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Framing requirements have become far, far stricter. Here's one construction project currently being framed on the SF peninsula: https://goo.gl/photos/hdDmcqWkEuQenvku9

It's a one-story room with a 9' ceiling height. The structural engineer specified two massive Simpson Strong-Walls, side by side. There was barely any room for the window, which had to be askew as a result. A local architect tells me the requirements were far less onerous even a decade ago.

Also foundation requirements have increased as well. You may be on a flat lot with no history of problems based on a soils analysis, but end up having to drill piers anyway. Just in case. Your municipality wants them. Which will likely increase foundation costs by tens of thousands of dollars--so much for affordable SF bay area housing!

I know one fellow building a new home on the SF peninsula who spent $500,000 to pour a roughly 1,000 sq. ft basement. (Small lot, not much outdoor space, so he was determined to have a place for his kids to play in.)
I have brought this up in multiple Prop 13 discussions, including I think the one you are referring to where you pitched your proposal. My opinion is that the proper fix for Prop 13 is to modify it to match Florida's much saner[1] practice of only providing the appreciation cap to owner-occupied primary residences. That speculators, investors, and landlords get to benefit from taxable value caps is bullshit, IMNSHO.

[1] Who would have expected Florida to be the same one on anything?
And you think AirBnB has anything to do with the rental prices in the Bronx or Queens?

I'm just saying I don't really feel bad about a unit in Lower Manhattan somewhere being off the market because it's rented to tourists.
Honestly I feel like the downloads folder is something of a waste. Typically the software there is too old by the time I find myself reinstalling.

Perhaps it should be auto purged as things age. Most users probably instinctively move things to be kept elsewhere
Do colleges own startups people create while going to school? If so that sounds horrible considering how much college costs.

I heard if you work for a company while also developing a startup depending on the contract the company can claim they own the startup - even if you were working on it at home with your computer you bought with your own money and off the clock for them.
If implies who, as it gives negotiating leverage. But that's kind of beside the point.

Edit: I just realized I probably misunderstood you. The point about neighbors is meant to be relevant to the notion of the government having a degree of control over your property in general, not the specific question of who's allowed to stay there. Most of my response is no longer relevant with that clarification, so I've removed it.
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So what algorithms/data-structures/dbs do they use the fpgas for ?
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thanks. but it doesn't work.
I think that's a false assumption. Is AirBnB really the bottleneck for NYC rents?
Can you rent it out to a nice family of 5 who are clean, drug fee, relatively intelligent, quiet, and get along with the neighbors?

Did you say yes to that particular leading question?

Then why say no to renting it out to that same father for 10 days?

Exactly. The properties are being used for exactly what they were meant to be used for, living space.

Your statement amounts to

"can I run around in my backyard firing my weapons off in random directions? Well then why would you expect them to allow me to live there quietly?"
It is not rocket science. Just set up the applicant tracker in such a way that tickets that have not been resolved within a week bubble up to the top of the queue. I've seen this implemented at my workplace and the frequency of ghosting went waaay down. But it is true that a company must make a small but conscious effort to reduce it. Some companies apparently just don't see enough upside in it for them.
I'm not using the service either, but I noticed this comment [1]. It's not the first time that a DNS server has been DDoS-ed, so it has been discussed before (e.g. [2]). At minimum, I would expect a company that exists for scenarios like this to have more than one DNS server. Staying up when half of existing DNS servers are down is a new problem that no one has faced yet, but this is an old, solved one.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759653

[2] https://www.tune.com/blog/importance-dns-redundancy/
> This is by far the primary usage of Airbnb, for people who live in NYC.

Any sources to research this claim? I'm of the impression the majority of available properties are people who make a living of renting out properties like a hotel.
I spent weeks learning Angular, Ember, and other last-gen frameworks. The todo equivalent was simple, but once you got into their render cycles on a moderately complex project, the wall was very steep.

I started off with simple React apps and it was easy, but I expected to hit a wall. That wall simply never comes like it did last generation. I find it interesting that someone would consider it too complex only a couple years later.
You must have not used DSLRs or smartphones recently. A cheapo DSLR is just fine in point and shoot auto mode, and with its multi-cm lens it will get you much more satisfying pictures of your toddler running around or of your friends at the night-time BBQ than any pixel or iphone with pinhead-sized lenses. (And we are not even talking about the optical zoom and bokeh and a proper flash or other "advanced" features....)
That's part of it. Another major part of it is that there are major zoning restrictions. Excessive zoning laws pushes up price. This has been demonstrated time and time again.
This doesn't work in reverse for me. A founder who is good at business and sales should hire a sales staffer first? The tech side of a business generally moves a lot slower - and recovers a lot slower - than sales. The longer you have poor technical decisions being made, the greater the tech debt.

One company I work for has taken about 18 months to get rid of some technical debt from the origins of the company, which didn't have a senior-level techie. The database still has seven different ways of representing a timestamp in it from those early days.
The canadians who want to invest in risky industries have more incentives to do so south of the border. Most of our population is within 100km of the american border, and it's pretty fucking easy to get a visa if you're about to invest money in the US.
> It shouldn't be legal to tell someone who owns a home that they cannot rent it out. We're not talking about someone running a business out of their home, where the zoning laws actually apply.

Short term rentals are a business, by definition.
I said something stupid yesterday, better force push over that
Doesn't Mirai use UPnP IGD to work around NATs/firewalls? I imagine a lot of people have that activated on their router to play video games and whatnot.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/who-makes-the-iot-things...

Edit: I guess it's more accurate to say that a lot of poorly designed devices use UPnP IGD to work around NATs/firewalls and Mirai takes advantage of this to infect them.
What sort of security training do you do for your developers and other staff.
One thing that occured to me regulations wise is to require IoT devices to have some minimum level of security such as a unique hard password rather than it just being "admin" or some such. You could enforce it for items sold in the US or EU and the Chinese manufacturers would probably follow so their goods could be sold easily.
In this case "the powerful" means the hotel industry, and I don't think anyone would deny they have a vested interest in fighting airbnb.
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I have a HL-2170W and miss the duplex the 3 times a year I use it. I was mostly letting people know that they more or less still make the same printer (at least, as far as I know the new ones have not become crap).

The HL-L2340DW comes with a starter toner cartridge that is good for 700 pages, so it is not a terrible way to have convenient printing for a decade.
To be part of Mirai network, your device needs to have telnet access open to the world AND use default factory credentials (which in turn must be on the lines "admin admin" or "root root").
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> Given the prevalence of the broker industry I'm not sure that's the case.

I paid a broker that I found on Craigslist. No one said renting an apartment in NYC doesn't suck.

> I don't think the city actually cares too much about who can afford an apartment in the desirable neighborhoods that have a high volume of AirBnBs.

As a resident that lives in one of those desirable Brooklyn neighborhoods that has turned into Times Square for European tourists, I actually do think the city is looking out for me.
The liberal party of Québec isn't very nationalistic, it's mostly that they have very deep ties to the Beaudoin family that has inherited Bombardier from their parents without having the competency to manage it. And our government is in the hand of corporations since we still have colonial institutions, so they spend our tax dollars on free loans that will never be paid back.
It's likely there are far, far more candidates than jobs, and companies simply can't get back to each and every person.

There's a huge difference between not responding to every resume -- and silently dropping (or prolongedly stalling) the candidate after initial contact has made (sometimes even after an on-site visit). The latter is what is usually meant by "ghosting" -- and really, there's no resource-based excuse for it (given that both parties have already made a very significant time and energy investment by that point). That's what's so exasperating (and to some, nearly infuriating) about it.

Most companies do it.

Actually, the widespread observation is that until recently, "most companies" definitely did not ghost candidates after the initial contact stage -- and after an on-site interview, it was basically unheard of. It's hard to get data, but it definitely seems to be a very new thing.

The "ghosting" is just something you have to get used to as a candidate.

One can get used to anything, I suppose. But by the same token: turnabout is definitely fair play; and as long as companies insist on doing this to people -- they're going to have to get "used to" this shitty behavior being talked about on places like Glassdoor and HN.

And of course, being duly and justly called out by name for it.
It was true that one DNS nameserver record == one physical server even at large providers. But we're beyond that now. Each nameserver at a physical location can be a cluster of hosts. Beyond that, with the use of anycast that single nameserver record may map to different clusters positioned around the world. This is how the root servers work and why they are more difficult to attack.

Of course small DNS providers will find it hard to run a system this way, but the larger providers follow the same architecture - anycast and multiple servers at each location. Google and OpenDNS for a start use this pattern - the famous 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are in fact multiple server clusters all around the world.
They are probably still using it, but I think they apply spam and duplicate content detection first and also limit PageRank flow to sites of similar topic. Another thing they could do is to nullify the old links for resold websites.

Besides that, time spent on page and social signals such as likes and tweets probably count for more than links. A crappy spam site would be disregarded pretty soon, because people would immediately bounce back to Google and try other sites.
> There is not that much opposition to these trade deals - the opposition is usually from minority (i.e. political) or special interest group (i.e. an industry that would be disrupted, like agriculture).

Are you kidding? A large majority is opposing. Only government leaders and EU heads support this kind of deals.
I think there's supposed to be a pedestrian tunnel from the Caltrain Transit Center station to Market St. And that would be perfectly fine.

One of the reasons subways cost so much money is because stations are so expensive. And stations are so expensive because everybody nit-picks. In the the United States today large public works projects only happen after near unanimous consensus. The result is that when these projects do happen, they're incredibly expensive in order to satisfy each and every desire.

Just like the OP said--we'll never see another subway line in San Francisco for the foreseeable future because there's too much "community involvement". Everybody wants to criticize and nobody wants to compromise. It's a large problem in the US on the whole, and it's led to paralysis.
Software is only a portion of my Downloads folder. It's usually a random collection of pictures, music files, videos, documents, spreadsheets, archives with data, archives with code, etc.
Sort of true... I've actually seen hotels list rooms on AirBnB in San Francisco. The logic is that the type of people who are looking at AirBnB are looking at a specific price range, great location, good value, etc... . So if you're a hotel you can list a room or so on that platform that you otherwise might lose out on to an AirBnB competitor.
I can’t think of any type of blacklisting this would prevent. Care you elaborate?
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Sure. I don't fault Keverw's response; I was just attempting to answer the question.
Some people are more equal than others. Its just flipped directions. Deal with it. Be above this equality nonsense. People want to hire you or they do not. Nothing you can do about it.
Shouldn't that verb be "serve"? "Service" sounds like they're auto mechanics. Or hookers.
You kind of wonder whether we will end up with FoxNewsBook eventually.
What mechanism can you use to verify the authenticity of the other end that can't be spoofed by M

No such mechanism exists, as this bug demonstrates.
Wish the author tried job search platforms, since I'm curious how they compare to old fashioned recruiting. Job platforms are those where the candidate is the customer.
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How restrictive are those regulations? The tallest structure in the Western United States is being built in Los Angeles, of all places http://graphics.latimes.com/wilshire-grand-the-big-pour/
> Market based doesn't mean profit-maximizing from the supply side.

Some context [1] on what "profit maximization" we're offering to say Nestle... "the permit that Nestle uses to operate its water pipeline in the San Bernardino national forest costs just $524 (£357) a year.". Sounds like a racket to me...

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36161580
Triplebyte only works with YC companies and YC tells its startups in pretty clear terms that remote employees don't work for early stage startups so go figure.
If every charger sold lit users phones on fire they wouldn't be in business for long. The dangerous chargers generally have bad QA and inadequate insulation and separation between the mains and output, so almost all of them will work at first but a few will do nasty things like dumping 120V on the output, either immediately or some time later after the insulation abrades or dirt bridges the gap.
For anyone interested, there is an app called Chirp by Animal systems that attempted to make data transfer over audio a relevant form of communication. It actually works quite well to push links from my computer to my phone on Airplane mode with the help of a custom python script.
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Probably not a great idea. If the internet went down at my work, none of us would be able to do anything, so we'd probably all head out to the polls just because we have nothing better to do. Unintentionally increased turnout.
AirBNB units make up 1/5 of 1% of the NYC's rental units. A bottleneck? no, but sizable and impactful, especially when you consider that these tend to be clustered around where they're convenient.
First, 7,500 is more than "a couple thousand", but even a couple thousand jobs has more impact than just the direct impact of "just a couple thousand jobs" -- unemployed people buy a lot less products and services than employed people - and they often need public assistance, so the public burden is even higher - loss of income tax plus welfare payments.

And while many of them will eventually get new jobs, it's going to take some retraining (not a whole lot of demand for train engineers these days), and time.
I'm interested in improving these docs. Can you point to one area that you think is particularly terrible?
For non-technical users, I'd suggest the following:

Turn off the devices you don't want to check; leave only those up you want to investigate.

Visit your router on the web interface and see if there are any graphs are possible to check for things like requests/second or packets/second. If it's really high while you're not actively doing anything, that's a clue.

Visit the UPnP settings on the router. If there are ports listening for incoming internet connections, turn the UPnP off on the router.

If you can SSH to your router, log in and start collecting data with tcpdump[1]. This later can be analyzed with tools like wireshark[2], which can show you per protocol what is going in. Most of the botnets use telnet- or IRC-like interfaces which are, in most cases, plain text commands, so it's possible to spot them.

Apart from this: reset everything to factory and change all the passwords before letting anything on your network.

[1]: https://www.linux.com/blog/tcpdump-tutorial-beginners

[2]: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChapterIntr...
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You resumed it brilliantly, I took the liberty to cite you in the landing page, hope you don't mind.
Naturally I now want to see all of them.
> Most Manhattan buildings are large and have many units. If you rent out your apartment a few times a year, how is this fair to your neighbors, who pay the same rent and never agreed to have a bunch of transient guests in the building?

How is it fair if you let your druggie sibling come live in the house with you for the entirety of your lease?

It's a completely bullshit excuse, if the neighbor creates a problem, deal with it. If they don't, then don't.

Telling the neighbor what they can and cannot do because you don't like it is not going to be fun when they're allowed to do the same back to you.
looks like a new class of hardware component emerging - NIC with an additional FPGA chip. Or may be a NIC which has only FPGA, an FPGA larger than the NIC's code alone would require. Or just FPGA card with NIC ports on it.
WRT the second attack, what they're referring to is actually DNS cache poisoning - inserting a false record into the DNS pointing your name at an attacker-controlled IP address. This is a fairly common attack, but usually has an upper time limit - the TTL (which is often limited by DNS servers).

This proposal would allow an attacker to prolong the effects of cache poisoning by running a simultaneous DDoS against un-poisoned upstream DNS servers.
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You are measuring by the number of properties, I'm measuring by fraction of people. I'm pretty sure that my statement is self-evident. Laws can always be introduced, for instance limiting the number of days on Airbnb a particular unit can be placed.

It's the people who want to pass sweeping laws that penalize everyone, instead of something more targeted, who are obligated to provide sources and research.
Seems like this would benefit from not using standard TCP (which assumes that a dropped packet is always due to congestion), and maybe use one of the WiFi retransmission protocols (the names are slipping my mind at the moment).

Might increase that bandwidth from 7kbps to something more comfortable.
If you can forge certs for HTTPS-protected sites, this is not what you would use them for.
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I'm really hoping to see a clear winner emerge among places that aren't SF/SV as somewhere to migrate to without having to worry much about being left out of the loop.

I don't know yet of any places that have the necessary combination of both favorable policies for tech and sufficient differences from SF/SV in order for another focal point to form.

P.S. I really do hope the idea of a YC city ends up being executed on in the near future.
I think you're really downplaying the impact the Internet and the acceptance of this market in the minds of consumers has. It's a big deal, and it IS disruptive, and I doubt Cuomo is signing this because he cares about noise complaints in apartment complexes.
"proven" and "big name on the resume" are two entirely different things. I wish more hiring entities knew this.
Are you suggesting that if AirBNB disappeared, people would stop visiting New York?
I appreciate the support. But FWIW, I don't think Kalium was trolling. Although he (I assume, but correct me if I am wrong) and I disagree on the risk versus reward of extending the time-to-live of cached resolutions beyond the authoritative TTL, I nevertheless appreciated and enjoyed his feedback.
Short-term renters do NOT treat the property the same as long-term renters, and renters in general treat property much worse than owners. It lowers the quality of life in the building when residents aren't on the same page.

I don't mean that I support NYC's blanket regulation, but any condo owner would have known the situation before they bought the unit. If they desired a income property they could have purchased elsewhere.
> Because, personally, I'd rather not have the house next to me used for short-term rentals "shared" with those that don't give two shits about the community they'll be leaving on Sunday afternoon.

Why do you believe that guests wont give "two shits" about the community. This sounds incredibly xenophobic to me.
And what gives the HOA authority? What happens if I say "Screw you HOA, I am going to ignore you".

The answer is that the GOVERNMENT enforces its will.
Not necessarily. Schiaparelli used hydrazine for fuel, and if it smashed into the surface it seems to me that it's a reasonable assumption that the whole crash site is contaminated with it. Is that something we want to get all over the rover?
> Some people don't internalize that this is a sellers market. There are orders of magnitude more open jobs out there than there are qualified people to fill them.

The "shortage of engineers" meme that just won't die. If this were actually true, one or more of the following would be happening:

1. Qualified people would not be having difficulty finding work

2. Salaries would be increasing and low-paying open jobs would decrease in response to short supply until the market went into equilibrium
Rosetta was pretty much a success story.
Europe is already the most open market. The way proponents of such treaties try to sell them to us is that, thanks to them, European companies could go fuck other markets as easily as companies from other continents can already come and fuck our markets.
It wasn't publicized anywhere near enough. :(
The last time I played around with Snort[1] I realized I'm lightyears away from being paranoid compared to the default settings :)

It would be good to have an IDS with bare minimum settings, easy to turn on layer after layer, though I understand it's tricky.

[1]: https://www.snort.org/
Parent made it sound like the government has a moral right to zoning laws. I would argue that zoning laws are more often abused than used properly.
> Move fast and break things is more about breaking your own things, not someone else's things :)

In a world of APIs, the line between these blurs when things break.
Perhaps the policies in place for governing corporate influence over particular market sectors are fundamentally flawed.

It would seem so since there must be an active body to oversee corporate control.