skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an actuary - but I've worked on valuation software for actuaries.

I think one key problem around insuring these risks is that it'd be difficult to price and value. To price/value you need to understand the cashflows for the insurance product in terms of premiums and payouts. Life, Health and General insurance all have analytical methods that rely on historical data to determine the likely-hood of a payout. For this type of insurance there isn't the same level of historical data.

Also, the regulatory regime for insurance companies is moving towards a risk/shock based approach - this is the case in Europe (or will be eventually), with the ROW expected by the industry to follow similar approaches. So for an insurance product such as this, an insurer would probably need to understand what happens if the level of payout incidence is stressed (say doubled) - given that the incidence of payout isn't well understood and the liability when you do payout is likely to be quite high, would result in what the market would probably consider to be an expensive product.
It looks very nice, it makes me think of Flux.

The problem with wysiwyg editors from previous generations (Dreamweaver, Frontpage, etc) is that you could never arrange the layout the way you wanted and ended up being developers worse enemies with the poor code being generated.

Now you'll have the power of Photoshop (Positioning, layers, transparency, etc) with a clean code output (grid aware, responsive, css3)
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you know how a few years back it became popular to say "kk" in online games instead of "k" or "okay"

I suspect people use MM/mm for the same reason, some guy just made a typo one day and it caught on.
Is a HTTP DELETE request idempotent?
San Fran only?
This is fake. While the ANC government is not perfect and there is a TON of things they do wrong, corruption etc.

This is probably right wing extremist nonsense to drum up support since we have an election year coming up. Also to make those 'traitors' who vote for the 'blacks' feel guilty.

I covered a group that seem to have very racist views a while back for global voices:

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/03/02/south-africa-komman...

I wouldn't be surprised if a group like this put this out. The goal is use fear, to brainwash.

The real sad part, is in a country of 50m, we only have about 8m tax payers, people are uneducated. Rather than focusing on 'the other people' and drumming up fear! we should be trying to fix this country, looking to government to fix it wont work. We all need to do it.

Also, if you have never experienced apartheid, let me tell you this it was the most demeaning and horrible system. I grew up during the tail end of it. One of very few memories that i STILL have to this day before the age of 10, was cops threatening to throw us into jail, swearing us in a language, then proceeding to escort us off the beach, merely because we were on the wrong side of the beach, and because of the colour of our skin. My sisters were younger than me we all still remember this incident.

Think about that for a second...
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Obligatory xkcd

http://xkcd.com/912/
Dave Baggett wrote a couple of nice text adventures for the TADS system before he worked on Crash back in the early 1990s, I remember enjoying both "Unnkulian Unventure II: The Secret of Acme" and "The Legend Lives!" (Unnkulian episode 5)...
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> If you make 200K/year, your time is worth ~100/hour. Spending 100 hours on this takes away a 10K profit.

Stuff like this doesn't make much sense if you're salaried. People like to break down salaries by the hour, but it's just not true. You can put in all the overtime you want and not see an extra penny of profit, at least not directly. You'll only benefit from it if you actually get a promotion or raise as a direct result of the extra work.

If you're contracting, though, and actually charge by the hour, then this calculation makes sense.

Also, this is tangential, but $200k is hardly an even remotely typical salary for a developer in the US.
I very much prefer for emails to contain text only, or with HTML only as attachments, and it has absolutely zero to do with any desire to show off to other people.

For me, it's all about keeping some control over technology. I tell a very limited program like mutt what to do, and it does it. This is in contrast to begging an incredibly complicated program like a browser to do something, where much of what it is doing is controlled by invisible embedded code written by people who may be hostile toward me.
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No, it's not as simple as A referring to A. The two occurrences of "by and large" are distinct. See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type–token_distinction#Occurr...
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22314 doesn't work at all.
Thanks so much! Sorry for being anxious :\
Unfortunately not yet. We'll move this to more cities in January. Need to keep the event quality high.
Easily. I know at least two people clearing $100k/year by being 'airbnb slumlords.' Real estate agents are keeping apartments off the market and renting them out as hotels.

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 wish the tech community could stop reflexively defending airbnb and engage with the question of what the costs it is imposing are or might be.
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that and volume. new people coming in every 3-5 days are potentially more disruptive to neighbors and building owners.
This seems to fall in line with Google's Android strategy of moving functionality out of the core OS and into Apps. This makes updates easier and faster because users only have to download the new version of the app and not update the OS.
Physical switches are expensive.
Following that link leads to a G+ post showing the relevant lines of UI XML, but the comments on the same Google+ page seem to indicate that the advertisement string has existed (and been unused, and continues to be unused) since Android 1.6.

Disaster averted... for now? :/
> You are looking for such a suggestion and finding it in poor writing.

You have crossed from facts which you know into speculation about my mental processes, and in fact you are incorrect about the latter. Without any preconceptions about this whatsoever, I read the Ars article and it strongly suggested to me that the claim was that the infection itself had spread over an air gap.

Otherwise, why even lead from this story into the theory of communicating via sound? If indeed the computer was already infected, then it would be no surprise that it could do something like interfere with running a registry editor. The air gap jumping would be entirely irrelevant to the story.
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Haha - Nice dude!

I scraped AirBnB last year to compare it to local prices with the same intent last year to automate. Totally do-able and profitable. Local tenant & housing laws are the most important thing to keep track of IMO. You can outsource the Q/A with guests.
I seem to recall someone (Theo, I believe) say that in order for an OpenBSD to maintain library compatibility with existing applications, you had to do an "Upgrade in Place" - and not do a fresh install.

I.E. The default approach, incremental upgrade, is the only way to ensure your OpenBSD system doesn't fail.
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(You are demonstrably wrong, but I will address your implied point instead of your hyperbole.)

I think that the hostility to Info comes from exposure to the standalone Info reader. It is non-intuitive, non-Unix-like, and does, as far as I know, not even support text attributes, so it looks bad even for a text-based UI. It is not very newbie friendly (like GNU nano with its very explicit menus to guide you). Nor is it consistent with other Unix-based text UIs like “vim” or “less”. Instead it behaves like a brain-damaged Emacs, but without even many basic text-navigation features from Emacs, so even Emacs users feel lost in Info.

I feel that if someone made a module for vim or something to read and navigate Info documentation (and made it the default instead of the barebones standalone Info reader), then Unix people would warm up to Info documentation.

Personally, I read Info documentation using the Emacs built-in reader. It is, unofficially I think, the canonical Info documentation reader, and it is beautifully integrated with Emacs. I prefer reading most manuals this way (if they have an Info version).
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But, you probably aren't, as you went to college in the UK. So please refrain from your crass generalizations about countries.
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Why can't we have an actual hardware switch to enable/disable writing to the BIOS? It can be small and hidden away under the battery[which should be removable/replaceable].

BIOS updates aren't that frequent and are so important it makes sense to keep the BIOS in read-only mode for safety's sake with an actual, physical switch.
What does a utopian revolution look like?
This is my comment from the end of the article: I respect Chamath a lot for all his growth accomplishments. But in an article that says “he has cracked the code for making startups grow” he is quoted as saying “all this growth hacking stuff is a bunch of bullshit.” To me the idea of “cracking the code for making startups grow” is bullshit.

Every company is different. There is no code. Ultimately growth is a function of the right mix of a product that meets important user needs and tenacious creative data driven execution that leverages principles of growth and often exploits psychological triggers. And as our last four growth studies on GrowthHackers.com show (Square, Snapchat, Uber and Belly), sustainable growth also piles on a ton of good old fashion word of mouth. There is no single code for driving growth.

My time growing Dropbox combined a lot of relentless execution and skills, but I readily acknowledge that I was very lucky to have the opportunity to work on a product with the potential of Dropbox. Same goes for LogMeIn, Eventbrite, Lookout, Webs... I didn't crack a code. I need to keep learning every day.

Growth hacking is the science of trying to bring all this stuff together. I have a hard time believing only 6 people in the world are capable of figuring it out.
Upgrades generally work well for me, but DO always check the release notes and the upgrade guide for the new version. Sometimes you need to do a few extra steps, but in my experience it will always be clearly documented. And just a heads-up for the NEXT version:

OpenBSD 5.5 will be year 2038 ready, but this requires a change to a 64 bit time type. This results in a "flag day" event, where old binaries will not run on the new kernel, and the new binaries won't run on the old kernel, and some file formats will be changing. A remote, no-console process will be provided, but it will be a more touchy update process than usual.
Aside from quality of construction, are those that different from capsule hotels in Japan? It seems like a similar space and setup?
> For me, it's all about keeping some control over technology.

That's fair enough, but you are very much in a minority.
UW isn't private, a good chunk of the tuition is subsidized by the Canadian government for all Canadian citizens. On top of that undergraduate student loan interest is also paid while you are studying at the school.
I'll pile on with an additional anecdote - in 17 years of working almost daily with *nix/BSD systems (and hitting man pages routinely) - I've never once looked at an info page.
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It seemed the server at times would get hammered and there would be a kind of race condition happening causing a variable for the clicks I am incrementing to have a value of undefined at times (no idea). I was using nodemon instead of forever.js, so when the error would occur, it wouldn't restart. It's all good now.
So the guest house example. A hotel? Or because it's part of the property you also live in, not-a-hotel?

If I bought an apartment building and lived in the penthouse, could I rent all the apartments out short-term and not be a hotel?
> I just have to use Chrom* because Opera committed suicide.

12.16 still works nicely (apart from Google+, which takes up unreasonable amounts of CPU time, but unfortunately there are some people there worth reading).
It shows up with the HN theme (orange bar at top and beige background) but without other links/text like user info on the right or the footer. I first noticed it the other day when I started using a wired connection at work instead of WiFi.
Thanks.
Yeah, I understand how it seems to be childish, but I couldn't expect this behavior and approach from Facebook, known for it's great open culture. It rather reminded me too strongly about my employer (tiny tech sales company from 10 years ago) who ended up loosing all his tech department - 5 guys just left the office one day and never got back.
except when then suddenly release an update pack that breaks the whole os, which is every update pack.

Just use debian.
>Zoning

it is what "we the people" through our elected representatives use to keep unwanted (i.e. weak/ill/less fortunate ones) out. Shame.

>fire codes

this obviously a necessary and what is most important - pure technically solvable thing for minimum amount of money.

We don't have to go for extreme HK approach. A city like PA, MV, Sunnyvale could easy build on a single-family size lot a shelter that would take a busload of homeless. Considering that MV (San Antonio/El Camino) and Sunnyvale (near downtown) have just had huge redevelopment projects going so fitting a couple of 10-20 bdrm appartments somewhere on the back alley (so it wouldn't offend eyes and noses of our sensitive citizens) would be noise for the projects' cost.
Why would a never-before-seen-in-the-wild malware technique be irrelevant to a story about the malware implementing in?
Can't you use ^DJI on yahoo?
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arch is worth trying.
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Agreed, but there are some clues that testing was faulty (removing microphone and speakers), admittedly in a poorly written article. It's possible that the bias to prove the theory corect skewed the testing process.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
It's easier to just import them on TN visas than to open another office. Managers would probably love everyone living in one mega-headquarters if it was actually practical.
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Yup, agreed with this completely. But it doesn't mean this is a right way. I definitely don't want end up in a future 10 years later where every company asks for unpaid work as an interview taking example from the Big Guys.
Do you remember how many companies started mind blowing puzzles in 90s after Microsoft made it famous?
Its a new compiler and VM, written in C++ instead of the Dalvik C, and with a new runtime;

It looks that it can compile to two banckends: one called "Quick" and other called "Portable"

I think "Quick" is a complete home backed Jit, while "Portable" is LLVM based

So probably (im guessing from fast source code study): This VM can JIT from bytecode to native while running (the Quick backend) and can run a already native payload using the LLVM backend..

The native payload probably will be very optimized since is AOT, and the Quick, since is JIT will probably have lower optimizations (as a runtime compiled code)

(and we can assume that, the Dalvik VM is getting obsolete)

Edit: adding more observations..

They have created a very sophisticated retargatable compiler that deliver into a SSA based IR and from there it goes to the backends that i have cited earlier
Answers to criticisms

1) Just plain not true. Ls want to make their own decisions on who they help and when. That is true charity.

2) True, but no more than any other believe system

3) The given example is nonsense. Someone just surfed a 100' wave in Europe. Should that have been illegal? On the flip side, if someone wants to die (on purpose), it would be cruel to make them live.

4) I have yet to find any system that solves this problem well. We have a big government now and have problems. China has an even bigger government and has problems. Therefor, I don't see any indication that larger government/more regulation has a positive effect on pollution.

5) By the example given, sound is considered pollution. You are not allowed to pollute other peoples property.

6) I'm not sure I know of anything to back that up. Most monopolies I know of are granted by the government. AT&T and USPS are two examples.

7) We are far from a libertarian nation, but we still have a whole bunch of choices. What are a few more?

8) Not too many Libertarian want to live in isolation. Just like everyone else. I think the problem is that the author is confused on the definition of freedom. Freedom is the absence of coercion.

9) So, you've had a few drinks with not too intelligent folks that haven't given a though to how a truely free society would work. I guess it can't be done then.
you again ? so much crap is amounting to fanboyism and branding
It's like the difference between occasional bets between friends on sports games and being a professional bookie.
The second to last comment says it all:

This sort of violates the point of Reddit, right? Users are supposed to upvote material they find interesting, rather than have editors sequester content they find relevant.
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