skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
clearly a misuse of the word "share"

Yes, it's not "sharing" when a middleman takes a fixed percentage of all transactions and works for maximizing their revenue.

The way you get your astrotuf terms to be less astro-turfy is to use them as often and in as many non-hostile situations as possible while still engendering them with a sense of "this is all for the best."

http://mondato.com/blog/apptivism/ and http://www.fastcompany.com/3022974/tech-forecast/is-peers-th... and http://www.wired.com/2014/12/sharing-economy-pr-stunt-turned... and google is your friend.
A guy from post communist country here: how is more government regulation going to solve anything?
TL;DR: "How would you convince me you are willing to exchange professional services for currency?"
Sounds more like "greedy" than "optimistic" scheduling: the early jobs get the worms.

In most scheduling systems, two 10,000-node jobs that each would saturate a cluster on their own will time-share if submitted together, with each job acting in practice more like 10,000 single-node jobs. The result is usually each job getting a probabilistic 50% share of the cluster while they're both running, and then whichever one runs longer saturating the cluster once the other ends.

This scheduling system, meanwhile, would seem to just hand the 10,000 nodes over to job A, and then sleep job B until job A is done.

Admittedly, in the case where the jobs aren't submitted at the same time, and job A has already grabbed and saturated the cluster, the two cases collapse together: job B must wait (unless you want to schedule processes rather than containers; then you just degrade the cluster's performance.) But for batch-processing applications, you'd usually schedule everything to start at once, precisely so that the scheduler could interleave the jobs.
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This is cool. It looks like the end result took the pdf chapters and made them searchable and in html form, which is a big improvement. Is there more to it than that that I'm missing?
Your (and many) arguments about AirBnB revolve around housing, economics, etc.

There are other arguments to be made about the quality of service & safety. Read some of the comments from another recent HN story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10291070

My own individual and anecdotal story: as an individual whose neighbor was AirBnB-ing his apt next door to mine, seeing dozens of unfamiliar faces (and, without going into detail, the behavior and antics of some of these occupants) did not make me feel safe. If anything, they should severely restricted under this guise, not "affordable housing". (Though I do agree that more housing would generally improve the situation for all).
Any number of bed & breakfasts and other small properties that aren't Airbnb are "no kids." And, of course, the majority of hotels are no dogs.
The Money Spent Selling Sugar to Americans Is Staggering
This is putting it politely. Using the word "sharing" in this context is more than a misuse, it is a deliberate misrepresentation. As such, it represents an clear ethical failure. The fact that it's so public signals that you are dealing with a company that, on a very fundamental level, lacks an essential measure of courage, foresight, and integrity. It is—in simple terms—total bullshit.

I say all this having just returned from a wonderful weekend that was made much better by Airbnb. It was a great service, I enjoyed it immensely, and it's sad to see that something so good could be ruined by leadership that threatens their brand by describing what they do with such overt dishonesty.

The sharing economy is real, it is also cash free. That's by definition. If you were making money you are not "sharing" anything. You are conducting short term rentals, and that's a very different beast. If you insist on using language like "sharing" anyway, don't be surprised when people respond with a few choice words of their own. If those words sting, consider that proof that your own use—or misuse—of words really does matter.

Related: when facing a political backlash, don't make your own position worse by giving your enemies even more ammunition.
> If the cost is less than the benefit, aren't we overall in a better place? Can't some people value the gain in efficiency, or whatever else the feature provides more than the cost?

If you work alone, you're right. Problems start when working in a team. The average lifetime of a codebase is about a decade, in which time it is read and touched by many hands, and falls under several management administrations. We know that languages that are too feature-rich can prove troublesome under these conditions.

> sounds suspiciously subjective

Of course its's subjective -- like many things that have to do with the choice of languages -- but unlike many other debates, we actually have some very good data on this: C++. For a few years, C++ was considered a blessing. Expressive, sophisticated, powerful. But after a few years, as codebases started to mature, the industry as a whole discovered that maintaining C++ codebases is a nightmare. Every team had its own style and its own subset of features it chose to use. Some features (like operator overloading and esp. cast and assignment operators) while useful, ended up making long-lasting, large-project collaboration extremely costly. Java's design was very much a reaction to C++, eliminating features right and left, and declaring from the get-go that it aims to be less expressive and more verbose. It worked. The question now is whether any new "rich" language would share C++'s troubles or not, and that is indeed subjective (so far). But at least we know that sometimes a combination of too many features can be really bad, especially when working in large teams.

BTW, today C++ is quite effective because it's become a (relative) niche language (even according to its creator). Niche languages are used by specialized teams that are good at enforcing discipline, and/or tend to be smaller.
Does anyone know how Nomad plays together with CoreOS?
Creating Your Own EC2 Spot Market
The original iPhone's camera (and thus the iPhone 3G's, since the 3G changed almost nothing besides the case and the cell radio) seemed to exist mostly to tick the "has a camera" checkbox. It was pretty awful at doing much beyond existing. It didn't even have the ability to change focus!
Android basically forces you to use Java. Enough said.
AirBnB's customer service is undergoing growing pains.

We rented a place via AirBnB that seemed to have good reviews. Upon checking in, as soon as the lights were turned off, cockroaches came out and were crawling over us! So at 3AM I called AirBnB and wanted to get out. They helped me find another place, but I could not leave a review of the previous place! No wonder they had such good reviews! It defeats the purpose of a review if you can't leave really bad ones.
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Another HEVC encoder comparison (which also includes x264 and VP9) is due to be released in a couple of days:

http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/call_for_codecs...

One of the results that's already leaked shows VP9 ahead of all the HEVC encoders except for x265, which it trails by a couple of percentage points.
Docker is a wrapper around Linux. Vagrant is a wrapper around the entire VM [e.g. Virtual Box or VMware]. Thus Vagrant can be used to manage Windows environments. See the list of Vagrant boxes here:

http://www.vagrantbox.es/
This is the reason (at least, I think this is the reason) why I bombed my first serious job interview, with United Launch Alliance.

Things were going great until they asked me if I preferred working alone or in teams. From memory (it's been a long while) this is how the conversation went:

Interviewer: "Do you like working in teams?"

"If the people I'm working with are smart and motivated, I'm fine working in teams. Otherwise I'd like to mostly work alone."

Interviewer: "You mean you don't like working with other people?"

"No, that's not what I said. What I mean is that my experiences in working with teams have been mostly negative because other people don't pull their weight. The few times I have been in a good team I've really enjoyed it."

Interviewer: "Okay, moving on..."

And a rejection email was waiting in my inbox before I even got off the plane that night.

I learned after that to just say, "I love working in teams, especially when I'm working with people more experienced and knowledgeable than me. I'm also a great self-starter and I'm self-motivated, so I'm also comfortable working solo if you need me to do that." Which is much the same sentiment, but phrased in a way that people seem to take better.
It's not magic, it's economics. There are frameworks to think and model this, and they do not support your conclusions.
Not really. Their fight with Oracle would be entirely justified to avoid paying the largest copyright damages award in the history of software.
Well, sure, if you come to a doctor and you say that you are "hurt", it is a "real thing" because that's the feeling, but an effectively useless term and not a "real" ailment or medical condition. I am using the comparison with medical conditions not to suggest that introversion is one, but just to explain what I meant.
Now You Can Find Out If the NSA and GCHQ Spied on You
"Unfortunately, a lot of other people have problems paying their rent or mortgage. 75% of Airbnb hosts in San Francisco say that their income from Airbnb helps them stay in their homes, and 60% of the Airbnb income goes to rent/mortgage and other housing expenses."

C'mon Sam, you can do better than this. Just about everyone's income helps them pay their rent or mortgage regardless of where it comes from. And let's not pretend (a) parkinson's law doesn't exist or (b) people allocate specific income sources to specific expenses. If you make more, you spend more. If you have to pay your rent on the 1st, you write a check from your bank account–you don't pull cash out of your "AirBnB income" envelope.

And, BTW, I've never rented an AirBnB in SF who wasn't (a) a young professional that could afford to live there or (b) someone 40+ who clearly had lived in SF a long time and bought prior to the spike in prices. These statistics and stance just don't compute for me.

Look, I love AirBnB and I think it's a great service. But it's just that–the best short-term/vacation rental service. Nothing more. I'm a little tired of them (and their apologists) acting like they're some kind of cultural juggernaut.

I always knew they'd have huge political forces to answer to (my friends and I would often wager who was more likely to succumb to governments: Uber or AirBnB). They're going to have enforce bed taxes. They're going to have to police municipal laws, HOA regulations, and more. And after it all shakes out, maybe this isn't as profitable of a business as people thought (for both AirBnB and hosts).

Of course, like Uber, they'll likely take the lobbyist route to fight this (maybe they already have). But this is a case where a little humility would go a long way IMO. Would it be so hard for AirBnB or Sam to say "yeah, there's a housing issue and we might even be part of the cause. so let's work together to find a solution or compromise."?
That's a good point; now that everyone calls it the sharing economy that's the word that came to mind. But I'll change it.
The end result isn't the end at all, but just the beginning of a more comprehensive system. This was just a proof-of-concept to show that something like this was possible.
You're looking for convergence, and so far Ubuntu touch does not offer it. It's the main selling point but we're still waiting...
A 1:1 Earth makes sense if you want to make a virtual world compatible with AR. Otherwise, I think it only makes sense for flight simulators and games involving space travel.
There cannot be a manned mission to Mars with this policy.
Does anyone see value in the huge emphasis on the "sprint" term? Advocates promote the word as a new way of working, but I see it as just adding confusion for the audience it's trying to reach. That is, if I'm a person entrenched in government and want to learn about this new way people are working, and I see the word SPRINT everywhere, I might assume it's some complex new idea. But it's not -- it's just a time period with goals. Those have existed forever.

The real win in this short project came from having a cross-functional team in the room, in a working session with a clear short-term goal. So just say that.
The problem with Prop F is that it has some very dangerous side effects. Read this detailed analysis if you want to know more: https://medium.com/@emeyerson/prop-f-is-worse-than-you-think...
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A more private and individualist education is the only reason I succeeded in life.

Before I came to the U.S, I went to South American private schools and it was a living nightmare. You breath collectivism and herd mentality is the only answer.

Because I'd refuse to work with groups, my grades were terrible and teachers often recommended my parents to seek 'special education'.

When I got in the U.S, I tested out of as many classes as possible and graduated HS at 15. If I had a talented child, I'd follow this map:

http://image.slidesharecdn.com/gertjan-penelope-telemachos-a...
"Total compansation" for presidents is a suspect label; does it include the many perks they usually get (free housing, car & driver, etc)?
Harvard Berkman Center Launches New Internet Data Dashboard
Really?
Looks to me like the 3G to the 3GS is the biggest jump, the improvement there is ridiculous
If art itself was never worth much, then I don't see a future where we as a culture are willing to pay a lot more for it.
Doesn't mean that at all. Reward program would just be an example of a not-necessarily-web company that has a list of customer emails. Nothing prevents them from adding your email to that list.

The scary thing is this means Google is targeting and following us on an account basis, not just an anonymous advertiser id.

If only there was some universally accepted 'do not track' feature....
If Otto's Appfile mimics Heroku's app.json file (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-button#creating...), that'd be a huge win to me in having more sustainable Rails open source projects.
Interestingly, this rubric outlined in article applies the advice Daniel Kahneman gives in his section on interviews in Thinking Fast and Slow. As he acknowledges, it isn't perfect but in studies it generally shows an improvement over the sort of gut-level hiring most people end up doing.
Excellent links, thanks.

http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/twiki/pub/LawNetSoc/BahradSo... seems to expound on a criticism of the first paper, which asserts that it muddles the data by classifying drug origin by company headquarters, rather than the market in which the research is done and the drug is first patented in. With that reclassification, their data seems to show that US-based research (though not necessarily US-headquartered companies) substantially outperforms EU-based research both in quantity of NMEs and sales.

> At first glance, the organizations with their headquarters based in European countries are characterized by a higher probability of market launch for compounds entering clinical development. However, when the composition of research portfolios is taken into account, the apparent comparative advantage of European organizations vanishes.

Your second link seems to reinforce this:

> The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations reported that, between 1990 and 2003, its members increased their research and development investments in Europe by 2.6-fold and in the US by fourfold

It's obviously silly to claim that all research has fled Europe (it clearly has not), but it does seem evident that European-based pharma countries are electing to research and bring to market first in the US. I think the question then is "why?" - is it the US's higher effective ceiling on drug prices? Higher per-capita drug spending? Higher probability of success through the FDA versus the EMA? What are the causes, and what are the effects?

Economic wisdom tells us that long-term price controls reliably cause shortages, either by underpricing demand and/or by disincentivizing supply; I don't think it's unreasonable to presume that the same effect would be in play to some degree here. The pharma industry is obviously extremely distorted by regulatory intervention, both in barriers to entry for a new product and barriers to entry for competition on existing products, so conventional wisdom can't be applied across the board, but I can't imagine that the effects of price controls are negligible.
I wonder as well, we use it in quite a bit of production applications and have really good experiences with it.
but does your model take into account ė, the derivative of evil in the hearts of humans with respect to time?
If you go to the comment section of any major site you'll find racism and misogyny. Saying Redditors support misogyny because there are misogynistic comments there is like saying New York Times readers do the same, because they also have misogynistic comments on their site.
Why would you say that whole sentence when you can just say "sprint"?
I know it's not new, but there is still something quite powerful about the fact that a photograph taken by a pocket-sized device has enough quality to clearly show the outline of the photographer in the subject's eye.
Yes the raw data required is completely independent of any PII and fully HIPAA compliant. So for example a hospital using Epic or Cerner or other EMR scheduling and just provide a clean list of historical appointment times and lengths, no names or dates or other such data needed. So the approach is fully HIPPA compliant requiring no sensitive patient info needed. The data set is used to forecast future volumes and apply operational constraints (nurse / doctor / waiting room schedules) to create optimized templates for furture appointments
Why not choose a name that is not already used by other project?

There is already a pretty popular library for android named Otto http://square.github.io/otto/
I'm not arguing that people allocate specific income to specific expenses, just that people need and deserve more income.

I think Airbnb is well aware of the housing issue and more than willing to work together on solutions.
It's very murky whether loss of confidentiality should count as a loss of integrity. Obviously, the answer is almost always yes. If the system coughs up the root password to an exploit, and then you use the root password to rm /, there goes integrity and availability too. But should that be included in the score? Or is that simply a natural consequence that should be understood.

I vote the latter. Otherwise every bug reads like a classic medical waiver: "may result in death!" Severity: 10!
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A guy with a bias; is trying to tell me that lessoning supply in a super high demand region is only nominally effecting prices.

my head is spinning..
Do you have evidence of Airbnb driving up pricing levels? I'd honestly love to see it if so.
I think it's mostly that introversion vs extroversion are closer to what the post you are responding to, while more often then not, social anxiety and shyness are conflated with introversion while that is not necessarily correct. Introverts exist that are comfortable interacting with groups of people. Being "drained" by social interaction doesn't mean that they don't enjoy it or that the draining is stressful. I think of it like a timer that counts down until you'd prefer not to be in social situations anymore.

That being said, I consider myself extroverted and I experience an opposite effect. After being in non-social situations for a long enough point I get to where I don't care what specifically I'm doing I just want to do something social. After a day of reading or individual pursuits I might feel a little stir crazy and text anybody I know to do anything from go get a bite to eat or hang out with no particular activity in mind.
> Prop 13. Very low property taxes create tremendous incentives to hold on to real estate you own.

Very low property taxes should be relatively neutral between holding and trading compared to higher property taxes.

Prop. 13 encourages holding over trading because, while it does control property tax rate, it also constrains tax basis value increases to small annual increases while you hold property, but reassesses at full market value when you buy a new property. Which means, it increases the incentives to hold on to property once you've purchased it and decreases the incentives to purchase property, because the property is (net) higher value to the current owner than a new purchaser with otherwise similar profile, since the new purchaser would have to pay higher annual property taxes.
They release a phone at the same time each year and have done so for a fair while now. The marketing aside, the schedule is pretty predictable.
Actually what I'm saying is that much more supply is the thing that will drive prices down.

(And also that the number of units that are effectively full-time rented on Airbnb is just about 1% of the entire off-rental-market supply--let's get that 99% back!)
"Sharing economy" is just the marketing term for it. If I share a bench with you, I'm not charging you for the privilege. I agree that it is the word we use, but it doesn't accurately communicate what we're talking about.

It's a difficult line to walk. On the one hand, sharing sounds nice. Even as capitalists we are suspicious of efforts to make a profit. And many of the "sharing economy" services are about using things that you personally own and selling use of them to the public.

On the other hand, when AirBnB/Uber/etc try to make an economic argument for their services, it is clearly not around sharing. We're exchanging value (my empty home, parked car, etc.) for value (your dollars, as a proxy for work you have done.)
http://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/about

Since all current private industry space efforts are still organized with NASA, I imagine this part of NASA is involved with efforts such as SpaceX as well.
> We need unbiased medical experts to propose a system that works which has the following charachteristics:

Unbiased medical experts are not particularly likely to be experts on three points you suggest are critical, since none of those are actually even remotely medical questions.
I'm puzzled about why the existence of guidelines for contamination of other planets would be surprising.

Note, the concept of "Planetary Protection" also applies to contamination in the reverse direction for sample-return missions, which are very much expected to be part of Mars 2020.

I didn't know this before looking, but it turns out there are UN agreements, and something called the "Outer Space Treaty" to which the U.S. is a signatory (1967). This treaty, in essence, prohibits "harmful contamination" of other planets. There is a body of scientists (a panel within COSPAR) which deliberates on contamination and issues guidelines in a timely way. ESA also has a policy. So there do seem to be players here that are larger than Elon Musk.

But these agreements are subject to revision and negotiation as more becomes known. Presumably something will be worked out as the reality comes nearer.
In practice, you'd have some friends on your list even when you were down a couple of blocks (at C for the portas, for exmaple) and couldn't actually get through, or it was definitely at the edge of range and you might just have got a signal through if lucky (I tried down there and never did), so there is some lag involved, but some intelligence helps you figure that out.