skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to be clear...it doesn't generate a labyrinth. It generates something that looks like a labyrinth, but isn't one. It's just random forward and backward slashes.
I like this approach. Thing big, but take baby steps.

Before you can do this though, you'll need to know which direction you're headed. What is it what you want to achieve? What's the next (physical) step you can take to get closer to that goal? Etc.
Shopping mostly, using their recent interests in Phones, Hardware, and being anti-Amazon. I think it's a broad new option for them. Plus, better to build out the general solution to this shipping problem than the specific Amazon-only solution; potential to be more useful in the long run. Better to buy this company than let it be bought by someone else.
Line2 / Toktumi signin broken due to expired ssl certificate
The Toktumi Line2 desktop app cannot authenticate due to "The certificate expired on 11/30/12 2:38 PM." for www.toktumi.com

Seems like the sort of thing a service with that many users would keep on top of.
jQuery.smarttruncation - A Responsive Text Truncation Plugin
So an old school cabbie service is cars in the cloud?
> says Dr. Peter Martin, director of the Institute for Coffee Studies at Vanderbilt University.

The director who is paid to study coffee says that coffee is good for you. I am shocked, shocked, I tell you!
Download Quicksilver. Between it and Exposé/cmd-tab, I pretty much never look at/use my dock.
- What YC or any VC would love to see is traction.
- If you have a simplified version of your idea that's
functional, and solicit user feedback, take it from there.
- Work at it during nights at first.
- If your growth rate is good, apply to YC.

Note: Startups are still too much work for one founder. So see if a good programmer you've worked with in the past would like to team up with you on this.
That's true in every human organization. If you're constantly questioning our societal decision not to eat other people, you're not going to make any friends.
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"Indeed, AirBNB is in a much better position to research and advise its partners on the law"

How are they in a "much better position" to know what weird condition exists in someone's lease, or what might be in the articles of some random HOA?

Just how far does this go? Should (e.g.) a company that sells mail-order baby chicks do research to find out that (e.g.) the local ordinances where I live prohibit keeping more than two of any one kind of animal within the city limits?
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> His argument that regulations proposed by men of business should be closely scrutinized

All regulations are proposed by men of business.

> Note from the article that it's perfectly OK to let your spare room

If you read the article, which mostly speaks about NYC, you'd know that's not OK. You're not permitted to lease any property for less than 30 days.
Anyone else get an annoying social share floating toolbar making the bottom third or so of the page unreadable? Firefox 17.
My criticism was that his example of 150 years' worth of experimentation was captured in a single personal experience. Unless he's at least 170 years old, what he said was basically ridiculous.

His reply is slightly better, but I'll get to that in a direct reply to him.
I live like this, but I tend to circulate around the same places to see friends, and check out new countries as opportunities allow. It allows me to leave winter clothes in someone's closet (you don't want to live in Hawaii temporarily and have to have your Montreal snow jacket taking up valuable suitcase space). But I also own very little and like the OP, as much as I can do online I do. Kindle replaced my need to buy books at airports and subsequently leave them somewhere, and anything really important I'll send home to a lock-up. It's a great way to live for those that don't mind change being constant, not for everyone - but for anyone who wants to, it's so possibly easy now that it's absurd.
So your argument is that these people are actually having a more healthy diet by eating less food and drinking more drugs? Did you think out this point before making it?
I would recommend a primarily tmux-based workflow unless you use a number of graphical programs that benefit greatly from the tiling paradigm.

I used to use Xmonad with tmux (and still do sometimes). I primarily use Unity with tmux now. I came to the realization that tmux had nearly nullified my need for a tiling window manager after I switched from gVim to terminal vim and noticing how much easier it made my workflow. My "ah ha" moment was the discovery of the distinction between sessions, windows, and panes and how each could interact with (or sometimes transform into) the each other.
These don't contain perhaps the best option, vett it further with experts in the field, and if you can, pursue it full time.

part time is not ideal if you want this to actually be successful, despite all the votes its getting.
"It is in the education sphere"

My immediate knee-jerk reaction (as someone currently in an emerging field within education): pursue it as a side project. You have a background and connections in this field, which is extremely important. Education is a notoriously difficult market to crack without some leads, and even then it could take years.

If you feel you need a set amount of time to complete this (say, a few months full time) then see if you could take a leave of absence from your current employer. If you're already on your way out for whatever reason, see if you can find some contract work on the side while you build this. You could even score some contracts within the edu industry which will also serve to build relationships toward your product offering.
Yep, looks like they just recreated the game engine. You still need a copy of the original Dune 2 data files to play the game.
nice example of how to respond factually and with grace
Hope you're doing better.

I'm not sure if there are any affiliate programs out there for adult content. But, if you could somehow sell clips, full movies, subscriptions, etc.. of the performers and get a kick back maybe you could generate some cash flow, at least so the site pays for itself.
Apple puts eye into iDevices
Don't they do just that?

https://www.airbnb.com/responsible-hosting

It looks pretty thorough to me.
Having never done this, I find it mystifying.

Would love to see a proper, long writeup of how this works in practice.
Idea: keep buying the jason<currentlastname>.com domain. On Dec 12 sell back the domain to Jason for a quick profit.
Build a landing page slightly explaining it with an email sign up field/submit button (like via launchrock or some other co).

Invest $50-$75 or so into some keywords/ads via adwords and see if you get signups. Fastest/cheapest way to validate.

If that goes well, put a full plan together with a schedule attached and go at it.

Good luck!
"the gun laws in NYC aren't needed."

That's right. They aren't.

It's always a mystery to me why people just assume that criminals are going to pay attention whatsoever to gun laws.
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The law here clearly needs to evolve, and probably should have evolved by now. AirBnb wants to keep people safe, as it's in the best interest of their business. Some purposes of the law are also to keep people safe, but we need to revisit protectionist laws that restrict renting out parts of your home to others solely to protect hotels, and the fact that Airbnb has made it much safer to rent out your home (you can see people's reputations online, their social networks and who they know, Airbnb provides insurance, etc) means that some of the old laws aren't needed.

What is clear to me is that this sort of spot enforcement is a waste of taxpayer money and doesn't serve to help anyone. I hope we can work towards real legal reform as companies like Airbnb and Uber drive innovation in our cities.
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Projects that could become startups given funding are not too much work for one founder. IMO your personal interest in the project should propel you to the point where you will need anyone else to help you.
A really good job there, he doesn't put down others at all, he just plays his strengths. Quite respectable.
I did some A/B testing on this a few years ago and found that HTML email had a better response rate for me. My methodology wasn't perfect, but I shared the results on my blog anyway:
http://www.onlineaspect.com/2008/01/25/the-value-of-split-te...
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First validate. Don't do anything until you validate it to the exact core user.
we're currently evaluating CI solutions and I've been meaning to give Circle a look.

Am I overlooking a tour (or just a single screenshot?) on your website?

Based on skimming your docs it seems like this could be a much more approachable solution than your competitors.. and based on the care taken in the designing your website/brand I'm guessing you invested in making a good UI. show it off! :)

edit: before someone suggests 'just sign up for the trial and look' -- as mentioned, Circle's authentication is (understandably) via GitHub -- that means authorizing them to write to my private repositories without seeing anything about the product.
I have zero sympathy at all for renters facing eviction for housing Airbnb tenants. Those renters aren't being bitten by outdated regulations. They signed a contract that spelled out their obligations to the owner of the building, and the boilerplate version of that contract says that you can't add tenants (or replace your own obligation as a tenant during the term of the lease) without the owner's express approval.

I love Airbnb. I have had nothing but good experiences with them directly and I hope they succeed beyond their wildest imaginings. But if you're a renter, not an owner, and letting your place out on Airbnb without checking your lease, you've reneged on a contract. Not a shrink-wrap or click-through or EULA, but an ink and paper contract that every tenants rights group in the country tells you to read carefully.

The one time I've been in civil court ever was with a landlord; I have had nothing but bad experiences with landlords and think poorly of virtually every one I've had. But the flip side of that is, if I expect landlords to be compelled into making repairs or returning security deposits, I have to hold up my end of the contract as well.

Airbnb shouldn't have to warn renters to read their damned leases.
> 1. To protect hotel owners and operators.

Who gives them the right to protection?
> they don't solve the inefficiencies in the existing industry

I disagree. To use some examples given in the original article: how about a guest being able to rent a room in a neighborhood that doesn't have any hotels? Or a host being able to earn money renting out an apartment that would otherwise sit empty?

Which is not to say that your other points about pricing and risk are not valid, of course.
I read blogs for entertainment and news.
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PowerShell for those on Windows:

for (;;) { write-host -n (get-random ╱,╲) }

Obviously this requires a font supporting those characters. MS Mincho seems to serve well: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=206
Thanks for the clarification, I did not realize that there are multiple parallel RFC tracks that define differing syntax and semantics of email addresses. Your claim then, is that all of the complicated syntax defined for email addresses in RFC2822 and RFC5322 is for the sole purpose of escaping characters that are significant to MIME? What about "+" -- is it just convention that most email hosts ignore everything to the right of that, or is that actually specified somewhere?
good idea ,but it is not useful for me , i like traditional programing type of C/C++ ,and my mechines for server are strong enough
I find it very nostalgic since 1995 was around the time I started making websites. Now, email templates are the only place I get to show off my mad table-making skills. No one else seems to appreciate them.
The device you're on doesn't generate text. It looks like text, but it's really just red, green and blue dots.
Oh, I really like the idea of using this to launch home grocery delivery.
I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said "Well, a-bless my soul"

You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
Worrying About Math Can Activate Pain Areas In the Brain
Ruby:

echo 'loop do print ["\u2571","\u2572"].sample end'|ruby
Python version:

python -c 'import random; print "".join(random.choice(r"/\\") for i in range(80*24))'
I must say that's a really unique approach to the problem, very well done!
A slight modification to make it generate mostly solvable mazes:
`yes 'c=(┻ ┫);printf ${c[RANDOM%2]}'|bash`
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i came home from work and found a delivery slip from UPS saying that they left several packages of mine by my trash cans. guess what? it was trash night and both my trash and the UPS packages were gone.
I presume OP means that it may not have a 'solution'. i.e. i can't really navigate it like a 'proper' labyrinth.
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(I am not a lawyer, but probably you aren't either, so at least we are on a level playing field ;P.)

> From your mother-in-law to the UPS delivery guy, when someone else sets foot on your property, you could be liable if they’re injured, whether you did anything to cause the injury or not.

http://budgeting.thenest.com/can-sued-somebody-getting-hurt-...

Due to the US notion of "join and several liability", one would imagine in such cases that both the renter and the landlord would be sued by the guest, and in the end it would likely be the landlord (who probably moves larger amounts of money) that would end up paying, requiring them to get it back from the renter.

I imagine this is one of the reasons (in addition to situations involving squatters, etc. <-) why many rental agreements actually have limits on the ability for you to even have guests that stay for more than a few days at a time more often than every few weeks or months.
What is wrong with preparing hard. I love how he gamified the interview and used the right tools for motivation. Imagine applying this to other facets like project completion, study etc ...
This makes it slower, so it's more pleasant to watch:

echo 'loop do print ["\u2571","\u2572"].sample ; sleep 0.001 end'|ruby
"So by your reasoning, the gun laws in NYC aren't needed."

There are people who say they aren't. The ones in NYC are fairly reasonable though, even if they seem to just mainly cost a lot of money and paperwork for a tiny niche of hobbyists. There are nice shooting ranges in several parts of the city proper though. Unfortunately I moved to Chicago, which has much more crime despite absolutely absurd gun laws.
Kingston lists the write cycles as 3000-5000, this would shorten your calculations by at least 20x.

http://media.kingston.com/pdfs/FlashMemGuide.pdf

Also, see this thread:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=21281&...

Edit - The Kingston data is a bit dated but in any case 10000 is probably a better number for cheaper cards.
Marissa Mayer's life as a working mom has nothing to do with you
Do I have to concede that HBO and new a la carte content producers are in a bidding war? I don't follow this market that closely, but I follow it a bit, and the sense I get is that there's a threshold price at which any producer has a good shot at securing high-quality marketable content: good shows get cancelled, or never picked up at all, all the time.
Hi everybody, this is Julian, the author of the project. I had no idea a small weekend project like this would be so widely accepted! Thank you all for your comments -- I'll be keeping track of them, and implementing features based on demand.

Follow the development on the issue tracker: https://github.com/julianlam/tabIndent.js/issues

Thanks again!
It would be nice if Apple made a music player which only plays music. It is quite confusing to tell people that to download apps for the iPhone, they need to open iTunes, instead of the more appropriately-named App Store.
> All regulations are proposed by men of business.

Was Ralpha Nader in any way connected to seatbelt companies when he proposed seatbelt and safety laws for automobiles?
I'm really curious if there is a difference legally between giving the entire apartment to a guest for a week and letting the guest sleep in a spare bedroom.
Most likely was shut down by the government but 4 guys with cable cutters, wristwatches, and a plan is not totally implausible
Hi rpicard, as Hirvesh mentioned, the project is released under MIT. I will be adding the license details to the repo files shortly. Thanks for your interest!
You should consider working with just paper instead of a some crappier digital painting program. You need to learn your fundamentals first & use a much better program.

Don't give me crap for recommending Photoshop because I use it and think it's bloody amazing with the things it can do.

I seriously recommend you pickup a trial of Photoshop and go through these,

- Learn some fundamentals anyway you can (huge number of tutorials for nearly anything online)

- http://www.wacom.asia/au
:: If you're doing digital, get a tablet from these guys. Go bamboo if you're not rich.

- http://www.ctrlpaint.com/
:: This site teaches you a fair bit about Photoshop and drawing in general.

- http://theroundtablet.com/
:: Awesome for tablet owners and if you want to tutorials from professionals. Also has some nice brushes from well known artists.

- http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/
:: These folks are legendary. They're all over the industry & have some of the best teachers on the web. They cost a bit but it's worth it. Seriously recommended.

- http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?870-Journey-of-a...
:: A real beginner to pro journey where some guy with little experience shares everything as he practices relentlessly. Possibly for the inspiration category...

INSPIRATION : These are great for games but also good for just coming up with a starting point for say, concept art.
- http://chaoticshiny.com/
- http://donjon.bin.sh/
Thanks again for the shoutout, Hirvesh :)
How does HSTS (the "https-only header") help with self-signed certificates? HSTS doesn't mean "this site won't work if its certificate is self-signed".
> I'd start with Diane Ravitch's "Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform"

I'll do that. I haven't read any of Ravitch's work directly yet, and enough time has passed since I heard her speak that I don't remember her position reliably anymore.

> Start with John Dewey and William Torrey Harris (for a counterpoint to Dewey).

I'm a fairly huge fan of John Dewey. I only barely hold back from calling myself a philosophical pragmatist in Dewey's tradition. On the other hand, I kinda recognize Harris' notion as a tradition I'd reject; Wikipedia's characterization of his supporters' arguments suggests that there isn't anything really useful in his ideas that doesn't require stripping it bare first. :P

> Literally every point everyone has been making in this thread -- myself included -- was also being made by educational thinkers 100-150 years ago.

But this is not experimentation. There is a difference between a thought experiment and an actual experiment. Schrodinger did not actually put a cat in a box and mysteriously wave his hands to express the quantum uncertainty of its aliveness.

Yes, we have some tiny movements like Montessori schools or project-based learning or Quest to Learn or KIPP's character training or charter schools and so on and so on, but they make such an infinitesimal impact and are often so incomparable that it doesn't make sense to call it "experimentation". The fact that Will Wright, Sergey Brin, and Jeff Bezos are all Montessori graduates, for instance, gets noticed sometimes but also gets mocked a portion of that. (That is, the term "Montessori graduate" is sometimes used derogatorily.)

> I meant to draw attention to exactly your point, that we've set up a situation where universities are directionless because we've asked them to be everything to everyone.

I don't think that the answer is to unbundle it, though. That's an easy, dare I say Silicon-Valley-esque response to a difficult and multifarious beast, but it's not necessarily the right one. I think that it'd be worthwhile to shed some of those things, yes, but for their invalidity or overgeneralizations on their own merits, rather than because they detract from a university's capacity to be itself.

I am working on an answer myself, naturally... but I've so far declined to try to untangle the nature of a university on my own. It feels like putting the cart before the horse to do so. I've mostly held to a single, simple principle: a university experience should be optional. If people feel compelled to go to a university after some particular amount of basic education, such as high school, then the problems of a university are symptoms, not causes.
“We tried really hard to make this work,” the former Autonomy executive said. “Instead of doing it the Autonomy way, which is to sweep problems out of the way and move full steam ahead, we got bogged down in H.P. process.”

I have no words.
If you read carefully, a lot of leases have specific clauses about guests too.

There are limits in different jurisdictions about how enforceable some of these clauses are. But subletting contracts tend to hold up.
Hi dergachev -- a helpful Reddit user (where I posted the project originally) went ahead and did this: http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/13tfpf/burned_th...
Because I would have simply assumed that an obscure OS would lack driver support.
choosing from

|| __ # (2 pipes, one space, 2 bars)

seems to work pretty well, too
I think it all depends on what type of email you're getting. I send Hacker Newsletter (http://hackernewsletter.com) out every week, and I based on past feedback and some testing, a rather large percentage of my 12k+ subscribers like the HTML version. Why? Well, I include a LOT of links in each issue (one to the article and one to the HN comment for each of the ~35 stories I include), and HTML is way easier to scan in this case.

If however you're getting an transaction type email just to update you on something, then yeah, text might be better.
No they're not. Production companies sell shows to distributors. Nothing prevents them from selling shows to Netflix, except that Netflix won't pay them as much as HBO will.
Why do they keep referring to the company as "H.P." when it's "HP".
Thanks, I wonder who is the idiot who downvotes an honest question.

Still, I would pay $9.99 for mobi or epub. PDF is inconvenient for the Kindle and the iPad. Converting with Calibre is a chore, and rarely yields good results.
Indeed. Many of the commenters have suggested alternatives, such as using Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-] instead, but the best by far that I've seen would be also binding a listener to the "escape" key, so that tab functionality is restored.

I believe I'll probably end up doing that, unless somebody else does it before I do.
The sites that let you sign up using the + and then don't work later tend to be using URL encoding/decoding and converting that + into a space in some cases but not in others.