skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should have written a tiny Lisp in whatever language they did allow and then go from there.
I'de be interested to see the difference between what people say they pay for apps and what they actually do. I imagine it isn't $3-5.
I doubt it's less error-prone. SSH config files aren't particularly complicated, and if you get it wrong, it's easy enough to fix - just edit the file again.
TeamSnap Online Sports Management Platform Acquires Weplay
For the RGB issue see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775135

tl;dr:
The bug is on hold until a Mozilla employee comes back from vacations.
Check out gyp and ninja

https://code.google.com/p/gyp/wiki/GypVsCMake

https://github.com/martine/ninja
Link to abstract of underlying commentary article published in Nature:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7434/full/493602a...
That interview can't be real. Surely he was satirically making light the whole bro-grammer meme? Right? Hard for me to believe you can condense so much "douchiness" without it being in jest and intentional.
> 2. If AirBnB became a serious economic force in NYC, it would only make my outrageously expensive city more expensive as apartment rents converged upwards towards hotel rates.

Just do ridiculous rent control on more apartments. Doesn't everyone squat in rent-controlled apartments anyway? Remove the rent control and you'll see the real price.
Get a ceiling fan, they're usually a lot quieter.
Perhaps I can give you some useful nimrod-specific advice as I myself have created many Nimrod projects[1][2][3]. The best thing to do is to keep up to date on what's happening in the Nimrod world, breaking changes are rare but when they do happen they are announced in the changelog on the Nimrod website and in the Nimrod repo on github, IRC is also a good way to stay up to date. I started my contributions to Nimrod by basically writing and improving the standard library as well as creating random fun toy projects. I've also seen other people learning the language by contributing to all sorts of Nimrod projects on github, mainly my Aporia repo which includes a todo list and is generally pretty easy to modify as it's still quite small.

[1] https://github.com/nimrod-code/Aporia [2] https://github.com/nimrod-code/nimbuild [3] https://github.com/dom96/jester
Google Login Buttons Are Worth It
You're right, as a datapoint, I hadn't heard of them.
On the slide it shows an SPI- as well as uart-connection. Both should be very straight-forward to use, either relying on external libraries or by writing them yourself.
I certainly hope they stay my friends, and don't die before I need them.
I climb and code. Always wondered how many of us there are. It goes without saying... perpetually tempted by stuff like this. I'm not in CA -- AZ instead -- but I am a rock climber and whatnot and playing outside is a very important part of my life. It's funny to think about, how programmers are stereotyped as these fat, lazy nerds.... and while there's plenty of that around my office, a ton of us do all kinds of athletic activities. Cool to hear that as part of someone's pitch.

Of course, we could make some of the claims here in PHX: easy living, great community of people running around in the mountains, cool cultural stuff, etc...
You're saying, even though the near future will be as he describes, we shouldn't worry about it because most people prefer things that way?
I doubt many of these self-taught guys are writing compilers. They're mostly doing CRUD apps or 'plain old web development'.
Perhaps sharing tools, yes. Sharing cars, MAYBE. But sharing living spaces and housing, no. Housing is one of the most intimate services out there services out there. I have standards, I have rights, and I want to feel safe and secure where I live. I am a New Yorker and I don't want to feel like I'm living like a poor person with a hotel next door.

EDIT: The very definition of a hotel - An establishment providing accommodations, meals, and other services for travelers and tourists.
This reads like an article from 1997.
I presume you mean self-promotion/self-upVoting when you say 'playing'?

I think the solution is somewhat similar to how google became a success - build off of reputable links. Employers must link to their personal LinkedIn pages, company websites, an online record that they are who they say they are (either a D-U-N-S repository, or an incorporation document, etc etc). Yes, it can be spoofed - but if someone leaves either a glowing or awful review, you at least can look them up.

Likewise for freelancers. Many have profiles around the web, but it can be a struggle to find enough for a third party 'character check' - for instance, Salesforce Developers are in the AppExchange network, or the Force.com boards... I'm sure a ruby developer is in a completely different space!

In a certain sense, this needs to be a yelp for developers - reviews are valued and sought after. Bad reviews are feared, and its a somewhat ubiquitous place to find information on developers in a variety of spaces (Ruby,PHP,Salesforce,Obj-C,Java...)
Soylent green here we come...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
Illegal hotels are actually a legit problem in NYC. I'd have to dig up the article but I've read about shady landlords evicting residents and turning entire apartment buildings into Airbnb hotels. Its big business, my friend pays his entire rent with Airbnb.

Real estate is at an extreme premium and hotel space is scarce. There are a lot of scammers and shady people in this city so its only natural that Airbnb will be abused (I've even been sucked into an Airbnb-based con job in NYC myself).

I think the issue isn't so much that this law is on the books, its that they haven't updated the legislation to accomodate people who rent on Airbnb safely.
Using HN on mobile means dealing with an unresizeable text field that is constantly more than half off of your screen. Even when editing, it's not possible to view the entire text box if you want to be able to interact with the text inside it.

Mobile HN has been a problem since we started accessing the site with our phones, but has never been addressed.
Not so much to me. There are legions of artists creating non-software works/products/pieces/whatever that have to worry about non-existent revenue stream (or don't worry about it at all). Greatness in their craft is not really linked to the money at all. Some people may link the two with software, but there's really no innate reason to do so (see many OSS projects). Exterior costs such as servers, software, hardware etc create the impression of a link, but innately, I don't think there is one.

Let me rephrase your sentence that makes more sense to me: A key part of creating a great "business" is that it continues to support itself.
The problem is that now a Pro account (the way to get no ads) costs twice as much.

Maybe the old interface could have used some polish, but the new one goes overboard cramming photos together and hiding metadata/comments. It looks like it is giving photos more relevance, but actually it just creates noise.
> The "no degree, no problem" idea isn't backed up by my personal experience. I wish it were that easy, but I still find myself struggling to break in.

I've found in a lot of companies in middle America, it's nearly impossible to get in with out a BS. Even if you know someone.

The smaller companies will often take you but the pay and benefits are usually lower. On the other hand, they're more likely to have flexible schedules, allow working from home, and not have a dress code.
Talent, hard work and luck
a) I'm not sure the actual subjective ranking of rock-climbing destinations is the point of this post.

When you lead your article with the headline ending in "And Come Climb The Best Rocks In The World", you're going to get people commenting on that, linkbait or no.
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Git for Data Publishing
The implication was that as part of the patent application process, one would normally seek out prior art.
Yes, I generate them at random, and keep them at my password database, right next to the actual password for the service.

That makes them absolutely useless, it's true. And it is the most usefullness you can extract from them. I'd throw them away, but lots of services make you anwser them once in a while.
That's why we have courts. You take a problem to court when it becomes a problem. You don't punish an entire city for something some people might or even will do.
Not Venturi. Venturi is when an airflow in a constricted space is further constricted.
> As Bruce says, the real issue now is not surveillance or even information, but power. Who gets to watch whom, and (of course) who watches the watchers?

I couldn't agree more.

"Fox News Reporter James Rosen’s Private Emails Given To Justice Dept. By Google"

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/local/affidavit-for-se...
People must be terrified by blondes.
Hsu's claim in this matter is much easier to swallow than your contention that an IQ of 120 is sufficient for eminence in any field. Next you'll be telling us that anybody over five and a half feet tall can play for the Knicks.
What makes you think you have any kind of right to choose who lives next to you, or to have a say in what they do with their property? If you take Airbnb out of the equation, the assertion is ridiculous.
It runs on a 20-80 teraflop computer and is not amendable to GPGPU acceleration. Perhaps that's why it doesn't scale.
I think that's likely fear talking.
A few years later, Nathan Barry will write a sequel explaining how to make even more money by selling a $200 get-rich-quick package.

I can't comment on the content or the author -- as I'm familiar with neither -- but the copy here set off more than a few red flags and alarms.
How do you define 'efficient'? Is pushing out people who want to live in the city in order to fit more visitors an efficient use of resources? I would argue that it is not.
I like the concept. I'd be willing to contribute though if it deflated and folded up small instead. I don't mind inflating an air mattress.
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Yahoo, Tumblr CEOs Speak Out on Deal (Video)
Bought a bungalow here on very lean startup salary. Mortgage significantly less than avg rent in SoMa/ Mountain View. Small yard for my dogs, great school if/when have kids. Less than 1 mile from a ton of restaurants, bars/taverns, whole foods.

Great life for a mid-20's person and still get to travel often.
I think breaking down those strategies is actually really useful. It's interesting to think of these strategies from a product development perspective as well; how will products react to new consumer strategies?

1) Default - most products will (I think) continue to collect as much data as they can

2) Withdraw - I doubt most companies will withdraw from the data collection frenzy that is the current marketplace

3) Expose - There's definitely room out there for more services that expose patterns in public data, or more mechanisms for publicizing private data (the New Yorker Strongbox, for example)

4) Disrupt - One example in this space that I love are location spoofers like MediaHint, that allow users to access content that is designed to be location-locked.
As a southern person, I do not think of Chattanooga as the stereotypical southern area. In fact, most of TN is beautiful and avoids the pitfalls of 'true southern' towns such as: retirement cities, college towns, mix of prior two, devastation by constant natural disasters, no innovation, casinos and lottery leading to starvation, rampant drug problems hitting whole cities, etc.

Visited Hattiesburg MS, Jackson MS, Monroe LA, Shreveport LA, and a few others just this weekend. That's true south.

There are 0 whole foods in Mississippi, and why would you build one when there is a 2% chance it will be destroyed by a hurricane within 5 years.

TN is absolutely beautiful. I cannot say much about the people due to lack of experience, but the area is breathtaking. I'll never forget the water down the mountains turning into icicles.

I've learned to visit a city's craigslist prior to visiting the area. You can typically gauge the population by the amount of people using it, items for sale, and types of pets (odd, I know).
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You get paid more to offset the high rent in these cities.
That doesn't mean those laws shouldn't be challenged. Often they were put in place under different circumstances.
I have a hard time believing that Microsoft is the best example of persona usage.
For those curious, Yún means cloud (雲/云 in traditional/simplified Chinese).
I agree. I recently drove through Chattanooga and was pleasantly surprised (wasn't it one of the dirtiest cities in the country a few decades back??). I've added it to the list of places I'd rather be than the tundra that is the upper Midwest. If only it had Kentucky's taxes... at least it doesn't have California's.

Also: Chattanooga has a Trader Joe's, the true metric of civilization.
I'm a New Yorker here and plain and simple, we don't want AirBnB. This is New York City and the residents of this city have time and time again voiced their displeasure towards AirBnB, so why are people from elsewhere saying this is a bad thing?

The shoe just doesn't fit here.
What exactly do you feel your rights to be in this situation?

What do you feel grants you the rights you feel you have in this situation?
Navigating Silicon Valley As A 'Woman Programmer'
Another eminent psychologist seems to think that same project may be onto something.

http://edge.org/response-detail/23838
What's wrong with a hotel next door? People have to sleep somewhere...

...and for that matter, is feeling like you're living like a poor person a problem? O.o
Great points - but check my comments on other posts. Perhaps it doesn't need to be a developer opt-in service? You're right, good devs would not need to sign up, and bad devs would avoid it... but really, we're only trying to protect from someone who has a bad record, no?
This is a good writeup. On Tornado I went through a similar transition from 2to3 to a single codebase. As long as you can drop Python 2.5 support you can probably avoid 2to3, but if you do need it I wrote some tools to make it less painful: http://bdarnell.github.io/blog/2012/03/13/cross-python-devel...
I'm conceptually in favor of airbnb and its peers. However, in NYC there's definitely an odd dynamic right now - renters are the main proponents of the service, because they can turn around and re-rent their apartments and recoup some of their housing costs (I know some people who are turning a net profit), but I'm pretty sure this is short-sighted. NYC is underserved by hotel rooms (maybe for zoning reasons?), so hotel space trades at a premium to residential space. If apartments become eligible to earn income as "hotel rooms", it's landlords, not renters, that will ultimately benefit - the rental market will reset at a higher rate and we'll all be forced to rent out our apartments when we're not around to make up the difference. I see this already in the form of friends renting larger apartments or paying higher rents because they expect to benefit from airbnb income; that behavior has to be driving up rents. Half my building (literally) is for rent on airbnb, as well as a third of the building next door.

This may be 'net beneficial' economically but I'm pretty sure most of the benefit will ultimately accrue to property owners, not renters.

And of course, although owners may come down hard for liability reasons if they find out about airbnb operations in their buildings, they have every incentive to turn a blind eye: if they can plausibly claim they didn't know and blame the tenant, surely their liability is at least somewhat reduced and in the meanwhile they benefit from rising rental income.
Good to know, I've heard a lot about Rocklands and the video footage I've seen is pretty incredible. Atlanta has a direct flight to South Africa so it's relatively easy for me to get there without wasting 15+ hours connecting through Europe/Brazil.
Behavior based identity
hmm.

> I love California, but they don't know anything about food.

i really wonder how you can say this with a straight face.

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=ramen&find_loc=chat...

one ramen restaurant, across the state line. "You mean ramen doesn't always come in plastic bags?"

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=ramen&find_loc=chat...

one pho restaurant, in another city. "ewww what is this stuff in my soup"

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=sashimi&find_loc=ch...

one omakase sushi bar. better learn to love rainbow rolls and sweet sauce.

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=ramen&find_loc=chat...
http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=szechuan&find_loc=c...

not a single decent chinese restaurant, not surprising. hope you like sweet and sour chicken and chop suey (lol)

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=ramen&find_loc=chat...

one carne asada joint, in another city. there's 3 mexican joints worth going to in the whole area. 'tacqueria' brings no results. looks like there's a local mini-chain 'mojo burrito' which is 'heads and shoulders above qdoba'... well that's a start.

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=ramen&find_loc=chat...

one peruvian restaurant, down the highway. seems like a decent place though.

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=indian&find_loc=cha...

FOUR whole indian places. i think we're getting warmer (pun intended...)

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=ramen&find_loc=chat...

lots of thai, we must be on to something here... spicy food, right?

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=caribbean&find_loc=...

NOPE no jerk chicken to be found anywhere. and you call yourself spice lovers... sigh.

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=ramen&find_loc=chat...

well, if you move there, i hope you like southern food. cause that's pretty much what you're gonna be eating.

it's very difficult for me to not interpret "California doesn't know anything about food" as "People with other points of view don't know anything about the things we like the most here."

"hard to find quality bbq in SF or LA" or "we have great southern food" or even "californians can't handle real spice" would have flown a lot better.
The Mug for Python coders
An eBook pricing model that resulted in $100,000 in sales
Do you really have a choice?

Some things you really need to sign up for, like say signing up for an internet connection, but you have no choice about what happens to your data. You know almost all ISPs will roll over if any authority wants your data from them. You just have to accept it if you want the service, and often things are vital services. Its not much of a choice.
Why does having a "hotel" next door make you feel like a poor person?
A new way to get users to register.
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Seems odd, but maybe you aren't using swiftkey? I thought it was standard on Android, these days.
I remember when the money in Phantasy Star Online became worthless.
If this could make key management significantly easier (e.g. no need to rely on the buggy GNOME keychain app) or make it easier to manage persistent connections (ControlMaster is trivial, but juggling dozens of connections and gracefully terminating/resuming them is not), maybe it would be genuinely useful.

For the time being, though, this just looks like a lightweight editor for ssh_config.
Apple Uses 'Alchemy' in Tax Practices
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That looks like a perfect match for this guy's idea for efficient nutrient production, presented at Google's Solve For X: https://www.solveforx.com/moonshots/efficient-nutrition-prod...

He thinks he can provide the protein requirements of the world's population from an area the size of Rhode Island, cheaper and healthier than agriculture.
Not even close. Especially if your marginal tax rate is like 40% or more by the time you add all the taxes up.
Now I want to know why you switched away from Prosody. It's not something we see happen often :)

Anything we can fix?
Google also has a chat bot: guru@googlelabs.com . Just add it to your contacts list and you can query it over XMPP.
I just had the experience of interviewing about 10 grad students from a computer science program that's relatively highly regarded (definitely not top 10, but most would associate CS with the school).

Only one of the candidates was able to explain any meaningful difference between GET and POST in HTTP.

I don't know that universities are places that are likely to impart this type of knowledge in their grads.
I've stayed in Chattanooga. I'll stick with my $3600 rent, thanks. Tennessee is a very different place from the north, and if you're from New England like me, you might find the culture shock very unpleasant. Even when I lived in Atlanta the culture shock was real, despite there being so many transplants in the city.

I will make no claim as to how someone from the West, Mid-West or South would feel about Chattanooga, however. It is certainly a pretty little city, much like Boulder.
If we reduce the food waste it will only mean reduced food production, those in need would not get any of the former waste production.
European Central Bank's report on Virtual Currency Schemes
Funny you say that. A lot of retail chains in the UK, ask for your postcode as you make a purchase, and basically identify you. I'm never comfortable with that arrangement, but hand out the data anyway, basically because I don't want to make a scene in public.

I like the way you've phrased it: not a conscious choice. I wouldn't say that ignorance is an active part in choice making. But it certainly feels less complicated.
If the integrity of a password was dependent on a one-time unlocking mechanism secured on my local machine, then yes, you would only need one password. Passwords are not public key cryptography.
Computer Science Culture Clash
no income tax tho :]
> is feeling like you're living like a poor person a problem? O.o

It is when you're paying NY rents.
From my experience the NYC jobs pay more than the ones in other places, so if you're not working remote it can make sense. Also, I like NYC as a city way more than Pittsburgh.
I agree with the comments to just freakin edit your .ssh/config. But, it clearly states "SSH like a boss". The implication I take means "configure ssh for people who don't know how to use an editor, can't read man page, don't know where man pages are, and can't find/don't know about .ssh."

So, not for us. We can move along and be happy someone else is taking care of those people.
Sure, but the reason that the Exped uses a bag which you pump is that you can increase the pressure in the mattress significantly.

So, OK, I'll agree with you that this is new because the pump is integrated. But I doubt it'll turn out to be superior.

And so I can't post a link to a similar product because the similar products don't do it that way for a reason.
As others have pointed out, this probably won't be all that useful in solving the worlds hunger problems.

I'd think the actual motivation for this (and especially for NASA to be involved) is having a durable, easy to transport yet not completely monotonous supply of food for long space flights.

This is probably rather long term thinking, so "solving world hunger" is the typical feel good, not completely untrue yet slightly bullshit line you'd use to sell this as a good investment to the more short sighted "why are we spending money on X if there is still hunger/poverty/illness" crowd.
Writing a book is hard? I wonder if it's harder than trying to self-launch an electronics project on Kickstarter.
POF is trying to clean up their act
Very cool. I looked at the Fuel stuff as well, but at the time it wasn't quite able to do everything I needed so I ended up rolling my own. The 2.2 update they have coming up soon sounds like it fixes all of the things that were 'wrong' for me though!
Opera has had that for years, firefox/chrome still haven't picked it up? Between rel=next/prev and some simple heuristics, it is pretty effective right now.
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