skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The challenging thing to me with FlightCar is it seems like one of those things where you need critical mass for it to work. You have to have a close matching of people leaving and wanting to rent to people returning and wanting to rent. AirBnB was a little easier because some people already had rentals, and others had empty rooms.

IE someone has to be arriving in Pittsburgh roughly around the time I'm leaving, and they have to also be leaving before I get home. I think that's the biggest challenge (beyond getting people to know about it and trust it). I'm sure it will take off at SFO at least.

How are the existing car sharing services doing? I haven't actually used one myself yet.
Said processors allow you to export credit card data to another processor without having to store it yourself.
It seems like we should just give everyone food stamps. Then this artificial benefit cliff doesn't occur.
vine vid of the explosion:
https://vine.co/v/bFdt5uwg6JZ

:(
Looped "Vine" of the explosion: https://vine.co/v/bFdt5uwg6JZ

Video of second explosion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jMYObtjToU&feature=youtu...

Second angle of both explosions: http://bcove.me/qwi5k6ap
I was in Hawaii 2 weeks ago, and they were broadcasting these types of alerts to my girlfriend's phone (Android 4), to warn about a risk of flash floods. Android was even using text-to-speech to read the alert out loud, and automatically, which woke us up during the night!
Does this apply to those extremely rare game studios that produce good games?
I was just told by a customer service rep at linode that I "shouldn't trust everything I read on the internet" when I inquired about the possibility of deleting my personal information from their server. This seems like an extremely inappropriate way to handle this situation...
Simple Ruby onefile Digital Ocean CLI for ~/bin dir
https://gist.github.com/shtirlic/5390788
Why programmers should learn designing
Thanks for the downvotes guys, here I was trying to show a real need. I've been calling friends in NY/Boston the past 30min asking to see if they are OK + stay at home.

Even paid for Facebook's promote service to get the word out that other devices are being "detected" and that the issue can extent to NY.

NY on alert via Reuters: https://twitter.com/reuters
> Paul Browne, NYPD Deputy Commissioner, tells Reuters that in response to #BostonMarathon, NY police stepping up security #breaking
Presumably if it was some organized group we'll find out when they take credit for it. At this point we don't even know for sure if there were bombs involved -- we know there were explosions, but an explosion can happen for reasons other than a bomb going off.

Again, all speculating does at this point is ramp up fear and anxiety, which doesn't help anybody.
I think if these types of messages were as jarring as possible instead discreetly displayed in the existing interface it would heighten people's awareness of these issues.
> But the crux of my point is that the comic doesn't necessarily teach good password habits. I do happen to work in infosec† and I've lost count of the number of pseudo-techies that rattle off that comic as evidence that obvious passwords can be secure without taking into account that they need to do more than just concatenating two words together.

No one ever suggests two-word pass-phrases are secure, and if they do you're right to cal those people idiots and make the stop doing it.

You keep mentioning xkcd; but that comic was not (even if other people are using it as an example) suggesting that people use just two words strung together. It specifically uses 4 words, and specifically gives the number in the list of words to chose from. It gives both of those numbers so the strength and weakness can be shown.
I think there is already 3 confirmed dead... [1] [2]

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/update-3-dead-explosions-rock-boston-...

[2] https://twitter.com/edhenryTV/status/323881163619962881

Update: (4:35PM EST) "A federal law-enforcement source confirmed to The Post there are at least 12 dead and nearly 50 injured." [3]

[3] http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/two_explosions_at_bost...
That's a possibility, but looking to see if anyone has a great community project that would be great for it. What you mentioned is a reason I am not looking to be the main project maintainer though I might contribute.
It's not productive to speculate as to who is responsible. It could be anyone, or it could be a complete accident (gas leak?). Pointing blame before even the most basic facts are known is really, really poor.
This is really great! However, I really wish it had support for allowing you to specify arbitrary droplet sizes and custom images without having to somehow look up the numeric ID of both.
I love the line - we have two kinds of sales people, rich and new.

There is a definite truth to the fundamentally different psychology of top sales people compared to engineering talent. Sales works best as a very objective judge by results environment - with great rewards at the top and a short walk off the plank for non-performers. I find, having done both, that a lot of engineers find it difficult or impossible to put themselves in the mind of a sales person and truly understand what motivates them, if they've not done it extensively themselves.

Glengarry Glen Ross gets it right with First Prize a new BMW, Second Prize a set of steal knives, Third Prize you're fired. If you're an engineer watch that movie or Boiler Room with horror and recognize that many sales people see those as very realistic expositions of certain kinds of aggressive sales environments.
Based on all the photos I've seen, I'd estimate 10 pounds of ANFO per device.
Mobility is important but I think additional costs involved in buying/selling an apartment could be reduced if lots of properties often changed hands. There even could be whole credit products that could follow you and adjust accordingly as you swap houses. I know there's high demand for apartments in some areas but prices of most houses lost touch with what ordinary men can afford and I think artificial scarcity played a role in this. I think such tax could break a lot of currently parasitically growing rent based fortunes.

If you want to see how sick accommodation can get you don't have to look further than Japan. House there is such a valuable asset that it's often shared between three adult generations. And if you have to rent an apartment you often have to pay additional half a year of rent up front as a non-refundable gift to the landlord. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_money

I think government should try to put as much of the real estate in hands of as many different people as it can.

I'm not saying government should hit families that own two or three apartments or houses and rent some. I just don't like the ones that hold dozens of properties (lots of them empty) barely keeping them from falling apart. That's no good to anyone, apart from them.
I guess it depends on the rental vs purchase market where you are.

Here in outer London, rental prices are pretty much in line with the interest payments on a mortgage. So you're "throwing away" the same amount whether you're renting or not. I'd have thought this would become a natural equilibrium in most places. If rental prices are significantly more than the interest payments on a mortgage then owning will seem more attractive.

Mortgage still has value in that it gives you the opportunity to invest that in a house if that's something you want to do.
Why do the top links on reddit stop leaving the front page?

This link was #1 for about 10 minutes:

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1cen7i/explosion_...

and now has vanished, along with all other sponsored links. A horrible tragedy like this seems leagues more important than the current top link:

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1cebz2/spotted_cookie...
Here in the UK, less than 15% of the population need to file a tax return. For most employed people, their tax affairs are handled automatically by their employer and Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. People who have overpaid tax through withholding receive refunds automatically at the end of the tax year. Those who do have to file a return can do so entirely online; The process takes just a few minutes and all calculations are performed automatically.
The job now falls to the Writermen. They excerpt, rewrite & aggressively-SEO... so that no original, true, or subversive ideas ever rank in top 450 search results (unless wrapped in neutralizing snark).

It's "SearchRank-451".
You wouldn't get $1k a month in equity. First of all, you can't ignore interest as its a huge part of what you pay on a mortgage. Depending on your down payment and rates, you could end up being over half the cost of the actual property in interest and property tax. Then there's maintenance, insurance (much more costly than renter's insurance), and so on.
Reddit thread being updated right now.

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1cen3t/there_was_just_...
Crazy, thanks for sharing. I use BofA and am interested, but here is the issue:

> Set your Valid through date for up to 1 year in the future

I'd really like it to be up to the expiration date of my card. It's probably worth doing anyway, I suppose. Thanks for the heads up. Given the zero-liability status, I'm surprised that banks don't promote this feature more visibly.
There's too much common sense in this article.
It doesn't seem to be over yet.

https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/323885037877608448
thankee good sir. I'm glad some people appreciate my vague semblance of prioritization skills. Hopefully that pans out to being able to have any early customers be of the sophisticated sort that I'm excited to work with / help!
if it's yours: nice, but consider refresh rate of 'media' a bit lower. I can't read the captions before it's pushed down.
I rather wish this was a link instead to the original thread rather than to Slashdot. It isn't a big deal, but it certainly would have saved an extra click.

Also off-topic: I've noticed that as well with Slashdot, which is why I lurk HN pretty regularly now. Plus, some of the front page material on /. does more to insight angry discussion, and the community has become increasingly more vitriolic.

At least here, even if someone's brash, they're fairly honest about it (in general). I've even seen a number of disagreements that have been respectful and cordial. It's sad to say, but that's a rare thing these days.
No, it's not pointless. It lets us plan, alerts us to potential consequences, and motivates us to take action that might have a long term impact, among many other things.
Breivik was a single crazy -- not a set of organized terror groups with thousands of members (and hundreds of millions of dollars in finances) which regularly execute complex simultaneous bombings, etc, etc.

That makes the existing alQ 2001 at least a million times larger problem than Breivik in his cell 2013.

AGAIN, Breivik is only a member of a group in his own mind -- and in your mind. (I seriously wonder if there are more similarities.)

Usually at this point, I write "But you know that you're arguing nonsensically, troll".

I can't do that in your case, so instead:

I hope you're just a sad loser failing to troll and not such a hatemonger that you make bad arguments just to get some support for your conspiracies.

Edit: Clarity.
"at worst, it depreciates by 50%, you still get $1k back from every month you paid off the mortgage"

Not sure what you mean by 'get $1k back from every month you paid off mortgage'

Here's rough justice. $300K, 6%, 30 yr fixed mortgage.

Annual payment is $22K(about your 2K/month) for the life of the mortgage.

Avg int over the first 5 years is $17.5K.

So after the first five years you've accumulated $22K in equity.

If your house goes down 50% you own a $150K house with a $278K mortgage.
Holy shit... my cousin and his wife were supposed to be there, as his wife was running in the marathon this year. Still haven't managed to get in touch with them, but my cousin's sister heard from them... they were a block away when the first explosion happened. %@#%! I'm... shit... don't know what to say, other than being very happy they are still alive. But apparently there's been a bomb threat at the hotel across the street from theirs, so they're still kind of panicking.

Jeeezzz....
How to tap into endless sources of topic ideas
Starting a company is easy. Hiring people is hard. There is a ton of regulatory paperwork and costs that kick in when you start hiring people.
Will do. It is by no means ready for release, but you know...
Is there another way of learning the URLs like

http://linode.com/googledebcc14d3c9f777a.html
and
http://linode.com/y_key_57284cb2de704e02.html

If not, it seems likely that he did have read access to the main website filesystem at least
Looks like overkill for a simple one time task that can easily be handled the UNIX way. Worth looking into if you need to do this alot-
well, this is indeed a tricky subject.

1., we don't know if it is terrorism (well, is a loner like breivik a terrorist or "just" running amok?)

2., it might not be over yet. mumbai took 60hours.

3., lots of people nowadays have someone there, a friend, an aquaintance. maybe just an online friend or simple source of joy

but yeah, terror spreads through news.
A double gas leak? Without subsequent fire? Just boom and it is gone? I don't think so. This was a bombing.

Nobody is pointing "blame." But we can discuss who the likely suspects would be.
The Boston Marathon just issued a statement and used the word "bombs." Not sure if that's just a hasty description, but that is the word they used.
Explosions rock Boston Marathon; several injured
Microsoft realizing it can no longer compete in software and turning instead to real estate ... will be the mother of all pivots.
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higher quality MSNBC footage of the explosion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3...!
Your comment is showing up in a very faint grey on my screen, whereas everyone else's is black. Why is that?
>May be a better way is to create a nice atmosphere where women feel welcome and comfortable, having very strict code of conduct in conference and generally us (male engineers) being nice to them - this might take time, but the changes would stay.

I agree wholeheartedly! I think that this is the sort of attitude which would be conducive to moving the state of affairs along. In these fights it's often lost that the problem at hand is that treating people in a way that makes them feel like they're not welcome and not respected is at the root of the issue.
A "tiny" explosion with "few" casualties can easily kill and maim more people than your average national-news-worthy mass shooting.
"Favorites" is a morbid word to have on this page. Maybe consider "Highlights" instead.
To these examples, afaik you can add Italy, Spain and Germany.

For UK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevention_of_Terrorism_Acts

Edit: This is about RAF in Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction#Trial_manipula... (But certainly, maybe the lawyers were guilty, etc.)

Edit: This is about ETA in Spain (not so strong, but still) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA#Human_rights http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Spain#Basque_se...
Sounds great. I'm definitely interested.
Hoping for everyone to be safe.

Lets not panic and spread the fear. Let authorities do their work
I'm most concerned about Lish access. I'm not liable for fraudulent charges to my CC, so all I'll suffer is inconvenience. I'm most concerned about access to my VMs, which can be a business terminating event if things go extremely badly.
Actually he could have issued an executive order to release the prisoners unilaterally. That would have pissed off Congress of course but as the Commander in Chief the original rational for imprisonment came from the White House and thus could have been reversed. That he didn't do that in response to the Congressional back pressure proved to me that he didn't have the leadership to follow through.
I think a more accurate analogy is to say that Linode is moving your important files from one location to another in their moving van. They park at a 7-11 to run inside and grab a snack, leaving the van unlocked. An intruder comes along, opens the unlocked doors, makes a few copies of your files and leaves. Linode gets back in the van, notices the intrusion, does nothing except tell you that "you have nothing to worry about, but you may as well change your locks" and then when the truth comes to light, they basically stop returning your phone calls.

"No comment."
When I lived in Washington DC I had this service.
Specifically, datamancy.
Downvotes turn comments grey. More downvotes turn comments lighter and lighter and lighter.

The comment you replied to has been heavily downvoted.

EDIT: The karma thresh hold for downvotes is currently 500. Or maybe 750?
They are already way overdue. Their support staff is pretty damn fast, so I'm sure they could have commented on this if they wanted to.

Alas, they have not.

I just blocked my credit card, and Linode will not get anymore of my money. Too bad, i enjoyed my stay very much, but no matter what their response will be, I doubt I will be able to believe them. =/
Some will let you export the data, but it's a hassle. They burn it to a DVD and ship it to you and you have to sign tons of stuff freeing them of any liability.

Otherwise you just ask customers to re-authenticate. Often you have a few months headway for a switch like that.
Tried firefox, and chrome.. no luck for me either :( the music plays, and the next updates, but the rest is just black screen.
The precision doesn't rule out a lone perpetrator. Just because someone is "crazy" in the sense that they'd do something like this, it doesn't mean they lack the ability to make intricate plans.
Two of my friends flew over from the UK and were running in it, it happened right in front of Chris, luckily he's ok, she's ok. Fucking bombing bastards.
I don't know what happened to the /r/worldnews post, but that subreddit's rules do say that it's for non-US sources and news. Also, that post linked to a Gawker site, which for many is reason enough to kill it.
I wonder if their dislike for Cassandra is based on previous versions pre-2.0. From my perspective of looking at it as it stands now, it's pretty compelling.
There is a vine link that shows the explosion elsewhere on this post; it shows a gun time of 4:09:44 (although not sure when 0:00 would be)
There are multiple people dead, and multiple people with lost limbs. At what point does a line get drawn between tiny, medium, and large?
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"If you decide to raise the price, you can grandfather in all of your existing customers, and if you decide to lower it, you can give them all the new price."

Not doing this is one of the biggest mistakes companies can make re: pricing.
Developer Postmortem: Overhaul Games' "Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition"
Well, you can get AVS checks back too. But in general the entire system is so far behind the times. It really needs to be overhauled with security as the focal point.
I started getting them sometime within the last year. Weather warnings and amber alerts. I always assumed that I started getting these as a result of some change in the Android software, but maybe it was a change in policy somewhere?
His comment has been downvoted a lot.
They really aren't.

I know someone who got their debit card cloned. While the bank eventually repaid him, that did nothing to repay him the additional fees he owned his normal debtors (e.g. rent, utilities, etc).

With a credit card you aren't losing "actual" money. You are losing the bank's borrowed money which the bank pays back. With a debit card you're losing cash which you won't be able to replace yourself and which the bank might take days to weeks to replace.

Even if you NEED to borrow while your credit card is out of commission you can either use the overdraft facility on your debit card or other quick sources of credit. Hard to get quick cash without going to a pawn shop.
Seems that some other, far better source, should have replaced it by now. There were a few up-in-coming, but they too vanished.
[Some random unsourced people on the internet are saying that...] Police are saying they're finding multiple secondary devices, as well.

I'm guessing they're not talking about cell phones.
Short answer, yes.

Long answer, I happened to teach at undergraduate level during my days ad grad school (not really a T.A. but a sort of associate professor position that in the US is normally filled by PosDocs). At the time it seemed like a great idea and I was proud to "not having a single day of unemployment in my record".

The problem was when I decided to go back to work in industry instead of pursuing an academic career. Most employers would see me not as a fresh graduate from a prestigious graduate program, but as "just a teacher" trying to "switch careers".

It took 4 and a half months of eroded expectations, biter exchanges with H.R. folks and learning the ropes of the hiring game to find someone to actually give me a chance to prove myself in a support position that required no advanced degree and minimal technical skills (basically: speaks English, knows ksh and SQL). Then came the appalling realization that after 9 years of post K12 education I was apparently not qualified to answer the phone properly.

Of course, your mileage may vary. Much of my experience not necessarily comes from being in grad school, but from lack of soft skills and the ability to manage perception of potential employers.
cool, I get it. I see there is a lot of ux polishing ahead, but I like the overal concept.

an on/off button for auto-refresh may be a good idea.

signed up for the notification email.
Dennis Crowley is Live-Tweeting the Aftermath of the Boston Marathon Explosions
And also, the observation made in the OP: you only get one chance at a big-bang introduction, so it has to be right. (Obviously Segway failed on this point.)

With Glass, they have decided to do it incrementally, rather than Big Bang style.
If it is indeed true that credit card numbers were compromised, it would behove Linode to tell their customers quickly so they can take the proper action.

With this lack of transparency, I feel like I had no choice but to block my card.
If that's the same one, then that link implies Linode already fixed the issue on or around the 13th. So, I'm wondering if the silence that has some folks here up in arms is indeed because they've been instructed by law enforcement to keep quiet pending the investigation.

Now if we could only stay the torches and pitchforks for a while before this gets sorted out...
Boston Marathon Explosion Reportedly Injures Dozens. Live Updates
I've seen that. Isn't that marvelous?

But in all honesty, I've experienced this in other areas of my life -- writing, programming, cooking, guitar playing -- and can attest to what he's saying.
Actually, I've seen startups where this is the norm as well. It's inherent in a lot of "career managers", that is how they got to where they are now.
Another source to listen in to Boston emergency communications:

http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s...
No, it's strawberry jam, can't you tell? (I'm sorry for the sarcasm, you've sort of asked for it. I'm officially curious: what else did you think it was?)
May the s-notation be with you.
What I'm saying is nobody will blame his lack of effort. And, if history is any indication, he or his successors will keep trying until they do pass.
This looks to be shaping up well. Might I suggest a new word for "Favorites" though. Maybe it is silly but it seems odd to me to Favorite gore pictures et. al. "Important" or "Impactful" or something else might be a better word when the content could be that of loss and suffering.
...and then they get promoted.