveness in the communication to their users is a gaping hole. Every app we build, I feel like we start from scratch in putting together notification/communication emails (outside of campaigns).
SASS now has css sourcemaps built in
Looks nice, but the page (or blog post) really needs to list which email clients are supported.
I don't know much about Plan 9 or Inferno-OS. Does that combination have something to do with distributed computing?
oh, you'r right, it's my mistake
How do you lose your configs? Laptops mean you always have your machine, github (and like) means you have your configs even when you don't, and of course backups mean never losing data.
Ask HN: What was the developer looking for a $3500 project?
Hey, I saw a thread earlier about someone looking for a 3500 dollar project for this week. Can't find the thread now, does anyone remember who this was?
If you want to be a in market, then compliance is your responsibility. It's not like AirBNB can't afford a lawyer, or like these laws are not discoverable online. Indeed, AirBNB is in a much better position to research and advise its partners on the law than individual apartment-dwellers who want to participate in the service do; the company benefits from substantial economies of scale.
These regulations are definitely not stupid. Hotels keep detailed records of who checked in and out which can be used by law enforcement. If people are allowed to sublease their places they would have to build a similar infrastructure else it will become easier to evade law enforcement.
So I've worked in this space before (realtime GPS tracking for a Fortune 100) - reducing GPS battery drain is great...but getting the signal back to 'The Cloud' (ie cellular) to be processed is what sucks.

And if you do barf out the data via cellular and are in cahoots with your cellular provider - you get tower information that helps estimate/verify location. But again, all of this eats away at whatever savings from being impatient with the GPS signal.

With cellular and a modern LiPo, the battery life is, at best, measured in weeks.

The 'Future' of GPS will come ~2015 when the last of the 'GPS Block-IIIA' satellites are in orbit and we move from 50bps to 500,000bps. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Block_IIIA
Who was the developer* haha
I appreciate the correction, thanks guys.
Full Show 11/29/12: Jumping Off the (Fiscal) Cliff
Actually, just consider that illegality is defined by other humans, often arbitrarily.

A system that protects the privacy of users who have "American" free speech is simultaneously a system that protects "criminals" who violate blasphemy, royal-insult, obscenity, or any number of other laws in other countries.
is this just ACH?
Did bufferbox have any patents or other enforceable IP?
It would also be interesting to see if the operators of the Tor network want to subject themselves to the legal requirements of being a common carrier.
Quiet you. Everyone knows that people are strictly rational economic actors. Factors such as sentimentality, preference, and anything else not about screwing over the next guy as much as possible never come into play.
I really hope that your are right. Everything else would be a very perverse incentive.
I don't know - there's a lot missing from this article/post. No offense but you can't have a "sales team" if you have to read this article to determine whether or not it's right for you. I'm not trying to be flippant so I hope my writing isn't making this come off in a negative way. What I'm trying to express is just how difficult it is to build a sales model from the start, and then to execute that model. It's just not easy for a first-timer and, let's be frank: that's who is reading this article.

Can your business support a sales team? It depends. Hell, it depends on so many factors that I don't even know where to begin.

I started writing out examples/questions but it's just too much - there is so much missing info that it's just not time/cost effective to write it out. As rpwilcox says, this is business 101 and, IMO, if you are still at business 101 stage, you don't have the experience to build a sales team.
Apps Like Rockmelt Ditch Social-Only Signup
Except they're not the real lyrics. For some reason, even the composer believe is German, when is an Spanish commander guiding his troops in a march.
Music Hack Day project maps out lyrics to Johnny Cash's 'I've Been Everywhere'
As the EU Cracks Down, Time for Startups to Pay Attention to Its Privacy Laws
I was going to write that Twitter is a one-to-many medium that, in my opinion, does not promote the sort of intimate conversation that Facebook does.

And then I reflected on my Facebook use and realized that it's been years since I've seen intimate conversation occurring there.

That having been said, both provide ambient knowledge of others. They allow me to sense the outlines of the daily lives of my old friends - ones who I would phone no more nor no less than I would without social media.

Regardless of what technical differences the two mediums have (like the manner in which they construct a conversation thread), the largest difference for me is social: less than five percent of people I know and meet are on Twitter.

Twitter for me is a news feed. I mostly follow folks who are top in their field and get my daily dose of what is from them. For good or bad.
I'm not surprised the OS is good. The playbook OS is good.

I will be surprised if RIM can overcome being several years late. I will be surprised if they can actually get third parties on board. The playbook couldn't.
Here is an HN discussion of the Oberon system. I believe it was written in the language of the same name.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=593323
Yahoo 'ordered to pay $2.7bn'
I'm sure it was an ask post but I can't see it in the last few pages, perhaps it was removed?
So, basically using SQL prepared statements. Which are fine for simple queries where the behavior is always exactly the same, but become very complicated when you outgrow the "one hour blog" demo phase. It's much easier to build queries out of data structures in most languages, and if you're already building a data structure, there's no reason to convert it to a human-editable text form just so it can be parsed again.
Resources for Schools That Have Gone Google
Since discovering Meteor, I haven't bothered using other frameworks anymore (apart from Jekyll for static sites). If it's dynamic in any way, I use Meteor. Once you're used to its paradigms (and quirks), putting something together that ties back- and front-end together is nearly effortless and an absolute joy. I've built several projects so far of various size and complexity, and unlike some of my older projects, jumping back in to add a feature a few months later is just so much easier. Less moving parts... More concise perhaps. Hard to put the experience in words.
So far I have two public apps built in Meteor:
http://my.groceries.io/
And my favorite for sending screengrabs to coworkers: http://my.sket.sh/

I have another coming soon that hooks Stripe and Zencoder up.

And next week I will be able to share the link to our company's Holiday special website, built with Meteor.

I can't recommend the framework enough, even in these early stages.
Inferno and Plan 9 make it easy to share resources (cpu, disk, etc) and make them appear as if they were local. For example, sharing resources on a phone running inferno: http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2012/11/07/sharing-computer-and...
Let's not forget the caveat of network speed (4MB/s tops), and the other caveat of alleged stability concerns when saturating the network link AKA USB system.
Wow . . . I am doing a bad job of keeping my message clear.

Yes, of course, I mean protected from the government, but I also mean protected from customers, and protected from less scrupulous competition (which may be uncomfortably close to the point that tlrobinson was trying to make, but you have to understand that the airbnb owners are generally not following the same rules that the hotels are required to).

I am just waiting for the first time someone gets sued because they didn't post the rates and a map to the fire escape on the back of the door.
I am new to having HTML email sent.

What do folks do with the large (large in this case anyway) stylesheet, that actually works with actual email clients?

Link it with a <link> tag? Plop it all into a <style> tag? (where?) Something else?

What are current best practices for sending html email that needs a non-trivial stylesheet like this? Googling around, i'm still left not sure; many pages I find make recommendations that would make using these templates tricky (although some of them are a couple years old or more).
Or jail time, as in the case of an SF cyclist who was an avid competitor in Strava's ap comunity: http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2012/06/chris_bucchere_c...
It may be paid for by some hotel lobby, that does not invalidate the story. (Assuming that the facts and the stories reported are true)
Gizoogle Parody Site
Some suggestions:

* In the filter section can you make the search link look more like a button?

* When viewing an individual performer can you somehow point out that the logos click over to their work on other sites.

* Also, on the performer page can you maybe add a heading above the the other performers. Something like Physically Similar Performers or something like that.

* I am a fan of minimalist sites, but maybe a soft color palette would give it a little more life. I would suggest a soft color to not draw too much attention away from the photos.

I am viewing on a smartphone(im at work) so i don't know if these are issues in desktop mode.

Do you have plans to monetize this somehow? Or is this just a side project for fun? Where is the data coming from?
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This is a bar, close to the YC office.

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> "do you really think they are for that? In the authorial intent meaning of "for"?"

Why not? I mean, at this point your argument seems to be along the lines of "ah, but that's what they'd want you to think".

The vast majority of taxi laws are to protect the consumer: for example, obliging taxis to take you anywhere within the city limits clearly is of far more benefit the consumer than the taxi driver (the driver may not want to go to areas where there are fewer fares, for example.

Another example - here in London hackney drivers (taxis you can hail) must take an extensive test requiring memorisation of virtually every street. Again, this is of far more benefit to the consumer (a taxi driver who knows where he's going) than the driver (who has to spend a lot of time and money preparing for the test). Criminal background checks for taxi drivers: how is this not for consumer protection?

If you're going to claim that these regulations are primarily to serve business interests rather than consumers then please do, but at least cite a few examples. I'm sure they exist: I don't propose every regulation governing hotels and taxis are in the consumer's favor.
Yes, for products we usually think of us consumer GPS products such as phones and navigation units this won't change much--unless you're willing to listen to your navigation unit's voice yelling at you to make a U-turn onto that road you drove by four hours ago.

On the other hand, this will open up new uses for GPS and potentially let you utilize it in a range of applications that just need to record time/position instead of immediately report it to an app/user. In exchange for lack of immediacy, users acquire higher fidelity data. I'm expecting to see this be more relevant in scientific fields than consumer electronics.