skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Homeaway (and VRBO and its other properties) already have the lion's share of the market in some places, particularly more rural vacation areas.

Just to take an example someplace we regularly go: In McCall Idaho (central Idaho lake/ski destination), there are 219 rentals listed on Homeaway[1] and just 70 listed with Airbnb[2] (which actually includes a larger area in the same search).

Though, it looks like Globally AirBnb has more listings, claiming "2,000,000+"[3] listings compared to Homeaway's "more than a million". Though I'm not sure if that number includes the listings from Homeaway's partner companies.

[1] http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rentals/idaho/mccall/r7311

[2] https://www.airbnb.com/s/McCall--ID--United-States?guests=&c...

[3] https://www.airbnb.com/about/about-us
It sounds like you're asking a personal branding question. If that is the case the first place I would start is by identifying who is most likely to hire you and who has the budget to pay what you offer. Then I would identify the cost difference between being a programmer or a problem solver. One might be more limiting than the other. Lastly, I would estimate how much money you want to spend acquiring each customer. Blogs take time to build and it's easier to reach out to customers than to wait for them to come to you. Start with Linkedin and Angel.co to see who is hiring for which services and follow the money. I hope this was helpful.
> there is almost no way to recount the votes and get a different result.

How can you say that when the source you cite specifically points to a study that shows Gore winning by any criteria in a statewide recount in Florida; e.g., that its quite likely that not only did Gore have more votes cast for him than Bush, but also more votes in States that combined had a majority of electoral votes.
I wish to buy the magnificently high horse you have arrived on good sir, so that I may place it in a museum of equine curiosity.

Seriously though. The level of time and funding these guys get to work on this is, to use a colloquial saying "pissing into the wind". Think of it like NASA giving them 20% time or something like that.

More importantly these experiment have seriously important implications to at least one 'modern' physics theory worked on by serious scientists. Experimentally proving this device definitely doesn't work at all, ever in any way, is evidence useful to the continued work people are doing in quantum field theory.

Your intense derision is unwarranted and saddened me. These are serious scientists and their work is as valid as any as long as they continue to conduct themselves by the scientific method. NASA isn't all about robot space probes and sending astronauts up to ineffectually float in low earth orbit. This is the NASA that works on advances in aeronautics through X plane projects, on propulsion through ion drive research. I'm honestly surprised they aren't researching it more vigorously, which I take as an indication of how cautious they are being that this work does not waste the valuable resources of NASA on something that could still just be ruling out yet another crackpot and writing a few extra quantum field theory papers.
I'm the author of ag. Sift has been mentioned to me a few times, and I finally felt the need to comment on it.

Sift is a neat tool and I hope people get a lot of use out of it. That said, I don't think the chosen benchmarks are indicative of real-world performance. For example, I just downloaded the latest Linux kernel source, built it, and ran sift and ag on it. This is on a Core i7 4770K with 32GB of RAM and an Intel 330 series SSD. Times are medians of 5 runs each. FS cache was hot.

ggreer@lithium:~/Downloads/linux-4.3% du -sh
12G .
ggreer@lithium:~/Downloads/linux-4.3% time ~/code/sift/sift -n --group line_number
...
~/code/sift/sift -n --group line_number 10.03s user 1.59s system 625% cpu 1.856 total
ggreer@lithium:~/Downloads/linux-4.3% time ag line_number
...
ag line_number 0.68s user 1.03s system 459% cpu 0.371 total

0.37s vs 1.86s. You can see the output of both commands in my gist[1]. Ag obeys .gitignore/hgignore/etc by default, so it shows fewer results.[2] Since sift can't search files with greater than 2^18 characters between newlines, it prints out quite a few error messages. This typically happens with binary files and minified css/js.

You may be wondering why I added command line options to sift. They are to enable grouping and line numbers, making the output similar to ag. This may seem cosmetic, but it actually affects performance. Displaying line numbers means you have to count line numbers. That requires reading the entire matching file and adding up the newlines.

One last bit of benchmarking: If I tell ag to do an unrestricted search (meaning both ag and sift search the same files) and I tell sift to format its output like ag (meaning both count line numbers), the results are much closer. Sift takes 1.85 seconds. Ag takes 1.60 seconds. But unlike sift, ag doesn't bail on big files without newlines. It dutifully reports all the matching .o files.

Really though, sift and ag are trying to solve different problems. I designed ag to be a code searching tool. From what I can tell, sift is meant to be more of a grep replacement. Instead of worrying so much about which one is faster, use the right tool for the job.

1. https://gist.github.com/ggreer/96ed22bab57d1e791b9d

2. I consider this a feature. The goal of ag is to find what you're looking for, not to show everything remotely related to what you're looking for. If the default search doesn't find anything, you can quickly add the "-a" option.
I think some sort of alias would be good. Perhaps it could implemented as a module that just re-exports all of the public symbols from the relevant SRFI module. Needs discussion on guile-devel.
>The goal of economic policy should be to generate the most total wealth.

Somebody wants all the money to go to the 0.01%.
Weird, that's what my friend said about Minecraft.
>Nobody's twisting your arm to switch.

Actually I'm an auditor. Meaning 1) I've see a lot of accounting packages and 2) I need to deal with whatever is in place.

On a good day thats a standard package. On a bad day its IT people attempting to play accountants which works about as well as heart surgeons flying jetliners. Nothing against heart surgeons...they just have no business flying jetliners.

Sad part is that I can program too, so I can usually see why the programmer did something & it makes sense from an IT mindset. :/

>can be used to argue against going against the grain of anything.

Accounting software is particularly conservative. Straying from the herd has terrible risk/reward.
incredible work
Show HN: Toc Messenger – A distributed messaging app that syncs across devices
Not one link in that entire blasted article.

http://www.humansofnewyork.com/

Come on, New Yorker, get it together.
A little off-topic, but today there was a pretty entertaining post on Gawker about ISIS follower accounts who were caught talking about mundane stuff and having run-of-the-mill "Twitter" drama:

http://gawker.com/even-isis-guys-have-twitter-drama-17405414...

What was funny was not just the purported content of the tweets -- now apparently removed by Twitter -- but how these guys were identified:

> ...Abu Yusuf Al-Jabarti is an avid tweeter (his handle, @AlJabarti42, indicates he’s been banned 41 times) and supporter of the Islamic State. Most of his tweets are like this, just trying to expand his brand like everyone else...

I'm not saying it's easy to write a general algorithm that follows a rule of "If an account gets banned an another account with the same name but a Levenshtein distance of 1 sprouts up from the same IP block and its first tweets contain similar content to the deleted account, then ban that new account, too"...at least, it wouldn't be easier than removing these accounts ad-hoc (i.e. after Gawker discovers them)...but some problematic users don't even make themselves hard to find and yet the prospective computational solution isn't necessarily practical to implement or particularly worth anyone's time (at the moment...).
There's a fundamental categorization mistake that the author makes, which is:

If you think of yourself as a "mobile app developer", you've already lost. You're a commodity, just like the other 4 million app developers.

Instead, you need to think of yourself in terms of the industry your app services, not the technology used to accomplish it. You're a transportation network that's coordinated through your mobile phone. You're a personal shopper that you call through your phone. You're a way to share moments with your close friends.

If you do this, your growth strategy becomes "Make yourself valuable enough that people see their friends or competitors using you and want in on a piece of the action." It's completely independent of what Apple & Google decide to feature in the app store. It's harder because you can't just write some code and put it out there, but also a lot more under control of the entrepreneur.

And there are still plenty of opportunities where the widespread deployment of mobile phones gives you an opportunity to do things 10x more efficiently than how they're done now.
It seems like everyone I read loves using FastMail for personal email/calendar/contacts.

What I haven't found is many Businesses using FastMail for corporate email/calendar/contacts.

Can someone compare FastMail (for business usage) to Office 365 and/or Google Apps?
Hi HN,

Toc is a project I've been working on for more than a year now. I'd love to hear what you guys think about it. =)

Toc is a proof-of-concept distributed messaging app designed from the ground up to support user data synchronization for use across multiple devices. It uses Telehash for its messaging stack, and is built on top of an Om-inspired architecture oriented around a central app state tree that gets encrypted using a custom encryption layer for persistence locally, and then synchronized seamlessly between devices using remoteStorage.

Originally, Toc started as our group's fourth year Computer Engineering design project at the University of Waterloo. After we graduated in May, I wanted to polish it up a bit before releasing, but evidently went a bit overboard and ended up working on it for another six months (albeit with a healthy dose of procrastination sprinkled throughout that period).

Toc is only a proof-of-concept, and has a list of awful issues that makes it rather unsuitable for long term general use. However, I'm hoping that by releasing Toc, we can bring more attention to the awesome technologies for building great decentralized applications that Toc uses, and inspire more developers to take another serious look at building distributed apps, as I hope we have demonstrated with Toc that a decentralized app can in fact have great UX if you design your apps with UX in mind from the start.

With that said, I am now officially looking for work. If you have any openings for a ClojureScript frontend project, or a React project that makes heavy use of functional techniques and immutable data, I'd love to hear about it. You can reach me through the email on my GitHub profile[1], HN profile[2] or through my Toc account[3]. ;) (disclaimer: that last option might not be completely reliable)

[1] https://github.com/lewisl9029

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lewisl9029

[3] http://toc.im/?inviteid=9b0d50b86dd596aa8c7a94bd116c2ed4a24f...
Anyone can read your letters if they open them, just as anyone can read your e-mails if they open them. Put another way, what do you expect me to do to protect my e-mail privacy? Am I required to do the same for my letter mail?

Anyway, what you are saying might be relevant if the government were reading things being transmitted, but they're not. The government can use third party doctrine to open your inbox, or your cloud document accounts. The government is not intercepting e-mails like they might intercept a postcard; they are going in to your house to read the postcard after delivery.
It's never about what the laws say, but rather about who interprets the laws.
Those words are from the Declaration of Liberty, not the Constitution.

I'm not sure how/if SCOTUS uses the Declaration in their decisions. But it certainly does illuminate the feelings of the founders.
That's very interesting.

I can see how as a property owner paying for a listing but handling bookings yourself would be appealing.

As a travel-consumer, a more integrated (find the property, get accurate availability and pricing immediately and book it now) experience is more appealing, and I wondered why so many properties went with HomeAway and VRBO instead of AirBnB.
Needs Kilometres, Miles are meaningless to me
Unfortunately the Supreme Court can't find laws unDeclaration-of-Independance-al.
If you read the heading on the table you refer to, you would have seen that its title is "Candidate outcomes based on potential non-absentee recounts in Florida presidential election 2000". Absentee ballots do matter, and the court was never even asked to do a statewide recount (to the best of my knowledge).

In addition to that, Gore would not have won on an full recount based on the conventional standards for a vote (two corners of the chad punched), as is made clear later in the article, by papers like the New York Times.
>"his use of power demonstrates extreme humility"

Well perhaps, but isn't that just like saying "it could always be worse"?

Personally, I think he could be just a little bit nicer. But then again, as a Linux only user, I am glad "crap" code is kept out...
Congressman introduces bill to end warrantless Stingray surveillance
‘Stealth bomb’ antibiotic vanquishes drug-resistant bacteria in mice
YNAB is both. It's a double-entry budget management system.
Sadly, the only possible outcomes without humans suffering and dying are outcomes without humans.
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It is right! You do have clue!

This is excellent feedback. Normally I'd agree with it. Ideally, this will be the last cliffhanger in the tutorial...
Interview questions and tests
Depends on how big the city is, but you have choice - here is a map of MN for example http://www.dot.state.mn.us/ofrw/maps/MNRailMap.pdf

[edit: also remember track sharing and common transport agreements]
I had a good out of the box install experience with OS/2. Installed and ran with absolutely no problems. I don't remember details of the machine I was using... Used it for a few months.

It had a a lot of nice features. The network stack was very nice (compared to trumpet(?) or whatever Windows used to have back then which had gaping holes). Multitasking. Rexx as the system interpreter...
HomeAway partners with tens of property management software providers who handle instant online booking and real-time availability.
As far as I'm aware that phrase isn't anywhere in the US constitution -- just the Declaration of Independence. It doesn't have any legal force.

The phrase "el libre desarrollo de la personalidad" however is present in the Mexican constitution, although in its context it isn't clear to me how it applies.
Not related to IBM or DEC but I had a similar (good) experience with Adaptec back in the day. I was a 14 year old kid trying to make an old ISA SCSI card work with a new fangled CD burner. The support rep said the card was no longer supported but hey would you like a newer SCSI card for free? In retrospect I'm pretty sure he just sent me a card out of a test pile knowing I had probably saved months to get the CD burner and couldn't afford a $150 SCSI card.
Did you drop caches in between tests (or alternately, did you warm up the cache for both)?
200M Americans Will Suffer ‘Psychological Distress’ from Climate Change
"It's incredibly powerful and incredibly unforgiving."

Did you really mean to say "unforgiving"? I.e., "unforgiving" is generally a bad thing. Or did you actually mean that it's quite forgiving?
Humans of New York has always reminded me of Jacob Holdt's work, http://web.archive.org/web/20150811101439/http://american-pi...
That's fascinating because I really don't understand it. Maybe I'm just out of touch with SEO, but things like this escape me completely:

"This is because SEOs follow and influence the intent of searchers in the marketplace, while Google’s algorithm (and AI) merely monetizes it."

Where does the extra monetization on page 1 results come from? Unless he's implying that Google provides bad search results so that people will click the ads instead.....
People use statements from the Founding Fathers to justify anything they want. For example, since the Preamble to the Constitution specifies that it was set up to "promote the general welfare", there are many people that believe the government's job goes beyond providing favorable conditions for free markets and keeping them reasonably fair all the way to literally owing them a wage just for breathing, since the "general welfare" is not helped by some people being poor.

The fact of the matter is that if you're in a position to justify something you strongly believe in, no matter how high, visible, or supposedly rationally-based that position is supposed to be, you're going to find a way to push it through. Look at the ruling in Obergefell; even liberal publications said the legal basis cited for it was rubbish. In the general case, people will use whatever pretense they can to get what they strongly believe in, and justify it by saying that they're making something good happen (that is, the ends justify the means). Social sciences are like 90% this, and from thence comes the phrase "never trust a statistic you haven't faked yourself".

It's not universal, but it happens way more often than most of us want to admit, in every field.
I've always hated that a "law" can be interpreted really.
RMS's post confirming it: [ http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/193245 ]
Jet.com doesn't seem to understand that Amazon can take losses in retail because they have margin from other sources--like AWS--as well as an overall ecosystem. And now, Amazon shows quarterly profits. They can go even deeper with discounts in retail.

Jet is just not going to win by simply undercutting Amazon as a pure retail play. They're just adding to the already exorbitant burn rate generated by their marketing team.

Unless there's something yet-to-be-publicized about their model, participants in this round are just adding their cash to the bonfire.
Again - thats IT/HN mindset. Who is going to train the accountants to deal with git conflicts? Or are you just going to employ and IT guy that babysits the VCS when you could just spend $100 more to get an accounting package with built in networking? This is all about how this will be practically done in a business context, not whether a hn hacker can throw together a clever hacked solution.
True, but people still basically accept it as a canonical element of American philosophy and believe it should be used to justify governmental actions. The Constitution contains the very similar phrase "promote the general welfare".
I do pay for my personal account to FastMail, but I still predominantly use Gmail. In fact, I pay for FastMail just to keep the address. For some side projects, it gets really expensive for me and for that I use Mail-in-a-Box [0], which I still pay for, but much less if I have to use the business tiers of FastMail, which still don't give me as much flexibility.

[0] https://mailinabox.email/
Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx (2013)
Which is yet another time someone reinvented Lisp in XML.
Try doing something the program doesn't support.

Experts prefer plain-text formats and command-line tools because with a little bit of elbow grease you can always do things the program creator never thought of or chose not to support.
When there's a Latté ISO spec for Starbucks to comply with, or a Big Mac catches fire, then these will be directly comparable.
Your fixation on the idea that other people would never guess how you feel inside indicates that you want very much for them to know. That you've reached some level of self-awareness and understanding is a good thing. It's a start. But in reality the only thing worse than your thoughts is being alone with them (if we don't count acting upon them). Blogging is not a serviceable substitute for talk therapy; typing is not the same as hearing yourself say it aloud, nor does it generate any real sense that you're being heard in the way you want and need. I've been where you are and when I think back on it I can see clearly that thinking I'd "come to terms with it" was merely another coping mechanism. The truth is that there is an extremely high probability that it's possible to get better. Don't stop here.
The article itself says that only 4.5% of CS graduates from the top universities are black, so if you're only hiring graduates of those universities then you're never going to have a diverse workforce.
I'm pretty sure if some one wanted to blow up or kill cops there would be quite an easier way to do so.
Also the likelihood of someone being deranged enough to want to do it, and be capable of rigging a GPS and Camera to a laptop filled with explosives while being able to get their hands on explosives which could fit in a modern laptop is pretty slim.

If any "dangerous" incident will happen it will be more likely if a plain cloths police officer will open some one's car door in sight of the owner and the owner over reacts and lashes out.
Some one booby trapping electronics to blow up cops what is this a 90's action film? Next they'll rig a police cruiser to explode if they go below 60....

P.S.
I'm sure that if some one puts a bomb in a laptop that would be more than "little to no evidence", the bomb components, explosives used, the car and who ever drove it there, that's a mountain of forensic evidence right there....
How to vet new software developers
From a packager's point of view: enforcing specific version results in me having to patch and repackage the service for deployment just because one of its dependencies changed. I understand that keeping track of which project uses what kind of versioning strategy (to apply proper range) is hard - but it's either that or tracking every single point release they do.

I fully agree that deployment should be reproducible and stick to tested versions. But requirements.txt is how you build the software, not how you deploy it. (Unless it is, but then no sympathy from me ;) )
Answer for my location:

渋谷 ハチ公前広場
Plaza 0.32 Miles
道玄坂2-1

That's one of the most crowed places in the world. Fail
42 makes even more sense now...
Unforgiving is often a good thing. You don't want your finance package to be 'forgiving' any more than you want your compiler to be.

If you use Ledger the right way, it'll tend to catch stupid typos because the accounts won't balance.
Does it support zero downtime deployment?
This is from over two months ago. Pay more attention.
Because science is built on evidence. All the chalk on blackboards didn't prove Einstein was right, experiment after experiment over the decades did.

We built the LHC, we're building ITER, we built the Kaminokade neutrino detector, we build things because we're human and desire to "know" things. For some of us, the chalk on blackboard version isn't enough for us to feel we know it yet.
> For some side projects, it gets really expensive for me

I'm curious what's making it expensive.

For what it's worth, I'm on the Enhanced $40/year plan and I use it for personal email as well as side projects.

I just setup a new virtual domain, a new profile, and a rule to move all mail addressed to that domain to a folder for that project.
> I'm not fooling myself into seeing this as anything but a "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" setup. RedHat is getting a ton out of this, and so is Microsoft.

That's the point of a partnership.
That's the nature of communication. There can be no communication without interpretation.
Jet is starting to look like yet-another-startup run by a rich guy who thinks throwing exhorbent amounts of money at a problem solves everything