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If they could, they would ... Stringent health/safety standards actually do this already. There isn't anyone running small cafes from their kitchens in Manhattan, wich is a shame.
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The hotel industry has not changed significantly in a thousand years (maybe more). There are few industries I can think of that are more historically defined than the inn with the inn keeper. Aside from the implications of the traditions, it is also a business model that has worked remarkably well for a long time. I doubt they are going to be keen to jump quickly on a major disruption.
It may well be, but something that is only used while it is new and cool is something that people will move away from in time. Something that is no longer cool but still commands the user base has a lot more staying power.
Good article until it mentioned Jill Bolte, who gave one of the worst psuedo-scientific TED Talks I can recall. It relied on erroneous analogies such as 'the left brain is a serial processor, the right brain is a parallel processor' (the whole brain is massively parallel, everywhere) and ignores facts such as the right brain is capable of learning and taking over language processing in children who have had portions of their left brain removed (to treat epilepsy). If you talk about integration of sensory information and awareness, you want to talk about specific brain systems and cortical columns, NOT make monolithic statements about left brain vs. right brain that get overgeneralized into the silly notion of inaccurately labelling people 'left brain' or 'right brain'.
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For a month or so. It was announced on HN before. Hit up searchyc.com if you are curious how long ago.
I've actually rented a room in the place that comment is complaining about. Small world. I found it on craigslist before AirBnB even existed, so the building wasn't built just for the site. It may have been built for short-term rentals in general, but I doubt it. Toshi was working on the mezzanine level of the apartment while we were there, and there's a shower with a window out to the living room, which isn't particularly conducive to rentals...

It was a way better experience than using a hotel. He actually double booked the room for a couple of the days, so he gave us a different apartment in Manhattan for those days. We ended up getting to experience more neighborhoods on a deeper level than we would have otherwise. You could always split a trip between two normal hotels, but they usually aren't in actual neighborhoods.

Making this illegal is dumb, and it reeks of wholesale purchasing of legislation.
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Replace the tooth-filling material with something that bone can grow into/replace and you would have something more general. I have no idea how that would work, but they do something similar with joint replacements.
On a related note, hand gestures are usually for the benefit of the speaker, not the audience, for a very similar reason. I tried holding hands with a girl during a classroom discussion once, and I couldn't even begin to speak without bringing my hands out.

I talk to myself a lot. I was an only child, so I never really got socialized against it, and often didn't have anyone else present to talk to. However, this usually happens when I'm idly woolgathering, not when I'm working on a problem. Problems require writing!
I'm surprised NYC landlords aren't more up in arms about this.

Me too. I run a vacation rental site and many property owners in the VR community are not happy with AirBNB.

It's not because they don't want the competition. They are all used to competing with other properties in their area. It's because they want a level playing field.

Many areas require vacation rentals to be licensed and/or charge a tax on their rental fees. These VR owners don't like competing with AirBNB room owners because the VR owners presume - rightly or wrongly - that the AirBNB room owners are not properly licensed or collecting the appropriate taxes.

I think AirBNB is a great idea and this proposed NY law goes way too far. They shouldn't be legislating innovative ideas like this out of existence. They should be finding ways to equitably welcome the AirBNB model into the existing fold.
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An easy way to think about Zipfian distributions is something like "the most popular 30% of your data set is queried 70% of the time". Its basically the temporal locality property that a lot caching systems exploit.
For more look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law and www.icis.ntu.edu.sg/scs-ijit/1204/1204_6.pdf
No matter what they had done the luster would have worn off. The badge system just makes the whoring and the impossibility of ever attaining certain badges more obvious.

Every online community must go through a maturation process where excitement wanes and moderation waxes. At some point the curation of content becomes of primary importance.

Arguably they could have built a longer lasting community with Wikipedia style participation, but it certainly wouldn't have grown as fast, and maybe never would have gotten traction at all, so it's hard to make a retroactive critique.

In any case though, Stack Overflow still has a fundamentally a great user experience. It's not a growth business, but there will always be new tech, and I don't see the community drying up.
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I would imagine it would be worst to his sense of time: weeks and months blurring together into a jumbled pile of years for the latter of those nine. Terrifying.
With the exception of these higher-level executive positions, the state gets workers on the cheap for those 20 years. My student interns graduate making 1.5 to 2x what I make per year. Seriously, are you gonna do Oracle DBA duties for $50k a year at a university or $100k a year in industry?

Taxpayers don't want to pay high state salaries, even though they end up doing so with the pensions.

And I'm one of those burdened taxpayers too. I have to pay state taxes at my state job :) So I literally pay part of my own salary.

I choose to work here for lower pay. But I have a great job that I love. There's no better reward than teaching people to program. Not everyone's in that same boat. And I won't lie - if the opportunity presented itself for me to retire, keep my pension, and come back to work, I don't think I'd feel too bad about it.

Can you honestly say you wouldn't do the same?
I think he meant studying music at a high level, is a rich man's game.
We used to have a video (http://vimeo.com/9638301) but the production quality was so bad that I opted to take it down until we could do better. I'll definitely keep your feedback in mind, thanks.
To solve the noise issue, lower the burden of proof for noise citations for people who are renting out their apartments as hotel rooms. When landlords have a stake in keeping the noise down, it seems like it would be easier to keep in check.
Haha, that was just me having a little fun. Two of the competitors in the list are, so it was just a slight jab ;)
I'm also an only child that regularly talks to myself. I would bet that the percentage of only children who talk to themselves is pretty high.
I wasn't drawing the conclusion that we should not explore the question. But I do think people should wonder: With all the useful, actionable questions arising from genetic research, why are we attracted by an unseen force to the particular question of intelligence and race? Why not try to address a question more likely to help people (e.g., the genetic origin of certain diseases)? Why the fascination with this question?

I'm not talking about forbidding certain investigations, just trying to be smart about prioritizing investigations.

You say "...it will probably show that..." -- already injecting preconceived notions of the outcome into the scientific question. This is an example of why investigations into this question seem to reveal more about the investigator than the question.
I do not think this applies to undergraduates. The current lifetime earning difference between someone with a bachelors and someone with no degree was close to a million dollars last time I checked, that is strong monetary motivation to get the degree. I do not have the figures to compare for someone with a bachelors and someone with a PHD, but anecdotally it seems fairly small.

More than that, there are a great many non-research career tracks that are only open to someone with a degree, and a great many others that don't technically require a degree but go much more smoothly.

It only makes sense to pursue a PHD if you have both a passion for that field and at least enough money to handle the necessities. For most people, it makes sense to get a bachelors if you are able.
DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES GIVE UP THE THINGS THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY

Your work may bring you satisfaction, joy and the desire to work long hours; but that ebbs and flows. Some weeks you'll be so excited to be eating ramen noodles and building something that is distinctly yours, the next you may be stressed out about the fact that you haven't figured out how to monetize.

This is why it's important to recharge -- even if you don't think you need it.

Me? I like backpacking. We were bootstrapped for 6 months before closing serious angel money and once a month I left friday night and came back sunday evening. Once a month I couldn't work on the weekend. And even though it was expensive at the time, it made me sane and filled up my gas tanks for a month.

Working 12-14 hour days is fine as long as you do something that makes you happy and refuels you when you need it. If 1 hour a day is what you need, it's an extremely small price to pay for peace of mind. Additionally, my bet is that you'll actually perform better at work.
Think of meditation as a pot of water you're trying to boil away.

A retreat is a chance to get that pot of water to a boil. Once there, a little meditation each day will continue to boil the pot.

Without the focused immersion, a little heat each day might never boil the pot.

Note that this works for languages, physical skills (aikido) and many other complex tasks.
The problem is the "rent controlled" part IMO. (and over here we don't have rent control and I pay a huge % of my income for my rent, but I still prefer that to the "rent control" thing)
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Why is our time being wasted with this article.

The author himself says that he is too dumb to understand functional languages. He knows so little that he keeps carping on about concurrency, when that is nowhere near any of the central reasons why functional is valuable. Better support for concurrency is an accident, a side-effect. What makes functional important is the ability to create living abstractions, and understanding how functional allows you to do that and why it is important makes you a better programmer in any language.

There is no heresy here, only ignorance. The author is basically saying functional languages are "overrated" because he is unable to understand them. There are definitely valid arguments to be made against the functional paradigm, but he has made none of them.
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Talking to yourself is okay as long as no one talks back.
Seriously? If a couple gets drunk and play loud music 4 nights a week thats equal too a couple of tourists doing the same thing. And I would bet that loud tourists are a very small subset of noisy neighbours; in any case the person who rents the apartment can and should be held accountable. It should also be obvious that laws that make it easier for landlords to throw out renters who create problems (and perhaps make them liable if they don't) could effectively solve this problem. There is a difference between brevity and snarkiness.
This came up recently in the Fiji project (a distribution of ImageJ and associated plugins):

http://groups.google.com/group/fiji-devel/browse_thread/thre...
I'm a big fan of `starting out slow.` Jumping into a 7 day retreat is not starting out slow.

It's different for everyone what `slow` is, but if you're not sure if you're ready for a 7 day retreat and you go anyway you might end up like this guy (in the article).
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That's actually exactly what's happening in the management companies. If you go an ask for an apartment from a broker in a price range in a neighborhood range you will automatically be told "That's a nice idea, but what youre asking for doesn't exist. Try this one for the same price in a different neighborhood, or try the same neighborhood for $300 more than you would pay."

If you are trying to move to a similar apartment that you are in, in the same neighborhood, for the same price, you will be told your apartment does not exist.

If you go to a management company trying to get into a big complex like StuyTown or any of the luxury rentals you will be quoted a price that is pulled out of thin air, and you will be lied to that "this is the last apartment available in XYZ highrise."

In short, managers are absolutely sitting on the best deals because they ALWAYS try to move the riskier product first. As the market gets worse, there is more risky property available, and thus it is even HARDER to find a good deal in a bad economy through brokers (the current gatekeepers of the market).
Ha! Nicely done..
I've seen reports where coral was used for bone regrowth. A quick Google find:
http://www.arthroscopy.com/sp12013.htm
No matter what they had done the luster would have worn off.

I'm not sure this is necessarily the case, because, as you write:

At some point the curation of content becomes of primary importance.

Which is why they need to find a way to build an incentive system that properly rewards "Wikipedia-style participation".

That's a tough nut to crack, but I certainly hope that they've got some folks working on it, now that they've got the VC money in place.
Good question, especially that Google's offer was along the lines of $700M CASH.

I don't think the travel sites have many choices though considering the very powerful products ITA has to offer. Can you imagine what would happen if ITA were to be swallowed up and stop providing services to Expedia and the like? It's unlikely because of the anti-trust issues, but... that's not something I would bet my company's future on.
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The professor gave good advice, but i don't think the guy drew the right conclusions.

Science, like music or art, is one of those things that you do because you decide that you like the rewards it brings more than the struggle that is required to achieve success. If you are rich, the risks of doing it are lower, but being poor hardly stops you.

If you do any of those in order to produce finacial gain, it is pretty dumb, as there are easier ways to make way more money if you have the potential to be successful in those feilds.

The professor saw that the guy didn't have any real passion for science, and thus told him to do something else.

The real quote i disagree with is "This is the basic theory behind the practice of tenure of professors in American universities. First, a recent PhD graduate must first steel oneself and complete 5 years of hard work. Afterwards, if you are picked by the group of tenured professors and one day pass their requirements, then for the rest of your life you will never have to worry about making a living again. At that point you can wholeheartedly devote your time to research and study. Naturally the school also knows that the overwhelming majority of these tenured professors have no research potential left in them. Equally impotent are the lowly menial workers of the research laboratory. However, out of the vast numbers of tenured professors a few stand out from the crowd that actually have talent and contribute positively to the economy."

Science today needs a lot more menial laborers than professors directing research, because it works on grants and doesn't generate its own income, professors are perfectly happy to take people who are not really interested in the work, but will be methodical and will work for very low pay (like asian PhD students) because they need a lot of hands to run these tedious experiments. That doesn't mean that once a professor becomes a professor they are useless or lack talent. It seems as though he confuses positive economic contributions with positive intellectual ones (which might only be capatalized on decades later).
it would be very easy to add a simple x server. If windows had a solid gcc, bash, and x server (and case sensitive file system) there would be none of the typical frustration I get when using it to do anything serious.
Its either the rich man's, or the prodogies, game.

If you are good enough, it doesn't matter how much money you have, someone else will throw money at you to ensure that you keep doing what your doing.
He will be introducing the $99 holographic PC.
That's hardly the point.

If you're going to make a mini-app and don't want to support certain values just don't make them possible rather than have buggy/wrong behavior.

If at least both refused to update it would be a little better than now where one of the prices can update with the other staying the same and thereby throwing the comparison completely out of whack.
For me, the day-to-day flexibility and freedom is probably the primary advantage of working for myself. There's no doubt that I'm doing something business-related every single day (7 days a week), but the composition and time per day can vary tremendously. It's 11am Tuesday, and if these clouds clear up and I feel like going to the beach, then I might just go and ask if my co-founder wants to come along! This is not theoretical -- this is how we do it. (There are also 12+-hour workdays sometimes, but there's certainly no explicit calculation to try to make it all balance out. And to be honest, it rarely feels like "work".)

The flip-side of this is that if you value the flexibility of your time, you will spend time building systems that automate your required repetitive tasks. I recently spent a few weeks mucking around in some dirty old APIs to automate a particular part of our shipping & order fulfillment, and while that took a lot of effort, it has now cut a 1+ hour/day task down to maybe 1 minute/day. And now I don't need a PC to do that task anymore -- I can do it from anywhere with my iPhone. And we're quick to roll frequently asked questions back into our product, which reduces the time handling future customers with that question. That's how we can get by with two full-time co-founders plus a small staff doing product assembly and order fulfillment.

This is from the perspective of a bootstrapped (no other-people's-money), profitable, 2.5-year-old e-commerce site. If you have other-people's-money, or if your business model requires an acquisition or is advertising-supported, then I'd imagine that it's an entirely different game. But I love being able to work on what I want to work on on a daily basis, and if that sometimes means screwing around with an unrelated project or just going to the beach and "working on" my tan, so be it. That flexibility is worth a lot to me, and if you're choosing the startup route, my guess is that it's worth a lot to you too.
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I don't think a purge would get to the root of the problem, which is an incentive system that rewards adding early answers, rather than editing existing answers.

One of Joel's stated goals in the early days was that the answers would converge, Wikipedia-like, toward some Platonic ideal-- but the system in place doesn't encourage that.
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Someone killed a Comment about the expense of dentistry. There's been a huge growth in "medical tourism." One of them is to fix teeth and this is an excellent account of when it was still very inexpensive to have done in Costa Rica:
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having it scan the words on the page and offer suggestions for tags would be helpful (not sure if it's feasible or not).

combining the list page with a 'share this' or 'make a short url' version would be useful too.
Love the design and the idea seems solid but my first priority would be to put up a video explaining how it works..

The pictures, while well designed and thought out seem a little laborious to click through..

My attention span on the web is really short and I'm feeling lazy just now so about the only thing that I'd consider doing to learn about a new product/service like the one you're offering is to watch a video about it.
I've long wondered how ITA got their raw data, especially when they were just starting. Does anyone have any insight?
Interesting. Are there are any previous cases of pollsters being sued for fraud? It does seem like polling fraud is temptingly simple, at least on topics where a lot of other pollsters exist: just report a randomly perturbed version of what other pollsters are reporting, save yourself the money of actually doing the calls, and usually nobody will notice--- if anything, polls get more scrutiny when they don't match up with others, than when they do.
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Yep, it's a huge problem: the pervasive rating system constantly needs fresh eyes on things to keep it accurate, so old questions don't get updated votes. To compound that, if you're a newcomer arriving via Google, you can't down vote.

So you, the freshest pair of eyes on the page, can see an out-of-date error, but can't correct it or comment on it. All you can do is leave another answer, which is doomed to sit at 0 votes.
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