skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I mean another law that needs to be changed, not necessarily abolished. The law should be updated so that people can legal advertise their places on AirBNB. Not doing so would be neglecting a stream of revenue that could be beneficial to the city.

When I say "made obsolete by the internet" I mean that some service or product made possible by the internet is requiring us to take a look at some piece of legislation that was put in place before such service or product existed. The service in question (AirBNB) has changed the way we think about and look for places to rent.

AirBNB is a forum which helps to legitimize these rental properties and owners through crowd sourced reviews. In the past (with chisel and stone) there may not have been such a clear way to determine this. AirBNB changes the environment by offering a faster and steadier stream of users and reviews. This changes how the economy of renting works, there by changing the effectiveness of the standing law.
Interesting -- this is basically the merger of an Arduino Leonardo and a pocket router. The flavor of Linux in use is a spinoff from OpenWRT, a popular home router OS. The chip that runs on is the Atheros AR9331. Since OpenWRT supports other languages, you can now program this device in Python.

AR9331 pinout: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n/ar9331_pinout
San Francisco has one of the widest selections of varied, high quality, low & "mid" cost food I've yet to encounter. It easily keeps par with any US and European city.
I definitely thought this was going to be storing data as the image.

I'd be interesting in the (computational) detection for that. Of course, if you just encode/decode it, Yahoo could do the same.

If you encrypt the data, they could just check to see how high the entropy is. If it's higher than what's plausible for a real photograph, they'd delete it. (using ent [1])

Else, you could use good ole stenography. In researching this response I came across the term Steganalysis[2]. Pretty interesting!

[1] http://www.fourmilab.ch/random

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganalysis
in the south, i have had way more people scream homophobic epithets at me on the street. not sure why because i'm heterosexual, and one time a car full of old women screamed a lesbian-focused epithet at myself and my wife while we were walking hand in hand.

i grew up in the south and i have no idea what southern hospitality means. where i lived, the running joke about southern hospitality was that <ethnic group> would hear the sound of you reloading before you opened fire.

if you're nerved out when surrounded by a bunch of well-armed, perpetually drunk, ill mannered, poorly educated and xenophobic people, i would not recommend moving to the south.
do you consider remote gigs?
But not by default, and not the previous "big photos in one column" layout for first page of photostream. (There's even a leftover link to change the layout at the bottom one's own details=1 page that 404s...)
Even Belgium has new websites...
Do you have a good source for the state of the art in backpacking mattresses? I last bought one back in the 1990s, and I guess now I'm interested to see a comparison table of maybe weight, R-value, and price for reasonable choices.
Is there not a point where we can say "this is so often and so prevalently a problem, let's disallow it".
Sir Paul Smith says sponsors ruin design.
KTAP: A New Scripting Dynamic Tracing Tool For Linux
It also doesn't mean that the laws should be repealed. In the context of things like AirBnB and Kickstarter, people tend to only see the "good side" because the laws prevent the large-scale "bad side" from taking root. E.g. they see someone putting their apartment on AirBnB while they're on vacation, but not the shady dude turning an entire building on a quiet residential block into an AirBnB hotel for rowdy college students. They see someone funding a video game on Kickstarter, but not the people swindling the public on a large scale.

It's interesting to note that people jump on Goldman for selling shitty financial products too retirement funds and the like, but don't see the potential for abuse with something like crowdfunding. If Goldman can make a killing swindling sophisticated institutional investors, don't you think it'd be child's play for someone to do it to unsophisticated members of the public?

These sorts of laws have the incidental effect of suppressing potentially useful transactions on an individual level, but the point of them is to prevent people from making a business out of abusing the system. E.g. I have noted before that the real point of copyright protections isn't to keep an individual from copying a Windows CD for a friend (probably not going to do a lot of economic damage to Microsoft), but to keep a major Chinese OEM from shipping computers with copied Windows licenses (might do a lot more economic damage). These regulations are similar in that regard. By making them illegal, you keep people from building a large-scale business out of cheating others.
I looked into adding Airbnb-friendly language to my lease for my rental property, but I am not a lawyer and any lawyer I could hire to work on the language would probably be breaking new ground.

I had a friendly chat last year with someone at Airbnb about them possibly taking the reigns on this, but I don't think anything ever came of it.

It might go a long way towards getting friendlier relations between landlords and Airbnb.
I'm running Aurora from Ubuntu PPA (but on Linux Mint). Absolutely no issues. Yes, it replaces regular Firefox. Add-on compatibility is excellent though; can't remember any addon causing me trouble whatsoever. I'm currently on Firefox 23 from Aurora channel.
Yeah, personas are a good tool for refining your product once you know your market, but a startup by definition is still exploring. You can run extensive interviews and create a great set of personas today, then pivot into a completely different market and throw away all this work next week. Or create profiles based on what people say (which is different from what people do), build your product, and realize nobody cares.
Little substance is found in Top N lists. I would much rather have the author cover one library and explain how it has benefited his development process. What roadblocks did using xyz library overcome? What issues were found along the way? It is like providing a list of simplex algorithms. This is a simplex algorithm using divide and conquer, brute force, blah.

200 words on one library provides more insight than 'XYZ Library: A library that does XYZ for people that do XYZ.'

Lists rarely spark insight, but knowing that Bob overcame a barrier with Canvas by utilizing XYZ library, that's gold. Hell, I might even use XYZ to try to attack a similar problem.
In OS X, by pressing Cmd+Shift+K whilst in Terminal.app, you can save SSH, SFTP, FTP and telnet connections. Personally I don't use it but some people might prefer it.
NuoDB 1.1 Release and Product Demo Webinar
Don't want to diss you or anything, but as a European I find bungalows (usually in track row hosing) depressing. Also, less than a mile is not really close.
To me close is something that is within a block, that I can just walk within 5 mins.

I live in NYC now, (east village), and there are about 100s of restaurant's, shops, bars, cafes just within 5 minutes walk. The diversity is ridiculous. (I don't think anywhere in the world you find so many kinds of nationalities and cousines in one place).
Congrats Nathan. I've been following you for a few weeks now. You've basically inspired me to start turning my naming business into a book/video program.

I've got a couple questions (which I could email you, but I figured others might be interested):

- Any thoughts on an email subscriber discount? Those who sign up for your newsletter get an extra X% discount.

- Does the giant, repeated format really work? I personally find it kind of annoying that every interview and product feature is repeated for each package.

- Any quick thoughts on how to "test out" an idea before committing to writing 200+ pages?

Thanks!
One question: what does the new "Security" log level in the console watch for?

Congratulations to the tools team, I'm loving the network panel and the object inspector. And the built-in tools are so much more responsive than Firebug that I'm tempted to switch right now. There are just two things that I'm immediately missing:

1) When I log objects, Firebug prints a preview such as ["a", "b", "c"] or {foo: 1, bar: 2} to the console, whereas the built-in tools print [object Array] or [object Object] and force me to rely on the object inspector (which I'd really just like to use for very large objects, rather than every single little object).

2) I like to try out snippets of code that are longer than a single line, but I'm not a huge fan of the scratchpad (can't be docked, no autocomplete). Firebug allows the console input to toggle between single-line and multi-line, and I'd love if the built-in tools had this as well.

I'm sure I'll stumble across more differences, but the tools really are looking great. Congratulations again on coming so far in so short a time.
I don't think there has to be a rational argument against AirBnB. I could create a business telling people that I'll tell you how to get rich, charge them $10,000 and then tell them "Work hard and look for opportunity." and you could say that's horrible and whatever else but there's no rational argument against it.

Living standards isn't something you can rationally argue. I don't care about visitors passing through my neighborhood; I care about the fact that my neighbor is bringing someone new into my neighborhood every weak. I care about the fact that people in NYC can't find a place to live. I care about the fact that even though I live in a safe neighborhood, that can quickly change overnight because that's how fast the people around me can change.

Yes it's personal paranoia but at the same time it's a debate and the residents of NYC are against it but people supporting AirBnB have said nothing but how good it is for travelers.
It's an alternative to SystemTap or dtrace designed for use in embedded systems.
Is it secondary if I call and report that you are illegally renting out your dwelling?
The term that's involved in this is "externality": costs that are imposed on people not involved in the actual transaction (use of the place for payment).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

You rightly point out, that, for instance, in a crowded apartment building, having something like a dynamite storage facility would probably be a bad idea.

However, other things might be annoying too, such as having children or pets or noisy sex, so you have to 1) get an idea of the actual costs involved, and not just "well, this could happen", and 2) see if there's a framework where people could regulate/resolve their differences on a more local level. Perhaps in some buildings, people would be ok with some AirBnB traffic if they get a small cut of it. The idea being that the more global the solution, the more likely it's going to be inefficient.
Wow, really nice game - and yes, wonderful music. I wish there was a version in a language I could understand though.
Your argument is completely shallow and void of reason..

> You can't, for example, run a tannery in your apartment

Why not? Whats your argument?

>What's more, as a resident (and especially if I were an owner) I wouldn't want my building being a de facto hotel.

If I owned a building then I set the rules/laws. This is about property rights, not about what you think is right or wrong. If I want to turn my home into a transient hotel then I should have the right to do so. Existing residents should abide by my rules under the current terms of their lease.

>Imagine the scenario if an AirBnBer does this with say a cigarette?

And what if an existing resident did that? Whats your point?

You completely leave out any actual reasoning to support your statements. A very shallow argument.
Also, zoning laws.
The XMPP network needs more independent servers run by trusted entities, so I welcome this very much (I've been trusting DuckDuckGo with my searches for some time now).
It's unfortunate that so many of us find inexpensive places like Chattanooga inaccessible due to cultural differences.

Why is that being comfortable with living outside the straight, white, and Christian demographic basically means accepting anywhere from 2-4x the cost of living?
This is a very clever use of gamification, turning the kickstarter 'donation' into a seemingly harmless tweet or a like on FB.

It would be an interesting if they followed through with this model and started prioritizing game development based on this feedback.
I think amvp saw it a few days ago and then again now, hence the reference to the Baader-Meinhof frequency illusion. I hadn't heard about that until 5 minutes ago but I grew up in Stuttgart so the real Baader Meinhof guys are some bad memories from my youth. No doubt I'll be seeing random references to Baader Meinhof in the next few days.
Airbnb is no more or less legal than it was before. Some buildings and sites are allowed to provide short term rentals. Most aren't.

What is happening nationally is that people are creating short-term rentals in areas where the use and occupancy are deemed incompatible by land use regulations and building codes. The AirBnB model is no different than renting migrant workers mini-warehouses for dwelling. It's just that the landlord and tenants transfer the burden of commercial uses and transient lodging onto the surrounding neighborhood.

Disclaimer: I am currently involved in removing a short-term rental from my neighborhood. At several hundred bucks a night, transient lodgers often have few social constraints preventing them from treating the dwelling as a hotel, and normal hotel behaviors spill effect the surrounding neighborhood. The difference being that there is no onsite management and no oversight by local and state regulators as is the case with the formal economy.
A list of places in the world with better rock climbing than Tenessee would take a page or so, as long as you were only listing general areas and not specific crags. Limiting that list to places with sub $2000 rent wouldn't remove any of those items at all.

That said, there's an important idea in there that we probably shouldn't ignore in our rush to dismiss this. The author is absolutely right that there's a lot of world out there with lots of great stuff, most of which is cheaper to live in than the San Francisco Bay Area. If you want to find the best "X" in the world, you're almost guaranteed to find it elsewhere.

As it happens, I'm also living in the place with the Best Rocks In The World (Fontainebleau, France). But I've also lived on Tonsai beach, and in the Basque country, either of which could snag that title if you changed your priorities a little bit. All were great places to work remotely.

We're living in the Future now. If you have a passion for climbing/surfing/outdoor whatever.., and they've got a spot where there's a bunch of it, you absolutely can go set up shop there.

That's pretty nice.
News feed retargeting: what we've learned
One app that makes Google Voice much more useful is GrooveIP (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gvoip&...). It routes calls over VoIP instead of using your phone's minutes. It also makes using a tablet to make calls feasible.
Have you ever lived near a hotel? My building in Chicago was in the same complex as a hotel. It was a very nice hotel (Doubletree), but there was a steady stream of college students on spring break, prostitutes soliciting business travelers, etc.
"if it flies, floats or fornicates, in the long run its cheaper to rent it"
PyPy 2.0.2 - Fermi Panini
When I woke up this morning (and was in a better state of mind), I realized the supplements may have been on the arXiv page but not included in the paper. I was correct. Here [1] is the supplement paper, which I find more useful than the actual paper itself.

It appears I was correct about the stolen CPUF leading to decryption of previous messages; in supplement G, at the bottom of (2), the authors state:

"Finally, it is worth noting that with a stolen device and access to the public dictionary, an attacker Eve may be able to quickly decrypt any of Alice and Bob’s previous communication that she may have saved(since Alice and Bob publically share which SLM patterns they use each round). For this reason, it is highly beneficial for Alice and Bob to utilize a second layer of encryption to ensure that any eavesdropper cannot determine these previously shared patterns, as discussed next."

They also discuss other security properties of the scheme in supplements G and H, which are both excellent.

[1]: http://arxiv.org/src/1305.3886v1/anc/CPUF_Supplementary_Mate...
Indeed; it’s been around for ages in Opera, and all you have to do to use it is press Space at the end of a page to go to the next one. I think they planned to use the attributes to support native swipe gestures on touch devices, but that never took off, unfortunately.

You can try it on my blog at http://pygm.us/vwR2WSYJ or a thread in NeoGAF: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=559996.

Something Awful used to support it, but they broke it by making the Last Page button the designated `next` destination, unfortunately.

It’s really the only way to go through pagination-heavy content. Anything else is way too tedious.

Everyone with a blog should implement this. It’s just silly not to.
How could it boggle your mind that different people have different values? I'm happy to pay a premium to live in Boston and not Pittsburgh. That's a very easy decision for me to make, on paper and in practice.

Aside from preferring Boston, volume of living space is also unimportant to me. I like renting. I don't take up much space and don't see the value in claiming a bigger footprint than I need. But I couldn't feel confused that others disagree, unless I felt my values were somehow correct or absolute.
I work in the IoT space and I try to temper my enthusiasm for it when I talk to non tech people. After giving some cool examples I tell people,

"Soon, Moore's Law will make it cheap enough to connect everything you own to the Internet - it is not a question of if, just when. All your things may or may not talk to you; but they will definitely be talking to each other about you."
NiceDate - A wrapper for NSDate to make date manipulation a little easier
Netscape 4 had it. They dropped it when they moved to Phoenix ^w Firebird ^w Firefox
Monetary
I thought "Google" sounded childish and silly the first time I heard it. It made me think of googly eyes.
Millions of users' data hacked in Yahoo Japan security breach
wow, if you hadn't posted this I would have totally overlooked the intro. Had to go back to re-experience the site. heh
Because that is what the market will bear.
I dropped out of high school after completing the advanced, senior-level math in my sophomore year. The school had interesting classes, but there were no more classes to intellectually challenge me. It was the right choice, and I immediately enrolled in college. You are right on track, exarch.
Homeowners associations should be able to decide whether or not they want short-term rentals.
This is literally just a cheap WiFi router (same chipset as the popular TL-WR703N) running OpenWRT and an Arduino crammed onto a single PCB. Neat form factor, but not groundbreaking in the slightest.
Well, it also should be clear to everyone that:

1) The overwhelming majority of Flickr users will never read these stories or even dream about uploading files;

2) Most people who read this POC will not try it, and of those who try it, most will use it only once;

This is a non-problem.
Caveats : not the parent, and Atlanta has reportedly changed significantly in the last 10 years.

However, when I visited (~2001), the intense racial geographic separation was jarring. Some areas were literally exclusively white and black respectively. For perspective, I grew up largely in DC proper which is racially divided in its own right, but not even in the same ballpark as ATL. Public transit was abysmal - the metro line from downtown basically ran in 2 directions (N-S, E-W).

People places and things all change. I recently visited Philly and was taken aback at how much it had changed in the last 7 years (for the better, IMHO). That said, I wouldn't hold my breath at Tennessee becoming a great place to live for those outside its demographic mean, although I can make no qualitative assertions about Chattanooga.
Owning a building and an apartment are different things. If you own an apartment or condo, you are bound by the home owner's association rules, which can be pretty limiting.
Mental Health Tetris
It still boggles my mind that people pay $500-800 per month for an apartment in Pittsburgh or Chattanooga. You buy a decent house in somewhere else for what 2-3 years of rent in Pitt will get you.
I have always understood that college was for learning about underlying theories, but not necessarily industry-specific tools. If someone picks up HTTP during that time, great, but it shouldn't come as an expectation. That is what community college is for.

Perhaps a better question would be: "The HTTP verb POST is non-idempotent. When must you use a POST request?"
Change.org Raises $15M, While Committing to Never Sell or IPO
There's no guarantee that "bad" devs would avoid getting listed. They'd probably sign right up, and promptly collect lots of glowing reviews from their extensive network of sock-puppet clients.

There will also be some bad reviews. The "bad" dev will respond to those, claiming that the client had vague, expansive, and ultimately impossible deliverables and, perhaps, a tendency to avoid paying bills. And then it's one person's word versus another, because it's not as if the "bad" dev's story is particularly difficult to believe.

Meanwhile, the problem with the "blacklist" model is that it doesn't help you, but it does hurt you. Yes, there is some probability that you'll help the next poor sap that tries to hire the Voldemort Development Corporation, but that's overbalanced by the near-certainty that you'll drive away a lot of competent talent who will see your "blacklist" as a gigantic warning sign about you. No contractor wants the risk of working for a customer who is prone to publicly badmouthing the contractors when a project goes wrong. Because software projects do go wrong. For reasons that are often outside a contractor's control.
Fair enough. But I don't think that's reason enough to flag the story; I think that's reason to submit links to more insightful posts such as you describe, and let them push less insightful ones off the front page.

PS. I'm glad to hear people appreciate posts with more detail and substance, as that's generally what I can write and like to read, but it often seems that the most commented on links are lists, and most of the comments are subjective arguments about why X should or should not be on the list.
I've stayed in tiny hotels in 30+ countries and not been worried about that so I'm not sure why it would be much different with AirBnB.
It is easy to focus on the "glory" positions, but easy to forget all of the support required. For a doctor to save someone who comes in on an ambulance, there's the other staff in the hospital, the training for everyone, the tools, the work to get the right tools in the right place, the roads the ambulance drove in on, etc etc.
I'm a pretty technical person and the idea of using video game culture as a way to represent various personal/mental/social situations is quite interesting. Does this speak to anyone else? Very, very curious.
About three weeks ago.
This was a fun app to build, once you login we are using Backbone.js + Marionette.js to handle almost everything. We've built Backbone apps before, but in this one it all came together. I hope people check it out.