skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is direct P2P microlending financially sustainable?
Why we can’t figure out how to regulate Airbnb
I think you are confusing bookings with seats. I think 15 seats/day probably implies more like 5 reservations per day.

Interestingly, their revenue is about $17M/month, so that implies they generate about $1/seat in revenue. For some reason, I thought they were charging restaurants much more than that.
nope i haven't.. i don't have an account there yet.. i will i will.. thanks so much!
In that case the term is "divorced".
I've edited my OP to reflect that sentence, and I agree that it's a reasonable criterion. However, it's a much less stringent requirement than what's usually present in a cable company franchise agreement. Cable companies generally must serve every neighborhood above a certain density, whether or not there are enough interested subscribers. And by law they are usually required to provide a minimum tier of service, usually at around $15-20 per month.

Google's policy will absolutely have the effect of skipping low-income neighborhoods. It's cheapest (gigabit) rate plan in Kansas is $70 per month. The whole point of the policy is to not bother to build fiber out to a neighborhood until there are enough $70 per month subscribers to justify the expense. This is precisely what traditional franchise agreements prevent, and precisely why they have the effect of keeping out competition. Only the incumbent can commit to that sort of requirement profitably.
Didn't they call it something terribly awkward too, like 'spurting?' Oh, no, it was 'squirting': http://www.newsweek.com/zune-should-go-beyond-squirting-1072...
I've used side projects to learn every valuable skill I have. Open source projects are a great way to publicize your new talents, but I don't think it's a prereq for landing a job that makes use of the new skill. Being able to talk intelligently about a subject during an interview goes a long way. As does having a depth of knowledge on a variety of languages, environments, technologies, etc.
Do you have a way for people around the world to provide additional content? For example if I have a tuner card, and want to run some service to extract screenshots and CC text to send to you via some sort of API
There is a pile of 8 books on my table right now (pro asp.net mvc 5, visual c# 2012, software architecture in practice, database solutions...". I started by skimming through each and every one of them, and it all seemed rather boring. Nothing taught me more than working on my side project.[1] I am far from good at anything and there is a long ways to go but actually digging in and creating something was very rewarding.

[1] http://whoaverse.com
With Patent Giveaway, Tesla Shows Silicon Valley What Ingenuity Means
The chain of [favourite language] -> [Java Script] -> [native code] is unnatural, there is an extra step nobody wants.

It's as if Oracle/Microsoft was saying "oh, you can use Java/C#" while simultaneously hypocritically making every effort to make bytecode/msil a mainstream stand-alone programming language of it's own.
Music is taught by the equivalent of paint by number, which is reading sheet music. Or play, which is improvisation. There's room for both.
>Please avoid these types of overtly political inflammatory arguments on HN.

Don't tell me how to post.

>If you have another way besides laws and regulations that can force all actors in a market to not act according to their own free will, what is that thing called?

I think I'm not getting your point. Your false dichotomy there between "capitalism" and "remove negotiation from individual interactions" did set some alarm bells off in my head though. Specifically "this person is, at the very least, heavily flirting with anarcho-capitalism and it may develop into a serious relationship if it hasn't already". I'm not a fan of overbearing government bureaucracy either, I'm not a fan of a government that can't steward capital markets effectively, I'm not a fan of the brutal police state America has turned into, basically I'm not a fan of a lot of things. But that doesn't mean I think we should neuter government in the hopes that everything will turn out for the best. The problem with American government is not that it is too big - broadly there are areas where it does way too damn much, and there are areas where it fails through inaction - no the main problem with the American government is that it fails utterly to represent the will of the nation of people it governs. It's been hijacked.

But that doesn't mean I want to get rid of it. Well, perhaps I do this particular government, but not the idea of effective government. Believe it or not humans can do politics well - it is always nasty in a sense but you'd be surprised what can be accomplished via politics, provided a balance of power is kept. Sadly, balance of power doesn't exist in American government right now, nor American society really. Even more tragically, one of the most ubiquitous and sophisticated propaganda campaigns in human history - spanning decades across the public and private sectors - has left Americans mostly unable to fix their problem.

And no, I don't have another way to besides laws and regulations to force actors in a free market to behave according to their own free will. And, I don't think I need one - laws and regulations will do nicely.
This was very interesting and well thought out.

I thought of another attack vector: systems disruption - hacking, if you like. It has the advantage of working at the speed of light (so being easy to aim), energy efficient, and relatively hard to defend against.

At the crude end of the spectrum we have blanket 'denial' attacks: flooding the enemy ship with huge amounts of EM radiation aimed at knocking something important out. Idea here is that while lasers do much the same, they work simply by melting the hull. Using other frequencies may present the opportunity to selectively overload important systems, zap internal electronics, or disrupt sensitive and hard to shield components like targeting sensors.

More refined approaches might involve penetrating shipboard networks using the enemy space navy's command & control infrastructure. There's no need to describe the arms race of exploits & countermeasures which would result.
Scala, yes, but not C++ at all. Indirectly from C#, perhaps (and there is a fair bit of that), but there is very little that borrows from C++ at the language level.
Incredible. Priceline is a way more formidable power than I earlier ever thought
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4572668
> Going to the gym in itself is still not a 'nerdy' activity.

Neither is moving pieces on a chess board until you start to obsess over it, read about it in your free time, track your progress as a player, and constantly try and improved yourself as a chess player. No activity is really "intrinsically nerdy" (whatever that means), that's why I said "if you approach it the right way".
True , some of those points i didn't take into account, but:

> Similar trip

I once read a research paper about "demand responsive transportation" that simulated such route aggregation in realistic traffic over a large part of a city(probably in finland), and got similar results with regards to route efficiency, as far as i can remember. Can't seem to find the paper , will look later again.

> induced demand

It's really hard to predict how much induced demand this will cause ,because:

1.Big efficiencies - hard to imagine all we be "eaten".

2.It lengthens trip time.

3.Once it's running, we have a software layer on top of transportation, which might be a powerful new tool for transportation management - which might greatly affect demand.

> comfort

You might be right on that, although for bus riders the decreased travel time will surely be worth the extra inconvenience.
I give it 28 years, tops.

jk, congrats on a successful marriage!
For anyone interested in how the solution is derived, one alternative is to use dynamic programming. For example, see these lecture notes: http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~decinfo/courses/ecse506/winter-201...
Data Driven Conference 2014
In the UK, tea should be brewed for 6 minutes (see BS 6008:1980). :-)
That's a fair point - his content is certainly compatible with the Common Core's standard. I was really venting about your point [2] and shouldn't have implicated the standard for that. Thanks for the references.
European Taxi Drivers Rediscover Streisand Effect With Uber Protest
After reading this article, I was reminded of [0]. The Earth's core is hot due to the presence of radioactive isotopes, both the uranium-238 and thorium-232 series occur in substantial quantities. This could alter the chemical composition of the water present due to radiolysis.

Anyone up for a hydrogen peroxide cocktail?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
Eh. ssh/rsync is a hack, and not a very good one at that imho. scp is closer to being more useful, and rsync's native daemon/protocol is also good, though obviously not secure. FXSP is my favorite form of secure file transfer; accounts are independent from the system users, you have total control over the transfers, and they're between high-bandwidth bastions which the user doesn't need direct access to (not to mention the client doesn't have to stay connected to transfer the file[s]!)
Interesting co-incidence. Just last week, I sent out an email to my friends, saying that I want to teach mathematics to their kids by a math-by-email service, kinda like the chess-by-email of the old days.

The idea is quite simple: I will send out a daily email with a grade appropriate set of math questions and/or games. Your child provides the answers back by email. I check the answers, provide corrections/feedback. And the next day's worksheet is customized to the child's history. If there is an interest, I could follow the child all the way from pre-K to graduate level Math subjects. Think about that -- wouldn't it be awesome if when you are getting your PhD, you could look back over 20 years of daily problems you solved and how you progressed in your conceptual understanding?

Naturally, you want to balance the gaming aspect with the rigorous aspects. You can start learning Graph Theory with diagram filling, but as you get more serious, there is no substitute to solving several hard problems to get a deeper/intuitive understanding of the concepts. There is no question that people learn different ways, some visually, others through games, and others through mental modeling. I am convinced that if we could tailor math teaching to each kid, we could get rid of the stigma that "Math is hard", or, worse, "Girls can't do Math".

Math, as I say, is a contact sport, not a spectator sport. You have to grab a pencil and a piece of paper to work on 20-30-40 harder and harder problems to master each concept. But to learn new concepts, you also have to cross the significant hurdle of climbing the first few rungs of each concept, so to speak. So let's learn by balancing games and theory.
I second, great project. Is it just failing under load ATM (cause of MEX v. CMR)? It may not work from this network (worked earlier from another) which uses a transparent proxy. websockets tends to fall over with most proxies. I see you use ws:// maybe wss:// would get through more often but maybe that is too much. Again thanks, this is great what you all created.
And his evidence is....
But why even have manned warships at all? Why not control everything from home base?
Google Funds a Design School That Works Like a Tech Incubator
posted! http://growthhackers.com/questions/ask-gh-how-does-a-typical...

thanks!
Can anyone point out the strategy to the example for 2 cards in the range [1,100] and the probability of winning?
And here I was, thinking that the ISO Standard Cup of Tea from the Jargon File was just a joke.
The head of Australopithecus had quite a different shape than ours, though. Not nearly as much brain, and a lot more bone.
> Taking the user step by step to follow their first people teaches them the important of following

This bugs me about post-2010 Twitter and Facebook. Why do they now bias towards following instead of leadership?
Or better yet

x |= MAC_computed[i] ^ MAC_received[i];

If they're not careful and the numeric type being subtracted is wider than CPU registers, depending on architecture, the compiler-generated carry code to implement wider-than-register subtraction may introduce timing attacks. Wider-than-register xor is much much less likely to have such issues.
Past related discussions on this topic:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7772475
I agree. It's not like he's that smart. Just smart enough.
Optional binding in JavaScript is a misfeature, and Ruby's looks that way too, because 99% of the time when you do this:

if (hasAccess = true) {
doSomething();
}

you meant to compare, not assign. So when I saw this Ruby example, I was not amused:

if current_user = find_current_user
notify_user(current_user)
end

However, the Swift equivalent is the best of both worlds:

if let currentUser = findCurrentUser() {
notifyUser(currentUser)
}
I don't read every article top to bottom, I would waste too much time doing that. I read the intro, and if I like, I estimate how long it will take me with a full scroll to the bottom. I also read the bottom so I know the point we are working up to. Sometimes the article is too long and I skip an overly descriptive middle section.
Friday Round-Up: New Web Platforms, Networking Apps and more
I assume the task would be made easier by having computers scan the space around the spacecraft through a wide range of wavelengths, from thermal to xray including visible.

We generally find near-Earth asteroids the day of their encounter with Earth. This would be all that's needed for a spacecraft to respond to a potential threat.
Can you download as a font? I would like to see a sentence minus the source samples. I can't find anything.
Priceline Group to Acquire OpenTable for $2.6 Billion
Without noticing it? People have been screaming "bubble" for years now.
Its an article on yahoo.com, are you actually expecting hard hitting reporting?
Actually, there's a much cheaper option if you pay the installation fee of $300.[0] This works out to $25/month over one year. While $300 is a significant amount (especially for people with lower incomes), it is an option and is a fraction of the cost when you look at the long term.

https://fiber.google.com/cities/kansascity/plans/
That's call asm.js. asm.js is just a bytecode with a particularly baroque serialization right now; if it is widely adopted expect a more compact serialization to be one of the first "optimizations" released.

asm.js is a really clever play to leverage Javascript to get JS out of the way, while never making it obvious that's what it's doing.
An illegal site... illegal site... Illegal. Site.

I'm not sure that I like the sort of thinking that would put those two words together, ever.

It would appear as though you think it possible that a flea market should be responsible for the conduct of its buyers and sellers, or that a public bulletin board be responsible for all material posted there.

I dislike the idea that a government that nominally prohibits itself from abridging freedom of speech, or of the press, or peaceful assembly could ever declare an information service operating over the Internet to be "illegal", seize all of its assets, shut it down, and then sell off whatever it seized, all without ever establishing any crime or criminal intent to the public.

By the same reasoning that led to the seizure and shutdown of Silk Road, since some drug dealers arrange sales with mobile phones, the antennas and backhaul used by the likes of Verizon, Sprint, AT&T et al should be seized, the phone networks shut down, and the equipment auctioned off, all for facilitating prohibited activities.

Whether people knew they were committing crimes or not, the site itself was little more than a warehouse building filled with unmonitored flea market stalls, and a common cashier. While the intent of establishing the market was undoubtedly to facilitate commerce in crime and contraband, we still have some expectation that crimes be prosecuted to conviction prior to the application of punishments.

What, then, has Silk Road been convicted of? Maintaining a public nuisance?

In any sane society, the police would use Silk Road, posing as ordinary customers to collect evidence of crimes, and then prosecute the people that committed them individually. That probably would have eventually resulted in Silk Road becoming more like the semi-legit flea market of Bitcoin, like eBay is for PayPal. What they actually did showed that their actions were targeted at Bitcoin rather than at the drugs. At the time, they did not want Bitcoin to have a common marketplace for goods of any kind, whether contraband or not, and moved to destroy it utterly using the drugs as pretext.

If you only bought legal goods from Silk Road, you were not doing anything more than threatening dollar hegemony. And that is why you lost your Bitcoin. Innocent of any crime (except possibly something related to taxes), you suffered a loss, thanks to people trying to enforce one law by breaking another.
Tour of Boeing's CST-100 Spaceliner to LEO
I'm glad you replied as someone else got in touch and expressed interest. I said I'd wait until a week had elapsed or you'd got back to me. So it'll be going to a good home, regardless... :)
I feel you. Unfortunately there is this huge strange delusion, that language and VM evolution is over and JavaScript is a silver-bullet just because it happens to be so widely supported. I don't know how we are going to solve the problem of such a mindset.

PS: no transpilation and other 3+ step "compilation" offers.
I could be wrong, but I believe the parent is referring to the inability for a "vibrant community" to maintain Swift as a language implementation (instead of Apple), which is very different than Ruby. There's no doubt in my mind that there will be swarms of people developing with the language, but AFAICT, we'll mostly only see Apple developers working on the language itself.
this also assumes every candidate is fully willing to accept the offer. what if your first best candidate accepted the offer but was in the 36%. Then the 2nd best candidate after 36% rejected the offer, leaving you with potentially a bad choice in candidates. This seems highly probable too...

If everyone did this, you have to assume the other candidate is doing the same, thus your choice after 36% may end with you being insider their 36% bracket. This works only at a selfish scale and dubious at best.

This only really works for a gameshow situation. You have 20 boxes with money inside. You don't know what is the minimum or maximum amount, you get to look at a box and determine yes/no. So you do the 36%. Then the very next box that is close enough or above the maximum of the first 36% is what you chose.
My brother convinced me to move to Dreamhost a couple of years ago after giving up my Bytemark dedicated host (Atom). I haven't had cause to regret and he's been with them much longer. The unlimited hosting tariff is really good.
Discussion on Bro Culture In Tech
That's the only hope. Unfortunately there is so little news on that front and no enthusiasm from the side of mainstream language providers so far...
Yeah I misread that. That's true, but my point still stands as well. It sounds like using this strategy as it is written yields increasingly poor results as the sample size increases (assuming a total ordering)
The article says nerds are achievement oriented. That is textbook RPG player. All they care about is the next level, getting a sub 4 minute mile, the 100kg snatch, etc. Going to the gym is entirely achievement oriented.

Side note: I think we're arguing semantics. If you draw a venn diagram of nerds and geek there would be so much overlap it is hardly practical to differentiate except in the rare instance when an activity falls into one category and not the other (which I don't think is the case here).
Concert Window job application puzzle
A Programming War Between 545 Wizards
I found it pretty weird that someone like Elon would make such a reference. The site just looks too professional for the out of place internet meme.
This title "How a Teenager Entrepreneur Built a Startup on Bitcoin Riches" is misleading.

The kid took his grandma's money and bought and sold bitcoin at the right time.

His startup consists of himself and two other dudes.

This isn't Shawn Parker Napster impressive to me.

Is he smarter than your average 15 year old or myself when I was 15? Yeah but not that smart.
Beautifully designed and very useful. I hope this is a big success! What's your background, how did you start this site?
Priceline Is Buying OpenTable For $2.6 Billion
Reading through this thread it appears most are not familiar with what a joke Telerik is, at least in the .Net community where they sell a lot of control add-ons.

Whenever I've had to work with there stuff I've ripped it out every time and replaced it either with a .net baseline control that was actually easier to work with and extend, or wrote my own. Now if I'm considering a job and I hear they are a heavy Telerik shop I know they are probably either all newbies or simply don't know what they are doing and I don't even interview there.

I'm curious, do these guys actually have a positive rep outside the .net community?

edit: typo.
I can't find it now, but I read an essay a number of years ago that fairly well convinced me that we could (using the technology of the time) theoretically build a telescope that was small enough to be mounted on a space ship or monitoring satellite (~1 meter aperture IIRC) with sufficient angular resolution to spot the space shuttle engines firing at the distance between Earth and Jupiter. We had at that time enough GPU processing power to do a full scan of the sky every 5 minutes.

Now, keep in mind that any ship bearing humans is going to need to radiate infrared photons at about room temperature, around 300 kelvin.

What this implies is that you want to be using an infrared telescope and look for whatever lights up against the cosmic background. Spaceships would be easy to spot, at least inside of our solar system.
MeteorJS Subscriptions Manager – Save CPU and Network Usage
i disagree. the bitter flavor gets a bad rap, but i find bitter tastes, in general, refreshing. obviously, you can have too much bitter, just like you can have too much sweet or sour or any other taste, but bitter isn't bad in and of itself.
Looks very nice, cool. As a new programmer/web app maker, I'm quite curious how this tool might work. It's so fast - and it must be performing a lot of calculations. Anyway, thanks again for sharing!
None. At least none, in my system of ethics.

They did it because they had the capability. Civil forfeiture is an absolute perversion of the justice system, and is a direct contributor to police corruption. The damage it causes to the integrity of our rule of law is far greater than any deterrent effect it may have upon crimes.
I'm Julia, the founder of Zidisha. I'd be happy to answer questions here.
The section above mentions specifically translating either "init" or "initWith" from initializers. I'm curious if they're also pattern matching the "colorWith" prefix or if its more complicated.
It's good that they finally mentioned it at the end - this is a flavor of the optimal stopping problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping). This is a cute application of that strategy, the problem is that mathematics has very little to do with actual relationships, as much so as the assumptions game theory makes about actual relationships (http://crookedtimber.org/2005/10/13/whats-wrong-with-game-th...). Whats more important than trying to play your luck in a relationship is: working through the grit of an actual relationship.

In reality - if you don't put in the actual work any single relationship takes, then none of them will work out, it doesn't matter how large your "sample size" is.