skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do the couple thousand people who moved from SF to Oregon or Seattle really really have the voting numbers to sway politics that much?

It depends on how close the numbers were beforehand, right?

> Disenfranchising transplants does not stop the idea.

If they retain the franchise in their former states, then they're not disenfranchised.

I'm frankly astounded that so many people have reacted so negatively to this idea. TO me, it seems like common sense: the mere fact of moving somewhere doesn't make one a local. We require immigrants to our country to learn about American history & civics: why not immigrants to our states?
That's not at all clear. The cost to resolve civil conflicts is something both basic economics and the law factors into regulation all the time.

Further: two very common kinds of contract we're talking about are with the state itself.

The first and most obvious is zoning, wherein the state promises to reserve some piece of land for a specific use, and private entities purchase that land with the expectation that it will only be used that way. It's for this reason that you can't build a hotel anywhere you want.

The second implied contract we have with the state are the codes and regulations governing residences. Long before Airbnb, residency codes had tenancy requirements.

Finally, the law itself has something to say about people who enter into contracts in bad faith, deliberately misrepresenting their intentions or circumstances in order to obtain concessions: we tend to call that "fraud".
Elon Musk: The chance we are not living in a simulation is 'one in billions'
I know it can be computationally expensive, but larger images would really help in this case.
Ah, but it's the CEO (or at least someone at the director of engineering level) who sets the tone, and sets priorities and guidelines for their underlings to follow.

So when you get ghosted, it's not the engineers who fizz-buzzed you who "did" it... and it's certainly not the office manager (and/or "talent specialist") who's doing it. As with everything else a company does, "message"-wise -- it's coming from the top.
How long do you have to be somewhere before you are a resident whose needs should be catered to? A year? A month? A week?

Anyone staying in your city is a resident while they are there.
Based on the highly unscientific sample of the set of questions asked by my coworkers in my office today, the failure mode of end users receiving NX DOMAIN has happened much more than on most days.

I don't need to make sure no exploits are possible. However, it at all possible, I'd like to help ensure that things aren't accidentally made more dangerous. It's one thing to consider and make a tradeoff. It's quite another to be ignorant of what the price is.
Those quotes added a lot of atmosphere to it (from techs). And also from secret projects. Those blurbs are so memorable...Not to mention the encounters with Planet! All those fancy sequels of Civ seem empty after playing SMAC.
Her response, "but it says on the box that it's easy to
setup for outside access!". Mine: "It's easy to setup for
everyone to access, much more involved if you want to
make sure it's only you who has access"

well that was a pretty clever answer, I needed to laught about that :D
Basically the commercial was right :D "easy to setup for outside access" that didn' implied a single person ^^
> 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.

Now that's an honest argument: "I just don't like tourists". The whole raising-prices-displacing-real-new-yorkers thing is just disingenuous.
PPP would be more suitable, right?
But, "wireless and cellular speeds" is increasingly becoming a physics problem. I'm not so optimistic as to proclaim the downfall of Comcast.

I wouldn't be surprised if Comcast releases an MVNO with devices that are intended to work primarily on comcast wifi, with secondary cellular.
I really really hope that Tesla does to the automotive market what Apple did to the laptop market when it introduced the unibody (ALU) Macbook design. It's a design that has withstood the test of time.
The market is in equilibrium.

Physics and Math graduate unemployment rates are virtually zero, and practically all of us work in software.

That a lot of CS graduates actually can't do the job may be a pity, but its not our problem. Qualified people don't have difficulty finding work (by definition - if they're qualified, they will get hired).

Shortage of engineers is a meme?

"If you gave us another 100k great engineers we would only hire about 15k of those" - said none of the big 4 ever. They are perpetually hiring and they will absorb any capable engineer who comes their way. You know that. Don't pretend there's a shortage of jobs for qualified software engineers. That's just silly.
>>I suspect we can trace the triumph of NIMBYism to the baby-boom reaching the "get off my lawn" age.

Doubtful. The majority of people hate change, and that has probably always been true. A large population influx inevitably causes change, both because of the number of people and because they are always culturally different to some extent. A lot of this used to get wrapped up in nationalism/racism. See US history of prejudice against the Irish, Italians, Poles, etc etc etc. Heck, we even had legal immigration caps on Chinese people.

The Boomers might just be the first to resist changes via zoning and regulation rather than more direct action.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poverty_of_Historicism
Because a Fortune Global 500 high-tech company doesn't lay-off 10% of it's workforce very often. When they do it signals an underlying weakness in either the company, sector or economy and is thus newsworthy.
It's so, so easy to destroy the dream though. Consider the "what if AI" questions you raised, and read this very short story:

http://squid314.livejournal.com/332946.html
Is it just me, or is $50,000 out of $600,000 not that big of a deal?
Wow. That's crazy. What did they tell you?
Keaton, you make it incredibly clear that you have no understanding about how education works. It's really sad that you criticize YC and our excellent educator community. Your neglect and lack of respect for teachers and traditional schooling is appalling and disturbing.

The saddest part is that a large number of young techies (you are 19) feel like you. Nevertheless, I want to empathize with you, and suggest that you step away from your computer and spend just any small amount of time within our public education system to see the challenges and complexities of serving our students. It is a complex problem and you are grossly understating and trivializing the importance and purpose of existing institutions. The founders of Uber and Bitcoin and Airbnb got nothing on education. Serve even 10 underserved students and drive them to prolonged success, and then come back and talk.

I don't take offense as much as someone running an edtech company, as much as I take for being a part of an outstanding community of people improving education.
Awesome pull requests. How people work together.
I'd venture to guess that the fundamental drivers of prices remain founded on desirability of the state relative to other states. These policies are certainly making it worse, but they are priced in, one way or the other.

You might think of it like a luxury tax. The item still sells at the total price, even though there is significant cost to acquire it. Either you can afford a $500,000 home or you can't. If you can, then consider living in California. If not, you've likely got 48* other states to choose from.

* Per Zillow, Hawaii's median home price is $571,000, is higher than California's $472,000.
I think we could use close.io as a job seeker's tool instead of a CRM and it could be interesting to use it from the other side of the intended parties.
Trump was boasting in that debate about nothing, they were on the same episode of 60 minutes but they were not even on the same continent for that episode.

http://time.com/4108198/donald-trump-60-minutes-putin/
Well, their backdating SHA-1 certs and issuing certs withouth proper proof of ownership and refusal to properly audit or disclose had me on the fence, but this, THIS is what finally convinced me they need to be put out of business.
It's funny I hear people complain why we have a dwindling number of 24-hour restaurants.

The BART closes at midnight. :)
There's a whole lot more to business than Microsoft Office.
3. Companies would interact with candidates as if their "hiring experience" reputation actually mattered. And treat candidates accordingly, at all stages in the process.
Pushing the Boundaries of AI to Talk to the Dead
"Although we are unable to evaluate private contract terms and cannot arbitrate these disputes, we will share your letter with the user responsible for the listing."

Gee, thanks. Notice -- no mention of violation of NYC law in the response.
We sit together the mountain and I. Until only the mountain remains...
What are the numbers? When the numbers were released for SF, it was a number around ~6000. While SF rent laws cause over 30'000 units to stay off the market because landlords don't want to deal with the risk and hassle. And even more potential units are 'off the market' because of building restrictions.
I wish there was a One Day hiring process. From initial phone screen to offer all in one day. Wondering if interviews taking so many weeks is just a logistics failure.
Our system of government is specifically designed to limit the tyranny of the majority. It may not be to your liking but a lot of smart people who came before you learned that slow and steady change is what effects actual progress, and (additionally) what the majority wants right now isn't necessarily what we should be implementing wholesale.
Even still, if indeed it is the cameras doing this, it's a problem of our own creation. The internet 'is fine' without a botnet of dvrs.
(This is not directly in reply to you. It's just something that bugs me about water use discussion, and your comment is a good place to attach it)

What I almost never see considered whenever I read an article on California's agricultural water use is what happens to the water.

For instance, I see it commonly cited that it takes one gallon (3.79 l) of water to grow one almond. OK, but note that an almond weighs about 1.2 g. A gallon of water weighs 3.79 kg, so clearly that gallon of water used to produce an almond does not actually all end up in the almond. At most, 0.03% of that water actually ends up in the almond, and so will leave the area when that almond is sent off to some distant market.

Where does the remaining 99.97% of that gallon go? Some presumably gets absorbed in the ground, and eventually ends up in the local aquifer, where it can come back via local wells to be used again for more crops. Some will be taken up by the plant and released into the atmosphere via the plant's respiration. Some will go onto the ground and evaporate into the atmosphere.

Some that ends up in the atmosphere will condense out locally. Some might end up in local rain. Some might end up in distant rain.

I'm sure there are plenty of other paths and cycles I'm overlooking.

My point is that we can't just say water was taken from X and dumped on crops at Y, and treat it as if that water is now lost forever. It's the system as a whole that has to be considered.
I live in NYC and I can tell you that New Yorkers do not want AirBnB. We do not want transients in our apartment buildings. We want our safety. Many of us have doormen that keep people out.

There are children, there are elderly. The executives and the VC firms that fund them show absolutely no respect for New Yorkers who value our safety.

> "Cuomo’s signature underscores a concern from companies that operate within the “sharing economy” that New York remains unreceptive to newer technologies that threaten some within certain industries, such as the hospitality and taxi industries."

This quote from the article is false. We highly value Uber/Lyft/Gett. New Yorkers love high technology: we have the only 24/367 Apple Store in the nation. We have a 24 hour Best Buy. Same Day Delivery from a number of different vendors. ClassPass, MealPal, MoviePass, CUPS, the list is a long one and some of these firms were first started in NYC.

What seems clear to New Yorkers is that AirBnB executives do not value safety.
A web framework that doesn't work on actual web browsers? What is the point of that? Supporting older browsers is like half the job.
No, it's more complicated than that. You need one process to mmap a file, and then you need a second process to be writing into the first process's address space while the first process triggers the COW. You can't do it with one process attacking itself.
The counter-party then has the money, though, which they can then exchange for doing what they want. Like, I'm fine if a rich person decides to use their money to decide how water gets allocated, as long as they spend enough money on it that it ends up paying for better alternatives for those affected by the changes. Even to the point where I'm unable to get drinking water in my home - they'd have to pay for me to take time off work indefinitely and stay somewhere really nice, sure, but I'd be okay with that.
Let ISP's shutdown traffic of customers with compromised devices.
Well, it obviously happens when the resolver is down, but that's the situation that this logic is being proposed to smooth over. The normal day-to-day does not see a high percentage of resolvers failing to respond, or else people would be getting NX DOMAIN for high profile domains much more often.
The PS4 came out three years ago (almost exactly). Skyrim's recommended PC specs are somewhere below the PS4 in terms of performance. It's not an unclear sentence, and it isn't one that I edited.

You were mistaken. Your fictional Internet points aren't important. You should stop.
The company I work for builds exactly that. NICs, which are actually FPGA's with area larger than what is necessary to build the NIC alone. Our customers then either just use the NIC or add custom firmware for their own applications.

http://exablaze.com/exanic-x10

http://exablaze.com/exanic-x40

We also build switches this way too:

http://exablaze.com/exalink-fusion
I've tried both Chisel and Clash. They are both huge improvements over Verilog, but I was more impressed with the latter. Clash converts run-of-the-mill non-recursive Haskell code into hardware, and does so fairly efficiently. It turns out there's a really really close mapping between lazy functional semantics and hardware semantics.
Customer support and administration. Both of these will suck up the founders time and can more easily be hired for vs software dev or sales. This will also free up the founders time to focus on other things such growth.

I personally think sales should be done by the founders until there is a solid & predicable sales process and business model in place.
Have you owned a house or condo? When you do, you find out very quickly that there are a ton of restrictions on real estate.
Meanwhile, people who don't have cushy jobs that allow them to randomly move for a month at a time need apartments to live in (and also, a lot of them probably can't afford kids even if they want them). Complaining that it's now more expensive for your kid to get quality time with grandpa just seems overprivileged.
Take a selfie with a ghost and share it with your friends
Try to start one on your own?

Most likely this will be anything but pleasant, but if you are very careful about not accepting VC financing you may try to optimize for sanity... highly functional will come mostly as you learn from your own errors.
Interesting, I have a few thoughts. Perhaps you could sell a preconfigured pfsense box (or make a raspberry pi image to start with) that when plugged into the customers router creates a reverse tunnel via your service as well as a WiFi hotspot. Then offer the user a very simple firewall control panel and they can choose what devices to allow to the open internet and what to keep private and accessible via some sort of authenticated channel. Thus devices that contain sensitive data or require enhanced security (cameras, private network attached storage devices, home automation) and devices that require internet access (Amazon Echo) can both be served by the service.

Very nice service by the way. I have used ngrok in the past and found it invaluable for a few odd applications. I'll give it a try in future.
I'm just trying to make sure we don't wind up making DNS poisoning nastier in an effort to be more user-friendly.
Things I Wish I Knew When I Started (Debugging) Rails
New Yorkers don't want AirBnB. We don't want transients in our buildings. There are elderly, there are children, there are women. Vulnerable populations. We have doormen. We pay a lot for our apartments.
I believe she's barking at the wrong tree.

She ought to contact the IRS and tell them not to fine foreign banks for trivial reporting mistakes, or they won't take the chance only for a savings account.
Apollo Astronaut and John Podesta Met to Discuss Extraterrestrial Disclosure
The fact that copyleft only kicks in when derivatives are distributed(GPL) or served(AGPL) indeed renders unviable selling copies of software. But I don't see how you could enable usage licensing without compromising most user "freedoms". This is certainly what "OSS-NC" would do, in contrast to even AGPL's copyleft. Instead, I think we would do better shifting the paradigm to the "pay per patch" model.
Come on. That's about world-wide DDoS attacks, not about checking individuals.
Spaniard here, the lander and the upcoming rover feature different instrumentation developed in Spain, something which has allowed extra funding for advancements in research and manufacturing capabilities, space-worthiness certification, etc. for our institutes, universities, and companies.

This experience both in term of facilities and human resources will allow us to better compete in the market of space application and other high-tech fields, which is exactly what our country needs.
Whoops, thanks, how did that slip past my brain filter ;-)
The housing in NYC is mostly apartments. People don't want transients in their apartment buildings. We value our safety. It is really that simple. People absolutely do not have the right to make an unsafe environment for others in the apartment building.
You can combine secretarial work and customer support into one role until both warrant having enough work for 2 separate positions.
Can you recommend some resources on chisel? I've been an ASIC/FPGA designer for 20 years. We mostly do VHDL and SystemVerilog for design, and SystemVerilog for verification.

I've only heard about chisel briefly, used in reference to a risc design I think.

I've considered making a lisp like language for design on a few occasions. But maybe chisel solves the pain points?
Property tax is pretty essential. Huge weird distortions can happen in low property tax places. California with prop 13, the UK with it's non-existent property taxes, Vancouver, BC with it's very low property tax rates are all examples of RE gone wrong and are places with low property tax.
Keep in mind the Time Warner and Charter Communications merger only closed the first week of May, 5 months ago. This is madness. I can only hope this doesn't pass regulatory scrutiny.

If this does go through you will be getting your internet from either AT&T or Verizon in the United States.

This is hypothetically one merger away from putting the old Ma Bell back together.

I'm waiting to hear the obligatory "This will be good for consumers" comment from these folks.
Such as? Philae was a partial failure, certainly not catastrophic, but it was a "nice to have" addition to the Rosetta mission which as a whole was a huge success. Schiaparelli was an EDL engineering test and a landing failure was not exactly unexpected outcome. If the engineers can figure out what went wrong from the telemetry, it can probably be counted as a success. The actual beef of the mission is the Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft that continues to function perfectly.

Unfortunately, in both cases people end up thinking that the whole mission has failed when actually just a small part of it did :(
When enough people are screwed by it to justify the requirement which will justify the resultant cost increases.
Can you have secondary name servers too though? And would it have worked to avoid outage for domains doing such in this case?
rms_returns is saying that our own intelligence and ability to comprehend things is a function of the complexity of our brains.

So, low complexity results in under-performing intelligent ability. On the other hand, high complexity results in a higher performing brain but more difficult to understand.

I wouldn't necessarily agree with this argument because I suspect intelligent ability is only partially related to neural architecture. Additionally, the ability to perceive things lies in having some kind of framework in which a question can be formed.
> Every NYC lease I've ever signed had a clause forbidding long-term guest stays.

That's a red herring, you can add the sibling as an occupant, the point remains.

> I've personally never encountered that situation

Well the reasonable conclusion is that people must not allow family to come live with them if they have druggie problems... /sarcasm

Or a reasonable person might think the point is that the neighbor has no right to insist that a family member cannot come and stay in the house.

You keep doing this so I'm going to end this conversation with you. When you decide to stop throwing out red herrings let me know and perhaps we can continue.
RASP rings in a new Java application security paradigm
Why Do Americans Move So Much More Than Europeans?
You are correct that zoning density restrictions and overuse of historic landmark status create political scarcity of housing that benefits landlords such as Donald Trump to the detriment of renters. The landlords and allied special interests back laws that create "economic rents" -- additional profits not through wealth creation and efficient markets but through the market failure of creating artificial scarcity.

If AirBnb wants to make housing more affordable in NYC, they should lobby to remove these zoning laws that benefit wealthy landlords such as Donald Trump.
Subletting is not short term, and is rightly considered to be largely governed by the same laws as those that apply to rentals since the uses are so similar.

I honestly do not understand the willful ignorance in this thread. Short term rentals is commerce. Everyone knows it's commerce. When you say you think it isn't (or you don't understand how it could be) you sound like you're denying the earth goes around the sun. This isn't even a particularly nuanced area of permitted use laws (zoning) or the appropriate role of government. You are all basically advocating for elimination of all zoning and/or pretending it doesn't exist as a totally normal type of regulation in the US (and all over the world).
The law still let's you have druggie sublease as long as it's 30days or more. It also lets you have them over for free.
By that definition so are long-term rentals, or even home buying and selling. A Colorado court has ruled that there's no substantive difference between a renter who rents for one month or one week.
How are you able to host 68 guest in 3 weeks? My gut feeling this is not 'sharing' your appartement.

Edit: parent has editted comment after my reply.
That is why there are law regulating HOAs, and they talk about that exact mini-government issue you talk about.

Ex: https://www.calhomelaw.org/doc.asp?id=460

You can also say something similar about corporations.
Perhaps a naive question, but Why can't a DNS provider identify such participants in a DDOS and ban their IPs forever?
Perm_facts version with list comps and functional programming
European Mars lander lost during descent