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People in city's subsidize corn fields not the other way around. If you look at net tax flows rural areas get a ridiculously huge subsidy's. Things like the ever popular completely unneeded military bases. Or SS disability checks because someone has no job skills and can find a friendly doctor.

Or how about: Between 1995 and 2011, the federal government paid $172.3 billion in commodity subsidies, $46.6 billion in crop insurance subsidies, $37 billion in conservation subsidies and $21.4 billion in disaster subsidies.

Compare with the much hated bank/auto bailout which cost a net $21bn.

Really, rural areas should love for city's to become more efficient so they can leach even more money from them.
it's not the lack of a repl I mind so much as the startup time. I'd love to be able to write small command line apps in pyret but the execution delay is painful. (that said, I fully appreciate the focus on education; there are lots of other scripting languages I can use!)
> but I am also very uneasy with politicians dictating what you can and cannot do with your property when that act in and of itself is not otherwise illegal

The list of things you cannot do is already extremely lengthy and much to the chagrin of homeowners. I assume you've only rented and never owned, but wait until you see what your property taxes go to, what you are allowed to build, not build, must maintain, must pay for on behalf of citizens that do not own (Denver is currently trying to raise property taxes to subsidize builders and ease purchase pain of new homeowners who currently cannot afford to buy for example). I think people are up in arms over this because Airbnb is a large player in the startup community, but the uproar of politicians creating policy for it's citizens is not absurd.
I'm really against adding a blacklisting mechanism to Ethereum. Are there any communities out there that want to hard fork the code as it is and move on to a less draconian governance system? If not, should I start one?
That's a pretty simplistic way of looking at it. There are a baotload of regulations on hotels for very good reasons, as other commenters have pointed out. If you turn your home into a de facto hotel then those same regulations should apply to you as well. To me, Airbnb is a case of many people wanting to have their cake and eat it too - they want the rental income, but not the downsides of adhering to short-term rental regulations.

Think if you started a bakery and went through the laborious process of getting a business license, getting your kitchen health inspected and certified, etc. and then a week later someone next door just started selling bread out of their home to undercut you on price, regulations be damned. I would be rightly pissed off and expect the local government to shut down the home operation.
This article breaks my heart.

I moved from Hartlepool, England, to Brisbane, Australia.

Hartlepool is a town in the UK that has the blight of being in the top 2% of all regions in the UK that you will be born into poverty (http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/25/hartlepool-e...)

I spent alot of time in London for work after moving to Aus, and being from a town where there's more houses that have been left derelict than there are occupied. Where 4 bedroom homes sell for less than 40,000 GBP vs 1 bedroom studios in Notting Hill that sell for more than 1M GBP.

I'm left disenfranchised, lost for words and eternally grateful that I escaped the cesspit that is the UK. For my friends and family that are still at home, I have so much empathy for.

Especially knowing that this Brexit was really just an attempt to break the status-quo and downward spiral of poverty that they're trapped in (not all that different to Trumps reasons for being voted in @ the US). It was a last ditch effort to say:

"Fuck this and fuck them. Let's break these shackles around us, it can't possibly get fucking worse for me, my children and my extended family.

These constructs around me starve me and my family of life, food and joy. What ever happens. It can't possibly get worse for me, my children and my extended family."

Edit: typos.
Ajahn Brahm's guided meditation on YouTube isn't bad, and in fact some of his talks are decent as well (and relaxing). If you can get over a bald, English monk in Australia. There's a logical, rather secular sensibility that appeals to the geek that I am.

Helped me through times of personal and work burnout stress.
I got this one wrong. I thought no way a computer would be so dumb to have drawer and then drawers in the next sentence and this was a trick question to get one to say machine. Guess I overestimated the algorithm !
Yes, Apple has thought about this: https://twitter.com/1Password/status/743198373323341832
There are also the crazies at Fox-IT.
This seems like a good use case for a PAC. Maybe you could get Netflix et al. to pitch in?
Yup. You can run it either standalone (perhaps with an automounting script in the background, that uses a hardcoded key?) or inside your regular desktop environment (in which case that probably has a solution for mounting the drive).
I'd rather my neighbors not run a crackhouse and a brothel on airbnb out of our building, thanks.
Yes, that’s the additional cost from the NOx. But the cars produced in contrast far less CO2 than advertised – offsetting many of the costs.
I think that, for the vast majority of renters, getting a discount is about as much as you can hope for. We would all love to have the time and resources to take the telecoms to court and set a precedent, but 90% of us (probably more in SF and among Hacker News readers) don't have the luxury of doing without the Internet to make a stand.
If I'm working solely within a programming team then Github issues works fine for tracking bugs and features. It's when you need to communicate with teams outside of the code that JIRA really shines, everyone in the company has an account - if you need someone to do something then the ticket gets assigned to them!
That's amazing, I have spoken to many people who have read the book, and I haven't met anyone who has even attempted it. I have tried it a couple of times as well, but I haven't been able to get it to sustain.
> But your neighbors might not want you to let out your place to an endless parade of strangers.

This is the argument NIMBYs have been using against regular old renters since the beginning of time.
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> (well, at least something bicycle-shaped; they haven't made good bicycles in over 100 years).

At my bicycle co-op, we call these BSOs, bicycle shaped objects, to describe Huffys and other Walmart department store bikes :-)
Right, but is it done for that purpose?
It's sustainable from the perspective of not dropping dead.

But what happens to your health? How can you exercise and eat healthily? Go for a run on your only day / half day off?

Your future self will be angry at your past self when it sees what you've done.
Who would pay for all this extra enforcement? My guess is that a large portion of this short term rental income is untaxed. Can't have both sides, no regulation and no tax. I pay my share when I rent a hotel. (Apologies if airbnb renters are paying the appropriate city, state, and federal taxes).
Genuinely curious why the agency:consumer::host:guest is flawed. (agency|host) temporarily allows use of their property by (consumer|guest) in exchange for money.
...secondary vice (drug dens/solicitation of prostitution/craigslist orgies/etc).

Since we are regulating what people do in the privacy of their own bedroom, shall we also bring up the possibility of homosexuals engage in sodomy?

If that's somehow off limits to regulate, what distinguishes it from the private bedroom activities you bring up?
I've noticed the same thing, they get so many complaints on twitter and facebook they could ignore them all like they do phone calls and no one would care
Save your money. Don't buy new cars, or fancy clothing, or live in a high end apt. Put the money in the bank so you can walk away when you want.
>As an individual, you make one wrong statement to the FBI, and you are hauled off to jail

Hillary Clinton approves.
Not at all the same, but I'm in a house in Redwood City and it's frustrating that part of the city has broadband choice (you can get Wave/Astound OR Comcast) but my part doesn't. I don't even really understand why -- I don't get what part of the infrastructure is owned by who, how it's decided, and how to push for change.

There are local providers such as Sonic who are rolling out Gigabit in certain parts of the Bay Area, and who insist "the more people in your neighborhood that sign up, the more likely we are to bring FTTH to your neighborhood!" but there's no way of judging which one is the more "likely" bet, which is frustrating.

I wish there was someone I could just throw a couple thousand dollars at to solve the problem, but no doubt it's vastly, vastly more expensive for them than that.
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Fun story: My daily commuter is a ~50lbs cargo bike. The bike shop dude was trying to upsell me on some featherweight rims for my 26x2 tires. Concerns about mass were left behind a long time ago...
It is of course only anecdotal evidence but I know no developers using dynamically and statically typed languages that would deny the benefits of static typing per se. It's just a matter of fact that you get rid of a certain class of bugs that you have to otherwise cover with (unit) testing. There are of course drawbacks. If your language of choice does not offer type inference you have to write some additional boilerplate code but that may be countered to some extend by good tools with autocomplete and the like. You usually also get better refactoring tools with static typing. Then again it is sometimes harder to make something work because the type system is to restrictive and some duck typing would be really handy. It is a bit of a trade-off, some bugs go away, some code is harder to write. I guess that is what you are hinting at with looking at static typing in isolation. Nonetheless I still have to see a developer who confidently and unconditionally prefers dynamic typing over static typing, but maybe that is just some bias because of the places I work.
I'm curious as to why nobody here has yet to comment on OPs claims about "Hedonic Adaptation". I've been told by various sources that this is the way the brain works, even in my recent biology class where the teacher would say that "dopamine sensitivity" was to blame.

It seems like a really big deal to me if he's right, and could really change your outlook on life.
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True.

But my experience with Oracle specifically is that handling connections is just general overhead, while the real failure modes have to do with overloading random latches somewhere deep inside of the system. I also found that logic in stored procedures caused us to hit limits faster than leaving it in the application.

The specific case I saw this in was a simple set of queries to test if you were in an A/B test, and if not to assign you to a random variant. After I left my application logic was moved into a complex stored procedure, and they then had scalability limitations that they didn't have before. For political reasons they declared success and ran fewer A/B tests...

(I've used a lot of other databases as well, but Oracle is the only one I've really pushed to its scalability limits.)
They'd probably do well to just fire their PR person. This is one of the most unprofessional responses I've ever heard from a company to a reporter:

> We emailed Airbnb spokesman Christopher Nulty to ask whether the library ad was "real." He responded by email, "as opposed to a fake one :)"

A follow up email, explaining that we were in fact seeking confirmation as to whether the ads are actually from Airbnb received the following response: "Are you seriously writing on this?"

Nulty did not respond to another follow up email.

http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/10/21/passive-aggress...
> we should fine Boeing because their planes aided in 7/11

Those gas station corn dogs are a crime against humanity but a fine seems excessive.
What governance method would you propose?
make sure it's 'human-scale'
ala http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20130330.php
What problem does your marketplace solve for suppliers? Does it get them extra revenue? Is the amount significant to them?

Do they have to do something extra/different to work through your platform (e.g. different process, different service level, pay commission to you)? Is it still worth it?

Do they use it once and then stop? If so, just ask them.
The way I interpreted that verbiage, what they really mean is that they'll buy your vehicle back for the price that it would fetch in September 2015 _in the condition that it currently is_ - i.e. any extra mileage and wear and tear would still drive the price down, it's just that you don't have to worry about the value lost due to the scandal.
The idea that there's an inverse relationship between how much someone thinks they know about a subject and how much they actually know is pretty timeless. When people refer to Dunning-Kruger I take it to mean shorthand for that phenomena rather than a reference to results from a specific study done in 1999.

I may be misremembering, but when I first saw references to it on Slashdot, etc., it was from people reacting in amusement that someone was able to quantify and measure what seemed like such a commonly experienced aspect of human behavior. If someone had done an academic study on the increased likelihood of friends having scheduling and availability issues around weekends in which one friend was moving to a new house but was too cheap to get movers despite having plenty of money to do so, it would've gotten a similar response. :)

Since then, it's just been convenient having a name ("Dunning-Kruger", that is) for a concept that was widely understood but didn't have shorthand for referring to it. I'm not surprised that the study itself wasn't definitive and airtight.
I love to see individuals and companies step up and fight against the psychopaths that run San Francisco.
Is this always true regardless of wheel radius?

Yes, the kinetic energy of a uniform ring on the outside of the wheel is exactly double of the kinetic energy of an equal mass elsewhere on the vehicle. You can prove this by integrating around the circle; the key is that the ratio of the velocity of a point on the ring to the velocity of the vehicle depends solely on the angle. (The point in contact with the ground isn't moving, while the point at the top of the tire is moving at 2v.)

Note that this applies only to the outside of the wheel; there is a cost to weight closer to the centre of the wheel, but not as much. (Also, things get weird with non-rotationally-uniform wheels, but people tend to avoid those for other reasons.)
I have the 2012 15" retina, but I'm on the road freelancing all the time, so now looking for something light.
The only issue is the matter of scale

You're not wrong, but this is also the same argument your parent post was making, namely that it will have a large scale negative effect on many regions.
Ask HN: What are your business failure stories?
I have been watching a few success videos lately, that describe how they succeeded. I realized that success rarely happens, and if they do happen, there isn't much value to be learned I think as it is survivor bias or something like that. I think you can learn a lot more from failure, because there are a lot more failures than successes.

So does anyone have a failure story to share?
Don't forget the butthurt ads they plastered the city with once they were finally made to pay their taxes. "Dear SF, Hope you are putting our tax $$ to good use! Love Airbnb!"
I think you're missing the point. No one dreams of paying developers $10/hr to live in Detroit. The salaries are high legitimately. But the quality of life per $ in SF is questionable. I have a friend who manages 500 engineers and can afford a 3rd story walk up loft next to an elevated freeway.
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In the U.S. alone. And I think they only set aside $18B for the entire scandal.
It can be found on play store at
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.supriyaprem...

This is my first android app. For the next version I to make it a cloud based service.

I would love to hear some feedback.

Thanks again!
-Supriya
I'm not following this closely, but I understand most at least 4 other auto manufacturers were doing essentially the same thing: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/09/mercedes...

Why the focus on VW, then, rather on the auto industry?
The motivation is key here, and I could not possibly agree more.

Lots of people tried to get me interested in Programming when I was younger. I was given a very dry book on PASCAL, and had Visual Basic installed on my very first computer. Never did a darn thing with either of them, because I was more interested in games.

In the 7th grade though, I was given a TI-82 graphing calculator, with a built-in programming language (BASIC) and the ability to type in programs from the math book and let them run. On its own this was neat, but I barely understood what I was doing. Then I got curious one day, read the instruction manual, and arrived at the getkey function.

The TI-82 instruction manual has little to say about the getkey function, except that it "can be used to create Video Games." There is no more dangerous thing to tell a young student bored with Algebra homework. I had a working PONG clone later that same week.
>Also, 59 seems like a statistically insignificant number when compared to the overall population. Or maybe I'm interpreting it incorrectly?

What if you were one of those people? Or someone you loved?
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Under your analogy, the host has to make sure the guest is licensed, which is different from the law, which is about the host.
Read it with an inquisitive tone, rather than a snarky one, and your emotions won't flare up.
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Well, you're in luck because both of those things are already illegal.
If the concept of Bushido didn't become popular until Japan's modernization (at the end of the 19th century)...how much of Japan's conduct in WW2 (notably, the fighting until death) can be attributed/blamed to this misinterpretation of samurai history?

Looking at the Wikipedia entry for Kamikaze [1], I was surprised to read that the concept of suicide attacks only became formalized late in the war (June 1944), rather than something ingrained in the Imperial Japanese fleet from even before the start of conflict.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze#Beginnings

OT: I really love the posted article's massively deep footer, which also looks good on mobile. I frequently have trouble designing nice footers around a long list of links and I'm bookmarking this site as a place to copy from.
I just installed these tools and it tells you on first invocation that telemetry is enabled and how ti disable it. I think that buys a little bit of good will. I am also opposed to telemetry by default, but I understand it, and appreciate the opt out message being presented clear and up front.
To be fair, anime is a loaded term that _pretty much_ means one thing.
If that analogy (sensible, imo) is too much for you then pretend he was talking about GetAround.
As a somewhat frequent visitor to Chicago, I like the idea of the pedestrian tunnels, but they don't seem like a practical way to get around.

They're basically the separately-operated basements of stores, hotels, and office buildings networked together. Usually one of them between you and your destination will decide to lock the doors.

I've found myself nearly under my destination, encountering a locked door, and having to backtrack and find my way out through a fitness club.
Once you own property, you too can be a NIMBY! That's how local property rights work.
Microsoft is about 5 years too late with this.

I'm sure their MVC stack is fine, but this isn't a problem needing a solution in 2016. There are dozens are frameworks in your favorite language that can deal with taking HTTP requests, grabbing data from a backend, and spitting it out as JSON. They all run fine on Linux servers, are easy to develop on Mac.

C# is a nice language too, but I'd need a compelling reason to jump from Java / Scala over to .Net. And JetBrains puts out products just as good as Visual Studio for every major language.

The one thing that might make me consider this would be MS implementing the actual valuable part of .Net to Linux, Mac, and others: the desktop GUI libs and Visual Studio GUI tools.

Of course this will never happen since the MS dev tools team is beholden to the Office and OS departments.

Instead, I imagine .Net core will not gain much traction.
tell trump! Zuck did it first!
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I've seen its use in those communities also. Usually the person applying thinks highly of their ability to identify a DK scenario. And, if someone professes not to understand something, DK is rarely applied in their favor. Bringing it up is effectively just a meaner way to say, "I think you're wrong."
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Yep. Both Mao and Pol Pot thought sending the intellectual class out to do forced manual labor was a wonderful idea.

It didn't end well.
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I think the 4 hour week is a red herring.

IIRC the author did it by making a business more efficient and use less of his time. But his starting point was an insanely successful business. That's the prerequisite for following his steps!

Alternatively he suggests getting a job you can work remotely then outsource cheaply to take yourself out of the equation. Yeah right. Good luck with that!

The goal really is to build enough wealth so that you can work 0 hours per week. Probably doable by investing wisely and cutting back on lifestyle.
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Driving a car is a complex and potentially dangerous activity, hence the license. A license to rent a place to sleep makes no sense.

Edit: Instead of responding to every single sub comment I will just add that car accidents kill 30,000 people a year. Whether or not you think AirBnB should be regulated, the analogy pairing their activity to the commonly fatal activity of driving is unambiguously on a different level. A more appropriate analogy is perhaps a fishing license.
I agree! We're acutely conscious of it. This is precisely where, as you note, the education focus puts our resources elsewhere. Once those things settle down, this is something we're going to want very much even for ourselves.
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Whether it's bad or not is beside the point; the upthread question was whether Trump was only against illegal immigration or against immigration more broadly. His campaign statements make it clear that the latter is the case.

You are, of course, free to think that's a good thing.
How is the analogy flawed?

Rental car agencies ensure drivers (who use the agency's cars) are licensed.

AirBnB is being asked to ensure hosts (who use AirBnB's platform) are licensed.
this comment being downvoted is great testament to the political and, even more important, social inaptness of the highly brainwa... err... educated tech community.
not funny.
When did the labor-capital debate shift from truck drivers to PhD-caliber computer scientists? Serious question, I think I missed the clear split. Has it always been there and I didn't realize it? Is there a clear historical event?
I made the same mistake. Why is the "efounders" necessary?
It'd be expensive to run a full SaaS, but technically you could do it on Ethereum, and the execution would be verified by the blockchain.
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Your rental agreement (or HOA regs) almost certainly forbids short term rentals.