skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, don't start with that "it's just a guy helping out another guy" nonsense. Airbnb is a gigantic business, and the 'hosts' are also businesses, and have to accept regulation as such. Of course it is the governments' jurisdiction to regulate the safety, sanitation, and other relevant laws that relate to paid lodging no matter who the person is offering said paid lodging.

Airbnb rentals (in the overwhelming majority of cases) aren't me sharing my couch with my best friend while he's in town, this is me letting a stranger come into my house and stay here for money. Acting like those are equivalent situations diminishes your argument.
> The ego is an illusion

> Talk to people that have experience "ego-death" via meditation or hallucinogens

What if the ego's dissolution is the actual illusion? This reminds me of Sam Harris' "Waking Up" where he tries to construct a rational argument for the self being an illusion just because one can reach a temporary state of not being aware of it.

The choice of which of the two is the actual illusion has no basis in rational thinking.
I am not trying to be anti-intellectual, but software currently has the opposite problem, where people decide some idea will Make Everything Better and it turns out that this idea does nothing of the kind. In fact some of these ideas have set software engineering back by decades (example: Object-Oriented Programming).

There are, of course, computer science concepts that are very smart. But we don't need these to save us from slow software, because today's slow software problem is just the result of people doing bad things in layer upon layer. We have to stop doing all the bad stuff and dig us out of the hole we're in, just to get back to neutral. Once we are back at neutral, then we can try thinking about some computer science smarty stuff to take us forward.
The attempted coup was from an islamist faction not secular one, I know it is more convenient for the west to think so but reality is not that white and black. Secular forces in the army, media and state were purged in by a coalition of erdogan and the gulenist(who attempted the coup) from 2007 to 2013. No one did care back then. What's happening in Turkey has nothing to do with religion, yes it is a huge step back for Turkey but we'll have sharia law sooner here in Brussels than in Turkey.
I'd argue this statistic is easy to manufacture when Nintendo console sales are generally artificially limited by their production rate.

Is it that the Switch is the most immediately desirable system in Nintendo's history, or just that it's the most quickly produced one in history?
Might want to give SyFy another chance. They've really turned it around in the past few years.
Why would you assume I don't use a phone line?

Maybe this didn't occur to you, but I also want to share photos and video. I mean, I can describe my daughter's piano recital, but they seem to enjoy seeing and hearing it as well.

> Direct interaction works way better that going through a middle man.

Who has time to lay all that copper and build their own telephone exchange? I'm happy to pay for middle men to help me out.
Assuming circumvention methods aren't prohibited by law, How is DRM a perversion of the free market?
"When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money."
However I wonder at what point we're affecting their ability to mate, reproduce, etc..
Internet pioneer Robert Taylor dies
Maybe the first time I've ever agreed with valuearb.
Well, you did say "anywhere in the country".
The idea that this isn't "fishing" because they're tossed back afterward is really beyond me. Seems about equivalent to chopping the fin off a shark and then dumping what remains into the water to bleed out and die.

With proper regulation, it seems possible this could be done somewhat humanely— particularly if the draw from any one crab was strictly limited, and their time out of water was also very limited. Eg, if the facilities were right on board the boat, so it would out and back in all within in the span of a few hours.
The constitutional court in France is appointed by the president, the president of the parliament and the president of the senate. One third for each.
Never have seen so many lies, and fake news bundled in one comment. Come on don't waste people's time.

Edit: And clearly I have voted No in this referendum. Just such spaghetti bundles of false information isn't needed. Sorry.
Is this an attempt by Oracle to really get into the Kubernetes space, or just a right-priced acquisition in the broader cloud space?
Why is that chilling?
It's a coding meme.
The muslim world seems perpetually hungry for a strongman leader
Why "TK"?
> Turkey’s Islamists have long venerated the Ottoman period. In doing so, they implicitly expressed thinly veiled contempt for the Turkish Republic. For Necmettin Erbakan, who led the movement from the late 1960s to the emergence of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in August 2001, the republic represented cultural abnegation and repressive secularism in service of what he believed was Ataturk’s misbegotten ideas that the country could be made Western and the West would accept it. Rather, he saw Turkey’s natural place not at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels but as a leader of the Muslim world, whose partners should be Pakistan, Malaysia, Egypt, Iran, and Indonesia.
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> they do it for the NSA in return for the NSA spying on UK citizen as a work around national laws forbidding them doing so.

Absolutely, and this is highly problematic. If it was British intelligence hoovering up my info and using it for their own government use I wouldn't see a problem with it. Or rather, I wouldn't see it nearly as much of a problem as an American agency doing it to me.

Them sharing that data with the US is where I have an extreme problem with it. It's an obvious end-around the constitution. This is where US agencies can now use that data to put US citizens under their jurisdiction into prison. That is unacceptable.

I think a lot of my posts last night come off as me defending the NSA/CIA but that support is limited to a very narrow mission. Intelligence gathering on foreign powers.

> Along with the NSA unilaterally breaking the no spying agreement with the UK.

Meh. Those agreements are political grandstanding and nothing else, all participants understand that fact. No one actually believes the US and UK will not spy on each other as much as possible.
If you are not interested in Zelda though, there is almost zero reason to spend the money on a Switch right now.
Ask HN: Trust Issues?
When companies like Google make changes or discontinue support for something you relied upon do you find it hard to trust them in the future? And the same could be said for an app that you love that no longer works because of an update.
As nradov said above, "Famines are caused by bad governments, failed states, and violent conflicts. Not because there isn't enough food."

Obviously, the Irish Potato Famine was caused by bad government. Instead of being allowed to keep their own potatoes, the government of occupied Ireland, run by Britain, forced them to export them all.
One potential reason for that (apart from the one mentioned in the article): people who went ahead and purchased the game, but can't find a system yet. I know more than one person in that position.
I don't think it's even close ethically to torturing a bear. You know people boil crabs alive all the time, right?
EBAY had to take action against sellers who were increasing shipping costs to set a minimum value on their items. Originally I don't think any of the shipping cost was factored into the fees paid to EBAY.

So I would hope that AirBnb does something similar to include presenting the full cost of rental at all times. There should be no fees other than those AirBnb specifies.
> Just like Christianity is in North Carolina today.

FIFY
Grammar rules are for ambiguous situations. This one is very clear. If you compare the following there isn't much to discuss here:

A1) Where is our "[...]"? (makes sense)

A2) Where is our "[...]" (something is missing)

B1) "Package Manager for the Cloud" (makes sense)

B2) "Package Manager for the Cloud?" (What's the question?)
I second this many times. The APIs were so inconsistent. I had to go through many hooks just to get the data I wanted. Openstack is nice, but Openstack community tried to create an open AWS. The problem is, everything gets so modular and too many components to deploy just to get Openstack working.

It's a PaaS for IaaS foundation. Unless you have the resources to line up and support Openstack, I recommend just build on AWS/Google/Azure/Rackspace/Heroku/DigitalOcean, you name one.

I wonder if big customers such as Bloomberg ever regret / think of moving to public/private IaaS.
They do? Into what?

In any case, the issue is with other types of biologically active sunscreen ingredients.

https://cdhc.noaa.gov/_docs/Site%20Bulletin_Sunscreen_final....
Do you work at eBay, because they run kubernetes ontop of openstack, which sounds a bit awful if you really think about it all.
If the alternative to doing these 5 things (5 hours if taken together) is watching TV or browsing twitter, that is one thing.

If the alternative is spending time with family, doing your job, or meditating, or exercising, or catching up on sleep, then I think the conversation needs to expand into which of the many options is "best".
Haha, and so the cycle continues. Down with frat boys!
Long story short - facebook is dead, majority of the people migrated to Instagram. we went from myspace (personal) to FB (friends) to instagram (personal). Looks like people would rather focus on themselves.
And BTW, Ataturk was a dictator too, the only difference is that he was a secular :)
Who told you that Kemalists and the Kurds hate each other ? Can you give me any source for that ?
That'd be super chilling if the various legislative bodies didn't act as a check on that through confirmation requirements and limits on executive authority.

You know, like Turkey used to have. Before yesterday.
Two articles by George Friedman on understanding what's happening in Turkey and elsewhere:

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/making-sense-of-turkey/

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/turkey-secularism-and-religi...
To get the parentheses right, you have to parse the language.

There is an extensive body of literature on parsing that goes back decades. Most of it I don't think is that useful. But some of it is about parallel parsing. If you are interested, there are quite a number of people with something to say about it. However, the speed wins in practice are not very big.

On the other hand, if you just write the parser so that it's fast to begin with, you don't really have a problem. The language I am working on parses 2.5 million lines of code per second on a laptop, and I have only spent a couple of hours working on parser speed. To do this it does go in parallel, but it goes parallel in the obvious way using ordinary data structures (1 input file at a time as a distinct parallel unit). So it's not "parallel parsing" in the algorithmic sense.
Have you never tried asking a hotel reception for local recommendations? It works the same as asking a host and they are usually around 24 / 7.
Stands for "to come" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_come_(publishing)

Theory is that TK was a less common letter combination than TC.
I'm with the author on XXX being a crappy thing to grep for, too many false positives. When I got to Sun and was hacking the kernel, I settled on LMXXX, that was fairly unique. Haven't looked in a while, but there used to still be some in the Solaris UFS code (not exactly proud of that).

tl;dr: use your initials plus xxx and you can find 'em.
Are You Jargoning and Acronyming Your Audience to Death?
If you include food, yes. Multiple nations have shot at unauthorized Chinese fishing vessels trawling within their borders, however China hasn't defended those ships beyond political posturing.

As far as fossil fuels go, I'm not aware of states defending their internationally recognized claims against other states... but there is growing tension behind unrecognized claims.

The South China Sea issue is largely driven by China using their navy to project borders beyond internationally recognized limits. Their official justification is reclaiming historical territory, which suspiciously became a priority when oil was discovered in the area.

Russia may be in a similar position. They've been building up their Arctic military force, presumably with the intent of claiming Arctic oil fields as the Northwestern Passages opens up due to climate change. However, again, they haven't claimed anything officially.
>> I dont want to deal with problems when I stay somewhere for pleasure or business

This is why I've stopped using AirBnB. I had used it for multiple business trips and personal stays, and in only 2 of the places I've stayed has the host had any sense of professionalism. One slept in and wasn't up at the time they said breakfast was served. I eventually left before they woke up. Another canceled at the last minute because they were traveling. Too late for me to alter my other travel plans, so my only option was to take an expensive hotel room I wouldn't have booked otherwise, or miss that part of my planned vacation. Another had family staying and they clearly weren't equipped for all the guests.

The problem with AirBnB is it's usually additional, passive income. It initially feels like this glorious free market, but there's not enough skin in the game for them. If they want to blow you off at the last minute you just have to with an expensive, last-minute back up plan. And they just forfeit some income they weren't really counting on anyway. I've been jerked around by hotels too, but not nearly as often.
Even if the headline was "Switch is the fastest produced console in Nintendo's history" it'd still be a headline. As you mentioned, they're notorious for slow production of their systems.
You're certainly a busy bee, posting this repeatedly in this thread. Almost like you have an agenda.
It doesn't crash the server, though, is the point.
> Also, a warning, there is no rate limiting with this simple app so it's pretty easy to get DOSed by a funny coworker.

No it's not. It's impossible for a funny coworker to DOS you with this, because anyone who uses this to DOS someone is not funny.
>At least we're done with Trump in 4 years (or sooner)

Hahah, keep dreaming, he is here for 8 years :-)
Facebook has been for old people for a solid 5 years now if not more. Most young people dislike facebook and stay there as a chore because family and grandma.
> If the Notability criteria is abolished, it can be replaced by a Cultural Contribution criteria, where inclusion is based on contribution to the total culture of humanity

I really can't see why that would ever be better than "three in depth links". It seems extremely subjective. How do you even accurately define and measure that description?

> But as we previously discussed, this policy actually has severe social justice implications

This to me seems at the heart of the authors discontent. Unfortunately even online encyclopedias aren't safe from social justice pressures in this day and age.
Behind the Scenes at Jungle Disk – Autoscaling SQS Workers
People here seem to attack only the argument about "anyone can write a blog", but I was expecting HN to give a couple of thoughts also about his first point. To me it reads something like: "publish all your data out in the open for everybody to see".

I find it extremely problematic. Sure, sharing data is necessary to verify that the conclusions are supported by it and they are not due to methodological errors. But to anyone? Out in the open? I would expect better data ethics, especially from a psychologist.

Your data can contain political opinions, health records, sexual orientation, contact information, the places a person has visited, and when. People sign up for these studies usually with the agreement that the information that can harm them cannot be freely shared, unless to people involved in studies with similar data protection systems. Data like I mentioned has sometimes to be stored in computers not connected to the Internet, to reduce the risk of data leak. Free access to this data paves the way to persecution and shaming.

If I were to sign up as subject to a psychology study and had a person with his ideas leading it, I'd withdraw immediately. I'd question if this person should be a psychology researcher at all. Sharing data is good, but protocols are there for a reason.
This write up is really good! Are there similar write-ups for things other than text editors?

I wonder if only wanted a printable character ASCII editor would simplify things a lot or only a little. And I guess no tabs.

> Part 2 Line breaking

I don't really understand the problem here. Can't we count the line breaks like anything else? Is it because that's not the values we want in the end?

> Part 4: Again, making this into a monoid is pretty easy. You store two copies of the (t, m) pair - one for the simple case, and one for the case where the beginning of the string is in a comment. You also keep two bits to keep track of whether the string ends or begins a comment. In principle, you have to do the computation twice for both cases, whether the first line is a comment or not, but in practice it doesn’t make the computation any more expensive: you compute (t, m) for the first line and for the rest of the string, and just store both the first value and the monoid sum.

What if a node of the rope contains an "end comment" and (later) a "("? What should the two pairs of (t, m) be? Now that substring might be entirely inside, outside or partially outside and inside a comment.

Although I do understand the general idea of computing the result for all possible initial/input state to achieve paralellism.
Congrats to Mies and co. on behalf of the Deis team. Always enjoyed working with you!
So, haven't people been doing things like short-term rentals with their condos, spare rooms, etc for quite a while without Airbnb using things like VRBO, craigslist, other websites, newspaper ads, word-of-mouth, etc? Was the hotel industry very upset about people doing those things before Airbnb and lobbying against it because it was concerned these rentals didn't follow exactly the same regulations hotels did? I can't seem to find information about that, although it wouldn't surprise me.

What seems to be actually happening though is now there is a successful and popular marketplace for this type of rental that has gained alot of traction (Airbnb), and under the guise of 'safety, standards, etc' the hotel lobby is fighting (to actually try to get their large share of the market back).

I don't necessarily think laws and regulations are bad to have in place as it often protects the consumers. But for the hotel industry to pretend this is their motive is inauthentic, just be honest that it's about the money. What disgusts me about all this is the corporate speak that goes under the guise of values and concern for customers (same could be said of Airbnb marketing lingo).
This is great. The usual emphatic declarations of listening and caring about customers rings more hollow with every Apple press event that I watch.

Things are messed up when they let a product cycle lapse for 4 years (i.e. Mac Pro) while leaving everyone in the dark the entire time.
https://coursefriend.com/ is my side project that helps people find courses for stuff they want to learn. Let me know what you think
I hate XXX as a placeholder for FIXME or TODO. There is no indication about its importance or meaning:

XXX temporary variable

Doesn't tell me, "hey, you should replace this temporary variable". If it did have a better comment, then it would be better, but still doesn't literally say FIXME!

I use TODO for things that are potential performance, memory utilization, or design issues.

FIXME I reserve for things that really should or must be fixed prior to a release. These include security issues, rare bugs, or improperly handled exceptions.

Most editors now have plugins that also match on TODO and FIXME which draws your attention to them in the code.
How are you deploying? Are you using Tectonic? https://coreos.com/openstack/
You ever think about not being a bitch?
This is a perfect example of how the economics of climate change and energy are totally messed up.

These kinds of problems are not factored into the economics of energy so coal and oil will remain economically viable without getting any kind of penalty.

Governments will attempt to tackle these issues (too late most likely) and it will be largely public funds that go towards restoration but oil and gas and coal companies will pocket all the profits and contribute little to the repercussions.

If we factored in the total costs of our energy sources renewable would be even more attractive. Given the fact that the energy companies have known about climate change for decades [1], at what point is it expected that they use some of the incredible profits made at the planets expense to mitigate those costs? It is adding insult to injury that these companies are able to avoid a lot of taxes [2] that would at least contribute to public funds being used to combat climate change. That isn't even counting the millions (billions?) that have been spent on misinformation.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...
[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/03/07/27-g...
As an American I have no idea about the veracity of the GP claims or your claims that they are false. Can others step in and make HN great again by having a cool, reasoned debate about the history of thr Turks within the confines of their democratic endeavors?

I would like to know more. I've never understood the parliamentarian system. I'm use to a presidential system with checks and balances.
I would say he was set on this path long before he shot down that Russian plane.

Turnout was 86%. Vote manipulation is very likely, but it wasn't done that blatantly. More blatant was the suppression of the opposition during the campaign.
Turkey, Secularism and Religion
Please point out the lies with sources instead so everyone can learn the truth
THe three largest Muslim majority countries are Indonesia, Paksitan and Bangladesh.

Bangladesh has been ruled by a woman (a long running rivalry between Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia) since 1991 pretty much continuously.

All three have secular, and at least nominally democratic governments. Not without their problems, far from it. There are many reasons for these, domestic, colonial, Islamic neihbours, etc... but I think your comment betrays an extremely superficial view of the world.
I'm still not sure whether this is Nvidia "playing ball" with Apple, or whether this is Nvidia saying to Apple customers "Hey Apple guys, we love you now! Please don't go with AMD!"
Ex-CIA Director: 'North Korea Can Disrupt Electric Grid, Kill 90 Percent of US'
Might not pull people back but this could be a clear indication that the next Mac Pro will have user changeable hardware which is a step back in the right direction.
$ustain Open Source with Us
Making Sense of Turkey (2016)
> Once the Pascal drivers come out

It was released last week, though still considered a beta.
Somalia and Iraq are not examples of capitalism. That is the dishonesty in your previous statement.

Additionally, I never made a statement about capitalism without regulation. I believe strongly in useful regulations for capitalism.
They may or may not exist depending on the location, the layout of the building, the particular renter, the behavior of the homeowner, and probably about a thousand other variables that are impossible to even identify.
there is a big difference between scientific discovery in a science-hostile environment back than and todays norm of continuous discoveries though...