skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whois information looks clearly fishy:https://who.is/whois/e-airbnb.com

Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.publicdomainregistry.com
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Creation Date: 21-Mar-2014
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Registrant Organization: Privacy Protection Service INC d/b/a PrivacyProtect.org
Registrant Street: C/O ID#10760, PO Box 16 Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator
Yeah, that HDD sorting by size is not working as expected. It's filtering based on the first number (or character, whatever comes first), so I think the "500 GB" HDDs are not ranked properly. Thanks :-) I'll fix it by next update!
> who would decide which of Numenta's patents are assigned by the GPLv3 and which are not?

The GPL text is rather precise in how to determine which patents are effected. Any patents that would be infringed by some manner of using, making, (...), or modify that specific version of the program is covered by the license.

As far as patent grants goes, it is hard to make something cover beyond that. I guess a license could say "you may not own any patents, and that is the final word", but I do not know any licenses that does that.
What's your social capital?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/HQFMh... has some discussion between the author and others from 2009 regarding Clojure and Common Lisp.
I am talking about Boris Rozhin's livejournal ('colonelcassad'). That's about as close as it gets to rebels' mouthpiece, being probably the most popular social media outlet with separatist viewpoint (not to be confused with Russian govt's viewpoint). Of course he is not an official figure of any kind, but if anyone can be trusted to be able to tell legit sources from 'hotheads in their mommies' basements', that's him.
I don't understand how this can be considered dependency free in any sense - it has a dependency on Moment.js, which is a fairly large (and very popular and good) library for working with dates in JavaScript. Without Moment.js, this library would not work - therefore it is "dependent" on that. This is what the word "dependency" means.

Just because you can bundle up that library in the dist doesn't mean it's not a dependency.
> The city added that it will launch in December an app that will provide similar features to Uber for official taxis, such as geo-location data on cabs nearby, information about them and their drivers, as well as ratings.

I don't know what the state of labor unions is in South Korea, but I think the reason why an app described as such is typically discouraged in municipalities is because the ratings systems could be seen by the union as unfairly punitive or arbitrarily gamed...similar to the protest some teachers unions have against testing schemes and bonus pay for meeting benchmarks.

And of course, doesn't the Uber app allow drivers to see the ratings of various passengers?

An app that would show real-time location and other info about cabs, as well as being able to hail them, would be very nice for any taxi system. I'd think it's the other stuff, such as ratings, that could only be palatable by drivers and users under a privatized context.
The goal can be focused on helping peoples' lives, but probably not about a particular person.
The links in your navbar fade to dark on hover, but the navbar itself turns to dark on scroll. When the navbar is black, you can't read the link text on hover.
No. I disagree with military draft for several reasons, not least that it tends to produce a belligerent force of malcontents that are much more likely to really fuck things up.

Also, is there really any point in being cannon fodder in a nuke fight?

Besides, I think your analysis is a bit mental.

US troops that have for so long enabled European governments to spend money on healthcare

The US government spent more on healthcare per citizen that the European governments do, even during the Bush years. You then spend a shit-ton more privately. It isn't the existence of US troops that enable European governments to provide healthcare. Providing healthcare this way is just cheaper overall.
"fairly comical" is a good expression for a joke that just didn't land.
To be fair, the full sentence was:

"South Korea’s capital city said on July 21, 2014 it planned to ban the smartphone car-hailing service Uber, saying it raised passenger safety issues and threatened the livelihood of licensed taxi drivers."
Which are the best sites for e.g. product managers, rails devs, etc to list themselves on? (Not asking you to tell me, asking you to design the software so I don't waste time listing myself on e.g. 10 sites). Think more of a curated experience than a directory.
http://www.amazon.com/An-Illustrated-Book-Bad-Arguments/dp/1...
Yes because clearly bank-robbing is exactly the same as subletting.
Programming in movies vs. programming in real life with m_janko
I was trying for appeal to hypocrisy, but I can see others working, too.
In Austria they're still quick. I remember seeing the old cahsier as a child - but it is still my favourite shop in terms of effectiveness.

Now they've started something like a bakery in stores with many people just buying one or two items, which slows down the process.
The process in the shops is optimized for people to buy in bulk.
It depends on the type of plastic. Legos are made of ABS which is one of the most durable plastics, especially when it comes to outdoor conditions.
Spelling a German umlaut with the letter e is etymologically correct, and it is a convention well known to Germans and to German-speakers in the non-German-speaking world. Most of the news reporting about the German national team to the World Cup reported the names of the players with that kind of alternative spelling, for example "Götze" as "Goetze" and "Özil" as "Oezil."
Why a service? Seems the images are static coded from 0 to 100 and could easily just be a CDN reference rather then burning a service on every hit? URL/progress/1.png .. 100.png done.. :)
1) strikes me as a ready-made weapon for hotels to harass AirBnBers.
Pretty sure there's better causes to donate to than anti-aging if you're a billionaire. Funding disease research and whatnot will also increase the average lifespan, for example. Plus 94 is a very respectable age, I for one don't think I'd want to live for that long.
Chrome 36 Out Chrome 37 In Beta
How is the approach different than the technology used at Vicarious (where Numenta cofounder Dileep George went) ?
It's the correct substitute for umlauts if the latter are not available (as opposed to "Sud").
What about Railyo [0] (a job board dedicated to Ruby on Rails freelancers) ?

[0] http://railyo.com (my side project)
Instead of viewing them as a race to the bottom, perhaps it would be better to think of them as shining a light on the current systems. Just because they aren't regulated now, doesn't mean they can't be in the future. In a way, they offer another chance at regulating areas that have entrenched interests and decades of poor regulation that prevent efficient solutions from emerging today.
42% of mobile app developers using #HTML5 but only 15% target mobile browsers
I assume various options to the look and functionality could be added and having the request go to an application as opposed to a static file first allows that opportunity. In addition, there is nothing stopping them forwarding the request to a cached result on a CDN.
It's a pity that all the hype goes to Puppet, while CFEngine gets very little attention.
I hate this thinking (I know it is not yours, it's a hiring meme).

If an interviewer makes some crazy assertion, then I pretty much flip into the mode of "how do I get out of this interview ASAP, as there is no way I'm working with this idiot". Whereas in the office, I'm the guy that sends the really difficult mass email that calls out his boss, if it is really needed. Engineering is not interviewing, and vice versa; why would you expect identical behaviors in both?

And yup, I am self selecting out of the situation where the interviewer is not an idiot and just 'testing' me. I'm fine with that, because I'm also selecting out of a job where people aren't willing to treat me with respect.

Interviewing is largely voodoo; we shouldn't be inflicting cognitive pain on people based on our random selection process. The only measure that has ever been shown to be predictive is past performance. So let's talk about my past performance, and leave this amateur hour psychological testing in the trash bin where it belongs.
Facebook, you are dead to me...for now
Ask HN: Our iPad game hit top 30 in free games, how do we keep the momentum?
We are two MIT students who just published our physics-based puzzle game "Marble Drop" (http://www.marbledropgame.com) for iOS and Android (originally created for MakeGamesWithUs` MIT iOS games competition). The game has been a huge success in its first week, and we are now pushing the top of the App Store rankings in all of the relevant categories. At this point, we really have no idea what we should be doing as we try to grow our user base. We have been doing obvious things like talking to press, updating content, etc, but I suspect that there are a number of key strategies that are missing from our plan.

Do any HNers have advice on how we should spend our time and resources as we grow Marble Drop? Thanks in advance!
According to my mother, the best episodes can be judged purely by Sisko screen time.
> The whole thing seems predicated on deregulation of industries that I honestly think should be regulated.

In the case of Uber, in particular, the self-regulation they impose is much greater than the regulation that the government does, and accounts for a MUCH higher quality of service than the very heavily regulated taxi cabs. Maybe that doesn't work for every instance or every company, but the crowd-sourcing of relevant data seems, to me, a far more effective solution than the protectionist bureaucracy masquerading as regulation that exists.
Announcing The Fog Creek Fellowship
It sounds like you might benefit from a change in environment. Maybe you don't have the right people in your life.
> I have no idea why would I be interested on your prediction on a not-very-useful index.

Because it's a prediction about internet, community, and people's behaviour, based on the previous knowledge about languages. Not based on the knowledge of Swift. It's a commentary about people jumping on the language that is likely to be pushed very hard by Apple - whether it's ready and useful or not.
This has happened to other magnetic toys in the past. See http://www.howtospotapsychopath.com/2012/08/28/on-little-shi... and http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5548a3.htm for example.

The latter considers cases between 2003-6, and concludes:

> Recent improvements in manufacturing processes have made small, powerful magnets inexpensive and readily available, increasing the potential for exposure of children to magnets in toys and other products. Ingestion of multiple magnets, or ingestion of one magnet and a metal component attracted to magnets, poses a unique health hazard (6,7). Although these magnets generally are small enough to pass through the digestive tract, they can attach to each other across intestinal walls, causing obstructions and perforations. Initial signs and symptoms of injury are nonspecific, leading to delayed diagnosis and greater injury. Even when caregivers know a child has swallowed magnets, they might assume that such small pieces will pass normally. On radiologic examination, a health-care provider cannot ascertain whether objects swallowed are magnetic and whether they are in separate sections of the gastrointestinal tract with tissue between them. To aid with diagnosis, a compass might be passed close to the abdomen to determine whether an unidentified object in the bowel is magnetic.§ Once magnetically attached across bowel walls, magnets are unlikely to disengage spontaneously.

> Building sets and other toys containing magnets pose a substantial hazard to children who commonly mouth objects. Manufacturers of any consumer product containing magnets should take precautions to keep the magnets in their intended positions within plastic pieces and should consider making larger plastic pieces to minimize the likelihood of ingestion. Similar injuries have resulted from ingestion of magnetic beads, jewelry, and homeopathic aids (8,9).

> Caregivers should keep products with magnets out of environments where children aged <6 years are playing and be aware of the unique risks if ingested. Magnets should never be used to emulate tongue or lip piercing. If caregivers suspect a child has ingested a magnet, they should seek health care promptly. Caregivers also should be aware that children might be reticent to admit ingestion or unable to describe what they have ingested. Delays in diagnosis and treatment can lead to serious or fatal outcomes.
Transparency and transformation at PayPal
Yeah, me too. Have been for many years. And I lived/worked in India building education products. Feel free to contact me as well: me (at) lewhollerbach.com.
Show HN: Gospotify – simple service that syncs your playlists to Spotify
GraphLab Conference 2014: Live video stream
Wait, I've stayed in several AirBnB places, and you always pay with credit card through the website, where they act as an escrow agent. Wouldn't a request to pay through any off-site means be a massive red flag?
"Because nobody cares about the Ferengi"

MOOGYYYYYYY!!!!

Now seriously, the ferengy were supposed to be there for some humor scenes, and they developed the ferengy society considerably. Female liberation, the challenge of the responsability of the first child vs. the youngest. Etc.

Sisko accepting that Jake dated a Dabo girl...

I disagree that Ferengies are unimportant in the ST universe. They have a role.
Virtual DOM in Elm
Teenagers? Really? They need to be dead if they're eating magnets. Mandatory recall? No way. If you have small kids (or stupid teenagers), don't buy the damned things! How hard is that? Why should the vendor be punished? What's next? A mandatory recall on pebble grade gravel? Why not? America, would you please smarten the fuck up?
Also the Russians made most of the advances on habitable space stations. Most important achievement for the long term exploration of space IMO. I think it's a shame that many of the achievements will be lost to history for political reasons but I guess it doesn't really matter who did what. The cold war in itself was probably a good thing in that regard.
This is a cool idea. I'd like to see it for more shows. With so many shows available on Netflix/Amazon/etc. it's hard to figure out what I should watch when a show has hundreds of available episodes.

In the case of DS9, it's funny that it pretty much matches my experience in that there are very few early episodes then when the big Dominion storyline starts it includes almost all episodes for the last 3 seasons. DS9 became such a great show once Sisko shaved his head and got the goatee. :)
Amazing how many people do not understand the definition of "proof". A pithy, concise, and clear definition would be appreciated.
> But I still have to treat my primary as if she is the only one. This is the only stable configuration I've found.

Doesn't sound very stable if your "primary" finds out about your secondary.
It would be cool to frame and display one them, like one for Automatic Maneuvers.

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/listings/Comanche055/AUTOMATIC...
Call to Arms of course. This is the series where we actually saw the Federation go to war (on-screen).

All the episodes revolving around Sisko as Emissary as well. Impressive writing given the religious and philosophical contexts involved. It went over a lot of peoples' head if they didn't follow the series since the pilot.

I know this is not a popular opinion but this is my favorite Star Trek series, followed by TNG.
If you decline to audit FOSS yourself, you can't complain about being forced to trust someone else.
That must have been an annoying problem to debug.

I wonder how many different equivalent encodings exist. As I live in a Spanish-speaking country working for a Brazilian corporation, I live with characters such as "ñ", "ç" and others :)

We try not to name database tables with those characters and limit them whenever possible (sometimes a variable with an "ñ" slips through though, fortunately never had a crash).
Traction Book available for pre-order – G. Weinberg (DuckDuckGo) and J. Mares
If not wrapped, they know where the barcode in the product IS. Everytime I'm not at Aldi/Lidl in Germany, the cashiers seem to see the product for the first time and take close to forever to find the bar code. Especially frustrating in Poland, where they are so slow you start playing tetris with your products, because it takes so long. Whereas in Grmany the challenge is to outpace the cashiers.

This is one thing that I really, really like at Aldi: well trained cashiers.
Future expansion what about passing a height/width and making a larger progress bar, or a hex code for the color of the bar, or even a gradient? Lots more options and you can always cache the url request for a sane amount of time so its not a full hit to the app.
I don't use adblock and it's still rather broken until I do a refresh.
I think this blog post does a great job at putting the evolution of technology into perspective. It's a reminder that when "now old" technologies, ones that are fully integrated into our lives today, were first introduced everyone didn't immediately accept them. Facebook is the perfect example as used in this blog post. And microwaves, could we really imagine our lives without them? I don't think so. But once we remember how reluctant society initially was to accept these into our world, it shows hope for the future of wearables. While reading this post I felt nostalgic as I remembered when Facebook came out and how hesitant I was to create a profile that has so much personal information on it. And today, I can't live without it. I truly believe in only a few years everyone will associate such nostalgia with the evolution of wearables. I don't understand why people think wearables are only for "geeks," as stated in the post. I see wearable technology as an extremely enhanced version of smartphones. We didn't stop at the creation of the "flip-phone" what makes people think we'll stop at smartphones. Wearables are what's next.
I got a sneak peak at "Traction" and I can tell you its an absolute must. The Bullseye Framework Gabriel and Justin layout has been the greatest tool in my catalog over the past year. Whether you are a seasoned entrepreneur or just getting started, Gabriel and Justin offer a framework that creates efficiency, clarity, and focus. With startups as crazy as they are, I strongly encourage you to take the time to make your life a little easier :).
Couldn't resist. Here's a Python fork. https://github.com/akx/progressed.io-py
Ugh, my Cisco BGP neighbor session just died. Triage it using Event Enrichment
Nice idea and interesting !
The Stink About Human Poop As Fertilizer
FYI: https://github.com/libguestfs/febootstrap
The DragonBox Pyra Moves Closer As OpenPandora Successor
Cool idea.

A helpful next feature would be to somehow show the skipped episodes so the user could take some action to peek at the synopsis and rating to see if they really wanted to skip it.

Another helpful feature would be to tag all the episodes by character and theme. A user could be a huge fan of say, Jake episodes and Bajor oriented episodes, and if they came across such an episode with a low score, they might decide to watch it anyway.
TBH it's developers that should do the technical part of an interview, not a manager - they can do the other stuff.
Wow. This is really impressive: assembler, real-time systems in space, mission-critical equipment, software that protects lives, etc.

Maybe that is too much, causing those writing the next "date finding" app to feel incompetent after reading this.

But at least we will know we are standing on shoulders of giants.
Launch limited-time promos. People love these things. I don't know why. I think it caters to the hoarding instinct.

Give people exclusive levels or badges or other bonuses if they download within a time period. These don't have to be prepackaged with the installer, they can be delivered later, depending on the installation date.
I have a pet theory as to why rubberducking works. Basically I think it uses some additional brain machinery to check the metadata on our facts - i.e. how reliable are each of the 'facts' we are using in our reasoning.

I tried to go into it in more detail here: http://www.berthels.co.uk/2013/03/29/how-do-you-know-what-yo...
sorry to hear about it.. Thank you for letting us know
I agree this would be great for more shows. I think it would be even more helpful for Star Trek: The Next Generation. Lots of early season TNG is pretty bad as well. I'm watching TNG through Netflix at the moment and I'm going on AVClub to remind myself of which episodes aren't worth my time.
J.S. Bach – Crab Canon on a Mebius Strip
TBH if you're nervous about a technical interview, maybe you don't actually have the technical level required for said job.

Or maybe that's just me; nervousity in presentations or interviews or even talking is IMHO an indication of not knowing what you're talking about. And knowledge is confidence.
You may try https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
"marketing or passive income is shady or bs"

Not at all. I just think he seems a little disingenuous. I don't like the subtle bait and switch.
Eh, read between the lines here. That's written specifically to seem confusing & crazy. It's not. Two families split up because one partner from each formed a single new couple.

That's all that happened. It's only "complicated" in the writer's mind because the two families had put in applications in the same apparently-awful social housing computer system.

The complaint about needing this info "in a timely manner" is a bit ironic... the original two applications have apparently been pending for "a couple of years" before the story even begins.
But the current version is just an imaged coded on the fly and compressed on the fly.. It's burning CPU for no real reason.

If you want flexibility for future you can use a CDN path that includes options you want and later could switch to code the makes the requested image and caches result, returning the cached result.

I imagine the concept is to code the service for fun but I have to wonder to myself when something like this is shared but no concept of scale is considered. I know premature optimization is the root of all evil but isn't building a service to serve a static image basically premature optimization that "maybe some day I'll add more dynamic features".. :-)
Co-author here. I actually started exploring this book topic in late 2009 through an initial series of open-ended interviews that were discussed on HN (when it was much more startup focused). Here is that set: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6r4nAnkQO3VpddRSVwUVDg (e.g. patio11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuzNs-LhC_8, Alexis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEqAq1x9UQ, Garry Tan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Win0moC4cA).

I started angel investing around the same time and I quickly came to the conclusion that the pursuit of getting traction needed much more structure more akin to product development. I also got increasingly busy with DuckDuckGo, and so it took finding a co-author and many years to actually get this book across the finish line.

Here's my post from a few days ago summarizing the book: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2014/07/pre-order-tracti...

Happy to take any questions.
> In the case of Uber, in particular, the self-regulation they impose is much greater than the regulation that the government does

Citation needed? There have been numerous stories of Uber drivers and cars not matching expectations.
What keeps stone arches from falling down?