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Zoning laws are just as important (if not more-so). It protects the other properties in the area.

We have zoning laws for a reason[1][2]. We didn't always...

We already know too many rentals in an area bring down property values (or stagnate them at best).[2] Rentals are rarely cared for with the same degree as an owner-occupied property. Adding transients to the mix is likely to exacerbate this phenomenon.

There are other reasons for zoning laws, as well. We cannot just throw all this out (forgetting the reasons they exist) simply because some company wants to make a profit.

[1] http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/Bloody_ZoningLaws.html

[2] http://realestate.findlaw.com/land-use-laws/land-use-and-zon...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/where-we-live/wp/2015/10...
To my mind, it differs importantly in that `head []` is something you basically can't inspect, and so you don't wind up passing it as something meaningful expecting the other side to check for it.

While I think this is an important difference, `head` is still harmful.
Thanks for the insight. :) I don't disagree. Database queries don't use credits right now. We're going to be playing around with what makes the most sense for our customers. Expect things to change as we grow!
I'm actually familiar with a situation like this, the person was on a highway at night and came around a corner to see a deer lying in the road and a crowd right behind the deer. There was a couple of people off to either side. They couldn't brake in time to stop and not harm the people on the other side of the deer.
I want to second this. There is no doubting Keith's enthusiasm and attitude for both development and helping end users. If you have any questions or issues to raise, I'm pretty sure Keith will do his best :-)
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Same here. My family is healthy and yet my (self-employed) health costs were increasing by double-digit percentages every year pre-Obamacare. Go back and look at the news articles for that time. Lots of articles about small businesses unable to afford health care insurance for their employees, statements about salaries remaining stagnant because health costs were a larger and larger part of total compensation. Not to mention the rampant coverage refusal from insurance companies. (I even ran into that practice after mentioning to my doctor one time that my back was sore from picking up my infant son. It went in my medical file as "acute back pain" and bam, back conditions excluded on my policy. Even after jumping through hoops and getting a letter from my doctor.)

Once Obamacare kicked in, my health costs dropped nearly in half. It may not be perfect, and I blame the right-wingers for preventing it from being improved, but it solved a very real problem. Things are undeniably better now.
Actually, some of them are programmers.

Even if they weren't, it is unrealistic to assume that programmers have no input into the decisions that go into building the training set, which in this case involves where, and in what conditions, the prototype cars are driven.
Lyft seems to be a bit (10–20%) cheaper, at least in Ohio.
Unfortunately, that's all anyone will talk about until you change it... It's easier to make snide comments than to actually try understand something as technical as this.

Nice work, btw.
This issue seems OK-ish important, but beware the incoming "but it's about ethics in game journalism" brigade!
Isn't this effectively what, e.g., San Francisco is doing - once you rent out for X days, you face more burdensome requirements?
These plans were expensive and shit long before ACA. My parents were self employed so I had these plans all the way up to 26.

Obamacare was a patch designed to eventually fail with a complete overhaul of the system needed with single payer and private system on top. Unfortunately I don't see that happening in this country.
My OS X install is native; my linux is vbox. So OS X is the host.
Thanks for the detail answer.

Does your work have a high dependencies on Intel CPUs? ie, have your heard of it being used on other CPU architecture, eg ARM or PowerPC?
0.3 - 0.1 = 0.19999999999999998
Beating random doesn't mean making a return. A lot of VC plainly and simply lose money.
> If a community wants to ban Airbnb rentals and rewrites their zoning laws as such, the resulting line is clear.

Somewhere there's a line regarding property rights and externalities, but I think we've gone way too far away from laissez faire in the US. Our towns are brittle and inflexible and the poorer because of it.
What's the value proposition here, besides multiple carrier availability? I was able to create multi-piece shipment labels with the FedEx API in 1999. The API was stupid-simple and easily implemented in Perl back then. Are you offering volume discounts even when that volume is split amongst a host of carriers? I never saw the point in using multiple vendors as a small-/medium-sized shipper. It was easier to stick with one and have only one set of shipper-provided supplies to worry about.
Depends on what counts as "protecting the lodging industry". There are deliberate, long-instated taxes and regulations on it, usually as a means to capture, for the government, some of the surplus value generated by tourism. It's especially popular because of the (relatively correct) belief that the taxes are borne by non-residents. [2]

It's eminently understandable why governments would want all providers of lodging to play by the same rules[1] so that people can't circumvent such "tourism taxes".

There are likewise considerations of zoning/deed restrictions/HOAs/condo boards to think about. You generally do not have the (legal, and usually moral) right to run arbitrary businesses in "your" unit. There are things that people expect out of their home unit's community, and which they all deliberately accepted as a condition, like "not having a major stream of randos going in and out".

Communities also generally have an interest in regulating the percentage and location of buildings for permanent residents vs visitors. Generally speaking, permanents take better care of the surroundings, albeit at a "cost" of paying less for the space per unit time, and there's a quick ramp-up in social ills and livability problems when you let the ratios go out whack, or concentrate the visitors in areas not prepared for them.

To the extent that Airbnb is breaking that whole model, it's reasononable to either throttle it or research ways that they can share in the burden they're bringing on without losing the upside.

[1] modulo scale, of course -- it's fair to expect some exemption for sporadic, one-off arrangements, and it's fair for Airbnb to facilitate that

[2] I say "relatively" because the economic incidence will never be fully on visitors, but will partially be shared by the lodging industry, in having to charge less to remain competitive with other destinations.
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> Going after AirBNB (barring those running large hotel-like operations) isn't addressing the supply issue.

What is the definition of a large hotel-like operation exactly? I have a friend who lives at his parents house, rents 2 apartments and then re-rents them out exclusively on Airbnb. He lives off the difference between the rent he pays and what he earns from re-renting on Airbnb, basically arbitraging the difference between the long-term rental and short-term rental markets in his city. His small hustle is no Hilton, but it affects the property market in a small way by taking two properties off the market.

Airbnb takes a lot of the pain out of running things like this, and enables a lot more people to do it on a small-time scale. Taken together, it will affect the market as much, or more than a few large operations.

Left unchecked, I think such practices will, in the long term, push housing (both rental and purchase) prices up while pushing traditional hotel rental prices down, so I think the interests of home renters/buyers are actually aligned with those of the lodging industry.

Increasing housing supply is one tool we can use to control housing prices. Zoning laws, when enforced properly, are another tool. This investigation seeks to address that second tool.
Maybe he is doing this already based on the last question.
/disclaimer/disclosure/ - when you disclose something, it's a disclosure.
Why e-commerce stuck in the 1990s? just give us a chance
Pricing is going to be something we continue to iterate on. Always appreciate feedback!
No.

I'm saying that existing residential zoning laws are only effective when you can apply them to actual residents.

They fall flat if you have to chase people down (what, across state lines?) or if the fines aren't high enough to eat into an Airbnb revenue stream.

Which, is one reason why we have zoning laws in the first place - because the penalties and proxies in a commercial zone are different than they are in a residential one.

> but they're going to solve it with different, shittier laws that make less sense

Not sure how residents voting to ban short-term residential rentals in their community is shitty or senseless.
OT, but holy god that website is awful. I loaded it in a background tab and 5 minutes later that tab's process was up to 10GB of ram, and I have an ad blocker and flash disabled.
Yes, I was thinking of undergrad.
Agreed, it's a very good overview of the language. In case the author is here, I think there is some confusion in the section about indenting:

> When a token starts on the same line as a token on an earlier line, gluon implicitly adds inserts a block expression

I think this means that lines where tokens start on the same column are part of an implicitly inserted block. The comment on the code snippet is similarly confusing (and seems to have missed a refactor from `id` to `add1`).

Hope that is helpful! Looks like a really nice language.
Sorry, but you don't get off that easy when your design is intended to make life and death decisions. I work on FDA regulated medical devices and we have to do our best to anticipate every silly thing a user can (will) do. In this case, the software must be able to recognize that it is operating out of spec and put a stop to it.
> While I hate companies suing people for repairing their own properties, "right" has been overused so many places.

I don't think it is outrageous to claim ownership to something that I bought. If a company does not want me to repair my own property, put a big "not for sale, only for lease" label on the package.
> There are plenty of products that do have legitimate safety or other regulatory concerns, where there is a good reason to prevent someone who doesn't know what they're doing from meddling.

The safety of themselves or others?
Not remotely a canonical example, but this piece (of mine) uses Linnstrument to create rhythms and structure by detuning and retuning unison sine waves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRQk7TWndBw
What's the ethical dilemma there? From your description it sounds like they were just screwed regardless.
It happens all the time, not just via technical debt but also via management debt and various other leveraged choices.

For a young startup to be successful, it needs to offer evidence to investors that additional funding will lead to exponential revenue or market share growth. Those are the hard things.

Building code without taking on technical debt is actually easier than building it with just the right amount of technical debt for the business's uncertain future.

In my opinion, the kind to avoid is sloppy, non-strategic technical debt, such as what you often get when developers are burnt out and need to complete aggressive milestones so that management will be satisfied with the rate of development. This debt tends to break modularity and lead to bad system design, whereas stategic debt can simply mean building a quick and dirty black box for desired functionality that has clearly defined interfaces that can likely remain once the debt is removed and will not necessitate a rewrite of other modules.

Similarly, management debt can be strategic if it teaches young or inexperienced managers useful lessons that they grow from and apply as the company grows. But management debt that results in burnout and high turnover also gets rid of the valuable lessons and lets someone with slightly more experience make some of them again.
> I think that the fact that these are post-mortems (e.g., dead startups) skews things a little.

That's a very good! So it's 5% of startups that posted a post mortem (and it didn't disapear into ether), rather than 5% of all startups. These two things are very different things.

> we can use technology to take something that "works" and turn it into something that purrs

Well put. However, nowadays, the tech itself is often not the key bit in making the difference between 'works' and 'purrs'. Of course, there are exceptions, bigger and smaller ones. More often, it's understanding the problem, the users, and finding the fit. You can build a product with tons of technical debt and wtfs that gains some traction and then spend resources on improving it. However, it doesn't work the other way round. It often takes an experienced engineer to say 'right, let's start some cleaning up' at the right time. However, if your product doesn't solve any problems, no one is willing to pay for, etc, brilliant tech solutions are not going to help it.

> start using sane tech practices is, well, as early as possible, preferably once you've validated your other assumptions

Totally! It's just that it's often hard to tell when it's the right time.
Polybit Credits perhaps. Mind emailing me with your find?
Indeed. For all the P's in PPTP the private in VPN isn't part of it.
Then make browsers require full source maps for every website, or refuse to run them.

That’d be finally a solution.

Or require source maps by law.

EDIT: Why the downvotes? The only way to preserve the right to modify and decompile in the long term is by creating technical or legal measures enforcing it. JS was one technical measure, so now we need alternatives.
No, the problem is that the ores that have them concentrated enough to mine economically are only found in China, at least for a number of key rare earth elements.
It's also not something you can really save money on, as I have discovered, alas --- the bottom end telescopes are terrible: wobbly mounts and feeble optics. Frequently you get shoddy magnification eyepieces that are far too powerful for the light collection ability of the telescope and as a result you get this tiny, smeary image that won't stay in focus and every time you try to adjust anything you lose your target.

However, you can do great things with a good pair of binoculars (and a steady hand). You can resolve planetary discs, pick out the moons of Jupiter, spot Neptune and Uranus if you're good (although I never have) and exploring the surface of the moon is endlessly fascinating. And if you're really desperate, you can look at birds through them.
"Jonathan, I highly doubt that. We see similar results when running on physical hardware. I'm posting the results of EC2 instances here to ensure that they can be easily reproduced, but we are we have two identical boxes in the office that sit there are show Windows being much faster in this kind of thing." -- from the comments
> Even desktop cpu/memory sockets change every few years.

Amusingly, AMD seems to manage fine without nearly as many socket changes as Intel...
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Wouldn't you just sell your stock immediately and use that cash to pay the tax? Perhaps I'm missing something.
Certainly the software making the driving decision is capable of 'knowing'
Why on earth should society allow (i.e. license) a randomly-modified software agent to operate a motor vehicle? The idea that any "hacker" has the right to arbitrarily change vehicular self-control software and deploy that on a public roadway is laughable.
My understanding is the slogan was originally from NYC, and they didn't want DHS to use it.
I visited Boston in April for a conference in Copley Square. I looked into AirBnB and was surprised to see that the prices were virtually the same as the hotel. I decided to stay in the hotel since it would be more convenient for the conference, plus it had a gym and a beautiful view.
Mexico could do with a wall.
This is not the first paper to link the harmonic series to Pythagorean / just intonation style music, Google brought me this from 10 years earlier for instance:

http://in.music.sc.edu/fs/bain/atmi02/hs/hs.pdf

In fact, this paper references Paul Hindemith in the 1940s, so I suspect that the notion of linking the harmonic series to music has been around a very long time.

I think the real problem is the very dismissive topic in section 4. That's what completely turned me off this paper.

Dissonance (in Western music terms) has a huge role in music, and even that 20th century purely dissonant music has a place. (Take music like Penderecki's early stuff eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3BlFZWJNA . It sounds "awful" in a sense, but that's really the point, and certainly has its place -- The Shining wouldn't have been the same if Kubrick had used Thomas Tallis instead. :) ).

Beyond fully atonal music, a lot of Western art music relies on "dissonances" of some sort to advance melodic development (even in standard pop there's a little of it sometimes). I don't know many pieces based solely on the tritone. A lot of Western composers in the past used the tritone in key places because it was rather nasty sounding, and it was condemned as "the Devil's interval" culturally. Thus it could easily represent "evil" or "sinister" in your tone poems and operas.

Voice leading is a huge core principle behind the circle of fifths or the reverse circle of fourths; from the paper (in bashing the circle as a "red herring") it sounds like he doesn't understand the core behind why the circle exists at all, or has chosen to ignore the principle of voice leading for some reason. The circle of fifths is more melody than harmony, I personally felt puzzled why he felt it would be a criticism for a harmony paper.

I also found the dismissal of other cultural scales (which indeed generally are less, with pentatonic probably the most common), er, tone deaf. The best way I think to explore the scales of a large portion of music cultures (there are exceptions) is to think more on Pythagorean terms, not on chromatic terms. Saying that "their culture has simply never made use of the rest of the available parameter space" is looking at it the wrong way.
The Linux version was benchmarked with gettimeofday() while the Windows one with QueryPerformanceCounter. The first has a lower resolution of 10 micros and as such the benchmark is not comparable.
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The ACA provided over $2 billion in startup funds for about three dozen non-profit health care co-ops (new insurance companies) who were meant to provide competition, increased choice and lower prices for consumers. Almost all of these co-ops are now bankrupt thanks to a medley of fraud and incompetence. As noted elsewhere in the thread, Land of Lincoln in IL just publicly announced their dissolution today. What happened? Well, it turns out running an insurance company is hard, and in return for doing that hard job, the executives, even of these non-profits, want to be paid a lot of money. In many cases the Government allocated startup funds to politically-connected individuals who sucked it out of the system and into their own pockets. So no, the grass isn't always greener. You can't just slap a ''non-profit'' label on something and expect problems to be fixed. And to the extent you pay executives less money, they will work less, and in the absence of that leadership, systemic future risks start to accumulate. The selfish profit motive is still one of the core values that our society depends upon in order to function the way we expect it to. Gordon Gekko put it one way: ''Greed is Good!''. Milton Friedman another: ''Nirvana is not for this world.'' Not yet, at least.
I used to do after-market repair medical equipment (MRI's, CT's, X-Ray, etc). One of the biggest frustrations was:
$manufacturer wants $5000 to repair a CT. We'd charge $1000.

We'd repair the CT, and it would pass all the built-in diagnostic tests. But then when the customer went to make a scan, a pop-up would appear saying "Unauthorized Repair! Call $manufacturer to fix!".

$manufacturer repair tech would come in, plug in a usb-key, type a code, and charge $1000. They didn't run any of the diagnostics, and were basically paid to keep the usb-key available.

I believe in the right to repair, because preventing it just causes artificial monopolies and price-gouging.

(note: I don't remember actual prices. Numbers were just made up)
Note that the incremental cost of a shuttle mission was $450 million, but that ignores the high fixed costs. Excluding sunk development costs the average price of a shuttle mission throughout the life of the program was a whopping $1.2 billion.
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Thank you for taking the time to clarify and explain. That's exactly what I was talking about.

Worth noting -- it might be that there's just a missing construct/approach itty bitty piece of language support here that would make this problem a lot smoother.

I'm actually surprised I've not heard of anyone else express something other than complete satisfaction about it as it doesn't take much messing around to whack into it.
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Yea, no problem. HN can be super misleading. I suggest to build apps and learn from the experience instead. ;-)
OpenWhisk is a cloud-first distributed event-based programming service
True, but it would involve a gigantic investment, and if some company did make it, China would simply flood the market at a low price until the company went broke, then go back to its present monopolist ways. And everyone knows that is what would happen, so no one is foolish enough to invest.
And let's not forget the On The Go kiosks [1][2] I thought this was clever and partially addressed the gap in surveillance between swiping your card at known location and egress at some random location. This baby helpfully gives you the option to tell it where you are going.

[1]: http://screenmediadaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/mta_o...

[2]: https://www.intersection.com/assets/pdfs/Press-Release.pdf
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Am I supposed to see something unusual here?
Number of available jobs, open source projects (outside of mozilla who created it), tiobe index growth, etc... It's less a totally qualified index of growth vs a general informed opinion. To be cleared I really enjoy Rust and hope that it grows like crazy soon but compared to Swift I think it's growth has been smaller.
Some airplane autopilots are very advanced. Others are extremely simple. Tesla's system is analogous to something near the simpler end.

I keep talking about the simple end of what "autopilot" covers and you keep countering me by pointing out the advanced ones. I'm not denying the advanced ones exist, I'm just pointing out that the simple ones exist too, so using the word "autopilot" for simple systems is entirely appropriate.

I'm not terribly interested in the legal aspects of it, I'm just curious where everyone got this idea that "autopilot" implies autonomy (if in fact everyone does have that idea, which I'm not sure about), and I strongly disagree with your assertion that using "autopilot" to describe Tesla's system is "torturing language," given that using "autopilot" to describe a simple wing-leveling system is perfectly acceptable.
approximately $150 million[1] though it was a couple of years ago, before the accident. probably the right ballpark.

[1] http://www.parabolicarc.com/2016/07/11/upmass/