skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think as airbnb starts to be more about capitalized companies purchasing and then renting residential properties we might come to remember why it was we have zoning laws in the first place.

It all seems fine and dandy(not so much if you live next to someone aggressively renting) when you have rich neighborhoods renting to rich transients ("professionals" in the article).

Whats the impact in poor and middle class neighborhoods having their transient population massively increased by airbnb slumlords?
Yep, Radium looks pretty cool for dynamic styling.
Yep... unless that doesn't count as a "talk" for some reason.
How to Be More Productive by Using the 'Eisenhower Box'
The BugHerd remedy
I have twice had to jump out of the way of an unmarked NYC police car that turned on its lights and sirens and ran a red as I was crossing the street.

I also always look both ways crossing one way streets as I've almost been clipped by a police car going the wrong way down one.
Your own links don't support such a strong claim. At best the strongest claim you can make is that the name might have some correspondence with the name of Canaanite Gods, but you have zero information on the direction of the influence.

Your own links make no claim at all that the religion itself has any relationship with the Canaanite religions.

Regarding the direction, do not forget that Abraham was very active in the region, and proselytized extensively. It is hardly surprising if the Canaanites took some concepts from him.
Lack of PPAs are one of the reasons I bounce back to Arch and Gentoo from Debian.
I was oversimplifying, since firms with multiple funds are doing a mix of investing and harvesting at any given time. What you say is more precise - it's more accurate to view the 2/20 as base salary and bonus, especially since the former is much more predictable.
Watch all thesis presentations from the Interactive Telecommunications Graduate Program at NYU - live streaming. Some great projects
It's a myth that poor people drive. They depend on biking, walking, bumming rides from their friends and relatives, and public transportation.
Argh, the Win8 PDF viewer is so infuriating. It seems to only have two zoom levels: 100%, and grid of thumbnails. Great if I want to only see a bit of a page or all of then very small, but not so much when I just want to view a whole page on the screen. Which I would have thought would be a fairly basic task. For a document viewer.

Happy to hear if I'm wrong though.
Do it I say. It's better than Russia doing it.
Try playing a 1080p video on youtube on it :)
That's not the problem it is trying to solve. The problem description is: drivers cause accidents.
I accidentally gave you an upvote (I'm a noob at this UI) and I can't figure out how to take it back. Please read the thing you are replying to before replying next time.
I stayed in a lovely little house in Kyoto recently, so they do exist.
> And you think it's perfectly ok

No; more than one thing is not ok.

HN's values aren't "cooey and cuddly", they're "civil and substantive". That leaves plenty of room for criticism, so I'm not really seeing the worry here.
I suspect passengers will be dropped off and the car will take itself to an automated parking lot. Likely pull onto a platform and get parked in a dense vertical 'parking farm'. Alternatively it could be put in 'rental mode' for x hours.

However if it is a taxi, it will likely go on to its next fare.
The police can subpoena Google's records, and now Google is just a proxy for the police.
> Since I didn't use a standalone provider, I didn't go that route. But I DO know that you've changed specs here and are barking against the wrong tree. A RAR is JCA and MDB is EJB, we were talking about JMS here.

Yes, and the only way of listening to a queue without polling or blocking in Java EE that JMS supports in through an MDB. The way you plug a custom JMS provider into Java EE is through a RAR. The way you connect the RAR to the MDB is undefined because "expert group" can't be bothered.

> Take a look at this article: http://robertpanzer.github.io/blog/2014/inboundra-nointfmdbs....

A very good explanation of what's wrong with JMS. The class to be notified and the configuration is the same file. If this was a host you would have the hostname and port of the message broker in the listener class file.

> Hey, if you have some ideas why not file a JIRA issue?

I personally spoke to the spec lead at JavaOne and he couldn't be bothered.

> Do you have a link to the issues you filed? I'm rather curious now.

Did you or did you not personally file a single issue?
I find your post somewhat detuned from reality. For instance, jaywalking is rarely a crime. Also, jaywalking becoming a thing was precisely related to cars becoming federated to the "poor folks with little political power" because in many communities, there is heavy car traffic that was prioritized over walking due to damn near everyone having at least one car.
TTL's given by the Fibonacci sequence?
> One of Debian's (many) advantages vs. Ubuntu is that there isn't an ecosystem of poorly maintained but easily found packages around the core.

Context: I'm a full-time Debian user.

I firmly believe that the future is not around packaging as we've been conceiving of it for the last decade or so, but around packaging in the form of containers[0]. As a Debian user, I'd be really happy to see Debian keep an eye towards containerization as a a first-class citizen of the distribution, the way apt(itude) and dpkg are now.

PPAs can either fit into this model or work against it, depending on how you look at it. They can either enable the creation of containers by virtue of being more flexible and more easily used inside container builds, or they can serve as a crutch for low-quality packaging standards. So, I'd be excited for PPAs in Debian, but I'd like to see them adopted as a tool to facilitate first-class containerization in Debian, rather than the way they are used in Ubuntu more as a place to hold unsupported or less-supported packages.

[0] Not necessarily Docker or even Docker-like containers, but containers nonetheless.
Funny analogy but it doesn't quite work here. Driverless cars are still cars. They both still use the same roads and infrastructure.
They could also make money building and shipping products. Wonder which one they'll pick
I'm a YC alum myself. There was no such checkbox the last time I made a recommendation, but that was a while ago, so it may have changed.
Yes, I am. Graceful degradation is a wonderful thing. Shame so many devs simply don't care.
Rainbows End by Vinge, 2007 or so. They didn't stop, they just avoided you.
People behave very differently online and offline
It sorta kinda might, if the cars have high utilization and don't need to park at their passengers' destinations.
You have any data to back that up? Seems airbnb at least at first was for the more adventurus who are already traveling.
Scattered remains of a huge alien spaceship?

( Sadly it is probably just ice. )
My own guiding principle here is that everyone deserves a life in dignity, unemployed or employed. You are of course completely correct that we also suck at insuring that for the unemployed.

I mean, I’m more than happy to consider solutions to this problem that tackle the problem of unemployment as a whole, not just this small part we just considered. I think finding a general solution would definitely be even better and thinking about this problem (e.g. basic income) definitely often tends to consider unemployment as a whole.
Why would they use OAP as apposed to their own blockchain based system?
We're a Zambian Band: tracking down a forgotten rock star in Zambia's Copperbelt
Oh, better not let the poor or even middle class use the same tools and get the same advantages of us rich elite.

Only professionals can act with responsibility, we must task our politicians and police to put down any attempts by the poor to improve their lot in life.
The plan for Debian PPAs is for them to be quite different than the ones from Ubuntu, they will be available only for those that already have upload privileges. They will be a sort of compartimentalized experimental, with no different builders network and no need for a reupload to push to unstable/testing.
The AUR is a little different than a PPA. Yes, both are user generated content not officially supported by the project. However at least in the AUR there is a centralized place for these packages, and an entity behind the AUR platform that can curate bad/malicious/negligent packages out.

PPA's have a bad wrap for being, well... bad. Any user, anywhere. Here today, server gone tomorrow. Outdated blog posts from years ago with dead links, or bad advice/packages. It's not uncommon for a PPA to break a system.

The AUR is more similar to rpmfusion repo or epel repo (centralized and somewhat governed). Where PPA's are just like tarballs on some random-joe's blog.
Build them out of skyscrapers.
To count all the ants in the world? Presumably the rub is that you have to wait for all the ants in the world to become "well mixed", which is unlikely to happen before the ants die.
I have an issue with the efficiency argument. Far too often when things driven by efficiency reach a certain 'point', the density of effort put into it plummets and so does quality (food, music, ...). I'm biased toward old, non automated way of doing things, because people do care about the craft/art and that's where the value is. I'd run a mile to buy a newspaper if the journalists are worth it. Sure, these industry don't thrive like they used to when the underlying tech was the best or only one, but that's a hard fact of nature.
Men and boys are in crisis, and technology is to blame
> That is no excuse. I am extremely disappointed. You need to figure out where your priorities are. We're changing the world and changing history, and you either commit or you don’t.

What an idiot - he became rich - so what ...
Goodbye PrePlay: When Failing Doesn't Feel Like Failing
I'm not a fan of very narrow streets for residential housing. People need a sense of space, and narrow residential roads often mean you're overlooked by homes opposite the street. There needs to be enough space between each side of the street so that residents don't feel hemmed in or claustrophobic.

Here is a random Victorian residential street (in a very expensive part of London) that I think has a good scale and width. The road is not too wide, but not too narrow either. Cars are parked on the street rather than in garages; and the houses are of fairly high density too.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.556208,-0.165162,3a,75y,36...
What is funny is that, if we sum it up with another article of this site :
http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/when-bad-behaviour-does-a...
we conclude that a society without corruption (where every bad or coward behaviour are punish) is also a society without creativity !

By the way, this is one of the greatest article I have ever read in hacker news. Loved it.
The binary format is faster and more compact.

Use `plutil` to convert to and from ASCII.
You must not have read any further than that. They talk about why the Greece deal might get EU approval and even US approval. Hint, they both stand to lose tons of money if Greece fails.
The Void wants to offer fully immersive virtual reality games
Sure it is: X.509 might be de facto controlled by NSA and GCHQ, but DNSSEC is de jure controlled by them.

We're in the midst of what will be a decade-long X.509 cleanup effort, disentangling untrustworthy CAs (all of them) from the outsized role they have in the Internet trust model. CT logs will play a role. Nuking egregiously bad CAs will play a role. The adoption of new cheap/free CAs like LetsEncrypt will play a role. Certificate pinning and HPKP will play a role.

We are not in the midst of any effort at disentangling NSA and GCHQ from the DNS, nor will we ever be: that entanglement is by design in DNSSEC.
Open Source Security Bug Bounty
Ask HN: (Programmers) How do you deal with the idiots you work with?
As a software engineer, programmer, code, webdev, devop, etc... (Not a manager, can't fire/replace people)

- How do you deal with your co-workers when it feels like a brick wall could do a better job?

- How do you deal with your co-workers when they are being paid but return zero-little value to the company?

- Do you complain to people above you?

- Do you tell them bluntly that they are idiots?

- Do you politely point them in the right direction, day after day, so it feels like you are more of a babysitter than a programmer?
Stop it, they're unions. :) Among the target market, people are going to intimately familiar with the use of "enum" and "union" from the C language. Rust's concept of a single object that can store exactly one of several types of sub-objects matches one quite closely, and not the other. Having a runtime tag and affirmative checking doesn't change the nature of the thing. We don't call "cars" something different when we add cruise control or anti-lock brakes.

"Enumerate" in English is just a fancy word for "count" -- it means to assign numbers to a bunch of things. Which is exactly what the C concept did. The Rust usage (to mean "something that can be in one of a few different states") is new, though Java has something fairly close too.

It was a poor choice, sorry. Likewise being deliberately difficult with "trait" vs. "interface" (picking Self's jargon instead of the term that literally everyone already knows from decades of OOP) didn't serve you well. Thus we have blog posts like this needing to tell us what we probably should have been able to figure out from context.

Finally, regarding "box" vs. "block". Other languages (C# is the only one that comes to mind off-hand) have used the idea of "boxing" to imply the allocation of space for and copying of pass-by-reference data. That's sort of a different notion than simple heap allocation, so it sort of gets its own jargon I guess. I didn't complain anyway. But with Rust, a "box" really is used to refer to a dynamic heap block in any context. We sort of already had a perfectly good word for that.

Pretentious jargon isn't the worst crime in the world, but I do think Rust seems needlessly complicated in the way it likes to play Shakespeare with existing concepts.
"When I played in a band, we had to work with the club’s sound engineer or bring our own to get a balanced sound setup before the audience showed up. The more recent gigs showcased an interesting technology, a system that generated pink noise through the actual sound system, from the original sound sources before the mixing board, all the way through power amplifiers to the speakers at front of house. The engineer put a reference microphone in a strategic position, turned on the pink noise generator, and twiddled equalizer knobs to get a roughly even spectrograph (plus unavoidable “sound-guy magic” to de-equalize somewhat for specific gig purposes like dancing or seated listening) for the whole room, using the actual speakers and sound-reinforcement equipment we would be using."

For stage shows, having a proper computer driven sound system with a large array of small transducers would let you do stuff like having the audio follow the position of the instruments and voice accurately, as well as doing some really silly things, like rotating 3d soundfields. It takes some reasonably serious hardware and knowhow though. A good starting point is here - http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/mustech/3d_audio/ambis2.htm

edit - that Behringer thing sounds really cool though, makes me wonder how hard it would be to code something like that in pure data or similar. https://puredata.info/
Come to think of it. Imagine driving a car yourself on a road full of self-driving cars. You would be able to drive as fast as you like and cut off anybody without ever being afriad of retaliation. Self-driving cars will always let you in because they do not want to cause a collision.
>and exempt itself from income taxes for the next 10,000 years!

Greece is an unsustainable welfare state full of tax fraud where the government is the largest employer. If Apple "buys it" (partners with the current government for some kind of super sweetheart deal) and cannot send out those monthly public sector checks then a lot of angry hot heads with machine guns will be its biggest problem, not a cool reception to the Apple Watch.

Even if they cut a modest low tax deal, the EU would balk at a unilateral Greek deal cutting their tax revenues. At most Greece could offer Apple a low tax haven for domestic sales, but considering how small Greece's economy is, it would be financially stupid in both the short and long run to do this.

As a Greek-American and Greek landowner, I'd prefer the Greeks stop fucking up and get fiscally responsible for once instead of courting corporations or other nations to take care of them. I don't want the ancient lands of my ancestors sold off for some short-term cash relief. Nor do I want it to become some Cayman Islands-like tax shelter that will isolate it economically and become the plaything of the American super-rich.

I don't think the author of this piece remotely understands how incredibly stubborn and patriotic the average Greek citizen is. Greeks have lost their autonomy more than a few times in history. They aren't itching to lose it again. Saying, "You should let Apple buy you," in Athens would probably lead to a punch in the face fairly quickly for those reasons as well as the general anti-corporate attitude the largely leftist Greek population subscribes to. The American love of mega-corporations and super successful CEOs just doesn't translate there.
Node.js fast boot
My favorites

UX Design Weekly - http://uxdesignweekly.com/

Web Design Weekly - https://web-design-weekly.com

MergeLinks - http://mergelinks.com
It looks like the Apple logo and the Android logo have been fighting, and the Apple has bitten off one of Android's arms and part of its head.
Dear ‘Journalist’ Who Ripped Me Off: I Don’t Forgive You
It brings in leadership that aligns with policy objectives.

The appointment of Shaarik Zafar for example - they needed someone who would be on board with mass propaganda of the Middle East:

https://minerva.dtic.mil/doc/samplewp-Lieberman.pdf

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/07/senators-want-...

http://csis.org/multimedia/combating-violent-extremism

http://csis.org/files/publication/131011_Douglas_EngagingMus...

Or take Sunstein's appointment after his work on systems of domestic 'guidance' of public discussion through 'nudging' and 'choice architecture' through the study of behavioral economics.

It's less of a crowning as it is bringing in those who can transform, with leadership, the mechanisms and operating procedures of a department.
The bubble is coming.
Pipelining – A Successful Data Processing Model
Jobs made fancy white electronic devices - he just sold a lot of them - to justify rude behavior with something that trivial simply doesn't seem right to me.
(Disclaimer: I work part-time for Onename).

The key difference is that Passcard requires a quorum of mutually-distrustful blockchain peers that attest to the validity of your public keys. We believe this is a much stronger guarantee than a web-of-trust, since it (rightfully) does not assume that trust is somehow transitive.
Some people sacrifice themselves for a probability that many people will have better lives.

Some people sacrifice themselves for a probability that specific people around them will have better lives.

It's disingenuous to say that only those who work for some greater good are making sacrifices.

Which sacrifice is more "noble"? Unless you know the parameters (magnitude of sacrifice, probabilities of change, incremental impact from your involvement, number of people affected, degree to which lives are bettered), you have no way to evaluate this.

(Not that there's anything wrong with making personal value judgments in the matter; they just don't make particularly good arguments.)
Reread my comment where I said "seems fine".
Yeah a huge alien ice spaceship.
Op here. If anyone has any questions about Watson, feel free to let me know!
Ask HN: Referral program as a service?
Hello,

We are an e-commerce company looking into building a referral program where users who refers a friend will earn some credits as discounts and also give some credits to the referred friend. Something along the lines of Uber and AirBnb referral program.

Does anyone know of any companies that provide such services with an API?

At first it seems a simple thing to build, but an entire business could be built around it as we can have many rules regarding such promotions and as a bonus point it could also handles coupons (validation, expiration, level of discount, etc)

Thanks!
If you stop the car instantly that's equivalent to a crash for the car occupants.
Virtual Reality Betting Comes to Horse Racing
The USSR did that. Militia draftees did much routine street policing.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militsiya#Conscripted_police
he sued a drm company that played the dmca card on him. will love (not) to see him backing up things like dmca now...
Without a doubt.

They're a "mobile first, cloud first" company, creating a "tablet that can replace your laptop".
This can be solved. Have all collected data be encrypted AND the owner of the car be the ONLY one with the decryption key.
This is a poetic device named "metonymy". Obviously russia ≠ the company, but the nationality is probably the more interesting aspect.
I thought of that too. It sure would be exciting if it turned out to be something artificial.

However, I agree with you that it's far more likely that it's something perfectly natural like ice. Not quite as interesting.
Or your boss doesn't know, and isn't a reasonably good project manager.
Oh, I agree. It should not be the only thing you're looking for. I have, however, gained very valuable information from figuring out that someone likes to aggrandize their own capabilities in a particular topic and/or is unable to say "I don't know." We specifically look for people that are able to say that, since honesty and not being afraid to learn (usually the result of saying "I don't know") is important to us.

But it is /definitely/ not the only thing we look for.
It's more complicated, since cars can steer, but it's still approx. function of speed^2/distance, but a lot more permissive. And then there's emergency coordination among vehicles to prevent the crash among the vehicles themselves too.
I believe in the beginning, so did automobiles and horse-and-buggy vehicles.
Or our space junk.
I'm not saying that anything justifies rude behavior. I'm just commenting on a case where rude behavior and success occurred together.
I might excuse it if it said Russians, but the message they are passing is that this is part of some state-sponsored plan. "A Finn builds minix clone" is different than "Finland builds minix clone". [not that linux was a minix clone]
farfetched and unrealistic at the moment, but totally plausible: compile a list of destinations you visit on some sort of schedule, commit some physical crime along that path during a time you can be shown to be in the area, and frame you for it, potentially by including things like relevant search data, falsified emails... lots of possibilities here.
I really don't see the value in code written by someone after 80 hours. Its going to be crap compared to what they could have done in normal 40 hour weeks. Any manager who wants this code is a fool.

If you want your programmers to be more productive then keep the distractions to a minimum, give them sound proof offices, great meeting areas, and get them the hell out of the office after 40 hours (maybe 36).
But a Rust enum is equivalent to a C-style one in the basic case. Rust's is just able to do more as well to support the common idiom of tagged unions. Unions themselves cannot be expressed safely in Rust, so it'd do little good IMHO to have different terms for them. I guess you could say that they should have avoid "enum" and went with "data" as in Haskell, but then people would complain that the basic ADTs are just enums and wonder why they can't just use "enum" like before!