skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had a "weekend rental" in our neighborhood - it was not listed through AirBnB. What did it mean?

Well, the street became a hotel parking lot. The house became a place to throw a party for forty out-of-town guests, and the neighborhood residents...well at $500 a night why should a renter give a fuck about them?

The couple hooking up on the down-low, well they sent the brats outside during morning nookie time. The kids entertained themselves by throwing rocks at the neighbor's car in her driveway. The three families staying for a youth baseball tournament - their kids swung from Jimmy's backboard until the rim popped out. The six guys attending their reunion sat on the hoods of their cars till the wee hours drinking beer and tossing the empties.

The business model shifts the costs of hotel use unto surrounding properties. Next week, however, our absentee landlord gets their day in court to explain their violations of the zoning regulations. Hopefully the threat of jailtime will make an impression.
Who will pick up the CMS where Wordpress left off? Ghost?
I wouldn't call it degraded security, it's just more appropriate to the risk vs convenience tradeoff.
I mentioned real world app to mean "not a toy project".
That is, i meant a reasonably large, structured, maintainable code base. I am thinking of haskell as the language to use for a new project, and am interested to know more about the potential problems and downsides i should be aware of. Also are there situations where one should absolutely avoid haskell?
Can you imagine how much energy all those armored trucks use that ferry around dollars?

I'm not sure, but I can tell you that it's more energy than is required to ferry around bitcoins in armored trucks from now until the end of time (which is exactly 0 joules of energy)
awesome :-)
While cryonics isn't proven science yet, we have frozen dogs, pigs, and other animals and revived them after a few days.

I'm sorry, you are mistaken. The largest reversibly-cryopreserved chunk of mammal so far has been a rabbit kidney. The kidney was cryopreserved, re-warmed, and transplanted back into the rabbit. The untreated kidney was removed. The rabbit recovered and survived until the researchers euthanized it for autopsy 6 weeks later. Autopsy showed some areas where the cryoprotectant hadn't reached, so the kidney wasn't perfectly healthy. The whole paper is at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781097/
Why are you judging someone else's productivity methods?

Good developers write apps to scratch their own itches, and this seems to be a laudable example, whether it scratches your itch or not.
Thanks for asking!

Binary compiles your iOS apps on our remote OS X machines, and the compiled binaries are shipped over-the-air using Apple's Wireless Enterprise app distribution. The distribution mechanism operates the same way as Testflight (the iOS beta testing service).
A O(n) Scala one: https://github.com/pathikrit/scalgos/blob/master/src/main/sc...
You should add Yoleo[1] to your list. It looks quite promising.

[1]: https://yoleoreader.com/
No, phantomjs includes a webserver module. That's what ghostdriver uses to implement the WebDriver API and you can use it to implement a custom API that you call from Python. So you have to use JavaScript to implement the API, but you can use Python to implement your tests or web data extraction or whatever your actual task is.
Interestingly enough, the Magic Trackpad (larger Bluetooth version) is clickable on the entire surface.
But do we really need more info? What will taht accomplish?

As far as I am concerned, this is the 100% solid concrete evidence that Eschelon exists - where for the last 30 years it was a "conspiracy theory" -- yet here it is, verified, in your face and glaring.

Now, what is the next step? What needs to happen is ACTION taken.

There is only one peaceful tool the citizenry has against the government at this point: civil disobedience via a tax holiday.

Nothing will happen unless people do the only thing they can do: refuse to provide funding to the government.

If the government can't even go after the criminal banks -- its laughable to think that anything is going to happen to the intelligence agencies: especially when the government is staffed by both THE BANKS and THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES!
Post launch so they probably have the iOS app down already.
That doesn't seem to be true. In almost all societies where there is a significant disparity between the treatment of boys and girls, boys are far more highly prized. They are first in the line for food, medicine, education.
That's about what I would have guessed too, except I think "documentation" is "wiki", and "merging" is "pull requests".

The icons for pull requests and branches are far too similar to each other, in my opinion.
The author is wrong in many points:

1. Bitcoin is the open base for monetary innovation, you should compare it to internet protocols like IP or HTTP, Linux, not some privately-owned social networks.

2. There's hardly any need to enhance anything in bitcoin itself, the security is enough, nobody has proven otherwise.

3. Alternative cryptocurrencies are 99.9% copies of bitcoin with hardly any innovation. Only proof-of-stake(ppcoin) algorithm and scrypt hashing(litecoin) are real changes and it is questionable if they add any value.

4. The slow speed of transactions (~10min), which other cryptocurrencies are trying to "fix", could be easily brought to instant with a help of third-party service, there are many way of doing it.

5. Bitcoin developers and pool operators aren't some kind of "kings", they are merely leaders guiding the community.
A DMCA takedown request isn't talking about a URL -- it's talking about content. Google is likely saving themselves lifetimes of human effort (and the associated salaries) that would have to go into manual screening. I imagine content ID is necessary for YouTube to exist sustainably -- not a gift to RIAA/MPAA.
Only some camera manufactures use proprietary RAM format. There is OpenRAW, for instance. And even if he didn't use that, I don't think it would matter, except to the image generated. Text -> mung -> image -> unmung -> text. You should be able to do any format, assuming the conversion opens and saves into the same format.

Anyway, I gathered that the guy was precisely trying to show that lossy compression was a good thing when used in the right manner, and bad in the wrong manner.

But frankly, I don't care if he was making a point or not. It was a funny read, and having books printed of his various outcomes was a thoroughly wasteful, yet funny idea. So I guess even though I didn't learn anything, I was at least entertained.
The problem is that insurance companies and governments stand between health care and consumers. So the incentives aren't as strong as other markets. Purely market-based health care, like eye lasic or breast implants, have seen remarkable improvements in safety and lower costs.
I never worked with Algol, but I worked with Pascal years before C. The part of Go syntax that seems "bastardized" to me is trying to hide the language in C syntax, when clearly it seems more like Modula.

Type blocks? Var blocks? Types-after-names? Makes sense to me (a former Turbo Pascal user)

:-P
The entire interstate highway system is extremely heavily subsidized (along with gasoline). I'd be interested to see how it would compare with passenger trains without the subsidies, but I suspect it's not as lopsided as we think when it comes to a marginal passenger.
Thanks for pointing it out, but on my line of work I will jump of joy the day I will ever manage to use anything besides Java on the JVM.

Fortune 500 enterprise development, offshoring and modern programming languages are hard to combine.
I'm honestly one of the people absolutely against AirBnB. I'm in New York City.

The counter argument here is that AirBnB does not make a place a hotel but what we see all the time is direct comparisons between hotels and AirBnB.
You can compile OCaml to run on the JVM, although I never tried / needed to do such a thing:
http://ocamljava.x9c.fr/preview/
Edit:

Doh - I'm a moron! You're using a recurrence relation, which has the nice property of never computing the same sub-solution twice. I'll leave this here as a reminder to think before I nitpick next time.

Original:

Apologies to nitpick, but your iterative python solution isn't DP. DP hinges on the idea of never computing the answer to the same problem twice. For it to be DP, it would need to memoize subproblem solutions and refer to the solution cache rather than recompute the solution to every subproblem in the tree every time.

This solution fits the bill, although it can probably be written a bit more elegantly:

fibs = {0: 1, 1: 1}
def fib(n):
global fibs
stack = []
for a in xrange(n,0,-1):
if a in fibs:
stack.reverse()
for item in stack:
fibs[item] = fibs[a] + fibs[a-1]
a = item
break
else:
stack.append(a)
return fibs[n]
Are other forms of concurrency still available? This has always seemed like a strange limitation. Most of the code that I write doesn't require me to spin up tons of threads (at least, not in my code), but sometimes it's really helpful to have them.
What has he said that's particularly creative?

The substance of his claims is extremely plausible and consistent with facts that have been long known.
He compared code to an orange. The rind is the class/method signatures. The pulp is the implementation. If the rind get larger by reducing the size and DRY violations of the pulp, you can consider that worthwhile.

That sounds very very wrong, as you're making your code's clients do more work / be more complex just so you can simplify your implementation.
How bad is that, actually, per capita? India is a very, very, VERY populated place, on a scale unheard of in the United States or UK

[edit] I thought more about it; and China isn't as bad I'm sure. At least, the internet teaches me that Indian traffic is something noteworthy and Chinese traffic isn't.
BazQux Reader http://bazqux.com/
I believe you can't use execute because any JavaScript you supply runs inside the page. You don't have access to the phantomjs specific callbacks you need to intercept http traffic.
You obviously don't live a region that's at risk for Lyme disease. The disease is seriously bad news if it is left untreated, as the bacteria invade the nervous system.
The easiest/quickest lossy text compressions that could theoretically almost halve the size of your data is to drop capitalization (and also assuming you're using some minimal encoding that can only encode the characters you're using.) there is some semantic info that is imparted by capitals, but not much.
Why when I write a link to try out Shotsrv an image appears that says "No images, deal with it!" ???
>I really don't know what the right answer is, but sometimes laws intended to keep us safe, also give shelter to bad guys.

Americans inherently know this. We were brought up with the idea that freedom isn't free and that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Just because it is more convenient to violate the civil liberties of all to catch a few bad actors doesn't mean it is what our country is all about.

Europeans often find that sentiment ridiculous. But that is just the cost of privacy and liberty - one that our forefathers were welcome to pay.
This comment is a bummer. The righteousness of a tool is very subjective, and I think we learn a lot from experimenting and pushing platforms past knee-jerk limits to see what happens.
That guy who's self-immolation "sparked" the Tunisian revolution might disagree.

If he were alive.
It looks like Aaron is familiar with Hal Finney and his battle with this awful disease.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.100

http://www.finney.org/~hal/

http://www.noozhawk.com/local_news/article/101710_hal_finney...

(I'm unsure whether Aaron got a response from Hal.)

Hal's response to his diagnosis has been defiant. He got the tracheotomy and is determined to live a long, productive, and worthwhile life.

I have great reverence for Aaron's concern for the burden he would be on his family, and I certainly don't claim to understand what it would be like to be in his shoes. But I personally am a big supporter of Hal's philosophy. I encourage Aaron and other ALS sufferers to consider this path. Never in history has an intellectually constructive and satisfying life with ALS been as technologically feasible as it is now.

[Edited to reflect the first link.]

Edit 2: It's also worth noting that ALS is what has crippled Stephen Hawking. He got a tracheotomy in 1985, at which point his "A Brief History of Time" was only partially completed. He finished it, and has made many important professional contributions since.

http://www.hawking.org.uk/living-with-als.html
"If it gets to the point I need to die to make something better, it's not worth it."

You know what? That's fine. In reality, most people feel the exact same way. But here's the other reality: without people who felt otherwise, there wouldn't be better places for you to go in the first place.

So when you encounter the kinds of people who realize that someone needs to make the ultimate sacrifice, and look to themselves, instead of looking around for others, the least you can do is to treat them with gratitude and respect instead of disparaging the very ideals that prompted the extrordinary sacrifice from which you (and millions of others) so clearly benefit.
Yes. Scala is a great language, but it devolves into line noise so quickly. ML's relative lack of brackets is so nice, and so is the automatic currying of multi-argument functions. I also really love discriminated unions, and it's really hard to simulate them in Scala.
I just hope they get rid of the side-scrolling when navigating code. It really bothers my eyes.
Thanks, done! https://starthq.com/apps/yoleo
It's perhaps not the easiest read, but a quark/anti-quark particle is called a meson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meson
oh wow, i guess i forgot to remove my dev images from testing :) i apologize for that.
They are talking about the next 60 days after initial launch. They should have an iOS app ready. The picture of phone interaction shows iOS as well.
+10 for "the Dems could have done anything from 2008-2010, and they chose healthcare."

A decision the nation and the Democratic Party will be kicking themselves for for decades.
F# has all the threading power of the .NET runtime at its disposal, including asynchronous programming and the TPL.

OCaml global lock on the INRIA implementation might eventually be fixed.

Both are pretty good alternatives to Go if you are more into FP and modern language abstractions.
Is yeti ready for real use?
You are conflating and confusing things.
Do you build web games? Join the Axonify Game Contest.
>People like yourself and the OP can love to prove people wrong and argue that same popular searches work perfectly for you, but until you've spent a few months learning the language and thus making frequent searches online like myself and the author have, all you're doing is making pointless arguments

Besides the BS ad hominem ("people like me", really?), you just reversed the whole argument against my results. How's that for contradiction?

People argued above that I was getting them because I was in a "filter bubble" for having searched for the language a lot in the past.

Suddenly the problem is that I haven't "spent a few months learning the language and thus making frequent searches online [like yourself]"?

What for? To appreciate the subtle nuances and variable results of using go vs golang?

Not to mention, I never said golang didn't work best (which you somehow assumed I did). Just that "go +stuff" worked well too.

>which are based upon flawed experiments (as already discussed)

Nothing of the short was shown. What was the "flawed experiment" and in what way?

Surely not that I was in a "filter bubble", because now you argue for the inverse (that I didn't perform enough searches). If that was the case, then you should be in a filter bubble too, after all your "frequent searches", which wouldn't explain your results.

Plus, I did the same from totally different account with no cookies and got the same results (as I patiently explained).
I recently enrolled in ClearMe. So... for about $15 per month, I get to skip the security line at SFO. For a couple of bucks, I reduced my SFO portion of the trip time by about 20 mins. Much more economical.
No, they remove search results as well. See chillingeffects.org.
There's no need to define something that cannot be defined.

Broken, suicide does that to the living.
Of course, as long as we're fantasizing about the toys for the rich, Larry Ellison owns a Mig-29, which is capable of Mach 2.25.
I was paraphrasing/regurgitating the common quip "The problem with censorship is ████████████████." Which is meant to illustrate one of the many reasons that censorship is bad, in this case, only the censor gets to know what information has been censored and therefore even if it is a mistake, everyone loses the opportunity to view the content.
libcaca: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
Amicus is hiring a framework-level Javascripter (NYC)
Amicus (YC S12) is looking to bring on a framework-level javascripter. Why join our team of 9?

1) You'll work with amazing developers:

* Our lead frontend dev built this for yucks in 2010: http://spacemagic.io/

2) You'll work on interesting problems. Two examples:

* Open source projects, including our own in house, soon to be open sourced, real time Model View Presenter JS framework with bi-directional data binding

* A realtime collaborative community environment for supporters of nonprofits to communicate and provide each other encouragement, involving realtime JS with Node, Socket.io, and Backbone

3) You'll make an impact:

* Amicus helps great nonprofits do what they do, better

* Frustrated with the behavior of your government? At Amicus, you'll empower people to change it

* Our platform helped with marriage equality: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/the-social-network-effect-that-is-helping-legalize-gay-marriage/265793/

We have great perks too, but those are the last reason you should join us.

We're well funded with significant revenue. If you're interested in joining our team, send an email to jobs+JS@amicushq.com. Include a link to your github and tell us a little about why you're a good fit.
Debian: hot to sudo without password
That is an evasive answer to the question: "The US Government alleged that you gave sensitive information to the Chinese."

Based on his answer, he probably did give sensitive information to the Chinese.
There are some good notes for Peter Thiel's class here: http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup
Speaking of body scanners and the TSA, we're in the last week of the court-ordered comment period. If you haven't commented yet, please do!

http://tsacomments.net/ and http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=3462 have more
Active Admin is getting there in a branch, but I do like to have rubygems.org gems for production apps.

I've just started using the Turkee gem, and this needs the mass-assignment gem with Rails 4 to work correctly. Since I'm new to this one, I need to spend more time with it before I can send in some pull requests to provide patches
Stealth Startup Clinkle sending students to Space
Only if that's the only dimension you care about. It's one dimension and it's an important dimension (for me). More important than that (for me) is "it should be Unix-like and I should have easy access to a typical Unix toolchain."

My experience is that for the last 5 years OS X and Windows are in roughly the same ballpark in terms of how much I have to think about non-software issues, although Windows is better in that dimension, as you say. Linux is not really in the same ballpark, or at best it's way out in the nosebleed section.
I also blame our two-weeks-off-a-year culture.

If we had six weeks off, going four days each way in a train to spend two or three weeks somewhere could be a great vacation.
Ok, I will be happy to break down that particular question if you want. His initial quote was as follows, emphasis added by me:

>"I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you, or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President if I had a personal email."

He doesn't say he has the capability, he says he has the authority. That is an important distinction.

>"Yes, I stand by it."

He doesn't waiver in his initial statement.

>"US Persons do enjoy limited policy protections"

While it might not be clear in the initial interview, I think most people would assume that this type of power isn't given to everyone so some type of policy protection was obvious. Snowden doesn't add anything new here because he doesn't give any details and his statement just raises more questions. The question that relates directly to his first statement is whether he really did have the authority to wiretap the president like he initially claimed? But I would also like to here more explanation of these policies. Was this an honor system? Was there any oversight? Did these things require a warrant or any approval?

>"(and again, it's important to understand that policy protection is no protection - policy is a one-way ratchet that only loosens)"

Part of the philosophical musings that I mentioned in my initial post.

>"and one very weak technical protection - a near-the-front-end filter at our ingestion points. The filter is constantly out of date, is set at what is euphemistically referred to as the "widest allowable aperture," and can be stripped out at any time."

This is another vague and almost worthless statement. At this point and with this level of detail, we can only speculate on these "technical protections". It would seem to imply that there is a technical filter in place that prevents information about US citizens from ever entering the system. But the way Snowden dismisses it as soon as he brings it up makes it seem like it is useless. Some followups would have been helpful here. What does he mean that the filter is constantly out of date? What does "widest allowable aperture" mean? Who has the authority to "strip it out at any time"?

I don't think he provided anything new here outside of simply confirming that there were policy and technical limitations in place, something that would likely be assumed by most people.
Yes:

* multiple processes (there are a few libraries that can help make it easier)

* I/O concurrency with cooperative threads library: Equeue, Lwt or Async

* you could also use the built-in Thread module for I/O concurrency but the overhead will likely be higher

* you can execute C code in multiple threads in parallel, only OCaml code is limited to a single thread (due to the global lock)
For the pull request icon, I would use the upper torso of a stick figure pulling a rope, a la tug-of-war.
I'd surmise that everyone's a little dirty, but if you play nice, the powers that be will turn their head.

Put another way: racial profiling is real. That doesn't mean that those racially profiled are innocent when caught with illicit substances, but that doesn't make the profiling any less wrong.