skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused. I just posted above a search that showed lots of hotels below $220 in SF. So it's seems arguably false that SF is 300-350 min. Maybe you're limited it to high end? Or maybe searching from the UK shows different prices? Also, I've never been charged more than was shown on booking.com
Interesting. He still hasn't answered why a user should pick one or the other. If he wanted to focus on refactoring and larger features, he could have enlisted a "lieutenant" to manage bug fixes and releases while he works in a dev branch. The uBlock "brand" had quickly become the "new, memory-efficient ad blocker", but now the brand has been divided and muddied. This seems like a good example of the problems with 'product line extension', where a new extension should have used a new name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_line_extension
How to realize game development’s ‘need for speed’
Neural Networks in Plain English (2004)
Ok it looks like after suing that poor dude, they added a map to the apartment listings finally. I stand corrected on that one. It was missing forever.

I still don't see anywhere to search across regions. If you've ever tried to find a hard to find car you'd understand what I mean there. I'd like to search in, say, all of California. Can't do it.

My point is that there's a lot that could be done that will not be done because they won't let people scrape even if they link back. So, for example, say I wanted to add a state-wide search. Even if all my search results pointed back to CL, CL would cease and desist me. This goes for other enhanced functionality as well. This is all legal, but see it for what it is: an aggressive use of their position to retain their position, which includes squelching any and all uses of their data. It's an anit-competitive move that let's them maintain what, in my opinion, is a very poor quality product for all the traffic and data they get.
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This is the site I usually turn to, when I'm on the prowl for interesting datasets: http://rs.io/100-interesting-data-sets-for-statistics/
These datasets will make for some nice additions to this list.
Since everyone here liked the Padmapper UI over Craigslist they were OK with what they were doing, but if this was happening to an HN friendly business the story would be entirely different and there would a massive outcry. The hypocrisy is at least to me highly entertaining.
Former Sen. Leland Yee pleads guilty, admits to gun-running, extortion, bribes
Yet at the same time spying for Boeing on AirBus to get an edge during price negotiations, trade secrets etc.
We do a really simple trick. We have one Dockerfile, which we use for dev and for production, every configuration difference is handled through environment variables (which is easy to manage with docker-compose, Ansible, etc.), so you can run the same image everywhere and change the environment configuration to switch between dev/test/prod.

So to solve the live reload problem we do only one thing in development which we don't do anywhere else: the Dockerfile copies all the current source files into the image, but we run the container with a mounted volume of the source code - which in dev mappes exactly the same way the Dockerfile defines the src copy.

This way when you create the image and start the dev container it won't change anything, but as the src is mounted on top of the included src in the image the regular (Rails) auto reload works perfectly.

For test and prod we just simply don't do any volume mounting at all, and use the baked in src directly.

Easy and fast everywhere, all you have to control is how and when the images are created (ex: we do a full clean checkout in a new directory before building a test image, to ensure it only contains committed code. EDIT: by test I mean for local testing, while you're working on revisions, a CI server does the automatic testing).
Because that's what some languages use for else if?

Probably not the real reason...
There's no way I'd get a job if they asked me to express the Fibonacci sequence in a series of 24 digit blah blah blah as a fraction.
SVG pornography ?
Is that some kind of NSFW fetish ?
Googling, it seems like there has been some confusion in the past about what constitutes a "physical address" for the purposes of domain registration, but I don't see anything that suggests that PO boxes aren't allowed.
Most servers do support IPv6 these days. It's all the networking infrastructure in the middle that's the problem.
really interesting article. if the authors research is correct, and TI is crippling cheaper hardware with firmware, its both evil and genius (why pay for design and tooling and manufacture of 2 different chips, when you can make 1 and cripple half of them?)
Maybe a better link, since it contains the video, the audio-only track and a link to the slides as a pdf: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa11/newsql-vs-nosql-new...
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I don't regard that as corruption.

What I do regard as corruption, is when a recruiter convinces a manager that they can find qualified staff, then expect thirty grand in commissions by placing someone whose rigor mortis is not quite started,
Mass conditional assigning roles in Moodle based on user profile
Have you ever wondered if its "embarrassing-ness" is partly (or more) responsible for its long term success?
Someone needs to start a new hardware / software manufacturer with focus on productivity because all the others are sucking at producing the next big fancy and buggy computer while watching their stocks...
You can use Fly with ES6 too if you would like. Another difference is, Fly itself is written in ES6, in a very functional style, with a small dependency footprint and a tiny code base. Its implementation is based in promise sequences and co-routines (the same library that powers Koa.js) giving you co-routine async flow (async/await style) support out of the box.
Nothing official but after all these efforts with ART and jack&Jill both of which are not tied to java, it seems likely that Google is at least experimenting with another language.
The stark reality of entrepreneurship can be one of the greatest teachers.
Interesting, too, that the only California city is Sacramento. This wasn't too long after the gold rush.
Right, Yosemite has made my system about as unstable as iOS 7/8 on iPhone. Both are prone to random restarts and lags and other issues. Finder lags for multiple seconds doing simple file operations even when CPU use is low. There are UI bugs all over the place.
You built good software.

How good? So good no one else has even thought of, and actually written, that software before.
I think animals are particularly conducive to getting weird. I tried a picture of a sailboat and it wasn't that weird.

Then I tried a picture of a puppy and it sprouted another face on its paw and subtle eyes throughout its fur: http://i.imgur.com/N8Izxm1.jpg
Show HN: Make personalised stickers on iPhone
Extensive discussion 9 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9762724
The number of startups that don't get acquihired vastly outnumber the few that do. "The age of the acquihire" trope is seductive grounds for argument because it plays to the crowd of folks who follow the tech scene but resent the folks participating in it, but it's invalid grounds for argument because it's just not true.
Maybe CL initiated the requirement that the money was going to go to the EFF after being paid to them? Seems like most of the ill-will related speculation might be just that until there is any evidence either way...
The sad thing is that I'm not sure America even has many cities, at least, not real ones. Perhaps I'm biased by having lived in southern California too long but it seems like everywhere but the densest parts of downtowns are just vast seas of parking with a building sprinkled here and there. It's pathetic. I lived in Dublin for a few years and if it were built like a US city half the downtown would be surface parking for the two major sports stadia. Of course, it's not, because European cities aren't pathetic dumps.

(Usual exceptions made for cities that existed before the car like SF and NYC, though even SF is surrounded by suburban hellscape).
this is creepy
It would. I use fish shell here, yet I prefer writing my build tasks with plain JavaScript. Fly seems to be a thin abstraction to accomplish the same. Now, the most striking advantage is support for generators/co-routine style for async stuff and also promises right from the get go.
> If you extend it with your own syntax, it becomes a different language.

...but that's exactly what programming Lisp looks like. Becoming a different language every time you need it to is business as usual in Lisp. Syntactic abstraction - ability to extend language syntax - is central to Lisp programming.
Brazil’s Rousseff downplays opposition to fiscal policy during Google tour
Great point. Take a look at the new post talking exactly about that: http://blog.safedk.com/technology/reducing-your-method-count...
Yeah, it seems to pick up on eyes very heavily.

I did one of a landscape of the Blueridge Mountains and it added a bunch of buildings on the mountain tops, and insects in the sky :P
Founder vs. Non-Founder CEOs – Zuckerberg Responds
This:

There have been some minor additions, he said: the J2 adds four new instructions. One for atomic operations, one to work around the barrel shifter, "which did not work the way the compiler wanted it to [...]

Is so intriguing! Does anyone know what was wrong with the original barrel shifter design? I tried reading up on it but failed to find much reference material. I followed the link to the J-core community site to read the code, but it wasn't immediately browsable, just available for download.

I assume there were compilers for SuperH back in the day, didn't they use the shifter? Why not fix the compiler to teach it the existing instruction, rather than adding an instruction just for this? How wrong can a shifter be, really? The questions just heap up.
People on HN often complain about YC backed startups if they do morally questionable stuff (see for example any thread about that installer bundling startup whose name I can't recall right now). The HN community isn't as bad as you make it seem.
Huawei Unveiled Honor Band Zero Smartwatch and Whistle Bluetooth
> And also please give us back an iPhone that could fit in a pocket because the certain Asian markets are not the only things out there.

+1

I'd get a 5S if someone could put the camera of the 6 in there :)
Very! Google provides a way for you to opt out. This is not the case of "Oh, I went to their website and they sued us out of existence." This is more of a case of they were asked to not do something and they said fuck you I'll do it anyway. I don't like CFAA but I'd say these 3tap people failed at being nice to others.

Screw them.
I have almost the same hardware as you and experience none of the problems. Also I hear that the latest iOS/OS X betas actually make things smoother for many people rather than slower.
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Luxe, Zirx, Uber and the parking wars
Yes, it's more comfortable than QWERTY.

The switch was largely a wake up call in how adaptable the human mind is. The learning process was slow and comical until I started having Dvorak reflexes on a Qwerty keyboard.

I finally also learned to type properly. I type faster in Dvorak than I used to type in Qwerty.

What's not to like from a clean slate?
What are you waiting for installing a linux on it ? Buy good hardware and throw away that shity os. Anyway, if you buy something because it's beautiful, you're doomed :)
A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic income theory
@ShinyThings. Thank you. Exactly what I was looking for. BTW your account is coming up as dead. In case you weren't aware.
While there maybe subtleties in "public access by humans" over "automated scraping" - these belong in the "business dispute" side of the fence. Using the CFAA is by definition - playing hardball - it includes Criminal Penalties in some cases.

What really amuses me is that in the Tweet highlighted, Craig is indeed implying that it is his money going to the EFF - who Opposed him in the legal case that lead to the money. So he should be called out for egregious bullying - using the threat of Criminal Sanction to get his way.

If an HN-friendly business (whatever that is) pulled the same move it would also be equally worthy of opprobrium.
Some solid words.
Where are you located? You don't mention here nor on your website.
I love installing arch linux on macs, cause it makes them super snappy. The MacBook1,1 and MacBook2,1 (which I use as my main labtop) can run with entirely free firmware called "libreboot".
Twitter reveals just 49 of its 3,000 US employees are black
And we're doing the separate platform teams thing, and have to find, train, pay twice the number of developers that would be needed for a cross-platform solution. There is by no means a clear answer on which way is better...

We looked at doing cross-platform, but we would have to retrain a lot of iOS-only or Java-only developers so no luck.
Porsche already started to copy BMW when they copied the X5 and brought a really ugly and way to underpowered Cayenne into the market in 2002...
Not quite the face-morphing pills you're looking for, but something to the same effect http://cvdazzle.com/
Why would a job listing be permanent? Don't they ever get filled?
Hmm, just looked through the slides (listed to the video at the same time).

The only interesting slide is the last slide VoltDB (new kid on the block), promises some nice performance..., but that's the only slide that actually talks about it (out of 30?) and does not really support it. So HN adpost ?
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In 1857, Dallas was a town of less than a thousand people, and Fort Worth was little more than a few people scattered around an abandoned army base. Galveston really was the biggest thing in Texas back then.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9815202
Should non-passionate employees be fired?
These days, as I read HN and other IT blogs, it seems like we expect everyone should be passionate, work super hard and keep themselves up to date - even if that means working extra hours at home.

I had similar views. But I joined a new company last month. I do see some smart and hard working people. However, for 90% of people here its business as usual. They talk, laugh, joke...everyone is friendly. The software is crap. Still everything works and business is in profit.
There are old people too. Many have kids. They have responsibilities. I can understand why they are not really enthusiastic about technology. People have more important thing than work - family. Also they are getting old. They can't keep up and they do not have the same energy.

I wonder where would these people fit in a world where we all are putting so much pressure to work super hard and be smart. Is be passionate or perish ideology good? Or is it that few people at the right place at right time bragging on their blogs for popularity? Do they think of the world as a whole while writing?
Wordpress processes $500k/year using WooCommerce + Stripe for my business. So, uh, interesting definition of "terrible" considering it gets great GTMetrix/YSlow/Google PageSpeed scores, scales well, I can hire developers to extend it easily, and makes me a ton of money.

But OK. You don't like the source code. That matters more, I guess.
I'll stick with my motion-detector triggered thermite laced bitcoin bought servers thank you very much.
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S.F. to create city office to enforce Airbnb law
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Was anyone else's update through the App Store going really slow? The time left was fluctuating between 1 hour and 6 hours.

I finally got fed up, did a google search and found this: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1819?viewlocale=en_US&locale=... Started that download, and it finished within a couple minutes (I have 1 Gbps internet).

Similar (if not the same) file size as the App Store download: ~1GB. Does the App Store intentionally slow down downloads so as to not use up all my bandwidth? If so, seems like a sloppy implementation. I'd rather get that 1GB download done with than have to worry for hours about closing my laptop or losing my wifi connection.
I used to talk a lot to Petra Fyde when I still played. She had a shop together with her husband where I bought my everyday bags of reagents (8 different kinds of fuel for casting spells). Seeing her name in this article was surprising and just gave me a wide smile instantly.

While I haven't played on OSI (the official servers) in forever, my username here is an homage to The Nadirian Horde, a guild that existed back in the day on Europa (the main european 'shard' (server)). The leader of this guild, like Petra, was a teacher of the highest degree.

I love UO, but the times I'm talking about, around Y2K, were different than what UO became later. UO is one of those games that very quickly became watered down once EA bought it. It may have found a nice place now, but coming from what it was back then and being right in the middle of the transition was horrible.

Luckily, however, there are a multitude of freeshards to play on that will adopt the older rulesets so that you can still play the same game. They're usually very liberal in the development they do with the game itself too, so it's not uncommon to have them rework some stuff that isn't necessarily perfect in the old ruleset, but keep the general idea there.

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I wonder how much you'd need to save and to own in order to conduct this experiment on yourself? I've wondered about what I would do day to day if I didn't 'have to work to live'.

I honestly think I'd be doing very similar things. I'd still be programming, and I'd be wanting to make things that'd help people do their jobs better, but I wouldn't feel like I 'had to'.

That alone would improve my sanity immensely (I think), and yet it's only a small conceptual jump between what I'm already doing day-to-day.
You could get one of those latex masks that Tom Cruise uses in Mission Impossible.

Okay, not quite as good, but good enough to disguise yourself and not arouse suspicion if you keep your interaction with others to a minimum. (Here's an example from Penn and Teller's TV show. The effect is likely diminished if you are expecting it though: https://youtu.be/7P3B6R6Eqwc?t=1797)

Masks like these are commercially available from mask-makers like this: http://www.spfxmasks.com/ourmasks.php
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One of the big walls I hit as a data analytics person is how to turn data into actionable insights. I sent over the pigeon data to a friend who does pigeon research. Hope to see if it impacts his view of the pigeon world!
I'm not sure how this works, because 900 MHz is a ham band, the FCC forbids encrypted communication over this frequency
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Yes. And there are tons of other startups and probably also YC companies involved in heavy scraping, aggregating and selling that information to other folks.
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