skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Free markets still require laws addressing theft, property ownership, contract law, etc

It's funny you say that, because one of the features of AirBnB is that it has "disrupted" property ownership and contract law. A huge number of AirBnB properties are being sublet in direct violation of the terms of the tenancy that the tenant agreed with the landlord.

If you want a state that strictly enforces contracts between parties and property ownership rights then that's a state where AirBnB wouldn't exist.
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> You'll then get a job within 2-3 months at a higher salary than what your startup paid you

Assuming you live in SV or NYC
Got a good book or website recommendation for learning Erlang?

How does it compare/contrast with something like Akka (which I've got rudimentary experience with in Scala)?
The most interesting part of this article (for me at least) are those early Mac screenshots - The Flounder? and that next one with not-quite-Chicago/Geneva fonts in the Finder? Where did those come from? I realize JLG had been with Apple since the early days of Mac development but I've never seen anything like those before.
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>The great thing about the free market is you get the choice. You don't have to pass a law to force everybody to also do as you choose.

Not necessarily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
As they say, when they first started with COD they had tons of scaling issues because they had never had so many before, but Erlang caused relatively few of their issues.
Depending on the city, there are a good number of hosts that offer instant booking, keyless entry, flexible cancellation, rates that are 1/4 the cost of a hotel, and most importantly a far better location than any hotel provides.

How else am I going to live 2 blocks from the Notre Dame for a month?
I don't get why people are engaging in a whack a mole competition with facebook trying to fix something that is voluntary designed to be broken.

Why don0t they simply move away to some alternatives that's designed with the user first.
where's the huge informal money sharks?

Wenzhou

http://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/wenzhou-private-lending-comp...
The repel could be dangerous too. There are plenty of features that websites are legally or ethically obligated to provide, but they would rather users not use them. I'm imagining email newsletters with really hard to click unsubscribe buttons.
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In my experience, the vast (90+%) of Airbnb properties share more in common with a hotel room than an apartment that is occasionally rented out.
Cheaper than Splunk:

http://splunk.force.com/SplunkCloud?prdType=SplunkCloud
I saw "Next" and figured it was a company or individual blogging about their next move. Which it was. Seems fine.
The ECB Penguin
I've stayed in an AirBnB maybe a dozen times and always had some problem or other that I've been expected just to accept - because it's AirBnB and not an hotel?

I've stayed in lots more hotels and experienced fewer problems. The times I've had resulted in either a sincere apology or full refund (the last time for the 2 days stay rather than the one night I complained about).

I can see the advantage of AirBnB for a group of people who are willing to compromise in return for a cost saving but not much else.
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Just in case anyone interested in Lisp reads this, Lisp (short for Common Lisp) is not a functional language. You can write imperative programs. You can write object oriented programs. You can write functional programs. You can write programs that are all 3 at the same time. Lisp is designed to handle whatever you can think up. Not sure what this guy is talking about. Especially since python forces you to constantly create temporary throw away variables without being able to be explicit about their scope.
> can be developed in every languages

Did you read the slides?

> Problems remain

– C++ is the wrong language for concurrency
– Code was becoming impossible to maintain
– Poor error handling / debugging / metrics / scalability
– Had to disconnect all users to change configuration

The point isn't that these things are impossible in other languages, it's that Erlang made solving these problems easier than other languages.
Which one of these things do you think is easier to enforce? Would you prefer to have to call the police with a noise complaint regularly or not have noise in the first place?
i added wireframe resize to Rio 15 years ago. people didn't like it :)

http://mirtchovski.com/lanlp9/rio/index.html
> My flat is presently being let on airbnb and isn't suddenly unsafe because someone else is in it rather than me.

You might not have changed the smoke detector batteries in a decade, though. Fine if you want to risk your own life that way, but we've decided as a society that renting a hotel room means extra safety requirements and checks to protect the guests.
LinkedIn is quite similar to facebook in the techniques and tricks they use. The difference is that LinkedIn comes directly from the paypal mafia while facebook was funded by the paypal mafia. And LinkedIn has a professional spin onto it.
I have exactly the opposite bias. I think people who get really into keyswitches, alternative keyboard layouts, and .vimrcs are prone to getting distracted by unimportant details. Of course, we all want to use the most comfortable and productive tools, but a skilled person will attach more weight to things that have more impact.

Still, i'm glad i know people like that, because it's really easy to get a knowledgeable recommendation when i need a new keyboard!
The cursor and atomic block deletion issues occur on desktop as well. I filed an issue recently on this very thing.

It seems to be a continuation of the issues with the editor state and DOM falling out of sync.

I can't share the implementation project, but this is the issue: https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/issues/1089
And the component: https://robert-fairley.github.io/draftjs-litho-editor/

(my component was never meant for mobile use, though. Built for a desktop web app.)
Wonderful run down on the bike sharing situation in China. In regards to the notion that 1 RMB per half hour is cheap, I would say it is fair. One RMB has buying power equal to about one USD in most situations.
What's a hotel though? Where I'm from, running a bed and breakfast (defined as 4 or fewer rooms and 8 or fewer guests) doesn't require any kind of special licensing.

Of course running it out of an apartment runs afoul of every rental agreement I've seen.
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I have to agree with you.

Funny you should say "alien" - I watched "Under The Skin" recently, and then read excerpts from the book. Without spoiling it, the fate of human (males) in the book is far, far worse than in the film. (Search "vodsel processing" if you want to find out more).

Finally made me become vegetarian.
I think that the AirBnB host will be careful about what guests are permitted after the first noise complaint, risking being evicted. Perhaps just knowing the rules might avoid the issue. After all, that's how you expect any AirBnB regulation to take effect.
> How has this basic falsehood persisted for so long and in the face of such damning evidence to the contrary?

Probably the fact that there's strong evidence to support it? Compare today versus the 1970s in air quality, car safety, waterway pollution, etc.
I'm at one of the only companies I know of outside Rackspace that's running it in production. We're doing a very poor job of it; we never hit production with any effort to upgrade the cluster in the past three years, so we're still running Havana with Nova Network.

The most likely upgrade path for us right now is VMWare 6.5.
I certainly wouldn't and didn't go as far to say my kid goes around screaming in public. That's quite a leap from what I was saying. What I said was that at the pediatrician's office, my kid runs around and plays rather than sitting still with his hands in his lap. Kids at play -- laughing, running, exploring, being curious, sometimes shouting -- are a beautiful thing that some find annoying and the point is to remember that we were and are all children.
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How is this not a template? It generates valId HTML out of data.

<?php
for ($x = 0; $x <= 10; $x++) {
echo "The number is: $x <br>";
}

?>
I think that's unfair, the reason PHP has a bad reputation is not because of silly hipsters. It's because for a long time it was a terribly designed language. It was a laughing stock for a good reason. The whole "hobby-grade templating language turned general purpose with complete disregard to how programing languages are designed" thing.

Now I'm willing to believe that it's improved a lot since then, but it's got a very bad reputation to overcome, and it's deserved. The languages seems headed in the right direction at least, maybe in a few years we'll forget what PHP used to be.
>While several companies have come up with synthetic alternatives for detecting the presence of endotoxins in vaccines, medicine, and medical instruments, LAL is still the only test that has received FDA approval.

I wish they would have elaborated on this. Are the alternatives known to be inferior at this time, or are they promising, but stuck in the long, complicated approval process?
As a counter-point, PG had this to say about startups:

"The surprising thing here is that you can safely hill climb. If you guys are programmers... What percentage of the people here are programmers? Ok, a lot of programmers, so you all know what hill climbing is. You just do this simplest growth algorithm, you just go wherever it leads up from here. And you don't plan for the future, you don't try and think about the global picture, you just think what's going to grow this week.

The surprising insight there is that that is safe to do in a startup, that you can hill climb your way into something big. It turns out the space of startup ideas--I didn't know this, this is something I learned empirically--but it turns out that there are not dangerous local maxima. You can safely hill climb without really thinking that much ahead, and you will grow. You won't even know what you'll grow into, right? Just week by week you see.

And this works for a lot of things besides starting companies too. This would work for writing. You know, you just like work on whatever interests you and every week you try and do something more interesting, and eventually you'll look back and say "Holy cow, look, we started out way down there." You know?

So who would it not work for? It's very dangerous but there are some startups where you have to go off and build something for some number of months before you can start this sort of cycle of interacting with users. Like if you want to build a new database company, you can't just like write a version 1 in a week."

It's a passage that comes to mind from time to time. I've found that it can apply outside of the startup world, too. Interesting and easy directions in research often give insights that make harder problems easier, too.

Source: http://www.bnjs.co/transcript-paul-graham-in-conversation-wi...
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I always dislike estimates of this sort, because they give the impression of a scaling argument O(trillion $) when they are never validated and they are seldom more than 'this could cause a huge impact'!

I'm speaking as someone who is horrified at the loss of coral reefs, both because of the ecological implications as well as the loss of a truly stunning natural beauty (I'm PADI certified and love Scuba).
Smart people are more likely to know their rights and fight back. So a scammy (payday loans are almost scams) lender might want to avoid them.
So the hotel lobby is taking away my choices.. to keep me safe? Now that's some seriously good hospitality. The hotel lobby is like the paternal figure I've always wanted.
A significant portion of the memes and spam comes from uneducated family and friends so there's that.

But facebook has already been replaced by other websites for a variety of thing, the most known examples are those built around neighborhood community with extra privacy.
Is there any chance that vendors (like Intel) will care less about the API for accessing their products, as there seems to be more consolidation around API's for running applications like Kubernetes. Intel is a member of the CNCF [1] and seems to be putting money behind it. Am I reading too much into that and is Intel just a big company that puts money in lots of places?

[1]: https://www.cncf.io/about/members/
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But they are also unpredictable and in the same bucket with those trying to hide something. Companies might even publicly announce punishing those people to make them join the surveilance.
> Correct me if I am wrong, but so does Node, Ruby, Python, etc.

I think Node is also a framework, although there seems to be some controversy about this[1]. Ruby and Python give you standard libraries from which you can build a web server or templating engine or whatever, but it would be weird to say that made them Web Frameworks. Maybe things have changed, but last I knew PHP had a command line switch that tells it to not act like a web framework, because that is its default mode of operation. But you're right that it's been a few years.

I don't think I'm jumping on a hate bandwagon, but I am succumbing to someone-is-wrong-on-the-internet syndrome, which I know to be a mistake.

Although I can't resist asking - are you saying PHP is a good web framework? How does that fit with the idea that PHP is not a web framework?

[1] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2991...
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I guess I've been lucky so far.
I think the implication is that Microsoft still hasn't released a reasonable successor to windows 7 yet (because of telemetry, etc). I'll buy that.

However, even if you grant me that, the statement still kind of falls apart, since you could argue that there is no ubuntu with feature parity with their last gnome based release (even the author of the article runs mint...)
Fascinating story. This woman has cracked the code of super effective high stakes sales all by herself without any formal education or training. Something we all should keep in mind.
Lots of good times watching MST back in the late 90s
Parity raid does not protect against bit rot.
Stop submitting to HN under different titles. HN rules is to submit the original title unless it is clickbait. (And certainly don't make the title more clickbait)
RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017
In Sweden there is no such thing as hairdresser licensing. I guess I've been at mortal risk all this time!
As opposed to having your rental be burned down by a long-term renter? That's an oddly specific preference..
actually, do you know why they changed this? I thought that a partition was always superior to a file (aside of the usability issues).
How is this anywhere close to the same as Alien species using humans? We differentiate treatment by intelligence of species for a good reason. We allow courts to deal with the subtleties of what is considered cruel and unusual punishment for humans as well from this rational perspective, allowing certain degrees depending on context.

I'm against whales and dolphins being kept in small area confinement. But I could hardly care about a crab being bled.

The only concern is on the survivability of the species and the effect on the greater ecosystem.

This is very rational and I don't see anything morally wrong with it. Nor do the vast majority of other scientists. Many of whom know much more about the species than I do.

The end result is we have a unique way to test for bacteria in a variety of applications that at most save lives, or at a minimum vastly improve the quality.

> Their distinctive blue blood is used to detect dangerous Gram-negative bacteria such as E. coli in injectable drugs such as insulin, implantable medical devices such as knee replacements, and hospital instruments such as scalpels and IVs.
25 is ‘golden age’ for the ability to make random choices
> Political regulation is just you and me delegating representation of interests.

Is there a way to opt out? Otherwise it sounds more like coercion than delegating.

Corporations are not made of martians, they are made of people making free choices. Should they get a special status with limited liability protected by the government? I don't think so but that's something to blame on the government, not corporations.

If your neighbor's airbnb ruins your nights you should be able to sue and the owner of the building should be free to ban airbnb. But the government deciding that airbnb should be illegal or regulated centrally is where I draw the line.
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I thought that for x86, backwards compatibility was the name of the game. Why do these new processors require OS support?
Well, no, not legally, at least. You can only copy stuff you already own.
> Because not everywhere is NYC.

Do I really need to attach links to rooms in all major cities in the world?

But I got the idea: airbnb may be better for longer trips.
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And that is okay. Labels like "genius" and "hero" get watered down in our participation trophy culture.
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Jean-Louis kind of speaks incorrectly here when he says "Very old-timers will remember the pre-Mac File system called The Flounder", unless by old-timers he means Apple employees that were on the Mac team.

There's a little more about the early Mac software history at Folklore.org, including another screen shot of what eventually became Finder:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
Is there an alternative out there for OpenStack? Perhaps a minimalist version?
When did we start ignoring the reality that startup's need something unique about them to survive?
When did startups become entitled to not having competition?
When did BigCo decide to bow down to startups and stop focusing on survival?
http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ maybe
Why wouldn't you have an agriculture industry ? This is the most vital industry, moreover on a island, when you are next to China, and that country want to assert dominance on the seas. Imagine how would survive the country if China start a blockade without a minimal agriculture at subsistence level.
> “It would have been virtually impossible for this to have occurred without climate change.”

> “This isn’t just an environmental issue. The Great Barrier Reef is one of Australia’s greatest economic assets. It’s responsible for bringing in more than $7 billion each year to our economy, while also supporting the livelihoods of around 70,000 people.”

The irony is that in order for these tourists to visit, they have to fly overseas in planes creating significant carbon emissions.
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> JS doesn't have a problem displaying json as json...

You know what else doesn't have a problem doing this? Literally any other programming language or tool that I've ever used to look at/edit Json.

> Hyperterm, it does things no other shell can do...display webpages on link clicks moving up git logs with my trackpad, adding tabs with a plugin that contains a few lines of code and a little css, ... it just comes easy to JS....

Any pretty much any other terminal built with flexibility and extensibility in mind (even the base terminal in Linux can handle links lol, that's definitely not exclusive to js). ZSH springs to mind, with the benefit of being written in Case, so that you know, it's actually fast...

> The same flexibility you see in Atom, VSC and the others.

Ah yes, including the freedom to not open any binary file, or any file >2mb in size!
It's against the law because it's illegal? Well, I can't argue with that logic.
You got the thinking backwards, just move away to a different chat service and tells your social circle about the move.

This will auto-filter those who actually care and really are part of your circle from those who don't.

If everybody just schlep along then nothing will ever change and you will continue to go to Abilene.
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Very inspirational!
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A tenant subletting their apartment against the terms of their contract is obviously an issue and should be addressed between the actual property owner and the current lessee. However, lobbying for a blanket law against subletting if the actual property owner is OK with it is where protectionism comes into play.
Sigh. Windows 8 was the opportunity. That massive incompetent stinkbomb, while simultaneously OSX was being ignored.

Google could have finished off Microsoft with a death knell investment of a relative pittance:

- get LibreOffice to 100% parity and compatibility with office

- pick and polish a desktop environment to a perfect OSX, Windows-7, and Ubuntu interface

- get CrossOffice/WINE to near-100% compatibility

- near-perfect android app use.

Instead... ChromeOS?

Google could have added a multibillion dollar industry for the investment of $100 mil.
att runs it in-house and they seem to like it.
No it doesn't, because typically you still have to have some legal copy in the first place before private copying rules apply. The levy is about making extra copies.

The biggest problem with this is that if you have a blanket private copying exception to copyright and you also remove the rules about TPMs and anti-circumvention provisions, which is what seems to be proposed in Portugal, then you eliminate any business model more nuanced than selling a permanent copy of a work to each individual customer. No more pay-per-view, no more streaming libraries, no more volume sales or group plans, and no more much lower prices for customers who preferred some of these models to paying full price for a permanent purchase of everything.

Many people on both the production and consumption sides could lose out under such a scheme if it was compulsory, while if it could be overridden contractually then surely everyone's terms would just be updated to do exactly that, and then the new scheme probably wouldn't change much in practice.
At least kill the f'kin things if you are gonna drain them of their blood. Seems like its just a poor excuse to say 'we didnt kill them..they are just fine! *drops crab back into water with half of its blood supply'

Based on what I read, these crabs are basically given a death sentence. I'd rather them be killed and harvested than bloodsucked tortured and thrown back into a predator ecosystem where they are too delirious and pretty much get butchered by whatever's out there.
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You can see a lot of this stuff if you read through the early Mac team stories on http://www.folklore.org.
Then tell them bye, you can contact me this way from now on and leave.

If they don't contact you then they don't care enough and you're probably not losing anything of value.
I hit this all the time on ElementaryOS too. I wish there was a simple (under the hood), usable linux distro.

Why do desktops need to run their own DNS servers, anyway? What about all of the other random enabled by default services? Each one is another thing to break, and another attack vector.
Courts are using AI to sentence criminals