skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, nice. So, my analogy does not apply to all cases, but the point is that many guns are tied to government ID, as are many internet connections. Subverting that is of course possible, and an alternate solution to those problems.
We use Scrum and I disagree with everything you said. It is not reflected in my experiences at all.

But that's the problem of arguing from anecdote.
Still, netting $1,000 for managing 3 apartments (it takes a lot of work, my wife used to do this for others), is not really worth the trouble?
Borders? 11 is yellow, 21 is yellow with thick border, 31 with a thicker border (or red border, or striped border etc.)
Totally agreed! I'm not criticizing, I was just a little surprised because of Google's reputation as an innovator. I also totally expect corporate tools to be static for long periods of time, so I'm also not surprised based on overall trends.
There is the independent Phoronix Test Suite that is run automatically to check for performance regressions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoronix_Test_Suite
I got the sense too. The message sharing the link to the source describes it as "incomplete and extremely buggy". Was it that way when it was first proposed to the kernel group for integration? If so that seems like a reasonable reason to reject it...

I googled for "kernel mailing list managed runtime initiative" and found this: https://lwn.net/Articles/392307/ Apparently it was never even proposed on the kernel mailing list! But then apparently the code as written wasn't ever meant to be integrated into the kernel upstream but as a sort of PoC that would maybe be a better starting point than going fresh for eventual integration... But there's lots of interesting details, and as I'm reading through the comments, things are coming back, now I remember reading about this in 2010/2011...
> use impoverished locals for their hunting ability and knowledge of local conditions.

That's what GP said. The people doing the dirty work are in poverty.
I know that you're a _former_ employee, but maybe you could pass this on:

It would be helpful if I didn't have to keep solving CloudFlare captchas when I use Tor.

I well understand CloudFlare's need for them, however I like to use Tor even when cryptography would not be used for most others, say when logged in with my real name at HN. This because my use of cryptography provides some cover for those who really do need it, such as those working for legitimate regime change.

The main reason I don't use tor a whole lot anymore, is those CloudFlare captchas.
Does anyone else find the random images creepy as fuck?
Dont be absurd. Humans conform to communities now more than ever.
Extensive prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9538437
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I assume this is in reference to the article about Google opening up their corporate tools/services to their users on the Internet, but I've seen this MOMA login page (at least what I call it) before last year and probably before that too. On that premise I assume @google.com users have been able to log in from the Internet for a while, anyone have some light to shed on what's recently changed? :)
eye roll

What is the purpose of a non-"web 1.0" login page? This is not to win customers; it's supposed to work. And for thousands and thousands of employees every day, this works just fine.
No, no, no.

Do the right thing for now, not some mythical "what if" situation later that adds premature complification.

One should argue that OP should re-write the whole thing in non-slide deck format - TTRWTF
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You might be surprised at the amount of innovation that has happened on that very page.

As an example, I believe it was the first place that U2F was deployed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor
This has to be bribery. There would be no reason to pass this if they were working for the people.
Basically accurate here but "hunters" does cover a pretty diverse group of people with many different motivations. They include many who care very deeply about conservation and unfortunately also those who threaten to poison milk formula. I don't think you'll find many on either side that have any love for rats.

As said above, 1080 is the best choice we have but we should (and do) keep looking for better alternatives. It would be nice if we didn't have to greet visitors to our national parks with this all the time:

http://www.tongarirorivermotel.co.nz/wp-content/gallery/misc...
Housing.com is dot-com-bubble era extravagant startup with no good forseeable business model. In their initial rounds, they spend $1M ( 40% of funding ) to get the fancy domain and phone number. Its almost as if they are doing exactly opposite of Sam Altman's every advice - low burn rate, focus on product, hire slowly, build and iterate. One of my friend who works there told me that they are working simultaneously on 16 projects.

I don't believe a company like this would find itself existing in the next few years unless, they get a new CEO who knows how to get shit on track which would mean firing of lots of people and cutting down on their stupid campaigns. I don't know weather this move was because of his sheer goodwill or to save his face or to get back on news again but considering his moves in past few months, he is an arrogant cocky teenager-like mentality person who doesn't think twice before making a move
Here's (one of) Microsoft's login pages (I've seen a buddy use something like this):

https://microsoft.sharepoint.com
Note we have some offshore islands etc where 100% kill has been achieved. We're not even close to being able to achieve that on the mainland though.
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One of the two JS files included is readable without any extra work.

Also this interesting HTML comment at the top of the page:

<!--googleoff: all-->
Hey Guys,
My and DataStack have released this little API that allows folks to scrape most websites with this simple API. (Most since there might be some sort of website that might not want to be friendly)

It works both on dynamically rendered websites and static. (although you'll have a longer load time if you try it for dynamic ones - here's a scrape of my Medium posts: http://puu.sh/hMGvt/da33b73a1f.png )

If you have any questions please ask :)
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> If I have the same sequence of packages required to authenticate, I'm in?

The sequence of packages needed to authenticate is different any time.
I thought the entire corp subdomain was not publicly accessible...this is surprising.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9539372
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Fourth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9443897

Third: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394397

Second: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342886

First: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8918181
Instead of assuming that the changes that many, many visual designers advocate for are arbitrary and worthless, try assuming the opposite, and then finding comparisons that might explain how these kinds of changes could be valuable.

Is it valuable for programmers to discuss and refactor code to maintain a consistent casing pattern?

Is it valuable for writers to edit books to make sure they use consistent language throughout?

Is it valuable for industrial designers to iterate on the amount of tactile feedback a dial gives?

Is it valuable for musicians to continue to tweak their guitar until they get it to just the right tone for a song?

If none of those ring a bell, keep looking until you find a craft that you feel you have a strong control of, and then find the equivalent comparison. I guarantee one exists for every craft.

It's very easy for people unfamiliar with a craft to belittle refinement as useless, but only because they have an underdeveloped sense of the impact of the craft on how users/readers/listeners make decisions.
I understand that v8 is using this algorithm, and Julia also now uses it thanks to work by Jacob Quinn https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/base/grisu
I actually think their UX is the best UI I have seen from an Indian website/app. When it first came out, the UI was way way ahead of anything from CommonFloor, MagicBricks, 99 Acres etc. That in turn put pressure on other real estate sites to improve the UX. You can see the transition by going through past archives of these sites.

Interestingly - thier UX when it first launched allowed you to specify a radius on a Map by drawing over it. They then reverted to a more common real estate UX of a search box. As a side note- Map based real estate listings look cool & then probably after A/B testing, they tend to revert to a list based view with a map based view to supplement it (42 Floors also went from Map based view to list based view).

About bugs & 2000 employees- my understanding is that most of these people are in the sales/operations side & note on the tech side. Just like a vast majority of Google's 53,000 employees are not engineers. Regardless, I am not sure of the co-relation between number of employees & bugs. In some cases, more engineering employees could introduce more bugs.

About customer satisfaction, its a hard problem, Rahul Yadav realizes it. Here is him on that topic in an interview.

End users are not satisfied when it comes to finding a house through the portal. People are asking why Housing is spending so much on ads when it can’t help people find real houses? “The industry is such! We’ll get there. Our current customer satisfaction rate is 25% and in theory, we can only reach to about 70%. We are pretty happy with the 25% rate considering when we started,” he says. Rahul stresses on the challenges of the industry and believes that becoming a marketing leader first is very important and then the growth can be along with the market.

http://yourstory.com/2015/05/rahul-yadav-housing/
The timer is the game. It's about making matches quickly, and the game would be far too easy if you got rid of the timer. You'd have to make other changes to the format instead, to make up for the lack of timer. Quarter the number of rows perhaps? but then that leaves you at the mercy of the RNG, and it sucks when you lose a game because the RNG dealt you an impossible game.
The music industry didn't really have a serious problem with personal mixtapes or copying a friend's album.

Au contraire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music
I don't know much about Mr. Yadav, but quite likely my own mental illness would put his completely to shame.

At the same time, whenever I have four dollars, I use it to buy a slice of hot pizza for a homeless person. Many of my professional colleagues - who earn quite a lot more money than I could ever hope to - regard that as irresponsible of me, to feed the poor.

What you describe here in the comments - I haven't read the India Times story yet - sounds like Bipolar Mania.

But even so, some people really do practice sincere generosity. The simple fact that Mr. Yadav gave away all his stock doesn't mean there is something wrong with him.
> Bill Gates was late to the smart phone game

Unlike what this article says, Bill Gates wasn't late to the smart phone game. They had windows mobile. Microsoft simply didn't innovate quickly enough. Basically, like IE they simply let things rot once they'd achieved a level of industry dominance.
Sam Altman's advice is for early stage startups working on small seed rounds, not for companies getting 2.5MM, then 18MM, then 90MM USD in funding. I don't know if you have ever raised, but you have to justify to investors how you will spend money. They most definitely told their investors that they will use their money for fancy domain and given the Indian market, they were probably okay with it. No investor would give you tens of millions and expect you to sit on it eating ramen increasing your runway to 4 decades. The idea is to use the damn cash to grow faster.

16 projects does not sound very high given over 2000 employees.

Property listing startup with no business model? Are you kidding me?
RFC6238 TOTP (popularized by Google Authenticator) should fit your needs well.

* It is an open algorithm based on http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6238

* Both the server and client work completely offline based on a pre-shared key and current time. It does not need any third-party services, network calls, or paid plans.

* The Google Authenticator app for saving secrets and generating tokens is open-source and available on Android and iOS. It does not share the secrets or tokens with Google. Others have also published compatible apps.

* There is already a Debian/Ubuntu package for adding it to logins, including SSH logins: libpam-google-authenticator

* If that's not sufficient, then there are libraries for various languages.

* And if not, or if you want to build your own branded client, then both the server and client implementations take about 10 lines of code: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Authenticator#Technical_...
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There is a massive amount of work that goes on outside of writing code which contributes to the success of a project. Without strategic and tactical intelligence you're not going to get anywhere regardless of how good your devs are. In fact, the leadership and management functions are more important than engineering savvy. You can build a good product and fail, but you can also build a mediocre product and succeed. In the latter case, it's not the devs who got you there.

But yes, you're right; good managers make good hires. What's your point?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9543693
I still disagree.

In my experience, Apple products offer superior technical value. Compare the touchpad in a MacBook to one of the knock-offs. OSX has better graphics performance and more software available than Linux. The build quality of the Apple products is higher. Point being, there are objective reasons and tangible value that make the MacBook worth its higher cost.

Same thing with the car example.

I'm still not convinced that Facebook is gaining any tangible value from such minor aesthetic changes. Are there any real numbers to back up the claims that real users care about such things?
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I agree with "17". Sounds quite satisfying.
> Why should the CEO retain the most ownership?

That depends on where the company is since its inception.
Their UI is good, not their UX. Bugs simply destroy the experience.

I'm also fond of their branding somehow, and their aggressive campaigning, their staying away from TV, and them not forcing me to download their apps.

But that all falls short when the website fails 11 times just while I'm trying to put up a listing.
Agreed. I'm just surprised is all. I expected google to have bucked the corporate trend and have the "flying car" of login pages. I was wrong!
That would make it far too easy.
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Looking at the hacker community in San Francisco from the perspective of someone immersed in the tiny technology community in Hollywood it still looks like a bunch of terrified little brothers afraid to face the real world, the entertainment industry.
Yes, I use Kindle DX for tech books. Sometimes I wish for a slightly larger screen tough.
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It is the MOMA login page :) From my time at google (around 6 months ago), you can access this page for a lot of services, but some of them will be accessible only from the intranet (or if you login to a VPN from the internet). What has changed is the number of services that are now accessible from the internet.

Also, when I was working there, I could not remote into my desktop from my company laptop from my home without signing onto VPN. Not sure of that has changed, but they wished to phase out VPN completely.
It really depends on a lot of things such as how often users send messages on average and what kinds of messages (JSON or plain text?). The latest version of SocketCluster can handle 25000 concurrent users per CPU core each sending a JSON message every 6 seconds so the 50K number does match my own benchmarks if you assume that each user sends a JSON message every 12 seconds on average.
Yes, Airbnb's "thing" (dirty little secret) is that some widespread neighbor abuse as documented in an HN anecdote is polluting the social value of a $20B startup.

Solution? Instead of allowing building managers/owners to allow/disallow short term leases by their lessees as determined by the externality-including market value of such a policy, let's just ban it altogether. The principle of the least-elegant solution.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9536697
Short term tenants need not be treated any differently than the property owner, the property owner's family, or the property owner's friends. If the property owner causes problems him- or herself, or gives anyone permission to use the property who then causes problems, then that should be cause for eviction, lawsuits, fines, or whatever penalties are already in place.

The incentives of short term tenants are irrelevant, because all penalties would be applied to the property owner. The working out of polite understanding still works fine. If short term rentals are causing problem, neighbors should urge the property owner to either stop doing it, or figure out a way to get better tenants.
>>I'll submit to your criticism of my tone, but I believe a strong argument lies behind it.

The gist of your argument is that Pusher is "nothing more than a cash grab for lazy developers," which insults not just the creators of the service but also people who use it.

Just because DIY alternatives exist for something does not mean that thing should not be used, or that people who use it are "lazy."
Most people know it's not a real sieve of Eratosthenes and just a demonstration of Haskell concepts but there will always be people excited to educate others regardless of the context.
What's creepy about them? I don't know if this is still the case, but for many years the images on the corpsso login page were photos taken and shared by googlers. It was just for fun.
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unfortunately, Google has lost that reputation.
That might work in practice, depending on the community culture. But I am not generally a fan of prosecutorial discretion because of how ridiculously easy it makes unfair enforcement.
Could it be a special directive to Google Chrome?
I still do not understand. Your criticism applies to literally all rules and laws in any society.
What does "all cash" mean? Surely the buyers never start paying loan payments to the former owners...
At least where I live all transactions for houses etc are always "all cash", even when the buyers have gotten a loan from the bank... Ie. it doesn't matter to the seller where the money comes from, they get their money as "all cash" either way.
Maybe this is some US terminology thing.

*
Ok, read a little further:

"When sellers have a choice, they prefer the sure thing. Unlike cash, financing can fall through, especially in a market with tighter credit. Buyers who turn up with a check rather than a pre-approved loan are more likely to complete the transaction –and sellers know it.

To compete, some buyers are simply borrowing cash from friends and family and financing their houses after closing — bout 14 percent of cash buyers in the greater Portland area between 2011 and the end of 2014, in fact, according to RealtyTrac."

Well, here if you make a binding offer for a property, you pay 10% upfront to the seller. If you don't complete the transaction you lose that money. And all buyers always have a "pre approved loan" (which is binding from the bank, they can't reneg it).
> No investor would give you tens of millions and expect you to sit on it eating ramen increasing your runway to 4 decades. The idea is to use the damn cash to grow faster.

So its just about getting a stake? Currently, Housing.com won't survive a day if VCs pulled the plug. If the stake becomes worthless, what is the point of investing?

>16 projects does not sound very high given over 2000 employees.

Most of their employees are photographers and not engineers. The problem is not on working on so many things but working at them all at once, with no focus at all which seem pointless since they don't really have a gold-laying hen working for them, yet. Making a loss ~50 Cr is not cool [1].

> Property listing startup with no business model? Are you kidding me?

The business model on which sites like Sulekha and CommonFloor operate is to urge the user to give out his contact details which they can sell to their clients. Essentially, spamming and even that is incredible low-margin model. Would Housing.com go that way?

[1]: http://www.livemint.com/r/LiveMint/Period1/2015/04/06/Photos...
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It eventually degrades into game theory where you're trying to predict how your classmates are going to answer the questions. If you play it too safe and only answer questions you are 100% confident in, you might not get a lot of marks. But you won't lose any marks either. If you friends play it more dangerously and answer questions they are 70% confident in, they could either get all those wrong (boosting your mark) or get them all right (lowering your mark).

On the one hand it's fascating. Yet on the other, it's absolutely terrifying.
Great suggestion. Locally I added code at line 429 in twenty-game.js:

b.timeUntilNextDrop = 1;

Much more fun and leisurely paced, which is what I want in a game to pass time.
The return of capability based security? Couldn't help but notice the phrase "fine grained access", I guess your device acts like a sort of token?
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I went with the Kindle version, as e-ink is quite easier on the eyes.

PDFs would be great, but so far I haven't seen a book reader on this part of the world that offers a proper experience.
Exactly what will happen, more supply will create more demand, which in turn will create a demand for a premium product - the real thing
It gets a lot easier on a touch screen.
I'm super impressed with how well the web version works on iOS. Touch stuff like this almost never works or is garbage on mobile web. Very well done.