skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>SO: Rather than making it outright illegal, why not balance out some of the incentives in the name of efficiency? Hosts SHOULD be able to rent out their place when they don't live there..

Except that the other tenants get all of the negative consequences of dealing with short-term renters (noise, theft, increased risk of bedbugs) without any of the benefit.
This argument extends nicely to the "flat UI" iOS mockups people have been posting. I keep thinking that they miss the warmth and personality that Apple would undoubtably inject into them.
applying occam's razor, i'm not sure which would be the simpler explanation:

1. a test suite got deployed accidentally, that happened to exactly match the buying predisposition of the production algorithms and fronted a bunch of their own trades @ a loss, or

2. someone got greedy and spilled the beans, and a competitor knew which algorithm would be unleashed on day X and buried it with their own
Vesper app
I define Christian Fundamentalist according to its actual usage within the relevant community [0]. If we were referencing Jewish, Muslim, or Hindu Fundamentalism the definition could be substantially different.

I have already proposed better terms: "literalist" and "dogmatist". Those terms may be insufficiently pejorative for your purposes, but here on Hacker News we have guidelines and cultural expectations against name-calling and incivility.

[0] note that I am not a member of the Fundamentalist, literalist, dogmatist, or creationist communities.
That's quite sweeping, don't you think?

Besides, I presume the CIA factors that into their recruitment. Clearly, they don't need ineffectual communication with foreign assets so they would control agents who do just that. I imagine if Mormons are employed en masse, it would be for translations of already recorded data.
Hyperventilating nerd rage is not helpful, but it will get you a lot of upvotes.
Are 90% of rentals by hosts renting their primary dwelling?
I tend to believe the biggest true problem of Hacker News is the nested comments.

Too easy to lose track, too hard to mantain a proper, nice conversation.

It's an amazing community, and we could be exchanging a lot of knowledge and experience, but usually we're just feeling hopelessly lost looking at the 70-something comments, most of them nested in all kinds of crazy levels.
Email Isn't People. It's Just One (over-saturated) Way People Communicate.
In response to Whitney Hess's great post "Email is People." (Link: http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2013/06/03/email-is-people/)
Just looking at Microsoft/Amazon/Google salaries in Puget Sound, they are in the same ballpark as the results of this poll.

Another difference: WA state has no state income tax.
So as a user of emacs, a user of tmux, and the soon to be recipient of a dell XPS 13 which I intend to dock at home with a very big screen and use with Xmonad... Do I need tmux?

It seems to fall between the gaps between easily switching between panes and applications, which you can do with Xmonad and what you can do with buffers in emacs.

With my previous setup I used tmux to run all my deamons (web servers I was developing on, continuous coffeescript and less building etc) in one terminal, but I'm not sure there was a huge benefit vs just opening a new terminal for each process (in hte same workspace) and using Xmonad to manage the layoutt/switching. Am I missing a trick here?
I am not a Hetzner customer, but the comment about Nagios perked up my ears. I work with some clients who have Nagios running in their environment, and I'm wondering if there is an exploit in Nagios or if it's just a coincidence that this was where they noticed the infection?
I also check slashdot for humor. Most of the time they are childish. But some comments have deep humor, like this one http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3779397&c...
Sort of, yes, back then our state records showed nicely who was and wasn't Jewish. So we got a law that forbids religion to be listed in these records. And now we log everything else.
Vesper for iOS
As if the US doesn't do the same thing ...
I feel for you, but it's not the end yet.

There are two important things you can do.

1) Looks like you wrote some cool code, so at least "github" it, so that you have a resume item & some cred when you want just a salary job.

2) Talk to people. They won't understand, but they'll occasionally do something good for you. Maybe a pancake dinner cooked or late night "dinner for losers" on a saturday night.

I worked on something for 5 years to drop it completely and move on - was heartbreaking but that CVS repo got me a job and indirectly, paid my bills.
Read the whole thing and my opinion is now slightly more favourable yet I maintain my point of "see more, hear more". I get the author's standpoint yet it irks me that he seems to think the majority of web developers out there are overpaid for doing less than meaningful work. What about those who cursed the job day in day out but stuck with it for the paycheck while looking out? Do they question the same things? Yes, but getting paid this month is more important and no, other parts of the world don't usually get severance packages.

The article is someone's opinion and I'm merely expressing my own as well. Everything is debatable because the industry is so much different from one city to another, let alone countries. Unless this is entirely dedicated to one part of the States, otherwise it is good but flawed argument.
The implication of your position is that we either have an electronically connected society, or we have an expectation of privacy, but not both. The nature of technology in general, and the internet in particular, involves the co-mingling of property on the site of some 3rd party for the benefit of all.

Let us just talk about the content that I write, such as anything that I've written and left in Gmail drafts. The fact that Google hosts that data does not give them ownership of that data, nor does it confer the right to access that data for any reason. The data in my drafts folder is exactly the same as data in a paper journal that I have in my house, and is protected by exactly the same law, the 4th amendment. The details of it's representation, even it's physical location, are unimportant.

Extending the 4th Amendment in this way is the only rational thing to do. The only reason why this is not the default is that the public is generally ignorant of both a) how these systems work and b) how they are systematically exploited by government. The reason the government wants access is because it is a convenient and cheap way to achieve some aspects of security. In the post-Bush era, exercising restraint on one's own power is no longer the "done" thing - just ask Cameron Ortiz.
Urbanisation: The city triumphs, again
Sure some parts of software will become manufactured and mass produced - I mean that's the case today. How many libraries do you use?

However, software is still an intellectual, out of thin air, endeavor. It requires thought to create new and make work with existing circumstances. You aren't melting metal into a mold to make a tangible object. You are literally fusing thoughts and intellectual processes together to do it with software. Until thinking becomes mass-produced and optimized to the point of max efficiency, I don't see this happening.
Ask HN: Best way for a beginner to learn Networks and Async Programming
Hello averybody!

I've just finished Harvard's CS50 and MIT's 6.00x courses on edx. They are introdutory courses on Computer Science (the first one in C and the second one in Python).

I work as a P.O in a project, and attended this courses to understand better what my team does. The courses are excellent, and now i want to expand my studies in the area. In my project, we have code running on several machines, and i would like to understand better how they talk to each other (networking, event loops, async programming, basically).

I`ve found this course https://class.coursera.org/posa-001 (Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures for Concurrent and Networked Software), but it requires a more solid background on programming.

Any thoughts, sites, books, keywords, courses about the subject?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel%27s_nose
Don't bother. Contrary to popular belief, "gullible" is not a real word and is not in the dictionary.
Violent? How so?
Just wait for winter, Thomas.

I'm from the south of Sweden and even I wouldn't like to be living in a tent come winter. He better stop coding and start building some proper shelter. ;)
What kind of effect does this have on your I/O performance?
HyperLevelDB:  A High-Performance LevelDB Fork
While what you're saying might be true, you are missing the point OP made. He isn't saying the translated text is well written, he is saying google translate has really improved to the point of producing readable text.

Of course you lose a lot of the original's quality, but at least you can understand what you read.
It isn't really particularly obscure or vague. The Patriot Act authorizes exactly this (and many other things), explicitly and openly.
Life is full of phases. I don't think anyone would recommend someone do this for all their life, but for a time and place, it might be the best decision ever made.
That and this sad kicking in the groin of a system that's working through technology issues as it should:

Democrats in Congress would go further. Iowa Senator Tom Harkin and Oregon Representative Peter DeFazio want a .03 percent tax on nearly every trade in nearly every market in the U.S

Politicians just have to get in and start pecking for some extra revenue and attempt to give the illusion that they're going to help.
What types of hacks does that protect you from exactly, considering you don't have physical access and can't even see the hardware?
If it's secret, how can you tell it's extinct? For all you know, your workplace might be teeming with secret wizards ;)
> the problem is that the body that passes the law agrees with this type of power

You can see that in the initial comments on this leak: among the first official comments were both parties' ranking members on the Senate Intelligence Committee — Dianne Feinstein (D) and Saxby Chambliss (R) — defending the program. It's not a surprise to them or something they want to change.
And here I was hoping it would be aboke Stokes' Theorem ;-(
Given that they have >22k subscribers already, the chances of actually getting to say something in your lifetime are pretty low - assuming nobody else joins and there are no repeats, it would take over 60 years for everyone to get to post once.

That said, it sounds interesting, as a "15 minutes of fame lottery" at least.
I absolutely love this. I'm jealous. I've been thinking about doing this, even if just once per year for 1-2 weeks. Some type of personal code jam, a chance to fully focus on personal projects distraction free.

I just did some research into the solar panels, they look fantastic but they're a little pricey. (~1000$ each) A little more digging gives me the impression that one could fairly easily DIY similar solar panels for considerable less, though obviously at much less quality.
Indeed. Having to build configuration file for each command was a pain in the ass. Colout is better integrated in my shell workflow and shows that config files are not mandatory (but colout themes do just the same).

Plus, colout have a tons of additional features (256-colors mode, colormaps, etc.).
http://www.skeptictank.org/moxon1.htm
Apply Occam's Razor. The simplest speculation is an internal breach. All the procedure in the world won't save you from that.
It's useful if you need to connect to a remote server and leave stuff running after you disconnect. Otherwise... you already have a window manager.
Getting a chubby at any chance to say "ad hominem" is also typical HN.
Ad-hom is often invoked against arguments of the form "So-and-so advocated that position and look what happened". This is actually argument from consequence and is useful, Godwin be damned.
Minor. It costs more CPU because of encryption/decryption. But our servers have so much CPU power, and our workload is mostly dependent on disk I/O throughput, so enabling encryption is almost free.
I think they were more successful because of marketing. Initially, Privy and Snapchat were fairly close to feature parity. I had never actually heard of them while I was developing Privy. And then about a month or so before I was ready to release Privy, SnapChat hit the TechCrunch lottery. After that they quickly became a media sensation.

Being a side project, Privy wasn't able to compete. Especially after they started picking up funding. Once the Snapchat buzz hit full fever pitch I threw in the towel on development.

I used to think that useful apps could sell themselves. I know a lot of developers have this mentality. Nothing could be further from the truth. I now have much greater respect for the value of good marketing.
I don't have any issues with what you are proposing. In more general terms what we might need is an open national discussion about how to mutate our government into something that will serve us well for the next century or so. This two-hundred year old system could be improved. Not thrown away, improved.

It's interesting to watch people in this thread misinterpret "limited government" to mean "no government" and actually focus on numbers. To be sure, we probably have too many people working in government (twenty million according to the us census). Yet "limited government" means "limited reach" much more so than "limited count". In other words, an improvement in quality.
Yep. They are currently scrambling into every market on the planet to try and eke out profits there but the pace is accelerated.

Before too long I think we will see HFTs merging until there are only a handful of players globally.

IOW, HFT is transitioning into a commodity.
And what about the censorship, and the illegality of penetration testing software?
IBM's Manoj Saxena on What Watson Will Mean for the Future
For the lazy: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1156439.Doppler
No worries...I didn't infer that from your comment. Just sharing my own disgust with the NSA.

Sadly, too many here in Utah support in the name of "bringing more jobs to Utah." They are willing to sell their liberty for a few extra jobs.
Tmux can be extremely useful to bootstrap a working environment rapidly. We use it to connect to our mongo replica set rapidly without having to ssh into each machine. See the comments below there are a few tools to help you do that.

Tmux is also extremely useful for pair programming: you can multiplex PTYs but you can also have multiple screens attached to the same session. It's a killer feature especially when working remotely with your team.
Do you have a very small number of servers? Requiring manual steps to boot is not very scalable--if there is an event that requires all your servers to reboot (power outage, mandatory upgrade, etc) you would be in quite a tough spot.
Someone here once posted this aggregation of subreddits as an alternative:

http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade+longtext+programming+...

It's not a perfect version of 2010 HN, but with some pruning and grafting I imagine it could be close.
The `-h` switch show the help, but the `-r` show the resources loaded at startup.

Alias for common use cases are named "themes" in the list of resources.
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ik,r

But since this seems to be affecting only the main/german division, i didn't bother to mention them.
How does this help? The key is still stored in memory which I assume the hypervisor has access to.
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It means damn near nothing, getting to ideologically have your cake and eat it too.

Reform is hard and involves details. Whining about "too much government" doesn't require any details at all. It's like Paul Ryan's budget plan that has huge line items of savings under, and I'm not making this up, "spending cuts" and "tax reform", with no further specifics. Hey, who could be against that? There's nothing negative about it, just some huge savings!

You want less government? Great. Get a marker and about 5 million pages in your printer and start printing out the US budget to mark it up for your suggestions. Because there isn't a single whole department you could cut without seriously screwing up society, you have to get into the weeds.

Want to cut this NSA program? Great, I agree with you. We do need the NSA around in some form with a smaller mandate, though.

Want to eliminate the FCC? You probably haven't thought about why it's illegal for me to buy a 1,000MW transmitter and drown out WNBC with Rick Astley on repeat.

Want to eliminate entitlements? You need a backup plan that won't have people dying in the streets, and actually spends less money. Looping in private contractors to spend more money or provide less benefits is not smaller government.

All 3 of these scenarios (and I could keep going) involve smarter government. Sure, saving money means "less" in some senses but the point is being smarter, not just randomly being upset at the aggregate size of things that you support in isolation.
IMHO the first port of call when clustering. You can use kd trees to speed it up. Approx nearest neighbour queries for super speedups. You can transform your data before applying to get better results, eg pca You can use it to initialize "better" clusterers like Gaussian mixture models.
Speaking as somebody who is married to a Type I diabetic...

The only way for a type I diabetic to stop taking insulin is to get a new pancreas. Tim Ferris claims a lot of skills but I don't think transplant surgeon is one of them. Proper diet and exercise can absolutely reverse Type II diabetes, which is probably where Tim has helped. It's an important distinction as this app appears to be targeted specifically at Type I folks who are dependent on external insulin.

I appreciate what they've done here but most blood sugar meters are already storing the readings and they have some poorly designed mechanism to get at the data. If they could import or somehow work with the data already stored in the meter that would be really, really powerful. Manually tracking each blood sugar test is going to be a limiting factor on adoption. My wife, for example, only looks back at her readings if she is having an issue. She'd appreciate a better interface to do that, but I'm sure she will not take up manually updating an app 8 - 10 times a day. I doubt she is unique in that regard.

A 150 average blood sugar level across all users shown on the front page seems high. Maybe it's an English vs metric measurement thing. I know what a good blood sugar is in the US (80-120) but I don't actually know the units are on that.

Cool app though. Now if they could just incorporate the blood test meter right into the iPhone...
Yes! You're worth whatever they are willing to pay for you. Since you do you have a ton of experience you should be paid more than other new grads.

Here are some stats about how much developers are making these days http://blog.goodsense.io/2013/04/02/are-you-an-underpaid-dev...
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You can find some cool stuff via tag filtering - e.g. https://pinboard.in/t:nodejs/t:distributed/
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Perhaps what they really mean is, "I have nothing to lose".?

If you have nothing to lose, then you only have information to gain by invading others' privacy.
My parents are extremely politically educated, as is my wife. My dad has traveled the world extensively (80+ different countries) and seen nearly every kind of government under the sun. He was very involved politically when Bangladesh was seeking its independence. My wife, for her part, lived in east Germany after high school and observed the political situation in a city where many people still remembered life under communist rule. Yet, none of them care about your pet issue.

Fact is not everyone sees life in terms of slippery slope fallacies. The status quo is really pretty good, and it's perfectly rational to think there are more pressing political concerns than the NSA knowing how often you call your mom. My dad has his pet issue (he's anti-war), and my wife has her's (she's an adherent feminist). People aren't mindless or irrational because they don't share your political beliefs or your priorities with respect to political issues.
Blacklist.co - Power to the People
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Blacklist is a web application where users can blacklist brands & products they dislike or with which they had a bad experience, anytime and anywhere from their favorite device.

The aim is to break the barriers of digital feedback and gives the power to the people by making it easy, fast and simple to react.
Brands and companies on the other side will have this ‘Defensive Marketing’ opportunity to listen, and engage directly with people talking about them on the platform.

The vision is to bring more transparency between consumers and brands, for more aligned interactions.

When you think about it, when you’re a happy customer you tell 3, maybe 5 people, but when you’re pissed, you want to tell the whole world.
Blacklist enables individuals to do so.
Because when people complain, the most important thing for them is the reach of their comment, the opportunity to get spread out and heard so they can have an impact; just as if their voice matters and their opinion can have influence.

Blacklist is that digital megaphone designed to do just that: give individuals the best tool to react and seize the force of their feedback.

One last thing: it is free and there is no ads
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because it's best for consumers when things they like go away?
I definitely agree that the multi window/pane feature of tmux can be repetitive of your window manager, especially if you use a tiled window manager.

But at the same time I keep thinking that most people do not use their window manager to manager their browser tabs (despite the existence of surf (http://surf.suckless.org/). Why? Not sure...
More investigation of the Dwave quantum annealing system
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I'm not sure using increasingly complex algorithms makes a programmer move into some kind of new title bracket. You are still a "plumber", you just have to use more complicated distribution systems to deal with the increased building size (to stick with the analogy).
Honestly I whitelist every site in NoScript (but keep it for its click jacking protection and other things that apply to all websites), and use Ghostery and AdBlock Plus to block the irrelevant ads and widgets that are everywhere. It's a nice compromise between blocking evil things and still being able to use most of the web.
Exactly my point. Option 3 is free for everyone with optional purchases for those that want it. The parent of my comment would rather see ads than purchase Pro. But those aren't mutually exclusive. He/She can still not see ads and not purchase pro while Snapchat makes money.