skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lack of interest on the side of AirBnB is not very surprising: They know exactly that renting out apartments without a proper license is illegal in most parts of the world, they just don't care since they can externalize the risk to the owners of the apartments. Personally, I can understand the frustration of the people that are on the loosing end of this business model: Neighbors who find that their building has become a busy hotel complex, landlords who see the value of their property decline by overuse and noise, hotels that face an army of competitors which don't pay taxes and don't comply with existing regulations, and the whole community that faces increasing rents.

Uber provides a similar example by creating a "parallel market" for taxis and putting established companies (which comply with existing regulations) under extreme pressure. In general I'm a big fan of the "free market" model, but gaining an unfair advantage by just ignoring existing laws and hoping to get away with it is not a legitimate business practice, I think.
Functional Reactive Programming has some interesting parallels, though pointing to an FRP package is clearly not a complete solution.
"We run the largest Wordpress website out there, and decided to rewrite commenting inhouse."

Can you elaborate on the reasons for doing so and what motivated that action?
Reflections on Akka
The overflow is only for water, right? Then a filter at the overflow entrance (or just the opening being narrow enough, two/three small holes maybe) could make positively sure the overflow bend cannot possibly get clogged.
You are being really naive and unfair here.

Saleae suffered a lot from chinese copycats. People copied their hardware for pennies, while saleae was fair enough to provide their software without copy protection.

I think it is only fair they release custom hardware now.
It's been said before[1] and I'll say it again: some things aren't worth your full reading attention. Heck, even if they were, you don't have enough time to read everything[2].

That being said, I am a little worried that people (at least myself) aren't getting as "deep" into topics as they might have used to. I try to solve this by (very carefully!) picking books that I can slowly digest, over multiple readings. If nothing else, just reading them at the inspectional and superficial levels can help me decide whether I need to go back for more.

[1] - See "How to Read a Book"

[2] - https://what-if.xkcd.com/76/
I said it was just a tip, not the ideal fix. For someone it could be an acceptable solution.
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I think excel is interesting because of it's limitations, and it's short feedback loops. all it's data is ultimately tabular, and it changes visually as you work with it.

That last property is one of the reasons I think that flowcharts can work in some niches (like video and audio processing).
The time deals one seems interesting.
I actually hadn't been using Cover, but I'm a big fan of Aviate. I greatly prefer it over the stock/Samsung experience.
Really cool to see how our Java developers all took this action to support their open source ESN of choice
It has no purpose because there is no purpose.

I know that sounds like a tautology, but bear with me. Without a project to rally behind, no one is going to automatically form little collectives and bang out cool stuff.

Things are either driven by one person or they are driven by multiple people after one person convinces them to participate and cajoles them into action. Someone, somewhere, has to provide the projects and the purpose. They then have to relentlessly follow through.
I don't see college's mission as helping one find oneself emotionally. As for intellectually, a fair number of those getting degrees have limited interest in that.
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It would be another thing if they used ad sharing with the publishers.
Is there a name for when you get progressively more depressed about an issue the more you learn about it?

The Ukraine conflict might very well also qualify for that.
Good to see Krugman actually got something right, even if it was back in 2000. SF has many ridiculous laws pertaining to real estate and rentals. If they got rid of rent control and eased their building restrictions they'd have more housing and more affordable housing.
Particularly painful is the fact that losing one's apartment in San Francisco is also effectively a banishment from the city.

If you're like many people currently living in SF, you can't afford to rent an apartment at current market rates. You don't merely have to find a new apartment; you have to move to a different city. And guess what? If you worked in the city before, your commute costs likely just went up $100-$200 a month.

AirBnB absolutely should be bearing some responsibility here if they have been knowingly withholding information about the legality of subletting in San Francisco. Their risk very low, while the consequences for an unwitting AirBnB host are potentially life-altering in a very real way.
They should fix their core business. I loathe skype. Instant messaging on multiple devices is just dreadful as you get all conversations as unread again on any device you log on to skype. The mobile client sucks your battery dry and is super slow...i hate it with passion... Still i need to use it as most of my clients do..
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Dear all,

Although I do not agree with Modern Microcredit's allegations that we are intentionally misleading, the discussion that has resulted is a useful one.

As I see it, we have a several options:

1. The status quo: Continue to quote flat interest rates in our website along with an explanation of the calculation in a modal box, and display the dollar amounts paid for each loan for extra clarity.

2. Transition from a flat rate methodology to APR. This would be more in line with the standard used in most lenders' countries, but would be more difficult to understand for borrowers. (It would also require a rewriting of much of our website. Zidihsa has only one web developer, so implementing this option would probably have to wait until have more programming resources.)

3. Continue to use flat rates as the basis for calculating the cost of Zidisha loans, but display the equivalent APR rates along with them. Perhaps Microfinance Transparency could help us develop a tool to facilitate this.

4. Continue to use flat rates, but use the term "fee" instead of "interest." This would be easy to implement and could help lenders avoid mistaking our flat rates for APR, but makes cost comparison with loans in borrowers' countries less straightforward.

Zidisha has little value without transparency, and those who have commented here obviously care deeply about it. I'd welcome everyone's advice on which option Zidisha should adopt, or alternative proposals.
They have a "Service Fee" and an "Offered Interest Rate" both of which are calculated the same way, based on the starting balance, and the loan period.
As a very superficial example of this, pianobar is a fantastic terminal-based Pandora client that will happily read input from a FIFO. I had bound keys to issue various commands through the FIFO, on both my laptop and my desktop. Then I found my hands on my laptop keyboard when my music was playing from my desktop (or vice-versa). Simple application of netcat meant my commands could be typed at either keyboard.
> It used to be social conservatives who stood for the idea that companies could and should fire employees based on the “values” and “community standards” of their “employees, business partners and customers.” Now it’s liberals.

Uh, pretty sure social conservatives far and wide are still wholly in favor of discriminating against homosexuals. We're decades early on this being a case of the persecuted becoming the persecutors.
Visual programming languages have gone a long way in some niches, too; LabView (lab automation and experimental logging) and Max/MSP (audio and video synthesis) come to mind.
Can someone explain what it is/was? This is the first I've heard of it, and the site doesn't appear to have a description. Google's app store is returning a million apps with the word "cover," and none appear to be this.
"People who aren't on Hacker News" also includes a lot of people who understand that the technical requirements to show a talking picture of a human does not vary by notoriety.
I believe this vulnerability is existing for IOS apps, too. Trustlook they may only focus on Android
I feel like the only reasonable response to this is open data standards and self hosting.
I take the board's statements with a block of salt. These are, after all, the very people who appointed Eich in the first place.

The company has insisted that Eich wasn't forced to resign due to employee pressure. But why else would he resign? Eich has been with Mozilla since the beginning, serving as an architect and CTO.

He stated "under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader." Why? Because those whom he would lead refuse to be led by him, the organizations he would work with would refuse to work with him, or a combination of both.

If this were the case, then in the company's best interest the board would have to fire Eich.

It was inevitable.
Rob Ford the game
Or two weeks, or whatever.
More people need to play Risk apparently.
Correct me if I am wrong but it is my understanding that you can still have read problems on an RO SD card. In fact I was recently reading a Micron Application note that explained that the mere act of reading it could cause bit-flips.
I fail to understand why people congratulate the founders for selling out their startups.
Pretty cool game bud, I actually think this is a superior environment for learning to program than many of the richer 3-d interfaces I've seen.
OK, I'll be even more specific, if it helps: it's a press release. It's designed for lowest common denominator reading, they have absolutely nothing to lose by writing in such a way that every single person is able to grasp the idea of what they're selling.
Skype lacks a good API so that you can integrate it into your CRM, Customer support etc.
Whether or not these points have merit, this media pundit is only replying to other media pundits. Some important nuances are being lost. If there is a way to make this sad story even sadder, it's turning it into a political football.

Is there anything Mozilla or Eich can do to clarify things? But I don't know if that matters any more, now that American political commentators have tasted blood.
It's the difference between technically illegal (or against terms of lease/contract/etc.) activities taking place relatively informally and at small-scale and being institutionalized.

It's just like no one was going to come after you in the eighties because you made a mixtape but Napster was another story.
As a coding-vacation? Or as something that blends well with remote work?

We've adjusted the format of the current Hacker Retreat to accommodate people working (remotely, on their startup, etc) - 20% of your time is committed to learning, the rest of the time is up to you. The time-span is over 2 months minimum. We're currently taking applications for the Batch-02 starting in May/June.

Super-compressed, 1-2 week retreats are something we've thought about, especially for advanced topics like data science and functional programming...may do it later, but not this summer.
'Tx' is the standard abbreviation for 'transmission.' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_%28telecommunicati...
There are options between "huge phablet" and the current iPhone size. I've play with the HTC One for development, and while I like my iPhone 5S better, the size is nice. I wouldn't even consider getting a Note, but going from 4 to 4.3,4.7,and maybe even 5 could be nice.

Certainly there is a segment of the market that likes bigger phones, and I think Apple could capture a lot of that interest with something in the 4.7 range that doesn't sacrifice much of the usability that comes with a smaller phone. I also don't think it's unreasonable to offer 2 sizes, 1 for people with bigger hands. Not convinced they will do that though.
Higher prices make a lot of sense. Airbnb provides a level of vetting and feedback that adds a lot of value and security to both sides. It's easy to scam someone on craigslist when there's no reputation system.
Come on -- you have a rent control apartment well under market value and no inkling that you might be limited in how you can directly profit from that circumstance? No thought that hey maybe I should check with my landlord, or at least give it a google?
This comment completely misses the fundamental innovation in Halide, which is a separation of "algorithm," a technical term denoting the part of the program that defines the computation, and "schedule," the part of the program which defines the mapping to hardware resources.

The end result is not like OpenCL, CUDA/PTX, or RenderScript. (All of which we regard as suitable target languages for Halide. PTX (CUDA's low-level assembly language) and OpenCL are currently supported.) As a concrete example, there is no explicit memory allocation in Halide and loops are often implicit. The overall character of Halide is that of a functional programming language.

As another example, segmentation violations due to errors in Halide code are impossible, barring bugs in the compiler implementation or errors in user provided C++ code, which Halide has no control over. Some set of bounds errors are reported at compile time and the rest turn into (efficient) assertion checks at runtime.

Schedules do get pretty low-level and writing them is difficult. Algorithms are generally a fair bit easier to write and while there is plenty to be done in improving the language, it is already a step up in productivity over e.g. OpenCL or even straight C++ for a lot of tasks within the domain of data parallel processing.
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Are people on #scheme pretty open to newcomers coming and and asking random questions about SICP?

The problem I've had when asking similar questions on another forum (not on #scheme) was that people would often assume I was trying to get help on homework and rudely blow me off (I've been out of uni for over a decade). So I stopped asking for help, and muddle through on my own.
There's nothing about that article that was "out for vengeance". It was a pretty even-handed look at what is a very present issue in tech culture today.

It started off with the title - "Man Problem". That is, the men are the source of the problem.

It asserts that the problem is not a lack of women, or something that women are doing, or that women are not stepping up and seizing what they want. No, instead, the problem is that the 'evil' men in tech are being mean and not letting the poor defenseless girls play with their evil male tech toys.

Well, so what? Like many fields, tech is competitive and people play hardball. If women can't take the heat, maybe they can go into a field where they are the majority - nursing, cosmetology, fashion - and give the men a hard time.
Don't open your console: http://i.imgur.com/kyi79ux.png
nice!

similarly,

var oldPlaceObject = map.placeObject;
var newPlaceObject = function(x, y, type) {
if (type !== 'block') {
map.placeObject = oldPlaceObject;
map.placeObject(x, y, type);
map.placeObject = newPlaceObject;
}
};
map.placeObject = newPlaceObject;

was my solution to multiple levels ;).
Student’s April Fools prank on professor may be the best ever
Yeah I do some testing on the 4S and it feels tiny now compared the my 5S. As for the typing though, software plays a big part in this too. I absolutely hate the default keyboard on my HTC One and I have no problems with my 5S and even the smaller 4S.
You don't need any keys. Just say "I wrote how to log into my email on a piece of paper in the safe deposit box. You may have found it already."
> they should have to pay a (small) percentage tax of the rate they charge though

SF and CA already charge plenty of taxes. There's no need for any extra.
Personally, I can always use some music to actually get stunnned :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGeOWYOFoA
Well, if you called it a fee, then it could be just as easily misleading, depending on what you included in (or excluded from) that fee. In fact, it may confuse things even more.

That is, the real issue here is that the true rate/cost is not reflected clearly in the interest as currently presented. So, the real solution here is not to introduce a new, ambiguous term, but to use the traditional and well-understood term for conveying the true cost of a loan; that being "APR".

Of course, by definition, you'd then necessarily include in that number the true costs of the loan.
If it could be proved that you "used the apartment" in lying on your taxes, I don't see why it wouldn't be legally enforceable.
Are they not doing that already?
thanks for the help ;)
> The fact Airbnb is allowing this to continue makes me question their ethics.

Laws and ethics are not the same thing. In fact, it is often ethical to break a law.
There's a few different systems that implement connecting to public key hashes. Most recently, cjdns has had a fair bit of attention, and it's backwards-compatible with IPv6-supporting apps.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/airbnb-orgy_n_49788...
What scale are you finding it difficult at?

I'm pretty sure the first poster was thinking more along the lines of an official company blog, not a major website.
Essentially that. That simple/easy terminology I mentioned before actually has this as one of it's conclusions:

http://daemon.co.za/2014/03/how-complexity-affects-software/
It is human not to be an expert on everything, so I'd say the people that clicked Kazachstan, Belarus, the Black Sea and the like should be forgiven.

Also, there are certainly a number (below 5%) of clicks that resulted from accident or interface understanding problems. Those could account for some of the most outlandish dots.

But then there are a lot of people that selected India. That's kind of disturbing.
The general domain of applicability is data parallel processing. There is very little that is image specific in Halide. So audio, dense linear algebra, some finite element applications, etc. would also be well within the domain.
People have children early in life. Even at that rate, the population can grow without bound. E.g. if people lived forever its clear the population would still grow.
While the idea of the poster is great for drawing attention to an issue that still needs to be debated within the US, at the same time saying they are trying to 'shame drone operators' points this story in the wrong direction. Operators are just doing a job and at a terrible cost (http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201311/drone-uav-...)

This should be aimed at politicians and talking heads. As long as the US leaders want to (or are allowed to) continue with drone strikes, they will find operators. Target the person who wrote the message, not the messenger.
I think that this case is doing a lot of bad to the cause of gay rights, because it feeds intolerance and radicalization.
I have no doubt that the battery level displayed is genuine. What I do doubt is how much juice is actually in the battery they have connected to the phone; supercapacitors aren't new. They also have severe issues with actually providing enough sustained power to be useful in a cell phone context.

Remember that story about a year ago about the high school girl who was going to charge your cell phone in 20 seconds? Same promise, same problem - supercapacitors charge really fast, discharge really fast, and just can't compete with a l-ion battery.

As soon as someone demos one of these batteries that can actually provide 10 watt-hours on a 30-second charge, call me. Until then, yawn.
I disabled my adblocker on reddit, if that's what you mean.
While the Premier League rights seem to be quite expensive, I wouldn't go to the Lithuanian 3rd Division :) Bundesliga seems much more approachable [1]. Rights costs are €70 million in the current cycle, and close to €150 million in the next. I am sure that the portuguese and italian leagues would also be more affordable. It would be quite interesting to know costs for La Liga (Spanish).
One may also be able to approach the rights owner with some more interesting ideas, like instead of paying all upfront, they will get a high % per user that purchased a match. Not sure how would that go.

Anyway this is just an idea, and it would take someone with good financial resources to undertake this project.

[1] http://www.sportspromedia.com/news/bundesliga_to_double_inte...
> * I have to constantly check my mails to prove I'm not dead

It nag mails you so you don't forget. Otherwise, add a reminder with a link to click on on the first of every month.

> * The other person's mail will without any doubt change if I die in 10+ years

You'll be clicking on this thing every month, I'm pretty certain if your SO's email changes you'll update it at that time.

> * Can this service live up to 50+ years? I'm really doubting that as well.

It only needs to be up when you die, again, you're clicking on this thing every month, if the service dies and you find utility in the concept, you'll find a different service to use.
You aren't likely to get apple-speed touch latency outside of apple. They have worked much harder on this than everyone else and do a much better job of it. Sadly for you, I don't see them releasing something that small again. The 4S is still a decent phone, but you might have to settle for the 5 sized phones. Unlikely they ever release something smaller at this point.
In pretty much every case where I'm searching for something with a search bar, I prefer the list of results getting updated as I type. Why? It's simply faster.

On Spotify for example, click "search" start typing until I see the band I want in the "top result", press the down arrow, press enter.

If I had to press enter and wait for the whole list of results to load, that would take much longer.
Success and the Internet.. that sounds about right. I knew people from the early AOL days that used to write VB apps to "hack" AOL. Various hacker groups would steal OH/Internal accounts, etc. and create private portals in Master AOL showing off their car or whatever. AoLaZy, AoHeLL, Island55, etc. and then broadband happened and everyone grew up and got a programming job.
Not quite: the 20 generations that are born and die on the ship don't get to explore anything. You'd want people content to live in a crowded can.
you use 'federate' as if it's a killer feature, but how many products out in the marketplace that you use actually do that?
The problem is that, now, it becomes more difficult to argue that people shouldn't be fired because of their opinions about sexual preferences.
I really don't connect with the "build a business to sell out" mentality. Cheapens the whole idea of entrepreneurship and self made independence. Maybe it's just me.
I think that this case is doing a lot of bad to the cause of gay rights

Indeed; if one were of a more conspiratorial bent, they might be inclined to think that's the exact purpose of this whole farce.