skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the tight market for programmers, it's actually a nice way of learning about the company before you go work there, if you think about it that way.

Kind of like if you got an interviewer that responds with a blank stare if you talk about version control and says they just make copies of the directory, or something like that.
Just to clarify, the naked e-airbnb request indeed redirects to airbnb website. The generated by the cheater URL was the only one working fine.

It had the same layout as the whole airbnb website and every url available on that website was also redirecting to real airbnb website .... except the one with payment and booking details ...
"biologically accurate neural network"

ROLF :D
Seriously?

Hit me up with some evidence to back up that extraordinary claim.
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Agreed. I came away from this thinking "wtf did i just read?" 1/2 of it seems like him saying how Swift should have been reviewed more before release then him saying he expects greatness. With no real grounds for the latter, except that he has a lot of experience with Obj-C. Not that I have an opinion either way, i have not personally looked into Swift(and know very little of Obj-C).

Just seems like he didn't even know where he was going with this article.
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Can add Folyo - http://www.folyo.me/ - to the #creative list.

Good effort on the site; bookmarked for later when it comes time to do outbound. :)
how does this compare to 'rinse'?
I'm already in online education. Feel free to contact me crompton@oplerno.com
Some people there on SO are suggesting this could be a "self-confidence testing" question where the interviewer already knows what he's asking is bullshit and expects you to react accordingly. Sort of like a HR-ish kind of question.

I can't fanthom how would one come to the conclusion that there is a difference between the two otherwise.
When you say "closed" I thought the .NET compiler was accepting pull requests from anyone as of recently, I remember that being a fairly large announcements.

I don't mean to be argumentative, but the Roslyn compiler is open source right? I'm genuinely curious.
> A good argument made with bad intentions is still a good argument.

I agree with your parent here, though. There's almost always a good argument for any given thing, and often several.

It's sometimes useful to be able to say "yes, there is a huge pile of good arguments in favor of X here. And I don't have time to address each one. But it's important to note that the author of this pile of good arguments stands to make a great deal of money if people believe X, regardless of its truth."

It's kind-of like how you rarely trust the implicit or explicit claims in super long infomercials, even without examining the veracity of the evidence for the commercial's claims, or taking the time to think up counter-claims.
The Downward Spiral of Microdata
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Ask HN: Do you know a good Knowledge Base service or software?
You just built a SaaS product, but it seems it is not intuitive enough for everyone on this planet, so people can get lost, and you're getting asked the same questions often (where do I find this, how do I do that...). You're starting to think you should have a Knowledge Base where people can search for their question and most of the time end up on an article that will answer their issue.

Do you know a good software or even paid service to build that kind of knowledge base?

In my (short) experience, what I'd expect from such a software would be:

- a nice and efficient search experience, to find the right article even with a more-or-less approximative search from a non-tech-savvy user

- easy to maintain and update: Markdown, support for multiple languages... Maybe even an API to be able to synchronize some articles directly from a product's codebase (e.g. API documentation)

- navigation between "similar" articles

The only service I've found that tries to do that is Zendesk, but in my experience it is far from perfect and feels like 10 years ago, for example there is no Markdown (and the HTML editor is not very "permissive", deleting THEAD tags for example), despite Markdown being available in the rest of Zendesk features.

There's also the possibility that I'm looking in the wrong direction from the start, and maybe the Knowledge Base approach is not the best to answer this use case.

Thanks in advance for your insights :)
You're making the same mistake as most, however, which is seeing "Google, Intel, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Boeing, any of them" as typical startups.

They aren't. They're the 1 in a billion exception - so for you to then talk of exceptions is... exceptional!
> Don't underestimate the anxiety that monetary stress will bring if you don't win the SaaS startup lottery in your anticipated time frame (in my experience the rule that it always takes twice as long and requires twice as much money as expected holds true).

Thank you. I'd imagine my anxiety could very well be worse if things were tanking. On the other hand, i feel a sabbatical would greatly benefit my mental health. But the next step, after the sabbatical, would be uncertain.
The fact that there are more than 0 interviewers who think there is a difference is sad, because I think this makes a great question to separate out those who understand C and those who don't - it's even easier than FizzBuzz for the first group, and much harder for the second.
Currently the WiFi protocol is vulnerable within a millisecond

I'm pretty sure that WPA2 w/AES (assuming WPS is disabled) is not vulnerable within a milisecond. Even TKIP is far from easily crackable.
I think an interesting and nontrivial thing explained by the article is why raw lobster prices are going down but restaurant prices aren't: the largest percentage markup is added by the restaurant, but most of the price the restaurant pays is added by the middlemen and does not vary with the price of the raw product.
@everyone: Renting your place through airbnb is most probably illegal in Barcelona. Please double or triple-check any offers you get because you must be registered (and pay) if you want to rent your place to tourists [1] here.

@poster: Contact me (mynickname at la3 dot org) if you are running short on money because of the scam and need a place to stay for a few days. This is a couchsurfing style offer, not airbnb style.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/07/airbnb-fin...
Because irresponsible parents don't watch their children like hawks. Instead they let them crawl around on the ground, unsupervised, eating shiny things. The very definition of misdemeanor child endangerment. It doesn't get prosecuted nearly as often as it should.
Technically any sort of type casting would end up being O(1), wouldn't it?
Well, this interview question is obviously to test how well you argue your point when you know you are right.
He fundamentally goes off the road at the "don’t add life-changing value" and "The device or combination of devices must be perceived as life-changing" stage.

Observationally the people who like fitbits like grind games. Every MMORPG experience I've had mirrors my fitbit experience along with everyone else I've talked to (hard core EVE addicts have EVE spreadsheets and graphs, and spend time analyzing fitbit graphs). Only a fraction of the population has addiction susceptibility problems, enough to make money (see big tobacco) but not enough to "take over the world".

The purpose of the medical system is to co-opt the legal system to help maximize funneling money to certain groups. I'm not seeing self diagnosing medical gear as helping, and they've been super efficient at using the legal system to maximize revenue, so this entire class of ideas is dead, although it just won't die in journalism.

"I would love to no longer need ... keys"

I've had electronic door locks on my house doors for many years, and both the car and office door dongles in a pocket on the phone. Its not life changing other than if I lose my phone I lose access to my house and office and car, which would definitely suck. That's probably not the kind of life changing he's looking for. The future is here, its just not evenly distributed.

(edited to add, the electronic door locks on my house are a basic utility to me, like having a tankless water heater. Move somewhere without them and it would be like, what is this, a log cabin? Yet I'm not going to seek them out, I'm just going to expect them. This is a harder marketing job than pushing a mere social fad.)

"I long for the ability to not have to charge something every single day"

Market research and past sales experience indicates he's nearly alone. You want a phone that you charge every week, buy a feature phone. Nobody cares, they buy fancy phones with 4 hour batteries to make them lighter. People like to complain especially if its a way to show off how much money they spent.

"and to have a device that actually feels smarter than me"

Again some tiny fraction of the population loves paternalism, formerly best implemented by Big Brother government. Carrying a prison warden around to regulate me sounds horrific to me, and to most people. I'd rather live in a HOA neighborhood where all they regulate is the color of my garden flowers.

He also runs off the rails with social interaction and "wearables". I have a fitbit aria scale that tracks my weight. I have absolutely no interest in giving "the internet" access to my weight and I'm just an average guy. My wife is beyond horrified and didn't want it in the house until she was sure her weight wouldn't show up on twitter/FB. I'm not seeing that behavior as likely to drive social adoption. I like the graphs but hate the social aspect of them. I imagine this is the likely outcome of hooking up the toilet flush lever or the microwave oven or my wife's hair curling iron.
Carlos Slim calls for three-day working week to improve quality of life
I'm sure they care and do their best to rid these posts, but every single marketplace has this issue -- airbnb is just the hotspot now because they can get big bucks relative to ebay
It's interesting how several other research groups have done the same - gone "yup, replicated", then followed up with a retraction not long after.

There's also a paper floating around in which the phenomenon is explained, and the author posits you could do it with normal (strong) ferrite magnets.

If I were wearing my tin-foil-hat, today...
What a great idea, to test self-confidence in extremely nervous circumstances. What could even go wrong.
That's great - I actually came here to say "this is cool in an abstract way but what the fuck am I looking at? I'd love to learn a little bit more about the system". Turns out space folks are great at sharing knowledge!

By the way, last night I read the radio transcript from the time Neil and Buzz exited the lunar module: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.step.html (that site has loads of other Apollo transcripts too). It's annotated and has links to pics and videos. Fascinating.
We Al-Di in the end.

But, to contribute positively, what brands managed to build was trust in their name - you go to the supermarket and faced with 40,000 products, (10 new grocery items are introduced every day) buying a brand name means less gambling on whatever processed food you're faced with.

Aldi reduced the choice between the same item from brands and just had the choice between foodstuffs.
What would it take to make a working simulator from this? Except a whole lot of hardware of course
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I love how the truth gets down voted!
That's itself a rather incomplete way to explain the Four Noble Truths. Generally, utilizing desire is the only way to make any progress along the Buddhist path. Thanissaro Bhikkhu has written lots about this; here's a quote:

"Most of us, when looking at the four noble truths, don't realize that they're all about desire. We're taught that the Buddha gave only one role to desire — as the cause of suffering. Because he says to abandon the cause of suffering, it sounds like he's denying any positive role to desire and its constructive companions: creativity, imagination, and hope. This perception, though, misses two important points. The first is that all four truths speak to the basic dynamic of desire on its own terms: perception of lack and limitation, the imagination of a solution, and a strategy for attaining it. The first truth teaches the basic lack and limitation in our lives — the clinging that constitutes suffering — while the second truth points to the types of desires that lead to clinging: desires for sensuality, becoming, and annihilation. The third truth expands our imagination to encompass the possibility that clinging can be totally overcome. The fourth truth, the path to the end of suffering, shows how to strategize so as to overcome clinging by abandoning its cause."
I don't think so. I believe that code is really tightly coupled with the hardware and at least some part of it covers unique cases.

However, these LoC have been written almost 50 years ago! That's truly fascinating.
I disagree. The term "computer" was typically reserved for people who exclusively did often pre-defined computations, and didn't contribute much other than the computation to the mathematics at hand. That is, someone else had come up with the novel method of computation, and someone else had formulated the problem. The human computer was applying the computation to problem that someone else handed them.

There was plenty of mathematics before mathematics got to the point where we needed dedicated humans who spend their whole day computing things in a prescribed manner.

But regardless, for some reason I think the original post was referring to electrical/mechanical computers :)
Well the internet is essentially just a really fast mail horse so there haven't been any improvements in communication for thousands of years!
As a boomer I have to say that it pretty much was black and white in the Midwest. One of my junior high classmates had what I realize now was an Arabic last name (probably Lebanese), and nobody perceived him as in any way different; a kid in the grade above me was named Garcia, which I didn't really know was Spanish; there was a Greek family on the next street, etc. Indians (as in subcontinental) were barely starting to immigrate.
BuckyBalls are now illegal? Is that part of the process of settling this type of claim?

Small, round, high-power magnets are still perfectly legal.
There are some pretty great comments in here:

ALARM_AND_ABORT.agc - http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/listings/Comanche055/ALARM_AND...

TC WHIMPER -1 # YES. DON'T DO POODOO. DO BAILOUT.

From the Guidance Computer Data Cards -http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/CMC_data_cards_15_Fabrizio_Ber...

"POODOO abort, does software restart (ENEMA) and "GO TO POOH" (flashing Verb 37) unless "AVERAGE G" is running then only software restart"

From THE_LUNAR_LANDING.agc - http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/listings/Luminary099/THE_LUNAR...

033911,000064: 32,3017 06037 FLAGORGY TC INTPRET # DIONYSIAN FLAG WAVING

034090,000243: 32,3241 13247 BZF P63SPOT4 # BRANCH IF ANTENNA ALREADY IN POSITION 1
034091,000244:
034092,000245: 32,3242 33254 CAF CODE500 # ASTRONAUT: PLEASE CRANK THE
034093,000246: 32,3243 04616 TC BANKCALL # SILLY THING AROUND
034094,000247: 32,3244 20623 CADR GOPERF1
034095,000248: 32,3245 16001 TCF GOTOP00H # TERMINATE
034096,000249: 32,3246 13235 TCF P63SPOT3 # PROCEED SEE IF HE'S LYING

034101,000254: 32,3251 04635 TC POSTJUMP # OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD ...
034102,000255: 32,3252 74126 CADR BURNBABY
bugger codes is the AGC term for checksums. (see "Playing with Colossus" on this page: http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/)
yep, checksums
Sure its possible (plenty of people I work with use files instead of a database), but why would you want to?
I doubt this would be either healthy or productive for most people.

The same could be said of start-up founders, which was the point.

But you can re-do the math at 40 hours a week if you like:

40 hours * 50 weeks * $200/hr = $400,000 / 52 weeks @ $1,000 per week = 7.69 years to do what you want.

And again, we're only talking about a year. Spend a year killing yourself, and then spend the next 5 on the beach or climbing Everest or writing a novel.
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an app idea

what about an app, using the cellphone microphone, getting the spoken words in a room and when a songtitle is named (un~/intentionally) it buys the song on itunes or amazon instantly.

and what about pushing it to a max ?

maybe the app gots a day-best and a week-best-highscore-list (sum o-in-app-buys). the 10 best buyers of a month would be invited to a monthly-talk-sicussion-show, where they gamble for a better price (tiered coupons, modern
top cellphone, etc...) every year there can be a top-o-the-year gamble with a car to win)

maybe in the show theres a "lie detecting" jury who counts the intentionally named song -1 and the unintentionally with +2

creepy?

it`s your gut, consume... friendly america.

sry for my rusted english
Interesting post on the psychology behind attitudes towards the ban:

This is the kind of story that gets the public to unanimously cry, "We're a
bunch of coddled babies!" and if you cried that, please recall my useful
heuristic: if you ever find yourself in complete agreement with the public,
especially when "public" includes people you wanted to murder in the last
election, then your position is not only wrong, it's not even yours. You
have been trained to have this thought, so the money is in understanding why.

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/09/the_nanny_state_didnt...
Any one of the pieces of literature they've produced? On Intelligence, or the whitepaper. They both go into detail about the structures they've found in the brain, and how their neural network corresponds to them.
Airbnb host's horror as squatter takes over
> You seem to be very confused about the rest of the stuff so I'm not going to bother addressing it.

I really wish you would, since that's the substance of the comment, and I'm pretty sure I'm not actually confused -- though perhaps you disagree. (Note that your disagreeing, and my being "very confused" are not actually the same thing.) And you should do a little more thinking about what constitutes a "negative" externality -- sometimes it is clear that it constitutes a cognizable economic "cost," but other cases are no so clear cut.

Here is some recommended reading: http://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=... Especially page 911. The point is not just that a value judgment is necessary to determine whether something is a cost or benefit (though sometimes it is) but also that a value judgment is needed to determine whether a would-be externality is the sort of thing that a person or entity should be expected to internalize.
"Introducing Logic: A Graphic Guide" isn't bad for a beginner: http://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Logic-Graphic-Guide-ebook/...
Seems like a good time to test it. After all, it's not absurd that you might need it in other nervous circumstances during the job.
It's a continuum of how much checking/proving you want to do.

Assuming that all Monoid instances obey the monoid laws is a pretty reasonable thing to do even if you haven't proven every single instance yourself. It's the same as assuming that a Set<T> in e.g. Java actually obeys the set abstraction: has no duplicates, ordering is not guaranteed, etc. In practice the laws associated with type classes are a bit better specified in Haskell via either terse (algebraic) documentation or default implementations of associated functions. It would perhaps be nice if libraries which export type classes came with test functions that could be used to test your instances using some sort of QuickCheck-like approach.

Though I've personally found that Haskell is sufficient at least my purposes, Idris currently seems the most "practical" of the dependently typed languages, but it's quite young and doesn't really have any ecosystem to speak of AFAICT.
>There's almost always a good argument for any given thing, and often several.

And if there aren't better arguments for the other things, then those are the things that should be done. If you're telling me that there are almost always equally good arguments for every possible choice in all decisions that are made, I'm disagreeing with that. If that's not what you're saying, I don't know what you're saying.

>It's sometimes useful to be able to say "yes, there is a huge pile of good arguments in favor of X here. And I don't have time to address each one. But it's important to note that the author of this pile of good arguments stands to make a great deal of money if people believe X, regardless of its truth."

It may be important to note, but it's not argumentation. If it's a good argument, accept that it's a good argument and move on. Just because people have a financial interest in an outcome doesn't mean that their arguments for that outcome are tainted in some undetectable way that can't be revealed by examining the argument itself. The personal stake in the outcome could have been initiated by a belief in the validity of the argument, rather than the opposite.

>It's kind-of like how you rarely trust the implicit or explicit claims in super long infomercials, even without examining the veracity of the evidence for the commercial's claims, or taking the time to think up counter-claims.

You don't need to attack the person making the argument or the medium delivering the argument in order to question its premises.
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Was I the only one that thought it was appropriate to place a photo containing a number of Lego life vests at the top of the article?

As a side note: Though a small fraction of the total transported, 675 containers a year floating around the ocean scares the bejesus out of me as an offshore sailor. The fact that many are partially submerged and flow with currents that are unpredictable makes the idea of crossing the channel quite harrowing for anybody without a steel hull.
Most of airbnb's listings in many of their most popular cities are done illegally. It's kind of the m.o. of airbnb. Take a look at Manhattan and do a search for 'whole apt'. Every single one of those is illegal unless the owner has a bed and breakfast license (the one or two that do will mention the fact that they do). When you run the numbers by searching the 'own room' and 'shared room', you realize that over 50% of airbnb's Manhattan listings are illegal. So, why would you trust a company that runs a mostly-illegal apartment rental service?
I have used Kayako on several projects:

http://kayako.com
The block on URLs is actually there to prevent prospective guests and hosts from just arranging an informal booking off site and cutting AirBNB out of the picture. It's the same reason you can't send phone numbers or email addresses in chat messages until after they pay.
Using Irmin to add fault-tolerance to the Xenstore database
What blameless really means
They should bring back the Turtle and Logo. This drive towards "programming" is too narrowly defined.

With a robot for drawing you can really do a wide range of curricular activities and inspire those who never even thought they would be programming. You can get budding artists, mathematicians, roboticians, managers and note takers collaborating to affect the real world through a moving thing. You can even make it play music.

How it used to be done :

http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/pubs/logoupdate/v4n3...
wtfjs hasn't been updated in almost a year.
How to get a Facebook group restriction with a normal image
Thanks for suggesting Folyo! The fact that it wasn't on the list already makes me think I'm not doing my job well enough...
I can't understand how they think this is OK.
There used to be an rpmbootstrap-like tool for using on Xen RPM-based guests, though it was never as reliable as debootstrap in my experience.

Nicely done, I'll have to try it.