skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For my definition of the commons being eroded by AirBnB, see my reply to eddieroger above.

In a sense you are right that "democratic" doesn't necessarily mean just or morally good, but I don't think you can compare what are essentially civil rights with property rights. I agree that laws should be backed with arguments about why they are needed and beneficial--though you realize it's not always possible to go into such details when I'm already so far off topic :-)

So here is my quick defense of SF's banning of short-term rentals (essentially making all AirBnB rentals in SF illegal): Regulating property is about zoning and controlling the market so that financial forces don't overwhelm the people involved. It is the city's responsibility to keep the city livable for its residents. This regulation defends local communities and avoids the instability of speculation properties, evictions for AirBnB conversions, etc.

Note that I think the total ban is both slightly too strict and probably expensive to enforce. That's why I advocate for a new policy: allow any owner (and renter) to do short-term sublets up to a limit of 30-40 days per year. For renters, they are limited to collecting the full amount of their rent in any calendar month, and any additional money collected belongs to the landlord. And finally, any 3rd party booking service must enforce these limits, collect hotel and sales tax, and turn records over to the city. That way people (even renters) can rent out when they go on vacation or make a little extra money, the city gets an elastic supply of rooms for big conventions, concerts, and sports events, but residential stays residential the other 330 days of the year and housing doesn't get bought up by speculators, nor does it have a bubble due to the value of AirBnB conversion.
This just further underlines the point that Beats are not actually high-end headphones, but fashion items. As such, they're incredibly vulnerable to changing tastes. In the areas around me, Beats have already plummeted from prominence or popularity among young people and cool people.
Not even SV. Rents in Oakland are at 1700 for a 1 bedroom. Let me repeat, IN OAKLAND. The places are off the bart line, but still, 3 years ago, those places were actual honest-to-god crack-houses.
It may be the same strong sense of ownership and control that precluded the liberalisation of Truecrypt's license during its lifetime in the past decade.
Is this actually a live feed?
Salt and Pepper, please: a note on password storage
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Eh, Rust and Go have been perceived as direct competitors since the day Rust was announced, and before I even worked on it. They even were more direct competitors before Rust started ironing out its low-level performance story and dropped GC. That perception's hard to shake.

And sure, I did end up learning quite a bit about Go. No, Go didn't make all the design decisions I would have made if I were designing the language, and yes, I've posted about some of those on here (null pointers, generics, zero values, lack of memory safety when racing on maps). But that doesn't mean I think it's a bad language, and I'd even like to use Go at some point for some projects (lack of time, argh).
$3 fuckin billion. Eventhough everyone here goes through their post-hoc rationalization by claiming that "beats is a great company", it's way way overpriced here.
A lot of RPis are used as cheap media centers.
>First, we use Chi Squared Tests to determine if differences in the A/B test data are meaningful or not.

Could you explain why you've chosen to take a binary approach to determining whether differences are meaningful or not?

To me it seems like a continuous approach would be both more useful and more realistic. Creating an artificial threshold for significance seems a bit silly (and it also makes the model harder for users to use, because different applications might need different significance levels to justify an action).

From my perspective, every data point contains information and if you wait for significance you're essentially ignoring early information.

Edit: Also, when switching costs are small, significance levels become mostly pointless and you just want to switch to the best A/B option immediately. As evidence swings the other way, you just switch back.
State sponsored hacking?

I'd think it's to organised for a defacement (re-written code, signed binaries, two sites compromised). I can't see money being made, so can't see criminal.

That kinda leaves a state sponsor with the organisation skills and commitment. It gets to create doubt about the product and slow it's uptake down.

Or it's real :/
Did you notice Google's logo has changed?
Half a million dollars of Netscalers is extremely easy, and given that Google originally ran all Netscalers, a lot of ex-Google people that run operations at startups now default to them as a kneejerk. Similarly, F5 is a pretty easy budget torpedo, too.
yes, something got cut-off. I'll re-submit it.

this is the actual pdf:

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/The%20Red%20S...

[edit] now >https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7813349
>Beats are seen as a symbol as status for kids

This might have been true five years ago, but it's not very accurate any more. Beats have come and gone as a fashion piece.
Inferring Status and Competence from Signals of Nonconformity (2013) [pdf]
No. It's just as easy to actually use proper password storage (bcrypt/scrypt/etc, as the article note). Store passwords properly, and there's no need to pad on "pepper" or whatever cute word is picked next.
It's already open-source.
That jumped out to me too. There is a significant performance hit when you make JNI calls. Last I looked not all of Android's API are easily exposed to native code. Constantly context switching from native to managed can be beastly. I'd be curious on how often and when it is doing these JNI calls, what is native and what is java.
As the comments on that page point out, that was years ago. A lot of stuff has been opened since.
If, and only if, this is a legitament change done by a majority copyright holder(s) and/or project owner.
Even if beats isn't his aesthetic, I find it difficult to imagine Steve being able to stomach a lower quality product underneath.

Jobs would have wanted products perhaps like Bose - expensive, overpriced but ultimately good quality underneath. Beats is lower middle quality underneath all the plastic and Jobs wouldn't be able to sleep at night if he thought anything lower middle quality ever shipped out of his factories.
Hi! This is Emily, the stats brains behind this. I think this is a really interesting and important question. I know this question comes up in other contexts (clinical trials) and there has been a lot of work done on how to find "stopping times" from a statistical standpoint. I'd love to see some of these statistical methods for sequential analysis (developed for clinical trials) integrated into how we do A/B testing.
An interesting thing about the deal is that people are coming up with positive stories and opinions about Beats just to justify the price, believing that Apple can't ever be wrong. We 'll see about that ...
I've heard Plan9 described this way, with the Unix counterpart being "everything is a stream" (not exactly true either).
No, at that price they sold to professionals and audiophiles who wanted the sound to actually sound properly, not muddy bass overflowing the mids and highs.

Apple definitely bought the brand, not the headphone tech. Otherwise with such a cash stash they would have bought any of Beyerdynamic, Grado, Sennheiser, or the newer entries to headphones like Marshall (the Major is so-so but the Monitor is awesome)
I'm wondering if there is more here than meets the eye. The purchase price seems actually pretty reasonable at least by today's valuation standards. Do we know what the profitability is on the current sales?

Wikipedia on this seems to indicate that the popularity is being drive by product placement and branding deals as opposed to actual product quality (which, while high may not be enough ib its own to even justify the "reasonable" valuation. (Also Nike has been quite successful long term with this practice).
I agree. Xamarin has a price difference between "Business" and "Enterprise" but really the 600 bucks for Visual Studio support is what differentiates between Enterprise vs everything else.

I wonder if Visual Studio starting to integrate Phone Gap tooling could eat away at part of Xamarin's value proposition.

Regardless what Xamarin does with pricing, their announcement today with the new native UI builder is huge, congrats to the team.
This works well if you need to push high bit rates and are lookig for relatively simple load balancing. A trident box, ala juniper qfx, can push a few hundred gbs for ~$25,000. Thats an incredibly low price point compared to any other lb solution.

Some caveats and comments about the technique.

BGP & ExaBGP are implementation details. OSPF, quagga, & bird will all accomplish the same thing. Use whatevere your comfortable with.

Scale out can get arbitrarily wide. At a simplistic design youll ECMP on the device (TOR) where your hosts are connected. Any network device will give you 8 way ECMP. Most Junos stuff does up to 32 way today, and 64 way with an update. You can ECMP before that as well, in your agg or border layer. That would give you 64 x 64 = 4096 end points per external "vip."

ECMP giveth and taketh away. If you change your next hops expect all those flows to scramble. The reason is that ordering of next hops / egress interfaces are generally included in assignment of flows to next hop. In a traditional routing application his has no effect. When the next hops are terminating TCP sessions youll be sending RSTs to 1/2 of your flows.

For this same reason youll have better luck advertising more specific routes, like /32s instead of a whole /24. This can help limit the blast radius of flow rehash events to a single destination "vip."

There are more tricks you can play to mitigate flow rehashes. Its quite a bit of additional complexity though.

For the same reason make double plus sure that you dont count the ingress interface in the ECMP hash key. On Junos this is incoming-interface-index and family inet { layer-4 }, IIRC.

You really dont want to announce your routes from the same host that will serve your traffic. Separate your control plane and data plane. Its terrible when a host has a gray failure, say oom or read only disk, and route announcements stay up while the host fails to serve traffic. You end up null routing or throwing 500s for 1/Nth of your traffic.
This is great. Too bad "Apple Records" is already taken......
I solved this by firing an event on window.beforeunload. Had the same issue.
I'm confused: the README says what this does, but not what it's for. Is there a use case for this in Python?
Every phone call I place or receive on my phone gets recorded. It's been really useful quite a few times. I wouldn't mind having every single real world conversation recorded, as long as nobody steals them.
Marketing geniuses that sell mediocre hardware for premium prices. Sounds like a good fit.
I broke it. Every keyboard entry started opening the menu.
For me the most weird thing is, that the authors of the current text on the website are mentioning the end of the XP support as a reason.

Am I the only one who things that is odd?
I totally agree. And I think Bayesian methods (which compute the likelihood of the model given the data) tend to work much better for these rolling data applications than frequentist methods (which compute the likelihood of the data given the model). The problem for frequentist methods here is that when data is constantly rolling in it's hard to specify the space of all possible data collected (because traditional bounds like the number of data points no longer work).

Here's a link to a paper on a Bayesian approach to the multi-armed bandit problem: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asmb.874/abstract...
First paragraph, this made me laugh - "what if you just want to know the real deal about the English explorer John Smith’s encounter with Pocahontas?" - then you shouldn't be looking on Wikipedia!
After examining all the facts, I think it's most likely they just didn't want to develop it anymore:

* PGP matches
* Authenticode matches
* SourceForge data was modified
* DNS records were modified

And to top it off, let's put ourselves in the theoretical attacker's shoes, the binaries when run make no unexpected connection attempts or write to any unexpected places and don't appear to contain any unexpected imports, so if this was a hack, it's a very stealthy and very boring one. The most they achieved would be uninteresting to most attackers. It would only really be an effective attack against people who had TrueCrypt volumes but not a current copy of TrueCrypt as there's no compelling reason for anyone to upgrade to 7.2 and certainly they'd be skeptical after this. Any attacker with the intelligence and patience for such an attack would surely realize how poor an execution this would be. A better attack would be "here, it's TrueCrypt 8, it has loads of EFI support and mad security, everyone should install it, it's the best!". There's simply no reason to shut it down like this, unless the attack is just an elaborate practical joke.

It's quite possible this came from 1 big developer hack, but considering how the release was done, with full source and everything for every supported platform... if it was a hack, it's a very, very good one. They've also decided to modify the license terms, perhaps bringing it into compatibility with more common FOSS licenses.

I think it's far more likely at this point that the devs, who had not updated their software in years, finally decided to call the project over and have marked it insecure because the codebase is now unmaintained and should be assumed insecure.
Honest question: is there a statute of limitations on what the tech world will tolerate with regards to misogynistic behavior (or bad behavior in general)? Or do people just pick and choose what they want to fight?

I ask because everyone rallied behind RadiumOne's CEO being canned after he beat up his girlfriend [0]. Similar with the Mozilla CEO (granted, the offense was different ... but it's interesting to point out that his transgression happened 6 years ago).

But now Dr Dre is about to become an executive at the largest tech company in the world and people seem to be lauding the move despite the fact of (A) misogyny in his lyrics since his NWA days and [1] (B) him beating the crap out of a female reporter, doing probation and settling a civil suit out of court [2].

Am I comparing apples and oranges here? (pun intended!)

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/27/ceo-gurbaksh-chahal-fired-f...

EDIT: spellling

[1] http://rapgenius.com/Dr-dre-bitches-aint-shit-lyrics

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Barnes#Dr._Dre_incident
These are well-established companies founded decades ago. if they were startups, I'd understand...
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> all streaming services have a form of this ...
Quality differs.
Lack of evidence does not imply lack of existence. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.
I think the idea is that San Fran should be for people who work in San Fran. If you work in Mountain View, go live in Mountain View. Rent is high enough in San Fran without people who commute out of the city for work.
Acquihires are by definition evaluated on the perceived market value of the team, which is very rarely proportional to the cash reserves of the buyer. The existence of wealthy suitors like AAPL might shift market values (for any prospective buyer) for tech talent upwards, but no matter how much cash they have in the bank, AAPL can certainly acquihire top talent in the $30m range if that talent is showcasing their skills at unprofitable startups rather than highly profitable brands, in much the same way as they have no need to offer employees salaries' two orders of magnitude more than comparable level employees at companies with a mere $1.6M in the bank.

It would have to be seriously impressive talent to be worth $1.6Bn when you compare it with what Apple paid for NeXT...
If you're doing this on "professional" level, likely the guy picking up your loot will have told you at least about 1), alone to reduce the risk of cops tracking down the merchandise. If you proved to be not at least totally bananas, he might also tell you a bit more - the less time the stuff is in his hands, but in yours, the better for him.
AAPL had a market cap of about $20bn on December 20, 1996 when they acquired NeXT for $429mm + 1.5mm shares of AAPL (the share price on 12/20/96 was $23.50). So the deal had a total value of $464.25mm, or about 2.5% of AAPL's market cap. $3bn out of $537bn is a couple orders of magnitude smaller.

sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT#1996:_After_NeXT, https://www.google.com/finance?q=AAPL and some arithmetic.
Seems like a state-financed targeted attack. It only has to last long enough to get the target (a user of truecrypt) to switch off it. My guess is whoever they are going after is being inundated with links to the page. They must also be a Windows user, since they took great pains to demo how to move the data.
Pandora and spotify are structurally unprofitable because of their licensing problems/payments. Apple is %500Bn company-- big enough to become a label--has the marketing expertise (iTunes) and Capital ($X0Bns cash) to be a next-generation 'label'. Or maybe I'm missing something?
That's great, as long as it doesn't get shipped off the device by default, and only to trustworthy places (so, not Facebook).
So, is this what Sketch 3 is doing but inside Photoshop?
iPad growth has slowed as it was originally designed as a high end device, so most people who would buy one have bought theirs (same with those replacing computers with them). It's hard to justify spending the money on something that only offers a slight portability upgrade on a MacBook Air unless you do something with it unique, like read comics.

The interesting piece is overall tablet use growing, as the non-iPad options continue to improve and offer a cheap alternative for doing things like going to a coffee shop or browsing on CalTrain.
You understand that you add this on top of bcrypt/scrypt/etc, don't you? Have a look at the code.

Also, "pepper" is its name, and has been for a while.

Did I word the article that badly?

EDIT: "properly" does not mean absolute optimal, it's dangerous to think that it's not possible to improve.
Of course, but when all you have to verify that a change is by the copyright holder/project owner is a signature, the whole situation becomes very murky.

The only authenticity test that I can think of is to actively distribute a fork of TrueCrypt using the new license and wait to get sued. If you get sued by the copyright holder (who would have to come out of anonymity to sue), then you can be sure that the new license was unauthorized. Not the safest way to test authenticity, but it should work.
The main evidence you give in support of that claim is that the service doesn't have a lot of customers. But that is true for literally just about every other Apple acquisition. Apple buys technology and talent in the early stages or in component form. Like Tim Cook said there's 70+ other examples of tech & talent acquisitions to look at, and this is just another one of them.

It makes sense financially for Apple, sure, but only in the sense that it doesn't lose them money to purchase the attached headphones business. That business would not even register as a blip in their future growth to be the main goal of the deal.

His other quote was how he was looking forward to Iovine & Dre working on revolutionizing the music industry. That's not about headphones.
I wonder if facebook plans to start tagging people's voices as well, so you can instantly tag people in photos via voice recognition.

Although i shouldn't be worried, this campaign will definitely work... /s
Sure. I know you feel that way. But "the Rust and Go teams hate each other!" is a delicious and irresistible idea for some. When we are vocally critical of one another it perpetuates that meme whether we mean it or not. :-)
If I'm using bcrypt or scrypt, adding the pepper buys me next to nothing. The only case where the pepper improves security is if I'm not crypting the passwords properly before storing them.
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I'm just smiling at the juxtaposition. It's amusing what in most circumstances would be a fact of life becomes a major sticking point. Apple doesn't take pull requests. I'm sure Google accepts patches, sometimes, but the process doesn't strike me as quite on the PR-level of ease.

Is the alternative PhoneGap, and the hypothesis that they're more responsible with taking ownership of your pet features? Just curious.
Getting to work on diversity at Google
"Totals and % do not include unknown, null, or 'decline-to-state' fields."

Without that information, it's pretty hard to tell how much of an effect it has on those numbers.
From the demo, that doesn't feel like real time to me. I was more impressed years ago by Google Wave's realtime translation via text far more than this because it enabled what felt like 'normal' speed conversation (albeit via text)...whereas this felt like you were conversing through a translator (which doesn't feel like conversation at all). I may be missing the technical achievement here, but in terms of end result, it feels very underwhelming.

Demo: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/05/27...
Scala is far from obscure
My calls too, even though i don't have an app for that
> There ought to be a way to come up with adaptive thresholds such that at any given time we can ask, "Do we have statistically significant results yet, or do we keep the test running?"

Relevant keywords here include 'trial sequential analysis', 'adaptive trials', & 'multi-armed bandits'.
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Neither of which also sell music in their own online stores, so it's hard to make a fair comparison.

Also, Apple's iRadio is probably not taking off as well as they'd like and Beats Music already has a better feature set.
It's great to see a postmortem with this level of detail, fairly quickly. It's also great to see Joyent hang the blame on the system that allowed rebooting every server, and the poor recovery from that failure, rather than continuing to throw the operator under the bus:

"...we will be rethinking what tools are necessary over
the coming days and weeks so that "full power" tools
are not the only means by which to accomplish routine tasks."
That was a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan's_Run