skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sex, race, disability are on the list.

Yes, but it looks like owner-occupied homes that are renting out a bedroom on AirBnB are exempt[1] from those discrimination laws. Paraphrase of law: "other than ... a building which contains not more than five rooms for rent ... which is actually occupied by the proprietor ... as his residence"

Basically, it is legal for homeowners to discriminate on race for their personal dwelling. The concept appears to be related to the "roommate wanted" being exempted from the FHA Fair Housing Act.[2]

There may be a grey area regarding a larger 6-bedroom home that the owner occupies but is renting out for a week while he's out of town. The owner doesn't have to physically share the space simultaneously with the renter. I can't tell if anti-discrimination laws applies to that situation.

[1]https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000a:

(1) any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests, other than an establishment located within a building which contains not more than five rooms for rent or hire and which is actually occupied by the proprietor of such establishment as his residence;

[2]https://blog.splitwise.com/2012/02/07/court-allows-discrimin...
Hey congrats! Your country is experiencing dogwhistling. In America we use terms like welfare.
In fact there was a proposal done exactly like that last year, in a WP piece:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/28/...
We think the racists are products of their childhood environments too.

Hence why we don't expect to successfully re-educate them, and will have to outlive them instead.
i am not a security professional and i am recalling what i have read before. as mentioned some malware targets the bootloader and is persistantly loaded at startup. i am not sure what is technically correct, so maybe someone will chime in, but i don't believe ram is typically cleared after shutdown. i think it is called memory only malware. either way, i have 2 comparible 4gb ram sticks and there is only one on the pc now. so i would simply swap it for newer sticks i have to get more ram if simply performance as the storage is HDD.
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A reasonable analogy would be someone who didn't accept texts and insisted on party invitations (and communicating) through post or in-person visits. It's easy to say "Well a real friend would make the time to drop by", and that's perhaps a consistent definition of "real friend". But the fact remains that there's a whole host of pleasant social interactions (many of which others would define as "real friends") that you'd miss out on if you only relied on more inefficient communications technologies.

I'm not a heavy Facebook user, and I've considered deleting it multiple times, but each time I couldn't convince myself that there was any advantage to doing so over just using it as an inbox. Particularly with things like the News Feed Eradicator Chrome extension, I can basically pretend that all the irritating parts of Facebook don't exist when I check my messages and events. Having a single place where all the members of a group can see and share information on their own schedules is infinitely more convenient than trying to hack together the same thing over multiple bilateral communication channels (i.e texting/calling). Sure it would be better if it was federated, but given that there is no such widely-used solution, it's not hard to understand how people refusing to participate in FB groups can be fairly perceived as being the inconsiderate one (or else being left out altogether).
Shared home? Sure, I agree.

Rental property? Nope, there are laws that apply to hotels and normal rentals to avoid these situations. My dad doesn't get to deny access to his beach rental because a tenant is black.
They wouldn't be forced to share with anyone. They would merely be restrained from discriminating on the basis of race or other protected categories.

This mirrors U.S. housing law. You don't have to rent your place out, but if you do you can't discriminate based on race.
Until recently, my picture was of me while running a marathon, since I thought that would be the most non-threatening photo available. However, I recently had a reservation (for a nearly 2-week-stay) cancelled by the host shortly after booking. I'm now suspicious enough of her justification that I've decided to remove the photo entirely and let my uneventful trip history speak for me.
ReactOS now has killer features (0.4.2 is gona be awesome)
https://twitter.com/HeisSpiter/status/735892174399766529 - ReiserFS read support

https://twitter.com/HeisSpiter/status/736165157336932352 - UFS/FFS read support

https://twitter.com/HeisSpiter/status/735778145941356544 - EXT3 read/write support

https://twitter.com/HeisSpiter/status/711682747190931456 - BtrFS read/write support

https://twitter.com/reactos/status/735644558135074817 - .NET 2.0 apps support

https://twitter.com/reactos/status/735141249775194112 - Cygwin support

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJTL8srScQI - The elder scrolls V Skyrim playable

https://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=121704#p121704 - Doom 3 playable
uMatrix (from gorhill=Raymond Hill, of uBlock Origin fame) is extremely useful. I haven't used NoScript in 5 years or so, so things might have changed - but compared to what I remember, uMatrix is no less capable (in fact, more capable), and much easier to use -- though sadly, still not at a level that a non-techie will use.
Plague Inc. players know how Olympics helps to spread the disease.
(3) repatriating ...

Very few other countries will tax foreign earnings the way the US does. If you were a company would you want to lose 35% of your money to spend it in the US, or just wait to find a project overseas? That tariff is a much higher bar for local investment. And trust me, they have projects they want to spend money on. Most of the money would probably get paid out in dividends if it was only a one-time thing (ala 2004), since you don't want to start projects you cannot fund in the future, but even that pumps more money into other projects in the US indirectly.
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That's not the question. Whether overtly stated or not, is it permissible for her to manage her risk in that way?
Yes. That's one of the best movies that I've only seen once. It occupies a rare intersection between shows that I consider excellent and shows that I'd rather not watch again.
Renting a spare room when the owner is present is a different thing that renting the entire unit when the owner is not present.
Idunno, this might be a little spellOCD of me, but I find it hard to take an article seriously that not once, but at least twice -- judging just from the quote here plus the lede, not even having read the article yet -- misspells the name of a Secretary (albeit a former one) of State.
Because these countries are made up of humans who are not freely choosing to waste scarce resources on such waste.
The citizens of those countries. There are many better things Brazil should be spending their money on, and many people living in terrible conditions who they should be helping.

Many countries and cities who have actually asked their people whether they want an Olympics in the last few years have voted no, for example Oslo in Norway and Stockholm in Sweden.
> It was. I undeleted it.

Flagged is not deleted, as you have demonstrated. I didn't realize it's been vouched. In any case I still haven't read it, and still have no interest to, so don't worry about it.

> Please note that the reason I undeleted wtbob's comment was so that I could rebut it.

In the nicest possible way: I don't care. I appreciate that you're trying to be helpful, truly. But I think I've been clear on my perspective, and I hope you'll continue to think about it.
Oh, they just mixed geocities and myspace together?

Where in the world should 400M-logins for myspace come from?

Ah, okay, i see. First create 390M fake accounts, then sell them. Profit!
"Magic Leap filed late Thursday in federal court after the two workers, Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler, sued the company for wrongful termination earlier this week."

Both of these guys are listed as Vice President's - Kaehler as VP Special Projects - and Bradski as VP of Advanced technology, that's no small deal.

More info of the allegations in a NY Times article (1)

(1) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/05/27/business/ap-us-ar...
Rings a bell... Same happened to my mom when Google changed their Gmail UI. For us it seems like a small change but for older people this is really a tough thing. Well, we moved to an email client since then...
Being perceived as the wrong sort of prejudiced douchenozzle doesn't seem that important a failure mode to me.
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The Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdominal_thrusts

Your site is... lol
It sounds like an excellent case for legislation to outright ban the use of human-safe antibiotics on animals.

Working antibiotics are among humanity's most precious and most limited natural resources. In a century they'll be gone, with devastating impact on routine medical care. We're living in the one glorious sliver of humanity's history that we have access to antibiotics, and we're squandering them to make meat a few cents/pound cheaper. It's criminally irresponsible toward future generations.
The one from GregKH, natch.

The one that the linked to email is a reply to.
3.) I'll take that position. Tax repatriation holiday please!

Money is only useful at a macro scale if it's in motion. These cash reserves are worthless if they just accumulate. Better to take them back into the US, and be distributed as dividends to shareholders or through buy backs than to leave them.

If that money could be invested internationally it would, and so basically the mere fact that the money is sitting idle in the bahamas is a huge vote of no-confidence in the other economies of the world. Every once and a while you used to see the big companies buy stupid expensive office space in London and other European/asian cities that were experiencing real estate growth. We see that less now probably because they are already well allocated in that asset class.

Now you may be thinking, well if it's better to take the money home then leave it sitting there for a decade, consider the following. If you repatriate the money and pay anywhere near the 35% corporate tax rate to do so you have to invest it in the US for at least 5 years with a 10% rate of return before you get back to what you had held internationally. Outside the fact that this is basically impossible to do with hundreds of billions of dollars... Absolutely no quarterly venture (wall street) is going to be allowed to do that, they will be sued into oblivion by their shareholders just for trying. Especially since the US regularly holds repatriation holidays. The only tenable long-term solution to this problem is to not tax corporate earnings from overseas. Tax them through individuals later, but not the corps. Otherwise Apple could exist in one form or another for 100 years with 100s billions of dollars just sitting overseas. Of course people who don't understand economics will argue that this is defrauding the US gov't of legitimate tax revenue, but my argument is the US is not the jurisdiction in which this money was earned, so it should see none of it.
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That point is argued in the article:

> "There’s been some claims that if the Olympics happen, it’s going to disseminate the virus everywhere, it’s going to amplify it," Frieden said. "Well, we looked at the numbers. The Olympics account for less than one quarter of 1 percent of all travel to Zika-affected areas."
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> Because when they were held on Olympia for how many hundreds of years it didn't work and were considered unfair?

Probably because there were three other games--Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian--that were held at other sites around the Hellenic world? And the "world" was small enough that the sites of each didn't feel inaccessible to (much of) the citizenry of the competing states?

(I find the Olympics generally disappointing and I have no love for them as an event, but a partial view of history doesn't really help anyone.)
So, am I reading this correctly when I come to the understanding that there is going to be a single company in control of delivering service on this wire? That seems like a recipe for more of the same, where a single provider has little incentive to price competitively or improve service in the absence of competition. You could probably decay from exciting internet to under-performing in as little as a decade.

On another note, can the trunk lines be kept to a relatively low capacity, and then scaled later, or is this not feasible? I'm wondering how much you have the chance in the implementation of this to start with limited bandwidth (but still very high for residential users) and then scale up once you have users and all the connections to the homes.
I didn't get it, what could gcc/clang potentially bring to Plan9?
According to the Internets, which are never wrong, the largest ship ever was this one:

http://maritime-connector.com/worlds-largest-ships/

How do you think this compares with a typical land-based Olympic venue? What other challenges make this idea absurd and ridiculous?
Nope. You can seek protection (patent) before publishing your results. See page 3 in the linked pdf. The paragraph begins with "misconceptions about open access.." in bold. :)

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/gra...
> Does anyone else yearn for life with what man has long called "wrestling"?

Maybe I'm mis-interpreting you, but isn't that one of the reasons Fight-Club resonated so well with people? Sure, it's story is deeper than "a bunch of guys get together for a friendly fighting session", but that was a big part of the draw behind it.
Very cool idea! It could also somehow contributes reducing bandwidth usage on your website.
LGRTR [0]

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6eQ78HCGEA
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Today's Internet industry is all about vertical lock-in, app store lock-down, and surveillance (customer is product), so an "eyeball grab" and "platform grab" for VR is to be expected.

This is particularly true when we're talking about a company where this is their entire business model.
I agree and if the government was attempting to pass a law mandating this I would support you

But if AirBNB want to have a racism free site where only non-racists homeowners are allowed to post listing then it is perfectly with in the right to do so and I support AirBNB in banning any racist persons they find trying to use their site.

No one has a right to a AirBNB listing, and just as the homeowers can refuse service to anyone, so can airbnb
Not in the United States: http://homeguides.sfgate.com/renting-shared-house-can-landlo...
AirBNB is claiming to be exactly that though - renting a spare place in someone's house. It doesn't claim to be renting commercial properties or a hotel. (As such it can't guarantee that the owners of houses won't be arseholes)
I feel like I read a similar headline with the same figure but it was 23% among technology corporations cash...
Not sure what game you're playing.

If your point is that its hard to measure people's true performance, then yeah, sure.

If your point is that everyone should be paid the same because its too hard to ascertain actual performance, then you better find a gig on Cuba or some other functioning communist society.
>> Will the EU force the publishers to make them freely accessible? Will the EU only allow scientists to publish in open journals?

> How this happens right now with NIH funding is yes, the government basically forces publishers to make things freely accessible - the paper is going in a public repository.

I think you're either mistaken, or you didn't understand the difference between the two original questions. The NIH doesn't force the journals to do anything. The NIH makes it a requirement for researchers they fund to make all publications open access (after some time period), effectively prohibiting the authors from publishing in closed-access journals
No particularly good reason, except a bit of schadenfreude perhaps. I guess if I were balancing the pleasure of a scarlet letter stitched into the public profile of racists and bigots, vs that of just kicking them off the platform? Hmm. Tough call for me personally. But it's not up to me, so I can't really say I have a good reason for NOT kicking them off the platform, except maybe a family member or friend finds out about their twisted badge of (dis)honor.

Maybe it's a bad idea and it just encourages a sort of tribalism where the bigots do business with each other and as a social we really should say, no you can't use public goods like AirBnB. Yes it's a private company, however it is also acting like a bridge to what has historically been a place of public accommodation: hotels.
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We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11785541 and marked it off-topic.
Yes, those are different words. Could you explain the legal principle, if there is one, that allows discrimination under one circumstance but not the other?
> Basically, is legal for homeowners to discriminate on race

There is a big difference between "not a violation of federal law" and "legal". Many states have anti-discrimination laws with broader scope than the Federal Fair Housing Act.
Only those planning affairs on company time.
BTW, your post didn't get the attention I'd hoped, but THANK YOU for "fighting the good fight".

IMO this stuff is more important than any technical choice you could possibly make. And I happen to think some technical choices are pretty vitally important. But even so...
That and the coup.
You can stop responding now - apparently the surveymonkey has a limit of 100 responses on their free plan, and upgrade would cost me hundreds of dollars. Anyone with a paid account is willing to redo this survey later? (we're already at 205 responses after less than 12 hours, of which only a 100 is shown).
Yeah, when I say suspicious rejection I mean probably as part of a pattern. And maybe you're right, pattens alone might be enough to ban. But with a "test" like this Airbnb could take action sooner and more definitively.

(Also it should be noted, "looked untrustworthy" can be code for racism.)
Discrimination in business is likely predicated on the belief that people of group X are more likely to damage your property than people of group Y, and that the risk is great enough to avoid doing business with group X altogether, even though it means a smaller pool of potential tenants/customers.
By "solves", I mean the real GDP, computed with the GDP deflator, corresponds to a physical quantity which is proportional to entropy and therefore measurable in bits.

The CPI, PCE, and related indices tend to approximate the GDP deflator but are generally inferior as there is no sound way to perform the hedonic adjustment or to choose baskets in the first place. Eric Weinstein has proposed gauge theory as a way to handle substitution effects but has not, to my knowledge, computed an index using it.
The Wii may actually be a case in point, since it never really got that much consumer uptake, and no other platform has picked up the mantle with physically active games.

As with the Vive, it seemed like the future at the time, the concept games were a lot of fun, and it scared competing platforms to rush out imitating products (Xbox Kinect, PS Move). But neither have ultimately had much adoption.
Stanza Programming Language Now Supports Windows
> Wealth from industrialization allows societies to take steps to clean up previous damage. The rivers and lakes of wealthy nations are cleaner now than at any time in the last 100 years. The US and western europe have more forest cover now than in 1900. The air is MUCH cleaner too.

The price of cleaned up Western countries is that the dirty stuff (mining rare earth metals, mining for coal and iron, ore processing, lots of chemical production processes, producing oil) shift from Western countries into poorer countries. Africa suffers from massive pollution due to uranium mining, China has a truckload of environmental problems, and India isn't far behind.
The patents to me seem broad enough to cover DNSSEC, but in intent they discuss a DNS proxy that intercepts non-standard TLDs like '.scom', '.snet', etc. and routes them over a VPN. Interesting idea, but I don't see how iMessage infringes on it.
Different indigenous people can share almost the same blood but have vastly different ethnicities, because ethnicity is cultural. Check your history.
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Kinda pointless of a remark unless you're comparing it to 50 other SF tech companies.
What a shame. Rift started as a crowdfunded open project and ended up as a disgusting lock-in.

>Frequently secured through digital rights management (DRM ) technology, this functionality is typically standard for digital download stores.

Not really. There are enough DRM-free ones. I don't care about games that are released through some exclusive DRM-infested stores, but what's more worrying is that hardware itself is probably tied to those stores. I.e. can you use Rift with games for example released through GOG?

In this sense Vive isn't better now too, since it requires SteamVR (because no one else implemented OpenVR so far).
Yes, and these can't be merged with git yet.
The L.B.Stanza Programming Language now has support for 64-bit Windows systems.

Stanza is a new optionally-typed general purpose programming language from U.C. Berkeley. If you're interested, see our original posting at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11717561.
Thinking in React
There is vixra (vixra.org), but they also (mostly) have the "funny" stuff.
Whatever you feel like.
> As satisfying as that might be

Given that patent trolls usually retroactively sue for stuff they didn't have anything to do with, I'd say it would be very satisfying.