skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, but airbnb wasn't the first to capitalize on the void in the market (for short term stay for cheap, non hostel), and nor will it be the last. It's not like these problems just appeared with airbnb, right?

And if we push the problems down the road, whats to stop a decentralized network where the listors profit even more with even less payout for negative externalities? Maybe in that case, listors assume more risk, but as it is now, I don't see property owners being proactive and mining listing sites for their properties. Illegal in some areas or not, the law moves too slow to appease the crowd. Hell, I even tried (I took down the website though, might open source it if enough interest) launching a SaaS app last year that did just that, and talked to some of my Real estate friends in NYC and here's the feedback one gave me from the landlords/managers she talked to:

"I spoke with 6 landlords and one real estate property manger and here's what I left with:

1. All the landlords with smaller portfolios agreed that there was no need for such a service, especially if they paid for it. They knew their buildings very well - and the doorman always kept them in the loop.

2. The property manager did not see a use for the service at all. He was actually a bit offended that I asked him about it, but he had a few good points:

- Buildings with property managers keep pretty good tabs on who is coming in and out of their building. Especially if there is a doorman. - He questioned how data on the website would be verified and felt that simply "pulling listings" from other websites was not enough. There are inaccurate listings all over the web - especially in NYC.

3. My personal thoughts are that you would need a dedicated team to verify and confirm air bnb services. Also, after they find out that someone is illegally subletting - what next? Does the website offer a solution? The landlords I spoke with typically used illegal subletting to charge their own tenant additional fees (like $100/day until the illegal subletter is out) so in the case someone is silly enough to do so - they can make money off of it."

The cognitive dissonance on one side in this market is telling me that if airbnb looses this battle, I should do something for the side of the market that is actually trying to solve their problems and pay for it. But, If you know a landlord or property manager that actually has this problem and wants to make money of trying to solve the problems arising because of the negative externalities rather than moan that government isn't doing enough, point me in their direction because I would love to talk more! Can reach me at my username here with gmail.
Try BTSync
Having a hard time coming up with useful ideas for this. Best thing I've come up with so far is an IMDB for Marvel... or maybe an auction site for old comics? I dunno.

Is anyone using this? What are you building?
Kinda fair - I meant "homoiconic" in the loose sense of having macros that can manipulate expressions as data and which has mechanisms such as quote/unquote to do so.

That's what many people see as the reason for homoiconicity after all. I put it in quotes, but maybe I should have said something about how languages can support sophisticated Lisp-like meta-programming without being a Lisp at all.

Nonetheless, as I'm still learning (aren't we all?), I would love to hear what a truly homoiconic language has above something like Elixir with its quote, unquote and unquote_splicing. By truly homoiconic I mean that AST is equivalent to the written form.

EDIT: I now realise you're not only rvirding, but that you wrote Lisp Flavoured Erlang https://github.com/rvirding/lfe so therefore (I hope) are in an even better position to educate!
This is an exception and a single case does not prove that all of the companies are like that. There is enough money to bribe anybody. As i said, 50K (or so) is not enough for that.
I asked this on the main thread on this, but why hasn't Horvath filed a lawsuit. There seems to be enough there for one on some merit.
>who wouldn't pay $120/year for streaming everything HBO has?

For me, the appeal of Netflix in the DVD-by-mail era was a large complete-feeling catalog of movies. They have not been able to recreate that experience in the streaming era, which is why they lost me as a customer a couple years back (replaced by a la carte rentals from iTunes, and a great local video store).

They indeed seem to have decided to become another HBO, with "must-watch" original content, but that feels like a very different business, and one that is a lot more difficult to dominate--they will always be one of many channels, instead of being the platform.

IRONIC, SAD EDIT: That great local video store is in trouble ( https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-le-video-a-sf-film-i... )
Maybe I am missing something, but I'm not sure if I can PM or not -- hoping you see this, if so you can contact me via email at my username at gmail dot com. Would be really cool to run a copy of this in-house.
Agreed. I'd pay a couple bucks more a month for twice the selection. I'm a film nut and love a lot of old titles that aren't available. My Disc queue is way more interesting than my streaming queue
Why you should build your product in public
Well the most followed projects on Github are led and created by men, so....
"In my opinion, the best way to deal with these unsolicited emails is to use the unsubscribe link, delete the email, and then swear at them on Twitter or find their CEO's email and send them goatse or something. Fuck 'em. That way you get your revenge, and you don't muck up the spam filter for everyone."

This is totally absurd. My choices are "click one button" or "do a whole lot of bullshit that sounds like a lot of annoying work".

I hope you can understand why "one button" is taken more often than "raise hell on and offline".

The real solution is to separate spam and unwanted emails. Gmail and services need to add a separate button for non-spam unwanted emails, so they can categorize and learn about usage habits effectively.

But it's horrific, insanely bad UX design to create a flawed system then blame the users for using it naturally. I'm sorry but the user is not wrong, the system is wrong. The solution isn't "user training", it's "system redesign".

If the system were designed correctly, users would naturally gravitate to the correct option without training. That's good UX. Until then, it's perfectly acceptable to use whatever tools are available to achieve the desired outcome. That's software for you.
What will probably end up occurring is the countries were torrents are legal will end up keeping the same price of $7.99... Where as countries that have laws against torrents, will most likely have an increase. Popcorn-time doesn't make it legal to torrent/stream videos without purchase in the United States, thus we can safely say that the price in the United States will increase.
"I tried to treat people better than they expected"

Is it me or does this sound horribly arrogant?
Right or wrong, many people interpret "no comment" as a sign of guilt.
Say as the outcome of Sam/YC getting involved in this fundraiser, nothing happens other than some progress on a founder visa, ip reform and (hopefully) a stinging question or two about surveillance/privacy issues.

Wouldn't that be good?

I think that's quite likely the worst scenario. I can't imagine the reverse happening, that being in a room with Obama turn Sam and YC into toeing the Democratic party-line.

The strange concoction of libertarianism, progressivism and contrarianism that you see in YC, HN and even generally in silicon valley will remain. Because that's who we all are.
I don't know if simplification has broken a great deal of the relationships, but it certainly has broken some.

Here is a specific example:

Traditional Chinese

車禍 [che1 huo4] (car accident)
不過 [bu2 guo4] (however, but)

Simplified Chinese

车祸 (same meaning/pronunciation)
不过 (same meaning/pronunciation)

Notice the 咼 in the Traditional 過 and 禍. This phonetic component gives you some indication that is is pronounced like "luo, huo, guo, wo".

In the Simplified, you lose that relation, because you have the 寸 and 呙 units, respectively.

The phonetic components of Chinese characters don't always give you an exact reading, but they can help you get a good idea of what a character should sound like. There are exceptions, of course.
I wasn't very clear in the above post, but tracking and "calls to action" in the form of "click the annoying thing" are the main reasons most email clients don't load images by default. This seems like another way of adding "rich," interactive content to email, and therefore similarly open to abuse.
I'd say the fact the offending party no longer works at GitHub is reason enough to give them the benefit of the doubt. Of course if this happens again, I'm willing to revisit that opinion.

Shit does happen, regardless of the majority of one's coworkers best intentions.
This definitely does weigh into many people's consideration I think.

However, determining how people will decide when put to such a situation is difficult. Speaking personally, I would certainly be wary, but I'm not going to dismiss a potential employer outright over something I don't have the complete facts about over one story.
How do those support "dry water"? Your second link is broken. The first discusses silica powder that absorbs water.
No. You don't. But EU laws requires that if you use Cookies for things such as Google Analytics or even just stats, you must inform the user. And you can switch it off.
Gitlab is a FOSS self hosted alternative to github.
You can become a slightly better person by changing the line and making a pull request.

It's obvious that he is not a native speaker. Neither am I of course :-)
But is a 3-4 hours per day for 4-5 days per week true immersion? And is it enough to master a complex language such as Mandarin Chinese?

I suspect that, using this model with Chinese, a child can become conversationally proficient and gain some basic reading comprehension. Whereas, with a more simple language, they may be able to read, write, and speak on the same level as a native-speaker. Looking for evidence to prove me wrong.
Yes I do enjoy movies but I'm not constantly looking at movies. Also, easy and useful is the best kind of useful. Easy and useless is well, useless.
We probably wanna add to it to make it useful

{-# LANGUAGE GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-}

newtype Kilogram = Kilogram Double deriving (Show, Eq, Ord, Num, Real, Fractional, Floating, ...)

And remind ourselves that Haskell is really quite expressive.
Julie Ann Horvath on GitHub Investigation
People might also be interested in Project Andiamo, a startup in London that is going to use laser scanning and 3D printing to make custom-fitted orthotics for disabled children:

http://projectandiamo.com/

It was founded by a couple who had a disabled child who needed a back brace, and were horrified by the current process for getting one. The measuring process is upsetting for the child (it involves taking a slow-setting wet plaster cast), it takes weeks to make the brace, it's expensive, and when it finally arrives, it fits badly. They think they can turn round a perfectly-fitting brace from laser scan to 3D print in a couple of hours.

It's a totally brilliant project. It's very rare that an idea is so obviously right.
I don't want to derail, other than to ask about teaching children Chinese/Mandarin....What are your experiences?

My children have been learning Mandarin since age 4-5 (they're now 6-7) at a Chinese school (taught in English other than Mandarin lessons). They also have one-on-one lessons after school.

My wife and I are native English speakers, so we can't help them. There's a big push in our city (spoiler...Chicago) with learning Mandarin, but I see a bunch of high schools introducing the language, like it's Spanish. Nothing against Spanish, per se, but observing the Mandarin language makes me laugh at learning the romantic languages--there are no similarities.

Watching my kids write pinyin and asking me questions about things just blows my mind. So, are any of you non-"Chinese" speaking (Mandarin/Cantonese) people trying to guide your children down this path?
I seem to recall another big fight between Github employees and Zed Shaw of Learn Python the Hard Way fame...perhaps that was a warning sign that HR policies needed to be brought up to snuff or even created in the 1st place...
The only problem with such "justified" models is that it always comes down to what everyone thinks of everyone else's value to the company. For example -

1) A first employee might feel he should have been a founder

2) Two co-founders who might feel the 3rd one has not contributed enough to justify their share

3) Employee/contractor #20 (or whatever it is) at Facebook who painted graffiti on the walls ended up with a package worth $100M while it is hard for anyone to say with a straight face they actually created that much value (i.e. what is the reason for granting equity by job role)

4) Sizing of equity grants to engineers vs. sales staff, given that salesforce's primary motivation should be based on hitting their quotas with all incentives built around that

5) Someone fired a few months before the vesting cliff might think they are being cheated, while the company might believe they have been toxic to the culture (I won't name any examples here)

6) Employees "resting-and-vesting" at pretty much every level of the equity grant cohort

7) Later employees who end up carrying the weight of the earlier ones without comparable rewards

In every deal it all comes down to a willing buyer meeting a willing seller. Compensation packages are no exception.
I believe the state requirement is for managers, not regular employees.

Every 2 years I have to spend a couple hours taking a traffic-school-style online training.
"high rates of inflation that eroded the assets of creditors"

So, in theory, even higher rates of inflation would be even better for income redistribution! How did that work in Zimbabwe or Yugoslavia? Sweden, with its low headline inflation over the past 4 decades, must be a cesspool where the rich are eating the children of the poor as a delicacy!
Really nice! It would be fun to expose a few fields for each example to adjust the core variables (speed, acceleration, gravity).
I really want less software to manage my stuff so I'll pass on that.
I didn't wish to bring in Bayesian approaches here so as to keep it simple. You are correct in your assertion about likeliness given a priori intuition, and I agree with the linking.

But, there is a stark contrast between leveraging prior information to strengthen your estimates and stating that prior information serves as evidence or correlates with outcomes, which was my original assertion.

Either way, I'm a big fan of leveraging common sense (viz Bayesian approaches) so I can't disagree.
If it had 90% of movies and TV shows (weighted by popularity), I'd easily pay $100/month. Of course I could get it all for free by pirating it, but not having to would be tremendously more convenient.
Good answer, but how do you know the number of hairs? If you can estimate that within a factor of 2x, you're golden.
Thanks for the suggestion, but CloudA is what I mean by "amateurish". Their website is extremely confusing (compare to https://www.digitalocean.com/ or https://www.linode.com/). They even use StackOverflow logo as an icon for their "Fast Spin Up Time" feature. All this does not inspire confidence.
"OneDrive for Business" is a branding disaster, as it creates a completely rational link in people's minds that it's the same as OneDrive. In reality, it's a completely different product that acts in different ways.

Sigh.
As a little experiment, I've set up a Minecraft server for HNers. Come and join!

edgeflux.com
I think it's more that the "gender-based" stuff was the legally actionable part of Horvath's accusations. Her accusations also included things that do not appear to be related to gender (in particular, nothing about Theresa Preston-Warner's alleged harassment seems to be related to gender).
Pretty obviously there was a second side to this story. Not at all surprised to read something like this, but it is sad.
This is great! I've been tinkering with simple game mechanics like these, and you've included a few I've never looked it.
That can mean only the people able to hire a high-end legal team can receive justice.
She apparently had access to employee data, not customer data. In my experience, businesses will often play a little fast-and-loose with employee data - far more so than customer data.

Though I agree it presents a bad image of GitHub's access control in general.
Well, if Julie ever spoke up again, I would be the first up my hand and donate to her legal defence.
I agree, with the exception of "that's how it's supposed to be." As defined by who? Knowing what happened and understanding why makes deciding on a resolution possible. The suggestion that keeping those things vague is somehow desirable is hard to fathom, unless your perspective is that of an abusive employer who doesn't want to have to change his or her practices.

Human interaction is not black and white (don't read into that). While this situation will never be totally transparent to the vast majority of us, the necessity of working within our limited knowledge does not imply our knowledge should necessarily be limited.
His wife says she didn't realize that soliciting contributions from her husband's employees may not be appropriate.

She pretty plainly states that it never even entered her mind. That tells me more about the atmosphere there than anything.
You don't get it. The whole point is that the average person is willing to switch the time he might gain from not switching lanes with the happiness he gains from the appearance of progression. The "goal" of saving time on the way to work/home/other has value because people choose to give it value, and when they don't - it becomes meaningless.
Hydrous compounds have existed for ever, but that doesn't mean they're "dry water."
gjvc is using their small slice of economic leverage to weigh in; the motivations are no one else's business unless gjvc volunteers this. Given the baiting questions you pose, what incentive does gjvc have to address your curiosity?
DSL router patch merely hides backdoor instead of closing it
OMG THIS IS THE BEST THING I’VE EVER READ. CHANGED MY LIFE.

But seriously, I try to over share with my close friends because I know I can handle their criticism. Impressed by Ryan's courage to receive such personal feedback from anyone on the internet.
I've got a couple of ideas I'd like to dabble with using APIs.

I will sign up in the next few days to give the platform a test.

I won't mind sharing feedback to help you guys grow, but remember that my actual use of the platform should not be a sole feedback tool, as you'll need consensus among a vast amount of testers to gauge the use of the software.

Also, remember not to listen to the users every need. Some are too specific to implement and will bring no value to the product itself.
"The full extent of the law" might not really be very far.
Facts conveniently withheld – The rest of the Julie Ann Horvath story
Not necessarily. As a small business owner, I aspire to this as well, if only because my experience has been "I expect my employers to get all they can out of my while paying me the bare minimum and treating me as poorly as I'll tolerate."

Granted, this is just my perspective, but that does suggest that this statement can mean various things depending on who you are and how you've been treated yourself.
Party politics are actually what's holding up Founder Visas right now -- Craig Montuori is probably the smartest person working on this (IMO), and the basic calculus seems to be ~everyone is pro-FV, but everyone also believes only a single bill can pass, and thus everyone must get his own particular issue added to it. The stumbling block is not the farmworker visa, or the afghan/iraqi translator visas, but the huge "citizenship for people already present in the country without documentation" issue, which is inherently political because one party assumes all of those new citizens will vote for the other party. "We must have comprehensive immigration reform" means "all or nothing"; without that, we'd get founder visas, iraq/afghanistan visas, and farmworker visas right away, and then continued lack of action on the ~12mm people already in the country who are in limbo. So, donating to a political party on this issue actually pushes things backwards. (This is independent of whether you feel all of these things together are better or worse than some subset, or none; it's just strategy.)

(and, on the R side, it's the stupid Hastert Rule; a majority of the House supports even comprehensive immigration reform, but not a majority of the majority party. A discharge petition and immunity from retribution seems like the only solution to that.)

IP reform doesn't seem particularly partisan to me, but I don't know about the politics on that issue. It does scare me if it becomes one party's issue that the other party will oppose it just to oppose it.

Surveillance/privacy clearly crosses party lines; it's most correlated with tenure (DiFi, etc. are pro-NSA; younger D and R candidates are generally anti-NSA, with some awesome exceptions like Wyden.)

The real outcome of this will be $150-200k or so for DNC, which will presumably mostly be used on upcoming house/senate campaigns. It's a drop in the bucket with superpacs, but fewer strings attached to it.
If somehow he can get you those 100 work visas please let me know!
but we don't agree that democracy per se is important. There are plenty of cases where "the value of the voices of all citizens", can create inequality or severe injustice.

If you are measuring public policy in a nationalistic sense, then yes, an individual does have a miniscule impact on public policy because the per-individual impact is decreasing as the population increases. Then perhaps a presciption would be to decentralize governments, so that an an individual has more net political agency.

The anti-capitalist prescription, however, does exactly the opposite by concentrating political power in larger organization with broader oversight over bigger populations of individuals. Which, of course, exacerbates inequality because the mean marginal impact of an individual necessarily decreases.
Complicate deployment is one of the major reason for me to stay away from using Self-hosted Git Server for my small team.

This one looks really interesting and promising. Being open source project is another major bonus.
As expected. Comcast shakes Netflix for more money, Netflix then forwards the bill to customers.
Yup. I had to specifically buy another router to use with the modem because the U-Verse default routers don't even let you set custom DNS servers and AT&Ts were significantly slowing my connection.
Yep, the whole point is that it's different for different people. I've also worked for big and small companies. Personally, I'm happier at bigger companies--and not because of money. Small companies have few people and therefore more responsibilities. Some people like that kind of breadth, but I'd rather never have to write a line of deployment code. Being at a bigger company means that I can focus on my niche and the exact type of code that I enjoy.
Could you please remind us your credentials in this case, or are you yourself some "uninformed bystander" on "the Internet"? (If you're in the middle of this, perhaps you should link to it each time you comment.)
To expand on that, OneDrive for Business (a product formerly known as: SkyDrive Pro, Live Mesh, Grove Workspace etc.) shares the OneDrive branding (and some? interface components) but otherwise bears little resemblance to its consumer counterpart.

IIRC the Office Org owns the SharePoint client while OneDrive proper is handled by the Windows Services team.
Takes balls to do this, especially given so many detractors out there.

glares at HN commmunity