skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am glad that this bill was signed because I'm tired of having people in my building who I don't know and do not trust. Everyone in my coop is vetted by the Board of Directors before living here - why should AirBnb users be any different?
Explain how your bot helps me make money with actual data from real customers. Do this well and your problems are solved.
Double-dip Internet-of-Things attack felt across the Internet
You only "own" your home because the government itself creates a concept of property ownership and enforces it.
> So what, its probably less than 10%,

If $50k is 10%, that means it's a half million dollar house. That may not be much by comparison to housing stock in California, but there are very few places where that's considered "entry level."
It's the worst way to organize an economy, after every single other way we've thought of so far.
Lots of MSFT folks mention that some of the internal changes happened before Ballmer transitioned out.
I suspect this is highly related to the ghosting mentioned in the article and by pjlegato in a top-level comment [0]. This is so much the norm at this point, that no response is typically seen as an implicit rejection and the candidate mentally moves on.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12764521
Seconded. This is a common idea which occurs to people who haven't dealt with DNS before, and it ends with a much better understanding of how many things https is used for and going back to using openDNS as your resolver.
Murray Minus Murray.
Perhaps, if zoning laws weren't so strict and new high rise apartments were legal to build, areas like SFO might have more affordable housing?
subletting is legal, by your definition it would be a business and should be illegal.

Your definition is wrong.
Lithobraking has actually been a feature in at least one Mars mission: the pair of impactor probes that piggybacked on NASA's unlucky Mars Polar Lander mission of 1999 [1]. The MPL itself, as is quite well known, ended up doing an unplanned lithobraking maneuver after its retrorockets shut down too soon (!) due to insufficient integration testing. The impactors were never heard of either; the exact failure mode remains unclear.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_2
Peter Thiel, who gave $1.25m to Trump, has called date rape 'belated regret'
Maybe this is good law in New York City because its so dense and everyone is stepping on one another, but its not good law for the entire, gigantic state of New York.

My cousin does cleaning and management of vacation rentals in the Catskills, in parts of New York that used to be vibrant but are now extremely economically depressed and taxed exorbitantly.

Forbid vacation rentals that violate noise ordinances, don't cast generalization blankets and act out of prejudice.
"resizing 1000 images (around 1.2 GB) to 2 thumbnail sizes in 3s"

Did I miss something in this article? Why I cannot found this metric?
Hacked Cameras, DVRs Powered Today’s Massive Internet Outage
4-4chan works!
Just for what it's worth, I went to one of the pricier private high schools in Chicago (Ignatius, which is I guess at the top of the second tier of ridiculous schools, just 1 rank below Chicago Waldorf) and I feel like my kids get a much better education at OPRF (public) than I got overall at Ignatius.

What they don't get is good college counseling, which I'm learning to my dismay with the boy getting ready to apply, so maybe a good rationalist/cost-saving approach here is to send your kid to public high school but hire a college counselor. (No idea if that's a thing you can do).
> Lies are a necessary feature for societies

Could you defend this assertion, please?
Alt-right trolls are getting 23andme genetic tests to ‘prove’ their whiteness
How many posters in this thread work, in some capacity, for the hotel lobby?
> Why wasn't that in the first 1/2 of the article?

Because the authors hope you never read that far.

I was 15 when Prop 13 passed. My feeling back then was that despite the spouted wisdom of the adults around me that Prop 13

1. Wouldn't 'force the government to cut wasteful spending' Which is to say the government doesn't spend money on anything that doesn't have a powerful interest group behind it. Wave your arms as much as you want but those people aren't going to go away.

2. The government would make up for lost tax revenue by imposing nickel and dime fees on everything.

3. Also raise fines for just about any small infraction.

4. #2 & #3 being less efficient ways to raise revenue would lead in increases in government spending.

5. Wouldn't make housing more affordable, but instead would create a two classes winners and losers.

#5 is because of my belief that housing prices reflect how much people have to spend minus costs like maintenance and taxes, divided by the interest rate. Reduce taxes and the price just goes up. Bonus, local tax revenue tends to stay in the local economy creating local demand. Interest on debt is paid to the bond holders few of which are local.
Nintendo's Silhouette: The Story (1998)
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The sad thing is that the US government had much less influence on its citizens 120 years ago than it has today.

It is possible (I believe it's even likely) that humanity will never see such freedom again.
A better question is this: How much return did King Henry VII get from Columbus's expeditions?

The answer is nothing, because he rejected Columbus's request to fund his fleet.
If the posted source is legit, then no.
> At the cost of higher temporary housing costs for people that want to visit.

You're implying this is a bad thing. A city's first responsibility is towards its residents, everyone else comes after their needs and wants are catered to.
This is why TTL is a variable. If you want to have your records last longer, you can. If you want to later shorten them, you can. People screw DNS up enough already, let's not make it worse by adding layers of TTL.
The hotel industry works within the legal framework of my city. And as far as "power" goes, I'm pretty sure the $30B company playing the role of advocate for the weak and people is pretty powerful in its own right.

[& p.s. the hotel industry, afaik, has a pretty small footprint in terms of side effects on the average resident. Further, it provides a natural cap on the tourist flux in the city, which is a certain plus in my opinion.]
> How is it fair if you let your druggie sibling come live in the house with you for the entirety of your lease?

Every NYC lease I've ever signed had a clause forbidding long-term guest stays. Besides, that's a persistent problem, easy and perfectly reasonable to report to management and have them deal with it.

In contrast, occasional AirBNB'ing (a few weekends a year per unit, say) is a lot harder to track down. There were 15 units on my floor, and maybe 4 or 5 of them would occasionally do AirBNB rentals. It's not like there was just one unit doing this constantly, which would have been a lot easier to report.

I also have to mention, you've now posted 3 different comments mentioning this hypothetical "druggie sibling" scenario. I've personally never encountered that situation, despite living in 7 different apartment buildings in 3 major east coast cities over the past 13 years. I have, however, repeatedly encountered disrespectful AirBNB tenants in multiple buildings. I don't really think these situations are even remotely comparable. There's no web site trying to profit from letting "druggie siblings" live with people, nor is there any major wave of this occurring.

> 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.

Well, since I never rented my place on AirBNB, never had long-term guests, and never otherwise broke major lease provisions... I don't really have anything to worry about there do I?
The only true monopolies are those backed by the government, which the original AT&T was. There has never been a "monopoly" not backed by the government that did not benefit the customer. Standard Oil and U.S. Steel, the classic examples always used, both drove down prices and increased supply for the market. By the time the government took action both had lost significant market share already as competition improved.

The only ones on your list that create problems would be Comcast and Verizon (assuming not wireless) as they are granted local monopolies by local municipalities and governments through right of way access to utility poles, etc. Breaking up the others, as you are suggesting, would only harm consumers.
I've worked with people in their aerospace division on several occasions. I honestly didn't know they did anything besides aerospace... :-/
If by a 5-4 decision just a couple years ago you mean "2A protects the right to bear arms", sure.

Want to bet that in 20 years, we refine that to "strict scrutiny applies only to to the individual right to bear the specific kinds of arms used in a well-regulated militia, and rational basis to all other arms"?
> The phone screen is where I can screen the companies

Fair enough but remember that you may be screening not the company itself but some frazzled engineer who curses herself for agreeing to perform 4-th phone screen a week instead of insisting on writing code. Your impression of the company may be misleading.
I don't understand this. I'm a ham and there are a lot of women who are in the hobby (although there isn't a large participation from this group) and I'd say that most hams don't give a crap about talking about anything other then radio-related topics. It's a side effect of truly loving what you're working on. If you're finding people showing up to meetups just to hook up with women then they're not really in love with the topic, they are in love with the crowed.

Removing men doesn't fix this problem as there will still be women coming to the even who don't love the topic but again love the crowd.

I'd say just keep the technical discussion at levels that exclude those who don't care about the topic. Those who are actually really interested will stick around and ask questions, those who are there for an image or for hooking up wont be bothered.

Works great in the ham communities (speaking from a just learning perspective). I usually only understand 10-30% of what all the gray haired individuals around me are talking about, but whenever I ask a question I always get a great answer and explanation. People who don't care to ask and just care to show up and look cool don't last too long. It's basically them opting in to sit in on a Fields lecture.
Can YC be convinced to spend tons of money on it? Add it to the project list?
The law is far from perfect which is why it's constantly changing. If only it changed faster and actually represented the majority's values.
I think you did bring it up there, and I completely agree. I don't know how much it would help, though, in the specific area of giving cities more of an incentive to approve residential construction projects. I guess it would help some.
The "ghosting" is just something you have to get used to as a candidate?

Though the ideal upper bound seems to be about 3 weeks net turnaround (for steps 1-4, altogether) for smaller companies (perhaps longer for monster-sized companies), nearly any time can be "reasonable"... as long as you get back to people by the time you say you will, more or less, at each stage in the process.

It's the "by the time you say you will" part that these companies seem to be having inordinate difficulty holding up to. And what people on the receiving end tend to find to be quite grating to be on the receiving end of, over and over and over again.
I'm working at the polls in CA, and can verify this; all critical information is moved by sneakernet with a two-person rule on its handling.

Of course, I have no information on the security model of the pre-election preparations and post-election tabulation, but luckily results for each polling place are also posted for the public to inspect - media outlets and campaigns can verify the tabulation themselves with a slight delay.
The same if not more. The way ESA operates, each Euro paid by a member country is supposed to come back to that country's economy via ESA contracts.
The law in this case is a hammer looking for a nail. If a short term rental is violating noise ordinances, fine it or shut it down, don't shut down every short term rental just because you fear it.

The biggest thing I have learned from running a couple short term rental listings is that people are basically good.

I hosted 68 guests in the last three weeks and every last one of them was nice and respectful and quiet.

Anti short term rental sentiment is based on paranoid hysteria.

I don't live in NYC, but in a neighboring state and bought a three family house with the express intent of living in one unit and renting the others as vacation rentals.

The prospect of nosy, controlling moral scolds shutting down my American dream, is extremely maddening.
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The only externality to my house is that there are cars in the drive way with license plates from a variety of states. Fear of new cars in the driveway should not trump my rights as owner and tax payer on this land.

Luckily in public meetings our town planners have declared their need for vacation rentals. The housing market is weak here and if the town were to shut down vacation rentals, it would put even more pressure on an already cold real estate market.
Yea your assumption is right. What's worst is I have to put a tshirt on my back so my sweat won't transfer to the fabric-back.
> Where is this extra 150 billion coming from?

That's emotion, specifically, market greed.
Your exponent is a bit too small, though; it should be 2^(number of bits of RAM), like 2^34359738368 for a computer with 4 GB RAM (plus a little bit for CPU registers).

Assuming that the computer programs under study aren't allowed to interact with a disk, of course. :-)
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But the Spirit and Opportunity EDL also involved retrorockets in addition to a heatshield, a drogue chute, a parachute and the airbags - it's just that the retrorocket part didn't have to be as precise as with Curiosity.
It's part of what I would use them for. A big, splashy attack distracts a bunch of people while you MITM something important with a forged cert? Great way to steal a bunch of credentials with something that leaves relatively few traces while the security people are distracted.
Managed Infrastructure Provider EU
Hello,
As Brexit comes to reallity one EU based Fintech company starts to search for new managed infrastructure provider, with at least two locations in EU. Previously using Rackspace, but RS has got only presence in UK, for now
Blame the Internet of Things for Destroying the Internet Today
that's not the right number.
We could also just link to the source: http://cellularinsights.com/iphone7/
Democracy is not about deep work, thorough understanding or the best architecture. It's about negotiating compromise in a situation where there is no shared goal. It works great for ruling countries where it's sluggishness and confusion is a feature and not a bug.

I would claim that any technical undertaking without understood goals using a process whose main design feature is not efficiency but sluggishness is a pathological one.

A computer system is far more simpler than any countrys political system - it's tractable and optimal solutions can be found. Unless, of course, unless the design process is lost in confusion and bafflement.

I would claim a place where any kid is listened to is precisely the one where everyone will get stuck. If people spend more time reading blogs rather than on CS basics they cannot understand a great ideas because they are on the Kruger-Dunning level of skill development.
Yes. You either positively know the right answer, or you return the fact that you don't know the right (currently valid per the spec) answer. The right answer in the situation you posed is "I don't know".
They certainly were. That only changed in 1996, when the Telecom act of that year removed regulations around long-distance and local carrier mergers created by the break-up and also instructed the FCC to remove other similar barriers that were no longer "in the public interest".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_cross-ownership_in_the_U...
> Instead, I expect that your resolver will see a failure to respond from a resolver a high percentage of the time, leading to frequent serving of stale data.

If this were true, the current failure mode would have end users receiving NX DOMAIN a "high percentage of the time," which obviously is not happening.

{edit: To be clear, I'm reading the quote as you stating that "failure to resolve" currently happens a high percentage of the time, and therefore this new logic would result in extended TTLs more often than the original post would assume they would happen}

> However, that the real problem is in another castle does not excuse technical design decisions that compound the real problem and increase the damage potential.

It's fair to point out that this change, combined with other known issues could create a "perfect storm," but as was pointed out this exploit is already possible within the current authoritative TTL window. Exploiting the additional caching rules would just be a method of extending that TTL window.

On the other hand, where do you draw the line here? If you had to make sure that no exploits were possible most of the systems that exist today would never have gotten off the ground. It seems a bit like complaining that the locks to the White House can be exploited (picked), while missing the fact that they are only supposed to slow someone down before the "men with guns" can react.
As someone who uses Airbnb regularly I can assure you the majority are either people who use one empty room as a hotel or the whole place. I see very very few "I'm going away for the weekend / week / month" listings. The whole rating system rewards people who have consistent and frequent lodging available.
They are using the FPGAs for specializing network hardware on the fly. This lets them decrease latency across their network as well as allow centralized management.

Edit:

It looks like they are also allowing applications to use the FGPA-FPGA communication layer to reduce latency for distributed systems.

> "All network traffic is routed the FPGA, allowing it to accelerate high-bandwidth flows. An independent PCIe connection to the host is also provided, allowing the FPGA to be used as a local accelerator..."

> "By enabling the FPGAs to generate and their own networking packets independent of the each and every FPGA in the datacenter can reach every other one (at a scale of hundreds of thousands) in small number of microseconds, without any intervening. This capability allows hosts to use remote FPGAs for with low latency, improving the economics of the deployment, as hosts running services that do not their local FPGAs can donate them to a global pool and value which would otherwise be stranded."
There's houses on Airbnb that are advertised as party houses. This has caused a lot of issues for the neighbors of said "party houses."
Opening Keynote (Polymer Summit 2016) – web components
Right, but the system we're interested in is normal computers, which is more powerful than arithmetic.
Companies Affected by Dyn DNS/ Amazon Outage
I wish they would work out how to run the chisel toolchain on those fpgas. From what I understand, you have to program in verilog currently which is a huge pain.

Please enable chisel and put it in your Azure cloud. It will be a great platform for custom software.
Would it be feasible to implement this on a microcontroller, lets say medium sized Cortex-M or ESP8266? Would be useful in IoT, especially for initial setup phase.
Abstractions should be chosen carefully. Too little and devs step all over each other. Too much and the cognitive load and ceremony get in the way of progress. When your team will never be more than 2-3 people, redux may be a little too much ceremony (especially for applications smaller than 10-20K lines of code). When there are more people, it seems like the perfect amount of boilerplate to keep people out of each others way while its opinionated flow makes it easy to find bugs in code you've never even seen before (another large team problem).

It's been my experience that learning redux without a teacher takes some time if you aren't familiar with the one-way data flow mindset. If you have someone to pair with for a couple days, you'll be off to the races very quickly.

That said, I think redux itself is too barebones. EVERY redux app uses the thunk middleware (even the official docs spend a long time on it) and most find themselves recreating a multiple dispatch one too. If 95+% of your users need the same extension, then it's not really an extension (and in this case, both together are less than 15 lines of code).
What is an Algorithm? (2012)
(Personal story, by no means a reference)

I started by looking up how MVC frameworks function. Then made my own little framework in PHP. It was crappy, full of architecture/security/design/performance issues. But I learned a lot.

Then I picked up Symfony and Laravel (both PHP) with those you can make decent code, because they force you to.

After that I picked Node and Sails.js looked a lot like Laravel.
> A majority of New Yorkers have embraced home sharing

I live in NY, and I'd say a majority of New Yorkers feel the exact opposite. Nice truthyness, there.
> where they're convenient

Convenient is not the right description -- high demand is. Who's to say an AirBnB is a worse use of space for, say, a unit in SoHo than a year-round resident?

AirBnB has real issues -- zoning, hotel tax, safety, etc -- but politicians like to use rent cost/resident displacement because it's an easy rallying call.
via [1]: "Dyn says today's DDoS are in part being caused by Mirai botnet, which recently caused record-sized attack [2]"

[1] https://twitter.com/AlexJamesFitz/status/789562789920636928

[2] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/source-code-for-iot-botn...

tl;dr: a substantial part of this attack is a botnet of IoT devices.
Here's why this is happening...if you look at AT&T's financial statements, they are really huge on IoT (which they term monitoring devices), meaning that it has made a huge amount of money for them in terms of growth recently and is expected to do so in the next few years. They have a lot of enterprise customers, for example Tesla or other connected cars and are looking to deliver content to customers by disintermediating real estate. E.g. everyone hates Comcast because due to the fixed nature of real estate, you have no choice but to work with them to get broadband. As AT&T is able to bring wireless and cellular speeds up to the current and better than speed of broadband, Comcast will become irrelevant and AT&T will become the new Comcast. This is also likely why you have seen XFinity WiFi roll out in your local urban area this year, and pop up at the top of your network - they are trying to capture you before their inevitable downfall to Verizon and AT&T.

Edit: Really, it's an ongoing battle. Nothing is inevitable.
iPhone 7 Cellular Performance Test
There are height limitations in most of Silicon Valley (except maybe downtown San Jose?) -- I think the limit here in Sunnyvale, for example, is eight stories -- but earthquakes are not the reason for them. People just want to preserve the suburban character of the area. How that can be done when a lot more people want to live here is not clear to me.