skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess Airbnb did not do what most industrials do - bribe the politicians. In societies where large parts of the economy are either owned by the government or directed through regulations the only way to advance is to corrupt public officials.

But when arguing from a principled position that views freedom as the highest value one can possess it is very hard to come up with a consistent and valid argument why private persons should not be allowed to rent out their property in the same way that "legal" hotels do.

Safety regulations are often cited but why shouldn't a place be good enough for a guest while it is good enough for local people living there? And why should a guest not be able to decide for him or herself if it's acceptable to stay there? (with Airbnb you'll actually get a much nicer place for the same money, especially in NY "legal" hotel owners got away with charging $250 for flea infested 2 star s* holes due to low competition)

Then there's the argument that properties rented out at Airbnb are generally advertised as great for parties. This is not true, anyone who has used this platform will know that these people offering their place go to great lengths to ensure that their guests wont do that. And even if they did, there are ways for neighbours to get reparations for damages, both from the guests (the law of the land applies to them too!) and the person renting out the place.

To me all of this sounds like politicians who are in the pocket of a certain industry ruling in favour of the same industry. This is similar to what is happening to Uber.

One thing is for sure: By suppressing competition in this way the government effectively creates an Aristocracy where everything is rigged against the average person.

Another angle to look at this issue: If you can't use your property in a way that doesn't harm anyone, like renting it to someone, is it then still _your_ property?
Good idea.

Fortune's April article [1] on the investment firm Piper Jaffray's 'Taking Stock with Teens' survey [2] shows that in their Spring 2016 survey Snapchat has tied or surpassed Instagram for most important social network among teens; the article includes a graph of the last 3 surveys. Mediakix, which specializes in social influencer marketing, publishes periodic assessments aimed for marketers about the social networks -- with sources. In January they compared Bloomberg and Fortune articles to conclude that Snapchat's video views surpassed those of Facebook [3].

[1] http://fortune.com/2016/04/13/snapchat-instagram-piper-jaffr...
[2] http://www.piperjaffray.com/3col.aspx?id=4035
[3] http://mediakix.com/2016/01/snapchat-statistics-2016-markete...
> As long as Musk decides to roll all revenues back into operations, investors get nothing.

Don't investors get a higher-valued company (and thus higher share price)? At the end of the day, capital gains is capital gains, whether it's realized via dividends or share buybacks or not.
one could argue that it's useful to have a grasp of relational databases (and SQL) in general. taking the longview, mongo is more of a niche technology.
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I think you are referring to this effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
Thanks for your analysis (and the Ruby and JS reports). The more I think about it the more I think parsers should not parse to numbers by default, but instead to (using a Haskell-based pseudo type):

data Sign = Positive | Negative

data Digit = Zero | One ... Eight | Nine

data JSONNumber = JSONNumber
{ _sign :: Maybe Sign
, _integerPart :: [Digit]
, _fractionalPart :: Maybe [Digit]
}

Actually this should include exponents as well -- basically parsers should just report exactly what the spec allows, without coercing to float or whatever.

Of course, users of the parsers could ask to have a number converted to a float, but that wouldn't be the default.

We're a long way from that though. At the moment I don't even feel like I can write a protocol that expected implementations to distinguish `1` and `1.0`. This should not be the case.
It was a perfectly valid analogy for the point (s)he was making (that laws aren't always just), and I see no reason to object just because the analogous subject was Nazi Germany. Making an analogy between two things is not the same as saying those two things are equivalent.
Tesla also generated cash, even if you subtract off ZEV credits. That's a big deal for a subset of investors, when a significant argument against the merger is that it's going to eat too much cash.
Is it? I thought GitHub, at least, was split Dyn/Route53 shortly after the Dyn outage started as a means of getting back online. Now, they've removed their Dyn, and are now exclusively Route53.

I don't think Dyn showed any incompetence; the parent-poster was merely remarking on relying entirely on a single provider, who, if they get DDoS'd, causes your site goes down. (There was some previous discussion about splitting between providers, but some commenters noted that it was difficult, or at least non-trivial, to replicate records between two providers.)
Yup, and as battery prices drop those margins are going to get even better(although I doubt we'll see the same level on the Model 3).
I guess it's just me then. :^)

For me it's the difference between purchasing a product and investing in your business. If presented as an investment, where my money is going to enable you to produce the item for me, then I'd be fine with it, because I would know the current state of your business. Now, if I knew you had no artists and were just floating an idea I would most likely refrain.

The worst case scenario also assumes that the value of the product purchased is only the cost. What if it was purchased as a gift, with a specific timeline?

I do understand that this is a tried and true business practice, just one that I am not comfortable with when the customer is not aware of it.
They are not the only player, but they probably have the most accepting user base. They don't have the largest user base amongst the AR players though.
Here is the oldest copy of the Docker website on Wayback Machine, from the month that Docker was first released: https://web.archive.org/web/20130323002800/http://docker.io/

The title is "Docker: the Linux container runtime." So, your assertion that "Docker is a developer tool, not a container runtime" is simply false.

The text clearly describes deployment of docker containers as much more than simple development tools: "docker can run on any x64 machine with a modern linux kernel - whether it's a laptop, a bare metal server or a VM. This makes it perfect for multi-cloud deployments." That sounds like production deployment to me.

Whether or not you like Docker, or think it works well in production, is immaterial to this. Docker is a container runtime, it is intended for production deployment, and that means it is not merely a development tool as you claimed. The first website Docker ever published is proof of Docker's intentions. It was intended as a production tool from the very beginning.
If you look at the "Compare Surface Models" section below the "Tech Specs" section, you'll see the following listed under Surface Studio in the last group titled Ports:

Four full-size USB 3.0
Ultra-High Speed Full-size SD card reader
Headset jack
Mini Displayport
Ethernet
IPFS needs to protect its users, if it is to have any users.

The creators of IPFS may not have any liability, but they open up its users to severe issues of liability due to the way it operates.

IPFS will become toxic real quick, if it becomes know that IPFS can make you an unintentional distributor of kiddy porn and pirated content.

The core problem is that IPFS' default mode of operation is actively user hostile. This is a big problem, and the reason IPFS needs to protect its users. IPFS not only leaks what you retrieve, it also makes you an (unknowing) distributior of everything you retrieve. All it takes for you to commit a crime and/or copyright infringement, not only as a consumer but also a as a distributor, is to be tricked into retrieving one hash.

In conclusion, IPFS needs not only to not be outlawed, it also needs to be safe to use. As it is IPFS is not safe to use. Hence IPFS needs to do something to become safe to use, i.e. to protect its users.
By that logic, what's really preventing Ford and Toyota from reaching true success is that they don't own any oil rigs.

TSLA owning SCTY makes about as much sense as Toyota buying Exxon-Mobil, with a small helping of 'enormous conflict of interest.'
> if there is demand for this kind of short rentals, why wouldn't they be allowed?

There is demand for a lot of things in a lot of areas, but it isn't allowed because it would be for the benefit of a select few at the cost of the many. Casinos, bars, hotels -- any kind of business, really, aren't allowed everywhere even though there may be demand for those services from people who don't actually have to live in that area.
Or maybe so a rigged election can be completely stolen if Trump wins in a landslide despite the rigging.
A good example is Jim Inhofe, the Republican chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. According to him, the Bible tells us that GCC is impossible because the atmosphere is under the control of God, and God would never allow anything harmful to humans like that to happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Inhofe
Well, no.... they teach how to do anonymous, verifiable elections when you get a computer science degree. Computers can do it.
Huh, I never even knew about this. I guess you mean this under the title "How to Mirror Your Windows 10 Screen to Another Windows 10 Device": http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/turn-windows-10-pc-into-wi...
I wasn't able to get it working yet, though.
It seems like the main beef you have with the guys startup is that its automated, so he doesn't have to continuously work on the same thing, it attempts to "game" google's algorithm, and that in your eyes it extracts too much money for providing too little of value (connecting the consumer and the producer). I don't see it this way at all, I see it a business that helps both sides and takes a cut. If the cut is too large, eventually it will fail.

We'll probably see if thats the case in around ... 3 to 6 months when somebody who reads this thread and has the skills and the drive to improve on it will make an attempt at a clone.
Yep, and that sales technique is based on the well studied cognitive bias named anchoring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
The implication of incompetence isn't really fair here. This attack was fairly unique, in that it had a sufficient quantity to be a quality of its own. It's unclear whether any DNS provider could have survived it, except by luck of not being chosen as the target.
"One remaining problem is that the personal devices that voters use to cast their ballots can become infected with malware that reads their passwords and PIN codes from their keystrokes or that allows hackers to remotely control their desktops."

"The Estonia National Electoral Committee responded to their criticisms shortly after by saying that the theoretical attacks they described were not feasible."

But why wouldn't those attacks be feasible?
Same people trying to silence Wikileaks?
[I'll try to make it simple, ignoring edge cases and real world complexity]

You can't outsource DNS. It's one of the critical piece of networking that must be in every infrastructure.

The common DNS server is BIND. It's been there for 30 years, it's well known, well manageable and well understood. Sysadmins have to know it and manage it. It's especially critical for worldwide multi-site tech organizations.

There is no need for anything else. BIND can do everything and is the most flexible. Some of the alternatives lack some or most of the features (e.g. some type of DNS records).

You should assume that any organization is running it's own DNS servers. (ignore the edge cases).

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In practise for large scale operations, the DNS tree will get very complex.

What the websites changed was only the public DNS server for reddit.com or airbnb.com. It's only the top of the iceberg. There is likely a very complex DNS setup underneath including public domains, private domains, special internal domains, CDN, per datacenter, per continent, etc... which could imply 10 different DNS services.

Who serves the top level public domain is a details. We should assume that the companies put whatever they could in little time to fix the ongoing issue.
If you don't like them, and you have no hope of using direct methods, you might be able to turn them in to either spotify or ASCAP. I think they might need a special license to play music for more than one person. It's dirty and it's snitching, but it might make your problem go away.
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I think most English speakers would pronounce the gn as ñ.
Can any one explain why they keep referring to this as a complex attack? From the article it seems to be a simple volumetric attack. They mention that it uses UDP port and TCP port 53, nothing complex about that...

Am I missing something here. It wasn't an L7 attack (or was it?) Why keep referring to it as complex?
When you buy a lot of computing equipment, there's a clause in the contract saying that you can't use it to control a nuclear power plant. Do you own the computer?
Totally, it's not about the one right way to do something. I do think there's some value in putting thought into how to write.. maybe "clean" code would be a less charged word than tasteful.
(We work with local governments.)

This isn't why we don't have online ballots. The issue is specifically that you aren't in a voting booth, which means there is no control over voter influence.

Imagine a husband and wife plus a ballot initiative on outlawing flowers. The husband is strongly pro-flowers while the wife is strongly anti-flowers.

With online voting, the husband or wife can force the other to vote in front of them. There is no plausible deniability, so individuals are easily pressured into voting one way or another. Groups can say, "you need to vote in front of another group member" to pressure everyone to do what they want.

Voting booths prevent this, to a large extent.

Another issue is electioneering. By current law, one cannot campaign within 100ft of a polling station. This gives a "safe-space" where people can think about their options and make up their own mind. If I can vote on my phone, a random volunteer can get me all hyped up on the street and I can impulse-vote on the spot. Not a great way to run a nation.

(I'm not saying the current system is perfect, or anywhere close to it.)
Do you rely on DBAs to help with that tuning and maintenance? Or are developers handling that?
There is a middle ground between "all bugs are known on the black market" and "no bugs are known only on the black market."
I think the big problem is that it was a bad deal for most vendors except for very high margin ones. When places like restaurants realized that it wasn't getting them repeat business and the deals were dominated by stuff like Day spas it kind of collapsed.
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The author's initial experience was on a gifted homeschool board. The later, more problematic experiences were, if I understood correctly, about blog posts on the wider internet.

I wonder if the difference is simply the audience? The gifted homeschool blog was an evidence-driven place. The blog readers on the wider internet? Not so much. When you say something that contradicts their assumptions, to them you're not supplying data, you're in a power struggle with them, and they will fight back. Reasonableness of the response? What's that? We're in a war here (or so they think/feel/act).
This is extremely anti-consumer, and I don't understand why you are being down-voted.
I missed this part.

It seems like a good idea indeed but it could be countered. Force or pay a person to vote the last day and then to give you their ID until the vote is closed.

Of course, it's still a step in the right direction as it makes a large vote buying scheme harder.
>Shouldn't there be a justification for indefinitely storing these types of records?

As the devils advocate, why should their be?

Also, deleting stuff in the business world is a major pain in the ass. Do we delete it after X years? What if part of that data is involved in a long term lawsuit, how do we only delete the part that is not? Will the information have historical value at some point?

And the big one, the telephone company has worked with our governments for decades sharing this information. The real question is "How long has the .gov been paying the telcos for these records". This is probably why they are stored forever.
In most of the world America is not a country either, but a continent.
No, but I can imagine a BMW owner complaining that the 2016 model came out 3 weeks after he bought his 2015, with no notice from BMW, the sales guy, or the press. And that the 2016 model came with a bunch of new features he really wanted and would've been willing to pay for.
I'm sure the director of the self described "leading provider of voting technologies" thinks this all makes sense. But the premise here, that the US has a low voter turnout and e-voting somehow makes it all better, is wrong. Countries with e-voting don't generally have better voter turnout than comparable countries. The countries with the best voter turnout doesn't have any electronic voting systems at all! What they generally have are "boring" things including well functioning free media and high education.

But funny he should mention Estonia's e-voting scheme specifically. There was a very interesting look at Estonia's e-voting system at a previous CCC. Here is a video of the talk: https://youtu.be/JY_pHvhE4os

(Spoiler: Opsec fails begins at 42 min. But watch the whole thing, it's interesting.)

And the system in Estonia is not an especially bad example. E-voting in is hard even in theory, with issues like transparency and voting secrecy, but the systems in actual use have hasn't even nailed the engineering problems yet.
I don't think 12-20 year olds are that mercurial, it's just a small age range, so in 8 years it will be an entirely new group of people. Fifteen years is nearly two full lengths of that duration, so it's no wonder that AIM/MSN/Yahoo aren't in use by the current 12-20 year olds. It's only very recently that I (a 29 year old) finally phased out AIM in favor of other channels. Once you capture a social group, it's fairly stable, there's just a constant stream of new social groups as each year's new 12-20 year olds start going online.
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Sure, it's a valid analogy, but there are better ones that could be made instead of going directly for that that don't force readers to compare the two.
Same issue that many embedded devices have, you own the hardware, not the software to power it.
I was thinking that's exactly what it sounded like, which is my hands-down favourite Asimov book.
Is the federal EV tax credit a component of the margin calculations?
Just speaking personally, but I thought the hype around Snapchat was on the decline. The app seemed to get slower with every update and people within my social circles weren't using it as much as a few years ago.
Big user base coveted by advertisers. There's also clearly a market for a social network for teenagers separate from Facebook (so kids don't have their parents spying on them).
If.

I don't think that's going to happen, though - either the rigging or the Trump landslide.
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You can go ahead and take that around the world flight :)
I've got the QC-35s. They're actually pretty good at lowering speaking voices to the below intelligible level, IMO. This was also my first pair of noise cancelling headphones ever, and holy shit what a difference they make on an airplane; I'd never really appreciated how loud it was until now.

I also find that I listen to music at lower absolute volume now as a result of the noise cancelling; I'm fairly certain I did some damage to my ears over the years, and at least I'm not continuing it at the same rate now.

They are bloody expensive, though.
I read it to mean that it would be excessively exploitative. "The artists set their prices at a pretty consistent rate" says to me that the artists generally hold to a price point, so OP milking the margins by raising prices on the retail end would benefit only OP and not the artist.
It does. The article says that you can always cancel your vote later.

So vote pro-flowers in front of husband, and then change your vote on your cellphone or in the library
No, it does face recognition and orientation, it's far simpler than slam and have nothing to do with it.
To add another one, Linden Lab (Second Life) is still around too. Though it's not in that range--brings in about $60M/year [1] Certainly not the revolutionary thing it was going to be once but the shocking part is that it exists at all.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/second-life-lessons-what-linden...
> "engineering that went into a product"?

I have no idea what do you mean - I've been assembling my own workstation for last 20 years now thank you there is no magic involved in building a nice system. And I don't enjoy glow lights in my case. If you think people will buy 4k$ system just for looks you have to be kidding me.
Sad, yes, but obviously not an overdose of marijuana... So either an irrational crusade, or a cynical attempt to keep people addicted to gambling and drinking, neither of which is very appealing.
An informative article. The point is not that parsing JSON is "hard" in any sense of the word. It's that it's underspecified, which leads to parsers disagreeing.

Although the syntax of JSON is simple and well-specced:

* The semantics are not fully specified

* There are multiple specs (which is a problem even if they are 99% equivalent)

* Some of the specs are needlessly ambiguous in edge cases

* Some parsers are needlessly lenient or support extensions
I don't think that's the only reason someone might express skepticism of Musk at this point. They might want Musk to succeed at these things very, very much, but fear that his sketchier tendencies might lead to failure.
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