skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, its more serious than that.

(IANAL)
Using a dwelling for short term rental may be a violation of the covenants upon the deed and may allow someone previously holding title to the land to reclaim it - this is why Home Owner Associations are obligated to enforce the regulations of deed restricted communities and what allows them to impose sanctions against violators.

I once was involved with a waterfront parcel deeded to the city for a park in the 1920's. It was never developed as such and an adjacent property owner - a trauma surgeon - offered to purchase it. I became involved nine years on after the surgeon had tracked down and obtained a quit-claim from all the surviving heirs of the previous owners. That was in 2002 as part of the city's approval of the sale.
Just had a look at it, you're right there's definite similarities between the two. I guess someone at MS had a soft spot for DCL!
Apple's Tim Cook Defends The Firm's Tax Policy Before The House - Webcast
As someone who lives outside of the US entirely, New York = NYC, New York State = the state of New York. As such, the original title was clear to me.
> can only decrease the supply of 12-month leases

Temporary and long-term housing should be fungible. I've learned from other commenters that maybe they're not due to the NYC regulatory structure. If so then that's creating horrible distortions, and maybe that's also the reason why AirBNB is so popular.
er, bracketing that I forgot to finish. I originally meant to write: anti-feminist/'men's rights activist'
I don't know about depressing but the amount of drama on HN seems on the rise lately and I don't find it all that entertaining or interesting. I guess this old tune is played out but, I remember a time when things where better.
Doing $5 Million A Year With Three Employees: FineArtAmerica CEO Sean Broihier
He did mean Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (recency illusion). The Wikipedia editors deleted the old entry and made it a straight redirect to the "cognitive biases" page for some bizarre reason. I'd link to an explanation of what it is, but I'm sure you'll find a reference to it again in the next few days.
Creating personas on what people say is bad UX, and not a flaw in personas. Knowing what a user behavior based interview/persona is the job of whoever is in charge of the startups UX process.

I don't see how you can "know your market" without some sort of idea on who your user is, what their behaviors are, and have some sort of empathy with them.

Regarding pivoting and "throwing out" the work... each discipline of a team would do that. That's your UX designers job, just like a programmer would have to throw away code or a graphic artist would throw away design collateral for the new direction.

The "realize nobody cares" is exactly what good UX personas prevent. I guess if a startup doesn't know how to incorporate or conduct good UX you could run into those problems.

I guess I just don't agree with your premise. You're basically describing what happens when something goes wrong with your UX and personas - so of course your argument makes sense since you're highlighting a worst case scenario. But you're neglecting to acknowledge that every day, many startups effectively use and get tremendous value from personas and UX, and you can't do real UX without personas.
the app itself is a great idea! but don't know if collaborative editing is something big!
New crowd-sourced project to determine what words mean
The first, Android app compliant, Jolla phone launched
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Trivially true and uninformative. The article explains what, exactly, a photographer does better.
Hmm, I tried it and it redirects me to about:blank
I've said elsewhere, but this is only true if short-term and long-term housing aren't fungible, which could only result from a messed up regulatory structure in need of some serious overhaul.
Two factor auth is extremely uncommon in the US for banking.

My UK account uses 2 factor but, none of the financial sites I use in the US (4 different companies) have it.
>If I owned a building then I set the rules/laws.

He is talking about when you own an apartment, not the whole building.

And even when you own a building you still don't get to "set the rules/laws". There are tons of laws about what you can, and what you cannot do with and in your building. And in some areas, like e.g. Santa Fe IIRC, there can even be rules about what your building should look like.

Given those, starting your response with "your argument is completely shallow and void of reason.." is certainly ironic.
The Security filter shows CSP errors and mixed content warnings among other things. I expect the security team will add more messages to that section of the console over time.

We're going to revamp the Console's output area fairly significantly in the next few months. Better Object output is high on the list of changes.

(you can use console.dir(object) for an inlined inspector view, or inspect(object) in the console's jsterm input line to view the object in the sidebar)

Shift-Enter turns the Console's input line into a multi-line input.

We're hoping to add autocomplete to the Scratchpad down the road too.
People have a love/hate relationship with the name. It really resonates well with women in general and K-12. The most push-back on it being too "non-professional" comes from the UK by far.

No immediate plans to change the name or branding, but duly noted! We really do appreciate and consider all feedback.
Are you planning on adding PayPal integration?
> Finally, I've begun to really like OSC's version of the internet as presented in Ender's Game, at least when it comes to having real discussions.

The only things I remember about it is that a) there were effectively several 'internets', and you had to pay to access each one, and b) the Wiggin kids had to have accounts created for them by their parents, who could presumably vouch for them, and would be tied to a real identity.

But later on, (spoiler alert for a 30 year old book folks, Jesus dies at the end) they have totally self-funded anonymous accounts, which doesn't make sense in light of point b.
Maybe, maybe not. There are many variables: cycle time of each step, cost of raw material, cost of labor, cost of real estate, turnover of labor, etc.

In the end you can dial in your desired quality at the expense of your yield. We tended to view high yield at a given quality level as the main goal but if you can afford to throw away 1% more parts at final inspection and still save money you'll be forced to do that.
I subscribe to the Hacker News feed, which does not include comments. It's very useful stuff. So the links themselves are good.

To each his own: My HN reading favors comments over links by at least an order of magnitude.
You may need to justify the "not terribly expressive" part, especially since the objection is limited to words that already have clear meanings (<adjective> <noun>) but for which the meaning is taken as the opposite.

As for the "bragging", you probably should read the comment again, there isn't anything in there that could be described as bragging. I'll also just posit that there's also such a thing as being well read without delving into Swift.
Extend the Web Forward by Yehuda Katz
Just to add though. Wire transfers require txt or call authentication.
I agree with your comments that detailed posts covering just one library and discussing about the specifics of why/why not the library is a good choice are much more interesting. But I think that lists of these kinds are useful as well, specially for someone who is just beginning their development as this lists some of the libraries that I think are useful for all kinds of applications. I have seen people writing code to perform things that are already accomplished by these libraries and maybe if they knew something like this exists, they wouldn't have to waste few good days on reprogramming the wheel.
P.S. I am the author of the post so I might be a bit biased on this.
Additionally, we should be voting with our money on services that embrace privacy and plausible deniability as a core design tenant. Unfortunately at the moment there aren't many good examples that I'm aware of, the most noteworthy would be Mega(assuming it lives up to what they claim).
Slides and videos aren't available at this point. But he is presenting this again at Web Rebels.

https://twitter.com/swannodette/status/336816354868989953
How large would it need to be scaled in order to generate useful amounts of power by sticking a wind turbine on it?
I love how this breaks down the time involved outside of the actual picture taking. It is similar for other professions as well; you pay for the hour that you are with them but it covers the hours outside of that time as well.
Get front page news headlines from Hacker News in India, Canada and US via SMS
Well yes, Google does sound a bit silly, but seriously, DuckDuckGo... that's pushing it.
Can you capture PDF that way, or is it only png?
Eliminating the 300ms delay on mobile devices when tapping a link with
But then other New York residents agree with them by using their services and your point is moot because at the end of the day, you have no right to say they can't do that.
Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA? Hell No.
What, so Nintendo is not only responsible for launching the platform, but needs to come up with an entirely new franchise each cycle as well?

They release the platform, and then they use their first party titles to bring the initial group of people so third party developers have an audience to sell to. As long as the first party titles are fun and interesting, I don't see any problem with that.

P.S. Are you really equating Paper Mario and Super Mario 64? As someone who played Super Paper Mario for the first time a few months back, beyond superficialities, they aren't much alike at all.
I think it's a bit much to expect a moral and social revolution just to support AirBnB.

People are nice to people they're going to see again and generally indifferent/inconsiderate towards people they won't see. That goes double for new york.
Can anyone please clearly explain what exactly did Google do regarding XMPP? Just stopped using XMPP protocol in their Hangout client? Or disabled XMPP federation on their server? The later doesn't seem to be the case - I can still communicate with the contacts from Google server (though they don't use the Hangout client).
I wasn't suggesting not to read the article but that the same applies to all crafts.
I totally agree! I'm a homebrewer, so the phrasing really made me do a double-take.
Nutella Lawyers Shut Down What Other Companies Would Consider A Wet Dream
- No ability to put in an anti-CSRF token

Yes, that was an oversight on my part. See my reply to mixedbit downthread for a proposed solution with a slight change of syntax: just add another field that contains a nonce.

- No ability to add an anti-phishing token (like a login image or phrase)

The phisher can fetch those images for you, making them more or less ineffective. Besides, the whole point of embedding a login button in the browser toolbar and making it pick the correct credentials is that the button will not work on any other domain. I'm trying to be backward compatible with as many existing websites as possible, but I can't achieve perfect compatibility with banks that won't listen to reason.

- No ability to style/brand the login page
- "Forgot Password" needs to be added somewhere

Logos and links can be added to the real HTML login page, which will continue to exist. The API will not replace the login page. It's just another way to send the POST request. If you don't know your password you obviously can't tell your browser to remember it, so the login button will not work and you'll have to visit the real HTML login page anyway.
All you need to do is send

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as SMS to 92665 92665 in India and to 898-932 (TXT-WEB) in US and Canada.

Normal SMS charges will be applicable.

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Whatever the time is to do the shoot + every hour of experience and learning until the start of the shoot.
You have my full sympathies and empathies. Living at home with a sick relative (terminal or not) is a deeply emotionally taxing but personally important act.

No one person can fix / help with every problem. You can only at best better enable others to more effectively solve problems. That's what I'm doing with my tech, that's what you're doing with your tech. That's what everyone building a genuinely technological venture is trying to do.
A tale of two butthurts.

Online discourse is not in the best shape. That said, despite wanting to feel bad for both authors, the stench of their misplaced entitlement prevents me.
DDG wanted to get duck.com, but Google won't let them have it after getting it through an acquisition. A rebrand to duck.com would help DDG a lot. But it just redirects to google.com now, so anyone typing duck.com by mistake are redirected to google.
I don't think the name is a negative. It's made of simple words that people can spell. It's cute/friendly (just like "google"). It has a mascot. I think the energy that would be needed to "re-brand" to overcome imagined difficulties that I would attribute to more to normal lack of familiarity would be better spent improving the product further to address search coverage and context/language intelligence.

I have found it easy to recommend to non-technical people. (In the early days of Google, I had to spell it for people too... at least this is 3 common words.)

I think the emphasis on converting non-technical people is also often misplaced. Non-technical people don't care about any of the issues that lead to development. The number of people using Skype shows most people don't care about privacy. That doesn't mean DDG's offering is not unique or valuable, it's just that the people to recognize that value will not be the majority by any stretch - but, it never is - and converting people who have the hardest time understanding that value should be a low priority IMHO.

In promoting privacy, DDG captures the union of early adopters, technically literate, and digital evangelists - all groups that are most likely to understand as well as turn around and effectively promote it (for example, by setting the homepage and default search engine after cleaning up a system for a friend)... This is the crowd to keep happy (without raising the barrier to entry either... for example, late adopters will not use bangs or care that you search Hacker News too, but the early adopters appreciate it greatly). These were the same types of people promoting the early Internet to the masses, who barely saw the point in having a computer.

In that vein, one of the best things for DDG, IMHO, would be to make setting ALL browsers as easy as possible (homepage+default search). (I know I'm not saying anything new...) There are add-ons for individual browsers, for example (which I tend not to use, because I like vanilla installations without extensions to upgrade later), and conventional methods (which I prefer, but have been de-emphasized in favor of add-ons), but further-centralizing the process of applying these customizations would be nice. For example, I'd rather download a single native app or portable script (WSH) that was capable of searching out browsers and - through check-boxes - setting their homepage and search (ideally to the SSL search), via the browser-native method (or add-on method), in one pass (usable offline, and ideally at an easy-to-type URL like "duckduckgo.com/tools"). This would help high-turn-over scenarios like tech-support shops, which has the chance to affect the most users but are also under pressure, so want to do the minimum possible (Idea: actively promote to these places).

On a different note, I'm curious how the costs associated with this XMPP service are expected to grow and how it is seen from the business side. If 100000 people started to use it for messaging, would it become too burdensome and be discontinued, or is there a plan for cost-recovery (or is the ddg bot enough of a case)?
They could do it in exchange for charging an even higher rent?
Hacking Google Conversational Search or What I Did Over the Long Berlin Weekend
Working Remote and Distributed or Not
Unfortunately PayPal is currently not on our roadmap, due to the prevalence of chargebacks and hacked accounts.

We will offer direct bank account transfers and Dwolla, however, both of which can be just as easy as PayPal.
You can use the Style Editor to modify CSS and see the changes applied.

We're going to be adding edit support to the Debugger soon.
If he sold physical copies of the book for $29, his profit margin would be cut down significantly.
The people who can't use an editor, read a man page, and don't know about SSH a) probably don't need this and b) would probably have just as hard of a time figuring out how to use this CLI utility as they would learning nano and .ssh/config syntax.
So Business Insider is summarizing a post from Fast Company, which itself is summarizing a post from CNet, which did actual reporting and has the text of the decision. I wish OPs would take the time to actually figure this out before submitting links. You want good journalism? Then support it by promoting the original work, not the get-rick-quick aggregation.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57585377-93/ny-official-air...
I respect Dave but he has to realize, experienced as he is at blogging, that...this is the Internet, where no one knows you're a dog...or even an Internet pioneer. And he's done his fair share of rush-to-judgment posting...my first knowledge of him was during the whole Suggested Users List spat, in which he accused organizations, such as the NYT, of participating in payola: http://scripting.com/stories/2009/03/12/whyItsTimeToBreakOut...

The Internet is no different or less immune to abusive discussion than every other form of human communication...but at least it's one in which it's possible for any participant, big or small, to improve the discussion, and so keeping scripting.com (assuming that he considers his writing there to be overall helpful) off of HN would be a disservice.
The Internet is depressing. Let's blow it up and go play frisbee.
We got to use Java with JavaCC, this was back in 1998 and everyone wanted to use it, sounds familiar?
He's also a good example of how a cult of personality can adversely affect one's humility.
Not sure if it's any consolation, but some people were downvoting personal insults, and in the few minutes I spent reading the thread some people were calling out personal insults as a bad thing, and asking people not to do it.

More people need to downvote direct personal insults.

The author is right that it's a problem.
I completely agree, though it is a good place to see what's going on. An incredible amount of bozos, though.
Monetize a digital startup, these are the commissions you can ask per industry.
I think this passes under the rule of "common knowledge", at least for anyone in the field of linguistics or literature. The writing in question, A Modest Proposal, was written centuries ago, if you read the Christian Bible you can see examples of satire that are thousands of years old.
I have the 'lapdock' used here; with a phone (the original use case) IIRC it was quoted for 9 hours.. and that must have included powering the phone too, because it would keep the phone battery full. So, possible, i think.
If you've got a public blog, I'd say that's analogous to having a public twitter account (i.e. anyone can see your tweets).

On a public twitter account, if you block someone they can still see your tweets, and they can still talk about you. You just can't see it.

Blocking a post from HN would mean people on HN wouldn't even see it or be able to talk about it. We might be assholes, but we should still be able to talk about stuff within the parameters laid out by HN.

Another solution might just be to disable commenting in your posts if the referer is HN.
People make their choices when they participate in HN comment streams. As far as I can tell, there is no RSS feed for comments here and there is no advanced way of keeping track on commenting. You have to manually browse to participate yourself into the conversations.

Over the few years, HN has sort of become the Digg and Reddit. There are far and few substantial conversations in visible view (yes count mine as unsubstantial as well).

From the logical perspective, the circle of HN needs to break off from its core and diverge into many different circles. There may already be few inner circles (hidden from the public view) I can't tell. But it seems logical that this big public circle is all inclusive, where everything goes.
This is curious, maybe a little too reactionary[1], but I think we could use the introspection.

On the one hand, being argued about is a problem a lot of people would like to have. I spent two years making a large canvas diagramming library and I would have loved for it to have frontpage'd on HN, even if everyone just told me it was terrible.

On the other hand, I do think the meanness of programming communities is a the biggest problem we have. Programmer-types are just not as supportive/empathetic as nearly everyone else I know. And I'm not talking about criticism, I'm talking about needless mean, shitty behavior that gets repeated and defended all too often. When the Linus/"Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP!"[2] was posted to HN every single top comment was defending Linus' behavior.

Linus' mission and position do not excuse his language. In defending users, he's still attacking a person.

It upsets the hell out of me, and I think its a big part of why many women (and I'm sure men) prefer not to engage in programming communities. Even on StackOverflow I see people being horrible to confused newcomers, instead of steering them in the right direction.

I think rooting out this kind of shitty behavior is the most important thing we can do to advance programming communities and make others feel welcome. By miles. Especially if we want to alleviate gender and general newcomer disparities.

This article reminds me of one from 117 days ago, "What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project".[3]

~~~~~

[1] There were some remarks in the article that just left me confused, such as:

> They said I thought JavaScript was a bad language. How funny, because I'm writing almost all my code these days in JavaScript. They say I'm old and out of date. Funny. They're the ones who are out of date! :-)

???

~~~~~

[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

Some excerpts:

> Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP!

> It's a bug alright - in the kernel. How long have you been a maintainer? And you still haven't learnt the first rule of kernel maintenance?

> If a change results in user programs breaking, it's a bug in the kernel. We never EVER blame the user programs. How hard can this be to understand?

> Shut up, Mauro. And I don't _ever_ want to hear that kind of obvious garbage and idiocy from a kernel maintainer again. Seriously.

If you talked to your spouse like that it would be called abuse.

I was horrified by the HN reactions. You can read some of them here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4962912

~~~~~

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5106767
Maybe it's just different learning styles, but I think most folks prefer video to text.

Like you, I can't stand it - I jump straight to a transcript or other text to consume the information: I read and understand WAY faster than people talk (or I can listen).

That said, I hate physical books, and am much happier with a PDF (or better, an actual ebook format) for the full price of a regular, physical book. I'm paying for the content, not the dead tree components.