skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't quite following, so I sought out a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cm7tv5cM8g

Seems like the toasters don't overlap each other, but they do overlap the toast (eg, at 0:08).

Anyway, very cool CSS creation.
The OpenPandora Dpad is excellent, however.
PouchDB is a fairly up-and-coming JavaScript library, and the maintainer makes a good effort to mark issues as "goodfirstpatch" or "goodstudentproject": https://github.com/daleharvey/pouchdb/issues?labels=goodfirs... .

I've been on the project for a couple months, and I find folks to be very friendly and quick to respond on Github/IRC/etc. Plus it's part of the bigger Apache CouchDB ecosystem, so it's a good crowd to run with!
I think he just said HN is a waste of time. :-O
Coincidentally I just implemented this the other day for a quick Matrix class in Groovy. Was about 4 lines of code.
I gave up because I seem to be unable to find the actual link to the "free download."
Should be resolved now.
Getting to Mars is an order of magnitude more difficult than a quick jaunt to the moon, so it's really shouldn't be surprising we haven't gone. Not least because there isn't any reason to go. Hell, there isn't any reason to go to the moon, which is why we haven't bothered to return for forty years.

In fact, I would argue the moon landings were a mistake, in that we spent a whole lot of money building a system that did one useless but amazing thing instead of spending less money figuring out how to give ourselves the capability to do lots of useful and amazing things at a reasonable cost.

If Elon Musk wants to pay for a Mars trip I'll cheer him on, but nobody's ever been able to articulate a compelling reason for it. A trillion dollars is a lot of money, and I'd rather see it go toward tax cuts or paying down the national debt.

Driving down costs is not only an issue, it's the primary issue. If we have to pay $10k per kg to get stuff into LEO none of the activities that would support a permanent presence in space are worth doing.
Dear AirBNB, No thank you for the XXX Freak Fest
Is she really, a "prominent" engineer?

But yes, this grey zone is valid, but people cannot pretend that these black-swan type gender scandals do not make men err on the side of caution when employing women; so they do not awaken the unconscious twitter opinion cartels one day unintentionally.

The fact that this unconcious opinion farming cartel will pick on the good guys(PG)[1], and not only the bad-guys show that they are indiscriminate in their wake, and these people don't give a shit before publishing on valley-wag or going to twitter.

[1]no scare-quotes, because they are good guys, IE Paul Graham)
Unfortunately, the poor in America are more affected by 'lifestyle diseases' (smoking and obesity related illnesses, for instance), which may be more difficult to cure as they need to be addressed from a social angle, not just a medical one.
I actually run mine at 1920 x 1080 @ 2x so that everything is super crisp. I have a retina macbook and it was just painful looking at my other monitors.
That is a annoying, but a ton more open than iOS which won't even let you do Javascript at all. So, you're fored into to doing a UI skin atop the slower, non-JIT Mobile Safari renderer.
It must have been a while since you played tile based games. I had a similar experience a year ago when I made a simple tetris game and tested it non-stop for a day. Since then I can't achieve the same effect. But before that I haven't played such games in years. It really shows how persistent out memory is. One day and you're good for years.
No, the Tesla only gets you one thing, one time: a car.

For those of us (I'm guessing the majority) who already buy Amazon Prime simply for the benefit of unlimited 2-day shipping, any additional features come at no cost.

I agree it's not the same as a pure definition of 'free', but for many of us it's effectively the same.
I believe they want to create this atmosphere if Google being hard to get in, and hopefully it will make the smart people feel prestigious if they do get in. Psychology 101. I would not be surprised if they targeted him because he was an active blogger, and would get this out to the world. Just think about it, our community is doing well because we are an open community working together online and what better way to control this group than injecting persuasion into the community.

Don't get me wrong, I would likely work for Google if I had the opportunity, but I would go anti-google if they did this to me.
More difficult than malaria or AIDS? I doubt it. Diabetes will probably be a much easier nut to crack than either, with or without lifestyle changes.
I suspect that's probably the sweet spot for me, as well. I'm on 24" at the moment...it's an awful ViewSonic 1080P thing. I'm hesitant to buy another cheap monitor (it replaced a much more expensive Dell which got broken from falling while driving in my motorhome)...so this is probably more my style. I have limited table real estate (alongside my quite large audio monitors), and 39" would probably not even fit, even if I did want a monitor that big.
Who else uses @ this way? It seems really ad hoc and ugly as a core feature of Python syntax
You need to read my entire comment before posting non-contributing responses.
"Deadbeat" American student loan debtor here. During the economic meltdown, I defaulted on my private student loans in 2009. The defaulted loans were picked up by two different debt collectors. One of them, Sunrise Credit Services, is charging me interest as I pay down the loans. The other debt collector, Williams and Fudge, charges me no interest.
Based on the California driving code you are supposed to keep up with the flow of the traffic on the road around you so if the rest of the road is going 70mph in theory you could get a ticket for doing 60mph.

Generally unless you are the only car on the road or you are weaving dangerously between cars at high speed its unlikely you will get a speeding ticket if you are part of a pack of cars for this reason.

Then again I'm not a lawyer so don't go off my knowledge ;)
Hah, I think I wrote exactly the same post a couple days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7392846
Because Google is probably the most well-known advertising agency on the planet?

They're not much of a consumer brand tbh, but they pull in tens of billions a year creating virtual properties to sell advertising space on.
Show HN: This was developed by two 17 year olds in 3 months 
We'd love some feedback re. UI and overall design, it was a fun journey to develop and we're slowly getting there building a community.
I'm struggling to understand how this is AirBnB's fault? Do we expect them to detect when people are lying?
>#1 Bill Gates - had a million dollar trust fund from his bank president grandfather, mother on United Way board with president of IBM

In what reality could the act of taking a million dollars and multiplying it by a factor of seventy six thousand be viewed as being "born into it"?
I see arguments about whether or not Amazon Instant Video is worth the money, but I think that's beside the point, isn't it? The important part of the discussion here is that Amazon Instant Video is not of interest to a large number of existing Amazon Prime subscribers, and they are likely paying the price for those who use it.

It's a bit of a frustrating trend to see companies bundling new technologies like this, often at the expense of their loyal customers. I am an Amazon Prime subscriber, and will continue to be one, but I would love it if Amazon Instant video were a separate subscription that I could choose to pay for on its own merits.
Case History : Passivhaus
This is how far I got before I got bored:

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/62/yhtr.jpg

Done manually... took me about an hour... goddamn this game is addictive.

I'm pretty sure I could keep going if there was a save function. I never seemed to fill more than one half of the screen.
Unfortunately, this is why there's hotel regulations. I think AirBnb is net-good, but it certainly is going to make a few people's lives miserable in the meantime. Hopefully AirBnb finds a way to mitigate these issues.

That being said, I guarantee you were violating your lease when you used AirBnb. And, you approved the person to stay in your house. If anyone should be mad, it's your neighbors and apartment owner -- they followed the rules. This is really unfortunate, but it's not all AirBnb's fault.
I have a 5" smartphone and holding it in one hand, I can just reach all of the screen with my thumb; 5.3" or 6" would be too large for me. I wouldn't consider my hands large either - they're probably slightly below-average in size. People's hands definitely vary in size, so it's understandable that what someone finds 4" just right would have trouble with anything bigger, and likewise in the other direction.

"The rule of thumb", indeed.
If David would have just invited him all this drama could have been avoided. Huge party foul, David.
Blackouts cause people a lot of trouble. But building physical protection against attacks like the Metcalf transformer shooting would be expensive, and people already complain their electricity bills are too high. Given the choice between a 10% higher bill and a 1% greater annual chance of a blackout, which would most people choose?

The article focuses on solutions involving physical security. Perhaps it would be more cost-effective to bolster deterrents? For example, life in prison for anyone convicted of sabotaging a major facility of any kind (in the Metcalf case, this could include both the shooting and the cutting of telecom fiber beforehand).

There also seems to be less focus on improving the resilience of the system as a whole--given that the threats are being modeled to determine minimum amounts of sabotage required, why not emphasize increasing that minimum, rather than reinforcing the few critical points of failure? Computing has moved in the direction of resilient systems made of less reliable components, and so could the grid.

As an aside, a blackout in summertime can be pretty interesting. The one in 2003 brought people together in new ways--I experienced a sense of community which was quite unusual, "old fashioned" you might say.
FYI: should be obvious from the title, but NSFW images in post
Whose responsibility is it, then?
Sure, but now you have lost the primary benefit of the service. Some principles are definitely worth that total walkout.

But modern companies are masters at figuring just how much they can annoy their customers without pushing too many of them to leave. The point of the article is that, for us customers, things get "worse".
I would like the blogger to post a follow up on how AirBnB will respond. I've heard of multiple incidents of damage to the property, but have never read about the follow up. I suspect that a hush hush settlement was made.

Is there a kind of insurance that AirBnB sets up or is it completely on the renter's dime?
He mentioned that the positive reviews could be fake. So, it seems that Airbnb should be more rigorously vetting guests.
That's what the 'verified' status would seem to imply.
Hopefully AirBnb finds a way to mitigate these issues.

Perhaps with rules? Of the type one might describe as "regulations"?
tldr: The Pythagorean theorem, Logarithms, Calculus, Law of Gravity, The square root of -1, Euler's polyhedra formula, Normal distribution, Wave equation, Fourier transform, Navier-Stokes equations, Maxwell's equations, Second law of thermodynamics, Relativity, Schrodinger's equation, Shannon information entropy, Chaos theory, & Black-Scholes equation (derivatives $).
Lena Dunham at SXSW 2014: 'Female stars of Girls are being typecast'
And I thought I went too far with 32k...
I had the same question. I spoke to two Google SWEs about it, and also went through their interview process.

I concluded there's a number of factors at play:

1. Google views software engineering skills as fungible. If you can learn domain X, you can equally well learn domain Y. Hire smart people, and put them on something they find interesting, and you'll get high quality work out of them. Computer science / problem solving then becomes a sort of proxy for whatever skills are ultimately necessary. If you can learn that, you can learn anything.

2. Google wants to quantifiably improve its interview process, which requires that it be standardized. Tailoring the interview to the candidate too closely makes it harder to compare interviews across candidates. Computer science and problem solving are reasonable baseline skills for a SWE.

3. Having a famously difficult interview helps Google cultivate a reputation for exclusivity, which in turn attracts candidates. Same as why universities like to show off low acceptance rates.

But also some less charitable factors (which are by no means limited to Google):

1. NIH syndrome. Skills acquired outside Google are viewed as less relevant precisely because they were acquired outside Google.

2. Ego. I want to pretend my job is more about sophisticated algorithms and problem solving than tracking down null pointer exceptions.

3. Ageism. Whether chosen consciously or not, structuring the interview around topics taught in school / programming competitions, instead of on the job, slants the process towards recent graduates. Google has one of the youngest workforces among established tech companies, outside of Facebook.

When I've asked Google engineers about it, they've admitted that their interview process is imperfect, but also think it's the least bad approach known. At a minimum they deserve credit for working to improve it, instead of the haphazard approach employed at most companies.
Well, let's not blow this out of proportion. Google is basically a big advertising agency. The principle problem they're working on is click through rates.

If that's what floats the boats of the best and brightest, I feel kind of sorry for the direction of the species.

Sure they have lots of cool feeder technologies to support this singular goal, but getting people to click paid links is not exactly the same as colonizing Mars.
AirBnB has an insurance policy to compensate for cases like this.

Color me cynical, but I don't have a lot of sympathy for the blogger. If you have a landlord (i.e. you don't personally own the building), and you aren't there to personally meet and be around the guests, then you are knowingly taking on the risk that the guests will be sketchy and that you will be evicted, even if you are allowed subleses (not to mention that you almost always aren't).
my super is having me evicted by my landlord

I assume that your lease prohibits subleases without the consent of your landlord.
The person who committed fraud to get the rental, then caused $87K in damages while in possession of the rental.
FWIW, I have the same experience. I work with a 19" next to my 15" MBP, and I really only look at the MBP for things like "oh there is a new email", and then if it requires a lot of looking, I pull it onto the larger screen. I am sure that there are all kinds of ways that I could optimize this so that I use both monitors (I'm open to suggestions), but I keep coming back to the single monitor plus "occasional other stuff".

That said, I much prefer having the two monitors to only using the MBP...
I am not and never was a Googler, but my personal guess would be:

-Interested and curious about technology and the world

-Neutral or left-leaning socially

-Not too uptight

-At least some sense of humor

-Humble enough to admit mistakes and lack of knowledge

I kind of feel like these are things any good tech company would want, though. I'd be curious if a Googler could give a good definition for what makes someone a good fit at Google specifically; something that can be distinguished from other similar companies.
I get asked to work for companies all the time, even asked to be CEO of a few. But I usually turn them down because I'm working on my ambitious and personal works at the moment, or I'm not actually qualified for the job.

What I don't get is asked to work at companies that have something to hide, which is fine by me. The real professionals have no problem contacting me about work.

Edit: The point of me saying that (before accidentally hitting submit) is to point out that no, speaking out about the industry does not prevent you from getting work. The people in power simply tell you that so you won't rat them out. If you're honest and have evidence to support you claims then other honest people will respect you for what you say. The others are simply people you don't want to deal with anyway.
The inevitable link everyone will look for next: https://github.com/tlrobinson/WebSaver
I doubt it's ever been easier
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=airbnb+insurance

tldr; Yes, there is insurance.
Imposing rules on your own users for the good of your other users is not at all the same thing as imposing rules on everyone for the good of those who paid for your reelection campaign.
If you don't think it's worth your time to interview twice at the same company, then simply don't. That's a completely reasonable point of view, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise.

For what it's worth, Google has a public reputation as a great place to work and as a company that hires "high quality" engineers. Both of these things mean that some people are willing to put more effort into getting a position there. My post wasn't meant to say that he must keep trying at all costs, but just to let him know not to be discouraged if he happened to really want that job. In many places, you're dead in the water if you don't make it the first time, but Google is not like that.

Personally, I didn't see my interview process as "something I had to go through", i.e. a laborious means to an end. I enjoyed the challenge and the opportunity to get a glimpse of a company like Google from the inside. Even when I was turned down the first time, I came away feeling glad that I had done it. It's not like I had anything to lose from trying.

> You wanna be the person that has to obey Larry Page's whims and integrate Google+ into more places users don't want it?

Not in the least, nor do I feel that I am doing that. I don't work on Google+ or anything related to it. However it may look from the outside, Google is not Google+. It's a big, multifaceted organization with opportunities to work on all sorts of interesting things. Much of our work is driven directly by the engineers themselves and not by management whims. And there's plenty of mobility to change roles if you decide you don't like what you're doing.

SRE specifically has proved to be a truly interesting and unique position. There are engineering challenges that we face which quite simply don't exist anywhere else. Beyond the much-touted perks, that's what makes Google special, in my opinion, and well worth the comparatively small effort I put into getting there.
> I enjoy a “Festival” as much as the next fellow, but this is a family building and some people don’t enjoy having their neighbor’s worldly possessions tossed in a pile into the common area, while a group of strangers form a pile to have their private areas tossed. As such, I’m going to be evicted.
>

> You’re going to pay my moving expenses, because my landlord is certainly going to make me move after an “XXX Freak Fest” (and I can’t look these guys in the eye after this either).

In New York, it is illegal for you to rent out your apartment while you are gone. Besides that detail, how can the OP's landlord evict him, unless there was something in the lease saying such renting was not allowed? Can the OP post the relevant portion of his leasing agreement?
To be a little more helpful, they've partnered with Lloyd's of London to provide a nice insurance policy for all renters: https://www.airbnb.com/guarantee
Even with a lease permitting subletting through AirBnB (something becoming more common) this might very well be cause for eviction.
How does it work that you stay in default while paying on the loans? Doesn't the loan become current at some point thus you're no longer defaulted? Or is that the point, the default comes from not paying the contractual payment of, let's say, $700/month and you're sending "only" $350/month?

(Casting no judgment; I have mountains of student loans that I'm managing to pay every month so I sympathize with how you got into that position.)
Or, if you want to commandeer someone's apartment for a XXX sex fest, you start off by AirBnb'ing legitimately a few times to get a positive rating.
With regards to your first paragraph, we have plenty of money to spend on defense. The USA is expected to spend around 1.2 trillion dollars on defense in 2014 [0]. The problem, is that most of that spending is overseas "defense", and very little of it is used to secure critical domestic infrastructure. Like our energy grids, our roads and highways, etc.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
Fault is a complex matter, especially when you're talking legal fault, moderated by contracts.
Actually, "sort of." There is insurance in the US (where the article was written), but not everywhere. If I visit the page about their "guarantee," I am redirected to the airbnb domain for my country, where that page does not exist. Strangely they even explain at https://www.airbnb.com/help/question/279 that the guarantee page will not be accessible if your computer is in a country where they do not offer the guarantee. This is bizarre, because what if I rented out my place, travelled to another country, and then want to read about my protections?

If you want to read the legalese, this page seems to work from anywhere: https://www.airbnb.com/terms/host_guarantee
I think I understand your point of view, it was my initial point of view as well. I thought, "well, you used a website that offers to connect you with people who want to use your home and you blame the website for the person who ruined your home instead of that actual person?".

The author here will probably pursue legal recourse against that individual as well. It's a two-part problem: 1.) The leaser may have violated the lease as laid out by the author by effectively ruining the home. 2.) AirBNB reported a leaser as 'verified', which is important because of the implication that the leaser won't do certain things like ruin your home during their stay.

Unfortunately per 2, this isn't actually what AirBNB claims to mean by "verified" [0]. It's unfortunate because of what happened, but you are indeed correct -- technically speaking AirBNB is not responsible here. It sucks, and it certainly means I won't be using AirBNB, but they've done their job of protecting themselves.

[0] https://www.airbnb.com/help/question/450
If this is the actual goal they are not even bad at hiring, which I can testify personally, they are also bad to be hired at. They cannot offer interesting jobs, their hiring practice and personnel sucks, their pay is not really competitive. Who wants to work for Google if you are >30 and experienced enough? You get free meals elsewhere also.
The codebook of a lossless predictive coding system is exactly "say[ing] the same things in different words".
That strategy is successful everywhere. You already insulate anyways, you still need thermal mass. It isn't just about capturing heat during the day to release at night, it is about heating the house instead of the air inside the house. This lets you have proper ventilation.
I guess with the no interest company that they make enough given the discount they purchase them for and the no additional interest helps get more of them paid back.
This is the most thoughtful thing I've ever read on the topic, and it gives me some new insight into my own thoughts and feelings.

I'm a straight, happily married man, and count myself lucky to work with many gay and straight men and gay and straight women who I enjoy being around. Of those four groups, I have noticed that I'm the least at ease around straight women, and I think this article does a good job of explaining the reason for that.

With the other three groups there is far less risk of friendliness being mistaken as flirtatiousness.