skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue just the opposite - you do not have the right to feel safe or comfortable in your home. If you feel unsafe then the only right you have is to move (obviously unless what makes you feel unsafe is something like theft or you being attacked).

My objection stems from the fact that people sharing their own apartment with strangers is a scenario where two or more consenting adults agree on a peaceful transaction. Making it illegal then treats that peaceful action as something hostile.

If the law were revoked or restructured, as you mentioned, and the owner of the building (maybe what you meant by building boards) made it against building rules, then that would certainly satisfy my objection. The owners most definitely have the right to do with their property as they see fit.
I can't argue for Linux in general as I find most distros too old school for me, but Ubuntu with Unity is better to me as a consumer desktop than Windows 7.

I guess you have some very specific proprietary applications in mind, line Netflix, but they are what they are because of Netflix, there's nothing in Ubuntu that prevents Netflix from creating a great Ubuntu client.

I have no idea about Windows 8, as I have never used it.
As a resident of Chattanooga for 2.5 years now, I'll add for the non-rock climbers (or as myself, avoiders of altitude) that access to outdoors/ water/ nature is unbelievable in Chattanooga.

Parks, the river front, multiple lakes, are all easy access - which is great for dog lovers like myself.
Why won't Bitcoin die?
Another 7m Workout Web App
ShellCheck: Online shell script analyzer
Actually the upcoming Ubuntu Phone and Tablet OS is more exiting for me than whatever the new Android version is.
If they own it, I assert that they have the right to "air it out", as you put it, regardless of my own objections. This is the same issue I have with regulated lawn maintenance.
Just install them in different paths. You have three options then:

1. Use absolute paths for the Go tools: $ /home/paul/go-tip/bin/go run myfile.go

2. Set the GOPATH every time accordingly (script)

3. Rename the folder. For example on my Windows PC I have GOPATH pointed to D:/dev/go. In the dev folder I have Go installations in go/ (currently 1.1), go1.0.3 (guess the version) and go-tip. If I want to use another version I just rename the folder to go/
> Why exactly can’t Google try new things and then discontinue them if they don’t gain enough traction?

They can, and I don't think anyone is telling Google they can't. The sentiment I'm seeing is that developers and business owners are developing a sense that Google will do just that. It's the impact on the Google-user relationship that is suffering. What you've stated is the cause, not the effect.

> Why is trying new services out a bad thing?

For whom; Google, or the end-user? In the short term, it looks great for Google. "Hey, we've got piles of money and resources; let's just try everything!" This sucks for the end-user though, because we don't all have piles of money and resources lying around to cover switching costs.

When you bootstrap a start-up, you learn a very valuable skill set: do something with next-to-nothing. Google's offerings are often enticing, because they're low cost, and often free when they start out. Then the attention of those responsible for Google's bottom line begin to narrow in on the service, and the hard questions start coming. How will this service turn a profit? How will this service support our core offering? How much resources is this service consuming? Would those resources be better spent elsewhere?

Those are all perfectly valid questions for Google. From the entrepreneur's side of the table though, they're frightening as hell. What happens when you integrate these services in to your business plan, only to have Google shift their offering to make more sense for Google? The entrepreneur is already engaged in the fight of their life just trying to develop their product and acquire customers. The stability of the underlying services that drive their business becomes a significant factor in their success or failure.

> Are they supposed to be perfect?

No, of course not. However, it would be nice if Google chose to make a serious commitment to new products, rather than launching every product as a test/beta. Still, it's their choice, just like it's the entrepreneur's choice to avoid their "beta" products after having had the rug pulled out from under us in the past.
Poor Watson, fame really must have taken its toll. From Jeopardy winner to Help Desk agent, I can only assume a life of drugs and alcohol led to this.
My guess is a twenty something riding a billion dollar wave into yahoo hq isn't going to make friends quickly. Influencing yahoo as one person might prove difficult. All the best though.
http://theysay.io/ -- These are Oxford-based researchers with a pretty thorough text-mining API. Less about indexing and more about text analysis.
Example of the the baader-meinhof phenomenon? I learnt about this it a few days ago, as its the same phenomena used by Brain Brushwood in this weeks scam school - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at0xRBacJF8
where he attributes it to the 'bernoulli effect'.
I think the key here is that school is actually obstructing, not aiding, the "years of study". Extraordinarily gifted people can often be autodidactic - very good self-directed learners. When that hunger for knowledge exhausts the ability of the public school teet to supply, it becomes either a matter of starvation or fending for oneself. Staying in school in these cases can actually hamper learning via distraction and peer pressure to conform to the "norm".
Take a deep dive into some hidden features of Require.js
Firefox will work from Android 2.2 and up.
As naive as this may sound, especially for a company that
is likely already valued over $1 billion, this is a
golden opportunity for AirBnB to gain unparallelled media
and bolster main stream support.

I don't know if that's the case - in fact, it might be the exact opposite. People are growing increasingly tired of companies like Uber and Airbnb using libertarian talking points to rally supporters, whenever regulation gets in their way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5612159
There's also this:

http://thegreyhats.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/so-i-have-two-rasp...

And probably a few others around the Internet as well. Perhaps some enterprising person could come up with a laptop into which you plug in a raspberry pi?
Creating GitHub gists from Sublime Text
And they have mostly been fantastic.
Well... if I rent a really nice car, I take care of it better than my own ;) Having said that, I live in a Philadelphia neighborhood where it's in the deed to the house that you're not allowed to rent your property out, and it's absolutely helped keep things really nice. There was one house that rented out to college students up until this past year - the grass was always overgrown, and the new owner of the house ended up having to replace doors, walls, you name it. Got a good deal on an otherwise great house though.

I think the nature of housing in NYC makes it difficult for AirBnB places to function the same as they do in, say, Asheville NC. Renting a house is one thing, renting an apartment with a shared entrance and more permanent tenants attached to nearly every other wall is different in so many ways.
To be fair, it's a bit of a creepy thing to do. Just because you _can_ do something, doesn't mean you _should_.
out of curiosity what was your primary language?
I don't care if Houston is 'Liberal'. I prefer pragmatic and reasonable. If the two go hand and hand, so be it, but I don't think that's always the case.
There's a reason HTTP Authentication isn't widely used. It's significantly harder to style, which means it's hard to work password reset into it. It doesn't easily admit to "logout", which is an important security mechanism. In 2013 applications use sessions for far more than just authentication. It doesn't gracefully handle token authentication. It doesn't make play well with single sign-on. It doesn't even make sense in a world where your phone or fingerprint authenticates you to an app.

The right way to think of HTTP Authentication is as an experiment that failed.
http://nimrod-code.org/manual.html#character-type

In particular:

> The TRune type is used for Unicode characters, it can represent any Unicode character. TRune is declared in the unicode module.
I just recently moved my company to Chattanooga as well. It has an incredible emerging startup scene. Check it out here http://noogastartups.com
Some language features do preclude some optimizations. For example, once you have dynamic typing you'll typically need a butt load of engineering effort to generate the fastest possible numerical computation.

Now that people seem to want to do everything from crypto to image processing in Javascript, projects like JägerMonkey, v8 (method JITs) and asm.js have cropped up that show this is still an unsolved problem in many respects. One could easily make the case that Javascript is, in fact, becoming less and less suitable for the web.
Benefits of Subscription Pricing [humor]
>They're valuing the company at $1.1 Billion.

Flickr != Tumblr
Sweet, but ending hunger is incompatible with profit, and this will therefore die a sad little death as it gets legislated into oblivion, if it gets anywhere near gaining traction (which it won't, you just know Monsanto and friends will run a massive PR campaign about how synthesised food is terrorism, GMO is freedom, etc.).
Perhaps the eventual goal is billions of people on another planet, I think the medium term goal is just a large enough gene pool to ensure survival of the species. You do not need billions for that. The truth is that even if you want billions you do not necessarily need a whole lot of space for them, if you examine the total area of arable land on earth and how many people you can pack into a city the space requirements are not as large as one might first assume if you have climate controlled growing conditions and a 100% urban population.

I have read a lot of material about the energy required to sustain some sort of colony on Mars but I have never read anything estimating the kind of energy strategy required for terraforming or building a substantial colony. This is why I have doubts about it, I do not see it being properly considered. For example most of the terraforming schemes involve the generation of greenhouse gases, creating a more opaque atmosphere and nullifying the thin atmosphere advantage. So now you have a sun-starved version of earth without the repository of hydrocarbons to dig up and burn off that earth has. I'm no expert though, this is a fairly uneducated opinion.
It already was illegal. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5742925
Simple intro to writing a gevent web crawler
There is no residential fiber in Milwaukee.

Public places with internet access are pretty much always running it off DSL or cable. Some schools and commercial buildings have fiber, but it's shared among so many people that it's not really much faster.

Amazon does offer that service, but it's $80/device + $2.49/hour.
I think this is a great and honest parody, regardless of whether or not Wario has anything to do with it.
My opinion is that the USA tends more towards individualism and Europe more towards collectivism which would explain the authors approach to handling issues at the European level (Combined with the fact she is an MEP so is heavily invested in the European system) and probably also underlies your sensitivity to 'doublespeaky' statist approaches. I made an assumption about you there that may well be unfair.

However, It would appear there is a wide spread of individualism vs collectivism across Europe http://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/26956-Map-of-Individual... and when you dig into the comparisons the USA isn't that far from the UK or similar EU nations like the Netherlands where the author hails from http://geert-hofstede.com/united-states.html.

I have to admit the scale of the issue makes me think of collectivist approaches similarly to the author but I'd be interested to hear of individualistic approaches.
The Klymit Inertia X-Frame is like what he described. A Balloonbed is even smaller, but takes a fair bit longer to inflate.
Such a language would be exceedingly dull and not terribly expressive to boot.

Further, bragging about not being well read strikes me as anti-intellectual.
I never expected to click this link and see a politic party. Much less a Dutch one. Much less the party that I wanted to vote on - last elections I was allowed to vote for the first time - but didn't because my parents both voted something else, and I thought they'd probably know better. In hindsight I think choosing D66 would actually have been smarter...
I've played with Dyson's Air Multipliers in a department store and they really are that loud when you turn them up to mid-high setting. "Too loud."

I wish I could recommend you a high quality fan, I've looked, and frankly it is pretty slim pickings out there. Currently I have an unbranded Chinese-made one.

I'd kill for an ultra-quiet nighttime one, and pay good $$$ for it too.
> airbnb customers lose out on protection of the law

But they win on price and search time (which is equivalent to money)?
Will this render Flash content?
‘Just because someone makes fun of something, doesn't mean they are threatened by it.’

Usually, that’s exactly what it means.
Odd, I use straw man to mean an initial proposal. [1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man_proposal
At some point the use of "your freedom" is just a shield behind which one tries to hide complicity in removing others' freedom.

Unless one happens to find themselves on the side of the people who get to define what is "oppressive regime" and "others freedom".

It's not as clear cut as one may think when you consider the perspectives of other societies and the people in power there (even as individuals who learn how to create their own tools for their own means become more powerful). The whole UN regulation issue makes light of this [http://blogs.cfr.org/patrick/2012/12/04/un-control-of-the-in...].
Watson seemed so impressive on Jeopardy. I don't understand why they work on making it into a general search engine. It would be much better than google.

Or even a restricted search engine that can read all of the papers on a given topic and then answer questions from those papers.
Reddit fused with Dropbox?
This could be done with git annex http://git-annex.branchable.com/
It doesn't actually. Take this quote --

> To say this occupation is attainable for anyone though is a bit of stretch. It still requires some math chops and long hours of practice.

> "You have to be a self-starter to go along with this," Kenefick said. "In the beginning, it was literally all day and all night, day after day, I was practicing and building up my portfolio. I'm pretty sure it's more work than going to college."

To be fair, that quote is right at the end of the article.
"features and experience" are still contingent, in a very large way, on how the business runs.

e.g. ad-driven vs freemium vs subscription, quantity and types of advertising, etc.

Focusing on making the best product/"features and experience" without paying (enough) attention to how it's supposed to make money to sustain itself and fit into the world at large, is exactly how NeXT wound up with fantastic computers and software that no-one bought.
Well they are. If you count non-first-party titles from independent studios, yeah, the competition is making a lot of new games and characters all the time. If you just want to limit it to new first-party IPs, just compare the number of new IPs that Sony has put onto the market over the last generation vs. Nintendo.

I agree there's nothing wrong with using a franchise, but there's definitely something wrong with not putting out a decent amount of new IP (or at least significantly different versions of a franchise, e.g. comparing Paper Mario with Super Mario 64). Can you think of any new first-party Wii IP besides the various Mii-based games like Wii Sports, Endless Ocean, and Xenoblade?
A picture of Earth through time (25 yr. timelapse)
I've always wished that HTTP would give a similar hint to browsers for pagination, so there could be universal next-page keystrokes.
more easy to write bash aliases like alias ssh-web="ssh username@host" and you take bash completion support
Listening with HootSuite
My guess: Watson doesn't scale. The required resources to answer a given question is reasonable for a "question-every-minute" format like Jeopardy, but not something like thousands of questions a second.
Political rhetoric reached peaks with Wikileaks, Stuxnet and now it seems Pentagon subcontractors got hacked by China years ago.

So digital freedom is taking a pounding (while Wilders is being forgotten already). The security industry did not have their own security in order, that's more an internal Pearl Harbour. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-01/china-cyberspies-ou...

Disclaimer: I'm Dutch and live there.
Via source files (http://github.com/wondermedia/wm8850)

That's, I think, an Arm Cortex A9. Which uses, I think, v7?

(http://archlinuxarm.org/)

They give a few examples of different devices using the A9, but it'll require some hacking around.

You've seen this?

(http://kernelhacks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/arch-linux-on-wm86...)

And read the post by Nautilus on this page (http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2065008.html)
I didn't get a writer since the project required only a reader (the cards were written elsewhere). Readers are pretty cheap, writers are surprisingly expensive.

The main things you have to look out for are coercivity and tracks. Magnetic stripe cards come in both high-coercivity and low-coercivity (HiCo and LoCo). This is a bigger issue if you're doing writing, I believe most readers are compatible with both. There are typically 3 tracks of data available, so you'll also want a reader (or writer!) that can access all three.

The model I got could be programmed through a Windows only utility and that seemed pretty standard, so at least make sure you have a virtual machine with Windows on it. You'll need to program it to tell how to interact (as a keyboard is easiest) and if you want to fiddle with the tracks.
Right I see what you're saying, looks like I misread the article a bit. For me it would be an ideal implementation if there could also be some callback functionality, that way it doesn't just have to redirect to a login url the logic can be handled natively (wrong password > try again, success > reload page etc). Even better, instead of pointing to a login page, you could specify a different auth scheme and just point to a JSON or XML file with the various field etc. Whichever way, it isn't going to be utterly trivial I will agree on that.
There is bash completion for ssh.

Its included as part of the bash-completion package on most distributions of linux.

Its got extremely good completion support for hostnames

It has the added advantage of also auto-completing for scp.
Rackspace Cloud Files announces new features
What does this add over just editing ~/.ssh/config with $EDITOR?
There are several problems with using HTTP auth as a replacement for login forms.

The biggest problem, perhaps, is that it's mutually exclusive: A resource is either protected by auth, or it isn't. There is no room in the spec for pages that change their meaning depending on whether you are logged in or not.

Of course, one could argue that "logged in" pages should have different URLs, eg., /logged_in/*, and just use auth for those. The problem with that approach is that if you go to any resource not within that URL namespace, such as the front page, auth isn't necessarily sent by the browser, and so you can't know if the user is logged into the other parts of the site.

Nor is there anything that supports the notion of "login sessions" -- once you're authenticated, you can't un-authenticate, as far as I know. We actually have a payment provider (DIBS, a Scandinavian company) that uses basic auth for their admin login. The only way to log out of their admin, such as in order to log into a different account, is to clear the browser state.

And lastly, the login popup that browsers currently provide for basic auth is poorly implemented and altogether too simple. There is no way to ask for password recovery, for example, and there is no way to provide a signup button.
you can override some of the ssh options if you use it with sshconfig.

example ssh config:
Host vps
hostname 1.1.1.1
port 22
identityfile /home/emre/.ssh/vps.pub

If you want to override stuff, just do it like ssh vps -p 99.

And there is bash completion support with ssh, too. try it.

ssh <TAB>
Any recommendations for designers to make developers lives easier?
One can only hope this causes the price of existing wifi shields to decrease.
There's a point here, but there's also a line between tolerance and exploitation.

I'm not against my neighbor renting his place out for a month while he travels in Europe, and help pay for his vacation. That's the sort of neighborly thing I'm willing to be on board for.

But this, primarily, isn't the contentious issue. The contentious issue is when someone buys an apartment and rents it out full-time as a business venture. Me helping out his business venture by overlooking basic concerns isn't neighborly, it's being a pushover while he laughs his way to the bank.

> "Otherwise you are going to live in an over-regulated society where everything that can be unpleasant to somebody is illegal"

I agree. And the best way to prevent this over-regulation is to reign in bad actors without having to invoke the law. This is to say, AirBnb needs to go back to its roots as "I'm away from my apartment, who wants it" and not "I have 5 properties around the city".
I hate to be snarky but having read through the code this really isn't a big thing. It's a tool for people that can't use .ssh/config.

Manage your SSH like a boss? Perhaps, but only in the pointy-haired can't-read-man-ssh_config boss sense of the word.

For those that don't want to install a script and would prefer to understand the tools they already have try this:

http://nerderati.com/2011/03/simplify-your-life-with-an-ssh-...
Honest question:

Why is this preferable to using:

vim/emacs/subl/nano ~/.ssh/config ?
It was only a matter of time until someone came up with something like this. Use at your own risk, and make sure you don't have anything you wouldn't mind losing on the Flickr service since Yahoo can just arbitrarily close your account at any time.
It seems more like a (better) version of Wolfram Alpha than a general search engine.
Nothing. Maybe just getting a list of host entries in a clean way.
Ask HN: Help stop Adobe's abuse of European customers
Just checked the price for a CC subscription in Europe. It's €61,49 per month. That's $80.

Since the announcement, I assumed the price would be the usual US price translated directly in Euros, e.g €50. That would still be an abuse (at $64.35) but more tolerable.

There's some discussion all around the Web and on Adobe forums, like here:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4648281 where Adobe stuff give BS excuses like taxation (hint: there's no tax or overhead anywhere in Europe that can amount to a $30 dollar hike, that is a 60% price increase).

I believe that an EU fine for abusing monopoly pricing would bring Adobe to it's senses. Can HN people help get this started? How do we report such cases to the EU?
Ironic that the quote "I'm pretty sure it's more work than going to college." is from somebody who only spent a few weeks at university.

(Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with dropping out)
Bushlog - African Wildlife Tracking App
Bushlog is a fun, interactive app to record, view and share African Wildlife Sightings all the while helping researchers and conservationists protect Africa's biodiversity. Built using Django/Python and Twitter Bootstrap.
I hope they can patent this just so they're not ripped off by big generic companies. It's a great idea.