skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear, the booking didn't 'Fall through' as you phrased it. As per AirBnb's terms once you have booked the stay, on the day you have to 'assume' everything is ok regarding the check in and rock up to a random radius of where the apartment is. So even though I wasn't able to contact the host and organise a meet up time, Airbnb gives you a rough location of where the apartment is (host doesn't have to specify exact address) and you meet there at some time. Check the FAQ and the terms here (https://www.airbnb.com/help/question/88).

I was left stranded as the check in time was 'organise with host', no specified time and the apartment location was a broad area. I had neither a time nor a place to check into, that's how I was stranded.

I had organised a Plan 'B' knowing this may happen so I didn't spend the night on the street.

I contacted AirBnb via their website a day before this event and still am yet to receive a reply from their customer support.

I think you're arguing my point any way, it's harder to be stranded from a hotel, either they will find you a room or they will point you somewhere else who can.
WordPress.com gets a dashboard overhaul
> I think it is safe to assume the article is about Java.

No. The article is about a pattern of explicit null-check avoidance, java is an example of "a language without blocks or lambdas" but the article is no more about java than it is about ruby, you're not even missing the forest for the trees you're missing the forest for a fallen leaf.
I don't know if it makes sense or not, but the fact is that Mr. Snowden appears to not be in custody at the moment. So that says something.
It looks more like an Infiniminer clone. Impressive none the less.
I think you didn't make one.
I think it is entirely plausible that a sysadmin would know exactly what logs the auditors inspect and that he would know the things like how often the logs were deleted as well as exactly what information is (and is not) captured in the logs. He may even have had access to the same tools the auditors used so that he could run them himself and see what they flagged and didn't flag.

It is my experience that systems auditors rely heavily on sysadmins to do their jobs. At a minimum the auditors are "just" another set of users and the sysadmins' responsibilities include supporting the auditors even more closely than they support regular users of classified systems. Frequently the auditors themselves do not have systems-level knowledge of the computers they are auditing.

Security on every classified system that I've seen was generally limited to a series of a checklists that some talented specialists once put down in a manual and are left to low-skilled employees to check off each day/week/month - if it isn't specifically on the checklist they have little to no knowledge of it. That includes glaring procedural holes. Essentially security is all CYA, so that everybody involved can say they followed the rules and not lose their job if something goes wrong.
Thanks, that's interesting. I would probably add some kind of callback to free individual elements if I ended up using this. A lot of the boilerplate when managing resizable arrays in C ends up being making sure you properly dispose of elements. Or at least it was for me when I last did this.
I think it's truly awesome that "stripe for X" now means "X with a sane REST API".
Ride-share cars: illegal, and all over Seattle
Been using http://www.netvibes.com for 10 years or more now...
Naming a baby using the Elo ranking algorithm
Yeh, but the convenience of it here is that you may freely browse that repo (and change URL in the address bar), and still have the access to the repo URL.
Why is "walkback" the term everyone is using?
Fight back, have your own PRISM ...
Y/Tumblr deleting popular accounts for DMCA violations
It loads fine with adblock enabled.
I like how Stripe made it cool to put example curl requests right on the front page. I guess I'm biased in that I love marketing aimed squarely at developers.
Since no country has tried it, no one knows, but I'm sure that won't stop a bunch of sarcastic replies.

I'm going to treat this as some kind of fun thought experiment and ignore a lot of the details. I've always thought some form an ultra free market oriented society could work. But...

1: The first problems I wonder about is that the system is relying on individuals to be making actively intelligent decisions. How convinced are you of intelligence of the medium person? For power not to concentrate into too few hands, a large percentage of the population has to actively react to shifts in wealth, morality and power. I'm hesitate to declare this would work.

2: Can a free market naturally produce a safety net? Maybe. It is likely in order for society to function in a healthy manner one would need something to help the down and out. Shit happens, life isn't fair, bad decisions need help being corrected. I think it is more likely a government would have to provide some of this net. I've always thought creating a 'human right' to a basic income (say you get $5000 a year no matter what) paired with an ultra free market society would be interesting. Would it be the best? Idk. But it would certainly be interesting to try. (I think Hayek said something vaguely similar)

3: Tragedy of the commons. We aren't trapped as a species to forever repeat destroying the commons. But it sure as hell happens a lot. Pollution much like crime needs a government force to reign it in. There is no market solution to it. Something like a park system is likely similar.

But overall, as a planetary body of people, I think we're due to trying something new soon. We've spent the last 100 years or so converting most places to mixed-economy democracy. We should probably start to try other interesting systems. Kind of like what Denmark is doing. They are going in the other direction completely, but it is interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Denmark
Elevator Rope Breakthrough Means Mile-High Buildings Possible
National Security is intrinsically about enforcing domestic property rights. It covers issues like terrorism but also foreign hostilities. Don't be a doof and pretend that National Security doesn't at least start with the interests of the citizens in mind. Seems like it gets awfully lost in the woods, but you can't pretend that if people just had the right ideals things would be fine.
If you're doing something like that, you should make damn sure it's NOT connected to the internet. Did you learn nothing the last few days?
I live close to a stadium and My neighborhood is routinely trashed by airbnb cheapo college kid boarders who come here to party.
The people approaching you are crooks. Just delete their emails.
Noowit. http://www.noowit.com/pbeta
Can't say I like the new look. The pjax improvements are great, of course. But moving all the top menus to a right-hand sidebar just doesn't work well. How glaring is it when the cloning uri, which is wide sequence of letters, is squeezed into a narrow sidebar and thus mostly cutoff. It is is awful. Did they consider drop down menus if it was really necessary to reduce the clutter at the top of the page? Otherwise move the navigation menu to the left and allow the page to fill the screen.

Sorry to be negative. I appreciate work to improve things, some of these changes just aren't. Hope they keep working on it.
What about the remarketing / retargeting / adwords conversion cookies?
All I meant was it seems strange in the first place to use narcissism as an argument to attack somebody's work.
The backporting involved here is non-trivial. If the past 9 months are any indication, I would expect we haven't seen the last of the serious YAML vulnerabilities yet:
http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-12043...
An APL compiler written in CoffeeScript
And the payers is not the type with accounts and charities to use for tax dodging.
Giving another company the ability to serve content (javascript) on a subdomain would make ad companies prime targets for all kinds of hacking campaigns. Their ability to serve javascript and probably access session cookies on a large number of domains would turn them in some kind of skeleton key. This is bad for both the advertisers, the websites serving their ads and the visitors of those websites.

I certainly hope people would think twice about actually implementing something like that.
Can we please dispense with the whole "How did these moron's get anything accomplished before I came along?" pattern?

The article, comments on the article's page, and a lot of comments here are all variations on "This perfectly acceptable practice makes my eyes bleed, and is the calling card of shitty programmers everywhere. After I switch some semantics, rearrange the deck chairs, etc, its now perfect in every way, invulnerable to bugs or misuse."

No pattern is universally applicable.
There are lots of ways to accomplish a task.
Coming up with a different solution does not invalidate what came before.
Task rabbit: labor based API
"Just do the antibiotics and don't worry about it, it will kill the bacteria if it exists."

There's still a chance of having it even after the antibiotics. The chances of getting it even after taking a prophylaxis go down from around 3% to perhaps a little under 1%, but there's still a chance. And there are also other tick diseases that doxycycline doesn't work for. The most likely case is that mine was only attached for a little under 24 hours, which reduces the chances even further, but considering that if not treated right away it's basically as bad as AIDs it's still kind of alarming.
Ruby 2.0.0 Now Default on All New Ruby Applications
Do you really think that only other countries perform assassinations?
To follow up to your edit, that may be true in one case. But it's perfectly reasonable to navigate via clicking, anything in the navigate API, JS actions, meta refreshes, and so on. Even in that one case, most people would expect redirects to be followed and basic auth protected pages to submit. Again, all tractable problems, but ones that are likely better handled by an interstitial layer where you can see the entire chain of requests & responses.
Designer David Wright, departing NPR for Twitter, has just one favor to ask
Not only that but if you use privacy protecting plugins the site won't even load the article. It just shows a link that goes to the homepage.
I am also disappointed by the tech giants behavior, but not primarily for PRISM.

Yes, they shouldn't give the data that willingly, but what I see as much more troubling is the agencies ability to tap into the net's full flow of communications (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A, etc.)

I simply don't believe that the Big Techs weren't aware of this. And here lies the biggest hypocrisy of their: that those companies, especially Google and Facebook, instead of warning us that our privacy is being slowly stolen from us, went the opposite route and encouraged us to share even more of our personal data, which now all ended in we-don't-know-in-how-many data centers belonging to various governments.
Every time I click the "Continue to business insider" link I am redirected to the same page with the "Continue to business insider" link. I'm using Firefox and Ghostery on XP.

Weirdly enough after four of five clicks it finally directed me to the article.
Good write-up. I'd be interested in a comparison next with a paid versus free offering such as Codecademy, which also offers interactive learning, but without the large library of video tutorials that lynda & treehouse offer.
Side note: This is among the reasons free parking is terrible.
Yay, another way to 'enjoy the outdoors' while completely isolating yourself from the uncomfortable fact that... well, you are in the outdoors! </sarcasm>

Joking aside, I've always found the American (and Canadian) way of 'camping' a bit ridiculous. If you need to pack two cars with stuff before you are doing it wrong.
Doesn't Apache not support DNT, so it's my this lately moot anyway?
They are not incompatible only if by "tons" you mean "half as many". I would expect some areas of San Francisco to have more kids than others but overall the number is very low.
كوبون إستضافة
افضل استضافة , افضل هوست
أفضل وأعلى وارخص إستضافة مواقع ، إستضافة ووردبريس ، إستضافة منتديات إستضافة جوملا ، إستضافة Reseller ، إستضافة VPS ، سيرفرات خاصة Dedicated Servers مساحة وترافيك غير محدود .. واحصل على كوبون خصم
أفضل وأعلى وارخص إستضافة مواقع ، إستضافة ووردبريس ، إستضافة منتديات إستضافة جوملا ، إستضافة Reseller ، إستضافة VPS ، سيرفرات خاصة Dedicated Servers مساحة وترافيك غير محدود .. واحصل على كوبون خصم
There is at least one major world religion with death as its central event.
Hmm, as someone who spends most of their time on github looking at pull requests and issues, this seems a step backwards.

Not a huge one, but it was nicer to have my most frequent points of interaction at the top. I deal with the code itself in my local repo. I don't need to know how many commits/branches/tags/contributors there are -- that is the redundant info for me, and that should have been shoved to the side.

If I'm using github's UI, it's because I'm managing a project. Might be nice to have a separate "management" interface you can opt into?

tldr: They moved all the "extra" stuff to the side, while keeping the info directly related to the git repo in the center. But the whole point of using github is the value they add, not the core functionality that I can already get through my commandline!
Why I Don't Care About Edward Snowden
Also see- http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/dmca
Awesome...look forward to giving it a try!

I started to play with a similar (although somewhat less automated approach) thing here: http://glass.bluer.com

Combining with other sources (Memoto, phone cameras, etc) could be interesting too.
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B is what I'm worried about and I'm worried that this has a 90% chance of happening. I have about 2 years of experience working in online ads in some way shape or form, and it frustrates me how much the implications here aren't really being considered.

Currently, whenever I hear "I see too many ads for shit that is too related to my interests" (paraphrased), I consider it the ultimate 21st century 1st world problem. Because this is how sites make their money, and how Google got to where it is today. You want to cut off online ads? Fine:

- Any sites that are free will undergo a paywall, as people don't work for free.
- More apps in the app stores increase their prices, as ad revenue is no longer there for the apps they create
- More paywalls and higher prices mean that lower income people and people in developing countries can't access free and distributable content.

And don't give me this BS about how "If X site were pay-per-use with no ads, I would totally pay for it" because <i>power users don't power websites</i> ... as soon as you charge for something then 90% of the users drop off. [See: Google Reader, any social network, etc.]
So it is good for people who use Github all day long, but bad for people who only use it once in a while.
They mentioned that Digg Reader will be a freemium product, so there's at least some kind of revenue model that should be able to sustain it, for a few years anyways.
What does white have to do with this?
Coming to Terms With Enterprise JavaScript
I really wish Github would bring back issues search and would stop making the top search bar default to the current repository. I constantly search something there and always forget to select "Search all Github". That being said, I think it's good that they are reducing the clutter.
That's unfortunate. I don't work on PhantomJS, but I can try to track down someone on the team and see if there's a way to attach a handle to window or something.
When you kill ten million Africans you aren’t called 'Hitler'
The point is to move the check out of the library user's way, and out of his ability to forget about it. Same as block-scoped resource patterns (RAII, context managers, unwind-protect, whatever).
I have never understood the reason for putting the commit comments of some random file within it next to the folder name.

It's unnecessary noise and what would be far more useful is how many files and folders that folder actually contained.

To be honest I don't really see the point of putting the comments next to the file name either.

Also, I wish for the love of god that they put the file size there.

Then again my primary use case of github is reading code to learn and having a nosey at how good a coder someone is, so I'm generally looking for the bulk of a program, hence the usefulness of file size and the uselessness of commit comments.
> Bit by a dog? Eh, make it let go, and then walk away, no need to check for a rabies vaccination tag. After all, what are the odds? LOL

I don't know where you live but it is pretty standard to get a few vaccines (rabies included) when bitten by an unknown dog as a precaution.

Same reason people get tetanus shots with puncture wounds.
Thanks and good to hear. Keep the feedback coming! Its all about iterating based on what users say.
Also is the assignment of utmost importance that will help the company earn a large sale and benefits everyone or is this an excel tracking tool you want to keep track of some irrelevant statistic.
Hotel organizations that aren't able to adapt to changing market conditions should fail. So should banks. Hopefully, we learned our lesson from "too big to fail" - we shouldn't artificially indemnify organizations against the impact of change, or we'll wind up having to choose between living with a stagnant, immovable status quo, or dealing with a catastrophic collapse.

The "tech suites" idea is great. Maybe you could even turn some of them into something like a "startup dorm", which would fit nicely into an incubator/VC setting.
Very interesting demo. I would suggest inverting the click to drag direction. Almost every other drag to pan interaction, from google maps to touch devices, uses the opposite mode. Very jarring and counterintuitive.
Excellent point. For a larger discussion of this, see Shroup's The High Cost of Free Parking: http://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Parking-Updated-Edition/dp/1...
How Consistency Leads to Overconfidence
What kind of impact does this have on battery life? How long will it go on a charge?
Keyword arguments for Javascript. Similar to python's kwargs
Packages are processed before the current package is compiled. You can only establish that packages are unused after compiling the current package. So, you will still process unused packages. That is exactly the problem they want to avoid.

Your solution is, I think, to scan the current package twice: once to establish which packages are used, then process the packages, then actually compile the current package. But now you're scanning through each package twice, which will significantly add to compilation times, and make the compilation process more convoluted. Their solution is, I think, far simpler.

You're dismissing the problem, but I'm not sure you understand what the problem is.
Exactly the behavior I see, except that I've never gone more than three clicks before giving up and trying in an incognito window (where I have all plugins disabled). Since that tends to work, first try, it's become my default.
I think there's only one reason why a company would run Rails 2.3 in 2013: greed.

There's no way you absolutely cannot somehow find a way in about 4 years to migrate even a big code base to at least Rails 3. It's not like the migration was that complicated, there are countless guides around, a devoted community, IRC channels, consultants aplenty and even tools to hold your hand along the way.
As a student who is hoping to study Computer Science in a years time, I hope that the university I enrol at encourages such projects!
I suppose I'd expect him to conduct himself like, well, just about every other whistleblower before him. Just yesterday three high level NSA whistleblowers gave a joint interview to USA Today. All three still in the US and none in prison. One of them, William Binney, while being generally supportive of Snowden went as far as to call some of his actions traitorous.

Or, say, here's a take by Slate's resident libertarian:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/06/17/snowden_veers_i...

When your natural support constituency starts saying things like that you have a serious (and, inexplicably, self-created) image problem. I believe this is an actual thing rather than, you know, you and me just shooting the shit on a nerd message board.
This is awesome! Agree with the others here saying that in the UK we kinda feel like we're outsiders/special/loners but I think this is completely daft and I'd love to have better integration with the mainland.
This is an issue with the UK only and only for getting working permits. I'm not sure what kind of work permits though, as personally I would have no problem in getting hired by an UK company or finding a place to rent (I am Romanian); I guess it's for low-skilled jobs or something.

Also, starting with January 1st, 2014, this will no longer be an issue.

On people abusing the system, it happens. Don't worry though, as personally I'm not in a rush of moving or working in Cyprus, especially since the bank tax ;-)
To walk a story back is journalism industry jargon for slowly dropping claims made in your initial story, until there's nothing of substance remaining.

Going from "NSA has direct access to servers of major internet companies" to "Some NSA analysts' database accesses inadequately audited, according to random sysadmin" is a textbook walk-back. Of course you will never see the latter headline on Greenwald's blog.
ItsNat 1.3: and underground server-centric SPI framework
White text on a pure red background is murder to my eyes. I don't care that you think it's urgent... when I can't read the text because my eyes are too busy bleeding.
Greed? More likely apathy and conservatism.
> Even developing on a laptop is utterly painful - single small screen, no mouse, no real keyboard. It is probably nice to look at the sea while developing but it is not productive.

I think what you meant to say was "but I'm not productive this way." Clearly many developers are more than productive without a big screen/multiple screens, mice, and external keyboards. And as someone who has been shipping for several years with nothing but a 13" screen, I'm definitely one of them.

In fact I'd argue the ability for me to be totally mobile and work from wherever I want, whenever I want, makes me _more_ productive than being tethered to a monolithic workstation. There's a lot more "oh hey, that code I wrote last night kinda sucks, let me fix it before I hop in the shower" and a lot less "oh I should probably get around to fixing that thing when I get to my workstation."
Hmm, "Service Temporarily Unavailable" from http://www.stephenbalaban.com/google-glass-lifestream .

Maybe it is regular screenshot pulls from your Google Glass put together into a diary of sorts? Microsoft actually has a lot of good work on this, they had a wearable recording pendant in their labs for a while.
AltDrag 1.0: Bringing Linux Functionality to Windows
> The author's example code appears to be doing the same thing, but iterating using Ruby's block syntax:

It's not iterating.
How about "it ain't broke"?

That's not greed.
Why is this any better then wemux
I have just never realised there are people like johnathon on our side out there. Thank you.

I also just realised that there are sites in the US, UK, Europe to watch and follow debates on each parliament, but the debates on the important workings of these groups seem to be sporadically reported, even here on HN.

Anyone want to help me setup a "theyworkforyou" for w3c working groups?

(I mean if congress rules how a browser should behave in the US, does it affect me here? If not then frankly these groups overrule each individual parliament in fairly significant ways )