skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in a similar position - I live in a 19th century ten-flat building, all privately owned. We had one flat rented out all summer on Airbnb and it turned me from being 'meh' about the idea to being totally against it.

None of the other owners/residents were consulted or told about the Airbnb, so the first thing I knew was a group of Germans at my door asking me questions about their stay, and whether I could give them a bottle of olive oil. Fortunately for them I was bemused enough to help them out rather than to think "well no, I've been at work all day, and nobody's paying me to be your concierge".

Then there was a family who stood in the communal, enclosed hallway and smoked every night. And the group who partied until 3am all week; and people who slammed the main door rather than closing it gently (it's old and a bit fragile).

I can't blame the visitors, because they were here for a cheap holiday and knew no better. And the people who rented out their flat are really nice (I'm otherwise on good terms with them). So it's hard to blame anyone but Airbnb and their business model.

This isn't what I signed up for when I bought my home; I want to live among a community of neighbours, not in a cheap hotel run for the benefit of others.
It's not the same way that Snap does it though, but I could be wrong because I haven't gotten a dm in a while. From what I remember, IG's diret messages look like one long chat between you and the person. Snapchat has 2 separate direct messaging paths, one is your basic chat log and the other one is sending snaps to a single person, which is what I think @TaylorGood was referring to
Good and nuanced discussion of that topic is incredibly challenging under the best of circumstances. Thank you for commenting and probably helping me keep both feet out of my mouth.
I don't get why everybody talks about "cloud" and AWS/CGE, it seems you guys ignore the fact that many companies still maintain their own infrastructure or they lease them from other companies smaller than Amazon or Google!
1. How does that compare to eBay and Etsy now that you have used SEO tricks to push yourself up in the rankings so artists now have to go through you?

2. 5-40% quite a broad range. Who determines this percentage and what percentage does the highest volume quintile pay out?
I see talk of Spectacles being Snapchat's next big thing. However, 90% of the time the popular Snapchat users are filming themselves. Not what they're seeing. So what good would Spectacles be for them?
It's a max of 260, and it's a Win32 subsystem limitation, not the limitation of NT OS or NTFS file system - and even in Win32 there are escape hatches for it, it's just that you need to know of them and use them explicitly to get such support.

With respect to symlinks - NTFS supports them, but there are subtle semantic differences with POSIX. WSL does actually support symlinks (i.e. you can do ln -s), it's various other behavior around them that breaks, like trying to untar a file that contains symlinks.

The team said that they're working on a custom implementation of symlinks that would provide proper behavior (but wouldn't be seen as a symlink from Win32).
Yeah, one of the problems in the computer industry now is that people are generating config (and other) files with template systems that don't understand anything about the underlying syntax.

If you can turn the files into parse trees, manipulate them semantically, and then turn them back into files, that rocks. For instance, right now I am working with a database that has to have a lot of things configured -- one of them is how big the buffers should be, which is a function of how much RAM you have, which in turn depends on the kind of AWS instance my product runs on.

With a smart configuration API I could take a configuration file supplied by the user and set the buffers to the right size really easily.
For those who are more used to non-lisp scripting languages, I've found the awkwardness of functions in a lisp-2 (Emacs Lisp) compared to a lisp-1 (Scheme) to be similar to the awkwardness of functions in PHP compared to e.g. Javascript or Python.
I'm not sure it does. All it shows is that Tesla, may at some point in the future be consistently profitable. It doesn't change anything about the prospects of SolarCity to be consistently profitable and if I were a Tesla owner that's what I'd want to see, getting more value than I put in.
How much load are you talking about? Once it finally loaded for me, I gave up after about 45 seconds. I suspect you're doing some really cool things on the backend, in terms of checking permutations of flights and wiring together the cheapest rates. Still, I wonder if you're doing anything with your Angular front-end that really hurting usability.
what are the best open source tools for social simulations?
I imagine this is because the majority of revenue is spent on growing the buisness, rather than going into profit (As profit = revenue - expenses). As Tesla still has a lot more space to grow. Same method Amazon did until recently for years.
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> Professional CEO = crony. Nothing else ....

Yup. The pro CEO totally owes his job and even his career, house mortgage, the mother in law addition, the in ground back yard pool, the kids' college tuition, new family SUV, wife's happiness, the family vacation home, his retirement, his good medical plan and dental plan, his airline travel card, his company car, country club membership, the respect of his circle of friends, etc. to the VCs.

Then the BoD and CEO can agree on this and that and send the whole founding team out without even their shirts. The founding team can sue, but without even their shirts and against the money and power of the great company they built, they don't have a chance.

So, we're talking CEO loyalty to the BoD, sit, lie down, roll over, stand, heel, etc.

The VCs with the BoD are in a power struggle with the founders, and the ones with more power get more money; the one with enough power can get ALL the money.

I omitted, the people I could get a "warm introduction" from are so high up in business and academics that the Silicon Valley VCs don't know them. And the Silicon Valley VCs don't know the people I know and couldn't get a warm introduction to me. E.g., in information technology, the people I respect and are able to respect me all have good appropriate Ph.D. degrees, usually pure/applied math, and nearly no Silicon Valley VCs do.

To put it bluntly, the Silicon Valley VCs are "too low class" for me! Really, I don't care and am willing to give tutorials to people with poor technical prerequisites for my work, but the VCs wanting "warm introductions" look too arrogant to me. Or, I'm not going to go to one of my Ph.D. dissertation advisers, since then a Dean at one famous university and President of another, and ask for a "warm introduction" to a VC that likely does not know him.
I've never used Airbnb in NYC, but I have paid some kind of "hotel tax" on the invoice when staying in Canadian cities. Also their hotel registration form was prominently posted. n=2
If you're referring to the Warriors and Duke superfan who just happens to hold some kind of job at Apple in his spare time, that'd be Eddy Cue with a Y. (Common mistake.)
Open source is not necessarily free software, but often is, as that link clarifies:

> Nearly all open source software is free software, but there are exceptions.

The distinctions made in your citation make it clear that Sentry is both open source and free. I don't think there's any incorrect terminology being used here; can you point to a specific misuse?
I imagine the protracted development time is at fault. The guy from Penny Arcade wrote a blog post where he said that he tried a prototype a year ago, so presumably this has been in development for at least a year and a half. Probably the 9xx was the best they had at the time and when the 10xx was released they were too far along in development to swap it out. The next one should have it though.
Gradients in the source image tend to yield poor results. They often awkwardly reappear in the result, looking like an artifact doesn't fit with the style image at all.

Source images in a posterized style, with large flat surfaces in unified colors, tend to yield great results with few artifacts. With that in mind, I find the raw "21" logo to be a rather good source image. Two colors is minimalist, but it's a choice. I'm sure GP went for simplicity quite deliberately.
And raising horses, nomad's still practice agriculture.
It doesn't really make sense to talk about replacing the judge (judges, really, since this is specific to the European Court of Human Rights) with this AI, anyway, since this AI "predicts" based on portions of the document written by the Court to explain the decision it has made. It's like replacing a playright with an AI that predicts Act III from the content of Acts I and II.
Let's not do any of this here, shall we?
I wonder what you get if you ask the algorithm to start with Starry Night and then apply the inversion of the Van Gogh style filter.
Yeah, you can set your own rate, but they don't send you clients if you want more than $60 and hour, unless you've seriously proven yourself with them. Even so I think for reasonable rates of $120/hour you're shit out of luck. You'll be very hard pressed to break even with full employment + benefits. Give them a skip.
Groupon Buys LivingSocial, a Rival Once Valued at $6B
Excellent! Thank you for pointing that out. "Profit" is a comical term, how can we measure the net savings for humanity-at-large from such endeavors?
It's not about working hard to minimize typing, it's more about not wanting to switch from a state of little typing to a state of more typing. Also, it has nothing to do with optimization; I don't think there exists a single person who uses "let" over "const" because of performance reasons. I also don't think anyone uses "let" over "const" because they think it improves code quality.
To me, a strategy that depends on the app store highlighting the app is pretty much just hoping to pick a winning lottery number.
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They do have radar altimeters, but radar altimeters face occasional issues. So they usually also bake in various failsafe measures. Sadly the failsafe measures tend to be the thing which dooms spacecraft, usually in odd ways unpredictable until an actual spacecraft is hurtling towards the ground.
There's only two things we really consider as protection of our product and brand:

1. It's a big project, we are the experts (and the only real committers to the service). We also control commit access, so unless you want to maintain a complicated fork it's just not in your best interests.

2. We own the trademarks. This doesn't always help, for example this is literally a copy paste of our previous homepage: http://getsentry.cn/welcome

That said, there are companies out there who absolutely violate the 'spirit of open source' and use our code for other commercial entities. While we're not preventing them from doing that, I promise you we (and many of our users) absolutely look at that in a negative light. In a lot of ways, we're trusting that the fact that our advocates, who are developers, are also willing to do the right thing.

As you mentioned, this isn't really a threat to Sentry these days, but it was a fair concern two years ago. I think you really do have to put trust in the fact that most people aren't evil.
A lot of us are prolific makers, we're just not prolific sharers. I've amassed a ton of bitbucket repos the world has never seen. Now, I'm learning to share my work and focus on marketing in conjunction with development.

I wrote a piece last night about it:

https://blog.oldgeekjobs.com/be-a-prolific-sharer-31bfdfb50a...

It's about not being afraid to share the things you make and tuning them until they resonate with your audience.
This is something some people don't understand. Gentrification and things like it aren't only a racial issue. Sometimes you move into an area simply because the unemployed drunks and drug addicts can't afford to move there with you. I know I felt relief moving out of an all white trailer park into a suburban neighborhood. Nothing is worse that neighbors who have nothing to do all day but make noise.
> A layman equipped with some of this knowledge, for example, will be much more able to understand current events in...

Any recommendations on good places to learn / keep abreast of this kind of info? I'd love to read news that was more high-level about what's really going on, but it's hard to find.

Many years ago, Stratfor had a free weekly newsletter that had excellent info along these lines, but after they got hacked that went away (and with all the weird things leaked about them it got a little sketchy trying to understand where their biases lay).
Even when they're not enforced and not expected to be enforced, they can still cause problems for someone at a big company trying to be hired by a small company. At a former small employer, we basically wouldn't touch anyone with a non-compete if there was the slightest risk.
When is naming abuse itself abusive?
That monitor is just under 3.69 billion pixels compared to 13.5 billion on the Surface Studio. It doesn't include the dial interface, the real-life scaling, the pivot mechanism, the color profiles, a lot more. It's probably the closest you can get, but not in the same league.
my real takeaway from this article is the amazing feat of typing at 800 characters a minute!

according to http://smallbusiness.chron.com/good-typing-speed-per-minute-... a good typist does around 335 cpm

so this is way over twice as fast

is this a typo and supposed to be 80? that would be very slow.
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Very first line of the Update linked to in another comment,

> The Tesla third quarter results reflect strong company-wide execution in many areas. Furthermore, we expect this to continue into Q4 and project positive GAAP net income (excluding non-cash stock-based compensation) despite ZEV credit sales in Q4 likely being
negligible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12800234
Okay. That's valid. What's failure look like in that case? A drop in MacBook Pro sales? By how much? A measurable reduction in the number of MacBook Pro's seen at conferences?

I guess I'm just pushing back on empty doom-and-gloom statements. I'm all for people making predictions, up or down. I just like to see them made with some kind of measurable scope. Otherwise they're not really substantive, especially when they tend towards the hyperbolic.

I'm always looking for ways to improve my own predictions as well, finding ways to measure the accuracy of what I'm thinking of. After all, you can only improve what you can measure, as they say. And you can only measure if you have something to measure against.
Same reasons that C/C++/Java/Javascript beat all the better languages. Pop culture.
Well, what are you thinking will replace it? We can all imagine glasses/brain plugs/löksoppa but even in our fast-paced world it feels like a paradigm shift away from the mobile factor is 4-5 years away... and an eco system/fan base isn't exactly something you easily kick start from scratch but rather migrate over from previous technology.

I think Windows Phone has been a disaster in many parts, but the actual ideas and UI has actually been one of the bright spots, especially considering iOs is still stuck in an icon springboard paradigm.

For sure it's a bloody fight but I don't think it's a battleground MS can surrender until the next thing comes around
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I'm curious... could you explain what you specifically meant by ear-buds being damaging to your hearing? Were you blasting the volume to drown out environment noise or were you talking about noise-canceling earphones?

(I personally use noise-canceling earphones a lot, and the only bad thing I've heard is that they may cause vertigo in some people...)
> However, do we have any reason to believe that a collection of random, qualified judges would be able to predict the outcome of a court verdict with 80% accuracy?

I think a random selection of second-year law students could probably beat 80% (by about 19 percentage points) predicting the outcome of a court decision from the facts and law sections of the same decision.
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unfortunately that video just subjected me to a long boring talk which never covered the VR headset. Thank god for the browser plug in which lets you speed up videos!
The IBM PC was available when Hilary was 35, hardly an old person to learn how to use a computer, especially since she is a lawyer who would presumably use computers (as lawyers do) for typing legal documents, performing searches through WestLaw, etc.

Hilary was 50 when web browsing on the Internet became available. She was intelligent enough to get into Yale Law school, so one might expect she might be intelligent enough to understand a little bit about email.

Clinton, according to a former Attorney General, broke the law as mentioned in the WSJ column as linked above. She used her own private email server for government email so that emails could be destroyed so as not to be made public through Freedom of Information Act requests.

Many of the political and media elites are critical of Trump, but nothing he has done is as serious as what Hilary has with the emails and the attempts to cover them up.

Many of the elites misstate Trump. He is not against immigrants, he is against illegal immigration. He is hardly a misogynist, since he hired a woman to be in charge of his construction company in the 1980's.
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Minor correction w.r.t. Netflix: netflix.com itself is on Route53 but parts of the CDN appear to still be 100% on Dyn:

$ dig +short ns nflxvideo.net
ns1.p19.dynect.net.
ns4.p19.dynect.net.
ns2.p19.dynect.net.
ns3.p19.dynect.net.
I would speculate that people who prefer open-plan are more likely to be adequately happy and productive in more traditional arrangements. So on balance having some degree of privacy and quiet should improve quality of life for the most employees (sadly open-plan layouts are cheaper and easier to shoehorn into various spaces, so they are increasingly common).
I disagree in the similarities of Facebook. Snapchat is like twitter but worse. Because it's anonymous and not associated with real names, they don't have an actual relationship graph, unlike twitter they don't have an interest graph. All they really have is your location. Everything is ephemeral so it's going to be even harder to figure out what type of advertising they should actually target. Also we don't know where people spend most of their time in private messages or stories and the only thing they really are focusing on monetizing is stories. Also like Twitter their advertising system can be subverted. Brands and advertisers will go directly to influencers to peddle their products vs going through snapchat. Also at the time Facebook was yet to introduce advertising on their mobile product. I believe Snapchat will have a much harder road to monetization than Facebook had.
Here in the USA, we don't block internet sites. We have no "great firewall" here. (We do have to worry about our IP addresses being associated with torrenting copyrighted content and getting sued however.)

So if you're in the UK and you want to use a VPN to access adult content (but you don't want to distribute copyrighted movies and music), the USA is an excellent VPN host country to use.

If the UK uses drones on the USA, the results will not be pretty for the UK. The UK will be squashed like the little bug that it is to us.

And given our near-religious devotion to freedom of speech, we're not going to be "strong-armed" into adopting such blocking either.
Do you think we can get rid of this once we leave the planet and go multi-planetary? We will bring our gray matter with us. May a few generations grow up and they will repeat our mistakes.

Possibly the only solution is to get way smarter by gene editing and preserve as much data as we can from our age.
You are right they are quite a bit cheaper but they are just as obtrusive. I think that glasses (esp. dioptric) are fundamentally a part of your identity and I think that most people fundamentally hate associating themselves with a company not to come across as a 'fanboys'. Like wearing the snapchat glasses projects a certain type of persona which I think most people might prefer not to project.

I think that they should be marketed as "cool glasses (that also record video)" as opposed to "video recording glasses". "Video recording glasses" are a gimmick, "cool glasses (that also record video)" could be timeless.
> PC market has been stagnant/in decline for some time now. They have to come up with something.

Quick, someone page Apple because Mac sales are declining even faster than the market. Surely they have to do something, that's the only possible motivation /s
It may even be a bad things if they have profits considering the kind of revolution they are attempting on the car industry. I hope though, that it means things went better for them than expected.
You could even write comments as a linear RSS feed of nested OPML outlines, by converting all that XML to JSON.

http://convertjson.com/xml-to-json.htm
.NET and Swift were open sourced after long periods of being closed source (swift obviously shorter).

What were the positives and negatives of going open source earlier?
Yeah, that's exactly why I asked. Seems like one of those things where it makes sense to me to outsource, but I don't really know if I'm right on that.
Every component in Meatier is replaceable. The defaults are for convenience. It sounds like Next.js also makes a lot of decisions for you.
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In hindsight what would be some ideas that you think would be worth lots of money? Most of the unicorns I know about and are aware of what they do don't boil down to a great idea.
The artist still has to paint the first printable piece of art using a Wacom tablet, and then subsequent copies can be "printed".

It does not scale at all for one-off pieces of artwork.
I love AirBnB, and have used them many times. But in the case of NYC, AirBnB brought this wholly on themselves.

They knew landlords were running whole buildings in nyc as pseudo hotels, and they did little until now. [1]

They knew individuals were renting whole apartments 100% of the time, and did nothing.[2]

They refused to give data to the attorney general, and instead, mounted an AD campaign.[3]

Only after they were harshly penalized, did they promise to clamp down on the actual abuses.[4]

So they willingly let their customers break the law, because nyc is their biggest market, and well, now want to play the victim.

The spirit of AirBnB and the "sharing" economy is to share under utilized housing. Not to create illegal hotels.

[1] http://gothamist.com/2014/10/16/airbnb_illegal_rapacious.php

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-07/wooing-go...

[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-refuses-to-give-user-d...
[4]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/technology/airbnb-proposes...
I know for me personally I prefer the QC20's because they are in-ear rather than over the ear.