skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course a disincentive to sell will be created by your proposal! Any lien that comes close to offsetting or canceling out the owner's gain will do that. The lien doesn't have to exceed the gain to create a disincentive. Why would anyone sell for little to no gain? Any time the potential gain is decreased, a disincentive to sell is created.

Furthermore, not only does this create a disincentive to sell, it also creates a disincentive to buy. Buying property becomes a lot less attractive when the same disincentive that applies to the current seller will apply to buyer in the future, when the buyer decides to sell the home.
The problem with these devices in particular is the weak point is the user. As is the case in most attacks.

Your average user says "Sure I can setup cameras" then sees "remote access" in the menu, sets it up, maybe it has some UPNP to the router and BOOM. Magic remote login without any type of mitigation.
Supply and demand

http://www.investopedia.com/university/economics/economics3....

Say there would normally be 1 million apartments for rent.

Now AirBNB comes. Some get used as hotels. Now you have 900k apartments for rent, and 100k hotels.

The price of the apartments go up. In fact a very small change in supply could lead to a fairly massive price hike.
It's not easy to find good alternatives if you require that your email be free. If you're willing to pay for email (and really, if email is important to you, you should be paying for it) there's a number of excellent providers. I recommend FastMail, but I've seen people talk about a few other good ones too (though I forget the names).
It falls into an even rarer category, subtractive ∘ kleene(X)
When I first moved to New York, I spent weeks living in an AirBnB place before finding a real apartment. Same thing when I moved to London. I could have found a place via other means (Craigslist, or pay tons of money to some real estate agent) but this was much better.

This will inhibit mobility and hurt newcomers to the city, especially in the young technology/creative classes. But what sort of politician would actually care, as long as they're not politically active in our jurisdiction yet, am I right?
Withing a small hosting provider this might be pretty simple. Attacker might lease a bunch of new servers and get the IP that was recently released. Then they could launch a DDoS to force address resolution in their favor. It's a bit far-fetched, but a lot of very successful attacks seem that way until someone figures out a way to pull them off.
Shared BNB's are out of the question, especially if you prefer to cook or have a partner. Extended stay hotels are hundreds per night.
>> My anecdote cancels out yours.

Sure, but I doubt it cancels out the other 10,000+ owners of defective early 2011 Macbook Pros.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/petition-demands-apple-fi...
Interesting fact: Dyn is down, this DNS hosting is not :)
The problem here lies with the authoritative nameservers. You have to retrieve the record from somewhere initially. The trouble here is that since these companies are using Dyn and only Dyn to be their Nameservers. When a dns request is made for github.com they're attempting to contact ns3.p20.dynect.net or another nameserver provided by Dyn. So yes caching will work for a little while, but only for the length of the TTL which your client is designed to respect. Once that TTL expires, your client and upstream DNS provider will attempt to contact that nameserver for a fresh record. Since you can't contact the nameservers, the website is effectively offline for all name resolution. Now if you know the record you can always forge the record locally in /etc/hosts or in a local dns resolver which allows for overrides. Hope this helps.
I think the solution is to formally verify your hardware with a prover that is aware of electromagnetic forces. Software has to assume correctness of hardware (rad-hard applications have to assume ridiculous hardware faults are possible, but that's to prevent solar flares from corrupting firmware, not Rowhammer).

Thought experiment; you are some sort of intrusion prevention system. You've detected that your hardware is untrustworthy. Now what?
That's what I was thinking.
I had the privilege of being on-call during this entire fiasco today and I have to say I was really really disappointed. It's surprising how broken your entire service was when DNS went down. I couldn't acknowledge anything, and my secondary on-call was getting paged because it looked like I wasn't trying to respond. I was getting phone calls for alerts that wasn't even showing up on the web client, etc. Overall, it caused chaos and I was really disappointed.
Exactly what I came here to say. My partner, son and I are looking forward to sleeping in your spare bedroom, and cooking in your non-spare kitchen, as well as setting up a play yard in your non-spare living room.
By making capital utilisation less efficient, and impairing the development of new capital that would be used for housing in New York (which would take the pressure off older housing, lowering prices).

Of course, if you're talking about ways that New York City makes housing capital less efficient, you're going to have a list some five miles long, so it's really just adding insult to injury, but one can still gripe about it.
Kepler finds scores of planets around cool dwarf stars
Airbnb's response: "A majority of New Yorkers have embraced home sharing, and we will continue to fight for a smart policy solution that works for the the people, not the powerful."

I'd be more interested in knowing how New Yorkers feel about regulating short term apartment rentals than how they feel about sharing.

I don't think I'm guilty of being a broken record if airbnb keeps misusing the word "sharing." Although I understand there can be some ambiguity in the word "sharing", the arrangement "you may rent my apartment out for a week if and only if you pay me $1,000" isn't anywhere close to this zone of ambiguity.

It is commerce. It is unambiguously commerce, it is a pure quid pro quo money for services transaction.

New York has passed legislation regulating commerce - in this case, the conditions under which someone may rent out property for under 30 days. Those laws aren't obsolete just because someone wrote a rails app where you can type in an address and click a "create hotel here" button. Also, commerce doesn't become sharing just because the quid pro quo financial transactions take place over the web.
Third attack underway: https://twitter.com/AlexJamesFitz (as of 10 mins ago)
I've clarified my comment.
Assuming they're referring to AirBnB rents, then two ways I could think of:

1. less legal units on AirBnB + same demand for renting units = higher price for units on AirBnB

2. illegal units on AirBnB coupled with 1. means passing through the rental risk to the consumer
Communism, as commonly defined, is a system of government. If there was any government compulsion for Linux to exist, or even if there was government-funded work in making Linux better than commercial alternatives, you'd have an argument. But this is a product that people use in the presence of excellent commercial alternatives.

Also, it's totally untrue that it's public property (it's private property, just a lot of people's and companies' private property), and that you're not allowed to make money on it "directly". You can make as much money as the market is willing to pay you. If you are selling things that are already publicly available without any added value, that's probably $0, but that's not the result of any permission not being given to you, that's the result of you failing at business. If bottled municipal water is a thriving industry, there's no reason that providing GPL'd Linux patches in a useful form can't be a thriving industry (and in fact it is).
Visitors don't get a vote. New York is for New Yorkers.
Ask HN: Best way to manage custom email addresses?
I have several email addresses through custom domains that I want to be send/receive mail from. I currently use one Gmail account that sends/receives emails from the POP mail servers maintained by my domain registrars.

There are two main problems with this approach:

1) I don't receive emails instantaneously. While it's possible to manually pull emails from the mailserver on a desktop, it's impossible to do so through a mobile app. This is particularly burdensome when handling password resets/responding to urgent emails.

2) Whenever I reply-all to an email within the Gmail interface, it always includes my non-Gmail email in the to field because it doesn't recognize it as the email I'm currently sending it from.

What other solutions are there? Open to free and paid services.
It's impossible to guarantee that your theorem prover is bug free -- for example, if it has a bug that causes it to always return "correct", then it proves its own correctness, even though it is clearly wrong.

This is not to say that self-hosting isn't useful, since most bugs are not likely to be of this form.
Probably because it's accusing some random person of a crime that there is literally no reason to suspect they are responsible for.
Explained above for ya
For people who didn't read the article but want to opt out of this tracking:

To opt-out of Google’s identified tracking, visit the Activity controls on Google’s My Account page, and uncheck the box next to “Include Chrome browsing history and activity from websites and apps that use Google services." You can also delete past activity from your account.

Links from that paragraph:

* Activity controls: https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols

* My account page: https://myaccount.google.com/

* Delete past activity: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/465
Yep. As if we were dumb enough to believe any of the following:

“In typical fashion, Albany back-room dealing rewarded a special interest — the price-gouging hotel industry — and ignored the voices of tens of thousands of New Yorkers,” Airbnb spokesman Peter Schottenfels said in a statement. “A majority of New Yorkers have embraced home sharing, and we will continue to fight for a smart policy solution that works for the the people, not the powerful."
You can't comment like this on Hacker News. Please read the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Dyn confirms Mirai botnet is cause “in part” of today's DDoS attacks
I guess go off airbnb and contact the host directly? Does this bill make personal connections like this (especially without brokering through airbnb) illegal?
The entirety of social discourse and information sharing is to influence behavior. Personally, I don't agree with your unstated assumption that having someone else influence your behavior is automatically bad. Hell, you're doing that right now with your comment.

That said, there are plenty of other reasons to value privacy other than not wanting to be served effective ads.
The "ghosting" is just something you have to get used to as a candidate. Most companies do it. It's likely there are far, far more candidates than jobs, and companies simply can't get back to each and every person. Also, a lot of times, the company can't make a clear yes/no decision and will stall and delay on a borderline candidate in order to try to luck into a better one.
To contribute some anecdotal findings to the larger IT discussion in the thread, a lot of it comes down to this IMHO...

There are three levels of understanding of personal computers and how to manage them:

A) Basic understanding, the vast majority of users/clients
B) Intermediate understanding, you often find yourself walking your relatives through setting up their mail client
C) Expert understanding, you have deep knowledge of networking and user permissions for each computer on this network. You don't use apps to figure this out, you have set it up, tried it, and are proud of a system you have designed to make it all work.

I've found that many issues arise from folks working in IT whom are B that think they are C, and the frustration from not having Macs work identically as their Windows networking wizards causes friction. I think as people are getting better trained in BYOD, and the fact that there's no way around better IT training to accommodate it, is causing a sea change in adopting Macs.
That is when it switched from thrusters to lithobraking.
But supply is not unlimited. If you are adding more supply of short term visitor rentals, you are taking from long term resident rentals.
I'll bite.

It would take a lot longer than a couple of hours of twitter being down for that to have a useful effect. For something as major as the presidential election result, it would probably take minimum a week before people got bored and moved on to a different topic.

So this kind of attack that only takes something out for a few hours would have no useful effect for an actor that wants to prevent people from discussing a recent event.

IMHO, it would be hard in general to take out a service run by a serious IT organization (of which there are admittedly few, by my definition of serious) for more than a few days unless the attacker carried out non-trivial physical damage (eg, bombing multiple datacenters, murdering multiple system administrators, etc) or managed to somehow destroy enough backups (which in a serious IT shop, should be hard, as there should be some offline cold backups that require physical human activity to destroy)
Not on your laptop. On your local DNS resolver.
HN Quoted on CNN Ticker
"I wonder why governments subsidize production of commercial airliners so much. There are no network effects or lock-in"

Huge lock-in :)

Aircraft manufacturers are all semi-nationalized they are 'too big' even for private capital to compete on - barriers to entry far too high and too much risk.

Airbus is literally an EU creation. Boeing lives on defence contracts.

So it needs 'a national team playing for it' kind of thing.

There are a lot of jobs, it's very long term, it's big money, involves a lot of tech and R&D so it's a good industry to have if you can get it going. But it doesn't get going without playing 'home team'.
He should fire anyone who was "push[ing] to remove Trump's posts". Let them go embarrass some other employer.
Last time I checked the LE cli tool required root access to my machine. Totally annoying and unnecessary.

Otherwise, I applaud the initiative.
While technically accurate to describe them as such, the vast majority of consumers (and internet service subscribers) lack the actual technical expertise to be network administrators.

Where these devices are being attacked inside, ostensibly, professional organizations (companies, schools, government buildings), I agree. But there you have, again ostensibly, an actual network administrator capable of dealing with the issue (and paid to do so).
A lack of understanding is a good basis for a question and a poor basis for an opinion
I probably should have been more specific, but it applied mainly to 15" Quad-Core i7 with discrete AMD GPUs.

A friend of mine who had two of the same model also had the same GPU overheating issues.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/petition-demands-apple-fi...
I certainly expect it to become an increasingly-significant problem, as well. I don't mean to downplay the significance of the attack. But the lesson here isn't "welp, the bad guys have won, the internet is dead", it's "don't use one DNS provider, go redundant on it just like you do on every other piece of the stack". Yeah, it's annoying, but it's not an unsolvable problem.

The reporting on this has really annoyed me because the writers writing about it have pretty consistently said that GitHub, Twitter, PayPal, etc have all been knocked offline, which is just untrue. They have unresolvable names - resolve their names and they're working just fine. The fix is improved resilience in name resolution, and it's not a terribly hard fix. Someone in the other thread noted that PornHub is managing just fine despite using Dyn DNS - because they also route half their DNS traffic to UltraDNS.

Attacks like this are certainly a big problem, and are going to become a bigger problem, but IMO, the Chicken Little sky-is-falling hysteria is unwarranted and unuseful.
I am disgusted but not surprised. When I was commuting back and forth between SFO and PDX I had apartments in both cities. I was able to dramatically offset my costs by Airbnb'ing the apartment I wasn't in at any given time... this helped me launch my business and I'm so thankful for that! The first time this worked out it was an obvious win/win for me and the renter. Right after being excited my next thought was... "wow this really let's the little guy do a little better"... I'm sure this won't last...
I live in NYC. This is my understanding:

1. There's regulation preventing landlords from raising rents too fast; often capping it at a much slower rate than the market itself is increasing

2. Once a tenant leaves, the landlord is free to increase the rent a lot more to catch up with the market

3. Therefore, if someone is Airbnb-ing an apartment they have lease on and living somewhere else, this decreases supply and causes other apartments to go up more in step (2) to make up for it

Maybe this is wrong? If so, can someone correct me?
Well, we've been making validated structures where a checksum (essentially a pre-cryptographic hash) of the last data-block is included in the next since the sixties. (And I suspect much further back in an accounting context.)

The difference these days is a protection, via proof-of-work, against just creating a new, valid, chain by editing the old one.

That proof of work, to be translatable into a dollar value, requires a market for the proofs and that's the currency part. (Without that you don't know the true market value of the energy required for the PoW.)
Does anybody think that (besides the lobbyists telling the congresscritters)?
If this keeps up, a lot of grandparents won't be able to afford to live in NYC in the first place.
>As you acknowledge, there are things in between renting out an apartment full-time, and renting out a spare bedroom. E.g. renting your apartment for a weekend when you travel.

Sure, but how does a lawmaker regulate and enforce "it's OK to rent out a spare room, or rent out an apartment while you travel, but it's not okay to only use the apartment as a hotel?"

What if someone travels 90% of the time - that's darn close to just running it as a hotel. Should there be some numerical limit? 50% of nights? How does the city check and enforce that? What if someone has a significant other or family member they can always stay with and are always willing to rent their apartment if someone is willing to rent it from them? Is that OK?

A strict "you must be present in the abode and renting a spare room" rule is over-broad, but trying to make and enforce a more narrowly tailored rule seems very difficult in implementation. With this rule, you can just check each ad - an ad will be allowed or disallowed on its face.

If you allow for occasional renting-while-traveling, you need rules for how much "traveling" is OK and you need a more complex system to monitor whether an ad is legal. Is it a legal occasionally-rented-whiled-"traveling" space or illegal because it is a too-often-occasionally-rented space?
A possible metric is limiting competition by keeping existing (likely paid for by hotels and others interested in high lodging/housing costs) barriers to competition in place.

Another possible metric is comparing the benefit to some versus the benefits to others.

The need for rent control at all, as well as the surely depressingly long lines for any waiting list / lottery for rent controlled units, points to a market that has already failed to serve the needs of the community.

Compounding that, the fact that AirBnB or any similar offering is able to so successfully compete with hotels in the area signals that one or more aspects of the hotels is dramatically out of alignment with what the competition that is being eliminated can offer. It /may/ be price, but factored in to that should be the security and piece of mind that a more established name brand and reputation has; possibly the hotels (like Taxis) are doing a poor job upholding a quality brand name, or those that do charge far more than they should if competition were actually a factor for them.
Except those service workers probably now have significantly longer commutes. Their quality of life suffers. I don't know how broadly your definition of service workers goes, but this affects teachers, police officers, firefighters, etc.
This just made me really happy.
Tip to shiny new CEOs: Ghosting a job candidate is not only grossly unprofessional, it's extremely rude at a personal level.

The candidate went to all the trouble of engaging with you; you owe them (at the very least) a timely and professional rejection email if you don't want to proceed.

Yes, a rejection letter, because that's what you're doing -- rejecting them. Ghosting is still a rejection; it's just a rude rejection. There is no way to candy coat that, and you shouldn't try. Grow a spine, and write that rejection letter in the kindest way you can.
Actually, no - the legislation allows rentals with a minimum of 30 days.
Thanks Cuomo, you just made me have to cough up double the price for a shitty hotel.

Those rentals were already illegal under state law. You are aware of this fact, yes?
Since Pennsylvania is the only state with an LVT it should be pretty easy to ascertain whether or not it fits your conditions.
Another status update from GitHub: "We have migrated to an unaffected DNS provider. Some users may experience problems with cached results as the change propagates."

We're maintaining yellow status for the foreseeable future while the changes to our NS records propagate. If you have the ability to flush caches for your resolver, this may help restore access.

Latest status message: https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/789565863649304576
Are you saying I should first find a room on airbnb, and then make a deal that I am actually trying to rent the whole apartment?

Or should I go on craigslist? FWIW, Craigslist is an absolute non-starter - even though there were publicized incidents with AirBnB guests trashing the place, or hosts being shady, the Verified ID system on AirBnB does ensure some amount of traceability in case of incidents or fraud.
Not powerless, just unplug their toaster and they get their internet back.

What is powerless is that many people today couldn't get twitter, github, reddit, spotify, box, etc. because many people don't care about securing their webcam.
If I were running a business, here are the options as I'd see them:

Option A) Spend no money and experience an outage maybe once a year, if that. And the problem works itself out.

Option B) Spend money and gain technical debt to avoid a problem that happens maybe once a year, if that.

Which one would you pick? I mean, maybe if everything you have is closed-source or you are guaranteeing 99.9% uptime to your customers, perhaps option B makes sense. Otherwise, the choice seems fairly obvious to me.
Going by that logic all money should be poured into Moonshots. Every available Ship should have sailed to find India. Every Researcher should be researching immortality...

Ambition isn't the only thing that counts. As much as I'd love to seeing a full cent of every taxdollar going into NASA, handing over the whole dollar would make very people feel very miserable very fast.

I hope this makes the resentment towards the ratio of money flowing into AI Moonshots compared to a little more down to earth things that are needed right now a little more understandable.
Put the thumbscrews on the IoT manufacturers instead, so they don't release widgets with bad security, so the problem is eliminated at its root.

You wouldn't allow car manufacturers to sell cars with faulty airbags, why do we allow device manufacturers to provide plentiful firepower for bad actors?