skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a big fan of AirBnB, but I also think hotels have room to offer better services and compete better with home-stay options. Somebody already suggested live-work suites, but it doesn't have to be every room. Depending on the location, the hotel could have a percentage of working suites, or even a drop-in office not full of back-packers chatting on facetime for a reasonable rate. Same for kitchens: provide a number of kitchenette rooms or a useful kitchen for guest use--not just a crappy breakfast.

Hotels could also offer a "home-stay" rate that does not include housekeeping on stays over 3 days--I'd go for that every time.

On the other hand, AirBnB should be more like a hotel: collect all hotel and local taxes on every stay.

It should also be a law for both hotels and home-stay websites to advertise only the full and final cost, including all taxes, cleaning fees, and so-called "resort fees."
Philip Zimbardo: The psychology of evil [Video]
There's an NSA joke in here somewhere.
The author of this article, Tim Kreider, may be better known by some of us Internet folk as purveyor of the fine web-comic "The Pain": http://thepaincomics.com/
Yeah, it was kind of a "hey it does it for free" sort of thing.

I mean, if it's never really a problem, why spend more time setting extra things up. That being said, I'd have no problem setting up and managing HAProxy if we wanted to do that.

The fw boxes are from these guys: http://www.watchguard.com/ They were X550e's this weekend we're installing XTM 515's
I mentioned the uniqueness elements to highlight areas where SaaS services can evolve into from their "solution" service to a "problem" service.

I do however agree with you that, you should always try to offer something unique (as this is the USP and where you can make higher profit margins) and that it can sometimes take time to achieve this. However, SaaS is not revolutionary and it can be copied by anyone and some of them may have a nice user interface and/or great product functionality but it is not revolutionary aka a commodity - which as I mentioned in the post is a death spiral as it focuses on competing on price.
I understand your point of view but I guess this topic is highly subjective. In my case, not knowing wouldn't bother me that much and knowing I don't have the gene wouldn't dramatically improve my life. However, knowing I have the gene would probably make me dramatically depressed for my remaining years.
Please see http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/2/24/maintenance-policy-f...

"Severe Security Updates" => "After the Rails 4 release: 4.0.z, 3.2.z"
Verizon looking to moving into the Canada cellular business
The nearby neighbors made the mistake of thinking that the property owner was a fellow homeowner. The problem is that the property owner doesn't see things that way. In their eyes, its a business and the neighbors who tried to deal with the problems person to person was just showing their lack of sophistication - this was a "pay yourself first" endeavor.

Jimmy's father built the goal at the end of the driveway when Jimmy was about 8. It is a thing of beauty - Ryan was a craftsman. Three summers ago he drove Jimmy and his teammates to the AAU Nationals. The next Thanksgiving he was diagnosed with liver cancer. 15 months later he died. When, I heard how the damage had been done and that the property owner had promised to get it fixed, but hadn't, that's when it was clear the owner didn't give fuck about the neighborhood or the people affected by their business.

It's simple economics. Two weekends a month gets the owner past breakeven, and the third and fourth are mostly profit. The values systems between the property owner and the neighborhood residents are incommensurate.

In the end, all it took was for two assholes to collide and agree that calling the police was the best solution. Well that and hitting the city manager and elected officials over the head with email.
That was my first thought too. And second, that if it's possible to rent a herd of goats I would like to do exactly that. I'll figure out a reason after the fact.
Missing unattended baby, and I was the only witness? I want nothing to do with that. I'd point in the correct direction then run in the opposite direction, as presumably everybody else was doing (because hey, escaped bear).
I find it somewhat upsetting, and somewhat expected that the more the police and judicial system use people's words against them, the further they push communities away from cooperating and even helping the police.

I had a friend who used to police in Queens, NY and he said relations got so bad with the people in some neighborhoods that these people wouldn't say a word to the cops even when someone they knew was killed on their block! Talk about a sick world to live in, but can you really blame them?
Getting Leads - Lessons learned the hard way
1. String the client along to get their personal details

2. Do whatever is required to get hold of their test account details. If they are not planning on doing this, suggest it to them and convince them it was their idea. Make sure there is more than one

3. ... ;)

4. Profit!
From the article: Salinas' "Fifth Amendment claim fails because he did not expressly invoke the privilege against self-incrimination in response to the officer's question," Justice Samuel Alito said. "It has long been settled that the privilege `generally is not self-executing' and that a witness who desires its protection `must claim it.'"

Does this mean one must actually say "I plead the fifth" to 'claim' one's rights under the fifth amendment?
Microsoft Improves Windows Phone Voice Recognition: 2X Faster, 15% More Accurate
I spend way too long looking for the repo URL. Too bad they have hidden it away, I think it is one of the most used features in a repo.
I think there's a difference between: "Hey, did you see which direction [insert bad situation that just happened that the police can help with] went!?"

and

"Do you know how fast you were going?"
To be fair, that was not a crypto bug in the sense of "got the crypto wrong" -- you can see that in earlier versions of the code I had it right. It was a dumb software bug introduced by refactoring, with catastrophic consequences

Isn't that the entire basis of 'tptacek's argument, though? That even you, as an expert in both software development and cryptography, accidentally got something wrong? An engineering fault occurred, to an expert practitioner. This seems to suggest this sort of thing is not just a function of pure science.
That's actually a different one, and I believe not one that the phrase "life is suffering" means.

I'm not a Buddhist or an expert in Buddhism by any mean. But being born and raised in an South East Asian that is strongly culturally tied with Buddhism, I believe the phrase "life is suffering" isn't too far away from what I normally heard and read. Of course, different Buddhism sect will have different idea on the whole "what life is", but interestingly, I recalled reincarnation being considered not as a gift, but actually a curse. You should strive to live your life free of all the meaningless greeds, emotions and bad deeds so that you won't be reborn, and hence relieve from life's suffering.

Of course, I realize the whole thing might sounds bizarre with a lot of Westerners, as so does many of Buddhism's teaching (emotions is bad etc). But keeps in mind, personal happiness is specifically a Western ideal, one that has been spreading more and more to the East, but still incompatible with many of the old traditional ideals here (Note: I'm not saying either way is better or worse, I'm still trying to figure that out).
The story was that they admitted this in a "secret briefing". I'm not sure if denying something in public refutes what you said in private.

Nadler seemed pretty sure on Thursday at the Committee meeting and when interviewed by CNET over the weekend but has now changed his story. The NSA released a very strangely worded denial. And in today's Q&A Snowden says this is exactly how it happens.

Not sure what to make of all this but is seems like we have been given a peek behind the curtain but not a long enough gaze to see exactly what is going on.
I'd be much more concerned about heavy/radioactive metals in the water than I would be about any possible microbes.
The government also "wins out" because it reserves the sole power to take your life, liberty, and possessions from you.

The government is supposed to protect you from others trying to take these things and stop you from taking these things from others. It needs certain limited powers to do that. But without severe checks, those powers are certain to be abused.

Combine that power with total information, and it's almost certain to result in abuses and authoritarianism. While it's a thought many might not have at the tip of their tongues, I think most people realize that, due to the nature of power, it's extremely risky for the agent with all the power to also have all the information.
Huh? Oil the perfect example of a commoditized market? You go buy oil on a commodities exchange and take delivery from whoever bothered to fill your contract (you don't really care who).
Unless you are reading a different story:

Ballistic reports showed the shells matched the shotgun, but police declined to prosecute Salinas.

Maybe I don't understand shotgun forensics very well, but as I understand the only ballistics that they could match it the gauge of the shotgun and possibly match gunpowder residue. Other than that, shotguns don't have riflings, which make them very difficult to pinpoint as a weapon.

As an example, if I were to fire 5 different shotguns of the same gauge but use the same shells and you either had the expended shell or the result of the shot (buckshot or slug), you most likely wouldn't be able to tell which rifle shot which shell.

While the jury may still have had plenty to convict on with other circumstantial evidence (motive, means, opportunity), I will say that this is a bad decision.
> We're sensitive to data loss in text form: we can only consume a few dozens of bytes per second, and so any error is obvious.

We've also optimized text to be pretty robust in its native form, such that all of those bits have a high chance of getting through successfully; for example, no writing system requires color to carry semantic weight. Therefore, text can be displayed successfully with monochrome technology, and is robust against color changes as long as contrast is preserved.

Also, every writing system has a fixed repertoire of atomic units (characters), even if some of them have a huge number of them. This makes writing robust against small changes as they're more likely to turn a well-formed character into a badly-formed version of the same character, as opposed to a different character entirely. This, of course, is where JPEG breaks the rules somewhat, because its idea of a 'small change', when applied to a text file, will always produce an entirely different character, usually with no obvious relationship to the original. The properties are entirely different.

> Conversely, we're almost blind to it in pictures and images: and so losing quality doesn't bother us all that much.

Images are captured and displayed largely irrespective of human perceptual limits. Lossy compression is, in fact, a way to recognize the limits of human perception and take them into account by throwing away information likely to be ignored anyway. For example, human hearing tops out at around 22 kHz, so a sampling rate somewhere north of 44 kHz will, mathematically, capture everything about the sound humans are interested in. Had we canine perception, our sampling rates would be higher, but we could use fewer bits to encode the colors in color photographs.

Text is inefficient in its uncompressed form, but human perception of that type has little to do with that. It's inefficient because our language is redundant, which is a boon when we're trying to talk in a crowded café and must accept some noise along with the signal.

A better test would be to take a picture of a sign, then edge-detect to bring out the letter forms at maximum contrast, pound it down to monochrome, and then compress that at maximum lossage. I guarantee it would still be readable.
I have debated that with other people.

If you have important evidence to solve a crime like that (missing children is a great example), the best thing to do is give your evidence to the police in as anonymous a fashion as possible, and also try to give strong signals that the evidence is credible.

The complaints people have with the system is that it incentivizes silence. I think most people don't advocate "don't talk to the police" because they want to see innocent people harmed (as in your example). It's precisely because they don't want to see innocent people harmed by police whose incentives, frankly, don't match up with "trying to find innocence".
This definition is from a non-scientist. And I think this is an absurdly over-specific and over-naturalist definition. #5 in particular is annoying given that Popperism is an ideal that essentially no scientific fields meet (including physics).

Rather, I think the most reasonable definition of a science is very simple: a discipline whose primary technique for gathering new results is the scientific method.

Anyway, given either definition, I don't see how Cryptography is a science.
I suppose I don't see how multinational corporations like McDonald's or 7-11 providing wifi has a socialist angle to it. Isn't that more just the free market operating? They offer wifi because they think it brings in business, and the Scandinavian countries have fairly free markets that don't stand in their way when they want to do so. The German-style regulations discouraging establishments from offering wifi through onerous regulations seem to be the more statist outliers.
I haven't read all the article, but it looks very close to the daily-work I have had for 3 years. I agree with almost every aspect, and also I will take good tips from here.
Wait... So is it a right or a privilege?
…except that answering any questions at all by the police now means that the police can accuse you of some unrelated crime and use your silence at that point against you.
Non-mobile version for you desktop users out there - http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-17/with-prism-c...
How to manage huge Backlogs of User Stories
Good question. I always thought that was only something done for television/movies.
Ah, maybe I was just projecting my own usage patterns. A good middle ground would be for Github to display "All repositories" search results beneath repository specific search results.
This is actually very common. You can make an nice chunk of change in the area between KY and SC renting out your goats to destroy kudzu.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIoRJG2yDoI

UK prof points out the obvious proposition, you keep a proper goat/kudzu ratio and it's MONEY TREE
Poor Canada.
A lot of developments lately make me think of this wonderful letter Emily Haines sent fans of Metric last fall.

> The thing we have to get our heads around on a daily basis is that even a small step in the wrong direction is too far when attempting to prevent a slide backwards.

Full letter here: http://peg.gd/3eN (short URL is not a redirect, but in fact a mirror of the email content itself).
> "The point isn't how many words you're using, but how repetitiously those words appear."

Not under the compression scheme barakm is proposing, which is to fix a universal dictionary (the commonest 1k or 64k English words across some very wide corpus), so that you don't have to transmit it.

Under the 64k scheme, every word is 2B, but you probably have to use a few more words. It's a naive scheme, but a very comprehensible one, and relatively useful for shorter texts.

As an alternative, sure, you can make a custom dictionary, in which case you can use whatever words you like, as long as you can keep the distinct number down, and ideally heavily-repeat certain words. This results in a larger filesize for small messages, because you have to start by sending the dictionary, but a much better filesize for nearly any large message.

Or, hmn. I guess you could allow recursive compression, or back-references, or something, so that you could compress repetition of word-sequences.

And, hmn, that might not always work out. Well, look, you could allocate the first byte of the message to switching between compression schemes, so that you can choose between 256 different schemes, and choose the best one.

Oh look, if I keep this up for another hour or two, maybe I'll catch up to the state of the art from before I was born. No, I don't know what wavelets are, nor who Fourier is, why do you ask?

Anyway, popping out of fake-naive mode, my point is that Huffman compression isn't the only compression technique.
Raspbian vs Raspbmc
Hell, three different neighbors considered addressing some of the situations with guns - it's Alabama. I always saw it as economics, and an insurance claim would probably have been a boon.

Mischief would only reinforce the property owner's conviction that it was ok to externalize the costs upon the neighborhood - though that doesn't mean I didn't think devious thoughts. It just turned out that once I stopped pretending that the renters were ignorant of the illegality, events began to resolve of their own accord.

Besides, I have no interest in spending time in jail. That is a world of suck.
The problem is, saying anything may cause you a world of hurt (e.g., obviously since you know so much you were the one who set the bear free) and will bring you absolutely no benefits, whereas saying nothing carefully is safe.

Yes, there is that minor detail of your conscience, but then again, in a society that's so dangerously crazy, that allows the police-judicial complex so much freedom to harm so many innocents, or harmless or most-harmless "clueless" (as used in http://www.amazon.com/Arrest-Proof-Yourself-Ex-Cop-Reveals-A...), just how much duty do you owe to those who are not kin or close friends? Given the possible consequences of using my guns in defense of others, no matter how legitimately or legally, I've had to make this decision ahead of time, and it has to be that limited.

As the government gets ever more predatory, I suspect we're getting an education in why various more "primitive" societies are that way, why family, clan and tribe are so very important in them.
Action or State?
They might be able to match the pattern the firing pin left on the primer.

(I don't know if they can do that or not, just an idea.)
That's not what the constitution says, but let's be honest: does it really matter what it says?
In that case, pick up a good book on linear algebra. Gilbert Strang's Introduction to Linear Algebra is inexpensive and solid on the fundamentals, and there are related lectures from Strang's MIT course on the subject [1]. Jim Hefferon's Linear Algebra is also good and you can download it for free (GFDL) [2]. It takes a different approach to Strang's book. The two work well together for self-study since for most subjects you can see two different approaches.

Also, for this particular problem, see the "Topic: Linear Recurrences" chapter of Hefferon's book. It actually uses the Fibonacci series as its example (this example seems popular with authors of textbooks and lecture notes).

[1] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-...

[2] http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/
IANAL either but that is also how I read it. I don't really find this all that disturbing. He chose to talk and then chose to not answer that specific question. Plus, as was pointed out in the article and by another poster here, the ballistics confirmed a match to the gun. So there was more at play in the court room than just his silence.
But then what's the point of Miranda Rights then?
IANAL.

If you're under oath, testifying in court, you're expected to give an answer of some form — in fact, you've sworn an oath to do exactly that — so in order to invoke your 5th Amendement right against self-incrimination, you must do so explicitly.

If you're being questioned by the police, even subsequent to an arrest, however, your silence should be sufficient.

Salinas' trouble didn't come from not explicitly invoking his privilege, but from waiving it by starting to talk, and then invoking it by refusing to talk further once the State's line of questioning in the pre-Miranda police interview became relevant to the crime in question.

The moral of the story? "Don't talk to the police. Ever."

Also, IANAL.
Fair enough.

My main point was not that one though, as I am sure you have understood. My main point was to say that the tech industry is an industry and such, it requires people with different backgrounds to grow and thrive.

And don't worry, I hate as much as the other guy the "wantpreneurs" and gold diggers/acquihire-seekers that one can find by the boatloads between San Francisco and San Jose.
FWIW, the history of cryptography backs up this basic assertion. One of my still-not-yet-published assertions is that cryptography is often better conceptualized as a hermeneutic exploration of the natural world. But, not the physical world (as "typical" science is), instead the "ideal" world---the laboratory of the mind. Bacon, Wilkins, Leibniz and many other "fathers" of modern Western science were all excellent cryptographers.
If you re-word that to say "dingo" instead of "bear", I think you'll realize that reddit was probably right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Azaria_Chamberlain
This is going to be a rough one, but in the hypothetical situation provided, how?
tl;dr: Waaaah, the people with the money are making the rules and instead of doing it better myself I'll just write some clever insults from my corner.

This is no different than dropping a Walmart in the middle of a small town and crushing all the family businesses. It's not utopian but it is how nature works. Those with the biggest teeth control the ecosystem. The only difference is the modern world has decided to use a point system to measure power. Don't like it? Strap on your entrepreneur hat and do it how you think it should be done.

Oh, and teaching the "locals" who in the "ghetto" how to write HTML is not going to change anything.
I'm a fan of digital currencies so I frequently visit Freenode channels:
#bitcoin
#litecoin
#bitcoin-dev
#mtgox

Its interesting to observe the growth of the channels during bitcoin's hype cycles.
Please tell us what you REALLY think. :)
You have a right to a lawyer in a criminal trial, but that doesn't mean one magically appears if you don't ask for one.
can this be explained in terms of quark-color theory or is that unrelated to this phenomenon?
Interesting take on comedic "IP".
Another tragedy of positively defined law. As soon as you give someone a "bill of rights" you can then do everything up to the prohibited limit.
If we replaced police officer with federal agent, I would probably not talk. Making false statements[0] and all.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements
Tesla Clashes With Car Dealers
Counseling is still available, it's just something I try not to think about it too much. It's not something I want to be constantly thinking about. You're right, losing two family members to the disease does burden me at times when I stop to think about it.

Here is a link to the inheritance chart which describes most situations and the likely hood it will passed on, and to which side (male or female) passes it on.

http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/inheritance/riskassessment
Or simply, "I do not feel comfortable answering your questions without my attorney present."

Edit: IANAL.
Being Mirandized doesn't give you those rights; it only reminds you that you have them. More to the point, you're only Mirandized upon arrest. Salinas hadn't been arrested yet. More fool him for talking to the cops in the first place...