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Is it necessary?

Isn't it impossible for AirBnB not to either drive up price levels or drive down availability?

If you have a property, AirBnB immediately makes it more valuable, as it is now possible to generate a (reasonably) passive income from it - you can use it more efficiently than before. If you own a home or rent.

What economics are you using in which it doesn't immediately follow that this would eventually reflect in the rental/purchase price of housing units?

Ahh "rent control and regs" you say! Ok fine, then the market tries to reach its equilibrium on quantity and fewer units are available. AirBnB makes housing more valuable, and if there is any vestige of market forces in SF housing, its effect on price/supply is unambiguous.

This DOES NOT, however, mean that AirBnB is a bad thing. I firmly believe it is an incredibly beneficial thing for everyone and it boggles my mind how people can be so against a service whose only function is to allow us to use our resources more efficiently. If this energy were instead spent on analyzing all the distortions that our wonderful political system has introduced in the system, we'd be much better off.
You are right, I am articulating an ill-formed feeling, probably based on my ignorance of the subject.
And how it compares to other Android flagships:

http://androidcommunity.com/android-flagships-may-have-margi...

tl;dr first time it doesn't beat them.
Yeah but if the post is devoid of details, why would anyone upvote it?
What has immutable infrastructure to do with logging?

Here's an example of what you typically want to do: "Give me a list of all customers whose contact information was viewed by customer representative X and who's had a Paypal withdrawal made since that event".

How are you going to accomplish that without logs in sufficient detail?

You might call your audit trail something else if you wish, but you are required to do it (immutable logging inaccessible by applications) if you have a nontrivial application with any sort of compliance requirements.
I don't agree with flagging such posts. As developers we can be on the losing end of these problems within our own products, and this site can be a useful hub for receiving information on how to technically handle these incidents.

E.g. after a major DNS outage caused many people with Heroku websites to go down, developers on Hacker News were able to quickly share advice on how to get around it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9842302
Why are small wineries and brewers terrified of fighting Canada’s liquor laws?
I don't understand this sentiment. What's the issue with having defaults that are used if no values are specified? Assuming the documentation is good and you can find a list of all options (and default values).
Sorry for posting one today- it was my first. I only did it because I'm a big Facebook fan and always enjoy talking about the downtime. They don't really give postmortems anymore, so this is the place I come to to talk about it.
I think they lose a lot of the meaning. And it's not like the government has any aversion to jargon! If we called it a "cyber-sprint" they'd eat it right up.
This is such an obvious idea you have to wonder why it is even news. Why shouldn't government be constantly iterating and ever so slowly getting better?

What isn't so obvious is that government developers should design from the viewpoint of their users.

http://www.citylab.com/tech/2014/01/what-really-happens-when...
Hey there, didn't see this until ... now - don't see any contact details in your profile.
Thanks! @dang, I made a mistake and can't seem to edit the url, could you fix it?
Well, google doesn't know if people are active on non-google sites. And they couldn't tell advertisers or people would be able to upload 999 fake emails and 1 real one and tell if they're an active google user.
> Earth-Sized Virtual World

"reamde" from Neal Stephenson come to my mind.
Popular is a pretty relative term. MensRights has ~120K subscribers, while TwoXChromosomes has ~3.4 million. The latter is a lot more indicative of what the site "likes" than the former.

Anecdotes are not data.
Really, it sounds to me as though the main problem might be that these kids are coddled before they reach university and maybe have unrealistic expectations of themselves.

I think they may not have a fair assessment of their own abilities because of prior hand holding.

I haven't seen the emotional catastrophe element that this article talks about. But, I did witness the abuse of the faculty.

I saw the entitlement my generation is often accused of first hand. Many students were hostile, rude and lazy. I gained a reputation for sticking up for professors and calling my fellow students out on their behavior. In part I do blame the staff. Though maybe they couldn't gain control because their hands were tied by policy.
> I guess I was more commenting about the fact that is doesn't matter whether the groups are self-formed or teacher-formed, or university-level or middle school-level because the outcome will always be the same: slackers get bad marks.

Actually, that's not true in my experience. When a teacher assigns groups, then they often force slackers into groups with hard-working over achievers who pick up all the slack. So the slacker does get a good mark.

Not that I think that's a good thing for everyone. It pisses off the student who did all the hard work, makes marks meaningless, and allows the slacker to coast further without learning anything.

Yet it's disturbingly common.
They are on it: Sam's post is part of the PR work.

Why else would he say the fix to the housing problem is to put more housing on airbnb?

A huge part of the problem is that people are renting places just to sub-lease them. Guess what that does? Yup. It increases pricing where you are paying the zero value-add middleman more.

But hey, that can't possibly be part of the problem. /s

I'll leave you with this:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

-- Upton Sinclair iirc
Have you looked at the app called "Shoot"? It gives you manual control of ISO, shutter speed, and white balance, among other things. I think it's important to distinguish between the iPhone's camera (sensor & lens) and the iPhone's built-in Camera app.

That said, I do wish it were possible to save raw images in the Camera app.
I've had some horrible experience with Airbnb in LA. One place has close to perfect reviews (the lowest scored category is 8/10 in cleanliness), but the place is dirtier than a gas station's bathroom (smelly sheets, moldy showers, dirty old floor and squeaky bed). I've never met the host in person and he ran this thing like a refugee camp; there are about 50 people living in that (fairly large) complex and no one seemed happy. I went back to hotels/hostels after that experience.
I used to share a ski house in Tahoe. Should I expect to pay part of the rent or not?

I think the term "share" is strictly agnostic on who pays but also does have a gifting connotation that appeals to marketing. I have no problem with its use here but if there is a better word what is it?
Have you tried HomeAway?
> Just because they start screaming my name doesn't make me more likely to click.

I suspect you are a relatively rare border case, then.
> Log out of Google, now. Delete all their cookies. And get off Gmail.

By that logic you should also delete your facebook, twitter, mobile subscription, ISP etc.
That does look interesting, thanks.
I wonder how easy it is. Google says they require 1000 "Active visitors." So you need to not only create 1000 fake accounts to target a single real individual, but run 1000 undetected clickfraud bots (and then pay out on your own clickfraud). Not sure of the current state of the clickfraud arms race, but maybe there are cheaper and easier ways of snooping?
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Here's a recipe for having AirBnB experiences that don't suck:

1. Don't make saving money a prerequisite.

Nobody is renting out their place in order to save you money. You get what you pay for.

2. Book early.

The good hosts in prime cities book up months out. You don't want to be in a situation where you have limited choices and have to lower your standards.

3. Only book with hosts who have many positive reviews.

See above, and never break this rule.

4. Try to stay at least a week.

It's business. When you represent a grand or more to your hosts, they treat you accordingly. But when the hassle inherent to renting to you is barely worth the $200 or so you're paying, service will suffer.

Any time I've broken any of these tenets I've wished I'd just booked a hotel.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

-- Upton Sinclair iirc
Is it just me or the ASCII diagrom looks way better than the generated faux-comic-PNG?
A cheat-sheet for mathematical notation in code form
Asciio should be available as a package. For example, in Debian, it can be installed:

sudo apt-get install asciio
Good to hear :-)

Btw, I'm still not sure what "prelude" means in this context...
Your criticism is valid from our perspective, but the non-software engineers on the other side of the culture divide are even less aware of proper software practice, so I don't see how the failure of software people to follow those practices could be the source of the prejudice.

I think it's a different problem. Software engineering is fundamentally about the management of complexity. People who have only worked on small programs -- like most non-software engineers and scientists -- don't understand the need to manage complexity because they've never worked on any program large enough to require it. Programming in the small is easy, particularly when you're mostly doing numerics. Other engineers see that and think that all programming must be easy.
"just that people need and deserve more income"

You may be aware that there are people who specifically choose not to live in a high rent place such as San Francisco or Manhattan (as only two examples) because it is expensive and they can't afford it. And they know it and understand that is part of the "life is not fair" theme. Not everyone will make enough to rent or buy in those places and there is nothing new about this either. That it impacts startups is an entirely different issue. And startups are the reason the rent is so high obviously in San Francisco, right?

Where I am located it's impossible to get anywhere near the quality of labor that I might get if I was located in San Francisco, NYC or really any large metropolitan area. Obviously I have made a choice (for many reasons) to be where I am (as have many others). Everyone makes choices. If you move to San Francisco to take a job you have to factor in the cost of housing when you make your decision to work there. As far as the legacy people who live there and are impacted in a negative way that is truly an unfortunate situation.
Facebook is down
It says:

Sorry, something went wrong.

We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can.

Go Back

Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sajuhdhdr12pjmb/fb_down.png?dl=0
In the best of circumstances, sprints are in contrast to marathons. Realisticly, the death march is the point of reference.

For a team using development by marathon changing time scales is likely to increase flexibility and navigation. A team operating in death marches is perhaps in need of change...one of those rare cased where "we must do something and this is something" might be a reasonable approach.
Umm, they took a bunch of PDFs and combined them together in two days?
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I'm curious - is there any statistic around the number of people who browse while signed in to their google accounts?Personally, I don't do that. I make a conscious effort to be signed out when browsing but I've always wondered if majority of people are like me
For this Google offering they're likely to use the same tech that powers their new CAPTCHA-less reCaptcha.
I think there are two kinds of logging that's conflated into two in the industry: logging for devops and logging for analytics.

For logging for devops, I 100% agree with you. Looking at application metrics rather than raw logs is far more productive, and the raw logs should only be consulted after you have triaged the situation based on the metrics monitored.

However, there is another kind of logging, and that's for data science and analytics. Here, it's hugely helpful to have centralized logging. Hell, it is a must. The last thing you want is to have data scientists with a shaky Linux knowledge to ssh into your prod machines. At the same time, logs are the best source of customer behavior data to inform product insights, etc. By centralizing these logs and making them available on S3 or HDFS or something, you can point them there and have everyone win.

Among Fluentd users, we definitely see both camps. As a matter of fact, one of the reasons that I think people like Fluentd is that because it enables both monitoring and log aggregation within it.
>Coming into the sprint, we understood that one of the major constraints is that the handbook is created and maintained using Microsoft Word.

It's likely that the original source for the PDF/paper copies was lost. This necessitated the process of using OCR to get it into Word.

Obviously maintaining such a large and important piece of documentation in Word is wrong, but that's apparently how it's being done.
I go to Hacker News during major downtimes because it's the most likely place I can visit to find a real technical explanation for why a site is encountering problems. This site is so closely connected to Silicon Valley, it's not uncommon for "inside story" information to get posted here that's not posted in the media.

Discussing downtime events also holds practical value. If we are affected by the outage, having a news entry about downtime on hacker news allows us to share to one another useful information regarding how to respond to it.
That last comment is not necessarily anything-ist. Someone who reads a community centralized around the finder points of, say, raising kittens, probably doesn't desire social politics and its associated toxicity injected. (Imagine this conversation we're having here, right now, in the middle of your favorite place to relax, and talk to people, except a lot less civil, and that's before the meta communities find it and invade, and even if you avoid it entirely, everyone involved gets hacked off at each other because the very nature of the topic is divisive)

It's off-topic meta noise at best and harmful to the community at worst.
Came here to say the same thing. And to my recollection, some parts of FoxPro were rolled into Access after MS bought them (maybe the query engine, but not the front-end or the language?)... so I was expecting to see the Access line take over from FoxPro back in the early 90's.
It sounds more like a new product, new direction than Vagrant 2.0....
I'd be shocked if it wasn't across properties. So GDN, Youtube, Search (via RLSA).
Even if conservatively the Surface draws 5W and the phone 2W, it's still doing 2/3rds of the compute on less than half the power. That should really worry Intel.
It should be easy to do flowcharts in pic(1). It's also more diff-friendly.

GNU pic can target LaTeX directly, if that helps.
Air travel is inherently more dangerous than automobile travel. This is intuitively and actually true. People learn from a very young age that falling hurts and falling even 10 meters can be fatal. Falling, flying, great heights tickle the fear centers in your lizard brain. Vehicles are more like incremental improvements to things that are safe like running or riding a horse. Additionally auto accidents are mostly isolated to 2 parties on the roadway they're travelling. So we don't exercise the same caution with cars.

Practically, air travel is safer because they are built, maintained, piloted, and continuously monitored by professionals. Conversely a 15 year old can build a kit car and drive it on the highway legally. If they break a dozen traffic laws they may or may not get caught and penalized.

If we could get people to assess and respond to risk rationally, we could make a lot of things safer.
That's fair, like I said I was simply curious. It didn't seem to make a ton of sense to me, but it sorta does now :)
> About 33,000 of these were vacant, generally as a side effect of rent control laws. (I don’t honestly know if rent control is a net good or bad thing—I assume more good than bad—but it certainly keeps units off the market.)

If I understand it correctly, one of the most common ways of evicting rent-controlled tenants is through owner move in. A side effect of this is that the owner has to "live there" for 3 years[0]. Given this, it seems like this statistic -- which, taken out of context, could be used to demonize rent-controlled units as wasting valuable housing stock -- is actually forced on the short-term rental market by profit-seeking landlords.

[0] http://www.sfrb.org/index.aspx?page=965
>back button

This is why they've pushed the swipe-to-go-back gesture. The screen edges are curved for this reason.
I assume you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7437357?

I appreciate that you don't want to "tick anyone off here", and you haven't, but you have said some things that aren't true. I think I've answered most of them at [1], but there's at least one other. It isn't true that we single anti-Airbnb stories out. We don't treat them any other way than comparable stories about something else.

I think there's a general phenomenon affecting this. Once startups become hyper-successful, there's a noticeable HN backlash against them. Perhaps this is because they're no longer the underdog. Airbnb and Uber (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9933165) are clearly in this category, and we've noticed others.

The trouble with such backlashes is that the discussions they lead to are super repetitive. Even more than the indignation, it's the repetitiveness that makes them unsuitable for HN.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10292239
I've heard this referred to as "the footstool" and "the emasculator."
Would love to know what technical screw-up leads to this with the scale of facebook (any info on regarding the previous downtime?)
Did you try http://www.openshift.org? The self-hosted version is basically what you described, at least for the JVM languages.
There is actually a creep-out effect with taking this too far I think that drives people away from ads that are too stalkery. Consider the case of target who toned down the exactness of some of their targeted mailer ads to women likely to be pregnant after accidentilly kicking off the outing of a pregnant teen to her family.

Perhaps we should be more creeped out by the more subtle personalized ads than the clumsy attempt I suggested.
Sarcasm, right?
I get what you're saying, and what you're saying does indeed sound fair to a certain extent.

The problem is that it encourages and allows NIMBY attitudes to proliferate, and creates an environment of stagnation. I certainly think we should balance the wishes of current residents, but there has to be limits.

I do live in SF, and I'm pissed that other residents are allowed to slow down housing development. SF is turning into a less desirable place for me to live because of the housing crunch... and I'm not even talking about my rent costs. I don't want to live in a city where only high-income people (and entrenched incumbents with ridiculous rent control) can afford to live. The NIMBYs are the problem, here.
We have the same affordable housing problem here in Boulder, but on a much smaller scale than SF. It's been this way for over a decade... Unfortunately, fixing this housing dynamic is not so simple as increasing supply. Incremental increases in supply can never keep up with exponential demand.

IMO the highest impact solution is to focus on transportation. But that's a topic for another discussion.
People interestd by this may also be interested in 'The Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics': http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/commerrs/
Your hand-waving dismissal ("It's the logo, duh") shows a profound lack of understanding of how products are developed, marketed and sold.

If it was as simple as slapping a logo on something then companies would be able to do this with impunity. Every brand that's lost focus on what it does and instead seeks to monetize its brand has failed. Eventually your reputation goes from being valuable to being associated with cheap junk.

Maybe you can try and explain why the Moto watch isn't selling very well and Apple's is. Maybe there's more to it than a logo. Maybe Apple is a company focused on engaging with customers and delivering products they want rather than what Motorola is doing by launching a watch just because.

Apple was very concerned with making the watch relevant to people. Motorola was very concerned with getting to market first.

So what we have is watches for early adopters (Motorola, etc.) and watches for ordinary people (Apple Watch). I don't think choice is a bad thing here, and I wouldn't think less of someone for making a decision between the two.
Agreed it's also a useful metric, I was just highlighting the shift. Intentionally or not, it gives the impression that AirBnB supporters don't want to talk about the average nights per unit.

> A big complaint from neighbors seems to be "frequency of new strangers coming and going", which is what this metric quantifies.

If my downstairs neighbor rents to a AirBnB guest I would still call them a "stranger" even after 5.5 days.
This is nothing new as FB has had Custom Audiences available for a while now, and you could also do this with 3rd party audience lists via cookie onboarding services like LiveRamp, etc.

What I'm wondering here is if Google will provide any way to upload this info to them anonymously similar to how Liveramp does it.

I personally won't be running these, but I'm curious if others are really comfortable with the idea of uploading their customer lists to Google (or FB or anyone else for that matter) in plaintext vs. going through a neutral middle-man that lets you just provide hashed values to get a match.

EDIT:

Looks like my reading comprehension failed this morning and they do allow you to upload hashed lists per their support doc. Also, to clarify, I have little doubt that Google, FB, etc. can't figure out who the people are. The main concern is with the people managing the AdWords accounts pulling/sending around plaintext email lists of all these customer records. That is often extremely sensitive and valuable company data that should never be sent around like that. From my experience, the people managing these campaigns are often not technical or experienced enough to think of risks like that. So hopefully the only way they can access such info is via someone who does have the knowledge/experience to say "yeah, plaintext lists of our customer emails are NOT something I'm going to be sending you a CSV of."
I get that you're trying to break down "sharing economy" by the semantics of the word "share", but even in your hypothetical the bench is [presumably] owned by the city, who has granted already access to it for everyone.

By sharing access to economic goods and services that were previously unavailable, waste from market inefficiencies are being eliminated. Just because companies are profiting from this waste elimination doesn't negate the fact that shared economies can still be beneficial.

Even so, considering the size of these markets now, I don't think people are going to confuse "Sharing economy" with altruism.
One alternative is to replicate some of your data into a different DB that is safe for the data scientists to use. And that way, they have raw data to play with instead of logs.
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Don't confuse "hivemind" with you acting like a jackass and getting down-voted for it.

If you've got a concern, try and express it in terms that aren't combative.