skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Airbnb is targeted at tourism, and passersby. End of discussion. It has zero effect on long-term apartment rental. The only 'disruption' this is causing is to the rip-off merchants in the old-school hospitality industry, who have been gouging tourists since time immemorial.

This kind of nonsense is almost guaranteed to be backed by big business hotel chains.

In response, I will double down on my commitment to spend time in more Airbnbs, and not at hotels.
I can't leave my socks on the floor anymore because Roomba will eat them.
I wouldn't be quite so pessimistic. ES6 isn't finished yet- and I'd say it would be expected for some vendors to take another 6-12 months to add all new features after a finished spec is published.

This is pretty much what happened with ES5, right?
Such strong language, and such vitriol.

If you really believe this, you need to recognize that sometimes the best people are fleeing a bad situation -- a situation that they were a victim of.

I don't really know the details of what happened at KP, but I am not surprised that discrimination (deliberate or otherwise) exists in venture capital. Did it happen to her? I don't know. Will the real truth ever come out? Probably not. Are there multiple versions of the real truth? Probably.

But you are calling for her termination. For something unrelated to her current job. Her resume and academic achievements place her in the exceptionally accomplished category, so to casually describe her as toxic, without first-hand experiences, seems antagonistic and trollish, at best.

She can't control what an anonymous Reddit employee might or might not do. That's no reason to fire her.
When we bought our house, the seller paid for our agent as well as theirs.
OK, I haven't read all the comments yet, and, sadly, when I texted the Magic number, I was wait listed, but I think this is a great idea and will definitely use it if prices are fair.
I don't do this because then the text is not formatted. If I type something up, I can easily copy and paste it. For figures, maybe it makes sense, but not for large text files
It is not just this. It is also that RHEL 6 will have libfoo4, while Ubuntu 14.04 will have libfoo6, and then Debian Wheezy will have libfoo5. Even if the way the packages dependencies were expressed (libfoo-1-3 vs. libfoo3) were the same, the constant ABI breakage would be harmful.
If you want to send that tail output to your browser here is a little app I released last week:

http://dougmart.in/projects/pagepipe
The key management and signing needs to be fluid so that people can use their gpg on multiple boxes with minimal effort. I'm a big supporter of the idea of crypto but it has never had enough critical mass amongst my peers to be functional. This article does have some good insight into the problem. There are a lot of seamless peer to peer encryption apps but none of them are independent of a service provider in the way gpg could be and any good solution should.
VC firms are to technology businesses as Berkshire Hathaway is to journalism as owner of the The Buffalo News.

This is if anything an indictment of venture capital firms.
Thanks. I am delighted to see Perforce has a free version for <20 users, which applies to us. I will evaluate it.
Show HN: WebCryptoAPI Live Table and Examples
Ask HN: Is it ok to store illegal content on the cloud for private use?
I have a plan to build a service that allow people to store/upload their song/recorded sound on cloud, so they can play it anywhere. This service is intended for private use, so there is no sharing feature on it. But I'm concerned that someone will upload illegal/pirated content to the app. Will I get sued by record labels/music company for my app in the future?

*sorry for bad english
There's no way to write a law like this that isn't open to horrific abuse. If investors are going to be held responsible for their management's criminal activities, the law isn't just going to be used in Silicon Valley. I don't want to be held liable the next time I buy a few hundred shares of a company whose managers fuck up and (defraud mortgage borrowers|turn NJ into a superfund site|whatever).

I'm generally very supportive of your observations about the feudal nature of Silicon Valley -- but this isn't one of your finest moments.
Was Alan Turing right about mechanism behind tiger stripes?
This does sound a bit worse, but Superfish also makes many self-signed and invalid certs into valid ones.

When Superfish finds a bad cert it corrupts the main name, but leaves Subject Alternative Names intact on a shiny new 'valid' certificate.
However here comes the big flaw: PrivDog will intercept every certificate and replace it with one signed by its root key. And that means also certificates that weren't valid in the first place. It will turn your Browser into one that just accepts every HTTPS certificate out there, whether it's been signed by a certificate authority or not.

Superfish does this too, actually.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9078536
Of course, Comodo has done some bad things in the past: http://dottech.org/10032/paying-a-price-to-use-free-software... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/03/comodo_group_...

(FYI, I'm @TheWack0lian on twitter, and have helped investigate the whole superfish/komodia thing. I also helped to verify Privdog. There's an IRC channel currently being used to corraborate knowledge about this stuff that I set up: irc.ringoflightning.net #kekmodia)
> There's no `cargo install` command, but I think it's only a matter of time. :-)

https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/1318
lisper, you're obviously a pretty smart guy or gal. But your nit-picking here over 'observing' vs 'happening' is so far from your original very bold claim that the arrow of time is not thermodynamic but quantum. You even went so far to say the original article was 'misleading' because of this.

I had to call you on this. Bold claims require strong confirmation. And even the arxiv paper you linked to makes the same statement that I defended - that irreversibility of purely quantum processes is still due to the macroscopic (ie large) system size, which immediately implies the same broad thermodynamic (and statistical ensemble) considerations we've been assuming for the past century.
Does it have to be low wage? What if people are paid a base wage but also got a percentage of the fee? Those that truly became experts at finding a service/product that matched the customer's request could become increasingly proficient.

As for the "low wage jobs" comments, I'd pick this over being an Amazon warehouse automaton!
> How can something be "flat out not true" if it's only an interpretation?

I think that chakademus meant that it is flat-out not true that "the standard interpretation … is that there is some kind of instant communication happening between the two particles" (notice the scope of the quotation marks); that is, that this is not the standard interpretation, not that this interpretation is 'wrong' (whatever that means).
I founded a KP backed company during those years. I'm not longer involved, so I don't have a stake in this. Likewise, I don't have any specific knowledge of the events.

At the partners' meeting and other interactions, Pao seemed uninterested and out of place. Their culture seemed to be intense, friendly, joking debate. I don't think it's a gender thing, as I remember Meeker and Lee being incredibly helpful.

This whole thing made more sense to me when I read http://nypost.com/2012/06/11/of-love-and-lottsa-lawsuits/ and http://nypost.com/2015/02/18/case-builds-against-former-ny-h....

(To be fair, the alternate hypothesis is that they had already hurt her so badly that she checked out b/c of their actions or that I just saw some off days.)
Honestly, it wasn't all that bad - I had to do a little customization in the app.js script that gets generated on creation of a new Sails.js scaffold (added require('babel/register') before var sails = require('sails') ), and then created a simple browserify grunt task & inserted it into the pipeline. I hijacked the views folder for all of my React code, and exposed every React component via a top level script, including the router, so I could make use of all of them for custom code in both the server and client.

For the models with Sails, I haven't touched that yet - the plus side for me is that there is no schema yet, so I am still free to set everything up in the database as I wish. If you need to configure relations, there are details listed here: http://sailsjs.org/#!/documentation/concepts/ORM/Association... (check the types of associations listed in the sidebar on the left)
Wallaby.js hits v1.0: node/io.js, ES6, React JSX, Require.js and much more
Because battery swap stations or other machinery would do the heavy lifting
What do you mean "Did something happen to you?" The comment by moc is a pretty standard moc comment.

(Just curious to know what you meant)
For what it's worth, my dad's diesel Nissan Patrol is about 20 years old now and still running fine. I mean, it's a bit clunky, but it does the job - and the 4wd has got me through some snowy roads, too. Good car. Beyond fuel economy, I don't see why that car needs to be decommissioned any time soon.

So today's cars already last for "decades".
Why Black Holes Barf Scorching Winds of High-Energy X-Rays
The Scariest Spacewalks in History
They used to be good about it. Now there are lot of old, inactive accounts that aren't removed.
> simple tasks which are primarily IO

This is primarily what I use functional languages for so far, so naturally I disagree. As long as their aren't stringent performance requirements (though functional languages like Ocaml and Haskell are pretty fast) I find functional languages to be a generally better fit.

Also parsing and string handling in C is worlds more difficult than something like Parsec using parser combinators.
Secrecy around “Stingray” police surveillance equipment proves a case’s undoing
Many people here are making the argument that this is more efficient than opening up an app or going to a UI. However after looking at one poster's times of actually using the service, it seems like the opposite. (http://brianbeck.com/images/magic-times.png)

For someone who gets really overwhelmed by too many texts, this seems like a lot of back and forth compared to just googling to find the number of the restaurant and ordering.
I agree that you are legally compelled to pay taxes, but why do you say that you are morally compelled to do so?

Democracy is a kind of majority rule, isn't it?

If the majority votes to take 50% of my income in taxes, and uses the money to start wars around the world, I stumble when it comes to saying I'm morally obligated to pay those taxes.

Thoughts?
You can have something like this in your .bashrc:

multitail() {
com="tail -f "

for arg; do
IFS=':' read -a array <<< "$arg"
host="${array[0]}"
file="${array[1]}"

com="$com <(ssh -t $host 'tail -f $file')"
done

eval ${com}
}

This will take the host:file syntax of remtail and turn it into Plugawy's example. I haven't tested it, but if you echo "$com" it'll spit out Plugawy's code.
What, seriously, the names of your variables matter? And this is seen as a good thing?
So you're putting "biases aside", but yet you're suggesting that the board should terminate her immediately, without any investigation. And they should do this because there's one source, anonymous, alluding that she may not have treated Reddit employees properly...

Seriously, I wouldn't call this a well-thought and balanced position, which is the minimum you'd expect from your board.
Simulating Monty Hall: data beats intuition. Sometimes
I Still disagree. Theoretically you should be right, but try telling a huge bureaucracy they need to lay off half their employees, managers, account execs, etc. because the whole supply chain is shifting.

Things are not as rational as many think. Huge bureaucracies fight for stasis, as if governed by inertia. It's true even if they are dying. Look at Kodak, Commodore Computer, Radio Shack, etc.
My company runs Gitlab in-house, and we've integrated it with Redmine and Slack. It works great. Thanks Gitlab!
The was an awesome write up!

That said I disagree with the last paragraph on 2 points. People can know what they want whilst being unhappy. Often seeking XYZ is the source of unhappiness.

Additionally there is an additional external source which is important to note; what people around you have. This is know to effect peoples happiness. If a person see's people around them with more/less this creates a level of expectation to the 'metric of success' people judge them-self by.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100322092057.ht...
As a Dutchman, I want to point out that you can multiply those prices by about 1.5 unless you like to shop around a lot, have access to some extra cheap streetmarket place, or the vegetables in question happen to be in season (which is not right now, for most vegetables). A cucumber is 89 cents at the AH, last I checked.

Street markets are cool, but they happen to cost me over 30 minutes to shop (lots of impressions), and are not any of my regular bike routes. They do indeed have cheap veggies but you need to walk around and check to get the good deals, which I am usually too tired to do at the times I ride past them. So I often choose to use a supermarket anyway, where I know what I can get, where it is, and get out within 10 minutes or so.
pssh is great.

You'll want -i to avoid the buffered output that would make the log output hard to read.

And if your command doesn't contain anything that you need to escape from the shell, you don't need to quote the command.

And finally, since it implements BSD-style short flags correctly, so you can do "-Pi" instead of "-P -i".

Handy with a pre-defined list of hosts, too:

pssh -Pi -H "hosts.txt" tail -f /var/log/haproxy.log

or a specific set of hosts:

pssh -Pi -H `cat hosts.txt | grep prod` tail -f /var/log/haproxy.log
> "I don't want to be held liable the next time I buy a few hundred shares of a company whose managers fuck up"

how is this fair? we want investors to make intelligent decisions, right? not just play roulette?
From my perspective, that id was not being used by you, and someone who wanted to use that name wanted it and apparently is using it. Twitter wants active people to use their service and so they now have another active person using their service because they took something that I guess legally belongs to them (I have no idea what the legalities are here, just assuming) and gave it to someone else to use that makes their service better.

I'd be pissed for a minute, but I'm curious if you feel you had some sort of claim to that name? If I were in your position maybe I would feel differently. I'm just curious to hear what exactly makes you angry.
I'm not talking about applying the law to everyone who owns shares. That would be ridiculous, and would take down a large number of employees.

I should have clarified. I want career-making, lead investors to be liable. The people who created Evan Spiegel should be held responsible if he creates a company with a discriminatory culture. Not everyone who holds a few hundred shares; just people who either played a role, by investing, in creating the thing. In other words, investor-bosses, not all investors.

I wouldn't necessarily apply this to all crimes and, in fact, I'd be willing to have a law that only applies to civil claims, since civil court is where most of these cultural failures end up. I'm not going to say that I know all the details of how it should work; only that something needs to hold investors, as managers because that is what they are, responsible for the cultures of the companies they create.
Absolutely they do. That's the major benefit of object orientation: named properties and methods.

Otherwise, we fall into exactly the "boolean trap" that the author links away to. [1]

[1] http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2011/08/hall-of-api-shame-boolean-t...
Yes, that "average developers" part is the important bit. Not sure what your point is here. The parent was talking about their experience in porting C++ code to Java, noting a performance improvement. In terms of performance, you don't use a language like C++ because it is going to be faster than everything else out there in all cases, you use it because you can eek out more performance than you can in using a language such as Java.
Step 1) Be important and influential
Step 2) Don't be unimportant and uninfluential
The best "free" Comodo app was their firewall. Now it seems far better to pay for a corporate non-expiring/no-nonsense host-based fw, i.e., CheckPoint Endpoint firewall which used to be similar (shared code for a time) to ZoneAlarm. (ZA is what we used at the UCD netsec grad lab, because it was free.) There are others (Symantec SEP). (Yes, host-based endpoint protection is mostly a feel-good joke on the user.)
If bar() or fiz() return undefined (i.e. don't return at all), then you will still get the same error as usual undefined is not an object, I reckon.
Thanks to C/C++, there's no end of grousing on the web about the dangers of a lack of memory safety. Coverage of the other security issues that can crop up in a language -- for example race conditions or buffer reuse -- seems to get shorter shrift.

Are you aware of a good writeup which covers all of these different classes of threats in an organized way? I'd love to see something that categorizes everything that we have to worry about at a PL level. Bonus points if it points to languages that solve the given problem or research toward doing so.
If this is correct, this is really a big thing!

It seems, everybody on the internet isn't caring anymore about security or is totally ignorant. Comodo as certificate authority should care about internet security and should know better.

Who should trust certs anymore or trust the trust-chain, when even the certs don't care?
This painting is fantastic, and it's great to see it unpacked on Wikipedia.

I made an app to learn more about art[1], and from looking at old works it's clear many of our modern concerns are timeless--hunger, greed, jealousy, human beauty, ecstasy, joy, desire for wealth. It's both reassuring and humbling.

A vaguely similar work is The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch[2]. It is, depending on interpretation, either a warning of human temptations, or detailing a sort of sixteenth-century Burning Man (paradise lost).

1. http://artfulmac.com

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights
I see, I've added a little explanation of what it does. I apologize for my mistake of not clarifying what this little project does.
A bit late, but thanks for mentioning this. I just finish reading it. I hadn't heard of it previously, and it was well worth the time.
Could it be that women are leaving every equivalent industry in droves? Maybe educated technical women are likely to value things outside of their career a few years in?

I live in my own little bubble, but personally I see nothing but love for technically capable women. Sure, everyone loves to play immature every now and again and make crude jokes. This includes women, but generally I feel like everyone I work with and around would be delighted to have more diverse insight in their technical projects.
I've driven plenty of gas cars, including a bunch of recent vintage, that couldn't go 300 miles on a full tank.
Why Tabs  Spaces
Oauth logins possible didn't think of that, not direct messages though as isn't following anyone. After 7+ years I strongly suspect it isn't used for logins either, but could be wrong.
Well, I agree with it. "Anything you want, just give us your credit card number". No explanation of who they are or why I should trust them. Hell, they even accept Bitcoin!
Then check out Iron.rs and Nickel.rs - web-frameworks in Rust :)
Yes, Rust is more complicated language but sometimes you are ready to pay this price just to get back joy of programming. And at some point in time, bugs in runtime (because of types or memory safety or race conditions) becomes so annoying, that you are ready to be thankful to any tool which can find them on compilation, even with price of more verbose code. "Typing is not a bottleneck".
This is a good point. I should clarify, Siri technology could do this. I have tried Siri many times and most of the problems seem to revolve around it understanding what I'm saying. Plus it's almost always easier to just do things myself. The scenario Magic is trying to handle seems actually better tuned to the Siri technology than Siri the product.
The question is not so much availability of materials as it is the availability of materials out of Earth's gravity well. If you are able to extract materials and build stuff on the moon, launching them into space is then subject to a much nicer "rocket equation". It's not a question of price, either. Building and launching from the moon enables new possibilities.
I'm pretty sure you're barking up a long and complex tree. The first problem (for xsv) is that it doesn't control the csv data. So it doesn't know what changes were made. It could have even become an invalid csv file.

The second problem is that insertions in sorted sequences are hard and are one of the fundamental problems in a database implementation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree#The_database_problem
> Perhaps the higher reported rates of happiness simply reflect the fact that faster places have more robust economies. But the relationship between income and reported happiness is far from obvious. According to the “Easterlin paradox” (named after economist Richard Easterlin), once people have enough money to meet their basic needs, having more money is not necessarily correlated with higher self-reported happiness.

This is pretty thoroughly debunked. I don't think there is any debate on this.

Even lighter interpretations that it taps out at quite high figures ($80,000+) I'm pretty sure are also found incorrect.

Last I saw happiness slows a fair bit around $80,000 but still continues to increase with wage.

Places that are faster also allow more experiences. Experiences are known to be linked to happiness. Throw in better economies I think this is more logical.
Curious why you think it's crank material (and why my comment warrants a downvote btw). I've read most Steven Pinker's books as well. Miller's is mostly a rehash of other people's research along with some speculation and opinion on his part, but he clearly states so. In any case, the reference does not invalidate my rebuttal of the parent comment.
I like SpiderOak.

Every platform i've tried it on has worked okay.
No, I actually agree with him insofar as such a law would require a definition of "investor" that doesn't hold small, passive investors responsible.

If you're a VC and you fund a frat boy and he creates a discriminatory culture, you should be held financially liable for any sexual harassment cases that come against him, because you created the startup (and, often, his career) and you were his manager, even if the corporate structure allows you to deny the fact on technicalities. (At least, let me go this far: you should be as liable as his manager would be, meaning that you fall hard if you knew or should have known.) If you're an employee who exercised his options, you shouldn't be liable for management's fuckups.
You kinda missed the point. Someone reading a book on html night stumble upon a kinda sorta correct response.
Neat ! Here is a cool visualization: http://blog.vctr.me/monty-hall/
It sounds like PrivDog is slightly worse. Superfish tries to verify the cert and provide an invalid cert if the original one is invalid, but it overlooks SubjectAltNames [1]. So if you know about this, you can make it produce a valid certificate.

By the sounds of it, PrivDog doesn't verify the cert at all - even if it gets a totally invalid cert, it will produce a valid one for that domain.

The distinction is largely academic, though. If you have either Superfish or PrivDog, any attacker who knows what they're doing can MITM your HTTPS connections.

[1] https://blog.filippo.io/komodia-superfish-ssl-validation-is-...