skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Charging more than you say is not a 'hidden fee' it is fraud. Hiding the fee in the total price is exactly a 'hidden fee'.

To this point, look at @exogen's extremely helpful demo of the service he posted. Can you tell how much the fee was? I was curious, so I actually went to Octo Sushi's site and tried to mock up a fake similar order, and I couldn't figure out if there even was a fee added on top of Octo's price or not.
can I just say, "Oops! Faulty script."?

Yes, probably. IANAL but otherwise no automated crawling service could exist and they clearly do.
If there was no rent control/stabilization artificially limiting housing supply, AirBNB would not be an issue. A big part of the "problem" is simple arbitrage between very cheap subsidized rents and prices the tourist market can bear.
> FFC didn't make a big deal out of gender

You mean by putting "Female" in the title?

This is plain gender discrimination.
The first response was basically "no, we don't have that feature", which I think is an acceptable answer. If other providers have that feature, then you're free to use them. A company doesn't have to implement any feature users ask for.

If you want me to be an independent judge, then the customer is the pushy and somewhat insulting one. For my product I would have (maybe) given you money back and wished you a good day. Any further discussion with the customer would have been wasted time.
Ah right you would have to MITM the SSL connections.
Really? What are these better versions?
Tech worker here who lived in the valley and frequented SF often. I ventured elsewhere about 3 years ago and recently visited friends for a week to decided if I want to come back. The city has definitely changed.. The valley has definitely changed. Cultured has definitely fled. Egos have definitely gone through the roof. People have definitely become more impatient and unfriendly (esp in SF). If I come back, I would live in either Oakland or Berkeley. The city looks a lot more worn (aside from the newly minted millionares who have refurbished the Victorian homes in SF). Things have become a lot more homogeneous (not in a good way) and scaled up to meet the expectations of the monied. I have several friends who have lived in the valley for about 10 years who are currently looking to go up to either Seattle/Portland or move out to Austin. Female friends who comment about the nature of attitudes of males in the valley and how they don't feel they can find a level headed husband... And this all has to do w/ tech.

New Money .. Egos .. and ever escalating rent/property values putting even more pressure on expression, culture, art, and the 'chill' atmosphere that was hallmark of SF. The new types I could imagine enjoy it very much and the bay still has much to offer everyone.

It is what it is. However, this time around (2015), individuals thankfully have more choices around America and the world to pursue a tech minded career. If the bay area doesn't excite you anymore, I highly suggest getting out of there and seeing other parts of the world and not just for vacation. I am constantly shocked at how much more I have begun to enjoy art/culture/music venues/socialization/biking/nature after having left the bay. People tend to drink the kool-aid while in the bay and believe it is the only and best place on earth. Maybe that is a good thing as it keeps the hidden gems from getting flooding w/ money.

I've gotten a chance to live in a city that was on the rise and have carefully observed the way in which money has influenced the way it is shaped... Stuffy SOHO mixed use development condos priced at $300k+ .. art that i paid $70 for now goes for $600 ... Tinderfication of dating (everyone becomes a transaction). Drowning out of culture/expression.

I guess it seems wise to me, from my experience, to simply move around and enjoy cities in their prime. Life is too short to sit around playing bidding wars for culture/housing and endure the snotty attitudes/foolishness therein.

There is no reason to get hostile in objection to these truths. The SF/bay area of today is not the SF of yesteryear. Culture is absent. People are more tense. The goal is to cram people in like sardines (much to the ignorance of what the Nimbies wanted to preserve). Money talks is the new motto ...

I don't even want to get into the race (doesn't apply if you're white/Asian) and gender issues that have become even more pronounced.

I will be quite thankful if the next revolution in tech is not spawned from the bay area. Maybe it will focus more on actually improving society vs the current trajectory of monetizing people w/o compensation.
Is it still Windows only? I work in a mixed environment of Android, Windows, OSX, and Linux.
I view the JVM choice as a pragmatic choice to encourage wider adoption rather than a technical choice. Possibly it eased implementation too having a high-quality GC, but overall the drawbacks are quite severe, because they outright preclude Clojure from being used in situations outside the "long-running server process" use case.

It is even possible that he viewed the JVM as a stopgap to be abstracted out when and if the language got popular. It seems they are moving in this direction with ClojureScript. Clearly he made this decision thoughtfully and consciously because he was an expert in C++ before he ever wrote a line of Clojure interpreter, and could have made it native if he wanted.

But the argument "Clojure is successful, therefore all his decisions must have been optimal" (caracaturing you a little bit) is obviously false. Replace "Clojure" with "Linux" or even "Windows" and you see the fallacy.
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It's interesting that they used "classic" web scrapping while they could just use their JSON API (just use Charles Proxy when using their mobile app and the API is exposed).

http://insideairbnb.com/behind.html

https://github.com/tomslee/airbnb/blob/master/airbnb.py
FWIW population has increased 3% since 2004.
I'm glad you question the why, it drives me crazy that this rarely gets mentioned. Nothing against IT - I work in it, too. But I also struggle with "finding meaning" a lot. I don't think I ever saved anybody's life. I suspect for example physicians struggle a lot less with the question if what they do is any use at all (apart from the fighting bureaucracy part). Of course you can do great things with IT, but it's certainly not a given, probably not even the norm.
The best source of hydrogen comes from the ground. You pump this stuff out - it's long molecules consisting of a carbon backbone covered in hydrogen. You run it through something called a "reformer" to strip the hydrogen off. The reformer could be put on a car, but it'd be more efficient to do it on an industrial scale.

Actually wait, if you just use a combustion process you can get energy from both the hydrogen and the carbon!

AFAIK there are no other great sources of hydrogen.
I'm talking in the context of this article.
Would OCaml be a better choice than Haskell for the same purpose?
Because everything perl can do python can do better? Okay that is a though claim but perl and python fit about the same area - a dynamically typed scripting language that can take over when that shell script gets too big and all the way up to a full-blown app or website, but you are not going to win any prizes for speed - but python doesn't have all the weird crap that goes along with perl (what exactly does $#% mean again?) and it has everything else.

Perl was a great language in its day but I just don't see a case where are new programmer is better of starting a new project in perl rather than python.
Which explains why politics - which by definition is full of people who have enough status to set national policy - is full of engineers, while the lawyers are left discussing the finer technical points of voir dire on Lawyer News.
Thanks, this makes it clearer. I am re-reading the transcript of Peter Thiel's presentation and it seems like it might be more accurate to say, "competing in non-niche areas is for losers".
It's just comparing time and space by analogy. Instead of two related events separated in time, we have the two ends of the popsicle stick separated in space. Obviously if an event A causes an event B to happen, then changing A will have an effect on B. In the same way, pushing on end A of the popsicle stick will affect end B. But with the Popsicle stick things also work the other way around; pushing on end B affects end A too. The jump is made here: if pushing on end B of the popsicle stick affects end A, then couldn't we imagine changing event B to have an effect on event A (even though A occurs before B)?
Would also be nice if the cp replacement (optionally) checks for available storage space before copying files.
It turns out not to be all that much different, the ratio is about the same http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=perl%20tutorial%2C%20...
Doesn't filing fake DMCA complaint result in criminal charges. Doesn't it also expose you to a civil suit?
No, it doesn't. There's no reason for the proportion of people looking for perl related stuff who use "perl language" as a search term to change over time. That proportion might affect the absolute numbers, but not the trends.
Well, __iter__ was baked into Python decades(?) ago, so there’s no danger anybody might have their own __iter__ methods that mean something else. But now that JS is adding iteration methods to the language, there are lots of libraries and frameworks that have their own incompatible ways of greenspunning these features.

The [Symbol.iterator] expression resolves to a string that is guaranteed to be unique, so there is no possibility of breaking backwards-compatibility with someone who picked the exact same magic name.

(There’s a major headache involved when code crosses execution contexts, I don’t pretend to understand how that works yet.)
I'm sure you are comparing apples to oranges here. Perl mainly is an alternative to shell script. A language for administrators.
Techies are hated because, compared to old money, they seem to be (being young, probably why) self-centered, give no investments in community, are willfully agreeing to live in illegal condo conversion etc. And also, the type of techies who move to SF are more towards libertarian startupniks; humble Indian H1B workers all live in Santa Clara, Milpitas, Campbell etc.
Adding :)
Will add, thanks!
I found it striking in Big Bang Theory how even the smartest scientist is not deemed worthy to date a waitress. Nothing against waitresses, but I think it said a lot about values in society.
Why wouldn't you want sigils?
Perfection! A beautiful hack around not knowing the size of the board, and even faster detecting cycles to boot.
Fair point. And I do appreciate the additional information and links.

From your NY Times article (published May 27, 1999):

Until last Sunday, no government or intelligence agency from the member states had openly admitted to the existence of the UKUSA Agreement or Echelon.

The mutual surveillance / legal evasion possibility appears to be suspected but not demonstrated. Again as with much else, what Snowden's done is to specifically document such activity. Which is of and by itself a material distinction.

European Parliament officials have also expressed concern about the use of Echelon to gather economic intelligence for participating nations.

And:

While few dispute the necessity of a system like Echelon to apprehend foreign spies, drug traffickers and terrorists, many are concerned that the system COULD be abused to collect economic and political information.

(All-caps emphasis added -- minimal HN formatting options have their drawbacks.)

So, I'll maintain that the documentation of such abuse is a New Thing.
Under what definition of closure does python lack them?
I think the customer support at that Wordpress Plugin company was actually quite reasonable - if they use time limited S3 URLs (for presumably paid downloads), that's certainly their choice.

I must be completely misunderstanding something, but why wouldn't you buy the plugin, and then distribute it using your private server (like they suggest)? If the company goes out of business tomorrow, all of your builds will break if you depend on them being available.

I understand relying on RubyGems, NPM, etc., but commercial theme and plugin companies go out of business/switch licensing models/etc. all of the time.
He commented that money DOESN'T give you happiness. It amplifies it once you are happy because it gives you options.
Dear Twitter, could you please do away with the "insane for 2015" 140-character limit?

(Anyone who mentions "legacy clients" can forever hold their peace)
It could mean the public doesn't support the regulation (see: Prohibition) or it could just mean that the regulation is easy to skirt.

Think of building codes. Just because lots of people don't finish their basement to code, doesn't mean it's wrong to have building codes.
Interesting thing is, DNS is structured in much the same way technically. The only difference is that the terms of service of the TLDs say that you own your domain and can sell it... with a bunch of caveats around trademark violations and the law allowing seizures.
Python is often claimed not to have closures but that isn't really true, what it doesn't have is anonymous functions. It does have a lambda statement, but that is limited to a single statement.

So what you end up writing is more akin to:

def multiplier_maker(a):
def temp(b):
return b * a
return temp

That is because Python allows you to declare a function anyware, even inside other functions.
The fact that you use murdering Chinese as an example of the "weirdness" that you promote is truly disgusting. I'm not saying that you support such an act, but to include it in a list of things that you are generally positive towards, without any qualification or disclaimer, indicates the implicit unimportance of Chinese lives, relative to SF's unique culture.
Excess wind and solar power can be used to generate hydrogen from water.
Exactly. If groff were closed-source, the last stable build would be long before 2013.
As I understand it, they claim "under penalty of perjury" only that they own their original work; the claim that the links given actually infringe said work has no such penalty.

My understanding of the logic: It should be relatively easy to tell whether you hold the copyright in a work, unless weird things have happened (see also: SCO). Working out whether a second work is derivative, and if so whether that's fair use? Harder, and the job of a court. That's why it's also really easy to get work re-instated under the DMCA -- at that point, the DMCA has done its bit, failed, and the regular court system takes over.
Is there a good solution to resolving name squatting for web apps?

It seems like the system is broken if someone has to do this.
I Have PostgreSQL Loaded, Now What?
So it's basically:

tail -f <(ssh -t host 'tail -f /var/log/sth') <(ssh -t host2 'tail -f /var/log/sth')

+ I need to install nodejs?
More interesting question is why the JavaScript curve is decaying at the same rate as Perl (add it to the graph and see).
Very nice resource to have in mind. Thanks. I just started reading SICP. Decided to take a short detour to get a better grasp on all this complexity stuff that's hardly elaborated in SICP. Right now I am working through the chapter on Algorithm Efficiency Analysis in Discrete Math and Applications by Susanna Epp.
I am in fact a software engineer. When I lived in the city I had fiends who were social anthologists, post docs from over seas, drag performers, dance studio mangers, red cross workers even a poet. Not single one still lives in the city (even though one of them had a building named after him).

I only make software so that I can have a rich life outside of a cubical among a diverse set of people who can teach me things. In today's San Francisco that sentiment is no only unobtainable but would render a person un-hire-able.
They aren't.....

Some popular shortcuts include:

- Cut at n hops (with n=4 or n=8 popular choices), defaulting to "ambient" light after that

- Give each material an "ambient" color, so that you don't actually need to trace every pixel back into every light source (just into e.g. spotlights)

- Solve a radiosity equation for the surface colors, and trace rays for textures/reflections.

Complete ray tracing is, indeed, insane - in fact, to get high quality pictures and avoid aliasing, most ray tracers send multiple rays through every picture and average the result.
Is there no alternative that saves users' data? Of course there is. But you probably don't want to put anything sensitive into any of them. There's no shortage of bare bones Evernote type services out there. I've been running one for three years without a single user losing data. They tend to forget their usernames and passwords a lot but never the data. (Link in profile, won't plug it here).

I still use Evernote for things I needed to store a long time ago and never ported anywhere else. It boggles that mind that the very core of such a service, writing and reading data from some store, takes a backseat to all the other buttons and gadgets they wrap around it.
I am curious, is he willing to compensate me in case I am infected through ads on my PC/mobile, can he protect my online life from advertisers monitoring and tracking my movements, or any other similar direct or indirect malicious case?

Edit: Also, I believe I have not been informed by a single site ever, saying that "This site uses ads as a revenue source, in case you disagree with the method please move on." Usually it just shaves those ads down my browser and if I don't like it, apparently 'I am the thief'.
Patels move in areas with good schools, such as Fremont; the last thing they need is SF.
How is this characterization of techies different to the reasons someone might give for hating Blacks, Jews or Mexicans? Because it's true? Are you going to require the same standard of evidence for these claims you make about techies, as you would if someone made similar claims about Blacks, Jews or Mexicans?
Saintly police officers do not cure heroin addictions.
This is awesome. I found your site through HN a couple of weeks ago and read through a bunch of your blog posts, which inspired me to take on a remote position. Keep up the great work. :)
> One can suck at, or dislike kickball and shine somewhere else.

The lack of social acceptance, in this context, is related to the desire to play and not being accepted, more than the success at playing. The fact that you are in the the group to participate in kickball, means you, on some level, want/need to play kickball. (You could like kickball or are being forced to play it. In this context, the reason doesn't matter.)

> but get "social acceptance" from their side activities

You can fulfill the generic need elsewhere (like eating fish, instead of hamburger, to satiate your hunger). And, different sources of interactions have different psychological rewards, based on how you view yourself. If you admire self-starter entrepreneur types, do self-starter entrepreneur type things, and, as a result, are treated/seen as, and thus accepted as, a self-starter entrepreneur type. A greater feeling of acceptance and self-confidence is inevitable.

But, to bring it back to my example, you were trying to play kickball, for whatever reason, and they didn't want you to play kickball with them.
I used to own @ipad

For some reason after some time without me using it, I lost access to the account (I don't think it was hacked, I think it was twitter that screwed me over) and some random lady got it. Now it seems in someone elses hand.

I have no idea why it was taken away from me, but I must say to this day, I'm still pissed.
I am also relying on OneNote - Do you know if I can export or backup my data, automaticly?
What were the specifics of the stock shenanigans?
> Why then do copyright holders get a pass for their allegedly faulty scripts where they falsely claim under penalty of perjury that they own something they don't actually own

Among other reasons, because they don't make such a claim under penalty of perjury. The only thing 17 USC 512 actually requires to be "under penalty of perjury" is the statement that you are acting on behalf of a copyright holder. Nothing else in the notice, including the list of alleged infringements, is part of that statement.
A newly rediscovered stash of darker-than-Grimm fairy tales
Did that open in Excel for you? It wouldn't for me...
Very timely, I'm currently working on an oauth provider and client in Flask.

Having a single library for all Python oauth clients is a great idea.

IMO, simplifying the use of oauth in a library that is widely used and reviewed is way better than leaving it to individual implementers.
How pervert security guards stalk women via CCTV
How does Perls regex stand up against Python? I mean once Perl was the pearl of regex/text processing (The Common Lisp package that everybody uses for regexis pcre, Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) but that was a long time ago.
I use Crashplan, which is a little slower and clunkier than other services but keeps infinite versions of files, including deleted files (unlike Backblaze).
It's clear that the customer support rep has no training in customer relations, or at least doesn't care about customer satisfaction. It's rather obviously a bad business practice to engage in this kind of conversation with a customer.

That said, you definitely picked this fight. You got a direct answer to a direct question and then moved the conversation in a confrontational direction. "FYI, in 2015, that’s absolutely TERRIBLE."

I also don't think you're doing the world any good by not revealing what company this is. Why don't you let us judge for ourselves how bad things are?
There are apps for all platforms except Linux, but you could use the web interface there.

I'm using it on Windows (desktop version, not the app) and Android and it works pretty well.
Maybe this is too idealistic, but I would hope that conference attendees could relate because they are interested in the subject of the conference. It's disturbing that in practice, being a bird of a feather is exclusively defined in demographic terms. I have very little in common with most other people of my demographics, especially as pertains to my interests.

I want disproportionate representation - by people who are interested in the subject and are not just there to sell something or whatever.
I was reading through the comments and was thinking exactly what you have concluded. I currently spend my time horribly inefficiently, so I shouldn't be the one to complain. The problem for me is that I've chosen a task that shuts almost everybody out of my life (unless I give up or I can muster up the focus and discipline to progress). I am also unemployed, which really further shuts people out of my life. I'm not busy at all, yet too busy to build relationships because I won't get my work done.

I also feel like, at least in my field and the fields I am interested in, that you NEED other people to grow. Even if you are sitting alone just reading books or online resources, that is still using something created by other people. On the other hand, I am sure there is some raw creative power in complete isolation, it's just not a productive nor quick way to progress.

Anyways, my loneliness is definitely the most urgent motivation I have to work towards growth, employment and subsequently money for me to spend on making myself more socially appealing and probably a more efficient user of my time.
This is a great adjustment.

Another one (which IE may have stopped doing in recent versions) is the annoying translation of exceptions.

O servidor Automation não consegue criar o objeto -- anyone? :)