skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minus many days? http://grahamcluley.com/2013/07/car-hacking-video/
There must be a framework for all that stuff? I have the same issue. I'm converting a single-player game I have to a multi-player turn-based game -- and man, there is a lot of stuff to do. And don't forget player ratings and other statistics.

A really good framework for building turn-based games I bet would have a decent market.
The obfuscated code in functions.js in the git repo is very strange, too... What did it do and why was it obfuscated? https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/06a06b561aa2fcf22ce52b...
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Deferrable Gratification: LinkedIn Intro's asynchronous operations library
Google ran a crazy flashy graphical doodad ad for nexus 7 on the Google home page.
I'll just leave this here.

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=google.co...
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I've thought a lot about willpower since Jason Shen posted his self-help ebook on here a few weeks ago -- oddly, I have become a believer in cold shower therapy -- and I've come to believe that willpower is indeed limited, but that it can be "exercised" in a way by doing uncomfortable things.

However, I think that it's not so much that the exercise is increasing your capacity of willpower, it's that you're training yourself for your activities to use less willpower. Essentially, you can turn what would normally be willpower draining conscious decisions into routine habits that don't require any. Bad analogy, but you're not increasing your MP, you're just making it cheaper to cast Cure.

Part of this process for me is learning and reinforcing new habits, but I think there's also value in building confidence in your ability to form new habits. When you see that you're capable of meaningful change, that little jolt of happy chemical rewards serves to reinforce the metahabit of self improvement.
You have graph from last 3 months in the site and you claim that "We've been correct about 60% of the time." Getting it 10% better than coin toss in upwards trending market is not that hard.
Yes I do. She merely just says she'd rather find another meetup spot that's not a pub and offers suggestions. Doesn't go into boorish drunken behavior that she witnessed at these meetups or something equally alarming that one would expect from someone who presupposes 'Does our industry have a drinking problem?' That's a pretty weighty title, but unfortunately in today's world where it's all about getting page views, people will now dilute once-weighty-sounding titles for to increase clickthrough rate.
How will they earn then? Most of their profits are from Ads.
Being young, I stumbled on PK Ware once while doing a task for a job. I started inquiring about their service, and was slightly rude to a rep. The conversation went something like...

Me: Why would I pay 40 dollars for zipping software I get for free? You guys are totally late to the game, winzip and winrar already exist.

Rep: ....... Yea, we started the industry, and our founder died from alcohol abuse...

Me: Good joke...

.......

It's a sad tale indeed.
I love how people continue to attach emotional investment to an arbitrary thing like a corporation. Apologists, fanboys, and people with a child-like innocence. Do you really expect a for-profit company will stick to a promise like it means something?

The entire point behind a capitalist corporation is to make more profit, year after year. That is the entire idea behind the stock market. To think that they'd evade eventually exploring every avenue available to avoid making more money is mad.
@pierrefar

As a student interested in security, will the js file be provided so we can examine and learn how this was done outside of privileged access?

EDIT

OKay looks like safe browsing said it is no longer suspicious. And I think someone already provided the JS file below.

Google's safe browsing looks pretty cool! Really powerful infrastructure. I wonder if they did this with virustotal?
Can virustotal recongize this?

Another thing is other search engines dont seem to have this built-in. I wonder people using DDG will ever think about querying Google safe browsing or not.

Does google provide an api (beside just querying safebrowsing directly).
It works very well on Android. I'd like links to full articles where possible.
Of course there is also bonding going on. And a lot of folks who have responsibilities while at home have more freedom on the road.
NSA tapped German Chancellor Merkel's cell phone
Are you afraid it'll delete your archived backups?
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I run a website which aims to motivate/inspire people daily by showing simple inspiring quotes and videos each day. If you're after that type of reboot - something that will just give you a brief lift, then check it out. I won't post it's name as i don't want to spam - you can see it in my profile. Thanks
People can choose things but that doesn't mean you should sometimes try to steer them in an other direction. That's the whole point of morality and other coercive measures which all have a different place on the scale of subtleness.
I would say that even URL-literate users use it this way, because the business-to-URL mapping is not always clear, and the naive guess is sometimes the worst possible one (e.g. Dick's Sporting Goods.)
This is basically the same as the new Product Search, where only paid ads are shows. (Google killed organic product search this year.)

But this version doesn't allow open pay-for-play access, only one preferred buyer is invited per search term.
Can anyone comment on the difference between "contributions to total spending in the city economy" and "economic activity generated in the city"? I am curious about the disparity in these two statements:

SF: From April 2011 May 2012 guests and hosts utilizing Airbnb have contributed $56 million in total spending to San Francisco’s economy [1]

NYC: Over the course of a year, Airbnb generated $632 million in economic activity in New York. [2]

Another question I have is how would the authors identify the economic contributions of AirBnB hosts in San Francisco? And/or how they would distinguish between the contributions that were the result of AirBnB and those contributions that would have happened without AirBnB?

I am aware of HR&A's motivations.[3] I am not trying to criticize the report I am interested in the actual analytical process.

[1] http://assets.airbnb.com/press/press-releases/Economic_Impac...

[2] http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/2013/10/22/airbnb-a-huge-bo...

[3] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I think OGR (gdal.org) has an OSM driver that you can install optionally to go from OSM -> SHP. Problem is that SHP and OSM are not 100% compatible formats, so data massaging may be necessary in many cases.

Also, Geofabrik.de will export it for you for a fee.
"Hey, don't look at me, I'm just asking questions!"
Is there anything this guy can teach people about intelligence which has nothing to do with computers or neuron networks ?
Maybe you could offer some screenshots of an example so we know what to expect?
Yeah... that's why we brought it up...
Thanks. So I believe there are links to full articles - for example today's post (getinspired365.com/mobile/20131024) there is a 'more' button. If you click this it will take you to a more detailed article. Thanks!
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That's not a REST API.

Forget HATEOAS (the usual "that's not REST" objection), the problem is more fundamental -- it uses HTTP syntax but not HTTP semantics. All of those operations are not safe (in the sense of RFC 2616 Sec. 9.1.1), and some (honk horn!) are not idempotent; following HTTP semantics, none of them should be GET. And "I understood what you are asking for but won't/can't do it" is not within the meaning of the HTTP 200 response code, that's 403 or 409.
Ask HN: What is, in your opinion, the next main thing we need after email?
There's Template Haskell support to auto-generate FromJSON/ToJSON instances, so if you don't care exactly how the JSON looks like, you can get type-safe JSON serialization/schema validation for free.
Pushing yourself to stay awake is probably not something you should be doing if you want to function at max mental and physical capacity.
Not necessarily. If like at least half of users you spend your time watching videos, memes and your facebook feed, you aren't going to become more literate or understand anything.
As a New Yorker looking for an apartment I've really come to despise Airbnb. Housing has obviously always been expensive here, but it's reached new heights this year. I'm looking in Brooklyn and not only are the rents higher than I've ever seen them, but it's much more difficult than before to find a bedroom in an existing household (via craigslist, etc). All the while I encounter an increasing number of people, friends, acquaintances, friends of friends, who say they have a bedroom in their apartment that they keep open to rent out to Airbnb guests. I know this is HN and someone is going to say this is just an anecdote, and clearly that's true, but there's no doubt Airbnb is not just competing with hotels, it's also lowering housing availability in desirable neighborhoods, and likely raising prices in an already expensive rental market.
arguable, sure. I wouldn't call it an airtight argument, especially as it extends to more search terms.

In some cases, it's a 'natural-language alternative to DNS.' In some very similar cases, it's not. If Southwest Airlines crashes today, there will be a lot of people on that results page looking for news or pictures.

In some cases, it just isn't clear what the right page is.If you google the name of a local restaurant, you might find their site at #1 but in a lot of cases, a restaurant's site isn't the best place for info. Maybe their facebook page is. Maybe some aggregator site is. Google (supposedly neutrally) tells you what the best place for this is.

In this particular case, wikipedia is the right answer the the "Southwest Airlines" query a substantial portion of the time.
>a time period when US population increased 9.7%:

That's a misleading and mostly irrelevant statistic because population growth in the USA is not homogenous. Half the growth from 2000-2010 has been hispanic, a population that tends to live in western and southern states - not the northeast/NYC. This is reflected in geographic maps of population growth: http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/united-states-population-growth-.... 10% growth hasn't occured anywhere near NYC; the 2-3% population growth in NYC reflects the geographic area it is in.

Anyway, I don't see why national population growth is relevant either way, the important statistic is supply has outpaced demand, which is a hard fact (and is visibly clear - construction is common in many parts of the city, especially the outer boroughs and the east/west sides of Manhattan). Prices are going up because the demographic of the city has changed, not because of supply constraints.
A) The article's (quite clearly) not geared towards concision.

B) Personally, I'm delighted that there are various ways to do this. It's good for innovation.
The paper may be commissioned by Airbnb, but I think the fundamental findings are pretty solid. Of course I'm probably fairly biased because I'm a pretty heavy Airbnb user, with more than ten Airbnb stays in NYC in the last couple years.

From what I've experienced Airbnb has allowed me to stay in areas of the city that have few hotels or poor hotel coverage. I'm not the kind of person who enjoys Midtown. I can't stand the tourist crowds, most of the restaurants are horrible and there is no way in hell that I'm going to spend $200 a night of startup money on staying at a Midtown hotel.

So when I'm in NYC with the startup I work for I'll stay in Williamsburg at a cheap Airbnb place. Because of this I'm usually able to stay around three weeks, and during that time my money is going to local restaurants, bars, and convenience stores in Williamsburg and the LES.

All considered I probably still spend the same amount of money as your average Midtown tourist, because I stay in NYC much longer even though my expenses per day are lower than if I was staying in corporate hotels. But the important thing is that the money I do spend is going to a local resident (90% of the Airbnbs I've stayed at have been renting a room in the primary residence of the Airbnb host), and to small local businesses, not to big corporate chain hotels and chain restaurants in Midtown. I consider this to be a good thing.
> This isn't a banner ad.

This is not a duck, its merely an animal that came from a female duck that happens to live in the water and share a nest with other ducks.

A banner ad, by definition, is a paid add that is an image.
Google is showing banner ads for any definition of the word.
On an iPad you don't need HDMI, you have airplay. Sure you need an extra $99 device, but no fiddling with cables, fixed cabling for my TV setup. That's FAR superior to any HDMI connection on any tablet. I do have a 30pin -> HDMI convertor for my iPad2, but ended up never using it because of the cable mess. And with Apple's weird pricing, an AppleTV wasn't that much more expensive than the HDMI connector for the iPad...

Btw - there are also emulators for iOS which work with BlueTooth controllers (see http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e762/ )
Comments like this make it really tough for me to not post a snarky lmgtfy link.

edit: Seriously people, it's the first result for "pci" on google. Even when not spelled all caps. Come on.
Most of GEB doesn't concern either of those things. Why not read it and find out for yourself?
It's a game. When you have 30 candies, a button appears and you can start the game. more and more things unlock when you continue the game
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From the headers, php.net seems to be Apache/PHP on BSD. This might be an example of a widespread ongoing attack pattern which is a bit of a mystery.

For the past year or more there have been compromises in this pattern - Linux/unix platform, Apache webserver; foreign Javascript or PHP gets inserted somehow; and/or in some cases the server binary is replaced. Sample article: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/exclusive-ongoing-ma... - you can find more on this.

The big question is how the original exploit happens. It may be a long-out-there 0-day, or some admin tool that the sites have in common, or credentials taken from compromised boxes of developers, or something else.

Edited to update info.
Maybe, but I'm not sure that always holds up. Playing video games requires effort, but many people find it difficult to refrain from that. This may be confounded somewhat, since in some cases procrastination might be mistaken for lack of restraint. But I don't think that's always the case.
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the reality is , is that in general people like pleasant associated images. Its only mirroring the way that Facebook has a cover photo on profiles and made a difference in the way that profiles are viewed. Why not extract money when a corporation is searched for and show a profile for them. Similar to facebook and searching for a user. I think it will become an issues when corporation decide they want to use the image, like a banner ad vs a nice associated image.
> Anyone know if they tally calls for people calling to say thanks or good job or whatever?

Probably wouldn't hurt. In fact, it might inspire similar bills on issues such as this.

Happy voters are repeat voters after all!
It won't work now. See candyluver13's comment below for a working cheat.
The lawmakers opposed to these bikes (and a lot of the commenters here) all are operating under the stated assumption that the bikes' speed ("unpredictable") makes them a major risk to pedestrians.

Is there actually any evidence of this? Anyone have any links or details about increased rates of accidents, etc. having to do with e-bikes?

I can accept the premise if there's data supporting it. Otherwise this sounds suspiciously like "This sounds different/risky, therefore I don't like it."
Whether they do or not, I think this is a great idea. For all the flak they get -- despite much or most of it usually being justified -- encouraging reps that do this sort of thing can only possibly help.
But there are plenty of companies that make a lot of money specifically because they 'stick to a promise'.

Whole Foods, Chipotle, REI, Patagonia all spring to mind as companies that I will happily pay a premium to shop at because of things they do that fall outside of the ruthless race to the bottom to cut costs. They make a profit off of me specifically because they stick to promises like "don't put antibiotics in chicken feed" or "don't use sweatshop labor".

I don't care about a banner ad the way I care about antibiotic use in agriculture, so this doesn't matter to me, but maybe someone out there does and will stop being a profitable google customer because of this action.
I'm surprised at the resistance to e-bikes.

E-bikes are a practical and cost-effective electric vehicle for the urban masses. The batteries are usually removable and can be charged in an apartment or office. They take up very little room on the road and parked. Replacing a car with an e-bike is a huge win.

E-bikes are a mature product due to the fact that you can't get a license for gas scooters in cities in China, and they have already gone through several product generations in China. They would be a huge improvement over the prevalence of gas scooters in some cities.

I hope they become mainstream in American cities. E-bikes are the best chance for bicycles to become mainstream in city traffic. If they do become a significant part of traffic, they will have a large positive effect on safety for all cyclists.
Except for figuring out about Pangaea and continental drift.
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I hope that they remain like this. The truly subversive marketing tactics are what I worry about. (i.e., there could be any number of astroturfers on HN that are good enough that they don't get noticed)
Now this post disappeared from the front page.
I agree. the pros seem to far outweigh the cons.
it shows banner ads for companies including SouthWest
Airlines on pages which include them in web search results.

It's not just 'If you search for Southwest Airlines'. It's if in the list of results for the thing you searched for there's a Southwest Airlines page. It could be coincidental but suddenly you have a large advertisement at the top of your page.

It wouldn't be outside the bounds of possibility for this to encourage Google to rank Southwest Airlines pages more highly so that they can show the banner, thereby generating more revenue.
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I think the point of the parent comment is that they went looking for data that supported their hypothesis, instead of the more accepted form of formulating a null hypothesis and defeating it with data and statistics (which is not bulletproof in itself).
This happened to http://www.iphonedevsdk.com a while ago and did a good job of tarnishing its reputation, all as a result of an arbitrary flag.
This is in turn naive, as if corporations operate within a mathematical model, not the real world. Corporations rely very heavily on the trust of their customers, whether those are consumers, or other businesses. Google's entire business model rests on the willingness of its consumers to hand over their data, the value of their word is fundamental to future profitability. Although admittedly this particular issue is not directly important in that sense.
Why? its not that he hates technology people - he didnt propose SOPA just to piss you off. He's bought and paid for by the content lobby, that's a copyright issue and not at all related to patents. Patent trolls and Hollywood aren't the same entity - lots of us in technology feel the same way about both groups but that's because of our unique perspective. To Lamar Smith and many others this can be viewed as a bill to help the (innovation) economy, his position on SOPA can likewise be viewed as a way to protect (one slice of) the economy. His position is basically a pro-business position - you just happen hate some of the business he supports and love other business he supports. From his perspective your views seem contradictory - why are you pro-business and anti-business?
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Apple put out similar hand-wavey figures last year: https://www.apple.com/about/job-creation/

I think the point boils down to:

1) dollars paid to hosts are counted towards the city economy (ostensibly most of those would be spent in the city) -- this is direct

2) renters need to eat etc, and those monies should be counted to the economic activity -- this is indirect
It's not an ad because it's an organic search result, which is directly relevant to what I'm searching. It's essentially the same as Google Image search result, only better suited for this particular page and request.
I’d like to see this sort of thing in urban areas too. Tall buildings mean dark valleys. I’m writing this from downtown Manhattan, where the narrow streets are especially shadowed.

But even in more residential areas of the city, more light at street level would be a lovely thing. Some of my neighbors have mirrored windows and you’d be surprised how much light that sends into my apartment.
Yeah the 60%+ is over the last 2+yrs. 60% is really not as easy as you'd think as it gives you a 20% edge 60% right - 40% wrong. Also my model's learning everyday and over the last few weeks has been doing pretty well as you can see. I'm working on an account system right now and will soon update the site with some more disclosure about my predictions and historical accuracy.
If only the app was actually worth it. I tried it out, and so far:
There's a persistent notification that never goes away, even after you tell Android not to allow notifications from the app (no idea how they did that, never seen another app do that)
I haven't gotten past the signup yet, even though I got the email. Seems that the signup process resets if you switch out of the app. Too bad if you want to use Lastpass to generate a password.
After I gave up and wrote the password down, it decided that I hadn't gotten the approve email. No amount of clearing data or retrying would convince it otherwise.
If an argument doesn't resonate with you it's easy to simply say I respond to reason rather than emotion, or vise versa. Or point out the problems as you just did, perfectly fine approach, but you can't ban emotional arguments because sadly, most people are emotional, and those arguments tend to work better. It'd be nice if everyone only responded to non fallacious logical arguments, but it just isn't so.
PCI compliance is actually there because the card industry uses 1970 style security. Fact is the ATM cryptos was broken in the 1990s and it is more expensive to change all the card terminals than compensate the customers for fraud.

Most broken is the fact that US credit cards still uses magnetic stripe when everyone else have converted to using smart card chips. Why the is there visible PAN numbers on the cards and magnetic stripes this is year 2013.

Fact card companies uses broken security mechanisms on the cards. Then everybody else have to comply with PCI because their broken security.
Definitely, also worth reading is "Mind's I" which he co-edited --and did commentary-- with Daniel Dennett.
Love how theguardian has a massive banner ad at the top of this article. God I hate the guardian.
You can bet that the opposition is going to have people calling him. My guess is that if they tally anything, they'll tally both.
Without access to the report it seems that any discussion is difficult. I think the only thing you can say is that OP is "ignoring the fact that metro.us reported HR&A's claims to have made the following findings:"