skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Independent"

>Reddit, Inc. remains wholly owned by Advance Media, Condé Nast’s parent company, and the board will include Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, Condé Nast’s president Bob Sauerberg and its CTO Joe Simon.

http://www.wired.com/business/2011/09/reddit-spun-out/

Have you spent much time on Reddit? There are lots of stories removed and the justifications given are rather weak. It's either personal politics or they're taking bribes. Whatever it is, the moderators are abusing their authority which I don't seem to recall anyone agreeing to. It's a poor system where one moderator can shut out the voices of thousands of users.
Do you have reason to believe that by running code at twice the speed, the energy consumption will be higher?

IMHO this will be absolutely compensated for by being able to switch into a low-power state earlier.
Airbnb's review system fills the roll of licenser.
I will also point out that Dragos is not actually a prominent security researcher. He organizes a security conference. He has never presented research at his own conference, or at any other conference, as far as I can remember.

I only say this because people want us to take these claims on faith, citing a credential that he hasn't actually established. Furthermore, his tweets so far seem to be full of rookie mistakes. I've seen a fair number of "security enthusiasts" do exactly what he is doing.
In many cases, the HOA can do all kinds of stuff- like fix your house and bill you for it. If you don't pay up, they slap you with a lien.
This is a good point, and one I hadn't thought of. But I wasn't smelling cat pee often either.

If we had two sets of items, one of which we had some cats pee on, and one of which we had some humans pee on, you think you could sort them into cat/human groups with a high degree of success?
It turns out to be relatively cheap (in dollar terms) to move a barge. In time terms, not so much. If you wanted a floating party barge to hit the US coasts, I'd build one on the east coast and one on the west, just to save time going through the canal.
Now that is a blast from the past. :)
Seems like they handled this very well. Maybe more security teams are being especially cautious after the Yahoo security reporting fiasco. While I still don't agree with the basic concept behind Intro, I think they handled this appropriately.
The other more famous UW also does this: Google has a habit of hiring lots of UW graduates (see Jeff Dean), who then go on to hire other UW graduates...and also a very good co-op program with many willing local companies (most notably, Microsoft, but also Intel in Portland).
A few random ideas in no particular order

1) Paywall. Even if 1 out of 10,000 people agrees to pay, you will have 600 paying customers per month.

2) Sell analytics / data on what's trending.

3) Offer to make prints of the images.

4) Branching out #3 - not just prints, but fridge magnets, tiles, mugs, whatever.
If users were really disturbed by that change, a new subreddit would simply be created which allow these domains.
With Constant Data Connections, Are We Ever Really Alone Anymore?
Yes, $90 is more than I usually pay in Vegas for a quite nice place.
Well seeing as you'd be obligated to collect things like hotel occupancy taxes in most cities and states, and all sorts of consumer protection laws apply to hotels, the reasonable assumption is licensing is required. At the minimum, you need a business licence.
Agreed. This was a fun read and I really hope things work out for him.
Berlin is rapidly gentrifying, there's a R.E. bubble going on, poorer people are being pushed out of the city

This is true in lots of fun cities, primarily because it's so hard to build new housing stock—which is a Bad Thing, as Matthew Yglesias describes in The Rent is Too Damn High. Britain is suffering from a variant of the "no building" problem too: http://www.buzzfeed.com/dlknowles/britains-dysfunctional-pro... : "Construction started on just 107,000 new homes in England last year. Excluding World War II, that’s the lowest figure since the 1920s."

The solution to "gentrification" and what not is "building new dwellings," which we know how to do very effectively (elevators and steel are century-old technologies). The problem is regulatory / political.
Successful? No ... Potential? Yes
Similar to crobots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crobots).
Current fractal problem: email. (See my profile for details.)
Google was invited to join in the group with Apple, Microsoft and the others? Any links or anything I could check out? I tried googling but there's too much about this particular case to find anything useful! I was under the impression that they were never offered to join in.

Thanks!
Find real problems first, then solve them by creating a Business™
It was sketchy, but let's look at it from the dev's side: The OP is doing this as a test project and for the dev this is his livelihood.

The dev needs his reputation to stay employed, whereas the OP could easily have taken the code and ran, and/or left a bad review. I have certainly had clients do such things -- the freelance ecosystem means nothing to them.

Developing for iOS is expensive, and even more so for a non-US dev. At this rate he has to work 2-4 weeks a year just to cover the overhead of Apple requirements. Even still his reputation is worth far more to him. Since he knows OP was unsatisfied during the project he has to make sure this is resolved before the project is closed. The language barrier definitely makes this interaction seem more vicious than it really is.
That looks like yet another icon based UI [1]. Not sure what I am missing, but almost all mobile OSes except WP seem to be based off [1].

[1] http://images.yourdictionary.com/images/computer/_PROGMAN.GI...
I've been wondering this lately as well. It just seems like another excuse for technically-oriented people to laugh at non-technically-oriented people.
Time & Geographically based searches would be a moneymaker, no doubt about it. Could be something that Twitter would buy up themselves too
Judgment day for Android: Apple, Microsoft file
Jobs are something we can focus on.

Many companies choose to make marginally more profit by moving production to 'low cost markets' rather than manufacture here. I believe firmly if you make your product overseas it should cost some amount of money in duty to bring your product back to the United States, ideally about (or maybe more than) the difference in cost between what it would cost to make your product here and what it costs to make it there - is it an easy to implement solution? no. But its the right thing to do.

That said, I believe that rising transport costs will eventually solve this problem for many types of goods, probably within the next 10-15 years or so.
If you wanted even more flexible schedules, you might want to look into Later.js (http://bunkat.github.io/later/), a small library I created just for this purpose. It supports composite and exception schedules, cron schedules, and lots of different time periods. Everything can be specified using an API or using English text.

I also built replacements for setTimeout and setInterval to use Later schedules, so it should be easy enough to plug it into your solution.
Many ideas have been tried over the years.

http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html
CIRCLean - check the contents of an untrusted USB stick with a raspberryPI
Foster/group homes wouldn't take in the father.
Yeah, that's the game data (zlib + base64). I'm working on making some sort of replay viewer in JS.
A not so mild omission, Macs don't even have a BIOS.
Interactive Segmentation with Intelligent Scissors: 1998
"You don't have to have a certain surname to get into Waterloo. You'd be much better off just scoring well on the Fermat Contest. When nobody gives a shit what you have, and it's what you do that gets you places, you tend to be more modest."

Well put. UBC grad here, living and working in the valley now but if I ever wanted to raise a family I would think strongly about moving back to Canada purely for the great accessibility to quality public education.
Well, that part isn't new. An illegal flophouse is already disruptive, and it didn't require computers to operate one. The new thing here is flophouses with online booking.
This is way out of my league and maybe not relevant at all, but the Demoscene has forever changed how much I think about what can be accomplished with tiny amount of code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
ArsTechnica has redacted the statement about displaying ads.
If you want some cricisim, the website style might be turning people away. http://twicsy.com/ The colours, contrast, and various sizes/spacing of things are somewhat unsettling.
Could you post a link to the bug report? I'd like to look at it.
That does not address the imbalance of influence moderators have. Also, asking some 1+ million subscribers to switch is inefficient when a process could be implemented which addresses community concerns.
??? They spent 4.5 billion on patents rather than invest in their own products. For all they know the patent system can completely change in the next 5 years, outlawing the kind of crap they're pulling right now.
Does AirBnB's review system let neighbors to the property file negative reviews?
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Frontend / Backend / Full-stack

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autonomous environment, so you have to be just as awesome at getting
things done as you are at composing elegant solutions.

Most of our code is written in Ruby and runs on the Rails stack backed
by a MySQL database, but we also incorporate other technologies such as
Node.js, Memcached, ElasticSearch and Redis. We use GitHub for version
control and our infrastructure is entirely hosted via cloud services.
We care about keeping our libraries up-to-date and test coverage. While
most of our stack is on Rails today, we're comfortable with other
technologies and always strive to use the right tool for the job.

This is a full-time position at our headquarters in Dallas, TX and
includes a competitive base salary, a full range of benefits, stock
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We're a very open company and you will

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Love the idea. Has a "save the world" aspect to it as well. If all the great ideas that currently go un-launched get pushed into existence sooner, we'll all be better off.
I actually do this on Instagram. It's not so effective for breaking news stories but it can be fun at music festivals and other entertainment type events.
I'd wager Hotspot's JIT would beat the pants off Dalvik's JIT, and make your battery hot while doing it.

Dalvik's JIT is designed unlike other JITs: It is designed to JIT compile less code, but to find the code that has the highest impact. Dalvik's bytecode interpreter already gains what Google has claimed is a 2X improvement over interpreted Java bytecode. Before Android 2.3, that's how Android ran code.
6 million unique visitors a month are seeing nothing they can't see for free on Twitter. The problem of how to make money on aggregated content is an interesting one (and relevant to more than a few struggling entrepreneurs)
It's full of (crappy - sorry) ads that probably don't pay much. Perhaps less is more? I'm not really a Google advocate, but how about switching to text-based ads only and focusing more on showing the user real content instead of large, annoying banners?
> "I don't get the sense that this was unwanted from the community either."

It was unwanted. The mods' announcement was even downvoted to zero by the community:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1pedlv/concerning_...
Any suggestions for the language? The game and site are written in Python so that seemed most natural, plus it's a high-level language with a simple syntax. I could add more if people wanted though.
We have been waiting to see for 3 years now. I was at Dragos' conference, CanSecWest, when this first happened and people were whispering about it. He still has not demonstrated his suspicions, not even to himself.
Nokia: The U.S. or the rest of the world; pick one.
To be honest I copied it from `safe_builtins` from RestrictedPython:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/RestrictedPython

I realize this is annoying, and ideally I shouldn't even be doing this. It was just a quick hack for the version 1. I'll probably try to run user scripts in something like Docker. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Funny, you seem to be "frustrated" a lot. ;)

A lot of peeps in HN seem to have this expectation that their data is somehow secure when they give it to a third-party. This is a completely false and an impossible expectation. To me, this _is_ and has been reality for a while. If an entity with resources really wants to get to your data, they will get to it. It doesn't matter if they steal or get a court order-- that, to them, is just semantics.

I'm not the one having trouble accepting this. It's just everyone suddenly realized this last week.
That's not clear. The list is rather more interesting than what you (or the article's author) suggest. Its also rooted in logic (arguable, but laid out ex-ante). Some of these are also autobanned on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6657066).

[eg] The following is a list of major domains that have been banned by the moderators of /r/Politics and listed here in the interest of transparency:

aattp.org

alternet.org

amazon.com

americanthinker.com

avaaz.org

b4in.info

beforeitsnews.com

blacklistednews.com

borderlessnewsandviews.com

breitbart.com

breitbartunmasked.com

change.org

citypaper.com

constitutioncampaign.org

courthousenews.com

crooksandliars.com

dailybail.com

dailycaller.com

dailycurrant.com

dailykos.com

dailypaul.com

democraticunderground.com

deviantart.com

dirtyuglypolitics.wordpress.com

drudgereport.com

eclectablog.com

ecominoes.com

facebook.com

funnyordie.com

Gawker and all affiliates

generalstrikeusa.wordpress.com

heavy.com

heritage.org

hotair.com

huffingtonpost.com

inagist.com

indiegogo.com

informationliberation.com

infowars.com

isidewith.com

lifenews.com

linkedin.com

littlegreenfootballs.com

mediamatters.org

minx.cc

motherjones.com

myspace.com

nation.foxnews.com

nationalmemo.com

nationalreport.net

nationalreview.com

nationsmith.com

Newsbusters.org

newsmakeup.wordpress.com

newsvine.com

newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/

njspin.com

omegle.com

pensitoreview.com

petitions.whitehouse.gov

photographyisnotacrime.com

policymic.com

politicalwire.com

politicususa.com

politilady.com

pollcode.com

powerlineblog.com

prisonplanet.com

rawstory.com

reason.com

redd.it

reddit.com

redgage.com

rightwingwatch.org

salon.com

signon.org

smirkingchimp.com

techdirt.com

thebackbencher.co.uk

theblaze.com

thedailybanter.com

thegatewaypundit.com

theonion.com

thepetitionsite.com

therightscoop.com

thinkprogress.org

townhall.com

truth-out.org

twitchy.com

twitter.com

upworthy.com

vice.com

voiceblaze.com

wallstreetonparade.com

weaselzippers.us

wikimedia.org

wikipedia.org

wnd.com*
way better than Max
I had a completely different experience. I've been in contact with Facebook about potentially working there (Engineering Side) and I would describe my experience as pleasant, respectful, and interesting. I've learned a lot about how Facebook approaches problem solving in their environment, and I'm impressed. From an Engineering perspective, I'm equally impressed with their architecture and the solutions they've built. Not sure if the OP is asking for advice, but I'll give you some; If you want something in life, you have to go for it. Sometimes this means you have to sacrifice something and/or work a little harder. If you can't put in 10 hours for the opportunity to work there, what kind of contribution will you make to their organization? Will you take an initiative to find problems and solve them? Or will you complain about having to do things, and bring a negative attitude? I don't know the answer (and I'm not implying anything), but one can only imagine the picture you've painted with that response. I've been working 10 years to position myself for these types of opportunities. 10 hours is like a drop in the bucket.
Can you add a way to cancel the final showdown timer? Like Escape to clear the window?
If that's a tough spot, you probably won't be paying the full cost of any of the plans you saw. For a family of four, subsidies don't phase out until something like $90k/year income. The real healthcare.gov site is up right now. The registration process only takes 10-15 minutes to get some real prices.
Airbnb is clearly forcing a convergence between hotel prices and rents. This doesn't just mean forcing hotel prices down, it also means forcing rents up.

I responded to this issue here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6657242 , but the short answer is to build more units.

Building the Second Ave Subway, extending express bus service, and doing similar things would also be helpful.
Really cool idea! High five for you
All sentient life is suffering. Individuals choose to create life in spite of this inevitability, and society perpetuates and encourages individuals making this decision.

We are the product of a mindless evolutionary process, and for the most part societies also take shape mindlessly.

> but can't everyone agree that no child should be in this situation?

Prioritising basic guarantees of well being, above people living in the absurdly precarious situation described, above endless growth and winner-take-all game playing, is actually asking a lot of this world.
Ahem : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
So what happens when

1) Your apartment gets trashed. They break your walls, pour cement down your drain, break the furniture, etc?

2) Tenants refuse to move out. I'm sure there are all kinds of laws protecting them, and it's very hard to kick them out even if they aren't paying.

3) Somebody gets injured on your property (slips in the bathroom and breaks an arm), and sues you for a shitload of money.

Also, you forgot amortization in your calculations. Things will wear and tear.
If you haven't tried OpenBSD yet I invite you to try it, you might like it. A long time ago I used OpenBSD as my sole desktop for six months and I fell in love with it. Right now OpenBSD is not a viable solution for my needs, but depending on your use case it might be for you. I definitely hope that one day I can use OpenBSD as my main operating system.

My favorite OpenBSD features:

-Awesome documentation (FAQ & Man Pages)

-Small installation media (amd64/install54.iso - 232MB)

-OpenBSD developers eat their own dog food

-Just works philosophy
Yeah, this is honestly the most troublesome part. I really want to play with it though.
Yeah, the problem with the theory is that media personalities are specifically problematic. =/
Thanks for the idea! Yeah, I'm thinking it would be ideal if eventually there could be some kind of IDE on the site with simulator and all (like on fightcodegame.com).
Thanks, I appreciate your insights. I applied there so I learned about their system a bit, but a little book knowledge is nothing compared to a multi year experience.
How to build an Anti Aircraft Missile: Bayes’ Theorem and the Kalman Filter
This happened with me as well. After spending lots of money and time building a complex tech I failed miserably. So on a boring day I wrote some crappy android app. I published it and went to sleep. A week passed and I realized that the app was in first 10 for a particular section in India.

I put Admob ads and suddenly revenue started zooming. My app will not scale beyond a point. It is unfundable. It is really crappy technology (basically a static website put as a webview) but it gets hundreds of installs every day and touching "thank you emails" every day.
There's an article online about a guy who did this for dozens of properties in Detroit. It didn't work out so well because rent is more like $400 a month. The typical fix cost on a $5K property is $20K because of tax payments in arrears and liens and so forth.
Does anybody actually use that search bar though? Maybe I'm alone, but I have a sort of "banner blindness" to the search bar -- I always swipe up from the home button to do a Google search no matter whether I want to see my Google Now cards or not.
To me the issue is scale. Just like people can hold garage sales or lemonade stand w/o a license vs running a bar.

By same token - I don't mind someone renting out AN apartment. If the issue is tax - Airbnb can simply collect it on behalf of the renter. As far as consumer protection - the guest deals with AirBnB and not an individual host.

If license was obtained by simply filling out a web form and paying a fee - I'd be all for it. But the way things are now, the whole issue of licensing is about protecting the hotel industry.
If I worked for the HOA and I saw this I would try to figure out if anyone knows I saw it. If not, I would ignore it. It's technically against the rules but OP seems to be doing a good job of managing it, and I doubt I could apply a higher standard to the rest of the units. I'd wait for a resident to bring the issue to me, which would hopefully never happen.

If I managed a ritzier condo complex I'd probably do something about it immediately rather than take a wait and see approach.
I put my parents up in an AirBnB apt in Paris when they were visiting me. The renter had an agreement with a handful of friends that they would crash at their friend's apt when their apt was being AirBnB'd out. She said a lot of the students do it to earn extra cash. Same was true in most other cities we AirBnB'd in.

Berlin has been gentrifying ever since they tore down that wall. You can still buy apartments in East Berlin for under $100K.
I suspect #3 & #4 would incur legal liabilities that far exceed the revenue they generate. I'm thinking about copyright infringement.
Turn your calendar into personal assistant?
I'm sure the whole pirating of games during the C64 days would have touched upon memory corruption, so whilst not in the context we think of today it is certainly older area than we think.
There's a reason premium domain names go for a high price: having generic-words for domains is big value. Similarly r/politics is a big deal. Gaining traction on a new subreddit would be a big issue in and of itself even if one set out to create a new politics subreddit.

I'm really enjoying, by the way, that Mother Jones is banned. Mother Jones has a self-alleged left stint to it -- but at least they come right out and say it. Contrast that with Rupert's WSJ (hah, its /op-ed/ pieces are right now on r/politics front page!)

Since having been bought by Rupert WSJ been leaning more to the right [1], is WSJ going to get banned by r/politics too now?

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/business/media/14carr.html...
It was once told to me that after 2 years a startup is no longer a startup, it's just a failed business.