skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is protectionism for hotels. However, HOAs and City Councils will make the claims that this is to "protect" apartment owners from unknowing short-term sub-renting of their properties.

We have the same problem here in Austin, except it is Taxis being protected against private drivers like Uber and Lyft. They claim this is to protect citizens from unlicensed drivers.
You have no idea how they feel about their acquisition and to project your negativity on their situation is a mean thing to do. For all you know they could be popping champagne bottles and eating chicken wings and you're being a debbie downer.

Edit: http://i.imgur.com/ewXHcbp.jpg
The point here is "using the apartment for an illegal activity".
Something similar happened in Singapore too last year.
If you add nc between the pipes you've implemented an ESB :)

But shh, don't tell anyone how easy it is, if everyone figures out just how easy and scalable shell scripts are it will ruin the magic we bring to over-engineered enterprise projects.
Why would it be too large to enforce? The drug war certainly isn't.
In a world where good/bad are exactly defined points on a single axis where the unit is readability (and where the relationship between kerning/letterfit and readability was similarly precisely defined) that might have been an objective argument.
This worked for the whole first chapter for me (and has some obvious further applications):

startLevel["constructor"]("m",
"console.log(m);" +
"var old = m.placeObject;\n" +
"m.placeObject = function(x,y,t) { \n" +
"console.log(t);\n" +
"if (t === 'exit' || t === 'computer') {\n" +
"console.log('adding' + t);\n" +
"return old['ca' + 'll'](m, x,y,t) }};")(map);

EDIT: I wonder if you could wrap the user's code in, e.g. https://code.google.com/p/es-lab/wiki/SecureEcmaScript, and use this to gamify finding bugs in that sandbox :-)
The Host Guarantee is not insurance and should not be considered as a replacement or stand-in for homeowners or renters insurance.
Btw, I should have said first that I love this game idea and myself and my coworkers have been playing it a bit for the last 20 minutes or so.

I broke my game by reassigning the getWidth method to return an invalid value:

map.getWidth = function() { return 1; }

The approach worked with a valid value: ( map.getWidth = function() { return 6; } ) and I beat the level, but I had to replay the previous 3 levels.

Some suggestions (Again, we loved the game!)
- Provide some interface to conveniently index all the solution Gists.
- Provide some way to quickly skip to last level played.

Other thoughts:
- Enjoyed the look, feel, and user interaction.
- The music was great.
- I will keep playing this game. :)
Court cases are expensive and messy, but they involve both sides presenting their evidence and testimony, and an impartial authority considering both sides of the situation.

Having seen adversarial vs. nonadversarial processes in action, I prefer the adversarial process. Incentives to perform due diligence in nonadversarial circumstances are highly flawed.

There are also the options of mediation or other resolution systems which streamline process and costs, though this isn't always possible.
AirBulb wants to put a speaker in your lightbulb
Adding Evercam.io To The API Commons
While this isn't an elegant workaround, I've found resolving minor formatting issues like percentages in Inkscape to be really useful.

The end of this article[1] details how to export your plots as SVG files for use in Inkscape or any other vector graphics editor.

[1] http://www.noamross.net/blog/2013/11/20/formatting-plots-for...
The retina display was a significant achievement and you need only compare the ppi counts of its contemporaries to see that.
If you scan or skim then you miss stuff. You have no idea whether or not what you missed is important because you didn't see it. And so comments by people self-importantly declaring themselves to be more effective by scanning/skimming are in effect saying "I didn't read that bit because I knew it wasn't important and, despite not having read it, I know I was right not to read it". What you mean is you have an impaired attention span.

Scanning or skimming can only be optimal with carefully structured texts where you know what to expect, e.g. textbooks where the beginning and end of chapters contain synopses.
This is fun. But I have one wish. Overwrite console.log() so it logs onto the website and I don't need to open firebug :)

Edit: I think I solved lvl two to four all the same way. Not sure if that's intended. But I also don't want to spoil it for others.

Edit 2: This worked again at lvl 6, so I'll assume that's a bug.
Click this pastebin for spoilers: http://pastebin.com/yfhDhE7P
> smsm42: You make it sound as "sharing economy" is inherently lawless idea, which it is not. Of course, in cities like NY and SF, where people with money can buy any regulation they want, eventually entrenched business interests would buy laws that impede any disruption to their business. But that's hardly a fault of somebody who tries to do something new.

Funny. I kind of like that there are laws on the books to prevent my neighbors from operating an unlicensed and uninsured (Airbnb doesn't insure the unit itself, building or grounds, just the personal possessions of the renter) hotel out of the building I call my home... and all the safety, fire, noise, and other risks that go along with it. Just because you personally don't like a law doesn't mean there aren't a majority of us out there that do.
"I guess the difference between myself and the gay rights camp is that I believe people are still worth something when they disagree with me"

There are people in any camp that say deplorable things. Generalizing this way, and patting yourself on the back, isn't terribly useful.
I can understand not being pumped about having random people come and go if your neighbor is leasing out their place on a site like this regularly. As a traveler I like the service though.
The key problem is, Android is a front-end technique. Everything you put in code/resource is transparent. But so many developers treat it like back-end and believe it's save to put sensitive info inside...
The apartment building I live in here in NYC forbids people from using airbnb and similar services. I'm glad because I don't want to worry about a flux of transients in my building. Some laws may be problematic to vc/startup folks but I'm glad they exist because they protect me.
What if you don't set the "Server" header?
This explanation seems to obscure more than illuminate. Maybe for a specific sort of person that loves pointers is it useful, but I both understand pointers and JavaScript's specific flavour of closures well and still found it confusing.
Bitcoin and Beyond: The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Virtual Currencies
It's the fact that the blog:

1. Lists only features of their product.

2. Doesn't lists any features that their product doesn't support.

3. Aims mostly at shaping expectations so that one would find their product.

4. Uses the guest-blog trick to boost rating / cross-linking.

It's is all fine and dandy in the culture where somewhat things are newspeaked into hacking growth or whichever new euphemism is in vogue.
Of course the solution for rent-seeking (a bit of a pun here, sorry) behavior produced by regulation is always more regulation. And when that produces unintended consequences, we always can have more regulation to fix that regulation, and ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
Unlikely in this case. Berlin for example is going in very much the opposite direction, passing new laws to crack down on short-term rentals, freeing up more properties in the city centre for actual residents.
I'd really rather just zoom. There's no real mode switch for me any more. To me, zoom is just a UI option that's a part of the mobile browser experience. Also, sometimes reader mode doesn't work, since it depends on one of a few technical tricks. Zooming is just basic geometry. If Apple wanted to, it could always be active, and it would always work.
Amino acid fingerprints revealed in new study
Concrete Mathematics [1] helped me a lot. It teaches mathematical knowledge and skills for computer science.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Mathematics
That's what I mean. I've heard of people getting evicted for drug offenses conducted from the apartment, but not for lying on taxes from the apartment.
Yes, you are correct, on pretty much all of your points.

> IANAL, but my understanding is that HOAs in California can't put a lien on your property for failing to pay fines, only for failing to pay dues.

Yes, however, most HOAs do have ways to make it difficult for homeowners who have become delinquent on fines. One common approach is that the CC&Rs allow a delinquent homeowner to be placed as "a member NOT in good standing", which means that the owner will be precluded from using the association amenities (pool, clubhouse, tennis court, etc.) or even being able to vote for board members, until the fine is paid off and the "good standing" is restored.

> Furthermore overly punitive fines aren't allowed, and that rule does in fact have teeth (and is also abused by homeowners to make it more expensive to collect fines from them).

Not only that, but the Davis-Sterling Act (which is the California state laws that govern common interest developments) as well as most of the local courts in California are very much sided towards the homeowner and against the overall community. Much of the Davis-Sterling Act was written and approved at a time when there was a lot of concern that large community developments would do things to abuse and harm the individual homeowner, or more specifically, that the will of the majority (within a CID) would do things to make life as difficult as possible for those in the minority. Davis-Sterling (and the many of subsequent court cases that dealt with Davis-Sterling) was basically set up to help prevent that as much as possible, unfortunately sometimes to the detriment of well-meaning HOA Boards that are dealing with a delinquent homeowner that understands these loopholes and uses them to willingly violate rules, or skirt out of paying fines, etc.
Oh, quick note - you can skip to the last level played in the Menu (Ctrl-0). We should probably make that more obvious.
WOw! sorry about that! could you give more details about your setup? I tested it under chromium 31, and chrome canary 36.0. Anything helps.
I am interested. Can i have the pre-ordered one ?
There was a big underground movement using Visual Basic and variations on dos32.bas to do interesting things on top of AOL's client.
I never understood the Airbnb business model.

Sure, some regulations seem designed primarily to protect existing interests, but more often, there are very good reasons for the regulation.

For instance, I believe hotels must maintain a record of visitors car license plates. And they are often inspected by health departments.

I'm all for innovation, but I don't think we can throw out an entire regulatory framework that took decades to develop. There is just too much that can go wrong.

As for 10 or 20 billion dollar valuation for Airbnb? Reality says "Ridiculous!".
How Googlebot handles AJAX loaded content
FFS. The comments on here are really breaking my heart.

This is a BEAUTIFUL website. "Booh, autoplay!" "Booh, performance!" "Booh, webgl bloat!"

Holy crap guys. 24 comments, only TWO positive ones.
I think an app on your phone is a better way, if the phone has not moved in the last 24 hours or whatever, then an email could be sent. Something like that.
Quake, a slow game ?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HUsdNEaKMk
USPTO recruiting a Presidential Innovation Fellow to crowdsource prior art
If you reload the game, the map should now re-init on every level.

PS. I'm really enjoying all the creative solutions you guys are coming up with!
Finally, some sanity on this issue. Thank you, thank you.

> "I mean, isn’t this supposed to be how things work?"

> "But, but… Mr. Eich should be free to believe what he wants, and to contribute to any political cause he so chooses! Well, and so he is, and I would, as they say, defend to the death his right to do so. What he is not free from — and this is the thing which people seem to fall down on again and again — are the consequences of his actions."
Three; from what I understand there were substantial performance improvements in this release.
I'm about as anti-Law, anti-establishment, anti-authority pro-Snowden as they come... but ...we can't all just go around breaking whatever law without some kinda of "justification"(hopefully moral/ethics based)
I would like the laws that prevent my neighbor from buying a car better than mine, having a lawn greener than mine and complaining about my dog barking too loudly. It's nice that only thing that is required for any selfish wish to become a law is that there are a bunch of selfish people coming together. As long as you have 50%+1, you can do literally anything to those guys in 50%-1, they're in the minority, so vae victis.
>Lots of apps bump gracelessly into the 512M limit (libre office, IDEs, OpenElec+plugins, ...)

The compute unit isn't meant to be used as a desktop, but as an embedded system.
Obviously the solution is a DeadManSwitchCoin.
Assuming they live in a unit subject to The Ellis Act, SF renters benefit from ludicrous amounts of rent control that cause unending headaches for small-scale landlords. No sympathy for the renters in question here whatsoever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Act

I have personally run into a guy who was subletting his unit out for twice his monthly rent. This is completely illegal and with good reason. The Ellis Act was not put in place to help renters make a little extra cash but rather to protect them from sudden rent increases.

I don't agree with The Ellis Act, in fact I wish it would die because while I think it was well-intended, it has too many unforeseen negative consequences and effects. And before you dismiss me as some teabagger conservative, here's Paul Krugman on the subject of rent control:

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/07/opinion/reckonings-a-rent-...

And AirBnB should know better. No sympathy for them either.
I believe that a child's first program is a beautiful thing, but I still want them to grow. Acknowledging something has value doesn't mean you think it's perfect.
I thought Scalzi's take on the issue was one of the more objective that I've seen lately. He's correct, of course: as a private organization, Mozilla reserves the right to hire and fire (which would have been Eich's fate had he not resigned) as they see fit as long as such action does not run afoul of state or federal labor laws....which this does not.

Mozilla was concerned about their appearance in the public eye, and chose to align themselves with one particular side of the issue. Again, as is their right. Eich was not denied any First Amendment right, as the U.S. Government was not involved.

But let's not kid ourselves: those vigorously cheering Eich's departure aren't considering the whole picture. If this were 1950, Mozilla would be chock-full of white men eager to hustle the CEO out the door were it disclosed that he was gay or had donated to a Socialist/Communist organization.

"Tolerance" had nothing to do with what happened to Eich. This was the Jacobin mob in action.
I knew that Google likely was processing JavaScript already, but according to this video just published they are pretty far along. I still think that AJAX rendered sites are not going to rank as highly as static sites (for now), but I wonder if an AJAX rendered page can be indexed now without the Fragment Specification.
Presumably analysts and market researchers have done their work and due diligence and compressed their findings into this high-level presentation.

Only for you to dismiss it in infamous HN style, with a complete nonsensical "explanation" and appeal to some evasive magical quality. Jesus.
Hi Chuck,

Thanks for this comment. I'd welcome the help of MFT to develop an APR calculation tool for Zidisha loans. I've just sent you an email, and look forward to discussing further.
(just FYI, you wreak havoc if you cause lots of damage, but rotten fish reeks)
Science can save lives, but only if society lets it
indeed you can. although, now that we're on the front page here, i think our site might get hugged too hard.
The issue with taking the stance that the voters imposed it on themselves is that voters, particularly of a specific city, are a group that is constantly cycling in and out members. I'm only recently of voting age; any regulation that was imposed more than 8 years ago, I had zero say in, let alone the knowledge and experience to have an informed opinion about it.

Beyond that, its hard to say the margins by which such a law passed. If a law passes by 51%, is it still difficult to find 'injustice' (This coming from a person in a state that passed a state constitutional ban against gay marriage by a similar margin)
I just meant that it was unfortunate, not that it was shameful. It's just a figure of speech.
A 10+ figure valuation for something that extracts 80% of the value of a hotel chain while sustaining 1% of its costs and at the same time handsomely remunerating the vendors that provide its inventory does not sound at all crazy to me.
Actually before that came paper insulated cable: http://www3.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol12-1933/articles/bstj...

These cables had paper pulp insulation around the wires, and a jacket of soft lead around the whole cable. The cable is pressurized with dry air at the central office to drive out water, though flooded lines can still be a problem sometimes.

If you see any dirty-light-grey aerial cable (usually 2-5 cm diameter) in a city, that's probably pulp-insulated lead cable still in service.
The article says over 30 day rentals are legal. It's under 30 day rentals without a permit that are illegal. But I'm wondering if there is a difference in treatment vs a person who has been there for a year or more.
It sounds like you are trying to optimize for two goals:

1) Contribute to open source
2) Limit the amount of time you spend on tasks that don't contribute to your company

The solution seems simple enough. Examine the open source tools that you use to build your company. When you find problems, issues or inefficiencies in those tools, fix them. This will hopefully improve the tools and speed up your work on your company at the same time.

Alternatively, give the tools free press in your Twitter/Facebook/blog/whatever communications and hopefully you'll encourage someone else to contribute instead. As an added bonus, such communications may help spread word of your company.
There's no law that says that if you ban one thing that drives up the price of housing that you must ban all others. At some point people must make a judgement about the human costs and human benefits of a thing.
First thing that comes to mind- not a lawyer but:

It's probably going to be harder to force you to divulge a password in a court case than to just subpoena the piece of paper with your password on it and the computer with the 1PW database.
I watched it with a friend and my girlfriend. Girlfriend stopped paying attention to it, but my (non-tech) friend enjoyed it.
An App to Turn an Ex-Con's Phone Into 'Little Brother'
Agreed, I've seen production R code, and it just works. Rstudio does some seriously good debugging tooling, and the testing frameworks are there. I do hear people calling R a toy language, but they are the ones that don't know much about it.
Ask HN: Where can I look for a non-profit organization to help?
Hi, I'm graduating this year and would like to find a non-profit organization to help while I'm in college but I don't know how.

I'm a software engineer and I prefer to help non-profit organization rather than doing and internship so I'll get the experience anyway while helping a non-profit organization.

Where would you look?
Yes even I haven't seen any google result showing reddit links.
Case Insensitive Autocomplete in OS X
A third party should not be able to profit at the expense of both buyer and seller without adding some service to them.

The seller should be able to sell for whatever they want, and if they know Disney is selling and they raise their price accordingly, then so be it.

I'm assuming you're drawing an analogy between this scenario and trading on the stock market. The difference with the market these types of deals are expected--people with different levels of understanding will make trades in their own interest.
I would like laws that keep my neighbor from constructing strawmen weaker than mine.
I'm sure there's a law somewhere that says Airbnb can't offer "insurance" because you need license for that. That's why there are many companies called "banc". But what's the practical difference between "insurance" and "guarantee"?
> "If you can read this, you are cheating! D:"

Loaded the site, popped open the Chrome Dev Tools, and was thoroughly disappointed.
I used to rent my apartment exactly as they do on AirBNB, in NYC, about eight years ago. My landlord found out, told me it was a violation of lease, told me to stop. I stopped.

As a result, I never would have thought AirBnB was a very good idea. But here we are, it's worth $10bn. I guess we will find out - either change the laws, redefine the activity, or stop it. Will be interesting to watch. Sucks for those who were evicted over it. I guess I was lucky.
Without knowing capacity of the battery this demo is useless. Charge time of lithium ion batteries already depends on capacity, so if you have low enough capacity you could achieve 30 second charge time.
Boy I would sure hate to see what crazy sounds like to you then:)
Oh god yes, and it will bite you if you don't know it. That takes me back to cleaning SAS data.
A week seems like a short amount of time. If you're dead, we're not talking about safety here—urgency is less important. I think even a mail every month would be sufficient.
Hi, maybe here is your idea. Build something to connect people to share their thought and to help each other to come up or to make partnership to start something interesting.
Reasons Not To Raise Venture Capital
I'm not sure it's all that different from Uber and the taxi industry:

* The medallion system gives owners something significant to lose it they become scofflaws, and while we all have horror stories about cab drivers, anyone who's traveled to Asia (or, for that matter, Italy) knows that we have relatively well-behaved drivers, even in the cohorts selected for worst incentives.

* The taxi companies are required to comply with rules that make taxis part of the fabric of transportation for the whole city (for instance, they're usually required to serve every destination within the city). Uber does not need to comply with these rules, and thus threatens not just cab companies but the transportation system as a whole.
Founders + Startup house
Hi all, if you are looking for Co-founder please leave a message. Ideas doesn't matter (they can change) but if you are serious about founding a startup and applying to Ycombinator at some point - let's connect.

Interesting direction to explore:
- B2B marketing
- social mobile apps
- consumer mobile apps (freemium)
- B2B services and b2b startups

Also, looking to find entrepreneurs who want to run a startup house in Mountain View or Palo Alto where most of the living place will be dedicated to hosting other entrepreneurs (using airbnb).

shoot email here:
mitch.mike.martin@gmail.com
Ah, the classic Bait and Switch SaaS.
The proven ideal length of every tweet, Facebook post, and headline online
So gather some like-minded people and pass a law. Apparently that's all it takes. Once the law is passed, it's sacred and no moral man can ever object it, because its THE LAW.
Subletting rental property means you are abusing your landlord's assets, almost certainly violates the terms of your lease and probably violates their insurance policies. Eviction is an appropriate and proportionate response.
I tried to move the exit inside the walls. I was unable to edit any of the code. I thought that was the point?