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>What does "do the ramadan" entail for you?

Basically you feast all day and eat big at night and in the morning. And best case they look at you funny and take a moralistic tone about your haram behavior and worst case, well there is a lot of different worst case scenario when it comes to those folks. I don't want them to leave me a bad review because they are bitter about my "haram" behavior

>Does AirBnB have recourse against guests who leave the apartment trashed?

They do but I would rather not go through that, plus it is a hassle and I don't want to invest more time than I already do

>Does AirBnB have any way to detect that?

I don't know... but Paris is Paris. AirBnb is convenient but I won't have trouble finding an alternative if I have to
> Skirting employment law isn't being DISRUPTIVE! It's just being a scummy business.

No. Treating your workers poorly makes you a scummy business. Not every case of skirting employment law is a case of treating your workers poorly, and not every case of poor treatment is covered by employment law.

Conflating legality with morality is a cornerstone of authoritarianism.
I can see huge problems i educating people to look after their private keys. Imagine how many people would lose their keys and their entire mail archive is unreadable.

Just this week I had TWO colleagues separately losing their respektive 2FA for github. And they both work in IT, one had saved the recovery codes, but couldn't make them work, the other not.

In a time of cloud convenience, people are actually less and less inclined to understand the concept of public key crypto and the importance of backing up private keys.

Even if you trust say, apple's icloud keychain (which isn't necessarily a great idea), it still requires access to a trusted device, and it's locked in.

So I think the biggest nut to crack is a unified cloud based private key backup that seamlessly integrates with everything from web applications to every OS and then get Microsoft/Apple/Google on board to support it every where.

Not easy to pull off.
I try to install Ubuntu every 18-24 months or so. A problem occurs in about 2 days that I have to google and spend hours in frustrations. No, thanks. 2016 is not the year of Linux on the desktop.
This is amazing. The surprise is that while the higher resolution images seem real, they are reconstructions based on the previous learning, and can be very different from the actual.

Nice test images to include would have been an original image, downsampled image, and the reconstructed image. If the author is reading this, could they add this to the README?

Sci-fi on TV is making it to the real world :)
Solar storms don't reach the earth, one of the jobs of our atmosphere and magnetosphere is to protect us from it. So there's no point in making protections against it for solar panels on the planet.

Not to mention that coronal mass ejections (CME) happen so often that you'd expect to have already heard of such power outages if one were possible.
Somehow Airbnb mostly doesnt work for me. You find a nice/cheap place to stay, message the host and wait for 24 hours for a revert. Fairly often, the host declines for seemingly specious reasons. The bigger problem is the wait than the refusal.

An Indian startup called OyoRooms has a much better solution to this problem.
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if someone is turning you down on airbnb based upon some arbitrary discriminatory factors, do you think you'd really want to stay with a person like that to begin with?
I'm not blind but I have very poor eyesight in my left eye which makes reading tiring so I started this experimental Morse-based system https://github.com/Hendekagon/MorseCoder for the Apple trackpad. It's not very successful. What I really want is a fully haptic dynamically-textured surface.
OK, you have me intrigued. How do you part out a MacBook air?
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By saying "subscriber only content shared by a subscriber", made me think it could be a subscriber-to-subscriber thing. But well, someone else cited how this assumption was wrong.

They should phrase it in a less ambiguous way.
> You have a right to pick and choose who you want in your home

You don't if you are renting your home. Whether Airbnb hosts legally classify as renters is something that each state is dealing with. Airbnb is choosing to get ahead of the issue by adding this requirement.
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> I've personally experienced that some hosts refuse to rent to unmarried couples.

In a lot of cases this is due to the host's religious beliefs. In that case, who is discriminating against who?
Personally, since I have no plans of running Windows in the first place, Lenovo's spyware has effectively zero effect for me.

That said, I'm quite happy with my Dell Latitude D830 and my PowerBook G4 :)
Uh, where I live in DC marital status is a protected class for housing. You can't require a couple be married.
it does because it sounds like it's actually a real quote and it is relevant to people switching
The powerwall 1 (are they still selling them?) is at exactly that price point, albeit with half the energy storage capacity.
What percentage of airbnb rentals are roommates vs short term subletters?
which is precisely why analogies are helpful in communicating with them.
Not just names of functions; also names of variables and potentially a great many other things.

Stripping binaries generally refers to removing debugging information of all sorts.
I was actually fine with Apple's "courage" to take away my headphone jack on my phone. But the courage to take away my Esc key crosses the line for me.
Right, but how many people actually rent their own residence on Airbnb?
https://www.tesla.com/solar

For people like me who missed the solar roof.
But it's the wrong way to go about it. The right way would be to make the initial negotiation phase blind...no pictures or names, just profile information like star ratings and how long they've been an AirBnB member. Hosts that back out of agreed upon reservations too often could be punished. A vague "I promise not to discriminate" agreement with no details about how discrimination is reported, dealt with and and how disputes are handled could cause more problems than it solves.

At the end of the day, despite the BS line that AirBnB gives about people sharing their homes, the majority of the hosts are operating a small business, and one that's beholden to a single provider for business. There will be hosts that lose 100% of their income stream because of this and not all of them will be the problem hosts that are causing this controversy. Innocent hosts who just happen to have accidentally chosen incorrectly a few times will get caught. Or, more likely, hosts will live in fear of being accused and start discriminating in favor of minorities.
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skill and experience

And socio-economic privilege, and luck.
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Agreed, it would have been nice to show other upscaling algorithms. But neural net super resolution generators can still have significantly more detail at 4-8x, as shown here
http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04802
I used to work in a camping site in Northern Italy many years ago. We were openly told not to accept people from the south of Italy as they statistically were more noisy. I didn't like it but it actually made sense. It just wasn't viable to mix Germans and Napoleteans in a tight space.
I guess Germans earned that right with politness.
Then one day I let gipsies in and I almost got fired.
Aren't there any number of existing web sites purpose-built for pretty much exactly this? Along with things like reviews, reputations, and specific procedures for things like payments, the inevitable disputes, etc.?
>> Convolutional networks don't actually seem to be a totally bad approximation
of feedforward visual processes in the brain at a computational level. And I
say this as a neuroscientist.

I'm saying that a "(not) totally bad approximation" can still be bad enough
that it's completely useless. And even a good one can.

The problem is that you can model pretty much anything with an analogy that's
broad enough. Say, you can model any distribution with a straight line...
except you will often not learn anything you didn't know before. Or maybe
you'll learn a lot about a whole class of distributions, but not about a
specific distribution, or how it differs from all the others in its class.

If you've read Foucault's Pendulum- it basically makes this point about the
Tree of Life [1]. They're always "fitting" it to everything from pinball
machines, to cars, to peoples' sex organs. And it always fits so well! Maybe
that's because it's truly divine?

Come to that- why are ANNs based "on the brain" and not the Tree of Life? They
sure look a lot like it, superficially. Maybe ANNs are really based on the
Mystic Qabbalah, Geoff Hinton is a Rosicrucian and it's all a scheme of the
Illuminati. CNNs are probably a model of The Eye on the Pyramid. It all fits,
innit! That way lies madness- or at least a whole big bunch of confusion and
waste of time.

You mentioned computation- look at Turing machines for a good model of a thing.
It's an analogy that's broad enough to represent a whole class of
computational devices, yet at the same time it only represents those devices
and nothing else. You can't mistake a Turing machine for a potato, or a
cricket, fnord what have you. Why can't we have that sort of thing, instead of
"Neural Networks"?

____________

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life#Kabbalah
Apple focused on creating a specific experience.

To achieve that, they started by only targeting specific hardware. Android supports various hardware and so does Windows. Does iOS and macOS do the same? no. Because it would compromise the experience, which is tied directly to the value of their brand, which is ultimately what allows them to price their products the way they do.

Apple focused on creating products people want to buy. I am not from a wealthy country, and I have seen people who have put basic needs aside to purchase an iPhone. For a much lower price you could purchase an Android phone, but they did not care. This is the power of a consistent, pleasant experience, something that Microsoft and Google seek to now obtain through the Surface and Pixel respectively. Let's see what happens.
They can do that when the host will be protected against abuse of by law as well. Hell, it even wouldn't be needed. If you as a host knew, you would be compensated by any ill means done by the one renting - meaning AirBnb would claim responsibility - this clause wouldn't be such an issue.

Because here's why this happens: people start declining to certain others based on experience. Some hear about others experience and don't want to even go down that road in the first place.

Modern "PC" way of thinking caters to the minorities. Rights, rights, rights and so on. Businesses market on that. Media gets clicks and views based on that. But the modern western societies have forgotten that rights are only one side of the coin, there have to be RESPONSIBILITIES too.

Responsibilities are harder, long term gratification and can cause non happy feelings. But no one can enforce rights without them, or we get to see the extreme effects as we do now.
> If you're really so upset, do NOT buy this damn computer!

Many of the people complaining were never going to buy a mac anyway.
>message the host and wait for 24 hours for a revert.

Airbnb has an instant book feature that obviates this process
I tried the https://try.jupyter.org/ and that was what I could not figure out. It looks like some kind of csv editor once I got to see some output
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I am not familiar with OyoRooms. What is their solution?
I am not blind but my daughter has albinism and low vision as a result. I have been looking to find ways to contribute and make it easier for her and others.

I would be happy to help.
> but I shut down as soon as I hit the MBTI pseudo-science.

You are definitely right!

The way the article was written was very misleading. The idea is that MBTI was used as a hypothetical mental model and some ideas can relate to the author experience of the "angry programmer".

I have edited to make the point clear, any feedback will be much appreciated!
Is hrod17@clintonemail.com seriously the best Hillary goddamn Clinton can do? Not hillary@clintonemail.com? What the hell is the 17 for?

Even my grandparents have more coherent email addresses, and they don't even have a whole domain effectively for themselves.
> I'm looking at you Chrome Dev Tools...

Puns aside, Who on earth would make a blind person work on UI? I think it's better that you parted with them, even tho I'm sorry you have trouble finding a good job.

Best of luck.
Sad that we have to codify this in 2016 as it seems obvious. I don't think the community commitment goes far enough.

If you’re in the business of providing a service to people you shouldn’t be discriminating against them on any grounds apart from ability to pay, which is not an issue on the Airbnb platform.
This account only ever seems to have replied to three things, one >1000 days ago. Really weird.

(I don't think HN completely deletes comments like this, so I don't think there's some huge pile of extra stuff I can't see, unlike with reddit)
I’m a programming language developer, and I’m interested in developing languages and programming environments for the blind and visually impaired, or at least making existing languages more usable. Feel free to get in touch.
The new Windows 10 linux-subsystem is really good and getting better with every release.
PhDs are professional dilettantes? I've always seen it as exactly the opposite - they are hyperfocused in their field of study.
Yes just not legal (well it is sort of legal if you consider the EULA is not a law just don't advertise you are doing it).

On the other hand, OSX would be the worst OS to install on a convertible tablet/laptop - you're better off with Linux.
> kidney troubles have never been a problem for us.

Congratulations on your robust good health! How about your pets?
Don't quote me out of context

I definitely think people should be exposed to programming in school, but we study physics and chemistry there too and nobody expects everyone to be a physicist or chemical engineer. Specialization is a good thing.

I am saying that people should be taught programming in school, like literacy and mathematics, but that doing so is not going to prepare students to make production-grade software. We need actual engineers for that.
Depends on the field, but a lot of this is a result of the "publish or perish" capitalistic model poisoning academia. You can't go to any university today without feeling the effects of a massively over-bloated bureaucracy and administration. Before this massive bloat, most universities were controlled and run by professors believe it or not.
Personally, I say ditch IOS completely and give me a flat ecosystem of Linux or BSD well tuned to the hardware and completely open sourced. Allow interesting features like SNABB-switch type userspace packet management. Throw in some (k)ASLR and other such security mechanisms. Perhaps most important: make an ecosystem that can compete with Ubiquiti for both "average" consumers and developers in terms of hardware but especially software.
In your case the problem I see is that you are using a lot products from Apple. In my case is just Keynote, otherwise I'm using just the OS itself, and I even have an Android phone, so the switch could be simpler. Unfortunately I think you'll require to do researches for each single software in order to potentially migrate to something else. The good thing is that for almost everything there is some indie solution that is great, but the bad thing is that it's not as simple as just sitting and letting Apple provide good integrated solutions. For iMessage however I would go towards Whatsapp, it's going to happen anyway world-wide IMHO, it's just North America that is using Apple messaging mostly. I totally agree it is significantly simpler to switch to Windows + VM or Windows in dual boot than bare Linux.
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How can you consider something reliable if you had to RMA it twice?

or it was just broken at the beginning and been working fine ever since?
Airbnb can do whatever they want in property they own/lease. However since they 'share' (funny word that) people's private homes they will have to live with the fact that those people will refuse guests for whatever reasons they feel like, this is the flip side of the coin of not having a relationship where they are in control (employer, employee, owner of the premises).

Airbnb wants to have its cake and eat it too, on the one hand not to own the premises and the goods stored in there but to pretend that they own it and set the rules about who can and can't come there.

Nobody is going to admit to discrimination, even if they do agree, people will come up with alternative reasons for not allowing the people they do not wish to stay in their private homes, so nothing will change but Airbnb will look good.

After all, what proof will they use to tell a host they are discriminating.

If Airbnb wants to be able to dictate the terms at that level they should build a nice large building with a front desk with people they employ and a bunch of rooms they let out aka a hotel.
> Writing a shiny CRUD website is not high tech

Let me know if you still agree with that statement when you write an application for a bank, military use, pharmacological research, a rocket launch, or Wall Street.
One reason PayPal is so popular is that it means you don't have to give our your card number to merchants. Hopefully more online merchants will also accept Apple Pay which has the same benefit.
Ask HN: If you wanted to manipulate HN, how would you go about it?
By manipulation I mean either the suppression or promotion of certain information / discussions, gaming the ranking algorithm, astroturfing, etc.

As just one example, I've wondered if for instance there was a front page article about a bad quarterly report, or a corruption scandal, and I wanted it to drop off the front page fast, would it work to simply introduce some flame-war-inducing topic via a tangential comment? If the company in question was Microsoft, for example, you could pretty easily slide in some dig against Linux, begin a flame war, and then as I understand it (and as I've witnessed many times) the HN ranking algorithm would start to push it down.

Of course this discussion is not meant to encourage any bad behavior, but as a security exercise it seems useful. I also am unaware of and interested in what HN has made publicly known about their ranking algorithm, and how this squares with best practices as far as thwarting manipulation.
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Notice I did say that there's a moral argument to be made for society supporting parents. Otherwise, procreation could end up the province of the wealthy and people should be able to exercise their biological imperatives if they choose. But the comment that I was replying to was arguing that society needs people to procreate, which is just laughably false. There's a big difference between limiting procreation (i.e. China's "One Child" policy) and not incentivizing procreation. You act like I was advocating the former when I was only talking about scaling back the latter.

> You also pretend that culture and cultural attitudes are not important and potentially conducive to the success that a region has.

I'm not pretending that...I'm acknowledging that more diverse areas consistently outperform areas with monocultures. Adding people with new perspectives almost always improves a situation. Why do you think there's such an emphasis on getting more women and minorities into tech? Hint: it's not just bad PR. Those new perspectives will make the workplace environments and the products and services they produce better.
"just"

You can also "just" remove servers that are currently in GC from your pool, and have high throughput in a service with reliable latency.
"I agree to the terms and conditions."
Malloc is O(n²) so it totally depend on how able you are to not do gradual allocation.
Better keyboard? You need to pay less attention to the marketing. The latest MBP keyboard has almost no travel, it's evolving into an iPad.
Sadly the name has come to mean "moving sequence of frames" nowadays. WebM and MP4 provide this functionality using significantly less bandwidth.

This may be of interest: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=pixel+art&tbs=itp:animate... http://revangale.tumblr.com/
> that's not what we are doing here.

Considering this code will likely be used in IoT, yes, this is what we’re doing here.
"It needs to be beautiful, affordable, and seamlessly integrated. If all of those things are true, why would you go any other direction?"

I'm pretty sure only two of those things are true at best. I can't even begin to fathom the cost of the shingles themselves compared to ordinary shingles, let alone the installation costs of setting up a bunch of tiny solar panels.
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Here is the top 100 of the most rated react apps in Github:
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And the article that describes how I obtained this list:
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I think it's ok to require pictures if who will be staying in your house prior to deciding if you want to allow the rental or not. As an owner it's always you choice. If I dint want some who looks dirty , or a drug dealer in my house who I going to make you. Freedom if choice. If they don't like it there are other apps and sited to list vacation rentals on. Such as the big 4
Or perhaps they are simply using a different scale than you are. It's not like there's an objective meaning to attach to each number.
Are you of a non-preferred race?

The few times I've tried it, the host was either non Internet-savvy or seemed to have regretted the too low a price they set, cancelling and putting the place back in the market for a higher price.
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It's inherently dangerous because it's a bunch of hardware and software that take over a 2 ton vehicle to turn it into a software guided missile. That's an inherently dangerous set-up that will need a lot of thinking to keep it safe for general use.

Just like a piano suspended from a rope is inherently dangerous. The danger may not manifest at all for that to be the case.
Ten year warranty at least.
Keep a close eye at the pretty Easy Privacy (p≡p) project.

It provides an engine (written in C99) and adapters for the most important environments, in order to automatize key management and message transport.

It'll be the default way to automatically encrypt e-mails in Enigmail, where most OpenPGP traffic emerges from, anyways: https://twitter.com/pEpCouncil/status/791948659378106368

But that's just a start, as p≡p wants to transfer all text-based communications anyhow into the censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer GNUnet (using OTR or Axolotl crypto).

Cf. White Paper of p≡p: https://pep.foundation/docs/pEp-whitepaper.pdf

(Wikipedia article on p≡p showing its broad approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Easy_privacy)
I don't agree with this. Compare to how your bank has access to your bank statement. In an ideal world that wouldn't be the case, only you would have access to it, but making sure that you use HTTPS when accessing your banks website.

So: It's not perfect, but it's better than what we have today.
I just hate Airbnb because of all he stupid rules. I go on vacation to relax and don't want to have to feed your cat or make a curfew. Especially when I can stay in a mid-range hotel for the same price without all the rules and the bs $200 cleaning fee!
Yes, non discrimination is nice on paper, but it is another issue when there's money on the line
What is HOA?