skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish it were this simple. Having witnessed two different relatives go through the cycle of homelessness, addiction, and other assorted legal and health problems I can only say that it isn't at all straightforward. I'm not saying that the homeless deserve to be homeless - but there is often a long history of many friends and family members attempting to help to no positive effect. The folks at "Hotel 22" have no lack of truly tragic stories, but the unfortunate truth is that only a subset of them can really be helped, at least helped in a way that we technocrats standing on the street corner with our touch-sensitive radio-linked supercomputers and $6 coffees can be comfortable with. More unfortunate is that those who can be helped look the same as those who can't (to "our" eyes), and including the latter in any blanket scheme to alleviate the suffering of the former can actually exacerbate it - see the history of public housing.

I don't think there is any architecture that coders or startups can bring to help this problem overall. I would suggest private charity and learning to identify those who need and truly want help in your personal spheres to be a greater benefit than concocting a grand plan to save everyone.
If anyone is interested, this looks like the link to the place:

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/643721

Another thing to add to the "if you're thinking of doing this" list - don't write a post about it where you and the location can be identified. This is probably against the HOA agreement (short term leases are prohibited).

It also could be a safety issue if you aren't actually living there. Once someone knows the apartment number, someone could see when a particular place isn't going to be occupied and use that to their (ahem) advantage.

Seriously kids - don't do this. You'll probably be breaking a bunch of contracts and a fair number of hotel and zoning laws. Not to mention the insurance and liability issues that aren't even remotely discussed in the post.
Why can't emails just be text :(
Should've specified as a Mint Debian edition. The thing is wonderous.
MM, sure. mm, however, is millimeters.
I've had a good time with Debian. One day I will go back to Debian...
I just had a look at his listing on AirBNB and he charges a $35 cleaning fee. That also shifts the numbers into the more believable range.
10 Steps to getting started with Common Lisp on Windows
Bre Pettis and Shapeways on Maker Culture (LiSA conference)
Those would be the North Atlantic Treaty and the Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea, respectively. Renegotiating or reneging on these treaties would be a means of reducing American military obligations, but you could at least be honest enough to come out and say we should do that instead of pretending these treaties don't exist.

My point is that just looking at the defense budget doesn't give you the whole picture. You also have to consider what benefit is provided by that budget before you decide what you're willing to give up to save money. Did you even read my comment all the way through?
Awesome, thanks! There should be more about responsive emails, both in terms of information and default templates.

One of the bests to my knowledge is by Zurb [1], but the lack for Outlook support makes it almost unusable (at least for us). We ended up hacking from "the bigs" (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin), although at the very beginning their templates also had issues here and there.

This said, testing on so many devices is a pain... email services like Mailchimp or Mailup should definitely add tools for that! (anyone listening? ;)

[1] http://zurb.com/playground/responsive-email-templates
Of course. I think the idea of the 2-3 person indie team or even solo developer is quite romantic. For instance: http://jere.in/sneaking-into-rohrers-castle-part-1

With that last comment though, I was mainly referencing AAA games (e.g. Bioshock Infinite).
Funny you should mention this since Beckett back in the 90s was the authoritative price guide for baseball cards. Now most collectors understand that the true worth of a card is what it goes for on eBay, not what Beckett has it listed.

But to make it more shady, Beckett now offers grading services for the very cards it prices.
Good question. That sounds like a reasonable idea for quickly identify when looking for a replacement in the spares closet.
Globe and Mail falls for hoax tweet, falsely reports ex-NSA chief’s death
Or you could just be reading libertarian propaganda that continuously predicts impending doom for USA, Western Europe, Japan, Australia...I think these are communicated by the same people who used to stand out on streets wearing signs stating "the end is near."
Any plans to list the link to the summary of benefits as well? That would be super nice.
"So long as you still live in the place yourself "

A way to game this might be to:

1) Buy a place

2) Rent out 1 room full time to someone who agrees
to #3 in exchange for below market rent.

3) Rent out the other room or rooms.
Funny you should say that about McGill. I had some French colleagues who sent their kids there. I think the reputation is still intact overseas.

Your point also suggests that it takes more than reputation to thrive.
Well given that the device will start asking for a DHCP address when it is powered on, it will probably not do anything.
Would like to know more about this as an Argentinian!

Airbnb prices are so steep in buenos aires, how does it make sense for tourists? Even Zonaprops has way cheaper places for weeks and such.

In argentina Airbnb is not going to get regulation issues ever..

Would you mind if i gave you my email? Plus we might know each other already.
I kind of agree. I can't imagine it being popular with professional web developers or designers. Working with modern HTML and CSS is fairly straightforward and quick for development. I see sorting out edge cases and bugs produced by code in Macaw would leave you better off writing the code from scratch. Plus, like you said, this has the benefit of being educational and transferring over to other work.

I also can't see it being accepted by people trying to get a simple site online for their mom and pop shop. Tools like WordPress are much better suited to their needs, and they can click a few buttons, get a theme, website, and CMS working in minutes.

What I would like to see is a tool to mockup changes to existing websites. For example, I enter a URL, and I can quickly drag and drop elements to different locations, adjust margins, widths, colors with a proper color picker, etc. I find I'm always using Firebug to try out style changes, but it's a little sluggish to constantly select elements, and manually modify CSS properties. Using an online app that's a little more interactive would be useful, and it doesn't need to produce proper code, since I'm only using it to visually see if these are changes I want to implement or not.

For example, I enter the URL to HN. I click the orange bar at the top, color pick it to green. Click the link headings, change them to bold red text, and slide up the line-height to add more spacing. I hit save, and it gives me a URL like jsfiddle that I can share with others. I can then post this to HN, and say, 'hey, what do you think of these changes to the HN layout?'. It's a quick way for multiple people to share ideas on improving an existing design, or users to share their suggestions with developers. It would be great for meetings too. Let's drag our left column a little bigger, maybe scale these heading down a bit, and drag our logo over here. Yep, that looks a little better, have the development team code those change up and push it live.
"But, computers!" is the difference.
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These jeans look awesome. Well done.
It really depends on the complexity of the product(s) your working on, and how much you enjoy the position.

There's also something be said for hopping until you find a nice set of golden handcuffs. :)
I'm a big OS geek, I love to install and test all new operating systems. Does anybody use OpenBSD as their main development OS? At least there's ports, and looks like you can compile all the necessary tools (xmonad, vim, firefox, zsh) from the ports system. But is this the ideal use of OpenBSD? Do I gain something if changing from Gentoo?
And what is that reasoning? Unlike cars and electronics, many designer goods hold their value over time, and some even appreciate.
Oh , yeah , "DISSSSRUPT" ! the new startup leitmotiv.

that gives them or any "DISSSSRUPTIVE!" startup the right to break the law , doesnt it ? as long as it's on the web , anything goes,hey...
isnt he missing income taxes? In germany you would have to pay up to 42% income tax on the profits, depending what other earnings you have.. Still an okay return though.
The first modern zoning was in 1916 in New York for height related reasons. Great Britain didn't start zoning until 1947.

EDIT: I was sort of surprised that was the first zoning, when I just looked it up. I always mentally associated zoning with 1920s progressive social engineering.
The USRP B200 sales page actually says it can be used for WiFi. It also says "up to" 56MHz of bandwidth -- if that's actually available in the 2.4 and/or 5GHz bands, it should be able to implement 802.11n which uses 20 or 40MHz channels.

(802.11ac is out of bounds, its channels are 80MHz minimum.)
I'd say it's the breadth of their COOP program. I'm at UofO and we got COOP too, except it's 4 terms instead of 6.

The COOP office here is too afraid of looking bad by sending 1st years into COOP, so they only make it available starting 2nd year. If they'd understand better the nature of our industry and would let us start COOP earlier, it would be much better.

I guess it might be a consequence of being in Ottawa; the city is very government-employed, and thus the university has a very conservative and byzantine feel. Things move so slowly here and it's always a heavy admin process to change something. w.r.t to CS/SEG students, that impacts COOP and the material we're taught (which is deprecated).

A step in the right way is that they've now made COOP mandatory for everybody in Software Engineering, and made it start on the first summer (total of 5). I don't understand why it wasn't like that to begin with.

All in all, sometime I wish I was at UofW to be in a more interesting setting. But again, it's not so much about your university than about what work you do on your own.
Am I supposed to take an article that only references other libertarians seriously?
> That is so flawed from a logic point of view that I won't even bother.

Do bother, if you're going to show someone up as screwing around with logic, make it easy for everyone to see it too.
First page issue is fixed now.

I was about to report one more about funky displaying of plan names but looks like the source data itself is like that (in the set you linked too). Search for bronze plans in 07302 and you'll see: AmeriHealth NJ Tier 1 Advantage_Ã
And I thought I was making a joke.
Google Attacks Microsoft Again: Android 4.4 Ships With Quickoffice
I was waiting for someone to do this...
Discuss HN: Who works for the NSA and why?
As the various Snowden related leaks have come to light I've begun to wonder who exactly is building this tech? The hackers that break into Google's data lines, the programmers building things like PRISM. Do these people really believe that they are doing the right thing? Are they mainly blackhat hackers that are in it for the money?

As a side note: One of the government's explanations for why they were unable to stop the September 11 attacks is that there was just too much information, too many signals. Won't all of this massive data collection make it worse? Regardless of the tools they have to sort and analyze it. Can anyone really sort that much information?
Hijacking the thread a little: one of the weird timeline things I'm a little obsessed with is the gap between the Morris Worm and the first "modern" stack overflow.

As near as I can tell, Thomas Lopatic kicked off the era of modern memory corruption exploits in February 1995 with his HPUX NCSA httpd overflow. That was followed shortly by 8lgm's Sendmail 8.6.12 syslog() stack overflow, which 8lgm created a small mania about by explaining roughly how the bug worked but not publishing the exploit, which meant every amateur vulnerability researcher at the time (myself included) spent a couple weeks figuring it out for ourselves.

1988 to 1995 is a long time! During that period, near as I can tell, nobody published or even referenced a modern memory corruption flaw ("modern" meaning "allowed you to upload code into a remote system"; there were overflows prior to 1995, but they worked by overwriting variables in memory to alter program logic). Why did Morris have this technique back in 1988? (Besides the obvious reason). Why did nobody extend the work between '88 and '95? The whole Internet was vulnerable to this bug! And that timeframe was the hacker renaissance; it corresponds to the Sun Devil raids and the LoD/MoD war.
These people are investors. Investors usually look solely at the money instead of the effects or consequences.
Google's market cap is $350 billion.

They're at a point where if they need to woo and wine and dine people into accepting their new supposedly revolutionary product on a party boat, then that's just about the biggest sign of a failure ever. Please tell me where the Google Web Search party boat was? The GMail party boat? How about the Android party boat? The Google Chrome party boat? Did they need a YouTube party boat after they bought YouTube or didn't they need a party boat because YouTube party boated before?

If you have a product, make it awesome like any of the above and that should be enough. If the first step to changing society as fundamentally as this is hyped to do, then inviting hipsters and celebrities of the bourgeoisie onto a party boat for some Gatsbying leaves me rather disappointed.

Like someone on Ars Technica said:

> I guess this is what happens when a company has more money than it has uses for and slips into hedonism.

You know what would be cool? If they sailed this thing out to the open sea, and worked together with a company that's laying some transoceanic fibre and tapping into that. And Google might in that way have a data centre in international waters. Would it be useful? Who knows. But it would be a cooler thing to do with a bloody barge than this.
I love these design/idea. I wonder if you could setup micro-condo living or "ski bum" living by buy a few of these and small parts of land. I could also see something like this being ideal for a small beach house getaway as you won't be out $XXX,XXX or even MM if it gets taken by a hurricane or storm.
Didn't Google just offer something very similar? https://www.google.com/webdesigner
This was the case at a place I stayed at in Boston - the place was a 3 bedroom apartment, 2 bedrooms were occupied by long term tenants, while the room I was in was exclusively for AirBNB.
But, then that would be 150 * 2000 = 300,000.
Perhaps in some (or even many) jurisdictions but isn't this just plain ole "Bed & Breakfast" (you know, the BnB in AirBnB) which has been around since forever?
SEEKING WORK - on premise in the bay area only or remote.

I'm a data scientist running a one man shop doing business with increasingly higher level clients (including govts) doing data collection,cleaning, monitoring, and updates. I have built out a deep learning infrastructure capable of gathering and organizing any data you are looking for.

I also do hadoop and associated technologies.
I also do web dev in node, spring and other JVM web frameworks, django.

My front skills are primarily d3.js and angular with less or normal CSS. Reach out with what you're looking for.
I think this is great. Vegas is the perfect spot. It was overbuilt, there is lots of extra supply, and lots of tourists. Great they made it happen.

I would think there are two dangers:

1) It can take a lot of time, and time is money. If you make 200K/year, your time is worth ~100/hour. Spending 100 hours on this takes away a 10K profit.

2) You are the on the hook for big surprises: Theft, something breaks, etc.

But again, great for the OP!
Is the hack culture exclusive to tech start-ups?
Totally agree..by global standards, it's sleepy.
Thanks for pointing this out!

We currently include the plans from all counties in a particular zipcode rather than limiting to a specific county, but we should probably ask a user to specify their county if there's ambiguity. I'll get on adding this.

As for the data itself, it's current as of two weeks ago which is already slightly stale. This said, the data will only be as updated as the Healthcare.gov data from https://data.healthcare.gov/dataset/QHP-Individual-Medical-L...
the actual healthcare.gov (if you can get in) actually does a decent job of letting you compare plans in detail... there are far more factors to consider than just monthly deductible. various copays, out of network coverage, whether dental and vision are included, etc. this site does none of that
You have heard of https://neocities.org/ right?
That's probably not too far off. If you wanted to do mirror a write, you could imagine broadcasting that same packet to a set of devices. The devices would have to figure out whether or not they needed to store the packet. Otherwise, you'd be sending N packets to the same switch for N-way mirroring. In a typical hardware RAID, the sector write is sent to the RAID controller once.

It's probably not too long of a stretch.
From the sound of things, this runtime does much more optimization than the Plan 9-based Go compilers do (it uses SSA), so if speed is the goal (and it looks like it is), Go wouldn't make much sense at this time.
No, travel agents were an obsolete industry.

Hotels are not obsolete, AirBnB is 'disrupting' the industry by ignoring local laws and regulations. It may be that these regulations exist to protect an obsolete business model but it also might not.

When your path is blocked by a fence before you tear it down, its a good idea to understand why it was put up in the first place.
My problem with that explanation is that @StealthMountain and @DBZNappa both only ever tweet the same message, and to my knowledge both have been running for quite a while.
The Republican nominee for President in 2012 is a RINO and doesn't actually count for the purposes of bipartisanship, got it.

Seriously, what? What sane definition of "Republican" could possibly exclude Mitt Romney? How the hell am I supposed to know who you do and do not include in "Republican" if that's how you're going to be?
A reporter asked us to hack him, and here's how we did it
If the testing equipment is expecting a SAS port, then wouldn't the dual ethernet ports pose a problem? Or, is it that they are using SAS power pins to do the ethernet transfer leaving the other pins untouched? (I don't know my SAS pin-outs very well).

The main concern would be that, yes, someone could plug the drive into the wrong system.
Just to be clear: your answer is, "nothing", right?
Dragos's original writing is, in fact, mostly incoherent, and highly suspect. However, this article seems to be almost as far out.

For instance, the author of this story claims that UEFI binaries are not compatible with each other. The kernel and processor support blobs of a UEFI ROM are not interchangeable, but more and more, the drivers are: UEFI does not just provide an API, but it also provides an ABI for both drivers and binaries to run. (That's the whole point of it.) Graphics card vendors do not have to produce a new driver for each UEFI implementation and motherboard; and, of course, Microsoft and Red Hat each produce just one UEFI bootloader shim, designed to run on every UEFI-compatible machine. The modular structure of UEFI ROM images, if anything, makes it more plausible that malware could inject itself "cleanly"! [1]

The argument about the BIOS not being able to initialize sound hardware is also surprisingly less-than-true these days. A handful of UEFI ROMs are now capable of calling up the sound card to "speak" error messages, if things have gone wrong during boot. The audio codecs, even if the UEFI ROM doesn't have code of its own to initialize, are relatively well-known, and easy to find datasheets for; I would imagine that a driver for one could be packed into 5 to 10kB of tightly written code, so there's no reason why the BIOS couldn't have this.

As acdha said upthread, too, there are other problems: the author conflates RF and audio frequencies; the BIOS protects its read access through System Management Mode (and hence could hide itself); etc., etc., etc.

Now, none of what I said here is to say that I believe Dragos's claims -- I don't. There are lots of good ways to dismantle his claims, and many people already have. But, well, the "the BadBIOS Analysis is wrong" is wrong.

[1] The author also gets quite a lot more wrong about the PC boot sequence in his technicalities. For instance, the "2Mhz 8088" is just not true these days; different processors boot in different ways, and most of the time, there is not even any DRAM available when the first instructions run! I put this as an aside because it is not part of my main point, but it serves to illustrate additionally how the author is using things that just aren't quite right to back up his argument.

(edited: removed excessive ad hominem against the author. My apologies.)
UI-wise you win big time. But where is your code repository?
The Go runtime has a built-in scheduler which historically would be called into action for possible preemption whenever an OS system call is made or could be invoked manually in Go code via runtime.Gosched(). Go 1.2 added a change allowing the scheduler to possibly be kicked off during any Go language function call which reduces the likelihood of being locked in a tight loop that never makes a system call.

There are obviously still cases where you can trap yourself into a deadlock by tight looping in code that makes no function calls at all, but it is pretty easy to detect this and adjust for it.
I love how people are so defensive about this patent suit because Apple is behind it. Any other tech company doing this without Apple would have been mercilessly attacked.
Newsletters should include a text version as well, and you can set your client to show that instead of the HTML.

"Normal" users (i.e. the non-geeks) do seem to prefer HTML emails, and in usability studies, A/B testing, and deliverability reports, HTML emails usually outperform text.

In short, HTML emails are better for and preferred by recipients and senders in all but edge cases.
Absolutely, that is why the app has Yahoo as an alternate backend. The only issue with Yahoo is that it doesn't support Dow Jones via the API anymore.

This isn't a rant against google - just a heads up for any app devs that are relying on the API and wondering why users might be complaining